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As I always used to tell my students, your degree is just a piece of paper that helps you get your foot in the door. Its worth is equivalent to the effort and energy you put into it. Those that work hard and are passionate about their major, whether it be computer science or whether it be philosophy -- they'll end up doing well in their chosen fields -- or at the very least grow as people. If you're really into what you study, spend a lot of your extracurricular activities in related areas (e.g. being in debate club if you're a political science major), and are excited about working in a field pertaining to your major, you will do well. If you came just to party, socialize, and not major in something that you didn't care about or find challenging...you'll likely not get your return on the investment. I majored with plenty of people in computer science, some were even able to cheat their way to decent grades. However, we all know how well that works when you have to sit down for an interview at Google or wherever and you have a blank stare when you can't tell the difference between a binary tree and an apple tree. Your computer science degree in that case is almost worthless.

So it's worth it if you know what you're getting yourself into. Some people think it's just a rubber stamp to a job that pays a minimum of $50K a year somewhere in the city where they can continue partying. Not true unfortunately. I knew since I was a child what I wanted to study...for most the answer is not that easy. I always suggest that if you don't know what you want to do, don't go into debt by going to college without a plan. Do something else -- join peace corps, volunteer, get an apprenticeship...maybe join a community college first. Getting a college education is one of the most fantastic and redefining experiences a person can have -- you may only have one shot and should feel blessed you have that opportunity. Don't squander it.
On skimming, the piece does not appear to provide any technical how to info nor does it indicate what it really means for the account to be officially closed. Can one really delete a LinkedIn account? I vaguely had the impression you could not really truly get rid of it.
We've been using Circle for quite a few months now and it's amazing. Thanks for a great service!
You're seriously underestimating how much it costs. $750/day is probably low-balling it for anywhere in the country if you also count hiring costs/employee turnaround and training costs.

Also, for the skills implied, have you ever tried to hire a systems administrator who has experience in production environments with all of those aspects of back-end web servers? It's not easy, and it's not cheap.
I would love to know the OP's (or anyone else's) thoughts on Vagrant and why it is not in use to mimic prod on all of the devs' machines.
It's coming early next year. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mz20e/hi_im_panos_pan...
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I'm currently working at a job, where a recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn.

I'm glad I'm still a loyal LinkedIn user.

Regardless, I wish you best of luck.
Works fine for me, Safari 6.0.5 on OSX 10.8.4.
Yale Law School is sui generis. A full majority of its very small classes go on to clerk at the federal appellate level. While tenured law professor is still something of a long shot even for these top-of-the-top it's not the powerball lottery ticket that virtually all the rest of academia is (they average around 3-4 tenured professors per class of around 200), and there are other fulfilling career tracks uniquely open to people who went to Yale and then clerked at the appellate level.

For other schools on your list it's a different story. They certainly have a better chance, perhaps even a good chance, of getting the BigLaw job golden ring than most law graduates. But in my observation that's a bit of poisoned chalice. It pays well but the work is mostly tedious, the hours are very very long -- with no slowdown as your career advances -- and the atmosphere is extremely stressful.

There are some good public interest jobs for people who for whatever reason aren't money driven (usually because they have money already!) but the competition is fierce even for Harvard and Stanford grads because of all the burned out BigLaw associates looking to get out. Although the jobs are often interesting and sometimes fulfilling, they almost invariably require long hours. Almost all legal jobs do.
That means that the FBI would have to help every filmmaker everywhere.

Nope, it just means they'd need criteria other than what makes them look good. Which in fact I'm pretty sure they already must have, besides the PR angle.

The solution to bad people doing bad things can't always be to hack the legs off of everyone at the kneecaps and put everyone in a "safe" wheelchair.

This is an extremely broad argument to a particular situation, and those are rarely fruitful. But in any case: Bad people are rarely the real problem, they are relatively few. The real problem is culture and institutions that lead regular people to do bad things. Facilis decensus Averno. And if in a private context I believe the imposition of such rules should be avoided, I don't think the same applies to a public institution.

A better solution is that if you see a government agency misrepresenting themselves in media... point it out. Freedom of speech and freedom of press are there for a reason.

