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Not true,if you have really had depression you WOULD NEVER wish it upon ANYONE for ANY REASON. Srry for the caps but it really pisses me of when people mAke this glib saying.

Depression is a SOUL SERIAL KILLER. LIFE WITH IT IS A LIVING HELL THAT IS ABSOLUTELY INESCAPABLE except for a few bright spots.
It's connected with creativity and braininess becuase depressed people OVERCOMPENSATE for their perceived weaknesses-they also tend to cope by keeping occupied at all times.
Just for the record, I think whilst my initial reaction was 'holy shit how much' I'm much more on board now.

If consulting is going to be a big distraction from what you want to be doing with your time, its important to be compensated for your time.

Also by setting a high bar it filters out non-serious time-consuming enquiries.

Plus Obie's one of the few in the Rails community who has the reputation (and the balls) to pull this off.
> "There is enormous pressure on our senators and congressmen to use any excuse they can to regulate the Internet."

Some of them probably know what the main agenda really is, like the main sponsors of the bill. But many of the others probably don't and they actually think that by voting for a bill like SOPA they are doing a good thing overall, and they are actually saving people's jobs (once they fall for MPAA's whole propaganda), and don't even take into consideration that by "protecting" those jobs, they could be destroying a lot more, not just economy-wise, but liberty wise, too, simply by voting for a bill like SOPA, which was of course mainly written by MPAA/RIAA themselves.

This is why I cringed when I watched the CNN GOP debate the other night and some of them were basically saying they would listen to the "experts" or "advisors" and go with whatever they are proposing. This is how we keep passing laws like these. Because the politicians themselves lack any common sense or leadership, and mindlessly pass a bill that is completely written by some corporations, or they listen to advisors who have an interest in continuing the wars, and so on. Many times they don't even read the bills themselves before they vote. They just decide on what they hear from other colleagues or from the "experts".
It blows my mind that something called Berkeley DB is owned by Oracle. You'd think it'd be a UC Berkeley project.
Case statements complect who/what pairs, so simplifying them by disentangling them should be a good idea. Clojure has really neat runtime polymorphism ( http://clojure.org/runtime_polymorphism ) that is one way to accomplish this without necessarily wading into type hell, and your multimethods end up looking like data.

"Clojure supports sophisticated runtime polymorphism through a multimethod system that supports dispatching on types, values, attributes and metadata of, and relationships between, one or more arguments."
I did one better 3 yrs ago and replaced my mom's virus ridden Windows w/ Ubuntu. Best move ever, because it drastically reduced the amount of tech support I do for her. Shit just works. Today I upgraded her to Oneiric Ocelot (Ubuntu 11.10), doubled her RAM and moved her 10,000+ photos to an ext4 partition. Now she'll be good for another 3 years as a Linux mom.
You might enjoy this article - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020369940457704...
> I would like to see the US government stop subsidizing majors and colleges that don't get results for their graduates.

We do this somewhat (though not in the same way) in Australia. Degrees in fields of high demand are subsidized; in short, if you take a government loan (aka HECS/HELP debt), you owe less at the end of it. It's a good way to promote studying fields that deliver, but it doesn't prevent those with the desire to study arts degrees from doing so.
Law = supply/demand. Lots of people want to study law (it's lucrative), and therefore they can up the rate.
Sounds like they're looking for a system where the Steve Jobs' of the world have what they need in school to become successful. There are probably a lot of Steve Jobs' who do drop out, but going through years of college drained their enthusiasm.
In my opinion the quality problem (knowing apriori) is endemic to any market. Unknown entities will be hard pressed to convince but that is true of most things. What will be interesting though (and this is starting) the good 'free' quality stuff starts becoming harder to find for free as those folks develop appreciative audiences.

I still subscribe to several magazines, but by far my favorite in terms of understanding this new reality is The Economist. If you subscribe you get your content digitally for no additional cost. Presentation is good and not overwhelming with ads (of course the magazine isn't either so perhaps its more cultural to the publisher as well). One magazine I subscribe to but don't pay for as an 'app' is Popular Mechanics. Their presentation is less useful in digital form than their printed form sadly.
I'm going to be the asshole that points out that startups aren't an industry. They're businesses that operate in many industries. If you want to work with/for/building a startup, do that—but pick an industry you know something about or want to learn about. If you want to work in IP law with startups as your customers, that's a viable business as well—but your industry is IP law, not startups. Why make a big deal out of the distinction? Because if you're only focused on the startup, you're already going to fail.
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The only thing that I can really communicate via a musical instrument is that it's a good thing I'm a programmer.
I keep hearing this flood meme. I'm not sure I buy into it.

