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The argument you seem to be making is this:

1. The point of attending university is to teach yourself how to makes lots of money.

2. Of the people I know, the wealthiest are those who didn't attend university.

3. Hence, attending university is a waste of time.

I myself disagree with 1 and 2. Many people would argue that the role of the university is not vocational training, but rather to provide students with a reasonable summary of human knowledge, to learn for the sake of learning. Even if going to university didn't make any impact on my future earning capacity, I myself would still attend.

On the second issue, your anecdotal evidence is irrelevant. If you're going to make a decision about whether or not to attend university, you make a judgement based on empirical evidence. I myself could easily list self-made men who have graduated from elite universities: Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Steve Ballmer, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, George Soros, Jim Rogers, Ronald Perelman, Carl Icahn, Phil Knight, Jeff Bezos. I have no idea if going to university will make you more or less likely to become incredibly wealthy, the answers I suspect lie in an academic journal somewhere.

Also, you also seem to be implying that people should only be interested in making huge amounts of money. That it's a bad thing to become a doctor or a lawyer because it places a ceiling on how much money you can make. Most people would rather do a job the enjoy and make a decent amount of money rather than doing a job they hate and making enormous amounts of money. Many people aren't interested in business or management, they'd rather spend their time doing engineering, academic research, writing, journalism, music, law, medicine, whatever.
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Arc users need to get together and write a draft spec that makes a lisper proud.

The "scripting language" style manual doesn't cut it. Go for RNRS, CLtL, Dylan-book, T-manual, Moonual, style of documentation; stuff that holds water.

Ditto for Clojure, FFS!
Forwarding incoming SMS messages is what you do when there's no Google Voice app.

With a Google Voice app, you can directly receive SMS messages sent to your Google Voice number, no forwarding (and thus, no carrier charge) needed.

At least, that's how I assume it would work on the iPhone, because that's how it works on my G1 right now.
Creative, I like it (whether it's truly functional or not).
That's what I thought at first too... It's a cool project though!
Nice. Even though I am avid book collector, I have been finding myself reading more books on my computer (mostly PDF) over paperback books. I hope this catches on and more authors make their books available for everyone to read.
Honestly, for me, it's critical to be working on something enjoyable. If I don't like it, then it doesn't matter if it's at home or in an office ... I'm going to drag and procastinate.

However, if it's fun, I can go 80 hours a week by myself at home on it.

I recall a contract I did for a big software company a few years back - the other devs there were insanely jealous of the 40 hours of programming I was putting in a week by working remotely. They spent so much time in meetings and reviews and planning that they were lucky to break 10 hours a week of actual programming.
St. Johns College in Santa Fe, NM (their second campus) is an awesome school; I've met a number of interesting and intelligent people there.

My best friend's step-father was also a professor there, an absurdly smart dude.

I am, however, pre-disposed to the autodidactic route; while University/College is a fun idea, nothing beats the satisfaction gained from self directed learning.
Really? That's great! I'm on the iPhone and that's how it works for me. I have an unlimited text plan so there's no big issue for me, but for people without unlimited texts or Android phones, your texts are forwarded to your number.

Even more reason to consider an Android phone. I've been on the fence for a while.
This was incredibly valuable to me to read. Thank you.

> Third, both of your posts imply that the only measure of value - of self, and to society - is wealth.

This reminded me of something I took for granted that most people thought - when most people don't think it.

I'd done quite a lot of cowboy frontier-style research when I was younger, and written much of it up. But I really disliked marketing, producing, selling.

Eventually I met the head of Apple's Market Research for Canada, and he was an amazing guy. He taught me so much. One thing he really, really hammered into me was that it's good and right to be compensated for the value you create. I got a motto from one of those talks in Toronto - "Edison not Tesla."

By all accounts, Tesla was the greater scientist and probably better human being than Edison. But Edison became very wealthy, and Tesla had a bit of a hard life. So I do absolutely believe that the making the greatest contribution to society and wealth are and should be married - and that it keeps you on track. I think researchers ought to become wealthy as they benefit humanity, and it's a tragedy when they don't. So bettering of people's lives, truly, measurably, ought to result in the doer of good also having their life improved. Wealth isn't the only measure of that, but it is a large one. Thanks again for your reply, very insightful to me.
Well, fair enough, but it's always good to have a reminder, plus he rephrases the idea into something a little less abstract than "work on what you love", while giving a useful suggestion how to know what it is you love (something that makes you say "hell yeah!").

