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> you are extremely unlikely to learn linear algebra and matrix theory "on the job"

Why? All of the information is available in books and on Wikipedia. Nowadays you can learn nearly anything for free with just an internet connection and some dedication. The biggest potential impediment is be a self-defeating attitude that prevents you from trying.

On the other hand, don't expect learning "on the job" to mean that you'll get paid to learn.
ah yes it does...

10 ? "Hello, World"

(yes, I know that's not what you were talking about)
Knox for encrypted volumes. That, and don't put anything on it you wouldn't be okay with losing...
I think it was acceptable then too.
The difference is, as you say, that the type system in Haskell is a tool that helps you write concise and correct code, whereas the type system in a language like Java (it is hardly the only offender) feels arbitrary and capricious.

I too once thought static typing was nothing more than useless bloat, but then I started using Haskell. Haskell's type classes are actually a useful means of handling abstraction (know something that acts like a monoid? then save yourself some effort and use foldMap). The one thing I did like about Java's class system was interfaces, and Haskell's typeclasses handle that exceptionally well.
Democratically run businesses are companies with a lot of group autonomy, policies that are set by consensus of groups instead of through top-down hierarchical edicts, and there is a network of co-evaluation instead of just bosses being the sole evaluators. Notable examples of companies that operate on democratic principles are Semco and Gore Associates (the guys who make Gore-Tex)

When I pointed to the characteristic of democracy it was an ideal consideration. I am not so presumptuous to think that all ideal conditions will be met perfectly.
For a more comprehensive interview on Charlie Rose,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AA5aIdOqlw#t=22m3s
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Sheerly out of curiosity, outside of your anecdote, what evidence or credentials do you have to make that claim?

Now, I'm not saying you're unqualified or wrong to make that claim — I merely would like to know what you're basing that statement upon. I see a lot of people make statements like this one based on a few prominent data points, completely ignoring the vast number of data points that don't fit their claim. It seems wrong, especially for a community so hell-bent on accurate, useful data.
Would you be interested in an "accountabilibudy" (with apologies to South Park)? I'm finding myself in a bit of a productivity rut at the moment, too, and perhaps some sort of ongoing dialogue would be mutually beneficial. Interested?
What irks me that as an Indian I can't create a job on MTurk! I would love to try MTurk but it is only open for US citizens..
So, I'm not certain that college is really worth it, but there're a lot of misleading statistics in the infographic:

1. The cost of attending a private vs. public university does not include financial aid. For many middle-income kids, the actual price of attending a private university is often less than that of attending a state school, because the private university may give you a full ride based on need, while the state school has much less resources to spend on financial aid.

2. The "17 years to make up the difference" figure is based on starting salaries, but it doesn't account for raises that occur soon afterwards. Many of college friends went into financial, software or consulting businesses at around $55K/year - 4 years later, they're now making well over 6 figures. Many of my high school friends went into local or boutique businesses at around $50k/year - 4 years later, they are still making $50k/year, or worse, they've lost their jobs because of the economic crash.

3. "1 out of 2 students fail to correctly analyze prose" - ironic, because of the inaccuracies in the infographic...

The numbers spent partying/drinking/videogaming seem about right though. I think it's pretty likely that college is a bubble, but I don't like to see some of the financial myths repeated. If you get into Yale and you get decent financial aid, you should probably go, because that degree is worth a lot more than one from UConn, and the people who write for FastCompany often have no idea about the inner workings of the financial aid system.
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The porn and violence started primarily as satire.
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That's a great article. Thank you.

Even if as your link says, that there are adverse responses by some people to creativity, there will be others who are receptive.

Along that path of creativity-inclined people is where I think my prize money will ultimately go.

The DARPA Network Prize, which inspired my job prize, is itself a testament to a desire for creativity.
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Codexon, on this site people use a civil tone. Please read this: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also I'd rather not debate economics, sorry.
If you like this, make sure to check out http://billmonk.com, which I've been happily using for a couple of years now. It's an awesome way to share bills on work lunches - we use it almost every day :)

Anyway, I've signed up for a WePay invite code... I'll see how it looks later on, I suppose.
They didn't stay as satire.
OCaml does type checking at compile-time and therefore is statically typed. It often can infer what those types are, but it doesn't wait until runtime to do so.
I would say that you speak of 'cleverness' instead of laziness. If I look at a problem that looks like a ton of tedious work, it is eminently useful to spend time just thinking about the solution.

