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Correction: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
I think the key phrase from #5 is "Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity", not "They called it opportunity".

It's not about being grateful for a burger flipping job, it's about taking the burger flipping job when you need to.

For example, my first consulting gig was set to rake in about $5k a month, but since I didn't know that you can ask for a deposit I had to wait until the end of the first month to get paid. I had enough money saved up to cover rent, but I still needed food money so I worked nights for a month as a delivery guy at Papa John's for the tips.

Funny thing was I busted my ass (cleaning grease traps and doing all of the other stuff none of the teenagers wanted to do), because I knew I was only going to be working there for a month, and doing mindless work with my hands was a nice break from writing ActionScript. I actually felt bad when I quit, because the manager offered me a $1.25/hour raise to try to get me to stay, haha (that's actually pretty generous for a minimum wage hourly job).

Anyway, that lesson is something I've spent a lot of time trying to teach my little brothers, as they tend to try to wait for the perfect job to come along. There's absolutely nothing wrong with taking a job that you feel is "beneath you", while you look for something better. I think it's more "beneath me" to sit on my ass all day being broke than it is to clean grease traps.
May i know what did i post that is irrelevant to this discussion to get downvoted? You down voted me because i asked for evidence? As a mater of fact django devs were receptive to Criticism http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777403
What's the point of having animated glowing forms if they swallow 50% of the machine's cpu?
Because people don't know what "heisenberg debugging" (or whatever you use) is? After all, your primary objective is not to be original, but to be understood.
Good luck. The Webkit rendering really blows it out of the water.
I actually like this article, because it's something that I recognized in myself and have tried to overcome. I still find myself reconciling disparate facts, on occasion, and sometimes it's just hard to say "I don't know."

Perhaps one of the most epiphanous moments in my life was when I realized that saying "I don't know" is hard to do for most, easy to do for myself, and generally appreciated. "I don't know" is generally regarded as an honest answer, and it's hard to imagine somebody is bullshitting you when they use it.

Long story short though, being completely honest with yourself is HARD. The one thing the author gets wrong is in thinking that people tell themselves these lies deliberately. Most of the time it isn't, or it's borne out of a lack of self-understanding. Having the TV on all day, but only ACTIVELY watching the occasional show might lead one to believe that they don't watch much TV. Whether or not I liked Lord of the Rings, there are certainly parts of it that I admired, even though I didn't like the work on the whole. I can be both excited to see the movie, and have low expectations for it at the same time. I can support the Libertarian ideals while, at the same time, questioning whether or not we have enough data to actually know if a free-market capitalist society can ever actually work.
I thought about the same question before, or in particular the social prestige of computer scientists. My best shot is: because you cannot make cool TV shows about computer scientists.

There are lots of shows in which specific professions come across as cool - doctors, cops, lawyers (of all things)... on the other hand, whenever a computer scientist is portrayed in a show or a movie, what you get is the stereotypical nerd. And there are some good shows, too - but they're mostly funny shows, not cool as in "I want to be like that".

And what's better suited to shape the youth's role models than the media they consume? And I don't blame the networks or screenwriters or anything - I've tried to come up with a good concept for a show myself and couldn't do it.

Yet I've always found it puzzling that the person who simply buys the latest iPhone is considered hip, while the people who actually build and program them are looked down on...
Good to hear, I didn't get a chance to test on the iPhone.

Also, I am not a man. But thanks!
I think the idea behind rule #12 is that dyeing your hair is not a good substitute for developing a personality.
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Chrome 10 (stable-latest): exhibits the problem

Chrome 11 (beta-latest): renders properly
Changing population base and other ways to make more money faster.
Monetization will always interfere with user experience in a system whose value is amplified by network effects.
The partial truth of this leads to some major fallacies. There are some things that good techies understand, like abstraction, that lead to more general solutions. Laws on the books tend to be tied very closely with specific implementations. Here's an example that's been with us for a long time: junk fax laws v. spam emails. Junk faxes and spam are essentially the same problem, but with different coefficients in the equation. What spam is not is a whole new problem never before encountered, requiring novel and special legislation. By treating each technological innovation as completely unique, each "solution" takes a NIH approach. This also provides a yet another venue for special interest groups (MPAA, RIAA, et al) to advocate their agendas on every new issue even though the core ideas have already been explored.

