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I'd say real estate is another ailment here.

When Bloomberg decided to publish opinion pieces was there any question it would be nothing but shameless liberal propaganda?

That's called "news about Canada". Albertans don't exist, I tell ya!
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It's funny how Conservatives are quick to point the finger at Liberal social-spending for all of the ills of a country's economy when they're in opposition, but when they're in power and things don't go well it's "all the fault of external forces." Hypocrites.
He should have take a look at F# or OCaml. After reading his post it felt like that would be the best fit for his description of the language.
I am not sure if you're talking about Alexander, because you make it sound like something everybody does but that's not the case. If anything, nearly everybody does/did the opposite.

Alexander became accustomed and adopted the Persian lifestyle, to the point where his countrymen started resenting him, because they didn't feel enough like conquerers. He married the daughter of Darius. Most conquerors at the time, would probably kill them on the spot, just to make a point.

Take the Egyptians with the Israelis for example, 400 years of slavery and they were totally set apart. Not assimilated at all. Same with Greeks and Turks, 400 years of slavery but no assimilation. There are many examples and although the enslaved want to believe that this is because of them, it's not... It's because the upper hand didn't allow/want any kind of assimilation.

Alexander was a very efficient slaughterer, but he was much more than that. At 300 BC. what more can we ask?
We've gutted productive jobs in central Canada. The federal gov't should have taken a more direct role in energy policy at least in Ontario.
Indeed. I cross out sections of contracts, initial there, and then hand it to the other party to sign. Most of them agree that what I've crossed out is BS and will initial. If they don't, it's a good sign that they're actively trying to screw you one way or another.
I think that last one isn't a modern standard email address -- the domain part is reversed. It's a JANET NRS path (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS). The modern equivalent would be miw@ux.cs.man.ac.uk.

The first email address (the ARPA one) is presumably using a machine in UCL as the gateway between internet routing and JANET routing, since the part before the % is the JANET NRS component ordering. The obvious conclusion would be that the mail server he was using didn't have an ARPAnet connection at all.
Not sure she's done much to get the attention of the media; I could be wrong, but I think her popularity is a result of others' efforts.
Is the text there substantially different than the patent grant under the Apache 2.0 license? I see a patent grant as a good thing.
Going by Paul Phillips's (largest contributor to the scala compiler) YouTube rant, https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=4jh94gowim0, nobody ever gets over the cliffs.

His rant is great, for more than just scala.
> ES6 isn't statically typed. It might be better for you , it is not for me.

Perhaps you should just look into using TypeScript? It's basically ES6 with static typing.
This is a point I was starting to make at the last segment of the piece, but my editor (also my wife) encouraged me to edit that down from 1500 words to what's there and break off the piece about the passionate versus the professional into a follow-up. From the feedback I've been getting, it seems to be something worth exploring.
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I like to imagine I'm out at odd hours and really need to know who's open for my post-pub-crawl food. I'm going to click that as well from now on.
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Agreed. The best way to generate more ideas is to implement the ones you already have, so you can know what works and what doesn't. Fail early and quickly and then get up and get going onto some other idea!
The difference is that all you have to do to view this is punch a URL into a browser, on virtually any computer in any form factor, and it's on your screen instantly with absolutely zero setup. Of course there's a performance cost to this incredible convenience.

Imagine if the author had instead used, say, DirectX and C++ and only bothered compiling it for his own platform. Not only would it be nearly impossible for this to have reached the same audience so quickly, but it likely would have taken the author longer to make as well because JavaScript + D3.js are uniquely suited towards rapidly making these sorts of prototypes.
Saying things like what? "I do not have the time to make them happen"?

If so, I'd say that's more a matter of prioritization (assuming at least one project is underway). For example, I think we could all agree that working on 30 projects would be an ineffective way to spend time. Mark Cuban recommends "1, not 50" [1]. You have to pick your best candidate project and run with it, and what's best depends on what your criteria are.

I think the term "fear of failure" is applied too broadly. Often this "fear" is more a healthy respect for the challenge of bringing highly functional yet simple experiences to your end user. Those experiences coupled with a product that solves a legitimate problem, absent any legal or bureaucratic barriers, is a recipe for winning. Understanding the intricacies of the challenge can make it difficult to find a single-threaded manner to work on it. It's almost more of a logical bewilderment than it is fear.

If none of the ~30 projects are being worked on then maybe fear of failure or laziness might apply but it could still be a matter of prioritization.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa5t-Hx8A7Y&t=34
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Yes, python.

