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I think you could extend this observation even further. Business culture has a habit of sh*ting on new knowledge as being useless because businessmen often lack these knowledge yet still manage to succeed. An example of this is the general disdain for innovative approaches.

They fail to realize that the reason they're succeeding is not because traditional business know-how is useful but rather because crony capitalism allows you to succeed without innovation. However this advantage disappears once a market disrupter appears. We are currently in a golden age of innovation, but that won't last forever.
> Sure, Gates/Jobs/Zuckerberg/etc didn't graduate college. However, you have to remember three important facts: they all at least started college, they all stayed until they had an insane success on their hands and they all met (or at least worked with) their cofounders in college.

Zuckerberg is not an example of why one should go to college. He is an example of the difference between college as-an-experience[0] and the diploma that one gets after graduating. In some fields, a diploma is important if not required, similar to a certification, and in others it isn't. If you want to go to college, it's important to know exactly what you want to get out of it, if the diploma itself has little value in se in your field.

Unfortunately, I think these two points are oftentimes conflated, to the point where some people completely write college off as having no value, when a more appropriate conclusion may be that college has value whether or not you receive a diploma.

[0] both a learning experience and cultural one
> algebra/calculus, SQL, OOP, DRY, writing reusable libraries, the OSI stack/model, some basic data structure/algorithms (trees, searches/sorts, graphs, Djikstra's algo, TFIDF, etc), complexity analysis, some basic design patterns (pub/sub, consumer/producer, MVC, DI/IOC

The stereotypical 18-year-old nerd has at least some high-level understanding of _all_ of this from web sites, magazines, pet projects and now from MOOC's. As a teen, you may not get things right the first time and move at a relatively slow pace but refactoring code in different languages and learning from various online resources add up over the years. At least a few fresh high school grads get full-time programming jobs at respectable companies.

> "elitist CS grad that wants to believe his time in university was worth it and well spent"

Efficiency isn't all-or-nothing and I think open credit-granting exams would make college much better (disclosure: I'm in France where the situation is much worse than in the US).
And they still went, and they still benefited. If anything, that's just an argument to still go to college, do something amazing while you're there, and drop out when it becomes a huge success, which I don't think anyone would disagree with.

If anything that's a great argument for college. College was so helpful for them and provided such a great environment, that they didn't even need to stay there for the whole 4 years.
An example of this is the general disdain for business know-how in the form of say an MBA

Our issue isn't with business skills and the people who have them. Those skills are really fucking important.

It's the entitlement that seems to come with elite MBAs that is irritating. They tend to think they know more than they do.

Also, as one who has talked with people looking to be business co-founders, there's a lot of "49er syndrome" (4s who think they're 9s). Look, man, I'm a Tech 8. I might work with a Biz 7+. Biz 6? Probably not. Biz 7 means that after a week of legwork, you're already deciding among term sheets. Biz 8 means you can get a half-hour conversation with anyone, except perhaps a head of state where it might be hit or miss. A typical top-5 MBA graduate is only a Biz 5 or 6; not unimpressive, but not what I'm looking for if I'm going to deal with the stress of a startup.
This was written by a state communist, so you can imagine what "structure" she advocated, and the anarchists immediately replied with The Tyranny of Tyranny

http://www.libcom.org/library/tyranny-of-tyranny-cathy-levin...
>At Github it appears such a question can't be uttered, because a 'no' response will cause a person's code to be reverted by a scorned suitor (and management do nothing).

Don't generalize based on a single incident, especially since she was already apparently-openly dating someone else when that person asked.
Are you talking about the walmart/mall in Manassas?
Ben Horowitz "How to Minimize Politics in Your Company"

http://www.bhorowitz.com/how_to_minimize_politics_in_your_co...

Great article and very relevant here.
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I think, realistically, a spouse of a founder might be very involved in a company and decision making. Depending on the exact nature of the relationship, this is probably inevitable, very common, and not necessarily undesirable. There is a reason we give the president's wife a special title even though technically no one voted for her, many married couples are a team in the professional arena as well.
Bob Martin wrote about a variant on this point a while ago:

> I'm sorry for your impending failures. I'm sorry that you're going slow and just don't know it yet. And I'm very sorry that when you finally brute-force your way to some modicum of success that you will credit your bad behavior, and recommend it to others. God help us all, because you won't.

http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2013/03/05/TheStartUpTrap...
In Ireland it rains a lot. The one big mall built recently in the city I live in is always busy. Why? Because you won't get wet going from shop to shop. Not a single vacant space. You get a bit of daylight from a strip of glass in the roof. Typical food court, multiplex, big name grocery store, car valeting, farmer's market once a week, clothing retailers, there are very few things you can not get there - the only annoyance is that the DIY, home improvement, outdoorsy stuff, car stuff, electrical and electronics, is across the road and over a bit in this weird appendage space :( Also chock-a-block.

