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In terms of keeping track of my events, I use twoschedule (http://twoschedule.com). It's sort of shameless plug because yes, I created, but I created it because it's how I wanted to organize because it works. I'm way too busy to use any sort of traditional calendaring application—I need to focus on what's important now and what will be important next. Twoschedule does this perfectly and it's done wonders for my organizational sanity.

I'm always down for free stuff.

I agree with that college is frustrating, although I disagree that the problem lies within lack of facilities or failure to teach proper study techniques or handwriting skills. Rather I think the pervasive problem with contemporary pedagogy is that it has turned, largely, into an enterprising, profiteering business. With that shift, educational institutions switched their focus from graduating good, prepared students to focusing on obtaining large grants for research projects—research projects that bring in far more than a student's tuition.

Also, I think it's worth mentioning that one basic that everyone should be taught is grammar. Not to be a jerk here, but you'd be more effective in communicating your point if it wasn't littered with grammatical errors.

haha, seriously? Um, no.

This is true, and a fairly good point, but then again, you don't have nearly the precise control that you do on your desktop.

No more overdraft fees. That's a start—a big start.

Good suggestion. Updated with this and a few others.

At high school, in our dorm room; he was a junior, I a senior. I met our third cofounder years ago on the internet in a blogging network called Random Shapes.

Agreed. I've always been a fan of the intellectual and enlightening conversations here. It's really the main reason I keep coming back.

Lots of people have pointed this out. I was aware of this when I wrote it, however the entire point of the site is to stress basic grammar to the kind of people who would never use either in its alternative context. Most commonly (i.e., almost always) effect is a noun and affect is a verb. I'm certainly taking this under advisement, but I'll probably just add a clarification along the lines of "Effect is almost always a noun; affect is almost always a verb."

We were mostly going for true homophones, but we're considering a lot for version 2.

Definitely coming in version 2.

I'm trying to get the common case across. I understand both can be used as both a verb and a noun, but most commonly effect is a noun and affect is a verb. The people who will mess up basic homophones won't be writing anything that'll require the alternative forms.

Right. I used both in the original copy. But elsewhere, damn is used as both.

Damned is really only common in North America, so we used the more common damn.

Seriously? You're kidding, right?

In short: yes.

I think it's painfully clear that sometime in the coming years humanity will reach the pinnacle of its scientific achievement with the advent of an artificially intelligent machine: one that is able to think and reason and is self-aware. Technology is moving at such a rapid pace and in the right direction that this is just the next logical step.

In order for this to occur, however, significant advances must be made in fields outside of technology; e.g. quantum computing will probably be a huge stepping stone, and for that to come to fruition we must first fully prove quantum mechanics.

This really is a problem. At the end of the day when I'm reading the HN feed, I usually have about 50 tabs open—this stuff is just too interesting. I usually only read the ones that are quick reads though; i.e., a few paragraphs or a list or two or maybe some sample code. Any bigger than that and I'll just skim it, but I mean like hardcore skim so I just get the thesis of the article and not the whole substance. If it's over a couple of pages? Instapapered. My Instapaper grows at a much faster rate than it diminishes.

But this stuff is just too interesting to not at least open and skim. I mean, jesus, a blog post of the fractal dimensionality of the stock market? Come on.

Too bad it still sucks. It's such a pain to implement.

Do it. Just do it.

VIM is awesome, spectacular even, but if you're on a Mac, you just simply have to use Textmate. It's really just an amazing piece of software.

Who else here is totally stoked about the free 2.0 update?

lol

Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Steve Jobs, definitely. He has knowledge and skills that no college professor can teach. To get a glimpse of his business genius would be unfathomably valuable.

I'd be interested in ballerscholar.com if it's available.

Great idea Steve.

One hour at a time . . .

I've got a love-hate relationship with Techcrunch.

I love it because it's so big and it has a lot of good, breaking news.

I hate it because they're terrible journalists who have a lot of problems with writing style and logic.

Good question.

This is really cool. I just used it on my site.