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Here's the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/technology/06stats.html
The trend of mechanized work has been happening slowly for a long time now, however, what is important is the rate of job mechanization vs. the rate of job training/education. If job mechanization happens faster than job creation we experience unemployment.

To compound this, not only are we mechanizing jobs faster than before, but job mechanization tends to eat up the jobs that take the least training first. So not only are we losing jobs for people to do, but the jobs we have left require an increasing amount of training.

So, even if we come up with new doodads to buy, any of the human work that will go into making them will require an increasing amount of training.
That's the one. I would have linked it in my first post but I was writing on my phone. There are a lot of things on there that clarified or outright changed my view of weight training. I've been doing this program for the last six months and not only have I made more progress in shorter time than ever before, I also haven't hit plateaus, given myself an injury, or burnt out. And I only spend about 2:30 hours per week in the gym.
I need a hacker to get rich
I am not a hacker and probably do not belong in this forum but I am here to seek hacker power. I have a number of great ideas that can improve hospital information systems and actually plan to pursue this as a business in the future. I currently work as a Registered Nurse (hence, the username) and I am currently pursuing a MS in Health Informatics. I am here because I am looking for a co-founder for my startup.
2% and a salary is fair in my limited experience... one of my friends had .5%, the company sold after 3 years for 60 million, he got 300k. He didn't get rich but the last company I was with I had options and they got bought out and my options were worthless.

Here is a decent article... seems consistent with what people tell me...
http://www.tonywright.com/2008/a-newbies-guide-to-startup-co...
Silicon Valley is Broken. Should We Even Bother to Fix It?
This. My 3 year-old MacBook is starting to show its age, so I took a look at what's out there. I was intrigued by the HP Envy 14--at long last, it seems somebody besides Apple figured out how to build a nice laptop. And you seem get a lot more for your money.

Of course, going back to Windows after 3+ years on OSX is no option, so I looked into Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu on a machine at work and have been very impressed--we've certainly come a long ways since the dark days of Slackware `96! I am enough of a "power user" that I could weather the switch just fine; really the only thing I would miss is iTunes since I have two iPods.

Anyways, I started Googling around on the topic of "hp envy 14 +ubuntu". And that's when I was instantly transported back fifteen years to the days, weeks, months I spent tinkering with past laptops in order to get everything working on them under Linux. I had all but forgotten about 30-page hardware HOWTOs on getting Linux to work with your specific laptop; the 20% battery penalty you pay because pm never quite works; the inability of some things, usually network and sound cards, to wake from sleep; the lack of hibernate; buggy graphics drivers; etc. etc. etc.

I am aware that the situation has improved considerably since then, but problems still remain. I just don't have the time like I did in my teens and early 20s. Or rather, my time is worth considerably more now--I'm happy to pay the Apple tax if it means I don't have to deal with this shit.

That said, if some major HW manufacturer ever came out with a completely supported laptop with Ubuntu preloaded, working power management, graphics drivers that do what they are supposed to, etc., I would totally bite. (I am aware the some, e.g. Dell, have done so, but when I see warnings like http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/... it's evident that they half-assed it. What I'm after is a full-assing.)
But saved a dozen potential ones.
I think the reason is that the shuttle is using the old Saturn V infrastructure and the Saturn had to be transported vertically. The infrastructure (launchpad, etc) is really expensive, so this was a rather smart choice.
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Going to trial it now and from the looks of it, I'll also probably be throwing cash at you very shortly. One pain point I find with Finder is that by default when you search, it doesn't search the local folder. Kills usability for me on multiple levels when I have to resort to Terminal.app + find(1).
I recently completed my M.Sc in Software Engineering at the University of Oxford (Soft Eng is closely affiliated with ComLab, but is a slightly separate department) and I can only speak well of the program, its lecturers, and its resources. This looks like a great program; if I were 18 again I might consider going to Oxford for this undergrad degree.
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> It’s hard for me to argue on the large-company employment since VMware is like the dream job, since I’m free to develop Redis full time, pretty freely, and with the support of some seriously smart guy inside of VMware

This is worth considering. There's an argument that people who really want to focus on tech should find a good 'sponsor' and just do their thing. Linus Torvalds is a good example. He's certainly made money over the years and lives well, and hasn't had to focus on running a company.
I think idleness, xbox, unhappiness, and suicide are all compatible (in fact, reinforcing). In other words, I don't think the friend I mentioned was particularly happy.

Unless I'm grossly misinterpreting, you are constructing quite the straw man of the argument against long-term unemployment benefits. People who are skeptical aren't bothered because they think the unemployed are "too happy", they're bothered by the fact that the unemployed will have no direct incentive to find work. In fact, even the OP (who's post I think is stupid) doesn't characterize the unemployed as happy.
> It's like newspapers handing out free copies to hotels to boost their circulation figures.

