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I'm with you on this...there's a perception that everyone at Stanford should work for Google or start a company, and I'm pretty sure Stanford grads do those things disproportionately, but I've met plenty of people at Stanford who wouldn't get hired by Google and aren't interested in a startup. You only hear about the Stanford grads who do cool stuff, and you hear about Stanford people doing that more than you hear about other people doing it...but don't let that lead you into thinking that everyone at Stanford does cool stuff.
I think it may have more to do with the latter. A quick Google Scholar query of "why is computer programming dominated by males" provides some interesting results, including an abstract with the key finding that "men had more confidence in using computers than did women even when statistically controlling quantitative ability. In fact, female CS majors had less computer confidence than did male non-majors." (Beyer et al., 2003)
You're missing the point. Apple sells The Downward Spiral in the iTunes store. Not allowing the same content in the App store is just absurd. In fact, the app doesn't even contain the content, it's just accessible through it.
You will also need to add width tags climbing up the tree to make overflow work. Width: 100% on the tables, tr, and td's (possibly not all of them, I didn't test it fully.)

(And you can't put pre in a span, so change the span to a div like drawkbox said.)

But use overflow: auto not overflow: scroll.

And if you are worried about vertical scroll use x-overflow: auto (doesn't work in opera though).
There's QNX.
Here in Colorado, there are peaks called "fourteeners." These are peaks higher than 14k ft. Some are pretty simple hikes. Some are scary. Some are on public land. Some are on private land (so you'll get in trouble if you don't get permission).

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

http://www.14ers.com/ (disclaimer: a previous co-worker helped/helps run that site).

One piece of advice is to get a hunting or fishing license (if you're hiking in Colorado). Part of the fee is for "mountain rescue." If you never need it, then that 25 cents of the "habitat stamp" goes to waste. If you decide to be cheap, then you get billed actual costs (think price of a car), if you need to be rescued.

One of the problems that may (or may not) bother you is the altitude. My boss was fine at sea level - able to do decent times in triathlon events. But it took him a year to get accustomed to Denver, and he was huffing and puffing like a life-long cigarette smoker. The first month he was here, he'd get out of breath going up a flight of stairs.

Pick something easy for your first. Don't decide you want a technical climb (where you need gear). You might find that you get altitude sickness and can't go above 9-10,000 feet. Many folks who drive up Pikes Peak find that they need someone to drive their car back down, because they're so incapacitated that they can't even drive.
> I understood that statement to be talking about class mobility.

Why? None of the data addressed class mobility.
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I think a venture firm that privileges woman ran startups with a focus on women-markets would be great. After all who does most of the spending in a household? Remember that web apps represents only a tiny tiny fraction of consumers' expenditures.
My mom always buys me clothes at least two sizes too large (she's a small lady, and apparently thinks I'm a giant). I'm pretty sure almost anyone would do a better job picking clothes for me. Just saying.

Nice article. I'm not sure the organizational problem of large enterprise can be addressed from the bottom, though. I've heard enough about the many layers at Google (supposedly one of the flattest and most awesome large companies in the world) to know that just being smart and generally effective as an organization doesn't really solve it. The folks at a high enough level to sign off on "close to the problem" solutions are the same folks who are so far away. They don't know what they don't know, and so continue to do business as usual and expect to have major decisions deferred to them.
what do you suggest is their rationale? Is that the point of this? to point out an irrational decision in the world?
> I'm not ok with eating ramen.

Real ramen is really good. Like the kind you order in a restaurant.
Io has runtime macros. Messages are evaluated by the receiver and which can do whatever it wants with the message arguments (evaluate them, tear them apart and create new messages ... etc)

list(1, 2, 3, 4) select(isEven) map(+(1))
==> list(3, 5)

isEven and +(1) are messages that select and map evaluate.

Also see:

http://hackety.org/2008/01/05/ioHasAVeryCleanMirror.html
I'm never, ever getting an iPhone.
Yeah, I want to chime in. Not only is having a car expensive, but it even when you can afford it, it does not make anything easier. You don't necessarily get parking spaces closer to your destination than where the bus stop is. Often you're walking farther to and from your spot, than where the bus/MUNI/BART/cab would drop you off.

Also, in a city, you're always having to move your car even when you don't need to drive it anywhere for street cleaning days. If you're lucky enough to have a garage for it, it will be hundreds of dollars a month. You're already cutting it pretty close with your budget. Really, really, really don't bring it.

