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I'm all for billionaires using their money to fund research, but that NRO article was so bad that I question his judgement.

1) I don't know what tech slowdown he's talking about. The cost of genome sequencing is falling at faster-than-Moore's law rates; that's probably the most significant growth area right now.

2) Thiel is a Singulatarian [3]; I thought the point of that was that exponential growth is inevitable. It's that coupled with this article that leads me to dub him bipolar. If you believe in the Singularity I presume you believe it will happen with or without any particular pool of money.

3) This paragraph. Maybe sounding like Grampa Simpson is required to get into NRO. And who in their right mind considers Robert Moses and Brasilia good models for anything?

> "towards the end Robert Moses, the great builder of New York City in the 1950s and 1960s, or Oscar Niemeyer, the great architect of Brasilia, belong to a past when people still had concrete ideas about the future. Voters today prefer Victorian houses. Science fiction has collapsed as a literary genre. Men reached the moon in July 1969, and Woodstock began three weeks later. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that this was when the hippies took over the country, and when the true cultural war over Progress was lost."

Damn hippies! And here I heard that they helped invent personal computing [1] and saved physics [2].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Pers...
[2] http://www.hippiessavedphysics.com/
[3] http://singularityu.org/?p=1749
>Actual grooming is at least moderately important, too, because people are hilariously easy to hack by expedients such as dressing appropriately for the situation, maintaining a professional appearance, speaking in a confident tone of voice, etc. Your business suit will probably cost about as much as a computer monitor. You only need it once in a blue moon, but when you need it you’ll be really, really, really glad that you have it. Take my word for it, if I wear everyday casual when I visit e.g. City Hall I get treated like a hapless awkward twenty-something, if I wear the suit I get treated like the CEO of a multinational company. I’m actually the awkward twenty-something CEO of a multinational company, but I get to pick which side to emphasize when I want favorable treatment from a bureaucrat.

is it really expected or even appropriate to wear a suit to an interview in the valley? i remember doing that during for my internship interview and i felt silly sitting next to my interviewer at lunch who was wearing shorts and flip flops.
Wait, you're saying you're using garbage collection in C++? Or you're saying you're using stack-locked reference counting in C++? If the former, you have the same problem as Java: tuning it. If the latter, you've got different performance problems if it's shared between threads. If it's not shared between threads, then you only dodged the question.
Those are both excellent sources – two more that are often (surprisingly) good are Spiegel International and Rolling Stone Politics.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics

Spiegel International I believe has the best coverage of European affairs and The Atlantic the best of US affairs. The New Yorker will, on occasion, have bar none the best investigative journalism around, but at the cost of the coverage being too spotty to use as a primary news source. Recently Spiegel International has mostly become that for me. (I live in Germany, and actually the fact that they only publish 3-4 articles per day in English I find quite nice since it tends to reduce the noise and just publish the most important stuff – usually in long-ish format.)

An interesting tidbit on Spiegel – despite being (in print format) a German language magazine, if I remember correctly, the only news magazines with larger circulation in the world are Time, Newsweek and The Economist and it reportedly has the largest fact-checking department in the world.
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Perhaps taken in context one might have read it as "if you describe your sole value as the ability to write code, someone is already working on a way to get you fired".
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I'm happy to go on record here and the unerasable archives of internet history, risking my own reputation and that of my entire line of descendants, in saying that I am convinced this particular dog and pony show is a hoax.
Before taking anything in this article literally, you should be aware this is the same guy who claims ghosts give him gambling advice:

Several people have asked if I’m still able to connect with my recently departed friend Ron who died in a car accident on August 14th. The answer is yes. He’s been hanging around often. The connection is so strong that I don’t have to meditate or anything. I just think of him and can instantly converse with him. I’ve never experienced such a strong connection before.

Seriously, read the whole thing[1], he claims his ghost friend helps him win at blackjack.

[1] http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/08/can-spirits-help-yo...
Electronics and hardware are the same thing. I'm a hardware engineer and I design electronics. The term hardware could also be used to describe things like nuts and bolts but but that isn't a common usage in engineering.
Does the JVM finish up outstanding requests and ask the load balancer to please-don't-send-me-anything-for-a-bit before it does a full GC?
Did I say anything about Google in my comment?

