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The main difference between those going to med school and the 90s and now in my opinion is a mix of the expectations by students that the increase in level of difficulty should be comparable to the transition between high school and college, or college and graduate school. It's not, and it never was. High expectations have always been the rule.
However, for the past 25 years, there have been many more immigrants or children of immigrants that work their asses off competing harder and raising the bar.
The medical schools should not lower the bar to make it less stressful. Instead, we need more medical students to matriculate to P.A. programs and nursing programs, where they can do just as much good helping many of the same patients, sometimes making similar salaries. Eventually there will be more medical schools, which will help some. Or, maybe some of these doctors that feel that they had to go through too much can work their way up and teach so that they can give their students an easier individualized and sensitive education and see where that leads.
However, imo it should always be extremely difficult to get in and to succeed. That's the point. I don't think people should commit suicide. They should just quit.
While they had to work incredibly hard to get into medical school, and it's harder than it's ever been, I feel like anyone born in the 90s or later is going to be at a disadvantage, because the level of stress is not only much higher than before but many just aren't prepared for the stress.
<sarcasm>However, I think that because of this, medical schools will have to change. It's just too darn hard!</sarcasm>
Getting real though: med school is f'ing hard. Reading this did not surprise me, and if anything, I was surprised that the writer did not know what he was getting into when he got in. The things he is complaining about are the same things I've heard for decades.
Also- the Helen Keller comment, while disrespectful to those that are hearing and/or sight challenged, made me laugh.
It already happens/has happened with AMPRnet, HSMM, CUWiN, Freifunk, FunkFeuer, OpenWireless, Firetide, Guifi.net, Netsukuku, Ninux, Senceive, and others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network
When higher levels of portable energy become safer and cheaper, then it would be more likely that a small radio could be used to transmit and receive over longer distances.
If a company like Google and Facebook were to provide free adequately high-speed internet access, there'd be less incentive for a free peer-based network wherever they provided free access. Google's free wired plan is lower speed and they didn't plan to expand it; however, I'm not sure about their plans for Wifi. Neither Facebook nor Google have stated they plan to provide access everywhere. So, free access via a peer-based network would remain an incentive over paid plans for the foreseeable future.
A fully decentralized web would be delivered peer-to-peer via a mesh network or something similar. Anything else is a farce, because it's not just about who holds the data on the network, it's about the network itself. If any link in the chain of the communication can be controlled by some centralized power- it's not decentralized.
On a fully decentralized network, three things restricting freedom and privacy would be:
* the personal device used to (inter)connect, like malicious code hiding in firmware
* those controlling the power needed for the device
* those that can interfere with communication or alter data on the distributed network, either as a peer on the network, through malware/disruptive communication on the network, or those blocking communication
The problem with the decentralized web, though, is that when the web is fully free- if everyone stores part of the content from everyone else, then they could be storing things that are illegal and that they don't agree with. I personally don't want to participate in any network where I can't control what data is stored locally.
There are definitely startups that do the "stay away from: in development for 8-10 years", however it's worded as "must be enthusiastic code ninja."
I agree most should steer clear from them, but the interview process is often an accurate representation of the level of the team:
* If the interview involves a copied a set of questions off the internet, verbal or written, they don't have the skills on the team to have a dynamic discussion.
* If the interview doesn't have enough standard questions, then they're either inconsistent or might rely heavily on certain people's intuition, the latter which could go either way but the former could mean complete disorganization.
* If they expect you to know the circumference of the Earth (equatorial 24874 mi/40030 km, meridional 24860 mi/40008 km) and capital of Sumer in 2281 (Uruk), then they could be interested in someone that has a scientific mind, great memory, and likes trivia or is very into history.
* If they give you problems to solve, they want to see and hear how you think.
* If they give you homework, they probably just want you to provide solutions in code and figure things out on your own to some extent, and the amount of time they give you to do that is indication of how they estimate tasks.
JS:
let f = (a,b,c) => a * b ^ c;
f(2,3,4);
f = ->(a,b,c) { a * b ^ c }
f.(2,3,4)
def f(a,b,c) { a * b ^ c }
f(2,3,4)-> {anything goes here}
or
->(a,b,c) {anything goes here}
The problem with Ruby is that you then have to .() the lambda vs. (), so that is more verbose than just calling the function.
If browsers were to embrace a language that was more Ruby-like and less clunky than JS, I'm sure I'd use it more.
Perhaps I could try to practice more self-control and continue taking it or could try taking 1/2 the dose, but after I had problems, my doc put me on Evekeo. I take one in the morning and mid-day, and I'm much more even-keeled than on Vyvanse. The downside is that it's not time-released. I have ups and downs and my brain is not working as well in the evening like Vyvanse. I also don't get sleepy as much at night when I should. But, it's much, much better and safer for me than not taking anything. I might start taking a low dose of Zenzedi in the afternoon to see if that helps problems getting to sleep.
