Elfan

I wonder: a) Where else YC advertised. b) If they stopped after "News from the Front".

The following Google search returns 320 results:

site:*.edu "How to design programs" OR "structure and interpretation of computer programs" syllabus

MIT is unusual in that it combines EE and CS into one department. While SICP may be the best intro to CS ever written, that does not mean it is the best possible choice for a combined CS/EE program.

"Lots of folks ask "why doesn't sun just do the JDK for Mac?". The real answer is "because Apple wanted to do it". They've wanted to do all sorts of customization and integration that only they could do - because they own the OS."

http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/solaris_and_os_x_continued

Or not? I do not have the expertise to evaluate the disagreement.

http://forum.wolframscience.com/showthread.php?s=c34045c0fea...

Wolfman responds as well:

http://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2007-October/012149.html

Orkut was an internal Google project and launched a month before Facebook.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by "serious Linux nerds" in this case? Do you mean someone who uses Linux every day or a system administrator in a former life?

The author didn't specify how large his project was. If it involves a lot of servers then Gentoo's ability to basically "make your own distro" could prove very useful. You can't get much more flexible than that. Since the OP is coming from a BSD background that is an advantage for Gentoo as well.

On the other hand if the project just involves a small number of servers than Gentoo will likely prove more hassle than it is worth. In that case the conventional wisdom would be Debian. (or RHEL if you want to pay someone for support).

The Russians use pens now as well.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

The Silicon Valley Leadership Group actually ranked Silicon Valley at the bottom of their technology hub list for reasons such as you suggest. The NC Research triangle was first.

http://blog.usweb.com/archives/silicon-valley-last-among-tec...

Will the immune system accept a foreign antibody?

"How to Cook Everything" is the best resource for not only recipies but literally how to cook. It starts off with how to make popcorn and each section always includes information on how to buy and cook the ingredients in the recipies. Think of it as learning a programming language you will use for the next 100 years.

http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/06/03/a-guide-to-eating-...

Since we are sharring recpies here is a simple staple I enjoy:

-pasta

-olive oil

-onion

-garlic

-canned diced tomatores

-whatever spices you like

Fry the onion with garlic and some spices, then add the tomatoes and simmer until you want to eat. Meanwhile cook the pasta. Simple, yummy and countless variations with whatever you happen to have around.

dispatch-conf and etc-update are the two config updating tools included with gentoo's portage. dispatch-conf is the newer and preferred tool.

Be default dispatch-conf keeps a backup of your config files in /etc/config-archive. Optionally it can use rcs to track changes.

I presume many of your friends and associates you are referring to made their money from technology startups in MA and CA. Do you have any reason to believe they are a representative sample?

See the "Millionaire Next Door" for an elaboration on this. That or another one of the books in the series has a long chapter on automobile purchasing habits.

Ron Paul was just a poor example for what you were trying to describe, particularly as a reddit specific phenomenon. Ron Paul appears to be "unusually" popular on reddit, digg, slashdot, youtube, myspace, and facebook (where no sockpuppeting should be possible) among other places. Could there be 100 people inflating those vote? There probably are. But Ron Paul's popularity is a more complex phenomenon and distracts from the general case.

I use both. I have 3 email accounts, two of which have a webmail interface and one that does not. I primarily use Thunderbird but don't delete messages for n days (well never for gmail) so I can also check with various webmail accounts. Among other nice things the ability to filter out HTML is a "killer feature" I simply can not live without and have yet to see duplicated in any webmail interface.

My college standardized on Eudora several years ago and it has served them well. It never made much sense for Qualcomm however.

The impression I got when pg gave the talk at Startup School was that it was some kind of "big company buys little company because they were scared of what they were making" situation. But as far as I know that's all they can say.

Does the new rendering code decrease the instances of bug 263160?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263160

Shuttleworth has shot this rumor down as well if it needed repeating: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/20

The breadth of people who read slashdot is still an advantage I have not seen duplicated elsewhere. There are many sites where programming stories will be comented on by programmers. There are not so many where particle physics stories are commented on by particle physicists.

a) Completing a CS degree does not a programmer make.

Indeed the author seems to think that CS degree == vocational programming training. I think that's the problem with current CS degree programs.

As I recall from some other people who have compared such things del.icio.us tends to bring a steady stream of traffic compared to a one day torrent. Or at least that was the case for their sites.

The article managed to list most of the thigns I actually still like about Facebook.

"Thanks to Paul Buchheit for writing the Javascript, and Trevor Blackwell for help integrating it."

"FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-programming dialect of Basic with closures and lambdas and Rails-like active records that can be compiled down to VBScript, JavaScript, PHP4 or PHP5. Wasabi is a private, in-house language written by one of our best developers that is optimized specifically for developing FogBugz; the Wasabi compiler itself is written in C#." http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html

What is the IP?

They also just secured $10 in funding: http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6435743

There is a web framework under development for eElang as well: http://erlyweb.org/