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I would grant that they know within three orders of magnitude. If they think you're bringing $10m in value, you're probably bringing at least $100k. I'm not sure I'd concede anything more specific than that, though. A lot of enterprise consulting is the blind hiring the blind, or people hiring partisans for some kind of internecine battle. I haven't even sought it out, but I've seen, at pretty close proximity, millions of consulting dollars go directly down the drain.
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Apply at least the three latter to the article text and see if it helps.
>Lets point out the obvious: the user interaction of a small handheld device is very different than that of a computer with a full size monitor and mouse.

And what happens in-between? What happens in the case of tablets? Notebooks with a touchscreen? Future devices like large format displays with full UI, and future paradigms like gesture control?
Courts should have the option of making directors or whatever personally liable in the case of gross negligence (like cratering an adjacent building).

Either that, or mandatory insurance for these cases.

It's just unfair that someone is made homeless and faces the threat of being left out in the cold while the persons responsible are raking massive profits elsewhere. It's not a faceless meteorite crash, it was gross negligence.

I can't find the news in English, but:

http://www.lr21.com.uy/comunidad/430518-derrumbe-de-edificio...

In the case of patent trolls, "piercing the veil" is also complicated.

There's also the common practice of naming a figurehead as the person responsible for a company, while the real owners don't figure in the legal documents (we call them "testaferros" over here). I don't know what the solution is (I wish I did), but the current system doesn't seem to be working out well.
Well you don't get to complain about official channels when you don't make any attempt to use them.

Why not? As long as he isn't saying that he did try the channels and they didn't work, that doesn't invalidate the observation that they don't tend to work (or whatever).
To me it is far better than qwerty for the on-screen virtual keyboards in cell phones.
As someone for whom programming does not come naturally and is trying really, really hard to get it, I disagree with the article.

I see coding in the 21st century how some people must have seen knowing how to read in the 18th. I wonder if there was someone saying, "Why does everyone need to know how to read? We won't all be writers and authors?"

I love the business side of things, and I don't think I'll ever be the technical co-founder, but it certainly doesn't hurt to be able to speak the same language and understand restrictions and limitations when you're trying to build a product.
That article horrifies me.

People are already putting every question they have into Google. Every email they send and receive. Every video they watch on YouTube.

Putting every little thought into a service by Google is just a horrifying thought.
You might also check out numba (http://numba.pydata.org/), which still feels slightly beta, but can speed up numpy code quite a bit with very little boilerplate. I've started experimenting with it as an alternative to my usual approach which is to write or wrap code with Cython. I'm curious to see where PyPy goes with numpy and cffi though.
> Why? It didn't, so this is a non-issue.

The reason we can pretend is that we're acting just like Pfc. Manning did; he didn't know what all he was leaking either.

If I was designing a casualty procedure for a nuclear reactor with unknown conditions I would have to assume worst-case scenario.

If I was designing a Ruby gem to convert arbitrary input into executable code I would have to assume worst-case scenario.

And likewise here, if I'm going to move classified information of unknown contents then I should at least consider worst-case assumptions of what that data might contain.

At least I bother to call it pretending. Manning just assumed it would be either "WAR CRIME" or relatively innocuous and got lucky.
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but he went about implementing them in a wildly irresponsible way.

It's possible that the value of the release is greater than the harm from irresponsibility.
Thanks for sharing this. The OP is a great story as well. Bureaucracy sucks more than it helps almost always.
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I've worked with a lot of smart people in data-gathering fields (researchers, journalists, analysts)...the amount of human-hours wasted on cleaning up data that was compiled by someone who didn't understand delimiting, normalization, or how operations can be repeated when we have a pattern (kind of like map-reduce) is near tragic.

Think if you worked at a publishing house in which you had a fantastic story-teller who was illiterate. This person could tell best-selling yarns, she just needed someone to actually put it down on paper. And then re-read to her outloud the sections (and entire chapters) when the material was edited and re-arranged.

Yes, you could still produce best-selling books this way. But it's not efficient. And the artist misses out on a lot of what could be done with more direct contact with the written text...and the worst part is, she doesn't know what she's missing out on.

edit: Note that I'm not saying that this hypothetical illiterate storyteller has to be a great writer (just like most people do not need to be excellent, best-practices programmers). She just needs to be good enough to re-arrange and re-read her own ideas and take a more active part in the editing process. Believe it or not, in the publishing business, there are amazing storytellers (or reporters) who are not very good writers.
Is this going to be some new trend to discourage people from learning to code?

Its so strange to see one specific skill being targeted.

