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Not that this says anything about the sensor used in the iPhone, but it's not unreasonable to expect that it could be used as some form of motion input.

I'm guessing that you're referring to the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, which is hardly "taking over the industry".

In particular, the bit about the persistent apologies. From the Reddit link:

He's distanced himself from the situation - his nauseating apology texts are dripping with the clueless narcissism that deeply engrained chauvinism is made of: "I know you said not to contact you anymore but I have to apologize so I can get over this... This has turned out almost the exact opposite as I thought it would [sic] and has caused me inexplainable [sic] discomfort .... I just have to come out and say it, I like you."

Also, some of the stories in the comments had similar elements, like:

This exact thing happened to my current gf after she was raped. She just wanted to bury it and he kept pushing his guilt on her for about a year sporadically begging for forgiveness and for her to help him convince himself it wasn't actually rape.

The initial behavior is bad enough, but the continued demand for interaction and forgiveness is entitled and pathetic.

Incidentally, I'm curious as to why I saw this link on the front page of HN from my phone, but when I jumped on the desktop to comment, I was unable to locate it anywhere on at least the first four pages of HN. Now it seems to be back on the second page.

Where are these abundant management jobs, ready to absorb every programmer over 30? Personally, having had several awful managers who were worker-bee programmers, I find nothing worse than the idea that programmers should move into management. Good managing is a completely different skill set from programming.

You're not supposed to be a code monkey at 30.

What an awful attitude to have. Code monkey? Personally, I was just getting good at about 30.

And especially not having 10 years of experience in a technology 10 years old.

It's been my experience that good products tend to end up living to ten or more years. And new technologies tend to only get deeply explored and solid after something like ten years.

Certainly, but I haven't met many people who didn't have parents, and very few who couldn't live with them (or other relatives) while working and attending college. I have, however, met a great many people who took on significant debt (or used their parents' money) in order to attend distant colleges.

You should like one of those Paul Ryan-types who believes anyone can just stop being poor by trying harder.

Absolutely nothing I wrote indicates anything of the sort. In the future, I suggest that you form a response using something other than personal insults built on assumptions. All I did was post two examples of the (extremely affordable, imo) Oregon state university tuition.

I could go on to point out that a huge part of rising costs are related to cost of living, due to supposedly increased expectations of students, and provide a counter example of how a friend of mine (the eldest daughter of a poor, single, Mexican-American mother, who was in the ROTC program) lived very cheaply in Corvallis in a commune-style arrangement, also working part-time, but then you'd probably want to talk trash about her, too.

I worked part-time during school and full-time during summer and put myself through college at Western, graduating with no debt. I lived with my parents and commuted to school. I don't see why this program is necessary.

Then just hire people who can intelligently speak to a relevant resume, and who get along well with your group. If they don't work out, fire them.

People spend entirely too much time obsessing over how to hire people, usually mumbling some nonsense about how they'll destroy their team or be sued out of existence by a bad hire. Personally, I think it's a combination of desperation to cover one's own ass at all costs, and providing an illusion of control. If they'd focus on improving the workplace and their own communication rather than fretting about voodoo hiring theory, they'd be much better off.

Well, I had absolutely no negative effects from it, and many positive effects. It stopped the internal negative feedback loop. It improved my mood. It allowed me to focus on my work. I had no feelings of being emotionally dead, or whatever such effect people like to claim SSRIs gave them. It was an entirely positive experience.

While I don't like the idea of general practitioners handing out anti-depressant prescriptions (instead, they should refer to a psychiatrist who will take responsibility for a full-course treatment), I don't think people should be basing their medical decisions on negative anecdotes they find online. Really, that sort of nonsense plays directly into feeding the depression.

There's a reason that Macbook Air reviews report that it's shocking fast and snappy for such a (relatively) underpowered machine.

All current Macs[1] currently use PCIe SSD drives, which are not interchangeable with SATA SSD drives. They are, however, around 10x faster than SATA SSD drives, which is something people never seem to mention when comparing 'specs'.

[1] with the exception of the 13-inch non-Retina MBP, which is presumably being phased out.

Also, get off /r/programming. It's the most emotionally unhealthy thing I can think of for a software developer. It's nothing but a self-aggrandizing, alpha-geek shitfest.

Yes, well-placed trees, plants, and some lattice material.

I once visited the roof of the Limn building on Townsend in San Francisco. It turns out there was a lush garden, nice eating areas, and an Airstream trailer, all on the roof. Absolutely none of it was visible from the ground, and you'd be lucky to make out much of anything from overhead.

1) Rock climbing gyms. I made a lot of great friends at Mission Cliffs and Berkeley Ironworks. I have no natural talent for climbing, but I love the mental and physical challenge, and I enjoy the social aspect.

2) A super-social connector. When I first moved to the Bay Area, I made a ton of new connections through the marketing woman at my startup. Simply by saying 'yes' to invitations and actually following through, I found my social network increasing.

