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Schedule and give talks about the CS topics you're teaching yourself. One approach we took was to present it as a SIG (special interest group) of our ACM chapter. Even if one person, only your friends, or only the ACM officers come, that is plenty.

I think the first few should be about why your workflow is more efficient that the typical CS student. Don't be so overt about that fact, of course. In my experience, people will start to tinker if you present it as a path to efficiency.

I think it's worth it to screencast all of your talks and put them on a website. (Résumé / Brand Bonus)

If you find one other like-minded hacker, you win. Things will change after that.

You should totally go above and beyond with all of it. This is a rare time.

adamzapon Mapping Income Distribution by Religious Belief

For the theist, probability has nothing to do with it.

I would hope the same is true or the atheist/agnostic.

Edit: I was considering the Christian theist.

adamzapon Ask HN: Can some code be considered art?

Could you give an example?

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Any idea how to apply the coupon code if paying by Paypal?

adamzapon Chris Crawford on Mortality

How is aging ridiculously unfair?

adamzapon Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you.

There's nothing wrong with that and it is just as satisfying, or even more so than some externally supplied meaning.

If your philosophy is consistent, then the above statement is only true for you, correct?

adamzapon Poll: What is your religion?

Interesting. Thanks for the response.

If one obtains answers to a number of questions (meaning, morality, afterlife, etc) by postulating the existence of God, is the nonbeliever exempt from having to answer those questions?

In pursuit of the answers, the nonbeliever must make new assumptions outside of simple nonbelief because simple nonbelief doesn't provide answers. Doesn't Occam's Razor then side with belief in God? I am not referring to simple belief in some higher power, but Biblical Christianity.

I believe that those questions (meaning, morality, afterlife, etc) are essential to a coherent worldview and are human questions rather than religious questions.

adamzapon Poll: What is your religion?

Is your disbelief in God solely based upon Occam's Razor? If so, could you elaborate on it a bit?

adamzapon Slippy - HTML Presentations

I threw a similar project together for our Lightning Talks at work. It takes a specially-formatted Markdown file and generates some html5-slides. Code highlighting and a few other feature should be coming soon.

http://github.com/adamzap/html5-slides-markdown

I'll try to put a sample presentation up tonight.

Slippy seems more feature-rich right now though. Great job.

adamzapon Ayn Rand Mike Wallace Interview 1959

Isn't that his microphone? Or are you referring to something else?

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4941/screenshot20100303at755....