Point out what, that film makers are portraying a certain institution better than they would've had there been no help? How would I know? It's not like I'm claiming they would require outright lying or anything; it's just that it can introduce subtle but dangerous bias in the whole process.
They account for it over time ("subscription accounting), but I believe get it all at once. It's goofiness required for GAAP accounting IIRC. This is why carriers often post lousy numbers after a big launch even though it means a lot of future revenue--those $350 subsidies add up quickly.
Does being an adult just mean being old? There are 24 year olds with more responsibility, money, skill, influence, and intelligence than people older than that. Of course they're adults.
There is a trade off. If you don't swap your people around then they become very one dimensional. Sometimes it better to put someone less experienced in an area on a project so that he gains perspective (ie. see all junior staff)
> I actually think paying for certain masters degrees, for example in computer science or engineering, is a better financial investment than paying for most law schools.

Considering putting cash under your mattress is a better investment than paying for law school, yes, you are technically correct.

However, I don't know how "worth it" financially even a master's degree in Computer Science is. At best, I feel like it's break even in most cases: the year or two you spend getting the degree might be better spent on the job, especially if you have a decent mentor.

In one case, a guy I mentored directly out of undergraduate ended up going back and getting his master's. I think he'd say that it made him feel more confident with certain concepts, but then, I picked up the equivalent information in the course of my 10-year career with only an undergraduate degree. Any reasonably curious programmer would. It certainly did not make a difference in his income.

As for PhDs, I have never hired one. They seem to universally have an inability to think concretely or in a step-by-step manner. They have the skill set of a junior developer but expect the salary of a senior developer (at least). Ultimately, I can only imagine hiring one if they had significant experience in a very specific area that is difficult to hire for.
Karma doesn't necessarily translate to expertise. Most of my highest-karma comments have been utter nonsense. High karma can mean people have agreed with you, or that you've been here longer than not, and it probably is a good measure that you can conform to the norms of the community, but it doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're talking about.

I mean, people will listen when tptacek talks about cryptography, but that doesn't mean his opinion on design should necessarily matter more than that of a designer with less karma just because tptacek has the bigger integer attached to his name. It's not really more 'fair' for votes by high karma users to outweigh votes by lower karma users.

Unless it already works that way in which case it's the best thing ever and clearly pg is going God's work.
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Firefox, latest version 24 on linux runs very nice.
Firefox has been very fast and stable at least in the last 5 releases.

I can't stand chromium ( I don't use chrome ), it lacks too many options and it's really annoying that it closes the browser when you close the last tab.
It's a bug, not a feature, god dammit!
All the extensions for it are just hacks that don't really work.

I only open chromium for some weird site not really rendering well or that displays any bug with adblock turned on in firefox.
It's kind of some people's fault though. I mean, people who should have known better (many of whom who stood to profit from people not knowing better) worked hard to sell the people who are now in their twenties and early thirties on the idea that a college degree would be a necessary and sufficient condition for steady, gainful employment.

I managed to get out of that situation without any student debt, and I wish I could say that was because I saw through the lie, but the truth is that luck was a big factor as well. My confidence in my conclusion that we were being sold a bill of goods was weak enough that under other circumstances, I could have easily gotten burned badly. I know a lot of people who didn't get so lucky.
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Yes, and that could lead to a charge of conspiracy. The reviewers carried out the fraudulent acts. In what world do you think being paid to do something absolves you of all responsibility for your actions?
IP and buildings are already counted in assets so I'm not sure where you are getting that from.
We could also just keep using lynx for web browsing. It worked fine.

I'll gladly admit that having a browser that does graphics is a huge improvement over a browser that only displays text, like lynx. But browsers have been supporting graphics since what, 1995? Earlier?

Since graphical browsers appeared, IMO, there has been exactly one UI innovation in browsers that was worth the effort to re-learn things: the Chrome UI, that basically got rid of the UI except for the address/search bar and the browser window itself. I'm fine with having to re-learn where all the menu options are if I need them, in exchange for that simplification. But that happened in what, 2008?

Of course there have been plenty of changes behind the scenes in browsers, such as security fixes, support for HTML 5 and updates to Javascript, etc. None of those affect the UI, and I'm not talking about those kinds of changes. I'm talking specifically about changes to the UI that force people to re-learn things for no good reason.
Put it in context of a high school / middle school lunchroom...
I'm a Swedish product designer and engineer, and think Swedish creativity is the same and any other country's: it's about taking stuff you've learned in one field and applying it to another.

Swedish people in my not entirely unbiased opinion tend to be exceptionally good at this and I think that's because education tends to be very broad - if you want to take music lessons and learn to play an instrument in Sweden it's essentially paid for by the state. Want to create a study group to learn about painting, same thing. If you go to study say engineering physics at a masters program, they'll also force you to learn at least the basics in fields like construction, electrical engineering, software engineering, etc. When you exit high school, even if you've taken a scientific route, you've learned about wood work, mechanical engineering, probably at least 2 languages beyond Swedish, etc.

