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Not to the extent of African immigrants, no.

First, there's already an established Asian community that has been here for a long town. There are old Chinatowns, Little Tokyos, etc. There's no Little Nairobi that I've ever heard of. So many Asians aren't actually recent immigrants.

Second, regarding those who are, many Asians aren't here by merit alone. Sure, there are some (like my parents) who came from a poorer background and managed to make it to the US. But increasingly they are supplemented by people who were born into rich families (fu er dai, "second generation rich people"). Now, I don't have statistics to back this up, but this seems to be more prevalent now because of China's recent economic boom. It's just my own theory, anyway.

Also, if you were to visit some Chinese social event (church for example), there are distinct groups of people. It's not just middle class white collar workers, there are also lower class people and older people. There are multiple generations, from the older people (mostly Cantonese speaking, at least where I live), to the middle aged people, to the young people (either ABCs or international students).

Though there's also a plus side. I assume that world consumption of resources will go down, since one person not born in a developed country is equivalent to probably 2+ not born in a developing country.

Super cool, I enjoy the clean interface. Changing the URL would be nice for linking. Lyric sites are pretty bad ATM.

How do you plan to get revenue, if there are no ads?

These types of posts are posted really often. Is there a conglomerated list of all these "lessons learned" posts? I think that would be really useful.

I didn't read it as a personal attack. The OP's post is not that "unpopular" on this site because this website is full of libertarians. pg is one, I believe. Most entrepreneurs of course, support capitalism and free markets. In fact the proposition that "a nonprofit/charity will never make as big a difference as a true for-profit vehicle that is pointed at the same problem" likely resonates with a majority of users, although I can't really provide a figure, this is from my general experience with the site.

I don't think that the parent post is supposed to be an attack on the opinion, but pointing out that it's actually popular.

If I remember correctly, tmux has this feature where multiple people can connect to the same window (shared sessions?). Is this the feature of tmux being used? If so, what does the pair.io server do? Where is the tmux window hosted?

Poor people have a different mindset, and I suspect that many of them have a feeling of hopelessness (justified or not, I don't know). I suppose that it could be really easy to improve your situation in a year but then saying that it is possible doesn't actually change anything. If it is truly easy to change your situation, the mindset (which then is the main cause of continual poverty) is not changed, that is. I feel that that would be blaming the poor for their problems while not actually taking steps to change their mindset. Perhaps we cannot change everyone's mindset, but we should take steps to change some people's (?), making a difference in their lives (and not just "it's your fault").

I agree. The book is a poor analogy of actually being poor. Let's put aside the money reserve for a moment. From wiki, it looks as if he put aside anything that would help him, such as his college education. Ok. But poor people also have things that weigh them down, things that hurt them, for example, dependents (children, family), addictions, debt, and what you mentioned.

Not to be rude but I'd like to ask you for advice.

I'm fourteen, and I'm in a similar situation, although worse at programming. All I know is web, and some low level. Neither very well. The best thing I've made is probably a fancy pastebin (for plain text) in Sinatra.

Here's my advice (question later):

From the part about fearing that your ideas suck, you should ask someone and see what others think of it. They probably aren't that bad. You need confidence within reason.

With web programming, don't start with Django. Sinatra is good for practicing and getting used to moving data, so I would recommend web.py (the equivalent for Python), just because it's like Sinatra (disclaimer: I've never used web.py).

I got confused by SQL and SQLAlchemy. I like MongoDB better. It's easier, in my opinion.

Once you want to do something complicated, beyond a pastebin, then move to Django.

Learn CSS and design and something like Illustrator (logos, background images). I used to open up Firebug/Inspector, select something from a web page, and see what came up. Then I tried to duplicate it. Probably not the best way though...

Here's my question (to everyone, not just you):

What should I do to make the most out of my time?

I have the opposite feeling with algorithms and data structures. They feel like a waste of time when I could be making something, but that's just my delusion probably.

We can continue this over email.

Edit: don't stress over learning something that takes too much time. There's no rush. Also, web programming is useful because you could provide a service/subscription. That is, you make a mobile app which works with a web site/central server.

It's increasing though, looking at that graph.

http://www.ioi2009.org/index.jsp;jsessionid=0B6696CAD77A7898...

This is the International Informatics Olympiad 2009's page. They have PDFs. Problems range in difficulty, but it does take a lot of thought and time to solve each of the problems.

Sure, can you tell me more?

