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RCA London teaches: "Animation | Architecture | Ceramics & Glass | Communication Art & Design | Conservation | Critical and Historical Studies | Curating Contemporary Art | Design Interactions | Design Products | Drawing Studio | Fashion Menswear | Fashion Womenswear | Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery | History of Design | Innovation Design Engineering | Painting | Photography | Printmaking | Sculpture | Textiles | Vehicle Design"

http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=159384

The guys BA has worked as a graphic designer (advertising copy by the looks of it) but took his MA in "Design Products".

Edit: another of their alumni, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Day_%28designer%29
I just finished reading "How We Decide" by Jonah Lehrer. It discusses a number of similar experiments where scientists observe what parts of the brain are activated during different types of situations. According to some experiments dealing with feelings seems to draw resources away from the part of the brain used to solve problems that require analytical thought.

A similar experiment involved having people perform analytical tasks while being exposed to situations that require self-restraint. The harder the tasks, the less people are able to resist temptation.
Yeah, that's definitely something I've noticed. I'm going to make a sweep through everything to clean up the marketing text, and then I also want to implement some kind of hint/tip system in the sidebar that will help with explaining how to do things.
I do a lot of public speaking[1], and occasionally earn a speakers fee for doing so. I'd be interested in doing more paid speaking gigs (in particular the in-house type) but it's not at all obvious how to get them.

There are plenty of speaking agencies for celebrities / motivational speakers, but nothing for technical speakers. I've been thinking for a while that there's an interesting business opportunity here - a speaking agency that specialises in technical topics ("the guy who created Solr" / "one of the Linux kernel comitters" / etc) and goes out and sells them to companies that want to know more about specific technologies.

[1] http://simonwillison.net/talks/
A good night's sleep.
I did the same and ditched DirecTV last February and saved the same 80-90/month.I honestly haven't had the time with my startup and blog to even turn on the TV for more than an hour a week, and am somewhat considering selling it .. 50" plasma.

That being said my setup also consists of a Vudu box that lets me rent movies whenever I want (actually have used this a ton) and a Roku netflix streaming box but I ended up canceling netflix to save money. If I have the time to watch anything, it is likely on my PC that shares the same desk as my development Mac.

Over the years I have documented my various home theater setups.. starting with my 100-inch college projector diy setup:

http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-100-inch-uber-theater-on-a-b...

http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-download-with-newsgroups

http://paulstamatiou.com/going-hd-part-1

http://paulstamatiou.com/going-hd-part-2-htpc

http://paulstamatiou.com/going-hd-part-3-blu-ray-and-surroun...

http://paulstamatiou.com/review-boxee-media-center-or-going-...

http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-build-microsoft-windows-7-in...

(this is not an attempt at link baiting, I genuinely believe several people in this thread will enjoy what I've got to say)
Actually, that's a generalized problem with firing protections of any kind; the harder you make it to fire anyone, the less likely they are to be hired in the first place. Another case where second-order effects can end up dominating the end results. "At-will employment" sounds like a worker disaster if you only consider first-order effects, but in my opinion it is actually the preferable scenario for a worker if you consider everything.

Well, for a good worker anyhow.
I'm not sure we'd consider this good Python these days; Python had some ugly warts and quirks that got fixed in later versions.
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I suppose this is a good way to look at it. The REALITY is these guys can only do what they can do. The fact that what they can do may not help them pull equal to whites is beyond their control.

The issue is that I was raised to believe that all Americans, regardless of race, have the same access to opportunities. Then, when I grew up, graduated college and took a commission in the USMC, this idea was further drummed into me. But this data is saying that this is untrue. Setting up serious conflict in my mind. Which is what my original comment was about.

Put another way, if you change the things you can change, you can make yourself the equivalent of anyone was my view of the US. But this is not the case, even if these guys get an education their chances are still slimmer than other guys without an education.

The general feeling of acceptance here is somewhat shocking to me as well. This is not what I thought America was about, or the American people. Don't get me wrong, I know there are bigots, but I thought they were in the minority. Perhaps more naivete on my part.

In short, I find it totally unacceptable for a black high school grad to have less of a chance at opportunities than a white non graduate. Saying that if blacks get educated they can do better than non educated blacks, though not as well as non educated whites, is lunacy. It's like saying, this is the best that YOU can expect in this society, so be happy, there is no problem.

Why does that seem so acceptable to so many people here? Or maybe it is just the few who are talking the loudest I don't know. Or perhaps a lot of these people commenting are not even American. Which I would bet on, given the content of some of these comments.

It could also be that I have been living in the uber-privileged la-la land of an ex-military officer.