Evekeo is 50/50 dextroamphetamine/levoamphetamine; in some sources it's just called amphetamine sulfate, but the ratio is important.
Zenzedi is also made by Arbor Pharmaceuticals and is pure dextroamphetamine sulfate (which is the really addictive one).
Adderall/Adderall XR is 75 percent dextroamphetamine (the regular Adderall is a mixture of dextro salts in that 75 percent) and 25 percent levoamphetamine.
In comparison, Vyvanse is the prodrug lisdexamfetamine that is converted to dextroamphetamine and lysine by the hydrolytic activity of red blood cells, so it's time-released.
I'm told the levo form is for increased wakefulness and improved focus and dextro is for energy and speeding up executive function. I don't know if it's really that simple, but that seems to mirror my experience.
I just searched through every article I could find and see that through sites and you would not believe the amount of "how can we evangelize it" sort of things I found- a site dedicated to evangelization, two GitHub PRs for part 1 and part 2 of evangelization. A post about why evangelization isn't working and how to fix that. An article in Code magazine which is controlled by MS.
From what I can see in HN comments, there is a minority of people that want to try it but don't use it. Quora has a recent answer about those using F# and mostly it's a short list of companies almost no one's heard of.
After all of that, a recent post on HN about F# got ~170 points for front page.
It might be a fine language for some, but it's not in the top three. If you don't believe me, just spend some time researching the amount of desperation in the evangelization.
I'm not sure how it got all of those points, but it seems like it wasn't purely on merit.
The map in that would probably overlay nicely with a global wealth map:
https://cdn.credit-suisse.com/articles/news-and-expertise/20...
1. I didn't mean to put "container" in front of quantum computing.
2. I didn't mention history of certs or encryption, as I think that security is often a feeling rather than a reality. I'm not sure that "HTTPS everywhere" plugin and then movement in early 2000s was innovation more than it was tightening up security after Firesheep.
3. Yes, I should've included WebSockets over long polling in Early 2010s.
4. Yes, RSS mattered- 1999/Early 2000s.
5. I probably shouldn't have mentioned OOP, etc. as I didn't mean for methodology to matter, since it doesn't matter to users. Similarly debugging tools don't matter for innovations that users see.
6. Yes, fluid layout, grid layout, and responsive design in Late 2000s (though Audi had responsive in 2001).
7. jQuery/MooTools/Prototype, Bootstrap/CanMVC, Angular/React - none of the implementation details of these things matter. The only things that matter are how things appear to the user- like whether a page has a clunky refresh or smooth transition and whether things update automatically when they are changed elsewhere. Also, Applets, Flash, frames, and the move to JS all screwed the visually impaired.
8. Cookies mattered because they were used to track users in ways they didn't want to be tracked. People disabling JS for a while mattered. US announcing Java was insecure mattered. Flash and Flash being abandoned mattered.
9. Forgot to mention frames in Mid/Late 1990s.
10. As you mentioned oAuth, SSO becoming a big deal in the Late 2000s with Facebook, Google.
And I should have mentioned blogging, microblogging, move of much of the web to Facebook, Tor/private web, peer sharing and impact on music industry as well as impact on the value of well-created data and applications vs. the value of constantly creating data and making data available and clear.
Despite all of the things I missed, the point is that the things that really matter aren't new libraries and frameworks- they are technology and how the world uses it. If a user can't tell a positive difference between something you were doing 5 years ago and today, then you didn't really innovate.
Late 1970s: microcomputers, explosion of BASIC and ASM development
Early 1980s: proliferation of modems, BBS's become big, Compuserve becomes big- people able to read news online and chat in real-time (but not popular like much later). software stores, software pirating, computer clubs, widespread use of Apple II's in schools. Microsoft Flight Simulator released in 1982 is first super-popular 3D simulation software.
Mid-1980s: GUIs- Macintosh 1984 based on ideas from Xerox PARC.
Late 1980s: Graphics had more colors, more resolution, faster processors. So- cooler games. File servers. 1987 GIF format, 1989 GIF format supporting animation, transparency, metadata- not that popularly used though- was a compuserve thing.
Early 1990s: Internet, realistic quality pictures, webpages/browsing, global file servers. Mosaic web browser. Most pages involved horizontal rule dividers that might be rainbow animated GIFs. Bulleted lists. Under construction GIFs were popular. Linux. JPEG format. Netscape. Blink tags.
Mid 1990s: Windows 95 (with Winsock). IE vs Netscape. IE had marquees. VBScript. (Mocha->LiveScript->)JavaScript. Applets. Shockwave. WebCrawler search. Altavista search. OOP pretty solidly how you should program now with C++ having been around for a while and Java slow but write once/run anywhere and OOP. Apache webserver. CGI: can email from webpage.
