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by kscaldef 14y ago
Unless the other participants only think the problem is resolved, and you have some additional knowledge which would be relevant.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
The re-titling of this article here on HN(#) I feel misses an important point that it's trying to make. While we are all affected by the death of Aaron Swartz as a member of our community, when it comes to issues of prosecutorial / judicia
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I think it's also worth saying that phrasing it as "picking a rubbish superviser" puts an unfair blame on the student. By the time you realize your advisor is neglectful, or incompetent as a teacher, or actually neglectful, you might be a
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by kscaldef 14y ago
That still fails to answer my either/or question...
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by kscaldef 14y ago
So, knowing that he was going to take another job, you'd rather he still came to your interview and used up hours of your employees' time? To me, that's the action that would lack integrity. Your example of the guy who made a mistake is ce
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by kscaldef 14y ago
So, you'd regard a candidate as lacking integrity if you scheduled an interview with them, but they then cancelled because they'd accepted another offer first?
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by kscaldef 14y ago
That didn't actually answer my question, which was about what the reason for that being a "black list" offense was.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
What did his accent have to do with the rest of this?
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Are your "black lists" based on poor communication, or making an offer to another candidate while they haven't interviewed you yet?
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I'm not sure how you can say that "the article misses the entire point" when the third paragraph is entirely devoted to addressing it.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
> Linear sequences of steps processing data arrayed in some linear fashion or others is what computers do No, it's what some computers do. It's almost certainly not what the computer you are using currently does. It's quite possible i
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by kscaldef 14y ago
> A stack with C at the bottom You realize C is not at the bottom of the stack, right? > Why do you suppose that no serious VMs or language runtimes are written in Haskell (or other functional languages)? Because Lisp Machines didn'
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by kscaldef 14y ago
> C is the language that doesn't force any preconceived notions about how the world should work onto you Some preconceived notions forced upon you by C, off the top of my head: - problems should be solved by describing a linear sequence
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Counterpoints: Cookbooks: he's recommending specific cookbooks which he thinks will make you a better cook. As he says, lots of them are crap, as are lots of the recipes and tutorials on the internet. You're paying for curation here more
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I take significant issue with this paragraph: When you write something to be fast in C, you know why it's fast, and it doesn't degrade significantly with different compilers or environments the way different VMs will, th
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by kscaldef 14y ago
C is weakly-typed. You can cast anything to anything else and the compiler won't stop you.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
For couple days, 70F shouldn't be a problem at all. Remember that most wine shops aren't refrigerated, and who knows what the wine might have experienced between the winery and the retailer.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
You should read part 2 of the post.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
To clarify, I meant "hard" in the sense of more fundamental or "lower level". In that ranking, mathematics is more "hard" than any of physics or chemistry or biology. Astronomy is a little less clear but I think it's fair to say that it's
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by kscaldef 14y ago
But then there's also relatively more women in Mathematics and Astronomy. There's definitely not a simple relationship between how "hard" the science is and how many women are in the field.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I run AntiRSI and take a 5 minute break every hour. Never had an employer complain about me not staying chained to my desk for 8 hours.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
You're assumption is that you get a fixed amount of functional life, followed by a variable amount of less- or non-functional life. OTOH, you might get a variable amount of functional life, followed by a more-or-less fixed amount of non-fu
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I'm not even sure that the solution is technically sound, as it appears to ignore the possibility that multiple people live at the same location.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Why do I need to know why laughter improves my health? Because otherwise someone else on HN will say: "citation needed!"
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by kscaldef 14y ago
It's no longer a case of "keeping up with the Joneses" - you now have to keep up with everyone you've ever met, no matter what the cost! I don't understand why so many people don't seem to get that you don't have to be "frien
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I think it's still pretty unclear what this function might do, since the inverse of a map isn't well-defined. I think this is a type signature that makes sense and has a fairly obvious most-likely meaning: boo :: Map a b -> b -&#6
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by kscaldef 14y ago
So, you liked the conventional group-think and life choices of 20-somethings posting photos of getting wasted at bars & parties better? Also, if you can't take pleasure in the happiness of your "friends", then maybe they aren't your fri
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by kscaldef 14y ago
That sounds like a problem with you, not with Facebook. It's important to learn to accept that you and everyone you know will grow older, age more or less gracefully, and eventually die. Also, FWIW, while having children should, and almost
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I'm a little confused by your comment, but as someone with an advanced math degree I might just not have noticed what you're referring to. Can you point out what in the course you felt involved a heavy emphasis on math?
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Probably not. I don't think that in the large that helps with readability / maintainability. Even in the small, I find languages which don't allow forward references (Ruby, sh) rather annoying. It forces relatively insignificant implemen

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