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Neon Genesis Evangelion for good measure.

Great idea. Love the colors (even though usually I hate light-on-dark).

I wonder, though: is it possible to ask Facebook to query for the intersection of users at my school and in an arbitrary (for instance, "hacker news") Facebook group? (I wouldn't be surprised if it's not, but it would definitely be an excellent feature for Facebook to consider.)

When you click a tag and see a listing of activities, the headers ("equipment" and "rules") are inline with the text. Where it should read like:

  Equipment
    foo bar and baz
  Rules
    blah blah blah.

it looks like

  Equipment foo bar and baz Rules blah blah blah.

That is hard to read, and ugly.

Also, the colors aren't so pretty.

Neat site though. Clever premise.

Work hard and get into a good college.

I'm a senior in high school, experienced similar feelings a couple of years ago. SwellJoe says "you seem to expect your friends to be a perfect clone of you", which, at least, is what I felt.

Even though you might not find people with the exact same interests as you, if you look hard you will find that interesting people have similar qualities, regardless of their specific interests. Seek out people who are good at what they do, and avoid people who aren't. Academics are a good start—befriend your local valedictorian. Find people in any activity—math, science, music, newspaper—and if they're winning any competitions,

As for over-analyzing relationships goes, that shouldn't really be a problem so long as it doesn't stop you from actually executing them. The key to a friendship is to be useful to the other person. Always pay more attention to them than you do to yourself. Figure out things they like/need but don't have, and buy gifts for them.

Keep in mind that the social landscape can change drastically in a very short time. Don't assume that a year from now nothing will have changed. It's your job to make sure the change comes out in your favor.

Not necessarily on topic, but: when sending personal emails (not even business-personal emails, but actual personal emails between friends&family) do you include a salutation?

A lesson in code smell and good style: I took one look at the code and (before noticing the bug) thought, “why is there an inner if instead of just using a single conditional with a logical AND?”

That is to say, I could have fixed the bug without knowing what it was. (I'm a hs student and don't do much bug-shooting in code that wasn't written by me or my close friends, so I don't know if this is common.)

It sounds like your daughter's being taught with the Suzuki Method, which is fine to get started with, but you will want to switch her to a better teacher soon. Suzuki will train her ears, which is important, but that's about all it's good for. It's designed so that kids reaquit shortly after they enter high school, and it leaves them mostly unable to sight-read.

Background: I am a violinist, playing professionally at weddings and such about once a month (full-time student), and I started on Suzuki.

btw, my father (who also had very little musical training) forced me to improvise (make up music as I went) for five minutes every day, even if it didn't sound good. Today I am quite good at musical improvisation, a skill that is no longer really taught in the classical school of music. I don't know if my dad's method would work for everyone, but I'd recommend it.

"Do you know how many people in America go to jobs where you need permission to go to the bathroom?"

I am actually quite interested in that statistic.

So, if I understand correctly, there's basically no difference between "hackerspaces" and "coworking facilities". Except maybe that coworking facilities already exist and work.

Forgive my ignorance, but: who?

I'm assuming that's anomalous. ITP is part of NYU, and if you check their website you find that "ITP is a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts […]" so suddenly that doesn't seem so unreasonable.

That being said, I'm not sure it belongs on that list. ;-)

While it is possible to "think in pictures", language is required to form complex thoughts.

A long time ago, people who were born deaf were called dumb. This is because, being deaf, they were never able to learn a language, and therefore could not form complex thoughts.

Brevity … is wit.

Does "don't get into debt" apply to choosing what college to attend, as well?

Is there a good online introduction to Erlang, like Dive into Python or _why's poignant guide to ruby?

The things poor people eat all around the world:

- rice - beans - soy - potatoes - fish - veggies (anything dark but not too expensive)

The real key to a good-tasting meal is freshness, even with simple foods. Seasoning is like makeup for food.

So it wasn't Anonymous, since he was posting as 'Rubico'.

I always wondered if the researchers ended up concluding that pixellized camo was the best simply as a result of their using digital hardware to run the experiments.

I mean, come on, nothing is pixellized like that in the wild.

I'm not sure Harvey Mudd really deserves to be on that list, though.

Does anyone know of something similar for Python?

May I ask why you switched from Pylons to Django?

“The plural of ‘anecdocte’ is not ‘data’.”

That's because there is no difference from a simple 2D projection.

Yes! Thank you.

One of the first YC startups did exactly this. I'm not sure what happened to it.

I think pg's "portrait" was a metaphor.

> So I'm going to number these points, and maybe with future startups I'll be able to pull off a form of Huffman coding. I'll make them all read this, and then instead of nagging them in detail, I'll just be able to say: number four!

I am curious as to how well this worked out.

Both the MacBook and VAIO have excellently clicky keyboards. When it comes to home/end/pgup/pgdown, just configure your editor properly. Moving your hands is a waste anyways.

> then I quit [whatever] because I got addicted to computer websites.

I suspect that's where most people reading this site are.