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I also know from having worked at Harvard that most Harvard students these days graduate with little or no debt due to a generous financial aid system there.

I wish it had been like that when I went to MIT. (MIT did have plenty of financial aid, but not to the no-debt level.)
Perhaps I'm confused, but shouldn't the distance between your elbows and eyes be roughly the same regardless of whether your sitting or standing? If not, then what's the best non-(cheap/easy/portable) solution that addresses the issue?
There is Print to Html plugin, works pretty good:

https://github.com/joelpt/sublimetext-print-to-html
What's wrong with it? Unlike user agent sniffing, it works properly.
I'm not arguing for or against Wikileaks as illegal, I'm just wondering if, from a purely legal standpoint, Visa has a right to refuse service to a business based on their terms of service?
I want to thank everyone for their ongoing support. I was surprised, pleased and humbled to find my post on Hacker News. I love the Open Source community, and am proud to be part of it.
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I have been thinking about this as well. I often wonder that it is not only my friends that I got pickier, as the article suggests, but I also changed, became more withdrawn, more introverted, and thus maybe less fun to be around.

Then of course there is the problem of time. That coupled with priorities, make it very hard to balance friends with family with career. After having children, I just want to spend more time with them than making friends, even though I might say that "yes, having more and better friends would be nice" my daily actions and attitudes probably don't reflect that.

I have also realized that being friends with co-workers doesn't work. They switch jobs or there is often competition for the same bonus pool, same cool projects and this turns things sour
Whether or not Ivy League or other top schools charge too much is basically irrelevant; the real hard part is getting accepted in the first place. These schools get so many applications in a year, and many of the applicants are so thinly differentiated, that acceptance is virtually indistinguishable from a lottery.

Saying graduates of these schools are the best of the best misses the mark a bit. A more accurate description would be they had access to generally superior education. This is an important distinction.
Part of the problem is that communities keep lowering the speed limits below recommendations and even the guidelines of law. My father, who has a background in urban planning, is fond of, or frustrated enough to point this out.

A street that, per our state's code and regulation, should be 45 mph, gets dropped to 40, then to 35. Nothing significant has changed with its facing development and use. But the community, or of some excess of caution or some orthogonal desire for control, keeps ratcheting it down.

In other spots, they start putting up stop signs at every block. They aren't really warranted, but in a variety of "think of the children" attitude, perhaps combined with a twist on NIMBY (Not In My Back-Yard) attitude, the through-street needs to "be somewhere else". Until there no longer is a through-street.

So fine, have these cars obey the speed limits. But then set reasonable limits, ones that are evidence-based and not politicized.
If had a bit more expendable income:

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Lol, okay.

"Strange that a technically capable engineering student would be at UGA when GeorgiaTech is of similar cost (and both free to Georgia residents who maintain a 3.0 though the HOPE scholarship)."

UGA has a combined bachelors & masters program that I wanted to do, and I knew the security professor and adviser going in who have both been very supportive to me, while Tech's staff were absolutely horrendous.

"Even more so when his examples of work turn up 404's, 403's, placeholders"

I put the cart before the horse, so to speak. I made the links and banners & such as I was working on the projects, and then my circumstances changed and I had to find a job. I mentioned this in the post. Would you like me to send you some of my completed work?

"ads for premium versions of the wordpress theme he used"

Where were those? I'd love to go kill those links.
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Well the article is in English as is this entire site, so that would be a fairly obtuse argument to make.
You'll love this WebGL maze game my friend made, then: http://nyhacker.org/~sirtophat/maze/
> You know what I'd love Elon Musk to tackle next? The education system in the US.

That was raised in the questions. Mr Musk basically said that Sebastian Thrun and Sal Khan are doing the right thing for education already.
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Great post. You need a place on your blog to subscribe via e-mail. (I use RSS only for the not-so-useful blogs).
There can be problems with this approach, specifically, "The best way I know how" may not be the best way for the client. There are pros and cons with nearly every potential solution and it can be beneficial to discuss the pros and cons of more than one solution with the client before proceeding. It's arrogant to assume the best way you know how is the best way for the client.

