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Thanks for sharing. Thats about how I imagine doing it myself.

I am currently on a 2011 13" MBP and understand the just awesome feeling!

I am very curious. Do you mind sharing the circumstances that lead to running over the mbp with your car? I have heard or folks doing it on purpose but it sounds like your situation was an accident.

And it still worked for a few years? Cool.

Thanks for the clear explanation. Now I understand what I am doing when I modify my hosts file like this.

Find someone to teach. Instead of you writing the fun software guide them to develop the fun software.

To extend your thought experiment ...

When you really are the smartest person in the world, and everyone knows it, you could seek out seek out students and teach them to be the smartest person in the world. I have heard it several times in different ways but the gist is this, 'If you really want to learn X, teach someone how to X.' I don't think the quote is exactly right but I hope the intent comes through.

No. Never lie - first of all, this is a compromise on your personal integrity that is now compromised. This is a very high cost, even for a little compromise such as getting a j ob you know you can learn to do.

Second, once you you have lied to get a job because you know you could do something skill relatd within a few weeks time, what else will you lie about? To yourself, to your co-workers or your boss?

I think very few people start out lying at a large scale. They start small and build on each success and the more compromises they make the easier it is to compromise just a little bit more next time.

I think you ask a great question. I'll bite. Here is what I have in mind that will change my world.

Small data. My data. A 1999 google like interface into an index of me: my email, my documents, images and video that I've collected. Nice to haves would be a copy of the various conversations I have had on third party social media sites.

This index should be set up in a way that I can easily include a copy of it in my Trust that will pass my assets to my daughter (note - I am increasingly thinking that the raw data, much of what either lives in the cloud or gets backed up to CrashPlan, is an asset that should be part of the an Estate that gets passed to the next generation). She should be able to add to it when she is a old enough and (if I am so lucky) my grandchildren's grandchildren should be able to search for vague terms in the stories that their great grandmother (my daughter) told them when they were young. They will get links to relevant emails or documents that help them explore the past. They will be able to see the connections between images takes a the same time or location in a way that lets them explore their history. As I understand this tool better I will be able to narrate a one way version of my story to those of future generations.

As I said above, a tool like this would solve my problem. Do you think it would be useful to a computer literate, smart but non hacker/programmer type? Any ideas on how you think one should approach this problem?

Are you sure your were poorer, in an overall wholistic sna. Did your purchase enrich your life by $599?

I know I got more than two years of use out of my iPhone 1 and then passed it on to my 2 year old daughter who used it for over a year. Well worth the investment and for all the little gripes or complaints I did have I still feel like I got more than I paid (including phone cost + carrier fees).

I know! I can just hear my daughter, 'Daddy, turn that down. I'm trying to watch Doc McStuffins. Why do you have to do science on a Saturday morning?'

Then there is the electrical bill and I already get hell from my wife for the water bill during the summer months.

For a true start up I agree with you, they do not have the time. I am guessing this is what you mean by some companies?

For established companies with legacy code bases older than two years, there is always going to be a getting up to speed period. To pass smart people over because they chose the wrong buzz word for the focus of their last job (or the buzz words recently changed) is a great way to always have people that need to get up to speed on your team.

So how would you go about learning LC-MS/MS and applying the various separation techniques to small molecules or proteins?

Instruments start at 250k and many in universities are decades older than what is currently used in industry. For small molecules, the most challenging (and exciting) library's of compounds are owned by third parties.

It is my opinion that science, much like programming, one has to do it to learn it. There are limitations to the knowledge you gain without being hands on. See E.O Wilsons musings of the impact his formative years and post grad school wanderings in the south pacific. He is certainly a scientist but much of his knowledge and insight is due to the hands on approach he used to to gain that knowledge.

So, if you just add the localhost address to etc hosts then nothing from the url will load in your browser?

True, everyone has something to hide. My point was that if the manager/company interviewing me want's me to show them everything by asking for my login/pwd's they should be willing to provide me with the same out of mutual respect when I ask. If they are willing to ask me to provide that personal detail yet are not willing to reciprocate (on both the managerial and company level) , what does that tell me about the value they place on their employees? Our relationship is already getting off to a poor start.

