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Most of these homes have awful interior features like oversized entryways that feature giant voids. The heat flows to the ceiling, which is a terrible waste. Similarly, the "great rooms" of these homes tend to have too-high ceilings which once again is wasteful as furnaces must work even harder.

These homes tend to also have ridiculously oversized garages that are fashioned to make the home look much larger than it is.
To clarify, I wasn't criticizing the "names" he calls things. It was the criteria. For example, he has this rule:

The secondary masses should never compete with the primary mass.

Whether he wrote it as "secondary outlines should never compete with primary outlines" or "secondary shapes should never compete with primary shapes" ... it doesn't matter what the labels are. I disagree with the rule as of the defining features of what makes a house a "McMansion". It's an inconsistent guideline.
In my experience, those $100 university textbooks aren't worth the paper they're printed on. Tae Kim's guide is infinitely better, if you're an autodidact. Use Tae Kim for grammar, use Heisig Volume 1 for kanji, and use real Japanese for everything else.
One other inconvenience I see is with the older generation who give money to their grandchildren.

> "Happy Birthday, Alice! Here's $100"

vs.

> "Happy Birthday, Alice! Here's a check for $100. Now, you can't use that right away. You need to take it to the bank and they'll turn it into a card you can use when shopping."

Also, when I was growing up, actually /seeing/ the money helped me appreciate it's value. I knew to be careful with spending because I could see how much I had (physically). My younger brother: "Can I get Overwatch? It's only $60!"
I'm kind of disapointed that this doesn't really reference existing philisophical ideas about morals or ethics. A lot of what the article talks about is well known in philosphy. Utilitarianism isn't very popular today as it has a lot of flaws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism#Criticisms

Here are some relevant keywords that I expected to see in the article, but didn't find.

Ethical intuitionism

Deontological ethics

Virtue ethics

Consequentialism
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After the BuzzFeed article and Unicorn Flyers they bumped pay and bonuses by ~20%. This was around 6-8 months ago. From what you're saying it sounds like it wasn't enough.
This is basically an article of the form "I believe the status of X should be lowered," giving some reasons why.

I'm sure they believe it. Everyone always thinks their own culture has better taste. That's pretty much what culture is, a loose agreement on what the best X is for a wide variety of X.

The best way out is not to play. Why have any opinion at all about "mcmansions?" Also, why a special term? Why not just call them mansions?
Thanks for the correction, confused the two.
It's a consequence of excessive land costs. If the lot costs half a million, it seems appropriate to put a big fancy house on it. This leads to too much house for the lot.

Most people's idea of a house is rather conservative. It includes slanted roofs and modest sized windows with small panes. If you build a modernist steel and glass house with stone elements in a suburban setting, you may get a writeup in Architectural Record, but it will be hard to sell.
I'm not framing anything in any way. I'm just stating the fact--The people who build "open web" products are all coming at it from philosophical point of view and with the exception of the few I mentioned (Bitcoin and Bittorrent) they have no immediate benefit that will trump all the inconvenience that's inherently built into the decentralized architecture.

Also, decentralized architecture is inherently inconvenient. I'm not pulling it out of nowhere, it's physics and network theory. That's why there's always constant pendulum swing between decentralized and centralized platforms. If you disagree, tell me an example of a purely decentralized platform with great traction that doesn't have a centralized counterpart or complement.

Some decentralized platform launches with a unique benefit, people adopt it, then people find out it's more convenient to have a "central directory" (Like piratebay or napster), but then centralized platforms are easy to kill, so this fight between decentralization and centralization keeps going on and on, but this is only because the initial decentralized technology introduced a clear, unique, and immediately useful feature that trumped all the inconvenience.
Architecture has been using rule-based language since long before the advent of modern science. See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius
I don't understand why a prerequisite for other types of schools is a lack of privately managed charter schools. Inner city schools are such a disaster, it seems like the last thing we should be doing is blocking any new ideas -- privately managed or not.
This is why SV needs to stop abusing the term "engineer" - because this is indeed work that can be done on the front end, but under no circumstances should you expect front end developers to know how to do this. If you have a specific need, or you're building something very complex, then you probably want an engineer -- most companies (including any of the big ones) typically only need developers. It's good to have engineers tinkering with stuff though, that's how you wind up with things like React.
Most hotel PMS have their own api called an interface. Micros Fidelio (Opera) is the most common hotel PMS out there. There are alot of other hotel PMs out there but alot copy the Micros Fidelio interface spec so if you can get your software working with that interface you should be good with alot of vendors. Just to note each vendor has their own costs associated with letting third parties interface and some are not cheap.
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That's why I wrote mine - my fellow students needed lecture notes in "not Dutch", which mine were, so this books started as a website with my lecture notes in html form, which slowly grew into the material for this book. It's $25 on paper, free online (donate whatever you feel it's worth), and generally covers what actually made sense to cover given the classes we were in.
This is a good point that cashless means having a smart phone and a bank account which marginalizes the already marginalized such as the homeless. I realize that Sweden doesn't have that problem but there are many other places that do.

