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What!? Classifieds have been around for forever and were the bread and butter of the print newspapers for a long time. If craigslist "took on" anything, it's classifieds.

The "second-hand random stuff" market that ebay had previously was just made easier (and cheaper) by craigslist, but only for local items.
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I was exactly the same way. I studied for AP tests on my own time, started a company, learned how to program, etc. School was boring. It was easy. I resented the fact that my peers took it like a joke an weren't serious about learning -- some of the teachers did, too.

All that was cool, but here's the thing I wish I did the most in high school: kissed a girl.

I think it's important to get good grades in HS because it will give you so many options when you graduate. Just deal with it. Some times you have to do stuff you don't like.

The rest of the time spend doing the things you love. And as a fellow introvert, I strongly encourage you to SOCIALIZE. I had a friend who forced himself to become less awkward by joining the HS football team even though he hated football. Forced socialization.

It worked. He was way less awkward than me in HS. Now he's in Boston doing this: http://diybio.org
There are many options for you.

You can go part time to college and see that learning, when forced is monotonous everywhere.

You can start college full time now, face the same issues, yet be out sooner

You can spin high school into a pleasurable social experiment. I noticed there was nothing said about you socially. Usually, kids dont dislike school because of education, its because of social issues.\

Look at it this way. You have 2 more years to become whoever you want to be, perfect that image, then display it to the adult world. You can become a ladies man (all it takes is working out), you can become the quirky nerd everyone likes, you can be the scary goth that has a clan of minions. But now is the time to play around with who you are and who you want to be.

If you see it as an experiment, it will be fun....
I don't really expect Scheme to make a huge comeback (especially when there's Clojure to play around), nor do I think Python will die very quickly, so I don't fully agree with the poster.

However, a lot of new ideas are tried in Haskell, and I wouldn't be surprised if it gained importance as people make it more accessible. It's a very powerful and concise language.
This helped me too, graduating early because of it. Seriously important one.
I don't think it's fair to say UML itself failed. We did get to a point where to see a project modeled in UML gives you a strong desire to turn and run (and this is usually the correct thing to do), but it's more to do with abuse and stupid users who don't even make the difference between modeling the behavior and modeling the implementation.
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I'd say no. People don't live in the Bay Area cause the housing is so affordable or cause the taxes are so low or cause the air is so clean. Do the math.
more so in objective-c which is really a simple language.

the framework is everything.
Only if they're doing it for the money.
They did the math. Read the article.
The Intel Science Talent Search is pretty much exactly like this. You work on graduate-level research with a university professor as your mentor.

Even if you don't care about the competition, it's an easy pretense for getting in touch and working with a professor. Plus, you might be able to convince your school to give you time during the day to work on your research (when I was in HS, we got a period every other day).
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Same with Japan...

If you want to call 080 7653 9523 you dial 011 81 80 7653 9523
I can tell you that I had a very similar experience in high school. I am currently 24 years old and working in a career/job that I absolute love. But high school was a bit different. I wasn't a straight A student, but that's simply because most of the topics we discussed were completely uninteresting to me. And you are right, some teachers can really ruin a subject even if you like it. I was lucky enough to have a few good teachers each year and I was able to graduate without any problem, but I definitely can see where you are coming from.

My suggestion to you is first to forget about dropping out of high school. That is not even a possibility. Now that we have that established, I will move on.

This might not help your grades, but one thing I used to do is actually work on personal projects while I was at school. I would write on paper, that I was supposed to be taking notes with, ideas and brainstorms for my projects. I would sometimes get so bored in school I would actually write out Perl code on paper just for the heck of it. Yea I was bored.

Sorry to digress, basically what I'm trying to say is make due with what you have. If you can't take more challenging classes like honors or AP level courses, perhaps ask around to find out who the more interesting and passionate teachers are and if you have an honest talk with the principal they may actually move you to the class you'd like. Work on your own stuff and your own knowledge while at school. Find others that are interested in those same things you are as well. When I was in high school I joined a webstaff which was basically a group of students that worked on the website. The media center/library people quickly spotted my overall technology talent, and I soon because very literally the school's IT guy. By my 12th grade year, I was practically spending half of my time 'working' at school helping people with computer related issues.

