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Yes, he contradicts himself. Your quote clearly implies design, and then he concludes with this:

>If someone had designed a work regime perfectly suited to maintaining the power of finance capital, it’s hard to see how they could have done a better job... ...Clearly, the system was never consciously designed. It emerged from almost a century of trial and error.

There are some good points in the analysis, but it would be more compelling if it didn't hint at some sort of elite conspiracy.
Nope. And why would you want to? Even if they deliver on time (which is highly unlikely) there will be comparable phones available. Other phone companies will have seen the campaign and will be aiming to produce competing handsets.

So all you're paying for is exclusivity, which is incredibly shallow.

Technology should be open and equally available to as many as possible. Not an elite hipster club.

EDIT: I just noticed the incredible irony of Canonical making an exclusive platform, wow. Monetise your product with a physical handset sure, great. We understand you need to earn a living off Ubuntu somehow. But don't completely reverse your company philosophy to do it.
coding competently requires intelligence and attention to detail. you need to be smart not just "not mentally delayed".
Did you see the post installation instructions to initialize a db?

initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8

Also if you are working with rails, add host: localhost in your database.yml file and remove the user password. That should be all you need.
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Right, which leads to the question: which is the more "bullshit" job? Adding widgets to Facebook at $100k per year? Or unpaid time chopping wood to burn for fuel? Both of them lead to a warm room in the winter, but one is exhausting, dangerous, unpaid, and incredibly ineffecient.
"Everyone should learn how to change a tire". That was what was lamented when I was a kid, so we learned it in boy scouts.

Let's take it a step further... "Everyone should learn how to change a cam-belt", "Everyone should learn how to perform a basic car service"..."Everyone should know how to rebuild an engine".

How far do you want to take it? I agree with the OP, moreso nowadays that we move more to consumption based computing devices.

To continue my analogy of the motor car to coding, to me both are really on a 'need to know basis' in the modern landscape.

You don't really need nor may be able to easily learn the intricacies of how your car works these days as they're a lot more sophisticated than the vehicles of yore and they're also lot more reliable when it comes to their intended purpose.

Does operating your iPad need anywhere near the learned skill of running programs on the C64 of yore?
Borlaug's rebuttal definitely applies to some anti-GMO activists, who can easily be described as privileged Western elites engaging in fashionable protest.

At the same time, there are some long-term criticisms that are not mentioned here. Borlaug's methods are almost entirely reliant on fossil fuels for example, so there has long been a criticism that he simply delayed the inevitable. When the fossil fuels run out, modern agriculture will collapse.

Right now that is definitely true. It would be possible to evolve technologically to the point that it isn't, but so far that's been a slow slog.

There is a similar criticism to be made about present-day GMO tactics, and I allude to it in my OP: they buy temporary wins but are not sustainable due to selection effects and horizontal gene transfer diluting them over time. A lot of the ecological/sustainability crowd are basically arguing that we have to look for permanent solutions, not temporary gains, and that temporary gains have a way of degrading the environment in ways that make permanent solutions more difficult.

What it really boils down to is this:

http://citizenactionmonitor.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/worl...

If that graph doesn't scare the living shit out of you, you aren't thinking about it very deeply.

Is this a permanent shift, or is it a bubble? If it is a bubble, its collapse will result in suffering beyond our capacity to even imagine.
Can but idiomatically, usually does not. In most code, that would behave like a segfault with a more helpful crash log.
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If you'd like a code-first approach to broadly this topic (regular expressions), I wrote
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> What is "protein powder" (made from)?

Usually whey or soy. I've seen hemp and other plant sources, too.
Retaliation for a perceived offence can be blackmail. I'm not suggesting the poster was actually blackmailing anyone, but it's hardly the most moral position to take.
The super-injunctions were ridiculed pretty much out of existence. TV newscasters talked so much about them they started letting names slip or details sufficient that "everyone" knew. Twitter was overflowing of people publishing the names. TV comedians ridiculed anyone involved, and made jokes about how they'd get arrested, faked calls from their lawyers to shows they were on, and in general showed no respect for them.

