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It's a problem worth discussing. I'm working on the IT field without a degree, and I'm not totally opposed to that.

I want to check the doctor tomorrow. How can I be sure that he is a real doctor and not just a "will heal for food" man.

That's a serious problem. Not every boss/CEO/manager can assess an IT consultant proficiency. They need a proof that they can do the job.

The problem is that academy is broken. The certificate you get (degree) from University is not a real mirror of your capabilities. What government is trying to do is to solve a problem with a broken solution.
Marco and Gruber are (unsurprisingly) running with the mangled quote...
http://www.marco.org/2011/12/07/eric-schmidt-android-leads-t...
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/12/07/marco-or-not
What boggles my mind is that pilots are being trained in anything less than every mode an aircraft operates on.
Seriously doubt it, and I don't want to live in that world...

In any event, it's as likely as seeing people riding segways all over the place.
If I am not mistaken the main problem with a frameset would be that the URL in the address bar will never change and therefore you cannot link directly to a page within the frame, i.e. where a user wants to copy the URL and share with a colleague.
You're assuming that having driverless cars is more desirable than having human controlled cars. I doubt most people see it that way.
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> presenting myself as a qualified
> professional when I am not.

Certification actually would allow many to do exactly that legally.

Comparison with medicine and architecture does not apply there for the reasons named elsewhere in comments.
More power to you. But can you please make the article more readable? That background texture and drop shadow is causing me considerable eye-strain.
No way, they're much worse than lottery tickets. They're lottery tickets that even if you do win, some jerk can come along and make your winning ticket worth nothing after the fact.
I'm getting a 404 for it. Has Munroe changed it recently?
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Sigh, read this a little more and its very dysfunctional.

Basically, they're setting up a list of accredited computing professionals and companies, and the kinds of services that they can perform. This is a public register, and anyone can look at it.

Imagine you've just started a project, and you're qualified for Java and some database. In the project, you end up using a bit of Python here and there to help with some scripting because it is pragmatic and it makes sense. If someone notifies the "board" that you did this, you could get into trouble. And the "trouble" may put you behind bars for up to 3 years.

Take another situation: I end up hiring a bunch of Ruby developers, all of whom are on the register. Along comes a client who needs some work done in PHP, which naturally, being good Ruby developers, they can pick it up quite easily. But to conform to this new "Act", I will have to turn down the business as I don't want to risk going to prison.

Where's the sense in all of this ?
Where I live, a certain percentage of taxis have big trunks, for people with baggage (they can request that when they call for it).

Why not have a percentage of driverless cars pre-equipped with carseats? You'd just have to configure once the age of your kids, then when you call a car (using e.g. a smartphone app), you just say for who it is ("Siri, I need a car for john, mary and me") and the right type will come.
This is ancillary to the effort, but I think it's interesting. So here goes, I am not certain about skewing the pool less than more prize-based incentives -- as opposed to somewhat evenly. However, I definitely agree with the implied concept that the resulting pool will yield more carefully completed (and hence more useful/accurate) survey results.

And before we deviate too far from the core point of the thread, I'll simply echo my earlier sentiment regarding the act of quitting for a startup: great job so far, and good luck moving forward.
Did we read the same Daring Fireball post? The one I read is responding to Marco's post rather than (mis)quoting Schmidt directly, and says so clearly. Furthermore, he casts Schmidt in a reasonable light, arguing that Schmidt must have meant what Schmidt may have actually said.

Based on his track record, I would not be surprised to see a follow-up addressing the accuracy or otherwise of the quoted words.
If kids causing traffic jams was a real problem, why doesn't it already happen all the time on pedestrian crossings?
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To say change to truck (I assume you mean the Heavy Goods Vehicle, rather than the pickup variety) quality bearings is a vast simplification. Cars manufactures over the years have been striving to reduce the cost of producing cars, the weight (improving performance and efficiency) and reducing the maintenance requirements of their cars.

This means we have things like sealed ball joints which can't be lubricated, spark-plugs which are expected to last for 75,000 miles, gearboxes without sump bolts as the oil 'never' needs changing and sealed units which cannot be opened and/or put back together without specialized tooling.

Trucks on the other hand are expected to have a very regular maintenance schedule with lubrication points (or complex single point lubrication), the weight of the vehicle parts is smaller in comparison to the load meaning there is little incentive to reduce weight (and even counter productive in low traction situations). They also have a much higher millage expectation within their expected lifespan and so are designed accordingly.
This is a great point. Do you have any suggestions?

If you send me the CSS code that would help make it more readable, I'll make it live.
So everything is patentable and it's judicial activism for the Supreme Court to rule that something is unpatentable? Why do you assume it works that way and not the other way around?
Exactly, using higher level languages is a matter of DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and normalization (specify things in one place, have them change everywhere consistently).

