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It's funny because the students at the competitive schools work their ass off for the entire semester/ quarter to learn this material. If you use the weakest possible definition fo…

Number of downloads? Price? Ads? No ads? iOS? Android?

Why do you say (3)?

I'm considering either iOS or android, and either making it nonfree or free (but with ads). Suppose it got around 100,000 downloads and the pay version is priced at a dollar. How m…

Functional programming is a leaky abstraction?

Great.

The question in philosophy is "how does consciousness arise from the physical?" While you can claim it's due to some complex interaction in our brains, and while we have significan…

I've lost a significant amount of weight twice (> 80lbs) and, externally, I seem to have also changed my behavior in a substantial way. I am a much better student than I was before…

Why aren't we teaching our scientists and engineers in a similar fashion then?

I'm not making generalizations about the college experience. His claim seemed all encompassing to me.

"Getting an A is as easy as doing everything, it doesn't require any real intelligence or understanding. This is really what college is all about." You don't have a representative …