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Email: paul [at] craciunoiu {dot} net

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Freelance independent consultant looking for web or software work. Great communicator (for estimates, vague specs, open-ended work), can handle startup chaos (former CTO and co-founder). Satisfaction guaranteed. Passionate about doing good, building great products, and quality work.
It was sarcasm. It's very subtle but it's easier to figure out if you sound the comment out aloud. The "white people can't be terrorists" is the giveaway.

His comment didn't work because it shoehorns an American political narrative onto Europe. But if he'd said something like, "white people can't be looters" in the context of, say, the Hurricane Katrina disaster, it would have been much clearer.
It is (in a socialist market). Finnish teachers have some of the utmost prestige.
You shouldn't even need the microphone. Assuming that doubling the line frequency doubles the audio frequency, you can play music by just choosing a note to call "A" and varying the frequency from there. It won't be in tune, but that doesn't really matter.
I've been thinking of a similar idea, but instead of text-to-speech, doing something like choir.io and playing positive, negative, or neutral sounds. The resultant noise would give you enough information to get a feel for what's happening.
I can tell you I have seen new directors whose not-so-qualified spouses magically find jobs in other departments. Nepotism, pure and simple.
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I came from Sun Fishworks as well, and still have an engineering team without titles (everyone is a "Software Engineer"). This is deliberate[1], and I don't think it's been an impediment -- there is certainly not a problem with "yapping and nipping." Of course, every organization is different, and what works for one group of people may not work for another -- but I can't personally imagine working in an organization that insisted on hierarchical titles among its engineers.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/surge2013
I hate that the federal government is getting involved. The states are figuring it out. Leave this alone... Vote for local politicians to follow the Tennessee model or don't. There is no need for federal involvement.
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Hey, you have no right to complain about my rictus grin. I even let you grab a free snack from the snack bar on your way out.
Austin, TX is at the cutting edge of the edible insect trend in the states. I had the pleasure of grabbing some mead and enjoying some snacks with a bunch of the companies down there.

Anyone doing anything with cricket-based foods in the US is likely supplied by World Ento (which recently merged with Aspire International). They're building a massive cricket farm in ATX to try to keep up with the demand.
Hah, imagine a system where processes were placed in an arena and they battle it out for cpu time. Programmers will not only have to build their applications but also write an AI to protect itself, an IDE could be a fortress where processes could be relatively safe.
This is true if contingency lawyers only charge their regular rate. Do they really? I thought they work for a stake in the award they are going to win. Otherwise, why would anybody take a case on contingency? There is no 100% guarantee of winning a civil case so it's effectively reducing your own rate since you are going to lose* some cases eventually (* you might even win every case but some of them did not get awarded enough money to pay the lawyer's fees).
The mentioned book really talks about how Korea, China (and Hong Kong) along with some European countries do education much differently.
I find most of the projects to require mostly Ruby/Rails/JavaScript stack.I guess its high time to learn Ruby/Rails. I am a java developer.Was hardly able to find any project here.
I thought all of the points were naive, except for fair compensation. What we need is extremely high compensation (the level of doctors) for teachers who can inspire their students to teach themselves.
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I just threw up a little. That's pretty much my nightmare.
Fair enough, I don't mean to pretend that I know anything about him at all. That said, I'm certainly interested in what he and Google et al. are doing in w.rt. statecraft in general.
BS, link bait / blogspam are any one of the numerous nautil.us or medium.com articles that seem to consistently make it onto the front page of hackernews.

Whereas, this article reflects the same sentiments I have been hearing from close friends over the past years who are public school teachers. And it boils down to two facts that I have taken particular note of after listening to their grievances:

1. Government interference with education has been a huge mistake.
2. We do not pay our teachers nearly enough.

You cannot legislate education, especially when trying to create a universal adapter for all education across the country.

You cannot get quality teachers in the education system without adequate compensation, period.
If the problem is community, why not take the students/families who really do care (from all the schools in a metropolitan area) and put them all in the same school? That would at least be a start.
Second opinions are also great to get - I could be wrong about the person, or maybe we didn't click.