Otherwise, I think your plan sounds amazing, and I hope you post here from time to time about your experiences.
$7.5 million to police the site? Sounds like they need some mechanical turks instead.
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> concepts combined with a progressive tax code

About half of US workers don't pay income tax. They pay for part of their retirement (SS for them is a modest deal, because their ROI is subsidized by folks who pay more).

Our vice president said that paying taxes is patriotic. Shouldn't they be patriotic?
Thanks for the heads up... you'd think that a tech-savvy group would avoid hosting their pages on a service which splashes MLM and repenting videos all over their site...
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> I'm sure you mean $100k inflation adjusted. Otherwise $100k 1oo years ago would purchase a lot more wealth, you just wouldn't have access to modern technology.

Huh? In what sense is modern technology not wealth?

Moreover, much of what passed for "wealth" in the past is common place today.
You think the Pre is going to be all right? I'm waiting on it, but I've never seen it. What do you suggest as an alternative, I'm about to get a new device.
Strange Firefox 3 bug/easter egg
Select your URL bar. Hit the down arrow, so the suggestions list appears. Press CTRL+SHIFT+X.
The question that was asked was: Any ideas?

That was my idea - a real-world example (for the age group) of why the third decimal place is important.

Regarding your local pizzas, it was an example - it may not be valid for all situations, unfortunately, but there's no dependency.
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This is addressed in the LA Times article; it jives almost exactly with Wikipedia's rendition. Hillebrand hit upon the idea of using the control channel. His team found room for 160 characters. There was a question about whether this was sufficient space and Hillebrand set about confirming it was.

A general take away is the value of the "sniff test". There's a tyrannical aspect to (what some would call) "common sense": it can squelch ideas that seem like they shouldn't work. And it's easy to scoff at the idea of a communications channel with a hard 160 character limit. Hillebrand sitting at a typewriter doesn't prove SMS will work. But it did show that it just might work and merits further investigation. Challenging presumptions may yield surprises.
"But why not just build on EC2, Media Temple gs, Mosso, Joyent.."

It's already been pointed out many times before that EC2 != App Engine unless you plan on building your own heroku, RightScale, or scalable system. The price on those scalable services isn't base EC2 or VPS pricing either.

Included with the price of App Engine services is the outsourcing of server instance management, datastore management, etc.
I left it up even though it's a dupe because it got enough upvotes that a lot of people must not have seen it the first time.
Group identity. Just like you (or some of "us") get figgidty when people make fun of techies/hackers.

Update: I should clarify that "group identity" is strong when that identity is formed around an "out-group" (a minority or marginalized group). An "out-group" is just a group who is threatened in some way (as perceived by the group).
Stop complaining about App Store approval times
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"In June 2008 a Forbes magazine article projected the 2008 revenue at US$200 million, noting progress in advertising sales."

We know two things for sure: a) youtube IS making money b) youtube is making money in tens of millions.

What we don't know--and what makes the argument that YouTube is a financial burden on google very difficult to prove--is the knowledge of YouTube's expenses.
Suggestions:

1. Instead of a clickable text field that says "Simulation is STOPPED" , use something obviously clickable (obvious even when mouse is not hovering over it), like a button, and make it say "Start Simulation" . Likewise, instead of "Simulation is ACTIVE" , make the button say "Stop Simulation" . [more specific version of thehickmans' suggestion]

2. Make active the default state, i.e. the button says "Stop Simulation" by default. [seconding psyklic's suggestion]
The g1 running android is pretty great. I've been using it for four months and have very few complaints, plus it's a completely open-source system. The new software update provides an onscreen keyboard if you don't like to type on real keys, but I think having the choice to use a tactile keyboard is really nice. I'll also never own an iphone.
My personal experience: doing without coffee for a day or two has no effect. Also somewhat oddly, there is one particular place I go where I get a `mocha latte' and it wires the hell out of me. (It is a great time for coding.) Not sure why.
One of those fourteeners, Uncompahgre Peak, is a gentle "walk up". We did it once by moonlight, which was a real treat. It also gives you plenty of chances to decide that you'd rather quit and walk down, which may be good idea if you're coming from sea level and aren't in shape.
Why would Bill Gates care about such bullshit? Minus nerd points for him.
Amex (and other CCs) walk a fine line. End customers are what makes things tick. To get more of them, they offer to side with them in any disputes.

