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by pgbovine 17y ago
(cross-post from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1018254 ) wow thanks so much for that link! it's great to see that cameron's original script (which really seems like a short novel) had much more depth and soul. however, i suspec
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by pgbovine 17y ago
wow thanks so much for that link! it's great to see that cameron's original script (which really seems like a short novel) had much more depth and soul. however, i suspect that he was first and foremost aiming to make a dazzling action fi
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by pgbovine 17y ago
totally agree with you --- i think it's one of the best action movies i've ever seen. when placed head-to-head against other movies of its genre, it truly shines.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
fair enough :) for me, the storyline simply served to provide the setting for the action scenes. the story was solid enough to make for beautiful action scenes where we actually sorta cared about what happened (rather than, say, Mortal Ko
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by pgbovine 17y ago
(feel free to downvote at will ...) my trollish reply to everyone who has been analyzing the heck out of Avatar in the past week has been: "it's a friggin' ACTION movie, that's all! enjoy it as that, and don't expect more!" james cameron w
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i don't know about the exact nature of these jobs emails, but oftentimes the positions are only advertised to current students and recent alums of the universities. even if his mom could learn java quickly, she might not be eligible for th
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If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, Don’t Do It(calnewport.com)
66 points by pgbovine 17y ago|53 comments
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by pgbovine 17y ago
ah very interesting ... i guess replication studies are often done as like a 'step 0' of a new original study, just to make sure that the new study is on solid footing and not based on results that are tenuous
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by pgbovine 17y ago
it seems like there must exist some sort of 'benign spyware' you can install on your computer, which monitors what programs you have running (and when each one is the active window). it could automatically generate reports of your top 10 m
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by pgbovine 17y ago
there seems to be an opportunity for designing a new kind of forum to facilitate this sort of collaborative work. perhaps the traditional threaded model of forums like HN, phpbb, and others isn't optimal for this sort of collaboration.
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Ask HN: What are incentives for scientists to perform replication studies?
2 points by pgbovine 17y ago|3 comments
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by pgbovine 17y ago
unlike lots of people on HN, who are far more experienced hackers than i am, i didn't start programming for fun until my senior year of college (i did a fair amount of programming for classes and internships before then, but never on my own
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by pgbovine 17y ago
well he is definitely trying to debunk gladwell, as indicated by him bashing gladwell's lack of airline pilot and scientific credentials at the end of the article. it certainly isn't an unbiased alternative theory by an impartial third-par
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by pgbovine 17y ago
maybe i'm mis-reading, but isn't your dream job, by definition, one of your dreams? so shouldn't you always take your dream job no matter what? could you give an example of a dream that you cannot pursue because you were taking your dream
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by pgbovine 17y ago
sure, but supposedly if you were playing with your friends, then everyone would want to play fair, or else it's no fun :)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i'd be afraid of dropping my phone while playing this game ... seems easy to slip out of your hand while you're running around/ducking/tapping furiously on your screen. some sort of wrist strap (like those that come on digital cameras) wou
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by pgbovine 17y ago
Don't worry, Avatar and Titanic are nothing alike. Titanic is a big-budget chick flick, Avatar is a pure action/adventure movie without much sappiness
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by pgbovine 17y ago
cell phone cams + face recognition + facebook ==> super creepy EDIT: since people post so many pics of themselves on facebook under all sorts of lighting conditions and angles, that might actually make face recognition somewhat feasible
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by pgbovine 17y ago
well it seems like their technology is extremely valuable as well, since from what i've been reading on HN, they blow the socks off all would-be competitors
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by pgbovine 17y ago
> One downside I see is the lack of a "woman's perspective," which, while admittedly important in many fields, seems mostly irrelevant in a field where stuff either works or it doesn't. a particularly keen insight i got from talking to
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by pgbovine 17y ago
yup, unfortunately he learned the hard way that as a public figure (e.g., university president), any statements that could possible be misconstrued to fit an agenda against you will probably be :/ he already had lots of political enemies
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i haven't RTFA yet, but i'd be interested in seeing whether the same gender gap exists in other countries; from talking with friends who grew up in places like Eastern Europe, it seems like it wasn't as 'nerdy' for women to like engineering
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by pgbovine 17y ago
> easy introductions to various things. right on! imho, one of the main points of a diverse undergraduate education is to give you exposure to introductory-level courses in lots of different fields. it's unreasonable to imagine that yo
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by pgbovine 17y ago
the gmail spam filter is one of the best i've seen ... they have a far larger corpus of training data than any individual hacker could ever access ;)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i think it really depends on your field. in software, if you have a great product and are an awesome hacker, nobody cares if you got a Ph.D. (or even went to college for that matter). but if you're trying to start a company whose clients
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by pgbovine 17y ago
also, buzzword-laden mass emails sent from business school students to engineering student email lists are real turn-offs :) if you're a business school student, i'd advise to get some friends who are hackers to read over your recruiting e
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by pgbovine 17y ago
ha awesome, compare that with how much space a "hello world" executable takes when compiled on a modern OS with standard libraries
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by pgbovine 17y ago
what the author of this quote doesn't seem to understand is that the primary output of academic research in CS is not an industrial-strength implementation of an actual product, but rather is a prototype whose ideas can be transferred int
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by pgbovine 17y ago
first impression - how flexible is the input syntax? as a user, i'd be mad if i thought i typed in something syntactically correct (e.g., "venmo $5 to bob for lunch") but there was actually a syntax error and my transaction didn't go throu
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by pgbovine 17y ago
I would suggest you start by reading the essay Shop Class as Soulcraft http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-sou... ... and then read the entire (not very long) book, if you like the article. it might give you a starti

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