I like interviews to be like secret ballots:

* write down what you think about the person without any external influence

* then share the information with the other people who interviewed the same person

You are right on this - bias can interfere with decision making. A single gatekeeper who makes the wrong decision could be turning away someone fantastic.

The hardest thing is saying no to someone you know is great, or is going to be great. It isn't personal - it might be that one of the candidates had 5 more years experience on something that we were really looking for. In this case, if I am working with a recruiter, I always let them know how great the candidate was.
You should try the Defense Travel System. After submitting my itinerary once, probably the 5th time I'd taken the exact same quarterly trip, using the exact same system, my ticketing never came through. I finally realized it and called one of the travel people. He said "Once you hit submit, you have to go back and check on this other page, in about an hour, to make sure it actually went through, otherwise you have to resubmit."

Wat? This is in production? On a financial system?
Too soon. The main dudes are still out there, and now there's some warning about legislation? You can't warn about consequences when the wound is so fresh -- we're still in emotional-trying-to-process-land.

I saw this after 9/11... people protesting generically against war on 9/12 in SF. I normally am a big supporter of the EFF but this feels out of touch with reality.
I am currently a staff member at a well-known U.S. research University. I have been so for around 10 years.

I have noticed a rise in the view that administrative staff are an inevitable and unnecessary accretion within higher ed.

I find it hard to imagine the Campus network being built and maintained in the manner you propose. My area is information security. I equally cannot fathom faculty taking an interest in incident response duties, or dealing with network intrusion detection, or that kind of thing. We have seen what life is like without these functions. Quickly the Campus network is overrun with compromised devices, the rest of the world begins shunning the Campus address space, and the network becomes more and more unusable. This is, contrary to what we might hope, a full time responsibility. I cannot imagine any faculty who would be interested in dealing with PCI or HIPAA compliance in order to use credit cards, or run a health clinic or hospital.

Is there really no place for any kind of administrative staff? Once you let in and feed a few rats, they just breed, multiply and overrun the place?

I do find it troubling that I earn more than graduate student instructor or indeed many junior faculty. It is less than what I would make in private enterprise. I don't know how to justify this, or indeed what the way to address it if indeed many staff positions are (as I believe) essential.

In the end, I am no longer interested in trying to answer this question. However much I might have believed in the mission of higher education has been eroded by my dislike of being increasingly considered vermin. I will be leaving higher ed, and take that even higher salary. This has, as I have observed at least at my University, increasingly been the path of the more skilled tech folks.
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I'm natively russian. The best online dictionary is http://slovari.yandex.ru/

You may touch me in Skype if you want to speak with native tech guy :-)
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Doesn't that depend on where you work and what you're working on though?
This is amazing. Yes, add a song or I will.
The key issue is that there could be a link. Because of this possibility, you need to control for genes to reach any strong conclusions. For example, you could check to see if the verbal ability of adoptive children more closely resembles the ability of their (adopted) siblings or of their biological parents. Or you could compare twins reared apart to see if their abilities more closely track each other's or those of their adoptive parents.

The Slate article you linked doesn't deal with nature vs. nurture at all. It simply assumes that nature doesn't matter, approvingly citing the views of one researcher who makes the astonishing claim that "Children aren’t born smart. They’re made smart by their parents talking to them." This view is definitively disproven both by studies of adoptive children and by studies of twins reared apart (not to mention common sense—cognitive ability must be at least partly heritable, else there would be no way for ever smarter animals to have evolved). For more details, I recommend The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker.
> SOL tests are inherently unfair,

I regularly see claims that tests are at odds with learning. What I don't understand is how anyone can tell what kids have learned without some sort of test.
It's what this investment implies. That people in our industry are indifferent to the vices that grip poorer communities. It also implies that no tech company that approached him for funding recently had a better idea than getting people stoned.
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All the uninterested parents would become really interested around selection time trying to get their kids into the 'best' schools. As soon as the choice is made, however, they'd be back to indifference. School is viewed as delegating responsibility from parent to teacher.

