Since pyqt and pygtk are included, there are some python based python editors that don't need to be installed to run (and have the dependencies they need). Perhaps something like http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/. I'd suggest (the dated) drpython as a beginner, but I'm not sure if wxpython is included in portable python.
Allow me to politely disagree. CL is popular for apartments because that's where the broker's list. It is a horrible search UI (want to find a place with a washer and dryer? There's no way to specify it is in the apartment, so you end up with listings with shared washer dryer's, washer dryer's on the same block, etc). Brokers in NYC regularly abuse the system, posting falsely under "by owner" and often hiding the broker fee they want to charge. (Even the broker fee disclosure varies significantly, from 1 month to 15% of the annual rent). Also, if you aren't searching in Manhattan, it is difficult to separate out listings by neighborhood, since broker's regularly toss in text of "nearby" neighborhoods. The final straw is all the broker's who put in hidden text, so no matter what you search for, their listings come up. It is a huge pain using craigslist to find an apartment, and they could fix the problem (while retaining a simple UI) in a few easy steps:
1. Do not allow any embedded html other than "a" tags and images.
2. Update the forms to allow postings to specify common amenities/features, and update search accordingly. (Dishwasher, Laundry in Unit, A/C, Floor, Neighborhood).
3. Have a broker fee section, separated from application fee, so broker's must disclose precisely how much of a fee there is.
4. Put text into ANY ad posted under "by owner" stating that brokers posting in this section agree to forgo any broker fee. Make that statement BOLD and on the ad itself, and every step up to the ad's submission, requiring broker's to explicitly acknowledge this. Remove the "broker fee" section, so if they post a fee apartment in the "by owner" section, they are failing to disclose the fee.
At which point they will declare such hacks violations of terms of service, and upon detection take further action (banning, service charges, etc). Yay arms race!
There's work being done on training existing teachers to teach philosophy. I'm optimistic, especially when starting early enough to have a larger impact on problems as they arise.
First off, congrats on making enough to make those tax dollars rather than cents, that must be considerable:).
You'd be preaching to the choir about the distinction between needing a degree to secure a job, vs a degree to do it.
The many reasons I support college level education come down to the kind of citizens we want. I want citizens with active intellectual lives, the ability and urge to question, tinker, and improve society, and the fire of curiosity in their lives. High school education isn't enough. I value what college brings to the table, from bringing together people from diverse backgrounds and locations, to providing an opportunity to explore subjects with a depth and seriousness high schools don't provide. Yes we need to improve public education, but I'm not willing to let go of the benefits a college educated populace bring to the society I want to live in.
On your question about will it help you make more money - sometimes, though that is not the only metric of success we ought be measuring college by.
Back to the math: http://www.nasfaa.org/EntrancePDF.aspx?id=1320 Essentially 1% of the federal budget goes to student assistance. Of that, most of the money is for loans. Food for thought.
Let's look at what you said practically. "Your" tax dollars huh? Given the percentage that goes over to military spending, police, fire, libraries, infrastructure and public works, public schools, health initiatives, financial/economic initiatives, etc, only a tiny tiny amount is left for college. Of that, most aid comes in the form of student loans. So suggesting your personal tax dollars go to pay for leeches is quite misleading, since it is more like your personal tax cents.
Further, what major won't make you more productive? I studied philosophy, and now have a job as a web developer. Looking at people I've worked with, I see art history, psych, even sociology majors. A given major isn't bullshit (though some can be more than a bit funny sounding) - it comes down to how effective a given student is at taking advantage of what they chose to learn.
If tuition assistance evaporated, enrollment would drop. With less students coming in, would universities:
1) Cut payroll/pay/offerings significantly
2) Raise tuition to make up the difference
3) Lower tuition significantly enough to reach students who can't afford college without assistance
4) Find non tuition based forms of funding
5) Fold
I think 3 is incredibly unlikely, and the original article is a bit foolish not considering the other side of the coin. 2 Doesn't seem likely (or wise) either. That leaves 1 (which I've seen happen over and over again in the face of budget issues), 4 (which works for a few universities, but isn't sustainable for all of them) and 5.
