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I think I disagree (depending on what you mean exactly). You say

"That's why you use decimals, it's because they replicate the representation issues we are used to already so we don't even notice they are there, it's not that they are fundamentally better in any way."

So decimals are better, because they allow us to represent money amounts in the exact same way we do in real life, which is what we're modeling in software.

1/10 = 0.1, an amount you want to be able to represent in a computer. 1/3 = 0.33..., an amount (when talking about money) you don't want to represent (when we're talking about maintaining balances).

Unless you're saying "decimal as a concept is not philosophically or morally better than floating point", which is a position to which I suspect pretty much everybody subscribes.
can't wait for VRML to come back. It was included in browsers back then.

It's always great to remember that we had realtime chat and 3d worlds running in the browser in 1997, http://www.digitalspace.com/avatars/book/fullbook/chch/ch1f.... ... on systems with 0.1% the ram, 0.05% the disk space on 0.2% the bandwidth of our modern systems.
I think I just wrote too much, edited the other comment for clarity.
> There are "always a few" who shrug their shoulders and say "so what is the use-case for this anyway?"

Interesting point. I personally have no opinion as I haven't yet used one of the devices; which will stay that way until we see a decrease in cost. As it stands, evaluating the devices in any regard is unfair as both the technology itself and the games that support it are still working out many kinks.

Just thought Jeff's post was an interesting counterbalance to the VR hype sphere - although it may be somewhat unwarranted due to the aforementioned immaturity of the technology.
I have few tricks how to stop procrastinating:
1 - work with partner or colleague. That's why pair programming is so efficient
2 - I daily create Eisenhower matrix for all important task for tomorrow and always tried to fill urgent and important task very careful. If there are too many urgent and important, something is wrong with you or your tasks
How has/hasn't CPU reliability changed over the decades? Are these generally as sturdy as a 486? A 286 machine was mentioned in a recent article here, will you be able to find a running Skylake machine in 2045? How does the process size affect this? What other factors?
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Well, Thunderbolt 3 now explicitly supports them (previously Intel wouldn't certify for what appeared to be non-technical reasons), so it might actually catch on.

I don't expect it to be cheap; but even if the chassis is a few hundred dollars, if you can reuse them for three generations of GPU and laptop, it's probably worth it.

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9331/TB19_575px.png
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9331/intel-announces-thunderbo...
This[1] page shows that it already exists?

[1]:http://wpcurve.com/slack-integrations/
The opposite is true in the case of aphids, which are pretty serious destroyers of crop-yielding plants.

Some ants farm aphids for their honeydew. Rather than destroying them, they encourage their population on the growing-tips of plants. If you introduce aphid-eating insects, such as ladybirds or lacewings, the ants will fight off the attackers.
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Hopefully they'll move their own products to use the solution built into mobile chrome [0]. I hope that this "official" way of prompting users isn't penalised. The engagement logic is in the browser and as a developer you can't override it and force it to show. It makes testing it interesting! I dug into the code and wrote up my findings in a couple of blog posts [1].

[0] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing...

[1] https://unop.uk/dev/experience-with-mobile-chrome-app-instal...

Edit: In case it's not clear, this isn't just for web apps. As of at least a month ago (Chrome 44) you can add native app install banners to a website [2].

[2] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing...
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10064276
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As someone who very recently took this course (around 6 months ago to be exact), his flow of lecture is jarring if you aren't paying attention (and the confusion of the slides accentuates this), but the raw content is still very very useful (revising for this exam was easier than some others).

While I'm not able to share them with you, IC also has a system of recorded lectures, which makes these even easier to follow.
Or any other IBM software: DOORS, Jazz...
> I was expecting an empty page with a huge "don't" in it.

Why?
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Do they ever have to use an Erlang lib and find the documentation harder because they're Elixir programmers?

I love the Elixir syntax but worry it'd be like Scala: a better way for people who already know Java, rather than a way to use BEAM / OTP etc for people used to modern languages.
What's with the condescending tone?
Interesting video. The presenter is pretty good. At 24.35 he talks about Michael Novak, Facebooks engineer manager that states:

"Privacy is a set of experiences that help people feel comfortable", HAH, i love this corporate-speak.

It reminds me of the way the new PR field of Content Creation, which defines itself like:

http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/what-is-content-marketi...

"Content marketing’s purpose is to attract and retain customers by consistently creating and curating relevant and valuable content with the intention of changing or enhancing consumer behavior. Basically, content marketing is the art of communicating with your customers and prospects without selling. It is non-interruption marketing. Instead of pitching your products or services, you are delivering information that makes your buyer more intelligent"

Lets enhance make our buyers more intelligent. Intelligent in this context meaning, the customer buys our product. Lets give the user privacy. Privacy meaning a thin veneer of privacy on top of complete data mining.
NVidia could do a lot better. Getting CuDNN working on OSX (or Linux) isn't exactly a trivial task.
I didn't find it jarring at all. It's a game with a cooler screen, I don't expect a holodeck.
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(e) You may not know that ... cancer prevalence depends heavily on vitamin D levels. People living around the equator have a 40-60% lesser chance of getting cancer than people living in the US, Canada or Europe. This is even true for people living in Florida. We don't get enough UV-B from the sun, not like centuries ago when we didn't have to work indoors and didn't use sunscreen. People with dark or darker skin have an even bigger risk.

