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frankly I think dropping out is retarded.

1. You get your food paid for, you get your housing paid for, you have 0 expenses.

2. Schoolwork doesn't take up a lot of effort...hell you can throw it to the wind, and coast by to get all Cs, and still graduate with a decent GPA...it might not be stellar, but at least you'll have something to fall back on

3. Dropping out is fine if you are profitable and the startup is paying for itself. But if you are still at the idea stage, or aren't making serious coin...then you are frankly an idiot for dropping out when you aren't ready.

4. Startups are a case of hurry up and wait, you can launch, and 99% of the chance, a month in, you'll be getting a few hundred hits a month. Don't throw away your backup plan for nothing.
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Not really. My audience is very engaged :)
Tuition at the University of Alabama is about $9,000/year for in-state students. It was half that when I attended in the early 2000s. It's not a highly ranked CS school but there are plenty of resources available and it's worked out well enough for me so far careerwise. I was working 40 hours a week throughout grad school, so my lifetime student loan total amount maxed out at around 1/3 of your quote.

On the flip side, my high school roommate dropped out of college as a freshman and he is doing just great working for a big-name Valley startup.
I don’t understand. You also seem to think that the author picked a horrible analogy?
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It depends where in Sydney you are. According to the statistics Sydney is very diverse, though in practice people from different countries, or with different professions/politics, tend to wind up in different districts.

This map gives a humorous account of Sydney's layout: http://i.imgur.com/gOxZP.jpg
depends on the system - 30 minutes is not enough to convert users, groups, permissions, threaded conversations, voting, keywords, etc, especially if both systems do not use the same data model.
Like it or no, I don't think it has changed much from when he was alive.
I think you can do both if you make the sacrifice to do so. Take night classes.
I don’t understand what you are trying to tell me. I really don’t.
I can't seem to be able to click the "opt out" button here: http://www.mastercard.us/privacy/web-analytics-opt-out.html

And the fact that the data analytics page doesn't default to HTTPS is a slap in the face.

I wonder what they'd do if someone wrote a script to opt out every possible MasterCard number.
I disagree, here's why:

First, the software engineering field is still very immature. The tools and terminology in use are still very primitive. Studies seeking to identify best practices via evidence are still few and far between. Worse yet, known best practices with substantial evidence behind them are widely ignored in the industry on average. I believe there is still a lot of room for new techniques, and new models of software engineering, which will serve to guide developers for generations.

Second, we are at a critical juncture in programming languages. There are a lot of new languages gaining popularity, and a lot of older languages seeing substantial change. The fundamental paradigms in use by the average programmer are changing (becoming increasingly more functional, generally). Meanwhile, there are even more advanced concepts on the horizon (monads, for example) which are still not accessible to most programmers. There's a huge opportunity there for the next generation of languages to increase the accessibility of those advanced techniques. Additionally, we're in the midst of a revolution in terms of compiler technology. We are seeing things like modular compilers, very advanced run-times capable of incredible speed improvements, cutting edge garbage collectors, and the potential for massive parallelization on the desktop. Again, there's a huge potential there for some very fundamental innovations.

Third, we are no where near the end of the line in computing hardware. Over the next few decades we could see some very crazy things. 3D micro-chips putting trillions of transistors into every cpu. Even more massive parallelization than what we've seen today. RSFQ processors that could put petaflops computing power on a single chip. MRAM married to processor cores leading to breakthroughs in performance. Non-Von Neumann architectures enabled by memory and processing power being mixed together. FPGAs with billions of gates with the capability to operate and reconfigure at multi-gigahertz speed. Asynchronous CPUs.

And these are just things at a very fundamental level. There's still a huge potential for lots of innovations in the software and hardware space closer to the end-user. There's plenty of room for more icons in the future.
Maybe there isn't much progression after you learn how to drive a car for normal people. :) Perhaps similar to lack of progression after learning how to email or browse the web for most users. Sure, you can only move the wheels, pedals and gear selector in certain ways. Isn't this equally true of the mouse, keyboard and guitar? And how is a steering wheel visually suggestive to those unfamiliar? Or the pedals? Sure, you can't pipe your car without making physical changes. But hacking a fuel-cut-defender is still hacking. I guess I just dislike using a car, guitar and EMACS as an analogy. Other than hardware vs software, they are very similar to me. I'm familiar with all three, and the one I'm least likely to modify is my guitar.
Programmers in general, no; programmers who spend some of their time working on DDoS tools, so if Anonymous wins they'll have power? Come on.

