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"I never let public schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

Of all persons to whom pithy lines are attributed, Mark Twain is by far the most likely to NOT be the genuine attribution.

http://www.amazon.com/Quote-Sleuth-Manual-Tracer-Quotations/...

I have never been able to verify that Twain wrote the usually quoted form of that line, "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." (There are a lot of scholars who study such things.) I have seen one attribution of that line to Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Leacock

which to me is a much more believable attribution, but one I am also unable to verify.

Mark Twain did have some great lines about schools, of which my favorite is

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards."

-- Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1903) 2:295

/pedantry
(Joke) Bill Gates tried leaving the Microsoft “Kin” phone at a bar.
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Agreed. See

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1281341

on efforts to trace the quotation.
While I understand that it might sound luxurious, having the whole team at the office for the entire day really helps with communication and productivity. And the cost is a fraction of what we might be spending on take-out or catering.

We also have weekly dinners that give us a chance to invite colleagues and advisors in for good food and conversation.
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When I give a presentation, I like to display my slides in such a way that you can't really pay more attention to my slides than to me. Most of my slides are images or simple graphs, merely acting as a visual representation of my speech . When there is text (to reinforce a critical point), I usually don't display what I am going to say before I say it.

If I use colors, the colors are consistent throughout and always mean the same thing.

Before I talk, I will know my talk well enough to give it blindfolded. I am telling you a story, not struggling through a slide deck.

Also, every talk is a job talk, no matter how unimportant it may seem at first.
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Using GET to delete is just asking to have a search crawler wipe your entire site. Not only is this not RESTful, it violates the RFC.
Levels and offers of Oregon Health Insurance
There on ask the pet health insurance company about the various kinds, types or levels of oregan health insurance medical plans that they offer.
Schmidt says Chrome OS devices will be 'disposable,' priced like netbooks
This is dangerous advice.

First, UUIDs are used when you need Universally Unique identifiers... hence the two 'U's. That's why they take 16 bytes of storage space, so that the probability of duplicate keys is quite low. While it isn't zero, which is true, the chance of generating one duplicate key for every fifty trillion keys or so is less than that of being hit by a meteorite.

So, UUIDs are to all intents and purposes universally unique, without requiring any sort of locking mechanism to provide a reasonable assurance of uniqueness. And, if you store them (in MySQL) as CHAR BINARY, they only take up 16 bytes of space, and incur no practical overhead greater than integer primary keys.

Second, if you use the 'generator of a finite group' method, you are pretty screwed when you run out of keys. One, because once you hit n (the size of the group), every following 'key' is guaranteed to be a duplicate. Two, and this is the real kicker, if you want to increase the size of the keyspace, you either have to partition it (ugh), or find a generator that is coprime to both the old and new keyspace dimensions, which is not guaranteed to be possible.

This approach, using generators of finite groups, has zero advantages over an incrementing primary key. Because you still need that integer (k), which is the last integer in an incrementing sequence, which you get from... an auto-incrementing column. So your insert performance will be slower than just using integer keys, which offer a larger keyspace out of the box to boot.
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This is very well articulated. I have definitely tried this before and it works like a charm. However, you do have to be careful about who you try this with though. Long term satisfied customers, customers in urgent deadlines and ones who are generally reasonable about costs value this sort of a pricing/engagement.

I have seen that a bigger benefit from this sort of a pricing model is a stronger relationship that develops with customers who come back to you time and again.

Another thing I have done in the past (ours was not really a services business but a niche solution business) is defined the pricing and after discussing with the customer that it doesn’t fit with their current quarters budget, I agreed to discount it to “make it happen” and they greatly respected that. And then made up for it the next quarter.

I would highly recommend it, but you need to know "how" to do it right. You should not come across as casual or clueless in doing so.
Yes, it's probably not political stuff. Bullying, slander, fake accounts are rampant in Orkut.

Also, it used to have many security holes (maybe still has, I don't use it anymore) and Brazil has no shortage of script kiddies. So there many cases of hijacked accounts and communities.
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Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas (http://jseliger.com/2010/01/21/problems-in-the-academy-louis...) discusses time to degree extensively, and the short answer is "yes." The longer answer: I think the average (or median?) time-to-degree for Ph.Ds in the humanities is 9.7 years, while in the sciences it's now hovering around 6 years and trending upwards.

