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Basically, more students, more debt, less jobs. This is a couple of years old, but I don't think things have improved that much:

"In fact, “The Deep End” was conceived in 2007, that halcyon era of $160,000 starting salaries and full employment even for law grads who had scored in the 150s on their LSAT’s.

Those days are over. As the profession lurches through its worst slump in decades, with jobs and bonuses cut and internal pressures to perform rising, associates do not just feel as if they are diving into the deep end, but rather, drowning."

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/fashion/17lawyer.html?_r=1...
Fair point. Though anything using the standard POSIX dirent API would still get the performance hit (even if path resolution doesn't).
> This is about a year old.

Ah you're right. I haven't seen it either so I didn't even look. Title updated, thanks.
What do you mean by "never collapses spontaneously"? Researchers have been trying to prevent states from collapsing for decades and it's really hard.
I mostly agree with Patrick, and to supplement his post with one more suggestion, I think most of these category of "behavior" memos have no business going to all employees. They should stop at X level of management, which should be entrusted/empowered/delegated to make the necessary changes within their purview. One of the biggest reasons these generic communications suck is because they're generic.

Fix the management problem and you largely fix the communication problem. For the rest (benefits changes, business strategy, etc), the exec whose name is at the bottom would be well served to be as transparent and honest as possible, and for sensitive topics to include formal feedback/Q&A paths to clarify any uncertainties. There is a huge perception gap between levels of employees and it's literally the case that individuals at different levels in the hierarchy (or different LOBs/divisions) have no idea how to relate to one another; what usually happens is that they freeze and avoid engagement, which only hurts the company.
these are great things to do with it! Also I was thinking in implementing new hardware stuff for it.

Thanks for the tips.
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Disclaimer: I'm not married and I don't have children.

Truly having it all (defined as having a stimulating and powerful career while being fully present in your children's lives) is difficult for anyone: women and men. There's only so much time in the day and if you want to have any type of powerful career, that will usually mean some sort of irregular hours that will mean missing important moments in a child's life. Likewise, prioritizing childcare over a career will mean missing some important moments to build a career. You couldn't go speak at that conference or stay late to build a feature or invest the weekend to come up with the new killer product. Maybe you had to miss important meetings because you had a sick child that needed to go to the doctor or couldn't do the business trip to close a deal.

The people who seem to "have it all" are usually wealthy with a flexible job (like famous actors). Their secret is they have a whole lot of help. We never hear about Angelina Jolie's nannies, professional chefs, drivers, and cleaning staff making it possible for her to "have it all". But she probably couldn't otherwise, she'd have to choose.

I'll admit that there are likely some people who really do seem to "have it all". But let's also admit that they're the anomalies. For most mere mortals, there seems to be a balance requiring a choice. As a society, we'll move towards equality when we can respect people for the choices they make instead of trying to wedge them into the mold that we want and without judging them.

My mother was an Ivy educated professional who left the workforce to take care of her children. It would be very sad if she were judged poorly for not attempting to "have it all", because in truth it was a great gift to her children. I've always respected her for her decision. Though there were times when my father couldn't be present, he's always said that not being able to spend time with his children when they were young was one of his big regrets. His sacrifice to provide for my family even though he couldn't always be there was a great gift too and deserves respect.

As employers, there are things we can do that can certainly make it easier for people on our teams who choose to be more involved in their children's lives (like daycare, good healthcare, flex time, days to work from home, etc.), but very often startups forego these amenities to extend the runway.

It's still a relatively new idea in our civilization that men and women would share equally in raising children. Equally new is the idea that we'd have two middle class parents in the workforce attempting to have high powered careers. I see progress all around us, moving more slowly than we'd hope, but generally going in the right direction.

But I think that "having it all" as a standard may be hurtful to people who can't. Everyone's circumstances are different and perhaps we should just respect people for the choices they make and for doing the best they can.
I know, but I also know how well that worked on Windows (not at all). What if some apps figure out how to fake that prompt or somehow hide it. Or if I get to the prompt while I am tired or drunk and hit "OK" too fast because I was expecting something else. It is just one barrier less.
LOL. indeed, I'm certainly gonna blog about it.
> And unsecured access to the graphics stack is a terrible idea.