For example, if you only know Ruby and the client is a PHP shop and you implement a solution for them in Ruby anyway, that could cause more problems than it is worth in the long run.
A simpler graphic:

One in three smartphones is an iPhone.
Yeah, that's convenient. The alternative is to go in there and copy the package yourself. Enjoy. Of course, other people have better things to do.
I wonder how many food service workers get canned for not smiling enough at the important people.
I hadn't noticed this before, but you can create a new file by (double?) clicking anywhere in the empty area in the tab bar.
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"Van Ness didn’t say anything, but she gave the student a look of disapproval. The student later complained, and it cost Van Ness her job"

Perhaps the employee needs to stop taking yoga classes as their disposition isn't compatible.
If someone is supposed to be the target of your attention (be it in class, at dinner or during your every day life) societal expectations should be that you give them your attention. 20 years ago you wouldn't turn on the television in the middle of a conversation, you wouldn't turn on the radio either.

I can sort of understand if it's a child in high school, after all they're in class because they're required to be, however in a class that has been chosen (by an adult) it's not acceptable. The student should have excused herself from the class if it was so important her attention was elsewhere.
Ah, that looks very interesting. The ones currently closest to me seem about an hour's drive away in LA, but I'll keep an eye on it.

And yeah, that's the thing I've run into with Meetups. Great place to find a particular activity, harder to find people looking to meet people beyond just the activity.
Last I checked, there's no conclusive evidence showing a standing desk has any health benefits over sitting. Treadmill desks, on the other hand...
I'm 21 and having just moved across the country for a job this isn't resonating with my life so much, since I already had a lot of friends where I am. But looking back, it's pretty clear that 90% of my parents' good friends came from two categories: people they'd known since college, and parents of me or my sisters' friends.

I think the expected reaction to this is to be afraid of it, especially given I don't make friends very easily my best friends today are all people I've known since elementary school, and already I'm only in contact with a handful of people from college. But somehow I find it reassuring, my takeaway is that if I work at it I can stay good friends with all of these people, and maybe that'll be enough. Plus someday I'll have kids and hopefully their friends will have nice parents, I know my parents are as good friends with my friends' parents as I am with them (wow that's a badly written sentence!).
I have every intention of doing just that, when it comes to both improving myself and those positive indicators. Perhaps my frustration stems from that work seeming worthless when compared to an Ivy League degree.

Would you say I'm wrong that not all positive indicators are created equal?
He said pants, so he was clearly aiming at Americans. Where I live pants are underwear...
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> Just add another paragraph to that page explaining the scientific consensus that anally penetrating yourself with silver won't cure cancer.

So you have multiple articles on the subject of cancer treatment, all repeating the same information and all needing to be updated one by one? Because my point was what Wikipedia now calls a 'POV Fork', or a new article explicitly created to push a specific POV as opposed to being NPOV.

Also, you're hitting up against something that inclusionists also complain about: Their pet POV Forks, the articles they demand to be allowed to own, keep getting deleted because Wikipedia already has NPOV coverage of that topic! Shame and infamy! Shame! And! Infamy!

> You might even vote to move that entire section to a page of its own.

I think that's pretty much the definition of a POV Fork, unless I misunderstand you.

> Either response will take a lot less time and effort for everyone involved

Not if you want all the articles on a given subject to be intelligent, factual, and balanced. Then you have to turn each and every (attempted) POV Fork into an NPOV article that's a clone of the article it forked off from.
I don't know when you graduated, but a few of the very top schools with huge endowments (e.g., Harvard) have started expanding the range of their financial aid program to cover more middle-class families, like (it sounds) yours. This is a pretty new phenomena though, in the past ~5 years.
Well, I'm happy to be told I'm wrong and improve. What am I oblivious of that I need to understand?
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Here's how this looks like as a pie chart (Nielsen & Comscore data), by the way: http://www.asymco.com/2012/07/13/how-many-lumia/
I'm not sure about the health benefits, but it certainly helps your posture.
For those that like/need to print their code, there is a plugin that does that:
https://github.com/joelpt/sublimetext-print-to-html
Huh. Impressive how much of my personality comes across that way. You're right, on pretty much everything. I am insecure, though I've never understood the difference between rationalization and circumstance. When you're betting more or less your future on you being excellent in your given field, that can really do a number on your self confidence.

