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To answer the author's closing question (why hasn't anyone lowered the price and advertise it). It's likely because so far there's been room for everyone and noone wants to start a price war on what I assume is a cash cow.
Dude, the normal career path of pretty much everyone is over by 35-40. Lawyers that haven't made partner, traders that haven't made been made head of their desk, engineers in general that haven't made it to management, teachers that haven't moved into administration.

It's not like they take all the programmers over 40 out behind the cubicle farm and shoot them or something. I also feel compelled to point out that "programmer" as a career is a fairly new option and information technology is still growing rapidly, so the field in general will indeed look a bit younger.

And, finally, I think your real point is just that going to a school with a worthless Java-lego-blocks program for CS is well..worthless. Dismissing everything but the top 4 schools is just inflammatory and obscures the real point..and, admittedly, I couldn't keep down my gut reaction of inflammation as an alum of one of the schools usually mentioned as a contender for #5.
counterexample: Louisvile, KY
Too bad Wimax is a dead-end. When all of this is over and everyone has their LTE smartphones, Clearwire will get sold off for the value of all that spectrum they've been accumulating.
>Universities are the last place where people actually attempt to expand human knowledge through research and are willing to teach you their subject. It's the one place where you can go study something entirely and totally useless like Art History or History and Philosophy of Science and nobody is going to ask you why.

And then immediately thereafter:

>Except for a few places like MIT, Computer Science is a pointless discipline with no culture.

While I agree with some of the points made in the article (do go to college, because you'll be a better person for it, regardless.) This is where the article completely loses cohesion.

The way I see it, there are two ways you can teach computer science, and in both it is useful to you as a programmer, provided you apply yourself.

1. You are taking software engineering, learning to code. It may not broaden your horizons, but you spend four years looking at code and writing code in a structured environment, you're going to get better at coding.

2. It is a hopelessly abstract mathematical endeavor that has nothing to do with programming. If that's the case, it's just like philosophy of science. Despite its apparent inanity, simply the act of dissecting the how and why of computing will affect you as a person, enhancing the way you look at the world.
Actually in most of the major US cities, the south side is bad. For example, SE DC, south side Chicago, south-central LA
I recently saw a posting at Altera which said they required a full transcript for anyone with less than 8 years of work experience. Needless to say, I did not apply.
I don't know about Perth, but it's definitely true in Sydney (Ocean on the east) and Melbourne (Ocean on the south).
No one's going to stop them from doing what's within the law; that's a given. I'm saying it strikes me as unethical, and it assumes a certain infancy in the public's tech acumen... which perhaps there is! But it still seems like a poor assumption to base a business on going forward.

Now I'm just hoping someone comes out with a iChat/AIM/Jabber/GTalk-like P2P standard for voice (does this already exist?).
Maybe because the city underwent a massive transition post Industrial Revolution? "In late January and February 1937, 19 inches (48 cm) of rain fell during a month of heavy rain. It caused the "Great Flood of '37".[23][24] The flood submerged about 70% of the city, caused the loss of power, and forced the evacuation of 175,000 residents. It led to dramatic changes in where residents lived." (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky)
Come on, really?

Yes. There's a great explanation from The Undercover Economist. It's a great read. Highly recommended: http://www.amazon.com/Undercover-Economist-Exposing-Poor-Dec...

Update: Here's a link to the explanation: http://books.google.com/books?id=YAA8hPloNRcC&pg=PA30...
Most decent schools should teach CS as an applied math course. In fact most undergrad CS majors should graduate not too many credits shy from an undergrad Math degree (or at least a minor).

The problem is that student demand isn't for CS. Student demand is for Information Systems and Software Engineering. Schools either respond to that demand and turn their CS programs into glorified trade schools, or they keep CS as an applied mathematics program like it's supposed to be and risk angering new grads (e.g. "I didn't learn anything useful in my CS program!")
Distribution of their web servers: http://lazyant.com/post/642248858/web-servers-of-the-most-vi...
I got a degree in physics which I regret not at all. I recommend the hard sciences: Physics, biology, or chemistry. Or a similarly 'hard' engineering degree: EE, ChemE, MechE, or whatever the engineering equivalent of biology is. ;) (The name for that is still being invented. "Biomedical engineering" is one term you'll hear.)

Take plenty of lab courses; try to get some summer science internships involving programming -- science labs need programmers, so that should not be hard to find.

I'd get a minor in CS, maybe. But, frankly, if I went back to school today I might still prefer to take courses in art and design -- a subject that would sure be handy for my career -- or statistics, and teach myself the CS in the evenings.
> Things in efficient markets ARE priced according to the cost of the supplier.

