I've been using Streeteasy.com a lot over the past few weeks. Sometimes I get Google.com maps, and sometimes I get the Open ones. I always think that the Google ones look and function much better. I hope the open ones improve, but it's not there yet.
There are three categories of college degrees, when it comes to helping you advance your career:
1. A small set of elite schools: Ivy League, MIT, Stanford, Cal Tech. Having Harvard on your resume will always stand out. "Harvard, huh? Certainly worth a look at what else he/she has done."
2. A school that happens to match with the hiring person -- you happened to attend whatever state school or private college that the hiring person went to or knows well. This is basically nepotism.
3. Everything else. UoP is most likely to end in this bucket.
What was annoying was that the last two paragraphs were on
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the second page.
Don't get me wrong, I know about spreading pages over multiple pages is supposed to help increase page views. But this was just so ridiculously short and unevenly distributed that it was extremely annoying.
To each their own, I suppose, but I enjoyed this story quite a bit. A bit like the Fast inverse square root story, or the Control-Alt-Delete stories, it's fun to see the origin of interesting and neat things, even if they are somewhat predictable.
I've been using this server as a ping and DNS test for at least 5-6 years, so it's great to hear more about it.
Agreed, I was hoping for more dramatic/unexpected/insightful story than 'we picked an easy to remember number and it turned out to be too much effort to restrict access to the public'.
Clearly Sikuli has flaws, but for a research project, their presentation and execution is impressive. Their efforts should be commended. Hopefully they'll continue enhancing their scripting environment so that the scripts are robust to significant variation in the GUI.
