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Both of the CS majors I knew that switched majors switched to Philosophy.

I never asked why. They both were having trouble in the Intro Algorithms class when they bounced.

Maybe people that think they are CS/Math people and then find out that they might not be CS/Math people find solace in Philosophy? Maybe what they liked about CS/Math was the logic more than the algorithms.
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Good call :)

Just in case anyone doesn't know why Bcrypt is so awesome, it's because it actually takes longer to hash (based on the difficulty level you set, and you can bump up the difficulty level as hardware gets more powerful).

For other applications, you want hashing to be fast. But for passwords, you want hashing to be as slow as possible without compromising user experience.
Outlier opinions are important! Thanks. Re Latin, the game today is a great tool to teach lexical structures, ie. prefix, suffix, word etymology in fact.
And Chris is a reasonable guy.
Negative comments? Eat em up. Take note of what people dislike (be it even solely out of jealousy or spite, which is the vibe some of these comments give me) and work them into making your next creation even better.
Eh ... that would be spammy. And I gave up trying to work in quant finance. Instead I'm returning to what I know: entrepreneurship.
I think like you, but I know it is still irrational.
Sorry - I misspoke. I meant to say that there's no need to ask for a high school diploma as a qualifier to get into a graduate program - graduate programs require undergraduate degrees with very few (any?) exceptions. Even if the undergraduate degree did not in turn require a secondary (high school) diploma, the undergraduate program was itself a qualifier. The point is that in response to the main concept of this article that you don't need a high school diploma to get into many schools (MIT notwithstanding) is only relevant to undergraduate degrees, and even in that case, is not particular to just MIT.
Interesting. I am assuming you would. Can you briefly explain your reasoning?
I think it is interesting, but you might want to think on creating multiple hyper focused applications all under the same banner.

For example, create one that is just about exercising and working out to help make the use case and UI clearer.
Either of these require programming on a computer with web-browser, games, chat, etc. Programming embedded hardware does not solve the problem of working in a distracting environment. Self-discipline, determination, and perhaps other inner qualities are necessary and always have been.
I don't recall ever doing this. I use a second twitter account for signups like that. It's possible, though. How would I know, other than the "connections" tab that shows me which apps are connecting to my account?
America has "black" problems that Europe may not have.
True, but it's probably not a good idea to tell your girlfriend that.
I don't know if you were ever a teenager, but I remember when I was a teenager I had a willful disregard for consequences or how my mischief affected others.

I think they should definitely get something a little stronger than a slap on the wrist, but also remember that they're just teenagers who don't know any better. All they really need is enough of a punishment to learn their lesson, and they'll probably end up productive members of society.
Agreed. It's been a couple of years since I actively contributed to Wikipedia, but I had a really easy time of it, mostly adding new content that wasn't there at all and expanding stub articles with a factual basis. I can see why religious/political/current events can become minefields, but I never ran into any trouble at all.
Really? Just from my head shot? I think the best you could do was "Damn bro, you need a hair cut, and I hate your brand new glasses"

But being rude wasn't even the point though, was it? This is really just blogspam...
Many / most schools admit people with no diploma on the basis of their work. This is why many students apply as Juniors in high school and how early admission works. If universities required a high school diploma as a qualification, students wouldn't be able to apply until they actually completed high school. There are many cases of people entering college as early as 13 years old, and this is not limited to MIT.
http://saasy.com claim that they have solved this problem but I haven't yet used them. Does anyone else have any experience with them?
Does anyone else here this and then think about Silicon Valley?

Maybe it's just paranoia...
To write an effective resume you need to keep the audience in mind. The hiring manager will base about 95% of the decision on the answer to one question: What have you built?

Answers to questions such as "What are your skills?", "What is your philosophy?", and "What is your passion?" mostly just get in the way and waste the reader's time.

A flashy appeal for a job like this one might get the attention of Instagram, but they will not base their hiring decision on that. If the portfolio, which in this case includes the resume itself, isn't impressive work, they will pass.

Showcase your actual work well and present it in the most impressive possible light and employers will take notice even if you don't buy a domain name for every company to which you're applying.
How can one disagree with this article without being branded sexist and intolerant?

She asserts there are few designers and women in open source software because men alienate them. And that we should try to make it so technical competence isn't required to contribute.

There are some good ideas here. But they only apply to a small subset of OSS projects. There is no cause for calling programmers anti-women or anti-designer.
Why oh why do women who complain about being alienated by men so often write articles that make me feel alienated? I refuse to believe that my revulsion at being called a "sexist boy" is somehow an illegitimate feeling.
It's easy to criticize. Surely anyone who does like it doesn't have much to say other than an obvious "it's good".

I don't think it's wrong though that people point out what they don't like, or would improve on. It's doesn't mean the person giving feedback is right, but it does allow the person who created it to take it into consideration.

