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There are two kinds of privatizations:

1: The real kind, where the government simply stops doing an activity (or does it too ineffectively) and a market appears out of opportunity - like SpaceX. Libertarians like this because it makes the government smaller.

2: The fake kind, where a government decides that something it does should now be done by a private entity under contract. Blackwater is one example, most privatized railways are another. These seem to port the annoying bits from government (the private operator is accountable to the government, not the "customer", and there is still no competition) and while the typically predictable cost is good for budgeting, the real benefit is too often in keeping politicians' fingers out of day-to-day operations. Most libertarians would prefer you'd just get the governments hands out of the operation altogether.
PSS + Vinegar

Just kidding, that's not a webapp framework, but if I wrote one, that's what I'd call it.
Research for the US Military was/is an important source of funding. To be clear, it's not like the government is getting nothing in return.

Gifts from successful alums are also a big source now:
http://facts.stanford.edu/finances.html
Because the government stills needs some money to do certain important things, and Buffett is ready to pay more taxes to help fund that, and says that other billionaires and multi-millionaires should too. But I'm sure he never said he would give away his whole net worth for that.

The government and the gates foundation do different things, and there can be a need for both.
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http://www.couchsurfing.org/ is an excellent resource.
While this is an issue, it's a pretty minor one from my own (limited) experience using CoffeeScript. It's extremely easy to relate the JS errors to your CS code, since the JS generated is so readable. It's just a little tedious to have to take a look at the generated JS, but not that bad really. Try it out for some node.js stuff and see for yourself.

Also, the issue is being fixed for Chrome/Firefox, which is good enough for dev work.
Colleges are engaged in a destructive "fanciest buildings" arms race.
Every push with git is going to create a new ssh connection. Using a shared connection is way faster.
Thanks, but unfortunately that won't play in Canada.
Yep.
http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/05/wysiwyt.html
It wasn't awesome. But we're talking about a $3/month host here, is that something you should rely on for backups, even before your account is terminated? If the abusive customer didn't keep a local copy, well, now he's probably learnt to keep a local copy.

Having said that, if you choose to run a low cost hosting service, you should know that your customers are going to be greedy entitled bitches, and you should deal with that fact in a professional matter. Otherwise, just get into some other line of business.
While it is true that they are (or almost are) adults and should be able to make their own decisions, I think you'd be hard pressed to say that there is nothing wrong with a bank giving a $200,000 dollar loan to someone with absolutely no income.

Because you can't get out of student debt, the banks are more than happy to make loans to people who shouldn't really be taking them. Eventually, the bank will get its money back. For the education bubble to be popped, there's going to have to be a change in legislation allowing people to be protected from student loans if they go into bankruptcy.

Once that's the case, banks will start being more careful with the loans they make, there will be less cheap money available, and people will have to start making more rational decisions about which college they attend.
If more people were as reasonable and logical as Mr. Buffett, there would be far fewer economic problems.

Unfortunately, the media seems to give voice only to the most extreme fringes of economic thought and lowers the entire level of discourse in this country. We need more news organizations and journalists like Rose, who see the value in presenting moderate points of view and can present it in an easily digestible fashion. PBS can afford to do this, but unfortunately, other organizations might be too dependent on profits and too short creativity. As a result, our country prospers less.
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I'm not sure Google can afford Amazon, and even if they could, would the SEC allow it? I think regulatory problem areas would include letting a dominant force in online search also control much of the infrastructure of web hosting (AWS), or the clear leader in online advertising also be the biggest player that sells you merchandise, or the largest digitizer of books control both the sale and delivery of books.
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Colleges vary quite a lot in terms of how much spending they do that can reasonably be accounted for as spending on student instruction, and spending on all aspects of care of students. At some colleges, the list price for the students who pay most out of pocket is BELOW the spending per student. That's because those colleges have sources of income (e.g., endowment income and direct grants to the institution) other than tuition income.

http://www.collegeresults.org/search1b.aspx?institutionid=13...

(Check the Finances and Faculty tab shown for the college comparison linked above, and then sort by Instructional Expenditures / Total FTE column.)
The problem is that even intelligent adults can be easily led astray without the proper information to arm themselves to make proper decisions. There's a lot of misinformation out there and pre-collegiate education isn't always up to snuff for performing this task.

