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All of the park photos were taken at Downtown Park in Bellevue.

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

Wow. I can't imagine that happening at your standard public school nowadays. What high school did you go to?

Most people will take their SAT at the beginning of their Junior year. This way they have ample time to retake if they're not happy with their scores.

Stanford, MIT, and the Ivies see the SAT as more of a threshold score. I.E. there's not much difference between a 2300 and a 2400. As long as you have above a certain range, you should be fine. The SAT doesn't make or break people.

I'm guessing Shalin is aiming for MIT, Stanford, and schools of their ilk. These fall under "high-end private schools".

I second this. Summers should not be spent studying for the SAT.

Also, a good internship will look much better on a college app than a few extra points.

It's a custom allocator internal to Intersec.

What's the right answer here? Should they start by typing or reading the docs?

Are there any specific books you recommend?

Isn't this what DRM is?

The picture in the article is confusing me. What's going on with his hand?

So then is a 2.1 considered impressive?

Is the 2.1 number you refer to a GPA? What's it out of?

What is a "red brick"?

Is this before or after taxes? Because American salaries are typically reported before taxes.

There seems to be the opposite effect for "keming".

MIT OpenCourseWare.

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

I keep hearing that Muni and BART are awful, but how so? I've been on public transit in NYC, Boston, Berlin, and other major cities and I don't notice any significant disparities.

Actually, it's Dill that's supposed to be Truman Capote.

Even if that's all she did, it doesn't warrant an expulsion or a felony charge.

Yeah, I don't think "string" is a thing in Java. Maybe he was comparing it to a data type from another language?

You seem to have a lot of knowledge about this. If I wanted to acquire similar knowledge, where would I go? I know embarrassingly little about networks.

I am Asian.

What I've noticed is that the kids who have to be "forced" to study ad-nauseum usually aren't the top performers. They're around the middle, but their families desperately want them to be the top.

The top students are much more self motivated. They tend to be more or less equivalent to their supposedly more-well-rounded white counterparts.

As an Asian-American: no, it doesn't involve those things.

Except your Pentium 3 server doesn't have to handle over 100 million unique visitors per quarter. :P

Because he found out the answer only after asking the original question, and answered it for anyone else who would have been curious.

Sort of reminds me of India (the polytheistic "industrialized" society).

Somewhat unrelated, but still interesting:

SFO doesn't actually have a TSA presence. They use a contractor instead.

http://www.flysfo.com/web/page/atsfo/saf-sec/

What operating system are you using? It looks great on OS X 10.8.2.

I thought some clocks used the frequency of the power grid to keep time. How are they reliable if it keeps fluctuating so much?

This American Life isn't technically NPR either.