If they abuse merchants enough, they won't accept CCs. But refusing Visa or Mastercard means turning away a lot of customers. Refusing Amex means turning away some. If merchants start turning away cards, the card is less useful. Amex is not a stand-alone card because it sometimes gets turned away. You need a real CC too. Merchants can average things out over time, so while the 1 in 100 dispute is unfair, stressful, rant-inducing stuff, it ultimately only costs around 1%. I assume this is less then what you lose from turning the card away. Since they are businesses, they are obliged to make more rational decisions. This makes them a better target for abuse.
You're one of those name-dropping douchebags who likes to go out of his way to post in a thread where he can drop a bunch of names like he's an important person.
Who cares about Apple's brand? If you buy a device it should be YOUR device. No one should be able to dictate what content you put on YOUR device.
This is neither a bug nor an easter egg. From docs:

CTRL+SHIFT+X: Toggle typing direction of the current textbox.
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Actually, it does seem there's a bug -- if the right-most character (left-justified) is '/', then it mistakenly prepends that character to the right-justified version.
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I believe the reason for the apparent contradiction is this: Apple acts as a publicizer for the apps in the app store by letting them into the top-N lists and recent releases. When an "objectionable" app becomes popular, users hold Apple to account. They don't do this with the music store.

As the app store gets more and more crowded, Apple will most likely loosen up. Or maybe they will do the really intelligent thing: allow everything in, but only allow "non-objectionable" material into the top-N and recent releases sections.
Suggest working on how you're going to meet people now -- figure out which events you'll want to go to, which places to hang out, etc. That will help with contacts, which in turn should help with picking up consulting or a formal internship. You can then use this to help plan where you want to live and whether you need a car. Also, as pointed out in the thread, some venues are regrettably 21+.

In particular, a lot of events happen on the peninsula in the Palo Alto/Mountain View area. For example, SuperHappyDevHouse is something you probably want to attend, and it's recently been at places like Sun. While getting there by CalTrain is possible, you can't stay late without being badly stranded. So if you find yourself wanting to visit places in that area, you will want access to a car. Bringing your own is an option, there's also car sharing services like ZipCar or CityCarShare.

You might also find it fun to drop by Noisebridge, a hacker space near 16th and Mission, to see what's happening. Circuit hacking every monday!
http://www.noisebridge.net
(disclosure: I'm the secretary and a member)

Overall, you are not crazy, but do some prep work by reaching out to potential contacts, setting up meetings, and figuring out the right events now. While the Bay Area _is_ the kind of place where you can walk into a cafe, meet someone random, and then walk out with an incredible conversation that leads to your next opportunity, you will get a lot more out of your summer if you work it ahead of time. Posting here is a good start, but you probably want to do some investigation more closely targeted to your web project idea.
Bram Cohen did test BitTorrent in the very early days by seeding some porn, but I wouldn't attribute BitTorrent's success to that.
Totally different point, but holding anything across generations is very unfair in itself.
Do you happen to know why the feature requires that the suggestions list be displayed? That fact made it seem more buggish to me, as it seems like an oddly specific trigger.
oops %95 are male, I never estimated it! Thanks for the pool :D
Agreed. I realize AppEngine != EC2. Amazon is more a set of components, EC2 being one that you are right you have to setup the systems to scale yourself. In actuality, you will probably need EC2, SimpleDB, S3 etc.

I was trying to make the point that it makes Google AppEngine much less of an advantage over other services in the market even ones you mention which provide these managed components (many times without the restrictions of GAE, I am a big fan of GAE and a little irked at the pricing). Media Temple gs has some of what you mention.

But I believe a large reason people were even considering using Google is the great startup potential to scale up and get lots for free at the beginning. No startup can run with 1GB per day on a single digg, reddit, slashdotting at all without paying. It gave about 3-6 months of runway before for growth now it isn't really even a month of free for a reasonably known application or content.
Ad hominem. It's a good essay.
This post is almost entirely strawman arguments. I'm opposed to DRM and lock-in, but such dishonest demagoguery isn't the solution.
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The simplest thing would be to insert WBR tags every so often. Could be a small performance hit, so I'd do it on write. In Ruby, this would be:

content.gsub(/\S{40}/, '\0<wbr>')
On the latest (stable, 3.0.10) version of firefox (Vista), I can toggle it without the suggestions list displayed.
I recently implemented a ranking system which combined the two: http://pastie.org/467334

Not sure how sound my math is, but it seems to produce the desired results.
Just to be clear, there are other ways of acquiring polio, namely oral-to-oral transmission:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio#Transmission
> We should all consider ourselves lucky that we have a skill-set that is in high demand.

