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I feel we may both be pushing on the same open door.

>> I'm just pointing out that input is distinct from output; they're not the same thing.

> That's obviously true, but that's a very different statement than the one you originally made, namely, "Everything you will ever experience is all in your head."

Nope, it's exactly the same. Experience is output, and entirely in your head. Sledgehammers to the body are input. Everything you will ever experience is entirely output. Sledgehammers will influence that output, but input and output are not the same. They are tightly coupled, and one of course strongly influences the other.

I agree with you that these are salient and important distinctions. I simply disagreed with your assertion that "It (experience) is not all in your head." It really is. After all, where else would your experience be?

Okay enough splitting hairs. Personally I feel the distinction is clear and highly relevant. Some references I should have provided earlier:

Melzack, 2001. Pain and the neuromatrix in the brain: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11780656

Moseley, 2003. A pain neuromatrix approach to patients with chronic pain. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12909433

http://www.bodyinmind.org/resources/journal-articles/full-te...

(Edits: clarity and detail)
Or Norway. Very similar except five digits after the birthdate. But no id card here; although my driving license is a de facto id card.
There are lots of ISIL foot soldiers that are/were pretty well off, for instance Jihadi John and Omar Hussein. Poverty can't be the only explanation here.
Scientific paper: a mobile app to motivate oral hygiene behaviour
This is really cool, I like the idea.
I don't care for the license though.
I always thought they looked like pretty good devices.
Chile’s scientists take to the streets over funding woes
http://www.stardict.org
I use stardict.
I suspect it's a lot less common today than in Graham's generation. I wonder if it's less than coincidence Jamie Zawinski is one of the last people to get "ownership" of their initials and worked on Netscape.

Heck even first name initial plus last name is a bit dated.
Is Fisheries Policy Nimble Enough?
>Apartheid was racial segregation in South Africa and doesn't appear to apply here.

I brought that up because I think that, for instance, having one kind of meat for the minority and another for the majority, is not _in the long run_ very different than the minority being forced to sit on different benches, drink from different fountains, use different entrances etc.

If a minority wants to eat kosher/halal and we make it harder for them to do that, they 're forced to have their own shops, their own butchers, their own restaurants and so on. Wheras, if there's more halal/kosher meat to go around, the majority, like myself, is unaffected, or possibly enjoys the positive contribution of the minority to the life of the community.
> I suppose it's ultimately a good sign that 3rd-wave feminists are running out of things to complain about.

They're running out of real things to complain about. That doesn't seem to stop the complaining...
Logos aren't mindless fluff or artsy wallpaper that you slap on a project before sending it out the door. They're often the first impression someone gets of your work, and using a thoughtless design says nothing good about what you value.

It doesn't have to be this way. There are free software projects out there that have beautiful, thoughtful, iconic logos. Firefox is the first that comes to mind. The Linux penguin (while a bit odd) has grown on me too.
On #2, the IRL version is a house brand, a strategy that even retailers such as Best Buy utilize.
Interesting, in Spain we have Chivitos which is basically a baguette with practically the same ingredients. Never heard of it served on a plate (al plato) before!
I thought that was just based on URLs. Similarly when I open a yelp.com link in my mobile browser it asks me whether to open it using the Yelp app or the browser.
I think that's the calculus that she figured on when she made the decision not to be a public figure.

I suspect that the recent articles playing up her role are because she & YC realized that there is something they're missing out on: millions of potential female founders are not starting companies because they don't have strong role models. This hurts YC in a financial sense, but even beyond that: if your mission is to increase the amount of startups and innovation in the world, then having half the world's population disqualify themselves because they don't have many good examples of it being done before is losing out.
I really don't disagree with the substance of your comment, though the Algol-family languages tend to be hard because of disorganized core libraries and occasionally cumbersome syntax rather than because they depend on unfamiliar mathematical constructs.

I have little experience in education, but my naive hypothesis is that it would be easier to teach a child, say, Python than any FP-oriented language. I suppose it goes without saying that if children were introduced to the lambda calculus beforehand this might not remain true.

See my comment beneath the root to see my clarification of the original post.

I don't think Dijkstra would disagree with me. After all, it was he who suggested the average American programmer would benefit "more from learning, say, Latin than yet another programming language."
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The author sure seems to appreciate it. Even if there's a tradeoff, I would gladly accept senility in old age in exchange for sanity now, especially when doing nothing will certainly mean senility in old age regardless.
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I was able to compile it on Ubuntu after moving the X11 includes to the bottom of the list:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xlibint.h>
#include <X11/Xproto.h>
#include <X11/Xatom.h>
#include <X11/extensions/Xrandr.h>
#include <X11/extensions/Xrender.h>
I don't know much about this industry, but this seems like a hilarious response to the ADP lawsuit. When your partner/competitor screws you really hard, launching a free product that performs the most important function of their very expensive product line is just about the most satisfying form of vengeance I can think of.

