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I have a similar conclusion but slightly different reasoning. And I want to defend liberal arts majors a bit, since I'm one of them.

To me, the problem is that most people don't view college as an investment in their future, but rather as a temporary place to delay choices. Certainly, it is positioned as an investment by educators, and it is probably true for science & engineering degrees, but do students approach it that way?

I have a liberal arts degree from an "elite private university", and I can tell you that the school's approach was to give someone like me everything they could possibly need to succeed, but to leave it up to me to do the actual succeeding. My major's requirements had only 8 classes - 1.5 semesters. Our "core curriculum" had a diversity of requirements, but all were easily gotten around; the science core was easily satisfied by courses such as "Solar System Astronomy", "Oceanography", or "Stars, Galaxies, and the Cosmos", as opposed to Calculus 101 or what-have-you.

I took those classes, but I took those classes in all seriousness. They may have been soft on the hardcore science, but they opened up the breadth of my understanding of the world. Some others in my class did not - they were not at school to invest themselves, and that was their right.

I think I'm much better at the work I do today because I took classes with titles all the way from Quantitative Political Methodology, to Metaphysics & Epistomology, to The Political Economy of Development, to Psych 101, to Poetry Writing, to Arabic, to Computer Science 201, to The American Frontier.

But that's because I took all of those courses dead seriously. That's what makes college a good investment. Well, and the life experience itself, but that's not exactly an "investment" in the monetary sense.

If you don't approach school that way, you're not just wasting your money on tuition - there's a massive opportunity cost. 4 years of failing at a startup is certainly a better business education than an undergrad business degree from my school.

Really, it's a cultural problem. It's like a stomach ache after eating too much candy; things were so good for so long, we collectively forgot what it was like to have to sacrifice and work for the things you want. Applying for entrance to school and actually graduating doesn't have much of anything to do with your education. That's something you have to work for.

Now, is it "in the state's interest" to promote, say, English majors? I think that's a whole different topic. I think anyone who is asking the taxpayer to fund their education needs to be ready to pay that back with directly applicable skills, which would seem to suggest you mostly need scientists & engineers.
Even if you own the dvd I think it would be faster/easier to get a "backup" copy via torrent.
I heartily agree -- once you add a wireless keyboard to an iPad, it stops being a toy. I use the keyboard and an iPad 1 to write my first drafts (both locally and google docs, if need be) and with VNC, I code on my remote servers as well.
I don't understand using red to mean something other than "stop" or "cancel" either.

It reminds me of the first time I tried to use a cell phone: I didn't own one and had borrowed one for a trip. I could not figure out how to turn it on. I kept pressing the green "TALK" button and nothing happened. I assumed the battery had died. Turns out I was supposed to press the red button labeled "END" which is the last button I would think to press.
Question in the headline?

The answer's always, "No."
Funny you suggest a track similar to law/med school. In those progressions graduates can expect to make well into the six figures.

If we doubled teachers' pay, lightened their workload, and most importantly did not require teachers to answer so stringently to administrators (and voters and homebuyers) who mainly care about test scores, I would agree this is a good idea.

I have a friend who's a teacher, who works hard, and who is picking up boring temp work for $10/hour almost every weekend so she can get out of town in December. That's just sad to me.

I have heard from people who know that turnover in the classroom is already high, even among people who got a 1 year intensive master's degree in teaching. In principle, I'd like to set the bar higher as you suggest, but the first priority is to make teaching an attractive profession.
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You could actually do the same thing WITH a Macbook Air/Pro. The beauty of a cloud linux instance + gnu screen isnt limited to the ipad and so you could still have a bigger screen and the possibility to go back to GUI apps if you need them.
I like this for travelling on the go, but spending my normal workday in 1024 resolution ? Naaa.
* iPad 2 (16Gb, WiFi)
* Apple wireless keyboard
* Stilgut adjustable angle stand/case

Hopefully someday they'll sell portable computers with an integrated keyboard, and some type of mechanism to hold the screen up.
Perhaps power saving is the point, not money saving?
There's something wrong about this test. There was definitely one of the question where no three cubes were the same.
What's the solution for when "the cloud" loses your files and the ToS says "so sorry, we'll try harder next time - here's next month's bill"?

