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by caryme 16y ago
Saying that all people are created equally does not mean that all people are free from error or consequence.
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by caryme 16y ago
Although I agree with you that Turing's death was an incredible loss, I wouldn't be so sure he would have died a natural death. Turing had considered suicide before, during his failed work on the Riemann hypothesis. At that time, he scheme
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by caryme 16y ago
I mean, I don't like it either, but it's not at all uncommon for straight men to avoid standing up for gay men for fear of being perceived as gay. I don't see the article as a defense of JGC's sexuality in any way, but as a challenge to sta
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by caryme 16y ago
That's just the thing. If we could realize that it's the same issue over and over again, perhaps it would become less of an issue. If only. In US-parlance, all men are created equal. We said that right off the bat. Once we decided that by
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by caryme 16y ago
As a gay geek, I found myself drawn to Turing's story - a tragic story of (probably) unrequited love as a schoolboy, a heroic story of a great thinker and war hero, and a heart-wrenching story of humiliating rejection by the same country he
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by caryme 16y ago
I realize this is an explanation for the argument against same-sex couple adoption, but in the same vein I'd like to point out that where this argument falls apart is in the legality of single parent adoption. In the US, it is legal in ever
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by caryme 16y ago
I've been using this for several months. It's great.
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by caryme 17y ago
I've been instructed to do so in engineering classes. It feels weird.
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by caryme 17y ago
The standalone drawing editor may be really significant. It fills a gap that isn't really met very well in the MS Office suite - a lot of people use PowerPoint for these kinds of drawings, flowcharts, and posters, but it really isn't ideal
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by caryme 17y ago
He's behind all of the earthquakes of late!
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by caryme 17y ago
Doodle is in fairly widespread use at my school
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by caryme 17y ago
NU here too (hi Shamiq)
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by caryme 17y ago
I think the key to this really is "Design your intern projects in advance". I interned last summer at Siemens Energy, working on internal software. Well, sort of working on internal software. My manager didn't have a project ready for me
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by caryme 17y ago
There are plenty of barcode scanning apps, the best probably being RedLaser ( http://redlaser.com/ ).
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by caryme 17y ago
This reminds me of the CueCat ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat ). From what I recall, the CueCat was born of the same idea, but was quite before its time (for example, it connected via PS/2).
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by caryme 17y ago
I totally agree with you. I'm on the listserv for ACM at my school, but I rarely participate in their events because they are overwhelmingly gaming-related. I went to get pizza with them recently and had the feeling I didn't fit in. I stu
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by caryme 17y ago
If you find this interesting, you might want to check out the Topic 7 lecture notes from Bryan Pardo's Machine Perception of Music and Audio course at Northwestern University: http://music.cs.northwestern.edu/courses/eecs352/lectures.ph...
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by caryme 17y ago
Got it. Thanks for the clarification. I totally agree with the beta api idea.
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by caryme 17y ago
This seems to contradict Sean Kovacs' (the developer of GV Mobile) post at the release of the Google Voice mobile web app: http://www.seankovacs.com/index.php/2010/01/im-in-love/ I don't know from personal experience, as I haven't tried t
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MyPasswordBuddy: An incredibly insecure password manager(mypasswordbuddy.com)
6 points by caryme 17y ago|8 comments
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by caryme 17y ago
That's a good point, but it also makes it two clicks away. I would think the best design would be to have it one click away while not providing unread-anxiety.
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by caryme 17y ago
To me, possibly the single best thing about Twitter is that it is missable and ignorable. If ignore my RSS reader for a while and come back, I'm overwhelmed by the number of unread posts and feel the need to catch up. At Twitter (and Faceb
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by caryme 17y ago
I saw a pretty telling comment on a friend's buzz imported from twitter: "I'm glad that I can get a glimpse of the twitter life, and not actually have to figure out another social networking thing. Yay!" This was striking to me. It seems li
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by caryme 17y ago
I might be mistaken, but didn't they say in the Q&A portion of the announcement that today's API release is only the beginning and we should expect a more featured API by Google I/O?
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by caryme 17y ago
Interesting. Some practice with this could make textbooks (especially smaller ones) useable on the regular Kindle / Nook / Sony reader.
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by caryme 17y ago
We did this in my AP/IB physics class in high school, except with marshmallows like michaelcampbell commented. We packed the marshmallows in together and stopped the microwave right when they started to expand.
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by caryme 17y ago
Two mentions of the "opposite sex" make me wonder how heterocentric this study was. I haven't investigated his source studies and the link to the Counterpoint survey is broken. If the wording of the original survey asks questions specifica
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by caryme 17y ago
Or more directly, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hidvElQ0xE From HN Guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the
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by caryme 17y ago
First my Geometry teacher taught how to write simple programs for our TI-83s. Then in IB HL Math in 12th grade, my teacher decided to have "C++ Fridays". After that, I entered college as a CS major (and vocal performance, but that is anoth
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by caryme 17y ago
Nonetheless, it's nice to hear them now and then. I found this a good overview.

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