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The team can be lone-wolf organized thou since (for on-site competitions) each team only has one computer. The one I did we were 3 in the team. We divvied up the problems and each took turns hacking out the solution. Yes we consulted each other on the solution we were doing but mostly we worked on our own problem. This might have been a defective strategy since we missed the top ranked team by one problem, but had 3 nearly finished solutions when the buzzer rang.
It is funny how our industry enjoys building competitive hoops for us to jump through (see also programming interviews that you have to study for). We reject employers judging devs on how many WPM they can type, why do we do this to ourselves?
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I fell into a habit of wasting significant amounts of time reading HN and Reddit. I found that I drastically cut back when I installed Mind The Time for Firefox[1]. Seeing the sheer amount of time I was spending on various sites brought about a feeling of shame and I've worked to prevent it happening again since.

I've cut back on reading Reddit as it's just a total junk source and waste of time now. I still spend a little time every day reading HN as it's of higher quality and generally offers something of substance. Then I skim The Guardian and The Telegraph once or twice per day to keep up with the general news.

I also found a site called SkimFeed[2], I believe I first found it on here actually, which I use pretty heavily for skimming through the headlines.

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/mind-the-time...

[2]http://skimfeed.com/
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Unfortunately, this means that i can have my own key if I avoid tablets and laptops, and only build my own hardware. I'll still have to use Canonical or RedHat's (possibly NSA/GCHQ-compromised) keys in order to have portable computing.
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Better source of data: http://www.dslreports.com/gbu

One notable data point I can corroborate: Charter Business customer service is actually pretty good. It's their consumer end that has earned a poor reputation.
Why must it be "how you work on a day to day basis"?

Why must interviews only be about exactly what you're being hired to do?
http://www.drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/jobs-iq-te...

It's a general thing and not at all restricted to programming.
"Here are the exact specifications of the format of input and output into a console application, and the exact specifications of how the output must relate to the input. You have one hour to do this and your program must finish running within X seconds of being invoked on our test input."

I can't see how being talented at this would have any connection to talent at building a company, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if it was negatively correlated. I'm not really sure talent at winning programming competitions could be positively linked to other than talent at winning programming competitions. Valuable industry tasks differ substantially from what is done in a programming competition.
My problem with Thiel's logic is that he doesn't go far enough. If you've spent the past 12 years in the traditional education system you're ill equipped to forge your own path. If instead you've been figuring things out on your own for pretty much you're entire life, then by the time you reach college age you'll have the tools necessary to make the right decision for yourself.

I believe (and would love to see research around) that learning is a pull model. Traditional education works on a push model. This fundamental incongruence wastes decades of a person's most prime learning years. That's not counting all the other ills that come with the artificial environment of restricting immature people to interact primarily with other immature people (bullying, ostracization, self-confidence issues, depression, etc etc).

The model I plan to use with my own children is incredibly simple: do something productive 8 hours a day, every day. The set of productive activities is defined solely by their ability to justify why it's productive. That combined with good nutrition, emotionally supportive household, physical security give the building blocks and raw ingredients that will allow a person to achieve their full potential.
My professors are far from experts in their field. In fact, I'll go as far to say that this is a point for the other side of the argument: in teaching things to myself i find myself on mailing lists and IRC where i have far more interaction with actual experts.

I was taught data structures by a guy giving powerpoints and code examples on windows XP. In 2014.
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Right, and for that reason, I view ChromeOS as sort of a "House Arrest" sort of situation; still a jail (hardware bypass required to write to the drive? Wtf.), but more lenient. A kinder, gentler slavery, as George HW Bush might have said.
It seems that changing your local DNS settings seems like a rather trivial barrier to get around but this technique is pretty useful. For me, procrastination is a subconscious habit and routing your time-sinks to "purple.com" is really eye-opening. Instead of just mindlessly typing in "reddit.com" and wasting 30 minutes before you realize it, you now get an immediate indicator of your intentions.
I may be missing the sarcasm but the idea that "nobody want to travel and take photos of [modern movement]" is about as myopic as it is perfectly opposite to one of the leading pedagogies in architecture schools today. People do make tours (pilgrimages, only semi-facetiously, if you're an architect) to see modern architecture, even some of the most brutal examples...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture

That these buildings would be less prevalent in tours is hardly surprising given that they are new, primarily functional (this is another matter for debate), and do not strive to give one the same feeling of erudition as might be found in an "old" building. I would be very surprised to hear of postmodern architecture being more popular on tours than others, however.

