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School funding setups differ wildly in the US.

There's a mix of local funding, typically from property taxes (which is independent of number of students enrolled), state funding from state general revenue, and sometimes federal funding. In some school districts, specific school levies may also be passed as sales or property taxes; these may be time-limited to pay for infrastructure or ongoing. The mix of all of the above varies from state to state and school district to school district.

The real estate tax funding takes a percentage of the home values of the residents in a community, not a percentage of the incomes, of course. That said, the percentage is typically not fixed.

Furthermore, the state funding formulas differ from state to state and are not time-invariant. They do tend to depend on number of student, but not necessarily kind of student (e.g. students in special education programs may or may not get more funding).

Note that "depend" doesn't mean "determined by"; in Massachusetts, for example, state funding per student depends on how much money the school district is putting in from its real estate tax base and on the per-student spending in the district; the formula is somewhat complicated but the upshot is that the richer districts get _more_ per-student state funding. Yes, this is way backwards, and isn't even the most screwed up thing about school funding in this country...

In any case, in many school districts the bulk of school funding in fact comes from property taxes on the residents of the school district. That's the whole issue in this case: Ms. Williams-Bolar was not in fact paying property taxes in the district in question.
Btw, in a world where energy is supposedly scarce, how do people justify using languages (Python, Ruby, I'm looking at you) that are an order or two magnitudes slower than they need to?
The first person who responded to the post works at Facebook and is a friend of Zuckerberg's, therefore, it would have appeared on his News Ticker.

Mark Zuckerberg is mentioned far, far too many times on Facebook every day to track each reply.
Of course I would like to know!

Gathering a team of stars in critical to me and my Startup, so if the processes aren't optimized in order for us to get the talent, something is wrong and my job as a CEO has not been done.
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Those new to NodeJS will still read this trolled post and find real gems of info here. So all is not lost.
Awesome... if there was a mode where it could auto scroll to where the cursor was then that would be heavenly.
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Agreed. I used the passage not to equate the two but to illustrate moral issues are not always straight forward. I personally am not sure that lying your way to a better school is the right approach.
Correct. I am friends with Kelly, who works at Facebook and is friends with Mark. She replied. Her activity on my status update would have made it appear in his newsfeed.
"Code boyscouting" is an excellent way to put it.

@yzhengyu's experience is representative of my own, though without the same degree of politics. Even in conversations with those who should know better, it's nearly impossible to put technical debt payback ahead of new business requirements. Attempts to quantify it (additional time to deliver = lost opportunity = money) are fuzzy at best.

I really think the only practical way to combat code rot is at the leaf nodes, without telling anybody. Perhaps we ought to have a secret oath that all developers take. "On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty to Knuth and my Profession and to obey Postel's Law..."
I'm getting 0.020s tops for that fibonacci code on node (time curl http://localhost/), even going up to `1.1210238130165696e+167` (800th number). OSX Lion on a C2d 2.3ghz.

Python 2.7.1 took 1m25.259s (no server).

Am I doing something wrong? Or is there some incredibly optimized code path for OSX?

edit: even weirder, `time node fibonacci.js` without a server takes 0.090s.
Like, node is the bomb?

I am sure cancer sucks more than anything I had to experience but the world is not going to change its figures of speach for you and it is not directly derogatory at all it just reminds you of your misfortune.

Btw I am not criticizing you for asking the OP to change his headline I just think it is an impossible crusade.
Subscriptions?

Plus, he's Mark Zuckerberg.
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Kelly and Jeremiah appear to be friends. Kelly works at Facebook and explained she had Mark's stories in her feed, so it seems reasonable she is friends with Mark and he found out that way?

EDIT: Err, I'm a bit late I guess :/
See how I just typed crusade and pressed send without thinking.
Wait, I think I've missed something because that response seems overly dismissive. How is offloading CPU-intensive stuff to a worker system not getting it done?
I never understood how organized crime can exist in a society as modern as Japan (or most western countries for that matter). Most people are against it, so why doesn't it die off by itself? There is an estimated 100k Yakuza members. Japan has a population of 127M. That's 1 Yakuza member per 1270 inhabitant. How can they seemingly be so prevalent?

Most likely the Yakuza phenomenon is exaggerated by the media, and for most people, they are just a thing you hear about on the TV, but that you never see in real life.
I'm not sure if many people are choosing Node just because they're familiar with JavaScript. Most people would probably rather be less familiar with JavaScript. More likely they're choosing it because the runtime is very fast and a lot of libraries are packaged for it.

The WSGI/CGI bit is in fact mentioned in the article. :)
You can be sure that I was not kidding. Any form of education, combined with intellect and curiosity is a privilege that (believe it or not) a lot of people don't have. Some possess this virtue without the means of attaining it, while others bear the Fortune without the virtue. To be educated and intelligent is to possess a great tool which can serve many if put to good use.
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Still, the "Zuck sees all" explanation is far more colorful. :-)
For most people it will probably be much harder to grock than Java, I fully agree.

