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I think he would argue that you're better off hacking your way into a job.

That is, don't apply for open positions. Instead, get to know the decision makers and demonstrate your value one on one. (His book has a whole section on networking.)

That's hard to do for someone just out of college, but once you get a little experience it's a sound strategy.
I don't think that's the kind of personality I want speaking for a company I'm entrusting with my communications data. Save the schtick for a lifestyle brand. The EFF isn't TMO's competition, there's no reason for a profanity-laced response from the goddamn CEO of a global telecom (particularly a telecom that already attracts attention from antitrust watchdogs).
For the same reason why gofmt is hailed as a great achievement that's never before been done.

except for every other code formatter ever.
Southaven MS was one of the first cities in America to offer public wireless internet service. Otherwise I can't think of a single good thing for tech to come out of that area.
It's doubtful that schizophrenia is all nurture, but it seems conceivable that coercive circumstances could aggravate a case of schizophrenia, taking a subclinical case and making it floridly symptomatic. Coercion could possibly tip the scales into psychosis.
I've posted some additional comments in the GitHub issue to clear up confusion. Hope it helps provide some background on what's going on.
Meh, I don't buy it. If prices rise then supply will meet the demand and resources will be allocated accordingly. Do you have any numbers to show that as we've seen a decrease in wages for STEM professions that we've also benefited from an increase in R&D? And not actually an accumulation of wealth by the wealthy industry stewards with all time high corporate profits?

The average CS PhD is what? 36k/yr? That is only attractive to international students who place a lot of value in being on US soil. The smart domestic students will avoid PhD programs and CS altogether, which is precisely what the industry wants, the self full filling prophecy of the "talent shortage".
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He would suggest learning a secondary skill that makes your musicianship stand out. PDQ Bach is an example.

I knew a guy in college who was an outstanding tuba player. But it's not like there are a ton of tuba gigs out there. So he developed a whole act geared toward kids. Pretty much every conductor has to do at least one children's concert per year, so he's able to distinguish himself as an unorthodox performer that kids love.
It seems to me that this sort of thing might be better for auctioning off online services like vm hosting, etc, where delivery of the services can be confirmed pretty much instantaneously and automatically. Thoughts on that?
The EFF? A liberal lobby.
That's very intriguing, thanks!
>Self-experimentation as I suggest -- an age old tradition in the scientific sphere -- is simply meant to reorient the person towards a broader understanding of the dimensions possible within the tryptamine-consciousness experience.

That's what some people call mumbo jumbo. Either you really contact some aliens while high or not. If you do, you can pass some message/knowledge that only they could know to prove it.

Else it's just some experience you have.
Oh, it's the most efficient way to deal with the problem. But political reality can be the antithesis of efficiency.
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Depressing. I'm from Australia with a 3.0 GPA, do I have a chance to make it into any universities in California (for a Master's degree?)
A vocal minority will always yell at you. Fuck 'em and ignore 'em.

Edit: I've written in a relatively public sphere, albeit not at politics level, for long enough to have a pretty thick skin. I realize not everyone is in that position.
What is "operate properly" for a stock market? For us Westerners, it means be fair and equal to everyone. But maybe for a less efficient country, it means moving from peer-to-peer trades to centralized, which at least defines a unique trading value and is already better than multiple, independent, bilateral sales contracts.
I did an undergraduate in Chemistry, and I occasionally get the question of, "Is X bad for me," or "Will Y give me cancer?" My response is always that our modern world is bad for you. There are millions (maybe billions) of chemicals produced by thousands of companies. Most are probably harmless. But it only takes one or two being really bad for you to get sick. PFOA is one more to add to this list of shit that's not good for you. Most people are lucky enough to not be Wilbur Tennant and live right next to a chemical dump that poisons their water. But most people do get low doses of chemicals like PFOA. And they probably get low doses of another thousand things that are just as deadly, but unknown. We live in a poisoned world, but its not poisoned enough to kill the people that make the decisions, yet.
That's good advice. For the past year and a half I've been fortunate to have a telecommuting position. It definitely helped.
The problem with Canonical is that it looks like they started working from the wrong end of the stick. So long as you make it to your pre-defined convergence point, what does it matter if you start with Ubuntu and try to evolve it towards mobile, or start with Android and work the other way? The difference is that if they'd taken the latter approach, they could've probably already reached it by now. Instead, they set themselves up to fight an uphill battle, alone, and get bogged down with a bunch of diversions wrt to Unity and Mir and systemd, which, in the grand scheme of things, should have only appeared as pit stops along the way. It's silly.
So you have to upload all your docs to their cloud? Are they going to team up with dropbox et al or compete with them?
From what I gather, it is not unusual for schizophrenics to be hospitalized, get better, be sent home to their effed up family and promptly get worse again.

