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Again, let's talk about a point of fact here, rather than a myth that it's humanities students who are worse off.

Since the 70s, the percentage of students with bachelor's degrees in the humanities has not increased. It's always been around 16-17% of total degrees earned.

Social science has been dropping as a percentage of students with earned degrees in those fields, but not by much.

Math and science has always hovered around 8% of total degrees earned.

Computer science (amazingly) has not grown as a percentage of total degrees earned since the 70s.

Business majors haven't grown as a percentage since the 80s.

Education majors have fallen dramatically each decade, taken up primarily by other fields.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_318.20.as...

And yet, here we are across the board, with low wages (comparatively to previous generations, comparatively to older workers, comparatively in almost every way measurable), massively increasing education costs and a really, really poor job outlook for young workers.

It's a canard, plain and simple.

This old canard is quite tiresome, and is rarely presented with evidence, but it's always written as capital T truth.

The realities, laid out in the article, are all economic and well researched. Millennials have high debt and low wages with a poor job outlook. The underlying trends have existed for quite some time and appear to be getting worse over time, especially with the recent recession hitting youth hardest.

But yeah, let's blame motivation rather than figure out how to improve the system. Clearly kids with college degrees aren't motivated enough to will jobs that can cover their debts and maintain the comfortable standard of living their parents had.

Sometimes, but mainly when the bike is recognizable and the owner is well known in a cycling community. More than a few times I've seen stolen bikes show up to the park or the race track.

More often than not, they're gone. This is why I ride beaters on my commute or to the store. The good bikes in my fleet never leave my sight when they're off my property.

For $5,000 I'd just ride a bad ass bicycle, keep it unlocked. When it got stolen, I'd buy another one. Would still have walking around money, too.

Realign the things you want to the free things in the world and your perspective may change a bit. I have a habit of sometimes vanishing from work on particularly nice days, for no reason other than to lay in the grass at the park. I live way up north, so there are only so many nice days a year here. I figure a few hundred truly perfect days over the rest of my life.

I also enjoy fishing, which really only has startup costs for a rod/reel combo and some accessories (or a found stick and a hook on a line). After that, I can find bait in the garden, to my wife's dismay.

Anyway, the point is fun is really what you make of it. As they say, some of the best things in life are free.

Nick Woodman founded this company on a $35,000 loan from his mom in 2002. The rise of this company has been amazing to watch. It really is a great product line. What's most amazing is how the camera basically marketed itself with the rise in both action sports and online video. Some damn lucky timing.

Jimmy Iovine likely got stellar deals with music labels for Beats' streaming service. This is more likely a play for streaming audio than it is for mediocre but well-hyped headphones, which is a lateral move for Apple anyway.

I'm inclined to agree on the specifics of this case, but not in the abstract. Kickstarter and other crowd funding entities represent an interesting dearth of case law. Here, consumers aren't necessarily protected by either consumer laws or by investment laws.

Considering large corporations have purchased Kickstarted projects and major films have been produced with crowd funding, these are very important issues to begin sorting out.

Until I can chain GUI apps together for my specific needs with some combination of pipes and basic logic, I'm inclined to disagree. GUIs can be really nice for specific apps, but they are often terrible as part of an easily repeated and fast workflow.

It doesn't feel like Shanley is shouting and random men, she is shouting at them. https://twitter.com/shanley/status/458817975500304384

Jeff called her out on it, making an unfortunately cliched reference to Letter from Birmingham Jail and people got heated again. His point has been constantly missed but he's not backing from it too much and in some places the meta discussion about the discussion has been somewhat enlightening itself. Jeff and I had a very good conversation on twitter about it with a woman saying we were tone policing, which I didn't even know was a thing people felt when talking but it is apparently.

I love the enthusiasm.

This read like a tech version of a Scooby Doo episode.

A great mystery solved with a little symlink.

This happens between cable/sat providers and the networks all the time. Company pissing matches in public are terrible for consumers.

I get that. I was pointing out dumb contract clauses in general. As the OP says, there's a large array of these types of things found in contracts, which is why I brought up overly restrictive non-competes and arbitration clauses, both of which are just as scummy as claiming ownership of any IP during the period of employment.

Maybe don't sign these types of contracts?

We are fortunate enough that even the most mediocre among us can hold out for the next employer that doesn't demand this kind of control over you, or start your own company. I don't give a shit what a company says about their culture of work/life balance or whatever. If I see blanket IP clauses unrelated to non-compete, or like arbitration clauses that remove us from civil courts should a problem arise, I'm whistling on my way out the door.

