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Same in Oregon. I did what is called a AAOT which basically guarantees that you will be admitted as a junior at any four year school in the state. And to be honest I didn't care all that much about the quality of the education since the first two years I was taking a bunch of General Education requirements that didn't really apply to my degree.

And a lot of trades come up through community colleges. The one here has two year degrees for auto mechanics, aircraft mechanics, HVAC, welders, CAD, CNC, plumbing, electricians, and so on. My bet is Obama is more concerned about that aspect of the program than people transferring to four year schools.
Supposedly they will never sell this computer, only renting access as a "fast cloud".
At $9000 its out of my range.
I'm surprised to see all the reddit hate here. The open, free-wheeling nature of that forum is far and away superior (in the sense of, more in the spirit of internet in general) to say, the clubby, autocratic way this site is run.
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I don't understand why you need a bootstrap toolset in C.

Does go not support being cross compiled/cross compiling?
More like "Waynesboro Rotary Club Teacher of the Year"?

Looks like this is blogspam with a linkbaity title. Original was "The Tough Decision to Leave the Classroom": http://iamjwal.com/the-tough-decision-to-leave-the-classroom...
>Having said that, I'd rather see a push for universal pre-school education.

Why? Several studies have shown that the initial advantages of pre-school are gone by 3rd grade.

Here's a quick summary with a link to one of the largest studies commissioned by the federal government. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/01/09/15headstart.h32...
When writing safety critical software for limited embedded hardware we had a policy that new features were strictly not allowed to use up the final x kilobytes of the memory, these were reserved for critical safety patches. You don't want to hardware recall millions of units because memory is too low for a software update. This was handled by a build step though, not someone secretly hiding allocation in the actual code.
I've had great teachers and I've had terrible teachers. I don't think any teacher sets out to be one of the bad teachers, I think the amount of things teachers go through (low pay, unnecessary hoops to jump through, etc) just grinds a person down.
Human capital. Fertile ground is better used for food crops rather than animal feed crops. Marginal land is most efficient for grazing livestock. But hill farmed livestock is labour intensive and skilled dirty uncomfortable work to boot. Labour is expensive.
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completely agree. It's more like Spock calling humans weak, stupid and illogical and not realizing that spock would have created windows and humans would create apple. I've worked with the people sited in the original blog. Early on in this engineering department there were no titles. It was like a pack of dogs with no alpha dog. Wonder if you have ever seen that. All the dogs are yapping and nipping because no one knows who is the alpha dog. Later they enforced a full hierarchy. CTO, VP, 5 levels of engineers. After the imposition of titles things ran smoothly and quietly. Everyone fell in line. No more yapping or nipping (for better or worse - there was a lot of fear and lost lines of communication, lost design ideas from engineers who were too afraid to voice their insights)
The original lack of titles IMO came from the fact that the main engineers (ie senior, ie architects) , coming from Sun DTrace and Fishworks, had felt that stupid execs at Sun and stupid product managers told them, the gods of engineering, what to do and those people were stupidly wrong and they were always right. Now that they were out of Sun and in control of a brand new engineering team they were hell bent on keeping control since they were clearly the smartest beings around. They as the gods of coding should be the only product managers. They as the gods of coding should be the only architects.
Yes, titles make a difference for better or worse. Worse when they are not deserved and better when they point out that the senior person has more proven experience. When super smart junior engineer says you should use Mongo for your Bitcoin banking site and the senior engineer with 20 years of experience says you should use an ACID compliant database, you should use your senior engineers advice. Super smart junior people can often talk dangerously misguided intelligent circles around more senior calmer senior engineers. Titles can, in the best of cases, help direct the discussion. Just ask http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/04/06/another-one-bites-t...
Yes, and drawing pictures of Spanish as toreros is racists, and drawing pictures of French as cheese eaters is racist.

Everything is racist in some minds even if the people drawing those pictures are part of Non Racist organisations.
> He only had one killed? What a modest man, by biblical standards.

No this is just one example. Estimates of how many people got killed and/or massacred by the prophet to bring us islam range from 10 000 to 100 000.

Individual people murdered by the prophet or his assassins (on his direct orders, excluding massacres of entire villages/groups/caravans/muslims), according to muslim's own history, is about 1220 people (most were "convicted" by him, the victims not even knowing there was a trial. That's how islam works : muslims would go to the prophet, explain the situation, the prophet would convict someone to death and send a squad of muslims to go kill the man/woman).

