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The vast majority of the student population in Vancouver is local - out of province admissions are relatively few. Besides, the trend is for folks from Western Canada to drift eastward, not the reverse.

Also, keep in mind the racial distribution across the province of BC - if anything, accounting for the fact that UBC admits students from all over the province, one would expect the population to get more white, not more Asian.
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I simply give them a call and ask them what the most interesting papers they have read over the last year are. Without any forewarning of course. People who are passionate about things know their stuff; and it's not from blog posts or forums that they obtain this information.

And I can tell you, if I learn something while on the phone with them then it's a guaranteed good hire.
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Thanks -- both the praise and being put in that company is humbling.
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That is an excellent point. I can't see a lot of my Asian friends driving their kids nearly as hard as their parents have driven them.
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May I ask why you aren't using the UIView animations, which, for something like this, are easier (and don't need the extra CA power)?

For this case, do this (also uncompiled):

[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:3.0];
[defaultImageView setAlpha:0.0];
[UIView commitAnimations];
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I've always thought that the problem with that viewpoint is that PHP is actually a pretty bad templating language.

<?php echo htmlentities($name); ?>

In Django templates:

{{ name }}

Things get a bit better if you write your own "h" function:

function h($var) { echo htmlentities($var); }
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The point isn't that you can't decompile bytecode-languages, but that the decompiled bytecode is a lot harder to maintain than obfuscated JavaScript...
Figure out where the compiler output goes?
When I see application processes like this I'm generally more interested because it signals to me that the company cares about hiring and that I'm more likely to have colleagues there that have been selected for ability rather than having exactly the right checkboxes on their CVs.
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With obfuscated JavaScript you get all the sematics and for the most time all the global functions and data structures names since they aren't obfuscated away. This is a lot more structure and information than you get in your average bytecode code (especially since bytecode tends to be much more low level than something like obfuscated JavaScript).
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The htmlentities issue isn't anything a little upstream logic couldn't fix; just the same as Django's templating engine does.

<?= $name ?> is my preferred method of printing inline, which shortens it up quite a bit.
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Maybe I am showing my age here, but years ago we had a link in the footer right next to "contact" and "about us" called "feedback. And you clicked on that link, submitted your feedback and it worked fine.

Does a feedback tab really need to be positioned so prominently on every page and popup in a modal DIV using Javascript? My feeling is no, a simple feedback page is fine.
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> One panellist, Rachel Cederberg—an Asian-American then working as an admissions official at Colorado College—described fellow admissions officers complaining of “yet another Asian student who wants to major in math and science and who plays the violin.”

The discrepancy of performance required between asian and white kind of makes sense taken in context of that quote. If your application looks exactly the same as a couple hundred other students, you're going to be compared against them first. A University can't admit only the math/science violinists, they need at least some variety, so you'll be measured against the people similar to you rather than all the applicants.

p.s. what is it with violin and piano, anyway? Is it because they are classical (and thus appear refined) yet can solo?
Very cool. I'm thinking it would be great if elance-type of sites, or even experts exchange, would have an area where a prospective employer can submit small coding questions to potential employees.
I was thinking about this when they launched username system, without knowing rumors about that.
I could not agree more. This has happened to a few people I know... including myself. As with most places, they never value you until you are almost out the door.
On the other hand they're charging me $10/mo for a 1-DVD plan when all I use is Watch Instantly. It's still a good price, but I'd rather pay $7/mo for a no-DVD plan.
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it seems convenient within Facebook
but I would not like using a @facebook.com
email address for serious communication.
Imagine applying for college with such an address.
I am not here to defend php (Okay, I guess I am...) but the form

<?= htmlentities($name) ?> is a lot better...

We have to have an i18n layer anyway for all output so it ends up being a lot of <?= Msg('message-name') ?> calls. Use some code gen macros and it's tolerable.

Also, XHP seems pretty rad. It gives me ideas. :)
Is @gmail.com somehow more distinguished?
Universities shouldn't be worried about racial quotas or anything like that -- but they should be worried about homogeneity (at least, private universities). There's a very good point to be made that a university should be a place where people of different backgrounds and cultures can come together in a collective environment. If you have 60% 'Asian students who want to major in math or science and play the violin' that's an issue, just as 60% white business major lacrosse-players is an issue.

