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From the post, Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington require minimum wage for waitstaff. Do you think tipping should be mandatory in these states?

How about all of the other service professionals which are paid a decent wage regardless of tips?
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> highly interconnected systems exposes us to an 'unnecessary' risk

Kaczynski's arguments are not mostly about the risk of technology, they are mostly about how technology forces us into ever narrowing conformist behavior. He makes the point about how it now impractical to function in North America without a car. You are largely denied your freedom to walk. Try to walk through most counties and see how that works out. Similarly, see how it's becoming almost impossible to legally live without owning a computer. You increasingly need one to remain in compliance with the IRS and so forth. Your freedom to forgo computer ownership, or even usage, is being taken.
I think charging for the API in inevitable.
As for stealing the idea. I personally never worry about people stealing my ideas because if an idea is good enough it will be stolen and copied %100.
I think you also need to look at where YOU are in your career, relative to other opportunities. Out of school, I took some positions with low salaries and some (now worthless) equity at startups becuase I was fresh out of school, had low living costs, and saw it as a good opportunity to build a diverse skill set that would help me further along in my career. Additionally, the economy was just starting to tank so it wasn't exactly like there was a plethora of good positions available anyways.

Looking back on it, it's easy to say that I made a "bad" decision (e.g I should have seen the writing on the wall and realized these startups were going to tank), but I'd probably do the same thing over again, for a few reasons. Although the startups ultimately failed, I was still paid enough to have my own apartment, cover my expenses, etc. On top of that, the "jack of all trades" role I took on in these startups allowed me to pick up a lot of other skills (sysadmin, design, etc) that I wouldn't have been exposed to had I been paid market and chose to go the corporate path. I also made some invaluable connections that I still rely on and am in contact with to this day.

Now that I have a few years more of experience working at both startups and nonstartups, it's a much tougher decision overall. As tferris pointed out, the opportunity cost of giving up a portion of salary for a tiny slice of equity is much higher as an experienced developer with a broad skill set. Interestingly enough, working at a startup in my earlier years out of school played a vital role in acquiring that skillset. So, you really need to other factors like the founding team, traction, market, etc when considering a startup as well as both where you're at and where you're trying to go in your career.
Excuses. Excusing a wrong on any bases is a slippery slope which can lead to excuses for not "changing things that really matter".

Change is the common denominator. Change is what people have issues with and create excuses not to do.
circling the particles to try and trap them is fun, makes me feel a bit like one of those machines they try and trap plasma in :)
This is like saying "People find food made by machines as tasty as human made food" and failing to mention that you only did the test at McDonalds

Looking at the original study:

These were intro stats classes with 100-1000. These classes are already basically a teacher lecturing, minimum engagement, simple material, no ability to have complex homework, and from the looks of things not in the student's major specialization (so super 'in-depth' learning is unnecessary)

Universities have realized for years that they are not very good at these types of classes. They've tried to move these courses online or encourage students to take these at community colleges. But, you don't (or shouldn't) go to university for these classes, you go to the university for the more specialized upper division training in your department. I would be more interested to see if a high level, small, for majors course could be replaced by a similar program. It's worth noting the even the Khan Academy classes are still the 'factory' classes, he has very few 'specialized' classes in more complicated subjects.
Regardless of anything else, it's wrong that servers are paid less per hour just because tips are common. This places an unfair burden on customers, and took tips from being part of a culture of discretionary generosity to being enshrined law. Since the tip is now required for the server to earn minimum wage, it is no longer a tip but a sort of marginally optional "fee."

IMO, a 10% service charge without expectation of a tip makes much more sense and is much fairer.

The entitlement culture in the service industry is so great that servers will angrily say things like "if you can't afford to tip on a bottle of wine, don't order it or stay home." Yikes. How about I just don't tip you.
That's typical in most parts, but New York is moving towards 20% being the norm.

Maybe it'll be 25% for crappy service, 50% for decent treatment in the future if it keeps escalating.
> But its really wrong to say IDE's like Eclipse don't do one specific task well. Eclipse really makes Java programming very easy.

“Making Java programming easy” is not one specific task!
There have been many discussions about whether or not servers will spit in your food if you're known not to tip. Whether this actually happens frequently or not (I don't believe it happens very often), it's a fear many people have and is probably a factor that keeps tipping alive.
Even in the minority of states that require minimum wage for waitstaff, waitstaff wages are adjusted in anticipation of tips. Service staff at good restaurants do not, as a rule, make minimum wage.