Debates on the values of these movements are fierce and alive amongst architects and other designers. The New Yorker article that you linked is interesting but captures barely a sliver of the whole story (which we do/can not necessarily know). The reason I was probing above in my response to bane is because we all tend to fall short on a topic when opinions become fortified by singular viewpoints.
The most prosperous, safest, healthiest, most free society in the history of humanity.

Now you're just being jingoistic.

Prosperity I can give you, but safety (which does not trump liberty, I'm afraid) and health are areas where the USA lags behind. What categories would you use to determine safety anyway - crime rates in general, murder rates, the level of security theater?

Freedom is a quality which evades measurement. There's plenty of countries which have greater social mobility, personal autonomy and social acceptance of historically deviant behaviors than the USA.

Segregation is now gone (and the black middle class has exploded in size)

How is this relevant to voting or mending deeply flawed mechanics of how the government is run? The civil rights movement got rid of heinous barriers, it didn't make any changes to fundamental technical workings.

women are now educated and work in greater numbers than men

The Western world sort of convened on this at around the same time period.

Or just look closely at a photo of the current President of the United States and see if you notice something surprising.

Highly skilled communicator, policies no different from the norm over the past few decades. Oh, and black. Right.
Wasn't someone here saying these SSDs consume an abnormal amount of power to achieve those (2x?) faster speeds than current PCIe SSDs? Or was that applicable just to Intel's SSDs?
See also, the Kickstarter campaign to update it:

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I'd need to know more about the hiring data, the actual correlation method, how they collected the data, what was the sample size...

Basically, like I wrote, I would need to know more.
The particular benchmark in question was coremark which tries to test the performance of the core instead of the entire processor. While I agree completely that the uncore parts of the processor are very important, they aren't really a part of the RISC vs CISC discussion (Intel could swap out x86 and keep the uncore parts mostly unchanged). There are other sources comparing ARM and x86, but I leave that up to you.

source http://www.vrworld.com/2011/02/21/why-nvidiae28099s-tegra-3-...

source http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/systems-interface/44199...

Programs like cinebench or linpack are used to to test top-end performance. A lot of things factor into these benchmarks, but SIMD, cache, and data throughput factor very heavily into them. This is why Sunway BlueLight supercomputer (a PetaFLOP computer) uses an Alpha design from around 1997 paired with a very large SIMD. The old core was "fast enough" to keep the SIMD units flowing.

When it comes to branch prediction, the techniques are well-known. The 13-stage A8 supposedly has 95% branch prediction rates (http://www.ti.com.cn/cn/lit/wp/spry112a/spry112a.pdf), so I wouldn't say that is an issue (except to say that x86 decoding is much more complex and usually adds several extra stages to the pipeline which requires more sophisticated prediction hardware along with the associated costs).

As far as prefetching go, the contract is basically that the programmer puts related data close together and the computer fetches the nearby data. The bigger the caches, the better chances of hitting. This is why lisp's pervasive use of linked lists can be problematic when compared to arrays (in theory) and why a naive b-tree implementation can be less performant than expected.

Adding cache takes die and power. When Intel tries for low power, one of the first things it does is cut the cache size. IBM did something very interesting on this front when they used onboard eDRAM for cache (along with some fancy refresh logic to deal with persistence problems) because it was much more dense allowing more cache per chip (32MB L3 at 45nm).
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Not to be gratuitously negative, but...

All of these claims from Google that say competition performance hurts or that GPA doesn't matter are missing one huge thing: selection bias.

Google only sees the performance of the employees that it hires, not the performance of the employees that it doesn't hire. Because of this, the data they analyze is statistically biased: all data is conditioned on being employed by Google. So when Google says things like "GPA is not correlated with job performance" what you should hear is "Given that you were hired by Google, GPA is not correlated with job performance."

In general, when you have some thresholding selection, it will cause artificial negative correlations to show up. Here's a very simple example that I hope illustrates the point: Imagine a world where high school students take only two classes, English and Math, and they receive one of two grades, A or B. Now imagine a college that admits students with at least one A (AB, BA, or AA) and that rejects everyone without an A (BB). Now imagine that there is absolutely zero correlation between Math and English - performance on one is totally independent of the other. However, when the college looks at their data, they will nonetheless see a stark anticorrelation between Math and English grades (because everyone who has a B in one subject always has an A in the other subject, simply because all the BBs are missing from their dataset).

