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6 page research paper on why maintaining a system like myUCF is difficult

"Maintaining a system like myUCF is difficult because caching is hard, so let's go shopping. Furthermore, lorem ipsum dolor sit amit. (6 more pages) In conclusion, I'm very sorry your publicly-available program runs so slowly. Although I don't have a degree, I would happily repair it for $500,000."

They never said it had to be good.

(Incidentally, University IT policies tend to be quite silly. I stopped attending school after they wanted me to sign something giving the administrators the right to search my off-campus apartment for any reason. Ended up saving me quite a bit of money...)
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Way to take this too far. This is a private company, Etsy, offering grants to women for, I guess, living expenses etc to be a part of the program. Those poor underprivileged males ... I mean, it's not as if going to Hacker "School" is going to make or break you. You are welcome to start a fund. Lighten up a bit on faux-indignation.
Downvoter -- I don't normally let stuff like this get to me, but you better explain yourself.

It took me 4 years of manic polymathic learning (at the expense of my actual schoolwork) to come up with this list. I've worked in a genetic engineering lab (Drew Endy), AI, robotics, and now AR, so I speak firsthand that these ideas are all possible now.

Not only possible, but REALLY IMPORTANT.
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You might check out elance, odesk, etc. There are lots of new postings every day and many of them can turn out to be well paid, assuming you do a little selling and set yourself apart.

Lack of experience won't come up as long as you know what you're talking about.
One parties shit behavior does not justify anothers.

Education is meant to be about more than free-market principles of making as much money as you can and screw who you hurt on the way. A system where people who pay more get a better shot at classes is unfair.

Tho I agree the uni's response is an over-reaction and wrong. The real problem here is the situation the uni set up and not the student's actions. But for me, I couldn't 100% support this student unless it was free.
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Once knew a bloke at Harvard who got in a bureaucratic situation where he had to hand in an essay for a class. Didn't have to be good or even pass, just had to be an essay.

So in a fit of rage, he wrote the worst essay he could. Bad sources, bad style of writing, bad grammar, stupid logic, insane conclusion, everything.

Other Harvard students who'd read it told me it was a comic masterpiece.
I think that's a bit much. It's hardly Hamburger University. Although, I do agree, the University is behaving childishly.
One unfair situation does not justify another.
I suspect he meant a mental masturbator. At least that makes more sense to me than masochist or masticator.
So GS is primarily the go-to since they're willing to leisurely unload stock they bought at a discount and they've got the cash in hand to do so. Makes sense.
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When I toured Valve last summer, there were quite a lot of large empty offices. Everyone's desks were on wheels, and the workstations were set up to make them extremely easy to move. Naturally, with no management structure, anyone was free to take up an office, but hardly anyone wanted to.

The receptionist who was giving the tour, indicated that Valve had constructed more offices than people actually wanted to use, so they were considering tearing many of them down. Most employees preferred working in more open areas in the midst of the rest of their "cabal".

As far as other perks go, Valve employees already have a nice selection of free snacks, drinks, in-office massage sessions, etc... I'm sure there are ways to incentivize Valve employees to do less appealing work, and I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear that they already do this on an ad hoc basis, but they would have to go a little bit beyond your traditional office perks.
It's not all bad. Sometimes they can be very accommodating and understanding. It's not all corruption.
Most people are thinking too narrowly of B2B, and while it may be true that business logic and accounting are dominating in number of installations / volume of sales / whatever, some very unsexy businesses (road toll collection, what could be worse!) do want most sexy science and technology. Significant fraction of computer vision studies is dedicated to vehicle recognition and classification.
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Seems like maybe they couldn't hold on to the stock for long enough to unload the enormous volume they were dealing with. It sounded like at one point they were doing AS MUCH VOLUME AS EVERYONE ELSE on the exchange combined.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4337750
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Some non-Valley-centric ideas:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4337788

I spent my entire college career finding these ideas and I believe they will be profitable to anyone who may adopt them, and more importantly, massively humanitarian & singularitarian.
I know an undergrad the recently wrote a forkbomb on a programming Web server. The student thought he was a big time hacker and quickly sent out emails to faculty telling them how great he was and how nice it was for him to let them know about this problem.

Well, no one was very pleased with this, in fact, the issue was well known and the policy was for students to just not be jerks. The student was disciplined, but nothing even remotely close to how ridiculous this student at UCF was treated and this student here did nothing malicious, in fact, tried to provide a productive service.
Most likely. c.f. the recent JPMorgan losses[1].

[1] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2012/06/who-benefit...
I'm not at all convinced that popular sentiment in the world we currently live is that "programming is shit".

