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My school uses this book for instruction in our software engineering course. During one of our capstone studio projects, they threw additional people at projects behind schedules. From what I heard, at best they wrote documentation while the teams continued developing.
It makes more sense when you know that 'A20 line' stands for '20th address line', and 2^20 (two to the 20th power) is one megabyte, so you need 20 bits to give unique addresses to all of the bytes in one megabyte.
Yeah, just heavier, thicker, worse industrial design (no magsafe, no magnetic display clip, no bluetooth (WTF?), no Thunderbolt, no sturdy unibody aluminum frame, no multitouch touchpad.

Oh, and comes with these: "WildTangent® Game Console, TOSHIBA Face Recognition, Microsoft® Silverlight™ , TOSHIBA Bulletin Board™, TOSHIBA Disc Creator, TOSHIBA Service Station, Norton Internet Security™ 2011 (30-day trial), TOSHIBA Recovery Disk Creator, TOSHIBA Web Camera Application, TOSHIBA HDD/SSD Alert, TOSHIBA BookPlace™, Intel® Wireless Display Technology (WiDi 2.1), TOSHIBA Media Controller, TOSHIBA PC Health Monitor, Microsoft® Windows Live Essentials including Photo Gallery, Messenger, Mail, Writer and Movie Maker., Microsoft® Windows Media Player 12, TOSHIBA ReelTime™, TOSHIBA eco Utility™, Google® Chrome, TOSHIBA Hard Drive Impact Sensor (3D sensor), Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Reduced functionality Word® and Excel® with advertising)*, TOSHIBA App Place"

Which is a disadvantage in itself.
What other metric do you use? A warm fuzzy feelings index?

The problem is "shareholder value" is defined using a measure of TODAY's stock price, which is highly volatile and subject to really minor changes in quarterly reports. So companies tend to spend an inordinate amount of resources trying to level out the volatility of their short term stock price by doing whatever they can to meet quarterly expectations, which leads to misallocation of capital.

A better measure might be the potential value of a stock some number of years out, which can be roughly measured using stock options trading if the options markets have access to enough data. That type of data would include things like customer satisfaction metrics, R&D spending, etc. (ie the types of things Steve Jobs optimized for).
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Thanks Hansy. I'm giving this a shot tomorrow morning first thing.
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Quite. There's no grounds for the amount of reverence a mere businessman - albeit very successful - is receiving. Delusion might be a very good word to describe what I think of this sentiment.
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The best dropouts are those who would do well in school anyway

That's a great quote. Good to keep in mind. The more folks talk up the college dropout thing, the more concerned I become that people will come to see dropping out as a positive thing, even when you don't do it for the right reasons.
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Agreed. Dropping out is risky, but it can give you rewards. College always gives you great, though sometimes less great, rewards.
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Helium is irreplaceable as an additional reason.
So many people coach their references --- that's the whole reason we go through the trouble of doing backdoor references! --- that you can safely assume any prospective employer has already factored coaching in to any reference you give them. Which means, game-theoretically, you might as well coach them.
What? I am seeing the iBooks version for $9.99AUD.

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It's about chess; it moves horizontally, vertically, diagonally, like moves on a chessboard. The individual panels have black and white backgrounds, like a chessboard, which combined with the movement, gives him the chance to affect the mood; if he sticks to diagonal moves on black, you get a sequence of dark, moody frames.

He also wrote, in the introduction to the comic (http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/chess/index.html):

My fourth online comic seemed to strike a chord
with many readers, despite requiring side-scrolling
as well as down-scrolling (which I'll admit, can be
pretty annoying).

It sounds like this was something experimental; remember, this was the early days of webcomics. He was experimenting with what you could do in a new medium. It turns out that this choice was kind of annoying; but it was a nice experiment, and it's a good comic despite the somewhat annoying scrolling.
I spend a huge amount of time every week reading resumes and talking to candidates and it simply is not my experience that everyone who "has" an education puts it on their resume.

The only people who ever put their GPA on their resume are people with one or fewer jobs after college. Unless the best conversation you're prepared to have with a prospective employer is about your years in school, leave your GPA off your resume.

