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841.
Finally a C REPL (in Haskell)(neugierig.org)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
842.
by smanek 18y ago
This was already submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=284413 For some reason, there's a trailing '?' on the URL.
843.
Zed Shaw's Free Hackers Union (freehackersunion.org)
74 points by smanek 18y ago|42 comments
844.
The Economics of Pay Incentives: a 116% Productivity increase(slate.com)
50 points by smanek 18y ago|29 comments
845.
by smanek 18y ago
I think the salient issue with big name universities is selection bias. MIT gets to choose valedictorians with perfect SAT scores as its student body; is it any surprise that its students are more successful than a less selective university
846.
by smanek 18y ago
I find it funny that a PhD (modern European History) considers a 3 month consulting gig earning 12K "lucrative." That's only ~48K/year ... after taking inflation into account, I was making more without a bachelors. Oddly, most of my friends
847.
The Difference Between Electrical Engineers and Computer Scientists(philip.greenspun.com)
40 points by smanek 18y ago|30 comments
848.
Bruce Schneier: The response to the "If you've got nothing to hide" argument (wired.com)
83 points by smanek 18y ago|37 comments
849.
by smanek 18y ago
I read this years ago when it came out, and was extremely disgusted with the chinese mathematicians involved. I don't understand topology nearly well enough to understand Perelman's proof, but many mathematicians who do agree that his proof
850.
by smanek 18y ago
Ironically, one of the definitions of 'literally' is 'figuratively.' Go figure.
851.
by smanek 18y ago
The main advantage that I see is that his class transparently works with any function expecting a 'sequence', which spec only defines as either a vector (i.e., 1-d array) or a list (i.e., linked list) while providing a some (extremely simpl
852.
by smanek 18y ago
Amen. Most people forget that uiuc consistently has one of the top 5 engineering programs nationally (an honor it shares with the likes of MIT, Berkeley, and Stanford, and Cal-Tech). And I'd feel pretty confident claiming it's the best in t
853.
by smanek 18y ago
No popups or page breaks: http://www.sitepoint.com/print/nine-deadly-startup-diseases (and much cleaner layout)
854.
by smanek 18y ago
ah, thanks for the clarification
855.
by smanek 18y ago
"After all, they're basically a manufacturing company, not a marketing company, right? The fact that they created a great brand was probably an accident anyway. But as a marketer, that's what makes this even more infuriating. Creating a
856.
by smanek 18y ago
No he wasn't. The government themselves said that everything he had was "no more dangerous than typical household cleaning products." The only law he was breaking, according to your own source, was "doing scientific research and development
857.
by smanek 18y ago
I'm curious if writing software at home would violate the no "research and development" in a residential area rule ...
858.
Man's Home Lab confiscated for "doing science in a residential area"(blog.makezine.com)
62 points by smanek 18y ago|41 comments
859.
by smanek 18y ago
ah thank god. I've been waiting for an important (time sensitive) email, but have been unable to access my account for a while. Thanks for the hint.
860.
by smanek 18y ago
I'm saying that even if we could magically get at all that offshore oil tomorrow, it wouldn't make a difference. It's only going to provide an extra 200,000 barrels a day. America currently uses over 20,000,000 barrels a day - and current w
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by smanek 18y ago
Offshore drilling won't really help. It'll take nearly a decade to get operations running, and our best estimates suggest that it will supply ~1% of our daily oil demand. http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html "The proje
862.
by smanek 18y ago
I hate the RIAA as much as the next guy, but I have trouble buying that a 16 year old didn't understand copyright infringement. That's a Junior in HS!
863.
by smanek 18y ago
I'm a huge fan of 'three factor authentication.' In my mind, ideally, secure auth. should test: 1. "something you know" (password) 2. "something you are" (biometric) 3. "something you have" (cryptokey, dongle, etc) I'd heard this idea proba
864.
by smanek 18y ago
wow, I'm curious how long those took to render. what do you think, another two decades till actors are obsolete? ;-)
865.
by smanek 18y ago
My apologies - I was wrong. Thanks for the info, learn something new every day.
866.
by smanek 18y ago
Because, statistically speaking, race is a good predictor of violent crime. According to Bureau of Justice statistics, between 1976 and 2005, blacks, while 13 percent of the population, committed over 52 percent of the nation’s homicides, o
867.
by smanek 18y ago
" In 1910, inner city crime like we have today simply did not exist. " Do you have any data to back up that claim? It's the exact opposite of any data I've ever seen ... I've been told that violent death rates are ~ an order of magnitude lo
868.
by smanek 18y ago
For me, the killer feature is battery life. I used to have a macbook pro, but I'd get ~3 hours batter life at best (and only 2 hours, when doing heavy work). I sold it, and bought a thinkpad x60, and get over 6 hours of battery life (4-5 ho
869.
by smanek 18y ago
This was somewhat surprising to me: "The vast majority — 80% — either started their own business or worked for a small company that saw explosive growth. And almost all of them made their fortune in a big lump sum after many years of effort
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Three Queries to Test any Search Engine(slate.com)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments

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