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by tkahn6 16y ago
I think serious poker is in a different category than slots or roulette. You can call it gambling but there's a reason there exist top poker players who win with consistency. If it were really random chance, you wouldn't see players that ma
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by tkahn6 16y ago
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. - Edsger Dijkstra
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by tkahn6 16y ago
There are three types of mathematicians. Those who can add and those who can't.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I'm using Redis as a backend to store course availability information at my university. If the set contains the course ID it has an open seat. Data is scraped and processed continuously and there are ~7200 courses so Redis is a good fit.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Why do these sentences seem odd seem odd? Pulling data from HTML is highly dependent on its exact structure. Usually if the page changes at all, you have to go back and figure out where everything is again. Probably by "we go live in a coup
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by tkahn6 16y ago
why do we need teachers at all? Teachers are good for filling in gaps in your knowledge and/or clarifying a concept that you learned or attempted to learn from the text. All you really need is a good textbook and someone to talk to when y
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by tkahn6 16y ago
standardize exams and evaluate professor quality based on VAM instead of student opinion. As a student I'm fine with standardized tests if you can absolutely guarantee that the the tests test core understanding of the concepts and not jus
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by tkahn6 16y ago
"pop finance books from the 70s like books by Adam Smith" What? If by 'the 70s' he meant the 1770s...
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Yeah I'm at VT as well and a member of VTLUUG. My last technical interview was primarily done in C.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Just be aware, HTC stock browser on android (obscure I know), doesn't have StartSSL as a root certificate authority so it will give you a warning.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
But really, the continuing argument that because you like Google Maps it's therefore better that Google gets to keep all of its tax euros out of the hands of underfunded public services is close to incoherent. Unless you can show that th
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Has gmail improved your quality of life? Really? The ability to access my email from anywhere, organize, and quickly search through thousands and thousands of emails in seconds has improved my quality of life. Maybe not as much as indoor
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Which of the above services do you think wouldn't exist if Google avoided less tax? You're going to have to explain to me how this is relevant. What Google is doing is legal which means that you're trying to make this an argument about et
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by tkahn6 16y ago
but it's equally a stretch to suggest that we're better off because Google pays less tax In absolutely no way is it a stretch to say that and I'm terribly surprised you have any upvotes. Are you aware of how many services Google provides
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Honestly, I think most people who "prove" things using induction don't really understand what they're doing Can you explain what you mean by this?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
As it relates to the Turing test, this is called the Chinese Room example/argument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
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by tkahn6 16y ago
And maybe more radically, block all new users from upvoting. Say HN gets an influx of new users who typically upvote inflammatory or LOL-evoking one-liners. If they all upvote each other, they all get karma, and the community starts to shif
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by tkahn6 16y ago
the sad part is that this is a common feature with most other languages yep. I was hoping they would add closures before I graduate but it doesn't look like it.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I think it's because Java is just plain and simple a boring language. I agree for the most part. I make my college programming projects fun by finding uses for the Reflections API. Check out 'invoke'. http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
http://xkcd.com/793/ Edit: I thought this was highly relevant to what the parent was saying.
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A Mathematician's Lament(maa.org)
4 points by tkahn6 16y ago|0 comments
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I think you have a bug. Elliptical Curve Cryptography -> AndrU00c3U00a9 Weil -> 1906 -> Adolf Hitler 'AndrU00c3U00a9 Weil' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AndrU00c3U00a9_Weil ) doesn't exist. Very cool though.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I just recently got on with Linode for some personal projects and to learn a bit more about administrating a server. Can't recommend it enough. What an excellent service.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Did you not see the paper being moved?
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Greenspan Says Bush-Era Tax Cuts Should Lapse, Warns on Budget Deficit(pbs.org)
3 points by tkahn6 16y ago|3 comments
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I don't even see how it's possible to claim that 'schools suck' unless you define a) what the purpose of school is and b) what a 'good' education is. Until you have a clear definition, you can't 'reform' or 'fix' anything because you have n
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I don't think I ever said you had a limited potential. In fact, you have a lot of potential. My point is that it takes a long time to realize most of it and get to the point where you can write good, useful software (realize in the sense of
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by tkahn6 16y ago
The ability to write good, useful software does not come over night. A lot of people on this site have been programming for a long time. It's not because you're a business guy that you'll probably never build anything useful, but because yo
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by tkahn6 16y ago
The landing page reminds me of http://zombo.com/
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I'm not saying memorization has no purpose. On the contrary, it's pretty much required if you don't want to have to re-derive everything every time you go to use it. Also FTA: In one classic 1978 experiment, psychologists found that colleg

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