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Hi all,

We've done one-on-one career coaching with a couple of hundred people, and found ourselves asking the same questions over and over again. So we put the most common questions into this simple tool.

It acts like a checklist to make sure you haven't missed a key bit of our advice. It's on the way to automated coaching.

It takes about an hour to work all the way through. That's long, but people use it for major life decisions.

We built it in Guidedtrack, a simple high-level language for making Q&A tools. It allows our researchers to edit the content quickly. We then overlaid our CSS theme.
https://www.guidedtrack.com/

It gets about 1,000 users per week.

The aim of the tool is to cause people to change their career plans. 17% of users report a career plan change from engaging with us (though not necessarily from the tool itself).

4% make it to the end. That's less than 17% because we have a survey about a quarter of the way in, as well as at the end.

Net promoter score is -10%, and use isn't growing.

What are the most effective ways to make it better?
This is absolutely the power of Arduino. I've got zero knowledge of chips but can buy an Arduino, a CNC shield and some stepper drivers. Press them together and suddenly I got a working CNC machine.
That's the thing; the core maintainers won't allow anyone new in. At least nobody who disagrees with their pretty much objectively harmful inaction on raising the transaction limit, a stance they've adopted out of extreme stubbornness combined with glaring financial conflicts of interest.
I remember issuing "call -151" on an Apple IIe to enter the monitor. I was too young to understand how it worked, but I was using the examples from the manual to define fast-drawing code for shapes (defined with an existing language made of combinations of down, left, right, up etc. commands) that could be called from Basic.
Yes majority is not always right.

Ethereum has no solutions for this 'drama' of decentralization & governance either.
Particularly in this case, if the WaPo is right and the party was organized by a student of Colombian descent.

Telling a Latino that mini-sombreros are offensive - the gall is extraordinary.
As an outside perspective, the Bitcoin community is one of the most mysterious clusterfucks I've ever seen. Every time I visit the Bitcoin subreddit or any discussion here that has anything to do with Bitcoin it's all arguing over Core vs the world or "we should be using this not that!" The thing that stops me from getting into Bitcoin is the Bitcoin community itself.
Depends how you want to reach consensus. For instance, if you're going for one-person-one-vote, then yeah, that's gonna be subject to Sybil attacks without identity. But if instead you settle for plutocracy, then you can just use something like proof of burn to tally votes.
I think the parent meant "unseated" as in LibreOffice unseating OpenOffice: the proper way to attempt a coup of a FOSS project is to fork it and outcompete it.
Yeah, ads and affiliate sales. It gets a decent amount of traffic (~130K users/month, 2M pageviews) but I have trouble monetising it.
There were two concerns, as I understand it: there were (and are) Christian groups that believe that "dark rituals" can have real and serious consequences for not only the participants but the society that allows them to occur, whether that's literally summoning the devil or, more commonly, just provoking divine disfavor (the kind of people that blame various disasters on divine disfavor due to tolerance for abortion, gay rights, etc.) But there were also concerns that satanic cults, whatever activity they started with, progressed to ritual violence including sex crimes, assaults and murders, and suicides. Overtly, the government and law enforcement involvement in the satanic panic was driven by the latter type of concern, though a lot of the propaganda that fed that concern was spread by people who were also involved with the more.religious concern -- they weren't independent phenomena.
I want the raw data so I can study it for myself.
Please provide an example of person with loads of recent commits (past year or so) who wasn't allowed in.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who misread it like that!
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I've never understood this argument. There's no person or market for which BTC is their only currency. It doesn't matter if BTC is inflationary or deflationary, because there's never going to be a time when a nation (or corporation, or really really rich person) is holding a non-negligible amount of its wealth in BTC. Most of their money will be denominated in their local currency, and through that, they will be affected by inflation, and driven to invest.

The effect of people holding BTC on a given economy's inflationary tendency would, I'd think, be about the same as the effect that people holding EFT funds or gold or permanent stamps has on inflationary tendency—which is to say, negligible.

To rebut this, you could measure the inflationary tendency of a made-up virtual market like that of the "deep web"... but we measure inflation to know about things like affordability and livability and nGDP—things that affect the places people live in, and through those, affect people's lives. People don't move their money into investments because Internet marijuanas are inflating in price; they move money to investments because core CPI is going up, and so it's costing more to buy bread and to pay their utility bills. And, unless a nation adopts BTC as its national currency, BTC's fixed monetary policy will never correlate with any core CPI anywhere.
At the start of bitcoin there was a lot of 'technical enthusiasm'. But it was very quickly overtaken by the 'get rich quick' people.

Fortunately the free market of ideas has spawned innumerable competitors and many of them (etherium etc.) look to be very promising.

