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Haha, I can imagine the argument. "I've just broken up with my girlfriend, it was a pretty messy event and now she's got a temporary restraining order on me... And this really pissed me off. So as an obvious next step, I went
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I couldn't disagree more. I started with 'Hrm, this particular attitude could be considered exclusionary for underprivileged kids' and you responded with what appears to amount to 'haha, fuck those guys!'. I hope th
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You could go halfway, and have the student's projects all expose / consume web APIs to one another. Of course then you'd have the student that forgot to include SQL injection protections getting their project goat.se'd d
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I went to search for the data to throw in the face of these assumptions, and found some corroborating evidence :) http://www.studentbeans.com/student-money/a/degree-courses-w... According to these numbers, of the
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2005. Because I'd been exposed to HTML and some scripting, I was able to skip on ahead pretty quickly. I estimate that most of my class (about 100 CS students) hadn't had any prior exposure to programming. They dropped like flies
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Dijkstra assumes that students will already have been exposed to imperative languages before joining university, and will appreciate the change. I think that this assumption might leave behind students that have not yet been exposed to any
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I agree, 1984 always seemed a bit 'Lord of the Rings' to me, with the dark lords scheming in their towers. Huxley presented a future in which the ruling class knows what the lower classes need to be happy, and set that up nicely.
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NASA / ESA found a bacteria that lives in 'clean rooms' in space craft and space stations, feeding off the scattered remains of the less resistant bacteria.[0] the air is stringently filtered, the floors are cleansed with ce
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Near the end of the article is a link to this very interesting write up about airBnB's 'growth hacking' on craigslist. It acts as a useful counterpoint to rapgenius' case. http://davegooden.com/2011/
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The nature of their site means that people will often display the following usage pattern: -search Google for something like 'rapgenius track X' -read the page covering the track that they're looking for -close the page Simil
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I don't mind my children knowing about DP, but I'll be damned if I let them view felching videos!
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I suspect that a closer analogy is the classification system on films - which as far as I know is in effect in the vast majority of the world. Governments long ago decided that certain things are far too extreme for (young children / o
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The inverse of this could be developers patching out quirks that enable emergent gameplay contrary to the direction they wish the gameplay to go in. So rocket jumping has become a feature of many FPS games, whereas in counterstrike they pat
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Is Rust the game where most of the players stand around as naked (male) cavemen? It's rare to come across a game that shoots so hard for realism just to land right in the middle of absurdity.
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Seconding your objection. " in societies that decide their federal system should be arbiter of its health care system... " To most of the world this reads as: " in first world nations... "
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It's the tip of the new crypto-currency craze: trading crypto-currencies themselves as a currency. We're moving onto a higher order now, folks!
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I feel like there's a big difference between the unfairness inflicted on you by a Random Number Generator, and the unfairness inflicted on you by being hounded through the streets by a gang of other players. The two games share the sam
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Possibly it's not about the baked-in gameplay anymore. But both day-z and minecraft have rich metagames (is metagameplay a word?) that have developed as a result of both the restrictions and freedoms given to the players. That's
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The autism piece is very interesting, it follows a family that's busy turning the traditional theories of autism on their head.
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What do you propose instead? Isn't it just another word for a longform article?
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I don't think steam has that many users - if I remember correctly, steam numbers are dwarfed by WoW / LoL (PC) and console shooter numbers. You'd be better off introducing a Call of Duty Coin... Call them Dogtags or something
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I definitely got porn shoved in my face as a young teenager when I used to browse around looking for cracks for videogames that I'd borrowed or downloaded. Then Chrome / Firefox came along with popup blockers, and Steam came along
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The proponents of this filter are computer illiterate 50+ year old people, the conservative base. These are exactly the people that will not know about switching the filter off. Their children will get around the filters, but these dust-cov
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This joke's got recursion![0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6935041
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It was a joke, an attempt to give the final statement a jovial, chat between friends vibe. I could have used Bazza (it's a British thing) or Prezzy. Too late to edit it now.
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Interestingly, when mothers learn the gender of their child, they talk to their daughters in the womb more than they talk to their sons. There was another study published recently that suggested that male and female babies might get subtly
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Was Manning's treatment due process? Because it seems she was stripped naked and kept in isolation for several years. I think I'll take the exile, thanks Barry.
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I'd like to see someone explore the link between autism spectrum disorders and computer science. I remember seeing a study of majors in the states (does this ring a bell? I can't find it) that put the average CompSci major actuall
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It's down, does anyone have a mirror or copy? edit : managed to get in long enough to grab the text, it's up on http://pastebin.com/5eQnCXkX with links put back in. Apologies to the author for denying them ad rev
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So you need to block Reddit, imgur and tumblr... Oh and twitter, there's a lot of porn posted on there. There's a lot of porn on wikipedia too, including stuff that'd be illegal in most jurisdictions. Better block that. 4chan

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