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You make a great point, one that I have been thinking about, and unfortunately, I'm not sure if I can entirely agree with it.

There are something to be said about habit and discipline. Certainly, one should never pursue something they have no interest in whatsoever. But for any thing we want to accomplish in life, there are tangent, chores, and generally "schlep" that you can't avoid. An extreme reading of your comment would mean that we should give up at the first road block. How do you differentiate between lacks of internal motivation, and great motivation being thwarted by fear of unpleasant tasks? In an ideal world, that shouldn't be an issue, in the real world, it's a lot harder to know.

When you're playing an instrument, if you've practiced a piece few hundreds times, you don't think your playing is good anymore. You know when you're making mistake, but even when you're playing perfectly, your perception of the piece you're playing would be a lot more "meh" comparing to the perception of some outside listener -- after all, you've heard that piece a lot of times. Motivated or not, without discipline it's unlikely you can keep doing things over and over.

When I was younger, I've always thought that great people doing great things by just focusing on their genuine interest, ie a physicist just want to understand the nature of the universe, and not particularly care whether his work is gonna have any impact or effect. It turns out that interest might not be the full picture: people who do great work might actually be conscious in wanting to be great, too. One of the example would be Richard Hamming, mentioned in his "You and Your Research" essay (which just popped up on HN lately, actually), even Feynman's biography mentioned that he need introspection during the period when he wasn't being productive as a physicist.

> In order to get at you individually, I must talk in the first person. I have to get you to drop modesty and say to yourself, ``Yes, I would like to do first-class work.'' Our society frowns on people who set out to do really good work. You're not supposed to; luck is supposed to descend on you and you do great things by chance. Well, that's a kind of dumb thing to say. I say, why shouldn't you set out to do something significant. You don't have to tell other people, but shouldn't you say to yourself, ``Yes, I would like to do something significant.'' -- Richard Hamming, You and Your Research.
I think the GNU Octave folks are using libgccjit to write a JIT for their Matlab-like language.
OK, I think the difference is whether the amount of money is fixed. If it were, global investment would equal global savings.

In any case, it's locally possible to invest more (in nominal terms) than savings, both because money supply is increasing and there are always local imbalances.

Typically, interest rate differentials take care of this in a free market. Reducing the interest rate in Germany would be one cure, another one would be hiking it in the importing countries. So I don't see the blame at one side only.
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> Pick a long-term goal (interstellar flight, artificial intelligence, peace on earth, whatever), break it into manageable projects, then start.

Let's think strategically: if your first project is curing aging and achieving immortality, then every other project after that is just a matter of time. Just sayin'.
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Since I've seen a few comments about units not having lightseconds so here are a few ways to add the missing unit if you don't have it.

1) Add this line under the lightyear definition in /usr/share/misc/units.lib (or wherever `man units` says the standard units library is under the FILES section)

lightsecond lightyear / 365.25 / 24 / 60 / 60

2) If you're on a mac and use homebrew just `brew install gnu-units` and then run `gunits`
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I wouldn't say subtle. Sociopathic perhaps...?
Just to add my advice to the list. I'm 35, I went through a path to get to be a developer that took me long, I could call myself "software developer" round 30's, that's by the time I finish my Bachelor degree and found a job related to development. What I did in between was fixing computers, sysadmin, and netadmin .. I always got bored in those jobs as I knew I could do better.

Then I got into the devel world and I started doing the same as you do. But maybe because I became father in between, maybe something else ... I end up turnning off the media noise and add some behaviours:

1. Kill your ego, it just don't help you get better.
2. Read news about tech you find interesting, but just read them, if you feel like, just try them.
3. Start getting off the screen, walk around (meditate, sports, just walk surrounded by nature)
4. Start paying attention around you, what the people close to you struggle with, and maybe help them.
5. Don't reinvent, if you have a tech ich, just browse around, you might find a nice project you can use (open sourced) and maybe start helping there maybe not.
6. Just create a dynamic in you that gets you where you like to be.

After you get this kind of movement in you, success is a question of being in the right place at the right time.

From my side, just followed that list some time ago. Now I'm checking potential things about domotica and it might get me somewhere, might not ... but something I know, I'm moving because I have an ich. And I'm learning a lot!

