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I recently went through the b-school admissions process (admitted to several 'elite' schools but, ultimately, decided not to enroll). It was a remarkable experience. Remarkable in that it made me feel completely inadequate and commoditized...and I was a successful applicant! There's an entire industry built upon the panic and stress of young over-achievers who believe their life will be defined by the rank of their school. It's called admissions consulting...and the rates they charge. oh, brother.

I feel supremely sorry for any 16-year-old trying to get into a top ranked school right now. As a fairly stable 26-year-old it made me depressed like nothing before. It's a broken process that's been spoiled rotten by the bottom feeders who will tell a kid "you won't get in unless you pay me five grand to help you." (i couldn't afford it...)

If you want to see some people really freak out over race and admissions, talk to some Indian B-school hopefuls (note: I am not Indian). They are absolutely bucketed and compete against one another.
I've been a Prime member for 3-5 years, I guess, and we've gotten dozens and dozens of them through the years. I can say that I cannot actually remember the last time I received one. I can, however, remember that it was a "Cell phones for servicemen" or something like that.
Version number does matter because they can't seem to create a stable add-on API, and therefore version increment == add-on breakage.
If I were Asian, my "college strategy" would be to not apply, since I wouldn't want to be an indentured servant for the next 15-20 years of my life paying off usurious student loan debts to crotchety Western institutions that are currently enjoying bubble tuition rates without offering remotely commensurate value.
I appreciate the licensing. It agrees with me.

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I think taboos exist for very good reasons. The fact that something is a taboo does not, in and of itself, mean that it needs to be challenged. The problem is that very few people are rational. There are a lot of people who gain courage to do very unpleasant things once they've heard arguments that they can use as internal justifications, when they are not themselves sophisticated enough to understand how sound the arguments are.

I live in a poor area of London. Racism isn't an abstract taboo; it's a daily sight, and it's disturbing to hear the rationales some people come out with. It's clear they didn't come up with it themselves.
I'm on Firefox 9.

For all the entries I got "not visited", even though I visit a lot of them.
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If any files begin with '-', the second version will just expand to '-filename' which rm will try to process as an option (possibly failing or creating undesired results). Using

./*

expands to

./-filename

which won't be picked up by option processing. Note: You can also do

rm -rf -- *

to prevent option processing after the '--'.

edit: added a bunch of breaks to prevent the * from being converted to italics.
Wouldn't it be more rewarding to practice faking flipping a coin? Give it some wobble, but make sure it doesn't actually flip over.
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It would have to guess better than anonymous modelling, not 50%. I'd happily bet even odds layout that each of my site visitors visit Google.
As someone who has written email and IM compliance software used by 22 of the top 25 banks I can tell you that there is a requirement for data retention of any electronic communication for the vast majority of financial institutions. If you're required by law to archive your communications you need to either comply or get an exemption from your regulator (highly unlikely).

This mitigation strategy only works if the law doesn't require you to retain the data. I've worked at communication companies that only retained email for 7 days, but they weren't obligated to retain their emails by law.
The former will gleefully delete all files/directories, even if there exists a directory entry named "-i", without asking.

The difference is in glob expansion: ./* keeps the prefix on every expanded item. As mentioned above, using any sort of path (relative or absolute) prefix when globbing will circumvent all the careful "-i" wards a superstitious sysadmin may have put in place.
I made a casual comment mostly based around what I had noticed and people kept demanding more granular definitions which I tried to oblige. TBH I struggled with that, but since people kept demanding answers I tried to oblige, failed, and tried to bow out.

My original point was Firefox has lost the recommendation status it has previously had. I also noted several technical things people had been complaining about, many of which annoyed me previously as well.

I don' really care if I get down voted, the fact is no amount of technical features is going to solve emotional issues, and Mozilla is loosing its emotional advantage. If you wanna save FF stop being technical and start thinking emotionally.
I really don't like what you are insinuating. You appear to be implying that some people are inferior due to the ancestry of their parents

Is this just willful blindness? Do you really believe all ethnicity are perfectly matched in their potential?

It's hard to study academia because we don't understand the brain well enough, but do a little reading about ethnicity and genetics as it relates to sports.
great, apple deserves much credit for proving this minimalistic approach.

but it doesn't deserve a monopoly of any duration on minimalism.

if design has merit beyond branding, then it should be valid for anyone to choose a proven design. it won't necessarily be innovative, but that's besides the point.
The post I'm replying to is specifically talking about saving Facebook chats.
/etc/alternatives competitor?
Again, that sounds like a problem. Why so many announcements?
well, i'm afraid it's incompatible with the GPL though :-D
"Chrome has an advantage because it's relatively new. It doesn't have to deal with over a decade of add-ons"

You'd have a point here if Firefox hadn't started blithely breaking everyone's add-ons by bumping the version number about 5 times per week. Okay, that's hyperbole -- I know it wasn't that often, but the point is that a "rapid release schedule" comes with real costs.

