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Not really... you now know how to install Gentoo, a rather eccentric Linux distribution. To know how Linux works "from the ground up", you'd need to make a start of understanding the kernel source from top to bottom. Then you can go in to learning about the userland things, such as the init system (which is different in Gentoo from most other Linux distros).

Doing a stage 1 install of Gentoo or some similarly masochistic distro-installation trick (Linux From Scratch, hurrah!) means you're good at reading an install guide. After you install Gentoo, could you immediately go and write a kernel driver, or even set up NFS, since you know Linux from the ground up?
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"Photosynthesis is a chemical process that converts carbon dioxide into organic compounds, especially sugars, using the energy from sunlight"[1]

If he were using this as a metaphor for the "speed of light" you'd think he'd be referring to the emails going incredibly fast, but what he's actually referring to is his "otherwise spectacular ... assistant" sometimes taking a very long time to respond to emails (because he's busy looking at lulz).

In this case I believe that the author is using "speed of photosynthesis" as a metaphor for being very slow, instead of using the more common simile "like watching grass grow".

I'm not sure if "speed of photosynthesis" is really correct, though - I find it hard to compare "rate of respiration" with "rate of growth" or "rate of email response" but there you go.

He's certainly doesn't mean "speed of light".

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis
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I'm not a performance freak, it's just a question of available resources. Your Fez Panda board is an outlier with massive amounts of RAM and flash, and a very high performance core. That .NET embedded framework requires 256K flash, 64K RAM minimum.

Normally I wouldn't care in the slightest what language you use, but I guess you could say I am nervous that interpreted languages would be favoured due to popularity and familiarity rather than sound design decisions, and rapidly take over the embedded market.
I was at reddit through March, which included the time when the big hiring wave was approved.
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Non-Flash-based-PDF-reader press release: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/2011...

Gotta say I didn't see this coming, but it makes sense for what they're doing with Acrobat. I just hope to god that two things happen:

1) They don't turn the product into a trainwreck (overly cross-promoting, bulky useless features, etc).
2) They open up the damn API to the cheaper plans. I want to do cool stuff with their API, but I don't want to pay $500 a month for it...
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Ah, so you just remember the fairly recent numbers. I thought from your comments here and in the linked post that you had access to current numbers, which would have been fairly odd. Carry on.
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I agree in general, but remember that we're talking about an MBA program here. Just what "value" is there to be created sitting in class?

The point of schooling is to develop the skills that will help you in the real world. Hard work is one of those skills; it's not outside the realm of plausibility that schools should incent it. (FWIW, cheating - when you don't get caught - is another one of them. Maybe schools should incent cheating and teach you how to not get caught. Oh wait, they do. Mission fucking accomplished. ;-/)
Of course I would not advocate physically pushing the student out of the office.

> Instead, I sent an email to the class. I just said that there were cases of plagiarism detected and whomever cheated, could come and find me. For the rest, I would report the case . . .

I guess I just read this as an invitation to come and discuss the matter with you. And I understood from this that any who didn't come would be referred. If I were a student and reading this paragraph, I would make damn sure to speak with you about my indiscretions. That is the exact opposite of what I'm proposing, which is that you only refer students to the dean if they do come and speak with you.

Perhaps you meant to convey something different than what I'm getting from the blog post, if so, sorry for misreading.

> When the student comes in my office during office hours . . .

Once again, I've never been a professor, although I did TA for a while when I was in college. That said, I had an expectation that my office hours would be utilized in some way or another by students. I would propose prioritizing any student that wants to ask about something other than their cheating conviction. For students who want to talk about the cheating, just say, "If you really believe you did not cheat, we can discuss the evidence. But that will only happen at an academic integrity board hearing. If they find you innocent, I will regrade your work. Think about it and let me know by email if that's what you want to do." And then just refuse to talk about it.

