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by eob 12y ago
The PRC is almost completely surrounded at sea by other island nations which form a near complete "archipelago landlock" that doesn't exist (as far as I know) anywhere else in the world. So while it is true that China has lot
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by eob 12y ago
This really shows just how "landlocked" [1] the People's Republic of China is by the chain of islands bordering it -- they have less ocean-facing coastline than Morocco, Portugal, and even Mauritania. Next time you read about
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by eob 12y ago
I would really like to see a study that compares learning a second language while living in that country versus learning a second language as an academic exercise. Both involve a lot of work, but the latter --- which probably accounts for m
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by eob 12y ago
Congrats Guillermo and gang!
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by eob 12y ago
Yep. You've signed many contracts agreeing to that by the time you're allowed to access anything secure. At a prior job, we used to joke about "TOP SECRET cupcakes": once you brought them into the SCIF, they could never
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by eob 12y ago
I understand the money-and-art-dont-mix vibe that I suspect you're coming from. But I don't think there is a conflict between "passion project" and "profit" at all. Keep in mind that profit---from the perspecti
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by eob 12y ago
As long as society continues to reward individuals for generating new research, individuals will, out of necessity, keep their research materials private until they have finished extracting personal gain from it. Otherwise they would go thr
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by eob 12y ago
You underestimate the technical competence of MIT's gender studies, anthropology, and theater students :-)
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by eob 13y ago
Hey man, hang in there. Everyone in this thread has different advice from different experiences. Different things work for different people. Here's my advice: tell your friends to hold you accountable, ask them if you can call or text
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by eob 13y ago
This was my immediate reaction as well. I want to love SONY products. But for the past decade, it seems as if they actively try to piss their users off by building a perfectly good product and then crippling it with arbitrary vendor-specifi
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by eob 13y ago
> 2. Say it without gratuitous nastiness. I really hope this change addresses this! Maybe I'm just becoming an old curmudgeon, but there really seems to be mean, argumentative tones to a lot of the conversation I read on HN these d
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by eob 13y ago
Which terminal do you usually fly out of? I'm nearly always flying out of C (United/JetBlue) and my experiences in Boston have usually been the opposite: thankful at what a convenient airport we have here compared to the other cit
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by eob 13y ago
This is almost as wonderful as Subway's old website. I think that one had something like five HTML tags and a few BODY tags sprinkled randomly throughout.
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by eob 13y ago
I believe the key is to be a bit more loose with the "guns to butter" analogy. The strategy isn't really to "buy up a fully-trained military" but rather to direct a large proportion of the GDP to building one at wha
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by eob 13y ago
When I read the paragraph that began with this sentence: > Likewise, Luttwak contends that at the higher levels of Grand Strategy the logic of ‘get big or get stomped‘ reverses paradoxically. I thought, "so many lessons of geo-polit
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by eob 13y ago
Agree. It's a tough decision for them -- I'm sure the "Hot New Text Editor" market has a decent chunk of money associated with it. But it's pretty hard to commit to a text editor that you can't open up and reco
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by eob 13y ago
Thanks to you I'll now not be able to help reading all CONSTANT_VARIABLES in Arnold's voice.
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by eob 13y ago
This is an interesting angle of thought. Thanks!
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by eob 13y ago
I'm in the same situation and completely agree. My guess is that Apple is trying to build channel momentum any way they can. Unable to pre-negotiate deals and launch with a huge splash, as they prefer, they're doing it from the bo
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by eob 13y ago
You're correct, of course. My comment was directed at the question of why someone would share copyright of their written work with an external party. One common answer is the distribution channel and pre-packaged audience. In that resp
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by eob 13y ago
It's a distribution / curation thing, like writing an Op-Ed for a magazine instead of publishing it on your blog. Either way you get the word out, but by ceding control to the magazine you gain access to a wider audience, unless y
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by eob 13y ago
Really interesting conversation. The "one slip up" does appear to be the more common risk today, but I think the reason the NSA wants to archive everything for later analysis is precisely panarky's scenario. You are right tha
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by eob 13y ago
Meta-comment: did this post just get kickbanned [1] from the front page? I've heard it happens on HN but (as only an occasional commenter) I've never noticed it. It just went from #5 to nonexistent. [1] excuse the IRC lingo
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by eob 13y ago
A variety of factors -- some strange rent laws intended (ironically) to protect tenants, lack of new units, overabundance of millionaires -- have resulted in a situation where housing in San Francisco is rapidly exceeding a price where ordi
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by eob 13y ago
Your comment was posted 5 hours ago: January 19, 5:00 PM EST.
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by eob 13y ago
The NYT is executing a decade-long return to payment-based reporting. The early parts include easy-to-circumvent paywalls so that they can have some price discrimination [1] while also setting the social norms that payment is expected for w
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by eob 13y ago
You might be interested in this book. It's required reading in many CS curricula: http://www.amazon.com/The-Mythical-Man-Month-Engineering-Ann...
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by eob 13y ago
You want them to work for you for free?
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by eob 13y ago
This is a fair counterpoint, but if your lack of fundamentals caused you to write an O(n^k); k>1 algorithm, you're not going to be able to pay your way to the solution with more cores if you truly have "big data". Even con
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by eob 13y ago
I suspect that this statistic is true and not true depending on how you look at the numbers. I have two credit cards, but when I pull my credit report, something like 8 credit cards come up. The other 6 have been closed long ago, and now th

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