ntkachov

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by ntkachov 14y ago
Most students are crap at math. That's a fact. There is 0 encouragement to spend high school refining math skills. Also don't confuse motivation with laziness, priorities, or time management. To a psych major, calc might seem like one of th
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by ntkachov 14y ago
The other end of the problem is that kid's aren't even trying to flip their degree. Most kids consider college and experience not an investment. You're kid is the worst investor on the planet. Because instead of majoring in Bioengineering t
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by ntkachov 14y ago
Great. They fail at that too. There have been a few studies that show that after 2 years of college, the difference in reading, writing, math, and critical thinking are negligible. So if you're not good for the industry, you're terrible at
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by ntkachov 14y ago
The real question is: do users benifit from this in any way?
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by ntkachov 14y ago
The zig-zag flow is one of the most obnoxious things i've ever seen in a website. It is one of the worst ways of displaying information ever. Lets take this to the extream. Lets say you had a serverlog with 1 million entries and you had to
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by ntkachov 14y ago
Just goes to show you that nothing these days is original. Its just an original combination of old ideas.
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by ntkachov 14y ago
How about a laptop with a better key board, slim figure, larger special character keys and more feedback for keys? Then shove a great processor, a mouse pad that's not accidentally click able while typing, and a high resolution screen. That
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by ntkachov 14y ago
Python maybe. C# (at least when i used it, 3.0)is basically Java and is very object oriented.
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by ntkachov 14y ago
Most of these things, I think, stem from the fact that it's much easier to take care of a class that believes in all 9 facts, than to take care of a class that doesn't. How many teachers could justify the 5 paragraph essay if all the kids s
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by ntkachov 14y ago
I think he meant that if there is a serious crisis he might stay. Sure, every once in a while a tornado sweeps through your data center. That happens once every other year. "We need you to stay till midnight because a very serious VC is com
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by ntkachov 14y ago
Its not so much that I don't understand how you have have the capacity to understand these things but rather what do you actually understand?
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by ntkachov 14y ago
>Formanek has since staged a few live re-enactments of this clock being built I will never understand people that appreciate this kind of art. Call me classical, but I really don't see watching a clock interesting. Someone at the Boston
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by ntkachov 14y ago
I don't personally like memes on HN but I believe this qualifies a "yo dawg".
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by ntkachov 14y ago
From a purely abstraction perspective that step makes sense. However it would be omitted if we were talking about a run time stack.
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by ntkachov 14y ago
Funny enough, Someone had told me about a grad student having to recreate the JVM in JavaScript at our school. Low and behold, the credits at the bottom of the page are for a few grad students at my school. I think its a silly thing really,
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by ntkachov 14y ago
Lets "think like a genius" and reconsider this notion of a genius. I propose this definition: A genius is someone who, through their work, insipres the masses to take part in their field. Because lets face it, your not a genius until everyo
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by ntkachov 14y ago
On the topic of bad colors, I like facebook's old colors of "offline" and "online": A green circle for online. a Gray-green circle for offline. On a screen with bad gamma, they looked almost exactly the same.
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by ntkachov 14y ago
You make a very good point about unix tools. However, as a Javascript/JSON guy myself, I really like the way JSON works. And for a small site like mine, JSON would work much better out of the box than some sort of tab structure. I work with
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Ask HN: What's the difference between a programmer in the top 10% vs top 1%?
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High school doesn't have to suck if you're weird(thedailynerd.com)
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by ntkachov 14y ago
Not worrying about algorithm performance and memory management means one of two things 1) you are making a prototype and couldnt care less, 2) you are a shit developer. I'm still in college and the only time I don't give a hoot about either
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by ntkachov 14y ago
The way we treat our meat we might as well grow it in a lab. I love a good chicken as much as the next guy, but when you blast it with chemicals, drugs, and then freeze it for a few days, unfreeze it, freeze it again, and then finally shove
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by ntkachov 14y ago
I've always marveled at Apple. They have top notch Engineers working their hardware. They have fantastic Designers. But for some reason. Apple can't get a decent programmer. Their software sucks. Plain down right sucks. I love using apple h
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by ntkachov 15y ago
Personally, I don't care much about blog views. I write, you can read. If it helps you, great. I'm not out to make money with my blog and as such I couldn't care less about how many readers I have. I do, however, care a ton about how fast i
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by ntkachov 15y ago
I put those drasted things on my blog... and took them off when I re-did it. God forbid that I spend hours fine tuning the loading of my site only to have some facebook script take up 12 connections loading 6 different iframes into the clie
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by ntkachov 15y ago
'The company will not use the patents in offensive litigation without the permission of the inventors.' Honestly how hard is it to go up to someone and say "Let us troll with this patent and we will cut you in on 20% of the profit". I know
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by ntkachov 15y ago
I know i started out that way. Then I realized that I could do a lot more with a lot less work in web programming. Games are hard and the payoff is much less compared to, say, making a web app. Unfortunately most people don't understand tha
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by ntkachov 15y ago
Knowing Microsoft and a few people that work there, if there was a large enough group of people in the city they would send out a private shuttle to and from the city every day.
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by ntkachov 15y ago
heck, I think that a huge portion of the population would like that. I need to meet a person twice to remember their name, Having a thing that blips up "This is Eric, You met him 3 weeks ago at a workshop" would be worth early adopting.
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by ntkachov 15y ago
As someone who uses both constantly, Whitespace languages and curly braces are the same. For a good programmer, she can take out the curly brace and it should look like a whitespace language. Likewise, a whitespace language would just have

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