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This whole open courseware trend is awesome. My university is doing a project to open its courses too, but focused more on helping south-american universities (I'm from Mexico, so yeah, spanish).
No, it's not less intrusive. Emoticons are essentially words like any others. Grabbing the emoticon words from writing (public or private) is no different than sampling other classes of words, such as all adjectives or verbs.

And no, I would not volunteer any part of my private communications for a third party to analyze for their own benefit.
well most of the authentication plugins are only 100 lines of code or so. Even if the plugin author dies in a freak accident involving toothpicks, you should have no trouble maintaining the plugin yourself.
Thanks, I'd not yet heard of bcrypt. But if the OpenBSD guys are down with it, then it must be worth a go. This stuff is why I come here. :)
I don't really like the article's emphasis on the appearance of being intellectually honest, rather than intellectual honesty itself, but the latter is more or less an inward version of the outward former.

And there's certainly no reason why a brilliant asshole can't be intellectually dishonest. One can be right without being intellectually honest, just as one can be wrong while being intellectually honest. One can also be brilliant without being right, and one can be brilliant in a particular domain, but not in others. But as a general rule of thumb, intellectual honesty is the best policy.
I think it's practical actually. Or it could be given a little more.

It's fast that's the main thing. As long as it works that fast, I think there can be practical applications
It's nice, but I find it unintuitive that the left/right arrows take you to the top of the next column instead of to the poster immediately to the left or right.
Mostly common sense, but I disagree with the third point:

Choose between actual jobs, not companies

People change roles within companies more often and easily than they change companies -- especially in smaller organizations. And good, growing companies with interesting challenges promote people from any starting position quickly. Meanwhile, a 'good' job in a more static company risks stagnation.

So I would counsel the opposite of this post: choose the company moreso than the job.
Does intellectual honesty actually help in becoming popular? I am not sure that it is the best way to "win" public discussions. For example, admitting that I could be wrong (which I almost always do, due to my mathematical training) always seems to backfire, creating an easy win for the opposition.
Your could write your own blog, since your were in QA something related to that like a web application to view continious integration status or test results, a web app to show what web 2.0 sites are up or down.

Write down a few requirements for what you plan to do if you end up having more than 10 requirements for the project choose another.
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I guess what he meant was, dont worry about the brand names. Brand names create a lot of bias esp in college grads. Lots of goodies and great people working in the company, doesnt mean you will get to do interesting work.
Hrm. Disagree: my Italian courses at the University of Oregon were fundamental to my fluency in the Italian language. Of course, I didn't become fluent without lots of practice, but without the grammar I learned in the courses, the practice wouldn't have been so fruitful. Also, having a good teacher counts for a lot - more than the materials.
I also really still like Lego, so well, that's not an argument :P
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Yeah, I don't know why being intellectually honest means one's ideas are accessible to everyone or implies the admission that there are other equally valid ideas.

Emphasizing this seems more a recipe for intellectual tepidity and vapidity than honesty.

If someone is really sold on an idea, I think it is more effective if they pursue it full heartedly. If someone else disagrees, it is up to them to develop an effective counter argument.

Yes, if a whole area is of interest to me, then it is useful to investigate all the relevant ideas. Otherwise, I don't see why this is important. It isn't very efficient for everyone to address everything. There are just way too many possible alternatives to consider all of them. As an analogy, we all know software that packs everything but the kitchen sink isn't usually very good. The Unix philosophy is special tools for special purposes.