Also anyone that's lived through a hurricane or a blackout tell you cash is king. Having a few days worth stashed is a good addition to any preparedness kit.
Fallingwater follows different set of rules. Or maybe more accurately its rhythm, proportion, etc. are achieved using different means.

Classical mansion typically has more details and larger number of different visual elements than Fallingwater. Mansions make them fit by using the rules mentioned in the article. Fallingwater uses smaller number of plain elements to create organic arrangement.
Functional and aesthetic design affects the surrounding neighbourhood. So, you get to live on the inside, but you inflict these design choices on everyone else.

No man is an island.
TBH buses in most places haven't accepted cash on board in quite some time. You have to buy tokens or a bus pass and use those. Even tokens I think are not much used any more because in bulk they are heavy and expensive to transport and account for.
“The main factor that has caused corners to fail [throughout history] is that the manipulator has underestimated how much will be delivered to him if he succeeds [at] raising the price to artificial levels,”

Money quote. People seem to consistently underestimate how much supply may come online with an order-of-magnitude increase in price, and simultaneously, how much demand can come online with an order-of-magnitude reduction in price. This is the story of shale oil, dark fiber, and most stock market manipulation, and on the other side, mass production, personal computers, search advertising, digital music, web content, and cloud computing. It's also why savvy startup investors advise you to work on getting that order-of-magnitude improvement in price/performance/ease-of-use, and not worry so much about how big the market appears to be.
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Maybe so. But then one have to ask whose money we are saving by getting rid of the cash.
The trolley problem conflates too independent issues in a very artificial set of circumstances.

Whether we are willing or required to make a utilitarian moral judgment and whether we have the right to do so.

In a real life trolley problem on the battlefield or in the hospital the commanding officer or doctor has been invested by society with his/her position and is expected to do hypothetically the best thing for his patients/soldiers. He has both the power and the right. I'm aware the military situation is a LOT murkier but lets not over complicate.

It seems to me that many are conflicted over their right to take power over other peoples lives and the expected benefit. Note how most feel that you are required to switch the trolley when nobody would be harmed on the other track. Most feel it unacceptable to take responsibility for choosing which party to die in a one to one switch but find sacrificing one for 5 at least acceptable as the benefit mounts it becomes harder to be squeamish about taking power over others.

Maybe if they analyses more realistic scenarios it might be somewhat clearer.
So apparently Africa has a union not unlike the early EU [1] and they are in charge of it, as prominently mentioned in the wikipedia article above.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union
The reason why people learn to play jazz is because of how it compels you to improvise. Even though the standards are the same, every performance is different. It is technically very challenging to play something off the cuff that not only sounds good, but does not sound derivative, expresses your individuality within a collective rhythmic and harmonic and melodic setting, and is also commercially viable. No other modern music exercises this creative muscle so rigorously, and it's a skill that carries to other genres.
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> Also, why a special term? Why not just call them mansions?

This one's pretty straightforward. McDonald's is low status. Therefore, mcmansions are also low status.

(I believe the term originates in the desire to mock mass-produced buildings, e.g. a big tract where all the houses basically share a form. That is clearly not how it's being used here.)
Quite possible, but there is a tension between individual concerns and community concerns.

If everyone can just build anything they want, then you end up with Second Life, and everything looks like crap, all the time.
The recommendations at the end of the article sound pretty reasonable. Choice is great, but the switching costs are pretty high when schools mistreat students and parents. Transparent representation for students and parents seems required for good outcomes.
Charters have a lot of advantages (like they don't have to accept all students, can hire/fire more easily, can kick out bad students) but _still_ don't outperform public schools as a class.

I totally agree that there are some excellent charter schools — but there are excellent public schools too, and not only in extremely wealthy neighborhoods. Our challenge is finding the best model we can that can be replicated at scale; charter schools don't seem to be helping with that.
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What would be the purpose of such a simpler vector format?