With the important distinction people actually read those newspapers.
I'm not so sure about this. If I'm Acme Phone Retailer and I ordered and stocked 150 phones for launch, and 3 months later I still have 100 of them, I'm not placing an order for another 50 phones. That would not only tie up valuable capital for a badly-selling product, but also tie up shelf space in the back and shelf space in the front.
Couldn't find your email, but I wanted to ask if it would be OK to excerpt the first the paragraphs of your book recommendations into a training article I'm writing.
Congrats on winning the competition! I did a bit of searching and saw your presentation, http://prezi.com/iyjcef23lmez/copy-of-gamegnat-bmc/.

Wow. Did you use powerpoint to make that? It's one of the best presentations I have ever seen. Good luck developing the MVP, it looks like it could be a fantastic community.
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The most important parts are:

> To maintain that objective and capitalize on the JDK 7 release themes [...] it is necessary that our engineering resources are committed to [...] NetBeans IDE 7.0.
(from http://netbeans.org/community/news/show/1507.html )

and

>However, we strongly encourage our community of NetBeans Ruby users and developers to volunteer to take on development of Ruby on Rails support for the NetBeans IDE.
(from http://wiki.netbeans.org/RubySupport )

So it's just a matter of not having enough resources to support everything.

Ruby and RoR is done basically entirely in-house by NetBeans/Oracle so it seems odd that people are enraged that something they provided for free isn't supported any longer due to normal restrictions.

I'm curious if:

1. People outside Oracle will take over RoR development (the community seems too small) OR

2. People will pledge money to keep the plugin maintained (I somehow doubt this but I would like to see it happen).
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His book Practical Programming is also good if you want a slightly more advanced take on the subject. It still has a chapter going over this beginning workout and why it makes sense. Even though most people don't need the advanced training programs, it's damn interesting to read about the science behind them.

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Programming-Strength-Trainin...
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I would only modify one your post in one way:

< As an aside, a close second to the first point is to log everything.
> As an aside, a close second to the first point is to LOG EVERYTHING.

As a minor addition, after you have engaged in the "GO DO THEM" and the "LOG EVERYTHING" part for a while, you'll notice when you reach a plateau. This is the time when asking for help/interneting/optimizing is helpful. Usually I'm not eating enough, your mistakes may vary.

One more tip: most of the big guys at the gym are friendly. If one of them asks to work in, let him, and ask him to watch your form during your sets.
I haven't looked into it in detail, but I am interested in an opinion. Could Backbone.js possibly be overkill? I think on the server side that kind of framework evolved to deal with server side specific issues. Should it just be ported back to the client?

I have only started to develop something with sammy.js (also a JS framework with routing and so on), and it already seems to me it might not always be a good match. For example sometimes I only want to render a part of the screen/web site again, not the whole thing. What then should be my route? I guess it could work like the AJAX updates in Rails, but still, I wonder if it is too complicated to go through all the routing and so on.

Why not just bind events to actions directly, and update at will from inside the event handler?

What advantage do backbone.js models provide over javascript objects?
No need:

>>However, we strongly encourage our community of NetBeans Ruby users and developers to volunteer to take on development of Ruby on Rails support for the NetBeans IDE.
I haven't seen anyone here address his proposed modificaitons.

"for people who live in states with an unemployment rate higher than average, offer a lump sum at the end of 12 weeks to assist the person in moving to a state with a lower-than-average rate"

This solution ignores several factors that make this a hideously bad idea in general. Factor 1 is that the unemployed person may be married and their spouse is still gainfully employed. So either he expects to trade one unemployed spouse for another after the move, or he expects the couple (and possible children) to split up for the sake of maintaining two households several states apart, just to expedite getting the unemployed person off the rolls. Factor 2 is that the unemployed person is undoubtably living somewhere and either has a rental lease or a mortgage. So I'm supposing he's going to break his lease, and thus screw over his landlord, or try and sell his house quickly in a down market, or if not, simply walk away, thus screwing his bank and possibly tens of thousands of equity that he's built up.
... if you wore clothes that have a tiny stain or tear in them that wasn't put there by the factory.

I'll never understand the mindset behind pre-ripped jeans. What's next - underwear complete with skidmarks right off the rack?
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What are the long-believed left-wing myths?
Honestly, I feel like the title here is a little misleading.

The message from the netbeans team is that they just didn't have enough resources to support both Rails and upcoming Java 7 and so they had to drop development. They also are encouraging the community to pick up and continue development of Rails support for the IDE.

