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The shipping on my strikemag order is 30 pounds on a 20 pound order, for paper. This is ridiculous. protest.

Edit the funny thing is, I can get "product" from China due to a bilateral shipping agreement, but knowledge from the UK, well that is expensive. If only Strikemag had their shit printed in China and shipped to the states. Then it would cost zero.
I don't know man... I can write some pretty lame unit tests.
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If you're insinuating that this is the situation, then that's incredibly insulting (yeah, got to fess up, we hired that last guy because it would look good in the company brochure, we're just pretending he came across as a genuinely nice guy and someone who'd likely pick things up quickly, we all hate him really!)
A couple years ago, I was complaining about how I don't do feelings or nice gestures because they're "fake"; it felt dishonest to do things just to make other people feel better so they'd have a higher opinion of me.

One of my friends replied with a story about a contractor that he occasionally did business with. The contractor had sent him a nice brief note wishing him a happy birthday (or some other special occasion; my memory is hazy). My friend's first thought was "Oh, wow, that was nice of him to remember." His second thought was "Wait, he probably has a calendar with the birthdates of all of his clients on it and software to send out a form letter on their birthday. He wants our business, after all." His third thought was "Well, it was nice of him to setup that software."

As separate, individual human beings without the luxury of mind-reading, we can't actually know why anyone does something. That's why people usually judge themselves by their intentions, but they judge others by their actions. If your actions demonstrate empathy to other people, is that any different from actually having that empathy?

(As a side note, this is one reason why market economies are so fascinating. It's a system built on the assumption that everyone is naturally self-interested and doesn't care about others that nevertheless manages to make its participants - even the most selfish and sociopathic of them - act in ways that benefit others.)
Let me try it differently.

What people choose to type, when they go into cloud cuckoo land while still sitting at their keyboards, doesn't seem rational. It seems random. Detached from thought.

You can read it and even while the grammar is fine, the writer doesn't seem to be a sentient, rational human being. Reading it feels like reading static, not human signal. The only explanation I've been able to come up with is that once someone takes the step to write such things, the actual content is largely random.

Perhaps that makes it more scary.
Thank you very much.
I see that they've changed how regret matching works and it that context it makes to only remember values from last iteration (or average from n last iterations).
Very interesting idea. I am still unable to make it work faster than naive CFR but I am probably missing some details.
You are interpreting. That's on you.
An enlightened society should aim to peacefully put aside religious fundamentalism. That's obviously a personal opinion as everyone can have a different idea of what's enlightened. People have a liberty of conscience and I respect that, if some people embrace fundamentalism, it saddens me but it's within their rights, as it's my right to find it ridiculous. I don't go and shoot them, I don't condone violence and I don't want them banned in the limits of hate speech. If some cartoonists decide to draw to mock and ridicule, good for them, they have every right to do so. I was not a reader of Charlie Hebdo. You find some of their drawing distastful too? So what?

You don't have a right not to be offended, not to be exposed to distasteful content. People that want satire banned sure can't call themselves moderates.

> You are a sick person, dude; not much different than the guys that made the news.

Now you are being unreasonnable. It's so despicable that you can draw that parallel. You are way out of line. When you suggests that maybe these cartoons shouldn't be legal. YOU are the one siding with terrorists.
Wow I am surprised the attention this post got. Yes I had full tenure and yes they take many years to get. I actually don't know of any other relatively young academic that has given up tenure.

I left because I had the opportunity to do so. I was always a bit of an unusual academic as I had founded a company after my phd rather than do a post doc. When I became an academic I kept my company and ultimately went back to it.

I do miss science and in an ideal world I would still be an academic scientist. Unfortunately science is far from ideal.
> Are you getting some customers?

Yes and they are quite happy based on our calls. They even said our price is good. However, they were still demanding. My biggest shock was when they said they were pitching to people they know.

> patio11 has written about the same thing

I vaguely remember it...would love to read that again.
Even more, I would say that several of the later points are very much valid still too. I'm still one of those people that believe that hacking does in fact relate to computers and electronics (!), so I think that learning to program, knowing HTML, being fluent in Unix and the ways of contributing mentioned in the article are still perfectly relevant as of today.