Note that this merely measures the time from start to finish, including breaks.
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An online library or dll which is ready to download. Ready to use with all .net environment
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> I repair and upgrade friends and acquaintances for cash on the side

You're an unlicensed doctor too!
For when you get back from your self imposed exile: In future, try using 66.135.33.106 (from: http://www.marco.org/244246945)

More user friendly.
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A facebook toolbar at the bottom of webpages?

Just a quick reminder:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2040/1924189728_668c4bc4e2.jp...
I like the idea of using a text-based editor for tasks and to do lists. I'm a fan of having full control of the organization of my files and documents.
The key to high profits in a competitive market: Leverage?
I think "how you do it" matters a lot in this case a lot and context/relationship/the particular requirement all play a big role. Basically you are not just casually saying "pay me whatever you like". The customer already trusts you, values your skill/offerings, knows she wants to get the task done from you, and understands that it may be tough to price so a more flexible approach is good to ensure no time is wasted in coming up with a price.
How would you like to create a simple tool online, over Google App Engine, to match your needs ?

Just add a couple of records for Entities and Attributes in http://creator.ifreetools.com and you will have your app up and running in a few minutes. I guess you will need..

Project(name, description, projectOwner:Ref::User)
Task(name, description, project:Ref::Project, assignedTo:Ref::User,
importance:[Medium, High, Low],
status:[Not Completed, In Progress, Completed])

With regard to notes, you can either add / update notes in the task (everything is automatically audited) or create another entity..

TaskNotes (task:Ref::Task)

All entities automatically have the attributes : createdOn, updatedOn and notes. I also plan to add comments and attachments as a system level feature soon.

The app is free (ad-supported), and requires nothing more than a Google Account. You can also map it to your subdomain http://tasks.yourdomain.com (using Google Apps). Check out the sample walk-through posts :

http://ifreetools.blogspot.com/2010/03/building-simple-bug-t...

http://ifreetools.blogspot.com/2010/01/build-apps-online-ove...
A great way to destroy your competition.
then it's a ninja you're looking for. they could work alone, also could work in a pack. and they are awesome :).
What else would you have expected me to do with it? I mostly built it as an experiment. I was playing around with the new P2P features in flash 10. My first idea was video conferencing (http://www.boostcam.com) which actually manages to more than make up for hosting costs in adsense revenue. If only I had thought to have it connect two random people! This was my second idea. I didn't really think there was much else to do with it. I have some ideas for features, but I have and always will be very limited on time.
I share some concerns with the commenters on the article. Having used salvia a few times, I can confirm that the way in which it is smoked has a drastic effect on the outcome. I can't imagine that the variables (method of combustion and inhalation, temperature, quantity) can be reasonably controlled for by observing home videos.
you have a point ;)
I do. And I find it very satisfying. Short pieces and excerpts on this blog:
http://grograma.blogspot.com/
The Pursuit of Knowledge by Stephen Leacock
Nice list and awesome looking sites. I wonder though - does anyone really visit these websites, discover the app and buy/install it?
I assumed it was more of an exploratory study to figure out the possible effects. What's really amazing though is that A) people are dumb enough to post videos of themselves doing this and B) we're now doing science by observing YouTube videos. The whole method is brilliant for what it is, just think of how hard it would have been to get FDA and IRB approval to do this study the traditional way.
"Now, there may be observed as running all through the processes of education two rival principles, in a sense conflicting and yet complementary to one another. One of these is the principle of compulsion, of having to do what we do not want to for the sake of some external or ultimate end. The other is the principle of spontaneity, of doing what we want to do because we want to do it."

Good discussion of what education really means.
I think Ruby on Rails default scaffolding actions and routing have influenced the popularity of the half-REST design.
SQLite: 67 KLOC of code, but 45678 KLOC of test cases, a ratio of 679:1
Is that a serious question?

Lower cost means more people get educated. (citation: economics 101). More educated people is better for the state (citation: common sense)
I see dozens of paragraphs with clear explanations of not only what they did but why it was profitable. If any of these are incorrect I suggest you point out how, because "no content" is obviously not true.
"Prior to each check-in to the SQLite source tree, developers typically run a subset (called "veryquick") of the Tcl tests consisting of about 98.2 thousand test cases."
My understanding (haven't put much time into this or implemented so take with a grain of salt): if you refer purchasers to other sites where they make a purchase, you can earn a commission.

The most famous example is Amazon. You register. You set up your links to include the referral code. And, via that code, they know to pay you the commission (Google problogger and you'll find articles on using Amazon affiliate marketing through his photo website to earn revenue). (There are caveats, like 'last click' which means they may find it via you, two days later visit via another site, purchase, and the other site gets it. What you lose on the swings you will gain on the roundabout.)