In closure, I have a feeling there are other issues at hand here. I don't quite know what I'm suggesting, maybe personal issues at home or maybe something totally different. Try to figure out what's at the root of your disliking. There is probably an underlying cause that you may be able to fix. Stop worrying so much about high school. Just pass and do good on your SAT. By the way, you're first two years of college, if you go, will be very similar. But when you actually take those nice tech classes where you really learn stuff it is highly enjoyable.
If someone came on here and said something blatantly false such as "Gravity doesn't exist. Here's a bunch of technobabble explaining why it doesn't. Anyone who doesn't agree is a douche and part of the conspiracy to hide the truth." Would the multitudes of people coming to refute his points confirm his point that there is a conspiracy to hide the truth?

Or would it mean that he just may be wrong.
Lesson 1: The world is not designed for people like you. You will find this to be a recurring theme throughout your life. Sometimes you can find a way to modify things be more to your liking. Other times you can't.

Lesson 2: Not all parts of your life will be ideal at all times.

Lesson 3: Any complex system that uses human beings as input will be non-ideal for many (if not most) of those people.

Lesson 4: Humanity's sacred institutions are (contrary to the way they're marketed) full of frustrating inefficiencies and design flaws.

You're frustrated because you'd like to be constantly challenged by just the right amount so that you can learn and reach your potential. Consider the video game: each new level is designed to push your skills just the exact amount. Life (and human institutions) are not so well designed.

There's a reason that the book Ender's Game is so engaging: it's wish fulfillment. We all wish that we could go to a school that provided exactly the opportunities that would make us the people we want to be. But such a school doesn't exist.

(Oh, and on a practical note: if a subject seems dull, then hit the library/web and look for other textbooks on the same subject. A book that presents things the way you'd like to see them can make all the difference.)
Ah, my apologies. Need to read those guidelines more carefully.
Not accurate. He's not the source - he's just the only one with an intact sample that was positive for mexican flu.
You can focus the text box without moving the person's cursor. That's a much better approach imho.
this javascript plaything is really annoying, and stopps interest for the content.
Great post Aaron, now let's see it happen! You have the connections/resources, why not you?
Sort of a rough summary of the Never Eat Alone [1] material, except delivered in the form of an insult...consult the original, or the Dale Carnegie original original.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385512058
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I love 'Basic of the future' as a slur/compliment for a programming language.
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Sorry, that was a bit flamey of me.

I have read Craig's interview in Founders at Work, though.

The thing I'm pointing out, is that given all the online newspapers, and startups probably to do it, I'm surprised Craigslist could take off.

My second point about it starting as SF is: In 2005 or so, when I read about CL, the site was only SF, and was pretty small.

So I reasoned: It would be meaningless to people outside SF (eg, no listings) so how could it eventually become a multi-million dollar business?

Web business is really wierd...
I dont think so. People with incomes over $500K have the economic flexibility to live where they want. Will a millionaire move from Long Island to Conn. to lower hes taxes? In general no. Northern CA is a magnet for talent and millionaires in spite of expensive housing, high taxes, and miserable transportation. The weather is good though.

These considerations hit the middle class harder. During downturns people leave CA, because of the costs.
Hi there lennysan. Nice idea.

My (minor) comment is:

Work on the keystrokes when the type ahead box appears.

For instance GR selects

Greece
...
Great Britain.

In this mode the UP arrow should select Great Britain.
Currently it is not bound.

Just my usability 2p.
The point of secure operating systems is not to reduce the number of flaws in the kernel. It is to make the authority gained by exploiting any single program minimal. So it should make flaws less horrible.
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Even at good jobs, entry level workers end of doing many things that are wastes of time, both apparent and real. Learning the focus to power through those is half the battle.

Further, a 3.5 is not "decent enough grades" anymore -- they're average. Grade inflation has led us to lose perspective.

Finally, the best thing I did for myself in my last two years of high school was learning to interact with people in my age group but not my peer group. Breaking out of an introvert's shell is very, very hard. It's not impossible.
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My local home depot has it as $21.50 for 50 sq ft.

