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by sysk 12y ago
> Predictors for a school to apply? First, it was suggested that this test should be used for programming job interviews. Second, why would a school who teaches programming care if students had programming ability? If you answer it is be
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by sysk 12y ago
That's really cool. For some reason, the ranking changes every time I click on the same category. Edit: I just realised it's probably because the position of users who have the same score is randomised. Also, why is Libertatea ( h
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by sysk 12y ago
What if a key has a space?
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by sysk 12y ago
I think the point being made is that there are probably predictors which have many orders of magnitude more predictive power (e.g. work experience, education, interview questions, programming exercise, available source code, etc.). The mal
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by sysk 12y ago
Last time I checked Linode (~2 years ago) they were a bit pricey compared to competition. Maybe this is no longer the case?
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by sysk 12y ago
Yes, among other things: - You often had to scan through the comments for a clickable IMDB link. - Movie meta data was manually entered by uploaders who didn't really bother with it most of the time. - Titles contained a bunch of metad
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What professions have virtually disappeared due to disruptive technologies?(quora.com)
1 points by sysk 12y ago|0 comments
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by sysk 12y ago
I usually add the date when I feel the historical context is important but in this case, I didn't feel it was (bits are still bits, copyright is still a thing, the Paranoia game doesn't appear to be around anymore but it was only
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What Colour are your bits? (2004)(ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
51 points by sysk 12y ago|34 comments
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by sysk 12y ago
I understand that magnet links might make a difference legally. What I meant is that switching to magnet links instead of torrent files is not what I would consider a big technical achievement (TPB didn't actually invent the magnet URI
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by sysk 12y ago
The fact that it's hosting torrents in flat files or in database rows seems like a minor technical difference to me. Apart from that, the same broken UI doesn't seem to have changed much in the past 8 years. I didn't know tha
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by sysk 12y ago
CALeague?
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by sysk 12y ago
Efficiency is important if the operation needs to be atomic though. POSIX for example requires rename to be an atomic operation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rename_(computing)
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by sysk 12y ago
I know it's a bit far fetched but another hypothesis would be that previous wars were deadlier for US soldiers and it was easier for a depressed soldier to get killed during combat (by being reckless for example). I know if I was both
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by sysk 12y ago
I understand that the practical implications of room temperature superconductivity would be huge. I simply found the "= perpetual motion machine" part strange given that such machines are known to be impossible while >0K superc
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by sysk 12y ago
From the article, superconductivity is already possible at "higher" temperatures (-200 Celsius). Why would 0 Celsius specifically make it "perpetual motion machine" like to you (in the sense of breaking some fundamental
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by sysk 12y ago
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8417062 (when the program was announced)
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by sysk 12y ago
I personally flagged it because I don't find the story "intellectually stimulating". I don't know much about Uber except the few times there was an article about them on HN and I doubt they will send a pay check my way.
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Dudeism(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by sysk 12y ago|0 comments
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by sysk 12y ago
Perhaps this could be of some inspiration? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudeism
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by sysk 12y ago
I kind of agree with you. I've seen some of his interviews on Youtube and tried to read some of his work but couldn't find anything of substance. On the other hand, many smart people seem to disagree so it's very possible I a
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by sysk 12y ago
Public keys are only stored as a hash in the blockchain though (assuming no address re-use). Is RIPEMD-160 vulnerable to QC?
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by sysk 12y ago
We definitely have a philosophical disagreement. The fact that an app (especially a server side one where storage is usually cheap) has hundreds of dependency signals to me that the package system is successful. It tells me that there is a
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by sysk 12y ago
Same experience here. First few days were a bit painful but afterwards I felt my energy level was higher on a fat based diet (Ketogenic diet).
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by sysk 12y ago
If you download Arc, there is a text file called "how-to-run-news" in the tar.
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by sysk 12y ago
By that broad definition, there is practically no free website on the web (analytics, logs, etc.). Actually, by posting this on HN, I just "traded data, screen real estate and attention". Would you argue HN isn't free as well
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by sysk 12y ago
Do payments go through your app? What about collecting a small fee on all transactions?
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by sysk 12y ago
Then what do you propose we call the people who write Ruby, Python, Javascript, PHP, etc. code for a living? Have you heard of accidental complexity?
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by sysk 12y ago
<rant> npm (and the CommonJS module system) is the #1 reason I use Node.js. I don't care if Javascript is ugly, npm totally makes up for it. I don't get why most module systems implicitly import symbols in the scope (Python,
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by sysk 12y ago
Why? They probably do as other ISPs.

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