I do have to say, one area where I'm concerned is graduate international admission. In my experience the TOEFL is clearly not cutting it with some people and knowing English is not optional as a graduate student -- you NEED to be able to easily communicate with your fellow grads and, perhaps most importantly, the undergrads you TA. Similarly, strong accent should definitely be a factor in choosing who can lecture classes. I don't care how good a researcher someone is if no one can understand them. This isn't even a complaint about Asian students and professors, either. The person I'm thinking of is Brazilian.
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If you use @facebook.com
You basically share your profile(at least profile picture)
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Because, a) the 'best developers tend to love beating challenges so see it as a fun exercise to do one evening, and b) good developers want to work with good developers and seeing the screening process is a benefit.

Good developers of a certain experience level generally realize that if they apply for a job somewhere and waltz through the interview, or worse, the interview is a basically a pleasant chat with the tech director, then the chances are the hiring standards really aren't that great .

Oh and c) - if a developer does feel they're too good for your screening test, or such a thing is enough to put them off your company, then weeding them out at such an early stage may actually be a positive thing.

I do think it's crass to send out a problem sheet without at least verbally talking to the candidate briefly though. We currently do -

5-15 minute chat with a recruiter or PM who is savvy enough to filter out the people who really aren't experienced enough.

3 hour timed problem (debugging, coding, math, domain knowledge)

Technical phone screen

In-person interview (6-7 hours, all expenses paid).
"... Does this advice help at all with girls? Girls seemed to bully socially rather than physically when I was in school. What do you tell a young girl who's in a similar situation? "Punch her in the nose?" ..."

The asymmetry of this situation is not described much here because the type of bullying attacks used by females are less physical. The mechanics are similar but the techniques are different and can be summarised thus: "Males are paratroopers, females are secret agents". Males rely more on aggression and physicality and are overt while females specailise in covert relational and psychological bullying. If you want to read the mechanics & some citations try here ~ http://seldomlogical.com/2010/06/18/hacking-people

The best article I've read on bulling is "Big Bad Bully" ~ http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200910/big-bad-bully and the best references specifically for dealing with female bullying I've seen is by "Rosalind Wiseman" ~ http://www.amazon.com/Rosalind-Wiseman/e/B001IOH8ZW/ref=sr_n...
I was relatively skeptical, but I am surprised at the rather drastic benefits it has shown to my blood pressure and cholesterol.
I think so. It seems more neutral at least. I like facebook for whatever it is but not for professional use.
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At the risk of sounding flippant: So? Isn't your public facing Facebook profile picture easily discoverable anyway? If you're submitting, for example, a college application, they already have way more information on you anyway. The same goes for a job application.
For a personal collection and actual use, rather than spending $80-150k for a German wartime Enigma, I'd probably be more likely to buy a Swiss model.

The Swiss NEMA is basically an updated version of the Enigma, and is about $3-5k. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_(machine) -- plus they were not actually used except for training, so they should be in much better mechanical condition.

(I'd still love to own a 4-rotor naval enigma myself someday, but they're rare enough that even if $100k weren't significant to me, I would still feel it should be treated as a rare historical artifact and not used)
From the documentation: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/...

Use of this method is discouraged in iOS 4.0 and later. You should use the block-based animation methods instead.

Frankly, it's because I can't remember the block based methods off the top of my head yet.
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The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds. And as others have pointed out, Facebook.com is not associated with professionalism (unless you're a recruiter or tech blogger or something).

All in all, I think nobody will care at the end of the day.
Or for a more real example, "Our top 100 submissions this year", where they only have 100 submissions.
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Apple argue to suit their own purpose all the time. Remember how iOS would never need native apps or an app store? The tablet form factor was 'awkward'? That people didn't want cheaper laptops?

If somebody bothered to go through all the keynotes and other statements there would a lot of examples.

