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This is horrible advice. High-school dropouts who leave school at 16 or 17 because they think it's a waste of time rarely end up ahead of anyone, and certainly not by "managing their money right", whatever that means. You scorn a minimum-wage job at Wal-Mart, but where do you realistically expect someone without even a high-school diploma to get a great job? And how would he explain the fact that he had done really well in high school and challenged himself, then decided to quit so close to the finish line? I can't believe I'm even bothering to respond to this drivel.

And you bothered to leave a comment, so you apparently threw in the barb about not caring just to be an asshole. Classy.

the fact that you wrote this on the internet says something about you. There are several ways to interpret it, and none of them are good.

On the other hand, there's only one way for me to interpret your comment: you're an ignorant troll.
I don't think you're contradicting the post. He's talking about the meaning of the concepts and you're talking about how to get efficient implementations. Both are important, but if you didn't have to worry about efficiency, it's pretty obvious that the data/metadata distinction is a logical false turn. (To use your terminology, why wouldn't we want everything to be fast, dynamic, and unified?)

The post does hint at this by suggesting that the concept of metadata itself arose from tradeoffs imposed by hardware. Where I think you differ from Terry is that while he implies that it's time we moved beyond all that, you're saying that the tradeoffs (e.g. between scale and dynamism) remain fundamental. That's a legimitate concern. It's not obvious that we can have our cake and eat it too. It will be interesting to see how FluidDB performs at scale over time.

We've been thinking a lot about these issues on our startup too, because we need both speed and dynamicness. The solution we're arriving at is to exploit the static (structured) cases to get as much speed out of them as we can, be fast-ish on the most common dynamic cases (which thankfully are relatively simple), and be correct-but-slow on the complex dynamic cases. What we won't do, however, unless absolutely forced to, is introduce architectural distinctions between these. We want a consistent, regular system (no two types of data, no two types of anything) that happens to run very fast when handed common usage patterns but still allows for arbitrary flexibility. What we're betting is that the usage patterns will be something like 90% static, 9% dynamic-but-simple, and 1% dynamic-and-complex; we want that to map to 90% super-fast, 9% fast-enough, and 1% slow.
Sometimes it's helpful to think in contrapositive: would it be more regrettable to miss that year of high school, or to miss other opportunities that time could afford you?

I, in fact, skipped all four years of high school, and opted to go to community college instead. I collected college credit until I was 18, went to a university, and finished in 4 terms. I'm much further along now than I would have been otherwise, and haven't regretted the decision once.

You could always attend community college for a year before going to college. You'll save money, have a lot of course work behind you before transferring, and get to meet new people at the college. If you're in California, you'll have a much better shot at getting in to a UC as well.
Link to the source of the quote: http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/tq/PrinterFriendl...

Moderators feel free to edit this into the submission. :-)
It is not quite the same workload or flexibility that the author was looking for, but I was running a web server on my Newton (162 MHz strongarm 110, 4M of RAM) more than a decade ago. Imaging a beowulf cluster of... oops, wrong forum for that particular meme...
I've seen lots of small businesses that use self storage units for workshops and inventory storage. Probably cheaper than office space.
Thanks for the response.

My social situation. Hmm. In the past year, I've gained social skills, so I have a lot of friends - however, I have no problem maintaining contacts or gaining new friends. I feel that while my current friends are very important to me, I could make new friends easily (while keeping in touch with high school friends as well).

I think that my parents do not need the extra year to save for college.

I'm interested more in your point about being over 18. I'd be 17 for the first year of college - but where would that limit me? Where are binding contracts necessary? What complications are there?

Thanks.
It worked very well for me ultimately (honestly I don't know where I'd be if I struggled through highschool), but comes with a word of caution. http://daniellefong.com/2008/05/15/advice-to-the-bright-and-...
Quasi-related: There are some people in my neighborhood in San Francisco who have apparently been parking their junky RVs along the curb for years. Occasionally I'll walk past and they'll have a generator out on the sidewalk charging their batteries. Neighbors have complained, but I guess it must be legal, because they're not going anywhere. Though a really ghetto solution, I've often wondered about the feasibility of bootstrapping in an RV :) Or maybe a sailboat.
"Oh, you are such a nice guy. We should go on a date sometime. My favorite alcohol is BACARDI. When I don't drink alcohol, I just like PEPSI."
If your not actually using it in practice, how is that different from today? Do you really think making these trolls spend a bit of money to build a prototype fixes it?

If this is going to work, you HAVE to come up with a system that forces the patent to be reduced to practice within some context.