Late 1990s: ActionScript. Google search. CSS. Extreme programming. Scrum. JSP. Some using ORM via Toplink. Java session vs. entity beans. IIS. Java multithreading. Amazon gets patent for 1-click ordering. AOL instant messenger. PhP.
Early 2000s: ASP. .Net/C#. Hibernate ORM (free). Choosing between different Java container servers.
Mid 2000s: Use CSS not tables. Rails.
Late 2000s: SPA and automatic updating of content in background via Ajax. Mobile apps. Mobile web. Scala. Cloud computing start. VMs. Streaming video mature. Configuration management via Chef/Puppet.
Early 2010s: Cloud computing standard. Container virtualization. Video conferencing is normal- not just big company office thing. Orchestration of VMs more normal.
Mid 2010s: Container Quantum computing starts at a basic level (not important yet).
Note how I can't really thing of anything recently that has to do with new things in webdev.
Due to alfalfa, almond/pistachios, pastures, rice, corn, other field crops, vineyards, other truck crops, cotton, grain, and tomato, primarily, according to: http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/05/11/cows-not-almonds-...
I was surprised about alfalfa and pasture.
And "The cattle sector of the Brazilian Amazon, incentivized by the international beef and leather trades, has been responsible for about 80% of all deforestation in the region, or about 14% of the world's total annual deforestation, making it the world's largest single driver of deforestation."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_ra...
Convince your friends not to eat as much meat, especially beef. It's bad for the environment.
I think it's obvious. If the drive has errors, this may cause or cause need for a reboot.
Just FYI, you were humorless in your interpretation of his comment. Humorless is "unable to see humor in things when most others do."
Same here, but I stopped because it looks like a better version of Twitter. I'd use this interface any day of the week! Now we just need FSF to host it and provide a mobile version that works on free devices... and we need free devices... and my internet needs to be free... and the whole network needs to be free...
What if someone were to have reduced the oxygen to your embryo so that you were an idiot and were happy but had no idea what I was talking about? That's ok to you?
BNW was not meant to be a template for a future society. It's a story to get the reader to try to adjust to the norm of morally reprehensible behavior and then at the end smack them back to cold, hard reality.
The only Utopia I expect is the one of my religion. I don't expect to create one.
I also understand that some people think that no one should have this power and want to stop it. I wish that, if you feel this way, you renounce your citizenship and find another country that acts as you believe they should and just leave the other country alone, unless you feel they are threatening you or those you love and you must do something about it, and even then only if can do something to help in a way that won't hurt anyone now or in the future. Yes, I know it's not always that easy.
But, if you live in a country, through your taxes and your citizenship, you pay for and are recipient of the work of people whose job it is to protect us and all other citizens of your country. And if you didn't know how they defended you, you do now. It isn't always pretty, to say it lightly.
I don't want people to do bad things in the name of good or defense. It'd be better if every country had a large number of grown up boy scouts to protect that country in the most honorable way possible. But, we have what we have. Sure go ahead- expose it if you want, but the more you harm it, the more you'll end up with a group of people that are even more secretive and do things even worse to try to ensure that security. I really don't want that to happen. Things need to get better instead!
Many in the US say that we need to protect people from themselves, and then criticize or harm those trying to protect us. Why?
I used to be much more paranoid and just group people into the "trying to hurt me" bracket. But I grew up. I realized that almost everyone in the world I meet wants to do good or at least has a motivation to try to accomplish something they believe is right.
Related to aging is the length of our telomeres. Doing a search through recent news brings up some interesting related topics like:
Childhood trauma causes shortened telomeres (and shortens life): http://www.medicaldaily.com/childhood-trauma-may-shorten-tel...
Acne-sufferers may have longer telomeres (and live longer): https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161003133005.h...
There's now a genetic test that provides more information about your telomeres: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161005005364/en/TELO...
Gene therapy may add years of life to leukocytes (and follistatin may help those with MS and spinal muscular atrophy): http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/45947/...
Some anti-cancer drugs inhibit telomerase (which keeps telomers long making cancer cells live longer than they should): https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160818111454.h...
Loss of (T)P53 genes cause increased cancer rate (and elephants that have more P53 genes rarely get cancer)- surprise, surprise- because loss of p53 function accelerates acquisition of telomerase activity: http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v22/n34/full/1206667a.html
It seems that, if we don't kill ourselves or die of natural disasters/famines/diseases, we will have a better handle on disease and aging with more study. I don't understand why people would study statistics on aging and conclude that we can't age more than we already do.
IMO, NASA should hire those guys anyway. It'd be a good move.