Especially for CSS this is really useful as in itself is a crude, low-level language, things can quickly become very verbose especially if you consider cross-browser compatibility for the fancier effects.
Cool, hope it is useful. Be sure to not skip the long "Introduction" chapter, too.
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Nintendo issued an official statement, according to IGN, saying that he miscommunicated his intentions and priorities, and is actually not officially stepping down:

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I'm curious how you stand on the regulation of insurance companies. Do you think this is something that the free market should also take care of? And what about (retail) banks?
In Turkey, this exists and is in my view indefensible in its current implementation. The software folks are grouped in with the electrical engineers, although the cs people will have their own organization soon by the looks of it. There are very few CS departments that call themselves "Computer Science" instead its called Computer Engineering because of the Turkish bias to anything with word `engineer' in it. A lot of big contracts require companies to have registered engineers, who in turn force their software engineers to register. Once you register you automatically owe them 65 dollars a year from the date you graduated, or a max of 325 dollars for all the previous years, and then 65 a year for every year after that. If you consider how many engineers are walking around, thats a shit load of money ana great con frankly. Without registering you can't claim that you are a software engineer with `x amount of experience' before the law or be called into court to testify as an expert in anything software related or get gov contracts etc.

So what qualifications do you need to have to become a member?

Just cash and a valid diploma. Hell its probably easier to testify as a software expert in court for a member who pays his fees but works as a rug dealer than as a 10+ year network security analyst who isn't a member.

Any academic who supports the current implementation should have their credentials questioned, it defies logic that is attained at a high school level.
Presumably the stall warnings were ignored because in "normal law" even if you try to stall the plane, a). the plane will not allow itself to stall and b). the stall warning will still sound.

Hence the stall warning SHOULD NEVER SOUND in "normal law" mode.

Therefore, the only time a pilot should hear the stall warning is when they actually have to intervene.

Ultimately, if the plane was funcioning perfectly well and assuming the pilots weren't complete idiots, the problem was a 'usability' issue.

(think again everytime you see a bug logged as 'usability' and assume it is not important!)
Fails in IE8 - mandated by Uni on Windows machines... I agree with not supporting IE7-, but IE8 probably still needs some support.
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I'm baffled by the idea that someone actually thinks they go into a store with razor-thin margins and get the same experience they get from one known for incredibly high ones.
I don't said that, but just imagine everything that is done in the IT is only allowed to do by graduates. What degree is best for repairing computers?

The best you can find is probably someone who does this out of joy and knows most of the current hardware.
Then I guess I will articulate it.

While there are so many of us out of work and starving, Gates has no problems pumping millions into Africa and China. Africans have never shown the ability to stand on their own two feet and China is not our friend. THAT is what's wrong with this.
Good UI. I'd say, however (from a business model standpoint), with prices out there in the in-between 'almost free' (see: Amazon's Mechanical Turk; http://aws.amazon.com/pricing/mturk/) and the 'great value' range (see: Survey Monkey; http://www.surveymonkey.com/pricing/details), your per-customer costs might be a touch overly-ambitious.

The charity niche is pretty rad tho. You may increase your chances of capturing a piece of the market if you exploit that benefit.
You're not evil, Jon, you just profit from being evil.
yes, and I'm not sure under what situation a 'democratic' dual-input mode is a good idea!

Maybe everyone on the plane could have one!
"Starting off the conversation, Crunchfund Partner MG Siegler asked Mayer..."

MG Siegler is also at Crunchfund? Is he still writing for TC? Does neither the SEC or the FCC have anything to say about "journalists" who publish on very widely read publications writing about companies in which they're investing? Regardless, it's pretty hard to believe anything that I see written in TC now.

Is this just me?
Yes. China is not our friend and the US owes them billions. Yet Gates is pumping millions into their economic future. China can stand on their own two feet. Let them make their own effort.
Huh, I've always thought that that was how anti-aliasing in games worked; take the entire scene and smooth it, Photoshop filter style.

TIL.
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Two comments.

1. Get rid of the "mystery meat" navigation. Save the experimental features (fade in/out, huge text, high contrast colors, etc) for an experimental site -- not your professional resume.

2. Convert your resume to HTML. If someone is looking for an "electrical engineer specializing in wired and wireless networking and security" in the Atlanta GA area, they won't find you in Google's index.
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I can see it being like planes today. Some few have their own jets, some more rent them, most people use the cheap, generic ones.
Certification actually would allow many to do exactly that legally.

I meant qualified/certified not qualified/competent.
The post is more about having the reasonable expectation that editing /etc/motd is sufficient to change the motd. It isn't. It's not that I didn't notice it's a symlink, or that I couldn't have just removed the symlink. The issue is more that a reasonable expectation unfolds exponentially into (what I consider to be) a surprising amount of ridiculousness. That is the point of the rabbit hole post.
Drop the drop shadow and the wooden floor background. Don't use 298301pt fonts for the headings.

Not to be disrespectful, just helpful, but I'd start with these three simple things. Right now the page looks tacky and doesn't invite you to read the content.

The piece itself is great by the way.
Two things:

- In my very humble opinion, only one - English! I can't comment on the international community - book has been any good (That by Mariano Iglesias) and they all tend to either have outdated information or just bad code samples. So no, they do not surpass the quality of the framework.
- Hard stuff is always hard, regardless of the framework. At a certain point, you start butting heads with limitations in the language, at which point no framework will help. I've also found "hard stuff" to be fairly easy in CakePHP due to the large plugin base I can reach into - only Django and Ruby Gems really solve this sort of problem - so no, the hard stuff doesn't get harder.

