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Many articles on retiring baby boomers have made the point that most of their assets are tied into their home, and in this case it seems like that was true as well. I wonder what the social and economic implications are of baby boomers needing to sell of their house to free up assets. Maybe generational homes will become common again? Maybe housing prices will become sane again?
Build a webapp for users to generate nice-looking, highly usable resumes. Host their resumes on public profile pages, maintaining complete openness (with an optional permissions model, of course). Offer a "Download Resume as PDF" option, so users can download their resume for emailing as an attachment. Let them own their data.

Create such an awesome experience, that everyone is compelled to use it. Absolutely no paywalls for individual users.

Design an awesome interface for companies to search through resumes. Implement algorithms for automated job-matching. Monetize on subscriptions to this, and on job postings, a la StackOverflow Careers.

Watch LinkedIn crumble.
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"It's just the structural dynamics of a society that transitions from a long phase of fast growth to an indefinite phase of maintenance. It's not anybody's fault, not really, and there isn't much you can do about it."

In the case of academia specifically, it is a very intentional strategy: full-time tenure-earning faculty constituted about 45% of the workforce in 1975 compared with less than 30% now; the gap has been made up by adjunct and other part-time lecturers, typically earning about $2500 per course.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-ever...
How is any of this responsive to the dynamics of the academic job market? What does it have to do with colleges recognizing that lower-paid adjuncts can deliver comparable services to tenured professors? What does it say about the ability of smaller numbers of professors to teach larger numbers of students?
And I would bet that they are enough of a minority that it financially doesn't matter. They will keep playing on their finely tuned rigs with old CRT monitors anyways.

But the average person who wants to play the latest Assassin's Creed or Grand Theft Auto over that kind of streaming system? There are lots of those (including me).
I love this idea. I think this is a fantastic opportunity for us plebs to start speculating.

It would be very nice to see if the crowd has a different kind of investment trend from the accredited investors.

Edit: Mostly, I'm curious if there will be enough numbers to see a "wisdom of the crowd" effect or if it will actually just amplify whatever the big money tends to be attracted to.
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LinkedIn is essential for everyone, it's how you get the great jobs, versus say any job.
Though they do NOT allow multiple simultaneous connections, and are not as inexpensive.
Actually an excellent point; just dug up some info, didn't realize Orbis was based on FreeBSD. Would absolutely agree that for both the engine companies (Unreal, Crytek, Unity, Frostbite, etc.) since they are already going to FreeBSD, being able to target SteamOS as a secondary platform with minimal effort would be huge. Then hopefully abstract that effort away from the publishers as much as possible so if Capcom/Microsoft/EA/Activision decide to go SOS, it is minimal work.
AT&T's metadata about your calls is generated by AT&T's equipment, stored on its servers, and is generally not even accessible to you.

Two strawmen and a falsehood.

AT&T's equipment doesn't randomly go about generating customer metadata (given that much of the information is used for billing purposes, that's fraud). Rather, it is recorded based on the actions of customers AND those contacted by, or contacting, customers. Which is to say, it's a detailed record of activities of third parties (a large number of whom are not even AT&T customers).

In the case of data which merely transits AT&T's equipment, neither party need be an AT&T customer (instead some other telcoms provider is).

And the data collected is available through privacy rights, subpoena, or other processes.
If you bring up someone by telling them "they can be anything they want," they aren't going to change that opinion because they hear something else for a year or four.

And, people can't stand not being able to tell their children that they can be anything they want, because that would involve admitting that they are part of a failing system.

It's easier to blame the victim, even if you are the victim.
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At this point, it's as if a lot of company have stopped accepting applicants except via LinkedIn. They find you, instead of you find them.
For the Google QA person who is inevitably reading this:
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For what is worth I have observed this phenomenon first hand. I am a college student and I work part time as a sales clerk at a store. I would say at least 20% of the staff consists of retirees. They are usually professionals who either worked for the government or a larger corporation. Everyone who I've gotten to know has some savings and doesn't strictly need to work, but doesn't have enough savings to live comfortably.

What is more interesting is that another 15% to 20% of my colleagues at this store are in their late forties to mid fifties. For various reasons they each decided to abandon their careers (found out they didn't believe in what they were doing, or decided to take time off to look after their kids and could never get back into the industry, etc...)

It is a bit of a specialized store so I am sure it is not the same distribution as in a Target or a Walmart. However it is also worth mentioning that aside from one or two people (who I am not sure about), everyone else has at least a bachelors degree or is in the process of getting one. There are maybe 15 college students out of a staff of about 60.
LinkedIn is sending the emails. Even if someone intentionally put my email address in a box on LinkedIn and said "I'd like to connect with this person", if I've explicitly said I'm not interested in creating a LinkedIn account and not interested in receiving invites, then it is LinkedIn's responsibility to not send that email.

