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i had idea, which lines up with basic income ideas, of treating college attendance just like any other 8-5 job. I.e. tough interview, raises based on performance, annual performance evaluations, firing for not performing well. And "salary" paid by taxes.

I get that this is highly unlikely today, but may be when basic income ideas will be more acceptable, something like this could be proposed too.
Additionally, the same model may be sourcing parts from multiple vendors (for instance, laptop displays)
Starting with 5th grade, primary school has 4 years (or 6 in 2 states, and possibly different numbers in experimental cases).

And while switching between the tracks indeed is difficult, it is possible to either gain the Abitur after going to one of the "lower" levels by taking additional years of schooling, or start at uni (especially universities of applied science) without it all. The article you linked gives the (to me surprising, I wouldn't have expected the numbers to be that high) statistic of

> The most traditional route has always been graduation from a Gymnasium with the Abitur; however this has become less common over time. As of 2008, less than half of university freshmen in some German states had graduated from a Gymnasium. Even in Bavaria (a state with a policy of strengthening the Gymnasium) only 56 percent of freshmen had graduated from a Gymnasium.

That said, this early split certainly is a heavily debated topic and in many cases likely is not optimal.
That is great, you can get all the positive effects without the negative ones. Myself, I'll always slip into addiction, just can't control it.
Fascinating idea. After you've done that for a while, you've got a bunch of people willing to do violence to others who know that you have num_preppers*0.05 loot to take...violently. :) (I know you're joking, but still...)
An Introduction to Statistical Learning [0] is also good. It's a little less technical than The Elements of Statistical Learning. We used it for our statistical learning course at my university. The full PDF is available for free as well [1].

[0] http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/

[1] http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ISLR%20Fourth%20Printing....
don't let your mom install toolbars?
teach end users how to read and understand dialog boxes instead of blindly clicking "OK!" ?
> it's really really good for all the poor people from impoverished, war-stricken countries?

What part of this argument do you disagree with, and why?
Except we don't have an editor ;)
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That's probably due to input lag rather than refresh rates though. For non-TN screens, input lag (generally >30 ms) tends to dwarf refresh rate differences (16 ms vs 8 ms).
If they also have the authority to remove people from roles, how do they not also have the authority to micromanage execution, at least not indirectly?
And then they run out of ammo. Or catch a stray bullet. Or get stabbed in the back. (Hey, if you're with a bunch of people willing to do violence to others, who's to say one of them won't do it to you?)
Right. Hard to argue with that. But if you're going to say that to me, then you'll also need to tell that to everyone releasing software that gets installed via `npm install -g` or `gem install`, too!
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Would be nice to have .ipynb preview on Gist also!
If it can't be properly explained in simple terms, it might not be a great idea.
Through some odd twist of, who knows what, I attended the same high school as Donald Knuth. When I learned this, I asked my grandmother if she knew him - she (and my late grandfather) were involved with school since was formed. Not only did she know exactly who he was, but had read one of his books! (Not a CS book, of course; 3:16.) I'm glad that I get to tell people that even my granny has read Knuth.
There is the joke that those with psychology degrees learn to ask the important questions, like "Do you want fries with that?"
It really depends. Where I come from, 'Should we go to a restaurant' is rarely used. We'd usually say 'eating out'. And McDonalds was definitely 'eating out'.
Although this is true, it is only half the story and school system.

You leave out the Fachoberschule, Berufsoberschule (name and curriculum depends on the state) and Berufsschule/Apprenticeship system. While the biggest factor in if someone will go on to study later in life will be if a student attended the Gymnasium from 5th grade on, every single person in Germany has many options to get to a university or university of applied sciences. As for the the schools I mentioned before:

Students from the Hauptschule (until 9th grade) and Realschule (until 10th grade) can attend the Fachoberschule, depending on a certain core GPA and extra coursework for Hauptschul students. Which is leading towards the 12th or 13th grade, depending on if the student wants to attend a university of applied science or a university.

Furthermore, students who do an apprenticeship after the 9th or 10th grade can enter a Berufsoberschule with successful completion of their apprenticeship. These students are often allowed to skip the 11th grade (same curriculum as the Fachoberschule).

Whereas, I have to fully agree that it is hard to switch from Hauptschule or Realschule to a Gymnasium, but it is not impossible and I know multiple people who studied at universities, while starting out at the Hauptschule.
> So accustomed are we to this game of geographical roulette that we have been blinded to the fact that it’s morally indefensible to divide the people on Earth into rich and poor, advantaged and disadvantaged, victims and survivors according to a criterion that is largely arbitrary and completely out of their control.

