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Thanks for this. Do you know why the courses aren't all hosted on Standford.edu, though?

Correct, the real headline was "58,000 Want Course."

Kind of sensationalist of mhb to change it like that, unless NYT secretly updated the article, which I've heard they're fond of doing.

Okay, but why should I use your service? What are you doing for $50 that I can't do myself?

I don't mean to be an ass, but these are questions I think everyone is asking. An 'About' link on your site would be really helpful.

Also, I'm running Chrome 13.0.782.112 m for Windows, and stuff's still not working.

Why is this on the front page? There are so many problems...

  What's going on here?
  What are you trying to get me to pay for?
  $50? $75? What's the difference? 5, and 8 of what?
  Why can't I close this box once it's opened? (chrome)
  "Send me your site link/description, first!" This link doesn't even work! (chrome)

Nice creative idea here. I think its pretty fun.

A few things:

1. Sometimes I have no idea what an image is showing. Text would be really helpful.

2. What is the purpose of hints? I know people could just google search, but why make it so easy?

Hm, I think you forgot a colon.

This still doesn't solve the problem of helping users discover what tags are out there. I didn't even know about tags like 'discussion' or 'support' until I read this post, and I wouldn't have thought about typing them in to see if other people are using them because they seem somewhat obscure.

Now I feel like an idiot, thanks :)

But w3fools looks pretty, so it must be right.

This is a bit off topic, but do you know a better resource than this w3schools page on Javascript and DOM? [1] I'm just learning now, and it's really frustrating me that I can't find a better resource.

Java : Javadoc :: Javascript : ????

[1] http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/

I'm not sure why everyone on HN seems to be bagging on about.com. It's a legitimate website that pays authors to write content [1].

True, it's ugly and written at a 6th grade reading level, but it's sometimes useful. It's certainly not a spam site.

[1] http://beaguide.about.com/

Reporting a DoS attack to the CIA website on the frontpage of a newspaper is like reporting the egging of a bank as armed robbery.

[To preface this, I'm assuming you're in or about to enter college]

If you're really motivated, I would recommend looking through previous years' lists of participating organizations for Google Summer of Code [0]. These organizations post lists of project ideas for GSoC, but of course you don't have to participate in GSoC to actually do them. In fact, I would guess that a lot of the project ideas are never even worked on at all. Go ahead and search through the projects for something that interests you and then shoot someone an email or hang out in their IRC (if they have one). Most people would be happy to have you on board.

IMHO, OS stuff is really tough. I just recently graduated college, and I wouldn't dare bother with the time commitment required to get involved in OS development (I'm looking at you, linux kernel). It's just not for me. Maybe you'll like it though. :)

[0] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc...

Here I was thinking that a weekend project meant no more than 2 days of work. I hope the majority holds your opinion, or the people on HN really are 100 times more efficient than me.

Then we would have at least 12 billion years until they got here.

They actually controlled for exercise and then went on to find that even the slightest movements are helpful.

Here, I think this article actually explains the research better: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17sitting-t.h...

> As for who pays for all this, the ISPs and copyright owners will share the costs of operating the program, sources said.

After reading this, I still don't understand how the RIAA/MPAA are convincing ISPs to get on board. What's in it for the ISPs besides a bunch of angry customers?

Blehg, GNU Typist recommends putting two spaces after period. Someone needs a lesson from a typographer.

I'm sure it helps to have the right parents too. When I was in elementary school, I showed great curiosity for how our old Macintosh worked, but the internet wasn't around, there were no relevant books in the public library, and my parents didn't know jack-shit about computers.

My point is, with the right upbringing, we would all be like this. I'd like to learn more about this kids childhood. I wonder if, like me, he also went to run-down public high school and had technologically illiterate parents. If that the case, I'd be super impressed. Until then, I'm just mildly impressed and slightly jealous.

Really? Because the NSA could be doing it right now and you wouldn't have a clue. If someone steals your password though, chances are you'll notice.

Are you telling me I get hit with aggressive ads every time I login to my bank account? :(

And they're filing a patent?

So let me get this straight. Mr Band holds a venue and pays to install Apple's patented film-blocking technology. Then, all of the loyal Apple customers who paid good money for their phones get a feature disabled at the concert. Meanwhile, Joe who bought a cheap Samsung phone can go on recording the event because his phone doesn't have some crappy Apple-patented technology in it.

Or is the idea that when I go to a big name concert, they'll confiscate all the phones that aren't made by Apple?

Either way, the idea, if reported by Fox correctly, is stupid and does not make any sense.

In that case, I think it would depend on the task at hand. For refactoring code and moving massive swaths of text around, stock Eclipse would win. For making small patches and writing new code from scratch, VIM would probably win.

> I love VIM and nothing can come close to the speed I can edit in VIM, esp. not anything you have to drive with a mouse

A contrived example, but I'd like to see someone edit a Java project faster in VIM than I do in Eclipse.

Look, I know how to use VIM better than the next guy (you'll just have to trust me on this), but when it comes to writing code for large projects I can't stand using VIM. It makes me feel like I'm looking through this tiny window to my code. Give me a mouse and a powerful IDE, and it's like I suddenly have a 10,000ft view of the world.

I think Karl meant infrastructure, not technology.

This is a decent analogy, but still I cringe whenever I hear someone comparing computer languages to spoken ones.

They are nothing alike, and I would be honestly surprised if we even used the same part of our brain for processing the grammars of human languages as we do for the rigid, formal computer ones.

If this were true, how come not all great programmers are great writers? Why don't more great programmers become fluent in other spoken languages?