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Former Googler here.

I left a few months ago after four years. I have nothing but great things to say about Google. I loved my job, the environment, the people, the perks, the feeling of being privy to the most closely held secrets in Silicon Valley. Most of all, Larry and Sergey, who have always - always - kept their employees at the top of their priority list, even after the company went public. These guys really mean "Don't be evil", but you need to work at Google to really understand what this means.

Why I left? Career, mostly. I had reached a point where it was hard for me to get promoted. I could have settled for an easy job that is very well paid but without much hope of going much higher. A lot of people are okay with this and I was for a while, but then I realized I wanted more.

If things don't work out at my new gig, I'll try another gig. And if this doesn't work out either, I'll go back to Google in a heartbeat.

Keep an open mind, if you get a chance to interview, take it. If you get a job offer, take it, even if it's just for a few months. At the end of the day, the only person who knows what's best for you is yourself, not a blogger, nor an anonymous Hacker News commenter.
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I remember Paul Graham writing sth. similar in one of his essays on education -- that school is basically only for adults to conduct their daily work while the kids are being watched and that it teaches you values you won't need in later life.

Furthermore, coming from a German schooling background, I think it's much the same over here.
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I once gave a seminar at a Chinese university and these guys scared the creep out of me. They focussed me for hours without ever moving a limb.

Anyway, we should not blame the original valedictorian for her limited views. Experience comes with time and still she's right about the things she says.
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Also, for some strange reason, work you do that is interesting prepares you a hell of a lot more for your intended major in college.
I really like this selective sign-in too. Making the pre-launch a scarce comodity and allowing people to invite their friends at a specific hour builds up pressure, nice!
I should remember this when I do my product launch.
But why? You can develop grit by doing things that really suck, but ultimately get you somewhere you want to go, or that leads to some sort of innovation down the line. But to force people to do things that are completely unrelated to what they want to do in life, just for the sake of doing it, is a huge waste of time.

You gain grit by doing things that need to be done, hopefully in pursuit of some greater goal (more than likely, just getting paid). Not by for-the-hell-of-it forced work. That just turns you off everything.
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Same here, and I also often work from home or coffee shops.

I live in suburban Colorado and there are 3 places nearby I can go to almost assuredly see good looking women on a daily basis, even weekdays, even the middle of the day: Target, B&N and Starbucks. (Target is the most reliable, for whatever reason.) Walmart tends to have the worst looking women, so even if I could get groceries there a few cents cheaper per item, it's just not worth the impact on my overall quality of life.

One advantage to B&N over Starbucks is that at Starbucks I feel obligated to buy something as micro-rent for the table space, even if I'm not hungry/thirty. At B&N I have the excuse of browsing for books and magazines, so every trip can be free, guilt-free. Starbucks has awesome bathrooms though, and lower chance of screamers, er, I mean, kids.
This speech shook me rudely awake , reminded me of my post-college long-term life goal(one that makes a contribution to human wealth). My goal is to build a excellent institution of learning, to train the dreamers and doers of tomorrow(not mutually exclusive). This place would rival the IITs in depth of knowledge imparted but would strive to create more well-rounded individuals who would be masters of their own destiny. I feel sad when the cream of India's IITs today prefer to chase that money-minting Investment Banking career or accumulate advanced degrees state-side for a career in academia. I'm not sure if this indicates a problem with their admissions filter.
(IIT = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology)

In India, Education is a capital-intensive , profit-maximizing beast of an industry. The admissions racket is huge. Parents often have to 'donate' (fork out) insane amounts of cash (by Indian income standards) to 'reserve' a seat in an Engineering/medical school. (except the IITs and govt-colleges, BTW)

Breaking into the market requires a large windfall and the ability to invest it wisely in order to build the foundation of such an institution. I'm thinking tech startup route naturally, since that is the only thing that comes to mind w.r.t immediate skill scope.

I suffered no end of anguish when trapped in the rote-learning institutions i'd been shuffled through. At the very least, I dream of hacking it slightly for the better, for my unborn children's generation's sake.