Yes, the internet has given us true revolutions and more will come. But not every issue is a unique special case, but rather many are new twists on old themes.
Submit button is broken. Why is it outside of the <form>?

Cool use of animation.
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This happen at a much bigger scale really. At Amazon.com too for example. New software versions, camera models, etc. all get fresh ratings and comments, even though sometimes people do mention older versions in their comments.

My point is that it's not just the relatively small app developers, even the big names are playing this game routinely.

I heard in a course on stock investing that mutual fund managers also do this. If their fund fails in the market, they close it and reappear with a different name.

Even with this loophole, much thanks to Amazon which created the rating system benefiting the end users in spite of the damage it at times brings to the manufacturers. Amazon had to choose between manufacturers good vs. end-users good when creating this system, and they boldly chose the latter.
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Usability problem: the animation attracts attention, distracts the eye. The moving glow, mixed with the small lettering, makes it hard to read quickly. When the animation finally stopped on my system, I was suddenly able to read the lettering easier.

This is cool-looking, for sure.
This might be true. What I'd like to see is a website that keeps score of everyone's predictions. The reality is that anything could happen in 5 years. Phones are easy to replace. Not much lock-in.
Haha, old but a great post. I agree with most of the entries 110%!
There is some truth there, but let us be clear about something:

The hard question to answer is how best to arrange cultural production. The easy question to answer is whether we should surrender fundamental expectations/rights to a few corporate interests.
> Today, do any colleges even consider this? In the time you work flipping burgers, you could just as easily become leader of 12 after-school activities that look "impressive" on a resume.

Most college application forms have, in addition to after-school activities, a section for employment history. I don't know how much it counts for, but it's not ignored.
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Here it is :)
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From the article, "The annals of business history are full of tales of companies that once dominated their industries but fell into decline. The usual reasons offered—staying too close to existing customers, a myopic focus on short-term financial performance, and an inability to adapt business models to disruptive innovation—don’t fully explain how the leaders who had steered these firms to greatness lost their touch."
You are correct when you say that the internet is uncharted territory, but if you look at things on the internet (protocols like smtp, http and ftp for example) they all are abstract representations of pre-existing analog or organic items that developed countries have been using for decades if not centuries.

smtp is traditional mail. ftp is FedEx or UPS to transfer larger items. http is also like traditional mail or mass mailing catalogs. The lines between these examples are somewhat blurry, but I hope you get the idea.

There is no reason to throw out the kitchen sink and start over because the medium of communication has changed over the past 30 years. Adapting old laws is perfectly reasonable, it just needs to be done by lawmakers that are informed as to how the internet actually works.
It seems pretty even. At orientation you are given a new Windows PC. You then have to trade it in for a MAC.
no, if you give it a literal wildcard (like you would to find, for example), it just complains that it can't find the file called *.
I think that precedence rules are evil.
In fact, Delaware makes so much from these taxes that it doesn't even have a sales tax. Other taxes for Delaware residents are also very low compared to its neighboring states.
This "efficient" algorithm takes O(n^2) time (where n is the number of grid squares) because it has to repeatedly remove elements from the middle of a list. It can easily be improved to O(n) by simply shuffling the list once and traversing it in order.
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"The Big Bang Theory" is your best choice to understand how scientists come off as. I have had myself my work-life priorities misplaced and have had my burnouts.

I had BS and I had enrolled in an PhD engineering degree. One of the departments have had people working and living in the lab. Those were 25-year old dedicated professionals. One of my friends was getting married. When we asked him when was the engagement party, he said he "had not time for it." Good for him. That was not the job for me. I want to experience my life. My roommate works in an electrical engineering company. He plans to move to another place - the work hours that the workers attend to there are 8 am to 8 pm. For, well, 40 years? That is nowhere near normal-life-ish.

You also forgot other jobs also offer sunlight-filled offices and certainly more common human contacts. I do not want to spend my life in an isolated place or holed up in a windowsless lab. It sometimes happens in some science jobs.

