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-Very well thought out, long term strategy.

Probably HN unrelated but: I would love to hear more about that and how this is actually turning out. From my perspective the whole Strategic Planning thing has come under severe attack at least since Mintzberg's Rise & Fall of Strategic Planning. And if I remember correctly from reading the Lords of Strategy even Porter has grown more skeptical on Strategic planning in the long term. Would love to see how this is turning out in practice/is implemented/realized at your company.
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At least in functional programming, some things just happen to be case analyses, and there ain't much you can do to get around it.

Consider the following (scheme) definition for the ``eval'' function. (This is a conditional and not a case statement, but it's still type-based dispatch, so I think it qualifies)

(define (eval exp env)
(cond ((self-evaluating? exp) exp)
((variable? exp) (lookup-variable exp env))
((assignment? exp) (eval-assignment exp env))
((definition? exp) (eval-definition exp env))
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))

The input to this is some scheme expression. If it's a number or string (for example), that's the result (it's self evaluating). On the other hand, if it starts with the symbol ``define'', it's a definition and we define the variable in the environment.

Scheme doesn't support polymorphism, but as far as I can tell, even if it did this couldn't be changed to be polymorphic without changing what the function actually does. At the end of the day, if the input to your function is diverse enough, you're probably going to have to perform some sort of dispatch based on the type of that input.

On the other hand, I have a fairly small amount of experience with OO code, so I could be totally off base here... (please let me know if that's the case).
I was curious too, so I dug around and found this report from the Delta Cost Project, a nonprofit that studies this question (for US universities): http://deltacostproject.org/resources/pdf/trendsissuehighlig...

That is just the summary, there is a more complete report available too. The high points for me was that employee
compensation accounts for 60-70% of costs, with increases there being driven by benefits (I assume this means health insurance costs rising), and that only 30-40% of that 60-70 is spent on instructional staff.
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Actually, you do, or at least provide a useable cite, because you claimed that there's a good definition but only mentioned bad ones.

Let's see a good/not-problematic definition.
Agreed. Education is a hobby – and that is a good thing.

Hobbies always are to the betterment of the person engaging in them. Hobbies can, and often do, lead to high paying jobs and careers. Hobbies lead you to meet all kinds of interesting people who will shape your future. Hobbies are, if nothing else, enjoyable.

We just need to not lose sight of the fact that you should never bank your future on a hobby. Starting a band has made a lot of people incredibly wealthy, but that doesn't mean your band will find success. Do it because you love it, not because you want to be rich. There is nothing you can do to prepare yourself to be successful, else everyone would be.
I don't think that cancelling a major automatically means that all liberal arts classes are nonexistent. I majored in math and cs, but went to France for a term, and took philosophy, drawing, music, history, and comparative literature. I don't think my school would become a degree mill just because it didn't offer a complete degree for history.
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Are you saying that liberal arts majors can't be entrepreneurial? It takes more than engineering prowess to make a successful product. Also, although science and engineering degrees do hold the promise of a higher-paying job after graduation, that is small comfort to the engineering student who finds himself struggling with a problem set late into the night while his friends are out partying.

As for going into debt. If you choose to take out student loans in order to study anthropology and find yourself in debt as a result, that was your own mistake, and you are ultimately responsible for it. Let's stop saying that it's "unfair" to not protect people from their own mistakes. Lowering the cost of liberal arts degrees will only lead to a greater surplus than what we have today.
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> it's the liberal arts majors that subsidize the STEM programs at the undergraduate level because the per-credit tuition is roughly the same but it's cheaper to educate historians than molecular geneticists.

Umm, no, that doesn't prove your point because neither one pays their way during college (including loans). At best, that proves that LA majors are less subsidized than STEM majors.

If we look at where that money comes from, I doubt that we'll find that LA graduates are paying what it cost to educate them. I suspect that we'll find that STEM folk are.
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Problem is, a lot of memorable and important moments probably couldn't be faked if they tried, like the catch against the helmet when the Patriots lost to the Giants.

It would most certainly be a scandal, likely illegal or jeopardizing the NFL's Congressionally granted monopoly if it were fixed. One precedent is the quiz show scandals of the 50's.
The guy who inspired him is amusing:

http://www.tincup.com/2010/07/pricing/

"I’m particular about certain things. For example, I only fly American Airlines (first class) and I only stay at Hilton Hotels."

"My pricing is transparent and non-negotiable. Me in the room = greatness."

In another page, he explains what is great at:

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> If the objective is to create well-rounded, cross-disciplinary citizens, then no, that is a horrible idea.

How about some evidence that liberal arts graduates have anything to do with "well-rounded, cross-disciplinary citizens"?

