screwperman

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14-year-old Belarusian wins International Olympiad in Informatics(ioi2009.org)
29 points by screwperman 17y ago|8 comments
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How Verbal Self-Defense Works(people.howstuffworks.com)
31 points by screwperman 17y ago|6 comments
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by screwperman 17y ago
While I'm not an MIT student, I think the school puts a huge emphasis on being pragmatic ( see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=530659 ). Also, given the huge disparities in abilities of the freshmen there, I'd reckon that, more often
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by screwperman 17y ago
Oh, what a debacle! Even after being such a devout tennis buff, I have confused "game" with "match". Or maybe I just can't read :(.
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by screwperman 17y ago
She was leading 4-1 and serving at 40-30, meaning that she was one point from winning the game Eh, what?
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by screwperman 17y ago
Bernoulli's principle also doesn't explain how planes can fly upside-down.
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by screwperman 17y ago
Here is a documentary on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMSYGLbIUxc
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by screwperman 17y ago
If you like this, you'll love the book Proofs without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking : http://www.amazon.com/Proofs-without-Words-Exercises-Classro...
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by screwperman 17y ago
I'm in India right now and I've spent a total of 14 years here. The places I'm referring to are the ones the article seems to talk about: China, India, Japan and Korea. A few months ago, there was a discussion on this right here on HN: htt
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by screwperman 17y ago
We teach people to be the status quo, we don't encourage them to excel. Asians rarely value individuality. Doesn't the American system do better in teaching kids to be different from the norm?
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by screwperman 17y ago
It always seemed like more of a cultural difference than a financial one to me. Don't you think that TopCoder could be useful for American high school and undergraduate students, who could be preparing for the IOI and ICPC respectively? Fu
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by screwperman 17y ago
Seems like I've finally found a way to Bing for "sex" in India.
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by screwperman 17y ago
To see the equivalent of this initiative on steriods, take a look at Bihar's Super 30: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMSYGLbIUxc
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by screwperman 17y ago
"Great job, Joel." Joel does 0.1% of the work on StackOverflow and ServerFault. Give Jeff some credit.
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by screwperman 17y ago
I feel the most compelling reason to use C++ is that it is one of the de facto programming languages in competitions.
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by screwperman 17y ago
Hence my italicization in the grandparent comment.
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by screwperman 17y ago
I'm not sure what the submitter implies by "Project Euler meets Brainfck". While some "fun" problems on SPOJ involve coding exclusively in esoteric languages such as BF and Whitespace, most others are the standard algorithmic challenges.
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by screwperman 17y ago
Here's a discussion on reddit on an Indian entrance examination: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/8bxt9/an_indian_underg... The exam is more rigorous and broader in scope than the APs. It also has a far more punishing "grading curve"
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by screwperman 17y ago
I thought the parent might be downmodded to hell here on HN. Only time will tell. The guy who wrote that comment is Slava Pestov, author of the Factor programming language.
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by screwperman 17y ago
^ | | | | | pg
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Visualizing Bayes' theorem(blog.oscarbonilla.com)
76 points by screwperman 17y ago|14 comments
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Learning How to Count (Avoiding The Fencepost Problem)(betterexplained.com)
18 points by screwperman 17y ago|0 comments
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by screwperman 17y ago
O'Reilly has come up with some decent books recently, including The Productive Programmer and Beautiful Architecture . They don't seems to have got much attention.
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by screwperman 17y ago
Just to put my advice in perspective: I'm an Indian who will possibly be attending (a pretty good) public university this year. I'm the typical HN/reddit geek: started programming when I was 9, know around 9 programming languages, quite som
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by screwperman 17y ago
One of your older comments might be worth adding: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=62993 Most of his speeches (and Nandan Nilekani's for that matter) are ghost written, by a small team of smart MBA s from local elite schools like IIMs
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by screwperman 17y ago
He wrote a/an MMORPG in 100000 lines of Java: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyvern_(Online_Game) He also ported Ruby on Rails to Javascript: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html
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by screwperman 17y ago
If you enjoyed reading those 29 pages, you might find the entire book a decent read as well: http://www.amazon.com/C-Traps-Pitfalls-Andrew-Koenig/dp/0201...
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by screwperman 17y ago
I'd second this. In fact, Steve Yegge once said this about K&R ( http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/ten-great-books ): This is an odd little book. It's frequently mistaken for an introductory programming book, which inevitably leads
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StackOverflow podcast with Steve Yegge(itc.conversationsnetwork.org)
22 points by screwperman 17y ago|1 comments
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by screwperman 17y ago
I think Jeff doesn't know C Here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001216.html surely Stackoverflow is not making that much money. But StackOverflow delivers, more so than most YC startups.

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