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The closest I know of (but there may be others) is this Virginia Tech program for an online masters in IT: http://www.vtmit.vt.edu/
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But how do you know if the data actually gets erased by the drive?
Word, Excel, Powerpoint were applications which could be used by business to benefit the bottom line through increased productivity. Scrabulous in particular and Facebook in general tend to have exactly the opposite effect.

Instead of following Microsoft, Facebook is quite logically following the Google model - collect data on hundreds of millions of individuals and then sell that data.
It's because of covariance of returns. You can construct a portfolio with the same expected return as a single stock, but with much lower expected risk, defined as variance of return. Or a portfolio with higher returns for the same risk. And so on.

Anticipating your next question, yes, in general, historical risk has a high R2 with actual risk, where risk is defined as being normalised to an index.
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Does he mean optimize or obfuscate?
It would be interesting to hear her daughters thoughts on her parenting.
Those downsides sound massively important to fix.
I disagree with regards to how different it is. Those consultants are a relatively small proportion of the estate of such companies. Furthermore companies of sufficient size to have permanent levels of consultants connected to their internal networks and running their data have fairly nasty clauses mandating security requirements for said laptops to connect to their networks, with significant consequences for failure (both for the individual and supplier).

The consultants walking around with their own laptops generally have internally mandated compliance requirements for things like encryption, host firewalls and antivirus.
When they are 30. Not now.
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I mean, while you can't generally prove that an operator is associative, you can have probably tell that they are associative by construction.

From the construction of matrix multiplication, it is far from obvious that it is associative. And this is a simple example.
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From the article the author seems a well balanced woman, that reflects on her life. The 'splashy' title of her original article was not chosen by her as she mentions in the interview. I guess this interview will be also the last part of this stimulating series of posts on Asian parenthood on HN.
One article quoted the apparently happy daughters saying that their mom was too hard on herself.
> To the extent that I have a programming style, I find myself increasingly thinking of it as Primitive-Oriented Programming. If you want your final program to have some desirable property, be it correctness, scaling, parallelizability, or even more complicated things like one I work on where the interface must have the property "able to be remoted across this certain protocol for various reasons", the best way to achieve that in general is to create primitives with this property, create ways to combine them that maintain the property, and build up from there.

Do you have any experience with the APLs? They also strive for this sort of functionality - they're based around a set of primitives which have implicit looping and high potential for parallelism. I have been experimenting a lot with k (kona) lately; it and J (http://jsoftware.com) are both definitely worth a look.
Making the kids play violin, of being an A student, all the discipline, all of this? Why is she working her kids so hard? You know the answer: college.

She is raising future college students.

I would say to all of those who are encouraging their kids to play violin merely for college application ammunition: People are only in college for 5 years. Much better to raise your children to be good people.

Would you rather raise your kid to have an active lifelong connection to unconscious being, art, and the eternal, or would you rather raise them so that they can put away their violin and have something to mention in passing at cocktail parties for the rest of their lives?

This choice of short term/long term focus applies to many aspects of education. It is the difference between merely raising a high status, suitably socialized drone versus a human being of substance.

As to which Amy Chua has chosen, only she can know. Having listened to her on interviews, I would say she claims the latter. I suspect that many who try to emulate such true success are unknowlingly choosing the former.

Many startups make the same choice!
Will do. Sorry about that.
While you have a good point that it's unfair to claim people who didn't attend university are narrow minded and immature, it isn't any better to say the four year university experience is universally a four year long constant party.

I know people with no degree who are extremely successful, practical minded people. Most people I know would also recall university as four years of hard work with little time left for partying.
Triggers are very powerful indeed. I'm pretty happy to see this list - since I nailed probably 6-7 out of them while hacking the smoking habit out of myself last year.

Coincidentally I've written this up earlier today for one of my friends who's just 3 days into the journey - and thought to share here as well. If it helps anyone at all - I'd be happy.

http://bnpcs.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-quit-smoking.html
Even if the Western countries did do as the OP proposes, it would simply result in a shift to non-Western suppliers such as the Chinese-owned Huawei.
Ask HN: How to split shares in a subsidiary
Hey guys. Throwaway account here. I've approached a small US b2b tech company about starting a Canadian subsidiary. They have agreed, and I will be in charge of all the operations in it. From hiring/leading the tech team (to maintain and modify software from the parent), to managing independent projects, to doing sales.

