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So the solution to increased cost of education is apprenticeship? Is this part of the current trend at bashing higher education to make sure that we become obedient but efficient drones?

There is a lot of things broken in higher education, but saying that hiring a CS/SE graduate for a developer position is like hiring a theoretical physicist to repair a car is disingenuous at best.

Guess what, graduate students who write a compiler as part of their course, who are working on a vm for matlab, who are improving IDE auto-complete based on all sorts of algorithms, who are devising a new distributed merge algorithm and evaluating its performance through hardcore network simulation, well, they know how to program! As a bonus, they know how to apply the scientific method and be rigorous when they report a result or an improvement. They have been exposed to all sorts of things that an undergrad don't even suspect their existence.

Sure, some grad students aren't good. Sure, people who don't go to college/grad studies can end up being way better and knowing more than grad students, but don't discredit a degree because you believe that it's too theoretical. Just ask about the homeworks, the projects, and the thesis the grad student worked on.
Here's my rough criteria when selecting applicants for technology roles:

1) What have you done lately that is like what I want you to do?

2) What is your attitude like? (past references very important here)

3) Have you taken some test or certification (or can we give you one) that demonstrates skills in areas we might be concerned about?

From there, perhaps you can start learning, that is, it might be worthwhile to talk about a position. But all of that factual and procedural knowledge will be put to the test when you are inserted into our actual environment where your social skills are going to have as much to do with your value as your technical skills.

None of that involves a college degree (unless the job duties and environment mimic the college experience), and it all fits nicely into some kind of apprenticeship program. Yes, there can be a lot wrong with apprentice programs, but "apprentice program" is a very, very broad term. The trick is going to be in the setup and execution of the program.

I freely admit that we apprenticeship supporters wave our hands around a lot while yelling "apprenticeships! apprenticeships!" without providing necessary detail. But I really feel that under this rubric is where the eventual solution will lie. We need to bring education down to be as close to the actual work environment as possible. We need more rapid feedback loops in education and more specific, tailored in situ instruction. Apprenticeships do this.

Note that there is another topic -- the importance of a classic liberal education -- which I am a huge supporter of. But I think we have mixed up two concepts: things that directly translate into money for me and my family and things that make me a better overall person. Both may or may not be important to a particular person, but by mixing up the terms and lumping them all under "college education" it has confused the education argument to a terrible and unnecessary degree. This confusion is what is at the heart of the seemingly-unsolvable education discussion.
Ok, It's been a while since I read 4HWW, but how is there so much praise for this guy? That book was like a how-to on being an amoral, freeloading douchebag.
Indeed, do this first. If this doesn't work, consider finding out who the president answers to, and talk to him or her.

You might get positive results if you make an unusual effort to be friendly and polite, to try to understand the president's motivations, and to say nothing bad about anyone.
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I've actually been looking for this for a long time. I like to travel around and often wonder what will happen to my digital legacy (code, internet bank accounts, subscriptions to all kinds of things, scanned documents). My previous solution was to e-mail an encrypted file to my parents and give them the password to it on a note, which was then put in the safe. I'll try the site but I'm a bit wary of whether or not it actually works. After all, if you disappear off the face of the planet then you won't be able to check that it actually works.

Edit: it also seems like a perfect target for hacking, as people may write information there that evil people could profit from greatly.
Stopped reading the article after seeing that one of his values is "being adored by society".
These sort of "social media success" stories need to stop.

As many here have pointed out, this was a marketing/PR stunt, because they know exactly who Peter Shankman is and what he would do in response. It's a no brainer from Morton's perspective to give him a free steak in this case.

But is this a "social media success" story in customer service? No. They gave a famous person a freebie. For free positive PR.

If you follow Peter in the slightest way, you know he has this happen to him all the time.
I'm an AT&T customer. When the first iPhone came out, I unlocked it and switched it to T-Mobile. Eventually I grew tired of unlocking and jailbreaking with every update and became an AT&T customer. Since I've been a customer, I've experienced dropped calls, spotty data services and extortionate fees when travelling abroad. I can hardly conceive that less competition among GSM providers will make that better.

Where do I sign up to block the deal?
How patronizing. This is a great way to alienate all but the worst designers. No professional would ever validate such an insult with a response.

"Plumbing contest!! Fix our leaky sink! Do all the work upfront, IF we like it, you'll get a gift card worth 10% of the price!"
They also are a member of the Union of European Football Associations, take part in European championships, play in the Europa cups, etc.