The rest is just noise you can simply reduce.
A lack of decent tutorials and resources to learn PHP is something the language really suffers from. Google "PHP tutorial" and almost everything you get is completely awful and uses 12-year-old (as in, from 12 years ago) programming practices.

Heck, even the PHP manual tutorial is downright awful and desperately needs updating.
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This article could be called "Countries' trade deficits are a problem" with the very same logic.
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Good point, not well made. Thanks for the response.
You don't cash in straight after an IPO, most of the time the current owners of shares have to wait X amount of time before they can sell shares. I guess this help keeping the company stable.
Very good point, I'd not really considered the lower end spec'd machines, was more thinking overall page load times and the likes. Thanks :)
Don't assume everyone is lucky enough to have someone to have children with. Kids are awesome. Having millions is awesome. Being in perfect health is awesome. Having the right citizenship is awesome. Many things are awesome. But they are mostly hard work and/or luck.
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You shouldn't forget the impact of luck and the environment on people. For every successful band in their early 20s there are probably many thousands of better musicians out there that are just getting by. I also know a number of people who were significantly more successful than me at 26, but were unable to sustain that success as the lack of skill and experience reversed their luck in the long run.

For me, 26 was an age where I started to focus on my general productivity. My most productive time initially was in my teens, where I learned and achieved a lot from the age of 15 to 19, so much that it put me well ahead of others my age and really carried me through a comfortable career until I was 26. During those years of working I didn't have a computer at home. I went out, I was rarely at home, I partied a lot, I dated and I developed a lot of social and cultural skills at that time. I did things that didn't count as successful projects, but developed and educated me in so many ways, just like spending years on HN will let you grow a wide body of knowledge but you might end up with nothing to show for it. After 26 I also had enough work experience to land jobs where I had both the skill plus the autonomy to take on interesting and useful projects at work that I could get stuck into. It's only deep into my 30s that I developed the ability to focus and complete projects outside of my working hours.
As if the majority of people had a clue about these things back in the day.
Those scripts and more for Linux (3.2 or newer) using perf_events/ftrace:

https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools
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Some other people (most notably Max Tegmark) also agree with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesi...
> Nope German infrastructure is in ruins.

Yeah, sure. I happen to live in Germany and I don't see to many ruins. Actually the city where I live invests a billion $ into a concert hall and 1.5 billion $ into a new X-ray research laser facility.
I would recommend you to follow Michael Pettis[1]. He used to focus on China but recently also wrote about Europe. I find his explanation convincing but by no means is his view the consensus amount economists.

I think much of your question can be answered by this piece:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/07/no-the-spanish-cant-be-m...

[1]:http://blog.mpettis.com/

In short, prolonged trade imbalances are mostly because of policy reasons, in this case suppressed German wages, and individual preference or things like "hardworking culture" are most likely results instead of causes.
No, it is a problem for the rest of us that we cannot make anything Germany wants, at a price it wants.

People, especially economists, love to make macro economy some big mystery (no doubt so that they seem important) when it really can be solved the same way it can be solved on a smaller level.
When did it get discounted? I thought there was a reasonable amount of evidence supporting it (at least the last pop-science TV show I watched on the subject suggested that).
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What would that even mean though? People throw around these "universe is a computation" ideas without ever making any predictions.

Do you think you're living in the matrix? Or do you just think that quantum mechanics can be fully simulated on a classical turing machine?

Here is the almighty Scott Aaronson to set us right on the subject:

http://www.closertotruth.com/series/the-cosmos-computer#vide...

http://www.closertotruth.com/series/what-does-quantum-theory...

EDIT: lets throw in this full length lecture at IBM for good measure, even though its not 100% related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7lv4-Bah5c
Does anyone know of a good Mars terraformation resource? I'm thinking 50-100 page pdf that would make for an interesting weekend read.
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The US trade deficit, many of its finance institutions and its general over-consumption is more of a problem.
"What if" discussions are always ultimately flawed because one cannot go back in time and try something different. But my point is absent DARPA, the internet would have happened anyway in all likelihood.

Just like if the Wright Bros had not invented the airplane in 1903, someone else would have probably within 5 years. We'd still be flying today.

I suspect that the number of inventions that would not inevitably have happened once the preconditions were in place is very small.