No one gives you unsecured access to the graphics stack. WebGL shaders are parsed and modified for security (for example, inserting things like bounds checks).

(Of course, there are security risks with any new technology.)
See my other reply - I still think it significantly lowers the barrier to installing malware.
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Not a word, exactly, but certainly a variation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia
That's interesting. What are the reasons some kernels choose to share the address space, while others don't (and/or how is it even possible to avoid that?)
You can have whatever you really set your mind to have. Male or female, when your time comes, none of these debates matter, and you'll figure out what you need to do.

When my son was born a few months ago, my wife felt a unexpectedly (even to her) strong desire to be home with him as much as possible. She was able to cut her schedule by about 60% -- if that wasn't possible, she would have quit. Fortunately, we have the means to make that decision and not necessity.

Is that sexist? Outdated thinking? Dumb? I don't really care -- we did what was right for us.
So the author of this post is offended that a man can get a cookie for just being a father? That somehow getting extra attention for doing what many mothers do daily is a wrong?

Men CAN have it all. There is nothing stopping a father from pursuing parenthood full time. Fathers can ignore the negative stereotypes of men being awful caregivers and may in fact be praised for being a parent at all. The social expectation that men won't be involved in parenting is not a barrier to parenting in many cases, as few people will question your agency as a father if you choose to be more dedicated to your children.

Women have a much worse time dealing with social expectations and institutions regarding parenting. It is not that society feels that women are superior parents or are more capable of caring for children, but rather that a woman's primary purpose is to execute this role. Unless you have tremendous resources, your life's passion and having a family are mutually exclusive for many mothers. Women are expected to take on domestic responsibility and work the second shift at a much higher rate then men, so these issues affect them much more than men.

Defeating gender stereotypes in regards to parenting will help both men and women do as they please and raise their children as they wish, but let's not kid and declare that there is a need to focus on men when women are the most impacted in regards to this kind of sexism and are the least able to be free from it.
I'm a bit too young to know how well the Apple II was documented for programming. However, people like Jordan Mechner (creator of the original Prince of Persia) were spitting out 6502 assembler code at a rather young age, weren't they? And it's not like that's a trivial task. Mind you, there was no internet as we know it today with StackOverflow and other resources, in fact, the internet was still pretty much in it's infancy.

I agree there's a lack of ways to develop directly on ARM, but that should change pretty soon with the Raspberry Pi as you point out, or any other such platform. For the rest of us there are development boards which usually come with quite a bit of documentation on their usage. Anybody determined enough to learn that stuff will be capable to do so, I think.

Python again is more like a magic wand that does most things for you. When I learned coding I constantly kept wondering how those calls actually worked and what they did. I just couldn't accept that say, print just prints stuff to the screen. I was wondering how it did that. I finally gave up on questioning at the edge of the ALU.

The reason I told this is, that I think a high level language like Python will teach you a lot about how to structure problems into smaller parts and will improve your "algorithmic thinking", but you'll still be pretty clueless about what's actually happening behind the code.

And exactly that sort of hacking on a lower level is what comes to my mind when I think of computers like the Apple II, which were basically just glorified calculators by today's standards.
Do you not see the rhetorical problem with what you're saying? To come in here with a controversial statement and preemptively write off all oppositional viewpoints is to act in exactly the same way you deride pro-JavaScript proponents for allegedly behaving.
I still use PSP 9 for bitmapped/raster graphics (other than photos), and had used all of the versions from 3 on except 8. All you needed to do was to uncheck the "antialias" option box (and make sure that the feather value was at zero) to get a crisp (no alpha) selection. The setting were persistent, like a preference, so once you deselected the "antialias", it became the default until you selected it again.
Thanks for showing how quick and easy it is to use PubNub! Are goal is to democratize the ability for developers to add real-time capabilities while providing top notch support!

Love this part "It totally ticks all the boxes, the api is as simple as ‘send message’ and ‘listen for message’. And it’s fast…super fast."!
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The title of the article was relevant but misleading. It was not much about the ability or not of men to parent children, than on the perception of their abilities and expectations (or lack of) to do it from the society POV.