Any employer who "shreds" resumes without "Education" sections is a fool, full stop.
By the same token, a degree isn't going to help someone who wouldn't have done well in business anyway. There is nothing you can do to prepare yourself for success, so stop worrying and just do what feels right for you.
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People commenting negatively on a 6 hour work day must be old school flex hours are very popular nowadays. I know someone who negotiated 11-5 with no lunch, and another person who gets 10-whenever (normally leaves between 3 & 4) as long as they are productive and fit in 30 hours a week. Same salary.
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Ok, that makes plenty of sense.
In the mid-90s I got reasonably far down the road with an interview at DE Shaw / Juno and stopped it cold when they demanded school transcripts.

I guess I'm unreasonable, but, if you're looking for data points: hi, I'm a candidate who will turn you down cold if you require school information from me.

For a long time, I thought this was a New York thing, but, no; I got an offer from a very excellent NY tech/finance company a few years before we started Matasano, and nobody there was dumb enough to want to see my report cards.
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I think any technical cofounder would be ecstatic over having a "non-technical" cofounder with his level of technical ability.

Be honest, what % of HN readers actually know more about electronics than Steve Jobs did?
Just curious, what sort of SMS backend/API are you using to accept and deliver messages?
Indeed; it doesn't.
The reason you get head nods when you relate this experience, in my opinion, is that versions of this sort of thing are all too common when hiring sales people. Sorry to be biased, but I'll go as far as saying that there's a certain separate species in the sales world. By now I recognize a lot of the signs, but it cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars and a lot of lost business to get there. Just ask fellow entrepreneurs "What's the secret to hiring a sales person?" and watch as the first reaction is eyes rolling.

If business where easy everyone would be doing it. Don't give up, you'll figure it out.
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You might be surprised how often bad hires end up not having any real references at all, and just bluster their way through that part of the interview. For too many of us, reference checking is an afterthought. Fortunately, when you're small, the feedback loop is tight and you only need to get burned a couple times before you take it seriously.

By which I mean to say, even an anodyne reference ("yes I worked with person, yes I would hire them for this role") is a major improvement over no reference at all.
you're productive and are providing something of value.

Not really. People pay will pay for things that are useless, or even hurting them. I don't think I'd be proud of myself for making a profit selling meth.

You should be proud of providing something of value. But making a profit isn't enough to judge whether you're doing that.
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So what happens where stores have underground parking or multi-level parking structures (where people seldom park on the topmost floor)?

This story is a year old and also it's been commented on here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2124784
EVERYBODY HAS THIS PROBLEM HIRING DIRECT ENTERPRISE SALES PEOPLE.

Everyone.

It's hard to hire good direct sales people into a new sales organization for the same reason that it's hard to find an effective SEO consultant on the open market: the people that have this skill can make it rain money and are not looking for jobs. So you can safely assume that almost everyone you're talking to for your first sales hire is a product of adverse selection.
Not new - I looked at a company doing this sort of research in the early 2000s.
Kids, I am old enough to have written a DOS TSR in 8086 assembler! Sadly, you likely have no idea what I'm talking about. Suffice to say, I understand this article completely.
I understand how the company arrived at it, but that's a horrible, damaging rule.
I'm student teaching in a high school classroom right now while trying to complete my BS in Math and get my initial teaching license. There is a growing trend in the classroom to allow students to move on even when they have no foundational skills. As long as they get a D they get credit and can move on regardless of their lack of a solid foundation from which to accurately build upon.

A large part of the issue is that the classrooms aren't differentiated by ability so we have students who can't really do or understand basic math but we're trying to teach them algebra and trigonometry. Some of them may pull through but do they really understand the subject matter when they don't understand the foundation from which it builds upon?

One of my education instructors told me once that it doesn't matter if a student can calculate 20x15 as long as they understand that we're looking for a number that is 20 times larger than 15. The problem is they really don't understand and they must rely on a calculator for even basic math. It really is disappointing and I'm not sure I want to teach anymore.

I feel like the system is broken and just because someone, somewhere said that when we educate students like this they can perform just as well or better than if we actually made sure they were in a class that suits their abilities we've latched onto it as a method of reform.

(I taught developmental math for 2 years at a local community college. My classes were difficult and I expected a lot of my students but the instructors that ended up with my students later on were all grateful of the foundation that I made sure my students had.)
So you're saying because the greediest of kids won't be tempted by programmer salaries that those salaries won't tempt anyone?
This is an interesting comment :

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1. Consult with a marine biologist to find out if there is a real shortage of shells for hermit crabs to use.