This is a weak argument. We do this for wealth in general: the mechanism is called inheritance. Of course, the author does not want to make this argument directly, because doing so would actually make the counterarguments more obvious, so the focus is instead based on emotion.

The second problem with the "free migration solves everything" hypothesis is that the wealth and health of a nation exist as a direct consequence of the existence of the barriers, both political and cultural, rather then some arbitrary geographic accident. Moving people from poor to rich nations does not do anything to help make the poor nations less poor; it only risks the problems coming over with the people.
Thanks, appreciate it! I considered Go for this too, but wanted to use PHP because you don't see too many curses PHP apps around, and I wanted to observe one for myself ;)
Shopping malls have this thing called "anchor tenants" - usually a big-box retailer who pays for massive square footage, which in turn stabilizes the mall's cash flow.

Looking back, all freelancers should probably wait to start until they can secure an "anchor client". A company or individual with a solid business who can provide consistent cash flow to the freelancer. One anchor tenant won't pay for a whole shopping mall, and neither will one anchor client meet all the freelancer's needs and goals. But it definitely helps stabilize the situation, and empowers freelancers to be more selective about their other clientele.

Aside from that - having enough savings on hand to pay for 6-12 months of all expenses (business and personal) is also a necessity. Otherwise you'll start taking on poor clients (and I mean "poor" literally, as in they don't have additional budget to spend, even if they wanted to), which in turn will make you more desperate, taking increasingly shittier jobs. The freelancer death spiral is brutal but can be avoided with careful planning.
> while holding my baby

Hmmm, that's a great standard to test UX against.
The two studies: the first stating that you can reduce amygdala activity through systematic humanization, and the second suggesting that there seems to be nothing in the police training programs that makes officers more biased than the average citizen. These offer hope to the idea that biased behavior can be targeted and modified.

I agree with your other comment, though. There are many unaddressed questions regarding policy and its implementation. In my head, we would see progress as a society if we taught empathy and unconscious bias from a young age. Police academies would likely benefit from similar courses (it is my understanding that some program do indeed integrate this training).

Thanks for responding, and I'm sorry for being inflammatory. These are ideas I am passionate about.
> One of the cool things about the 84" version is that it does 4K at 120 Hz. This allows for much lower touch and stylus latency.

Not necessarily. Input lag on IPS (especially the large 4K ones) is generally a much higher contributor to overall delay than refresh rate.

See this (filter the resolution to 4K): http://www.displaylag.com/display-database/
Because it's not written in javascript, obviously
> I /like/ building things in the wrong language.

That's not the issue here. You could have written that in shell script it wouldn't matter. Just that PHP(+ all the extensions required) makes it more difficult to deploy for someone who just want to try out your project.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned systemd-nspawn which is also for os-virtualization so more like LXC than Docker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4SwL2t5Yh4

Poettering discusses LXC/LXD later in this video.
You're the only person in here who criticized my use of PHP that I actually agree with.

I never intended to release this app, and wanted to build it in PHP for fun, so I stuck with it.

But you're absolutely right on the portability problem. I do agree that, had deployment been an actual interest of mine, PHP would be the wrong language for this.
Sure Matt, I remember! We come back every now and again, so we'll have to take you up on that offer.
Rather than having a bunch of people at the water cooler talking shit about the changes, you offer them money to leave so that people who aren't on board with the changes get out of the way.

There's that element directly, but I think even more powerful is the sense to the employees that they are consciously opting in to staying. They are literally passing up a (small) pot of gold in order to stay in the new structure. The mere fact of choosing in such a way (even if that's the default choice) will tend to increase commitment in the inevitable dark moments of the transition.
I like the basic idea, but a couple problems i see, Glare on the whiteboard from something like a window, and the board being obstructed by someone writing on it.
can we get all the programming docs including the register maps of all the IPs on the chip? that would change everything compared to a Raspberry pi, where a lot of stuff is under NDA.

edit: I might be asking a lot, since, there is even a wikipedia page on how to find and read the docs for ARM, so I guess, it will be, as usual a giant mess of docs spread everywhere.
Want to come build the next great Android project? https://squareup.com/careers ;)
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Still issues getting the heat out, but yes, GaN is pretty amazing. 10 years ago I was load pulling and matching sub 1 Ohm (24 mm) HFET die for 12 watts. Now you can get 120W in the same periphery.
"Free" higher education.

Somebody is paying for it.
Not sure about market. Most musicians and painters I know are self educated and have daily job.

University does not have monopoly, one can always pay for private university (which is not that expensive). But state university is highly selective and most prestigious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Performing_Arts_in_...
acceptance rates of around 1% are common for german art schools as well
I both agree and disagree. I imagine most people could tell the difference between an 8th year and 3rd year sushi chef. 3 years seems like such a short amount of time for something as complex as making sushi.