Part of this I think is attributable to the culture isn't so focused on knowledge being measured or "accounted for" financially.

A second reason is probably that it's pretty cold in Sweden in the winters, but I don't think that has nearly as much to do with it.

Disclaimer: I'm born 77 and left the country 99. Some people claim that education isn't as good as it used to be. I don't know, but I think most of the people creating kick ass products right now are people that were born in the 80s or earlier.
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Whoops. I knew it was a lot of zeros... $11,111,111 a day. Or $462,962 an hour or $128 a second. That's a lot of cash.
> And that's because the cut-off is not biological, it's social.

I disagree. There is a wealth of biological evidence to show that a human's brain doesn't finish maturing until (approx.) age 25. By that standard you could make the argument that 25 is when people reach adulthood.

Of course, what we're really talking about here is expectations of responsibility, so even though "by 15 or 16 people should already be expected to act like adults" these young people still have maturing to do.

It's not surprising that in our rich modern society the age of 'adulthood' has risen to 25, especially considering we live so much longer than we used to.
"TV sitcoms are littered with such comic stereotypes of juvenile adults, such as Smithy from Gavin and Stacey or Private Pike in Dad's Army."

As a non-Brit, I enjoy the completely opaque cultural references in BBC news articles. Although thanks to Netflix I have seen Gavin & Stacey.
You're using a fairly useless theory of value for this context.
It isn't quid pro quo but it shouldn't be martyrdom either. I think cutting your own throat for your kids teaches them something bad, not something healthy. (Yes, I am a parent, a very devoted one in fact.)
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They have defaulted new emails to on in the past.
- I'm doing between l$20k and l$30k per month on commissions on vendor systems that rent out shoutcast servers to musicians and DJs in Secondlife. oups thats only us$80-$120, but its game money, that I can drop into tipjars, if I like music, or use it pay graphic designers.

- I'm doing Linux maintenance for a dozen servers (Debian, Linux Container, Nagios, Make+M4 as management - hey puppet, chef and cfenginer are for quiche eaters) for Euro600/year each, basically for doing backup, apt-get, and having a nagios screen open.

- I have sold the 3rd w3dig.com installation, with an Euro1000 anual maintenance contract recently. This will hopefully become my next 'big' software.

- I still have 22 XML::Edifact customers, who pay Euro1000 twice a year for maintenance update, when the next UN/EDIFACT standard is published. A semi-passive income that requires a week work twice a year, and payed my lifestyle, free software experiments, slack, and procrastination for a 3rd of my life so far. Not bad for a software I published under GPL 15 years ago.
I'll believe 25 is the new 18 when we raise the minimum age for military service from 18 to 25.
A bit less so, but still yes. Yale you're probably okay, but at Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia you're still going to have to be in at least the top half (maybe top third) of your class to have a good chance of getting a job that can cover your loan payments, and that job will be at biglaw and you will almost certainly hate your life. If you can get a full ride to a top 14 school, it's probably worth going (these exist, but are extremely uncommon). If you get into Yale, that's probably also worth it (the way smaller class size compared to Harvard or Stanford helps a lot). Other than that, law school is probably a bad idea.
I think switching to Android would be a disaster. "Just another Android phone" is something we see already in the market, with very few players actually differentiating themselves.
The US has Social Security which is basically a state run retirement. The problem is that it's funded by the people currently working. This worked out great when there was a surplus of workers. Now that less people are working than are retiring, the social security funds are in danger of running out.
I don't think game publishers would trust their cash cows to an Android platform either.
All three messages miss the fact that it's society's choices that have ultimately compromised the opportunities of the next generation.

In other words, the same people who are imparting the message - their parents.
Reading this article http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes... makes me feel not too terrible that he's being thrown in jail.
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Context: For the first time, I’m excited about what’s happening in the world of entertainment. In an industry that has long resisted the sort of disruption technology has brought to other fields, 2013 is starting to look like an inflection point.

H/N badly needs an option to include a lede paragraph with posts when headlines are obscure.
ATI has released (almost) complete specifications at this point, NVIDIA has released nothing.

http://renderingpipeline.com/graphics-literature/low-level-g...
Wrong, because if you were prosecuted they'd have to show that the purchase of the shill reviews came from you. If it turned out that the order was placed from an IP address connected with your competitor down the street - which it would during even a cursory investigation - then it would be your competitor that was in hot water with the law, not you.
Well, if we get really pedantic and nit-picky, the alarming news that the president was responding to was actually that a tremendous percentage of phone calls are being recorded, IIRC. Strictly speaking, it's actually impossible for NSA employees/contractors to "listen to" more than a tiny fraction of them, there simply aren't enough human-hours to do that. Nobody seriously thought that the NSA actually had a human being snooping on every phone call.

