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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
While the deficient student will generally not know how to ask for what he wants until he doesn't get it, the lazy rich student will know exactly what he wants. He is poised for a life of paying others and telling them what to do. Indeed,
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
On the other hand, the value of the reviews on these sites goes down the older they get. On Amazon it seems like the opposite is true. Because of their meta-review process, where users can flag reviews as helpful or not, it seems like ol
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
I think I share a similar sentiment. I was born in mainland China but moved to the US at an early age, and I'm a fluent Chinese speaker. But I found that I fit well with neither the Chinese student associations (mostly recent immigrants)
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
I strongly suspect that these three are not intended to be mutually exclusive. For me, Python has at some point or another been in each category, though at most two simultaneously. And for those of us who do web development, "bread and butt
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
I've always been somewhat skeptical of TIOBE numbers, but this time I'm utterly confused. VB is listed as "(Visual) Basic" and under the "Very Long Term History" chart it is ranked #4 in 1985. Is this referring to plain old BASIC? Additio
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
C-x anything is too close to C-z, though that is more of an annoyance than harm.
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
Somewhat related: you can quiz yourself on whether you can tell apart East Asians' ethnicity by looking at them. http://alllooksame.com/exam_room.php I scored no better than random for face recognition, though some of the other quizzes ha
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
There's a subtle semantic difference here, perhaps better illustrated in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club , where the proud immigrant mother refers to her daughter as a "college drop-off" as though she could "pick up" her studies again at any m
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
My problem with deliberate exercise is that it doesn't feel purposeful (vague notions of improved health notwithstanding). Picking up a chunk of iron just to put it back down again or stomping on a moving platform just to remain in the sam
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
My dream is to one day create my own startup (possibly right out of college) Be careful with who you say this to. Although this probably won't be a problem with an internship, an employer may be reluctant to consider someone who demonstr
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
In fact, Ms. Palmer, the chief executive of Osea, an organic skin-care line, often travels to meet business contacts at the five-star luxury hotels where her line is sold. They might be surprised to read that Ms. Palmer, a petite, put-toge
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
It might also be worth noting that works published prior to 1923 are in the public domain only in the United States. In Europe, the "life + 70" rule makes no such exemption. Given this situation, the famous Prelude in C♯ minor by Sergei
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
Neat experiment, but it looks like they have a way to go. In order for this to be really effective, they will need to identify what needs to be transliterated within the context, and do a combination of transliteration and translation. For
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
Not just dreaming and fantasy, there's some actual numerical sleight-of-hand going on here. He's taking advantage of people's misunderstanding of compound interest. Exponential growth will ultimately trump all other linear factors, even if
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
Not when stock appreciates, but you get taxed each year on dividends and interest paid out by investments. That is how I end up paying taxes on my investments every year, which still have unrealized losses of 35% or so.
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Lyle's Law of Discoverability [pdf](tbp.org)
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
Sorry, but I just don't think I understand how this post drew such a conclusion. What does decreasing marginal consumption have to do with this? If the argument here that all those fabulously rich people are content with wasting their ti
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
The federal government can (and does) set statutory minimum holidays. They just apply only to the federal government (since it does not have the constitutional authority to specify anything beyond that). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feder
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
Although unlikely to be supported by the context, I think the quote would have been stronger if the ! in 10^9! were an operator and not punctuation. While the Large Hadron Collider is experimenting with particles less than 10^-10 m in size
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
It bears repeating: "[P]rograms must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." -- Abelson & Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [1], strangely misquoted by Paul Graham [2] [1
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
This is an excellent resource, especially for bargain-hunters like myself. One question I have: how are you going about adding new flight information? Do you do them in an automated manner, using a web service, or perhaps by scraping? I'm
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
Though he predates Stoicism by a bit, I think Diogenes of Sinope [1] did a fine job of practicing what he preached. Also, while Stoicism might be difficult to accept through the conduit of someone like Marcus Aurelius, he was strongly infl
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
Providing income for heirs is not unreasonable. Former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant did exactly that with his memoirs, which saved his family from poverty after his death [1]. That said, 70 years is still beyond excessive. [1] http://e
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
The author admits to taking some liberties with the story, which he clarifies here (you appear to be concerned about #8): http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
In case anyone else noticed that the author seemed familiar, he's the same one who did the Harmony sketcher: http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/ Lots of other incredible demos on his portfolio page: http://mrdoob.com/blog
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
I applaud this move. It should force the IIPA to show its true colors, since it's not really "anti-piracy" or "copyright enforcement" that could be motivating their objections. India's offer already covers those issues sufficiently. No, i
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
I don't think the author is interested in making a fair transaction. It sounds a lot more like he's trying to frame the situation so that he holds all the cards, leaving the employee with the short end of the stick. "That awesome gal you
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
As someone with a computer science degree and several years working experience in software development, I feel an urge to play devil's advocate here. In terms of "getting things done in the world," how is making iPhone fart apps any more of
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
It sounds like the author is reacting to the flood of ooh-shiny iPhone app kiddies that have captured a lot of media attention lately, but I don't think these are the people who would have been attracted to Linux anyway. And I don't think
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
Despite how readily we poke fun at the answers given on the linked page, I found it interesting that I had to drill down this far to find a satisfactory answer. I liked the explanation given by my high school physics teacher: in the end, it

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