LinkedIn is not an email provider, they have no obligation to that user to send me a message.
From the books not already mentioned above, I would strongly recommend this one:
"Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky" by Noam Chomsky
"Very very few History PhD's get their tuition paid for and are typically hugely in debt upon graduation."

This is incorrect. It's absolutely possible to earn a humanities doctorate without going into debt (at least for the postgraduate degree(s)).
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A bunch of people have (correctly, I think) pointed out that more recent LinkedIn emails come from them directly. I have seen emails as recent as 2012 sent from user addresses: http://imgur.com/gallery/fapPDhZ/new (sorry for the manic smudging).

Anyhow, assuming these are anomalous, and that LinkedIn has generally moved to sending emails properly, I still stand by my decision to close down my account. I haven't gotten anything useful out of it and I have been consistently annoyed by it. Not devastating, but like I said, annoying. If you use it and love it then great! I hope LinkedIn keeps on improving and becomes/stays (your option) a great company. But if you're not getting anything out of it, then I think it would behoove you to think twice about why you maintain the account, and if it's nothing but annoying then at least consider getting rid of it.
All you need is GoToMeeting, really. $50/month. Once you have that, you can do remote usability testing. You can share the participant's screen and it syncs up the audio conversation with what is going on on the screen. Eye tracking is mostly unnecessary (and not available via GTM). GTM will even allow the session to be recorded. I also have my clients sit in and mute their line while watching. If you have a rich talk-while-clicking protocol and you are probing at the right times, it is pretty clear where people are having trouble and what they are looking at. When you are done, you can edit in iMovie or most editing software. If you want to do an exit survey, use SurveyMonkey.
Mostly in the big city centers, and primarily the cost of housing. Inflation has been concerning, but if you are living in a place where US$500/month can be plenty (like northern/northeastern Brazil), 6% annual inflation doesn't mean much.
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> Google is the holder of your information and manager of your identity

I don't agree with this. Google may be the locker in which you put your information, but you hold the key to it. If you decide to give the key to 3rd parties that's your responsibility.

People need to educate themselves about how their information can be used and abused. Perhaps someone needs to drive this education and perhaps Google can/should be a part of that, but they are in no way implicitly obliged.

If you write your password down on a post-it and stick it to your computer screen, is that Google's responsibility?
I hate commenting in extremes, but I am willing to bet a large volume of the blood in my body that this is false and the platform would be a total failure if this was their only play (indie games).

One GTA 5, for example, is equivalent to the sales produced by every indie game, combined, multiple times over. Even Minecraft with some $30-40mil is a miniscule fraction of what GTA 5 did opening _day_ and will eventually do in its lifetime.

Definitely chose extremes here, but I imagine the equation looks the same with any other AAA title compared to the entirety of indie titles combined.
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It's an operating system, there are not going to be exclusive launch titles. Unless of course, you think Valve is going to release HL3 only for Linux users, but that idea is absurd.
Except we have currently have a vastly more effective system of bread and circuses than ever before. One that not only placates, but actively confuses and distracts people to the root causes of their unhappiness.
The open question is, will the children reciprocate?
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Thank you for pointing this out, I checked, and I've gotten emails routed through user emails as recently as 2012, but it does look like they're generally moving away from that. I made a longer comment to that effect below.

http://imgur.com/gallery/fapPDhZ/new
A lot of good points, but this one I'm not sure I can agree with:

"Back yourself into a coner - Nothing makes asking for more money easier than not having an alternative."

Maybe that makes the conversation more urgent and steels your nerves. I could see how there'd be a psychological benefit there. But the best way to build leverage in a negotiation is to have a strong hand before starting the negotiation. This concept is known in behavioral sciences and business theory as BATNA ("best alternative to a negotiated agreement"). In layman's terms, it's your Plans B, C, D, etc. The stronger your backup options, the better your position in the discussion.

This correlates with the market-based theory discussed in the article ("If you can find someone to pay you X, you're worth X"). You increase your chances of getting X if you can get Backup Y as close to X as possible.

Glassdoor is extremely helpful for leveling a lot of the information asymmetries that push a money discussion in the employer's or client's favor. But Glassdoor isn't the same as leverage. Just because a typical Role X makes $Y doesn't mean you are entitled to that...unless you convince the market that you should be, i.e., by getting someone to give you that much (or more).
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> In short, the core problem is that the characters are not sympathetic -- you're meant to laugh at them, not with them, to say nothing of the show's terribly backwards gender roles.