Does anyone in America have the same thought, or are your institutions of higher-learning pretty much satisfactory? This article refers to High-school and onwards, while my focus is slightly narrower : the undergraduate 'professional' education in developing countries; It changes whole families' economic statuses due to the current nature of the global market. We need more startups in India just like the US does.
It's a great suggestion to have citizen elections, with the $100 limit, but there's no way the Senate and House are going to cut off their own election money!
Following on a recent magazine meme...what is the difference between an entrepreneur and a small business person?

Give each one $50K, what happens?
Her views aren't limited, per se. She's realized there's a problem. That's good. It's just that the situation is probably much worse than she can imagine.
Did you print this in color? Did you actually have graphics and screen shots in the paper?
Academy changed (improved?) since I last read academic papers.
I think one of the other root causes of this problem is corporate personhood (which was a silly legal hack to allow railroads to not pay high taxes to state governments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_...). If corporations were not considered legally to be people with the same rights of people under the constitution we would have fewer problems with an apparent inability to regulate them in a sensible way.
when people pay for their own choices, they carefully weigh the costs and benefits involved. And the market is disciplined by this.

But when people are able to shift the costs to others or borrow money from those who lend to anybody, many aren't careful at all. And the market responds to take advantage of this.
This is what i've come to experience myself.
Often a solid grasp of the core fundamentals of your domain is more valuable that having a half-baked knowledge of various in-depth areas.

Like the old man said, (or didn't) , You can always google it from your exobrain.

I even recall Sherlock Holmes' character saying something to that effect; he says something about the human brain having finite usable storage capacity (with a low-enough access-time). I really liked reading that quote (confirmation bias. he he)
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Huh? Who are all of these vendors with secret OpenSSH patches?
Check out http://openhatch.org/. Its purpose is to make it easy for people to get involved in open source projects by identifying "bite-sized bigs" that are good for a newcomer to work on, among other things.

I found out about the site when I was at the OSCON Open Source Convention, and saw a talk on the subject: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/14066
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There was an article in the NY Times a couple of weeks back describing all these students are getting into tons of debt, graduating private colleges, and expecting to leave college and get some high paying salary because they went to Harvard or Columbia. The article at followed one girl in particular, showing examples from her life how tragic the situation was for these college grads. It wasn't until the end of the article that her major was mentioned: Womans Studies.

A liberal arts education can only be supported by an economy that that is strong enough to allow it. Thats just not the case anymore. At least not for people to spend 4 years on; not to mention the negative cash flow. Its not that Liberal Arts is inherently bad, it is just unsustainable as it exists right now.
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In other words, the system is tailored for good 'students', not great learners.

Autodidacts are viewed as social misfits who do not like working with others. I can attest that this generalization is not true as far as I am concerned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidact
True; 20-year-old Steve Jobs was 'jailbreaking' the whole damn phone company (http://www.paulgraham.com/bluebox.html).
Lesig makes sure to point out that government over-regulation had as much of a hand to play in the financial crisis as de-regulation. Government incentives from the FHA and Fanny/Freddy are much of what drove of the investment boom and overvaluation of real estate. Lets also not forget that the government controls the price of borrowing through the interest rate set by their proxy the federal reserve (who kept the rate too low and caused the excess liquidity to flow into real estate). A system with no central bank or government intervention might have many smaller panics, but it certainly never would have had a large, pervasive one like the debt derivatives crash of 2008.
I have no interests because I saw every subject of study as work, and I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I'm scared.

A mind that thinks this has nothing to fear.
I have an impression that FreeBSD are being strongly supplanted by Linux in these days of virtualization. There were times where jails ruled the parties, but now these days are over and Linux has a number of great virtualization solutions like KVM or Xen while there is no much progress on jails.

Also, for some reason it's not very popular in enterprise despite of API and ABI stability, i.e. one could hardly find enterprise products like e.g. IBM WebSphere available on FreeBSD. One probably could use Linux ABI support but I'm not sure how reasonable that is.

I used to work at ISPs few years back and FreeBSD was very popular in this circles. At one place we had FreeBSD running on absolutely all servers and in other one we had only one RHEL box which was a requirement for some VoIP billing.

