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"If you generate value, other people want that value and it will suck at some point in the future"

this is only true, if you don't value your own contributions. It is on your own onus to value your contributions. Say google stopped the free food - you are now free to leave google, or you are free to ask for the equivelent in added salary to cover the food.

Why would you not negotiate it? why would an engineer, who have valuable contribution, be taken advantage of by others? The only reason I can think of is, the person didn't care enough to value their own contribution and hence, get stepped over.
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"Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect" - Wikipedia.

By definition, the shit in a can is also art.
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" the organization thrives on numbers, relentlessly aggregating performance data" Enron had a system like this, designed to retain top level staff and lose the dead wood. It actually created an obsession with short term gains and an effort to get good 'review' scores. It also led to employees shitting on each other in an attempt to stay employed.
another thing the Jetbrains IDEs get right. They fail in their selection of shortcuts (Cmd-G which is "Search again" in every other Mac app) for it though, but that's easily remedied.

I totally agree with the article by the way. Selecting the line is idiotic. While programming, you never ever want it to select the whole line - in fact, I don't think I have in fact ever selected a line at all.
>Germany is looking to create a rules-based system that every country follows and is accountable to, like they were supposed to when the Eurozone was created.

Right, but they're running up against a very fundamental problem: There isn't any mechanism to enforce the rules. The worse the Greeks (and others) behave the more money the Germans are expected to provide to clean up the mess in return for "This is really the last time I promise" kind of assurances.

Of course what Merkel wants is a kind of United States of Europe, where everybody surrenders enough sovereignty this sort of thing can't happen. But will the other countries go along? Paint me very skeptical.
Really a poor definition to be honest with you. Ignoring the questionable premises listed there, it also fails to fully encompass art.

For instance,

Are forgeries art?
Are movies art?
Is literature art?
Is pornography art?
Is a pianist playing a piece composed by Liszt an artist?
Is cuisine art?

None of these questions are answered by your definition.
Most of Shakespeare's plays are also (vastly more successful) copies of other works. The idea that copies aren't successful is rubbish. Ideas are easy--it's the execution that matters.
My story was similar though not nearly as dramatic as your parents'.

I would suggest shifting your parenting focus away from school. If she's truly smart, she is going to be top of her class without any effort for at least another 6-8 years. So, what I would suggest is to first try and cultivate an ethic of going above and beyond, and always doing work you "can take pride in" (when the work is too easy, without established values it can get very hard to keep caring and avoid turning in B- after B-) and second turning her on to more outside of school. When I was a little kid this manifest as a voracious appetite for books and Legos, which fed my imagination and logical thinking. Magic (the card game) was my replacement for chess.

Different kids will be interested in different things, but in general they are hungry to learn, so if school is easy you just have to find that extra interest outside of school and they will go crazy. Science, especially life sciences, geology, and such are usually solid choices because a sharp child is going to be inquisitive about the world around them.

(Don't ignore school, of course)
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> So any company - even when acting in self interest - will treat employees well.

Well, the premise of the submission pretty much refutes that unless you call loud outbursts, threats, reduced equity, and demotions "well treated".

>I've been doing software in various positions (some big companies, some startups) for over 20 years

Oh, why'd you switch companies if everything was so great?

>I love my current job

I'm sure everyone at Zynga loved their job at some point as well. And, while one example doesn't prove my point that every engineering job will eventually suck, it is a pattern that is repeated.
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In other parts of the world their are trains, which are faster than cars and provide tables and often electricity and wifi, making them a pretty compelling substitute.
This paper / talk was given in 2002, so of course it doesn't tell you what happened with the adoption of, or interest-level in Geometric Algebra (GA) since then. A quick search on Amazon.com turns up over a dozen recent books using GA in physics, computer science and engineering.
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I stopped reading when I got to the 6x2 Android vs iOS comparison. In order:

The first one appears to make the argument that since the background images are similar colors, Android copied. But they're both nature scenes (one day, one night) and the sky really only comes in shades of blue... The author could be talking about the icon shape (square) but that's even more ridiculous since that's been the standard in desktop OSes for more than a decade.

The second one shows Gmail on the left, which looks the same as the Gmail web interface, and the iOS mail app on the right. The only similarities are the colors and the layout. The colors: Gmail had them long, long before iOS was ever released. The layout: Outlook did it first in the early 2000s.