My life experience strongly biases me towards believing that how it gets handled absolutely makes a difference ("it" = any mental health issue).
If you go to Google Scholar and look up the correlation of GRE score with completion, publications and professional success it will be positive. The fact that it isn't predictive within a programme is just a reflection of range restriction, same as how Google found that GPA had no reliable relationship on job performance in the set of people they actually hired.
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sounds like your interaction with sprint was before the completion of the NV rollout - It's better now, and I'll stick around for GV integration.
> What really sticks out to me is the brain damage-like effects of the disease

Absolutely... there's an incoherence to true (not armchair diagnosed) schizophrenia. The mind falls apart.

Traditional shamans and modern ones like McKenna himself might hold ideas that some might find irrational, but their thought patterns are coherent and their reasoning ability is there. They're lucid and can think. McKenna's brilliant wordsmithing is the polar opposite of what you see with degenerative mental illness.
I think the author jumps to some conclusions here - not sure what is cause and effect.

Is it possible that people stricken by serious mental illness in these societies simply die? I have some experience with mental illness and I can see how someone 'out of their mind' could easily die young when exposed to the elements.

I don't have direct evidence, but I believe the mortality rate in rural / isolated societies is higher than in more cultivated societies.
If you have a face-to-face conversation with a friend (assuming no eavesdropping devices are around) everything you say "self destructs". You'll feel freer to say certain things knowing that they will only persist in your friend's memory.
I can't flag comments that are immediate responses to mine, unfortunately.
>as long as you continue to secure altruistic funding

I've never heard of VCs being described as altruistic, and it is very far from my experience. Is this something people believe?

Also, asking, "how big is the potential market?" seems inappropriate, but ymmmv.
> Another nice thing is free roaming in many countries abroad.

I've (ab)used this in Canada and am currently doing so in Asia. As my envious Canadian friend described it, it's like a cellphone super power.
That is how you justify the project, and it makes sense, when you look at it with a microscope.

But my remark still stand: we now have two compilers to js, their API/FFI is not the same, so you can't factorize work, and the integration work could be made on js_of_ocaml too (see alain frisch's project).
It's kind of distorted by a telephoto lens, but yes. That was temporary track to get the loco from the parking lot of the Pomona Fairgrounds onto Metrolink commuter tracks. They'd done enough work on the Big Boy that it would roll on its own wheels at slow speed. UP actually cut the Metrolink rails, spliced that temporary spur in, got the Big Boy out, put in a retired Diesel for display, and restored the Metrolink tracks. On Metrolink track, they hauled the Big Boy to a connection with UP rails, then hauled it to UP's Coulton yard. There it got enough repairs for a long tow at a reasonable speed, with the lubrication systems working. It's now at Cheyenne, Wyoming, where it will be fully restored and converted to burning oil, then used for fan trips and PR.

(Why did steam die out? Maintenance interval for the Big Boy - daily. Maintenance interval for the Diesel-electric towing it - 6 months.)
Some would say that we should divide universities up into more separate institutions for Arts, Philosophy, Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, Applied Science, Math, Social Sciences, Business, Law, Medicine (or is that a Science?) and others, but the point of universities is be places of knowledge, and to help foster cross pollination between the disciplines. The point of independent research is to be unfettered by government, business, and indeed wider society as a whole.

Government and business and society should not be fettering independent research, just the same as they should not be interfering with law courts. The point of independent research is for the independent researchers to have the freedom to follow their research even though it might not be popular with the local Wood Pulp mill pumping dioxins into the local river, and that is pollution is going to cause cancer. This research may not be popular with many in the community because it will impact their jobs. This research may not be popular with the government, and elected officials because it will affect their tax receipts and donations. This research my not be popular with you because it is going to put your family out jobs, but it is important research, we can ultimately make informed decisions.

That is the point of research, information, and knowledge--so we can make informed and reasoned decisions.

I just can not believe the attitude and entitlement of some who think that just because they pay tax they think everything that is not obviously useful to themselves is useless.
Vacation doesn't have to mean travel. It can just mean taking time off to relax, read, play, pursue hobbies, and spend time with your family and friends.

All that stuff that most of us would be doing if we didn't have to work for a living.
By "derived product" do you mean an obligation to open-source? If yes, there isn't any: Android is licensed Apache 2.0. https://source.android.com/source/licenses.html
What I find interesting is the question of why humans
evolved to be able to switch into ketosis, though

Well, organs and muscles have to run on something... most of them can run fine on ketone bodies, and it's more efficient to produce them from animal foods than to force gluconeogenesis on everything to run on glucose.
Indeed. The device covers the needs of half of the faculty at my college. Their version of Android looks very polished.
> When a company does something good does not mean to ignore when they do something bad.