For the record: I disagree 100% with every single statement in there.
I think one of the core problems is that people, for whatever reason, enter PhD programs for the wrong reasons. Something I have been told several times is that you should only do a PhD if the opportunity to work on the research it involves is worth it. If you find yourself worrying about opportunity cost, you shouldn't be considering it in the first place. I found that to be wise advice.
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As suby mentioned, off-the-shelf I think these engines support multiple platforms, but it is surprising (to me) how many big, non-1st-party games don't make it across all the platforms in a timely fashion. That signals to me that it isn't as easy as we might think.
Yes, I think the "be anything you want to be" message is largely to blame for the rejection of the idea "No.. you can't." My fear is that we will replace that message with "You can't do anything you want, and don't even bother trying. 'The Man' won't permit you to succeed."

The message we should be sending is in the middle: "Some of you can do what you want, if you try hard enough and happen to want something that society values"
How was this done? Is it is as simple as changing the git timestamp?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/454734/how-can-one-change...
Wow, this looks like a very noble effort. If they can offer privacy like DDG does, this will replace my default search engine. And the results seem decent too.
Money was the primary motivation, but I soon realized how little it changes anything. I end up saving 90% of what I make, excluding taxes.
The joy of creation is the most rewarding part :)
Argh, that can be frustrating. I for one certainly agree with you :D
As far as I can tell, this article _is_ the follow-up (the same URL, even)
Does this apply to truly elite law schools (like, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, maybe Columbia?)
Because it's not very hard. Probably a lot easier than most of the things he coordinated in his job.

I'm not American and I still know what to do:

1. Do montly investments in a few cheap ETFs (S&P 500, Emerging Markets, MSCI World) within your 401k

2. Once you get closer to retirement, roll most of the money over to more secure asset classes like bonds

3. done
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This resonated with me. If the programming tasks are somewhat mechanical/procedural, I am not sure that an exceptional engineer can create 10x as much value as a quite good one. I've never seen it.

What I've seen several times are engineers that are able to tackle problems that require so much creativity or skill that giving them to a less qualified engineer would most likely be a waste of everyone's time. In instances like that there can be a 10x difference in the value created by a quite good and an exceptional engineer. I've seen it in the static analysis software domain.
Valve has the resources; it's more a issue of internal commitment, which I agree they don't seem willing to make. To make SteamOS a serious contender to NXE Dashboard or CellOS they'd need to:

* Develop a XrossMediaBar like UI

* Devote resources to Wayland or Mir to reach production quality

* Create a new audio subsystem, or bring OSS v4 up to date for Linux

If I heard something like Valve dedicating 5 programmers on Wayland and 2 on OSS, SteamBox could be a serious contender for my next console purchase.
> That's why the AG created the fake yogurt shop. Zero difficultly in determining the fake reviews.

Not exactly. It was zero difficulty in determining the SEO companies that were in the business of providing fake reviews. They didn't set up a fake yogurt shop and wait for people to post reviews and then pounce on the reviewers, they set up a fake yogurt shop, and then solicited help in dealing with "negative reviews" from SEO companies, and the help they were offered by some of these companies was in the form of creating fake positive reviews.

A number of the comments on the thread act is if the AG was targeting individual independent reviewers (whether the reviews were fake or otherwise), when in actual fact were targetting two groups of companies:

1. Businesses which were using fake reviews and/or non-disclosed compensated reviews (whether provided by compensated consumers, in-house employees, or outside companies), and

2. Businesses which were providing fake reviews for money.
> school loans at low interest rates

Direct Unsubsidized Loans are 6.8%.

http://www.direct.ed.gov/calc.html
> Authors of individual files are clearly free to release their own work under BSD even inside such a GPL-licensed compilation, and if someone takes out all GPL code, the result can be distributed under BSD license.

> BSD doesn't need to "relicense" anything as the license to the existing code already permits combining with the GPL.

I don't see how it can be made any more clear. If you remove the GPL code, it no longer need to be under GPL. Did you bother to read the sources, and do you have any sources to support your clearly false claims?

The third link was about the linux emulation laying being used to including linux drivers into freebsd through the port system. You said it was impossible, yet they did it. The impossible happened, and is/was used for USB support particularly.
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For the past four years my wife was in law school (it was a four year part-time evening program). All the while, I kept reading about the doom and gloom in the job market. Everyone, apparently, decided to go to law school after the economy crashed in 2007 and demand for jobs was rising while the supply was decreasing. Coupled with growing debt, I was really becoming concerned on whether or not the endeavor would actually pay off and if all her hard work and sacrifice was for naught. We never had the ambition (or delusion) of a 6-figure associate job at a top firm, but from all the reports, we were in an almost hopeless situation. Four years of time sacrificed, more than half of it financed with debt, the rest with savings, and good luck finding a job.

