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by rmobin 17y ago
read Good Calories, Bad Calories for a well researched book on why this is ( http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Scienc... )
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by rmobin 17y ago
I was Siqi's cofounder both times we applied. Siqi is correct; we didn't believe he was being unethical. The 3 of us agonized over the situation for quite a while, and understood his decision to leave, especially given that the side project
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by rmobin 17y ago
I recently got interested in flash games development for fun, and found this book to be pretty helpful: Foundation Game Design with Flash ( http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1430218215 ). It doesn't assume any previous programming o
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by rmobin 17y ago
looks like the order changed, here's a pic of the actual schedule that someone posted: http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/756/scheduleyo.jpg
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by rmobin 17y ago
no assignments
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by rmobin 17y ago
This plan worked out fantastically well for me. I started eating this way around April of this year, saw results after a very short time, then started weight training 2-3 times a week. I'm down to about 145 lbs from 175, and as long as I s
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by rmobin 17y ago
Gred Linden likes Introduction to Information Retrieval: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~hinrich/information-retrieval-... (free online).
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by rmobin 18y ago
He's right about the importance of education and the poor state of it in the US, but I'm not convinced that the private sector can't handle it. Inside American Education ( http://www.amazon.com/Inside-American-Education-Thomas-Sowel... ) is
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by rmobin 18y ago
I picked up Beginning J2ME ( http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-J2ME-Novice-Professional-Thi... ) earlier this year when working on a mobile application for BB and it was pretty handy. You should know that RIM provides additional apis on top o
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by rmobin 18y ago
I definitely agree with the point that some drudgery (with benefits that aren't immediately obvious) is necessary in schools, but the state of public education in the US is pretty bad, and in many cases this cartoon is spot on.
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by rmobin 19y ago
From http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html : "We have some evidence to support this. Several of the most successful startups we've funded told us later that they only decided to apply at the last moment. Some decided only hours before the