The risk of getting nonmelanoma skin cancer from UV-B is relatively low, and it's easy to treat. Melanoma skin cancer is dangerous, but not related to sun exposure. Taking vitamin D using pills or getting enough sun exposure (without sunscreen) without getting burnt may be the cheapest and most easy way to reduce cancer risk.

Below some links, these about breast cancer. AFAIK these numbers are similar for other cancers like liver, lung, colon, etc.

http://bigthink.com/devil-in-the-data/vitamin-d-sun-and-canc...

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/26/health/he-explain26

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc05/papers/p...

Or Google that yourself: https://www.google.com/webhp?q=cancer+rates+equator
bout time.
I don't think the failure of one (or even two) implementations invalidates the concept itself. I see nothing fundamentally wrong with the idea of location transparency (where it matters)
> a site with great content should not be penalized for the site's own choices on ads

Yes it should! If those ads are hostile to the user they should definitely be penalized no matter how great their content is.
Not easily.
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Seriously Microsoft, on one hand you do great things (opensourcing dotnet, opening your apps to Apple and Android etc) but on the other hand you're really trying to look like NSA's thing.

When your market dominance is eroding you shouldn't piss off your customer base.
Only the real science approach ever works. If your "science" is using any other approach, it is not a science, period.

And there is a proper, scientific approach in the economics: behavioural economics. Instead of hand waving about some "ideal", non-existant agents acting fully rationally upon a 100% correct and impossible information available, as the classic bullshit economics does, the proper, behavioural economics starts with studying the real individuals behaviour (which is very much doable, no matter what the others are saying), and only then drawing conclusions about the herd behaviour in a statistical scale.
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> Without abstraction there's only observation and no reasoning

This is what the real science is. Observation and only observation. Reasoning is secondary and unimportant.
"No, go to Brazil."

No one wants to lose their job or freedom if something goes wrong when you guinea pig a patient.
This effect goes back way before FPS video games.

Eg, I got this badly as a kid in the early 80's at Disney World, in the O Canada! Circle-Vision 360° theatre. Within seconds of starting the movie, I felt the whole room moving around and I nearly hurled. Luckily since the room is stationary I just sat down with my eyes closed for the rest of the film and recovered pretty quickly afterwards.
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- goo.gl-Link to this map: burger menu, share, short link

- extra stops: once you've set up a basic route, a little plus appears under neath the red target marker in the dialog box, however, this does not seem to work with public transport routing

No idea about the other ones. Personally, I'm slightly miffed about the fact at some point the keywords "home" and "work" stopped working, or that Gmaps sometimes accepts English words in the search query (as in 'X to Y'), but sometimes only German words ('X nach Y'), despite my OS and browser language set to English.
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according to some bench even the i5 6500 gpu is as good as my dedicated (but old) readeon hd 6670 - which would put it in the "good enough to run crysis 2 with some compromises" territory

even this GPU would make for a great value proposition in a midrange macbook pro
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I'm trying the whole "surf less, meditate more" thing but I find motivation to meditate quite low on "good" days. When I feel like crap for having procrastinated, sure, give me some of that meditation, but on a day where I feel fine, I easily persuade myself I don't need it.

One thing I've tried to do is do household chores when I feel the procrastination urge. It's still procrastination but at least it's a bit more useful than playing video games.
May be the number of people who took this course and found it interesting?
Can't speak for peteretep but here's my guess...

If you look at the quotes peteretep pasted, those "I-have-wisdom-that-you-don't" type of remarks can be interpreted as condescension. Therefore, it's human nature to respond to condescension with more condescension.

To be clear, the blog author (Satish Talim) didn't write those quotes -- he's quoting Baron Schwartz.
I was hoping there would be a mention of always using metric units.
He covered that in his second sentence.

> But there's so little in the way of communication density (even in 'compact mode')
I don't say that having abstract theories is bad, after all one of the most successful theories in Physics, general relativity, was formulated without much data or even experimental hints to work with. The difference is that this theory was later put to scrutiny by performing experiments and by observing natural phenomena (e.g. light bending by gravity), which have failed to falsify the theory so far.

So what I'm saying is that a theory that cannot be falsified experimentally is not very useful.

The real danger here is that these theories -most of which are supported by no or very slim experimental evidence- are used by governments to formulate economic policies, which in turn affect the life of millions or billions of people. For me, this is a bit like developing an "idealized" theory of nuclear physics and then trying to build a nuclear power-plant based on it. I, personally, would not want to live near one of these ;)
I've tried to get around this by self-imposing deadlines. But it always works for a bit, and then it'll start slipping - I'll duly "catch up", but it slips again, and eventually gets to the point where everything's slipping faster than I can catch up, which is just depressing -_-

Seeing as they were self-imposed, the easiest 'solution' to the resulting 'depression' is just to lift them! Great! Oh, wait, we're back where we started..
It is quite striking to me that the decentralised, statistical, emergent treatment of meaning in PI fits so well with neural-networks and connectionism[1] whereas Fodor's "Language of Thought Hypothesis" and other opposing views seem wedded to "top-down" cognitive approaches.

