manvsmachine

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by manvsmachine 19y ago
Yes, people are sheep, but come on... there are always diminishing returns as price increases, but it's like any other sensory experience: just because you can't tell the difference doesn't mean that others can't. That's like telling Mac u
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
Yes, Gladiator... I meant to include that as well.
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
So basically all they're saying is that young people try to minimize the amount of work they do and have short attention spans. Exactly how is this pioneering research?
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
Not everyone listens to their usual genres when coding.
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
Recently, a lot of movie soundtracks and instrumentals; lyrics divert my attention. BSG, 28 Weeks, moody/epic stuff. Not sure why, but it works.
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
I asked a similar question a little while ago, here's what I got: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=78315
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
Yes, it's portable, but I'm kinda curious about how it would be to work with it over long periods of time. Considering how thin it is, I would think that there would be a pretty serious learning curve when it comes to typing. If, in fact,
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
he's not saying that you can't work a 9-5 as a linux admin, he's saying that you can't work a 9-5 job as a linux admin if you don't know what you're doing. Your lack of knowledge would quickly be exposed, whereas Windows systems/netwo
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
There are a bunch of freeware CD-burning apps that can burn an ISO for you if you don't have Nero/Roxio; CDBurnerXP comes to mind. Once you are able to boot, just let Ubuntu load into the LiveCD OS. From there you can use the built in par
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
The choice of distros definitely is key. How bad it is also depends on how long you've been working with computers in general. I've noticed that people who started pre-Win95 tend to make the transition a bit more easily. It helps a little
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
Point taken. I did not mean to suggest that they are one and the same, just that they are both examples of measures that web services are taking to open their systems up. I agree that OAuth definitely seems to be inherently much more valua
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Ask YC: Who uses OpenID?
9 points by manvsmachine 19y ago|21 comments
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
Up until recently, Google was very pg-friendly. If I remember correctly, his page would be the first result from searching "essays".
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
reminds me of when pg said that you can estimate the worth of a education program by seeing how many people drop out to do something easier. I can't think of anyone who's ever complained of having hard classes switching to math/CS afterwar
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
I agree. I think externalities are having a much bigger impact than what the article would suggest, and the stats aren't nearly as bad once they are put into comparison. For example, they say the number of med students has dropped a little
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
That analogy only holds if increased OSX adoption is somehow inherently detrimental to Linux users. I don't see them competing with each other directly that much, as right now both OS are gaining primarily through Windows converts. The vas
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
95% of martial arts studios in America are purely commercial: basically a Bally's with sparring gloves and gi's. Hardcore traditional schools are very selective in who they allow to train there or will often utilize a "weed out" strategy o
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
I'm pretty sure that this has already been posted, recently.
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
I'd have to cosign a previous post: Dell Vostro or Thinkpad T61. Do NOT get a Vaio. I've had a FZ-190 for about 4 months now. I got it for the exact reason he suggested, I really liked the MBP but knew I wasn't going to be using OSX as my
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
Funny, the first thing that popped into my head after seeing the GH clip was that it was probably someone who already knew how to play the guitar. I would think that a good guitar player, for whom fretwork would be second nature, would fin
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
And, of course, while they mention how much the telcos would need to fix this "problem", they don't mention how much they are currently spending out of their inordinately large revenues to do so. But then, why actually use the money that p
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
I found it, they hid it under the name "Introduction to Advanced Mathematics"
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
I am taking Discrete right now, it does include some combinatorics but there is a class that goes into them more in-depth. Already took Calc I, II, III, and Diff. Eq's as an AE major (kinda rusty though). Linear Algebra is required for th
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Ask: Best Math Courses for CS?
3 points by manvsmachine 19y ago|8 comments
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by manvsmachine 19y ago
It's 15 seconds because the song uses a four bar chord progression. 4 bars * 4 beats per bar = 16 beats. The song is around 64 bpm so you do the math and it comes out to 15 seconds