And likewise the other way around. The enemy of the good is the perfect.
Sounds like something your CC may support?
As comment on Facebook. In 10 years of marketing for many companies, I've rarely seen Facebook outperform Google Adwords for pure paid traffic. In a world of limited budgets I'd suggest anyone putting their money their first.

Also use a expert if your spending more than a few thousand $$. I often see small business tell me how 'advertising doesn't work' where typically they tried setting it all up them-self on the cheap and got little return on the investment.
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> dearth of issues that crop up to maintain an Arch desktop distribution

A dearth of something is a lack of it (see http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/dearth). So a dearth of problems is a very good thing. I think you mean a plethora or an excess.
The international data roaming has been strong enough for me to maintain clear VOIP calls in Canada and Asia.
That's why I refuse to do a single minute of overtime even if it is paid. I've told employers to fire me if they feel like I should be staying longer and none of them have yet. If I ever need to make up time or do extra work, it's usually because of mismanagement and crappy deadlines as 8 hours of solid work a day is a lot, nothing should be "late".

Free time is absolutely the most valuable currency. If you can practice an instigative hobby and augment that hobby with the good money you make, then you've got it made. I have a bloody ton of hobbies and I can't wait to get out of work to work on my own stuff.

Seeing my days/life in two parts as stability (day job) being fuel for my hobby has helped me deal with my identity crisis when I got completely turned off from coding. It was also my hobby so I was always coding, but once I lost that I didn't know what to do and I hated my job. Once I saw it as fuel, no matter what day job I have, is now in context of a hobby.
Small correction: I did not improve js_of_ocaml besides giving feedback (which included feedback about the need to not mangle names).

Before Babel for JS came out, there were tons of different solutions to compiling ES6 features into ES5, and the decision about which toolchain to use would fatigue newcomers to the community. But it was the fact that the community was relatively accepting of new spinoffs that Babel was able to gain momentum, and increase its quality to the point where it is the de factor tool that everyone uses - and it's really good.

As a consumer of the compiler, I don't necessarily consider multiple options a bad thing as long as something of really high quality emerges. (Although I can see how for something like an Async library (that introduces incompatibilities between dependencies) that would be particularly frustrating to have too many options)

It looks like OCamlScript used some good ideas from js_of_ocaml. Maybe js_of_ocaml can end up sharing some of the good ideas from OCamlScript so that it can also have very readable/debugable code and ecosystem integration?
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Hindsight bias. Political pros have been predicting his demise for months, then backtracking to explain "what's really going on."

Only Adams has been unwavering in his predictions and the explanations behind them.

There are no celebrity anti-vaxers running for president, and just because non-political notables appear on talk shows doesn't mean they would poll well in Iowa.

I think Adams goes too far in predicting a general election landslide, but I'm impressed he has the balls to do it.
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I think you're right, that the question isn't "is this game photorealistic?", it's "in what contexts can this game achieve photorealism?"

For a long time, the game industry focused on higher resolution, more polygons, and higher framerates. I think now maybe there's more emphasis on textures, lighting, and physics. The trouble is, if you don't have a physically-accurate global illumination solution or physically-correct reflection, refraction, and shadows, there are many contexts in which "photorealism" is unattainable. For instance: shining a flashlight around a dark room, seeing your reflection in a shiny car, turning lights on and off and opening and closing doors in a dark building at night.
He talks about motivation in his book. I don't remember the details word for word but he basically says you should optimize for energy, which is key to motivation.
There's a certain beauty behind transient moments. It follows a separate line of thinking than that of people used to keeping digital archives of their lives.

The Japanese cherry blossoms are a bittersweet moment during the spring. People go flower-watching (花見) to admire the beauty and it is a happy time. But it is also a sad time, because it is only for a fleeting moment before the time has gone and another year must pass before you can see them bloom.

What makes them so special is that they do no last forever. If the cherry blossoms were in bloom year-round, they would not be any less beautiful - but I do not think they would see as much popularity. They would become commonplace and ignored.

Not everything needs to live on forever - and some things would "suffer" if they did.
Well I'm sceptical you can make a good desktop OS by modifying Android. Major desktop OSs (including their ecosystems!) have been developed for decades, there's a lot of depth in their functionality, flexibility, different use cases. Two of the main issues are that apps designed for Android touch devices suck on desktop and that the Android SDK is very limited compared to what deskop OSs offer. Don't get me wrong, I also think that current desktop OSs suck - it's just that Android-as-a-desktop is not the solution.
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and it even seems to be working: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/t-mobile-added-anoth...
IMO he's upset because he feels like T-Mobile is very much on the side of the customers. As a T-Mobile customer I certainly feel that way. Free unlimited streaming for music and video? Unlimited streaming on all content for the holidays? He talks about how the industry is corrupt and T-Mobile started the Jump! program which is awesome. They are also huge in the contract-free movement.

