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by yareally 9y ago
If all one gains from a CS degree is knowing a few programming languages, they either weren't paying attention or their school's program was less than stellar.
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by yareally 10y ago
> It's a bit of an investment if you're still a student They have free licenses for students that includes all their products and a discount when you graduate. If you're making money off it, the license cost for intellij o
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by yareally 10y ago
Another interesting bit I've noticed is coworkers getting some of the same recruiter spam from the same recruiter. Seems some of them just blast everyone working for a particular company and hope to get a reply.
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by yareally 10y ago
Maybe I am mistaken, but I thought that much recruiter interest on linked in is pretty typical. I live in the Mid Western United States and what was previously mentioned is also true here from my observations. Most of it comes down to havin
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by yareally 10y ago
Mea Culpa. Should have double checked before typing that out :) Didn't mean to say they were the same thing, just the precursor of the Secret Service and did much of the same work in a contractual role.
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by yareally 10y ago
I think you mean the Secret Service started out as the Pinkerton Detective Agency. They became part of the government due in part of protecting the president and investigation into monetary related crime. The FBI came in early 20th century
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by yareally 10y ago
Similar story for me as well. First major application I did was with VBA built into Office. Was bored in study hall in high school and would spend my time building solitaire from scratch in it since the actual game had been blocked on the s
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by yareally 10y ago
The short-term focus of humanity sometimes worries me as we keep making mistakes that are likely irreversible and preventable. Passenger pigeons were once estimated to be the most abundant bird in the world. There were so many that no one t
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by yareally 10y ago
Coincidentally, both are now extinct.
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by yareally 10y ago
As you mentioned, I think the option of being able to move to districts that weren't integrated and combined the way many districts tend to be funded (via property taxes) ended up being a net loss more than a net gain. If the integrati
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by yareally 10y ago
Moving students around schools in an attempt to equalize race and poverty levels isn't a new concept and it's been tried before (and possibly still done in some states/cities). They tried forced busing of students to schools
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by yareally 10y ago
Volkswagen, Samsung, Intel and Microsoft[1] all spend more on R&D than Google does[2] and put that funding into a wide variety of areas just as Google does. There's also non-profit research think tanks like Battelle[3] [1] https:&
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by yareally 10y ago
I would guess it has to do with complex vocalizations and verbal language being of more importance to birds than most monkeys perhaps? Parrots and corvidaes (crows and jays) learn to understand and speak human words as an attempt to "f
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by yareally 10y ago
Yup, Alex the African Grey is a great example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)
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by yareally 10y ago
> "Monkeys can be trained to do some pretty complex things in comparison to what a bird can do, it seems to me monkeys are smarter than birds." Crows are likely on par with chimps and dolphins for intelligence by creating their
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Birds Flying Through Laser Light Reveal Faults in Flight Research(news.stanford.edu)
25 points by yareally 10y ago|1 comments
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by yareally 10y ago
They sometimes release the driver blobs so you don't have to rip them off the device, but rarely have I heard of drivers being open sourced outside of a few scattered instances.
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CyanogenMod Inc. Reorganizes, Severs Ties with Project Founder(androidpolice.com)
116 points by yareally 10y ago|56 comments
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by yareally 10y ago
If I were going that route, I'd probably consider using monogame via xamarin
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by yareally 10y ago
Your account appears to be dead. I vouched for your comments in the thread so they would show up. Not sure why they were dead, but you might want to contact the staff to get that cleared up.
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by yareally 10y ago
Quite a few bird species and some other animals[2] can have chromosomes of both sexes[1]. When it happens to northern cardinals, they end up split down the middle in color--one half gray like a female and one half red like a male[3]. [1] h
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by yareally 10y ago
The original one was built by one intern[1], so it's quite possible so was this one. Not a huge resource suck when you are delegating one person to the job who just wants to learn. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/toda
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by yareally 10y ago
I'm sure it's not your intention, but I read that question as "How can we make it easier for someone to game the system on hacker news?" Making it more transparent would probably not be a good thing.
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by yareally 10y ago
I believe feathers evolved from scales. I think they were first beneficial for dinosaurs for their likely elaborate courtship/mating rituals if birds are any indicator of how other dinosaurs found mates. Early feathers weren't use
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by yareally 10y ago
I only have one gripe with the Visual Studio REPL...it kind of lacks the 'P' part of REPL. If you execute something, it doesn't print it out unless you do Console.WriteLine(). Otherwise, it's pretty nice. Not sure why th
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by yareally 10y ago
Correct, but the language throughout article would likely lead a reader to assume birds are not part of the dinosaur family, since it's never implied that birds are dinosaurs either. Pesky implicits can be a pain in more than just prog
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by yareally 10y ago
Good point. I didn't think about that aspect. I'm only an amateur biologist, so didn't consider the wording. Ironically, I would consider a beak more primitive until the engineer in me screams teeth could be a sign of over en
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by yareally 10y ago
Ah okay. Wasn't sure what you were leading to in your previous comments. I'm in agreement with you after your clarifications though :)
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by yareally 10y ago
From my first comment: > "If dinosaurs are a superset of many species, birds would be a subset of them."
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by yareally 10y ago
If you had citations for any of that, I would love to read it. Birds have been scientifically classified as dinosaurs for at least the past 20 or so years[1] and many (obviously not modern ones) lived in parallel to other dinosaur species i

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