Tip: There isn't. Source: I'm a marine biologist."

EDIT : I removed the last half of the comment because it addressed the issue of dumping plastic into the oceans, which has been addressed by someone else here (they often use bioplastics for 3D printing).
Couldn't agree more. Sorry about the delusional down votes.
But that's just the thing. A lot of the stuff that many people have an emotional connection with, those products were driven by Steve, so people feel a connection with Apple and Steve.

There's only a couple of inanimate objects I've really ever loved. One was my Peugeot 205Gti, and the other was my first Mac, a Aluminum Powerbook G4 12", though I think my iPhone 4 has a chance of getting on that list.
Explain Steve Jobs please.

Sure he went and sat in some courses but only for a limited time and only when he thought they taught something he liked, like calligraphy.

Doesn't that imply that school is but a matter of interest? So if your interest lies in building something great RIGHT NOW, wouldn't it be better for you to not waste time and money at school but rather go do something you so dearly want?

My intent here is not to discredit your post. Though I see the value in your post, I post this only to avoid you and your readers from clumping all dropouts into a category. My view is that school is not for everyone. Some people have this innate understanding of the world and thoughts so radical that school only serves to beat them into another brick in the wall. This is unfair to them and unfair of society to judge them.

Personally, I think that if YOU believe in it and if you believe in yourself, then right now is as best a time as ever. School or not. Everyone has to decide for themselves.
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At the risk of this sounding like a bullshit platitude, if you find yourself having to really cautiously cherry-pick your references, you might want to evaluate if that says something about your work (it may or may not).

I may have just been really lucky in my career, but there isn't anyone I've worked with (either as a coworker, manager, or as an underling) who I wouldn't feel comfortable being a reference. That's not to say there aren't people who I wouldn't chose to be a reference (maybe we didn't work together very closely), but seriously, nobody who if I were on trial and the prosecutor called as a "surprise witness" I'd cringe and worry that they might say something negative about my work.
I guess, but the first real question in any sales interview is "what was your number at your last job", and a 15 second reference check with the former employer would quickly surface the fact that the person didn't have a number at all.

Have you ever actually called a salesperson's customers? They provided you customer references? How'd it go?
Looks awesome (albeit, simple to make using twilio).

If this does get traction, one can imagine opening up a whole marketplace of endpoints that can expose all kinds of interesting Ixoth functionality.

What I'm really looking forward to is when Apple opens up API support for Suri. Suri with a whole ecosystem of apps would be mind blowing.
They can track how many cars are in the parking lot and even what makes/models are showing up to indicate the rate the company is hiring or laying off workers

These days, you can also find that out using LinkedIn. No need to go out in the cold or buy something expensive as a satellite anymore :)
This is why I'm excited about methods like the Khan Academy's exercise system, where you're encouraged to stay on a concept until you truly understand it.

As other replies you have received have mentioned, Khan Academy is working hard at improving its exercises in that regard. An even better current example, a service that costs money (except for UNLIMITED short-duration free trials) is ALEKS

http://www.aleks.com/

which my wife and I are using to learn accounting and all four of our children have used or are using to learn mathematics and chemistry. ALEKS is a very useful tool for beginning college students who have gaps in their knowledge, which is most college students. See

http://www.aleks.com/about_aleks/Science_Behind_ALEKS.pdf

for a detailed explanation of the "knowledge spaces" theory behind ALEKS.
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Keyboard-centric and they don't piss in my wheaties every other release.

That plus wicd lets me toss most of gnome/kde out the window.
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Have something to show, show it to groups of people that fit your target, and see who wants to be a part of the project.

This is the first step for social proof, and its the most simple and direct way to find a partner.

By the way, do you have something to show right now?
As I've now been discovering lately. I don't think it's very common (I haven't heard of any other companies that do it, for instance), but I'd really hate for other people to wind up in the same situation.
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@wycats mentioned that dev tools may be worse than they could be because OSS is drowing many of them out...

So inspired by this, I was thinking: What would it take to make a good text editor. One that not only works, but everyone wants to use and extend. That means that if you want modal, there is modal. If you want emacs-style there is emacs style.

