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by shaddi 16y ago
I don't think I'm making any assumptions -- these outcomes have been seen, as I've said, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I am not going to respond to your second point... I think that is a point of debate that you're making out to be far more
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by shaddi 16y ago
This is very cool, but I can't help remembering that the Wahhabi schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan (incorrectly called "madrassas", which is just a generic Arabic word for "school") would also fall into this category of small, private, lo
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by shaddi 16y ago
Really? I thought this was a quite good lay description of BGP and BGP hijacking. The example about driving with no road signs seemed particularly lucid for someone with no technical background. Edit: What /is/ physically painful is reading
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by shaddi 16y ago
Accidental downvote, sorry. Would have emailed you if you had contact info in your profile.
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Emergency Response 2.0 : Solutions to Respond to Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico(gw.innocentive.com)
1 points by shaddi 16y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 16y ago
The point about starting a bidding war is particularly cogent. I hope that if/when acquisition of Dropbox does occur, (1) the founders and employees are well rewarded for the fantastic product they built and (2) the service is not discontin
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by shaddi 16y ago
Clickable: http://dexjra.com/where_first Honestly, I'm not sure what the point is either, but it sure is interesting. Definitely something that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
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The Difference Between A Developer, A Programmer And A Computer Scientist (skorks.com)
2 points by shaddi 16y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 16y ago
I am confused why people are taking this seriously. This is just an idea that happens to have a nice CGI movie behind it. I could think of lots of hypothetical weapons systems too if I didn't have to actually build them, nor was I constrain
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DIY Turing Machine, in the Classic Style(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by shaddi 17y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
For those unfamiliar with what this is about, I found this page helpful: http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory (It is a joke aimed at the search engine Cuil, in reference to the irrelevant results that often appear for searche
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by shaddi 17y ago
Right, they are not the same thing: they do share similarities, however. I must not have made my point clearly. My own experience has to do with starting a group that has a non-trivial operating budget (O(10k), decent for a student org), cu
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by shaddi 17y ago
That I do not doubt! Hence my desire to learn.
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by shaddi 17y ago
Ditto. I would emphasize the second to last one -- sales and marketing are parts of the business stack that I have little experience in, so they are the most daunting to me. I'd imagine that's the case for a lot of other technical people as
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by shaddi 17y ago
As a current college student, I'd recommend they try their hand at starting a student organization that does something entreprenurial (a microfinance organization, or a group providing tech services to the poor, for example). I suppose I do
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by shaddi 17y ago
I'm not a runner, but I would assume that unless you're already pretty physically fit or have running experience you can't start from scratch and run an ultra-marathon in six months. Full marathon practice sessions weekly for two months! I
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by shaddi 17y ago
That would be an interesting overlap. It begs the question, however, if our society should be modeled after an object-oriented program, or if people should be treated like objects within it. My problem with objectivism is that it fails to a
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by shaddi 17y ago
Not he, she. @saragregory
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by shaddi 17y ago
UNC, Daily Tar Heel.
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by shaddi 17y ago
Eh. They're not all like this. My college paper pays their web folks, and their online editor actually took it upon herself to learn some programming so she could help out and understand the technical side. I was pretty damn impressed actua
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by shaddi 17y ago
Yeah, you have a point, but Alex Payne obviously felt it was misinterpreted, and it's pretty easy to see how that might motivate him to stop blogging (dare I say, be less private online, ironically enough).
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by shaddi 17y ago
Meta note: This comment in my opinion asks a good question and furthers the discussion, as is evidenced by the many replies. I don't agree with it, you may not either, but that's not a good reason, in my opinion, to downvote it.
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Topeka to temporarily change name to "Google, Kansas"(cnn.com)
2 points by shaddi 17y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
Agreed; this really was what impressed me most. Pulling off a long shot like that is really quite challenging technically.
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by shaddi 17y ago
I remember reading a post similar to this on here recently... Ah yes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1145648 There is a woman in my CS department that I met in a Bollywood Cinema class I was taking. She's totally non-geek; I see her
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Google gets buzzed with a class-action suit(abovethelaw.com)
1 points by shaddi 17y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
I have been setting up a lot of Gmail accounts recently for students in computer literacy courses I teach and I have not needed to do SMS validation (last account I set up was last week). The CAPTCHA's a pain though. Imagine trying to expla
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by shaddi 17y ago
I've got the same question. Shoot me an email and I can try to follow you and report back; I'd appreciate if you did the same.
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by shaddi 17y ago
This is interesting. I did my first web project of any meaningful scale in early 2008. When it came time to look for a JS framework, the people I spoke with and searches on the net seemed to recommend Dojo. But it was confusing, because I h
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Statistical Analysis of U Chicago Graffiti(inklingmagazine.com)
5 points by shaddi 17y ago|0 comments

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