Incorporation and so on is going to happen this week, and so the question is: How should I ask for an equity split? I'm assuming it'll be a two way split between me and the parent company, where I will then redistribute shares to anyone I hire and so on.

Any ideas about how to start thinking about this? Thanks.
He's absolutely correct on this issue. People in the programming professions surprisingly often go overboard with the whole coder myth -- it's a fairly interesting form of self-aggrandizement.

1) 80% of all programmers are Java people hacking away in auto-completing IDEs, constrained by rigid corporate guidelines. I doubt that their thinking has a fundamentally unique dimension when compared to other lower-tier knowledge workers.

2) Plenty of professions (engineers, lawyers, academics in various fields, law enforcement agents, and so on) require analytic skills, symbolic thought etc.

Sure, programmers at the top of their game have abilities that separate them from regular people. But that's a trivial truth that applies to 99% of all fields of human endeavor.
That example holds true until you start using a framework :-)
The performance is quite good. Is the source (the unminified version) available anywhere?
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I don't think Facebook will earn a lot from that market. I think it will be huge in advertising in large media sites though. And small. The like button is on every blog and every news site. These sites have ads today, and Facebook should be able to show way better ads than are on these sites today.

I still don't think it's a good long term investment, but they should be able to sell a lot of ads the next few years.
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"Instead, Facebook is increasingly looking like Yahoo!—it does everything from Photos and Chat to Email and Places. It provides just enough features to be functional but leaves much to be desired, and increasingly depends on advertising as the revenue model."

I could not agree more. I guess(just a guess) that for more than 350 million people (facebook minus myspace users) it will always be the first social network but its luck of modularity, its reluctance to protect its users privacy in a user-friendly manner will be the first things to make it eventually irrelevant.
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Troy University has an online bachelor's in CS, but the curriculum isn't exactly inspired. It's a mish-mash of good CS stuff with WTF's (such as being forced to take a senior level course on COBOL).
It's a bad comparison. PHP is not an alternative to Rails or Django. It's more like an alternative to Perl. PHP is a language, Rails/Django are frameworks and thus necessarily far-more complex.
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I'd be thrilled if instead you would contribute on the GlusterFS project, which provides a FUSE layer to a distributed file system with no single source of failure.

It has plugin ('translators') to enable HA, NUMFA, etc.

It's a very interesting project, but unfortunately hasn't seen as much press lately.
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pg's essay on Cities and Ambition describes an instance of 3, namely, the way cities can shape personal behaviour, sometimes in subtle ways: http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
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I really like the idea of strace for dependency detection. Unfortunately some people still use Windows which means I have to build on Windows. Does anyone know of an equivalent to strace one could use for dependency detection?
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In contrast with the author's point of view, there is research that suggests that the ability to program is dependent on an ability/desire to form consistent mental models. The actual paper is at [1] while Jeff Atwood's write up that's been linked to from HN before is at [2].

[1] http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf
[2] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/separating-programming-sheep-from-non-programming-goats.html

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I'll be glad when we're done posting things related to this one. I found both the original Dragon Lady article and the well,-my-kids-are-holier-than-thine rebuttal to be arrogant and unrelated to either hacking or news.
Looks quite nice and inexpensive and useful, but not sure I would call it "easy".
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Exactly! Programming requires a slightly different type of thinking that is learnable but that most people find undesirable to even attempt.
I agree but I wonder if it would be prettier with colors.

When I added this alias to my gitconfig I found an old alias I had for a pretty log, you may like it. http://www.jukie.net/bart/blog/pimping-out-git-log
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http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/
I've seen that trotted out before and my offer still stands: bring me the person that I can't teach programming at a level high enough to hold a job down provided they're willing to put the time in and willing to learn.

I pretty much guarantee you that I can do it, I have not found someone that I could not teach how to write code.

Desire is the key here, ability is very much overrated, but hey, it makes 'us' feel special right?

What about lawyers, do they get to feel special? Engineers? Mathematicians? Bookkeepers?

Really, it's just a matter of degree, and just like everybody (except for the rare case of tone deafness) can learn to sing to their ability everybody can program to their ability limited by how much time they put in and how motivated they are.

Nobody here was 'born a programmer' we became programmers by applying ourselves to a series of problems of increasing complexity, if you compare you 'the programmer' with 'you the 4 year old' then for sure there are differences there but they are very much about learning and not about innate ability.
Ask HN: Reasonable equity for early employees?
Hi. I've read quite a bit about this (ones that helped me a lot were pg's Equity Equation, http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html, and Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees, http://www.instigatorblog.com/equity-early-startup-employees/2009/09/11/).