I tried to ask them but there's always so many blocks. I have to explain so much just to get them to do something. It's like an inefficient bureaucracy with lots of red tape. I can't really contact any of my relatives because they are in another country. I think they're hostile to the idea because my grades have been low (although they are improving) ever since we moved to a new state over winter. They are also worried about my vision...

Right now my main goal is to make money. In the long term I would want to have several websites set up and do some research in CS. I've only completed one web app, and it's a really simple one in Sinatra (it's a pastebin...). I plan to learn Rails, JS, and graphic design with Inkscape.

Thanks for the links!

I'm on OSX 10.6 on an MBP too and it is slow on my Safari. It doesn't lag on FF4b11 though.

What do you mean by collate in this sense?

So like a blog? How would yours be different from a blog? I'm curious.

It's not Python. I ran otool -L on the binary, and on my Mac, it looks like an ObjC++ program.

"Pro-tip": you can also do :.!date

That seems kind of unsafe to me, since it's all keeping it in one file.

I noticed that you changed your colors to a lighter color.

From what I see, many logos can be modernized so easily by switching to "pastel colors", or colors with more white in them. These are duller, but in my opinion, much more modern.

I think Rails is much more stable. The Python frameworks seem to release more often (for me, at least). Ruby also has good libraries for web specific purposes, Python has more overall. For example, a website might release an API and a wrapper for Ruby, Python, and Java. However, an obscure project might have an official Python wrapper but not a Ruby wrapper.

I feel so young. All of you started on Ataris or C64 in BASIC. I started when I was ten with Python 2.5 on Windows XP.

I remember this from Hackers and Painters.

Money is a zero-sum game, wealth is not. So yes, I can't have the same dollar that you have.

Exactly. We don't need to exercise now, so few people do. Exercise has become something to do in our spare time. We stay in our homes and are required to use cars. When I visited China, I had to walk everywhere because I didn't have a car. Unfortunately we really can't get rid of the car obsession without a huge effort.

First, the suburbs take up so much space and distances living areas from the store areas. If we had a New Urbanist city, it would get people to walk. Now, you can't walk. Walking is impossible. You can't walk to a Walmart and grab fresh food every day. In China, my family would get food from the market every day. Now, we get food once a week and it's in big bags. That's because buying food is inconvenient.

Second, the suburbs take up space and creates the dreaded long commute. You can't walk to work. This makes public transportation unfeasible. Everyone buys a car.

It's all a big self-propelling problem. It creates its own problems, and to fix them, you have to contribute to the problem. Long distance? Get a car. A lot of cars? Build more roads. The vicious cycle continues...

EDIT: Biking is possible. But does anyone do it to commute, with so many cars and such long distances? Nope.

I personally witnessed this myself. I had to come home from school one day and today's roads aren't good for walkers. There's no sidewalk, so I had to walk on the grass or in the ditches. In many places (in the burbs, not in the city, the city is fine for walking), there were no walk signals. If there were, you had to walk along the road to the signal which often required adding more walking to the trip. For example, I had to cross the street from the library to a restaurant for lunch. I had to cross the middle of the road, and no one wants to do that.

Depends on the school. One that I went to in AZ had a Spanish class in 7th grade, which many people took, whereas another on in IN did not have foreign language classes. High schools usually do.

Looks better than the iPed.

I'm not sure about this. Pale skin color means you spend more time indoors (a job) and don't have much free time. Dark skin means you have enough free time to have a tan. In fact I think that the rich have darker skin and the poor have paler skin.

So basically.. cloud based caching?

I thought of some additional ideas. What do you think?

- Invitations

- A "materials needed" list for each class

- A public forum for general subject discussion

- A calendar

- Conferencing (with voice, video, images, chat)

- Buy books or supplies if needed

- For learning languages, there could be a service to chat with a fluent speaker

- To make tests, you can use something like Wufoo to make forms for tests

- Background theme for classes

- Progress charts

- Grade checker

- Mobile apps

- OpenID/other logins

- Citation helper

- Look up quotes and verses

- For whiteboard, maybe something with HTML5 canvas

- Group mailing list

> I used to do all my work in LaTeX, but recently gave up: life is too short. And before you do the "vehemently disagree" thing, think about the last time you had to typeset a text in LaTeX with lots of figures (as in, 2 or 3 per page), or tables. Enough said.

There are some editors that make this much easier, like Gummi. You can just type in the info and it inserts it for you.