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Over time tuition costs begin to increase faster than lottery revenues.

Georgia has had the HOPE scholarship since 1993 (lottery funded), and since 2002 the amount covered has been steadily decreasing.

If student loan availability keeps increasing (causing tuition to rise), total tuition percentage paid by HOPE will be negligible
According to this (2003) it's 4% of the flyable software: http://sstc-online.org/2003/PDFFiles/pres1478.pdf

The linked paper also gives a summary of the issues with using Ada -- tl;dr: We like the language, but no one's learning it and no one's supporting it.

Which is kind of sad, because the very thing that makes Ada useful -- stability and maturity -- is the thing that's killing it.
With that title, I was expecting it to be a The Onion article.
Also. We don't know what is in the pipeline for the future.
Who would have thought Google would build a dominant Mobile OS? Even Google didn't know!

Also it's good to note that their are companies being built on top of Facebook. Zynga is an obvious one but there are many smaller game companies, ad companies..ect and Facebook takes a cut of all of these
Heh, that screenshot is from my website. The utility I built that used to track the sales (during the period of that screenshot) was turned off once minecraft.net became unreliable (used to crash and I didn't have things in place to avoid data corruption). I wish I had kept it going, would have been great to have it still.
What's also remarkable is that Minecraft isn't entirely a new play concept - I always thought of it as infinitely scaling sandbox of Legos that allowed you to 'live' in the world you create. My first play of Minecraft triggered nostalgia of playing with a big box of random Lego bricks.

Notch knows how to execute and how to do it quickly. Watch any of his coding live streams and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. I hope his new space MMO blows that genre out of the water as well.
That was how I saw the pecking order at ASU. Obviously a smart guy can go into any field. Harvard school of business has higher standards.

I'm not telling you anything people don't know.

Soft science is generally less smart people than hard science.

God says...
C:\Text\BIBLE.TXT

his name? what shall I say
unto them? 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said,
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me
unto you.

3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is
my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together,

----

math skill gets the respect. nerds often get mocked for poor social skills. A nerd might have no idea just how far he lags. If he realized it was actually IQish, he might care more. IQ is what nerds worship. I think everybody grows to appreciate wisdom, once they know what it is.

----

You can imagine your own pecking order -- I hope I don't change anybody's.

I respect the physics math the most -- Calculus more or less.

I have no intuition on an eigenvector. I tried building intuition with limited luck.

Adjoint matrices and transforms simply fry my brain.

The thing is, though, by the time I got to my master's studies, I had invested all my freetime for ten years in computers and only 2 years in E.E. so it seemed harder and more impressive. As you invest more time, you master it. What you have mastered ceases being a big deal and can distort how you view the world.

Kalman, of Kalman filter fame went into economics, I heard. Economics is what God said He is most better than us at.

Everybody grows-up with different heros they admire.

Boy those adjoint matrices! It's like being able to draw the scribble for a number but having no idea what the number is.
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Bad? _Bad_?

The whole concept of SellAring is completely absurd. Why would anybody tolerate a random app putting ads in their phone calls, when the app isn't even running? Whose insane idea was this?

I cannot imagine ever using an app you've written, knowing that you thought this was a good idea. What other absurd bullshit might you put on my phone without my knowledge?
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>unnecessary equipment to have a selling point for certain departments, and construction/renovation is everywhere.

Exactly. When I started college I remember how ridiculous it was that every damn monitor on campus was a flat panel (this was when flat panels where still a few hundred dollars more expensive than CRTs)

Now that I'm going back to school I'm shocked by the amount of construction going on. They've doubled tuition since I was last there in 2007 and there using it on to buy a multi million dollar skyscraper and build pretty fountains.
Mark Cuban should be able to afford to hire some unemployed English major to proofread his blog posts.
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Are you sure you cannot sell stuff even without merchant support? Here in my country (Brazil) the merchant account is also not supported, but they give me the option to use an AdSense account instead to receive money.

It's far from ideal, and makes me have to jump through additional hoops just to sell apps. But it's allowed.
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My experience says otherwise, but it requires approaching the person and bragging for minutes. Its certainly possible to do this, but not via Internet or paper applications.
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I didn't mean that you don't say what you're sorry for, just that it may not pay to be too specific in some cases.

