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I'm relatively convinced that tuition fees don't promote inequality, based on stats I've seen over the last 10 years or so. Also, as a student, some of the richest people I knew didn't pay tuition fees due to creative accounting of their parents' personal finances.

That said, £27,000 for a bachelor's degree represents terrible value for money in most cases. The UK's old targets of getting everyone into higher education have had a terribly negative effect on universities; they now chase student numbers and have a 'grow or die' mindset.

The improvement of apprentice systems over the last few years is a step in the right direction, but I fear the damage has been done. Students don't want a challenging experience for £27k, they want the piece of paper they've paid for. For best value for money, I personally would rather take out a student loan without attending an institution and undertake self-guided learning at a slightly later age.
Your comment would make sense if the skulls were painted under the faces of the audience. But from the x-ray (and the description in the article), it looks like it was a circle of skulls laying on the floor, used as props by the performer.
As someone that went Turbo Pascal/Delphi => C++ as Borland lost touch with the developer community, the biggest problem to replace that necessary evil is getting newer languages into OS vendor SDKs.

On my case, if the language is not part of the SDK, usually it no use discussing its use with the customers.

At least C++ is way safer than C, if one cares to use its features.
Yeah, this was indeed inspired by Wireworld and its frustrating timing constraints.
No real mention of Scotland here which is interesting because it doesn't have tuition fees (I think). So surely it would stand as an example that either supports or disproves the theory in the article.
Do you have Chrome and still care about privacy ? Or maybe you are asking that for the speed enhancement.
Yes, you right, if you need only a simple component, React is almost the fastest.

However, if you have a couple of level deep nested structure, nested components, React perform very badly. Probably Ember.js will never be the fastest framework on todo list performance test. However in complex application, it is fast, or maybe faster than any other solution. The Glimmer Engine 2 is on the way, will be released in a couple of weeks with backward compatibility. So if you built an Ember.js app before, it will enjoy this performance boost as well. And improving performance will never stop, so it is just getting better, meanwhile the developer happiness is on the top, thanks to Ember ecosystem, the add-ons, the Ember-CLI, etc...

In most of the projects the importance of the speed of rendering a tiny component is insignificant comparing to the speed of the network, or to the importance of the management of model/serialisers/adapters, or to dealing with app router/services, or to the importance of testing and deployment.

Ember.js project's main goal is providing a complex solution, where the developer has to focus only to ship a product, building features and release it. Ember achieved this goal more than a year ago, the whole framework is matured, more production and corporate ready than any other solution out there at the moment.

A great presentation about how intercom.io can ship fast thanks for Ember.js: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVwDuMGVhYY&sns=tw

Nice comparison of renderers: https://auth0.com/blog/2015/11/20/face-off-virtual-dom-vs-in...
There is always SELinux which can limit root. It was fairly easy to setup last time I tested it, and there has been attempts in the past to put it in as default.

A lot of distros also alias "rm" to "rm -i", something that many users explicitly disable. Its a complex problem of security vs usability where most discussions has been rehashed several times.
What is missing in todays browsers is handling multiple profiles/sessions per browser window. I'd like to open my three gmail accounts in three separate tabs without them knowing about each other. That would simplify a lot of scenarios.
Are you aware of imposter syndrome? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

You may not be up to your job, but probably more likely it's that.
It is evidence. No need to put it in scare quotes. We can debate the correct interpretation and applicability, but it's certainly evidence of a sort.

It's impossible to run the kinds of controlled large scale socio-economic experiments you describe. If we ignore the evidence that doesn't meet your high standards, we'll have no real world data.
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But the thing is I could have been an MD, lawyer or someone in finance - these things were well within my reach. But I was sold a false dream and now I am stuck in misery.
But enclaves are worthless without attestation.

If the OS is evil and you don't do attestation, it can emulate SGX and run your code in a simulated enclave environment where EGETKEY returns keys that the OS knows about.

If the OS is not evil, you can use process isolation to generate and protect the keys.
I use Blendle occasionally in the Netherlands and it works amazing. In my case, it allows me to read articles I would otherwise simply not read. I'm not willing to pay for a subscription to a magazine or newspaper just because I like one article. Buying a single article however, for 0.25 euro, works perfectly fine for me. Especially because Blendle provides the infrastructure for paying, so the transaction takes very little effort.
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I totally agree with you about Britain's obsession with academic qualifications at the expense of practical apprenticeships.
Oh I'm not saying that Jonathan Blow is or is not a talented developer... I don't know that, haven't listened to his talks so I reserve my judgement.