The third: Two keyboards, both with white keys and a similar color background. However, other than the (standardized) QWERTY layout, the button placement is entirely different. Further, the Android one shows off Swype, something not present in iOS.

The fourth: Apparently the Android tablet calendar interface (I dunno, I don't have an Android tablet) paired against... I don't know. It looks like a third-party web app. It's definitely not a calendar.

The fifth: A third-party chat client paired against the iOS Facebook app. Neither of those are written by Google, Samsung, or Apple. Both are third-party. Fail.

The sixth: Uh, they're both black devices with an LCD screen? Them and every other smartphone on the market. Hint: RIM did black smartphones first, in the 90s.
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Having to register to read the article sucks, but that's no reason to violate their copyright.
Good point. I hadn't actually considered that angle.

I tend to get instinctively defensive when people from other professions make assumptions about mine based on a limited understanding.
I can spend hours (well, looong minutes) staring at the coffee aisle in the supermarket but if I'm in Starbucks I have little choice but to take it or leave it.

Maybe the fact that there is so much choice available, be it apps or websites, that it makes it much more tempting to shop around - or just being baffled by choice. You can't make a bad decision if there's no alternative.
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Interesting, I completely disagree with this. I don't want an extra window popping up for downloads, having to switch to it to check the status, and I find Chrome's download bar very useful to immediately click what I just downloaded.
He attached links to all of the downloads, that's the ballsiest part about this.

http://www.art404.com/5million1terrabyte.pdf

Being an art student I love seeing new modern art like this hit the news. Even though I'm just studying Industrial Design, I always get a kick out of this kind of obscure shit. I'll always remember my trip to NYC last year when I browsed the modern art galleries for hours. If you ever get a chance, there's a particular street lined with them (I forget which). It promises some of the most interesting stuff you've ever seen.

Edit: The downloads seem to be password-protected, so this guy's not a total maniac.
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Indeed, there are several examples of museum janitors from present day removing a portion of (or the whole) art thought to be trash.
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I have a long history of health issues. Changing my diet was a big part of overcoming them. One of the things I did: I researched vitamin deficiencies based on the symptoms I had and then researched what the best chemical form was and what other supplements needed to be taken with it and so on.

For example, I had started going grey in my early thirties and found that PABA deficiency and adrenal stress are two things known to promote grey hair. I treated the grey hair as a symptom of an underlying problem. I have less grey hair than I had ten years ago. I also suffered RLS (restless leg syndrome) for years and read some article at some point indicating that it could be due to iron and b-complex deficiency. For many years, any time I got RLS, I would take b-complex and then if that didn't resolve it I would follow up thirty minutes later with iron. Treating my RLS symptomatically began resolving more serious problems by addressing the underlying root causes and at the age 40 I suddenly began having regular menstrual periods for the first time in my life because I stopped being severely anemic. I had never been told there was a real problem with me having irregular periods. It was "normal" for my family, no big. Well, turns out "normal for my family" isn't actually proof of no problem.

I also tried taking things out of my diet that, by observation, appeared to be causing me issues and then researched after the fact why that might be so as to better understand it. One thing I eliminated early on was peanut oil. Turns out it is very pro-inflammatory and my main medical issue has a very significant inflammatory component.

I no longer take boatloads of supplements. I have figured out what foods support good health for me and what foods are a serious problem given my medical condition. I make sure I routinely get adequate quantities of those foods that meet my needs well and fairly stringently avoid those foods that cause problems and keep a keen eye on limiting foods that are tolerable but not ideal (as too much of such foods do start causing issues after a while). I got off a long list of drugs and I now also do a lot of walking for exercise. I have the best quality of life in terms of my health that I've ever had.
Just my two cents - as long as the grade is what's being praised, the kid won't be fooled- its attainment that's being rewarded, not effort. Find a way to teach them that achievement is hollow (and not true achievement) unless they really worked for it.

My parents were relentless in assessing my effort, not the grade I got - the grade itself was treated as an irrelevance (of course it wasn't to them, but the pretence was enough to fool me). Yes yes you got full marks - but the questions teacher said you needed a calculator to do, can you do them by hand? It's great you're keeping up with classwork - but if you flick ahead a few pages in the textbook you'll find extension exercises, have you done them too?

