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Not a big fan of that piece. There are different kinds of education... going through one channel that people believe to be the largest and most correct, isn't always right for everyone. However, it is a small minority of people that can recognize that that specific path isn't right for them at the end of High School (U.S. model). I went through 4 years of "upper education" knowing I was going to be a coder from the start and in the end of it all I do believe that I would have be a better programmer if I had not gone through all those years of college and just started coding for someone else's ideas. However, from a social standpoint, I would not trade those 4 years back for a million bucks. They are great memories and although I feel I lost those years in hard core coding advancement - I gained a lot of skills for navigating the world. I was also lucky enough to get a free ride. For people looking back with $200k in debt, I can understand their underwhelming. Different strokes for different folks for different situations and kudos to people like Thiel who bring that to the surface and make people critically think about the path before them before they undertake it.
(I'm not YC) But, interesting and related to this entire conversation. I forked to the article in the NY Times circa 1996 that you were quoted in (from your profile):

http://www.jedberg.net/article.html

And this in particular, (1996):

"Dartmouth, one of the most academically competitive colleges in the country, has long had a reputation for encouraging computer use by students. It now has the new distinction of being one of the most e-mail-intensive, delivering about 250,000 electronic messages a day to 5,000 students and 3,000 faculty and staff members, or more than 30 messages apiece."

And, in fact, I spent many hours at Wharton in the late 70's early 80's with a Dec-10 at the computer center and CRT's.

Had I been a college dropout of course I would have never had that opportunity which led to so many things (computer only being one thing).

I would probably have had the same opportunity (with computers of course) at a public college so cost didn't have to be a factor.

The situation of course depends greatly on the individual circumstances of course and there is no question that it is applicable to people beyond the professionals (Doctors etc.) that Thiel seems to acknowledge as having to spend the time and money.
The stats are more of an interesting anecdote than data, but they are still interesting none the less.
...and if the manufacturer goes out of business, are the manufacturers of the parts in the car liable? And after that, the suppliers of the raw materials in those parts?
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I'm not. I pay 300 a year, but i don't even cover my car.

But yesterday i did the car coverage for a used 09 bmw 128iC.

Couldn't get any lower than that on several websites
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Ah my past comes back to haunt me! I guess that's what I get for linking to it on my website.

Yes, I agree that I would have never learned what I did about computers if I hadn't had a chance to play with them like I did at Berkeley.
How that's "wtf"? If I don't want companies to make statistics using what I do that sounds perfectly legitimate to me.

Now then again DNT is an intent, the vendor does whatever he likes, and can support DNT for other features and still have statistics. There's no list of things you can do or not do. There's no agreement either. It's just the user indicating that they don't want to be tracked in any way.
"I think you underestimate the disruptive potential that Stripe gives. Dealing with payments is one of the biggest pain points that a lot of people have when putting together a new web venture."

No offense but I think this statement shows exactly what makes Stripe so non-disruptive. Stripe has targeted a niche, not a vertical. Payment processing exists beyond the needs of new web ventures. The majority of businesses (brick and mortars) can't even make use of stripe without a VAR or OEM acting as a middle man, and at that point where is the value that stripe brings to the table? The savings will be eaten up by the middle man.

Stripe may be great for a small development shop cranking out mobile and web apps (I'm their target market, I'm considering using it for my SaaS myself) but once a business starts to scale saving a quarter or half percentage point on processing fees by using something like auth.net makes sense when weighed against the usability of stripe from a developer perspective.
The question I'm asking myself is: Is there a different way to do things that would get you the benefits that you got out of those 4 years without the downsides? Would it be possible to make your coding progress and get the social benefits and memories and all that kind of stuff?

I'm not sure what the answer is, but I know that there are more possibilities out there than 1) follow the traditional US college path and 2) don't go to college and start working full time straight away.
Congrats! I have been using this Streaks (iOS) for a while since I like the functionality of this and it has options where you can skip weekends: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streaks-motivational-calendar...

I will try this app now!
There are also a lot of people who are genuinely enthused (obsessed) with computer science and who devote their lives to knowledge... Who learn how to implement JK flip flops on a breadboard, build languages entirely from lambda calculus, and study convex optimization in their free time. More importantly, they do so because they love hacking, not because they love being a hacker (though I admit hacker culture and community is something I value).