Maybe you create classifications of patents:

- protective: Anyone can use it, you just can't sue me for using it.
- commercial protection: I am the only one allowed to use it, and I will be using it for some commercial purpose
- licensing protection: Anyone can use it if they license it from me, with the caveat that the term of protection is greatly reduced.
If you enjoy high school for reasons besides just learning, ie: socializing, clubs, or sports you should probably stay the extra year.
I highly recommend this book. I used to pick this up from time to time when I didn't understand a concept from HTDP. Their explanation of the lambda as translated from Math to Programming really made me get it. One of my first joyous moments reading Scheme.
This is one step away from posting Successories posters.
I'm not going to give you any one advice on what to do, as I think any advice someone can give you will always be biased. Those that feel they did not enjoy their life too much will say "stay in school, enjoy life". Those that probably enjoyed life too much will say "be smart, skip senior year."

That being said, I started college at the age of 16, and skipped my senior year in high school. So, based on my experience, here's what you can expect:

- Not having a prom night
- Not going to a senior trip
- When all your friends in college are > 21 years old, it will be awkward dating chicks and not being able to buy them drinks or taking them out to a club, and you will probably not have a good time trying to sneak into clubs every time your friends want to go out clubbing. (This can be solved with a fake ID of course, if you can get your hands on one.)
- You will always be the youngest guy around you. If you get a normal day job this will suck because everyone will always have more experience than you, and have a stronger voice/opinion than you. This might not be a problem in a startup with young guys.

Here is some advice though, if you do choose to skip your senior high school year:

- Try not to get a day job too soon in your life. Once you do, it is *very* hard to quit. (I still haven't been able to 5 years later.) Stay with your parents and work on a startup instead.
- Study abroad if you can. Learn a foreign language, live another culture.
- You may eventually find that you compare yourself to guys older than you, and get frustrated for one reason or another. Never forget they are 5-10 years older than you and by the time you're their age, you will have accomplished much more than they have.
- Do not drink as much as your friends do. They have been drinking much longer than you have, so don try to catch up with them.
- Do not fall in love with girls 5+ years older than you. You do not want your heart broken when they tell you they need to move on because their biological clock is ticking, nor do you want them to pressure you to marry them. However:
- Get married young. Realize you will have a college degree by the age of 20-21. No need to wait till you're 30 to get married or have kids like people usually say nowadays. You will mature faster and start a family younger, and you will be that young, cool dad one day.
I think this area has a lot of potential. I'm a fan of Atom-based solutions -- the author is concerned about ECC, which is less of an issue for me.

Part of the problem with Atom solutions to date was the power-hungry chipset that it used to ship with. The current generation chipsets still consume more power than the CPU, but they are a lot better (~10W against ~22W for the 945GSE vs the 945G).

Particularly for solutions that rely on redundant nodes, it's a great solution. In the right conditions you could even move to ambient-air cooling and save a huge amount of energy.
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Fire Shelters Australia
The use of fire shelters is certainly not a new idea. As Australia was developed, forestry was a major industry which employed many people who lived with their families scattered through out the forests.
> not just churn out whitepapers to tax others who actually will implement.

An insightful turn of phrase - the relevant congressional committees should hear it.
Karachi is Asia's largest slum, not Dharavi: UNDP
Who upvotes this fluff?
A Spidermonkey-based CLI REPL for Javascript
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what is difference between SD and MMC card?
What is the difference between NAND Flash and NOR Flash?
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These questions blow, I could answer the above two supposed "Hardware Design and Interfacing" questions and I can tell you right now I don't know jack when it comes to actually designing hardware.
<joke>I see you're the egg. ;)</joke>

We don't do parables too often here at HN; a clever one making it to the front page one every half-year seems worthwhile to me. Some people find them to be useful mental tools. Others use them as launching points for new ideas. Still others use them as a trigger to reflect back on past strategies. In low dosages, they can serve a purpose. I liked this one, and I wont vote for something like it for a long time.
"Oh yeah, and as for girls, they are the key to happiness."

Truth. I wish my lame high school self knew and appreciated this. No material accomplishment, no piece of code, no award nor certificate has ever made me even half as happy as a sublime moment with a girl.
This is like something you'd get in a forwarded-one-too-many-times chain email.
Agreed. It's trite and not nearly as uplifting and inspiring as it's supposed to be.

The thing that always bothers me about these stories is how you could just as easily spin the negative foods into positives and come down hard on the 'good' one. Would you rather be like the carrots that began life rigid and inflexible but learned to adapt and become flexible and malleable; able to adapt to new situations? Or like the eggs, which started out fragile and easy to crack but found a hidden inner strength in adversity? Or are you going to be like coffee and totally decohere in the boiling water, ultimately losing your identity and becoming little more than vapor, able to be blown away by a strong breeze?

