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Okay. But charter schools can induce involvement among the parents. I have seen no evidence about this effect so I'll just put it out there. Really, the argument of whether charter schools are effective or not should not be important. The environment the child spends his time in is more important than the number of facts crammed into his head. The idea that parents should have their children forcibly relocated and locked inside a building and just pray that it's competently enough run so as not to be filled with poorly supervised violent hoodlums with no alternative cost-effective choices, is evil.
Your claim:

"but arguing that coming out with the story in the first place is out of line is to argue that journalists should just sit in the office and re-hash press releases, never digging into anything."

...is about as fallacious as it gets. I totally support your sentiment that journalists should be out there taking down the bastards of the world. And we suffer from such a dearth of this that I am hardly surprised that so many people want to believe that this is what is happening here.

But how can you possibly assert that just because I'm saying that Arrington shouldn't have broke the story in the manner that he did - that it follows that I'm arguing that journalists should just process press releases? That's just a ridiculous implication.

If Arrington had a genuine tip as to some bad goings on - then I certainly don't think that he should have just buried his head in the sand and ignore it. He should have INVESTIGATED it further before mouthing off. Even if he had some balls in making his post - you're confusing his balls with good journalism. Good journalism is to go further than just gossip, it's to go further than just to mouth off...

It's possible I've got this wrong. Maybe Arrington here has got the integrity of a Berstein and Woodwoard duo sourcing information from a DeepThroat type personage.

I just don't see any evidence of this. If anyone does - I'd be keen to see it.
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Great! It's a kind of open review for all Google's projects in alpha/beta stage. I like that Google's move.
I think a big part of the enjoyment comes from the feeling of ownership and achievement in everything you build. You have to work to get all that stone to build your house, and you have to build it yourself, brick by brick. You have to dig miles of tunnels to find those rare ores. Also, you actually have something to show for all the work you've done, something you can use. If you're playing survival, it's a fort that will protect you from your enemies. The third panel of this recent PA comic really sums that feeling: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/9/20/
Seems easier to simply donate to them, instead of lowering prices universally. I wouldn't donate to every non-profit, not all of them are aligned with my opinions. So why give a flat effective donation to all of them?
It's obvious that a small group of great programmers beats a large group of bad ones

The question is, tho', "at what"? Oracle's product offering is VAST. And most of it is technically quite simple; it just does an awful lot. You can't use clever Lisp macros to do stuff like this: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyIsPayrollHard You just have to chuck people at it.
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Not an RDBMS, but AllegoGraph is in Lisp and is the most high-end NoSQL out there. Literally, the Oracle of object stores.
In any good company that has been around awhile, there is doubtlessly a number of people that have left the company and come back again under much better circumstances (as in worked another job for a while and then came back). At the company I work for, there are a handful of people that have left the company and come back again over 2 or 3 times over the years.
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Most companies do have technical career path

Genuine question - who? The technical career path at almost every organization ends after about 10 years, then it's management or plateau.

Remember - companies are run by people who fundamentally don't, or can't, understand why everyone doesn't aspire to management...
If you don't act like you're slightly delusional, you stand out as a minority.
Nice summary but you didn't mention gambling companies. For some reason Vancouver has a ton of these and they are mostly filled with 20 somethings - the kind of people that would be in startups otherwise.

I have to agree with salaries being low compared to the US - but you would think that meant more people doing startups since you would be taking less of a hit. Maybe Canadians are just more risk averse.
It is possible to build up to a fairly decent level on sites like that but you need to be willing to do ridiculous things for practically nothing at the beginning.

I started on vWorker of all places in June and did about 7 or 8 soul destroying projects (one was basically a full custom CMS for $15, that I know the agency charged > £3000 for). However, I got my 10/10's and since #8 onwards I haven't had less than $500 per job (each prob 4-5 hours work). I actually totted up my earnings yesterday and it's around $1000/m (I just don't dont have time atm to do many). YMMV, obv.

Craigslist sounds good for the US but it's a no-starter where I live so I can't offer anything there.