If you have kids this is doubly important, you don't get wet! (Or cold I suppose). If traditional retail could solve this then well done them, but how? I'm not keen on the sterile everything-is-a-chainstore atmosphere of indoors malls but you can't argue with the convenience and the not getting wetness. I would prefer multi-storey car parking though, I hate the sprawl of these enormous car parks, so ugly! why not build a tall multi-storey car park and lots of nice green spaces with trees and ponds and fountains?
These feminists are out of control.
Like spoilt todlers who have never been told "no"... they just keep pushing boundaries and getting more and more petty and stupid by the minute.

These women arent really the problem... its the men that never say no to them that are.
And the idiots that upvote this kind of thing and give it attention.
Isn't that a bit reaching, though? Jealousy is a personal feeling, not a reaction based on societal and political frameworks. Anecdote: gay men in long-term relationships are jealous of their partners too, and their reactions to perceived "enemies" are similar to that of people in heterosexual couples.
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The server load is due to using Latex for the typesetting. Is it surprising that publication quality typesetting takes more resources than the ragged right text that this puts out? No.

Is it surprising that processing inline TeX equations or Bibtex citations takes more resources? No.

Compare and Contrast:

Gitprint's pdf of README: https://gitprint.com/jgm/gitit/blob/master/README.markdown

Gitit's html export of README: http://gitit.net/README?printable

If I don't care about the quality of the text layout gitit's printable html page is equivalent to the gitprint pdf. Adding Merriweather to default.html is trivial. But as another commentator pointed out maybe using a new trendy font might not be the best choice if you want decent unicode coverage; just in case one of your users is among the "minority" of people who were unsatisfied by the basic ASCII charset.

Moreover comparing gitprint's markdown support to pandoc as if it is apples to apples is silly.
Mphf, here I thought I'd learn how to master it so I'd finally be able to let it go. No such luck I guess.
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Ha ha. Some of my favorites (like Marbles or Confetti Factory from After Dark 2.0) would be pretty tricky with only CSS.
> I'm planning to move Perl to the same model.

What Perl tools will you use to do that?

If you would be willing to chat about such issues on the IRC channel #perl6 on freenode[1] (usually busiest from around 8am to 8pm EST), especially with FROGGS and/or lizmat, you could help the Perl 6 team as they specify and implement package management that tackles these issues (multiple compiler versions, multiple module versions, alternative implementations by different authors, CPAN/PAUSE, github, local repos, and so on).

[1] https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/perl6
We should try this: http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_ca...
Problem is my installation was Windows 8: Single Language, not Core. I tried ei.cfg methods, not helpful. I found my key through a tool. But it does not even allow me to enter. With ei.cfg tricks I could enter but it did not accept. In Pro, it did not even ask for a key and said that I just can't install. Even supplying it with ei.cfg does not help.
> It is a story about all of them, I did not say Secure Boot caused this problem, I said I disabled it to be able to install Windows 7.

Suppose that a user buys a Windows 8 machine, goes to a website, and downloads malware that slows down the machine and makes it unusable. Finally, a local teenager wipes the machine, disables Secure Boot, and installs Windows 7.

One would hardly say that this is a "f-cked up story of" malware, Secure Boot, and Windows 8. Secure Boot is merely incidental, and has nothing to do with the issue of malware on Windows 8.
This is very interesting. I like the idea of having an app where I can go and relive any day of life. But I guess it could be a treasure trove of information for people with malicious intent - stealing your identity, learning your secret passwords and such?

I am the kind of person who feels the need to record what is happening in my life and more importantly how I am feeling at that point in my life. So it is kind of attractive to have an app where I can go back and see what was happening on any given day.
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Talk to the Archive Team about that...
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> And you're suggesting that therefore I, too, should make less money, even though my choice not to do so will make no difference in the world.

It's great that you may one day be powerful enough to help with equality. But in the meantime you are going to be fine with gaining that power by abusing your privilege? How's that equality coming along then?

Doing the right thing isn't a fucking cost/benefit analysis. What you (apparently) participate in is the fucking problem [0]. The next time you think, 'why aren't there more women in tech', go look in a fucking mirror.

> Morality is a bitch.

