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by jhferris3 16y ago
As someone who's taken a few classes with said professor, I highly doubt he consulted any lawyers before doing this.
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by jhferris3 16y ago
I was under the impression that they refunded most (all?) pre-order money?
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Ask HN: Share your .emacs (or .vimrc?)
8 points by jhferris3 16y ago|6 comments
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by jhferris3 16y ago
I don't know of any particular "starter kits". Generally speaking, the way I (and most people I know) got started was either by copying a friends .emacs file or just googling for something when you realize you need it. The latest versions o
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by jhferris3 16y ago
South America is tempting, my only concern is that I have no knowledge of spanish (I took 6 years of french and am a proficient reader).
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by jhferris3 16y ago
That might be hard to do without getting into some very gross things, but I definitely appreciate the sentiment.
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Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months of free time?
8 points by jhferris3 16y ago|13 comments
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by jhferris3 16y ago
"Though we fund all types of startups, we're especially interested in web/mobile applications." ~ http://ycombinator.com/about.html As more of a systems-y guy myself, I've noticed the trend a bit, but I've always chalked it up to the fact
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by jhferris3 16y ago
I find disorders that are defined relative to the "norm" are weird. Also it being so vague makes it interesting. I find that I fall asleep every night around 1:30-2. Is that sufficiently deviating from the "norm" that I have this DSPS? Or a
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by jhferris3 16y ago
I'm not, but http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ is a program that gives startups 3 years of product licenses, including some Windows Azure and SQL Azure credits. I don't know too much more about the program, but its at least worth checkin
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by jhferris3 16y ago
What made you do CS in college? What made you stay longer and get a MSc. ? Was there a specific subfield that really grabbed you? If the problems you're facing are too easy, consider going somewhere that would make you solve hard problems (
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by jhferris3 16y ago
I'm a CS student over in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon. While the intro courses are currently in java (and transitioning to an in-house pared-down C) Our 2nd year systems course is taught in C using the "Computer Systems:A programmers persp
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by jhferris3 16y ago
I don't know about chrome, but this sounds like it may help for ff (ImageBlock): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5613/ What would be better would be flashblock for images, so you can selectively load them instead of being a
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by jhferris3 16y ago
"the Germans produced 255 tanks per month -- a fraction of the 1,400 estimate produced by conventional intelligence. (Want to see the math? Click here.) And it turns out, this method worked best: after the War, internal German data put t
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Ask HN: How much of your day is spent writing code?
3 points by jhferris3 16y ago|2 comments
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The best question to ask your interviewer (heapified.com)
1 points by jhferris3 16y ago|0 comments