The bottom line is that whenever you have some score that is some positive combination of input variables and then you threshold your observed data on a minimum total score (as is the case in hiring at Google or in college admissions), then you will see much stronger negative correlations between your inputs than exists in real life.

And really, whenever you run some selection algorithm, you should hope that (on the margin) there are no correlations between your selection decision and your inputs. If there still is a correlation post-selection, that means your algorithm has left money on the table. So when Google says that programming competitions are negatively correlated with performance and GPA is uncorrelated with performance, what that likely means is that Google's hiring overvalues programming competitions and fairly values GPA.

In fact, if we did a randomized controlled study (the gold standard of proving causation), I think we'd see the expected results. Just imagine - if you grabbed two random programmers from the entire population, one who had won a competition and one who had not, do you really think the competition winner would be the inferior programmer?

Edit: Many other posts here are coming up with plausible sounding narratives to fit the data. "Competition winners are one-trick ponies or loners or write awful code." I encourage everyone to think critically about the data analysis itself.

Edit2: From Gwern's comment, this phenomenon is apparently called Berkson's paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
I find it interesting that the article takes every step except for the very last one.

The increase in public funding of universities has inflated the enrollment, decreased the quality of education, and increased the pricing by allowing sub-par schools to survive.

In any economic situation, an increase in the quantity of money trying to consume a restricted quantity of resources increases the price. This is an economic fact. How does the article simply make the point that the increase in public funding isn't why the costs have increased but not even bring up the correlation between the increase in funding and the costs going up??

If we have 100 apples of production a year at the current price, and someone comes along and gives people who want apples some money to buy apples, the apple seller can increase the price without much resistance. Everyone who wants apples pays more because the money in this market is inflated.

Government has inflated the market. As a 34 year old college senior about to graduate with honors, I see this every single day at school. The failure rates for the low levels classes is ~50% and even THAT is inflated because the teachers are frowned upon if they fail to pass students. When teachers fail to pass students, students drop out and the college stops getting money. So they string them along into higher and higher levels classes hoping they catch on and catch up. This has led to me being in 300-400 level computer science classes with people who have absolutely no business being in college at all, let alone anywhere near a computer.

They have no functional knowledge of computing, and have no chance of getting a job even if they manage to get through college with a C average.

Unfortunately, the higher level teachers bend to the lower capability in the class as well... I had a 425 advanced database class where the teacher told us that some people still had not managed to install mysql after the midterm...

The only reason kids were passing with C's is they were googling for answers on the open-laptop tests.

By subsidizing the marketplace, the government is allowing schools that should close or be radically reformed to continue chugging along.

Another tangental issue is college sports. Colleges can play all sorts of games with the way money is spent on college sports and athletes. Companies can donate huge sums of money for sports complexes that are suppose to benefit the entire student body, but the athletes at my school have a separate gym with high end amenities where the regular students use a cheaper gym with normal gym equipment. I pay for classes, but people who run faster than me get in for free, get easy A classes, and get high end amenities. They get free food, special athlete lodging, and the list goes on and on. All of this is coming out of the general coffers.

While they have both hot whirlpools and cold tanks to aid in their workout recovery, I'm in a "computer science" building rented off campus, with no place to plug in a power cord.

I'm really shocked to see the NYTimes go as far as they did. Certainly, the article will be met with spite from the left as well as the right.
I trim the fat every now an again, everything is read via Feedly and I have it on my phone to really quick scanning over whilst doing menial things like eating breakfast or traveling. Marking interesting stuff for reading later.

The major time saver is really not reading or replying to comments. Hackernews is the opposite to that rule where most of the time the comments are more insightful than the article.

Think of it in term of signal to noise ratio. How much good information have you gained and how much did you have to wade through to get there. Comments sections on websites are usually high noise. Reddit is no exception in my experience. There might be microcosms of insight but finding them is too hard.
Well imagine comparing person A who worked on a serious project and won 10 programming competitions vs person B who worked on 11 serious projects.
I like this comment. Do you have any links to articles on this theory?
I brought a strong argument.

