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In my old school it was a nightmare. Im my current school its pretty good. My current school is not private, but it has a reputation of an elite school in my town. In Bulgaria after 7-th grade(when you are 14-15) you can choose to stay in your class in 8-th grade, or you can take a test and go to an elite class in your, or in a another school(your score from the test is valid in any school with elite classes) I was in an in my class there are mostly smart kids. And most of them are girls, so i haven't had any problems here, i have actually become somewhat popular because of my rebellious arrogant attitude. In my old class some off the kids had police records at 13, some are still my friends, but most of them i hate and am glad that i haven't met them in years. My new class isn't that effective at teaching, i usually read some python books in geography class(geography is so boring).
Do you want to start doing dumb stuff?

You do not have to do dumb stuff to become popular. Also being an athlete or better looking than the average person does not make you dumb. That is simply a stereotype.

As for the rest of the article I agree with it.

EDIT: Smart kids are unpopular simply because they spend as much time as any other kid focused on what they love, and what they love IS unpopular.

And this related to what their society values. It happens that the western society largely values sports and beauty. This is reflected in models' salaries, as well as athletes' compared to the earnings of a physics' professor .

If you are from a society that values education more than entertainment, then smart kids are the popular ones.
Adding "site:news.ycombinator.com" to the search string in a google search works for me....

Other search engines are available.
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An in-site search feature wouldn't be a bad idea, though...
“One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.” - Stendhal

Maybe this is one part of the explaination, since nerds are more likely to enjoy solitary activities.

edit : if you just want your children to avoid the nightmare you have endured yourself, they don't need to seek popularity but only respect. All it takes to earn respect is some character. The interesting part is : how to help them develop this trait ?

edit2 : I cannot find it on Wikipedia, but the extended biography of Arthur Conan Doyle might give a hint. If I recall correctly, he interrupted his studies for one year and engaged in a journey on a fishing boat who was hunting whales in Antartic (or was it North Pole ?). While it doesn't sound very romantic, it is known that when he went back from his trip, he wasn't the same man. The former inexistant shy guy (probably a nerd) became famous on the campus because of it's popularity among female students (he was known as dating multiple girls at once).

Who knows what happened during his journey, but it was definitly very formative. He didn't do any "dumb stuff" to become popular, and didn't even seek to become popular, but he just returned as a different man.
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If the un-nerdly activities in high school had the prominence of sports then perhaps the kids who participated in them would be more popular. Think of the friday night football games - big crowds paying lots of money at the gate, football players in uniforms running out onto the field, cheerleaders - versus math and science competetions - four or five kids pile into someone's dad's Suburban and drive fifty miles to sit in small windowless rooms for a few hours. (At least, that's exactly what happened at my high school.)

One way to make nerds more popular is to make more of a big deal of that kind of activity. For those of us who were high school nerds, what about sponsoring math and science competitions for high school students? I'm remembering a conversation I had recently with a friend who teaches CS at the local university. He had organized some sort of programming competition for high school students. Even $500 to be used as prize money would go a long way to enhancing the prestige of something like that and of the kids who participate in it.

PG had some good points in his essay and follow-up. The kids he's talking about aren't just some random nobodies - they're US a few years ago.

After I graduated my (private) high school spent several million dollars in redoing the football field. They even put down artificial turf. And they stopped preping kids for the CS AP test. [sigh]
Yeah, I agree. Not to mention, wasn't vista technically considered a rewrite? A rewrite does not have to break backwards compatibility.
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Nowhere did he say that being an athlete or good looking meant you were dumb.

He does say it automatically makes you popular, and I'm not sure I agree with that. Better make sure you're a good athlete in football if you're south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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Just because something is called "mathematics", it isn't advanced. It IS possible to understand mathematics, even for normal humans.
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

I wish I had read this in 9th grade. Should be mandatory reading (and re-reading) for all high school freshmen.

You'd still be unpopular, but you'd care a lot less.
they don't waste their time on the dumb stuff you need to do to be popular.