Your experience is supposed to be exceptionnal, and men really investing themself in parenting is not the expected behaviour. And in my experience taking a long parental leave for a man can be more or less difficult, but it is also surprisingly awkward (you're just slacking are you? jokes abunding) and needs a lot more justification. It seems to be changing, but so slowly.
In the short term, sure. But since NaCl doesn't run on all CPUs and is not standardized, it would lead to problems in the long run.

Regarding alternatives to JavaScript, you can compile pretty much any language into a form that can run on the web, right now: C++, C#, Java, etc. (That form happens to be JavaScript.)
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I think (and have argued: http://xrl.us/bmeqcm) that the problem with most development teams - Agile or not - is that the people who are on point to make the deadlines (the Project Manager and/or Product Owner) usually don't have the agency to increase resources or move deadlines - they normally just have the ability to bully programmers and decrease software quality (pressure on tests and documentation)
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This makes a lot more sense than adding the HandlerSocket API which provided marginally more utility at the cost of being a completely new API. Being able to bypass the query engine for key lookups is pretty cool and a write through cache is a bonus.
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Javascript doesn't have a monopoly on "you can move a sprite in only a few lines of code". I can do that in C too, libraries aren't new. None of the horribleness of javascript is justified simply because you don't feel like using a higher level library in a sane language.
I was one of those requests via your chat, just making it here too :)
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I'm sorry, but the bagels email is far better. It presents critical information in an easily digestible form, is succinct and would probably go much further in improving morale and productivity in the workplace than emails 1 & 2. If only more companies would send such a missive!
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We hope it will have that effect in London [1]. The plans for the legacy are beyond what some advertisements could achieve [2].

[1] http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/news/newsrelease.asp?newsPk=1331
[2] http://www.londonlegacy.co.uk/
I am sure changing your name to 'DROP TABLE users; works fine too in that case...
I'm not a huge fan of Memrise, especially for Chinese. At least when I checked it, there was way too much of an initial emphasis on characters and it also suggested a widely-believed but incorrect idea that characters = words. I say this as someone who has spent most his adult life in the Chinese speaking world, gone through the struggle of learning myself and met hundreds of other foreigners doing the same.

The best option for learning Mandarin would be Popup Chinese. If you exhaust their materials or find yourself wanting a southern accent, go on to ChinesePod. Once you can already speak and read some, go to Skritter if you want to learn how to write. If I had had these three resources 10 years ago, it would have been a much, much easier path.
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I didn't know that. Thanks. But I'm not so much worried about bounds checks as I am other obscure forms of overflow or corruption in graphics drivers. They barely work for things that are built specifically for them.
It's interesting that people are bothered by the asymmetry in society's parenting expectations while completely validating the asymmetry between a husband and wife in other household duties (even when the wife also maintains a full time job).
Are folks really so sensitive they can't ignore a bs email from a bean counter?

Yeah I've seen lots of stuff like those emails (both bad). They're telling me (and my manager) how to do our job.

I just ignore them. I ignore warnings about failure to conform to company policy. I ignore the corporate weeds that think talking to me about this stuff is important.

I work at a fairly high level now in my career, so you might say I can get away with this stuff. But as a low-level peon years ago, it was even easier to get away with. As long as my manager and I were on the same page.

The only corporate relationship that matters to you is, your immediate contacts. That's your manager, your team, and anybody you oversee. Get those right, work hard and deliver, and the rest is irrelevant.
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If you’re at a company where these sorts of communications aren’t considered strategically, you might try talking to your managers/execs about it. I bet that more than 50% of the time, there’s a good reason and good motivation underneath those overly-corporate, soul-destroying emails. Convincing them that being more open about the reasons and more considerate in the presentation will have a positive impact probably won’t take much work.

This was a great post and of great value to me as I get started building a company where I want to create a better than status quo culture (the Valve post is also great, so far it's been a good morning).

However, I had to laugh at the comment above a bit. If you are in a company that has this sort of problem, it probably isn't the e-mails that are destroying company culture but the culture that's creating the soul destroying "policy" e-mails and micro-management. Trying to change that culture by gently suggesting ways to "frame things" differently is going to be about as effective trying to dig up. But hey, good luck anyways.
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work towards a common vision of quality and a technologically pleasant work environment. Because we have such an abundance of small projects, you'll often find yourself in the drivers seat of the thing you are building.

