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Dusting for Hackers(littlebitofcode.com)
1 points by jcnnghm 17y ago|0 comments
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
It's not that I refuse to memorize things, it's that things don't just happen. Everything happens for a reason. The reason behind things is usually very interesting, whereas what actually happens isn't necessarily interesting. Although I
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Why Most People Think Memorizing Historical Facts is Useless (and Why It Is)(littlebitofcode.com)
27 points by jcnnghm 17y ago|16 comments
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
If private providers half-ass the underlying learning, why do private schools consistently outperform public schools?
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
The important thing in history isn't the who, the where, or the when, it's the what and in particular, the why. History classes almost never cover that, most important, part. Instead it's an exercise in rout memorization. If you focus on
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How I Learned to Love Monitor Arms(littlebitofcode.com)
2 points by jcnnghm 17y ago|0 comments
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
Or because it's not as much of a tremendous waste of time. If you're smart and motivated, you can probably complete the average high-school class in an afternoon. The whole thing is an exercise in grinding speed-limited to the slowest kid
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
It's about what it says. The thesis of the article seems to be that the sexual revolution has created the Tucker Max culture. Essentially, women actively go after and sleep with alpha males. The issue that arises is that alpha males won'
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
I watched this documentary some time ago, http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-... . Pretty cool, strange country.
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
Do they still get their trillion dollars?
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
There is a huge misconception about cost-plus contracting. It's actually the least expensive way to develop new technology, that's almost exclusively where it's used, and it's designed as a risk mitigation factor. In essence, if a company
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
There are public meetings on "secret" treaties? That doesn't sound very secret. Was the activist ejected for breaking the rules. When you attend an in-progress House or Senate debate in their galleries, you aren't allowed to have any ele
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
Even worse, having reviewed the code that leaked during Climategate, it's pretty clear that the researchers are not competent programmers. The revelation that was most off putting was the "commented out" code that injected arbitrary values
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
I wonder if this is a tactical error. While the Wii sells well, there really isn't a lot of compelling software for it. Often the interface adds little, or even takes away from gameplay. Perhaps it's just really hard to get right. discla
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
No, but they are composed entirely of sentient beings.
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I'm aware of that. Just because it works for him doesn't mean it's likely to work for anyone else.
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"When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought," the court said in a
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
I'd be really careful with this. If I can't easily get the price of the product, I assume it's a few million dollars and find another product. The only way I would ever fill out a form to get information is if it was the only game in tow
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I got this, http://www.starcase.com/detail.aspx?ID=964 . Works well.
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In my view, a good idea is generally the merging of one or more crappy ideas and so-so ideas into something that's workable. Because of this, I think you need to provide some mechanism for the cream to rise to the top. For the use case I'm
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
That could be really interesting, but I think the implementation could be tricky. I'd love to see something like that if it was done right.
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Ask HN: Handling Aggressive Competition
2 points by jcnnghm 17y ago|4 comments
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
I'm more interested in The Pacific, which is the companion to Band of Brothers. The budget for that is supposed to be more than $150M, and it's set to premiere in March. One of the books it's based on, "With the Old Breed", is quite good.
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
While reading Gladwell's book Outliers I got the distinct impression that you could effectively argue against his thesis, that successful people are only successful because of their circumstance, without changing many words in his book. Wh
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
Are you developing the software yourself, or working with someone else? It's very clean.
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I developed something pretty similar to this. Check it out at http://barsannapolis.com/ .
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I thought that, by far, the most interesting bit was that some of the dogs had learned to use the transportation system. I think we underestimate the intelligence of animals.
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This would be really useful, especially it it learned your habits over time.
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At one point I was customizing software for contractors, and they would all inevitably ask about getting computers in their trucks. As long as it is easy to use, it should sell extremely well in that niche.
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The video is actually really impressive.

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