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I will be the first one to admit it, I do occasionally play games as a means to relaxation and I bought StarCraft 2 yesterday. Long story short, playing against other human players on ladder is among the most stressful things I have experienced in a long time. There are thousands of things that can go wrong, am I about to run out of supply? Are all my production facilities currently being utilised? Are there enough workers getting minerals? How about gas? When will the gas and minerals run out? You may have noticed that I was just talking about the economic aspects above. Now add the complexity of an intelligent opponent that is out to kill you and your stress levels are about to go through the roof. StarCraft is multi-tasking decision-making and micro-management heaven (or hell for some of us) and I am not the least bit surprised if coping with the pressure can actually somehow benefit you. It is a fun, but goodness me, Blizzard did make one heck of a complex game.
Totally agree, especially with your second point. Both my parents are career educators (teachers, counselors and now professors). They personally tell me about how "helicopter parenting" has increased in the time since they've gotten their degrees up to now.

Parents are getting more and more involved (read: obsessive) about their childrens' education, sometimes to the detriment of the school process. Very often they'll blame teachers when their kids don't do well in class (not necessarily incorrect). My mother works in the inner city - parents there tend to be ambivalent about their childrens' progress unless they are relatively affluent, from what I've seen.

On the other hand, my father works in a suburban private school, and the parents there push back much more often, especially when they aren't right.

I can't say whether or not it's good or bad, but the climate of education in America has shifted from one of parents surrendering their kids and trusting the teachers to one of parents questioning the teachers when kids don't do well. Very curious.
Invoking the Secret Words of Power is not actually doing any more than waving a magic wand.
I sympathize but would urge you to reconsider. There are activities where "properly or not at all" is a good policy, but raising children isn't one of them; had such a policy been universally applied, nobody now living would be alive. Those who were never born are just as dead as those who were born and then died, and surely your children would be much better off dealing with the imperfections that are an inevitable part of life, than not being alive at all.
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AFAIK WebRTC just works with the latest Firefox/Chrome and needs a STUN and/or a TURN server.
Yeah, I've seen that people are different in how much down time they need to function. I've actually studied it quite a bit in grad school from observing my fellow grad students.

My observations, in a graduate level lab under a very famous professor.

Exactly one person was able to work constantly and do excellent work. He's just a freaking genius, I have no clue how he did it with a child, but apparently he only slept three hours a night. He graduated in 5 years.

About ten people worked really hard, were always stressed and tired, and accomplished almost nothing useful because they never allocated time to actually thinking about what they were doing. These were usually people who had been in the military (Korean and US largely). They usually took 5-8 years to graduate.

About five people worked reasonably hard, but had outside interests. They took seven years to graduate on average.

And then there's lazy people like me, who somehow managed to accomplish work just as useful, but who worked far less and thought far more. I graduated in four years.

Yeah, the sum of anecdotes isn't statistics. But I saw this pattern over and over again in graduate school.

But to your point, if you have a 9-5 normal job, how many hours during that time are you doing effectively what I described? Basically just sitting there staring at your monitor, or getting coffee, or getting lunch, or whatever. I bet the vast majority of employees (yes, I have been employed in industry) spend that eight hour minimum I describe staring blankly into space, they just do it in the office.

Everyone has different limits. Yeah, that term I pushed myself to my limits I was doing serious, no distraction work for about 80 hours a week. I forced myself to take Saturdays off entirely, no homework allowed. That does leave the bare minimum 8 hours required to be a functional human plus sleeping 7 hours a night, and that is what I had to do. I wouldn't repeat it though, and I wouldn't even consider doing it long term.
Facebook also uses Haskell (several well-known members of the Haskell community work there).
This challenge sounds a bit off because:

1) I'm struggling to wrap my head around twitter being cited as an example of software best practices.

2) How many man-hours are we talking about here? How do we get that data?

3) Once such a thing exists i'll start believing the hype.
I think you got that the wrong way around. The "mainstream" programming world has always been imperative (C and C like language). The "hype" is the other way round, Scala/Haskell/Erlang will save us from certain doom etc.
I think studies found that around 8 hours of work per day are the optimum to maximize performance. That means firms, and also schools, take the best out of you. After having worked those 9 hours, forget about doing an interesting project of your own at home. Your best bet is chilling out in front of the TV.

I want my kid to be able to explore and discover things on his own. Sure, maybe 9 hours of school can be handled - but when will he discover and explore new things?
Espionage is not exploration, no matter what your congressman tells you.

The plutonium is for RTGs on benthic listening buoys, which are moored deep in the water column, or anchored directly to the sea floor. They have very sensitive hydrophones, and powerful burst ELF transmitters. This allows triangulation of targets.