* WARNING - ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE AHEAD - PROCEED WITH CAUTION! *
After I graduated high school (~ 8 years ago), I realized how little information I got from the school about college and my post-high school options. Most of what I had learned was from doing my own research and what my family had told me. Perhaps all the college counseling went to the gifted and talented group (yes, there actually was such a group in the school for each year).

The public school education system probably sucks in this regard for the same reason why most public schools don't teach anything about personal finance: there is none. No good reason whatsoever. It's quite baffling really.
httpbin. sweet.
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Exactly, home printers will be about as hard to target as torrenters, except that there is even less network trace to be used
FYI, for those who missed it: This is from November 27, 2005
Plenty of rather poor people were going to college 50+ years ago. They worked during the summers, or took a year or more off first to earn money and then went off to school.

The graph in the article show college costs up 300% in the last 21 years.

The economist[1] reports an 11x increase in college tuition from 1978-2011.

The problem is definitely _not_ that people can't get loans but rather that college is so expensive that it requires loans in the first place.

[1] http://crimsoncavalier.blogspot.com/2010/09/who-says-theres-...
I suggest incremental payments and a deposit for any work of any size (which this definitely counts of). We do 20% upfront, 50% on adhoc reasonably functional demo, and 30% before uploading to apple/releasing code.

My company's iPhone fixed fee contracts state that you surrender all rights to the work after a (long) term of non-payment and still owe the amount due so things just like this can be done when people just disappear off the face of the earth but yet salaries and contractors and artists still need to be paid for all that time.
Interesting. Wikipedia references two add-ons written back in 2007 for this purpose. No idea if they still work on more recent versions of FF.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382585,00.asp

"Android 3.0, Honeycomb, was designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes and improves on Android favorites such as widgets, multi-tasking, browsing, notifications and customization," Google said in an email to PCMag.com. "While we're excited to offer these new features to Android tablets, we have more work to do before we can deliver them to other device types including phones. Until then, we've decided not to release Honeycomb to open source. We're committed to providing Android as an open platform across many device types and will publish the source as soon as it's ready."

Meaning it's not ready. (emphasis mine)

I have to agree that, right now, Android has a closed branch (two - HC and whetever's not released) but claiming it's closed-source because it has one branch closed is not quite honest - like claiming MySQL is not open-source because they sell proprietary addons. My phone runs the open-source 2.3.4 version that was assembled by developers who don't work for Google.
You could always copyright and register the code with the uspto for $35 as a collection.

I believe statutory damages are $150,000 per infringement.
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I don't think the compliment "quite clever" undermines anyone. I was trying to be clear that my comment wasn't about finding someone better than Culver, but someone with a more successful product. I don't think anyone would argue that Convore are anywhere near as successful as Airbnb, Foursquare or even Kayak. I'm sure there's a lot to be learned from the failure of Pownce, but the rest of the field certainly seems to be a draw because of their apparent success.
I use ControlPersist, but it doesn't seem to work well with mercurial. If hg makes the first ssh connection, hg won't exit until the master closes. ssh in a terminal then running hg doesn't have the same problem. The persistent connection child isn't detached enough apparently and hg waits for it. I'd be careful about testing auto connection sharing to make sure things don't get hung.
I've used both. I have no preference and can work in either; it doesn't affect me either way. Your argument is to false authority.
Seems like this is bought and paid for by Google and will be teaching an Android-centric view of mobile development. This is obviously their choice, but if they don't include any type of Objective-C and Cocoa development in their curriculum they're doing students a huge disservice.
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The iTunes software sucks quite badly. Don't get me started.

However, the end-user experience for downloading videos from iTunesU and playing it on an iOS is excellent. It is almost a one-click experience. This is just my opinion as a user.

I'm curious, on a vanilla iOS device, what application would you use to download a video on a website and have it cache onto your device?

I agree that if you don't have an iOS device, this doesn't work.
This is really nice. I really like that you used a little card and the fancy font to convey the messages.

One thing I would suggest is to maybe grey the template text a bit, or do something else to indicate that it is just default text that can be overwritten, since this wasn't obvious to me at first.

Question: How do you plan to make money from this?

