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by psyklic 18y ago
It is the author's fault for not realizing the real-world skills he'd need. You're not a good programmer unless you know multiple paradigms -- that's like saying you're a mechanic but only being able to change the tires. And true, knowing L
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by psyklic 18y ago
True, and this definitely is not a "scientific first" -- theorem provers have it beat ...
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by psyklic 18y ago
Why are they storing whose info I have access to see inside MY profile data and not within the profile data of the other user?
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Facebook Privacy Bugs w/ New Design(techcrunch.com)
8 points by psyklic 18y ago|5 comments
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by psyklic 18y ago
Aren't there already a ton of books on the GNU/Linux command line?
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by psyklic 18y ago
Nice book. Even if it is mostly annotated hyperlinks, the resources seem to be of good quality and organized well.
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by psyklic 18y ago
In LA -- http://www.blankspaces.com/ I heard the founder of this speak. He said he is turning a much higher profit than typical brick-and-mortar businesses. He rents out some of the space very creatively for non-office things as well, suc
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by psyklic 18y ago
The author notes that Erlang is "Yet Another Programming Language." Well not surprisingly, this is "Yet Another NN Article."
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by psyklic 18y ago
I completely disagree with all four points. A hacker can only use TextMate, vim, or emacs? You kidding me? And who writes code at more than 60 wpm -- writing code is a thinking sport, not a race to the finish. Diving into a large codebase c
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by psyklic 18y ago
>> In other words, during internet search, savvy users constantly assessing the credibility of sources and validity of answers. You're extrapolating too much from what was found! I think you'd be surprised just how little frontal lo
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by psyklic 18y ago
Anything we do daily will "rewire our brains" ... unfortunately, nothing practical can be done with these results, and scientists still really don't know how to interpret them. So, I believe that fMRI studies such as this one really only
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by psyklic 18y ago
It sounds like she just wasn't told (or didn't bother to look up) why Google terminated his account. She couldn't even say for sure if he violated the TOS!
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by psyklic 18y ago
I define "hacker culture" as when even if things don't "just work," you keep at it until they do (often using creative means). I disagree with respect to modifying software/devices. Most computer users (even young ones) will only modify sof
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by psyklic 18y ago
It seems to me that learning material over a long period of time is better than just "crashing" for exams, which this author's proposed system would encourage. It is easy to imagine that a student will skip an assignment at one point, then
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by psyklic 18y ago
you wouldn't. nor would i trust personal documents with this service. hence, it's not very useful to me -- I use a PDF printer driver.
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by psyklic 18y ago
I save bank transactions, confirmation numbers, login info, shipping orders, etc. for my records. Sure is more convenient than saving the HTML.
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Topless coffee shop = recession-proof?(cnn.com)
1 points by psyklic 18y ago|0 comments
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by psyklic 18y ago
There's no harm in applying. Several students in my PhD program took a year off after undergrad and worked in a university research lab as a paid assistant. Some said that they got into some grad programs after university, but they wanted t
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by psyklic 18y ago
These already exist! I was looking in the cleaning supplies the other day, and they sell empty normal-sized Windex-like bottles, along with a very small bottle of concentrate!
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by psyklic 18y ago
You have the wrong attitude if you feel that you need to tell customers to "reconsider their own behavior." From this reply, it sounds like you're insulting your customer by pretending to know more about their religion than them. That's no
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by psyklic 18y ago
There is an additional privacy "hack" that I noticed a few years ago. The surprising thing is that as of about a month ago the hack no longer works -- not because Facebook stopped it, but because your data on Facebook is now less secure b
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by psyklic 18y ago
Interestingly, a few years ago I discovered that you could also change the "t"/"s"/"n" (tiny/small/normal) to a "b" (big) and access the full-resolution image which was uploaded. They seem to have discontinued the "b" prefix shortly after I
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The Crisis of Credit Visualized(vimeo.com)
3 points by psyklic 18y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: URL-To-Comments?
2 points by psyklic 18y ago|2 comments
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by psyklic 18y ago
Go to entrepreneurship or tech networking events. At least in LA, I'm always surprised that no students show up!
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by psyklic 18y ago
I agree, I think this is kind of ridiculous. I installed many of their CS4 products (non-trial) a few weeks ago. I did not notice anything out of the ordinary or feel that it was an overwhelming process.
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by psyklic 18y ago
This title is a catch 22 -- loneliness is an emotion (aka brain state)! Hence of course it affects the brain, and the brain affects it ;-)
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by psyklic 18y ago
To whomever rated me down -- why do you think that human-written software has so many bugs? It's because we don't take the time (and don't have good strategies yet) to effectively "prove" that our code/algorithms exactly meet the program sp
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by psyklic 18y ago
>> Algorithms are _meaningless_ without accompanying proofs. Most of what we write as coders (and in fact, most of what the world runs on) are algorithms without proofs which "mostly" work. In fact, you could call almost all of our
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by psyklic 18y ago
great site -- how many of those 2800 sign-ups filled out the entire profile? I wouldn't be surprised if most of them did!

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