Of all the likely results of ending college tuition assistance, the most likely involves a few private institutions thriving, and most public/private institutions massively cutting their programs and pay. More electives suffer the cost of a society that increasingly doesn't value education beyond the immediate "will this turn our kids into productive workers", and the already tight job market for professors tightens (with less pay at the end of the road).
If we want to continue having the types of colleges and universities that truly enrich our society, we need to find smarter ways to make them more accessible than cutting tuition assistance.
Philosophy can be integrated into the curriculum as early as Elementary school, and has wonderful effects that extend beyond developing reasoning skills.
I was listening to the radio as a newscaster discussed the availability of mobile apps for the new scions. Until the "brought to you by toyota" at the end, it wasn't clear I was listening to an advertisement. The lines between news and advertising/opinion pushing are the lines that I see blurring. So when an article like this comes out, I think, well, do I trust it? How many students did they interview? How did they select who they interviewed? Who paid to have the interviews conducted? Maybe I'm over thinking things a bit, but if it leaked out that this study was as real, impartial and accurate as the one's conducted by drug companies, would anyone be surprised?
Hopefully this will begin to add pressure on the credit card companies. At the very least it will create a market opportunity for a company that sees common complaints, and caters their own offerings to avoid angering their customers. Examples: "In these difficult times, if you miss a payment, you just get a late fee, not a bump in your rate that will take years to reduce." "Need help? We're easy to reach by phone or email." "Our rates don't change. Sign up at one APR, stay at that APR."
It is worth a story for the following reasons: 1. Our attention span is incredibly short. 2. No one would claim a serial killer's latest crime wasn't a story for the mere reason it was expected. 3. Our attention span is incredibly short.
Seems like some of the FunnyJunk users agree with theOatmeal (http://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3786053/Oatmeal+vs.+FJ/, http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3786664/Oatmeal+VS+Funnyjunk/).
I wonder how long that will stay up, and if the owner is investing personal time or has hired someone to make sure offending or problematic images (http://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1244988/BEARODACTYL/) stay off the site.
I think we will trade our privacy if it feels "abstract". With Facebook, we think "oh we are putting it out there anyway, who cares if coca cola learns whether or not I prefer dr pepper or mr pibbs?". If it comes down to "would you buy a tv set for less if you knew that tv set was WATCHING you", I think several factors would keep people from purchasing it. There are practical concerns about privacy, civil rights/liberties if law enforcement wants in, but beyond everything else: a truly deep "creepiness" factor that would make privacy feel very concrete indeed.
It seems we increasingly do need to get that permission, to prevent employers from penalizing or firing us for exercising what ought to be obvious freedoms.
That is the problem with the conservatives actively courting the religious zealots, and religious zealots finding a home within the modern conservative politics of the Republican party. With such strong and frequent connections, is it any wonder the "religious right" is a branding problem for conservatives on the whole?
Coffeescript: When you want to debug in two languages. Seriously though, it ended up being a bit of a practical bother. If on the otherhand you try coffee and love it, you can use it with nodejs.
Perhaps it is more a supply and demand thing. Less Canadians want to dance, so to balance that scarcity the fees rise. Then again, maybe by charging Canadians to dance, they are hoping to avoid the trouble their American neighbors ran into a few years back when a young Bill Clinton forever changed the south: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwBbMXYDsXw
McDonnell added Tuesday it will prove important to ensure the state maintains Americans' civil liberties
. "Not 'Top of the list' important", McDonnell continued, "but up there with other priorities I share with the VA GOP, like the environment, public education, and a woman's right to choose."
I've worked for some of those smaller companies (70 people). There are ways to find cheaper people in the US - sometimes without sacrificing experience (in fact a growing trend is to open offices in places with drastically lower cost of living, drop salaries, and move your people out there). Some truly small companies (30 people or less) will just outsource tech work entirely. Companies love saving money at any size.
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For the kids who survive the forest, they grow up to make fine leaders.
Fixed that for you :(
Actually, people of group X can be racist to other people from the same group. What would make you think that isn't possible?