Again, you're the professional and I'm the backseat driver. You know more about how this works than I do. This is simply how I imagine it would go, and although you've disagreed with me several times I still haven't gotten the impression that you did what I'm proposing.
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I hope they don't kill it. It's an electronic signature system that actually works for humans, unlike the debacle that is Acrobat's.
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I understand why the students cheat. However it is possible to be in their positions and not cheat. I don't want to have co-workers who cheat. I therefore would like to see the book thrown at them so that they learn not to cheat.

If they truly had no choice about cheating, then I'd show more sympathy. But they do. By contrast we truly don't get to choose how we as humans are emotionally wired.
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Soon everything will have a badge! I'll get a badge for emptying the trash. A badge for adding a bookmark. A badge for gaining a badge. It'll be like the boy scouts, except completely devoid of value.

Seriously though, a badge for reading news? That I can share with people? And why would anyone care? Giving someone a badge for something that requires little to no skill to achieve isn't rewarding. Especially if everyone has them! It isn't something to flaunt. It doesn't even boost my ego.

Not that it won't work if done in a way that causes neurosis in users. Effectively that's how modern "social" games work.
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If 30 out of a 100 students were cheating and annoyed at the anti-cheating measures, his rating would significantly drop. That alone would be a sufficient explanation and is reason to infer causation from correlation, as we humans do every day of our lives to make sense of what is happening. We constantly successfully defy Hume.

You are not accounting for the fact that his ratings dropped, which implies previous classes did not have the kind of experiences you described and rated him low because of it.
> One of the things that prompted me to do this is that all the other attempts seem constrained in ways that were not really useful to me.

Running inside tmux seems pretty near perfect for the kind of stuff I do. What are you looking for that tmux doesn't address? Is it just being able to run on machines without ssh, because that seems like a pretty minor edge case.
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I think it says a lot of bad things about online advertising that a completely voluntary subscription program that gives you essentially nothing beats it as a revenue source. Although that's just a guess, the success of reddit gold might be increase in revenue without having to serve more traffic.
I know that you already have HTML5 Boilerplate linked, but it should be noted that there's a separate boilerplate page for mobile (http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile/).
I enjoy using it as a statistics aggregator as well. Last.fm definitely gets credit for capturing the primal sense of achievement with scrobbling. People I know don't really use it as a social network other than friending each other, but even that is sufficient because it allows you to peek into their current musical tastes. It's sort of elegant how Last.fm's experience is pretty much just collecting data and displaying it nicely; no need for apps, uploading user content, or location-based gimmicks. Just listening to your music library is generating content enough.

As far as listening goes, most people I know use Pandora.
The article does not make the claim that his raise was lower than the rate of inflation. If it was, then yes, it was effectively losing money.
What I liked most about the Reddit Gold program was how it shows the strength of the community: if you can pull off a 'freemium' move without actually developing significant extra features you're clearly doing something right.
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I don't feel that way at all. As reddit grew, the desires of the masses changed. I'm no longer interested by the majority of it, but that doesn't mean it's bad. In fact, millions of people seem to believe the opposite.

I don't use reddit anymore because I found it to be an unproductive use of my time, but that doesn't mean it's bad. Youtube, for all of the stupidity of its comments, has nonetheless grown a fairly tight community of people who interact with each other through videos. Wikipedia, for all its politicking and acrimony, has a very tight community of core contributors. Reddit's community isn't the same as it used to be, true. It's much larger and much broader in appeal. Sure, that means I'm not as enamoured of it as I once was, but it's hardly a death knell. In every measurable way, reddit is doing better than it ever has.
Keep in mind, reddit didn't even have a single dedicated salesperson assigned to it until September 2010. So it's a little unfair to draw conclusions about its marketability from pre-2011 data.

Rather, you should draw conclusions about the strategic vision of the now-departed Conde Nast executives who were responsible for allocating such headcount.
"Why isn't blaming professors for cheaters analogous to blaming rape victims for being insufficiently vigilant against rape?"