They're made of steel and are never intended to be recovered - so we can look forward to plutonium salts in the oceans.
Okay, fair enough. I quite understand where you're coming from. Good on you for practising what you preach!
Personally, I appreciate the simple deterrent passwords have provided. :-)
Oh gosh, I would have been absolutely ropeable if the principal had accused me of "cyber-bullying" in that manner. That is entirely, utterly, disgustingly bullshit.

And it doesn't surprise me. Surely it's the bias that is put forward by news media, but the stories that I hear of the American education system scares the shit out of me -- and I went to school in Queensland (which is terrible in and of itself)!

Zero-tolerance, "5 hours of homework a night isn't doing any harm"... what the hell. Who comes up with this shit :/
I am eternally grateful that I went to dumb kid rural high school with a 50% drop out rate. I only did homework or studied for a test a couple of times per semester. I has more than enough time for sports, friends, and video games. Much, much better than laborious studying no matter how useful or not useful it may be.
Moreover, Reveal: amazing.
Well that is also wrong, or at least the .0 shows that the calculator is not doing the equations, it is just calculating. It doesn't know know that sqrt(2) x sqrt(2) = sqrt(2 x 2) = sqrt(2^2) = 2

And that is the kind of thing you get to understand if you do the calculations by hand.
>Invoking the Secret Words of Power is not actually doing any more than waving a magic wand.

Neither is doing nothing.
Imagine what if Techcrunch get this deal
Your interpretation explain the use of "[sic]".

But personally I think the "its" refers to the section and not the quotes, making the "[sic]" unnecessary. But I don't have access to the original text.
>I am willing to give you money.

You may be, but only a sliver of people who say they would rather pay than see ads would actually do it if presented with that chance.
I think this article is a bad summary of a VERY VERY BAD summary (http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57600089-76/study-40-hours... ).

Firstly the candidates were only selected from people who usually played less than 2 hours a week (interestingly no male candidates were selected due to the lack of ones that fit that criteria). The research was for 40 hours and that's it. There is no talk about the possibility of diminishing returns if you play it for several years, or whether you get brain rot because other parts of your brain go unused.

I'm not saying that Starcraft doesn't make you smart, I'm saying next time link the research and not a Tech Crunch article. If you do play Starcraft the only rationalization you need for playing it is that you enjoy it.
> Very often they'll blame teachers when their kids don't do well in class
> (not necessarily incorrect)

That's not a new phenomenon, imo, but it's still a pertinent one.

Parents being involved in their kids schooling isn't inherently bad, but it can be taken too far. Just like the kids have limited time to be able to handle 5 hours of homework a night (!), teachers have limited time to handle every parent.

That said, the fact it was done a lot through email is kinda neat, and would possibly make parent-teacher interactions scale better?
I'm getting pretty tired of people releasing js libraries and not telling you that they depend on jQuery. You don't just add that script to your page, you add that script and jQuery to your page. Stop assuming everyone already has jQuery, guys.
>No I'm not. Lab is a public school restricted to district 2 in NYC. Assuming a drive (I wouldn't put a 13 year old on a subway in NYC alone) it's a 15 minute commute from the furthest possible location in the district to the school factoring in morning traffic (according to Google).

I said up to an hour and a half, In this case you have to tack on a half hour if your numbers are right, but it's not like the issue doesn't apply to rural areas with longer travel times. In addition, you didn't address the larger point that it's simply cutting it too close; you can never account for mitigating circumstances people have in their lives that shave off available time for homework, meaning they have to choose between finishing their homework or getting enough sleep. And the fact that many people that age need 9 hours not 8 hours of sleep.

>Socialization in addition to lunch, recess, and homeroom on weekdays?

Homeroom and recess is not socialization for kids that age. Socialization is hanging out with your friends after school for two hours discussing things of interest and relevance to you or doing something you actually enjoy. You can't assume the time in homeroom, recess, lunch, etc. are actual socialization; opportunities for socialization in school are usually very restrictive and arbitrary. If it isn't socialization by the choice of the student on their own time you can't assume it's actually happening.

>I'm sorry but if you're aiming for academic rigor sacrifices have to be made somewhere.

Sacrifices of what? Adequate sleep? Eating breakfast in the morning? Having free time to hang out with friends after school? You're not addressing the fact that according to the author, empirically many students were sleep deprived according to their parents, so clearly it's the school giving unreasonable burden.
> Having the exact same computer following us around without transmitting everything to Big Brother would have a certain amount of appeal if not for the greater danger of losing everything with our phone! So, what's next?

