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On the lifestyle side, immediately cut out going out to dinner, new clothes, going to movies, bars, all of the extra stuff that can be done for much less money in different ways.

I have made a good number of poor decisions financially in the last year since losing my last job and now have to work twice as hard to get caught back up. If you immediately cut your overhead down to a bare minimum than you're in much better shape to a) last longer without a job and b) bounce right back financially once you're back on your feet.

When it comes to the professional side, look to your immediate life network (friends, family, even former colleagues) for projects that can utilize the skillset you have and begin freelancing to offset your lost income. While doing so, you can continue looking for a stable "9-5" job but at least you know you won't go broke until then...
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"My point is that in the case of Facebook it is the common decency of people which have decided to protest on some action by Facebook. Although these people may have influence and may pressure the Facebook to act as they want it to, the decision still lays with facebook."

I'm sorry but this simply isn't true. It's like me holding a gun on you and telling you to do something or I'll shoot. If I then turned around and claim the choice was still yours I'd be lying. Same here. People are threatening Facebook with pain (albeit financial) if they don’t comply.

Also remember that, at its core, Government IS society. What if people voted in representatives that made a law forcing Facebook to squash these groups? That blows your argument completely out of the water because suddenly the government is acting at the people’s behest to censor

Again, this is how good people get on the wrong side of this issue. They think what they dislike is ok to censor while being against what people they disagree with want to censor. But once the policy is set that it’s ok to censor that which you don’t like everyone gets into the game and we have a society without free speech.

P.S. On the "society has always done this" argument you're right but that doesn't mean society was correct in doing it. I don't like communists but I also don't approve of Hollywood coming up with a black list and robbing people of their livelihood for their beliefs. That wasn’t government it was just people and it was wrong. To go back further Socrates was killed in a sham trial for questioning what he felt was the moral decline of his society.

The bottom line is there's no need for censorship. If a school of thought is reprehensible than you should teach your children that and have your friends teach their children that and if society is really against the reprehensible thought it will be discredited. Holocaust denial isn't almost universally discredited because people were censored it's universally discredited because we make a point of presenting the facts to our children in history classes around the country.
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Recently it seems like the NYTimes jumps on every opportunity to write articles about the downsides of its new-media competitors. First LinkedIn crowdsourcing, now problems with Wikipedia decentralization. Just getting a bit old.
This seems heavily related to "Optimal Account Balancing" from the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=667088

Edit: I would think that Ripple uses the math behind optimal account balancing to power itself.
I'm not saying it doesn't involve the Internet I'm just saying it's not about the Internet primarily. The Internet is a form of communication at its core and that makes it susceptible to other laws. That in turn makes this a societal thing. To give an example: I can think of several cases where misguided judges have extended rules that governed print media to also include web sites.

To put it another way, Internet censorship is a symptom but it isn’t the cancer. If you focus on trying to fight that one symptom you’ll eventually be over run because the cancer will continue to grow stronger in the background. Censorship in general is the cancer and that is what we should all be looking to kill here.
I didn't catch a negative tone. It seemed appreciative of the fact that "Mr. Wales, himself, unfroze the page" when the situation ended.

Personal situations like these where freedom of speech doesn't serve public interest are hard to come by.
"As a B2C Java developer, I have to say it: don't distribute jars to end users. The user experience is horrific. Knowing how to make executable jars is valuable, just make sure it is the step in your ant file right before you execute your native wrapping."

I distribute jars with JotBot, a desktop app written in JRuby. It has native installers for Win 32 and OSX; jars are just more files dropped off in a folder, and the user need never think about them, since kicking off the app is handled by a some native launcher.
I wonder if Feynman knew what annoyed Gel-Mann and would do things just to fuck with him. It seems like the sort of practical joke Feynman might enjoy.
I accept your first argument, and reject your second.
I'd like to see some actual numbers on all this because I don't think most people Twitter. You hear all these wild numbers about how twitter is growing and growing but that's just people who visit it. I visit it to check on a few people but I'd never use it.

More to the point, in my actual life I know no one who Twitters (or tweets, or whatever). But I do know tons of people who have tried and given up on it.

So is it possible that, as a percentage of society, almost none of us Twitter?
Something like Rawr would be good.

http://rawr.rubyforge.org/
Smart.

But it's sad that people will buy hardware that conspires against them to make their life difficult. If you really want a "jailbroken" phone, why not support companies that are making that functionality available voluntarily?
The difference between the circumferences would have to be such that the train could round the sharpest bend on the track.

