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The best paying job a 20 year old can get might be in construction or the military, but this may limit your upside down the road.

From a purely financial perspective, money now is better than money later though. A 20 year old who secures a job that nets him enough to save $15,000 per year until retirement will ultimately have a lifetime net savings of about the same as someone who finally finds a job that pays enough to save $50,000 per year at the age of 40.
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So, to demonstrate the awesomeness that is HTML5, they show a video of HTML5 rendered in Flash?
You're right on the details, yet the symbol remains compelling. I find this interesting. When a symbol or meme takes hold and gets repeated, it's often because it captures something real – not usually accurate or logical, but resonant – about the thing. It's almost the default case for the details to be all wrong and discredited, yet the image hovers in the truth field of the thing it's about, often closer to the core than any accurate detail. "Igon value" is an example. Maybe Gladwell never typed i-g-o-n, and you're probably right to say so what if he did, yet there it sits in exactly the space of glibness approaching charlatanry that (a lot of people argue) he inhabits. It's almost as if there is a force of cultural justice that speaks in symbols, not facts, yet finds its mark anyway. I've noticed this over and over. Some of the best examples are political so I won't mention them here. But I'd like to see an example of the phenomenon where the repetition of the meme really is unjust.

As for Gladwell, he's a good storyteller, and part of what makes him interesting is that he glides so smoothly between things that we expect to be made up and things we trust to be factual. If Lehrer is a petty criminal then Gladwell is a master art thief. Bet he'd like that analogy.
Yes, it's blatant ageism. As much as we hate to admit it, our minds and bodies start to decline almost as soon as we reach maturity. Not only does raw intelligence drop as we age, but some personality traits change. Of the Big Five, openness to new experiences takes the biggest hit. See http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#aging and http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/www/external/labor/agin... for the scientific evidence.

Obviously these stats don't mean that old people are stupid and close-minded. Knowledge accumulates and helps offset many of the deficiencies. Still, this evidence does suggest that young people might want to change their behavior to benefit their future selves. This doesn't just mean making the most of the time you have. Exercise, continuous learning, and a few drugs can help to slow the decline. As an analogy, think of athletes. A 50 year-old is never going to win the Boston marathon. But with proper training, nutrition, and maybe a few performance-enhancing drugs, they can beat 95% of 25 year-olds.
While we're on the subject... Isn't it amazing what kind of rapid and effective response you get when the people in trouble are among the richest in the country (NYC/NJ coast) versus the poorest in the country (New Orleans)?

I'm not complaining. I'm back in my Manhattan office two days after a truly epic disaster. I rode the train into work this morning, along the coast of Long Island Sound no less. It took ~10 minutes longer than usual, but on the whole the recovery is phenomenally impressive.
On that point, I've been chided by my partner for having a crappy job in the Bay Area--one which offered plentiful opportunities for career progression, paid in the top quintile of one of the highest paying areas in one of the highest paying countries in the world, and which didn't have hours that were too ridiculous. That's the real danger of moving to a career-center like SF or NYC: the people who end up here score very highly on the getting their shit together in their 20s scale.

Thing is: she was right. Even though I was excelling at number 1) on the original post's three points, I wasn't super happy. And so I've moved from that to what I worry he might consider just dicking around. But it's absolutely 100% for the best.
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What makes you feel you're more entitled to have gas for your generator in an emergency than someone who can only afford a smaller multiple? Should you also have priority access to fire and EMS if you can afford to pay a bit more when need is high?
I got many, many calls (4 or 5 a week) from "Ann from Cardholder Services" during the spring and summer of 2012. I started hitting '1' and then dragging out the conversation with the customer service rep. After that stopped being fun, I would just tell the service rep to quit before they get arrested.

In the fall of 2012, I still hit '1' to be connected, but I never get to talk to a human. I'm not even on hold. The call doesn't terminate, but nothing happens to it, as if they route me to a grounding strap on a cold water pipe.
Good luck trying to tell other people how they should live their lives.

