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by kitsune_ 14y ago
About your first part: I recently thought about a couple of app ideas that centered around integrating different web applications (facebook, dropbox, soundcloud, youtube). One of the red flags was what you described. The external service pr
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I had learned a good amount of English by playing NES games at the age of six. I watched and understood Akira four years later. The film was in Japanese, subbed in English. Note, I don't speak a word of Japanese. Watching English TV shows a
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From these figures they seem to burn over 100k per month on outsourced cloud services alone. Holy shit.
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“Hang out with the crows and you may get shot, hang with eagles and you will soar” That's a rather mundane statement in my opinion. "Surround yourself with the best and success will follow". If that's true, the interesting question would
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I heard that learning to "game" IQ tests is a common exercise in psychology classes. According to my friend it's fairly easy to get very high scores with the appropriate preparation. A very good old friend of mine is a professionally traine
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I doubt it does. net/http looks like a basic http listener? As such, the comparison looks biased to me. Mind you, I don't know much about node.js or Go.
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The market does not think. It is neither efficient nor rational. If the stock market is about the future, then how do you interpret Goldman Sachs' share price of $235 in November 2007? 1 year later it fell to $53. A company's share price wi
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People hire college graduates because they have demonstrated that they can be given a list of work, and a criteria for how their work will be judged, and complete the work. That's it. I have a question about this observation. How is this
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You can have sprawl without having to rely on individual transport by car. This is precisely what is going on in smaller European countries such as Switzerland. Cities and villages are connected through an extensive rail and bus network. Fr
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Stephen Wolfram isn't exactly known for his humility.
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I think you misunderstand me. I didn't use this phrase in a philosophical way. I'm talking about professors teaching statistics and not knowing the difference between the median and the mean. I'm talking about that level of incompetence. Im
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Indeed.
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I disagree. What are these great products you talk about?
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We had another prof (statistics / stochastics) who had no official course material and recommended ten books worth 1'500 bucks. We quickly realized that you could either write down 12 pages per hour until your arms were sore. Or that you co
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To be fair, many math professors have the didactic abilities of a monkey. I remember a professor and made no sense whatsoever. You felt that he was bored teaching Analysis and decided that he'd do everything but. At one point he was talking
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Of course you need extra certification for teaching special needs. That's not the point. My question is, do you need a college degree for it? I used this example because it relates to my mother, who recently got a master in this field. Firs
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In Switzerland, which traditionally has seen a low rate in college degrees, and has relied on its apprenticeship system for a long time, we have seen an explosion in new college titles with the bologna reform. You want to be a janitor? Cong
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Do you have any facts and figures to back up that claim?
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Is this a rant? I'm confused.
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I had to learn Eiffel at college because my prof was its inventor (Disclaimer: I really have a problem with this way of 'teaching'). And as such it was bolted into our brains, that in software engineering, it just so happens that everything
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I want to know a solution to this problem myself. I'm definitely the most skilled developer in my team right now. This sounds like arrogance, but it's the simple truth. I don't think I'm a great developer in general, but I'm just more skill
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Ask HN: How does the shift to mobile impact online advertising?
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Fermat's Last Theorem (BBC Horizon documentary)(youtube.com)
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Errr? I don't know what schools are like in the Unites States, but I was probably taught the exact opposite of what is presented in this Forbes Article. For instance: "The people in charge have all the answers." > My history teacher wou
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Thanks, very informative to watch.
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I seriously doubt that. It's not like most programmers live in a bubble and never have contact with other people. As a programmer you usually accumulate detailed domain knowledge in a variety of industries. You often end up knowing more abo
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As a consumer, I stopped buying Apple products some time ago. The last thing I bought from Apple was an iPhone 3GS. I still have to use Apple products at work. Now, I don't think that other companies are inherently more moral than Apple. Th
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What are "generate purpose languages"? If you meant "general purpose languages", which one is "the best one possible" and for what reasons?
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I'm from Switzerland and the reality that you miss is that a lot of students will be thrown into the Realschule (lowest tier of secondary education in Switzerland) for a variety of reasons, including spiteful teachers or foreign parents who
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
I've just returned from a 15 days trip to Korea. Being able to read Hangul was helpful, especially when trying to read menus, but in most places, road and subway signs were bilingual (English & Korean). In many ways, the country seemed

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