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I worked in Education IT as my college job, and Apple provided zero value added with regard towards educational software. For every piece of software that instructors requested such as stat analyses, whiteboards with note-saving capability, standardized test-prep materials, and math visualization it was often non-existent, cost-prohibitive, or a available as a free web app. Campus labs virtualized Windows 7 on iMacs to run side-by-side in order to allow compatibility with 90% of the tools educators need.

While I think that we're doing an excellent job at preparing tomorrow's teachers on how to educate kids; technology largely remains a point of friction in keeping kids focused because of the lack of good tools in the ecosystem. My high school district always received the short end of state funding and we never had any good tools available for physics simulations, art & design, CAD, or personal finance to name a few. Anything we did end up using was available as a web app with no OS dependence; and I see school districts pay extra for mac systems without any competitive advantages to the platform. It's largely a market mismatch that Apple's failed to address, and were largely being phased out because of this.
Their high end market has also shifted from professional tools to fashion objects.
I think what you're saying is true in a sense but misses the point of this part of their education. I think the idea is less about making grade school students into career-ready programmers and more to expose them to programming concepts in general. They're increasingly useful in a wide variety of fields, even if you don't end up being a programmer or touch code again.
That or because it's more profitable to do so, especially on a risk-adjusted basis? What's with the negativity around funding apps if they create tangible value? What makes them "dumb"?

If you believe there's some amazing untapped opportunity in funding rocket ship companies, then perhaps you should raise some money from LPs and invest in rocket ship companies.
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That's the price of backward compatibility. But I think it's a bit of a "Seinfeld is unfunny"[1] situation; if Microsoft decided to save on the nine-figure budget and outsource Excel development to, say, your favorite purveyor of antivirus software, you'd notice real fast.

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny (apologies for the TVTropes link at night!)
I had applied a month ago, still no response! I can't even apply again, it says your application is under progress.
A single share of stock has historically bundled a few things:

1) A right to a pro-rata dividend

2) A right to vote on board, current executives, and strategic matters

3) A right to a pro-rata share of proceeds in case of a liquidity event, be it acquisition or a bankruptcy sale

It seems that current Snap shares come with (3) and only (3), so my guess would be that those investors are betting on growth and nothing but growth.

Price difference between GOOG and GOOGL provides some empirical insight into the value of a voting vs non-voting share.
A well-designed confirmation doesn't give you the same prompt for deleting some random test server as it does for deleting a production server. That helps with the "autopilot mode" issue.
I think it would be if it replaced income tax & corporation tax.
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Why do NET strings override == and Java strings don't?
This is regarding using .equals() in Java so as not to compare object references.

I just wonder why it was done that way. Did Java just not think about it until it was too late to change, or, was there some technical reason?
Given they were giving out 0.02-0.07% in 2014, it seems you're off by at least an order of magnitude if not more: https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/139607.
To be fair though, there are multiple distro-agnostic package platforms becoming available. For example flatpak, snap, and even electron. I realize this last one is essentially a webapp build tool, but that's sufficient for a number of tasks. The first two can package nearly anything, and can even offer additional benefits (principal of least privilege) on top of a typical deb/rpm.

Edit for clarification: it should be feasible to target libraries rather than full distributions.
Don't underestimate what a defensive force fighting on their own turf can achieve.

Not to mention that European defensive doctrine is to hold on until allies can be rallied.
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Looks amazing. Keyboard people are gonna love it.
Yeah, there really is almost nowhere further to go in an academic engineering career. She will probably retire there.
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Thank you for a very interesting and informative answer.

When you say "PhD in applied mathematics taught me how to abstract and codify with math, and to approach numerically and computationally", do you feel you already had good mathematical intuition earlier too and the PhD made it better? Or did the PhD by itself help you build such skills from scratch?

I too would like to have such skills one day, but I don't have the opportunities or time for a PhD. Do you feel it can be self taught to some extent?
That depends entirely on the stage of the company. If you're one of the first few employees, that would make complete sense.

If the last priced round made that 1% worth $20M on paper, then that's unreasonable.
Do LiFePO4 batteries have the same hazmat issue, or are they just too expensive?

I know they don't have the thermal runaway issue other Li-ion battery chemistries have.
I agree. I have the same policy when setting up servers: don't have a "primary" and a "backup" server, make both servers production servers and have the code that uses them alternate between them, pick a random one, whatever. (I don't always get to implement this policy, of course.)
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> electric candles in churches could cut down on unnecessary wax us

I know your comment is a bit tongue in cheek, but an LED connected to an AA battery is enough to last a few days - IKEA sell a nice set that even flickers. I don't go to church, but I suspect the flame (fire) itself is symbolic.
Thank you for your feedback.

