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"We are pumping out liberal arts grads "

You mean humanities graduates. The Liberal Arts is not about making better managers, that's what an MBA is for, the liberal arts is about exposing students to a wider variety of fields. We have way too many people majoring in fields like history or literature, without corresponding educations in math and science for them to be truly "liberally educated."

The point of education is only partly to prepare individuals for a specific career. (Technically, that's not even education, but rather "career training.") The other part is to give them the intellectual tools they need to be parts of society, not just as good worker drones, but as citizens and fully formed individuals. This is something the liberal arts does attempt to address, while specialized training does not. Having a strong knowledge of history really helps when it comes to voting, for example.

Even from a career preparation standpoint, however, there is a point to liberal, or at least multidisciplinary, education. That is having an understanding of multiple fields makes it much simpler for one to understand how one field affects another. Just about anyone with a CS degree can write software to a spec but someone with knowledge about both CS and accounting might actually understand the spec when it comes to accounting software and anticipate the needs of clients.

All that said, one really needs to differentiate between the liberal arts and the humanities. The humanities are set of disciplines such as history, philosophy, art, etc. which alone, have limited practical use but have a long tradition of being studied in western society. The liberal arts is an approach to education that seeks broad exposure, including the humanities but also including disciplines such as math and science. This term dates back to the reign of Charlemagne, FWIW.
In episode 3 of Oliver Stones marvelous Documentary "the untold history of the US" you will find a great representation of tose events as well:
http://www.sho.com/sho/oliver-stones-untold-history-of-the-u...
But the developer is in the best position to decide whether he should fix the code. Perhaps he's just testing something, that will be rewritten later. 30+ seconds requests are not always bad.

It has a cost (it takes time to fix it) and value (users won't have to wait). The developer has more information than Google to decide whether cost or value is higher.
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I missed the initial release by a couple of hours and missed everything.

It's kind of frustrating that they won't take your money for a pre-order, and put in a huge order from China for another batch.
Look at job opportunities for the two. Popularity of field is in no way linked to competence of indivduals practising in said field.
Pretty vanilla.

* 2-year old MBP, Snow Leopard.

* An IBM Model-M keyboard.

* Three 17-inch monitors I picked up from the desktop support group, using USB video adapters.

* No dock, I have all of the cables twisty-tied together for neatness.
Easy fix here: Send receipts every time you bill someone.
It's their job to make sure the best results appear when I search for something.

"Best" means best for Google, not most informative to you. The big deal about negative SEO is that "worse" means worse for Google - again, it has nothing to do with your or my needs.

The combination of positive and negative SEO is intended solely for Google's long term benefit. Maybe goodwill enters into it, but only to the extent it creates value for Google's shareholders.
If you say he's fairly smart, then the selection shouldn't be a problem. They do offer some scholarships, but the fees might still be too steep for him.

If you email me (see profile), I'll try and see if I can help in any way.
When he was doing his first campaign, Erdogan portrayed himself a liberal. Even after he became president he distanced himself from his old fundamentalist islam friends and followed relatively liberal politics.

Oh, also he had portrayed himself as a victim. This is the achilles heel of Turkish people. They love you unconditionally if they think you are victim. (I am Turkish)

AFAIK, general population is no more or no less liberal compared to 10 years ago. Honestly they weren't/aren't quite liberal.
Statistically, what is nearly always the case? Please, point out these statistics specifically instead of making airy allusions.

You may be surprised to see "even one student" from the 'wrong' sides of the city, the 'wrong' skin of colour, the 'wrong' nationality, or the 'wrong' religion. Get here and get your mind exploded, then. Or learn to accept that you are clinging (futilely) to popular misconceptions and that Yale, like most other "elite" institutions, is a home to all kinds of people. Privilege may have gotten some of them in, but it sure as hell is not the norm.

As for your final claims: You wish to imply that leaders in various fields got there solely by leveraging connections. I am pointing out that leveraging connections is by no means disproportionally represented. Leveraging connections is an incredibly useful skill, and of course it has its place. What I am pointing out is that for most undergraduates who ever got here, connections didn't exactly play a big role. Yes, the people here probably have a lot more grit, determination, and "something extra" that most of you don't. Some of us are here thanks to family connections, sure. Now go find out just how many students Yale (for example) has graduated in its entire history, and compare that with the number of legacy admits. Or compare that with the number of admits for whom a plausible case of "connections" may be argued. I can assure you that it won't be a pretty picture for your case.

I'll reiterate what I've said before. Most of you are using popular misconceptions to make straw-man arguments. Most of us here are not from "connected" families, and most of us are here not because of some mythical privilege. The sort of logic you people are using would make the mere fact that you can go to the corner store and buy a pack of bread a "privilege." Privilege is relative. Most of us got here because, yes, we did a few things more and were a little better at some things than a lot of other people.

