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Computer Science alongside other subjects is a hell of a lot more impactful than most liberal arts classes. I rarely meet non-engineers (or people with some sort of technical training) who know how to think analytically worth a damn. Introducing CS would certainly help this.

And this argument is basically decrying the semantics of "Learn to code". Yes, the term is ambiguous. That's not the point. I believe it's called using layman's terms.
Text-based interfaces trump any GUI-heavy ones like Ableton and Logic when it comes to making the musical creation process open and collaborative. Modern MIDI sequencers weren't designed for portability or remote collaboration, they're simply what electronic musicians are accustomed to using for making their music.

Nonsense. If text-based sharing was so great, why do musicians depend so heavily on MIDI and its successor OSC? The whole point of protocols like these is that they're independent of DAW conventions. Hardly anyone outside of the academy likes writing code to make music; if they need seriously fine-grained control they use something like Max/MSP, Reaktor, PD or Kyma.

I don't think we're near the point where it's common for musicians to be making music with code, but I think it's coming.

Supercollider is ~18 years old and Csound about twice that. Code-based composition made a great deal of sense when almost all DSP processing had to take place offline, and is still great for developing audio software, but I don't ever see code for compoasition appealing to more than a tiny niche of musicians because a) it is so hideously abstract and b) realtime tools are so good.
Net neutrality should be extended to the mobile networks, not dropped for the landline ones. ISPs should be regulated like essential dumb data pipes.
No, it shouldn't start at 0% and shouldn't go to 100%. If I did that then a 4% drop wouldn't register at all. I know Y-axis scams all too well and this isn't one of them. Browser market shares move very, very slowly and on a 0-100 scale all you would see are (almost) flat lines. The story will be lost.
Who in their right mind would want to work on a team of highly-intelligent, socially-challenged, culturally-homogeneous young men whose experience to date is primarily steeped in the casual misogyny, homophobia, and racism of MMORPG chat-channels; dorm-room bike-shedding; and adolescent dude-bro jokes?
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. It looks like the problem and solution don't exactly agree -- if your problem is someone having access to wire details for your bank account who should not, the solution should be fixing that compromise ASAP. Sure, moving your servers could help fix another problem, but it doesn't solve THIS one.
> why we would give the government, which has shown itself to be terribly incompetent with technology issues, the ability to enforce net neutrality?

Because we have no free market in the ISP business. It's close to a sick monopoly, or to cartels which agree on fixing high prices. If the government won't reign it, who will?
Thank you for the news!

My personal favorite UI item: C-x TAB (indent-rigidly) now makes it faster/easier to multiple-indent, much like Sublime.

And for development: the Lisp debugger’s e command now includes the lexical environment.
The structure is highly focused and project-oriented. There isn't really an occasion where one would be likely to ask "Ok, so how am I going to use this in the real world?"

In the beginning, the day is usually split into two parts: frontend and backend. Each day there is a 'microproject' that covers what you learned that day, and each Friday there is a project that covers what you have learned up to that point.
There is very little theory, though the instructors are constantly recommending books and other reading material for things they gloss over.
Towards the end of the course, the frontend and backend lessons are integrated into projects that students complete while pair-programming.
I moved from Mountain View to London and I have to say the whole telecom system is night and day better in the UK. It's embarrassing how the wool has been pulled over the eyes of Americans in terms of believing that the country has good telecom infrastructure and value.

In the UK I pay £10($16)/month for my mobile service on pay-as-you-go vs $70/month on contract in the US (which high limits than I needed, but it was the cheapest I could get). Similarly, I pay £30($50)/month for my FTTC connection from BT, which gives me actual sustained speeds night and day of 75/15mbps up/down vs something like $80/month (and it rose by a dollar or so every single month) for a highly variable 10/2mbps up/down cable from Comcast in Mountain View that suffered heavily during prime time.

Oh, and don't get me started on nationalized healthcare and the willfully ignorant propaganda that has been fed to and swallowed by the American people hook line and sinker.
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It was part joke, part reality. :)
I have to say that I dislike it when someone says Bigcorp was like this, that is what Bigcorp's culture is. Having worked in several bigcorps, they are huge, diverse, and it's impossible for one employee to say that their experience is reflective of the entire company. There are differences from department to department, from team to team, and for the multinational bigcorps, from continent to continent. A warehouse worker for Amazon cannot say that they had the same experience as a merchandising agent, and we can't even start to compare those experiences with that of an AWS devops engineer.

When someone says, "My experience at Bigcorp was like this!", we should always tone it down to read it as "My experience on the whatsit team in the whazzat department at Bigcorp was like this!"

