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I was originally going to comment that it was more accurate to say they shouldn't try, but he's right. In history, they just can't. The academia machine has screwed up incentives. Schools and professors are individually incented to produce more candidates than the market needs. It's up to people to say "No, I won't do it." or "No, I don't expect to get a job after 5 years of service and learning."

I do wish I had the guts to follow up with his Hell, some of them shoot rainbows out of their butts and smell like a pine forest after a spring rain--and they mostly aren't going to get jobs either.
I really wish people would stop saying this. Even if you don't mean to trivialize what blackface actually was, that is basically the net effect. It's a terrible analogy on pretty much every level.
Agreed. This is promiscuous behavior. One should occasionally check out their Google dashboard and see what's going on. A few times a year, I check out what has permission via my Google account and deactivate anything that I haven't used in awhile or no longer care about.
The market is already there. Steam already has more users that both Xbox and Playstation combined.
While deleting your account is certainly one of the options, I disabled all email notifications and removed all the recruiters that added me. Now I am careful about which requests I approve. Overall, LikedIn can be useful for connecting to new colleagues or former ones.
Are you saying it's wise or smart to cripple your ability to retire by lavishing your children with your life's savings? That's what this guy seems to have done. And now his situation is a bit f'd up.
The deal is not done as yet - there are "terms" to be discussed as well as 6 weeks of time. It only has a letter of intent from Fairfax in which shareholders would receive $9 per share in cash.
I am from Africa. My mom gets a pension for $30/month for the few years my father worked for the government before passing away. With $30 she can go buy one bag of rice, and maybe enough sugar for one month. MAYBE.

But no one cares. In Africa the retirement is your kids. You take care of your kids, and when they grow up, they take care of you. While this system is sure to keep many under poverty, I prefer it to one where someone who is 77 has to get to work just to ensure he can have the basics.

I respect the way elders think in America. That is they are independent, they help the youngsters as much as they can, and they are just significantly more active than older people where I am from. However I do think it is right for them to have to work past a certain age, especially when they have well-able relatives.
Yup, it's the GP that seems to be attacking (or rather defending?) a straw man.
Like Android had Google users, Steam has a user base already.

I think that will help get people onboard as well. Everything is already right there for you, your friend list, your games, your awards, your wallet.

Getting a box running SteamOS is just another piece of the puzzle for Steam users invested in the ecosystem.
Acqui-hires are basically, companies paying multiples of standard salary for exceptional programmers.
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This is either brand new (within the last few weeks) or your coworkers don't know anything about it. The whole monitoring thing has been a farce for a year or more, as it's been coming real soon now, then in beta, then severely limited, then costs money, etc.
You can at least apply your skills elsewhere. It might take some self-learning beyond coursework, but lots of data scientists and financial researchers have your background.

But that Phd in history....
What are your definitions for "traditional Linux userspace software" and "traditional Linux users"? Do you consider Android to be "Linux"?
The article says that he made $100k, and it sounds like he continued to live like he was after the money stopped. If he was living like someone who made $30k, the money would go farther.
The Big Bang Theory is nerd blackface.
I may be wrong but I'm guessing he's not a parent.

For most parents a choice between yourself and your children is no choice. He's accepted a level of financial hardship to be, or at least feel like, a good parent. I see no issue with that.
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If your app is CPU intensive then why wouldn't you look at dedicated ?

Switching to Linode is always a terrible idea considering how disgraceful their security and business practices are.
We run some Virtualbox builds on them which AWS doesn't support.
Our build slaves are pretty busy (I'd say jobs running 16+ hours a day). There isn't really that much possible cost saving towards an OVH server :)

Also: HDD performance on "basic" Amazon is slow and RAM is expensive :(
It would be the time to discuss or even revamp the tenure system of the professorship at universities, just like what happens to the NYC public school teachers. The tenure system of the job protections for the past 200+ years of the Western higher education system is based on the low supply of advanced degree holders, which is just the opposite to today's situation. There are a lot of very good tenured professors doing amazing academic works and teachings even at their old ages. But I believe everyone knows one or two such tenured professors just doing sloppy works or not publishing for a long while. You want to complaint about those kind of professors? Try ratemyprofessor or FB and that would be it. The only winners of such university tenure system are the tenure holders who view their professorships as entitlements, rather than try to advance the human knowledge or educate the next generation. The losers? The schools, the students and the new crops of PhD graduates with mountain high of passions.
This used to happen a lot to a friend of mine. We eventually worked out, through some rather underhand methods, that it was a stalker from her home town. Fortunately she lived thousands of miles away from there so there was no physical danger, but it was still most irritating for her.

