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by whackedspinach 13y ago
This is exactly what I am looking for! I run a tech conference and am interested in seeing what percentage of our attendees are male or female. I only have names for historical data, so this should help give a somewhat close approximation
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by whackedspinach 14y ago
What rules do they have to follow? It sounds like they were contacted by the witnesses.
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by whackedspinach 14y ago
"We're smarter than them. We ought to be able to extract some use from them." Who are the pretentious ones again?
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by whackedspinach 14y ago
Is it still "Hello, world!" if that is never printed to the screen?
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by whackedspinach 14y ago
That worked out so well when they banned copyright infringement.
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by whackedspinach 14y ago
Is the effective tax rate on the carried interest loophole just the 15% Arrington mentions, or is it also more? I ask because we can talk about capital gains tax rates and how low they are, but we should always talk about effective tax rate
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by whackedspinach 14y ago
I know some large companies use git-bisect along with their unit testing framework to notify developers/reviewers if their commit caused some sort of test failure. I thought it was pretty neat, as git-bisect was new to me.
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by whackedspinach 14y ago
As an undergraduate at a top tier CS school, I have seen a lot of companies boast about these vesting schemes. Honestly, I don't think most new grads consider them due to the 1 year cliff. Most people I talk to will say "Well, if I want to
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by whackedspinach 14y ago
I was taught this way and I happen to be rather young (19). I find that most of my classmates were never taught this rule, and they usually think it's some sort of error when proofreading my writing. It reminds me of the "don't button the
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
As someone who has terrible vision, I've been waiting for this type of thing for years. I have trouble reading menus at fast food restaurants or street signs. The ability to just pull up context aware information in front of my eyes would
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
As someone who has tried to argue against the idea of "intellectual property", this is the response I usually receive. Unfortunately, creating something and enforcing property rights on the ideas to "reward" the author doesn't make the sys
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
Exactly. We need to put up some opposition to this in court, but eventually just decentralize all levels of the internet. The real fight is when using that code (Namecoin, TOR, etc) is becoming illegal. Then we have a final legal battle t
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
It depends what you are doing with it. Sometimes it isn't bad, but anytime I kick in the discrete graphics card everyone in the room looks at me. It picks up when I drive my external monitor. Also, I did find out that a rouge process was t
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Ask HN: Best technology related speakers?
2 points by whackedspinach 15y ago|0 comments
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
I need one every minute.
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
I know several top-tier CS school classmates who are seniors and had interviewed with Zynga. They were considering working there. Not anymore. Note to companies: Don't be assholes. We don't like assholes.
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
Hear, hear. The number one reason to move from Illinois to the Valley: ability to drive your car and not be snowed in on Lake Shore Drive.
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
I went to a job fair a few weeks ago where a few of the engineers from a very hardcore coding company said "Why don't you drop out? I never really found a degree useful." That's the problem though. College isn't about the degree or the r
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
How much does their Android experience differ from the norm? How wide is my app selection?
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
[Shameless plug.] Go to job fairs like the one at upcoming ACM Reflections | Projections conference at UIUC. We have around 30 companies coming for our informal CS job fair. It's a great way to meet recruiters and get interviews.
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
Here are the speakers for this year: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2011/speakers.php
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Reflections | Projections ACM@UIUC Conference - Oct. 7-9th(acm.uiuc.edu)
6 points by whackedspinach 15y ago|2 comments
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
I used Jekyll to generate my static content a few months ago/ Just type a text file, and then push it out to the server. I really thought that was cool.
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Tylenol is added to Vicodin to discourage drug abuse, also causes liver failure(psychologytoday.com)
3 points by whackedspinach 15y ago|0 comments
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
Funding successful!
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
My grandfather was blind and had to resort to his family telling him what the denominations were beforehand and then he folded the bills into different sizes. Apparently one day a cashier attempted to scam him by claiming the bill he gave
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
I just got a MBP and didn't realize that I'd have to resort to a stupid USB dongle. I've decided to just go back to two monitors, but it makes me sad.
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
I'd seen it but never read it. After reading your comment I downloaded it and enjoyed it. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Beginner code projects?
15 points by whackedspinach 15y ago|8 comments
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by whackedspinach 15y ago
I have this book sitting next to me, but I never read past the first chapter. Could you tell my why I should read it over the dozens of other books on my reading list? It just looks so dense.

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