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I don't know the author, so I cannot say how his interviews went. In general I think you have to take control of the interviews and just show the person why you are valuable. It's hard to find talent; the person interviewing wants to like you, if for no other reason than she can get back to coding.

The PhDs that I've interviewed have applied for very senior positions, yet not brought all of the skills needed. Which is more than jusr abstract thought. You need to turn out code that is maintainable and readable by the team. You need to ruthlessly reduce the problem and algorithms to a level that allows you to launch before you run out of money. Far more than being a thinker or researcher, you need to be an engineer. You need to be very, very productive. And so on. I'm not sure what the answer is, but there is a pretty big gulf. You look at the projects and okay, it's somewhat interesting, but impractical. You ask them how they'd solve a problem that you are trying to hire them to solve, and you get "I'd conduct a study..." when we have 6 months to market and your study would take a year, and probably not provide definitive results. It's just a different mind set. I can't afford to bring you into a senior role and wait while you learn to be an engineer, while you learn to code at a higher level than 'University code' (a disparaging quote about the quality of the code Sergy and Larry brought to Google) and so on. We have a real, hard problem, and need an extremely focused, skilled, multidimensional person to perform it. I've yet to come across a PhD that made me think they could do it.

"I can learn to do that". Well, sure. Anybody can, it's just that so few do. Only a small handful of people actually produce at a high level in the ways I'm talking about. I don't want to bet on you being one of the few.
This just isn't true. If anyone was arguing that PhDs in general were worthless, then it would be a very reasonable point to think about. But in this case, it isn't really the PhD itself under discussion, it's the preparation and skills acquired through a course of a PhD. The difference is that the specific nature of a PhD program is pretty flexible. If professors see that their candidates aren't doing well in the job market, they can, and will, make adjustments to their programs.
Additional thought, you could put a unique promo code on the senders copy (code tied to their account) where if they buy X credits they get Z free.
Businesses are run by citizens, who have a right to choose which other citizens they're interested in serving.
This talk completely described why I stopped attending security conferences.

As a practitioner trying to build well defended pragmatic systems and organisations they provided nothing for me but entertainment. I got that in the bar much more than listening to the talks.
The largest food fraud in the US is not honey. It is the corporate farming conglomerates who take government welfare to not grow any crops at all many years.

$11 BILLION taxpayer money paid to not grow crops since 2003. Seriously, google it.

That and massive subsidies for ethanol from corn. Most massive scam in US history.

Oh and they de-coupled foodstamps from corporate welfare now so expect this to become more insane over the rest of the decade.
You might look at books by Michael Stonebraker, such as:

www.amazon.com/Readings-Database-Systems-Joseph-Hellerstein/dp/0262693143/
www.amazon.com/The-Ingres-Papers-Relational-Addison-Wesley/dp/0201071851/

To be fair, I've not read these books; I attended a lecture of his at MIT, and he seemed to really know his stuff. If I wanted to study DB implementation, I'd start with his writings.
Maybe because it's local (it's a credit union IDK how that is different from bank) but my bank lets me transfer my money to other accounts in their bank.
Recently they even added that to their online services (it might have been there and I never noticed).

Transferring from them to BoA or another institution likely wouldn't work but I have no expectation that it would (at least not without meeting in person etc).
Without defending the Chinese model (which for the record I despise), let us also not forget that "freedom" is relative and defined from the POV of the winners/majority.

In the case of the "building" of America, so to speak, were there not people who did not quite enjoy the same freedom you speak of? In fact millions would have forfeited their freedom so the rest could "invent, create, build and farm as they saw fit".
"Flaming" is subjective in my opinion, while profanity isn't.
The last curfuffle to me was really just someone overreacting to typical impersonal male culture, then a bunch of men overreacting for the fact a woman tried to disrupt said culture.
From there it really just escalated into further melodrama, completely idiotic.
Neither Tizen nor Bada are realistic competitors for Android outside of Korea. Certainly not anymore than Meego was an Android competitor - and Nokia actually had a lot of really great software engineers working for them. That's something that's hard to say about Samsung considering Touchwiz. And neither Bada nor Tizen has any significant ecosystem of apps.

This isn't a competitive edge against Huawei and ZTE because no one buys Samsung phones for their software.
I'd love more info about what happened during the interview process at each of the 20 jobs the author applied for.

I can definitely imagine a situation (and being a recruiter, have seen situations) where a PhD will keep you from getting your foot in the door. There can be concerns about the ability to actually write code, the ability to be practical, to be OK with working with unclean data, the ability to get stuff out the door and have a hacker mentality, etc etc.

