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by psyklic 18y ago
"My laptop stopped displaying anything on its LCD." I had a Gateway (acquired by MPC), same thing happened three months ago. I sent it in after an on-site repairman couldn't fix it. Two months later, MPC doesn't answer their phone and doesn
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by psyklic 18y ago
It sounds like Excel is well-suited. Another quick option (if you are familiar with it) is Matlab.
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by psyklic 18y ago
If you really want to help with productivity, just track when each user logs on/off (or idles), and make a forced x minute window between logins. I don't want to be penalized if I visit the site every few days and it happens to be offline w
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by psyklic 18y ago
I've been researching netbooks lately. Most netbooks have a native resolution of 1024x600. Not only are 10.2" screens less "obsolete," (yet have a lower PPI) they are generally preferred by consumers over the 8.9" screens (both at 1024x600)
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by psyklic 18y ago
Translation. Lots of tuition provides: + Motivation to learn, aka grades ("OCW is not an MIT education") + Feedback ("OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty") + A piece of paper ("OCW does not grant degrees")
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by psyklic 18y ago
Gay culture in CA, especially in San Francisco and West Hollywood, is unparalleled. CA is very liberal in terms of gay rights and civil unions. The tech companies in CA are also very liberal -- both Google and Apple broke their informal pol
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by psyklic 18y ago
The author suggests several "contest" sites, but these typically rip off rather than reward freelancers.
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by psyklic 18y ago
I read an article recently saying that Google tested more results per page (i.e. less pagination), and that the increased search/loading time actually made users have a less positive experience.
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by psyklic 18y ago
I remember that article when it first came out. It's still good advice for any hacker -- learning through experimentation!
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by psyklic 18y ago
In other words, the paper should be titled: "How To Be A Great Public Speaker"
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by psyklic 18y ago
The best part about the elections is that voters GET an education about the issues by hearing the candidates. The education may be biased or somewhat untruthful, but elections actually let everyone know about the issues facing the country.
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by psyklic 18y ago
I suppose that our main disagreements revolve about the ambiguous definition of "neuroscience," which is nowadays an all-encompassing term which has seemed to broaden to mean "absolutely any work which even mildly studies any aspect of the
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by psyklic 18y ago
I should have clarified further ... by and large, if you apply to a program in "Neuroscience," you are applying to a program in "Neurobiology." For example, MIT has a huge Brain and Cognitive Sciences option, with a beautiful new building d
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by psyklic 18y ago
Well, if you're looking for a textbook: Kandel is the gold standard, but it is quite hefty and technical -- a great slimmer one is "From Neuron to Brain" (advanced undergrad/early grad): http://www.amazon.com/Neuron-Brain-Cellular-Molecul
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by psyklic 18y ago
I'm a computational PhD student in the field -- I think you'd most enjoy "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins, an inspiring book written by a hacker himself! If you'd like a very excellent, fascinating title on mathematics and art and mind, tr
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by psyklic 18y ago
The US also has strict rules against gambling, and stock markets are very borderline -- so watch out!
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by psyklic 18y ago
Me: 2
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by psyklic 18y ago
I think that the best first programming language is one which makes programming fun . For many students, this is the TI graphing calculator programming language! For others, PHP is certainly exciting because the effects of your code are of
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by psyklic 18y ago
You're forgetting about Google's employees -- would you want to work for someone who refuses to take a stand on whether you can visit your partner in the hospital? Someone who provides full same-sex couple benefits in name only?
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by psyklic 18y ago
California politics directly influence Google's employees. Would I want to work for someone who refused to take a stand on whether I could visit my partner in the hospital? Second, although AIDS orphans are tragic, a general "we support AID
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by psyklic 18y ago
I'm personally tired of "x Considered Harmful" articles. Not only are they terribly cliche, but most of them are about complex, highly debated issues and do not really prove their point.
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by psyklic 18y ago
If he and Google's founders were friends, why didn't he stay in touch with them throughout the formation of their company? Why suddenly contact them ten years later? In any case, it seems he just wasn't willing to take the risk and so can h
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by psyklic 18y ago
In my experience, books provide higher-quality tutorials to subjects than anything online. Not only that, but all of the information is in one place, saving you the time of searching through the masses of poorly-written and incomplete onlin
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by psyklic 18y ago
De facto standards always create lock-in to a product, at least initially. Nowadays, committees are necessary because no one wants to let their competitor set any standards, "de facto" or not!
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by psyklic 18y ago
What about having users write a quick, one-sentence grab-your-attention hook to display under each story, rather than just displaying the first few lines?
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by psyklic 18y ago
Sounds a little suspicious -- "During the first week each participant will be oriented to their living space, office/work space, ... and reality TV crew and cameras ." (emphasis added)
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by psyklic 18y ago
... and the article is still pretty bad! apparently these comment threads don't inspire much action ;-)
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by psyklic 18y ago
An equally difficult question: How do you meet a hacker to start a startup with if you ARE in college? ;-)
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Firefox’s SSL policy is not bad, you idiot(noahsmark.com)
8 points by psyklic 18y ago|5 comments
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by psyklic 18y ago
Isn't this the second post lately on nice mini-tools which probably can't easily translate into a startup? There is a difference between just a web app and a business, right?

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