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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 abi…

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 :(.

She was leading 4-1 and serving at 40-30, meaning that she was one point from winning the game Eh, what?

Bernoulli's principle also doesn't explain how planes can fly upside-down.

Here is a documentary on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMSYGLbIUxc

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...

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 month…

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 fr…

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, w…

Seems like I've finally found a way to Bing for "sex" in India.

To see the equivalent of this initiative on steriods, take a look at Bihar's Super 30: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMSYGLbIUxc

"Great job, Joel." Joel does 0.1% of the work on StackOverflow and ServerFault. Give Jeff some credit.

I feel the most compelling reason to use C++ is that it is one of the de facto programming languages in competitions.

Hence my italicization in the grandparent comment.

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 Whitesp…

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…

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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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.