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Why we can't find Evidence of Alien Life - We are not looking seriously. And that is because -

1. We waste far too much money on wars, weapons and fighting than what we should be spending on this sort of problems.

2. The pressing needs of human kind at this time are photo sharing apps and 'bird in pig' games.

3. No serious, I mean real serious intent on developing space travel, exploration and colonization.

4. Misplaced priorities, the people who can solve tough problems like educating kids, finding cures for diseases and space research are paid peanuts in comparison with people who are doing far easier jobs than them. There by scaring off more people working on those jobs.

5. Nation states must collaborate on working these kind of issues instead of developing weapons, wasting brain power, energy, money and resources to destroy each other.
Nice.. I had the same idea bored at work using canvas/js a while back (windows XP, so should work with windows versions..). Cool he followed through and made a font with it!

http://jsfiddle.net/U9mrs/1/embedded/result/

*edit : copied his idea and used baseline center
This is interesting to me.

I'm 20 years old and I'm not in college nor do I plan to finish a degree (and if it wasn't for technology greats like Peter Thiel and PG advice, I might still be making a $100,000 mistake). I'm a fairly normal guy, I've been out of high school for 3 years now and I'm making slightly less than Bureau of Labor Statistic's 2010 Median Income for 'Software Developers', which I believe is more than enough to not be considered underemployed.

I see a lot of psychic pain in my peers about how hard work is or the labor market is so difficult, but to be frank the failures I see are directly attributable to plain laziness in a generation addicted to easy and inane pleasure.

I'm afraid young people of today are losing the real virtues of life like living with passion and taking responsibility for who you are. The ability to make something out of yourself and feeling joy in life is more alive today than in any other point in human history.

I see a lot of active rejection of the ideals of hacker culture, perhaps epitomized by my generation's obsession with video games (which, incidentally, I think could be argued as more detrimental to human wellness than even the most societally hated and destructive addictive stimulants like methamphetamine or cocaine)

This is really a shame, as one thing that comes out of hacker culture is a feeling of a real kind of exuberance about your work. Your work is yours to create. I've read the college labor statistics with some interest, even fear. But when I read them, I can't help but think that something essential about our generation and present technological zeitgeist is being left out. As if somehow our work is simply just a confluence of forces far beyond our control, framing college graduates as fragmented or marginalized which opens up a world of excuses.

From Chaitin to Stallman, when hackers talk about the meaning of work, they're not talking about abstract decisions, they're talking about doing something that has concrete consequences. It may be true that there are seven billion people on the planet, never the less, your work matters in material terms.

In short, I'd encourage any young person my age to not write themselves off as a victim of societal forces. It's always our decision who we are and what we do with our lives.
"Do what interests you" is very common and very bad advice. I studied social anthropology for a semester because it "interested" me — but only in theory, not in practice. The computer science degree I eventually received has yielded a far more interesting career than what my friends in psychology/philosophy/sociology have experienced, on average.
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"looks cool, but can't be made"

Or, rather, "Looks cool, but wouldn't be really all that earth-shaking."
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I love that tumblr and agree with the premise that adobe software has flaws, but it's kinda mean to post that link, even with the 'unrelated' signal, don't you think?
1. It was published the day after the Instagram acquisition that Facebook had assigned a valuation of $75 billion to their stock.

2. I doubt Facebook bought Instagram for the "social graph" . Facebook has always been laser focused on user engagement. One of the core features on Facebook that keeps users engaged is photo sharing with their friends. Instagram was an up and coming challenger in the sharing photos with your friends arena and that is the primary reason Facebook bought them.
This. It's never a matter of "what" but "when" and "how".
"I hope they don't mess this up with crappy DRM, like in their standalone CS editions."

No kidding. Adobe is a prime example of a company that doesn't understand DRM. I don't need your application to constantly hog my bandwidth after I already gave you several hundred dollars.
> The fact remains that if it does happen to millions of users, something is terribly wrong.

Not necessarily. Android targets a much wider range of price points than any other smartphone OS (tied with or lower-end than Symbian all the way up to flagship iPhone competitors). Personally, I'm not terribly troubled if the sub-$100 no-contract Android (down to $49.99 last time I checked) that someone bought for prepaid use never gets updated (and there are millions of those). In fact, if someone wants to make that trade-off (explicitly or implicitly) for a dirt-cheap device, why shouldn't they be able to?