Somehow I don't think graduate students are in on this Valley subculture stuff.
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Even before the Greeks and Phonecians we have evidence of such writing systems. SUch as the Linear A or Linear B (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B). Word scripting using letters/glyphs goes a long way in the past of Europe. It's a long tradition in this part of the continent.
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It buys you an enormous "much". I've never built an iOS app so quickly in my life, and my god --should I say anything about code-readability?
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You can still say you learnt a lot from attending college even if you never finished.
Why have offices at all?

Meetings. Nothing says 'I'm the boss' like assembling one's minions in a conference room for an hour.

But one might really want to provide your knowledge workers with office in the same suite so they do physically interact when they want/need.

For everything from 'just a quick chat to eradicate a problem' to chance chit-chat in the breakroom ... physical presence makes all kinds of good things happen.
The real tricky question is: do we even have as much demand for STEM graduates as 30 years ago?

We're in a general labor glut. There's not as much demand for anyone anymore.
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It's a societal convention that the smartest people go to college. However, systematic studies suggest that this correlation is not causation:

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/02/23/elite-colleges-not-th...

Now, the two economists have updated the study with new
data, more detail -- and the results are even more
compelling. In the abstract, they report: "When we adjust
for unobserved student ability by controlling for the
average SAT score of the colleges that students applied
to, our estimates of the return to college selectivity
fall substantially and are generally indistinguishable
from zero."

In this view, college is just an imperfect, expensive proxy for your SAT score. And the reason this proxy exists is because of the Griggs vs. Duke Power ruling, which prohibits companies from administering SAT-type tests of general reasoning. It may not be coincidental that the explosion in college prices began around that time.

If it turns out that a three hour SAT at $100 can replace a four year college degree costing $250,000 in terms of its predictive value for an employer - and the Dale/Krueger study sure seems to show this - then yes, Peter Thiel is on to something very big, and you may want to short higher-ed. Or at least Sallie Mae.
You know, I have to admit that the main reason academic researchers don't appreciate the sophisticated proof-of-work/proof-of-retrievability features in Tahoe-LAFS is that I didn't write it up. The 5-page paper that I linked to -- http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=7212771373747133487&... -- doesn't explicitly mention that it has proof-of-work/proof-of-retrievability properties at all, much less do the sort of thorough, precise specification and proof that, for example, the HAIL paper has.
Yeah, this isn't insane. Basically it's a T-tail horizontal stabilizer where the vertical stabilizer has been split in four sections and placed outboard to clear the rear-mounted propeller. There's nothing wrong about this. The stabilizer might be a little farther forward than some designs (it's not clear where the c.g. would be looking at that drawing, one assumes in the middle of the four passenger seats), but not radically so.

That's not saying it's an amazing new design which will break records or anything (it can't be -- subsonic aerodynamics is literally an 80-year-old-mature technology). But it's attractive and looks like a clean design at first glance.
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"eviscerates Thiel"

I don't think they did a good enough job. They didn't call him out when he gave as examples 3 total outliers, Gates, Jobs and Zuckerberg. Ditto for saying college costs $250,000 for 4 years. Public colleges aren't anywhere near that cost.

Harvard "full list" is 62,950 and nobody pays that unless they are from a wealthy family.

Syracuse which I would think is typical of private colleges would be about 200k for 4 years.

Many public schools are easily maybe 18k per year room and board for in state students. That is way less than "250k".
Totally agree on more possibilities, and honestly the whole "hand shaking class", etc presented in this piece isn't real world education to me. The kind of real world stuff I mean is much more primal than that.
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I had the opportunity to meet both John and Patrick recently.

Like most, I've met many people over my life thus far. I'm a social person by nature. I feel as though I understand people. I've got a good sense for them. I'm not sure how else to explain it.

When I was with them, something felt different. I just felt like they are going to do important things with their lives. Have a huge impact (with Stripe and whatever else they decide to do).

As the article points out, they're both quite intelligent. During our conversation, it was immediately apparent to me that they're also ambitious.

But what probably stood out to me the most, given the other two qualities, was their true sense of integrity. They just seemed like nice people. Unpretentious. Would do anything for their friends that they could, as well as for well-meaning strangers.

I think Stripe will make it big.

But I'm mostly rooting for them for another reason: for being good people.

For caring.