If anyone issued a super-injunction over this, the British media would see it as a challenge as to who could ensure the details were insinuated in such as way as to ensure the widest distribution.
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Facebook is wrong on this issue. OP made a good faith effort to report the problem. When this failed, he demonstrated the bug in a non-destructive way. He did not post maliciously, nor did he use the bug to obtain confidential information. When the channel set up by Facebook failed, he took the problem to the CEO. I will post this issue to various social media outlets until the OP is fairly compensated. Facebook's actions here are deplorable and discourage users' efforts to report bugs.
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Its two dimensional because of "various classes of applications"
Yes because if you go to Saudi Arabia and murder someone, you can get away with it because their law is written in Arabic and not English, therefore it doesn't apply to you. Newsflash - it doesn't work that way. The terms can be in Swahili and they still apply to you. Hacking somebody's Facebook to demonstrate a "bug" is black hat and not white hat. This was a real hack of a real person and this guy should be imprisoned in his home country, then extradited to the US to face cyber terrorism charges.
Let me ask, earnestly, why is learning to code better or more important than:

- Studying medicine at school so you can avoid engaging with the expensive medical system for all but the most critical issues?
- Studying law so that you understand how to read contracts and understand legislation?

Mathematics and language are the building blocks of programming. We study those. Going further upstream into the outputs of those disciplines (medicine, law, computer science) to pick compulsory topics doesn't strike me as making much sense.

Also, how do we reconcile this with the emphasis on design whereby the concept of the underlying nuts and bolts should be abstracted away from the end user? (two very separate questions I know)
I'm the opposite. Judging from my whiteboard handwriting, I wish I spent more time learning cursive.
The YOY stats are misleading when it's not a cumulative or smoothed. Look at the Rails line, it'd be hard to argue that there has been a decrease in rails over a year but literally Aug 12 to Aug 13 has seen a "20% decrease".

Some smoothing would better show the real picture.
Again a pompous article trying to make an elite of the coders with an academic degree vs the self-taught crowd. Many excellent programmers I know are self-taught and due to their passion for working with code, they are much better than their 'full of degrees, certifications and diplomas' counterparts.
The real-time clock on the motherboard should correct for this.
Or, perhaps less corrupt and more broad minded actions from government/business. Positive change can begin with enforcing transparency and social and environmental concerns that presently all but escape the first world's de-facto economic rationalist system, which is rapidly infecting all corners of the planet, crowding out any space for existing or proposed, often functional and noteworthy alternatives. Recommended read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
>Most of us would probably stop programming if we had his never ending flow of income.

If I had a never ending flow of income, I would program more. You might see less output, though, as I would be more liable to jump to whatever project seemed the most fun at the moment. If Notch's success is the cause of less output, that's the more likely reason.
Xenophobia is the ugly side of strong ties. Any group that is closely knit will become outright xenophobic towards "Outsiders". It's how Oxytocin[1] works.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin
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And the lesson we learned here kiddos is?

:Facebook can change, juggle, and ignore your privacy whenever they want to do whatever it is they want to do, but you can't even if it is to help them. So when he found a bug that would be a spammers dream then sell it to the spammers cause they would pay millions where Facebook will dick you out of 500$:
Highly unfair that you aren't paying him, TOS or not. Additionally, one could argue that your TOS is bad to begin with. It could be re-written to properly account for this situation. This guy did not have malicious intent - that is the bottom line and all that matters here.
For anybody who wants a lighter view of the subject, I recommend Stanley Bing's book:

http://www.amazon.com/100-Bullshit-Jobs-How-Them/dp/00607348...
I'm in no way sure who you replied to was the owner, so your entitlement rage may have been aimed incorrectly.

That said, maybe the software isn't targeted at you? One of the beautiful things about open source is that contributors get to contribute on their own terms. Unlike many commercial products where targeting anyone and everyone willing to purchase it is the goal, having a completely free product allows the author to do away with all of that if they desire.

