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"there are rarely requirements about publishing."

Ha. [Hollow Laugh] If only that were actually true. Even in departments were there is no "official" requirement, in practice there is. Your advisor will tell you baldly publish well or don't find a good job afterwards. Most students who are not on track drop out instead of getting a pity degree.

"Its not about substance--its publish publish publish."

Sometimes true, in practice grants are far more important than quantity of publications. To get grants you have to be respected and known in your field. That means not dumping a bunch of bad publications out, it means making meaningful contributions. It also helps to be a persuasive writer.

"Throw enough papers at the wall and you hope to god one sticks long enough for you to get tenure."

I know specific people who were denied tenure even though they had great publication records. Once again it is about grants, not publications.
Yes, I've considered it, and no, it's not possible, since inequal marriage rights harms gays by definition. What scenario did you have in mind?
Off the first hit for "marriage equality" (http://www.marriageequality.org/get-the-facts), here are some choice ones:

* Married couples are permitted to give an unlimited amount of gifts to each other without being taxed.
* The law provides certain automatic rights to a person's spouse regardless of whether or not a will exists.
* With marriage, a couple has the right to be treated as an economic unit and to file joint tax returns (and pay the marriage penalty), and obtain joint health, home and auto insurance policies.
I think it's okay for them to lobby against it.

The term "political issue" doesn't really make sense to me, honestly. A political issue isn't really "political" so much as it's "currently in contention"; Catholic-Protestant civil wars in Europe were political as much as they were religious, because they had political impact. Gay marriage is a political issue because, and only because, it's under contention.

Thus, every issue is something a special interest might decide to take a stance on whether it's Google or a trucking company. The question is whether or not it's relevant, and it's demonstrably relevant to Google, which has gay employees. (It would be okay for Exodus International to lobby against gay marriage, too. Which I expect they do.)
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That's the most infuriating part of it, and lines up with my own experiences in university. During my years there tuition exploded, but the faculty saw little to no additional hiring, and certainly our profs weren't getting major raises.

Instead the administration exploded, with new assistants and managers appearing every day. The worst part was that it was still impossible as a student to get anything done. It took me literally 6 months to reschedule an exam (through processes clearly spelled out by school regulations, in fact). This was at the University of Waterloo, FWIW.

In the end I had to threaten to sue the school to get them to do anything. In hindsight, it was entirely an empty threat, but it seemed to get me on an escalation chain somewhere. It took an additional month to get the exam set up.

I have zero respect for the administration at my alma mater, nor any institution of higher education. As far as I am concerned, they are all leeches, subsisting off the good will and good work of the profs, post-docs, TAs, and students who are actually doing anything.

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" - to this date the post-secondary education system is the most egregious example of this quote I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with.
> So insurance pays for 100% of the cost? Where do I find such insurance?

Remember we're talking about a very different world from the one we actually live in, a world where banks aren't allowed to lend at longer terms than they borrow. In such a world health insurance would presumably also be very different from what we're used to, since it would only be expected to insure against things that should be insurable, i.e., unforeseen circumstances. What we now call "health insurance" is something like auto insurance that would also be expected to pay for oil changes, replacing tires, checking your air cleaner and wiper blades, etc., etc. If we had health insurance that worked more like the way our actual auto insurance works, we would cleanly separate predictable health expenses from unpredictable ones, and only expect insurance for the latter. That would change things a lot.

> Or suppose I need chemo and insurance will only cover 80% of the $100k cost?

The big question here is, why do you need chemo? We're probably getting off topic, but I can see at least three distinct possibilities:

(1) You need chemo because of something accidental and unforeseen that gave you cancer--say you were in an airplane that got irradiated with a burst of cosmic rays. This would be insurable, and these sorts of conditions are rare enough that I would expect an insurance company to pay the claim, with a reasonable deductible (you would trade off the deductible against the premiums, just as you do now with auto insurance--again, this is all in the light of the general comments I made above).

(2) You need chemo because someone else's deliberate act or negligence caused your cancer--say your city water was contaminated by a factory's effluent. In this case the party responsible should be paying for your chemo, just as if someone else hits your car they are responsible for paying to get it fixed.

(3) You need chemo because you didn't take care of yourself very well, didn't get regular checkups, and got a form of cancer that could have been diagnosed and prevented but wasn't. In this case your insurance company would still be obligated to pay, but your premiums would probably have been quite a bit higher, just as people with bad driving records have to pay more for auto insurance.

