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I made this as a sample project using clojurescript.

The canvas is clickable - clicking will swap the value of the spot. Heatmap shows how long a piece of bacteria will live in a spot (Black being just born - White living 25 iterations). It helps to point out patterns that are persistent.

I picked Clojure because I want to get into functional languages more, and I find the LISP-like syntax actually quite easy to get a hang of and more intuitive than Haskell. Node.js just to improve my Javascript skills and see what all the hype is about. Hopefully you read this, kind of late with the reply.

Top of my list are Node.js and Clojure.

You are better off going in now and making the connection than waiting for the perfect moment. If your skills aren't up to par, at least you will be remembered and they will be more impressed when your skills are up to par (shows you can improve significantly). I applied as an intern for a company sophomore year, got rejected, ended up seeing the person at a conference early senior year, got the internship after senior year. If you truly want to work there, be persistent. Someone who is persistent and shows that they will improve to fill gaps in their knowledge is way more desirable than someone who has great skills from the start (since they may not be as motivated or likely to change their skillset).

Seems like a fairly common strategy these days.

1) Build an API so other developers can innovate features

2) Cut off access to popular features made by other developers

3) Clone said features from step 2

It is one of those things that is obvious in hindsight. No one informed me that tuition increased at that level when I was looking at colleges (certainly not the schools). The only way I could even find past tuition levels for my university was by looking at my financials for the loans, there was no where on their website or easily googled where I could find past tuition costs. The outrage over college costs and debt was nowhere as publicized five years ago as it is now. OWS, trillion dollar college debt stories, many of the new education startups didn't exist yet. I am certainly not the only student who felt screwed by a ~30% higher tuition rate their senior year. Universities are also notoriously good at selling a college education and tacking on the hidden cost.

Maybe you as an 18 year old would have been smart enough to figure it out, but I doubt most do. I actually planned out my college finances based on the freshmen tuition rates before even going and had a plan for what I was going to do.

Constant tuition is a very rare thing, I can't even name a school I know that does that.

I'm talking about out-of-state tuition though, which from my understanding was not subsidized by the state government at all. The funny thing is, the university I went to was still cheaper and better than my in-state alternatives.

One thing that really bothers me is how much universities are allowed to raise their tuition on existing students. I started college paying about $6k a year in tuition my freshmen year. My senior year cost me $11k. The difference in tuition raises overall probably increased my total loan amount by ~$10k by the time I graduated. This is huge and there is no way students can take this into account when applying for college. I don't know why there are no laws protecting students by requiring fixed tuition rates for students? Universities are notoriously bad for raising rates by thousands a year, which students must take into debt or leave.

*Edit - Ok, the tuition when I first went to college was $20k a year. I had a $14k scholarship, so it was a manageable $6k a year. Now the tuition, 5 years later, is over $27k. That is a 35% increase at about 7% a year. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me, especially for a state school which should be affordable.

I completely agree a horizontal structure is a better working environment for employees. I don't know how the compensation packages at Valve works, but I'm betting the shareholders (and executives at the top who are given shares) are getting the vast majority of the profits, just like most corporations. I bet a lot of the most talented employees at Valve are vastly overproducing the amount they are paid, and could easily gain much more personal equity even after trading some for enough land and capital to start a company themselves. Not saying everyone should start a company, I haven't yet so I guess I'm being a bit hypocritical here.

Good reply. Like I said I figured I was being a bit naive in my post.

I just did a quick skim of the article, and call me naive if you want, but in the theory of spontaneous order why is Valve necessary? Obviously, the time and labour of Valve's employees is worth more than what Valve is paying them, otherwise Valve would not be turning a profit. I'm assuming that employees really have 100% work time for their projects as you claim. Then in essence Valve is providing facilities and connections (to other smart employees) in return for the lion's share of the labour profit. Is that really worth it for the employees? Once they have the connections wouldn't it benefit them more to split off their own companies, in a co-op horizontally structured company?

Don't get me wrong, I think traditional corporate structures are often abominations and I think Valve is a great company. It just seems to me that if you take the spontaneous order philosophy to the extreme than corporations in general just become unnecessary overhead.

Debug using an actual Android device, which is much faster. The emulator for Android is notoriously slow. Though almost nothing is as quick when debugging as Chrome's console.

I've backed out of going to graduate school after accepting to go, which is similar to a job offering since they were offering a fellowship. The only thing I felt bad about was I didn't realize soon enough that I shouldn't go, but it just wasn't the right move for me. Some people may disagree, but I think you should back out of it. There are very few companies who would have qualms about firing you if they could find a better employee to replace you or would make more money by firing you. You shouldn't feel guilty about holding them to the same standard (i.e. you found a better employer or one who offers a better deal).

Low reputation account. Won't name the site. Questionable e-mail address. Promises a site that supposedly generates 5k a month with almost no work. Looks legit.

You might want to check out Microsoft Azure. I use it and it is powerful and has a good free trial. Only thing that is bad about it is fairly long deployment times (10 to 30 minutes). As a disclaimer I currently use it with C#, but it recently added support for python. Other than that, Heroku is a good choice. Google App Engine may be another possibility, though I haven't used it nor do I know a lot about it.

For e-mail I recommend Sendgrid, you can get 200 e-mails a day free. Also easy to integrate in.

For payments I've used Braintree and I like it. I didn't set up the account but I was given a sandbox account to try it out and it should be possible to get one. Easy to use, especially if all you are doing are transactions (even though subscriptions aren't bad on Braintree either).

Clearly exaggeration on her part about her hours. No one works 130 hours a week consistently, it is just physically not possible. This article is about everything wrong with corporate work environments.

1) Productivity is equivalent to time spent in the office. 2) Pressure your employees to work more than they should - No one should ever have to "ask" to get a weekday night off to have dinner with their family. 3) Managing resentment? If you are spending your time trying to manage your resentment to your job, you probably aren't being productive because you dislike the job. Nothing spells out bad productivity like disliking what you are doing.

I would be interested in this too.

I use an Android phone. I primarily use Win 8 consumer preview (sometimes Win 7 or Ubuntu). I dislike Apple for many reasons. However, I bought one of the new Macbook Airs yesterday. I'm going to dual-boot Win 8 on it. Currently, they are just the best hardware for the price when it comes to ultrabooks in my opinion.

When it comes to iOS, I don't think iOS or the Apple ecosystem will be the dominant ecosystem. Their products are simply too expensive for the majority of the world to afford, plus I think a merger between tablet and computer OS like Win 8 is the future of computing. However, It think they will continue to dominate the high end tech field, which has way better profit margins.

I was wondering about this myself when I bought my humble bundle. I think that saying linux users pay more on average is somewhat misleading without some sort of analysis on the actual data. For example, if linux counts for only $100,000 of sales, and the average is $10 dollars a buy. Then you would assume 10000 buyers. However, one person putting in 10k (such as notch) would skew the results dramatically. Then you really have only 9001 buyers and the average price is $11.1 per a user, but that really isn't a good predictor of average price. Same thing with some windows users being really cheap. I think if you removed all people paying more than $100 for the bundle and all people paying less than $2 for the bundle you would find the average price to be much closer. Just my thoughts.