Other than that, hit up people you know, who you've worked with before. You might get lucky. My biggest earnings right now come from somewhere I worked with years ago. I IM'd him out of the blue when I was broke asking if he had spare work. Turns out he'd fired his developer that day and so i had my start! That's obviously not likely to happen often, but it's worth a shot. At the least these people might remember you if something did come up.
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Yeah seriously. So much of the criticism is about his style and attitude that it made me wonder if this was really HN?

Dave is a great guy in person. Yes, he's aggressive, super-cynical, outspoken,has a sense of humor and a good track record. These are all good reasons why he's one of the few investors (along with Mark Suster) that I would actually want to do business with.
How old an iPod? I have an iPod Nano (the almost squarish version with video, not the long one, I don't remember the generation) and the cable was almost the same as my iPod Touch's (it just had clipping, I don't know why).
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If you're a valuable worker, then you are hard to replace. It would be in their best interests to make use of you while they have a chance to, rather than cast you aside over petty 'loyalty' BS.

The downsides of hiring someone new:

* It could take an indeterminate amount of time to find someone of a similar caliber (1 month? 3 months? 1 year?).

* It takes a certain amount of time to get comfortable with the internal codebase of a company, let alone the time that it takes to become proficient with it. This amount of time increases the larger the internal codebase and the older the company is.

* It takes time to 'bond' with the team and for the new social dynamic to become settled and understood by everyone.

* There is no guarantee that the new person that you hire will stick around either. You could spend a whole year looking for someone as skilled, just to have the person leave after 3 months before any of the growing pains associated with bringing on a new person are worked out. Then where are you? Back to square-one possibly spending another year looking for a similarly/equally skilled person.

You could side-step all of these issues by bringing this man/woman back on. If he/she leaves after another 3 months, who cares? He/she will be more productive during those 3 months than a new hire would be.
I had a similar experience, only I was able to get early word that layoffs were coming and so I "volunteered" to "take the bullet" so that someone else could avoid being laid off. I'd been wanting to leave anyway, but had golden handcuffs keeping me there.

Used the money to start a company.
I hope everyone who unfairly vented at TC after the initial denial is eating humble pie.
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Depending on what sort of VISA you are on, I think it's most likely H1B, You are fine. Don't worry so much. You have a 30 days window to find employment in the US. If you found something else in the next few days, you can effectively start working for the company with on the day you send in your new H1B transfer documents.

I'm not a lawyer but I know this from past experience.
It shouldn't really matter, but may well do if you're considering less tech savvy visitors. Either way, you should support both with a HTTP 301 redirect to avoid search engines thinking that you have duplicate content.
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"Naming them and shaming them" is not unprofessional. If you act in an unprofessional way towards me, why is it 'unprofessional' of me to tell the world about it?

Granted, it would definitely be unprofessional to post a large rant filled with swear words and name-calling to your blog, but approaching journalists that might want to pick up the story, or just posting the facts to your blog (and possibly posting that to sites like reddit, digg, hn, etc) is not the same thing.
Excellent article. I can see why under the kind of time pressure they have been under there would be issues like these.

Interesting I was thinking in comparison to PHP where a beginner would much more likely be individually assigning each input into a SQL statement. Sure there are all kind of possibilities that can go wrong there to but mass assignment looks like it makes it so easy for someone to shoot themselves in the foot.
Totally. Put your resume on Dice or hotjobs and you'll have interest within a few days. Even if you go back, it won't hurt to have more confidence about your marketability
If he's really succesfull he's likely to have less time available, actually :-)
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I could see it working if you realize that you don't want to get to that age without, say, spending a lot of time with your children and being very present in their lives, as opposed to having more money because you worked hard.

For instance, I don't regret having moved to Italy even though I certainly have left a lot of money on the table in doing so.
Well, duh! Steve Jobs only makes $1/year working for Apple! ;-)
"He should have INVESTIGATED it further"

You mean something like speaking to two people who were at the meeting and confirming it with them prior to publishing?

