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I'm about to start senior year and really wishing I could either go work programming or, failing that, go to college.

It sounds like academically, there's no reason you couldn't graduate early. My friend just did that. He was in my grade junior year, was taking 5 APs + calc 3 and ODE (after having taken 3 APs the year before and 1 the year before that. he basically had done all of the APs my school offered that weren't really easy (like APES)).

He didn't try to graduate early, but he applied to Stanford and MIT as a junior. (I think he got some approval from the school saying "this guy is ready for college".) He got wait-listed to MIT, but he got into Stanford. They gave him financial aid and everything.

Now he's about to head off to Stanford, and he thinks he's getting a HS diploma in a year.

But it's a complicated equation. It depends on a lot of things. The variables include:

* Friends. If you have really good friends that you really like, you may not want to leave them yet, and that's fine.
* The exact alternative. If you can get a lot of cool stuff done while also being in HS (I had a coding job this summer that I'll do some this year, time permitting, and I'm about to launch what may become a startup), there's less reason to need to leave.
* Exactly how much you hate/are tired of HS. I'm really tired of the bullshit, the pseudo-learning (memorizing just for a test and the like), etc.
* Where you want to go to college. You may be a stronger applicant if you wait a year (though maybe not). If there's a school in your state that's strong in what you want to do, and you just want to go there, it doesn't really matter. But if the plan is going to Stanford/MIT/Ivy, you need to be a ridiculously candidate for it to even be likely. No one's a shoe-in. Then again, graduating early might make you stronger too. I'd do some research as to which colleges would prefer usually.

And there's tons more. If there's a strong reason driving you to leave, you can definitely pull it off.

The best option may be to try to do what my friend did, if you can. Then you get 2 shots at those elite schools. But you should probably be sure that you'll go to college if you get in. I'm sure they wouldn't be happy if you turned them down, and then they got another application from you a year later.
Ask HN: How many RFSs have been released?
I read the first two RFSs that pg released but haven't seen any more since then? Are there others? Is there a list somewhere?
Cheaper solar panels could create large amounts of value for the industry's customers, but if sellers have no pricing power they will only capture a small fraction of that value, possibly negative if sellers end up preferring a small loss on the sale to no sale at all.

As Warren Buffett observes, the problem with technological improvements from an investor's perspective is that they usually happen in industries with no pricing power and the customer ends up reaping the cost savings. Great if you're a customer, of course. In the long run this can theoretically reduce investment in an industry. In practice, though, it looks like at least some investors are sufficiently optimistic that they'll throw capital at the industry anyway. That's how the optical fiber of the Internet backbone got paid for.

Only fools try to capture all the value they create (then the other person has no motive to engage in the transaction), but it really isn't enough to create value, you've got to be able to capture at least some of it, or there's no feedback loop of reinvestment.
Exactly. Time machine is for those "oh shit, my disk is toast/I really didn't mean to delete those files/I'm switching to a new mac" moments.

It's not intended to be used to retain a complete history of your machine and as such if used for this purpose you're eventually going to get a nasty surprise.
Select several of the people who know you best who are in their 40s or older (parents included). Ask them what they recommend you do with your life and why. Your analysis of that advice is probably about the best guidance you can get. My only direct advice is to at some point soon get a job for a while in a field you're interested in (summer, part time, something). The contacts and perspective will probably be valuable.

My anecdotal experience: When I had the choice to speed things up I took it and it's worked out well for me. I did lose touch with a lot of friends. On the other hand some of the friends I made at 18 and 19 after I started working are still my best friends and I attribute that largely to those associations being by choice rather than by circumstance.
I wouldn't call irretrievably wiping out all the backups of my primary hard drive in order to make room to back up a media drive that I just mounted a "backup trimming problem."

And by the way, I had that volume on my exclude list, but TM forgot about it. (That's a problem that has been around since TM first appeared.)
That's how it was in Leopard. It changed in SL.
Lovely twitter discussion between Calacanis and Pogue on the subject:

http://twitter.com/Jason/status/3806517603
Seriously, @pogue is so conflicted & is such a apple fan boy it's pathetic. Showtune about iphone was @nytimes low point on par with J.Blair

http://twitter.com/Pogue/status/3810167984
RT @Jason: Seriously, @pogue is such a apple fan boy it's pathetic. [DP sez: Not really. See http://bit.ly/1a7i1a , for example.]

http://twitter.com/Jason/status/3806537615
The @wsj wouldn't let @pogue in the building w/his conflicts.Geek cruises?! writing manuals 4 Apple/MSFT!? brought this up years ago onTWIT.

