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Also, the elevator pitch isn't delivered on their turf, it's part of how you get to their turf.

For example, a good elevator pitch survives multiple rounds of "telephone"; it still makes sense when your uncle's cousin's barber tells it to a VC as he's making change.
Adolescents tend to make tons of mistakes when it comes to credit and taking out loans - I say that you should take it as it comes and only acquire one if it is of absolute need.

For now, just spend the little money you have. It makes life simpler and you don't have to worry about drowning in debt.
Good credit is important for everyone, but especially so for entrepreneurs.

I didn't realize this until my application for Web Payments Pro (on behalf of a newly formed corporation) was rejected by Paypal. Since the corporation had no credit yet, my credit had to be approved. As far as the credit reporting agencies were concerned, I didn't even exist.

If you plan on applying for business-related loans, you will definitely need good credit. And my understanding is that credit reporting lags by at least a year so get started building credit asap.
Might be, but the two departments are very different in quality also, at least on the undergrad level (I majored in Math/CS at Rutgers).

This is mostly due to the different nature of the subjects, though - CS enrollment fluctuates hugely with tech fashions, and includes people looking to get ahead in their job, people learning "how computers work", etc. Math, on the other hand, can stay to a more strictly academic curriculum, especially with their honors track.

I forget where I read this (I think something of Alan Kay's), but I like the thought that CS will go the path of biology, on the undergrad level, by breaking up into several fields. Just as "pure" biology majors are separate from the school of pharmacy, "pure" CS majors needs a different focus than future network technicians and Blub programmers.
credit is necessary if you have plans to ever get anything with a loan, such as a car or house or, as you say, entrepreneurial purposes. people won't give you money if you don't have a history of being responsible enough to pay it off. its also good to have a line of credit for emergencies.

get a card, use it to buy small things on occasion, and pay it off in full every month.

edit:
oh, also, i bank with bank of america and hsbc. hsbc for the high yield online savings and payment accounts, bank of america for the size, checking, and potential perks coming from establishing a long line of credit with a big bank
TwitHire - because everyone wants to hire "an insignificant or bothersome person".

Yeah, I get it. You're using Twitter and you wanted a short name so you dropped the 'ter', but still...
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In your case being that you don't want to overspend, this is more about convenience than credit, with the side benefit that you will build up a good credit score just by acting naturally.

I put almost all my charges on my credit card. From a $1.50 bottle of soda to a $100 tank of gas. The bill of course gets paid in full every month. Using the card means I don't have to carry a bunch of case, and I'm afforded some minor degree of security should my wallet get lost/stolen/misplaced as compared to cash. I also get to "keep" my money an extra 30 days to earn a trivial amount of interest.

It's good for you to be thinking about these things, but getting a credit card is not a life-altering decision, it's just a normal thing like getting a cell phone or a pair of shows. How you use the card, and put it to work for YOU, it what makes all the difference.
Do these guys not test their code before they deploy it to production?
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From the #python.web FAQ:

Q: Can you help me with mod_python?
A: Sure. Don't use mod_python.

For more information:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PoundPythonWeb/mod_python

mod_wsgi is where the python world is going. I haven't had too many problems with mod_python, but mod_wsgi is a bit cleaner.
This describes almost everyone I know. (Maybe that's why I spend time here).

OP, however, never mentions the most important thing about this demographic: they just want it to work.

They expect things to work intuitively right out of the box. They don't want to install any add-ons, extensions, or downloads. And they don't want to have to get an education just to try something new.

The gas pedal is always on the right and when you enter a room, flip the toggle switch up to get light.

So why doesn't your web app work like that? If it doesn't work right with the browser and resolution they got when they bought their computer at Office Depot, if they have to wait for Flash, or they don't know what it is, they'll leave and never come back.

This is the 80% in the middle of the bell curve, and they do have money to spend. Pay attention.
I prefer terminus for pretty much everything:

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Being a college senior, I just want to point out again that credit cards aren't intrinsically bad; rather, they're a tool that can be used effectively or abused.

I have a local Credit Union Visa and an Amazon CC, the latter of which I only use for Amazon because Chase Bank, the backer, is not nearly as friendly (higher fees, etc).