Even stranger:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2011/12/05/the-rise...

In this article Forbes talks about how programmers are basically the safest and smartest investment an entrepreneur can make, but now they are saying that investing the time to learn to program yourself is a waste of time?

I could understand if the headline and tone of the article was something like "could learning to program compliment your current skills?", but right off the bat they are attacking the idea of acquiring a new skill.

Does anyone really come out worse off if they miss a season of American Idol to learn programming instead?
Depending on what you do with your machine(s), it might make sense for you to go with whatever versions come with the vast majority of the packages, but for the few that matter to you, manage them yourself. For example, I use Oracle's Virtualbox PPA, and it just updated as a normal software update last night. That's 4.2.x, compared to Ubuntu's 4.1.x. For things that aren't PPA'd, you'd need to pay closer attention. It's an option.
Everybody should learn to code, in the same way everybody should learn physics. It's basic cultural and scientific knowledge.

But that doesn't mean everybody should be a Mechanical Engineer.
Why do I routinely see people on the net capitalize the second o? (You're not the first I've seen even today.) Is it like Microsoft, where it used to actually be MicroSoft and people like Mark Cuban still spell it that way out of hipsterish I-was-there-in-the-old-days sentiment? Or do a lot of people just think thats how it's supposed to be?
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I thought it pretty amusing when I half completed the sign up with CatalogChoice.com and they've sent me emails regularly for the past few weeks.
What's interesting is that they are in part re-creating the original problem they were trying to solve.

The complaints about Debian were that they only cut a release like every two years. The Debian response was that people who wanted more timely updates could run the "testing" branch, which was a "rolling" release.

Ubuntu promised to solve the slow release cycles and the instability of a rolling branch by cutting stable and well-composed releases on a rigorous six month schedule.

This announcement sounds a lot like the original Debian model they were trying to get away from.
I linked in an example of where they did work... you've said only that people claim they don't work in general... I have data and you have anecdote. Can you try to do better before declaring victory on that point? :P
The "PNG crunch" programs out there - eg OptiPNG - actually do a bit more work. They'll try palette-ising a truecolor image, applying all the PNG filters (http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG-Filters.html), etc.

They also tend to use forked versions of zlib, often to expose some more internal knobs to trial-and-error on, so a zlib-compatible wrapper around zopfli wouldn't necessarily just drop in.

But I'm sure support for zopfli will appear sooner rather than later :)
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Can we get browsers to support LZMA? :) (Hey, a bug report! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559) But yeah, zopfli does seem like an excellent fit when you can't force a particular decompressor.
Word! I hear about so many people that double their productivity once they can script with excel.

My weapon of choice is http://www.python-excel.org/
Yep. I know for a fact they do.

Yahoo! Plus has a much better system where you use a different base email address plus the sub-address rather than your regular address.

For example, if my account is "somebody@gmail.com" then you use somebody+dropbox@gmail.com. But with yahoo, you pick an alternate, e.g. "huggybear", and use that instead (huggybear-dropbox@yahoo.com). That way if a spammer seems the sub-addressed account, they can't send email to huggybear@yahoo.com unless they want to end up on Yahoo's blacklist.

I've had a great deal more success with Yahoo's sub-addressing than Google's.
Locus of perception. Even just being "cold" relative to someone else (temperature).

Locus of perception isn't really a "phrase" that is accepted, though it would merit some Cog Psych research to quantify the phenomena above.
My grand-father when he was a young 15 years old farmer found a lost kid on an Indian train. After search for his parents for years with no luck. He adopted the lost kid, at the age of 18 he became a father of a 7 year old. Today the little kid is a retried doctor that resides in New Jersey.
It still depends upon on libudev.so.0. Hence can't use it on ArchLinux (unless I fool it by linking it with latest so). :(
+1 for the Battletoads reference. I probably broke a couple NES controllers out of frustration back in the day.

As morbid as it sounds, it is refreshing to see such a painfully honest email. I wish Groupon and Andy the best.
It is slightly surreal for me to see somebody posting here with my name and such different perspectives to mine on the topics being discussed. I have to double-take each time I read one of your comments and see the poster name. Greetings from 'the other' mpyne :D
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So to me personally, the movement’s purpose is _not_ to make software engineers, or true coders, or even mediocre programmers, but rather to make Computer Science a top-level subject in school systems alongside Biology, Physics, Calculus, etc.

Just because you took high school Biology or Physics did not make you into a Biologist or a Physicist. It merely introduced you to the most distilled and complete parts of those fields and had no pretense of professional training or a career choice.