I can tell you that there are probably a hundred things I could've done better with my time in my twenties. However there was no way that I would have known then what I would be like today and what makes me happy now. Back then I thought I would keep gigging in bands and I'd scrape together a record label and have a long career in music. That's what made me happy at the time and what I sought out to do. How could I have known that I would change? I have a wife now and a daughter on the way, I've become a mild-mannered programmer who enjoys mathematics and literature, and rather than getting pissed on a Friday night and making a lot of noise I like to hang out with my friends and play board games. But if I was wiser I might have went to university and worked on getting a PhD then I'd probably be better off now, today. Hindsight...

What I'm saying is that humans are terrible planners. We're good at adapting and adjusting but we can never seem to be able to accurately predict outcomes. I think that we glorify those people who seem to far surpass the status quo and bend their stories into myth. It's romantic to think that Einstein or Steve Jobs had set out to change the world when they were young but if we're honest about their history it's more likely that they drifted towards those things and all the right pieces were in place at the right time to make great things happen.

And it doesn't end when you hit thirty. I'm still as ambitious as ever and I see new currents that I'd like to follow that I would never have thought possible before. You don't just become a dumb, boring, cantankerous old person over night. Quite the contrary; I find that my tastes are far more refined, I can see dead-ends before going down the path, and I am more adverse to wasting my time. You start to see patterns in the ocean and can navigate the seas with ease.

So plan all you want but be prepared to fight the current and the winds!
"jacking up prices has no benefit"

Jacking up prices gives distant suppliers an incentive to divert resources towards the disaster-struck area, reducing shortages.

Jacking up prices discourages people from buying goods that they don't really need, making them available to people who really do need them.

On the other hand, if prices are not allowed to increase, people have an incentive to hoard the scarce goods that they anticipate will become scarce. This of course creates those very shortages. And the hoarded goods go unused while the people who really need them are unable to buy anything.
I guess it depends on the country. Rare stuff sells. Depends on the type of person too. I've lived in Marbella and there's a lot of Ferraris and really expensive cars there, almost more than normal utility cars.

Now when I see a red Ferrari is like: oh nice, you've got the same car every rich guy has in the same fucking color, good for you!
I think this "electric grid can't handle it" is another piece of anti-EV FUD that is not representative of the situation in reality.

Right now, peak electricity usage times are during the day. This is why in most urban areas electricity is cheaper at night: they want to encourage you to distribute your usage more evenly throughout the day.

The NEMA 14-50 (a.k.a. standard appliance outlet that most people plug their dryers into) is a totally fine plug for an EV. It will charge the car up fully overnight. This plug is going to deliver you, at maximum, 40 amps at 220 volts.

Electric dryers often use something like 25 amps at 220 volts (of course it varies by machine). This is not far from the 40 amps we are talking about. So this whole "grid can't handle it" pseudo-panic is sort of like worrying that everyone is going to run their dryer at the same time, times 1.5, at off-peak hours. It is just not a big deal. FUD.
I think there's a reliability argument to be made as well. Most (all?) of the EC2 outages and partial outages over the past year or so have had their root cause somewhere in EBS. It's also why I hesitate to touch ELBs or RDS, since they both rely on EBS.
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There is no technical barrier stopping facebook from doing this, however Facebook stands to gain much much more in promoting an ecosystem for companies such as ourselves to exist. They traditionally haven't encroached on this space.
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This first two-thirds article is so contrary to my actual experience that I almost didn't finish reading it. Most people I know that uses a cutting-edge language bemoans the lack of tooling, and they often hack something up (usually as an editor plugin) to make due.

Thinking about it more, I do know some people that would fall under the authors definition of "Language Maven" and I think there it is not the lack of tooling that makes them eschew tooling, it that so much tooling is garbage. An example: when you use a cross-reference browser and it either misses some of the references, or lists so many false-references that you have too low a SNR to find what you were looking for, it makes you stop using cross-reference browsers.
Norvig on Chomsky:
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
> "Your brain finishes forming in your 20′s". If that's even true (although I doubt it)

It is true.
But gangrene frequently afflicts extremities. And fish heads are not often replaceable.

Metaphors often (generally?) make poor arguments for why X does Y.
No, we had gcc :-P but for a compilers class the goal is to write your own. Lots of people used gdb for debugging their assembly programs and probably at least half the people I know used Eclipse for development.
I suspect water could be considered a special case, since it is so immediately necessary.

