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To an outside observer, no. The tropes are exaggerations. But to someone in public school at the time, it can certainly feel that way.

I bet there's a word for that - using the more general term for something as a proper noun when the meaning is obvious from context. Like calling the largest nearby city just "The City". I figure it's the same general idea behind calling it "The Moon".

I volunteer tutoring underprivileged middle/high school kids in math and programming. People might be surprised how little effort it takes to help out with this sort of thing. And it's one of the most rewarding things I've ever done (I don't think I've ever written a more cliche comment, but it's true).

I'm actually working on a game-engine/teaching-aid for the class right no. I could use some help if anyone's interested. https://github.com/Glank/PACGameDev

>and cubicles I'm sure would be a living hell.

That's a rather bold assumption. I bet if you just asked employees, you'd get mixed responses. The best part about cubicle walls is that they're easy to put up and tear down. Why not let team leaders choose whether or not to have cubicles for their team (with team member input of course)?

I was thinking more along the lines of making the main function (array) call some other function which does this in such a way that it looks like you implemented a random number generator but it actually prints "Hello World". And you could hide the fact that 'main' was a piece of code by making it the initial seed for for the random number generator and using macros in a separate header file to rename it to something like 'SEED'.

Reminds me of this 'Hello World': http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15182496/why-does-this-co...

I bet these two ideas would go well together.

Do you want us to say, "Congratulations, you are clearly an extraordinary person for overcoming greater poverty than the author and we should all defer to your wisdom." ? Fine. I've said it. Let's move on.

Everything you've mentioned is how you avoid getting stuck in poverty - and all of what you've said seems like sound advice. But what happens when you've already made many mistakes, when you're already in debt and have children to take care of? I think that's where the author is starting from. She's trying to explain why she continued to make terrible choices when she became poor; not trying to justify her decisions, just trying to explain her faulty logic.

Ultimately, it would be better if we never had people get stuck in poverty. But what do we do once they're stuck? Should we just give up on them? Yeah, they fucked up. But if they feel like there's no way for them to get out of the hole they've dug, why should they even try?

I feel like she was pretty clear on that point; the whole first post was her explanation of what she was thinking/feeling when she made 'poor' decisions. The second portion, in response to criticism, was her justification of that mindset.

Sounds like a good place to work. But that's in no way typical. At every place I've worked (granted, not all that many) meetings are "free" and when you don't want to be at the meeting you're "not being a team player."

I've recently blocked Reddit on my computer. What happened was a re-balancing of my slacking off. Now I don't spend my time on Reddit but I spend much more time playing Minecraft or otherwise farting around.

The main benefit I've seen, however, is that I've stopped flitting between work and Reddit. That alone has done wonders for my at-home productivity. I've also found it easier to pull away from non-productive activities when it's time to get back to work. I'd recommend trying it out.

> The caloric intake for all the mice was the same.

Yup. Directly from the article.

I tutor high school kids, and I've been charged with the weighty responsibility of teaching them Java in often-missed weekly 45 minute lessons. I'm not sure if it's what I'd choose for a first language, for a number of reasons. But the AP Computer Science test still uses Java (for now) and that's what I've been told to teach to.

I think any IDE more complicated than Dr. Java is too much of a learning curve for a high schooler, who's already struggling with their first language. This guy, expecting kids to learn all these libraries and use IntelliJ right off the bat... has he ever actually taught kids?

>“They caused a lot of damage and we will respond. We will respond proportionately and we will respond in a place and time and manner we choose,” the president said.

So I'm just going to ask, is the Sony hack going to be an excuse for us to intervene in NK?

What is that "faster-than-light propagation of non-information" they mention observing?

I think it's fair to blame the code in this case. It's not written at all for readability (by anyone other than the author while he was writing it). Of course he knew what those 1 or 2 letter variable names meant when he came up with them, so it's a lot easier to load into memory. But I doubt Whitney could easily coming back to this code after any length of time.

It's still a problem, even if you can "enjoy the knocks along the way". You're right that you shouldn't use this kind of thing as an excuse, but I think it's valuable to be aware of it.

For example, if you've got a bias-inducing face then perhaps you can mitigate that fact by avoiding face-to-face interviews and opting for phone interviews whenever possible.

I can understand how he would see 'framing' as copying a website into another page. But he goes on to argue that we accept this form of 'copying' because of the same 'a visual change is experienced as a physical change' mumbo jumbo. No. Clearly, we accept this form of copying because framing the whole page still shows the page's adds and only increases revenue for the 'copied' site. There would obviously be legal ramifications if you embedded the page into your site then removed their adds and replaced them with your own.

"I pay a lot of money so I get to treat people like dirt."

You sure sound like a wonderful person. That support lady has no control over their system's functionality or their policy and you know it.

'Pururambo' is a documentary available on Netflix about visiting uncontacted tribes like this, if anyone is interested.

At first glance this seemed really creepy and invasive, but it seems like they're just measuring 'engagement' and predicting user preference for ads. If that leads to more interesting ads, I'm not entirely opposed. On the other hand, it's treading awfully close to Huxley/Bradbury territory.

I would think that if you pursued any job just with an attitude of "get yours and get out" where you were "entirely motivated by having a good paying job" you'd be... kind of miserable.

Sure, a girl who loves working at bakery might be struggling to make ends meet; but if she's also genuinely happy with her career then what does it matter? Work is where the average person will spend most of their time, so I just don't think it's worth it to go into a field you hate in the hope that you can retire early.

I hate to resort to this cliche... but our harsh self-view might just be because our industry is so young. We have higher project failure rates than other 'engineering' disciplines; but we're still trying to figure out HOW to build things. Half of the time, it's like giving an engineering crew a new, barely tested material and telling them to build a skyscraper with it.

The way I see it, our negativity is actually quite hopeful. We know we can do better. We know we WILL do better. So we are hard on ourselves because we see how far we have to go and what it will take to get there.

So they want you to send them your physical hard drive, presumably to assure themselves that the data has been erased...

But then they also want you to 'delete any data in your possession', so they already know that that is bullshit.

I just wrote a script (https://github.com/Glank/repeat_test) to see if I could catch these sorts of errors. It does OK. I looked for repeated lines based on their levenshtein percent difference. Then for those repeating groups, if the percent difference between any of the lines is an outlier it returns a positive result.

How could you test for something like that? Maybe, teach an array of skills, and for each skill with subjects of varying degrees of sleep deprivation and for varying time intervals between education and performance, measure response times and skill level in the tasks?

Except this wasn't the "blistering heat of July" like in the article you linked. This was a cool, 50F day. And the author pointed that out. The child was in no danger and the parent was coming right back.

The connections may be more extensive than the average software developer will ever see. But does that make them useful? How can unrecognized connections be useful? And if those connections are not useful without the higher education he/she will not receive, then what was the point in learning them?

I see why you do, but that's such a shame. DKI a damn useful feature that could help both customers and businesses, but it's 'exploited' in a way that doesn't even help the people who are destroying it.

Except that analogy of those analogies is itself a false analogy. Bouncing models off each other is a typical mechanic of scientific innovation. No one is suggesting economists take the theories as wrote and apply them without due consideration.

There's a quote I saw in a users' forum signature that's stuck with me; "My best code was written with the delete key."