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I read the book first time before I was a programmer, and found it philosophically profound, but also found it hard to grasp what it actually was about.

Later I realized it was just an elaborate Lisp-tutorial.
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It's not really about friends,it's about growing up. Self reliance and such. The older one gets, the less anyone has in common with anyone else. In a couple of seconds you'll be contemplating retirement and barely remember this question at all.

You are learning how to deal with the real world, the world you must navigate to find happiness. Sooner than later you'll fall in love and then even this goes out the window. You think you're confused now? Just wait.

Just be thankful you have a place like this, where people want to answer with contemplated gems and not something something...
Awesome, maybe now I can practically run my tests against Postgres when I'm developing instead of against sqlite. Will be nice to avoid the (admittedly very occasional) works-on-sqlite-but-not-on-postgres problems.
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Curse you, MIT students! You lucky, lucky people.
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I'll second this, and add:

1.Traveling alone will help you to meet new people.

2.Do this with the objective of evolving your view of how humans work, not making specific life-long friends (though of course, that is possible).

3.Hitch-hiking is even better for meeting people and learning about people. In a way, a discussion with a lone driver in their own car is much like an accelerated version of making a friend. Hitch hiking is tough in the US, but easier elsewhere.

4. Keep looking for people who are similar to yourself. At my high school <10% of people were similar to me. At my college >50% of people were similar to me. It was like night and day. It may not be college for you, but it's somewhere.
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Hi,
I've been looking to get into programming (as a job) for a while now. I even moved abroad to pursue this idea, but that didn't turn out so good. I am...ancient. 26 in April.

I have set up www.freecoder.co.uk to attract some attention. Basically, I have discovered I lack intellectual self confidence (rightly or wrongly) so short of hacking my mind I would really like to work with a bunch of smart people for free for 3/6/9/12 months and just see how it goes.

I have considered working in open source, but would prefer to have people physically around.

Am I completely barking to even attempt this?

Everyday is filled with self doubt.
has anyone tested this tool so far?
The picture where it says E90, looks like it's actually an E93, the folding hard top convertible.
Really? Advertising? Can't anybody come up with a better business model than advertising?

How about this: Charge for API keys. There's already a crap-load of Twitter apps, and some of them are not free.
Does anyone have any tips for applying to Berkeley or Stanford's mathematics program?

Win the Putnam. :-)
Any other tips?
I graduated from one of the top universities in the UK and to be honest the city circled the campus looking for the bright and greedy people.

It was sad to see so many mathematicians, engineers and scientists disappear into the city to run financial simulations. Sure they made a lot of money but little of it was invested in UK PLC.

Anyone I know that didn't go to the city went to the USA or CERN. It feels like if you try and make something 'real' in the UK you suddenly realise that there is no one there to actually make it, design it, test it or research it.

I hope the current blip prods the political class in to realising that you can compete with China and India in manufacturing as well as services.
Can anyone recommend a good web-based spelling and grammar checker?
I need to implement spelling and grammar checking within our web application. Can anyone recommend a decent API/web service to accomplish this? Happy to pay if the service is good enough...
You mean booting to singleuser? If you don't want it just use a grub password; nothing to do with CentOS.
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Would a computer scientist be insulted if you suggested he had wrapped a small amount of useful functionality in multiple and unnecessary levels of abstraction?

What if you suggested the same of his essays?
The problem is that they chose to cover up the Apple logo. I mean, sure, using an aethetically pleasing 3rd party product in an ad is no problem, but you shouldn't then try to disguise the fact. If the Apple logo really does pose a problem, don't use a Mac in the ad.
I like your idea, I cant help you per se but if it helps your selfdoubt then I think you will do fine, based on your courage to try such an unconventional path. And whatever you do, keep learning on your own time ... that never gets old!
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Great case but...

> The only solution is to forbid money management
> as we know it.

Terrible conclusion. Human nature is stupid, but powerful government is worse.

Let the markets rise and fall. Let people get burnt and learn from their mistakes. Let the market emerge from the current situation with investment firms that thrive because they give their customers confidence that they're not doing dumb things.
They (referring to both the founders) must have sold it thinking they might get access to the good tech infrastructure that other Google products and services get.