Honestly, if you get feedback that's 'hard to take' it's probably because you know it needs to be changed.
Agreed. Ads on mobile apps are even worse than usual: you have limited screen space, bandwidth, CPU power, and battery life, all of which they consume. I charge directly for my non-opensource Android apps rather than polluting them with ads, and it's worked well so far.
I wouldn't say it's "dying". It has been bad but it's time to get more efficient and maybe that's what the city is trying to do. Also, not all of Detroit is that bad
Do lawyers actually say that, or do people say lawyers say that?
Apple doesn't even have a maximize button. I believe you're referring to the green(+) button which is technically called the zoom button. I refer to it as the optimize button since it resizes the window based on the content and when appropriate, will maximize the window to fill the screen. There are a few instances where the button does something completely off the wall, like in iTunes where it shrinks it down to the mini-player. If Apple is guilty of anything, it's not having a consistent function for that button. It's a wildcard.
http://blog.phpfog.com/2011/03/16/scaling-php-up-out-and-aro...

I want to share this article (which I wrote at PHP Fog) about scalability (in PHP but applies to all web apps) and the scenario you are asking about. I agree with travisglines (and everyone else on the thread), that this scenario you are talking about is in fact rare. It's one of those good problems to have. ("I have so much money, how am I going to spend it all")

Most people who I talk to care about scalability, not because they need it now, but rather because they want it as insurance. It sounds like you are in the same boat.

My recommendation is to pick a hosting platform that allows you to build your application the same way you normally would, but allows scalability if you do need it.

Heroku already does this for you for RoR; Windows Azure does this for .NET apps; GAE for Java/Python; and PHP Fog for PHP. Those platforms basically make caching and scalability really easy.

Other than scalability and caching, you should build your application with performance in mind; as having a fast site is important regardless of the number of users. mryan & mooism2 referenced some good resources for doing exactly that.
Won't this be easy to get from MacPorts soon enough anyway?
Big picture of data structures in NoSQL databases
It stinks that you're deciding to remain anonymous. If I "took you for a couple grand" I am very sorry about that but I can not defend myself there without knowing who you are.

That being said, the promosthatrock situation was over 7 years ago. I definitely made a mistake there and do not deny it. Again, if I wronged you then I am sorry.
Incomplete picture, but a nice approach to help developers understand which database (from the NoSQL jungle) fit their tastes and requirements. My NoSQL knowledge is very limited and I'd love to see more databases from this list under the same lens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL#Taxonomy
You can approximate using this page: http://decknetwork.net/

28 advertisers * $8300 = $232,400. That figure divided by 100,873,827 impressions is $.002 / impression or $2.30 per thousand impressions. Assume The Deck pays out 70% and you're looking at $1.60 CPM.
I don't really think the critique of the lens was valid. I don't see the point, "lack of detail?" Maybe it wasn't meant to have detail in the first place? It's like if I would say that "You only used bewels in PS" for your little "drawing", I mean it's sort of pointless.
Only if, in your opinion, special treatment is equivalent to the community not acting like misogynistic assholes, or at least tolerating such behavior. Similarly, gay people will tend not to feel welcome at homophobic places, black people will tend not to feel welcome at racist places, etc.
"The Xcode 4 interface should not imitate iTunes."

The new design has its problems, but this kind of feedback isn't specific enough.

The team did try to clean up the mess, and were successful in some areas. A modern, single-window design is laudable. But the document handling is just abysmal, as it has always been in Xcode.

The tabs don't make sense (they're even upside-down); the "counterpart" button is gone; you can't split the editor without invoking this misguided "assistant"; error messages appear in this narrow column on the left, so of course they're truncated to the point of uselessness and if you go to the results and put them in the main editing pane, it doesn't pull up the relevant source code at the same time.

Aside from the document-handling fiasco, there are lots of plain old bugs in Xcode 4. Worst of all is that it simply won't build a lot of projects that worked fine in Xcode 3, stopping people's work in its tracks.
It was also one of the most important cultural capitals of the US

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Detroit

(i.e. Motown to techno was based in Detroit)
The switch from the general design-by-committee approach to "look folks, we're hiring a designer, and they'll sell their ideas to us" is a really interesting one, and mirrors a lot of the part-OSS part-corporate projects I've recently become more familiar with.

Is design ultimately something that can't be done in patches and edits? I suspect so...
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I think religion qualifies as one of the few areas where you might expect controversy.

My experience was completely the opposite. A while back I contributed to the article on Hilbert Space. In particular, listed Sobolev spaces as an example of a Hilbert space. I didn't handhold my contribution, bicker or anything. I submitted, forgot about it, and checked in a few months later.

