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by navait 12y ago
I think television is terrified that you would turn to another channel, etc; Telling a joke keeps you for a few seconds, enough time to tell another. And then you're engaged. But you have to make the case to watch your show in the span
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by navait 12y ago
When I worked as a researcher the NIH, we took privacy very seriously, as we were liable for information leakage caused by our negligence. The federal government is liable for HIPPA violations.
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by navait 12y ago
That actually did bother me in the letter. He states: -Most students taking CS courses are already familiar with an imperative laguage. -we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages hav
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by navait 12y ago
As much as I love Haskell, one problem with the intro to CS courses is that many of the students are not CS majors, but students from other disciplines that need to learn a little bit of programming. It makes sense here to teach Java and Py
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by navait 12y ago
Is it too much to ask that you use some imagination rather than blandly parse a headline?
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by navait 12y ago
Really, what he's lamenting is the end of big-budget original movies. At the end of the day, it's hard to argue Hollywood should invest $300m into something completely untested when Avengers will easily make $1bn. Fortunately, whi
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by navait 12y ago
Jesus. The publisher is the New York Times, writing a story about a real threat to ordinary people. It's not a great headline, but neither is it really misleading either. It effectively communicates what the article is about to SNYT re
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by navait 12y ago
Plenty of great programmers exist that did not have computers as children.(Someone had to invent them, and were very expensive for a long time). I myself never had a computer. The myth that you had to be exposed as a kid is mostly propagate
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by navait 12y ago
The policies he specifically mentioned: -Region-locked DVD's - never really enforced, and DVD's were irrelevant years ago anyways. -App Store - decision by a private company that many like! Not policy. -Sony Rootkit. Happened in 2
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by navait 12y ago
There is no war on general purpose computers. If you want one, you can get one. Some people need one, some people don't. What we are finding is that very few people wanted a general purpose computer in the first place. They wanted to d
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by navait 12y ago
Well, we introduced the VSL(Value of a Statistical Life) for a reason. I would quite say that the government openly says saving a life if only worth a certain amount, if you read real policy documents.
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by navait 12y ago
I don't know if Mr. Stallman is exactly a socialist, but he's not pro-capitalism either. So I don't think he really concerns himself with actually getting people to pay software developers. To him, that's an afterthought
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by navait 12y ago
Let's be completely honest: there was very little good television on until 1999. The only thing that's changed is the volume of tv being produced(which naturally favors cheap reality shows). But more and more great things are bein
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by navait 12y ago
>Maybe a handful, I said. And then I realized that there was no way I could work on that problem. Success in academia is measured in the number of citations your paper receives. What point is there in writing a paper that is only interes
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by navait 12y ago
In general it's ok to do so. I think you're confusing one ancedote for reality.
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by navait 12y ago
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by navait 12y ago
Well, an internship in the software industry here is not really an internship. More like a summer job for CS students: intern just means you're temporary and lowest on the totem pole. I certainly was given jobs that were considered sem
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by navait 12y ago
Meaningful discussion in class is impossible if huge chunks of the class aren't paying attention. It's not a problem in 500 student classes, but the 20-odd ones it is.
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by navait 12y ago
>Speaking at the PTA? Better hope one of your "neighbors" doesn't decide it's politically convenient to crucify you as having said something Wrong and put it on your Permanent Record. I know petty things happen when n
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by navait 12y ago
>I know this will get me downvoted but I can't understand the fascination with Serial. Overall I found it quite a boring listen. Too many side paths that amount to not much at all, feel like it could have done with a harsh edit. I f
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by navait 12y ago
I think this guide has a good place for children who are interested in computers and get in trouble for messing with their schools network. Many of these kids will have absorbed media which does not really understand the diffrence between b
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by navait 12y ago
But the article is about people who are high achievers.
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College Board offers programs to subsidize the cost of the test. In any case, the AP test generally mirrors the CLEP as well, so you can take that.
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Yeah, but the lower tier colleges are unlikely to attract the sort of student this article talks about. the people who have trouble completing their degree in time generally either fail classes or were underprepared for college. They are n
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by navait 12y ago
The assumption that college is a four year commitment is absurd. AP classes mean you can get credit in high school, or the CLEP test allows adults to quickly get credit for classes. Community Colleges allow you to transfer credits. You can
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If the media hasn't fully recognized the problem, how did you become aware of it fully?
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by navait 12y ago
Should we be encouraging people to stay the science course? There are a glut of science phd's in the workforce. I dropped out of my phd program to just do an MS because I found I simply wasn't smart enough to hack it. My research
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It's so great to have people like you, who are so much smarter than the average person. Continue to bless our internet with your wisdom! But seriously, go talk to an average person. They'll care a bit more than you think especiall
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by navait 12y ago
Dr. O'Connor teaches my NLP class. His work is revolutionary.
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by navait 12y ago
I don't buy new cars.

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