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by zheng 15y ago
All restaurants are required by law to pay at least minimum wage if the employee doesn't make at least said wage in tips.
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by zheng 15y ago
Chatroulette is not really an alternative to skype, but the link was interesting. I think the OP was looking for a similar video chat client. I've personally never used skype, but for 1-1 video chatting, gchat works pretty well. I use it n
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by zheng 15y ago
It's a well-known mid-atlantic school in the US. If that still fits the profile, feel free to email me(see my profile) and I'd be happy to discuss things more with you.
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by zheng 15y ago
I'd echo naner and schwabacher, and also say that defending PHP isn't going to bring pg down on you. If you have a history of poorly-received comments, that might be the place I start looking.
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by zheng 15y ago
This is just another anecdotal datapoint, but I've found substantially less arrogance in my CS program than in some of the other bigger majors here (IR, Govt, Econ). I think it helps that some of the best and brightest students spend a vas
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by zheng 15y ago
A minor detail, but the word used to describe his location was "compound", which might give a very different interpretation than villa. Not saying villa is wrong, just offering the source material for people to consider.
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by zheng 15y ago
The downvotes aren't for the idea of decentralized terrorism (which is correct to a degree), but I think for the possible misinterpretation of the sarcasm at the end of the post as being not such.
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by zheng 15y ago
Or being submerged for days in salt water.
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by zheng 15y ago
Does anyone know why? That seems fairly petty and arbitrary.
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by zheng 16y ago
I'm unaware of the legal hurdles immigrants have to face, never having to deal with it personally. It's upsetting to hear this, especially when we're talking about the kind of people our government keeps telling us we need. Such is the wa
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by zheng 16y ago
Couldn't agree move, save the point about professors hating dealing with undergrads. Even the most research focused professors actually enjoy talking to undergrads given that they are respectful and show some desire to learn (in my experie
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by zheng 16y ago
I'm excited to see that the populace at large (not just tech enthusiasts) are learning about something other than iOS, but I'd be wary of calling this a big win for Google or something similar. Remember that APPL is still raking in much mo
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by zheng 16y ago
Oh I agree, I don't know how you would go about it, and I'm sure it's not easy or it would have been done. Talking with someone who has actual experience in both research and ROI studies leads me to believe however that these companies hav
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by zheng 16y ago
I'd be willing to guess that you are more concerned with revenue because you have shareholders to answer to. R&D is something that doesn't show up on the bottom line with regularity. Sure, you might develop something huge and make ton
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by zheng 16y ago
I think it's a fairly clever attempt at getting something for nothing. Also a fairly desperate tactic, but amusing none the less. What do they have to lose, right?
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by zheng 16y ago
Could someone who knows better comment on the feasibility of this? It sounds like a really good idea, but I'd imagine it's a bit more difficult than it sounds.
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by zheng 16y ago
Ah, this makes sense. However I'd echo the question above about how the cities were chosen.
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by zheng 16y ago
Any particular reason the main site defaults to Philly? Also, what is the utility of grouping users by physical location? Novelty?
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by zheng 16y ago
Is there something about the page that I'm missing? Is it just about median of median pivot selection for the selection problem? If so, isn't this fairly common knowledge? I know my entry-level algorithms class covered it in some depth.
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by zheng 16y ago
I think "shit like this" is fairly subjective, so you can see the rest of the thread for that part. I agree with MikeCampo, this was certainly not old to me, and I truthfully enjoyed it and would have never even found it without the repost
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by zheng 16y ago
Here's how I see reposts. I agree that people shouldn't just repost things because they were popular at one point, and they want the karma. However, realize that for people who weren't around when that was posted (over a year ago), this i
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by zheng 16y ago
Don't even need to do that, a simple BIOS update can update the microcode on most semi-recent Intels. EDIT: I'd assume other architectures as well, Intels are the only ones I know about, however.
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by zheng 16y ago
This might be better suited for an Ask HN, but he mentions this in his slide on what not to do, "Avoid self-destructive behavior/career-limiting moves" In the cautionary tales he gives, I really don't see this, except for the missing goin
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by zheng 16y ago
I can't help but feel like the recent flurry of "HN is declining" is saying to anyone who isn't part of the "old" crown that they are directly responsible for making HN a worse site. I know I feel like since I've created an account, its be
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by zheng 16y ago
Yes, exactly, recursive descent parsers are what they sound like. I'm not very up on other types of parsers, but this is the kind I learned about, and I would say they are very intuitive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_descent_par
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by zheng 16y ago
Am I along in never being "taught" recursion? I mean, throughout my curriculum, I've used recursion many times and dealt with everything from fibonacci to quicksort, but never once have I sat through even part of a lecture on "Recursion".
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by zheng 16y ago
At least to me, the attack doesn't hurt any more coming from a facebook account than from anonymous. Either way I feel like a real person wrote it. In my experience, true online trolls are also true real life trolls.
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by zheng 16y ago
In my architecture class, we didn't get to a lot of this stuff (sans the caching). However, everything we did cover we implemented via circuit simulation software. You'd be surprised at how tricky some of the stuff can be. Although contr
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by zheng 16y ago
The first thing that I thought of was "hasn't this guy and his wife heard of cell phones?"
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by zheng 16y ago
Very informative article. I've only ever run up against this issue when dealing with age, funny enough. It does seem like a hard problem, but I think I fall with him on the "start doing it right" side. Time stuff has to change by 2038 an

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