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by glesica 13y ago
I think the meaning was that most Americans resent that they are basically forced into a contract in order to get the plan and device they want. I would rather bring my own device, but the only carrier available to me (until recently) was V
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by glesica 13y ago
Doesn't seem to work in Chromium... I just get a "loading" message in the bar on the left side.
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by glesica 13y ago
Same thing happened to me!
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by glesica 13y ago
So I can use it over SSH... which I do often. It's not like curses apps are that hard to make, especially with Python.
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by glesica 13y ago
Actually an Android handset with some really solid, secure apps and no consumer cruft (copy of some movie you can't delete, Blockbuster app, etc.) would have been pretty killer back when I had a Blackberry through work.
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by glesica 13y ago
Your book is definitely an excellent contribution (I bought it as soon as I found out about it). When I first came to the language I was a little surprised that O'Reilly didn't have a book out, but I guess it was too unstable even
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by glesica 13y ago
I've messed around with Rust a little and I love what I see! The documentation is still poor (understandable given how quickly the target is moving) but that seems to be changing. This is a really exciting, multi-paradigm language and
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by glesica 13y ago
Universities are like any large organization, mission drift occurs and keeping your customers happy can means offering non-core services in a bundle. I think the real trouble is that college is still awesome for people who can afford it. It
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by glesica 13y ago
Life imitates art, the more of this stuff that comes to light, the more "American Dad" appears to be an accurate portrayal of the intelligence community...
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by glesica 13y ago
And to stop hosting international events and locating foreign-owned businesses there.
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by glesica 13y ago
It requires the Oracle JRE, so I don't see how Debian could provide packages for it without a ton of weird hoops to jump through. I tried it on OpenJDK and it chokes.
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by glesica 13y ago
Whoever said anything about there being a "well run market"? I think it's pretty clear that, at least in the US, the incentives CEOs and boards face are almost laughably perverse.
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by glesica 13y ago
> unless they are mature enough to consider the opportunity cost and make sounds judgements about it. But couldn't that be said for virtually anything 20-somethings do? What about working for a startup? Or starting one? Thos
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by glesica 13y ago
It isn't that simple. One of the key reasons for the tenure system is to insulate "thinkers" from political or social pressure. Tenure allows researchers to be more objective because they don't have to worry (as much) ab
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by glesica 13y ago
I think one of the core problems is that people, for whatever reason, enter PhD programs for the wrong reasons. Something I have been told several times is that you should only do a PhD if the opportunity to work on the research it involves
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by glesica 13y ago
US has set interest rates at basically zero for awhile now, so banks can borrow from the government more or less for free. They can then take the money and engage in various profitable activities other than lending to individuals who wish
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by glesica 13y ago
This just isn't true. If anyone was arguing that PhDs in general were worthless, then it would be a very reasonable point to think about. But in this case, it isn't really the PhD itself under discussion, it's the preparati
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by glesica 13y ago
I would never have considered Yahoo in the past, but recently Google has been on a crusade to make their products worthless to me so I've been looking around to see what else is out there. I've settled on Bing maps, though OSM is
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by glesica 13y ago
I do believe this. Is claiming I don't believe the thing I just stated I believe some sort of brilliant rhetorical tool? Or are you just an arrogant idiot? Just look at how the word "thug" is carefully used in rhetoric. The i
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by glesica 13y ago
To me, that means more than "what you did to get thrown in prison". In the US, many people see prisoners as fundamentally failed human beings, they are in prison because they are "Bad", not so much because they broke law
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by glesica 13y ago
MS student here (maybe PhD in the future). This is exactly why I go to school. I enjoy the learning process. It's not about acquiring skills to make money, it's about learning interesting things in an interesting and creative envi
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by glesica 13y ago
Why was there so much pressure to write absurd loans? Because the derivatives market was so lucrative. It's all connected. The housing bubble wouldn't have been what it was without all the extra money made available by people buyi
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by glesica 13y ago
It's easier to live peacefully with people who are different than you when you are all relatively prosperous. Look at the rioting in France a couple years ago, or the rise of far-right politicians in many European countries that have b
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by glesica 13y ago
Theory says people will figure out ways to become qualified for those positions unless they are actively prevented from doing so (presumably by the government, which would be a market distortion). That's why the market idea is so seduc
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by glesica 13y ago
> But if there actually is a shortage, all that does is move the shortage around. The shortage should then be eliminated organically by more people being attracted to the higher wages. Therefore I tend to agree with the GP, if you are he
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by glesica 13y ago
Turn off JavaScript and you can scroll with the arrows/page keys... but yeah, annoying.
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by glesica 13y ago
Hehe, yeah... sorry for that.
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by glesica 13y ago
> dad/daughter humor inserted. Not to be a dick, but you may be guilty of a little benign sexism yourself there... the author is a woman.
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by glesica 13y ago
The money probably has something to do with it. In the distant past (80s, 90s, earlier I'm sure) there perhaps wasn't quite the connection between computer programming and money in the eyes of the general population. Of course the
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by glesica 13y ago
I don't disagree with you, strictly speaking, but I do understand how VB might not be the best way to get people interested in programming. While JavaScript is, in my very humble opinion, a rather poor "first language", I und

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