When I keep my files locally, the only person I have to blame for losing them is myself. Out in "the cloud", there's quite literally nothing that can be done to recover my data.
You didn't read the original article. The story is about microsoft not wanting to fork Windows. They want Windows 8 to work on desktops, and tablets. From the demo videos I saw, Windows 8 switch back and forth between a usable touchscreen UI and the traditional keyboard & mouse UI. That is having your cake and eating it too. And its going to piss consumers off when they think they can use Excel on their new Windows Tablet and instead get an experience akin to picking cactus nettles out of your face.
I would observe that with DVCS, if your hard drive crashes you can still lose several days of unpushed code, too. I recommend and use cron jobs to push and/or rysnc things around on a more frequent basis for my really important stuff.
I must confess, I did wonder about adding a second iPad for browsing documentation, or maybe one of the new kindles...

I went through a phase of using multiple monitors all the time. After a year or so I came to the conclusion that alt-tab is quicker and easier than looking at another physical screen.

Swiping isn't; I wish alt-tab worked in iOS. Still, it's close and it stops me checking my mail too often.
I reached the same conclusion.
> Considering Assange has probably been pretty careful and paranoid

You'd expect that, wouldn't you. But then his whole career show less risk-aversion than most people. To put it mildly.
This is excruciatingly difficult. I have no experience with this sort of a test, and the method that I chose (albeit quickly and without a whole lot of thought) was to pick four sides that were touching, and try to find the one pattern that didn't have the same four sides touching.

This logic obviously didn't work, because I got 1 / 9. Does anyone have a strategy for this, or is it pure logic?
I'm talking about the time between keystrokes and visual response.

To make the switch-over even easier, rebind to C-a instead of the (sensible) tmux default of C-b. Put this into your ~/.tmux.conf:

set -g prefix C-a
unbind C-b
bind C-a send-prefix
bind-key C-a last-window
He didn't pioneer shareware distribution or the free demo model. This is a good write-up on the history of shareware:

http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.24/feat/

(Has this been posted to HN before? Good stuff in there.)
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Is there a version that doesn't hang all the time?
At this period, the public markets are a scary place. Tech companies that embody the new economy and have room to grow are going to become an increasingly interesting asset class.

It is strange, however, to see the same folks who were recently selling their shares on this market now becoming its backers. SecondMarket makes the market for FB stock, which Mr. Palihapitiya may still have quite a bit of.
How do you keep the iPad's screen comfortably facing you if you're not holding it?
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I'm not sure it's all on the educators' side. It's also been pushed strongly by parents, because for the last few decades having a degree versus not having a degree has been the single best predictor of getting a white-collar job. Doesn't even matter what the degree is in; a 4-year degree qualifies you to get past the "need degree" HR screen in all sorts of generic office jobs, and the pay gap between "generic liberal arts degree" and "high-school diploma" has been large and growing since the 1950s.
I'm pretty sure I got them all right, and it told me I only had 2 correct. You might want to double-check the marking key.
I was thinking about this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3186430 I don't think the Swedish legal system routinely revisit cases like this in this manner. Whatever the reason (pressure from above, desire to prosecute a high-profile case…), this sounds unusual, (meaning, not representative of the way things are usually done).

Basically, the case looks ridiculous, and the Swedish legal system as a whole probably isn't.
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As many CS degrees were issued in 2009 as in 1985? (Maybe not the whole picture)
...which is a variant on my take of the article:

When you're doing commercial product development, don't use "gifts". The FOSS tool/product may be very nice, very thorough, and all kinds of other wonderous "and it's free too!" adjectives; remember that it is, as the article says, a "gift": its creator and maintainer is under no obligation to ensure your needs are met. It may overall be a tremendous tour-de-force, but remember there is one key difference between FOSS and commercial software: there are small, ugly, uninteresting BUT IMPORTANT parts which NOBODY wants to do short of a serious paycheck. When your product comes to rely on those parts, will fixing problems prompt a "ok, I'll put 3 engineers on overtime to get it done" or "I'm at the beach; be happy with what you've got - it's a gift, remember?"
> By your logic, if the Iranian government accuses someone of sluttiness, spying or apostacy, we should extradite the accused to Iran.

If they were accused of sluttiness while they were in Iran, by an Iranian citizen or two, then there might just be a case to answer. Like what happened to these two unfortunates: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7673046.stm
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Isn't the pay for scientists rather low for the most part? Seems like my scientist friends are always poor.

Academic scientists have low wages, but high non-wage compensation (after they win the tenure tournament).

Scientists tend to have much higher pay (and lower non-wage comp) when they enter the private sector.
1 out of 9. I felt quite certain about every answer.
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Nice! Anyone have any recommendations on effectively customizing key bindings with Vintage? Or customizing Vintage in general?