As someone noted above, STEM folk are far more cross-disciplinary than liberal arts grads.
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another option is Kif (https://github.com/square/kif) an iOS integration/UI testing tool developed by Square.

we've had some good experiences thus far testing some of our newer iOS projects with Kif
> (...) human motivation is heavily influenced by expectations of how imminent the reward is perceived to be.

Think to startup solopreneurs: their reward is far in time and uncertain. So they often and periodically have motivation drops.

This is why I'm working on a productivity-focused community for startup founders and would-be ones, full of mechanisms that will try to leverage human cognition weaknesses:

http://asaclock.com
I attend CUNY Baruch in NYC. It is known for providing an excellent liberal art and business education in it's Zicklin school of business. The cost to students is about 5500 a year, and the city supplies another 11,000 or so a year per student. That's $16,500 total cost per student per year (not semester) for an excellent education, and this also funds research, buildings (in NYC, no less), and more. And many students receive large amounts of financial aid.

It is entirely possible for a school to give an excellent education for an order of magnitude less than the large schools do, and this is evidence to me that most schools are horrendously inefficient.
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On a global scale, a liberal arts curriculum is the exception, not the rule. I highly doubt that Chinese universities have liberal arts curricula.
As a native Chinese who graduated from a 211 & 985 college in China just few years ago, I think there are really some media manipulation going on here.

It's not they are going to do this, the Ministry already started this rule in as early as 2004-12-10.

The problem it trying to solve is that, there are too many low-level buzz-word fancy term majors created in Chinese universities, like "nanotech", "earth science", or "life science".

These majors often only covers a superficial fraction of the subject, and allows quick rote learning only on some intro theory, then quickly issue a diploma. The hardcore part of knowledge is hard thus left to other traditional majors

Why do Chinese have diploma greed? Because diploma is a hyper-inflation profitable industry in China. Nearly every bullshit job requires a BS degree, they employer just want to make the company staff looks "better educated"

These "hot" majors are not really teaching any knowledge, but an easy way to grab a degree, so the students can gain their entry to various job titles. The college make lots of money by expanding cheap majors.

But the students learns too few to start a serious career, so in a competitive job markets these students have much higher failure rate than similar harder majors.

In fact, corrupted officials/businessman can order famous univ. to create a special, private major for themselves, their daughters and sons. They don't even have to spend full 4 year time school to get a very high degree.

In addition, "new & new" majors" name is very similar to other authentic ones (aka ShanZhai majors) but requires a lot less effort to accomplish.

So the Ministry started to ban major frauds, under the name of "low employment rate".

Are they going to cancel or stop funding traditional liberal arts majors? I don't think they are really that stupid. Are there humanities majors effected by this rule? Sure.
This.

The fact that they are unelected and capable of overturning, reversing, or arbitrarily altering legislative decisions is exactly the point of judicial entities. Democracy is good because it's better at protecting rights than other forms of government - but if judges can do a better job, let them.

Disclaimer: American writing here. On this side of the pond, the courts are the only thing keeping us from racing into an uncontrolled police state.
So far they've all been through job postings on local user groups or contacts. I've poked around Seek a bit but not had to apply for any there as yet.

The rate all depends on what you are doing and what your experience is.
This depends on the class and school, I think. It also depends on how you approach the concepts. Yes, the case studies are typically focused on mass-consumer market but concepts such as LTV are valuable regardless of market size. Granted, they don't tell you how to apply those general concepts to startups but that doesn't take away from the usefulness of the tools, IMHO.
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You bring up a good point, but this would also be a very painful way to prove that a stupid idea is stupid. Many people will suffer in order to make an obvious point even more obvious.
As if math and science isn't force fed enough. My business partner was accused of padding his grades in high school because he was good at art and wanted to take more art classes.

Shoving this sort of stuff in high schoolers faces is exactly what kills the drive to learn. How many times do you remember that classmate in the back of the room saying something along the lines of, "Why am I learning this, I'll never use this in real life?" Did you ever think that maybe they were right?

I don't know about you, but I'd rather see a country full of people struggling to do something they are passionate about than a country full of people successfully doing something that makes them miserable.
This does make much more sense compared to the assumption we immediately jump to ("eliminating liberal arts majors.")

Actual facts aside, what is fascinating is how we arrive to this assumption. The article only mentions "unemployable graduates." Nowhere does it mention humanities or specific majors. It is then we, the readers, who apply our Western worldview and assume this means "humanities majors."
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Coaching videos might still be illustrative, though more for the finer points of technique, which matter more than one might think. Not even pros have perfect fundamentals every time.