What if, instead, we were talking about bread? Assuming that rich people are fairly rare, then raising the price of bread high enough to be expensive but not so high that people cannot pull enough cash out of their pocket to pay for it, then the effect seems to me like it should be an approximation of a ration.

Clearly if Donald Trump gets to the store first and buys all the bread then nobody else would have any, but he could do that no matter the price. So long as the price is painful but feasible for anyone to afford, everything should work out more or less okay.

If the price is so high that nobody but Donald Trump can afford the bare minimum necessary, then there is certainly an issue, but I suspect raising prices that high would not be very effective.
What do you mean by short covering from margin calls? What's causing the margin calls?
personally I don't need material stuff to impress one.

tesla S is impressive for the technological hipster crowd, yet it's the kind of ride you won't notice in the parking lot in a few years, and you won't fool anybody - those cars aren't exactly pussy-magnets.
You haven't posted any information I wasn't aware beforehand. Yes, things change, the way we use the web changes too. That's exactly the problem. Instead of just "going beyond" foundation, it would be much more sensible approach to expand it, i.e. change what's possible with core HTML/HTTP.
Gas in NY metro simply is more valuable now

The amount you are willing to bid on something under duress is not the way to construct a proper-functiong market. Its important to seperate the short-term from the long-term, in this regards. In certain cases, its rational to obviate the market, into hierachy. see, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-up_problem . This is precisely why firms are distinct from N-dimensional outsourcing arrangements, even under free-market capitalism, under ideal conditions.

So you can attack the problem from perfect conditions or imperfect ones. You may or may not like anti-gouging laws, but an plain vanilla analyis using under-graduate economics is naive to several critical factors.
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Could you define this 'strict capitalism' that you think 'ruins society'?

There is a lot of evidence that other economic systems do ruin societies (communism, socialism, command economies, crony capitalism, etc) but generally capitalism is credited with being the most successful system for producing wealth and lifting people out of poverty.
I haven't finished reading TFA yet, but so far it's really good, because it sounds like Chomsky is actually getting to the point.... which he sometimes does, and sometimes absolutely doesn't (or so it often seems to me).

If you're interested in this area, which you might call the philosophy of artificial mind, or philosophy of cognitive science, I strongly suggest reading the link to Norvig's article (linked in TFA, but here it is again: http://norvig.com/chomsky.html ). In particular, I'd suggest reading it before reading the actual interview with Chomsky (maybe ideally reading it after the prefatory part of TFA).

My own inclination is that on the face of it, I find Norvig's approach less satisfying, as Chomsky appears to, but upon much consideration my current belief is that Chomsky's approach is too mystical and too just-so, and Norvig's approach at least has the merit of bearing fruit... fruit that one day might be concentrated into a concise and elegant theory.
This is actually linked in the article.
If only I understood the meaning of being 'lean' 10 years ago
The emphasis is on "strict", not on "capitalism".
I remember when Clarkson wrote about his visit to Monaco, where even the most hi-end cars are so common, that Bugatti-Lambo-Rolls owners wanted to buy on the spot the TVR Tuscan he drove by, just because nobody else had one. still, a TVR is exotic and ridiculous enough to be in demand for high-rollers. the Tesla S, while technologically cool (Fisker Karma seems more impressive IMO), doesn't fit this definition. a Tesla Roadster is probably another story.
One thing I never see mentioned regarding tablets is what happens if you suffer from RSI symptoms. Moving your hand around the screen all the time or typing on hard surfaces sounds like a ticket to more pain.
You could start with the Flat world generator...
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Without getting into politics (too much)... there are a lot of reasons for different responses between this hurricane and Katrina. Parts of New Orleans being below sea level probably matters a lot. Plus, FEMA was pretty clearly mismanaged then and doesn't seem to be now. I think those two factors probably account for more of the variation than the wealth of the inhabitants does, and I'm sure that I'm unaware of other important differences.

edit: "sea level" should read "water level"
Being open to new experiences, in my opinion, is much more a matter of the people you surround yourself with, than with physiology. Sure, your brain may change a little bit in your 20s and not so much in your 30s, but if you have the right friends, perhaps some younger friends, they will drag you into new things.

