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Despite what many people think, this has nothing to do with religious beliefs or institutions or said institutions conducting a wedding.

It is entirely about the legal construct of marriage. By your own words this is the governments place as people are using their religious and moral beliefs to restrict others civil rights.
It seems to me that most of the unpleasantness in Khan Academy criticisms stem from the fact that, most of these comment concern other peoples' comments on Khan Academy. Revolutionary/Messiah v/s borg/wrath-of-khan/emperor-without-clothes and so on.

This is sad because the actual message, which is valid in some instances and informative in all instances, gets lost in the noise. This is more so, given that people at Khan Academy are responding positively to specific concerns on specific topics.

And unlike for-profit companies, all his work, from the most boring video to the best, are available to be criticized. We only see a few clippings from, most likely, the very best videos from for-profit companies.

I hope the real critics and the real skeptics, i.e., those who would like to make Khan Academy a success, will continue to bring their specific concerns to the table; and just not all the distracting noise.

(Now, it is strange that the authors while pointing out the exaggerated praise for Khan Academy, fail to point out the abuse that Khan had to endure. Even stranger is that some commentators dismiss the abuse as "satire".)
My only response is this: http://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/tricord...

Sorry. -- But we've been told to "learn teaching." Where else except in the wild? User testing opportunities abound since we are developing social apps.
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I have similar feelings to this guy. I've lived in the bay area my entire life, although I'm only 25 so I was young during the dot com bubble.

My feelings are that Zuckerberg made it "cool" to start a company again. People had such a bad taste after the dot com bust and starting a company was viewed as very risky from around 2000 to 2005. Then Zuckerberg came in with this amazing success story and now everyone wants to start a company again.

Sometimes it bothers me that people throw around the word "startup" so casually now. There's kids that are "doing a startup" but the only thing they're building is a gmail plugin or "a better to-do list that will change the world". We don't need any more of this crap. It seems like some people just want the founder title so they can broadcast to their LinkedIn network and impress people.
So experience > college degree in the short term and experience = college in the long term?

Thats not a win at all, its a loss.
I personally don't know. From my experience as son and now as father, what I really think is important is to have two parents with different characters and way of thinking. Because a kid will never think like you and react like you, being two with different ways to see the world is helping wonderfully to better understand your kid and help him/her to grow and develop him/herself.

Can these differences be found within a same sex couple? Most likely, also not in the same way as woman/man. Is it better 2 loving fathers instead of living alone in an institution, definitely.

Non exceptional same sex couples with children is a fundamental change in the society, we need to accept that it will take time for this change to become accepted.
Funny thing about windows' lack of flexibility is amount of "WTF, I can't do that either?!" exclamations I had when I started working om mac. I still can't find a way to change default text background across the board on mac (from white to pleasing greenish color).
Well, ask and compel are different. I'm pretty sure you can ask them to do anything, up to and including barking like a seal. You can't compel them to do it under GPL though.
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Firefox 17 (Nightly as of now) web developper tools includes a Responsive Design View.

Chrome Web Tools too probably.

Nice bookmarklet nonetheless
ugh

the simple way to have a good API is to charge money for it. if you make money because the product has value for me, you'll make a good product for me.

in the case of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. the whole point of the API is to exploit you, not serve you. so they don't care if they piss you off.
That's the point. Relevant experience. Jobs are very specialised. If you have one mechanical engineering job, you might not have much knowledge to transfer to another type of mechanical job.

That's what a general education in the subject is for.
Interesting. I too have heard it so many times I had assumed it was fairly widespread across North America, but I guess that is not true. I'm from Canada, for what it is worth. Maybe it limited to Canadian culture? Though another reply to you seems to indicate that it is also true across the western US.
>"Trash" is also confusing, because things don't end up there consistently. If you cut things, they don't; if you delete them from the GUI they do. If you delete things from the command line, they don't.

I think they broke the metaphor there by even using the word "delete" at all. Make them choose between "Trash" or "Shred" and that might work.
Still waiting on the day that I can use Meteor without giving up on SEO...
yeah but anyone who is has nothing even close to this to look at. Essentially you have the source code and a few undocumented examples to figure out how to extend the language.
Apples and oranges -- I think framing is a big issue: "I ordered 30min in advance from my phone and will take food to go" vs "I would like to pay a premium to get ahead of others waiting in line". The latter obviously stings of people's differing time value of money (or I guess more appropriately, money value of their time).
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In 2010, the US government spent $900B on education. If Khan can reduce the number of teachers needed by even a few percent, that's a HUGE savings.