In [1]: import numpy as np

In [2]: a = np.array([1,2])

In [3]: b = np.array([3,4])

In [4]: a+b

Out[4]: array([4, 6])
I'm a native Russian speaker as well and can second that exact perspective.
This article doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The author states that lotteries exploit people of lower intelligence and addicts. Then he states that we should allow private companies to run lotteries instead of the state, so that they can be run on more advantageous terms for the players. But if the players are not intelligent or are addicted, how will they choose "better" lotteries? It seems more likely to me that with private companies in the mix, there will be more advertising and more players, but not better terms.

My grandmother plays the lottery every week and she enjoys it. She is not stupid or addicted, just someone who enjoys the feeling that she might win something.

Do we really need to have a moral panic over something that is quite normal and ordinary? I'm sure there are people who buy too many lottery tickets or are irresponsible with their money. I'm equally sure that privatizing or driving the lottery underground will not solve their problems.
It does contrast with the alternative which was pillaging and laying waste to conquered lands and not taking adult male prisoners as was quite common during those times.

Also, when the conquistadors went about they would often find warring parties and play sides. This made it easy to divide and conquer and gain cooperation of some locals and eventually see their culture and values prevail. Kind of the same William the conqueror did (kill the nobility/chieftains and let the cooperating peasants live)
She keeps at it in the later books. Ged's end of life is the polar opposite of wish fulfillment fantasy, and meaningful in its own right.
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You are in fact correct that the boundaries of the Voronoi cells on a non-Euclidean manifold need not be geodesics. Consider for instance the manifold which is a cone with a circular base, and let the sample points be the apex of the cone and the center of the base. The boundary of the two cells thus produced will be a circle parallel to the base, which is not a geodesic on the cone.
Author here: In our case the vendor was very proven, but the tech and their approach to it was not. What actually happened is a bit more complicated than _abandoned_, but those words got the point across without delving into the irrelevant.

Needless to say, I am _very_ leery now of the motives of open-source products that aren't run like open-source projects.
Interesting, although this raises the question of why someone would prefer to choose a prime number over composite ones.
I dunno, the whole thing seems straight out of The Art of War, best is to win without fighting ... worst to besiege his cities.
Why do you need a CUDA account? You don't need one to install CUDA.
We're (Canada, to be clear) one of the richest countries in the world. One of the most educated. One of the most cosmopolitan.

So why is it that we're limited to being a petro-state? We live next to the biggest economy in the world, we're their largest trading partner (and vice versa). They're growing ~4% a year and we're in a recession.

I don't know about you, but I'd like to think that we could do better. The reason the conservatives are mentioned is that they've been in power for 9 years and there's an election coming up. Their only plan seems to be to deny that there's a problem and hope people believe them...
>Ideas are cheap, they are easy.

... I was waiting eagerly for the "and execution is difficult."

>The hard part is being born into wealth.

Which gave me quite a hearty chuckle
Arg! Help!

I must of miss-stepped somewhere because I think I proved the answer to Q8 was C, so Q3 and Q4 had to add up to 6, but Q1 says Q3 or Q4 has to be B, and they can't BOTH be B, because of Q2. So I'm stuck! I've done something wrong.

Maybe I'm reading one of these questions wrong? Rats.

edit: oooooops, C is 2 away from E.
>If you want something, go get it.

Yeah if you wanna go to an Ivy League JUST DO IT! It doesn't matter that you have to work 20+ hours every week to support your family which can't pay the bills! Time you could have invested into school. But does that actually matter if you go to a crappy school your parents decided on? It doesn't matter that you guys don't have money to cover health insurance or regular dentist or doctor's appointments! Got a car? NO! Fuck it not enough money!

The world is WAY less meritocratic than we think.
> What is simple and clear about Python? .. it's really a pretty complex language with a deep ecosystem

Here's a helpful video from Feynman that kinda explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUlqXRPMmY

Python language (ditto Perl, Ruby..) uses Babylonian approach, while the languages with more fundamental building blocks (like say Scheme, Haskell..) are more like Greek approach.

So Python it is not simpler as a language per se, but it is simpler to mold onto the problem. At least that's my explanation why people (myself included) like to use it, despite well understanding there are more elegant (mathematically) languages out there.
I don't know R, but I found a few sites that happily run R code for me. I find the shape of that curve somehow pretty. 29% clearly can't be a hard bound, since we can get 4.8% by assuming no false negatives. I just wish I understood whether there is anything particularly natural about the number 29, or did they make their distributional assumptions for the same reasons you did: "mainly for illustration". If so, then the Nature article was terribly misleading by presenting that number as some kind of "speed of light"-type limit, because that makes p-values look worse than they really are. It seems that p-values are bad enough without making up more bad stuff about them! :)

Anyway, thanks for all your help. Your ability to dig up references (and pump out R code) at a moment's notice makes me think you are someone who knows quite a bit of statistics. I'll happily look at anything else you care to point me to.
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No boom, minerals, housing prices, or tulips is ever going to last. Which is why a broad based economy is important. The government of the day is responsible for this.

