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Really? Blunt criticism is fine with me (welcome, even!), but insults are completely unacceptable. Insults are disrespectful and create a hostile environment. It sucks when you have to deal with a hostile environment and we should try to avoid creating one rather than telling people to deal with it. Just look at all the recent discussions on women in tech.
Carl (Mojang CEO) has stated that the sales will eventually subside so they're planning new revenue avenues, such as selling multiplayer servers.

> and the minecraft forum

Thank you for your continued patronage :)
The other end of the problem is that kid's aren't even trying to flip their degree. Most kids consider college and experience not an investment.

You're kid is the worst investor on the planet. Because instead of majoring in Bioengineering they are majoring in psychology. And If they are majoring in psychology they aren't out to get the best damn research positions over the summer and publish papers, they are out working for the local supermarket.

I don't think most students have been asked "What return do you expect on the $100,000 you are going to spend on this degree".
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$1 trillion in student loan debt you say? Simple solution, let the Fed print up and loan out 0% interest loans that roll over indefinitely and hand them out to students, just like the $16 trillion they handed out to the banks.

Oh wait, I forgot only bankers get free money in America.

Serious solution: repeal the law that says student loan debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. Then lenders will need to do a serious assessment of whether the money they are loaning out can be paid back based on assessing the student.

I will also like to mention that somehow other nations seem to not require massive tuition fees. A basic college education should be MUCH lower cost.
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First off, I know education != going to college. But let's be honest, some people who spend years of their life studying full time are probably learning more than people who watch a few videos after work. It takes a long time for most people to learn certain skills and without a dedicated place, timeframe and support network they probably won't learn those skills by themselves.

I don't think spending too much on education is going to cause the next bust of America. I think it will be a case of everyone else spending so much more than the US. In a services-based economy your main capital is your people. Many traditional universities will fail, because there are too many mediocre schools (also cheaper alternatives and expanding high-end schools). This will, however, result in fewer people studying anything past high school.

There are significant problems in the US higher education market but hoping for its demise will not fix things. Good luck competing in a hypothetical free market against far more educated populations.
"Preparing for the Work Force" does not equal to "Vocational". After all, if universities do what you claim they should do, i.e. "prepare you to be a thinker, a scientist and just generally an educated person", you should become a useful member of society in the end and most probably you will be employed by someone who can use your skills.

This being said, I have a problem with the mentioned "solution". Why would you have to repay "based on 5% of their annual income, the University of California for 20 years"? - it seems like a ridiculous huge amount of money. It would make sense if it were a lot more limited, say, for the first 5 years of work, where your educational background still matters - after that threshold, I say your experience is more valuable than your academic background.

I'm with the author of the article. Let the new solutions invade the market to make current colleges rates obsolete. Change will occur by itself.
This probably depends a lot on the course one is taking. I have a feeling (from observing the people around me) engineers are a lot better at critical thinking and logical reasoning after a couple years of college than they were coming out of high school.

From my observation it takes about ~4 years for the really observable differences to settle in ... it might also just be maturity. Difficult to say :)
Congrats! I've been tempted to get the iOS version, maybe this milestone will compel me to do so.

The only indie-game-story I respect as highly is Dwarf Fortress. It's hard to imagine how that dense gameplay could ever make a sales breakthrough but what incredible game design it is
I really do not like housing bubble to education analogies. There is a big and quite obvious difference between housing and education. You cannot flip a diploma. You can try to monetize it by getting a good job but it is not something you can sell. The way you monetize it is by living your life a certain way.

Education would be a big investment even if it were free. You still have to go to classes. You still have to expend effort. And if you want to get your money's worth out of your education you still have build a career. So you cannot buy 20 diplomas on credit and flip them in a month for profit (as some people used to do with houses). Which means that education is a completely different beast. Every housing analogy is utterly idiotic.

Now that is not to say that there are no problems with education. Of course there are. But they are different type of problems.