In England there have been so-silly-its-staggering stories of anti-terror legislation being used to spy on parents suspected of lying about their addresses in order to get their kids into particular school catchment areas. You'd imagine that these are parents who super-care. I'm skeptical; I think they are parents who have an intense interest only at the beginning and no lingering part in educating their children.
Get framework/library which will do the most of work and run the example from documentation. Then try to make it better suite your needs. (Then fork it or switch to another library).
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way to miss the fucking point. go on, read it again.. (or the first time for that matter.)

at a certain point with the effectiveness of vaccines, the adverse effects actually start to outnumber the people still being effected. the point at which people start to notice this is perhaps an order of magnitude lower than the reality. science is not how people work, they use anecdata. now, how do you interact with those people?

or do you care more about getting all self-righteous and angry?
If you buy online only 3 or 4 times a year why do you pay for prime? You seem to already pay $95/year to shave a few percentage points off your bill.
For those of us not from the US, which [conservative groups] are you talking about? Republicans in general? Or some other group?
Any plan to offer this as a service? Wouldn't have a use for the printer itself, but the electronics-in-cavity printing technique alone could be useful for prototyping devices that would otherwise require a lot of manual assembly.
China? Really?

The public teachers depend on bribes to get by. The private teachers are just into exploitation and delivering false hopes. Please don't take China as a good example, it is not; even HK is way more dysfunctional than the American system.
So the "frank" system, which he uses throughout the presentation is real enough to browse the internet and author active essays in. It is written in 1000x less code than Powerpoint running on Windows 7.
It is in a social free market (Germany). I've never seen a high school teacher having to take on another job. Everyone had their own cars and in particular everyone went one or two multi-week vacation to warmer climates. It's painful to see how little America cares.
If you prioritize, or allow to be prioritized for you, the health of a fictitious entity such as a corporation over the nine hundred and ninety nine people who just want to know how to be better equipped to get a job so they can survive, I don't really think your fictitious entity deserves its survival.

Do what's right, not what's safe.
It's really just bullshit, all the way around.

The terrorists, the various governments, people killing each other, the EFF, the predictable media response, the endless commenting and discussing by everyone who has a keyboard--as if what they have to say really matters--and the fact that nothing will change. Absolutely nothing.

Bullshit. All of it.
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> but it also contains links to the primary sources. Look up what those sources are.

I have looked up more sources in Arabic (not mentioned on the Wikipedia page). There is practically a universal consensus among scholars that the narrations of this incident are fabricated, based on analyzing the chain of narration (all contain known liars and fabricators).

> Furthermore, this is a standard part of islamic law (killing for criticism). Do you dispute that as well ?

Yes. The religion is open to criticism. Show me where it says otherwise.

> Plus muhammad had over a dozen poets executed, as well as entire camps of people suspected merely of leaving his army... Famously he had a tribe massacred...

Citation needed. Again, it's not about being "famous" or not, it's about whether a certain narration conforms to the very rigorous standards that have been set in examining such accounts, not to mention other approaches to determine authenticity. Otherwise, anybody can say anything (e.g. all four Bibles have anonymous authors). Each particular incident must be examined to see what exactly happened, instead of throwing blanket statements like this.
>>You cannot get quality teachers in the education system without adequate compensation, period.

In Chicago we tried paying them more and didn't see much improvement.
"Experienced programmers" who don't understand linked lists and binary trees without looking them up are strong no hires anywhere I have worked in the last three decades. Please stop writing software until this isn't a problem.

* edit: please stop asking people to pay you to write software. Keep writing software on your own until such elementary ideas such as linked lists and binary trees are core to your understanding, then apply again.
But really, with the way standardized tests are done now, can you even tell what kids have learned with a test?