At the time, I did not appreciate this approach - I could outperform any of my friends and not receive the praise I felt was due me. In fact at 18 I got the highest grades in the UK - and still my parents expressed disappointment because they knew I was capable of higher (I got 100% in one subject, but a second was also attainable with more effort). I'm not saying this was a perfect strategy - it did go a little too far the other way and make me feel I wasn't capable of anything truly impressive.

However this article made me realise how important this was. By moving the emphasis away from the grades, you can define standards that are relevant for you; that genuinely do represent an achievement because they require great effort. For me that meant aiming for things other people said couldn't be done. I did an entire maths A-level from self-study alongside my other qualifications; I switched course at Uni and taught myself the entire first year Cambridge engineering course over the summer, so I could join in second year. However smart you are, there are always goals that require effort, as well as achievement, and you do someone a disservice if you encourage them to settle for less.
>Well, the premise of the submission pretty much refutes that unless you call loud outbursts, threats, reduced equity, and demotions "well treated".

Companies are made up of people. They don't always do the smart thing.
that's one of the most simple and satisfying definitions of art I've read.

I've also found this simple info graphic helpful: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgxn5uEJox1qbobrso1_500.jp...
This character is interesting, one more thing to watch out for in user-provided input. You do your homework and escape HTML in users' comments but if you don't escape the RTL overrides, their effects can "bleed" to other parts of the page, rendering it unreadable or at least hard to read.
Looks like Sublime Text 2 meets his requirements. Goto Line is simply Ctrl-G, and up pops a simple input line, similar to hitting ":" in vim.

As an added bonus, the input line disappears if you press Ctrl-G again, hit <esc>, or press enter without entering anything. So, fast and easy to get into, fast and easy to get out of.
It's not a popup. It could be a tab. Or it could be a tooltip near the wrench. With the bar at the bottom, you have to close the bar out everytime and that is just a bunch of clicks no one really wants.
I agree. However there should be a keyboard shortcut to close it.
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The prospect that Google could one day be a bad place to work does not invalidate my claim that it is currently a great place to work. The premise of your original post was that the only way to have a good working life is to work for yourself. I don't think that this is always the case.

To be honest, the doomsdays scenario you outline is ridiculous to me. It's so far removed from the current culture at Google. I think I'd be long gone by the time such things were taking place.

It's also worth noting that the majority of Google shareholders are Google employees (including me), and that the managers in Engineering at Google are all engineers. You should also investigate the conditions of Google's IPO - the shareholders don't have a lot of influence at Google.

Of course, these things can all change. But like I said, it's great the way it is now and I'm having a blast. If it changes, I've got plenty of cash and experience under my belt to get started on something else. There is no downside here.

(Addendum: If they cancelled my project (Go) I'd just quit and work on the code from somewhere else. That's the benefit of working on a project where all your contributions are BSD-licensed. ;-)
That last bit has become my standby.

"This 'being social' stuff is miserable. But if you're so smart, you should be able to fake it, at least!"
Why not? It's the only proper text editor that lets someone else see what you're writing with the click of a single button.
> you are now free to leave google

Which is exactly what I argued was the only recourse an engineer has, so I agree.

> or you are free to ask for the equivelent in added salary to cover the food.

That's extremely unrealistic. You don't understand that the hypothetical food was cut to save money. If they just pay out that money as cash, the company won't save anything.

> Why would you not negotiate it?

It requires two willing parties to negotiate. Employment terms are not negotiable once the job starts. What exactly do you think will happen if you say "give me my food back, or more money, or I quit." In the best case you will be laughed at and ignored, in the worst case you will start being pushed out of the company. Everyone is replaceable.
Thanks for helping me discover the word. It occasionally happens to me out of nowhere for no reason. I guess I'm trippin' on life?
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Most 16 year olds will be happy to do what is expected of them if they are treated as adults. The worst parts of being a teenage isn't that it is difficult but that you have no freedom and nobody takes you seriously.
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"Ritalin is fucking awesome."
You are talking about Methylphenidate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylphenidate

Methylphenidate is a rather new drug. Until we know all the risks doctors won't prescribe it when not (absolutely) necessary. I don't think that's a bad thing. And I don't relate caution with banning.
If anything, I'd describe the experience (if what I experience is the same thing) as similar to, if not the same thing as, a small shot of endorphins dumped directly into the base of your neck.
I suspect it boils down to two things: the number of ways in which things can compete and the perceived level of normal consumption.

