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200 years ago, we're talking about 1815. Universities were largely training schools for clergymen; surgeons were jumped-up barbers: medical doctors were a trade guild taught by apprenticeship -- only in 1815 in England with the passing of the Apothecaries Act was a requirement introduced for those practicing as doctors without a university degree to be examined for a license. Women were excluded not only from higher education but from education in general (with the exception of a governess or tutor for the daughters of well-to-do families), and the really privileged didn't bother with university at all -- that was for younger sons, the eldest (inheriting) sons went to Eton or Harrow then into the House of Lords.

The great flowering of universities as colleges of liberal arts -- and of scientific research in general -- happened a lot later, generally in the 1870-1970 period.

History is another planet, populated by fascinating aliens.
Look, if the actual REST architectural style isn't what you want, then don't use it. But that doesn't make it useful to use the term to refer to things that aren't using it. If you want to make a JSON RPC API, call it a JSON RPC API, not a REST API.
Only Europe has that even for very labor-focused, pragmatic diplomas -- not just humanities.
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The Speysides are artificially evaporated because the North Scottish climate doesn't allow the barrels to adequately breathe -- it kills the whiskey. By comparison, the heavy temperature swings in Kentucky open and close the barrels every season, so you see a much larger angel's share, and thus a much more complex whiskey.

Drinking an 18 year Bourbon is like drinking a 40 year barrel-aged Speyside. Sure, if you can get your hands on a 40 year old barrel-aged Speyside Scotch, I misspoke. But that's rather outside the budget of even the most die-hard Whiskey fans.

As a result, most Speysides fall roughly into that same category as the shite bourbons. Once you stop covering up their failings, you're left with a boring, watery, lifeless whiskey.

It's like if we were talking beer and I said "Americans just cover up their beer with flavorants so you don't realize they're watery garbage. German and Belgian beers are superior." and you fired back "That's not true! Coors Lite doesn't do that!" No, you're right, Coors Lite doesn't do that.
Global Whisky awards are pretty much based on who lobbies the hardest and with the largest brown envelope - in Scotland we view the whisky industries global awards to be about as reputable as FIFA and Sepp Blatter
The dumb part is banks are more than willing to support Quicken's Express Web Connect, which literally stores your username/password on Intuit's servers, logs into your online banking portal and downloads the .qfx files you would get if you did it by hand. This is the same company that owns Mint, and it's literally doing the same thing!

Oh well, until banks decide to stop allowing users to manually save .qfx files the worst they can do is make life inconvenient.
That's how most folks get trade jobs now! You work in a shop while taking some classes at community college (welding, bookbinding or whatever). You then get promoted after a couple of years, or even save your money and open your own shop.
Twitter is a fantastic tool for searching. If you want some information that's immediate or location based, such as if there's a Verizon FiOS outage, or a parade that you're trying to figure out the theme of (common in NYC), then Twitter is your go-to resource.
>Why should ordinary workers be taxed more?

Obviously they shouldn't.

Besides more writers are just as poor or even more than "ordinary workers" (and most of them are also ordinary workers, and do writing as a side-job).
Because by the late stages, people's loves and hates have already been defined. Things are cool or "I don't like X" has set in. If you don't love STEM early, you won't want to do it late. Attacking the issue later in the educational pipeline is like adding a cron job to restart the web servers because of crappy programming. The correct answer is to actually fix the problem. We've tried enough patches by now and it disgusts me that we are talking about diversity in tech when we are not talking about diversity in pre-K and K-8.
> the primary difference between an 'engineer' (a person with a Professional Engineering certification) and an 'engineer' (a person who touches a computer for money)

What about an 'engineer' (a person who designs components for a large corporation for money)? How are they a different bunch than a 'software engineer'?

> There has never, ever, ever, been a programmer who has been barred from programming for selling shitty code. There have absolutely been engineers barred from engineering for selling shitty designs.

There have been engineers who have had their licenses permanently revoked, but nobody has ever been "barred from engineering". Those are not the same thing (though I doubt a company is likely to hire an engineer who is so bad as to get their license revoked).

> The only way to make this (frankly uninteresting) argument end is to either hold programmers accountable for quality, or stop holding engineers accountable for quality. Until then, you're using one word to refer to two groups of people with wildly different work requirements, and there will always be people complaining about that.

