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What people usually mean when they say this is simply that college is a fantastic experience - not that it's going to be the only one in your life.

The combination of being young, unencumbered and part of a huge community of people who are looking to have fun means that it really is easy to have a fantastic time. If you aren't enjoying yourself, it's more than likely because you simply aren't making full use of what's available to you.

Obviously not everyone likes to get out and network, but most people do (geeks included) and so for them college can be a great experience.

Basically, "enjoying life" is entirely something you choose to do. If you aren't taking the steps to make college really fun for yourself, then it probably wont be the high-point of your life. Presumably you'll discover a happy lifestyle somewhere further down the line and enjoy that instead.
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Sounds like a "feature" of slinkset.
For what it's worth, as a geek girl, I'd rather be with a guy who knew his way around a computer than one who spent his time chasing girls, getting drunk etc (the "normal" young adult things).

You just have to find someone to share your life with who matches your interests... there's no point trying to be someone else, someone you're not.
Yes I am being serious.

Hate fest? Personally, I have simply expressed the decision I have made as a consumer in reaction to actions I find offensive by a company.

I am also acting in my own best interests, as I have no interest in purchasing products from a company that engages in the sort of tactics we have been seeing lately.

Please do elaborate on how their tactics are safeguarding the best interests of their customers, I truly fail to see how.

Now, as far as this being blown out of proportion, well, going by that standard, hey, what's an EULA by MSFT? They are just "acting in their own, and their customers best interests", right?
Everything in the US is a lot cheaper too, I'm not surprised then that people decide to actually buy the software.
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My theory on this is that it does use a bunch of wiring used for social behaviour. An important part of social behaviour is reputation and an important part of reputation is how often we make incorrect statements.

So when we're about to communicate some information to someone else, we run a bunch of extra checks on the information we are about to impart. If we didn't do so, we could lose reputation for accuracy (which could have negative implications socially).

Basically I think we have all information in our heads tagged with meta-data which describes how confident we are in the information. We essentially check these tags when we pass on the info to other people. (This helps show up the invalid assumption which has been stalling our problem solving process).

Interestingly, they'll label the trustworthiness of the information we give them with their own determination of our trustworthiness as an information source (possibly modified for topic etc).

(And to add to the list of names people have for this widespread behaviour, I call it "debugging by confession")
Well said.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=305937

4 gigs of DRAM costs less than $100, today. Who cares if software is bloated?
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http://www.simplecdn.com/ (from the list) seems substantially cheaper than Amazon S3 if your bandwidth/storage ratio is high enough (actually typical for serving web content). They also have price comparisons with other CDNs, including Akamai and such whose pricing is not public:

http://www.simplecdn.com/savings
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also the prestige thing is a multi-dimensional thing. high-brow vs low-brow and things like that play into this.
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I second this. CI is a great framework. It's by far the fastest PHP framework out right now, and has terrific documentation.

If you're a PHP guy and know, as you said, that you can get this out fast and well in PHP then definitely don't try killing yourself to produce it in Python atop Django.

However, if you're truly interested (and you've got the time! which you don't!) in Python then give it a go as Django is a marvelous framework. You'll probably also find that you prefer Python as a language as you become more familiar with it.
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This is the most interesting piece. You are seriously missing something if you are not checking this out. There are multiple sections -

Detail (Mind blowing! - people putting in so much into this)

Creativity - All the funny stuff

Random art - hearts, texts and all that.
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This is nice to see; F# is a cool language, and Hanselman's series has been excellent so far.
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It's remarkable how ridiculous "agile" is when applied to any other field. In fact what's remarkable is that this ridiculousness isn't immediately obvious to otherwise-intelligent programmers.
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This email has been going around. I don't know of an official webpage or its original source. Google turns up many copies.

"The Birk Economic Recovery Plan" basically says that $85 billion given to AIG equals $425,000 for each U.S. adult (assuming 200 million adults). The email includes much discourse on what Americans could do with this cash instead of using it for corporate welfare.

Of course, the math is wrong. $85 billion divided by 200 million is $425 per person, not $425k.

But take this general idea and assume the bailouts reach $700 billion to $1 trillion. Then the per person amount is $3500 to $5000. Is it interesting at this level?

Would it be more interesting if the amount given each adult American forced you to pay off debt first prior to making other spending choices?
I totally agree with this. And that gives the answer author is looking for!
Thanks, that's OK.

I'm in Australia. The text loads instantly; but the ratings take 7 seconds (I'm sure it was longer last time), but with no indication that something is missing...

In this type of situation, when you think I'm being silly, my request is for you to say: "Knol does X". Or "Knol does X and you're silly" is fine too. As it was, I had no idea where you were coming from.

And I could spend more than 7 seconds on a site before commenting. =)
No. But the other threads in this discussion are about Gaim/Pidgin and Gimp.

Why has it been a dead-simple 5-minute thing to install those apps on Windows for years, but still tricky on MacOSX?

Why did it take, what 7 years, from the launch and immediate celebration of OSX, to get native GTK?

