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Actually, excluding 7-10% from the pool may not mean any lives lost. It will just decrease the available blood supply, which can be compensated through many other means.

Excluding certain categories is a simple and effective administrative solutions - and doesn't really make any sense to confuse it with anything else.
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It's incredible how relatively sparse the application itself is. No essays, no short answers, no letters of recommendation. No prose of any kind. Simply a resume, references, an academic transcript, and a small list of "additional skills". The astronaut website talks repeatedly about focusing on candidates with high levels of academic achievement, and I guess they aren't kidding. With this application, for better or worse, that's about all they have to go on in this screening round.
>Some critics, including Bill Gates, noted that Apple ended up not adopting the entire NeXT operating system. There’s some truth to that, because Apple decided not to leap into a completely new system but instead to evolve the existing one.

Is there somewhere where Bill Gates said "none of the NeXT code made it into OS X".

That's the impression I got the other day from this comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3229928

Quoting the relevant part:

>One example of this is Jobs talking about how NeXT's software gave the Mac new life. Isaacson says this is a lie, and then goes on to quote Bill Gates who says none of the NeXT code made it into OS X. Now, this is an obvious and bald faced lie on Gates' part, but Isaacson doesn't know any better. He's decided that Jobs is a liar, and therefore , whenever someone says anything that disagrees, it must be evidence that Jobs was lying.

>Reality is, OS X is NeXTSTEP with the Mac UI put on top of it, and at this point another 10 years of evolution. Gates was lying for whatever reasons Gates lies (and gates really is pathological in this regard).

From your quote from the book, Bill Gates seems to have said a very different thing, not sure one could call him a liar on that(even not allowing that people try to put a bad light on rivals).
"There’s some truth to that, because Apple decided not to leap into a completely new system but instead to evolve the existing one."

That's not really true. What they decided to do was build copious backwards compatibility with OS 9 into what was essentially NeXTStep and then re-skin the OS so it looked Mac-like. All the backwards compatibility stuff was essentially new, I believe, and not ports of the OS 9 internals.

You can maybe squint at that quote and say it's not really false, but it certainly doesn't get it right at the technology level.
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To be fair, this discussion isn't about that link. It's about Gruber's post, which is almost content-free. When you start a discussion with a link to a blog linking to a blog, you need to be prepared for things to get a little far afield.

And I'll admit: I'm detecting (both in Gruber's post and in the discussion here) an awful lot of simple anger at Isaacson coming out as needless nitpicking (c.f "He mispelled OS X!" above. Seriously?).
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The rest primarily coming in from natural Google ranking + the app store pages then?
Thanks for the reply. I can only speak of personal experience here as I don't have the time to do any sort of rigorous analysis of the data, but I feel like greenspun's analysis is becoming more relevant even at the lower levels of post-secondary education, such as undergrad.

I'll first qualify this by saying that I wasn't talking about doing an ROI comparison against humanities or social sciences. If you have a Bachelor of Arts in Renaissance History, of course your prospects are going to be worse that someone with a Biology degree. But someone with a chemistry degree is going to do much, much worse than someone with a Business or Commerce degree, and possibly even an econ degree.

Engineering changes this balance somewhat as it is quite pragmatic and has a much more industrial-friendly focus to it, so yes a chemical engineer is probably going to do alright. But even then, someone smart enough to get a Chem. Eng degree is also probably smart enough to do really well with a business degree, or get a law degree, and would probably do better monetarily in either of those fields.

When I was in University I watched as many of my friends and classmates made the same calculation and acted on it. The guy who lived across the hall from me in third year busted his balls to an A in quantitative chem, working through some really hard and grueling lab sessions, looked at the effort he had just put in and promptly switched majors to Commerce. 2 years later he graduated after taking a workload that allowed to network way more and find a hot girlfriend, and now works downtown for an oil company making ~120,000 at the age of 28. This is in a place where that is real money, not New York where that doesn't go far.