Ever heard of Citrix, VDI etc.... that is exactly the concept you are explaining and its available now. I can hook the citrix receiver on my blackberry up to my citrix desktop then plug in the microHDMI cable and attach a bluetooth mouse/kb. Sorted, full screen enterprise class desktop applications in a secure container.

This isn't some revelation, it's achievable today
Also strongly agree with the second point about lack of coordination among teachers in schools and university. It really, really annoys me.
> Okay, so if n is 2, for example, there are 4020 boxes.

Last word should be "balls".
> Let's cheerlead the democritisation

I think you meant democratisation, or was there some subtle reference to a [famous greek philosopher](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demokritos)?
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I wouldn't say SA has had sustained success the whole time. They're really dropping off in recent years.
So is this their end game? Perpetual copyrights by continuing to bring out one new Sherlock Holmes novel before the copyright on earlier ones expire.
Don't take my advice
Yes, it is. It's an ethical problem because making researchers sift through more crap just so that you can pad up your CV is slowing down further research into your field.

I know it's an oversimplification, but the essence of it is true: curing cancer is already hard enough. It shouldn't be made any harder by ambitiously exceeding your dead tree quota.

Sauce: abandoned an academic career :-)
Oddly enough, I like doing maths by hand. Pencil and paper were my friend throughout all of high-school and university (Maths and Chem co-major).

Something about it being tangible makes me appreciate and understand the process better. I then check my answer with the calculator :)
BBC did this 15 years ago on tiny computers compared to now. They uploaded static HTML onto Sun boxes and served them.

If you did a submission somewhere, it'd do offline processing and upload new static pages.

Most of this was C and perl.

No Scala, no Java, no Ruby.

iOS does HTML too you know.

I agree with the OP - most of this new technology doesn't really solve any problems. All it does is create an ecosystem you can feel superior being a member of.
RAM isn't the only limitation: however cloudy you are, you'd probably want more than 8 GiB of persistent storage too. On the other hand it's not hard to see future iPhones ramping up RAM and flash, partly since the explosive increase in iPhone CPU speed has to be coming towards its end.
Very cool, could have used something like this at my last workplace where excel was the lingua franca.
Those numbers say MS' business division is doing great. They don't say specific "apps" are doing great or would be a huge value add to iOS.

That said, I'm clearly not in the business world, because I haven't used a MS product outside an Xbox since school... so I probably have a skewed perspective.
Thanks for the interesting perspective. I guess I was lucky in having teachers who were more concerned with aptitude than homework (luckily before no child left behind). Almost none of my homework was graded -- this seems to be a european thing? You'd know better than me. So I did the amount of homework needed to learn the material, and no more. Like college.

I do wonder if the big issue is that this approach can really burn kids out on cool areas. How many kids think math puzzles are fun in elementary school when taught as a game? I think actually a surprisingly high number. But when you turn it into work it's a totally different approach, and it really doesn't seem to work.

There seem to be some promising alternative possibilities, like Khan Academy, but when you're giving kids so much work that they can't read Feynman's lectures out of actual interest you're being counterproductive.
I think what everyone is missing here is virtualization, why do you need your phone to have the power for it run them locally. Keep all the heavy lift action in the data center and with the new mobile data speeds "stream" your desktop through the phone onto a local screen/interactive devices.

Phones will be like thin clients (a la citrix receiver) and so we have persistent backups and universal access along with desktop performance but still portability and battery life when not in thin client mode.
Huh, so I'm not the only one who goes most-sig to least-sig when doing it in my head. Really makes things easier, oddly enough -- you end up with big numbers with lots of zeroes on the end, and add them to the smaller numbers.
> However I doubt the rich and powerful have a requirement to cut food stamps. Again this isn't a rich man driving policy it is a government deciding where funding is going.

Big Agriculture actually seems to be pushing against food stamps. There's been a fair amount of talk how the funding is going from food stamps to corporations in the food business.

I'm not really on top of this particular strain of politics, but I turned up stuff quickly when I googled "Big Ag" and "food stamps" in various permutations, so you can find your own credible sources without my bias.
I hate the fact that it is possible to push yourself 80 hours a week and get ahead. That kind of work pace is possible, but hardly healthy, and in my experience tends to produce outbreaks of mental illness.But if it is possible to push yourself that hard to get ahead professionally, then of course a ton of people will be doing it, because if they don't they fall behind.

It's even more depressing when you realize that the majority of people that push themselves to these unhealthy extremes aren't even working on the kind of stuff that matters.
That was certainly true in the Industrial Revolution, which was the time at and reason for which the education system as we know it was invented; the economy did actually need people who could spend all day every day fitting widget A into slot B without going mad from boredom. But as mechanical drudgery is progressively delegated to computers, leaving an economy desperate for people who can make plans and take the initiative, we should be progressively cutting down the education system, not allowing it to continue growing like a cancer.
"Welcome to the educated new world; where education matters."

