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Having graduated high school in 2008, I don't quite understand it either.

My school counselors were always saying "School is expensive; you need to apply for scholarships!"

And then there was career day, when you quickly figured out some of the realities of work.

Plus the STEM folks always said things like "The US needs more engineers!", "Math + science is important!".

Perhaps because I lived on Florida's Space Coast (east central Florida, the general vicinity of NASA) my experience was different than most?
How is someone 18 years old supposed to figure out what to do? At that age I had no idea how the workplace works or how to get a career, don't event talk about a career I like. Some people have parents with insight or they just have luck but without guidance what do you do?
|people shouldn't have to make choices like this about education. And definitely not in a democracy.

With all due respect, that doesn't really make any sense. What about a democracy should keep people from making important decisions?

I think our education of students on the matter needs work, but they should absolutely be making this decision. For a lot of people it's the first really big decision they get to make, and is a good step to taking on the responsibility that comes with adulthood. That coupled with (hopefully) having a part time job through high school puts them in a pretty good position to transition into becoming a responsible citizen. We just need to teach them more about the costs, expected returns, etc. None of it is that complicated, and could be reasonably taught in a high school algebra course. Probably sooner to be honest.
This popped up on product hunt for me today. It's not clear to me how this is different to straight up RN with other libraries e.g. https://nativebase.io/ or https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native . Care to comment?
I like the idea of gamifying language learning, and your first project is cool.

Can anyone recommend good 'game' type apps to help learn Chinese?
Ah, ok. Well, in that case, it is only a half-good law and not really helpful. Thanks for filling in the details for me.
I agree.

I recall a scene from Stefan Zweig's "world of yesterday", where he describes how a group of young men, armed with clubs, stormed a student debate and beat the speakers severely. The police, honoring an old tradition of never entering the debate hall, stood outside as it happened.

I guess I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure when and how this happened, who was behind it, and what it foreshadowed. Zweig is an exceptional writer, and this was an exceptional book. To everyone interested in this thread: please don't take a tl;dr from me on this. There's a lot of interest in Zweig these days, for good reason.

This passage from this book kind of haunts me, and has led me to think about what it means when civil law enforcement and rule of law stands down as politically motivated thugs use violence to shut down free speech, especially but not only in universities.
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All this is subjective. When Jobs wrote an open letter about not supporting flash that wasnt a press release that was him taking responsibility and adressing something heads on.

Making it engineers job to adress a leadership issue is exactly the wrong kind of frank.
To play the devil's advocate, there are 30,000 people in the US with Huntington's [0]. If all of them paid full price for the drug that comes out to 1.8B. Bringing a drug to market costs 2.5B [1]. In order to encourage drug development for rare diseases, there needs to be some financial reward. Often more than half of a drug's patent is gone by the time that the drug is approved.

0. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/159552.php

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cost-to-develop-n...
Project: Build a website to teach myself nodejs and angular 2. Try to make it profitable.

Problem: Code is very effective and learning objectives where achieved. (Will be working on implimenting angular2 soon, right now just Codeigniter/Bootstrap.) The problem has been making massive amounts of money from the website.

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The means by which the company deprives you of the product is not what's being debated.
Don't be ridiculous. Very little of your 90 minute suburb commute is attributable to bike lanes and narrower lanes downtown. That probably adds 3 minutes. NYCDOT has done many studies, and sometimes it even speeds traffic up because there's less lane changing in dense traffic, which wastes lane-time. Adding bike lanes also tends to make motorists and pedestrians (but paradoxically, not really cyclists) safer. You're welcome.

Most of your crap commute is caused by too many drivers on the freeway and arterial roads, where you spend most of your stop-and-go time.

The bigger problem is you insist on an absurdly large amount of living space (which is what causes all the sprawl and traffic) If you compromise on this, then in most US cities you can get a reasonable commute at a reasonable price
I rest easy knowing Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio have burned far more fossil fuels than I ever will in my entire life.

When someone throws the 'denier' slur around, I throw a giant steak on my Big Green Egg, grass-fed for extra environmental impact.

Edit: I just got off the set of a major motion picture and I've seen firsthand the incredible waste that goes into making movies such as "An Inconvenient Truth" which isn't even a huge production. Don't even get me started on Leo's movies, those soundstages didn't light themselves.
Taleb's 2012 book "Antifragility" discusses the state of university education and student loans:

"Harvard is like a Vuitton bag or a Cartier watch. It is a huge drag on the middle-class parents who have been plowing an increased share of their savings into these institutions, transferring their money to administrators, real estate developers, professors, and other agents. In the United States, we have a buildup of student loans that automatically transfer to these rent extractors, In a way it is no different from racketeering..."

On the future of education:

"My answer: BS is fragile. Which scam in history has lasted forever? I have an enormous faith in Time and History as eventual debunkers of fragility. Education is an institution that has been growing without external stressors; eventually the thing will collapse."

