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People want to believe they are special snowflakes and the "system" is holding them down. Have you ever heard anyone say "I wanted to be a dancer, thank god the teachers were more interested in teaching me quadratic functions, which is how I ended up being an accountant now, because it turned out I sucked at dancing!"

If school systems are so inherently broken, how come all the economically successful countries have public school systems that go on for years? It's the same tired argument as "Capitalism is inherently evil." Yeah, maybe, except that no other system was shown to be better.
You are demanding something you're just not going to get. You want it to be clear that a solution will work. Next you'll say you want market research. Next you'll say you want to test 42 shades of blue.

This is why it's important for an idea to be distilled into something that can be tried without much investment, so that a lot of ideas can be tried and that you'll stumble onto something great. Larger ideas usually end up being tried through force or by going behind somebody's back, and that's probably how it'll stay.
You pay for another hour every time you do that, that was the point.
You can read more about the crimes his group was involved in in the proceedings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission established after the abolition of apartheid.
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This is incredibly misleading. Saying that the difference between iOS 4 and iOS 7 is equivalent to the difference between Android 4.1 and Android 4.4 is absurd.

The big jump in Android was from Android 2 to Android 4 (Android 3 was mostly a release for tablets). Sure, there are differences between Android point releases, but they're not as substantial as the "major versions" the chart suggests.
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That's a technical detail, not a financial one. Sure, you can save a few physical servers by being smarter in allocating load, but that is a far cry from the financial flexibility you get from e.g. EC2.
Did anyone else click this link hoping to have a sort of Star Trek-themed email address or interface?
That font seems to still have the holly in it, and more readable.
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I disagree. People get angry at the exercise of creativity.

Look at the reaction to the financial independence/lifestyle design. People HATE them. Tell many Americans that you're going to stop working for six months to read books in Thailand and they will despise you.

There are so many upsides to creativity, and so much human potential for it - the thing that stops most is the shame that gets splashed on you every time. And then you start splashing it yourself. And that's the game.
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Vernor Vinge, the man who coined the phrase "Technological Singularity", gave an interesting talk describing three scenarios if the Singularity does not happen. He calls them A Return to MADness, The Golden Age, and The Wheel of Time. He still regards the Singularity as the most likely non-catastrophic outcome for our near future.

"What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen" text: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/longnow/
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Minor annoyance: The "Amount of cash to spend" slide bar, needs to have its color inverted.

Otherwise, i think it looks great :)
When I was a kid I remember imagining that the dinosaurs managed to create an advanced civilization, reaching the moon, creating cities, tried to harvest asteroids but accidentally wiped themselves out after a major mistake, eliminating the evidence for their civilization in the process.

This was after reading The Crucible of Time by Brunner (one of my favourite books)
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I think the biggest problem .NET has in many areas that are considered "cool" is that Microsoft's license-oriented business model imposes lots of license-oriented friction around .NET that don't exist with open-source technologies. The actual dollar cost of licenses is important but there is also a cost in the friction that licensing (and the associated product segregation into packages designed around tiers based on how to sell licenses rather than pick-what-bits-you-need-for-what-you-are-doing-today) creates.
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I'll try that, might indeed be better! Thanks.
How is it "ludicrous"? The aim of every educational reform I have ever seen is "how do we make students do what we want and perform the way we want?".

I have NEVER seen the question "how do we encourage students to behave in ways that we do not expect?".

What does this signal?
Rephrasing in a most unkind way: "Change requires too much energy, but if you also bring along a perpetuum mobile, you're on to something."
I'm a developer at a company that uses a lot of open source software, and I've spoken to other developers at other companies as well. Where I work, it's required to get legal approval to use GPL software. Software under more permissive licenses may be imported and used freely at the discretion of the development team. So in my experience, InfiniSQL faces a much higher barrier to adoption due to GPL.

Perhaps you work with companies where adopting technology stacks is more of a top-down decision where legal counsel is always involved. In those situations, GPL doesn't pose a particular barrier because all open source software faces that same barrier. But some companies give more autonomy to their developers, and in those cases there's a difference in overhead when managing GPL compliance.
Wait, what?

