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My anecdotal experience is almost opposite yours. My girlfriend graduated last year, and her and most of her friends cannot find jobs in the law space. Most of her friends who did find jobs are getting paid less than I got paid as a lifeguard before I received my undergrad degree, in comp. sci.

Which, as it happens, was enough of a salary to graduate with zero debt and make a considerable amount right out of college. I do not know may law grads who can say that.
That's awesome :-)

My parents had me doing chores so when I moved out, I had those life skills. I'll admit, it wasn't until after I was 25 that I wanted to get my shit together to break free; it wasn't until I was 28 until I was trying to strike it on my own. But it wasn't until a few months ago, at age 33, that I truly felt like a mature adult.

By that I mean that, there were no hidden impostor syndrome. Nor were there hidden motives in attempting to accomplish something in order to get parental approval.

Although at 25, I did feel start feeling changes (as a result of a maturing brain), none of what led up to feeling like an adult came as a result of a maturing body, or depending on society to create a path towards adulthood. Part of that is mentoring. A lot of it was inner work. (But you can't make anyone do inner work).
You are right that its not canned laughter, but a laugh track can more generally refer to a separate track for the audience's laughter. This can be edited to compensate for jokes that require repeated takes or have its level's adjusted just like the rest of the sound in the show.

I don't watch the show, so I can't say for sure, but its possible that the way the laugh track is mixed makes it more obvious than other shows, such as 90s sitcoms.
So if 25 is the new cutoff for adulthood, and 30 is the new BS cutoff for an employable programmer, that leaves 5 years to learn everything?
That premium is there to cover the additional risk they have identified is associated with renting to people under the age of 25.
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If I shave I bet I can still pass for 30...
Did you talk to her about why she shouldn't throw it out? All my kids were different, and I found that rules by fiat never worked for me, but discussions about what we were trying to achieve where more successful. When they were very young, we didn't talk about things so much as we read books with stories and we talked about the stories. Things like Bread and Jam for Frances or Pancakes for Breakfast. I found toddlers to be great observers, and not so great at reasoning :-).
People who aren't adults can learn things. Indeed, that's a pretty important function of the non-adult portion of life.
Where, in spite of that, your teachers were probably pushing you to perform, and when you got out you probably had no trouble getting into a good school which made it more likely for you to get a good job.

Kids are cruel, but their social order is not the real world. In the real world nerds are not a disadvantaged, let alone oppressed, group.
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That 90% can have boyfriends, too, you know.
I think of it as paying forward what your parents gave to you. I help my parents, but I fund my child and expect him to do the same.
Oh, I see. They still didn't use the defacto standard FTDI header pinout however.
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To my eyes, most of these discussions of "adulthood" focus on "self-reliance", or rather a lack thereof.
>that's simply because that's how they are treated.

Bingo! By forcing kids to go to school through 18 where they make basically NO choices that affect their lives, are taught things that more than half the time the teachers can't even tell them why they need to know them ("for college" isn't a real answer, either) -- all of this treats them like infants.

Even infants manage learn to speak and walk without being "taught" a thing. Forcing kids to go through a lock-step learning regimen just teaches them that their desires aren't important, and they end up rebelling.

If you look at kids from Sudbury schools [1], or kids who have been (competently) "Unschooled" [2], they typically seem to be mature for their age, polite, and reasonably well-spoken. By respecting the kids and giving them freedom at a young age, they act more mature.

See also Paul Graham's essay on "Nerds" [3], where he talks about (among other things) the completely artificial environment that is the broken schooling paradigm in the US, and in much of the world.

>In my opinion by 15 or 16 people should already be expected to act like adults.

If you treat them that way, for real, then they will. But that includes not forcing them into the stupidly artificial and even actively damaging [4].

Someday I want to fix this problem. If I end up involved in a start-up, fixing education -- REALLY fixing it, not just doing "more of the same" and calling that an improvement -- will be at the core.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school

[2] http://sandradodd.com/unschooling -- briefly, the kids are allowed to learn what they want. This is NOT just "neglect the kids;" it requires active parent involvement.

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

[4] http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/3d.htm -- see the note about dyslexia
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Something they'd fix, if it were pointed out to them? I'd like to think so.

It has, in fact, been taken offline. (Along with the whole collection of "sound effects".)
Which conversion step do you think it would be easiest to improve upon? I'm curious, because increasing the rate of free trial signups by 30%, from 2% to 2.6% (which seems like a modest increase), would result in the same number of subscribers as if you were to manage to increase trail-to-paid conversions by the same 30%, from 70% to 91% (which seems like a much more difficult feat).

