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Good luck with EXEC, Justin! It was a pleasure working with the entire justin.tv team in 2008.

I really hope that they're simply consolidating Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and CISE (Computer & Information Science Engineering) into a single department and keeping…

Potentially.

Hah, definitely not a surprise that Justin.tv is sponsoring it.

TopCoder, where you can challenge others and win prizes: http://www.topcoder.com/ SPOJ: http://www.spoj.pl/

A part of me faded away when Apple updated iTunes in 2006 and effectively blocked MyTunes/OurTunes [1]. What a great facilitator it was for introducing you to cool people with a va…

http://people.csail.mit.edu/hal/hack-android/

BS in CS. Graduated about a week ago from UF. Going to work for a bookstore.

Writely ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writely#History ), one of the precursors to Google Docs, was written using the .NET stack. http://scobleizer.com/2006/03/09/congrats-to-write…

My experience has been completely different. I'm a CS student from a low income household, yet it was the brand-name (and well-known startup) internship opportunities that were not…

Writing, music, film. Mostly non-technical (in the traditional sense) creative endeavors.

Anyone can view dead links -- replace "item" in the url with "edit".

Oops. I totally meant to put "(PDF)" in the title rather than the URL. Thanks.

NNDB ( http://www.nndb.com/ ) may be relevant to #3.

We were sitting next to each other during our Intro CS lab when groups were being assigned; I asked if he wanted to be my partner. We've been partners for pretty much everything ev…

I stand corrected.

1. Official Google projects have the "Google" label. http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Google

This is good advice. The Berkeley BART station is a relatively short walk from the campus.

I'm well aware of this. I was simply remarking on how it is sometimes used.

Oh, then my mistake, I guess.

In this context, I think that the "also has a top CS program" attribute is implied. I think most people understand what the author meant regardless of his slightly incorrect choice…

'Ivies' is used (erroneously)* as a blanket term to descibe a number of elite institutions (think Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Berkeley, top LACs, etc.) ... connotation.

Maybe this? http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=clarence+thomas+uncle+tom