A more expensive version can be purchased through Behance: http://www.creativesoutfitter.com/Products/IdeaPaint/16?utm_... ($200 for 50 sq ft.)
I recommend this highly. I felt more or less as you (the original submitter) do until the math club found me [1] at the end of freshman year. My freshman year is like a giant beige blur in my memory. It's like I was in a vaguely depressed stasis the whole time. But then it was math, trivia, and Drama Club stage crew for the rest of my high school career. Suddenly high school felt great.

There's nothing wrong with being an introvert... but there are degrees of introversion. And self-study is the secret to learning, which you seem to understand, but you might be surprised to find that you self-study better when you've got a team, a goal, a project, or a group. If the groups at your school seem to suck, there are other ones around. You've even got the Internet, which I didn't have at your age.

Here's one regret from my high school days: At one point someone came up to me and said "You're a big guy and you're not already on the football team or any other team. Want to learn to play the tuba and march in the band? We need more tuba!" At that point I was a very shy freshman, easily embarrassed, with no musical experience, and that whole idea sounded preposterous, like some kind of practical joke. So I said no. I wish I hadn't done that. It turns out that they were probably serious. And playing the tuba is probably pretty easy! I might have faked it pretty well with just four notes and a basic sense of rhythm! And it might have been fun to march around with the band... a nice, structured group activity with a lot of depth. (There is always a more complicated piece of marching-band music out there...) And I'd be have been that much farther ahead on learning something about music.

Hang in there. Don't drop out of high school if you can possibly help it -- it's good to have the degree, and believe me it will end. And college is a big improvement!

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[1] They pulled me and a few others out of freshman algebra class and just gave us the AHSME, one day. I had no idea what the AHSME was, but I took it, and I ended up in a three-way tie for first place in my high school with my best friend (another freshman) and a senior member of the math club. I learned about the math club the next day when its faculty adviser came stalking into the cafeteria during lunch, waving the AHSME results in one hand, with the wild-eyed look of a prophet on a mission. He approached me and my friend and more-or-less told us that we had to join the math club, it was vitally important, because we had the knack.

That guy was great. Teaching is a weird business. 99% of the time you are saying the same things that you always say, but the remaining 1% are tiny moments which change people's lives forever.
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I'm pretty sure nothing that runs solely in-terminal can ever truly be brought "to the masses", unfortunately.

New Linux users, even those who are competent within Windows, are just too intimidated by a CLI.

That said, the simplified config for Screen is pretty nice, especially for those of us who regard mouse use as a cache-miss.
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The short - if you are absolutely set on being an entrepreneur, are properly depressed, or don't care about high incomes, then drop out. If you hate school that is.

Not completing high school does narrow your options in life. Most people say that isn't a good thing. It may be right for you though.

I finished high school, then dropped out of college - only to return 4 years later. It was a bit harder to adjust without the momentum of study. But I did it and loved it enough to do a postgraduate course.

Maybe find a mentor in programming to help you set challenges - engaging your programming related to school work.

IMHO a large number of students in compulsory education (to age 16 here) don't love school.

Note - I am biased as I am now a high school Maths teacher in the UK. Sadly, only one teacher inspired me at school, so I am trying to do better.
My colleague Martin Feldstein and Marion Valliant argue that states can’t really redistribute income at all, because wage rates respond quickly to changes in the tax rate. When the tax rates on low-income earners fall, their wage rates also drop, and when tax rates on high-income earners rise, their wages rise. These wage effects rapidly undo any attempt by the state government to create a fairer society.

This is assuming that "high-income earners" pass their tax increases on to those lower-income workers below them? But isn't there also a cost associated with passing that tax on? There seems to be something wrong with this idea. . ..
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No, Maddox is fun to read and oftentimes insightful.
Another comment.

Looking at Great Britain -> Australia, you say ::

... 00 +	61 +	area code + phone number

There are only 7 such area codes. These correspond to an Australian State.
Probably it would be worth listing some _example_ phone numbers in each State, with a label to each State. Often I have a local person give the phone number in an email, presuming I'm in the same State.

----

e.g

Victoria :: 00 + 61 + 3 + 9651 8911 (Vic Parliament)

New South Wales :: 00 + 61 + 2 + 9230 2111 (NSW parliament)
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I've worked on many interview projects before; it's always about who has time and interest to have a conversation.
This is why SpiderOak (and I suspect Tarsnap, and probably others) use a completely different approach to storing historical versions that don't explicitly involve deltas.