About two years ago I moved to a software development organization which is quite close to enterprise and virtualization and I've seen 'live' FreeBSD only once and the folks are going to migrate to Linux in the near future (I don't know what their reasons are though). And that's quite sad because I really like FreeBSD.
I'm confused in that none of the examples look like a DSL to me. They look like a library API - implemented in five different languages but I can hardly classify any of them as a DSL. Am I really that obtuse concerning this question?
Could you clarify your metrics and sources?
Before you'd reach that problem, you have tens of thousands of laws to remove, so you can scrap the +1-2 rule in due time.
Lots of articles. And experiencing great products. Also, design patterns.
hell, the last Bush sent everyone a cheque for three hundred bucks. (and the liberals complained... even though it was the most progressive tax cut of my lifetime. Not the whole package, of course, but mailing everyone the same flat three hundred bucks. For me, that was a pretty small tax cut... but for some people that was almost a 100% tax cut.) why couldn't that happen again with larger cheques? The republicans are no longer restraining it; naked Keynesisim seems to be the order of the day, at least when the economy is in the toilet.

If we see significant deflation, the government /will/ take action to prevent it. What and how effective that action will be is anybody's guess... my understanding, though, was that Ben Bernanke has mentioned this ability to print money to avoid inflation before.

Anyhow... I'm not saying that we will see big inflation, just that it seems quite reasonable for a layman to see a /chance/ that we will have inflation at some point in the near future. hedging some against that chance, I think, is a rational thing to do.
You can't split atoms with a chisel, nor email the international space station with telegraph lines. The discoveries possible with 1800-vintage equipment are mostly already made, so now we have to spend orders of magnitude more to learn anything new. And I'd much rather we roll the dice again and keep looking, not just wait and see how civilization survives the decline of oil and fertilizer.
Did you read the article? The headline is a bit misleading, but the speech is very well-written and its points valid.
Interesting to consider the zen statement. What if you ignore the goal and focussing just on the path?
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Ugh, you're probably not a good developer if you can't spell 'software'. Also, I assume 'mediocracy' is supposed to be 'mediocrity'.

The best developers I know have excellent written language skills, because they care about precision in everything.
Do you know of any other incubators in the Austin, TX area?
It is similar things actually :) Once you know how to break it, you could improve it.
Except that the heaviest smokers are often found in the lower classes who also breed more than their rich and middle class comrades.
I try to find small victories, I don't let any project or idea go for too long without getting some small victories to keep me motivated. For example, in a software project, I'll set some goals for a week, if I meet those goals I celebrate and motivate myself and others involved as well.
Explain? She learned how to work the system, not follow any passion of hers. Sure that's definitely a skill and a valuable one, though how much better would it be if it was better focused at something worth something a bit more?
>that it is actually worse overall

That what is actually worse overall? Europe or Switzerland? Switzerland isn't in the EU and doesn't have the Euro. It's true they've bought a lot Euros to try and keep the Franc down but they've bought a lot of US dollars as well (for the same reason).
And like Spotify, this is US only (+ Canada).
Developing grit and discipline in the pursuit of the asinine is as just as harmful if not more, than not developing grit and discipline in the pursuit of the sublime.

Much of what passes for education much more closely matches the former than the latter.

- A 9th grade dropout.
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Someone makes that point every single time, more like. It strikes me as a rationalization: would you design schools the way they are, to teach grit? They seem better adapted to produce submission: showing up for the job every day and doing what you're told. This is related to the discipline to finish your own projects, but like with a sign change along important dimensions.
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Bitbucket had some issues due to EC2 network outages yesterday. Should be back now.
"lower individual buying power" means much higher taxes and less freedom with your money

Yes, I know. I prefer to lose some of that freedom, because I believe the society I live in is better for it. I'm not someone who believes in individual freedom above all - I just think a high level of individual freedom is important.

Good data on the unemployment figures, although I believe (I may be wrong) that in the past Europe's unemployment has been worse than the US.
Interesting. We share a passion. I exited a university with a computer science degree and finally then realized how many years I had wasted. In that moment I began to understand the many ways my mind had been brainwashed and muted. Public schools in the United States are in a sad place.

Luckily there are a lot of angry people and hence a lot of movements with good intents. Good luck to them all.

My primary passion is to improve all this as well.
Or perhaps do this so you'll have less regrets:

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@dadadooda mediocracy stands for government or rule by a mediocre person or group. (Dictionary.com)

You're right about 'software'. Corrected that in the post.. (not the domain) Thanks.

