obsaysditto

Relevant (has also been posted in the past to HN): http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/09/yes-phlboschisea...

To add, American Express puts a cap at 8 characters on their online services.

I was hired by Tom after emailing him through a previous HN Who's Hiring thread. We had a couple of email exchanges followed by a phone and lunch interview. Working here has been fun and challenging.

I would certainly encourage anyone in the Philadelphia area to apply.

Tried it out and works very well on first run. Installed the .deb package and restarted Chrome.

If you use vim then look at the vim-latex suite http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/

"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." - Henry David Thoreau

from: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I think this would fit under intellectual curiosity, but who's to judge.

I would suggest adding more visual aids, especially when talking about grid spacing/nodes. I'll try to keep up with it and suggest more things.

I hope no one was trying to learn from that. FD can be tough to handle for people not mathematically trained.

Heat equation? Why? Any second order differential equation would suffice since there is no real example with materials, temperature, properties, boundary conditions, etc. Mine as well just been reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_difference_method

Do you think most users will care about this? They'll just want to know if they can still see what their friends are doing, who has posted new photos, etc.

That cover of Radiohead's Creep by Scala & Kolacny is awesome.. listen to full song if you want http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Creep/2sx1OB