That should approximate to a maximum angular change (in direction of travel) per metre:

angle per metre = tan( 2 PI (R-r) / inner track gauge ) x 2 PI r

where R is the largest contact circumference of the wheel and r the smallest.

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My observations agree with yours. I have noticed that many of my age group (late 20s to early thirties) seem to be more socially conservative, especially with regards to divorce, sex, and drugs (but more accepting of homosexuality and especially race than the older friends).

In particular I have noticed on an anecdotal basis that the children of divorced parents marry later and more cautiously.

Most of the fiscal old-fasionedness is in males who feel unsure of their careers, which jives with Herbert's observations on gender.
DARPA is a sinkhole for money and brainpower that produces practically nothing of market value. The DARPA model is what's wrong with healthcare R&D.

It is the unavoidable nature of government programs to be very expensive and slow. The major medical advances will come from the private firms that minimize entanglement with the government.
That's what I first thought when I skimmed the article, but if you look again article implies they were targeting professional translators. It's not "wrong", and Mr. Irwin may have overreacted, but it shows a lack of tact from LinkedIn.
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I like Gell-Mann's story about how Feynman would intentionally 'forget' his coat and tie when going to dine in the campus formal dining room and instead wear their scabby leftover tie and coat.

How might have things turned out differently if Gell-Mann had been the sort to realize that a good practical joke would have been to replace the scabby attire with Feynman's own tie and coat provided by some fleet-footed student. When Feynman arrived he would instead of being the iconoclast as usual he would have had to settle for just conforming as his own tie and coat would be sitting there waiting for him.

Feynman might have appreciated that.
You're right. Please note that both articles were submitted by me ;-) I have been interested in reputation systems for a few years, and now I am interested in combining debt and trust. It's a very difficult problem.
That sounds like a workable solution, too. Oh, that reminds me, I saw a great presentation at JavaOne about deploying JRuby apps to end users. Unfortunately I don't have my notes on me -- technically I think it was about scripting Swing apps with JRuby and their demos were amazing. (Suffice it to say I have not often seen Ruby used to run real-time 3D games.)

Anyhow, one of the footnotes was that there is this package called Rawr which gives you a Ruby option for packaging a minimal JRuby install with the application and giving it a nice native-esque packaging experience.

(Come to think of it, wasn't JotBot the sample application at that presentation? I remember it being a timetracking app but don't have my notes in front of me.)
I'm with you in principle on the nature of government programs, but the private sector is notoriously short-sighted. Witness big pharma's focus on weight loss, painkillers and erection maintanence well beyond active reproductive years.

There needs to be some vision beyond short-term profits to incent drastic leaps.
"I'm the one who was affected, therefore it was my responsibility to resolve the issue"

It wasn't your responsibility - before berating you for not performing your duties they were responsible to know what those duties were.

You needed to resolve it, nobody else was going to, it was not your responsibility. Semantics? Probably.
It seems to be an average for teenage girls, when I was in high school thats what I saw but now they have outlawed cellphones in the public schools here, probably just for that reason.
There is no way to communicate, over the internet, how I feel about your response here. You obviously did not understand the point of my post at all. I have just typed a very long response, trying to explain my point, but I became disgusted, because if you didn't get it the first time, you sortof aren't ever going to.

I wasn't making fun of what they were researching. I was making fun of the fact they were making these incredibly grandiose claims about what they intended to develop. Hey, anyone can make grandiose claims about what they want to develop, it isn't interesting or news.
Because they're not nearly as awesome.
What balance is modern media placing on the government compared to what blogs are doing? From what I have seen blogs have done more to vet political candidates than the main stream media. Read up on who actually broke major issues. From what I have seen over the last year "blogs" have done about as much to balance government excess as the entirety of main stream media combined.
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For perspective, the new Prius model has a sales target of 100,000 cars in 2009.

Somehow I doubt that some small company with a new engine technology has outsold threefold Toyota's massively efficient and effective sales, marketing, and dealership network across the US, and gone completely unnoticed by mainstream media.

The car business involves a lot more than just the design of the engine or the car.
If you want the media to be a 4th branch of government (not that I'm in favor of it!), amend the Constitution and fund it the same way the other 3 get funded.

If you want it to be independent of the government, then you'll have to come up with some way to fund it that doesn't depend either on direct funding or the backdoor funding of making it illegal to innovate in the field.
He's nuts and education researcher Roger Schank would agree. You don't need a high school degree and you don't even need math to drive a taxicab.

