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No.

If you can, find a program like Washington State's Running Start: http://www.k12.wa.us/RunningStart/default.aspx .

Read pg's _What You'll Wish You'd Known_: http://paulgraham.com/hs.html and pay attention to the part about treating high school like your day job.

I'm really passionate about what I want to do, and I'm ready to go through with my decision.

You're passionate about what you do now -- but you may not be in six months, two years, or six years. If you don't even have a HS diploma, you'll be unfairly hamstrung in terms of your options then. Note that you might be passionate about what you're doing now and you might be passionate about doing what you're doing 60 years from now. But you might not be. To use pg's metaphor, try to stay upwind. And if you want to learn more, read more. School ends at 3:00. You still have a lot of time to do what you will.

In addition -- no offense -- there is a reasonably high chance that you think you know more than you do. I'm not trying to say this to be an asshole -- I'm saying it because you won't be the first high school student to think you're wildly more competent, capable, or intelligent than you are. I run into students like that all the time and told a story about one here: http://jseliger.com/2010/10/02/how-to-get-your-professors%E2... . You might also be the next Bill Gates, but the odds are good that you're not. If you drop out of high school because of what people on the Internet tell you, you may mess your life up in substantial ways that won't be easy to undo.

and I want to start a business or go to college now, and start learning more.

These are somewhat vague goals: if you said, "Here's the URL for my business and where I want to go with it" or "I want to learn X, Y, and Z in college," you'd have a more compelling case. As it is, what the other posters have said is mostly good advice: work toward getting into college sooner, rather than later. I will also say that you might be able to get more out of high school classes than you think if you try hard enough to.

Good luck.
Here's a relevant article that convinced me how awesome Cython is:

http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=116

Basically, if you are doing any work that requires heavy numerical processing, Cython is the way to go. On the other hand, I was playing with it to do some basic text processing and the improvements were negligible.
Here's what comes to mind when I look at what you're doing.

I have a monitor problem where one is too short, and because of how my desk is I'd have to raise both of them different heights for them to fit right. If I had a couple books the right size, it would solve the problem- but that would look ghetto- and I don't have books the right size anyway.

What if customers could send you a photo of something that could be solved by custom woodwork that they don't have the means to do themselves, so you could exchange measurements & sell a solution like that?
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You're right about this. One thing Azure is not is a direct clone of either AWS or Google App Engine. Azure is different from both, and I believe once they have sorted it through, they will be using their considerable contact list to leverage existing customers onto the Azure platform. One of the key aspects of this is allowing Azure to be run as a private cloud - which I'm sure is the result of a lot of customer feedback and contact.
i know it is strictly 'hacker-news' material, but seems kind of finance-geek/hacker interesting.
No additional complexity was introduced into those two modules, aside from being a different language that's easily grasped by anyone who knows Python and C. LOC-wise, the modules were about the same as the Python versions.

I've done some integration of C code using ctypes, which works quite well, and offers the obvious speed boost, but feels less coherent and ultimately less maintainable, project-wise, than a well-coded Cython module. Writing a full-on CPython module from scratch would probably offer better performance than Cython if you know the quirks and are disciplined. But to someone who doesn't already drip CPython C modules, Cython is a godsend.

Ultimately, there's 5 commonly used ways (CPython, Boost::Python, SWIG, Cython, ctypes) to integrate C into Python, and right now you'd be crazy not to give Cython a shot, if that's your need. It's very easy to learn for anyone familiar with both C and Python.
You don't need to fully understand Scala's type system to write working code in it. The features like Higher Kindred seem intimidating, but you only have to deal with them as a library implementer (and in many cases the syntactic sugar e.g., %> helps gloss over a lot of it).

Unlike with Haskell, type classes ("Higher-Kindred types" in Scala) are just one way to have a certain kind of polymorphism, you also have a more traditional type of polymorphism through traits and sub-classing.
If the need to enforce trademarks was actually great enough, then a private company or a standards body would obviously arise to fill the need.
The built-in IDE for PowerShell 2.0 is pretty good from what I recall, but I tend to just stay with the good ole blue console.

`Get-Help` and `Get-Member` are great discovery tools -- pipe anything to it, or do `Get-Member -inputObject $foo` and get all its properties.
As 2x UC Berkeley dropout and Columbia alum who financed his education by working as a paramedic in the Bronx, I can unambiguously say that I know EXACTLY what the author is talking about.