What does "[seeing] compulsory schooling as an irrevocable necessity" have to do with "suppression of creativity and individualism"?
It's very pretty, what did you use to design the site visually? Just plain old html/css? A template? It's simple but good looking!
From what I am reading all this happened while he was in prison. ANC had violent members while Mandela was in prison but how does that implicate Mandela? Desmund Tutu saved a man from Necklacing so why then would he be such an ardent supporter of Mandela?
>Source: was defrauded through wire transfer.

how did that happen?

Personally, I associate wire transfers with fraud; I won't accept them as payment, same as western union or bitcoin.
There are dozens of altcoins now but LTC is the only one with any real cap - and its purely a speculatve vehicle, whereas while BTC is mostly speculative, you _can_ actually exchange BTC directly for goods and or services in a rapidly increasing number of ways.

The ecosystem and brand awareness is novel for BTC, so in that respect I don't disagree with the analysis having focused solely on it - however, I do find their number (remarkably close to current price) a bit leading.
The argument would be that going from $1 to $100 is more volatile than going from $100 to $1000 and it is therefore getting more stable. But I don't think the general public will view it that way. Normal people think on an linear and not a logarithmic scale.
People love creativity, as evidenced by our love of the results of creativity.

Our systems however, are not set up to reward creativity.

Our systems at work, at school, and in life in general are set up to maintain a status quo, to result in the least amount of risk possible (especially as those systems become larger), and in general to reward predictability, consistency, and obedience. All of which describe the opposite of creativity.

The reasons the systems are this way is due to our style of management, primarily in the US. Carrot-and-stick styles, with emphasis on short-term goals and comparison of employees to each other (bonuses for the top 5% etc) result in short-term thinking styles and discourage creativity in the workplace. Bonuses and employee evaluations also tend to focus on measurable goals, and creativity is difficult to measure and difficult to quantify, therefore it's optimized away. Just one of the many negative unintended consequences of our default individual-focused reward-and-punish management style.

Deming-style management process would likely fix this and encourage wider thinking and creativity, with less of an individual focus. Read more and spread the word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
I'll be "that kid"... what does "completely managed" mean?
Probably he wanted to distance himself away from similar products. It certainly didn't help him to never mention that the watch housing is not(probably, why would he then make the same design) manufactured in-house. As for being hacked, maybe he was hacked( internet can become very vengeful for almost no reason )and that person/competitor succeeded discrediting the project.
It does a disservice to the facts of apartheid to compare the US in 1964 to SA at the same time. While, yes, there were many many racial problems in the US, there were no race-based federal laws. The Civil Rights Act was passed to prohibit racial laws at the state level. Meanwhile, in South Africa:

All citizens had to carry a card identifying their race. (Population Registration Act)

It was specifically legally allowed to segregate public facilities (parks, hospitals, transportation, etc.). In addition, facilities were specifically allowed to be unequal for different races or even non-existent. (Reservation of Separate Amenities Act)

Property was legally divided by race and you could only live in areas alloted to your race. (Group Areas Act)

Federal law controlled which jobs you were allowed to hold based on your race. High skill jobs were reserved for whites and blacks were prohibited from holding them. (Mines and Works Act, Native Building Workers Act)

Blacks were legally prohibited from striking or forming unions. Whites had no such restriction. (Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act, Industrial Conciliation Act)

Schools were legally segregated by race, which led (either intentionally or not) to radically inferior schooling for blacks. In the 70s, per capita spending on black education was one-tenth of the spending on white. (Bantu Education Act, Extension of University Education Act et. al.)

It was a federal crime, punishable by up to five years in prison to engage in inter-racial sex involving a white person. Inter-racial marriage was likewise outlawed. (Immorality Act, Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act)

And this is just the beginning. There were dozens of other pieces of legislation that specifically encoded race-based selection into federal law. It's astonishing how horrendous South Africa was in a time where most other developed countries were what we think of as "modern".
Awesome blog post Jochen! And thanks for the Gridcentric shout-out :-)
This sounds like an awesome book, and I would probably have loved to have it when my kids were infants. I pointed a few friends at it.

My big experiment with my first born was trying to teach her to count starting with 0 instead of 1. I attempted it for a few months, but ultimately stopped because everyone else around her was counting the typical way and it seemed like it might be confusing to her.. I admit it was a bit embarrassing for me when doing so in the presence of non-geeks.

