screwperman

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1. 31.▲
   by screwperman 18y ago

   Didn't pg once write: It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial atmosphere for the right sort of unruliness—that it is a home not just for the smart, but for smart-alecks. And hackers are invariably smart-alecks. If we ha
2. 32.▲
   by screwperman 18y ago

   Good point. Having rich parents seems to be a big ace in the hole here.
3. 33.▲
   by screwperman 18y ago

   I read SICP when I was 14; this was a couple of years after I came across some pg/Lisp stuff. It would be absurd if MIT CS students remain ignorant of 6.001 given their institute's really hardcore hacker culture. Hence, I fail to see what t
4. 34.▲
   by screwperman 18y ago

   I could never get myself to use that; it's possibly because I refuse to remap one control key to the caps lock. I usually navigate by searching for some substring of the link.
5. 35.▲
   by screwperman 18y ago

   I'm really sorry for not making myself clear: I meant that I would start using Chrome if it had such a feature. And yeah, Firemacs is awesome. As a matter of fact, it does allow for navigation using some vi bindings by default. Even though
6. 36.▲
   by screwperman 18y ago

   I'm actually looking for somehing a lot simpler: vi/Emacs keybindings and a better mouseless browsing experience in general. EDIT: Sorry, I'm looking for such features in Chrome.
7. 37.▲
   by screwperman 18y ago

   Ah, my bad.
8. 38.▲
   by screwperman 18y ago

   I really do like HN, I think for the most part it has been beneficial to the community. But for the love of god, I wish half of the comments on Coding Horror submissions here would stop being the same old ad hominem attacks on Jeff's writin
9. 39.▲
   by screwperman 18y ago

   Wow, Princeton's admissions process seems to be more thorough than I could have imagined. However, you seem to be referring to those expensive international schools where most Indian applicants come from. Typical Indian schools like the one
10. 40.▲
    by screwperman 18y ago

    I'm aware that there was a discussion about the other extreme on HN a month ago -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482257 -- but I need to vent off a little. Forgive me if I go off on a tangent. I've recently graduated from a high sch
11. 41.▲
    by screwperman 18y ago

    Most programmers have the habit of using asymmetric bounds i.e. lower bound included, upper bound excluded.
12. 42.▲
    by screwperman 18y ago

    "reminded me of Feynmans comparison of Princeton versus CalTech.." Pardon me for being pedantic, but I believe he was comparing MIT and Princeton.
13. 43.▲
    by screwperman 18y ago

    MIT regular admission decisions are coming out on 3/14 1:59:26 PM Eastern Time.
14. 44.▲
    There's always time to launch your dream(37signals.com)

    61 points by screwperman 18y ago|17 comments
15. 45.▲
    by screwperman 18y ago

    I come from India, a country that does really well in the IPhO and the IChO. Most finalists coming from here treat these olympiads as training for entrance examinations. It is no surprise that Indians do not show this stellar a performance
16. 46.▲
    An iphone app that could change the way you get to work(sethgodin.typepad.com)

    12 points by screwperman 18y ago|22 comments
17. 47.▲
    by screwperman 18y ago

    Thanks.
18. 48.▲
    by screwperman 18y ago

    Allow me to gloat a little: Just a couple of days ago, I gave a ten minute presentation on computational complexity as part of a high school English assignment (sic) to my classmates who mostly had hardly any programming experience at all.