I think the scientists have been resilient folks, when we put the settings that they have had to survive in. They have not been taught some social skills as much. Which you do not teach - you just let the people play them out. I am reading an IT-job interview book, which I quote: "however, like the engineers, many computer scientists have sub-standard communications skills."
I agree the services economy must have something to do with it. But I'm not sure how exactly. It's true that services now employ more people than manufacturing. But even if the number of people employed in manufacturing have declined, the amount of stuff manufactured itself has risen; manufacturing is more productive (even if employing less people) than it was before. I am not yet sure why this should lead to a loss of prestige for science and engineering.
How come people can accept that oil money taints climate research, but if you propose that climate research is affected by another agenda, they laugh at you and give you a lecture about the scientific method.
Youth is wasted on the young, eh?
My pediatric surgeon dad who deals with kids everyday loves to chat with kids about their aspirations. In the US, vast majority of the kids want to become firefighters or cops. In contrast, when my dad practiced in India, majority of kids wanted to become doctors or engineers.

It's probably hard to tell the cause from the effect. May be they both have a little bit to do with each other. But in Indian movies, for example, the doctor and engineer or businessman usually gets the hot chick--not the macho cop or firefighters.
I'm loving that glow!

Great work.

I'm outside on a laptop and can hardly read the grey text though.
That's a rather obnoxious way of forcing your own sense of priorities on others. Sounds like what's missing is a weekly sync up call between the devs and the product owners to review the issue queue and sort it in order of priority.
I love doing this.

I suggest programming Snakes (on a plane).
I have to say, I'm not smart enough to understand this "rocket science." Laws exist because they accomplish the goals that we as a society want to accomplish.

There's nothing intrinsically valuable about writing your name on a certain piece of the envelope - it just helps us accomplish our goals of privacy, etc. If changing technology means that we need new laws to accomplish our goals then there's nothing wrong with that.
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The internet is my industry and takes care of me well. It is also the biggest hinderance to my productivity.
I lose a very large amount of time reading / watching stuff that seems interesting. While I have learnt a lot with my unquenchable thirst for things knowledgy, I am not able to meet my time goals.
How do you at HN avoid this trap?
On the contrary, since it didn't list MSDeploy for deployment, nor TFS for VCS, it seems to be missing a couple of important Microsoft-centric answers.
Really addicted!
Heh. Some thoughts on this: http://cogsciresearch.blogspot.com/2010/04/math-phobia-pedag...
It's not meant to be a working form. Just a tech demo.
I have exposé mapped to my middle mouse button, which i find very useful. But you cannot do this on the Magic Mouse (or whatever it's called) last time I checked, although I'm guessing there's a plugin to fix that. Still, it seems such an obvious feature to me, can't believe it's not included by default.
And the skilled developers aren't the young cats, they are the old dogs. Don't confuse what's popular with what's good.

Personally, I know just as many terrible old developers as I know young and just as many excellent young developers as old. What you're saying here is passing judgement on a group of people due to their age just the same as the OP appears to be passing judgement on a group of people due to their development platform preference.
"In retrospect, this was a sign of immaturity and self-aggrandizing."

Or maybe it's your current self-aggrandizing now that you were given a smidgen of power.
Ah, I'm with you now, thanks.
The only thing on TechCrunch I religiously read/watch anymore is TC Cribs, I just like to see how people work at companies in the valley.
What do you mean 'there's no history behind it'? You've just explained it. The whole purpose is to cause people to examine the metaphor.
It's been fully integrated with Instruments for some time now.
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Doctors, cops, and lawyers interact with other people in interesting ways. Scientists and engineers generally interact with machines in interesting way. Much more difficult to make a story about that.
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45% might even be understating it. Android's share of the smartphone market is already around 30% in the US (http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Android-Tops-iO...). That's a bigger piece of the pie than either iPhone or RIM. Unless Apple aggressively targets the low end, a majority Android share (50%+) of the smartphone market shouldn't surprise anybody.
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I would say "software applications that run purely on the web" to which the 1996-me would say "how do you even do that?"
> 2.3 Apps that do not perform as advertised by the developer will be rejected

> 2.11 Apps that duplicate apps already in the App Store may be rejected, particularly if there are many of them, such as fart, burp, flashlight, and Kama Sutra apps.

They ARE prohibited by the guidelines, and I'm surprised they get approved.
IPhone 5 will reportedly sport 8 megapixel camera from Sony
I drive the 280 every day now to Palo Alto. After 9:15 am from Noe Valley and after about 6:30 PM, it's a breeze. It takes me 35 minutes.
Evidently percentages aren't something that kids learn in school either :)
Speculative fields have became more noticeable. Though, can you tell me what is not speculative in social culture?

