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This topic comes up on HN every few months and never fails to create a lively debate. As a (potential) future entrepreneur / freshman in college,
I've gone back and forth a few times about whether I should continue my education. Here are the conclusions I've made:

(FYI - I'm probably just reiterating what others have said, but I'm lazy and don't want to properly cite by finding all the "should you go to college" blog posts / comments...)

0. Staying in school doesn't hurt. College is a four year block of time where you are encouraged and expected to experiment with every aspect of your life. This experimental space can't be found anywhere else. (The financial aspect is a different story; if going to college puts you in a huge amount of debt, this point may not be true.)

1. Know that you can always dropout. I take comfort in this fact. If I come across a life-changing opportunity, I can always just postpone college.

2. Theory != Practice. When I first started studying CS at school, I was peeved that professors didn't optimize code as much as possible. Why should I disregard the constant for a linear time algorithm? However, I've since come to appreciate the generality of this method of thinking. Thinking generally about specific problems is (to me, at least) a valuable skill to have and one that I need to work on.

3. It's not about the classes, it's about the people. This is an old but important argument and it's completely valid. You'll learn way more from your classmates than you will from your professors. It doesn't matter how great of a coder you are... if you don't learn social skills you'll be a terrible entrepreneur.

4. Professors are really smart. At any decent university, you'll have access to a group of people who have spent their entire careers being clever. Most are more than happy to explain their work / mentor an interested student / try to impart some cleverness.

5. A three-month summer. The fact that summers are exactly three-months is a good thing. If they were longer, students might not return from really wonderful jobs. If they were shorter, students wouldn't be exposed to jobs long enough. By taking full advantage of summers, you can "job hop" and sample careers / businesses in a way that would be otherwise frowned upon. I've learned a lot about how I would create company culture by working at different companies, and I still have three more summers to keep learning.

6. Keeping relevant paths open. Entrepreneurship has always sounded attractive to me, but I'm curious about a lot of things. I'd rather be positive about the career path I choose than always wonder if I should have done something else with my life. By trying out research / acting / underwater basket weaving now, I can either decide certain professions aren't for me or find a way to incorporate them into my eventual line of work.

7. Recruitment. From a purely economic, slightly perverse perspective, college is a great place to recruit for a future startup.
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Daily Show really dropped the ball on this one.

Got the facts all wrong and didn't even mention how sleazy Gizmodo was in this ordeal.

For shame.

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He's invests in several companies a month. If he tried to actually use every one of those products even for a short time it would probably drive him insane. Not to mention, a lot of the products that he invests in are probably not targeted to his demographic (e.g. DailyBooth)
My answer: Google.
Drastically different from all the companies
created by entrepreneurs mentioned in the article.
(The difference is that Google is truly innovative - built on a very original idea of PageRank, while neither MS, nore FaceBook, nor even Apple invented anything new).
Why? May be because the founders are not dropouts?

Now if you want to be drug addict - be a college dropout. The best addicts I know are dropouts. Do you want to be a crank - be a college dropout. The best cranks I know are dropouts.
Hmm, I think Jon took a few too many creative liberties here for the sake of entertainment.

1. According to Gizmodo the door was broken in because the journalist wasn't at home. He was having dinner in a restaurant, arrived later when the search was already in progress. The authorities acted respectfully with his belongings, etc. There is a huge difference between ringing the bell a few times and breaking the door when nobody answers and driving a truck through the front door at 60MPH, just because you can. Jon suggests the latter approach was taken.

2. He said that Apple claimed the prototype wasn't theirs, and that they didn't want it back. Comedy Central completely made this up! Apple definitely wanted the device back the moment it got lost.

3. Stop hammering on the "THEY BROKE THE DOOR!" bit. It's completely standard police practice, and it's not the Wrath Of Jobs.