If you have 500MM users, and the mean user time to adapt to a trivial new release is 5 minutes (a gross underestimate if add-ons have broken), you've just wasted 16 million hours of user time. Just because that cost doesn't appear as a line item in the Mozilla Foundation's budget doesn't mean it isn't real.

I used Firefox for years because of the rich add-on community. When it started being more trouble than it was worth to update the add-ons (or find/write new ones, if the old one hadn't been updated), I switched to Chrome. It's unlikely that I'll be back.
If the question is "Has this user visited site X?" then I'd hope that any kind of modelling is better than 50%, as simulating a coin toss would be at least as good.
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I don't think "all ethnicity are perfectly matched in their potential" is an interesting statement one way or the other. I believe individuals are more interesting than arbitrarily chosen groups. I believe we should judge people on their own merits, rather than choosing groups, taking averages of those groups, and then using those groups to make judgements.
I am currently visiting China and everything you said is exactly what I've experienced. Using a VPN is the only way to get a working internet connection, but China is also blocking various popular VPN providers seemingly at random.

You don't need to be doing anything questionable to feel the bite of the GFW, webpages with Facebook like buttons are enough to cause a 30 second delay while the connection times out in the background before the site loads.

The censorship occurs at the TCP level, which is why pretty much only a VPN will help.
I wonder how it would work out if Asian applicant self-identifies herself as African-American?
> Can't believe some people here are focusing on the fact that it's illegal to sell candy on the subway

It matters. Like someone else pointed out, the fact that it's illegal minimizes his competition.

You could make a business making and selling child pornography, and for awhile, you'd be making a lot of money, too. ("But child pornography actually hurts people," you cry, "so it's a terrible analogy!" Shut up. The analogy isn't about the crime, it's about the lack of competition.)
Technically doesn't prevent rm -rf /* itself, but still goes long way to prevent a disaster: use a snapshotting filesystem, like NILFS2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NILFS

Some solutions here center on avoiding issuing rm -rf /* interactively... that's not enough! A broken script or unexpected variable expansion can wreak just as much havoc.

For example rm -rf $SOMEDIR/* :

- if $SOMEDIR is empty, or

- (if you suffer from bash) if $SOMEDIR contains trailing space so it will be expanded into separate words: SOMEDIR='foo '; rm -rf $SOMEDIR/* => rm -rf foo /* (which means, `remove ./foo and remove /* ')

An alias won't help if full path to command is specified; that is quite common for start-up scripts.

I have experienced consequences of rm -rf /* once or twice. Now I pause for a moment every time I am about to remove something and double-check the command. Sometimes even prepend `echo' for a dry run ;-)

Edit:

another nasty case of unintended deletion I had was due to a dumb Makefile rule:

$(CC) -o $(OUTFILE) $(INFILE)

for some reason $(OUTFILE) ended up empty, so outupt went to $(INFILE) -- a C source file -- effectively removing its content. How would I guard against that kind of data loss? A snapshotting filesystem...
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That's not the point?
Hong Kong and Mainland China have pretty much completely separate political systems except for military and foreign affairs. I think this is supposed to last another 40 years or so at the minimum.

It's weird how two regions connected by a subway system can be so different from one another, and yet still be the same country. My wife is a Chinese citizen but needs a visa to go to Hong Kong... as an American I don't but I need a visa to go to mainland PRC. Fun!
Even if race were not an illusion, they are separated by only 60,000 years or so of evolution which is barely anything.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_mode...
Because of the inherent dangers in -f, I rarely use it...with one major exception. Whenever I am trying to delete a directory with a git repository in it, the fact that a lot of the things in the .git directory are write-protected means that I have to either punch Y for what is likely dozens of files, or use -f (or some other incredibly ridiculous and equally dangerous thing like "yes | rm").
> $100M in that context is a laughably tiny amount.

Considering that Google spent $2.11B on traffic acquisition last quarter[0] it seems even less.

[0] http://investor.google.com/earnings/2011/Q2_google_earnings....
After reading through this article, I immediately went to google maps to see if they had any street-level views of the town. Thankfully, they do. From them, and the satellite views, you can see both the chat (I'm guessing that's what those large-ish white mounds are -- I could be wrong) mentioned in the article and "explore" the mostly abandoned town.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=picher,+ok&hl=en&sll=3...
I completely disagree with you. You might want whatever taboos you like, I'm ok with that and won't challenge them.

