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by sidek 15y ago
Now, I would argue that you can't necessarily measure this; those you are convinced are the smartest could be significantly less smart, but may be able to trick you into thinking they are the smartest through social skills. In any case, tho
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by sidek 15y ago
Risk is incredibly frustrating, though. I cannot tell you how many times 18-man armies have been mowed down by lone men
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by sidek 16y ago
As a high school student, I prefer email for some things and IRC for others. I despise twitter and facebook and don't have accounts for them. However, my stubborn clinging to not having a facebook account has gotten painful, as that is wher
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by sidek 16y ago
Actually, someone I know got into MIT after Grade 11 due to mathematics competition achievements/math work in general. That happened this year.
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by sidek 16y ago
Edmonton's like Calgary, but with all the cold periods extended :D.
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by sidek 16y ago
I'm sorry, but I believe gratuit is the French word, not gratis.
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by sidek 16y ago
Three words: Gift credit cards.
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by sidek 16y ago
I disagree. Schools do function as low-security prisons, and that is important to society (This point can be disagreed on, but I do not want to make a long post about why this is my stance and, I think, the better one.). To stop disruption
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by sidek 16y ago
Does Telus ever charge you? I have never been charged for going over, myself.
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by sidek 16y ago
Also, 20 pages of, say, Spivak's Calculus is simply more than , say, 20 pages of Michel de Montaigne essays.
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by sidek 16y ago
Failblog is popular with some high school students.
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by sidek 16y ago
I'm not yet done high school , and it makes me feel old too.
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by sidek 16y ago
"CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR CANDIDATE A AND GET A NEW TYPE OF FARMVILLE CROP"
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by sidek 16y ago
I doubt it's still an issue, but some scripting languages (Python?) had math errors. Why, I don't know. edit : Here's what I was referring to. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-January/085... edit2: It seems like it was fi
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by sidek 16y ago
Having tried Haiku, I like it a lot. I stopped using it, though, because it's really hard to program in it: most languages aren't supported, and others have large math errors.
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by sidek 16y ago
The tall stake gets hammered down. Happens in every culture.
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by sidek 16y ago
When I was sick over a summer, I wrote a lot. Not so anymore.
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by sidek 16y ago
Consider this, then: a secure password box is put at the very very bottom of the page in an obscure location. JS is used to make a fake one that is prominent. How will you deal with that?
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by sidek 16y ago
Sometimes square root is assumed to refer to the positive one. I assume that was the case here.
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by sidek 16y ago
Geometry is only harder to you because we teach more Algebra than Geometry in schools. They really are elementary.
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by sidek 16y ago
I did. Don't have copies of them, though.
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by sidek 16y ago
I didn't agree with him, but I did upvote him. Why? While I may think differently, he argued well and added to the discussion.
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by sidek 16y ago
Yes, it seems like email with capability to interact with SMS and a few other things.
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Notes on Mercator's Projection(luckytoilet.wordpress.com)
2 points by sidek 16y ago|0 comments
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by sidek 16y ago
Well, less people target Linux as less use it. If I hooked up to one of these, though, it'd have to be with an isolated partition or in Haiku.
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by sidek 16y ago
Well , I'm most experienced with it. I can get lots of things done in Haskell and Python too, but I know ARM assembly intimately.
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Ask HN: How do I get past beginner-programmer?
11 points by sidek 16y ago|13 comments