There are affiliate networks out there that will set you up with a number of different online retailers. I think most are paying very low amounts, but it scales with traffic. All of these rely on affixing the referral code to the link yourself.

Where I got stuck was how to turn user generated links into affiliate links, so a reader could submit (say) a link to a camera sale, and the site would automatically affix your affiliate code to create the commission potential. I found one company (she was based in London - annoyingly can't find the link right now) that had built a system that would do this. Every link on a site would be checked against their database of affiliate marketers, your code would be added, and you could earn the commission.

As I say, I only ever got to the early stages and haven't progressed. But if it's easy and ethical for you, it may be an additional revenue stream.
I feel it is kinda sad that only nowadays we are seeing all the work that was done on Destkop ui Frameworks emerge on Client Javascript. I wonder how many MVC server-side frameworks (or hybrid ones like GWt) would have been invented if such tools existed 10 years ago...
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Ask HN: Mobile startup kindly asks for feedback
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After a lot of work, we opened our solution some weeks ago. As follow hackers and enthusiasts, you are all invited to visit our website and test our iPhone app. We would love to hear your honest feedback. Just please be kind, we are still in beta stage. :)

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Big thanks to all!
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Stallman agrees with you:

"I hesitate to exaggerate the importance of this little puddle of freedom," he says. "Because the more well known and conventional areas of working for freedom and a better society are tremendously important. I wouldn't say that free software is as important as they are. It's the responsibility I undertook, because it dropped in my lap and I saw a way I could do something about it. But, for example, to end police brutality, to end the war on drugs, to end the kinds of racism we still have, to help everyone have a comfortable life, to protect the rights of people who do abortions, to protect us from theocracy, these are tremendously important issues, far more important than what I do. I just wish I knew how to do something about them." - Free As In Freedom by Sam Williams (p66 or p73 depending on version).
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This is what I am using for a one-person home office:

1. Gmail for everything, two accounts (private and work). I found Outlook folders more convenient than Gmail tags, but Gmail is great at being accessible from everywhere and works well enough that setting up my own Outlook server seems a waste of time and money. I have no other archive than Gmail, but if something is especially important (like an order or contract) I save it to the hard drive as well.

2. That's a kludge, I haven't really found a good general solution. I have a standard directory structure for projects, and use a central Mercurial versioning system to share code between computers. I use 3-4 editors/IDEs, generally based on which editor has best support for that particular language. At the moment I use NetBeans for JavaScript and Ruby, Xcode for Go and Objective-C, TextWrangler for configuration, scripts etc. and Emacs when on Linux. Builds are generally shell or Ruby scripts.

3. Manually. IM is generally turned off, I enable it only for specific conversations by appointment. Leaving it on constantly gives too many interruptions to get anything done.

4. I have a Mac mini hooked up to the TV and hi-fi to handle all media. A Linux server provides a few TB media storage. (But this is entertainment, I don't use media for anything related to productivity.)

5. All locally. I use a software called CrashPlan which autobackups my two Apple laptops to a central Linux server. On the server rsnapshot runs as a cron job for daily/weekly/monthly backups to an external disk. I would like an offsite or web snapshot as well - I might consider something like Mozy.com for a small subset of the most important data.

6. In general: Whatever is simplest and cheapest. For mail and calendar, that's cloud based (Gmail and Google calendar), which also takes care of reconciling. For code, documents and accounting, it's local. Code is shared through Mercurial, documents through a shared folder on the local network. Backups are local mostly due to cost.
> There's a very good reason why social network CPMs are consistently the lowest in the entire industry.

That's the whole point of the article in my view - Facebook is looking for ways to increase that CPM. If they can do that then they would stand a chance of 'taking over the web'. Yes they probably would have find a way to 'target someone looking for something'. I would estimate that the average user of Facebook is more naive and influence-able in their purchasing than the average Google user which could be a useful advantage.
From various profiles of Assange scattered around the web, it seems clear that he intended Wikileaks to be a propaganda (he uses the word "activist") organization from the beginning. I suppose that implies they were simply biding their time waiting for a leak that would make a big enough propaganda splash (he uses the phrase "maximum political impact") before showing their hand.

It seems we all just projected the role of neutral broker onto them. If nothing else, that shows what a crying need there is for a genuine neutral broker.