Since pyqt and pygtk are included, there are some python based python editors that don't need to be installed to run (and have the dependencies they need). Perhaps something like http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/. I'd suggest (the dated) drpython as a beginner, but I'm not sure if wxpython is included in portable python.
Allow me to politely disagree. CL is popular for apartments because that's where the broker's list. It is a horrible search UI (want to find a place with a washer and dryer? There's no way to specify it is in the apartment, so you end up with listings with shared washer dryer's, washer dryer's on the same block, etc). Brokers in NYC regularly abuse the system, posting falsely under "by owner" and often hiding the broker fee they want to charge. (Even the broker fee disclosure varies significantly, from 1 month to 15% of the annual rent). Also, if you aren't searching in Manhattan, it is difficult to separate out listings by neighborhood, since broker's regularly toss in text of "nearby" neighborhoods. The final straw is all the broker's who put in hidden text, so no matter what you search for, their listings come up. It is a huge pain using craigslist to find an apartment, and they could fix the problem (while retaining a simple UI) in a few easy steps:
1. Do not allow any embedded html other than "a" tags and images.
2. Update the forms to allow postings to specify common amenities/features, and update search accordingly. (Dishwasher, Laundry in Unit, A/C, Floor, Neighborhood).
3. Have a broker fee section, separated from application fee, so broker's must disclose precisely how much of a fee there is.
4. Put text into ANY ad posted under "by owner" stating that brokers posting in this section agree to forgo any broker fee. Make that statement BOLD and on the ad itself, and every step up to the ad's submission, requiring broker's to explicitly acknowledge this. Remove the "broker fee" section, so if they post a fee apartment in the "by owner" section, they are failing to disclose the fee.
At which point they will declare such hacks violations of terms of service, and upon detection take further action (banning, service charges, etc). Yay arms race!
There's work being done on training existing teachers to teach philosophy. I'm optimistic, especially when starting early enough to have a larger impact on problems as they arise.
First off, congrats on making enough to make those tax dollars rather than cents, that must be considerable :).
You'd be preaching to the choir about the distinction between needing a degree to secure a job, vs a degree to do it.
The many reasons I support college level education come down to the kind of citizens we want. I want citizens with active intellectual lives, the ability and urge to question, tinker, and improve society, and the fire of curiosity in their lives. High school education isn't enough. I value what college brings to the table, from bringing together people from diverse backgrounds and locations, to providing an opportunity to explore subjects with a depth and seriousness high schools don't provide. Yes we need to improve public education, but I'm not willing to let go of the benefits a college educated populace bring to the society I want to live in.
On your question about will it help you make more money - sometimes, though that is not the only metric of success we ought be measuring college by.
Back to the math: http://www.nasfaa.org/EntrancePDF.aspx?id=1320
Essentially 1% of the federal budget goes to student assistance. Of that, most of the money is for loans. Food for thought.
Let's look at what you said practically. "Your" tax dollars huh? Given the percentage that goes over to military spending, police, fire, libraries, infrastructure and public works, public schools, health initiatives, financial/economic initiatives, etc, only a tiny tiny amount is left for college. Of that, most aid comes in the form of student loans. So suggesting your personal tax dollars go to pay for leeches is quite misleading, since it is more like your personal tax cents.
Further, what major won't make you more productive? I studied philosophy, and now have a job as a web developer. Looking at people I've worked with, I see art history, psych, even sociology majors. A given major isn't bullshit (though some can be more than a bit funny sounding) - it comes down to how effective a given student is at taking advantage of what they chose to learn.
If tuition assistance evaporated, enrollment would drop. With less students coming in, would universities:
1) Cut payroll/pay/offerings significantly
2) Raise tuition to make up the difference
3) Lower tuition significantly enough to reach students who can't afford college without assistance
4) Find non tuition based forms of funding
5) Fold
I think 3 is incredibly unlikely, and the original article is a bit foolish not considering the other side of the coin. 2 Doesn't seem likely (or wise) either. That leaves 1 (which I've seen happen over and over again in the face of budget issues), 4 (which works for a few universities, but isn't sustainable for all of them) and 5.
