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Startups don't have to be VC backed and don't have to work long hours. We aren't and we don't.
Great article. The programming practice "drills" come a little short though. You'd be better off reading the article and then deciding for yourself the way you should practice. My favorite ways of practicing and keeping my programming skills up-to-date is to do micro-projects taking about 2 or 3 days. It can be some challenging algorithmic problem, or solving a problem in a new language I want to get familiar with, or using a new library to do some interesting tasks, or trying a new build tool on one of my old projects. It's fun, it doesn't take long to get bored or tired and you learn something new.
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From September 2010: http://lifehacker.com/5650175/how-to-get-cheap-or-free-in+fl...
With regards to view cleanup code in Backbone - in the github develop branch [1], the view is now a little more active in its memory cleanup. A dispose() function was recently added which removes any handlers added in the view's 'events' object, as well as any collection or model listeners where the view is passed as the third argument (callback context). This function is also called by the view's .remove(), taking care of the majority of basic memory cleanup needs when the element is cleared from the screen.

[1]: https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/commit/3ae1af6df1b...
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Thanks... but I hope you read the article beyond "affect"
Most private colleges charge the maximum you can possibly afford after going into significant debt.

The "maximum you can possibly afford" goes up on almost a 1:1 basis for every dollar in the child's name.

You might as well just write the check directly to the college as a donation. At least you can deduct it as a charitable donation that way (assuming it's a qualified non-profit blah blah).
Actually a lot of research over the past few decades has shown there is not really evidence for 'learning styles' - that one person might be a visual learner, and another an auditory learning, and so forth.

Learning isn't just about sensing (hearing, viewing), anyway, it is more about action. What are the students actually doing, and what can students do with a particular tool. Actually everything we perceive is tied to what we do (see: enactivism, embodied cognition, ecological psychology).

Many students aren't 'getting' programming in CS classes partly because it is not taught well (if instructors switched from lectures to active learning techniques, student retention and learning might double or triple, based on research in other domains), partly because the tools themselves are not designed especially well or are not designed with beginners in mind (including python and java), partly because it is often taught devoid of any context (see, situated learning and situated cognition), partly because of low student self-efficacy (what you mentioned - thinking they just can't learn this stuff), and tons of other reasons.
A good idea is more powerful than a bad environment.
On the one hand, you're saying that it's a huge keyspace because you might choose from such a huge number of works and there are so many possible variations. My criticism of that version of your idea is that those variations are as hard to remember as random words.

On the other hand, you're telling people "use a sentence from something you like", which is likely to result in only the smallest exploration of that keyspace -- the most popular lines out of the most popular shows or movies, with only a small number of capitalization or punctuation variants. If people are going to pick things like "to be or not to be" or "I can kill you with my brain", then you're suggesting something that's not particularly secure (and may already be contained in many dictionary attacks).

So the approach you advocate is fundamentally insecure, which you've argued can be made secure by adding exactly the sort of measures that confuse the issue for the people you say will benefit from the approach.

Here's an easier approach: tell people "anything you can find in a dictionary or on a list of quotes, hackers already have on their computers. To make a password hackers don't already know about, you need to put some random words together." Then point them to passphra.se and tell them to hit "generate another" until they get something they like. They can even add in more words to make it more memorable, or mix their random words into a movie quote ("I can melt you with my smoky vegetable universe", in River Tam's voice... creepy and memorable.)

In other words, instead of starting with "memorable" and then trying (and probably failing) to add enough entropy without sacrificing memorability, start with enough entropy and then make it memorable.
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This is nice for website redesign competitions, i.e. when you want to involve your users in your next redesign and give prizes for the best ideas...
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"Since they're implementing this in a stupid way, it's perfectly valid to exploit their method[...]"

Really?

If you went to buy something on Amazon, and found they had a "stupid" vulnerability you could exploit in order to get half off of your order—maybe some Javascript hack that made the part of their system that calculated the price you pay think you actually ordered a smaller version of the product—is that immoral?

Is leaving your house or car unlocked a sufficiently stupid vulnerability to become "perfectly valid to exploit"?
The link you provided provides no explanation for why Facebook would be storing a previously used password of mine (which is quite a few characters different than my current one).
What "proof" is required? The original receipt?
How do you know that the interviewee wasn't contacted first?

Does 'hardly in a position' dictate what is a reasonable and polite way to treat people?