Nevertheless, I appreciate the critique. Besides the list of projects I'm working on and my job, any advice for how to improve?
Snappy is faster than gzip/zlib:

"For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy
is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the
resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100%
bigger."

https://code.google.com/p/snappy/
Looks like nature is running a shortest path algorithm. I'm guessing A*.
What advantage does that have over this? http://www.officemax.com/office-furniture/tables/folding-tab...
I would be interested to know how long that main column of lightning persists - and what determines that time.
Aren't there many uses of user agent strings outside of javascript/css usage?
E.g. rate limiting, visitor stats etc
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Looks like a very large, very high-voltage SYN/ACK.
Perhaps we're talking to different people then. It's something I regularly observe: Good programmers went to Ivy Leagues, Stanford, etc. The rest are just mediocre.
I find that with a good IDE I can regard every name as a temporary name till I feel I clearly know what the best name would be.

A bit like a sketcher could draw a few lines and see where that leads.
Without than minimum standard, the financial incentive would exist to race properties to the bottom

Counterexample: I moved from Houston, where almost every apartment has good air conditioning, but it's not required by law (http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/consumer&...). Market forces are sufficient to prevent landlords from offering units without AC, because nobody would pay for them.
Tell HN: I'm sick of reading about text editors.
HN's obsession with text editors lately has really got on my nerves. Be it TextMate, Vim, Sublime Text2, Emacs, whatever, I'm sick of people talking about text editors and how they have or haven't changed their lives. There are good reasons to pick any of the above editors, so please pick one, use it, and shut up about it already.

Text editing is one of the most basic and common things that technology professionals do, and to spend so much time anguishing over the decision of what tool to use is a kind of bikeshedding that to me feels beneath HN.
Thanks for the update!

I suggest you add a note to the text hinting that you are not using original tests anymore. It would be even cooler if you publish both results of original (polymorphic) and your (non-polymorphic) runs.

I find results for "random read" particularly interesting. I need to take a look at the generated code. It might be that there is something in the way V8 compiles integer modulo operation that makes it slower than SpiderMonkey.

[though for this test to be comparable across browsers you should really fix function init_randlist not to use Math.random but use a pseudo-random generator with a _fixed_ seed. Uncontrolled sources of randomness should be discouraged in microbenchmarks and they lead to flaky unreproducible benchmarks. Though I don't think that it's the reason here].
I hadn't really ever given this much thought, but now if I categorize the overwhelming majority of my friends, they fall into the following buckets:

High-School Friends (who I still stay in touch with, although only peripherally, as I don't still live where I grew up)

College Friends (which includes a subset of High School friends, who I do a better job of staying in touch with, but who also mostly live back where I went to school)

Work Friends (the overwhelming majority of my friends are people I've worked with at one time or another. Reservations about mixing work with pleasure aside, people in my line of work tend to have a lot in common)

Photography School Friends (I suppose similar to college, but they are more recent, and local. This group is unusual in that the entire class ended up becoming really really close)

For whatever reason, I've never had trouble meeting people. What has proven to be a lot of work is actually committing to spending time with people (as my natural state is to never want to leave the house under any circumstances).

I've found online presence exacerbates that, as it's easy for me to convince myself that I'm being social merely by responding to people's Facebook posts (which doesn't really cut it).
In the particular case of Wikipedia, I think they check User-Agent to prevent people from unthinkingly wasting gigabytes of bandwidth scraping Wikipedia via tools like wget. In Wikipedia's case, better ways exist to download large quantities of their content in a more usable form.
I just wrote an email to the creator of Svbtle requesting this feature, thanks for the suggestion
The point is to find out which products John Maeda has worked on?
I'm right there with you, I agree completely. Not to get pedantic but when I read "who cares if it's professional or not" I kind of cringed. I mean, professionalism is important no matter what. And I think professionalism is the wrong word to describe this. I think what we're talking about here is more a matter of doing things "the right way" which isn't always the same as professional. So I can definitely see the argument for wanting it done the right way but at the same time there's no reason to go on a crusade for everything to be done perfectly. Sometimes just being done reasonably and working is enough. In this case just working certainly is enough. It's reasonable to give this one a pass on "professionalism".
I understand the yield idea. You're 100% right, and I believe I acknowledged it somewhere in there. Since you're a former hiring manager, any advice on how to get around that impediment, beyond just submitting a resume and waiting?
Yes you do exaggerate the business and financial knowledge of tech VC types.