- "Antifragile", Chapter 17 (last 2 pages)

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
They do mention this in the book, but it does take artistic license with some of the history.
Because it's a symbol that existed before they did. Why should they have the ability to wipe the symbol out of use just because they used it for bad things?
This is good stuff, but what I'm really looking for, which apparently doesn't exist, is a terminal lib that doesn't take over the whole screen.

I want to be able to insert temporary widgets that can then be removed, and I want to continue to treat the terminal as a long ream of text. For example, like this:

$ my-program --verbose

Hello! Enter a choice:

> 1. Intergalactic warfare
2. The Egyptian Book of the Dead
3. Meatballs

The user should be able to use the keyboard's arrow keys to select stuff. When selected, I want the remove the whole menu and continue from there:

$ my-program --verbose

Thanks, you selected meatballs.

Grinding meat
* Heating [######---] 5%
* Mixing spices [##-------] 15% (5g/sec)
Packaging
Shipping

When that, which is a kind of multi-step progress bar, is done, I want to delete and continue. And so on.

I also want to show prompts, with autocompletion ("dropdowns"), and other things you typically want to users to be able to do.

If anyone has seen Docker's CLI, they do something like this, by writing one line per layer and updating each line in parallel, but without taking over the screen. I assume they use some ANSI escape sequences to position the cursor, but I've never investigated.

I haven't found anything which packages the above functionality into a nice library, however.
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And just as liable to malware apparently.
It's mostly just too bad modern finance doesn't offer a way to short the stock of a small indiegogo thing that's doomed to fail...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/19/us-gun-owner... agrees with you.

Around 265 million guns ("more than one gun for every American adult") and an estimate of 55 million gun owners in the US. Interestingly, some 7.7m gun owners make up for half of all guns.
Too late, I moved away from Apple. My current setup is Windows as desktop and I log in to linux for dev via X11. I am still testing the setup, but so far it has been a very positive experience. I'll share my complete setup on my blog when I consider it stable.
The Nazis stole the symbol from a religion (I believe Hinduism, may be wrong).
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Where does your link say that swastikas are not allowed? Does a swastika "encourage or incite violence"?

I'm curious since I don't ban swastikas on my site, although some of my users ask me to.
Presumably a reference to the long history of the symbol prior to its appropriation by the Nazis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
Doesn't seem odd as the symbol was used for thousands of years before the nazis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
The answer is simple: most people don't live intentionally.

I regularly meet miserable people in SF that could elevate their happiness by changing their life situation. But they don't, because the default path is easier.
Hi. Thanks, I've heard about godot, although haven't tried it. For now, I prefer to have more flexibility though.
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I don't remap esc to caps-lock. I use my caps-lock key all the time. My number keys have to be shifted to use, so I just use caps-lock instead.
Other words do get bleeped, especially before watershed. Notably, about half of George Carlin's famous list of words not allowed on TV is subject to bleeping.

Same deal on radio, though that's been loosening lately. Sublime's "Wrong Way" still omits "whore" and "tits" whenever I hear it on the radio, but some songs get away with "bitch", which I guess is progress.
I have no idea what point you're trying to make with that link.
US visitors may be forced to turn over phones/passwords before they get visas
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I don't know, but it could very well be that Gmail deviates quite badly from the IMAP spec.
I grew up in a shithole slate-mining town of less than 5000 people. Most of the people there couldn't even spell STEM. High school guidance counsellor was still extremely clear. "Do go to college, but for the love of god, major in Medicine, Science, or Engineering. Don't waste your time and money with anything else."
>, studied whatever they were interested in, and if that thing happened to be literature or women's studies

As some sibling comments noted, this lackadaisical attitude of ignoring the ROI wasn't really true even 50 years ago.

The meme "underwater basket weaving" as a synonym for "unmarketable degree" has been around since the 1960s.[1] Undoubtedly, the GenX, GenY, & Millenials going to college in 1990s & 2000s would have heard of it or similar memes. I believe I first heard of it from a monologue by comedian Jay Leno. (The "uwb" was originally a meme about a specific class but its meaning expanded to entire unmarketable degrees -- which is how mainstream press like NYT used it.[2])

It doesn't mean that "literature" or "women's studies" are unworthy academic subjects. If you're a trust fund baby, you can study whatever you want with no financial repercussions. (The whole philosophy about the pure joy of learning for learning's sake, etc.) However, if one takes out $30k+ in debt, the banks and USA government won't forgive your loan just because you got a degree with no market demand. Therefore, the job prospects of "B.A. in Communications" vs "B.A. in Accounting" has to affect the decision.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=underwater+bas...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/arts/television/and-there-...
consider spaced repetition to help the developer remember them (granted, that's a big scope change, so consider trade-offs between separate app vs embedded, etc)
The author attributes both his success, and the team's growth, to his documentation philosophy. It does make some sense - improving process documentation for the most common issues will help ensure new team members resolve these issues consistently and effectively, both increasing their utility to the team and their personal morale. How much is directly attributable to him is open to debate.
I enjoyed the article. But then, I also think that everything is broken. So hey.