I do agree with	jwise0, though, in that the phrasing and some details are way too specific to the author's own experience.
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There is the latter group which you mention that is trapped.

But as for studies that show you make more if you graduate, that's only because we have designed the system that way. You can't get many jobs without a bachelor's degree (often times in anything), regardless of whether that four years of education is actually needed. Were the trap is for those people is the lost spending power every monthly student loan payment means for them. It limits what they can do.

I'm all about learning for learning's sake, but the question is whether these degrees are actually worth the artificial price tags we've put on them.
Bandcamp digital pay-what-you-what, live shows/festivals/events, and artwork bundles with album sales seem to be the model of most of my favorite dedicated musicians.

If you like an artist, support their work.
>These circuits can actually occupy a fair amount of space in a Minecraft world, but the world in the PC version is so large as to be effectively unlimited.

Not exactly! Only a part of the world is loaded around the player at once, and redstone elsewhere is frozen, so you must construct redstone within these boundaries. Though, I think there might be a mod to "fix" this behavior.
I was assuming 'cheating'.
Terrorists do absolutely NOT "just want to terrorize". They have goals. If they achieve their goals through the acts of terror, directly or indirectly, they win.
Interesting position on testing: "I generally don't consider my own software adequately enough tested until its tests have turned up a bug in a compiler/toolchain. So far I've not encountered a compiler bug for libsecp256k1 [...] so I may have to settle for discovering that a ubiquitous system library couldn't square correctly."

(The bug was found via comparing the output of libsecp256k1 and OpenSSL on "specially-constructed random inputs.")
The idea is not that university don't employee experts for specific areas, but that everyone has to teach and do research. The experts who are maintaining the network should be teaching students and doing research so that everyone is involved in the core activities of the university. When people have something to do with their time other than make administrative work for others then the mission of the university can be pursued by all.
Yes, especially when you consider that professors aren't rewarded for being good teachers, they are rewarded (tenure) by spending less time teaching well and more time on research (I apologize if this is redundant with what you have already said). The incentives are all out of whack.
The two-income household is sort of the 'betray' option in prisoner's dilemma. If nobody did it, labor would be vastly more valuable, and nobody would need two incomes to support a family (generally). Kids get a full-time parent, nobody has to depend on day care, it's an awesome deal for families. However, as soon as the critical mass of people starts depending on the extra income stream, the value of the labor drops and eventually that extra worker in the household isn't optional, it's required in order not to live a life of borderline (or real) poverty.
and which one would it be? islam and christianity are pretty much on part when it comes to body count.Do you think muslims converted whole parts of the world peacefully?
>It's like the current culmination of the work from Douglas Engelbart to Bret Victor.

This is no coincidence.

"Silicon Valley will be in trouble when it runs out of Doug Engelbarts ideas" -- Alan Kay

Bret works for Alan now, as far as I know.
I think he is saying that android was in such a weak position compared to IOS at the outset that google could not bargain with carriers to give them any sort of control.

They sold carriers on this platform that they could customize and manipulate(i.e revenue generating crapware and custom features) and deploy on a very diverse set of hardware. But the trade-off is that any software updates are blocked by massive cooperation by the carriers and OEMs.

This is all in contrast to IOS which is often touted as having near instant uptake of upgrades, and only needs to support about a dozen devices.
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The Nexus 7 does the same without any wireless charging. You just drop the device in the dock, and the POGO pins touch and start charging.

Wireless charging is a complex and inefficient gimmick for most devices, in my opinion.
If Apple were forced to standardise on a single SSD spec do you think they'd standardise on the higher spec component or the lower spec one? Clue - the higher spec components are almost certainly under supply constraints. You could even end up with higher spec components being intentionally crippled to match the performance of lower spec ones to comply with uniformity regulations.