Most of abandoned devices out there are by third party Android cellphone makers, who have a lot of incentive of making users just buy the new version. After all, it's their only revenue stream.

Apple, on the other hand, besides being traditionally nicer to its customers (as shown by them toping the user and support satisfaction surveys every damn year), also have the iTunes and iPhone App Store to get money off of customers with older iPhones, so they can afford to give them a new iOS version. And they also use the iPhone as a lure to their other device offerings (iPad, Macs, etc), so the benefit from users of an older iPhone not feeling left behind iOS-wise.

Perhaps the biggest reason is this: Apple still sells older models (such as the 3GS, 4G etc), especially to other parts of the world. So it's an added incentive that those are upgradable to the latest iOS.

Now, since you asked, perhaps Google doesn't want to add to their Android dev expenses the potentially huge expense of supporting older devices.
Might be useful, but I don't know if competition is more so.

Add pets.

Be more "opinionated" a la 37signals.

Have more fun (random search items)

Don't make everything in each column (does anybody HATE food that bad?)
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They also won't let you into the labs with just a backpack.

In a literal sense, no, that's not enough. In a practical sense, if you're serious about doing research and have the necessary background to be able to do good research, finding a faculty member who will invite you to join their group as an unpaid "research assistant" is trivial.
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So it produced 470kW of electricity. But there was a 500kW generator hooked up to it running the whole time. Mystery solved.

That sucks. I don't believe in free energy, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
The article didn't mention anything about the difference in "shipped" vs "sold" numbers. Apple's numbers are those that have sold through to customers. So there is not enough information to tell if it's "a material difference".

The rest of the article is equally shoddy. For example:
Chinese phone maker ZTE Corp.’s cheaper handsets helped it take 4.7 percent and overtake Apple for fourth place. Global market shipments climbed 14 percent to 390 million units, according to the researcher.

Apple does not even produce feature phones, so the inclusion of Apple in that paragraph can only be construed as mischievous. It's like saying "Porsche fell to last place in the under-US$20K category".
I think Patrick is missing a niche segment of Hackers who have been making a lot of money in last few years.They are the independent Mobile App Developer(iOS/Android)

If you choose this path then you dont even have to start a company,all you need to do is make awesome apps.It might be a little hard to start but in a year you should be making good enough money to go independent and then sky is the limit.It is not only possible but probable that you will write better applications (using services like Parse) than entire megacorps.
Sorry, but what does that have to do with the validity of the original post? So the guy talks to some imaginary being? Guess what, billions of other people do that too! It's called religion. Yeah, I admit it is kind of strange but that's a just an ad hominem attack. I actually found the article interesting.
Good read, i totally agree with some of the points made.
"My previous salary is not relevant to the value I would add to your company."

Or just cite an NDA (real or imagined); most employers will back off immediately at that point since (a) they don't want to be accused of inducing you to break a contract, and (b) they probably don't want to hire people who break NDAs lightly.
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"The classic its not what you know but who you know". Also super confidence (even if your wrong).
I wish it was different but then again I'm not smart so maybe I'm glad :)
Actually, if you read the article, the output was being independently verified.
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I understand the context. Patrick's formulation is so commonplace as to be cliche. Code is our medium of expression. There's nothing inaccurate or ignominious about describing ourselves as programmers. To say that the code exists to solve problems is to flirt with tautology.
Legitimate question: how come it's free? Do you plan on charging at a later date, or is there some paid account necessary to share via web?

I just can't believe this would be completely free, no strings. I don't mean to cause offense or anything; I'd actually love to pay money for something like this.
I don't agree with everything he said, but in terms of completeness about working as a software developer vs what you learn in school this is spot on.
'It was pretty good.' 'High, Whats your salary?'

What I said is pretty tongue in cheek, but being vague in a way that hints that it compensated well can work.
Don't be childish, please.

I am asking you, what part of what I wrote sounds like SciFi to you. Synthetic Fuel is produced for many years already, its not SciFi but decade old technology.
They rewrote a relatively small part of their code base, a small part of their in memory cache. For a team who a) wrote the code base and b) change it every day, this wasn't a big deal more then it was an interesting problem. From an operations standpoint I'd consider app servers that need to be rotated every hour or so a very brittle architecture. (I don't let that kind of think go without protesting wildly.)
Why is someone spending their time trying to figure out free energy, when we have the sun and thermal energy that is untapped and plentiful? Seems like a waste of time, we need to be working on getting the costs of real solutions down so they can be adopted and used more widespread.
How jaded.