I'm all with you when you suggest that people stop working for unethical/abusive companies. One way to figure out how much they value their employees is during the interview process when you have the chance to ask them smart questions. Employment is a two way street and the more tools employees have to make it an equal give/take relationship the better for all.

Most non tech focused big companies won't use Wordpress. Not only are they locked into the CMS bundles that only run on .NET but the marketing (or marcom departemnt) doesn't communicate very well with the IT department. Since the senior managers believe that front end is independent from the backend and IT re-enforces that, the big co will end up with an out of date website that is clunky for customers and users with annual requests to have a modern website like the cool tech companies. In large companies outside of tech there is very little understanding for what it takes to create and maintain a modern website.

Trust me, I saw this first hand once upon a time when a VP asked for dynamic content for products (in a database) and the IT manager told him it could not be done with JavaScript. This IT manager had over 15 years of e-commerce and website development on his linked in profile.

My line of thought was from a single persona who articulates an honest reflection of their view at the time. It won't matter if the opinion is right or wrong if social mores change, even if i changed with them, it's a reflection of who I was at that moment. But who we are changes moment to moment, day to day and year to year. What I am trying to get at is people, perhaps my great grandchildren or people I never meet and interact with will come across something I have written and never updated, or forgotten about entirely and then gone on about my day. Those people will need a tool to place that into a larger context or they will misunderstand how I got to the place I ended up. And I just want to be clearly understood, now and a hundred years from now.

What if social mores have drastically changed since that time and I have changed too? What if I am dead and gone, how do I let them know that as I evolved as a person going through life, my beliefs and my opinions have changed.

The tool that would let me do that is a tool I would love to have. Social networks do not have good tools for this yet.

I don't think she is naive and its a good thing to be optimistic. She touched on a core issue that social networks will have a hard time addressing in the coming years. Perhaps it is because its they tried hard to mimic how relationships worked in the moment and people change, moment by moment. I think the problem that needs to be solved is that people change organically, moment by moment until they are a very different person because of the many small changes that occur through the years.

There are no tools that I know of to provide this context of individual change for those who read what we have written or recorded on video years after the fact. And speaking only for myself, I have changed a little since yesterday and a lot since my early twenties.

Does that make sense? If we think about leaving a legacy for people we can't know but will be able to speak to in ten or thirty years, how do we provide them the insight into the significant or cumulative changes that influenced changes our beliefs? It's not like we can sit down with them over a beer and say, "That thing I wrote about social issue X, well I used to believe Y about it and then really significant things happend to me and I completely changed. I know it's weird."

I believe these are very difficult tools to build because they have to capture some of the more ephemeral aspects of humanity in a way thats easy for the producer to manage and the consumer to quickly comprehend.

Well perhaps its one login with a safe word, like the spy's do in the movies when the agents on the phone ask them if they are safe and there are several words they can use to respond to.

I wonder if it is something I might use, not just for an interview with a potential employer but on other computers, not under my control.

Thanks for giving me the vote. You are right - the person interviewing is not on equal footing with the hiring manager. I guess that I was thinking in aggregate, if enough people will see the employer/employee relationship as an equal partnership this should not be an issue.

As it stands now though, you are correct there is very much an imbalance between employers and employees in favor of the employers.

I would appreciate knowing why I got down voted for this. Thanks.

You can also anticipate this with a fake account just for that purpose. Sure you can have my login, I joined a while ago but I am not very active on there.

What I find funny about the drug testing policy is how easy it is to circumvent and the side industry that exists to provide the tools needed to circumvent it.

I could see the same thing happening if employers started requiring social media credentials. An new kind of social network would have an easy differentiator - "Come to our new social network, along with everything else, you can trust us because we give you two logins: a secure login that you keep for yourself and a compromised login that you give to the government and your employer."

It is a big deal, but no so big that we are on a slippery slope. There are many things that could happen to combat it.

Employees or prospective employees agree to give up said passwords only if hiring manager/company gives them their social media account passwords. I.E - If I have nothing to hide, you have nothing to hide. You know employer an employee can never be to sure who they are working for ...