Ideally we'd all say exactly what was on our mind all the time and no one would ever get hurt, but sometimes tact is important.

Also, in the case of something like killing someone you might well place a higher value on exonerating yourself to the maximum extent possible than on potentially (re)offending someone.
This is an important distinction. Randal Schwartz had similar complaints and at some point years ago even added a disclaimer to his posts.

Attention!

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You are not your code. I most likely do not even know you
personally, and don't make presumptions about your
character or habits based on a single posting.
I'm only commenting on the ability
for the code you posted to do its stated task,
with particular attention being paid to:

* Security
* Maintainability
* Avoiding needless reimplementation
* Contribution to the community

If I sound like I'm flaming, please re-read the message
a few more times until you see that it's about the code
and the Perl community, and not about you personally.
That is all. Thank you.

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but it's much harder - it's harder to get hired and it's harder to acquire the knowledge and experience necessary to be qualified for a position

Is there any data to back this up? If we assume college is a four year undertaking, even if it takes you three years of work to find the job you are looking for without a degree, you're still expending less effort.

My anecdotal experience says it's not even difficult at all. I was able to land my first job in the industry I still work today on my first attempt in high school. Though I recognize that not everyone is so lucky.
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This is what I read.
I built this little web app as a weekend project based on crowd sourced data from Quora and other places.

The goal is to have a place to go and discover talently people who (mostly) haven't been signed on a record label yet.

This is just a prototype of the idea, i have a few thoughts on how to make the app more useful, but would love to receive some more feedback from it's current stand point.
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I think this is the relevant point that most people are missing by looking at the trees instead of the forest.

It's patently absurd to think that every single person should go to college and receive a 3 or 4 year degree. For a start, some people will not be suited to study, and for a second, increased numbers of higher education qualifications simply reduce the value of said qualification.

More people would be better served by direct time in the workforce and specific vocational training.

But the meme of 'go to college or miss out' is pervasive, and continues to cause massive amounts of people to put major time and money into their qualifications. Education has become a sacred cow that nobody is allowed to criticise, yet objectively there is no evidence that increased amounts of college graduates are making a positive difference.

I'm all for continuing education - education should be a lifetime pursuit for everyone - but the current model of growing universities and growing student debt is clearly unsustainable. The growth has to at least stop at some point, and probably reverse.

Until people start looking at the cost/benefit ratio objectively instead of emotionally, nothing is going to change.
There is no clear financial connection. The only way to make a strong financial connection is to imagine a default scenario; where thousands of students can't pay off their loans. There is little evidence for this as student loans tend to be cheaper then housing loans (It is impossible get 300K of student loans) and they tend to have nicer terms less ways to default. Perhaps whats happening is some kind of social slavery where it is harder to peruse ones dreams due to loans, but its not a financial bubble.
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Interesting that Nokia moves to offer something else besides Windows Phone in the USA, as its Lumia 900 drops down to #10 on the Amazon wireless best sellers list ...

http://wireless.amazon.com/b/684177011/

Does this improve Nokia's chances of avoiding bankruptcy?
Along with "more taxes, more red tape, more corporate control" one also sees things like environmental regulations. Whether supporting environmental regulations is liberal(I want the right to enjoy my back yard without smog from his car and without sludge from your factory) or authoritative(so don't pollute) is a topic that is up for debate, and shouldn't be lumped in with "corporate freedom."
>I have found that a great many of the students have not mastered high school algebra.

Why should they have? It doesn't take 'mastery' to pass a class, it takes proficiency. Expecting perfection in all previous classes from students is silly.

>Many of the students aren't all that motivated, and resented me for asking a lot of them.

Are you teaching Math majors? If not, of course they aren't motivated. Most of them won't be using calculus in their daily life, they don't see it as valuable. Why should they, either, if nobody is presenting it's value?

Your post isn't a bad one, I just find a frustration with professors who forget sometimes that not everyone is interested in their subject. In an ideal world you would only teach people who want to learn your subject, but this is not an ideal world.
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> costs about £25 ($40) over here

That makes me droll. Costs around $500~1k here.
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I have not seen a seeking freelancer thread for a while, so I thought I would post one.

