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College application essays for undergraduate degrees vary a lot by country.

The UK UCAS admission system used for all undergraduate admissions requires an application text. It is much freer in its form than how I understand the US system with a very specific prompt.

As for Norway, to pick another random example, there is no requirement to submit any piece of writing to explain your motivation. Your grades do all the talking for you, so to speak.

And can be hugely benefitical or detrimental.

Adam Grant writes about this topic in. Givers are overrepresented both among the most and among the least successful individuals. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158498-give-and-take

In terms of population? Yes In terms of economic productivity per capita? No, not if you look at periods prior to the industrial revolution[1]

[1] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

If your budget allows I'd recommend combining Kindle with Audible. This is what Amazon calls "Voicewhisper". I find that applying multiple senses helps keep distractions out. Also nice to use Kindle's highlighting which you can look through on Goodreads afterwards.

I find that this approach works really well for books on e.g. on design, architecture and management. Can be slightly more awkward for books with a lot of diagrams and code, but usually just a matter of pausing the audio over certain sections.

Depending on the difficulty of the language used I can often play on 1.7-2x playback speed.

The former NSA chief was criticised by Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald for setting the objective of "collect it all" (i.e. capturing all global communications) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-n...

Seven years later he is appointed to the board of directors at Amazon... and Amazon customers who ask to download their data get access to the full audio files from every recording done by their Alexa device https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata/status/1485194962027388929

This comment reminds me of the book "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work"

I used to think I couldn't read on a Kindle, but it removes all the distractions and feels more like a proper book. Especially coupled with an audio version I find that I can often finish books in 1-3 days where it would have taken me weeks in the past.

That being said I fully appreciate a good physical textbook for cases where there's a lot of diagrams, etc.

There's also the argument that business and technology is "the same thing" now. A majority of businesses cannot operate without technology. Technology often does not come to fruition without business.

The ability for the Chinese rich to get money out of their country. For one.

Your answer reminds me of the book I am currently reading: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-New-Economy-Environmental-Des...

It reflects on free markets and the failure of trickle down economics.

Sadly, it was flagged as too controversial, and was taken down from Amazon for a limited period, but it's now available again.

The Brave browser (https://brave.com) has been doing this for a while. I'd recommend it. It's faster, saves bandwidth and blocks the majority of ads. Only downside is that I have to explicitly let my online bank see my location in order to log in.

Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology (great!)

Dare to Lead (interesting and Powerful)

Rising Strong (Sensible)

What the most successful people do before breakfast (helpful in thinking about opportunity costs)

Why we sleep (interesting read)

Exponential organisations (Re-read after 2 years, worth it)

Prisoners of Geography (very interesting view of geopolitics, Putin, et al)

Continuous Delivery (great!)

Clean Code (must read for any serious programmer)

Built to last (picked it back after 1-2 years, cool book)

Site Reliability Engineering (didn't quite finish, but good book)

Building Microservices (fantastic book which puts everything I've done in the past year into so much more perspective)

Unfortunately, it is now fashionable for medium-sized businesses to be over-run with project management types that hold everyone nose to the "deliverables" grindstone and enforce performance measures that are hostile to anyone who needs to pick up new skills on job and anyone that deigns to mentor colleagues (god forbid, they slip on a trite deliverable because they were cultivating the next generation of grindstone-licker).

Wow, I'm so glad that I am part of a company culture that values mentorship and teaching younger employees. Since joining in August last year I have spent a large proportion of my time both mentoring and pair programming.

Our team of 8 developers is fairly junior with 3 graduating last year and one this year. It's been great to see last year's graduates grow to become very independently productive members of the team, and I like to think that they would not have grown as much without my support and trust.

Depending on the country, they may in fact be more risky from a purely financial point of view. They could have children!

‎"Rather than a bunch of feel good projects for Africa, Work hand in hand with African Countries to create a brighter future"

PLAYBOY: Isn’t this projection of an electronically induced world consciousness more mystical than technological?

McLUHAN: Yes — as mystical as the most advanced theories of modern nuclear physics. Mysticism is just tomorrow’s science dreamed today.

