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by greenlblue 16y ago
The way universities are pumping out PhDs it's not surprising that a whole bunch of requirement are simply being swept under the rug. Universities figured out a long time ago that graduate students are basically slave labor and they accept
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by greenlblue 16y ago
There must be something else at stake here. This kind of thing happens all the time and now all of a sudden some professor decides to stand up. This is definitely not the full story.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
In times like these I think Knuth's earth shaking announcement is a good rebuttal: http://river-valley.tv/tug-2010/an-earthshaking-announcement
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Spot on. Any time some industry insider tells people they need to work like slaves to get a good position has no idea how economics works. Instead the industry insider should be telling people we have enough people looking to break in and y
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Why didn't google go with more open technologies? They wrote the fastest javascript interpreter and they couldn't figure out how to use it in their phones for app development. I guess Java has more libraries and whatnot but honestly how man
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Cross platform mobile apps with rhomobile(rhomobile.com)
1 points by greenlblue 16y ago|0 comments
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by greenlblue 16y ago
You're probably right. I think the idea is really cool and I'm surprised some CS grad student hasn't jumped on this stuff yet. There is a lot of theory lurking in the background for this kind of stuff and it would definitely make a nice mas
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Relative comparison theory strikes again.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
You will not be able to reconstruct the regex by a timing attack unless you make some assumptions on the input like maximum length and even then reconstructing the regex will be tough. If you don't make a maximum length assumption then the
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by greenlblue 16y ago
This is awesome. I love JavaScript and all the goodness it offers and this is one more reason to love it even more because now I can pile all my greasemonkey scripts into the UI.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
What he really means is work on your craft. Staying up late has nothing to do with it.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Time to rewatch the matrix.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Suck it up and learn. It's not hard. There are plenty of books to get you started so just pick one and start.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
You can't go wrong with PHP and Javascript. Those two are basically universal and later on you can transition to other frameworks if the need arises.
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HN+Instapaper palm pre app(precentral.net)
2 points by greenlblue 16y ago|0 comments
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by greenlblue 16y ago
When was the last time anyone here used facebook to get something done and I really mean get something done and create something of value? Anyone? As long as facebook caters to teen type activities like gossip and displays of vanity it can
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Facebook believes in its own view of the world a bit too much. Somebody should tell those guys to get a sense of humor and stop making the world so "open".
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Good to be reminded once in a while that code is written for people and not machines.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Firefox has firebug and greasemonkey but I'm probably using a different definition of power user.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
I read this and thought what a waste of electricity. Putting all those processors to work on folding proteins would have brought about so much more social good.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
The title is misleading. It's not thinking of nothing that is tiring but getting to that state by stopping thoughts already in progress. If their models are accurate this is pretty good evidence for why meditation practitioners let thoughts
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by greenlblue 16y ago
He makes a great point at the end about beefing up the network effect and he is right. This is just another way to pump more noise into peoples' feeds.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
This is weird because there already is a lot of politics in mathematics so making it explicit and letting outsiders know who the super stars are is not going to change much within the community so I don't understand the opposition.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
A really long winded and melodramatic way of saying how differences make individuals unique and special and how empathy is a good thing.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Plus take his offer on backing up the data. I'm assuming it's valuable if you backed it up.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
There is an iterated version of the prisoner's dilemma and you don't need a clever AI to win. The name of the strategy is tit for tat and it basically wins over the long run.
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by greenlblue 16y ago
I'm not really sure about that. Have you seen the kind of stuff people post on facebook? It's outrageous. You can get people to use their real identities and you can get them to share real personal stuff as long as you trick them into doing
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Double-blind? You are taking cell phones away how are you going to make that double-blind? Or any kind of blind?
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by greenlblue 16y ago
There was similar experiment with teenagers and cell phones. The conclusion was cell phones were like crack at least as far as their neural pathways were concerned. The kids without the phones reported things like feeling they had lost an a
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by greenlblue 16y ago
Flip to the last few pages of any technical book. I know for a fact that O'Reilly books put a plug for other related O'Reilly books in the last few pages and I'm certain most other books to the same thing and some even have them up front. T

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