Although I don't think it was intended to be a 'genius ponzi scheme'. It just turned out that way.

>Inflation is incredibly healthy for an economy because it creates an incentive to invest money

in a system when you generate currency from nothing, this is true. But if you use currency as an actual IOUs, you would need to generate value to generate currency, and thus, if you were to hoard currency, you are providing value to the economy for nothing in return, which is a good thing.
It is easy to game reddit & make it appear so by using sock-puppet accounts which flood that forum these days. This is internet & sybil attack is unsolved.

I don't know what you should do but reddit (or no other forum) represents the bitcoin community fairly.
Growing up, I was probably the member of our social group from the most "panicked" home. I am more tempered in my ideas now, but I suppose I still lean that way myself, at least compared to most of the opinions here. However, I'm sorry if I said or did anything rude to those on the other side of the fence back in the day. I am also sorry if I just made this weird, but I did that a lot growing up as well.
This is more or less what going to happen in future as we don't have any problems with merging such options. Though real problem still remain: debian need own packages because we simply have different views on how software must behave by default.
> And if you can't find a real job, just look for another "minority" to "support" at all costs.

You're being downvoted but that's exactly why "modern" feminists call themselves "intersectional". They need to spread the "patriarchy" narrative in all social spheres. By "patriarchy" they off course means "white straight men" exclusively. Like being white straight and male makes you automatically rich, powerful, racist and a misogynist ...
But what makes it more effective than iGoogle wasn't?
No, quite the opposite. Nearly every router has a very simple option to not allow packets from IPs not on the same CIDR as the interface. If ISPs turned this on on each edge interface, the problem would be solved.

It's entirely political/economic. There is no incentive for an ISP to do so because it provides no direct benefit. It's a classic issue of externalities.
Sorry, didn't meant you were trying to get it banned, just that unless there is something to the story that I am missing (and there might be, the party might well have been much more racist than just wearing sombreros) the university reaction seems heavy-handed.

I guess your point depends on what sort of caricature and whether Mexicans at the party are more likely to feel insulted or amused... also whether people think the caricature reflects the truth or not. And whether Mexicans and Mexican-Americans feel they are in on the joke or that the joke is done at their expense. But the mere fact that it involves sombreros, or even that sombreros are considered exaggerated and funny, doesn't necessarily make the party a categorical mockery.

For example, if we (in Mexico) dress like this for a football match: http://bit.ly/1X1qkWc

Are we making fun of this: http://bit.ly/1TgiqtO ?

I am not going to say a sombrero party cannot be a mockery, but I wonder if it often is. Am I stereotyping myself every time I ask people over for a tequila party?
Be it reddit, twitter, hacker news, or people I talk to offline. Everything in the bitcoin community seems to be a dispute about something.
Where does that 20% number come from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shippi... indicates that up to 4% of climate change gasses come from ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_transp... has a breakdown of CO2 per ton-mile. It shows that ships are the most efficient followed by zeppelins and trucking is the source of 20% of the UK's carbon emissions.
You are arguing from authority, which is a fallacy. It does not matter who thinks something is obvious nor what labeled group you ascribe those thoughts to.
I believe the author has been very careful in saying "if no perfect solution exists they seem ok with inaction", highlighting a different problem from "let's bang out code that sorta works and move on.

Also, poor communication skills and "immaturity" have also been a "traditional" problems in FLOSS too.
Being unwelcoming to new devs is especially a big problem for a project that _is already_ losing the old trusted devs.
There is a lot of complaint about this kind of software, and I have to agree, it's often not well done. But that shows us that the money flows in different directions, right? Maybe there is a value to having a good tax guy.
I mean they don't add new people to the core, decision-making team (relevant to this controversy: those who decide the block size i.e. transaction limit).

Now, many open source projects don't add new people to the core, decision-making team, but few open source projects are run by people who are acting in direct opposition to the [financial] interests of their userbase.
but that has already happened, TFA is advocating moving to LibreOffice (BitcoinClassic).
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Do they 'refurbish' the barge ? It's the .. 4th time ?
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Then here is something I am very happy with Netbeans but bought a license a couple of years ago.

What really really turned me off was when I found and reported a really annoying bug only to be told to buy the not yet released(IIRC) upgrade.
Oh, man, I lived through the '80s hysteria about D&D, to the point where one of my (parochial school) friend's mother wouldn't let him associate with the rest of us classmates if D&D was even suspected. Years later in college, I read "Mazes & Monsters", and while I thought it was an interesting story, I could clearly see the mental illness involved, which was entirely outside any concept of RPGs. If anything, one could lay blame at (spoiler warning!) J.R.R. Tolkien, for the "twin towers" references in his works and where the title character ended up.

