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Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | jorgetown: Some years ago I took the same approach to start again from ground zero.
I found Polya to be good, but a Mathematician's Delight is better and more accessible: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0486462404?ie=UTF8&ta... |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | vaksel: why not just use geolocate and give people in USA the USA flag for English, and people in Britain the British flag for English etc |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | amr: I worked on many multi-lingual websites and always used the name of the language in its native form (Arabic => عربي, Greek => Ελληνική, etc ) to offer language selection. It works very well for me. I agree with others who advise against using flags for this. |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | thenduks: The flags don't help and simply based on the number of questions you have about the subject it's obvious that it's not clear cut how to handle the issue. Drop them. |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | idlewords: Apart from all the very wise arguments already mentioned in the thread, flags also tend to turn your UI into angry fruit salad. |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | patternexon: Concepts of Modern Mathematicshttp://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Modern-Mathematics-Ian-Stewar... |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | intregus: There are a few math books in the "Head First" series (which I always love). Those might serve more as refreshers for most people, but for a true math noob (like me), they have really helped. |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | Sapient: While a flag may work for some countries, don't forget that not all countries have a single official language.
Placing a South African flag on your site would confuse most South Africans as we have 11 official languages (probably a worst case scenario). But there are plenty of other countries with more than o... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | gdp: Don't lose your passion for the subject. I nearly did, because I got really, really bored near the middle of my degree (thankfully, my interest and love for CS was re-gained), mostly because I didn't follow the advice that I provide in the next paragraph. On the coding/academic side, apply what you learn early a... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | noodle: take things seriously from the start. you're probably the type of person who could barely be awake in high school and still make an A+ in all of your classes.you can maybe skate by doing this in college, but if you want to keep your grad school options free and/or keep your scholarships, you'll have to be seri... |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | DavidHogan: Hi all,I've discovered another interesting approach out there - show the user their own flag (via geoip) strictly as a icon indicating that the language can be changed. Next to that goes a menu with all the supported languages listed (in their native character sets). As far as I can tell this solves all the... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | JeremyChase: Don't skip class. College is easy if you actually go to class and pay attention. |
Advice for freshmen entering college | jlees: If you're not enjoying it you don't have to do it. I switched course (admittedly from maths w/ CS to pure CS) after my first year and had a much better time.Get involved in stuff. Don't spend all your nights indoors hacking! |
Advice for freshmen entering college | Oompa: College is more than the classes you attend and the grades you get. Get involved on campus, and make friends. This will make your life easier in the long run because you also have people you can help you if you're struggling in a subject, not to mention you can go and focus on other things if you're burned out. ... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | felideon: - Make sure you work on cool side projects to keep your hacking motivation up. I regret wasting all my time on stupid games online or just chatting with people. I'd much rather have a few cool projects under my sleeve.- Look for hacker-friendly internships in the summer. I really wish I had done internship... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | charlesju: Here is my advice, which is going to be completely different from everyone else here. As a caveat, I almost flunked out of college but am doing pretty well for myself right now, so take it as you may.Just have fun. Screw classes. Screw trying cramming for tests. Do well enough to learn while not stressing yo... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | Femur: Go to parties. Rush for a fraternity. Have fun.Meet girls. When you are laying on your deathbed, you will never think to yourself "gosh, i wish i got with fewer women in college." |
Are you a founder? | dmillar: Yes, http://pacsdrive.com my role is founder (what doesn't that include?) |
Advice for freshmen entering college | cperciva: Two pieces of advice come to mind:1. If possible, don't think about what degree you're going to get until at least your 3rd year. (This might be impossible, depending on your college -- some institutions require incoming students to declare a major promptly.) Out of dozens of students I've dealt with, I'm o... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | bbuffone: College is a great place to start building your network. Teachers, fellow students, employeers... These are all people that you can use later in life to make things easier/possible. |
Advice for freshmen entering college | rguzman: I'm not sure if it is surprising or non-obvious, but I wrote my postfact list of things someone would've told me at the start:
http://metarz.net/blog/17/ |
