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I had a similar experience in school - though no yelling. I often achieved A4s; A for academic grade, 4 for effort (1 being putting in all you've got, 4 being the opposite end of the scale). I took pride in this saying it showed I could deliver effortlessly.
In some subjects which weren't in my skillsets (e.g. French & English) where I was getting Bs my parents said they wouldn't mind if they didn't think I could do better, but I was bright enough to get As were I to put in the effort; I decided that if I were less bright I wouldn't be expected to put in the effort, so aimed at making myself thicker (I still don't know how I'd hoped to achieve that, I just left it to lazyness and hoped that was enough). I also argued when it came to revising for exams, saying that revising was cheating as it doesn't show what you've learnt / retained, so anything you crammed in leading up to the exam was just temporary knowledge which you'd lose the moment the exam was over, so would give you false exam results grading you on a momentary peak rather than a general state for that phase of your life.

I blame myself for this, but feel education could be delivered differently to cater for people like us. I had a great education, attending the same school as Terry Pratchett and Heston Blumenthal had, with a lot of teachers who knew their subjects well and cared about their pupils' development, beyond just league table ratings. However, the reason I got A4s is because I never failed - I kept getting what I needed to without putting in effort; I needed a challenge to force me to push myself. In those days this may not have been possible; the internet was still in its infancy so you only competed with those in your year group. Streaming helps here, but with the numbers involved the top set may be the top 30 / 120 or so, so still a very mixed bag.

There are now a number of projects to provide education on-line. As this grows and the school/education models adapt to take advantage of this, I suspect we'll see competition between larger groups of people, encouraging those of a certain attitude to push themselves further to meet their full potential. That said, for those towards the bottom will this force them to up their game, or leave them feeling failures with no motivation? Hopefully the systems will evolve to aid those at both ends by selecting appropriate methods for the various personalities involved, allowing everyone to meet their potential.
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Out of interest, how old are you?

I remember writing programs that wouldn't have fitted in memory if we'd used things like "STORE_ADDRESS" instead of "STA". The assembler would have had to have been more complex in order to process instructions that were of variable length, instead of the opcodes being a predictable 3 letters.

I've written assembler by hand - sheets and sheets of it - because there wasn't a decent editor on the machine I was writing for. These were the days when you were writing code for the machine, and not for the people who would maintain it afterwards. The structure of the code had to be clear, and the comments were as much for yourself as anyone else, but the opcode names were a complete non-consideration. If you didn't know them, you couldn't program anyway.
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"So while it may deter some people, it likely wouldn't be many."

Also, deterring people who are against gay marriage might be a good thing.
ps. for anyone interested there's some useful info on streaming in education here: http://www.teachingexpertise.com/articles/grouping-pupils-ab...

One option not mentioned there is getting the top pupils to assist in teaching the others; thus providing mutual benefit (since you learn where the gaps in your knowledge are when teaching, leading to you getting a much better understanding by plugging those gaps)
> "I am sorry but I must say that I am both saddened and sickened by that sort of response."

And likewise, I am saddened and sickened by yours. The fact that a tradition has existed since time immemorial does not in and of itself make it worthy of preservation, and it does not give it free reign to terrorize and persecute anyone it touches.

The weak deserve protection and freedom. No one should be forced to participate in a cultural rite against their will. If you believe that societies ought to have the legal right to force people to participate in its rituals and traditions against their will, then yes, I am indeed sickened.

If, given the legal framework to choose freely, people still choose to participate in whatever, then that's fine - it wouldn't matter one iota whether or not what I, or anyone else, thinks of the tradition.

Next up: we shouldn't be trying to get rid of malaria, because it evolved naturally, has existed since the dawn of mankind, and it just wouldn't be right to mess with that.
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Just change the name, it's not a big deal.

The nerve of some people? Writing an open letter because they want to piggyback on somebody else's good name, and claim it is in the name of universal design principles (not money?).
I wrote about this in a recent blog post: "App Stores are the new record labels"

As much of software is about disintermediation, of making the world run more smoothly through removal of middlemen, it is interesting that we software developers are now driving ourselves to a world full of middlemen. A world where we suddenly have to ask for a permission to do something new.

In a world where everything must go through the rules and regulations of an app store without any oversight we, the developers, will suddenly be in the same abused stage as artists are with their labels. We take all the risk and all the effort on building software for our users. The middleman then can invalidate all our hard work by arbitrarily making it impossible for their ecosystem to run the app. And even if they do accept the software, they'll take a hefty cut of the proceeds.

