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I fully agree here. Either Silicon Valley was a much more exclusive place in the 80's, I'm fooled by the 30 year technology difference, or this is needless self-depreciation.

The resume looks stellar to me.
Blurblogs look great! A couple polish points:

* You should set a <title>.

* The site header ("Mission Mission") for the Sutro Tower GIF post is just low-contrast enough to be difficult to read on bad displays. Maybe you should up the contrast threshold on the algorithm you use to select colors.

* Consider collapsing comment sections by default. If Blurblogs take off, it's going to be irritating to scroll past comments for popular posts.
He means as opposed to having foreign researchers putting out the claims, who could conceivable have less of an ethics barrier, since it's "not their land".

Still agree with you though - pretty shameful if true.
Years back I was a consultant and was interviewed for a telecom assignment. The meeting was nice and later he called me just to clear some things up. He kept talking about Erlang and then asking me about my experience level with Erlang and I told him I had none, but that I love programming languages and probably would learn it quick.

Then he said I had Erlang on my resume... Turns out my boss had altered my resume without telling me. I was honest and told him that I had no experience and had no clue how that ended up on my resume, maybe he read the wrong resume? Nope. It felt really awkward hearing him say he just couldn't trust anything on my resume now. But he understand him perfectly well.

My boss just laughed when I later told him what happened. He also told me to be a bit smarter and play along better.

I'm so glad I don't have a boss like that today.
The beauty of the software industry is it truly is merit-based. The degree might get you in the door but they will test you immediately to see if you are capable of handling the position. So don't lie. Tell them the truth, because there is nothing to be ashamed of. I'm going on my 17th year in this industry without a degree. If you have "it", whatever that may be, they will take notice. And if they don't then it's just a bad fit, no big deal. There's another one down the street.
It's a good thing nobody's forced to back it, then. ;)

I feel somewhat the same as you, but is this really different than the recent games explosion on KickStarter? Gamers help fund the development of the game (usually in return for a copy of the game and some trinkets) and then developer goes on to make profit from it.

Other products are much the same, with music and video being obvious ones that are similar, but even physical products that are being developed often go the same route.

There have been plenty of things that I would have donated to help bring to existence and paid for afterwards. Most of them will never be on KickStarter, but if they ever are, they'll get my backing.

The ones that I don't feel that way about, won't.
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Wow, that is as ugly as sin...
I would imagine if they are scientists, they assert fracking is harmless due to knowledge and research. If something is injected at a depth below the water table, and is at least as dense or denser than water, it does not move upward against the pull of gravity unless acted upon by an outside force. Their nationality has nothing to do with that.

My father the (retired) hydro-geologist (and former professor) is not alarmed by fracking; and to the best of my knowledge he hasn't taken big oil and gas money (or he's been holding out on me). He never did big research projects, although he did also consult for a civil engineering firm analyzing and remediating super-fund sites and drilling contamination-free water wells for various communities across the north-eastern US.

Oil and gas companies give/grant/donate money to universities for a variety of reasons, not least of which is to improve the talent pool for recruitment. And if you want to commission a study, you go to where the experts are.
Germany has been a consistent net exporter of electrical energy since 2003.

The circumstances have changed, though: In addition to two nuclear plants which were dormant since 2007 and 2009, six plants were shut down in mid-May 2011, and all of them are now gone for good.

The balance was still positive in 2011, and I suspect it will be this year as well, but it might be a close thing.
Norwegian hydroelectric plants usually don't destroy a ecosystem, just some nice looking waterfall. They have so long and steep falls that ecosystem would be naturally separated by it anyway.
Yeah, the titles on blurblogs broke in the transition. Will be fixed momentarily.

And if blurblogs take off, we will be collapsing comments from "public", but no need to limit growth now when we need it most. But we are planning to limit the height of the story content if it's more than a page-height long.
Hey, that's a lot like what I built--and from the comments so far, the gripes about having to trust that the files are not modified would also apply to Cryptasia (http://www.cryptasia.com).

Having to trust that the site won't be hacked is an interesting problem--I suppose both our projects could be made more Trustworthy if users had a separate service that ensures that files served by the website don't change... a Chrome extension might be an interesting way to do this validation. Sounds like another weekend task :)

Anyway, cool project!
On my resume I list my BS-ECE and then masters _classes_ in AI, Supercomputing, and Robotics. When (usually) asked why I didn't complete the degree I then give 'em the reason, which is valid enough that it generates conversation.
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My girlfriend is from Poland, and the educational system there is different, compared to the USA. When she went to college, she did a 5 year program that left her with a degree that is normally translated into the USA system as a masters degree. Her focus was Polish literature.

