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Throughout school I've had ADD pretty bad.

Your school almost certainly has someone who can tell you whether that self-diagnosis is likely to be accurate or not, and if it is accurate, there are treatment options available which have been lifechangers for some people I know.

Someone with demonstrable programming skills who has a bachelor's degree in just about anything is in a pretty good position in life. People at universities care a lot about what the exact wording of your degree is. You'll find that that is considered fairly eccentric in the real world.

I strongly suggest that you do not drop out, though. Among other things, dropping out suggests you're incapable of accomplishing clearly advantageous things if you're the least bit challenged by them, since we give degrees to basically anyone with a pulse. People probably can't legally not hire you for being ADD, and in our industry a certain attitude with regards to follow-through does not make one all that much of an outlier, but "cannot get stuff done" is a bad place to be.

P.S. You may already know this, but if you haven't figured it out already, "I am ADHD" is something that it makes very, very vanishingly little sense to broadcast, regardless of whether you have been diagnosed with it or not.
I don't see any support for SVG filters, and I was using them 3 years ago in Firefox.
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>This would go against everything Google has publicly stated on the subject.

Who cares what a company has publicly stated? If a US insurance company has always publicly stated they only care about saving lives would you believe them? I guess so.
This has gone straight into my "Great Articles" collection. Thank you.

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You aren't seriously going to charge $588 if someone wants to use it a second year?
This is admirable, but I'm a bit worried that a lot of donated money will fall into some black hole. Money matters, yes, still I would much prefer successful people donating their smarts to the world instead of their money.
Not a chance.

Silently rolled out security updates? Maybe. But general purpose auto-updating behavior? Nope. Predicability is a key motivator for enterprises to use Microsoft software.

Convincing businesses to standardize on a particular IE version inside their organizations grants Microsoft a key sales differentiator: "If you use our competitors' software, you'll need to permanently retain an engineering staff to deal with an ever changing platform."

If you're an internet startup, Microsoft's position sounds insane, but consider the stance of tech-ignorant governments and corporations. Yeah, ideally, they should have engineering teams and utilize them to optimize their businesses. Realistically, they don't know how.

If you ask me: the standardizations bodies need to step in here. Let <!DOCTYPE HTML> be the wild west, but declare a deadline for all browsers to work on their HTML 5 implementations. When that deadline passes, all browsers would have a small window of time to release a version which handles <!DOCTYPE HTML5> as a stable, non-changing rendering engine. Then developers could opt into a stable platform, or the wild west. Enterprises could develop internal tools with a fixed doctype and browser venders could pledge support for those rendering engineers. Internet startups could stay on the bleeding edge and play the upkeep game.
I can't wait for these "motion pictures" you speak of, I wish it was the future already!
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would be great if they will make it open source :)
Many sites also use memcache to cache page fragments that will be sent verbatim to clients with the rest of the webpage.

As Marco demonstrated in his slides one can easily inject into caches and if one can change the values of keys related to page fragments then it is a major security risk.
This is one of my all time favorite technical books - I've been searching for a dead-tree copy on and off for years. You've reminded me that times have changed, the technology has improved, and I should search again.

Thank you.

ADDED IN EDIT: A quick search shows that the updated version is co-authored by one of my personal heroes - Martin Gardner. Now I'll need to get two copies.
Note: this only applies to security updates. Windows Update divides updates into three categories: Critical, Recommended, and Optional. Critical and Recommended updates are installed automatically by default. Many enterprises choose to control Recommended updates manually at the group policy level; some even control critical updates with group policy. Major revisions of Internet Explorer have traditionally been delivered as optional updates.
I expected more then two engineers to work on that aspect of their backend.
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>Google is willing to stand up to the freaking Chinese government

Really? I must have missed that. I only saw where they posted a message about leaving China, never did and ended up complying with them in the end. Was the standing up part before that or after?
I didn't mention it but it is diagnosed by a neurologist in 2006, and I am meeting with someone at the university tomorrow for an evaluation with them to see what options are available to me there.

I hadn't thought about the stigma of being a drop-out so much. Thanks.
Tim O'Reilly warned us:

http://www.google.com/buzz/timoreilly/j61qZ42h6rB/Frustrated...

