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Amen. Almost.

I was in a startlingly similar position a few years ago- I graduated from Georgia State. I went there not because it was the best school, but because tuition was paid (HOPE scholarship) and the classes were offered at flexible times so I could work while going to school. I had to turn down an acceptance from Tech because of that.

While it hurt my career initially, I think the value of education is drastically diminished in just a few short years. By the time I was 25 what I'd accomplished professionally mattered far more than where I went to school. Sure, I was still in debt from school so starting a company is difficult, but open source contributions and side projects are a signifcant part of my "resume" and far outweigh my schooling.
Totally agree.

I would say it creates a more affordable option if the developer had to offer them at equivalent rates on a square footage basis. The fact that the units are earning a 1-2 premium per square foot is completely artificial and simply a by-product of having no housing that size.

In São Paulo, Brazil, one bedroom apartments often cost as much as two bedroom apartments for the simple fact that there is a lack of one bedrooms available in the market because historically people haven't lived alone (they usually lived with the 'rents until marriage.)
You could use ShelfProud, of course, but you won't be able to make comments of the plot of the book, or add your opinion, only details of the book as an object.
Or his goal in this discussion isn't to win friends and influence people.

Maybe he's trying to gain entertainment.

Just because someone isn't getting X now doesn't mean he doesn't know how to. Maybe he's after Y.
Check back on that in 10 years.

But, generally, yeah.
Churches are an amazing way to meet people. When I moved abroad for a while I went to a Sunday service, immediately got introduced to a few people who I ended up becoming good friends with. I didn’t make any friends outside of church and wouldn’t have known where or how to. It was a small city with hardly anything but pubs and churches.
Plan a half or full day at a nearby park. Bonus points if you can hike or canoe there. Pack a few lunches, grab a few friends, go hiking, canoeing, ultimate frisbeeing, or just enjoy nature in good company. Have a picnic and continue having a great time, or depending on where you are perhaps stroll on down to a museum or other interesting spot.

2 rules -

1) for the duration of the excursion, nobody involved in allowed to bring technology. Not even mobile phones. If you can't spend more than 4 hours without your phone, then don't go out for more than 4 hours. You'll enjoy it more than 6 hours out with your phone.

2) avoid talking about work, tech, startups, etc... if you have nothing left to talk about, make a note to do something that will give you something to talk about next time ('cause you're going to do this more than once, right?) Read a book, follow non-tech news, see a great film, go to a museum, etc...

Also, no tech 1 hour before bed will do wonders for your productivity. You'll fall asleep faster and sleep deeper without bright lights in your face just as your body is trying to wind down.
If being a duplicate is why it is being closed, a search must have been done. Could not a link to the other offerings be given instead? Failing that, saying it is because of duplication?
The interview and the article state that "In some cases employers do not want to hire anyone at all, they think it's cheaper to leave positions unfilled!". If it is cheaper to leave a position vacant, why bother listing it as open? Wouldn't it make more sense to eliminate it?
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With caveat of getting downvoted, I don't understand why ad supported businesses are derided especially on forums like HN.

1. Marketing & Visibility: Ads let small businesses (and of course startups) to gain visibility. How many startups don't use Google Adwords? Almost everyone.

2. Proven Model: Ad supported businesses are proven model of decades. Newspapers, radio, TV, magazines everyone used ads to subsidize "creativity".

3. Privacy: In digital realm, targeting and cookie dropping leads to privacy concerns. I completely agree. But all the data is mainly collected anonymously. As a young male in twenties, I'd much prefer my ads that are relevant to me. And I'm fine with data collection as long its free.

4. Democratization: Don't forget ads played critical role in democratization of Internet since everyone could join the party with minimal barriers. Imagine if all the services were paid. Even students from developing countries like India/China couldn't have afforded it due to currency imbalances.

5. Ads are crappy: Currently banner ads are crappy. I agree. Ads done right are always enjoyable. Who didn't enjoy the old spice "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" campaign. All of my friends loved it. Remember, it was all digital campaign. Crappy ads lead to frustration. Auto-playing videos, page-takeovers, etc. are ugly, we must change that to make advertising attractive.
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I mainly get upset by popular questions that get completely deleted. Someone put up an unofficial deleted question archive here though which is a big help: http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com/
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No it won't because universities have an intrinsic motivation to publish, it is their life blood.

