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Art of problem solving volume 2!!

It’s a reference to Klay Thompson, a shooting guard for the Warriors who “makes” a lot of three point shots.

I think if the House had subpoenaed Bolton, he would have refused to show up. This would have opened him up to be sued, but it would have been a long, drawn out process in the courts, which would have prolonged the impeachment proceedings by several months, by which time public opinion on the impeachment proceedings could have become negative.

It's like Don Draper's Why I'm Quitting Tobacco letter in the Times.

that's probably what your parents were saying about the music you listened to when you were young, too.

Isn't M.I.T. traditionally the powerhouse school in Economics?

It's the rate the market dictates.

Five beats a day for three summers - Kanye West

They're based in expensive cities because it's where a lot of people want to live. Also they're relatively close to a lot of top colleges(Cal, Stanford, Columbia) , which makes it easy to recruit, and form partnerships with academic research groups

how dare they

Why doesn't Atlassian-labs use Atlassian's own remote git hosting service, bitbucket?

What is confusing about it? It's clever and punny

Right. By admitting mainly legacies and the old-rich, Harvard is just doing its patriotic duty.

+1 for xv6. The commentary book is really well written, and is a straightforward introduction to a lot of important ideas.

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6/book-rev8.pdf

Tell the physics department to open more faculty positions.

go bears!

Abolishing private insurance is kind of the point here though.

That biases admissions for people who can afford extra tutoring and preparation for the test.

zero

In terms of content quality, tumblr is sort of what Pinterest has always aspired to be.

surely not the 16th amendment

piano: Bach's Well Tempered Clavier the sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven

I thought that was the Social Network

Kanye West used autotune to great effect in 808s and Heartbreak, one of the seminal albums of this century

From my experience, Google cloud is much easier to use than Azure.

Berkeley's undergrad OS class now uses Pintos

what do the 0,0 mean here?

The proof only shows that you can't get all three CAP. You can get any two out of three though.

In practice, partition tolerance is the most important property to have, since there's no point in having a distributed system if it can't function if any part of the system is down (it has to be fault tolerant).

Apparently he's pretty sensitive about this and prefers to keep private about it.

Compilers (164) and digital system design (152) are the hardest classes. Other classes with high workload are systems (162) and graphics (184)