I pay for almost everything with CC because I like the itemization. That being said, I don't ever use them as 'credit' per se, to cover money I don't already have in the bank. To me, they're merely a useful convenience.
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T is Scheme with an optimizing compiler that was the state of the art that also served as a backend for a few other languages

Arc is a few syntactic rewrites layered on top of dr scheme with some relatively unique libraries that could easily be ported back to dr scheme.
You can get the card and cut it up right away so you never use it. By time the card expires you will have a decent credit limit, score, and interest rate and they will send you a new card. It would go faster if you used the card and payed it off right away but you can't use it if it is in the trash.
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Unless it can also go back in time and fix the economy so that luxury discretionary spending like a $4 cup of coffee is prevalent across America again, I don't see it saving Starbucks. That said, the Clover looks amazing. I want one.
Does anybody here use a Credit Union in Massachusetts?
I was checking flights recently and found that a one-way trip to London would cost $950. For both flights of a round-trip it would cost $750. Both plus taxes of course.

It is cheaper for me to book a round trip and just not take the return flight then to fly one way. Huh?
Olin writes many of his papers with an opening in the same spirit as that one. Its his way of ensuring that you pay attention to what he says next.

see for example the opening for http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/citations.html#loop for a lower key version of that style (reasonable, considering it was a paper in a refereed conference.)
How is "following back" each of the 20,000 people that follow a corporate or prominent blogger account on twitter a legitimate use? Nobody can read that firehose.

It seems like people are overloading the "following" feature --rather than a subscription to the user's content, instead people are using it like a "karma" vote. Maybe they need to separate the two.
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Would you fund start ups for operation in the Caribbean? Im from Guyana which is located on South America and is culturally, politically etc. a Caribbean state. Right now Jamaica is the tech hub in the Caribbean so I've been planning on moving there but I'm currently working on a few ideas by myself.
seconded.

When I was in college I worked full time but used credit cards the wrong way (and paid for it over the course of a few years).

Now just about everything goes onto a credit card (NOT a debit card) and it's paid off monthly.

Having a good credit opens a lot of doors and helps lower a lot of costs. Car insurance -- a huge factor in this is your credit score. Security clearances -- bad credit = harder to get security clearance.

Also if you ever need to self fund a start up, having good credit is important.
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"...And Jimmy, that's the story of how your mom and I first met."
No, but I've heard good/decent things about DCU, https://www.dcu.org/index.html

They've been at 1 or 2 of the startups I've worked at over the years and seemed decent enough. But, not being a customer of them (or any CU for that matter), my opinion may not be worth the electrons it's carried on :)
I'm sure that if I go through my follower's list I have a lot of people that are twitter "ladies-of-the-night" but I don't follow them so they are not spam to me. I thought that was the whole point of the asymmetric following mechanism. Users choose who they want to be spammed by.
Only weak code is 'released'.

Great code Escapes, and leaves a bloody trail of unwary beta testers behind.
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One of the worst thing about airline fees is that online searches on travel sites don't always reflect required fees, such as international fuel surcharges. This makes price rankings suspect, is unfair to airlines which are up-front about these costs or build them into the ticket price, and adds a burden to ordinary people, who have to hunt through the conditions to make sure the price is as advertised.
It needs to happen at the application level. You can phish for someone's open ID login just as easily as you can their Yahoo login, right? Just make it transparent to the user, build it into the browser.
In the past when the only displays I had access to were relatively low-res (1280x1024) I used ProFont a lot. It's a good font, didn't become bothersome after hours of Emacs work.

But, I use Consolas now on Windows.
Airline pricing is all kinds of wacky.

A friend of mine was trying to get round trip tickets from city A to city B recently. He found that it was significantly cheaper to purchase flights from city Z to B with a layover in A. All the flights between A and B were the same, but for some reason adding an extra destination of Z made it cheaper.

Airlines are in huge trouble from factors outside their control. They failed at being in control of their own destiny, and allowed other people/companies to control them.
I would use this on Windows, maybe, but never on Mac.

Mail.app along with the rest of the productivity iApps work well.
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I used the Industrial Credit Union for years (http://www.icu.org/). They offer a good rate of return on their savings plan, and you don't need to know someone in the credit union to sign up (I believe DCU has this restriction, or at least it did when I was looking for credit unions).

They are only located in Liberty Square (in the Finacial District in Boston), and they keep real banker's hours. I found both of those features desirable for a savings account, as it made me really have to put extra effort in when I needed to withdraw funds.

They do have on-line banking as well so they aren't totally isolated.
I prefer Consolas and then Andale Mono.
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I admit I can be kinda cheap, and I hate spending $4 for starbucks. But, when I lived in Seattle, I was happy to spend $4 for a cup of Clover coffee. That stuff is fantastic.