However, these concerns tend to arise BEFORE starting the interview process. Once your foot is in the door, unless there's a huge disconnect between the people doing the hiring and the people doing the filtering or unless the job description changes midstream, how you do in interviews is more important than your background.
Hmm true. This is what happens when you let the user violate the iterator abstraction for performance and rely on contiguity and raw refs/ptrs. It's kind of a shame, because the moment you mutating characters in a string you're often doing something silly anyway.
From what I understand, professors' salaries normally do not depend on handing out PhDs at all. At least, not once they have tenure.

You need to have students to have grants. But the reason you gets grants is to pay your students. So, anticipating that this issue may come up, I don't think that's it, either.
Heck, I'm pretty terrified of the code written by CS professors.

One time I got a C code from one of the leading lights in machine learning, compiled it, ran it, and it segfaulted right away.

I started up the debugger, set a breakpoint in main() and it didn't even get that far.

I looked at the code and saw that he was statically allocating a 4GB array that he never used. I guess this didn't cause a problem on the 64 bit machine he was using, but it caused the code to blow up on 32 bit machines. I removed the array and it worked OK.

I was lucky to be programming in Java while it was still in beta when I was working on my PhD. One thing I noticed was that even the more computer savvy physics professors didn't get object orientation or any of the architectural concepts around it at all, so I was often called a "bad programmer" and told I should be more like somebody who cut his teeth on FORTRAN.
I'm curious what kind of data they want to analyze with deep learning.
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There could be many explanations not involving "evilness" of the rich that they (Berkeley folks) did not control.

E.g. if you perceive candy as free then you take as much as you want, but if you are aware of its price you will limit yourself.

Or that people who use their brain more also like sweets more.

Or that the person conducting the experiment was aware about wealth of each test subject (i.e. it was not a double blind test) and affected the outcome accordingly.

Etc. etc.
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We are more prepared to survive a 10 degrees drop than a degree and a half increase?
Understood. I just hate these kind of posts where they have a title that the crowd wants to see but there is no proof.
So go find his academic webpage and check if he actually did receive a research award from Stanford's CS department as a PhD student.

All his external awards point to someone who very probably can do any tech job the industry could throw at him, in contrast to the usual developer who just has a self-generated github profile and "Ruby ninja rockstar" on his resume.
Fog Creek values a PhD at 1 year of experience. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Ladder.html
I'm not sure where you got the idea that these raids were conducted by SWAT teams. The article only vaguely alludes to "federal agents".
This kind of makes sense. Whenever I've used an iThing, the screen always felt a lot more responsive than other devices. From a software perspective, their kernel is optimized for io, and so is the BSD userland. Not a surprising bench mark.
Venezuela is the happiest country in South America, according to the World Happiness Index published last week by the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network. (http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/the-americas-blog/you-pr...)

The BBC article portrays a country reacting quickly and aggressively to "avoid any scarcity of the product". And US critics (who view Venezuela as an enemy for disobeying their ideology) are reduced to writing articles about toilet paper.

BTW, Krugman and even Greenspan actually advocated nationalizing US banks as a condition of the bailout. (They advocated selling the banks to private investors after cleaning them up. But we could imagine the US public owning the banks rather than wealthy elites.) A bit bigger than toilet paper. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/opinion/23krugman.html)
I would like to see someone like this remove their PhD from their resume and see if the conversation changes at all.
It's a great observation, but I think the cause runs a bit deeper than the author attempts in this short piece. The issue is that academia has grown a lot over the past several decades [1]. Federal funding has approximately doubled in the past two decades, and the annual number of PhDs has increased by ~50% [2]. At the same time, the number of tenure track faculty positions in the US has nearly halved [3].

So you have a situation in which we're training a lot more PhDs, so mean research group size is growing dramatically, but we're offering fewer of the sort of academic jobs that can allow them to excel in their trained discipline. As these folks then leave academia, they're very often leaving for jobs outside their field. This is a really unfortunate loss of the incredible taxpayer investment in their education that we should all be supporting, not discouraging.

[1] http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/fy2014/fedperf14p.jpg

[2] http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10308/tab3.gif

[3] (embarassing wiki link, since labor statistics are a nightmare to sort though)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenure_(academic)#From_1972_to_...
this may be obvious to everyone else, but took me a while... stereo!

[there are two mirrors to drive (or, equivalently, a point in 2D to target with the laser) and i couldn't see how to do that with a single audio signal.]
You know poor candidates can go to great schools, they can even get doctorates.