The idea of a hedge fund, by which I'm meaning an investment portfolio which consistently outperforms the market, is intrinsically insane. It's like a VC trying to diversify their portfolio so that even if Silicon Valley as a whole tumbles into the sea, they'll still make money.

I don't have any philosophical problem with investment, and I think SV venture capital is a great model: You buy a piece of something because you think it will do well. If it doesn't do well, you lose your money. That's what encourages you to only give money to things you think are good ideas.

The entire discipline of investment banking stems from "managing risk"-- the ludicrous idea of "Man, losing money sometimes sucks. Maybe there's a way to stop that from happening." My contention is that the present economic collapse is evidence that, in fact, there is not.

If the "market" -- the whole value of human endeavor -- sucks, your life will suck. This is a consequence of the fact that you are a human. Trying to walk away from that with more of the value than anyone else is insane. And sure, with the right financial tricks you can pull it off, for a while; many people have died rich from doing it. But it's gonna come to a head.
Thermal differential can produce electrical power.

It isn't clear to me how modulating the thermal resistance across the magnetic cell improves the situation, nor how changing the 1nm thick layer's thermal resistance by a factor of two is significant in the larger scheme of substrates, magnetic layers, and adjacent bypass materials.

The headline smells like a good candidate for an XKCD $200 neutrino bet.
Yes I can attest to the ease of OSQA/Bitnami. It's what I used to create http://chicagofounders.com. Thanks for including OSQA on Bitnami, as it was a relatively simple deployment!
Nitpicking: Does it annoy anyone else that the website always has a horizontal scrollbar? Also not sure what about the layout confused me, but I didn't realize that I could scroll down to find out information.
No, I'm not. If you read carefully you will note that I'm talking about your expressive ability to tell the computer what you want it to do. Not about your ability to express yourself through a medium like video or images.

By the way, there are some great CLI tools (like ImageMagic) to manipulate images from the CLI and these are indispensable for batch editing large collection of images and other applications (image analysis), but I was not referring to that.
i just had a look at it..
one: i feel sad for all who are 'married' to php. :-P
two: it seems that php is catching up on the frameworks (code ignitor, cake, yii, and this one)
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The best part of that page is comment #4 (quoting)...

Reminds me of conferencing calling two Dunkin’ Donuts together and listening silently as hilarity ensued:

"Hello, Dunkin Donuts."

"Yes, this is Dunkin Donuts."

"Yes, this is Dunkin Donuts."

"Yes."

"Hello?"

"How can I help you?"

"This is Dunkin Donuts."

"Yes, it is!"

"Hello?"

It was the last time my friends’ parents let us use their fancy new (1983) Merlin phone unsupervised.
Isn't this a bit selfish?
"your language is bad. Switch to a better one"

All languages have boilerplate somewhere. It's unavoidable. Switching languages just because there are pain points is not a solution, because you'll simply be exchanging one problem for another.

"or modify the front-end of your compiler"

This is most definitely pie-in-the-sky. In the real world of real business, you can't do this.

"I mean it, the cost of boilerplate is really high."

Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. But you need to work in the languages that programmers understand today. I'm not going to have nearly as much success hiring smalltalk programmers as I would have hiring Python programmers, for example.

"Unrolling loops: I never saw an instance where that was necessary."

I have, but then again I've been at this for 20 years.

"Plus, the compiler can often do it for you."

You can't be sure until you look at the disassembly. Often, it does it wrong.

"Switch statement: the syntax of the construct is heavy, we should lighten it."

That's not going to happen within the next decade. Meanwhile cut & paste is my tool of choice to cut through the boilerplate.

"Goto: your example shows exceptions (try…catch finally here). Goto makes much less sense when you have them."