That's another important thing that would have been on their mind apart from the money (guessing they sold it for a low price).
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Ask HN: RoR/Ruby mainstream yet or still underground?
Do you guys think, its practical to rely on Roby/RoR technology to expect a well-paying job in current market?
Having worked in several technology and platform, I have totally fallen in love with RoR/Ruby world - but at the end of the day, I need to make a living too! Currently out of job, and spending some quality hacking time with an RoR app, am wondering what you guys think in terms of RoR going mainstream for jobs in the real' world!
Great idea Seth, there's a lot of really driven, sometimes older people that contribute heaps to society that would be able to leverage their effort with a little help from someone with tech skillz.

But let us not forget that many people involved in startups and open source are already benefiting society in immeasurable ways, by doing what they love the most.

I suppose however, that the spirit of the day, helping others selflessly, is what counts, ultimately.
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In most cases it makes sense to pick the supervisor and then go wherever he is, rather than picking the university. I've heard people say that the relationship a student has with his supervisor is the second most important one in his life, after the relationship he has with his spouse; I've also heard people dispute this and argue that the supervisor is more important.

Of course, in order to be in a position to pick a good supervisor, you need to make yourself attractive. Do research; publish papers; go to conferences and present your work there; talk to other people in your field. Faculty are always looking for more good graduate students, and meeting them at conferences will give you a chance to figure out if you get on well with them at a personal level.

That said, I did almost none of the above -- but I was a special case, in that I didn't particularly need any supervision (I'm pretty certain that I literally saw my supervisor less than two dozen times while I was a graduate student, and interacted far fewer times than that).
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I realized that afterwards:

"If an owner is selling the goodwill in their business."

Though it still has to be "reasonable." And that probably means its expired.
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Fascinating in a way that only geeks would ever admit too ;)
What, LiSt Open Files and Net grep (Global Regular Expression Print)?

They sound like fairly sensible abbreviations to me.
Ask HN: How do you produce product demo videos?
I would like to show a product demo video (screen capture) on my homepage. Seems like this is a common requirement. Can anyone share some advice from their experiences?

What software do you use to produce the videos? Any free solutions? What resolutions worked well for capturing text in a browser? Streaming or progressive download? Any other hints?
One question to ask is whether your product or service is even patentable in the first instance. Ask your lawyer about the court decision in the Bilski case, http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/07-1130.pdf, which put some pretty tough restrictions on the patentability of software.
I already have my first bachelor's degree, therefore, I cannot take the exam.
Ask HN: Any service out there for titles/phrases/names/etc.
Writing a small helper class to suggest/auto-complete a text field with some commonly used names, titles, phrases etc. Helps to avoid misspellings, as well as not having to remember the entire title or what you have.
For example, not many of you can write Arnold Sc....gger's name without misspelling - so in that case I would like to suggest.
So I simply connected Google's auto-suggest to my textbox. But that's not a gr8 solution, as typing 'Arnold' gives me lot of useless junk such as "arnold schwarzenegger soundboard" and "arnold schwarzenegger movies" - because that's often searched upon.
Now, Wiki is a good solution - they have got indexes too, and a great one, exactly the kind I am looking for. But they are alphabetically sorted, not by popularity. So even typing 'Arnold Sc' also doesn't get anywhere close to the answer.

Anyone has any other recommendation?
Are you looking for screencasts or videos of desktop apps of sort? I am not sure what people use for screencast softwares, but the Railscasts guys seem to be creating some neat looking ones. You might want to ask them.
I know the LearningRails.com guys personally, and they do a great screencast too. There is a free HYperCam for Windows, but result is not all that impressive. Adobe has something called Captivate, which will let you create some FLV/F4Vs I believe.
Just thought this was a really interesting one (featured on BBC news website, due to it's use in visualising the "Gaza debate")

Inspires ideas of using it to view wiki and commons data in a "UML" format.
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History Flow: the only way to convince yourself that the "wiki" is a valuable medium
Most probably, a big chunk of the oxygen in the atmosphere comes from last month's photosynthesis - we use it to make CO2 and green stuff converts it back, so, it's always brand-new oxygen we see. But free oxygen indicates a far more active biosphere than lots of methane would and I get your point - methane makers are much lower profile than oxygen makers.

