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I learned the most from _good_ homework assignments. These assignments were always multi-week (1-2) affairs. They were big, complicated, and covered a lot of things. But, since they weren't due within a day, they gave me the time to really work at them. To rack my brain against their problems and discover, on my own, how to solve them. Of course, I almost always needed to talk with my TAs, professor, and fellow students multiple times throughout the assignment. And this made me become pro-active about seeking help, which I use on a daily basis in the real world.

Worksheets? Yes, I never learned a damn thing from these time wasters. I feel that mini-projects are the way to go.
If they can't finally get the iPhone 7 right, I'm not sure what's going to become of them.
A conspiracy seems overly suspicious. It's more likely that the people putting in place standardized testing believe that data should drive compensation and results. They don't seem to be understanding the implication of such a garbage in garbage out policy though. In private schools there is also standardization and testing, and the data is often good HS and thereby good colleges.
1) They don't have to work there*

2) If they are more qualified for a higher paying position or different job, they should move to it.

Apple doesn't owe them anything, and it certainly doesn't need people attempting to tell Apple how to pay their employees. If you don't like it, move to another group, end of story.

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There would be chaos because companies never invested in finding a way to promote self-management. If they do, maybe chaos would be out of the picture. As well as turn over (which is currently an existing problem).
It's sarcasm.

Industry analysts and the media often claim that Apple is doomed, but given their earnings obviously this is far from the case.
In this quarter AAPL have made more profit than AMAZ has ever made in its entire lifetime as a company, and probably for the next 5 years too.

AAPL also has about the same revenue growth as FB/GOOGL, while trading at about 1/10th the PE.

Man, Wall Streets really, really hate this company.
drones can only get cheaper over time.

employees need to eat in 2015, and 2016 and 2017, etc.
For ages I thought 'E' meant emergency, like it was some sort of backup connection for emergencies that didn't really work at all... this was back in 2008.
They're assembling the iMacs there and a few others
> PS: It's actually significantly more efficient to burn crude oil and charge high mileage electric cars from that than instead of refining oil and then using an IC engine.

That might be, yet burning crude oil produces a horrible amount of nasty stuff - sulphurous molecules turning into acid rain, radioactive trace elements concentrating in the exhaust...
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Q: I compared Sift4 with another algorithm that is much more exact and there are differences.

A: Of course, they are different algorithms. This is a fuzzy distance calculator, it doesn't give you the exact value. There are still edge cases. But the idea of Sift is to be fast and relatively accurate, rather than very accurate. You need more accuracy, try to combine Sift with Levenshtein for example, computing Levenshtein only where Sift says the strings are above a certain similarity.

In other words, if there are 5000 words, and you need to pick one that's pretty close (or far away) from a target word, but don't care so much about being exact, but do care about performance, then you can use Sift. Or if you have a list of 1,000,000 words, then you can use Sift to pare that down to the top 100 closest, then use Levenshtein to get the exact one.

tl;dr

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That's gross margin over production costs for their current products. Much of that margin goes towards massive R&D investments towards their future products. One of the keys to Apple's continued success is the huge investments they make in new materials and processes with a very long term view.
> I wonder how forbes test their stuff.

Probably, like any techie with a bit of knowledge, using adblockers...
Gasoline - Audi is working on the technology http://www.audiusa.com/newsroom/news/press-releases/2015/05/...

The first version requires biomass, which means it has all the disadvantages of current biofuels. But their next goal is to remove that requirement. If they succeed, then they will have a process that only needs power, water, and CO2.

It's early stage technology and investment is probably very small right now. Why wouldn't it be when oil is so cheap. But someday the oil fields will start running dry and peak oil will truly come. When oil hits $200, $300 per barrel, the demand for this kind of technology will be immense. EV sales will increase dramatically, but many will be unable to use EV due to lack of personal garages (even Supercharger times are not enough if thats the only way to charge. And only Tesla has access to that, what about Leaf, Bolt, etc?).

A brand new hydrogen infrastructure doesn't seem to fit anywhere in the future. It's too expensive and the benefits are marginal compared to gas (a lot of legacy infrastructure) or EV (an entirely new paradigm using existing electric infrastructure).
Did you try explaining to her that SHE was the one who wasn't subscribed to Apple Music?
There's a huge contingent of people doing exactly this.
The tech world badly needs the equivalent of the NRA. We need to routinely be grading politician voting records [1] on privacy focused bills. If a politician votes against privacy, then they should be forced to fear a highly contested re-election.

If it works for guns and the tea-party, then why can't it work for tech?

[1] https://www.nrapvf.org/grades/
First, that 22 films episode is considered one of the best of the series. Second, just last Sunday they had a "good" episode, depending on your intended meaning of the word "good". I mean just ordinary "good".

