Elfan

Google acquired Writely.

I wonder how long it will be before venturebeat figures out YC is not an incubator.

From the comScore site: "This capability is based on a massive, global cross-section of more than 2 million consumers who have given comScore permission to confidentially capture their browsing and transaction behavior, including online and offline purchasing. "

So its data is just as bogus as Alexa's.

Official blog post with a 5 page FAQ: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/next-step-in-google-advertising.html

I specifically avoided phrasing the article as a "list of X things" for that reason. I submitted it because this article had a mix of suggestions that I found particularly interesting and sufficiently relevant.

Hackers and Painters had many essays that weren't in print when it was released.

Techstars does and a few others are "sort of" similar. They have been discussed here before.

You can just put a url in the about field. Many do this already.

"Complete the below application in either a Word document (no more than two pages in total length) or PowerPoint presentation (no more than five total slides)."

~sigh~

"Irrelevant" would have still been eye catching and more to the point.

I use emacs 23 just for DejaVu Sans Mono.

VI and emacs both have intellisense like features.

It's not unusual for companies to sell game consoles at a large loss in hopes of increasing market share and making the money back on licensing. Pretty much everyone who isn't Nintnedo seems to do it that way.

Its a strange irony that Microsoft's best products (Xbox, Natural Keyboards) are hardware.

Maybe there arn't any wizardly hackers applying for a job at Microsoft , but there are smart people interested in a steady pay check.

But is it unsucky enough in a "worse is better" sort of way?

You don't need to use Acrobat to view pdfs.

The wikipedia article on Network Neutrality has some of the accusations (dearaol). I believe the ISP trying to blackmail Google was on Slashdot at some point. I didn't provide links before as I didn't have the time to check them for accuracy.

The slurping is very cool. But flash isn't any less annoying than a pdf viewer.

They have also challenged popular teaching methods, suggesting that teachers should focus more on giving students the answers, instead of asking them to solve problems on their own.

I don't understand how this connects to the rest of the study.

There was an article in the NY Times a while ago about how Google was shifting from their "ask crazy CS questions and post puzzles on billboards" interview process to a more standardizable "algorithmic" one. I'm guessing stories like this about being asked a standard set of questions of questionable relevance are the fallout from that transition.

If they had left out Arc more people would have fallen for it.

This is their first batch.

You probably signed some sort of Student Handbook at the beginning of the year that says what, if anything, the university thinks it can claim.

As others have said it also probably depends on if you are doing research when you start your company or just a student.

This is getting blown out of proportion. He did say it with something of a half kidding smirk on his face.

But that comic is funny.

"There is no evidence that broadband operators are unfairly blocking access to websites or online services today, and there is no reason to expect them to do so in the future. "

That is a rather controversial statement. Dear AOL and the attempts to blackmail Google come to mind.

He also carries large numbers of special $2 bills with him.

http://www.woz.org/letters/general/78.html

That is some impressively bad 1990s style frame usage.

They get bonus points for asking for the application in plain text though.

It was partially a tangent prompted by your comment. I meant "the stuff CS people do and think about" not just homework or research. Through whatever accidents of history, practical concerns, or being a young field, the stuff CS people do tends to be easier than the stuff math people do, but that doesn't necessarily need to be the case.

He didn't specify.

Notes: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dczgjp36_7c78dgn