As for Titan being covered with life... We really don't know if the lakes we see from space aren't giant amoebas waiting patiently to eat any humans that land on their beaches and just cleverly pretending to be lakes. ;-)
i went to an out-of-state college in a big city nobody else from my high school was going to. it worked well for a reset (not that i had particularly intended to accomplish that).

and all the interesting people are in startups ;)
Identifiable brands are ususally obfuscated unless the brand owner pays to advertise their brand (at least in the USA). Look at sitcoms on TV. The husband drinks beer out of a can that is red & white like a Budweiser can, but it clearly isn't a Budweiser can. Product placement is usually paid for, like Taco Bell did in the movie "Demolition Man".
Found this a few years ago and always end up showing people. It really does show the "quality" and "persistence" of wiki data in a way that begs the "ohhhhh, yeah" moment

and if anyone wants to contest the "valuable medium" bit, I'm thinking the wiki hasn't properly come of age yet - for instance see http://www.scholarpedia.org/
My thoughts exactly. Current Macs are Intel CPUs that can natively run all major popular operating systems, so what is this guy getting worked up about? Doesn't he know that you can run Windows on a Mac in a VM or natively, as the primary O/S?
Ask YC: Gandi.net experiences?
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How about "listopenfiles" and "netfind"? And "list" instead of "ls", and "delete" instead of "rm", and... et cetera.

"Global Regular Expression Print" is a terrible name on its own, too.
Dell has long been ambivalent about Linux. Their earlier offerings were difficult to locate on their website. They rarely mentioned Linux in their direct mail catalogs. Only recently when they switched from SUSE to Ubuntu have they increased the visibility of their Linux offerings. It's slowly gaining momentum there. I look forward to the day when they start advertising that they sell Linux on their TV ads.
I'm 17 and I have a bunch of good friends, and guess what? None of them share my main interests.

I'm geeky, I love my mac, I love podcasts, etc. My friends aren't crazy about computers really. A person I consider my best friend is really into cars, mechanics, etc. I'm really into SEO/marketing/startups.

The reason we get along is because we don't have a lot of the same interests. I get along with him because he's a good person, fun to hang out with and compliments me (as cheesy and fruity as this all sounds).

Stop looking for that person who is your clone. I have geeky friends that I meet with at local events, coffee shops, etc - but none of these people are my day to day good friends.

You also need some good online friends. Some may not agree, but I think having friends online is great. I have about 3 really good friends online who compliment me and who I talk to almost daily about.. whatever. I've known some of them for over 3yrs online. Some I have met in person, some I haven't. You obviously don't want to spend all day online but having a few of these friends and people to talk to is always good in my mind.
Hi, I'd like to do a screencast, played back through a Flash player. The Railscasts are neat but they're not embedded in the browser. From your email, it sounds like Captivate might do the job although I'd have to pay for it. Any advice on progressive download versus streaming for playback?

Thanks!
I use nearlyfreespeech.net; but I recently started looking at gandi.net...
I just can't be bothered to move from godaddy and have to reset everything up (eg, DNS) - are domain migrations instant?
Is the procedure for changing the root password with grub the same regardless of the flavour of Linux?
There is also the chatterous room for HN at http://www.chatterous.com/hnyc/
Seed a list from Wiki, then add weightings according to what your users type in?
The Windows 386 is by far the best promo I've ever seen. It easily takes the cake for being the most awesome.
I don't think I can take another Hacker News time-sucking/addicting feature now.
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I agree advertising is boring, but it works and there's a ton of money to be made with it. Even creative ideas like yours for the API would pale in comparison and put the load on developers which isn't exactly super nice unless they are profiting. Unfortunately (or fortunately for some) consumer spending continues to power our (US) economy. Therefore platforms to get people to buy are worth a ton.
This is absurd on it's face. The marginal cost of software has been 0 for almost three decades ( arguably, it has 0 marginal cost by definition). That didn't stop Microsoft from becoming one of the largest, most successful companies in the world. The issue with social media is the lack of barriers to entry, plus the limited value offered by most social networking sites. If I want to interact with my friends, usually I will just call them. Facebook is a fun distraction, but it is not providing me with a service I value enough to shell out cash for, and if they did charge, everyone would just pick up and move on (cf Friendster, not that they charged but that users left en masse).
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I've bought a few domains with them.

