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by vlad 17y ago
At BarCamp, a speaker complained that Apple rejected his quick-links app because the reviewer queried wikipedia for an offensive word, and then followed links in the resulting page onto more offensive topics.
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by vlad 17y ago
I read that aloud. It was awesome.
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by vlad 17y ago
pg submitted Wolfram's announcement of Mathematica 7 a few months ago, and believes in launching early and then iteratively improving the product. I think he might have been sarcastic. I think Wolfram really does want as many users as poss
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by vlad 17y ago
Wolfram Alpha is much more interesting to me than Google was when it came out (all Google had going for it originally was that it had no ads). Its calculating abilities are also more impressive than Google's Calculator feature has been at
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by vlad 17y ago
Try typing in the name of a college (the abbreviation is fine, too.) It's also interesting that it can not only perform integration, but also tell you the steps it took to get to the answer.
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Why We Procrastinate and How to Stop(newsweek.com)
43 points by vlad 17y ago|34 comments
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Summer hacker housing in Silicon Valley?
2 points by vlad 17y ago|1 comments
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Clojure for Lisp Programmers, Video by creator Rich Hickey(clojure.blip.tv)
3 points by vlad 17y ago|0 comments
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Clojure for Java Programmers, Video by creator Rich Hickey(clojure.blip.tv)
4 points by vlad 17y ago|0 comments
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by vlad 17y ago
> consider the equation (x+3)/(2x+4)=1 My first step was to replace the / with = and ignore the =1 since the numerator and denominator must be the same. I like to come up with ways that keep the main parts of a problem near each other,
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by vlad 17y ago
That is not as specific and actionable as I would have preferred, but thank you!
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What kind of people are startups (and big companies) hiring?
6 points by vlad 17y ago|3 comments
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by vlad 17y ago
I think this translation is more accurate and makes for a better proof: Я не говорил что она украла мoи деньги; otherwise, a great point.
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by vlad 17y ago
Actually, we're doing a lot better now than we used to be, as IQ scores seem to be increasing over time. As much as any such observation may have been measured correctly, it doesn't logically follow that intelligence itself is increasing,
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by vlad 17y ago
Allow us to customize the title, just like we can customize the title bar background.
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by vlad 18y ago
Just read this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=560045
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by vlad 18y ago
You almost nailed it. It's not how much exercise you do during the week, but that you spend time to do it regularly. Again, it doesn't matter exactly what you do. The point of exercise is that it challenges you a bit. So, if you go to t
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Should hackers pay attention to Silicon Valley?(vladislav.posterous.com)
17 points by vlad 18y ago|1 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
I posted a reply here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=567497
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Teach Yourself Fundamentals of Math (Reasoning, Logic, Sets, Induction, Complex Numbers)(math.umass.edu)
79 points by vlad 18y ago|4 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
Same here: I was hired as one of the youngest full-time employees at a Fortune 100 company. I did not have a degree, and on top of that, attended a community college, but I was Student Body President there. I also co-founded a Student New
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by vlad 18y ago
1) This special program is for students interested in pursuing the Masters Degree, though it would be completed alongside students pursing a PhD or MS/PhD, and one could switch to the PhD track if they wanted to. 2) Applying to grad schools
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by vlad 18y ago
On a related note, if you had the option to attend a pretty good grad school for free, taking two grad classes a semester, (and on top of that, get paid a half-time stipend for 20 hours a week as Teaching Assistant or Research Assistant, wh
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by vlad 18y ago
Or, just as likely, on the other side of the spectrum, they tried to create the best site they could and got multiple offers on a daily basis since inception. In other words, just because they sold to Google, doesn't mean other companies di
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by vlad 18y ago
I think you're right, Major. But those two had founded and worked on an eBay clone for students prior to that.
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by vlad 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447529
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by vlad 18y ago
The article states that Google was not mentioned, and that legal licensees of the content (like Google is) would not be sued. Finally, the gist of the article is that publishers do not want their content appearing on unauthorized ad-suppor
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by vlad 18y ago
1) I would choose between UMass Amherst and Tufts. If you want to start your own business, not having to pay loans while in college, or after, will be of great help. On top of that, your living expenses are paid for. 2) It's possible that
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by vlad 18y ago
Please source your argument, that I am not allowed to appeal to authority or make bold claims without evidence, but you are. :)
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by vlad 18y ago
That was the point--your arguments are unsourced. :)

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