By the way, I think the linked article was rather mundane. Many programming articles and blog posts seem to moot fairly uninteresting problems and are littered with empty catch phrases and notions. They remind me of books about the latest management techniques. What is the point of an article like this? I feel like I've gained nothing from reading it.

There is no discussion about the meaning or definition of the term "elite". If you consider that "elite", in the realm of sociology, describes the aggregation of people of above-average qualification within a certain functional context ("performance elite"), the term will often be used to describe the tools and techniques these elites use to achieve and maintain their status.

Elites, like many social groups, find means to separate themselves from other groups, they create informal habits and rituals, formulate means for the establishment of their group identity and so on.
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The woman in question lives in Ohio. In Ohio, a felony conviction means you can't vote while in prison (in this case for 10 days); once released, even on parole, you can vote. See http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=2... for the nice table.

In fact, a felony conviction only carries permanent loss of voting rights in only 12 states out of 50 according to that table.

Now I agree that there lots of other impacts of a felony conviction; the article mentions it being a bar to being a teacher in some cases, for example, and reading the relevant Ohio law she would be unable to hold public office in Ohio or to sit on a jury. And clearly if the woman were to move to one of those 12 states she would not be able to register to vote there.... But it's not as cut-and-dried as "could no longer vote".
It's a public post, anyone with a Facebook account can reply.
To answer your question at the end: a child born in the U.S., whether born to illegal immigrants or not, is a citizen and therefore a legal resident and therefore can attend public school.

Children who themselves illegally immigrated to the U.S. can also attend public school without cost (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plyler_v._Doe).
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Yes. And i must say that the code is very small and well written.
> he is a pro at this (http://teddziuba.com/2011/07/the-craigslist-reverse-programm...)

The Craigslist Reverse Programmer Troll is clever. While it's openly a troll, it makes a good point. Worth reading.
> friends who have been ... "disappeared" for corruption

I'm pretty sure this is an answer to your earlier question. Humans are corruptible, and thus all countries and governments contain corruption. But the governments that deal with their problems with fiat and secret police are just throwing gasoline on the fire -- i.e., creating an environment of mistrust and fear which only breeds further corruption.

But in general, people also tend to more eagerly report problems in rival groups than in their own. So I think China gets called out more on a primarily US bulletin board just because of the rival relationship that exists. I'd expect the same in reverse on a Chinese bbs.
I'm sure that when the service kicks off he will figure out the possible solutions to abuse
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He must mean trying and testing out new features if he's telling the truth. I seriously doubt he sits there checking friend/news updates every day.
dboza is pretty awesome, beck didnt really address the underlying issue. If you have any real computation, node.js is not your solution. I figured out this in event-driven IO back when I was in school 15 years ago fffffff
>> We haven't sped up the pace of drug development
>
>http://fold.it/portal/info/science

Yes, and where is the drug? The world seems to be overflowing with "promising drug targets", but what actually gets approved is longer lasting pecker perkers and yet another blood pressure medication.

>> haven't developed nanomechanical computers
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>micro:
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>http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2007/LC/b70876....
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>nano:
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>http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/5229

Well, okay, there has been some progress in the lab that seems to have led to not much practical. The microfluidics holds big promise. Just like it has for decades. Use this technology to make a closed-loop artificial pancreas... that will be progress.

>> no Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
>
> Incidentally, the story describes a "Wizard of Oz" implementation. The more complex interactions of the primer are handled by a human actor behind the scenes.

Heh. I'd forgotten about the actor. Must read that book again. Why oh why are they charging $12 for the ebook version of a novel published in 1995? More than the paperback?

>> We haven't developed Drexler's universal constructors
>
>Take your pick of DNA synthesis, chemical synthesis, nucleosynthesis, antihydrogen, 3d printing, two-photon fabrication - oh, and the 16 nm semiconductor process. Not quite magic goo, but pretty effective nonetheless.

That's a long, long way from magic goo.

I wasn't trying to say there's been no progress, just that the rate of technological progress is slower than it was. Most of what you've pointed out here hasn't made it out of the lab yet.
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So why are you refraining from pointing them out? Say on day x I went in with my idea y, and nect thing I know this happens. You have evidence that you had this idea before day x, while they don't (in case a journalist inquires).
> I've never heard the "Elite Programming Language" term before I saw it deconstructed in this essay.

Google search for "elite programming language" -"elite programming language fallacy" [1] (to avoid links to this post) yields eight results. It seems the term "elite programming language" was coined by the author in order to knock it down, which is one type of a straw-man argument.
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https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%22elite+programming+l...
This is so rarely the case. At my firm the percentage of people in consulting who wanted to be artists, public servants, writers, or filmmakers is less than 10%. The way you've described it makes it sound like all these Yalie beatniks are selling out for the prospect of a stable paycheck.

Many of my colleagues weren't lifelong consultants, but they were lifelong businesspeople. The ones who left went on to start tech companies, open restaurants, work in VC, work for non-profits, etc.

No one quit and started writing plays.
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That comment sort of destroyed all your credibility. Would you care to elaborate where in the "real world" there is ever a situation where a tight, asynchronous event-processing loop is required to do heavy CPU lifting?
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> Obviously in co-operative multitasking it's wrong to block the rest of the server.