On the other hand, I also can see that when people reach a very high level of skill, it may be difficult for normal people to really see the differences in skill. But I don't know if you can really say there's only a marginal difference.

After all, if one person is 10000 miles away and another is 11000 miles away, they both are so far away you can barely see them. Indeed, I imagine they may be so far away you can't tell how far apart they are, or even which one is farther! But the reality is that one of them is 10% farther than the other: hardly a marginal difference.

Still I do agree that non connoisseurs probably would have difficulty truly appreciating the difference in skill.
I disagree. When I build a project for fun, or for education, as in this case, the last thing I want to be thinking about is you!
Absolutely and that's why orgs like Heroku,Github and co are moving all their cli tools to Go.
Straight line delivery and Amazons ability to mark a job finished more quickly are both valuable in any area.
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25% going to college seems low. In America 63% of people have done some college, higher among those who are younger.
>There is no proper selection.

Unless you're trying to filter out poor people, removing tuition makes selection MORE fair. Intelligence and capability should be the only criteria for selection, not money.

Free higher education is not some imaginary ideal that doesn't exist yet. Take a look at universities in Sweden. If you're a citizen can attend great universities for free, No Strings Attached.
It's less convenient than a super-automatic, I think, which it sounds like you're referring to.

I have a Jura Micro 9 [1] (bigger brother to the Micro 1 [2]), and it's literally just the button of a button, even to make a latte. They're both amazing, the closest to what I imagine you'd get if Apple had made espresso machines.

It grinds and steams, has lots of easily-changed adjustments, and the only regular maintenance is emptying the grounds, which it will tell you to do when required, and descaling every year or so. No waste aside from the bag of coffee beans every now and then.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Jura-Micro-Automatic-Coffee-Center/dp/...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Jura-13626-Ena-Micro-1/dp/B008RZFQKO
I have been at 6 companies in 10 years and have not had a problem explaining it. In tech, 1 year per company is reasonable as a minimum.
Prep schools are not for university, they're for "great schools" which is a separate system and pretty much unique to the country. Neither prep schools nor the bac are relevant to universities (outside of having the bac), universities are free-ish and anyone can attend (at least the first year, there's no entrance test)
The Internet introduced free higher education a long time ago. ;)
So true. This has a huge impact on the tech industry.
In my (thankfully limited) experience, it's entirely standard for severance packages to be tenure-based and, IMO, most of those reasons have nothing to do with ageism.

The longer you've been with us, the more you've likely contributed and we should recognize that as we part ways. The longer you've worked with us, the more life upheaval the separation represents. The longer you've worked with us, the more personal relationships you have developed, perhaps with the same people making the decision to eliminate your position. A generous severance (which IMO requires a tenure component) sends an important signal of stability to the employees who remain AND makes it easier for managers (who are of course humans themself) to make the decision to eliminate the position of a long-tenured but "surplus to ongoing operations" employee.

What's the alternative? The person who joined 6 weeks ago gets the same package as the 10-year veteran? That seems worse all around to me.
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Not in Uruguay. Anyone can go into college without any entry exam nor grades taken into account. Also, there are private universities for those who prefer them.
For an individual copyright holder, or software which is static and no longer being developed, you are correct.

However if either of those preconditions fails, then the reverse becomes true "in practice."

When the copyright is held by multiple parties, re-licensing becomes impractical (or impossible) because every copyright holder needs to agree to the new terms. The more of them there are, the more likely it is that someone will veto.

However, because the AGPL and Apache licenses (and other liberal licenses, MIT, BSD, etc.) are compatible, I can take liberally licensed software, add loads of fancy features using an AGPLv3 license and the combined end result will become AGPLv3 licensed in practice. Just like the combined license of OS X or Chrome is proprietary, even if it contains open source components. The most restrictive license wins.

So assuming the software is evolving over time and you have a wide base of contributors, it is possible to go from less restrictive to more restrictive, but not the other way around.
>There are cuban coders?

There are, a lot of them.

>I thought the internet was nearly illegal down there.

There's internet, expensive though ($4.50/h)

...and, were programmers who created the internet, not the other way around
There are tutorials related to all subjects not just design. So your concerns should apply to the other subjects also. I don't listen any concerns from e.g. programmers.

The main problem in all artistic careers is that the barriers to enter the market are very low. Give a design assignment to a random person. Most people would make it, probably with low quality but the work would be done.

In technical careers the barriers to entry are very high. Give a software assignment to a random person. The probability that the work would be done (at least in the short-term) is near zero.

