hendrix

Not going to happen until the college experience ceases to be ingrained in the American Dream.

I am in a similar position to the OP, although I am learning c++ as a first language. It seems like most of the open-courseware type programs are either scheme (old mit)/java (stanford)/python (new mit). Seeing as what im interested in (computational finance/bio) is mostly C/C++ that's why I'm going with C++. If anyone thinks im crazy and should switch to another language or anything else that I should be looking at I'd love to know.

Old, but it got me to think - wtf did he try to do something like this at MIT of all places? I doubt BU or xyz state U has nearly as much security...

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something like "s" "query".

mint supports the MATE desktop (gnome 2.x fork). whilst the diverting of royalties is a quite morally sketch, distribution of MATE takes precedence IMO since it is providing sanity in the world of the unholy mess of train-wreck desktop environments aka gnome 3 & unity.

Culture in the USA is not that different from the UK/Ireland/other 1st world English speaking countries. So you have a $109k/year position in SF and a $61k/year position in Dublin. Microsoft figured this out years ago.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-eng... http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/dublin-software-engineer-s...

give it 3-6 months and the current crop of android tablets will be outdated, and available for peanuts.

This. "How do we get more women in OSS?" is the same as saying "How do we get more male nurses"? If men want to become nurses, then they will become nurses, if women want to become open source software developers they will become OSS developers.

Hah, looks like they got bribed by google to start running ads. Never mind that ABP breaks google's business model David and Goliath style. FF should add ABP or similar as default and destroy 20% of google's ad-revenue, that would be the day. (just in case you forgot the 2038 cookie thing & all of googles other privacy abuses.)

It does not matter what women want if the government is going to helpfully step in and make it impossible to function. Consider the federal law in regards to descrimination of women:

[i]Sex Discrimination

Title VII's broad prohibitions against sex discrimination specifically cover:

    Sexual Harassment - This includes practices ranging from direct requests for sexual favors to workplace conditions that create a hostile environment for persons of either gender, including same sex harassment. (The "hostile environment" standard also applies to harassment on the bases of race, color, national origin, religion, age, and disability.)
    Pregnancy Based Discrimination - Pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions must be treated in the same way as other temporary illnesses or conditions.[/i]

Ok so you can't as an employer treat your [women] employees having babies as a life-changing [and work-productivity reducing] event? WTF that might work at wal-mart or a retail-bank or even possibly a law firm, but that will not work at a startup where you have to give it 100% for >8hrs/day. What will actually happen is that the woman will be passed over for a man who has none of the associated liabilities. Then the VCs and unhappy bloggers will be scratching their heads as to why there are so few women in startups. Some of those VCs will also seek out women founders in some sort of PC guilt trip. http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html

What needs to happen to fix this and ensure equality for women who do not want children is to get rid of the workplace discrimination laws regarding women. Then you can have a woman sign a contract that she will not have babies for x amount of time. Otherwise we will just have the current under-the-radar discrimination.

If you are not at the office what differentiates you from someone in china/russia/india/europe? Why should you be paid 150k/yr for something when people who are also not present would do the same thing for 30k/yr? There are people who speak english in other places than Canada/USA/UK...

A modest proposal = satire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal.

usenet & ssl + nzbmatrix = no more problems.

Let them enroll in community college then. Here in WA it is possible to get an AA/AS as you graduate HS, and not attend the last two years of HS. IMO the first two years HS is very, very necessary for a somewhat decent social development of young people though.

same here im looking to move to the bay area come next year.

This is oh so true. Wtf are you giving out your bank history and info to a website? If they get hacked…lol oh shit. (let the downvotes commence)

What kind of finacial modeling software? Some people http://www.stocktrak.com/ (i have no affiliation with that site) have already done something similar.

I'm in a rather similar situation (23/m/just finished Molecular Biology/Business degree). Personally, I'm still interested in the life sciences, but the flexibility and salary of for-profit business is much more attractive than the academic career. So I started teaching myself C++/Java/perl while looking for jobs.

There are many applications of CS, have you thought about Finance (quant or operations/bioinformatics/defense industry (if you are a usa citizen)....

Guess I'm just not ready to leave the task bar behind.

How does it compare to seattle or boston?

seattle, wa

What is the big deal? This is a reddit post in the feminist subredditum.... IMO this is just fear-mongering and exploiting the sensitivities of the (mostly male & slightly nerdy) tech workforce. The point is that women are NOT being actively discriminated against. If women do not want to ask for more salary, that is their own fault. You could say the same for recent immigrants/visa-applicants who do not want to piss off their employer and will work for pennies so that they can remain in the country.