When you replied "yes." and nothing happened, do you mean that no reply was rendered on the page? Or do you mean that the rendered reply wasn't meaningful? What would make this interaction more positive?

I agree that I can definitely be selling myself and my skills more.
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Well, that's where the institutional smart money is, buying up and depressing yields on high quality corporate debt.

Bond market pricing also benefits large investors. A small guy buying 20-30 bonds will pay higher markup, higher commission and be quoted higher price than a large player with an 8-digit buy order.

In a stock market (outside the dark pools) two players will get quoted roughly the same market price. The larger guy is likely to be at a disadvantage, as exposing a large buy order might lead to supply tightening.
Preface: I hold a BSE Product Design 2009, Stanford. I conducted research at the CDR. I took courses at the d.school and CCRMA. I attended weekly HCI research meetings for 3 weeks and saw Ed Catmull present to the HCI group once.

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT DESIGN ISSUE.

Please understand that Stanford's School of Engineering pretty much owns and grossly mis-manages the teaching and cooperation amongst different groups with an interest in DESIGN that there are 6 programs in design that aren't interrelated, HCI belongs to Computer Science, Design Impact is it's own program, the d.school doesn't grant degrees, I'm not sure what the "Design Group" in Mechanical Engineering is, but it is related to the only PhD design Program at Stanford, the CDR, and product design have no formal linkages. It would not be common for a Product Design student to ever know or encounter a CS HCI student, except by coincidence or other interest.

This represents an important change in leadership in the school of engineering. Previously it was my understanding the SoE was being run by the thermo guys who are totally clueless to the importance of Design. Stanford Engineering owns Stanford Design and is an extremely fragmented program which completely ISOLATES the Computer Science Department (a part of the School of Engineering) has ZERO ties to 5 other DESIGN programs at STANFORD within the SoE.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Lastly the only course that teaches anything to do with arduino is at CCRMA.[6]

[1] Center for Design Research cdr.stanford.edu

[1] HCI hci.stanford.edu/

[2] Design Impact – A Master of Science in Engineering Program at Stanford designimpact.stanford.edu/

[3] Hasso Plattner Graduate School of Design aka d.school https://dschool.stanford.edu/

[4] ME Design Group https://me.stanford.edu/groups/about-design-group

[5] Product Design https://majors.stanford.edu/product-design

[6] CCRMA.stanford.edu (pronounced "kharma")
Thank you for your feedback! Yes, a mobile version is in the works. I definitely agree.
Perception and uncertainty.

Humans are irrational emotional beings. Somethings feels hot because it popped on its first day trading from $18 to $24. Humans don't know the counterfactual, which is that the stock could have been initially priced at $30 and then dropped to $24. Both result in the exact same value of the company, but the first is definitely perceived as better.

Also, it's hard to say what the "true" value of a stock or company is. In practice, it's what people are willing to pay for some shares of it, and we then as an industry standard take that last traded price, multiply it by the number of extant shares, and then come to a "market capitalization" value.

So therefore, people depend on signals such as whether a stock goes up or down to determine whether or not it's hot, since people don't know what a "true" price for the stock really is anyway.
Yep, I just meant to point out they're different. Selfie is something educators wrote for their purposes. c4.c is more like a piece of code poetry.
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Do you mean Visual Studio?
It would help if you provided more details. Some obvious questions to get you started:

What exactly is your job role?

What sort of work do you have to do?

In what industry? What geographic area?

Are you given a small amount of easy work and get it done quickly?

Are you co-workers doing the same sort of work, or more interesting ones?

Can you ask your boss/manager for additional responsibility, work, etc?
There are a couple of Chrome apps that can run offline and do coding. I've used Caret and Advanced REST client on occasion for things. It gets a bit tricky if you need something that can't work without a real webserver but there's a lot of beginner stuff you can do with it.

crouton unlocked a bit more functionality giving you the possibility of a Linux base layer, albeit likely not a great idea to have kids put the machines into dev mode. But that might be workable if staff did it.

I've dogfooded a bunch of the Web Development content we make at Udacity using either a pure Chromebook or Chromebook + Crouton.
> One would only actually test the backups about twice a year just to be damn sure they are still resulting in restorable data.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

You test every backup by automatically restoring from it in a sandbox and verifying its integrity and functionality in the restored state.