This isn't the market you are used to. You, as an end user may have very little power. I understand that the complete change of being catered to by commercial products and then ignored in an open source product can be frustrating. Just keep in mind, that frustration is built by your own misunderstanding of your place in the open source ecosystem. The sooner you accept your place, or change it, the better.
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I have been lucky enough to have a few jobs that paid the bills (though barely) that gave me some perspective on this. Before college, I worked at a gambling parlor where I was effectively paid to take other people's money from them and to give it to my boss. The potential for a financial gain was there as the establishment was...quasilegal at best...but it never happened that one stranger would walk in and take the house, never to return. Instead, older men and women would come in night after night and spend the majority of their disposable income hoping to break even though they usually never did. This was a bullshit job, and worse it was a job that directly contributed to the detriment both of the local economy and to that of the greater economy. They could have cut my job entirely by simply direct depositing money into the bank account of my employer and it would have cost them less in the long run (counting for gas and "concessions" consumed while gambling). However, the majority of the customers were older, uneducated, and lonely. Thus, they paid more for the social interaction than for the hope of winning big money. At the time, I worked maybe 70 hours a week and though I always had a little pocket money I was by no means "financially stable." What's more, the job in no way contributed to my long-term financial well being. Luckily, this was my last job before college, and since then I've been fortunate enough not only to find a decent job, but a job that works to optimize customer-commercial interactions - we try to help businesses actually figure out what their customers want to buy and to help the customers buy it more easily - and at the same time I have a roughly 20 hour work week that allows me to support my family and to give us a fair amount of recreational time. Still, I know that I am in the minority with my good fortune, and that makes me sad for others who are less fortunate than I.
I don't think it even has to be that extreme. When one starts out as a politician, even small-potatoes stuff like inflated tax exemptions would be enough to influence the ambitious. Later, once one is president, they have recordings of all the noxious shit you've done at their command. This is basic spy agency tactics.

It's quite probable that Obama knows about shit the various agencies have done that would make GG's hair curl. It's also quite probable they've done much worse shit that he doesn't know about.
No, but he's bit off more than he can chew I think.

Also, Star Citizen - using CryEngine and non procedural systems. snigger

This, gentlemen is why there are no good space games out there.
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I have noticed that in many countries, the big 'left wing' newspaper and the big 'right wing' newspaper is owned by the same company.
In the long run yes, when they have revenue. But they mention:

But then, one day when I came back to their website, I saw that they had added a minimum fee of €100 to their plan, and that unfortunately tipped the scale for us, as we pay everything on our own, and we have zero revenue coming in.

So the problem is for the first few months during which you pay everything out of your own pocket. It probably all depends on how confident you are that you'll get revenue.

How simple/hard is it to migrate from system to another?
Higher Certificate? Perhaps my knowledge of this is dated, but after you finish your second year can you not go onto the final-year of a university course? That was the case for HND's a while back.

If you can move on, and get a degree within the next two years then I'd probably stick with the course you're on, and to continue freelancing.

From what I've read, you seem capable, but your tool set seems rather dated, something I've noticed a lot from students that study for web-related certifications. Sadly, the mere mention of Dreamweaver is usually enough to scare people away from you, despite the actual knowledge you need to use any IDE.
ReactiveMongo (http://reactivemongo.org/) is coming alone nicely as well, and has some great non-blocking and reactive features.
A lot of school kids don't even have basic math or writing skills. I see the geek appeal of everyone learning to code, but it's really not practical. There are far greater concerns. I think a personal living class should be required. Kids don't know anything about opening a bank account, loans, renting an apartment, etc.
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Good catch, the first version is a little raw. I'll be working to improve the calculations/methods, including this.
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Why the hell would a non-US resident be extradited by his home country to the US to face some bogus charges? What's that hillbilly logic? How would US react if foreign countries were asking the US to extradite their own citizens to say, Iran?
They were talking about letting unpaid customers go, but they found backing, to let them keep up the good work: http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/57274499607/the-new-old-re...
Yeah I think you have to ignore case. The only word that needs to be capitalized is the first one in the sentence.
erica, I doubt 20% of the population really has ADHD that is the current issue that has been cropping up.

He is not dismissing people that REALLY has the issue, he is dismissing the fact that people has been throwing this around a lot, without any need.
If someone has no job their perceived lack of purpose ultimately pushes them into mental illness, drug abuses or even suicide.

I agree with this, but I think the real reason is more profound.

I think working is a "need" and then became a social value, not the other way around.

Creating tools and weapons is what gave us an edge as a species, so it wouldn't be that surprising that the need to work is not just a response to social stimuli (although it probably is aswell).
I agree with the last point. Even if GMO foods are overhyped and not all they're cracked up to be, many of their opponents are fanatics not worth listening to either.
But you are obviously educated and informed! How did you slip through the hegemonic net of control?
This seems like a non-sequitur. Could you clarify?
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Rescheduling priorities in light of developments is fair.
I would figure a lot of what you pay a lawyer for is not making sure you understand the contract but a) to save time and b) to have someone who's in the profession and knows the legal quirks, loopholes, and procedures.

I would figure a lot of what you pay a doctor for is not to mend every problem you have with your body to but to ensure that it's done timely, safely, and with the least amount of risk/damage/scarring/whatever as possible. Yeah you could probably do your own surgery but why?

