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I have followed news about the TPP for a while, since this great cartoon [1] grabbed my attention a few years ago. Without exception, coverage since then has been negative, describing a collection of rules that will benefit large corporations at the expense of just about everyone, the OP's article just being the most recent. I have tried finding articles in favor of it, just to get a more balanced perspective, but no luck.

How one earth is this thing still going forward? Is there any hope of stopping it?

[1] http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/

Wow! This turns my perception of the piece on its head. He is such an eloquent speaker that I mistook his ad hoc answers as a somewhat ramble-y but nonetheless interesting essay.

I enjoyed the anecdotes in here about the history of Silicon Valley. But, it read like 3 or 4 essays mixed up and crammed into one. What was the point?

I am afraid that she is right. The few times I have tried dipping my toes into Reddit, I have been attacked by users so filled with bile they seemingly could not communicate without spewing it up.

It left me just flabbergasted by how little provoked them, or how they somehow thought their behavior was appropriate or justified.

These scattered but blessedly brief experiences have been so horrible that I have completely given up on it. I wish it were not the case -- Aaron Swartz is one of my heroes - but I am afraid this particular legacy of his has just spoiled.

I came here to share this article.

Anyway, I think your best bet is to outsource this kind of work to the sort of company described in the article. It seems to be a regrettable necessity for any sizable user-generated content site.

Also, of course, please try and get in touch with the relevant authorities mentioned in other comments and assist their efforts in tracking users who try distributing that kind of... content.

Yeah, fair. The second one was much, much better.

The conclusions of this article closely mirror my own experience. I generally prefer reading a physical book because I am much more likely to remember the contents afterward. Things I read on a screen somehow feel slippery and less valuable.

But, how do we reconcile this with the transforming publishing industry? Will they only publish text books and prose that requires "deep reading" and leave everything else to be digitized?

I thought it odd that the article did not mention the SciFi mini-series Dune and Children of Dune that came out a while back [1][2]. These were actually quite good, much better than the David Lynch version.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142032/ [2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287839/?ref_=tt_rec_tt

>Donny personally guarantees your Internet website will cost $3 or less. If not, there'll be hell toupée!

Nothing can trump the special place in my heart for bad puns (is there such a thing as a good pun?)

Follow-up time.

I just discovered this http://www.freecodecamp.com/ which ticks off all of my boxes:

-free

-opportunities for pair programming

-structured curriculum to help level up skills

Anyway, I am going to give it a try. I hope this discovery helps anyone else that stumbled on this question and was looking for something similar.

My one reservation concerns their business model (they do not appear to have one...). So, I hope this program still exist in the months it takes to complete the courses and projects.

Thanks for the tips. I will be sure to check out those books. I will also take a look at some open source projects!

Ah, ok. That makes sense. Confusion resolved!

No. When you first start learning about derivatives, you are told you draw a line tangent to a point and then find the slope of that line at that point. The slope is just del y / del x. So, if del x = 1, then the slope is just del y / 1 = del y = the height of the triangle.

Of course, it is more useful to get a derivative as a function of x, so you don't have to do this at every point. But, as a starting point, when you are first learning about derivatives and only have a background in algebra and geometry, this is a nice way to think about it.

Eh. I have found that the Wikipedia math pages are not approachable for someone that does not already have a very strong background in math. There is definitely a place for blogs etc. that can present the information in a more palatable manner to non-mathematicians.

I also thought this was actually a nice way to think about derivatives. "To visualize derivatives, we can draw a right triangle whose hypoteneuse is tangent to a function. If the triangle's width is , then its height is the derivative." I think if it had been explained this way to me when I was first starting to learn about derivatives a million years ago, I would have grasped it more quickly.

But, I definitely agree that this is way too short for the stated purpose.

The first two sections seemed fine to me.

However, the "cartography" section made almost no sense. It needs to be explained more clearly how the two carts are different and why they diverge.

edit: On a more general note, the animations are really slick!

The existing top comments (tptacek and calcsam) have already covered the useful practical advice for your situation.

