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by rsanders 13y ago
He's not just complaining about there being ads. He's complaining about the site being unusable for reading . If you haven't run into the unclosable popovers on a mobile web site, you're luckier than I am on any given d
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by rsanders 13y ago
I agree with your last point, and was making it in a roundabout way. "How do we convict this guy if he can afford a good lawyer?" and "We'll definitely convict this guy because he can't afford a good lawyer." a
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Alleged criminal conspiracies. If the prosecution of an alleged criminal is undermined by his being able to afford competent defense, we've got a bigger public policy issue.
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by rsanders 13y ago
We switched to CircleCI from our own, painfully maintained Jenkins box to test our Rails apps. Between their clearly highly tuned infrastructure, nice little tweaks like caching the installed gemset between builds, and automatic paralleliza
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Quite a few members of the Clojure core team and community work there, as evidenced by the intersection of http://thinkrelevance.com/team and http://clojure.com/about.html .
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That's great if you only want it to be a hobby. How many people here would think it a good idea to take a lucrative job in waste management or accounting and do a little hacking on the side?
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by rsanders 13y ago
Clojure is intended to be a hosted language. Building on and providing first class access to a rich ecosystem of libraries and tools was an explicit goal.
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Only until the partial pressure of CO2 was in equilibrium between the volume of air in the lungs and the the body tissues. It's like bailing out a boat -- it only works if you empty the bucket periodically.
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by rsanders 13y ago
I think you can be pretty proficient in writing regular Clojure and still find macros "twisty". Most Clojurians would agree that "The first rule of Macro Club is Dont Write Macros".
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by rsanders 13y ago
A non-open-source OS X app called AppTamer can be very handy for managing battery life. You can set process priority and automatically pause non-foreground GUI apps. So when you switch away from your CPU chewing IDE, it'll get SIGSTOP&
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by rsanders 13y ago
Apple no longer cares what language you use, as long as new code isn't downloaded to distributed apps after installation. So it's okay to use CL as long as there is no facility for interpretation of CL downloaded from the net.
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by rsanders 13y ago
I agree. The idea that a submitter might add some value to the summary through a better title doesn't seem strange for a site that is based around the idea that its members add value through collection and commentary upon those article
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by rsanders 13y ago
What does "cannot" in the quote from Rep. Nadler mean? “I am pleased that the administration has reiterated that, as I have always believed, the NSA cannot listen to the content of Americans’ phone calls without a specif
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by rsanders 13y ago
The (theoretical) security value of proving a secure connection to uglyrandomletters.cloudfront.net is significantly less than the value of proving a secure connection to TheSiteYouTrust.com. When a group of U.S. ISPs first started working
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by rsanders 13y ago
Carnivore definitely was, and it wasn't really kept secret. If you worked long enough in telecom or Internet service, you probably got to install a Carnivore box in your data center.
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by rsanders 13y ago
What do you mean "got away with"? These laws exist to deter leaking, and that only works if people believe they'll be applied. Do you think they're worried about losing votes over this? There's only a handful of con
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by rsanders 13y ago
I've been in this situation, and there is no comparison at all. Nobody but the very wealthy can afford to pay out of pocket for healthcare. A single, minor injury can cost you $50,000 - $100,000. A chronic condition, cancer treatment, or ma
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by rsanders 13y ago
If you read the recent Time cover story about medical costs, you'll see examples of people being recursively double-billed for items, at least according to the Medicare guidelines. e.g., and my memory's a little fuzzy on the specifics, but
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by rsanders 13y ago
Is anybody using this for Clojure? I'm very interested in how usable it is for that. Clojure runs on the JVM using JVM bytecodes, but that doesn't mean Takipi will be able to show me anything but mangled gibberish.
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by rsanders 13y ago
I attended GT a long time ago (early 90's), so I might be out of date, but I wouldn't go far as to call it "culture". I kid, I kid! :-) It's a notoriously demanding program. I hope they can adapt their "Take a look at the people to your le
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by rsanders 13y ago
There's nothing I could learn from the Coursera compilers class I couldn't have learned from a $10 used textbook, and yet the Coursera class did make a huge difference. As Good Will Hunting sort of mis-stated it -- you can get access to a
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by rsanders 13y ago
That appears to be the intent. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709930
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by rsanders 13y ago
I fit into that category, and I'm taking 1-2 significant MOOCs (compilers, ML, data science, etc.) at a time right now. I can just make it work, but I wouldn't if I had to show up for class. The fixed schedule format of Coursera adds a b
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by rsanders 13y ago
It's described here: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/future/masters/mscs/program The OMS won't initially have all the same courses (or specializations?), but the plan according to one of the GT videos is to reach approximate parity over time.
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by rsanders 13y ago
Georgia Tech already has a distance learning MS in CSE, but not a general MS CS. And I believe the cost is rather higher than this. http://www.cseprograms.gatech.edu/distancelearning
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by rsanders 13y ago
First off, the MOOCs associated with this degree will still be free. The degree is not. The change here is that a) an entire MS worth of course material (and the systems to support it) from a respected institution are being created, b) th
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by rsanders 13y ago
You're right -- that was phrased ambiguously. I should have said "there will be an admissions process similar to that for the non-online MS CS". I don't know what the exact requirements will be.
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This degree program doesn't allow people without a BS to get a graduate degree. I think it's wrong to say that having an entire Masters degree program from a highly respected institution online and accessible to everybody, everywhere for fr
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by rsanders 13y ago
From the Inside Higher Ed article I linked elsewhere: > Galil and Bras both said they did not think the Udacity partnership would cannibalize its existing master’s degree program. They said the residential college experience would still
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by rsanders 13y ago
Apparently the GRE will not be a requirement. From http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/14/georgia-tech-a... : > The second type of student will be “prospective degree-seeking” students who will be admitted to the program tentat

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