Instead, they chunk files and store individual data blocks, and use an adaptation of the rsync algorithm to be able to tell exactly which bytes have changed from one version to the next. Any segments of changed bytes are stored as new data blocks. This has two big advantages: 1) any version can be restored by retrieving exactly the set of data blocks that compose it and 2) any version in the chain can be purged, and use a sort of garbage collection to determine which blocks can then be removed.

The adaptation of the rsync algorithm has to be able to work with an arbitrary number of data block sizes (normal rsync has a max of 2 sizes -- one uniform size for all blocks except the last block, and size of the tailing block.) This can make it very slow if not handled smartly.

Another option the author might consider when making the delta chain is to compress the versions first with zlib using the --rsyncable option, and then make the deltas between the compressed versions. Normally compression means that two very similar uncompressed files will have very different compressed output, because even small changes cascade through the rest of the stream. --rsyncable fixes that, and adds about 1% to the compressed size.
From the interview with Tom Love, co-designer of Objective-C:

"Does productivity depend more on the quality of the programmer or the characteristics of the programming language?

Tom: The effect of individual differences will far outweigh any effect of the programming language. Studies from the 1970s show for programmers with the same educational background and same number of years' experience, the number was 26:1 individual differences. I don't think anybody claims that their programming language is 26 times better than somebody else's."

I wonder what others think of this, especially in light of Lisp vs. blub debates?
_why on dhh's response
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Nice, concise account.

we’ll be shrinking our codebase by about 10%

Ah, Spring cleaning ... (yes, it's more than that, just referring to the satisfaction of scrubbing off the crud.)
Thanks. This is a really good idea. During that good year I had, one of my most passionate teachers was my English teacher, which was partly the reason I liked that year so much (that subject had been ruined for me before). My English class now basically consists of worksheets and vocab. books, but I suppose they still can't take away the value of the literature :)
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I live in St.-Petersburg, Russia. These things are common in here. So I simply went to the shop and bought them.
I'm confused - what javascript plaything? Am I missing something?
markbao and DaniFong are two HN readers with stories you may be able to relate to.

Look up Hans Reiser [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser] and Niniane Wang [http://niniane.org/] - they are early dropouts in the tech industry. It's not totally insane to fast-track your career.
You might enjoy reading this site:

http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/

It has philosophy of education/parenting ideas. For example, you seem to think that you are selfish for wanting a life that isn't boring. I think that is a very reasonable desire. This is a site that will actually take your side on issues like this.

Also, people are probably telling you that college is different/better. Just survive through high school, and then everything will be awesome. It's not. College is maybe 20% better, not 500% better. Don't think of college as the answer to all your prayers. It's very possible you will hate it.
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No offense, but I think a submission explaining such a basic concept as HTML radio buttons is inappropriate for the audience here.
Anyone who has a 9.04 install handy: does this just write a modified .screenrc, or does it somehow refer to those configurations stored elsewhere and requires a customized screen build?
No offense, but I think a submission explaining such a basic concept as HTML checkboxes is inappropriate for the audience here.
I don't see what's so bad about identifying with your work. Would you be equally bothered by a doctor who considers himself a doctor, as opposed to saying "I do practice medicine, but that's only one of many things I do, and certainly not who I am?" Identification with profession is as old as time (last names anyone?) and often indicates someone who is passionate about their work.
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Just thought that was interesting.
I once bought a can of it to create a home made dry-erase board and it didn't work that well...
Smears remained, and you can't clean it of the way you clean of a regular whiteboard.

In addition, the paint I had wasn't magnetic, which is a drawback as well, but there is magnetic paint, so you would have to think about two layers...
Nice hack, but, if renting, the landlord may not appreciate this part:

"""
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Q: Can the Dry Erase coating be used over a previous Dry Erase surface?

A: Not over an aged surface. Since this product dries to a very hard and glossy surface, the previous coating must be thoroughly sanded to remove the gloss
"""
The comparison of Northern CA to NYC isn't really a fair one, as there are no non-CA options for living in the Bay Area, but you can live in CT and still do business in NY.