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by kobs 14y ago
Good luck with EXEC, Justin! It was a pleasure working with the entire justin.tv team in 2008.
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by kobs 14y ago
I really hope that they're simply consolidating Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and CISE (Computer & Information Science Engineering) into a single department and keeping existing faculty. As a 2010 graduate (CISE - I wanted a
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by kobs 16y ago
Potentially.
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by kobs 16y ago
Hah, definitely not a surprise that Justin.tv is sponsoring it.
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by kobs 16y ago
TopCoder, where you can challenge others and win prizes: http://www.topcoder.com/ SPOJ: http://www.spoj.pl/
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Bloomberg Announces $22 Million Fund For Tech Companies(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by kobs 16y ago|0 comments
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by kobs 16y ago
A part of me faded away when Apple updated iTunes in 2006 and effectively blocked MyTunes/OurTunes [1]. What a great facilitator it was for introducing you to cool people with a variety of musical tastes. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O
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by kobs 16y ago
http://people.csail.mit.edu/hal/hack-android/
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by kobs 16y ago
BS in CS. Graduated about a week ago from UF. Going to work for a bookstore.
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by kobs 16y ago
Writely ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writely#History ), one of the precursors to Google Docs, was written using the .NET stack. http://scobleizer.com/2006/03/09/congrats-to-writely-for-usi...
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by kobs 16y ago
My experience has been completely different. I'm a CS student from a low income household, yet it was the brand-name (and well-known startup) internship opportunities that were not only incredibly educational and provided with me with inval
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by kobs 16y ago
Writing, music, film. Mostly non-technical (in the traditional sense) creative endeavors.
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by kobs 17y ago
Anyone can view dead links -- replace "item" in the url with "edit".
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by kobs 17y ago
Oops. I totally meant to put "(PDF)" in the title rather than the URL. Thanks.
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On Becoming a Quant(markjoshi.com)
66 points by kobs 17y ago|17 comments
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by kobs 17y ago
NNDB ( http://www.nndb.com/ ) may be relevant to #3.
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by kobs 17y ago
We were sitting next to each other during our Intro CS lab when groups were being assigned; I asked if he wanted to be my partner. We've been partners for pretty much everything ever since.
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by kobs 17y ago
I stand corrected.
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by kobs 17y ago
1. Official Google projects have the "Google" label. http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Google
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by kobs 17y ago
This is good advice. The Berkeley BART station is a relatively short walk from the campus.
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by kobs 17y ago
I'm well aware of this. I was simply remarking on how it is sometimes used.
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by kobs 17y ago
Oh, then my mistake, I guess.
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by kobs 17y ago
In this context, I think that the "also has a top CS program" attribute is implied. I think most people understand what the author meant regardless of his slightly incorrect choice of words.
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by kobs 17y ago
'Ivies' is used (erroneously)* as a blanket term to descibe a number of elite institutions (think Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Berkeley, top LACs, etc.) ... connotation.
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by kobs 17y ago
Maybe this? http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=clarence+thomas+uncle+tom
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by kobs 17y ago
"They do not seem to understand RSS feeds." I'd wager that the majority of the users on their site don't care about or know what RSS is, like most people.
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by kobs 17y ago
Don't be ashamed: there are weekly foursquare games in one of the most trafficked parts of my university's campus.
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by kobs 17y ago
This article reminded me of a comment posted by manvsmachine in a previous thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=105295 ): I'd suggest that a large part of the reason is the issue of prestige. In America, intelligent black people wi
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by kobs 17y ago
The leader is also Neal Wu ( http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=22663... ), one of the top contest programmers in the world.
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by kobs 17y ago
You can also see him in action: http://www.boondogglefilms.com/aardvarkd.php

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