Not if you're selling to humans.

Humans value things other than price and features. There are goods that will only sell if they cost considerably more than the cost of production.

The efficient market hypothesis may be true, but only if you consider all costs and benefits and even then, the value of the benefits is not static and you need to account for other things that people might do with their money.
I don't know about DC and LA(though I wonder if both have developed recently enough that the effect would be negated) but in Chicago the souh side is the furthest east (due to lake michigan) and the suburbs to the east of the city aren't exactly wealthy either.
Saying 'east' is an oversimplification, but generally the prevailing wind theory seems to hold up. Atlanta, for instance, the wind is SSE, with the richer areas being in the north. It doesn't really explain how the west is poorer than the east, however.
There's an interesting discussion (and some suggestions) about the North/South divide here: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1126279
Short and to the point, lacking any kind of fluff. Very refreshing.

Almost every other article of this kind is so incredibly long that it feels like a game of "spot the explanation".
Except in WA, where many prestigious suburbs are in the West (Peppermint Grove, etc), and Adelaide where they are distributed around the center (North Adelaide to the North, Unley Park & Springfield to the South, as well as some in the East).

I think that in Australian cities factors other than wind direction have a larger influence.
OpenTable was founded in 1998 and ~$5mm a year on its 5-6 year journey to profitability. (Luckily, they were smart with cash during the boom, and had a $48mm pool of dotcom-era VC money.)

This TechCrunch article is great for financial details:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/30/opentable-files-for-ipo-and...
Thanks. (I wrote it!)
Yet another coder converted to a great teacher of humanity?
I agree it's depressing, but if your goal is to continue
"programming" past age 35-40 I'm not sure you can make the case for others. See my other posting discussing autodidacticism.

However, there is one caveat: if you go into embedded or get a serious security clearance and stick to government work that required it, you can with much less difficultly continue programming. In the former case the field appears to respect gray hairs, in the latter, it's pretty hard to get the first job (they can't have you working on classified stuff until you get your clearance and you can't apply for or hold one without a job requiring it) so once you have your "tickets" you're in very good shape.
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LaTeX is a fantastic tool for any word processing. Once you've got the hang of it, I'd be surprised if you didn't prefer it to any other publishing tool.
How about preferring neither?

I hate the content apps for exactly all the reasons stated in the article. I feel like I've gone back to 1996 and I'm looking at one of those CD-ROM encyclopedias.

But I hate mobile Safari for most of the same reasons as well! Opening new pages is tedious - it takes seconds for a new window to show while it does a pathetic animation dance that uses 2 seconds of my time and achieves nothing (as far as I can tell the new window doesn't even start to load until mobile safari has finished its performance). Flipping back and forward between pages is equally tedious (why oh why didn't Apple use a side swipe gesture, I wonder?). The arbitrary limit of nine of them seems ridiculous.

Some of the "cooked" apps with browsers in them are preferable to mobile Safari because at least when they open a new window they do it quickly.
TeX and LaTeX were designed for mathematical and scientific publishing. So, homework assignments, technical memos, anything that has math or science in it, not just theses. They can be used for general typesetting stuff.
In China, the opposite. Coastal cities (in the east) are usually richer.
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My guess is that it's just a coincidence. The south side of Chicago is not intrinsically undesirable. There is a lot of open space, there is good public transportation, and there are a lot of beautiful historical buildings. There just happens to be a lot of crime, which pushes the affluent out, who have enough money to not have to deal with that problem. (Of course, there is Chinatown, Bridgeport, and Hyde Park, which are generally fine neighborhoods. The President of the United States lives on the South Side...)
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I've kicked that idea around too (and would be surprised if there weren't others with the same thought). I started whipping something up in Django (tied to a SQLite database I could just throw around) when I was learning it a couple of years ago for doing just that; it never came to fruition I'll see if I can find and brush off the code.
I'm curious how much their business model is centered around people organically going to their site and thinking "well, I'd like to go out for dinner somewhere - let's see where I can get a table" as opposed to arriving directly on a landing page for the particular restaurant from which they got the link.

I know if I'm going to go to the kind of place that needs a reservation, I'll have one in particular I've got in mind, as opposed to thinking that I'm just interested in going somewhere that needs a reservation.
Agreed. This seems like something for a procrastinating theorist.

For small one-man projects; eye-ball the market and confirm at least one buyer. Charge the first buyer 50% of development costs and shoulder the rest yourself (mostly in labor.) Market. Scale. Profit.
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I have a decent social circle, and go out a few times a month. One of the things I have noticed recently, and which has been highlighted by 'The Big Bang Theory' is that I am lacking geek friends.