Watching the video clips had me howling/cringing. The later frenzy directed at other RPGs, like the SJG stuff already mentioned, just pretty much seals the deal that "the previous generation" (let me live in the past, please) just didn't understand fiction/fantasy. That was a whole 'nother set of data points in my education/maturation process as an independently thinking adult...
Why not write a preemptive blog post?
It seems that these problems fundamentally boil down to there being a very small number of people (the five Bitcoin Core developers) who control the destiny of Bitcoin, and who don't represent users of the currency at large.

For a currency which purports to be open, transparent, and free from institutional control, this seems like a huge deficiency. Consider that the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors has seven members, all of whom possess decades of experience in fiscal policy, are nominated by the President, and are confirmed by the Senate. These are experts in the field who are selected by a nominally democratic process.

And Bitcoin wants to replace this with five random devs that most of us have never heard of?

I'm hardly a fan of the Federal Reserve or the US monetary system. But how exactly is Bitcoin offering a more transparent, open, and democratic currency when it can be hijacked by five people?
Great points, I was going to write almost the same thing. To build upon your last point, I'd argue that a solid (and rigorous!) philosophy education is in many ways better suited to building a sound logical problem solving mindset than much of the common core CS curriculum. Critical reasoning is much more valuable than just knowing Java or C++ syntax. Not to denigrate CS education, but rather to point out there is a lot more to learning to think in a way useful to programming complex systems than the current core of CS teaches. Especially in large (million line+) code-bases.

Learning, say, Wittgenstein's philosophy regarding grammar and language [1] gives an interesting insight into how humans express ourselves and delves directly into the heart of modern programming, IMHO. Rarely do we software developers write low level algorithms anymore, but writing consistent and complex API's is crucial and shares more in common with be conversant with large volumes of philosophical treatises.

Based on that, it makes sense many philosophy students would have successful careers – being able to reason and solve challenging problems is always key point in making good money. :)

[1]: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/#Gra
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> Inflation is incredibly healthy for an economy

If monetary inflation was beneficial then a crypto-currency with those features would already exist. Only currency systems where there is no choice have come to the conclusion that inflation is good.
My favorite Peeve about the arduino boards, was the half pin center shift on one of the headers that makes it impossible to just plug in some perfboard with headers on it and make your own shields. Thus opening up the path to selling expensive shield hardware.
<I've never met a programmer (including myself) who knows as much about how my customers use the product as product managers or marketing people do.>

In my experience, customer/product support people (pre-sale and post-sale) have a better understanding of product usage and needs than programmers or marketing people.
Unwelcoming to new devs is not true. Who wrote code & wasn't let in? Also, go to the bitcoin irc and try asking technical questions and observe how everyone is so willing to help new devs looking to get in.
Wow. This is terrifying.
I know; and obviously Bitcoin Core aren't going to fire themselves. I'm just addressing the why they should be unseated, not the how.

(It's worth noting that Bitcoin Core supporters have been DDOSing people running the various attempts at a "LibreOffice" that've been tried).
But if you really think that changes need to be made that the quintumvirate don't want to make... your commits aren't going to be approved.
I think it has pretty good solutions for those, but that's not the point. Blockchains are viewed as a way to make money from speculation, which is why the Bitcoin community is freaking out. Blockchains are actually a revolutionary technology for empowering users with applications they control. If Ethereum had the same sort of governance issue, it wouldn't matter. All of us developers would move our apps to whichever chain ends up being stable, because they'll all support the EVM our apps run on.

Ignore the speculation and build cool stuff.
$15K sounds horrible until you realize that it's less than 4% of his purchase price.
> The explosions we've seen in the past are really just the remnants of fuel briefly burning

And rapid de-pressurisation.
Inflation is "incredibly" healthy for an economy? But not hyperinflation (a word for too much inflation). So how much is good? And would it be worse for a stagnant or shrinking population?
> That's a good trade, and I have every confidence in humanity's ability to manage whatever other consequences follow, we're pretty damn good at making tough decisions once we have something to lose.

I think that your confidence is a little too high on this one. It's very possible to paint yourself into a corner that no amount of magical economics "a solution to any problem will present itself if the price is right" thinking can get you out of. You sound like a politician making appeals of "smart people will work out the details of the impossible promises I'm making."
How about :

100-90% you get a 5

90-75% you get a 4

75-40% you get a 3

40-5% you get a 2

5% and under a 1
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You do a few jobs on the cheapish, and quite often they will recommend you. Like I said, most of my jobs are through people finding me through various other projects. Contacts, like you said.
But Bitcoin isn't just a FOSS project -- it aspires to be a currency, even a financial system of sorts. Currencies have a network effect; the more widespread their adoption, the greater their gravity, making a popular currency difficult to supplant.