So, without knowing the answer to the above, I guess you could say I'd like it to be more like Windows (ducks).
It seems there is a very strong correlation between software piracy and GDP per capita. This may point to a cause for software piracy, namely that many people simply can't afford the software they need or want.

In Armenia buying Microsift office would set you back roughly 1.2 months pay. (rough numbers here: office $500, Armenian GDP per capita $4900 according to wikipedia)
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Sounds good: "Although unit tests can be important for iterating features, for most young Rails apps, models are more simplistic. What you should make sure of is that all points of interaction for users are well tested, and stay un-broken from release to release.", but is plain bad. With REST controllers and multiple formats, it is a bad idea to not follow the Fat Model approach.
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A good retort to the ArsTechnica write-up.

In Hacker News' defense, I seem to remember that a lot of the comments to the ArsTechnica HN submission made a similar point as this guy.
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DRAM contracts for the second half of September, which are negotiated between chip vendors and PC vendors and make up about three-quarters of the DRAM market, fell to just US$1.44 per chip, according to DRAMeXchange [http://www.dramexchange.com], from $1.75 per chip in contracts for the first half of September.

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It's a shame this sort of thing is consistently being voted up here recently.
By the way, the same applies to Europe.

I would only add: make all your life changes an evolution, not a revolution. If something screws up or turns out not to be exactly what you wanted, you can always revert the small change you made.
Your friendly neighborhood Fat Republican here! (waves)

There are nice things about Boulder such as smart people, lots of stuff to do, especially if you are into outdoors activities, good food, micro-breweries, etc. There are lots of Linux users in the area, and lots of engineering types.

The local universities can be depended on to bring attractive women to the area, in addition to the ones already there.

I have no idea how much money you have, it will matter as the nicest areas are expensive - you pay for the view. Heading east towards Gunbarrel, Longmont etc. prices go down as the mountain views are less spectacular.

You should know what a "trustafarian" is: a person of any age who does not have to actually work because they have a trust fund. Boulder is crawling with them.

Politically the area will vary from pretty far left in the center of Boulder to "fat-republican" the further out you go.

I won't mention the loopy leftist politics, as they are the hallmark of such places as Ithaca, Boulder, Berkeley and are implicit in areas where "fat Republicans" are not in evidence.
which means a lot in the UK

Really? In 12 years experience I've yet to encounter any situation in which the BCS was even slightly relevant. Everyone who actually needs/cares about CEng status goes to the IEEE instead.
Curious if anyone has any numbers for software piracy historically speaking? We'll forever be hearing how piracy is destroying companies, so one has to wonder how current piracy rates stack up against previous years.
Cappucino is a web-framework.
"They're acting in their own, and their customers best interests"

I can´t see how the NDA helps their customers. While this Apple-hate thing has been blown out of proportion, the NDA thing is more than a little bit stupid.
That's more or less what I do. Many of my toys are Apple, but I buy my more important stuff elsewhere. As much as I would love to be able to use a Mac for my work, OSX is just not Unix-ish enough for me.
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According to wikiquote, this quote is unsourced, attributed to Edsger Dijkstra:

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

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I think there's a huge gap between what people are willing to pay for nice (a lot) and what it would cost businesses to deliver it (almost nothing).

Godin is crazy if he thinks it costs business "almost nothing" to deliver nice. Keeping customer-facing employees behaving in a noticeably "nice" manner is not cheap at all, or easy to manage.
Just anecdotal evidence - I know a lot of people with iPods, but not many who buy any music from iTunes.

Also, being the #1 music store is still not saying an awful lot compared with other sources of getting music.

Do you think more people use the store than already own CDs? or download music from p2p?
The NDA is irrelevant to customers. I can't see how a customer would decide to buy based on wether the company uses NDA's for certain documents.

I suppose you could argue that using an NDA might put off developers which would mean a lack of apps for the store, but customers don't care about what apps may have been rejected, they care about the apps they can use.
I suspect it is a causation, not correlation. I'm from Malaysia. The cost of Photoshop CS3 Extended here is about 4 times average monthly salary.
Well, good luck finding a company that doesn't use NDA's etc to protect their interests.
We're getting together almost every other week, so if you can't make this week, we'll have another get together in another couple of weeks.
Is it the programmers that push for it, though, usually? I think management (at least mine) likes the fine-grained control + reporting (and the /name/!), and the rest is catch as catch can.
Your subtle distinction comes down to: it's not that they blocked it, it's that they haven't stopped blocking it.

I don't see a reason to treat that significantly differently.
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I should also stress that for merchant support we'll allow you to mandate payment before accessing the content. Whatever way people want to sell their goods, we'll support it.

We think that because things are digital, non-payment doesn't really matter. Digital media creators are always trying to enhance and connect to their 'tribe'. Putting a paywall in between your fans and your content turns them away. Very often it turns them to "piracy".

Do you recall The Pirate Bay's policy on mandating payment? :-P

And how much are people required to pay to read your blog?
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Have you ever talked to anyone who worked at a bank? They aren't exactly out for innovation.
That's easy: use checking accounts. They are essentially free. That's why PayPal pushes their users towards them. Credit cards are the expensive ones.

