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by psyklic 16y ago
I'd guess slacking is mainly a culture thing. If your friends accept that it's okay, then you'll accept it's okay too.
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by psyklic 16y ago
I apologize up front for my possible ignorance, but maybe you could use a service like Twilio so that people could text message you questions. Then have it notify you via the screen when a new question comes in, so that you can address it a
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by psyklic 16y ago
The 100k mainly refers to the cost of hiring a team of engineers to tweak Windows NT for benchmarking!
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by psyklic 16y ago
Does anyone know a name for the condition described by the parent post? (i.e. Getting started is the main problem; this sometimes makes complex tasks seem insurmountable or like you can't do them.) It would be useful to read more about th
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by psyklic 16y ago
Agreed. Most of these are beginner traps, raise compiler warnings, are very obscure, and/or are simple to avoid if simple conventions are followed.
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by psyklic 16y ago
This already happens all the time in politics. All you have to do is plant a lie in people's heads and some people will believe it forever, despite conclusive evidence to the contrary.
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by psyklic 16y ago
>> Isn't the whole point of schooling to know what's on the test? ... To know more is to waste your time. In other words, you should do the bare minimum to get by. Well, everyone's motivation for getting a degree is different, and y
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by psyklic 16y ago
That does not implicitly declare that a test bank is okay to study from, since it says on it that it is not for students. Any student would question to themselves whether they should use it. So ethically speaking: 1) Ask the professor befor
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by psyklic 16y ago
We both agree that the professor should have made his own questions. However, this does not get the students off the hook. They used a resource where the publisher clearly says: students, do not use this to study. So, this is clearly, witho
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by psyklic 16y ago
It is all about what a teacher or other relevant authority says is okay to use. If the teacher explicitly says not to use old exams, then the members of Greek clubs are cheating if they use their archives. Similarly, if a publisher's test b
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by psyklic 16y ago
I agree with you, philosophically. But the issue is that if a professor or other relevant authority says "you cannot use X to study" and you DO use X, then you are definitely very clearly cheating. In this case, test banks are clearly label
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by psyklic 16y ago
Yes, it is really cheating. A publisher's test bank is very clearly not made for students to study from. The publishers warn students not to read them and try to make them inaccessible. In my experience, the professor almost always tells st
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Flash (left half) vs HTML5 (right half)(labs.codecomputerlove.com)
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by psyklic 16y ago
First, no physical science has "provable" results - they are merely correlational. Second, such a study would have a gargantuan cost, merely for results that would have limited practical use. An expert in stress relief can probably come up
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by psyklic 16y ago
Ah ha - but there are so many things that cannot be "proven" to be true, yet are still helpful. Stress relief techniques are a case in point - most of us probably try lots of techniques and ultimately end up using what works best for us. Th
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by psyklic 16y ago
I have used a netbook for development. It is not very fun. The main problem is the screen resolution - 1024x600. This ensures that a modern IDE will not fit on the screen without hiding the most useful parts. For example, when you compile c
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by psyklic 16y ago
Except this is probably worse - there is an end-of-the-week show and tell! Engineers always come up with very cool yet non-trivial ideas. And as with almost all software projects, the last few days before show and tell will be crunch time -
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by psyklic 16y ago
Your post only focuses on risk of death, and from that standpoint I agree 100% that it is rational to spend money elsewhere. However, people are fundamentally irrational and emotional. It would be irrational to stop flying due to 9/11. The
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by psyklic 16y ago
It's a one-sided issue which our government has said that they're gonna fix - small cost to attack, enormous cost to defend. The US had no other choice though. If one vulnerability is found, terrorists will just continue to exploit it, and
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by psyklic 16y ago
I can see it from both perspectives. It is shocking, but the government isn't just doing full body scans for kicks. Airlines are ridiculously hard to secure - if terrorists use another one as a bomb after the US has spent so much money alre
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by psyklic 16y ago
There is a broader message here than simply "you should befriend the cleaning staff." Okay - you want to ignore the staff because you have no desire to meet them and you think they want to be ignored. Well, fine. You definitely don't sound
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by psyklic 16y ago
That is missing the point of the story. All of the students see the cleaning staff around, but no one takes interest in them. Seeing someone regularly, just walking by, and not even knowing their name is a bit of a disappointment, and an op
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by psyklic 16y ago
Olin College is one pioneering example. However, the main problem with the startup education + credential approach is that the barriers to such a school offering an accredited credential are overwhelming. However, imo traditional universi
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by psyklic 16y ago
I actually agree with the main point. In every one of the examples, however, the person who spoke isn't thinking about communication, but about himself. "Water no cold!" may result in snickers amongst the wait staff, and they may not even u
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by psyklic 16y ago
I used 99designs, and I agree with you on the designer end. Not so sure about the buyer end in this case. If you offer $x, to make it worthwhile each designer has to "spend" ($x)/N dollars to submit, where N = (avg # of competitors). So you
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by psyklic 16y ago
Can you provide an example, from any language, where a unary operator has a lower precedence than a binary operator?
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by psyklic 16y ago
When I try to log on via Connect on Groupon, sometimes it doesn't work or is slow to log me in :P
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by psyklic 16y ago
Most people don't enjoy hearing all of the factors involved in things they don't particularly care about. If they want to buy a computer, they'd much rather hear a recommendation (eg: Apple) or a very simple metric (eg: get >= 4GB of RA
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by psyklic 16y ago
It's only a problem if it bothers you. Personally, I've learned how to appear more extroverted, but despite lots of practice I still don't necessarily enjoy doing it. Also, keep in mind that having lots of shallow relationships isn't necess
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by psyklic 16y ago
It sounds like Bob overloaded his schedule. Or, more likely, he's been partying all night and placed his priorities elsewhere. Most students tend to procrastinate to the last second then whine that they "didn't have time" to get the assignm

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