When she got to the USA, she did a 2nd degree, this time in marketing. She was surprised by the USA system, in particular, the number of courses that she had to take that had nothing to do with marketing. She tells me that in Poland general purpose "learn a little bit about everything" classes end with high school. Once you go to college, the assumption is that you are becoming a specialist in a particular field, and all of your education goes to that specialty. Computer programmers are not forced to take literature classes, nor are those studying literature forced to take math classes.

I have the impression that in the USA, the universities are used to fix what's often seen as a broken K-12 educational system. We know that many young people arrive at college with educational deficiencies, therefore we load up the next 4 years with all the stuff they should have learned during their K-12 years. If they want to become specialists in something, well, that is what graduate school is for, after they turn 21.

I am generally impressed with what comes out of the Polish system. I've had a chance to work with Polish programmers, and they were very good, at very young ages. And, likewise, those who study Polish literature seem to understand it deeply, having spent 5 years reading all the classics (without the distraction of having to take unrelated classes).

I think the USA would be wise to fix its K-12 system, and then allow colleges to be places where people can specialize in what they want.
I like having them both personally. I'll normally use the page inspector for most things, but I like to see the raw HTML I'm producing from a web app too, along with the CSS and JS tags, etc.
As I posted elsewhere:

"Well, to be pedantic:

S.2(2) Theft Act 1968 states that a person may be dishonest notwithstanding a willingness to pay.

You could also fall foul of "Doing an act inconsistent with the rights of the owner"

"

So the store doesn't absolutely have to prove intent.
It's also very similar to the iPod mini and the second-generation iPod nano.
Very, very nice. Did you write it?
I guess he had a couple of courses at school and called himself "fluent".

Umm, another possibility is that he learned Castilian, and the people in your office grew up speaking some Latin American version. Just the other day a native speaker from Spain told me of his being completely flummoxed by the border guards trying to casually chat him up on his entry to the U.S.
That would be true if carbon dioxide was the only greenhouse gas. But it isn't.

Burning biomass could be sustainable if we make sure that new biomass is grown at the same rate as it is burned. I have yet to see a document assuring me that is the case.

In any case burning biofuel is not greenhouse gas neutral. And hence not green.
This page, linked off the above mentioned Wikipedia article, is actually a pretty interesting read on the engineering challenge of shipping a flag to the Moon in such a manner that people in space suits could unpack it and set it up.

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/flag/flag.htm

The first U.S. flag on the moon was deployed by Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin during their historic EVA on 20 July 1969 (at 4 days, 14 hours and 9 minutes mission-elapsed time). The flag was seen worldwide on live television (Fig. 6). At their technical crew debriefing, Armstrong and Aldrin reported few problems with the deployment. They had trouble extending the horizontal telescoping rod and could not pull it all the way out. This gave the flag a bit of a "ripple effect," and later crews intentionally left the rod partially retracted.
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Prior to smartphones, sure, nobody updated them. I recall updating my WM6 to 6.5. Palm issued updates too. It's rarely an option for Android users though and WP7 users got the shaft.

iPhones are the exception because Apple is currently the only one who has widely supported their products long enough for a software update to even exist.
On the complexity of single neurons it is worth to read Koch's research "The role of single neurons in information processing"
This is an simple, obvious and extremely dangerous error, that anyone with experience or appropriate education would have avoided.

There's an evident frivolous attitude towards technical quality control present here, and everyone should avoid installing games requiring uPlay for the time being.
I don't know if "grid" is the right word; from the video it looks more like a jumble of IDE cables. Very cool though! Understanding the brain is one of the most important tasks we have yet to conquer.
> Twitter has yet to release a tablet specific Android application.

Why would you use the official Twitter client on Android when the incomparable Twicca[1][2] is available? I'm not sure how well it works on a tablet but its UI is the best Twitter UI I've seen anywhere. This is especially refreshing given the significant disagreements I have with Twitter's designers on what makes a usable site. It also has quite a large number of official[3] and unofficial[4] plugins, my favorite being the Google+ cross-poster[5].

Note: the author's English is charmingly bizarre (it used to say "retweeted by 1 people" and "retweeted by 2 peoples"), so "twicca is lightweight but it is not cheap" means it's not "cheap" on features. It is a free application.

[1] http://twicca.r246.jp/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.r246.twicca...

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Tetsuya+Aoya...

[4] https://play.google.com/store/search?q=twicca+plugin&c=a...

[5] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.zakky.twic...
Indeed, looks like we found a problem worth solving :)

Edit: cryptasia is a really clever idea, kudos!
If you think the only outcome of not paying your school will be that you don't receive "a piece of paper", you are too stupid to hire for any job. Sorry.