Sorry, just had to get that out there.
Totally. Blamestorming taps focus and ultimately progress towards "how it should be"
There any many paths. This is just one of them. :)
Early horseless carriages didn't sell well, if at all. Consumers weren't making the decision to replace the horse and carriage. Continuous innovation and industry and government did that.

Not until the choice is taken away do consumers (appear to) make a change.

We could all be driving electric cars right now if consumers were making real choices. But we won't see a great number of electrics selling until they become so good that the gasoline car is practically taken off of the table as a viable choice. You can then credit the change to the consumers, but it's really much greater forces at work behind the scenes making it happen.
They have to commit. They have to apply themselves every day. It's not just that programming is a complex topic, but because so much at being good at it is being mechanically efficient at it. I've worked with learning coders who had a bare familiarity with their operating system, nevermind the command prompt.

Not being able to use Ctrl/Cmd-F to quickly locate code snippets in your text editor. Not using keyboard shortcuts...the seconds it takes to move from task to task quickly build up, and so does the frustration and urge to quit.

Everyone wants coding to be about amazing creations and The Future...but a lot of proper coding is just hard work and good habits. When that routine is in place, learning AND producing code is significantly easier.
First, don't refer to them as noobs unless you are trying to degrade them. Second, I recommend Introduction to Systematic Program Design on Coursera. It matches the same intro course for which CompSci students pay Universities thousands of dollars across North America.
A Jedi’s strength flows from the Code. But beware of the dark side. Messy coding, poor indentation, bad structure; the dark side of the Code are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice.
The Myth of the Overqualified Worker
I was in the middle of writing a long-winded reply, but I'd rather just agree to disagree on philosophy and economics. I'm also not the right person to come up with the winning business plan to your scenario (little knowledge of the ISP market other than as a consumer).

And ultimately I probably agree with you about how to deal with the situation right now, in that we shouldn't lose net neutrality when the ISPs are clearly public/private partnerships, not independently operating entities in a free market.

Where we disagree is whether or not it is possible to create the conditions for a truly competitive market primarily by reducing state involvement. I believe it is.

In my opinion, fears of private monopolies are generally unwarranted, that most "natural" private monopolies are flimsy and temporary. I fear more the monopolies created by the government, such as the monopoly that "licensed" physicians hold over what substances we put in our body, who gets to sell us information about our own DNA, who gets to invest in startups ("accredited" investors) etc.

In the long run, I think our freedom is better protected by fighting against artificial monopolies such as these ..
Ah, yes it is? Someone owns that land, and it's not you. And for that matter, you want to see expensive, wait till you have to convince 10,000 property owners individually to let you trench up their gardens.
I wrote this over the course of a weekend, using Inform (http://inform-fiction.org/software/current.html) and GNU Emacs with Inform Mode (http://www.rupert-lane.org/inform-mode/).
Paul Turner explained this really well at this year's Linux Plumbers Conference. The whole talk is fantastic, but the explanation of what pron is describing in particular (and how it could be improved) starts around 8:39: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw#t=519
You might also look at Braess' Paradox[1], which while often applied to traffic planning, tells us that a network of nodes that choose their options selfishly will not result in improved performance when expanding that network (increase in number of possible choices).

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
No to mention the fact that just because you have money for R&D, doesn't mean that there's enough projects and ideas to use that money effectively. Throwing more money at existing projects probably won't make them go faster either.
I see you've inferred I am a "left winger" full of "USA hatred" and a "troll". You've also skillfully defeated arguments I have not made (e.g. blaming millions of deaths or lack of democracy in communist countries on the US).

And having done this you've declared "enough".

Well played.

Incidentally, I love the US and happen to live here. I simply wish the US would stop making really foolish decisions that waste blood and treasure on idiotic adventures which harm its standing in the world. I certainly don't think that any other power, either historical (e.g. the USSR) or speculative (e.g. China or India) is likely to do a better job, or be any "nicer" than the US has been thus far. But we can always do better, and the way to do better is to recognize past mistakes.
Thanks. This is close but off then: The drawing area is evenly divisible by 13 long words (13x32=416). This is exactly the number of registers that were available in the loop above for the MOVEM.L operation (It appears it could have used 14 registers, but I am guessing the extra 32 pixels would have made the drawing area more cramped by reducing the gray whitespace.
I agree with you about media. But I think lack of activism comes down to confusion. Similar to the age of the robber barons, when the American middle class just couldn't make sense of the monopolies and scandals that were forming.

"They knew that all these scandals were somehow a part of the enormous changes that were happening to American society. But they also knew that the new technologies and giant industries were bringing amazing benefits and transforming their world and the way they related to each other. Nobody seemed to be able to understand the true dimensions of what was happening."

