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Completely disagree. I too went through the college admissions process.

Yes, public schools care more about standardized numbers (SAT/GPA), but you don't need a very high SAT score (in strictly relative terms to private schools) to get into a top public school, even the top UCs.

Put it this way: An elite public school might weight SATs 40%, but the median SAT will only be 2000 anyway.

Whereas an elite private might have a median of 2150 with a weighting of 20%.

The fact is that public schools will give more weight to SATs, but the threshold for what above average for admission is already lower.
Where's a better place for they to put their money/all those dollars coming in from exporting to the US?
And the browser is able to display an Asteroids (1979) game!
The NFL theorem (for search and optimisation) states that all algorithms for searching a fixed problem space perform the same, in expectation, when you don't know anything about the fitness (cost) structure over that space. There is a tradeoff in a sense: an algorithm can only do better than random search on some instances of the problem if it does worse on others. There's no sense of a tradeoff between multiple objectives on a single instance of a search problem, which is what gwern is talking about.
Yes. However, C# uses the convention that capitalized "fields" are actually properties, and lowercase ones are true fields.

For example,
Foo.X might be an x position, returned from a getter method, and set with a setter method. Internally, the class make use the Foo.x field to store it, in which case the getter and setter are trivial. In fact, C# will write them for you
The property could look like:

int X{
get;
set;
}

(Though my syntax might not be completely correct, I haven't used C# in a while). C# will automatically create a private field to store the value for x, and the getter and setter will work as expected.

Classes should, as a general rule, only expose properties and methods to the outside world. All fields should be private. Yes, accessing a property calls a method, but so does a Java getX().

Java uses the same rule, except getters and setters are implemented using setX(int) and getX(). C# properties are the equivalent. The client of a class should not care how the class stores values, but that the getters and setters work.
When a star "dies", it goes through some phases, there one of them is that is grows really big. Planets would presumably be consumed in this process. In any case, a star doesn't disappear when it dies. It just ceases burning.
The problem with popular science books is that they are written by journalists untrained in science. It should be scientists who write popular works. There are several scientists who have written great works which are neither difficult, nor dumbed down - for example, Steinhaus' "Mathematical Snapshots", Einstein and Infeld's "The Evolution of Physics", Schrodinger's "What is life?" and even delightful works such as Faraday's "Chemical history of a candle".

With the hypercompetitiveness of modern scientific careers, scientists who take time off to write popular expositions are looked down upon. The problem is not Malcolm Gladwell, the problem is the insularity of modern scientists.
if they solved your problem, use one of them. reinventing things takes much longer time than building something with them. there is already plenty of great frameworks running in the wild. backbone, ember and angular.js have their own great communities. find out which one you like more and then if you think it has some missing features or things done wrong then they are open source. you can always send a PR.
> I assume the Loom keychain data (including the users password) is only accessible to the Loom app

I'm pretty sure that's only true for non-Jailbroken devices.
Very good insight and I agreed with you with modern day CRM. But analytic, pipeline analysis will only be accurate when the sales rep did spent the time updating all the data in CRM.
A fully responsive online supermarket in Spain
Great question.

BitKeeper wasnt as good as git when it comes to changesets and introducing bugs, still it was founded on more social side of changes needing approvals. Before that it was CVS and for that its almost easy to introduce backdoors.
This will be amazing in Europe. From jan In Eu all carriers have to drop roaming charges and people now are traveling exponentially more than they used to 10-15 years ago. This is big. I know everyone focuses on USA and china bit old continent still has potential ;)
I'm not sure if the "compact size" is such a good thing - There is a reason why ATMs are so big..

(A junkie with a crowbar)
Have you never interviewed candidates who seemed completely obnoxious or crazy (or high!), or were just far below the required standard? I have.

What do you tell them that is constructive and not legally risky?
As a personal data point, I grew up reading lots of "entertaining" books that claimed to have intellectual value, but in hindsight didn't really end up being that intelligent. My early thought heroes were John Stossel, Chuck Palahniuk, Ayn Rand, the Freakonomics guys, and Michael Crichton. While my views have grown more sophisticated over the years, those early adventures into "intellectual" topics eventually led me to study these topics in more depth and expose me to new, more complicated ideas.

So Gladwell's writings, if not specific scientific, may at least have some pedagogical value. Their entertainment value is certainly not questioned.
Oooo, that almost makes me angry. For the prosthesis, it's not like the "app" couldn't be replaced by a single switch on the foot. From what I can tell the "app" is literally the most superficial, least important part of the whole system.

Good example.
Correct. Although Smalltalk is generally regarded as the first one because the concept "object orientation" was first used in it.

Still, the big thing in Smalltalk are not objects, but messages. That's something many later OO languages missed on completely.