Good idea..
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People get so worked up about the little things.
If you've had a decent career for something like a decade, it's largely resumable, and the odds that a failed venture will help accelerate it are better than 50:50.
Some women at the airport asked me to charge her new ipod with my 5 yo cable and it fit right in. I was pretty shocked.
It's a snowclone of a line from Animal House.
No expert but wouldn't it depend on the scale of what he wanted to take out. Say for example Job's attempting to take a billion dollars off the table would have to effect the share price.
I went through exactly all of what you just did. For the first half-hour, I seriously thought there was nothing to do but roam an indistinct world and collect flowers. Then I googled a tutorial, figured out you have to hold the mouse button down to break blocks, and started crafting. That's when the full magnitude of this game dawned on me, and my jaw went slack as I realized I might never get my life back again.

Three days later, I have a large, carefully surveyed, east-facing house on a hill by the sea, protected by a well-lit perimeter wall. I've developed endless networks of mines, caves, and tunnels. I have a storehouse full of supplies and building materials. And I've barely done anything else IRL.
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> They don't teach you stuff like "writing a secure web application" in college

We had a class on it. They basically pushed us through OWASP from front to back :)
On the plus side, perhaps Japan's crisis will finally end any shred of belief in the ridiculous Keynesian notion that a country can spend its way out of a recession.
what data? One Google query? Again, you seem to not understand how this whole "research" thing works. I really hope you're not a real life reporter because you're either being extremely intellectually lazy with your "argument" or you're trying to be purposely deceptive (again, in an extremely lazy manner). The only real data that's actually been provided shows the exact opposite of your ignorant "decisively rejected" quote.

It's funny when people spend so much effort trying to defend an obviously nonsensical statement. You were wrong. So what? We all say things that turn out to be incorrect, it's no big deal.
(I didn't notice, I just somehow landed on it via the bug tracker.) The tracker has quite a few of these amusing threads. You'll frequently notice: 1) it's only one line of code! 2) this bug has been open for a year - outrageous!

Edit: the WontFix reason from a Googler is at https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1019#c16...
Woodward and Bernstein had far less integrity than Arrington!

Arrington's source was one of the potential conspirators, and he's blowing it up early to kill it and get it out there so more sources either publish or leak. Woodward and Bernstein were being spoonfed almost every drop of information from a single source, the acting head of the FBI — they were used as stenographers by the professional part of the government to take down the elected part. They would have never been canonized as the pinnacle of journalism had they revealed their source twenty years earlier.
After reading the article, also read this comment:
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/09/22/security-lessons-learned...

The comment negates some of the statements made in the post
I get this. My problem was that I'm not feeling an incentive for even gathering the stuff, since survival is already guaranteed and there are no further in-game goals. I guess I need reasonably constant and threatening waves of attacking aliens to keep my "games are meaningless, I am wasting my life here" instincts from waking up.
If you want to make something configurable, useful for many people besides yourself, then it may not be trivial. But I was talking about making something tailored to your needs.

Now to the specifics, the only semi-serious difficulty I see is parsing the source code. Once you've done that, printing is really easy, even when you make it customizable. I've done that with HTML[1].

[1]: http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/projects/ussm
not natively. try couch + lucene. http://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene
I haven't used MongoDB, but I think there is a fundamental difference in the way data is updated. I don't think you have to escape JavaScript in the user input, because you don't update by submitting a single String to execute. The user input is just data.
for me that the major question here. what are the legal implications since using this sort of cookie involves a set of hacks that derive the normal use of various systems for a purpose they were not intended for in the first place, and since it is intended to defeat some of the privacy protections of browsers. I am not condemning this clever system but I am curious of the privacy and other legal issues here...
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It's not that the pre-alpha Diaspora has insecurities that bothers me, it's the whole execution.

What I really would like to see is a documented protocol - based on XMPP or some other established, well-tested protocol would be good, but if not then at least something.

Once you have that protocol - which tells you how Diaspora "seeds" communicate securely - you can let others build their own implementation, using Rails, PHP, Python, doesn't matter. Sure, release a reference implementation in Rails, but the protocol is the most important thing.

