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by mjn 13y ago
The TOEFL doesn't have any kind of accent requirement, as would be clear by walking into any American university's science or engineering departments and speaking with the students who have top TOEFL marks. You do have to be compr
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by mjn 13y ago
Mostly true, and good for me to the extent it's true (as a native English speaker), but it does depend on the field and country. A lot of robotics and EE research in Japan is published in Japanese-language journals, as one of the bigge
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by mjn 13y ago
People even say that about driving, even though cars are a de-facto requirement for obtaining a job in huge parts of the country.
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by mjn 13y ago
For use on the web you'll need a server license, though, which is $3800 for one machine. Fine if it's a business with revenue, but pretty steep for side projects or free services. (There's also a free version for non-commerci
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by mjn 13y ago
There was more solid delineation of turf between the FBI and CIA/NSA for some decades as well: the former was responsible for domestic intelligence and the latter for foreign operations. Hence most of the domestic abuses you read about
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What Internet.org's Promo Video Cut From the Kennedy Speech It Quotes(theatlantic.com)
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by mjn 13y ago
If the argument is that quasi-mandatory long hours in tech should also be scrutinized, fully agree. Working hours in the game industry, one of the areas where it's most prevalent, have been getting some scrutiny for the past 4-5 years,
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by mjn 13y ago
In my case it's depended a lot on the other person. My closest friends fall into any combination of: 1) people I talk to mainly in person; 2) people I talk to mainly online; and 3) people I talk to frequently through both mediums. I do
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by mjn 13y ago
They do put some effort into internal controls, e.g. SELinux came from the NSA originally. But apparently not enough!
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by mjn 13y ago
My impression is that this is considered the norm in the XML world: you're supposed to edit it via a specialized editor, not directly as raw text.
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by mjn 13y ago
I find my union in Denmark helpful. I think union systems operate quite differently in different countries, for a mixture of cultural, legal, and economic reasons. For me it's exactly as you indicate: HR represents the employer's
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by mjn 13y ago
At this point the name is so overloaded, I suppose we could criticize most post-'80s things named "Arc" on that grounds. I haven't heard pg/rtm defend why the Arc programming language chose to clobber the existing e
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by mjn 13y ago
The main thing that's broken from the perspective of #3 is that it looks at a best-case scenario with no legal or political hurdles, and assuming the detailed construction part will not present any surprises (and surprises that massive
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by mjn 13y ago
No, Levy just thinks that anyone who wants to make a detailed proposal for a specific line should do enough research to justify their claims, and show their evidence. He isn't a transportation engineer himself (he's a mathematicia
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by mjn 13y ago
Thanks, that actually looks interesting. The MIT press office has a habit of writing press releases that go beyond the usual hype to be so over-the-top they actually make the work sound crackpot. Happens most often in AI, but I guess in cry
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by mjn 13y ago
SpaceX is based on a fairly different principle, of taking proven designs from the past, updating them, and building them for less. For example SpaceX's Grasshopper VTVL is following in the footsteps of the 1990s McDonnell Douglas DC-X
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by mjn 13y ago
It's not hard at all to come up with speculative transit ideas with some high-level engineering guesstimates. It's sort of a hobby of a lot of people. People have even sketched out plans for this particular idea (partially evacuat
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by mjn 13y ago
The new Gecko parser is based on a Java->C++ translation from this standalone parser: http://about.validator.nu/htmlparser/
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by mjn 13y ago
I think one aspect is just that the decision is made definitively at some point, in advance. People have different opinions: impact on historic buildings, noise, environment, other things. This is all debated up front, and then the legislat
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by mjn 13y ago
It's true that the U.S. and Tibet are on opposite sides of that spectrum, but there are a number of countries whose military spending as a percentage of GDP is between 1/4 and 1/2 as high as it is in the US, but who nonethele
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by mjn 13y ago
For usenet and mailing lists, this is handled on the client side by read/unread tags on messages. Web forums haven't yet found a way to do as good a job imo, leading to a lot more reload-and-scan type activity that feels even more
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by mjn 13y ago
> Does any country actually have a genuine politician with a CS degree in office? One U.S. Congressman, Pete Olson (R-TX-22), does have a CS degree, from Rice. He later studied law. Engineers and physicists are slightly more common, thou
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by mjn 13y ago
For those not familiar with him, Maass is an interesting journalist mainly focusing on international affairs. He's been following the surveillance story for a bit, and has an archive of some of his articles from the past ~10 years or s
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by mjn 13y ago
Even the most expensive TGV lines, have a per-km cost of around $20m/km in present dollars, and that's high enough to cause controversy. The bulk of the network was built for prices of $2-4m/km at the time, which is about $3-
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by mjn 13y ago
Those numbers still seem absurd to me. $120 billion? France built the entire TGV network, about 2,000 km (1250 miles, ~2x the length of LA-SF, including numerous stations in urban areas) for around $20-30 billion. Maybe the U.S. should borr
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by mjn 13y ago
I agree w.r.t. the 1970s, but the Lisp Machines were having cost-competition issues even before the Intel/SPARC machines caught up, due to the advent of lower-cost, smallish minicomputers that could be used as single-user machines if y
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by mjn 13y ago
Re: applications for automatic differentiation, there's a list of applications here: http://www.autodiff.org/?module=Applications . That's a list for the approach generally though, not the Haskell version.
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by mjn 13y ago
A lot of people are on an in-between plan, having cancelled the dialup portion but kept the online service through a cheaper plan. AOL made that free in 2006, but only if you notice and change your billing. My parents had AOL dialup in the
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by mjn 13y ago
Looks like the author changed institutions and the paper moved: http://www.elsman.com/tldi03.pdf
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by mjn 13y ago
If not deliberate trolling, that kind of comment is at the very least low-information. It could be replaced by a shell script that looks for the word "taxes" and randomly replies with a short but strongly worded comment that taxat

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