No reason to whine about it.
I'm writing an app specifically to help with this. You can sign up on the bottom of the original blog post. :)
just turn off javascript....
Is this the new "next year will be the year of the Linux desktop"?
Yes, and Mozilla choose to fight for the freedom of the web not for human rights.
Amnesty international for people rigths and not for dophin right.
Greenpeace for the environment and not for the freedom of the software.

Nobody fight for everything, choose a niche and fight for that.
IBM (Or Unicomp now) really needs to remake the M15, a buckle-spring mechanical keyboard.

http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/categories.main/...
AKA, jack of all trades master of none.

Start-ups want people like this because they can't afford the management overhead of making people with various skills work together.
The contemporary Mac Operator.
Heh, by complete coincidence I was awake at the moment of the initial release, but I couldn't place an order because I was still waiting for my new credit card to arrive. Dammit Linode!
Oh the irony !

:-)

Ok, you are quite right - so I did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5814122
A degree in philosophy doesn't go far in grounding anyone.

Philosophy is the ultimate in mental masturbation degrees. With expertise in philosophy, you can argue at great length without saying anything meaningful about reality.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson makes a nice point about philosophy's role in the current world of Science:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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Have you considered that the story presents an interesting case relevant to designers of these kinds of UI?
This is unfortunately a bit tricky as DNSimple doesn't let you update your NS records for the root domain with them. My computer seems to be going through DNSimple still, but Pingdom went via iWantMyName to find my new Route 53 nameservers. Not sure what I can do for now though.
And that's why I use two separate browsers.

Ugly, but it works
We made a limited-edition set of 400 posters and sold them on www.alvybrooks.com in late April. They sold out in less than 24 hours. The very last poster is being auctioned so we can raise even more money for Watsi.
After studying in both Spain and US, I can only say that this is correct (even though I did undergrad in Spain and grad studies in the US I think I have a pretty good idea of how the undergraduate studies work in the US).

Spain has a (more) specialized system in the undergraduate studies, even though it has been shifted lately (with the much hated Bologna process) to a brad system. Prior to the instauration of the Bologna process, an undergraduate student in Spain had two options:

- 1st cycle: 3 years of undergrad. I would say that it was pretty much equivalent to the undergrad in the US, but focusing only in courses relevant to the major.
- 2nd cycle: 5 years of undergrad. This is (at least in STEM, the area I know) similar to a undergrad+master in the US (Even though in the US are only considered as a normal undergrad).

It depends on the university; some have a small number of credits that you can/should spend on things separated from your major (even in some cases sports), other have nothing similar to that and 100% of the credits are relevant.

Currently the educational system in Spain is slightly different after trying to merge it with the rest of the educational systems in Europe. In most cases the change has been seen as a shift into an educational system where students are less prepared and have to pay a more expensive Master (after the undergrad) to receive the same education they received with an undergrad years ago.
Our integration guide is pretty explicit about how to link with the library so that it doesn't get linked in to Release builds. Everyone's environment is different, and we think it's a good thing that developers understand what changes are required to link with any third party framework.
Facebook seemed to promise something better than email. Yet email is an open standard and so will still be part of all of our daily lives long after FB is a memory or a niche. We moan about email but it gives us choice - free with ads or paid and ad free, basic or full featured.
For keeping in touch with friends I find email, phone, Skype and train 'n boats 'n planes work pretty well.
Any system can be cheated. Nothing here.
IMO it started to degrade pretty quickly once the 2003-2005 cohort started to have babies. That pushed extended family, etc. to join to see baby pictures, etc. But I agree somewhat about the apps too, especially the way the games were introduced (when I think about how much I know about some of my friends' mafia wars habits vs. how much I care...)

This all happened at about the same time, though, and it all fits under the umbrella of the (sensible, from FB's standpoint) strategy of "grow as large as possible."
This is brilliant. A teenager has put aside the TV remote, taken an interest in the work of those before, read, learnt experimented and actually made something.

They are now likely to continue on this path, practising and following in others footsteps until one day they make something that no-one has made before. Enough of these teenagers and we might just survive the century as a human race.
The screen seems to be 4.3", but does anyone have any idea about the other dimensions, weight, etc?
Bluetooth keyboards do not exactly proliferate the developing world. Presumably you'd want to throw an external monitor into that mix, too.
A less ugly alternative, which I much prefer, is to use multiple Chrome profiles -- keeps the worlds separate and the end-result is much cleaner!
Who cares if it is new or not. It's a problem, and becoming a bigger one.
> Their job is to show the best results for a given search query.

No.

