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by ohyes 16y ago
It is hard to think that a flashlight or cellphone would have a power supply strong enough to do that much damage. (Although actually, metal halide lamps can sometimes cause UV radiation burns if they are damaged... http://archpedi.ama-ass
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by ohyes 16y ago
Yes, of course you are right, I was just looking at it from a perspective of the x-ray scanners. I have no idea about the microwave based scanners.
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by ohyes 16y ago
edit: s/mwbs/bs/g; per comment below Well, X-rays cause cancer. BS uses X-rays So it is a cancer risk. And it is a little more founded than someone randomly saying' this causes cancer'. In terms of risk... This says dental x-rays are about
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by ohyes 16y ago
How so? I'm baffled by how this is flame baiting. They have amazing marketing! They have great stores! It looks great! On a technical level, I don't see how the OS and hardware are better than, for example, BSD or Linux on Intel hardware (
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by ohyes 16y ago
"Or is this some sort of false dichotomy to begin with?" Yes. When you are starting out, you need that first critical mass of people to get your service going. Those are the nerds looking for the next 'cool' thing. Once you have a service g
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by ohyes 16y ago
Even if you are a bank robber. I'm sure some people rob banks for the thrill/challenge. (It fits with every movie cliche anyway...)
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by ohyes 16y ago
A lot of teens/young adults self censor on Facebook, not because of privacy issues with relation to the rest of the world, but because of privacy issues concerning their parents/relatives. 'Oh shit my mom is on Facebook', was an SNL sketch
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by ohyes 16y ago
Does anyone else have trouble with making the distinction between curly braces and parenthesis? I'm pretty near sighted, so I always have to squint to figure out if something is a brace or a paren. I think it is one of the main reasons I li
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by ohyes 16y ago
It would be nice to have something where it searches pre built systems with 'specs like this'. Sometimes it is cheaper to buy a pre built system with all (or most) of the right parts than it is to build it yourself. Another option would be
910.
by ohyes 16y ago
I think a key point of arbitrage is that you do both of the transactions (the buying and the selling) at the same time. This insulates the person doing the arbitrage from losing money because one or both of the markets changed (it is 'theor
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by ohyes 16y ago
You build an ad network that 'performs arbitrage on competing ad networks'. Opera makes money on the margin that potential advertisers save. This works because Opera controls the pipeline from web to phone.
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by ohyes 16y ago
Factual correctness warrants down vote? Seriously? "the wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions, and the representation of them as one's own origi
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by ohyes 16y ago
This is clearly not plagiarism. At no point did the translator take credit for the original work. There is a definition for plagiarism; it involves taking credit for someone else's original work. Zed would probably have done better by simpl
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by ohyes 16y ago
Sure, I totally agree. I was mostly self taught in programming before starting the advanced degree. There isn't any teaching instruction with regard to the actual 'doing' of programming. The article states that CS majors should be able to '
915.
by ohyes 16y ago
"A CompSci grad is supposed to be able to do difficult things that arts grads simply can’t understand." /rant/ The majority of CS education that I've had so far has been theoretical. There has been a lot of math and pseudo code, and logic.
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by ohyes 16y ago
"Likewise, we know exactly what this line of code does: a = b + 5;" It could easily be unification or checking for equality depending on the language. Or it could be an assertion. "Except for dot notation doesn’t do the same thing in Object
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by ohyes 16y ago
"Are the 16 hour/day guys the exception?" I sincerely hope so, and I question the hygiene/health of anyone who spends 16 hours a day > 1 day a week in front of a computer. I certainly have done 16 hour stretches of coding, but I don't t
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by ohyes 16y ago
Remember that cities are more expensive to live in than suburbs. That extra 10% might just be cost of living adjustment. You have to figure out what your expenses are currently, as well as what your estimated expenses will be in the new loc
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by ohyes 16y ago
This is the same for benefits. Benefits programs can have their terms modified from year to year. A company with a great benefits program (ex. paying full tuition on a degree) can drop it from one year to the next. So if you have a budget t
920.
by ohyes 16y ago
No, but you do have to say things nicely. What does this mean? Good attempt at spelling and punctuation. Don't curse too much, don't use excessive punctuation, proofread. Reread your post objectively and ask yourself 'am I trolling'. Attemp
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by ohyes 16y ago
"Possible exceptions would include Seaside, which I've never used but has been around for a while and from what I can see has a genuinely different approach to web development that actually does exploit Scheme." Unless we are talking 'bout
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by ohyes 16y ago
Anywhere Between 0 and 80% of my time. Starting out a project, there is a lot more wrestling with stuff. You also spend more time wrestling if you are just learning the technology. After a while of using something, it gets quicker. On certa
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by ohyes 16y ago
"In absolutely no way is it a stretch to say that and I'm terribly surprised you have any upvotes. Are you aware of how many services Google provides for free that make my life (and probably yours) better?" Not free. All of those things are
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by ohyes 16y ago
If I had data that told me we were running out of food, come hell or high water, I'd find some way to conserve it. I had strawberry yogurt for breakfast. I had it because it tastes good, and is relatively good for me. I could have gone with
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by ohyes 16y ago
Suppose we lived in a universe with a limited amount of food. Every time you make food, there is slightly less food available in the future. (It is kind of a function where some of it gets replaced, but not all of it, so as you proceed, the
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by ohyes 16y ago
You know, waste, the common definition: I ate half my dinner and threw it away instead of putting it in a tupper-ware. I wasted food. (There are starving people in x country) I malloc a gigabyte of memory and don't do anything with it. I wa
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by ohyes 16y ago
A quick Google search makes me think your first point is not true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycled_paper#Rationale_for_re... Granted, it is Wikipedia, and I'd welcome data to back up your point, but other sources seem to say simila
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by ohyes 16y ago
You are coming at it from the wrong angle. The disposal of inert materials in a landfill is trivial. The problem is that we are disposing of otherwise useful materials, in a landfill. If I'm putting paper in a big pile of paper, and not usi
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by ohyes 16y ago
I wonder why they don't come up with a cheap, washable cup that the customers 'borrow' for the duration of drinking coffee. You buy a coffee for 3 bucks, you get the cup for a dollar, and you get a dollar back when you return the cup. They
930.
by ohyes 16y ago
"How would it be useful to me, if I spent my time scrutinizing and debugging the code output by the tool?" How would it be useful to me, if I spent my time scrutinizing and debugging code put out by myself? I am going to do the scrutinizing

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