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by brianchu 14y ago
It isn't necessarily clear that ForrestN advocates "contributing to humanity." I think that was more of a statement that while goals like "fight the status quo" are ostensibly for the purpose of "contributing to humanity," they're actually
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by brianchu 14y ago
I actually downloaded and tried out the app for myself, and I liked it. While an algorithm cannot best a human, this app seems to do a pretty good job at summarizing the news. I think it's feasible - a large portion of any given news articl
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by brianchu 14y ago
Agreed. That was just a quick hack for detecting that a device is an iPhone 5.
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Cocos2d Conversion Tips for the iPhone 5(blog.makegameswith.us)
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Bad Contract Tutorial(asmp.org)
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by brianchu 14y ago
True that UoC does not give very much of a boost to recruited athletes. Nonetheless, that 20% estimate would account for borderline legacies, development cases (parents donated), and possibly affirmative action admits (the data is mixed on
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by brianchu 14y ago
Keep in mind that the University of Chicago is considered roughly a top 10 university (tied for 4th, if US News is to be trusted, which of course it should not). The 25th percentile of admitted students is at the 95th percentile of SAT scor
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by brianchu 14y ago
Very cool, and something that probably will impress admissions officers, though I think it's generally not a good idea to publicly publish admissions essays until after the deadline.
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Minor semantic issue, but for the record Yahoo does exist.
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Apple does limit you to 100 test devices. Enterprise accounts have an unlimited number of devices ($299/year).
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by brianchu 14y ago
I second what biscarch said. It is most certainly an over-generalization to imply that highly-talented individuals must have studied for the PSAT in order to have done well. In my experience, it is quite common for intelligent people to do
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by brianchu 14y ago
The problem with that line of reasoning is that GPA is a relative measure - your GPA tells people (theoretically) how you stack up against your classmates - the concept of grading classes on a "curve." Furthermore, there is a correlation be
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by brianchu 14y ago
The lottery idea is a terrible one. Missing just one question on the test is enough to drop your score from a 2400 to a 2370 in many cases. Achieving a "perfect" score is largely due to luck.
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by brianchu 14y ago
The original blog post that broke the story is here: http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/10/patent-office-tentatively...
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by brianchu 14y ago
Some Ben Horowitz gems (paraphrased): You have to have a 10x better product to beat (established) competition. There is no number 2 in tech. Over time, "wants" become "needs." (Ex: the refrigerator) When Loudcloud was burning cash and going
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by brianchu 14y ago
Salesforce turned a profit in 2010 and 2011 ( http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=CRM+Income+Statement&ann... ). They were profitable as early as 2005 ( http://www.salesforce.com/company/investor/quarterly-results... ). I don't know what in
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by brianchu 14y ago
On the contrary, the cases you cite are actually very clearly cases of protected speech. The "imminent lawless action" test has a third element: intent. Unprotected speech has to also have the intent of causing "imminent lawless action."
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by brianchu 14y ago
Can you point out exactly where he promoted "sexist points of view regarding women and work?" Because as far as I can tell, regardless of whether he is right or wrong (I think he is wrong), his blog post had very little to do with expressin
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by brianchu 14y ago
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The iPhone 5 is twice as powerful as the iPhone 4S. I wouldn't go as far as to say it's more powerful than the Xbox 360. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6324/the-iphone-5-performance-... Also note the distinction between the Xbox and the Xb
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by brianchu 14y ago
Using industry-standard game libraries (cocos2d/kobold2d) with ARC, a 16 year old would never need to touch reference counting or the CoreFoundation (the exception is using Box2D physics). It is also not necessary to understand copy, assign
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Anyone in the world.
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by brianchu 14y ago
It's not required, per se, but it is idiomatic. You will never see an unnamed parameter in the standard library, or in most other people's code. In a sense, the parameter name is actually part of the method name Wikipedia has this example o
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by brianchu 14y ago
MakeGamesWithUs developer here. Your point about the required computer is fairly valid, but you could get away with having a early-2009-generation computer, or with the cheapest Mac mini ($600). If you were truly strapped for cash, an iPhon
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The tutorials do assume you know basic coding already, and the tutorials do quite a bit of hand holding to ratchet up the exposure to Objective-C, so it really shouldn't be scary. As someone who thought Objective-C was a terrible language w
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Mediocre commercial. The overall message sounds like Apple is trying too hard to justify the new screen size to the customer, instead of communicating to us an actual reason why someone should get the new iPhone. Not to mention that it's ki
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by brianchu 14y ago
Did you read the article? "At 18,000ft (5,490m), experts say, hypoxia will set in, causing weakness, tremors, light-headedness and visual impairment...Above 33,000ft (10,065m) the lungs require artificial pressure to function normally."
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by brianchu 14y ago
That analogy is false because what YouTube is doing is blocking video clips that were posted by other people. In your analogy, only you are censoring yourself. Nobody else is censoring you from shouting whatever you want to shout. It wo
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by brianchu 14y ago
I find that "the network effect is pretty strong" is an understatement. Facebook is not just a social network, it's a pervasive platform. Not to mention that FB and Myspace were fairly different (Myspace accounts were a mess), and right now
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The analysis in the first link you posted has flaws as well. The author does not deny that when you break down the US scores by ethnicity, Asian-Americans do as well as other Asians, European-Americans as other Europeans, etc. He bases a la

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