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btam

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About btam

pseudonymous email address is [hn username] dot scm at gmail.com

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    This is so impressive - kudos to you. Thanks for sharing and being open to questions. How much overall has this costed you? Do you think that a middle-class person could afford to …

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    Comment #25865444

    What exactly do you mean by "a large percentage"? Cancer.org[1] says that it's 1 in 8 men during their lifetimes, the parent post says "almost all men get it at some point" -- wher…

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    Comment #24075530

    Will this be for fall 2020 or fall 2021?

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    Comment #23810878

    > After reading many reviews I kept on coming back to the same brand which I had sworn to never buy another item of due to their disrespect of users’ systems integrity, aka the ‘ro…

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    Comment #13401981

    > I have a pile of examples, but not the time to elaborate - I'll add them later. Please don't forget to share, this sounds very interesting to me as a novice.

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    Comment #4775919

    I have some advice that I think could be great for improving Impact Trail, but your email address isn't in your profile. Would you mind sharing your email address? If you'd prefer …

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    Comment #3719993

    Can you give examples or links that explain what sort of "tweaking" you're referring to?

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    Comment #2918507

    It seems like giving all of the people in the test area Chromebooks would be a really great move by Google, because people would associate Chromebooks with "lightning-fast" once th…

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    Comment #2787396

    Would you please elaborate on this? Why are curled-in shoulders especially bad?

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    Comment #2596715

    I think that whether you decide to show the comment scores immediately or not, you should should show them after some delay. Judging from the replies to your comment, pg, at least …

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    Comment #2478865

    I think hartror's meaning was the same as "Do you prefer the language Ruby to Python, or vice versa?" The idea is that if you like Ruby(for example) better, Rails is the way to go.…

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    Comment #2463098

    There's also the possibility that this comes more from the change in atmosphere than the particular atmosphere that you change to. Maybe for some people here the change to an atmos…

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    Comment #2391293

    You're pretty much right on the math competitions front, but the first few problems on the AMC are pretty simple IMO(pardon the pun). They are barely above the level of mechanical …

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    Comment #2391213

    The thing is, students already think of math as difficult. If we switched from algorithms to actual creative problem solving, it would become a lot more intimidating. I'm pretty co…

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    Comment #2389094

    The TechCrunch article hinted at this feature being rolled out to everyone performing a search on Google, so this sort of thing may very well affect us all. I imagine Google will m…

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    Comment #2384136

    I think what he meant is that the kids who sat through the horrible Java and ASP.NET classes show that they can live through drudgery in the coding world. It makes sense in theory,…

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    Comment #2383224

    Is it so difficult to believe that that was a joke? I can see myself making that sort of joke in person, but after seeing what's happened to Zuckerburg, I would treat the internet …

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    Comment #2382441

    Note that these information agencies that you refer to are in competition. That makes manipulating Zuckerburg a lot more difficult, doesn't it? Also, his '26 year old mind' is not …