Of course I understand that this kind of analysis is a lot more unpalatable when applied to health insurance vs. auto insurance. Our bodies are much more important to us than our cars. But that doesn't change the economics involved.
What bad design decisions have been made in PHP in the last 5 years?
We would definitely write a big blog post on it. Right now I can say we had about 200 users on just a EC2 micro instance. We dint expect lot of traffic and users. and I have to run to do damage control.
The purpose of marriage has always been a state issue. The state didn't become involved; it invented marriage.
Haven't kept tabs on it lately, but one resource for the Victoria tech scene is the Victoria Advanced Technology Council (VIATeC) site: http://www.viatec.ca
You should checkout Michael Hartl's http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ and Ryan Bates's http://railscasts.com/
You think PHP is weird because you don't understand references. Reference is not a pointer, PHP doesn't have pointers. Reference is variable binding. $a =& $b is not an assignment. It is a binding - it means $a and $b are now bound to the same variable/value.
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This I think is a trap we arrive at when we compare ourselves to others. It's safer for one's emotions to compare and contrast yourself to yourself in years prior.

The least usable fuel in this industry is depression. Don't subject yourself to it and ignore everyone else. Support them in their endeavors, high-five them in their success but do not compare yourself to anyone else otherwise it won't take but a few days to arrive at the bottom of $some-random-vice and you'll be writing blog posts like this one second-guessing yourself.

(I second guess myself daily and often wonder what the hell I'm doing pretending to be a CEO of an IT firm of all things. Yet have managed to remain in business as long as I have -- and help all sorts of people pay their mortgages, support their families and challenge themselves daily in the work they do for me. That's something I derive sheer joy from.)

Admittedly the remainder results from my faith, but that's another post altogether.
Objective-C Overtakes C++ in TIOBE Index
Using picodollars attracts exactly the customers I want.

You have absolutely no idea how many people have told me that they started using Tarsnap because of the picodollars.
I emphatically agree — for me at least, "competitiveness" is more about elevating one's aim than about "winning" against anyone, let alone everyone.
But why would you remove it? Because whatever you've installed has broken.

Much better not to be broken in the first place.
Gosh darn those crazy Japs! Even after we bring them our enlightened laws their families insist on keeping their arranged marriages!

Seriously though.... At some point the structure of marriage and how it fits into society is a matter only for the people of that society, not a matter for outsiders.

Regarding gay marriage, also consider this:

In many parts of the world, adoption is relatively rare, and the entire retirement support program is moving in with one's kids. This means marriage in most parts of the world is socially tied to procreation. This also means that gay marriage may be a bit of an economic luxury made possible by 401(k)'s and spermbanks..... We can afford that in the US. How sure are we that we want to push this on other parts of the world?
You are completely correct - you are being unfairly prejudiced by judging PHP on explanations of people that do not understand it instead of learning it. If you learned it, you would know references work exactly like they supposed to, and do exactly what they are meant to do - just because they are not, as parent assumes, pointers, he misunderstands them and thinks they are weird. Moreover, he thinks since PHP in not like C and does not have C-like pointers PHP is weird. Please read http://us2.php.net/references if you want real information instead of collection of misunderstanding.
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I've not worked there for a while, but while I was there they did support employees who were campaigning to help folks. Basically it would work by some employee wanting to help some group that they cared about and the company would generally help them do that. So to use your example a jewish employee who might be trying to do outreach in an antisemtic environment (or country) would get support in the form of time off or use of company resources to help their program or use of a conference room to hold meetings with an outreach group Etc.

However, there were pretty clear boundaries. I did not see any White Supremacists activities or holocaust denial outreach sorts of things either being supported or tolerated. My feeling was they try to support the employee caveat the fine line between supporting an employee who has a cause and supporting the cause itself. Recall that there were Google employees participating in the Arab Spring uprisings, and while Google didn't come out and say "we support overthrowing corrupt regimes" they also didn't immediately fire any employee who was working to that end.

Of course when the press reports anything its less nuanced than what actually goes on inside the Google Plex. Sometimes that is for the best, sometimes not.
Apple's popularity boosts Objective-C language past C++
References have their uses, but they are not the simplest concept. For people that think references are like C pointers it is indeed better and safer to never use them. For the rest of people, in about 90% of cases you think you need them you actually don't. But the remaining 10% is still there.
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Just got a security advice from chrome for visiting a page with a charity:water banner, and the charitywater.org site seems to be down. Anybody know any details?
I suppose building a different world is one way to solve the problems of the present. Maybe by version 7 or 8 we will get something liveable.....
So @Dave isn't Marc Andreesen or Larry Page. So f-ing what. The only tragic thing is that he hasn't figured out yet that work != life.