That being said, I'm not saying there aren't plenty of examples carriers and manufacturers not making the effort they should. There clearly are (the original Galaxy S is probably the most prominent example of this). I'm just saying that millions of devices not getting updated is not by itself an indication of a problem. To me, the real indication of a problem is that there are too many contract-subsidized and/or higher-end devices not getting reasonable updates (or, in the worst cases, any updates at all).
This could be an opportunity for a startup. Adobe is going to lose what was previously their lowest tier of price discrimination: people using pirated copies. I don't know if this is the case, but if a significant number of young illustrators (high school students say) currently start out using pirated copies of Photoshop, then there is an opportunity for someone else to capture all those users, and potentially keep them as they start to have money.
Yes you can.

Do you really need pointer arithmetic, null terminated strings and array downgrade to pointers for real work?

Because every other language in the planet is able to deliver real work without them. Even the ones that existed before C.
>I don't do this often, but I want to tell you I downvoted you for passionately arguing against a strawman. I can find no evidence that nirvana ever claimed libertarianism wasn't an ideology, only that it is a minority one. Unless perhaps there was an edit?

I don't see any edit, so the current text is what I replied to.

You're saying that "you can find no evidence that nirvana ever claimed libertarianism wasn't an ideology".

Well, I read the sentence: "most people are not libertarian, and so they down vote comments that don't fit their ideology" as a claim that a) libertarianism is not an ideology, b) libertarians don't down vote comments that don't fit their ideology.

Isn't he basically arguing as if libertarians are somehow above downvoting people who disagree with them? That is, they are, somehow, above ideology?

I consider both claims as false.

Even more so, because what the ideology you follow claims and what you practice are not really related. Christians are as prone to breaking the "seven-deadly-sins" as anybody else, and libertarians are just as prone to downvoting people they don't agree with as anybody else.

That I was downvoted because of arguing against libertarianism is as good evidence as any, isn't it?
I declared a double major of dance and creative writing when I entered college. Nobody discouraged me. It was sheer luck that I stumbled across computer science, fell in love, and never looked back. I shudder to think how my life would have turned out if I had stuck with what had originally interested me.
It's still fair to point it out since you can certainly go the other way (make something and then make people want it) successfully. There's bound to be frustration in a company that has forgotten how to balance the two, and these days Microsoft seems to be playing a lot of follower games. Granted, companies like Apple have done the same by taking an existing product and making it not suck, but it can spread a company thin on innovation and lead to exactly the sort of management that the article is discussing.
As far as I know they are using FreePascal as well.
I'd like to believe there is a market need for a cheap Photoshop Light. $99 or something low for a version of Photoshop that has 90% of the features removed. Just the most basic ones for the average user left in. I get the sense that most people who pirate Photoshop and make the rest of us endure the terrible DRM are only pirating the $600 piece of software to rotate and crop images because nothing else is out there.
As of CS5, don't they do effectively nothing DRM-wise? IIRC, there wasn't even a crack necessary, just a modification to the hosts file during install (to point it to a fake licensing server, presumably). It makes a lot of sense to not invest heavily in DRM once you're where Adobe is.
You don't really "learn Bootstrap". If you can do web development, you just use whatever parts of Bootstrap you want by mirroring the homepage's code.

If not, it's HTML/CSS that you have to learn and then you'll find Bootstrap an good resource.
Would they go into this if they thought it would make less money? Probably trying to go after users who pirate the software and try to make it seem more appealing to subscribe so they at least get some revenue.
Hi Mz,

I’m relatively new here and hadn’t caught one of your posts before. Tonight I saw your reply to the Instagram post, someone’s reply to you, and I started to read through your HealthGazelle and KidsLikeMine sites and comments on HN.

I’m grateful and happy that people here have reached out to you, and so I want to try as well. I’ll summarize here and follow up with an email after I’ve had some time to give it some thought.

