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"Everyone is treated in a dismissive fashioned by everyone."

Citation? I strongly believe this to be false in general; certainly it has been in my experience.
It's 60mg day that's the maximum daily amount. No idea where you got that from. The pills themselves go up to 30mg per pill as well. In fact, in some cases, they allow up to 90mg a day, that's like the max-max they can legally give, but it's in more specific circumstances like if someone's already been taking it for years and also has a larger body mass as well.
Seychelles would be a cool name for a new shell...

And just because I can: She said "seyschelles' just like c shell
> I would happily admit there is extensive room for improvement in systemd, but we UNIX folks have been working with worse-is-better and rough-consensus-and-running-code for decades.

You're understanding "worse is better" backwards. It means "starkly simple to the point of being initially off-putting is better". In this context, it means (in part) "be a big boy and learn how to write a shell script". (Not to be too condescending, but I think that captures the Unix perspective here.)
Pertinent to my comment about LTSpice - I have to give some credit to the folks at CircuitLab for giving me a line on their circuit sim software. Much easier to use than LTSpice, whose GUI is slow to the point of physical pain. I'll see about writing something more coherent about it in the near future. Stay tuned.
If all you demand is growth then that is what you will get - either real growth or something that looks like growth. Fake growth is none too helpful to anyone.
I graduated from Cal in 2013 in Physics and CS. I had a full time lecturer (not a professor) for a course in Analytic Mechanics and the teacher (Charman) was in a similar situation. Despite having ratings well above average and being immensely popular, he was let go. It seems like lecturers are treated as second class citizens, much like contract workers or outsourced positions.
You pay for the land and the structure. The neighborhood isn't something you pay for. Rather, it's a public good that you take advantage of.
But it is a solo role. There is no team, no procedures, no policies.

I taught math as an adjunct at a Big Ten university with a prestigious math department several years ago. I never once met with any member of the faculty, even my supervisor, and nobody ever observed my teaching. All of the sections of the course that I taught had the same syllabus and exams. I had students from other sections sitting in on my lectures.

As for hearing from faculty, oddly enough I was on the other side of the issue as well, since I also taught the 3rd year "weeder" course in electrical engineering. My students were woefully unprepared in math despite N semesters of calculus in the math department. Once during a break in the activity, I asked my engineering students how the university could improve engineering education. Their consensus: Better math teaching.
He isn't employed as a research professor. He's employed as a lecturer. Berkeley does have a lecturer position with security of employment (commonly called lecturer SOE or teaching professor). These positions are evaluated on teaching rather than research. I don't know how common it is in other departments, but I know the EECS department employs several teaching professors (which means many classes, especially 61A and 61B, are taught by professors whose primary job is teaching).
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I agree, but there's enough weird shit going on here that it's still a worthwhile "article". For me, the `mixing numerical types`, `Operator precedence?`, `extend vs +=`, `Indexing with floats`, `all and emptiness`, and `Comparing NaNs` were all interesting.
In addition there are further mischaracterizations of my teaching in my personnel file that I am prevented from sharing because the University claims it is their property.

That's worth confirming with a lawyer. AFAIK most states require employers to let you copy your personnel file.
No. Those with an actual stake in the decisions deserve more of a voice in it than those who would only vote themselves a full stomach. The US is explicitly designed that those who are successful in the past (have money) have more of a voice than those who have failed (haven't money).
APIs are great when you want to drive numbers to your business, but at the end of the day, if you want to generate revenue, you either charge for API access or you closely control your ecosystem.

Unfettered Twitter API access would be analogous to Best Buy allowing third party vendors to sell refurbished electronic products in front of their properties..
Count me as a Twitter-believer.

I don't have facebook; too many social pressures & awkwardness with friends/family would occur if I did. Twitter is the place to be for me. I've always liked it and I like moments. But, in general, I like knowing what people are up to outside of the tech-world. I find moments, especially the videos, to be really good and drawing me into whatever is happening. I've also heavily used Twitter's Periscope app to follow HedKandi's Ocean Beach Ibiza event this past summer and it was great.

I think Twitter's services are fantastic, it's just too bad nobody has figured out the profitability angle. I mean, clearly twitter is providing something a lot of people like and use daily. Now, just how do you get money from them, directly or indirectly? =/ I dunno, but I really hope someone solves that puzzle.
> Papers Please

That could potentially run on a Pentium 4 with integrated graphics, not exactly the best comparison. Great game, but not sure why you felt you needed to include it in that list.

Quite a few of those games are not overly demanding either and mostly forgiving of older graphics cards. If you can run things like Arma 3, Witcher 2 or 3, I'd be more curious.

