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I don't know about chrome, but this sounds like it may help for ff (ImageBlock):
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5613/

What would be better would be flashblock for images, so you can selectively load them instead of being all-or-none.

Other idea: Get a VPS or cheap webserver (<$5/mo) and run a high-compressing proxy on it.
Probably not - the trick is to get them to think of you as a person. You want to connect on a personal level. Asking for help is one of the most effective ways of 'personalizing' yourself, from what I've read (I've seen American blogs telling people to do the same thing with cops).
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You don't need a PhD or even an MS in math to teach high school/CC math. The business analyst, for the most part, doesn't need to know math beyond means and standard deviations. Note: I'm interpreting "mathematician" to mean "math Ph.D." or "person who does/did research in math", which is typically the way the term is used.

Most people with a math degree don't use even a small fraction of their training. I do, but I'm in the minority. (Also worth noting that most of what I use I didn't learn in school.)
> Two, does Python need tuples, dicts, AND lists?

While I agree that tuples and lists could be merged, I don't think that dicts should be merges with them, too.

When I first looked at PHP I found the concept of having a unified "array" type (for arrays and hash tables) very clever. However, I quickly changed my mind.

Now I think that the array/hash unification is one of the biggest design mistakes in PHP as it provides no benefit (both have completely different use cases), but causes a lot of trouble.

A similar argument goes for ECMA Script (aka JavaScript).
Agreed. I'm a Mac fan who misses having a native VS style IDE.

I've been using Netbeans, which has a bit of the user experience I'm looking for, but seems a little slothlike to me.
Use a text browser, like Lynx. http://lynx.browser.org/

I use < 5 gb a month. How do you manage 7 without downloading videos? Also, what browser are you using? (pure guess ahead) Maybe if you use a browser that does more caching you'll use less bandwidth? I use Safari.
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So you actually took the 75% A classes? Did you learn a lot from those profs, or were they just giving the As away?
I would figure that, knowing nothing else about the prof, the one with grades in the middle would be the most effective teacher.
Nice. This would definitely work today (at least at the airports that I usually fly through).

Also would be a pretty good hack to do some duty-free shopping in the international terminal - at security they usually only seem to glance at your boarding pass and wave you through. Who's to say you don't just go shopping and walk back out the arrivals exit?
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Are you saying that you consider the subsidy for your attendance at Rutgers was a waste of taxpayer's money as well?

It probably was. It's not as clear cut as the case of the waiter, but I don't think my current work creates a benefit for the taxpayer as large as the subsidy I received. When I was still an academic, I created a larger external benefit [1], but it's far from clear that it was positive.

If subsidies were abolished, I expect college would become cheaper and more efficient, most academics would find new employment, and most marginal students would not attend college.

[1] Currently I work as a trader, and most of the benefits I provide are captured by myself and my company. None of my academic research projects have resulted in anything useful yet, though admittedly the jury is still out (people are still exploring some of the lines of inquiry I created).
It seems to work well for Lua, though it has an explicit optimization so that dicts with consecutive integer keys are automatically stored internally as an array.
I do agree with what you say, but there is a gamut with 'programming problems' on one end and 'work' on the other. Especially on the web, most of programming is work, not problem solving. When doing work in a language/framework, knowledge of other languages/framework can distract you. For example, a Java-only specialist would know whether substring takes start offset and length or start and end offsets arguments. I would have to look it up (or wait for the IDE to help me), but I do know that C# and Java disagree about it.
Physics is probably worse. In math, you are either in the game or eliminated. In physics, you can eliminated but still doing grunt work for low pay in someone's lab.

Putnam is less relevant than original research.
Someone else reacted that Office Live does work on the iPad (I never tested it).
Anyhow - as web apps are not what ticks (at the moment) on the mobile devices (Apps are) - I was referring to an actual App version of Office.
This is really sad: as about the same time you were doing the scanning and OCR'ing in '94, I was in a PhD program, and did the same thing thing for our research project in the Wavelet Signal Processing course, because I started it too late. Scanned papers, OCR, and edit, Had a 30 page report in no-time, pure bliss. Always felt bad about it, though.
that's quite brilliant, it should work probably much more reliable than our guessing.
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They're also much cleaner in languages with expression-oriented rather than statement-oriented semantics -- languages where the result of a function is implicitly the last value in it, without needing a return statement.
yeah, we have plenty of places for freelancers online which are essencially a race to the bottom on rate, a lot of buyers are looking to compare on rate, most sellers that sell at a premium would at least like buyers to give them the time of day to hear what that premium will get them.
My chemistry prof would tell of a student who needed to get just one question right on the multiple-choice final to pass the course. He walked in, picked 'C' for all questions, and walked out.

