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by zainny 14y ago
Forgive me if this seems inappropriate to ask, but I'm actually somewhat curious. In this article and others I've read about Swartz, he is described using terms like "prodigy" and "genius". Are these descriptions accurate or is the press so
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by zainny 14y ago
Interestingly enough, for a contrasting position, the Verge review calls out the OS for being poor at handling multitasking: " I don't feel BlackBerry 10 deals with multitasking or notifications as effectively as other platforms do (most no
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by zainny 14y ago
Interestingly enough, the Verge review calls out the OS for being poor at handling multitasking, so it sounds like they don't even have much of a leg to stand on there: " I don't feel BlackBerry 10 deals with multitasking or notifications a
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by zainny 14y ago
There is one important number missing from the infographics in this blog post. Difference Made: 0
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by zainny 14y ago
Timothy Gowers (mathematician, fields medalist) actually wrote about this phenomena quite recently as well: http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/what-maths-a-level-do...
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by zainny 14y ago
Personally, I've found twitter to be hugely useful for getting responses from companies and because of this I don't plan to stop using it. Often I've found the response time I get on twitter is far far better than what I would get if I phon
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by zainny 14y ago
"The varieties of humblebragging represent a breadth of motive and technique. Most humblebrags are attempts to convey one of three messages: “I have too much work”; “I am an idiot/impostor”; or “I have firsthand knowledge of the gritty gilt
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by zainny 14y ago
Personally looking forward to the ebook coming out! I was actually just this morning going through and signing up to a bunch of mathematics related Coursera courses. For those interested, quite a few are starting soon: [Jan 7th] Calculus: S
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by zainny 14y ago
TechCrunch seems to exist only to provide a never-ending stream of manufactured drama. Let's try and keep their drivel off HN ey?
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by zainny 14y ago
To add another counterpoint; not everyone in college uses SnapChat.
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by zainny 14y ago
Heh, I just realized I do as well :-) I think it's primarily a consequence of using svbtle -- all the blogs look the same. And this is the high point of design apparently...
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by zainny 14y ago
The title of the article should really be "Are you a Broken Human Being?"
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by zainny 14y ago
Fortunately with C++11 we no longer have to do the stringstream dance thanks to built-in stoi/stol string member functions: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/stol
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by zainny 14y ago
Honestly, I think it's a little of column A and a little of column B. While sometimes it can be useful and faster to bust out a one line bash shortcut, I think the HN community is also a bit guilty of over-romanticizing Unix/Bash/<Inser
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by zainny 14y ago
This is just a personal observation that probably isn't universally true, but what I've noticed is that people who live on the extremes tend to be extremely unhappy - particularly entrepreneurs (yes, even the successful ones). "Get rich and
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by zainny 14y ago
This x10. Why is the snarky/brain-dead reply always top on HN, when a perfectly reasonable interpretation is available? Obviously, the intent with the screenshot was to show how the theme applies across multiple different windows.
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by zainny 14y ago
I'd love to have an easier way to get involved in some open source project for improving my skills, enhancing my CV, etc. My main challenge is being overwhelmed with information and I can't seem to find a good place to get started on any pr
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by zainny 14y ago
Personally, I think "Metro/Modern UI" is a complete train wreck. While it initially received a great deal of praise from the tech press for being "unique" and "fresh", my suspicion is that a lot of the praise was incredibly shallow and base
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by zainny 14y ago
"...but I think he fails to recognize that the opposite is also true" I don't think that is the case at all. In fact, it is specifically implied in the sentence that you chose to quote. Why is the top reply to every HN story always so darn
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by zainny 14y ago
I heard on the grapevine that it's NP-complete.
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by zainny 14y ago
I get the same crash/shutdown experience, but with the Galaxy Nexus. My Nexus is running 4.0.4.
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by zainny 14y ago
From my understanding of the EMV payment specification ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV ) a card can actually have multiple applications and when used at a compliant terminal, you are prompted to select the payment application. In other w
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by zainny 14y ago
This also impacts you as a developer in the Microsoft ecosystem. I signed up for a Windows Phone developer account and released several WP7 applications while living in Canada. I just recently moved back home to Australia and on trying to u
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by zainny 14y ago
"For some people, this wouldn't be interesting. For me, though, it's a kick" In a nutshell, this is why I find your assertion that most people live "lame ass lives" quite callous. A lot of the things you've listed as "interesting" things yo
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by zainny 14y ago
I personally found the correspondence in the comments between Adrian and Eric (the author) more interesting than the article itself. It kinda highlights the contradiction between what people say, and what people do. Fuck 'em? Sounds bold! B
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by zainny 14y ago
I arrived in Melbourne, Australia not to long ago and at the time was carrying around a Nokia Lumia 800. Being new to the city, I was heavily dependent on Bing Maps and it let me down in so so many ways. In particular, the complete lack of
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by zainny 14y ago
In the time between when the "year of the desktop" meme was coined, honestly I think the goal posts have shifted. It shouldn't be the goal or focus of Linux to win on the desktop, because the desktop is increasingly being relegated to a nic
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by zainny 14y ago
Personally, I'm hoping they don't. Or rather, that if they do, they find a way to do it while expending zero time and energy on it... Fragmentation in the Linux world is one of the major things that is stopping developers from jumping on bo
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by zainny 14y ago
I wouldn't necessarily pinpoint the Javascript community, but yes, I would agree that there does seem to be an awful lot of really young and frankly inexperienced developers who seem to have ridiculous delusions of grandeur and are complete

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