Also, I hate Intuit Payroll (and it's cost me a small fortune due to deadlines being missed and other random crap based on Intuit requiring constant babysitting to do anything on time), so I'm signing up. If it supports multiple states, I am totally on board.
To expand a bit on why the localtime() is not enough, two factors are at play. First, the solar noon can be as much as two hours displaced from the timezone. This is basically time zone vs longitude. Second, depending on time of year and attitude you can go from having no daylight in the winter to no darkness in the summer.

Solar noon details here: http://blog.poormansmath.net/images/SolarTimeVsStandardTimeV...
Based on the presence of a bookshelf on his webpage [0], he seems to be a fan of literature. I've been looking for a text on abstract algebra and now I think I've got one!

Seems like a question that he would welcome.

[0] http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~blitz/Site/Books.html
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Well, you know minimalist design is all the rage these days.
Emulating the Gamecube audio processing in Dolphin (2012)
You don't mean the Cannon Printbook?

Possibly the Panasonic Senior Partner? http://electricthrift.com/2013/08/11/panasonic-senior-partne...
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You get a similar experience with the Nexus devices... I'm currently using a OnePlus One, which hasn't been bad, but considering switching to a Nexus 5X mainly so I can switch carriers to Verizon.

I used my Nexus 4 for over 2 years and it received regular updates (5.x lagged a little though). Also, the Nexus devices are pretty well supported via CyanogenMod.

Beyond that, the Motorola phones since Google bought and sold off mobility have been well received as well, the Pure line should see updates for at least 2 years.

If you stay away from Samsung, LG, and other vendors trying to get you to upgrade every year and favor those not tethering to a specific carrier's upgrade model, you'll have better luck.
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I totally agree, with your point that we should use more real life problems like you mention. The issue here is that this often requires a lot of preparation from the interviewer. You can't always share the code you are working on with a candidate. I would have to find something similar, maybe setup a backend, etc.

Would you ask this problem to be solved on the spot or let them try at home with the help of friends? Should I restrict time e.g. 2 hours to create a login screen for an iOS app. Or let them take as much time as needed?

I'm interested to know if I could scale this process. We have sometimes to hire batches of 6 to 10 engineers at the time for very different projects and that's when these code challenges seems attractive. Thoughts?
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I had never noticed before that GitHub "Highly Recommends" cloning via HTTPS instead of via SSH. This is the opposite of what I usually tell people to do. I do not see any reasoning anywhere, but I might have missed it.

Does anyone know why you would recommend HTTPS over SSH? Is it just the complication of setting up SSH keys?
I winced at the word "mom", too.
Kind of a horrifying cacophony? Mind is racing but unfocused, and you can't force it to focus? Makes it difficult to go back to sleep?

Yeah, I get that every so often. Every couple months, maybe. No idea what it might be called.
Shit started to get real when the Amiga 4000 came out. Right about then 5.25" floppys & hard drives were becoming main stream.
I can't wait for Autocompletion support in cling.
You are focusing on the emotive aspect of traditional art and I am focusing on the creative aspect of what is traditionally considered merely technical. I am pushing back on the merely, but I doubt you'll agree in the end.

If I had to guess, you don't like the Poignant Guide to Ruby:
http://poignant.guide

Why is there such enthusiasm for this? If it were only about solving puzzles with clinical detachment, I doubt the guide would have gained its following. Perhaps this book is a work of art meant to convey a fascination with a purely technical subject -- but why is this so successful, when the traditional routes toward the same, namely a degree in CS taught by like minded faculty, fail in some scenarios. In my view, the reductive stance that there is no art in these disciplines, is holding us back (i.e. diminishing our culture, and hindering recruitment).

Your point about purpose is well taken, and I get that. I disagree about how easy it is to score the results, and there is some inherent inconsistency when you can simultaneously refer to elegant engineering and objectively measurable best possible solution, i.e. in the latter, elegance is not a criteria, i.e. unless you make it one, it which case the contradiction is self evident. But again, this isn't going to persuade you, however, if you want to refine your position, perhaps you omit the reference to elegance :)

Thank you, btw, for your comment.
Music snobbery is really annoying. However, his complaint about the bass going into your bones... I would complain about that if it happened. However, I haven't gone anywhere that has that kind of music playing that is not explicitly for that kind of music. Besides that, it feels like the author is complaining just for the sake of complaining.
I assume if we went to war, the US government would immediately seize all assets of the enemy government that were within its jurisdiction, presumably including any Treasury bond holdings. So it would keep paying the coupons, but it would be paying them to itself.
> So the solution is to provide drugs that somehow deaden random neurons in somewhat random parts of the brain, and hope they don't cause massive side effects down the line?