I'm specifically seeking a freelancer that can slice .PSDs into strict XHTML, CSS, and some JavaScript.
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And go over the grammar with a fine tooth comb. You might want to find a native English speaker to help you with the prose. The writing isn't bad, it's just not correct or fluid.

Do not consider these corrections, but examples of my observation.

"Do my customer know about what my product offer?"

Do my customers know about what my product has to offer?

"Look at following set of questions?"

Look at the following set of questions;

"Seem like familiar to you? Then Dokeeno can help you.

Does this seem familiar to you? Then Dokeeno can help.
> Will we start to see a parade of law suits from former students against their universities?

I'm unsure of what legal recourse these students would have. I do not have a legal background, but signing off on a loan seems like a pretty cut and dry matter.
Well, I'm glad you only misunderstood Linus, rather than were trying to deliberately twist his words. He never implied anything about the github team, or the site as a whole. Maybe you missed this comment [1][2]

> .. because I think github does some things very well.

> So sure, you may think I hate github. I don't. I hate very specific parts of github that I think are done badly.

> But other parts are done really really well.

> I think github does a stellar job at the actual hosting part. I really do. There is no question in my mind that github is one of the absolute best places to host a project. It's fast, it's efficient, it works, and it's available to anybody.

> That's wonderful. I think github is absolutely lovely in many respects.

> And that then makes me really annoyed at the places where I think github does a subpar job: pull requests and committing changes using the web interface.

It seems obvious to me that he likes GitHub a lot, and thinks the team behind it are very capable, and not at all braindead. This doesn't preclude them from having a braindead feature. Or a feature responsible for crap commit messages. Or a feature that is both.

I apologize if you thought I was being rude. I was actually trying to not insult you, in case you were ESL. And I only went in that direction because I didn't want to believe you were trying to quote mine.
[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56613...

[2] How fitting. Poor text wrapping support bites again. When I pasted the comment, it lost all line ending data, so I had to re-separate all the paragraphs (not sure if the fault is in GitHub, Win7 clipboard, FF, or HN).
Are you surprised by this? This is just how it works anywhere. At many schools the graduation rate is below 60% and the average math course GPA university wide is probably around 2.5. Math and Physics are the most difficult subjects at any university. Half or more of a calc I class is going to drop out or change to a non STEM major. The important thing is to not let the inevitable ruin their interest in education (if there is any).
This assumes a few things.

1) Teaching something repetitively means the students will learn more the second time.
2) Basic algebra is all that's needed as a general background in math for all majors.
3) Everyone in high school is there to prep for college.

Those are three massive assumptions. Your viewpoint is rather narrow minded when you consider all the possibilities.
Since you mentioned Spacewar in a post about an MMO, I feel like I need to plug http://www.mmospacewar.com which is a fork I made of MMO Asteroids (featured here as the top post about a month ago) to make it behave more like Spacewar. It isn't fully polished yet (I'd like to use better sprites, the energy costs may need some tweaking, and I'd like to improve support for choosing instances), but it is functional and you and others might find it interesting.
Georgia State is a few thousand per year for state students. Who cares if it doubled?

Edit: Southern state schools should be the model. They're 1/4 or cheaper the cost of private schools and often a better education.
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It's not a comparison. Maybe I went a bit too far, but I think it answers "why does no one want to actually answer his question?". Sometimes the subject at hand or the content raises flags/concerns that overshadow the question. It's human nature.
For what it is worth we got Arora (QtWebKit) working on windows 98. It isn't Win 3.11, but the closest thing to an answer.

http://arorabrowser.blogspot.com/2009/01/modern-webkit-brows...
It also creates a positive feedback loop problem - the ones that get a few hits in turn can get more money to attract the ones with the most potential. It also will get regional problems - those that produce graduates bound mostly for the NYC market will do better than those where the graduates go for Midwestern jobs.

I don't have a problem with rewards going to those who produce the best graduates - clearly this effect is already in play at the big name institutions.