Cities Skylines is a simulation, it's going to eat up a lot of CPU and a lesser extent, GPU.
If you read the whole article you'll see that he's actually lower paid. One of the reasons the department doesn't like him is that he demonstrates that it's possible to teach more students better (even if just slightly) at a lower salary, and that scares them because they're so focused on increasing their budget.
That sounds more like a testament to the sociopathic nature of business in practice, rather than the ideal way to carry it out.
I had Ogus at Berkeley! He still looks like a lemming. :)

Keep in mind this is only one side of the story.

Also, if you are going to come out against Berkeley, Klein Perkins, or someone else equally powerful then please make sure you can easily prove every allegation. It's the best way to avoid defamation lawsuits.

My lawyer said "It's not slander if it's true." ;)
Conventional wisdom among teachers is that ratings are mainly a function of the grades that students expect to receive in the course. I was in the room when two profs were discussing their grading policies, and one of them flat-out wanted to give easy grades because he was coming up on tenure.
Not the case at Stanford.

Stanford doesn't separate undergrad admissions by department. When I applied, the application didn't even ask what my intended major was. All Stanford undergrads start out as "undeclared", and many don't choose a major until sophomore year.
Curious. Was it ever considered that this may be fallout from the decision to hold classes during the campus AFSCME strike back in late November 2013, justification outlined in an impassioned e-mail sent to students? see: http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2014-... and the collection of heated pro/con responses which followed. Absolutely bizarre. Reminds me of the dismissal of the physicist David Bohm from Princeton in early 1950s orchestrated by then president Harold Dodds, a rabid anticommunist with close ties to the McCarthy era State Department who viewed Bohm as a Marxist unionist. May be what goes around comes around. Does Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks and a majority in the Math department happen to have close ties to Sacramento and AFSCME? If so the real rationale for proposed dismissal may be that the professor is deemed insufficiently Marxist unionist by the powers that be. Just glad I had the financial resources to eschew that institutional quagmire.
> What do you think such an effort would look like?

Good question. I see two simple avenues - organizations having a better understanding of human psychology, certainly at the human resources level but ideally org-wide. And better metrics, such as mapping human networks from email exchanges so you can find who is really driving the strong relationships with clients or stakeholders.

I guess the condensed version would be: understand humans better.
i'm sure the pleasure of taking federally insured loan money from 20,000,000 sheep isn't worth defending at all?
When I look at efforts to synthesize the human brain within a computer I see an effort to make a synthetic bird rather than a machine that flies.

If this analogy has any use as a model beyond a cursory observation then a focus on machines that solve hard problems will bear more fruit and earlier (maybe ever) than attempts to fully replicate the human brain.

Today is it possible to build an (outwardly) anatomically correct and functioning sparrow (in all respects) out of synthetic materials? I don't know but surely it is hard. To make one certainly would have been impossible for the Wright brothers.

Today we have things like the F22, A380, and little drones. Each is quite complex but the complexity accreted over time, each layer a pragmatic solution to a problem at hand.

If we take the same approach what kind of "thinking machine" might we end up with in 100 years time?
As far as the city owns the land that could be used for new expensive apartments, or if the city can at least tax a good part the profits private parties make from building more units, the city would a lot of extra income, and could use part of this income for e.g. providing subsidized housing.
Other perks include plunger-assisted-plumbing and laser-guided-kitties.
I worked for an enterprise hardware company in the 2010 era whose secret sauce involves doing such, albeit on a more local scale. When I joined Google, they were doing this all over. Facebook is doing this, at the rack level. Microsoft is touting their six years behind technology, and the scary thing is, they're still five years ahead of the rest of the industry.
Because the student body, even those who haven't had him as a lecturer, adore him. He may be burning bridges with others in the department, but he has an incredibly strong bridge with the rest of campus.
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His salary is $67,886. Are you really going to hire somebody to do his job for less money than that?

In regards to your points about research, maybe the math department should consider establishing a "teaching professor" role like the EECS department has done. Most of the lower division introductory CS courses are taught by teaching professors like Paul Hilfinger, John Denero, Dan Garcia, and Josh Hug. Given that math is so important to a variety of majors on campus, why shouldn't we demand that large, lower division math courses be taught by people who are experts in teaching?
We'd already know if more people cared instead of delegating the problem to deities or thinking it's Good to die because it's the Natural Order of Things.

And it's socially acceptable for people to choose that. People ought to be allowed to delegate the problem to deities, and they ought to be allowed believe in a myth for death, and allowed to believe it's part of the natural order of things.

We should never make it socially unacceptable.
Such a weird condition existentially .. sharing tissue and probably death too.
Oh, that's why you inject defects, and if that injection doesn't cause your test to fail, eg because of a try..except Exception, you know that your test is wrong.