Example:

A girl wearing ornaments, went out at Medina. Somebody struck her with a stone.
She was brought to the Prophet while she was still alive. Allah's Apostle asked
her, "Did such-and-such a person strike you?" She raised her head, denying
that. He asked her a second time, saying, "Did so-and-so strike you?" She
raised her head, denying that. He said for the third time, "Did so-and-so
strike you?" She lowered her head, agreeing. Allah's Apostle then sent for the
killer and killed him between two stones.

(Sahih Bukhari, Book 83, Number 16)

Islam/muslims (the Mughals to be exact) also hold the title of biggest massacre in history. The Mughal invasion of India was a massacre that lasted almost 1300 years and estimates of the death toll range from 60 million to 300 million people. Before the massacre India bordered Russia. Ironically a region of Afghanistan is still called "Hindu Kush" or massacre of Hindus.
That's sad. I would be a teacher if I could get paid $75/hr...
The sad and infuriating thing is that good teachers leaving public service is precisely what conservative groups strive for, in their "starve the beast" agendas. As more quality staff leave, they [conservative groups] can claim greater and greater failures in the public system and siphon more tax dollars into private voucher schools.
I can say that at least in Virginia, SOL scores are everything. The same scores are used to rate both teacher effectiveness and student success, which I feel is unfair to both parties. It encourages teachers to focus on the standardized test objective of the week rather than encouraging an environment of discovery and learning, and students to gamify the system rather than engage and invest themselves in their education.
He is wrong about jazz, too. It doesn't suck (same with Zappa, post-Mothers).

I try not to judge him too much on this, but it colors my opinion of his opinions a bit - what musician hates jazz? Then again, I am not a fan of Shellac or his other music, so I am probably missing something. In 10 years I might be telling people how wonderful Shellac is, and it might just click for me - that is the wonderful thing about art.

I wish that there was a world where musicians could make great music without having to tour and make money. Some music doesn't need to be structured to be played live.

Edited for clarity and I was too harsh.
Wont decoupling stuff help? Make the last mile maintainer a separate entity.

We need last mile liberation and we need to prevent ISP into entering content business.
Most community colleges don't offer anything as specialized as Survey of Late 20th Century Post-Grunge Tribal Tattoos.

Community colleges usually just take care of general education classes--like English Composition, College Algebra, Calculus, and History.

I'm sure there are some nonsense classes, but there isn't much room for specialization in a 2 year degree.
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End-game should be that my PC just has 'storage' that ranges from RAM to cloud-based auto-backed up data.

The computer should automatically optimise this for commonly used or 'app' style data and keep the information in the level of storage that makes sense.
I don't think it's fair to call a bachelor's degree a trap. Year after year the data shows you'll make more money if you graduate:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/upshot/is-college-worth-it...

The only kids who are trapped are the ones who never finish, no degree and all the debt.
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Firing Dick Costolo from Twitter would be a huge mistake
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Perhaps you're being downvoted because how you have fabricated the Sarah Palin picture thing because she was the one publishing that picture in a public manner on Facebook.
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>And I shouldn't need to remind you that the teachers unions have clearly shown themselves amenable to keeping education affordable. Putting all power in their hands is a sure-fire play for better education.

Community college professors aren't generally unionized. They're definable not part of public school teachers unions your talking about.
I don't buy into the idea that all celebrities will go crazy and start producing video right away, but Jason has a point that this can be more attractive than YouTube or other avenues for some.
http://nypost.com/2014/01/30/rutgers-university-offers-class...

I'm sure you are mostly correct. My concern is that given free subsistence, I believe the plague of nonsense will grow. I also believe that paying for something is a way to give it value to those who pay. I don't see high school being very highly valued by most kids. And their valuation is probably not far from fair either.

This article does very well at summing up some of my observations...

http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2734
1) does that excuse muhammad's massacres in any way ? Or should I answer with pointing out that atheists are responsible for the biggest massacres of the 20th century perhaps (ie. the communist "opium for the people" folks)

2) you're mostly showing ignorance, as "mostly proverbs" does not apply at all to islamic texts. Random example :

http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/0...

Different religions are different (surprising how controversial such an obvious truth can be).

3) Given that you're comparing moral parables ("lies to convey a greater truth" I've heard it defined, like fairy tales) to actual events, your point is reversed.
It is (in a free market). China/HK has millionaire private teachers.
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I interviewed an engineer today. Probably a lot of companies would not hire him. He was not that great. I said "Yes" because I noticed a passion and a huge desire to learn and grow. We'll see if that was a mistake or not.
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That article is misleading -- it's really about C++, not C, and isn't really relevant to the Go compilers (which are written in C). I have Coders at Work and I think Ken Thompson was exaggerating a bit for the humor of it.