I've tried customizing a few keys as documented at http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html but they're currently getting overwritten with every Sublime update.
This is true, but I'd be sacrificing the silence, the portability and the battery life. And the hipster factor, I guess.

102x768 isn't for everyone, but in text-mode it's all the same. I've no idea how many hours I've spent on a huge high-res monitor staring at a relatively tiny terminal window surrounded by a pretty desktop picture.
For those of you that took the test earlier, go to http://psych.io/spatial/scores.php for your correct score. It will work as long as you have the same IP as beofre. Sorry again about the mix up to start.

And thankyou so much to everyone that is doing this!
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Hm. I might have "cheated" on this. I haven't tried to imagine the actual 2D->3D transformations but instead looked for clues in the 2D images. It's a bit hard to describe - transforming the cutouts in my head so that they match (or obviously differ) in 2D while still giving the same cube.

Did not submit though, since I got tired after the 4th set.
This has to be the most ergonomically inefficient set-up ever!

I also cannot fathom how to work with < 2 big monitors (> 21" at least). And a tiling window manager. And a decent mechanical keyboard... ok ok..

Interesting setup. I'd be interested in knowing how it works out in the long term.
Interestingly, if you replace "app" with "custom software application", it still reads quite accurately. Except for the Apple app store reference, of course.
For anyone who spends their day (or most of some days) in a terminal connected to a remote server, I can't recommend using GNU Screen enough (brief tutorial: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935).

I've worked almost exclusively on remote servers, using the command line and vim, for about eight years now. It's only been in the past year that I started using Screen, and I feel stupid for not using it sooner.
Ever since society generally decided everyone needs to go to college, all sorts of little incentives have been adding up all over the place to create the effect of getting everyone in the system. That's not the single cause of everything, it's a snapshot of a broader trend that has affected the entire process from top to bottom. You could play the "zoom in on one aspect and mock the idea it could be the cause" all day long with all sorts of little causes... but that would just be a rhetorical game trying desperately to avoid the totality of the situation which is clear as day.
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It's still bullshit. Most email clients don't display images by default. The notion that email reading behavior can be tracked with anything resembling reliability is a blatant lie.
I try to limit my personal consulting to 2-3 clients per month. The majority of my time goes to working on my own projects. I usually love the work, but have to restrict it a bit to stay on track with my main goals.

Also, the "Ultimate" package usually serves as a starting point for the conversation which eventually makes the deal. Still, you've got to market something for people to know it's available.

I also try to help out earlier/younger startups pro-bono from time to time. Gotta keep your karma up somehow...
I'm a stats-heavy computer scientist, but I'd argue the opposite, that the ability to construct and evaluate a rigorous argument is the first thing lacking: one that plausibly analyzes the domain, recounts opposing arguments reasonably fairly, constructs counterarguments that are responsive to the opponents' arguments, and uses logical argumentation along with empirical evidence in a way that actually supports its points.

Statistics does fit into that, as one particular species of correctly using empirical evidence. But most freshmen students aren't even constructing coherent arguments in the broad sense; having a technical knowledge of statistical theorems isn't the main bottleneck. This is actually a common problem in my classes: technically-solid students who can't write a coherent essay-length or blog-post-length argument in favor of or against a point. The better students tended to have taken at least a Philosophy 101 course, which taught them how to write a basic "argument for or against a position" paper. Once you have that, there's a pretty good basis on which to expand the argumentation toolbox with statistical arguments.
Just found how to adjust spacing - click on the gear in the upper right, and choose 'compact' from the display density. I'm much happier now that I've found that.
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The best math teacher I ever had, an inspirational force who was a major reason I got through high school happy and successful, had an undergraduate degree in... something. Not sure it was math, actually.

Definitely no education degree, though. Not even an undergraduate one.

Poor guy couldn't even get an interview today. To see if you're a decent teacher today you must first incur enormous educational debts. Then you try teaching.

Mindless credentialism is a terrible force.
Linode offer monthly backups for $5. All my real work is pushed to the office repository. All my personal projects are done in a Dropbox folder.

I'm pretty confident the data will be ok this time.
I'm checking the answers by trial and error, and it seems pretty clear that the key is still wrong. Is this part of the experiment?
Many people seem to be confused by this statement but I am guessing your liberal arts school taught you that "critical thinking" is what critics do, am I correct?
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Cool thanks. 8/9 :)
That's an interesting point. I wouldn't immediately think of game developers as using someone else's framework to build an application with, but a lot of them really are, just like those of us building business applications with someone else's framework.
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This is for a psych project. It is quite a bit harder than most spatial ability tests. Most spatial ability tests are easy to do with non-spatial methods. We have designed this item format to (hopefully) not be the case.

