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by rauljara 17y ago
They also spell maintenance "maitenance".
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by rauljara 17y ago
"No offense to struggling vampire romance novel writers, but why is it important that people are able to earn a great living writing books like this?" I think the point was how difficult it is to make a living writing. Period. This is a b
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by rauljara 17y ago
Who on earth downvoted this and why?
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by rauljara 17y ago
If I'm following the author, increased efficiency (successful software projects) leads to increased time on the hands of bureaucrats. Increased time leads to increased meaningless tasks. So, the author's solution is not to find something m
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by rauljara 17y ago
No, the fact that IQ can change does not prove that it can be intentionally changed. Head start, the increases in IQ that African Americans experienced when they moved out the segregated South, the Flynn effect, etc. also do not definitive
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by rauljara 17y ago
The idea of IQ, or intelligence quotient, was originally formulated as measure of a person's innate intelligence. It was supposed to be something you were born with, and not something that would change with the environment. This is just t
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by rauljara 17y ago
Very very impressed. You do a search for droid, it asks you which meaning of droid, including the cell phone, the star wars characters, and three other meanings I didn't know existed. That questioning of which meaning of the word your loo
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by rauljara 17y ago
The language is Python, as in Monty, you know. And it's only marketed for geeks. I fail to see how a naming convention based on something that bring 90%+ of geeks joy is any worse than naming programming languages after letters of the alp
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by rauljara 17y ago
I'd be just as shocked if the title of the article only reference people over 25. Once you've been out of school for a few years, I imagine the odds of ending your virginity in any particular year goes way down. ie., a 25 year old virgin s
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by rauljara 17y ago
You're right. There is something fishy. The 13.9 per cent of men would include homosexuals. Let's say there are 1000 men, 5 percent of which are homosexuals. So 950 straight men, 50 homosexuals and 139 virgins between them. 950 * x + 50 *
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by rauljara 17y ago
I am more than a little shocked that those numbers are so high. That's almost one in seven men! I guess it just goes to show how much society has conditioned me to believe that everyone is having sex. It's kind of a vicious cycle. If eve
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by rauljara 17y ago
It seems like a really fair review. People who want to believe their iPhones are better than everything else will find ammunition to support that claim. People who want an alternative to the iPhone will also find cause to rejoice. I like
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by rauljara 17y ago
Rand herself was famous for being insulting and dismissive, which I think is the main reason people react so strongly against her. In the introduction to anthem, she basically states that if you don't agree with her views on capitalism, th
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by rauljara 17y ago
This article doesn't really seem to acknowledge the fact that many executives have, and continue to be, compensated incredibly well for very incredibly poor performance. If the system that most companies have right now were working, that w
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by rauljara 17y ago
The success of such a scheme would depend on the quality of the software. I could imagine software that would have many advantages over traditional teachers. It would be a hell of a piece of machine learning, however. Given what I've see
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by rauljara 17y ago
Not to bash on the technical prowess required to make these robots, but that looks like an awfully wide millimeter.
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by rauljara 17y ago
They would be fools to say anything else. What platform owners trying to attract developers would ever say, 'Our prospects look grim'? Not to say android won't continue to grow. Not to say they won't explode. Just to say, why would you p
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by rauljara 17y ago
"Because the world is objectively real, of course some things are better than others, by any reasonable criteria." Given a set of criteria with objective measures, one can objectively tell if something meets those criteria, or not, or wheth
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by rauljara 17y ago
Whenever you come up with a system which is tied to advancement (even if just indirectly) you have to think what kind of person would most benefit from it, because given time and natural selection, that will be the only kind of person you h
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by rauljara 17y ago
There are so many of these 'iPhone development doesn't automatically make you rich' articles that make it to the top of HN. I tend not to look at the comments for those articles, so forgive me if this is a common question, but can anyone te
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by rauljara 17y ago
The formula for success is apparently: Intelligence + hard work + risk taking + luck I want to focus on risk taking, because Mr. Adams mentioned that the degree to which risk taking rewards you is a function of intelligence. It seems like
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by rauljara 17y ago
"its idea of individual success reflects the nature of the animal the system is supposed to work on." I don't quite follow you. Please explain.
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by rauljara 17y ago
The author looked for relationships to primarily get her: 1) Money 2) Someone who was perfect in the 'Disney' sense of never causing you any trouble. She then concludes that relationships are a distraction from life's real goal of making m
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by rauljara 17y ago
I think it is true that the most insecure tend to exhibit the most elitism; elitism being defined as going out of your way to put down another group you consider inferior. The author, however, goes out of his way to condemn this sort of el
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by rauljara 17y ago
The idea that the entire case on global warming comes from a single data set that no one made a copy of is absurd on the face of it. Even if one were to willfully believe that the rest of the article is true, something which I am dubious a
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by rauljara 17y ago
In theory, that's what they do. In practice they are credited with utterly destroying several companies that might have been able to survive otherwise. No one knows for sure if they would have made it, but they had absolutely no chance to
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by rauljara 17y ago
The whole argument centers around the notion that people are, compensated for wealth creation. But it seems like some of the most highly compensated professions (short sellers, personal injury attorneys, the people who created and promoted