How can this make sense to an independent developer?

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You can explain the difference without attacking the person you're replying to.
would constantly run into issues us developers could have helped them with had they used Apache

I'm not sure that says what you think it does about Ngnix and the developers you deal with...
This downside is in a way build into every nuclear energy administration. Nuclear engineers simply have only the options to work for (at best a few) power companies or for the regulator. Because of this few different employers you will almost always have a tight knit network between power companies and regulators.
In the article there are some references to medieval locks.

I was impressed to see early roman (Pompeian and Herculaneum) era locks. If anyone is interested this query served me https://www.google.com/search?q=ancient+%22roman+OR+pompeian...
I'm afraid your situation reflects quite well the reality. I'm working from France with a Canadian to create a Canadian startup. My co-funder is clearly bright and talented, but he could not really find an experienced and motivated developer in the Toronto area. So he went "international".
Oh, separate but equal?

No.
Your point?

The dam wasn't engineered well enough, definitely not up to western standards.

Chernobyl is a similar situation. Anyone can build a dangerous power plant using whatever resource they want.

Safety is something you invest in. The question then becomes how expensive is safe nuclear power vs. safe hydroelectric? The biggest problem with nuclear is that "safe" nuclear power is very expensive compared to the alternatives, but if they can get costs down without sacrificing safety (or the alternatives increase in price), its a good option for us.
"selling themselves into slavery in order to avoid starvation."

I don't think that counts as "voluntarily becoming a slave". Obviously it is complicated (I like to call modern workers "wage slaves" occasionally - obviously they tend to work because they must eat, too). But for example where I live the law puts some limits to exploitation, a basic fairness built into contracts. It would be illegal to make somebody a lifelong slave in exchange for an apple, just because they were starving at some point and needed the apple or die.

"A sense of humility, that our culture doesn't necessarily have more answers than theirs, and that we don't really understand what we are messing with."

But where do you draw the line? I think at some point you need to stand up for your values. If you are wrong and the others are right, but you are stronger, it is of course bad luck. But how do you prevent that? I guess one of the cornerstones of western societies is protecting children.

Maybe as a compromise that tribe could raise the age the kids need to have before they consent to the initiation rite...

Again the question, what about the pedophile sect?

Or another example: what about female circumcision? Should we accept it, because it is ingrained in some cultures?
I don't accept any of that btw, though there are certain exceptions. Certainly if you were right on the face of what you wrote, polygamous marriages conducted overseas would be valid in the US, which they aren't.

I don't think that marriage is the same in India as it is in Japan or the US. I don't think marriage is the same in Morocco as it is in Spain. I don't want to meddle in these.

The exception though has to do with some forms of recognition in the US as people move about the country.

If a same-sex couple is married in Massachusetts and they later move to Arkansas, I think it's fairly clear on the basis of what scant legal authority we have, that the Arkansas legal tradition determines whether they are still married. Andrew Koppelman suggests (and makes a good case for the idea that) the general trend is towards more recognition.

However, if the family is merely visiting Arkansas and not moving there, then I think the analysis is very different and we have over a hundred and fifty years of jurisprudence which says that marriages don't wink in or out of existence when people travel around the country, and that rather the venue which controls is the venue of residency. Even pre-Loving v. Virginia I am not aware of a single case where miscegenation laws were applied against a mixed race couple who were merely travelling through a state or present to conduct business. The two cases I know of which involved relocating into states which banned miscegenation went different directions at the state supreme court level, and ex parte Kinney (same facts as Loving but about a hundred years earlier) included dicta that while Virginia could criminalize marriages of residents, they could not do so to out of state residents who were merely visiting.

To hold that a marriage of a gay couple in Massachusetts would not need to be recognized in Utah while they are visiting Arches National Park doesn't work with our system of government. Similarly I would be entirely be supportive of a treaty that said that tourists' marriages would be recognized wherever they go. If you are a gay couple married in Massachusetts I think you have a reasonable expectation that Singapore will honor your marriage. I don't think you have a reasonable expectation that Singapore will alter their laws to let their residents follow in your footsteps.
a possible-majority among the American population (with the mainstream orthodoxy of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all teaching the same; and ~80+% of the U.S. self identifying as holding one of these faiths).