Several formats already exist for various use cases: PDF for printing, SVG for web graphics (simple content and icons), OpenType fonts for vector based text and SVG as an exchange format between vector graphics apps.

The only use case I can think of is for standalone vector graphics images, but PDF or SVG is often good enough for that.
Yes, Frank has a very nice series going there. More parts are expected to follow.

As to your question on what CPU the kernel normally runs on?
AFAIK, it normally starts at core 0, processor 0.
You can see for yourself where processes run.

For example using the ps command.

It will print kernel threads in square brackets and it can also list cpu and core number behind a /.

Eg, example output of a linux VM with 2 processors.

$ ps -ax
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? Ss 0:03 /sbin/init splash
2 ? S 0:00 [kthreadd]
3 ? S 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
5 ? S< 0:00 [kworker/0:0H]
7 ? S 0:15 [rcu_sched]
8 ? S 0:00 [rcu_bh]
9 ? S 0:00 [migration/0]
10 ? S 0:00 [watchdog/0]
11 ? S 0:00 [watchdog/1]
etcetera.. removed the rest for readability

The CPU scheduler then handles the rest to see on which thread/core to run a new process.

This post might also help:

http://superuser.com/questions/389161/what-do-the-mean-in-ps...
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What happens when power grids fail, or if war ever breaks out in Europe and internet banking fails as a result? --- At least with cash you can still get the staples at the store.
It sounds downright Orwellian. The government, its banks, payment processors all having the ability to instantly lock you out of the economy and watch your every transaction, leaving you totally out of options should you get on their bad side?

That just sounds like another building block in the surveillance Panopticon, psychological assurance that you'll never become dissentious because your continued existence in the economy essentially depends upon the state's grace. It changes the way people act, and even the way they think. It's the disturbing new reality that Snowden, Greenwald, et al. have sought to do something about, and here Swedes seem to be embracing it openly.

It sure sounds like this service could offer some great conveniences to daily living, but is it worth such a heavy price? The erosion of the will to dissent, and the power of the individual over their own lives? Are these an acceptable trade for the comfort of never having to see a coin again?
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There are other posts on the blog that deal with interiors.
FTA:

> Disclaimer: These same principles do not always apply to Modernist or even canonically Postmodern architecture. These principles are for the classical or traditional architecture most residential homes are modeled after.

Those bungalows were definitely not modeled after classical or traditional architecture, so the principles in the article wouldn't apply. I'm sure the author has different opinions about modern architecture (i.e. the style that FLW defined).

The difference is that McMansions are (poorly) aping traditional architecture, whereas FLW was creating his own style.
From what I see in this picture, the bungalows obey the principles of the article.

For example, all the windows are similar, the house appears designed in thirds, the bottom floor clearly visually supports the top floor.

The house is an example of what the article calls an "assymetrically balanced house." Wright was even kind enough to point out the balance point with that flower-podium feature.
These homes tend to be pre-built in bulk by developers, or offered as purchase options in developed communities.

The builder is simply trying to deliver the most product for the lowest cost: a giant inoffensive box. To this day, buyers believe more square footage is better, even if it is mostly garage. The "grand foyer" implies fewer rooms to spec, support, plumb, and wire.

I've never understood single-family buyers who look at 5000sq ft and up...you end up with empty rooms or ridiculously underutilized rooms ("gift wrapping room" etc)

My wife and I once looked at homes in a Portland development that were 6500 sq feet and up. I could afford them....but WHY? We wanted a house, not a mall.
McMansions look cheap -- this is their defining quality imo, more so than any of the more abstract qualities the article discusses.

Even people without much formal knowledge of architecture (like myself) have an intuitive sense of what cheap wood or ersatz brick look like. You can just immediately sense the economy of the construction.
> Also, don't forget part-time and executive MBA programs. Students in these tend to skew older (early 30s for part-time programs, mid-40s for executive ones), with 10/20 years of work experience in a relevant industry and deep networks that often include access to capital.

Spot on. I should have clarified... I assumed MBA the author was talking about was the "2 year program for candidates with 3-4 years experience". MBAs (exec MBA, MSx, etc) that require more experience, you're way more likely to see search funds.
Two critical parts of the McMansion phenomena were half of all architects (house and software and any other design craft) are below median in skill. So they produce a parody or meme version of architecture but pass it off as something real. The other problem is the bottom half of architects will normally find employment as waiters or bartenders as they should, but during multi-generational level market booms they'll find architectural work and everyone's stuck with the consequences.
The lack of balance, proportion, controlling lines[1] and symmetry are all bad aspects of nearly all modern (in the chronological sense) architecture, not simply McMansions.

