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by liedra 16y ago
That's curious, because I was just at a talk by Alma Whitten who said that Google didn't use any of the GA data for profiling or ad-related stuff, and simply provided it as a service. Did I misunderstand her, or, possibly, you?
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by liedra 16y ago
I'm in the south so Antwerp is a bit far to go for a good coffee :) But yeah, it's definitely an expansion area here I'm sure. I don't know about regional variations on bean roasting between the north and south but you're right on the bitte
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by liedra 16y ago
I moved to continental Europe over a year ago (from Sydney) and was appalled by the terrible coffee here. Most of it comes from a push-button machine if you're lucky to get an espresso-based coffee at all. Those that are done by hand are no
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by liedra 16y ago
OK that's fine, but how about the other issues? :) It's not my job to ask 12 year old kids, it's yours :) But I'm curious, what sorts of questions do you ask them? You say you are on the phone talking to them, do you actually show them how
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by liedra 16y ago
What a cute idea. I'd help out a fellow academic, but I don't have an iPhone :( I liked your page on how the data will be used too. Seems like you've put a lot of thought into privacy and stuff. Good job! Good luck & it'll be interestin
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by liedra 16y ago
The reason you're getting this feedback is because they don't know what it really means! What you think you're hearing: Kids don't mind being monitored. What you're really hearing: Kids want an iPhone. You're creating an illusion of perso
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by liedra 16y ago
The problem is that you're talking to customers, not the general public, not the children. Of course your clients are going to love your product. That's why they're buying it. It doesn't mean they're right , however. The other problem is t
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by liedra 16y ago
I know the founders personally (sorry M&J!) but in my professional capacity as a technology ethicist I think this is all shades of wrong. Trust isn't about knowing where your kids are, it's about communication. Children have rights to p
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by liedra 16y ago
I suspect you're right, especially about the pollution. When landing in a plane into Brussels (in particular) the brown blanket is quite obvious. Not so much when you're on the ground, though you're right in that the sky never seems quite
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by liedra 16y ago
I had a great experience with Brussels Airlines during the volcanic ash thing - unlike a lot of crappy airlines, they put me (and the rest of my flight) up in a hotel in Barcelona for 2 nights, then organised a coach for everyone to drive b
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by liedra 16y ago
Yeah, I agree that there are some academics who are really not good or suited to teaching. In fact many academic jobs that aren't specifically "lecturer" jobs don't even ask about teaching experience. I'm going into my 2nd post-doctorate an
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by liedra 16y ago
Don't forget that these professors have often spent their whole life studying and publishing and working their way through the "machine" to get to their positions. Many of those years they would have been paid a pittance for their work. You
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by liedra 16y ago
It's completely the opposite in my experience. Though I've only worked in the European and Australian systems, not the US.
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by liedra 16y ago
Yeah, certainly throws that Aussie mainstay "between 11 and 3 sit under a tree" out, and that's a dangerous move if you do live in Australia. Since moving to the northern hemisphere I really feel as though the sun here is less intense, but
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by liedra 16y ago
This is completely true! I'm very much learning as I go -- back at university when we did user interfaces it was all done in-code: I learned Java and TCL/TK without IDEs, then went on to do web programming and commandline stuff that didn't
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by liedra 16y ago
I'm pretty new to Mac OS X programming (coming from a very hobbyist cmdline/web app python background) so using an IDE has been pretty weird for me. I found the disconnect between IB and XCode the most difficult thing about it, it's like th
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by liedra 16y ago
This completely gels with my experience. I like having enough money to live on comfortably: have a place that's just big enough, have money to eat out (not too expensively) when I feel like it, have enough to do something special occasional
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by liedra 16y ago
When I was teaching myself web programming, I wrote a blog (in PHP), then an image gallery (in PHP), then somehow I landed a job doing PHP programming (back around 2000ish) and wrote a bunch of sites for them. Then I decided I hated PHP and
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by liedra 16y ago
I suspect the guy who said it is an Aussie :) The tall poppy syndrome is a very strong cultural tradition in Australia: http://www.convictcreations.com/culture/poppy.htm Keeps us from getting too big for our boots ;)
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by liedra 16y ago
Yeah, you're right, I wasn't really expressing myself very well I think, which will teach me to start typing before my first coffee of the day :) I actually think a lot of the problem is the culturally linked gender roles that society pushe
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by liedra 16y ago
Wow, that's really sad. :( Maybe it was the lack of loud-mouthed dicks in my courses, but all the women I met in my compsci degree who were doing well actually really enjoyed it and, well, did well. (Or perhaps it's how our courses were set
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by liedra 16y ago
I'm a woman and these sorts of things bug me. OK, so there aren't enough women in tech. Perhaps that's because they just don't want to be in tech! Sure I've had my share of "oh, well, there's no way you'd be good/no way you know what you're
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by liedra 16y ago
There is definitely this push (in Australia at least, with special scholarships, etc.) for more men in nursing and teaching.
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by liedra 16y ago
Hey good on you for realising this, anxiety issues can be very difficult to admit to. I hope everything is good for you now :)
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by liedra 16y ago
Noone else put anything in there... I feel lonely :(
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by liedra 16y ago
Yeah but that's part of the problem. They released it, it was slow and clunky, and that turned everyone off. OK so they made some improvements, but they probably should have done that before releasing it and turning people off :)
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by liedra 16y ago
I preferred Shogun a lot more over Musashi. I know the second is a classic, but the first one was a much more engrossing story to me (despite its historical inaccuracy). :)
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by liedra 16y ago
This story gave rise to one of my most favourite novels, Shōgun, by James Clavell. It's a great story about conquering the cultural divide. Not entirely sure why it was linked on HN but it's certainly interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by liedra 16y ago
Yeah, I totally agree. You can tell some areas, most definitely! I grew up in Sydney and can tell Melburnians, partly because they can have a bit more of a nasal accent than us from Sydney. I bumped into some people from the Sunshine Coast
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by liedra 16y ago
I think Australia will be an interesting country to watch accent-wise. At the moment there are very obvious "city" (closer to British non-rhotic) vs. "country" (Steve Irwin) accents, but it's much harder to tell which city and which part of

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