sajithw

Yeah, fair enough a lot of those posts are a bit old (although Linode/Slicehost seem to be dominant still). Removed the link to YC archive, it won't add much value to this discussion.

Am I the only one that hates having to answer on a spectrum from "Strongly Disagree" to "Strongly Agree"? I don't need 7 choices, just give me Yes/No options.

Scraping real scientific data from journal articles/headlines published in PubMed would be a lot more interesting and noteworthy.

Not to mention "causing cancer" is a bit of a misnomer. Cancer typically arises when genetic mutations cause a cell to exhibit uncontrolled and sustained division. Our cells experience thousands of mutations a day, most of which are fixed. Some of these inanimate objects may upon being metabolized or coming into contact with a cell, cause mutations. With more mutations, you are at a higher risk for one to go unrepaired and lead to something other than cell death. Colloquially, I understand we refer to certain things as causing cancer but I think the idea of grouping everything into discrete boxes isn't really something worth pursuing in this case.

It is used in MIT's Intro Algorithms class. That said, it's very rigorous and requires use of discrete mathematics. It might be worth looking into some lighter reading first to see if algorithms are interesting enough to you personally to warrant working through a full textbook.