Or maybe a little bit of all of these things.
I know what you mean. A black colleague of mine was recently let go from my company and he found new employment pretty quickly. I wonder, if you graphed unemployment for developers would there be such a large difference between blacks and the other races?
This sector and the issues around it are about to explode (canceling cable, online content, digital living room, associated hardware, etc.).

The one resounding friction point people have when it comes to canceling cable is: SPORTS. Sadly it's content that requires you to make deals with gatekeepers, but someone should do something around RFS 4 and sports. I don't know if it starts as anything more than espn talking heads type content, but people clearly want more sports content via the internet to watch in their living room.
First, go for a walk. Everyday. No excuses. 1 hour minimum.

Then, stop trying to work at the end of your day. Start working within the first 6 hours of your day.

Tea is awesome.

And if you're into it, cannabis is a great concentration/inspiration aid, but just a couple of hits, you know. Otherwise you get too wasted and won't code a thing.
That guideline gets so ridiculously abused. I really wish Paul would rephrase it.

This submission has absolutely nothing to do with this site, flagged.
They're too busy not reporting on Glenn Beck's supposed involvement with a female in 1990.
Two things:

1) Understand whether you are blocked on a design question or a coding question. Is the problem you can't find the answer or the problem that you can't make the answer happen in code?

2) Purposeful distraction. Sleep. Go for a walk. Play a FPS. Learn to distract yourself for short periods throughout the day. When done correctly, this gives your subconscious time to work on the problem. When done very well over a period of days, it "ramps up" your problem-solving skills.

I'm starting off a small project this weekend. After a few hours of coding last night (my first coding session in a while) I got blocked.

So I went to sleep.

As I slept, in my dream (or when I was barely conscious, hard to tell) I realized what I needed to do next. When I woke up I was ready to get at it.

The trick is to make these times purposeful (not random procrastinating) and to never try to code your way out of a design block. Sometimes problem-solving is best approached like night vision: you see the most at night by not looking directly at the thing you're tying to see.

Hope that makes some sense.
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I am not sure it is evolutionarily useful to become self destructive upon rejection, I imagine rejection has always been fairly common.

I think the researchers' interpretation is very biased. I can easily imagine that the aggressive reaction is in fact useful. Perhaps not in modern high tech. society, but even in modern day we are still an aggressive species and aggression in often sexy, men with a criminal background on average have more children. And today still, aggressive behaviour is a pretty good way to gain social status in high school.
You're stretching yourself mighty thin conceptually there. Finding hidden patterns in music listening? The only pattern we might find is that certain types of music are listened to more among programmers than others. I'd place bets on Led Zeppelin and electronica—those are the stapleholds of computer people—but even if I'm wrong, I haven't learned much.

Hacker News is hitting its adolescence, trying to figure out if it wants to be a serious grown-up or a more playful person. I'd prefer the serious grown-up community. If I wanted to discuss music, I'd do it on Facebook or Reddit, depending on how willing I'd be to get into arguments with douches.
the key thing is to not give your personally identifiable info out in the first place. have 2 profiles: one for 'namespace' discovery and 'general friends' and another for real friends and posts that contains no PII links. is there an app for that?
The issue here is not abuse of the guidelines, it's that western people typically don't want to see anything like this, because it goes against their worldview. I understand the feeling.

But most people finding this kind of material uncomfortable doesn't change the fact that it should be brought up more, to raise awareness. Things are different in some European countries, where muslim immigrants are most definitely a problem, but where the governments suppress all negative publicity about it.

You don't actually know anything about what's going on, obviously, so it would be a good idea to find out for yourself, and form your very own opinion about these things. Peace & Harmony is not the reality, it's what we as westerners are wired to want to believe.

By the way, censoring this submission from HN because of the content would be tantamount to what European governments are doing. Inconvenient truths should not be swept under the rug, they need more sunlight.
Perhaps OP should have tried to negotiate with Time Warner. I'm paying $79 for tv, HD, DVD, 3 months free showtime, AND high speed Internet.
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I live in Spain. Local TV shows are crap, and cable or tv-over-dsl price & coverage also is. Satellite is dying and DTV (and soon, paid DTV) is taking over.

Right now, if you want good TV shows (US ones, basically) you have to subscribe to any satellite or cable/tv-over-dsl offer including FOX and AXN. You pay the equal of 80$ a month for watching badly dubbed TV shows, aired a few months after airing in the US. As a bonus, your internet connection is slow when you're watching TV (or recording a tv show with your shiny DVR which is obviously not included in the stupidly expensive setup fee) if you use tv-over-dsl (the most common way to get "premium" tv here).

