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The problem is that a university education has become a necessity in the workplace when it really shouldn't. Most jobs don't need a university education and you don't need a college degree to tell you that you are smart. (If you believe that a college education is what you make of it, then a college education doesn't really prepare you for anything and smart motivated people would succeed without college anyway.) As a result, the demand for a university education outpaces supply. All this combines with the proliferation of student loans to make a university education much more attainable--but much more expensive--than previously in history.

To lower cost we need to lower demand. We need to bring back trade schools and raise their importance. We need to give youths an option of a good job and a good wage without having to go to college. Look at Germany and their Berufsschulen. An electrician is just an important and valuable as an electrical engineer. Hell, most of the IT industry are vocational jobs that shouldn't require a college degree. How many people actually do computer science at work? How many people here on HN learned to program on their own and picked up best practices on the job?
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Chapter 1 of "Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729
"Microsoft is surprisingly diversified."

That was my immediate takeaway, but I wonder how meaningful this portrayed diversification is in the face of their present competition.

I think a better comparison would show MS being %97 "licensed software", Apple being %97 "hardware" and Google being %97 advertising. "Licensed software" is arguably the most vulnerable of the three models.
In my experience, it isn't noise itself so much per se, but the type of noise - talking in particular is distracting to me. But I do find that some types of music, and noise, seem to engage my brain in a way that lets me focus better than with no noise at all... and as a bonus, it also drowns out some of the more distracting noises. Ambient music, some electronic music, and computer generated sound really help me.

If I were to start up a company again, I would issue each employee a nice pair of over-the-ear noise cancelling headphones as part of their office equipment. I think it would work wonders for their productivity.

Related - for some pink noise, here is a commandline (for those with sox installed) that I find soothing. Play with the last two variables some, to tune it to your tastes - it has somewhat the effect of noise from an empty beach:

play -t sl -r48000 -c2 - synth -1 pinknoise tremolo .1 40 < /dev/zero

I posted the above not too long ago in another story, and someone else (shmerl) replied with another one, that resembled the noise of [edit: not space] Star Trek:

play -c2 -n synth whitenoise band -n 100 24 band -n 300 100 gain +20
Btw, there's a not-insignificant cost of keeping this project up. Finding high-quality photos of every new vehicle in every color offered by the MFGR was tough. I negotiated a contract with Evox (http://evox.com) and the buyer would need to setup their own contract with them (they're super helpful and there are no tricks involved).

The photos will run you around $195/mo for every asset Evox owns (not just what you see on Auto Swatch). They have 360 views, videos, etc etc.
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This is probably why I find the song A Looming Resonance by Wolves In The Throne Room[1] so soothing, it has a white/pink noise track during the entire song, I am sure other musicians have done similar.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO_EuNDCSZs
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They may not be religious, but many borders (probably most of those which aren't due to the natural geography?) are the subject or result of some kind of conflict. So is this border really that special? Probably most borders in Europe were the subject of conflict within the last 100 years, but we've ended up with the Schengen agreement nevertheless.
A bit over 950MiB if you are talking about pure space. Assuming a cluster size of 512 bytes (IIRC FAT32 doesn't need bigger blocks than this until the 2TiB mark) you are going to waste an average of 256 bytes per file (but lets be paranoid a consider the worst case: losing 511 bytes per file. The 10.04 CD contains 1300 files, if we suggest 12.04 is going to double that then you could lose you are only going to drop another Mib or two this way.

So 750 does seem to be an odd figure to aim for. They are not even thinking about people overburning on CDs, IIRC 735MiB is further than you can usually push that. Is there any common storage size that divides nearly neatly into 750MiB chunks?
> A giant Internet company such as Amazon can leverage the output of a software engineer far more efficiently than a startup

Really? I doubt that. I would imagine software engineers could be much more efficient without the drag of a large company
@ctek - update your profile page if you are interested in making contacts here on HN. Cool project BTW!
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I haven't tried VsVim, but I can say that the guy who writes ViEmu is a really nice guy who is extremely responsive to suggestions.
It's a standard business practice to create "loss leaders" specifically to undermine a competitor's business, and then when they go under, go back to charging full, or excessive, prices. That's why legislation exists to prevent companies from abusing a dominant market position.

Perhaps the real difference here is that Google has been providing this free service for a long time, and others do continue to start up and attempt to compete by offering some sort of differentiator. Clearly this company decided they'd just claim Google was being unfair.

