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by walexander 15y ago
I think the best comment on this I've heard came from Milton Friedman. Paraphrasing, he said: "Politicians will do whatever they have to do to get re-elected. Everyone thinks if we just elect the right people, we'll have change. If you want
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by walexander 15y ago
I can't disagree there. I graduated from that program and put my year of IBM interning in while I was a senior. Not many people seem to stick around for long though.
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by walexander 15y ago
I work for a tablet manufacturer, and I spoke to an Android product manager at I/O last year about this. According to him, this is a feature that pops up once in awhile, but they have a long list of stuff to do and this is just one of those
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by walexander 15y ago
Considering the amount of money to be made, I think it's reasonable. I present the following: 1) Get the original (say, $3000 coin) carefully out of the holder - then smash the holder with a hammer. 2) Find a replica of that year coin, whic
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by walexander 15y ago
The easiest way to destroy the value of numismatic coin would probably be to clean it. A coin at the highest level of grading would be "destroyed" (lowered to a less valuable rating) by simply picking it up outside of its sealed, graded h
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by walexander 15y ago
I froze for a second after reading that statement, which I was completely unaware of. I sometimes buy and sell rare coins (particularly US Morgan dollars), which regularly go for thousands of dollars. I have one on eBay at this very moment
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by walexander 15y ago
Sgr is short for Sagitarrius, a constellation. If you mark off the boundary of Sagitarrius, Sgr A* would be in that region. The black hole itself does not have the name, but rather the radio source associated with it. (conjecture alert)I'm
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Ask HN: Issues with ccTLDs?
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Researchers create accelerometer based keylogger with 71.5% accuracy [pdf](cs.ucdavis.edu)
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by walexander 15y ago
Don't forget open courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ There are similar resources for a lot of top tier universities. I've since lost my bookmarks, but maybe someone can post the ones for Harvard and others.
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by walexander 15y ago
This article comes off as just being pompous about being an engineer. As a coder, I'm sure you understand separation of concerns. Well, it works the same way in a sufficiently large company. Coders can't and shouldn't be doing everything. L
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by walexander 15y ago
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' Can we please take the rhetoric back to reddit.
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by walexander 15y ago
Thanks. A lot of people are telling me how to do the keyboard shortcuts in Mac. Well, I realize you can do them, I realize I'll have a small learning curve. My point was: that's a saved cost if I don't switch, so what's the ROI for taking t
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by walexander 15y ago
OK, someone convince me to go Mac. I've had essentially zero issues with Windows. I do 99% of my development in Linux (access my devbox through VNC). For desktop use, I have absolutely no problems. I work very fast zooming around with keybo
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by walexander 15y ago
Facebook caught on, to some extent, as a type of dating service. I'm Zuckerberg's age and watched Facebook grow while I was in college. For a large majority of people, during the .edu restricted times, it was mainly a way to check if you mi
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by walexander 15y ago
And that's fine. That's essentially the point I was making. No one forces you to sign up for Google+. If you complain about the lack of anonymity and refuse to sign up, maybe Google will budge. It will cost them to block pseudonyms and I'm
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by walexander 15y ago
It doesn't matter who the policy works for. The point is, it's a social network. Owned by Google. Who cares if you don't like their TOS? Vote with your feet, don't make ridiculous claims like they're abusing power and oppressing minorities.
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by walexander 15y ago
Well, I also heard the report on NPR yesterday during the news highlights. This was big news for more than just the PPC crowd. Sadly, I don't think the retraction will be more than a blip.
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by walexander 15y ago
Museum of Fine Arts, Quincy Market/Fanneiul Hall, a decent aquarium if that interests you. Good Italian food on the North End.
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by walexander 15y ago
IANAL, but digging around your Wikipedia link suggests that the litmus test here is whether or not the material is to be considered "obscene". The law struct down in the case you linked was worked around by introducing the PROTECT Act, whic
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by walexander 15y ago
What's worse is even depictions of minors can be considered child pornography. I recall reading of one guy who was arrested for a drawing of Bart and Lisa Simpson. ＼(^o^)／ - This emoticon could be illegal if it depicts a minor. (Disclaimer
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by walexander 15y ago
Our children [snip] deserve to have a teacher who has time to read their work, to listen, to understand why they're crying or sleeping or not doing homework. To teach each child in my classroom, I have to know each child in my classroom.
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by walexander 15y ago
Maybe this is not being received well because of the startup audience here. Coming from the corporate environment, I see some excellent points. In a big company there are simply far too many people scrambling to be heard, and a middle manag
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by walexander 15y ago
The purpose is to prevent it being left in the hands of users. "Linkbait" is named as such for a reason. It's just too tempting to not reflexively upvote a juicy title.
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by walexander 15y ago
Really, downvoted for this? Seriously, I'm tired of the soap opera crap. 802.1X is infinitely more interesting.
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by walexander 15y ago
I'm not interested in the soap opera, but I hope this serves a lesson to MIT: Always shutdown unused switch ports, and protect them with 802.1X.
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by walexander 15y ago
Emacs here, too. high five My setup is essentially Emacs, DDMS and cscope/find/grep/etc. I always find Eclipse to be too heavy. I don't do much actual UI coding though (I'm a platform guy), or I might consider it. The ADT UI tools seem to
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by walexander 15y ago
I find it hard to believe any company, unless you were applying to Oracle to work on the JRE, would care what your favorite programming language was. I don't work at Google, but having had a lot of other technical interviews, I'm almost cer
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by walexander 15y ago
It's great that Radio Shack is reaching out to the community and trying to stock more DIY items, however I'm not sure if it's going to work out for them. DIY is a small subset of the population and a smart one. They're going to buy this stu
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by walexander 15y ago
While I'm sure it will happen eventually, it's going to be awhile. They have no way of dumping USD in the short term without seriously devaluing their own dollars. Not to mention a devaluation of the dollar would mean their export model goe

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