Chevalier

18 ms·

61.
by Chevalier 12y ago
And just to follow up, I'm VERY surprised that your brother hasn't seen anyone struggling. NYU Law's shtick is being the most prestigious public interest feeder, where graduates go on to impact work in underserved communities
62.
by Chevalier 12y ago
As happy as I am for your brother, he's wrong. I went to a higher-ranked school than NYU, and a solid third of the class depended on post-grad fellowships for employment. When those fellowships expired, you started to see lots of despe
63.
by Chevalier 12y ago
As a 1v1 fighting game with a comparable roster of character genres, Street Fighter seems like a better analogue to Smash Brothers than League of Legends is. And like you said, Street Fighter II remains unpatched... versus the regular patch
64.
by Chevalier 12y ago
To me, the re-introduction of the $8/month fee for Google Play Music All Access (mercifully rechristened as Google Play Music) is the most important part of this announcement. Apple is reportedly wooing publishers to allow them to sell
65.
by Chevalier 12y ago
I wrote off Flickr a long time ago and didn't even consider them for this comparison. My mistake. Does Yahoo run Flickr on its own infrastructure, or rent it like Dropbox and Apple? If the former... why isn't Yahoo a major player
66.
by Chevalier 12y ago
The US market may not be growing, but the rest of the world will come online soon enough. And speaking from experience, most of the world lacks the infrastructure, climate, political stability, or protection from criminal activity to host i
67.
by Chevalier 12y ago
That's true -- photos under 2000px are free, and Google will automatically resize full-size photos as they're uploaded. Personally, I just upload my entire photo library to GDrive and G+ automatically processes them into G+ Photos
68.
by Chevalier 12y ago
"Dropbox is a feature, not a product." -Steve Jobs, paraphrased - - - - - Let's hope they keep racing to the bottom. To break down the value of each brand to consumers: Dropbox $120/year for 1 account, 1TB No photo imp
69.
by Chevalier 12y ago
This is a really big deal. I had started uploading photos before I searched for two-factor authentication... and immediately stopped when I realized it's not available. You would have to be an idiot to upload your photos to a service w
70.
by Chevalier 12y ago
I just wish OneDrive worked. I tried uploading 60k photos or so (less than 100GB)... OneDrive wouldn't even START the upload, and choked at 0.0kb uploaded. And even if it had started, OneDrive has a ridiculously low 20k file limit. I d
71.
by Chevalier 12y ago
"Hardly. Locking up families and neighbors is the exact opposite of crime prevention. It's treating the aftermath. Crime prevention should be analogous to preventative medicine: minimizing the possibility of it occurring to begin
72.
by Chevalier 12y ago
Sorry, but you're either deliberately or negligently misinterpreting my post. The cops ordered the author to stop pursuing the thieves, for fear of a shootout. They were not themselves afraid of shooting the thieves. The author seems t
73.
by Chevalier 12y ago
I think that it would. While Giuliani's "broken windows" theory was probably overshadowed by the fading of crack and the clarification of gang territory, it seems pretty conclusive that enforcing minor crimes leads to keeping
74.
by Chevalier 12y ago
By comparison, have you ever had a really positive experience with the dentist? Like cops, they're there to solve painful problems that cause very unhappy memories. Anything that compels you to visit the dentist (or the police to visit
75.
by Chevalier 12y ago
I really hate to see blind hatred for the police on HN. It's a tough goddamn job, people, made all the more so by political pressure to improve statistics. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, police are forced to focus on serious
76.
by Chevalier 12y ago
...for god's sake. I'm one of the few non-Asian minorities on HN, so maybe a Mexican can be honest where whites may be forced to be sensitive. - - - - - (1) "But when I introduce myself in the classroom, I’m Dr. Berry. And I
77.
by Chevalier 12y ago
Wow, I had no idea. I assumed, as pbhjpbhj wrote, that MOOCs' high incompletion rate was due to the complete absence of barriers to entry. I've enrolled in dozens of MOOC courses to have access to their course archives in the futu
78.
by Chevalier 12y ago
Well, thank you. It's quite flattering to be praised at HN... but now that it's the morning after, I cringe at my post's unclear language and incomplete arguments. There's a very real possibility that I'll take up a
79.
by Chevalier 12y ago
It's not MOOCs that depend on mystification -- it's traditional universities. Whether for-profit or non-profit, these are institutions that rake in upwards of $50k per year per student in exchange for mostly worthless seminars on
80.
by Chevalier 12y ago
I'm currently paying $10/month for GDrive, mostly because of the auto-awesome photo suite that automatically incorporates my full-size GDrive photos and lets me share easily on G+. While I love that perk, it just doesn't comp
81.
by Chevalier 12y ago
I've given up on sorting my enormous hoard of duplicate photos. At some point, Dropbox/GDrive/OneDrive/etc. will offer a deduplication feature and I'll move them on there. Local programs like Visipics or Duplicate A
82.
by Chevalier 12y ago
How is this not the top story right now? Unlimited storage is game-changing! I'm currently paying $10/month for GDrive, mostly because of the auto-awesome photo suite that automatically incorporates my full-size GDrive photos and
83.
by Chevalier 12y ago
And that's why, in functional countries, socialization is a natural consequence of urban design. You don't need a horrifically expensive excuse to drive to some random location to meet people -- you bump into them naturally as ped
84.
by Chevalier 12y ago
Well, I agree with you that the rowing/badminton/chess teams probably don't get special treatment. But you don't seem to question the value of "top quality athletic programs." Why do we want them to exist in th
85.
by Chevalier 12y ago
Honestly, doesn't this make anyone wonder what the point is of college in the first place? Even without the equivalent of special ed courses, it's not like most (any?) athletes study STEM courses that might require university cert
86.
by Chevalier 12y ago
I usually get annoyed by too-hip advertising. But I think it makes sense here. Inbox is designed for mobile use, on the go, for a diverse array of tasks. Young urban people fit that demographic a lot more than a suburban commuter would, sin
87.
by Chevalier 12y ago
Hmm. I'm not sure that this is actually an email app. For the record, I think Gmail and its steady incremental improvements embody email perfection -- I can't imagine going back to life before auto-sorted tabs -- and I'm tota
88.
by Chevalier 12y ago
Well, I did say the following: >We should subsidize higher education for fields with high ROI, and immediately cease subsidies and loans for all other academic pursuits. In practice, this means doctors and scientists can and should go to
89.
by Chevalier 12y ago
I agree, most students don't need a full 4-7 years of college... but I'm a little confused why the author thinks everyone needs at least one year so they can learn the fundamentals. Shouldn't that basic education be provided
90.
by Chevalier 12y ago
As someone with a professional degree from the Ivy League, and therefore as someone with a vested interest in maintaining the mystique and prestige of higher education: Educational institutions are parasites on American youth and we should

More ›