All this yak about raising the education standard in the USA, when we've got Ph.D.'s in unemployment lines is disheartening. Retraining is the greatest joke. If you're an unemployed IT worker, what is the "next tier up" on the ladder to success? Material physics, which requires 5 years study to get online?

Economics and economists have some credibility in microeconomics, but outside that limited subject they are herd-oriented and usually wrong, wrong, wrong. Ask Nicholas Taleb what he thinks about the economics profession. Hell, look out the window and remember what economists have told you about the economy over the last 20 years. Were their predictions ever better than a crapshoot?
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When the news broke Saturday, the user from Florida reposted the information, with a note to administrators that said: “Is that enough proof for you [expletives]? I was right. You were WRONG.”

Wow, so do we have a name for this phenomenon yet? I think I'll write up an RFC for "Monroe's Law"[1] tomorrow.

[1]: http://xkcd.com/386/
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I can't honestly say that my iPhone has made my life difficult.

And, really, if you want an unlocked phone with a a comparable feature set, you need to be prepared to pay through the nose just to get a handset that doesn't do anything. And then pay again to get service for it.
Perhaps venture capital should given incentives. If there are breakthroughs coming they'll only happen through funded companies.

The other possibility, which I'm sure is unpopular to utter around here, is that there are no cancer breakthroughs to be made in a reasonable time frame and the capital markets and big pharma are behaving quite rationally.

Despite all the billions poured into cancer research over the last 30 years the advancements seem pretty weak, from my limited understanding. Apparently they use eight years cancer free as the mark to declare you cured. But then people often relapse and drop dead young not so long after that.

At some point it might make sense to admit pouring more money into drug and treatment research is detracting from other pursuits. You could probably make a much bigger dent in cancer by studying preventive nutrition and how to make it widespread.
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This is another problem with Open Source. Americans need to create something of value to the rest of the world that the rest of the world is willing to pay for. If we continue building open source software, then the rest of the world never has to pay us for our innovation. They just compile it themselves and leave us in the dust.
I'd just like to say this story has the best headline I've read all day.
She's trying to climb a falling ladder. I can understand why she's upset, but I'm not very sympathetic.
Japan and Germany dominate industries like machine tools in part by beginning skilled craft training in high school. They have self-selected fifteen year olds learning how to use industrial lathes and such. Or in the case of Japan learning the hi-tech business of modern fishing actually out on the high seas.

It seems like there might be a good idea there. But of course Friedman is just talking about making sure everyone suffers through algebra II even if they learn nothing from it.
Not surprised at all by this. My site has a lot of contributors who have little to no experience on the web, and they often ask me if it's ok to include links to other web sites in their stories or encourage me to stop linking out to other sites so much. I tell them it's ok and actually important to send folks to relevant sites, but it seems a bit counter intuitive to some.
I take it you haven't tried to write a DOS clone?

Sometime in the early-mid 90s when Linux was still new, a bunch of "us" DOS weenies caught wind of it and tried to recreate DOS as open source. The FreeDOS book (the tiny one with a key on the cover) was passed around between us Turbo C weenies like Lion's commentary! It was a better book than "DOS Internals", the purple AW book.
"Since texting is usually a binary activity (the texter sends a text for every text they receive) we can guess that Echo writes about 7,000 text messages per month"

A huge oversimplification and probably inaccurate. Especially since most phones made in the past few years have the capability to send a text to multiple recipients, I highly doubt that Echo is typing as many texts as she receives -- both because she's more likely to get mass texts, and because she may herself be sending mass texts (which are charged as multiple texts, but are only typed once). I haven't been a teenager recently, but I also suspect that there is a lot more one sided texting than you'd expect (especially directed at pretty, popular girls).
I don't know anybody under 29 who twitters.
Every life lesson that you learn from experience is just a statistically irrelevant anecdote and results in the refinement of a crude heuristic or generalization mechanism for your limited human brain. Never did this fabricated fable state or even hint that this was the way all enterprise teams and all hackers are like. That, my friend, is the straw man argument coming from you.
Does anybody here know somebody that has used this program to aid their learning of computer science concepts? It's certainly an admirable cause, but is this a better introduction to programming than something like Logo, which has been used to teach programming to kids for many years?

Alice is impressive, and you can see the obvious programming influence, but it seems like "Moviemaker with control flow and objects" more than anything else. What problem is it trying to solve?

