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A lot of decisions where I work are made in meetings with at least 4 or more people. The practice "conversations" are just that... practice. Dialog is more my thing than a perpetual debate club, so I'm practicing being persuasive to authorities rather than defaulting to combative against others with different stories to tell.
> we are against their so called Islamic state, and against their retarded, barbaric version of Islam.

The problem with irrational belief systems is that you have no rational basis for calling one version legit and one version "barbaric". Who's to say your interpretation is correct? Maybe theirs is.

Better to recognize irrational beliefs for what they are and discard them entirely (to the degree that's possible).
It's only more profitable if you don't have capital. Most of the very successful hedge funds stop taking other people's money and just invest their own once they have enough.
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"Paris Terror Attacks Leave Awful Realization: Another Massacre"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/world/europe/paris-terror-attack.html

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Please don't write those three people are French. They may have received a French passport but they certainly don't consider themselves French. They actually hate the French and want nothing to do with them. Even when the receive generous social benefits (compared to the US and many countries in the world) and freedoms of a western democracy, they still hate France, the hand that fed them. One of them was born of Algerian parents who certainly thought France was a good place to emigrate and raise a family. All those three individuals could do was to harm French people, and in the process, any one who was not thinking or acting like them. If you want to show sympathy to the plight of France please stop calling these people French. If you want to look for the nationality of the real culprits I give you a clue: look for a wealthy organization that finances intolerance worldwide under the guise of education. Another clue: Tom Friedman has written about those in Flat World and in this newspaper. If you want to defeat that organization: stop buying what they sell.

"What is something that genuinely bothers you, but you never complain about because you'd seem like an asshole?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3so18a/

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Slow walkers. I wouldn't want to be an asshole and yell at people on the street for walking at their own pace.
The fact that the EU’s replacement rate is 1.59 children per couple and the continent needs substantial levels of immigration to maintain a productive workforce

The idea here is that all people are the same, and all you need to do is shoehorn enough to keep the economy going. Beyond the complete lack of humanity in the outlook that we are like barrels of brent, it's simply wrong. If this was the case, the entire world would already look like Europe and there would be no waves of migration.

It's also bizarrely narcissistic to think that ISIS care about how Europeans feel about Islam or how Muslims are treated since according to OP they will be replacing locals anyway.
The question which you have failed to answer is "what is the distinction between data scientist and scientist"?
Whereas the Catholic Church has a singular leader (the Pope), there is no equivalent in Islam.

That is, currently - historically, Caliphs have been religious and political leaders. ISIS claims to take up that throne now, but...
I don't know - by the same token, if I don't walk in the middle of the road I am letting car culture win?

Maybe if something is dangerous, it is better to avoid it. In this day and age whatever you say online can be read by billions. There are bound to be some nutjobs among them. So maybe it is just prudent to try to remain anonymous, as there are not only terrorists to fear.
The roots of this mess are political: France wanted Assad ousted at every cost, a policy that suited the US too since Assad was in business with Russia. That's why the ISIS was allowed to grow and receive funding. I know shocking isn't it?

Now that France knows that the ISIS, retards as they are, are not easy to control. France will have to decide: Either you leave Syria to the Russians or you leave the ISIS be and hope your intelligence will be able to prevent terrorists. It's crystal clear that the population there wants and supports Assad.

Obama's on the G20 made clear that the US are not going to change policy on the ISIS, which basically means that they will keep them restrained on one side, but continue to support them indirectly on the other. Putin of course offered his support in destroying ISIS, he for sure wants ISIS out of the picture, dead and buried. Turkey is playing a double-game, supporting the ISIS indirectly while condemning it's activities. It's a mess, but it's our mess.

Someone should ask Hollande: "What is the reason the French military was there in the first place?" and the answer will be to enforce Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Some people really believe that.

Truth is we should be apologizing to this old fella from Syria (the OP) because he is a victim of Western imperialism as much as we (Europeans) are.
In that case don't look up the lifetime earnings of Dwarf Fortress, it will make you even more depressed!
So, it seems that the only way to fight this was is to change their minds by asking assistance from the peaceful Muslim groups.

We can discriminate Daesh and Muslims, and that only shows the monsters they say we are. We can bomb Daesh, which only encourages more to join their cause. Worst case, we can nuke the whole area of Iraq and Syria where Daesh has power, and that would only show every Muslim in the world that we are intolerant of Islam.