Anyway, I'm sure you know the various scenarios, so my question is: how do you determine where to focus (or how to distribute) your efforts? Of course, the free trial signup rate becomes a limiting factor as your trail-to-paid rate approaches 1, but at this point, where do you see the best opportunity for improvement?
>In other words, the data is correlational, and not based on random assignment to an experimental condition and control condition.

If you would like to see studies that use random or quasi-random selection into education, there is a huge literature in labor economics on this topic. For various reasons such literature would never make it onto HN.

See a very brief summary here

http://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/re/articles/?id=1866
The tech industry might not be big in comparison to the US, but per capita I would think it is. Sweden's prosperity was built largely on technology, engineering, natural resources and heavy industry. The economy is pretty diversified now, with large fashion, design and bio-medical industries as well. In general, just like you say, the entertainment industries and financial industries are much smaller.

My guess for why there are so many game developers in Sweden: people are free to pursue whatever they want, without much financial pressures. People don't rush through college, because there's no tuition. They're not as pressured to go into high-paying industries because they have less debt to pay off. That combined with early access to computers and internet creates an environment where people pursue their passions, for better or worse.
> That mostly solves that problem, but leaves people like me that would like to handle retirement savings themselves a bit annoyed.

Ironic, because that's how I feel about speed limits: it's for the best overall but annoying to those that drive well... and you're from Germany where they have the Autobahn.

That said, my concern for my dim-witted but well meaning citizens makes me willing to bear this for the overall good.
Keep in mind that even if the tenured faculty of yesteryear do not disappear, the numbers are likely to not do better than flat.

Consider the numbers...

A successful professor, who brings in the grant money, can supervise 10-30 graduate students towards their PhDs over the course of their career. Others will supervise fewer, but that is because the money is scant.

The bottom line is that if you are not obviously one of the top 10% students of your program, you are second string. Half the first string players are having trouble finding a professorship. What are your odds?
Thanks everyone for your comments and feedback. It definitely provides more details around my question/interest. If you have any further info, don't hesitate to share.
I don't know anything about 10x engineers.

I know about 1x engineers, maybe 1.5x engineers.

And I know about 0.1x and 0.5x engineers. They're the engineers who scraped by in college, whose heart isn't in it, who clock in and out each day and just try to stay under the radar. They're good at looking busy and getting nothing done. They make the 1.5x engineers look really good.
I can't speak for recent Humble Bundles, but the linux experience of earlier ones was inconsistent to say the least. Some games were as if they were intended to be native. Others just didn't work or actually didn't exist. Others worked, but were buggy... and never got the update fixes. Maybe they have become better?
Laundry is of course easy to learn, but the issue at hand here is the question of empowering youth to feel capable. I have no fears about tackling the unknown and learning how to cook and do laundry, and presumably neither do you. Some young adults however do, and the theory here is that teaching them these basic life skills will help them get over the fear of striking out alone.
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Of course he deserves to be in jail, but he should be in jail under harassment and identity theft laws instead of the hacking charges.
They've 2 use cases, this test one, which has a rationale linked from 'workload' in article:

"Run end-to-end, the 7,000 trunk tests would take about half an hour to execute. We split these tests up into subsets, and distribute those onto the 10 machines in our Jenkins cluster, where all the subsets can run concurrently..."

http://codeascraft.com/2011/04/20/divide-and-concur/

...so clearly running these tests on a single devs machine would be a bottleneck. The other use case is the dev env: in a previous blog they described how they're using their own internal cloud to run the dev vm's faster on dedicated hardware (with easy, one click provisioning):

http://codeascraft.com/2012/03/13/making-it-virtually-easy-t...

which makes sense. Why emulate prod running on dev's own boxes when you can pool the hardware and get better utilisation, & at the same time run them faster?
No, the bees just went back to their home planet. I'm sure it's nothing to worry about.
As someone mentioned this is just the first announcement of three: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/

Announcement 1, SteamOS: is just a fancy way to say you can create custom Steam consoles by just installing some software. Make the box as good or a cheap as you want and everything will just workPretty awesome, but definitely this will be dwarfed by...

Announcement 2, people are guessing is a Valve distributed "SteamBox": a console that is presumably very cheap and linux based. This would give Xbox One and PS4 a run for their money and with the social aspects of Steam built-in, this could be a break out hit with a price of 50% all the other consoles.

Announcement 3, is the large unknown here. We don't know what it is, but if it is bigger (or equal to) SteamBox this could be a huge deal. Nothing really makes sense here. We know:

* SteamBox will support streaming from your windows/mac machine so it will be able to run every game at launch.

* SteamBox will likely have lots of publishers signed on. Probably as many or more then on xbox one / ps4. If they are already using an engine that targets multiple platforms (Unreal or Unity) they are definitely going to try to support it.