I think the situation is the same in other sports such as basketball.
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Thank you for the explication of the algorithm; Your pedagogical style is so easy to follow that when I first encountered it, despite not having a strong background in math I was able to follow along and actually build an understanding in a subject I probably could not have easily understood at the time! That ability to make information more easily accessible is truly a gift. So all I can say is thank you for sharing, it's most appreciated.
Ask HN: Review my Craigslist-Ebay hybrid
I'm looking for brutally honest feedback on this idea and implementation.

The concept is basically a Craigslist-Ebay hybrid where users pay small, flat rates to post listings and contact other users to create a spam-free environment. Additionally, I plan to make it look a hell of a lot nicer than Craigslist, simpler than Ebay, and to have handy, extra features like public statistics about the "economy" on the site (going rate for certain items, daily activity stats, etc.).

Here's the site:

http://www.plztake.com

Again, I am looking for two things:

- I'm interested in your opinion on the feasibility of the concept

- I'm interested in ideas about how to get people using the site

Thanks in advance!
That's not customer service, it's advertisement. There's a difference. When you do something to get a mention from a guy with hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers/blog readers it's marketing. If they did that for me it'd be customer service.
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I understand that air travel for meetings is still commonplace and I wasn't intending to apply the label of extreme privilege to all business travelers - only to those who are given Free Steak Delivery. I do think the vast majority of business air travel for meetings is completely wasteful, but it is often suffering - not privilege - for the people who are tasked with it! Airports and airplanes are not generally very pleasant environments.
Such a waste. I am not sure if the author considered that there is a maximum output of BitCoins per hour. So even if you have the greates botnet in the world, you can at most make a couple of thousands bucks every day. OK, better than nothing, but still, very wasteful.
Agree with this. With £27k debt for tuition alone, plus other debts for living costs, in a field that changes so fast as Computer Science, you'd be paying off this debt long after much of what you'd have learned would be obsolete. Far better to go straight into work, and study part-time (if employers will take you without a degree that is, which they might if they realise that 18-yr olds can be smart and cheap). It'll be interesting to see what 18-yr olds do in response to these fees. Sadly I fear many may not be clued up at that age, and will study Computer Science then regret later.
I do design work and there's no way I'd do this without some other kind of reward. If they can't pay the 500$ a typical logo costs, why bother putting $100 down?
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Agree 100%. This was a well-orchestrated PR move to a guy who is, within 100k people on Twitter, "Famous."
Not quite. That study says that you associate attacks of the brands you identify strongly with with attacks to your own personal identity.
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Lame tactic to advertise your new site
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I respectfully counter this 'greatest' customer service story with the story of Katie the Prefect:

"A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about our plans to take our daughters -- particularly our nine-year-old Elizabeth -- to Harry Potter World at Universal Studios in Orlando. I worried, I suppose, that nothing surprising and magical would happen. Well, as it turned out, something surprising and magical did happen."

http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/2011/01/katie-prefect.html
A "Fachinformatiker" (for some reason translated as specialist by google translate) you can become through an apprenticeship in Germany for some time (there where predecessors to it with different names)

see http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=...

oder auf deutsch http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fachinformatiker

so it is nothing new at all.
I can see how "upper percentiles of wealth" could be connected to (some though not all) people who fly around a lot, but having a company deliver you a free steak, that's really related entirely to how well known he is, not his wealth. There are random people with 10,000s of followers who aren't actually rich of it, but could be targets of similar PR stunts.

As to air travel, for me I consider it a privilege, I've loved being able to travel the world for free, and add on cheap holidays when I feel like it in whatever country I'm in. But then, I've never really minded sitting in a plane.
Computer Science doesn't change quickly at all. Slightly faster than maths does, perhaps. Only the fashionable language changes quickly.

I think that many people these days don't understand the difference between CS and "making websites with RoR".
Do people really install an extension with the fabolous name of "Awesome Screenshot"? It already sounds like spam and/or at least trojan software.

Edit: This post is not trolling. I really often got the recommendation to install that plugin but always didn't because I already thought it can't be good, after reading the name and surfing the web for some years. I mean everybody here knows spam emails and these trojans many people had on their machinese 10 years ago, right?
I also thought that other people's interactions with me are a part of the algorithm for this same reason. However, the reply by Keith Adams seems to suggest that is not the case, and that they are just "machine generated guesses" which weigh into the algorithm.
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the "beta" in the url doesn't make this feeling any better
I've had days like that and they're horrible. It's certainly not something I would equate with extreme privilege unless I was flying around on my private jet.
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>With modern communication systems, flying in airplanes to lunch meetings and flying back that night is such an absurd waste of resources it qualifies as obscene.

