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by rjprins 13y ago
Certifications are nice, but that does not necessarily make people a good IT security specialist. There is no clear path, but there are many facets to learn about: * Web application security and popular attacks (such as https://w
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by rjprins 13y ago
The best insight here is that self-worth and fear of shaming are the main motivators for not agreeing. A weaker argument, that is less threatening to self-worth is one way of preventing that your discussion partner goes on the defense. Anot
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by rjprins 13y ago
For software developers, I feel this career thing works a bit differently. Going up the ladder means managing people or projects, but that is not necessarily more fun than writing code. I don't know where I see myself in 5 years, but i
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by rjprins 13y ago
This is only true for local hidden variables. It is possible to explain this with hidden variables in broader sense. Which you could also call hidden connections.
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by rjprins 15y ago
This is way over-engineered. Just put your hands in cold water.. Also, this fact about cooling the body for better performance is well known in professional sports. An example product that is being used there: http://www.icydip.com
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by rjprins 15y ago
This discussion about the value and use of bike lanes keeps amazing me. It seems many people hold a negative view without having good arguments, almost religiously. Living in the Netherlands, the benefits of separate bike lanes (to point of
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by rjprins 15y ago
What the article misses, but what I think is going on is that education is a lot like health care: The need is very high (everybody wants to get a good job!), while supply is limited to established institutions. Partly because it's so hard
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by rjprins 15y ago
Instead of a Like button, I would much more prefer a link back to the comments section. That is more in line with my use of Hackers News; read article => read comments.
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by rjprins 15y ago
I find the remark about not funding such elementary research silly. It could be said that not finding the Higgs particle is a bigger discovery than actually finding it. Either way, it's about gaining knowledge.
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by rjprins 15y ago
Yes, I agree. I guess the problem lies in mentioning The Pirate Bay in the first place. The facilitator is unimportant. It's like saying that the documents were mailed via TNT.
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by rjprins 15y ago
"Thousands of scientific papers were shared via The Pirate Bay"
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by rjprins 15y ago
It is save to say that in no point in time have so many people worked so little while being so rich. That contradicts that automation creates as many jobs as it destroys. We are not talking about a 'point' where the 40 hour week stops. It i
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by rjprins 15y ago
Herd mentality is the result of domain knowledge. All programmers experience problems with ToDo lists.. How many programmers experience retail analytic problems? There are many, many more of these niches. If you want to find a good market s
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by rjprins 15y ago
http://www.simplynoise.com and/or http://www.rainymood.com
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by rjprins 16y ago
I prefer the emacs color-theme 'tangotango': http://blog.nozav.org/post/2010/07/12/Updated-tangotango-ema...
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by rjprins 16y ago
It could be lead glass.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_glass
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by rjprins 16y ago
I don't know.. When you look at your phone, people can assume you got a message or something. Looking at your watch can really only mean one thing.
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by rjprins 16y ago
"Semantically incorrect" A "table" is an abstract concept with certain properties. If a layout shares those properties, it might as well be a table. If it quacks like a duck..
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by rjprins 16y ago
I disagree, the number is there to indicate a version, nothing more. The version number in Chrome is not exposed to users in a marketing way. Google simple decided to go for big version numbers, because what does switching from 2.95 to 3.0
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Free will and the paradox of responsibility(rutgerprins.wordpress.com)
1 points by rjprins 16y ago|0 comments
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by rjprins 16y ago
I didn't know there was such a thing as a [language]-programmer. Picking up a new language has to be nigh trivial for any programmer, right? Getting to know the frameworks and libraries intricately takes time, but if you're not able to writ
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by rjprins 16y ago
I think indenting and block syntax are absolutely trivial with any good editor.
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by rjprins 16y ago
Exactly, a year ago I was looking for a small portable laptop and definitely wanted a Thinkpad. I could choose the X300, X200s or an old, second-hand X61s with 4:3 screen ratio. Then I saw this image: http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/
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by rjprins 16y ago
Like any other program, app or website.. It's about the need and scarcity that makes me want to pay or not. I guess what you are asking is: Assuming your tool is useful, is it being a chrome extension hindering me from buying it? So it come
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by rjprins 16y ago
It's not all about costs. In music there are many people who love to write and record songs for fun. This devalues music regardless of costs. In fact I think most music in itself is practically worthless. It's the face and name of musicians
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Ask HN: How would you teach Computer Science?
2 points by rjprins 16y ago|2 comments
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by rjprins 16y ago
Yes, from the perspective of imperfect information you could (maybe even should) view the development of a feature as research for the question: "Can it be done and for how much?". This way the sunk costs are just research costs, which make
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by rjprins 16y ago
Dutch guy here.. I don't want to speculate as to why, but generally I agree that social relationships are strained. I live in Delft where there is a substantial body of foreign students and phds and I love their social openness. Dutch peopl
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by rjprins 16y ago
Care = passion. And passion is well known as one of the, if not the most important attribute for entrepeneurs. Or anyone wanting to do anything really.
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by rjprins 16y ago
Yes, and if you don't realize you're being a hypocrite that isn't changed. But the benefit of being a hypocrite goes way down, while the benefit of being truthful goes up. I mean this in a personal way: People generally like to say what th

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