If one were to push it, what you call "fake disciplines" can extend to most of human society. Don't go there.
"Of the newer entrants in the smartphone OS arena, Windows Phone 7 and Samsung’s Bada are both aimed at low- to mid-range handsets."

Er... WP7 definitely isn't aimed at the low-end ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Windows_Phone... ) and Bada seems to be aimed at all varieties of phones ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bada_%28opera... ).
Perhaps getting some technical accomplishments in Solaris or one of the 'bigger' nixes (HP/UX, AIX, et al) will give you an easier way to illustrate your nix experience to potential employers?
No, not quite. They/we want the same kind of justice so our fundamental expectations or rights preserved -- and if that does not suit copyright, then it is copyright that must give way.

Of course it may not be easy to square the two. But the relative priority really ought to be rather clear. Copyright as it is is only a particular choice, but matters of personal freedom are things we take to be deeply rooted, and not submissive to merely commercial expediency.
From the synopses and the comments of those two books, here is a summary: "It is all the dumb people that won't accept the One Truth of atheism that are to blame!"
I don't see any reason to believe the social prestige of science and engineering is actually declining. It's never been very high. You can go back to popular culture references in the '50s to see that.

People aren't avoiding STEM majors in college because of a lack of prestige. It's because science and technology is hard work and there's not a lot of money in it. If you're willing to put in that kind of time there are other, easier ways to make more money.

Outside of a small slice of the population in media and entertainment, "social prestige" is nothing more than how much money you make . Investment bankers don't get a lot of interest from women because investment banking is interesting or investment bankers are seen to be somehow better than other people.
"Ruby is difficult to deploy..."

That's simply not true, and I wonder why you think it is.

Setting up Passenger Phusion is snake simple, and deploying could not get any easier ("cap deploy", as one example).

You can also run your app using JRuby and deploy it to any standard Java app server as a war file. (Using JRuby gives you other benefits as well, such as speed and connection pooling, plus the use of every Java library.)

"Is it easier to find ruby people or pythoners?"

I've had trouble finding Ruby devs. And while I've never tried to find a Python developer I get the impression there are fewer Python devs in my area (Phoenix, AZ, USA) than Rubyists. When I talked to some people about trouble finding devs I was told it's a similar problem looking for Java or C# or PHP people.

#ruby-lang on freenode is a great place to get help. #rails, maybe not so much, though I'm basing that more on hearsay and comments from people I know. OTOH, #ramaze rocks, and would be my first choice for any new Web app. Less ceremony, full-featured, great + friendly community.

Bottom line, though, is that you should spend some time with each language, look at a few Web frameworks, and pick what makes you feel most comfortable.
Was the social prestige of science and engineer higher before? I'm not sure if I actually buy the premise.
In Brazil...in the last decade or so they have been getting progressively more useless as the country moves away from a bribing culture...

Just curious, could you elaborate on how and why this has occurred? (Moving away from a bribing culture, I mean.)

Also, do you think other countries could do the same thing?
Somewhat myopic prediction focused only on one subportion of one market when the "device" market is much larger.

I'd guess that in 4 years, Apple will still have >80% of the tablet and portable media player markets.

And those customers, especially those who had iOS devices prior to smartphone ownership, are likely to want iOS phones. That usage funnel will likely continue - if the PMP space hasn't seen any compelling Android inroads as of yet, why do people think the "large PMP" tablet space will be any different?
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It's not just the US - it happened in the UK at the same time. Although it is very obvious that in places like Germany this decline never happened (or at least not to the same extent).

Interestingly enough, in a fairly recent poll of the Top 100 Britons an engineer came second, only problem is he lived in the 19th century:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
It's a bit like a drug-dealer saying 'why shouldn't I be able to ship drugs drugs through customs? - I know the drugs are illegal, but my crates are supposed to be private anyway.'
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Yeah, on some monitors the contrast is pretty low. I'll probably bump it up.
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It's only obvious to you because you personally grew up.
It's still not obvious to modern teenagers.
Fantastic story, thank you. And you are absolutely right, "menial" work is really fun if you work hard and know you don't have to do it forever. I spent a week doing hospitality and loved it. Getting to talk with different people, help them, run around and jump up and down to get things done right away, and then seeing people obviously appreciate it.

I wish we could convince more kids to do it, and more adults to take it seriously.
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Map of world perception of corruption. It's an important distinction.