December '11
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When I was a teenager I played high caliber baseball. I’m competitive to a fault and when I decide I want to be good at something, results usually follow. Now I’m a third year undergrad studying computer science.
Moai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moai facing inland at Ahu Tongariki , restored by Chilean archaeologist Claudio Cristino in the 1990s Moai i / ˈ m oʊ . aɪ / , or mo‘ai , are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Chilean Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and 1500. [ 1 ] Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku , the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. Almost all moai have overly large heads three-fifths the size of their bodies.The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 black-and-white Walt Disney Productions film based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor . The title character was based in part on Hubert Alyea a professor emeritus of chemistry at Princeton University , who was known as "Dr.
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Spotting the Great but Imperfect Resume - George Anders - Harvard Business Review
Recruiters and senior executives express frustration these days about corporate talent hunts at all levels. The gripe: "We're pouring tremendous energy into finding the right resumes. But we're losing the ability to find the right people."
Address is Approximate by Tom Jenkins tells the story of a lonely desk toy who goes on a road trip with Google streetview. I've watched this multiple times, and can't get enough. Beautiful and touching. [ via ]
Google Streetview stop motion
Markandey Katju Dec 5, 2011, 06.53PM IST The following is the text of a speech delivered by Justice Markandey Katju, chairman of the Press Council of India, at Jawaharlal Nehru University on November 14, 2011. Friends,
Markandey Katju: What is India? - The Times of India
Nyancat
As with nearly everything I make, this is open source (NCSA license) and available on github (klange) . You can also follow me on Twitter (@kevinlange) . Watch Nyan Cat on a VT220 Screenshot from gnome-terminal In addition to telnet, netcat may also work. Check which version of netcat you're using and note that you can't tell netcat what terminal to report so you will always get "ansi" mode (non-xterm-256-color, uses "10X" for bright backgrounds).
Students: The 9 things that matter more than GPA | Articles
Grades are the determining factor for performance in school. But in the professional world, that’s not how it works. Your bosses won’t tell you which questions will be on the test. Your college GPA is a combination of several factors but isn’t really the best indicator of how you’ll perform in the working world. We all know that person with perfect grades who struggles socially or that person who couldn’t care less about school but seems to have no trouble making great things happen in their life. Book smarts and street smarts are very different things.
Every Christopher Soghoian production follows a similar pattern, a series of orchestrated events that lead to the public shaming of a large entity—Google, Facebook, the federal government—over transgressions that the 30-year-old technologist sees as unacceptable violations of privacy. Sometimes he discovers these security flaws by accident, other times because someone has pissed him off, but mostly because he’s parked at his computer all day looking for security flaws. When he finds one, Soghoian, a PhD candidate in computer science at Indiana University Bloomington, learns everything he can about it and devises what he sees as a viable solution. Then he alerts the offending party and gives them a chance to fix things, explaining that if they don’t, he’ll go public with his discovery. (OK, sometimes he skips the give-them-a-chance step.)