Personally I think too many loans are being given out because of the recent proliferation of for profit schools with dubious teaching abilities and academic standards. I think we need some kind of merit based system that will limit the number of loans being given out. The merit based system may test either the students or the schools or both, and only give out loans to those that pass the test. Thus, we can limit the loans to only those that can beneficially use them.
It's not something that's easily perceptible unto itself unless you get into very radical inconsistencies. As an example using arbitrary numbers, a quarter note would be 500 ticks one time and 493 ticks the next and so on...

It can be measured by recording the audio on a (timing accurate!) dedicated system and analyzing the waveform

Subtle as it may be, timing accuracy has an essential impact on how we perceive music as a whole. This is one contributor among a few as to why vintage drum machines and sequencers have become so sought after as software-baed music production has become more prevalent. The Akai MPC series (at least the 2000XL and previous) models have been found to have the most consistent timing of any machine with the Atari ST being the strongest computer sequencer.

Sorry, I don't have time to cite this stuff (breaking my own rule) but it should be easy to google

As an aside, poor timing accuracy can be a reason why in pulse-based music that some human musicians "just suck" even if they're otherwise proficient. Or some musicians are "just have it" even though they're playing something unremarkable
Thanks! I am not really familiar with tithing, and when I first looked at the chart I didn't understand that LDS meant you payed a tithe.
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You are totally right.

I forgot to mention that they are locked in to Oracle and Microsoft. My job was to develop a C# based system, but they made me use VS 2005 Express (!@#$%), because they would not buy the latest version/license.

That job taught me a lot about how not to treat your programmers.
Most students are crap at math. That's a fact. There is 0 encouragement to spend high school refining math skills.

Also don't confuse motivation with laziness, priorities, or time management. To a psych major, calc might seem like one of those bullshit classes you have to take. To an EE Major it might just be more hours of work that could be spent sleeping.
Because "China". :)

Anyone who thinks the Chinese government had anything to do with this is just an idiot.
I upvoted this, because I think it's definitely a good way to stay focused (and I should be doing a better job of it, too). but the issue with his analogy is that brushing your teeth is fairly routine. you go about it at pretty much the same time every day, and you don't have to think about it.

working on your idea, however, is different each and every day. some days, the challenges are greater. some days you may need more than 30 minutes.

point taken though, and I'll be trying harder to stick to it.
And the obligatory alternate viewpoint (likely less popular, but useful if you want balanced perspective in combination): http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/05/oracle-and-google-make-co...
Agreed. There are similarities between the higher ed and housing bubble:

* Lots of quick money available

* Government loans and programs,

* Speculation about the relative return on investment that does not match the observed reality

But a house is an asset with a specific tangible transferable value. A college degree is a certification and not transferable in any specific way. It muddies the waters to see the bubbles as identical, and it suggests that they will resolve themselves in exactly the same way (which is at least questionable).
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Hi,

I am a regular reader of HN but this is my first post here.

I am living in a country where opportunities are not as big or as much as in the US. Nevertheless, I have been fortunate to work for some of the biggest startups here in my country. We had numerous successful exits (most 7 digits), all bootstrapped. Though, the shares I had were much less. I think, I can say I am a good executor from technical POV.

I then started building my own startups. I focused on the mass market and I was trying to earn money through ads. I know the importance of the business model, but I know my skills and as a business owner for example, I won't be able to handle an e-commerce business well.

So, I built a couple of sites in time. Some failed and I lost some money, though two of them have become successful, with more than a million member together and millions of unique visitors monthly.

So, you may think I've become rich. Nope. I am earning good amount of money, but there are offers on the table which offer 2x more money than what I earn from these sites. And of course they offer less stress and every other thing which simply you don't have as a business owner, like a life.

If I wait another 3-5 years, I know my sites can have a real business model and market will be much bigger for the potential business models.