There was no About page on this blog so I couldn't tell if the author is just very young or if this is dated. Either way the post was half baked, with the author ultimately coming to the thoughtless conclusion:
"That’s a crock of shit! ... It’s not programmers that are wasting life , it’s the non-programers!"
You didn't by chance acquire this laptop as an intern at a software company did you?
To some degree that's the case. The Falcon 9/Dragon do very much get a benefit from modern technology. Better machine tools, high-speed digital communications and onboard computers, better material science, the ability to run computer simulations of different flight profiles or to model the operation of a rocket engine, etc. However, in another sense the Falcon 9/Dragon represent very primitive designs. Indeed, 1950s or 1960s designs even. A simple cylindrical 2 stage LOX/Kerosene booster in combination with a simple frustrum shaped manned capsule. These designs have heritage going all the way back to project Mercury.
An outline is technically a tree. Each node can have zero or more children. Since children cannot link to any node other than their own children, there are no cycles. Since each children cannot refer to their parent, the graph is directed. (Technically, all acyclic graphs must be directed, as a bidirectional link would result in a two-node cycle. But if you don't count those...)

A list would either be a zero or more equal-rank siblings, or a tree where each node had exactly one child. Since that's not how most people take notes, technically they are using a directed acyclic graph rather than a list.

In conclusion, words differ in meaning depending on context :)
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This is not the first time I'm reading about the problem, and the last time, I think on reddit, the replies were mixed as well. The problem is quite shocking to me, because it's their flagship product that's totally unrepairable, so the solution will probably be to just give those affected a new device. The only reusable parts may be logic board and disk. From an environmental standpoint, and of course knowing that this is just factored into the rather high price, this makes me angry.
Unlike high-frequency trading, aviation is highly regulated. In the United States the FAA specifies pretty detailed development standards for avionics software (e.g., DO-178B: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B). We're unlikely to see similarly strict requirements for financial software anytime soon.
Is there really a decline in big ideas, or only an increase in small ones? The argument doesn't really seem to be based on any actual data.

To be honest, I really don't get this issue that journalists and other non-business people have with consumer web startups. It's as if they think that the business gods issued us all with a magic 'business voucher', and we chose to redeem it with a consumer web startup as opposed to say, nuclear fission or curing world hunger. The economy gave us this 'business voucher', and consumer web startups are the only thing the voucher is good for.
It wasn't after years of operation. The article states that the system was brand new.
If your tasks are basic, they are numerous, and that means a lot of communication, and that means you better be in the office. Besides, this basic crap is boring when done in solitude.

On the contrary, difficult problems (difficult not in integration, but in algorithm) require total concentration and absense of distractions. Therefore you better not be in the office, and (more heresy) be totally disconnected.

Turning off the interenet is a good thing sometimes.
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Hmm, I recently decided to get into the webapp/js stuff and decided to start with Ember, but the lack of documentation was too much for me. Now I'm learning angular and I love it.

Could you elucidate more on your decision? Specifically, was anything harder in angular/easier in ember?
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You didn't answer his question about monitization. How will the product stay alive?
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Problem is, users don't run collections of browser features. They run... browsers. So we test with browsers, to verify our code works in those browsers our users run. So we say "this code is supported by browsers 1, 2, and 3." because we know that, because we tested those browsers.
Would be interesting if Goldman also made a stack off the original trades.
This article seems to focus on closed-source solutions. What about Linux? If the Trusted Computing code would be open-source, that creates another rather huge problem for the big brother and big media. Does that mean Linux machines would be unable to connect to the internet? Or would they need closed-source Trusted Computing drivers instead?
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It's not that uncommon for people this intelligent and enterprising to be completely bored out of their mind in high school and get mediocre grades. Prestigious schools, in general, don't accept "the best" but instead accept a certain type of student/personality.
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The mandatory ability to add keys or disable Secure boot is also quite likely just as secure, except that you still own your device.

I'd even be happy if it was a hidden switch like on the first Chromebooks.

Without Linus tinkering on his own machine back in the '90s, we may have never had Android today. We may have never had OS X on x86 if the random apple employee hadn't decided to try to do it one day.

I support the ability to make, modify, and create. Having good products is important, but let's not sacrifice too much.

Cars still have hoods, even the fanciest ones. Let's not put locks on the computer equivalent.
This is better than both I agree.

Of course the real issue is one should not be changing corporate policy because of a few bad apples.

Better, if possible, to address the undesirable behaviour first before taking more drastic measures.
>An 'ad' doesn't have to be paid for. And connotations are not definitions.

Language changes.

I don't know anyone who refers to unpaid positive reviews as advertisements--doing so just confuses people.
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Thanks for the link. I'd never heard of CheckVist or WorkFlowy. Having just tried them both, CheckVist is certainly more feature rich (due dates, formatting, multiple lists etc) whilst still being simple and keyboard driven.
The problem with your argument is that smartphones and tablets are sold as general purpose computers. They are sold as platforms. The tasks they perform are open ended by design. You can't just take that back.

None of the security and simplicity arguments hold any water because no one asks platform/device vendors to provide support to someone who decided to replace the OS or guarantee their security.
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I agree wholeheartedly.

