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Part of me wants to blame the society we're creating with all these bail outs. I want to say we've created a culture where people have gone to the complete opposite of self reliance to the point where they simply can't accept their circumstance in life might be their own fault

But honestly, when I put that logic up to scrutiny I have to think it's an over reaction. When society thinks this woman is justified then we have a problem but right now I think it's an issue of not reading too much into the actions of an idiot. Anyone who is straight out of college in the current economy and thinks they are entitled to a job is just being foolish.
I think that this is a case of technology progressing faster than society is comfortable with. Whatever problems are created by industrial farming (environmental damage or harm to the animals) will be corrected by some ambitious startup founders who come up with clever solutions.

I find this attitude to be a bit dangerous. Sitting around waiting for some entrepreneur to save the world doesn't strike me as the best solution.

Regarding the bloodiness of farming, Pollan, in _The Omnivore's Dilemma_, doesn't shield the reader from this. In fact, you get a very detailed view of what chicken farming and processing looks like on a sustainable farm. What's most interesting about it is how human Salatin and his family are about it--they understand they are killing things, and that if they don't give themselves some respite from it, they will change for the worse.

The biggest issue I have with technology and farming (particularly the use of chemicals and hormones, not as much with machinery) is that we don't understand the ramifications of what we are doing yet. Consider that at one point in time, we thought it was smart to spray ourselves with DDT. We may not learn what the various herbicides and antibiotics and hormones are doing to us for years to come. One of Pollan's primary points in his writing is that food is too important for us to hand over to technocrats and big business.
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His experience at Leeds is not uncommon.

I originally graduated from one of the better known universities in 1983, and returned to post-graduate study and teaching in 1989. I experienced an even worse scenario then he - teaching as a part-time temporary lecturer at several of the 3rd tier universities (polytechnics).

Even when students turned in work that was totally incoherent (unfinished sentences and half the size of the minimum word count), I wasn't allowed to fail them. This was on modular degree courses, were most (if not all) of the assessment was of such submitted work.

For years I witnessed half the students turn up to class with no recriminations against the non-attendees, and with only half of the actual attendees having read the 1 or 2 articles which were required reading for that class (photocopies of which they had been given previously, so they didn't have to find the original journals themselves).

The overall level of education and comprehension was appalling. I realised that pursuing such a career was a path to frustration.

In 1997 I decided I couldn't be part of this sham any more. I have friends who had gone through the same experiences as I, and they too decided to quit and find new careers. The story of one of them was even written up in a national newspaper ten years ago.

I have other friends who teach only at post-graduate level. They are shocked by the lack of basic maths, basic grammar and basic essay-writing skills of the graduates they teach. And in their institutions they too provide the students with all the reading matter, so that these post-graduate students don't have to find their way round a library or find out anything for themselves.

Degrees from UK universities were now meaningless, and it was only a matter of time before the wider world found out.
What will probably happen is that employers and/or students will realise that in the majority of work-related degrees the degree itself doesn't indicate anything in terms of skills or competencies.

Several of my neices and nephews have gone to university. Whilst I went there to study, their principal purpose is to party.

My partner is Thai, and I know several of his family and friends who graduated from Thai universities. Some have completed post-graduate qualifications. Yet they would never read a book that was more complex than Harry Potter (even in Thai). Nor would they ever go to a museum or art gallery.

Degrees have just become something that most people do either as a way to move out of home safely and/or a stepping stone to a job. For most graduates there is no sense of education being important in itself.
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blogs like engadget or niche blogs written by experts already do original reporting (going to conferences, taking pictures, etc.) They'll be more of them when the Post or the NYT won't be there.
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If she does not find a job, maybe it's her fault, not the college's.

She was not forced to go to that college, and she should had done some research about the institution before enrolling, if it happens to be so bad as she claims (that should be confirmed looking at other students).
So that college forced her to choose this education ?

I'm sure she would have shared her income with them as well if she did find a job, after all they are responsible and should get a cut of the benefits as well as the blame for the risks.

