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I have a feeling that Apple's unique organizational structure[1] will likely share a lot what Paul is describing as "Founder Mode"

[1] https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovatio...

In most cases, you'd want this to be handled at the OS-level by setting your locale preferences to match your region. However, this would require the app to be properly internationalized (using number formatters, etc.) to work correctly.

So you bring up a neat idea. I'm not sure which OSs support it, but OpenType does have a `locale` feature, primarily for glyph variants (ex: same codepoint, but different glyph for Chinese vs. Japanese). I'm guessing it could be abused to accomplish what you want and not require an app to adopt i18n APIs.

As someone who took the replacement 6.01 Intro to EECS, I would have much rather taken 6.001 SICP.

I'm sorry to say, but I feel very strongly about 6.01 being the least useful course I took at MIT.

I just finished a 10 week internship at Yahoo and while I can't say much about where the company is headed strategically, I can say that it's a super exciting time to be working there :)

I noticed this over the summer when I was in Beijing/Shanghai with the iOS 6 beta. As soon as I got on the Chinese cell network, the maps suddenly changed to the AutoNavi maps, which although they turned out to be significantly more useful, they weren't vector-based maps and you couldn't rotate them like Apple maps. I also noticed a few other things like I no longer had access maps of any other country and after comparing the maps to the Google Maps in China on my locked iOS 5 phone, the AutoNavi maps were SIGNIFICANTLY more useful (and even saved me when I was lost one time).

Thanks for the replies everyone. My main concern was that their courses are extremely rigorous and thus would consume a huge portion of time, possibly not leaving enough time to work on awesome side projects. Even still, I'm sure there are other opportunities. Will write a blog post on this soon.

Thank you for this post. I recently got into MIT and have been torn and confused over whether or not it is worth going. All these anti-college posts on HN were not helping but this post shared some good perspective.

While a lot of this accurate and something to consider, the author of this article fails to mention anything about Tesla's unique service/support model that they plan to roll out with the Model S. Tesla also mentions a "five-minute battery swap" available on their upcoming vehicles as well as "Tesla Rangers" that will come to your vehicle in the event that it dies. It seems to me like this is a small problem that the author is blowing out of proportion.

Looks to me like someone was having a little too much fun playing around with CoreImage effects :)

I'm interested in knowing if there are any similar services.

You can also just boot your Mac in single-user mode (Command-S), then mount the main filesystem and type "passwd bob". Much easier and produces the same effect.

Finally! Now we can properly emulate the 90s with modern web standards. :)

Already started NYC Internships here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431089

Wow. After reading this, I actually feel bad for Canadians. We Americans definitely take so much for granted.

North Korea seems to be among the trending, non-tech-related topics on HN. Really interesting stuff.

I've mentioned this before, but entering the "Chinese" internet (or internet of any foreign culture for that matter) is like entering a whole new world. It's amazing how the cultural aspects impacts small things like design sense and advertising colors.

Just out of curiosity, how did you manage to get a .edu domain for this startup?

I guess sometimes we get caught up sitting at our desk, hacking around and forget to appreciate the world beyond the internet?

Wow. I can seriously relate to this article. I'm notorious among my friends for "zoning-out", going into deep thought, being easily distracted and giving a delayed response when they ask me something. I thought I might have a problem, but this really gives a new perspective.

I think that perhaps by spending so many hours in front of the computer, my mind is always in this "virtual world" state, where I think A LOT, but only to myself—and this carries over to to the "physical world." I easily distracted—but can focus really hard on one thing at a time, so I don't have issues learning (if I'm paying attention to the class). Don't know if this is a good or a bad thing.

Why are all these North Korea articles/videos always so interesting to us? Every time one of them is posted I find myself glued to the computer screen and then looking up more information on Wikipedia for hours. I must have seen like 10 documentaries on it by now, but it's interesting every time.

Wordpress is probably one of the greatest things that has ever happened to the internet.

I think the awkwardness might have been part of the joke.

The whole concept is actually really impressive. It really shows shows how much more is possible if we just think outside the box.

Regardless, I'm incredibly excited after seeing this. We actually have one of these on reserve. :D

They also automatically grant state tax-exemption, if you are tax-exempt for federal taxes

Thanks for the heads up. You're probably right that filling out 2 forms is humorous, but it is the bare minimum and I did get away with it for the 2009 tax year (which we had no activity because we incorporated late in the year). I'm eventually going to have to file the W-9 with Apple and some other forms if I plan on sending money abroad.

After I was done incorporating and everything was ready, I did consult an accountant and he did say there might be some issues down the road, but only if I was planning on taking money out of the country (which I kind of am). I also did have to make a phone call to one of the IRSs numbers to have them add the organization to the list of tax-exempt organizations, so I could file my 990N online. They did make me verify that my gross receipts were less than $5,000/year.

Regarding age restrictions: In New Jersey and a lot of other states, the law specifically states that you need to be 18 years or older to incorporate and/or be a board member of the organization. This isn't true in some other states, depending how lenient their laws are. I ended up incorporating in Rhode Island, because they didn't have any age restriction and you are automatically tax exempt at the state level if you are at the federal level.

Thanks for the advice. I'll probably contact you or someone else if I do have any issues.

Thanks for asking your wife :). I'll keep that in mind next June because 2010 was our first "profitable" year.

We have a tax-exempt purpose— it's charitable. We're actually raising money to build computers for remote villages in North India and donating the rest to a blind school. The iPhone app is just a means of fundraising.

You make a really good point. But as I mentioned in the article during my research process I found that for tax purposes if you keep the gross receipts of a non-profit below $5,000/year you automatically get 501(c)(3) status and the process of filing taxes is very straightforward. Before the Pension Protection Act of 2006 non-profits that made less than $25,000 weren't even required to file annual tax returns. Regardless, I wasn't expecting to make more than $5,000/year anyway.

Basically, since it was my first major project and I wasn't expecting to make more than $5,000/year non-profit seemed to be the way to go.

I've taken Mandarin in school for three years and I can tell you that regardless of Chinese being the 'new language of the internet', Chinese websites are like entering a whole new world. Everything from the design to ads are completely different from what you'd expect on an English site.

If you'd rather watch video tutorials than read something, I'd highly recxomwnd the Lynda.com series 'CSS for Designers' — Although it's a bit dated, it teaches you a lot about web standards and semantics.

Racket is a great place to start with functional programming. We just spent one-third of the school year in AP Comp. Sci. playing around with it before starting JAVA. I'd definitely be interested in learning more.