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I agree with the author, that Rolle made a good decision.

I also agree with your opinion about many years in study but a few years for a great athlete (caveat: for sports where speed and power are critical factors).

But the theme here, as applicable to a more general audience, sports-inclined or book-inclined alike, is the weighing of opportunities. In absolute terms of wealth and success and impact, you're probably right. It's much more likely that Rolle would play a larger role in the NFL (after all, the turnover rate is high, so there's room for many superstars).

Here's what I think is the catch. Going to Oxford is a double win, because 1. it's a different culture, 2. it's the elite of a different culture. The value isn't in the books. It's in the environment and the discussion. It's in how the experience will change his worldview, and will prime him to think with an expanded mindset.

It's a bit unscientific for me to say this, but I have become convinced that global thinking is literally impossible to people who don't actually live through it; for those who have, the later they experience it, the less they are able to appreciate it.

So Back to Rolle: if he had two options of seemingly equal value, say, 2 years of NFL superstar + 2 years of Oxford, or the other way around, I would always pick the latter option, simply because it's earlier.
I suspect he just means that one projectionist runs all the movies in the house. So, a lot of walking around, and not a lot of just sitting beside one projector. A friend of mine from high school wound up in this job, and it sounded pretty awful when he was describing it to me. He seems to enjoy it, though, and apparently does get to watch most of the movies eventually (but, then again, his is a smallish theatre with only a handful of screens).

Since my friend dropped out of college, and his prior experience was working in a toy store and a couple of video rental stores, I would think anyone with a pulse could obtain such a job (he's pretty charming, though, so maybe he did have to interview well to end up running the machines rather than running the register at the concession or cleaning the aisles).
So if you give an argument for a conclusion then you shouldn't state what the conclusion is? Judge that point with reference to your own comments.
I'd like to know the answer to this too, I feel like there are a ton of viable options out there now, but I am waiting to see who stands out as defacto.

The ZumoDrive/iTunes integration is truly innovative, though. Majorly cool!
Most likely, he will also make no impact in the field he studies.

Opening a free medical clinic in the Bahamas is not something I would describe as "no impact". He might not fundamentally change the world, but even doing something as small as that makes the world a better place.

this story is not relevant to any other players

Sure it is: it's an example of a first-rate athlete who is also a very capable student, which is part of the whole idea behind college sports. That's certainly not the norm, in American college football at least.
I'm a bystander here but my guess is because they can't predict the weather, and/or... the meetup is cooooler than the weather!
Nothing wrong with diversification. If it is good for the economy at large to have so many competing smaller entities, then perhaps it is good for an individual fund to have stakes in many competing smaller entities as well.
Who else is saying, "YES YES YES YES YES YES YES"? haha

I am.

I think the beauty of Engine Yard and Heroku is that at some point in time, one of these two companies (or perhaps Google), will figure out a way to "just scale." At that point, web developers will just simply follow some basic guidelines and never worry about system administration again. I think that will be an extremely happy day for me.
same idea with Star Wars http://gizmodo.com/366573/skywalker-last-supper-painting-mad...
Will those significant differences be obvious to the consumer?
What features does a "modern" debugger have, as opposed to non-modern ones.
I'm sure the UK will be much safer after doing the traffic analysis on a billion emails for penis enlargers. Maybe they can use the get rich from home emails to fund the project. I am perfectly happy to help by forwarding the contents of my junk email folder.
Usually I work from home, but I also tend to head out to coffee cafes as many others here obviously do. Unfortunately, I would think that for you the cafes in general are more distracting than working from home. I prefer a noisy environment for some reason and find it easier to get work done.

Another thing to check out is the co-working groups in some cities. There are usually places you can rent a desk, or there are groups of independent web-workers (like Jelly) that meet up occasionally to work together. There's some networking involved, but most of the time the meetings are pretty quiet and productive with everyone going out together for lunch.
Dog-sitter?
When I was in college I worked the night shift at a television station in the tape room, and spent most of my time, four to five hours each eight hour shift, learning UNIX system administration, shell and Perl programming, or writing songs. However, last I heard, stations had started automating away most tape duties and merging the master control and tape operator jobs into one. Master control is not a "lot of downtime" kind of job--there are interruptions every few minutes, though I imagine it's seen some automation improvement since then.

System administration positions often have a lot of downtime, since if you're doing your job well, nothing is urgent and everything just hums along real pretty-like. Night watch in a hosting data center would probably be a great choice. If you're still in school, night shift in a university tech center would probably be a good choice, too (assuming it's open 24 hours...I think most large universities do have at least one center that is open all night).

