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I totally disagree. What this gives students is a choice.

> 1) Until now, the majority of University-affiliated MOOCs have been free. This just changed.

You can take a free MOOC or a paid one.

> 2) I find it immensely frustrating that as CS people, we are lowering the bar for what it means to have a Masters degree in our field.

This provides the opportunity for thousands of people to obtain there master's degree without wasting large sums of money on tuition and upending their life for a couple years. If helping thousands of people means "lowering the bar," then so be it. Learning isn't a competition.

> 3) MOOCs will kill CS research.

I think the real reason CS research is dying is because the business model of academia is outdated (which, incidentally, is what Udacity et al are trying to fix). If I could have gotten my BS online for $5000, there is no way I would have gone to a physical institution.

> Undergrad teaching used to be the way academics supported themselves.

Right, and now I'm happy I can actually pay for my education directly without paying ridiculous amounts of money just to subsidize an outdated system. To call this a "dark day" is a slap in the face to those who are trying to make education available to everyone.
There's always my favorite: finding out if it's appropriate to hug someone you want to hug without it being awkward.

My strategy:
Approaching from a bit of a distance with arms down look happy and kind of throw your arms out - half "this could turn into a hug" half "I'm just excited to see you." If they reach out a hand, shake it. If they reciprocate, go in for the hug. If they don't, stay safe with the handshake. The point is to give them time and opportunity to react with body language rather than speech, but not so much time that everyone's stuck thinking about it and upping the awkward factor. If it does get awkward just change the subject and move on. You'll both forget about it in a few minutes.

Either way, I'm with everyone else here in that I believe informal greetings are for informal relationships.
arg flow control is the worst when trying to diagnose a frozen session. idk how many tines I've reset my network connection etc etc before realizing its gnu screen being silly (or really myself being silly)
The child porn filter isn't what's happening here. The article confusingly implies they are related but they're not.

The government child porn filter is not in use – it never left the trial stages. This filtering is also unrelated to the voluptuary Interpol list that numerous Australian ISPs implement, since Interpol are not trying to filter these sites.

This is not about scope creep of an existing filter. This is a whole new kind of censorship that has come from nowhere for no good reason.
It's rather focused on the Randstad.
I've always wondered what happens when two people meet who literally don't flex any muscle in their hand while shaking... must be some kind of strange hand mashing.

I grip with what I hope is a sincere level of firmness - as in, "I'm really pleased to be shaking your hand, thank you" - and I'm flummoxed when it feels as though the other person has simply dangled their appendage for me to interact with.
I try to adjust the strength of my handshake, depending on a few factors, but mostly related to how hard the other persons will shake my hand.

I'm not trying to match the strength of their shake, just adjust my own. The objective is to make the other person feel more comfortable.

I start with a strength based on some stereotypes (for example, slim women generally have weaker handshakes than big men), but adjust the strength during the shake if I feel my initial strength wasn't right.

Whether this makes the other person actually feel more comfortable is difficult to know, but it makes me feel happy that I've tried.

However, it does mean that I feel a bit sorry for people who have a crushing handshake - what do they think they are doing?
Unless you get a seat. Then you maybe the happiest person alive.
The most efficient route isn't necessarily the safest, in terms of routing large numbers of people underground.
>>kiss on the cheek

Interesting I don't think that I have ever seen that except on TV/movies. (Outside of grandparents and grandchildren)

I've always thought of hugs involving males as reserved for family and close female friends (or your girl friend/wife’s close female friends). Hug in a business setting.. never!

I've also thought handshakes should be as medium strength as possible.

I live in the U.S. Great Lakes region/Midwest.
There's nothing I could learn from the Coursera compilers class I couldn't have learned from a $10 used textbook, and yet the Coursera class did make a huge difference. As Good Will Hunting sort of mis-stated it -- you can get access to a $150,000 education's worth of information for the cost of a library card and some late charges. Or, given Khan Academy and all the MOOC companies, with a cheap netbook and an Internet connection. None of that information may cross the book/brain barrier, of course.

This clearly isn't a completely replacement for the existing Masters program. Yet it's a huge improvement over a stack of dusty books, and possibly, in some cases, an improvement over a stack of "Certificates of Accomplishment" from non-accredited MOOCs.

I don't think this is necessarily aimed at people just exiting a BS program. It has a strong "professional" focus. If you haven't learned to interact with people fruitfully and work in teams in your professional life, you're at a disadvantage.