I think the way in which they apply that quality may be what sets them apart in the end.
Vortices generated by induced drag really aren't "horrendous" except in high angle of attack situations. In cruise, even with slow planes like this, most drag is parasite drag. Commercial jetliners have been deploying winglets to mitigate the same effect for decades now, and the effect is something like a 2% fuel savings. It's worth doing, but it's not a game changer.
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Like I said, there exist mobile browsers that can't load large pages. I used to have one. I think their browser detection could stand to be a lot better, but the least common denominator really does require paging.
Theoretically, the people that benefit the most from 4-day weeks are Dads and Mom as they can spend 50% more time with their kids.
Cookies and JS were workarounds introduced by Netscape. They helped us jump start e-commerce.

There are certain essential tasks one just cannot do on the web without enabling JS and Cookies. Namely, e-commerce and banking (stateful transactions). This makes a compelling case for turning on Javascript and Cookies.

Unfortunately, users are frequently advised to turn on JS and Cookies for other, non-essential purposes that could be accomplished without them. And we cannot say with a straight face that every use of JS and Cookies today is "essential". These Netscape workarounds have, alas, been greatly abused to the detriment of users.

It's unfortunate we have to have something like DNT. It is the cost of the abusive use of JS and Cookies.
In Uruguay we're paying more than $50 for 4Mbps that in reallity works at 1.5, because we have an state owned telco monopoly. They don't allow cablemodem. We are doing this to improve this situation. Please, support.
That's true, but doing so leaves you in the same position as any high school graduate with regard to being able to list a degree on your resume. When companies are able to filter based on what you have learned X years of coruses might be a distinction, but in the present system it is only possible to have a very coarse-grained view, and in the current system

has_degree = lambda years, total: years == total
has_degree(3,4)
=> False

Edit: Renamed method attended_college method to has_degree to better reflect functionality.
If I understand correctly, this seems like yet another reason why this Synergy design would be sub optimal. The two sets of short low aspect ratio wings are theoretically less efficient than one set of long high aspect ratio wing. Correct?
Just that "pip install ipython" has never worked properly for me when I'm inside an virtuelenv. I just tried it and it worked, so maybe the problem was fixed in the year or two since I last tried it, or maybe I was broken but have been fixed in the last couple years...
If an application is not memory intensive, why would you care if there is 'waste'? Personally I wish everyone would just move to 64 bit all the time.
This question demonstrates what I think has gone wrong with StackOverflow. They have such a narrow view of what constitutes their code mission that they are killing off useful posts like this one.
Could be cool if you didn't only work with lbs/feet/inches instead of metres/kgs.
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this is good, but somewhat outdated. I haven't used iplanet since 1999.
Also SSL/HTTPS is a whole different world.
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We need Latin America support on this. Please, we know many latin america users know about Latin America horrible internet connection situation. We're trying to do something here in Uruguay to solve this. Our government doesn't allow CATV operators to sell internet, nor mobile carriers who already have FTT* to connect their antennas. We would love to have a hacker community in Uruguay, we are pretty small and our internet sucks. I can't imagine what would happened to Mark Zuckeberg if he'd have born here.
The analogy is flawed. If routine use of VHS tapes caused death and serious injury at measurable rates (which is true for motor vehicles), then yes: they'd be considered dangerous devices, and their owners would be legally liable for their safe use.
The last line sums up most of what I disliked about this piece: "where only big ideas flourish and school's out for everybody".

Safer tries to suggest that Thiel is advocating against college for everybody, or any field. What I take from Thiel's stance is that college has become less of a place of learning, and more of an inefficient credentialing mechanism.

Safer makes the interesting point that most startups will fail, but what he seems to miss (or Thiel doesn't point out): Thiel Fellows also have a credential of a kind, and even in failure, an extremely lucrative one.
I think it is a stretch to call "and" a skeuomorph. If a skeuomorph exists, it exists in Boolean algebra, because that is the word George Boole used.
The box-wing is actually a really old design - contemporaries of the Wright brothers were experimenting with it. The main advantage is reduced drag. Airflow doesn't like points, and wingtips contribute a lot to the overall drag. Closed wing means no tip, and therefore less drag.

Of coarse box-wing has its problems, too. They claim to have solved some of those issues. I'll remain skeptical until the flight test proves their claims.