But heck, if you are going to discuss something then you must be free of taboos in that particular mater, or else your opinion is just bananas. I mean, of what value is your opinion on something you're afraid of talking about?

EDIT: I don't want to be a downvote bitch. But it I am noticing my comments on this thread are all downvoted. I guess some people has the taboo so strongly imprinted on their minds that they don't even want me to mention it.
The issue is, most people probably don't browse record stores that much.

On what do you base this? I don't have anything other than my own anecdotal data, so I offered up my own personal preference.

Thing is, as I recall, whenever I went into record stores there seemed to be a fair number of people in there. Gut feeling tells me people were browsing in the stores but buying online.

No, you can't take a stack of CDs to listen too, though some places will play something for you if you ask (but that's hardly as frictionless as grabbing books on your own). There still are some opportunities for listening previews, though.

This is all not to mention the fact that the era of buying music on physical media is pretty much over.

Define "pretty much over."

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/cue-the-music-d...

Vinyl is certainly a much smaller market than CDs, but custom packaging still has its appeal.
Indeed. Hector was one member of the fail0verflow team that independently discovered various exploits in the PS3's isolated SPU loaders and the groundbreaking ECDSA fail that allowed anyone to calculate Sony's private keys.
I interpreted "equality" in reinhardt's statement to mean statistical equality. Statistical equality is an empirical claim - if people wrongly believe it to be true, it would be a "myth".
You might be right but the post was written in a way that implies its simply some asinine policy they think will help productivity.

If the law requires the retention of all electronic communication, not just email, as others have suggested then IM is subject to those same rules. Furthermore, most IM clients these days keep conversation logs anyway so I'm more apt to believe they thing they're helping productivity. But you could be very right and it is an angle most of the commenters, including myself, have missed.
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According to one of the residents in the video, all you need to do to purify meat is to freeze it and then cook it. Doing so will make all the pollutants magically disappear! Who knew?
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One cool little thing you could add is a javascript widget on the front page, where people could paste in their link to a markdown file, and have it automatically formatted as a Markdress link (or even redirect them to the markdress page).

ps. Thanks for the Pancake.io shoutout!
I still don't get it.

So it's not that you lost $1000 of SuccessFactors shares, right? It's something you had invested in some other company which was bought by SuccessFactors later, and during this conversion period existing shares were restructured, or something along with these lines.
According on the link '64' and '89' are banned numbers.
Well, the Chinese government is mathematically limited to a maximum of 98 more such bans.
The (IMO, terrible) font rendering on Windows is actually the second biggest reason I strongly prefer OS X (the biggest reason is not relevant to this discussion.)

So yes, this is quite subjective.
Companies often have policies which dictate rapid purging of communications and other documents (such as every month). This allows them to escape an Enron style paper shredding fiasco, and in certain industries is very advantageous.

Of course, that's not to say this what Atos has in mind, but it's not a new tactic by any means.
> I understand that, statistically, it will hurt my chance of getting into a top-tier college, considering I don't have perfect SAT score and GPA. But I believe that the admission officers would be wise enough to evaluate a person as a whole instead of just puting "tags" on him/her.

Er... what? So you believe putting the wrong tag on yourself will hurt your evaluation by the admission officers; but you also believe they are wise enough to not just put tags on yourself.

You're saying something here, but I don't know what it is.
"I realized that I could avoid a lot of heartache on the part of my students by changing the way I was offering instruction, because students weren’t ready to write essays without taking a position and defending it."

Certainly as a student I can sympathize with your plight. I was one of the students who would wander frequently when given an open-ended writing assignment, much to the exasperation of my teachers (who were positive there was some sort of disconnect between my speaking and writing faculties).

That said, I understand that it may not be entirely practical, but I would rather spend time thinking about how students like myself can be elevated to produce more meaningful work rather than accepting the status quo. For me, the breakthrough came when I read "The Age of the Essay." I'm still by no means a great writer, but the Stanford Application essays I recently produced were my best work yet by an order of magnitude. It's made a substantial improvement in my writing by itself, but more importantly it has provided a kernel of understanding that snowballs with every new essay I have vetted by my friends and mentors. Instead of spinning my wheels, I'm making real strides towards becoming a better writer now -- I've learned how to learn the art of writing.

