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by narkee 15y ago
I don't experience any of the issues the guy mentions in his article. Sometimes I wonder how some people's configurations get so wonky that they have all these issues. It's clearly an atypical case.
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by narkee 15y ago
>It’s not guaranteed that something of high quality will make it on Reddit, but it’s absolutely guaranteed that something of low quality will be destroyed there. That's not true at all. There are tons of low quality posts. There's just
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by narkee 15y ago
>And security would be a snap—if you can’t see the light, you can’t access the data. That doesn't make any sense at all. People don't intercept data transmission with their eyes. If your computer or device can "see" the light, so can mi
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by narkee 15y ago
Anyone care to share how their usage patterns lead to having hundreds of tabs open at a single time? How is it even feasible to find a specific tab without doing a time consuming linear search? I rarely have more than 4-5 tabs open at a tim
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by narkee 15y ago
Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy.
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Social web browser Flock officially dead(flock.com)
1 points by narkee 15y ago|0 comments
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by narkee 15y ago
What added information would she have gotten from hearing the song? Given the fact that his songs are lyrical parodies, the only substantial difference between her song and his are the words. On what grounds would she reject the song, but b
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by narkee 15y ago
Actually the Quick Search Box maintainer (dmaclach) posted on Google Groups that Quick Search Box is basically dead in the water, and no longer funded by Google. Apparently most of the former team are now working on Chrome: http://groups.g
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by narkee 16y ago
>It’s going to do something better: release an API and become a platform. Isn't that what Amazon S3 already is?
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by narkee 16y ago
The OP claimed that he procured a reference that attested to his "hard-workingness". It's perfectly ok to be a smart worker, and I don't disagree with your point. My point of contention is with the abuse of the reference system - what value
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by narkee 16y ago
> I took no time to do homework, and instead spent time reading math books and programming vs. >I got an extra recommendation from a professor teaching the math class I was taking, whom I had asked to explicitly let them know that I
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by narkee 16y ago
I always thought "inverse" square root was a misnomer. The actual inverse of the square root is the square. This should either be called multiplicative inverse square root, or reciprocal square root, no?
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by narkee 16y ago
I wonder if his supporters would be so enthusiastic if they found out their family doctors had cheated to pass their medical exams. Credentials matter. That's why we require people have them. So we can be certain (within reason) that they p
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by narkee 16y ago
People had the same choice a decade ago, and chose against AOL. I think Dvorak is simply pointing out the fact that Facebook is being praised like the second coming of Jesus, while AOL is regarded as an internet backwater and failure, where
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by narkee 16y ago
So it's news now that some businessmen don't like a decision made by another businessman/men? Calling these investors angels is misleading because it makes it seem like angel investing is an act of altruism. These guys use this to imply tha
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by narkee 16y ago
Then why not just use the web client? It has 100% integration.
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by narkee 16y ago
> I shouldn't need to say this, but the plural of a terrifying anecdote is not data I hear this repeated a lot, and I think people parrot it without really understanding what they say. I'm not saying that this particular article is pres
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by narkee 16y ago
Because that would require a mouse, and that would require an X server, etc...
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by narkee 16y ago
I've observed that success in an academic environment requires more than simply scientific acumen. It also requires relentless self-promotion, networking and a passion not only for science, but for winning the academic game. There are a lot
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by narkee 16y ago
If you click on the graph, you can see "MIPS" (millions of instructions per second) on the dependent axis.
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by narkee 16y ago
There isn't one. That was my point, I guess - that people often grossly overvalue themselves. The only thing I can think of is "mother", but that's a cheeky answer.
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by narkee 16y ago
Lots of people seem to think that the specific set of skills they possess is unique, extremely under-valued and completely necessary to the survival of the human race. I shall call this phenomenon occupational narcissism.
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by narkee 16y ago
How does that imply that programmers are underpaid? I think your implication that the value of trades are somehow worth less than the value programming brings to society is unwarranted.
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by narkee 16y ago
Why should I have to be signed in to my Google account to be able to use this functionality?
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Cisco: The anti-Nokia(economist.com)
6 points by narkee 16y ago|1 comments
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by narkee 16y ago
Right, good catch there - it was a sloppy typo.
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by narkee 16y ago
So P(jobless|PhD) = 0.017, whereas P(jobless) = 0.066 According to Baye's Theorem, the P(PhD|jobless) = P(jobless|PhD)*P(PhD)/P(jobless) Where according to [1], P(PhD) = 0.01 (for all PhDs) so assuming roughly half are science, P(PhD) = 0.0
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by narkee 16y ago
So, you're like AIM/MSN Messenger/Yahoo Messenger/Google Talk/ICQ...?
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by narkee 16y ago
They're not really posers if their behaviour is encouraged by the environment and culture in the Silicon Valley.
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by narkee 16y ago
I completely agree. I've long said that we should separate academic pursuits from technical or vocational training. Arts and Sciences => Academic Engineering, Medicine, Law, Pharmacy, Business, and everything else => Vocational I th

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