For instance, I want very biased news sources, from multiple biases, instead of all sources trying to cover all angles all the time. Leave it up to me to sort out the overall picture, or just focus on one view if it seems to be the most relevant.
While the new one is more substantial feeling with the darker tones, the original isn't too bad either.
libevent has wrappers to languages like perl, so this should be doable in a language that isn't brutally low-level. right?
Good Job! Seriously, very impressive presentation for a HS assignment. Hopefully, your English teacher appreciated it as much as your classmates.
The battle cry of the Perl community is TIMTOWTDI (There Is More Than One Way To Do It). I've always been sceptical about it - sure there is more than one way - but there must be one best way. Until I realized that this is not about the technology - it is about having the mind open: "Show a willingness to publicly acknowledge that reasonable alternative viewpoints exist" - indeed.
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Yeh - killer features are a big bonus. Thing is they are cool to work on - and so quite a few seem to work appear, pulling people in. With OSX and Windows that's fine because IMO they have that extra level of ease and Usability that a consumer OS needs. Linux doesn't have that left - I bet a lot of people drawn in with a gimmick are left struggling with it after a few weeks...

I still maintain that Linux is lacking a simple UI to pull it into the mainstream (ALL Linux not just Ubuntu).
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This identifies a larger trend that will just continue to find more uses online. Web pages are fundamentally high latency pieces of information.

Expansive coverflows like windowshop make it easy to explore information spaces very fast. If you add that plus more aggressive caching of metadata and content on a user's computer (something that was lost with the web) -- there are some really great scenarios out there to be created.
I would imagine the "low-tech, gas-guzzling" ones are cheaper to produce, and so go in their cheaper product lines. Not everybody can afford a Saab.
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One might think their business decisions had something to do with a world where gas was under $2/gallon less than 4 years ago, and not stupidity or other negative qualities often ascribed to them. Japanese and European car makers, in contrast, always needed to make tiny fuel-efficient cars for their domestic markets, and then happened to be in a great position in a suddenly fuel-scarce world.

We have a habit of ascribing causality to human virtue and vice too much when the world is actually much more random. Had the executives of Ford or GE known what fuel prices would do from 2005-2007, of course they would have made different decisions.
Makes a lot of sense. This is a very important lesson to share -- and learn from.
I'm not sure if this is a list about intellectual honesty, but it's a good way to see if someone is interested in finding the true answer to a question, vs. being "right".
Let's see, state of the "stability" of oil in the world in 2005:

Russia is run by a former KGB head who extra-legally destroyed their private oil producers.
Venezuela, one of the world's largest producers, has a president who thinks america is evil.
Continuing war in Iraq.
Gas prices at the pump have been rising on average for years. I just rechecked this and indeed, since before 2003 even prices have been on a long average upward trend. Even after our current plunge, prices are much higher than the LOWEST price in 2006.

Outside the US (where even US automakers should have known the bulk of their growth was going to come from) small efficient cars continued to outsell SUVs.

And yet instead of fixing their money-losing operations, they went all-in on their highest risk area: expensive inefficient trucks.
Would you put your company's logo on a third-party piece of junk? No. That they did doesn't really help any argument that they have their head's on straight.
Your application is completely dependent on the network effect. No people, no use. So you need to find a partner. You need to have one major partner or you will go nowhere. See finding that partner as 40% of your product.
Rhetoric and logic are separate disciplines. The first is about convincing other people, the second is about seeking truth.
"And with that, the era of the big S.U.V. was as good as dead, done in by soaring gasoline prices and consumers fleeing to smaller, more fuel-efficient cars."

And nothing of value was lost.
The cost of gas is not the only thing that is wrong about SUVs.
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I'm not entirely sure the "Don't worry about job security" is that well timed, given the market as it is now, but it is good overall advice.
Actually, I would hate to see Apple in MS position. Let it remain small(er), yet churn out innovative, compelling products as they have been doing in past few years, and remain profitable!
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What a fantastic article! over the last few months I've been thinking about finding a new job, but didn't want to gamble job security. I think this article has put a lot of things into perspective for me.

Oh and I couldn't agree more with bigbang. The company I'm working for advertised themselves as a company with lots of goodies and great people working in the company, but I very rarely get to do interesting work and an hour at lunch playing on an Xbox really doesn't make up for that.
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Interesting comparision between men and bulls - "both enjoy runs of growing confidence as they beat off rivals. Each time they win a fight, they get more aggressive, taking bigger risks until they lose." But, is it not true for all young achievers... irrespective of the gender?
Interesting comparision between men and bulls - "both enjoy runs of growing confidence as they beat off rivals. Each time they win a fight, they get more aggressive, taking bigger risks until they lose." But, is it not true for all young achievers... irrespective of the gender?
If Apple didn't have large amounts of cash on hand when Jobs came back, Apple would have died or been swallowed up.