* SteamBox will likely support all the features of steam with friend lists, chat, voice, purchasing over the cloud, etc. So the + might mean sharing, but a new kind?

* SteamBox supports game sharing at a friends or family level. I see this as a kind of Netflix-like persona idea: an account gains separate personas that each have different friends lists and achievements. Very powerful and necessary once Steam hits the living room and multiple people are using the same box / account.

What it could be:

* LAN play for SteamBoxs on the same network (announced in Dota, this could explain the circle + circle graphic). Maybe you share the game between friends, and stream to the other boxes? That would be pretty awesome.

* Game streaming from other people's SteamBoxs? This would be an awesome way to share a game. It is like onlive but for distributed for everyone (seems unlikely. That kind of streaming would stop your friends from being able to play).

* A launch title like Half-life 3 (seems unlikely with the circle + circle logo implying you need multiple SteamOS instances).

* A new kind of social experience, maybe a built in way to be a part of the game creation process or improved social network experiences on Steam (seems unlikely to be big enough to be the final announcement)

* A new kind of hardware like a VR headset(seems unlikely, as cheap will be a big feature of this box)

This is marketing at its best. They hooked us good.
Any middle/upper-middle class, healthy American-born person with a caring family, access to good education resources, opportunities to stay employed throughout their life, and a drive to work for the market can and should do that if they live in an area with a demand for new jobs and are lucky enough to stay away from any serious accidents, diseases, and pregnancies.

As someone who immigrated here as a refugee without a dollar to my name and a family to feed, I realize how much of a role pure chance and luck play in my successes thus far despite the obstacles.
And then not be able to see your family and grandkids often? Might as well move their now, lay down roots and work remotely.
He did something equivalent to scanning a public bulletin board for information that AT&T put there through what seems like sheer incompetence. There does not seem to be any hacking involved unless you also classify google as an automated hacking engine. I feel bad that someone might get jail time and a felony conviction for crawling a public forum.
There are definitely neurological and biological changes that are time-driven after puberty.
Google Sheets has changed quite a bit over those "2 to 3 years", being a web app and all, Excel hasn't. I suggest taking second glance.
"Traditional Linux userspace software" is an informal definition, but let's say something like X. Or your average window manager. Or, say, almost anything from GNOME.

"Traditional Linux users" is another informal definition, but if you use a distro, you're probably a traditional Linux user. Contrast this with an Android user. They run the Linux kernel but the software they interface with is an entirely different breed. The statement "Android is Linux" is true, definitely, but it's inside baseball to anyone but us nerds. The Linux-y aspects are more or less invisible (by design).

I'm not trying to slight either desktop Linux or Android or SteamOS or whatever, just to be clear. I think it's a huge win for Linux, at least in some sense.

I think it's misleading to read "Linux" and imagine "desktop GNU/Linux with all the trimmings." I can't imagine there won't be some way to get that on a SteamOS machine. My skepticism is directed at the idea that Valve will ship anything which, out of the box, resembles a traditional desktop Linux experience. I expect it will be more like an Android experience than Ubuntu, with rather limited access to OS internals, filesystem, package management, etc.

Does that make more sense?
I just did "export TERM=xterm-256color" in my gnome-terminal 3.8.4 which made "tput colors" return 256 and the script worked.
So we do sell offline but we target the audiences based on location or an event etc, and a few of the designs are brand new so we don't have a check point on those 3 yet.

I think you and the other member(s) are right, conversions are suffering because of the design. Hence job 1 is to change it. The odd part is looking at the other t-shirt sites that are popular and doing well their designs seem to be only so-so, and overall look like they were stamped from a mold. Also most are not mobile friendly at all, we are at least mostly responsive and operational on a mobile device too.

This is not to say we made some radically cool design that is better, obviously, plus we used a template to save time for the initial launch. We were trying to do some things differently, like not cramming shirt designs with no whitespace and hiding prices until you get into the details of the shirt, or in a lot of cases until you go to checkout. I was trying to not do that but obviously these other sites design must work. And since ours is lacking a conversion rate I would call successful, we have to adapt.

I also evaluated price again today when I was bouncing around other sites. Someone else brought that up, which to me is always worth evaluating. Overall for those sites using the same quality shirts, once you checkout they we are all within a few dollars of each other, with us being middle of the pack usually. There are some shirts that are high discount mass produced tees that you can get for 19 shipped.

I am thinking we are also suffering though because we don't call it out in a bold way saying shipping is always free in the US. That could make people see a $18-25 shirt and they mentally do the math of another 6-8 dollars and say hell no thats way too expensive. So I think we need to figure out a much clearer way to communicate our value prop on that front.