A good metaphor has an inner clarity that this just lacks.
Fire Shelters Victoria
After the very recent soul destroying Victorian Bush fires in Australia and the horrible loss of life, it has become extremely clear that the safest way to protect your life is to have a fire proof safe haven or Fire shelter to fall back for you and your family.
The Dawning Age of Mind-Reading Machines
If you installed imagemagick with macports you might have to...

You should be able to force macports to update everything, but it didn't actually work for me or for others that I know of. The problem seems to be with a bunch of libraries that are installed with imagemagick. I did a 'sudo rm -rf /opt/local/' and reinstalled macports and all that from scratch and everything was good to go.
Your examples don't change the message of the story: different things respond differently to the same conditions. The semantics don't really matter; it's not about the specific interpretations of the states of the food. Your analysis and the one in the story are interchangeable to the same effect.
Is this Zen Habits in disguise? Very lame and poorly written.
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Look into studying abroad, taking community college classes, and the possible repercussions of graduating early.
Well, the IKEA Catalog has outpaced the Bible and become the world's most published work.
What are the possible repercussions of graduating early? That's really what I'm interested in most.
You can write a design blog without plagiarizing. This was a clear-cut case. I'm not certain what defense you're trying to offer up.
The way I see it, though perhaps this is too forgiving: Apple attempted a major revolutionary thing here. The App Store is a fairly enormous accomplishment. Yes, it's very messed up, and yes, I hope it fixes up soon, but the fact remains that they attempted something incredible, and considering how unprecedented it is, the fact that it's running this well a little over a year after launch astounds me. iTunes Store took longer than this to stop sucking.
A Time Machine time bomb
I'm not sure why you got downvoted for this as I think it is a fair assessment. I think it assumes that the current state of development will continue on its current path, though. The increasing complexity of applications demands that we come up with better models for development that allow us to think about problems more abstractly. One could make the argument that this is only truly possible with formally verified applications.
Given that you're probably not long out of high school, I'll cut you some slack. You look like you could use some.

The major problem with your argument is that you're telling someone that they can't learn from someone else. Then you go off and spout some pop-psy graphorrhea at her/him. Looking through your past posts, I can see that you're a fan of self-help books. That's fine. Don't push it on someone who's facing the prospect of 2 years she/he wouldn't have to otherwise waste.

The points you bring up:

Socialization: Sounds like you could use some with how much you're emphasizing romance there. Socializing is important, but unless our young poster has been living under a rock, the chances that he's had some experience making friends is pretty good. Let romance come later. Even autism finds a way to continue itself biologically. If she/he doesn't want to have sex, what's the point in making her/him feel awkward?

College: What if our poster wants to travel? Oops, that broke your model of using university as a self-realization tool.

Maturity: Is not a function of writing output on the internet. Seems like at least one of us could learn that lesson. Also, it's not a function of how many things a person has done that you consider worthy. The OP might be at the furthest possible point from your definition from a kid. We don't know. Next time you're sitting alone with your finger up your nose, think about that for a second.

As for all that pseudo-religious stuff you spouted, close your self-help book and live a little. Don't worry. Buddha/Jesus/Yaweh/David Koresh will forgive you. I promise.

Seriously, y'all, circling the drain isn't cool. The only thing that helps you is you.
"As for all that pseudo-religious stuff you spouted, close your self-help book and live a little. Don't worry. Buddha/Jesus/Yaweh/David Koresh will forgive you. I promise."

This isn't Digg or reddit. I would expect a little more tolerance of diversity in these parts.

FYI, I'm an atheist, but the militant "you are dumb 'cos you believe in spirituality" mob pisses me off.
Those are just two of the complaints I hear most. A friend of mine actually went so far as to patch Python to use curly braces at the start of a project in Python. "Perfect Python" he called it. Personally I think deviating from PEP8 & standard idioms is likely to cause more pain in maintainability than you win in elegant syntax.
I graduated high school at the age of 16, turned 17 in January and started university in February (Australian). I missed all my friends who stayed for the extra year. I took a placement between my second and third year and have continued to work for the company. I'm now 20, studying part time for my final year and have been seeing someone for over a year now.

BUT the moral of the story is this: I'm 20. I feel about 40. Even if you graduate early, go travel for a year. Bum around. Spend some YOU time and get the most out of life. I sure as hell didn't.
ZFS wasn't removed -- it was never added.
Having an extra year of time relative to your age group might help you decide to get an advanced degree after college, and you never know what that can lead to. For example, I was committed to getting a master's degree after I graduated college a year early because of the perception of "free" time. That has led to my current career path as a security researcher, which wasn't a serious possibility before I started grad school.
Pay for stuff
I managed to get apache running on a Nokia n800 (320 MHz ARM11) just for kicks!
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Experimental Spiral Reading App and Potential Help to Dyslexics (with source)
I wrote this recently and thought it might be useful to some people. The concept started at SuperHappyDevHouse.