Where or how do I find some awesome new geek friends that I can share more interests with?
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I have an Eee 1005PE. I've never run out of battery before, so I don't know what the actual life is, but the indicator says 12 hours. That's with 3G/4G and the backlight reasonably bright. Without radio or bright backlighting, it's more like 16. (And it's not a 9-cell battery, either.)

(One problem with netbooks is that they cut corners to be cheap. I would like to see what a non-corner-cutting netbook could do. The Macbook Air is pretty close.)
If all you really want to do is code, my guess is all the art history and romantic literature classes in the world won't result in a necessarily cultured person. Culture doesn't just come from exposure, it comes from receptiveness.

As Dorothy Parker said "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think"

I think this post would be much more accurate if Zed had chosen a more fitting marquis word. There's tons of things that you learn in college but wouldn't pick up going straight to work. What I think has been most useful, for me, that I would not have picked up on my own is writing for different audiences.

In high school, you most likely wrote like a high school student: (generally speaking) unrefined, undirected, and usually lacking a clearly defined audience. When you get to college, you get used to the academic environment - you learn to communicate an idea efficiently to someone who isn't an english teacher. It's where you learn that all those "rules" they taught you aren't as steadfast as they would have liked you to believe. It is ok to start sentences with "And" or "But" and end with a preposition.
All I know is that we pay near the top of the industry, and we can't find any programmers. If there were some massive influx of programmers, then a degree might be a good weed-out tool. But the reality is that most people we interview barely get past "write a function to reverse a string", and beggars can't be choosers. Have you written a computer program on your own before? You're hired.

(I am exaggerating a little, but there is a shortage of programmers.)
Access to the surf is definitely a big factor in Oz cities. Also many of the cities started as coastal settlements, so the older parts of the city tend to be closest to the coast (and they tend to be the richer bits??).

In Brisbane much of the east of the city is taken up by port and airport, so not such a desirable area.
I'm currently coming out of high school (11 days until graduation), and, I haven't learned much. 6 AP courses are offered at my school, none of them are pushed on you until after you sign up for the class and decide that wasn't a good idea.
I haven't ever done "real science". AP Physics B (non calculus) is the only ap science course offered, and it still was just "here's a lecture about physics, do your homework, few labs".
Do you have one of the older models? I owned a 701 when they first came out, and I don't remember very good battery life, but the technology was new and I've heard recent models have much better life.
If you can deal with never using the back button or new-tab button, Safari does provide a wonderful experience compared to the first generation crap dedicated apps.

But in a cruel calculated move I'm sure aimed at forcing us all to buy the second iPad, 256mb is just NOT ENOUGH. Nearly every page I open gets reloaded when I switch back to it, or press the back button.

Is there a third party browser yet that does sensible caching of rendered content to "disk"?
Huh. I have the same model, and I generally get around eight hours, albeit on Arch, not the included Windows 7. Are you using Windows 7? If so, it might be a good idea to reinstall it ...
I'd try university computer labs in the first few days after a major assignment is given (on average, the ones pulling all-nighters right at the end aren't the awesome geeks), or your local hacker space.
Direct link, skipping the blog: http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/
Iddo Friedberg has a nice review of the paper as well

http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2010/05/29/a-cure-for-ebola...

The key for me is this part

"this is the first time that siRNA treatment has been shown to work in primate models of a human disease."

That's a big deal under any circumstances.
I also notice that "low-fat" foods tend to make up for the low fat in other ways

Yes, low fat!=low calorie

(though in the case of milk, low fat milk does have a lot fewer calories).
Something like "Scheme Bricks", maybe?

http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Scheme%20Brick...
>The reality is that distributed decision making in many instances yields better decisions. And hopefully fewer instances of people getting rich on the cheap.

Like charging millions of dollars per megabyte of text sent over cell networks?

Clearly, a shakeup is needed. The major wireless carriers are not distributed decision makers. Their power is so concentrated, they really are your philosopher kings.

So add one more to the dungheap, I don't see how it will make things worse.
Also only to people that commute at rush hour +/- and into/out of the city.
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That's not been my observation for engineers outside of software (there's some truth to it, certainly GM plays that game) and certainly not for teachers. Nor is it true for scientists. Don't know about mathematicians. Certainly not true for doctors.