There is nothing wrong with this, it means Apple can adapt - but you shouldn't take everything they say as true forever
don't you think people would google you anyway? that's the first thing i do when i receive an email from someone i don't know or a possible client. well at least before i started using rapportive.
> The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds

I guarantee you that they are going to become the default address between people 16 and under. My brother is 16 and doesn't have an email address, but he does have a facebook account.
Isn't speedtest for the bandwidth?

Maybe you should try to find speed tests for browsers, like at http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/articles/test-browser-spee...
That's the scariest thing I've read so far today.
I will be really interested to see this, because as it stands Facebook's messaging interface is barely any better than 2001's Hotmail (you do get a pretty picture with address autocomplete though).

Going from where they are now to anywhere close to being a 'Gmail killer' is a humongous step.
I usually try to stop myself being overly protective of privacy. But - I already thought about leaving GMail several times to make sure that I don't rely on a big company that knows a lot about me.

Now Facebook, that would be an alternative. Uhm - wait a minute!

I do think they're going to pull this off though. Lots of people I know are still (happily) using the "older" services around, local free email providers, hotmail, whatever.
A sexy webmail client, promoted by the site they use heavily? Sounds like a dealbreaker. Lots of non-technical people don't know Google as something other than a field to type searches into (or even rely on the browser search fields). Facebook could "educate" those to switch quite easily, I guess, given a good marketing strategy and some neat "integrate your mails with your status updates" features.

Ugh..
A humongous step that Techcrunch is more than happy to make.
that was just an open tab and not related to my ramdisk setup tinkering
He'll have an email address by the time he gets to college. There are still plenty of people who'd prefer to keep their personal and collegiate/professional lives separate.
3D wiring in Minecraft is an enormous pain in the ass. In fact, the whole thing is a big PITA. Want me to elaborate?

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I tried doing that and got this message:

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Edit: I got it to work by doing hdiutil attach -nomount ram://1165430 on one line, then diskutil eraseVolume on the newly mounted volume.
Especially amazing given that you need an email to sign up.
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Really interesting! But why wouldn't you copy the data in a simple while loop? What do you need the switch statement for?
Back in my school days, I was the constant victim of bullying (probably like many hoer geeks). I wasn't strong enough to hit back, and I also just could not get myself to hurt anybody. I still can't.

And even when looking back at what has happened (trust me, the stories of this and the article this one links to are nothing), I pride myself on not falling back to the ways of a savage animal.

I feel that it's deeply wrong to hurt anybody. How are you better than the bullies once you begin to hurt others?

How do you make sure you don't cross the boundary between self-defense and being a bully yourself? Even though it might feel good. Do you really want to be what you hate?

School is hard, but once you get to know people who respect you and take you for what you are (a nerd in my case), things get better and you will even feel pride for what you are instead of constantly hating yourself.

Take comfort in the fact that you lived up to your ideals of humanity and be proud of what you have become. Use the brain you got for good instead of shutting it off for revenges sake. Be human.
oh man, I saw this too early in the morning and read it as "The day Steve Jobs kissed me hard" :)
Techcrunch? What are you talking about?
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To me yes.

In a professional image scale I would definitively rank facebook.com less professional than gmail.com but maybe slightly better than WorlOfWarcraft.com
Despite my occasional pleas, it's already the messaging service of choice between my friends and friends-of-friends. They say it's easier to add people to a discussion, and it's hard to fight the momentum.
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I think an interesting case here that will be affected here is how social circles were dealing that one stubborn Facebook holdout.

Before, there were two choices. Either move communication to email, or leave them out of the loop. Now the choice is easy, and it will all happen within Facebook.
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IM and GM are not awarded by rating and do not approximately equate to any particular ratings. Those titles are awarded by 3 good performances ("norms") in tournaments each, with strict rules about what tournaments qualify. It's common for a 2400+ player not to have an IM title.

To get the titles special tournaments are often set up designed to give the players a chance to get a norm if they do well. If you let any low rated players in, it lowers your chances a lot. It doesn't matter if you win 100% of the time against the lower players, it still prevents you from getting a title because chess "performance ratings" are calculated by an average of your opponent's ratings (modified +400 if you beat them and -400 if you lost).