My recommendation, should you still be interested in experimentation, is to see if you can find a reliable way to reach out to your students and help them grasp your understanding of an essay. If they can see where you are coming from, they'll be able to learn whatever you have to offer unimpeded. They will still need to develop logically and analytically, but I think you might start to see a few more students (successfully) attempting the open assignments if you give them the tools to do so.
This is inherently true. Unless you're at a very white dominated school ie Notre Dame where it helps to be a minority.
I don't think that's a big deal. Prototype and developer editions of devices often show up for sale after a product line dies or even after it's been out for a while. You can find developer Playstations on eBay from time to time, presumably from firms that bought them but went bust later.
This flies in the face of the fact that affirmative actions exists and that the racial demographics at any given college are typically consistent year-to-year.

Not if you know how affirmative action actually works.
you must be shitting me... only words i can say
Thank you. It is insane how many people think college admissions is the official scoreboard oof high school, and not something to do with choosing students who are well matched to the college.
A quick workaround would be to add the `<base>` tag: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/base to your generated HTML and have it point it to the target URL.
You're correct that MIT practices affirmative action, but incorrect that this means they have "non-academic" admits.
The USA has financial aid available to qualified students.
While I am all for treating individuals as individuals, this discussion thread is not about individuals, it is about groups.
> This is the first official release of Stow since January 2002

Wait, is this right? The last official release was more than 9 years ago?
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I see this as a triumph of the Android ecosystem. Carriers (Verizon) have the option of doing the right thing and not inflicting this invasive tracking software/rootkit on their users.

With Apple's our-rule-is-law, whether you're on AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint, you don't have a choice. You have Carrier IQ.
I agree. I'm involved with 3 organizations of my own plus I work with countless businesses large and small. One is a web startup, the other a "small business" (there's a difference), one a registered non-profit, and then the various businesses that I'm a vendor for. In my experience I've seen a very obvious trend suggesting that everyone from single person operations all the way to corporate giants have to constantly battle to work together with employees, vendors, etc. because of a lack of a good communication system. I've introduced a few of them to the products the guys at 37Signals offer and those who use it love it.

I'm not sure if Basecamp, Backpack, and Highrise are technically groupware but that's what I consider it. But really, these are all tools and there's no magic bullet. We just have to find a way to use right tools for the right job and make sure those we work with understand that each tool has its purpose. We'll have to explain to Joe Staffmember that email is not Google Docs and Skype isn't always a replacement for the telephone, etc.
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Which is exactly what wouldn't happen should you go to any of the "elite" schools. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and others go to great lengths to provide adequate financial aid, all of which is provided in the form of grants, not loans.

I'm very curious to know what could provide a greater return on investment than spending four years at Harvard for free.
My younger (and very productive) co-worker has his IM client running by default and uses it to communicate with other (young) co-workers. Frankly, I don't know how they do it. I would go mad - the constant notification popups in the upper right corner kill my concentration. They're too distracting for me. But then again, I'm probably just getting old.

A former co-worker at a different company had a policy that he would only read/write email before noon each day. I think something like that may be a better strategy than discarding email altogether company-wide. When you need an answer right away, you could always use the phone. And for him at least this did not result in people dropping by his office or his phone ringing all the time.
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A taboo is a means of enforcement of a group norm. I don't think supporting or opposing a taboo prevents you from having a valid opinion on the group norm itself.

For example, talking to children about sex with children is a major taboo. Supporting this taboo doesn't mean an opinion on the immorality of sex with children is automatically invalid.
Also which candidates have the greatest opportunity for growth by attending that school vs not. Global opitimization can mean admitting a slightly less accomplished student who will do better with that degree than without, where a more accomplished high school will end up at the same academic/professional outcome even without the special support from the institution.
Indeed. Also, 7575 x 4750 x 24bpp = ~96MB RGB framebuffer.

Additionally:

DPI of my 2011 laptop: 115dpi.

DPI of my 2011 monitor: 100dpi.

DPI of my 1997 monitor: 90dpi (100dpi possible at a rather ugly 60Hz)

DPI of my 1993 monitor: 91dpi

With this progress (or lack of) in mind, I think the pixel will be around for a while yet. Indeed, (thanks to LCDs) outside a few small-scale high-DPI places, pixels are more obviously visible than ever before! So why people are so sure that the pixel grid can just be ignored, I'll never know...
Got only 1 for me- youtube.

Several others it said I didn't visit but I did.

And it said I visited linkedin, and I didn't.
I remember reading an article in ... I believe it was the New Republic ... that said that the "holistic admissions process" of today, with the essays, activities, etc. supplanted the earlier more test-scores / grades-centric approach at the Ivy League precisely in an attempt to admit fewer Jews.