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by bfung 13y ago
ah, that's + undergrad. yup, my bad.
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by bfung 13y ago
That number seems low... doing a bit more digging: http://www.bursar.gatech.edu/tuiandfee.php http://www.bursar.gatech.edu/student/tuition/Fall_2013/Fall1... 1 semester for an out of state, 6
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by bfung 13y ago
thx!
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by bfung 13y ago
Yep, I'm well aware. I found my job through it and I have references hired through it as well. I just haven't seen them anymore -> maybe bumped off the front page too quickly?
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by bfung 13y ago
Arlington, VA, USA. San Francisco, CA, USA. Opower Energy Efficiency. Help people save money at home. Help utilities save money by generating less expensive energy. Take dirty power generators off the grid. We do it by sending digestable da
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Ask HN: `Ask HN: Who's Hiring` posts dead?
1 points by bfung 13y ago|4 comments
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The Impossible Mayor of the Possible(nytimes.com)
1 points by bfung 13y ago|0 comments
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by bfung 13y ago
I don't exactly agree with your sentiment, but picking on that statement is right. The computer is a device that, most of the time, just gets in the way of doing X. But the OP of the quote misses a qualifier: the person is tryin
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by bfung 13y ago
University of Illinois teaches it in the Programming Languages course: http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs421/mps/index.html Back in when it was CS 321, the course used bison and ocaml to build a smaller ML langua
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by bfung 13y ago
take a look at the in-demand jobs for each highly rated city. Maybe Software Engineers are happy people =D
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Best US Cities for Job Satisfaction(glassdoor.com)
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by bfung 13y ago
+1 A lot of conversation is about the cost of acquisition, but does not compare the prices of maintenance, hardware failure/outages, and recovery. For example, with dedicated hardware and a guessed failure rate, how much does it cost,
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by bfung 13y ago
I know this is exciting news and all, but: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and st
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by bfung 13y ago
Here's a google spreadsheet quickly thrown together: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsoY_yr0BJCVdHF... Pivot table is grouped by Subtitle/Job title Chart is ordered by base salary descending, bu
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by bfung 13y ago
Took this with Erickson back in Fall 2002 - go to all the lectures, they're worth it! And find a good study group, some of these homeworks are hard when learning them for the first time. have fun!
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by bfung 13y ago
I would argue that prices don't really keep them off the bus. Originally from Chicago with a pay-per-ride system and moved here to San Francisco to a (weak)proof-of-payment system, sure it's faster but far more people take the ris
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by bfung 13y ago
I don't know why , but take it as a signal that it this isn't as interesting to the HN community. If you think about it, it's not avoiding null checks, it's just moving it to a different place. The null check still nee
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by bfung 13y ago
Submission not "easy" to see the new UI changes</end-of-workday-tired-rant> Detailed mockups broken for me, or perhaps I fail at grok-ing it. Here's what I found easier: https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/0/0c/Australis-i02-Tabs.jpg
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by bfung 13y ago
A request for those who might go on the Soylent diet, starting in july (a month before the estimated shipping date), during your Soylent diet: 1. Record your current height 2. Record daily: weight + timestamp, sleep start time, sleep
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by bfung 13y ago
No sympathy here. "I am a bad developer"... so? At least you have recognition of a problem, now time to improve. Why the rejetions? Has any company told you what exactly were the reasons for rejection? Ask for a reply from the interviewe
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by bfung 13y ago
I just spent way too much time on this. Some of the icons (the ones you can't view source and copy) come from http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ . Allow hex input and you're golden.
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by bfung 14y ago
I used to work for a competitor in the same space as AutoRevo =) Chrome was ok, but there was another provider that had exact vin matches in their catalog. It was a bit more expensive, but made it so the trim field was a non-issue. I don'
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by bfung 14y ago
VIN explosion doesn't always return truck trims, as many times the actual truck beds are added after the vehicle rolled off the assembly line. So they will probably need more than VIN explosion for that; there are some companies that do pro
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by bfung 14y ago
OPOWER http://opower.com/ http://opower.com/careers San Francisco, CA or Arlington, VA. Full Time, Internships We leverage data and behavioral science to change people's energy consumption habits. Help the environment through energy con
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by bfung 14y ago
bingo! You've hit the nail on the head on all fronts. But light blubs and the act of turning on and off lights are very tangible to the average person, compared to thermostat programming. Awareness itself is a big step, sadly. Disclosure:
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by bfung 14y ago
Startup idea: blades that self-interconnect wirelessly at short distances Why are we still cabling (it's def. cheap, but man-hour time to cable is expensive)?
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by bfung 14y ago
And from anecdotal evidence, I've heard of single people bringing non-single friends (from both male and female sides) on Grouper. Those aren't so fun when the match-ups don't go in your own favor.
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by bfung 14y ago
I find the guard macros discussion in this post most amusing. Just use Go and there's no point in talking about guard macros! =P
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by bfung 14y ago
A couple of points to ponder, more on the "social" aspect: 1. Will there be bandwidth miners / marketing / spammers? Since I get free usage the more people connect to my device, I would tell everyone to connect to me! HEY YOU, EVEN IF YOU
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by bfung 14y ago
Looking at the pictures, I actually felt the opposite of "a fresh outlook on life"! Contrasting the old and the new, I feel like the fake Thames town, the roman columns, the gaudiness of all the buildings loses a lot of the old Chinese cult

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