Edit: If Assange really cared about his stated goal -- maximal political impact -- he would have done better to let the video speak for itself. By spinning it so aggressively, Wikileaks made it easy for people to dismiss the video, and Wikileaks, as products of an ideological agenda. What it did quite effectively, though, is make Assange a celebrity du moment: he got on Colbert for pete's sake. Between the TV appearances and his juvenile cloak-and-dagger act, I think there's a case to be made that this isn't even about propaganda, it's about ego.
One thing I noticed when I went on the employment market for the first time was that I had never had a relationship with an adult other than family or teachers close enough to discuss jobs/money. American middle class children are hermetically sealed in a child's world, with the adult world a bit outside the bubble filled with sexual predators who you can't talk to. That's another flavor of crazy.
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"So the bar, which sits at the bottom of a website, is a new, less intrusive option to use Heyzap."

Arguably so. However, I've always found bars like that to be much more intrusive than a little widget towards the side of a website - one can't just scroll past them, and my eye is drawn towards things which stay the same as I scroll but which aren't normally there - which is really irritating.
they where provided the video under the condition that they'd try to maximize its political impact to the best of their ability

With this policy in mind, is it any wonder that Army counterintelligence once wondered: "Will the Wikileaks.org Web site be used by FISS, foreign military services, or foreign terrorist groups to spread propaganda, misinformation, or disinformation or to conduct perception or influence operations to discredit the US Army?" -- http://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-intel-wikileaks.pdf
All passwords are trivially broken by social engineering.
If you are interested in learning Python I would go through the Writing your first Django app tutorial on http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/
Great suggestion; thanks!
If someone more schooled in web design wouldn't mind answering, what problems arise of by using the GET add-contact api as described in the post? What is the benefit of using xml in the body of a PUT or POST verb vs the headers?
Thanks for the feedback; this is very helpful.

In reviewing this and the other feedback, I think I'm going to focus dokuments.com on non-developers (small businesses), and use another domain I own (appGenerator.com) for a developer-oriented version.

Thanks again!
If Chu-Carroll displayed some humility, I'd cut him some slack. He has become increasingly arrogant over the years.

Financial contracts per se are amoral. Chu-Carroll claims that a naked CDS is immoral, which is ridiculous. He shows that he does not understand how the financial world works, he passes moral judgements left and right when he should stick to the facts. The "content" of his blog post is equivalent to the content you'd get if you read the Wikipedia entries on various structured products.

In the end, my problem is not with Chu-Carroll himself, but rather with this dangerous meme that something as complex as structured finance can be summarized in a few blog posts. This "illusion of knowledge" can be more damaging than plain ignorance. I know people who have worked in Finance for years and still don't understand entirely how banking works. It takes years to understand these things in detail.

For more instructive content, I'd suggest this book:

http://books.google.com/books?id=r4gGl33zE0EC
Great feedback; this is very helpful.
I hope I can revise the site to solve the problems you mentioned.
I've heard that unions were big proponents of universal compulsory education when it was being introduced. Some say it was for the very same reason.
Having come from Microsoft not too long ago, I really think that "warring city-states" is a much better description of how Microsoft internal politics works than the typical Microsoft-as-monolith metaphors.
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I tracked down the clip on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/30923/the-simpsons-hardcore-fans
Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual ????????

Never mind Richard Feynman, the guy who thinks socialism works and apologizes for Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot's murdering tens of millions is America's greatest intellectual.
I really hate years of experience used as a metric because it doesn't distinguish between people who did are actually experienced in a technology and people who have merely been around a technology for a long time but never bothered to probe its internals.

Not that I'm looking for a job, but this advert doesn't exactly sell the position, either. What sorts of technical problems are you solving? What is your development environment like? How does your team collaborate? You mention PHP, javascript, and linux, but what are you doing with these technologies specifically?
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exactly. any new worker will add to both demand and supply or save his money for someone else to borrow and add to demand.
One of Scoble's tweet: "@gruber you are wrong. I know several people who were on Apple's focus groups for iPad. Apple definitely does focus groups."

http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/statuses/12253059320
The question is not what would happen tomorrow...the question is what would have happened has RMS never existed. I think there's a pretty compelling case to be made that FreeBSD would have never happened; or at least, it would be a very different beastie.

I don't agree with RMS on all things, but he was absolutely instrumental in making our free software world what it is today, and just because you have differing beliefs about what a "free" license really is doesn't mean you should discount what he did for your favorite OS.