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> I can't count the number of times I've been caught in some huge knot of traffic pacing a cop who's driving two or three MPH under the posted limit, as if he's daring people to pass him...

I saw that all the time on my way into work (internship) this past summer. I just passed the cop. What annoyed me was other people who refused to pass the cop.

I also saw, in equal amount to cops going too slow, was cops going too fast, oh well.

That would explain the downvotes, thank you.

The hiring threads, posted at the beginning of each month by the bot whoishiring [1], are great resources for finding places to intern at.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

problem is that crippleware was, and still is, universally hated. The only areas where it succeeds is where there is no other real competition.

It's a company that pretty much owns the education market, despite their products being nearly universally considered to be harmful^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hhorrible.

For more information, see wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc

Edit: I should point out that my knowledge of blackboard is near non-existant, I haven't had to use it in any of my schooling (university in central florida, public education in silicon valley), so I don't have a useful opinion of it.

In pretty much every state, it's not illegal to carry lockpicks, just illegal to pick locks you don't have permission from the lock's owner to pick.

There are probably exceptions, but this holds true in at least California and Florida. Also, ianal, so I could be wrong.

Because Microsoft is teh suxxors! </sarcasm>

I've taken to just buying a season/series on dvd, then ripping them to a hard drive.

I get the double whammy of 1) I feel all good and whatnot of making sure the content produces get some money (even if it's realistically, like, 10% of what I payed to get the series), and 2) I have rather high quality masters that I can then rip rather high quality copies to a hard drive.

Also, this is faster than just torrenting the shows at similar quality. (maybe a few days, regardless of the show compared between a day and more than a week, depending on the popularity of the show)

I have a tablet pc. After getting rid of windows, I came to love it.

That said, I would not recommend it to people. The iPad actually can, and does, do the job of a tablet pc far better than any tablet pc I've used.

Thanks. I looked through the ML class stuff, and I'm sold. Really looking forward to it.

I'd love to sign up for both this and the ml class (though, I think I will sign up for the ml class...).

However, I've already committed to the AI class, and in addition to my regular coursework (Entering second year of uni, go me!), I don't think I'll be able to handle this.

This woman has also had her entire faith in humanity destroyed.

I think option one is more likely.

Excellent. Now I can convert all of the people I know who still use IE to opera. "SMART PEOPLE USE OPERA, YOU WANT TO BE CONSIDERED SMART, DON'T YOU?!"

> Ethanol is destroying small engines (generators, lawn mowers, etc) and most definitely reduces mpg by 10%

Yes it does. I took a trip cross country (florida to california) this past may. Ethanol infested gas killed MPG by at best 10%, at worst 20%. It wasn't even that much cheaper, too.

already there at my uni.

I should have considered that I certainly wasn't the only one, and I shouldn't be so self-centered in the future. My bad.

I stated back when xcode 4 was released that when 10.7 came out, they'd make it free. [1]

Just had to wait a while. Xcode 3 has been good and free to use (and still is).

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2311422

I imagine about the same time NVIDIA announced they were getting out of manufacturing graphics cards?

No. You'll be fine. Possibly, you'll have screen estate issues with the 11" air, but that's about the only issue with Eclipse you'll have. The SSD will severely speed things up.

That is far cooler than what I did: your friend actually engages in an intellectual exercise, I just got lucky with a guess.

I pulled a machine out of a garbage pile once. Booted it up, it required a password, I guessed "password" and it logged me in as the CEO of the company.

So, in your case, the last time you heard of anyone guessing a password was about a second ago.

That's both brilliant, and dumb.

With that in their EULA, they are essentially stating: "We know that our software sucks, but to prevent others from stating that we specifically suck, we're going to forbid academic papers (which are, for the most part, impartial studies) from mentioning us by name, thereby putting doubt over whether it's us or some other facial recognition product."

I need to make a note to actually read EULAs from now on, because I want to get my money back if I ever buy software with that in the EULA.

Holy crap. I thought I was the only one. I know I'm smart, I just don't put in the effort to study. I'm friends with all these people who don't have the problem I have (or they've figured out how to solve it).

At the same time though, I'm constantly working on side projects. Currently, I'm building an autonomous tricopter, because I thought it'd be cool to build. Last semester, I wrote a webapp to handle an event we were having. Previous semester, I was working on a way to control my room from my computer (still working on that, just not as intensely). These all easily answer "Why am I doing this?" (tricopter: because it's cool. Webapp: Might be able to make money from this [Note: didn't make any money from it ): ]. Computer-controlled room: It's cool, and it allows me to be incredibly lazy.)

I know that I'm not an idiot, I should be getting As, and I do get As in the classes that genuinely interest me. Unfortunately, at least 75% of the classes I take don't interest me, so I get lost in trying to answer "why am I even bothering with this?"

Work: xcode 3.1.4 Home/personal projects: xcode 4

I need to be able to build/test for OSX 10.3.9, which isn't something that I can do on xcode 4.

Though, for my company, the production building is done with xcode 2.something.

For my personal projects, I love xcode 4, so much of an improvement over 3.x.

  > The issue isn't "word choice" it is tone and writing style.

Forgive me, my vocabulary failed me when I was writing that particular sentence.

  > Writing in leetspeek is equally objectionable, for instance, and people do downvote those who write that way on HN.

Good point, although leetspeak kills readability, whereas "this." is just a way to say "yes, I agree with you.".

In my opinion, a comment that is simply "this." should get no votes at all, whereas a comment that is entirely in leetspeak should be downvoted into oblivion. Killing readability is a far greater sin than simply failing to realize that the upvote button exists for a reason.

My point was that "this. <explanation and clarification>" does not deserve a downvote (should get an upvote), because it has actual content.

However, a content-free message of simply "this." does deserve a downvote.

I'm not going to downvote you, but that's an incredibly stupid reason to downvote someone.

"Oh, I don't like your word choice, so I'm going to downvote you regardless of the content."

> Monads as commonly explained on blog posts are cargo cult mathematics, and monads used in languages like C++ where they make code longer and more complicated instead of simpler, are cargo cult programming.

I upvoted both of your comments because of that statement. Explaining your position (although, it is a fairly weak argument) is enough.

My trigger for cargo-cultism was him stating that you want to lay out your templates in Haskell first.

Each USB device has it's own unique ID, so yeah, it should be possible.

Every job I've had, I got through personal connections.

I did event videography up until last fall (went away to college), every gig I got was because I knew person planning it (theatre: I knew the director, weddings: I knew the wedding planner)

I had a day job working at subway last summer. I got the job by going to the manager (whom I've known for many years) and asking for the job.

My current internship is at the same company my father works at. I went to the CTO and asked for an internship. It probably helped that my dad works there.

I've also applied for several jobs. Every job I applied for at my college I was turned down for, every other internship I applied for told me "lol, freshman".