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I took a version of this class (called The Art of Approximation) with Dr. Mahajan when he was a visiting professor at Olin College. The course helped me become fearless about tackl…

This looks neat! Signed up. Question though -- is this all $$$$+ restaurants or will you guys expand to cheaper/lesser well known joints too?

Allen taught every single software class I took in college,its awesome to see his writing recognized on HN! We actually worked through LBoS during a software systems course this pa…

Really cool idea, I have a general question about the healthcare app space -- how many of these apps are written ad-hoc for each medical practice? I.E., should I expect my dentist …

From what I understand, many of the statistics quoted about Iron Dome are for "attempted interceptions". This skews the effectiveness of the system towards high-priority scenarios,…

This has to be one of the clearest academic papers I have ever read. Aside from the content, the author does a really good job explaining his thesis. I wish more academic papers we…

Quick question about one of the algorithms this article proposes: >Instead, we compute a seed by combining a server_seed (which is provided in hashed form to the client before the …

I'm currently working on a project where we started with Trigger.IO but moved to phonegap simply because more people have used phonegap, so the documentation is a lot better. Also,…

Hey, did you also here that there are NO trees on their campus?

Yep, https://github.com/technicalmachine/tessel-design-docs

For some people it may be easy. For others they may have awesome ideas but decide not to execute on those ideas because learning Arduino C++ or figuring out how to install Node on …

I think the appeal is that web developers won't need to learn another language in order to do embedded development. That's another barrier to entry to embedded development lowered.…

This is sort of like an internship, but for people no longer in school. I've interned three times (finishing my third now) and I think it's a great way for you to get to know a com…

I think it's weird that this person complains about people going home to live their lives. You know what's awesome about big companies? They know you have a life and they don't try…