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You said you were "new to the whole scene"; you will at least need basic kernel hacking to work on the networking subsystem; at least enough to be able to use the appropariate memory allocation strategies; the options to kmalloc are not optional, you will have to grok what each strategy entails; same for slab buffers, synchronization primitives, error handling and clean up, etc.

The book you REALLY want is ULNI; the driver model is essential for understanding the kernel because everything in the kernel is "pluggable", you almost use the same mechanisms to register a device driver, a file system, a network protocol, or something as basic as creating a new sysfs entry.

If you're feeling too macho you can probably ignore Rubini and Love and just get ULNI and ctags ;-)
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I have a similar anecdote — getting muddled between French and German when learning them back-to-back at school — but bringing sign into the mix blows mine away!
Sadly, you are not entirely correct. Stanford's intro course uses Java (though learning C is also required) and MIT just switched from Scheme to Python.
My university forced me to take a second language for a CS degree. The department was located in Arts/Sciences, not engineering where it belonged.

It was a perilously stupid waste of time. It required 14 credit hours. 14 credit hours of learning a language I will never speak to anyone ever again and never had any interest in learning. The only thing the language requirement does now is make the CS degree at my alma-matar less competitive since I would have taken more CS/Math/EE electives.

21 or 18 hours of humanities is enough. I'll get down-modded for being this way but I don't care. This was the reality of the situation. It genuinely hurt me. The only way it changed my life was make me miss out on interesting elective classes, like AI or computer music and I also didn't have enough time (in semesters) to do undergraduate research.
It seems to be what side of the picture the person is in. (I thought it was left/right handedness too at first, and was curious how one could be 30% left handed!)
If it's ironic because expectations of how news blogs gather news and conduct business are much lower than that of traditional news organizations, then that's actually quite troubling. I'd say it's completely fair to expect attribution when one's work is referenced -- even on blogs -- no?

The news paper medium may be dying, but that doesn't mean organizations using the new medium get to ignore the practices of good journalism and of just-plain-fair business.
"gas tank is equivalent to ~0.5megawatts", just to be more clear, could you say how many hours of driving are you assuming the gas fill will last, since your measurement is in terms of power?
I'm all for fair attribution (ex-journalist here), and I'm not convinced that didn't happen in this case (though happy to accept it was borderline at best).

But given the Gawker article sent more people to his story than any other single source, save one, AND that it was an article on the benefit of integrating generations and therefore technology, for the editor and then the writer to get peeved is ironic.
His numbers aren't even attempting to be correct, he's pointing out that in fact 0.5% isn't necessarily low. What it shows is there is quite an obvious strategy for insurance companies to pursue which would have a level of 0.5% rescission but completely destroy the expectation that you be covered in the event that you really needed your health insurance.
And if you are using a JIT that optimizes frequent code; how easily the branches are predictable and a host of other factors. Also, I don't think this comparison is even useful: clearly if-else and switch-case have different use-cases.

Some others have also hinted at using an array of function pointers and indexing by switch variable. This looks cleaner, but is not necessarily faster, since each call then involves chasing down a memory-pointer (this is also the general argument against virtual functions).

I'm not sure how valid this C-argument is in Java world, but I believe pointer chasing is a major performance problem (C# requires an explicit virtual declaration on functions for the same reason).
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Washington Post pays for all the time and hard work to put together a real story. Gawker reduces it to snark, collects the ad money.

This is a problem. Real journalism is in big economic trouble.

If there were ever an opportunity for some entrepreneurial problem-solving, this is it.

http://paulgraham.com/good.html
Moving to Google Docs would be a big step backwards in functionality. Word + Dropbox is perfect because it combines cloud availability with native capability.

If you want me to switch, you need to offer something better. The ability to handle the organization of large documents would be a great start. I'd love something with the features of http://www.bartastechnologies.com/products/copywrite/ would be awesome. CopyWrite is only for Mac and I don't want to switch OSes just for a word processor . . .
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Yes, and in the 50s, school desks where "recommended" as safety bunkers for kids in case of a soviet nuclear attack.

