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by frossie 17y ago
Yeah yeah, "I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain". A tweet on HN... good grief...
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by frossie 17y ago
I agree. I think there are really two levels of privacy. I would like to keep my Netflix preferences private in the sense of not posting it on my website (or Facebook or whatever). But, if someone was interested in sinking enough effort to
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by frossie 17y ago
Allow zipcode entry. Dragging the wee man all the way from Hawaii to the mainland so I could see what this thing did was a drag :-) Anyway, people don't always support their geographically closest team. (I have no comment on the actual usef
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by frossie 17y ago
My experience is that people, starting from when we are kids, do notice gender and that the path of least resistance is to do what other people of your gender are doing. So if you’re a girl interested in programming and you see very few ot
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by frossie 17y ago
My problem with the "different learning styles" theory is that it is quite disempowering. There aren't many "aural" ways to understand quantum mechanics. I am concerned that "accomodating different learning styles" is really just about dog
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by frossie 17y ago
The facts are not irrelevant. The kind of critical thinking you will gain after learning about medical experimental protocols is not the same critical thinking you will learn by doing needlework.
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by frossie 17y ago
If you don't want to sit through the whole thing, check out the segment 1:20 to 1:50. When a gamer can do something that surprises the designer, that's pretty damn cool. Interestingly the Ars Technica review said that this is a game you wan
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by frossie 17y ago
Also, it doesn't mean the blue gene aids reproductive success - it might just be related to another gene that is adaptive.
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by frossie 17y ago
Okay now I am curious which langauge you wanted that wasn't there... there's like a 100 languages on that list, half of which I haven't even heard of ("Brainfuck"???)
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by frossie 17y ago
I have found the kubuntu KDE4 a bit flaky and font-poor (especially the earlier versions). I run KDE4 at home from the gentoo repository and it is rock solid and the fonts are fine, so I am not sure what is going on there. A bit beside the
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by frossie 17y ago
Good post. I would go as far as saying that not listening is the cardinal sin of any kind of management - I have seen some of the same issues come up with employee management. Basically, don't fear to explain your problem and your propos
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by frossie 17y ago
Have you tried mind mapping? It's not plain text files, but I think you are asking quite a lot of a flat linear format.
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by frossie 17y ago
Is this on HN for the sole reason to make the rest of us feel bad about not taking the time to make animal-shaped foodstuff for our kids? (PS: I have a couple of the "Laptop lunches" boxes - they are okay but a tad overpriced IMHO).
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by frossie 17y ago
Erm, it does depend on which part of the scientific community you are talking about - we're not all a monolithic Borgian block you know. There are a bunch of non-programmers using the Perl Data Language for example (pdl.perl.org). The real
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by frossie 17y ago
I am sorry you are having a rough time. I think writing a journal, especially a private or anonymous one, is an exercise in introspection (where it is not a short-term venting exercise). While that can be fruitful for certain kinds of probl
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by frossie 17y ago
I realise I am the grumpiest survey taker on the planet, but: 1. If you want me to fill this multiple times for multiple projects you had better give me a one page survey. 2. Since I am not using whatever it is you are peddling, I need more
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by frossie 17y ago
While we're at it, the name "LISP" is obsolete. It's reminiscent of variants of the broader lisp family of languages, circa 1980. We're talking about Common Lisp instead, often shortened to "Lisp", being a much more modern language." (Unl
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by frossie 17y ago
(c) W: 5 in x H: 10 in is clearest to me
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by frossie 17y ago
Right, but the main issue here is not related to his stocks, it is related to the fact that he writes manuals for products he reviews. I don't entirely understand why this is such a big issue - it is normal, for example, for someone who has
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by frossie 17y ago
I would advise going against going to college a year early. However graduating from high school a year early is a different issue. Is it possible for you to do something really creative with a year off? For example be an exchange student in
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by frossie 17y ago
I think the challenge is not so much to explain how programming works (I think most have some vague idea that it involves making the computer do "stuff") but to explain why it matters to do it well and why you get wound up about seemingly i
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by frossie 17y ago
You seem to have posted this twice: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=803883
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by frossie 17y ago
I've seen that kind of IP-location in ads. Personally I find it hilarious - it is a huge flag that they are scamming me because I live in a small town, so my first reaction is not "wow they are just like me", it's "that can't be true". I gu
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by frossie 17y ago
#2 is my sysadmin, #3 is my tech lead, #4 is my project manager, and #1 is the person we take out for a beer once in a while to get us inspired. Good teams have balance, and a creative tension in their problem-solving approaches.
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by frossie 17y ago
There is a trade-off in resorting to interferometry - your resolution goes way up, but your field of view goes way down. For certain kinds of science, you are still better off with a nice big dish. (Disclaimer: I work for the largest sub-mi
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by frossie 17y ago
Not sure scrappy means to me what it means to PG - it pretty much means having a fighting spirit. I think people do tend to use that adjectives on small dogs, which may create associations with lack of dignity/gravitas, but I don't think it
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by frossie 17y ago
"What a shame people still react like this" What a shame she was lying about it...
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by frossie 17y ago
I am not defending her blanking you , but what was unwise was not paying for her, but doing so behind her back. "Look, I'm the person who likes the overpriced beer, let me pick up the tab" would have given you some additional data points wi
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by frossie 17y ago
icey - no need to feel like a jerk - three blogs upstream is the original article http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/08/23/... and it specifically says that spending money on your social network "buys you" mutually pos
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by frossie 17y ago
Not sure what the point you are trying to make - there is a huge difference between 2% and 6% (factor of 3 to be precise). I personally would think it would be 5% at least, so I chose to believe the poll that confirms my preformed opinion :

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