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by gms7777 14y ago
I'm not justifying those excuses. But those are the reasons students give (at least to themselves), and it would be naive for the university to overlook this and tell themselves that students just shouldn't cheat based on principle as oppos
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I can speak from personal experience as I actually kept strict logs my senior year of how much work I was doing. Mind you at the time I was taking some grad classes, but it really wasn't unusual work loads compared to the people around me.
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by gms7777 14y ago
Clearly, the punishments aren't high enough if half of a course weighs their options and decides to cheat anyway. And compared to most universities a 1 year suspension for cheating on an exam seems very lenient.
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by gms7777 14y ago
I hate to say it, but this isn't that surprising. I recently came from one of these top universities and there's a problematic combination of factors at play: 1. Students are under a ton of stress, have very little time to do work and have
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by gms7777 14y ago
You analogy compared doing drugs to posting comments. Specifically when you said "Unfortunately that's just not how it works - some people comment (or use drugs, etc) because they can't help themselves,". Yes, drug and alcohol addictions ar
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by gms7777 14y ago
Using your analogy, some people do drugs because they can't help themselves. But there are also a significant number of people who don't do drugs because they know its illegal and are afraid of getting in trouble and what it would do to the
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by gms7777 14y ago
Back in college I was a teaching assistant for CS classes and graded a lot of what was very often very poorly written and majorly undercommented code. But I do remember once getting an incredibly unnecessary 2 page long comment for a 10 lin
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by gms7777 14y ago
> On the graduation rate: why shouldn't a school be penalized for a low graduation rate? The point of those rankings (beyond selling magazines, of course) is to give prospective students an idea of how each school will help them in life
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by gms7777 14y ago
Agreed. As first time parents, both men and women tend to feel completely lost. However, the pressure seems to be on women to "figure it out", because if they admit incompetence in any way, they're looked down upon severely, while the same
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by gms7777 14y ago
Yep. While its cool, most people apartment shop for max a few weeks per year? I don't know about others, but I tend to avoid installing anything that has a single purpose and limited use, even if its free, because I don't like being clutter
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by gms7777 14y ago
Sadly, while you and I and a lot of people on HN might care about this, I don't know if this decision will have that huge of an impact. I think the general public will really pay that much attention to this decision, and it won't affect the
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I find this a bit strange. I think more devices would probably be stolen by setting the device down, or putting it in your bag and it getting snatched, rather than someone pulling it off your head. And unnatural movement is pretty hard to d
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by gms7777 14y ago
Intuitively, I think that might be the case. You have to define more specifically what you mean about accuracy here. Accuracy for the bloom filter would be probability of false positives. For the inverse it would be probability of false neg
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by gms7777 14y ago
These sorts of filters have limits to accuracy and usefulness (and a definite tradeoff between memory requirements and accuracy). You can take both to the extreme, while still maintaining the definition: A structure that may report false po
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I never said they did, and I never said that Project Euler improved your programming skills (I agree with you there) I was just commenting that IMO the reason that Project Euler comes up often in discussions amongst programmers is because m
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by gms7777 14y ago
Its not for everyone. I think the reason that a lot of programmers like Project Euler is because a lot of programmers tend to be problem-solvers by nature, mathy and sciency folks, and enjoy doing these sorts of things (especially when they
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by gms7777 14y ago
Laba diena! I was bilangual as well. I grew up speaking Lithuanian, and moved to the US at around 7, picking up English surprisingly quickly. My lithuanian is also very rusty, as yes, the only people I ever encounter that speak it are my fa
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by gms7777 14y ago
What I think I would personally do wouldn't be too different. However, I think making statements like "It's the only decent thing to do for yourself and the others around you." is awfully harsh and judging to people who are actually in the
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by gms7777 14y ago
Agreed. The argument seems to be about the semantics of the word "charity". That's entirely beside the point IMO. You're providing a service. And a quality one at that. Last month, after spending hours filtering through CL listings to no av
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by gms7777 14y ago
Yeah, I initially learned vim because I didn't really have a choice (it was expected for the class that we would use vim), and I remember it being very painful in the beginning. However, just like any other tool you use on a regular basis,
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by gms7777 14y ago
I will attempt to keep this as unbiased as possible. I appreciate that you have presented an argument that is significantly more cogent than most that I've heard on the matter. > Marriage is not a natural right, so first of all, no one
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Because "social conservatism" is often just thinly veiled hate and bigotry and intolerance. I have yet to see a sound argument on why two consenting adults shouldn't have the right to marry. I'll eagerly and openly listen to what you have t
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by gms7777 14y ago
Haha, you raise a valid point. And as an lgbt female, I can't say that I ever forget about them. And yes, its that same exact feeling of complete disbelief when someone that closed-minded speaks to me. However, its a bit more difficult to w
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by gms7777 14y ago
Right? Reading the second response by his wife was particularly disturbing. "...Just look at their cartoons. They like to kill. They think it's fun to kill. They think their friends will admire them if they kill. Without mercy! ...They are
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by gms7777 14y ago
I was about to post this exact thing. Its easy enough to figure out if you watch the computer play. Using this its possible to win every single game as long as the number you start with isn't divisible by 6.
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Works now. Thanks.
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by gms7777 14y ago
So maybe I just fail, but I attempted to sign up, typed in the command and then it asked for a password. I assumed this was to make up a password, so I tried that, and it didn't let me enter. Is this a you have to know a password to sign up
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by gms7777 14y ago
> We should "aim" to reuse rather than recycle. I don't see why this is a XOR situation. Ideally, we would be reducing production, and what we do produce would be readily reusable AND (eventually, when we have gotten past the useful lif
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by gms7777 14y ago
And if we were limited to choosing between reducing, reusing or recycling, then perhaps we would want to scrap recycling all together. But we're not. I would argue that making a device that can be reused and recycled is better than both. I'
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by gms7777 14y ago
Wow, I never knew that. Thanks for sharing. Link to the program for anyone interested: http://www.apple.com/recycling/

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