I'm in a similar demographic as @Dave, live in palo alto, near his age. Had some really good successes 10-15 years ago, and nothing since then.

My big activities for the past decade have been climbing, skiing and raising my kids. Some of my friends kept working and now have vineyards and foundations. And sometimes it stings that I don't fly private jets or have anything really impressive to brag about.

But I had years of board-meetings, soaking up the one-upmanship. Once you become conscious of the non-stop compulsive attention seeking, there is a certain emptiness to it. So I stepped away from that, and I wouldn't trade a vineyard for the experiences I've had.

Now I'm starting on a new company, working very hard with high confidence. But if this company doesn't see a monster outcome, I won't feel like a loser. My prime motivation is the products, the people, and the competition, all of which I love.

IMHO we are in a golden age of software. To me it feels like being in the major leagues where everyone who participates is lucky as can be.
http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/book/ was a godsend for me learning Ruby (and OOP in general).

This link: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/the-best-way-to-learn... is a strong starting point for rails.
Doh, should have fact checked that statement. The 20h is a power stat I've heard for another product, and it was stuck in my head as I wrote that post earlier today.

7h is the advertised time for the latest MBPs and the 13" MBA. Sorry for the mix up!
Have you used other MVC frameworks like Backbone (MVVC), Ember, or Angular? How does Maria compare?
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There are quite a few universities which use this system. Basically, you get admitted to the school, take some prerequisite classes, then apply to the major. For most majors, just having taken the prerequisites will get you in. UW's CSE program is what's called "highly competitive", i.e. good luck.

And yes, it's quite high risk. After being rejected my co-founder printed out his rejection letter and framed it, dropped out of UW, and took a job as the head of development for a local iPhone shop. Most people either keep trying, or switch to a math major. It's extremely stupid and elitist.
I liked it. Its simple to use both for poll creator and people voting. It would be nice if you can capture the names of the people who are voting.
PHP, Python and Ruby: Which language is right for your startup?
Subtle things: controls that don't match exactly, link box outlines, inertial scrolling with a different acceleration, keyboard limitations, or just the general feel. It takes a strong attention to detail to make these things feel native, and the OKC app apparently does this very well.
We compare ourselves with our perceived peer-group. But we tend to self-select peer groups that are not too far from our own level. On the other hand, most of us looks to role models, which are pretty much by definition more successful than ourselves.

We rarely compare ourselves to the people we consider we've already firmly surpassed. We might hang out with existing friends that we feel we're more successful than, but we're trying to meet that new potential employer that's above where we think we'll go next; we're trying to hook that huge important client; we're more eager to network with people we see as hugely successful; we want to learn from the people we consider smarter than ourselves, and so on.

Not only that, but outside our own circle, the successful people are far more visible. For every successful founder there are hundreds that failed, gave up, never even got a company funded, and so on that we will never hear about.

I've been through several startups. Some I co-founded. Others where I was the first guy or first 2-3 people brought in, on substantial equity. Been involved in a number of VC deals. But no big exits. Nothing enough to retire on. Not paid of my mortgage.

It'd be easy for me to write a similar post about my career. Lots of companies that could've, should've made it big.

Yet, years ago I realized that the moment I founded my first company, I was more successful as a founder or "startup guy" than most people - most people who want to start a company never even try, and fewer succeed. Each subsequent one, I've left some mark or other. So I've not founded another Google. But I've done enough. I want to do more. Lots more. But I've still done enough that I have plenty to be proud of without feeling a need for everyone to know about it.

(though he things I'm the most proud of these days no longer have anything to do with my work at all)
Here, how about I summarize my view of the conversation for you.

aw3c2: 'curl | php' is creepy
timaelliott: apt-get is just as scary
kudos: no, it has signing
udo: that's cargo cult
me: no, it protects like https (meaning it authenticates and stops MitM)

I was responding perfectly in context to point out how the protections apt-get have are useful. I also tied it back into the original comment but you can ignore that part if you like. I don't know why you think I was 'trying to be witty' and ignoring context.
> something as big as, say, a Twitter knockoff for the enterprise.

