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Food agriculture in the developed world already takes only something like 1-2% of population - the rest of food jobs are in processing and other sectors.

The lawnmower example isn't what we're seeing already now - we have structural unemployment of young average people who could and would do simple jobs like mowing lawns, flipping burgers and cleaning sidewalks; but there already are millions more of them than such jobs. And with every year, millions these simple jobs are going away, and unlike all the previous tech-job-shifts, this time the new industries aren't creating new jobs for them. Software developers are hiring other people for lawns and babysitting, but they are currently replacing much more people in "obsolete" industries with high-tech low-headcount disruptive business models.

I do agree with your comments about what's important and how it should be - but it's not really relevant when estimating what will actually be; wishful thinking won't solve it, especially as it's clearly beneficial for the powerful to ignore this problem as long as possible.
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Generally, but 639372 * 563728292 is trivial yet difficult to write out.
I've been dealing with this exact experience the last couple of weeks, after being asked to take ownership of a huge codebase. From what I've noticed though, saying "I don't understand" usually triggers a more detailed explanation of the existing design, leaving out the "why" part unanswered, and ending with me still completely baffled. I've had to resort more often to "Can't we just..." type questions, and while that elicits a more useful answer that makes everything click into place, I'm afraid of looking like an asshole who thinks he knows the answer to everything. Isn't there some compromise between these two styles?
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Visas for interns are actually pretty straight forward in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-1_visa
I would argue that thingist is actually a micro-blogging platform that has renamed tags to lists. :)

Mine (http://lists.io) turned into a useful app for me as well, but I had to deviate pretty far from our initial idea (which was nearly identical to this) for that to happen.
A therapist can just be someone non-judgemental to talk to, most importantly one not tainted with any particular ties - be they familial, business or whatever. It's amazing how much you can get out of the simple act of talking through your thoughts with another human being who has no agenda other than what you've already seen on their rate card.

To use a programming related metaphor, it's a bit like rubber ducking (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking), where a deep and difficult abstract problem can suddenly cease to be such during the mere process of explaining it to a stranger. Suddenly the faults in your own reasoning become obvious, and the very act of sharing what's troubling you makes it more concrete and approachable.
It's interesting how these unknown unknowns relate to Dunning-Kruger effect and also how people with limited knowledge tend to be more sure about themselves. I recall someone wrote an interesting article about those, but can't find the source right now.
There's a very big difference between imagining murdering people because they are annoying you and actually threatening it (like she claims her son has done). So I'll give her a pass on that. An amusing anecdote from Steven Pinker: http://youtu.be/LJvqR6Y9acw

>In surveys of homicidal fantasies, the question "Have you ever fantasized about killing someone who you don't like?"... 75% of men admit to at least occasionally having fantasized about killing someone. What does this say about human nature? It says that 25% of men are liars.

I'm not sure which son is which. It would be pretty damning if the Steve Jobs kid was also supposed to be the mentally ill kid. None of the behavior she describes there is unusual or to me even disagreeable. The damn kid sounds like a genius who happens to be liberal (who is young and isn't?) and has an obsession with Steve Jobs (I'm guilty). But some people are saying in the comments that they are separate kids.

>If I am wrong about this, I truly apologize.

I'm thinking an apology may be on the way.
Definitely a thought that others and myself have had.
Also, people who never say "I don't understand" will never get explanations of concepts they don't understand. The more you say this phrase, the faster you'll learn.
Like graue said, Firefox OS is for phones only. However, installing Firefox was just about the first thing I did when I got my Cr-48. http://i.imgur.com/eCWwJ.png
The countries that do not have "tighter regulations" (by which gun control proponents usually mean impossibility for a regular person without special connections or exceptional trade to obtain a firearm unless he proves to the state his life is in immediate jeopardy) also have lower violence levels than USA. See Switzerland for example. On the other hand, Norway has pretty strict gun laws, which did not prevent Breivik from committing his crimes.

Can we conclude now that plural of anecdote is not data, or do you have any actual data that shows banning lawful citizens from possessing means of self defense actually prevents violent crime?
What is wrong with hand holding? If someone never outgrows it, they may meet a lower salary for being inefficient. If someone succeeds without it, it doesn't happen. If someone needs it and doesn't get it, we spend twice as long cleaning up mistakes. In any case, handholding itself is never the problem, and avoiding it just masks more serious problems while regarding communication and relationship building.

