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kenny sanders

university of florida kenny@appliedfoo.com http://appliedfoo.com/

currently: nyc

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kobs··on Tell HN NYC: Hackers & Founders #3, This Thursday (7/30) at Shake Shack, 6PM
I may try to make it to this meetup since I'll be leaving the city in 2 weeks.
kobs··on Etherpad gets a makeover and becomes even more of a threat to Google Docs
During my software engineer internship interview with Google they wanted me to write code using Google Docs, but the interviewer couldn't even get it to work properly (what a great way to impress candidates). Here's to Etherpad showing them how to get it done :-).
kobs··on Ask HN: what linear algebra do you use most often for practical problems?
I think there are a couple of gators on HN.
kobs··on Ask HN: Choosing a college
Why would anyone align their college decision with YC?

edit: presumably, this was tongue-in-cheek(?)

kobs··on Ask HN: Funding for a teen startup
Quizlet (http://quizlet.com/about/) seems to be successful and is run by a teen. I'm not sure if they've taken funding though.
kobs··on Ask HN: Good math forums?
wu :: forums - http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi

xkcd - http://forums.xkcd.com/

#math on freenode

kobs··on Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies?
Antitrust: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/

Pirates of Silicon Valley: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/

kobs··on Ask HN: Which school do you attend?
University of Florida
kobs··on Laptop of choice for a Programmer, Need Help
VMWare fusion is great. I received a copy from a recruiter, which came in handy when I took a course that required Quartus (Windows or Linux). I had no issue interfacing with the CPLDs we were using (I used XP).
kobs··on Tell HN: 2009 Calendar, to help hackers with networking.
^ Another fellow CS student at UF :-)
kobs··on Any College Will Do
What about investment banking, private equity, trading, etc?
kobs··on Comparing JSON modules for Python
It should be noted that simplejson is now included in the standard library. Reference: http://bugs.python.org/issue2750
kobs··on YC Startup Justin.tv hits Alexa 160
Great job :-)
kobs··on Unigo: "why didn't I think of that" startup
CC was a huge time sink for me back in high school.
kobs··on Unigo: "why didn't I think of that" startup
TheU.com pretty much did the same thing -- not sure what happened to them. The site was pretty decent (more so for entertainment purposes) when I was going through the admissions process.
kobs··on First job ad - how did I do?
No mention of Starcraft skills? :-)
kobs··on Ask HN: Best place(s) to find datasets to practice ML and DM?
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sherstov/pdmc/
kobs··on Ask HN: Idea for startup: Comment Tracker
http://wiki.co.mments.com/Introduction
kobs··on Best tools for remote real-time development collaboration?
Since you're already using Eclipse, check this out: http://codesurgeonblog.com/2008/06/cola-real-time-shared-edi...
kobs··on An Introduction to Thread Programming in Python
An introduction I've found helpful: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Python/PyThreads.pdf
kobs··on What were you doing during the first dot boom?
Another nod for someone who had no idea what was going on in in the tech world. I was in 6th grade, honing my skills in TI-BASIC.
kobs··on Hackers' Screenshots
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1551/screenshot-07312008.png

My primary editor is Emacs. I don't usually use 3 different editors simultaneously.

kobs··on 37signals Live debuting tomorrow (Tues) at 3pm CDT
Justin.tv has those features :-)
kobs··on Google Walks Away From Digg Deal
Ah, well that's unfortunate.
kobs··on Google Walks Away From Digg Deal
Jay Adelson founded Equinix: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinix. It doesn't seem like he'd be hurting for cash.
kobs··on The cat is out of the bag - DNS spoofing details
Google Reader can be used as a pseudo-cache: http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http://www.matasano.c...
kobs··on Yet another “Y Combinator of Korea” opens doors
Please inform me on how following YC's model is not a Good Thing. YC is clearly not omnipresent (and has an upperbound on the number of companies they are able to devote resources to), so who cares if someone else decides to start something similar?

I don't understand the criticism thrown at those starting ventures similar to YC. Correct me if I'm wrong, but providing people with an opportunity to "make something people want", create wealth, and do something they enjoy hardly seems deplorable. I personally love to hear of new opportunities similar to YC (especially in other countries). The more the merrier.

kobs··on Ask HN: Is there a NYC AI startup job list anywhere?
This list may be useful... http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/category/ai/
kobs··on Need an updated resume? Maybe something like this...
Related: http://www.emurse.com/
kobs··on Three Beautiful Quicksorts
Nearly identical implementation in Erlang:

  qsort([]) -> [];

  qsort([Pivot|Rest]) ->
    qsort([ X || X <- Rest, X < Pivot]) 
    ++ [Pivot] ++ 
    qsort([ X || X <- Rest, X >= Pivot]).
More: http://en.literateprograms.org/Category:Quicksort
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