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by khyryk 14y ago
Most of my time has been spent in Windows 7, although I've always dabbled in Ubuntu. Recently, inexplicable errors, winrot, etc. are pushing me to use Ubuntu more often. In my experience, technical Windows forums hardly ever manage to fix t
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by khyryk 14y ago
I used Calculus (4th edition) by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards for my calc 1 and 2 courses and I would not recommend it for independent study. Consider Calculus by Briggs and Cochran instead ( http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcen
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by khyryk 14y ago
I've failed to prevent people from getting caught up on the less important parts. Okay, how about this: MS Excel is a product that accomplishes a certain set of objectives for a great number of people. Suppose the title of this thread were
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by khyryk 14y ago
The fact that I'd really like my car to be able to travel at the speed of light doesn't make it broken when it can't. My car also doesn't fix me dinner, which would be really cool, but the lack of satisfaction of my own personal wishlist do
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A minor point: "And so one of my goals ultimately in this company is to become an engineer, and possibly, you know, travel around the world, go to other Siemens factories, and maybe, you know, work with other engineers from other countries.
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Is this reflected in earnings and unemployment rates?
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>I don't get it - I just don't get it. Is there anyone out there like me that would stay indoors tinkering with hardware and software over spending time rock-climbing or vacationing any day of the week? No, programming isn't the pinnacl
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by khyryk 14y ago
After reading some of the comments, it seems as though this has a tendency to turn into another one of those interviews where the interviewer gets to feel superior if you can't remember shit you learned 20 years ago verbatim.
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Meaning they wouldn't update even if it were OTA?
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I like this book: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Philosophy-James-White/dp... It has a collection of smaller readings so you don't get bored and/or get confused getting through a 500 page tome on your first go. The subjects covered ar
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by khyryk 14y ago
Overly dramatic title. AT&T sent me a text message when my 2.2 phone had a 2.3 update available. The instructions were clear with screenshots of every step, so the only thing needed is about 30 minutes of one's time.
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by khyryk 14y ago
Try using powertop to help tweak power settings Linux may have overlooked by default. It's in the repos, last time I checked.
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by khyryk 14y ago
Exactly this. Arriving at a nice-looking site with good content would convince me to whitelist, but I'm going right back if things get too blinky, flashy, or generally annoying.
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>how concerned should I be about all my functionality existing without JS? If something seems worth using and it requires JS to function correctly, I'll go ahead and enable JS. Unless you have projects in mind along the likes of jsFiddl
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It can still be a more-true-than-false generalization. Most of what we can claim is limited to generalizing.
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Sounds like the stereotypical coder.
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The monthly "Who is hiring?" thread will be coming up tomorrow, which is a good place to put things like this, preferably with more details up front.
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You make it sound like one needs to be Michelangelo before they can even attempt to.
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And how many of these "great products" will survive for 2 years? 5? 10?
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by khyryk 14y ago
Search through the list with any possible terms that might indicate "something interesting"? Advanced AI?
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Are you assuming that a university grad is necessarily "a fully knowledgeable developer/programmer"? ;) Independent study of new concepts, programming languages, libraries, etc., is almost a requirement in order to be a successful programme
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by khyryk 14y ago
I'd say that based on the usage of that word, it depends. Parents would consider children doing their homework relatively productive even though they're not really producing anything. Reading increases my ability to concentrate for long per
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by khyryk 14y ago
I dabbled around in BASIC for a while, but my real effort to learn programming started with Python when I was about 18. Compared to much of what I've seen on here, I'm quite a late starter, but then again, I have many interests.
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Meanwhile, Facebook is investing in things like Instagram, lol.
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writes article about his own experience accounting for an infinitesimally small fraction of all cases, gives advice to all cases with a boatload of preconceptions
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How much are you willing to spend? The ThinkPad X220 is an excellent machine with an option for a 12.5" IPS display. Have a look: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=6056&re...
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by khyryk 14y ago
I shudder at the mere thought. Word does some simple autocorrecting that has rarely ever been annoying; besides that, the most helpful thing it does is underline (potentially) misspelled words and offer suggestions. Given my experience with
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It takes just one click to get away from the website, which is what people like myself would instantly do. I enable scripts to run on websites that are useful to me and require JS for functionality. Stumbling across a random website isn't g
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My own great example of graceful handling of graceful <noscript> handling: the back button.
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by khyryk 15y ago
Learning anything changes the way you think: chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy, mathematics, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, literature, etc. I'd place a language somewhere between a science and something like astrology as f

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