Advice for freshmen entering college | pwnix_rising: This is the advice I would have given myself at 18: Don't fret girls and relationships. I'm serious. Focus on making friends (male and female), working on interesting projects, and learning everything you can (academic and otherwise) during the next 4 years.You may have inflated expectations of college wo... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | gdp: Oh, I just thought of another thing that served me well.Find the professors and academic staff who are doing worthwhile research that interests you, and talk to them! Not in an irritating sycophantic way, just have a conversation if you genuinely want to know more.A big adaptation going from high school to univer... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | edw519: Take advantage of everything. Try things you've never tried before, even if you're not interested in them (especially if you're not interested in them). This is your one big chance to have the freedom to find out almost anything about yourself and the world. You probably won't have a better opportunity for t... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | makmanalp: 1) Don't worry if you don't get all As, especially if you're ripping through the curriculum like crazy. This is college, you won't die when you don't have a full 4.0.2) Find upperclassmen you respect and ask their opinions on classes and professors (take those with a grain of salt) before you take classes. F... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | grandalf: I agree with most of the other posts... but have a few things to add:First, grades matter, or else you'd just self-teach everything and not worry about a degree. A B+ average is not an option. Thus:Take the minimum number of credit hours to qualify as a full time student. And demand a lot of yourself -- tr... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | limist: Be sure that at least some of your friends do not look like you; yes, I mean that literally. The world's only going to get more interconnected and diverse, and understanding how different people think and feel is vital, especially when you don't agree with them.Ask questions, especially in class, but also when... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | grosales: Have fun - probably going to get obliterated for saying this - but, give a quick read to "Surely you are joking, Mr. Feynman" so you can realize that, more than anybody, really smart people always need to have fun.It's good that you want to get good at hacking. Working on Open Source projects every once in a ... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | tocomment: Get to know professors so you can get recommendation letters for grad school. I was shy and didn't meet any, and now I'm locked out of grad school for it. (They all require recommendation letters) |
Advice for freshmen entering college | krschultz: - Don't underestimate the value of making lifelong friends and having fun. You won't make it through an engineering degree unless you have a way to blow off the steam for a few minutes a day. We were buried with work but the 8 or 9 guys I hang out with made it to the dining hall together every night and play... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | phicou: College is a great opportunity to try a lot of different things. There's a lot of good advice here, but I'd like to suggest that you find some time to do some kind of volunteer work.Most colleges have many different groups and causes you can volunteer with. You'll learn a lot of important skills that you won'... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | mgrouchy: Don't do what I did.I drank too much, partied too much, worked full time the entire way though, didn't go to enough class and didn't study enough(which turned out meant that I didn't get very good marks either).I basically did everything wrong in my university career. That being said, University was boatloads... |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | thunk: It's not strictly math, and I can't recommend it from experience, but I've always been curious what a beginner's reaction to _Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics_ might be. It's free here:http://mitpress.mit.edu/SICM/book.html |
Advice for freshmen entering college | maximumwage: My advice is to make sure you don't get depressed or hopeless. Being away from home for an extended period of time and adjusting to many new situations can lead to a negative impact on mental health. Both depression and hopelessness happened to me in college, leading to bad results (I didn't date, I had no... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | michael_dorfman: Choose your classes based on the professor, not the topic. Good professors can make a boring topic seem interesting; bad professors can make the most interesting topic seem boring.Therefore: ask around to find out who the outstanding professors are, and take whatever courses they are offering. |
Advice for freshmen entering college | carterschonwald: It seems that a lot of good points have been covered so I'll point out two that seem lacking:
1) Make sure that when you do have a choice, that you only live with folks who will be easy to get along with even at their most acrimonious
2) for late night snacking and caffeine, fruits, oatmeal, and some v... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | gms: I want to echo gdp's advice above. What I wish someone had told me as a freshman:Grades don't really matter, no one will care about them.1) Future employers (investors too?) will care about code you wrote outside of class, whether open source or your own projects.2) Grad schools will care about great recommendatio... |
Where do you live? | citation_needed: Poona, India. |
Are you a founder? | mgrouchy: Not yet, but working on it! |
Advice for freshmen entering college | lallysingh: 1. No beard or moustache until you're old enough to drink. Goatees are OK.2. There are core programming skills, and there are technology-of-the-week skills. Instead of worrying terribly about the latter, worry about getting your core ability to design and test efficient, maintainable code. Definitely pla... |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | AhmadH: I find two letter codes more usable:EN English