Our results so far have shown that not having a time limit doesn't affect the results substantially either, unlike most other spatial tests. It is a test of what you are able to do rather than how quickly you can do something.
4/9. I was fighting impatience for a good deal of the time. This may be intentional, but if not, some added context as to the purpose may have given me more reason to focus. Or not ;-)
The wireless keyboard is really good; it's not quite as nice as a mechanical one, but it's easily better than a laptop keyboard.

If I ever go back to my MacBook, I'll take the keyboard with me.

I have a tiling window manager. It has one tile.
It's more about the leaderboard freeze.

Getting frozen in that leaderboard over Xmas Eve and Xmas will get you LOTS of sales.
Instead they force the new GA on us. The new version with lots and lots of new features (Real Time Analytics, Multi-Channel Funnels, Social Plugin Analytics, & Flow Visualization) but with no easy way to compare two timeframes and get simple percentage numbers for the differences.

Am i the only one who suspects that Google does not eat it's own dogfood, again?
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I have a protector case (Incase) which has ridges to keep it open at an angle, landscape. Very low-tech but it keeps it at the correct angle for me. Back when Border's were still around, I just needed keyboard and iPad (power lasts a long time) to work on my writing at one of their tables or even their Big Comfy Chairs(tm).
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Darn! 8/9 This should tell you which one you got wrong, because now its going to drive me crazy.
Not quite. He listed his raft-building skills on the internet, told you where the raft-building party was, all in an environment where folks make good money on raft consulting.

Then the guy says "I don't do the hard part, go away"
I won't so concede. Schools have been making concerted efforts for a while now to teach engineers better communication skills, and now that I work in a heavy-duty engineering environment it is clearly not the case that every engineer comes out of school a drooling asocial moron.

In fact recently some job reqs were going around the company through several of the "communication" oriented people, and it was the engineers correcting the grammar and improving the flow of the text.

An unkind impulse suggests that when logic and traditional rhetoric become the domain of "dead prejudiced white guys" you're not looking at the ideal environment for teaching communication skills. The writing of some of my high school acquaintances with English or Journalism degrees blows my mind, and not in a good way.
Same here. My first reaction was, "Surely it means to say I got one wrong out of nine." But I don't know which one.
With case that double as an adjustable stand. I can't figure out how anybody uses an iPad without one. The smart cover's one fixed angle doesn't cut it.
I think it's the resolution that matters, and 1024x768 is pretty comfortable for work (I know higher resolutions are even better, but I've been using 1024x768 for half a decade on old CRT and LCD monitors - it never failed to deliver).

When I switched to a new smartphone, the resolution was the most important change - with 854x480 pixels I can read forums and sites easily, as opposed to a 320x480 display...
It's more difficult to setup, but it's wonderful to have a dedicated development cluster. Put everyone's home directory on a dedicated file server, which uses NSF to be global to the cluster. Then you can do automated backups on the file server - hourly, nightly, monthly, whatever. There are file server appliances which are configured for this sort of thing.

When you do this, much less important data is stored locally, on developer's actual machines.
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This is just a bad idea on free speech issues alone. The first thing to go would be the ability to say anything about religion, the second would be the ability to say anything about politics.
8/9 now and question 8 has no accepted answer. I feel better about it now.
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This is my first submission to HN and it was written during a bout of frustration, so please excuse the somewhat hard language and please be as critical as you need to be!
The mandatory Google Cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

...cause the article is marked as `deleted' now :-(
Incredible that we seem to be moving back to powerful mainframe computers in a timesharing system. A 40 year cycle?
Well, I didn't know about sublime before, and so far I'm into my first hour of usage. I've been looking for the perfect code editor for years. Always settled. Until an hour ago I was using Eclipse (with pydev), Gedit for very big files, and vim occasionally. This news item actually might get me closer to working with a single code editor. Its absolutely fantastic so far and very fast.
Well done.
I'm surprised I got 7/9 considering my inability to nicely position furniture in a room.
The U.S. is not only a sovereign nation but the most powerful one, and it would ignore any U.N. resolutions it does not like. The U.S. is not bound to international law it never agreed to.
I'm not on Lion, but even on Snow Leopard, Sublime will only show a tab for a file if you double click the file in the sidebar, or edit the file (which Convert Tabs to Spaces is doing). Though there might be a Lion specific issue aside from this.