samirmenon

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by samirmenon 11y ago
You could take that one step further. CS has, in it's modern incarnation, only been around for ~90 years. CS, as it is taught at the undergraduate level, has changed dramatically in recent years, and will continue into the future. Math
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by samirmenon 11y ago
I thought of this problem from a different perspective. A lot of disadvantaged people, and middle class people in developing nations, already have 'dumbphones'. How could we allow people to do more with basic phones? I built a lit
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Free translation without a smartphone(smstranslate.divshot.io)
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by samirmenon 12y ago
According to the WHO, malaria kills almost 500,000 children under 5 each year globally, though the vast majority (~90%) of these deaths are in Africa. [1] In the US, 3,000-49,000 people die each year from the flu.[2] Clearly, the scales are
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by samirmenon 12y ago
This seems like a wonderful language for game development. I wonder if there will be some kind of graphics support, or if I can use the C API (when it is finished).
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by samirmenon 12y ago
This is a great walkthrough of Raft: http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/
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by samirmenon 12y ago
Login to https://www.icloud.com/ and use "Find My iPhone" to track your MacBook and iPad. If the thieves are stupid enough, they'll turn the devices on at some point, giving you a good idea of where they are
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by samirmenon 12y ago
This just feels like an advertisement for Brewster.
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by samirmenon 12y ago
"We also think these breakouts aren’t necessarily a good way to judge accelerators." Is Y Combinator a bit arrogant to say that the success of its startups is a bad a metric for evaluating their success? If it is a bad metric, wha
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by samirmenon 12y ago
The New York Times actually broke the story. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensore...
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by samirmenon 12y ago
The article never actually specifies whether the "mostly black and Latino" women who digitize the books are treated as independent contractors. It implies it, by launching into a section on Mechanical Turk, Uber, TaskRabbit, etc,
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by samirmenon 12y ago
What topic were you googling? Also, its interesting that this account was created so recently... maybe this is Google itself.
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by samirmenon 12y ago
"Straight people don't go around declaring their sexuality, nor ever feel the need to" Straight people don't declare their sexuality because everyone is assumed to be straight until proven otherwise.
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by samirmenon 12y ago
I actually just wrote an add-on for Google Sheets (It allows you to run neural networks in a spreadsheet). While I resented being forced to use Google's Apps Script Editor, I was impressed with the quality of the documentation and refe
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by samirmenon 12y ago
YikYak is sweeping our high school. It's mostly used to make fun of school administrators and bully other students. It seems much more popular with kids than Secret. http://www.yikyakapp.com/
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by samirmenon 12y ago
"Conventional beliefs only ever come to appear arbitrary and wrong in retrospect; whenever one collapses, we call the old belief a bubble." I couldn't help but feel that, in 10 years, Silicon Valley's current bubble (whi
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by samirmenon 12y ago
According to the Department of Transportation Commissioner, “the chances of a person being killed is cut in half when you reduce the speed limit of the moving vehicle from 30 to 25.” http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08&
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by samirmenon 12y ago
Don't all people have an equal right to education?
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by samirmenon 12y ago
I love this! My favorite part was 'discovering' my own 'cords'. So far, my ear prefers AEF, AWF, ECG, AEG, and AFY. Also, you can make a key stay down by holding down Control (Command on a Mac)
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by samirmenon 12y ago
"The team behind a social network being used by Islamic State (IS) militants has admitted it cannot prevent the spread of extremist material." "admitted"? What's with the tone of this article? What crime are they
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by samirmenon 12y ago
Right now, it appears to be through referral on Twitter. I wonder how they define "woman"... can a transgender or genderqueer person join?
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by samirmenon 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand how Women.com "verfies" that you are a woman. It seems a bit presumptuous to ask someone to "verify" their gender.
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by samirmenon 12y ago
Absolutely. I hope that every year of my life, I look back, and laugh at the things I 'knew' 10 years ago. Is it the same for you? The oft-repeated idea of an "underdeveloped" teenage brain is a bit old. Scientific Ameri
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by samirmenon 12y ago
I'm actually quite hurt by this comment. Firstly, I have worked for the past three years as a software developer. I've had to deliver things to a manager, figure out exactly what a client wants, and work collaboratively. I think t
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by samirmenon 12y ago
Public school, but fairly wealthy. What's your point?
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by samirmenon 12y ago
Do the kids in the article have access to the internet? Do they use it?
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by samirmenon 12y ago
Is the elementary educational system truly "damaging" to young minds? I think of my elementary education (which, mind you, was only 6 years ago) as perhaps boring or tedious in some areas (like math, for me), while also exciting a
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by samirmenon 12y ago
Absolutely nothing in the article implies that this father is attempting to expose his children to books or other resources (the internet, perhaps?) about math, science, or history.
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by samirmenon 12y ago
Perhaps I am clouded by my own positive experiences with school, but I disagree on two levels. Firstly, your use of the phrase 'in the west' implies that outside of the 'west' there is some different, better elementary e
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by samirmenon 12y ago
This actually seems astoundingly misguided and dangerous. One of the unique, defining qualities of humanity is an ability to build on the knowledge and experiences of generations before us. Why throw all of the knowledge of the past 5,000 y

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