bbest86

I would put it:

1. IPO 50% lower then you guided 6 months ago 2. Float so few shares that you can push the value yourself with cash from previous financing round 3. Profit 4. ???

No, I don't think so. Go to the extreme and think about leaving for a week or a month - it is quite clearly more efficient to let it cool and then warm it back up again. On a shorter time scale, your house will lose heat at a faster rate when the temperature differential to the outside is higher, so letting the house cool will reduce the rate of energy loss over the time period the house is cooler. The amount of time you are able to leave the heating off while the house cools will compensate for the higher load when you need to heat it up again.

That may be true but I also do not believe that the improvements in the last 20 years have had anything to do with food production. As Sen argued way back in 1981 the cause of hunger and famine is political, not due to a lack of ability to grow food. Somalia this year is case and point.

The green revolution (as led by Norman Borlaug not Monsanto) may be able to take credit for some of the advances during the 60s and 70s but any advances due to Monsanto in recent years cannot be made up for by their completely unjust business practices as others have mentioned.

I am also disappointed in hearing that a YC company is going this direction.

While I think there's a market here, I wonder if the Chromebook will feel enough like a separate appliance to make inroads. The iPad feels like something different - a Chromebook just feels like a laptop. To me the marketing feels too much like a laptop that can only access the web than something completely different that is compelling to the average consumer.

Just read this in the last month and devoured it. I'm currently doing a lot of thinking about how to apply the ideas that drive entrepreneurship to the international development sector and the ah-ha moments from this book were incredible. Interesting to see the parallels - both sectors are trying to solve poorly defined and understood problems with new solutions, especially in the case of a new market.

I think this leads to a lot relevant lessons to be learned between the sectors - mostly international development learning from entrepreneurship. Just started a series of blog posts on this here: http://theborrowedbicycle.ca/2010/11/tech-startups-and-human...

The first letter in the word "titties" is?

Beware if you have users that might be sensitive to such things.

I'm also a vim addict and keep all my notes in a semi-gtd inspired vim wiki. It's a vim plugin on top of the viki plugin (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=861). The code is up on github for anyone interested: http://github.com/benbest86/vikigtd

It has some basic functionality like keeping reference files, search with Xapian, project todo lists that you can easily print in a daily log and check off in a single place.

Haven't ever really thought about making it easily installable etc, not sure what the GTD+vim market/interest would be, but I'd be happy to up the documentation if someone is interested.

This whole discussion seems to be missing a large part of MBTI's value. MBTI is not just about knowing yourself, but also understanding how other people in a group might be feeling/reacting, regardless of whether or not that reaction is indicative of their personality all of the time.

I've found that an understanding of MBTI has helped me immensely when facilitating or leading groups. Knowing that there will be some people that are most creative when brainstorming on their own (often introverts) and some that are most creative when working in groups (often extraverts) means that I give time for both in any session I'm leading. If I'm running a meeting that is going to go over time, but is producing good results, I'll ask everyone if they are ok with going over time and will set a new time limit. Before I knew about MBTI and realized that people with a J preference (unlike myself) often disengage from any process that doesn't appear to have a defined ending, I was losing out on the contributions from all Js in any meetings gone over time.

Those are just a few examples, but hopefully they show that MBTI isn't just about 'knowing your type'. People will act with preferences on either side (I lean a little bit to the I side, but often play the role of an E depending on the group I am in) but understanding how all of these preferences play out in groups gives you a much better chance of getting the best contribution from everybody on the teams you work with.

Would be interesting to automatically run something like this and find a way to assert that the tests should fail. Almost an automated test of your tests.

http://aviary.com has a great color picker called Toucan. It allows you to pick colours spaced out around the colour wheel based on a few parameters. Also does the colour-blindness emulator. You can check out colour palettes that others have created as well and modify them to become your own as you see fit.

I went to Waterloo - not for CS but for Systems Design Engineering. I very much enjoyed my time there in Engineering and now have a great job doing primarily web development in Django for a company involved in Green Buildings.

I agree with other posters that you learn a lot, potentially more, outside of classes than in them, but disagree that Waterloo has a poor quality of campus life. There are a ton of things going on if you look for them at Waterloo, and it's not a commuter school so there are a lot of people on campus.

The one thing I cannot stress enough is the value of the co-op program at Waterloo. I didn't realize until my fifth co-op job that this was going to be the only time in my life where I could switch jobs every four months without looking like a quack who couldn't hold a job. I got to see a bunch of different industries (Telecommunications, Power Generation, Green Building and term in Ghana, West Africa with Engineers Without Borders Canada) without making long term commitments to any of them. Not many other schools provide that kind of experience.

Good luck with your choices! Not an easy one to make.

You can use it to block indent/unindent code, I find that quite useful.

Is it just me or is the python being taught not very good? See for example this lecture: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute.... The prof starts off by saying that internal class variables should not be accessed directly through the instance, and rather through attribute accessors. The example code with the lecture posted above is littered with what I would I call messy python. Messy attribute setters and getters, catching KeyErrors instead of using .get() on a dictionary, etc.

If you're going to teach using python should you not teach pythonic practices as well? Or is it just about the CS? Otherwise there will be a bunch of MIT grads who will have to relearn python if they ever intend to use it in industry which seems to be the goal. The majority of the comments here seem to be in favour of teaching python because python is fun. Teaching python like java seems to me to take the fun out of it.

If academia chooses a language to teach with should they use the common practices of that language, or does it not really matter?

*edit for formatting... I'm new here