msprague

This is usually how I learn also. I find it works extremely effectively if instead of working on your own standalone project, you contribute to another project that already has best practices. That way, you can read through the source code and learn some of the conventions that are used in that language.

I don't think he has a specific "model" for his "predictions". Reading his recent article, he uses statistics and weights informations gathered by polls to determine the probability of each candidate winning per state. You can't really be "wrong" in that sense, but the actual result can vary due to statistical sampling error, polling error, or bias in the polls.

Source: fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/nov-2-for-romney-to-win-state-polls-must-be-statistically-biased

Since when does popularity substantially determine share valuation?

Pictures http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_pictures.ht...

The only problem with this is that since it's a static library you need to make sure it's bug free before using it in your project. I would imagine it would be difficult to debug in your project...

This seems awesome, but I'm not sure why they would need a kickstarter project. With the people interviewed in this video, it seems like they would have no problem getting the funding that they needed. The reason in the video is that so they could "get it to developers as fast as possible", but I'm not sure how kickstarter would help speed the development process to get it an SDK released any sooner than if it was funded a more traditional way.

Yeah, I agree with this. I've been asked a similar problem to the gas pump one and a brain teaser one as well. The goal for them is to be able to get a better feel for how you deal with the problems, not necessarily the solutions that you come up and how accurate they are. Being a dick to an interviewer (as basically suggested in comments above) is great if you like being unemployed.

I don't enjoy playing it anymore and I uninstalled it as soon as it gave me a notification that was ad-related. That's way too obtrusive.