But seriously, that's strike two. One more strike, and personally I won't be reading the NYTimes for anything technology-related. Even via a link. Or perhaps I will. But I will immediately adjust my could-be-b.s. skepticism filters to 50%. I don't know if it's the reputation of the newspaper that makes them think that they can opine op-ed style (the first two sentences, including the lede, of the NYTimes piece have the word 'could' in it). But you can only mess up so many times before you get a negative reputation that is pretty hard to remove...
"If someone is an informant for an occupying force they have assumed a role in the occupation. This involves risk."

Isn't this true? Why is this being downvoted? Anyone who informs for one side in war against the other has involved himself in the war and can be expected to be punished if the other side got to know about it. This was true during the American War of Independence and is no less true now. Reconciliation might happen after the war, not during the war.

This applies to people informing against the Taliban as well as against the American/NATO occupation force. Which side is "good" is somewhat irrelevant. Which side you find "good" probably depends on where you were born more than anything else.
> Most people just don't care one bit.

Most people don't know about the issue and it's implications. It's not the same.

Also, most of the few that do know are filled with FUD from people with economic or political interests in destroying privacy.
Hiring: Yes, lots of people are hiring.

Degree requirement: You don't need a degree but more options will be available to you if you have one. There are still a lot of places where having a degree is a requirement to get into the door.

Degree type: For some places, having any degree would satisfy the requirement to walk in the door. Some places may require a CS degree. It all depends on who is doing the hiring, they can ask whatever they want. Check job ads to get an idea.

Missing out: You won't be missing out on anything you don't want to miss out on. You don't need to take CS to learn the things a CS degree would teach you. If you want to play with compilers, then play with compilers, you don't need to do that in a classroom.

Other Notes: If you are close to being able to complete the degree, then it would be a shame to drop out. However, some people were just never meant for school, and those people should recognize early that school is not for them and quit wasting the time and money. If you aren't anywhere close, then it's a toss up.

Being forced into alternate options due to bad grades is unfortunate, but if you were to find yourself in a position where you couldn't even continue on the Mathematical Sciences track then you will have to make hard decisions. Going into something such as business might not be a bad option if you could make that switch. Otherwise, as you mentioned, you would likely have to find a different school for CS.

Important! School is ultimately work. You have to manage your time, your work load and be able to focus on many different tasks thrown at you. You have to do much the same in the real world of work.

I had the same sort of problems in school as you are having, but I later found that those problems didn't go away when I left school. I now face the same challenges daily as a web developer as I did in school. Some projects are more fun and aren't as much of a problem. Other projects are a lot of drudgery and I really have to force myself to work on them. Had I known then what I know now, I would have either skipped school completely rather than waste the time and money or I would have done whatever it took to get through it just as I have to do with my work.

If you have what it takes to get through a large and complex development project, then you probably have what it takes to get through school. In a perfect world, you shouldn't have to do anything that you aren't interested in, but life doesn't always turn out to be that perfect. Do your best to identify the reasons you are doing terrible in school and try to figure out a way to defeat them as you will likely need those skills later in life. Programming is a lot of finding solutions to problems, try applying that problem solving to school.

Good luck!
A quibble: he says "There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003". But this is misleading, far more than 5 exabytes of "information" were created during that time, but only about 5 exabytes of it was stored for posterity. This is an important distinction, I think.

Also, as to technological revolutions, nobody is ever ready for them. Revolutions are disruptive, no matter how prepared you are your life will be disrupted by them (if you are lucky it will be for the better).
Because he wants to do another startup, and he owes his investors BIG TIME.

Those folks are taking a huge financial hit. He convinces Google to buy the company as a favor to them. If he just dumps the company and takes a huge bonus from Google, he loses a lot of friends, and has a hell of a time getting funding next time.

So he's going to do his time at Google. 5 years of startup purgatory. And when he comes out, he'll have a few friends ready to put a couple million behind his next venture.
You can't really compare the two. RockYou doesn't really focus on the widgets as much as games / ad network these days (although truth be told you can't really see it if you swing by rockyou.com or visit the crunchbase profile, which is really out of date).