Also, the turning point in the series is often thought to be when Homer was raped by a Panda bear. For years it was pure rubbish after that.
You're thinking of this plotlist as some sort of taxonomic abstraction. For the writers of light entertainment like movies and serials, this is a pragmatic resource that can be used to generate deliverable work product. There's absolutely no need for this list to be systematic, exhaustive, or made up of orthogonal vectors.
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You may also be interested in solar methane reforming and the like (at 70%+ efficiency from solar in to chemical energy out):

http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=981

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/01/f19/fcto_webinars...
I really don't get some public holidays either. Here in Victoria, Australia, they introduced a new public holiday this year the day before a sporting event to celebrate that sporting event (the AFL grand final). It's official name is - I kid you not "Friday before the AFL Grand Final"

It is incredibly bizarre.
I agree actually. Walmart or McDonald's could use the same argument too but we know that would be a PR disaster if they did. Not so with Apple since the large contingent who demonize Walmart and McDonald's for their wages give Apple a complete pass
I agree as well. As an outsider who has toyed with Rubinius I wonder how married Rubinius Inc will be to MRI compatibility. I think the task "concurrency to Ruby" could be made a lot easier if compatibility with MRI wasnt on the table, it would allow them to experiment much more freely, and I for one wouldnt mind having a very ruby-esque lang with great concurrency primitives. Does anyone know if theyve considered that?
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It definitely helps. We were at that stage, where all my daughter could do was questions that involved summing numbers that added up to 5. She would do them on her fingers. Now she can do those in her head and also memorized what 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 looks like on fingers, and can now recognize 6, 7, and 9, 10 on fingers. Can't do 8 yet... Keep at it!
Sounds like you've seen engineering management done badly, and you don't like it. But if you saw a self-managed team done badly, you wouldn't like that, either.

Good engineering management insulates you from the corporate politics and irrelevant stuff going on above you. You really want that insulation, because those who don't do corporate politics can still have politics done to them.
Korean inbetweeners have it rough. In fact, all inbetweeners have it rough! That's kind of like getting a C code from a senior animator (Keyframe) and hand-coding asm from it.

It's interesting they've mentioned discontinued software from ToonBoom. I thought they would be using a full blown Harmony by now or DigiCel Flipbook, at least for animatics.
I used the T-Mobile roaming data for a two month trip this year and was really happy with it. It may not be fast but it's pretty useful to have messaging, VOIP, and maps ready to go as soon as the plane lands.
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(I didn't downvote you)

I'm not sure I agree. Not all question-begging is propaganda, nor is all propaganda question-begging. In fact, in this case it's not question begging at all. Question begging refers to the act of assuming the conclusion of what you're trying to prove, which is not the case here. The author is not trying to prove that "incarceration in the US has class and race implications"; this is a given, a premise of his argument. He is instead trying to say something about Prison Architect and how it depicts prison. It's also written as an opinion piece, not a peer-reviewed publication, and as such doesn't source many of its assertions. I've no problem with that, because I don't read this article seeking proof of anything.

By the way, I do believe incarceration has big race and class implications in almost the whole world, not just the US, so I have no problems with that part of the article.
I'm from India.

Facebook access isn't like Polio vaccination. Poor people in India worry more about food than Facebook/Internet access. Even if they were given internet access, Most don't know how to read and write. Those capable of spending around 2000 rupees on a smartphone(lower middle class) can also buy a pre paid internet pack for an affordable price. And already do.

If you want to see the real innovation happening in countries like India to make Internet accessible to every one look at : http://www.saankhyalabs.com/ Who are working towards using wasted tv bandwidth for internet.
I suspect the parent is referring to the nearly epidemic levels of religion driven homeschooling we have in the US. It's apparently totally acceptable to pull your child out of school and teach them dinosaurs didn't exist and that evolution is probably wrong.

Source: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oii/nonpublic/statisti...
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To be fair, Amazon is a pretty bad company to compare to with regard to profit; Amazon intentionally tries to have 0 profits while increasing revenue.

Apple is literally running into the, "How much more money could you possibly make?" problem.
I've come across two outstanding examples of this:

Kerbal Space Program in AP Physics (https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1jcnyl/...)

Diplomacy [the Avalon Hill boardgame] in 12th Grade Humanities (https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/386460/diplomacy-classroom-...)

The second example is particularly fascinating. We can expect games to apply and reinforce studies in a technical field or to stimulate interest in history, but using a game to teach rhetoric and its ability to express and manipulate is something else.
Is not easy. We use the chitinous beaks, well known in older giant squid specimens, and often the only cephalopod remains in stomachs. I personally had identified thousands of deep-sea squids and octopuses in cetacean stomachs. We found some fascinating species very beautiful and weird, including huge predators also like the fabulous Taningia. But, in a 'hot' spot well known for giant squids no one was classified as "possible young Architeuthis".
Hi, long time Drupal dev here (http://drupal.org/user/404732). The answer to this depends on these questions:

1) Do you have a pressing need to get a site out the door in the next 3-6 months? (i.e. a client that wants the site done or similar)

2) Are you already experienced with other PHP frameworks/libraries, particularly those from Packagist?

