lurker19

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by lurker19 15y ago
For who? Did you mean to pick a different state for your example? For Florida residents, Florida state colleges are tuition-free for all qualified applicants, but these schools pad enrollment with students who do not show college-readiness
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by lurker19 15y ago
Source? For Harvard, your numbers appear to be high by a factor of 1.5 to 2. http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k51861&page...
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by lurker19 15y ago
Does that give you something better than Fuction<T,V> (aside from not requiring a return type)? http://google-collections.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/c...
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by lurker19 15y ago
Why is it reasonable or desirable for a programmer to expect that switching to a new version of a library should have no effect on dependent code?
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by lurker19 15y ago
s/tenants/tenets/
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by lurker19 15y ago
You mean "whether two values are actually the same 'value'", right? (So, "(cons A (cons B C)) = (cons A (cons B C))" even though allocated separately as two distinct instances and not cleverly optimized to the same storage in memory) Otherw
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by lurker19 15y ago
How old was he when he hired a contractor labor force or a large number of employees?
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by lurker19 15y ago
The photographer of publisher would need to blur the tattoo in the image, as they would with an unauthorized image of someone's face (in some cases in the US) or genetalia (in Japan).
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by lurker19 15y ago
MSFT's IPO was 25 years ago, at the dawn of the Information Age. LNKD was post-Google (and post-GOOG) and, well, have access to an automated system for finding friends of friends who are the best experts in the word on any topic, including
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by lurker19 15y ago
GOOG did, remember.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Or How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read http://www.amazon.com/x/dp/1596914696
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by lurker19 15y ago
By the time HTML is as good as native is, native will have moved on to something else, like holograms. Look what happened on the desktop: after 10 years webtech finally became usable as a UI, just in time for everyone to jump to mobile and
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by lurker19 15y ago
The Kindle doesn't have a spine, and it turns pages by the press of a paddle rather than flip of a paper, so it is even easier to scan by machine than a hard book is.
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Unseated.
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by lurker19 15y ago
It's not.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Nothing compared to how much fuel the rockets burned. Digital and Virtual is our glorious ecologically friendlier future.
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by lurker19 15y ago
You may have it backwards. Does your voicemail outgoing message include your email address? Do you reply to email promptly? Most do not.
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by lurker19 15y ago
I do not understand. You stare at yourself when you videochat?
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by lurker19 15y ago
If you switch to Android, you will instantly feel at home, since Android has similar wifi connection issues. (It has a habit of losing the ability to get an IP address from wifi, until the phone is not just rebooted but the battery is com
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by lurker19 15y ago
This comment is additional to my previous one, because Android's browser's textarea input breaks once it contains as much text as my previous comment.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Android, including the N1, never stopped being buggy as hell, though. Froyo made wifi flaky, 2.3.4.2 made Gmail flaky, Cisco VPN support never got implemented, etc. Using Android requires a continuous effort to search for workarounds
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by lurker19 15y ago
Like when Hacker News instructs you to give Clickpass your entire addressbook when you try to log in with Open ID.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Unless we see a sudden and swift cleanup, Aproximately $100k investment and a yea vote at a board meeting appears to be a sufficient endorsemment.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Sometimes the FTC makes mistakes that are worth corrective. Government officials are not the final arbiter of law, and certainly not of truth.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Plaxo is a software tool suite, not a media website, so Site Analytics does not say much interesting about their business.
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by lurker19 15y ago
To be fair, Plaxo's core value proposition is in address book management, so it is in each user's interest to convince their contacts to join. That said, I do have dim memories of Plaxo spam from around 2005, which postponed my Plaxo regist
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by lurker19 15y ago
Criminal background checks are a common concern when licensing adults who work with children. DUI history is a common concern when licensing occupations that involve driving niche equipment under challenging circumstances, such as a truck i
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Are nurses and PAs licensed?
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by lurker19 15y ago
Theorem without proof is unsatisfying.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Execution is everything. For everything Microsoft copied from someone you know about, five things you know about were copied from someone you do not know about.

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