Having said that, that's probably not what's going on here - but I think one should never underestimate the capacity of creeps with too much time on their hands.
why not use their resources to help build the new Ubuntu Mobile phone that was on kick starter it would be a huge in demand project with a lot of buzz...Ubuntu knows software blackberry hardware could be An interesting marriage.
Well the headline seems editorialized to cash in on the predictable anti-Google counterculture that has sprung up in the last few years.

Seems more like a case of "not invented here" syndrome rather than "Let's Be Evil"

Plus, most plugins are proprietary shit, holding back standardization and everyone knows it.
Then why the magic number 10?
There are very few no rent homes. My rent has been about $325/month to the city in prop taxes for the last decade or so. They have held it constant by increasing all fees in an extortionate manner.
Interesting. I was actually thinking of using something like this to take parts of the slower web frameworks that have tonnes of functionality, such as Django's ORM or templating, and get them on par with microframeworks.
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I like yous site. Do you have a white label version of your site? I want to build one for a completely different vertical.
The idea of landing a job in some bucolic university town actually has an appeal for some folks. I have relatives that are professors in a relatively small US city and they seem to love it.
Why not go remote from the get go?
My first reaction was amazon's mechanical turk (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome) would be good for this. You use a webcam to track eyes. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengazer/)

Best of luck!
On all gens. They're all terrible.
How is this different from other commercials VPNs? If you really want privacy choose offshore VPN that doesn't keep logs.
The other way to look at this is a guy smart enough to rise to VP of Marketing at a major corporation and make in the low six figures isn't smart enough to manage his own retirement savings.

He's a VP of Marketing. Why is it that we expect him to know how to manage a retirement fund, even if it is his own?

The wide-spread end of the pensions system and the rise of 401(k)s is going to be a disaster as more and more Baby Boomers retire.
Investments != savings... No one should have any money in stocks if they're within 10-20 years of retirement, and aren't investment professionals themselves.

The fact is, people (investors and those who sell investment 'products') got too used to successive bull markets, and took on too much risk. When the smart people sold, the dumb people (or those who have too much faith in their dumb brokers) lost big.

Take on risk when you're young, so if your position takes a hit, you have enough time to ride it out. When you've got a good amount, switch into low-risk investments, and when you're within a decade of retirement, put everything you're counting on into a bank account or GIC. Only play with what you're willing to lose...
Fair enough :) like I said I really am open to the notion that it's a useful site for some people. But I have never met anyone who gets value out of it and I know plenty of people who feel like it spams them.
It depends on the field. Software and Finance? Yes, terribly low for NYC. Fashion or Advertising? Perhaps par for the course.
Ever been a bully or a victim?
At least computational physics and chemistry has practical applications.

History - not so much.

Our society doesn't need so many history graduates. History should be a hobby, not something a million kids each year dedicate their life to.
I started to feel this way watching Two and a Half Men, because of the character Allan. After some years of laughs I just felt awkward because there was this, incredibly unlucky, with no particular skill socially or professionally, mistreated by everybody, from his ex-wife to his brother's maid, humiliated by women, with no will-power to fight back. Really, it was just sad. Usually even the weak characters have some quality, some strenght you have to admire in them - as a pure heart. They stripped Allan from all that.

But I guess other people started feeling the same way because they change it a little bit. They gave him a beautiful, nice girlfriend, some qualities, some character, some opinion. As a result it is a more human character now, not a freak show.

And about BBT, I guess the writers give the characters some of these qualities, so I don't feel as awkward whatching it as I was watching 2&1/2Men.
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> In academia, everyone is a unique snowflake.

and in startups, everyone is a 10x ninja. Guess that's an invariant.
Sounds like you're doing a very similar PhD to me - good to see other computational researchers here (despite the circumstances, so to speak...)!

I'm also acutely aware that while staying in academia would be great (despite all the bad things like crazy hours, crazy people, etc.) there is simply a very good chance it's not going to be possible, or if it is it'll be crazy competitive.

The litmus test I always think about is a colleague [postdoc] I worked with years ago. He was disgustingly smart and capable, and applied for over 100 tenure track positions before getting one. He also had an educational pedigree and publication record most of us can only dream of, and was a great guy to boot. If it takes someone like that 100+ applications what chance do the rest of us have!?

Because of this, I've taken on the rather larger responsibility of running the labs computing resources, both hardware/software. It's a lot of work (I'd estimate I spend maybe 20 hours a week doing sysadmin related tasks) but it does also give me a totally inappropriate level of responsibility which I hope will be valuable either inside academia, or in industry. I also really enjoy it, which is a nice bonus.
What this shows me is how utterly worthless online reviews are.
I have been living in NYC for the past 5 years. These are the things I dealt with:

[ ] muggings
[ ] gang-related activities
[ ] car theft
[X] false restaurant reviews
Please... No more HL3 fake launch announcements. Please.

