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by javanix 17y ago
Well, I didn't mean to imply that we should try to impose any sort of literal rules on the community, only that all we can do is hope most of them get the point. How are we supposed to "tell them the point"? We can't contact this jrp fe
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20 people upvoting it is not "many" people nor does it reflect poorly on the community as a whole. Those 20 people can't make up more than 5% of the total number of active users on HN. No matter how hard we try, we're never going to be able
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The Future of Reading - ‘Reading Workshop’ Approach Lets Students Pick the Books(nytimes.com)
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by javanix 17y ago
I'm not sure I agree with you. Karma as a measure of personal worth is silly, but as a way of cutting down on trolls it works pretty well. That number at the top of the screen is something that I'd bet the Reddit and TechCrunch commentors w
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by javanix 17y ago
Heh, I think the person who wrote it needs to read more HN.
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The thing that drives me nuts the most is slow people who stay in the left lane in the passing lanes that are sometimes put in on 2 lane highways (ie, 2 lanes going in the same direction for a time). Some states (Minnesota for sure) simply
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by javanix 17y ago
I think the 60 bits/sec figure is more analogous to encoding an mp3 than listening to one. Making distinct choices like you're probably doing with your work is the sort of processing that the article was referring to, not the "parsing" done
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This is pretty cool - as good as an example of the power of massive parallelism as I've ever seen, anyway.
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I'm not sure "deserve" is the right word, considering the amount of thought that goes into most of them.
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Wow, that's a fantastic analogy. Kudos to him (or her) for placing a real, reasoned response on a gaming blog as well.
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Agreed on all of your points other than "power-hungry politicians with a deeper, anti-capitalist agenda". There are some true morons in office in this country, especially most of Congress, but if you can provide me with a single example of
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I would agree with you - but the 'infobox' (for lack of a better term) stays stationary over the same point of the building for the whole thing. I can't imagine the computations to keep it that centered based simply on the orientation of th
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If Microsoft were to "go away and die" it would be because their competitors were, in fact, "polished diamonds".
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What would be the business sense in these restrictions? I see the point with XP - Microsoft wants computers capable of using the latest and greatest to actually use the latest and greatest - but what's the point in the Windows 7 restricti
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by javanix 17y ago
It wasn't really overly special - but I built and debugged a full web app from the ground up including MySQL backend, (simple) scripting language, and design/logic in about a month on deadline earlier this summer.
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It seems better, but I'm pretty sure it's an illusion that comes at a cost of color accuracy. The glossy screen reflects more light before it hits the actual display, reducing the amount of light needed to be absorbed to give a true black
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No kidding. They look nicer when the computer is turned off? Is that really worth the extra glare for people?
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by javanix 17y ago
Try to find some good friends in CS (or whatever your major is). I made the mistake my first year of college of being far too standoffish and irritated with most of the people at my first school, and spent most of my time bored and lonely u
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by javanix 17y ago
They're kind of fun to look at, but I guess I don't really see the point. What are these supposed to illustrate?
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The attacks were “the equivalent of bombing a TV station because you don’t like one of the newscasters,” Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer of the Internet security firm F-Secure, said in a blog post. “The amount of collateral damage i
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by javanix 17y ago
I've been trying to make a point of reading more IEEE Spectrum articles lately. They're well-written and seem to be scientifically accurate - a rarity on the web these days.
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Its pissing off the developers - not the vast majority of Apple's customers. Like it or not, Apple's popularity has made the iBrand fairly self-sufficient by now, and its going to take a lot more than a couple of unjustly-pulled apps to der
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That would hold up if learning a bit of memory management was actually "mindwreckingly hard".
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by javanix 17y ago
You make a good point - I was thinking that Java shouldn't be taught in introductory CS classes for people planning to be a CS major, but obviously didn't get that across. It would be fairly easy for someone to learn Java once they've been
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by javanix 17y ago
Well, yes, most things do become easier with a bit of practice. If a functional language was taught in beginner CS classes I think it would be easier for students to see how it works. It certainly "clicked" for me once I'd learned a bit of
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by javanix 17y ago
C would be my first preference as well, but I also appreciate that Scheme (or another functional language) would provide better opportunities than C or Java for students to learn more "advanced" algorithmic techniques such as recursion. The
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by javanix 17y ago
Yes, the hours upon hours of instruction in basic CS courses that were devoted to the various mundanities of Java abstractions drove me nuts. I'd much rather have spent that time learning the more-useful mundanities of memory management in
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by javanix 17y ago
And here we have the reason why just about every single CS department in the US teaches Java instead of C or Scheme.
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While I'm sure this approach has general merits, I'm also fairly certain that different dietary approaches will work with varying levels of success for different people.
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Agreed, wholeheartedly. I don't even follow any of the links that pop up around here anymore.

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