In a similar manner, people are pushing for the most distilled parts of Computer Science to enter school curricula. This would _not_ mean that after that course you are a programmer, or a computer scientist, or even proficient with computers.

People fail at Biology or Mathematics and have different aptitudes.

What it would mean, however, is that you are exposed to _computational thinking_ [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~CompThink/], an understanding perhaps that somethings are computable and somethings are not, rudimentary programming skills, and a different outlook on Computers in general.

Thus, people would no longer look at computers as purely black boxes and magical, they would understand them a bit better and have a rudimentary understanding of a field which affects almost everything in their life today.

We feel Physics and Biology and Chemistry and Calculus are important, why not add Computer Science to the mix?

Do not confuse professional training with simple education.
The title is not the same as "Why Not Everyone Should Learn To Code". I strongly disagree with the title.

As for the article I don't think that the reasons cited are particularly strong.

Buggy code is not a reason not to code. Though people who often write buggy code should know their limitations.

Programming is not as unlikely to occur as rocket science or lawyering. People take physics and government as classes and in the same manner I don't see why programming should not be an equally basic subject.

The easy-programming reasons are not things that disqualify you from being a programmer. All programmers would like to do those things. It is merely the actual programmers that have gone ahead and learned things the hard way.

I don't think programming classes would create a huge influx of programmers vying for jobs as depicted any more than math classes have created a surplus of mathematicians or biology classes have left us drowning in biologists.
LOL! Are you trying to "post" a "link"?
I wouldn't be surprised if they are having problems finding support staff. I believe it was late 2011 or early 2012 they were advertising customer support positions and wanted someone with a CompSci degree and like 2 years of experience just to do customer support.
Social hacking is about getting extraordinary, even "impossible," social outcomes with a relative light burden of effort or personal cost. To achieve that, you have to recognize when you are presented with a very rare opportunity and know how to take advantage of it. People in a position to make an exception are the exception, not the norm.

The judge was in a position to make an exception. You can have 500 friends outraged at the injustice of bias against gay couples in adoption. Odds are poor that any of them can really do anything about it. And a wedding is possibly the only good excuse to request a judges services for a feel good reunion. Judges are supposed to be impartial. It is generally inappropriate to contact them for hugs and the like.

There is quite a lot of brilliant stuff in this article. I am sorry you do not see it.
Much of the content on Forbes is just blog salad, there does not seem to be a great deal of editorial oversight of the content.
The article sounds a bit paranoid, and too much conspiracy theoretical near the end. I mean, sure, it's possible we will eventually be able to build some device into ourselves, but why does it have to be nefarious? Are computers evil?

I bet in the 60ies (or whenever the general public became aware of computers) they were saying that computers will be used for war, espionage and other malice. Were they right? Yes! But is that the whole truth? No, it's a very small portion of it.

The author (and people) need to stop thinking of our world as the darkest place in this universe.

If anything, the human race will meet its end when cats decide they don't want servants any longer. Meow.
Seeing as how most potential customers use the documentation to determine whether or not Heroku would be a good fit for their business before becoming customers, I'd call it "false advertising".
Throw-away app = you should throw it on github.
That appears unlikely based on the contents of the release. For example, consider the most widely publicized story to emerge from the leaks: Collateral Murder. It turns out that Reuters was given access to this video shortly after the incident, and a detailed description of its contents ran in a newspaper (the Washington Post, IIRC), including time-annotated transcriptions of the radio chatter.
Learning is never a waste of time.
If it is not valuable for your work and your goal , you will not go as far as masterize it and stop it. So not loosing so much time but just opened your mind to other way to think.
Either a foreign language, a book, a programming language...

To answer the article, learning what will not be our everyday job is called "curiosity, knowledge and culture"
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I just feel sorry for the many other M. Pynes in Australia with my name. I jumped on the right GMail address and all the other ones have had to go without (though it doesn't stop their friends/associates from occasionally sending me mail meant for them).
> What should everyone do instead?

New season of American Idol (or is it X factor now?).
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From the article: "[The study] demonstrated that rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup ... gain significantly more weight than those with access to water sweetened with table sugar, even when they consume the same number of calories."

So, they did indeed count the calories and the result seems to indicate something about HFCS encourages rats to gain weight in a way that standard table sugar does not.
There are those who ascribe the 'Arab Spring' to the data leaked by Manning... I'm just still not sure whether that's good for Manning or bad for Manning.
Software development is a lifestyle choice like literacy is a lifestyle choice.