And according to the law - which you may regard as stupid, but that's not the point - Google is in the wrong. Consider what the marketplace could be like if every startup got crushed by Google providing a free equivalent until the startup founders and dies with no possibility or redress.

Or maybe we have that already, and the only hope of surviving is not to get noticed.
Concerned about privacy? You are a suspect...
it happened to myspace.
Please add some OpenID/OAuth option. I don't want to make yet another user account.
Maybe they are thinking it from the standpoint of what they need to add, rather than how much they have to FILL.
Also, search is disabled on the demo site. Just spooled up this quick instance without firing up Xapian and all that.
Hm, I think it's better style to refer to true and false as true and false (their keywords) instead of TRUE and FALSE (constants, could go away in the future?). :)

irb(main):001:0» TRUE
» true
irb(main):002:0» FALSE
» false
You need a laywer. Plain and simple. There are very good lawyers for this type of stuff - unfortunately they are not cheap and I assume the cost would eat most of the YC investment. But it can be cleared up and worked out if you want to.

Having done business across this border before I'm sorry to say this is a very typical story. Recreational travel across the US/Canada border is quite simple but both sides are sticklers for business travel. People have crossed 50 times to go skiing or visit family without a problem and get used to that process, and then show up the 51st time saying they're on a business trip and end up getting refused because they don't have the right visa.
More background: the entire UI was designed by the very talented Ali Ali: http://alialithinks.com

The back-end is Django. Should easily be Heroku-able if you offload the assets to S3.
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There has previously been the distinction between server and desktop for the LTS support window, even though they are the same distribution just with different default packages selected by the installer (and the server D has the textual installer only, but you can install "desktop" from that or the "alternate" install CD).

I can only assume that the distinction is that they wouldn't guarantee support via security updates for desktop-only packages like OO.o, browsers, and so on (perhaps even GNOME in its entirety), after the first 2.5 years but would guarantee it for packages likely to be installed on a headless server (ssh, Apache, bind, samba, ...)
Installs fine on ESXi 4 -- should be no problem on 5.
I heard an interview of a writer who said that he writes by allowing himself to either write or do nothing. He usually starts by doing nothing and then gets bored so he starts writing.

I've found that approach to be quite effective. In the evenings I also include "go to bed" as an acceptable activity. You might not get more done than if you spend the evening watching TV or surfing Facebook but you'll be much more refreshed and productive the next day.

Lastly: Banning all the "time-wasting" sites on my work machine has worked remarkably well for me.
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Again, I've got to say you need to differentiate to survive. There have been several HN clones in the past year or so (remember lamernews.com?) but none of them differentiated enough.

Please don't make the same mistake. Like Steve Jobs said: "Be Different".
Simplynoise is great, and its brown noise stream is half of my solution to cubicle noise. The other half is a pair of shooting range style earmuffs. The model I use is called "Peltor Optime 105," and I find them very comfortable.

I put my earbuds in, put my earmuffs over them, and set the brown noise feed playing at a very low volume. It's kind of silly looking, but the ability to concentrate regardless of what's going on around me is well worth it.
I used to be in the "eww, vi" camp before taking a sysadmin job that basically forced me to use it. I used to remove vi at my first opportunity and link /bin/vi to nano instead.

Well, almost a year later, and I can't use nano without being irritated. All of the jumping around the keyboard for functions seems really inefficient all of a sudden.

Vim - :wq! :D

Nano - C-o <ret> <ret> C-x >:(

Probably the reason that emacs feels so wrong right now, though I'm doing my damnedest to become at least basically proficient with it, if nothing else for all of the ancillary features (like a really nice IRC client or the best text-mode organizer I've ever seen).
They understand how lucrative it is for lawyers. Check what they were doing prior to being politicians.
Also, you have to pay attention to the internal economics of how colleges are funded and the services they provide to truly understand the cost required to run a college. You are assuming the demand delta just means the college is voluntarily increasing its margins in the face of demand. Take the California UC & CalState System, it's structurally broken. Regardless of demand, it simply has no choice but to 1) increase fees, 2) reduce admissions, 3) fire professors. Much of its money does not come from tuition paid for by students, but entirely by the state - what happens when the state is financially strapped? No differently, large private universities also rely heavily on federal funds - same thing, what happens when the feds cut back?

So how do you get costs to go down? You change the paradigm of how a college is run so that they are not paying for unnecessary expenses. Seriously, is there any value to all those publications that professors are expected to publish? I'm certain we can do without 30% of such writings when the real cost is higher tuition to the students.