If Sun didn't have massive amounts of cash on hand after the dot com boom, Sun would have died or been swallowed up.

Cash is King. Especially in hard times ;)
Nope .. they haven't! Yea, they are expensive, but they are way more capable than Corel Paint Shop Pro or GIMP. For a design professional, there is hardly another choice. And if you are not (a design pro), then you can always buy Photoshop Elements. A great hobbyist product.
Photoshop CS4 sells for < $700 as opposed to $1000 the author seems to be claiming.
Silverlight?? WTF!

Did they get bought off by Microsoft?
If subversion sucked for my use case, I would play with git. But it doesn't. svn stays out of my way, and works for everything I use it for.

For me it's like arguing that I should encode my music as ogg rather than mp3. Who cares?
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oh yeah, and learn Objective-C. Apple has more cash than M$ now and Macs are selling like mad.
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It's hard to know whether you're going to be a guest or not. Also, the cashier you reference chose to be a permanent cashier. She's nothing more than the product of her own decisions in response to the environment around her.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It was particularly odd, as it was mailed from the UK, and I live in Austria. I haven't quite figured out how they managed to get my address, I can only assume that they got it through the public business directory. (my home address is the same as the registered address of my freelance/consulting business, so I can't tell for certain) Why they'd mail me in English then (how do they know I speak it?) I have absolutely no idea.
I dont buy it. Greed is the major problem: bigger risks for higher rewards. I think both sexes (in that situation) would suffer pretty equally...
The ammonium chloride that Linus writes about is the salt that gives the taste to these candies. Like someone else in the comments there, I have to advocate another Finnish spice: tar.
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It is a little different. The amount of information you garner from ":)" versus "Gee, I think I am going to liquidate now" are completely different. It is a matter of sentiment analysis versus content analysis. But I see why you say "it's not less intrusive". I think sentiment analysis is less intrusive, especially if you are just looking at emoticons, because they reveal less about you. The information encoded in the emoticon has less clarity. It's reasonable that you might find any amount of intrusion unacceptable though.

Doesn't Google look at the contents of your (subject being gmail users) email anyway to serve ads on Gmail right now though? The scary thing is I think people would just get used to it if it were useful.

Of course I think (hope) we are all engaging in this conversation assuming this will never happen.
How do email addresses end up on spam lists?
Nicholas, you're splitting hairs here.

Where do all the links which make PageRank work reside?

The biggest network of them all: the web itself.
I kinda agree.
Certainly go for a job you want - and not the brand you want ot work for.

But I think the atmosphere you work in is important too. I couldn;t see myself working for a company wih strictt working times, for example. Or in an evironment that was too "stuffy".
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You would know better than me and almost certainly keep more in tune with the cutting edge on this but how easy is it exactly to crack a salted SHA256 password?
umm I really dont think this can count as new research. I kinda assumed everyone new this already!

Although I guess it's nice to see it confirmed....
If we didn't have fire departments, other people's fires would have direct effects on me. Hell, every time someone drops a cigarette in California hundreds lose their homes. That's not true of health insurance.

Tort reform and caps on payouts for malpractice suits are necessary. Every time someone wins a $50m suit because a doctor accidentally amputated their pinky, the costs are passed back onto the rest of us.

I'm all for aligning incentives, but that does not necessitate public health care.
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I think even in the case of rape, practical grounds matter. If making it illegal didn't decrease the amount of rapes but increased violence and furthered the profits of organized crime families, why would one make it illegal? You'd simply have to attack the problem from another angle, as we should be doing (but aren't) with drugs.

Of course there are gray areas. What if rape laws decreased rape by 10%, but increased other forms of violent crime double that?

