cyen

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by cyen 16y ago
You explicitly grant access for each new set of permissions - accessing a friends list (and thus their publicly available information) is one of those sets. If the site changes their policy, they have to go back to the user and request perm
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by cyen 16y ago
What happened to wanting to work on a product you (can) love?
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by cyen 16y ago
I helped recruit for a 20-person startup at my alma mater in the fall, and found: - if your brand isn't immediately recognizable as a tech startup, signs like "Seeking CS / Math majors" are tacky but help immensely with capturing the intere
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by cyen 16y ago
fwiw, most email servers actually support the +notation
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by cyen 16y ago
I used it and watched high school students use it for a couple of hours/week over a period of 8 weeks (varying degrees of technical expertise, in an entrepreneurship mentorship program with an end goal of the students building their own app
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by cyen 16y ago
AFAICT, there's not much line-drawing happening. In terms of handmade vs retail, I've seen people essentially buy retail items, paint a little something on it, then sell the "customized" items... but it doesn't seem like it hurts Etsy much
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by cyen 17y ago
some very powerful mechanism that is deeply and unavoidably bound into women's brain. What, and wow-slutty-behavior receptors aren't deeply and unavoidably bound into male brains?
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by cyen 17y ago
Then he launched into his canned opener: Did they think reality shows were “really real”? Sure, two groups of females on whom Bashev tried that line rolled their eyes and smirked, but three bars (and the same routine) later, he was relaxin
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by cyen 17y ago
I've got a couple of my own theories about this - While MIT prides itself in admitting students with passion and interests over those with 1600 (I suppose 2400, now) SAT scores, I think that the truth is that the overwhelming majority of th
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The Applet Tablet: a complete history, supposedly(engadget.com)
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by cyen 17y ago
reminds me of a much more practical version of some of the cool bits from the "sixth sense" interface that was presented at TED / all over the news awhile ago - http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/ . There, their prototype was
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A Costly Lesson - a closer look at Birmingham's use of the XO Laptop(bwcitypaper.com)
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by cyen 17y ago
general - the other articles (the early ones at the very least) are all incredibly interesting discussions wrt video game design. Highlights: "The Reason Mario Wears Overalls" (character design by pixel): "Before you know it, you've used
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by cyen 17y ago
I've explore a bunch of JS libraries in the past - here are some thoughts: Flot and Flotr are definitely past favorites, and its usage has felt the most natural PlotKit ( http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/ ) - MochiKit-based, visually nice but
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by cyen 17y ago
What, there's no neutral environment that can be maintained? It's Star Trek and cans of Monster, or pink wallpaper and plushies? Come on. With any [insert subculture here]-friendly environment, there's a chance of alienation. We're not aski
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by cyen 17y ago
well, the /next/ time you need furniture, now you'll know there's an IKEA in Malmo - I suppose they put manager Gustavsson's profile in the public Malmo network, and the brilliance is in getting the word to spread so quickly (for free! minu
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by cyen 17y ago
How absurd. The best part of this learning technique is the discussion and the collaboration between students to solve the puzzle - you even learn by pointing out false positives, with someone correcting you and reinforcing that bit of info
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by cyen 17y ago
not as detailed, but another timelapse flash visualization over a longer period of time - http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/
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by cyen 17y ago
Aardvark is hiring! http://vark.com/jobs We're located in San Francisco (SOMA), and are constantly looking for sharp engineers.
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Classics in Lego(flickr.com)
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“Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch(steveblank.com)
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by cyen 17y ago
I don't think the +1 roll /is/ reused - I think they meant that if you can assume rolls uneaten by the party to which they are served are simply thrown out. With that assumption, the total rolls "lost" by the restaurant stays at n+1 - compa
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by cyen 17y ago
Yup, they're as free to attend the same industry events as anyone else. The same way girls are just as free as the boys to play football, the same way men are just as free to be interested in ballet or (to borrow an example from above) croc
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by cyen 17y ago
when i focus - soundtrack music. this means john williams (jaws, memoirs of a geisha, minority report, star wars), bear mcreary (bsg), hans zimmer (gladiator, last samurai, the dark knight), howard shore (LOTR soundtrack!), michael giacchin
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by cyen 17y ago
Right, but 6.00 is also not aimed at Course 6 students. I brought it up to provide an example of what I would've liked to see 6.01 / the intro 6 class be like, if they were going to Pythonize / simplify 6.001 at all.
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by cyen 17y ago
Before 6.01 was introduced, MIT didn't have any required undergrad CS courses that required anything besides Scheme and Java! Is that much better? Frankly - I think if you're starting to argue simply based on language, you'll find few suppo
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by cyen 17y ago
Interestingly enough, I'm also an MIT '09 (hi) - and while yes, I loved the old curriculum and I wish they were still on it, you're making all these claims about the new curriculum that are simply not true. The "entire undergrad CS curricul
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by cyen 17y ago
silentOpen - The only class in which the language has been changed due to the lack of Scheme in 6.001 is 6.034. As students branch out and take electives, there are plenty of opportunities to learn other programming languages - the UI class