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by opminion 14y ago
In the UK it is possible to switch between academia and industry, so long as you are satisfied with fixed term contracts in academia. Recruiters tend to get confused when someone turns at their doorstep with a PhD ("which marks did you get?
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Ah, thanks! While reading the page I switched between thinking that it was a Racket competition http://plt-scheme.org/ and some loose-defined everything-goes competition. It makes more sense now. Acronyms!
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Just to be clear: by being in the cutting edge with an iPad app (vs website) you mean something that can be used beyond wifi/3G range? Or is it something about the native vs web page feel? (which I'm missing)
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You will waste less time and attention of Hacker News readers by adding a short description of what this is, and a link to the original magazine (rememember that it being called "the magazine" is already confusing when out of context).
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For maximum effect try a UK or Canadian postcode.
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Amazing for what it allows and also for what it illustrates. In Yesterday [1], shouldn't the song structure appear at the bottom instead of at the top? The layers correspond to decreasing levels of granularity, and I cannot thing of any goo
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If sh allows Pythonic idioms to call Posix functions, then its implementation on a Posix system such as Linux or Mac is probably very different than on non-Posix Windows.
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Crockford triggered an argument at least as old as the Lutheran reform. The irony is that Crockford's licence is an unintended success in line with Eich's JavaScript itself. JavaScript, as a Lisp in disguise which survived early standardisa
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I would expect ear protection (to avoid damage caused by extreme pressure changes) and volume reduction to be quite different. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-safety-ear-plugs.htm
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That's one of the few cases where getting pedantic about the hyphen (or, in this case, lack of it) solves ambiguity.
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Two golden quotes from a Gnome dev. Beware, they are taken out of context: I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an XFCE app and for the first time we may have ability to really shape the user experience an
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Rant, of course, as in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4134426 Rants can be very informative.
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Knuth and Lamport used a "literate" implementation Unix' wc as example in the manual for Literate Programming tool cweb.
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That feeling is not unique to the British, only they are louder about it for two reasons: they were the winning side in two huge and most recent conflicts, and they speak English so we discuss them here. Germans have seen their country reco
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And unfortunately a centralised volume control might require defining standards. I wonder if there is a way to hack around that.
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Which reminds me, why isn't having a single volume control a solved problem?
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Question for US writers: At 39 kilometers, the horizon is roughly 439 miles away For someone who was taught only the metric system, and told that it is good practice to avoid mixing units (centimetres with metres, milligrams with grams, e
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A bit long, but quite intensive critique: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.... Also see Ben Goldacre's Bad Science book, UK edition, but that's probably specific to media nutritionists in the UK, whereas the ori
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Mono is excellent as a drop-in replacement of Visual Studio's command-line compiler.
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Accents are complicated, but as a general rule, you end up stuck with whatever your brain has learned by age 14. Stephen Pinker has a story about Henry Kissinger and his brother moving to the US just before and after that threshold, one hav
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Of course I didn't say that. I said that compensation is affected by other forces than supply and demand (market value), so that the minimum compensation is higher than it would be at market value in that country , not that it is higher th
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We remove overhead from outsourcing I thought that outsourcing's main problem was lack of common incentives for both parties. Management overhead is a consequence of that. How's that related to what you do?
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Yes, but that would be assuming that salaries have a market value. In Spain salaries are often raised by collective bargaining. I don't know how much an effect it has on software developers, but the law is intended to raise the minimum sala
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Nothing about making games playable and fun? I thought that we had all learned since the eighties that making computer games is not only about overcoming technical constraints. That's the "gamified" part of a game. Is it really so orthogona
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Perhaps the way to see this is to ask not what's "easy to find" but what's "most likely to move the case on". If you are a journal editor and find in your hands a note saying that paper X was fraudulent and has to be retracted, and another
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Employment agreements, in terms of how risks are shared, differ in that employees and the state expect the employer to take a higher risk over the ups and downs of the business in Europe than, say, in California. It has an effect over the m
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Rants are always best with actual examples of what's being ranted. Just as http://tommorris.org/posts/2451
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Journalist's list of latest articles confirms link between correlation and causation. http://www.independent.co.uk/search/simple.do?destinationSec...
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passion burns out, whereas greed is sustainable This blog entry seems to have been written so that it can end up with this sentence and not read cynical.
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Most practical functions, as implemented when programming, are primitive recursive, not partial recursive. Thus they don't suffer from the halting problem.

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