Google is not there to help you, me or anyone find better cat pictures. It is not a charity. Google's job is to make money. It makes money primarily by selling ads. It can sell ads better if it can target people better so they provide free email and then also parse all the email contents.

Ads show up in search and by providing good search results they ensure people go to google.com and not facebook.com or bing.com so _they_ can show you ads as opposed to someone else showing you ads.

"If my website is the best but it doesn't appear at the top because a competitor has attacked it" try Bing, or other search engines. You can try to shame Google into providing better searches by going public and hoping their PR team will notice, that's valid, but I don't see at all how this their "job".
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I'm only doing lifecycle emails on some of my products. Some of them were built way before the current lifecycle email craze, and I haven't gotten around to adding them on the others yet. On those older products, I do send emails asking them to come back and enter credit card details.

Great point, though! My larger point, I guess is about leveraging something that only more interested users will go through (credit card entry in this case) to let them filter themselves out early.
I also vote for ethics and civics. Extra credit for "personal" economics (what is money, compound interest, budgeting, buy/lease/rent, etc).
You're just playing to the crowd now. As if anyone in the HN comments is going to side with google on this one.
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No, go read the comments. The first change was made 10 years ago; the change you're referring to apparently happened sometime between March and April 2012[1].

Moreover, there's absolutely no information about how you could penalize someone's site. The article's speculation is exactly that.

Honestly, if it were as easy as buying a bunch of spam links to a site for $20 and get them penalized or delisted, there would have already been a host of exposés showing exactly that. There are a lot of motivated SEOs out there, chomping at the bit to show that their personal Google conspiracy theory is correct.

[1] http://www.seroundtable.com/google-can-competitors-harm-me-1...
Google would need to significantly improve the platform to make it competetive with Win / Linux / OS X:

* Window managment.

* Compatibility with Linux applications? But that's very hard to do correctly.

* Extend the API, add support for more languages.
look forward! it is a great news!
75% of those links won't even be valid, so you really do get what you pay for on Fiverrrrrrrrr.
If you haven't written assembly or at the very least c, you ain't full stack in my definition.
We have perhaps a different read of the current page of comments, where it strikes me that a lot of people are playing blame-the-user, a game which does not build companies.
Re point 1, see my answer above, especially the last bit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5814061

The idea that the shared stuff is of "no value to most people" is a good indication that you haven't understood what's actually going on.

> doesn't need to look like FB

This is true, but then, Facebook has 1.1bn users and has thrashed all of the rival sites in the marketplace.

You should be able to work out why Facebook has been really successful and why Friendster, Orkut, Hi5, MySpace, and many others have not.

If you don't understand that, then you're not in a good position to criticise Facebook.
mere morals? did the author mean mortals or morels? were they talking about mushrooms?

seems appropriate that the first sentence includes a mistake in article about an idiot making excuses for other idiots.
I've never heard a defense of nuclear weapons based on their ability to end wars, only as a weapon to prevent them. I think most policy makers are in agreement that use of a nuclear weapons means they have failed their primary purpose.

As for the "uniqueness" of nuclear weapons, there's an interesting parallel to the uniqueness of chemical weapons use in Syria. Even as conventional weapons are ripping the country to pieces, there is a heavy amount of focus on chemical weapons. I think it has to do with the desire to draw lines of acceptability somewhere, but an inability to draw lines on anything but a technological front.
AFAIK this is solved in Derby.js; it serves fully-rendered HTML to the client and JS kicks in after that.
I'm Comic Sans, asshole (2011)
Yeah checking against a dictionary is one thing, but I've never used anything remotely close to a dictionary word and they can still detect partial password matches.
Err... I am French, but haven't written in my mother tongue for sooo long... The GP wrote "le francaise d'un Americain", and that's what I wanted to correct.
I'm not arguing that they shouldn't be working with Foxconn, I'm trying to take the discussion out of this specific context.

My point is that just because human rights is not their goal, it doesn't mean it can't be a consideration. And if Foxconn, rather than being a company with a somewhat poor track record regarding its staff, was a company known for funding terrorism, arms sales, etc. then I don't think anyone would be arguing that people shouldn't do business with them.
Sure, but his claim is still wrong. Even nearby San Jose has a much higher proportion of reverse commuters than San Francisco.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/files/ACS/Table3.xls
First, congrats on the internship! Feel free to contact me - my email is in my profile. Happy to help by making some intros or giving you some pointers.

A few things that are important in almost any BD or sales role:

1.) Know your product inside and out. It's hard to sell something when you don't know what it is or what it does.

2.) Ask a ton of questions. Ask your prospects what their needs are, ask current clients what they like and dislike about your competitors, ask other BD/salespeople in your org to bcc you on their emails so you understand how they're selling, etc.