If company needs programmer and programmer needs job, the relationship is more or less symmetrical. If the company doesn't really need a programmer that much, I guess you are right that the programmer is not in a position to do anything except lick boots.
Come on -- show us the wording of the question, sample size (apparently 1000 people), who was asked, and how they were asked. Otherwise it's another hyped statistic.

> an additional 17 percent have pretended to know what the cloud was during a first date.

Hopefully also a last date. :)
Any programming paradigm is going to at minimum have something like an if statement.

Say you wanted to do something when two items compare equal, in text you could write
something like:
if (a == b) { ... }

With a visual metaphor, you are going to have to have some way of setting up entities
representing the 'if', and the '==' predicate, along with references to wherever 'a' and
'b' are defined, and a way of getting to the block of code that executes when the condition
is true.

I find it hard to conceive that any kind of direct manipulation of code at this level
is going to be better than text, whether you're trying to understand it or modify it.

I grant you visual tools for manipulating higher level stuff like data schema's, gui's,
and so forth work well, but I'm guessing they'll always need text for the underlying
logic.
That's fine with me. You've shifted the argument back to the overall case and refused to address my specific concern about the answer to question (i), so I'm just going to declare myself the winner of this branch, if that's OK with you.
An effective opinion piece should make arguments that are intelligible and convincing to knowledgable readers. If somebody was trying to argue that the SV funding model was fundamentally broken but confused basic terms, they would be rightly excoriated. If a knowledgable reader dismisses the writer as ignorant and confused on the subject, the best that the piece can aspire to is agitprop for riling up people that know little about the area but want to have an opinion on it.
There's nothing stopping you from having only certain parts of a page or application use Ember. Several people use this approach successfully.

See the `rootElement` property of `Ember.Application`: http://docs.emberjs.com/#doc=Ember.Application&src=false
I flagged this comment--this is an unwarranted and extraordinarily mean-spirited accusation, accusing the founders of seeking to steal from the poor, based entirely on a scenario that the author seems to have made up based on one article he read about one incident. Actually, this comment is so awful, I wish there was a way to flag the people who upvoted it!
But whose clock do we trust? No clock on this planet is in an inertial frame of reference. Over time, clocks at different latitudes and altitudes will diverge because they are moving at different speeds, even if they have the same atomic decay "tick" process. Which do we pick as the standard?

Even if one clock were picked, observations of when the clock ticked would vary over the planet as well.

Astronomical distant fixed points are more stable over long time spans than Earthbound clocks or the Earth's rotational and orbital characteristics, and the relative displacement with regard to Earthbound distance is negligible.
I've never gone to an interview "asking for a job". I've gone to a few interviews to see if we could mutually benefit from me working with them. I have a good idea of my worth and I have the technical skills and background to demonstrate that giving me money in exchange for the use of my time is a net positive to an employer.

The servile mindset is not necessary, and a company that would get pissy if you did what they would if they decided you weren't what they wanted to hire is a company with (no, not 'for', not really) whom self-respecting people need not work. Our time spent living is more valuable than catering to people desperate for asymmetric power-trip relationships.
That was a good read [1].

It certainly would seem logical that an SRE would be software conservative.

I seem to be a macro liberal who holds specific conservative positions. Perhaps not surprisingly, a friend and fellow engineer who I believe I've done some of my best work with would seem to be a complimentary opposite.

1: https://plus.google.com/u/0/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSK...
I think that since a company is deciding on the structure of the interview day they have a responsibility to be transparent about the process beforehand. This is a different situation to the person being interviewed.

For my current company the invitation to the interview says that if they like you then you will be invited to continue to another stage of the interview after lunch (they deliberate/discuss while you have lunch).
"To me that’s far more interesting than a tech company that’s hiring a bunch of people, just got their fourth round of financing for 12 million dollars, and they’re still losing money. That’s what everyone talks about as being exciting, but I think that’s an absolutely disgusting scenario when it comes to business."

Hilarious given that Jason Fried was on the board of directors of Groupon (his comments on this "disgusting scenario" here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160).
"Thanks for figuring out for us what monetizes and what doesn't!" -- Twitter (and Craigslist, apparently)
Do a trust for your kids if:

1. Funding college is not a concern for whatever reason.

AND

2a. You have enough assets that someone might try to sue your estate for a piece of it when you die.

or

2b. You want to make things as easy as possible for your kids on the day after you die.
Good start, however Craigslist needs to do a lot more than adding maps. For example, real estate listings need to have transportation options. Part of the reason why we started http://www.realtywarp.com is because renters need more information about a given neighborhood before visiting a listing. Renters tend to have a preference for a specific square or metro. That said, they will not be visiting a listing if they do not have that information immediately available.

