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The article makes some good points that are obscured by the ridiculous conceit of overusing the em dash. This is like arguing that since running 100 miles in a day will hurt your feet, running is a bad idea.

Even the title is a misuse of the em dash. An excursion to plead for patience on the part of the reader should only come when the beginning of the sentence is likely to irritate people. The words "The Case" aren't going to annoy readers, so pleading for people to please hear the author out is annoying. THAT is the problem with the title. Not the presence of an excursion or parenthetical remark, but the presence of an annoying and meaningless excursion manufactured to make the author seem witty. And so it is with the rest of the post, the excursions are all so blatantly manufactured and artificial, it is impossible to hold them up as examples of why the em dash is a bad idea.

To me, the article demonstrates why conceits are a bad idea. Trying to be too clever obscures your message rather than reinforces it.
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Well some people argue that a certain degree of anthropomophization of a piece of work actually increases the efficiency of an engineer, because he feels attached to his piece of work.
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I didn't even get THAT far. I stopped once he started using words like 'cleansed'. All that hollistic feel-good talk.
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Quick, someone run it through the Java -> JavaScript transpiler. We can go deeper.
You commute too long. That's where those missing 2 hours are going. My example's extreme, but:

8:30 Wakeup, shower, breakfast
9:00-9:50 Browse the net, email
9:50-10:00 Walk to work
10:00-18:00 Work
18:00-20:00 Buy groceries, cook, eat, do dishes
20:00-21:30 Relax in some way. May include tv, movies, exercise. Sometimes extra hacking.
21:30-01:00 Hack (may include leftover work)
Agreed. I often tell my parents to turn it off, to spend their free time actively. Watching TV is passive entertainment at its worst.

I wish they listened.
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I spent some time last year working on a similar product here in Mumbai. We had an amazing product, but the challenges here in India were -

1) Teachers don't like to record videos/ make digital teaching aids, unless initiative is from the top.

2) Its difficult to make videos of the quality of Khan Academy, not every one can teach like Khan

3) Its additional work load on already underpaid teachers

So these things got me thinking-

- Can you incentivize creation of high quality lectures? Maybe raise donations and pay teachers who create the best content.

Anyway good luck with it. Also let me know incase you want a demo of our effort in case we can collaborate on this. (I don't know if this is appropriate here, please correct me in case its not welcome)
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1) I don't work 10 hours every day, 8 hours twice a week at least. Like this I'm saving a couple hours every week to have some time off later. Year ago I was at -50 hours but now I'm at over +50 already. A small reserve is good. I never work overtime for money.

4 x 10 might be nice to have a longer weekend. Have to think about it since now 5 days are mostly spent working, exercising, eating and sleeping :)

2) Well that was an example day. Instead of the shopping it might be cleaning, cooking or other housework that takes half an hour to an hour. I shop two or three times a week. I also don't cook every day but cook for two or three days at a time.

I don't own a car, bike or skis because the maintenance would take time :)

3) I keep a rest day once a week and on weekends I might do two kinds of exercise in a day. Still 6-7 times a week is fine counting the occasional extra walk back from shop. That totals it to 6-10 hours a week on physical activity.

I don't spend any time going to exercise since all the equipment is either at work (gym, pool), at home (cross-trainer, weights) or I go running.
it opens with "every time i'm home i'm with my kids" and then give an example:

- "today my [morning priority] was this blog, then i gave me a reward to play tennis" and

- "always get 8hours of sleep"

- "exercise in the morning"

...if i can always get 8h of sleep, always "be with my kids", write blog posts all morning (after the work out) and still have some time to myself to play tennis... i wouldn't be reading about getting things done.

The main problem everyone i know have is to conciliate work, loved one(s), hobbies, 8hour sleep. all in a 24h day.

and the only way to solve it is give up on two each day.
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I actually just had a go and this could be really good for fast prototyping and communicating ideas with designers. A bit like Balsamiq but with more emphasis on the functionality rather than the visuals.
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I think this demonstrates that 20 under 20 doesn't do much to prove Thiel's argument that going to college is overrated and overpriced for the average student. Some of these guys could be writing my textbooks
Your commute is long, but at least you get to read. Our schedules are similar. My morning commute is 15 minutes. I walk home at night, which takes about 45 minutes..i count that as part of my exercise time, and I also pick up quick groceries.

I guess I should add long commutes to my list of productivity hacks.
This talk is an almost perfect example of applause light[1]. 95% of it is either self evident or universally accepted. But in the end, there's very little substance, if at all.

What I found most creepy about this talk is how similar it is from preaches I used to hear for Christmas. Same tone, same use of applause lights. It really felt religious. And for such important (and practical) issues, I don't take religiosity as a good starting point.

[1]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/
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As for the article itself I have similar thoughts to archgoon that it's more likely that their sample has changed rather than the actual population of students.

I find it funny how whenever some problem with education is brought up there's so many people suggesting simple solutions like changes to the curriculum across the board.

Each and every curriculum/educational philosophy WILL have it's problems and WILL tend to produce a certain kind of a person.
Nobody denies that there's so many other countries that have better results in certain fields on standardized tests as compared to the US. But not only are those tests poor in measuring proficiency in a single subject[1], they are a complete joke if you want to use that to reflect on the education as a whole.

