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Thrun seems to be getting into this mode as well with this line: "He’s thinking big now. He imagines that in 10 years, job applicants will tout their Udacity degrees. In 50 years, he says, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them. Thrun just has to plot the right course."

Why is it that people (even apparently faculty like Thrun) seem to forget that universities deliver more than just undergraduate education? "Delivering higher education" also means research labs and centers for scholars, graduate education, professional education, executive education, etc. While undergraduate education may be ripe for disruption, there is a serious leap needed to go from there to the complete disappearance of thousands of institutions.

Just look at the numbers: dederal research grants and endowments will sustain at least several hundred universities for the long-term, and other universities that are currently teaching-focused will move more of their efforts to research as students take online classes and stop being paid customers.

The institutions that should be worried are technical colleges (depending on major), community colleges and perhaps state college systems. They are the most likely to be disrupted, particularly if Udacity could offer a more comprehensive curriculum. But Stanford? Or even schools like the University of Florida or UC-Santa Barbara? They have plenty of other income sources, and still have a lot of life in them.
Yeah, there's a wide variation in training, condition, and the level of care/equipment/hydration, and the results (and there are lots of heat injuries in the military, too). The OSHA limits are clearly not the limits of human performance (either low or high). One of the things is you acclimate to it over a period of a week or two fairly successfully, so if there were a datacenter which constantly operated in that range, you should be able to get staff who can handle it. (I'm sure steel mills and other industrial facilities have high temperatures, too).
I agree. The school-issued iPads will auto-rotate the virtual paper making this advice pointless.
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take an evening and go have drinks with some current med students / residents - here's what you'll hear (not from all, but from many): "Obamacare is killing my profession!"..."i should've gone to b-school instead"..."i could be working at GS but now i'm busting my ass for $50k"..."i'm getting screwed! this is sooooo unfair! how am i going to survive this debt?!"...so, the problem isn't that they don't make a great living - because they do. the problem is that they feel they're entitled to make as much as other 'smart people' (aka, their former undergrad classmates at princeton) in other professional careers like corporate law or banking - which they don't. they still make way more than 99% of the population, but those people don't matter as a basis of comparison. if you counter with, "...but, you're a doctor. you're not in it for the money - you want to help people, right?" you'll get an extremely exaggerated eye-roll and the conversation will end...so, in short - it doesn't surprise me at all that a doc is leaving medicine to chase $ in tech now that it's no longer cool to tell your cronies you work in finance... (there are many exceptions and God bless them but, I've personally run into too many self-righteous, woe-is-me med students to know what to do with...) - why do you think dermatology is such a competitive field? $$$$$$
Holy crap, your post is total rubbish.
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"But I guess you could dump old data to disk and load it back to Redis only when you need it."

Redis has a mode which does this automatically I believe (and it's the default if I remember correctly).
Is your compensation determined by a standardized test? Why not? How can the world possibly work if we don't use standardized metrics for everything?!
Ah, we applied to YC10 with same idea for http://closest.in :) That's how it goes.
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I don't think that's right.

When overheated, you sweat. Sweat leads to evaporation, which leads to your skin cooling.

In humid environments, our sweat does not evaporate as well. This leads to less cooling, which leads to more sweating and thus more water loss.
The parent was referring to the great-grandparent.
-How has the turnover been?

-How much tome do teammates socialize outside of work?

-What percentage of your time is support?

-Is mentorship valued?

-Which best describes the engineering culture: deadline or quality driven?

-How many hours of meetings are there a week?

-Would you say your customers love you?

-What's the biggest complaint about the firm?

-Do you do automated testing?

-What software methodologies do you practice?

-Are the hours flexible? Can you work from home?

-Are vacation days counted?
I used to work at the CSTJF in Pau, France which is one of Total's biggest cluster (if not the biggest). Their data-center was ranked 91 in the top-100 at the time.

In the event of a fire, they have (had?) a system that would release a gaz in the data-center that would "eat" oxygen so that the said fire would die.

Obviously any living creatures trapped in the data-center would die as well. The evacuation time before release was perhaps something like 30 to 60 seconds (I can't remember that). Just enough to drop anything and reach one of the safe corridor where no gaz is released.
What makes you think that your child's teacher is actually qualified to teach the material that he or she is teaching? Teaching degrees in the United States are a joke. They consistently attract the dregs of the college applicant pool.

