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   by pwnna 13y ago

   Reading through this comment chain and seeing all the plausible speculations about how these guys' banking info are monitored for red flags.. a) Why are we not mad about that kinda thing? b) Doesn't the law of large numbers say th
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   The Most Neglected Skills(youtube.com)

   1 points by pwnna 13y ago|0 comments
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   by pwnna 13y ago

   The hardware here is more referring to tangible, physical things rather than computer hardware.
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   by pwnna 13y ago

   This is awesome. Putting some perspective into this conversation with experience! Definitely learned plenty.
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   by pwnna 13y ago

   Yeah, incidentally I also have no idea how people in my field are suppose to get hands on experience at home.
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   by pwnna 13y ago

   I think this is the best summary I've heard over software vs traditional engineering to date.
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   by pwnna 13y ago

   Absolutely. Best experience of being in engineering thus far. However that is still quite limited given what we learn.
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   by pwnna 13y ago

   I once heard a friend of mine who complain that engineers are too disconnected from their work. They would design the thing but never once go and actually checkout the physical products that they designed. I wonder if including things like
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   by pwnna 13y ago

   Now that I think about it... do we ever predict failures in software? Things just seem to break.. and we go in and fix it after. At least that is my impression.
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    I think you're oversimplifying the problem. When I do programming stuff, a large fraction of the time is spent debugging because my program crashed. I cannot afford my hardware project "crashing" as that may permanently damag
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    > The complexity of an airplane or rocket, measured in terms of design components or interacting subsystems or what have you, is miniscule compared to any piece of software that could be written with the same budget While I suspect that
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    I always wanted to make rockets. Learning of programming does not change that for me :) The lack of funding however... :\
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    OP here. While I agree with what you say, I just don't know how this can be changed. It takes substantially more resources to do anything in mech. Sometimes you can't even lift the stuff you're working with without some other
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    Software Is Easy, Hardware Is Of Medium Difficulty(shuhaowu.com)

    33 points by pwnna 13y ago|44 comments
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    This may be true, but I'm not sure how they are biased (what factors? Are these men more likely to be married because they're willing to go through such a study? More likely to not..).
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    It definitely is not a big sample size. However, considering that 200 people participated in the study for this many years.. I would say it is a big sample size just in terms of practicality (how many people would agree to participate in th
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    Transmissions...
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    Is this a company or a fun side project?
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    Show HN: Gioku, a GitHub-Pages-like system for your own servers(github.com)

    9 points by pwnna 13y ago|0 comments
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    In my experience, XFCE has been prettier (for me at least, using the Xubuntu theme).
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    Ever since I bought a Wacom tablet to take notes.. all of these apps do not beat xournal. Granted I cannot use it to take notes on my phone, I don't really need it as I can only take good notes with my Wacom tablet anyway.
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    Octave is awesome. MATLAB can go die in a fire (purely for the reason of being non-free, otherwise it's great too). If there's one thing that Octave is absolutely better than MATLAB is the alternative syntax for things like string
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    5in screen... Man. I'm quite content with my 4.7'' screen. Why are we slowly and steadily moving the sizes of our phone screens up? A year or two ago we were happily at 4.3
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    My question for AV is... what's the actual detection rate for viruses and malware? As far as I understand, most of AV detection is still based around hash matching. Someone should correct me if I am wrong, though.
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    > I also always log in as root. I like to live dangerously. :) Man... I cannot even begin to express how bad this is. Especially if there are drive-by attacks.
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    While I don't like seeing it too and rather wish to avoid it, but i feel like this avoidance attitude is not helping. Actually really I'm not sure if anything helps that much, which is just as depressing..
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    This is really interesting. I would love to see if there is anything about this generation of people not liking technology changes.
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    All of these sounds like reasonable steps. Right now it's more like. Hey I have thing that I will use with some people.. but it looks like I could potentially monetize off of it. I just don't know where to even go find potential c
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    I still like http://hn.premii.com
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    by pwnna 13y ago

    Editted. Here's a link to the description again: http://i.imgur.com/ibCbwYD.png