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by npc 12y ago
I've been wearing a watch every day for years and I have no interest in this stuff either. Honestly, I like the idea that my watch is just a stupid thing that tells me the time, having it beep at me every time I get an email would just
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by npc 13y ago
>willing There was an important word there that you seemed to miss. I didn't say that he who sacrifices more will always win, but they do have more options available to them, so to speak. Please don't think I'm advocating
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by npc 13y ago
No matter what, you're always going to be at a disadvantage to someone who is willing to sacrifice more than you, whether that be health or family or anything else. I liked the article but it completely danced around the obvious conclu
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by npc 13y ago
>Aww isn't that cute! A musician/artist having an intellectual idea that isn't completely terrible I think it's less to do with him being a musician/artist than with him being will.i.am, notorious "My Humps&
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by npc 13y ago
>You so desperately want this to be a nefarious PR job. And you seem to desperately want me to be some bitter chick-fil-a hater. IF chick-fil-a was involved in the writing of this piece then it's nothing more than what hundreds of o
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by npc 13y ago
You can't believe it would happen for money, but you'd believe it'd happen for free? Anyway, PR is far more complex and subtle than "I give money, you write article". Someone posted a pg essay below that might be in
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by npc 13y ago
It's not that he doesn't believe this happens, but rather that the presence of a story about it in NYT where chick-fil-a is mentioned directly in the first paragraph is not an accidental matter. Chick-fil-a being the main restaura
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by npc 13y ago
I think the whole point is that "should" and "shouldn't" simply aren't very useful concepts when dealing with corporations, like talking about what a slime mold should or shouldn't do. Getting morally outr
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by npc 13y ago
That's dumb, just because someone isn't willing to go to an extreme measure to prevent something doesn't mean that more moderate measures are unreasonable. Banning all electronic devices on airplanes would be a major headache
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by npc 13y ago
I don't know, did he? Here's some more if that didn't convince you (courtesy of Tim Wise: http://www.timwise.org/2010/07/black-powers-gonna-git-you-su... ) http://www.princeton.edu/~p
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by npc 13y ago
No, just the people who decide who gets them: http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873
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by npc 13y ago
> Sharef (who was my daughter’s college roommate)...
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by npc 13y ago
1. No one ever said that only women are faced with high performance demands, you're very obviously making a strawman and you should feel bad for it. 2. Arguments like "This is a very common argument and it is false" and "it is simply not tr
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by npc 13y ago
>I think programming is bound to drop more specific syntax and become increasingly like natural language Why do you think that? Programming has never been like writing in a natural language, nor would it be useful for it to be. Natural
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by npc 13y ago
I'm going to try to be nice and give you some advice: don't write like that. Constructing these overwrought sentences with the dashes and the semicolons and the vocabulary and whatnot just makes you look like an insecure sophomore trying to
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by npc 13y ago
People have at least tried, however: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Rat...
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by npc 14y ago
85% dollar-wise, or 85% of items purchased? Because I would argue that men tend to make fewer, but more expensive purchases, eg big tv, high end stereo, etc. I would still believe that things are skewed a bit since married women tend to mak
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by npc 14y ago
What, you've never gone and hacked an interpreter because you were mildly annoyed by something? I don't think he actually means for it to be used in production.
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by npc 14y ago
I started using repustate's sentiment analysis for a project recently and it was impressively easy to get started with, although the sentiment scores can seem a little arbitrary at times.
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by npc 14y ago
I don't think anyone thinks that it's wrong to try and give your children a better position in life than they would be able to achieve through their ability alone, just that it's beneficial to society as a whole to minimize this effect. Pri
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by npc 14y ago
This is sort of an odd statement since the way a piece of code is run is directly related to how it is parsed. If an alternative implementation like Topaz parses something differently than MRI then you'll have code that does two different t
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by npc 14y ago
how is it necessary to make racist comments in order to "get shit done"? will your production systems all crash if you don't make a minimum of 5 jokes about nappy hair and malt liquor a day? have you encountered a nasty bug in rails that ca
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by npc 14y ago
IANAL either, but I assume that they would have to somehow prove that you read it, perhaps by showing that you posted in the comments section.
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by npc 14y ago
nonfiction books rarely become "classics", that doesn't mean they're not important or worth reading.
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by npc 14y ago
No it's not. (See what I did there? I responded to an unsupported statement of fact with another unsupported statement of fact. Both our arguments are equally valid, i.e. not at all. Perhaps next time you post on HN you could add some arg
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by npc 14y ago
firstly, there's legal issues with IQ tests in job interviews in the US at least secondly, IQ testing covers a number of areas, many of which are not necessarily related to the kind of thinking needed for programming. i think most of the ve
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by npc 14y ago
> After this can we please not post anymore racist/sexist/*ist stuff? How about we stop talking about racism and sexism when there's no more racism and sexism? And how is talking about a problem that effects people negatively a "waste o
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by npc 15y ago
So if I say something shockingly racist, but the only people around to hear it are my shockingly racist buddies, then it's totally OK because no-one is offended?
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by npc 15y ago
I can't say I've read the entire series, but you're definitely not the only one who here who disliked Ender's Game. I keep this around in my bookmarks since it pretty clearly expresses what I think is wrong with the book: http://www4.ncsu.
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by npc 15y ago
There's more to it than just sizeof, for example an array of arrays is structured completely differently than an array of pointers to other arrays, even if you can still access items via a[i][j].

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