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by gsivil 16y ago
I do not know what he is about to study but for example in CS there are very very good places on the east besides MIT. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu... The OP does not want to get details info in rankings an
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by gsivil 16y ago
I have visited SF only for a bit and I had the chance to visit Berkeley and Stanford. I really liked the city a lot and I want to give you my two cents about these two Universities. If you get accepted by these Universities (and let's say y
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by gsivil 16y ago
Am I the only one noticing an important omission in the list of the award winners? Namely Linus Torvalds.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt searches for book deal(crainsnewyork.com)
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by gsivil 16y ago
All the best, Sir.
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by gsivil 16y ago
Unfortunately this measuring method could discourage the people from downloading and thus could affect the measurable quantity.
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by gsivil 16y ago
Even though the chosen current title is at a first read catchy it really does injustice to the article. I would suggest you to put the superficially boring titile of the original: "The strengths of the academic enterprise"
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by gsivil 16y ago
in the same thread there is - I think- a thread about Dropbox http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103
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Still relevant: The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0 from 2006)(joelonsoftware.com)
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by gsivil 16y ago
My so-called "day work" is usually from 10am-10pm and I tend to be more productive from 6 -8(pro-dinner). Side-project-wise maybe 12-2am.
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New HN users: do not overlook the "Lists" feature(news.ycombinator.com)
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Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to get online(computerworld.com)
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by gsivil 16y ago
I did not take it personally-as if it was an insult. Just I did not want to talk about my behavior or my abuse of the ask feature. I agree with your points about the Ask HN feature. A reasonable user of HN will learn to regulate the tenden
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by gsivil 16y ago
The some post appeared a few hours ago and it has already a few comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2145850
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by gsivil 16y ago
I do not want to make it personal but I like ASK HN and I post ASK HN quite often. Ask HN is something that I guess was here long before I joined HN and it will be here for long time. Polls rarely initiate interesting discussion. This is th
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by gsivil 16y ago
I am not a citizen but I have SSN. This things are not mutually exclusive. Every US citizen has to have one but even non permanent aliens can have one.
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by gsivil 16y ago
Polls are becoming the new "Offer HN"! Hopefully this trend will not last too long EDIT: I am not talking about this one of course
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by gsivil 16y ago
For a vivid discussion on the blog post by Jessica Livingston see also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2144956
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Ask HN: Are you using a Public Key for your communications?
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by gsivil 16y ago
Do you have any idea about the future of these products?
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by gsivil 16y ago
I agree with that. But imagine having to buy licenses for a group of people and at the same time giving up some of the advantages in using Linux. On top of that having 2-3 machines and getting Office for all of them is not the most trivial
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Ask HN: OpenOffice or LibreOffice?
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IQ test to assess and outsmart bacteria's 'social intelligence'(physorg.com)
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What worries me more is that a purely "meta" comment becomes the most upvoted one.
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by gsivil 16y ago
Mark, good luck with college and your startups. You will have all your life to be full-time entrepreneur. There will be always opportunities for talented and hardworking people like yourself. What college is going to offer you right now is
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by gsivil 16y ago
I do not understand your inflammatory tone. The article is well documented and it goes into details that you do not find easily on the average post describing transitions from one language to another. There are so many people even here that
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by gsivil 16y ago
This can give to someone the idea of content specific search engines. Still use Google for generic search but a specialized search engine in various fields could be of interest. Imagine something like the let's say: the Java finder, the soc
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by gsivil 16y ago
This question is asked at least once per two weeks here. You can look into search and find all the previous posts.
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by gsivil 16y ago
I have noticed the update but I fail to understand his irony. If he did not suggest to Zuck even indirectly the idea of News Feed who would care about that post and why?
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by gsivil 16y ago
I do not know about the status of your competitors. But imagine if a web-app like that could be used at every college and every university. This could have thousands of users. Not as a personal flyer but as a wall that every one could post

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