I think that you need a certain amount of 'wildcard' where someone from a lesser known college can go on to be a big thinker or earner. I think otherwise you risk something with a positive feedback loop getting stuck in groupthink or turning itself into a formula which resists change and innovation.
Just me or is it a bit creepy that not only do they have a city-wide CCTV system, but they apparently used it to track specific vehicles?

Perhaps it's just the US mentality of tremendous respect for civil liberties[1], but what they did is actually appalling to me.

[1]: Please, let's not make this a discussion of how civil liberties aren't uniformly enforced in the US. I think we can agree that things like the Bill of Rights affirm more individual liberties in the US than many other countries.
Press coverage - not metrics, but I've seen an awful lot of stories come out of events, and most importantly an awful lot of journalists meeting exhibitors, from bloggers to mainstream websites or newspapers. Obviously this doesn't guarantee coverage, but it puts the ball in your hands, once you're stood talking to a journalist while standing over your product it's time to knock it out of the park.

I don't really have any customer data I can share with you, the sort of selling points generally used are more vague - such as "The average spend per visitor at last year's event on products sourced at the show was £767, a total audience spend of £79.8m" (taken from the sales pitch of a 2012 event). The overall focus of selling - though I'm not actually in sales so this isn't my direct area - is about the size of the audience, and what sort of demographic they are.

I don't know if events are a good use of your money when it's as tight as that, i.e. if you can chose between $3k on an event or $3k on a PR company, but only one, as I can't think of any exhibitor I've ever had that paid that little, or that was small enough not to have marketing budget around it.

The single biggest argument I can give, I think, is that if you go to PAX you're going to get more people looking at your game than you'd get clicks for $3k online - and when it comes down to it, are you going to sell your game better by having somebody look at your website, or stand in front of you try out your game?

Incidentally, what adverts are giving you that click-rate, and do you have any calculated CPA figures?

edit: I just want to note that like I said above, my experience comes more from big budget companies like big studio publishers rather than indies, so I can't necessarily say events are or aren't a great idea for people like you, just that they do offer bang for buck.
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>Who said going to college will get you a job?

Pretty much every teacher they had through k-12. That's who.

And the worst part is that because of the number of applicants you get degree-inflation where you have to spend more and more of your life in school to get a job that pays significantly above minimum wage.

Fuck it, I'll be poor.

Maybe my tune will change when I can afford college.
About as hard as walking across the bathroom to throw away a piece of paper only to then walk back the other way to exit the door.
I also find it creepy, but I wonder if the CCTV and traffic light network can be hacked to help you arrive somewhere on time, or even to have a rival arrive late to make them look bad.
I studied at Complutense University in Madrid, Spain, and I didn't have to pay for my degree either, because I was working as a custodian/porter ("conserje" or "bedel", if you read Spanish) at Politecnica University also in Madrid. Even though it was a different University, all fees were waived if you worked in the higher education sector. I studied in the late 80s to early 90s, so I don't know if this is still the case.

Mine was a common enough case. In the school where I worked, two more of the conserjes were studying engineering degrees. In the school where I studied (I have a degree in English), at least one of the conserjes was studying a tertiary degree, I don't remember which.

In these circumstances, what I wondered is why didn't more of my younger colleagues pursue further study. You have a salary, a job that leaves you quite a lot of free time to study, and reasonable hours (morning and afternoon/evening shifts) that allow you to attend classes during your non-working shift. And, some years later, you could also have a degree and a modicum of learning (or, in some cases, a lot of learning and no degree: your mileage may vary).

Great for Gac! Me and my fellow worker/students did it at a younger age, in our country of birth, surrounded by a family support network, and with a much cushier jobs (a conserje doesn't have cleaning duties, for instance). Gac sends part of his salary back to his family in the Old Country, while I could use mine to travel around Europe and buy books. In fact, I nowadays I call that job my "scholarship". I didn't have to man the counter of a 7/11 or stock supermarket shelves to pay for my studies, and I graduated with some savings. I didn't always feel privileged, but I was in many ways.

In the article, Gac Filipaj quotes Seneca, the Stoic philosopher. Read his statements again after reading a bit about stoicism[1], and they gain new meaning.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism