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by grav1tas 16y ago
This is what I heard years ago from the doctors in my family when the first z/x name drugs started emerging.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
1,300 new employees by July 2011? Who are these guys? This whole thing sounds like a total fake, especially after reading the cryptome piece on it.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
It's an interesting approach to spam. It's kind of like the way people dealt with the tobacco industry in the 90's (and maybe still now? I haven't kept up) by just suing them for damages, false advertising, misleading stuff, or whatever e
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I think there's some level of equivocation going on in this article. P1. Computer Science has to do with computers. P2. Science is more than formal systems, namely empirical evidence and studies. C. Computer Science is incomplete if it does
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by grav1tas 16y ago
It may not be a government plan, but the article sure makes it sound like the government is using the threat of legislation to force the ISPs to move. So instead it's some kind of threat maneuver?
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Mod me down, but part of me wonders how this is news. Of course the industry lobby that wants to end "music piracy" that cuts into industry profits is going to lobby for means to seize offending domain names. It'd be news if the MPAA/RIAA
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Agreed 100%. Haskell shines the brightest in Academic settings.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
It's not the first or the last. I believe he's doing this for the Ludum Dare, a game making contest of sorts. A lot of people who participate do this same thing, and have done it in the past.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I think the typical engineering PhD major makes close to the equivalent of 12,000 Pounds. It's usually around 16-18 starting from what I know. When you're doing something that benefits mostly yourself (getting a degree), making that kind
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Agreed. PhD's in the US that pursue the hard sciences and engineering are generally funded fairly well.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I have a feeling that you're equating a PhD with a Master's or Bachelor's degree. The ultimate goal of a PhD is to prepare you to do 'real research' in that you're trained to collaborate with academics, dig through academic materials, comp
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Exactly my sentiments. I'm currently in a PhD program, but not because I intend to be in academia. I love the field I'm studying, and I just felt like doing it instead of joining the workforce. I'll probably learn a cool thing or two. W
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by grav1tas 16y ago
That's great and all, but wouldn't you have to grab a lawyer to do anything serious? I thought a real lien was as easy as waltzing down to a courthouse and filling out some paperwork. I'm probably totally wrong about that though. I guess
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by grav1tas 16y ago
While I somewhat agree with you, I do think that in the age of the pervasiveness of the Internet, we are moving to a time when sovereign governments have (if only) slightly less relevance than they did before. Sovereigns govern groups of p
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Two things I think of when I think NYC: 1. Frakin' Expensive 2. Not San Francisco I feel like places like SV and SF can justify high prices because they already have a lot of stuff going on there. If NYC doesn't, how does it make it worth
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by grav1tas 16y ago
What are the odds of someday independent software developers being able to file liens on companies that stiff them? People who work on your house are able to do it, what's the big difference there? I suppose if you develop somebody softwa
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Here's a question. Does there exist a decent stand alone representation (BNF or otherwise) of the Ruby grammar? I see all this stuff that says Ruby-style, and it looks almost like straight up Ruby. Moreover, I Google around for a Ruby gr
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by grav1tas 16y ago
While I can see why Gerrymandering is/was necessary to maintain the minority voice in regions, has it become less socially relevant to do so? Does anybody have an idea when Gerrymandering based on geographic location will "end" because peo
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Maybe my edit went in too late. It really could be a modded platform, which isn't THAT much more expensive. Figure in cost of tweaking the software and providing infrastructure along with installing custom software on the phone and you've
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I hate to be that guy, but....why not just do Monads in Haskell? It's so much more clean than this. Is there some advantage to writing monadic code in Scala I'm not seeing? I understand if you're restricted to ONLY the JVM, but....really
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by grav1tas 16y ago
If you already have counsel, I was under the understanding (IANAL) that it is against conduct for the opposing counsel to talk to you directly. If they continue to call you while you're moving to get counsel and harass you, aren't they in
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I think the author makes it known that when you respond like that, you better not be bluffing at all. It's puffing out your feathers AND getting ready to do battle in court. The key is don't lie down and take it from somebody if you're no
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Doesn't the Army have the ability to make its own, more pertinent, more secure mobile device for the troops? I figure some of the strengths of Android iOS on the consumer side may wind up being weaknesses or just plan extraneous on the def
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Yes! I second this. Partial evaluation is especially compelling stuff for improving efficiency. I'm glad other people on HN are into it.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
The author makes an interesting point about how we can overuse dynamic programming when statically-typed programming can pretty much get us where we want to go. I've wondered why we haven't seen a big contender to Ruby/Python/PHP/Perl that
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Sure you may. I operate on facts being something that can be shown to be true or false i.e. something that is not an opinion. Here's one I found on Google define that's close to what I've always used: "Fact: a concept whose truth can be pr
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I'd like some good reading on arguments against supply-side economics and its applications during those two presidencies. Even better if its from somebody who knows a little bit of what's what (you) on the topic. :)
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Just because it's factual doesn't make it true. If you're going for the record, could you supply some good citations? The skeptic in me writes all statements like the one you just wrote as categorically false without some form of external
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by grav1tas 16y ago
NO! Your entire system breaks down because it hinges on the notion that there exist objective and generally accepted definitions for the things you intend to describe. Moreover, the metrics for things you describe also do not exist. While
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by grav1tas 16y ago
"It took me 10 years into my career to realize that many in my field (law) were not like me but contented themselves with cutting corners or otherwise coasting along while seeking to avoid the hard challenges." I remember going through that

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