Regardless, I'd be more than happy to get your feedback on this though. Send me a message :)
Gruber analyses the same mangled quote. I'm not commenting on the interpretation.

Consider if it had been a Job's quote. I suspect Gruber would have been more thorough.

Having said that, I think you're probably right regarding a follow-up from Gruber.
I have said before, driverless cars will end the private car.

First you get your car doing taxi work for money while it would otherwise be parked in your workplace. Then you get a social stratum of people who only ever use other people's cars, because it's simpler than buying one. Then you get commercial fleets of driverless taxis out-competing the per-individual car in the taxi role, until it's not economic to run one. Then you get the collapse of the economic/logistic infrastructure for per-individual cars.

And yeah, driverless taxi fleets will only park to fuel, be serviced, or wait on a fare.
completely agree about this 'dual input' mode - crazy.

But also these modern planes seem to jump in and out of 'modes' without any warning or confirmation.

I believe the 2008 plane crash at Madrid (largely pilot error again) also suffered from some confusion about the plane 'mode'. It was set to 'normal flight mode' whilst attempting to take off (or something).

Again, both crashes largely due to 'usability' issues and cockpit design.
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... so if there was a noise (intercom, radio, talking etc) and you didn't hear the announcement, that's it ,game over.
The different between a team of individuals and team of teammates.
It's founders or BS.
I am somewhat skeptical of charities so I use http://www.givewell.org to find the one that most effectively uses the money. I would suggest you research thoroughly the charities you work with so the money is actually put to good use.
Rust qualifies somewhat under #2, but not completely. Rust isn't 100% preventable in some areas. I live in Michigan and because we use salt on our roads, if you're not washing the vehicle (along with the undercarriage in particular), you will inevitably get rust. On my last vehicle the engine mounts (which were part of the frame -- unibody) rusted. There was pretty much no way to fix the car soundly. If I had washed the underbody frequently enough I could have saved it, but there is a cost associated with that as well.
This is common approach in MVC frameworks, where every view (template/partial/widget) is rendered independently and then injected into main template.
tl;dr for the below: If it's too much work with their UI, it's a UI problem.

> The problem is that it’s just too much work. I’ve long since given up trying to maintain my Circles, and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. Circles also lost its core utility for me. After I put about 100 people into different buckets I couldn’t remember who I put where, and what I was supposed to share with which Circle. So I just gave up and started sharing everything publicly.

> It doesn’t matter how great and fun an experience is, good UI design cannot fix a broken solution.

I actually think Google Circles' problem is poor UI design, not a broken solution. Lists are a great way to manage things, but you need to have powerful operations on top of lists. I said it when they came out that I was disappointed with their lack of a Venn-diagram interface where I can define sets of people in terms of other sets and their operations. (Why then "circles" and not "groups"?) On-the-fly one-time-use circles would have been nice to have, too. And they didn't have an API for a long time so it's not like someone could straightforwardly go implement such things in a third-party app. (I haven't been following the API so I don't know if someone could do this now, but I'm pretty sure their first version of the API didn't even allow POST requests--awful developer UI.)

On a second note, I think good UI can cover up a broken solution. Look at the mobile world with "everything-is-an-app" largely thanks to the iPhone.
Being restricted to rich people with "fuck the planet" attitude, hopefully the jet airliner market will be small enough to stall technologically.
It's always the response I get whenever I talk about a side-project I'm working on. "Oh, that's been done before." It immediately takes the wind out of my sail. It seems like schadenfreude to me. Don't tell me about other similar apps unless you know something about them. And if you know something about them, be helpful and tell me what you don't like about those solutions. Otherwise I'd prefer you just keep to yourself about it.
Yes, CakePHP's "ORM" isn't a real ORM - it was built when Objects were awesomely broken in PHP4 - but I've actually found it much more usable than the current state of Ruby's ActiveRecord/Datamapper. Manipulating arrays to get just the SQL you want is sometimes annoying, but for the queries that you honestly can't get out of the ORM in CakePHP, it's also likely you wouldn't be able to do the same in any other ORM.

You'll also have to note that both frameworks have progressed significantly in the last few years - CakePHP actually just released a new major version, as did Rails a few months ago - so your experience a few years ago - was this in the 1.1 era - would just be indicative of the framework's beginnings, not where it currently is.

Feel free to message me with your thoughts if they still conflict; I'd love to hear the other side of the story since improving CakePHP as a framework helps not just my ego, but other developers who are using CakePHP to make a living :)
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good point - but I think a 'dual input' mode is the wrong solution to that problem.
I don't know if I agree that MVP's need to work well or even at all on IE8-
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I notice that in the Windows dialogs, the wrong button is often highlighted - for example, No is highlighted in "Do you want to allow changes", and Cancel is highlighted in the Firefox "Opening" dialog.

Maybe it'd be better to highlight the correct option for people who don't bother to read the text?
Wow, that was a quick and positive response.

Without going into your css, perhaps just create a semi transparent white panel behind the text. It's a lovely site otherwise.
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