Other service professionals are paid a market wage. The bus driver, to continue with the particularly inept example used by this blog post, has in many localities also been compensated with a pension.
Many regions of the world may "work just fine", but I'll put the service you'll get at an average priced sit down restaurant in an averaged sized city of the U.S. against a comparable establishment anywhere else on Earth. That's not to say there aren't friendly, competent staff everywhere, but at least my anecdotal experience has been that the U.S. and its tipping culture excels at providing good to excellent service on average.

The chief advantage of tipping is that it encourages people who are skilled at providing customer service to stay in the industry and those who are not to leave. Other feedback mechanisms might be possible, but they'd be much more complex.
I believe Alex's blog was an original part of the "Svbtle network". I don't see any particular improvements over his old blog, which I believe is still up. He seems to have very good design skills so I would rather see something original but I can't say I really care much either way.
How much of a problem is this?

You said that it wasn't money -- that it was just not knowing the cost. If that's true, I don't understand at all -- the cost is 20% more than the listed price. If you see a burger at $10, that's really $12 -- it's the same problem as dining in a foreign currency -- the exchange rate for $ to R$ (restaurant dollars) is 1.200.
I would wait for the time they actually make the demo before getting too excited...
...hay day of not-for-profit education versus how well do you think it's doing now?

Could you be more specific about what periods you are referring to? Personally, I would characterize now as the hay day of not-for-profit education - we have far more of it than ever before.

Suuure, blame the government...

Huh? I was blaming principal-agent problems in nonprofits, and suggesting they are less of an issue in for-profits (though it is still an issue even there). What does this have to do with the government?
Making users accept a UI redesign is one thing. Making lots of billions out of them is another. Plus, advertisers and not regular users are Facebook's paying customers (unless Facebook starts a subscription model).
Attracting users to sign up and attracting advertisers to pay are two completely, different, challenges.
You can be a "brogrammer" and be outraged at this all the same, you know… Your association of brogrammer == sexist is just as offensive and discriminatory as the attitude you accuse all brogrammers to have towards women.
The amazing thing for me was when one of their earlier launches aborted and they refueled and launched the same day. That's just obscene turnaround time compared to anything else that can reach LEO.

Apparently they couldn't do it this time due to the narrowness of the launch window, not because they couldn't be ready again in a few hours.
This is purely speculation. If they wanted a cheap iPhone they could get an iPhone 4 or 3GS, why do people still choose Android?
So, I'm a french native and I read the story. Here are simple facts:

- it's from 2003, and at the time all the magazines were talking about it - I don't remember it.

- the guy was a few tens of kilometers of a city/village — he could have come back on foot in less than a day, but chose to stay to protect his car (haha ! ;-)) and his equipment.

- He had lots of resources (food/water), so he decided to stay, and build the project he probably have been dreaming for a long time.

- the guy wasn't a newbie in mechanics and knew the car (a very well known french brand) by heart. He also happened to have all the tools necessary in his car.
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> I'm not sure the comparison to other industries is apt- servers serve you, and the majority of the quality of their output comes directly from their personal interactions with you.

So it is for your doctor or your cab driver.

> Tips in serving and other interaction-heavy professions (doormen, barbers, delivery people)

Are either reserved for beyond flawless service or are basically bribes.
I'm European, and am used to not tipping— and I hate service in the US :)

Waiters come bother you every 5 minute asking if everything ok, if they can refill your water, etc. I just like to enjoy my food and have conversation with my tablemates without being interrupted every 5 minute. In France, the waiter comes to take your order and give you your food, and that's it. You usually have a caraffe of water and a basket of bread on the table so that you don't have to wait on the waiter's good will to refill your glass.

Additionally, in the US, you tend to be escorted out as soon as you're finished eating because the more tables the waiter serves, the more money he makes. This is extremely irritating— after I'm done eating, I like taking the time to talk with people and hangout without having the bill shoved in my face and the waiter asking us to leave (happened a few times). In France, you leave whenever you want to (unless the restaurant is extremely busy I assume, but it never happened to me).

So no, I wouldn't call the service "superior"— rather more irritating and intrusive because that's the best way to get a good tip, while pretending to be superior.
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If the Falcon Heavy works on the first launch, then I'm going to seriously dig to see if Elon Musk sold his soul for such successful launches; the Falcon 9 launches are impressive, but there is so much more that can go wrong in the heavy.
Respectfully, I think you're misreading pantaloons, and seriously I only came here to get to type that phrase.