-- You are a great writer, and your blog posts are a compelling mix of passion with the mundane, common sense and a bit of adventure with trying new things to feel better (“Teeth” and “Throat” on gazelle are examples). Have you thought about publishing an e-book? Just today I heard an “On the Media” story on how people have made money by writing for the Kindle/Amazon platform and pricing their books (of varying quality) at 99 cents. [1]

Though the majority of your CF community may not be ready to listen to your experiences on reclaiming your (and your family’s) health, I think the broader general public is hungry for real-life examples of how people are finding health again. Especially through nature/naturally and on a budget, two things that it seems you are able to do well. And I know you would be able to come with some great book titles that would catch people’s attention (here’s a quick example: “What a walk in the ocean can cure, and other natural health remedies that have worked for my family”).

-- Have you thought about Kickstarter? I haven’t posted a project there, but it seems that there are only two components to listing a project there: 1) a short video describing the project and 2) a written description of the project and the levels of backing. And with your tablet (shoots video?) and skills, you have what you need.

I think your potential funding rewards could be very attractive to folks (eg, $1 gets name added to supporters on site, $10 pledge gets that and an early edition and any updates to your next ebook, $100 gets the person a 1-hr phone/Skype conversation about ways that you’ve been able to get healthy naturally, etc). IANAL and I don’t know what disclaimers you’d need so that you don’t run afoul of medical/legal issues that this might bring up though (related, I did sell a table on craigslist years ago and the lady that bought it gave me a self-published book she published on getting healthy naturally and her belief that her daughter’s health issues were caused by excessive flouride, MSG and aspartame, and she wasn’t a doctor).

Searching Kickstarter for “homeless” turns up a handful of film projects; searching for “health” yields 300+ projects... [2]

Please forgive the late-night ramblings, something just made me want to jump in and try to help if I could.

Hang in there – though with the fight and spirit I’ve read in your posts, it doesn’t seem like I need to even say that...

[1] http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/apr/20/

[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93...
fixed. Thanks for catching it!
> As if somehow our work is simply just a confluence of forces far beyond our control... In short, I'd encourage any young person my age to not write themselves off as a victim of societal forces. It's always our decision who we are and what we do with our lives.

You are wise. Please write a book for our generation.
The value of college when you enter the job market depends on what you make of it while you are there. Most people can probably finish one way or another, but that doesn't guarantee passion or valuable real world skills. I also believe that the 'name' of your school matters a lot too.
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Yes, I have a collection of works of art entitled "buffer exploit", placed next to the "dangling pointer" exhibition hall.

It is sooo beautiful.
Kind of reminds me of the term "hackathon" between my circle of friends. When the term first entered our lexicon, it specifically meant "a 24-hour software design and implementation competition in which participants form teams, chug unholy amounts of energy drinks, and show off their demos to the audience at the end of it all". It was brilliant, wondrous, and not a concept to be trifled with more than once every few months.

Slowly, very slowly, what was once a special event became, over time, "hey, I have a project idea we could work on together and no homework this weekend; hackathon Saturday?". That became "let's meet up Friday night for a hackathon and each figure out a project to work on until the morning". That became "I have some code I need to work on, and can't stay up past 4, but hackathon tonight anyway?". That became "fuck Maine, we need to get this CS lab done; dinner then hackathon for a few hours".

Et cetera, et cetera, until "hackathon" had become sufficiently bastardised at our hands so as to solely entail taking over a conference room of an academic building for two hours one night with four six packs of beer and loud music and not a single one of us even opening a text editor. After that incident, we finally looked back upon the previous year and understood how our flippant use of what was once a cool and exciting term had rendered it devoid of any real meaning.

For a while afterward, unless we were discussing an official sponsored event, we would make a point of only using the term facetiously as in "party hackathon tonight!" or "dinner hackathon at Subway".
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That's the corner of the market that Photoshop Elements ( http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-elements.html ) is targeting is it not? $99 as you suggest!
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How to be a "good" boss very much depends on the people and the circumstances. There's really only one constant: clarity.

Even if the boss's style is authoritarian micromanagement, which most people on HN won't feel comfortable with, if said boss provides clarity and consistency certain types of people will be happy to work for them.

Knowing what is expected of you is the most important part of being comfortable in the role of employee. The rest is more a matter of personal preference.
> That said, "just learn Ruby on Rails" perhaps does not appreciate how much of a gap there is between the bottom half of the US college-bound population and an engineer capable of commercially valuable work.

I agree. On the other hand, that's a relatively easy gap to fill.

