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"weeding out the people who aren't smart, driven and dedicated enough to get into and graduate from a top-tier school."

Wow. Since the rest of your post seems to equate "top-tier school" with the Ivy's (plus maybe MIT/stanford or whatever) this is just amazingly wrong to the point of being offensive.

There are tons of smart, driven and dedicated high school students in America who have no chance of getting into Ivy League schools. If you're lucky enough to be born into the right family so that you can go to the right private jewish prep school in one of a handful of posh suburbs, then being smart, driven and dedicated means you can probably get into one of the Ivy schools.

For every kid going to a public school in the midwest, who has to check the "will need financial assistance" checkbox (if the application fee alone didn't make them skip applying) and doesn't have any legacy or connections, then applying to Harvard is a lottery ticket even with perfect grades, stellar test scores and a long resume of extra-curriculars.

There are plenty of smart, driven and dedicated 18 year olds who won't be heading to Harvard or Yale next fall. Admittance to one of those schools correlates more with growing up privileged than it does about intelligence.
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No idea what they're like to work with, but I happily buy from them regularly (even though you can get a lot of the stuff slightly cheaper elsewhere).
Tornado also locks you in to its server completely. That should not be a problem if you are 100% sure it is what you will be using in the future
> BitTorrent is worse for artists than the radio.

Perhaps, but whether one promotional medium is more profitable for artists is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. Filesharing is an exploding cultural trend, and in that sense it is the new radio, not in the sense that the industry should like it or it should be economically efficient.
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> Though, the scary part is that one can attack an adversary by buying up 25K Twitter followers for them for a pretty insignificant price (maybe $100).

If that kind of attack became well-known, the next logical step would be that a smart company buys some fake followers, then protests against it as though to imply that one of their competitors did so.

Slandering a rival while reaping additional followers (though fake...) seems like a win-win.
Get a VM.
Former Google CIO Douglas Merril https://torrentfreak.com/former-google-cio-limewire-pirates-... edit: more direct link http://www.cnet.com.au/will-former-google-exec-help-save-the...

HADOPI, a French antipiracy organization http://piracy.ssrc.org/hadopi-says-lets-try-cutting-off-nose...

Music industry lobby group IFPI https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-are-the-music-industrys-mos...

And apparently the Association for Consumer Research in Germany, but the report will never be published. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl...

eta: a study done in Canada http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/ and more analysis of the same https://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/article794638.ece
Um, that would be murder. Furthermore, it wouldn't even be necessary: just go your separate ways, and when you die and "become" your (second) copy--this time, you time it correctly--you will still live on, even though you have a clone out there.
This was not unintentional, though. The writer clearly took a screenshot of someone else's work and made no effort to even credit work that should not have been used in the first place.
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I felt that the NY Times article by Grynbaum clearly covers the idea that cabbies are pulling in more tips because of the default tip buttons on the credit card machines.
I upvoted you (really) because I totally agree with you: CEOs like you should be completely, brutally honest. Especially when this reveals you to be oafish and unprincipled.

This policy is good for customers (so they can avoid your products) good for investors (so they can avoid investing in your company) and good for prospective employees (so they can not).
Of course, APIs are copyrightable. Anything written is copyrightable. The question is, what exactly does that mean? If another API uses the same method, type and package names, but has everything that is insignificant to a compiler - the parameter names, order of methods, comments, etc. - different, is that the same expression of the "ideas" embodied in the original or a new expression? Is the .class file version of an API covered by the copyright of the original or a new expression? Can copyright be construed so broadly that it prevents any implementation of the API without permission from the copyright holder?
Some of the most pressing problems in society don't have answers that fit into the mindset of the more mathematically-minded among us.

They are problems nonetheless, for example: should free speech exist? You can't answer that question using science, yet we need people to think about that kind of thing.

For what it's worth, the reputation of All Souls College (which does not have students) is strongest in the humanities.
Thanks for the correction there, you're right, he actually provided a link back to GoodExperience and even set the images Title tag to state that the photo was from GoodExperience.
But a one line summary is too short to get picked up by Google News -- that's why all the tech blogs try to write at least 70 words on absolutely anything, no matter how thin it is...
> we react activity and proactively.

That does not parse but I think you're confusing aggressively with actively and proactively with defensively.

