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The article states that student testing accounts for 50% of the teacher rank. If a teacher wants to avoid being ranked near the bottom they can offset bad test scores by doing well on the other criteria. I agree the teachers don't deserve all the blame but I also believe too much job security makes people lazy and apathetic. If it doesn't work we can try something else.
The main thing I can think of is that if I was 10% owner, and wanted to leave the company, it would have greater value than option B.
Ah, I seem to have given you more credit than you deserve. I watched the video but it's not related to any part of this discussion.

Just because an analogy has been made does not make it a good one.
Maybe I'm missing something, but is this really something that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"? It's just a photo tour of the reddit team visiting the Digg team.
Great, lets ban all information not approved by the state.
Well, as an Aussie myself, I'd certainly like to see this issue raised a little more, especially with the election coming round on 21st Aug.

Let's hope movements like Election Wire http://www.youtube.com/youthscape will change things.
Then I don't understand what the general case is that you're referring to. That overall if people invest in products they like then overall they'll get good investment returns?

I'm saying that someone liking or not liking a product and investing for that reason is irrelevant to the investment returns they can expect, because that decision is based entirely on preference -- the movement of the stock on the other hand is driven entirely by the financials.
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Apples and oranges. I believe the discussion was of standard input systems (i.e. keyboards) not iPhone keyboards for which I can easily believe that handwriting outperforms pinyin and/or wubi.
I'm curious as to how the elections are going to change this policy. As suggested in the thread, they are trying to keep things quiet until the elections.

However what happens if the Labor party loses. Is the opposition going to support this as well?
The only relevant reply, unfortunately, was not even in reply to my OP !!!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1543020
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Fubar can be a design principle. Perfect transparency is not desirable in every and all circumstances and often hoops are constructed just so that people will jump through them.
It's easier to blame the teachers.

The reality is that the home you come from is hugely important, but there isn't a lot they can _do_ about that -- and certainly not in the short term. Firing the teachers may be only modestly effective, but it's achievable.
It's more interesting to hear about the trip from both sides of the wall:

Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/ct0yz/into_the_lions_d...
digg:http://digg.com/tech_news/Reddit_visits_Digg_2
Who goes to a restaurant or an airport to use the washrooms?

Put another way, how many manufacturers of coffins are there in the US? We'd rather not think of such things.
This is really deja vu all over again. Over 45 years ago I read a "largest number that can be computed with expressions on a postcard" competition in a publication of some college (details escape me as to which college). This was held over a number of issues, and much of this discussion echoes (as far as I remember) that competition. Then, as now, the difficult part was comparing two values computed in completely different ways.
It does now? Back when I used Firefox, Firefox did not do that out of the box, so I used the Tabs Open Relative extension.
Springpad makes a great dumptruck-I can throw a bunch of links in it, and than actually organize them, unlike with something like Instapaper. I can also put books, todos, etc in with the bookmarks. No, I dont work for them, just a recent convert.
I'd recommend SimpleBits's (http://www.simplebits.com/) own books and their reading list at http://astore.amazon.com/simplebits-20.
Well, I know how I would solve this problem if I was sufficiently good at packing really complicated damn programs into 512 characters of C, or if I were allowed, say, 10 kilobytes of code. Start with a large number X, a larger number Y, and a powerful proof system. For all programs of size X, search through all proofs of length Y to see if they prove that X terminates. Multiply the runtimes of all the Xs together, or pick the largest one, it won't make any difference.

In this case it doesn't matter much whether you use second-order logic or first-order logic, because what you can prove syntactically in second-order logic is no different from what you can prove in a many-sorted first-order logic. But you do want to pick a powerful proof system like ZFC that can prove the consistency of whole ordinal hierarchies of weaker systems, rather than something weak like Peano Arithmetic; that will make a rather large difference, because it means you'll be able to prove the termination of large recursive structures of programs that do their own searches through all possible proofs etc.

If anyone can come up with a method of producing substantially larger numbers than this using bounded finite runtimes and programs guaranteed to terminate, I'd be quite interesting in hearing it.
package util, we meet again.

I've created and killed one of those in the past 48 hours. "It's never a good idea," I said on Wednesday. "Well, maybe this time," I said on Thursday. "No, it's never a good idea," I decided on Friday.

At least I come to my senses quickly these days.
Upvoted.

Seems like a positive way make dent on the incumbent censor-happy morons.

Good luck Australia!
There was an article earlier this year in which Conroy was quoted as saying that Google could have gained your banking details with the street view car and unsecured wireless. Seemed from the language used that he didn't get the idea of a SSL connection.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/we-ditched-...
Not so fast.