From Kay:

«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I’m not aware of them.»
X32 code is different from "plain" 32 bit code (x86 style) as it still runs in long mode and can use all registers.
So how exactly does getting subsidized by a mother company to offer a compelling package not equal good competition?
Space hulk!
> That's because Oracle has been suing them over it. ...

Sun just did not sue them, because they lacked the money. James Gosling confirmed this.

> And really, what Java 7 language level features were there that makes it problematic that Android still runs Java 6? The good stuff was dropped from 7 and pushed to 8. 7 is boring

- Strings in switch

- Try with resources

- Multiple exceptions in catch

- Simplified IO

- Diamond type inference

- invoke dynamic optimizations

Any Java library targeted for Java 7, even without the new language features, is also not usable in Android projects, because Dex cannot understand the new Java 7 bytecodes.

Google is a corporation like any other.
funny, I was thinking of the opposite.
I commuted by train for many years (45-60 mins) and while I enjoyed the time alone (mostly reading) I loved more the trips when I met with people.

Start the morning commuting with your best friend, work or study all day, meet a schoolmate you hadn't seen in a while on the way back.

I don't miss the overcrowded train, but I miss the people on it.
For everyone feeling cheated by Malcolm Gladwell, there is relief in sight! Buy books by Simon Singh e.g. The Code Book and Fermat's Last Theorem; after his court tangle with homeopathy he needs all the royalties he can get!
I'd guess that the real value is in the data. They've presumably gathered a bunch of size/composition/value data about asteroids that would almost certainly have value to a company that plans to exploit said asteroids.
Not only that. In the above mentioned MXE project, the $(...) functions also play a vital role on the "second stage": They create a huge, automatic set of rules and actions, based on a higher-level description that is given for each package via a bunch Make variables (some of which are multiline and contain actual commands for that package).
Thanks for building the bus that hit me!
I don't read Gladwell to learn anything. And that's okay—there are plenty of other places I read to learn.

Like the rest of The New Yorker, what Gladwell provides is interesting, entertaining, and realistic stories. Whether those stories are entirely true or not just isn't relevant. It's about entertaining myself and occasionally having a thought-provoking discussion about Gladwell's work. None of this actually affects how I do my work or interact with the world.

However, a good portion of this enjoyment is contingent on the stories ostensibly not being fiction, largely due to the "stranger than fiction" effect. If Gladwell were to write complete fiction, then we wouldn't have plausible lines of reality to reference in his work, or the entertainment of seeing the convolutions he makes in bending reality to his thesis.
When we tell a computer how to do something, we write a set of orders for the computer in a way that the computer can read. These orders can ask the computer to remember things, like numbers and names and places and so on. We can ask the computer to set up spots where it will remember things for us, and each such spot will have its own name. When we write down a thing for the computer to figure out, and the computer goes on to actually figure out what we are talking about, the thing can turn out to be either of two types. It can be the name of a place to store things, or it can be a thing to be stored (like a number or word or letter or a few of any of these). If it is a place to store things (which we can call a "left hand type of thing"), we could ask the computer to store other things in that place. If it is a thing that can be stored (which we can call a "right hand type of thing"), we could ask the computer to store it somewhere.

The reason why we use the names "left hand" and "right hand" in this way is that we can write orders for the computer like

cat should become two times two

In this case, the word "cat" appeared on the left hand side of the order, before "should become" (or "gets"), while the words "two times two" appeared on the right hand side of the order, after "should become". This makes sense because in this order we use "cat" as a name of a place to store things, while "two times two" (which turns out to be the number four) is a number that could be stored so that it can be used later on. Here, we would call "cat" a left hand type of thing, and "two times two" a right hand type of thing.

In some orders for the computer, the way to talk about where to store things is much more confusing (like we could say something like "right after this place", "right before this place", "ten spots after this place"), but still, if something works out to point to a place where you can store facts, then that thing is a left hand type of thing.
- are there meetups around you or remote pair programming? If not, start something. Doesn't have to be more than a few people in a coffee shop. The railsbridge curriculum is really well done: http://workshops.railsbridge.org/

- tooling: learn heroku, github/git, unit and functional /integration tests, capistrano, Firebug/chrome dev tools, selenium/watir etc (etc could include continuous integration/deploy libs,

http://pragprog.com/book/pg_git/pragmatic-guide-to-git

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html

- learn a couple editors. e.g for scala/java/clojure, I think people should learn one of emacs/vim and IntelliJ.

- the db/serialization/search trilogy: learn JSON, XML (just to read XML, pretty important in javaland), a relational database, a nonSQL, and a fulltext indexing lib e.g. sphinx or elastic. Look at protobufs, avro also

- learn linux setup/tuning pretty thoroughly (inital setup with ssh, iptables, postgres, etc), basic monitoring tools, and the stuff that heroku or digital ocean or linode provide.
It's an interesting footnote to history that the southern US had endemic malaria prior to 1949.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Malaria_Eradication_P...
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I don't think that changes the fact that having debt != default.