Right. So why is this school wasting children's time and energy with busywork, rather than teaching them effectively during the allotted time at school?
While it looks cool, I personally find it WAY more efficient to just type in a few numbers on a keypad than to scroll back and forth, whoops, overshot it, scroll back...
What the hell? The M7 is a marketing label for some COTS silicon they licensed from some IP company somewhere (probably ARM/Broadcom or one of their associates).

It doesn't make unicorns shit rainbows or defy the laws of physics.
I've been helping test Quolony for a while and the potential for this technology is great. In particular using it as a browser extension with the instant link sharing and cobrowsing gives those otherwise solitary web browsing sessions a certain feel of the metaverse that could be.
As the meme goes, this puts Internet on your Internet.
Thus completely missing the point.
You seem to have missed my point.

Which is that you're doing nothing.

And saying nothing.
A boys school actually did a test where they started the school day at 10.30am, and nearly every teenagers grades improved, sometimes dramatically.

I wish I could find that reference, but it proved to me what I knew: I really would've done better if I'd not had to get up at 6.30am so I could walk the hour to school (both parents worked).
Well it doesn't seem to be working right now this tool.
I like many of the improvements in iOS7 but I always hated the old picker and hate the new one even more now. Maybe it's a hard concept to get right.
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Actually, reading it again you could well be right. It would make sense for it to be referring to the section.
> Rather than debating the technical facets of the article, you fall back on the ubiquity of C++ projects as an overwhelmingly positive aspect. For what it's worth, people say the same thing about PHP; how do you feel about that language?

As Stroustrup fittingly said: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

How can you know the downsides and warts of something you haven't used in a wide range of applications? Are you honestly saying there won't be any? Granted, an old, proven language will have far more warts than a fresh one that's still idealistic. Fixing old warts introduces new ones etc.

But I don't believe in the one true language.
I recently had to maintain C++ code from about 15 years ago. It is nothing like the new C++11. C++11 is a completely different beast, with many enhancements. Looks good - I recommend you read Stroustrup's C++11 book; if you are familiar with C++, the tour of C++ covers most of the new C++11 features.
Homework for me (I'm 22) while at highschool was mandatory and contributed to your overall mark.

I never did mine. Like, at all.

Luckily for me, I had the highest grades across my entire year, and did so well that they bent the rules for me and ignored the fact I never did my homework.

Still not sure if that was a good thing or not to be honest, our workload wasn't that large, and it took me a while to build a work ethic.
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It would also be bad if you get your Bachelor with one of the papers, the Master with the next and they are the same.
The problem with the lock screen is the big button highlights on click. Its now really easy to look over someones shoulder in the tube/metro and know what they enter
Paging is an artefact from the time when computers weren't powerful enough to show all content at the same time. For example, loading a html version of the several hundred pages long Emacs manual took an awful long time so it was more efficient to split it up into pages.

Then technology improved and in particular someone invented the SCROLL WHEEL which makes scrolling on the web much more convenient.
Car dealers these days are often large conglomerates that go out of their way to ensure dominance. I bought a car from one dealer which was surrounded by 5 other dealers all owned by the same national group. I think that's real common today. Oligarchy is the new monopoly.
It wouldn't be that great for this case: http://oi42.tinypic.com/wrfj41.jpg
That's exactly my experience. I occasionally watch big tournaments and a couple of years ago decided to have a go myself. When I was growing up I played a lot of Westwood RTS games so I thought I'd be able to get to a level of basic competency fairly quickly.

I was completely wrong. That game is killer, stressful and mentally exhausting (for me). It became clear to me that either I could make SC2 my full-time pursuit and become passably decent in perhaps a couple of months, or I could stop playing. I chose the latter.

People who make an earnest effort to improve often talk about "ladder anxiety" - the fear of playing ranked games. I didn't understand it at all before trying to play, but I do now - it's a complex fear that combines fear of letting yourself down with fear of being embarrassed in front of a peer and fear of losing some of the rank you've been diligently working up.

I can completely understand how it's a rewarding, challenging pursuit for some people, but for me it draws from the same pool of focus, willpower and determination I use to get actual work down. I'd rather play a twitchy FPS in my downtime that, for me, draws from a different source.
IQ is just another meaningless metric. I'm supposedly 183, but I'm still a moronic cracked-out buffoon who struggles to remember what he ate for lunch.
You don't need Pu238 for deep sea exploration.