The ad network side of things is really strong and doing lots of interesting things.
Fine, but under this law men have the right to marry women, but women do not (and vice-versa). Thus, the law is sexist.
This looks like a reinvention of the scope guard statement: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/exception-safe.html
I am European, and I do speak 3 languages, but I still think it's arrogant.
Woah. I am totally going to be contacting you about this. (For those who don't recognize the name, I'm the guy who runs the distribution system for software and other hacks on jailbroken iPhones, Cydia.) I have absolutely no fear of DMCA issues regarding this and believe strongly in post-facto program modification, and already manage a large community surrounding this. I even spend a lot of time dealing with system and site scaling (we get a lot more traffic than that in Cydia). Expect an e-mail from me shortly! ;P
Career is something you ought to look back to, in retrospect, but not forward to. Career is something that you can use to describe "Here's what I've done".

But if you start thinking about what you can and cannot do now because of what will happen to your career, it's just an excuse to keep on thinking what other people think of you. Career is a description, not a value by itself.

Thus, if you're fine with a gay dating site then the position is "your thing", and if you do things that are yours then, in the future, you'll end up finding new things that are yours too.

Sounds pretty nice compared to not taking a position you want but something else instead, and then later finding more work that you don't want because you set the early course to all that work that sounds nice but you didn't want to do.
Too bad that with this platform preview they concentrated on adding new features and the whole browser is pretty unstable. I keep getting errors with third party libraries (jQuery 1.4) and controls. Sometimes the errors are pretty funny, e.g.:

SCRIPT5022: Exception thrown and not caught

Waiting for the beta....
Fascinating. For so long the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (badly named linguistic relativism) has been out of favor, especially with Pinker's popular book "The Language Instinct." It's nice to see some real research in the area again, especially since it is investigating the effect we all see that seems at odds with the current linguistics stance.

I'd just like to know what's really going on.

Some related submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1543871

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1505365
"The only way to manage this is true transparency and no anonymity. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it."

I'm torn between thinking "wow, that's scary" & appreciating how much potential for good there is in a completely transparent world. I've been thinking about (genomic & medical) identity: research could benefit massively from a world of total transparency.

23andme is sitting on a growing collection of personal genomics data which they are trying to use for research purposes through their 23andwe program. That's great, but that is still a massive collection of data locked up in a single company.

Imagine a world where every single individual is sequenced at birth & his data is made publicly available for research purposes. Total transparency. Kind of the polar opposite of the current situation where the patient owns his data & permission needs to be gathered to use of that data for research purposes.

We're forgoing massive progress for fear of an artifact of current society (a.k.a. insurance companies).
I disagree. There's a pretty clear trend of people actively making more of their private life public.

The people 'destroying privacy' are the general population posting the minute details of their life on the internet for all to see. They want to.

The FUD I've seen has been from the other side. "They harvest your personal details and then sell them". That's just idiotic. Why should I care if a company collects some data on me and sells it? (As long as it was collected via legal means). Them selling information on me doesn't affect me in any way.
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What boggles my mind is that you and everyone else here are getting your collective pants in a twist over an unconfirmed report from anonymous sources about something that frankly sounds rather unlikely considering Google's history of public statements and financial commitments on the subject. Surely there will be enough time for that after you actually know what Google and Verizon are trying to do, if anything.
IE 8 has been out for several years now, Had they done like Google did, IE 7 would have been gone in less than 24 hours.

A couple of years is fast if your calendar is still stuck on '95, but not anymore.
(If you have a foo account and a bar rating and jump through other hoops). So not quite 'public'.
I've seen printed versions of the linked document in Barnes&Noble.
I speak Italian quite well, but will always speak it as a foreigner. My 2 year old daughter, on the other hand, has a shot at growing up truly bilingual, and is doing a pretty good job of it so far. I'm quite proud of her:-)
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Hey, man, if you do have a link for anything she made that's beyond R-rated, you are sitting in gold.
They OWN the fg charities. This is more consolidation of power in the hands of the same people while also giving them great PR. They are having a laugh at you.
What a great opportunity! Working on "adult" sites is really challenging work. It's like taking any other application you might work on and throwing 10x - 100x times more traffic at it. You'll have to find totally different ways to solve problems. Plus the money is better.

And keep in mind you probably wouldn't want to be acquired or take investment from a company that would look down on a gay dating site. Unless you mean you'd be looking to work for another startup and they may think twice about hiring you. In that case, that's probably not a company you want to work with.
>"feeding/clothing a bunch of Africans and preventing aids"

That's very harsh and insensitive. There are millions of people dying of hunger and all you care about is space exploration?
>> "(In the same way, I'd even describe your reason as 'religious, just there are no gods and churches and other deities involved'"

I'd be happy calling my argument 'historical'. I don't like changing things that have served us well for centuries.
But where I have seen pro-choice policies implemented here in the UK, the choices have amounted to between "bad" and "good". And some parents are pushier, and richer, and can afford to live in the right catchment areas. And thus choice mainly seems to promote rich parents having well educated kids.