All at once. And you look pretty silly in the process.

Just apologize to the guy, make sure you'll never do it again.

As long as you keep spinning this will make you look worse and worse.

It's obvious that you don't have a process in place because then this would not happen.

This was not unintentional, there is 0 chance of that.

Nobody copies a chunk of text like that unintentional, nobody behaves like you did in this thread and elsewhere unintentional.

The cover-up is worse than the crime, if you had been a responsible adult about this in the first place it would have gone away long ago.

It was dumb. Only you can stop it.
Harvard's very accommodating and even encouraging of people taking time off school to pursue other things. They have an indefinite leave of absence policy, which means that if I ever decide, 2, 5, 10, or 20 years down the line that I'd really like to go back to school and get a degree, they'll let me come back

That's great. I wonder if many (any?) other universities have such a policy? At my school, I would have to formally re-apply after being gone for a year or so. That's the sort of policy I would encourage my children to take into account when they're choosing where to go to school.
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What worries me is that Groupon is still just a company that 'happened' to be able to raise enough capital to become the biggest of 100s of businesses all doing the same thing.

Nothing about their business is hard to replicate, nothing is revolutionary, nothing has not been done before.

It seems many investors and analysts see a 'social media shopping experience' while all I see is a flyer in my mailbox 'on the internet'.

What's to stop Groupon from becoming the MySpace of online coupons to a future Facebook in the same sphere?
It depends on the context of `open`.

Should Apple relax restrictions on the app store, sure. However then quality may dip or so users are told.

Should Apple open source more technologies, sure. However it comes with a cost, such as documentation efforts and etc.

Both of these problems are in the critical path of timing & execution. So I highly doubt Apple will do anything.

The Woz has always pushed for an open Apple, and damnit I wish he had it, but I doubt it from happening.
Is it Man or Woman important for successful marriage? Your comment sounds similar to this :) I do not hate either. ORM or not, developers dealing with db data needs to understand how it works. If they do not, they may still come up with working application but when performance issues come up, they become deer in headlights.The same argument applies to ORM or any other technology. Long time Hibernate user here.For me, Martin Fowler's article hits the nail.
There's a fine line here I think TNW is missing.

Blogs quote other blogs all the time. But they make it look like a quote. Usually indented, offset, quoted, in italics, etc - with a prominent link to the source article. It's a small formatting detail but it has huge implications - it sends a clear signal that is immune to any plagiarism claims - "this is not our content but, dear reader, we still think it's worth your attention".

Also the twitter response is pitiful. Even if you're convinced that you've done nothing wrong that does nothing to change the fact that the original author feels slighted. Telling him that he's shouldn't feel aggrieved does nothing to fix the situation.

A simple apology along with an edit to the TNW article to clear up any attribution issues would have solved a small problem and prevented it from exploding into a mini-scandal.
You can release the best ones and tell people that the other tracks are just as good :)
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The bleeding has slowed, but still bleeding. Difficult to gauge whether the patient will survive. That people pour(ed) so much money into this continues to astound me.

Also surprised by the upbeat comments here.
Regardless TNW took his article almost entirely word for word! Only two or three words were added/removed in TNW's version. This isn't about facts, it's about copy-pasting someone else's words and then sending 6 incredibly defensive and dickish tweets after othe original author complained (barely).

At the end, Zee says he'll steer clear of the original author's work for fear of ridiculous accusations as if to say "you should be happy that we plagiarized you, now we'll punish you by never flattering you with another plagiarized article again".

He couldn't have made it any clearer that he was the author of the original after a complaint.

You can't even play devils advocate on this one. TNW is so deep into "wrong" territory that nothing short of removing the entire post and replacing it was an admission of plagiarism will redeem them in my eyes.
Yeah but the non-GAAP numbers exclude customer acquisition costs (e.g. marketing). Not sure why that's excluded as marketing is a continuous and fundamental cost of doing business.
Citing sources does not protect you from plagiarism. That is what I mean by the second version is not okay. If the lesson you're learning here is "I just need to make sure we link to the original" then you're learning the wrong lesson.
Don't be ridiculous, this wasn't "unintentional". Additionally, it's impossible to react proactively.
By telling the original authors you'll be sure to 'steer clear' of them in the future for being upset that they weren't credited until it made you look like an ass? Yikes.
DEC is the new Unisys.