Of all the likely results of ending college tuition assistance, the most likely involves a few private institutions thriving, and most public/private institutions massively cutting their programs and pay. More electives suffer the cost of a society that increasingly doesn't value education beyond the immediate "will this turn our kids into productive workers", and the already tight job market for professors tightens (with less pay at the end of the road).
If we want to continue having the types of colleges and universities that truly enrich our society, we need to find smarter ways to make them more accessible than cutting tuition assistance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_for_Children
Philosophy can be integrated into the curriculum as early as Elementary school, and has wonderful effects that extend beyond developing reasoning skills.
I was listening to the radio as a newscaster discussed the availability of mobile apps for the new scions. Until the "brought to you by toyota" at the end, it wasn't clear I was listening to an advertisement. The lines between news and advertising/opinion pushing are the lines that I see blurring. So when an article like this comes out, I think, well, do I trust it? How many students did they interview? How did they select who they interviewed? Who paid to have the interviews conducted? Maybe I'm over thinking things a bit, but if it leaked out that this study was as real, impartial and accurate as the one's conducted by drug companies, would anyone be surprised?
Hopefully this will begin to add pressure on the credit card companies. At the very least it will create a market opportunity for a company that sees common complaints, and caters their own offerings to avoid angering their customers. Examples:
"In these difficult times, if you miss a payment, you just get a late fee, not a bump in your rate that will take years to reduce."
"Need help? We're easy to reach by phone or email."
"Our rates don't change. Sign up at one APR, stay at that APR."
It is worth a story for the following reasons: 1. Our attention span is incredibly short. 2. No one would claim a serial killer's latest crime wasn't a story for the mere reason it was expected. 3. Our attention span is incredibly short.
If we are going to be scientific, drop the notion of race and use clines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cline_(biology)
It would kind of be like applying modern astronomy to the celestial spheres: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_spheres
Seems like some of the FunnyJunk users agree with theOatmeal (http://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3786053/Oatmeal+vs.+FJ/, http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3786664/Oatmeal+VS+Funnyjunk/). I wonder how long that will stay up, and if the owner is investing personal time or has hired someone to make sure offending or problematic images (http://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1244988/BEARODACTYL/) stay off the site.
I think we will trade our privacy if it feels "abstract". With Facebook, we think "oh we are putting it out there anyway, who cares if coca cola learns whether or not I prefer dr pepper or mr pibbs?". If it comes down to "would you buy a tv set for less if you knew that tv set was WATCHING you", I think several factors would keep people from purchasing it. There are practical concerns about privacy, civil rights/liberties if law enforcement wants in, but beyond everything else: a truly deep "creepiness" factor that would make privacy feel very concrete indeed.
It seems we increasingly do need to get that permission, to prevent employers from penalizing or firing us for exercising what ought to be obvious freedoms.
Do you mean the origin of life on Earth, or our human ancestors? Either way the answer is RL'YEH!
That is the problem with the conservatives actively courting the religious zealots, and religious zealots finding a home within the modern conservative politics of the Republican party. With such strong and frequent connections, is it any wonder the "religious right" is a branding problem for conservatives on the whole?
Coffeescript: When you want to debug in two languages. Seriously though, it ended up being a bit of a practical bother. If on the otherhand you try coffee and love it, you can use it with nodejs.
Perhaps it is more a supply and demand thing. Less Canadians want to dance, so to balance that scarcity the fees rise. Then again, maybe by charging Canadians to dance, they are hoping to avoid the trouble their American neighbors ran into a few years back when a young Bill Clinton forever changed the south: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwBbMXYDsXw
I don't know, but I'll take two! BOGOF!
. "Not 'Top of the list' important", McDonnell continued, "but up there with other priorities I share with the VA GOP, like the environment, public education, and a woman's right to choose."
I've worked for some of those smaller companies (70 people). There are ways to find cheaper people in the US - sometimes without sacrificing experience (in fact a growing trend is to open offices in places with drastically lower cost of living, drop salaries, and move your people out there). Some truly small companies (30 people or less) will just outsource tech work entirely. Companies love saving money at any size.