Yes, demand does play a part, but it's only a part of the equation. There's a huge problem with how colleges are structured and operated that is unsustainable.
Panic have already bought a poop domain name:

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read about it here:

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> Why didn't he just say he was accepted into a start-up incubator

Then they'd arrest him for being a bio-terrorist.
Anyone who has managed / hired people in a creative role know this to be accurate. Whenever I have hired new designers I can expect it to take A YEAR to get them up to speed. Now that may seem like a long time but even if you're an expert in your field there is still a lot of intricacies that will need to seep in over time. This can be two fold if they are customer facing positions (The ones I hire for) as there are relationships that need to be built (Who are you? where is Jon? I always deal with Jon!)
Also you're not going to hand over working on "that account" that will cost you 100K if even the smallest mistake is made to "the new guy" so you end up giving them the grunt work and gradually work them up to the high profile stuff and this can take months and maybe (god forbid) they are not a good fit and will never get to that level.

All of this is why you need to make a decision really fast with a new hire if you're going to cut them loose. Imagine the productivity you loose (it's happend to me) when you have to let someone go after a year because they can't get to where you need them! You have to start from scratch.
By your logic we should be done writing all software soon. Most of it is already available, after all.

Not "by my logic". By an absurd interpolation of my logic to it's far out extreme. It's as if someone points out the existence of gravitational attraction, and someone says "by your logic, everything should be pressed together".

The existence of a huge ecosystem of libs and APIs for major languages, and much less so, for lesser used languages, is not disputable. That people programming in languages with more available libs don't tend/need to reinvent the wheel as much as people programming in languages without, is also a basic observation.

Not to mention that libraries != software.
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I think the big guys you mention in your post are your best bet for selling. Have you ever got feelers from them? It hurts you that you've taken the site down while you're trying to sell btw. You'll probably take a hit on your asking price for that.
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It would have been nice to see Amazon here as well.

According to their SEC filing, Amazon's sales were 87.5% from products and 12.5% from services.

Link: http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?F...
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hey I did something similar but in pure bash (plus grep and cat) :) https://github.com/pabloPXL/kissdb
Most politicians start out as lawyers.
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Yeah, but these two websites aren't the only places that the term 'hacker' is used as we use it.
+2 for that. +1000 in fact.
That also. In France in particular they have regulated the production of cheese to kill traditional small scale producers (and, arguably, real bloody cheeses!).
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thanks for the heads up, I just did
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Well, technically it benefits the citizens of the US if it prevents terrorists from coming in. Recall that the 9/11 terrorists came via the US/Canadian border. The first goal of the border agents is to prevent that from happening again. The 2nd goal is smooth service for all the non-terrorists. Unfortunately this is the world we live in.
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Sorry to hear about your project this way.

Are you based in Singapore? Or was the domain just to match your last name?
This is great. I'll be keeping this entire thread in mind if I find myself looking for a job.
To be fair, I wasn't put in a jail like the author was; I was sequestered in a very small room, door closed, and asked rapid-fire questions by two CBP agents for 2+ hours.

I was telling the truth the whole time, which is why they ended up letting me travel that day. But let's just say that the next time I crossed the border, I had a mountain of paperwork that proved that I was employed by a Canadian company, that I was paid in Canadian dollars, that I had a return ticket booked & paid for as well as lodging, and a letter of work and an agenda indicating what I would be doing in the US while I was there.
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Hey, that is reaally cool, despite I needed the native interface with python objects I think full bash sounds cool too ^^
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Friendster on Facebook IPO Bandwagon too
If I were to tackle the book business, I'd like to try something like that: ebooks plus an on-demand printing service for those that like their physical books :) .

I don't know if there's a good binder for such a service, but I've been demoed some very impressive printers at very cheap per-page prices on loan.

The real problem, of course, is securing the copyrights and the right to print or resell the books.
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Hotmail and MSN have a lot of traffic.
This is very interesting, however there seems to be a bit of magic going on.

It is observed that the time fixing bugs can be used in a more productive way. But those bugs still needs fixing.

Quote:
"If your team is spending time any significant amount of time fixing bugs, it has much more capacity than you realise. That’s not to say it’s an easy reserve to tap into, but it is there."

Ok, I agree. So how exactly do you tap into that resource. I am currently facing exactly the scenario described in the article - a successful sales team shoving new stuff into the pipeline, an evergrowing backlog of things to fix and do (bugs, architecture, clean-up).

