just2n

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I wasn't referring to anything such as the SAT. I don't think any existing standardized test would be sufficient. There's not ONE test that will tell you where to put someone. Instead, they should take multiple tests in different subjects t
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What problems? You seem to have a particular worry about administrators deciding the fate of children by thinking they wouldn't challenge them by placing them in the correct track, or that the children would be discriminated against based o
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Can we get a JS answer to this in the browser? I'm curious if Three.js can match this level of terseness.
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That's one of the reasons I don't like Notch. This game is literally perfect for WebGL. The rendering done is minimal, the CPU work done is minimal, the textures are (or could be) tiny, and the code required would be tiny. But no, it's STIL
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Quickly taking a glance -- these benchmarks (like most benchmarks) seem like they might be highly misleading. For instance, in the Express example code, they're sending JS objects rather than serializing them to raw data that the socket can
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The hard part here is encoding a heuristic that is capable of improving the time complexity of the naive exponential algorithm asymptotically so that it becomes useful. People are really impressive. They're capable of realizing where they b
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And that's the difference at MIT between a math degree and a CS degree, methinks. Though, I don't think a hill climbing algorithm is going to be too helpful when there's only 1 solution.
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I've never exposed a Postgres or MySQL database directly to the internet, either. They're always listening to localhost connections only, and the only code that gets to make direct calls into them is my code, which means input sanitization
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I think this is related: http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_o...
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Here's my idea. I suspect TurboTax would lobby against it as well. Tax reform. Woah. I mean make it simple enough that there isn't any need for tax specialists, because it's just not that involved. Then filing takes seconds for most people,
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I barely use Calendar or Contacts. I only use Gmail for the mail -- something everything else can do, too, and it's a far cry to call gmail something impressive. By web dev standards, it's a fairly basic application. When I got my n7, I con
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But there's a circular logic flaw in believing the two aren't related. Producers (not just laborers, think scientists, researchers, editors, engineers, managers, etc, in that they produce services and products) have some cost/value that you
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I started learning C at 11 and at 13-14 had software developed that assisted in reverse engineering and debugging of applications. These days that knowledge seems fairly trivial to me, and it isn't fundamentally complicated. Now with more u
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Definitely not, but the NYT article really places emphasis on him being a developer, a "programming whiz", and calling the algorithm "his". This might just be misleading out of ignorance or just as a side effect of trying to build hype. It'
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For me, I think this should receive more attention. You have a company that's trying to attract talent, but they pay market wages for you and me and anyone else. Then there are stories like this, where they outright throw money at some peop
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For me, at least, the rich kid part casts doubt over everything, including things we typically take for granted in stories about startups. Did he actually write the software, or did he leverage his wealth to have others build it? The fact t
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One would expect that all of that wording means they licensed technology from SRI (likely heavily patented). So a curious badger might wonder if SRI is owned partly by his family or their friends. It seems highly unlikely that some kid with
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TGP is mostly dogma. The title should make that very clear, but unfortunately, as usual, Crockford is short sighted so the title of his book is misleading, implying you might learn something about the language by reading it. A much more app
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Defeated: javascript:clearTimeout(setTimeout(function(){}, 1) - 1);
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But how does taxing producers more than investors make it easier to get producers? All that does is mean that the fruits of a producer's labor generates a lot more wealth for other people, at a lower tax rate. That necessarily means we have
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I can provide evidence that this is a horrible idea. Try typing a phone number into google. Go ahead, try it. Google has improved in some regards. I recall having to look through 3-4 pages to find a decent result in some queries a few years
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Might the leadership change have anything to do with that?
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Perhaps, but when useful features see lack of use, it's usually because it's a prohibitively difficult feature to use or very poorly presented. Maybe if it was as simple as clicking a "never see results from this website again" it would've
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I'm fine with income taxes so long as they're progressive and have no holes, such as investments in the stock market not being considered "income" so that people can make $800,000+ /yr and pay some obnoxious 15% in taxes while people making
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I understand this from a technical perspective, but I always thought this feature had the potential to allow Google to gather better qualitative metrics about websites. For instance, if a huge chunk of people who are searching for web-relat
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I can't say that this is a problem specifically in the web. The landscape is littered with C frameworks, C++ frameworks, Java frameworks, .NET frameworks, and so on for every other language, that serves to abstract so much from the basics t
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Assuming people were to ONLY use this for todo lists, that would be infinitely more useful than what feeds and stories a person is interested in. They probably also get a lot of that information already with Google News and Google Analytics
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Let's make this a bit more accurate. Consider a world where your box of donuts WILL have donuts taken out of it, even if the box is closed, as soon as you walk away from the donut shop. As soon as you hit just about any website on the inter
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> I'm not going to mention salaries, but I'm a senior engineer with 20 years of experience and can command a pretty good salary. Why is it everyone is still afraid or committed to upholding this "taboo" about talk regarding salaries? C
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It also turns out that Keep will provide them with a LOT more information about users that advertisers would pay through the nose to obtain. Reader.. not so much.

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