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Free Berkeley Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation Class(edx.org)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Actually, writers rarely choose the titles to their articles. That's what editors do. So it's the editors of publications that suck at choosing good titles, not the writers.
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Very often the original article title assumes the reader is already familiar with a particular context, based on the fact he or she is already visiting the site it is hosted on. This of course does not apply to readers of Hacker News who se
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by davidroberts 14y ago
I'd be interested in hearing the rationale for changing the titles.
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Hacker History: The Analog Mark 1 Naval Fire Control Computer(hnsa.org)
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Essentially it's a form of terrorism. They are saying do things our way or we burn your house down. They don't believe in democracy and so what's left? A world where the best people at malicious hacking rule? The same skills they used to d
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Self-righteous idiots. Who made them judge and jury of the world? Do something positive.
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by davidroberts 14y ago
I'm 55 and currently barely scraping by on temp jobs and freelance gigs. As I look back at all the mistakes and missed opportunities, mainly caused by obvious glaring faults of my own, or in what in retrospect could be considered very dumb
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Lot of good ideas, but the implementation looks kind of cold and sterile to me. It wouldn't be very comfortable to live alone in.
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Apple has a really BIG iPhone problem(betanews.com)
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This was right on the Eve of World War I. Sad to think that many of the young men in uniform probably died in the trenches at Marne or Verdun over the next several years.
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My Desertion, Court-Martial, and 40-Year Imprisonment in N Korea [pdf](archipielagolibertad.org)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
I received my BA through a similar program that used to be offered by the State of New York through their fully accredited Regents College program (now called Excelsior College, and not offering this pathway to a degree anymore). When I sta
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A Beginner’s Guide to DIYing with the Raspberry Pi(lifehacker.com)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
For me, junior high was so much worse than high school. By high school, I'd pretty much figured out how to get along with people, and had made as many friends as I needed. But high school still seems a huge waste of time for most people.
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A Last, Loving Look at an MIT Landmark -- Building 20 [pdf](rle.mit.edu)
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Complexity science, Python programming, and the philosophy of science(greenteapress.com)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Looks like I'm not the only UTS alumni who reads Hacker News...
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Since, as he mentions in the letter, room and board were included in the wage he uses as a reference, there is no need to deduct them from the wages his former master owes.
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Yes. Sad to say.
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Quantum physics made relatively simple: Three lectures by Hans Bethe(bethe.cornell.edu)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
I've earned several hundred thousand dollars directly from customers by doing honest work. I guess that means I can say that taking advantage of a person's lack of computer expertise to crowd his computer with toolbars, hijacking his search
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by davidroberts 14y ago
I worked for a few months recently as a remote support agent for a big ISP, and many of my customer's browsers looked almost as bad as screenshot you posted. As I was cleaning up, I would ask them for each toolbar (because I was required to