After all, as I mentioned previously, having worked extensively with computers before the internet, the first thing someone with two computers tries to do is hook them together.

Hell, I even did my own hardware and software to transfer files from my LSI-11 to a PC over a wire. The government couldn't have stopped an internet workalike from forming if it tried.
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Yeah, that smells a bit like premature optimization. Anyway, I'd use foreach as much as possible, avoiding that issue as a side-effect.
I said that there is great PHP code, I've run into many projects in PHP that are extremely well written. However, I run into more PHP projects that are not.

PHP is fantastically easy to get started using, it's probably the simplest way to start doing website development, and Wordpress runs many of the small websites we see today. I recommend it to anyone getting started in web development. But what this leads to in website development is me running into more code in PHP that is bad than good.

You are correct in saying that there's horrible $YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE code, I do run into it all the time, but I just tend to run into this problem more with PHP due to how amazingly low the barrier to entry is.

Since you brought up my favorite language, Python, I will go to say that at least Python forces people who write it to use sensible whitespace more or less. I can read most Python projects, even if they are really bad. In PHP I've seen whitespace and lines that stretch over 500 characters and combinations of tabs and spaces that make my brain hurt. This goes for any language that doesn't have strict whitespace rules but specifically PHP and even JavaScript, with their ability to inline code in HTML, have lead to some nightmare codebases that I've had to work on. That is not to say that Python doesn't have some silly long lines with people who try to get too creative with lambda functions but that's a rare occurrence. Also the fact that you cannot inline Python (without some silly libraries that do exist) you do get at least some separation of templates and model/views. This goes for Java and C# and whatever other web dev language you want to put in. PHP's ability to inline code is both incredible for new coders and a nightmare for readability if not done properly.
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The reputation rather than the actual experience of Haskell is what puts people off.
Off the top of my head, scientific publishing. Keep it locked down until you have published then open source it.

I personally wouldn't want my work code online, as its always rushed and there is a fair bit of technical debt I would like to to refactor, rather than having potential employers thinking that I always write shit code. Feature requests are valued more than code quality.
You're talking about Phil Sturgeon, aren't you? That guy ticks all of us off.

(<3 you Phil)
"It's a fallacy to pick and choose events in the ultracomplex global economy and form a story from that."

You are probably right but, this has not prevented the Germans (or, at least, the German press) to create a narrative of how the current situation is due to how lazy the Greeks and the south Europeans are.

I suppose that they have build a congruent worldview that lets them to sleep well at night.
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> You need only imagine someone in your company, who you have a very low opinion of their contribution, become $FU rich while you see only a modest change in your personal net worth. I have seen that dynamic break people.

You probably shouldn't work in the tech industry if that upsets you :-)
I asked how much of cell phone that can be recycled, no one has answered the question yet. Thats a bit scary, don't look under that stone and ask that question kind of feeling.

How much of electronics is recycled, how much can be recycled?
These days I find it slightly weird that they don't share the source code of the demos or related tools. Demo scene has this wonderful alpha-male thing going.
You're gonna have a tough time defending that "ruins" statement. I know that anecdote != data, but I've been quite a few times what was East Germany (not just Berlin, but places in Märkisch oderland and in/around Dresden) and even though these are the poorer parts of Germany they're still ridiculously modern and well served in terms of infrastructure (Chemnitz is a little brutal, mind).
Probably more than now because computing was not really "mainstream" at the time. Before Win95 at least.
Gotta "love" something that is highly reactive to test engineers...

The book also holds, iirc, a passage about a group of chemists sitting down for lunch when something on one of the shelves start getting uppity. They barely had time to dive under the table before the container started bouncing around the room.
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1. Higher wages would lead to more expensive (and therefore lower) exports, and to higher consumption, leading to higher imports. The government can cause wages to rise by raising the minimum wage, raising the salary of its employees, and hiring more government workers (e.g. for infrastructure projects).

2. The assumption that Germany's high saving is good for Germany is debatable. If Germans save more than they consume, some other nation must consume more than they save. Germany has been, and might be again in the future, forced to bail out those countries.