So, the question is; should I abandon my dreams and become a pure tech guy and a career guy, as my abilities won't allow me to have a high growth startup. Or should I continue on my path and be not regretful and play for the future? As a career guy I know I can be happy from many respects, like salary or a regular life. However, I have a deep passion about running my own startup, and it is not about money. If it would be about money, I would abandon it years ago. BUT, money is still an important factor, at least to figure out how things will play in the future, and I don't see a high or big growth in my sites as they are purely ad based sites. (and high cost, close to 20 fat servers)

I am also a married guy and having a child soon. That's another thing that confuses me.

So what would you do? Would you abandon your dreams and accept the offer?

(I can't give much details about myself and my sites as this is a very personal question. I want to stay fully anonymous, hope you respect that.)
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Thankfully the Heroku guys have open sourced WAL-E which manages all the tedious parts of setting this up and keeping it running.

https://github.com/heroku/WAL-E
A couple years ago our team had a really bad relationship with another team at work. They were morons. They did everything wrong, and made LOTS of work for us.

One day I found I was sick of it -- I stopped calling them idiots. I told my immediate cow-orkers, "I'm tired of calling them shitty names. I'm just not going to do that any more."

The embarrassing thing that people around me said was, "Good!"

In a few weeks, interesting things began to happen. First, they started listening to my team and me. With a little guidance they stopped making decisions that made life tough for everyone. Now they're not doing /great/, but it's sure a lot better.

There is another team I'm going to tackle next. This one is harder, it's been entrenched for years, and it's costing us money. But I have to turn things around, and the easiest thing to start doing is to stop calling people fucking morons.

Calling someone a moron is the first step down a slippery path, even if you /know/ they're a moron.
I have -- and I'm not busting on Ada, quite the contrary -- I'm pointing out that many of the rules in the C++ document would not be necessary were they coding in Ada.

(I'm sure they use static analysis tools for C++ that enforce some of these rules, so I'll defer to someone who is more current in that world)
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How much money? How long could you live off the money without working?

You could always take the offer and spend your time working on something new.
It will be hard to learn a language without the motivation of needing (or wanting) it for a specific goal.

I'm currently learning spanish with the aim of it being useful when I take my family on a extended tour around south america sometime in 2014 or 2015. I don't expect to be fluent by then, but hopefully am able to learn enough to get by. (I spent time in France last year, having not made the effort to learn any french - not an experience I would recommend!)

For actual tools, I'm currently using Anki (specifically ankidroid). This is just a brute force tool for rapidly increasing vocabulary (similar to supermemo) but free. Previously I have tried Rosetta stone, but although easy, I found it to be an incredibly slow way of making progress.

Take what I say with a grain of salt though - I'm still only learning so I'm far from an expert in this area =)
I think that depends on the library you are using. 3.0 (not truncated to simply 3) is certainly a valid json number. However, point taken that it is a meaningful distinction for javascript.
Parties that are disparaged as being the beneficiary of protest votes tend to shape the public discourse in terms of what people are protesting agains. This has already happened, copyright reform is a much more visible topic now than it used to be. I keep reading arguments I had on the internet 10 years ago rehashed (sometimes badly) in respectable newspapers.

People are at least vaguely aware of the pirate party's position, as much as there is one. If nothing else, I doubt people who are in favor of more expansive copyright would vote PP. And arguably, any anti-establishment vote, if you want to call it that way, is bound to be a vote in favor of copyright reform.
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> Thanks - you just demonstrated my point.

How so? I argued that it would be a good idea to give not only the perspective of women, but that of the gay men and women being ostracized in the workplace too. Situating an attractive, straight male in a hypothetical, heterophobic environment dominated by gay men would illustrate the kind of uninvited sexual cut and thrust that some men in tech impose upon women, as well as the passive bullying that comes from homophobic language in the workplace, language that gay people generally have to endure. All this, of course, in an effort to get people, men and women alike, to clean up their acts.

> If a man were to whine about how he avoided some field because he didn't like gays hitting on him, or because he was uncomfortable working within that field, both you and I would tell him to stop whining and learn to deal with it.

