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When I was a TA, I'd have students constantly try to add me on Facebook. The conversation would go nearly exactly like you'd describe: > Are you on Facebook? Is this your profile? …

This doesn't account for the whole picture. The tax benefit is dwarfed in comparison to the losses in social security people at and below the poverty line will suffer.

> How can you blur the line? It's either online multiplayer or it isn't, there's not really an in-between. You can't "kind of" have other people connected to your game. They're eit…

It seems like this could be fairly easily resolved by the management having a rigid "we pay everyone the same, deal with it" position, perhaps up and and including a formula for sa…

Could you explain what this means?

Don't forget the part where those graduate students do some 80% of the work and make absurd . Independent research firms working from the same grants pay their employees competitiv…

> 1. The persistent approach is not right for global variables, which are dynamically bound. So I ended up needing two Environment classes, a Map-based one for the global scope, an…

As someone with years of experience writing interpreters, this seems a rather sloppy solution to a straightforward problem. There are two canonical solutions, and he uses neither: …

Don't forget the Harry Potter branding association. That's what will end up bringing in the big bucks.

Also, this gem: > We ate on the balcony and, as we shared a bottle of wine and listened to the chorus of insects, I began to think that the year of groundwork I had put in was abou…

You should re-record the entire intro video and leave out all the 'um' and 'uh's. It makes the product seem far less professional.

My wife got angry quite a few times in graduate school because the university's Women in Computing group forcibly signed her up to their mailing list at the start of every academic…

To be fair, GitHub is large enough that they'll have a dozen applicants by the time you're out the door. If resolving a problem is harder than firing part of it, well... that's the…

I'm moving out of a house right now in the midwest that bumped my rent by $100/mo each year, but they listed it back at my original rate this year. For some reason, being a multi-y…

I'm not saying it isn't faster, I'm merely pointing out that it was a pretty serious investment in comparison to the other points of the build, and attempting to defend the idea th…

I agree that Ryzen is a great chip! I am looking forward to getting one because, yeah, it makes for a great developer platform: it's got a bunch of cores, it's got a fantastic virt…

He also didn't need to blow $500 on an SSD when he could have gotten a $100 SSD and a $100 hybrid drive and double his storage space.

This article reads like a rewrite of the wiki over at /r/buildapc, and I'm not sure I see how much of it leads to his conclusion---any modern, $1500 desktop is going to outperform …

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Oleg rebuilt the linked implementation in Haskell [0]. It works exactly as you'd expect, right out of the box. 0. https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0509027

Does this mean the socks won't come out of the dryer warm? That's sort of a deal breaker for me.

It would be easier to take this comment seriously if Go wasn't a modern re-implementation of ALGOL 68.

I'll admit that I have had Netflix recommend to me movies that it thought I would rate at one star, and I have watched that movie and then rated it one star. Not only did their cur…

The sheer amount of misused punctuation in this comments section seems to indicate a systematic problem.

> alter it is meaning

- In some places, yes. It varies from state to state and company to company, but most companies outside of California try to do this to you. (In California, this clause is illegal.…