(Then you investigate and hopefully remove the catch-all.)
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That's all just boiling frogs. Why should we consider the a structure that subsumes the space of an organic human brain to be a living continuation of the original brain?

The deconstructionist concepts that our constituent atoms cycle through a complete change-over in less than a decade, does not equal total organ replacement with a non-biological surrogate. Those sorts of ideas sweep a grand swath of what-it-is-to-be-alive under the carpet with a sentence-long sound bite.

Replace a knee or a hip with a comparable structure of equivalent practical necessity, and that person will still be missing those body parts.

Claims such that, simply because the replacement is infinitesimally complex, that this sufficiently satisfies the requirements of "being a living human" will still be wrong.

You might enjoy a puppet that acts just like your dog, or your grandma, but it won't bring them back, or keep them alive beyond their expiration date. Put your grandma's Moravec replacement brain inside your dog's body, and tell me she's still alive.

A human without a human brain is not a human, but instead a soothing, reassuring puppet, perhaps hoisted aloft by hypothetical autonomous, and nigh-imperceptible nano-cyber-strings.

But still a lifeless corpse all the same.
"Funny how he left out the last bit. He hasn't published anything since 2013."

The post suggests that he's "full-time lecturer". The grievance says that his job title is "Lecturer". Why would that require him to publish research?
You're talking like this is a free-market situation. It's not, because supply is being artificially constrained below what the market could naturally and profitably support, by overregulation of new construction. We don't take too kindly to all of the holders of oil, gas, water, or food conspiring to restrict its availability to drive prices up either.
The very fact that your previous comment was misinterpreted by tptacek to the point of castigating the imaginary nerds to give up their imaginary rights to "cordon off computer science as a refuge free from nerdiness" indicates to me that those people who are wont to blame the men in tech have little empathy to begin with.

The nerd culture has been one of the most inclusive cultures I've been with. As esr wrote, "No compiler or network stack or 3-D printer gives a crap about the shape of your genitals or the color of your skin, and hackers as a culture don’t either." http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6642
Don't change basic OS behaviour.
As said in comments, it's a "repost" from years ago. 2015 news about the company : http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150528005832/en/Ubiq...
It seems pretty clear that it is immensely difficult to score at least a 6 average on these evaluations. Based on the article, it sounds sufficiently difficult that almost no one else managed to score above a 6 in two decades.
I can run The Witcher 3 with quite playable performance. Pertinent system specs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372389

If Bohemia Interactive wrote ARMA 3, I wouldn't take its requirements for a beefy machine as indication of anything other than the... interesting design choices those guys make when designing and implementing their games.
Seems like dwaxe knows that and was suggesting why the OP would prefer Berkeley over a smaller school.
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> That sounds not entirely ethical / honest..

It isn't, that's simple. In any deal there are two main obligations for seller and buyer. For the seller to inform the buyer about any material things they are aware of affecting the item being sold ('duty to inform') and for the buyer to look at the item being sold long and hard to see if there is anything they can find that will affect their judgment ('duty to research').

So from an ethics and an honesty perspective you're 100% right, and from a legal perspective you are also right but that's where it gets hairy. Because the 'duty to inform' is not specified in enough detail to make that duty an explicit thing without wiggle room these cases (where a seller should have been aware of a defect but did not disclose it) usually end up in front of a judge and it is definitely not an open-and-shut thing that every such case is ruled in favor of the party filing the complaint. It's one thing to state that a seller should have been aware of something but quite another to prove that they actually were aware of something.

I've seen a deal or two where the seller was 'glad to be rid of 'x'' where you'd expect them to be perfectly aware of the situation and where the buyer did their DD and were totally happy with what they bought. So sometimes it is simply a matter of perspective and the supposed defects are simply not as relevant to the buyer as they were to the seller. But as a seller I'd rather err on the side of caution and inform the buyer even if that sometimes would mean a deal would not go through.

You can bet that after this remark any exits from a16z will be looked at just a little bit more carefully, if that is even at all possible. Most deals at this level go through a very thorough process making it fairly rare that a thing such as 'growth is stopping or about to stop' would slip through the cracks and I'm kind of surprised that a16z is of the opinion that a seller would be able to get away with this kind of trick without either risking the buyer figuring it out in time. That would have to be a fairly in-experienced buyer.
Not having money is most certainly not a sign that you've failed. Having money is also most certainly not a sign that you've been successful.

Generational wealth and poverty are real. By your measure, the current Kardashian generation would be considered among the best and brightest in America.