No correct answers were 'C'.
Agree to fgblanch.

On the first view AWS services seem to be cheap. But be aware of additional costs, for traffic, requests (no, that is not in the traffic included, e.g. SOAP requests), IP addresses, persistent storage or snapshots for your servers (e.g. EBS).

Big advantage within the AWS services is that you can reduce your CAPEX and your invest in your own hardware infrastructure.

If you calculate your use case detailed, you will see that sometimes dedicated servers offers are still cheaper than some cloud hosting services.
Only a 1000 lines? Man, you are living the easy life.
http://www.antiqueway.com - antique store listings with a dose of mapping.

The ultimate goal is to have pricing for improved listings (description, couple pics, link to website) and tiered pricing for the listing of antiques that the antique store has for sale. Example of a site doing the former is www.antiquesincanada.com and the latter www.sellingantiques.co.uk/

I think the main challenges here are SEO and pounding the pavement. If you have any thoughts or ideas for improvement, fire away!
$300 fine because the network admin couldn't be bothered to run spanning tree?
I've worked with someone who looked at the keyboard when he typed, and overall wasn't a very fast typist (I'd estimate < 50 WPM). He made frequent use of tab completion and mouse-based copy-pasting. [Although he didn't use them] there's also double-click and double-click-and-drag copying, and the "features" of IDEs.

He produced code of quality on par with the rest of the team, and I never thought of him as having a final-product throughput less than the rest of us [who could type faster].

It's true that you can't hunt and peck and be even just a mediocre pianist, but performing music necessitates keeping tempo -- you must actuate your instrument at the right time, and poor mechanical skill on your part has direct and significant impact on the quality of the music. There is no such analogous requirement in coding, other than perhaps deadlines -- but that is obviously on an entirely different scale (no pun intended).
I also agree. The XBOX and newest generation of Zune/Windows Phone 7 are probably the most innovative things to be -released- (Courier is therefore discounted) from Microsoft in quite some time. You can also argue that they are the Microsoft platforms with the best user experiences. Even MS haters are hard pressed to say that they outright suck.

Where MS has stumbled, in my minds and of my colleagues' minds, is the dumbing down of Windows and Office products. In terms of usability, Windows XP and Office 2003 were a good balance of function and learning curve.

I'm of the view that Windows and Office have been around long enough to be quite pervasive, at least in the first world. With such high PC penetration in the marketplace, excessive tweaking to the Office and Windows GUI to make it more palatable to non-computer users was probably unnecessary effort, but I'll also concede that the new chrome probably sold a lot of upgrades.
What kind of college did you go to? In the two I went to, the late fees were something like several dollars a day, and you couldn't graduate unless it was paid off. (At best you could negotiate to pay the retail cost of the book.)

Additionally, both colleges would put any textbook that was for a class on "reserve" so you could only have access to it for several hours at a time, and students DEFINITELY used it. I don't believe that no other student in the class wanted your textbook.
To be fair, that wasn't really your hack. It was the other kid's. But neat.
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Brilliant - I wish you posted this tip earlier when I went to Africa. Will do it the next time I go to India for sure.
Analytics services: should I pay? 
Are there any analytics services I should be using other than google analytics? Which are worth paying for?
Hack house in SF
First of all let me start off by saying I am a YC W2011 applicant, along with im sure at least 1,000 others I am sure, so I am not depending on YC to accept me or change my life.

However, I am planning on moving to the Bay area within the next 6-8 months regardless of any sort of funding. In the YC 2011 chat the idea of a hack house came up where 4-6 of us could rent a house and have fun working on some projects both separate and together, and some could possibly even just pay the rent with equity if they were a little short that month.

So my question is who is planning on moving to SF soon and who would be interested in a setup like this? If I dont get into YC I would still like to work something like this out, I think while I am young it will be the only time I get to do things like these and meeting good hackers is at the top of my list of reasons for moving to the Bay area ... anyone else interested in something like this?
http://www.iwatchedit.com -- easy way to track the movies that you've seen and what you thought of them
I'm talking about orthogonality, not syntactic cruft per se.
Change your user-agent to that of a mobile browser - most sites will serve you up a low-bandwidth version.
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Thanks, you just write your name, not the time. I don't have enough data for the stats now.

Keyboard selection is a good idea, will look at it.
My first ever real job was as a data entry operator, when I was about 19. By this time I'd worked with Windows 95, 98, 3.11, NT 4, and had been using Linux exclusively on the home PC ~ 2 years.