Unfortunately what we have is just another Facebook clone done in Rails, which is disappointing.
of course. what's wrong with that? ;-)
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Sorry to double reply but where a lot of people switched on their thinking about Arrington was with Scamville - his expose on Farmville:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming...

He was out-there and persistant with the story at the same time that other media outlets were praising Zynga for their performance figures. Arrington was mocked by developers at a conference when he made these accusations to Offerpal Media - and in the end the CEO ended up being replaced, Zynga apologized and Facebook changed their platform policies.

It was easy for people to be critical of his initial claims because they didn't come back later when it ended up being true with an apology.

There are blogs dedicated to covering the social gaming space, and when they covered these companies they painted a rosy picture and never questioned the offer system that was causing children to steal from their parents and be unfairly charged.

We should be thankful that Techcrunch and some other bloggers are putting the truth ahead of any other interests and not only exposing these stories but forcing companies to change the way they work to benefit consumers.

Old media are struggling and killing off the old style of investigative journalism - and it is great that somebody is picking up the mantle and challenging conventions. Stories like this shouldn't be written off just because they are from " a blog".
I really like these kinds of puzzles. I'm not sure if they have a name, but I like to think of them as "invariant puzzles". The key to understanding them is finding an invariant - something that doesn't change when you manipulate the objects in the puzzle.

You can tell it's an invariant puzzle because they seem to be missing one vital piece of information. This is because one of the factors (in this case, whether a card is face up or face down) has been canceled out due to the invariant.

So what's the invariant? Well, let's start with what we're trying to find. We want the number of face up cards in the new deck (let's call it Deck 2) to equal the number of face up cards in the old deck (Deck 1), so Up1 = Up2. We know we can flip cards, so that's equivalent to Up1 = Down2.

But we're still missing a bit of information. How can we add more face down cards to the second deck when we don't know which way they're facing? Here comes the invariant... it doesn't matter! We can make Up1 and Down2 closer to equal by increasing Down2 (by moving a Down card) or decreasing Up1 (by moving an Up card). Essentially, the value of (Down2 - Up1) decreases by 1 when we move a card no matter what.

So we want to keep moving cards until (Down2 - Up1) = 0. (Down2 - Up1) starts at 10 in this case, so we do it 10 times. We flip Deck 2; Up becomes Down, Down becomes Up, and we're left with Up1 = Up2. QED!

Another cool invariant puzzle is the wine mixing problem (also known as the water/wine problem, the red/white marble problem): http://www.smart-kit.com/s330/red-wine-and-white-wine-brain-...

(Oh, and incidentally there are some problems that seem to be missing an important piece of information, but aren't invariant puzzles, like xkcd's Blue Eyes (http://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html). Puzzles that include language like "everyone behaves rationally" are almost always recursion problems.)
I'm not proposing to shutter the public schools. This type of beneficence isn't really useful for any substantive, long-term change. It's a PR stunt. My point is only that this $100M would, on the margins, help far more kids if it were directed towards helping individual families escape the public school system.

For example, if I had $100M to blow, I might accept applications from families and then rank them by amount needed to convert out of public schools (from smallest to largest), and donate the money in that order for those amounts. This would have the effect of helping the most kids. It would also counter the problems with self-reporting; ask for more than you really need and risk not getting anything.

>You throw a bunch of low-income kids into that setting, and they will crash and burn.

This strikes me as classism. While there is a correlation between economic strata and educational achievement, I'm not so sure about the causality implied in your claim. Instead, perhaps being financially relegated to the tender mercies of the Newark public school system contributes to such underperformance.
For the record, the complaint most "ivy league nobel prize economists" have with Japan's behavior is not the quantity of spending, but the type -- they didn't force banks to recognize losses, instead allowing them to renegotiate loans on much more favorable terms, ignore nonperforming loans, etc -- anything to avoid having to bring the losses on books, take the hit, and start over. This causes a lack of loan availability for more than a decade.

Perhaps next time this, err, nobody ("James Quinn is a senior director of strategic planning for a major university") feels like trashing world class economists, he could discuss their actual opinion?
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That would require direct physical access, and if you had that there's a lot of much easier ways to root a box.