Obviously "features" are not what we need, those will be built. There has to be a something for that editor to gain critical mass, become mainstream accepted, get support from companies, etc. and of course companies should be able to build a business model around making mods for that editor, thus there is incentive for companies to develop.
As somebody who also spends a lot of time in the resume weeds, I have to absolutely, but respectfully, disagree while keeping my feet warm this cold night on the burning embers of shredded resume fodder.

To be clear, lack of an education section does not equal lack of an education and lack of a formal education does not equal lack of an education.

Almost to the person, people who made it to an interview despite having problems (or a missing) education section fell apart under minor probing questions like "describe your part in a project you worked on at a previous employer you were particularly proud of" or "I see you attended courses at XYZ school, can you talk about the courses you took and why you didn't finish up?"

When these folks are hired, they almost always turn out to be disasters in one way or another...often becoming the worst possible employee, not quite bad enough to be fired.

More often than not their resumes turned out to be mostly made up resume puffery or gross omissions to cover up various consistent problems in their employment and education histories such as termination for cause or having partied their way out of school.

People with a solid education section, even if it's just High School and perhaps a supplementary "job related interests" section tend to do much better under probing because they aren't making anything up.

Every so often you might find somebody with an honest to goodness good reason for something, but it's almost not worth your while to wade through the future career grocery store baggers in the 1200 tall resume pile.

Best things to look for in experienced people, a steady career progression. Nobody starts out as a superstar, but good employees tend to be ones that move up over their career. 15 years as a "Programmer I" is not a good sign.

If somebody has an incomplete schooling on their resume, but a solidly progressing career over a number of years, it's probably worth talking to them, at least to find out why they didn't finish. It's often due to major life changes (kids, illness, divorce, etc.), but if you push a little you'll uncover lots of people who either

a) thought they were too smart for it all (they aren't, trust me)

b) partied their way to a mid-sophomore year expulsion

Best things to watch out for outside of the mandatory education section: a laundry list of every technology/language to come out in the last 30 years. better yet, if they make a matrix of all of these languages vs. their personal aptitude in the languages and they rank an 8 out of 10 or better in all of them. Run away, run far far away from this person. I've seen dozens of these guys hired over the years and they all turn out to be turds.
As someone who was once (not too long ago) blindsided by an unexpectedly- somewhat- negative reference, and who has seen a couple other people similarly blindsided, and where in all these cases the backdoor reference, while not a coached reference, was someone you could have seen it coming for (a manager, a close coworker, etc):

It's probably a good idea to secure agreement that, should a reference call come in, you're going to get 100% positive feedback. You can accomplish that without demanding 100% positive references; just say something like, "hey, Joe, I'm getting pretty far down the road with a potential gig and they're smart and might track you down for a reference... anything I'd need to be concerned about?".

Once a person tells you to your face that they're not going to say anything bad about you, they're a lot less likely to.

Whereas, if you don't have the conversation at all, your coworkers can tank you without even meaning to. People who aren't experienced giving references might even think it's a good idea to balance out positive things with some (they think) minor negatives. You probably want to nip that idea in the bud, if you can.

Incidentally: if you get called on to give a reference and you're wondering if maybe it'd be a good idea to sprinkle some talk about quirks and idiosyncrasies into a reference: don't. Just give boring good references.
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I feel it's a disservice to Steve's legacy to take portions of the book out of context and derive inferences. For example, in this article, I can't understand how any comparisons can be derived between Mark, Larry and Bill Gates. All three of these entrepreneurs came in at a very different time in tech. Their success and [minor] failures if anything were in a large way a function of the then state of technology, competitive landscape and natural evolution of their companies.
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Completely agree. Let's globalise in some data then.

I live in South Korea and work as a programmer. I am making about half what I was making in Australia but I pay 3% in tax, I'm living rent free and my costs are ridiculously low. My disposable income (that is the remaining funds after bills, food, accommodation and other necessities are taken out) is about 2k USD per month (twice what it was in Australia). My costs are low. I know other people here who can live on less than $500/month for rent, food, alcohol, entertainment, the lot. Money isn't really important to me right now because I have no debt, and living and working abroad makes up for lower pay. I'm still quite young so the way I view it is that this is more of a learning experience and I am gaining far more marketable, diverse and useful skills. Learning how other cultures run businesses and do capitalism is a very valuable skill.

I'm sure others have similar anecdotes.
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