I'm just commenting on the fact that Medias still see working for IBM as being a sign of talent when I don't think that's necessarily the case. I find it interesting that the perception of big corporation like IBM continue to influence the way people see employees associated with those corporations.
I see a lot of talk in the piece about applications to university but no data on attendance or graduation. I'd be more interested in those numbers. Does it really matter how many people apply?
No tuition fees for Scottish students attending Scottish universities.
It's hard to tell if it's good or bad. The same way adblock/ublock, https everywhere work. They block what they know about.
There are many but wouldn't you agree tax revenues are a rather hard indicator to fudge if GDP decreases? Tax revenues are very well correlated to GDP, in downturns too.

6% is also a rather large increase YoY for the Chinese MoF's tax receipts. It is difficult to make hard cash of such a large number up.

I think what has happened is China actually grew faster than the claimed 7-9% in the past decade and now the amount is smoothened to reflect this

I've always noticed a sway on HN to downplay China's growth, given the large American audience this is quite expected. But it is good to be impartial to understand the changes a bit better.
* No comparison with other time periods, and their respective tuition fees.

* No comparison with other countries, and their respective policies.

* No data on where these students graduate from, or in which subjects, or with which grades, or what their average salary is X years later, or whether they'll actually be able to pay back the loan.

It's missing a huge amount of important information; you really can't justify the conclusion "tuition fees are good" from this alone.
Question: I came across some super-nice interactive textbook-style website which gently introduced the Fourier transform with many intuitive and interactive graphics. It was top-notch modern, with dynamic SVGs and looked excellent.
This was about 6 months ago and I can't find the page anymore and I forgot to bookmark it.
If this rings a bell, please share the link! Thanks!
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Yep, great choice. I've just updated my free Ember.js tutorial, if you would like to learn more about it: http://yoember.com

I'm playing with the server side rendering nowadays, and it is promising. It will be easy to use and nicely integrated with the whole ecosystem.

This blog post is not short, but you can get a view, what is the core team's plan for the next couple of weeks, and how the framework evolve further this year. http://emberjs.com/blog/2016/01/23/core-team-face-to-face-ja...
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How about looking at countries which actually have no tuition fees and learning by example, instead of guessing what might or might not happen? Scotland is the most obvious example, but if you want a larger one, Poland does not have any fees for higher education eiter. I know a few people who started from really poor families and went on to become doctors and engineers, mostly because education didn't cost them anything.
The be precise, Scottish and non-British European (EU/EEA/CH) students.
Recently it was discovered that working 20 hours a week while going to school results in worse grades - after decades of believing the exact opposite. When they did better studies - comparing like students (same school, same background, and other characteristics), they discovered that all the prior studies were just showing the success of students who really should have been even more successful. So I prefer to think of most studies such as this as a datapoint, rather than any type of evidence.
Agreed. In my case especially with bookmarks; it'd be great to be able to select 1 profile with all my personal stuff, and one with all my work related bookmarks.
The response from Microsoft makes it look like this is a bug, not just related to tab.

This is... horrendous, how did they get such a basic feature that broken?
It's better to recognize the lack of good data and the limits of our knowledge than to come to incorrect conclusions.

There's things you know, things you don't know, and things you think you know but you don't know. It's the last one that harms the most.
The best we can do is to not upvote this and let it die quietly.
The increasing centralization of things like emergency powers that state governors once controlled (details would take research to cite) is worrisome and you make a fair point.

You lost me when you said "all" powers though. The Constitution is a 2nd draft for a reason: We need some centralized power to keep a unified front in order to benefit from the economy of scale it provides.
I agree that having someone tell me I'm wrong is useful, but it seems to me that we couldn't possibly all be dependent on someone telling us before we know. What about the scientific method?

Reminds me of a famous video clip, "Feynman on the scientific method". "If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong"
Perhaps, but there's an important difference between changing minor details to trace leaks versus "We are not at war with Eurasia."
There lies the problem, C++ reigns king in making games and many other area of coding. The language may be horrible but there are ways to avoid the horrible stuff and use some libraries that are far better design. Nowdays for example I would use something like QT which is very well made, to avoid MFC.

Thats the issue with offering an alternative to C++, its not enough to offer a better design language you also need to replace countless of C++ libraries that very capable , mature and very well established. Hence why there is no true C++ replacement out there beyond Java.

Delphi was awesome in countless diffirent ways but just lacked the library support to make it as popular. But at the time was as popular as python is nowdays with around 1 million developers and Borland C++ had 2 million. However at the same time VB had around 6 million and Visual C++ much more than that.