Finally, have you considered contract work? This is a different model altogether. Instead of taking a job where you can half-ass it, and work on what you really want to most of the time, you take jobs every few weeks where you work your ass off, get paid a metric ass ton (like $100-$150 per hour), and finish the project in a week or two. Then you're free to hack for pleasure for a few weeks before taking on another paying gig. This has mostly been what I've done since leaving college and the television station. I usually billed $1000/day plus all expenses, if travel or whatever was involved, and often made more than my friends who worked full-time at regular jobs...it only takes a few projects for that math to work out.
This is a pretty good idea. You could probably even get a night or weekend shift in a NOC for a small to midsize ISP if you have the networking chops. It usually goes something like this: wait for alarm from monitoring, run a few circuit tests, call upstream provider so they can tell you that they are working on it, inform customer, repeat. On an uneventful night, you can end up with quite a bit of free time.
I was pretty sure it was, but I could have been mistaken. Is there a difference between "dead" and whatever happens when enough users flag a submission? If so, it could have been the latter.
One of the most basic things to do is tell people who you are. HN readers can give lots of useful advice, but hiding yourself as $productname is a definite turn off.
And given the current funding climate, it would be great for such companies to merge.
Look at this trend line from the same site: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=PHP%2C+ruby&l=&rel...
Obtaining (let alone keeping) the headers is still unacceptable.
ZumoDrive is notably down right now.

500 - Internal Server Error
Oops, something went wrong on the server. We'll investigate this ASAP. In the mean time, click here to go to our home page.

On every page :-(
Sports are knocked because they are low-brow and middle-class. But objectively, I think sport is a performance art that is every bit as wonderful as a great ballet or concert. Memories of the great sporting performances will last for centuries. Moreover, it is unique every time.

Something tells me that no journalist would look down on somebody for giving up an Oxford education to pursue a fine arts career, but that tells you more about the shared values of journalists than the relative merits of the activities.
Priming effects play a much smaller role in sentence comprehension than straight short term memory storage and retrieval. Speed influence is possible but priming effects act on different timescales than that of on-line processes used for comprehension.

Regarding your other response above, which I mostly agree with, there is a common conception among Japanese speakers that in English, since the action is mentioned halfway in the sentence, one can often predict the meaning of the sentence and effectively stop listening; in Japanese (or any SOV), one has to pay attention to the end otherwise they will have understood nothing.

This is somewhat true, in that you basically have to "suspend processing" until the verb appears, whereupon can you "fire" the processes. (The part that is mistaken by the Japanese is that when an English speaker figures out the rest of the sentence is because the object is inferred. But the same level of understanding is available.)
Ahh, I was actually just in Arnhem a few weeks ago, cute little town.

I'm living in A'dam finishing up a Masters (why did I go back to school?!), then I have to decide if I'm going to get involved in another IT project or try and save the world.
You are mischaracterizing what I said. Of course, stating the conclusion is fine. My point is that he never gave an argument for the conclusion that the article is bullshit. There is not a single statement in the article whose truth has been called into question.
The main difference is that ec2 and aws in general just gives you very low level building blocks. It gives you an api for 'give me a new server', 'attach an ip address', 'create a new volume', 'attach volume' etc. So you have to learn this stuff just to get your basic hardware in place. once you have that done you will still be faced with all the sysadmin tasks involved with configuring everything to mount and format these volumes and configure every service you need to run. Of course you need to know what the proper setup for a ruby app in production is and learn all the different webservers and monitoring tools.

The idea behind ey-solo(and the soon coming ey-flex) is that you don't want to have to learn all that stuff. We have been running and managing high volume ruby apps in production for 2.5 years now and we have taken our whole battle tested stack and are now offering it as SaaS.

So the goal is to save you time and hassle. We will maintain the whole stack with constant feature and security updates as well as bug fixes and all you need to do is write your app and leave the deployment and scaling hassles to us.

AWS is only the beginning, this platform will soon be available on other clouds as well as be downloadable so it can be run on any hosting provider if you run our linux and install our agent.

This means that eventually you will be able to host anywhere and still use our automated stack to manage the servers.
Cloud living is pretty expensive :(
Couldn't [1] be implemented quite simply by some sort of exception handler manager thinggie?

Exception.OnThrown += LogThrownException;

Where this callback has some signature which can examine the stack, locals, and potentially resume?
I'm not so sure about the cloud. That huge amount of data comes with a lot of complexity as well and much of the data is only really valuable if you can share it (video) or combine it with data from others (data mining). If data needs to be close to the CPU, it could mean that both live locally or both live in the cloud.