Learning to code is hardly as serious an undertaking and yet it teaches you how to think about solving a problem, estimating time to solve that problem, and reducing the amount of time needed to create the solution to that problem. It teaches general problem-solving skills and at the very least can lead to recreational uses (building small games or family web sites).

I think problem-solving is probably one of the most important skills one needs in his toolbox to succeed in life and so why wouldn't it be taught as early as children can comprehend it?
For all the many problems with X11, it's still pretty cool that you can run something as complicated as Chrome in a headless manner just by running another program (xvfb) that speaks the protocol.

(I keep intending to hack Blink into a state where it can run truly headless, like a library, so that hacks like the above aren't necessary.)
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It seems self-evident that lecturing is a hugely inefficient and ineffective way of teaching people.

But I don't think it's about stroking the academic's ego as much as maintaining academic jobs. Remove the unnecessarily labour-intensive lecturing component and, unfortunately, it's far harder to justify large state subsidies and tuition fees that pay for universities. Universities are strongly incentivised to continue lecturing busy-work.

I would also guess that while lectures themselves are horrible, the structures, routines and environments created around lecturing are extremely valuable to students. You can't replace lectures with nothing. That's why MOOCs and textbooks, for all their virtues, are not an adequate replacement.

Even so, I've long wished someone would invest in creating videos that present university-level lecture material with television production values. I think you could create a format that is far more engaging and memorable than the typical lecture, you could have hosts with presentation and communication skills rather than academics, and a team of writers with expertise in the subject and education could spend time doing research to find the best way of teaching a subject and ensuring clarity, accuracy and understanding. Why not have Calculus II with Ryan Seacrest?

(Note: this is completely layman speculation)
He didn't think the game was fun so he stopped developing it. This sounds like something a lot of game development companies out there could learn from.
People working on a better democracy would do too :) Rather than early 90s web guest book, we need late 90s slashdot, or even better... 2013 HN/reddit.
I don't mean to derail the conversation but I wonder how much would it cost to buy a piece of land outright -- with no future obligations in terms of property taxes. Is this a wild goose chase? There will always be public cost of building roads and bridges and schools and firefighters who all have to be built/paid somehow.

It doesn't apply in your case as your property tax is probably much less than your maintenance fee to the property management. I know it is silly to think this way but I can't shake the feeling that I can lose my house that I own if tomorrow I don't have enough income to pay property taxes.
no, but if the person is not allowed to carry/possess it, he/she might be breaking laws. the term 'classified' exists for a reason.

it is all 'ifs', which is my point - not much is known, the so called fog of war is still in full effect but people around here are already jumping to conclusions.

might have been a nasty way of intimidation, might have been a security clerk reacting to standard procedure. no one here right now knows.
I don't think jasonjei was being dismissive of real ADHD. He was just pointing out that it is often over and mis-diagnosed. Many kids are considered misbehaving or diagnosed with a medical problem because they can't sit still for hours at a time, but that really is just kids being kids.

I think jasonjei and you are on the same side of this issue. He was a normal kid that didn't want to be mis-labeled, and you have a real condition that deserves consideration. You should both be opposed to the lazy parents/teachers/doctors who extend ADHD diagnoses far beyond its real scope to medicate normal kids into compliance.
You caught my spirit perfectly. A little biology knowledge can help interacting with a doctor. It's silly to assume people should know how to compile their operating system, but an appreciation and understanding for how data is aggregated and manipulated is useful.
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"does not need" can be applied to pretty much everything. But the point is not that. The point about learning to code is simple: It is definitely one of the important drivers of the next few decades. 100 years ago, most people could not read/write in many parts of the world. Today, thats not the case. Why ? Because reading/writing is an important part of how we live our lives today. Same with computers. Yes you don't need to learn how to code and still know how to use a computer. But that is today. Who knows 20 years down the road, coding (at least some kind of hacking) will be part of what we do on a daily basis ? Food for thought!!

Learning to program also teaches you a thing or two about problem solving and critical thinking. I have a 5 month old daughter. Guess what I will get her to play with as soon as she is old enough to start hitting the keyboard ? Yep, it will be programming.
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The actions cited: investigating the behavior of government, and questioning public servants about that behavior. Which is basically the role of the fourth branch; read any founding father. But you describe this, with a vindictive imagination zealous enough to do any federal prosecutor proud, as "blackmail". Journalists, doing their jobs. What. The. Fuck.