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I was thinking "sweet" and then I saw the name and started laughing.

Actually there are quite a few good lifestyles available if you charge for licenses of your software and you are a small software shop.

Simple: intersperse ads with results and make it obvious which are the ads.

Death? Come on freenode

This sounds like IRC to me.

Good point. Post on your progress, I'm interested :-)

Did you consider using affiliate links as well?

I like the idea. More details about how you make money would make for better feedback.

This UI is horrible. But they get the simple things right.

You're doing it wrong.

Talk to a real-live accountant.

QA departments are notorious for not being very creative. You'd need a star QA department to find the /admin hole, I think.

What the hell is Tumblr? And what happened to vowels?

Uh, this is a scam right?

Just RTFA'd. Their attack is much more involved than I describe. However, it should be trivial to do the same thing for an OpenOffice document or Word document. Maybe I will try it...

I am not a PS guru. All of that is gibberish to me. I think this is what is going on:

1) There is a single source file foo.ps 2) Since PS is interpreted, there is a statement like: if(filename=="recommendation.ps") { show_recommendation(); } else { show_give_security_clearance(); }

This attack will work on no matter what hash you use because it uses social engineering (i.e., laziness - no one looks inside their PS files)

I think so anyway...

Yes, it is a famous misquote. "God" to Einstein was the universe.

FINALLY! Now can someone please rewrite GCC? That is the ugliest piece of code I've ever seen.

He was meaning 2d graphics

Awesome.

Rogue Wave is not a startup

We homeschool because our daughter does very well with it but if we could afford a good private school (I've been to bad ones), we would probably consider it.

I once hired a private tutor to help me fill in some gaps (see lame private school comment above!) After I had caught up (in a couple of months), we spent about 95% of the time learning random things rather than anything I was doing in univ (he hated computer science - not a real science he said!) I think he enjoyed our sessions as much as I did. From time to time, he helped me on hard problems I would do outside of the university curriculum but by and large we were just learning. This is the way we run our homeschooling. Just learning.

Ah brings back memories. He used to complain about all the other students and how they never do their work!

Why are you modding up this article

Cue imitations that don't get it.

Was just gonna say...

I think the reason this is interesting is that it is quite possible that the current state of the Botha family would not be what it is (investors in GOOG? COME ON!) without the violent oppression of minorities.

"Behind every great fortune is a crime."

That seems like a lame site. Look at their sample question. A cat could get that right.

Freakonomics has an interesting perspective: It is due to the legalization of abortion. The authors do make a good case for it. I tend to lean towards this explanation which amounts to less poor young people.

Why would you say :(? It is a great idea and people would and should pay for it. Fuck free.

I don't know if I was vague but I was specifically saying that you should immerse yourself in an industry you are interested in and then use technology to solve their problems.

A good way to come up with new ideas is live outside the tech world. Get a non-tech job in a totally different field. Haven't tried that myself, but I'd bet you'd come up with some good ideas that way.