As I said elsewhere, I believe a program like this requires more of the student than a traditional degree. You have to bring greater discipline, the ability to learn without interaction with the instructor, and as you point out, an assortment of other skills that you have acquired on your own.

I do hope that online educators find some way to foster similarly valuable interaction between students on team projects as opposed to keeping everybody in individual solipsistic relationships with the course automaton. It's a challenging problem -- who wants to depend on somebody without any, or much, skin in the game? How would it even work with the flexible schedules this kind of thing will attract?
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This is still stretching the "lie" bit though. Just because you are not shown the quickest route does not make it wrong, or a lie.
This has not happened to me (Verizon customer), and there is no way in hell I'd fax a SS card to anybody. I'd jump ship to another provider that won't require this.
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The article seems to want to attribute this trend to one source and no more than one source.

? The article calls gas prices twice as well as other economic problems as reasons for the decline. For example: "Researchers have not yet been able to disaggregate how much of our current decline in driving has been attributable to gas prices, or the economy, or changing attitudes toward car ownership or urban living"
I'm apt to agree. I have used .net before in a large desktop app and it was brilliant but I'm sure I will never use it again - deskwhat?

Only thing I can think of that might save the day is if MS properly open sourced it. Chances of that have to be pretty much identically zero though.
"It's too bad AT&T discontinued it as I was just waiting for my contract to expire."

If you're interested in Facebook Home, you can still get any recent Android phone and install the app as your device Home screen.
This is very non-silly logic. Why should I care about your chromosome configuration or sexual identification? It is not my business, and I expect you to respect that. Hence it is absolutely obvious to treat men and women equally and not adapt one’s greetings procedures to the gender of the other person.

After all, punching girls is exactly as appropriate as punching guys.
>You may want to consider hanging out with a different crowd...

And you may want to consider actually being more truthful about what you and your pals do do when you hang around.

(Not to mention the irony of 5 lines below, in your same comment, using language like "gives a shit").

>Also, this is not "hanging out", this is the workplace. Different standards should apply.

Only for puritan cultures, that hold a clear distinction between work and normal life/play.

>Yes, I know this is how certain groups of men behave. It also happens to be the same men who's jobs are in danger of permanently disappearing, and this is exactly one of the main reasons nobody gives a shit.

This sounds like a reason to actually "give a shit".

Not sure how you justify yourself, morally, to care (or pretend to care) about "sexism" and "male jokes" while at the same time "not giving a shit" about people being forced into unemployment.
Not if you factor in Windows and SQL Server licensing costs. Most people are using ASP.NET (one of the many incarnations, at least).

.NET on individual workstations is... irrelevant. Largely.
Indeed. That's why I'm trying to start during my spare time, but one developer (me) it's not enough to launch anytime soon:

http://www.dutchstartupjobs.com/mydigido-web-developer-with-...
Most community colleges "CS" programs consist of IT courses, with a few CS courses mixed in. Which is a shame.
This is why I have stty -ixon in my profile. I never use flow control anyway, not sure why I want it on.
I think they have sacrified efficiency for no crushes or stampedes.

I don't class it as a 'lie' to quietly favour crowds flowing in a safe manner over the quickest route. They are the experts in what is safe for peak crowds, not some bloggers.

Of course I regard it a 'lie' that the platform crowding at places like Bank is very safe at all.
Hey scottyd, can you please explain to me what some of these powerful features Foundation 4 offers that Bootstrap don't? I'm looking for an excuse to switch to Foundation myself =P

Thanks./
Interesting, though I guess there is a non-trivial performance cost to userspace drivers, seems hard to believe you could reasonably drive a GPU from userland. I remember John Carmack saying something about how driver overhead was the one of the biggest bottlenecks when developing modern games.

Driver quality is of course something which will always significantly rock the boat when it comes to stability but that is going to be the same with any operating system. To an extent driver quality should be a factor when choosing hardware. If you don't build your kernel with Hello Kitty support you never have to worry about that code.

I guess that is one of the reasons that Apple has a better reputation for software reliability in that for the most part they get to choose the hardware that will be used with the OS.
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I still haven't been granted access despite signing up right as the beta sign-up form was available, but no - not really. It's an SQL query with some natural-language processing used to build the query. Neat? Maybe. Innovative? I see it as just another view on data that was already available to me through more-arduous means of searching.
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> I wonder how we could teach ourselves these lessons (without injury, of course).

