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I'm not sure if this helps, but I worked for a summer in a UPS store a couple years back and I'm sure you'd be fine printing it either at UPS or fedex. People came in with papers/books/posters ect to be printed often and looking at copyright was never part of any check for using the company printers. Just throw it on a USB drive and they'll bring it to the store computer and print it for you, no questions asked.

Also, most UPS stores are equipped do this "book binding", so I'd shop for the cheapest "per page" price you can find at either store.

Colorado feels really under-represented on HN for some reason. On Who's Hiring I've only ever seen at most 2-3 Colorado based companies hiring. However, Fort-collins/Boulder/Denver all have a very rich tech culture if you look hard enough for them.

disclaimer: I'm a senior at Colorado State and have no intention of leaving Colorado.

> But, they aren't a tech city and I need remote work to pull it off.

Hewlett Packard, Intel, AMD, Avago, National Semiconductor, LSI, and Wolf Robotics all have offices in Fort Collins.

Fort Collins-Loveland was rated 2nd in the "Top 10 Metro Areas for High-Tech Startup Density" in the United States (with Boulder at #1). [0]

We even have an incubator, Rocky Mountain Innosphere [1], if that tickles your fancy.

In short, I don't think you'd have a problem here despite it not being a "tech city".

[0] http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/young-high-tech-firms-outpa... [1] http://www.rmi2.org/

wikipedia has pages for all the popular sorting algorithms, most with pseudo-code and graphics too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_sort

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heapsort

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort

Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen is a great. It is set up as a sort of reference and isnt necessarily meant to be read cover to cover. However, you'll need to read/understand the first 4 or so chapters (on asymptotic complexity, recursion, log rules, master theorem, ect) to really be able to grasp anything else in the book. The proofs and explanations can be rather terse, as it assumes you have some working knowledge with algorithmic theory and math. I wouldn't recommend it for starting out _at all_ as it can be very intimidating at first.

I started out with Algorithms by Tardos (you can pretty easily find a copy of the book and solutions online somewhere). It is less terse and goes through all the basics in a much less formal format. In this book I would advise starting at chapter 1 and going straight through to 8 or 9, doing the exercises and programming up most of the algorithms on your way. At this point you'll have a really nice working knowledge and can dive into Cormen and tackle stuff that interests you.

Very valid point, and I you're right you really would have no idea. You could check on some devices if you knew enough about hardware to compare the internals and the diagram, but that is a select few people.

This is why customer-company relationships and company integrity is becoming increasingly important, and frankly not many US companies are doing well in that regard.

We've seen this phenomenon, just on a smaller scale. When an encryption standard is compromised, people either switch to something stronger or face the consequences of essentially leaving their data in the open.

DES was an acceptable standard until the late 90s, but you'd be foolish to use it now. RSA is the accepted standard now, but it is said to fall within 5 years or so. At that point, people will either start paying for a license to use Elliptic curve encryption algos or something new will be found. It's a vicious cycle, but I certainly don't think encryption ends with quantum computing, but maybe disrupts it quite a bit for some time.

Everyone focuses on the decrypting power of quantum computing, which is warranted as it will break _modern_ cryptography (in theory). However, think about the encrypting power a quantum computer will have; being able to generate completely random keys among other facets of crypto that seem implausible with modern computers. I think it will just open the door to a whole new science of crypto we haven't reached yet.

If the source code/hardware diagrams are kept private you should assume backdoors, always, with everything. How is there any other way to know for sure otherwise?

These government agencies are obviously dug much deeper in private industry than many expected so I wouldn't put it past them

Yeah that soil data mart is a whole other animal. Luckily I'm mostly on the agronomy side of things right now, focused on Nitrogen, so we just kinda skim the data for soil properties (such as hydrology) that we need and display the GIS plots as a visual aid for the user. Then it's just manipulating that data to show trends on the GIS plots that the user is interested in. Having that soil data sitting there in a free and consistent format makes my job a hell of a lot easier, as I'm sure you found with the nutrient db.

I've recently started playing with Json (well, Google's Gson anyway) myself for a mobile application I'm working on so this may be a nice learning experience for me, but I'll dive into your source a little more this weekend and maybe try to knock an issue or 2 off your repo's list :)

This is excellent, great job.

I'm currently doing an internship with USDA-Agricultural Research Service(ARS), and was pleasantly surprised at the amount of free meta-data they offer to the public. For instance, I'm currently doing some work with GIS data/display and the USDA makes available soil data and GIS data files of the entire US as well as some other places like Puerto Rico for the public through their data gateway website[0].

[0] http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/

I'm confused as to why an iOS app written by you denotes "#Apple still beats #Android"? Couldn't anyone code this for Android as well or am I missing something?

Besides that little tidbit with the OP/author, this still looks really cool and is an awesome idea.

Also, #Hashtags don't do anything on HN..this isn't twitter.