During the late 90s boom, EVERYONE was snared in. KP, Sequoia, pretty much all the VCs lost a ton of money. Doubtful that their so-called expertise would have saved the Bakers.

Re-reading the article again, it seems like the Bakers did in fact have their suspicions. The mystery memo should have been a huge warning sign. The fact that Goldman sent bankers in diapers should have been an even bigger sign. There was one comment from the founder of Dragon: "If L&H was able to make so much money out of a lousy product they'd be able to make more out of ours.." which was a little painful to read.
"Tech's staff were absolutely horrendous"

Good ol' Tech... IMO it's a terribly outdated approach, but there's a ton of "I got through it, so everyone else should have to deal with it too" momentum there.

I went there as an out-of-state student and wouldn't recommend it for other out-of-staters. There are quite a few other good public engineering schools.
I think text-editing is yet to be disrupted. Having so much discussion about it on HN shows that there's some sort of frustration. I'm a ten years emacs user and recently converted vim addict and I'm coding my own web-based text-editing solution based on Ace because I think text-editing is maybe not broken but way below what it could be. So as far as I'm concerned I believe these discussions are very important!
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I agree, viewing the data in a table made it a lot clearer to me, thanks.

For instance, I never knew Palm Inc. made Windows Mobile devices. I had to DuckDuckGo it, I've never even seen anyone use one. And apparently Palm stopped building them in 2009 [1].

Also, it's shocking (to me) that Windows Mobile still has double the installed base as Windows Phone does — it's not like Windows Mobile was a great smartphone platform, given its Pocket Internet Explorer was comparable to IE5-6.

The 9% installed base for Blackberry doesn't surprise me, and I imagine that long after RIM doesn't make phones anymore, there will be users who are still tied to its services. I foresee it going the way of IBM.

[1] http://www.wpcentral.com/palm-finished-windows-mobile
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Attitude itself though is something that is molded by life experiences. It's very easy to say "Just adopt a positive attitude!" but this is something that is difficult to really do when you perceive the penalty of failure to be high and the odds of success to be low.

As an example of this, in the UK they have tried to combat unemployment by sending people on courses where they try to re-enforce a "you can do anything you want if you try hard enough" philosophy. This seems disingenuous however since you have to think about the person giving the message and ask whether their life ambition was really trying to herd unemployed people.
It is more likely that it crawled those archives and found more on the IWE list than hop-discuss.
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Thanks for reminding me about that post. I was about to skip it because it no longer appears on hckrnews.com.

I had a bad experience with a disappearing post of mine.
Tell that to people who stand all day and end up having back problems.
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ok, that makes sense. I don't want to get off topic, but imo, this is a larger, society wide problem and it doesnt really matter whether the apt is 250 ft or 1000 ft. Dogs are under-excercised in the US, (which is probably why theres so many 'how to fix your dog' shows on tv). The way to keep dogs happy and normal is hours and hours of excercise and attention, which the vast majority of city-dwellers cant provide
The customers aren't clueless. They just have other cares.
A lot of problems between designer/client arise from miscommunication. It's not a problem that comes from this approach.

If the designer knows what she's doing, she just needs to know all the relevant factors.
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"Whoa. I would never want to be acquaintances with this person."

Thinking of specific numbers is very cynical indeed, but I agree with the point made though.

For example, there's a former colleague I've had a few lunches with, every 3-6 months or so, since the startup we were working at folded. We clicked well when working together and we enjoyed talking about ideas. However, during the past few lunches, I've been more and more annoyed at the fact that he's been mostly interested in talking about his own stuff, not caring at all about mine. (granted, I've wondered if I could be just like him, since I want to talk about my stuff… :)) Overtime, I realized that I won't be seeking lunches with him anymore.

So unconsciously, every bad interaction kind of knocked some points off.

Friendship is really like any kind of relationship: you're expected to give and to receive. If it goes only one way, it will eventually stop going any way at all.
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> The source of the submitted article, rt.com, is not known for careful journalism.

Understatement of the year.
No one can ever be aware of all the relevant factors.
I have added an update note to the post. Also, I have added a table comparison between polymorphic & non-polymorphic runs.

I will fix the code to use pseudo-random function to make the test results more meaningful.Also, I will try to send a pull request to the original test author.
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Ok.. Let's see if this one gets a front page ban as well.. I'm curious now.