Congratulations, you've now made the world worse for everybody, but at least it's 'fair'. Good job!
Was the performance on your 2012 Nexus 7 already very poor before L? I had read that the missing trim stuff came in kitkat, but my Nexus 7 2012 is painfully slow.
Tons of my friends are teachers. Software dev salaries are on the rise but I'm sure the medium is around this range. We constantly lose talent to the bubble markets in the US though.
I've noticed that in his talk. Easily looks like the most prestigious CS R&D lab in the world right now.
Open book, large project 'tests'.

Do the job, make the thing, etc. If you have to observe the process.
Not to mention, massive amounts of lame unit tests exercising a tiny fraction of the code base :p

Of course, "java-man" is probably just trolling.
It's possible they simply created another AI and gave it full information (including the opponent's hand) - essentially making a "perfect" player (who cheats). Not a useful program, but a good play-mate.
> I always thought that this article read more like "How to become Eric S. Raymond".

That seems like quite the coincidence given that Eric S. Raymond is the author of the article itself. Maybe there's something to that.

> For instance, he gives the monoculture that all hackers speak English

No. He doesn't give anything. He suggests that learning English is useful because the internet and hacker culture are dominated by it.

> But this essay is not that.

The scope of the document is clearly stated under the "Why This Document?" header.
Here in europe it is widely used. There might be some difference between what americans use and what europeans use. (She says that kind of in the article)
Well I am glad to have such a well thought out critique. You might be surprised to learn that academics are far cheaper to hire than admin staff and will work three times as hard. The whole idea is to get rid of all the pointless admin work. My idea is that you would have three times as many academics teaching and researching, but the university as a whole would be doing 10% of the admin work [1].

1. My personal experience is only about 10% of all administrative work is actually required - all the rest is either make work or nice-but-not-essential activities.
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That + CV gives an extremely good indication.
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Using the word "retard" has no effect on your targets. But it does effect people with a learning disability who are a group that is marginalised, stigmatised, and discriminated against.

There are a bunch of other words you could use: "idiots" fits nicely.
The tests the teacher is criticizing are standardized summative assessments used to rank, reward and punish students, teachers or both. These usually fail to provide any detailed feedback of instructional value, and frequently aren't even scored until students have advanced to the next grade. How do you use an SAT score to diagnose and then help Johnny with his conceptual misunderstanding of the relationship between exponents and logarithms? It is the wrong tool for the job.

On the other hand, TDD is formative testing: You iterate over the code until all the tests pass in a structured way. You don't fire programmers for writing code that doesn't pass all the tests on the first attempt, but deliver actionable feedback at every step. That kind of testing is massively useful in the classroom and teachers practice it with formal and informal assessments all the time.
Honest question:

We lived with one car (a car that was given to us) for 4 ½ years. During that time, I walked or rode my bike to school to save on gas. We recently bought a second car with money I saved from my web design business.

Is the US really structured so that owning one car is (seen as) a problem?
Good post and a lot of interesting points, some of which I've seen raised in the uk too. But one thing that confused me, in the US is only having one car and walking or cycling to work considered a big sacrifice?
My idea is not to dismiss anyone, but make sure that everyone is involved in teaching and research. The network people have a lot to give students and this should be made part of their job. When you have better things to spend your time on other than make work activities you avoid all of these pointless activities.
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I'd concentrate on improving the product and listening to those people who are happily paying for it.

> My biggest shock was when they said they were pitching to people they know.

I'm not clear what that means, exactly.
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In “America”, laws forbid people drink beer in public. Not old, forgotten laws: policemen use these everyday as reason to arrest and search people in the street.

In fact, in recent weeks, did US courts not repeatedly find nothing illegal had happened when the police executed someone who was standing in the street not being a danger?

France is not perfect but you need to get out more if you think “America”, as you call it, is better.
Sounds like you need to write an article about joy in minutiae! I would read it!

EDIT: Please write an article!
We had this on a school level. I am from different country and educational system, but have seen the pattern for several years as I was attending.

After first 4 years of school, all the classmates were split according to some equivalent of GPA.

Because we had 4 classes in a year (class as a group of students sharing a room and a schedule), it resulted in one full of very good students, two more or less mixed and one class of students that were barely passing from year to year.

