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by albertni 18y ago
So I'm guessing that having the controls on the headphones implies that you can't just swap in any old pair of (likely superior quality) headphones?
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by albertni 18y ago
Yeah, this is a common complaint. There'll be a page where anyone (with or without an account) can see all of our pricing details soon (it has in fact already been designed). As a sidenote, people I've asked who have experience in the freem
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by albertni 18y ago
Actually, I don't think MIT cultivates as much of an entrepreneurial culture as you might expect, especially considering how solid the computer science department is, and how there's the Sloan school. It's kind of hard to describe, and I di
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by albertni 18y ago
This sounds good in theory but there are a TON of variables that would be really hard to encapsulate. I'm not saying it can't be done, but (good) defense in basketball is extremely team-oriented. Positioning, rotations, double teams (and th
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by albertni 18y ago
It depends on what you're looking for. As has been mentioned, artofproblemsolving.com (aka AoPS) and mathlinks.ro are good for the contest types. I've taught and graded for AoPS in the past, and there is no other place that can compare for
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by albertni 18y ago
It used to surprise me that something like "asdfasdf", which is probably the easiest/fastest to type password (at 6+ digits) never shows up on these kinds of lists. But I guess when most people in the world are typing words out one letter a
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by albertni 18y ago
I must admit, as someone who was born in the USA but is reasonably fluent in Chinese (can pass as a native in Beijing when speaking, at least on the phone, and can read/write at like a third-fifth grade level which is harder than it sounds
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by albertni 18y ago
"Availability of such high-speed connections has allowed Korea to emerge as a leader in the MMO and online gaming industries." What came first, the faster Internet connections (chicken), or the emergence as a leader in the MMO and online ga
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Fannie Mae Logic Bomb Would Have Caused Weeklong Shutdown(blog.wired.com)
28 points by albertni 18y ago|22 comments
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by albertni 18y ago
Yeah, this was an unpleasant surprise for me when I started using a Macbook for some coding. My 256 color vim color scheme (desert256, highly recommended!) would just blink repeatedly until I typed in t_Co=8 ... never thought moving from a
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by albertni 18y ago
I swear that when I have kids, I'm going to them multiple keyboard layouts at a very young age so that they'll be able to switch back and forth effortlessly when they're older (similar to learning a few languages at a young age). At least,
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by albertni 18y ago
Personally, I prefer double vertical monitors (better for coding). But, when you've got 8, I think it's safe to say you can pretty much set them up however the hell you want.
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by albertni 18y ago
What makes you think it would make sense for two small startups to just "join", especially in this space, where it's not like you can just plug the technology of one into the other.
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by albertni 18y ago
Yes, seeing as how you're the perfect and complete representative of the general Internet-using population, it's inexplicable that anyone would try to do something so clearly and directly contrary to your desires. I mean, I would have answe
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by albertni 18y ago
While I can see where you're coming from, a few other factors need to be taken into consideration. One of MIT's greatest strengths (and arguably weaknesses) is the sheer "atmosphere" of working on your classes. The line between directly sch
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by albertni 18y ago
Yeah I used to use F12 with Tab Mix Plus until it was swallowed by Firebug, and that's when I discovered Ctrl-Shift-T, which is arguably easier to hit than F12 as well.
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by albertni 18y ago
1. Collect underwear 3. Profit
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by albertni 18y ago
You would hope that someone writing an introductory guide like this would have emphasized that it's basically trivial to add new shards for the first two options, whereas it's a pain, or at least trickier (you could block all inserts briefl
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by albertni 18y ago
Yeah, it's a shame this part of math gets focused on so much. However, that doesn't mean there aren't cool tricks that are handy to know. For instance, to this day I still multiply 2-digit numbers mentally by using difference of squares, ju
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by albertni 18y ago
If you haven't seen how wildly Chicago weather can swing from day to day, you haven't spent enough time in Chicago. There's really no such thing as "non-typical weather" for any specific day in the Windy City.
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by albertni 18y ago
This was nice, pretty much straight to the point. At Dropbox we've noticed disproportionately more Mac/Linux users (relative to the "worldwide norm" or whatever that means, which is pretty standard). More importantly, we've definitely notic
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by albertni 18y ago
Yeah, even without doing the computation or just noting that 365 < 1000, it would be pretty absurd to be able to do far better than any Amazon S3 guarantee (to give one example) while still being able to be "down" for an entire day!
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by albertni 18y ago
That's a little harsh. It was a pretty significant anecdote - a 6.5x decrease with the only clear change being Pallotta's company-charity being forcibly stopped from continued involvement. Is there room for other plausible reasons to have c
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by albertni 18y ago
I'm sorry, I don't normally care about misspelling here and there, but it's really hard to take a post seriously when it spells "Presidents" and "were" wrong in a span of three words....
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by albertni 18y ago
There's a difference between "yet more" and "the most impressive".... As far as I know, MIT has always been good about admitting people who have done things that, by definition, not a lot of people can do (such as place highly in a competit
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by albertni 18y ago
Sales were up, but what about profits? Retailers cut costs like never before, and while sales are up, if you have an item that costs $4 to make and sell five of them at $5 a pop, sales are up but profits are down relative to selling four it
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by albertni 18y ago
I understand that Paul Krugman (the author of the article) didn't try to claim more than that the thesis of the Monetary History has just taken a hit, and that the target audience of the news item might not have the attention span for a lon
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Shaq is now on Twitter(nytimes.com)
1 points by albertni 18y ago|0 comments
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by albertni 18y ago
In many cases it simply is not physically possible to do a course justice just through web materials. Of course, the obvious example is that in some classes the labs and lab equipment. However, it should also be noted that a lot of the valu
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by albertni 18y ago
Hardest job in the world just keeps sounding worse and worse =)

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