I have felt that palpably running my own company for the last 5 years. In the first few years, it was just my wife and I doing everything, writing the code and running the business. As we started to make enough money that we could hire people, I started to notice how set in our ways we became.

Since we had started writing iPhone apps near the beginning of the mobile revolution, our code was written to suit older devices. In places, we did things for performance reasons so our apps would work well on old phones. Also, we never adopted ARC, because that's just not how we did it. But as we started to hire people, our engineers pushed us to change our old ways, and as a result, our code became much better.

So, I say - don't fear the reaper. Just find some young friends (or employees). I turned 30 this year, so I have a few gray hairs, but working with people in their 20s really has changed my ideas on the right way to do things, and given me perspective on my own life.
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The "right" way is to take endless numbers of videotapes of what's happening outside the video, and feed them into the biggest and fastest computer, gigabytes of data, and do complex statistical analysis -- you know, Bayesian this and that -- and you'll get some kind of prediction about what's gonna happen outside the window next. In fact, you get a much better prediction than the physics department will ever give. Well, if success is defined as getting a fair approximation to a mass of chaotic unanalyzed data, then it's way better to do it this way than to do it the way the physicists do, you know, no thought experiments about frictionless planes and so on and so forth. But you won't get the kind of understanding that the sciences have always been aimed at -- what you'll get at is an approximation to what's happening.

Chomsky seems to keep using naïve models as a strawman, and Norvig rightly calls him on it. If you use simple models, you can only get simple insights, but statistical machine translation (for example) builds probabilistic context-free grammars, which maps human notions of language far better than "make sure every three words in sequence is plausible".
It was huge! I didn't pair my phone to it, but all the features were very cleanly laid out (you control many things, from music, web, to climate control , fan speed, etc. from it).

In trying to imagine what it would be like to use while driving, I can see that it would work just fine.
Like I say, the 1920 seemed too small to me, given the not particularly great scaling in Windows at the time if I did want to use other resolutions, and the ones that I did find were usually around Apple prices anyway.
I would say having something original is the best way to get some credibility. For instance, when I started out in app development I built a couple of calculators that are specific to my engineering course at University. Nobody else had done anything similar. From that my career took off.
Are programming/rock climbing overlapping interests everywhere or more so in the Bay Area? The problem solving aspect of climbing (particularly bouldering) always appealed to me, and I always see programmers at the climbing gym. But it seems like a disproportionately high number of programmer friends (compared to other friends) climb in SF.
Not sure how that is relevant unless you plan on the engineers handling all the web requests.
The Apple trackpads are large at 5+ inches and responsive and reliable. I love mine. I had multi-touch and gestures hacked into a Linux driver on my old Dell five years ago but it was never nice like this.

And Apple also makes mice that do gestures and multi-touch on the touch responsive top surface.

Gosh, I sound like a fanboy here but I really despise the fruit-based company for their evil corporate practices. You just can't beat their hardware, though.
I'm not saying he's wrong about their efficiency. I'm saying it sucks to come behind someone and make blanket statements about their efficiency of utilization without knowing any details. If you worked there, you're in a much better place to comment.
>The additional boost to productivity is minimal

For me the biggest problem with edit-and-continue in Visual Studio is that you can only edit code when program is paused at breakpoint. You can't change drawing routine formula and observe effects on animation on the second screen. I've seen Notch doing that in Java and it was cool. In VS you get "Changes are not allowed while code is running" error when you start typing.

Even php/javascript feels more interactive than C#, just press F5 and watch the page change. In VS ASP.NET you have to restart whole site (10x longer).

Also edit-and-continue works only for very local changes.
"2) Statistically, women need to have all their children by 35.

According to the author, a woman’s ability to get pregnant plummets starting in her mid-thirties. To make matters worse, the odds of a miscarriage for a woman over 35 is one in four."

Our family doctor gave the odds as 3 in 5.

In practical experience, I know of four friends who have miscarried at 35 (after being pregnant for over 3 months), out of about 11 who had kids at that age.

My wife and I have always suspected that the 3 out of 5 statistic also includes miscarriages in the first two months of pregnancy where you might not have been sure you were pregnant or late.