Here is an example of what craigslist could be doing with maps and transportation options:

http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/fee/3181869892.html
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$12 from Amazon.

I have used them for years.
I did, I was just being a pedant ;)
Unless there's something differentiating the two services, product "A" and product "B" are the same product, with different prices.

I find GoGo's double pricing to be the most morally objectionable thing about this whole situation.
But that's not what your article was about!

First, relax. No need for name calling (in your earlier comment), no need for getting overly excited with exclamation marks. Maybe there's a case to be made for better authorship and I welcome feedback, but as an honest suggestion please read http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html. It is very helpful as a guideline for making constructive criticism.

Second, different reasons for why the principle doesn't hold water resonate with different people. If it doesn't resonate with you because some other reasons seem to you more profound then please add to the discussion (as you've done in different comments), just be wary to do it well even when very passionate about the subject.
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But it also depends on how the trust is created. I have no idea how TrustEgg establishes the trusts, but many people set up trust funds for their children - but name the child as an alternate beneficiary, after themselves. So, if I set up a fund for my child - the trust fund would be mine until I died. Assuming I was still alive while my kid was at college, the trust fund would be mine and not hers.
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What do you think will get more clicks?

The original intriguing and funny title "You can now kickstart a space elevator" or this lame ass boring "Space elevator science"?

Which of the two could get more people potentially interested in science?

You guys are just not about the fun are you?

BTW: Who edited the title?
Jeff - Founder/CEO - A UTMA is in the child's name, so 20% of the assets are considered for financial aid.
http://www.axa-equitable.com/plan/education/can-UGMA-UTMA-ac...
Echofon does something similar for Instagram, Twitpic and Twitter's own image services.
If Microsoft is ever compelled to release a list of journalists paid to be favorable to them, I'm quite sure this will be among them.

It's been a while since I last saw a piece so replete with failed logic.

Why would phone makers want to give control of the single most relevant differentiator (software) to one company that has more than cozy ties with their former worst enemy? Oh... And the company is competing againt its former PC partners...

I understand not all decisions are based in logic, but only a fool would consider betting the farm on this horse.
I'm with you there. I didn't mean to imply that programmers don't need to know math. To the contrary, I find it very useful and keep a graphing calculator on my desk. I was just pointing out that knowing the value of PI isn't strictly necessary for this example, because by writing a quick script, one can determine the behavior of the sequence and figure out an appropriate stopping condition. The rest of it is just translating a formula into code.
Wow. It almost sounds like he runs his tech startup like a "real" company. Imagine that. ;-)
Perhaps you'd be a fan of SproutCore?
Again, this branch was to the specific question referenced by tptacek:

(i) Did the defendant knowingly access a system used by the federal government, a financial institution, or a system used in interstate commerce without authorization?

My beef is with GoGo's price difference in the first place.
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I'm talking about licensing support, not tech support; and more specifically licensing support of a service rather than a product.

Microsoft don't charge you to talk to a person when you have issues activating windows (and I've never had one of their products break when I changed region). I've never had to deal with any of their services breaking for me (only products) so I'm not sure whether they try to sell you a support subscription when you use eg http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/contact-us?isChatCallAvailable... , but I'd expect it to be free if it fell into the category of "stuff I purchased that you failed to deliver to me".
Yeah, this is basically the behaviour of a nut. It would be different if this was a multi-day interview process where the candidate has to come back (possibly flying in) several times over a period of weeks. In cases like that, it can certainly make sense to end the process after the first day if it really isn't going to be a good fit, because there is a significant future time investment that you can avoid by doing it.

In this case though, you're saving yourself a few hours (which you already had blocked out in your schedule) at the expense of alienating the people running the interview as well as the person that referred you. Not only that, but stalking off in response to a difficult interview where you are challenged is a huge red flag. That's especially true for a senior position where you're looking for the skills required to lead a team.

I see some people in this thread and in the original defending this guy's "right" to leave at any time. Sure, of course he has that right, but so what? I have the right to do and say all kinds of things that I choose not to do or say.

I'm pretty much always on the side of people who say that you shouldn't waste any of your precious time on Earth, but in this case that's exactly what this guy did! He would have to be outrageously productive to get enough work done in the few hours he saved to make up for the damage done to his (potential) network.