There's a wide-ranging and productive history of people expanding their creative capacity through self-imposed constraints.

http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Constraints-The-Psychology-...
.NET, like practically all tolls by Microsoft, is good for one thing - Large scale enterprise development for Windows.
It plays well with Office, Access, Sharepoint, Active Directory, IIS etc. and it's the best around at what it's doing.
You can also do webdev or solve highly concurrent problems with .NET and it's great at that as well (I'm very fond of the Nancy framework and C#'s async/await are a godsend) but it's not inherently better at these than any other language.
So no, .NET isn't dying nor do I feel it has lost momentum. It's not really doing anything crazy or new (ahem go ahem) but it's still as good as ever in what it was meant to do - general purpose programming language for Windows.
Now you can go to local places that proctor the test. A few co-workers are doing this now from Minneapolis, going to a community college to take the tests.

Also, it costs about $7k a year assuming you are taking one class a semester for 4.5 years.
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now more individual frames than there are XKCD comics.

That's kinda a silly claim. Most of the Time frames are part of an ongoing scene, so each new frame is just an addition on top of the old frame. Your Time viewer has a differential view against the next/previous frame so you can see it in action.

Saying it's "more frames than all the other comics" is like saying one episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has more frames than X. Yeah, numbers can be bigger than other numbers, but they aren't the sameness of comparison.
Same here - as a male interacting with a female, waiting for the other party to initiate any physical contact is the best bet. If they want to hug you, they'll do it.
Normally I'd just upvote, but I figured it's worth a comment to second this. It's always good to see the 'launch' article, but it feels a bit more promotional than informative. I'd like to see a post-launch with some of the gory details.

It'd also be good to see some detailed predictions about what they think is going to happen. There's nothing like pen and paper to close the predictive feedback loop.

Edit: And of course, good luck to the folks at Cladwell!
I downloaded the Windows version, but don't see any references to Foundation, in the app or on their website. Is the title wrong ?
I've been waiting for a Foundation-specific marketplace to launch some themes.

Excited to get started! Looks great!
This was my favorite test as well, back in the day.
Mixed with Glipho perhaps?
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I used to do this in the OS 9 days, but these days of no swapping (lots of RAM and SSD) and OS X where the window manager never hangs and we have the pinwheel cursor for apps that stopped responding to UI events, I've stopped doing it (at most I'll move the cursor around in circles frantically to ensure there's no hardware/disk freeze, or scroll up/down to see if there's one of the frequent Safari WebProcess freezes).

Do any other OS X users do this, or is it limited to Windows/Linux? Is it due to poor feedback?
It does say that, yes. It also says that it's not known why, and it says that further up the article than any facts. They're implying that because researchers are looking at multiple factors they have yet to filter it down to one specific cause. I'm not discounting the researchers. I'm discounting the article, and their false sense of mystery behind this trend.
To be fair, what is one supposed to do? Should nation states just pack up shop because all their information-restricting legislation does not apply to the intertubes?

Taboo-making is a staple of any organised society and we don't really know of anything that could replace it yet. Even assuming complete good faith from authorities, it's clear that they are reluctant to lose a pillar (if not the pillar) of their own existence.
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We're in similar situations - I have a BA but would love to do a CS undergrad degree online. Most of the community college/online programs out there consist of IT courses with a few CS courses mixed in. Which is no where near the curriculum of a traditional CS program.

I really hope that someone offers an undergraduate CS degree online at some point.
26mb install and not a word on what I am installing prior to running it? Sorry.
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So the adreesing of a Judge or Magistrate as "Your Honor" is not an "Honorific?"

And the term "Esquire" is not deferential to the authority of one who is addressed as "Your Honor?"

http://kellenebishop.com/2009/04/22/what-if-lawyers-were-for...

According to David Dodge, Tom Dunn, and Webster's Dictionary, the archaic definition of "honor" (as used when the 13th Amendment was ratified) meant anyone "obtaining or having an advantage or privilege over another". A contemporary example of an "honor" granted to only a few Americans is the privilege of being a judge: Lawyers can be judges and exercise the attendant privileges and powers; non-lawyers cannot.

By prohibiting "honors", the missing Amendment prohibits any advantage or privilege that would grant some citizens an unequal opportunity to achieve or exercise political power. Therefore, the second meaning (intent) of the 13th Amendment was to ensure political equality among all American citizens, by prohibiting anyone, even government officials, from claiming or exercising a special privilege or power (an "honor") over other citizens.

If this interpretation is correct, "honor" would be the key concept in the 13th Amendment. Why? Because, while "titles of nobility" may no longer apply in today's political system, the concept of "honor" remains relevant.