My primary issue with McMansions specifically (beyond the fact that they lost the thread on western architecture, which should be blamed on the academy[2]) is that the materials and workmanship are terrible: ugly gaps, quick to stain stuccos and metals, slapdash construction and very little craftsmanship. The flip culture that the mortgage-debt bubble of the last 15 years created has exacerbated this issue to almost comical levels.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Old-Way-Seeing-Architecture-Magic/dp/...

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/Bauhaus-Our-House-Tom-Wolfe/dp/031242...

EDIT: After reading another post[a] of his, it is worth mentioning another chronic problem with modern (again chronological, not stylistic) building: the buildings often look like they are about to fall over. A particular pet peeve of mine is the flashing gap found at the base of many houses and buildings, which introduces a disconcerting negative gap right where a soothing, wide foundation should be. Visual insanity.

[a] - http://mcmansionhell.tumblr.com/post/148935246684/mcmansions...
Certain features of the C++ language and its library should help simplify coding, improve code reuse, and avoid bugs.

Here's a blog post that provides more context:
https://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2013/05/moving-to-c.htm...
Any survey of the science of morality that doesn't mention Robert Axelrod is like a survey of computer science that doesn't mention Alan Turing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
> The hard part is making sure you can keep the business running so you can service the debt.

Which, quite frankly, many MBA students in their mid 20's are unqualified to do.

> The company that Kellogg guy acquired, which sector was it in?

Daycare services.
I would say all of "Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits":

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We may be on the same page here. I don't like the way dev interviews are run and I think the focus on textbook algorithms is misplaced. I would say if your interview process can be aced by somebody hitting the books for a month, you're not testing for hard enough things.

I was just a little surprised about those particular items because I feel like they're such an essential background for all software development. But I don't think they should be quizzed for in an interview.
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Well, no one force them to do it...
McMansions are striver homes, and they throw too many prestige elements at the house. It's like when you look at a home with an over the top 80s kitchen -- they don't age well.

The other thing is that they really aren't architected. Builders drive the design vs clients, and the bling is there to hide the lousy construction material and craftsmanship. The insides of these things are an even bigger shitshow -- all cheap Home Depot fixtures and millwork.
Depending on the business needs, returning outliers can be useful even if there are a bunch of false positives.

I'm not a machine learning guy, but when I was at Kongregate, we had a problem with credit card fraud on our virtual goods platform. It wasn't serious fraudsters, just dipshit teens with their parent's credit card.

I had labeled data: historical transactions, with chargebacks, which I fed into Weka. I included all kinds of stuff we knew about the user. A simple rule-based classifier could pick out risky transactions, with a lot of false positives.

I made a simple tool for our customer service team to review these risky transactions. They would decide whether to warn the user, temporarily block them from buying or temp ban them, or permanently ban them.

This worked pretty well for us. The risk factors were new players, players spending quickly, and users who were dicks - as measured by how often others had muted them in chat, how often they swore in chat, etc.

As an aside, saying "fuck" or "shit" in chat wasn't very predictive of fraud - often those terms aren't signs of an abusive user, since they might just be saying "fuck, I suck at this game". What was predictive was users who said "Gay", "Penis", or "Rape". People who use those terms on a game platform are largely dickheads. So the score for abusiveness became known as the "Gay, Penis, Rape Score" or "GPR" for short.
How long before health insurance companies are able to track your diet or habits and adjust your premiums accordingly. I'm picturing a text message from the insurance company that tells me I've gone over my donut allowance for the month.
The whole thing is an aesthetic argument. You aren't obliged to agree or defend yourself if you disagree.

Similarly, some people get value from the simplicity and symmetry of the MacBook Pro/Air design, while others don't care at all what the bottom of a laptop looks like if the tech specs and price are good.

https://tektype.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/laptop-bottom.jp...

http://www.ishootshows.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/apple-...

The principles the author describes are not telling you what you should think, but rather they are patterns that predict the reactions people have had historically.

As other commenters describe, some well-regarded designs have come about by people deliberately acting against the accepted principles. But it doesn't hurt to know what they are.
Fuchsia = deep mind + Ai

(Getting to there Ultimate goal) we can also expect updated Google glass too
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