rmnoon

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by rmnoon 14y ago
Here's a friendly critique: using the monetary cost of your education to establish your credibility is not a good idea.
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by rmnoon 15y ago
Also, I can specify whatever the hell source IP address I want on my packets.
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by rmnoon 15y ago
By only taxing publicly traded equity, it seems like they'd also hit small retail investors pretty hard too, while only serving to retard valuable new IPOs even more.
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by rmnoon 15y ago
They also do this cute thing where they silently drop any characters they don't like (non alphanumeric) when you make a new password.
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Oh my, T-Mobile just texted me my password.
2 points by rmnoon 15y ago|1 comments
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by rmnoon 15y ago
I'm a techie and I don't know why it's different/better than just posting everything on facebook.
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by rmnoon 15y ago
In addition to performance metrics, this site has implementations of their benchmarks in all the languages they test. It's not pretty and side-by-side, but it's fascinating. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
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by rmnoon 15y ago
This class blew my mind. Don't take it if you're even a little bit paranoid already. =)
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by rmnoon 15y ago
FYI: the "CS-101" course is a really really basic introduction to computational thinking. If you want intro programming you probably want CS106A, which hasn't been put into this format yet. 101 is taught by Nick Parlante, though, who was o
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by rmnoon 15y ago
That's Hu Jintao, not Hugo Chavez.
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2 Floppy Drives + Microcontroller = Imperial March(blog.makezine.com)
2 points by rmnoon 15y ago|0 comments
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by rmnoon 15y ago
I took this class from Prof. Widom at Stanford. It was...meh. Are SQL triggers still relevant? How much relational algebra do you really need to know? I think I've used this stuff maybe once since then.
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by rmnoon 15y ago
There's a lot of cool science being done in Valley startups...you just have to dig a little deeper to get through all of the mobile-y social-y noise.