3) Meetup.com and various activity groups. When I was in Tokyo, I found Tokyo Gaijins to be a great resource for meeting people. Like food? Take a cooking class.

By the way, living on the Peninsula without a car is social suicide. Move to SF, that's where all the cool kids are. Also -- potentially controversially -- SF is the home of Asian women dating dorky white guys. If you want to meet a nice girl, do what my (Asian) friend did and move to Vancouver, B.C. He went from perpetually single to dating in a few months, and got married last year.

I'm drinking my second Diet Coke (with Splenda®) of the day right now. I find it to be a nice way to get a continual, low-dose of caffeine. More importantly, the flavor and fizz is very refreshing and has good mouth-feel.

Not everything "good" is measured by some objective health metric. And the "bad" about Diet Coke likely pales in comparison to the countless other "bad" factors in people's lives.

I once asked him why game developers don't get any royalties, since there was a time when that was at least not unheard of. He insisted that it would just cause people to game the system, with lazy people trying to get on the money-making teams. Personally, I fail to see how that's not always the case, everywhere, anyway. I think he's simply drunk the Kool-Aid and bought the line that upper management fed him in order to maximize their profits.

There's an interesting statement from our times.

* Starting with "Greetings" makes me think of the nerd from The Simpsons.

* "KICKASS" really?

* Terrible attention to detail: Geocities not capitalized, no space between popular and the open parenthesis, "I've Spent" capitalization, random use of present tense in job descriptions, the first entry under My Services is blank, etc.

* Irrelevant information. Massage therapy?

Strip all that down and write in a dry, active voice. I want to know what you're good at immediately. I don't want to wade through a wall of conversational text.

Why is there a photo at all? If you're going to have a photo, make it look good. If you're going to put on a collared shirt and tie, it should fit close to your neck rather than having a fist-width of space in there.

Well, maybe, in the real world, if anyone even noticed, you might get sued. It would be baseless, but you wouldn't have the resources for a court battle, so you'd just tuck your tail and run.

The lesson here is that institutions can be pointlessly authoritative assholes. Between the offended IT schmucks who were churning out their own, awful app, and the administrative types who are seeking to cover their own asses, legally speaking, it really couldn't work out any other way.

Oh, and since they can just kick you out of school, with no meaningful recourse, you're really getting a lesson in what it's like to be the little innovator.

Knowing and understanding the subject matter is likely to be pretty useful if the test matters at all. This is why you study and understand the entire course, which is the point of the course. However, being told explicitly which portions you will be tested on goes against this goal.

which of the 5+ page proofs of theorems from the course wouldn't need to be known for our exam - it wouldn't have been very good use of my time to fully internalise all of them

What? If you're doing mathematics correctly, you are ably to derive the proofs on the fly. You don't have to memorize "five pages of proofs". You understand the concept, you understand the mechanics, and you derive the proof as necessary.

I think you just have an idealised picture of how tests work.

I'll refrain from saying what I think about your "picture of how tests work".

That really hit home for me. Part of the severe burnout I'm experiencing is from years of dealing with people from a pill-popping, paranoid nutcase founder to plain old manchildren who thrive on creating drama.

(This was in the SV/SF "startup" scene, though most of the "startups" were actually just small, privately held companies who seemed to use that label when they were in the red, didn't have a clear direction, and wanted people to work more hours.)

>Because jesus, if you are, and those tests are consequential to the kids future, that's a pretty damn relevant and reasonable question.

The point of a test isn't to test every single detail of what you were taught, it's to hit a random distribution of topics and examples of what you were taught. This gives a pretty good indicator of how well you learned the subject overall.

Asking "is this going to be on the test" shows that you have no intention of actually learning everything you're taught, which is the point of the class, and instead you're only interested in memorizing the minimum to pass a limited test, which is not the point of the class.

in the days of Ellis Island and had just enough education to work as bakers and butchers

So in other words, for the time in which they lived, they were pretty skilled.

The immigration system of the old days wasn't meritocratic; it was simply exploitative

That's irrelevant to the parent comments claim that societal meddling has left some population groups behind. It's also irrelevant to my point distinguishing between people who were already here and pushed out, or forcibly brought here, compared to population groups primarily composed of modern, legal immigrants.

However, it doesn't matter. Coming here in "the days of Ellis Island" required a tremendous amount of dedication and daring, and the places they were coming from were likely even worse off. It was self-selecting for driven people.

Consider an alternative: those non-white races who predominantly arrived here as a result of passing modern immigration requirements, often having secondary education and a drive to succeed, tend to be more successful.

I technically agree with your statement, though. If we had never pushed out the people who were here before us, and never enslaved blacks, both populations would probably be doing much better.

Hell-banning is for spammers and the mentally-ill. The way HN uses it is utterly despicable.