I think that obviousness is exactly what the author missed.
IMHO i think node.js sucks because it forces you to manually pass callbacks around. can't it remember my call site for me and use coroutines or call/cc or yield or something? even fork() exists on UNIX (or pthread_create()). why is passing callbacks around the answer? it's like using GOTO.
Yeah, I meant accidents involving derailment. Sorry if I was unclear. These happen quite frequently with ICE trains.
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> Also, most other web stacks will discourage you from running a 30s fib on a thread processing web requests. This isn't specific to node.

Difference being, with other stacks a request running for 30s will have little impact on the rest of the machine. With node, the whole server gets stuck, not just that precise request and the machine resources necessary to perform the computation (or whatever).

The fib example is extreme, but it's rooted into a real issue of cooperative multitasking: code does not always behave correctly and is not always perfect. You might have used a quadratic algorithm and it ran in 10ms on 10 items or so, but in production it happens a user is getting it to run on a hundred or a thousand items, and now other users are severely affected, in that their requests are completely frozen while the computation is going on. There are hundreds of other possibilities, small inefficiencies, shortcuts, plain bugs, etc... which are basically going to break your node application.
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We can all certainly try :) And, fighting in the trenches every day (taking some time to do some refactoring instead of calling a feature done) is a great place to start.

However, the code rot really needs to be understood by the upper management of IT. Having a solid grasp of technical debt, how much it hurts, how much debt you can take on and how long it takes to pay that down is the responsibility of any manager of IT departments. If management doesn't understand this, they are setting the products up to fail every 3-5 years no matter how hard the developers work at the leaf nodes.
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This is where gcd can help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch
I just started playing around with vim. I still use Sublime for most of my editing, but I enabled Vintage mode so I can test myself occasionally. I have also run through vimtutor a few times.

Finally, I made vim my default terminal editor, which forces me to use it for tasks like finishing my interactive Git rebase sessions.
The platform does it: other requests are handled by other threads or processes (pooled or not), one request is going to consume 500ms and the rest will keep on trucking concurrently. Unless you've gone above the capacities of the machine itself, other requests will be little to not affected.
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I checked it out a few months ago, and it looked awesome, but it was missing too many basic features (like right clicking a folder to create a new file or showing the current file in the file tree) so I went back to TM. I just took another look last week and literally every single issue I used to have with it has been fixed. The pace of development is amazing. I had no problem parting with my $59.
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But it does not fix the issue of e.g. having used a quadratic algorithm which is breaking your server because in production a user is shoving an order of magnitude more data than you expected (or tested for): you used that algorithm in-request because it was fast. Now it's not fast anymore and your production is getting killed. That's all there is to it, until you fix your code the application is not degraded, it's DOS'd every time that user does something.

And if you do consider workers (because you don't have a better algorithm), what happens for the cheap version? Do you offload it to a worker as well, potentially incurring a spin-off cost greater than the cost of the computation itself, or do you end up with two different codepaths (one sync and one async, just to ensure you're getting as complex as you can) depending on the computation's expected duration?
11 hours in and no one suggested JavaScript...I think you guys are all biased.

The rapid growth of MVC client-side frameworks (backbone), the push on the backend (node.js) and its inclusion in a growing number of technologies (MongoDB, CouchDB, ...) would seem to make it, at the very least, worth mentioning.
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I found your definition of Traction to be a really useful one... at the very least, it is easy to tell whether the results make you excited or not. We all have internal barometers and expectations, and if the results of an MVP are surprisingly good, then that indicates you're on to something. One thing that I think we can say about all successful startups is that they had a serious growth phase...

I'm working on an MVP right now, but I'm probably not doing it right- it is taking too long (about 2 months to complete) and it isn't actually viable (we're doing stuff by hand that in the real product will be done by software.) But, it is a much better approach than before I started trying the Lean Startup methodology.

Thanks for the article!
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because you dont fix everything with another layer of indirection. add in some more queuing (which as we know never has a problem) just to ger around 'no threads' seems stupid.
That all sounds rather discusting and fake. If that's what most people do, I don't want to know them.
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Too minor a point in relevance to the conversation. Perhaps in a highly nuanced discussion of social interactions (different thread / topic).
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It's not just that elites use other tools and techniques because they are intellectually more curious, it's also a method to establish identity and separate themselves from "the peons".

The irony, in my opinion, comes from the fact that there is no official membership mechanism when it comes to belonging to an elite. People that wield power withing a community because of their above average skill set have mannerisms, and often, as said above, agree, sometimes silently, on a certain code of conduct or modus operandi. People who want to belong to the elite start to emulate these mannerisms and identity forming mechanisms, reinforcing them over time.
because they spend more time looking out for new, good things that the average person

Yet I think the best programmers I know use languages that are 20 to 30 years old as their main weapon of choice (C/C++ for example).

I'd also care to say that once you reach a certain skill level, you see beyond the language and don't find yourself looking for the latest shining new stuff.
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