This is how my advisor and some of my family members try to convince me that choosing academia is wiser - they tell me that as a tenured faculty, (a) I will always be my own boss and (b) I will never get fired (unless of course the department gets dissolved which is not implausible). I wouldn't be surprised if this motivation works for most PhD graduates opting for academia.
A little off-topic perhaps but it is sort of crazy to see IEEE being so adamantly xenophobic since the start of the H1-B debate given that there are so many foreign-born authors in articles from IEEE transactions. I have seen their editorials on this issue in the past and as an Indian, it kinda depresses me.
From the article: "Regardless of the specific cause, the circumstances leading to his death seem unforgivable for a young man bent on proving himself. The hours he kept, though evidently typical, were inhumanly arduous and exploitative. Any doctor will tell you that fatigue that great can make a person susceptible to fatal collapse."
You, sir, are pathetic for your lack of empathy and your dickish tone.
I have issues with people who whine about this G+ integration but are absolutely happy with services that require Facebook account or with the iCloud unification of Apple products. I just hope the author isn't one of them.
Chicken-egg problem: you gotta be known for your work for people to notice your blog but your blog is a vehicle to make your work known. C'est la vie...
Hmm.. let's not criticize the situation now because it was much worse in the past. But I'm not shocked you used that argument given your apologist comments on other posts related to the National Sorority Agency on HN.
I kinda figured that part but to me that's a very very archaic way of thinking given that a significant number of people will eventually break the NDA and hint about bugs.
I just never understood the grand benefits of imposing NDA on iOS/OSX pre-release versions. I can't picture this giving Apple a big strategic advantage over its competitors in mobile OS.
The root of this problem, I think, is that Apple requires the $100 membership fee (and thus provide a developer account) even for testing apps on one's own device. If Apple, instead required this fee (and gave developer accounts) only when somebody has submitted an app for publishing on the App store for the first time, then there would be a legitimate filter against people who like to download betas just for experimenting or are plain nincompoops pretending to be tech bloggers.
As an added benefit, by doing this, Apple would also invite a LOT more developers into its fold who would like to experiment with apps on their own device without committing to publishing any.
IMHO, typing on iPad is stupid not necessarily because of the typing experience (I'm actually not terrible at it), but because the screen size above the virtual keyboard is too little. I want to write with a sufficient amount of text around the area where I am writing to give me full context. That's how I have been trained and and so have most people. I'm not sure why this would baffle anybody.