Government safety prescriptions are often panaceas, but they serve the purpose of making the masses feel like everything is under control be calm.
[Disclaimer: I'm a college student]

Depending on your industry and (sometimes) on your college, you're more likely to get in touch with those more influential and powerful than you (for science it might be renowned researchers, for law high-up law offices, etc). Since your friends went through the same college experience, the same goes for them. Therefore you're all in a good position to help each other.

I personally want to go into biology-related research. College is pretty much vital for this since I have access to professors who can go beyond what's in the textbook as well as have numerous opportunities to work in actual labs.

Now, if I were to start a software startup I admit that college is not necessarily the best option. Teaching yourself is easier and more likely to give you a good-enough foundation and if you're in the right place it'll be easier to hang out with the right crowd. However, for people who otherwise live in places far-removed from tech hotspots, college can give them a chance to move somewhere with a better chance of being noticed.

Also, besides startup-related events, what other non-college ways are there to have access to lots of networking opportunities?
This is an opportunity for the Washington Post actually. They can cut out the middleman (Gawker) and supply a slim version of the same story. This would let them cover multiple "angles" and recoup their expenses by having all the ad revenue coming to a Washington Post-owned publisher.
But given the Gawker article sent more people to his story than any other single source, save one

As he says, more eyeballs != more money, so the attention means relatively nothing.
Wouldn't that be cheating?
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What if you're in a field where teaching yourself is not much of an option unless you're exceptionally dedicated and have very few distractions?
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If that's the case, you should know better than to post it.
Do you have a better recommendation?
Ugh. I don't see how this is even that controversial a point. Would you believe NPR instead? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1037897... - I don't take it to be a foolproof method by any means, but I suspect it's more effective than hiding under a desk in a nuclear attack as per your analogy. Besides, with the outbreaks of SARS, H1N1, scares over avian flu, the cost/risk ratio isn't exactly high given the options (which are few for most airborne viruses other than hide out until the risk has passed).
Based on what data?

Almost every country in the world is more socialist that the (former) U.S. None of those countries' university systems come close to that of the U.S. And what are the best universities in the U.S.? MIT, CalTech, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, etc. (private) vs. UC Berkeley and UCLA (public). The latter two are soon to feel the financial collapse of California.
gah! timezone problems(gmt+2)! thanks for the visitors interested in my application, unfortunately i manage to be sleeping when anyone pings via the chatrooms :(

by the way, for it's initial release, i'm still fixing the bugs. so any kind of feedback, bug reports or enhancement requests are more than welcome..

thanks
It's every bit as arguable that it's data generated by the commons, which they merely aggregate and circulate.
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Interesting that across the board, chances are everyone is awake at 7:10 pm versus noon.
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I'll bet all these hybrid and electric cars would be adopted by more people if they stopped assigning them fruity little names like "Leaf."

You think any man wants to ride around in the Leaf?
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I submitted this earlier (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=736887) with the title Death of Journalism because I felt it was what he wanted. I also submitted the multipart article since I want the ad revenue accounted for.
I love Amit's page. A LOT of online tutorials on A* and other algorithms teach wrong theory (especially on inadmissible heuristics), but Amit knows what he's talking about.
"Go Google"? Checklist of features? Really? This smells like a bad IT magazine ad. It lacks the class I expect from them.
The discourse on this site is great. No need to apologize for questioning anything. Here are my answers to your questions:

1. There is a big difference between government intervention and government run organizations. Government run implies inefficiency and waste. There will always be people that game the system. I am well aware of that, but if all the government did was make it a non profit it would do a lot to mitigate against the mass profitering that is going on right now.

2. Sallie Mae no longer has any ties with the government and Freddie Mac is a government sponsored enterprise. In fact they were both set up as government sponsored enterprises when they first started. Enterprise implies an entity that is in it for the money.

As for your third question I do not know of any but it would be enlightening if someone knew of one.
Google Docs would definitely be more trusted if it worked a bit more like dropbox. Special folder where docs were automatically synced to. Browser + Finder = redundancy and assurance.
Paper, billboards, and blimps? At least they didn't waste any money on AdWords.
Kaputhing...
Oh sorry - I didn't see it.