Keep up the good work.
Publicizing your work may be a fun way to 'get back' at an nonpaying client, but is it good for business? Would the professional thing to do be to simply drop work on this client and move on, or is any publicity good publicity for the coder?

This is damaging to the client. Yes, they may have deserved it, but will future clients be discouraged by this behavior?

Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying the coder was in the wrong in any way. That is to be determined based on whatever agreement existed between the coder and client. I'm asking if as a business decision it was wise to release the work. The client now has all of the work, and there is no possibility of reconciliation.
http://httpbin.org doesn't log, but it responds with the request info.
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This would suffer from the same problem.

But doing git push all is out of the question for me, because I'm rsyncing while developing, so I'd need to constantly commit and push tiny nonsensical commits to the server, and then do a massive rebase afterwards. In effect, it's more work and gains me nothing.
> This should be titled "The present state of Lisp", or better yet, "A review of current Lisp-like languages".

"A review of my misunderstandings of, and obvious lack of experience with, current Lisp-like languages" would perhaps be even more accurate.
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I'm confused -- isn't Node.js's ruby equivalent EventMachine? Why are they comparing Node.js, an asynchronous I/O library, with a MVC web framework? I don't think this is a fair comparison unless they tell us the MVC framework their Node.js is using, and the server stack their Rails app was using.
httpbin looks awesome. You should give that its own thread!
I'm very doubtful future clients would be discouraged from working with the developer. Future employers might look sideways upon such behavior though.
I took those via HCP (which is like SEE but for 3x the usual grad student rate) and he's a great teacher. He's not one to let his smarts get in the way of teaching, which is not true of all the professors at Stanford.
yep. word. and ctrl+n sets bold. it's all aligned.

and that drives me crazy when i use somebody else's computer in portuguese... the worst offender is that ctrl+A does not select all... don't even remember what it does... but you need ctrl+t to select all. it's a train wreck. and there's no way to quickly change the shortcuts to another language when you sit down at the computer... have to change the computer language.
just a little ;)
There's no one deciding whether investing in a particular degree for a particular student makes sense. Which is what would normally happen if you go to the bank and ask for money.

There's a reason we aren't graduating enough people in the difficult high-value fields like engineering. Its financially too easy to take an easy, low-value degree. And young people don't have a good understanding of how things work out in the long run.

So societally we are, once again, sending people down very bad roads paved with good intentions.

We have a mistaken belief that every good thing can and should be subsidized. But in doing so we destroy the decision-making process that normally would weigh the costs and benefits.

The result is decisions that more frequently don't make sense for individuals or society.
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On the other hand, it will discourage clients who might not have the ability to pay. The clients who can pay shouldn't have any reason to be worried.
All the HCI semesters I think back from 2007 have been available on itunes University forever.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcas...
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With any number of arts degrees, you've still got a massive problem on the job market and now you're saddled with debt.
What a thorough article.
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Future clients who have no intention of paying will probably be discouraged by this behavior.
Yes, since the US military, yes, mostly via NSF and NIH, have been tossing Stanford ballpark $1 billion a year, it's nice to have some alums kick in a few million a year, maybe $10 million now and then?!!!

Yes, I can believe that the Stanford alums have especially good reason and ability to be 'grateful'! Good for Stanford; thank you, thank you, thank you Dean Terman!

Still, nearly all the world's top research universities are in the US, and the main reason is that right after WWII Ike and others concluded that research in math, physical science, and engineering were just crucial for US national security. Congress has gone along. Any significant claim that the US is falling behind in research will open Congress's funding for the usual suspects NSF, NIH, DoE, DARPA, etc.

Net, no way, not a chance, will Congress permit US research universities to fall behind: From Congress all it takes is money, that is easy for Congress to vote, and actually in the big picture it doesn't take very much money.

Also, all things considered, the money is relatively well spent. Evidence: Getting those grants is DARNED competitive. Want to get promoted at a top US research university? Get a grant!

And there is a secret -- hush, hush! About 60% of the grant money, for math, physical science, and engineering, goes to 'overhead' which ends up good for the English, modern dance, French literature, and art history departments! Likely helps pay for the university theater, art gallery, string quartet concert series, etc.!

Don't tell anyone that Federal taxes are supporting string quartets!