But it makes LOTS of sense when you don't have them. And it's still useful in C++ and Objective-C, where you still end up interfacing with C libraries. If you don't know about the goto "poor man's exception", you'll either end up with repeated and buggy deallocation code, or a monstrosity of nested scopes, or a bunch of check-return-and-throw constructs, which in the case of Objective-C will slow your program way down because it implements try/catch using longjmp.

Goto is also useful for breaking out of inner loops when the language doesn't support that (some languages support "break [label], to make it seem less like a goto).

I don't consider these to be last resorts; I consider them specialized tools. Much like design patterns, they're for mitigating some deficiencies in a programming language, but they're only effective if you know how to use them.
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Sorry, that's nonsense. Each one of the systems is going to have a different schema and constraints for users, posts, comments, votes, that most likely will not have a one-to-one mapping.
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Currently there are only time based statistics like commits per day!

I really like your idea. There would be no need for an account on the user side so they could try it out right away!
While I fully agree with your point, the guarantee of developing software for a living and NOT building compilers or such sounds actually more attractive. Solving problems and designing systems is amazing but what you idealize sounds myopic and tedious to plenty of amazing and well-educated computer scientists. We don't need to get into the Scientist vs. Programmer debate but software can mean or be most anything. That too is a conversation left for the classroom.

There are plenty of amazing, rewarding, lucrative, and challenging projects out there besides the poles of Hard CS and bland Enterprise work.
Recently published article with some citations of McCarthy's contributions: http://goo.gl/luVMq [The Australian Eye News]
I think you were downvoted because parent made an additional, valid point. The whole single-word-as-sentence cliche ("It. Just. Works.") is equally annoying and stopped suggesting a quirky/unique author years ago.
This.

Passing college is cake. It requires very few hours of time compared to a real job-- it's a GREAT time to spin up a side business to see if you can generate/find demand for what you have. It's also a great time to experiment with co-founders.

That said, necessity is the motherhood of invention and failure isn't going to sting THAT much. It's not terribly challenging to un-drop-out of college is it?

Finally, I suppose if someone is racking up debt and getting an art history or philosophy degree, you should advise them to drop out immediately whether they have a business idea or not. The common thread I see here ( http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/ ) is student loan debt.
Was switching to MongoDB a good thing or a bad thing?
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The link is extremely easy to find. It's the only link that appears at the bottom of my emails.

Checking the box in my Gmail inbox and clicking the "Spam" button is much easier than opening the email and hunting down the unsubscribe link.
I doubt it. I know non-game apps can/do use Flash. Remember, Google bundles Flash with Chrome.
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In "The Evolution of Lisp" they mention this AI Memo by Timothy Hart which is from 1963: ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-057.pdf
It is the Chrome web store. Or you you complaining about the "yet"? I assume Google wants to support all modern browsers with the shiny new layout so they can show off all the fun and productive apps you are missing out on.
> Throw in living costs

I see the point you're trying to make, but I don't see why you'd calculate living costs into the cost of school.

If I'm working I'm likely to have higher living costs as most universities have subsidized housing and meals, not to mention most students live with room mates once they move off campus.
I'd guess working people have far fewer room mates and much nicer/expensive accommodations :)

Anecdotally that's how it's been for pretty much everyone I know
It's not valid JSON (according to the specification) if it's not encoded in UTF-8. Any parser should assume that it's UTF-8 before it starts parsing it; ignoring any other charset settings.
Not long after this happened, I was in China and met up with a local glider pilot to check into the possibility of doing some flying in that country. It didn't work out (soaring is not exactly common or easy there) but we had an interesting talk. Turned out he did paragliding too and was friends with the Chinese fellow who got killed in that cloud in Australia.

This is yet another reason I won't try paragliding. I don't want to fly anything where my body forms the landing gear, nor anything whose terminal velocity is lower than the speed of updrafts in a thunderstorm.
In Idaho, the 4 year universities are about 3K per semester. Assuming a 4-year degree, that's 24K in tuition. If it's 5 years, that's 30K.