That said, it goes without saying that Apple isn't the little guy anymore, and calling out Apple for its Big Brother tendencies is completely fair.
It's literally the same room. It's not even a very large room; Klout is only 6 people. Also in the same room are Flowtown, Plancast, and Publitweet -- we're on the first floor of 795 Folsom, the same building as Twitter. If you're an engineer looking for a job, our office is a GREAT place to dump your resume ;-)
This guy is probably already scared shitless and crapped several pairs of pants when he realized he was under FBI investigation.

I can't see how the minimal damages are worth dragging him through a lengthy trial and bankrupting him with legal fees and a felony conviction on his permenant record.
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I'm often amazed at how cavalierly advice like this is given. We're talking about a major (yes, major) decision here.

And the logic... drop out of college because a handful of very smart entrepreneurs were able to start successful businesses without their degree? Come on. Let's count the successful college graduates who have made it big AND the college drop-outs who have tried and failed (and double count the ones that never went back; yikes, hard to count). Or let's make it conditional, "if you know you're of Bill Gates' stature and timing is of the essence, sure, drop out. If not, get the piece of paper you've already put time and money towards (and have fun!). Then start your business."

But at least they're putting their money where their mouth is via investments. I'd be curious, though, whether the drop-outs they're funding are recent drop-outs, or whether the founders cut their teeth elsewhere before starting their current venture. If the latter, the advice perhaps becomes, "drop out of college to get a job at a start-up and maybe start your own business later." Which leads us to the obliging question to Fred and Caterina (and everyone else in tech) - how many young non-grads have they hired recently in their own companies or portfolio companies.
And way before that it had the HP200LX, a 300g DOS computer that ran for 35 hours(!) on 2xAA batteries (monochrome LCD). The closest today is the eee PC, which has heavier batteries, worse battery life [I'd have said the iPhone - but no keyboard, no coding allowed. But it shows an ARM-based clamshell is possible...]

That was before HP, the original garage startup, went consumer with Carly Fiorina. They'd lost their way before then, with Matrix management, but Messrs H and P were still around to unretire and fix it. No more. :(
That doesn't make any sense and its not a good analogy.

A Toyota is a hugely expensive piece of hardware.

IE is a 'free' (as in beer) piece of software. Software is cheaply distributed.

In the Toyota situation, I would have to buy an entire new car (to the tune of 20,000). In the IE situation, I'd have to spend a few minutes downloading Firefox. (Or spend a few minutes with windows update downloading + installing Firefox in the background for me). One of these things I cannot afford, the other I can easily afford.

I do a lot of customer support (and development) for a smallish piece of software. We couldn't afford to do tech support on 4 different versions of it. It also doesn't make sense to support 4 different versions of a piece of software, where each version does pretty much the same thing. (Except the newer versions fix bugs!)

The better analogy would be if I went to the Toyota dealer, and they said 'Hey, this Toyota has a bug, wait 10 minutes and we'll give you a brand new Toyota free of charge, it is like the old Toyota, except it is a lot better.'

People love getting upgrades to software.
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People wonder about lots of things that aren't true. I unzipped those files. We did not pay for them. "Landed in our inbox" should do more than suggest that nothing preceded it. Would you say that software just "landed on your desktop" after you paid for it?

Profiting from traffic and paying for stolen goods are two very different things, so I don't think the point does still stand.
built on a very original idea of PageRank

careful about this slippery slope ... it's rare for something to be 'very original'. PageRank is based on well-known academic research by Jon Kleinberg and others on graph reputation algorithms ... of course, the application to web search and wonderful execution was what made Google's start possible. You could argue that MS, Facebook, Apple, etc. also innovated greatly on existing technologies and created something 'very original'.
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I also have to admit that college has really been an enlightening experience even though the work was tough (I graduate in a few weeks). I'm so glad I went, even if I've been distracted the last year on my business.
That's because there was lots of overlap w/ EDS. They already had their own services division, a pretty big one at that, so they had to cut out the redundancies. Not the case with Palm. HP doesn't have many software developers, and much less for mobile platforms.
This is great. Apple isn't the company I fell in love with. Can anyone say that this still represents the Apple we know today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USn5t5nQWU8
To understand the scientific paper, nonetheless you need to have a degree. Even to know about its very existence, you would still need a degree.
Microsoft was supposed to be the evil one. But you guys are busting down doors in Palo Alto while Commandant Gates is ridding the world of mosquitoes! What the fuck is going on?! It's all mixed up!