Local resources are idle most of the time. I wonder if that's economically sustainable in the long run. On the other hand you're always going to need idle resources to cope with peak demand. It's never going to balance out completely, even in the cloud.

I don't think data growth is going to level off. There are so many untapped sources; sensor data, 3D models, biometric data, etc. But I'm not sure people will process all that data locally. I'm not even sure where locally is. People move around, so the latency issue does not just arise when they're at home, next to their game console super computer thingy.

I worked on location based systems in the past. Latency was a big problem then (and probably still is), but having a PC at home with 16GB of RAM and a TB hard disk doesn't help.

The scarcest resource in mobile devices is not memory or bandwidth or the CPU, it's the battery. So for the time being, serious number crunching is not going to happen locally on mobile devices.

There are so many factors and I know so little of potential technological breakthroughs or even plain physics. Technology doesn't advance linearly. Batteries could suddenly sustain 24 hours of biometric number crunching. There could be Gigabit WiSuperMax in the air in 5 years time. I don't know.

But I feel people don't want super computers at home. I even block flash simply because it keeps my laptop fan busy. I tried that world community grid software a while back, but I just couldn't stand all the noise and heat.

I doubt that people will keep buying high powered general purpose computers. My guess is that we'll have our game consoles, and our mobiles and various sensors and the data is going to be streamed straight into to google's or Microsoft's data centers. It makes me feel a little uneasy though.
For some reason, I always lookout for the cigarette burn to see how cleanly the transition is between the reels.
I don't know if the JVM does this right now, but you CAN detect useless stack building and simply not do it. In other words, the CPU cycle penalty of java's (and most other language's) exception mechanism can be virtually eliminated. The other benefits (resuming, for example) are a different issue.

The issue that I think the lisper of the OP is talking about is something like this:

try {
something();
} catch ( SomeException e ) {
//don't ever even look at e's stack, and do something else.
}

Assuming the exception occurs, then to be safe the VM has to build the entire stack, which involves unwinding a lot of JIT work if you're unlucky, even though at the end it wasn't actually needed. However, assuming it matters that this is slow, which pretty much means that this is in a tight loop someplace, then a JIT compiler can detect that this situation always occurs, and simply avoid creating the stack.

There are still very interesting applications, such as logging and resuming, for not unwinding down the stack before giving the handlers in the chain an opportunity, but the CPU argument seems void to me.
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there was one CA that was vulnerable to certificate forgery

You only need one.

In any event, my feeling is that a rogue CA (I include a CA which doesn't perform adequate verification in this category) is the greatest of the three risks I mentioned.
In this case, though, you need to be careful if you decide that you want to turn around and sell your 'hacking' as a product. Because you used company resources (at-work time and equipment) to produce it, there is a strong legal precedent allowing your employer to claim ownership of your creation.

I'm in the position of working full-time and starting a company part-time, and am very careful to keep my two worlds separate, even though I'm 99.999% sure that my employer has no interest in attempting to take ownership the product I'm building.
Now that's photoshopped!.... Just kiddin' off course - that's a real TERROR right there!
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The fact that my "catch" block is in a different scope than the "try" block. If I really needed to do it, I could subclass "exception" and dump my variables there. But usually I'm just debugging something stupid so it's easier to put in "print" statements.

I've even put in a "macro" that gives me a "print" statement with a long string of "+" afterword so I can quickly spot them in my code and delete them (but don't tell anybody, 'cuz that's just plain wrong...).
I also liked the tines and their group consciousness, and how the minds were connected via sound. More interestingly that the individuals themselves weren't really consciousness because one mind wasn't quite evolved enough.
Face it! Lots of people would just blindly support Israel, as much as Palestine... Problem is their distribution
I'll update the post to add more specific information.
Good timing. Google just (essentially) pulled the plug on Google Video by not allowing new submissions, which is hardly a big surprise.

But... Google video does have some pretty nice features that YouTube hadn't yet implemented, one of which was d/l links on the videos. Hopefully they'll also extend the video length soon.
Why?

Don't you think the transition period would dramatically hurt productivity? What about clashing cultures? M&A usually fails.
I sold tickets on the phone for a small-medium ticket company. Some nights were busy, but usually I had plenty of free time.
Why, palish, I recall a thread from yesterday in which you complained that you lacked the stuff to be a genius.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436390

I demand you recant, you evil genius, you. ;-)
I'd kind of like to grab one of these on ebay, actually.
When Hamas kills 1100 people you can.
> WP as an incendiary against heavy concentrations of civilians. While you're at it feel free to discuss how WP artillery shells can be deployed in an urban environment without affecting "heavy concentrations of civilians".