If HL3 comes out as a SteamOS exclusive; well that would be quite the coup.
Oh, it depends a lot on your family. For example, what if you had kids at twenty, and your kids had kids at twenty? By the time you retire, your grandchildren are in college. Maybe not a bad time to run off for a ten year Hawaiian vacation.

The connection between parent and mature children also varies a lot from family to family.
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These guys were national heroes.

True, thy could away with more than others, especially since the leaders and the Party benefited from them (Unless they became a threat to replace the leaders etc..). But never underestimate the power of 24/7 propaganda and how they confessed to being CIA spies, how the risked lives of our comrades...blah blah. The higher you are the harder you fall.

For these guys the top leader would decide, but for the poor peasant complaining about the bread, a local communist bureaucrat would do to ruin his life.

They had statues built of them.
Nothing a bulldozer can't remove :-)
The third icon could be O: Steam OS + O: Orange Box 2. Orange Box 2 may include Half Life 3 and more.
About $100/month on http://www.climbingweather.com

It was ad-free for years, finally put some ads up last year and now it's covering my expenses. Haven't done much development in a couple years, but working on an updated Android app. A bit skeptical that I'll make much money from it, debating pay-app vs ads vs free-free. Now trying to pick up some real advertisers (currently adsense).
I think part of the issue is the screening and mentoring. If you just screen for the school, of course you won't get a good intern. If you accept falling asleep once, of course it will become a pattern.

My experience with people with difficult majors from top schools is they are workaholics if you pay them good money and give them real projects. If you hire a lacrosse playing English major from an ivy league, and pay substandard wages, don't expect to get the cream of the crop.
As a soon-to-be-graduating CS PhD I agree with the author that a PhD is probably not worth the opportunity cost. I have a standing post-doc offer, but the pay is much lower than what I am offered in industry for skills I gained in my spare time. I made the calculation and the PhD cost me about the same as a house in the bay area in lost income and if the job I get does not align well with my research it will cost me even more in opportunity cost.
You miss the point?
Yeah, a few sites have made it so you can't observe tables but most sites allow it. You'd have to ask them why but I assume that casual players like to observe before depositing and they don't want to scare away the casual players (who are the life blood for a poker site).
Thanks. A webcam will probably not be accurate enough and still need software to analyze and report the data.
Tobii seems to be the best option for the eyetracker even tohugh it is expensive.
For remote tracking, there are several options such as userzoom, eyetracking.com's eyeworks, Morae, loop11, etc..

But, still I am not sure what the ideal setting will be in terms of quality and price.
They should do infrastructure, and high-end Android phones aimed squarely at execs. Qnx is great, but the eco-system is in Android, BlackBerry should make the switch.

Their hardware is great, they could bring their UI and apps with them, enter Google's ecosystem and sell a bunch of gold-plated, physical keyboard equipped Android phones...
it's apparently not hard to disable the signing requirement and run cross-compiled Win32 ARM binaries

Link please?
It's not that people don't want to live in rural areas, on the contrary most people would probably like to. It's just that there aren't any jobs in rural areas, and ultimately putting food on the table is what matters.
Ironically, yesterday I deleted my Linkedin account, just because it is totally useless for me and for 101% of those in my circles (or network or how you want to call it), except for a sense of doing the right thing and being professional in their social networking.

Not to mention their dubious approach to password management, of course.
Would love to read the story. Buying and modernizing traditional businesses (cleaners, laundromats, etc) is something that I think is really interesting.
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YAGNI is a virtue. Make to code loosely coupled so the system can be modified in-place when the time come rather than building features that may not be needed in the future.
House cleaning primarily, yup. 104 clients, 10 of them are offices, 9 cleaners.
I agree. My salary at my IT job pays about 20k less than I would get if I lived 3 hours east of where I'm at. While it's considerably more expensive to live there, I am still losing about 10k / year.
That's what I took away as well. I know it's hard to believe when we're young and on top of the world, but the vast majority of us will make some mistakes and will face hardship and loss. I really hope I am able to maintain the positive, constructive attitude that this guy has.
Before deleting my account, I unsubscribed from several groups. Yet two weeks later I was still getting daily updates from the unsubscribed groups. Also, even though I had unsubscribed and they were not on my group list, they still showed up on my public profile. After two support tickets, the emails stopped.

Then I decided that LinkedIn was useless to me so I deleted my account. For two weeks, I still continued to get daily email updates even though I no longer had an account. After another support ticket, the emails stopped.
People defeated slavery, feudalism, marxism-leninism, etc. There's a lot we can do against capitalism and managerialism.

