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Re:A Leica T Review
on Saturday August 16, 2014 @05:19PM (#8187613)
All of the park photos were taken at Downtown Park in Bellevue.
Re:Ask HN: Is "Gödel, Escher, Bach" still worth reading?
on Sunday January 05, 2014 @12:31AM (#7014708)
Wow. I can't imagine that happening at your standard public school nowadays. What high school did you go to?
Re:My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @02:22PM (#6516818)
Most people will take their SAT at the beginning of their Junior year. This way they have ample time to retake if they're not happy with their scores.
Stanford, MIT, and the Ivies see the SAT as more of a threshold score. I.E. there's not much difference between a 2300 and a 2400. As long as you have above a certain range, you should be fine. The SAT doesn't make or break people.
Re:My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @02:19PM (#6516794)
I'm guessing Shalin is aiming for MIT, Stanford, and schools of their ilk. These fall under "high-end private schools".
Re:My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
on Monday October 07, 2013 @10:03PM (#6512571)
I second this. Summers should not be spent studying for the SAT.
Also, a good internship will look much better on a college app than a few extra points.
Re:Memory – Part 4: Intersec’s custom allocators
on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @09:21AM (#6475887)
It's a custom allocator internal to Intersec.
Re:Programmer's Dilemma
on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:28AM (#6222474)
What's the right answer here? Should they start by typing or reading the docs?
Re:“People simply empty out”
on Friday August 16, 2013 @12:10AM (#6222128)
Are there any specific books you recommend?
Re:Never Be a Customer's Doormat
on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @07:20PM (#6169859)
Isn't this what DRM is?
Re:Elysium’s Director Thinks His Hellish Paradise Is Our Future
on Thursday July 18, 2013 @02:50PM (#6065631)
The picture in the article is confusing me. What's going on with his hand?
Re:Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual sa...
on Saturday June 01, 2013 @02:56PM (#5805387)
So then is a 2.1 considered impressive?
Re:Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual sa...
on Saturday June 01, 2013 @01:30PM (#5804963)
Is the 2.1 number you refer to a GPA? What's it out of?
Re:Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual sa...
on Saturday June 01, 2013 @01:24PM (#5804934)
What is a "red brick"?
Re:Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your ann...
on Saturday June 01, 2013 @04:48AM (#5803279)
Is this before or after taxes? Because American salaries are typically reported before taxes.
Re:Google 'kerning' easter egg
on Friday May 24, 2013 @12:13AM (#5761241)
There seems to be the opposite effect for "keming".
Re:Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Geor...
on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @02:23AM (#5710490)
MIT OpenCourseWare.
Re:Inequality and Mass Transit in the Bay Area
on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @12:21AM (#5672471)
I keep hearing that Muni and BART are awful, but how so? I've been on public transit in NYC, Boston, Berlin, and other major cities and I don't notice any significant disparities.
Re:Harper Lee sues for copyright of To Kill a Mockingbird
on Saturday May 04, 2013 @01:06AM (#5654076)
Actually, it's Dill that's supposed to be Truman Capote.
Re:Florida Teen Charged With Felony After Science Experiment Goes Bad
on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @02:33AM (#5636778)
Even if that's all she did, it doesn't warrant an expulsion or a felony charge.
Re:Out of My Depth
on Thursday April 25, 2013 @12:28PM (#5608126)
Yeah, I don't think "string" is a thing in Java. Maybe he was comparing it to a data type from another language?
Re:Propagation Delay and Its Relationship to Maximum Cable Length
on Thursday April 25, 2013 @12:22PM (#5608077)
You seem to have a lot of knowledge about this. If I wanted to acquire similar knowledge, where would I go? I know embarrassingly little about networks.
Re:Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asians?
on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @07:45PM (#5604771)
I am Asian.
What I've noticed is that the kids who have to be "forced" to study ad-nauseum usually aren't the top performers. They're around the middle, but their families desperately want them to be the top.
The top students are much more self motivated. They tend to be more or less equivalent to their supposedly more-well-rounded white counterparts.
Re:Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asians?
on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @07:39PM (#5604740)
As an Asian-American: no, it doesn't involve those things.
Re:Amazon was Down
on Monday April 22, 2013 @01:50AM (#5588010)
Except your Pentium 3 server doesn't have to handle over 100 million unique visitors per quarter. :P
Re:Ekranoplan
on Saturday April 06, 2013 @01:07PM (#5504181)
Because he found out the answer only after asking the original question, and answered it for anyone else who would have been curious.
Re:Could the ancient Romans have built a digital computer?
on Friday March 01, 2013 @01:40AM (#5303147)
Sort of reminds me of India (the polytheistic "industrialized" society).
Re:Cross Country Freedom Therapy
on Saturday February 23, 2013 @03:53AM (#5269046)
Somewhat unrelated, but still interesting:
SFO doesn't actually have a TSA presence. They use a contractor instead.
Re:An easy to follow design course for programmers
on Friday January 11, 2013 @09:30PM (#5046261)
What operating system are you using? It looks great on OS X 10.8.2.