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by vlad 14y ago
It would be interesting to know how many applicants got interested in Computer Science from watching Stanford's excellent iOS courses on iTunesU. Additionally, it would be interesting to learn how many students declare Computer Science befo
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by vlad 14y ago
For the past three weeks, I've worked on a Google Chrome extension called Autobahn that makes Hacker News even more awesome: - Ban stories by domain name - View user profiles in a popover - Links to comments and submissions in the p
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Show HN: Autobahn - Save Time on Hacker News(vlad.github.com)
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by vlad 14y ago
Steven Sinofsky is head of Microsoft Windows, the best-selling and most profitable operating system with 80% marketshare among all devices, and that's before they launch a new desktop and mobile operating system. Dan Riccio will be head of
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by vlad 14y ago
jQuery 1.x supports all Microsoft browsers released over the past 11 years, while jQuery 2.x will only support Microsoft browsers released a little over a year before today.
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by vlad 14y ago
Congrats Sam. Sam and Nick have generously hosted me during previous Startup Schools, including during crunch-time of their first Y Combinator startups years ago, even though we barely knew each other, so I'm forever grateful. Are you guys
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by vlad 14y ago
I can only imagine that: 1) HP makes a profit when people buy this $699 printer (though not as large as when they sell four ink tanks without a printer for $822); 2) Every printer re-purchase helps maintain their 40% marketshare in the prin
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by vlad 14y ago
I looked up the model number, and two interesting facts are not pointed out (as Sebastian probably did not expect this to appear all over the internet). The first fact is that HP offers the printer and cartridges at similar prices on their
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by vlad 14y ago
My favorite part about the benefits of learning to solve problems rather than memorizing skills for a particular section of a book at a time: > When they had been at school, their social class, as determined by their parents' jobs, were
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by vlad 14y ago
That's an excerpt from Derek's (great) book, Anything You Want. http://sivers.org/ayw .
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by vlad 14y ago
For only $70 more, Google also sells the Galaxy Nexus, which is a similar Samsung device but contains more storage, runs a lot more apps, can make or receive phone calls and data over a cell phone connection, and even includes a high defini
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by vlad 14y ago
In my first visit to Silicon Valley in 2007, one of the hosts of the "Super Happy Dev House" hackathon said he saw as many Macs as PCs at the event for the first time. First, the release of new Intel-based MacBook Pros around that time enab
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Google: only 8% of people know what a browser is (2010) (uxmag.com)
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Postmortem: Blizzard's Diablo II(gamasutra.com)
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by vlad 14y ago
(OP here) Same here! Why don't you list your degrees as B.S. in Physics and B.S. in Mathematics on LinkedIn? Were you issued two diplomas, like me? Even if the college only issues a single diploma for everybody, you're allowed to list bot
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by vlad 14y ago
(OP here! This is turning into an interesting discussion.) The requirement for double majors is to complete both majors; only two courses are allowed to count twice, and only if the undergraduate chair of the department agrees. Once you com
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by vlad 14y ago
I have a B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Mathematics (a double degree). Had I taken fewer courses, I could have had a combined B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics (a double major). I haven't seen a double degree like mine very often
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by vlad 15y ago
Yes, that was the startup I remember from 10 years ago. I found and skimmed the same article but didn't find that line. Considering they became one of the biggest lenders, I would say they're a success story. Also, a competitor I uncovere
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by vlad 15y ago
Just last night, I recalled that a company used to offer student loans in exchange for a percent of future income based on current major, grades, SAT scores, etc. some time around the .com crash. This one is about 10 years old now: http://
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by vlad 15y ago
Interestingly enough, Dropbox was launched here on Hacker News with a video to "throw away your usb drive". Since I had been writing "ad copy" for many years for my own shareware app at the time, and liked to encourage posters rather than c
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by vlad 15y ago
I won first place in Massachusetts in a grade 4-6 art poster drawing contest promoting US Savings Bonds ran by the US Treasury in the 90's, and met the Lt. Governor as well as receiving a $1,000 Savings Bond (the 2nd and 3rd places in each
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Google launches K-12 Art Contest(google.com)
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by vlad 15y ago
If I remember correctly, a recent article pointed out that prescriptions in every category of drugs have increased year over year at a similar or greater rate, and that prescriptions for ADHD and ADD have actually been increasing slower tha
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by vlad 15y ago
It's important to remember that Zuckerberg kept saying 'I don't know', because he was thinking out loud, not speaking from a script. Zuckerberg said he would stay in Boston or move to New York, in consideration with moving to Silicon Valley
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High-tech boom brings a sense of déjà vu in San Francisco(latimes.com)
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Wolfram Alpha Changes Its Name(blog.wolframalpha.com)
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Wolfram Alpha changes its name(wolframalpha.com)
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by vlad 16y ago
If a data structure can be arbitrarily long, this implies some kind of a data structure involving a linked list to avoid wasting memory. Unfortunately, it really is a bare-bones linked list, which means that we don't know the length until
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by vlad 16y ago
There has only been one case; all the articles you remember reading (including this one) reference this one study.
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Apple bought a 3D-like advertisement on NFL.com's homepage(nfl.com)
1 points by vlad 16y ago|1 comments

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