But I am not an economist.
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People have been saying this for decades, yet Linux and GNU software are everywhere.
Not sure I understand precisely what you're asking. 'Generic composition' is a tricky term, because it tends to hide the assumptions underlying what we're actually composing together. Bellare and Namprempre's paper, which is the most usually cited in this sort of discussion, takes a probabilistic encryption scheme (read: something that takes a random IV) and a MAC, and results in a probabilistic AE scheme. This is obviously not the only way to model encryption and authentication schemes (SIV above transforms those same primitives into a nonce-based AE scheme instead, or DAE with a fixed nonce), but this tends to be overlooked from GC discussions. In some models, MtE and friends is OK. But the truth is that EtM is safe in the widest range of assumptions, while the other ones are more brittle.
Personally, I'm not as confident. I spent a week doing a lot of React projects, and while it's nice, it is what it is- a view layer.

When interacting with a complex web of routes, models, components, and templates, I have found Ember to be similar to Rails in terms of expressiveness and speed of development.

Then again, I don't know a lot of the tools that people use to solve these problems in React- the most I ever encountered was having to do most things manually, but having page layout managed by React. I was still managing my M and C. What do you usually use to ease the work there?
Well, when I was learning c, Egyptian brackets apparently weren't even a thing. I have co-opted their use in certain places - I think it's a nice way to easily identify a lambda function, but I don't think I would ever use it in pure c. I simply like the way braces line up even if it takes up an extra line .. Kinda like reading HTML, you'd never put an opening tag at the end of a line, right? Anyway, I'm sure this topic has been exhausted a long time ago in a different post.
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Japan and Britain haven't really been able to feed themselves for a 100 years. The Soviet Union before 1965 had high growth rates.

My thoughts are that when a countries central powers make good bets on human capital, infrastructure, and technology, then market economies can feed off of those and produce high rates of growth.

Brezhnev and his compatriots in the soviet union never let a vibrant consumer economy develop. And growth stagnated. Faced with the same problem in the early 80's the Chinese Communists implemented market reforms. That combined with previous investments in human capital, plus sometimes heavy handed restrictions on population growth appears to have been successful. (Also the Chinese were able to cut a deal with the US and Europe to allow mostly unfettered access to developed world markets, which the Soviets didn't have)
I stop doing work on nights & weekends. I generally very much enjoy my job, but when I start to feel off, I cut off all work and just focus on other things that I enjoy. I read more, I play video games, knowing they are "pointless, and I should be using my time better". I watch a movie with my wife instead of opening the laptop and working.

I've found this works fairly well. Sometimes I'll go for two weeks or two months of just turning off 'work'. It has the advantage of letting me continue to be employed.

One of these stints was also when I thought hell, why not try and learn Haskell? ;)
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But when they were in a recession and their banking industry had to be bailed out and their housing market crashes and their unemployment hit the roof we didn't get all of that.

It sounds like you want to have your cake and eat it.

I'm probably not voting for the conservatives but at the same time I don't think they're to blame for the current situation. It's not like the Canadian economy used to be more diversified when the conservatives weren't in power, if anything it's the other way around. We're resource rich and naturally that is something that influences the economy.
I'm not quite sure how any of those supply side effects could cause unemployment or wage changes on the scale of what is happening in Greece. But if you could explain how those effects could have led to the unemployment and wage drops we've seen in Greece I would love to learn.

It seems to me there are two possibilities.

1. When Varoufakis talks about macroeconomic models taught at the best universities feature no accumulated debt, no involuntary unemployment and, indeed, no money (with relative prices reflecting a form of barter) he is talking about Keynesian.

Keynesian theory includes involuntary unemployment, accumulated debt, and money. So Varoufakis would have to have been mistaken. And he is shown to be especially confused when he later remarks

Moving to the micro level, the observation that, in the case of Greece, real wages fell by 40% but employment dropped precipitously, while exports remained flat, illustrates in Technicolor how useless a microeconomics approach bereft of macro foundations truly is.

This means he believes Keynesians are especially focused on microfoundations and ignore macro foundations. When this is actually true of the Neoclassical school. Then there is the issue you brought up. Varoufakis critiques Keynesians at the beginning and then appeals to it at the end. This implies he does not understand the basics of Keynesian theory. This is very surprising because he thinks of Keynes as one of the economists that personally influenced him the most.

2. Varoufakis is actually talking about Neoclassical economics.

This makes a lot of sense. Many Neoclassical economic models lack money, don't have involuntary unemployment, and lack accumulated debt. In addition it is very hard to tell a story about large wage drops, and growth in unemployment from microfoundations(basically supply-side). This means he is being consistent when he later appeals to Keynesian economics.