Personally, I don't want a choice, and I want what I receive to be high quality and accommodating of a wide range of kids.
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Also check the post on Tim Bray's blog: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/08/04/Security-R...
Sounds straight out of science fiction, I'm not saying that this would never happen but personally I'd rather live in the present rather than be worrying about something that may never happen in the near future.
Nothing like an inflammatory rebuttal to an inflammatory essay.

"The social component of a real city with museums, clubs, venues, pubs, bars and barcades is important."

SF has all of these. Obviously less by virtue of being in a metro area a third the size of NYC, but you aren't going to get bored.

"Am I paying for a car? No."

Many San Franciscans don't drive. That being said, having a car always has its benefits - and a car in NYC (at least in Manhattan) is even tougher than in SF.

"In short, New York City is more interesting and—I believe—better suited for the startup and a young guy’s lifestyle"

Well, we all have different lifestyles. I enjoy yearlong mountain biking that's only minutes away. I enjoy awesome snowboarding only 3 hours away. I enjoy climbing 14,000 foot mountains. I enjoy not sweating in humid, hot summers and freezing in snowy, cold winters.

I've spent about a month of my life in NYC (over various trips) and would hands down take SF over it.
I didn't read computer science. So my advise will be general in nature. If you've have gone this far already, i will advise, you try and finish it. Unless you intend to launch your own stuff since or are happy to work with only startups, otherwise get the degree. Also if you are sure that at the psychological level it won't affect you impression of who you are, then you can skip it. The richest men in the world do not have degrees but they are entrepreneurs. So if you won't finish the degree, do you own start-up, working for another man's start-up is fine until you get layed off or it tanks. Investors can push you off managing a start-up where you are a co-founder if it takes off, but your stock remains. So you don't loose out in thesame manner a sacked employee does.

But then if the startup you are in succeeds and you are still with them at that point,then you you might not need a degree. But the time it would take it to succeed is sufficient for you to also finish your degree. My advise keep combining both. Switch to maths since you are already a good programmer and have done CS for a number of years.

On a final note, a degree doesn't guarantee anything but could be a fall back position if everything else fails ie startups, consulting gigs etc. A degree only gives you the possibilities to live an average life. No guarantees to a good or fulfilled life. So understand its worth.
Take more than 10K.

1. If you ask for 10K, your investors may think that's just not much, you can probably do without.

2. If you ask for 10K, you'll have to ask again in 6 months.

In other words, go from 55k to 85k. Remember that, if things keep going ok/good, you'll want to go to 100+k in another 6 months/1 year.
Net neutrality is a concept founded upon a fantasy.

The idea that we should all get the same priority on the Internet is ridiculous. It has always been the case (and always will be the case), that the more money you have, the better services you can acquire.

From the guy running a gaming server, through the hacker building a highly scalable network using Linode, CNN using Akamai for streaming media and Google building hundreds of data centers; we're all willing to pay for bandwidth or reduce latency.

I'm not against the idea of network neutrality, quite the contrary; however, the gap between the aspiration and what goes on in practice is already too great. We're all players and it can never be unwound.
Nice that he was able to overload an entire cell tower during the demo.

This is actually pretty similar to our demo at NYC Tech a few years back: Showed the product, let everybody jump in live, brought down the venue's wifi. Fun times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbITx2d8Otc
I've noticed this in a bunch of places, weebly, tumbler, heroku: Why aren't this done using CNAMEs for exactly this reason? Also, it'd give them more freedom over their infrastructure, would be able to separate it on different datacenters etc.
At that time, the majority of the workforce was involved in agriculture. Toothpaste was nowhere in it...
Yes, a certain part of your "career" may be affected by this choice, ie. less people would hire you. Then again, do you want to be hired by someone who wouldn't hire you if you did this?
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Ah, the answer is in the comments. A root-domain can't be CNAME, so to avoid confusion they just tell people to use A.

My DNS provider has a web-forward service, though, so I can translate domain.tld to www.domain.tld before even hitting my server.