> But wouldn't these circumstances ultimately mean that every service that holds information that could somehow be interesting to the NSA would have to shut down pretty much now to avoid exposing customers/users?

This is exactly what Lavabit owner hinted at in his statement. I don't remember the exact quote right now but it was basically along the lines of 'don't trust your private data in any US-based company'. And yes, the NSA can go to any company in the US and request private data while simultaneously putting a gag-order on them. You can bet Google, Facebook, ect have been victims of this many times before any of this came out to the public.

The problem is these multi-billion dollar companies aren't going to give up everything they have because the government is requesting information and keeping it hidden from the public. They quietly share the data and hide behind the gag-order, which is why Lavabit owner has some serious guts and should be commended for taking on the US Gov.

I completely agree. I'd love to see some major public transportation like this around Colorado. Just last weekend my girlfriend and I took a day-trip to Boulder from Fort Collins (through Longmont), and the congestion through Longmont main streets is outrageous on the weekends. It would be ideal to just drive to Longmont (about a 15-20 min drive from Fort Collins) and catch a tram such as this to the Boulder/Denver area. Once you are in the city of Boulder, most things are within decent walking distance. It would also be great for daily commuters as I know some who commute from Longmont to Boulder/Denver and visa versa.

I live in Fort Collins right now attending Colorado State in my last year and went to high school in Loveland and must say I am very surprised at this.

With that being said, over the last 5 years this area has seen a lot of growth, with a lot of college grads staying in the area professionally.

In Loveland, a start-up called MadWire [0] sprouted up while I was attending Loveland High and is thriving now. They are even looking for a $500,000 incentive from the city to expand their 5+ story building over-looking Loveland Lake, and are likely going to get it to bring in new jobs to the city.

My girlfriend also recently got a front-desk job at Propel Labs [1], a new bio-tech start up located in downtown Fort Collins that has a great company culture.

This makes me really excited to graduate as I hope to get on with a start up in the area. Colorado is a great place to live and I have no intention of leaving.

[0] http://www.madwirewebdesign.com/loveland-web-design/

[1] http://propel-labs.com/

The start-up cost is high, yes. Around 1200 for a good set-up shopping at the right places. This includes a tent, ballist, surge protectors, light, soil, nutrients, ect. The whole 9 yards.

The first few (maybe 2-3) grows will turn out pretty bad, but it will still be enough to last you to the next grow. You have to find a balance in the nutrients and water which only really comes with trial and error, but the recommended dose is generally pretty close.

On the time issue: Once everything is set up, it's surprising relatively low time commitment. Especially if you're only growing 2-3 plants for personal use, you're looking at _maybe_ 3 hours per week for maintenance just to water every 3-4 days, prune dead leaves, sweep the area up, ect. I've also known people who use an Arduino or RaPi to rig a drip irrigation system which they can leave unattended for up to 2-weeks with no issues. Those growing for dispensaries in mass quantities are growing hundreds of plants at a time all at different stages and that is certainly a full-time job to maintain.

The nice thing about growing your own is there's no obligation to grow right after you finish one, and keeping the buds frozen preserves them completely for months until you need it. So, if you aren't looking at giving it up in the next 2 years I think its an extremely viable option which will save you money in the long run.

If you tell me how many grams you consume weekly or monthly I could give you a pretty good idea of where to start and how many plants you'd need to maintain that.

Source: I live in Colorado, grew my own in college with my roommate for 4 years, and have several friends still maintaining large and small operations I occasionally help out with.

Thank you for posting this, it's an awesome project for cheap. It would be nice to include my feet in my workflow and not just my hands.

It would be cool to implement the pedal as a hot-key reader. Say you press the pedal down and type 'ff' and let it go and firefox launches, or type 't' and a terminal opens.

I was in a similar situation in that I needed a cheap Android device to test on with my college budget and I ended up going with a Nexus 7 for $200. You can also easily find a used 2.x phone for cheap on craigslist or ebay. Hope this helps.

I remember reading a study (it is pretty generic and I'm sure done many times), where a research group put a stereotypical 'white name' on a resume and sent it out, then put a stereotypical 'black name' on the same resume and sent it out. I'm sure you see where this is going in that the 'white' resume received many more calls and interviews. This bias is unfortunate but pretty prevalent in most organizations, and is even seen in university admissions frequently (same ethnic bias, different reasons).

I have had several professors/GTAs at uni who are native Indians that I highly respect for their CS knowledge. The accent can be a little hard to pick up at first if you've never been around it but after that its all gravy :) Likewise I've had some who I've completely despised, just like every other person of every other ethnicity. I'm sorry you have to deal with that.

Edit: expand on last para

If anyone is on the fence about this, get it. I recently moved to IntelliJ IDEA after being an Eclipse head for a few years and took a co-workers suggestion to try out the free version and absolutely love it.