The Ivies offer you access to power in a way that even the best state schools never can or will. There is a sense of entitlement, a "welcome to the ruling class" sensibility that permeates the place. The Old Boys Club, indeed.

My experience is mainly New York, but the elite mentality runs deep.

And since switching coasts, I've left that behind. It feels great.
I'm frugal on things in my apartment, furniture, and all of that, but I don't skimp on what I put in my body.

That's an excellent attitude. Too many people take the opposite approach.
In times of famine people ate bark and shoe leather. So these are appropriate dietary choices if there are no alternatives. Same with Ramen. Ramen is appropriate as a staple food only if there is no other alternative.
What about videos?
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Your comment seemed interesting and made me look it up.

According to the straight dope, not quite, but almost:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2828/could-i-surviv...
The annoyance is that a plugin is required for content that is quite readily publishable as a file type that could easily be processed by many brands of computers and browsers. Video is such content, in 2010.

When I publish video, even if I happen to use a Flash plugin viewer (for convenience), I usually also offer a link to the video file.
this seems more like apple kowtowing to the carriers rather than cutting them out. this would allow you to use your phone only on apple-approved carriers...
This article does not address the technical reasons why Pixar chose to demonstrate this proof of concept using Azure.

Mad props to roadnottaken though for this other gem: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744214
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Yes, and we all end up paying the indirect costs of this cheap labor because, as is well-publicized, most of these people won't have health insurance so premiums, medical costs, Medicaid costs, etc go up.
The 900 pages of CTM would be a lot to get through before school, if you were reading it cover to cover. (I've only read about 3/4 of it, though I burned right through a big chunk of it in one weekend.) But, it's quite easy to follow, and for many fundamental CS topics, you can probably find a coherent summary in there when your other
textbooks are a dead end. It's not going to cover Java API details, and it's weak on some specialized topics (parsing and compilers, for example), but it fits a lot of big ideas into a coherent whole.

Other people will recommend SICP (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/), or would have, had this reached the front page. That's also quite good, but a bit more narrow in focus - depth rather than breadth.
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Just wanted to follow up here that aonic and I conversed offline through email; he was very helpful. The skinny -- look at nginx + fcgi, design for separating read-only traffic (SELECT) from write-only traffic (INSERT, UPDATE), think about memcache early on but abstract it away.

Another note from me: architect profiling into app and prepare to log everything because if you don't know where bottleneck is, you can't remove it.
I believe I like the version I've heard better. "the best thing about being self-employed is that I can choose my own hours... as long as its all of them."
Agreed. The best health insurance policy is a good diet.
That might be why in this week’s survey, two-thirds of self-employed people said they’re living anything but the dream. A dream employer for them is not their current status of self-employment.

Little data given, but this strikes me as one of those hard to measure things. It's like how surveys show that children don't make people "happier" and yet you'll be hard pressed to find any parent that would give it up.

Similarly, these 2/3 of people self employed could get a traditional job.... but they don't. I guess it depends how the questions are worded. Could things be better? Of course. Would you give it up? Well, presumably they could.

Relevant cartoon: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home

Edit: also curious about how many people who do work in the companies in the top list actually list their own companies. Grass is always greener sort of effect. What percentage of Google employees consider Google their "dream job"?
Other times, it's also a timing issue: they want it resolve sooner than what Canada will do for them.

Isn't that a huge problem though? For cancer and other progressive illnesses, each day's delay can mean the difference between surviving or not.
Somehow I knew if I clicked comments I'd immediately the same thing I've been hearing for 10 years, and will probably hear for the next 10. "Sure but it's all Windows and Office and how much longer is that really going to last?"

How many more years does Microsoft need to get increasing revenue from those two before that will stop? Or will they just keep saying it, year after year, until it's true. You could have said "people are going to start cancelling their landline phone service" every year since 1950 and you would have gotten to be correct eventually right? Just hang in there.
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As I read your post I thought you were going to threaten to sue him for edging out your blog.
When things are in the cloud, they don't have to be in different data centers. Cloud providers are starting to provide tools that give you control over proximity for exactly these sorts of performance issues.
Cooking meals is a non-trivial skill, many people don't have the time or money to learn, they can't afford to "experiment" with cooking, because if their children don't want to eat what they make when experimenting then the children are going to go hungry.