http://twitter.com/Pogue/status/3810117324
RT @Jason: The @wsj wouldn't let @pogue in the building w/his conflicts.Geek cruises? [DP sez: Yep! 2008, Windows cruise. 2010, Mac cruise!]

http://twitter.com/Pogue/status/3810136180
RT @Jason: The @wsj wouldn't let pogue in bldg w/his conflicts. [DP sez: WSJ is the standard? Walt earning $1M/year from his D conference?!]

http://twitter.com/Jason/status/3810848949
Seriously @pogue, shouldn't you be working on your romantic opera to Steve Jobs?! Back to the showtunes girlfriend. #mancrushonsteve #sad
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This behaviour sounds perfectly reasonable for the common case, for whom it was designed.

Furthermore it sounds like this guy is using Time Machine as an archiving solution, not a backup solution. You shouldn't be all that worried to lose backups a year old if you know newer ones are intact. You should never delete a document there's any chance of ever needing again, then rely on TM or similar to save it for you.
No this is more like the movie studios making a new, not quite as cool, movie poster for Pulp Fiction for the re-release of the unchanged movie. The IKEA catalog is not their product, its their advertising. It's not like their catalog has any effect of the product (their furniture), much like a movie poster has no actual effect of the quality of the movie.
No.

I loathe question asking, linkbait headlines.
Or a guy. Whatever floats your boat.
This is a fascinating article. It will be a Harvard Business School case study. Even though it's not about online businesses, everyone should read it top to bottom.
i am a tad bit unsure that your thought experiment "nails" it. actually, my interpretation of dijkstra's work is that these questions are the beginning of the problems that are so immanent in our business.

regarding point 2: from my experience of the usefulness of formal methods (not as an afterthought--mind you!) does not necessarily imply a significant draw back on productivity, one must not forget that the proven one fares much better with testing/debugging/xyz that is a posteriori assurance. (this holds for your non-gui examples; gui programming always stuck me as a largely unsientific enterprise--probably proven by the code generated by gui builders [i have not checked in a long time, my experience is from jbuilder 4.0, which i hated anyways])

since you mentioned alan kay, you are probably interested in his recent work at vpri--check it out, there are some interesting papers and also a very good video at intel berkeley research lab:
1) http://www.vpri.org
2) http://irbseminars.intel-research.net/AlanKay.wmv
Historically, we SOTSOG - using abstractions, so complexity is pushed down to a lower layer (language, libraries, OS). I think this will continue to be how we cope with complexity - one specific case at a time, rather than a new general way to address all complexity issues (sounds like magic).

If the rate of complexity increase itself increases (i.e. accelerates), then we might need a a different methodology altogether, such formal verification as you suggest. However, we have had the need for better ways to handle complexity since before Fred's Mythical Man-month (IBM 360), and we've had the tool of formal verification techniques to do it for a long time. It hasn't happened yet, suggesting there is some problem with it.

In my admittedly very limited experience of formal verification, it makes problems more complex, rather than less (This is why Dijkstra says that you can't prove software the way it is currently written - you have to write it in a simpler way, with clearer interactions between modules and so on). Its benefit is that you know it's 100% correct (assuming your assumptions, understanding of the real-world problem, understanding of interactions with other components are all correct, your proof is correct, and any proof automation tools you use are also 100% correct). OK, it gives you a higher probability that it is correct.

Ah, this looks like the opposite cause and effect from your suggestion (that formal methods are a way to handle complexity), and instead that trying to formally verify applications forces us to write them in a simpler way, which is... simpler. Or, we could just write them in a simpler way, and not worry about the formal verification part. It still leaves the problem: what is this way of writing apps in a simpler way?
Isn't the only way to do this by dividing it into abstractions with well-defined behaviours and clear interfaces? In other words:
Historically, we SOTSOG - using abstractions, so complexity is pushed down to a lower layer (language, libraries, OS).

PS: I would love it if there was a new general way to approach complexity. But as Fred said, "no silver bullet".

"better models for development that allow us to think about problems more abstractly"

That's possible I guess; but I don't think we lack in our ability to think about problems abstractly. It's finding the right abstraction that is tricky, and this amounts to a search through the space of abstractions. That sounds straightforward to automate, except that he search space increases exponentially with the complexity of the problem. So we need a heuristic to guide that search.