Please don't confuse calling oneself Christian (or anything else) to advocating their Church's beliefs. Where I live, the people who describe themselves as Catholics (which is obviously much more specific than Christian) are 95% for using contraception, and more than 50% are pro-choice in both pregnancy interruption and euthanasia.
Yes i agree, that's disgusting.
Deaths per journey is a silly statistic. People don't fly to the neighborhood supermarket to buy their groceries. All the inconsequential car trips at mostly sub-lethal speeds would significantly deflate an automotive death-per-journey statistic.
But who is the weak?

Put another way, do the Hopi need protection from the White folks more than the Hopi children need protection from their parents?
They are efficient with respect to imperfect information and an imperfect actor (humans with emotions), which means they will be even more volatile as new information is uncovered or new emotions arise.
I naturally prefer small firms because of the whole cog in the machine problem of big corps. But the article brings up an interesting point to me, bigger sometimes is better. I like to think that most mega-corps in the U.S. routinely abuse their monopoly position and stifle competition, and they certainly do to an extent.

On the other hand though, the scenario where small firms are the norm doesn't seem that great either. Let's say you create a new pharmacy thats like 10x better than any other pharmacy and given the option everyone would go to you. If you don't grow big(either by choice, or regulation) and put CVS out of business. Then your stifling progress in a sense and everyone is worse off for it.

Heh, I never thought I'd argue in defense of big business.
I think the point the previous chap was making was that you've got no way of knowing if you 'usually' spot hybrid apps as you don't know about the ones you don't spot.
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I didn't really pick up the causation behind this. The article fails to explain any function of small companies to the economy at large.

I'd guess it goes other way round. If economy is unstable/unfair, only the small survive. Big companies have to spend so much to HR that they are in considerable disadvantage.
I'm not racist, but I don't think blacks should be able to marry. I just think they engage in behavior that's immoral, just like others of my friends who sleep with each other outside of marriage, etc. I have friends who are black. I'm not racist! I'd equally condemn anyone who insults, harasses, or otherwise harms someone just because that someone is black.
A friend once took a 30 minute car ride with two successful people, both multimillionaires, back when that meant something. He asked them how much money they would need to feel financially secure. By the end of the trip they had bid each other up so far that they agreed that it would take a large multiple of their current net worths, just to feel truly safe and independent enough to retire.
Analyst estimates were bullish, Samsung's later estimates were less than that. Since its not in Samsung's interest to be less bullish than necessary, investors took that as new reliable information and reacted to it by adjusting their target price for the stock downwards. Nothing weird about it.

If Samsung was the only source of information, then you would be correctly. But they aren't, and even if they were, investors would make "bets" that were either more optimistic or pessimistic than what later information supported.
So you'd be fine with https?
More in that vein: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2010/12/dr-mellanbys-t...
His indent level is set enough that it's likely not an issue.

(Yes, the "what if you add another statement line later?!" trope has been registered.)
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Awesome - thanks for the link :)
I'd leave the DOM API out of it, that's not really the languages fault.
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I will be first in line to eat any fish with evidence of radioactivity from Fukushima that still meets legal limits on radioactivity in food.
Oh wow, this is why I keep coming back to HN again and again. Thank you for teaching me something amazing!
>I don't think that counts as "voluntarily becoming a slave". Obviously it is complicated (I like to call modern workers "wage slaves" occasionally - obviously they tend to work because they must eat, too). But for example where I live the law puts some limits to exploitation, a basic fairness built into contracts. It would be illegal to make somebody a lifelong slave in exchange for an apple, just because they were starving at some point and need the apple or die.

I think that misunderstands the nature of endogenous slavery at least in the Roman and Scandinavian models. People aren't selling themselves into slavery for an apple. They are selling themselves into slavery for long-term subsistence and possibly an opportunity to prove themselves worthy of being freed (and thus adopted into a more powerful family). It's not really that bad of a deal really, compared with little legal protection, no income, and food insecurity.

Additionally political power comes with both buying slaves and freeing them, so being an attractive "business partner" in this regard isn't so bad a thing.

But where do you draw the line? I think at some point you need to stand up for your values. If you are wrong and the others are right, but you are stronger, it is of course bad luck. But how do you prevent that? I guess one of the cornerstones of western societies is protecting children.

Two places.

I think that direct action is appropriate only when directed at one's own culture. I don't think I have a right to insist that Indonesia recognize Jewish weddings. I do think I have a right and an obligation to insist that US corporations in Indonesia act in accordance with my ethics, to the best of my ability.

On general advocacy though, I draw the line at specificity:

It's ok to critique a specific culture and practice, looking at specific harms and trying to bring awareness as to social costs and injustice.

