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College students 40% less empathetic than in 1970's (washingtonpost.com)
2 points by vlad 16y ago|2 comments
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by vlad 16y ago
Since others may not know, you and Bill completed your PhD's in Mathematics and Biology/Chemistry, respectively. You both had experience programming and are now early employees of a software startup. Would you say you were partially drawn
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by vlad 16y ago
Computations generated from large datasets to answer user-submitted queries interpreted via natural language processing techniques displayed in a helpful and clear way? Try http://WolframAlpha.com . Mobile phone support? Check out their
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by vlad 16y ago
While you congratulate the author because you both believe that business plans aren't the best vehicle for starting a company, he's actually in favor of business plan competitions, not against them. The changes he advocates--such as buildi
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by vlad 16y ago
We realized that the idea won't work well in practice and that the team dynamics are far from ideal. You got feedback about why your idea was bad, learned how to put it into words, and practiced working in a group to do so.
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by vlad 16y ago
I'm literally in the library right now, working on my last homework for a Search Engines course taught by Distinguished Professor Bruce Croft. We're using his new book, Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice. You can find the s
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Scientists Invent "Wearing Your Files" and Using Them on Any Device You Touch(cordis.europa.eu)
3 points by vlad 16y ago|0 comments
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How older people interact and use email in their daily life(dnaindia.com)
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Why the iPhone could be bad news for Computer Science(silicon.com)
2 points by vlad 16y ago|2 comments
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by vlad 16y ago
I used to have an obsession about reserving a great name or two whenever a new service came out. I worked on my own shareware application, and I never knew where I would branch out for my next app. I registered apps.facebook.com/docs when
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by vlad 17y ago
...how Apple was able to remotely disable that one specific phone at their will. This does not prove that Apple has the ability to remote-wipe any user's phone. First, if Apple remote-wiped the iPhone, this would be explained by the fact
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by vlad 17y ago
This article is at least ten years old; it certainly predates Paul Graham's essays and most of Joel On Software.
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by vlad 17y ago
On a related note, it would be great if Google allowed others to post education materials of length beyond 10 minutes in length, as well. For example, I want to post full-length videos of computer science conferences and talks but this see
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by vlad 17y ago
Here are sample points with the following characteristics: Min: 21 Avg: 28.3 Median: 34 21 21 21 22 22 23 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 When you consider that there are about 26 people selected (ten teams times three people each, or about 30), we ca
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by vlad 17y ago
1) I think the actual story has elements of both variants--keeping an idea secret until execution, as well as executing on it and improving the idea. If PageRank was closely guarded in any way, it could have been so that Page and Brin could
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by vlad 17y ago
Good find. The author has since updated the article, below. It's also a written article instead of a flash presentation. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190419
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API Design Maxims by Joshua Bloch, 2008 (no flash needed)(infoq.com)
31 points by vlad 17y ago|0 comments
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by vlad 17y ago
I remember having to do this myself... What service would you recommend for sending CD's out?
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by vlad 17y ago
The design is very slick.
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by vlad 17y ago
It would be funny if showing up at the correct place for an onsite interview was part of the weed-out process of candidates who don't read the company blog!
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by vlad 17y ago
Speaking of which, what's new with Omnisio since Google acquired them? It seems like Google shut down the service to new sign ups for many years now, similar to what they did with GrandCentral, and likewise with Etherpad.
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by vlad 17y ago
As ridiculous as it sounds now, eBay used to give an option: use a non-secure form (by default), or click a link to proceed to a secure login form using SSL over https.
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by vlad 17y ago
While not a transcript, this article from 2008 contains the same arguments as the linked video: http://thebivouac.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/economist-peter-s...
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Peter Schiff on Abolishing Student Loans to Make Colleges Affordable (schiffforsenate.com)
37 points by vlad 17y ago|45 comments
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by vlad 17y ago
This is a tip I picked up maybe ten years ago from bodybuilding (with the exception of having a rest day every five days or so, which is considered good practice.) If you miss more than one day in a row, it can be very hard to get back int
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by vlad 17y ago
More like $70 a month with tax, which the chart should have guesstimated. Also, the Nexus One is $529, not $579. Also, T-Mobile offers 1000 minutes for a year for $100, with minutes that don't expire as long as you keep refilling in time.
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by vlad 17y ago
People often confuse "making a game easy" with "making a game rewarding". The worst thing you can do is make your game too easy Maybe I misread, but what you wrote is exactly the opposite of the point Jeff makes. Jeff is respected in the
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Electronic Stability Control to prevent 240K injuries/year(detnews.com)
1 points by vlad 17y ago|0 comments
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by vlad 17y ago
My drivers education course (in the US) emphasized steering to avoid a collision first, and then braking afterwards. We were taught that colliding with a pole at 35 mph is better than doing so with oncoming traffic for a total effect of 70
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by vlad 17y ago
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, electronic stability control is the most important technology since seat belts. Yet, as recently as a couple of years ago, the Volkswagen Rabbit (Golf) was the only car under $20,000

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