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by jaydub 18y ago
See search circa 1997
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European Venture Capitalists Putting Less Money Into Fewer Deals(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
I would imagine that by now college admissions officers are tired of reading the same formulaic crap. If I were reviewing applications for anything I would provide a basic skeleton of guidelines and hope for a diverse pool of responses. Try
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Road Tolls Vulnerable to Manipulation(technologyreview.com)
6 points by jaydub 18y ago|3 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
Verbosity. Also I tend to come across code like this a lot in Java: Person p = new Person(new CarbonBasedLifeForm(new HomoSapien()));
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Taleb on the Subprime Crisis(banking.about.com)
1 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
undergrad
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Intel demonstrates how to send electrical power wirelessly(seattlepi.nwsource.com)
7 points by jaydub 18y ago|9 comments
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RoofRay calculates solar savings using Google Maps(news.cnet.com)
1 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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Google's Orkut down?(orkut.com)
2 points by jaydub 18y ago|1 comments
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Plug-In Hybrid From G.M. Is Nearly Ready for Testing(nytimes.com)
3 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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Y Combinator’s Demo Day Summer 2008(techcrunch.com)
44 points by jaydub 18y ago|19 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
...or maybe Knol is just another Google Base?
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by jaydub 18y ago
Like Taleb says, you can pick pennies in front of a steamroller and hope you don't get bowled over.
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by jaydub 18y ago
One of my professors did some work in this area, as well http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/google/ I think its pretty interesting to look at those Google results from 2000.
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Google Exploring Venture Capital Arm(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
The reason why parallel programming is hard is, like John Hennessy said: "Many of the early ideas were motivated by observations of what was easy to implement in the hardware rather than what was easy to use" (see http://www.acmqueue.com/m
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by jaydub 18y ago
Great point. Having been an intern at Wall Street firm in technology, sometimes I got the feeling that that the revenue generating branches are viewed as the champions of the firm, while the technologists are essentially (well-paid) stilts
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by jaydub 18y ago
Last semester I took a course on parallel computing and one of the things the Professor stressed throughout the course was that historically, parallel machines were built focusing first only on the hardware challenges and software/programma
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Google AdWords: A Brief History Of Online Advertising Innovation(publishing2.com)
1 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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YouGov launches hedge fund based on poll data (crowd sourced hedge fund?)(uk.reuters.com)
1 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
If I were interviewing someone, I would be more likely to test someone's general problem solving skills, questions that illustrate how a candidate thinks and approaches a challenge. This of course becomes more subjective, but can really hel
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Memo to a Young Leader: What Kind of Boss Are You?(discussionleader.hbsp.com)
10 points by jaydub 18y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft Should Know Money Can’t Buy Love(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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Starting Salaries but New York Tastes(nytimes.com)
1 points by jaydub 18y ago|1 comments
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Why Traditional Advertising Formats Fail On The Web(publishing2.com)
4 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
It's an interesting article and comparison, but (in general) I think people tend to obsess a bit too much over "true" randomness. I am not worried about my random dice having a seemingly repetitive pattern. If I am flipping a coin or even
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by jaydub 18y ago
Will you be bringing clients to your office regularly? Or is it primarily a workspace? Either way I would say go for the cheaper space initially. I think aesthetics do matter, but only to a certain extent.
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Arthur W. Burks, 92, Dies; Early Computer Theorist(nytimes.com)
1 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
I know how you feel, I had a similar question a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130293 . Some interesting responses. Seems like Summer of Code is good way for students to get involved.

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