The rule isn't against the use of WP where there are heavy concentrations of civilians, it's against using WP as an incendiary where there are heavy concentrations of civilians. Using it as a smoke-generating agent where there are heavy concentrations of civilians is perfectly okay.

FWIW, the "laws of war" (and this isn't one as far as Israel is concerned) are a tit-for-tat thing. Unless Hamas has agreed to them as well, they're not relevant.

And, it's kind of hard to argue that the concern is about "bad acts" when comparable acts by Hamas don't rate a mention.

And yes, I'm looking forward to the discussion of proportionality.
It gives a brief overview of more cache replacement algorithms than I ever knew existed. It is written in an unusual and somewhat irritating style. Each algorithm is written in the first person and tells its "story." Worth bookmarking though.
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Actually I retract that, I'm trying it and it's buggy as hell.
But he could likely make a greater impact investing his NFL earnings (and time post-retirement) in to such endeavors.
I would expect so in this case, because they'll cause the two startups to market their services differently.
I'm surprised that VC hasn't been banging down Colin's door.

Probably they either aren't aware of tarsnap or they aren't sufficiently technically inclined to be able to try using tarsnap for themselves. :-)

That said, I have had some inquiries; but my response so far has always been that at the moment, for the small amount of money which I could usefully apply, funding would be more of a distraction than it would be worth.
not sure how familiar people are with IDEO - they were founded(?) by a group of designers, including the fairly famous Bill Moggridge.

They have some really inspiring videos on the net, I really recommend people check them out!
Your design work is great. I do my freelance work (mostly PHP) over at Cafe Medici on Guadalupe once or twice a week. I lived on west campus when I was a student, but was too busy participating in the Thursday-Saturday night parties to get anything done while I was in school :). Send me an e-mail if you would like to meet up or need someone to collaborate with.

I work out of my apartment most days, but usually head over to a coffee shop (Epoch, Spiderhouse, etc.) when I feel the need to get out.
Or, you could pick up a part time job doing what you're good at (hacking), earn as much money as a full time "mostly idle" type job, and use your actual free time for your projects.

The jobs you mention can't pay much more than $1500/month, which is 30 hours at $50/hour (or much less if you bill higher). One freelance project per month will fund your hacker lifestyle, and will probably look much better on your resumé later on in life.
No, that would end up in the kill log too.
Not yet. I hope to get sales taxes figured out some time in the next few months.
It's all so simple and one sided isn't it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hamas_suicide_attacks

Seriously let's have a debate on this. This being a hacker forum is the perfect place to do it isn't it?
aww, okay, I couldn't stop thinking how cool their videos were so I did some hunting.

Good list here: http://delicious.com/popular/IDEO

Guardian article on IDEO : http://www.guardian.co.uk/inspire-innovate

Method Cards have been really sucessful in ther design consultancys to "replicate" IDEOs approach. : http://www.ideo.com/methodcards/MethodDeck/index.html

oh, and : http://www.ideo.com/work/ - case studies :)
Too true; be careful. You're probably safe using company time to learn (as mentioned in the parent^2), which the company might not actually mind if you put your skills to use for them as well, but if you use it to create your own product, you're on thin ice.
Such business speak bullshit.

We're not firing people we're right-sizing.

The business synergies will drive us forward.

He's not homeless; he's an outdoors men.

Please.
I always just leave it out and go to the restroom. Maybe some would call that foolish, but I'm not too worried about it. It seems like everyone at the coffee shops I go to already has their own laptop that is better than mine anyways :).
I worked at the University library and it was a dream. In a given 4 hour period I probably did 20 minutes of work.
> Alternative energy investment, to name one of many examples in Obama's economic plan, isn't "make work". This sort of research is necessary if our society is going to survive the inevitable oil depletion problem, and will create wealth in the long-term.

Not so fast. Some alternative energy "investment" may end up being useful. A fraction of that will end up being worth more than it cost. However, the history of govt spending on "alternative energy" is filled with boondoggles that were worse than "make work".

If you're going to argue that Obama's program will be different, you're going to have to do more than describe "features" of things that failed in the past.
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I think there's a point where we have to accept that the English language is heavily overloaded, and trust that our readers will be able to understand our meaning from the context. :-)

But speaking of theoretical CS concepts: Part of the tarsnap source code implements a "multitape layer" -- which, in this case, refers to code which uses block storage to provide multiple simulated tapes -- but I spent a long time trying to think of a different name for it in order to avoid any confusion with multitape Turing machines.
Let's hope they don't put it in every household product imaginable and exploit it to the point of uselessness, as was done with the previous crop of antibacterial agents.
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