It's been done! http://www.salesforce.com/chatter/overview/
Most everyone I know from the CSE program who've graduated are now working for Facebook. They seem to be a major recruiter from there. They even opened a Seattle office fairly recently.
This. The Coursera PGM class is the only free online class that I've enrolled in that felt like a similar difficult to a slightly harder than average undergrad course at Caltech (where I go to school).
Here's my concern though. It's one thing to get involved in a nation's politics where one reasonably understands what the costs and benefits are. It's a very different thing to get involved in a global campaign.

What's next? Convince Japanese and Indians to do away with arranged marriages? Where do we draw the line?

Or are we trying to remake the world in our image? That strikes me as very dangerous.
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Shit, except for all the cool places he's worked in the tech industry and all the people he's met, and all the success he's had, and of course the fact he has a lot more money than I do, this guy is me.

I hope to God I'm a late bloomer, too.
At some point the structure of marriage and how it fits into society is a matter only for the people of that society, not a matter for outsiders.

There are no outsiders. While you were away we found out that people from different cultures have been shagging all along and that we are all related (which should please mr incest at the bottom of the thread), and that all societies are deeply interconnected at every level. Thanks for worrying about the retirement plans of impoverished homosexuals though, without people like you making sure they behaved responsibly and bred, who knows where they might end up in later life.
This the best article or post on Hybrid apps I have seen in a long while.

My one complaint is that he doesn't seem to acknowledge the possibility of a "minimal Objective-C" app (i.e. mostly HTML-based) that is tailored to iOS and uses in-app storage for most of the UI elements. We need more discussion on methods to make the mostly-HTML approach to work better. The post is a great start.
I live in the US, and there are many cases where lying is illegal, including perjury, libel, slander, fraud, filing a false police report, failing to disclose certain known facts during a sale, misrepresenting earnings of a corporation, and so on.
And culturally imperialist to boot.

Here's the thing that should give us pause about this.

Back in the late 18th and early 19th century there were a lot of people who basically felt that the European and American ways of doing things were just better than the ways of doing things elsewhere. Therefore, they reasoned that bringing people from, say, Africa to work in the plantations was a good thing. It was bringing Christianity to some people who hadn't heard the message. It was bringing these people into the domain of progress, and while the US never really had colonies elsewhere in the world in the same way the French or Dutch did, this was a major current of thought that justified a real evil, for the form of slavery these folks were brought into was uniquely oppressive even among systems of slavery.

Similarly we have seen human rights organizations argue that everything from gay marriage to sexual experimentation, to internet access is a basic human right. This justifies destroying cultures which are different than us, just because we can't be bothered to tolerate the difference. The loss of cultural diversity, and with it agricultural biodiversity, is just waved away as the price of progress, much like slavery of Africans in the US was.

I am not comfortable with this. It's one thing to say "in the US, we should push for gay marriage." It's something very different to make it a worldwide effort. One is permissible since Google is base here. The other can only be described as imperialist.
Feature branches are almost the opposite of continuous integration. If you're committing to a branch then by definition you're not integrating your changes with people working on other branches.

It's quite possible to integrate and deploy changes to production several times a day. If it hurts, do it more often. Smaller changesets are far easier to merge.
At the risk of troll feeding, it's inaccurate to say state recognized incestual relationships and state recognized gay relationships are "completely separate issues."

At the heart of the moment for the later is an effort to change what the purpose of marriage is (or, perhaps, recognize a change that has already happened).

Specifically, the move to support gay marriage requires changing the idea of marriage being a relationship primarily concerned with natural procreation into one centered on the expression of romantic "love". You'll note, for instance, that Google is calling its campaign "Legalize Love".

The reason the state has opposed incest is that inbreeding leads to a much higher rate of birth defects.

But if marriage is shifted in focus from being primarily about creating an ideal situation for natural procreation to one based on "love", who is the state to say that two direct relatives are or aren't in "love" with one another?
So? they're worth billions.
No, the sheer number of programmers who use PHP just means that there's a much higher signal-noise ratio of half way decent code.
(Disclaimer: I'm a Google employee, and a rather cynical one, speaking for myself and not the company.)

It's not actually that they prioritize employees over shareholders; it's that they believe that the best path to maximizing long-term shareholder value is to treat your employees well, because then you can continue to attract the best employees. Googlers who blindly believe that Google does whatever's good for its employees tend to be quickly disillusioned. Google does what's best for its business; it just so happens that what's good for employees often turns out to be good for business as well.

It's not an employees vs. shareholders thing. It's a long-term vs. short-term value thing, where free food, option repricing, and raises for everyone costs the company significantly in the short term, but ensures their long-term viability.