I don't think it's really "luck": if you love what you do and you make sure you are very good at it, you're going to be in pretty good shape no matter the economy. Outside of technology, there are many different fields that reward skilled workers: law, medicine, engineering, etc.
Apropos: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694
That version on XP and Gentoo seems to require the suggestion list to be displayed. I guess the feature is a little ragged, anyway -- I imagine not too many people use it.
I agree with that. But the real question is if there were no affiliate links, would there be more or fewer useful links overall? It may be that money is an incentive to dig up useful links that nobody would provide otherwise.
Minus nerd points, and plus sales points. No doubt you get to talk business with some of the most powerful world figures inside the club's closed doors.
Good point re the granularity - so you think even with a "compiled" JS ajax app, its still more open then the equivalent swing/flex?
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Under the same line of reasoning: if I own a brick and mortar store, it should be MY store. I should be able to dictate what I stock on my shelves. If customers don't like it, they can shop elsewhere.
For the same reason why paperback books aren't printed on a broadsheet.
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What/who the fuck is Harris? Get out of the South.

-Someone on the West Coast.
Oh man, if this doesn't have a keyboard on it I'm so getting one. The first two frustrated me so much - why not just give me a bigger screen?

Question for anyone who has a kindle - how often do you use the keyboard?
It's not totally ad hominem...

I know the guy, and I know that he can make a compelling-sounding argument against something that I know (believe/whatever) to be true (ie evolution).

Thus I no longer trust anything he says because I don't trust his motives or his arguments to be made in good faith.

I happily continue to listen to arguments made by people I have had previous disagreements with, but not those who I have evidence that simply ignore facts and scientific process. My experience tells me it's a waste of time.

There's a difference between that and an ad hominem attack.
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> Google only gets away from by using some very clever image recognition algorithms.

Not sure about that, they check the site the picture is hosted on.
And technically speaking, that isn't even true. Try to allow smoking at your place of business in most states, for instance.
Except if you own all the brick and mortar stores you have a monopoly. Even if you just own a large chunk of them (like Walmart), you end up having way too much control over what form free expression can take. That is closer to the situation with Apple and it doesn't seem too healthy for society as a whole.
Hmm, $50K seems like quite a lot for a dead simple job that could be done by just about anyone.
I do wince and get bummed out whenever I read certain comments here (I've pretty much learned to just not even click threads about the ideal age to get married, what's more important relationships or programming, etc) but even when things make me sad, they're at least not crudely written.

I feel the same way about comments advocating the use of PHP or Java.
I upvoted you because this is a straight up reality check.
That's not necessarily the catch of TI, the Marina also suffers from that unfortunate side effect during earthquakes. The real catch is that nobody knows how toxic the soil is.
I use my Kindle 2's keyboard fairly infrequently, but I'm certainly glad to have it when I do.

The thing is, the e-ink screen is far and away the biggest cost on the device. It's certainly far more expensive than the keyboard. So you could say that you would like a smaller kindle without the keyboard, but when you say you want one the size of the current model except with a bigger screen instead of keyboard, you should realize that you're asking for a substantially more expensive device.
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Indeed, the article doesn't really address anything. It basically concludes on the "sufficiently smart compiler" fallacy. Compilers only get better after you throw tons of engineering resources on them, and that situation only occurs after a language gains tremendous popularity for other reasons.

For example, both Python and Ruby have less-than-ideal implementations, and the avoidable flaws in their design are well known. Despite that, it's taken a long time to get to the point where anyone is even motivated to work on a reimplementation.

And on the other hand, Lisp has had scores of implementations, but it still can't reliably earn the prized "equal/better to C" benchmark scores. This if nothing else should inform us that performance considerations definitely do come into play at the language-design level.
My honest advice to you is go to college and do drugs and drink booze and have sex, 3 things you've probably never done before in your life. College is an excellent place to do all those things for the first time. The corner of Geary and Polk is not.

Get that shit (into and) out of your system before you move to SF or you'll never make it out alive. Trust me on this one.

SF is a fucking dangerous place if you go there without your adventure meter properly calibrated.
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So by wearing a hacker t-shirt he is a "grade A" loser, but by reading and posting on Hacker News you are not? Your line seems arbitrary.
> "feminists are about as useful as slavery abolitionists would be today in western societies"

In other words, very useful and laudable pursuits:

http://www.antislavery.org

The article is very good. Incomplete, but very good. Your response is disappointing because it dismisses the suffering of many people: women and slaves. Just because some university professor came up with a good explanation for the origin of suffering, it does not mean that the suffering is good, or that we should tolerate it.
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i'm really curious to see what the price point is for this, if it's real. i imagine those screens aren't easy to come by.