No, I can't say that I would tell him to deal with it. The point of the suggested narrative would have been to show how difficult it is to say "stop whining and learn to deal with it" and actually mean it once all parties have a thorough grasp on the circumstances.

> Why don't we tell women the same thing?

People already do, and that's the issue.

I believe what you're trying to argue is that, because men would be told to "deal with it" when put a similar situation, it's alright to tell women to do the same. Please let me know if I'm wrong about that. As far as the argument is concerned, it's flawed in that it makes assumptions about the needs of both genders while altogether disregarding the human needs for belonging, self-respect, and respect by others. Instead of telling victims to deal with it, we should be telling instigators to cut it out. I'm all for hominism and feminism once the usual, and mostly misguided, misogyny and misandry are set aside.
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HBO doesn't sell to subscribers. They literally don't have that information, they have no idea who their subscribers are. They sell content to cable companies. So all you need is for a cable company to sell an HBO-only package for $15/mo, then use HBO GO like normal.
So it's still a people problem, a 'gitlaw' would keep track of who changed what. You would still have to find out who did what.
Same happend to me in NYC. We did not tip enough and the waiter dropped the f-bomb on us and told us to never come back. He even threw the tip after us.

I did not get it. Where i live we usually tip 10% and in other countries i have been they sometimes refuse to take tips at all.

For me it looks like in many restaurants in the US the tip is part of the paycheck.
IIRC, C++ is used for some specialized jobs like signal processing. Ada is used for the avionics and systems management.
I believe that's true for many well-endowed and non-state institutions; the wealthy who can afford the full $45k tuition help to subsidize the poorer students who can't, and I don't see too much wrong with that.

The problem is that that isn't the entire story. Yeah, federally subsidized loans mean more kids are attending school, but not everyone is eligible for subsidized loans. Many of my friends, and myself, were offered standard unsubsidized loans as generally middle-class students. So for your average middle-class student, going to a less-endowed private or out-of-state institution means either paying full price out of pocket or taking out unsubsidized loans. And as we know, unsubsidized loans are reaching absurd levels under unrealistic terms and they're giving us a generation saddled with debt that will be very difficult to pay off.

More students are going to college, but I seriously doubt the price of education is rising. Spending time on any college campus will tell you that they are spending recklessly because of the education bubble, and I'm not talking high professor salaries (they deserve every penny). Administrators these days make frankly irresponsible amounts of money, schools purchase expensive and unnecessary equipment to have a selling point for certain departments, and construction/renovation is everywhere. The sticker price isn't rising because costs are rising, the sticker price is rising because demand is inelastic (due to promise of better jobs and easy financing) and colleges are finding reckless ways to spend the rest of the money.

So the points are valid, but they don't speak to the entire situation. It sure smells like a bubble to me; student debt is ballooning because demand is inelastic and its easy to take out a loan, schools are spending the money irresponsibly, and I don't see any reasonable way that all of this debt is getting repaid in this economy, especially under the conditions the loans are given. I'd say there's likely to be an impending burst and credit crunch as my friends and I hit the workforce.
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Note: The US Concept of "tuition" covering Board/food/etc is basically un-heard of in any large numbers. (Possibly due to how consolidated into Major Cities we are.)
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That's really interesting -- thanks for the correction.
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And as far as in-state institutions go, the prices can generally be anywhere up to the $20k range. I'm sure a significant amount of the loans are being spent on in-state institutions and, because of budget cuts, they don't have as many need/merit-based scholarships to give. That's not doing us any favors either.
"An additional $1 invested into Ford won't bring as much returns as an additional $1 invested in Facebook."

I don't know what investment opportunities Ford has, but regarding Facebook, I really don't think they can invest additional capital sensibly. An additional $1 invested in Facebook will end up being an additional $1 paid for some Instagram-like acquisition.

Furthermore, additional $$ spent on Facebook IPO stock will just end up an additional $$ in the founders' pockets.
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