It seems you haven't even taken the time to follow your own proposition (Intelligence, especially as operationalized by standardized testing, is as biological as height and athleticism.) to its logical conclusion; for if you had, you wouldn't have followed it with the statement, If I were a teacher in DC and the majority of my students were not from middle+ class families, I would quit ahead of time...

Last I checked, "middle+ class" wasn't a genetic trait. So either you misunderstand what 'biological' means (dubious), or you yourself cannot separate intellect/scholastic achievement from environment/socio-economic class.

If it is the latter, then you directly contradict your proposition about the biological immutability of intelligence. If it is the former, perhaps you can clarify what you really meant when you wrote biological.
He's good and the video is a great example of the endless possibilities that await technology.

But, while watching I still get the feeling that it is not great art. There is always the undo option for mistakes and it's not permanent. There is no original that will ever be shown, everything will always be a print out. It will make for a good photo to pass around the email lists but when it comes to print it out and put on the wall you will always know that a printer did the work and not a hand. It's like Rock Band vs a guitar. Both are great in their own right but you'll always know which one is better in the end. Either way, kudos to him for mastering another medium.
Man, did he have anything to do with Prezi? The zooming/boarderless idea just seems so fitting. It was a great day in UI when that started catching on.
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Google Code Search was his intern project: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2006/10/search-worlds-public-...
I agree with you. I've worked developing enterprise software at a big corporation and 40 hours is just the amount expected. 50-60 hours on crunch time is already a lot. Have to say I've been very happy. Although things can go to shit if you have the wrong boss even in a good corporation.
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the difficult part was comparing two values computed in completely different ways

I think this is a lot of the fun. But if you wanted to make a similar contest that resolved more easily, what would you do?

Off the top of my head, maybe a contest to most closely approximate a huge non-Mersenne prime in n characters? (Edit: now that I think about it, I’m not sure that the computational complexity of numbers of c. largest-prime size would make that challenging enough for reasonable n. For example, the largest known non-Mersenne prime is apparently 19249·2^13018586+1 … boring.) Or maybe the best PRNG (under a given set of tests) in n characters?
It's the expectation that shit bout to go down.

e-hate doesn't translate particularly into real life aggressiveness. Much like how phone calls often end up friendlier than emails.
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What? Why does “great art” need to be a singular physical object? Can a wood block print be “great art”? Can a photograph? Can a Pixar film?

How is this act of creation in any way comparable to rock band? The painting version of rock band would be something like a paint-by-numbers set.
Here is my best and worst investments. When I was around 14, I wanted to get into the stock market. So, I heard that AMD had beat Intel to the punch with x86-64 chips and Intel was planning on licensing the technology. So I invested in AMD at around 10 and I ended up selling it at around 18. Then took that money and invested in a treasure hunting company at .70 a share and it dropped to .10 a share. They had claimed to have a new technology for finding gold that did not disrupt the reefs, so they would be able to get permits to look for sunken Spanish galleons. Didn't really work out for me, but I was young and I thought it was cool to say that I invested in a gold mining company.
You can prevent caching optimisations by declaring a variable 'volatile' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_variable).
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LLVM's clang uses a recursive-descent parser to parse C, ObjC, and C++ (http://clang.llvm.org/features.html#unifiedparser).

Clang is the "C Language Family Front-end", which means we intend to support the most popular members of the C family. We are convinced that the right parsing technology for this class of languages is a hand-built recursive-descent parser. Because it is plain C++ code, recursive descent makes it very easy for new developers to understand the code, it easily supports ad-hoc rules and other strange hacks required by C/C++, and makes it straight-forward to implement excellent diagnostics and error recovery.
Pretty cool demo. I use Vimperator[1] to do most of my browsing. The experience is quite good. It would be interesting if Tab Candy will have apis to drive these features. Then vimperator commands could call them like,

:group Work - current tab into the Work group

:switch Todo - switch to the Todo group

etc

The features look great. But after using Vimperator, I prefer keyboard alternatives to the drag-and-drop stuff shown.

[1] - http://vimperator.org
I hate those things because they are so noisy. I haven't tried the AirBlade yet, but I have tried the "Xcelerator". It's so loud that I'd cover my ears if I weren't busy drying my hands. Also, if I splash water on my face; how am I supposed to dry it?

I much prefer paper towel to the air driers.
See, that's not true at all. Someone liking or disliking a product is based largely on whether the product is crap or not, just like the success of the company.
Hands don't make art. People do.
Is quicktime on Mac better than Windows? On windows it's a plugin and really really bad.
That's one reason I suspect the really "great art" will one day be made on computers.

Computers make mistakes cheap. Fear kills creativity.

edit: scratch "will one day", substitute "is". At least the sort that would never have been made on paper because the artist held their hand back.
And those kids with greater IQs will become smarter with less effort on the part of the teacher.

I would think that if you took into account whether a class was regular or accelerated and weighted the required improvement based on that, you would be able to accurately assess teachers. But maybe the sample size is too small to eliminate random biases. Perhaps by taking a teacher's performance over multiple years into account that issue could be eliminated as well.
Who keeps making these rules?
My code isn't "released" so much as "escapes".

Also, #1 used to be true, but nowadays I'm more often amazed that people use technology Y, when clearly everything else is better. Even starting from scratch.
The citizens of Australia should obviously skip straight to the Molotov Cocktails to avoid more "unnecessary debate"!
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Yes. I'm confident in my abilities to overcome absolutely any problem that might occur. For the same reasons I choose Linux and open source solutions over Windows or other proprietary solutions: there's always a way out. Isilon, Cisco, or Oracle only provide the illusion of certainty.
If you think proponents of the "free market" think it's simple, you don't understand them. Or it. It's precisely because it's so complex that managing it is prone to error.

I don't actually understand why the same people (in general) will assert ecologies are extremely complex and we shouldn't meddle without being very careful to understand the effects, and at the same time think that the market is manageable from the top down without unintended consequences on the same order as the intended ones.
W3Schools is one of the best free resources out there.
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Here are some books that I have used that have been helpful

PHP and MYSQL for Dynamic Websites
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Javascript: The Definitive Guide
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I live in Australia and have been planning to migrate to the US in the near future. However this article has genuinely made me reconsider.

I knew there was an incarceration problem in the US, but I didn't realise it was this bad.
Yes. That's precisely what pyre2 is doing. It's trying re2, and if it fails because it doesn't support the features, it tries the python re. Since compilation happens rarely, this is fast.
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ARM are less powerful than current x86 or PowerPC chips, but uses far less energy. Do you use it where speed over consumption is king (mobile phones, MP3 players, portable consoles, are made nearly exclusively with ARM SoC).

So an ARM based server is something a lot of people is looking into (remember the SheevaPlug?) becase server are usually IO Bound.

Regarding a gaming device based on ARM, there are some but they are all portable and the most powerful available in the near future is the Nintendo 3DS (thanks to his GPU that is not ARM IP).

Here you can find a better analysis of the Microsoft-ARM deal: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4204864/Microsoft-AR...
He also advocates slavery. And proposes a system in which all women are grouped into a pool of common wives, on the basis that when no one knows which child was fathered by whom, every man will have fatherly feelings for every child and every child will respect every man as they would respect their father. And argues that theatrical performances should be illegal. As well as many other things.
Isn't that what I just said?
If I were to render different frontpages for different clients, what font sizes should I use on the iPad instead of the current ones?
There's a QuickTime plugin, but it's also a set of multimedia APIs, and Safari uses those directly to implement HTML5 video. It works pretty well - one of the nicest-looking and most CPU-efficient video experiences you can get in a browser.
The tab grouping feature seems like it would be useful for me. It would be nice if the groups/pages were saved as folders/bookmarks so it could be retrieved later. They never mentioned what happens when FF was closed. And also if they could display the bookmarks/folders in the same fashion.

I am NOT interested in them looking into what pages I go to or my searches so they can direct ads or price search results. Data sharing should only be to people I know AND approve in advance.
It reminds me of the old joke, "You can always squeeze out more time or boos."
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This observation is just not true, or maybe it varies depending on your position. As a developer in the industry, you will rarely be without a job or in a position where you can not jump to another studio. Once you are in the industry, you will end up with friends at studios all over the place. The turnover and 'grass is greener' syndrome in the industry is just too high for networking not to naturally happen. You do not even have to try.

As for the friendless of the people, while I like working in games for the games, the culture that develops around the people working on games is the bigger draw.
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I always remember because I associate easier/proper grammar with user friendliness: "adduser" is proper and runs the prompt-based script for adding users, whereas useradd is the unix command that goes along with userdel and usermod, etc.
Maybe 'tablet' would be more accurate instead of 'laptop'.

Here is a link with video of the device in action.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/23/india.thirty.fiv...

Some of the screens shown look like Android might be the OS.
What about weekend? Do you have to work on weekend, too?
There was a superb NPR investigative piece on that maybe a year ago. I remember being shocked at the guards' union's role in creating the problem. And to think that California prisons just a generation ago were so good -- recidivism so low -- that other countries were sending delegations to find out how they did it.
> Anyway, your genes are a more accurate gauge of disease risk than family history. When a doctor asks about family history, they would prefer to take a look at your genome.