Yes but I at least protest those things. And I do volunteer, and donate. Apparently because the world is horrible we can all just be passive about the injustices we can fix. Go fuck yourself.

[0] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/319212/Why_Women_Quit...
I would genuinely like to meet this high school grad you speak of, because only the most talented of students in my freshman year even knew a fraction of that stuff. Maybe MOOC's will change it, but not before the "learn to hack on javascript" classes aren't most of the offerings. The only theory focused course I've done that seemed good was Stanford's DB course. Hopefully the Georgia Techs and Stanfords of the world can change that soon enough.
^ (He's the author)
The only losing move is not to play.
I think the hate for Monsanto is way, way, way overrated. Honestly I still haven't read a super compelling reason to hate them.

All the talk about evil lawsuits against poor farmers who got accidentally contaminated seems to be FUD. The big recent case was a guy deliberately trying to skirt the rules.

If farmers would like to use non-Monsanto seeds then they are free to do so. If they'd like to use (arguably) superior seeds that have to be re-purchased every year then they are also free to do so.

If people think it's bullshit that Monsanto can prevent their seeds from being re-used then that's not insane, but I'd politely disagree. It's not terribly different from copyright protection on software. The way I see it is we could revoke that protection and then the seeds wouldn't be developed because it wouldn't be profitable and we'd be stuck with the old stuff. Or we could give protection to enable the development of new seeds and then farmers have the choice to use the old stuff or new stuff. And if the new stuff is so much better than the old stuff that using the old stuff isn't financially feasible then I'd be inclined to call that a success.

Maybe someone can convince me to grab my pitchfork and join the mob but so far I'm just not seeing it.
Jobs did matriculate at Reed. He was allowed to hang about and audit on campus for quite a long time after he formally dropped out, though.

The problem, though, is that increasing US college costs increasingly rule out going to college to find yourself and maybe leaving without a degree. An increasing proportion of undergraduates must graduate in a timely fashion, with a degree that employers care for, or else they'll be crushed by undischargeable college debt for the foreseeable future. Obviously this wasn't a risk for Gates or el Zuck, but they're increasingly less typical in this.
I know its not the point of the post but there is a small error:
Neither of Blender's render engines is physically-accurate.
(And only 1 is physically based.)
You need to use something like Luxrender (it can be used with Blender) if you want a physically unbiased render.
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Apple's been getting slightly worse of late, though. They're spreading themselves too thin.
No, they are crazy. Reverting someone else's changes without explaining why is crazy. No one is telling these people they can't explain their actions.

If any of these people has a disagreement with a co-worker over the co-worker's changes, it's their duty as a fellow employee to explain to the co-worker why they disagree, or at least explain to the manager why they disagree with the change, so that the manager can explain it to the co-worker. But just making the change and then threatening to quit... that is most definitely crazy.
this site sucks dick
I always wondered about pre-approved AirBnBs, which based on the screenshot is what this one was. I usually don't pick them because I feel that if a host doesn't actively screen, that it's a very bad sign. And by actively screen I mean look at my facebook, twitter, etc.
Didn't Zuckerberg attend Harvard?
I think that part of the appeal of these elite schools is the filtering system that you have to go through in order to be even offered a place there, very high grades and extra curricula achievements.

It wouldn't surprise me much if "Dropped out of Harvard" is better to have on a resume than "Graduated top of class in community college".
launching educational campaigns to use the stairs

Sounds great until you compare accidental injury statistics from falls on stairs vs. elevators.
I studied literature, and guess what? I have less trouble with office politics than my peers, because I spent thousands of hours learning how to research and deconstruct a piece of writing to understand hidden influences and intents.

Do you use email in your job? If so, the ability to read and write well is a useful skill. This is a skill you can hone at even a mediocre college.
What's Adria Richards up to these days? That's an ideal case study.
> What does that make me I wonder?

It only matters if you're still asking that rabbit hole of a question.

> Do you mean consequentialism in the philosophical sense - as in, to be contrasted with deontology?

I suppose that's accurate enough for this context. The LW threads where consequentialism has been discussed[1] are probably the only way to get a good idea of what I mean by it.

I'd probably be better served by using the word less in favor of a phrase like "longterm rationality".

There is no good, simple to understand word or phrase that gets across the idea of "ethical strategy is more important than anything, and that doesn't mean what you think it means, because my strategy involves willfully, permanently altering my identity whenever necessary (and practical)". The common language of ethics is stuck in the early 20th century (at best) and its pre-computational aspirations.

