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Okay, let's back up a bit. My point in stating that some European languages are also "non-European" was that learning them gives a larger, partially-non-European audience and thus more motivation (economic, cultural, what have you). Even to an European, there is a difference between learning a language spoken by 45 million people on their continent and a language spoken by 350 million people worldwide. By the simple proximity/diversity theory, a whole lot more Swedes would be learning Polish right now - this is not happening to say the least.
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Not sure. For a start, I submit that the Ivy League inundation by 4.0 / 1600 students signals that high schools aren't grading hard enough. A more informative grade scale might clarify the competition. And I bet these 4.0s are hiding some academic posers, kids who maybe did a lot of work but are graded heavily on the fuss their parents would make over an A-.

If the schools are guessing less about which 4.0 signifies more ability, they'd have more time for serious attention to other parts of the portfolio.
I'm curious about the coffee part. What happens with coffee?
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Electric motors have the most torque right at 0 RPM, so their acceleration off the line is much higher than an "equivalent" gas-burning engine.
No matter how worthy the purpose, falsehood is falsehood. Is it really such good education for your children to demonstrate that lying should be used to obtain the important things in life?
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I'm definitely not the expert here and the suggestion to use honey as a sweetener was given to me by an Orthomolecular Psychiatrist. The context was that if I want to use a sweetener in my tea or coffee, I should use something like honey over white sugar or cane sugar.

Honey may have other issues, which definitely reinforces my feeling that it's really best to consult an expert when attempting to regulate mental disorders by using a special diet or vitamins. However as a common sense solution it seems that using honey to sweeten tea or coffee is a reasonable alternative to white sugar, and it is a situation where fruit simply won't substitute. For a quick snack, fruit is a great idea and I would definitely prefer it over some kind of honey snack or a candy bar.

googling: "honey bipolar refined sugar" leads to a bunch of links comparing white sugar with honey, but again my experience with internet research for vitamins and mental disorders is that the information is extremely unreliable and all over the place. This is an area (similar to searching for information about cancer online) where I think that the most reliable information comes out of books written by qualified professionals and directly from qualified specialists.
Don't confuse programming languages with programming. You probably will want to learn a number of different programming languages: Python, C, Lisp, Haskell, and a few Assembly languages. Programming is the art of using one or more languages to do something useful. It's about algorithms, the way problems are approached, and how solutions are decomposed and represented.
This is a gold mine
I love when posts inspire other posts, awesome stuff! Here's my contribution: Math.pow(Math.sin(t * 4),t * 3)
No software inventors/creators? Software doesn't kill?
Well, compared to (older) Unix C standards, it's definitely closer to the Java (i.e. large) side. Compared to things like Win32 or gobject-like C abominations, I'd agree…
Wow, the discussion here is really going down the tubes into the land of nonsense.

>> How much better is a $1,000,000 car vs a $1,000 car? They both get you from A to B. in terms of function they both perform at roughly the same base

$1,000 gets me a beat up car from the 1980s that barely works, breaks down all the time and surrounds me in noxious fumes. $2,250,000 gets me a Bugatti Veyron that has a top speed of 250 mph and does 0-60 in under 3 seconds. No difference there at all -- they're quite comparable!
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This is sad -- there is a need to restrict access to a limited resource, but for any individual parent, it's the right choice. The ultimate solution is to improve the quality of the bad districts, but that will take a long time.

For now, I think the best approach is strict enforcement of residency, but three tracks in for out of district students: cash payment substantially in excess of per-student marginal cost; competitive entrance for a limited number of students based on objective merit (not race based, like the PA/EPA system); and children of employees of the district (or maybe of city government in general).

I'd be fine with a parent who really wants to give a child a chance taking a job with the district primarily to get children into the schools. Maybe a second job, maybe part time, but the sacrifice should be made by the parent, not by other residents of the school taxing district. If this lets the district hire people more cheaply, or of better quality (which DOES happen in Palo Alto for just this reason), it's win/win.
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I would never invest my money in China or any chinese-owned company. Corruption,shady accounting practices,etc.

Justice Department probing Chinese accounting
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/30/us-china-usa-accou...
This is fantastic; it would be great to not have to go through the "what's a quicksort" question with each job interview.
I'm going to throw a couple of things out there. If I'm completely off the mark, feel free to ignore.

