hamidp

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by hamidp 17y ago
College is totally worthless. Everyone is the very smart entrepreneurial type like we all of course are, and already posses the vast majority of skills that they'll ever need in life. Indeed, college for them would be nothing more than nigh
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by hamidp 17y ago
I too wish Apple would disregard the core of its business plan and introduce a niche product that few would buy.
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by hamidp 17y ago
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned college and education in the context of signaling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics) A degree from a Tier-1 school and high GPA is a signal to potential employers that you are a ha
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by hamidp 17y ago
There's no answer to the "why" in the article beyond celebrity mentions and saying that businesses will pay. A valuation of $5 billion would mean about $200 per user at the 25 million users mark, which would be reasonable were it a porn-sit
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by hamidp 17y ago
Visual Studio + viemu for vi keybindings. The sum of the two is far greater.
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by hamidp 17y ago
Since did lack of support stop anyone from finding a way to run it?
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by hamidp 17y ago
I remember fiddling around with PHPs recursion and having it get very bad very quickly. Why use lambdas and recursion with PHP when there's tons of languages that do it better?
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by hamidp 17y ago
I have been in a situation where this was the case: myself and another guy were the devs, and the non-programmer was the public face of the company: he did customer service, marketing, PR, specs, QA, research -- pretty much anything that we
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by hamidp 17y ago
The whole point of Safebank seems to be to have it be safe. How safe a is a week-old bank started by some guy with a blog who doesn't know the difference between retail and investment banking? People don't love their banks? I do. Bank of Am
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by hamidp 17y ago
And what subjects would those be?
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by hamidp 17y ago
Only 7 bad signs? What about the work environment? Working in a cube farm with the cheapest kind of free coffee is a lot worse than working for a company that has free Starbucks/drinks/food and that gives you a private office and lets you w
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by hamidp 17y ago
I am working for a company that uses Microsoft stuff exclusively and it's not half bad. Sometimes I may have to fire up IE to open a page or two.
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by hamidp 17y ago
It seems to me that in this case the design is serving as a spec. If you don't have any idea what it's supposed to do it's kind of hard to build it. Then again, that seems rather obvious.
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by hamidp 17y ago
You are forgetting the risk nature of potential suitors. If the suitors are all risk averse, that is if they perceive that the pain caused by rejection is greater than the pleasure of success, none of them will approach her. On the other ha
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by hamidp 17y ago
Arguing that OKC data is better than Gallup's (as the article implies) isn't a strong claim of statistical validity, it's ignorance of the basic principles of statistics.
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by hamidp 17y ago
I actually set Bing as my default search engine just to actually test it out in day-to-day searches, because testing a search engine by searching for your name or "test" is completely useless. So far it delivers very good results, except fo
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by hamidp 17y ago
The Woz didn't want anything but to own a computer. He couldn't afford one, so he designed them on paper, and then he found out that his designs are far superior to what was being sold. Then he sold some kits, and then he built the Apple I.
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by hamidp 17y ago
It's simple supply and demand. H-1B increases the supply of programmers, which means that the price (wages) paid to them will decrease. As for the whole "dispels the myth that globalization generates no losers," thing -- that's not really h
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by hamidp 17y ago
Let the students run their own machines? Considering the difficulty of the entry-level classes (weed out) and the fact that students often have 3-4 extra classes just like it, having them spend hours upon hours of admin work. They're traini
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Use Greasemonkey to extract your Facebook Phonebook(shout.setfive.com)
2 points by hamidp 18y ago|0 comments
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by hamidp 18y ago
The problem with using Twitter for polls is the sample (Twitter users) is very homogenous and very unrepresentative of the target population, that is unless your target population is Twitter users.
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by hamidp 18y ago
Demaine took a stand-up comedy class once apparently and he uses it extensively.
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by hamidp 18y ago
I must be missing something here. Your review lists what is covered in the lecture (you can see that on the MIT website) and provides some notes (there are much better ones on the MIT website). Why not just watch the lecture or read the sli