Fully agreed with the conclusion. Staff compensation (including SUBSTANTIAL nonsalary compensation) is a big part of the budget of any school. Making the work of teachers more efficient (in the economics sense of "efficient") helps free up money for other worthy purposes.

Another comment to your comment doubted the figure, I think because you wrote "US government spent" when you perhaps meant "all levels of government in the United States spent" so much money on education. Most spending on schools in the United States is from state taxes (as in my state) or from local taxes (as in some other states), as I'm sure you already know but which may be news to onlookers from other countries.

"The U.S. has more than 14,000 public school districts and spends more than $500 billion on public elementary and secondary education each year (combined spending of federal, state, and local governments)."

http://www.census.gov/did/www/schooldistricts/

"United States

(Billions of dollars. Detail may not add to total due to rounding)

Total Federal State Local

593.7 74.0 258.2 261.4"

http://www2.census.gov/govs/school/10f33pub.pdf
Saint Zuckerberg? I hate facebook. I dont even have an account, I never have.

But with that said, I think that you're naive when it comes to the motivations and actions of entities like the Fed and Goldman Sachs.

Do I think they are evil? Without question.

If you think they are not, I question your wisdom.
This talk gives a good intro to Meteor and after watching it, really doesn't seem like they the kind of guys to not embrace NPM if it could work as well for them as building out their own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAcN3JyQoyY
I agree, but that's mostly a recent phenomenon due to cuts in funding for state schools. Private schools have long been expensive (though not as expensive as today), but public schools used to be an affordable option if you wanted an education without the price-tag. However, their tuition has been going up roughly in accordance with state funding cuts. In the University of California system, for example, state funding in 1990 equalled $16,500 per student, inflation-adjusted; today it equals $8,500 per student. So, despite the fact that the system has been getting more efficient (about 25% lower spending-per-student in 2012 than 1990, inflation-adjusted), tuition is nonetheless much higher than it used to be. It seems mostly like the generation that got cheap college education has decided that they're not interested in funding the same for the next generation.

So my solution would be to reduce tuition at state universities back to its 1980s-era levels, and return to funding public universities primarily from public funds, so anyone can attend regardless of their family's financial background.
Good to see that Redis Sentinel has alternatives. I'm working on Sentinel to provide my best solution to Redis automatic failover and monitoring but If it will not work for some of you there is something else to try.
It's in the docs? Eh, nobody reads those anyway.
Sorry, they were successive statements. I wasn't actually trying to plead on the behalf of slow adults, but I probably wasn't being clear.
Australian here. I spent some years working in Oz, left in late 2001, lived overseas (most of a decade in China - now very expensive - plus a year each in the UK and US) and just moved back to see how things are going.

I earn good money, but Australia is just ridiculously, unapproachably expensive. The cheapest small house in a commutable area of Sydney for those working in the city costs around 800k AUD (that's 835k USD). The only other option is spending an hour commuting each way (two hours per day)... no thanks.

Other options - move to Europe, but the winters are too cold. Buy a house somewhere nice in Asia for well under 100k, fly in an out a few times per year, pay hotels and travel, and probably still save money for decades. Or - and this is the one I'm looking at taking - work online and join Mr. Dotcom over in New Zealand for some convenient skiing and hobbit-watching.
Sales and marketing. Engineering usually isn't the biggest problem with companies who work with SMBs, particularly in local.
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Can we have this self-discovery process without the giant 6-figure bill?

As someone who went to college myself, I agree that it was a tremendous time for personal growth - it was also expensive as all hell, and I'm lucky I chose a field where paying it off is a piece of cake.

In any case, I think there's a false dichotomy here: there's the apprenticeship/trades camp, and the pro-college camp, but really the truth lies somewhere in between. The economy is moving towards knowledge-based jobs, but for the most part people studying for these jobs have completely abdicated their responsibility to seek apprenticeship and mentorship (in the non-regulated sense of those words).

A programmer with a CS degree and no internships, no open source, no working under experienced talent, is (nearly) worthless. An English major aspiring to write for magazines who has never published anything nor worked with a professional editor is (probably even more) worthless.

The problem here is that so many in the pro-college crowd see a degree as an end-run around having to bust your balls and apprentice with skilled professionals when apprenticeships (or internships if you want to call them that), regardless of college/no-college, is absolutely necessary.
Are you sure you're not thinking of the Hadoop NameNode?
Kickstarting adoption among restaurants. Marketing to get adoption among users.
>> To put this in comparison, my nephew at 17, was a deckhand on a tugboat in a mining port making $120K+. Now that he has a license to captain a vessel up to 25 metres I believe he's rapidly approaching if not exceeding $200K.