The position:

Your role will be to come in and learn enough to take the load off our current team. Which entails maintaining our current systems, and gradually taking responsibility for full web projects.

Currently about 60% of the work involves Facebook applications. 20% games and the rest is mobile and other initiatives.

Requirements:

* 1 years+ commercial experience in web development or fresh graduate.
* Good communicator in English, we have a multinational team from all over the world.
* A willingness to pick up and use Python and/or Django.

Some experience in web development necessary, you need to at least be familiar with:
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Anecdote coming your way:

My wife is a composer - currently attending UPenn getting her PhD in music composition. She does not typically perform her music herself. In 2009, her concert opera concerning the senate judiciary hearings on former attorney general Alberto Gonzales. We recorded a performance of "The Gonzales Cantata" and posted on Bandcamp, iTunes, and Amazon in anticipation of a series of live performances done at that year's Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

The recording earned a little over $1000 (half that from Bandcamp alone). The live performances earned several times that, enough that we could pay each of the over 30 performers involved at least three figures.

$1000 might not sound like much, but put it into perspective, it was her first recorded piece, and it's probably earned her more than what her professors have made with releases they've done. (Well, not necessarily her Penn professors) Had she released through a label? She was approached by one of the more well known 'classical' labels about doing a studio recording and 'label' release. The deal basically would have been that she'd have paid thousands of dollars, and gotten a box of CDs and miniscule residual income when all was said and done.. and this is how a lot of people in the classical world do things. The money may come from grants or patrons, but it's generally wasted.

$1000 for a single recording is not enough to live off, but $1000 for your first release, particularly a fairly obscure release, is incredibly encouraging. As a composer, she has other sources of income to chase down, whether it's commissions, or sheet music, performances, licensing, etc. I would not be surprised if after graduating, she is able to sustain a living composing music. If that doesn't work out, she can make plenty of money in private lessons.

We haven't done any 'big' recordings since then. Last year we recorded a piano-vocal piece, "Tesla's Pigeon", and commissioned a visual artist to do the cover art. We Kickstarted asking for $550 and raised $787, and while it's up on Bandcamp and iTunes, we haven't gone promotion crazy about it like we did for The Gonzales Cantata, so it's only made a couple hundred dollars, mostly through physical sales at concert performances - which themselves have brought in enough money that again, we were able to pay the performers well and have a nice amount leftover for ourselves.

I think it's a good start, and I think it's far better than she would have been able to do if she were born twenty years sooner than she had been.
Thank you for your comments. I am not sure not telling people will work for me. External accountability has always been a big way of getting myself to do things.

Some great tips that I think will work, though. Perhaps a marathon day at the weekend to just get started on one single idea?

I'm not doing this for money, specifically. I can achieve my financial goals with my day job paycheck. However, I am terrified of not being able to pay the bills if I do leave my day job, and so working on a skill that will get me insta-employment if I need it. :-)
Do you also buy the clothes? Being involved from the buying point helps a lot to understand the logic of it all IMO. I had the same pb with the different baby creams, and had to choose one in the shop to really get what is used for what.
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So did I, so did my sons. State schools in America vary, sure. Maybe we were lucky. But the author's conclusion is, British schools are all better than American schools. I call BS.
You're supposed to run dm scrubs as well, if you don't it is possible that you have a bad sector somewhere on your disks.

See http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software#Data_Scrubbing
>Several days ago Rails introduced Live Streaming: the ability to send partial responses to the client immediately.

Would this be analogous to what PHP does if you being writing a response without output buffering?
Any advice for how to find such a partner? Even someone to check in with would help. Most of the people I know are through work, and I don't want to tout my moonlighting.
What I mean is it does not collapse "all by itself", rather, it needs environmental interference in order to "collapse" from the observer's point of view. In the view of the many-worlds theory, though, it never really collapses, only appears to from the observer point of view, due to environmental interference.
The University experience is of course based on the high school experience. Pretty much that Brit's point was, he has to ship his prodigy overseas to have any hope for her education.

My anecdote (for that's what both are) contradicts that.