Choosing your education is your own responsibility and if you choose a path for which there are not enough jobs in the area where you graduate you can do a whole bunch of things:

- learn something new

- take a job that may pay less and does not match your education

- move to a place where work is available

If the college can not follow up on its promises made in better times because the economy has tanked in the intermediate period then you have plenty of options, suing them does not seem to be the most productive way of going forward.

It's the one way in which you probably can just about guarantee that any employer that has heard about this is NEVER going to hire you. They'll already know you have a history of frivolously suing parties that you have a relationship with, it would't take a lot of imagination to think that you could be suing your would be employers next.
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Academia can often be a good place to do that, but it depends on exactly what you are working on. I don't know of anywhere else where I could get paid to work on what I find interesting (but I am not a computer scientist).

One thing you're missing here is the collaborative aspect of academia. Most people work much better when they're constantly in contact with other people who are experts in their areas of interest. In many subjects, you just have to be in an academic environment to get that, since there isn't a culture of online discussion. For example, there is very little high quality discussion of philosophy online. (For whatever reason, the best philosophers just don't engage in it.)

If you're trying to do serious intellectual work, don't kid yourself that you can work out for yourself whether you've got it right or not. You need other experts to tell you when you're full of crap.
from the article:

A mysterious, single page website,
brennende-autos.de (Burning Cars of Berlin) [...]

what's "mysterious" about that website? If you click on "Impressum & Warum Brennende-Autos.de?" you get contact information including a physical address and a phone number (as required by German law). And the "mysterious" source of their data is revealed: "Quelle: Polizei Berlin" (source: Berlin police department).
for anyone that didnt read the article, I used the headline straight from the article, he didnt really "win" as techcrunch didnt "participate" it was a default ruling.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1134

http://www.crunchnotes.com/2009/08/03/update-on-sam-sethi-we...
I don't believe that is necessarily the deontological response. Remember that morality is mostly a tool for exclusion; more than one moral choice often remains.

A deontological person can still practice triage. Without more information (such as published policies, prior agreements, patient consent, etc.) it is hard to say if the question is even really a moral dilemma. If you are standing on the street and two people get hit by a bus, deciding which one to help is not a question of morality. By helping either, or both, you are acting morally, and perhaps even supererogatorily. Deciding whether or not you should go kick them while they're down, though, is a moral question. It would be moral (though not particularly praiseworthy) to refrain from doing so, and it would be clearly immoral to kick them.

Interestingly, Catholics actually believe in the idea of a moral safe harbor. That is, if you've given serious and reasonable consideration to a moral question, and act in accordance with your earnest conclusion, then you will be held blameless regardless of the ultimate righteousness of the action.
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"die autonomen" usually are germans, not immigrants. they're disillusioned youth too, but kinda like white trash kids that read too much Marx.
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"Being born the son of a dark skinned immigrant in Europe is - in spite of all the politically correct mumblings - not the same as being born 'white'"

So do non-white non-muslims participate in these riots?

Motivation for question ==

(1)if the riots are a protest against racial discrimination dark skinned people of all religions would riot, as happens in the USA occasionally

(2) if the riots are a protest against religious discrimination one would imagine muslims/non christians riot, dark skinned or not

or (3) is it the case that if you are darkskinned and muslim you get discriminated against (but, not say, if you are darkskinned and christian), in which case non-white muslims riot?
Sounds more like they're talking about left wing extremists, which, if it's anything like Italy, are definitely home grown, rather than immigrants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Brigades

For example.

What is this doing on HN, though?!
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I'm not sure about source-processing tools picking up these changes. I have heard that the annotation processor is very, very powerful in java, but hardly ever used.
I think it is neither, it just so happens that the majority of the disillusioned youths in France have a few things in common, most are 'coloured', most are muslims.

This makes it very easy for politicians to tap in to the fear factor present in the older and the not so well educated portions of their respective societies because these people are different and do bad things.

If it were religious I think the attacks would not be against property the way it is now, if it would be racial there would be other overtones. That does not mean that the risk that it will become that way isn't present though.

