Please don't compare insurance companies to casinos. In casinos the odds are completely computable and known beforehand to everyone. Not so with insurance which deals with real life.
30 credits doesn't equal 30 hours as far as I know. But still, I think GP should just suck it up and finish his degree, he has only a very limited amount of time to lose by doing so, and possibly much to gain from having a degree. In other words, he has limited downside and almost unlimited upside.
> Plugins for printf()/scanf()?? Not even remotely the kind of thing that needs to be in the core language libraries.
Where then? As far as I can tell, there's no sensible way to extend the functionality of printf()/scanf(), and compilers special-case their format-strings.
This must be the 9001st time I read a post by a C++ programmer that doesn't understand that the problem isn't that other languages don't have RAII. The problem is that C++ doesn't have finally/unwind-protect and thus requires RAII to approximate it.
The idea seems good, but I think many people would prefer a demo (or more explanation) about how it actually works, preferably without the user needing to supply his/her email.
On the technical side, the scrolling text seems to overlap to the next line on some zoom-settings (I'm using Firefox 8 if it matters).
I think there's a huge pent-up demand for software that makes it easy for artists to publish their own content on their own websites easily and also makes making and collecting payments as easy as downloading torrents.
Probably something like that already exists, but the fact is that most of the content seems to be aggregated in different kinds of services that the artists don't really control themselves.