As a researcher at a university you usually have an _obligation_ to publish at least x articles per year.

In the best case, if 200m gets reduced to 0, under this scheme the universities would be able to publish 100_000 articles per year for the same price.

Ofcourse the universities will still require a whole bunch of subscriptions, but if the world would follow suit, this would be very awesome and good for science in general.
For conceptual questions like these, StackExchange has http://programmers.stackexchange.com
I am sure it's a great article but NYTimes doesn't get my personal info just so I'll log into their articles I am afraid.
Back up now. The cert was pointing to www.amazon.com, so it was throwing an error for amazon.com. Then, it would generate an SSL Protocol error. Very odd behavior.
The goal of SO is to have questions with ONE correct answer, and to have that answer there.

Any question - such as this one - where the answer is "it depends" better be a work of art, or have an answer that explores all the considerations in exquisite detail, or it's going to get closed. Because there's no "one right answer" to this question.

It's "on topic", but not a good question.
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My first submission to HN, motivated not by publishing my own blog post but just because I was inspired sufficiently enough by Micah Baldwin's post on Changing the world ( http://learntoduck.net/changing-the-world ) to actually express my thoughts on the matter.

http://lonetwin.net/20120716/rants-and-randomness/on-professional-motivation/

Comments welcome.
You know, as soon as I typed "complexity" I knew we'd end up here.

I believe we're deep into semantics. The fact is, whether you call it complexity, effort-till-delivery, or chopped liver, the process is still the same. And it still works.

And while I like story points, frankly I could give a rat's ass with Cohn has to say about it. He's a nice guy, and he's obviously an expert, but I'm much more interested in what works than in anything else. Story points work because we pick them up and use them for stuff, not because Cohn calls them one thing or another or recommends doing them a certain way. Remember the point here is that the predictive modeling process the team uses evolves and becomes more accurate over time. It's really nowhere near as important where you start as that you keep getting better. I've started teams using a 2-tier H/M/L process for assigning points and it works fine. No matter how they think about it, the team gets better over time and it ends up giving them powerful predictive capabilities. That's the key item here. You're getting wrapped up in the weeds.

Sorry, but when I talk about insufferable Agile people, the number one annoying thing they do is name drop. Really bugs me. People drop some famous author's name and then all rational thought shuts down. The great one has spoken.

I'm very sorry you seem to not be getting the answer you wanted. Like I said, I feel your pain.
They wrung their hands of user agent sniffing and wept for joy.
And this is exactly why there will be several hundred thousand downloads of the premier within the next few days from torrent sites and the like.

I wish I could give AMC money directly to watch this show tonight (or tomorrow) legally but it is not possible. It frustrates me so much that the technology is all there and has been for many years yet it is still not available.
Also mentioned that all the subscription providers run on Authorize.net so you can just switch over there. Not true - sort of a random comment. Still, it'll be helpful for some folks in general.
The more I hear about these stupid HR systems, the more I see manipulating them as a matter of good SEO.

It's a system that rewards people that stuff keywords - effectively echoing the job requirements and adding the industry's buzzwords. It's also a system that rewards people who take a shotgun approach to applications, rather than individually crafted responses.

Ripe for exploitation I'd say.
So, basically.. you can get your guy elected by helping spread the message by pouring money into advertising, just not buy him, or buy votes etc...?
I got the impression the Band of Brothers Easy Company guys basically didn't talk for 20+ years after the war, except odd pairs and small groups that stayed in touch. People went back to school, started careers, families. Then they reconnected and ended up forming a strong social network, even though they had very different backgrounds and life paths. Stephen Ambrose was between projects and came across them, and the rest was (literally) history. They were an elite group and some were very successful, others were wounded, others ended up going through what I might have considered stereotypical Vietnam Vet experiences, even though WWII veterans are not associated with that. I suspect a critical mass of people working to keep everyone connected and provide mutual support makes all the difference.
My guess is that it's a device that an employer would use to manipulate the employees who are filling in "temporarily" -- so that the employees feel something is being done and they'll only be doing the extra work for "a little while." So they can say, "we really are trying, but the work you do is so valuable, just not that many people can do it."
When I was in South America I got this quite a lot too, especially when on 3g phone networks. Quite annoying.
Understandable, my advice is just to be mindful about the trade-offs between the degradation of the user experience and short-term revenues.
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I enjoy sites which provide me with the correct download link for software, based on the fact Firefox places "Linux x86_64" in my User-Agent.