I have a mortgage for a multiple of my current income, that doesn't mean I'm bankrupt because I'm unable to pay it off right now if demanded by the lender. Same thing with Social Security, if we had to suddenly pay out the entire amount tomorrow to everyone, yes we would be bankrupt but that's not how Social Security (or I would guess 90% or more of our debt securities) work.
Is your startup Sustainable?
Looks quite plausible: http://web.med.harvard.edu/healthcaucus/bg_rensberger.html
Well yeah big part of is is "Geotargetable domains" > https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en

But I was talking about what it means to many and/or me :-)
for example, if you're interested read this; http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/artisanal-websites-the-ri...
I have this on my Nexus 4. You can either order a sim online or (as I couldn't buy it with a card registered to a P.O. box) buy a 20$ phone at walmart and swap the sim into your device.

No device restrictions.
"Information about a recent Google chat issue"
You should have stopped long ago.

Malcolm Gladwell as an entertainer is great. Gladwell as a pundit quoted by (and presumably influencing) real decision-makers ... has me steaming in frustration. He is dangerous.
I don't think that's quite right.

Fox News encourages people not to think at all. Gladwell encourages people to think (the adjective thought-provoking is frequently applied to his work), even if his actual content isn't 100% true.

Also, I don't think Gladwell ever completely lies. He certainly bends the truth, but he doesn't make up things on a whim like Fox.
Light bulbs don't emit black body radiation. They don't nearly have enough black body temperature for bright yellow light. I guess tungsten has different emission pattern.
OT:, pardon this non-native, what does "spruik" mean? I can only find this[0] but it seems an intransitive verb compared to what you used

[0] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spruik
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/schwartz/
The U.S consumer benefits regardless. if the German taxpayer or German customer of a monopoly subsidizes the U.S consumer that is a German market issue.

Your second point has some merit though: that once they gain significant market share in the U.S, T-mobile can become anti-customer. But T-mobile's prepaid plans and now this international texting gambit might force other carriers to follow suit before T-mobile gets to that significant market share. At that point T-mobile cannot afford to become anti-customer because other carriers would have started matching T-mobile's pro-customer offers in the meantime.
Indeed, consumer friendliness is mostly about emotions, that is, keeping your users happy. DRM usually makes users annoyed or even angry.
Dying? I don't know, but surely not dead.

But look at the beginning of Java, at that time it was "cool" and growing.
Now Java is an adult and not cool, other languages grow, build new communities, new tools and new possibilites, that's why they offer more fun and many people think java is dying.

Java will be there for many many years, Cobol still there too ;-)
But someday it will die, that's normal life.
I feel like a lot of the really clever and elegant things about smalltalk as a language and an object model got bogged down in the program image execution model, to the point where it stunted the evolution of those ideas for a long time. We're getting to the point where such a model is more practical now, but it still strikes me as hopelessly impractical even so.

It wasn't until OSX made Objective-C take off and Rails made Ruby take off that some of the fundamental language features entered the mainstream, and they did so with a gusto that other 'ivory tower' languages wish they could achieve. But only by leaving the image model behind.

It seems like something like Erlang managed to do what Smalltalk tries to do with the image better, allowing for easier to reason about deployment, collaboration, and version control while still letting you deal with a system of relatively opaque boxes of replaceable code.
I think interest overall in software development has plateau'd recently. I go to software events and think, "of five million people in the area, these are the fifty really interested in software development. Half are probably hobbyists, and the other half are probably already employed. A person that needs to hire a developer has big problems."
Absolutely. The "get something from somewhere" syntax that SQL employs is completely at odds with it being declarative. LINQ simply does a better job of capturing the abstractions of relational algebra cleanly.

Not that it really matters to someone who is already familiar with SQL, however.
Nice one senthil. Will have to try it out sometime
Mountain View replacing Google's free wifi
Great, more revisionism.

> When these patents expired, there were soon 80 competing companies which captured 5% of the market, rising to over 3,000 companies with over 50% of the market by 1900.

And starting in 1907 and the return of Vail, Bell started massively buying them out, attracting the attention of the Justice Department and leading to the Kingsbury Commitment. Kingsbury was essentially repealed 8 years later by the Willis Graham Act, which more or less removed the Commitment's regulatory barriers for acquisition by AT&T, by shifting all oversight to the ICC's rubber-stamping.

> Then during WW1, this monopoly was given "for reasons of national security". If you think that the monopoly came about by market forces then government came to save us, yes there is some revision needed.

The monopoly was already there, Bell was temporarily nationalized during WW1.

> AT&T then lobbied for its monopoly status back, saying the telephone "by the nature of its technology would operate most efficiently as a monopoly providing universal service."