So, I just wanted to say that I really feel for you. Cancer sucks. A stranger across the ocean is tearing up just reading about your situation and wish I could help in some way. So, I am sure there are a lot of real friends and family in your life who care about you and will help you get through this. Don't be afraid to ask them for help when you need it. You aren't alone.

American in Norway here. I have been struggling with immigrant life the last year or so and recently started thinking seriously about moving home.

The existence of this thread reminds me that I absolutely should just suck it up do what it takes to stay.

I don't understand why the original comment is getting downvoted.

How can they implement this without copying the website in some form? It would constitute basic copyright infringement.

I think the annotations feature is really interesting! But how can they implement this without the permission of the original website providers?

Yes, quite right, I should have included some context. Here we go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

Original text, translated into English: http://hyperdiscordia.crywalt.com/library_of_babel.html

I interned with these guys back in 2012 when I was a student. They are a really great team with an inspiring vision. So glad to see them here on the front page!

Yes. I have high hopes for Patreon and similar services to change this though.

I see this being picked up and adapted for use by recruiters and HR types.

It actually costs a great deal more than that. You have to pay 5 years of expected future taxes upfront, in addition to the processing fees. This can be an enormous sum, depending on your income sources. If you just have a regular job and no investments, it is easily more than a whole year's salary. It is insane. In Norway, you generally have to renounce your prior citizenship to get Norwegian citizenship, but they consider it such a financial burden here to renounce US citizenship that they sometimes let you keep it (varies by individual situation).

I live in Norway. This is just baffling to me. The only way I can think to make sense of it is to draw a parallel to suicide clusters [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide

I was with the author until the following line in the last paragraph:

"...it is not a fault only to have energy for what I care about. I don’t know what I would have become if my gifts had been acknowledged and nurtured rather than ignored."

This argument comes from the same privileged perspective of the "follow your passion" line. He can only make this claim because, as an apparently gifted programmer, he is fortunate to care about skills that are currently valued in the workforce, if not in the confines of many school systems.

No one has energy for the things they don't care about. However, people do their jobs regardless of whether they care about it because it is their job. Does the author suppose anyone works as a janitor because they care about cleaning other people's toilets? Of course not. Janitors have bills to pay, mouths to feed etc.

Teaching students to learn the importance of doing their job, regardless of whether they care about it, is not an intrinsic flaw of modern education. There should arguably be less emphasis on it, and more done to nurture student's natural talents.

However, the notion that students should not be taught at all the importance of good citizenship, following orders and doing their job -- even or especially if they don't care about it -- is unpalatable. To do away with it completely, as implied, is even more disrespectful to students than the situation he describes. It is extremely disrespectful to the people who will spend their working lives doing things that they don't particularly care about, and who go home at the end of the day to the things that give meaning to their lives.

From undergrad, I have a double major in East Asian Studies (concentration on Japan) and Aerospace Engineering. I no longer bother trying to explain the simple truth (they are both very interesting fields!) because no one seems to believe it possible for someone to be interested in both these things at the same time. Now, I just mention whichever major is more relevant to the conversation or job I am applying for etc.

Sure, most university students fall into that age range.

But, why are they only interested in taking current first-time university students onto their roster in the first place? What about career-changers and so on? A lot of people go back to school, at some point, for just that purpose.

As an American who lives in Norway, I understand just how confusing this may be to you. The difference, I have come to believe after living here for a few years, stems from a different perspective on long- and short-term interests.

Americans are, in general, I think (please note this is my opinion and do not down vote me for making this observation) more likely to support solutions that appear to resolve the given issue in the most intuitive and seemingly fastest way. While the intention may be good, this rather simplistic view contradicts the reality that subtler, research-based and longer-view solutions are often the wiser choice. Examples of this include things like research into prison sentences and conditions and their relation to recidivism rates; or ideas about parental leave being better for businesses in the long term, despite the short term loss of productivity.

In this particular case, it is an issue of very short-term thinking from the police who do not realize that their draconian tactics, which seemingly are for the best interest of security today, are in fact more likely to engender civil unrest (or emigration, in my case, since I have no appetite for that) in the long run.

I doubt they would start charging developers to publish to their app store. This seems completely out of line with the rest of their Android strategy. I wonder why the VC said it?