kakaylor

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by kakaylor 15y ago
I went to a Purdue extension campus, worked out great and was extremely affordable.
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by kakaylor 15y ago
Going back to college, in particular for Computer Science, is always an option. There is such a lack of skilled professionals in the field that no one will turn away a competent candidate. If you choose to go back for Computer Science, I wo
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by kakaylor 15y ago
All of the listed factors also apply to marriage. While I am single, it seems like marriage is HARD all by itself. It takes time, effort, communication, and patience. Adding a start up on top of this is going to make it more difficult (alth
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by kakaylor 15y ago
From the article (referring to the controller): "Please understand that it was not designed to be a portable video game machine," Nintendo President Saturo Iwata explained. Looks like it won't compete against the 3DS.
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by kakaylor 16y ago
I agree, I would definitely be interested in a torrent of the data.
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by kakaylor 16y ago
I wonder if this is more a symptom of having few women in the field of computer science / software engineering [1] than a lack of women who want to be founders [2]. It isn't too surprising when you consider only a small percentage of peopl
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by kakaylor 16y ago
I understand what your saying, but I am not sure I agree (at least from the US perspective) that South America has been written off as a rounding error in the last few decades. I think we have been on a trajectory from the early 1990's (sta
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by kakaylor 16y ago
Very good point. I think the point on corruption and the rule of law is really significant. It goes beyond just e-commerce and into a whole economy. A government of men and not of law does not make for a thriving economy. If found these two
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by kakaylor 16y ago
I think the bigger issue is GDP and GDP per capita for both Nigeria and Africa as a whole: Nigeria GDP (PPP): $170bil Nigeria GDP per capita: $1754 I can understand why e-commerce companies might just choose to blacklist an entire country.
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by kakaylor 16y ago
I was thinking about this at the negotiation stage, before hiring occurs. I can't imagine that an employer would try this after the hiring stage. As for salary information, there are other ways to know how much someone else is making withou
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by kakaylor 16y ago
Good advice. I wonder about this bit though >As for them finding out, I don't know where you are at in the world, but in the US their is no way for them to find out unless you provide them with that information. Professional networking
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by kakaylor 16y ago
Sounds like a great option for students. I think for a lot of companies, however, Matlab has a leg up on Octave. In particular: -The specific packages offered by Matlab (like the mapping toolbox, simulink, parallel computing, etc..). -The t
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by kakaylor 16y ago
It makes for a much better joke if you start at one ;-) It is actually a pretty old joke, there are a few variations on it (one for Computer Scientists, one for Mathematicians, etc...): http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/~rfm/107F07/EPMjokes.html
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by kakaylor 16y ago
The Physicist proof all odd numbers are prime: 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is experimental error, 11 is prime, 13 is prime...
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by kakaylor 16y ago
This is why good internships are so important while your an undergraduate in CS (or many other majors for that matter). Depending on the university you go to, CS != Software Engineering. You don't encounter, and may not be even aware, of co
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by kakaylor 16y ago
This is pure speculation, but I wonder if production cost is the driving factor. Rather, I think it is a question of what a potential buyer is willing to pay. If a person with a Kindle is looking to read, say, Atlas Shrugged ($19 Kindle, $1
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by kakaylor 16y ago
This essay does assume, of course, that you can find enough developers in your locality that can write software competently in Python. A few years ago I developed software (engine diagnostic/programming) for a large semi-truck manufacture i
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by kakaylor 16y ago
We implicitly "vote" in real life through our verbal and nonverbal reactions to the comments of others.
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by kakaylor 16y ago
I use contacts (same brand, Acuvue Oasys) + glasses. I wear contacts much more than glasses, and have some trouble when I put on my glasses. In particular the loss of peripheral vision (I have extremely bad eyesight) when I put on glasses i
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by kakaylor 16y ago
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has links to each state's Department of Health [1]. They will follow up on reports of food poisoning and take necessary action. [1] http://www.foodsafety.gov/about/state/index.html
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1 year Free Amazon Prime Membership for College Students(amazon.com)
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by kakaylor 16y ago
>I have a 17-year-old daughter who went to a private school...It was judged one of the 100 best schools in America. It was phenomenal. The tuition was $5,500 a year, which is a lot of money for most parents. But the teachers were paid l
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by kakaylor 16y ago
On the flip side, I have had some positive experiences doing some casual (non-malicious) hacking on some tech-blogs \ websites I frequent. Nothing too fancy, just simple SQL injection for privilege escalation and the like. Any time I find s
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by kakaylor 16y ago
It is worth emphasizing that what the author is talking about is more akin to screen scraping than web crawling. Both tasks have their challenges, but screen scraping has several that are inherently difficult to overcome. In particular, wit
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by kakaylor 16y ago
I am in a similar situation. I started working full time after completing undergrad a year ago, and am working on side projects more to learn than for entrepreneurship. They have been a great low cost way to continue my undergraduate math +
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by kakaylor 16y ago
Some items are displayed multiple times in the "ask" section. For example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1748045 appears 3 times on the front page of the "ask" section (at least at the time this comment was posted).
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by kakaylor 16y ago
The site guidelines are a good resource if you are new: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by kakaylor 16y ago
Pretty cool site. You might want to look into TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) weighting as an alternative to filtering for common English words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
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by kakaylor 16y ago
Thanks for the great feedback. Your spot on about the UI/UE, it is a serious weak point. It is a pretty big gap in my own skill set (which by iterating on this site, I am hoping to improve). I think the core competency of the site is meme t
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by kakaylor 16y ago
Right. The automation versus editing is the key difference between techofnow and techmeme. Techmeme has several editors that will promote stories, or alter conversation grouping, based on an editor's discretion. I think your right. techofno

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