Cooking is easy. Saying it's hard it just an excuse. Get some meat, frozen veggies and potatoes/rice/bread and you can easily make a basic meal in 30 minutes. And really, you're talking about the kids going hungry when food is on the table? Growing up I learned quickly to eat what my mom cooked or 'go hungry.'
I used this a long time ago, and from my observations, the biggest gains occurred in loops. (They are the only time Python is really slow anyway.) However, the last time I checked interfacing with numpy and scipy was not supported.
Ask HN: Which career path to take?
Hello HN! I'm using a throw-away account, but I'm a long time HN reader and all the advice that I've read here has helped me become a better developer. Now I'm here to ask for your help. I know there should have been existing threads like this, but my Google-fu is failing me lately so here I am.

I am a junior developer, more than 2 years out of college and had some experience working for a startup as my first job. I was severely underpaid, and felt that the company was going nowhere fast, so I decided to look for greener pastures. I have been getting interviews, and so far all of them have been positive. Not that I landed offers on all of them. They liked my attitude, but was disappointed with my experience.

I have a few offers on my hand though I have a tough time deciding which to take. The top two choices being:

1.) A startup with a product that looks interesting, small team, poised to grow in a few months, full of bright guys, seems fast paced. The problem is the salary is below market rate (not as abysmal as my first job though), shares that won't make me rich (maybe enough to buy me a Macbook if they get lucky), almost non-existent benefits. I accepted this offer by the way.

2.) Then came company number 2. More of a consulting job. No core product. A quite large company servicing big-name clients. Smart team (maybe not as awesome as company number 1). Seems to be quite agile with regards to work. They offered me a market rate salary, with benefits that would make anybody drool. The problem is that you fly from project to project, without actually having something to call your own, which makes stuff less interesting.

I know that I should go for whichever company that offers the best experience. Frankly, being junior, I stand to learn a lot whichever company I choose. Technologies used are fairly equal and modern, with company 1 being a tad bit cooler, and company 2 being a couple of notches more enterprise. I'm leaning towards company number 1, since I'm more of a startup guy (I'm on HN after all). The rest of my family and friends think that I'm crazy for not going for company number 2. There's also the issue of retracting a job offer that I already accepted.

What are your opinions regarding this? I mean, I could go for company 1, but the practical side of my subconscious keeps nagging me for 2.
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Himilarly, these 2/3 of people self employed could get a traditional job.... but they don't.

This isn't necessarily true. The hacker news world of prep school kids that turn down $200K/yr junior investment banking jobs to work on their Facebook gaming startups sort of warps this perspective. Many, if not most, self employed people are self employed because they would never get hired at a regular job. There was even a time when this was true in Silicon Valley.
I can't upvote this comment enough.

Elitism aside, high school curriculums are a joke. It will be easy, it will be a waste of time, and you probably won't learn much if you've already learned how to solve complex problems in abstract and invisible ways (programming).

That said, run the course and finish high school with a high GPA. Get the best technical degree from a college you can (of course money is an issue here, scholarships?) with some internships and a high-paced position at a growing start up and you'll be way on your way to success.

THOSE things said, take your spare energy and time to learn things that school or college won't teach you. For me, this was game programming, web design, n-teir architectures, SQL, databases, and web applications. None of this I learned in school, and I have a CS degree and graduated at the top of my class. Most well paying jobs with good opportunities require CS degress, but the Java-shop mentality they provide simply aren't enough to be successful.

Use your education as accreditation to get the attention you need from employers, and use your untapped potential and extra energy to gain the experience you need to stand out on a resume be an above-and-beyond contributor (I did this with experimental iPhone game development, web app development, check out www.scotthconner.com to see the projects I think fall under this category).

Finishing high-school is a must. Learning how to learn quickly and get shit done with little fuss is vital. Having a list of reasons you didn't finish school will count against you in every case.
Hi Alex, nice work and congrats on your first step =) Have you ever thought of specializing in showcasing just educational games/ flash games? I think it would be very valuable and it would easily catch on among parents/young kids. You could also link it to educational resources like Khan Academy, etc..
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Melbourne Hackernews Meetup, Wed 3 Nov
A few of us are catching up to shoot the breeze arising from this HN Offer

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1837408

Where: Match Bar and Grill, 279 Little Lonsdale St, corner of Swanston, Melbourne

When: 3 November, 5:30pm onwards

It's short notice, but hope to see you there. Should be a great chance to meet like-minded
people and get feedback on ideas and startups. I'm on 0433 507 750 if you need to track us down.

