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I can't answer as an English major, but I can answer as a Philsophy major.
(Humanities --Burger King-- right?).

I'm now a lisp programmer.

I imagine that I would be making more money (potentially anyway) had I gone through a computer science department, but I don't think I would have been as good a programmer. Nothing against computer science departments, especially the good ones. Where I went to school, it seemed like they were teaching a lot of 'how' and not as much 'what' or 'why'.

I would have learned a lot of very relevant and useful math working my way through the computer science department (and probably a working knowledge of Java), but I don't think I would have has as much experience really thinking things through. (I can teach myself the math anyway...)

I also know quite a few English majors, the jobs occupy a pretty wide range. A couple are singer/songwriters (starving, of course), one is an administrative assistant at a hospital, and another is working for a textbook company.

Other potential 'after graduation' things include technical writing, getting a masters in something else (like journalism).

I think programmer is kind of an out-lier among humanities, as it is harder to break into (You have to prove you can write code, whereas the CS major does not...) I started in a sort of technical writing position, and 'apprenticed' until I understood enough of the code to be useful. I also did a lot of learning on my own...
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A lot of the other philosophers we revere did exactly the opposite - proclaim that nothing is meaningful in life, or that we're all just mistaken and can't express our ideas clearly. Eg. Nietzsche, Wittgenstein.
I would press that button just to make it go away. ;)

Not that it matters -- the data matter -- but I can certainly rationalize why such a button would be more effective than a standard form submit button: My peripheral vision has seen a hundred thousand form submit buttons by now. I'm not quite as blind to them as I am to standard-sized non-animated web ads, but it's close.

And it seems to me that the problem with being a designer is that it's physically impossible to design a web form in less time than the average user will spend looking at it. You will necessarily spend orders of magnitude more time looking at your forms than a visitor will: Visitors don't look at forms for fun. They click through them fast, or they click away from them even faster. If I had to stare at that button for an hour, as opposed to simply finding it and clicking it as fast as I could, I'd design it differently. Which might very well screw it up.
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I'd be interested in knowing what became of him--no luck finding anything online.
I noticed something in sprites2.png referenced in your A/Bingo page: the bottom row of pixels on the third blue background image is duplicated from the second blue background image.
Nothing too conclusive here, or causal. Toke on! :)
... another app store. I believe there are (or will be) about five competing app stores.
I dunno, the grades are pretty subjective in a lot of majors. I'm TAing for a machine-learning / data-mining class right now, and the assignments aren't mostly ones with objectively correct answers (it'd be easier to grade if they were). Instead, I have to read their writeups and determine if they picked interesting problems and formulated coherent hypotheses; if they used algorithms suited to those problems and explained why; if they demonstrated knowledge of how choices in algorithms or parameters would affect their results; and if they knew how to interpret the results properly and use a mixture of graphs and prose to effectively convey them.

It's possible it's less fuzzy, but there's still a good deal of fuzziness...
It is not, however, disingenuous to lump him in with the mediocre non-scientists.
Python has a relatively heavy footprint for deployment, and cross-platform toolkits add to that - it could be somewhere between 5 and 20 megabytes depending on exactly how many dependencies you've got.
Most certainly. But further, it's possible to write unintentionally exploitable code in any language.
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Don’t undervalue either. As women (and compassionate people everywhere) we like to help and can get trapped in giving our time and ideas away for free because we’re afraid to ask for compensation.

Your time is valuable, and needs to be protected from people who want to take it without giving you anything. Ideas, OTOH, are worthless without ability and perseverance to actually turn them into something. Don't be an idea rat - share your stupid ideas and the person you share it with might improve it for you.
While everyone is piling on with the untested hypotheses, here's mine:

The madlibs form is just too wordy. Whereas the username/password field pair is not only less wordy, it's an idiom: I've seen those fields, in that arrangement and that order, thousands of times over the last decade. I barely even have to read the captions at all.

Not that this hypothesis, or any of the others, matters. The point of this article isn't to design a better form. It's to show us how to design a better form.
Isn't there some lead time involved? Shouldn't this be tested in one to two years for a better indication of what the recent green wave will encourage?
Is it possible that these people are self-medicating?
The Federal Reserve was able to start the boom bust cycle again until 1937 when the bust started another mini-depression. I'm sure speculation about war had some part to play in this but the markets are usually bad about predicting wars. The immediate impact of war in Europe wouldn't have been that bad for Americans at least because international trade had dropped off considerably following a wave of rising tariffs and uncertainty in the global banking system.

