evilneanderthal

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by evilneanderthal 17y ago
Yeah, I had three offers within two weeks of beginning my job search in January. This is NOT a bad time to be a CS graduate.
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by evilneanderthal 17y ago
I didn't think much of this article. A requirement to work nights, weekends, and vacation is called a death march, not hard work. "How to get hired: give off every indication that your time is worthless. Agree to anything that is asked of y
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by evilneanderthal 17y ago
This. Who wants an employee who never questions the requirements? I can't think of a better way to end up in project management failure than to start writing a solution to a problem you don't understand.
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by evilneanderthal 17y ago
I agree with dfranke here. This whole issue with the RIAA is about powerful entities abusing their resources toward unethical ends. If the letter of the law is on the side of the Pirate Bay (which it is, by all accounts), then they have no
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by evilneanderthal 17y ago
I didn't think much of the article (common knowledge statements). But the combination of the title and the parent post is quite amusing. Learning pl alone doesn't make you a pl developer. You become that as soon as you implement a virtual d
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by evilneanderthal 17y ago
Project Euler
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by evilneanderthal 17y ago
We used a combination of cheap ($20) webcams, motion, cron, nagios, and cfengine at Drexel to provide 24/7 monitoring of our CS labs. It isn't streaming video but it's good enough (several pictures per second while there is motion in the ro
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by evilneanderthal 17y ago
squats and deadlifts! worked for me.
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by evilneanderthal 17y ago
Certainly, f=ma, but with all else being equal, I'd say that an increase in lever length (hip joint to footprint) MIGHT explain an increase in speed. Consider: an inch of shoe is probably lighter than an inch of leg. I resisted the urge to
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by evilneanderthal 17y ago
your legs were an inch longer or more due to the increased shoe cushioning. hence you experienced a slight increase in speed.
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
i don't go that far, but i agree with the sentiment. i've got everything slung up to the underside of the desk so it's not visibly apparent what a mess it all is unless you really go looking for it.
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
the basic tenet here is that #1 produces something that allows improvement and iteration, where #2 and #3 result in decisions based on abstractions.
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
And as I keep pointing out, you'll never have the quantities of data required to make that kind of statement with any confidence. For instance, why do the Leafs get halfway through the season and then start sucking? It's been the same story
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
This is precisely my point, which is that the athlete's state of mind has much more to do with their performance than their equipment does (unless it's completely malfunctioned, of course). Put 30 other athletes and coaches and so on in the
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
Nobody cares if the players want to influence the experiment. The point is to determine whether camouflage pads are more effective than regular pads, which isn't possible. There are simply way too many variables that you can't control.
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
I don't think that's a very safe assumption at all. Lots of athletes do strange things for no good reason. See: Patrick Roy stepping over the blue lines compulsively throughout his entire career. I wonder if he still does it now that he's a
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
I know we're just arguing on an internet forum, but in all seriousness, how can you possibly achieve control? At this point I'm more interested in whether such a thing is even possible and less interested in being right on the internet =]
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
I agree, but there's no way to achieve the required rigor. How can you get a double-blind study when everyone can see the pads? It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
not good enough; you have to measure improvement. but since no goalie is consistent enough for that to be possible to do, you'll never have proof.
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
it would be close to impossible to prove that it makes any difference whatsoever. and i'd imagine skill players would take offense at the idea that they look to see where the goalie's pads are.
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
drexel
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
Not much different, but somewhat. Someone is unlikely to sneeze over your cubicle wall unless you're competing with them for a promotion =]
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
Seconding this. I was going to post that link if someone hadn't already. You can make 8 months of dedicated learning and practice count for a heck of a lot if you're persistent and tenacious, especially early on. But if you get to college,
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
Damn reactionaries can't hold the people back!
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
Larry Page said it, right? So, who is being plagiarized?
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
if you like waterfalls, get a job where you spend time in a server room.
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
"Problematizing a purely syntagmatic critique of postmodern critical theory" Plus ten style points for irony. Minus a thousand for writing that sentence at all.
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
also, it doesn't show the actual number of votes. so, on a choice with many votes, if it's 50-50 with an odd number of votes you can't tell which one wins.
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
> (No word on whether employees at the new centers will be required to wear wifebeaters or carry around 30-packs of Busch Light.) oh jesus I lol'd at that
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by evilneanderthal 18y ago
agree with that. perl is tremendous for sysadmin tasks. we've had 90% complete python tools rewritten from scratch in perl because perl is so superior. disclaimer: i'm a recovering ex-sysadmin

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