Anyway: when pantaloons said "you can't have a competitive market for what should (ostensibly) be a free and universal service", they were making a normative claim that universal education is desirable, but a positive claim about how to achieve it: that "universal" and "competitive" are mutually exclusive qualities of any marketplace. That's the argument I was expanding on. I claim that it is very difficult to structure a competitive marketplace while also ensuring that everyone who needs some can get some. Thus if the goal is universal access to a good, affordable college education, your free market proposal is an incomplete strategy.

You seem to be saying that government cannot ensure that everyone has access to a good, affordable college education ("the government can['t] guarantee that every buyer will find a seller"). That's a position I think might be hard to support. The government absolutely can pass a law that prevents scarcity -- which is to say, ensure that citizens have access to something the free market doesn't make enough of. It can, for example, provide universal access to high school. It can provide universal access to assault rifles for healthy young men during a war. It can provide universal access to school lunch. It can provide universal access to health care for people over 65. It could, if it chose to make that a priority, provide universal access to college education for those who need it.

If you propose that "non-profit education is broken," and that the solution is for-profit education, then you need to either explain how for-profit education can provide universal access, or explain why universal access shouldn't be a goal.
hmmm... From the title I was hoping this was a Dreamweaver alternative. This is not a very well written piece it takes forever to get to the point to reveal that this is some sort of "summer code party", whatever that means.

Is there anyone who is actually interested in attending this?
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Couldn't you build a LightTable-like IDE in Squeak right now?
This does a great deal to explain why Facebook's release engineering ignores most attempts to push something out-of-band unless they can justify on the basis of real breakage for the users. (Cf. HotFix Bar)
People here are bearish on FB because they 1. have a conscience and 2. understand the company's business (the simple technology).

People here are bullish on FB because they either 1. lack a conscience or 2. do not understand the company's business (the simple technology), or both.
> To put it another way, everyone is one good submission or ten good comments away from the threshold the day they create an account.

That's a bit too optimistic. My best comment has 36 points, yours has 58; your best submission has an impressive-yet-insufficient 291 points. 500 points is doable, but it's not trivial.
It seems like this view of physics is exactly what John Cook was talking about as the sophomore level of understanding, where questioning the foundations is correct, but misguided, because of the overall utility of the approach.

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/01/25/coming-full-circle/

I think I agree though, that the timeline of science isn't the most important aspect of introductory/foundational teachings.
CPU utilization is the wrong metric. Your CPU is mostly idle because it's feeding a tiny set of commands to the GPU each frame, and then idling waiting for user input and/or vsync. The GPU is running full-tilt, but unfortunately there's no good OS-level tool to show that.

One of the reason CPU utilization is so low is that this is a demo. Most of the "logic" is just a straightforward computation of the mouse position, and the particle coordinates are all figured out from that in the shader engines. Real apps and games have real data that needs to be crunched.

(Edit: I just checked the source, the particle positions are actually computed in Javascript, the shaders are just straight rendering. And I don't see anything particularly clever about the implementation, it's just a bunch of array accesses. V8 is doing an amazing job on this.)

But broadly, you're right: the need for highly optimized native code to drive a modern GPU has mostly disappeared. A javascript interpreter (well, V8) is more than good enough.
Google is everywhere, in everything. Google built a platform that allows others to build businesses on.

I'm getting quite scared of them as well, but there's no comparing them with Facebook. Google has moved beyond just advertisements. Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Autonomous Cars, GMail, to name a few.

Facebook is a colossal failure in the making, and I'm actually enjoying watching the stock fall.

Disclosure: I have no connection to either company. I am a privacy advocate and think both will eventually become harmful to society at large.
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In the suit, Pao alleges that she was sexually harrassed
for years by Ajit Nazre, a former partner with the firm
who left last year. The two took a business trip together
in February 2006, the suit says, during which Nazre made
sexual advances toward Pao and she rebuffed them, causing
him to become “brusque and distant.”

Nazre continued to pursue Pao and the two had a brief
relationship, which she broke off soon after, according to
the suit.