So far, the best heuristic is us. If we can automate this guide through the search space - the ability to make connections, have intuitions and insights - it would be a huge leap towards Strong AI. My Masters was an approach to this, and the start of my PhD. Quite possible, I think, but hard.
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Your standard seasonal flu kills thousands every year :/
"theres no business model like no business model" ugh!
Another possibility is to not graduate at all, and go to a school that accepts students who have not graduated from high school. I did this, and went to Simon's Rock College. It's not a super prestigious school, but there are a lot of students who are in the same situation as you. A majority of students transfer out after their second year when they get their AA and go to a more traditional college.

I got my BA there and am now getting my PhD at a top 3 school in my field
I took the online symptom test when I believe I had it.

The symptoms are ridiculously vague. The test was like "Do you have 2 or more of the following? [fever, cough, cold, sore throat, etc].

I'd ask for a specific test to be sure what it is.
This goes way beyond Pogue. There are plenty of journalists of all stripes whose writings I would suspect a lot less if I knew, say, their entire stock portfolio.

Having David place all (all!) his personal investments into a blind trust seems like an excellent idea which many other media personalities' credibility might benefit from. The same goes double for anyone talking about the stock market directly, especially "analysts" - in fact it arguably should be a condition of the job.
Yes of course, its written in Python. I hope with a few tweaking, it might be able to start; I haven't looked at the code though.
"Taken too seriously" whiffs of "I'm too good to eat my own dogfood." And yes, literal does mean written. And your writing was a statement backed by arguments, fulfilling necessary and sufficient conditions to be considered a thesis. Pedantry aside, I've got a beef here.

You seem like you want to be nice, and like PieSquared wants to listen. There's a definite problem here, though: I don't like Landmark indoctrinators, and a lot of your phraseology comes from that direction, so my hackles were raised instantly. It might come from having had one as a roommate, so if you're just chattering happily away, my apologies. Landmark is scary enough so that when I see them get around another person, I have an immediate negative response.

Addressing what you've currently said, slowing down (http://www.slowmovement.com, am I right?) is irrelevant, because it still means there's a checklist. School, career, car, wife, house, kids, vacation, retirement, cancer, grandkids, dead, buried, gone. Yes, we'll always be dirt in the end. No, we don't have to march to oblivion. Some of us can subvert this as authentic freethinking entrepreneurs. Not all, but some.
Maybe provide a link next time?

http://www.antlr.org/
You should publicise it more on the WP home page! I'm pretty technically able and yet it took me quite a while to even realise I could do that.
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Hmm...I might not have made my point clear:

I think it's a mistake to view 'starting life' as when you're finished with a milestone (i.e. high school). One should instead think of 'starting life' or, life, as now, regardless of the contextual situation (in high school, in college, not yet married, not yet a successful start-up founder, etc.)
Have you upgraded to Snow Leopard?
Seriously, what's going on with the negative letter-spacing??
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Love it :) There were some other pretty decent entries at this year's Assembly, too.
Did anyone else expect the "cpp" questions to be things like "describe the use and purpose of #include, #define, #line, .." ?
Right, but the main issue here is not related to his stocks, it is related to the fact that he writes manuals for products he reviews. I don't entirely understand why this is such a big issue - it is normal, for example, for someone who has written a biography of say Sibelius, to be asked to review Sibelius recordings or perhaps somebody else's review of Scandinavian composers. I'm not sure why technology should be different. Yes there is a potential conflict of interest, but normal disclosure rules seem to cover them.
There's an average of 30k to 50k deaths related to flu each year. And, yes, vaccines are truly beneficial. There's also 30-50k deaths each year because of car accidents.

I'm not saying that people should panic about the flu, but good handwashing, getting vaccinated and not exposing others to your germs is just good common sense, and it's what our best current science says.

If you get the vaccine you might still get sick, but if you do, it's usually less severe. And, we all get the benefit of herd immunity from large scale vaccinations programs.
Unfortunately, the Constitution says nothing about who owns and pays for the press.
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Good advice generally, but generalisations have their gaps. I always ignore #2 here, about not having a 'Corporate Overview' early on. BUT:

- Make sure you've already avoided #3 (Linear Demo) by agreeing with the pitchee what the agenda will cover
- Make sure your overview is very, very brief - it's really a positioning statement ("we sell software to telecommunications companies with over 500 employees") not a history lesson, and
- Make the overview interactive. "What have you heard about my firm?" or "Bob introduced us - can I ask what he told you about what we do?"