Personally I quite liked his retelling. I know a few people who would benefit from taking that advice. So I think the article did add something, yes.
This is definitely happening in the US and around the world. In fact, I think perhaps you're being too charitable towards American colleges. But then I suppose it's all relative.
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HIPAA requires you to encrypt medical information.

(Also, lots of heavily HIPAA-regulated places allow IM.)
Huh? Don't adjust your scale, change the things in your future!
I'm torn as to whether to call that a 'hack' or not, since it's just a bit of math. [ exp(log(x)) == x; log(ab) == log(a) + log(b) ]
Inevitable?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught this. Who puts a shortened, unclickable link in a news article?
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they allow for encrypted transfer of files and hence represent a risk to medical records

This could go either way, actually. Unencrypted transfer of files is obviously risky and if it's through a 3rd party provider (AOL, GTalk, etc.) then there is a risk of confidential medical information being intercepted.

Alternatively, maybe there needs to be internal records of who has sent or received which files. Encrypting files makes it harder for the administration to know who has what.

I'm leaning towards the first explanation of the danger of unencrypted file exchange, but I could be wrong.
Limitations like this are among the most trivial of the reasons I pay for MS SQL. Even though no such built in aggregate is available, I'm free to write my own in C/C++/.Net.

I'm pretty sure PostgreSQL lets you extend it however you want as well.
You're paying for some external motivation, for one thing. The pace of learning in a typical university is pretty fast. You'd need a whole lot of self-motivation in order to learn as much, and as fast on your own as you'd learn at a university.

Another thing you get at a university is teachers (hopefully great ones, if you're lucky enough and have chosen well). Great teachers can not only explain things in ways that make learning easier than learning from books, but they can inspire as well. Many of the interests that I have now I credit to having some great teachers (though great books count for a lot as well).

Then there's the fact that you can't really ask questions of a book. Books are just not very interactive, despite some of them containing questions/answers for the student.

At a university you also get a community of peers that can both inspire and help you as you work towards a common goal.

This is not to mention the social opportunities you'll get at a university that all but the most social people will never dream of getting if they're stuck at home all the time reading books. Many friendships are formed at universities that last a lifetime.

And if it's cost that worries you, consider going to a university abroad. They tend to be much cheaper than US universities. If you only speak English, you should be pleased to learn that many foreign universities are growingly switching to a curriculum taught in English. If you know a foreign language, all the better. You'll get to practice it and get exposed to a whole new culture. Of course, sometimes the high cost of a US university might be worth it, but other times foreign universities offer just as good or better education for a much, much lower price.

So I'd think twice before rejecting school for home-study. It can be done, if you're very self-motivated. But you're going to be giving up all sorts of advantages that schools offer.
It loses precision in scenarios where the desired aggregate would not. It's a hack.
This explanation of depression makes sense: My wife, who owns a gas station went into a depression when I told her about the latest developments in electric vehicles and how it would turn her job into a nonsense in the near future. Because she could not object to the situation, she had no other way but adapt to it and later came a real clinical depression, all because of what I reminded her.
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danah is a woman FWIW.
One finished project is usually worth more than seven half-finished projects.

> Hiring too many creative people would be bad?

Yup.

Focus matters.
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Ahh... I see. I didn't even know such dictionaries existed! Thanks!
Thanks, that's what I thought but I wasn't 100% sure.
When the online version is a copy of the print version.
For the record, you have to be sure to go into your GV account and uncheck "Receive SMS on this phone" for your mobile phone. That turns off the forwarding.

The GV client app periodically polls GV for new messages, and will alert you when you get one. This does mean, however, that there is usually a delay of a few minutes before the GV client polls again and you get a notification of the new message. (You can force the client to update at any time by opening it and hitting Refresh, if you're expecting a message).