Fulfilled - This is a tall order for any work environment. Have you ever been professional fulfilled? Personally fulfilled? Both? For some people, me for example, professional fulfillment is tied to my personal life in a way that if I'm not professionally happy, i'm not personally happy. For lots of people, it's the opposite.

The grass is always greener...which isn't to say that it's actually not. A smaller company or startup will be different...that's all you'll know for sure. You may gain autonomy and pride in your contribution, but find that the overall lack of progress and general lack of certainty just as disheartening. 2 months into a project, the directive might be abandoned...it's just the way it goes sometimes.

If you want to test the waters as a consultant or start your own consulting business, take a ~60 hour job and a week of vacation. If it moves you, you'll know.

Culture is important. But, it sounds like you are bumping into the harsh reality that many companies throw culture out the window when it's not convenient. That happens almost everywhere, unfortunately.

It sounds like you might be just about ready for shakeup. It sounds like you have the credentials / experience to make a move and if it doesn't work out, take a mulligan. That being said, if you aren't unhappy enough to quit outright, it might not be that bad (but, clearly isn't that good).

Another approach that has worked in the past is a transfer. Maybe your current project is too big, manager sucks, cross-functional team is composed to biz guys that think all you have to do is toss a code monkey a banana once in a while...maybe you can get on a more entrepreneurial team on, a nascent project, a your current employer.

I hope it you find what you are looking for...it sux when someone beats the life out of something you really love to do.
Sino-Forest was a $5 billion dollar company that was listed on the Toronto stock exchange until recently trading was halted on the stock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Forest_Corporation

Difficult economic times always expose fraud. If the economic situation continues to deteriorates I think we'll see more Sino-Forests.

"It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked."
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My only advise would be to begin by looking at iPhone and Android applications that transport data (ex: Bump) and see what they are doing. Maybe dig into the iOS online developer docs, they are really good, and see what exists with them first.

Good luck!
"A series of alleged accounting frauds this year at little-known Chinese companies listed in the U.S. has triggered a sharp shift in sentiment among investors"

I think the headline and even overall tone are misleading; things are however not always 100% kosher with accounting in China, hell even when they are legal and straight according to regulations they are disturbingly messy for any Western accountant. That being said, big US companies like Groupon commit their irregularities in broad day light and does not seem to shake investors that much.
I have found this to be the case at times. Not all apps are created equally and some are less responsible with their memory and how many CPU cycles they consume. With a true multiprocess OS like Android, this can be problematic as background applications can be unnecessarily greedy. One application that can help determine what applications are consuming CPU, memory, and battery is "System" by NextApp, Inc. With System's monitoring capability you can often determine which applications are misbehaving.

I once was trying to figure out why my battery was only lasting four hours. I used System's monitoring and figured out that the Facebook app was consuming >90% of CPU cycles. I learned later that the bug was confirmed and that Facebook fixed the problem, but in the meantime, I was able to uninstall Facebook and thus I restored my phone's battery life and responsiveness.

I'm sure there are plenty of other good system monitoring applications for Android. System is the only one I have used.
I wish I could tell this guy that he needed to install libevent :(

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Similar to Windows 7, I assume.
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There are special cases like Palo Alto/East Palo Alto, which might actually be common. One city has a huge commercial tax base, and fixed institutions (Stanford) which can't move. The other, recently incorporated, has only poor people living in low value housing; no sales tax, high demand for city services like medical and police, and such.

Even if EPA's property taxes were 10x Palo Alto's, EPA would still be a horrible place. The only viable solution is to destroy it -- probably by absorbing it into neighboring cities -- so it would be diluted across a larger tax base.

(Palo Alto actually DID cherry pick certain assets, like a golf course and airport, and rerouted the creek which determines the border to take them as part of Palo Alto, a few decades ago)
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Funny, my first thought was that this is already the second time that AirBnB has taken heat publicly and than backtracked.
While I can understand the principle that motivates your comment, I disagree. You could say the same thing about an operating system, a particular computer brand, the online services you use - anything. If whatever tool you use makes you more productive, it has a positive impact on your work, meaning you should most definitely use it.

I seldom think about whether something is closed or open if it helps me actually get things done. Why would I pick anything else (open or closed source) based on an economic principle if it made me worse at my job?
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I found your page on 'Advice for Prospective Research Students' through google search and I applied it to my first letters sending to 4 professors, each in different business schools. Three of them already replied in just a day or two. So, thanks very much for your advice and kindness.
Agreed! Arch = linux legos. :)
Corruption is the norm in China. Pointing out Groupon's problems doesn't change that fact.
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Clear reductionist examples, but the 'evil' label isn't well-justified.