This is a war of ideology, and that war cannot be fought with guns and bombs. It has to start from the ground, with 'militant moderate Muslims' willing to show people another way; one that does not involve in slavery, beheadings, suicide bombings, and crucifixion. Weaponry has its place to keep the borders of that state in its place, given that we know their religious orders are of limitless expansion and no regard for state boundaries.
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So he has a net income of about 150k first year for a successful game. You also need to factor in already spent development time, but on paper this sounds ok. But the second year the net income dips down to 40k. Oops!

How long can you do this? Is this sustainable? You probably have to churn out successful games year after year for the rest of your life. But this is a gamble. What happens, if one game is a failure? One year of development just went down the drain. Oops!

So, how can you survive as indie game developer? What I believe:

1) Either you do this for fun in your spare time. But this gets more difficult the older you get, if you consider family and children. Finishing a polished game that way is possible but tough, I guess. If you're doing this for fun, maybe release the game for free.

2) You try to copy as much stuff from the previous game as possible and try to go for a short release cycle. You go for the long tail, so the more games you release the better! The result: 455 total games per day on the app-store (http://www.pocketgamer.biz/metrics/app-store/). Good luck competing with them.

3) You go in full-time. Yeah right... My wife would declare me insane for doing this.

The bad thing: regardless which path you take,it takes a lot of time and dedication. And in most cases, there's no money and no reward waiting for you. Most people do not even consider spending a buck for your endless evenings spent in front of your monitor trying to make something entertaining.

Ain't this sad?

Previous discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/3syzuc
A deliberate part of the Al Qaeda/ISIS strategy is to turn our security apparatus against our population and push us into becoming police states. They know that this is the natural, automatic response of governments on the one hand, and that it will make minimal difference to our ability to protect ourselves on the other, while manipulating us into a state of continual fear and paranoia.
It's not that I disagree with the points brought up by this article (how could I! We've known these things to be true for years!), but I'm worried about the leap that people make, namely that military action isn't necessary.

It's hard to imagine any effective strategy that doesn't involve killing people in Syria. It's disgusting, necessary, and -- I willingly admit -- not sufficient.
get a hobby - preferably one that requires you to be outdoors (sports, hiking, photography etc). you can't believe how many people you meet, some of them are bound to be good friend material.
Have you ever thought about that mixing religion and politics might be a reason for the mess in the islamic states?
Isn't current Syrian government also guilty of perpetrating acts of genocide against its own populace? This person is quick to denounce the other side, but Assad's forces have killed thousands of civilians as well. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Syria
But, but... they're an apocalyptic cult establishing a caliphate...

Never mind.
> First they'll always have to be your colleagues

Not after you or they left the job.

> second they're probably the same kind of people as you

The diversity is huge already within departments and limitless across.

> Completely agree with that. And as I said in another comment, looking for friends is kind of looking for a girlfriend.

Actually ... it's not at all like that. At least my dating behaviour is for good reasons very different from dealing with guys.

>> Couchsurfing > That's actually a good idea, they regularly meet up.

I have plenty of CS experience and from what I can say - you meet plenty of awesome people through CS - but the relationship-dynamics are exceptionally casual and noncommittal.

>> There's a much higher chance of liking a friend-of-a-friend rather than a random stranger. > Same for dating

Actually - even though this statement seems plausible - I highly doubt it is correct in practice and it isn't as far as I am concerned. It seems rather that people tend to trust more easily and deal more openly with friends of friends.

> If you meet a person and she's not the right one, don't discard her,

To think of "discarding" in that context is stupid in the first place. You can and should discard aholes - anybody else it's just a very dynamic process of distance and closeness which comes to a natural halt at some point.

> The idea can be generalized as: people are not always the perfect fit, but you can still hang out with them and meet some cool people in the process.

Fairly egocentric way of dealing with people - I suppose it's possible to enjoy time with people for what they are without aiming at capitalizing on their relations.
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Silently putting data fetched over unauthenticated HTTP into your hosts file doesn't sound like a great idea.
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I'm Muslim and the problem is not about Islam. Problem is all about the people who want to gain money for themselves. I know a truth that makes sense anytime I remember; everything is related to money or sex in this world. Nothing else matters. Religion is just a tool to manage the money.
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Of course it's not "all Muslisms". But those who claim "it's only the terrorists" or "it's all politics" do not grasp the scope of the problem, ie that globally speaking, a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.