The 1/4 scale model means almost nothing. A colleague put an electric motor on an 8-ft chunk of foam and flew that around. The power to weight ratio of small r/c aircraft is ridiculous, and it does not scale to full sized aircraft.
I think one of their engineering dudes actually lives in NZ, so probably more like they went and stayed at his place.
Hey, that's really cool! Thanks for posting the link. I wonder what kind of resolution Ponoko can get, and what the pricing on the parts in the post were.

I don't have a ton of experience with acrylic microfluidics -- I mostly did soft lithography with PDMS -- but this could be a cool alternative to a institutional cutter for small shops/labs.
I've been using ChainCal for a few weeks and it's great. Beautiful and intuitive interface.
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Re-vamping the API and removing the insistence on backwards compatibility are just the start. The bigger picture is that Microsoft needs to influence a revolution with their OS by allowing developers to bring human culture into the OS, much the same way Apple does. What I mean by "culture" is a melding of art and technology: it's cool to use a Macbook Pro (AND you can get shit done with it), but it's merely utilitarian to use any of the faceless PC laptops out there. Microsoft seems to think that they can accomplish a such change by applying different makeup to their OS, or by mimicking the Apple store. No, the real change will come when the tool makers can bridge the gap between the need to get something done and getting something done beautifully. This is a task that is beyond the larger development shops but is well within reach of the smaller developers. Perhaps Microsoft has a bias towards enabling larger developers, but this is clearly 80s/90s thinking.

At best what they've done since Windows XP is change the rat maze for their users by forcing them into a different cognitive "map" of how their PC is to function (ever try using the ironically named "ribbon" in Office?).
I just do not get it, I guess.

Colocation is one of the biggest things that make teams work. Putting any kind of barrier creates nearly-instant havoc.

For example, my current team was working on a particular platform (web) until we needed to start an iOS app. We split the team and the iOS team went to the next room over (we were too big for the room we were in anyway). The web team was, in part, developing the API that the mobile team was consuming (bad idea, but speed to market was of utmost importance).

There were arguments between the teams. An Us v. Them attitude started. It became very agitated. And most of it can be attributed to the fact that they sat 5 more feet away from us and were not in our line of sight. Crazy.

I love open space environments. There are challenges (picking the music, for example). But, we get over them because we really do need to be able to yell "Hey <Business Person>, can you clarify this feature a little for me?" and be heard without having to track that person down from across the office.

So, personally, I am very confused. I guess I'm trained to ignore the noise around me [1]? Maybe I'm just one of the "noise makers" mentioned. But it is incredibly intriguing to me that I find comfort and productivity in open spaces while others are ready to damn it.

[1] There was a blog post recently from a pair programming coach (can't find it, sorry). But one of the things that he taught was actually how to ignore the noises and be production. Your mind beings to hear things but you aren't actively thinking about it. It's slowly processing in the back of your mind until you hear something that clicks. E.g.

I'm writing code.

Dorothy says to Mike, "...API was" ==> you brain hears this

Then your mind rewinds.

"Joe said that the update part of the API was broken this morning. Do you know what's up?"

You pipe up, "Hey! Dorothy, we changed the format of the json going into the API. You should check the docs for the updated format."

Back to writing code.

Some other links from coworkers:

http://bizvalu.blogspot.com/2007/10/open-space-configuration...
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TeamRoom.html
In my opinion, investing in someone's business based on their age and not the business validity of their product is a farce. The game is all about baiting bigger investors by saying 'this guy's going to be the next Zuckerberg' and sprinkling some cash on them to make their prophesy seem like it is coming true. Then it's 'keep the game going' until you can desperately gather up enough of the real innovators who went to college and learned their craft to actually build the billion dollar businesses or sell all the employees to a big corp if maybe the world changing idea part looks like it won't pan out.

All of the engineering jobs at Facebook and Paypal require a BS or MS. Why is that if the founders were miraculously able to build those companies to what they are today with no degree? Shouldn't they be hiring college dropouts who skipped databases 101 so they could 'hack'?
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It might have something to do with the fact that the guy who invented facebook is using it to announce his marriage.
On my to-do list. Thanks :)
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Thanks, that's right. I did a bit of searching a found an explanation from Scott Forstall.

Why the iPhone is 9:42:

"We design the (product launch) keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation. When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience’s watches. But we know we won’t hit 40 minutes exactly."

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