Wealth is only a goal for some people, and I'd argue that the best and brightest are more likely to perceive that maybe a rat race to the top isn't the best use of their limited time on earth.
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ive got both Adblock fast and purify enabled. When enabled, comments on HN show the user/comment structure, but no text.

What is it in the ad blockers triggering this? Or some other issue?
Google was in this particular paradigm well before Facebook, and I'm fairly certain I know precisely who was involved in leaking the knowledge.
Try disabling both and turning only one on to see which is the culprit first?
At .004 euro cents an hour, seriously, what were you expecting? 32 bits seems like they threw in 16 bits for free.
I don't think the comment meant that dispassionately and sensibly pointing out the double standard is problematic but that one runs the risk of facing a large, internet backlash for pointing out certain classes of double standards of which the one above is one.
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Yea, I totally agree. My Commodore 64 didn't even know what to do with the game. Pretty sad indeed. I don't understand why developers choose to go after markets of majority, rather than developing in accordance to what my machine is. I mean, it has 64,000 bytes in RAM, and although I don't have a firm grasp on even simple computing requirements, 64,000 of anything is a lot and should be able to play the most modern games.
That is Scacleway's implementation, not so much a limitation of ARM. Have a look at Applied Micro based servers for something more "server" like..
> brainless 12y kids and #cut4bieber/#cut4dagibee and similar junk.

That's a growing abyss of demographic, not shrinking. There will always be lots and lots of twee teen, shitty bots, and corporate slurry. #titterWillBeFine
$67K is on the high end of the spectrum for a newly seasoned non-tenured faculty member. Anyway, teaching salaries are required to increase incrementally, so his original starting salary was most likely lower than that salary.

Most universities, particularly public ones, will engage in the practice of recycling lower-division teaching faculty every so often in order to avoid the wage jump from non-tenure status to tenure status.

Yeah, established teaching positions are a thing in other industrialized countries like Canada. The public higher-education system in the state of California has many flaws, and the absence of established teaching positions is one of them ... because the system is financially crippled.

And that's the point I'm trying to make here. Coward should not be mad at UC Berkeley's Math Department. He thinks the buck starts and stops with the Math Department. The department is the way it is because of the greater UC system's financial insolvency molded by factors out of the control of UC Berkeley's Math Department and UC Berkeley as a whole. The UC system sucks because of inappropriate state economic policies over the past decade or so that include egregious spending on unnecessary things.
Agreed. Terrible, rambling, is there no editor checking these articles before publishing?
I don't assume there's been no innovation. HotSpot today is faster than Strongtalk ever was. Java has lots more libraries than Smalltalk today. For a broad range purposes, it's a better choice than Smalltalk today.

But a lot of what you wrote was just false. Smalltalk does have refactoring IDEs. It does have excellent debuggers. It does have fast JIT-compiling virtual machines. (Not as fast as Hotspot, but way faster than Ruby, Python, Perl and most other dynamic languages.)

Note that I'm using the present tense here. We're not talking about technologies "separated by twenty years." Smalltalk has all these features today. I brought up the history because it's pretty cheeky to say that Java is better than Smalltalk because it has a refactoring IDE.

There are big problems in the Smalltalk world, stemming from a small community and lack of corporate investment in the technology. As much as I like Smalltalk, I don't choose it for my day-to-day work because that would be a poor business strategy for my company. This is why I don't believe in advocacy. You make the right choice for your situation, and most of the time, somebody else can't make that choice for you.

As for honesty, yes, I do think I'm being honest. For starters, everything I wrote was true.
It's approximately the same price as Digital Oceans lowest offering, which has significantly higher performance in every area.
Ouch, I wasn't aware of this, as I haven't used it yet, and my brief poking around the source was mostly focused on the UI.

On the plus side, it's open source and seems nice inside, so it shouldn't be hard to add support for regular old IMAP or JMAP if one wants.
Very nice work! One minor edit: It's Horowitz and Hill.
I'm somewhere between a power user and a newbie and I can't get even slightly interested in moments. Just not even close to what I'm looking for on Twitter.
Generational wealth is real. So is generational knowledge. My father taught me a large part of what I know. Why deny those who have inherent advantages from taking advantage of such?

Oh, right, because you believe in a Harrison Bergeron-esque future in which everyone with talent is handicapped til they are at the level of the lowest retard. I wish you all deserved success with that.
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Lecturers are Cal's version of adjunt professors. Just like how GSIs are Cal's version of TAs.
I've been out of the loop for a while datacenter-wise, and so fail to see the immediate value here.

Are these servers running virtualized instances?
Are they much cheaper as far as $/request or watt/request (or other efficiency metric?
How do they compare to a slice of an Intel server, which has the benefit of a more mature environment?