If you naively extrapolate from the 2013 Pew Poll The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society (which in principle represents nations with a total Muslim population of about 1 billion), 40% of these think you should be killed for leaving Islam.

To me, that's a scary number.
Not sure what you mean, but as an Eastern Orthodox I do not recognize the catholic Pope or its authority.
Adding to this, has anybody else noticed just how much encryption is being mentioned in news articles and talk shows about Paris? In articles and discussions on TV it's always in a fear-mongering tone: "They communicated with encrypted messages!"

I mean yes, that poses a problem. But the solution isn't to antagonize encryption. Should we all send our letters without envelopes? Why are people ready and willing to do that online and not offline when the same information is FAR more likely to be intercepted by crazy criminals? How much potential exposure does your data get via snail mail versus Internet transmission?

Ignoring any sort of conspiracy theories I think despite the subtlety it is still blatantly obvious that politicians are immediately taking advantage of the situation, associating negativity (terrorism) with encryption.

It is a VERY dangerous time because emotions of people can be swayed in any direction now. It is the same phenomenon observed when the Patriot Act was enacted.

Discussions and discourse are discouraged because it isn't considered moral to talk about these things less than a week after these horrifying attacks. NOW is the time to stab the pro-encryption arguments right in the heart, charged with emotion, in a subtle and covert way.
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Assad falls smack in the middle of the 'lesser of two evils' category. As did several other now deposed leaders. Regime change is relatively easy, dealing with the fall-out is not.
Exactly, that's where most implementations seem to decide against REST.

I agree with you. The other parts of REST (if you agree that REST can be picked apart and still referred to as RESTful), as surely valuable.
Telomere lengthener thingy.
He isn't in a position to criticise Assad for exactly that reason. Nobody wants a knock on the door in the night.
I heard this one as "Did you hear that the George W. Bush Presidential Libary burned down? Both books were destroyed."
Is there an absolute definition to these categories though? I would be pissed off too if I was a Muslim and the radical minority hijacked the terminology and twisted it into something different. But to the radical Muslims, their definition is the correct one.

How do you argue which definition is more correct than the other? By Historical precedence? By how we interpret the teachings? By popularity? It just seems like the definition of the religion itself is so amorphous that it is very susceptible to terminology hijacking.

Would it do the Muslim population more practical good if they started distancing themselves away from the term "Muslim" and called themselves something different to make the distinction more impactful in the eyes of the public?
Just like World War II was a religious war because soldiers held to their crosses and died crying out to their god. Germans had even "Gott mit uns" written on a handgun. It was obviously a religious conflict.

Honestly, I'm starting to believe media is painting terrorism as religion issue on purpose - because it's easier to hate the other side if you can assume it's their faith that makes them want to hurt you. You don't have to consider the idea that they may have a valid point against us somewhere.
> This is a strategy that has enabled it to confound far superior international forces

Are superior entities typically confounded by inferior entities in high-stakes games? I ask this having been humbled myself thinking myself superior once upon a time.

Or is it that the superior entities are pretending to be confounded to achieve domestic goals? If I were a megalomaniac, I know what I'd do.
> a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.

Significant numbers of non-Islam subscribers hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society too. All these people have at least one thing in common: they would like to change society to suit their ends.

And a very large number of people in my country would happily throw back those fleeing the carnage to become victims of that 40%. Which in my opinion makes them just about as bad.
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ISIS encrypted communications with Paris attackers, French officials say
As the designer of the Strict pragma I can say that Idris had nothing to do with anything.
They're not rubbish, they have their uses. You kind of outlined where deep learning tends to shine - when you have large amounts of data and massive CPU infrastructure. Pattern recognition and machine learning work, but typically require more manual overhead than throwing tons of data at "dumb" algorithms to achieve the same output.

In end, you need both the algorithms and the data to do the work, and choosing between the two leaves you still wanting the other.
With all the respect for his contributions and good demeanor, sadly, this guy has no clue on what islam is and playin moslem like most of the 1.5 billion so called moslems. Which causes islam to be seen as a peaceful religion. No. Islam is the thing that creates these lunatics.