World War 2 more than anything else forced the government to cut spending and pay off debt and while there was a depression following the war it followed the pattern of the 1920-1921 depression. In that depression the government did nothing to intervene and the recession while severe was over and almost no one remembers it. The other major factor in the recovery was the fact that the US had almost no competition for its factories and agriculture having been basically untouched at home by the war.

In the end war cannot create wealth it can only direct the wealth that was created for peaceful means elsewhere for the purposes of destroying wealth somewhere else.
Yep, I clicked on it thinking guy is going to propose new business model for porn.
As an intently web savvy group, we want this simple "fix" to work for us.

You provided us with reason to believe this (albeit simple) change will not provide us with results.

Please, don't do this.
I'm as far from design as possible most of the time... and I simply don't feel invited by your madlibs form implementation. On the other hand Huffduffer form just looks amazing. You missed some elements which I think are crucial for what they've done...

In the Huffduffer example the keywords are exposed, the fields look clear and spacing is just the way it feels nice. There's also a rhythm - keyword, field, keyword, field... even though it's not a standard form - you just know what to do with it. LukeW's implementation is not as pleasing, but still looks good, because there's some whitespace and no clutter.

I don't think you actually compared good standard form to good madlibs form. You compared it to a hacky, badly implemented madlibs and wrote off the whole idea ("Anyhow: test ended, not touching the madlibs idea again").
What is the difference between a not-for-profit and a non-profit. I tried to determine if there was a difference in the past and came away with them having the same meaning.
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Thought experiment: if you ignore all the levels in these institutions, do they then become worthwhile?

My high school did not have grades. It worked on a portfolio system, which is basically a recognition that achievement is continuous. And then I basically ignored my grades in college (and it showed ;-)). There's one semester (abroad) that I still don't know my grades for, because I didn't check for a year, it was in a separate computer system, and by then I'd forgotten my password for it. I don't particularly care about promotions at my current employer, because I figure I will eventually leave and then all that career advancement means nought.

However, I think there is still value in college, and there is value in the work I do for my employer.

I'm skeptical of claims like "Every system that allows you to level up is out to fuck you, take your money, or both" because it doesn't admit that a.) not everyone's value system is the same as yours or mine and b.) accomplishments done for the reward are still accomplishments. Say someone writes this neat new feature that improves the lives of hundreds of millions of people. They did it because they want a promotion. Their motive does not invalidate the fact that they've improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
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Thanks to you for calling bullshit on these guys in the first place. This predatory stuff turns my stomach. And it is good to see Calacanis et al cosign. This is just bad for the industry in general.
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I think there is the expectation of quid pro quo, but that the vast majority of people asking to pick your brain don't have a lot to offer. I started getting asked this as soon as I started a company and it took me awhile to feel confident saying no. I felt like, who am I to strut around like my time is so valuable?

But from experience I've learned to be extremely wary. There's been a class of people who aggressively tried to push me off of my idea and into working for their secret idea (seriously, they would try to keep it secret). There was a class of people who thought that meeting might lead to some sort of business--but it never does. Then there's the class of people who want a partnership where we do free work up front and then they make some small amount of money down the road (and I never see how we make any). Looking back--the highlight was talking to people who had just left failing companies because it helps explain what not to do.
Branson and Rutan should buy a couple dozen of them and start to build a moonbase.
I believe that's the point of the article.
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But it would have mattered to the children who would have worked in the coal mines had they not been prevented from doing so by the government. In the long run you are correct but we should not let this be the reason for inaction.
Yeah, it fantastically proves the point: do your own A/B tests. I am guessing the implementation can create a huge difference. Maybe you can ask for help from some of the designers here on HN and see if a beautiful implementation makes a difference. Plus your two checkboxes can also go into the "malibs" form.
It's strange that the author never mentions the conflict between the "Pay Me" idea and her initial anecdote. It sounds like Debra Cohen spent several hours talking to her and even gave her a copy of her book - all for free! Based on Jordan's post and Cohen's comment, it was a positive experience for both of them. Would either of them be better off if Cohen decided to save her conversation for paying customers?

Update: I posted this comment on the original article, and got a good reply from Nicole Jordan:

"What an excellent comment! Thank you so much because then it opens the floor to re-enforce a very specific point - The time I spent talking with Debra was NOT her giving me advice nor me asking for it. It was two women having a much larger discussion about the challenges that we can face, why I thought her book would resonate with many I knew and my expressing enthusiasm to help promote in my circles when it came out. Which is what I did when it first came out, and am doing again. To me, that is an enormous difference than someone saying to me: “Hey, I’m launching my company in a month and can’t afford any PR but can we go to lunch so I can PYB on how I can do it myself?”"
1) Not for a poor entrepreneurial student fresh out of college with a great idea but no track record.