And.. I agree with your point as well.
At my highschool the valedictorian speech had to be approved by the principal in advance. I wonder if he ever would have let something like this by.
Similar thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1518619

Start by helping software projects that you already use. You will have personal insight as to where the bugs are.
You can just imagine the adverts of products containing these sugars now. One bite of some kind of goo containg these "inspired by nature" sugars gives the baby a 5px dashed #eeeeee border.

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I don't see why this is so odd. I live in Seattle and most everyone I know, who lives in the city, throw parties in bars and restaurants. Who wants to deal with dirty dishes, potential strangers stealing stuff, wine on the carpet, broken glass, lack of seating, lack of glasses and plates, parking, etc? Even if you have the room and dinnerware to accommodate that many people, it's just easier to go to a bar.
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>Does anyone in America have the same thought, or are your institutions of higher-learning pretty much satisfactory?

Frankly, I think our colleges are pretty much great. We have enough supply that pretty much everyone can go, and the public universities are cheap enough that most can afford it with financial aid and a night job if necessary.

The education varies, but you don't often hear people say when they leave college that they were prevented from learning. Even mediocre schools often have an honors program that gets much better results.
Why is that a terrible approach? It seems to have worked.

If a wound is bleeding profusely - you put a cloth on it. Sure it doesn't heal you, but it is hardly a terrible approach.
Same with my school. The only way something like this could have happened is if the valedictorian writes one speech for the principal to screen but delivers a totally different speech for the actual event.
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Which begs the question why doesn't Posterous use multiple proxies from various providers. Perhaps they are now - but it seems too late for other Rackspace clients.
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Total nonsense. Lots of other countries have vastly better grade schools (pg mentions this in one of his essays). Do you think all the people in those countries just have a lot more potential than most Americans?

The worst thing about this ridiculous "America is the best!" attitude is that you can't fix anything if you think you've already got the best that can be done.
I took advantage of the outline view in Microsoft's Word. This might be helpful in that it works just like trees work and clicking a branch opens up its corresponding chapter.
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It's almost like one-size-fits-all is a bad idea.

On that thought, I wonder why we get so much choice in so many services that we buy but so little in something that matters as much as education?
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Actually, the marketing of formula is a major issue in infant care, especially in poorer countries.

Large forumla companies, like Nestlé[1], have been doing marketing for decades like you are suggesting, when even today, we are just discovering all the things that breast milk does -- as the article closes with:
Dr. Mills said. “So for God’s sake, please breast-feed.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) has created standards for marketing of Forumla and breast milk substitutes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Marketing...

Which many large corporations still ignore.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott
Given the nature of this community, if HN runs ads, I'd expect to see links to user-made alternate front-ends and ad-blocking extensions, right on the same page.
>But the trouble, the reality, is that most students can't do what she suggests,

How do you know? Not everyone learns the same way. Personally I find it quite arrogant to assume that you or I are just born with more potential than those who don't end up as "smart". Environment has an enormous effect on learning as does the teaching itself. Lots and lots of students don't understand calculus. But a really talented teacher can make it clear to anyone.

Look at recent events (e.g. with the US health care debate) and it's clear that if the US education system isn't addressed soon it's going to be too late. We have to take a hard look at where and why it's broken. Not assuming it's "as good or better than everyone else's" and for the love of Pete don't accept Hitleresque "we're just the chosen ones and they're not" nonsense.
Doesn't Spotify have a lot of free options? This is just another subscription music service. What makes Rdio better than last.fm subscriptions, Pandora One, Zune Pass, Napster, and Rhapsody?
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Like this:

And, like you say, it does create a very different attitude toward error. If you're a politician, admitting you're wrong is a weakness, but if you're an engineer, you essentially want to be wrong half the time. If you do experiments and you're always right, then you aren't getting enough information out of those experiments. You want your experiment to be like the flip of a coin: You have no idea if it is going to come up heads or tails. You want to not know what the results are going to be.
While we're at it, let's lobby our governments to ban all software innovation!

Seriously, I bet the operating system you're using relies on far more of that evil "cleverness" than the subject of this thread.

This whole thread reeks of thinly veiled ad hominem attacks to me.