If anything, its an appreciation for elegance.

But maybe its just laziness as you say. If a solution looks like a grind, I will spend just as much time trying to find an elegant solution (probably more) because I don't want to just grind out the solution.
You really think that the only thing you need to produce a shrink wrapped game that is in production for 2 years is someone to code and someone to take care of art and design? And you really don't understand why I would say that project management on that project is very different than project management on a website that delivers incremental revisions every week?

Sorry, but you clearly have some things to learn. Go pick up http://www.amazon.com/Software-Project-Survival-Guide-Practi... and learn what a stand alone project on the scale of that game needs to do just to have a reasonable chance of success. Virtually none of that book applies to the incrementally developed website.

Oh, and don't forget that the game has no chance of success without a lot of non-software work such as licensing and marketing.
This product could have had a lot of potential had Yahoo! realized what it was worth. For starters, an analytics package could have benefited a lot from this service.

It seems to me that Yahoo!, in it's rush to figure out how to compete and what to do with the traffic is not prioritizing the products that might position it favorably in the future.
It's going to sound condescending but I'll say it anyway: if you enjoy hanging out on HN (and you do since you are reading this), then you'll enjoy attending college because it's the only place on earth where everyone is college-level smart.

Obvious of course, but kind of true. Everywhere else (except maybe at Google), you have to deal with the uneducated masses :-)
> Why?

Because of laziness. You are right that you can learn by just investing time, and the grandparent is right that almost nobody will bother when they can play videogames with that time.
Re: "if China currently emits 4.5 X US per capita..." US per capita emissions is way higher than China's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...
Use the Keychain Access utility (/Applications/Utilities) to store things that are really important, and use applications that are aware of the Keychain. This encrypts only a small amount of data, yet the system prompts you when an application tries to access it without permission.

I haven't really given FileVault a fair shot, but after I heard years ago that (the first version of) it had a bug that could make user data unrecoverable, I wasn't eager to try it.
> Nowadays you can learn nearly anything for free with just an internet connection and some dedication

It's no different from the situation before the internet, since books are cheap (compared to your time) and usually are still a better source of information on such structured subjects anyway.

In fact, when I was in college, I mostly read textbooks anyway instead of attending lectures (it's easier for me to learn this way).

This however is not the whole story. Even if you are motivated ("I'd like to learn math"), you are probably not motivated enough for some feats of cognition. If you know people who stayed home and studied math on their own for a few years, full-time, at college level (I don't), they are probably very rare.
Talking of Gobo and 0install - I am surprised nobody has mentioned Nix (http://nixos.org/).

The aspect of Nix which is relevant to "versioned OS" is the package configuration database which can be snapshotted (http://lwn.net/Articles/337677/ ).

In this approach, the static parts of a configuration —software packages, configuration files, control scripts— are built from pure functions, i.e., the results depend solely on the specified inputs of the function and are immutable. As a result, realising a system configuration becomes deterministic and reproducible. Upgrading to a new configuration is mostly atomic and doesn't overwrite anything of the old configuration, thus enabling rollbacks.

I recently wanted to install the same configuration as my Ubuntu laptop, on a desktop. The thread to list manually-installed packages in Ubuntu is huge and has no deterministic answer. Perhaps, a manager like Nix could have accorded me this flexibility.
Perhaps you could elaborate on your ideas, possibly providing some examples. For someone reading this thread, it could be difficult to discern precisely what you are trying to articulate. Fulling expressing what you are trying to say, without simply calling the participants of a website antisocial teenagers, would allow someone else to form reply a to your post without simply calling you a jackass.

Jackass.
It seems that, from what I've seen, when the media being torrented is small & numerous large collections are made - for example 1000s of SNES games.
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Ah, the infamous "Oxford comma" strikes again!

