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Some people put their pants on like this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pShf2VuAu_Q

Which is great. This is an industry where age or tenure are irrelevant. Anyone can make an impact.

If I may, a quote from one of my favorite movies, Antitrust: "Anybody working in a garage can put us out of business"

For most CS students/programmers, I'd wager that being a patent examiner isn't very alluring. This is even more evident at career fairs where representatives from the USPTO have to get in your face to grab your attention. You just don't see too many students lining up to talk to them, rather than say, Google or Microsoft.

I've seen a couple of similar projecs out there (mainly MIPS). I started writing one for MIPS when I was taking a computer architecture course so that I didn't have to install SPIM, but eventually lost interest.

That is pretty neat, though.

> Not having any sort of URL defeats the purpose of having a history. There has to be (and already is) an in between. It's what Firefox 2 and every other browser has.

Yeah, which is why that setting is pretty much useless. Also, when setting that property to 0, it causes the screen to flicker intermittently when typing in the address bar (at least on Mac OS X Tiger).

  --> about:config
  --> set browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0

This appears to work, but at the expense of removing the URLs you typed in the address bar. So I guess your point is still valid.

Personally, I think the Awesome Bar is fantastic.

You may also find Sphere Online Judge: http://www.spoj.pl and http://acm.uva.es/archive/nuevoportal/ useful. Both contain problems from a multitude of sources, namely ACM-ICPC. I've never participated in the Google Code Jam, but presumably, these problems should serve you well.

It might be too late to get an internship at a large company, but there are probably startups and other small companies that would love to have interns.

It doesn't hurt to find companies you're interested in an shoot them an e-mail inquiring about a summer position.

This worked for me when I e-mailed a couple of startups, one of which was Justin.tv. Even though they weren't specifically targeting interns, I e-mailed them anyway, with a solution to their pre-interview programming problem.

Now I'm in San Francisco =).

SitePoint Marketplace? http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/

If you really want an "editor", you could check out the graphical JSON editor included with the ruby json package: http://json.rubyforge.org/screenshots.html

I was in a similar situation until a couple of weeks ago. Westminster House at UC Berkeley allows non-students to live there during the summer.

http://www.westminsterhouse.org/

Not to barge in on Jason's thread, but if anyone else is looking for roommates in the area, please contact me (email address listed in profile.)

Still there? It'd be nice to speak with fellow Hacker News readers on campus.

(in progress) BS, Computer Science, University of Florida

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Art Of Problem Solving Forum - http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php

Incidentally, I attended a VMWare info session earlier today. Surprised no one in the audience mentioned it.

I forgot to add that my e-mail can be found in my profile =). Looking for a software engineering summer internship located in NYC or Silicon Valley.

(Hopefully this isn't a faux pas =)

Unemployed undergrad looking for an internship

Hopefully in the next year or two :-]. If you want to dig even further, there aren't many of us in CS departments either. (I'm aware that not every potential startup-type studies CS)

(I'm making a generalization based on my school's CS population. I'm assuming it's similar at other institutions.)

There's another website similar to this one: Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ) - http://www.spoj.pl/. The problems are much more varied, though.

I can definitely see the utility in working on these type of problems: a list of exercises to work through when learning a new language, or most of all, improving your problem solving skills.

Sometimes I wonder though, why do some people enjoy working on (solved) challenging problems -- rather than tackling something novel?

I read the book (along with "Ugly Americans") back in high school and enjoyed it. Looking forward to seeing a live-action version.

Currently in my 2nd year with a B average. Content. I'd rather spend time working on projects than studying that much more.

I've been contemplating on whether to compete or not in the competition this Saturday. (Who doesn't want a free t-shirt?)

This would be my first time competing in a programming/algorithm solving contest.

Emacs

Isn't that what Loopt sort of does?

Looks as if the UF car didn't finish. Oh well, better luck next year.

Compaq Presario (~400MHz)