michaelrbock

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by michaelrbock 13y ago
I think online car shopping has a huge potential to grow, especially considering most consumers dislike negotiating at dealerships. That's why Edmunds.com launched the "Price Promise" ( http://www.edmunds.com/p
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You have to break the Egg & The truth about Mobile [video](ecorner.stanford.edu)
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Introducing the New Edmunds.com Developer Portal(developer.edmunds.com)
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Jeff Bezos wants to delight you: A chat with Amazon's CEO(theverge.com)
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Show HN: The New Edmunds.com API - Free Car & Dealer Data(developer.edmunds.com)
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Announcing the launch of the Open Education Alliance(blog.udacity.com)
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by michaelrbock 13y ago
Good tip. I just wish I had known this before I updated...
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by michaelrbock 13y ago
Don't upgrade! I just had this unpleasant experience and warned everyone about 15 minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6325745
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New iOS Google Authenticator update deleted all my accounts(itunes.apple.com)
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The Ads to End All Ads(campaign.getadblock.com)
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Project BBX - Turnaround Plan for Blackberry (2012)(slideshare.net)
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by michaelrbock 13y ago
Some direct competitors: - https://www.hackerrank.com/ (aka https://www.interviewstreet.com a YC company) - https://codeeval.com/ - https://coderwall.com/ - https://w
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AMA with Edmunds.com testing the Tesla Model S(reddit.com)
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Obama orders intelligence chief accused of lying to Congress to lead NSA review(theverge.com)
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Sources at Washington Post during Bezos announcement: ‘It was like a funeral’(theverge.com)
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by michaelrbock 13y ago
Being able to go at your own pace (and course content quality) is why I think Udacity is a better course provider than Coursera (even though Udacity is clearly loosing in market share).
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by michaelrbock 13y ago
As someone who has worked in an industry where FTP'ing massive CSV files was the norm, I must say this looks really nice.
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Netflix debuts multiple user profiles(theverge.com)
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by michaelrbock 13y ago
A quote from the footnotes: " 'The most dangerous thought you can have a creative person is to think you know what you're doing.' It's possible to misinterpret what I'm saying here. When I talk about not knowi
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by michaelrbock 13y ago
Professor Redekopp was one of the best teachers I've ever had. I highly recommend any incoming CS students take him for any classes you can.
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Alexis Ohanian of Reddit hosts Small Empires, early viewing tonight at 5pm PST(blog.ycombinator.com)
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by michaelrbock 13y ago
Just for some context, USC starts intro to CS with C++ and then does Data Structures in C++, then switches to Java for more advanced OOP. Upper division classes are usually in Java or C++.
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Data Structures using C++(www-scf.usc.edu)
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Jot It turns your handwritten notes into actionable tasks(getjotit.com)
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Is my domain registrar storing my password in cleartext?(security.stackexchange.com)
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by michaelrbock 13y ago
I totally agree -- the quality of Udacity courses is the best of any of the online learning options (paid or free). Every time a non-CS friend asks me where to start learning to code online I point them to Udacity's CS 101 (over Codeca
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Twitter creates fake tweets from real users to promote new product(theverge.com)
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Advantages of web applications over desktop applications(stackoverflow.com)
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by michaelrbock 13y ago
Sign up and put in credit card (maybe use stripe) or paypal info, choose which course you're taking (on coursera, udacity, etc.), and set an amount you want to "wager" on finishing that course (and a date to finish it by if i
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by michaelrbock 13y ago
Yes I'd be interested in working on this (email in profile). I think it could be similar to http://www.gym-pact.com/ but for MOOCs (i.e. "get paid to finish MOOCs"). It could also expand to coders who have tr

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