I think it is mostly an expression of frustration by the 'have nots and probably never will haves' vs the people that can afford the goodies, such as cars.

Interesting aside, the current French Prime Minister Nicholas Sarkozy rode to his current position on his 'tough' stance during all this.
I'm pretty sure some of that audio track was taken from the same audio track that Roller Coaster Tycoon used. Its definitely fake, it loops.
Farming always has been dirty and bloody. It is maybe more cynically bloody because we use ways of killing animals directly taken from extermination camps, and maybe eating meat nearly every day is not worth it.

And there is no such thing as "way of progress" unless you say history has a goal (set by god?). Progress depends on many factors amongst which technology (otherwise our "progresses" in killing technology would have already eradicated humanity). Technology is a tool with a lot of complex implications: sadly, it is more often used to free powerful people from their dependence on dominated people than the contrary.
It's not about failing students. Sure, students could be failing because your education is poor. That was not the case. It's about challenging students to the point where those with the intellectual prowess and discipline and the rest go on to study something that more closely matches their abilities (and the university should help them with that).

Debt is never a serious problem in the Netherlands. The government interest rates are so low that if you loan the maximum and put the money in bonds or a high interest savings account you'll actually turn a profit.
Interesting. Thanks. Sounds more like class warfare than religious/racial protests.
As I say above, a "real" word processor is much more than a text editor with WYSIWYG formatting. Anyone who works on reasonably complex documents would expect their software to keep track of cross references to tables, figures, sections, pages, etc. This is a feature than simply doesn't matter when writing a letter or a CV which is probably what most people actually use a word processor for. But Word 2007 has a whole tab devoted to just this, and another whole tab devoted to change tracking. The people who need it really need it, and ultimately they're the ones that decide what word processor the organization uses. You might get them to switch to OpenOffice, but Google Docs is long way from ready for prime time.
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Half-sentence summary: It's the magic numbers, silly!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)

The same was that almost everyone would do it.
Wait... so creating scenarios where the chances of getting diseases is bad? So cities are bad? Hospitals? MRSA was produced in hospitals, are all these ideas bad?

I believe these ideas need work. The human race tends to blindly run in a direction until it hits a wall, so our current wall is bird flu and swine flu. Sure, we need to improve our course of direction or find ways to mitigate against these diseases but I don't think it helps trying to paint this "running" as being more "immoral", "wrong" or "greedy" than it would otherwise be.
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In the real world its the other way around :)
The leftists have a website.
"10 minutes to setup". Is that like creating a stackoverflow clone in a weekend?
Because we're in a forum full of IT people, not farmers.

I guarantee you there are places (on the Internet and in real life) where farmers are talking about the flaws of any number of software and hardware. This just isn't one of them.
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Wonder why Sethi didn't file suit in California as well.
How retarded, look at Clojure instead
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"For most people" -> how do you know? Do you have some statistics? ;-)
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Actually I'd argue that with C, you have to start managing memory manually before you even get to malloc. The abstraction advantage of Java over C (not that I think Java is necessarily a better intro language) is that you can generally explain the syntax in abstract concepts and then use it like you'd expect. With C, it's far more likely to encounter scenarios that don't fit a simple model of understanding.

For example, unless you're concerned with specific performance issues, you're not likely to care how a string is implemented in Java. It's difficult to use strings in C without understanding memory. Without understanding when strings are mutable and when they aren't, what null-terminated means, how "%s" works, and such you will quickly run into some unexpected behavior and will likely just trial and error until you get something that seems to work. When you understand that C is a syntax for allocating and manipulating memory, it tends to make a lot more sense.
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That, and a large number of 'hangers on' that have little else to do and are impressionable.
Thanks for the reply.

Just looked up at Leeds on Wikipedia - I'd assumed it was a fairly mid-range institution (and so I thought there'd be other institutions the same or worse, but many which were better). Just found out it's in the Russell Group. Christ. I (partially) retract my earlier respones.