There is a plethora of this material for soccer, Zonal Marking (zonalmarking.net) is one major blog that covers apparently every match in most major world leagues.
What would be the purpose of flagging such things? To disable access so that fewer people notice them? That doesn't seem like such a great idea. Instead, the government should be encouraging people to blog about their planned crimes in public so that lots of people can read it and call the police.

Terrorism is a lot less effective when it's treated like an ordinary crime instead of something different or special. It's best if we, as a society make it easy for people to report it to law enforcement.
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Hmm I've never actually seen anything put together like this. But you can follow Chris Brown on Grantland.com who breaks donw plays (with video and diagrams) from each NFL week and you'll slowly figure out what to look for and understand the strategy within the game. Also nfl.com has PlayBook (show) videos which break down different plays from the week.

A great tool to watch plays in stop motion so you can figure out whats happening is NFL Game rewind.

What I've written here is more a structured way of breaking down an NFL play as its taking place.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/9595/dr...

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-playbook
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I contacted the EFF a while ago about their European links and they suggested me to get in touch with http://www.edri.org/.

Now taking a look at their member associations:
http://www.edri.org/about/members
Europe has a super fractioned structure of EFF alike associations. Sure, one could argue some "regional networks", "local strength" and "European situation" and I am sure most member associations are doing good work.

But with lawmaking increasingly trickling from the central European Union Administration to the state levels it is hard to say if this lose structures are providing enough counter balance to professional lobbying efforts.

And the EFF seems to me playing on a level playing field with strong industry/lobby organization by combining a top notch legal and public relations team.
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No, they're pretty important, but they aren't absolutely crucial (make or break) and so I can put them off.
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If what you're saying is true (that this program is targeted at "shanzhai" majors) than this is very different from what this article is trying to portray.

In that case, the comments in this thread are a perfect example of how little people understand about China and how everything is portrayed through the lens of flawed media. It's a shame that everything we hear about China here in the states is from second-hand sources that have more interest in telling a shocking black and white story than portraying the gray truth.
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Duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271421

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OOP has problems adding existing functionality to new types. Interfaces are a go at the problem but they fall short for several reasons. Clojure's protocols are a better solution (as far as I can tell). Clojure also provides multi-methods and hierarchies for more sophisticated function dispatch. Their use and the reasoning behind their design is well documented on Clojure's website.
> And making it harder for businesses to discern between people who wanted to be in business and those who were 'forced' into it, also harder which will make those businesses less efficient at employing folks.

It was my impression that Chinese students followed their parents ambitions. So I am not so sure that this effect will be all that noticeable. If I'm wrong here feel free to eviscerate me.

As a side note: I upvoted you for bullet biting.
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Yes, sometimes it is a good thing that it is mentioned, though. I don't think it is a path that we want to go down again, slowly or quickly.
If this actually happened, don't you think 3M engineers would be aware of the effect before it was making a wall the size of a room that could stop a human? They didn't notice small parts and dust being repelled? And they couldn't capitalize on it even just by making a small public display of hovering objects?
Me too, but Im based in Shanghai, China
What a simple/awesome idea... I'm surprised nobody else has thought of this before!
Do you have reason to think that's likely?
First year associates at NY law firms pay $165k + bonus. Current fourth years make close to $300k. 50k+ for three years is a good investment if you do above average at a top 10 school.
I majored in CS and maths too and like you I also took advantage of various electives (psychology, philosophy, anatomy, genetics, public health). I spent a lot of my time attending friends lectures as well because you could just walk in and join the discussion without enrolling in the course. At university I would talk to people (students, academics, university staffers and researchers, hangers on) who specialised in an amazing array of topics. I would get interested in the practicalities of structural engineering for abstract architecture or plant sucrose transport channel manipulation simply by finding someone and talking to them about it.

If a school doesn't offer an entire history program, the chances of meeting someone really interested and specialised in history go down dramatically. A program isn't cut in isolation, courses are dropped, academics are fired, research programs are ended and opportunities are lost. Some universities have cut back to only offering first year courses in humanities (which you could probably learn everything from such courses with wikipedia, Khan Academy and an understocked library). You are unlikely to find people with more than a passing interest in a field if it isn't available for research at a university. Cut enough programs (or only offer a few to start with) and the school is a degree mill.

Highly specialised universities are often dead ends socially. They aren't fun places to visit, people are only there for that piece of paper that gets them a job. I've worked in a technical campus that was completely silent at night. The students would go across town to another university because "the music was better" or "it's more fun there". If there are no bands forming in an Engineering department there is something seriously wrong with the creative environment of the school or with the people who attend it. If you really want to find out why this is such a terrible idea go somewhere that has already done it.
Hah! Yeah I just noticed that after the fact, even though I've been to that site numerous times :-\
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