The author didn't share a diagnosis, nor did he or she share the specific medication(s) that helped. Given that, how can you conclude that the drugs "deadened neurons"?

I share your skepticism of modern psychiatric medicine, and yet I think you might be missing some understanding and/or empathy for the patient. He or she is describing schizophrenia and major depressive disorder [1], and while often found together, either one can be utterly debilitating. It would not surprise me if the patient had the same concerns as you and I, but was so desperate, so hopeless that they were willing to take the risk.

[1] not a doctor, therapist, counselor or anything close

[edited to fix footnote]
Please don't feed trolls or respond with personal attacks.
Maven will be $20 at Best Buy next Friday.

However you'd have to be insane to go into a store.

Maybe offered online though.

However you will never get third party roms for it.
1) Maybe? Did they have the resources to pay someone? And, as you pointed out, you got sucked into support for a role you didn't get paid. This increased their dependency on you and pulls you out of your normal economic/professional role. Probably not unethical, but certainly led to undesirable results (for you, great for them).

2) Your free consultancy extends his runway, which means he has a greater chance of success and puts him in a better position to contribute by hiring and spending in the future.

3) You also keep the retail chain in existence, and have spent your money more wisely rather than overpaying (by labor rates at least) for someone else to do what was actually a quick and easy job.

Honestly, though. You seem to be thinking that I'm opposed to giving. All I said is that it's complicated when you start giving to (and sometimes, in essence, taking from) others. Look at that Africa t-shirt versus textile manufacture example in another thread. Millions of people clothed, thousands of people out of (otherwise sustainable) work. The calculus is non-trivial. Clothing people is a good thing. Putting thousands of people out of work is probably a bad thing (depends on what the work is, and what they can do after it). Which one outweighs the other. In the long term, eliminating an industry from a region is probably going to turn out to be a worse thing as it eliminates the ability of those individuals participating in it to feed and clothe themselves and contribute financially to their local economy. Compared to other forms of giving (versus free t-shirts) that would have enabled people to build up more businesses and industries where they would then be able to afford and/or manufacture more clothing (or whatever other needed goods) locally/regionally. Or purchase them from abroad by producing some goods/services they could sell globally.
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Keep it simple, just double your price.

http://jacquesmattheij.com/double-your-price-and-no-im-not-k...
i wrote a paper about leveraging public random streams like this one. it can be downloaded here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9IkyvYlZZe7TldTRGlSMnpQX0U...
Just remove the Xlibint.h include. That's internal Xlib stuff, it's not needed.
AMAZING: -x c

Thanks!
The only question I have is this: Why do we have to rely on Anonymous to do this? Don't get me wrong, kudos to them for having had enough and taking a stand.

But my question is this: Why aren't all of the countries in the G20 actively doing this ALL the time already?
Current Procrustean educational practice will seem quite barbaric from the perspective of history. Many are forced into school long before they're ready, but their presence means that many others are forced to repeat lessons over and over for years that could have been mastered in months. Where education is held hostage to ideals of conformity and equality, excellence is undervalued.
I never understood why they changed it, but I'm glad it's back.
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Agreed; the difference between "easy" and "hard" is whether a square always exists with one choice, but the difference between levels of "hard" is how complex a reasoning rule you have to apply. No human should be expected to apply a brute-force backtracking solver, but humans can be expected to apply highly complex pattern-matching rules, or even invent new methods and sets of puzzles solvable with those methods.
Life is unfair and its disingenuous to say it isn't. Yes, life is competitive but not all successful participation is genuine-- winning by any means necessary is incredibly toxic, especially when it involves 'winners' perpetuating bad heuristics to sustain status quo. If Oliver Emberton came from a different socio-economic background, he would be more aware of how much of a myth meritocracy is.
Point well made.

With my ex-fiancee, a psychiatrist had her on prozac and abilify. She had a complete breakdown in her senior year of university classes. They put her on a cocktail of stuff and weren't honest in their dealings (parents and doctor).

She had quite a few voices and things in her head. And the drugs helped that, to a point. It was when she started getting tics that I investigated more, and saw the 3-5 pages of "adverse conditions". Tics (tardive dyskinesia) was a permanent adverse condition, and could be gained at any time after starting just Abilify.

When you're trading one set of nasty stuff for another set of nasty stuff, and then eventually have to quit, is it worth it? Especially if you end up getting the initial set of nasty plus whatever the drugs have induced as well?

