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I realise this is new news, But any hope for students outside the US?

Really enjoying W7.RC at the moment, Would be great on my budget to be able to do it this way.


The site FAQ says that they're going to make the offer available in other countries as well.


Funny how I only even think of Bing when I come across a reference on ycombinator, Then forget about it all over again.

His biggest issue is that 90% of people have Google as their homepage, I don't even think about it when it opens anymore, Its just always there as I need it.


I've actually switched to bing for search. I like their UI better and the results are just as good or better.


No, Bing results are actually much worse, especially for detecting typos in not so popular queries.


I use Bing for the cashback sometimes. I'm happy to take Microsoft's money.



I am switching to bing as well. The result is as good as google and I am happy. The way Google handles the whole adsense stuff just make me sick.


My browser homepage is actually Google's new "Caffeine" beta:

http://www2.sandbox.google.com/


The only issue I can see here is people not understanding the science of it, And only having it make them more anxious or induce panic at not being able to easily get to the exit.


My grandparents are still alive, and are actually doing quite well.

I'm 19 years old, and I hold a strong hope that they will hold my children in their time.

I can't explain how much that would mean to me.


I still have a great-grandmother who is almost 100. It was a very surreal experience when her daughter died, at about 68 or so, and she hosted the viewing.

Can you imagine burying your own elderly daughter?


My granddad just visited me, he's 87, does every day 40 x 25m pool laps, dances, sings and almost beats me at armfight. :P

EDIT: he's also great-granddad to my kid :) My great-grandmom from grandmom side lived to 95...


Reminds me of the abc documentary "Live to be 150... can you do it?" where the profile several centenarians. They look in surprisingly good shape considering they are over 100 years old. See http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Longevity/Story?id=4559263&...


That doesn't put fulfilling the need of such a project beyond the reach of any qualified coder to try and fill the gap himself.

It doesn't cost much for, a group of friends in college to start working on a project, or some colleagues meeting to throw ideas around, it costs nothing, and might be the beginning of such a dream.

It just takes an idea, and the will to take the risk.


You'd still need to build relationships with companies or have some experience with a "normal" company and identify a problem that is common among a bunch of similar businesses.

I wouldn't put much money on a just out of college programmer's ability to come up with a great problem that needs to be solved... without some exposure to the industry in question.

That's where the years part comes in.

Although I am confident a qualified programmed could solve the problem in question with little effort. Marketing is the hard part.


none of it seems to work very well at all in Chrome, or my Firefox 3.0

Seems to be a very redundant article.


What a messy, uninviting blog-site.

I found it hard to even finish the article.


Didn't seem that bad to me. Sarcasm?


Thats quite an ignorant statement.

/b/ has become... ridiculous, most older anon's avoid it completely. /b/ is mostly full of children trying to jump on the bandwagon.


It's disappointing to think that because your as well known as Bill Gates, you cant have a simple, public page to share with your actual friends.


It's tough to feel sorry for the guy


sure you can, just register as Gill Bates


When i look at conditional comments, I at least feel comfortable knowing that everything is plainly laid out, And looks cleanly formatted enough for me to be comfortable.

Slapping these one star hacks into my css everywhere would start to look very very messy.


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