The fact that standardized tests measure students is a secondary benefit. The entire point of No Child Left Behind was to identify the worst teachers and either 1) get them to improve or 2) get them to leave. I wholly agree with this goal. Unlike most of the people making educational policy, I'm still young enough to remember my high school experience. I remember math teachers that didn't know how to solve the problems they assigned. I remember civics teachers who knew less about the American Revolution than I did. And I didn't grow up in the inner city. I grew up in a fairly prosperous suburb. My school was regarded as being in the top 10% of schools in the state. I shudder to think how bad the teachers are in high poverty schools.

To get at your point more directly, I don't think there's any cognitive dissonance at all. I think the basic premise is being questioned: "Is this person qualified to teach our kids the material?" Do I agree with the way we're measuring how the material is being learned? No. Our current standardized tests are like yardsticks, rather than calipers. But even a yardstick is better than guesswork.
Rather than worry about scaling, why not get rid of the essay sections completely? I have an issue with standardized tests basically setting public school curriculum, but most of the essays I remember didn't even do that (and based on the OP's piece, these essays aren't testing writing ability either.)

I recall the (Texas) essay prompts used to be incredibly vague and had nothing to do with what we were learning in class at the time. Prompts like "Write about a time you overcame a challenge" come to mind. Back then, I assumed they were just testing our ability to communicate ideas to an audience, but really all they wanted was the default 5-paragraph essay. It was little more than fill-in-the-blanks to this outline, rather than actual writing.

What made the AP Literature and Rhetoric tests so good was that everything we learned in class was applicable to them. Obviously, my teachers took time to explicitly practice the AP essays, but every other activity also helped feed my knowledge of the subject that I could use to answer the essays on the AP test. Other standardized test essays just seem to be antithetical to any possible purpose.
I mean problems with copy-on-write. By moving objects around won't we end up copying the whole address space?

Then again we may not get into this problem until there's a full GC which would be quite rare.
Any student who wrote in a direction perpendicular to the lines of the paper would likely be sent in for well-deserved psychological counseling.
My favorite feature of this site, by far, is "wish". I wanted a service where you could do exactly what it does -- write a note or ask a question to someone, without figuring out his address. i.e. I can ask a question to Dan Loeb, savior of humanity, without trying to find his email address or get an introduction; ideally the people at Askolo will go through that effort on my behalf.

( He's the Third Point Ventures investor who has been trying to fix Yahoo's board for a while, and is about to go to war with Scott Thompson, ideally resulting in the end of their stupid patent troll misadventure.)

Bringing in top quality experts from outside the Silicon Valley bubble is the main thing Quora has failed to do (Larry Summers is on there since he's friends with Marc Bodnick, but not a whole lot of other people like that). Askolo is probably a better format for that kind of person than Quora is.
can I have multiple pairs? I guess that's not the point but would be nice to keep track of the "in the works" ones.
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Going from a 3D mouse to Pair seems like more than a pivot. It's more like a back handspring or some larger acrobatic maneuver.

Someone should compile a list of initial ideas vs pivots. It would be interesting to see how many groups had pivots this drastic.
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I agree with everything you've said, so I wont repeat it. I want to relay my own anecdote to the OP on top of it.

I've been doing professional web application development since 1997, a year after I graduated high school. I'm 34 years old now and still work in the field, but I'm dissatisfied with writing every day code. I solve every day problems for my employer's customers but it does nothing to stoke the fires of my passion for computing and problem solving. I've had a good career. Even living in the midwest, away from major cities, I earn a low six figure salary writing software.

Over time I have slowly come to realize how many ideas I was never exposed to by learning on my own. In my career I have quickly been recognized for my technical ability at each company I have worked at, but I became aware that there is a level above that, which I'm not qualified to be a part of. I found there is a glass ceiling that I cannot break through. The ceiling is not defined by salary, but rather by the intellectual challenge provided by the work and coworkers.

After much reflection, I decided to start college at 34 years old. Last fall was my first semester at my local community college. I continue to work my well paying job, but after this summer I plan to quit and focus entirely on my education. Next year, after I finish my general education classes, I'll transfer to University of Illinois for Computer Engineering.