The sciences are already basically full of people who are taking them out of love and passion for the subject, people for whom this ROI calculation is meaningless because they can't put a dollar figure on their feelings for their discipline. Apparently this is no longer enough, and we need more people in these subjects. But unless you do something to entice the people who are capable, but are also able to be logical about their choice, then I don't see this situation changing anytime soon.
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Maybe media's access to Jobs was bigger than everyone thought, after all.

Maybe. I don't really know, I'm just hypothesizing.
For a fair number of people it is simply not possible to get their finances in order without massive life changes. Doesn't mean they shouldn't do it, for values of "shouldn't" such as "wouldn't be better off and happier, five or ten years down the road".
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Except for the iPhone app, with multi-hour delays required for a refresh to actually load new notifications, comments, etc. It'd be fine if push notifications could simply purge the cache since those arrive instantly even if it takes the better part of a day for new comments to actually be displayed on the post.
Never heard of a Kaossilator before; it looks like great fun, and more to the point it lends itself completely to being an iDevice app. Hope somebody ports it asap!
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Because some people have usernames like 'the.
This is a valid point. The EECS department at Berkeley essentially sets the distribution of letter grades that will be assigned at the end of each course[0], so there will always be many damned smart students who end up getting really low (or failing) grades because of their performance relative to their peers.

I majored in CS at Berkeley, and there were only one or two professors that I can recall who strayed even slightly from these departmental guidelines. For me, the harsh curves essentially ruined what would have been an amazing educational experience. It was basically a perpetual preparation for the next exam, because you were always competing for your spot on the grade scale.

This is a very real deterrent for not only students who need a decent GPA (e.g. for grad school), but also for those who want to actually enjoy their time at university.

[0] http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Policies/ugrad.grading.shtml
Good decision which has obviously paid off :) Portland is still raining, but business is excellent.
Again that drains talent, though, if they're working on it full time.
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Maybe if "hackers" started showing a little judgement and self-control, and stopped acting like a Penn State coach on a grade school playground.
I thought this was posted a week ago. Don't upvote this!
No it did read like I was predicting it's demise, it was not my intent but it did read like it. Thanks for the kind words, I enjoy participating here and it is always nice to have someone say they enjoy my contributions.
I may give this a spin. I've been using xScope since it began development because I wanted a low-clutter, high-speed option.

Out of curiosity, had you tried xScope too and found it lacking?
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I don't know what "compilable Perl" has to do with the CPAN. "Compilation" suggests some sort of execution and distribution strategy, while the CPAN is an archive of resuable code and the surrounding ecosystem of dependency management, documentation, bug tracking, history, annotation, and comprehensive testing around it.

I'm suggesting that if you measure the amount of code submitted to the CPAN, the number of authors, the frequency of updates, and the freshness of versions, you'll see that Perl 5 is far from stagnant.
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I believe the confusion arises from the use of the term "existing one". That could be construed as referring to NeXT, so it would mean they decided to evolve NeXT by making changes to it over many years, instead of switching to it at once.

If you read "existing one" as Mac OS 9, then that sentence would mean a completely different thing.
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At a complete guess, i'd guess that their parser would check for usage of a plus that doesn't fit the boolean mould and doesn't count it as such. And i guess too, because like you say...autocomplete knows about it, it has exceptions for acceptable +'s that also aren't included in the malformed searches that the Google guy is talking about.

So i still can't really imagine how there are so many misused ones...
I'm surprised that they will accept a graduation degree in lieu of 1,000+ hours of pilot-in-command time in a jet aircraft. I'm a private pilot of single-engine propeller airplanes and getting my degree in CS is certainly no substitute!

I'm applying tonight.
"Frequent travel may be required" is not all that strange considering this is for an astronaut...
I'm not seeing the change yet, will we be able to use "verbatim:hello world" to do an exact search? I don't see myself navigating through the sidebar each time I need to find something specific.
I sometimes regret not switching out of my aerospace engineering major. I went to a good undergraduate engineering school (Georgia Tech), and frankly the educational experience was terrible. Professors who weren't engaged, TA's who couldn't speak English well enough to easily convey the material, exams that were unrelated to what was taught in class, etc. I had a few great professors, but they were few and far between.