"And the two had a brief relationship". Wait, so then it wasn't harassment? During that time I'm sure she thought his persistence had paid off. It is all too reminiscent of this satire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVuAGFcGKY
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This is exactly why we can't have nice things. The phrase "learn X the hard way" has been around ages. Get over it.
The contact list, consumer trust, and appropriate context. A third-party developer offering this has the significant challenge of making users trust them with a payment. People know Facebook and (most) trust them. PayPal or Bump are options, but are distanced from social interactions. I'd be interested to see the usage numbers from younger consumers, as I also imagine (with no data to back me up) that not many teenagers or college students use PayPal. As for cash, again it's an option, but it's pretty clear the world is going plastic. There's a reason Square is a big deal.
>You increasingly need one to remain in compliance with the IRS and so forth

Paper tax forms are still available, and tax payments can still be made with checks. How do you need a computer to stay in compliance with the IRS?
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But they "only" sold 18 billion, that leaves insiders still holding 92 billion of FB. If this were really a bubble bursting wouldn't the rich insiders be holding a much smaller chunk of the fool's gold.
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Doctors and nurses serve you. bank and store clerks serve you. I'm sure there are many more examples.
Then why do people tip cab drivers and hairdressers and bellhops?
That would be a waste of lifting capacity! No, I'm told the astronauts aboard ISS were running out of Soylent Green...

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im rather disappointed they removed the option for older IEs from the free plan. That is what 95% of my work is.
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Agreed. In my experience, there are so many points of change/breakage that fragmentation is absolutely a problem if you're doing anything remotely complicated. We do voice and use SSL - both get broken from time to time on a subset of devices for a multitude of reasons...a phone manufacturer re-introduces a bug they fixed two full releases ago, an OS update adds incorrect proxies that break SSL, some models introduce flaky over-sensitive touchscreens or enable a vibrate feature that's a bit off-the-charts, and so on. Troubleshooting these issues take time & serious investigative work (not to mention awesome, helpful users), too. And you can't anticipate what's going to break ahead of time the way you can with iOS - you don't have access to carrier updates across the board and you can't possibly test every device/OS combo or upgrade case. You could take, for instance, ICS straight from Google, but that's missing all the breakage that gets added from the carriers and phone manufacturers...you basically have to await the screams, then apply the tourniquet. There's not much "preventative care" available.

One of the great things Google has done to help in this regard (whether intended or not) is the ability to push out releases to customers within minutes without review. While there are many reasons this lack of review can be dangerous for users, from the development side, it's really fantastic to be able to push out fixes to affected users as soon as you've got them implemented and tested. I.e., at least you can apply pressure to that gaping wound quickly.

Very much looking forward to what the Motorola acquisition has in store and am staying optimistic--one thing I've noticed is that the "dominant handset" changes fast - for us, sometimes, in a matter of months. And when we have a pretty stable dominant handset, life gets easier (the HTC era and the calm before the ICS storm was kind of nice). If a stable, Google-controlled and well-tested Motorola phone becomes the dominant for a significant amount of time, this has the potential to be a very good thing for developers.
I wonder how the math works out versus a no-tip scenario?

Tips are money that doesn't come out of the restaurant owner's pocket. Restaurants tend to run on pretty thin margins, so let's treat this as a zero sum game and assume that any increase in wait staff wages is necessarily passed on to the consumer. I know next to nothing about what a waitress earns or how a restaurant is run, so I'd appreciate if anyone wanted to shoot holes in my reasoning here. I'm genuinely curious, so treat this as a proposition of method, rather than proof.

Florida minimum wage for tipped employees is $4.65/hr. I live in Florida, so I'll go with that.

$4.65 x 40 hrs a week x 52 weeks a year is $9,672.00

I've known local waitresses who claim to take home around $30k a year (with tips).

$30k annually works out to a wage of $14.42/hr given the same 40 hrs x 52 weeks work schedule.

$14.42 is about 3 times $4.65

So in a general sense, the restaurant owner would have to pay his wait staff (around) three times as much in order to meet their tipped wage. Not having run a restaurant, I have no idea how that would affect the price of a meal. Can anyone with more knowledge pick it up from here?
For my doctor, the primary measure of his quality is how good he is at medicine– that is, whether I get better or not. I'd prefer that he's nice and friendly, but curing my bronchitis is the more important aspect of our interaction.

For a server, the interaction is the primary thing I care about.
The problem is that we are already in a vicious cycle, you can't break this cycle by not tipping though, all that does is screw the waiter/waitress. If we want to change things we need to do it with litigation to prevent employers from paying less than minimum wage.