I always appreciate feedback, and the fact people here are generally direct and don't load each other with BS .

Thanks again for taking the time.
Monexa.
> Google Sheets has changed quite a bit over those "2 to 3 years", being a web app and all, Excel hasn't.

Excel 2013 actually has changed from Excel 2010.
Yes, apparently it does the same thing as gnome-terminal, which does not advertise its support for 256 colors.
The article teaches nothing, it just shows results. How did all those great jobs get created? What did I miss?

This is like telling me that I can learn something from an expert guitar player, then only letting me listen to the expert guitar player. I've learned nothing from that about how to be a better guitar player.
There are some problems with comparing a Windows Surface Pro tablet to an iPad. The availability of programs is such that you're not going to use the iPad for content creation, and you're probably not going to use the Surface for gaming. The Surface is not a pick-up-and-go sort of device.

It's a laptop with a mutli-touch display.

I'm building a program right now for Windows 8, on Dell hardware[1]. I've gotten quite used to the OS by now, and as long as you have a touch display, it doesn't really deserve the criticism I've read. I remember hearing the same thing about Windows XP and Windows Vista and Windows 7.

The thing that I like the most about using Windows 8 is that all of my software just, like, works. A little bit of that is luck: if I had written any programs that had heavy use of keyboard shortcuts, it wouldn't work without a blutooth keyboard. If I had written any programs that expected the screen to never resize, that too would break. But those are pretty bad programming habits to begin with. My programs don't look great, but that is a temporary problem.

And I can program for it with the same tools that I'm using for Windows 7 (hell, I can program on it). I don't have to wait for someone to make a something-to-something-else translator to use my favorite language to write programs like I do on iOS or Android. I don't have to wait for someone to make a decent text editor on iOS or Android. I don't have to wait for someone to write decent source control software for iOS or Android. I have it all, already. I can do whatever I want.

Hell, if I want to install Linux on the thing, I could. Of course, it's probably not going to play nicely with the touch screen, but that is a different issue. The Surface Pro is just a PC.

[1] The Dell hardware isn't great, but it has a regular, ol', USB port on it, which makes it amazing. I've played with the Surface Pro at a Staples and found it to be better than this Dell device in every way.
My guess would be anything that runs X.org + Gnome/KDE/XFCE ... (and the list goes on)

My guess is that SteamOS is a rather specialized flavor of linux ... akin to Android.

... Just my 2 cents.
I've never understood the argument that getting a PhD is worth it because education is worth it on its own. The premise is correct, but the conclusion doesn't follow. A PhD used to mean a qualification you had to get for a specific set of jobs or careers, now a lot of people argue for it as some culturally enriching experience. If you look carefully at this assumption it masks a pretty insidious elitism, which is that you can only truly appreciate culture and art via qualification. This is bogus. As Will Hunting said,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZI1vgJwUP0&t=2m25s
The Ruby on Rails Tutorial (http://railstutorial.org/), conceived as a 4-Hour Workweek–style product business, makes low five figures per month, requiring just about the proverbial four hours of work per week (mostly minor book updates and customer service emails). New editions are a lot of work (e.g., ~2 months full-time to redo the screencasts), but the new sales cycle typically yields a mid-five-figure income spike the month of the launch.

I'm currently working on a project designed to help make Rails Tutorial–type stories more common among hackers. Stay tuned...
You have any good resources on vanilla LXC?
If memory serves, he was actually busted for drug possession not long after the gawker article went up, but he's not actually being prosecuted for that is he?
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Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Windows Surface RT v1.

I've given MS plenty of chances. I think it's time I moved on.
Agreed. Secure infrastructure would be important. I see it as the most important component given that so many companies are switching their infrastructure to support BYOD instead of tying themselves directly to BB, Windows Phone, etc.
biologically people are adults at puberty

If you define "adulthood" as "the age of sexual maturity", then yes. However, if you define it as "when the individual is finished developing", adulthood truly begins somewhere in the early to mid twenties. Your brain continues to develop after puberty.
I'm sure the obscene medical bills would eventually be passed onto her if it were the US, so I don't see the point of the question.
Your problem is that you have an iPad 2. If you use a retina iPad, you will be able to read a PDF in landscape if you can read a book. The screen simply becomes almost as good as print.

I've read many math papers and books this way.
I don't know. I think in a society that valued education more, there would be a place for more history professors. This would bring down class size, for one. I also believe a well-rounded education better prepares someone to give back to society and avoid over-simplified political messaging.

Universities, in pursuing profits, are cutting costs. This no doubt good for their bottom line, but it might be bad for society as a whole. With the downplaying of the value of history and the humanities, perhaps people are less prepared to think outside of their narrow technical specializations.