So, there is a small catch. I use a limited texting account. People whose texts I'd want instantly text my "real" phone number. People whose texts can wait a few minutes get my GV number. :)

EDIT: There's a third party Google Voice app (named simply "GV") which allows you to set the message polling as rapidly as every minute. I'm giving this a shot now. :)
http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=81

Excellent post on a more advanced implementation.
wow you know I didn't even realize that when I was reading the article I had to copy and paste the link. It's been a long day.

A fail indeed.
> If you feel unqualified to judge its import, hum a few bars to one of the mental health professionals in your Rolodex.

I'll bite - what happened when you took that to the MHPs in your rolodex? Better yet, you reported it to Child Protective Services in Chicago. You did, right?
> A really interesting aspect of NP-complete problems is that the can be solved in P, but require NP to check for correctness.

Sorry, maybe I'm confused by what your saying, but thats not quite right.

NP Complete problems cannot be solved in polynomial time unless P = NP. But, given a potential solution, it can be verified in poly time.

I'll try to translate that to the world of proteins... but I don't know much biology.

Given a protein sequence, finding a folding that minimizes the energy (formally, finding a folding where the energy is less than some value K) cannot, in general, be done in polynomial unless P = NP. However, given a potential folding, we can verify if its the minimum (formally, we can verify if the energy is less than K).

Am I right with this? Can someone verify? I would hate to spread disinformation.
I'd be more inclined to call it a hack because it probably either crashes or gives the wrong answer when it encounters a zero. ;)
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The Equal Opportunity Act covers things like

"...sex, race, age, religion, or ethnic group, or individuals with disabilities..."

which would also be particularly immoral reasons to boycott a business. The main reason there's no equal opportunity law against boycotts is because it would be rather unenforcable--I would certainly consider it reprehensible (though perfectly within one's legal rights) to boycott a business due to the race, sex, religion, etc. of the proprietors.

Other than that, US employers have the right to either continue or terminate employment "at-will". Things that we would normally boycott companies for, like putting rootkits on people's computers or engaging in unethical business practices, are also normally acceptable things to fire employees for.

And considering that the purpose of employment is for the employer to purchase the services of the employee for an indefinite period of time, how is it not a special instance of the producer/consumer relationship? What else could it be?
Is there any good reason why you want to do computation like this with a database query, instead of, say, middle-ware?

For the product

(reduce #'* (select 'value :from 'product :flatp t))

If you want the sum change #'* to #'+.
I'm curious:
-- How long would they stay around for?
-- What sorts of problems? Would you need a lot of "bad" proteins to cause problems or just a few?

What I'm trying to get at is wondering if nature uses very good heuristic/approximate/probabilistic algorithm. I.e. if there is an algorithm that almost always works and having a few proteins that aren't at global minima isn't an issue and they dissipate very quickly, then observation would make it look like nature is solving the problem exactly even if its not.

Alternatively, the proteins we find in nature might be more tractable than the general problem described in all its mathematical glory (i.e. the inputs might be restricted to some subset of the input space which is solvable very quickly).
You could always write a patch and send it to them. A product aggregate function probably wouldn't be hard to write.
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Just a stab in the dark, but there could be several reasons to try a font like Verdana:

1) Cheap licensing fees. The best typefaces cost plenty of money to use. There is a recession going on but.. c'mon.. you know?

2) It is a challenge to set and make professional use of a shitty typeface. Perhaps this was a ballsy exercise in flaunting an anti-elitist sort of position by using a "proletarian" font. Who knows?

I used to get into friendly, though heated, debates with a friend who would accuse me of being an academic typographer. As a defense, I challenged him to make good use of a junky font like Times New Roman to determine who actually had skill and who was a stylistic fashion whore.

Maybe this is some such attempt by the designers, I don't know? I kinda have a hard time believing that the print designer(s) for Ikea of all places simply made a bonehead error by using a screen font for print.

Just my 3 million bajillion cents. Side note: if anyone has a magical potion that helps to make a succinct point, I'd like to have a teaspoon or so :D
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Right-o. Not meant to be derogatory. It's a great story. It's just a helluva lot LONGER story than most people make it out to be.