One big seller for me is a native vim plug-in that works for free. The interface is also very minimal and doesn't get in the way and is packed with shortcuts to show/hide windows. Comes default with attractive themes that don't hurt to look at for hours. It's also highly portable (like eclipse), but seemed to be better than eclipse at recognizing new android devices on my linux distros (Ubuntu/Xubuntu).

It would be nice in their Ultimate Version if you could natively convert .form swing files from NetBeans into something IDEA could use. There is a third party app [0], but it'll run you $80-100 for a license which makes it an expensive move for any heavy Netbeans user. That's my only real gripe. Excellent IDE overall.

[0] http://www.formdev.com/

Possible? Yes. With multi-core CPUs and improvements in touchsceens such as haptic feedback and dynamic tactile buttons it will be very possible.

Practical? Probably not, especially with stuff like this becoming widely available: http://www.oculusvr.com/. If we have the same definition of 'hardcore gaming', that is.

I unfortunately have no use for this app anymore (great idea btw), but will surely donate to help a young dev see this through. You are doing much more constructive things than how I recall spending my teenage summers, so hats off to you.

Congrats on your application

you are going to see different langs here than what's generally trending at stackoverflow purely due to the culture that surrounds hn (which is start-up based), so you're going to see more Ruby, Python, Go, ect (although you should be able to search all those tags on SO as well).

In the industry (as far as what I read anyway), it seems mobile programming and 'Big Data' are currently at the forefront.

Web vs standalone: depends on the application. If there is a need to make it web-based...then make it web-based. If there's no need then why put in the extra work/resources.

It really is a very broad question, but you want to pick the best tools for the job. You wouldn't use a spoon to saw a tree down, similarly you wouldn't use Java for a car control system. The only way to know the differences is to dive a little into each language and learn it's pros/cons.

I was actually just in a similar situation not long ago so I'll explain the route I decided to go:

TL;DR : Cross-platform frameworks at this point in time (to me) are either 1. Expensive, or 2. Unreliable in providing a native-feeling application. We chose to develop a Client-Server Android app and add iOS when funds become available.

I'm a college student and an opportunity came along from our vet program to make a smartphone application, I jumped at it. They had no idea about platforms but eventually wanted iOS/Android and possibly Windows. The only computers I own run Xubuntu, Windows7, Ubuntu, and Fedora at school. So iOS was obviously out of the picture at this point.

I originally researched along the lines of a cross-platform mobile framework. After looking/asking around it seems these technologies really aren't there yet, especially if you're looking at using any native functionality on the device. I read lots of developer reviews and they were generally mixed in terms of reliability and performance. Also, some are quite expensive; I recall seeing a 1-year dev license for $1000 a year per developer. Possibly worth it for a huge corporation, but just not for us at this stage in the game. It took some convincing but I steered them away from this option.

I have experience in Android so we chose to develop a native stand-alone Android prototype (they needed something simple to use to re-apply for their grant next round/present to other investors), and plan on moving it to a Client-Server architecture Android application and I'll either purchase a cheap Mac Mini and learn obj-c or hire a iOS developer once we have allocated more funding to hook it up on the same server as the Android application. This way you can use the same server back-end logic for dispatching data and have native GUI for each supported platform.

edit: grammar

I clicked the ops link and wasn't prompted for any sign in as usual.

Yeah this sort of question is probably better suited for StackOverflow. Also consider there would be a price for private repos hosted on github.

At my university we use a in-house linux mail system to submit assignments. It's not perfect or necessarily easy for new CS students but it's easy for the teachers and all assignments come from the login accounts the school manages which makes it easy to track plagiarism.

In classes we are "strongly encouraged" to use some kind of version control (svn or git) for group projects. I think anyone who has worked on a large programming group project with 3+ people through e-mail quickly sees the advantages of git, at least that was the case with me and several partners I've had as an undergrad. Keeping track of each persons code through e-mail becomes ridiculously tedious and annoying instantly and they would quickly be screaming uncle. Just a thought, but it may be better to find a way to let them come to that realization on their own as well.

regardless, goodluck with this it's an excellent idea for getting students on version control early.

This is very exciting as a Senior at uni in Colorado this year! Wish more Colorado start-ups posted on Who's Hiring.

"block and hit = followed by shift+6 ie %" -> my % is on number key 5.

otherwise a nice intro vim article

I'd opt for a 'post anonymously' button as staunch suggested.

The only reason is not everyone that uses throw away accounts are doing so to troll others. I've seen several submissions where a person posts something extremely personal (ie. problems with their current job to dealing with depression or contemplating suicide) and they would not post under their real account for obvious reasons but still seek the support of this community. It could be a bad idea to hinder the ability of these people to post situations like this anonymously and promptly.

At my university there are ~3-5 CS/ACT majors who are legally blind and very tech saavy, so maybe check there too as I'm sure they'll have some interesting suggestions