Life is going to be hard until you smarten up a little.
You have to be careful with this line of thinking and I'll explain why - recruiters. They will take an existing resume and "fluff it up" for the exact job description.
I'm a front end guy, but last week I decided to step out of my comfort zone and try building a Node.js framework.

It is probably full of flaws at the moment, but I'm all for learning.

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Why is this bad? for example if you have an Image you want to both DELETE and GET, and have cache control, once it's cached, the DELETE will return the bytes of the image without going to the server...
Is there an API for using the GPIO pins from python?
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That's not the only damage hydroelectric does. The damns normalize naturally occurring floods with a view to maximizing electricity production, and material that would have been carried to sea gets trapped behind the dam.
If you plug a USB device that consumes more than 100mA into the pi it will likely not power the usb device without a powered hub in between.
1. One half of my brain thinks: Why shouldn't they?

2. Other half thinks: Amazing!
FWIW, Poland and the USA get very similar results from their K-12 systems, both rank quite well compared to the average OECD country: http://www.oecd.org/pisa/46643496.pdf

For some reason there is a perception that American schools are failing, but I don't see it in the data.
what happens when the html structure/schema of the site you're scraping changes?
And you would get..? Nothing? So instead of forest and some energy you get just nothing.
Very interesting. However, this won't catch bugs that don't cause instance outages. I suppose the next step to is to somehow simulate misconfigurations/overloaded services/unexpected errors (I have no idea how this would work).
Why would a so called "10X" person work 70+ hours? If you think a 10X person is someone who will live at the office you believe in working harder, not smarter and the other office that hires the guy that works 20hours, but is actually a 10X will run circles around the so called 70+ hours "10X" guy.
I looked at your blog. From my perspective, you folks are down in the weeds. Khan isn't using the optimal technique for teaching decimals? Who cares? The problem isn't that kids aren't learning optimal methods.

The problem with education in this country is that we funnel most all of our public education dollars into a system and related organizations that are only tangentially motivated to educate our children. Watch how the public school systems and teachers unions react to vouchers and charter schools and you'll see how much they care about educating kids vs protecting their turf and power base.

I've noted that those within the education system or closely aligned with it absolutely hated "Waiting for Superman". They nitpick it and try to blow up minor faults with it in a similar way to how you're going after Khan. To those of us outside of that power structure, that documentary showed how the establishment is utterly opposed to actually solving problems in education in this country if those solutions occur outside of that establishment.

I view your articles vs Khan to be in a similar vein. What Khan has done is he's added a solution to our society for our education problems that operates outside of the current public education power structure. Rather than build on what he's done and improve on it through working with Khan or doing something better -- you folks have taken the route of trying to publicly take him down in the media.
Seems like somebody who'd enjoy reading "A Mathematician's Lament"
I have never met a person that never lies. But they rarely consider it "lying". It is a thresh-hold issue, a matter of getting through life and a balance between morality, convenience, and what level of inaccuracy constitutes falsehood.

"I put that I delivered them tomorrow, because it keeps the books simpler, but can you just sign today? Okay, thanks man!"
You can't use the + operator.
I'm more curious about why can't we have a live feed. We had one from the moon 40 years ago, is bandwidth also degraded by the distance to Mars?
I'm just sort of curious if Samsung is going to release prototypes and design sketches on their end too.
In case you guys missed it:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/a-skeptic-looks-a...

Interesting read.
The damage of hydro is fairly localized afaik, both spatially and temporally. Fossil fuels cause damage globally (in addition to the local damage of oil fields/coal mines, and the power plants), and the damage is much more long lasting. Also the damage of hydro does not accumulate over time afaik.
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I'm in the exact same, comfortable, spot. I left college with a year, maybe a hard semester, until I graduated. Took a great job, had lots of work experience even before college and have never had a problem. If you have no experience they look for a degree. If you have no degree they look for experience. Just make sure you have 1 of 2.
Jeff Atwood had a good piece on this: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-ch...

Overall it's brilliant from an infrastructure standpoint but it's up to the developers to make your code monkey proof!
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Oh I agree, "honesty is the best policy."

Thing is, it'd be nice if it were something more of a two-way street. The same companies that would be incensed at the slightest fib on a resume will quite often lie to the candidate, at some stage or another in the selection process -- or like as not hire through recruiters to do the lying for them, as if this absolves them of any ethical responsibility.

Not to mention the lies that start trickling on down from on top, once they start the job. But that's a different topic.
Toma from KDE.org shares his first impressions of Incapsula.
I love the beveled octagonal one. I'd love to have a phone like that.