From a recent (and very long) Adam Curtis article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/WHAT-THE-FLUCK
As I see it, the point is to set a minimum bar to filter out people who know nothing and end up coming back to complain. Presumably tinkerers who know at least the basic stuff would be willing to put the time into learning/doing the DIY hacking.

To set the bar any higher reeks to me of elitism (i.e. creating an "exclusive" club of "hackers"), which doesn't seem like his intent.
> I'm a huge fan of free markets, but there are market failures requiring some government intervention in the form of contract law, property law and its exemptions, and regulation in specific situations.

I agree that contract and property law need to be enforced - this is a vital component of a free market. But I don't consider that regulation or intervention.

What are the "specific situations" that demand regulation?
It's still worth while noting that Rust’s modus operandi eschews shared memory; to get shared memory between tasks, you've got to be fairly explicit about it.
When the machinery you want to lay out is composed of carbon atoms placed at sub-nanometer scale, 10-20 heavy atoms is like boxing gloves.
"public static void main (String args[])" - that would put anyone off, and for good reason, it's total bollocks. Either "main" is special or it's not, if it is why tell java stuff it already knows. If the jvm wants to run something that's public and called main and has a method signature of string array then why not dispense with all the nonsense - the answer's simple - it's java - the most verbose boiler-plate laden language out there designed for groups of mediocre developers. Despite needing dozens of lines to even basic stuff, it forces people into some form of homogeneity to keep teams of "java certified" developers in jobs.

if you want to learn to program, open Terminal, type ipython and go from there. When lost google stackoverflow, repeat. Forget books, there are way better, more up to date online resources.
If consumers wanted to continue using the horse-and-buggy, they would have continued to buy it. But they didn't. The desired the automobile.

I'm not sure how the notion that "consumers don't decide anything" can really hold water. Consumers are literally the people who allocate their resources to particular goods.

In some cases, external forces remove or enforce particular choices. But I don't know how this implies that consumers can't decide anything.
Wait, 30 years ago? Actually, net neutrality needed substantial government help. The parallel at the time is the long distance market. Read about the history of Sprint, MCI, and the like.

And it goes back further. At one point, you weren't even allowed to connect your own phone to the network, let alone an answering machine; AT&T claimed it was too dangerous. So you had to rent everything from Ma Bell. It wasn't until the Carterphone case in 1968, where the FCC told AT&T to knock it off, that you saw things get better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory_...

As much as I would like anti-trust law to help here, you don't need collusion or a monopoly to ruin net neutrality. As long as you have an oligopoly, which is the general state of the US residential ISP market, then that's plenty. As we see in the article as soon as one ISP starts a shakedown, the other big ones will try the same thing.
My 2 cents (not that anybody asked). I teach computer science at an predominantly black all-girls school in Brooklyn - my students are exactly the demographic that this organization is targeting. And I think its great - the more opportunities we can provide for these girls, the better, and Black Girls Code looks like an organization that has done a lot of good - I'm looking forward to seeing them come to Brooklyn.

But the name does bother me a bit, too. Not because 'racism!', but because while it accomplishes the goal of making it clear that this is a safe space for black girls, it raises the question "am I welcome here?" for anyone who isn't black. And a handful of my students aren't black (they're Hispanic) - afaik, they are welcome there too - from the website it looks like Black Girls Code is looking to provide opportunities for all girls of color - but as a teacher, I'd like to be able to just say to my class, "hey, you should all check out this awesome event/opportunity" without it turning into a discussion about race. Plus, I have no idea whether I, as a white woman, would be welcome there as a volunteer? I'm used to being the only white person in a classroom full of students of color - that's not something that's ever been an issue at school - but at a place called Black Girls Code, I'd have to wonder whether my help might not be wanted.
That's interesting. Apparently, the __defineSetter__ call is still valid in Chrome.

Example http://jsfiddle.net/V53BL
If you (baddox, also my coworker) want to read this book I have it in my apartment.
I wasn't making the argument in 2005 so that comment isn't very helpful. I'll assume you're just focused on the Chinese piece in your acerbic reply.

http://qz.com/160091/china-puts-out-yet-another-credit-marke...
"China’s highly-leveraged and opaque financial system ranks high on the list of threats to global growth"

Or this that shows the recent problems: http://qz.com/72487/shadow-banking-brought-america-to-its-kn...

Finally this two days ago in the NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/business/international/chi...