I really wish I'd bought all my domains with Gandi. Terrific service, great prices and a lovely site.
Would you pay for followers on Twitter? How much? Tipjoy could make this happen pretty easily http://tipjoy.com/twitter

I've been debating doing it for http://twitter.com/tipjoy

$1/new follower? Too high? Lame?
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Good to see, so many celebs (wealthy people) have nightmare kids. 10 seconds thought will give you a list of awful/useless children.
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I guess I just don't get why this would be "the only way to convince yourself that the "wiki" is a valuable medium". We use wikis at work without this, and I don't think anyone here would argue that it isn't a valuable resource. The history flow would show persistence of information, but for many sites I think it would be a stretch to claim that proves the quality of information.
I often hear that Ubuntu is not visible on Dell's website.

After reading your comment, on a lark I typed www.dell.com/ubuntu . voila! that URL does take you to a Ubuntu specific page :)
Forget about the laptop, whose idea was it to cast the most annoying kid in the universe?
You would have to create a dictionary where you can weight words (by frequency, most likely), and write a matcher that runs as a user types.
Or just charge for the firehose. Get streaming instead of 100 requests/hour.
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I don't know. Tom bootstrapped newgrounds with his friends, and they're based out in Philly, so I think he never really plugged into the tech world. They've been doing well and profitable, so they might be plugged in elsewhere, perhaps the flash community.

They released "PDA Game" first as a minigame inside of Alient Hominid, and then the sequel as a stand-alone on Xbox Live. They just (i.e. a month or two) released Castle Crashers. I haven't heard of anything else coming from them.
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I think you are giving too much importance to the kind of subjects you discuss with friends. The important thing is that you get along well, not what you are talking about.

Part of what you say sounds like the trouble of growing up. There is an age when what interests you automatically interests your friends. When I was a kid, other kids I met were usually open enough to get interested in whatever I was interested in, and we could easily have shared passions. These interests were also more shallow and less complicated than those I developed later. I am 39 now, and at my age everybody seems so specialized that they rarely pick up new interests. This is compensated by the lesser importance interests take in a friendship. I met some of my best friends because they make comics, like me. When I see them nowadays, we almost never speak about comics. I have practically no common interests with my wife, but we get along fine.

Maybe you have not found a psychologist that fits you, but a good one could be helpful. Their job is not to tell you what you want to hear, but often they will repeat what you say to make sure they understand you correctly. I went to see a psychologist once when I had a depression. I think what helped me most was to have a relation to someone I could trust. Feeling less lonely could be enough to get rid of some of the problems you mention, like thinking too much about the differences between you and your friends. Building a relationship is something a psychologist should really be good at, and seeing how he does it with you can help you with others.
Thanks for your support. I think the continual learning point is particularly pertinent.
It's opencourseware. Even though you don't have the benefit of discussions and lectures, much of the material is available.

Edit: the video lectures are available. And I bet the professor would love to open up a conversation.
I solved it quickly.

My brain basically broke it down like this:
1. Anyone saying someone else is the knight of life must be either the dungeon or the death.
i. If the person he said is the knight of life, calls himself the knight of life then things get complicated...
ii. Luckily the person that was called the knight of life, in fact called himself dungeon, which means that neither could be the knight of life.
2. Since the knight of life is the small, believe what he says. The tall = death.
3. This leaves only the Fat to be paired with the dungeon.

Fun puzzle.
I was going to move towards them because I had heard several very good reviews, but when I tried to purchase a domain through them some error came up with my credit card. I don't know if it was because it was a French site or something, but regardless I didn't move my domains.
I think most people watch it to see a real car crash. When I've watched it, which isn't that often I've been shocked by how bad some of the pitches have been.
See the thing is that if you're knee deep in an unfamiliar system trying to fix it you type "ls" about a dozen times a minute. Adding two unnecessary keystrokes (doubling the length!) not only adds up it makes typos more common.

There are some nice conventions though, once you know grep there's egrep, ngrep, etc. Then there's the -stat family, prstat, iostat, vmstat, mpstat, etc.

Grep is its own special case, I'm not going to argue that it's a good name a priori but it does have the benefit of being completely unique not to mention far too entrenched to change now. Not to mention that it's "burp" in Yiddish.

Unix is difficult to pick up but once your brain operates in that special warped way things do make sense by extension.
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