I guess it's possible that a lack of resources is just an excuse to remove that support, but to me this seems like a genuine reason. I don't get the sense that Oracle just pulled the plug for political reasons.
"Has anyone ever purchased stocks early on for a startup that went IPO? Is this a wise thing to do?"

There is a lot of academic research on this that you should look at.
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>While LinkedIn’s move is unconfirmed, Kara Swisher has a reliable track record in such matters. There’s little more to say about this report at the moment, but we’ll be watching what happens once the New York stock exchange closes today.

NYSE? Isn't it more likely that LinkedIn would debut on NASDAQ?
thanks for these... enjoying your Intro.
Is anybody actually using NetBeans for Ruby? I tried it very early in my exploration of Ruby, but quickly switched to gedit, and eventually emacs (using technomancy's emacs starter kit). Now that I use emacs, any other editor (particularly one that requires a hand on the mouse) feels like an RSI producing nightmare.
>There is a lot going on in Copenhagen, Denmark is also often ranked as the best country to start a business as the costs of starting one are low (living there is not)

The fact that living here is not means that while it may be cheap to start a company, you have to pay some very, very high salaries to attract people in the first place if they wish to maintain a decent standard of living. You also have to consider that while CPH is a great city with a ton going on for its size, it is never going to be a huge multi-cultural mecca like London or SF have become. Denmark is simply too insular and opposed to much immigration, and that is a culture that's not going to change anytime soon.
Protect static content behind authentication? Hosting static files naked is almost _asking_ for them to be hotlinked.
The anonymous DDOS attacks were obviously stupid and pointless. I think what you are missing is that these people are primarily teenagers who really don't know how to engage in social change in a productive way. In fact, I'm an adult, and I don't know how to engage in social change in a productive way. I'm smart enough to know that participating in a DDOS attack is counterproductive, but I'm also smart enough to know that sending Amazon and Paypal an email telling them I disagree with their decision making is also pointless. Do you have any productive suggestions for human individuals wishing to exert pressure on the decision making processes of large corporations? Also, do you believe the attitude "the law is the law" is correct for individuals living in countries with highly repressive governments? I have a lot of empathy for these misguided youngsters, and I hope someone figures out more ethical and effective ways for people who want to contest corporate ethics to do so.
How does an American get in to a program like this? Especially if, say hypothetically, they dropped out of school to work.
The 5x5 programs are usually geared towards intermediates. I've done a few cycles of Bill Starr's 5x5 program but only after I'd learned the rudiments of weight training. I'd use starting strength as a beginning point, then progress to 5x5, HST, MaxOT and any of the other programs you might find at bodybuilding forums.
Hey Adrock,

Good point, I'll update the post when I get back to my computer.

Thanks for reading.
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How is this different from majoring in computer science and minoring in philosophy?
Traditional publishing is hugely screwed up, but I'm not sure this particular point is irrational from the publisher's point of view. If they can get the author to promote a book --- and it's increasingly common for them to demand that authors do exactly that --- then promotion doesn't come out of their own budget.

Which raises the question: if the author's doing all the promotion to readers, what do they need the publisher for?

If you're trading in physical books (which were still more than 99% of the business, in 2009[1]), there actually is a sensible answer: most physical book sales are on physical stores, so you can't sell to readers unless you first convince bookstores to sell the books. That, in turn, in the U.S. means basically convincing the buyers for the major chains that they should give you shelf space --- there are as many Borders' as all independents put together, and Barnes and Noble is way bigger than that. And the big publishers have built up personal relationships with buyers for the chains, and expertise in catering to their whims. Which can be a big deal --- see [3] for an example of a book series that's being completely repackaged because the buyers couldn't figure out to do with the first cover.

So, it's not like the chains will take anything the big publishers dish out. But the conversation about what physical books get sold in physical stores is largely a conversation between their sales guys and the chain buyers. And the only way for a self-published author to break into that conversation is to somehow sell a few thousand units through some other channel.

On the other hand, if you're willing to forgo the physical stores as a sales channel, which is starting to matter, well... less than it did in 2009, then it really isn't clear that the publishers have much else to offer you. Their other services (editing and packaging) do have value, but not nearly enough to account for their customary share of the gross.

It may be that publishers' problem in the future is going to be justifying themselves to authors --- but I try to read up on this stuff, and I'm not sure I've seen any of them putting it that way to themselves yet.