IT Italian
AR ArabicOf course you can separate them from the language name by a different font or background color. |
Advice for freshmen entering college | helveticaman: From experience: if you drop out at 19, know that things can get seriously fucked up. Now I'm 21, and the startup I stopped out for for nine months went nowhere. It can also throw a wrench in your college experience.Just...if you want to learn what I learned from it, it's this: learn tech in class, and... |
Are you a founder? | jgrahamc: I am one of the founders of http://www.electric-cloud.com/ |
Advice for freshmen entering college | jameskpolk: 1. Remember that you will probably not graduate with a 4.0. Your first C is going to hurt, especially if you were an A student in high school. Just keep going.2. Don't worry about the impact of switching majors or programs. I started my school in the computer engineering program, hated it ~2.5 years in, and... |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | papaf: I came back to doing maths after a gap of over a decade. I found the student survival guide very clear and useful. I imagine it would be excellent to someone who is not good at maths.I read the guide every evening while I was cooking (its not a difficult read) and my maths improved greatly.http://www.netcomuk.co... |
Are you a founder? | markbao: Yes, http://avecora.com , http://ramamia.com , http://tickrtalk.com , http://classleaf.com , http://adaptance.com , and http://debateware.com |
Are you a founder? | modoc: I founded Spark::red http://sparkred.com "The Best ATG Hosting Provider", with a couple of partners. ATG is a niche expensive (but amazing) eCommerce software package. All the partners are technical architect type folks. |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | zppx: That's depends on what you want to learn and for why, well, some people want to understand the formalism of a theory, as theoretical computer science or theoretical physics where others are only interested in applications, so I will take a generalist approach in the topics, yes topics not books, that I will advis... |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | Semiapies: Why not just a menu of the written-out names of the languages, with each language name in its own language?"English", "Deutsch", "Português", etc.Depending on how many languages you're supporting, you might just make it a short list of links up in the header, at least until one is selected. |
Are you a founder? | sosuke: What qualifies as a founder? If its a one man startup doesn't that give them every title? :) |
Are you a founder? | alain94040: A founder of http://fairsoftware.net : "build your [iPhone|web|desktop] App Together"Previously co-founder of http://eve-usa.comPS: not listing projects I launched that never went anywhere... |
Are you a founder? | nostrademons: Former founder: http://diffle.com, http://bootstrapacitor.com, http://randomicity.net, http://whatshallidonow.net, and GameClay (which never launched). All dead now, my cofounder was the one that paid for the hosting, and he let them lapse when we gave up. I was the technical end of the partnership, wri... |
Are you a founder? | hikari17: I'm a co-founder -- along with my wife and a friend -- of http://www.genlighten.com, an Etsy-like marketplace for genealogy research services. My role includes pre-code IA/UX design, usability testing, customer development, sales/marketing, and general management. |
Are you a founder? | socratees: No. I'm on my H1B visa. |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | EdwardCoffin: I've had pretty good luck using the MAA recommendations list for libraries: http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/19/?pa=content&sa=viewDocum...I recommend reading Theodore Gray and Jerry Glynn's Brain Rot article for some ideas on what math skills are worth intensive study and development and which are less impor... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | dmpayton: Keep your head on straight and you'll do fine. :)FWIW, it's been awesome having you around at work, and I wish you the best of luck at Olin. |
Where do you live? | authentic: Cambridge, UK. |
Are you a founder? | johns: Yep. Founder of http://rimsystems.com |
Advice for freshmen entering college | javanix: Try to find some good friends in CS (or whatever your major is). I made the mistake my first year of college of being far too standoffish and irritated with most of the people at my first school, and spent most of my time bored and lonely until the middle of my second semester, by which point I'd already made ... |
Are you a founder? | Tawheed: Yep! Founder at http://AskMyBrainTrust.com |
Are you a founder? | ezmobius: I'm one of the founder of http://engineyard.com |
Are you a founder? | dawie: Founder of http://docley.com |
Are you a founder? | rbreve: yes, Im working on blipea.com tubabel.com latino based startups |
Are you a founder? | mojombo: Currently cofounder of http://github.com, previously founder of http://gravatar.com. |
Advice for freshmen entering college | vaksel: My advice is two fold.1) Have fun, you think 4 years of college is long...but trust me, it'll go by in a blink of an eye.2) Start thinking ahead from day one.GPA: don't slack off early on, early on all your classes are bullshit, you might think they are hard, but you have no idea. Get those easy As early on.Sta... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | karamozov: A little bit of perspective from someone five years further down the river:I'm grateful for my honours ticket to the thrill ride that is my job. I see the joy I find in what I do every day reflect in the others I work with. I'm privileged in this regard and I respect that.I regret the plethora of mis-spent h... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | aplusbi: Take advantage of the school whenever possible. If tuition covers up to 20 credits, take 20 credits a semester (assuming you can handle the course load of course). If there are discounted summer courses and you are available, why not?Take interesting and challenging electives. A lot of students just take th... |