In the first 'evil' scenario (only Adam sells), it's only a bit unfair if Bill is contractually prevented from arranging his own private sale. Otherwise, he has the same freedom to arrange a person-to-person transaction as Adam does.

In the 'really evil' scenario (only Adam and Charles collect the dividend), it's only unfair if a vested Bill is prevented (by policy or secrecy) from participating in the dividend. That is, it's not the "dividend cash-out" tactic itself, but the exact implementing details, that might make it unfair. The blanket headline condemnation isn't supported.

Also, what if unlike in Salmon's scenarios, Bill has only a relatively small stake, and perhaps options that are only slightly in-the-money, or even still out-of-the-money? Bill might then actually assign a positive value to Adam retaining a controlling interest (versus later investors), or to the other benefits of a big jump in funding and company ambition.

If the dividend-to-others helps finesse that control/ambition equation, it could be more valuable to Bill's stake than a tiny amount of cash dividend now, or sparing him a tiny amount of extra dilution. The magnitudes and future hopes matter for an analysis of whether Bill would want to veto the deal or cheer it on. And if Bill (along with Adam and Charles) likes the deal when all factors are considered, can it be "evil"? No victim, no crime.
I have a co-worker who's from mainland China. He tells me that many Chinese feel that the stock market is immature, corrupt, and rigged to work against the "average joe".

The perception seems to be that unless you know someone and can get inside information, you can't make money.

Instead, average people put their money into real-estate (1) or put it to work in private lending (2). And then there are the pig farmers who speculate in base metals (3). My coworker didn't mention them though.

1: http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/02/03/chinese-property...

2: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/29/china-economy-runa...

3:http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...
Implicit coercion is always iffy, and JS's coercion rules are broken along the same lines as PHP's, where == and === have to be carefully managed. There's no actual identity check, only two different strengths of equality.

Booleans coercing to strings instead of strings coercing to booleans is weird.

There's no operator overloading. Sometimes this is useful, in languages which have it. Notably, there's no way to override how equality, coercion, and arithmetic are handled.

There are no metaclass operations. The type model is incomplete; it's not possible to create new first-class types or query type information respecting inheritance. For that matter, there's no blessed way to have inheritance. Makes sense since the language doesn't have classes per se, but it's kinda annoying in an object-based language to not be able to actually examine objects in a unified way.

Those are the ones off the top of my head. There are others, but they're matters of opinion.
My point is largely that this work is already done in Twisted, both at the multithread and the multiprocess level. This is the first time I've actually seen something in Twisted which simply isn't in Node, period.
This is a difficult topic. I've found that adhering to TDD is just not realistic in some cases.

For example, I'm following the Steve Blank approach of Customer Discovery, building my MVP. If I take the TDD approach (which takes more time to code a finished piece of functionality), and successfully iterate enough times during the Customer Discovery process, I throw out all of the tests that I built and am now moving onto something different that I've discovered a customer is actually willing to pay for.
ringfinger is the closest thing I have seen to rails.

https://github.com/myfreeweb/ringfinger
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>Eugenicists are out of date.

just a statement of fashion.

>The field of psychology can't even agree on a definition of intelligence anymore, and certainly IQ is not genetically determined. The environment is the biggest influence on IQ.

The fallacy of nurture vs. nature as if one can be a substitute for another. Their respective roles are well known and each of them is a factor and not any of them is "the biggest influence" vs. the other. And about importance of the biological factors - i'd recommend reading on Einstein's brain, which was smaller, yet more densely packed and with higher ratio of energy supplying cells.

>Harvard kids fucking Harvard kids doesn't create genetic supermen. It just creates an inbred aristocracy like has always been the case. Hemophilia is the true achievement of eugenics.

Tell that to those several thousands who took over the world from other human species without much interbreeding with them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern...
"If both the rich individual and the poor individual are competing over the same scarce source material (eg Petrol, Rice, Real Estate) then the market will elevate the price of that material to the highest level that the rich will bear."

This is actually not always the case. Food prices are a prime example. It turns out that the rich often pay less for food than the poor.

Take a look at some of the conclusions of this study:

"Do the Poor Pay More for Food? An Analysis of Grocery Store Availability and Food Price Disparities."

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Do+the+Poor+Pay+More+for+Food%...