I think the major problem is salary. Who the hell pays a captain $200K a year? Managers at high end companies don't even make that much, especially mine. Its not just that, celebrities, sports coaches, and the entertainment industry in general are over paid. Its only a lucrative business because most people don't care about being smart or learning things, they care about their next fix of football or basketball or any other stupid game or TV show that does absolutely nothing for society.

The pay structure isn't aligned with education and experience and that's what promotes high standards of living and a lot of the problems with jobs. People that aren't well educated and have limited experience (like in a trade), probably don't spend their money wisely. Not only that, the cost of training for a tradesmen vs. a college grad is next to nothing because a college grad, like a computer science grad, doesn't need to be taught how to program, design, or use software development tools because there is already a general foundation of understanding. As a tradesmen, there is hardly any foundation. For example, this girl has be taught how to read blueprints and run machines on the job where I don't have to be taught any of that (outside of internal company knowledge) because of my engineering education.
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo should do what Apple does when competitors copy designs..
We put out our iPhone SDK this week - documentation is up here: www.hipmob.com/documentation/ios.html . Documentation for the iPad is coming soon, as well as peer-to-peer support.
>All it states is that in this particular expirement,

That sounds like you didn't actually read the abstract. It wasn't a "particular experiment". It was forty-seven experiments.

>they don't think it causes lowered T levels.

... or SBHG levels, or FAI.

>This is a world away from saying that soy isoflavones don't have estrogen-like effects, nor interact or effect estrogen receptors, nor have a negative effect on the brain.

Well, no, it's not a world away from that, because one of the major effects of estrogen on men is to affect androgen levels, so if these isoflavones don't do that, then it is unlikely that they are affecting the body the same way that estrogen does. It doesn't rule out the possibility that soy isoflavones affect the human body, but it puts a huge hole in the entire basis for thinking that they might.
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It's not just a matter of the grid, it's also a matter of the rule that is carried out on that grid.

It looks like this is a 4+ state rule, meaning the rule space is massive. To brute force this you would need to not only brute force your way to that small configuration of cells, but you would need to do it for a huge number of different rules before settling on one (I can't say what percentage of this state space would support small gliders, but my intuition says it's relatively rare).

I think maybe you are looking at this from the perspective of studying the game of life, where the rule is already chosen.
1 Gigabyte per second or 1 Gigabyte per 8 seconds, I don't care. TAKE MY MONEY!
I worked right next to one of the pilot stores when Subway started order online about 12 years ago.

It worked pretty well. About 10% of the people used it and since everything was made & paid it took a few seconds to walk up and get your order.

The trick is getting the employees to encourage the behavior. The Subway workers would shout every few minutes things like "People that ordered online please come to the front" so that everyone else knew what was going on and people didn't feel to embarrassed for cutting in line.
>That assumes that the people opposing gay marriage would even consent to the notion of equal civil unions, something

That's a good point, like I said it's just a proposal and would need to gain public support.

> Should we make a law making it illegal to draw pictures of Mohammed, since that offends some people's religious sensibilities?

Nope, because that limits the speech of the drawer.

However if a large group of people objected to the government's use of the word crusade to refer to say some kind of program called "crusade against hunger", I wouldn't have a problem discussing changing it from "crusade against hunger" to "fight against hunger"

The key difference is no one's rights are being violated, the government is just changing a word.

If the government stopped referring to policemen as policemen and policewomen, but started using the term police officer that's fine with me. It doesn't affect what I do. It doesn't stop me from calling them policemen and policewomen.
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What is your evidence that chicken contains more estrogen-like compounds than soy?

That hormones given to chickens cause chicken breasts to "plump up"?
I consider myself pro-college, but I do feel you are wasting your time if your only concern is about post-graduation employment opportunities. For that, your time would be much better spend focusing on employment.

I find it disturbing how many have to resort to showing a correlation between income and education just to sell the institution. It seems like the value in education should be enough to make it worthwhile, even if you end up being a barista when it is all said and done.

I feel the subtle anti-college bias you speak to is just that. It is not the college itself that is the problem, just the attitude that you have to go to college to get a high paying job, which is demonstrated over and over again to not be true.
The brand and the price are not separate entities. The brand is the entity and the price is a property of the brand. If you change the price you modify the brand, but if you change the brand you completely change the price.
Many a times the main points in a Khan Academy criticism get totally eclipsed by such misconceptions.

The points made about the specific videos may be valid, but those points about specific videos and ideas, can be put across more effectively if the authors get these facts correct.
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Not scalable? That's what most people are doing for salaried jobs. There is a tiny sliver of people that found their jobs on Monster.com, there is also a tiny sliver of people with 'connections' (they're not the 1% for nothing). Everyone else muddled through job fairs, online listings, and cold calls to get their jobs.

