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by jpau 13y ago
It's funny. We're a nation of few people, spread across a very large piece of land. You would think that coverage would be a critical issue for telecoms, but it's not. As a fellow Aussie, lack of coverage is why I moved (back
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by jpau 13y ago
I just started going through the book Elements of Computing Systems, also available at NAND2Tetris.org. It looks exciting. Having just only just started it, I can't provide any more info than to look into it :)
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by jpau 13y ago
bigd is right. When I read text with random caps, I turn off. Consider having a native English speaker edit and structure your copy - I don't understand some of the text. Further, I'd recommend reviewing your design. Because the s
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by jpau 13y ago
Speaking as an Australian, I'm surprised that the average American spends as little as $7 per day on food. Do you know who compiled this statistic, and what a 'typical' $7 day's diet might look like?
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by jpau 13y ago
Error on authorising Linkedin: "Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$fieldOfStudy in /home/parth/public/yayaid.com/public/controller/signupProfile.php on line 99 Notice: Undefined property: stdClass
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by jpau 13y ago
For me, it wouldn't make sense taking YC itself public. I can't see much of an upside to the partners for taking the company public. Please, correct me if you see otherwise. What would be fantastic though, is for YC to incorporate
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by jpau 13y ago
>And your story is now one of them. MDX, I fear that you're being flagged only because you took a stance (go you! :) ), and that stance doesn't keep the 'bigger picture' in mind. Allow me to elaborate - Any branding
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by jpau 13y ago
Quoth Wikpeida: "In August 2011, a human-controlled Google driverless car was involved in a crash near Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Google has stated that the car was being driven manually at the time of the accident. A p
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by jpau 13y ago
I receive ~$470 a fortnight in youth allowance and rent assistance. My utilities work out to around $20 a week. That leaves $430 a fortnight for rent. My wages pay my groceries. Realestate.com.au affords some pretty nice share housing at th
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by jpau 13y ago
I think you have it the wrong way around - it's not a demand-driven arrangement, but a supply-driven one; landlords prefer to have more than one person responsible for the lease, provided the tenants have sound integrity. It's l
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by jpau 13y ago
Having multiple people on the lease is not a strange practice in Australia; it's normal and not as you described. When signing the lease you're not signing for a room, you're signing responsibility for the rent and condition
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by jpau 13y ago
oops! I hit the wrong reply 6ren is right, but it's not the whole story. In addition to to being able to have multiple people each entirely responsible for a single lease, we (Australia) have a very generous "student allowance
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by jpau 13y ago
How do people view Udacity's algorithms subject?
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by jpau 13y ago
I do really want the NBN to be the best it can be, but I really really really want a proper debate about the issue. Arguments should not be as one-sided as either "the Coalition's plan is crap, because it's slower" o
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by jpau 13y ago
Mindcrime, your reply is fantastic and covers the problem well. Thank you. But it also turns out that your words "projects that publish a list of 'low hanging fruit' bugs for beginners" is a great way to phrase "giv
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Ask HN: Please help a first-year CS student contribute to OSS
12 points by jpau 13y ago|8 comments
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by jpau 13y ago
Basic accounting will help heaps :) Let me know how Khan's stuff goes - IIRC, he used to work as a hedge fund analyst (yep, thanks Wikipedia). It'd be interesting to watch his videos :) Bloomberg's analysis tends to be shallo
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by jpau 13y ago
I don't work in finance, but I have a degree in the discipline and a tiny bit of experience. I also freaking love finance. Start with a broad class on economics (e.g. Econ 001 on UC Berkeley's webcasts, or intro macro and intro mi
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by jpau 13y ago
Though it is not exactly the same, it is a closer substitute than you might imagine; http://Counterparties.com .
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by jpau 13y ago
I have an ATV3 and I'm curious - would you like to jailbreak it for the sake of "freedom", or to add specific features that it's presently missing? If the latter, what features would you like added to it? I, for example,
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Obama overrules Apple import ban(afr.com)
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by jpau 13y ago
Proponents argue HFT provides liquidity and increased market efficiency. Market efficiency relies on extreme competition between investors that are highly intelligent and able to make quick decisions. When you can sum up much of those decis
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by jpau 14y ago
A good alternative (apparently - I'm yet to go through it) to 6.001 is CS61A from UC Berkeley. There are Webcasts, lecture materials and assignments available for two types of CS61A - a slightly older (2008?) class taught using Scheme/SICP,
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Ask HN: Can you please share your experience with EdX's CS169.1x?
3 points by jpau 14y ago|0 comments
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by jpau 14y ago
Send it to their email address associated with Paypal. Here in Australia, I've never seen it used for such. The big banks have launched apps for this purpose, though (eg Commonwealth Bank's "KaChing" app ). http://www.commbank.com.au/mob
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by jpau 14y ago
$870 is a really specific figure, as though it's your whole bank account. Keep it liquid (cash or something easily and quickly exchanged for cash) in case of emergency if you're not sure what to use it for. Note that an emergency may not ne
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by jpau 14y ago
Related: I would love to hear your stories about building apps using Adobe PhoneGap or Xamarin Mono :)
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Ask HN: Your (non-game) native app is better than a web app because..
1 points by jpau 14y ago|2 comments
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Microsoft announces $1.67/month student pricing for Office 365(blogs.office.com)
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by jpau 14y ago
I'm signed up for CS50x and 6.00x (Introduction to Computer Science). 6.00x has started and is great. It's taught in python, which I've had some exposure to before (having done the exercises in Learn Python The Hard Way). So far, I'm findin

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