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I was surprised to follow this link and see a familiar face. I recognize Raphael Mudge from when I competed in the Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (http://neccdc09.nssa.rit.edu/) where he was a member of the red team. I didn't have much time to get to know him personally, but I do remember him being a nice guy. Congrats, Raphael!

Agreed, I thought that imagery was very funny. I'm on part 7 now, so far it's a good and interesting read.

Does the Boston/Cambridge office hire interns?

Doing the 99% certainty part I'm pretty sure requires that you calculate a confidence interval http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_interval although that article hasn't helped me remember how to do that

Is it that you earn ten dollars before your opponent, or just that you earn ten dollars?

I'm confused about why people argue that it is not necessarily 2/3.

I assume that the sample space is: [(b,b),(b,g),(g,b),(g,g)] where the four possible birth sequences are [(younger child is boy, older child is boy), (younger child is boy, older child is girl), (younger child is girl, older child is boy), (younger child is girl, older child is girl)] and the sequences are all equally likely.

So now if you ask, what is the probability that the person has a girl and a boy given that at least one of them is a girl, you can discard (b,b) from your sample space because you know that there is at least one girl.

Now your sample space is [(b,g),(g,b),(g,g)] and the odds that the person has a girl and a boy are 2/3.

I transferred from a 200 school day per year charter school to a 180 school day per year public high school, and I found that I learned a lot more at the public school, so I have first hand experience with the differences. Also, the charter school's days were about an hour longer than the public school's. I found there were no advantages to going to the charter school for longer days and longer school years.

It's hard to stay alert as a young kid during such a long school day, with class times being so long. When I transferred to public school, I met a lot of very intelligent people my age, and I was surprised to see that. For the first year after transferring, I felt that I was too smart to be there, since I had just transferred from a charter school. It turned out that I had met people who were much smarter than me and just as insightful.

Sure American kids don't do so well on international tests, but maybe that's because they're not taught to take tests, they're taught to learn and apply what they learn. I don't know about you, but I'd rather my kids grow up knowing how to learn new things and broaden their horizons, rather than grow up knowing how to write answers down on a piece of paper.

Hi, I'm still a little confused about the advantage of prepared statements. No explanation I've seen so far has actually explained why they are good, but my thinking was that the developer does not have to remember all of the dangerous characters to escape because the prepared statement stuff do that for you. But now I'm reading here http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/4.1/prepared-st... that the advantage of paramterization is separating the SQL logic from the data supplied. Why would that matter? You can still supply data such as ' OR 'x'='x

Why didn't they just dist-upgrade a heron?