They appear to be listing the various data elements compiled. As in:

* Total carbon dioxide emissions
* Per Capita carbon dioxide emissions
* per $1 GDP carbon dioxide emissions

I guessed that this might be the case, but did not pre-conclude it. Instead I downloaded all of their actual data sets and compared the numbers in the charts, and indeed, the numbers for per-capita carbon dioxide emissions, which include no mention of per-GDP calculations, support Wikipedia's numbers to the same effect.

i.e., Australia in 2006 was showing 19 metric tons of CO2 emissions per capita to the United States' 19.7, etc.

(And I swore I was never again going to get involved in a climate "discussion" on HN.)
One out of two students fail to correctly analyze prose like a newspaper editorial

Okay, I don't know the source, but this statistic seems reasonable to me. In fact, I'd venture to add a couple more (based purely on my anecdotal experience):

- One out of two students can't structure a well-reasoned argument.

- One out of two students are unable to write a readable essay.

- One out of two students do not know how to prepare for and deliver a speech.

My problem is not the state of State Colleges. The problem is the state of highschools in America (although we are not unique with respect to some of these problems). These are all skills that can and should be learnt before college.
There are plenty of reasons one may prefer Django's ORM over SQLAlchemy. For example, SQLAlchemy doesn't have robust support for the most popular spatial database implementations: PostGIS, MySQL, Oracle, and SpatiaLite. Django's ORM does.

Moreover, it did not take four years to develop multi-db support. This was a GSoC 2009 project that was merged in 2009.
The disproporion is caused by an obvious fact that women usually study stuff like political studies, international studies, women studies, literature and such. Anything hard like engineering or CS, law, economics and you will see very few women in the classroom.
Also repeating my reply upthread:

This is a case of an "Oxford comma". The data would be more correctly described as "...emissions, total, per capita, and per $1 GDP". Including or not including the comma is a style choice; journalists tend not to include it, and often don't realize that it can change the meaning of a sentence.

If you examine the data sets themselves, rather than only the one sentence, I think you'll see.
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Depends on which college you go to. Not my college though. My college's motto is to provide education for the masses.
(As mentioned at other points elsethread.)

The actual data are not presented as "per capita per $1 USD GDP"; this is a (wholly unintentional, I'm sure) misreading of a sentence describing the data in the charts.

Actually examining the source data shows that there is a set of data measured in metric tons per $1 USD, and another, separate set, of data measured in metric tons per capita.
I love these types of posts. There seems to be "a ton" of them lately.

I'll say one thing... college is definitely worth it if you're planning on working in the Medical field. I think hospitals only hire people with a formal education now-a-days ;) The same probably goes for sending people to the moon, building nuclear reactors, etc. There is a reason for colleges to exist, as sometimes the human race "needs" to make sure you know your @#$%.
We can't afford a single skyscraper collapse, but we can usually afford to use bad software.

In fact techniques exist to produce software with near-zero defect rates (primarily relying on extremely thorough code inspection, IIRC), but they're far too expensive for commercial use.
In defense of the average guy, not everyone can go out and do great things, otherwise those things wouldn't be considered great anymore.
Assessing the truth of a claim by who says it is an unreliable guide, to tell what pjhyett has shown.

Note: it's not "do what you like", but "do what you love". It's not about pleasure, but meaning - to do what you believe is worthwhile and meaningful. It's a quest, a sacrifice.

But also, in line with the article, there's the idea of "love is a verb", meaning that love is not a feeling, but it is what you actually do. To sacrifice for something, to do the actions of caring for something, comes first, and the feeling of love follows. Personally, I think you need a bit of both: a feeling of love and the actions of love.
I agree that foreign students are above the average level of American students, generally speaking. But in this particular case? I had never heard of Babson College, and I'm pretty sure top students in any of the mentioned countries wouldn't choose Babson.
Nah, it's a fair point, and one that neatly solves a couple of problems: if the U.S. were to be serious about reducing global CO2 emissions, then we might stop buying so much crap from China.
I'm as against communism and social planning as anyone you'll meet, but refencing 1958 isn't quite correct here. Deng Xiaoping's reforms began China moving towards a modern society.

If anything, the general idea behind Copenhagen is more similar to the Cultural Revolution than walking away - it's trying to centrally plan what some people think would be a better world.
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> Maybe after next US elections...