C++ is way safer than C but also way more complex. Which comes as no surprise why C is the go to choice for small libraries. Frankly I rather go C++ as well.
I didn't know Blendle before, but I gave it a go after reading this article and have to say I'm impressed. Being the news junkie that I am, though, I can totally see how I would end up spending more than €50/month on this. Not sure if that's worth it for me to be honest.

I would totally buy a fixed cost contract though. My Spotify and Netflix are about €9/month, so if I could get quality journalism for €9/month (or even €20/month) I would totally be on board. But paying €0.25 per article... not for me.
"""It was as a direct response to this fiasco that Silicon Valley engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla Motors in 2003."""

What about Musk, Straubel and Wright? Wasn't this settled in court (Eberhard withdrew)?
Pretty darn happy.

It's inside work with no heavy lifting, I get paid way above the median wage, and I get to intermittently learn new things, and build new stuff.

I'm not a constantly ecstatic ball of happiness, but that sounds more like a drug-induced dream than something that real people get to be. Instead I'm "mostly satisfied, with occasional peaks, and some bits that annoy me." - and that's a lot better than the non-programming jobs I've had.
Have you tried speaking up about it? Teachers don't have magic powers of mind reading.
Wait, does that mean that I have to blindly trust the versions the author put on github?

Does that also mean I don't get the up to date javascript library when they change?
Inertia, mostly. If you want your research visible and you want mad street cred for tenure, you publish in the biggest and baddest journals. The biggest and baddest journals are the biggest and baddest because they've been around since the days when scientists would go the university library to read papers.
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> Your time and effort is going towards making someone else rich

You are free to start your own business and get rich except it's not so easy, very few people can do it.
If that were actually their plan they would be strengthening their safety net. The Chinese savings glut (and lack of consumer based spending) is driven in no small part about fear of getting ill, growing old poor, etc.
There are not so many movies in my life I want to watch for several times. Kubrick made eight of them. Barry Lyndon is my favorite.
I wonder how hard it would be to make a selfie mobile app that did this. Hmmm...
As far as I'm aware Brendan Eich's new Brave[1] browser is able to do just this.

[1]: https://www.brave.com/
Does Privacy Badger cover these CDNs as well?
So my question is: did Microsoft do this on purpose, or was it simply a failure in software design?

I'd like to think the latter, but the fact that Win 10 has had well documented privacy issues already, and the fact Microsoft is probably the most experienced and among the most well funded browser development companies in the world, I get a bit skeptical. A private mode that still writes history WebCache. Did they really overlook that?
Made private because I chose to not show it now.
Very interesting!

Nothing much mentioned about sudden decline in its popularity.

I guess, Games that are tied with the tradition of a culture tend to have a longer lifetime.
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Does anyone know what percentage of these loans are being repaid? I recall that a couple of years ago the press were quoting figures like 85% will never be repaid.
> Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *

First, it is not Yugoslavia, but Serbia.
Second, USA has nothing to do with it. They only gave financial and logistic support to the opposition for political activities against the dictatorship. Should it be mentioned that the dictatorship that was overthrown had previously ruined and robbed its citizens, and had only a minority support of the citizens? Should also be mentioned that the dictatorship was brutally using police and army against its own citizens, killed political opponents, falsified several election results, push the country through several wars, etc...
While I agree with you (French guy living there now), It's even worse on the other side of the Channel.
Austria: no tuition fees, terrible social mobility. Uneducated parents cause uneducated offspring.
its not a good comparison since retail takes absolutely sero education or brains.
Also, I'm not sure if they've closed it or not but there was a loop hole a few years ago that allowed students in Northern Ireland to go to Scottish Universities without paying fees due to dual Irish/British citizenship.
In Poland there are public universities and private universities, and on both there are some paid courses. If you get good enough result at final high school exam you can study at public university on a free course. If not (or if you prefer to study at evenings and weekends) - you have to pay. Roughly 30-50% of students study for free. The stereotype is that free education is better (because the paid courses set bad incentives to teachers to let pass everybody, and because they will admit anybody who pays).

The effect is - in general kids from well-off families do better at school and don't have to work when they are 18 - so they study for free and get a degree that's worth more in labour market.

Others pay for studies and often have to work during the day, and study at evenings/weekends, and in the end they get a degree that's "second class".

IMHO it's still a better system than USA (I'm not familiar with UK system so can't compare), because the competition for students means that universities can't charge outrageous prices like in USA. Almost everybody can afford university in Poland. But it's not the ideal system some people think it is.