2) Even for a professional, you can't get chunks of work exactly 1 hour long. There are huge set-up and tear-down overheads to any job, plus little issues like finding the job and getting paid.

If you want to attract the next two MBA students, go ahead.

If you want to attract the next two poor, clever hackers disinterested in a normal job - perhaps you have chosen the wrong approach.
put my future outside of my own hands

Unless you're going on for further schooling, grades don't matter at all. Employers certainly don't look at them. Study what you love and work hard, no matter the grades.
No, it isn't the same moral equivalence. WalMart contracts out its night time cleaning. They didn't do this in the early days but they do it now. Of course one of the companies ended up hiring illegal workers and treating them badly and naturally WalMart claimed innocence. They didn't hire the workers. The company that did this lost its contract with WalMart. It's the don't ask, don't tell policy that corporations love to engage in so they can wash their hands clean for a gullible public.
Google has 3 common languages: C++, Java, and Python. I'm not really sure how they could get it down further. I guess they could go all-Java, but then we'd all be complaining about how Google does everything in Java (and a good many of their engineers would quit). Or they could do everything in Python + C++, but then all the Java engineers would quit.

If you just want to interact with Google's APIs from the outside, you can't really go wrong with Python. Almost all of them are RESTful anyway, any language with an HTTP client and XML or JSON parser should be able to work.
Your skills are real, your achievement is meaningless.

I am an awesome Natural Selection (the FPS RTS) commander. I have lead epic campaigns back and forth across the game map against huge odds. When I played, my team often told me that I was doing a great job.

Then, I won. The game went "well done" and all that hard work turned into nothing.

Sure, I had skill, but I had achieved nothing but entertainment and wasted weekends. At the time I was very happy with that. I'm not satisfied with that any more.
Markets don't have all the information. You didn't disprove that.* My point is that someone needs to help with making "all available info" (whatever that means) possible in the first place. It's not always efficient for markets to do that themselves, at least upfront.

*For markets to have all information upfront, it means we know exactly how the universe works and we can predict that an 8.8 earthquake is going to strike Chile on February... etc. Because of this, markets are greatly reactionary and my point above is also that markets don't always react rationally. I'm not arguing that they are not the most efficient system we have under most industries, also--to be clear.
This was not a prospective study, but instead was conducted by survey - the least reliable measurement instrument that I am aware of. Nevertheless, the authors didn't do too much begging of the question. They used the term 'linked' judiciously, and admitted that the disease process already seemed to have started before commencement of marijuana use.

Had they claimed that marijuana use causes psychosis, I would be screaming "Ascertainment bias!" But they refrained; so shall I.
Well, what cities do now is make parking the first n stories of a building, and then build the rest of the structure on top of that as normal. Over the last 5 years, I have watched many of the parking lots in my neighborhood become parking lots with condos on top (and retail stores below the parking).

This seems to be the best of all worlds -- the parking doesn't take anything away, it just makes the buildings 5 stories taller. Why anyone would drive their car in a major city, though, is beyond me.

Now if only the roads could be moved underground and replaced with parks (and a bicycle path); that would be really nice.
This is a very myopic view of exported manufacturing jobs. While I would not argue that manufacturing jobs exported overseas permit those workers to obtain and maintain a US middle class lifestyle, I know for a certain fact that these jobs allow them access to a standard of living they would otherwise have no access to. If you think the hard lives of the third world urban manufacturing workers are hard, remember that most of them fled the abject and overwhelming poverty of rural agricultural areas and see their new jobs and lifestyle as a substantial step up.

Do you think western manufacturing workers have a right to their relatively luxurious lifestyle even if maintaining those jobs in the west doom countless millions in developing countries to a life of hard to imagine levels of deprivation, struggle and pain?
One such reason is the life-cycle of fads. Farmville and its ilk are not building the long-term brand equity that companies (or artists!) need to become stable. Their success just represents clever use of a new social medium, but the same thing that made them spread virally so quickly will cause people to abandon them quickly as well. Once the majority of Farmville players become ex-players and telling everyone how much of a waste of time it is, the engagement will fall off a cliff. Sure, Zynga will try to string people out with new games, but there is diminishing returns for something that offers players little more than addiction. Doesn't matter though because it's an epic money grab anyway.