From this you can easily derive:

Artistic careers are unstable and technical careers are stable.
Very good article. His argument definitely makes sense on an individual level. When I was in living in France, I wondered why it was impossible for me to buy a house and live there permanently. It was only because of artificial borders. It didn't make sense.

However, on a population wide basis, it is a different story. The article uses refugees and oppressive governments (exceptions to the rule) in order to make his argument. A tactic I distrust. He does make a good point about the EU, although I think the jury is still out on that one.

I believe we should have more immigration in the US. However, we limit immigration for a reason. And the reason is too many people at once burden the infrastructure. We can only build so many freeways, schools, and hospitals at once. So, a large influx of immigrants will cause traffic, crowded classrooms, and long waits in the emergency rooms. Anyone who lives in LA can tell you this is the case since California has had a rapid population primarily driven by immigrants.
I knew a girl from Akron who referred to it as "Crackron". She painted a pretty bleak picture but it was of course anecdotal. Would you say it's worth visiting next time I'm nearby?
Valve is the exception that proves the rule, i.e. you need a stable cash cow so large that your frequently-aimless often-delayed progress on anything else doesn't break the company.
> You needed to be a spreadsheet junkie to be able to get some good insights.

> So we built a service that automatically analyzes your bank accounts

So, what kind of insights does SSSavings provide? What is it going to tell me? How is this more useful than looking over everything manually?

I also have most of my budget in a custom ODS spreadsheet. I'd love to be able to pull real-time data about current balances, number and type of transactions, etc. from some sort of API. That would be BOMB.
For anyone interested in knowing how the UTF8 attack works, Mathias Bynens has a fantastic presentation which describes the technical details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFfjJ8pOrWY

Here's the slide deck: https://speakerdeck.com/mathiasbynens/hacking-with-unicode

Interesting anecdote from the talk: This isn't just unique to Wordpress. Spotify was vulnerable to this at one point.
Of course, if the combustion products didn't take up more space, the rocket would be remarkable in its ineffectiveness...
seems like the onenote revision history (undo, redo, and version tracking) could be hacked to accomplish something similar.

a video/audio scrubber control that lets you go back and forth.

also another interesting thing about OneNote is that it can record audio, and embed a time index of the audio into everything that is being written,drawn or typed into a notebook. Currently it highlights what was done at that time index of the audio. but it could be used to show the exact state of page at any given time in the recording.

The Audio recording feature has been in onenote since 2003 SP1.
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And what is drop out rate in first semester?
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My previous startup didn't do much in way of testing early on and the end users certainly felt that. Even later on the things I worked on didn't get test coverage because it wasn't considered a priority.

Now I'm at a startup where it's just myself and another engineer working on the product. He was keen on testing, so we chose a testing framework, and now we include tests when we push code.

My advice: Pick a testing framework as a team, learn it, use it. Start writing tests for your previous code. This will be painful and you'll probably have to refactor a lot. That's just how it goes, but your product will be better for it. And in the future if code being pushed doesn't have tests, it doesn't get released. That works for us and it worked for me.
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Wow. Thank you for this informative comment. I didn't know about all these legal complications.

As for the SELinux stuff, yeah I know it's come a long way and I've been meaning to learn to
use it at some point. I even bought a book a few months ago!

Thanks for your work on Fedora :)
Also, "tree editor".
Since we've learned that they are almost all sociopaths (not as an epithet, but clinically so), this behavior is perfectly consistent.
Brilliant effort!
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I'd like to add that right now an even more important discussion in Chile is about the quality of higher education. After the educational laws were modified in the 1980s in order to allow the existence of private universities and technical institutes, many for-profit institutions appeared, even though educational profit is forbidden (institutes found obscure ways to achieve this). A direct consequence of those for-profit institutions was a constant decrease in the quality of higher education, at expenses of overcrowding classrooms or hiring bad professors. People against this new reform argues that government's money should be expended first by fixing the bad-quality the educational system has, and after that is solved, to fund higher education students.
Well, it just means you only have one V and one C for all the Ms in the universe.
Come on, it's not rocket science.
It's the equivelent of robbing someone and giving that to charity. Consider is you moved 100,000,000 poor people without English skills into the US just how much chaos that would creat. Now reolise there are several times that many people who would like to live in the US. As a general rule if something is significantly worse for group A and better for group B, but group A makes the choice your argument falls on deaf ears.

Anyway, the other far more obvious solution is to move manufacturing to war torn areas. A billion dollars can creat a lot of jobs, and with reinvestment things can quickly snowball. Sure, setting up sweat shops is not going to give you the same kind of feel good boost, but poverty breeds corruption which breeds poverty.
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