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by newen 8y ago
>aliens I really hate that usage of the word.
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by newen 8y ago
Yeah, I've had a few CS friends and internet people say things like that, like there is probably some programmer who solved the NP problem but no one knows it and of course there's the elite hacker who can do anything he wants thi
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by newen 8y ago
> There's probably [amateurs] light years ahead of these guys This is not an 80s hacker movie and amateur hackers can get into the DoD computers using a public phone or whatever. This is actual research funded with millions of dolla
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by newen 8y ago
I would say you are a relatively rare case though. Most people I've seen primarity socialize with people of the same race. Not strictly, obviously, but in general. Like in tech circles in the Bay Area, you have the white, indian, east
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by newen 8y ago
Yes, it's been 2 years since the problem has been publicised and discussed but fake news is still widespread. So clearly it is a difficult problem that is hard to fix. But stop talking about it like you just discovered that fake news e
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by newen 8y ago
You talk like you have been living under a rock for the past three years. Trump got politically famous through the birther movement. Most of the people who support Trump believe in a lot of these rumors, as you call them, or fake news, as t
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by newen 8y ago
Let's hope the opinion of your neighbor doesn't cause a constitutional crisis.
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by newen 8y ago
Really? Politically correct Chinese culture seem to emphasize multiculturalism, from me going to Chinese shows and such held in the US and Singapore.
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by newen 8y ago
Still, Americans are vulnerable to propaganda just like all populations are. And pretending that people can't be affected by propaganda because they'll think their way out of it is a dumb position to take.
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by newen 8y ago
I don't think "Americans will figure out that something is propaganda" is a reasonable position to take. After all Russian propaganda via the internet was very effective, look at the 2016 election, and native American militar
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by newen 8y ago
Hah...it's funny how they pretend to give objective rationales for choosing Swift when it's pretty clear the decision was made long before.
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by newen 8y ago
Haha yeah, I've actually clicked on the dislike button for comments I hated, even after I knew it doesn't do anything, and I have felt better.
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by newen 8y ago
YouTube comment dislikes are actually there only for show. The dislikes don't get counted for comments at all. They could do the same thing for the videos.
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by newen 8y ago
Yep. It's incredible how you can have a reasonably intelligent discussion in 4chan, while in reddit and similar vote based sites, once the mob comes to visit the site, they take over and no one can have a good discussion anymore.
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by newen 8y ago
Wow, you are completely misinterpreting what he said here. Either that or you're repeating what other idiots on the internet said. Any CS undergrad would understand that he was making a joke when he said that.
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by newen 8y ago
I'd say the vast majority of the global population is in the orange man bad category.
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by newen 8y ago
Agreed. I've seen cases where you had niche subreddits containing people who are somewhat experts, but when the sub gets remotely popular, it gets bombarded by people who don't know anything but feel like they can post whatever us
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by newen 8y ago
How is CSS and HTML with no JavaScript and okay, no frames, risky?
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by newen 8y ago
Same. I lived in Singapore for a few years and it can be a horrible place to live. Great place to visit though.
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by newen 8y ago
Metaprogramming has a specific technical meaning that has to do with code that reads or generates code. Try not to parse the word metaprogramming itself.
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by newen 8y ago
Empty range is 1:0 or a+1:a or a:a-1 for any integer a. Closed ranges (for integers) are equivalent to open ranges since [a,b] is the same as [a,b+1). You just put the plus ones in the right places.
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by newen 8y ago
I don't buy it. Inclusive ranges are much more intuitive than left side inclusive and right side exclusive ranges. And they compose just fine; you just have to add a plus one at the right places. E.g. function mean(a, l, r)
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by newen 8y ago
He means that there are exceptions but that that comment is true in general.
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by newen 8y ago
I created my first dynamic website using Phoenix, coming from a data mining background. I knew about HTML and CSS but that was it. I followed one of the Phoenix books, and managed to make a full blog website in a couple of weeks in my spare
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by newen 8y ago
Because people get depressed when they can't program in their favorite language? Frankly, ridiculous. A job is a job and the main question is whether you can do it or not.
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by newen 8y ago
That's how you become the annoying student in the algorithms class who interrupts the professor all the time and ruins the class.
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by newen 8y ago
Yeah, his lecture on pawns helped me a lot. Literally I never thought about pawn structures or pawn breaks before that lecture, and thinking about that improved my game tremendously.
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by newen 8y ago
If you are just starting out, and you know the rules and played a few games, I'd recommend these youtube videos [1] by John Bartholomew. Youtube has a bunch of other good videos for beginners, e.g. chessnetwork, st louis chess club, et
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by newen 8y ago
I wrote my thesis (200 pages) in LaTeX and I cannot imagine not having to do the final touch ups in LaTeX. You tend to get lots of line break issues, figure location and orientation and spacing issues, vertical spacing issues, that you have
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by newen 8y ago
Squiggly line plots get old after a while. No narrative plot probably means, like me, people don't stick around after the novelty wears off.

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