When I left engineering to go to a smallish private law school, I had a totally different experience. Classes taught entirely by professors. Maximum of ~60 students per class and more typically 20-30 in upper-level courses. Professors who would engage the class in hypotheticals rather than just dryly recount the rules. Exams that actually tested the material we learned.

The fundamental problem is that engineering schools, especially the big state ones like Berkeley, Michigan, Illinois, and Georgia Tech, are research factories. They crank out certain amount of BS's to meet industry demand for engineers, but their investment in those graduates seems minimal at best.

Now, don't get me wrong. I think an undergraduate degree in engineering is still the best way to go (as long as you can hack the math and it won't kill your GPA). Even if you ultimately want to do law, finance, or consulting, people really do take you more seriously. But at the same time, I really can't blame people when they stay away from STEM majors, especially ones that test well and know they will be able to go to a top graduate school with their liberal arts degree.
My limited understanding of reading his story is that he has since graduated, emigrated to the United States because of his observation that doing awesome things is not tolerated in his homeland, released apps, and has just recently gotten VC funding and is going to Startup School.
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At $50 million a seat, that starts to add up.
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No it's a conspiracy - I'm just not sure what kind
Haha, I hear ya on that. I worked on a .NET team, apparently that meant C# only, when F# came out I started writing F# until someone found out. (What's this Fsharp.exe that's crashing the build!?!?!?). Luckily, I had written so much (in terms C# code) that I was able to keep on writing in F# (technically, I wasn't allowed to create new F# code, but was allowed to maintain old code, oddly enough most new features made more sense as maintenance on the existing F# code).
Not just rewards, having a credit card with a good history is so valuable. I've just turned 20 and my credit rating is the highest possible because of how I've used credit cards (and other sorts of credit) in the past, they are a fantastic way to prove you're a good person to give credit to.
No wonder my website, foo.bar.biz has been getting so much traffic :o

I'd rather . notation than "" any day. Doesn't seem to work now...
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They have 2 paths to qualify - piloting astronauts and non-piloting. So it's not a substitute, per se.
I believe it qualifies you for a different job; NASA traditionally splits people into the roles that require a pilot background (Pilot, Mission Commander, etc.), and those that require scientific credentials (Mission Specialist).
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You don't need to look at the specs, because you see that when you're looking at a device. Just like you don't need to know the size of the hammer -- you see it. I guess that's what the grandparent tried to say.
Glad to hear it! It sounds like 2011 was a good year for lots of people.
I think the gist of it rather seems to be that the lack of technical knowledge means that there's a lot of insights into Steve Jobs thinking that isn't there because Isaacson doesn't know which questions to ask and what stuff to research. After all, that is part of what made Jobs noteworthy. The book is full of detailed examples from early Apple history, but that's only because they've been well documented by other people.

Likewise, he barely touches on Jobs personal beliefs and his connection to Zen Buddhism. Wouldn't it be interesting to ask Jobs more about that? We only get a few quotes, the most substantial is lifted from his graduation speech.
I am about to move my personal blog over to blogofile (like Jekyll, but written in Python) which has about 500 or so entries. Will let you know how long they take to build when done...
That is exactly right. I would actually be very surprised if he believed what he was saying considering everything he has seen and been involved with. To say things will consolidate and stop as they are is extremely short sighted for one so experienced in these matters.
I hate meetings and am one of those who refuse them if I don't know why I am being asked to attend. If something is serious enough to require a face to face, then it warrants a few details about the topic. No chance of a reply if you cant say when you want to meet, because I can fill my day with productive tasks and meetings easily, no room for meetings with vague times or topics. I'm with you on this.
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"Astronaut Candidates will be required to pass a swimming test during the first month of training."

Does the back float count?
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If what you're using works for you there's little reason to switch. I have had certain consraints in how I use computers that motivated me to explore different alternatives that "do more with less". But as users demand smaller devices and more portability I'm beginning to wonder if these "unconventional" alternatives are not generally useful for others besides me.

