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techonup··on Ask HN: What advice would you give your 18 year old self?
Take 6.172, because it rocks. :)
techonup··on MIT’s gas-powered drone is able to stay in the air for five days at a time
This was actually modeled! See here: https://github.com/hoburg/gas_solar_trade
techonup··on Students at Fake University Say They Were Collateral Damage in Sting Operation
Doesn't quite work like that. See here [1] for a easy-to-understand explanation.

[1] http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633

techonup··on Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP
This isn't entirely accurate- SICP is still taught as a 4-week intensive during MIT's IAP (January) term. It doesn't fulfill any requirements, but the student evaluations are excellent (averaged a 6.7/7 over the last two years).

http://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/

http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=6.037

techonup··on Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True
This line of argument really needs to be toned down. While it's obviously true that papers like the WSJ, NYT, WashPo, etc. have influential partisan editorial boards, their newsrooms are filled with reporters and editors of various political leanings. More importantly, these reporters are among the best in the country and do their very best to find and report the truth in an unbiased fashion. That's what makes these papers good sources of information in the US.
techonup··on Pokedex.org: a progressive webapp for Pokémon fans
There's a conspicuous lack of actual info, though. As a competitive player who's played at Worlds before, anything short of Veekun's data is going to be missing something crucial. It's a nice site and your principles are solid, but the data just has to be there.
techonup··on A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving
The point is that it didn't work, so exponentiation was out the window.
techonup··on Windows 93 in JavaScript
PokeGlitch is surprisingly playable (if you're very familiar with Red), once you get past the two-minute Growl move sound.

e: Or not, as the Viridian PokeCenter crashed the game. Was fun while it lasted, though.

techonup··on Windows 93 in JavaScript
The move Growl plays every sound in the game once- this is hilarious.
techonup··on Moving Forward with Firefox
And, you know, buy a video service and make some glasses too. All in the name of not doing evil, right?