This is part of an ongoing experiment to code for an hour every week day in the morning, with an emphasis on finishing a prototype in that span of time.

I really appreciate this community. Thank you.
I am happy to see UNSW powering on in the FP world. Waaay back when I went there, they tried, valiantly, to teach us grubby Engineer hacker types the virtues of purity (via miranda), of I tried to ignore it and wanted to get to the good stuff that let me flip bits on a serial port. But now I am grateful for someone at least trying to "show me the way" so early on (and over time, I think it paid off).
"This reply shows that you are posting on the redesign without doing any research. I don't use the events feature, but if you bothered to do any research before commenting then you would see that it is quite popular."

Why do you have to take such a hostile tone? I'm not attacking you. This isn't an argument that can be won or lost.

That said, I still think you're exaggerating your case -- the redesign puts the event calendar on every page on the site, as opposed to the current design, where it only appears on a few pages. It may not be as prominent as you think it should be, but that's fairly subjective. Calling the design a "disaster" is a stretch.

The bottom line is that neither one of us knows the practical implications of the redesign, nor could we, without doing usability testing. It's a matter of opinion.
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Not that I don't disagree with your analysis - but I am not sure what you mean by "religious looking beams" ?
>> almost bordering on legally actionable negligence

Good luck with that, and please do call us when every single kernel contributor gets sued because someone accidentally overwrites their Windows partition when installing Ubuntu.
Stay in school for Senior Year... AND SLEEP WITH AS MANY WOMAN AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. Sorry, had to say that.

My real answer however, is to skip Senior Year. You have the option that a lot of students don't. High School has it's perks, but I think you'll find the college atmosphere a lot more... how do I say... comfortable.

College isn't (mostly) a "scene" as High School often is. You'll meet people from around the world, and from different walks of life. The students are, well, older and maybe a bit more mature / less judge-mental.

Regardless, you're in a great position, and it sounds like you'll be doing well with either choice. Most importantly, have fun and enjoy those years!!
> ...things like Computer Science AB...

Um... AP CS AB was cut and won't be offered 09-10....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04...
It is not clear from the article whether this happened because the author upgraded to Snow Leopard, or because they switched their external hard drive to eSATA. If the former, the behavior might be caused by the fact that Snow Leopard is a new operating system, and many of the system files that were in OS 10.5 have changed.

Have any readers that have upgraded to OS X 10.6 experienced the same issue?
Linux disclaims all liability in the license. Seems like Apple might be bound by a few more laws because they are actually selling a product.
Before the 20th century, with all its mass-scale standardizations, going to college when you were 14 or so was not so unusual, at least for people who liked academic subjects. The college curriculum is best absorbed when you have nothing else competing for your attention, like paying the rent and worrying about career.

You can get a Lord of the Flies education in human social life in high school. However, suffering through that did not teach me anything except to hate ordinary people. If you're not interested and ready to learn how to play popularity contests, being in a school for playing them might not teach you much, either.

Whether you graduate high school or not, whether you go to college or not, whatever you do, as long as you retain your physical health, you can easily start all over again at 25 or 30 (multiple times, even). You can even start again at later ages, though with less social support (and perhaps more freedom). The statistics-wielding scolders are telling you scare stories that don't apply to you.

Going straight to college from junior high school is an interesting move.
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Finding the right chat room.
When we start chatting, we look for like-minded people who shares similar thoughts and interests about various topics. It is a pleasure to talk with people who have similar passions and hobbies. The best thing about most of the chat rooms is that you can communicate with people from all over the world through internet. You need not travel far and wide to make new friends
Getting advice is part of the skill of making decisions.
I think there are a lot of things that we know that we need to be reminded of, to see them and feel them in a new light. A good story can do that, it can exploit those parts of your brain that are attuned to making sense of human interactions and human scale things and piggy back on it a point.

But this story was purely constructed, ambiguous, trite and completely without character.
It's different in a lot of little ways, almost all of which make it inferior to Apple's site.
Employees and freelancers that produce more than they cost are worth hiring. Office rents that generate productivity, foot traffic or revenue are probably worth paying.

As a bootstrapped startup, remember that employees that pay for themselves when times are good may not when business dries up (think of the costs of layoffs, severance, etc). The same goes for office rents...unless office space is absolutely necessary (e.g. a restaurant), avoid it.
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