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by srn 17y ago
Hanging around the hacker dojo and spending a little bit of time at open source world, there are definitely people who think this is true, that all programming and applications are web apps and they're all going to move "into the cloud." I
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by srn 17y ago
Yeah, I'm not one to speak but the valley is living in a bubble, most likely as LA or Washington DC or NYC is. That has upsides and downsides, the downsides probably being really out of touch with what people outside of a 2 hour drive radi
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by srn 17y ago
Wow, that's the best explanation I've read. Very intuitive. Not to say I didn't know the original definition at some point but having such a concept tied to a concrete example makes it much easier to remember. It makes me wish that most ma
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by srn 17y ago
Yeah, I've wanted this for a while, though not for android.
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by srn 17y ago
This is a troll, right? FYI not everyone who's smart wants to do computer science or a startup. I went to a gifted boarding school and it is my best educational experience so far including college. http://lsmsa.edu/ You have to apply to t
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by srn 17y ago
Check out maemo.org which is the linux distribution for Nokia's internet tablets. Also look at http://maemo.org/news/announcements/intel_and_nokia_announce... and consider the implications.
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by srn 17y ago
Almost nobody knows I'm a member. While my accomplishments are respectable from an objective standpoint, I joined to talk about my relative underachievement. Probably anyone outside of mensa thinks that's crazy. The people at local meeting
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by srn 17y ago
Seriously, where's the study? This is a nice example of game theory but let's not call it truth without some backing research, and all the anecdotal evidence in the world sounds nice but we are not exactly a representative group are we?
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by srn 17y ago
If the financial state is already having invested the money, I wonder if this is more or less motivating than a possibility of money later. The money paid is a sunk cost, so failing to follow up negatively impacts your experience and not t
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by srn 17y ago
About financial aid: the previous year my parents had made at least 80k, and that's generally how people judge your need. The year I picked schools one of them had lost their job and my family was at below sustainability levels. That being
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by srn 17y ago
I'm skeptical of claims without any research to back it up. But some thoughts (DISCLAIMER this is BS) An effect of having triangular keys instead of square keys on a soft keyboard is that each key has a clearly delineated boundary rather th
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by srn 17y ago
Yeah, I was amused with that instruction when I was hacking at vxworks and hand modifying a bootloader without source code ... good times ...
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by srn 17y ago
Also the manga guide to statistics http://nostarch.com/mg_statistics.htm
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by srn 17y ago
Heh. I wish there wasn't papers and computer crap and other junk in random piles, but that's because I like to be able to find things and don't want crap in the house that nobody is going to use.
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by srn 17y ago
Part of the point of the paper is to show, yet again, that data that could be considered sufficiently anonymized by stripping IP addresses names etc. is not anonymous enough. Your credit card information identifies you, but you generally do
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by srn 17y ago
when? What you're looking for isn't exactly a tourist attraction.
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by srn 17y ago
Since we're here, if there are women in the SF bay area who want to get together for a bring-your-project-and-work-on-it afternoon/evening, contact me.
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by srn 17y ago
I get tired of technical environments online which assume there are no women present; or worse, that outright insult them. Slashdot and digg are particular bad about this, but you see some of that here as well. What message is that going
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by srn 17y ago
I'm interested in a study which looked for correlations between having a tangible role model in science/engineering during childhood and later joining the field.
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by srn 17y ago
I got good grades in college and retained none of the information. Perhaps it was because the tests were open book and I am good at applying rules to a given problem, but my memory is terrible. Now I want to be able to derive everything fr
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by srn 18y ago
For deeply technical conversations I research answers I give and back up what I say with links to source material or a log of the commands I ran. This seems to be quite unusual, and I believe most technical discussions would benefit from a
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by srn 18y ago
The general class of women 18-25 or tech savvy 18-25? And of what interest group? You give far too few details for anyone to be able to help you.
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by srn 18y ago
Right now I WFH for health reasons. I have my work laptop in the front room and my personal computer in a different room. Only problem is the wii is in the front room ;) but I am not working full time right now so it's ok. My team for many
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by srn 18y ago
I measure my productivity in a way akin to the ratio of time spent adding features added + fixing other people's bugs over the time fixing bugs I create and rewriting my own code. Granted I am an "engineer" in a small company, not just a pr
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by srn 18y ago
Hi Alex. I agree that browse functionality could be killer here. The girl stuck in the right corner on the groups page is irritating and unnecessary even on the front page. If you have a more open browse view, do add subcategories and an o
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by srn 18y ago
I wouldn't mind enabling paying for sites I used a lot. Providing people with a record of the charges and an easy dispute mechanism both sides could trust would alleviate some of the trust issues with the content providers. Content provider
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by srn 18y ago
Part of this guy's argument is bogus. It is basically "Someone big is going to do this so why bother." That could be said of 99.99% of all businesses. "IBM is so big, why bother with Microsoft?" Part of the problem with any business with
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by srn 18y ago
I've already worked 32 hours this week (I usually work a 40 hour week) and I've been wondering that myself.I don't even really care about the money except that if I get laid off I don't have to worry for probably a year or so..
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by srn 18y ago
Depends where you live. Some places tmobile has terrible coverage and ATT has good coverage. For me tmobile is a deal breaker but I would happily use ATT.
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by srn 18y ago
How is this a robot any more than any other missile? Not to say they aren't cool... but if I could mod this down I would for being misleading.

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