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by jckt 13y ago
That's Etsy. They are by no means prohibiting financial aid for men.
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by jckt 13y ago
The point (Etsy's point) was to balance the male-female that was lacking in the early hacker school batches (which, AFAIK, was lacking).
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by jckt 13y ago
Say what you will, but being frugal isn't necessarily akin to having a bad lifestyle -- I think his lifestyle is one that you may enjoy, too: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/06/01/raising-a-family-o...
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by jckt 13y ago
I don't see the relation between my criticism and your being on HN for ages, but you make a fair point. Sorry about that.
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by jckt 13y ago
Ignorance is fine -- it is an unfortunate fact that nobody can learn it all. But to think that one is "engaging" in science -- I suppose most fans of the Page think they're somehow engaging in it (anecdotal) -- is, well, wrong. As much as I
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by jckt 13y ago
This isn't Digg.
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by jckt 13y ago
If it was the dad who was "famous", would you have made the same comment? Many families are like that, for decades (centuries?) the fathers would be bringing home the bread, the mothers staying at home, and nobody ever really called those f
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by jckt 14y ago
Many fellow hackers in the Boston/Cambridge area?
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by jckt 14y ago
Not to belittle petty theft, but "two officers down" is really not just "some crime".
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by jckt 14y ago
It's in the interest of the big companies. From what I know, some smaller schools like Harvey Mudd start off with other languages, like Scheme and Prolog.
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by jckt 14y ago
More like 2-3 times shorter. Humans have barely gone past 30 years of age for most of the last 10k years, and I don't see how dogs' lifespans were improved in recent centuries.
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by jckt 14y ago
"No groceries, dishes, deciding what to eat, no endless conversations weighing the relative merits of gluten-free, keto, paleo or vegan." Is this a predominantly American thing? I've never even heard of these things used to describe food be
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Japan Earthquake, 2 Years Later: Before and After(theatlantic.com)
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by jckt 14y ago
I believe irony's the right term. You'd expect techcrunch to give you the hyped-up start-up journalistic drivel, but instead you find good quality content.
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by jckt 14y ago
Talking just about the incandescent ("classic") light bulb's life...isn't its life limited by the policy of "planned obsolescence"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence Are there any lightbulb engineers on HN that can confirm
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by jckt 14y ago
Or you can use Lisp S-expressions, which are much more elegant and powerful.
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Help Exchange: Free volunteer work exchange abroad(helpx.net)
1 points by jckt 14y ago|0 comments
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The New Color(thenewcolor.net)
1 points by jckt 14y ago|4 comments
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by jckt 14y ago
The thing is, that page is better than half of all the unix guides I've seen online. Except for the `su -c rm -rf /*` part, of course.
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by jckt 14y ago
Isn't Android basically Linux? Android looks pretty good (definitely so, as of late).
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by jckt 14y ago
Was just thinking about this today, what a coincidence. I think the real question is how to deliver store-bought items more effectively to your home. For example, instead of teabags there's already loose-leaf tea, but most people can't be b
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by jckt 14y ago
Slightly off-topic, but what was made to make those animated diagrams?
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by jckt 14y ago
Slightly off-topic, but Brian Hayes (mentioned several times in the article) has a very good blog here: http://bit-player.org/
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by jckt 14y ago
From the OP: "Counterpoint author: David Fontenot is a serial hackathoner and director of MHacks Hackathon from South Florida. He is studying Computer Science Engineering in his Sophomore year at the University of Michigan."
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by jckt 14y ago
I believe most drop-outs didn't drop out because they wanted to - ie family problems, lack of funding, etc. That's probably why the statistics favour the students.
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Mining the Moon(americanscientist.org)
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From software to toilet paper: filmmaker to live open source for a year(arstechnica.com)
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BRAIN - Searching for the first PC virus in Pakistan (Video)(campaigns.f-secure.com)
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by jckt 14y ago
A related HN post from a few weeks ago, a bit more technical: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3916647 As the blogger suggests, this type of tech would most likely be used in internet cafe environments, or classrooms. It might not work out so w
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Scholarly Authority in a Wikified World(historians.org)
1 points by jckt 15y ago|0 comments

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