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Seems like kickstarters are mostly okay with the risks.. it is inherent in the site, after all, but man, it doesn't seem necessary to be mean about things..

Some variation of this happens in HK, where everybody wants to learn English (because they can't learn as well from their peers, unlike other subject) and English lecture/tutoring …

If you have no moves, you lose. (You only have a king left and can't move anywhere with it) I actually learned this first, so imagine my confusion when I played western Chess and s…

I run "algorithmist.com" and was getting quite a bit of spam with using only recaptcha. I was looking for something mathy.. I ended up giving mathcaptcha a go first and it seems to…

Survivor bias in full power here.

Thank the contributors, I only maintain the site! ;) Of course you can thank the site by paying it forward! That said, UVa's problems are better defined nowadays. Tough problems ar…

http://train.usaco.org/usacogate It walks you through the algorithms, though you need one of the languages. There's some terse list at http://www.algorithmist.com/ that might help.…

I think it's important for students to have critical self-feedback alone. The problem with tests (generally) is that it's feedback for the student (which is good) but also feedback…

I have a few friends who are in business school and the sole reason they went back (undergrad business in Stern) was to network a little bit and make connections. In terms of class…

The Switcher story: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Switcher.txt

I suppose it depends on the way you're framing it. If it gets to 7% as desired, it is 40% more!

The best camera is on you have in your hand at the time. I don't see a problem with letting people use whatever they have -- the technology will presumably get better if it is what…

A little, I started projects when I was 16 (some silly web game) that might not be too PC, and the code is awful, and I've rewritten the code twice!

Running back comment is somewhat amusing, if only because a recent article on ESPN said that Chris Johnson's total yardage is down because he's always aiming for the HR, thus lower…

Basketball is probably the best export. Baseball is semi-popular, but it has to deal with cricket, which is similar enough but not quite. I'm a huge fan of baseball and its history…

I don't debate library usage (reuse!), but I teach mostly theory, with code snippets to present algorithms concisely. There are many tools to solve a problem, and I want to educate…

I feel for you -- whenever I try to write about basic algorithms (sorting, etc) I always get comments that you can do it in library. Yes, obviously, but I'm teaching an algorithm, …

I also had wrote some stuff that I ping alive once in awhile, except that if I don't, it'll tweet and send random emails to friends, complaining about the temperature. My idea was …

I think Feynman's quote is meant that you should not learn only the name of things and pretend to understand what they are. There's also another anecdote written by Feynman where h…

One of my advisors liked to bring up this quote: The first time a teacher teaches something, the teacher learns. The second time a teacher teaches something, the students learn. Af…

I think the term "luck" is too overloaded. Tons of people do actually use the term "luck" as a clutch, as in it's bad luck that a pot of gold did not fall onto their lap. In that s…

There are no sunk cost in life. Even if you got really good at something, if you really want to do something else, you can drop them and start today!

This was mentioned in "Predictably Irrational", essentially, this is exactly what you don't want to do, changing a decision from social to being economical. Unfortunately, you can'…

I think it's just an easy way to justify hiring -- if the hire turns out to be awful, you can say, "hey, he/she had 10 years of experience!"

I'm paraphrasing someone, but I can't find the quote right now. Basically: If a fruit grows in a blight, you don't give credit to the blight.