I'm surprised the original headline didn't receive more votes.
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I tried to submit the original article last week, but infoworld.com is on the ban list because "People always complained the articles were so empty"
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After being passed around several departments, he spoke to an Apple executive on the telephone.

I'm mildly surprised he was able to get to an Apple exec so quickly. I've tried and given up in frustration. I did send an email afterwards, and got a response back. So it ended well in my case.
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Now, what sort of culture do insurance companies have? I think that there's good evidence that it's a sick and cancerous one.

If you have evidence to support this claim, provide it. It might be interesting.

If you don't, you're just resorting to name-calling so you can win a boring argument about politics. We don't like that sort of thing here.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Heh. Anecdote about govt. run organizations: My wife and I, upon being told that the US Post Office only offered a service between 10 and 4, commented that that was rather inconvenient for those of us with a 9 to 5 job.

The response? "We're not here for your convenience."

Wish I could have gone to someone who was...
The real problem is not that colleges have been advertising this, but that companies require it. On the one hand, I have learned a hell of a lot about Computer Science in college, but I could have survived an entry level programming job damn near anywhere straight out of high school. The problem is that the degree is a barrier to entry; it is almost impossible to get a decent job without one unless you are absolutely spectacular at what you do.

My friend once had this argument with me, saying that college isn't intended to train people for the job. Regardless of its intention, that is what it has become...the real question is, what are we going to do now that it has transformed this way?
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I really enjoy MIT's free course material. I loaded every lecture pdf onto my iphone and slowly but surely have been making my way through their mba program. Based on my experience, I do not think a dedicated school program would work based on this material, and I am someone who is ALL for reform in higher education.

The main reason is the nature of the content. Anybody can work their way through a management psychology or communication class, but you'd have to be very far out on the bell curve to teach yourself optimization models and statistical data mining based on this material alone. You could be familiar with how to do it based on lecture notes, which is my goal, but without help not one of your 18-year-olds could correctly solve these problems in the real world. They could educate to a degree, but their ability would be nowhere near traditional students. The pedigree's value will be preserved.

Most of the classes have missing or incomplete material since OpenCourseware is clearly an afterthought. Someone would really have to go through the course reading list to be able to say they took the class.
"The web is great for serendipity and will eventually leave books lagging far behind in that area (it certainly has done this with respect to library stacks). But nothing will ever replace the sense of excitement one can get from antiquarian books if one is a lover of history and traditional learning."

I find the serendipity bandwidth of wandering around a bookstore much higher than the Web. The Web, however, is more more available to me. But wandering around the real world has a lot going for it.
A team could easily hire someone to write a twitter hashtag aggregator widget though...
I'm in the same situation. I don't want a gas guzzler so I'm waiting around for the electrics. I might get an electric motorcycle first though since new car models tend to have problems in their first year so I imagine the first year of a completely different kind of car is going to be rife with headaches.

Basically it's the same as my phone situation. I don't want an iPhone because of Apple's management of it. I prefer owning what I've paid for and having another company tell me what I can and can't do with my own property doesn't sit well with me. I'm waiting for a viable substitute to be available, something like the HTC Hero.
What's been with the spate of exploding batteries in the last three or so years? Is this like the capacitor plague?
It's random.
I skipped college and went straight for the job. Learned more in one year at a software job than most people get in four years at a college.

But that is a great point: a lot of organizations, particularly big organizations, use a college degree as a "credential" for their first level of sorting through job applicants.

Yes indeed, college has become a clumsy sort of job training. That's how it is, and we have to deal with that.

However, colleges are not all the same. Small liberal-arts colleges are keeping the "community of scholars and teachers" tradition alive. Community colleges have a peculiar split in focus: between vocational training and college prep. Big state colleges offer undergrads training mostly in bureaucratic hoop-jumping, in order to fund real research.
> If you don't, you're just resorting to name-calling so you can win a boring argument about politics. We don't like that sort of thing here.

Which is why "we" flag all of these articles:-)
There are a number of cooperative health insurance companies. Group Health in Seattle is one: http://www.ghc.org/about_gh/index.jhtml
"If you don't like where everything is heading, that's fine, you're free to keep your old ways but if you're going to grumble on about it, then you better stop swimming upstream and start learning the other way too"

On the other hand, the so-called paperless society was supposed to be here something like 20 years ago.

