aston

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   by aston 19y ago

   Yeah, to piggyback here, you'll never make money on a college book exchange site. I tried it. Tons of other people have, too. It's even made "bad business idea" lists: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/8-stupid-frat-boy-...
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   by aston 19y ago

   I would not choose my undergraduate university based on what types of technologies they teach in their courses. Any schools that make a big deal about teaching you stuff you can use tomorrow are not programs aiming at future-proofing thei
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   by aston 19y ago

   Upmod just for correctly using "begs the question."
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   by aston 19y ago

   Hmm... Looks shady. What's the explanation?
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   by aston 19y ago

   If the biggest advertising entity on the web (Google) can buy one of the other biggest advertising entities (Doubleclick), I'm pretty sure one of the also-rans can buy another also-ran.
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   by aston 19y ago

   It's in shareholders' interest to take that huge per-share premium and run with it. Better than holding Yahoo! until it's a penny stock.
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   by aston 19y ago

   Pretty sure if it's Ozzie vs. Yang, Yang is out in a heartbeat. And I think this buy is more about strengthening Microsoft's online presence, not their desktop apps.
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   by aston 19y ago

   Facebook is also a really young company that apparently is putting up the big bucks and Google-esque perks. Why not go there and risk winning big while it's still around?
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   by aston 19y ago

   This is a pretty not good argument. Like definition of bad.
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    by aston 19y ago

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98349
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    by aston 19y ago

    I can at least confirm that a year ago, Google's base salary for starting engineers was in the reported range, some 25% short of this year's alleged number. Seems like a big jump.
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    by aston 19y ago

    Proft = money left after paying expenses, salary included.
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    by aston 19y ago

    500.times {print "I will not throw paper airplanes in class \n"}
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    by aston 19y ago

    For example?
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    The Python IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions(norvig.com)

    7 points by aston 19y ago|3 comments
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    by aston 19y ago

    Zip = Matrix Transpose is on Peter Norvig's list of Infrequently Answered Questions about Python.
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    by aston 19y ago

    Google's money is in advertising. Advertising is not recession proof. Thus Google is not recession-proof. Seems simple to me.
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    by aston 19y ago

    Python is a fun language to code in. I probably net five, ten max, good lines per hour.
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    by aston 19y ago

    You may be very spot on there. There's an old adage in advertising, something like "Half of money spent on ads is wasted, but you can't tell which half." Online, you can, so you have to make smarter investments to maintain the appearance of
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    by aston 19y ago

    Clearly proximity to the equator is an important effect (the horizontal banding). Can anybody explain the variations not running north/south?
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    by aston 19y ago

    There's really nothing new here at all. Just a Javascript library to make calls to the API.
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    by aston 19y ago

    http://cag.csail.mit.edu/ps3/blue-steel.shtml
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    by aston 19y ago

    Same thing, new libraries for Javascript. I don't see the big deal.
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    by aston 19y ago

    Plus one for the punnier title. Whenever people ask me whether racism still really exists in America, I pretty much point them at NASCAR. Maybe point out that in hockey players are lauded for fighting if the first point doesn't hit home. Su
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    by aston 19y ago

    Quality. Plus one just for mentioning 6.270.
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    by aston 19y ago

    It was not. The class ran a year ago.
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    by aston 19y ago

    Edwin Catmull is the foundation of a ton of modern computer graphics research on top of running the coolest movie studio in the world. Pretty impressive dude.
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    by aston 19y ago

    Got downmodded because people didn't believe you?
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    by aston 19y ago

    You may have missed the other excitement online about schools changing their computer science programs to make them more attractive to students. MIT's not really ratcheting down the difficulty, but starting off everyone in Scheme was really
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    by aston 19y ago

    By the time you did a scan through all of the text to split it by words (by looking for spaces), you could've run the corpus up against the pre-computed Trie and decided whether it was kosher or not. Not to mention the overhead of computing