I don't know, maybe 20 years ago average young computer hobbyists were writing small OSes, but today, people write websites and mobile apps. 20 years ago everything was simpler. You could learn about ins and outs of 8086 in a week, and it was "practical" to have such low-level access to hardware. Today, the landscape has changed. We should change too.
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You're very lucky. My first computer was an old Dell that my parents were planning to throw away (as it was slow) but which I rescued and, whilst looking for ways to speed it up, stumbled across Ubuntu. That's how, aged 13, I first got into Linux. If we had been using computers with secure boot, I assume I would still have gotten involved with computers, but quite possibly at a much later stage and I highly doubt I would be at the same level I am now.

Plus, it's hard enough to get people to switch to Linux now as it is - telling people they need to buy new computers, that'll reserve Linux purely for geeks at a time when it is starting to appeal more and more to consumers (though admittedly, not quite there yet).
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Do the applicants have to be Usa citizens? Can somebody from Europe apply as well?
There are good and bad programming tasks in all fields. But the kind of "complex simple software" the GP talks about, where the actual task is mind-bogglingly simple but there are hundreds of edge cases in the requirements, is a lot less fun to write than something with more cohesive requirements (i.e. where you don't have to match what an existing business does)
The "Receive beautifully printed quarterly & annual reports with highlights and statistics." isn't prominent enough. To me, this is the killer feature - I've wanted this for years but I've been too lazy to collect it all myself.
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When you consider that SPDY is encrypted, the correct comparison is with https.

The fact that SPDY has performance close to http, while being encrypted on top of it, says that it is a worthwhile improvement.
Feeding post-it notes through a printer might be difficult though.
> I'd love to know what qualifies you to throw a word like incompetence around here.

I'm not sure what other word you could use. Total stuff maybe?

> So given the choice of taking a cash hit (a potentially short term affair), or a reputation hit (a much longer term and most likely fatal affair), it's entirely possible Knight knowingly made the right decision.

Except thanks to their competence they have taken a massive cash hit and their reputation lies in tatters.

I suspect the damage to their reputation is so bad they will be lucky to survive.
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It is exactly like stealth viruses in DOS, 20 years ago.

The problem is not overwriting MBR; the problem is privilege escalation (in this case, ability to install it's own driver without user's knowledge). The operating system has means to make all processes behave. So now Microsoft throws up hands and says, that they cannot make Windows secure?
Customers generally don't see an entire selection of working Android models. They see a plastic card representing the screen for most of them and maybe 1 working one that the salesman is using.

If you walk into Walmart and compare One X and Galaxy 3 the only reference you get for the quality of the screens is that the 4.8 inch Galaxy S3 is a bit bigger then the 4.7 inch HTC One X.
Ultimately it is just the same problem as with digesting information created by humans. Humans also misinform, out of malice or because they don't know better. The solution is rationality, I suppose. You have to verify the claims that are being made. The bots of the future will just have to get better at that.
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I cannot detect mouse support, except on the assumption of no touch support.

But to check for touch support, all you have to do is test for the existence of ontouchstarted on the window object.
The author might not be aware that good bagels are not available everywhere in the world. If bagel delivery was available where I live, I might "like" the idea, too. I can not just walk around the corner and buy a good bagel.
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This is the way I look at it. When you write if-else-then statements all day long for a living you should probably be trained to think that way about everything. That's what happens to me all the time. I tend to consider the "else" and "else if" conditions almost instinctively. So, for example, if I am using a laptop at the diner table, I'll be sure to drape the power wires such that there's slack in the event of a tug. I'll also place a chair over the cable going to the wall so that there are very few ways for the kids to run into the cord and rip it out of the wall or computer.

I am, by no measure, infallible. Maybe I've just been lucky with notebooks.
> Particularly when that OS is closed source

Not exactly: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?ti...
I can't find the links at the moment, but some HFT guys have responded to relevant Slashdot articles over the years.

From what I remember from those accounts, traders often like to tweak algorithms at the last second and there is little to no QA before changes gets pushed live.

It's sort of a byproduct of the necessity for speed. Algorithms are quite complex, and even running a basic test suite that takes a few minutes may be deemed unnecessary.
Did the nuggets concern software or people?

I think useful advice about the latter is far more rare about the other kind.
$440M? Hey, that's exactly the amount Knight Capital Group lost due to unchecked trading algos run amok... number 1 and 2 stories on HN.
Point is you dont know what the loss is.

1) They bought too much stock (incorrectly)

2) realized WTF, stopped everything

2a) more likely their clients said WTF is wrong first

3) had to sell the stock for the rest of the day.

Its only after they sold everything did the $440MM price tag surface. Hopefully they sold most of their positions to goldman (instead free market) so one of their investors made a boatload of cash.. giving them favorable terms for a line of credit.
Great response! I appreciate the thoughtfulness, and you've re-earned my respect.

That ways to learn line should include getting subject matter experts to explain their field to you. E.g., many professors reply to a cold email.

And yes, I'm only 22 and filled with naive optimism :-). But I'm channeling that energy into doing an AR glasses startup instead of some web thing.

I'll help the world with my research even if I have to spend my every penny doing so, and I wish more people would attempt the same.
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