I'm skeptical that the FOSS philosophy is the correct philosophy for anything which becomes harder to replace as it becomes more established.
It's a tiny point and not, I'll be the first to admit, closely related to the article, but how is Ivan Lermolieff an anagram of Giovanni Morelli? Where does the G go, and where do the Fs come from?
The IDE i use (phpstorm) - i load it once, and it just sits in the background until i restart or logout. I can't see how load time is really a big deal? unless you're talking 5+ min?
Yes, what should be a conversation is now a dispute because of polarization tactics deployed. A lot of money has been spent because a lot of money is at stake. This often happens in a winner-takes-all scenario & that is the key difference between bitcoin & other open-source projects.
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What happens in this situation is the people who used to make the obsolete things are now out of a job, and eventually get employment somewhere else. What they do then counts for productivity. If they earn what they did before, you'd measure no change in productivity -- though we'd all be better off.

The studies in the article assert that the size of the productivity shortfall is so large that even if we place pretty generous values on all this free stuff we have now it doesn't fully cover the gap.
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For those not following the drama, there has been an organized attempt for the last 6+ months to take over Bitcoin.

A fake "grass roots" campaign was started on Reddit, where numerous sock puppet accounts were used to bombard the /r/bitcoin subreddit with calls to change Bitcoin's "block size limit" to a much larger number.

This would allow more transactions per second, at the cost of hurting Bitcoin's P2P decentralization (the main thing it is good at). These posters claimed there was a dire, urgent need to do this immediately, and used spam transaction attacks on the network to make it look necessary.

They also used downvoting/upvoting scripts to push their posts to the top, and to censor the developer's
responses (reddit hides posts with a -5 score; any post by developers instantly would be downvoted to that level).

They harassed the developers with constant personal attacks, to the point that it became impossible for them
to engage the community. They also flooded the development mailing list, and many developers unsubscribed.

As for the "block size increase", an absurd number was picked (20x increase), and knowing that the developers would not go along with it, the "solution" proposed was a fork of the both the software and the network itself called "Bitcoin XT".

All but 2 of the 90+ Bitcoin developers thought this was a terrible idea, especially since they have
come up with much safer and better solutions to achieve the same goal (scaling up the transactions per second).

Yet when this fork attempt failed to gain any support, a better funded, even more aggressive second attempt (oddly named "Bitcoin Classic") started being promoted.

It is being pushed by the CEO of Coinbase (the author of this blog post) and backed by some of the other bitcoin exchange's CEOs.

I think the creator of bittorrent, Bram Cohen, sums up what developers and the larger technical
community are thinking about these takeover attempts- https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/697705876337995776
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Does it? The whole reason I chose AVR back in the day was the gcc port. http://www.ladyada.net/library/picvsavr.html
As someone who hasn't been following bitcoin development very closely, can you please give me some examples or sources as to why they deserve to be unseated?
I had to get a proprietary crippled third-party compiler to do anything on a PIC12 in C.

The PIC16 at the time at least definitely didn't have GCC support, I recall having to boot Windows to compile my code for it. Pretty sure that's still the case.
Actually you could already do it today.

RoboVM uses LLVM and quite a few People were using Scala with it.

As "the JVM" there are plenty to choose from.

Embedded vendors do have implementations that run with a few hundred KBs or 1-2 MB depending on the use case.

I would say it is just yet another implementation.

Personally I find healthy that languages have multiple implementations, specially since it clears the confusion between language and implementation.
Yes, but since no chain is 'stable' or has solutions for these issues, a developer should spend time building apps on their own blockchains which takes just minutes to make.
It seems to me that the problem with Bitcoin is that its "consensus rules" (the flowchart to follow to decide a block of transactions as either being valid or invalid) aren't instantiated anywhere, but rather are just buried within the particular implementation details of BitcoinCore.

In an ideal world, you'd split these up:

1. there'd be a currency steering committee (with some structure whose ideal form is above my pay-grade) that produces a machine-readable validity ruleset (sort of like a DTD or XML Schema);

2. and then there'd be a proliferation of competing clients that all know how to parse those rulesets, and use them to validate blocks; but which otherwise go about their business of being Bitcoin clients in entirely separate ways.

With such a split, issues with the management of "BitcoinCore the FOSS reference client implementation" wouldn't overlap with issues with "Bitcoin, the ruleset that, in being instantiated in a majority of nodes, gives them a consensus chain." Instead, the first would just be a regular code project, no longer at-all critical; and the second would be something more like the project of defining a new version of e.g. the ePub standard, or of drafting an RFC.