For example, anyone who had a specific "immunity" from lawsuits which were not afforded to all citizens, would be enjoying a separate privilege, an "honor", and would therefore forfeit his right to vote or hold public office. Think of the "immunities" from lawsuits that our judges, lawyers, politicians, and bureaucrats currently enjoy.

As another example, think of all the "special interest" legislation our government passes: "special interests" are simply euphemisms for "special privileges" (honors).
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> It's not a huge sacrifice to voluntarily use the best product in a category. The number of Apple employees who want to use a non-iphone device is probably less than two percent.

You know, I am a huge Apple fan, but I don't like this argument. It suggests there are no valid reasons to prefer Android or even Windows to iOS, when in fact both Android's and Windows's designs offer a number of features that iOS lacks. While I don't think either come within spitting distance of iOS's build quality, there are plenty of reasons to want to use them anyway.

Particularly since Apple is a company which hires plenty of programmers, I imagine there'd be plenty of users who want to use an open-source phone OS. Unless they're all jailbreaking their iPhones, which would be pretty amusing actually.
I think this is certainly happending - my own first reaction to your job ad was "meh....equity over salary for a product that yesterday I didn't know existed".....

fwiw and from my perspective perhaps the problem is that you aren't advertising the salary you are offering - you want someone with significant experience - so we aren't talking about a recent graduate here, but someone with significant technical lead experience - experience most often comes with (at least a bit of) age and age comes with other responsibilities like family, kids, mortgage etc. Now they also have to believe in your product - so either they've already thought of it, or they need it sold to them.

maybe you need to go developer courting rather than waiting for them to drop through your door?
Isn't there a story about Steve using a NeXTstation at Apple for email until OS X was up and running?
If your neighbor showed up on a list of people who donated to support Prop 8, would you stop inviting them to your BBQs? What if they "just" voted for a candidate who professed to be against marriage equality (like our current President in 2008)? That's what I mean about civil society.

Obviously its fabric will survive your boycott of Chick-fil-A, but letting the political bleed into all aspects of our lives is something I find intensely distasteful.
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Thirded. I'm really interested to read a follow-up article on how it goes.

(And from a marketing perspective - if I see this company's name around a few times, at one point I'll probably remember to sign up myself!)
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Not sure what you mean. Ignoring the server side for a moment, are people not using .Net or do you just not like it? And once you've paid for Visual Studio, what other costs are there, assuming your workstation already runs Windows?
But hey, you can use a tablet now that Microsoft's management have switched focus... to a market they have not much share in, almost no mindshare, little developer incentive to work on, that only contributes to a fraction of their revenue and with tools and an operating system that shoe-horns the much larger workstation market into a tablet interface that is neither intuitive or pleasant to work with.

Hats off to Microsoft, clearly someone in management knows more than their own marketplace. Sometimes to be a market leader you must ignore the needs and wants of the market, after all leaders need to make the market go where you want it, right?
I wouldn't say it is dying, but I would agree that there are many better alternatives out there for any type of project you would be considering. I think the old allure was that you could be virtually sure that there would be a pool of talented developers to draw upon, but now there are talented developers on many different platforms that offer efficiencies by working well modularly: there is no need for a single behemoth like .net
There is a lot of arm chair sysadmining going on, but remember, the team that built Dribbble is essentially 4 total people, 2.5 engineers, working with no outside funding. The fact that they've built the designer's equivalent of Github and keep it running as smoothly as it does is amazing. It's fine to provide suggestions, but this is a minor blip in an otherwise impeccable record of performance.
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Something very much like that yes :)

Though I'll now be the one suppressing a cackle. I probably look the mad one. There's one on every carriage...
Perhaps I'm thinking too narrowly, but I don't see how these points apply to ASP.Net (whether it's MVC or web forms). I've always thought of ASP.Net as the most successful section of the .net framework, with native application capabilities running a good amount behind.

And all the technologies/hardware he mentions here are agnostic to the web/network portion of a system.
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Do wonder if this type of work should be released as open source to help solve this problem across multiple countries.
When I was in London for Sybase training (middle, late 90s) I actually preferred a 45 minute bus ride to those 15 minutes of horror, which is London Underground during rush hour.

I definitely arrived in better shape and with a better attitude.
Yes, that happens as well.
Possibly the most annoying thing in the entire world is standing on a tube to work and have some bastard breeze into the carriage, obviously on holiday, and loudly declaim how miserable everyone looks and how glad they are that they don't have to do this every day.
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Even then!

Especially as it gets out of the centre and the folks around you are the commuters rather than the tourists or partygoers.