This implies that people who are popular spend their time doing dumb stuff.

ANd who are those popular ones?
If you're good looking, a natural athlete, or the sibling of a popular kid, you'll automatically be popular .

So if people who are popular do dumb things then they are dumb , since smart people do not waste time doing dumb things.
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i went abroad to england during college. while there, two people were hit (and killed) by buses. the first, i actually witnessed (it was horrible). the second, i heard about because the girl went to my college and i had met her a few days before. they were both riding bikes when it happened. then, a family friend was hit and killed by a bus while jogging in Las Vegas (he was listening to an ipod). based on my experience, i'd say the "what if you get hit by a bus?" question is valid.
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I agree with almost everything pg says there. But the assumption that it may be better in countries with centralised school systems run by PhDs is questionable. You have to ask who these PhDs are and what they got their PhD for.

In many european countries universities are a kind of extension of public school with all its flaws, only more chaotic. So those PhDs who go on to become civil servants in the ministry of education are people who, in a sense, never left school.

Their entire system of reference is shaped by entrenched ideologies, 18th century philosophy and political party loyalties. They are not researchers competent to design a modern education system.
It must suck to have to spam your service to the net. The developers I work with don't even have to advertise, we get all our work through word of mouth.
I always had a hard time trying to visualise the school being described in the parent article. I had no trouble after viewing a snapshot of the characters ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/gateway.html
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NT is solid. They just have it loaded down with cruft.

Vista is the equivalent, at a minimum, of Windows version 12 — preceded by 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, NT, 95, NT 4.0, 98, 2000, ME, XP

Wow, what ignorance. NT and the earlier Windows version are unrelated.
> What is this, some theoretical guessing at some sort of work system that may or may not work...

Yes, that is exactly what this is, until I am able to put it into practice and see if it works. I say this as the author of the blog post.

>... and that has no bearing with a real workplace?

Well, in my experience (at least at the place where I work), everyone could be just as productive in 6 hours as 8 (or 9, or 10), if they knew they could go home afterwards.
That's been requested a few times already. Normally I'd grumpily write "search the archives before posting feature requests", but, wel...
The 25% lower salary would be a weed-out factor for those who value a large paycheck over more free time. Also, for the career-minded, the projects would make up that 25% (or more, if a successful startup grows out of a given project).
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But most popular kids don't get that kind of free ride. They have to work at being popular.

^ The sentence immediately after the one you quoted. Being good looking, a natural athlete, or a sibling of a popular kid is a way to be popular WITHOUT doing anything, that is, without doing all the dumb stuff that all the other people have to do to be popular. Hence he's not implying that good-looking or athletic people are automatically doing dumb stuff, but rather, they get out of doing it based on their looks or athletic ability. The ugly, nonathletic people are presumably the ones who would have to do a lot of dumb things to work their way to being popular.
This should be a little lesson on the dangers of skimming over dense prose, and the power of recommendations on YC. I completely skipped past the nanopass paper, even though it's an approach I condone, and skimming a behavior I frown upon.
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I enjoyed slapping around nerds in high school. It's good for the ol' self-esteem, and that's what's important, right?
One possibly better approach would be to replace the new feed with a feed composed only of items that have spent less than 15 minutes on the front page (because everything deserves 15 minutes of fame).

You then sort this new feed like the front page (though perhaps with nonzero start points) -- so there's both decay and a chance that good articles without a ton of initial votes, eventually get up there (though perhaps on slow news days).
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I also think that Dare is suffering from a bit of confirmation bias. Without mentioning the net exchange of people between Microsoft and Google, there is no way to gauge which company is "best" to work for. Dare only provides anecdotal evidence - "at least 8 people I know personally have rejoined".

Considering the possibility that most Microsofties have returned or will return to Microsoft is however still not proof that Microsoft is unconditionally better than Google (and vice-versa, if most ex-Microsofties stay at Google, we don't have unconditional proof that Google is better). Many Microsofties might have grown used to the MS environment and might - if only through force of habit - prefer the MS environment.

