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by rfurmani 17y ago
Actually, no. The program still starts up when you click on it except it doesn't register itself as a foreground application until after it is loaded. The time to start the application is exactly the same, bootup time is unaffected, but t
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by rfurmani 17y ago
Which does not actually make a difference here since for most of the time Iran was blocking all SMSes (I agree about the ease-of-use angle, it allowed technology-use to reach a critical mass)
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by rfurmani 17y ago
While not technically tab-completion, you could always evaluate "?Get " to see a list of all symbols beginning with Get, or "? Get*" too see all symbols containing "Get", etc. You can then click on any of these to see their documentation.
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by rfurmani 17y ago
Plus he thinks at the end that he can write "as Steinbeck did in The Grapes of Wrath" and is surprised that his book was considered "apprentice-level work", because he spent three years working on it, never mind the fact that real writers s
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by rfurmani 18y ago
That makes a lot of sense. When we lived in the wild discerning different shades of green would have been crucial. It is also known that women can see more shades of red, probably in order to be able to more effectively gather edible berr
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by rfurmani 18y ago
Unjustified or incorrect statements: * Want to become a billionaire? Up your chances by dropping out of college * mathematical prowess is hereditary (‽) * Failure early on is a necessary condition for success (a recent article here statisti
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by rfurmani 18y ago
4) Don't call it a hacker group if you want any support from the school ;-)
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by rfurmani 18y ago
The headline makes him out to be cleverer than he actually is. He put up a webpage with one-page "white papers" about internet installations for hotels and resorts. He then registered a residential account with Comcast under his name, and
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by rfurmani 18y ago
Funny, last night's episode of House was about exactly this, and was one of the best episodes I've seen.
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by rfurmani 18y ago
It's an interesting idea, but you have to be careful about these mathematical proofs of optimality. First of all, it is very hard to rank the schools before seeing the offers, visiting the campuses, doing more thorough research (which you m
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by rfurmani 18y ago
That reminds of this article about why Unix is inherently made for a programmer's style of thought: http://igor-nav.livejournal.com/12843.html
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Former Treasury Secretary Says He "Forgot" That People Had To "Afford Their House"(consumerist.com)
3 points by rfurmani 18y ago|1 comments
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by rfurmani 18y ago
Maybe not in eir early- or mid- 20s, since nowadays at that age it is hard to even have enough familiarity to be able to define the major open problems (most of my colleagues focus a lot on devouring book to try to get ahead of this curve).
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by rfurmani 18y ago
> spend time with my wife Trying to off-load your wife on other people? tsk, tsk
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by rfurmani 18y ago
> fixed: s/surround/repeat/g you missed one ;)
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Ask HN: Good sequel to "Making Silicon Valley"?
1 points by rfurmani 18y ago|0 comments
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by rfurmani 18y ago
I think the comments by "Lowell & Salzman L I E" rebut this well: The methodological problem in the study is it, surprisingly, uses the narrow employment designation of "science and engineering occupation". The National Science Foundati