At least Apple doesn't charge you $80 to change your desktop background on a netbook. But otherwise, I agree.

Apple is hurting the field -- locking down hardware, mandating woefully outdated legacy programming languages, and specifically crippling their hardware and software. Microsoft, on the other hand, is not nearly so bad. At least they are trying to push F# on the world, which I see as a good thing.
thanks for taking time to explain :)
They are mutual exclusive. But, I particular don't like the flippant nature these advice are being thrown about. I encourage people to think how things will affect them in the worst case scenario. Sometimes, even if you don't want to do something, it might be an easier and quicker path to achieve success.
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Redis is great for some things but is definitely not the right tool here. It's built mainly for serving up small chunks of info (or functionality) very quickly. And it kicks ass at that.

This is a system that probably sees even more writes than reads, and they're batched up mostly at night anyway. The longer term management of that infrastructure is a big part of the pain.
I know... it all feels a bit empty without some rotten vegetables or something to throw at the guy.
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Why do so many people seem to fixate on the door?
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You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

Sounds like the Apple I know and love allright :)
College student and bootstrapping a startup? Yeah...
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I'm hoping that's political code for 'We realised it was a stoopid idea; delaying it and then burying it quietly after the next election will be better than demonstrating yet again that we don't think things through.'
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Correct. However if a "victim" is not willing to cooperate it is often not worth it for a prosecutor to invest limited resources into a case.
I disagree. I found the interface clunky and the research interest categories were really sloppy (typos, duplicates, inconsistent granularities, etc...). Also, the inability to click on section names during sign up was very frustrating.
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can anyone explain why the message format uses fancy control chars like

<channel_name>!<message><newline_character>
foo!hello, world

why not json?

{cname: "foo", msg: "hello, world"}

i mean, parsing fancy format may be a bit faster and needs less library code; and, of course, overhead. but from personal experience i know that fancy control chars mostly lead to perlish charsoup as soon as new features are implemented.

foo!hello, world##from_id:213/5|sendername:chad//validuntil{20100429105700}?debug=true&nlformat=CRLF

i guess, overhead; am i right?
I'm really with Stewart on this one. Both in that I love Apple products and that I think Apple is becoming "The Man" they used to rail against. Can you be a dominant player and not be "The Man"? Well, I think Google is making a good go of it.

For what it's worth I'm going to Google I/O this year and not WWDC. Market be damned, my philosophy compels me to seek out open. And nowadays Google is out-opening Apple.
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Sorry, I probably meant novel. What's novel vs. what is actually useful.

Self expression is useful, and it comes in all forms.

Cool quotes and funny photos are the social-media version of PowerPoint -- a limiting medium that squelches higher bandwidth idea transfer.
i totally agree ... if larry page hadn't been in a Ph.D. program, he would've likely not gotten exposed to that sort of research, especially because back in the early 1990's, it was much harder for people to get access to or even knowledge about research papers (you couldn't just, ummm, Google for them!)
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In theory though, it should be much easier to fix a couple of crashes than to increase the performance of JS + canvas, say, an order of magnitude.
There is something fishy about this, or just not cool about it.

He's going to give 50% of the referral fee back to the candidate? Links to the answers of FB's engineering questions over on a 3rd party site (presumably to help you pass the interview process)?

I'm sure its a legitimate call for applicants by a member of staff - it just seems fishy, or at the very least not the right way to go about things.
> You put in a student and out comes a scholar.

This seems generous.
Wouldn't a propane burner be several times faster? Do you need it to work indoors?
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I understard that it's unusual for a large corp to make a personal appeal on hn. However fb is more like a startup than a big corp.