I'm not sure whether Dare wants to correct the perception that there is a debilitating exodus of people from MS to Google; I can understand such a motivation, since Yahoo's recent woes prove how a little bad news can cause massive demoralization. But still, I can't agree with his relaxed anecdotal method.
I totally agree with you. For a hacker site like this, the absence of built-in search feature is something outrageous.

Sometimes I just want to check whether the story/news has been submitted or not. Doing this on Google is really frustrating and can lead me to the wrong result. So don't blame for any duplicated stories sent by me.
looks like spam! first I have seen on the front page of YC...
Poems tend to make sense only once you already partly know the wisdom within them.
I would characterize a person who decides to make partial copies of himself to care for as more self-loving than a person who takes a sober look at resource depletion and decides to seek other means of self-fulfilment, whether that means taking care of already-existing humans or just self-actualizing in solitude.
Wow. I smell opportunity here! The patent system is broken enough now that you can basically patent the same vague "method" over and over again.

Now you can sell each one too Google. Profit!

Yes. The above was sarcasm. I'm a little disappointed by this. This would seem to just encourage the production of more bogus patents. If they were really serious, they'd put all of those millions into patent reforms. If you look at the list of participants, many have not been model citizens when it comes to patents. This smells more like another power-play than any attempt at reform, or even "defense" as they claim.
How can you tell if you're popular?

I have fond memories of high school, but perhaps because I took just one class there while attending college classes and the local math and science center. Still, I "felt" popular at high school: people knew my name, said hi, were nice. Contrasted with my experiences at the math and science center: there folks weren't as friendly and bitter rivalries seemed to run amok.
Sounds like a cartel doesn't it? And, what's to stop this alliance from using patents to stifle innovation?
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Searle expands on consciousness in his chinese room paper but the main point of the thought experment is that you can have a conversation that sounds intelligent without having any understanding at all of what you say and what you are being told (in other words: passing the Turing test does not imply intelligence).
If schools didn't do sports, perhaps they could focus more on academics.

Unfortunately, as you astutely point out, football and other sports bring in "big crowds paying lots of money" -- something that academic competitions can't bring in. There isn't a National Computer Science League that gets televised each Sunday. American football exists as an American high school institution precisely because mainstream American culture heavily advertises and hypes it.

I'd love to see schools make sports subservient to academics, but I fear it'll never happen purely for financial reasons.
I'm in complete agrement with you. That was the premise for building this tool. This is the first draft and will focus on giving more details about comments and discussions.
Laugh if you like, but I've heard two different people I was only mildly acquainted with--and not in a geek context--accidentally breaking into lolcat, over the last few weeks.
Although, I'd value the opinion of someone who did build a reactor in their back yard in a whole different class than someone who went to a few Greenpeace rallies.
How about a workspace without set hours. You have a task to complete by a certain deadline. Do it or risk being fired.

This will add overhead by always keeping everyone on track with specific tasks, but it's definitely worth it (think Scrum/Agile).

Doesn't Best Buy do this?
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... until they adjusted to that, then you'd need to switch to a 4 hour workday. I think it's a slippery slope.
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The poem was written as a cynical comment about Frost's friend Edward Thomas who was unpleasantly bemused by it. Thomas was the first to not get the joke.

It is popularly interpreted literally, as inspirational and individualist, but critics universally interpret it as ironic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken

Repeatedly Thomas would choose a route which might enable him to show his American friend a rare plant or a special vista; but it often happened that before the end of such a walk Thomas would regret the choice he had made and would sigh over what he might have shown Frost if they had taken a "better" direction. More than once, on such occasions, the New Englander had teased his Welsh-English friend for those wasted regrets. . . . Frost found something quaintly romantic in sighing over what might have been. Such a course of action was a road never taken by Frost, a road he had been taught to avoid.