Are you a founder? | colinplamondon: Yup.Product: http://freebooksapp.com
Company blog: http://spreadsong.com |
Advice for freshmen entering college | yef: Since you're already focused on hacking and academics, my advice is to balance that by developing your social skills:1. Read (and practice) How To Win Friends and Influence People2. Go to parties and have fun at them3. Cultivate a group of close friends whom you can count onIf you can graduate with great hacking s... |
Are you a founder? | alexsolo: Yes, I am a co-founder of http://www.pagerduty.com. |
Are you a founder? | scottdw2: Yes.Founder of http://www.transactor.com |
Are you a founder? | flooha: I'm the founder of http://flooha.com |
Advice for freshmen entering college | akeefer: It's a bit random, but: if you're not already in good shape (and many of us hacker types aren't coming out of high school), find where the gym is and learn what to do there, and go three times a week.College is one of the first chances where you A) generally have free access to a decent gym, B) have enough co... |
Are you a founder? | kbrower: Yes. Founder of http://www.recipepuppy.com |
Are you a founder? | dannyr: Founder of http://www.launchset.com |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | paulreiners: "Naive Set Theory" by Paul R. Halmos. |
Are you a founder? | 8plot: Yes, I am the founder of http://StoryMash.com |
Are you a founder? | mid: Yes, http://www.fatfreecrm.com, also co-founded White Pajama, NextAge Technologies, and Fat Free Software. |
Are you a founder? | ryanspahn: Currently - http://sleep.fm and some other things too, soon to be released. |
Are you a founder? | jerome_etienne: i'm the founder of http://urfastr.net and another one not yet annonced |
Are you a founder? | terpua: Cofounder of http://isyncd.com going after sharepoint and box.net. Previously founding country manager for friendster philippines. |
Advice for freshmen entering college | dusklight: 1. don't watch tv or play video games, find more productive and ultimately rewarding ways to spend your leisure time, like playing a sport (team sport in particular is good, geeky choice is ultimate frisbee, but any team sport is good) learning an instrument, martial arts, theatre production, volunteer work,... |
Are you a founder? | callmeed: Yes, co-founder and head of development for http://bigfolio.com + http://nextproof.comCurrently in our 5th year. "Ramen profitable" on day 1, and now "expensive sushi profitable".I don't know if we're still considered a "startup" but we still try and act like one ... new, cool stuff always in the works. |
Are you a founder? | shafqat: I'm the cofounder of NewsCred. http://www.newscred.com is our consumer site, but we are more focused on a B2B solution (not public yet). |
Are you a founder? | YuriNiyazov: Yup, http://facetoflife.com |
Are you a founder? | PStamatiou: Yup. http://skribit.com "cure writer's/blogger's block" |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | billswift: If you want to DO math, nothing beats working through a decent textbook. I have worked through several since I'm approaching 50 and don't use math enough to keep my skills up (and like any skill, you have to keep practicing to stay decently competent in math). The best Precalculus textbook I have used is S... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | hyperbovine: Be open to the possibility that something completely unexpected may turn out to be your life's calling. |
Are you a founder? | oschnaps: co-founder of www.justthrive.com |
Advice for freshmen entering college | dsteinweg: It can be a big shock to start living with someone else closely for the first time. Prepare to compromise.There will be several times when your roommate(s) gets on your nerves, and I found it best to step back, take a breath, look at specifically is bothering you, and confront your roommate about it calmly.... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | tedshroyer: If I went back or could start over, I would study two or more fields that interested me making sure that they weren't closely related. I'd do this because it's not enough to know how to make good tools for programmers. Knowing what programmers need lets us have bunches of good text editors, databases and p... |
moving to US | tarouter: I think patio11 has some excellent advice. On top of that, why not partner with someone who is already in US? That way you can have benefits of (one co-founder) being in India and benefits of (other co-founder) being in US.
I live in US and I would love to explore options to partner someone in India. Being I... |
Intern staying on with company, is Salary Negotiation Appropriate? | noodle: if you feel like you deserve a raise, ask for one. however, understand that many companies have a policy set in stone for interns. you might not be able to get anything more within the employment structure you're currently in.however, if you like this job, you could use this situation as leverage for a much h... |
Are you a founder? | smmcbride: http://www.familymatic.com/ is my spare-time startup. It's mostly ready for launch, now I'm trying to figure out how to market it. |
Are you a founder? | azsromej: yes, working on http://rankforest.com and another unreleased project |
Are you a founder? | jamwt: Cofounder of http://shoptalkapp.com .At this point, we all three (co-founders) participate pretty evenly in the hacking, strategy, marketing, etc. |
Are you a founder? | bjelkeman-again: Co-founder of http://akvo.org/ |
Are you a founder? | mrshoe: I'm a cofounder of http://shoptalkapp.com |
Are you a founder? | nico: Co-founder: http://www.medularis.com, previously http://www.lemontech.cl and also worked at http://www.needish.com |
Where do you live? | AhmadH: Kuwait |
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