So the people say "You're recording our calls!" And the official answer is "Well we're not actually listening to them. We analyze the crap out of the metadata, though."

I'm still OK with calling that "discounting."
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Your aggression and quips do nothing but reveal your insecurity and obviously degrade a rather sensible thread into a showdown of your ego. Kindly refrain.
Yes. Remember this whole thing started over 40 years ago, when management still had the mindset of large teams of factory workers and/or office paper pushers. Some were clearly better than others but for the most part, employees were supposed to be pin-compatible fully interchangeable parts, so the idea that some people could be lagging so far behind the others without management's notice was a new and novel concept. Today, not so much.
Microsoft sticking to Tegra is an interesting choice. I'm not saying it's bad, but still interesting given the current dynamics of the mobile market.

Now that they have Nokia, I predict that Microsoft will attempt to acquire NVIDIA in order to mimic Apple's and Samsung's vertical strategies. Not sure Jen-Hsun or the board would agree though.
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Could be that we're just going through biological changes because of a different diet. Seems to change the age of puberty.
http://rationalconspiracy.com/2012/09/10/age-and-brain-devel...
My Linux system with Nvidia graphics easily gets a month uptime; I only reboot every now and then for updates and changes to the system. Never had an issue with the drivers, even when using them for 3d gaming with Steam.

Now, don't get me started on AMD's awful attempt at graphics drivers.
Tell all the steel workers and auto workers that lost their jobs to Japanese industry that those concerns weren't justified then. The exodus of those jobs happened, and Detroit and Pittsburgh were never the same again (both cities are less than half the size of their peaks). Those jobs never came back, and the ones that replaced them were never as numerous nor did they pay as well.

All that's happening now is that the phenomenon is creeping it's way up the ladder. New York and London are healthy, but it's the capital markets in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Sao Paulo that are really booming. If you're an aspiring banker and you want the kind of access to jobs your parents had, you'd better brush up on your Portuguese. There will still be jobs in Chicago and Boston and New York, but with capital being put to work in developing economies where there is a higher potential for return along with less competition, the opportunities are elsewhere. And if you're not in Chicago or Boston or New York, those opportunities will dwindle as increased domestic competition results in consolidation and more of a winner-take-all market. Did you know Johns Hopkins was founded by a bequest from a prominent Baltimore banker. Today you'd ask: Baltimore has bankers?

Finally, with regards to Japan specifically, Japan was and is a relatively closed society that didn't accept much foreign capital investment. That's totally different with China, India, and Brazil.
As I understand it, for a universe that's being uniformly accelerated, by for example dark energy, its overall curvature should be negative.

By "overall curvature", do you mean spacetime curvature, or the curvature of a spatial slice?

As I said in my previous post, the de Sitter spacetime, which is the model for a universe that is being uniformly accelerated, has uniform positive spacetime curvature. These Wikipedia links give a good overview (of course Wikipedia is not always reliable, but these pages appear to be consistent with what I read in other more knowledgeable sources such as GR textbooks):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Sitter_universe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Sitter_space

The spacetime curvature scalar R is 4 Lambda, where Lambda is the (positive) cosmological constant.

The second Wikipedia link also describes the different possible spatial slicings of de Sitter spacetime; as I noted previously, slicings exist with all three types of spatial curvature (positive, zero, and negative).

However, it is true that the slicing with negative curvature is the one that's used in the standard cosmological models of a universe that is dark energy dominated; that's the FLRW model with exponential expansion that's discussed in the first Wikipedia link. So if that specifically is what you were referring to by negative "overall curvature", then I agree; but I would specify that it's overall negative spatial curvature, and that that model assumes a particular spatial slicing which is not the only possible one.
I came across MyScript yesterday, and have been very impressed. It's an SDK which can recognize handwritten math (among other things). It has correctly recognized everything I've thrown at it so far, even though I'm using a mouse so my writing's pretty crappy.

I'm seriously considering trying to build something with the API. I'm not sure what; I just want to play with the cool technology. Perhaps an app which gives you an algebra question, then uses math recognition to interpret your working. It could then see that you made a mistake on step three (for example).

Perhaps I've just late to the party, but I'm still astounded that this is possible.

You can check out a demo here: http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/home.html#equation