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That worked out so well when they banned copyright infringement.

Is the effective tax rate on the carried interest loophole just the 15% Arrington mentions, or is it also more?

I ask because we can talk about capital gains tax rates and how low they are, but we should always talk about effective tax rates, in my opinion. That was why Subchapter S Corporations were created, I believe.

I know some large companies use git-bisect along with their unit testing framework to notify developers/reviewers if their commit caused some sort of test failure. I thought it was pretty neat, as git-bisect was new to me.

As an undergraduate at a top tier CS school, I have seen a lot of companies boast about these vesting schemes. Honestly, I don't think most new grads consider them due to the 1 year cliff. Most people I talk to will say "Well, if I want to leave, the new signing bonus/RSU package will just make up for the lost RSUs."

What really hurts companies is the drawn out exponential vesting periods. I believe Amazon does a package that is 15% after the first year, 40% after the second, 75% after the third, and 100% after four. Maybe my numbers are off, but you are rarely going to get new grads to commit to four years, even with that scheme. I'll take my 25% at another company after a year and move on.

Anyways, the work/experience/location/culture/salary is usually more of a factor than the vesting schedule.

I was taught this way and I happen to be rather young (19). I find that most of my classmates were never taught this rule, and they usually think it's some sort of error when proofreading my writing. It reminds me of the "don't button the bottom button on a suit" story.

As someone who has terrible vision, I've been waiting for this type of thing for years. I have trouble reading menus at fast food restaurants or street signs. The ability to just pull up context aware information in front of my eyes would be amazing. I looked into doing it myself with some AR goggles, but the cameras in them just were not good enough yet.

I've loved this idea ever since I read about the glasses in Accelerando[1], and I can't wait for a project like this that gets to market, especially if it is open source.

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

As someone who has tried to argue against the idea of "intellectual property", this is the response I usually receive. Unfortunately, creating something and enforcing property rights on the ideas to "reward" the author doesn't make the system any better.

There's that idea in software development that it doesn't matter who came up with the idea first, but who executed it better. I actually think this is how the world should work. Who cares if you came up with an idea if you never acted on it? Why should you have the right to hold up innovation in that field?

Just get rid of "intellectual property" (at least patents) and let the people decide with their wallets.

Exactly. We need to put up some opposition to this in court, but eventually just decentralize all levels of the internet. The real fight is when using that code (Namecoin, TOR, etc) is becoming illegal. Then we have a final legal battle to fight.

It depends what you are doing with it. Sometimes it isn't bad, but anytime I kick in the discrete graphics card everyone in the room looks at me.

It picks up when I drive my external monitor. Also, I did find out that a rouge process was taking about 40% CPU consistently, and it quieted down after that.

I need one every minute.

I know several top-tier CS school classmates who are seniors and had interviewed with Zynga. They were considering working there. Not anymore.

Note to companies: Don't be assholes. We don't like assholes.

Hear, hear. The number one reason to move from Illinois to the Valley: ability to drive your car and not be snowed in on Lake Shore Drive.

I went to a job fair a few weeks ago where a few of the engineers from a very hardcore coding company said "Why don't you drop out? I never really found a degree useful." That's the problem though. College isn't about the degree or the resume building. It's about meeting people, having fun, and spending late nights hacking on projects for the hell of it.

I could graduate in three years or less, but I would be missing out on an experience that will most likely be extremely beneficial.

How much does their Android experience differ from the norm? How wide is my app selection?

[Shameless plug.]

Go to job fairs like the one at upcoming ACM Reflections | Projections conference at UIUC. We have around 30 companies coming for our informal CS job fair. It's a great way to meet recruiters and get interviews.

Here are the speakers for this year: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2011/speakers.php

I used Jekyll to generate my static content a few months ago/ Just type a text file, and then push it out to the server. I really thought that was cool.

Funding successful!

My grandfather was blind and had to resort to his family telling him what the denominations were beforehand and then he folded the bills into different sizes. Apparently one day a cashier attempted to scam him by claiming the bill he gave was too small. Different sized bills would be helpful in that situation.

I just got a MBP and didn't realize that I'd have to resort to a stupid USB dongle. I've decided to just go back to two monitors, but it makes me sad.

I'd seen it but never read it. After reading your comment I downloaded it and enjoyed it. Thanks!

I have this book sitting next to me, but I never read past the first chapter. Could you tell my why I should read it over the dozens of other books on my reading list? It just looks so dense.

Kept me a the Rand quote. Do you actually dislike the quote or just Rand in general? If you disliked the quote, I would like to know what you disagreed with. If the latter, I would have to say that ignoring everything someone has ever said just because you disagree with them on some points is attacking the person, not the idea. Just because I disagree with Hitler's actions doesn't mean I ignore everything he ever said.

Sure, cg@colegleason.com.

Earlier this year I visited U of Illinois and sat in with a group of seniors who were working on a homework problem. I printed off the homework problem for myself but was not able to solve it since I had just learned about Big O notation in my high school Calculus class. I think this algorithm, if modified to select by rank instead of just top k items, might be the solution.

The problem in question is 2B:

    2. (30 pts.) You are given an array A with n distinct
    numbers in it, and another array B of 
    ranks i1 < i2 < : : : < ik. An element x of A has rank u
    if there are exactly u  1 numbers in
    A smaller than it. Design an algorithm that outputs the 
    k elements in A that have the ranks
    i1; i2; : : : ; ik.
    (B) (20 pts.) Describe a O(n log k) recursive algorithm  
    for this problem. Prove the bound
    on the running time of the algorithm

Source: http://www.cs.illinois.edu/class/sp11/cs473/hw/hw_03.pdf

Is that possible?

While I agree that it is annoying, a law is not the way to fix that. It's also very useful, as it connects the viewers with more information. I don't think anything would convince news outlets to stop since it drives up their website traffic, etc.

Is it at all similar to the Ubuntu netbook interface? I always liked that. Now I'm using Gnome 3, which I'm happy with.

I just took a look at it and was considering buying it. Does it have any sort of cross-computer or cloud synchronization? Or is that how Snipt is different?

That is pretty exciting. I moved to App Engine from EC2 because I didn't want to spend that much time managing the stack. I'm going to go try Heroku now.

Yes, I saw that a week ago and signed up for an invite. People seem to be happy with it from what I've seen on StackOverflow and other sites.