But in general, if a law's overwhelming result is negative, like our drug and gambling prohibitions, there's no point to them no matter how moral they may be. The money and effort would be much better spent on prevention and rehabilitation.

Unless your communities that are so afflicted are much different than ours, I expect prohibition won't work much better for you than it does for us. People are going to get what they want. Demand for vices seems to be inelastic the world over.
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Sure, here's a great summary by Krugman:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12699486/paul_kru...

Explains why capital gains is largely just a loophole in the tax code exploited by the uber-rich. Also, if you dig around through public data, you find that the top 10% of Americans make about 70% of the income and pay about 70% of the personal taxes. Sounds fair right?

However, the top 1% make about 47% and pay only 39%, meaning the next 9% make about 23% but pay 31%. Is it just at all that the top 1% of America has a lower tax burden than the next 9%? Thank capital gains taxes for that.

I can't find the data, but if you were to break this down even further by 10th of a percent, you'd probably find that even more exaggerated.
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I agree with you.

During my career I worked for 3 companies and technically my job was always the same - software developer, including both design and implementation. But the overall situation was different because every company has different culture, software development processes, etc.

Having been 10 years in this industry, I am not a young developer anymore, but if I would have to look for a new job now, I would focus on two points:

1) Whether the company has good software development processes and experts in software engineeering I can learn from, in other words if they know "how to do software". It looks obvious, but you would be shocked how haphazardly some companies develop their software. If you end up in such a company, your grow as a developer will be slower.

2) Good paycheck. I don't say this is most crucial, but it just feels better if you have a feeling to be appropriately rewarded, money wise. ;-)
I experienced exactly the same story in the startup I worked for. Selling software to big enterprises is a kind of science: finding the right people to talk to, circumvent the irrelevant people that steal your time, addressing the problem you solve in the right manner, expect a contract to bounce until you have the money on the bank, ...
Ok. So it's fancy, 3d and all that.

I'm still not sure I see the benefits over the built in Maps application though.
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By use of the phrase "public service" I think your question misses the point. Education was considered a national necessity as part of our ability to fight wars (once again, as I was told, it gets more complicated) City governments pick up the trash as a service. Services are optional, nice-to-have things. Education was deemed a requirement, and local schools were left to handle that in any way they wanted (until relatively recently)

There is a large section of the population which believes that education is being done so poorly as to need re-vamping completely -- getting back to the days where the goals were set but the methods were left open to each school. I'm one of these people. I'm all for the national goal of education as being required for war-fighting and citizenship. The current system, however, looks to have quite a few flaws. I'm all for iterating and re-factoring.

Healthcare, or taking care of the sick, has traditionally been seen as a church-related activity in the States. This began to change in the 1930s when FDR enacted legislation to help people in their retirement (although the initial age of benefits was also the average death age, so on average nobody saw these benefits unless they lived longer than most)

You have to remember that in the States, multiple religions and cultures each took care of things like healthcare locally with hundreds of different solutions. There are hundreds of charity hospitals, for instance. In that manner, healthcare is considered a personal moral responsibility, not a public repsonsibility. Public responsibilities are those I owe the state -- voting, armed service, jury duty, etc. Moral responsibilities are those I owe a particular person based on my moral compass -- gifts to the homeless, charities (the U.S. leads the world in charities), etc.

The U.S. is beginning to believe that all of these moral responsibilities must/should be delivered by government. That takes away any personal involvement or critical thinking of mine and lets the government simply "write the check" for whatever moral ills we all agree on. I'm against this and view it as a step backwards -- replacing a distributed, intelligent, self-optimizing system with a rigid centralized one. But this is clearly the direction we've been going over the last 70 years and I would expect it to continue.
the same factors that have made it so easy to create Web 2.0-style start-ups - low fixed costs, access to inexpensive overseas programmers and cheap ways to advertise online

Is outsourcing really a significant factor here? I can't imagine any YC-style startups using it.
I may be a bit biased here, but University of Illinois's ACM chapter puts on a fairly good conference every year, and posts the videos online.

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