3.) Read and research a lot. Read books about entrepreneurs or companies you admire, read advice from other salespeople on Quora, research your competition, visit your prospects' websites to glean info about them before a call, etc.

4.) Understand how your product or service can be genuinely helpful to each customer and get good at being able to concisely explain this to the customer.

5.) Be patient. You will have days where it feels like everyone says "no," days where the product team pushes a release back and screws up a big sale, days when no one can make up their mind on your product, etc. Be patient and keep moving forward.
On the other hand, I suspect some early programmers might get ahold of this and perform a lot of premature optimizations. A piece of code that runs 20 loops instead of 8 once every couple of hours probably doesn't need to be optimized. A piece of code that does two checks when one would suffice that runs 1000 times every second might need optimization. Profile first, then optimize.
Which markdown editor do you use?
personally I use Mou, it is quite useful!
I think a smartphone with an eink screen would do well in this developing market. It would have longer battery life and would be readable in direct sunlight.

I really want an eink smartphone, preferably with FFOS.
Right. The conclusions actually seem to be the same. Another point: Having more customers (at any cost, haha) isn't always what you want.

Less customers who are actually happy to pay me money for my product > More customers who don't care about the product as much, or at all.
Many of the vocal cheerleaders have probably little experience or training in statistics, and so such nuance is beyond the scope of their understanding. Sure this seems self evident to those of us with the exposure, but think about all the folks who stop at college algebra.
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A decade earlier but it was almost the same situation for us. The school computers we PC/XT and they were teaching us Logo and GW-BASIC. When someone's home 286 PC could run Prince of Persia it was a jaw dropping experience. And the QuickBasic IDE seemed heavensent. Oh how I miss my pirated copy of Turbo C :-)
fackbook might not be useful to some, but I met my wife there.
Hemingway explains the phenomenon succinctly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

And remember - don't be self-effacing.
Courses in symbolic logic (usually titled "Logic I & II" - propositional logic and predicate logic ) are good for mathematical thinking. But usually the instructor will also take time to go through the common fallacies of argumentation [Edit: See "fallacies" in Google]. Often this is the only explicit exposure to coherent argumentation that a student gets in his college career.

Had I to do it over again I would have started by studying rhetoric (the art of persuasion), a larger field of study that seems (to me) more relevant.
What's the definition of "hard to implement" if not complexity?
I would have him start interviewing and I would not take time off to study.

Build a project on nights and weekends and use that as a talking point in an interview. Besides that, just keep interviewing.

I think there's enough of a demand that he may be able to slip through the cracks at one company even if not fully qualified.
> That doesn't change the fact that it largely contributed to its failure in the market.

Yes, the fact that Google choose to limit it specifically to prevent it from being widespread in the market contributed to its limited use in the market. But then, since its purpose wasn't to be widely used in the market (hence the restrictions imposed) but to validate technology and components for PNaCl, that's not really that surprising.
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Yet that is what most businesses are doing, even if they are buying ads. You can't get enough traffic from ads alone at a cheap enough cost to make most businesses viable.
Hey, this is a pretty late response but regarding:

"I don't ever debug null problems. I almost never have to debug any crashes whatsoever. I don't debug aliasing bugs. The vast majority of the sources of bugs in other languages do go away."

I think this is the red herring at the heart of the problem. Those bugs really aren't a big deal, they happen rarely once you're proficient and they are quickly solved on the rare occasion when they do happen.

I'm talking about logic bugs, the kind that your compiler isn't going to find, or even that a "sufficiently smart compiler" couldn't find because it's a misunderstanding in the specification that you have to bring back to the product owner for clarification. Or bugs that occur when 2 different services on different machines are treating each other's invariants poorly. Those are the bugs I spend time on.

I haven't spent any time at all with Haskell, really, but it seems like a poor trade off to have to learn a bunch and engineer things in a way that's more difficult in order to prevent the easiest bugs.
+ Go to the single page URL: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/29/the_bomb_di...

+ Open up the JS console

+ $("#TB_window").remove()

+ $("#TB_overlay").remove()

Done!
An SQL query can do just about anything, it'll do it right next to the data, and a lot of time and effort has gone into making that fast. For an app with data up to a certain size and usage, I'd totally go with SQL for all of the reasons you mentioned.

What worries me with SQL is that queries can do just about anything, and it'll do it right next to the data. That means that you want your database machine(s) to be hulking monsters, and sharding / replication gets complicated.

In my personal experience, the App Engine datastore exposes fewer and simpler operations which scale horizontally more or less perfectly. It's harder to write for initially, but it scales up incredibly smoothly.
Just select 'sign on with Google', or one of the others, then cancel when the permission screen shows up. It is annoying though...