Funding (in times of success) is an accelerant. Zoho had funding, which fueled growth. It wasn't VC funding, but cash is cash. I'd MUCH rather take cash from previous successes (and have in the past) than from VCs, but it's not entirely true to look at Zoho as a bootstrapped business, especially if you're thinking of it as a model.

VC funded businesses are a long road. Bootstrapped businesses are a much longer road.
HIPAA isn't like GLBA; it doesn't have the tracking requirement. It's just unusually explicit that PHI needs to be encrypted in flight.
Most financials don't care if it's your personal email you're going out to Google for. I've seen people get fired for that --- and just for that.
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thanks for alerting us, dear flesh-script being!
Many web applications can be considered social networks. Restricting it to social networks wouldn't help me rest much easier.
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Maybe it's a strategic change, meant to make itself more affordable; its previous font, Futura, is a bit fancy. If IKEA wants to go to the masses, it has already, it might help to dumb down its image and appeal to the coupon-magazine crowd.
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This is freaking awesome.

update: This is really, really great. Thanks to the author, and to Peter for spreading the word. I can't believe how seamless and convenient it is. This kind of shit is why the Ruby community kicks ass over everyone else. Wayne Seguin - you rock.
Work there is published if and only if it is in Microsoft's interest to do so.

Do you have any evidence for that claim?

Often a bare outline is published: enough to impress people but not enough for an outsider to duplicate the work. This isn't academia.

Actually, there are plenty of research papers that describe a system in some detail, but not nearly enough detail to allow an "outsider to duplicate the work". Both academics and industrial researchers sometimes accompany a research paper with a working prototype; in both cases, they often do not.
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Your first post was completely off track, so I downvoted you. The original article is about being an academic (typically a professor) vs. going into industry -- that means, we're talking about PhD students.

(1) First, you say that education is about your "ability to follow instructions carefully." This is entirely 100% false for PhD candidates. The PhD is about conducting original research, often with minimal guidance from the professor. Saying that PhD students attend "obedience schools" is absolutely ridiculous -- real jobs are much more "obedience schools" than universities in these cases.

(2) You speak over and over about how you don't need to attend college to become wealthy. Well, this point is moot because very few PhD students are motivated to go to school by wealth. Most PhD students pursue a doctoral degree because they are interested in the subject. Ask any PhD student and they will tell you that they realize it is not the path to wealth.

(3) Frankly, you sound a bit paranoid and confrontational from your frequent posts (and edits of them) challenging downvoters. I don't think this is a good practice ...
Maybe they should join hands with Project Gutenberg now and both parties can save substantial duplication of effort.
You are both saying the same thing. But giving the same words different meanings.

Let me try: A possible solution can be found in P time. But checking if it's THE solution (i.e. the best solution) requires NP time.

Does solve mean: solve a solution? or solve for the final (best) solution?

Does verify mean: verify that the solution works? or that you verified that it's the best answer?
So is this what happens with a prion? The prion shows the protein a lower energy configuration?

That would imply that global minimums are not always used, and not always best.
What's wrong with being sarcastic?
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Some of you are speculating about the reason for the change. Here it is from the source:

In an interview with the Swedish design magazine Cap & Design, IKEA’s Ivana Hrdlickova says the main reason for the switch was to allow the company to use the same typeface in all countries (current IKEA typefaces do not contain Asian characters, for example). Being that Verdana was designed for the web, it also allows the company’s image to remain consistent online and in print.
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it's good and right to be compensated for the value you create

There are ways to be compensated other than wealth, however. For example, many people would consider that a tenured position at a prestigious university, with a generally very pleasant work environment, the freedom to work on whatever you like, to collaborate with whomever you choose, and to have the security of tenure, is ample non-monetary compensation. Academics also enjoy considerable prestige -- both in terms of their reputations to others in their field, and their respect from society at large. You may not value these sorts of non-monetary compensation, but some people do.

making the greatest contribution to society and wealth are and should be married

Perhaps they "should be", but in reality, I think they clearly are not. Perhaps an ideal system would be different, but that's not the system we have.
Really good stuff. If the rest of the posts in this series are going to be this forthcoming with details and solid analysis, they're all going to be must-reads.
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