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by freditup 11y ago
How does OCaml compare to F# from a language point of view?
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by freditup 11y ago
You're right. The 'community experience' I had (and I in fact went to a large state school as well as the previous poster) was two-fold: One part was the more transient community you described: I could sit in a downtown coffe
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by freditup 11y ago
What's fascinating, to me, is the difference between the environment college provides and the environment post-college life provides. The contrast in the societal structure most people experience at these two points of life is fascinat
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by freditup 11y ago
You still should remove contact lens solution from your bag and put it separately in the bins. It's just not confined to the fluid ounce size limit. When I do this, they often will spray a bit of the solution and test it for something
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by freditup 11y ago
I think this is a critical point. Intelligence seems like a much more effective means of security than physical security. Of course we have to debate the relative merits of intelligence if there are tradeoffs with liberties/freedoms.
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Ask HN: Fun Side Projects?
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by freditup 11y ago
Ha, perfectly reasonable. Sharing a draft post is an interesting question though, and one I never found a good way to do back when I wrote some wordpress blog posts at a previous job. And according to wordpress.stackexchange[0] (there seems
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by freditup 11y ago
Weirdly enough, when you go to this website, you appear to be logged in as Nicholas Nethercote: http://imgur.com/2tg1rOG
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by freditup 11y ago
So hobby dynos should be able to run the same type of application as a 1x dyno, just with fewer other features more or less? I have a small scale web application (around 5K pageviews per day) that runs very well on the one free web dyno cur
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by freditup 11y ago
Also, the pageup and pagedown keys don't move the page. Also, the arrow keys don't move the page. Also, I can't seem to scroll by clicking on the scrollbar thumb and dragging it. Very frustrating indeed on FF on a desktop.
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by freditup 12y ago
Is it that bad? I tried out TaxACT for the first time and was fairly unimpressed. It didn't help clear up any of the tax questions I had, basically just linked me to the tax docs. It also had a pretty poor UI. Was thinking about trying
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by freditup 12y ago
I had an uncle actually get scammed and send money because of a call like these. He's a pretty intelligent guy, I was really surprised he got fooled by it. But goes to show how effective these scams are. There never seemed to be much i
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by freditup 12y ago
It was very different, but sounds like it's shifting more towards pro-style boxing: http://espn.go.com/olympics/story/_/id/9087686/olympic-boxin... (Men's Olympic boxing is dropping the he
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by freditup 12y ago
Slightly off-topic, but I think these are conservative figures: "Top college computer science graduates may get as much as $120,000 from tech leaders such as search giant Google and social networking leader Facebook, according to Kai F
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by freditup 12y ago
Amen. We're actually very flawed, ordinary people who just happen to enjoy programming/computers.
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by freditup 12y ago
It's not perhaps the prettiest, but 'about:memory' in Firefox can give you a good look into where memory issues are coming from.
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by freditup 12y ago
All the devices look the same which would be strange for manual testing. However, agreed that to assume it's app store rating is a logical leap.
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by freditup 12y ago
My bad - made a mistake reading the question (see my edit above). But still, completely agree that the answers are worded very strangely. I think going for "real" math is a fine idea, but if the questions are designed as poorly as
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by freditup 12y ago
It seems pretty poor to me. I would think the correct answer should be something like: "The expected height on in centimeters for any person with a first metacarpal bone length between 4 and 5 centimeters." That may not be perfect
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by freditup 12y ago
I think you're overestimating the effect of the exposure of corruption. Take for example, your example, Penn State. I'm not sure how much hard data there is one these things, but I'd bet that applications are as high in quant
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by freditup 12y ago
You can read about the law here: http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/students.html
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by freditup 12y ago
Your thoughts, ashark, are exactly how I feel. I love software development and have worked long days on websites I've developed with buddies, personal projects, etc. But on the job, even doing very similar things, it's not nearly
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by freditup 12y ago
Very well done article. General question: when would one choose to use an awk script over something more general purpose such as a python or ruby script? To me it would make sense to use the latter in most cases.
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by freditup 12y ago
Have JS APIs implemented by browsers developed enough so that Flash's feature set is now possible to mock? I know in the past it would've been a real challenge to imitate the Flash Microphone and Camera APIs, and Flash had a real
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by freditup 12y ago
A few quick answers: 1) Yes, probably. They have some sort of a cyber military organization, and it wouldn't even have to be _that_ sophisticated to pull this off. In brief see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world
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White House Doesn’t Rule Out Cyber Counterattack in Sony Hack(time.com)
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I really liked what Ron Johnson tried to do with JCP, and I loved his straightforward pricing (no more of that standard department store mark it up 300% and then perpetually have it on 50% off discount). Guess it ended up being a little bit
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by freditup 12y ago
Alcohol? </sarcasm> Truth is, pretty much everything is toxic at some point of consumption or another. Deciding where to draw the line is not black & white to me
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by freditup 12y ago
That's a great Cracked article, one of my favorites. But one guy's perspective on a couple of cops in one specific incident is hardly conclusive. If being safety is what motivates you, there are more sensible career paths than pol
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by freditup 12y ago
I don't understand this story. Why wouldn't the police do anything? If I'm an officer who's motivated by helping others, it's a clear way to do that. If I'm motivated by a desire for justice, easy way to promot

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