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by kd0amg 16y ago
I would like to hear from other HN participants if they know of examples of that. /me raises hand It helps to be in a small department. A friend of mine at another (larger) school once asked me for advice on how to seek out letters of rec
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by kd0amg 16y ago
For a few years now, I've seen creationists suggesting that radioactive decay used to be orders of magnitude faster.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
However, there is a significant amount of the market (30%? Tried to google the figure and couldn't find it) that Wall Street doesn't cover, analyze or do much of anything about. For the most part, this is the playing field for the individu
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by kd0amg 16y ago
While I wouldn't go so far as to say this type of post is problematic, what really drew me into this site were things like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1156628
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Is it actually just "a bit more time"? I can only go by what I hear from others, but the stories I read in HN comments make it sound like that "bit more" is at least half-time work.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
GP probably means high-bandwidth ones like these: https://www.storesonlinepro.com/files/1974975/uploaded/Phili...
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by kd0amg 16y ago
I can see the solution for those 6 numbers {−2, −3, 15, 14, 7, −10} The program should be able to work on any set given by the user. the more numbers you add, the longer it takes to solve and p=np is that it should get all the answers in
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by kd0amg 16y ago
And spending too much on expansion leaves nothing to spend on teaching.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Well, it is a group for languages enthusiasts, a demographic which seems to like functional programming more than others do.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
I don't understand why the ACM is so perturbed by Python. I'm only half way through reading it, but these don't seem to be Python-specific objections. A big part of it seems to be contesting the logic behind choosing Python, and they also
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Or you recognize that the game is contrary to your learning-related goals, figure out how many points you need to get what you're after, and then return your focus to learning. What would I have gained with another half point on my GPA or b
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by kd0amg 16y ago
I think the question you want to ask is "What proportion of film school graduates become great filmmakers?"
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by kd0amg 16y ago
The article's claim isn't that they don't need the middle and lower classes, just that they don't need the American middle and lower classes (instead, what they need from those classes can come from foreigners).
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by kd0amg 16y ago
A text web browser wouldn't require window management but omits a lot of content. It does, but after using one for a while, most of it seems superfluous.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Why do you need a desktop to have a web browser? ¬_¬
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Another important one, about master Qc Na: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
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by kd0amg 16y ago
At some point you must accept that this argument is no longer applies for some generation of hackers and those that follow it. Of course, but it looks to me like most of those working in the industry are still a fair bit older than I am (
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Because if you've been coding since you were eight then you should probably know by now the difference between anecdotes and data. And that enjoying a privilege despite limited resources doesn't make it not a privilege. And that most of t
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by kd0amg 16y ago
I was able to get at least an in person interview, and several times, was able to juggle between several offers This alone suggests you were in a somewhat different situation than that of the author. Resume carpet-bombing is what people s
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Somewhere (linked from HN?), I saw an article describing a publication scoring system where your score is the largest n such that you have at least n papers each of which has been cited at least n times. I'd be curious how these organizatio
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Ok, I was not aware of this difference in terminology. Thanks.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
But indeterminacy is not what most people have in mind when they think of free will. A random action is not a free action. It's not a sufficient condition, but it does seem to be a necessary condition. A determined action is also not a fr
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by kd0amg 16y ago
(I haven't read over the entries yet) A coworker suggests a Whitespace[1] interpreter which applies the recursion theorem and then interprets a Whitespace program embedded in the source code, characters which do not count towards the size l
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by kd0amg 16y ago
What is missing is the proof of the opposite: that the human brain can calculate those things. Really, we have no proof either way. The ability to hand-trace computation makes the human Turing-complete. Whether the Turing machine is human
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Nonsense. What happened to abstraction? They leak. Not that all of this information is necessarily required for all programmers, but when dealing with a leaky abstraction it is nice to know what's leaking through and why it is so.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
as set by another member of the team, or maybe random Try going for some sort of consensus among team members rather than random selection -- it gives everyone some ability to reward work on tasks that are important or that nobody wants t
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Slightly off-topic, but... The University of California study finds that the average student at a four-year college in 1961 studied about 24 hours a week. Today’s average student hits the books for just 14 hours. As I was nearing the end
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Or with games that seem based on more mundane chores, the work bears fruit much faster than in real life. In Harvest Moon, I can milk all of my cows in less time than it takes me to wash a dinner plate in real life.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Think I'm reading too much into a CYA legal document? Definitely not, without even reading your link. If it were "How to keep Them from suing you," I'd call it a CYA document. This, on the other hand, is "How to keep Us from suing you."
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by kd0amg 16y ago
It can't be fear of pre-trial publicity: Major trials are front-page news, with or without a video feed, and the days of the blissfully ignorant jury pool are long gone. It can still be fear of exacerbating an existing problem. That said,

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