[1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Consequentialism
Wow...I hope that toxic github employee was fired for that.
Ah, I am not an expert on single language versions of Win8. It is not surprising that they won't let you install or activate any other version of Win8 using this key, but the installer just failing instead of prompting for a key looks like a bug. But as I said above the solution you found isn't too bad anyway.
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Except history, in Silicon Valley (http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/how-silicon-valley-became-the-m...) as elsewhere, is unequivocally on Jo Freeman's side. No actual revolution (as opposed to imagined ones) ever managed to remain structureless, and those that aspired to be the most structureless quickly became as oppressive as the most tyrannical ones.
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A few years ago I went to a mall in Stuttgart. The interesting thing was I could have been in any mall in America. The layout, architecture, parking garage, etc., was right out of the US, and even the advertising was all in English. It's like eating at McDonald's in Tokyo. What's the point?
I think Ministry of Funny Walks has more going for it. After all they want to control the direction we go thru input and how they walk us there, be it newspaper media or other tricks would only work for the targeted group and then there are always exceptions to the rules.

But if they fail to get budgeting for research over the years is when you know they are failing at this approach.
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I have that machine, and I run Linux on it. His post was quite valuable, and that was obviously a bit of a horror on Lenovo's part, but it looks as if a subsequent BIOS update fixed it -- or at least I got a newer version of the BIOS than he refers to and I didn't get bricked.

The machine has a terrible single-button trackpad arrangement, but is otherwise fabulously good as a Linux development box.

(I do also run Windows, in a VM rather than dual-booting)
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Basically my feeling is that malls are "over" for people who are too poor to shop anywhere but the deep discount world of Walmart. If we get minimum wage raised to a high enough place that they can actually pay for anything more than the barest minimum to pay rent and eat and whatnot, then they'll have the funds to start shopping at places that actually have nice things and well-paid employees.

I live in Seattle. There's a lot of malls, shopping districts, and other kinds of collections of shops. There's also a lot of money in the town, to support all these stores of all sizes.

Malls are dying all over because money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people. People who want their malls to thrive should be campaigning for a living wage for everyone (or eve better, a basic income) - because all those people will have enough money to happily buy all their pretty trinkets.
No problems here, I just don't dual boot. I recently got a new machine at work and the first thing I did was wipe it and install Slackware. It was my maiden voyage with UEFI which was a pain in the ass but no big deal.
Actively encourage how? Genuinely curious, do you get a joint bonus if you marry a cow-orker or something?
The biggest stepping stone is interfacing into a virtual 3D world. Unless you can make the "controls" as seamless as possible, it's not going to catch on. This involves finding ways to access information quickly and making the experience intuitive and not clunky.
your average college that's not Harvard or Stanford

I don't know why you think the intellectual tenor would be different at those colleges. My respect for Stanford took a major hit when I saw this: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1907908-stanford-band-for...

There are pockets of intellectualism at any college, but the truth is that American culture is just not very intellectual, and among the business elite there's a pronounced antiintellectualism. You're going to find more philistines than intellectuals at any college in the U.S. and, yes, that includes the top ones. Technology people aren't an exception to this. The old Silicon Valley nerds had at least an interest in history and literature and art. They weren't experts, but they agreed that it was important. The new business-oriented pseudonerds? Narrowly specialized in one technical field ("social graph logistics") and complete ignoramuses about everything else.

Does that mean one shouldn't go to Harvard or Stanford? Of course not. It's great for the resume and there are a lot of connections to be made. But if you think that you're going to be discussing high intellectual concepts with most people meet-- or that the people bringing the connections and the people with high intellectual interests will have any overlap whatsoever-- you'll be disappointed.
VRML wasn't rubbish; the hardware to implement it was (at the time).

As for 3D interfaces, what do you call a RL coffee mug, door handle, gear shift, or paper book? We use 3D interfaces so much in everyday life that they dissolve into the background.
Our local movie theatre (suburb of London) does much more than just show the latest blockbusters these days. They have special, low priced, early morning showings for families with kids, late night 18+ showings for movies with lower ratings, autism friendly showings, showings with subtitles, a lot of movies that previously wouldn't be shown much here (Bollywood movies in particular), and of course the 3D movies are helping them, as well as showing live transmissions of operas and plays from various locations around the world and a variety of other events. They've also put in two rows of larger, comfier seats in all their screens, that goes for a higher price, and I expect to see more of that... The theatres too are reinventing themselves.
The word is "women". Would you call their male co-workers "boys" in the same context?
Alright, let me rephrase:

I personally suspect coastal California got indoor shopping malls...