Now... after the wedding we just paid for... I would love to have 4 dollars to spend on clover coffee ;)
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I confess that my point was poorly worded.

"Wiring of the brain" was a poor cliché to use to refer to the innate physiology of the brain, if accuracy is demanded. The physiology of the brain, of course, does differ in a number of general senses between males and females.

Opinions, however, are typically based upon memories - and judgments built upon those memories - although emotion and some hormonal factors (such as serotonin and dopamine levels) have a significant effect too.

Short term memory and the executive acts of judgment are defined by variations in potentiation between neurons in the prefrontal cortex. Whether or not you consider "electrical" patterns in the brain to be as "physical" as actual brain layout is, of course, likely to remain a contentious point.

Now.. if you take it out to long term memory, you might, at least, have forced a stalemate. Long term potentiation between certain neurons (as in the formation of long term memory) does, indeed, result in a "physical" change through the formation of synapses. I don't personally consider these changes as "physical" in the sense of my original argument (which was not written with the consideration I'd need to back up the terminology used) but I accept that there is a potential stalemate here, since almost everything can be reduced to physicality depending on how detailed a view you wish to take.

My argument is really that attributes free will cannot change (such as biological gender) are physical in nature, whereas those attributes free will can adjust are not. In this sense, I maintain gender is entirely based upon physical attributes, whereas other human attributes are not necessarily.
I kinda hope that is more like when someone said "I don't want to use betamax" than when someone said "I don't want to use the telephone".
Nice resource, but why did you leave such a huge gap below the footer and the bottom of the page?
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The government is a big part of the problem. The airlines can't do much to control the ground experience in government airports. That's where the security hassles, bag delays, long lines, and uncomfortable waits occur. The airlines could better differentiate themselves if they had more control over the total travel experience.

Also, did you know that the US blocks foreign ownership of airlines? That capital and competition would help too.
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I was credit card free until my senior year in college. I payed everything with a debit card, payed my rent/utilities on time and didn't overdraft (ok, I did on occasion, but it wasn' a pattern). All that amounted to was that I had no negative mark on my credit report.

In my last semester of senior year I got a low limit credit card and used it for gas. Only gas, and I payed it off every month. About 6 months after I graduated I applied for a mortgage and fell into the highest credit group (excellent, which was 700+ at the time, I think).

This is the pattern I would recommend. Some people advocate having a long credit history as the best way to get good credit. I think the best way to do it is to have a low debt/income ratio and use credit responsibly.

You can try to game the system in the short term, but doing that almost always screws you in the long term because you're human, and humans make mistakes.
There are people who have both. I would add both types of authentication to get to a wider demographic.
Don't worry. If this catches on, Yahoo and Google will get into the provider act, too. You'll have your choice of big corporations to trust with your identity. We might even see Microsoft get back into the act.

I've been expecting OpenID to evolve into this. The whole problem with OpenID from the site owner's standpoint is the dependencies: If you allow anyone to log in from any OpenID provider whatsoever, you're essentially creating an open-ended dependency on thousands of providers across the web. If a provider has a security problem, X% of your users have a security problem; If a provider goes down, X% of your users go down; If a provider offers a bad login experience -- by showing users tons of ads, or trying to lure them to a competitor as they log in -- you've got a bad login experience that you cannot fix except by forcing some users to switch providers.

This solves all that. You get a simple relationship with one provider: Facebook. You get permission to use Facebook's logo on your site, and to use their brand to reassure your users that you know what you're doing. You don't have to temporarily redirect users to another site in that confusing, phisher-esque OpenID way -- the users type their password into your own site, into a page that you design. If Facebook's API starts giving you problems, you send email to a single service department: Facebook's.

Of course, I believe this entire plan got rejected by the market the first time around, when it was called "Microsoft Passport", but perhaps times have changed.
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LISP is famous among computer scientists due to its ability to write code that, in turn, can write code, enabling a programmer to derive new mini-languages.

For a non-specialist article, that's a pretty darn good summary.
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Any links anywhere to some sample applications or code snippets written in T?

Sounds like an interesting variant of Lisp.
That's a bitmap font, which is really good for displays where pixels are large, but which is terrible for displays where pixels are tiny (like, say, the iPod Touch or something). Displays are getting denser, so the way to go is vector-based, not bitmapped.

