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Anyways, I chose 'Working at a startup', though I'd like to someday work ON a startup (as well as become a student again and finish school).

GvR said that new stuff should be built on py3k, but I'm betting it will be quite some time before anyone develops anything of significance on it. At work, even though we're in the early stages of developing our product, we're still sticking with 2.5 for the foreseeable future.

I imagine the adoption rate for Py3k will be worse than PHP5.

Almost 10 years later, he's my go-to guy for anything and everything design related.

http://www.artificestudios.com/

I recently took a job at a startup in Campbell, and the San Jose area is really nice. It's not as expensive at SF, but it's still "bay area".

I know my condition isn't quite the same as yours, but here's some advice:

1. Do not get surgery unless it is absolutely essential. If you're only mildly nearsighted, then stick with glasses. Your eyes are very intricate, and any amount of surgery is going to do additional damage.

2. Sending time on the computer, even 18 hours a day (as I sometimes do), won't have major long-term impact on your vision. I specifically asked my doctor about this in May when I went in for a new contact prescription. Time on the computer will make your eyes tired, but that's all. Just take a break and you'll be fine.

Keep in mind I am not a doctor, and you should consult your own ophthalmologist.

But this is reality, and the reality is that pirating is easy to do even with all the DRM/anti-piracy stuff that is in place.

Which also points to: http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/pyscheme/ and: http://www.xs4all.nl/~yduppen/site/psyche.html

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Err, that's not really the point of free software. The free software movement is more about freedom than not paying money (libre vs gratis).

You really want to stick it to the man? Pirate proprietary pay-for software. But you wouldn't want to do anything illegal now, would you?

  * Lisp (Interesting, recently bought pg's ACL)
  * C (Would be useful at work, recently bought K&R)
  * Obj-C (Have both an iPhone and a MBPro that would be neat to develop for)

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I recently bought an HP D2400 printer at Big Lots for $30. The color/black cartridges come out to around $40. Go figure.

So, I don't think I need to worry about entering passive mode. :)

Little Schemer is on my to-read list for sure, but I saw ANSI CL and bought it on a whim.

PCL seems recommended by a few people, so maybe I shouldn't have dismissed it so quickly. I opened it up to several pages and saw large blocks of text with very few line breaks, but maybe I just happened to turn to the wrong pages. Perhaps I'll give it another chance.

Again, thanks for the advice everyone!

But since there's no "Both" option, I'm going with ambivalent.

For total completeness and peace-of-mind, you could have the script add anything else you need backed up, like your projects or public_html directories, configuration files, etc.

Simply. Amazing.

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1165-space-shuttle-launch...

http://www.reddit.com/comments/6tnti/space_shuttle_launch_vi...

Also, what about allowing users to sell their own tickets? I have a PAX badge that I wont be using and would like to give to someone so it doesn't go to waste.

  cuil_buzz = {
      1: 'All the rage!',
      2: 'Worst product e-v-e-r.',
      3: ' ... '
  }.get(day, None)

Then a good friend of mine convinced me to get an iPhone. I was hesitant at first, but after trying one I decided to go for it.

Then I got a job where my choices were a MacBook Pro or a Dell with Vista. Three guesses which one I took (the first two don't count).

I must admit OS X is really nice, and full Unix compatibility is a huge plus. Still... sigh

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