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Something I really wanted is, when I connect my laptop to my home computer, my laptop can use the home computer's CPU, GPU and RAM and have an additional screen.

I believe Thunderbolt will make this dream true, since the Intel page mentioned "workstation performance expansion".

Which kind of Basic? Visual Basic .NET?

Of course you can. Why not? ;)

Wow. There are still MkLinux users? What's the motivation?

Bootstrapping is accurate and used in many compiler related texts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)

This problem applies to all communities using votes to sort user-generated contents: HN, Reddit, StackOverflow, Quora, etc.

I think something like PageRank can really help. The same need is to rank things based on a directed acyclic graph. The only difference is we have multiple kinds of vertexes: users, submissions, comments.

No, what Reddit does is fragmenting community. How much does the tag system in StackOverflow or Quora fragment them? Tags helped people to somehow filter their already overwhelmed input stream, focus on what they really interest in, and more importantly, ban the items they genuinely don't like to see.

IMO, a tag system like StackOverflow or Quora seems a good way to go.

A better title should be "MikeOS is an operating system for x86 PCs, written in assembly language. It is a learning tool to show how simple OSes work, with well-commented code and extensive documentation."

This is a brilliant free textbook about synchronization for concurrent programming. It doesn't only present the essential knowledges, problems and solutions, but also the underlying patterns that are useful for synchronization problems.

Usually black-and-white print use bold to indicate the keywords.

Not full text, the book preview is limited.

HTML and CSS are DSLs. DSLs are programming languages. Programming language doesn't have to be turing complete. See Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf

EDIT: fix markup

FYI, in modern browsers, when a website crashed when you submitting a form, just use "Back" and what you wrote are still there.

What kind of drawing class do you recommend? Pencil drawing? Sketch? Watercolor? Thanks.

Can you recommend a design tutorial for programmer to follow? Is _Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain_ your recommendation too? Thanks.

About the startup part, let me elaborate. I hope my experience of learning design, or at least trying to learn design, will help me with my taste and knowledge in design. For now, I cannot actually tell apart "good designs" from "bad designs". For example, sometimes I heard people saying things like "It's terrible they chose font X and color Y ..." but cannot see anything terrible in what they're talking about.

If I'll learn design the same way I learn programming. Personally, I learned a lot from participating programming contests such as ACM/ICPC and TopCoder. Learning from and taking part in open source projects also give me a lot. Are there equivalences for graphic design? Thanks.

What if I can't find/afford pro designers?

I'm just a college student who thinks coding is fun and wants to build a web app by his own. And learn and do the design by myself seems to be my the only option, since I can't find designers (at least here in China) to be collaborator and do things for free, and I can't afford to hire one either.

BTW, I really don't think "get really good at a web framework in a language of your choice" is the best career advice from one programmer to another.

Can you elaborate on places to get feedback? Thanks.

Wow, thanks, it seems really helpful!

The world clock for non-US HNers: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=17&...

The good link for Introduction to Algorithms: http://mitpress.mit.edu/algorithms/

According to the author's blog: "Gregory David Collins is a Canadian software engineer living in Zürich, Switzerland."

Sorry, my bad. I added the keg-only dependency libiconv. Is it working for you now?

FYI, the Homebrew formula to install CLISP on Mac OS X is at http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/2707

If the formula works well, please comment there and suggest the authors accept my pull request. (If not, I ll be very happy to help.)