But the most effective way to reduce the percentage overhead is to make the transaction bigger. That's why Tipjoy's aggregation of payments is good: pay $1 in 100 different places, and your overhead for a credit card will be around 2.5% vs. 20% for a single $1 transaction.

You can also negotiate to lower the overhead, and to my knowledge, that takes large usage more than it takes money. iTunes for example has 65M credit cards. They do whatever they want.
She wastes much less time online than I do :)
Hi & thanks! I didn't know you read this site :)

Small world.
Apple builds a plantation. Sharecroppers move in, deciding of their own free will that life working for "Massa" is good. A sign at the front gate says, "The first rule of the Apple Plantation is that Sharecroppers do not talk about the Apple Plantation."

So the sign is still up and the Pragamatic Programmers are waiting untilt he sign comes down. Interesting, but not a single bit of new information. Must be a slow news day for this to get so many votes.

It would be news if the sign came down, or if Apple blessed the Pragmatic Programmers and said, "the sign doesn't apply to you."
For which kind of problems it's a better choice comparing to C#?
causation leads to correlation no?
it sucks to spend all that time writing a book, find a happy publisher, and then not be able to release it cause of this

Seriously? You get some technology, sign an NDA saying you an't publish a book, write a book any ways, and then it sucks that nothing has changed? What exactly sucks other than the business plan of investing time and energy in the hope that someone else changes their mind about an agreement you signed?
But because of the Dunning-Kruger effect, such an advertisement will generally bring in lots of folks who _think_ they are good but are not perceptive enough to understand their weaknesses.
There's no reason to treat them differently, I agree.

The question I have is why we're still talking about old news? I'm searching this story in vain for some aditional bit of information that is actionable in any way.
In what ways? I have used OSX at work for years. It is plenty "Unix-ish" for me, and I've been using *nix for twenty-five years.
When a billion dollar company shows it can run it's IT with 20 people then we have progressed. Not when some dweeb says he has a new programming language that goes to 11.

Well, billion dollar seems a little excessive. Let's say $100m.

In which case, 37signals is, imho, the closest thing today.
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The author did take a risk here, but the risk looked to be minimal upfront. It is amazing to that Apple continues to take this stance with their NDA.

Any artificial barrier that cuts down on developer freedom and productivity will keep developers away from a platform.

Yes, the author made the assumption that Apple understood that a level of openness is required take a platform's popularity to the next level.
An NDA being in place is a bit of an abstract concept for people and can seem relatively harmless until you hear of concrete examples of how that has impacted participants.

The reason this example is worthwhile is to aid the decision making process of those who are considering contributing to this platform. People need to fully understand the risks to invested time.
_The Code Book_ by Simon Singh (http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Code_Book.html) is quite a bit better, IMHO.
Lessig should apply his analysis to Obama. He has no executive experience and hasn't even served a full term in the Senate. Palin may be unqualified according to Lessig's standards, but by the same standards, Obama is even more unqualified.

This seems wrong and suggests that a Lessig-style analysis is not appropriate. The candidates' fitness should not be judged not by experience, but by their desirability relative to the other candidates based on their policies and their likely ability to execute.

As an analogy, when betting on a boxing match, a comparison of each boxer's record is not as helpful as an analysis of the boxers' strengths and weaknesses relative to each other.
You're not familiar with Doug Dorsey?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104040/

I'm a little embarrassed that I know that movie, but I have an excuse; it's one of my wife's favorites.
Making billions through overdraft fees is the way they innovate. Less work, less risk, and they have no soul anyway.
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Leveraging yourself 30:1 to buy collateralized debt obligations doesn't count as innovation?
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GPA is not an indication of anything in this case... You might just be bad at classical mechanics... I'm majoring in cs right now I and I wished I add programming assignments... I only have either to prove stuff or create algorithms..
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You can have a smaller 'premium team', who you select from your existing team for competence and niceness. You then make it part of the job ("have a nice day") using existing procedures.

Interestingly, this would also have the effect of making it almost guaranteed you'll get someone surly if you don't pay the premium.

As a customer, I don't think I like the idea. But I think it could be made to work.
The author assumed a 64-bit system, so I guess he's not thinking about this, but better memory usage would be important on embedded systems like phones and tiny surveillance robots that have banded together to steal underwear, &c.
science needs weirdos who are willing to work on edge cases

Yes, but there's more than one kind of edge.

The edge of scientific knowledge is worth paying people to explore.

The edge of your own knowledge is worth exploring on your own.

The edge of your funding agent's credulity is very profitable to explore, but such work doesn't help science at all.
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How is this Hacker News? Seams like Reddit content to me.
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There are most certainly those who have paid attention to this and recognized this mess was coming. The poster indicating he lived in the 1 bedroom apartment clearly recognized this as the difference between his situation and how those around him were acting was too obvious to ignore.

The majority rules in this democracy we live in and we can't have all policies the way we would like. However, we at least shouldn't distort the free market to this degree and spread the cost for this failure to properly judge risk.
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F# is very cool since it mtight bring functional programming into the mainstream.
I do agree that there is a great deal of innovation on the high end. You should look into the automated traders they are making these days. Consumer facing services, not so much.
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