Yeah, but by definition of "great schools" and "doctorates", it's not all that likely.
Not so much that a degree warmer is hard to survive, but the associated things that either come along with or are implied by global warming seem more damaging than colder weather and more ice, which we already know humans survived no problem ages ago when they migrated through Siberia and Alaska.
Funny that the author has confused Mark Cuban for Steve Case.
Hmm, this is pretty much getting into impulse buy territory (for a 3D printer), and it even helps with my #1 problem justifying getting one which was that I haven't really learned any 3D modeling, by being capable of scanning (though I guess you could also do something similar with a Kinect). Could anyone with more insight into these things explain further why this is unique and whether there might be drawbacks? This almost seems too good to be true.

(for background, I just want a 3D printer to tinker with, and if it works at all for $100 I'll be satisfied - I might have as much fun building it as using it)
Which makes sense in their domain. If you look at the skills they actually care about: software development/programming, user interface design, managing software teams, software testing using scripting/programming tools, marketing software, selling software, system administration.

A PhD would (likely) only have done development-programming and testing -- and only (at best) about half-time, since so much of their other responsibilities are coursework, writing, teaching, etc.
Years of experience don't matter (IMO). I will pay you based on the value you bring. PhDs have demonstrated the ability to read the literature and conduct research under supervision. That is not necessarily very valuable (knowledge gained during that process may or may not be very valuable). And, honestly, the research often seems very mickey-mouse compared to real world problems, of the "assume a spherical cow in a vacuum" variety. That's nice, but does it get me to launch with the feature sets I need? If not, your value is not high. If so, well, name your price.
Anecdote of one: I bank with Wells Fargo, I go inside the branch less than once per month, and I rarely see the same tellers or "bankers" (the ones that sit at a desk) from visit to visit. I think it's pretty high turnover. I don't know the reason, but I suspect it's because the bank is trying to sell me services like insurance, and there's pressure on bankers to make sales. It may also be because a teller or banker job is a young person's first career-like job, from which they move on and up as soon as possible.

In fact I hate it when I have to talk to a banker, I get annoyed when they try to sell me services that have nothing at all to do with what I went in for, or with why I'm a customer in the first place.

Also, I suspect because of turnover, they usually can't answer my questions when I ask. They just do not know the answer to "how do I do this particular bank-like thing" without researching and asking the branch manager. But man they do know all about their insurance products.
The monopoly experiment as described in the article doesn't sound like especially convincing evidence for the hypothesis that wealth makes people inconsiderate though: the researchers - with openly stated personal biases - observed that people playing a game rigged in their favour snacked more, and then usually didn't dispute their entitlement to win the game after winning. I don't believe that actually illustrates anything about wealth at all. You'd have to go some way to convince me that Monopoly is a good proxy for wealth, never mind explaining away competing explanations for the exhibited behaviour not associated with courtesy or wealth (winners are generally not disposed towards disavowing their entitlement to win, and those with a simpler challenge have every reason to enjoy themselves more or concentrate less). If his findings suggested that people that started off "rich" were more likely to feel they deserved to win than winners of a fair game it would have been a more interesting finding...
This is great stuff. I have no idea what I'd use a 3d printer for, but this guy's awesome approach to engineering has me wanting to buy one just to reward his work.
I'd imagine its for these couple reasons.

1.) None of the iPod's except the touch have WiFi or any internet connectivity. Can't stream cloud to device if theres no connection.

2.) Infrastructure. Consider for a second that albums routinely push 100+MB, and think about pushing that over 3G/LTE. Telcos will make a fuss, etc. Yeah you can force downloading only over WiFi, but then again whats the point? iTunes already has WiFi sync, and to most people that would be the exact same thing.

3.) iTunes is already there and most people already have it installed. If you don't like it, you can also use the online store on the phone.

What it starts boiling down to, is Apple is going to spend x-y million dollars building an online marketplace for some people who don't want to install iTunes.

What does an online storefront do for consumers that iTunes doesn't?
On my Surface Pro I almost never go to the Desktop unless I need to do dev work or some arcane file management rituals. I barely even use Office on this device because OneNote satisfies most of what I need from my Surface (taking notes). I spend most of my time in IE11, Xbox Music, Mail (occasionally - doesn't work as well with Gmail as I'd like), Twitter, ReddHub (Reddit app), and OneNote.

As for my desktop, I do spend a bit more time on the Desktop, and I'm more likely to use Chrome, but I've found I spend most of my time using modern IE11 because it's a completely adequate browser. Some sites designed for Chrome have problems, and so I'll jump into Desktop Chrome for those. Obviously, I spend a lot of time developing on my desktop machine, but I'll jump into modern for things like Twitter.

I think the killer feature for modern applications on both the desktop and touch devices is that they are naturally responsive - apps are designed to adjust to the width of the screen they are snapped to, making multitasking usability much better. There are few desktop applications that work well resized to a quarter size of the screen, but most modern applications work great with that use case.
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"It was like being a chameleon and trying to get jobs where you had to be red, blue, or black. Yes, you’re capable of becoming any of those colors, but companies would rather hire animals that already were those specific colors."