Given the ability of neural nets to produce "modeling functionality" (like playing Breakout as though there was a model of the game somewhere in the AI) without requiring the actual model implementation, Ockham seems to favour Wittgenstein over Fodor &co. (despite the excellent qualities of the Fodor fog parody linked in the article[2].)

As PI is often at pains to show, however, our own naive thinking tends to assume that the modeling function of language is in virtue of some fundamental metaphysical relation with reality, so that when Wittgenstein wrote:

"There must surely be a further, different connexion
between my talk and N, for otherwise I should still not
have meant HIM."

Certainly such a connexion exists. Only not as you
imagine it: namely by means of a mental mechanism.

he now seems to me to be aiming squarely at our inner cognitivist.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionism

2: http://garbage.world/fodor/

3: PI: #689
One question: do you hear your non-tech colleagues (and in particular, your boss) complaining about the scheduling process?

If so, you may be onto something. If not, step #1 before writing a line of code is to sit your boss (if possible) down for lunch (you're buying) and get him to tell you as much as possible about all the things in the business that don't work. Either that list will include your scheduling issue - in which case start work - or it may have other problems which could be a better target for your SaaS work.

Just like in film and theater, doing thorough pre-production can really save you a lot of cash, time, effort, and eventual flops, in post :)
My experience tells me you're right - once you start, the barrier to continue is infinitely smaller than the one that stopped you starting in the first place. However, I promise you if it were that easy, this discussion would be moot :)
> most of the models used in Economics are based on abstract reasoning about "ideal" markets and actors (or more recently on game-theoretic ideas) instead of experimental data.

Essentially it's like pre-Enlightenment Natural Philiosophy, in that it's a discipline that claims to explain the way the world works, but actually explains who has the most sway in getting their ideas accepted.

> ...should provide ample data to develop "real" models of economic behavior against, and I think that many researchers actually already make use of this data.

I suspect reality will get about as much traction against idealogues of e.g. the Chicago School as actual climate science does agains useful idiots like Bjørn Lomborg. It's about providing views that happen to be useful to moneyed interests, not reality.
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There are reasonable criticisms of Systemtap, but a lot of Sun marketing was just bizarre. They set it up on Ubuntu (which doesn't include it, and which isn't their competitor: Red Hat is) as an example of what the setup is like. They kept complaining it was unsafe, when it was only unsafe if you wanted to use raw C for tapsets. Sun had some great tech, but they were also a sales and marketing machine that had no problems spouting garbage to make a sale.
Not while the majority of the population is completely disinterested in any kind of politics other than fear-mongering by demagogues it's not.
yeah, especially annoying as they made provisions in their own browser to cheat on certain pages (like google homepage not needing permission to access the microphone)

double scary since it seems google is in a position now to steer (or probably 'make it better for users', in their view) the whole www just by tweaking page ranks
> one chap needing to lie down in a dark room

Sounds like the standard reaction. The real horror stories are about people who are wasted for days after trying Oculus Rift.
isn't discourse asking for money?
Same here, I played Half Life 2 in VR and found it incredibly captivating and engrossing. It doesn't need to simulate reality to a T to be enjoyable.
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I am using Chrome Version 45.0.2454.85 (64-bit) on Mac OS X 10.10 and the html5 test score dropped from version 44 (which clocked in at 526). I know it is unusual but what changed to have the score drop? Check it out at html5test.com
The one in which we're not waiting until we're all dead?
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>It is safe to say, that the economic theory a person subscribes to is highly related to their income.

This is an overly pessimistic view that ignores the philosophical aspects of economics. E.g. I lived on under $15k per year for a couple of years before I moved into software development, but during that time I still supported a very liberal approach to economics. This is because I hate violence (I can't even bring myself to crush spiders that wander into the house), and view redistributive economics as necessarily violent, as in a roundabout way it's forcing people to give goods/services/tokens of exchange to me that they may not want to give (since they're forced to give it via taxation lest they face imprisonment, I cannot assume it's voluntary). Other people may not care so much about this and take a more utilitarian approach, focusing on maximising some particular metrics (such as GDP or income equality), so they'll reach different conclusions.

Assuming people subscribe solely to the theories (economic or otherwise) that maximise the financial benefit to them is ironically a rather economics-style view of the world, and I'm fortunate enough to say that most of the people I'm close to don't fit this characterisation.

In terms of actual data, there's a correlation, but it's far from being the strongest factor: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/does-you...
Which browser included VRML support? I just remember the plugins.

Edit: It was Netscape - http://docs.tpu.ru/docs/html/html32/ch28.htm#NetscapesLive3D
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Intel processors are great and really blow competition away (on desktops). But that's kind of annoying - when there's no competition, Intel holds on releasing high end CPUs (w/ 6 cores) on new architecture and their price is insane...
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