It may conceivably devalue the degree itself by making it less uncommon, but skills likely lose value at a much lower rate. There are also network effects - the pace of modern science and engineering goes almost entirely on the fact that we have a great many people working at once and sharing results.

There's also nothing to stop you from studying engineering then getting a job which uses a completely different skill set. A liberal arts degree is not a career training program in most cases. Opportunity cost is one big reason why this is less acceptable than it could be. However, it may be that different program models make different revenue models more viable, driving down the opportunity cost.

Of course, none of this addresses the quality problem. It's one thing to say "throw more engineers" but it's another entirely to create more good engineers.
Hi bonsinger - I practiced IP law for 18 months before leaving practice to do a startup. If you'd like to chat about my experience, email me, it's in my profile.
This is excellent.

Here's a question: Where can I buy the equivalent of this post, but in video form with actual illustrative game footage?

I've wanted to see that for some time. Want it for every sport on earth, really.

I've thought about trying to watch a bunch of coaching videos for my sport of choice, but was never sure it would help. They aren't designed for me. I don't need to know how to think like an above-average high-school coach or player; I want to admire the work of top-level pros.
Market forces aren't good enough for them :P
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Agreed. I have a history degree, and program professionally. Universities are about expanding your mind, not turning into Good Employee.
I used to watch NHL hockey when I was a kid. Then I started going to college hockey games, and that was great, but a terrible side effect is that I've never
been able to enjoy TV hockey in quite the same way. Those players off the screen are really important.

The advent of HDTV has done a lot to fix this for hockey, where the rink is not so huge. But it would be awesome to have full-field perspective on football.
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And to be fair, the code breaking machines (bomba) were important early computers.
What Jobs needed to become successful was to drop out, start a company, get kicked out of said company, hit bottom, and wander around in India for awhile. None of that requires a degree.

Woz also lacked any sort of degree when he worked for HP and Apple. He only went back for his BSEE after he'd already made his mark.
I'm fairly certain the NFL has licensing rights and prohibits any video reproduction of any kind so you could try to get away with it for awhile, but it wouldn't last long!
I've had my parents running Google Chrome inside of Sandboxie for over half a year. No issues so far.
> Turing's work was almost always purely theoretical [...]

Turing also got his hands dirty, and actually build some computers. So I'd put him closer to Feynman, who also did more applied work, than the theorist Einstein.
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Perhaps you aren't suggesting exactly this, but I don't understand the commonly-held view that those in technical majors don't have a 'broad education'. Most people I've known in technical majors have as broad an education as any liberal-arts major I know. I personally feel that even in the absence of breadth requirements (which at my university are non-trivial), most of my classmates would be as well-educated as they are now, simply because they have the ability to read and absorb information.

Students who go to college and get a liberal-arts education often don't retain their major-specific knowledge once they move into the job market and into a role that has nothing to do with what they studied. What they are supposed to retain though, is learning- and critical-thinking skills that make them better at various jobs than someone who did not go to college at all. And that same learning- and critical-thinking ability is something technical majors also develop quite well - hence I don't see a liberal arts education as having a monopoly on developing 'generalists' or really providing any advantage in that regard.

Naturally this is also a problem of efficient allocation. I think there is value in the knowledge produced by every field - however we require different levels of supply for different skills/knowledge - and I would further argue that this variation in demand for skills has always existed throughout human history. Since society is both funding education and creating this demand, it makes sense to me that we meet that demand partly by creating the correct supply of variously-educated citizens.
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Hey...You are absolutely right. I think I'm confusing separate fields when I should just pick one and focus on it.
I wonder if a comprise would be compensation other than money, e.g. whatever you need that their specialty might be.
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Ask HN: Did anyone hear back from HP/Palm on the developer Touchpads?
A few weeks ago there was a posting [1] that HP/Palm is selling Touchpads to developers for a $149 fee. I contacted them back then and so far I didn't hear back.

Did anyone receive a message from them in regards to the discount codes?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3199739
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I am really glad the Chinese are doing this. Not because I think it is a good idea, it is an astonishingly bad idea, but because in doing it they will demonstrate just how bad an idea it is.