There is a "readability" process for C++, which is the thing he says he never got. Not much code is written in plain C -- the Go compilers would be an exception.

If I recall correctly, the book Coders at Work also talks a bit how the some of the Go/Plan 9 guys sat near to Bjarne while he was developing C++ at Bell Labs. They are not really fans :)
Why is someone interested in old Lisp, if their best attempt to emulate it inspires them to code in Perl.

It's like uncovering the manuscript of some old Beethoven score, and you and your friends choose to squeak it out with your armpits, instead of pulling together a string quartet.
I couldn't agree more based off a recent experience with Formspree (an Assembly project). Currently their emails are running really slow, with tools showing an 11 minute delay between initiation and the email being sent.

Want to let them know? They've turned off issues on the GitHub repository, they have no Twitter account, and you have to register for Assembly even to raise a bug.
I think one of the hardest thing about hiring is that if I am an "A" player, I am usually financially sound because of it and I just don't want to put in months of effort trying to get a job at a good work environment.

Usually jobs just find me, but I don't really need them and often I see cool openings in San Francisco (I live in Canada) but I just don't go after them.

I think about having to make a cool resume that stands out, having to do all the social media stuff, (i just want to program in the top 1%, not be some social god and I only use snapchat these days) It just gets tiring for a 35 year old. (do startups even hire 35 year olds? probably not.)

Can I program? Oh yes, when I dig in, I top perform and give everything to the people I work for. In my opinion most of the top talent goes unnoticed and are not offered top positions, simply because they couldn't bother with the hiring process. Meanwhile these companies have to siphon through a glut of bottom performers who are trying to get in cool companies (and wont) because they are desperate to get their foot in and learn.

If the great valley of silicon, lol, can do anything for startups, it would be to better promote services and technologies that match up people with good jobs.

I would love to solve a problem online say in machine learning or Erlang or something and just SHOW how I top perform instead of having to reach out for 3 months wasting time talking to hiring managers. No thanks. I already make enough money you know? Just my two cents I guess.
I hear people use this phrase quite a lot. (people on the right and left) but I disagree with those who say that terrorists --people who commit any kind of terror are out to 'win' anything. Typically terrorists just want to terrorize, not win, particularly.

For example, you might have an insurgent group somewhere or other, let's say Caucasus, those movements will have real boots on the ground doing fighting to win 'ground' and they will also have a terrorist operations. The terror operations are not there to win anything --just to instill terror. They are there for nothing else than instill terror. Not shut down buildings, not keep people from going to work or going to market --afterall people will _have_ to continue going to market. That's what I think.

In sports this would be like doing something to get a penalty. Doing something to injure an opponent will not get you the victory. Only points (goals, whatever) will provide the win. A boxer does not win by biting off the opponent's ear, they win by earning more points.
Agreeing with this. I went through the TAFE system in Australia with my tuition covered by the a low income youth support program provided by the government (Centrelink at the time) and then university (although i never graduated).

I would not be who i am today if TAFE was not affordable for me and the luxury of being able to wait for the right opportunity (as i had no pressure from a debt to take anything less than ideal) meant I ended up starting a business that really kick started my career.
Great points.

This, I think is one of the fundamental problems:

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If parents and local decision-makers really value education (and there is a small portion of the community that does), student and teacher morale would be much different.

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The overall environment matters more than the teacher. We've mentioned it here not too long ago as well.

Doesn't matter how fancy the workbooks and new materials or how hard we flog the teachers. The environment is anti-learning. Sure there is tons of lip service of "children are our future". All the best for the children, etc, etc. Except that actions and reality doesn't reflect that.

Many students come poor and/or bad families. No new "Common Core" tests are going to help that child learn if they are afraid they might not eat dinner that evening or they will be beaten up by their drunken family members. Just flogging the teacher to teach harder won't work.

It would be nice if "teaching" was considered just as a prestigious profession as laywer, doctor, astronaut, CTO of startup. Besides attracting more talent, it would send a cultural message -- education is very imporant and only special people get to do teach.

Heck look at the stupid Breaking Bad show. If Walter would be just teaching chemistry vis-a-vis his rich startup-owing friend he would be totally pathetic and uninteresting. Media like that tends to condense, distil and reflect back cultural attidides. Well thank god Walter started cooking meth, and killing otherwise he would have been the most boring person ever.
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The only mind antibiotic I know of is the undiluted truth. Its taste is unmistakeable, but it doesn't always go down easy. For example, learn evolutionary biology, and then evaluate the bipedal ape Homo sapiens as you would any other species. You will immediately find yourself very far off the political map. On the other hand, you will also be inoculated against the absurd shibboleths of all those who deny the truth about human nature—which nowadays is virtually everyone who matters.
> What happened next was that the technology got so cheap that anybody could record.