And this was given in 1921 by the Willis-Graham, which removed the regulatory hurdles put in place in 1913 when Bell was already a monopoly or near-monopoly.
Probably all the suggestions here are valid. I'll just add that my programming improved a lot by working at a place that did code reviews and had really good senior programmers.
Everything emits black body radiation even yourself.
Malcolm Gladwell's piece is like a fiction in Decision making . I will still prefer likes of Daniel Khaneman and others. Should have read "Thinking Fast and Slow" long ago.
I have heard the genre (which includes Malcolm Gladwell, Jonah Lehrer, the Freakonomics guys and Jared Diamond) described as "insight porn".

The idea is to deliver small chunks of insight that is just counter-intuitive enough to be novel, but not so counter-intuitive that we can't take it at face value. It's a market that's developed in response to the fact that nerds are addicted to feeling like they're just a little bit smarter than everyone else.

I think the same rush we get from learning something counter-intuitive and novel is the same reason that many of us have read pg's essays - particularly the early ones.

Edit: It occurs to me that this comment could be seen as an example of what it describes...
The other people in the tram car weren't so enthusiastic about my singing. :(
It's not a kernel! how hard can that be to understand?
Is he much worse than CSI? I mean I don't trust both, they have right details (like some study proving one thing, or name of disease), but overall miss the big picture.

Also it seems that he sometimes hits a mark. I remember his article on criminal Profilers being mostly correct as far as I could tell.

Anyone who trust a journalist unconditionally and blindly is a fool. They are paid to pique your interest and entertain you, not find out the truth (most people don't like the truth, I definitely wouldn't like all the truth about me to come into light). Just like someone that thinks that most crime TV series depict real life.
I'm the one who developed Haeinsa. If you find it interesting, please leave me comment.

Features of Haeinsa:
- ACID
- Linearly scalable
- Serializability
- Fault-tolerant
- Easy migration
- Used in practice

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Trying people out, yes absolutely no culture yet, a precise idea of what it should be though (company not set up yet). And that means to me live coherent with the whole purpose of the company itself, no 'that's just a job', really shared beliefs and values, even in not so public functions, be ready for transparency.
While I haven't found anything for electronics, you can get a lot of toys and clothes that aren't made in china and agree to fair workers rights.

Usually (not always) if you buy organic clothes, they are manufactured somewhere else than China. The UK has a thriving eco toys industry with toys made of wood and metal instead of plastic. Germany has quite good producers of kitchenware that also don't outsource to China.

But yeah, you will have to search around and mostly order online but you can find most stuff from brands that don't outsource to China.
China and/or Russia.

For English, Western Europe.
Could someone help me out, I've read Pinker's criticisms, Chablis' and others, but I don't feel convinced because they all seem to be generic attacks on accuracy. From their articles, I was not able to identify a specific point that Gladwell has made that is false. Lets take for example, his most recent book, David & Goliath. I was impressed by his unusual look at the David coming down the valley story in a new light including Goliath being a sufferer of pitiutary defect (hence the weak vision). Is that analysis somehow wrong? It doesn't seem to be any more wrong than other analysis I've seen, eg: Pinker's claim that violence has been decreasing over the ages.
I think you mean Deutsche Telekom (yes, I agree with it behaving like AT&T)

At least their competitors "get" more things better than them, so for the most part they're not even an option.
I used one of these the other day to try to buy $1 worth of bitcoin. It spun forever and I had to leave. Don't know if it ever actually went through or not, but it should've given me a timeout message way before 5 minutes of standing there.
This seems like a fit of jealousy to me. Malcom Gladwell makes no claim that the observations mentioned in his books meet any scientific standards. His points are usually correct (though obvious to many); in this case his point is that adversity often breeds success in ambitious people (e.g. Princeton students, not necessarily random students at a public college). Perhaps he cherry picks examples to prove those points, but having read his books and the recent criticisms of them, I still don't feel that I have been lied to.

Gladwell does what many successful authors in this genre do: he tells us what we already intuitively know in a palatable way that makes the concepts feel new. It makes people feel justified in their belief that they can overcome seemingly daunting challenges when they see it in print by a noted author. His books may not reveal groundbreaking results of scientific studies, but they justify the views of the kinds of people that read his books, and that will tend to make them successful regardless of the scientific accuracy of any examples mentioned in his books.
When you say "Google Analytics" do you mean "Google Adwords"?
The UK's "unease" is artificial, constructed by nationalistic media. It certainly has nothing to do with the EU's stance towards the US. Had it, there would be no euroscepticism. The US is deeply unpopular, even in the UK.
Singapore and Aung San Suu Kyi
I've heard good things about Hawking's books as well, although haven't read any yet.
How to write an MGB (Malcolm Gladwell Bestseller)
Mongodb bottleneck while using embedded documents