Having said that, the flip side is just as bad, when you get completely rejected from sites because "We haven't tested this site for your browser or operating system". It's a website for crying out loud. I don't get too mad at sites which implement this as long as they provide me a way to continue "at my own risk". However it's the final straw when they flat out refuse to serve me anything other than a page telling me they haven't tested the website for my browser/OS combination... sigh

Edit: This might give some food for thought for AshleysBrain. I like your suggestion, but am curious if we can find a way to send OS and architecture to sites so that they can give me nice download links...
What this article is describing (trees as a renewable resource for paper/etc) isn’t a natural forest, it’s silviculture. Sure Georgia Pacific etc. will plant a bunch of trees to replace what they mowed through but those trees are all one species and age. The “forests” they create are not good for the environment. They drain the water table, they limit biological diversity and do little ecological good. Ecology is more than just “how many trees are planted, period”, it’s the overall health of a forest/system. The forests that paper companies maintain are not ecologically sound; they’re just a crop, little different from corn or any other agriculture the article mentions. The best thing we could do to make paper more sustainable would be to switch to hemp.
From an end-user's perspective, the main difference with Delicious Library is that it looks like you're going to make me type in my book's details.

The ease of entering data into Delicious Library is much more valuable to me (and a lot of people, I think) than the 'always available' nature of an online service (which has its drawbacks: you go bust and my data goes with you) and the 'show off' factor from your social/sharing platform.

As well as scanning ISBN barcodes, I'd also look into importing data from existing applications (like Delicious Library) or as CSV/similar files. The early adopter of your service is probably someone who already has some form of cataloguing going on already - take advantage of that and don't ask your users to do a ton of work they've already done somewhere else.

Good luck!
There seem to be some active forks:

https://github.com/defunkt/hub/network
And, never, never, never, never, NEVER do a stock swap for a payout. In the finance world, holding $580 million in equity in a single position--a single company--is called flushing that cash down the toilet.

The objective of anyone with a single position composing a majority of their value, or even anything much larger than a double-digit-percentage, should be to get out as quickly as possible. Why? Tail risk associated with your position introduces volatility cost into your portfolio, and the risk alone chips away at the value. That $580 million was probably already worth less than $500 million the instant that they decided to do a stock swap, just because of the volatility risk of being that undiversified.

Lesson learned: get a third party financial adviser who will mediate with Goldman for you on your half-a-billion-dollar deal. Don't pay Goldman a flat fee disincentivized from performance. And NEVER leave all that equity tied into a single position. Yes, Goldman could be at fault here, but it would in the same capacity that a negligent driver is at fault for rear-ending someone who let their brake-lights burn out without replacement.
Agree with you. Just mean I'd like UI to wrap what is there.
I recently connected with a close friend that I hadn't seen since high school (20 years ago). We talked about common friends, etc. and it was as if the intervening 20 years had never happened. There were seeds of trust and companionship that had survived the 20-year drought.

My hunch is (and excuse me for suggesting this, since I don't know you at all) that if you ever got in touch with any of those 8 again and spent some time with him, you'd be able to reconnect very quickly.
If that's SO's goal then I would say they've left a big hole in their strategy for a competitor.

That goal sounds good in principle. In practice, very specific programming questions often (if not usually) have multiple correct answers, with the best choice for a particular scenario being made by evaluating pros/cons just like the question I referred to. Some languages embrace multiple ways of doing things. For example, Perl's motto is "there's more than one way to do it".
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This is brilliant. Excellent website and 404/500 pages. I wish you no hits on them except for the showing, of course!
They don't. The caloric expenditure required to survive in a desert like that is only available to humanity.
Yes it is. That's the simple answer to your question. The SO community has had a different "feel" lately, and I don't like it and I think the mods are something to do with it. That's a subjective statement of course. You might love it. YMMV.
Sometimes there is an internal candidate that will get the job, yet it still has to be posted for some arcane rule/law... Or so I hear.
Job-seekers are always advised not to be negative about past employers. In other situations it is considered prudent to avoid this kind of talk, and I think it is strongly against norms of American business.

I am sure that most of the best classical artists had to watch their tongues around patrons.