The way I think it should end is for software engineering to be separated from computer science at the university level. ABET-accredited BSCS programs are practically that already, but most CS programs don't give a crap about ABET. So, scrap the BSCS and replace it with a full-ABET BSSwE and let the people with academic interest in CS get a BACS. As for non-degreed programmers, other engineering fields already have established practices for advancing a non-degreed technician to full engineer and those can be adapted to this field.
> their data

That’s the issue. User data always is the users data, the company merely has the license to store and access it.

Retroactive more permissible licenses are also not okay.
Well, money has diminishing returns. $100 dollars has a lot less effect in Rowling's life than in mine, and it can be a life-changing amount of money to those truly destitute. If you want to maximize the utility of those dolars, at least in the short term, it makes a lot of sense to take them from those who have the most.
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That doesn't magically replace 100 years of legacy parts and equipment.
The misery Russians suffered after the collapse of the USSR, was from the collapse of the USSR. There was an immense price paid for the failure of the Soviet Union.

The notion of blaming the ills of 1991-1999 on free markets is absurd. Were free markets going to magically turn the nation of Stalin right around into a bastion of prosperity? Impossible.

You know what turned Russia's condition around? A debased US dollar and the high oil prices it caused. It wasn't Putin or central planning.

And as for Pinochet: a 17 year, violent military dictatorship in a free market. If that's your political system, what you inherently cannot have is a free market. The two are mutually exclusive.
Switching banks is complete PIA. However, services like Mint could eventually make it much easier to do. Today, they aggregate and analyze data across multiple across multiple accounts. As they start get into executing transactions, it will be become much easier for people to simply "repoint" transactions.
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I still live in fear of the day some time down the road when all the people far smarter than me start writing articles titled "Why Function/Reactive/Reactifluxidux architecture was a horrible decision". That's the nature of tech I suppose.
Since this is getting downvoted a lot by "imperialists":

I do not say that one cannot work scientifically using non-metric units, I'm just saying that it has a non-scientific appeal since even in the US scientific publications normally use SI units (kg, m, s) since they are well defined and easy to calculate with.

Imperial units, on the contrary, are based on the length of body parts and sticks or the volume of some arbitrary measurement cup. Granted, the meter is a bit arbitrary as well (but at least based on the geometry of the planet), but the nice thing about metric units is that they can be converted easily: 100 cm = 1 m, 1000 m = 1 km. 1000 g = 1 kg. Try that with inches, feet, yards and miles.

So I really stay with my assessment that working in non-metric/SI units is contradictory to professional scientific work.
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My household hard-cooks all of our eggs in a rice cooker with a steamer tray insert (Zojirushi NHS-10). The cooking time is set by the amount of water you add. We mainly err on the side of overcooked (more water), because nobody likes soft yolks.

The rice cooker and convection/toaster oven have been the two most universally useful appliances in our kitchen, and they are both still operational after an average of 15 years in service. Other gadgets have come and gone, and they remain. They have even outlasted four microwave ovens, three slow-cookers, and one full-sized range-top oven.

A rice cooker is useful enough in every home kitchen that I consider it a dire omission that they didn't even get a mention in the article. Ours can cook a dozen eggs in 15 minutes, most of that time can be spent doing something else, and there's no boiling water to pour out.
Why do you say one should be careful using this approach in a large project?

I'm not sure how much value your paradigm will bring to a project -- 90+% of the non-boilerplate code in most React components is inside the render function, so I'll probably just deal with the very small amount of duplicated code rather than adding the complication of the paradigm you're using.

However in a larger project, duplicated code is much more expensive, so I think your paradigm would be useful there...
What I mean is that I don't want it to be organized or filtered, like the author says. Having just one timeline with everything is nice.
That only applies to credit cards. Bank accounts don't even register on your credit report (overdraft lines may show up).
Well, the age of your checking/savings does not matter. You could just leave your old credit card open and never use it (although this does creates some minor but annoying extra cognitive load).
Iodized salt is responsible for raising the average IQ of billions of people around the world because iodine deficiency leads to intellectual and developmental disabilities. It's not some sinister additive that people need to avoid. It's one of the most successful public health efforts ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodised_salt
Well, while that's true, the bank isn't obligated to send it in a easily processable format; they could send you a pile of paper with the statements.
Which is, funnily, not possible, because the EU original treaties (which are not really changeable) contradict these treaties.

Meaning, the treaty could not be ratified as long as the clause is valid. The question is now if the clause is null and void, or the whole treaty will be null and void (as in the case of Safe Harbor)
"Water the desert a little bit and then see what they become"

This many not be the type of watering she is referring to but if you are interested in helping people gain marketable skills I can say from experience it is very rewarding. I recently posted my availability as a mentor in the software job category on Craigslist ($35) and have found 3 great people that are financially poor, but rich in work ethic and motivation.