An entire side industry might spring up entirely geared toward managing and tracking who sees what on your social networks or, social networks might respond by letting you set up two logins - one for safe log in that only you know and one for compromised login that you give to an employer when they compromise you.

I hope that long before the states need to pass more laws like this that employees or prospective employees would publicly avoid business/government agencies asking for social media logins. "I really wanted that great job at Great Company, but it has asked me for my social media logins and stated that it would hold the things I did as a teenager against me."

The public perception that it is wrong to ask an employee/prospective employee is very strong and the more negative marketing associated to an employer gets around that will not only keep other employees away but it will chip away the confidence existing employees have that they work for a good employer.

If the carriers offered an Apple Care level of support/insurance for it. Yes.

Cool site. I'll pass it along to my CFO.

I can't even down vote but I'll offer an a different point of view.

(lose every battle) != (lose entire war)

Perhaps this a a proactive measure to eliminate some bagage that accumulated during the succeses they had in the areas you mentioned above. Perhaps this is an opportunity to refocus on the areas the have recently lost but still have competitive technology?

Fwiw - this is a reaction to the phrase "Lose every battle" more than anything else. Also, I looked around and I don't own anything by sony and can't remember the last thing I bought from them so perhaps they are still going to lose the war.

I could not access this. It says you have to have an account.

While not there yet, if projections hold up, I could tell you the same thing again in ~5 years.

I misunderstood the question - but if your goal is to become a millionaire (and you are in your mid-twenties) and you keep chipping away at things like 401k, ROTH etc you will have a great back up plan, with the magic of compounded interest, should the business attempts not work out.

Start with your employers 401k plan. If they match your contributions all the better. If they don't offer one do it yourself with a ROTH IRA and max that out each year if you can. Start now.

When I first started I looked for high yield / high risk mutual funds that the company offered and participated heavily in the ESPP plan of the company. I picked similar things for my ROTH contributions. This means that I was impacted by the stock market collapse in 2008. It also means that I recovered my losses and was back where I was pre collapse in ~ nine months because we didn't panic and are in it for the long term. I'm 36 and will likely start transitioning some of the investments into 'safer' things when I am around 45 or so. The accounts are checked 2x per year and adjustments are sometimes made but usually we just run the calculator that estimates how much we will have when we are ~55.

The company I started this with offered seminars for retirement investing and there is a chart, sort of a guideline, that details how much risk your investment portfolio should have in it based on how long you have to retirement. If anyones interested I'll see if I can dig it up.

Not that I plan on retiring, even when I am retired but if I was 70 and my portfolio took the hit it did in 2008 I might not have the time to wait for the markets to correct. Note: I know very little about finance, investing or otherwise. My wife is the financial guru in the family and I have learned much from watching her lead. Please take this as what worked for me and realize that ymmv. Also, it helps to read up on the basics of investing for retirement but i'll be honest when I say that it has been several years since I read anything.

[edit] - I might have misread the question. Sorry. This is what I did when I was starting at 24 and would do again if I was just starting out. I doubt that I would pay someone else to do it for me since the fees that are charged when one sells/buys end up taking a significant chunk and any service is going to ad their fees on top of those.

Take a look at reveal.js - http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/ && https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js

Even though it seems to work best in Chrome it does work in ff and I was able to hack it to go full screen. I have noticed that It will bog the browser down on larger presentations with 20+ slides or more.

I haven't read the book but my wife and I started investing in our mid twenties and were blessed with generous matched contributions from our employer. We both maxed out the 401k contributions and (she) still does. We also do ROTH's as much as we can. She is into finance and 'manages' it by logging into the accounts 2x per year, looking at performance and making adjustments as needed.

The growth in the past few years is cool to watch now that we are ten years in and the curve is accelerating; even with the stock market crash in '08.

We are sensible on how we spend but not spend thrifty. We take at least on nice vacation a year and are able to visit family in other parts of the country for holiday's etc. When we invest in equipment for hobbies etc - I tend to buy things that last: Burton snowboards, Patagonia gear (I have a winter coat that is almost 10 years old, etc ...)

There was a monkey wrench thrown into the mix about four years ago but as she gets older her costs seem to be coming down. I'll know more how this affect the long term savings plan when she gets closer to being a teenager.