I'll also go ahead and share a funny anecdote and hope it doesn't come back to haunt her in a decade.. :) We noticed a common side effect of her getting the hiccups whenever we changed her diaper. One day I jokingly said that the first time she ever came home from a date with the hiccups, her boyfriend had better start running.
My friend designed this, I did the front- and backend. It's just plain old HTML/CSS, using Jade for the views and Sass for the CSS, with some Bootstrap components. The grid especially was a great help.
I hope that is sarcasm :-)
"In the documentary The September Issue, Anna Wintour systematically rejects the ideas of her creative director Grace Coddington, seemingly with no reason aside from asserting her power."

Having watched it, t's entirely possible that they cut the explanatory bits to frame Wintour as even more cold as she is in public persona. I wouldn't be surprised.

But in any case, she's the Editor-in-Chief, which makes her the final filter. She's goes a lot by her hunch which is based on taste, a palette that revitalized Vogue and kept it relevant in the fashion industry. Taste is hard to justify.

In such cases, I don't think it's so much about people not digging creativity so much as the idea isn't there. That's just part of being creative. Sometimes you think you're doing interesting work and it's actually not as good as you think it is.
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Or he could work for a decent enterprise shop and spend the excessive part of "long hours" executing his vision on his projects.
The writing had me laughing and my interest piqued.

"What is Henry thinking? Why is he looking at me like that? Drink your milk, Henry."

"His intellect is like that of a sentient grapefruit."

Edit: A word
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Are many people using so few aws services that they are able to move to google? It seems like a hassle to use google for VMs and file storage, while having to still use amazon for all the other services google doesn't offer.
We don't though. It's rounding error compared to things like the characteristics of the founders, and what they're working on.
1) Government-run schools are not free.

2) The educators' intentions may be good, but the results are much more important.

3) The politicians do not fund things, they appropriate money from tax receipts.

4) There are many defenders of the public school system who justify it on the basis of creating a 'shared experience' for the citizenry, which sounds quite collectivist. Why would singing national anthems and pledges of allegiance be so common in schools around the world, if not for statism?

5) The government schooling system has historically been used as a tool of oppression against minorities; it would be naive to believe that politicians and bureaucrats suddenly stopped using the schools to achieve their ends .
You've raised some interesting points and I don't know enough to know if this is correct (other than what you are referring to and I don't even come close to knowing how to vet anything on this). But I do know that currently Mandela is seen as a saint (just watching the news last night alone would tell you that).

So I wonder if anyone with mainstream credibility has written or will write some definite document that confirms or denies what people are saying on either side of this issue?
English is my second language and even I know that "anal" is not meant here the way you think it is.

What, do you somehow think that you will get anal sex from this setting?

...
"pea-souper" was a common term

Certainly, when I was a kid, a trip into London was an adventure. You knew when you were near the centre of town because the buildings were all coal black.
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Runs entirely on the Common Language Runtime: the .NET VM. So no native code is used.
>> "how do we make students do what we want and perform the way we want"

I've never, ever heard it put that way by people pushing educational reform or by educators themselves. "How do we help children learn better?", that one comes up quite a lot but is rather different.

>> I have NEVER seen the question "how do we encourage students behave in ways that we do not expect".

It doesn't seem like a useful question to me.

>> What does this signal?

Very little.
This is the same bull*t that is thrown at Castro, Che Guevara, and many others. You can't make a revolution without guns, when the other side has all the power and lots of guns as well. Almost all independence wars (and I say almost, because there's this nice dude Gandhi, but I'm not sure it was an actual war) were fought with weapons, not with flowers and nice thoughts. If you're from the US you should know better, considering that your Constitution clearly states (paraphrasing) that you have a right to bear arms, in case the government tries to take away your freedoms.
Web developers have historically tended to write shitty UA detection logic en masse, which has in turn incentivized browser makers to carefully craft UAs to break as few of them as possible. Basically, avoiding the all-too-common "this site requires IE6 or higher" message when you visit a site in IE11. The same situation would likely develop with the proposal above, which is essentially no different from the original intent for UA strings. The most viable option would be for all browser makers to just simultaneously disable them. Like a band-aid; right off!
Certainly not. Only a fraction of them will have the determination and intelligence required to turn a problem into a startup. And some of those will be unlucky. But more of the 1000 will succeed starting from that rule than any other.

This is not one of those cases where founders and investors' interests are opposed.
Your point of view is incredibly short-sighted.