I once saw a contract that stated I couldn't work in the field for TWO YEARS after terminating. Not just large machine equipment, but ANY mobile/web applications, related to integration with embedded systems or not. Yeah no thanks.

Your mind should be available for rent for $100k/year or whatever your market rate is these days but not for sale at that price. Sorry but I'm a Human as a Service. If you want to own me, you'll have to come to a better valuation.

It's not just the memorization that bothers me, but the belief that there is only one way to do math. I've been in many arguments with parents before that their (and my) kids should learn many algorithms for even the most basic things. Do subtraction by complements sometime, rather than the standard algorithm. Playing with numbers is way more fun than repeating the computations.

I have A/B tested carousels extensively at my previous job. What I found was that even after a user interacted with the controls, meaning they specifically chose to see subsequent slides, they still clicked the first slide at nearly the same rate as those who never interacted at all (tested with auto slide on and off and variations of the carousels). Intrigued by the finding, I started doing different sorts of the slides (random, most recently added, oldest, etc.) and found no statistical difference. I never had time to figure out why, though, as I took a new position somewhere else. I have a strong suspicion that users see first as most important, though.

This page really needs to specify the length of the term, otherwise something like $60/month is pretty meaningless when trying to figure out if something like this would be worth the cost of convenience.

My 5-year old daughter played through Dragonbox pretty quickly and afterward I went through some concepts with her like x/x = 1 or 1x = x.

When shown to her using fractions of a drawn circle or simple multiplication of real objects, she seemed to understand the concept in the abstract.

However, once I introduced something like ayx/yx = a, it seemed to trip her up, even though the motions in Dragonbox made sense to her.

That said, I'm not sure I understood why x/x = 1 until much after 5 years old, so maybe there's something to be said about going through the motions of computation before truly understanding the general concept.

I'm able to get forwarded calls but not make calls from the service.

I've seen node listed in job ads where node.js isn't even used at the company looking to hire, or where they'll use npm/bower/grunt tooling. It's a super trendy buzzword.

Callback hell. ;)

I love node, btw!

The most difficult part of regex isn't defining the problem. I'd say that one's easy. The hardest part is figuring out your regex months or years after you've written it!

Depends on what the outcome of learning is supposed to be. If it is to simply recite 8, then what have you learned other than a factoid? 72 circles in 9 columns is 8 rows of circles and now you see the relationship clearly. If you rotate your grid, you have 8 columns of 9 circles. If the next question is 72/12 or 72/3 those relationships become even more apparent as the shape of the grid changes.

I see no problem taking math out of abstraction in this way, especially as one moves onto visualizing more complex math. Seeing how the symbols interact with their meaning is a good thing.

I recently introduced my 5 year old to Dragonbox. She picked up algebra quickly, without the formalities, of course. I was pretty amazed by how quickly she understood it, too.

Playing with numbers is a really a great way to learn the meaning of formulas. There are entire schools of thought, such as Montessori, that believe numbers should be taught in this tactile way. Seeing it first hand, and comparing it to my own struggles as a child, I'm inclined to see great value in drawing 72 little circles out.

I think it's a clever way to introduce the properties of numbers without forcing memorization of a multiplication table. It's a very brute force technique. Of course memorization is useful, but so will understanding these properties as the kids enter algebra.

Minnesota education. There is obviously years of cruft to deal with, but there is a desire here to constantly do things better. Honestly, the tech attracted me to the job. They're using some cool stuff. I was pretty surprised when I interviewed. Went from seeing the interview as practice to really wanting the job.

"The whole reason geeks get excited about Bitcoin is that it is the most efficient way to do financial transactions."

Speaking as a government employee, not a contractor, we are actually more efficient than my previous private sector jobs. But then again, we have a "build it don't buy it" culture here with a lot of love for open source throughout our services and really only use consultants on ultra specific jobs, due to head count caps from our legislature. Sure there's some union cruft here and there but I've seen similar dead weight in the private sector.

Perhaps you should consider consulting for less well-funded segments of the Government? The constraints make for ingenious solutions.

I idle in a few rooms on Freenode and am active in a few more. Some open source projects have excellent rooms, others have useless ones. Depending on your interests, your mileage will vary greatly.

JShint would catch that.

It's partly private. To say it is not part of government is also inaccurate. It is independent of several branches in many respects, but relies in the government in others, by design. For example, the chair and vice chair are appointed and confirmed. Congress has oversight of the system but does not appropriate funds to the system.