We have only connected via email, but have already started to make great progress towered their goals. Many of us on this site have great knowledge that might be taken for granted. If people don't have experience many employers will not give them a chance. Being a bridge between the job at Walgreen's to their first industry job is a joy to be a part of.
Taxes are usually on income, not based on bank balance. Being 'super-rich' has little to do with it. Its the cash flow that matters.

I only mention it, because I was caught (in the USA) in a bind when I had a stock option and had to pay AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax), one of those things designed to hurt the rich. But I didn't have any money - just those options. And they had a lock-out (I couldn't sell them).

To accomplish 'massive taxes on super-rich' you'd have to create a bank-balance tax (like a property tax). And the rich would just invest in stuff then (real estate etc).

Its not simple to design taxes.
This directly leads to lots of older workers who only know one skill and can't get a job. Right now States are dumping these people on Social Security Disability to keep them off their welfare / unemployment rolls, because industries are just not that stable and younger workers are healthier and cheaper.

PS: 65 - 18 = 47 years. Just how many bricklayers do you need with 45 years experience and back problems?
HomeAway and VRBO were the pre-AirBnb. For a long time, if you wanted to rent a vacation house, they were the option.
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That sounds... great!
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...and yet, its an efficient way to learn a trade. How else? We can't yet run a tape through your brain to program skills.
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Well, no. That would be pretty awful in my experience. First person in VR is already dodgy if you're watching/playing from a chair and your avatar is standing or walking. Still, the only thing worse than a mismatch between your position and the avatar's position is a first-person viewpoint where you don't control the camera or movement.

Watching a movie from the first-person perspective of an actor would be one of the barfiest things you could do in VR. Ideally you're observing things from a vantage point but everything is in 3d with full 360-degree spherical range of motion. You can lean around or closer to look at something.

Now, even a mostly fixed viewpoint can be disorienting when you don't have a "body" to look down at (you feel like you're floating and disembodied) but it's probably second to the motion issues. Not sure if people will develop conventions that become generally accepted (like some sort of placeholder/amorphous body for reference) but overall, think more "fly on the wall" than "I'm Duke Nukem!"
LTE probably is more efficient (due to OFDMA vs. CSMA) and I'd be happy for my phone to use femtocells instead of Wi-Fi... as long as the femtos are free and don't stomp on anything. But we shouldn't allow some kind of "protocol Darwinism", especially if it exclusively benefits one particular industry.
> Why not? I've ditched banks a few times. Checking is a commodity product these days... it's not like a banking relationship matters anymore.

Depends on what position you're in, and how you've previously organized your finances. If you still write checks, you have to leave the old account open with enough funds and wait for all of those to clear. If you have things pointing at your bank debit/credit card, you need to change those and wait for any outstanding charges to clear. If you have direct deposit of a paycheck, you'd need to change that. And any services hooked up to your bank account via the usual "tell us the number of pennies we just transferred in and back out of your account" need re-hooking.
I'm doing the same within the confines of a Rails app. Works well so far. It'll be a while to release. I may open source the scaffolding portions of it.

Off topic but does anyone know people hiring freelance React Native? I'd really like to focus there myself. It's the future.
>So the question is - why should she pay higher % in taxes than you or me on that money she makes?

Why not? Just because her popularity gives her a good way to print tons of money doesn't mean she's more valuable than anybody else doing honest work and getting 1/1000 as much per year.

Her wealth doesn't mean much with respect to the value of her product -- it's just a temporary perk because of people not being able to pirate books that easily yet (because they don't enjoy reading on screens, private printing is not very efficient or cheap, and not everybody has a Kindle).

Much greater authors living before the copyright + typography era never made a dime off of their masterpieces.
Banks are in a strange kind of transition. For years they acted like a retail operation that treated finance as a consumer product. But actually their purpose in the modern world is as infrastructure, more similar to electricity or water. In that sense their is some similarity to cable companies who are fighting to avoid becoming just a dumb pipe.
The throughput and latency are probably better if you can just go ahead and transmit when you have something to send.
They mostly can, except for certain sensitive information. Some things should be regulated - I'm glad there are safety standards, and this is a (very basic) safety standard for data.
Imagine people in foreign countries made us a bunch of stuff for free. Wouldn't that be awesome for us?