If you don't know how to read, you're still totally fine.

You just can't:

- Communicate your thoughts

- Learn new things

- Understand warnings about dangerous conditions

- Make more than a certain amount of money per year

- Participate meaningfully in your government

etc.

As computers further saturate our existence, the divide between those who truly understand their operation, maintenance and programming will produce scary inequalities. Software solves a lot of problems. If you know how to write it, you can solve problems faster and more efficiently than a person who does not. Debugging is a problem solving framework with tremendous application to all realms, not just tech. Those able to debug their technological lives will find life a lot cheaper than those who must pay others for the same.

Not everyone needs to be a professional software developer. But I posit that everyone can benefit from knowing how to write software to direct the actions of their computing device.

And regardless of our handwringing in one direction or another, it's going that way anyway. Lots of people are pretty decent functional programmers in their Excel spreadsheets. It'll grow organically from these sorts of tools and frameworks.

But seeing the inevitable, I'd sure love to see more people taught computer literacy – programming/scripting included – with the same mandatory nature as language or math.
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I've been unimpressed by Dropbox's support ever since my attempt to upgrade to 80 team users (which wasn't possible via their site in 2011) revealed an internal culture of indifference, buck-passing, and reflexively blaming the customer.
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Does learning how to replace the ball float valve on your toilet mean you're going to be a plumber? Hardly. Is your life improved if you learn how to do it yourself? Undoubtedly.

This article sounds like it was written by someone who's used to working amongst groups of mediocre to poor developers, and thinks that educating people will equate to legions of more mediocre developers.

Computers and code are a part of our lives now, and people should be educated in the basics. Just like we have biology, physics, chemistry, and shop class, a basic code class should be required for all young people.
If they neglect their kids so bad that they actually die, which I guess used to happen frequently before the invention of welfare etc.

Now you have a lot of not so great parents spawning at an alarming rate.
It's not one bad year. Every year they've had, from a profit perspective, has been a bad year. We just didn't know how unstable the business model was when they were private. By the time merchants had a chance to figure out what selling a Groupon actually gets them (which for most is little more than a huge headache and a loss of money) Groupon was a public company.

Groupon built this massive juggernaut on a shaky premise, which is that merchants can sell a Groupon and more than recoup the lost revenues in future business. It's debatable whether merchants will keep selling these at 25% when most lose money on it and seem to get no long term benefit. It actually seems unlikely.

Groupon also spent more to acquire users than they made off them, figuring they'd make it up later, much like they were telling merchants. That's why they included the ridiculous ACSOI metric in their prospectus.

It's likely at this point that they need to pivot, and they probably just don't think Mason is the guy to do it. Maybe they think he should have done it sooner.

The nice thing about Groupon is they're in a great position to do it. The bad thing is it's going to be tough, and what they pivot too is uncertain.
This devolves rapidly into politics but for my part I'll say that a credible connection between Wikileaks and the Arab Spring would help affirm the value of the document dump --- though obviously this is a thread about Manning's culpability and I'm with you 100% on that.
To answer the article, learning what will not be our everyday job is called "curiosity, knowledge and culture"
If we keep going it will be a skill.
Does anybody care about non-entrepreneurs?
If you don't get proof that someone died, you have to charge him with something other than contributing to someone's death.

The other side can also do thought experiments bounded by "common sense." It's common sense that anyone who was an informant knew that their cover was blown and they got out of harms way ASAP. It's common sense that during the time before the release, when the US Gov was calling up foreign governments to let them know a bad leak was on the way, they also called up their informants.

It's also worth noting that only an extremely small percentage of the content contained identifiable information. Most of it wasn't related to informants at all.

Your claim that the odds are high that some are or will be killed from the leaks would be questionable at the time of release, and now that we have a few years of history, fails even a preponderance of evidence standard of proof. For such a serious claim, I personally feel that it warrants at least that.
it surprised me when I realized most people don't do this.that's what my parents to growing up in that's what my wife and I do now. I only recently realized that most people don't put so much planning into their menus.
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The author is basically saying that having a good reason for learning something means you're much more likely to complete your course of study.

My guess is that less than half the people who signed up for Codecademy’s Code Year challenge will finish, it will be closer to 10-15%. I’m not being harsh, I’m being realistic. Most of the people that signed up don’t really know why they are learning to code, they just think it’s a good idea. Jumping right into learning JavaScript, the ‘beginner-friendly’ language without first knowing why you want to learn it, seems like a recipe for abandonment.

She's just presenting the message from a very pessimistic vantage.

Edit: She not he....