My work history and how I got the job, pumping gas (family), McDonalds (cold called), ski shop (cold called), engineering internship (cold called), startup internship (cold called), fortune 500 company (college job fair), startup (cold called).

Cold called = email, showing up in person, or picking up the phone. But it means 'the job was never listed anywhere'.

My girlfriend has had many more positions, but the main ones were temp (temp agency), 1st internship (cold called), better internship (bosses at both internships were married, when husband at first internship could no longer pay her, the wife hired her elsewhere), temp job (temp agency), crappy job (listed online), awesome startup job (cold called).
It's a product problem, rather than technical.
The patent troll does not claim to "own GPS", nor does it make any kind of sense whatsoever to represent the patent by one drawing in the patent document. The drawings in a patent document exist for technical reasons, and are in no way a reliable representation of what the patent means.

What matters are the claims.

The first patent, US7475057, looks very very simple: it's a single standalone claim regarding:

* using a GPS receiver

* to populate a database

* by reading the GPS from a personal computing device

* when the device comes to a stable location

* sending that location to the server

* reading data about the location back from the server

* having the personal computing device request that the server save that information in a record associated with a user

* by using a system of detecting that the device has become stationary involving (i) reading the GPS, (ii) waiting, (iii) rereading the GPS, (iv) seeing if the location changed substantially.

This is a single claim; you'd have to be doing all of these things to infringe that patent.

(It's a remarkably broad claim and a dumb patent, although it was filed a fair bit before personal GPS devices were common).
Last paragraph reminds me great quote: "I actually think most folks are obsessed with the IDEA of being a startup founder/ceo, rather than wanting to do the ACTUAL hard work.

I also think quite a few just want to be known as Entrepreneurs or talk about startups & how to build a business, rather than doing it."

Source: http://fascinated.fm/post/25657917784/i-actually-think-most-... (it is actually just collection of four tweets)
At least in France we have a law stating that if a third-party patent owner fails to do something with the patent, the initial patent holder takes all his right on the patent back.
No wonder why many lobby want to get rid of this to "have homogeneous laws in Europe"...
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Of course. If you love programming, an OS whose primary interface is a programmable shell is going to be very appealing. On top of that, the large number of small programming languages that come with typical installs of the OS (awk, sed, dc, bc, sh) make Linux a very comfortable place for programmers.
I like it as a product, I hate that everything nowadays is patented.

This control will allow some serious gaming on iOS and this is really cool for game developers.
If a message is posted in public and no one sees it, does it matter?

People won't be using this new decentralized service. They'll be using Twitter. I guess you can feed into Twitter, but the last mile is still Twitter.
Microsoft just gave this hacker $200K
Use YUI instead of a whole mess of JavaSCript
Opinion? It's Friday afternoon, and I want to go home and have a beer. My neurons are fried.
any serious professional

Have you met these bay area social media people?

I applied at twitter a few years ago (a direct referral from ev). The first technical phone interviewer tweeted part of my resume along with a sarcastic comment before the call. He then proceeded to not be very friendly on the phone screen (and called 15 minutes late). A few days later, the second phone interviewer asked half the same questions as the first interviewer.

The recruiting staff was excellent, and the people I met on-site for interviews were great.

"Professional" to the engineering staff seems to mean "I'll do whatever makes me feel good as quickly as possible."
Six figures?

You know all those taxes you (or your parents) pay to the state you are living in? Some of those are going to subsidize in-state colleges. If you want to go to an expensive private school or out-of-state because they are top notch, you'd better be top notch as well.

Like I've said elsewhere, if you aren't willing to pay the cost, maybe that degree or school isn't worth it.
>> The economy is moving towards knowledge-based jobs.

>> A programmer with a CS degree and no internships, no open source, no working under experienced talent, is (nearly) worthless. An English major aspiring to write for magazines who has never published anything nor worked with a professional editor is (probably even more) worthless.

Seems you contradict yourself when you claim there is a move towards knowledge based jobs, yet in the very next sentence, advocate that knowledge without experience is "nearly/even more than" worthless.

So are you implying that a person with a CS degree who probably did tons of programming exercises and at least 1-3 projects (i.e. requiring design, doc., etc.), who was taught by these "under experienced" PhD's who have studied the subject, wrote about it, and have done projects for 10+ years of their life produce something that is "nearly" worthless?

Holy cow, either the students priorities were very screwed up or there goes logic and rationality out the door.
should call up drew curtis
http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_patent_tro...
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