There may be other factors, but I'd say those are the two big ones.

Answers:

#1 yes, #2 yes: Maybe use Drupal 8, but be prepared to port modules from D7 to D8. This is not a hard thing to do, and it's reasonably well documented, but would impact your timeline.

#1 yes, #2 no: Use Drupal 7. Deadlines and inexperience are not a good place to try something that only hit rc this month.

#1 no, #2 yes: Use Drupal 8. You're exactly the kind of person that would benefit from jumping into D8 a little early.

#1 no, @2 no: Use Drupal 8, and expect a steep learning curve.
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Is "substantial portion" the same scope as what you would need to do under fair use?
I'm disappointed that this didn't turn out to be an EMP gun.
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For me it started to decline in season 9ish, but I did enjoy lots of episodes from seasons 9-12, some of the 13 might be good. But after that I started to actually count with the fingers of one hand the episodes I liked from the current season.

By season 15 I was pretty much no longer a fan. I only got to see a few from 16 and pretty much stopped there.

I actually still see once in a while the old episodes and it's fascinating to see how many layers of pop culture, puns and obscure references to the arts and other refined subjects were able to put in a episode, all while keeping the stupid-funny-haha kind of jokes (like Homer's stupidity).

Also, I found incredible how they could have such funny and "offensive" (By the standards of the time) episodes and also such moving ones, like when Homer meets his mom again... the ending on that one is just pure feelings.

I really am sorry how the simpsons kept going just for the sake of it. They lost the show's soul at least a decade or more ago. They should have euthanized the show a long time ago.. :(
You mean like the EFF...
:) The interest rate isn't mentioned, but its probably around 1%. The funds capital gains were 20%.

I'll let you re-read my above posts to figure out where you went wrong. My email is in my profile if you need help:)
>It was a striking example not just of mansplaining but also of whitesplaining.

Are these serious words we're using in the New York Times now?
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From beginning to end. Bon Iver, Beck, Dave Matthews Band...
Out of curiosity, I just tried out v0.19.2 (the latest), and some of these now work:

- \dn works

- \dm does not

- \dt <star>.users now appears to work as per psql

- \e works

- \i works

- \o does not

- \copy does not
We actually had 6-day studing week in Soviet Union in the school. There were normally two schifts, one ca. 8-13 and the other one ca. 14-19. After school or before school we had a few hours of homework every day, I'd say between 2 and 3 hours. More in the later classes as we were preparing for the university.
Go to a smaller vendor like Cricket, they will still do cash prepaid.
The EFF is already the most reliable org fighting for our digital arms. As far as comparison to the NRA, I suggest GOA[1] is a better model. The NRA is only a fair weather friend of the 2nd.

[1] http://www.gunowners.org/114hrat.htm
Please don't conflate tech and privacy. From a tech perspective, there are very useful and interesting public safety projects that can come from interdepartmental data.
Just curious, how do you know that your car produces less pollution? The electricity is still generated and transmitted, so it is at least possible that the energy used to power your vehicle is worse for the environment because of its source. Also, did you factor in the impact that mining lithium has on the environment?
Identifying home or work location is something Google Maps does for your convenience. It would be trivial for cell operators.
Same here. I mean, occasionally there's a frame drop here and there but it happens at roughly the same rate as it did when my 6 had iOS 8.x.x.

I'd say the most serious "issue" is that animations/transitions still take a lot longer than they should, and as far as I can tell you can't trigger any action while the transition isn't finished. i.e. you press home to go to the home screen and while the home screen is appearing you can't press an app icon yet.
CWG2 was fantastic. I scoured bargain bins high and low for a couple of years before I found a copy. Lord knows how many hours I lost refighting Gettysburg or marathon custom scenarios on the ridiculously big Manassas, Harper's Ferry and Cross Keys/Port Republic maps. It's too bad it wasn't more popular; I'd have loved to see a Napoleonic or Franco-Prussian expansion. I remember a couple of total conversion mods that sort of worked, but it was not a particularly mod-friendly game, unfortunately.

Too bad that the only real option to play it these days is still 800x600 on a Win98 VM. If GOG ever offers a version that works on modern operating systems, it will be a "Shut up and take my money" moment for me.

Someday, I want to build a medieval/ancient set game with the same general mechanics...
What is Facebook? Looks like some website a ten year old boy coded.
I think you've got a pretty good starting point.