That's why you're devolving into name-calling.
Driven by what? If it is driven by title then you have something like this http://www.nextbigwhat.com/indian-developers-accused-of-chea...
The most accurate answer in the thread, though too brief and thus will be easily dismissed. In the interest of fleshing out this answer in such a way as to make it useful:

For those interested in why this is the most accurate answer, go read "Willpower" by Baumeister.

http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human...

I am always surprised, though shouldn't be I suppose, that the first answer for so many people is some completely externalized solution (e.g. blockers, network disconnection, etc.).

There are tools that can help you to create habits, but you must be aware of the role that self-regulation plays in ongoing maintenance of these habits, otherwise the moment the tools or support infrastructures you've put in place are gone, your habits will revert.

Don't make your self control reliant on app updates.
Ah yes, because every company should act according to your moral code.

God forbid you ever be wrong about anything.
That's just a design decision for those models. It's still PCIe, nothing is causing wasted power.
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> being a winner at programming contests was a negative factor for performing well on the job

The title is misleading. Being a winner of a programming competition is very different from being good at programming competitions.
If you look at the historic context of military vs. education spending, I don't think it's a straw man at all to point the difficulty of raising non-defense spending. In fact, the difficulty of raising taxes in the US is just put in more stark lighting when in perspective of the amounts spent on the military vs. everything else.

I'm not saying state spending is impossible, just that raising it for non-military items is exceedingly difficult. That's not the only reason why the US university system is worse in x way than y country's, but when we're discussing public funding of universities we have to acknowledge the political and fiscal realities of trying to do something about it. I say that when accounting for those realities and the difference in public funding levels for education and other programs, it's no surprise that we have students in debt.
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I have a question. If the accused persons in the examples presented had not: 1. Fired a gun in the air; 2. Attacked some lady to steal her stuff; or 3. Taken things from a store that obviously weren't theirs, would they have been in front of a grand jury in the first place?

If the 10 jacket thief had stolen zero jackets then there'd be no way that he'd be fighting a grand vs petit larceny charge. The warning shot guy, he also wouldn't have been facing an attempted murder charge. What's the excuse for the guys that robbed the lady on the sidewalk? Profiled or not, it doesn't seem that their actions were in dispute, even by the skeptic.

I fail to understand how being "of color" forces someone to fire a gun threateningly, steal 10 jackets or rob a lady on the sidewalk. The trials and punishments could possibly be racially biased, but the crimes aren't. What percentage of people in prison are unequivocally innocent and have never broken a law? Even the Gary Graham case in Texas a few years ago, which claimed he was innocent of the specific murder with which he'd been charged still went on an undisputed rape and robbery spree (where he allegedly committed a murder.) Almost without question he would never had been on death row had he not made the decision to seriously harm others. His decisions led to his consequences. The lesson should be: Don't hurt people, don't steal stuff and you won't be facing the potential immorality of a Assistant DA looking to boost charges.

However, I am aware that there are cases where the prosecution attempts to make a case where there isn't one. That should be a crime in itsef.

I've been a victim of crime several times (I drove a taxi in Houston during college.) One (of the two) times I was robbed at gunpoint the perpetrator had his front teeth completely gold; however when I looked at the photo lineup, All of the teeth had been blacked out. I was informed that gold teeth use in identifying suspects had a racial unfairness aspect and to prevent the undue 'racial' influence from a gold tooth identification, they blacked them out. I explained, "but it was a black guy with gold teeth!" So we could have quickly eliminated all of the Asian guys with no teeth. Alas no. The fact is this, the guy and his friends that ambushed me in Houston that night on Coke Street likely set aside their criminal ways after that night, found Jesus and started volunteering in the community right? Or, more likely they found themselves in front of a grand jury debating whether they stole 10 or 11 jackets.

After having a .38 pointed at my head while I was face down on the sidewalk over $130, I have very little patience with people who want to knit-pick over if the cops smelled alcohol on an assailant's breath after they robbed some lady on the street.

You don't want to go in front of a grand jury? The way to do that with the highest degree of probability is to not commit crimes. The plea bargain debate is moot if there is no crime in the first place.
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I would like to think it is at least somewhat related to what I am doing, rather than a lucky dip of a question that I might get or might not. I am a way better software engineer than 15 years ago, yet I am worse at these sort of "challenges".
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