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I always disagreed article with this because I did not experience this. My high school years were not painful and were a lot of fun, even though I was labelled a nerd, curve-buster, einstein, etc.... So this is my advice from my experience.
Don't try to be popular. Be friendly. Help others. Volunteer. Get Respect. Get involved in a sport. Get involved in various things with different people and you will have enough friends that being popular won't matter and no one will dare pick on you. I played soccer and later ran x-country and track, I sang, I was a scout, I was in youth fellowship, I was a mathlete and I hacked a pdp-8 in the hour between school and practice. I certainly was not popular but I was friends or at least friendly with most of the school. People knew me and I had their respect.
Thanks. I'm working on that but News.Yc is designed in a way that your votes on comments are anonymous. Your votes on submissions are also anonymous to other users but you have to be logged in to see them.

The way I envision it happening is you would have to go thru clickpass on ycfeed.com.
Excellent. I can now have a feed to keep track of all replies to my comments. Thank you!
Ok.

Well, I'm not trying to put you down, but your thoughts on this subject are pretty worthless until you can put them in practice. "How to structure a workplace" is one of those extremely complex topics that require many years of practical experience to get right, and that present countless options that look alright at first glance but turn out to be disastrous.

This is very similar to the problem of scaling applications to millions of users. Would you take advice about that from someone who hasn't actually gone and scaled at least one, but ideally several applications to that kind of scale? No, because even though their theoretical solution might sound alright, it has no substantiation to confirm that it actually has a snowflake's chance in hell to work out in real life.

The problem with your article is that it is just day-dreaming, but you present it as if it was some sort of tested solution. In fact, it is just day-dreaming, applied to a subject that many extremely bright people have been studying and working in for about a hundred years. That subject is called "Management", for your information. Certainly there is room for improvement, but until you actually have experience of the subject and have proven that your ideas actually work, they are effectively worthless.
i think that is only one of many points in the nearer future of countries like China or India that will have a lot of repercussions...
I have no idea who agreed with you, but I am against the major theme of your reply.

I never said I wanted something gimmicky, I never said I wasn't personally environmentally conscious. I like to do everything I can in all aspects of my life to try and leave as small of a footprint as I can. I have never owned a car, I became a vegetarian for its environmental (not animal rights bullshit) reasons (10 pounds of grain or a pound of beef?), and leave the furnace off for a good part of the winters even though I am Canadian.

I'm not wanting some company to hold my hand and make mne feel like I'm making a difference, because I know I am. I'm saying I want a company that cares as much as I do. I want one that does power its servers off of 100% renewable resources. and not to say to my customers "LOOK! I CARE!".

I understand the best I'm going to get it someone purchasing offset credits, but that's better than nothing. So please sir do not judge me before you know me, do not make assumptions about what I am doing. I don't want a buzzword, I want solutions.
It's not obvious to me that improving teacher quality is possible. Is there really a large enough pool of people out there who would be good teachers, but choose not to teach?

I know it's a popular talking point by teachers unions angling for more money, but I don't think it's really a solution.

Improving the process also matters, and we even know how to do it (Direct Instruction). It is effective even when used by low quality teachers. Unfortunately, it's also dead in the water since teachers unions don't like it.

http://www.projectpro.com/ICR/Research/DI/Summary.htm

http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/honestft.htm
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And even if writing a more complete compiler wasn't difficult enough, there's more much to it. There are complex details like exception handling (stack unwinding, signals...), graphical debuggers, interface with GUI libraries, threads, etc.

The fact that only commercial (and expensive) Lisp implementations have all these features is a hint that they're not trivial.
Back when I subscribed to Forbes, I remember an editorial suggesting how wonderful China's gender problem was...think of all the female-hungry Chinese engineers we can import into the USA! No shit, Forbes magazine said that. It was then that I realized the elite would gladly sell my organs on a penny profit.

At any rate, expect a steady flow of paid-for brides moving into China. Those billions of dollars sitting in China's central banks can only go one place, and we only have so many things they want to buy.