I don't think it helped.
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I'm more or less a French leftist but I really despise the stance of this side about freedom of speech.

This is what is ironic with the Charlie Hebdo situation because France and left parties here don't support real freedom of speech, but they always say they do.

I think any idea should be allowed to be expressed and anything less is counter-productive in the end.

I like this Noam Chomsky quote :

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
(full disclosure, I do not know anything about the town OP is from)

It is a big sacrifice when you live in a suburban area, which typically don't have great (if any) public transit options. You could easily be 3 or 4 miles out from the nearest grocery store or shop - let alone your job.

In many cities in America, you NEED a car to get around. It's just not feasible to live without one.
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If anyone has any better suggestions, I'm all for it and encourage the mods to change the title.
I am not surprised with how much work is involved in administering grants as I had to spend a significant amount of my time doing this. Unfortunately almost all the time spent was pointless and not really needed.

All the support activities can be provided by academics. Actually it is far better that academics teaching to the students provide this support since they actually know what the students will face, not some admin flunky who has no real idea of what happens in the classroom.
Kind of related to this, I find it interesting that the ext file systems by default reserves a percentage of the space for the root user.
Yes, the U.S. is a giant country geographically and many areas have poor public transportation as a result of how spread out it is. Virginia is a fairly rural state.
Is it a big deal to have only one?
> Trying to learn to hack on a Microsoft Windows machine or under any other closed-source system is like trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast.

> Under Mac OS X it's possible, but only part of the system is open source — you're likely to hit a lot of walls, and you have to be careful not to develop the bad habit of depending on Apple's proprietary code. If you concentrate on the Unix under the hood you can learn some useful things.

I think this is still relevant. The best hackers I have known are people who understand things pretty much from top to bottom, and having the source code, and rights to use it are invaluable for that.

If you want to create a business, maybe Mac OS or Windows might be better for you (I get by with Linux just fine though), but if you want to be a "hacker" in the sense of having a thorough understanding of your whole computing environment, then you should probably be using Linux or BSD.
Make all schools compete for students. And if you can't pay teachers lots of money, at least give them some trust. They're in it for teaching.

It works relatively well over here.
I don't know about Waynesboro in particular, but in most US cities, public transport is between abysmal and non-existent. Add this to the fact that most cities are not as densely packed (as say Europe) and a penchant for suburban living, cars are quite important for commuting and to maintain a basic quality of life. It is a decent thumb rule that any working person or someone running errands will almost definitely need a car (eg: the nearest supermarket for grocery shopping might be about 5 miles away). So it is extremely common to see families have a couple of cars because the logistics would be very tough to manage with a single car.
> Unemployment is not welfare, it is insurance.

isn't that true of all welfare programs (i.e. healthcare, pension, disability)?
(I might be struggling among a cultural gap between US and europe)
Or "How my life improved once I started making friends"
Not downvoting, there's a legitamate concern about skin in the game mentality. But that's not how it is now. People take on debt by signing a piece of paper, they have no idea what that amount really means until they start paying it off. College loans are too easy to get, 20k here, 40k there, don't start paying until 4 years after. At 18 years old, how many students have experience struggling with interest payments that would take up almost all their disposable income?

Another thing is the peer pressure to attend college from an early age. Those that don't qualify for top tier schools settle for 2nd and 3rd choices, sometime state schools, other times private colleges that are basically degree mills charging 30k/yr.
They claim to reach 70% efficiency, by transmitting power on the wifi bands, and compare it to a charging mat (90%), and tout 15 feet distance, but leave out one detail:

How quickly efficiency drops off.

I suspect you only get 70% if your phone is literally on top of the router, and that the efficiency drops of very quickly to 0 as you approach the range limit.
How do you scale "talk to them"? One person can't talk to everyone. Once you have two people talking, how do you know if person As 8 ranking is really bigger than person Bs 7?

Further, if we accept your nihilistic belief that measurement is impossible, how can we know if teaching matters at all? What other sectors of the world does science fail in?