Also looked to me that the Stanford lawn was in nice shape!
For those who would like to avoid this situation, Mike Monteiro (@Mike_FTW) has humorously useful advice for contractors:

F*ck You. Pay Me. http://vimeo.com/22053820
Previous tablets were a completely different beast. Microsoft spent 10 years trying to graft a touch-layer on top of a traditional operating system.

The iPad's non-obvious innovation was essentially to roll back PC innovations: they massively pared down the operating system, stripped out the legacy overhead and focused applications on small, tightly controlled and limited, optimized binaries, so they could scale back the hardware to the point where the battery could last more than 20 minutes.

Truly, innovations in hardware allowed them to put more horsepower with a longer running time in the case than MS could have ever achieved in the 90s. But as of 2008, Microsoft was still following the "full PC+touch" strategy. (For that matter they seem intent on continuing to flog that horse even today.)

And let's not forget that what looks obvious now, looked like a failure to most industry observers in 2009. Even the more optimistic observers forecast merely a solid niche product.

Now I'm not arguing that what Apple did should necessarily be protectable under the various forms of IP law, but implying that it was "obvious" seems deeply unfair.

Particularly if the story of the birth of the iPhone was accurate. That is: that the iPad was not born of a project to scale up the iPhone, but that iPhone was born from the idea to shrink an already-under-development iPad. Pushing the iPad concept and strategy back to at least 2005/2006.
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My problem with nested terminal emulators is that they reimplement the scroll buffer (by necessity). This in turn breaks the native buffer scrolling keyboard shortcuts of the outermost terminal. For some servers, this is worth the pain; for others, it's not.
That is ludicrous and very funny. Although it is common to receive dimwitted solutions on company forums from their very own moderators. Skype mod support fail.
I don't think any rational individual over the age of 30 is going to agree with your assessment that 18 yr olds are adults. Maybe adults-with-training-wheels...
I think you want to discourage them too.
Why would the nonpaying client, or future potential clients, care what the developer does with his property? If they wanted it, they could have bought it from him. (I'm assuming that the developer didn't sign any IP assignments upfront, or is violating any NDAs or similar agreements about this code.)

If I was a sculptor and a client commissioned me to create a work of art, then didn't want it, surely nobody would fault me for donating the work to a local school instead of destroying it.
The writeup about the two extensions for firefox is wrong, those two were meant to block the trick where you can determine if a user has visited a specific site/page by looking at the link color/state.
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Most are going to tell you to leave and not knowing your thought on what you really want to do I am hesitant to give that advice. If you are OK with freelancing then sure jump, but if freelancing is just a notch better than what you are doing now, then why not use this position as a spring board. Look at the high pay as a spring board to give you runway on your own ventures. One of the hardest kinds of capital to procure is seed capital. So if you plan to pursue your own venture then I would say stay, save a much as you realistically can and then use that money to support yourself in your own ventures. So my recommendation would be, if you are going to freelance leave, if you want to start a venture, put the time in and save.
Right. Because Windows phones are flying off the shelves faster than factories can produce them...
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The client wouldn't pay, so he gives it to them for free anyway?
Great for the coder.

Potential for new contract work - either extending this or creating new work.

Having more code out on github is also a good way to get more employment opportunities.
Where is a good place to learn the ins and outs of contracts? Is there a comprehensive website or book that you can recommend? I am early in my career and have been on both sides of writing contracts. While I am figuring a lot of things out as I go it would be nice to sit down and wrap my head around this for good.

Also, to the OP, is a few weeks really enough time? If those were 200 billable hours it seems like it's worth a tad more hunting.
Absolutely it is possible to get a good high level picture of a field without taking any particular class. Moreover things like "convex optimization" can be done in the footnotes of a serious maths course. But on the other hand until there are again 300+ people functional analysis classes like in the old soviet union, this is perhaps the best there is.
I hope Google will be pushing WebGL and NaCl games, and fast. Porting the most popular Flash ones from Facebook is fine, but they need to be much bolder than that. They might be able to take social games in a different direction than the one game devs have taken on Facebook.

Maybe they can bring WoW to Google+, or other more serious games? It should be possible with NaCl, no?
Wow, it's already a year? Time goes so fast I haven't noticed... I remember the HN discussions about this proof like they would happen last month.
Yeah, that's a pretty stupid mistake. My bad!

I still stand by my other, less retarded point, though.