I find it funny that you find the lack of upper-case letters makes it difficult to read, when you missed have the words you should have capitalized in your comment.

Muphry's law?

The shares of stock in an EFT are controlled by an independent group. Essentially you are buying shares of someone else's shares.

But this is a way to operate on fractional stocks. Can you elaborate on "api" original speculation?

Now this is interesting, I entered in my name (Dillon) which is gender-neutral and it returned:

{"name":"dillon","gender":"male","probability":"1.00","count":1}

I'm interested is how its decided there was a 100% probability that I'm male (It was correct though).

..Dillon is gender neutral? I understand that this could be said about any name (which makes predicting gender a non-trivial problem), but I am pretty sure I've never met a female Dillon.

Hey Dillon. It only found one match for "Dillon" in the dataset, which was a male. If Dillon is gender neutral the probability will probably change into some decimal when the dataset grows.

First of all if you want secure private IRC you should be running your own irc daemon (I would reccommend UnrealIRCd).

Second, if you insist on using a public IRC server a much better solution would be to use FiSH encryption (ultrx.net/doc/fish). Distribute the passkey over another channel to the users and you can have secure irc on a public network without even making the channel private. SSL also ceases to matter.

"tell me when it's going to rain tommorrow"

Would the service tell you what time it would be raining/not raining the next day?

Or would it alert you the first day that the weather told it that it would be raining the day after?

This would depend which weather data provider is being used. On my AccuWeather app, there's a graph showing the temps and whether it will rain etc... by the hour, but I'm not sure how accurate it is.

Hourly Billing

Stored backups (for free) of servers that you can set up at a later date instantly via an api

It's not about being a $5 vps for me, it's about being able to pay $0.014 when I need a small vps for 2 hours.

Hourly billing is huge for us.

Our service is mostly CPU bound, embarrassingly parallel, and so far, 90% of usage is centered on a time slot that's about 8 hours per week long.

We will save a ton of money by scaling down during the off hours, which means only Amazon, Rackspace, and a few others make any sense at all.

I agree. This was massive for me. Being able to create a Droplet (from an existing backup) within a minute, test out an installation for a day, and have it cost almost nothing is huge.

I think the better tactic is to focus on mastering programming and solving problems, rather than a specific language.

Learning a new syntax is not that challenging, and no language will be the optimal(or even possible) to use for every project.

That's the thing, though -- languages aren't just changes of syntax. Writing in an object-oriented style is very different from writing in a functional programming style, even within the same language.

Alternately, new libraries are worth learning. Learning how to deal with massively parallel code is very different from singlethreaded programs.

Of course, you can write C in any language.

I am no source whinger, but that claim it too fascinating to let pass. I have never heard such a thing before.

Please tell us more, with, sorry to ask, sources.

I can say with a good deal of certainty there is nothing true about your statement regarding the KKK.

I think he might be referring to the WKKK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_of_the_Ku_Klux_Klan) but its still a far fetched leap to claim that the KKK was founded for the sole purpose of protecting women's rights. That most certainly is not true.

Can you provide a source for this?

Discrete Mathematics

Logic, Set Theory, & Proofs

Linear Algebra I/II

In the summer after my first/second year of comp sci I took co-op positions, compensation was ~15/hr. Seemed to be about the lowest that companies offered. I only took something that low in order to stay in my home town and save money that way.

Edit: Wanted to add that I'm in Canada and all co-op's through uni or otherwise that I have seen are paid, may be different elsewhere.

Im from Canada as well (London, Ontario to be specific). Im unsure what to expect, and I highly doubt that any startup companies will be at my universities job fair. Im not very interested in making tons of money, but I want the experience more then anything.