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Mathematical exploration of the game SET [pdf](math.rutgers.edu)
2 points by jsharpe 16y ago|0 comments
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by jsharpe 16y ago
I clicked this link hoping it was about how to make a search engine, and this was the first page of many to come. Drats. :P
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by jsharpe 16y ago
That wouldn't work at any company I've worked for, at all. It can often take a couple of days to get completely physically set up (desk, workstation, chair, laptop, etc), and up to 2 to 4 weeks to really get your environment completely set
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Ask HN: What is the best Java IDE?
20 points by jsharpe 16y ago|25 comments
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by jsharpe 16y ago
The cool thing is that it's not even as facetious as it appears. "Writing down the problem" is a legitimate, and very useful, tool for problem solving, and one that is often skipped.
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The Feynman Algorithm(c2.com)
60 points by jsharpe 16y ago|31 comments
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by jsharpe 16y ago
I'm basically the same, except I haven't achieved it yet. I want to get to 100 karma in order to be able to downvote (almost there!), but past that I don't really care. That said, I'm trying to restrain myself from posting just for the sa
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by jsharpe 16y ago
But on the other hand, you spent much more time skating around than eating, versus time on the couch is 100% available for mindless snacking.
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by jsharpe 16y ago
This is hardly news. As I recall, anytime Facebook does anything , people threaten to leave en masse. And guess what? It never happens. I can never get over the irony of this type of meta-journalism. It's not like TechCrunch hasn't been ac
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by jsharpe 16y ago
I wonder if this is because sitting and watching TV tends to correlate with poor diet (lots of snacking on unhealthy things while on the couch), whereas it's quite difficult to eat bad stuff while moving around all the time.
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by jsharpe 16y ago
I saw a talk by Matt Ridley, the author of The Rational Optimist, and it was quite interesting. One interesting question posed was whether Ridley believed in Ray Kurzweil's singularity theory. He responded that he believed futurists are loo
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by jsharpe 16y ago
I wonder if he's referring to experts-exchange with that dashes comment?
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by jsharpe 16y ago
That's very cool. I particularly like the waves of scroll bars ( http://www.the389.com/works/scrollbars/ ) and using checkboxes as pixels ( http://www.the389.com/works/drops/ ).
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by jsharpe 16y ago
I'd be interested to know what a lot of these projects are. That graph suggests that there are a good number of projects that have > 90 comment lines per 100 lines, which just seems absurd. Do they count perl one-liners where there is a
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by jsharpe 16y ago
Anyone know where the pictures in this comic are taken from?
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by jsharpe 16y ago
You can't really blame facebook for sending messages like these when they have no idea what's happened to him. The simple solution is to let them know: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=842#!/help/contact.php?sh...
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by jsharpe 16y ago
It boggles the mind that we went from Apollo to the space shuttles in 10 years, and in the 25 years since the construction of Atlantis, we've seen virtually no advancement in American manned space flight.
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by jsharpe 16y ago
Get internships. These will help remind you why you're in school, and give you great mentorship opportunities. I've learned just as much if not more from internships as I have from my CS classes (although the knowledge tends to be of a more
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by jsharpe 16y ago
You have to use some type of font smoothing (e.g. ClearType) for it to look acceptable. It looks quite nice once you put it on.
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by jsharpe 16y ago
another nit: GET requests are idempotent, but that's a necessary, not sufficient, condition. You should just say they have no side effects.
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by jsharpe 16y ago
Ideas like this could, eventually, actually obsolete CSS as we know it. All it would take is for subsequent revisions of the CSS standard to include support for some of these features, and for browsers to support more complicated CSS. With
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by jsharpe 16y ago
Why can't ads be both a service and a way of making money?
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by jsharpe 16y ago
Of course not. These images are taken FROM Sol. How could it be there?
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by jsharpe 16y ago
How exactly is it unprofessional to leave after 12 months? An employee doesn't owe an employer anything more than the employer owes the employee (which is not much). If a better opportunity comes up, who is the employer to prevent the emplo
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by jsharpe 16y ago
The only trouble I see with this is that it needs to stay up to date with current medical knowledge (which changes all the time). The game will quickly go out of date if it is not kept strictly aligned with current medical texts.
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by jsharpe 17y ago
That's not really telling considering that usage of orkut in Brazil and India is orders of magnitude higher than in the US or Germany.
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by jsharpe 17y ago
By that argument, no company should have any need for PR. All they do is talk about your problems.
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by jsharpe 17y ago
I took "hanging" metaphorically. Surely jail time or a heavy fine would serve a similar purpose?
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by jsharpe 17y ago
Agreed. As has been said many times, code is much easier to write than it is to read (or debug), so make that sacrifice now.
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by jsharpe 17y ago
I completely agree. For example, he gives the example of an "associative array" as a concept that shouldn't be used to explain what a Lua table is, but really, for anyone with a moderate amount of programming experience, this is probably th

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