Unified curriculum is the problem itself. Although it's not very obvious as of right now I think we'll see a HUGE decentralization in how the education works. I won't be surprised if in 20-30 years the whole primary-middle-high school system will get redefined.

You can also rant about the universities in the US, but they are still the best in the world. There are no more than 5-10 universities in other countries that could compare to the top US institutions.

Generally speaking I think it's a nonsense to compare average quality institutions at all. It's a contest of who is least bad. Compare the best. It's not hard for Europeans to have slightly better public education if private is very limited in it's operations.

[1]The problem with international standardized tests is that the way subjects are thought differs between each country. And it happens that US schools usually have a very different approach to teaching subjects like math as compared to the rest of the world. I can easily see how those tests are skewed against the US.
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>For most of the past 20 years I have served on selection committees for the Rhodes Scholarship.

...

>The writer represented New Mexico in the U.S. House from 1997 to 2008.

seems to me that the author wasn't just an innocent bystander, instead she was too active and powerful participant in shaping the society and its education to blame the end result on anybody else without acknowledging her share of responsibility.
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Well yeah that's sort of obvious. Frankly, I'm surprised that so many people will readily equate their lactose-intolerance to dairy being somehow evil.
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Wait, this is a mistranslation. He said "appartenir", which in this particular instance means "being a part of". It is a warning flag, but nothing actually controversial yet.
Governments have their own non-industry agendas too (i.e. WikiLeaks).
Yet pointless because they were both terrible.

That was the problem in reality. The proprietary extensions were almost irrelevant, unless you were a big fan of blinking text. The issue was those two stagnant browsers were strangling the web, IE & Microsoft doing so with malice.

The fact that we can even make that comparison with a straight face shows just how far we've come. You literally just tried to equate a browser market in which there are 4 very active and competitive players releasing new versions daily/weekly, to one where a near monopoly kept the same browser version on the market for six years.
You seem to stay up quite late. Unsustainable for me. Also making and eating breakfast takes for me at least 30 minutes at the moment.

Three years ago I had exactly the same 10 minute walk to work and then I did have more time available. However have to consider that:

1) Consultant usually works at client's location and client may change often, though I'm a counter-example of that myself. Moving often is not worth it. I consider my current location pretty optimal. A more central location creates more stress and costs way too much. I would believe it's more effective to just decide to work less hours every week for reduced pay but I'm not yet strong enough to commit to it :)

2) I do not spend any time travelling to shop, to exercise location or to do fun stuff. My travel time maximum is 2 hours every day - the shops, bars, movies, etc. are along the same route and do not increase time spent travelling in a day at all.

3) Car would not improve the situation. In fact it would be slower due to traffic. Or I would have to leave at 06 from home, way too early. And the tradeoff of money to time is ridiculous with so few other uses for a car. And there's the maintenance.

Thanks for the example. Maybe somebody else can chime in too.
Would that nobody had told me about the 8 hours thing when I was so young. I pathologically set alarms before free days to currentTime + 8 * 60 minutes and go to bed alarmTime - 8 * 60 minutes, and I feel wrong all day if this is interfered with.

In fact, I find that my body can handle significant variation to the 8 hour rule. Knowing this doesn't help my obsession.
Since you are easily findable, the people who want to message you probably do so already.

A message system would just make it easier for those people who aren't easily findable.
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Yeah I sometimes get off the bus earlier and walk home to combine the two. I'm considering running sometime too but have to get the gear with me. And sometimes I walk home from a shop for the same exercise.

In the winter I mostly slept/meditated in the bus but now I have enough energy to read. I found out that coding is practically impossible in the bus because of the sun.
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What came of that?
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>Understanding of and adherence to the rules is job 1.

I have to disagree. Some Armed Forces employ quite different type of organization, called Auftragstaktik.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission-type_tactics
Does not make it legal. Even if the original provider got consent from the user, it doesn't mean you have the right to copy the database (and that you shouldn't declare the data collection to the relevant privacy agencies).
If these are public profiles then maybe this isn't a problem, but if the data contains non-public profiles then its a security breech for Google. The robots.txt settings would lead me to believe that these are public profile and that Google intends people to view/download them.
That story reminds me of a more personal anecdote.
Some day in the past year, my girlfriend found a picture of herself (taken from her Flickr) used as the "anchor" for some article on a online magazine's portal.

No mail to ask her about it. Nothing.

When she asked to get it removed, they assured that they always take their photos from paid stocks, or free of rights, so that it's not their fault. They didn't give more details, but eventually removed the picture.

The problem is that we live in an age when most people just use Google image to illustrate their stories, and assume that they can use just anything, because they found it there.
This assumes that "X belongs to Y" means "X is a possession of Y", but that simply isn't the only meaning "belongs" has: it also means "is a part of", for instance. You can belong to a club without thinking that it owns you. FWIW, the oldest meaning of the word is more like "accompany" or "go appropriately with".