I have built up some savings, so I'll certainly live more comfortably going back to school now, but I'll lose quite a bit of potential income doing it now verses going to college after high school. I could provide some detailed estimates for this, but I think its self evident.

I guess my point is that if you think you'll want to go to college in the future, do it now. It's much easier, and cheaper, when you're younger. Not to mention the social benefits to doing so.
How many hours a week do employees spend interviewing candidates?

(I've had jobs that I spend 2 hours everyday doing interviews - not fun after a while)
The quote is a metaphor. It is clearly not about going the other way on lined paper, but rather the basic principle that one should not blindly follow instructions because someone else says they are right. If what you are told to do is wrong, don't do it.
Exactly! And not only can you map out specific bits of computation in a car engine, you might even be able to see/find ARBITRARY bits of computation in the world around you.

So what are the implications if for any given sequence of logical operations that represent an algorithm being executed, you can find a mapping for that sequence in the real world if you look for it? If "consciousness" is reducible to computation, it follows that consciousness is anywhere you choose to see it. Something doesn't add up there.
What better way to qualify people for academia?
Did anyone read the last two paragraphs? Seems the article wasn't quite done being edited:

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Calling state lotteries a regressive tax highlights the irony of the socioeconomic system. The non-lottery-playing cohort tends to have more political control and uses that power (unconsciously, perhaps) to structure the market to induce lottery-playing behavior among the poorer cohort.

In other words, there are varying methods of obligation.
>What the hell does that even mean? If that is your best advice, you are probably full of bad advice. I cannot comprehend the level of confusion required to think that quote is clever.

It means go against the grain? I can't comprehend the level of ignorance that makes you incapable of understanding one of the classic dystopian novels.
Coursera, I'm doing the NLP class but it is just a guy writing equations on a chalkboard. The class would be much better if he used plain english to explain his equations instead of reading off the slide.

MITx, I gave up on the electronics course because I can't read the guys handwriting and I didn't like the labs. The book is also in the worst format I've ever seen but at least it's free.
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>> Google is looking for paying customers. This is how it goes.

That's the way it should go. I am very glad to pay 50 bucks a year for my google apps.

I want to pay for it because I want the company that is storing and backing up my data to be profitable. I want them to have the mindset of having paying customers so they have to take care of their's customers data. I want them to focus on the product being good, ever evolving, and profitable. And gmail is exactly that.[1]

[1] Ok, I don't know if Gmail as product is profitable, but I do hope they go in that direction
I think it is simpler than this, we take an action that we can both take and demonstrate having taken it, whether or not that solves the problem.

If you are a politician and your constituents are telling you to 'fix education' you can't create a 'Khan Academy' what you can do is add requirements that teachers 'do better' and since better is subjective you create an artificial measure of 'better.' Then you report back that you helped to 'fix education' when you not only didn't fix it, you didn't even move the ball down the field.

However this mythical representative didn't have take the hard road of pissing off some entrenched interests in education in order to change it. Not only would that cut into next year's re-election budget, there would be nothing concrete to show for it and a lot of soft money ads in your district saying how you were bad for education.
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>People want a way to evaluate student performance in a way that works across many schools, districts, and states.

Except what they are evaluating holds no meaning. Standardized tests are nonsense. Tests in general are. What you're measuring isn't knowledge, or understanding, what you're measuring is compliance to artificial and highly contrived environments. Which is a pretty useless skill, especially when compared to a deep understanding of the subject matter.

>Teach better around the tests.

By the FSM, NO. Teach around understanding, around critical thinking, logic and reason. But not around tests. This is exactly the kind of teaching that destroyed any interest I had in subjects that where taught back in school. There's nothing more frustrating to learn things not because they might be interesting, or because the deep understanding of the subject might be useful, but because they are on the next test.

Granted, there are subjects where you can't teach "understanding" per se. History is such a subject. It's based on a lot of numbers, names and places, most of which are simple facts (WWII happened from 1933-1945 etc). However, I would argue that this means it's completely useless to do tests on history. What are you testing? Essentially memorization. Which is a useful skill, but not one on which a lot of your grades should depend. Especially because a lot of students spend hours memorizing facts which they will have forgotten a week after the test, and that time time could have been better spend on sensible things.

>But implying that the very idea of standardized testing is constricting is a waste of time. They aren't going anywhere.