3. I can also recommend the Khan Academy lectures on economics.
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What problem? You just haven't had an idea that was big enough to interrupt your life yet. In my personal judgment (after skimming your text, and deciding based on specifically you, OP), eventually you will. It's kind of a stochastic process, though, and can happen anytime.
I also think it's a poisson distribution. The fact that it hasn't happened to date doesn't make it any less likely to occur this year.
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A lot of the android architecture is inspired by beos... Iirc Especially the stuff around intent-based IPC.

Two key android devs, romain guy and Dianne hackborn, were on beos.
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I think this is a very important cultural step to do. We believe that the first people to do something should be valued the highest. But taking out all the other people who come afterwards they also might not have succeeded. Therefore it's really an open argument who should be valued how much for his participation.

I also really like the idea of that, even as Founder number 1. Having a healthy, fair and equal relationship to many capable people might also be worth more to founders than another million bucks.
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> How is that not going to affect the success of the German economy?

The Germany economy is successful if the Euro is low and it is successful when the Euro is high. It makes no difference. The companies will adjust to what ever Euro exchange rate there is.

It's just that Germany has invested a lot into building new markets (for example Eastern Europe, which is just next to Germany), less so into consumption or Trillion $ wars in Iraq.
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Yea I got you. For the OMS CS at Georgia Tech, I would never enroll in such conditions to be honest, not for a Graduate program and especially not if I'll be paying thousands of dollars, whether it is on-campus or online.

I don't doubt this model is viable, I'm not even saying it's bad quality. Certainly you'll find many people who'll tell you that they learned a lot and that they've blosomed. However I doubt this is an optimal solution, there is clearly room to improve quality a lot by decreasing the class sizes - thus increasing the individual support.

"The instructor is an active participant" means a lot. He becomes a "participant" instead of being an instructor. The reason is simple, there's no way to accomodate 200 people. Do you think he'll have the time to have something as small as a 10 minutes discussion with every student every week ?

When I was at college, I was regularly talking with my instructors for 30 minutes, sometimes hours in their office. To me it's crucial at every stage of education and not enough emphasized in the current system. But I think it is critical to have this direct, easy and unrestricted access to the instructor at graduate school.

At some college, I've seen a graduate school instructor complaning about the fact that he had to accept 23 students for a term instead of 15-18 because the demand was too high.

Concerning your main point, here are my thoughts :

- If they set the online programs at a lower price, then it will "mean" that it is lower quality than the on-campus program.

- If they set it at the same price, potential on-campus students will choose to enroll online to avoid having to attend lectures, thus taking the best of both worlds.

- Therefore the best option for them is to price online programs higher so people who are able to be on-campus will go on-campus and the rest will go online. I wouldn't be surprised if they also take into account the cost of housing to avoid making the online option too attractive.

Tuitions are not the only source of revenue for colleges, so they have to be careful and make sure students keep coming on-campus.
These are well known risks and investors can simply demand a commitment. It is a very easy conversation to have with your employees. "Hey, if you sign this 2 year commitment we get like 10% more valuation". Everybody decides for themselves if it's worth it and the more people sign the better the valuation. And since everybody has more stock they have more interest to do it; You can also legally provision stock lock ups after IPO for 2 years or so, everybody does it. Also you can dilute the stock to allocate the 10% which represents the expected valuation hop. Then award the extra stock to those who sign. This is legal, but it's a lot of paperwork to make sure nobody can dispute the true value of the retention policy.
You're right of course, though I'm not sure you can call it investing when they pay four times as much as planned for a concert hall :)
That would be discrimination on the part of the female applicants, not on the part of the employer. The woman is not hired because she chose not to apply, not because she was rejected by the employer's choice.
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Commenting itself wasn't the issue. I need a whitepaper or implementation that I can review to write anything useful.
The US is wealthier than Germany is.

The net mean wealth per adult in the US is upwards of $350,000 to $400,000. In Germany it's half that.

The net median wealth is roughly equal (especially after US housing values have recovered, and the stock market is near all-time highs).

Germany only has $50,000 in net median wealth per adult. They are not that rich. France by comparison is nearly three times that; Belgium is three times that; Australia is four times that; Italy, Japan and the UK are over twice that.

Total assets in the US are upwards of $200 trillion according to the Federal Reserve. Household assets alone are nearing $100 trillion (~$80 trillion net after liabilities).