In the end: a job was in place before graduation. The same thing was true for most of her friends. In fact, she never mentioned one friend who wasn't able to find employment before taking the bar exam.

I don't doubt any job squeeze, but the horror stories I heard about the job market for law school grads were far from realized for anyone we knew. And this was not an Ivy League school churning out highly credentialed grads. It was a state school that didn't have particularly stringent entrance requirements.
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>It over-focuses on the role of the individual and individual contribution in success, reinforcing Silicon Valley’s tendency towards hero worship, elitism and destructive individualism while ignoring the context of situation and privilege.

It correctly focuses on people that get stuff done. End of story. Some people drift and others paddle, simple as that. It is valuable to be able to tell the difference.

>It can provide a cover for destructive and abusive behavior by the “10x engineer”

Whole. Separate. Issue. Being productive has zero to do with being a jerk or not. People might tolerate jerks if they are productive, but that is a value calculation. People also tolerate poor public speaking or being chronically late or any number of other deficiencies for the same reason. If a person creates value they have more leeway, in general. So what?

>It erases many of the essential team and cultural dynamics involved in true productivity.

True productivity? As opposed to what? Productivity is productivity. This post assumes people are too stupid to calculate the long term effects of behavior and its relationship to productivity over time or to the output of the work group.

I think this post is trying to create an argument where none exists.
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In 2010, at the Paris Motor Show there was unveiled the first Audi Quattro Concept. This car was actually a homage to the original Sport Quattro that appeared in 1984. The 2010 concept not only that it had an amazing aspect, but it was also extremely well equipped with a 2.5 liter five cylinder that was able to produce somewhere around 380 horsepower.
Lack of understanding of email filtering rules is a large part of this. Email, with filtering rules, means that important messages from people who matter, get seen.

And important notifications.

Abuse of motifs such as messaging and notifications (hello, LinkedIn, I'm talking to you) leads to deprecation of just those messages. Though there are times and places when notifications are just what you need (site status messages for techies, financial accounts information for many others).

Incidentally, speaking of overused motifs, "fixed" website elements are increasingly triggering precisely the same response from me that spam emails are: pop open Stylebot, highlight the undesirable element (aren't those something from Berkeley?), and click "Hide" ("display: none;" property). As with the header bar on Matt West's blog.
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You didn't actually refute the claim you quoted. acadien didn't say it was impossible; the claim was that it's extremely unlikely.
Assuming you meant Xbox 360 and PS3, I think your stats are off:

* Steam - ~60 million [1]
* Xbox 360 - ~80 million [2]
* PS3 - ~80 million [3]

If you literally meant the Xbox and PS2 from 11 years ago, then yes, you are probably correct :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles#Microsoft
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles#Sony
Imagine all the cupcakes you could buy with the profits!!!
Congrats, you're not fired, today.
1Mbps internet connection is what I'm used to mostly :/
I hadn't thought about the possibility that day 3 could be about their VR stuff. Abrash has been beavering away on all that stuff for some time now. It has also been a fair while since he posted anything up on his blog (July 26, 2013): http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/
No, it was just shitty management, like how Eike Batista frequently made clear his displeasure for non-optimistic news, and then went to create a billionaire loss on oilfields that had not much oil, because he told his geologists to tell him that there was much oil in them
Another thing to point out-- the track is part of a larger collection of tracks meant to be used by people making film about space history; or possibly use it as a sample. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002SHRCX6/ref=dm_sp_alb

And it was published in 1998, when it would've been hard to find on the internet. That it's selling on Amazon is just part of a trend that most old media is sold cheaply on Amazon.
Remember:

The PS4 and Xbox1 both are literally built on top of DirectX11, meaning that games for next-gen consoles (read: AAA) will be DirectX by DEFAULT but will certainly not be OpenGL by default.

And OpenGL is a requirement for Linux support of these games.

How Valve is strong arming manufacturers into writing the graphics code for their games in BOTH frameworks is beyond me. I'm not sure the major engines out there support both either.

But Microsoft won a massive coup this generation with all consoles being Win7 developer kits + Visual Studio 2012 + DirectX 11.

With Microsoft providing the major tools for AAA-games, it's going to be harder going forward, not easier, for the Linux proponents to make their case and win.
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Where can one look at that data?
As I was reading this article I received an email from a recruiter on LinkedIn...