Here's an interesting thought: you need to make the glyphs as different to each other as you can, for a given language model. Would a font for Lisp be different than a font for Ruby? Could you make an emacs plugin that changed lettershapes based on character probabilities?
Another great benefit is that you get an itemized bill at the end of the month. It's a great way to track your spending.
When I was a kid, I saw a disk copy program on Apple II's at camp that let you play pong while copying disks. (So the counselors wouldn't know you were pirating games.)
Agreed. Squidoo clone.
Facebook is boring to me as an idea. There is nothing in that site that would be interesting to me. Social networks are boring, the only interesting thing in them is people, and im apparently too antisocial or something, because i don't find people that interesting. The only reason i have a MySpace account is because of a friend of mines band(I don't actually use that account for anything, just to look up shows)My Last.fm account i just check in on at time to time to see my statistics for the week(i stopped using the social part of the site) I also use it for quick info on bands and stuff.
The old Defender game would be perfect for playing inside of a horizontal progress bar. Instead of having a radar display, you could just have the whole planet inside the progress bar, just like you have Defender in the favicon of this website.

http://www.p01.org/releases/DHTML_contests/files/DEFENDER_of...
I had a pretty horrible experience with an airline recently (I won't regale y'all) and it has had me thinking about ways to fix air travel in the US. I had a few ideas on how an outside company might help, but I don't think they're actually tenable. Will it take the collapse of several major airlines for someone on the "inside" to fix stuff? The article posted here a while ago about Alaskan was pretty heartening.
You should also choose a card that may benefit you in other ways. Collecting Airmiles or other loyalty program points, giving you cash back (yes, you can get paid to use your credit card). Don't worry about the monthly interest rate or initial offers because you'll always pay it off in full.

Developing a relationship with a bank through accounts and credit cards will also be of benefit should you look for more money in the form of loans or mortgages. Banks will always offer better terms to existing clients.
If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this, I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly what I think.

Oh, yes, the acknowledgements. I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.

The acknowledgements of the scsh manual is one of the most entertaining pieces of a technical manual I've read.
It's an attempt at price discrimination by the airlines.

If you are moving to London for the long term, you'll pay $950 without thinking about it. If you are going on vacation, you might be price sensitive. It worked much better before the internet.
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They expect things to work intuitively right out of the box

20% or so of mobile handsets are returned to the shop. Rarely are they defective but just too difficult to use correctly. (The percentage varies by handset, I can't find the article I learnt this from at the moment)
Sorry, no OpenID nor FB for me.

My on-line identity does not need to be a complete, consolidated mirror image of my actual read-world identity for the sake of convenience for myself nor for others.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199784
Is there any research being done into electric/hybrid airplanes?

In 20 years oil costs could make flying very unpractical.
I wonder if PG will incorporate the dataflow portions of his dissertation in a future Arc compiler?
I suspect that being a foreigner meant you didn't pick up on a lot of the class-based ambition in London. The city is moribund with it. Every social event reeks of it.

I'm English, but lived in the US for five years, and have returned to England for five years now, in London for the first time.

Another beautiful essay though, thanks for that.
I use Liberation Mono on Linux, but Consolas on Windows. I've found that the different platforms don't display each other's fonts as nicely.
Agreed - what's wrong with following @ replies, or just using search.twitter.com ?
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Do this. I didn't, it was a mistake. Landlords, employers and other such undesirables like to run credit checks. Being a "credit ghost" does not help you.
This is the exact audience and mindset we are using in designing our product.

If you're young (like me), another way to think of this would be to ask yourself "why would my parents use my product? How can I make it easy and intuitive for them?"
Claiming any font is the "ultimate" programming font is akin to claiming "blue" is the ultimate color, or "strawberry" is the ultimate flavor of ice cream.
I think it is a good idea to get a credit card and pay it off every month in full. This will build up your credit and will be good for you in many ways.

Just an example. I'm a college Junior and I've had a credit card for about a year now that gets paid off in full every month. Just last week I created my first cell phone contract in my own name. I didn't have to leave a deposit because my credit was good. However, a friend of mine, who has never had a credit card and I guess has no credit, had to leave a 500 dollar deposit to be held by ATT for a year.
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This font is so tiny at 1920x1200. It also has odd brackets when editing XML.

I'm a big fan of ProggyClean and Pragmata.
You can get the last versions of T here - http://mumble.net/~jar/tproject/

Haven't checked if there's any sample code.
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