The office is not the place for chest thumping dominance displays and contests of will.
I had a talk with my son. He said he wasn't ready. I agreed. The angel said that whenever he feels he is ready, offer stands. Enough to put a structure around him and allow him to focus on products. One manager, one sales/bizdev...enough to cover their salaries for a year or two.
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I think that a better critique of "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother" can be found here [1], and discussed on hacker news here [2]. I think it is more productive to focus on the content of the original post than the author.

[1] http://thegirlwhowasthursday.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/you-ar...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4929592
From is the username they subscribed to.
Subject has the website url along with the the exact type of notification it is.

Content is very short and sweet.
This is the first thing I look for in candidates. Ability to ask questions. There is no such thing as a dumb question, there is no such thing as asking too much (almost). The most confident and able developers I worked with were those who felt free to say "I lost you at your first sentence".

I think that it is the explainer's responsibility to explain it in a way that will be 1) understood by others 2) not intimidating, so if it's not understood, people will still feel they can ask.

Crafting an explanation in a way that others can follow is one of the most powerful and useful skills a developer or manager can strive to achieve, not just the ability to understand others who don't have this skill.

E.g. if I hear "I don't understand" I don't think "ok, this person is not getting it", but rather "my explanation should be better"
I've always used the words "I don't know". My mother kept telling me she hated hearing those words. I can imagine that she was pissed that I didn't take a guess, but guess what? I hate guessing! I hate making decisions and jumping to conclusions based on partial knowledge.

Almost every environment I've been in - whether it be high-school or grad-school, a corporate setup, a startup,; I've found that "I don't know"/"I didn't get you" goes a long way. The other person in the picture usually goes out of their way to make me understand what I'm missing.
Windows 8 will have to deal with that downward price pressure as well. Except perhaps for business, which I suspect will be Dell's target.
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Ribbonfarm is truly top-notch, one of my absolute favorites as well.

I also like http://lesswrong.com/ but I think its pretty well known.
I'll start :)

http://cooperpress.com/ find all their newsletters to be quite useful
Maybe the questions were exactly as silly as they seemed. I noticed this too, people (e.g. students) asking stupid stuff simply to force others to interact with them. It's a silly manipulation but it works well, too. It's a good maneuver to feign interest and enthusiasm, and to make superiors remember your name.
I think we actually talked to each other a while ago :)
In the viral post, the Mom wrote "I need help" and "This problem is too big for me to handle on my own". That's really the key thing here, independent of how her marriage turned out or whether she uses a blog to vent. She's losing control of the situation and is concerned her son will do something stupid in an act of rage. Her post is a plea to the general public to help people with mental illnesses, because sometimes the people in their vicinity aren't able to. Making her look bad detracts from that message, but does not take away from it (IMHO).
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This article [1] seems to highlight a number of issues with the original.

[1] http://thegirlwhowasthursday.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/you-ar...
Link to the actual paper?

"Gun death" is a very suspect term. If you equate some fool shooting himself while trying to repeat what Bruce Willis did on TV, actual violent homicide crime and potential rape victim shooting the attacker, and add there policemen shooting suspects (which they can do at smallest provocation) - you get quite a wrong picture. I wonder also how places like Chicago - where they had mafia-initiated gun bans - fared in this paper. I also find it very suspect that poverty level, etc. did not have correlation - do they want to tell me Chicago ghetto and some rich millionaire neighborhood in non-gun-control state have same level of crimes with use of guns? Very hard to believe without seeing the actual authenticated data.
As an instructor I have the opposite problem. How can I encourage students to say “I don’t understand”?
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I credit a large portion of my success in my chosen career to my ability to say 'I don't know, but I can find out' in response to questions outside my expertise.
Google got Matias Duarte from WebOS at the end of Gingerbread so he had minimal effect on that / honeycomb. Android is a huge, slow beast so it took a while to improve.
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For "better results" I mean that if I try to search a movie in one of these APIs here above, my API it's likely that succeed where these will fail (eg. little known movies or translated titles)

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Most of these "fantasies" come across as tongue-in-cheek rants of a frustrated mother.

Dysfunctional family, yeah. Over-sharing on a public blog? Certainly. Mentally ill? Not so sure.
I agree - I find the clean crisp look of the new iOS GMail App to be very pleasing. On the small iPhone screen, it improves readability and functionality. Ditto for the new Maps App. Compared to where Google iOS apps were a year or two ago, they have really moved ahead. Contrast this to the abominable Apple Podcasts App! I'm a big Apple fan, but some of the latest software releases are beginning to really make me wonder what's going on in the heads of the Apple developers.
I see! Although (correct me if I am mistaken) a lot of US internship positions require that you are already eligible to work in the US, clarifying that they cannot offer help with visa applications etc.
More to the point, people turn off their brains when they hear 'This was my fault'. They stop investigating further once the blame has been assigned.