IBM is the new DEC.

Microsoft is the new IBM.

Apple is the new Microsoft.

Linux is the new... err ahh...

BSD is the new.. err umm...

Screw opening corporations. Break the cycle entirely I say.
Definitely true on Linux with bash - .* will expand to .. as well as all hidden files/folders.
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We sure do. I've been moving that direction for a few years now.
William Deresiewicz's address to West Point, "Solitude and Leadership" (http://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/) remains the best piece on leadership I've read to date. Ironically, as pointed out by Deresiewicz, the address is given to newly minted officers in the US military.

The address was requisite reading in this year's Venture for America application process, and is more than just a guide in becoming a better leader, but a phenomenal exposition on why our educational system has calcified into "hoop" jumping.
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I would much rather see a legal way (with permission from the artist) like Pandora.
It must be regional.

I also live in the country and both UPS and FedEx deliver to me regularly. Even on overnight deliveries, I can leave a signed note to the driver that it's OK to leave the package if no one is home. Often if there is no one home and it's raining, the driver will try the doors on any vehicle outside (we have multiple cars/trucks) and put the package on the driver's seat.
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Big batch will make the average production cost go down.

"If we raise $25,000 then we can do a large first run, which brings the retail cost down significantly, so that we can sell the kit to you for $35 (including shipping)."
95% of people are sheep, just look around you. Clothing fashions all change with eachother according to what the others are doing. Church: just tell me What to believe. Bars, drinking toxic liquids and smoking radioactive smoke because it's cool. Resumes which plead for others to make us worthy members of society.

It takes a special kind of defiance to say no thank you to What the world expects you to be.
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That is why people who attended Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf school perform so well in College. It is a school that DOES NOT give grades to students. And the teach write feed back to the students based on whole aspects of their development including social interaction. When college get ride of tests and grade will be a good start.
Having been full time, self employed, running my own business as a techie for over 12 years, I can assure you the vagueness is surprisingly accurate, kind of like learning "programming"..

I did list marketing as an example of a business skill that's critical. It sounds like you're interested to know more, so here's something I quickly googled for you that reflects what I meant for clarity:

http://www.businessschooledge.com/21-business-skills-to-succ...
Presumably the people working on the film had the ability to edit the assets, and thus could delete them.
If it's not plagiarism, it's close enough that a) the TNW author should write more originally and 2) the TNW editor should not be such a jerk about it.
This is a very interesting observation, while I don't doubt the observation about typical elite university students is true, I wonder if the inverse observation about the "general population" is enormously less true. This would be necessary in order to expect a different result from said experiment.

In my experience, the person who feels no desire to conform whatsoever is an extreme aberration. Far more frequent are people that pretend to be such and actually simply flip the expected behaviour from a conformist norm and behave in a different way but still conforming to some social group.

Sure, they're individuals, just like the other members of their subculture / social clique, etc.
Is this just functioning as a pre-order, so they can make a big batch of them?

I assume a lot of the Kickstarter projects (certainly most hardware ones) are exactly that.
It's a real shame that support for Python Server Pages is as rare as it is in the wild, and that we don't see that kind of capability common in other server side languages. I really think that the ability to mix HTML and server code together painlessly is one of the main advantages that PHP still has today. It's the reason I still use it for new projects even though I dislike almost everything about the language itself.

If I could just say <?coffeescript like that, my programmer-happiness rating would quadruple instantly.
Your idea has virtually no barrier to entry. Expect more people copying it. I could probably write a script to do it in roughly an hour.

Instead, think about how you can add something unique.
Not that I want to make every thread a "sexism in tech" discussion, but I have personally noticed more women feeling intimidated and discouraged by overblown and strangely specific bullshit requirements in job listings. So, if you're wondering why you don't get many female applicants to your job listings, maybe you should stop asking for experience in every language from Ada to ZPL.
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Ironically I think Popsicles actually reduce their own index! Empty calories and concentrated sugar being given to children probably harms their health in the long run.
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Using LiveJournal too, since 2001. I think LJ technological base is great - for discussing random stuff, it's one of the best platforms I've used. Much better than the most other blog hosting engines. The russian-language community there is remarkable, both by the size and the quality - many prominent writers, political and public figures, journalists, scientists, celebrities are actively engaging in the community - it is a very interesting place, and much more fit for maintaining an engaged community than, say, Facebook.