Also the primary and middle school is important. In Poland the default for every kid is to go to university, and teachers teach basing on that assumption.
You can't do it in tabs in the same window, but with IE you can have as many sessions that aren't aware of each other in separate windows: File | New Session.

It is one of the few things IE gets better (and has for a long time) than Chrome or Firefox where a single OS-level user can have at most two distinct sessions at any given time: one private and one not. It can be very handy from a development PoV when testing multi-user workflows in your application.

One caveat: if the site/application uses saved cookies rather then those set to expire at the end of the current session they will still interfere with each other when opened this way as saved cookies (those with an explicit expiry date/time) are considered global (with respect to the OS user) rather than local to the browser session.

I've not checked if this feature has carried into Edge. The clients I support are so backward that I'll not need to test against that this decade!
Can you please explain how $100/hr is not enough? Do you work 5 minutes a day?
It wasn't Mao, it was a civil war coupled with a foreign occupation. Ever since then, their wealth has grown (including during Mao)
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I'm sure the whole feature was done by an unsupervised intern and management knew nothing about it ... /s
I'm not a programmer, I'm much more, if you have 10+ years in software and only think of yourself as a programmer that's likely the root cause of your unhappiness. Like dilbert creator blogged a while back, be pretty good at two things is much stronger than being very good at one.

to answer the op's question 10/10 I'm very gratefull.
On one hand, yes, absolutely. We have much better than the vast majority of the people and there are times when it doesn't feel right to complain about it.

On the other hands, it's turtles all the way down until you reach "well, we are still alive, at least that's something".

While some humility and reality check is good, aspiring to have something better (be it in the monetary terms or whatever drives you) is also important to make progress.
A lot of the loudest voices in tech are people who appear to be rapturously happy and fulfilled working 10-12 hour days. It's easy for young people to get the message that good coders love working all the time, with the obvious corollary that if you don't feel that way, you're not a good coder. It's not an accident--spreading that idea makes it easier to buffalo people into the ruinously long hours that some parts of the industry are infamous for.

It's important to cut through the 10x rockstar ninja buzzword bullshit and remind people--especially young people--that most coders are working for the weekend just like anyone else.
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Nobody is doing anything wrong though. They are simply buying and selling on open markets. They're not even breaking any Chinese law, or in many cases even doing anything in China itself. Any harm that comes to the Chinese economy will actually be inflicted by China trying to support policies that are not economically viable, but by the hedge funds.

When George Soros, based in New York, 'broke' the bank of England it was not an attack on Britain either by him or the US. He broke no laws. In fact by showing that the ERM was unsustainable and thereby preventing us adopting the Euro* he did us a massive favour. The UK economy is eternally in his debt.

* Alright, it's a bit of a stretch laying that entirely at his feet, but in an alternate timeline where we stayed in the ERM Euro membership was the logical outcome.
At work we migrated from C++ to JVM and .NET languages around 2006.

So where we get to use to still use C++?

Interfacing with hardware, COM libraries, JVM/CLR agents and lately portable native code across mobile OSes.

Someday using Rust, D, Go, Swift will be an welcome option, but they aren't there yet, at least for the type of customers we work with.
I've heard a hiring manager label me overqualified just 5 months into my career.. It was a company handling outsourced QA work. Worked out good for me.
I would think that's a twitter handle and I don't even use twitter.
I am looking forward to micropayments but I sure hope it will be platform independent. Blendle is just another platform like iTunes, App Store, Netflix etc.

Platforms are good for the platform's founders and investors and they take care of the transaction cost and do provide some marketing although I often find platforms limit my choice instead of expanding it.

I don't mind the existence of platforms if they don't have exclusivity on content. But I would love an alternative, where you could pay content creators 2, 5, 10, 20 or a few hundred cents directly.

I can chat, phone or email anyone directly for free or almost for free, even with advanced security. Why can't I pay them for free or low cost? Isn't the tech involved in sending or receiving a secure email with attachement more advanced than the tech that makes sure one bank credits the same amount someone else's bank debits?
Seconded! For example, in the case of running two or more gmail sessions -- contrived, but I've had to do this before -- Firefox's private windows are no longer suitable because for some reason they share state with each other.
Firefox has been able to do this forever. It's called profiles. Start firefox with --ProfileManager to try it.
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I'd pay 27k for a piece of paper that say people have to listen to my rants because I am edumacated.
> If we ignore the evidence that doesn't meet your high
> standards, we'll have no real world data.

I would also add that variable standards of evidence are a good way to allow your strongly cherished beliefs to remain unchallenged for a long time.
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