It's more important to do the classic 'five whys' than to assign blame.

A scenario:

Maybe Joe forgot to do the maintenance task.

Maybe he forgot because he's been working overtime and is tired.

Maybe he's been working overtime because there aren't enough sysadmins.

Maybe there aren't enough sysadmins because hiring good sysadmins is difficult.

If you stop with just 'Joe's fault', you miss the point - time to spend some effort on recruiting new sysadmins. Worse, you might damage Joe's morale or even alienate him through punishment, even though that only makes the root cause worse.
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I understand this the following way: when nobody claims "ownership" of a mistake, everybody (ie. in a team) feels guilty about it, even of they had no control over what lead to this mistake. If someone says clearly that it was his mistake, everybody else may stop worrying and either concentrate on something else or help mistaken person avoid such mistakes in the future.

This has nothing to do with scapegoats, but my understanding can be, of course, completely off.
The same is true of scientists: the best among them say "I don't know" or "I don't understand" all the time.
The real problem with CAPTCHAs is that people are paid less than $1 per thousand to solve them, mostly in 3rd world English speaking countries. To write a script to break every different CAPTCHA out there seems like a lot of work when paying a few bucks will do the job even better. I think this is an easy to use CAPTCHA, and they say it will work on any device. That.s good enough for me, as I type on my tablet, with tiny keys and fat fingers.
Is it really possible that Apple orders aren't seen or discussed across divisions on or off the record? It seems very unlikely that the phone guys have no idea what Apple is up to.
Huh? Holo has been around for a while now (1 year, 3 months). Yes, people in the iOS/Blackberry/Symbian world: Android is not the same as it was during the 1.x/2.x series.
Did you usually just say "I don't understand"... or was it more like "I get how a works with b when c occurs. But you lost me when you were talking about how it happens over z, I don't get the distinction, could you go into that?"

It's not about plain ignorance, but conscious incompetence. That can be a great deal of work to attain in a given domain, getting to that "I know what I don't know" place so you can actually make pointed questions. You have to have a fairly good map of the territory already to begin filling in the gaps.

Many of those people furiously writing probably didn't even know where to begin to ask... just write the stuff down now, understand later. Asking "I don't understand" doesn't make you look stupid, it's the follow-up "what don't you understand?", and then showing you can't even get into a proper discussion about your ignorance.
Nothing. http://www.nanocrowd.com/
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Yes, quite open for -skilled- workers and even more open to students. I emphasize the "skilled" part because trust me, you don't want to come all the way here to engage in low-skilled labor.
Highly skilled work is already too life-consuming enough.
However I don't know how the construction sector would be, it is the equivalent of the American military industry (i.e. that's where they will throw ridiculous amounts of money whenever they want to "stimulate the economy") and with the LDP winning the elections yesterday the pouring of concrete all over Japan will go back to usual.

If it is skilled work, I recall any undergraduate degree overseas plus a job offer are the main requirements you need to get a work visa. Yes, no need to wait for a space to open as is the case with the H1 visa in the US.
And I think this year the process got even easier.

To get a contract, well, if you can speak Japanese then you are halfway there. If you can't, I can suggest:

1. The companies that seem to be hungry for IT/software engineers (judging from the amount of spam I get from recruiters), may take your from whenever you are, and where probably Japanese language skills are not important are: GREE, Rakuten, Amazon Japan. I think you can apply to those through their websites.

2. Message me so I give you a list of recruiting companies that seem to specialize in foreigners in Japan.

3. Some people recommend checking out www.gaijinpot.com from time to time.
I'm sick of tech blogs that drool over Apple crap. Same with Microsoft. They just want to take more and more control away from the user.
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I think that's indicated by 'AOAKN' which is repeated as the first and last group of the message. Putting it first allows the receiver to begin decryption immediately (or get the part that was sent successfully before the sender was 'silenced'), duplicating it at the end allows you to decrypt the part you got if you tuned in to the transmission late.
Now you know what Dell should really do for their stockholders...
I was pretty impressed with Facebook's data export option as well (click "Download a copy" on https://www.facebook.com/settings).
I love that accepting bitcoin is now a very effective viral marketing tactic: it's going to lead to rapid adoption.
keeps me in touch with Alan Kay-esque thinking

Heck, keep in touch with Alan Kay and his minions: vpri.org/writings/
I've just tried with a Film for testing.