And that's why I download tv shows. I have a Fonera router connected to my home DSL router. The Fonera runs a "patched" system (allows to stream movies through SMB –without asking password– and doesn't hangs the fonera's cpu when loading multiple files at once). When a new episode appears, it's pushed to the transmission server (the fonera runs a webserver and has a RPC service). Transmission downloads the episode, and it's "published" through the LAN network so I can copy it to any computer through WiFi, watch it through the wired LAN network or just watch it from the multimedia hard drive (which has a built-in network interface and a SMB client), sitting on the sofa (and enjoying a pretty good quality!).

So, definitely, it's much better to have my favorite TV shows ready to watch at any time (and having them downloading during the night, so my 1,5mbit connection doesn't suffers from it) than paying 80$ each month for what they call "premium tv". That it's not the future, but that doesn't means we have to live in the past, right?
high school and prisons, huh?
Somewhere now, S. jobs is having thoughts of approaching this mouse and pop out all buttons but one with a keyring :)
You should try Plex. It's fantastic for all of the above (except stuff through iTunes and Discovery).
I've done quite a bit of studying on this topic before 9-11 (and before all the sensationalist books and such)

I honestly don't think this group wants to know, shiranaihito. They are unable to process this information (and I haven't reviewed much except the first video) in any kind of reasonable dispassionate way.

If it were rock-collecting practices of men who wore turbans, complete with flash graphics and a twitterfeed? Different story entirely. But this is just too much for them. It conflicts with so many preconceived notions and ideas and requires such a rethinking of western cosmopolitan virtues that it's a non-starter. (although I agree it is important and interesting)

Flagged.
Yeah, wifi syncing requires that you have access to a wifi network that doesn't block/break things.
I hypothize that the counter - control mechanism that they claim absent is actually depression. You are rejected, you then either become aggressive or fall into a depression which has been shown to cause dwelling on issues and analying a problem endlessly, hopefuly allowing a solution to be found.
Digg is dead: Twitter killed it and Google helped bury the corpse
I disagree. Digg committed seppuku.
"I'm sure there are some out there but I've never heard of any other web frameworks for Ruby."

Which is real shame, because there are many really good options for Ruby Web development.

What people are saying here abut Rails I felt about Nitro, whihc came out at the same time but had a more well-considered implementation. It was thread-safe from the start, much faster than Rails, did less mucking around (if any) with core Ruby classes, made it easy to swap in different ORMs, offered a trnsformation pipeline that was simialr to Rack middleware; in fact, it seemed much like what Rails3 is going to be, only five years ago.

But it got no traction in Rubyland. In fact, at one MountainWest RubyConf, Chad Fowler flat out told people to stop working on Nitro, because there was Rails.

There's a weird myopia among many Rubyists, a lack of curiosity about what else is happening.
Even if a backup is done in a trivial way, you really don't want to start messing in backups as part of normal operations. A simple bug can destroy the wrong data. Without a backup, that data is lost forever. And making a backup of a backup so you can mess in the primary backup completely destroys the usefulness.
The original paper is behind a paywall but I found the 4-page article "Rejected and alone" by Roy Baumeister -- one of the researchers -- to be an interesting read.

http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm/v...

* Rejection affects behavior, but has generally no or little effect on emotion: "Thus, social exclusion does have powerful effects on people, but these effects do not depend on emotional
distress. This has been something of a shock to many of us and has even led us to question some widely held assumptions about the purpose of emotion and its relationship to behaviour."

* Social exclusion results in a higher pain threshold and a higher tolerance for pain. "Further studies indicated that the numbness to physical pain can explain the emotional numbness that we had observed over and over."
I can honestly say that that isn't the algorithm that would have occured to me. In CL, this is the what I would have thought to do:

(defun butnth (index list)
(append (subseq list 0 index)
(subseq list (1+ index))))

(defun shuffle (list)
(unless (null list)
(let ((index (random (list-length list))))
(cons (nth index list)
(shuffle (butnth index list))))))

Building a second sequence by randomly selecting nodes from the old sequnece and inserting them into the new sequence seems more intuitive to me. It certainly works better with lists. If I where working with arays, the OPs method would be more efficient.
Did anyone else wish the author just stuck with talking about public speaking than all the other issues he tries to play off of(ie. clean water)? I gained insights that I enjoyed but it didn't have to be this long and convoluted. Then again, may be he is just proving his point about public speakers:)
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Are you seeing so much cash-flow that you need to automate it?

Last time I wrote a script that managed a finite resource for me, it made 200 phone calls in 5 minutes on my dime!

