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curiousjorgeon Jack Ma: 'Harvard rejected me 10 times' [video]

how successful do I need to be in order to be accepted into Harvard MBA from a western province university with mediocre GPA?

How much much under the table damn it.

You have no idea how much social capital an ivy league degree gives you in Korea, no idea! (ex. generous bank loans, women, social status, tv shows, your own kpop girl group wow!)

curiousjorgeon React Native for Android

yes been waiting for this for a long time!

curiousjorgeon The Real Cuban Missile Crisis (2013)

Read this in the book about him, Kennedy also had a "back pain" problem originating from the time where his patrol boat capsized and he barely lived through the WW2 war with Japan, and that drove him to stardom when he hit it off well with the moms who had their sons lost in the war.

The self prescription for Kennedy's back pain? Pussy from many different women.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was directly on Kennedy's hands, he directed the bombers and invasion based on his time zone and forgot to adjust it for cuban which resulted in b-52 bombers being decimated and the entire invasion blowing up.

curiousjorgeon The Real Cuban Missile Crisis (2013)

incorrect about vietnam war, it was Soviet efforts that made US air power useless because of an American spy gave out the codes and Soviets knew ahead of time where the strikes would take place and advise their VietCong fighters to launch in the air.

curiousjorgeon Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace (2012)

yeah and they get 'leaked' and you are screwed. or they just snoop around figure out that you weren't Jason Bourne at all but actually David Webb. cue music...

curiousjorgeon HyperCore Linux: A tiny portable Linux designed for reproducibility

it's sort of a thug life moment for javascript.

curiousjorgeon RAML – RESTful API modeling language

>RAML was first proposed in 2013. The initial RAML specification was authored by Uri Sarid, Emiliano Lesende, Santiago Vacas, and Damian Martinez. Development is managed by the RAML Workgroup.[4]

how do you create your own "specification" and your own "workgroup"? Can anyone invent some acronym, create their own "workgroup"? Do you need some blessings from YAML or someone else?

curiousjorgeon OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes

this is so mind blowingly good.

curiousjorgeon What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

so how much was it acquired for?

curiousjorgeon The Hellburner Was the Renaissance Equivalent of a Tactical Nuclear Weapon

not to leave out that Admiral Yi was arrested and tortured for saving the country and becoming more popular than the King himself. Dissent was very high and there are some records of Korean civilians who chose to side with the Japanese in hope they could be liberated from the oppressive pre-North Korea Chosun dynasty, that ultimately failed it's people.

You won't find many sympathizers for the Chosun Kings apart from the one hit wonders like Sejong who invented the Korean alphabet.

curiousjorgeon Ask HN: Software gigs involving small, scripting-type tasks?

do you do a lot of web scraping? what sort of scripts are these designed to do?

curiousjorgeon Do you like agar.io? what about Ninja agar?

how did you build this? I'm getting like 10 fps on my chrome

curiousjorgeon ShaderFrog – Create and compose shaders in your browser

what is a shader exactly in layman's terms?

curiousjorgeon The Hellburner Was the Renaissance Equivalent of a Tactical Nuclear Weapon

interesting point that we rarely see tactical weapons of mass destruction being frequently such as nuclear weapon. It's interesting that Japan lost both wars to sudden technological advancements from opposing side and they aren't ever used again.

The turtle ships weren't alone but it was a gifted korean naval commander who ironically never commanded a navy before and figured shit out as the war was unfolding. The Korean general would even be hailed as a mythical figure and admired by WW2 Japanese naval generals.

curiousjorgeon The Hellburner Was the Renaissance Equivalent of a Tactical Nuclear Weapon

The turtle ship is another interesting tactical weapon that comes from these era but in other parts of the world. It would ram deep inside enemy formations and fire cannons on all sides which resulted in some astounding victories given Chosun Navy had only a dozen ships vs. thousands of japanese ships. You couldn't land on the ship because it had spikes and would spew smoke for evasion.

curiousjorgeon Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web

I think this is a great trend we are seeing.

curiousjorgeon Decline of play and rise of sensory issues in preschoolers

it's all these fucking meds American pharmaceuticals love shoving down their own kids throats.

curiousjorgeon Diagnosing Memory “Leaks” in Python

import resource import objgraph

these are some golden modules that I never knew about

curiousjorgeon The full stack developer is a myth

how would you advertise this on your resume? It seems like recruiters are looking for 'full stack' but not understanding what it is. Do you have 15 years of full stack development or devops experience? Shit like this makes me start out the window, at the tiny little pedestrians below scurrying back and forth from their masters, the modern day slavery is masqueraded around in the form of neckties and materialism that replaced meaningful human relationships.

curiousjorgeon Microservices without the Servers

remember PiCloud? they shut down after I spent a quarter building around their API calls. I never want to repeat that mistake and you also get the bonus of being able to sell your source code or deploy local cloud if an enterprise are willing to pay extra for it.

curiousjorgeon Microservices without the Servers

pretty much this. amazon can at any point shut down any of these services or nerf it. if you built everything up to this point on amazon and they shut it down, it's more work.

curiousjorgeon Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project

why is it that we always need so much more CPU and GPU power to emulate an older, fixed, lower power requiring console?

curiousjorgeon Learn by Implementation: K-Nearest Neighbor

can you do one with DBSCAN

curiousjorgeon The dangerous idea that life is a story

narrative means structure, structure means judgement. pro narrative is pro judgement.

curiousjorgeon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2015)

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Vancouver, BC)

Looking for Python, PHP, jQuery type of work.

curiousjorgeon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2015)

  Location: Vancouver, BC
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Flask, Python, Javascript, PHP, SQL
  RÃ©sumÃ©/CV: email
  Email: mr.qimm@gmail.com

curiousjorgeon Gun – “Self-hosted Firebase”

how does this not have more votes? im skeptical about the self hosted firebase claim, for instance, how would you scale this?

curiousjorgeon Nassim Taleb's “Black Swan” Fund Made 1 Billion On Monday

big fucking deal

curiousjorgeon Amazon Underground

don't know what this means exactly. are we getting free apps? how are they paying devs?

curiousjorgeon The Evolution of Magazine Covers

contraception is female empowerment, we can see how much societal expectations have shifted as female contraception technology have gotten cheaper and better, reflected in the magazine covers.