"I eventually realized that, like many Ph.D.’s in many other fields, I had fallen into the Ph.D.-industry gap—i.e., the gap between highly specialized Ph.D. training and corporate-world expectations..."

There seems to be a dissonance in these two statements. If the former is true (based on description of his experiences) then companies would rather have specialized people to fit into slots (red/blue/black) than have a generalist (chameleon) who could grow to match nuanced needs. It seems like the problem was that he was not specialized enough in the very narrow skill they were looking for. If that's the case, then it goes against the commonly held opinion expressed in the 2nd excerpt.
I'm not sure about for them - I meant for third parties :) Pretty much any level of adoption in the enterprise will necessitate development of LOB apps. Some of those enterprises will do it in-house, but others will not. With BB10 being scarce in the consumer world, there will not be a ton of talent with experience in building for it.
[I should apologize for getting hot under the collar, previously. I should have been much more circumspect in composing my reply.]

Granted, science is imperfect and all too human. I'd even go so far as to argue that it's deficient, dysfunctional, and perhaps even somewhat defective. But its products are orders of magnitude more credible than some random scientific-context-free graph by someone with no scientific reputation on the line. Most scientists have decades of experience and plenty to lose if it turns out they were sloppy or selective. By contrast, those doing anti-AGW advocacy can do "drive-by" FUD: they can use dirty data tricks because they don't need to convince a scientific community, there are negligible reputational consequences if they're wrong or they deliberately mislead, and their funding is secure regardless because either they're unfunded or it comes from murky or agenda-heavy sources rather than from competitive science grants.

What can be infuriating is when people equate drive-by FUD with, e.g., the products of the IPCC. This is tantamount to rejecting the entire scientific enterprise.
That was part of Obama's credit card reform in 2009. .. banks were required to offer it.
This seems dangerous. If you're going to name and shame people, I think you've really got to be extremely sure you're naming the right people.
This is exactly my experience, including the full screen Kindle and Netflix apps - they're pretty handy! I think on the whole it's a good thing that they're experimenting radically with the UI design, because it's been stagnant for ages and I feel that mobile UI paradigms, while not appropriate for every application, can really be much more intuitive and faster for certain applications. For example, I'd much rather browse Twitter or Facebook on my phone than from the web interface on my computer.
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A problem is when those big businesses prevent other smaller businesses from catering to the niche markets, through lobbying or other anti-competitive means.
Not really, it was 5% equity or 2% royalty and according to a Forbes article[1] ABC hadn't asked the two people interviewed for any money. The article also said their source claimed ABC wouldn't be asking for either in upcoming seasons.

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2013/06/13/is-shark-tank...
Is it poor programming practice to pass parameters as objects?
From my experience I would NOT call PhDs coding skills as poor. It is just that the coding style is so different. And tend to go toward extremes. From ad-hoc approaches to the extremes of elaborations that attempt to solve every possible future problem. Sometimes without common sense, laziness and foresight of just a regular engineer.

There are reasons for that. It's just that the research grade code IS different. And labs tend to have their own cultures and approaches. Sometimes to the extreme of writing in their own languages. But in some cases it can be very advantageous.
Actually, there is a set of incentives for professors to hand out PhDs. Before tenure, professors have to successfully graduate PhD students (or at least get most of the way there), otherwise questions will be raised in tenure review. After tenure, failure to graduate students equates to failure to attract new ones, loss of prestige, loss of connectivity to their academic network by way of a graduated student, etc.
Wrong analogy. Your analogy compares demands of a specialized non-intellectual profession (plumbing) that does not value general problem solving with abilities of someone who is purportedly good in general problem-solving in addition to possessing industry-specific expert knowledge (your fluid mechanics expert).

While here we are talking about a profession (software engineering) that does value general problem-solving ability except it also requires additional industry-specific expert knowledge.
I have a PhD in CS from UC Santa Cruz, and I was hired by Google out of school. The key is to do internships: just like undergrads, you have to prove to companies that you can do the work, and internships are the best way of doing that. I did two internships at Google, and did the conversion interviews.

What I don't understand is why you are applying to Google if you're doing a Physics PhD. Why become a doctor of Physics and then throw it away trying to apply for jobs that have zero overlap? You're not trained for the job, and I strongly suspect this is the problem the OP was having. Why aren't you applying to NASA or SpaceX or something?
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Right. Chicago looks great because of the set back requirements. Buildings either have to be further back from the street, or taper as they rise. That lets plenty of sunlight to street level. The mockups are straight vertical additions onto buildings that extend right to the street.
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