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Good luck with EXEC, Justin! It was a pleasure working with the entire justin.tv team in 2008.

I really hope that they're simply consolidating Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and CISE (Computer & Information Science Engineering) into a single department and keeping existing faculty.

As a 2010 graduate (CISE - I wanted a mix of engineering and liberal arts), this is quite troubling to me. I remember when they announced that they would be laying off a number of faculty members (mostly lecturers) -- some of whom were the best instructors in the entire department. Now they're getting rid of research in the name of teaching? What a farce.

Potentially.

Hah, definitely not a surprise that Justin.tv is sponsoring it.

TopCoder, where you can challenge others and win prizes: http://www.topcoder.com/

SPOJ: http://www.spoj.pl/

A part of me faded away when Apple updated iTunes in 2006 and effectively blocked MyTunes/OurTunes [1]. What a great facilitator it was for introducing you to cool people with a variety of musical tastes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OurTunes

http://people.csail.mit.edu/hal/hack-android/

BS in CS. Graduated about a week ago from UF. Going to work for a bookstore.

Writely (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writely#History), one of the precursors to Google Docs, was written using the .NET stack. http://scobleizer.com/2006/03/09/congrats-to-writely-for-usi...

My experience has been completely different. I'm a CS student from a low income household, yet it was the brand-name (and well-known startup) internship opportunities that were not only incredibly educational and provided with me with invaluable experience, but also paid pretty darn well. I made more than half of our annual household income in a single summer.

I know this is just a single anecdote, but I don't think my story is that unusual for people in the tech/engineering/finance industry.

Writing, music, film. Mostly non-technical (in the traditional sense) creative endeavors.

Anyone can view dead links -- replace "item" in the url with "edit".

Oops. I totally meant to put "(PDF)" in the title rather than the URL. Thanks.

NNDB (http://www.nndb.com/) may be relevant to #3.

We were sitting next to each other during our Intro CS lab when groups were being assigned; I asked if he wanted to be my partner. We've been partners for pretty much everything ever since.

I stand corrected.

1. Official Google projects have the "Google" label. http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Google

This is good advice. The Berkeley BART station is a relatively short walk from the campus.

I'm well aware of this. I was simply remarking on how it is sometimes used.

Oh, then my mistake, I guess.

In this context, I think that the "also has a top CS program" attribute is implied. I think most people understand what the author meant regardless of his slightly incorrect choice of words.

'Ivies' is used (erroneously)* as a blanket term to descibe a number of elite institutions (think Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Berkeley, top LACs, etc.)

... connotation.

Maybe this? http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=clarence+thomas+uncle+tom

"They do not seem to understand RSS feeds."

I'd wager that the majority of the users on their site don't care about or know what RSS is, like most people.

Don't be ashamed: there are weekly foursquare games in one of the most trafficked parts of my university's campus.

This article reminded me of a comment posted by manvsmachine in a previous thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=105295):

I'd suggest that a large part of the reason is the issue of prestige. In America, intelligent black people will tend to choose high prestige, low-risk career paths more often than not. A lot of it is about the uncertainty of failure; In black communities, a lot is expected of the really smart kids. They're seen as not just representing themselves, but also their communities and, to an extent, their race. It sucks, but it's the truth. So a lot of them choose to be doctors, lawyers, etc, because you're viewed differently by society. If we ever get to the point that being a software engineer is viewed in the same light as the aforementioned occupations, I'm sure there would be a sizable increase.

Seems plausible.

The leader is also Neal Wu (http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=22663...), one of the top contest programmers in the world.

You can also see him in action: http://www.boondogglefilms.com/aardvarkd.php

Same. 4th year CS major at UF.

Just an anecdote, but I saw an older gentleman riding a Segway in the street on Lexington avenue in Midtown Manhattan!