They may not "shoot them or something" but they do stop hiring them. I have some interesting personal anecdotal experience here:

I look much younger than I am (at 49, until a few months ago when I started getting a few gray hairs, I was routinely mistaken for an early '20s college student (this is a family trait, no one thinks my 77 year old father is beyond his early '60s)), so it's trivial for me to not let on to my age until I slip and e.g. mention working on PDP-11s (had one interviewer exclaim "How old are you?!?!!!" that time :-).

Starting about when I turned 35 I found it increasingly difficult to find work in the D.C. area ... until in the middle of one job search I scrubbed my resume of all the info that signaled my age, most especially when I attended college. Bam, it was like night and day, in that job search and in future ones.

Anyway, I believe that the nature of the field of software development rewards experience in terms of quality ... but we all know that most suits are interested in playing as little as possible, even if this results in technical debt or outright project failure that kills the company (one problem is that non-programmers just don't understand the field and its constraints and so on).

To finish, I'm not dismissing all but the top 4 schools, I'm saying that if your goal is to continue programming past age 35-40 attending any other is going to put one more obstacle in your path and by no means will attending 1 of these 4 make it easy anyway. Since you don't believe in that goal I'm not addressing you or your career or whatever.
South Los Angeles is a poor region of greater Los Angeles. There is more crime and unrest there. One historical example: it was the location of the LA Riot back in '92(?).

South LA is about 20 minutes from the ocean, by car. I would generalize that any part of Los Angeles that's further than 15 minutes from the ocean or the mountains (there are several mountain ranges to choose from) is relatively poor.
Yes, I went to their site as well and was surprised that it looked like it was from 5+ years ago. Their software is quite ugly as well :(

However, all of the servers/waiters that I know that work with it tend to sing its praises.
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Yes, I'm using Windows. Because there are no 4G drivers for Linux yet. (OK, Intel has drivers, but there are no products that include Intel's chipset... so...)
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If YouTube wants me to stick around, they can start by ditching those slide-in ads they're continually putting before my eyeballs, obfuscating the movie and forcing me to click the 'X'.
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Interesting. Applies to Boston too - to the north are the rapidly gentrifying yuppie suburbs of Cambridge, Somerville and Medford, while to the south are the more depressed areas of Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan.

Same for the non-San Jose parts of Silicon Valley: Palo Alto and Mountain View are ritzier than neighboring Sunnyvale and Santa Clara. I don't know enough about San Jose itself to say, nor about San Francisco. In SF, though, it seems like many of the ritzier areas (Pac Heights, Marina, Marin) are to the north.

NYC is a notable exception: Harlem and the Bronx are in the north, while SoHo, Tribeca, Greenwich Village, etc. are all in the south.
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there's something a little strange about this list... based on our google analytics numbers -- and the listed monthly unique visitors -- we'd be ~125, yet we aren't even featured on the top 1,000.

something tells me that it isn't very accurate.
this is certainly the case in Houston- the east side is all industrial/chemical/refineries...
I've become suspicious about the word "free" on any website. It almost has the opposite effect on me as is intended. I wonder if this is true for other people?
Well, I wasted 10 minutes reading this stuff. And it seems like they do have separate terms for the App Store and the "iTunes Store".

However when I open iTunes to actually purchase an application, accessing the section for buying applications is very clearly done through the label "iTunes Store", and the status bar even shows "Accessing iTunes Store" as it goes to retrieve the list of applications. The emails I receive that contain invoice information also come from the "iTunes Store", so it would seem to me that at least if you buy them through desktop iTunes, and not directly on the device, you are bound by the iTunes Store terms of use and cannot use them for commercial purposes. For apps bought on the device it seems to only display "App Store", although I do notice emails that contain invoices still seem to come from "iTunes Store". So I would say it is highly ambiguous in that case, but based on this I would definitely buy these apps "on the device" rather than through iTunes.
I'll throw in my voice that a "regular" University can still have a good CS program. I am at a large state university. My theoretical courses have been, by and large, quite good.

Our introductory course is based on SICP and Scheme (with a little Python at the end). Our second course is roughly about OO, taught with Java (but without letting us use most of the libraries at all).

The design of our program is that you choose an emphasis (I'm in network security; there's also networks, graphics, AI, etc., and yes, software engineering). All emphases have theoretical elements, at least to some degree.

I have also had great experiences doing research with professors, who are very open to undergraduates.
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The OP was discussing the east side of cities, not cities on the east side of the country.
I can't see how this is useful at all, you can't run the code, so who cares?

I'd be more interested in a code editor that you can _run_ code in.
The article's referring to wealth distribution within a city, not wealth distributions between cities within the country.
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