Lulz at the history major needing adderal/Ritalin to write papers/gpa. Most likely he was procrastinating all night too, and using the drugs as a crutch to be coherent at 3 in the morning. Many people have survived ochem/thermo/analysis without anything other than coffee, you just have to be _interested_ in the subject.

The general public will be limited to typing homework problems into wolfram alpha...

What are they going to do for labs/dissections? What are they going to do for exams (or equivalent)?

This is still a very interesting idea/class and I hope it succeeds 100%.

Yes, the desktop is a thing of the past for youtube/facebook/news/casual gaming/light email. Tablets can handle these tasks (content consumption) imo much better than a desktop.

It is a completely different story for photoshop/maya/visual studio/solidworks/nx/matlab.... These programs are not designed for the type of mulch-touch input that tablets are able to excel at. XP is supported until 2014...

Assuming OKC's target market is the relative majority in English-speaking countries it really doesn't take much crazy math to find matches, as in the matching facility is not going to be as important as the random number generator (or trained monkey) that is filling in the matches. All that really needs to be taken into account are features of the prospective match that the two individuals WANT to be taken into account(age/height/race/income level/political/religious). It isn't that complicated, especially since one of OKC's tactics is to use quizzes/'looking for friends' to break the stigma of online dating.

What is the stigma of online dating?

Obviously the implied answer is that if you are using online dating then you cannot find a date IRL. Or perhaps a kinder answer would be that you have too much going on to find a date IRL. This is the same principle as a meat-market nightclub/singles bar where the bouncer lets the guy with the two attractive women in, but the pack of forever-alones get locked out. Then the slightly wealthier gentleman pays $ to the nightclub to get in, for the opportunity to pay $ to one of the attractive women (in the form of a drink) for the chance to talk to her and (hopefully) get sex/affection/phone #.

Of course this is all crazy, but it is a way in which many bars/nightclubs/online dating works. If OKC can attract attractive women with quizzes/validation/'looking for friends' and associated kitsch, they have it made.

It is, except with a more addictive business model...

Back in the day (freshman @ uni so 2006) all the cool kids were making facebooks. You had to have a .edu email address which let you into that uni's network. Only the students/recently graduated could participate. Now everyone and their dog have facebook accounts.

To make something popular and or "exclusive" one needs to have a niche of exclusive/cool people willing to use that product and a bunch of other people that don't have access to it. This is EXACTALLY what Zuck did at Harvard. He created the ultimate cool kids club at the most exclusive university in the world. This would have been impossible at almost any other university, also Harvard doesn't have the nerdy reputation of some other universities in Massachusetts. Then they opened it up to the masses, and all the parents/people who are not students/hs students got accounts and the exclusivity went downhill. But that isn't their main strategy anymore, it is to keep people yearning for human interaction, but without any negative social consequences... There is a VERY good reason that it is not a good idea to ask a girl/guy on a date via facebook, which is the exact same reason which makes it so popular aka no negative social consequences (can look @ the cute girls bikini pictures all day long and you don't get yelled at) but only to an extent. That is the facecrack.

So yes, they will be able to maintain the facecrack of pseudo-social interactions. They will not be able to grow with the exclusivity that they once had though. This is until the next exclusive thing comes along though.

tldr:

1. FB grew out of Harvard and associated exclusivity & worldwide appeal

2. FB uses pseudo-social interactions to give its users a limited amount of good feelings, but does not have the consequences of real life interactions.

3. FB will cease to be king of the mud pit if something more exclusive comes along.

There is quite a bit I would love to change about college including:

Not attending right out of HS, and instead working at a customer-service intensive job to increase my social skills and learn the value of money. There are too many students living off of loans, and believing that college is a 4 year vacation.

Not wasting so much time in college. 4-5 years is a humungous time investment. Some places you can get a BA/MS in almost the same time.

I would have completed an AS in math or physics first, and then tried to get into berkley/caltech/ivy.

Spending too much time talking about politics/religion/philosophy with the liberal arts kids.

Majoring in molecular biology rather than math/physics & minor in molecular biology. I have learned programming on my own time.

Trying to do a start-up the summer before I started the hardest classes.

*Not joining a (relatively sane) fraternity.

Now I am attempting to go from Life Sciences -> mathematical biology vs physics/math -> mathematical biology.