Backups are worthless unless verified for their intended use of recovering a functioning system.
> remove those voting rights might help to eliminate some of the negative, short-term-profit-seeking pressure

For every long-term success story (FB) there's also a story where investors gave the founder super-voting rights and got pretty much nothing in return (ZNGA).
Ford's this mean that we can no longer have more than one private image server?
The passing of Steve has affected the iPad product line the most. iPads have pretty much stagnated since his demise and Apple has alienated the education market with their laptops too. I mean look at the Pro features of the iPad - split screen multi-tasking and 100$ pencils. Its a joke.
Please note the CPUs they have used are pretty advanced: 2x Intel E5 2670 v3 CPU (24 cores) - approx. price $1.5k per unit (http://ark.intel.com/products/81709/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...).

Looking forward to try the code (especially on CIFAR or ImageNet), Zhi-Hua Zhou, one of the authors, said they are going to publish it soon.
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When I used to see all schools turning to iPads I was one of the naysayers. I saw my nephew working(playing) on his school iPad and I thought this was the worst decision the school system ever took.

But now looking back, I am glad they went through it, call it a phase if you must. The American school system (or government) is always last to adopt any tech. You can still find outdated technology barely holding together in some schools. But this time they did something different. They took a risk. They adopted something that hadn't been tested yet. Well now they tested it. We thought iPads were inferior to laptops or desktop, but now we know that they are, at least in the classroom.

Money was wasted, time was wasted, but at least now we know through experience.

I'm glad that they took the risk of trying something untested. And I hope that in the future they will do so again with whatever tech that looks promising in improving education.
I agree that it should help reduce the amount of mistakes.

But I still believe auto-pilot mode is a real thing (and a danger!) .

My point is that I'm not sure if it's even possible to design one that actually cuts errors to 0.

And if that's indeed the case, even if it's close to 0, it's still non-zero, thus at the scale Amazon operates at, it's very probable that it will happen at least one time.

Maybe sometime in the future AI systems will help here?
I think a more apt description would be Snapchat was not designed for broadcasting. I wouldn't write it off because it wasn't meant for a purpose, or because its primary use is for interaction with real life friends/acquaintances/family.

Somehow it has become a platform where fans interact with public figures. You could argue Snapchat is a strong platform as it's gained traction even though the user needs the extraneous (and sometimes difficult) step of finding the username of someone they want to follow.

The article might be clickbait, but it looks pretty good relative to other Buzzfeed "pieces" I've seen before.
Macs definitely have less downtime, shorter startup time and better battery life than windows machines. Windows has certainly gotten better over the last few years, but 5 years ago it would be taking a minute or two for windows to wake up and log in between each class. Mac is pretty much instant (Chromebooks are fast too). Before you say that a minute isn't much, consider that you have 25 teenagers in the classroom, with a minute of boredom.

Also, build quality, effective lack of malware and other system problems mean students (and teachers) don't have to deal with broken computers nearly as often.

It's only the last couple of years that windows has come close, and for hardware the compares in terms of durability, you'll be paying as much as Apple anyway (which schools are hesitant to do as they are underfunded)

I speak from years of experience as a teacher and IT manager, and as an apple hater.
Why develop Gitaly instead of using consensus (etcd, zookeeper, etc.) for writes to fast storage like ssds and the normal git binary? As far as I can tell it's adding a lot of complexity by caching high level RPC calls but still doesn't really address multi-master read after write consistency or coordination.
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$SNAP had a huge IPO yesterday. Tbh,app is dramatically simple to create and equally simple to use.

I am really curious to understand why someone did not clone snapchat?

If someone did, why it did not succeed like flappy bird clones?
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Does it bother you if a male candidate gets a position that maybe there's a better qualified female candidate who wasn't considered because "maybe she wants to start a family" or some bullshit? Do you let that (potential) bias affect your judgment of whether the guy "deserved" it?

Biases exist. Meritocracy is an illusion. Deal with it.
This prevents fat-finger mistakes.

You could go further and try to prevent cat-on-the-keyboard mistakes, which is maybe what you're describing (solve this math equation to prove you are a human who is sufficiently not inebriated). Or even further and prevent malicious, trench-coat wearing, pointy-nosed trouble-makers.

The point is, yes, it is possible. That's what good design does.
I guess with #1 I was just thinking what would be the equivalent of a "painting", since that seemed to work for them.

With #3, I was thinking that maybe some people would want to be roving around the world, to different hubs that are all connected.
So instead of fighting it out with other similar yet competing(?) ideas, each hub would reinforce another with given resources available to people who are passing through or at a hub at a given time, yet still have the freedom to do their own thing.
Also, maybe something like this could avoid being too reliant on a given location (like NYC for the artists, or possibly what SF has become today) over time if a locations economics turn out to not be so in favor compared to other locations, as well as allowing for flexibility with others who cant/wont move to a single location/country.
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I'd recommend Tim Wu's "The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads" for broader understanding.