Our solution so far consists of:

1., We serve multiple platforms. As Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Tablet are pretty much dead against iPad, we're shifting those developers over to iPad. New technology, but at least same business processes.

2., Hiring a few more devs.

If I understand the article correctly, the investment should go into more Q&A, finding bugs asap to get out of the long tail of production fixes.

What's the HN community' take on this?
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In my experience it's not so much the noise itself, but the noise being an indicator of the probability that you'll receive a really distracting question.
Do you mean the anecdote about hiring a new developer or the general guidance?

Assuming the anecdote, I thought it was a useful example that I have seen occur too many times. I am also sorry to inform you that the scenario presented was actually quite ideal. In all likelihood, the new developer would be incompetent. At the very least, he/she would have a personality conflict with the team and/or argue with them about why everything they are doing is wrong (which should seem obvious anytime you are working 40+ hours).
It's true that the ultimate judgement comes on the result, but a lot of the arguments around tools have an element of "this allows you to give better results". I've witnessed very long discussions with my photography and cinema friends about the varieties of cameras and other tools they like to use, so I doubt the validity of your statement. I do have to agree that it sounds a lot more intelligent and a lot less like the language bickering we're seeing.

The reason for that brings me back to my original point that there are too many people jumping in the language debates who really have no business being there. It's the equivalent of me trolling my photography friends saying that Sony makes amazing cameras because when I go on vacation I can just whip one out and take a decent shot, whereas the girl who didn't have her 4000$ SLR with her totally missed out on the opportunity. While 100% true, I'm really just derailing their conversation on the relative benefits of their cameras with something completely besides the point.
Why not? They use it at the congress...

Feels insulting every time, but it seems to be common practice.
Anyone want to try to build one of these?
With respect to Germany's vocational schools, note that Germany subsidizes all forms of tertiary education heavily, not just their vocational schools. Attending a university in Germany costs you at most a few hundred EUR per semester (and is free aside from administrative fees in several German states). Simply put, a highly skilled labor force is considered enough of a public good in Germany that the government is willing to invest in it (on top of accessible tertiary education being nice to have). And yes, there's actually high demand for computer scientists with a university degree in Germany, too.

Subsidizing tertiary education is in fact fairly typical in Europe; expensive college degrees are largely an American/English thing. For example, here in Scotland, there have been no tuition fees for Scottish students (as well as for non-British EU students) since the Graduate Endowment Abolition (Scotland) Bill. As another example, ETH Zürich charges, I think, around 600 CHF/semester in fees. Both the University of Edinburgh and ETHZ rank among the top 25 universities worldwide, so it's not as though quality is being sacrificed in the process.
Anonymous 'hack FBI and Scotland Yard phone call'
My brother thinks that hackers are all blackhats, and isnt aware of the terms black hat or white hat, lol hes fucking retarded, plus he thinks he knows how to use a computer yet tcip completely slipped out of his vocabulary
Why do I have to sign up with my email? I don't want to.
Nope we're in NY, nick.sg is just my personal domain. The actual project domain is http://autoswatch.com. I just threw up a quick demo site at that domain.
I would also like to know this.

Sadly, the only advice I have is: Anything but Lenovo.

I've had a few over the years from different jobs, and they typically always seem to have exceptionally poor performance.
I debated not submitting it, but I thought the idea warranted some discussion. Seems like every other day I read about a startup with a free service shutting down because they were bought by Facebook, Twitter, or Google.
The problem with Europe is the multitude of languages. You can't target Europe with English language, or it will end up UK/US centric. That's pretty much unsolvable problem. Of course we can talk about things happening in Europe, but that doesn't make sense.
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I only took the current site down because I'm negotiating an exit from our contract with Evox, to save us some cash while shutting things down.
This reminds me that you can do a lot without having to setup an RDBMS. Take Hacker News for instance. However, the OP uses a file as a table, whereas HN uses unix directories as tables and uses files as table records, afaik.
You need to focus on something other than nationality - I do not care if my news comes from the US or from Europe (and I think I am in the majority here), I only care if it is interesting. Maybe a Hacker News with subsections, like Reddit?
My favorites:

* support for registerised compilation on the ARM platform, using LLVM.

First class REPL!

* It is now possible to give any top-level declaration at the GHCi prompt

* Safe Haskell
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He could have been sorry before signing it. It would have been more useful...
Also, those big guys are so tough to do business with. They've got many-a-corporate-layer. I have no idea who I would talk to about something like this (without connections there).