Sounds rather like a "Guide to Success in High School" written by the guy that graduated with perfect grades but got his ass kicked every day.

Well, not everybody gets their ass kicked every day.

I absolutely cringe at the idea of a bright-eyed young programmer becoming prematurely jaded based on somebody else's experiences.

"This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer."

Definitely failed in that regard for this young engineer and I hope it fails similarly for my cohorts.
The same reason people were developing internal combustion engines when they should have been focusing on how to breed faster and bigger horses.
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There are more videos floating around of this eCat system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhvD4KuAEmo&feature=playe...!

If it's all a hoax, it's a very elaborate one.
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Here is a riddle: Why is that the case? Could it be because no one cares about Google TV? Hm? Maybe that’s the reason?

Ability means nothing. Apple is where it is because its products actually work with consumers. That’s the nut Apple (and Google) has to crack. The big picture matters (Maybe apps on the TV is the right answer?) and details matter (What kind of content can you get?).

All your talk about ideas and ability won’t help there.
If it isn't a hoax, why wouldn't they disconnect the generator to remove doubt?
I agree wholeheartedly. That's how I promote my consulting biz, "More money for your business."

It is amazing how devs think that dollar value should equal effort. It does not. And this doesn't just apply to software. It applies to anything and everything. The value of something is what someone is willing to pay for it in that one split second when they click "charge my card".
Might be some selection bias going on there. ;)
It's beyond strange, it's credibility damaging. How can you trust anything written by a guy who claims dead people take up residence in water bottles?

Then Ron [his dead friend] says to me, “Put the water bottle back on the table. It makes it easier for me to see.”

And wouldn’t you know it? As soon as I return the bottle to the table, I start winning again — fast.

All I'm saying is this guy isn't a credible source. He makes fantastic claims with no evidence, and people should be aware of that.
When I think of ridesharing this much more pleasant one comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Harry_Met_Sally
Independently verified by a mysterious "unnamed customer."

It's really irritating. I have training in physics and actually think cold fusion is a very promising area of research. But jokers like this dude end up giving it a bad name, which makes it harder to do real research on it without losing funding for your other projects, which makes legitimate scientists pass over it even more, which makes even more loons take the stage.

Le sigh.
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On the not calling yourself a programmer part: It may be a local thing, but the term engineer was usurped by government to essentially refer to someone who does things by the book. As such, engineer has come to mean someone who has trouble seeing the bigger picture and won't break some rules to deliver something amazing.

Obviously that is not true of many engineers, but the damage to the term is already done (again, perhaps only locally). I find it hard to take programmers who call themselves engineers seriously as a result, even if they are really good at what they do. My advice is not call yourself an engineer if you develop software. You want to use a title that makes people think you do amazing things.
I gotta say, I'm really happy with how many of these I don't recognize. I'm glad it's not all existing channels.

Now to start applying!
Right, but unless I misunderstood something, the generator hooked up to it could have been an input, making it imminently possible to produce the verified output without actually performing cold fusion.

I'm not saying that this is what happened, but that's a pretty important loophole in all this, no?
"Once the reaction chambers got up to temperature, they were maintained by the heat produced by the reaction. I'm not sure why they kept the generator running after that, but I would guess it was for back-up or safety. I'm sure the engineers testing the system made sure what the power levels were at all times."

I'm not sure I buy the explanation.
This is literally true.

But I come out of experimental physics, semiconductor engineering, and biology, where "the necessary background to be able to do good research" generally translates to "you have the kind of lab skills training that you can only get by getting a Ph.D. in a lab just like ours, plus you know how to write (or at least contribute vital portions of) successful grants to pay for the equipment you'll be using and the reagents and parts and live animals that you'll be consuming as you work". The thing is, lab benches are expensive, outlandishly expensive in many cases, so you'll have to earn your spot at that lab bench by outcompeting whoever else might want it. The net result is that, yes, with a modicum of talent you can probably always be an unpaid research assistant, but the practical difference between that and a full-time career in research is just a few thousand dollars in salary. ;)

(Or you can learn to build scientific equipment out of hardware found on the side of the road. This can work well, if you choose your field carefully.)