Whenever one of us made a mistake in data entry, a supervisor would come over to the terminal (running PC-DOS), unlock some admin functionality with a password, and fix the error. Even at 1-2 mistakes per day, this was a hassle for me. Got around it by using a keylogger (remember TSRs?) to capture the password :)

When the time came to quit, one of the supervisors had recognized that I knew my way around computers. But I'd royally pissed off another supervisor by then, by doing 'attrib +r +h my-data-file' one day. They couldn't extract the data while I was out for lunch :o)
>it probably won't work these days.

Oh, it absolutely works these days; it's even easier. My undergraduate institution publishes median grades for each course.

There's a bit of an uproar though because they're going to start printing the median grades on students' transcripts...
Here is more crazy way of saving bandwidth:

Enable gzip in SSH ->
SSH to some machine that has unlimited Internet access (if you have one; AWS etc.) ->
Use text browser from there (Elinks is nice - http://elinks.or.cz/).

This will allow you to browse Internet with bytes of traffic.
I'm guessing you didn't miss the black broth either.
Yeah, but I think "his parents' very technical books" is a little more central.

During my first few weeks of college, I asked my mother to buy a book on UNIX if she ran across one. She blanched and said "What on earth for?"
When I used to use a mobile dongle to access the net, I disabled images to reduce bandwidth.

Unforgivably, some sites didn't work with images disabled.
Do you mean in order to run git from the command line within emacs?

(Within each emacs instance that I have open, i have at least one shell window open, if not two.)
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It's getting there - Despite design I'm practically the only person working on it. Desperately trying to finish paying jobs so that I can get it done.
> We did not really have an optimal betting strategy, at least nothing that can be proven scientifically, there is no such thing.

Ah, but there is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
Hm - are you saying your sales haven't grown, or that they've grown 28x?
http://www.openpoll.us/

openpoll is an electronic direct democracy that will allow Americans to vote on state and federal bills and elections. It is currently in development and has been for the past 2 years (I work on it in my spare time as getting funding isn't a viable option). I am in the data acquisition stage right now. That means writing parsers to pull legislation information from every state's website. As of right now, the site isn't much more than a UI slapped on top of a DB. It has registration, basic voting, and commenting. I would like to hear any potential ideas from the internet community for this site.

I plan on having beta testing in the first quarter of 2011. Some point after that, I will open source the code. Then I will add a Web API that will allow smartphone applications to be built. And if I get enough traction, eventually turn my LLC into a non-profit. My target market is every single American. My eventual goal is to turn phone booths into voting booths. Pretty lofty goals, but I believe it will make America a much better place.
I can recommend the open source pendant http://piwik.org/. You can install and operate it on your own servers easily and all data is stored on your machines.
If you're looking for a paid analytics service then Webtrends service might be a solution for you: http://www.webtrends.com/
In my experience, the median grades are higher for smaller classes, and those smaller classes are often more advanced and populated by graduate students. It's not that the professor is easier, it's that everyone works really hard and learns a lot, because they're motivated by the work itself.

This does not hold true for large classes where the median grade is an A, however; those are usually genuinely easier.
http://www.snopes.com/science/saltwater.asp

It says false at the top, but goes on to explain it did actually work for a period of time, by shorting out the mechanism.

One kid was even electrocuted when he tried it on an ungrounded machine!
Senior year, I took a intro Psych course where the final was online. The questions were multiple choice, chosen from a large pool. The test was setup in such a way that we could re-take the exam as many times as we want and students would receive their highest score as their final exam grade. The idea was that if you took it 20 times, you would inevitably learn most of the material.

So, I imagine you can guess how I took the exam. After writing an running few scripts, my final exam scores showed that I took the exam 31 times: The first 30 times (as I was collecting questions and their answers) I received 0% and each exam took ~30 seconds. On the 31st exam I got 100% and it took ~45 seconds.

As you would expect, I got an A+ for the course. I never did bring it up to the prof.

In a similar vein, in my astronomy course we had online quizes and one type of question asked us to identify a picture. Viewing the page's source would occasionally reveal the the picture's filename, e.g. "sagittarius.gif".
I don't work at Google, but when I interviewed there I asked a similar question and they said something like "your supervisor should be consulted about what you work on". So I bet not.
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Reminds me of how i screwed up my recent interview with a big internet company. Every morning i wake up and regret it! #FML
> But, hey, why this little, made by nobody-knows-who, dive application should be given unlimited access to all your personal files, work email, bank account, and god-know-what-else-you-keep-on-your-laptop?

This problem is largely getting solved, by web applications. Make little applications in the form of websites, and people can use it safely as long as the web browser does not have a security hole.

