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by rw 18y ago
Has anyone here done an NSA math program, like the one that happens over summer?
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by rw 18y ago
Blog of a quantum computing theorist: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ P vs NP Millenium Prize intro paper, which is fairly accessible: http://www.claymath.org/millennium/P_vs_NP/Official_Problem_... Complexity Theory: A Modern Approa
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by rw 18y ago
"Okay, it doesn't work out for the employees who become redundant, but that's to be expected." This is actually, you know, a really bad thing for them. They have families and no trust funds.
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by rw 18y ago
The password was given out, or the password was changed? Encryption, people...
755.
by rw 18y ago
1) The mind is an information processing device. 2) Programming enables me to modify information flows. 3) Therefore, I augment my intellect via hacking. P.S. If the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis for programming languages is true, then my "actual"
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by rw 18y ago
I took a class recently on the sociology of education. We focused heavily on Ogbu -- he has done outstanding work that is worth a look from any layman.
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by rw 18y ago
Hard agnostic != atheist.
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by rw 18y ago
"employer-provided day care, at affordable prices, ought to be like health insurance, a benefit that every company provides as a matter of course." If only this were true in more companies nowadays.
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by rw 18y ago
If ideas are worth nothing, why do we try to have good ones?
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by rw 18y ago
Otherwise what you are doing amounts to premature optimisation. That's a good insight - what language you use is also a form of optimization.
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by rw 18y ago
Publicly accessible version?
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by rw 18y ago
Programming is not like murdering chickens.
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by rw 18y ago
"Complete independence" is partially based on net wealth. If you have 100 million in the bank, you can tell your boss to buzz off, so it's a moot point.
764.
by rw 18y ago
I can just imagine Steve Jobs continuously yelling at the waiters and deputy chefs... ahhh.
765.
by rw 18y ago
Intel/AMD aren't exactly resting on their laurels, friend.
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by rw 18y ago
This picture the OP includes reminds me of TimeCube: http://bp3.blogger.com/_BXJTG_K68fU/SB6ibLP3ExI/AAAAAAAAAE0/...
767.
by rw 18y ago
Off Topic But Important: Could you point me to the most medically-reputable ways to quit smoking?
768.
by rw 18y ago
The possibility of coding on FOSS projects while earning a decent income might be low, but the idea is intriguing. We could build a way to make such a route more feasible for our idealistic comrades. Or, it might be impossible. Any hackers
769.
by rw 18y ago
Take all of that and compress it into six weeks. The pace of business, and particularly startups, is too fast to spend six months feeling out your potential market.
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Howto: Make Money While Hacking On Open Source Projects(damnsmalllinux.org)
44 points by rw 18y ago|9 comments
771.
by rw 18y ago
Did the explosion change your opinion of theplanet?
772.
by rw 18y ago
"In all seriousness, that's retarded." In all seriousness, that's retarded.
773.
by rw 18y ago
Please force wrapping to the width of the page. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=228233
774.
by rw 18y ago
Briefly -- I'm talking about protective tariffs and IP laws.
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by rw 18y ago
It's in place for Hacker News because when your site gets owned by a cracker, you can't do much hacking, can you? :)
776.
by rw 18y ago
"lower trade barriers"? When market isolation is one of the key ways the U.S. has become so highly productive?
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by rw 18y ago
Design is like that of a domain-squatter.
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by rw 18y ago
I didn't know students could be forced to take an IQ test.
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by rw 18y ago
Site isn't responding (22:00 EDT).
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by rw 18y ago
The page is completely white. Nothing there. Fx3.0rc_1.

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