It's pretty standard practice for fb employees to give part of their referral bonuses back to their friends. Are you suggesting that I keep it for myself?
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I can't judge because I do the same, but I think part of the reason you're supposed to write the tests first is so that you aren't influenced by what you already wrote. Ie you test what's correct rather than testing the implementation.
I deactivated my account for exactly the same reasons as you. No one has missed me yet, so I'll be completely closing it soon.
Certainly the abundance of anonymous services and goods takes out a lot of the enjoyable social aspects of those things but it also makes many other things possible. I don't think there has ever been a time in history like this one where the barriers to entry to whatever you can imagine have been so low.
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There are a couple errors in Jon Stewart's reporting. We don't know if the phone was lost or stolen.

If it was stolen then Gizmodo has broken the law.

If the phone was lost and Gizmodo did not attempt to return the phone then Gizmodo has broken the law.

It appears that Apple reported the lost/stolen phone to the DA. We don't know when. It may have been before or after the story broke.

Frankly, this whole story is overblown. It should strictly be a legal matter but it has turned into a TMZ/Valleywag story.
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Um, yeah if you don't feel the need to take a referral bonus for yourself then why take it in the first place?

I've been a hiring manager in the past. A company uses referral bonuses to incentivize staff to bring in the top talent into the company.

If you are really not motivated by the referral bonus (eg your startup was aquired and you're not short of cash these days) then you shouldn't take it - the start up could use the valuable cash elsewhere. I guess burn isn't a big problem for Facebook, but then to your point in your comment, Facebook is still a big startup isn't it? (is it?)

I also think its poor to offer image on the interview questions/answers (yes, even if they are on a public site somewhere). If I was the hiring manager I would be upset by that as it skews my ability to interview all candidates equally (ie the ones who did see the interview questions and the ones that did not).

I don't think you are coming from a bad place or doing anything under-hand but I think it isn't the right and professional way of obtaining talent.
Please see my comment above. You are evidently confused about the history of the housing bubble: it was beginning just as Krugman was making these comments and writing the article I link to below.

The burden is, in fact, on you to find a link from circa 2004-6 by Krugman calling for restraint of the bubble whose inflation he advocated so fiercely. See above for a more detailed exposition of this point.

Anyways, here is another article from 2002. I don't know how you can get any more incriminating:

Quoting Krugman:
To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-dip...

BTW, asking for a quote from 2004 calling for the creation of a housing bubble is a bit ridiculous: by then the housing bubble was in full bloom.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/Median_and_Ave...

As you can see, late 2002 (when the above article was written) would have been just at the beginning of the disaster.

(sorry for the delayed reply; at work all day.)
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Over in the cryogenics discussion groups they don't even like you to use the word "freezing". Bad for PR and all. "Vitrification" is the going term.
Classic selection bias. The dropout founders of Apple, Twitter, and Facebook need to be balanced against dropout founders whose companies failed. Of course, we have no idea who they are and so it's difficult to point to examples.
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I think the better model is to hang around a college and meet the interesting folks...without enrolling in classes and having to go into heavy debt. Spend your days on your startup...and your nights meeting/talking to interesting potential co-founders.

The other important thing is the mindset shift...from having to validate your learning by an authority figure to being able to trust yourself to learn things.
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Point taken. However, Krugman's comments were a little stronger than what you suggest. He explicitly called for the creation of a housing bubble (see my other response below).

Please don't take the link as a blanket endorsement of libertarianism; it was just the first link that came up as a result of my google search. I remembered reading up on Krugman's predictive failures many months ago ...

Krugman stopped being an economist a long time ago and is now a political hack - regardless of whether or not he has a point in this particular instance. I imagine that you didn't need Krugman to tell you that the raters were issuing ridiculous ratings ...
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How is this relevant to the video? He didn't claim that Apple had any personal information on its users.

It sounds like you're bringing up an unrelated point to deflect attention from Apple's actions. That is not appropriate!
I'm assuming you're going by academic measures of intelligence. I was referring something more general like EQ.
The reply to you from a TechCrunch employee up there ^ indicates the opposite. I tend to believe people like that, it generally works out.