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by thedufer 11y ago
Not being a parent, I don't know what it's like now, but high school was by far the busiest and most stressful time in my life. I saw an average of 2-3 hours of homework per night, after 1.5 hours commuting, 8 hours at school, an
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That's an interesting justification you've come up with. I hope others realize that there are more options than that. There's plenty of room to both be well-paid and work reasonable hours. Given that it's well underst
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With Python this is usually a version mismatch - 2.x and 3.x are subtly incompatible.
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You're making very strong assumptions about the number of people there are. How did you decide that's a countable infinity? No such assumption is made in the problem statement. If there are an uncountably infinite number of peo
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Can you really call it a direct wrote at that point? [sic] is an accepted way to avoid integrity issues when quoting.
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> Programming was originally an exclusively female profession because it was seen as lowly-paid "women's work". Every time this comes up, someone points out that "programming" was mostly data entry at that time,
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You can't really do that without raising taxes, which would probably affect the other $12.
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Messages that the server saw earlier could easily be inserted partway up, right? We're talking about ~100ms most of the time; that's not going to cause you to miss messages.
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It's picking up in NYC, too. Brooklyn Boulders is full of developers.
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> Changing anything means changing half a dozen programs. Potentially in different languages. Wouldn't this only be a problem if you broke up your service along the wrong lines?
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Atlassian could just as well title all of their engineers as "developers" and claim not to have an engineering team; the claim they're making is only true in a very narrow and ultimately meaningless sense. They pay people to
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> to transform the PHP wholesale into valid C# once I'm not quite sure what you mean; PHP was only ever a target; there was no source in PHP. It was something VBScript-esque being compiled to both ASP (later C#) for Windows and PHP
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Netflix announces “The Switch”, a programmable button(makeit.netflix.com)
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50,000 acres is 2 billion sq ft, for a house:land ratio of 1:1 million. The 1:10 in the suburbs is a completely different matter.
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Unlike in high school physics, we have to account for drag, which is a lot more important than mass at these speeds. F=ma is true, of course, but you have to think more about what F really is.
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White advanced the pawn and promoted it. It is black's turn. Moving the knight between the kings is illegal because the black king is in check by the white rook.
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The top universities can afford to be selective enough that you'd expect most of their students to graduate. The schools being labeled degree mills have similar grad rates, but are teaching average or below average students rather than
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by thedufer 11y ago
> A 50:1 ratio applied in all 50 states would yield a whopping 2500:1 ratio of punitive to actual damages. That's not how it works. If we use actual numbers, you get $1k x 50 = $50k in restitution (same as what you got), and $50k x
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I saw someone do something similar in ye olde days of Gravatar. It abused their resizing algorithm to get different images at different scales. It was very simple (and probably couldn't have worked if it was much more complicated) -
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by thedufer 11y ago
> So which is it - is it a treatment with no benefits other than that which is attributable to selection bias, as you first claimed, or is it a high-touch treatment that performs similarly to CBT or other forms of therapy? It is a high-t
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by thedufer 11y ago
The country overlays change size as you move them north/south. Showing how the Mercator projection affects your perspective on country size is the whole point here. The downvotes are likely because parent is giving the impression that
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by thedufer 11y ago
I have no axe to grind, other than a disdain for supporting emotional ties with poor statistics. I've never brushed with AA or alcoholism in any capacity. That said: In Project MATCH [1] we learn that "twelve-step" (AA), co
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> Participation in AA is associated with substantially increased rates of continuous abstinence at the 1, 3 and 5 year marks after quitting It's been shown, as much as is possible, that that's all selection bias. People rarely
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by thedufer 11y ago
That's what I thought when I first moved here, but there is actually a difference. It is very subtle.
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> That is still a large enough number to matter for a startup where those make or break growth & retention numbers matter. I disagree. I work at one of said startups, and we have dropped support for IE9 and below. We figure the 50+
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I don't know where Net Market Share is getting their data, but that's _way_ off compared to literally everyone else who's reporting. The tip-off for me was that they report all of Firefox+Chrome as ~10%. See https:/&#
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> If it's O.K. to hack into someone else's server and mass-out people for having profiles on a dating site because you suspect most of them might be "guilty" of the crime of "marital infidelity" I think you&
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by thedufer 11y ago
If you choose your hypothesis after running the experiment, you can almost guarantee a positive outcome, regardless of whether there's any effect. Are you claiming that this statement is untrue, or irrelevant? > Besides, you would a
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main = putStrLn "\n" Yes, that was very difficult. I see where you're coming from.
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Rent to revenue is a nonsense ratio for a VC-funded startup. For the first few months, it is likely infinity. Too high? No. Meaningless. What about the first month they make money? 400% sounds pretty high, too. Comparing it to other

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