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Fair! He does mention improved throughput and responsiveness, but I don't see what metrics they're using for that.

Is about 200/3700 words really 'focusing on' LoC? I didn't really feel like the OP stressed that point too hard. I'd also argue that less code is (generally) more maintainable.

I thought the Martian was excellent. You'll notice that the user-rated % is higher than the critics, at 94%.

From the video game aggregation space, you tend to see the type of thing you're suggesting (games that are big-budget-questionably-reviewed) have _much_ lower user-scores than critics. I would be surprised if user-rated movies was different.

The green man is intended as a sign that it's safe to _begin_ crossing the road - at least in the UK. You'll notice that the man changes away from Green long before the light sequence. That's intended.

Woah there - let's not write off the CS department of every UK institution, shall we? This is definitely a case of 'YMMV'.

Oh great! I've been using lastpass for a long time, I might've just overlooked this at the time.

Wonder if now is the time to look at alternatives, before the service potentially changes.

I hear a lot of good things about 1Password, which seems to work for my iPhone/MacBook. Anyone know if there's a reasonable option for using it on Windows?

Again - if you'd made these points, I probably wouldn't have commented. You didn't; you flat out suggested exercising in London was a Bad Idea.

I think you'll find that the benefits outweigh the negatives[1]

Also, how does one commute to work in central London without exposure to air pollution? I'm curious what your alternative suggestion is.

[1] https://intranet2.bham.ac.uk/collaboration/cycling/documents...

>Exercising in London pollution is probably a bad idea

Is not the same as:

>Yes, in this level of pollution there are considerable risks that need to be balanced against benefits of exercise.

I dispute the former, not the latter. Unless you show me some evidence that exercising in a polluted city is somehow worse than living-but-not-exercising in said city, I'm going to continue to dispute that.

Encouraging people to avoid exercise is incredibly reckless.

What nonsense. You expect all the health improvements of exercise to be negated by poor air quality? It should be noted that both of your links were not average days. There's a reason that made the news.

I appreciate your point about coin being stronger in some decks than others - that doesn't change the fact that across _all_ of the games of hearthstone being played, if you go first you're more likely to win than if you go second.

I think you fixed it as I was replying - please ignore!

FYI - the way your comment is formatted caused text to be hidden in a horizontal scroll bar which wasn't visible on Chrome on OS X - took me a good minute to figure out what was going on.

As far as I'm aware, official stats from Blizzard is that the player going first is wins a higher % of the time than going second, despite the coin. I'll try and find the source.

User dtech already found the source for me (: -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8020232

> Did your instructors or TAs pair program with you? If so, what school were you at?

Yes! As with many things in life, you get back what you put in. There were plenty of TAs and Lecturers who would happily sit and work through a problem or alternate solution with you. The key factor was them knowing you weren't just trying to avoid doing it yourself.

> Sure, but asynchronous feedback on code certainly isn't something that can only be had at a university.

The point you made originally was alluded to that this sort of thing not happening at Universities. I was simply using my personal experiences to assert that, in my case at least, it did.

For what it's worth, I went to University in Glasgow - the University of Strathclyde.

> That may be true of many places, but at I can claim with certainty that FB and Google will both give interviews and even recruit engineers without CS degrees.

I'm sure they do, and I know the company I work for does as well, but I also know the people who don't have a formally educated background tend to get grilled harder on CS theory than those who do. Having a degree in CS is not a useless thing.

The point here of course, is whether it's right for the OP (:

I'm one of a handful of people I know who still use a desktop on a (mostly) daily basis outside of work. They're all either devs or heavy PC gamers.

Having said that, I don't know a single person who doesn't at least use a laptop every other day or so. Most of my friends have smartphones, but I don't know anyone who relies on that as their only access point for online services.

> To them, it just looks like more people have switched off their PCs

That's a really interesting comment. I don't think people are moving away from laptops (desktops maybe) anywhere near as quickly as I so often hear.

Anecdotally, almost everyone I know uses predominantly laptops for their computing/browsing needs. They almost all also use Adblock.

> Immigration departments don't look at Github profiles :)

That's a fantastic point, and one which has probably been overlooked so far in this thread. Yes, it's entirely possible you'll be able to find a great job/company in your home country, but good luck getting a skilled workers visa in any major country without having 'professional' level qualifications.

>Instructors don't generally spend time with you while you are actually programming, so you won't be missing the kind of 1 on 1 feedback a music major would get.

Really? That wasn't my experience at University at all. Every practical assignment had at least one lab session, where usually both the lecturer of the module, and some more senior students (final year undergrads for 1st/2nd year classes, typically PhD students for 3rd, 4th year classes) to help with implementation. We got feedback on every piece of code we ever wrote.

>Tons of my friends work at YC companies with either unrelated degrees or none at all.

That's great. How many jobs are the YC companies contributing? I'm sure they're (mostly)all amazing places to work, but there's plenty of jobs you wont even be picked up from the pile of CVs if you haven't done a degree. You might not like HR departments, but most companies have them, and it's generally not a good move to alienate them if you don't need to.

>Unlike a lot of posters here I really don't see anything wrong with not getting the degree.

I think it's important that I reply to this point, just so you don't misunderstand me. I don't think there's anything _wrong_ with not getting a degree - I have plenty of friends who either didn't finish or didn't attend University, and many of them are in good jobs (some of them in tech). That said, it's important OP knows what you _do_ get by having a degree - and I'd strongly disagree with your statement about it being one of the least useful degrees.

Not sure why, but there was a previous submission for this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8014011 ), which now seems to be dead.

You've replied to this story about 15 times defending the woman's eating/exercise habits. What's the agenda here? Most of the people you're taking umbrage with aren't remotely disagreeing with the disorder; merely the assertion that everything is a-okay and nothing more can be done.

The world doesn't work in absolutes and neither should you.

While the parent certainly didn't approach it in a polite way; they have a point in terms of the last comment at least.

A quick search online associates PCOS with increased risk of type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol and blood pressure, stroke, infertility, fatty liver disease amongst other things. Hardly seems like something a doctor would assure someone was of no consequence to their overall health.

So while saying 'you should work harder' isn't nice; the post shouldn't be disregarded.