If climate change and nukes don't get us first. :)
That wouldn't prevent them to build a social network around you, just like Facebook does ("ghost profiles" or whatever they are called these days). Those emails are just spam.
One thing I noticed in the second demo is that the rain drops move too perfectly in the diagonal. I'm assuming the effect is to represent wind, which doesn't typically blow at a constant angle and speed.

Overall a wonderful demo.
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Same for corporate life.

"But I'm super smart and work really hard!"

Congrats, you're not fired.
They both set up caricatures of an unpopular group for the audience to laugh at. Like I said, blackface is far worse but I don't see how the analogy is "[terrible] on pretty much every level". It's much less hateful and damaging, certainly, but it's there in tone.

I was hoping to not have this debate that invariably comes up about how you can't compare anything to blackface because of how bad blackface was but I don't consider that a valid argument against the comparison.
Shiny is definitely a cool project! I wish I would've known about its existence before I started my own project along similar lines. Our requirements were slightly different, since most of the stuff we want to do is pretty long running (Monte Carlo Markov Chain, shameless plug: http://mcda.clinici.co / https://github.com/joelkuiper/patavi). But for a quick interactive system, it's really cool! And once matured a bit more we'll probably end up using it in production.
>It's not anybody's fault, not really, and there isn't much you can do about it.

It's plenty of people's fault and there is plenty we can do about it. Instead of investing in education, infrastructure, the social safety net, and everything that helps the majority of people, we invest in the military industrial complex, farm subsidies, and rush to cut taxes to the richest people in the country. There is a massive wealth distribution going on right now, I predict history will show the biggest ever, and it's easy to see the repercussions. The rich are getting richer and the rate at which they are accumulating wealth is accelerating. There is plenty we could do, we, as a society, are just to lazy, comfortable, and scared to do it. Let's be honest about it. This is all our fault.
It's just the structural dynamics of a society that transitions from a long phase of fast growth to an indefinite phase of maintenance.

...

More broadly, as capital shifts and is put to work in Asia, there is less demand for ancillary jobs here in the U.S.

Why is this kind of pessimism justified now, but wasn't justified when much the same was said in the '80's and early '90's about the decline of U.S. competitiveness and Japan, Inc.? Or was it justified then, too?

My political biases incline me toward believing that there's nothing fundamentally "structural" about the lousy, slow recovery we're currently enjoying, and that better fiscal and other policies would have lead and can (Secretary Clinton willing) lead to better outcomes. But I am happy to have my biases challenged.
Thanks, that's a great idea.
That's the double edge with marketing your CEO as some sort of industry god. The moment that person is no longer your CEO you will be left with unfair expectations.

reality = perception;
What you say is very true. However I think there is a problem in America of young people rejecting what you are saying not because they think it is wrong, but because they don't like it.

You could call this 'delusion', or even a manifestation of 'entitlement culture'... but whatever it is, I think it is a problem. It isn't all just fun and games when young people are getting expensive degrees that cannot be financially justified; their actions don't just effect themselves. A generation of broke disillusioned college educated kids without decent employment prospects isn't exactly something that benefits society. Just for starters, what the hell are they going to teach their kids to strive for? "Don't bother pursuing education kiddo, you'll just end up broke."?
You can argue with anything if you reduce it to a ridiculously absolutist statement.
But the bottom line is that there is a significant gap between the top 1% developer and average "let's see if I can google some code that does that" developer. Is it 10X? Who knows, no sane person can claim to being able to measure that exactly.
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I would contact the software freedom law center at (http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/contact/). Providing pro-bono legal services to developers of Free, Libre, and Open Source Software is their purpose, so you should get a quick answer from them. They also got an irc channel for non-legal questions if you just want to get in contact with them.
Yes, I read the article.

We must have wildly different definitions of "highly". I'm pretty confident I could reproduce this result in one afternoon. Compare that to other things we might consider highly secure, like strong encryption or Fort Knox. What word do you use for security measures that take non-trivial resources to circumvent?
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Depraved? Yes.

Intentional? I doubt it.

Something they'd fix, if it were pointed out to them? I'd like to think so.

Why don't you write them a note, instead of offering your opinions here?
Awesome, that's great to hear. Glad it's helped.
The military industrial complex is a problem and all, but I don't think it has much to do with Creative Writing majors struggling to find jobs. The days of "college educated at all is the most important factor" are over, and I don't think anybody deserves blame for that.

Or to take rayiner's example of lawyers, you can't pin that on a failure to invest in infrastructure, or sending to much money to Iraq, or farm subsidies... or anything else that "Occupiers" like to complain about.
You are a nobody without a LinkedIn account.