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by iqster 15y ago
I thought most of the article was painful to read as it resurfaced the same set of stereotypes as in the Social Network movie or the Mezrich book. I felt the did article make a valid point at the end - about the lack of elite university-bas
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by iqster 15y ago
I've heard similar things. I don't totally understand how the Nook exists in a world where the Kindle and iPad exist. My only explanation for why people are buying these things is that they want a cheap tablet (closer to the price of a Kind
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by iqster 15y ago
I have a lot of Python experience. However, I recently started to learn RoR. Having a great time so far. I'd recommend making the investment.
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Sadly, that is not the way captialism works. The 1% of people will have everything and the remaining 99% will starve. I'm paraphrasing one of my favorite quotes: "Capitalism is the best system we have for creating wealth. It is a lousy syst
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by iqster 15y ago
There is theory and there is practice. Before suggesting any additional funds for SBA loans, I would suggest you read David Einhorn's book "Fooling Some Of The People All of the Time". In short, when the govt. guarantees loans, loan standar
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by iqster 15y ago
I'm one of those people who want to genuinely learn yet was obsessed with having a perfect GPA. Here's something I experienced ... Many years ago, when I first started grad school in CS, I wanted to learn graphics programming and enrolled i
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We Canadians pride ourselves as not being Americans ;-)
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Researchers in CS typically get paid quite well. Are you a student or a full-time researcher? At a University or a research lab?
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by iqster 15y ago
I was on EC2+apache+wordpress+mysql and had my blog go down as well after being featured on HN. In my case, simply rebooting the cloud instance fixed the problem (I had lots of other old projects running on the same instance). However, I di
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I think this is still a worthy experiment to try out. My guess is that it would cost in the 100s of millions. Would be nice if there was a cheap way to see 1-2 seconds in the past ... cheap enough high school for science classes.
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by iqster 15y ago
I don't get it. This article was confusing and badly written. The Chinese govt gave the money to local authorities to spend. Next, the article talks about bad debts showing up in audits. Was the money a straight out transfer? If so, this do
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Bill Gates on the energy crisis(wired.com)
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Account hacking allegation kills major newspaper(cnn.com)
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Lego Mindstorms is a fantastic platform for exploring robotics. This project seems to have to used Python, which ends up giving you an easy way to control your creations! Technically, it is possible to hook Mindstorms with ROS (robot os). I
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They've stopped the invites. In fact, they essentially revoked invitations ... i.e. people I invited last night couldn't use their invitation email this morning. Unless Google turns it on soon, they're gonna lose a lot of good will. They've
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YYZ is horrible. I've had to stop going back to Canada unless I really need to :(
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by iqster 15y ago
I moved from the Bay area to Manhattan last year. I feel poorer now than when I was a grad student. Those taxi fares add up. I've heard many people say NYC has a great public transit system ... that hasn't been my personal experience. Speci
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by iqster 15y ago
Sasta means cheap ... the so is English ;)
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Here is a paper from 03: http://www.usenix.org/event/mobisys03/tech/full_papers/chakr... As I recall, one of the key problems this group found was that GPRS had a very low incidence of packet loss. This was because the physical layer prot
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Turns out the server was not stolen! https://twitter.com/#!/instapaper/status/84106275796946944
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Good old wikipedia gives some key details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inve...
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by iqster 15y ago
Thanks for the excellent tutorials mhartl! For someone who is a Ruby Newbie, is it best to jump into 3.1? Or is it better to stick with 3.0 until there is better support in gems?
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Stats on VCs(techcrunch.com)
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Apparently, Google had been lobbying the state of Nevada for this. It's very interesting to read this Scientific American article from late May (mentions Google's lobbying efforts): http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=google-d
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by iqster 15y ago
1) Proper citation: the person who creates a derivative work cites the source properly. 2) Free as in beer 3) A social structure where it is about ego/glory rather than money Btw ... this is loosely how academia works. Most scientists are i
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Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars(blogs.forbes.com)
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300% faster float point ops on ARM Linux(engadget.com)
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by iqster 15y ago
I just tried to request site access ... kudos to these guys ... the request process itself was hilarious! Attention to detail ... that's where it's at.
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I'm curious if you considered that the reason people preamble their posts with this is because they have gotten multiple downvotes in the past for something they said which was reasonable? My understanding is that downvotes should not be ca
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by iqster 15y ago
Indeed it snows :) Funny! But seriously, the cold in Toronto is as bad as New York. Also, programmer salaries aren't exactly the same. A top notch coder in SF Bay area or NYC makes x2-x6 than a Canadian. Apart from money, I felt that there

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