kobs

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by kobs 17y ago
Same. 4th year CS major at UF.
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by kobs 17y ago
Just an anecdote, but I saw an older gentleman riding a Segway in the street on Lexington avenue in Midtown Manhattan!
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by kobs 17y ago
I may try to make it to this meetup since I'll be leaving the city in 2 weeks.
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by kobs 17y ago
During my software engineer internship interview with Google they wanted me to write code using Google Docs, but the interviewer couldn't even get it to work properly (what a great way to impress candidates). Here's to Etherpad showing them
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by kobs 17y ago
I think there are a couple of gators on HN.
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by kobs 18y ago
Why would anyone align their college decision with YC? edit: presumably, this was tongue-in-cheek(?)
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by kobs 18y ago
Quizlet ( http://quizlet.com/about/ ) seems to be successful and is run by a teen. I'm not sure if they've taken funding though.
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by kobs 18y ago
wu :: forums - http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi xkcd - http://forums.xkcd.com/ #math on freenode
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by kobs 18y ago
Antitrust: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/ Pirates of Silicon Valley: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
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by kobs 18y ago
University of Florida
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by kobs 18y ago
VMWare fusion is great. I received a copy from a recruiter, which came in handy when I took a course that required Quartus (Windows or Linux). I had no issue interfacing with the CPLDs we were using (I used XP).
42.
by kobs 18y ago
^ Another fellow CS student at UF :-)
43.
by kobs 18y ago
What about investment banking, private equity, trading, etc?
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by kobs 18y ago
It should be noted that simplejson is now included in the standard library. Reference: http://bugs.python.org/issue2750
45.
by kobs 18y ago
Great job :-)
46.
by kobs 18y ago
CC was a huge time sink for me back in high school.
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by kobs 18y ago
TheU.com pretty much did the same thing -- not sure what happened to them. The site was pretty decent (more so for entertainment purposes) when I was going through the admissions process.
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by kobs 18y ago
No mention of Starcraft skills? :-)
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by kobs 18y ago
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sherstov/pdmc/
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by kobs 18y ago
http://wiki.co.mments.com/Introduction
51.
by kobs 18y ago
Since you're already using Eclipse, check this out: http://codesurgeonblog.com/2008/06/cola-real-time-shared-edi...
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by kobs 18y ago
An introduction I've found helpful: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Python/PyThreads.pdf
53.
by kobs 18y ago
Another nod for someone who had no idea what was going on in in the tech world. I was in 6th grade, honing my skills in TI-BASIC.
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by kobs 18y ago
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1551/screenshot-07312008.png My primary editor is Emacs. I don't usually use 3 different editors simultaneously.
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by kobs 18y ago
Justin.tv has those features :-)
56.
by kobs 18y ago
Ah, well that's unfortunate.
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by kobs 18y ago
Jay Adelson founded Equinix: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinix . It doesn't seem like he'd be hurting for cash.
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by kobs 18y ago
Google Reader can be used as a pseudo-cache: http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http://www.matasano.c...
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by kobs 18y ago
Please inform me on how following YC's model is not a Good Thing. YC is clearly not omnipresent (and has an upperbound on the number of companies they are able to devote resources to), so who cares if someone else decides to start something
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by kobs 18y ago
This list may be useful... http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/category/ai/

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