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by jcdreads 17y ago
Every time I read this is causes me physical pain to think that I'd have to take more than a 50% pay cut to become a math teacher. If only I were independently wealthy...
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Yeah, this is exactly right. To a decent approximation, I spent college and grad school just basically plowing through math and physics texts. In eight or so years, with extensive help from the faculty of two universities, I grew to under
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by jcdreads 17y ago
I am cheered by the news that they tested for the presence of an AOL-style incident.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
It's a strategy that probably also works brilliantly for helping the kids you coach have a lot more fun than they'd have if they got beaten soundly in every game they played.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Disclaimer: I use Git for my own stuff and as an svn client at work. But I wonder if Git's author's boorish-yet-sort-of-amusing behavior when invited to speak at Google a couple of years ago may have also quietly weighed on the decision som
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by jcdreads 18y ago
Primary source (podcast): http://mediacast.sun.com/users/dannycoward/media/PC_0002_Jam...
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by jcdreads 18y ago
You're right that new bus routes have a very low marginal cost, and that buses move more people per transportation dollar than other forms of public transportation, but without expensive dedicated lanes they are certain to be slower than
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by jcdreads 18y ago
Very nice; but upon zooming into the leaf in MA, zooming once more and then panning around caused it to get very jerky, as though constantly reloading. Browser history rapidly filled with trailbehind pages. Possibly the same problem Sutto
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by jcdreads 18y ago
Are you angry that they used/wrote something called wasabi? Joel force you to read stuff that makes you mad? I mean, seriously, what's with all the random ire in the HN comments on this story?
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by jcdreads 18y ago
Reading quickly, it looked to me like an article about converting a Ph. D. to XHTML/CSS. Also useful. : )
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by jcdreads 18y ago
> ...this mentality... I'm saying not that git shouldn't be used because it offers power. (Quite the contary: I use git-svn at work exactly because it's more powerful.) I'm pointing out that, "Oh shit, I better be careful with this di
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by jcdreads 18y ago
"It'll be faster to await the broken build email and roll back than to test this on my dev box," is another good one.
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by jcdreads 18y ago
> Because Eric Sink is a smart guy, but he doesn't understand git yet. He's still following the Subversion workflow. His article makes it seem like he doesn't have his head all the way around git's internals, but I think his problem wit
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by jcdreads 18y ago
No, that bit about dividends can't possibly be right. Relatively few public companies pay a dividend, and basically none of the other companies face shareholder lawsuits about the absence of a dividend. And if Citi were a poorly programmed
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by jcdreads 18y ago
> All you have to do is write the documentation very specifically... And then compile it. That is to say, if you've written your spec sufficiently precisely, then it _is_ code, and will compile, thereby sparing the need to hire program
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by jcdreads 18y ago
I'm a fan of this old post (probably linked from Hacker News, actually, but I can't really remember)... http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2007/07/the-limitations... ...that asks exactly how much better the experience will be for a part
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by jcdreads 18y ago
Alas, now the Service Plan and Find a Way to Serve links are visible...and link to pages that read, "Need Content". Launched early, I guess.
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by jcdreads 18y ago
Very interesting to note some of the links you can see commented out when viewing source, including: /newsroom/blog/ /newsroom/events/ /newsroom/press/ /learn/inauguration And, within a comment block labelled "comment out america serves": /
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by jcdreads 18y ago
There is also the "Planet Money" podcast that the same guys at NPR have been putting together. They've been discussing the most recent parts of the crisis as they unfold; hours of super depressing fun! http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ It
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by jcdreads 18y ago
In addition to working well and presenting results well, the _name_ is _inspired!_ Please don't let anyone here convince you otherwise.
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by jcdreads 18y ago
Collider Exacts Revenge With Large Hadron Beam
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by jcdreads 18y ago
Here's the most obvious way: they cause essentially zero pollution compared with energy from fossil fuels. What wind- and sun-related environmental peril did you have in mind?
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by jcdreads 18y ago
When Intel "does" 45 nm, it means that the smallest design feature on a chip, usually the width of a wire, is about 45 nm. Chipmakers explicitly specify each chip, and then burn the actual image of the chip using photolithography; they bas
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by jcdreads 18y ago
Back during the five-or-so years that I read slashdot regularly, I grew to wish that Jon Katz stories weren't there, so I used slashdot's (simple) filtering mechanism to make it so.[1] Therefore, a feature request: If a large fraction of HN
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by jcdreads 18y ago
Chaos theory isn't really a girl, but is instead a drag queen. When people breathlessly ask you about that "girl" you know that they must be pretty confused about women generally.
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by jcdreads 18y ago
According to the Amazon Web Services calculator, reproducing this result yourself would cost $118,553.47. That's for 1 TB of data transfer in and 1/10 of that out (presumably one would pull down only sorted indices, not the entire sorted d
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by jcdreads 18y ago
This article, while greatly interesting, isn't really hacker news. Unless we're talking about really, really sloppy doctors. Perhaps this would fit better at reddit instead.
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by jcdreads 19y ago
Right. As I said, and for exactly the reasons you state, the only aspects of jottit.com I'd recommend emulating are the fast (lazy) signup and the ability to type Markdown text instead of using raw HTML or a heavy rich text widget. (And wh
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by jcdreads 19y ago
It's nice, but for rock-bottom low-friction signup and easy (Markdown-based) formatting you might want to consider emulating jottit.com. It's also possibly worthwhile to add a "dump entire site as a bunch of text" button; to bring people ba
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by jcdreads 19y ago
Nice! Dave Winer used to run one of these at http://www.mailtothefuture.com/ but shut it down because the idea only "sort of worked". Here's hoping it sticks better this time.

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