The researchers conclude that the poor do indeed pay more in the Twin
Cities grocery market... In part, the poor pay more for grocery
products because the stores that charge the lowest prices are not
located in their neighborhoods.

The study has overviews of a lot of other research that supports these findings. For example,

In 1991, for example, New York's Consumer Affairs Department compiled
a report on grocery store price-fixing in several neighborhoods
(Freedman 1991). The report showed the poor paid more for groceries in
inner-city neighborhoods, yet they received poorer quality foods and
services. The report consisted of price surveys in sixty stores and
140 interviews in various New York neighborhoods.
Those Pilbara trains are robotically driven, too.
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My state has a more rational state law. For more than twenty years now, all public schools anywhere in the state offer open enrollment to all students anywhere in the state, up to the limits of the capacity of each school district to receive students.

http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/Academic_Excellence/School_...

Funding of course is based on enrollment.

http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/mnschfin.pdf

More students means more enrollment, so school districts make efforts to provide attractive programs that will bring students across district lines. This competition among school districts has promoted innovation in programs and resulted in a fair amount of interchange among students who live in different neighborhoods. For example, the first public school program for "highly gifted" students in our state

http://www.invergrove.k12.mn.us/atheneum.html

began precisely because the offering district knew it could build a program that would attract in new students to the district (which was losing student population because it was in an inner-ring suburb with an aging population). That district enjoyed such success with its program that soon other school districts set up similar programs.

http://www.springlakeparkschools.org/schools/la/la_lighthous...

http://department.services.bloomington.k12.mn.us/modules/cms...

http://www.minnetonka.k12.mn.us/ACADEMICS/NAVIGATORPROGRAM/P...

And the main point is that school districts don't just compete with programs for "highly gifted" students, but also with programs for fine-arts-inclined students, or students who desire language immersion programs (Spanish immersion and Chinese immersion programs are both hot programs in Minnesota), and students with many other characteristics. Some school districts gain almost half of their enrollment from open enrollment, and correspondingly some of the historically worst school districts in Minnesota have lost large percentages of enrollment to families crossing district boundaries to look for better schools. (Minnesota also has a huge number of charter schools, which is a distinct form of competition for publicly subsidized students, but they cannot offer some of the programs that public school districts can.) This competition keeps all districts accountable for providing a good learning environment, and helps change the psychology of teachers and principals dealing with families from one of treating learners as a burden to one of treating learners as an opportunity to be grateful for.

Any other state in the United States could do the same, and a few already have.

http://educateiowa.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task...

http://www.ecs.org/html/offsite.asp?document=http%3A%2F%2Fww...
It's interesting, but perhaps counter-intuitive (at least for me).

Based on what I have seen from your "users" (or army of employees) people are requesting deals from businesses that they already like and frequent. Generally speaking, you frequent a business because you like and receive what you perceive to be fair value for what the money you spend there. If I go to the cafe down the street 5 days a week because I like it and am willing to pay full price, I have no real reason to ask them for a discount - I am satisfied paying full price.

Now, it does make sense to me to request discounts from places that I want to try as a way to get me in the door. However, actually requesting a deal from these new places requires work on my end, whereas I can just sit around and lazily let Groupon/LivingSocial push new deals to new places on a daily basis.

Cool idea, but not something I see myself using.
You're looking at it purely from a money perspective. There is more to it than just that.

Yes, you can make $100k/year at a "job" but you may be living a miserable life delegated as a gear in a gear box with no freedom of creativity.

On the other hand, yes, your chances of having a $500/k exit are slim, but how is your quality of life effected? Are you happier? Are you able to spend quality time with the people in your life instead of bitching about your shit head manager?

IMHO I believe your view is a bit narrow minded.
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This is a nice overview.

I have been a happy user of Vico for the past two months after years of putting up with Textmate's lame undo. I recommend it if you are comfortable with vi/vim/macvim but want a more Maclike interface plus Textmate bundles and theme support.
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any argument about ubermensch is a fiction until we get to meet one. Without facts, a fiction/theory/speculation can be judged only on how logical it is and on the quality of underlying assumptions. The one i referred to does very well describing the alternative speciation scenario inside the human species when new species doesn't cause extinction of the old human species (the extinction has been a typical scenario so far)
I remember when Canada raised their taxes on goods; every weekend there were caravans of Canadians flowing into Duluth to shop at the Sam's Club.

edit - This was around 1990. Yeah, I'm old.
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