Title: "La Ricerca della Felicità"

Expected: "The pursuit of Happiness"

No results. Nanocrowd.com failed.
I doubt stock Android had anything to do with it.

The Nexus 4 is a good smart phone at iPod Touch prices. Who doesn't want that?
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If you are guessing that all engineers who understand how to use the command line are well-organized, I can provide you at least one certified example of one who doesn't match your worldview. This is awesome.
Cool! Thanks Mike.
The main difference being that the modification was code sent to, and then executed by, the end-user's browser in the form of a Java applet.

I personally believe that Lavabit (a tiny company composed of a few dedicated folks) would rather shut down service than do something as underhanded as what Hushmail did.

In either case, the end user is relying on a proprietary system/company to fight the good fight for them, which is foolhardy if your well being is on the line. Those in need of strong privacy would probably use PGP+tor for communication anyway.
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The parent post was being sarcastic since it's fairly well-known that the Chinese government does not have a 'hands off' approach to their economy.
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This article seems more like an Ad-Hominem attack upon Liza Long than any kind of critique on the points raised in I Am Adam Lanza's Mother.
There are plenty of mass killings with knives as well. If you completely got rid of semi-auto guns, people would use bolt action guns. If you get rid of those, people will use knives. People have been killing each other since the beginning of time.

You clearly have no knowledge of guns, how they work, how they are currently regulated. The reason automatic weapons aren't used in shootings, is that they cost > 10k.

Yes, it is easy to kill a lot of people with a semi auto handgun. It would also be really easy to kill a lot of people with a bolt action gun. Or a pump action shotgun, and yet no one talks about banning those. For some reason we've become fascinated with "scary assault rifles". You should come out to my farm and shoot a few watermelons and you'll see that it's a lot of fun.

The guns aren't the problem. The crazy guy shooting people is the problem. If the principal and the teachers that are sane had guns with them, or there were some security officers or police with guns, this wouldn't have happened. Would you like to take the guns away from the police too?

If you outlaw all guns, then only the outlaws will have guns. That is a worse option.

Sorry for the rant, I just get really frustrated when people who haven't done any research into the subject make assertions that are simply not accurate.

If we could go back in time 400 years and ban all guns that might be a good idea, at this point the cat is out of the bag though. Please don't take my guns, I'd like to be able to defend myself against the crazy people that already have them.
The important difference is that nobody outside Microsoft can tell you whether something like this is in their current releases - and Microsoft will never say a word about it.

With Android we don't need to wait for Samsung or Google to acknowledge the problem and fix it. As someone else pointed out, Cyanogenmod is already patched.
It's been years since I used Windows, but these days if I wanted fast incremental backup in Windows, I'd just use LVM or BTRFS mounted in a Linux VM and shared over Samba.
Do you have any resources for anyone who is porting from jekyll/octopress/nanoc to middleman? Even a short post describing particular porting pains you ran into and how you mitigated them would be great.
Better yet, create a filter for linkedin and have the filter first forward the mail to abuse@linkedin.com with a header explaining why and then throw it in the trash.
tclsh is a REPL (Read/Eval/Print Loop) coded against libtcl. libtcl is _easily_ integrated into any C (C++) development project. tclsh is but one.
It allows requiring an email address.
Can you really identify the number of columns being used by looking at a layout? And is Bootstrap the only one to use 12-columns?

I've used Bootstrap as a starting point for several apps and have modified the grid setup before, but it wasn't because I thought it looked like Bootstrap.
"X accepts bitcoin" where as X is a notable entity of some kind. (4chan, wordpress, Internet Archive, etc)
"If you know rails and can throw together a nice webapp, and you're studying CS, you're qualified to do real work."

Dead on. I cannot stress this enough. The world is full of people that need little apps done. I'm a CS major, and I've never been without a friend or two bugging me to do a project for them. There are also many companies that need a competent web developer. With time and effort, you can effectively shortcut the internship and gain real experience, doing real projects and get paid real money.
At our shop, we drive to specific "causal" or "responsible" event/party so that we know, as best we can, what actually happened. Nothing punitive about it, and every one of my best colleagues have 5 or 6 figure losses that they had a prominent role in causing.

I only care who, what and how for the purpose of minimizing the chance of recurrence or to improve our response when a third-party causes a recurrence.