I am very much a free market type person, I think anyone should be able to get any degree they want. And I think that people should understand that just any degree doesn't mean they will be employable after they graduate. But we do need folks who are passionate about lots of different things, and take those passions rigorously to the highest level.

The Chinese may find that someone who would excel in Art History and who would have, had they been allowed to, enabled others to develop deeper insights into their culture by looking at the art that their culture has created, may be really crappy business majors, or science majors. 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.

I hope at that point everyone will look back and go "Gee that was a stupid idea." and we won't have to debate hypothetical 'what if' type arguments.
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I didn't see any mentions of banning "poets and historians" in the article (though I just skimmed to be fair). What I saw was China cutting public funding for some majors.

If someone wants to be a poet, or a historian, or anything else, more power to him. Why on everyone else's money, though?

To be honest, if your calling to become a poet is stopped by a government's funding decision, you wouldn't have made much of a poet anyway.
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Similar situation here. My Dad uses his laptop for browsing and email, maybe to scan a document every few months. After getting fed up with all the calls about spyware and other generally weird issues I installed Ubuntu.

Since then, I've had two support calls from him:
1) "Is it safe to enter my password when it's installing updates?"
2) "I'm at my friend's house... how do I add a new wireless network?"
I second the suggestion for StartupWeekend. You can come and go as you please, so if you're not digging the vibe, you can split. Plus, even if you stay for the entire time, you've only invested one single weekend.

If you don't want to wait for the event to hit your hometown again, attend one in a nearby city.

Also, I'd go become a member of a co-working office space and hang out there and mix and mingle. Startup folks and the nicest and most-helpful I've ever met.
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If the objective is to maximize short-term economic gains, then yes, that would work.

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

Regardless, I think it's a false dichotomy. Why does one have to be expensive while the other is cheap? And why can't someone get both a liberal arts education and a "practical" education? I see no reason why a student can't pay 5k for a 2-3 year liberal arts degree, and then go on to (competitively-priced) a 2-3 year engineering degree.
I think more industries need to adopt the tradesmen style apprenticeship before allowing someone to pursue post-secondary education. They should also be forced to employ apprentices before being able to hire someone with a degree -- too many students exit university with no real-world experience or any idea what their work will be like once their degree is complete.

If you really, really want to do a 3 year philosophy degree, I think should at least have to do a year as an apprentice philosopher.
I'm not sure this article will show you "how to make money" (I doubt any article can do that). Nevertheless, there were some gems in here that seem to contradict or generally undiscussed as part of the current startup zeitgeist & ethos.

"Making money is not the same as starting a business" -

A lot of the conversation, content, advice, etc today seems about the "art of the start" which is about fundraising, customer development, etc. Those may be necessary but definitely are not sufficient to having a business.

"...from Day One, a funded business is all about spending money...Anyone can spend money. Making it is the hard part"

Gary Vaynerchuk had a similar comment about us celebrating the fundraise. Again, fundraising is a worthwhile and perhaps useful milestone, but it's a means to an end which should ultimately be building a real sustainable business.

These points are what you'd expect from Jason Fried, but it was refreshing to see nonetheless.
As I and other have pointed out (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3197437), 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.

On another note, it's pretty distressing to see all these calls to drastically overhaul the university system when we're not even five years away from what was essentially an economic singularity (no pun intended).
With an svn workflow the committer sends each patch in a single authenticated request directly to the Apache svn server. With every commit they are saying "this code is appropriately licensed, even though the code may have come from other committers. The history of that code is completely obscured."

With a git workflow, the push (which is authenticated against a committer who has signed the appropriate license agreement) could contain multiple commits from other sources. This is particularly the case if it includes code from a pull request. The Apache git tree will then have commits with publically visible attribution to people who are not Apache committers and may not have signed the appropriate license agreements.

I am not saying this is a deal breaker, but it does require some thought. We don't want some contributor to come back three years later and say "that contribution from me: it was only released under the GPL". We need clear guidelines around that original pull request and how copyright/patent signoff happens. Right now, third party contributions go through a Jira patch process which includes a copyright/assignment tick box.
Probably would have better luck with super conductors
Go try it and let us know how it works out. Nearly every professional sports team has policies against recording (even your own home videos) at the games. You'll promptly be asked to leave if you don't comply.

