That requires math, or at least basic arithmetic skills. American education does not consider such basic skills relevant to their future workforce. That guy who stepped onto a pebble that one time (300 years ago) to be the first man to set foot on American soil, however, is required knowledge.
FWIW, English language skills are also optional; however, biased support for American football is strongly encouraged.
It was obviously never NK (and I've personally expressed as much to my coworkers) when their bandwidth (nationally equivalent to a 56Kbps dial-up modem) is provided by AOL Korea and depends on sponsored ads edited using PaintShop Pro 3 on an Windows 98 Second Edition PC. Their collective disk storage capacities are probably no more than your run-of-the-mill WD 5400rpm disk storage arrays.
Okay, okay. Seriously, though, NK neither had the motive nor the means to carry out such a sophisticated cyber-attack comprising of several GB's of HR files. Why would NK give a crap about some mid-level executive's salary bonus? Why would they make terroristic threats against thousands of movie theaters on American soil when they cannot even obtain a passport and boarding pass onto an airplane?
Content pre-compilation is indeed coming, but that's not the optimal way of leveraging the binary capabilities in the HTTP protocol. The true benefit of binary streams is for sophisticated packets to pass unadulterated between the server environment to the client environment. Sending pre-compiled web pages through this technique is an absolute waste of the improvement -- mostly because it's simply not necessary.
Clearly, Paul Graham is somewhat passionate about importing more great talent... but, how do you determine that the targeted talent is indeed exceptional?
If the U.S. were to import 5000 'exceptional' programmers, and only 5% of programmers are indeed 'exceptional', then the U.S. would need to import 100 THOUSAND programmers in order to achieve an attendance of 5000 'exceptional' ones. That's 1/10th of a MILLION programmers... plus their families (at a 2:1 ratio of dependent family members to every programmer)... this easily becomes a quest to import 300,000 persons (spouse + 1 child + 1 programmer) for the sole objective of achieving 5000 'exceptional' programmers... per year.
To improve the efficacy of Paul Graham's plea, broadly-acceptable benchmarks would need to be established. However, those tests will simply beget a wider generation of programmers trained to study for the test instead of studying for exception... and as the tech-laden world evolves over time, the previous generation will have trained for an outdated benchmark exam (that Novell NetWare certification is sure coming in handy these days)...
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Ha! Agreed. (Whereas the private education sector does have its own issues; math certainly isn't one of them.)
Re: inclusion of Celcius...
That requires math, or at least basic arithmetic skills. American education does not consider such basic skills relevant to their future workforce. That guy who stepped onto a pebble that one time (300 years ago) to be the first man to set foot on American soil, however, is required knowledge.
FWIW, English language skills are also optional; however, biased support for American football is strongly encouraged.
Absolutely! But only because a private blogger said so.
It was obviously never NK (and I've personally expressed as much to my coworkers) when their bandwidth (nationally equivalent to a 56Kbps dial-up modem) is provided by AOL Korea and depends on sponsored ads edited using PaintShop Pro 3 on an Windows 98 Second Edition PC. Their collective disk storage capacities are probably no more than your run-of-the-mill WD 5400rpm disk storage arrays.
Okay, okay. Seriously, though, NK neither had the motive nor the means to carry out such a sophisticated cyber-attack comprising of several GB's of HR files. Why would NK give a crap about some mid-level executive's salary bonus? Why would they make terroristic threats against thousands of movie theaters on American soil when they cannot even obtain a passport and boarding pass onto an airplane?
TL;DR somebody at the FBI is getting fired.
Content pre-compilation is indeed coming, but that's not the optimal way of leveraging the binary capabilities in the HTTP protocol. The true benefit of binary streams is for sophisticated packets to pass unadulterated between the server environment to the client environment. Sending pre-compiled web pages through this technique is an absolute waste of the improvement -- mostly because it's simply not necessary.
Clearly, Paul Graham is somewhat passionate about importing more great talent... but, how do you determine that the targeted talent is indeed exceptional?
If the U.S. were to import 5000 'exceptional' programmers, and only 5% of programmers are indeed 'exceptional', then the U.S. would need to import 100 THOUSAND programmers in order to achieve an attendance of 5000 'exceptional' ones. That's 1/10th of a MILLION programmers... plus their families (at a 2:1 ratio of dependent family members to every programmer)... this easily becomes a quest to import 300,000 persons (spouse + 1 child + 1 programmer) for the sole objective of achieving 5000 'exceptional' programmers... per year.
To improve the efficacy of Paul Graham's plea, broadly-acceptable benchmarks would need to be established. However, those tests will simply beget a wider generation of programmers trained to study for the test instead of studying for exception... and as the tech-laden world evolves over time, the previous generation will have trained for an outdated benchmark exam (that Novell NetWare certification is sure coming in handy these days)...