Stanislaw Lem wrote about this in the '60's. He predicted that "cybernetics" and democracy would allow the number of creators to increase enormously, but posited that the number of actual "geniuses" was small, fixed, and already almost exhausted within the current artistic community. Therefore the signal (great art) would get lost in the noise (junk produced because it could be.)

There are issues with this view--it assumes that great art is an objectively real phenomenon rather than a contingent social creation, amongst other things--but a brief perusal of Amazon's e-book offerings makes it hard to argue that the rate of creation has vastly outpaced the quality of creation. I daresay the same has happened with regard to music.

The great unsolved problem of the new era is criticism. Critics (who may have simply been record company flacs) acted as gatekeepers who allowed only material of a certain quality through. It may not have been the "best" by some standards, but it usually met some basic threshold of technical quality, which is more than can be said for the current era.
> Why do you think creating interest from real life is going to make them not "want to learn math"? That makes no sense.

I don't. I think it's entirely possible to cram knowledge into people's minds unwillingly.

But you're making an unnecessary assumption: that you have to teach everyone math. Why is that?
A bit of a classic, I found Jesse Schell's book, The Art of Game Design very helpful. The paradigm he constructs for how all the elements of game design fit together helped me approach game design from angles (or lenses as he calls them) I hadn't considered before.
Do you have a good resource I can read about that?
This. As a current grad student at a large research university, I have no interest in what little administrative work I do have to do, and my professors exhibit similar disinclinations.

That being said, at my school, the jobs of many of the admins I interact with seem to be navigating other administrative systems in the university. Its ridiculous and the solution needs to involve less bureaucracy, but not the complete dissolution of it. I've seen an entire grant left unspent because of the red-tape needed to spend it.
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P.S. In Chrome I can play almost all Youtube videos at 2x speed. Most presentations are still very understandable. I've been doing this for a while, maybe start at 1.5x.

Anyways, just a tip. Its saved me hours and keeps slow speakers from getting boring.
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Maybe they don't set out to be bad teachers.

But the way it is set up now, education does seem to get a fair share of people looking for an easy path. Not sure this is the best group to be educating our youth.
Presumably because he's looking for cases at the far end of the bell curve. If the biggest standout successes you can find are merely "comfortable", it stands to reason that most everyone else isn't.
I think Metroid is more akin to the open world games of today. It presented a large world (for the time) and there was a sense of exploration. In a game which is essentially on rails... I don't want to run back to the beginning because there's no goo reason to do so.
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Seriously, the more I experience the outside (vis-a-vis grant applications, requirements imposed on extramural partners, etc), the happier I'm actually in the military, salary paid, and all I have to deal with is Catch-22 level paperwork stupidity. I have to input my work hours in 3 different databases (hello, SQL anyone?), but at least we still have per diem meals. Although that's irrelevant since we rarely get conference funding.
And yet, didn't they also say that the the built-in apps couldn't be equaled by Web apps? I wonder how Jobs reconciled that.
This was apparently Greg Kroah-Hartman's 'side project' as detailed in his Google+ post [ https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman/posts/L67iyEouGN8 ]
I loved this. Funny, and very much true.
> if I was staring down a big wealth gap and decided to propose a concrete policy shift to resolve some of it, I think that it's not a bad idea to get people moved from the 7-11% unemployment category to the 5.4% unemployment category

Sure, as long as the categories have no content other than an employment rating, this makes sense. According to the same logic, you could have huge effects on unemployment by giving black people cosmetic surgery and calling them white.
You should be aware that any kind of expense software used by a university would have to scale up to thousands of users and would, of course, need to be totally and utterly obfuscated. If any old category theorist or quantum physicist can figure it out it would result in pandemonium!

Peoplesoft... Now there's a real university expense reporting platform. Whatever you do, don't go into expense reports under the main menu. That will corrupt your account and cause you to cease being paid. Change your role from student, employee, or faculty to petitioning_supplicant34, go into the cost reporting section, flip the null flag, then go into history and enter your expenses under category T311802, unless it's Tuesday or a prime numbered day of the Julian calendar. If that doesn't work and it's not a Tuesday or prime Julian date, request an update from Pam in accounts, who will be on vacation until the next solstice.