I've been thinking about this for a while.

One of my startup ideas are to get a number of recent graduates to start private, for-profit schools for 12-18 year olds (or something). Initially, rich parents would pay for their kids to go there, and kids with exceptional entrepreneurial passion could get scholarships.

And, if students from these schools were shown to excel at creating valuable businesses later, this project could be used as an example for other schools elsewhere.

I guess she makes some good points.

I'm a 4th year student at the University of St Andrews[1], Scotland. We were introduced to both refactoring and unit testing quite early, and there has been a strong emphasis on design decisions throughout.

[1] #2 for CS in the UK for according to the Guardian league table for 2013: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/table/2012/may/22/univer...

Re: "Where should my eyes go?"

I find that I can skim more easily with a few images that provide additional visual cues other than those of textual information. Pictures require a different visual focus, and might allow me to focus on the "bigger picture" (e.g. whether it is coming from WSJ), or "smaller picture" (i.e. more specific examples).

Additionally, I like that you can mix the sources together, with not too much of anything; instead emphasising a more holistic view.

"... the company has actually patented the knockoff design in China and is poised to sue Apple if it launches the next-generation iPhone in China later this year."

Seems like the Apple vs the rest of the World patent war is taking on new heights...

Although I like the idea, I personally prefer Pulse.me. It has pictures and resized articles according to their significance.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/W1NKw.png

'The article starts "A baby born in the U.S. this year is likely to live to blow out 78 birthday candles . . . " That would mean he or she would make it to age 12.'

I like this comment :)

What are the implications of this for RSA? How powerful must a quantum chip be in order to factorise (i.e. break) the current encryption schemes?

No.

I also find the school system of ancient Greece[1] quite interesting. They had a very high focus on physical fitness, which I believe is very important for mental clarity.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_ancient_Greece

Google reminds us today that it is Maria Montessori's 142nd birthday. Having gone to a Montessori school for seven years of my life, I believe her philosophy should be more adapted. It encourages creativity rather than emphasizing only on attainment of knowledge, both of which I believe are essential in the world we live in.

For every 100,000 inhabitants in the US there are 743 people in prison[1]. In Norway the figure is 73[2]. California spends 9.4% of its budget on prisons[3], which is more than what is spent on higher education (7.1%)[4].

In Norway prison time can almost be seen as a holiday[5]; time to think about life; time to reconsider your options in life. In California, it's the same, but the options are mostly criminal.

In Denmark, Sweden and Finland, the average reoffend rate is 30 per cent[6]. In Norway it is 20 per cent[6]. In California the corresponding figure is 65.1% [6][7].

I think it is time for a reform: http://www.laprogressive.com/prison-industrial-complex-calif...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta...

[2] http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_stats.php?a...

[3] http://www.laprogressive.com/prison-industrial-complex-calif...

[4] http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/StateAgencyBudgets/6013/agency.htm...

[5] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1384308/Norw...

[6] http://www.whatthefolly.com/2012/01/03/californias-recidivis...

[7] http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Adult_Research_Branch/Research_Docume...

Stuck learning Objective-C? This should kick you off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xqn5IHbusA

65 really simple to follow tutorials, most of which are 6-7 minutes long. He does tutorials on pretty much everything; from iOS to go kart building.

Apple's P/E ratio is 13.12 [1]. Facebook's P/E ratio is 107.66 [2].

The P/E ratio[3] is: market price per share / annual earnings per share

This basically means that Apple makes as much profit as their are valued at in 13.12 years, whereas it would take Facebook 107.66 years to afford to buy themselves.

That doesn't make any sense, and if we assume that their P/E ratio should be roughly the same, their stock price should be around [4] 33.54/(107.66/13.12) = 4.09 USD

Edit: Google's P/E ratio is 18.32, and if Facebook were to have the same P/E ratio its stock price would have to be 5.71 USD [5].

[1] http://www.google.com/finance?q=AAPL

[2] http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:FB

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PE_ratio

[4] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=33.54%2F(107.66%2F13.12)

[5] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=33.54%2F(107.66%2F18.32)