The ASIC revolution has turned the tide of energy wastefulness of Bitcoin, and continues to do so. What formerly required a motherboard, connected to a 350w PSU, and a high-powered video card that would (ok I don't know how much of the PSU's amps it actually drained), can now be dwarfed by a 40w or 80w draw. There is almost no point in running a GPU farm today, and around March, if the BTC price is stable until then, it will make more sense to buy BTC on the market than to run these machines. But today it's profitable.

Think of it this way: once all of the coins are minted, the only thing left to protect with all of that hashpower will be the tx fees. If people don't want to pay the fees, then the miners won't get paid, fewer people will be willing to hash, the transaction volume may even have to go way down, and no, you don't need free electricity in order to make it worthwhile.

I have two 5GH/s BFL Jalapenos and yes, they're only making about 0.2BTC or $200/mo at current BTC prices, but they add about $10/mo to my electricity cost in total. That means it even pays for my high speed internet connection, for the time being. I don't know if I'd recommend it to a newcomer, due to the difficulty of actually getting that kind of hardware (I waited 8mo)

But

Think about how many "web sites" I'd have to "host" before I could get that kind of reliable return from running a server computer in my house 24/7. And as a side benefit, I get to use the computer to provide network services (for a small profit, without sucking any... err having any customers to deal with.)
I said more stable (over time). Not stable compared to conventional currencies.
> That's a technical detail, not a financial one.

Latency of provisioning is time-to-market is financial.

> Sure, you can save a few physical servers by being smarter in allocating load

Saving physical servers isn't the main benefit. Being able to reallocate capacity with minimal delay and staff effort is the issue.
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Commodity prices are always unstable. There's a very good reason that only people with specialized needs write contracts in pork bellies, bbls of oil, or other highly volatile commodities.

BTC is a virtual commodity, and as such it's exceptionally unlikely that it will ever be more stable than other highly volatile commodities.
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Set a different time zone for your residence. I set mine -3 hours from local time. For me the experiment failed though :)
If Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Lavabit, etc can't guarantee privacy from the NSA and the government, I really doubt younited can claim that they can. Without being able to guarantee the privacy aspect of their product, what else exactly do they have?
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My company tends to hire consultants based on certifications without a valid tech screening. It seems to me that a lot of Indian devs have certifications coming out of their ears without really having the skills to back them up.

Other than that, I work with a couple of extremely talented Indian devs that are full time employees of the company. I think the issue is that people jump to India for dirt cheap work, and they get it, but it starts to develop a pattern in your mind. I think if they local hired high school kids for the same pay rates, they'd have the same quality of work.
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Thanks :) I write a ton of CSS every day but I'm still learning JavaScript. Expanding this helped me understand a few things already, I'll go update that right now!
Very true. I'd almost have to write a ton of "synonyms" for each - then again depending on the tuning of that particular song... it's an interesting data / lucene problem.
Not sure how reading books in Thailand is creative. Being counter culture doesn't make you creative.

People react negatively to the "financial independence/lifestyle design" because they suspect you are telling them they are stupid for wanting to build a life the traditional way by working hard, starting a family and saving money for the future.
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Was doing some reading after seeing your comment and stumbled on this State Department site. What it says was new to me (I'm not American). Here it is if anyone else is interested. http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/pcw/98678.htm
Maybe rename it Knopfler

Or maybe Strict,Right On, Meh/Close Enough?
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1) They are free at the point of access, we all pay for them. I'm not sure why you feel the need to point this out as it's a useless distinction

2) Not when we're talking about the subject we're actually talking about they're not. I quote from the OP - "the suppression of creativity and individualism is one of the key goals of the compulsory schooling system". That's what I dispute. It may well be an outcome, and that would be bad and should be changed, but it's disingenuous (to say the least) to ascribe this as a motive.

3) The politicians decide what to fund out of the public purse, yes. Again, useless distinction

4) Is collectivism evil in and of itself? I don't subscribe to this view in the slightest, in case you were wondering, and I've only ever heard a few left-wing talking heads claim that that is what we should be trying to do with schools. Personally I 'justify' it by observing that education is given to people who otherwise would not get it for a variety of reasons, and having a base level of education throughout society being a very Good Thing.

5) It's also verging on conspiracy to ascribe nefarious aims and goals to every person involved in education.