Running different applications as different users on a desktop machine is too much trouble anyway.
How easy or hard is it to move your code from AppEngine to something else? I avoided it because there isn't enough support for Django. And I love Django!
I'm planning to submit it to Hacker News at the end of the week when I have premium accounts turned on and many more of the bugs worked out. Thanks for the advice!
If you are a tab-"addict": Close all tabs before closing your browser, so that your browser doesn't have to load unnecessary stuff when starting the next time.
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Its high time Microsoft opened up IE for Linux, Mac and developers. This step alone could get a bit of attention back to Microsoft in app arena.

Microsoft is such a big name that people tend to try out it's product just out of curiosity, with the expectation that something might turn out to be good; given all the money and talent MS has. The company just needs to launch things at a faster pace.
If you have access to some kind of server you could try using a compressed socks connection via ssh -CDport user@host that should reduce your amount of traffic. Especially for text transmissions which can be compressed quite good.
100% agree. Another way of saying that: someone has to keep the ship afloat.

As for having other founders, it'll sure help when the ship is in rocky waters.

Aside from the complimentary skillset, it's nice to have another founder so they can pick you up when things aren't going your way.
Most bars do. The markup on alcohol is absurd. As an individual, I can buy a keg of a very good beer for a cost of approximately 38 cents a pint. That same beer at a bar costs more like 4 or 5 bucks.

Cutting the margin down still covers costs considerably, but happy hours are a 'loss leader' to get you in to a bar that would otherwise be less occupied, and perhaps as a signal for those driving by looking for a 'happening' bar, which is usually done toward the end of happy hour.

There might also be motivation to get you somewhat drunk so that you'll stay after happy hour and not realize that you're paying full price for beers.
Definitely check out the Appel's _Modern Compiler Implementation in ML_, then. And don't forget to do the exercises, then you'll know you know what you know. :)
Now would be a great time to spin off the entertainment division to let it grow without undue interference and focus on being a good, boring, corporate-centric company.
There's actually an upside, though: labor laws force kids to get creative and pursue activities which are at least entrepreneurial and generally more educational than the dead-end McJob that might first come to mind for them. But I do think that kids should be better educated about the limitations on what they really can and can't do rather than just suffer under a blanket misperception "you can't work until you're 16."

I really think that experiences such as yours, where you were invited into a white-collar world, are the rare exception (heck, people with solid bachelors' degrees have trouble getting that sort of job now!).
Armando is a core original member of the founding team. It also includes Andres Barreto (formerly grooveshark cofounder)
> does Python need tuples, dicts, AND lists?

Pretty much yes. dicts are something completely separate from list-like types. Those should not be mixed.

lists and tuples depend on your preference really, but I appreciate them being available. There are many places where you want to pass an immutable sequence of objects and the list is just not right... Sure we could get rid of them, but what would be the gain there?
This reminded me of the time when I was a kid (maybe 5 or 6 years old), I went with my aunt to buy the newspaper or something like that. They were also selling these scratch lottery tickets and my aunt would usually buy me one or two.

I don't really remember how, but I figured out that the scratch-off paint on the winning tickets had a slightly jagged edge.

My aunt couldn't beleive it, nor could the seller: she would buy me the first ticket, I'd pick it out, scratch it and use the proceeds to buy another one. This went on for a few days... After my aunt bought me the first one, I'd proceed going through the whole stack until I picked out all the winning tickets.

Unfortunately, the best I could do is win back the money invested, as the most frequent prize amount was the price of the ticket.
Scala's Option will save you from the most common cause of NullPointerException
um, no.

click on computer. thing arrives at my door.
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get in car, drive in traffic, deal with idiot shoppers, salesoids etc.
Why did they actually discontinue IE for the Mac (years ago) or did they never release IE for Linux. One of the reasons IE is losing market share (relatively) must be that people who are coming from other platforms, tend to stick with the browser they like.
IE 4 was great at the time (and won the browser war with Netscape).
I do not understand why they (MS) seem so fearful of embracing the open standards/multiple platform approach.
Whether we like it or not, chance plays big role in major decision making in life.
It won't work in India. Because they don't take bribes at Airport (at least).
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An interesting step it would be, but I am a little hazy on the details of how this would work. So Google ranks an IPV6 site slightly higher than the competition. Neat. But nobody can get to it because they are all IPV4. So that site needs to also show up in IPV4, since none of us are IPV6 yet. Is that the same site or a different one (presuming that the content is the same)? If it is the same one, then how does Google link these together?

So this doesn't motivate me to motivate my ISP to go IPv6 since I can still see the site in IPV4.

If there is a magic bullet to get everybody over the IPv6, I don't think this is the one.

To more fully bake this proposal, perhaps a review of the DJB ipv6 mess article will help. I am increasingly wondering if it isn't like changing which side of the road everybody drives on. Not likely to work well unless it all happens at once.
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