We're these all with working electronics? Or just case studies?
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Mechanical Turk. A budget limit wasn't mentioned either :)
What other greenhouse gases does burning biofuel create?
Yes! I was going to say exactly this. Know your standard library, citizen!
I don't think people would be enthusiastic about the larger file sizes and extra visual noise with VP8 in fast moving videos or those with a lot of contrast comaired to H264 Encode times were much longer too. My experience may not be typical but I could not get my videos to look as good even with much larger files. I could not find anyone with real world video using it. Unless they have made some big advances recently I just don't understand how they can claim parity.
I think you're confusing users with customers. In the ad business those are two completely different things. FB may be delightful for users, but it's pretty 'meh' for advertisers.
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The top-voted answer implements addition. If you're allowed to do that, the subtraction-based division algorithm is easy and foolproof if not as fast:

u32 add(u32 x, u32 y)
{
u32 z = 0;
for (u32 c = 0, m = 1; m; m <<= 1)
z |= (x ^ y ^ c) & m, c = ((x & y) | (x & c) | (y & c)) << 1;
return z;
}

u32 neg(u32 x) { return add(~x, 1); }
u32 sub(u32 x, u32 y) { return add(x, neg(y)); }
u32 lt(u32 x, u32 y) { return sub(x, y) >> 31; }

u32 div3(u32 x)
{
u32 q = 0;
assert(lt(-1, x)); // x >= 0 iff -1 < x
while (!lt(x, 3)) x = sub(x, 3), q = add(q, 1);
return q;
}
Based on the lighting from the rest of the image, shouldn't the flag shadow be longer and falling the other direction??
You can read through some data on this site: http://www.wind-energy-the-facts.org

It's maintained by the European Wind Energy Association, so it is predictably pro-wind power. But their data does seem to indicate that wind can be economical if: 1. you put the windmills in good places, 2. the price of oil and gas goes up (which it has done), 3. technology improvements drive operation and maintenance costs down (which it has done).

Their economic comparisons include CO2 emissions costs, since it is a European study and they do have an emissions trading program there.
It depends on the kind of nuclear. For example thorium, while finite, is quite abundant. Note that the sun's energy is finite as well, so "renewable" is not black and white.
Even though the original vulnerability was quite lame and violated the first rule of writing an ActiveX plugin (site-locking and making it only available over HTTPS otherwise it's still vulnerable to code execution via MITM).

It's impressive that they already updated Uplay to address this problem (not sure whether the fix is actually working or not though).
In Israel jobs usually ask for a BSc degree OR service in the army's intelligence unit. People go out of the army here with 3 to 5 years of experience in highly difficult subjects so tech companies usually care less about your degree.
No way did this comment deserve a downvote. It's at least as thoughtful as the comment it replied to. This would appear to be downvoting as "I don't like your opinion", as opposed to "you're not adding any value to the conversation".

Addressing the concern of the actual article:

The fact is that you can't escape from having researchers having some kind of tie to their subject matter, on one side of an issue or another.

The reason that people have chosen a given area of research is that they've got some kind of interest in it -- for or against. There's really no way around this, and so we rely on openness of results, and the peer review process to police research.

The same problem looms in governmental regulation, where regulatory capture [1] is an unavoidable problem. If you want someone to write regulations who actually knows what the heck they're doing, you're going to have to go with someone who got experience from somewhere, which is more than likely from working in the industry. The problem here, of course, is that there is no openness nor peer review in regulation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Don't lie about your GPA and don't bring it up. If some recruiter asks it, say "its not worth putting on the resume, and you shouldn't be rewriting my resume. IF you're looking for something to use to pitch me use X, Y, or Z" ,where those are projects you've done, in class our outside of class, that are relevant to the job.

Two possibilities- the recruiter is trying to filter you out (in which case, if you are qualified for the job, never work with that recruiter or firm again, and tell them this every time they contact you) or they are looking for something that can use to make you stand out... and don't really care about the GPA.

Any company that won't hire you because your GPA is not high enough is a company run by idiots.

At your age, it may seem silly for me to say that, because you've not experienced this kind of idiocy before, I bet, but it is the case.

A company looking for a CS student whose worth your time is one who will want to talk to you about programming, not your GPA. (they might ask but they won't really care)

You'll learn a lot more from the people who don't confuse symbols for reality.
That's how you share what art and style you have and like. Sight knew she was in his house and this displayed his interiors for her to see.
If going back to the moon to examine the condition of the flags is the excuse we need to go back, then I'm all for it! I just hope they do some real science while they are there.