Please upvote to bring this to people's attention.
[edit: thanks guys, hitting the front page should be sufficient]
Also, I'm sure many people on welfare would love to have a good job and be productive.

It probably depends on how you define "many", but I don't think history sides with you on this one. Welfare programs in the US have tended to produce more people on welfare, rather than getting them off.
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When I went, it was an all out dinner sort of thing. I guess it's not crazy, especially for the OP coming from the bay area, but two people with no drinks tipping the $65 scale is steep for my bootstrapped self :)

I'll have to checkout the whiskey lounge, and great tip on Eagle Creek. Gotta love that slick drop off to the raging river below :)
> What's great or genius is that this "phrase", or function, is ALSO a chunk. and you can combine those chunks together in the same manner even if they are functions. This is like LISP: functions are data and data are functions.

These two sentences have no apparent relation, except that you said they did. Spoken language sentences do not evaluate each other and none of them are apparently functions. Also, spoken languages don't have punctuation…
The design, prototyping, and manufacturing guide is mine and I've gotten a dozen plus emails from people asking about product ideas. Instead of taking weeks to figure out if something is viable I can answer the question in a few minutes. Having designed apparel, medical products, mobile apps, AI, toys, etc. I can pretty much look at something at tell what it's going to cost, how long, and the difficulty.

I'm doing it sure to meet people but mostly because I wish there was someone to help me when I was learning product design. There would have been a lot less bumps and bruises.
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Doesn't work for me (IE8 on Win 7). I know there is a general allergy towards IE but that's 65% of your market, so coding to include support for it is not exaclty a cardinal sin.
What bank/provider were you able to do this haggling with if you don't mind my asking?
We've organised a meetup at 5:30 on Wednesday 3 Nov for those of you who are interested.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846042
Jason has an interesting style. He takes his experiences and assumes that they can apply to everybody else that goes through similar situations with the same results.

I had my first child while I was still working + studying, and yes I agree that if I was doing my startup then I would have probably gone through major shock.

Having already had my first child, with the birth of my second and doing my startup, I knew what to kinda expect for the first few months + delivery. One of the first things I did, and realized, was that in order to have a good balance between the two, I had to get rid of the data plan on my phone. Otherwise, I wouldn't be 'in the moment' with my kids when I needed to be.

The result has been phenomenal. When I only have a few hours to get everything done that I need to do, I get a lot done. Still could achieve more, but am much more productive for myself with two kids than I was working for someone else with one kid.

I have also realized that it is better to do this while they are young enough to not remember these years too much. While I spend as much time with them as I can, the reality is that I will have to spend a lot of time working. But the trade-off is that if I do this now, in the first 5 - 10 years of their lives, then we can all enjoy more time and life in a different way when I am in my 30s and they are 8+.

Please do NOT interpret that as me neglecting them. I am lucky enough to be in a situation where there is a lot of support (in-laws live on the same property and we have a nanny - I live in Jamaica so the cost of living is much lower than the US, so it doesn't drain my bank account too much) for my wife and she is VERY supportive. She is being mom full-time, which significantly helps.

That being said, I make sure to bathe them a few evenings for the week and usually end up putting my eldest to bed 3/7 nights for the week (if not more, depending on what's happening with the family). Bedtime includes about 1 - 2 hours of dedicated them time - including stories, etc.

I have also agreed, with my wife, that I will take the night shift on our 7 week old. That usually means that I am up until anywhere between 5 - 7am with her, feeding her and putting her back to sleep in intervals. So I try to do as much work as I can while she sleeps during the nights.

As a result of that, I wake up about midday everyday and get straight to work. Usually work until 6pm, where I transition into evening routine. I don't know how long this will be sustainable for, but my wife is very flexible and supportive.

Some people might say I am crazy for doing a startup now (with 2 young kids), while many of my friends are working at bigshot jobs in the corporate world, but I think this is the more prudent route for the security and stability of my family in the long term.
The flaws should have been apparent to anyone who understood human nature and was willing to sit down and ask the obvious questions like "What happens when X" and "But won't people Y?" They were less apparent to people who didn't want to sit down and ask these sorts of questions.

This brings to mind my favorite communism story. 15 or so years ago my local newspaper ran a story about a young lady who was moving away to go work for the American Communist Party, because she had taken a trip to Cuba and seen Communism in action; it was clear to her that this was the ideal form of government for the people. That same day, the news was full of stories of people risking their lives to leave Cuba in homemade boats. It always amazed me how this girl could completely miss this.
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