The bureaucracy decided that Sobolev spaces are a noteworthy example of Hilbert spaces and significantly improved on what I wrote.
What about recent grads? Or career-switchers?
It wasn't only religion articles, I experience the same on almost any topic of general interest. Niche articles that are primarily regurgitation of statistics like articles about small towns (which consist primarily of weather and census data) obviously don't get much attention or controversy because there's not much interesting going on there.

"Hard science" articles are harder to bicker about, but it still happens there occasionally. And everywhere outside of that this useless bureaucracy, reversion, and bickering cycle is the predominant activity on Wikipedia.
most Mac users do not run their browsers full-screen, so there's a horizontal scroll bar for anything less than a 1024 width

Sure most Mac users don't run full-screen but no Macs from the past few years have native displays limited to under 1024 pixels wide. Even without maximizing, most people (in my experience with running stats on this stuff) run at > 1024. Without pulling out my data, I found a browser width of around 1100-1150 pixels to make up the lion's share of my users.
Use address then.
You can pay for gmail and google calendar via Google Apps. I think that business model is "give it to home users for free, get corporate users to pay."
This is why I did terribly in quantum mechanics; I was never able to generate a whiff of insight about anything that was going on. The thing is, I'm not sure the top students really did either.
Surely, but if a journalist does even the slightest bit of homework on his past interviews they could very easily upgrade to something like "I know you've said you focus on the team rather than the idea when selecting applicants..." and go on to ask something more substantive or insightful - or not.

They could even follow up with something like "how do you know" or "were there some specific failures that lead to this policy" and then they could at least have a conversation. As it stands, I could do a comparable interview using b-roll.
Hustle is essential, and speaking as someone who didn't used to have any, without it, you're just relying on luck.

No doubt it's better to be lucky than good, but it's even better to be good at being lucky. Hustle hard enough and you make your own luck.
Missed the best reason carrots are like junk food: they're sweet.
For comparison, the 2010 numbers that correspond with (some of) this list — from the US Census American Fact Finder: http://bit.ly/dIfLJN

You can probably dig up other useful figures if you poke around enough: http://factfinder2.census.gov/ (it’s listed under "Detroit city, Michigan")

Striking how quickly the population has dwindled over the past twenty years.
Guys, try reading his post:
"When I want to build my project I do not want to press a play button."

He said BUILD, not RUN. A Play button is to build and RUN the project. I agree with his objection: There's no Build button in the UI.

And even worse is the width of the combined drop-down list for configurations. There's a vast expanse of empty space in the (now non-customizable) toolbar, and they made this control SMALLER. The information it should be providing is cut off in all cases, even with short project names. I try to be sympathetic to the Xcode team's tasks, but this is idiotic.
CEO pay is usually linked to performance as well. Most are paid primarily in stock options or performance linked bonuses.

Unless you want to claim that Lady Gaga's performance is superior to that of Johnny Cash, I don't think you can explain the increase in musician pay by performance increases.
Ironically the opposite for me. I can tell you my father's mobile and home numbers, but not his address (I know the post code but not the flat number...), despite visiting him 2-3 times a month.

I can also tell you my grandmother's number, but not her address. Again, I'll visit her maybe twice as often as I'll call her (not that many times in a year, she lives 60 miles ago).
What does it feel like to be shot/wounded by a bullet?
Right, that's what I meant. :)
Out of curiosity: I have a friend who had the same allergy... she switched to purely organic carrots and it went away. Does it work the same way with your wife?
He said BUILD, not RUN.
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This is Alexis's: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kn0thing
Great idea. This would be awesome for people who are chronically tardy, and commit themselves to being on time somewhere. Connect this with Facebook events to automate it maybe?
4g of sugar out of a 85g serving is not 57%. Where did you get those numbers?
Why do you want to look at my site? Will this somehow make my points invalid? :-) Oh, this guy can't design, so no, kerning is right.

No, it doesn't make it any more invalid. BUT I looked a the lens and didn't see a problem with it, and overall thought the design seemed pretty good. With your critique I was hoping to see what someone with a very sharp eye for design would actually put in production.
Carrots don't cause the same insulin spike that candy bars do. Refined and processed sugars hit your bloodstream much more quickly than unprocessed foods.

Carrots also don't taste as good as a chocolate bar, so it would still be an epic sacrifice.
Then you tell them you don't know and you walk them through an educated guess. They just want to know that you understand your supposed area of expertise.
The green button RUNS the program, building it first if necessary. Where did he say he wants to run the program?
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Android: The EverNote installer says the app requires access to certain areas of the device.
- Hardware Controls
- Network Communications
- Your Location
- Your personal Information
- Storage
- Phone Calls
- System Tools

This is absurd. I passed.
I use the Evernote plugin in Chrome as a delicio.us replacement. I clip blog posts and sites adding notes and tagging them for future reference. It's a notebook for my life.
So HN: Why does this get voted up because of the hustle and for her actually "doing something", and yet there are Rate My Startup posts of actual somethings that go unnoticed on a daily basis?