Sounds good, but doesn't always work in reality. (and I say this just coming back from a meeting with an architect who flew in for a day to check on a million dollar school renovation we're working on).

I've done meetings via teleconference, conference calls and face-to-face, and the face-to-face meetings have always been the most productive, especially when needing to review engineering documents. Things move faster because we're not all trying to talk over one another and we can observe body language to see who is paying attention or to confirm than someone understands what it being discussed.

Remote meetings have their place, but when the cost of a face-to-face day meeting can pale in comparison to screwing up a capital project, it's worth doing.
Except you have to be on a wifi network. Skype works well enough on 3G, though, and connects to Android, laptops, whatnot.
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I wonder if my $5 for 200 msg will be grandfathered like my unlimited data plan. Its the perfect amount since with having other communications platforms I only use around 180 sms a month.
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Thanks for the feedback! Could you point me to maybe a couple of sites that you would say do have enough sex?
Back a number of years, people were actually very concerned with what was in the EPS or PS files. Preflight before publishing was critical to make sure the files didn't overload the printer. A screwed up print run was pretty costly.

This was with a single vendor spec that was fairly comprehensive. The web is a loose spec with multiple vendors.
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You're conflating the degree and the relevant knowledge gained in pursuit of the degree. They are not one in the same, and I believe that is the point most people are making. At least, that's what I believe.

The skepticism directed at college education is a result of cost/benefit analysis. I would gladly take a 2-year associate's program that yielded a degree in computer science, much like nurses have an 2-year nursing degree. The four year degree I'm in pursuit of now (in my 30s)? I'll likely drop out after getting the discrete math, algorithms and other math-intensive courses I likely would not study on my own.
You're probably right, but the carriers (primarily AT&T) don't need to be such dicks about it.
That's a possibility. The post that Keith Adams made however refutes this, but it is still possible that he is wrong/mistaken or that the first_degree.php was changed after he left Facebook.
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that doesn't seem like such a waste to whoever controls the destination address..

((24 hours) / (10 minutes)) * 50 * (10 usd) = 72000 usd

your share is proportional to your share of the total network hashing power.
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Bail-outs chip away at France and Germany too
TechCrunch now has a post on it so you can definitely post a link to TC
That's why you have to hack into their account first :-) (kidding)
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I graduated with a CS degree in 1988 - very little of what I learned is obsolete. Of course it was rather theory and maths based... (with a hell of a lot of development, mostly in C on Unix boxes of various breeds).
That's only HTC. Apple is also going after the Samsung tablet, which runs Android, using look and feel.
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I felt ill when I saw "being adored by society" as an explicit goal.

This is why our elders think of our generation as a bunch of self-indulgent wankbaskets. What kind of soft-batch loser wants to be "adored" by society? If that's important to you, give up on "making an impact" now and figure out a way to entertain harmlessly.

If you're worth anything, the best you can hope for, from society at large, is being passively acknowledged as having been right, and that's after a long, hard fight. Do you think Lincoln had a cozy life? Or Gandhi? Or FDR? Oh, you'll be admired by some, and have some close friends, but society at large has three modes. 1. It doesn't give a fuck about you-- that's what 99.9% of us get. 2. It hates you-- expect that for a stage if you want to be substantial. 3. After immense pain on your part on account of (2), it acknowledges that you had a point after all. Usually, (3) is posthumous.

Society doesn't "adore", it limits and retards. And if you're trying to do something real, it will do what it can to throw obstacles in your way. This isn't personal, and it shouldn't be given emotional significance because this sort of rejection will befall anyone who wants to make waves, but people need to be ready for it. People who think they can "change the world" without the world fighting back forcefully (and sometimes getting dirty) are deluding themselves. You really can't have it all; sorry.
I think part of it comes for asking for stuff. I've had a few experiences like this.

I was in London Heathrow when the plane crashed on the runway a few years ago - I was literally on the very next BA flight to I think the Czech Republic that was supposed to take off when we get notified that it's going to be a while, and then that things are canceled... nobody knew what was going until we heard the plane crashed, and then we wondering if it was terrorism, and the whole airport was really a mess.