For me, the hardest part of learning elementary computer science was not things like OOP or if-statements, it was data structures, algorithms, and the difficulty of keeping many different interactions in your headspace. It seems like in many CS programs, the data structures or algorithms class is the "weeder" that separates the CS majors from the wannabe CS majors. Personally, I believe the drop-off at this level is more important to address than how many students enroll in CS 101.
See also "Seven Stages of a Project" http://corry.ws/CorryBook-69.htm
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I think new ways to fund investigative reporting will arise, and that they'll be just as problematic, ephemeral, and controversial as the current ones.

Obvious example: How deeply can an investigative reporter at NBC really probe into the affairs of General Electric, the company that owns it?

Similarly, if a bunch of local realtors got together and hired an investigative reporter to cover real estate, people would howl and moan about conflict of interest...but that person would probably dig up some great stories, just not stories about the companies funding him/her.
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I highly recommend going to multiple recruiters. If for nothing else but to critique your resumes and see how they would go about selling you. Use that to either get the job or get a better idea.

2 mo. of savings is cutting it rough. If you have family who you can trust with your life, consider transferring any assets (like a car) to them and essentially squatting it out in your apartment (assuming you rent). If you have a mortgage immediately start going through the red-tape of your bank. It may be many months until they really get to you and if you play ball they may allow you to postpone enough payments until you get back on your feet.
I used Alice to start off a beginning programming class at the high school level. It worked great - they got really into it and loved to make things. I think it helped my students' programming intuition as well as retain some of the girls who were very hesitant about taking the class.
I wasn't that impressed with them: they were mostly arithmetic - not actual math.

Same request as the friendly request above to which I responded: what resources would you suggest for examples of "actual math" appropriate for elementary-age students.

I use a great variety of problem sources, published in both English and Chinese, to teach various learners of elementary math supplementary lessons, which is my current occupation. But one can never have too many sources of problems, so what sources do you suggest? There's no "ceiling" of difficulty level, because I have early-elementary-age students who are already well along in secondary-level math, so I have to keep looking for more challenging material all the time for my most advanced students.
"It's not a shortcoming, it's a feature!"

While I am now an Apple fan, this reminds me of the ridiculous excuses Apple fanboys gave me when they compared their early-generation iPods to my MP3 player at the time (a Rio Karma).

"It doesn't support gapless playback because in modern times, you should focus songs not albums!"
"It only holds 10 gigs, because you should only listen to your best songs on the go!"
"You don't need a button for skipping tracks, because you should spend your time listening to music, not switching between songs!"
I don't have current access to students from Singapore, but later this summer I'll have a visit from a student from Taiwan, and I could try American problem types on him.

My two older children have lived in both Taiwan and the United States, as my wife and I have at various stages of life.
You don't understand that user's frustration? You edit the article, source the information, and all you get is baffling bureaucracy. Then it turns out that the people who'd been quibbling with you all that time knew you were right and were maintaining a front to keep the information hidden.

It's the sort of thing dystopian novels are made of...
What's the user's interest in posting the information? How does that compare with the interest of others in keeping the reporter alive?
I don't think pure academic advancement is the answer as a means to invent and thereby dig ourselves out of the recession. More kids graduating high school really doesn't imply that they'll find better jobs or rather even be better off because of it. I would argue it's even the same metaphor for college. Most people go to get better jobs, but in reality, the risk is just as high to not find one, especially in this economy. Honestly I think we're still at the point where people are too prideful to get work just for work. I know plenty of college grads who are "above" working at Starbucks or restaurants of the like. The problem is that there's a definite devaluing of infrastructure type jobs that keep the country running. I think Mike Rowe (my hero) summed it up best: http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm...
Maybe it's just another crapshoot, but I think it's another way to rethink our education system.
Hope this works out for them, great way to moneterize the platform without having the rely solely on a advertising supported business model.
If this fable didn't hint at that, what was its point?

That convincing management regardless of your productive output is what matters at the end of the day? Perhaps at some organizations, but it's not a particularly accurate, nuanced world view.

I doubt this story would be conveyed in reverse -- the stereotypical "rockstar hacker" produces vast reams of code that will fail catastrophically, but comes out ahead by, upon 'completion', immediately pushing responsibility for the disastrously buggy code to the "stodgy" enterprise engineers who get called in to maintain the project. The "rockstar" moves on to the next project, where he'll repeat this performance, and the stodgy developers get poor performance reviews.
Yeah, but if the user wasn't anonymous, he could have been contacted by the wikipedia admins and suggested that perhaps the information wasn't worthy of the public domain yet. Any reasonable person would understand the risk to the man's life and held back from posting it.