The deal is: I've recently received a New York's startup offer to join as one of the first employees. The startup just got its series A round, and is already profitable (a bit more than ramen), which diminishes greatly the risks. The equity offered me (1% total) strongly reflects this. Taking the equity equation formula (considering the salary, which is a bit above market), if they didn't want any profit on my contributions, they are expecting me to increase the companies worth by 2,3% (conversely, if they are taking 900% profit, they expect me to increase the company's worth by 23%).

The second article I've mentioned quotes a table from Venture Hacks which may suggest this is a standard. The blog author rambles the table gives not enough equity.

Considering I'll be the first full engineer on the team (which had mostly interns and the founders which are kinda junior programmers, with a board member representing VC and helping with the boring part of the business legalities), is this deal any good?
Actually, I said that about the Land of Lisp site.
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I seem to have offended some readers and I apologize for that.

Personally I come form a different background (eastern Europe) and at the time i went to university it meant working your ass off on projects and papers, working for professors that seemed unreasonable and obtuse and building relationships with colleagues and professors.

That time did give us a certain maturity and taught as an approach to people and work. Little did we know, the people we ended up working with were even more unreasonable and narrow-minded.

Of course, your mileage may vary.
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You don't know, you hardly ever know anything. You evaluate the evidence (as laid out by the GP) and conclude that it's most likely the case.

This is really the approach that most conspiracy theories take. The fact that we don't know something to be true (but it's very likely to be) is used as an implication that it's probably false.
I'm not stupid.

If the shares are illiquid, I'll wait for the dumb money, and short like the big players, if/when P/E gets above 200.
This could also explain why "current situation in my bathroom" is in quotes.
It'd be interesting to compare actual neural activity of people in different professions who have been doing what they've been doing for a couple decades. I think that once a person approaches problems a certain way for an extremely long time, that becomes their default -- it'd be interesting to compare a theoretical physicist, a musician, a programmer, a writer, and a doctor (or something along those lines) when they solve different simple problems.
I thought this was going to be pi's rebuttal to tau. :)
It's a little more complex but more powerful. http://lingzini.com/
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"I want to do that, but I just don't have the willpower" used as an excuse not to try would get annoying quickly. You don't really want to do it; you just want to signal like you do.

Faulting yourself is useful iff you subsequently attempt to fix yourself. Otherwise it's probably counterproductive.
I'm aware of both. Personally I find this to be an inferior solution. Using a patch queue as a local branch just feels wrong. Neither is using bookmarks an effective solution. Both solution make the decision to branch a much more deliberate process, and in the end you still don't get a branch that is equal to its peers.

As the result, in hg, you have to decide in advance "what kind of branch" it will be -- or you have to get in the habit of using mq's for everything -- and this just not a natural experience especially for a DVCS where branching is just fundamental.
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What's the type of pen he uses while writing/drawing? I really would like to have one of those.
It sounds to me like you don't have the cat quite in the bag just yet, you need to do some more negotiation.
They also have almost a year and a half of headstart...
I've heard some good things about UIUC's online program [1]. My spouse took some graduate level electrical engineering classes at Columbia's online program [2] and had a mixed experience. Some of the classes were really good, but in some cases the adjunct profs weren't very dedicated to teaching; then again, failure to maintain quality control on professional instruction is a problem at lots of reputable schools.

[1] http://www.online.uillinois.edu/
[2] http://www.cvn.columbia.edu/
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Oh, I don't know, lets imagine a crazy world in which a bunch of things are 'invented' at the same time. Some company patents an invention. Then for a variety of reasons a different company gets huge, perhaps because it integrated a bunch of 'inventions' (some original, some invented in parallel) better than anyone else. That company then decides to pay a known price for the patents it doesn't own to avoid the unknown cost and unpleasantness of a lawsuit.

My point is mostly that software patents don't prove original invention. And moreover, buying patents indicates nothing. There are tons of reasons to want software patents, not least of which is a need to defend oneself against trolls. Many companies buy patents related to their core technologies not because they are afraid of getting sued for infringing on those particular patents, but because they want to present a credible threat of countersuit should anyone sue them.