However, since SUP bought the platform, the management was nothing short of disaster. The great success in community building in Livejournal is evenly matched by the failure of current administration in the technical site building. Technically, it is plagued with DOSes, screwups, breakdowns, security breaches and UI changes that nobody asked for and that make it annoying to use. Moderation is chaotic and voluntaristic, and prone to abuse by interested parties. They do not seem to have any plan of how to develop the site and so far almost all the improvements they made seem to make the platform worse, not better. The people in the management also have very openly disdainful attitude towards the users, publicly calling users complaining about their policies idiots, freaks, assholes, etc. Of course sharing any plans about site development with the community or, God forbid, let the community have a voice in it - are out of the question completely.

Their monetization efforts also seem to lack any coherent direction. They have paid accounts, and I have been paid user for many years. However, now I am considering switching back to the free option, since the feeling that I'm getting something for my money - better service, better options, etc. - is disappearing fast. Many paid options are useless for me - such as ability of having 200 userpics or 500 links in my homepage - but the main factor is that I don't feel the management of the site knows what they are doing. They bought a great platform and a great community, but my feeling is they are squandering it away.
It is nice to put a number on it, and perhaps this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, but given Zee's initial reaction to what is clearly plagarism (using just plain-old eyeballing) it's doubtful that putting a number on the sameness will do anything for this camel's back.

This is just another one of those, "A young CEO with too much balls and not enough brains shoots his mouth off, revealing to all that he is not a Good Person." Of course, CEOs not being Good People is nothing new, but the refusal to even try to pretend to be one is something that I think really angers people.
For the major couriers, there probably aren't. For a new courier service who approach the market from the top up rather than the bottom down, who knows?
These numbers were released after the close, but every trader and their brother was buying this morning. Insider trading is rampant on Wall St. This is clearly yesterday's news for the privileged few.
Let's be clear, though – hoop jumping isn't relegated to the university/educational system today. It's ubiquitous in hiring, promotion, and general staffing practices in corporations. It's typical in society.

Rare are the people who constantly ask "why do we do what we do," and "how could we do this better."
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What mentality is he pointing to when he derides "The idea that every activity they undertake be “a growth experience.”"? Sounds like a damn fine idea to me.
You don't need to hunt any plugins or codecs. You install a monolithic package and everything just works. If something doesn't you probably only need to upgrade.

Saves a lot of time.
Our overall product is much larger, this is really just one feature.
Two ways I can think of now.

Microsoft got docked for just bundling IE with their OS. I just installed Netscape back in the day(before switching to IE coz Netscape started sucking). Apple bans all competing browsers. (Windows RT is a different story).

The iOS app store forces developers to use their in-app purchasing with a 30% cut for Apple and bans any links to the developer websites to sell services. The Windows App Store does not require this.
I absolutely love Steve Wozniak for stuff like this, he's everything I could ever dream of being.

At the same time that lovely naivete about what would happen is exactly why this will never fly.

Apple is the golden goose and nobody will sign off on a risky move that might kill the goose or stop it from laying those golden eggs. If there is one thing that makes CEO's conservative it is very large streams of income. You can take risks when you're small.

If 'the Woz' wants to have a more open platform comparable with Apple then I'm pretty sure he'd find tons of people willing to follow him if he decided to go down that road himself. What will happen is that sooner or later he'll need a business guy to take care of all of those non-technical details and at some point in time after that we'd have a new Apple, just as bad as the old.
Having the extra slots on the Apple ][ allowed for there to be more uses of Apple's computer, and almost certainly led to more profit. It also did no damage since you couldn't use the slots to do anything to the computer that would cost Apple money. If Apple opened up, say, the licensing on the adapter plug on the bottom of iPads and iPhones, that would do just what Woz is talking about with the only impact to their bottom line being the licensing revenue for the plug. It would also allow more uses of their devices. I think there's plenty of places they could "open up" and still keep their river of money flowing in.
Came here to say exactly this. A fade between the two, or blocks of the diff added in-line would be a better transition here. The slide is just too difficult to follow.
If colleges get rid of grades, however will Peter Thiel know which hedge fund analysts to hire?