The only valuable currency of the information economy is human attention, and those who harvest it most efficiently tend to command higher prices while re-selling it to advertisers, who all vie for a piece of it.

In this sense Snap, Facebook, television networks, books, Netflix, newspapers, churches, 9gag, radio stations, PlayStation Network, billboards, blogs, professional sports leagues and magazines all compete for the same currency and those who accummulate the most get to name their price.
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Sensors with Bluetooth / low power wifi. Lithium Ion batteries work for 5 years for our use case. If this improves that, that's less replacement.
Vanguard index funds don't participate in IPOs. Their rebalancing occurs on a regular schedule. Constant purchases would undermine the effort to keep fees low.
it's too bad the discussion of this important compartison wasn't applied to stupid ideas like seasteading.....

perhaps many people would have invested in good and useful attempts at starting new communities. an NYU professor and some folks had a novel idea of negotiating a tax settlement for land in guatemale with the guatemalen government but it fell through.

a major new startup of a society would not succeed int he west because any great success would be seen as a threat to the governments themselves and would either be crushed through a demand for larger taxes , or through violence ( branch davidians......and other cults who fared badly when they refused to succumb to the irs overwhelming demands) .

the key is to start an intentional community on fertile ground, meaning in developing nations where the costs are very low, and the government is small and easy to negotiate with and reliably non-invasive over time.

the west has no more room for this .......
I can't find any numbers on throughput?
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On the contrary: I feel like Amazon is taking some flak because everyone here has messed up before, and are surprised that engineers (seemingly lacking failure experience) were able to do what they did.

I wouldn't task a junior sysadmin a server deletion, would you? Nor could I ever consider someone without a fuckup a senior ;)
The parent mentioned regen and that electric cars are good at it. That means: you don't accelerate infinitely. At some point you decelerate, and then you can regenerate the electric energy. However long you drive uphill, eventually comes the downhill of equal length and you regenerate.

I don't know how good exactly electric cars are here, but considering that a Tesla can work as a taxi in the city, it must be pretty good.

[edit: punctuation]
Governments cannot invent or develop technology, they only hinder it.
I wouldn't worry about changing or clarifying. I think people (myself included) are just being a bit nitpicky and are poking fun at what high school is truly like. As far as I'm concerned, none of these comments are real critiques of your explanation or your "high-schooler" metric.
I have taken also other MOOCs (Machine Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Functional Programming Principles in Scala, ...) and Widom's databases MOOC was by far the best planned, best designed and best executed.

There was quite a lot of homework, but it was all well planned and served a purpose, you could do all the SQL, Xpath, JSON, ... query exercises in the browser without needing to install anything, and the system gave good feedback when you did something wrong. That environment was very well implemented.

The course was packed with theory and practice, there was minimal extra chatter in the video lectures, almost every minute of the lectures was used to cover the material, and the lectures provided just the right amount of theory for doing the exercises, and the exercises covered almost everything from the lectures. Good video lectures are more dense, and proceed faster than live lectures, because when you miss something, you can always rewind and watch the last minutes again.
Maybe Prettier? It's for JavaScript:

https://github.com/jlongster/prettier
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Who is telling poor people that? Nobody. Ever been to Africa? Poor people don't have access to energy not because of environmental regulation, but because they are poor. Coal mining and combustion kill far more poor people than this straw man,
Actually, until Napoleonic wars, Sweden was pretty much in a constant state of war. For instance, my great-grandfather in 12th generation (then a Swedish subject in Östprovinsen, now known as Finland) earned himself a little manor house (tax-exempt and all that) by spending a couple of decades in the Thirty Years War pillaging Prague and other places.

Well, many others were also warring a lot then, but the change was quite abrupt in Sweden, and then the country even managed to stay out of WWI and WWII.

Of course, in Cold War it was actually operating with the U.S. but the war was not, well, hot.
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This is great. Does it do any screensharing?
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This comment nails it precisely, I'm perplexed by the downvotes. Snark isn't bad if it's perfectly descriptive.
I thought that Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" was about the profound culture-shaping power of "massively online education" -- like Khan Academy, Coursera, EdX, etc.

But maybe on further reflection there is just as much influence on a society's culture from growing up with "virtual assistants" -- whether it's the widespread availability of a search engine or a ubiquitous voice-activated thing.