This is not currently true, though in the far future it will be. Modern genetics has been slammed (unfairly, I think) for the fact that your genetics do not increase discrimination when compared to models including family history. In other words, for virtually every human disease, family history is a better predictor of risk than is your genetic profile. I stand to benefit personally and professionally when genetic risk overtakes family history, but it simply hasn't yet.
Were you using gcc?

I wouldn't be surprised if e.g. MSVC didn't perform that optimization since it doesn't have the pure function attribute.
This whole effort is misguided. I can't fathom wanting to name a group of tabs. As it is I barely ever take the initiative to organize bookmarks, and those are permanent.

People don't need a filing cabinet for something that should be ephemeral and self-limiting. When your desk gets buried under a skin of receipts, junk mail envelopes, and water-ringed Economists from last May, the only proper organizational tool is a trash can. Tabs are just a modern incarnation of the same problem.
My two experiences in the gaming industry taught me to stay away. The first was as I finished up my college degree, building the PC version of "Space Jam", the game (oh, boy, was that a fun one). The second was last year working on League of Legends (awesome game if you like PVP!).

In both cases, it was very apparent that the industry is built around taking advantage of peoples' passions and love of gaming. Pay is low, hours are ridiculous, and respect is sadly missing. People put their heart and soul into what they are building and get tossed with little to no thought whatsoever.

If you are absolutely passionate about working in the game industry, I say go for it. But go in with eyes wide open: it is a tough place to be.

It is more entertainment industry than software industry, and, just like most other entertainment industry groups have guilds/unions to protect their interests (screen actors guild, screen writers guild, etc), there probably ought to be a computer programmers guild as well.
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> Education is a team sport. The parents ought to be held equally if not MORE accountable.

Ah yes, we shouldn't settle for anything less than perfection.

For any set of students+parents, some teachers will do better than others. Why should kids with lousy parents have to settle for lousy teachers as well?

Part of being a good teacher is managing mediocre parents. Why should kids with mediocre parents have to settle for lousy teachers?
Heroku?

Set up a simple Sinatra app and git push to deploy. Heck, Sinatra is probably overkill. Just make it a rack app. 1 config file and a directory of HTML.
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So what happens when your parents want to watch a video that they downloaded, as opposed to watching it streaming in the browser?

Or a video that they received via email instead of over the web?

Building a codec into the browser doesn't get you out of having to explain to your parents how to get codecs on their system. Furthermore, once you then do that, and get the codec installed on the system, then you have to explain to them why video doesn't look the same in the browser, or why the controls are different.

All codecs in browsers do is make MORE work for you, not less.
> If expense were the determining reason in the past, then no one would make/buy them today either.

The relative cost of "much better" may have gone down.

Someone may be unwilling to pay 3x to move from mediocre to adequate yet be willing to pay 3x to move from mediocre to excellent.
Except that's always the case. You mean if Clojure crashes before it queues up 50 docs and sends them, the docs in the queue are lost.

Durability is a concern when it means the integrity of your data is unknown. You'd probably be doing something like this in a bulk load, in which case you'd know where it crashed.

If this were queuing and batching inserts from many users it might be more of an issue (a user thinks something happened and it didn't), but realize that the at a queue size of 50 this performs at about ~5500 inserts/second. (And you can reduce this queue size if you don't need to insert that fast) This would affect users who happen to make their request within a roughly 0.18 millisecond window. If confirmation is still absolutely important, the post also links a version at the end that -does- wait for and return the IDs of the inserted documents from couchdb, guaranteeing the inserts have happened, and it still performs quite well.
Much of the problem is a result of the publishing model - deadlines are inherently more stressful when they're inflexible and you're expected to deliver a 100% finalized product.

My studio (EA2D, a new division of EA) is developing web-based games. We get to have all the fun of building badass games without the stress of delivering a hard-media product. In response to the post title: yes, for us, it is a very happy place.

Incidentally, we're aggressively hiring the best and brightest:
http://www.ea2d.com/jobs/

Contact me directly:
mikeb@ea2d.com
I wonder if other companies will also do the same if UFC is successful. Those sites and others have a good number of users sharing other copyrighted videos too.

Of course the users will find another site to stream their videos and their followers will probably go along.
Response from 23andme:

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Actually I was going to suggest Genghis Khan to circumvent Godwin.
He completely lost me here:

"The 'goto' statement took a long time to die, but it has gone from being a fundamental programming concept to a programming pariah used by only the most misguided of developers."

Rather ignorant, and just plain incorrect.