By your logic, If Fox has the superbowl, NBC could sit above an open stadium in a helicopter and broadcast the whole game - I don't think thats the case, but I don't have the laws to back it up.
Or perhaps you need a better problem-solving paradigm. If you have too many things that you "need" to do that you can't seem to make yourself do and if life has not simply forced your hand or led to catastrophe after nine months or more of not getting them done, maybe some of those things aren't really as important as you think they are.
In the US campaign donations is a problem too, but even in Europe it can go the other way too:
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Agriculture might be the biggest step. But I don't know whether it was forward.
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but the teams already have access to the footage, it's the fans who dont
This is a little disheartening. It'll prevent people from expanding their mind in the subject area that they want, and instead, they're told that they should be studying sciences, engineering, business, or something else that'll be more "useful."

Undoubtedly, I can see why China's doing it. It's utilitarian. College is already (wrongly) seen as "job training," and this will deepen that. But the number of jobs filled is one of many measures of "useful," and this threatens to make it the only one. Nobody can predict what will come of that. Telling people that they can only pursue a certain set of majors because they're useful, and if they don't like any of them, then too bad, seems a little nearsighted.
Before it was the Big Zipped Image it was the Zipped Image, zImage or vmlinuz. Google has results as far back as 2001 or 2002 for vmlinuz so it's safe to say the tradition predates bzip2.

It's worth noting that Linux can in fact use bzip2 today, and the resulting image is still typically called bzImage.
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One manifestation of this is to break down a semi-abstract concept such as "finish coding shopping cart" to concrete tasks such as "install rails gem".
Education's general value is subject to the law of diminishing returns. Once you have learned to critically study and learn a subject of your choosing the value of education is mostly related to the value of what you produce from what you've learned. A hermit who learns the secrets of the universe and doesn't share is of no real value. A history (or engineering) major who doesn't learn how to apply what they've studied is of little use. I think it's just generally easier for engineering majors, or business majors to apply what they've learned.
> Why should university be about getting a job? Shouldn't university be about learning, and being recognised for learning.

Chinese university has a different definition. It's like vocational schools rather than college. Chinese vocational schools are like dirty work training camp.
Amusingly, baseball broadcasts would also benefit from a broader view.

Televised baseball consists almost entirely of views of the pitcher and the batter, and only turns somewhere else to show where the ball ended up or to focus on a runner who's doing something.

And that misses out on so much of the actual game. The standard view from center field, looking at the pitcher and the batter, can't show you an infield shift. It can't show you how deep the outfielders are playing. It can't show you players reacting to signs from managers and coaches. It can't show you anything except one tiny portion of what's actually happening on the field.

And so you can't really understand why things happen the way they do -- somebody hit a little bloop single into right field? Maybe it was poor defense that allowed it to happen, but maybe there was a shift on and the outfield was playing deep. You don't know, and won't see, any of that in a televised game.
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Are you just trolling or trying to make some point? What part of "Apache is currently evaluating git" makes you feel that git is being shot down?

Git is just a tool. In five years there will be another tool that everyone cannot live without. And people like you will be telling Apache that they are dinosaurs because they have not moved to that. Right now some very dedicated and skilled people are donating their free time to running the Apache organisation and evaluating the feasibility of making changes. And you accuse them of lying about quality concerns (which no one has even raised). Meanwhile, your assistance to the advancement of open source is what exactly?
This is reminiscent of a classic trope used to introduce students to some of the more advanced concepts in evolution.

Which is more evolved: a bacterium or a human?

To answer, you have to consider what it means to be "more evolved". A human has been subject to more branchings on the tree of life, but why does the tree of life branch? Usually because there is a new niche to occupy. And what is evolution? It's the process of exploring new niches and becoming "best fit" for a niche. So, humans have explored more niches in biological evolution, but all the while bacteria have instead continually adapted to become better and better fit for their niche.

Ultimately, the consequence of this is that it would be much easier for humans to be evicted from their niche, or for that niche to move just far enough for humans to no longer be able to cope. So, yes, bacteria will be here long, long after we are gone...

But if you really want to talk about ruling the Earth, well, viruses pretty much have that one in the bag. Go down to the sea with a teaspoon and scoop up some water. You'll have around 1 million bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) in that one spoon.
I agree, although in theory.

It would a different set of priorities for a single child whose parents toiled in government factories (or even to till land - often migrating across countries to work just because they were 'transferred'). The culture of aspiring to be an artist or a 'non-professional' (defined locally as not one who brings a pay check every month; not the freelancer kind) has yet to be cultivated. (The irony is - pre communism era was the opposite; it was artists all around)