btian

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   by btian 14y ago

   I don't know. Earning conference call happens at 5pm EST, after the market closes. Just saying that if you're an investor as opposed to a short-term trader, there isn't that much difference between 500 and 550 if it's going up to 1000, and
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   by btian 14y ago

   I already own 10 shares of AAPL way before it went up to 500/700. Not selling anyway. Just saying... I'm not a trader in any way or form.
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   by btian 14y ago

   Wait till earnings announcement. Could be a disappointment.
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   by btian 14y ago

   Absolutely. If someone else (preferably rich) thinks that $500 doesn't justify true value of Apple, he could buy in the market, and good luck to short-sellers to borrow so many to sell. My guess is that it's just some insider selling, and i
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   by btian 14y ago

   The point of Java is that it has access to things at system level. If you don't need that, use HTML.
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   by btian 14y ago

   I can only speak for myself, but as what andrewem also mentioned, I have been getting emails from recruiters too albeit at a lower frequency of about once a week. I got my current job 6 months before graduation. Won't call C++ a niche area.
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   by btian 14y ago

   I highly disagree with that statement. Personally I'm a recent CS grad, and I don't know any of my classmates who is unemployed. I also wouldn't describe my current job as "pay is bad, the benefits are worse, and the competition is high" be
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   by btian 14y ago

   The bootcamp is a very good idea. 4 weeks should be enough for people with programming experience to get a basic idea of how RoR works. I especially like the "1:1 Mentoring" idea. Personally I learned a lot from small group (2-3 students to
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   by btian 14y ago

   Looks like it's going to be a great course! On an unrelated note, how did you generate the slides? They're very cool.
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    by btian 14y ago

    More applications on Macbook for one. It probably includes those installed on desktop iMac that the university has (e.g., MS Office, Matlab, Strata etc.) I'm not from Drexel but in my university, computers are configured to automatically mo
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    by btian 14y ago

    You guys are right, I was wrong. As others have pointed out, Android SDK has never been free software and Android SDK != Android
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    by btian 14y ago

    What bullshit. Does requiring users to agree to GPL or LGPL license make a software non-free?
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    by btian 14y ago

    $0.50 per chip is HUGE. This is not the ultra-expensive Intel Core i7. ARM makes only $.10 per licensed chip[1] [1] http://www.quora.com/ARM-Processor-Architecture/How-much-doe...
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    by btian 14y ago

    I agree in principle. However, sometimes it is useful to bundle things together if that's how things work in the real world, like Ruby on Rails + Github + Heroku in a RoR book. Then again, it would be counter-productive to add in totally ir
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    by btian 14y ago

    lots of formatting features, easy to version control, able to convert to print book and pdf easily, fully text based thus more predictable, and so on. LaTeX can be used for any document from CV to an entire book.
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    A C++ Conversation with Bjarne Stroustrup [1 hour video](youtube.com)

    3 points by btian 14y ago|0 comments
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    F# from your browser(test.tryfsharp.org)

    88 points by btian 14y ago|35 comments
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    by btian 14y ago

    The same reason why you need more than 640K of RAM. Unlimited wants vs limited resources. Put in what you can and what is possible because wants are unlimited.
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    by btian 14y ago

    This is absolutely ridiculous given how hard China has tried to woo foreign investment. Now what's going to happen to companies that run on Google Apps and their employees who are used to having Google/Facebook/Twitter?
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    Evidence suggesting that young computer programmers have “bilingual brains”(thecodingbrain.wordpress.com)

    67 points by btian 14y ago|39 comments
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    F# Software Foundation(fsharp.org)

    41 points by btian 14y ago|8 comments
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    by btian 14y ago

    only in the United States
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    Qt 5.0 RC2 has been released(blog.qt.digia.com)

    2 points by btian 14y ago|0 comments
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    by btian 14y ago

    this is probably unrelated but can anyone explain why the size of the 1080p video is so much larger than the 720p one? (1920x1080) / (1280x720) = 2.25 while 1.6 x 1024 / 237.3 = 6.9
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    3D Mapping of Beating Heart(fastcompany.com)

    4 points by btian 14y ago|1 comments
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    by btian 14y ago

    I use what suits me the best. TBH this is the first time I hear about class-warfare in software. "High-class" people can use Windows Server for all they want (if they define pricy as "high-class"), while the rest use what is the best for ou
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    by btian 14y ago

    I'd just like to add that Apple makes more profit from an iPad in dollar terms than HP makes from a typical desktop/notebook.
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    by btian 14y ago

    they said it would be from their cash reserve, so I guess there'll be a few signatures on a $3 billion cheque, or they can get the CFO to ask their bank to wire the money
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    by btian 14y ago

    Website is down
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    by btian 14y ago

    I reckon the Raspberry Pi is much more suitable than the tablet in the applications that he pointed out (C, C++). Also, anyone knows how much the Indian government has subsidized the project so that they can sell at $40?