Check out the "new" and "ask" pages to help some of those people who've put a lot of effort into their executions by giving them more exposure.
But what can she contribute to the Instagram team? Is their UX in dire need of a UX designer?

It's fine as a resumé and general job application for everyone who reads the story, but she directs her application to Instagram - but it might as well not have been.

It's not a lack of display of talent that I think is what she misses (although she tells a lot of things about herself that she doesn't show); it's that she doesn't show how she can help Instagram, and why Instagram would need her.

Maybe they have an available UX job position that I am unaware of, but she'd improve her chances if she directed her application to Instagram specifically.

Here is an exercise (for everyone): replace all instances of "Instagram" in the application with any arbitrary start-up name. There is little to underscore her passion and usefulness for Instagram (specifically) - she might as well have made the same website with five other domains with "Twitter", "Tumblr", etc. instead of "Instagram" in the URL and design. (She has that "No high heels" part, but that could be a variable to be replaced in every instance.)

This doesn't mean that I believe that she's done this(!), but a specifically directed application should be much harder to arbitrarily change to work for another start-up.

(I don't write all this to hate on her, as I've said in other comments in this thread, but there are some great, important lessons to be learnt. This is, after all, a great way to land yourself a job - if you pull it off.

Again, this will only help her career. It's just that it could be improved.)
Maybe I'm missing something, but on the page you linked, it says that a 15g serving of baby carrots (raw) contains 1g of sugars (and 1g of carbohydrates in total.)
"I agree that it sounds ludicrous to say a 0.000003% differential is unfair, while a 0.000001% differential would be okay."

Good. It is. Even when taking into account my own innumeracy and screwing up the calculations so the difference is in fact between 0.000003% vs. 0.0000003%.

It is clear indeed that the issue should be framed in terms of a percentage differential. $100 is a big deal to the guy who sweeps your office, but not so much to the guy who owns it. When asking for a raise, the dollar amount you seek is based on a percentage of your income, not the amount independent of your income: you ask for a $1000 or $10,000 raise, not a $100 one. It makes sense because when you _are_ dealing with large orders of magnitude, you don't maintain the notion that values significant to small orders of magnitude are still relevant (you may waffle over the price of a single doorknob for your home, but not for your office building). I'm not sure how to present a persuasive argument that what is, is. If you're dealing with millions/billions of dollars, a hundred dollars isn't a concern - but if you're scraping by in poverty, it is. Maybe the best argument is that when I plugged in 0.0000003%, 0.0000017% and 0.0000033% as applied exponentially over a large population into Excel (to wit: applied percentages .01%, .05%, and .10% to a population of 100, then scaled to the US population), the resulting graph looked _exactly_ like the one in the article (save for perhaps some slight real-world distortions). The theory, with little effort, matches the reality.

Sure, the question of whether a 0.000003% or 0.0000003% differential makes for the best society becomes quite important, for exactly the reasons you agree to: such a tiny difference in percentage has enormous consequences when iterated over hundreds of millions of people. My concern is what you overlooked in my post: a century of trying to adjust that natural reality resulted in some 100,000,000 deaths under Communism.
Maybe for developers this is the case, all sorts of things count, i.e. salary level.
You realize baby carrots are cut from the regular carrots?
Two things, one, a $10 Million valuation for an angel round is really high. I'm suspecting that the real statement was something more like "one of the YC companies even got a $10 Million pre-money valuation" rather than the average.

Second, Paul Buchheit is investing in some of the YC companies in addition to his participation as a partner? Will that create signaling issues? I know he knows the YC companies better than other startups, but if he doesn't invest, it means he passed? Same thing happened with VC's doing angel rounds then if they don't follow up, they're leaving the startup in the lurch?
Look bro, quit being so sensitive. This isnt blog spam. That said, I stand by my first assessment. I suck at photoshop, but it appears to me and I bet everyone else, that you fit right in. Nothing to be ashamed about bro. You need to OWN your identity. Just Be you bro:

http://www.alphamal.es/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/msft.png
There's a beautiful photography book called the "Ruins of Detroit" that conveys this:

http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/index.html
Yea, did the OCSP designers even thinking about the possiblity of MITMing the OCSP itself?
The obvious question is: why would anyone want to? Presumably, Apple will replace Samba with something that works well for the vast majority of cases.

To me, this echoes my problems with the GPLv3: how can software be truly free (as in freedom) if it's not free to be used commercially?
Stop being a product
I'm sure I'll be making some changes as the site grows, but my target demographic is college kids and early adult males.
Nope, that's the correct font; but I disagree with you about it looking awful.
Not in fuzzy logic. One can have 78% membership in the set of unique things.