If people are skeptical about the end of books, I don't blame them.
You realize that it was more for the ostensible situation that the school was in the blast zone but not in the immediate kill zone? And that by hiding under a desk, children might prevent themselves from being struck by falling debris?

They knew perfectly well what they were saying. There's no point in making a kid hysterical about getting killed by the intense heat and pressure of an atomic bomb every time there's an air raid drill.
Few things work as well as dropbox in my opinion. Though the newest word for the mac with the publishing layout changed my mind about microsoft a bit.
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Decent article, though I really wish reporters would either find some evidence that AT&T is behind the removal of GV, or at least stop reporting that as a fact. AT&T doesn't control the app store, that's all Apple, and I don't believe GV is available on any non-US Apple app stores, so this isn't only an AT&T issue.
Er, what? So if I ask Wolfram Alpha to calculate 6 x 9, they claim copyright on the answer of 54.

Also, Mrs Browl wants to know how they can claim sole ownership given that their output would not exist without your input.

Way to make your service radioactive. Is it International Corporate Stupidity Month or something?
This is indeed super bad.

When I have time I try to hack more on JRuby + Android, but have come up against assorted anomalies. I'm fortunate that someone with a far greater understanding of Java internals them me is blazing a path.

My attempt at sticking the JRuby jar into the app libs almost worked, so I'm anxious to go try out this code with the current JRuby.
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Is this some kind of mis-channeling of PG's last essay?

Did you see the photo of the car? It's not targeted at the Hummer crowd. It's also being sold in Europe. I'm not saying it's a great name, but I can see the association between leaf and concern for the environment. And it's a small car. The name to me seems to go along with its design and purpose.

I would also say names may not matter as much as we think they do, or at least that it is fluid and malleable over time. I.e., Nissan or Toyota probably didn't sound all that cool in the 70s or 80s either.
That's the thing, though; it's only a differentiator for the first level, the entry level, in the absence of any other significant information. If you have anything of substance in your resume to get past it, most likely that will be considered far more important than your formal educational background by a factor of 10.

I worked nearly full-time while in college (also full-time) for 2.5 years before dropping out, much of that time spent at a small local ISP in Georgia. I came in as tech support out of high school, and a year and a half later ended up its chief system administrator and basically operating the facilities side of the place. After that ended, I dropped out. Noone at any job I have held since or in between (and I've held quite a few) has - after a look at my resume - thought to inquire about my degree, whether I had gone to college, whether I had graduated, or anything like that. The focus was all on the experience. And since that point I have not been considered an "entry-level" applicant at any subsequent job, so there's no interest whatsoever in using entry-level criteria to differentiate me.

The only problem is that first hurdle, and it's not impossible to overcome. It may be challenging, but it sure as hell is cheaper and easier to overcome that challenge than to go to college to achieve the same end -- assuming, of course, that that's your only purpose in going to college.
word association: leaf - green. Think about it. My own criteria for a car revolve around comfort, low maintenance costs, and ease of parking. It can be called Brian for all I care.
Perhaps a special fully transparent non-profit. You can pay employees whatever wage the market demands and with certain limits, like executive packages that have to be approved by "members" (policy holders).

As to your questions:
1 - The gov shouldn't do it because we want multiple of these entities, not just one. We need choice and competition, no single point of failure.

2 - It is common to say that extending home mortgages to higher risk groups, which Freddie played a role, was to further social goals. I simply do not buy it. Everything points to money. Extending these mortgages furthered the goals of the lenders and investment bankers and home builders as well. Look at who gave money to the politicians to make these policies happen. Hint: it was all of the above, except poor people. Yes, people who couldn't afford their homes benefited but they were not the lead players in making these policies happen.

As to your third question, companies that attempt to be more of a coop have to compete in the same market as the for-profit entities. I don't think you can solve this problem without leveling the playing field.
True, but they (or any other actors in such an improbable but miraculous story) could have met in a variety of other forums, few as expensive and complicated as college.
It sounds like India had the worst showing, as far as making it to the finals.