I study CS (just finished first year) in the UK at a institution that usually places in the top 10... now you mention it, a lot of students do match those described by you and others. However, it's easy to ignore these people, since they never go to lectures (I have friends on other courses who say they attend on average 1 lecture a term...) It's trite, but with university, I feel you get out what you put in.

The opportunity to mix with the people who are bright and motivated (and they do exist) is great, as is having a library full of free programming books. For every student who only goes to party, there's one in the CS building late at night writing a Scheme parser in Haskell. (OK, the ratio's probably more like 3:1, but you get my drift).

On the other hand, I feel like I've learned about as much from pursuing independent projects than I have from my course, though the resources on campus make such projects easier.

BTW, a large part of me is thinking about dropping out of university at some stage and startup a startup - read too much pg - so I've been thinking about the value of university lately.

CS is a bit of an odd subject in this regard - with a lot of subjects^, I'd guess a majority of students don't expect their degree to be useful in their future careers (how many history grads become history teachers?), so it's understandable that many would just see their degree as a career ticket. I do actually hope to learn useful stuff on my course, but I'm not sure if I'd learn more by dropping out and starting up.

*Exceptions I can think of - Law, Medicine, and possibly foreign languages, Engineering, and Economics. Also more 'vocational' subjects like Nursing.
Unfortunately this is becoming far too common. The marketing team thinks "hey we need to have a 'proper' name for this product" and they end up alienating and confusing their user-base. 99% of customers know they they want to register a domain and not buy a nsWebAddress.

In my experience this happens when a company starts hiring marketing and sales people that are so far removed from the typical buyers and they eventually have no language in common. It's also a good indicator of a business that is doomed in the not too distant future.
I'm not sure, but I think he could expand the legal rulling to other european countries as well. So Arrignton won't be allowed to visit those other countries as well.
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In my business, the sharing feature of Google Apps trumps all of the missing features that you mention.

It does mean that the use cases for Google Apps are all subtly different from their Office counterparts. Yes, the spreadsheet isn't for classic spreadsheet applications (like financial projections or heavy-duty number crunching); it's better suited as a kind of HTML table display that's easy to update and can do simple sums. The word processor is like a very fancy WYSIWYG HTML editor -- but, in a world where almost nothing that I type is destined for print, that feels quite appropriate to me.

Very few people in my company generate invoices or POs. When I did so as a freelancer I used special-purpose web apps.

There are also special-purpose equation editors (Mathtype) for the two people in your organization who actually use them on a regular basis. (I used them far more in school than I ever did in real life. I managed to work half a decade as a research physicist without touching one more than twice. Sheets of paper are a marvelous invention. ;)
Isn't that gawker media & other similar blogs always do (more or less)?
If she's finding someone else to blame before she even gets a job, imagine how quickly she'll find someone else to blame as soon as something goes wrong on the job. Maybe it's just as well. I don't know if I want to work with someone like that.

One way an IT job is like real life is that you need to find a way to solve your problems. Her solution won't work. Not much of a problem solver, huh?
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I find it particularly interesting that most of the businesses covered here run at a profit margin of about 10%. I guess it is safe to say that many of us believe that the margins of successful software/Internet businesses can be much higher than that. At the same time, when seeing these examples, I wonder how realistic this is for the average profitable startup.
I always disliked this way of using OOP. If you use data classes so much, why don't you make an actual DataClass and be done with it?
It's the entitlement problem. If you don't get what you think you have a right to in life sue someone.
retarded is too harsh :) however the same can be accomplished through macros in a way that is better integrated with the language (when debugging lombok generated code lombok tags are not of much use i would imagine, forcing one to understand the generated code).

something like:

(defdata mountain
name :setter :getter
latitude :getter
etc ...)

might not be too hard to implement on top of clos (or on top of defstruct - but clos has the advantage of already having flexible accessors) not sure about clojure.
Well, I don't think he's "trying to get us to use what they like?"

I think he's writing an article with 'tude... and that can have a 'hot' link-bait title :/

That is the future of "journalism", is it not?
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