Hopefully, better research will target neurons directly or properly calculate for hormonal deficiencies.

Now admittedly, I'm for proper disclosure and informed consent. There's times in which a drug/surgery can cause more damage than what you're trying to fix. And in the case of my ex, it was that she was developing adverse conditions, and she wasn't told. I've taken antidepressants along with other medicines. Nothing wrong with taking drugs to help fix problems. If you're thinking about quitting, talk to your doctor. Some of those drugs are dangerous to quit cold turkey.
>"Oh, I already got paid elsewhere, but let me work for free and outbid others who are doing this as their primary job" is the unstated context and it feels a tad bit smug and elitist.

Not seeing a big difference between that and "Oh, I already make enough at my day job, now let me produce FOSS that competes with commercial software which are some people's primary job."
After working many years in various ski resorts, I'm still convinced there's billions to be made if someone can crack "man made powder"

This article does a good job of explaining the difference between natural snowflakes and man-made "ice flakes" (natural stuff is mostly air), and I've always wondered why someone hasn't figured out how to make powder on a large scale.

A resort that can guarantee 5+ inches of powder every day is a license to print money.
>Then we discover that these categories aren't really real. They're real, like, but not really real, you know what I mean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)
It's not a layout issue. There are 50+ tiny requests for images of the background and borders. If anything, this shows the reason to use css sprites.
Also, poverty is not the only explanation in Brazil. Many middle class young adults become criminals, and many of the poor ones that do too end up expending on drugs, cars, etc.

Edit: thought i do think poverty does help greatly on taking destructive life choices.
Please do! And let me know if you have any suggestions about it or about Goo Create ;)
in the sense that an object is deallocated as soon as all pointers to it cease to exist.
It should be noted that studies looking at normal vs no/reduced antipsychotic therapy in patients with psychotic dieases have indicated that in the long term patients may do significantly better without antipsychotic therapy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23824214
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/antipsychotics-t...
It's not italian accent. It might have been born out of the italian accent but it's not the same.
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A Point of View: Why we should defend the right to be offensive
Yes, and people left Syria to go to Europe because of advertisements too. Damn advertisers. They were behind it all along.

Preposterous.
Yes, they've explained elsewhere that they prefer HTTPS because you can use your GitHub credentials. HTTPS should be secure but SSH is my preference as well.
Check out my screencast on Cling (which is CINT's successor): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbi7MLS03Yc
On the other hand you gave them the money yesterday so it's pretty likely they still have it to give back to you.
A fastest for loop that does nothing qualifies?

What about fastest product that run 1M TPS but crashes and is down 10 days per month? Is that still fastest?
I am a physician. The few studies comparing long term antipsychotic use in schizophrenia have found that people do better with low/no medication. They are more functional, have fewer relapses and better quality of life. This is still a controversial view in psychiatry but the tide may be turning. Thomas Insel, the head of the NIMH, has stated

"antipsychotic medication, which seemed so important in the early phase of psychosis, appeared to worsen prospects for recovery over the long-term" in reference to these studies.
What we call terrorism today is merely the way warfare is conducted when the belligerent party is seriously outgunned, or lacks a 'proper' army. In 1944 you could have called French resistance fighters 'terrorists'. You certainly could attribute the title to the Vikings or Huns, or countless other groups of raiders throughout the millennia.

The point that Islamic imperialism in the 1000's and terrorism are linked. The only thing that's changed is the method of warfare... Why do you think Russia and Serbia are so bitter about Kosovo?
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Other sources of randomness are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random or https://news.google.com. The URLs could be parameterized to request a random language, too.
So you edited you message afterwards :

> Equally decisive in determining crime rates are the more invisible barriers to crime set up by social norms and social cohesion. Indeed, one of the most robust statistical patterns known is that crime rates tend to go up with rising economic inequality, which itself tends to go along with erosion of social trust.

Well it doesn't explain terrorism at all and that's was the point your were trying to make. I'll tell you what explains terrorism.

It's growing in environment like some suburbs in France where you hear, from kindergarten to high-school , that "white french are bad, white french girls are wh-res, and it's fair game to kill non muslims" , that's the explanation as to why these people did what they did on friday. There is absolutely no other explanation. How do I know that? because I grew up in this kind of place.

You take the Roma, the Roma in France have it much much worse than any arab or black person ,victim a wide spread racism, living in slums where there is no electricity , no healthy water , among trash. Well now, give me an example of Roma terrorism in France.
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> We have a child's understanding of how interpersonal relationships work.

That one sentence explained a whole lot to me about the culture of victimhood, microaggressions, and the like. Brilliant.