You're essentially saying that because we can't do much about them makes them any less useless and constricting. Arguing that the problem can't be solved doesn't make the problem go away.
Standard ML. The implementations and the standard library situation both need a lot of work, but the language itself is by far the cleanest and most practical very-high-level language I've encountered.
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And don't forget groovy++ to easily achieve java like performance.
I have a theory, which has so far held up [1], that every remotely popular language that needs automatic storage reclamation ends up growing a generational and incremental/concurrent collector, either in its main branch or in a fork [2]. It's just a matter of time. Efficient automatic storage reclamation is hard.

[1] Language developers sometimes claim they don't need it. I believe they're on the wrong side of history.

[2] Forks are common for this, and for good reason; often times languages that start with reference counting end up taking large dependencies on external libraries that manipulate reference counts (like Python with its Py_INCREF and Py_DECREF), at which point the language can't fully move to tracing GC without breaking its ecosystem.
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I think education at a great University provides primarily four benefits:

1. Great instructor-driven education
2. Great student peer-group-- folks that are truly smarter than you and teach you to think in ways you hadn't imagined (and those you pay attention to, because they might someday change the world)
3. Great networks/connections and maybe even a brand
4. An opportunity to immerse in great research.

I think online education courses do a great job of approximating 1. They sort of try to do 2. And they fail at 3.

I don't point this out to say "yes, online ed. could change higher learning forevermore" or "no, this is a flash in the pan", but to highlight that traditional Universities do have a role-- they may simply be a place where people watch online videos and build stuff together, but they add value beyond a guy in his den watching a video (to be poetic predictions of the death of traditional learning are greatly exaggerated).

e.g. As a Stanford student, (1) above is certainly lowest on my list of great-things-Stanford-provides. (2) is high, and so is infrastructure. On (4), I think the Gates building has a astoundingly high great-ideas/sq-m. None of these can be replicated online easily.
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The standard state-of-the-art for garbage collection is two-space copying for the nursery, and mark-and-sweep for the tenured generation. That way you avoid copying the whole heap on every GC; you only get copying for the nursery. You may have a compaction pass for the tenured generation that runs very rarely (much more rarely than a regular minor or major GC). V8, Java, and OCaml all follow this model, and I believe .NET and Haskell do as well. Lua skips the generational part for simplicity's sake (as games care a lot more about latency than throughput); SpiderMonkey does too because Mozilla hasn't implemented generational GC yet.

If fork() performance is important to you, you probably don't want compaction for the tenured generation at all. That's totally fine; while fragmentation will accumulate over time, it's no worse than C++. You'll still have copying for the nursery, but the nursery fills up and gets recycled so often that the COW optimization isn't really helping you there anyhow.
What lucrative or otherwise worthwhile profession do you not waste your youth toiling away in? Other than trust fund custodian of course.
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I'm not sure about asking questions, but you can get a huge amount of information by looking around as your going to/from your interview.

The bathrooms/toilets, kitchen, and break areas are all enlightening in their own way. For example:

- How well are the bathrooms maintained (clean, working).

- What kind of notices are posted in the halls, etc -- passive aggressive messages, or announcements of upcoming brownbags/hackdays.
As someone who's more than happy with C#, I'm wondering if there's a world out there I'm missing but I can't really connect with what you're saying.

1. "Strong and intelligent"? "Convenient"?

2. "Sense of design"? My current side project includes a web scraper which uses the following open source projects: AutoMapper, CsvHelper, HtmlAgilityPack, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, Modernizer, Moq, NLog, MongoDB C# driver, PetaPoco database driver, Rx extensions, knockoutjs and structuremap. 8 of those are .NET specific. Because of their excellent design, I have probably no more than about 30 lines of code hooking up to them (where I use interfaces) and maybe no more than 100 lines of code total utilizing them directly. Yet they conceal YEARS worth of work I would have to do myself.

3. Have you ever used Resharper? I've never heard of anything equivalent on any platform for any IDE (except for IntelliJ, developed by the same company, Jetbrains).

4. I'm fine with Windows. I find both Linux and Mac less developer friendly. I'm fine hosting my services on Linux and interfacing with them from C#, though, because it's a great server operating system. I've been using computers for 20 years and I'm happy to be away from the command line 99% of the time. What do you like about it?

5. Git Extensions + Git Source Control Provider are a completely integrated and free Git experience on Windows.