"Official bank lending has more than doubled since the global financial crisis, growing nearly twice as fast as the overall economy. The even bigger problem, however, appears to come from the rise of a shadow banking system that has allowed a number of companies and individuals, often with political connections, to borrow from state-controlled banks at low interest rates and relend the money at much higher rates to private businesses desperate for credit at almost any price."
Are you calling someone out, specifically?

If the answer or "yes," don't reply.
But there are a whole lot of useful bothersome people [0] that make this country as great as it is. They don't self assemble their rigs and don't have the time and technical ability to protect themselves against a politicized aggressor like like the NSA.

The most important Americans are not the 44 presidents we've had but the millions of Americans who have dissented in the 229 years since the founding of the United States.

Those have participated in the civil rights, women's rights, antiwar, gay rights, labor movement, black power, antiglobalization, tea party, occupy wall street, animal rights, anti-tax movement (since 1765), American revolution, abolition movement, state's rights supporters, environmental movements, transparency movements, anti-NSA spying movement, etc., etc., etc., are the American's that matter. They matter more than all the presidents combined since they are the one's that led this nation to be a leader in the free world. What is being done now is potent enough to prevent future movements from helping us move further into being a more just nation.

[0] http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html
I was trying to figure out how to explain the attitude shift that got me over the "want to learn" hump into actually learning, but I think you just nailed it. Once I started coding, I learned to code. Perhaps the advice is "pick a project (of your own design or someone else's, it doesn't matter) and start working on it."
LifeHacker and similar blogs?
You don't think YouTube & Facebook & iTunes would pony up?
Seems quite interesting. I may give it a try
Ask HN: Chrome listicle blocker extension?
I'd definitely pay $5 for something similar to AdBlocker. Anyone else?
What is your definition of "viable" as it relates to currency?
Autistic 10 yr old boy has "absolute pitch" wants to be a "musician"
I thought it was the other way around, i.e. the telcos were given a monopoly on the wires, in order to avoid a bunch of different companies all running their own cables and turning the streets into an ugly mess. In exchange there is a bunch of regulation such as they are required to provide service to rural areas at a loss.
That was in response to:

> In your example, I bet IBM was still predominantly male despite the anecdotal hiring of a few women that you mention.

Responding to someone's completely unsupported generalization with an anecdote to the contrary is still a step up in the conversation. If you're genuinely interested in improving the rigor of the conversation, perhaps you should reply to the grandparent with, "how do you know?"
What are your biggest barriers to CSS3?
Working on an eBook about CSS3 and just wondering what some of the biggest barriers for people are? Transforms? Animations? Vendor Prefixes? Any feedback would be appreciated? Thanks
No one says it literally. It's embedded in the implications.

The industry is "too white, too male".

White men don't understand the implications or the need for diversity.

White men are dinosaurs, they need to adapt to the new world.

There's a ton of dog-whistle racism and sexism against white men. Unfortunately, that's the 'acceptable' kind of racism and sexism, because many white men are in positions of power and authority (and therefore 'white men' are considered acceptable to criticize as a group - and even those who lack power are lumped in with the tiny elite at the top).

The criticisms that are levied, without proof, against white men in the tech industry, would be treated as evidence of terrible racism and/or sexism if they were levied at other groups.

Unlike other groups white men are just expected to smile and nod and agree with the 'feminists' or 'anti-racists' ... arguing back is taken as proof of guilt.
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Do you think the NSA doesn't either have Microsoft's private certs or has broke then already? I can't be bothered to find a source right now, but they already have all MS source code- so there's that too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3GDPwIuRKI is one of the recordings of the talk. CCC will have others in free formats, if you prefer
Are you in the business of disappearing photos by any chance?
testing: https://www.edx.org/course/harvardx/harvardx-cs50x-introduct...
> I believe that governments ought to put consumer interests first, even though presently they have a track record of doing the exact opposite.

For me, this is the part I'd emphasize, and probably where we could create a great deal of consensus. Whether or not we agree that the government should be interfering for the benefit of the consumer, we definitely agree that it shouldn't be interfering for the benefit of big business.
It used to be so easy:

a) Buy a C-64, TI-99/4A, TRS-80, etc.

b) Turn it on

c) start programming.
This would be a lot more useful if the person writing the blog hadn't copied release notes in one character set into their blog entry in another character set. Tons and tons and tons of borked characters which make it very difficult to actually read what's going on.
Morality matters, and the lack of it is destroying the planet, the economy, and our families.
Why can't you use biology to do what you want there? Proteins have ~0.05nm precision at placing atoms and are programmable in three dimensions and biology is pretty good at working with carbon. It exceeds our genetic engineering ability today, but we're getting better. Semiconductor Research Corp recently put some money towards this: http://www.src.org/newsroom/press-release/2013/521/