Starting with the latter: people who drink coffee mostly see it as near-daily consumption. If they're thinking about it at all, they're not thinking about "will I have coffee", but rather "which coffee to have". On the other hand, many software buyers have "don't buy anything" as a very real possibility in their minds. If I "have to buy it anyway", the difference between $2 and $4 per day doesn't seem important because people are surprisingly bad at multiplying by 365.

Coffee also presents a much less complex competitive landscape than software (which is not to say it is less competitive; I strongly suspect the reverse is true). As far as I can tell coffee shops can compete on price, location, ambience, brand, and flavor. My guess is that, above a fairly low bar for flavor, location is the dominant competitive attribute. "Am I going to walk an extra block to save $1?" Again, people don't know how to multiply by 365. I suspect coffee shops strategize thusly: "I'll get whatever customer base is closer to me than to competitors, and fighting on price is pointless. I might get some marginal purchases by improving branding and ambience, thus persuading people to stay longer and buy more." So everyone pays $4 at the nearest half-decent coffee shop and all is peaceful in the universe.

Software, on the other hand, is an incredibly complex offering and I think that complexity leads to a perception that diligent consumer research will be rewarded with enhanced satisfaction or reduced expenditure. The problem here is that the reduced expenditure is easy to quantify and guaranteed prior to purchase, whereas the enhanced satisfaction is poorly quantified and feels uncertain unless you're dealing with a market-leading strongly-branded product like Angry Birds. So, unless your'e buying Angry Birds, you'll spend some time looking to see what other apps are cheaper with "the same" features.

Hm. I feel like even after three rounds of editing I've achieved a very low insight-to-sentences ratio. Sorry :-)
1 = Yes, that's exactly what I think we need here. A perfect example is the "data frame" concept in R (that you can implement as a list of tables in other languages). Excel doesn't have decent high level abstractions of your data, that forces the user to do a lot of boiler plate work that can be extremely time consuming and dangerous (as the more more manual work, the more mistakes).

2 = Excel 2003 limits (still used in my company): http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/excel-specifica.... Especially when you make deep analysis (first 10 customers of segment B, low margin products, lost due to low margin products, pricing, etc.), you hit the limit and you are forced to do bad things (like using 12 columns instead than 2 to represent 12 months).

3 = As 'small data' I just mean all those data people use in companies. Usually those are the result of extracting data using a business warehouse system (ie cognos) or financial data submitted by entities (ie 30/40 files from different parts of the world of PnLs to consolidate...) or KPIs, or... you get the idea...

p.s. I will be sending you an email later today. It would be really great to discuss those concepts.
Actually Chrome download bar is pretty cool. I can still browse while opening and checking progress on the files I am downloading. And if I am downloading too many files, the only time where the bar is obtrusive, download tab(C-j) ahd ignoring the bar works fine...
They could easily put an option to disable the bar entirely , though. Wouldn't hurt
> every engineering job will eventually suck, it is a pattern that is repeated.

And running your own business won't suck? Everything can and will turn to shit eventually. That's a fact of life, so be adaptable and be prepared to do many things. But running your own business is not the only way to be happy as an engineer.
The irony is strong on this one.
Noone would argue that energy in = energy out is false. The problem is it's not an explanation. All you're doing is stating a fact.

What's important to here is that the composition of diet is going to affect those two numbers. Isocaloric diets (same energy in) with different composition will result in different changes in body composition, because they will have effects on energy out. (add: Even this is horribly oversimplified. Even diets with the same energy in AND out will have different results, because they affect which form of stored energy in the body that energy out number comes from)

No matter how much sheer force of will you put into wanting to burn calories, the amount of energy you have available to spend is mediated by processes that behave very differently depending on the type of food consumed.
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Take it from someone who has believed the same lies.
What the teachers are saying right now doesn't apply to you at all.

It is meant for those who needs to shape up to graduate.

Even though it is so incredibly unfair, these are almost the only people whom the teachers will focus on.

And for what it is worth: as hard as the yc interview is, pg isn't going to care if you graduate high school or not. The journalists who interview you will, because it makes for a better story.