Now, in a field like math or CS where adding you to a research group may require only the occasional spare chair to park you in and a modest 5% increase in the coffee budget: Absolutely, you can dabble in university research as much as you want. This is one of the charms of such fields. Didn't Erdös run his entire career out of spare chairs in other people's offices and apartments? And, of course, MIT is legendary for the excellent work done by people hanging around Tech Square snarfing up spare CPU cycles.
Looks like article tries to answer this :
"Probably the biggest opening for skeptics will be the continually running genset that is probably rated for 500 kW (my guess), and appears to have been connected by cables to the E-Cat. "Where's the mystery?" So knock yourselves out, skeptics. It's the customer who has to be happy, and apparently this one was satisfied that those cables were not contributing to the 470 kW output during self-sustaining mode."

It is still need to be independently verified in controlled environment though.
Right. I might say "I'm a computer programmer", but I usually say it right after "me and five other guys track everything about all video plays for ESPN.com" or a rough equivalent.
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Please back up your claims.
"Want to get trained on Ruby at a .NET shop? Implement a one-off project in Ruby. Bam, you are now a professional Ruby programmer — you coded Ruby and you took money for it. (You laugh? I did this at a Java shop. The one-off Ruby project made the company $30,000. My boss was, predictably, quite happy and never even asked what produced the deliverable.)"

Unless an employee actually gets permission to do this, this makes him incredibly selfish, and is a good way to get fired (and deservedly so), no matter how good he is.
The "customer" is probably part of the scam. It doesn't smell like a scam, it reeks like a scam.
Yes, the Roadster is amazing. However, there's about 20 left in the US to sell. I drove one, but cannot buy one. Completely agree that it is thrilling, like riding a roller coaster, with you in control.

Disclaimer: After driving it, I did buy some TSLA stock.
I think this is more like it: http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3934
Or wrong. The current thinking is that they won't go in at all unless some significant performance issues can be resolved, but separate to that, a lot of people really dislike "refinements". Indeed, I've struggled to find anyone on IRC to speak in support of it :-)
So is the guy I'm working with but he is a couple of layers above the transistors...more into FPGA/Systems/Logic CAD.

I understand your point; only wondering why use 'hardware' and not 'electronics' - from a business development perspective. Perhaps it points to future plans.
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A programmer, to me, is someone who is familiar with the entire process of software development. From gathering requirements, to designing interfaces, to writing code, to delivering and supporting the final product. I believe the term normally used to refer to someone who can only write code is code monkey.
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You have my curiosity piqued. Why is that?
I'm sorry to hear that. Well, you can become jaded in the normal course of events if you prefer.

When that happens, remember that this article exists. It's good for tactics later, when you realize you can use it.

I've been programming professionally for 15 years, and programming at all for almost 25 (now I feel old). I'm a fantastically skilled, experienced and versatile programmer, even for that experience level. I am, by any reasonable metric, highly successful. I work on very interesting problems. I work for a cool yet profitable company. I do code and not management, and I otherwise get the computer programmer dream job. I may be jaded by long experience, but I'm not bitter and I have no reason to be bitter.

Patrick is totally, completely, 100% on the money with this article. Everything he says is true. Remember where you saw this so you can come back to it in a few years.
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It seems to me stupendously incompetent to scan for radiation without a plan.
Because wind and solar etc have a few disadvantages, especially that they are not steady, sometimes the wind is strong, sometimes none, sometimes the sun shines, sometimes it doesn't (especially during the night). And power grids don't like energy like that, it can collapse the whole grid. So you have to buffer your energy, and that is expensive and not so easy to do. Nuclear or (if it works one day) fusion will give you a steady source of energy.
Cool! Definitely going to be on the lookout for when you guys make your way back to Waterloo.
The point is to dress appropriately, not to wear a suit every day. Some companies expect you to show up in a suit and some don't. So figure out which and act accordingly. If your interviewer is wearing flip-flops then you clearly overdressed.
See, there you go, that is awesome.
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