Also, ratings are not a linear thing. Going from 1500 to 2000 is WAY easier than going from 2400 to 2500. When you do percentage based interest, you're making it easier to go up when you're at a higher rating, which is the wrong way round.

(I have several GM and IM friends who have organized this kind of tournament.)
If anyone running that site reads this, request: put a Hello World code sample right smack on the home page. Seeing the size and structure of the syntax to accomplish that basic task will tell me loads, immediately, in very little space, about your language. I can then dig in deeper, or move on, depending on interest.
No, don't fall into that trap. She was projecting her experiences onto a cover which could be received in many different ways. The way she rejected it as sexist is the result of this underlying process.
The title of their article.
The original post explains why...

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The VAX C compiler compiles the loop into 2 instructions (a movw and a sobleq, I think.) As it turns out, this loop was the bottleneck in a real-time animation playback program which ran too slowly by about 50%.
Even if the thing turns out to be unbelievably amazing, I doubt companies would like people to be constantly logged in to facebook "for mail" during work. For many offices, a browser tab on facebook could just imply chit-chat with friends, farmville, and many other unproductive pursuits. How could it be a "Gmail Killer" with such a born defect?
If facebook can really deliver a rock solid web mail client, I think they will really be a company to watch in the rest of 1996 and 1997. If they play their cards right they may get snapped up by an industry powerhouse like yahoo or excite@home for eight figures.
He obviously wanted some tax breaks for Apple for staying in Cupertino.
1. Elite players within the state of Utah (U of U being their main rivalry), yes.

2. Nobody wants to sit on the sidelines, but if you can work your way up to first string at a top 20 University then yes, the scouts are more likely to take notice.

Why do you think the NFL pays millions and millions of dollars recruiting the best of the best? It's because talent at that level is rare, hard to find, and even harder to hold on to.

In my experience, a rock star programmer can be worth more to an organization than 100 of your common CS grads.
You can get a facebook account without an email address?
So what is it to 'protect ones brand'?

I would suggest that one of the most important ways to protect your brand is not to be evil. I believe Microsoft failed at this (it is why I switched away from using their products). Apple is now currently failing here at an even greater degree (I currently own a Macbook and an iPhone, but I believe these will be my last Apple products).

It is one thing for a company to want the best experience for its users. But blocking musicians from their fans is not the way to go about this, no matter how small the musician or fan. You can still have a great store for the general populace, and still allow everyone else to access and share the data they want.

The data must flow.
Different wavelengths of IR? Different strobing patterns? But that would be hw changes in the Kinect perhaps.
First off, thanks to the jQuery team for all the work you've put into this library. It makes a lot of lives easier.

But please stop adding features to it.

The download is already pretty fat, and already has plenty of extraneous UI fluff and DHTML stunts that detract from its core. If you really want to add a pretty "fadeToggle" effect, please make it available as an extension or stick it in jQueryUI, or otherwise don't force every single user on the entire internet to download it just so that we can do useful things like $('.disabled').each().

I know that you've got a team of smart people, and it's tempting to just keep going adding new cool stuff. But that's only going to make things worse. You need to accept the fact that your product is feature complete. Go into maintenance mode, make sure everything stays solid, and add make occasional small improvements to the core when it makes sense to do so.

It'll be painful to make that shift, but unless you do, your library will become fatter, less focused, and in the end, less useful to developers.
I'm going to venture that the article is simply using the language from the reprots cited. UBC probably asks about ethnicity. Visible minority is a legal term in Canada (hence would be on the census): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_minority
To save others the effort, I did some spelunking and found a Hello World in a tutorial. Here it is:

:- module hello.
:- interface.
:- import_module io.
:- pred main(io::di, io::uo) is det.
:- implementation.

main(IOState_in, IOState_out) :-
io.write_string("Hello, World!\n", IOState_in, IOState_out).
It's not "proven", Bush is just claiming he never said it.

He also claimed there were WMDs in Iraq. Jusayyin'.
No, that's why I didn't call this a duplication. It's more of a "If you like that then you'll like this".