A couple of references --- Charlie Stross on ebooks

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/cmap-9-e...

part of a longer series on the publishing industry from a successful author's point of view, as of a year ago:

[2] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m...

and the blog post on promotion I footnoted above:

[3] http://www.iantregillis.com/index.cfm?blog=164
I remember this was used in my C64 Basic handbook back in the day. There was a code listing of a cat-and-mouse type of game where a labyrinth was generated like this, and the cat did a depth-first-travesal of the entire maze to catch you. At 10 years old, being introduced to the growing tree algorithm and depth-first-traversal at the same time was pretty mind-blowing.

Note that these mazes are trivially solvable; you can get from any point A to any other point B by hugging the left wall. Somewhat counterintuitively, knocking down a few walls here and there will make the maze harder to solve - especially if you have a limited view of it (e.g. 1st person).
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UK Universities don't have 'Majors' and 'Minors' you just do your degree course.
Running under VMware skewed the first results. We have been hustling to get the code to version 0.1 and I didn't get a comparable test PC in time. We will be rerunning all the benchmarks soon without VMware.

As for using node.js, we're starting to test various communication channels -- websocket versus long poll techniques versus straight ajax etc -- and it's faster for us to be working in a single project as we bootstrap up the tech curve.
Apparently you have to give them your personal information before you can find out what it costs.

Tried typing a question into the KissMetrics box and it just disappears after I hit submit. So it looks like IM but its just another version of a form?

If they want the conference to succeed they need to drop KissMetrics and go with Olark for real time answers.
And if you send that data from JS to the server, you cannot rely on the theory that JS massaged that data first.
How widely is NetBeans used by the RoR community? I'm (purely) guessing not very widely at all.
Warning: do not use this ranking to decide which schools to apply to. 75% of the criteria weight appears to be based on absolute figures (total number of papers, total number of Turing Awards etc.). If you'd prefer a school where 4 out of 15 profs have Turing Awards to one with 5 out of 150, this is not the right ranking to be looking at.
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if you missed it, you might be interested in http://wiki.pageforest.com - posted to HN last week. It does live preview of markdown text in the browser.
A lot of the infrastructure for storing and moving the Shuttle is inherited from the Apollo program.

Whatever's going on here looks convoluted enough -

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/107/315442494_6d3239a0ff.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/2028067672_2ba6479d74.jp...

Seems pretty hard to tell what solution is 'obviously superior' unless you're a rocket-moving engineer or somesuch.
Well, I'm from the UK and I've never really understood the "majoring" "minoring" thing (let alone GPAs).
80% of the time I don't. Now that Chrome is here I don't really even feel strongly about Safari. But I just love the MacBook. And the other stock apps and utilities, plus what's available either free or commercially, just rounds out the package for times when I need functionality outside my normal needs.
A major/minor does not require you to integrate the two disciplines. Presumably at least this degree will require some synthesis.

At my alma mater we didn't have minors at all, only "concentrations" and concentrations were required to be interdisciplinary. Of course St. Olaf is a specific American school, I may be overgeneralizing to Oxford.
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But 63,000 USD is far above the US media income (44,000 USD).

Granted, I made that just out of college as well but I was living a whirlwind life of monthly travel, and daily partying. For a single person 63,000USD is a lot of money---money enough that when I cut back on partying I could easily consider taking on a mortgage for a house with my discretionary income.
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This has to be a joke.

"Institutions are ranked in five subject fields, including Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Sciences and Economics/Business."

You're seriously telling me that - for example - just one university in Germany can't even crack the top 50? That's a joke.

Perhaps it may be that European education is less focused on prestige of universities and funneling funding to those specific uni's. Therefore the talent is spread out much more. Just speculation.

Disclaimer - I'm American.
Strongly reminiscent of John Galt's (and his friends') degrees in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand--they studied physics and philosophy together. Then then changed the world.
Receiving barely enough to pay the bills, if that, that will soon end is not a direct incentive to find work in your book?

Most people out there don't find new jobs in two weeks. Your friend could have afforded party time during the benefits period - once this run out, how long was he living off previous savings or external support?
I think you're right. The intersection of interested Ruby developers + with Java experience + knowledge of the Netbeans platform + and motivation/time to maintain the plugin seems vanishingly small.
I was accepted to do AI and Linguistics at Edinburgh but went off to do a "straight" CS degree elsewhere - I often wish I'd done that rather than the more mainstream degree.
These two fields have been begging to merge for several years now. Great to see it happening.

I'd like to see extended to a post-grad program. You could choose either business coding or academic coding. Both are rich areas for combining these two disciplines. Philosophy gives CS a broader, more conceptual view of how things fit together, and CS gives philosophy something useful to do -- it provides a hard edge from which to judge whether one philosophical stance is more or less useful in a given situation.
And even the Daily Mail can be used to line the cat's litter tray!
That's true, but you actually have to build something outstanding first.