So I'm interested to know: how is it really different with VCs?
It's only pure logic if you think that more trees = healthy forests. The real equation is much more complicated and includes biodiversity and other factors.
Having passion for your craft does not have to be an exclusive thing. Can you image other artists bemoaning Leonardo da Vinci's "lack of passion" because he worked on engineering projects as well?
> It's also a system that rewards people who take a shotgun approach to applications, rather than individually crafted responses.

One of the main purposes of these systems is to deal with the massive amount of shotgun applications that companies are receiving. Of course, this means that more targeted applications do not receive the consideration they deserve, thereby incentivising job seekers to use a shotgun approach.

Sounds like a vicious cycle to me.
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Best practices for what? I think it would help a lot to define the scope of what you are trying to optimize. Otherwise you have an impossible question like "how do I be the best?"
Not trying to offend, but from the answers I see, a number of them are just not right for SO. They're either very opinionated, or not answering the question itself. The first couple of questions from new users go to the moderators' queue automatically, so they will get more attention than stuff from others... then again, that's done exactly so that new users get the feel for what's acceptable and what isn't.

If you want to try again, stick around for some time. Add justifications / context to your answers. Some of your answers were of good quality and got appreciated. I wouldn't stop because some posts got closed. It is a community site after all and the big idea is that others can rewrite most of your post and if it gets improved that way, it's better if it stays around forever.
If you'd read the original article you'd know.
Do we really need to scan the brain? One of the greatest tech companies out there, Google, makes almost all it's money figuring out the right ads to put in front of people. They pay their employees the most for working in that area too. Eventually these ad companies like Google will be able to model people based on their life data. :) Of course it will be to figure out which ads to show them and make more money, not to run the model and give it life. But maybe they'll let the model act as your concierge for a fee.
The issue with this, and I've moved around like a gypsy, is that while traveling, your new friends are either traveling too or you are meeting them where they live. I've made great friends in my travels and through moving a lot but they are only great when they are with me. After they move or I move it becomes "that time in our lives". There are so many variables for friendship that it really is amazing when things fall into place with any one person.
I don't understand why we don't require investment bankers to be licensed, the same way we require lawyers to be licensed, and require as a condition of obtaining and maintaining that license that they take a course in ethics, and they operate ethically in regard to their clients.

If a big law firm did the kind of questionable things toward a client that Goldman Sachs did with Dragon, there would be people up for disbarment.
>It means the course wasn't about programming. Maybe it was misnamed or maybe you approximate its real title.

Oops, my mistake. I took you for a serious poster, not a troll.

The class I took at MIT (SICP) and the textbook that was used are world-famous, and it was certainly a programming class.

As to having "never written any widely used software": Among other things, I wrote the software that was used to configure a NASA space telescope (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer), from which about 1,000 peer-reviewed astronomy papers were published. I've worked on brain surgery software (3D Slicer) and now I work on software used for doing RNA Interference-based cancer research.

But I guess you've made your point: All that is just "Computer Science" noodling, not real programming. So, sure don't listen to what I say.
Thanks for the sources - will sit down and read them later.

The row, column analogy is pretty apt - it's an interesting way of looking at things.

While it is true that adding a new behaviour in OOP is a pain in the ass, I definitely find myself adding new datatypes far more frequently than adding new behaviours for an interface.

Isn't adding a lot of new behaviours to data typically a sign than the interface is bloated and is now dealing with too many things?
`octo` is better, shorter and catchier than `octogit` IMO. And a lot of people unfortunately don't know about aliases.
Often my favorite questions get killed, like the best ways to make money on Android. I'm very interested in which ads to run, in-app payments, etc.. The mod wanted it moved to some bullshit spin off site with no traffic. ;/ The sort of cut and dry questions they do allow on the site are often just the sort of thing you can find in the documentation anyway. Not very useful. Not to mention that stupid score system encouraging people to post bullshit crappy answers even when they aren't sure.
I read that as the "shared struggle and purpose" being the softball team..
This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read. The amount of energy and engineering involved would be ridiculous. If you want mountains then move to a place where there are mountains. I moved to colorado from florida for just that reason. You need to learn to adapt to the world instead of expecting the world to adapt to your expectations.
Yes, the class was SICP. I can't say enough good things about how it influenced my still-forming mind. I went to MIT because I wanted to study black holes and neutron stars, and after this class, I learned that there was something even cooler than that!