Of course it could be both. I'm just saying that buying patents proves nothing.
It's pretty great, though if I had a Solaris box handy I might pit it against the networked multiplayer Zelda game a CS32 team wrote in '97. ;-)
#clay and #concatenative, but I don't understand most things guys are saying there. Yet.
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Can you post the Redis configuration you are using?
He really does mean 'optimize'.

There is a command-line utility that is run during Xcode app builds called 'pngcrush'. It was originally written by somebody else, then modified a bit for Apple's use. It tries to further compress png files and, I think, reorganizes them so that they can be more efficiently rendered by the iPhone's GPU. Like, maybe so they can be drawn bottom-to-top, rather than the usual top-to-bottom? I read about this once, but it was years ago, and I can't remember all the details.
I can't help but notice that two of those searches make Knuth probably a 'satisfied user' of w3schools :)
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For solo entrepreneurs like myself, one thing like setting up and managing my own mail server isn't a big deal by itself, but add that to all the other little things I do myself (not to mention the other stuff that Google Apps makes easy) and it's an easy choice to simply set up Google Apps and forget it.

The chances of Google stealing my idea is virtually nil, and if they wanted to steal it, they just have to go to my public website. Trying to hide what you're doing just seems silly to me in this day and age, so I'm just super-open about it; I'll blog, tweet, & FB what I'm doing on my start-up any time, and let the chips fall where they may...
I disagree strongly regarding the Android version issue and moms. My mom, cousins, and co-workers (non-programmer) all seem to upgrade their iPhone iOS without issue. I would expect the same from Android.
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How do you know they are his?
"...at a level high enough to hold a job down..."

Don't you think you're setting the bar a bit low?
So you care only about tomorrow's popularity, but are worried about today's hardware?

Tomorrow decoding of WebM on mobiles might not be a problem, even for battery life. Mutlicore SIMD and programmable GPUs are coming already, and their power efficiency steadily increases.

Google has got Qualcomm, Broadcom and few others on board with WebM. If WebM takes off, Apple will need to take all their chipset production in house in order to get chipset without WebM acceleration ;)
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No, not really. Is that a 'no true Scotsman' argument in the making?
Odd that you never mention that it's Anne Hunter's jobs list; did you think I wouldn't want to have my name out there?
I started it at the dawn of the dot.com boom to make students aware of all of those opportunities. My record number of msgs on one day is said to be 27, just before a Career Fair.
I almost always "clean up" the subject line to make it more
standard, dropping ninja, rock star, wizard, etc., and I definitely send out the ads from MBAs for comic relief. My sense from talking to current students ALL DAY LONG (that's my real job) is that they want to do their OWN startup with their OWN idea, not become somebody else's coder (even if you call it CTO).

Great analysis; be sure and let me know when you do more,
and give credit, please.

Anne
As a recent convert to git (from hg), who didn't "get it" before, I think you have to qualify what you mean by branching works.

Effective branching is the killer feature of git or any source control system, to me. And in that regard:

svn < mercurial < git

svn: Three way merges are close to impossible. When you do a three way merge of a file you need to find the common ancestor of all three versions. This is just an incredibly difficult problem in svn that to my knowledge can't be solved in a way thats durable. In mercurial and git you can simply walk the graph to the common ancestor.

mercurial: Somewhat fails at the concept of a short lived local branch. You can't create a local branch in place--without cloning the entire repository to a different folder--to try out some feature and then delete the branch if it doesn't work out. At least not without using bookmarks or extensions: mq, localbranch. With these you get a bookmark, a patch queue, or an in-repository clone, respectively. None of these are branches in the fundamental sense.

git: You can get a short lived local branch, a long lived one, a release branch, a bug fix branch, a feature branch, branch, branch, branch. In git branching just works, and that, to me, if compared to mercurial, means specifically working local branches that are not fundamentally different to the rest of the repository.
This is what I'm asking advice for. During negotiations, we'll need to come up with a figure. What should I be asking for? Is there any thought framework for arriving at a figure?
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Interesting, thanks.

BTW, do you use speech recognition? I think you typod "an interesting" as "uninteresting" at the end there. :)
This is local for me. We're losing 800 jobs.
Well, that all depends on who will be contributing what. What you should be asking for is roughly 1.5 times what you want to get out of the deal or you'll walk away. That will give you some room to negotiate and you might get lucky.

Without knowing a whole lot more about the situation it's pretty much an unanswerable question.