This last one shows how this step can be a great way to correct misinterpretations that can otherwise ruin a great demo. In situations where the overview can't be interactive (say, Demo Day to a room of VCs who have never heard of you) you want this step to be two sentences ... or less.
Apple have always sold TM as a way of doing backups not archiving. The original article seems to want to have used TM as an archive, not a backup, and that's where the problems came in.

That said, maybe I've missed something in the marketing that Apple have done for the product - your comment seems to indicate that. Do you have any specific examples of false claims made in marketing TM by Apple?
Did you read my comment actually? I just wrote:

"20k flu related deaths in Germany each year"
I wouldn't be surprised if you have it. The classic symptoms are fever, cough, copious mucous, body aches, with vomiting and diarrhea. But, I'm pretty sure I had it for a couple of days, and I just had a little fever, runny nose and body aches. My wife had a runny nose, a cough and aches for 3 weeks.

A few weeks ago Santa Clara County Department of Health told us that 99% of all flu like symptoms in the area are H1N1. There just aren't too many other bugs going around right now, at least in Silicon Valley.

That being said, getting swabbed really doesn't do much for you. It lets you tell your friends, "I had swine flu", but not much else. Tamiflu helps a little bit, but only if you take it in the first 2 days of symptoms. So, you're pretty much screwed. Sorry.

If you start to cough up colored goo, or have a hard time breathing by all means go to see the Bone Saw again.
Nice work. We've been looking for a chemistry plugin to stick in to Twiddla for a while now. This might just fit the bill.
Sun wrote the CDDL to be intentionally incompatible with the GPL, and a lot of the motivation for that came directly from engineers working on Solaris who were opposed to their work being copylefted.

btrfs is awesome and stands to completely eclipse ZFS -- but don't pretend for a second that it ain't provincial. It's designed directly for Linux's powerful VFS layer and would be a bitch to port elsewhere.
Exactly, 30k dead in the US annually due to seasonal flu. I doubt the swine flue will kill 90k. They want to scare people to sell Tamiflu and the vaccine. It's a billions of dollars business.

The same people who own the pharma companies were involved in the propaganda of WMDs in Iraq, most notably Donald Rumsfeld who is the owner of the Tamiflu selling company.
The symptoms are the same as with seasonal flu but less severe so such a test is nonsense.
Oh yeah, in his particular case sure. But I was speaking about the general case of journalists whose words might affect the market or who could otherwise stand to gain by influencing public opinion. That is much more common than Pogue, who is kind of a one-off.
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No need for torture anymore. Just plug the terrorist suspects to the mind reader. How dystopian.
The list is located here:
http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html

There was also a list of startup ideas that YC likes posted earlier which comes with less description of the final product:
http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
The title of this story must be wrong. Maybe it's "...how many times you login to..."
Take note that the big box displayed on that first image is not the actual Freescale netbook which actually looks like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22046787@N03/3177930623/
BTW, I moved the articles to a different host last year,

http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/write-haskell-as-fas...

and the follow-on using fusion,

http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/haskell-as-fast-as-c...
Innocent question: is there anything stopping you from renting a whole bunch of these and ripping them? (aside from your conscience, if that's an issue)
We should ban pull a Calacanis headlines like "x is dead", "x sucks" or "x is bullshit" on HN.

[edit:] Just change them to "x critique". This will greatly improve the overall civility of this community.
I'm trying to think of any question headlines I've cared for. My mind is blank.
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TM would have deleted every backup they had if they didn't stop it in time. Wanting every backup you've ever made is one thing; wanting the last backup you made to be available doesn't sound like archiving.
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Sorry I had copied the link to the original story and Andy Grove quote and then forgot to paste in my comment (duh). Thanks tsally for adding for me.
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They call the 'Mom n Pop' model the opposite of revenue sharing, but many 'Mom n Pop' stores do revenue sharing.

One thing that they fail to mention is that part of Red Box's success is due to their expansion. It allows them to shift product that isn't renting well in a particular area to new kiosks. This helps them to: a) pay less for new product in new kiosks and b) not be forced to either trash the existing product to replace it with other titles or let it sit there not earning back any money for them. There are lots of examples of companies built on expansion that ran out of steam... Krispy Kreme for example.
That's interesting, about your experience of productivity with formal methods, compared with not using formal methods - do you have an example handy?
I also think licensing a patent to a company that actually uses it qualifies the owner not to lose the patent. Bottom line is that if the owner doesn't actually allow the public to benefit from the IP in some way then it should fall back into the public domain. I realize this is very much a layman's perspective but that's what I believe. -Bill