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> I made the decision to raise my hand in class and admit publicly that I was completely lost. To my surprise, I found that not only the teacher, but also other students in class were eager to help and went out of their way to speak to me. So I decided that I would try the same thing in lab.

Nothing gets the attention of neck beards like a woman in need of computer science help.

No, the company does.

I think your do-while suggestion is kind of cool, but I think that this program may do different things under a current C compiler and one which includes the feature you suggested.

    int x = something();
    do {
        const int x = somethingElse();
        ...
    } while (x != 42);

Obligatory post about how the WTFPL is a poor license choice.

I don't think the phenomenon is unique to CS and engineering. I bet there are tons of people in medicine, dentistry and law that are primarily in it for the money.

Never mind people who do business degrees. It's almost expected that they are in it for the money.

The modern version:

   1) Acquire millions of users
   2) Get acquired for billions of dollars
   3) Not my problem

I didn't look through the listings in that much detail, but I did notice that the one listing in Canada is on the wrong place on the map.

The world would be a better place if we could run "rm -rf ./comments/*" on YouTube.

> I can understand how with iOS's "no files" design, this is the only way forward, but on desktop? Please let it stop.

Apparently mobile is the future and the desktop experience must be crippled to unify it with the mobile experience.

Personally, I don't understand how anyone gets real work done on tablets and phones. Sure there are some pretty silos, but trying to move data between silos is usually a nightmare.

I really dislike announcements of announcements.

There seems to be an embarrassingly large number of people who think web developers == developers.

Future Gamer: "I have access to any game in the world, but all I ever play is a combat themed hat collection simulator".

Cool, but is it free as in beer?

I thought this wiki page was going to describe selling ink jet printers as a loss leader while charging exorbitant amounts for ink cartridges.

If all the Facebook source code miraculously disappeared, do you think Facebook would rewrite Facebook in PHP?

Out of curiosity, why did you choose to write a new web application in PHP?

I'm not a web developer, but everything I hear about PHP is bad.

I think you missed a real opportunity to name your app "Do You Lift Even".

Why are "begin" and "end" functions now instead of methods on the iterator? Do they consider it better because now you can pass around functions, but not methods?

So if I don't pay my own phone bill then my Mom is paying it? There are other possibilities. Maybe my employer pays my phone bill. Maybe your mom pays my phone bill.

How can anyone make seriously make statements like this:

> Following a steep decline that saw the currency trade at prices not seen since late November

That was 2 or 3 weeks ago and they speak of it like it was a generation ago.

While this is true, I (in Canada) can still go to pandora.com and I just get a message saying that the service isn't available in my region.

I agree that poker has too much randomness, but I don't think that games with zero randomness (like chess) are ideal for spectator events.

Maybe there's a little niche they could carve out by serving the remaining 95% of the world's population.

> and your font color to greed.

Not sure if this is an unintentional typo or a suggestion for those working in the financial industry.

It seems like this site is good for finding stuff that's similar to something that I already like. What I really want is something where I can say: "Here's everything that I like, now tell me something completely different that I will also like".

I doubt there are published prices on the web for the volumes that Sony is buying. Much smaller companies than Sony make special deals with suppliers for parts.

> Essentially if you are newly investing in Bitcoin now, you need to believe that (a) ... or (b) Bitcoin will increase in value so much that even a small number of Bitcoins will be very valuable.

If you can't mine profitably, yet believe that the value of a bitcoin will increase, then you're better off just paying money directly for bitcoins rather than inefficiently mining them.

The project manager sounds like a dick, but the author also sounds like a push-over. The author had a chance to out the manager as a huge asshole, but based on the post, it seems like he just left silently.

The thing that jumped to my attention was that this drive has 7 platters. I've heard that as platters go up reliability goes down. Can anyone who knows more about disks comment on this?

Debian is great so long as you don't require current versions of packages.