Not only that, but even at a company where he didn't care for the atmosphere it would beggar belief for there not be a few people at least that he'd like to work with in the future.
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I am familiar with the Kiddie Tax. I do not recognize the phrase "Kiddie Tax exemption." Please explain what that is.
Hehe, yeah, don't remember how many pages from my copybook went to the trash before I got "PriceFlurry" :-)
Well wouldn't the 51 percent be right? http://gigaom.com/cloud/some-of-amazon-web-services-are-down...
In fairness, that still doesn't make it a startup.
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"Written by an accountant, or at least someone who sees things as a bean-counter does" is not "name calling". It's an accurate expression of my reaction, which is a fair characterization of the voice of your article. Though PG is not god, feel free to ask him.

It's certainly no worse than "overly excited", which is a pretty lame dismissal of both my points and my passion. The exclamation point was incredulousness at your non-sequitor, you being the author of the article and the instigator of this whole thread.
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Could it have been that they already turned down all the other candidates, thinking you were a slam-dunk to join once the offer was made?

I've seen situations like there where everyone is quick to reject all candidates except their top choice, then have to go back to the drawing board when that choice doesn't work out.
> What do you think will get more clicks?

I hate to break this to you, but science is not steered by marketing, by "more clicks". It's steered by evidence. The Kickstarter project isn't about a "space elevator", unless a horse chestnut is actually a chestnut horse.

> Which of the two could get more people potentially interested in science?

Science isn't about persuasion, it's about objective evidence. Being "interested in science" means being interested in what's actually so, rather than being interested in Bigfoot and Ghost Hunters.

> You guys are just not about the fun are you?

Not when people are being asked to invest their money, no. When that's going on, I get dead serious.

> BTW: Who edited the title?

I believe it had to be the originator, he's the only one who has the right/ability to do that.
Just because a framework has models, views and controllers does not mean it gives them "equal weight".
They almost certainly don't store the password, just the hash. Why do you feel that's a problem?
Do as I say, not as I do.

Ego has this astonishing effect of completely bending[1] the space-time-reality fabric of the universe.

1. Or ripping it apart, depending on how well off you've become and how many sports cars you've bought.
I don't understand why half of the current comments on this article are currently bashing the Financial Times for such an underwhelming/"not very enlightening"/"poor" article.

This article is akin to the lobbying that any interested party does when they want to see change... To make a comparison... half of what Chris Dodds said from the MPAA was utter balls and constantly full of inaccuracies and litter picking his facts to suit him...

I don't particularly care if the Financial Times do the same here. Not every FT reader will be clued in to the inadequacies of the patent system, and I think this article does do a fantastic job of explaining in lay terms how much of shambles technology patents are.

Back when I studied Law at University, I actually remember my first lecture on IP and Patents; it was on "Justifications for Intellectual Property Rights". We talked about Venetian/Florence Glass Blowers and the Pharmaceutical Industry...

Comparing the different industries makes it easy to see how you can justify patents for one use case. Providing a limited monopoly in pharmaceuticals (for the most part) guarantees the incentive for the ridiculously high research and development costs that goes along with bringing a product to market.

Providing a monopoly right for technology where you position your fingers over a device to interact with it, is ridiculous and just shows how antiquated and behind the times the Law is.

Yes, the article might be muddling up some things, but it does a great job of bringing to attention how broken the patent system is for technology/software/computer implemented inventions.
> everyone using Internet Explorer is committing fraud

No - there's no financial gain from using IE.

He has manipulated his computer to inform web servers that his device is a mobile device. I'm not aware of any desktop browsers which use mobile device user agent strings during normal operation. Whether it is discretionary or not is irrelevant, the point is that he's deviated significantly from normal behaviour, deliberately, without any legitimate reason (e.g. he wasn't at the time say, testing a mobile site), in fact with only the intent to defraud.

Ultimately, user agent strings are not a brilliant way to create a legally binding contract - it would be much smarter to have the contract amended based on the user-string to include "I confirm that my device is a laptop", and make this click-through.
I got a smile out of the Cedar demo talking about documents as user interfaces. Arguably the concept of the web as a user interface pre-dates the web!
Then you do not understand what M and C does. It might be called a client but it is a stateful client. Views come and go , you organize your code in C and M and you'll have a robust long lasting application (in a desktop app, a mobile app or a browser app).
IF the family had $300 in disposable income to spend then yes, but if you are living paycheck to paycheck and have little to no savings that $300 is a lot of food for the family or is going to keep the lights on for a few more months. Many are probably aware that it is a good deal in the long term but if that investment makes you late on the rent or gets the power shut off then it isn't worth it.
If I asked you, "please define 'damaged'", would you then answer my original question?