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as have I, except I do capitalize the word "I", because I find that the lowercase "i" as first person pronoun is too twee. now that jerry yang has become the most prominent all-lower-case user, I fear that not wanting to be associated with the stink of failure will drive me out of the practice.

where tiny bit = volume of anchor / surface area of lake. if the boat moves some because it isn't properly anchored, then presumably there would be more tension on the chain and thus a net rise in water level. of course, the problem initially never describes a chain & introducing the effects of one makes the problem far less tractable.

I think that most people miss the point of these sorts of questions. I don't ask them just to figure out if the person can answer it or not. a scantron with all the answers filled in would be useless to me. I ask them to watch how the person approaches problems, how they think, how well they communicate and how they interact with people while trying to solve a problem. a person who spits out the answer in 5 seconds, but acts like this question is beneath them is a strong no hire, but someone who struggles a bit, but finds some interesting insights along the way has a good chance.

you can't sell ads on low level APIs.

one thing that spooks me is the fact that pictures that other people take of you can get tagged back to you. now I have to rely on the judgement of all my "friends" not to post something that may affect my job, relationship or sentencing hearings.

hmm. from a sibling comment, maybe it has different settings based on if you have it plugged in or not, and I mistook this for resetting. will have to investigate when I get home.

yes. there is one for the keyboard as well. the problem is that it doesn't remember this for very long (seems to be reset for me after suspending some of the time).

seems like a lot of people held on to their g4 pb until this release. I just didn't like their hardware offerings in the intervening four years (too expensive or too cheap-looking), but I love my new al-macbook. my only annoyances: doesn't seem to work well with a bluetooth keyboard and usb mouse in closed-lid mode. also, seems to always forget the brightness settings for my display and keyboard (adjust brightness based on ambient light is a cool trick to show friends, but when I'm working, I don't want things changing based on whether my head is blocking the light or not).

And thus, you've just gone and demolished your entire argument. There is no solution in reasonable time, which is why mwerty brought it up.

This whole downvote storm is because your OP was "CS students love dropping four letters: P, NP, O and N. Whenever I want to judge who was a bit too focused on the surface details of computer science, and too little on the real problems, I wait to see if those 4 letters come up in a sentence." and there is a crowd of people here whose work on real problems involves those four letters all the time & couldn't be done without extensive knowledge about them and discussing them endlessly.

Maybe they don't come up so often when writing cd burning programs or robotics (though I find the latter hard to believe since any planning algorithms should hit up against this quickly), but other people have their own real problems where it does. I'm trying hard not to be dismissive here, even though your original post reeked of dismissiveness.

I use Things, an iphone app which syncs wirelessly to a mac desktop app. it's primarily a todo list type application, but I've found that I can keep track of ideas that I have as well. the UI is great, and I always have it in my pocket. if I want to do any serious note taking, I can use the desktop app and then sync the notes over to the iphone.

another one?

Is he really railing against cloud computing, or instead the rush to label everything cloud computing? It sounds like he embraces the model, he just doesn't like the dopey name (and inclusion of everything internet-related under the cloud computing umbrella).

same could be said of "web 2.0" or "information super highway" which were similarly overly-hyped and overly-applied.

the next MBP will ship with a pony.

one way to do it is to use procmail to filter incoming mail and piping the ones you are interested into your python program which will take the rfc822 message on stdin. the email module (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html) will let you parse these messages.

this is provided that your MX dns entry points to your machine and that you have the appropriate ports unlocked, of course.