Not only do I divorce the OS from the hardware, but I separate the OS from my personal data. Unless I have both wholly residing in RAM (which I find generally faster than HDD or USB/SD), they are not on the same media. As much as possible I try to make the OS read-only and the media used for data (e.g. RAM for short-term data storage or HDD for long-term data storage) read-write. Perhaps there are parallels to certain object file formats and their separation of code and data.

I've also thought a lot about and experimented with the use of separate, simplified, fast-booting OS's for different purposes. I am forced to use different OS's to perform certain tasks. But the popular all-purpose OS's are huge and often I only need a small fraction of their functionality.

What if we did not think in all or nothing terms about OS functionality? What if some OS's were small and only limited-purpose?

Rebooting is the slow step. But these limited-purpose OS's, being small and simple, can be very robust and responsive once booted.

The smaller the kernel and userland, the more RAM I have for storage.
Your concern is valid and you probably wouldn't want to program every DOM manipulation with nodequery, and that isnt required. Yes, you would theoretically want to limit the number of calls to the server the same as you would in any paradigm, and hopefully that would be the same as or fewer than an equivalent client-side application. Currently this is just an experiment and I dont recommend it for production.
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A Google search is hardly the way to resolve that. OS X searches for anything with OS or X whereas OSX only searches for things with OSX so of course the former has more hits.

I mean you're right that it's technically "OS X", but your methodology for proof is flawed.
Don't you need to be a lawyer in order to represent a corporation in a court filing? See United States District Court, Northern District, Local Rule 3-9 (b):
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I know it's tempting but please don't speculate like that, it raises my blood pressure. :)

Google keeps ranking changes completely siloed from the ad side of the company, and the decision makers about ranking changes don't see statistics about how it might effect ads. We don't even have a way of collecting that data. (At least as far as I've ever seen.)
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Exactly. I'm not in a position to comment on the amount of funding in the early-stage startup world, but this particular comment by Parker reads like another executive whining that engineers are too independent.
The optimal way to play any "reputation" system is to build up an exemplary rating until you've unlocked all the "trusted-people-only" privileges, then suddenly exploit them all at once and disappear. In the case of credit ratings, this means being an exemplary debtor until one day you're trusted with a huge loan and you default.

This clearly still happens. It's a fundamental fact about how debts work and it's a central element in many confidence tricks (for example pyramid schemes). So credit ratings only benefit the lenders if the amount they save on loans to suboptimal players who default at random exceeds the amount they lose to organized people who exploit the system.
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Yeah, I'm like you and in the end it works out, I'm sure it did for you as it does for all of us.

The message I'd give to kids going through this is don't listen to the idiots that are complaining about complying with arbitrary orders when they themselves don't know what they are doing. So much talk in this thread about having to conform to specs. That's true if you have a government contract and intend to deliver a useless system that will be scrapped, which cost billions of tax dollars, but which exactly matches the spec that was done in consultation with a bunch of people that don't understand their own problem domain or what they really want. Meanwhile there are also companies like Apple that don't really care what the customers think they want, they build things that they think are the best, that are personal challenges according to their own vision. State education is a process of destroying this form of initiative.
May want to ask some users who have received their units to post up for you here: http://www.kindle-fireforum.com/
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People tend to forget the big got big in those days partly because of control over distribution channels. It was incredibly difficult for a small software company to break into large amounts of sales if they didn't have both retail and enterprise reach.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a smaller set of niche hardware companies pop up going against that trend, and I certainly see the state of software at the moment fragmenting further, not consolidating more. While Facebook and Google theoretically are dominating the distribution channels again, in reality those channels can be leveraged by smaller players easily. As if every boxed windows copy in 1995 had an empty slot where you could put your own company at low cost.
About the same, 8 hours in the building, about 4 doing hardcore work, the others working on lightermanagement type stuff, research, future project planning, non deliverables