I don't know whether appartenir has a similar range of meanings, but my guess is that it does.
tl;dr: my hobby OS: http://github.com/rikusalminen/danjeros

Last summer I got inspired by this article and stumbling on the intel processor manuals (http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals), which I kept on reading for a few weeks and then I started hacking with my own hobby OS project.

First I created an all-assembly boot sector mini-kernel that booted into 64-bit long mode and then did a small multitasking test case , first co-operatively and then pre-emptively using timer interrupts.

Then I started over, this time with C and using a proper multiboot bootloader like Grub. I hacked with it for a while but my x86_64-specific code and kernel code were all over the place and it needed a reorganization.

So, recently I reorganized my code, added a CMake-based build system and put it in a Git repo, here:
http://github.com/rikusalminen/danjeros

It doesn't do a whole lot, but it's a solid base I intend to continue when I have some time for kernel hacking. I'm sorry there's nothing in the README-file, I should at least add instructions for building the required cross-compiler (for TARGET x86_64-pc-elf), building (requires CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE for cross-compiling) and running with qemu and debugging with gdb.

If someone actually read this far and got inspired from the osdev articles, like I did, why not take a look at my DanjerOS project.
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:) Clearly you are not a hard-core gamer or you don't have any friends who spends 200~ hours on a MMORPG per month. Although I generally agree with that TV argument.
Can you give more examples of things you have automated and how they worked out? And what didn't?
Yep, why do you think the WaSP was created? AFAIK this war began with Netscape having a monopoly back in 1995, which effectively killed HTML 3.0 and resulted in 3.2.
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I am thinking along the same lines. If something is not "policed", then it won't happen in the long run as interest shifts. Includes programming practices, testing coverage and the usual stuff. And more effective to automate such things and spend code reviews on interesting issues, not "punctuation".

I wonder if anyone has examples for or against of running such checks against your codebase? I can imagine some horror stories of how those tools would slow down all useful work. But some success stories? I guess I have to try on myself first :)
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Alpha support is in the repo, marked as experimental: http://review.webmproject.org/gitweb?p=libwebp.git.
Yes, but instead of a summer weekend its the entire month of august and parts of July. From my experience, Paris gets completely evacuated except for the tourists and tourism related jobs.
10 is way too late: take a look at Harlem Children's Zone, and "Baby College". You have to start with prenatal care and parent education to really make a difference.
I am sure it must be more complicated than "not eating a cookie depletes your willpower". So if I stare at 100 cookies in the morning, all my willpower for the rest of the day will instantly evaporate?

I was half expecting the advice to be: "the only way to achieve stuff is to give in to the less important cravings. That is, you get extremely fat eating cookies, but in exchange you finish your weekend project".
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Philosophy, rhetoric, and history.

By "philosophy" I mean a broad meta study of the field: the philosophy of science, epistemology, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of language, etc. By "rhetoric" I mean both the construction and execution of persuasive argument in printed and verbal form. Everybody should have a few folks from history that they are intimately familiar with and feel that they faced similar problem in life.

Philosophy can give you a broad view of what is knowable, what is not, and how folks move from not being able to to know, to being able to know, to actually knowing -- a key component of both the advancement of science and the development of an individual. Topics like stoicism and existentialism, if presented appropriately, can provide a backstop of beliefs for any student, regardless of their religious or moral convictions. Rhetoric helps you spot when folks are trying to manipulate you, and it challenges you form coherent arguments yourself about things outside of one small area. History gives you context: every generation feels as if it is here at some kind of special and unique spot. Knowing that humans 500 years ago were the same model as the ones you meet on the street helps put your opinions and interests in context.

Unfortunately, if I hadn't defined what I mean by those three subjects my recommendation would be pointless. You can go to any college today and take courses under those headings and not receive those benefits -- perhaps this is because those who design the courses view them as introductions to a deep dive on a topic and not practical, broad, benefits-based interventions with young minds. I don't know. I understand that my advice is easier said than done: how would you introduce history to a large group of students in such a way that each student found their own historical figures that they would benefit from absorbing? How do you take topics that the students might find popular and feel-good and give them the ability to tear apart the fluff around them and find the good stuff underneath? Having a professor stand up and say something like "this is my opinion on X. I may be wrong, but we'll never know unless I give you the skills to identify and refute faulty argument" just isn't happening. Instead, classrooms are hierarchical affairs.

Instead of this discovery process, students get pre-canned little happy meals. Instead of taking charge of forming their own identity across multiple disciplines that they can describe and defend, we get these examples of kids simply being out of their depth once you stray just a little bit from their established path. An education that is both broad and self-determined is not an easy problem to solve. The system is not built for it.
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An interesting question is whether this is merely a blip or part of a trend. Apple's user base must be an enormously tempting target for malware creators.
Surely if you tweet an image you've taken you're putting it into the public domain? Aren't you consciously and knowingly injecting it out into the ether? You WANT it to be distributed - isn't that the whole point?

<b>Edit:</b> If you're downvoting please explain why. I think I'm making a valid point, I'm interested to hear another opinion. And downvote me for the quality of my argument, not because you disagree. That suppresses valid and interesting debate.