I'm from Turkey, and I've been surrounded with islam for all my life. Problem with this kind of people is: they have created their own religion, by forking the concepts and names from islam. In fact, they have never read their holy book at all. They believe that, their self created branch of islam is the real one, and these radicals are just lunatics.

Let's see if this is true.

Moslems are ordered to kill and be killed in the name of allah

http://quran.com/9/111
Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah , so they kill and are killed.

until there's no religion left other than islam.

http://quran.com/2/193
Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah and [until] worship is [acknowledged to be] for Allah . But if they cease, then there is to be no aggression except against the oppressors.

http://quran.com/8/39
And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah . And if they cease - then indeed, Allah is Seeing of what they do.

Non believers are enemy

http://quran.com/4/101
Indeed, the disbelievers are ever to you a clear enemy.

Christians and jews are also enemy, but they may be spared for ransom/extortion. If they don't comply, or convert to islam, they must also be killed.

http://quran.com/9/29
Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.

Be enemies with your own family, if they do not believe in islam

http://quran.com/9/23
O you who have believed, do not take your fathers or your brothers as allies if they have preferred disbelief over belief. And whoever does so among you - then it is those who are the wrongdoers.

And also fight in the name of allah starting from your relatives

http://quran.com/9/123
O you who have believed, fight those adjacent to you of the disbelievers and let them find in you harshness. And know that Allah is with the righteous.

There are many more like these in quran. See, these are the quran's orders to muslims and those lunatics are just obeying the orders. The rest is just playing moslems having no idea on what islam is.
It says a lot about the mentality of the French left that calling a religion "stupid" gets you a criminal charge...

"Touche pas a mon pote" has devolved into "say nothing about Islam, except that it's the religion of peace".

Hopefully this will change, and we'll be able to make meaningful criticisms.

I leave it as an exercise to the reader to translate the following quote: "Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est pas d'éloge flatteur."
It is time to stop terrorist states: ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and USA.
the last time i saw one, the keyboard sucked badly. Otherwise i would buy one.
The latest might be better. hope so.
I did not know the NES version, but in Germany a remake called "Moorhuhn" [0] was hugely popular in the early 2000s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorhuhn
Yes absolutely. That plus a history of the area being a frequent host to proxy wars, a source of the worlds most demanded natural resource and the seat of three of the worlds most prominent religions.
The thing I love about these old illustrations that predict the future from long ago in the past is not what they get right but what they get wrong.

They focus on a singular aspect of future technology but due to the limitations of their imagination aren't able to predict other entirely new revolutionary technologies and so default to their current ways of interacting with the new tech.

So for example, they predict the cross-continent visible and audio interaction but use the large unwieldy gramophone style microphone to capture the speech being unable to imagine capturing audio from a tiny electronic device.

In other examples I've seen [1], you see a farmer with his auto-farming machinery but he's using enormous levers to interact with it. And then there's the frequent use cast iron to build some of this "future tech" when of course, not much is made from cast iron these days.

It makes me wonder what things we literally can't imagine about the future now. Or how different technologies that we can imagine could come together to produce entirely new things.

[1] http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year...
Relevant: http://www.politico.eu/article/the-saudi-wahhabis-are-the-re...
It absolutely was a licensing issue. But it results in a horrible experience for the end user.
> I am arguing that the whole language needs to be designed differently

No I think you are arguing that you want it to be designed differently. It's like the contrast between having a high and low level language (Python, C/Cython) versus having a unified middle-level language such as Julia (see http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/189377.html ). It's a matter of preference which is better, and an empirical matter which approach will be more successful in the end.

> Just grafting types onto Python is not enough

Clearly it is already successful though...
Why do you think that these financial institutions exist in the first place?

Another piece of the puzzle: https://theintercept.com/2015/11/16/stock-prices-of-weapons-...
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> 40% of these think you should be killed for leaving Islam.

How do these numbers compare to other religions?

For example, there is an unconfortable number of Christians who do have a fundamentalist mindset, too (although I didn't find any exact numbers). Probably similar issue for other religions and possibly also among non-religious people.
You underestimate the degree to which people of violence listen to the language of violence.

The article suggests the military conquest is the key of Daesh attractiveness. But similarly, its military loss will be its demise. Lost territory and decimated ranks will make it a lot less exciting to the recruits.

Harder wars have been fought and won before.