A recent example: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/20/smoopa-state-trooper-ios-de...
Nice graphics and the game was surprisingly fun. Reminds me of older game from kids website. The only problem I had was speeding up when I went to one tab then returned.
Not everybody is a creator at heart though. And even among creators, programmers are the ones with the best opportunity to create something out of nothing.

The non-creators, or the creators-in-high-entry-fields, are the ones losing jobs and opportunities. So yeah, if you have a CS-related degree and a passion for programming, you have amazing opportunities that should not be wasted.
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That's some pretty sweet irony right there. The author should have dipped into some humility.
I'd imagine it's a combination of:
1.) Hangover of attitudes from better economic times.
2.) Cultural pressure to be seen to "follow your dreams" rather than directly focus on money.
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Thank you for your gracious words, but I'd ask you to thank Robert Solomon and Sarte.
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Can you elaborate on how video games are more detrimental to human wellness than certain drugs?
Is this true? Do you have anything to back this up? Not doubting you, I'm genuinely curious. Perhaps I undervalue my skillset...
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>I see a lot of active rejection of the ideals of hacker culture, perhaps epitomized by my generation's obsession with video games (which, incidentally, I think could be argued as more detrimental to human wellness than even the most societally hated and destructive addictive stimulants like methamphetamine or cocaine)

I'd be interested in reading this argument.
Crack? I wasn't talking about how they made it hard for people to circumvent their DRM. I was talking about how hard they made CS to use after you give them over $1,000 for it.

I decided to delay any further spending with Adobe for as long as possible after how sorry their install/DRM process was for legally-licensed CS4.
I don't like headlines like this that conflate two quite different situations (ie, "jobless" and "underemployed").

Ebay used to do the same thing when it would report that x00,000 people sold on Ebay "full time or part time". Kind of a big difference so not that meaningful a stat.
What is with these people trying to have startups everywhere with IDEs on the web?!

I'll have everything local, thank you.
I think you're absolutely correct, I also think there's a lot more people making decisions that optimize for short-term satisfaction rather than long-term happiness. It's true that my deepest happiness comes from creation but I believe I'm far from alone (especially amongst college attendees, who are supposed to be the endlessly curious!).

Even still, maybe not everyone is a creator, but we are the result of 6 billion years of evolution -- act like it.
I wonder if this has anything to do with how it seems that every time someone talks about colleges better preparing young people for a career, there is always someone here that responds saying that college is not all about getting a job, but about a "cultural experience". I guess you need something to justify the expense now.
How about when the good tools are free (as far as money), but your boss doesn't want to use them because that would require him (as well as co-workers) to learn something new?

My current employer still uses CVS. No one really uses it properly. I see output files committed to repositories and I think I'm the only one who writes commit messages since I haven't seen anyone else's when I look through the history. I haven't seen anyone else create a branch.

I've mentioned Git both in private and in group meetings, but it always falls on deaf ears. So I use Git via Cygwin and always keep it local on my machine. I have Git ignoring the CVS directories and CVS ignoring the .git directory. The master branch is for things that I check-in to/update from CVS. All my real work is done in Git feature branches.
I know it's Google's fault, and not the author's, but creating an environment where users need to run a web server to access local files strikes me as extremely stupid. I can't imagine a situation where this is more secure than a proper API could be, and I can imagine several situations where it isn't (e.g., if the server has a security vulnerability, or more trivially, if there are multiple users on the same machine and the data is private).
There are also slabs and semi-serifs. Additionally there are also rounded varieties of respective primary designs, so I think his solution is probably Ok. The resulting font is surprisingly good as is.
Is that the case, or it sounds like from the other commentors here that it also represents the effectiveness and focus on fundraising? If instead people were given a single fundraising plea form with 2 checkboxes (one for academics, one for athletics) -- which way would most people go?
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If I could make things this beautiful (and it's not pure form, it's also functional), I'd feel a lot better about what I do.
This seems like the most important line in the story:

"About 1.5 million, or 53.6 percent, of bachelor's degree-holders under the age of 25 last year were jobless or underemployed, the highest share in at least 11 years. In 2000, the share was at a low of 41 percent, before the dot-com bust erased job gains for college graduates in the telecommunications and IT fields."

Headline in 2000: "Even with incredible economic performance, nearly 1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed"

Not to get in the way of the AP's narrative and everyone's self-congratulations for picking a profitable major.
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