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by SiVal 13y ago
Thanks for your suggestion, too, nazka.
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by SiVal 13y ago
It's unlikely to be about pay, since there are a lot of 50-something or retired programmers around here who could teach Java in their sleep, would be happy with teachers' hours, teachers' vacations, teachers' "deliv
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by SiVal 13y ago
Our local high school, about 20 minutes away from Palo Alto in another affluent neighborhood, offers AP CS but doesn't have a teacher for it. That means they are counted in the statistics of how many high schools offer it. If you want
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by SiVal 13y ago
Amen. What a nuisance. You can keep clicking the next page button to see what other stories there are until you actually read one, after which the next page button will fail, and you'll have to start over again. What's the point o
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by SiVal 13y ago
I'm with you regarding the importance of careful reasoning. I'll just say that I'm skeptical of the usefulness in the development of that faculty of classes where the quality of your "reasoning" is considered commen
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by SiVal 13y ago
I'd bet more on a literature major from Harvard winning out over a CS major from University of Phoenix. But that's not because of the great value of Harvard's teaching; it's because of what the two of them did in high
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by SiVal 13y ago
Add to this some cultural issues. One of my relatives got a science PhD in the US to fulfill the dreams of his Chinese parents. It's not that he was fascinated by the subject, nor did he need immigration help (he had a green card.) It&
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by SiVal 13y ago
HN was down much LESS time than I thought, because they told browsers that the "Sorry, but we're down" message should stay in cache until 2024! I believed the status report until today, because it didn't occur to me that
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by SiVal 13y ago
Somewhat similar to the difference between C/C++ or enterprise Java and various dynamic or "scripting" languages in terms of structure, the "S" in SQL or NoSQL. The former tends to require more up-front structural d
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by SiVal 13y ago
Taleb's writing style is atrocious and his personality obnoxious, but his fundamental ideas are profoundly interesting and important. At its root is the idea that we humans don't understand the world we live in, but we think we do
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by SiVal 13y ago
3. A sea change has taken place with the explosive growth in smart phones, tablets, and other devices. These devices have GUIs that are very different from Mac and Windows, which means that almost all users of Macs and Windows have gotten
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by SiVal 13y ago
In fact, I'd like these switches to be above the F-keys and to have tiny LEDs that glowed when the switch (not the device, just the power switch) was allowing power to reach the device. I still want indicators showing when the device
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by SiVal 13y ago
I want hardware on/off switches for camera, microphone, wifi, bluetooth, and maybe even external speakers. These should be power switches, not switches that make a polite request to firmware for the firmware to act as if the devices ar
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by SiVal 13y ago
What's the workaround for this problem? This is the first I've heard of it, and it looks pretty bad.
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by SiVal 13y ago
No, you're not alone. When they offer data, a lot of us think, "Oh, goodie, some interesting data!" We hustle over there to learn something new and learn it quickly. If instead we are treated to a demonstration of javascript
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by SiVal 13y ago
I have to laugh at this. I worked in strategy consulting, where my coworkers were all MBAs from Harvard, Stanford or, in our office, Tokyo University. We had many cases where people had tasks of various sorts that they would handle with the
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by SiVal 13y ago
Yet several million people born far away in Mexico with even less education have managed to find viable forms of income in the US without resorting to the drug trade. They didn't have the same welfare system, though. Before the welfare
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by SiVal 13y ago
Sensible? He points at miles of Baltimore housing projects where "fathers" consider themselves responsible only for impregnating women and the state to be entirely responsible for the child after that as the fault of libertarians.
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by SiVal 13y ago
I commented on the photo, not your memories. I didn't comment on your memories, because I had nothing to say about them. They sounded right to me, which wasn't worth a comment. As a photographer, there were some things that jumped
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by SiVal 13y ago
That isn't brown air; it's a brown print. That's a sepia print of a black and white photo of white steam coming out of chimneys artificially crowded together by a long telephoto lens, taken at sunset, and excluding the sky as
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by SiVal 13y ago
It sounds to me as though you find anything security, law enforcement, or military-related to be inexcusably "creepy". Otherwise, it would seem pretty silly to describe customers hovering over critical suppliers as "simply un
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by SiVal 13y ago
Thanks for that link. VERY interesting. My impression, subject to change, is that there is a STEM shortage at the bottom (technicians) that rapidly diminishes as you head toward the top (PhDs), where there is a significant surplus. I think
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by SiVal 13y ago
I can't help wondering if back buttons should work differently. If you are here on this page as a result of a quick, automatic redirect and you hit "back", don't go back to the page that sent you here; skip over it to th
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by SiVal 13y ago
I understand your position, and I don't think your definition of "shortage" here is unreasonable. But shortage is a relative term--"short" relative to what?--and by some measures, there are real shortages in these s
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by SiVal 13y ago
"...meaning the [normally liberal LA Times] doesn't stand behind any of the facts claimed." "right-wing Koch brothers organization" "from someone who hates broad-based education" It doesn't seem to ma
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by SiVal 13y ago
I'm not sure what you think the "market value" is that employers won't pay. I'd guess it's something reasonable like the minimum you'd have to pay to get all the skilled workers you need. Raise your pay of
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by SiVal 13y ago
There are two giant economies that border NK, China and Russia, that do not economically embargo NK. But as is always the case with socialist workers' paradises, it's always the fault of external villains that they have any remain
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by SiVal 13y ago
A 10m HDMI cable connecting your TV to your laptop on the sofa is not hassle-free---that cable is the hassle. I'm doing the same things, and I find it a hassle but haven't yet been willing to cough up the $100 for an Apple TV +
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by SiVal 13y ago
Some do, of course, but some of the rest of us are more interested in future advantages. If you need to target legacy browsers, legacy technologies are widely available. If you'd like the future to be as good as possible, you might wan
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by SiVal 13y ago
My twitter feed is so private I only have three followers: me, myself, and I. My wife doesn't even follow me. I don't think she even knows I have a twitter account. It's all very hush-hush. I should send out more private cele

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