By which I mean, when kids can't memorize all the stuff that they have learned by heart, and then when they can't produce an exact replica of a procedure or something without some kind of reference, we equate it to their not having learned it in the first place.

Programmers create docs for the purpose of referring to them, doctors must look things up as opposed to simply relying upon a faulty memory, etc.

Kids get the impression that to learn is to fill their memories as opposed to be able to analyze in new scenarios, and that if they can't memorize facts then they are a 'bad learner'. These standards just aren't fair.
Maybe do some job research before getting an education degree in the US. I think most teachers would have told you it's pretty shitty in general. In Canada, teachers make more than most software developers, ~90k/yr. Still, much of the same bureaucracy exists here as well.
Contingency means they charge a percentage of the winnings. If they lose, they get $0. Hence, lawyers don't take on contingency cases unless it's a strong case.
No raises in six years as inflation marches steadily on is a 10% paycut. Criminal. It's a disgrace that our college-educated professional teachers are so under-valued they have to take on multiple side-jobs just to maintain their economic status quo.
So should we always say USA? US, by your conventions, is wrong as well (never mind the now even worse America!). Hope you never say China when really you should say the People's Republic of China!

I can't tell if you're just trolling or actually care. Either way it's fairly dickish behavior that's totally unnecessary and doesn't advance the discussion.
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What kind of standard test would you suggest that would determine if a student learned anything?

BTW, you can't get a license to practice medicine without passing a standardized test.
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What's so naive about 4.? I think an environment that encourages learning would have way, way, way more influence over educational outcome than the instructors involved.
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Tried paying the current teachers more, or undergoing a concentrated effort to evaluate current teachers against a baseline and aggressively court and hire at competitive wages teachers who have a track record of being better than the teachers that you have at that baseline?

I ask 'cause while I know nothing about Chicago, I've found that what you said always comes up with regard to the former.
I believe he pursued that profession because of the mission which he thought would be the main focus of the system. Compensation was only 1 (and the last mentioned) of the 5 key areas that need to be re-evaluated.
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Sadly, no. Spending 2 years building something that you can do in a fraction of the time with a designer never quite sat right with me. To each their own though.
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Well, I'll add a few things. I meant to say more last night but there was too much going on.

You overestimated your disagreement with the people who (try to) manage this site. I'm personally sympathetic to a lot of what you were trying to say—small-minded technical literalism is a personal bugbear—and appreciated the emotion in your venting as something real. It's refreshing when someone says how they feel instead of sniping from an intellectual bunker. Your comment became more alive when you did that.

But you (i.e. we, i.e. any of us) can't take out your frustration on individual other users. First, if one can do it, everyone can do it, and that way lies lameness. Second, we're figments on an internet forum to each other, which means we're mostly projection screens—we see what we imagine about each other and we're all almost certainly wrong. Discussion on that basis isn't interesting, just agitating.

The only way out of this is to cultivate the benefit of the doubt. That's harder than it sounds, because it requires awareness of when one is not doing it.
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>Criminal.

Not really.

>It's a disgrace that our college-educated professional teachers are so under-valued they have to take on multiple side-jobs just to maintain their economic status quo.

It's become very apparent that the majority of our college-educated citizens are not paid very much. Just being "college-educated" is not enough anymore.
These standards are especially not fair if you consider the special needs kids (at least in Virginia) that are forced to take standardized tests, even if they are barely able read or write.
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Yeah, and many of them tout their modeling credentials (discovered this when I was trying to learn Cantonese).

Uh, they're teaching something, it's just not what you think it is.
Are we at the point yet where a 3D printer can replicate itself? Or at least print another functional 3D printer?
I disagree about processing them into something less recognizable would prevent people from having them. No one actually cares reading about contents products especially if you can have in something like medicine.
I don't know where you get the number, teachers in Canada make ~90k / yr.

Let's say that number is correct, and this is why Canada doesn't have a thriving technology industry, companies like RIM fails. They can't pay enough to retain good engineers in the country.
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