The people out there making real games are no doubt feeling a twinge of jealousy at the insane profits Zynga is raking in right now. However this is just what happens with new market opportunities. Look at how Atari caused the crash of the home video game industry in the early 80s by following a similar strategy to Zynga (I remember playing ET as a child and just wondering what the hell the point even was).
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No one said anything about forced labor. I included it in a list of things that it is immoral to benefit from. In that list of things was child labor; the point of the discussion. Sorry for not making this clearer. I should have left it out.

Corporations aren't building factories in China so that China benefits. They are building the factories so that they benefit. There are lots of reports of forced labor in China, of unsafe working conditions, and of worker exploitation. Our companies are fine with this arrangement because they fall back on the, "But we don't actually hire these workers. We contract this out." It's wrong.

The American public is OK with the arrangement because it means we can buy cheap crap. We don't mind migrant laborers in this country being exploited because we want cheap food.

What we lose sight of is the damage that this does to us and the world. That pollution that the factories produce in China to make cheap shit for us, in the long run, will do a lot of harm to China and the world. It's immoral for us to benefit from this.

What we could do is make trade contingent on a base level of standards being met. Make companies run the factories instead of hiding behind, "We don't actually hire the workers." The externalities need to be addressed.
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Behavioral economics taken to a horrifying extreme. I thought that's what he was warning of - until I got to the conclusion and realized he was condoning it. Yuck. It's like a bad episode of Sliders.
"...poorly defined and slowly evolving design requirements; overly ambitious schedules; and the lack of a plan to guide hardware purchases, network deployments, and software development for the bureau."

Yup, that's about how it goes.
This runs counter to "Rajeev's rule" which I quite like.
Interesting despite its age, but the title needs (2001).
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When I say the U.S. became a better country by outlawing child labor this had nothing to do with economics. We became better in a moral sense. We Americans equate, too often, the concept of better in a money sense. This is a bad trait amongst us. (I'm not saying you have this bad trait.)
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I wonder whether video game developers are also wasting their life? (I'm not a video game developer)
So, real life, but with unicorns and a lower poly-count?
I'm not suggesting we change the laws of China. I'm suggesting we don't benefit from the exploitation of labor. We stopped trading with the Apartheid regime for moral reasons. This was a good thing. Even capitalists should occasionally do the moral thing.
I used to meet, especially when I was between jobs. Some good meetings, but a lot of people were confused and confusing.

Now, I generally ask them to write the questions in an email.
Yes, on the configuration page you can upload an archive (or sync a repository point) which contains a python extension build script.
Huh? A pimp was the first modern-day 'employer' I could think of that is controlling and abusive to his/her 'employees' in a way that lends itself to metaphor.

Would you pose the same question to someone that used the saying, "I'm whoring myself out?"
Indeed, they shouldn't own the factory. If they owned the factory their bottom line might be affected. People might start asking uncomfortable questions about the pay of those employees. The current arrangement allows they to say, "We didn't hire these kids, it's not our fault. Why the fuck would we own the factory? "
This looks like a brief fast forward through the Vanilla Skype presentations by the same authors. If you want to know even more of the terrible details, the slide PDFs are linked from the bottom of the "Skype protocol" page on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_protocol
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Time is a limited resource, so it makes sense to at least have some type of filter. Beyond that, I found this article to irritate me and to be complete shit. You NEVER know who someone is or even will be. Jobs and Woz were a bunch of weird hippies and Zuck was a college kid who came up with a new idea every few weeks. Keep your door open and always take the time to give some advice to those who ask for it. Karma can be a bitch, but it can also be a blessing. You never know when you'll need help.

On top of it, blog as much smart shit as you can. It will spread and odds are it will impact someone's life. A month ago or so, someone emailed me with the subject: You don't know me, but thank you. He read my article on email newsletters, and it was finally the push he needed to leave his job + start his first startup. He's doing really well so far. I'm by no means popular at all. I can't imagine the impact guys like PG have had, but it has to be tremendous. We need to keep spreading our ideas and encouraging people. Selflessness and the goal to see more entrepreneurs succeed is why our industry wins. We all started from nothing, never ever forget that.

Long live Rajeev's rule.
Well, he did it all wrong.

When you are done reading the Madlibs, it should read like a sentence. What he did was surround regular text fields with strange sentences. When you are done filling it out, you can't just read it like a regular sentence.

It should have been:

I would like to make bingo cards! Please save them for me under the name [ Your Name ], and and my email address is [ Email address] in case you need to contact me. But please [do / don't] contact me twice with hints, and [do / don't] send me a newsletter.

See, when you are done, you can read it like a sentence.

All he did was replace "Username" with longer wording. It didn't seem "fun" the way you did it, just odd and off-putting.