Why is it bad if they make us a bunch of stuff for cheap?

Also, I think it's pretty clear that "everyone suffers" isn't an accurate reflection of what's going on in the world: http://bit.ly/1MBTFzC
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Though that $1000 produces 100GB of data, after processing there's probably only about ~100MB of features left for machine learning, at most. And most of that will be incidental. With enough data we can hope to have a better filter between signal and noise.

Until now, biology has had a huge problem that most big data settings don't: far far more features than labels. With enough patients' data, the matrix will become squarish, but that's a long time from now, still.
Well you can try. From the post it sounds like she "just" (it was obviously not easy) walked away. I don't see that she involved a psychiatrist or tried to get outpatient treatment (whatever that is called in the US) awarded. AFAIK the latter can be gotten if the person is diagnosed and not living safely, I'd say that's certainly possible.
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I'm probably misunderstanding the post but she had no problem publishing the pictures initially and talks a lot about how hard everything was for her. Apart from the happy end there isn't much about "what did I do to change the situation for him". The time spans are odd, seems like she "just" went on with her life and let him wander about until he finally collapsed.

Once again I'm not trying to say she's heartless or anything but the post is fairly gut wrenching to read. There's too little information on the concrete steps taken to help him.
I would say this is the best definition of an engineer... "An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical, societal and commercial problems. -- Wikipedia" What really matters is the applied scientific knowledge and ingenuity to benefit mankind. The liability aspect shouldn't be the key differentiator.
There is one method he didn't mention. Put the egg in a pot. Cover with cold water. Bring to a boil. Turn off the heat and cover. Wait 10 minutes. Shock cool immediately under running water.

I only boil eggs now and again, but I have a 100% success rate on peeling with this method. I also don't do anything special while peeling. Just crack the shell any old way and peel it. Never once had a marred surface. Never once had dimples in the eggs (probably the shock cooling, as he suggested).

Some variables: Gas stove on medium high heat. At sea level (well, technically 4 meters above sea level...). Very fresh eggs (probably only 2-3 days on average). Eggs started at room temperature (although exactly once I started with a cold egg with no perceived difference).

I'd be interested to see if anyone else has used this technique.
I work in global trade - jobs generally go to where labor/costs are most efficient. Apparel and shoes will probably never be produced in the US again because the manufacturing process is rather low tech / low skill and countries with lower labor costs have a comparative advantage here.

Some economists believe that ultra cheap container shipping has had more to do with globalization than any FTAs have... if you haven't read "The Box" by Levinson it's worth a checking out.

TPP is actually projected by industry to be a net income to US companies of around 8 billion - a lot of this will be coming from lower import tariffs on shoes and apparel from vietnam.
Patents and copyright enable competition by creating property rights. Without property rights, whoever starts out the biggest can just seize everyone else's property and get even bigger. This is how the feudal system worked: the lord owned all the property and took from his peasants whatever he wanted. The only competition was between lords and it was basically just border disputes.

Copyright and patent laws were developed to broaden the economic base by empowering small authors and inventors to extract payment from big companies in return for their creative works or inventions. This allowed them to accumulate and direct new pools of capital, which is what sustains competition over the long term.
I used to occasionally game banks for their account sign-up bonuses. You quickly learn how to set up your accounts so that it takes minimal effort to switch to something else.

A few tips to stay nimble and cover your bases during bank changes:

1) Don't use any bill payment services

2) Any automatic payments you do online, set them up for your credit card if you can (I'd recommend this anyway to take advantage of rewards)

3) Keep a detailed list of where your bank accounts details are stored for auto or manual deposits and withdrawals so when it comes time to change accounts, you have a good checklist to follow.

3) Think about setting up a permanent "home base" account that you can transfer money in and out of from other banks. The idea is that you'll always have this account, so it can be used to pay bills, write checks, day-to-day, etc. and you just funnel your direct deposits from other banks into this one.
IMO unstructured is more or less useless in production, most logs cannot be easily parsed, and it influences you to omit useful information. Plus who wants to write dozens of parsing formats :D
> I don't know anyone who wouldn't hire a smart person based on their race.

You know lots of people who won't say they base decisions on race, and who think they're not basing decisions on race, but I bet if you double blind tested them with fake resumes you'd find bias.
>And the rich would just invest in stuff then (real estate etc).

Which you could also tax -- property taxes.
Because what you're saying won't happen in a lot of situations. Drugs stores are interchangeable, but Target and Walmart are much less so, particularly out of urban centres.