If you can't write a web utility to do that, you probably are not ready to move money around via a script yet, if ever.
When I canceled, my real reason was because the highrise I was living in at the time only had a 3LNB dish instead of the 5LNB necessary to point to all the satellites that carried HD programming... so I had this bleeding-edge 50-inch TV.. and SD programming. No thanks.
The idea of IQ, or intelligence quotient, was originally formulated as measure of a person's innate intelligence. It was supposed to be something you were born with, and not something that would change with the environment. This is just the latest study that shows that IQ is, in fact, sensitive to one's environment, and can change. I hope people will someday learn to avoid taking IQ tests as these unquestionable measures of how smart someone is, or ever will be.
How do you now this? How do you get the stats on what framework is in use?
Indeed, the problem is that people just flat out refuse to process this information, because it's unpleasant. The exact same thing happens everywhere in Europe too, and is the biggest obstacle to eventually dealing with the problems.

To process this, along with some other things in life, one needs to be able to adjust his worldviews, and to entertain the notion that perhaps whatever his current belief of something is might be wrong.

It just seemed to me that a forum with lots of really intelligent people might be able to handle this material in a reasonable way.

It may prove to be really freaking unfortunate if our only option is to just let Islam in Europe unfold.

After what you said, I'm surprised that you flagged this too. Is preventing discussion really the right choice here? It's cute how you already got an upvote for the word "flagged".

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And the thread is dead. The esteemed HN community did a nice job of self-censoring dissidence.
I can't get it to do anything. I see a guy in a cage and a guy walking back and forth. Arrows and A doesn't do anything. FF3.5 on Mac.
Just to know, how many fps do you have approx? I'm stuck at like 7fps...
For free, the best show on TV:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/
This just in: Being aggrevated hurts when taking tests!

Seriously, what did the researchers expect? That frustration wouldn't affect people's focus?
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1) If you find yourself trying to design features and write the code simultaneously, then try breaking up those steps. Get away from the computer, grab a pencil & paper, put your designer hat on and go to town. Then drop the notes by your desk, grab lunch, come back, and act like you are implementing someone else's design.

2) If you have a design but are just trying to figure out how to implement it, then TDD can help a lot. Write a test that checks if your thing does what it is supposed to. Then run the test, it should say you have X failures. There, now you have a concrete problem to solve: you need to fix those failures.

3) If you are intimidated by a large coding problem, try instead to just make the simplest possible prototype version that just barely works. Even if this exercise causes you to write throwaway code, it's worthwhile. Once you have something working at all, it's easier to think about the features that you need to add to make it finished.

In general I think people get blocked when they try to solve too many open-ended questions at once. So try to break apart your problems into bite-sized pieces, and find ways to turn your open-ended questions into specific, measurable problems.
I plan to submit an update to Apple in a week or so, so feedback would be great.
So where does Windows come in this picture? You have her going from Mac to Linux...
Some things I have learned:

Make a big, approximate plan of everything you have to do. Take the first step and detail it, dividing it in little, non-scaring tasks. Then start working on the first. While you are working on one, concentrate on that and forget about the big map.

Seriously divide work and non-work life. During the non-work part, completely forget the work. This is actually beneficial for work too.

Never sacrifice on sleep.

If you notice that you find difficuly in starting a new task on your list at the beginning of a work day, try closing your work day by leaving something to be completed (but that you know how to do it). This helps bootstrapping the next day. But don't think about it all the night!

If you feel that coding is becoming boring and repetitive, escalate your skills a little (enough to make things interesting, not enough to cause panic). Learn metaprogramming.
You make a good point, and I don't necessarily even feel comfortable doing that.

I just don't want them stealing my code and turning it around and using it for other clients. We are, technically, competitors.

I'll figure out why they want SVN access and make it very clear that they can't modify or use my code at all without my consent.
Thanks. Saw that autogeneration issue in our error logs, but didn't see the the message we sent too small and/or in the wrong place! will make feedback messages stand out more. thanks!
Using Chrome 4.0.223.16, it's peaking at 125, but typically holding around 99. On the death screen it dipped to 66 a couple times, which is strange since there isn't much going on there.
yes, i agree that meta description is very important. on pages we have of people's items, we're putting user comments in them. any other suggestions?

also, what lists domain name do you own? some people don't love the name KartMe...
Try swinging the cage back and forth.
Yeah, that's what i was going for :)
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Very well put @rauljara -- The argument about SATs and IQ tests seems to come up almost weekly on here.

To add to that fire, I also don't believe that GPA has much to tell about someone's performance and capabilities (don't get me wrong, in some ways it does, but now how companies like Google use it to "weed" out applicants).
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You might be right, but I would like to see more discussion on the topic. Is the ageism a result of actions by non-programmers, or are programmers contributing to it too?

Few days ago a guy complained about having to write code during the job search process. Most comments I read here on HN were not sympathetic to him. He was advised not to send out as many resumes, show more passion etc etc. "Show some code" is a totally different request than "Show me the code for this exact problem I made up" - yet many programmers here were commenting as if they have never had to do a job search.

My point is that before blaming others, it might be good for the community to introspect and see if the cause is truly from outside.