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by xarien 12y ago
Let's change the terminology a bit here. A professor is someone with tenure is on a tenure track. A lecturer is someone who is not. The article isn't talking about professors, which in the USA relies on research, publishing, obtai
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by xarien 12y ago
Go play a multiplayer game and join a guild. I know this sounds counter-intuitive as how could you improve your extroversion by participating in what most would consider an introvert activity? The truth is that while the social contact is m
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by xarien 12y ago
I thought and still think the idea behind AirBnB sucks. What the hell do I know? Ideas that seem to suck are often the ones that knock it out of the park.
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by xarien 12y ago
Disclosure: MBTI has tons of issues and it's certainly not the end all for evaluations. There's a reason why HR folks aren't allowed to use it in most firms when recruiting. However, with that said, I think it's quite ap
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by xarien 12y ago
I suppose it's an OK sentiment, but I don't know how to program and on days like these I keep getting reminded of the fact. I was secretly hoping there wouldn't be anything about it on HN, but I guess I'll just have to l
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by xarien 12y ago
If you eat brown rice every day, a decent induction rice cooker is absolutely worth the money (bonus for GABA mode).
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by xarien 12y ago
Honestly, this hurts my eyes. I'm not a designer, but one very smart designer friend once advised: "never underestimate the value of white space." Resumes really don't have to be confined to one page. The one page conven
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by xarien 12y ago
When I read the post, I had the exact same thought you just wrote (experiencing too much of this first hand with my eldest boy atm). Took the words right out of my mouth.
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by xarien 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-subject_language
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by xarien 12y ago
The hardest hurdle after overcoming the superficial points the author makes is the fact that Chinese is an incredibly abstract and implicit language. When you read between the lines, you often find entire paragraphs. When comparing it to an
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by xarien 13y ago
I'm actually both Asian and male; the protagonist typecast in the skit if you will. The insensitivity and frank hostility exhibited by your remark alone shows how much more work we have to do in order to make the tech sector more hospi
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by xarien 13y ago
Why is the engineer Asian and male? While it's an amusing skit, it's horribly typecasting. How about a black woman for a change?
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by xarien 13y ago
Total returns is calculated at the point of sale. How do you argue this and not cherry pick? For instance, as mentioned this stock is very low risk so if you look at the drop during the crashes, you'll notice that it doesn't fall
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by xarien 13y ago
Let's stop talking about jobs and talk about productivity. What's the net productivity of automation? Let's also start talking about guaranteed minimum income.
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by xarien 13y ago
Why argue oranges when I'm describing apples? (dividends)
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by xarien 13y ago
Or you could just use stripe. Just saying ;).
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by xarien 13y ago
I'm guessing you don't own their stock. They have one of the best dividend payouts in the sector. MS in the last decade has been low risk and steady rewards.
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by xarien 13y ago
How can someone say that Microsoft is bleeding with a straight face? I know media likes to skew that way, but it's not like the numbers aren't available. https://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancial
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by xarien 13y ago
Interesting... When I went through it quickly I think I used .small:last-of-type and never ran into this.
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by xarien 13y ago
Can we please stop using "headline grabbing math?" You know what would be a more impressive growth percentage? Starting at when they had 1 server. If you look at the chart, every other competitor save linode had faster growth by t
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by xarien 13y ago
I honestly hate when stats are distorted. The "almost half of gamers are female" stat is true, but the majority of female gamers favor puzzles and extremely casual games. AAA title customers are still strongly dominated by male au
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by xarien 13y ago
You're essentially advocating for a bottoms up approach as opposed to a top down approach (albeit in a pretty confusing manner). Both work for different people and circumstances. Personally, I think C is a bit high level for a true bot
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by xarien 13y ago
For my windows partition, I actually quite enjoy the move from win 7 to win 8. Here's a few things that I've taken a liking to: 1) Boot into desktop mode. This was introduced in 8.1 and definitely better for my uses than having to
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by xarien 13y ago
My wife and I give to different charities. I'm a strong supporter of advancing education so you'll find me giving the most to my alma mater and the wikipedia foundation. For her, it's charities like UNICEF which have a very l
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by xarien 13y ago
There are still statically typed languages used today like ada. although even within Ada, you'll often see programmers package spare buffers into structures to increase flexibility.
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by xarien 13y ago
Why is Kesha an optimal answer? (#2 k$) ;)
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by xarien 13y ago
Yes.
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by xarien 13y ago
Pseudo classes are very slow. Take a look at the bottom of the table he had using more complex attributes. The bottom line is that when we don't know how many elements are going to be cycled, it's a good practice to think in terms
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by xarien 13y ago
I'll toss my 2 cents in. People often forget that one of the biggest components of UX is page rendering speed. This solution while addressing a visual inconsistency will slow down the page considerably.
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by xarien 13y ago
Fantastic post. It's about time we start looking at QR as a technology instead of a marketing engine.

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