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In-Q-Tel: The CIA's Tax-Funded Player In Silicon Valley(npr.org)
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by pitt1980 14y ago
yeah, I read about that in http://www.amazon.com/Final-Jeopardy-Machine-Quest-Everythin... I'm not enough of a hacker yet to actually do that myself
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by pitt1980 14y ago
If someone came up with a good spaced repition app for retaining the learning from all these online classes, I'd be happy to pay $20 - 30 for something like that (market survey of 1)
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by pitt1980 14y ago
it cuts both ways, you don't want to get 'sucker' stapped on your forehead early in a business relationship obviously, good relationships have give a take both ways, a little framing of what you expect early on, can pay alot of dividends ov
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by pitt1980 14y ago
http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&mc=34&#3... they are way too cumbersome to buy, why invest in a currency that the average computer user can't figure out how to buy?
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by pitt1980 14y ago
kind of interesting to think about this through the context of all the free online classes being offered. Its seems like what people say is, 'well you miss out on interacting with all the other Harvard students' not sure how welcoming thes
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by pitt1980 14y ago
why are you being a dick? if you want him to go into more detail about a paticular item, why don't you ask about it? if you don't care at all, why don't you just find a different item to read?
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by pitt1980 14y ago
seems relevent - "What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. You shouldn't worry about prestige. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world. When you can ask the opinions of people whose
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by pitt1980 14y ago
you should turn this into an app for how to coordinate fan chants at sporting events at duke basketball games they pass out a paper detailing all the chants they're going to do The How to Root app - eveyone chant (whatever) now!
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by pitt1980 14y ago
The average tuition cost is approximately $16,000 per year. Plus assume another $10,000 in living costs, books, etc. $26,000 in total for a complete cost of $104,000 in a 4 year period. Some people choose to go more expensive by going to a
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by pitt1980 14y ago
thanks, yeah I guess that's what I figured, try and give people's objections as much consideration as you can, and if you still believe it, I guess you got something
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Ask HN: how do you know if you have a secret, just wrong? (from Thiel lectures)
6 points by pitt1980 14y ago|5 comments
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by pitt1980 14y ago
its a rhetorical technique whether its effective seems situational "sorry if this is insulting" won't be effective if what you follow it with is truly insulting we all know thin skinned people though, sometimes the best way to get them to h
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by pitt1980 14y ago
I'm sure that's the case putting a sentence about how your comment may be downvoted, is just a request not to have that small number reflexsively downvote, because sometimes that happens
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by pitt1980 14y ago
people say this because outside the mainstream thoughts do get downvoted alot on this board. which is maybe better than letting trolls take over, I'm kind of agnostic about it but alternative viewpoints are often dismissed here (only exampl
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by pitt1980 14y ago
seems like he's done ok grade wise in life, whether he could or couldn't get an A in some supertough class at CMU, don't like his methods, don't use them give him a little credit for accumlating and sharing alot of different strategies to d
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by pitt1980 14y ago
you aware that he's a PhD grad from MIT? http://calnewport.com/info/ no need to take it personal
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by pitt1980 14y ago
seems like the Theil Fellowship gives participants a harvard quality social network (if not better) http://www.thielfellowship.org/ down market, something like http://codeacademy.org/ might give you a state university qaulity network fo
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Yahoo CEO degree lie found by fueding hedge funder (articles.businessinsider.com)
2 points by pitt1980 14y ago|0 comments
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Everything You Need To Know About Breaking Into The Tech Startup Industry(forbes.com)
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by pitt1980 15y ago
yeah, wonder if you could do something like, here's 3 essays, rank them from best to worst fancy algorythm fit all the essays onto some sort of generous curve grade seems like essay a > than essay b > than essay c would get you bett
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by pitt1980 15y ago
"Where essays are required, especially in the humanities and social sciences, the system relies on the students themselves to grade their fellow students’ work, in effect turning them into teaching assistants. Dr. Koller said that this woul
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by pitt1980 15y ago
those are just the engineering challenges, you could probably do some sort of reverse retina scan to make sure they're only used by the intended wearer the threat of hackers applies to any number of technologies currently in use by the mili
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by pitt1980 15y ago
lots of manhours are lost in traffic http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/24/the_world_s... I would say understanding the dynamics of it is a perfectly important question for a PhD thesis
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by pitt1980 15y ago
not sure this hasn't already been studied there is probably some theory of traffic that this strategy is based on http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/story/_/id/7128930/colo... http://www.slate.com/articles/life/transport/2011/10/rollin
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by pitt1980 15y ago
That's probably roughly it "I'm a software developer I'm looking for ideas to create useful software for (whatever industry target is in) I would love to buy you coffee and pick you brain about what software could be developed that would so
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by pitt1980 15y ago
I think the "recognized as legit by peers and employers alike" is the important part I think an alternative to the current model of getting yourself deep in debt to prove you're employable would do society alot of good
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by pitt1980 15y ago
the change starts with us if you have a startup looking for engineers, I would troll the reddit boards devoted to those classes and see who's interested in joining you you might be able to come up with some pretty good underpriced talent
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by pitt1980 15y ago
the udacity site (Prof Thrun's startup) indicates that they're going to have upcoming classes on:THEORY OF COMPUTATION, OPERATING SYSTEMS, COMPUTER NETWORKS, DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, COMPUTER SECURITY, ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURES, SOFTWARE E
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by pitt1980 15y ago
I think the point is that sometimes atheists are more influenced by ideas that come from religion than they realize

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