You can live on about 1K per month. So loosely, that's about 20K per year to get a degree here.
Very cool. Mind sharing some details? Did you blog it? What kind of hardware did you use? How did you figure out how/what to do? What other "smart-house stuff" did you come up with?
On one hand, I really like this because it does make it more convenient to use vending machines by removing the need for cash and coins. The other side of that coin, however, is I feel it'll make me less selective and I'll end up paying their marked up prices since the cost will seem "less real." Parting with real cash makes me less inclined to spend $1.25 on a soda, but if all I have to do is tap and "pay later" I'll probably give in to temptation more often.
I added an example graph. Thanks for pointing out!
These would indeed be an interesting statistic. Maybe I can create my own little "analytics" tool and show stats for every page visited.

I'll provide a follow-up shortly.

For the other points, nearly no traffic is driven to my site by Google. Nearly 80% of the searches were done by me as testing. It's not necessarily a bad thing that Google isn't driving traffic to my site, because it's not complete and in the future it will turn into something more of a "white paper/rambling" website, but right now there is little-to-no useful information on it.
I would appreciate honest feedback.
They can be made with whatever web technology the developers want to use. I believe however that Angry Birds is HTML5 though.
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The greatest scientific minds of your generation have determined that you will probably love "Hitch" starring Will Smith. Submit to the inevitability of getting Hitched.
Don't forget the story of Bill Gates' parents telling him that if he dropped out of Harvard, he was on his own.

It didn't hurt that his mother was on The United Way's National Executive Committee along with then IBM Chairman John Opel.

I'm from Chicago, "the city that works," and that IS how it works.
And now they have taken it down entirely. Interesting.

Edit: Moved it to http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/10/25/e-invoicing-company-trad...
I do all of my personal and business banking at a local credit union. I like the fact that the shareholders of the credit union are the same as the customers. For investments, Vanguard also uses the same approach. This doesn't guarantee that it can't be poorly run, but at least then there is no conflict of interest as far as doing what is best for the business against doing what is best for the customer.

In general, the best advice that I have heard and read all points to going with a local bank or credit union. Unless you have millions of dollars, you're just a number to a large bank. With a local institution, you can develop relationships with the people in charge.
I think part of the resistance you'd meet to labeling piano keys is that you're highly unlikely to be able to play well if you depend on looking at the keys, as it slows you down too much to be able to play anything but the slowest pieces, whereas you can write well (though arguably not type well) on a keyboard while still looking at the keys.

As a teaching tool, labeling can work for both, but as a crutch for people who are less than proficient, labeling does not work well for someone trying to play the piano. There's a greater need for getting to a certain level of proficiency if you wish to play the piano than if you wish to use a keyboard.
Why do most of the commenters seem to dislike college? Those were the best four years of my life, taught me real skills, programming and otherwise, that I use every day, and granted me that all-important degree which has come in handy for me and probably will for the vast majority of people who don't build the next Facebook or Apple.

Unless you're in situation #5 that the article talks about, spend a few years to get the degree (graduate early if you can because that saves time and money) while working on your projects on the side. And maybe have some college fun in the process.
Beautifully articulated. Couldn't agree more.
I think I'm starting to see the value, especially reading other comments here. Seeing an email that I recognize may be a great opportunity for a personal hello. I think perhaps one proposed solution would work best - having a list of new users that haven't received the welcome email, see their information, and then decide to send the regular message or edit it before sending. I think that's the way I may be heading, it sounds balanced and right.
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Not to overstretch the metaphor, but it's not that black and white. Something as simple-seeming as manual shifting on your car can change your experience of driving completely, making you much more aware and attentive of what's really going on between your ass and the road. It makes you a real part of the vehicle's decision making process. (The description I like is "It's like having a conversation with your car.")

And that from what seems like a trivial change, just a single extra degree of freedom; one that most find just an annoyance. To bring it back around, it's possible to bridge the gap, providing a powerful and easy-to-use interface. But it will probably mean a lot of your users asking rightly, "But couldn't you just do that for me?"

The appropriate answer is something like, "Yeah. I could also just go to the store and get your groceries for you, and you'd never have to leave the house. Do you want to be cargo, or do you want to drive?"