I'm also pretty sure he's unaware of how Binge On works from a technical standpoint. Philosophically he backs it. I'm guessing it's not well implemented, EFF found this, and now Legere is upset because if EFF were on the consumer side, they would not try stir trouble with T-Mobile, because T-Mobile is making gambles taking on the side of the consumer.
>can you explain how you see Moore's Law as relevant?

The author explicitly asks: "In what sense does technology grow “exponentially”?" If the author wants to claim that the results of Moore's law hasn't trickled down to the common man, then he should do that. Pretending to not know about Moore's law just fails for me as a rhetorical device. The wheat example seems weak as well (not to say that there aren't many other weak point in the article). To make it stronger, he should create a plot of the number of human hours involved in harvesting a bushel of wheat vs. the calendar year, for say the last 2,000 years.

>In fact, by the markets-are-generally-good-at-things hypothesis, and the generalization of Moore's Law that computing power that can be obtained at equal price is growing exponentially, we have a good reason to believe that the exponential growth of technical performance is not contributing at all to productivity.

On a totally unrelated note, proponents of "Basic Income" seem to also be relying on ever increasing technology productivity to replace human jobs, paying their dividends to all. I wonder how those ideas square with each other, and how many of basic income advocates hold a technology-doesn't-produce-productivity (I'm not saying you or the original author are proponents of basic income guarantees).
It's why i occasionally send replies to facebook posts via IRC. Technically quite the opposite of private, but there's a bit of a social convention that it's OK to be a jerk on IRC and that is not only liberating, but also surprisingly detrimental to the xkcd:386 pissing contests that are the root of the defensiveness pchiusano is complaining about.

(disclaimer: IRC is any number of very different places so your experience may vary - oh, how meta-on-topic! And while we're at it: "on IRC, all talk is offensive, not defensive, IRC is part of the internet, therefore the whole post is wrong")

Personally, this whole idea that excessively hedging arguments can be seen as a bad thing is completely new to me. I do it all the time, from a simple AFAIK to explicitly stating all the givens that might be attacked, just in case. I state my opinion, or even just a write a little devil's-advocate "please try to understand how it looks from that perspective" piece, not a properly deweaselified wikipedia entry. But i do like to think of my usage as an enabler for posting bold, speculative ideas. In scientific terms (i'm not a scientist) i would rather be wrong with an outlandish causality hypothesis than with misinterpreted correlation noise. Maybe the knowledge that i am a linguistic offender will help me making the use of defensiveness more deliberate and to the point.
It's all as real as humans are real. Every person has a mind that exists partially beyond the objective reality we all share. Those experiences are real even if they don't represent reality. They affect reality to the extant that humans do. Schizophrenia is dissociation from objective reality. A mind that is disproportionately subjective. An echo-chamber of thought. Even as a disability and not a "magical power" it does inspire a compensatory inclination. Like lip reading for deaf people. They have a mind that is desperately seeking the truth they know they are without. Truth as simply the coordination of thought and reality. A society able to mediate this inclination would be a treat to live in. It is, unfortunately, certainly not the one I live in. No one has time for that shit. Isn't there some way to just "fix" these people? They're obnoxious. Don't tell them I said that I don't want to be blamed for making them worse.

We've internalized a world of psychic war and we see nothing but liabilities. If we had the same reverence for wackos that we do for other victims we may be far better off. The wackos certainly would be. Is that coercion? Can you see anything else?
What China did just put out a giant flashing neon sign that they will buy any (overvalued) asset at the current market price.

Every owner of an equity is lining up to sell their assets to the big idiot with the giant flashing neon sign saying they will buy anything, knowing that the more they flood the market, the more the central committee will buy.

China, you just got played, welcome to the market.
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I watched the whole thing, thanks for the link.

Recently I took a little trip with this little guy:

http://www.hoornmuseumstad.nl/nw-24745-7-3474828/nieuws/vier...

Hard to imagine what it would be like to see that brute up close under power.
Funnily enough, that was an oft-ridiculed approach taken by IT industry analysts Gartner for many years. $NEWTECH will achieve > 50% penetration within 5 years. p = .65
You are not 'hard wired' to react in such a specific manner, and being an engineer does not mean ripping things apart.

Maybe it's not true for engineering in general, but it certainly is true in software development. When writing code, I am continuously guarding for the totality of my implementation. When reviewing code, I am mainly looking for ways it can fail, corner cases that have been missed, non-total evaluations, etc.

Maybe it's not exactly hardwired, but my nitpicking skills are carefully and purposefully honed.