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by shaddi 17y ago
Isn't that the beauty of it though?
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by shaddi 17y ago
This is true, but for all intents and purposes MSR is a separate company. For a research lab, where the metric for success is not how much makes it to production, they are quite good indeed.
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by shaddi 17y ago
This is a good point. In fact, the most effective form of population control turns out to be girl's education (both sexual education and otherwise), which reduces the birth rate. High burdens of disease prevent girl's education from happeni
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by shaddi 17y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but how big of a deal is this? It seems pretty much anyone can make something a "well-known port". My quick check found at least 5 more (non-Dropbox) ports added today. In any case, I'm sure this can only be good for Dr
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by shaddi 17y ago
Undoubtedly. This was a cordial and informative C&D, and in my opinion quite justified. Regardless of what someone thinks of trade secrets, Gawker is quite obviously inducing breach of contract here. I guess it's good buzz for Gawker th
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by shaddi 17y ago
I don't think that's what the parent was saying at all. They were just providing an on-topic anecdote.
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by shaddi 17y ago
First, some people just search this way on a regular basis. Strange, but I've met several who do. Bless their hearts. Second, often for queries of this type I'd expect to find hits on advice sites, Yahoo Answers, etc, where the question is
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by shaddi 17y ago
I took a course like this a couple years back and actually started an open source project through it. My group found a local organization who was interested in using the software we had in mind after and they served as our "client". So, if
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by shaddi 17y ago
FWIW, if you click on "link" you can reply directly to the item. Definitely annoying though...
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by shaddi 17y ago
Fortunately for you, these already exist. Just avoid any university that calls itself a "research university". All community colleges and many other schools (notably liberal arts colleges) fall into this non-research category. Turns out, ho
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by shaddi 17y ago
I realize I oversimplified my point there, but I think it's hard to argue that the Yale of 1810 has the same educational and social mission of the Yale of 2010.
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by shaddi 17y ago
Come on, there is more to federal college loans than supply/demand distortion. Easily accessible student loans have much further reaching societal and economic implications than "inflating tuition costs", and those should play into the calc
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by shaddi 17y ago
Extra tidbit: this is the reason for those ". @foo ..." tweets you may be seeing. If any character precedes the @, then the tweet will appear in all your follower's feeds; otherwise, it behave as jsb described.
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by shaddi 17y ago
Yes. In the public health course I took last semester, road traffic accidents were the most common form of death by injury, if I remember correctly. Turns out, tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide, a label applied
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by shaddi 17y ago
Though I don't agree with you for most of those, upvoted for the child tracking point, as much as I hate to see it. Looking at the trends of my brother's middle school, 6th grade is the year you get a cell phone -- and this is by no means t
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by shaddi 17y ago
First, it's easy to tease out a previously unseen characteristic of a data set if you tickle it in the right way. Second, you may be underestimating the power of "a few lines of Perl." :)
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by shaddi 17y ago
I'm full of fail today -- not seeing your email in your profile (n.b., email field is not public; it must be in your "about" section). Shoot me an email and we'll see if we can figure this out... I don't know why it's happening, I'm just re
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by shaddi 17y ago
Yes, that's what I'm describing. Here are my steps to repro: 1) Search something on google.com (for example: unc) 2) Mouseover on a link shows actual address (for instance, http://www.unc.edu ); clicking on the link goes directly to page.
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by shaddi 17y ago
My beef isn't really with their tracking of my links, but it's annoying to me to do a search and not be able to "right click > Copy link location" on a search result. After installing your (otherwise great) plugin, I still get the googl
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by shaddi 17y ago
28. Unblab ( http://www.unblab.com ) They seem promising (I know one of the founders personally) but things are going slower than the impression I originally got. One of their products (Gtriage) is already out though. Basically they're doin
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by shaddi 17y ago
Mabrook! (assuming an Arabic-speaking Muslim, of course :P)
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by shaddi 17y ago
An IR thermometer! I've always wanted one but never got around to getting it. I've been measuring the temperature of /everything/ since this morning. It's awesome to see how fast heating elements get hot, or quantify just how cold your coff
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by shaddi 17y ago
Amen from your Muslim brother. :)
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by shaddi 17y ago
NANOG chatter confirming it is an issue with UltraDNS. Seems to be west coast related. EDIT: Potentially a DOS attack. From NANOG: "We have some DNS providing type customers (not UltraDNS) receiving a few million packets/sec of UDP/53 DoS
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Ask HN: A scheme for normalizing crowdsourced evaluations?
2 points by shaddi 17y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
I know at my high school, it wasn't even an option. The "web design" course I took basically was a study hall for me. I also think this is a symptom of our poor math curriculum. I took every math class available to me and I still didn't tou
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Fewer high school students taking computer science classes(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by shaddi 17y ago|4 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
I use high-capacity EC2 for problem sets in my bioalgorithms class. Basically whenever something's taking too long for my liking on whatever machine I'm running it on, I'll throw it up on a beefy EC2 instance and let it run there.
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by shaddi 17y ago
I personally thought these were hilarious (esp #1). You bring up a good (if slightly offtopic) point. There should be something to differentiate sites.google.com pages from those officially published by Google. Just add the "sites." so we k
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by shaddi 17y ago
Ok, a question from an (almost finished) student: how do you get to know recruiters? In my experience, recruiters are generally temps that come and go. In the last couple internships I've had, I changed recruiters at least once in each hiri

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