Varoufakis is obviously a very intelligent man who has spent 28 years studying economics. I would be incredibly surprised if he was confused about the basics of the two most influential schools of thought in macroeconomics.
Feeling Good by David Burns is a very good book. I've heard of studies that have shown it just as effective as medication for depression. The second chapter "Do Nothingness" has a chapter on procrastination specifically too.

Achieve Your Potential with Positive Psychology also includes a good chapter on CBT. The book also includes other findings/techniques in psychology that can help improve mood, motivation, relationships, etc. It also starts out by smacking down the Law of Attraction, which isn't really effective - it's more like an emotional pyramid scheme.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Teach Yourself by Christine Wilding contains some good information too.

Outside of CBT, Man's Search for Meaning, which defines logotherapy, is a damn useful book. Tim LeBon's book also includes information on this.
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What was the $1,300/mo SaaS. Maybe start that baby up again?
Are you comparing Google to the Caliphate?
I prefer to use a tool that gives you feedback on your code, rather than to correct your code. When you get feedback, you learn and (hopefully), you'll improve your style while you write your code. When it is automatically corrected for you, you don't necessarily learn anything from it.
How many star CEOs from the inner cities or trailer parks do you know?
One has to consider the sharp fall in crude oil price with it. A worse performing government might have shown better graphs had crude oil price been rising.
Crunchbase says you're headquartered in San Fran. What parts of the company are in Melbourne?
To be honest, I find it frustrating when people trot out the old "sillicon valley was created by central planning" meme. If it were that easy to create a sillicon valley, there would be dozens of them by now. Believe me, Chinese bureacurats have tried. There are whole "ghost cities" in China that the government ordered built, but that people never moved into. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/07/20/what-will-b...

The great entrepreneurs who built Sillicon Valley-- Shockley, Ellison, Jobs, and the rest-- were people who were driven to find funding wherever they could get it. If the government had said no, they would have gone (and often did go) to someone else. Similarly, the academics who are getting funding from DARPA or the DOD now would gladly accept funding from private sources as well. The money is just as green.

The military certainly jump-started many technologies by putting money into the hands of engineers and scientists-- in some cases, possibly even by years or decades. But those technologies would have been invented anyway, just on a slower timescale.

It wasn't inventing the technologies that gave the West an edge-- it was commercializing them. And for that you need businessmen, not bureaucrats. If the USSR could have produced a competitive semiconductor industry, the 1980s and 1990s would have looked much different. Instead, they couldn't even keep loaves of bread on the shelves.
So cool (though it includes Plymouth City Airport, which is sadly closed)
I can't help you but mentioning Phnom Penh brings back holiday memories :-). Have you been there before? I remember lots of poor children begging tourists. That part was quite sad.
That's all obvious if you haven't been brainwashed in childhood. Most religions today require indoctrination in childhood to retain market share. Some do take it all the way to brainwashing.

There seems to be a maximum safe dose of religion. Once a week is probably safe. Once a day can cause problems. Several times a day tends to produce symptoms of overdose, including fanaticism and obsessive-compulsive behavior.[1]

[1] http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/28/can-your-child-be-too-...
This is going to be slightly off-topic. I'm mostly a "backend" dev (C/Java, server side things) that recently had to do some frontend dev again after about 4 years. The last time I did this jQuery/Bootstrap was the trend. So this time I played with React for about a month, then went to Angular (coincidently starting with React components and being an Angular virgin made me think of making everything isolated-scope directives in Angular).

So the problem for me was not React being bad or Angular better but at the end of the day it has to do with: As a non-fulltime webdev I need a _complete_ widget/component library available for when I want to build my apps. With React I felt like I was constantly either having to look for components that kind-of/sort-of worked for me but had some short falls or I had to build them from scratch. Then there's the look and feel so you're either looking for components that are Bootstrap ready or Material Design-ish, etc. Even then, you take Angular Material: it's not there yet. Go to the website. That side-nav menu they have going is really nice. I wanted to use that in my app. Is that an MD component? Nope. It's a hacked together mess of custom things. Talk about "eating your own dog food".

Is this common place in the web world right now? Regardless of choosing React/Angular/whatever. I mean I'm used to QT. There's a widget for just about anything. You just wire up your events and you have an app. It seems like the web world is slowly just going to end up reinventing Delphi at the end of the day when I look at things like Polymer (why has it taken so long?)

All these frameworks are great but can we please just work on having feature-rich components/widgets now. And maybe keep them maintained for the next 5 years or so?
Thanks for all these links.
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