I don't think the analogy holds well. The point is that a professor is supposed to help his/her students when they have questions. If they don't do this, they increase the probability of cheating occurring. It's less of "blaming" and more "noting" that this happens. If the professor is partially ignoring this duty, he/she is partly to blame. (I'm not saying that happened here, just explaining what I think @reason's logic is).
Just because you can't tell what a game changer is in advance -- and that you might even consider it trivial at first -- doesn't mean that you can't tell what is geniunely trivial too.
I don't miss dealing with tenured professors.
There was some discussion on this a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2765834
Yes, radical teachers often refuse to grade students, because it reduces the quality of education. But many are forced to stop. Few have sufficient power to go against the institution.

(Not only do schools have their function to produce professionals who'll jump through hoops on command for a letter. But also some particularly career-oriented students may complain that this makes it harder for them to outrank other students. Students don't have that much power, but these students help the school build a case against the offending teacher.)
How to you propose to measure the value of work? I'm certainly not limiting it to financial remuneration. Whatever the value is measured by, it certainly doesn't correlate to effort. Sometimes something of great value takes much effort, sometimes little, but the value cannot be predicted by the effort. Teaching people that it can is a disservice.

In what situations is it a moral necessity to reward people for hard ineffective work? I'm not excluding the possibility, I'd just like to understand what you have in mind.
Tisa is quite nice, I've used it for customers that required a warm, personal appearance.

The article itself is poorly "typeset", Tisa requires a line-height far above 1.3em. The author also has an inexplicable love for the "·" character, which quite frankly reminds me of the MSN names of younger friends.

Verdana and Tisa don't work together on the same line. Someone will probably throw "matter of taste" at me, but no, just no.

The HTML is pretty bad (though I'm going to assume the author knows this), <p class=h2> is not cool. If you really want to put your header on the same line as your paragraph's initial line, there are some tricks for that.

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Quora is very useful with real entrepreneurs contributing (similar to HN). SO is nowhere near to Quora on quality of startup topics. The UI is also pleasing and friendly for FB users.

The only threat to Quora as of now is Prizes.org from Google.
Were you actually involved in the honor board at the Naval Academy? If so, I am wondering: is the honor board really only designed to punish, or were the only cases that made it that far so egregious that guilty is the only likely verdict?

Of course, I think I would only refer students to the honor board if it was blatantly obvious they were cheating, and they opted to refuse my "warning" punishment.
Triple majored in mathematics, history and philosophy; now working as a developer. Hume is among my favorite philosophers and I'm working on a web app inspired by his stuff.
Though I certainly can't speak with authority about what might constitute value in an MBA program, I would think it would be the ability to understand systems and their organization and to think creatively about solutions to complex problems. I'm probably wildly optimistic.
> By contrast we truly don't get to choose how we as humans are emotionally wired.

What a lame excuse. He still had as much of a choice in being a dick as the students had in cheating.

Even under his own account of the office-hours incident, he was very inconsiderate and doesn't seem to understand it. If you have office hours, know there will be many students showing up on this particular day, and yet you aren't prepared with food, compound that by not bothering to explain that you need to eat now, that's a dick move, without excuse and explains the evaluations. His fault, not the students.
People claiming that something won't work is not a good heuristic for finding things that will work. It may be the case that people say that many ideas that turn out to work won't, but they are overshadowed by all of the ideas that people say won't work that don't.
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Because professors are in a position of authority over their students, and part of their job is to evaluate the students. Thus preventing or detecting cheating (for example, by changing the structure of the assignments, or using various plagiarism-detection tools) is legitimately the professor's responsibility (though not solely theirs; the school and the department are responsible for setting policies, and handling violations after the professor detects them; and of course the individual students bear the ultimately responsibility to not cheat!)
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LA is a rough place to do start-ups but thankfully better than Phoenix where I am now. After the bubble burst the heart kind of went out of LA. Also some companies sucked so much life out of people that they stopped trying.
Anyone know what EchoSign is and how it works?

I can't find much apart from marketing speak on their website.
Likewise, I know professors who under similar situation do not react like the professor in this discussion.

