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by hnriot 13y ago
Judging by the mistakes my daughter's teachers make, I would happily have her class like you describe. self-paced and continually graded. She brings home 40 math problems, it's obvious she has no trouble with some of them, yet the
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he didn't mean literally like a class, it was an analogy. x is to y as z is to ...
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by hnriot 13y ago
why? can't women in your mind take a joke? The women I know are perfectly capable of hearing phrases like that, they aren't some fragile gender that need to be protected.
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by hnriot 13y ago
it's not that - resolving who people are across many services needs lots of fields of info. The more the better the accuracy of the algorithms that find the correlations.
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by hnriot 13y ago
I don't understand this at all. You read hn and yet you think the world looks alien because most people small hand held computers around with them??? To be honest this sounds like some attention seeking gesture, so people ask you about
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by hnriot 13y ago
I don't get all the fuss. I fly often and it takes no more than 20 minutes in SFO to get through, even when there are long lines because they add more agents (thread pool!) - same in Boston, even when there's a major storm and the
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by hnriot 13y ago
I don't seriously think anyone at Google thinks Glass is going anywhere. To me, this looks like Google just trying to cement in the public's head that Google=Futuristic technology. In that regard, and pretty much only that regard,
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by hnriot 13y ago
enthusiasm would be very useful, for example, python won't ever be SO #1 because it's an easy language to develop in. Java will consistently "beat" it in that regard due to its dumb things like turning List<String>
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by hnriot 13y ago
Python 3 is a huge distraction. It's hard to get people to move away from languages like java while there's a fragmented python world. If only we could just forget py3 the python community would be a better, more newbie friendly p
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by hnriot 13y ago
"public static void main (String args[])" - that would put anyone off, and for good reason, it's total bollocks. Either "main" is special or it's not, if it is why tell java stuff it already knows. If the jvm w
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host> python that's all you need. ls is a little more tricky but nothing that a very simple init.py couldn't fix, then you'd have the full and awesome power of python to do shell things. We don't need a new *sh that h
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by hnriot 13y ago
haha, yes, your lack of imagination in this regard is tempting to jump all over, but I point you at exhibit A, the past. I used to think my 50GB disk was massive. Now I have more RAM than that, and use it all! Photos will increase in size b
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by hnriot 13y ago
there is no simple explanation, or rather the simple explanation is your photos will be slightly blurry, from interference patterns due to the mysterious world of quantum mechanics. If you want a better explanation, ask a photon to make up
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by hnriot 13y ago
that's not how it works, just because you make a typo a few times wont mean it's picked by autocorrect. To bypass the five times, just type a word into safari's omni bar and it will add it to the dictionary. it would be an aw
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by hnriot 13y ago
Does it matter with copy-on-write?
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by hnriot 13y ago
"small businesses depend on the mercy of one giant corporation" - this can't really be blamed on google. It's hardly their fault they are the best at search. If someone comes along with something better people will use t
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by hnriot 13y ago
you can't have a virtual static function. Either, but not both. The rest though are all basic c++
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by hnriot 13y ago
This sounds like a really bad idea.You'll end up with a bunch of mediocre people and a few that carry all the weight. Soft skills are great in marketing, but in development, give me competent developers over ppt writers any day.
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by hnriot 13y ago
exactly!!! Being bored with programming is like saying bored of life. There's a whole world of programming out there to be explored. I've been doing it for 28 years and love every day of it.
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by hnriot 13y ago
When I read the article that also popped out for me. Unbelievably obvious. Obviously somethings are different in the Martian environment, but the laws of physics didn't just look the other way when they saw the rover coming.
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by hnriot 13y ago
"we have a great product but it's very hard to sell" - how can that be true. If it's a great product it would sell. Obviously nobody in their right mind would hand over their ssh keys to you. Also the name probably puts
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by hnriot 13y ago
"Everyone I know over 40 wouldn't dare talk about their salary, or how much they paid for their house, etc. Everyone I know under 30 will happily talk about it to anyone and everyone" That's because they (the <30&#x27
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by hnriot 13y ago
Nonsense. When you read the code you need to know what it does, not what the programmer had intended, then, and only then, will you stand any hope of fixing bugs. well chosen function and variable names tell you the intention, if it's
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by hnriot 13y ago
"Most programmers have trouble coming back and reading their own code" Hogwash! maybe if you're writing assembly code or similar low level language, but one of the express benefits of high level languages like python, scala,
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by hnriot 13y ago
it is just as simple as put the LED in parallel, if you want it to stay on for a "little while" put a capacitor in circuit too. Extremely basic EE.
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by hnriot 13y ago
Why would you adapt Wordpress, something that isn't a bootstrap project, but rather a mature product? The bootstrap framework is meant as (and delivers as) a starter place from which to begin customization. Bootstrap has done wonders f
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by hnriot 13y ago
There's an old phrase that the bad workman blames his tools and it seen to apply here too. It's really not difficult and why complain about it being obtuse? If you understand the fundamentals then it makes sense. As for the last s
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by hnriot 13y ago
I think you need a new random function, the one you're currently using seems to be lacking some very basic features.
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Doubt it, Russia isn't the enemy anymore, it is a country in disarray, trying to pick up the pieces after communism.
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by hnriot 13y ago
maybe if he had been playing more with his flight sim this wouldn't have happened. it's such a basic mistake to make.

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