It's not ok to simply say "you must do things the way my American group thinks would be pretty cool if it happened in America but we haven't got there yet."
If you can make a good pharmacy that is 10x better than any other in town, you probably can grow to other towns. But what makes you 10x better? Some good procedure that is copyable, or your personal management skills? It it's procedure, the competitors can copy it also, so this growing point is kind of invalid. If it's your personal management skills, this growing point is again invalid.

In good competition there should be a threat of someone growing big because they make things better. So pharmacies would copy all good procedures from each other. But that growth should never actually happen.
The Swedish National Institute of Public Health did a large survey about sex in the late 90's and sexual orientation was one of the many issues. According to that survey:

~1% identified themselves as homosexual

~4% identified themselves as bisexual in varying degrees

~5% could be labeled as bi-curious (tried it/want to try it)

A further ~5% of men and ~15% of women had "fantasized about having sex with someone of the same sex at least once".

So by being extremely generous with definitions, you could claim that ~80% of the population is completely straight, and that ~20% is therefore "LGBT". But that's stretching it way too far. A reasonable interpretation is that ~1% is gay, and ~5% is LGBT.
All-out destruction comes across as a negative connotation.
Very interesting.. I've often though about doing this from South Africa. How did you get into doing work remotely?
The problem is that trans-historically and cross-culturally the percentage of people who engage in significant same-sex relationships varies quite a bit. These range from approximately a hundred percent to a very tiny minority. We are on the lower-end of the spectrum, believe it or not.

All these studies show is that there may be biological reasons that aggressively acculturating kids into heterosexuality might not reach everyone. They don't suggest that heterosexuality and homosexuality are necessarily in-born. Indeed when you think about all the cognitive stuff that has to happen before we find someone attractive, they almost certainly cannot.
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One of the arguments/justifications for the PSR standards is to encourage interop of libraries (to be able to mix/match from various frameworks and projects).

Standardizing formatting for a team/project is not a bad thing, certainly, but if there's competing styles on a team, but they're making good progress - hitting deadlines, high test coverage, good/deep engagement with stakeholders, etc., code formatting is just not something I'd bother enforcing. It may be a later step to go back during a project post-mortem and get the code ready for 'deep freeze', assuming the project is 'done', but how often does that happen?

My perspective is probably a bit different than some here - I freelance, and work in multiple languages for different clients, often concurrently. In a 6 month period I had 2 PHP projects, 2 Grails projects and a Rails project, each running for several months and overlapping. I worked with a different group of people on each project, each with varying skill levels and backgrounds. I adopted my style/technique as best I could for each project, and didn't harp on formatting with anyone, because... it just really doesn't matter. What does bug the heck out of me is someone rechecking out my code, spending time reformatting it, then checking it back in, and counting that as 'work', when there's many many many other issues needing to be worked on.
Death estimates from the Fukushima Daiichi disaster tally up to about 120. Five workers, 15 people that died in the evacuation, and a hundred future radiation deaths (of which there have so far been none).

Chernobyl is still the worst nuclear disaster.
Fellow failure here. Anyone want to kick off a #failaholics hashtag on twitter?
Yes, but then you can compare Greece and Portugal, both joined the Euro in about 2000, both have now a financial crisis and both have rather small businesses. But Greece did quite a bit better between 2002 - 2007 than Portugal, suggesting that size of business is not a very good indicator for overall economic health.
Yes, but calling each individual set of a few thousands of neurons freakingly efficient? Together, they manage to survive, but together, tey have many more neurons.
I do think this is key. My Dad drinks no sugary drinks of any kind, including not just soda but fruit juice, etc. And I've basically stuck to that. Not big on sweets either. That stuff is killing us, seriously.
Any reason for the personal attack (based on unfounded assumptions)?...
At the risk of whining...

I'm now three years out of college, still trying to get a tech job (during the middle year, I was otherwise employed and not trying). My degree is a double major in CS / math; I obviously can't provide an objective evaluation of "decent software development skills", but I worked at CreateSpace for six months during college with no complaints in that regard, and I got that position by winning the contests they'd hold at my school. It's getting to the point where I wonder if I should go back to college so I can be eligible for internships...

Certainly, I'll take a portion of blame here for being totally incompetent at seeking and landing jobs. But I'm so, so sick of the memes that "tech hiring is super hot right now / it's a seller's market in tech labor / look how easy it is to get work".

Is it, in your opinion, possible to have decent software development skills without years of experience under your belt? Do you meet many such people?