Also I don't understand why the same emotional wiring that can explain the professor's behavior cannot potentially explain the cheating student's behavior?
>now-departed

Karma appears to have manifested outside of Reddit.
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I haven't seen it personally within ethnic lines, but when I as a student at the University of Washington, the files of previous assignments and tests kept by the fraternities were legendary.
Agreed. I would add that, given you've found other ways to validate your idea, nothing inspires you quite as much to deliver as the opportunity to prove a naysayer wrong :P
Your edited version is a lot better. Every time I go to Tim's site I wonder why he hasn't fixed it to look not terrible.
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Normally I'd blame the media for putting a sensational spin on things, but the paper is really at fault here.

The usual metamaterials cloaking trick involves spatial-domain cloaking. You make the probe beam go around the target.

They're doing time-domain cloaking by selectively altering the velocity of the beam. Not time cloaking.
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I suspect that the HN majority is atheist

Really? I get a sense that there's some outspoken atheists here, but I don't see it as a majority.

I guess that would make an interesting poll.
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True: People also said the CueCat wouldn't work. So sometimes the naysayers do know what they're taking about.
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Not so. I've lived in a country with an ongoing low-level terror campaign and people just get used to it. Everyone knows the risk and nobody likes it, but life goes on. I've seen a car bomb explode across the street from me, which was pretty scary, but it doesn't paralyze people the same way because it's simply not as dramatic.
Sorry but you are not exploring anything. You are just experiencing hallucinations, paranoias and what have you due to the drugs changing the chemical composition of your brain. That's it, nothing more.

There may be more to the world that meets the eye. You may be right about that. I personally believe in God, so I do believe there is more to the world that meets the eye. But the implied message of your post, that we can reach that world by taking drugs makes nosense. Why would drugs make you capable of perceiving something that you are unable to perceive otherwise. You still have the same physical brain and sensing organs. Drugs are just a physical thing acting chemically on the same physical brain and the same physical eyes and ears. Why would drugs make your physical eyes and ears perceive the metaphisical all of sudden? It makes no sense. I mean I would understand if drugs made your hearing or eyesight better, or if they made you see things in wavelengths not visible when you are not on drugs. But to make you see something that cannot be detected on any wavelength even with the best instruments? Why? It makes no sense.

And if you believe in God, as I do, why in the world would God choose to reveal himself to only those that take illegal, dangerous and usually expensive drugs? Does God only like the idle rich? Nope that makes no sense either.

So, sorry again, but you are living a dangerous fantasy. What you are exploring with hallucinogens are just hallucinations somehow created in the pathways of your brain as a result of the chemical disruptions caused by the drugs. Nothing more. Nothing that actually exists in any way. And as the drugs damage your brain, your hallucinations will get darker and more paranoid and if you do not stop you may go mad.

About people telling other people what to do, I do not know about that. If you see a thousand people lose their minds doing LSD and become sad wrecks that can barely do anything with their lives between the acid flashbacks, wouldn't you want to stop number 1001?
From what I've heard from friends and coworkers who've gone to HBS - the value of the MBA is almost entirely in the network, in getting to know all the other folks who also got into Harvard. (This is perhaps a little bit less valuable at NYU, but the general principle still applies.) Logically, therefore, if you want to maximize value as an MBA program, you should have your students party all day. Which may not be all that far from the current truth.

The classroom aspects of the MBA have been uniformly criticized by the people I know that've gone through them, except for the few idiots who believe every business situation is like a case study and then run their businesses into the ground basing decisions on that. Business is just too complex to reduce to classroom principles. I think Marc Andreesen once wrote on his blog that at the time the executive makes the decision that an HBS case study will eventually be based upon, he has less than 10% of the information that the students who will eventually be critiquing him have.
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With the demise of the Space Shuttle program news like this gives me hope for future exploration. Reminds me of the dark days between the Apollo and Shuttle missions when Viking and Voyager received a lot of attention... hopefully without the hokey Star Trek V'ger movie this time.