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811.
by nether 12y ago
Hardly anyone pays the sticker price on college tuition. Net price, what people actually pay, has fallen. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/22/153316565/the-pric...
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by nether 12y ago
No, he sounds melodramatic to me too. I just wonder why if these issues with Python 3 are so egregious, why haven't other framework developers chimed in with support?
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by nether 12y ago
Armin hates Python 3 and considers it a step backward. Ref this discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1ugg24/armin_ronache... /u/mitsuhiko is Armin. I'm not experienced enoug
814.
by nether 12y ago
Realizing the world doesn't revolve around you.
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Girl, Interrupted(hyphenmagazine.com)
1 points by nether 12y ago|0 comments
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by nether 12y ago
FML
817.
by nether 12y ago
the HN commenter who got inside Anonymous...
818.
by nether 12y ago
There's this great line in Dataclysm (written by the guy who wrote the OkCupid blog) about how the NSA recruited from the best math students at Harvard. "The people spying on us are extremely, extremely smart."
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by nether 12y ago
One of the authors, Scott Page, majored in math at the University of Michigan. He also teaches the course "Model Thinking" on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/modelthinking . Perhaps one to avoid...
820.
by nether 12y ago
> Page’s work on diversity has been cited by NASA, the US Geological Survey, and Lawrence Berkeley Labs, among many others Oops.
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by nether 12y ago
It's pretty sensationalized. Forbes covered it well: http://www.forbes.com/sites/airchive/2014/09/10/review-al-ja... The shop worker problems sound no worse than any other large factory. If tho
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Low-Cost Fusion Project Steps Out of the Shadows and Looks for Money(nbcnews.com)
2 points by nether 12y ago|0 comments
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by nether 12y ago
I'm leaving in ten months. I have $60k in disposable savings (i.e. this excludes retirement) and a pickup truck. I will travel the world for at least a year, then do who knows what. Maybe I'll become a programmer.
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by nether 12y ago
I've slowly felt my soul being crushed after five years at a small, Office Space-esque mechanical engineering firm in an LA suburb. Our perks include two 10-minute breaks per day where we can make personal calls, walk around the parkin
825.
by nether 12y ago
It's not just finding women who are into you; it's finding the ones who are single that matters. In the case of techie introverted people, there's usually a huge surplus of available men versus women.
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by nether 12y ago
Not always. http://www.meetup.com/AMBW_NYC/ http://www.meetup.com/SoCalBwam/
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by nether 12y ago
> People fail either because they do not get the work done or because they have abrasive personalities, he said: “We have a zero-tolerance policy on that.” We've sure gone soft. Here's to the sane, socially normalized ones.
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by nether 12y ago
> Cyclists raise your hand if you want to ride against the risk profile of a driverless car! Driverless cars can detect cyclists: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/28/google-cars-c... So, a
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by nether 12y ago
> The biggest possible problem is that as the auto driver you become responsible for any bike rider you come into contact with because they are unprotected regardless of the circumstances of the contact. I didn't ask them to get on
830.
Is It O.K. To Kill Cyclists?(nytimes.com)
75 points by nether 12y ago|143 comments
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by nether 12y ago
> Die-hard fearless ninjas that would bike through an active firefight, bike-haters that would never bike in a million years, and casual cyclists who would bike if they felt it were safe. And casual cyclists who are fearless/cluele
832.
by nether 12y ago
Even I, an ancient wizard, am boggled by this. Why have we squandered our night skies?
833.
by nether 12y ago
It's conceivable that they don't maintain the same level of expertise in all fields. That doesn't ruin the entire publication IMO. Just as HN commenters don't know everything about aerodynamics, mechanical engineering, f
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by nether 12y ago
Off topic, but are you this guy? https://encyclopediadramatica.es/David_Gerard
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by nether 12y ago
MacRumors.com is intermittently going out. Jesus. You'd think after umpteenth Apple keynotes they'd have this sorted out. It's not like it's their first rodeo.
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by nether 12y ago
subscribe to reddit.com/r/vandwellers. for pooping, you could resort to biffy bags.
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by nether 12y ago
> One thing they don't tell you in the Specialized video is that they're not testing someone who is pedaling. Yes they are. Chris Yu (running Specialized's wind tunnel; the only bicycle company with their own) is a CalTech
838.
by nether 12y ago
The annoying thing with CFD with analyzing viscous phenomena is the question of reproducibility. Flow structures in this regime (low Re, that is low speed and small length scales) are notoriously sensitive to surface defects, e.g. the hairs
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by nether 12y ago
The gremlin that is low Re, viscous drag. This is how cacti work; the needles slow surrounding air to reduce moisture loss through convective evaporation.
840.
by nether 12y ago
Pressure from management? Sam Yagan is still the site's CEO. Also the pressure must have failed because he's releasing a whole book about his findings now, not just blog posts. You people are ridiculous.

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