I was really bummed out at that point. It's the middle of winter, and I really really wanted to get the fuck out of London. I can't say why exactly, but like, y'know when you're ready to leave a place and you get to the airport and it's like "ahh, I'm leaving"? Well, I had that feeling, then a fucking plane crashed.

After waiting in these gigantic lines for a really long time (everyone now trying to change tickets), I got to the ticket counter and the rep there was so, so cool. He said nothing could be done, and I could just head into the city.

And I said, "Man, I'm just overwhelmed with shitty foggy London weather. Can you put me on the next plane to anywhere that takes off, and route me somehow? I know this is a ridiculous request, I don't care about hotel or accommodation or plans or anything, can you just put me on the next plane heading eastwards?"

And - he did just that. It wasn't even on their same alliance, he went through some complicated procedure of actually selling my ticket to another airline. My memory is kind of failing me here but I think I wound up in Germany for the night, saw a cathedral in the morning, and then was routed on to Eastern Europe.

The guy went way above and beyond the call of duty in the middle of chaos just because I was obviously bummed out. In retrospect, it was probably even uncool of me to ask for with all of the chaos happening around, but I was just really fed up with London at that point and wanted to get out. And the guy treated me really really well, with no expectation of any favorable review online or anything like that.

So - ask for stuff if you want stuff, and yeah there's some decent people in the world that'll try to accommodate you. Also, when you get a ridiculous request, stop and consider if maybe you can do some variation of it because people remember that stuff forever.
You'll be fine in English in Tallinn as you would in any other Nordic capital. Fluent younger/tech circles, ok to get by anywhere from food stores to hospitals.
What a college degree does is that it provides a more equal opportunity for people to obtain a minimum qualification. Let's face it, Ben Franklin's apprenticeship as a printer for his brother more or less typifies the way in which people have obtained apprenticeships - through close personal connections between the master and the apprentice. This is unsurprising when one considers the degree of upfront investment by the master entailed in taking on an apprentice. Those who can and are willing take a street waif under their wing are few.

I will add that calling mentorships and internships "apprenticeships" does not make them such. And an apprenticeship requires a formal written commitment not only to teach the apprentice how to do their job, but to teach them how to be a master.
In my personal case, it's a belief that I benefit from a better national infrastructure, a balanced budget, and a more stable society where we don't have a ton of people on the verge of poverty.

I don't support taxes that are "redistributive" and don't think we really have them.. to the extent that the rich pay higher taxes (which they barely do at all on a % of income basis), they're getting more value from the system.
One of the author's book titles

"Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work and Why Your Company Needs Them "
Now it looks notifications too. Thanks for the suggestion. :)
I have the feeling the idea is to have mails go to stuff like your projects mailing lists or online friends, more than managing your real life heritage.
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> A method shouldn't be patentable just because it's too boring for a human to perform a mindless computation over and over again.

That's not the effect here, it doesn't ensure patentability. It's excluding the low hanging fruit of tasks that can obviously be done by a human.

Maybe we want to exclude the large class of obvious and simple methods from patentability, but simplicity is hard to decide in a general way for any given algorithm. With this test, we can quickly make that decision for a special subset of those obvious and simple operations, the ones that are so obvious and simple that they can be done by hand.

I think it's a tiny incremental change, maybe that deserves criticism: it doesn't go nearly far enough. But hey, the law grinds fine, and exceedingly slow.
At least one customer had issues removing data without court order. So in order to satisfy your 99.9999999% estimation amazon should have at least 1B S3 customers which is way to optimistic.
It would be cool if this service could monitor your Twitter/Facebook/etc for signs of life to cut down on the link-clicking required, and to add more resilience in the case of spam filtering.
I believe Knuth says in his article on Binary Search in the art of computer programming that it took some ridiculous number of years from when Binary Search was first described to a implementation free of bugs.

I find it highly likely that the majority of programmers would produce a buggy version of Binary Search on their first attempt. Why? History indicates programmers often make small mistakes even when writing simple algorithms. A survey of 26 papers on variations of binary search found that 6 of the papers had serious errors in the published algorithms.[1] 4 of the errors were "design" errors. That is the algorithm they designed had a fault. 2 were implementation errors (1 in assembly, 1 in cobol). All of the errors were published in a peer reviewed publication. Therefore, even peer review does not always spot errors in a "simple" binary search algorithm. Why would you expect recent graduates to do any better?

[1] http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/2/154.abstract