> The right way to fix the imbalance is to increase the supply of white onions. In the real world, farmers would begin switching to white onions and the supply would increase.
I think you've got it backwards. In the real world, supply is increased to meet demand. Farmers aren't going to grow more white onions just to see what happens. They've got to believe it's going to be a more profitable crop because it is in demand.
To extend your food analogy, it's like when Paul Prudhomme introduced blackened redfish at fine dining establishment Commander's Palace in the 1980's. Redfish went from being a "trash" fish to a species overfished to the point of near extinction. Importantly, nothing changed about the redfish itself. What changed was a new emphasis on using it in a dish.
Similarly, lobster went from being a peasant or prisoner food to a delicacy when railways and canning helped extend the demand beyond the northeast US.
What if a big part of solving the pipeline problem is simply for companies to demand more diverse candidates because leadership finally start to recognize the research that suggests that diverse teams outperform homogeneous teams on many metrics? I think this has to be the case because no one is getting into an employment pipeline that ends with what is perceived to be a hostile working environment.
> What if a big part of solving the pipeline problem is simply for companies to demand more diverse candidates because leadership finally start to recognize the research that suggests that diverse teams outperform homogeneous teams on many metrics?
Last I read, the Economist said there is an advantage to diversity when attempting to be creative, but in other scenarios the advantage goes to the homogeneous team.
Maybe not, but Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, and the other institutions offering courses via Coursera grant degrees. From the update:
State law prohibits degree-granting institutions from offering instruction in Minnesota without obtaining permission from the office and paying a registration fee. (The fee can range from a few hundred dollars to several thousand, plus a $1,200 annual renewal.)
So this amounts to a relatively small money grab for all practical purposes.
"The response was tremendous, running more than 14,000 comments and garnering the attention of Spotify, which gave him six months of free membersion and a 13-hour playlist that covers a huge range of music."
I agree that it would have been nicer to see that issue addressed head-on. I think Karim is conflating the words unscripted and unprepared.
From what I understand, Khan keeps the videos unscripted so he can maintain more of a conversational style, but he's always careful to understand the material very well before doing a video on a subject.
My lad (now 7) has done some of the maths problems and we've used the videos to provide the background to attempting those problems. IMO from the half-dozen videos I've seen they were both 'unprepared' and unscripted - but that might not be bad. They're the sort of thing I think one would come up with if someone puts you on the spot and says "teach me how subtract". Obviously these are low level maths subjects. He's not unprepared in being able to do this sort of basic stuff but I think a little more polish would make such videos a lot better.
One thing I found quite frustrating was the lack of technology applied to making the video - in the few I've seen he takes ages drawing out number lines (for example) and the writing is quite unclear; it doesn't appear to be too hard to have a marked axis that you can paste in when it's needed. Petty issue but something I didn't expect to find on this much touted resource. Another example would be hand drawing bunches of marbles/tins http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D...; I guess it naturally limits the pace, which may be good.
Yeah, since iOS4, any app can run in the background for 10 minutes. Certain apps may be approved to run in the background longer. It's covered in the iOS App Programming Guide.
It's been a while since I looked at the Clojure source, but from what I recall, the initialization problem is almost wholly related to loading all of clojure.core, not garbage collection.
If you're hitting slowdowns after initialization, there's a good chance it's reflection, not garbage collection. Type hinting can help if that is the case.
Because of the way that Clojure reuses immutable data structures, it doesn't do as much garbage collection as one might think.
In my experience, the best way to test Android is on device(s). You're going to want to test on device anyway, and it's very easy to do, so just skip the emulator.
Keep in mind that the iOS Simulator is a simulator, not an emulator. You'll have the full CPU and memory of your dev box, so there will be a fair number of bugs that occur on the device but you won't see in the simulator.[1]
[1] A tool that's useful for testing in the iOS Simulator is Network Link Conditioner, which allows you to simulate 3G connections on your dev box. You can download it from developer.apple.com through your developer account. From XCode: click on the menu item XCode>Open Developer Tool>More Developer Tools... and you'll be taken to a web page with a downloadable disk image containing the Network Link Conditioner Systems Preferences pane under Hardware I/O Tools.
There are much better mechanisms for dealing with harassment than a conference organizer.
It doesn't sound like she had any problems handling the advances at the bar. To wit, " I told him he should be ashamed of himself and walked away."
The question to me is whether the advances should have been reported to the conference organizer in addition to whatever happened at the bar.
If the harasser had been merely an attendee, then I would argue that there is little that a conference organizer would gain by knowing about it or be able to do about it. But we're talking about a speaker, someone who may have been invited, who probably had the cost of the conference waived and possibly even been reimbursed or given a stipend for airfare and hotel, and very likely appears in name and photo in conference promotional materials. To me, she was doing the conference director a big favor to let him know what happened. Since the director already had misgivings about allowing the harasser at the conference, you would think that the director would at least trust his judgement the next time and possibly spread the word to other organizers/directors. I certainly wouldn't want to appear to tacitly support this kind of behavior if I were organizing a conference.
Finally, I think it's very difficult to divorce the after hours happenings from the conference itself. Conferences often last several days, and there are often optional social events featured as part of the conference. You're probably going to see some of the same people the next day. I've never been sexually harassed, but I was bullied as a child. I know that the fear and humiliation imposed by a harasser don't go away just because the venue changes. If I were a conference director with the opportunity to gain specific knowledge that could help me prevent that kind of environment, I think I'd want it.
Silence and lack of consequences perpetuate harassing behavior. I think Ms. Elman absolutely did the right thing in speaking to the conference director.
I think you've got it backwards. In the real world, supply is increased to meet demand. Farmers aren't going to grow more white onions just to see what happens. They've got to believe it's going to be a more profitable crop because it is in demand.
To extend your food analogy, it's like when Paul Prudhomme introduced blackened redfish at fine dining establishment Commander's Palace in the 1980's. Redfish went from being a "trash" fish to a species overfished to the point of near extinction. Importantly, nothing changed about the redfish itself. What changed was a new emphasis on using it in a dish.
Similarly, lobster went from being a peasant or prisoner food to a delicacy when railways and canning helped extend the demand beyond the northeast US.
What if a big part of solving the pipeline problem is simply for companies to demand more diverse candidates because leadership finally start to recognize the research that suggests that diverse teams outperform homogeneous teams on many metrics? I think this has to be the case because no one is getting into an employment pipeline that ends with what is perceived to be a hostile working environment.