Once you get fairly decent with JavaScript, I'd like to recommend 3rd Party JavaScript

http://www.amazon.com/Third-Party-JavaScript-Ben-Vinegar/dp/...

It's a great book that taught me how to create JS widgets (think twitter feed or disqus comment widget).
I've seen very good managers but the ratio is bad. %10 vs %90 of bad ones. A world with less management could be a world with less politics. I understand that a conflict between teams, for example, is a problem that can only be resolved at the management level. The question is, what if these 2 teams become one? The rest is about company re-org, new manager assignment, etc. Politics... as you said.
It sounds like you are trying to make a point about something.
EFF is a 501(c)(3) organization, which isn't permitted to support or oppose candidates in an election. EFF can take a position on proposed legislation, but not on political candidates.
Not exactly, especially when compared to the angry voices directed at Walmart or McDonald's. I implore you to count the number of news stories admonishing Walmart or McDonald's wages and the number of protests against their wages. Then compare it to what Apple gets.
The EFF is too splintered for this goal. They do fantastic work in courts, but they don't currently have the resources to lobby successfully.

They began to start grading politicians, but it has since been neglected: https://standagainstspying.org/

That said, they are currently our best option. You can support them by donating ( https://supporters.eff.org/donate ) and setting them as your Amazon Smile charity.
There's a whole body of work that I think could be categorized as "1 basic plot". Joseph Campbell I think did a lot about this idea, but Dan Harmon[1] always explained it best for me.

[1]: http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Super_...
I think we were talking past one another, and I misinterpreted what you meant by "a field were the very purpose is writing" to mean "the purpose of academia is writing".

Sorry for the confusion :-)
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I agree, if this situation were to happen again today and presented with those options, make it public. My story happened in 1983..
You assert that iPhone market share is the important metric, but never actually demonstrate why. Care to put some reasoning behind it?

Your taxi analogy is unsatisfying for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the utterly unrelated market conditions between that and the mature consumer electronics industry, but feel free to expand if you think it will go somewhere.

edit: clarity
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If we can figure out a way to not have to fork a Rubinius-compatible version of each and every Gem...
It means that if Apple where to lower their prices then they'd only be hurting their own profits. Apple (and all scrupulous companies) are trying to maximize profits, not wipe out the competition.
They still can't fix their software. (Drag and drop is intermittently borkened in El Capitan.)

And besides - what are they going to do with all that money?

At some point the actual size of the cash pile becomes an irrelevance - unless they're buying countries, secretly trying to set up a private army that could take on all the world's superpowers at the same time, or running a combined FTL/anti-gravity research lab.
There are ways to pass the coordinates in a VoIP 911 call. Unfortunately, these standards are designed by astronaut architects and are rather cumbersome. For instance, one uses MIME multipart bodies inside a SIP message. Which few systems handle properly (because it's such a bad idea and has no practical use cases).

Instead of being engineers and saying "ok, well just throw in a header X-911Location" or something simple, they gotta make shit complicated. It's ridiculous.

They also use this IETF designed address format. Which is rather ... comprehensive. All sorts of designation for streets and branches and so on. Except... none of the 911 systems actually use that. So they design this protocol with no care to how actual systems work. Or how actual street addresses in the US work. They basically made up their own idea of how address topographies could work.

But I'm guessing some of the larger companies doing VoIP probably have it sorted (like when you do a VoIP call on T-Mobile and there's no GSM just WiFi).
I didn't imply that at all. It isn't clear to me _what_ infrastructure should be built, given that there's not a solution that can service everyone currently. I think a case can be made for hydrogen being a better infrastructure play than extending the electric grid. It has some nice qualities, for example the ability (noted in the linked article) to be produced in a hyper-distributed manner.
I agree, no legal standing on my part. Morally they're both dicks. I did learn my lesson. When I interviewed at another game company, iMagic, they asked for game designs and I told them to buy the cow instead of trying to get milk for free. They didn't hire me, and were later sued by someone else for stealing his copywritten game concept. They're long gone as a company.
OTOH, if there is no reality and thus no logic, it doesn't matter if I'm using logic to refute logic; whatever contradiction it's thought to be doesn't actually exist.

In other words, we're attributing a truth-and-falsehood finding property to logic that it doesn't actually posses. So in the grand sense, it's meaningless, whatever it is we think we're getting from logic. It's like saying the Iraqi explosive detecting wand actually detects explosive. It's a phony tool, it doesn't work, but we trick ourselves into believing that it does.
>privacy focused bills

How much tech revenue depends on spying on people and then selling advertisements? I have no idea, but it seems like a lot.
> If it works for guns and the tea-party, then why can't it work for tech?

Because a viable critical mass of people are willing to be single-issue voters when it comes to guns. And that's the case because gun ownership is deeply ingrained into the culture of many parts of the country.

Neither is true for electronic privacy.