Still, fonts where "0" (zero) and "o" (the lowercase letter) look the same are perverse.
I think American Tech industry's failure to invest in various American and foreign cities is what is going to eventually make a Detroit of Silicon Valley. I am not sure why Facebook or Google do not have full fledged development centers in San Antonio or Phoenix or Singapore. Facebook still does not have a development center in India.

Sooner or later the Trump driven protectionism will be make other countries like India reciprocate in similar fashion where American tech companies will be denied access to say Indian market.
I haven't really watched his show before, so my impression of him comes from things like the Joe Rogan interview and having seen some clips. I think that he roughly believes what he's saying but is playing a hyperbolic character for entertainment value. I think he's a lot less crazy in actuality, though still a pretty out there guy.

Also, his clips about the frogs being turned gay makes me laugh every time I see it. That and when he tears his shirt off in rage at the globalists and runs off into the night.
> Edit: And that doesn't include the re-selling price

I second this. Just take a look at prices on Ebay for old metal Mac Pros.
currently making low-cost and low-powered tree cameras that will hang from Atlanta-area fruit trees and send us once-a-week tree photos.

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We can likely get battery life in the range of several months, so we can put the sensors up at the beginning of the season and then take them down when we harvest.
Swastikas are an ancient symbol of many religions and cultures across the world, and is usually a symbol of sacredness, good, luck, god, and other such meanings. In fact, the name itself comes from a sanskrit word. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Hinduism

You'll see it in much stonework on their temples and other buildings, especially as it does not have the associated stigma in Asia as it does in the West.
Guns are mostly concentrated in Southern/Midwest states. Most people do not own guns in the North and coastal states. Besides people living in the sticks, I don't even know anyone who owns a gun in the New York State city I live. I'm 36 and I've never shot a gun before! http://reverbpress.com/politics/firearms-per-capita-by-state...
"Religious fanatics" is a dumb phrase. Gruber has and can be very critical of apple and everyone. OP was just unhappy that Gruber doesn't share the same opinions as they do.
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The moderators of place are the admins, since it was an official reddit function ;)
Oh, I have no question as to why others don't live in the city. I was explaining why I do live in the city.

For completeness, the elementary school that I went to and that my kids will go to does not have or need metal detectors. I believe the security guard is armed. Are security guards outside the city completely unarmed? I have no point of reference for this.
i read this as "those commas resonate with me"
The swastika predated the Nazi party and Hitler by several millennia, and is still an important part of several religions and cultures. Wishing for the swastika to become un-stigmatized isn't really so controversial from that perspective.
For a long time, Apple displays were the only displays that also provided a proper laptop dock. Not just a cheap USB-to-XYZ-multiport-adapter with the limits those bring, but a real dock connected via PCI-in-a-wire Thunderbolt, making the ports on the back of the monitor just as good as ports on the machine itself. Combined with the monitor's MagSafe adapter and a MacBook of some sort, you had a beautiful setup: the only wires you needed to switch from laptop mode to desktop mode were the monitor's MagSafe and thunderbolt cords. Just keep all your desk hardware plugged into your monitor, and save the macbook's power adapter for when you actually needed to charge on the go.

There's also something to be said about the consistency of the old Apple displays. I've seen dozens at this point and none had noticeable backlight issues, and they look good right out of the box instead of requiring the user to switch off 15 gimmick settings to get a proper picture.

They had their issues but they did several things right.
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An interesting topic to look into is the effect of deuterium on longevity in various species. It appears to induce a form of hormesis at low levels (perhaps) or improve resistance of certain important cell structures to oxidative damage (perhaps). [1]

The company Retrotope [2] is trying to do something with what is known of this biochemistry.

Deuterated drugs after the fashion of the one in this article are probably not going to be delivering enough deuterium to trigger this sort of effect, however.

[1]: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201600040/fu...

[2]: https://www.retrotope.com/
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Kind of agree. But what do you call it that describes it in a non-pejorative way?

I am thankful for GPL and GPL-ed sw. I just find some of the advocacy for it a bit annoying.
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Thanks. Don't know of anything made specifically for learning Chinese unfortunately, but I do hope to extend my project to include Asian languages someday.
Not OP, but probably for aesthetic reasons. It's symmetrical, and has been a religious symbol for 11,000 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
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I assume because the swastica has many uses that are far older than it's modern western usage [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
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It's more about reddit being able to sell ads than anything else.

I'd say it falls under:

> Threatens, harasses, or bullies or encourages others to do so
You should ask Scott Hanselman to write a blog post about it and test it out. I think that could help some!

Or perhaps try pinching the. Net core team?

I don't know if there are done simple things I can help, but my knowledge about this is limited