I doubt it. I expect that the next POTUS will be a conservative Republican.
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If someone's really good they tend to stay at home and not emmigrate to the US. Students who are good but not excellent may emmigrate. The same is true with jobs. Countries usually export their poor and dumb.
It is really just a matter of the timing of the hardware. Mobile is about late nineties systems, when it breaks into the opengl es 2 support and 1GHz and 512MB RAM area then we will see the devices jump up to shader support.

Then you will also start to have flash and other software rendered stuff being fast enough. But battery technology needs to advance further as well.

Couple years out except for the cutting edge like the iPhone or the coming Google Phone (HTC) which has Android 2 which also has OGL ES 2. Android will also have the NDK (native) to compete with the native iPhone SDK to speed things up. It is just like coding for old hardware but with better software. So native, graphic tricks, hardware rendering, etc are all relevant again for a moment.
Another fact you forgot to mention is probably asceticism in east-asian culture. This has some serious damage to social skills, too.
By "stifling independent thought", I meant creating an environment where an acceptable level of contribution is repeating a catchphrase or recycling a picture, and where you tend to adopt the most hostile posture possible toward people and things that you think are no good.

By "antisocial" I meant that most users don't seem to have much respect for other people in a general sense, and that the majority of content seems aimed to entertain peers instead of being independently interesting outside of the 4chan bubble. "Teenagers" (and college students) is pretty much a fact, but I figure it helps explain the rest; I cared a lot more about being cool and popular when I was a teenager, too.

Also, I'm not trying to characterize, for example, the 4chan photography board; I'm mainly talking about /b/ and other more chatty parts. For all I know 4chan has fine topical boards, but that's not why people are interested in talking about it.
The american students are too busy texting to have time to do homework!
Talking about "college" as a mere experience, drained of its knowledge value, reduces its significance to being a social club of sorts. You make friends, you signify some kind of status to potential superiors, and so on.

I don't think many people take this kind of mercenary view of college outside of the Bush family, and maybe it's a more realistic view, but that's the perspective that seems to be in play when the question is whether it's "worth it."
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No, the situation is very different now with the internet since you can now study subjects in any arbitrary order, as long as you diligently identify and follow the dependencies (i.e. prerequisites). Prescribed curricula and structured courses were much more important in the pre-internet days since it was much harder to use the dependency-order learning approach.

I've learned a decent amount of mathematical stuff on my own without traditional books, and I'm pretty sure this will become more and more common over time. I'm a member of the earliest generation (b. 1985) for which this was really possible, and I just fell into it by accident, but in the coming decades I expect we'll see a lot more people who are almost entirely self-educated through the internet. I'm sure it'll still be a relatively uncommon phenomenon, but at least the people who learn best in this way now have access to the information and tools they need.
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It's not whether it's "hard" or not. It's the sheer volume of complexity in a modern development environment. Seriously, look at the manual to Micro-soft BASIC c. 1980. It's about 12 pages long!

I know professional python developers who sometimes have trouble reading the "new" stuff in code they see on the web. Someone just learning the language is going to be totally lost. That's just not a problem in Applesoft; read your 12 pages and you're done. Go code.
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Teach them about things useful in the real world:
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- How to create Script Files.
- How to create and edit Make Files.
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- How to control hardware at the lowest level, ports, interrupts, dma, ... Calling a library to do it doesn't count!
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Counterpoint: In my experience as a CS TA, international students are far more likely to cheat on problem sets than American students.
So if we assume that your interpretation of the data is correct, Australia is just as big an emitter as the US, and they emit roughly 4 TIMES as much as China does. If my interpretation was correct, they emit 5 TIMES the US and 11 TIMES China.

My point being that the material point stands in either case. That is, even if we were to all agree to your interpretation of the data, nations like China are still not the problem. Why then, is all of the negative attention on China and the US? Clearly there are other emitters just as profligate. In fact, in the case of China, most of the other nations are far more profligate per capita.

I maintain that the negative attention given to China and the US is due to the fact that being anti US and anti China is the height of political fashion. Clearly, the people denigrating China don't take Australia to task for what we have both established as demonstrably far more egregious behavior.
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