Volscio

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by Volscio 14y ago
No shoutout yet for Project Noah? http://www.projectnoah.org/ "Backed by National Geographic, Project Noah is mobilizing a new generation of nature explorers and helping people from around the world appreciate their local wildlife. Our co
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by Volscio 14y ago
Good point. The US alternatives to college are terrible, particularly if you didn't have money/access. Trade schools are almost fraudulent (and not like Canada, which at least encourages vocations) and the whole entrepreneur out of high sch
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by Volscio 14y ago
Just a note: published May 1, 2012
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by Volscio 14y ago
Out of curiosity, why was a parody posted on the blog? Also this is hackernews so I'm not sure the readers here would find coding and networking "dry". :)
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by Volscio 14y ago
Somewhere in there is some hacking right?
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by Volscio 14y ago
The US has some very close allies for sharing intel, and it'd be a massive incident if it got out that such allied countries were spying on each other. It happens to some degree, but if stuff gets out, the White House & State can make
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by Volscio 14y ago
Outside of finance and tech, what other internships even pay anything?
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by Volscio 14y ago
Hollywood is not very helpful, but man, AAFES (who provides rec centers home and abroad) plus AFN (Armed Forces Network) do a pretty bang-up job keeping the servicemembers at least somewhat in touch with sporting events, films, things to wh
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by Volscio 14y ago
Also most of my friends who did Peace Corps didn't even have electricity for two years. I don't know how they did it.
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by Volscio 14y ago
I was on the same path, and did some Ruby by way of Sinatra for a class I was taking, and now I'm in a course learning Node.js + Express and I'm totally happy.
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by Volscio 14y ago
Yep, Matt Richardson (my classmate at NYU/ITP, but I wasn't in the course he made this for) makes some pretty cool stuff: http://mattrichardson.com/tech/ He made a project for physical computing class that took hashtagged tweets and disp
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by Volscio 14y ago
"Due to high demand, we've run out of student accounts. Don't worry, we'll have more soon. Please check back later." So, you can add an email addy under your profile settings. But does this mean you can request an educational account if y
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by Volscio 15y ago
There's a generation of female coders coming out of NYC soon -- seeing half my Nature of Code in Processing class being female and a lot of my female classmates working with OpenProcessing, Pocode, etc. Likewise in DC there are already a l
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by Volscio 15y ago
I'm a student at NYU-ITP and our coding classes have a good mix of males and females learning Open Frameworks, Ruby, Python, etc. We barely ever refer to gender. A future generation of female coders is coming, and they'll be building awes
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The Algorithm Thought Police(mwatz.tumblr.com)
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by Volscio 15y ago
Flickr deadpool?
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by Volscio 15y ago
I'm a student at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program where Tom Igoe (from the article) teaches. One of our intro courses is physical computing, which is all Arduino. It really is fun to play and build and learn circuitry for a ma
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by Volscio 15y ago
It provides a public good and is part of our national infrastructure. Maybe you don't see the point of it but it keeps a lot of our economy and communications lines going.
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by Volscio 15y ago
Leaving this here. http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/5uf9/
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by Volscio 15y ago
Well-put!
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by Volscio 15y ago
I was surprised there was someone in the Shetland Islands?
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by Volscio 15y ago
Doesn't every celwebrity go through this stage?
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by Volscio 15y ago
Out of curiosity, how many hackernews folks still IRC? I do, and IRC periodically gets in the news (usually through chatlogs posted from hackers, LulzSec, etc.), but what do y'all use?
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by Volscio 15y ago
This is why you go to grad schools to learn skills, and use college to study the liberal arts, exploring all those dumb useless subjects that no one thinks is worth studying anymore but in fact they teach you how to think critically, be cre
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by Volscio 15y ago
# of upvotes is just a proxy for what people really are looking for. Sometimes I just want to sort by Usefulness, Funniness, Truthiness, Creativeness. Those are the qualities I'm looking for in comments.
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by Volscio 15y ago
In Daniel Suarez's Daemon (and sequel, Freedom), a dying programmer develops an AI that maintains a fair economic system for its participants, and harshly punishes violators. Great read. http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525
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by Volscio 15y ago
Same here, 13" 4GB MBA, bought after my neighbor's apartment fire forced me to get a new system for the 4.5mos without my old computers. Got it all back eventually. I use my MBA constantly, at work and home (hooked up to a 24" at home).
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by Volscio 15y ago
Please date old articles in the subject line. i.e. "My National Security Letter Gag Order (2007)"
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by Volscio 16y ago
Kevin Kelly interviewed Gleick about the book in last month's Wired: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/mf_gleick_qa/all/1 Kelly: The extreme view would be that all these bits that make up atoms are running on a very big computer calle
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by Volscio 16y ago
It's time to write your own blog post called "Why You Should Not Think That TechCrunch Is Not Over And Also How I Built A Successful Startup" and then submit it to hackernews under your own account. :)

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