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> Going to see if i can find what's causing the low framerate.

Gee, I dunno, maybe running a pointless flashy animation to represent something that doesn't need any?
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Wouldn't it be better to just add an argument for which celestial body the calculation is being performed for? This would be more flexible in the future.

I guess this would work well for other bodies as well, like moons.
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It's not abandoned, Mozilla are simply not funding development themselves. Like SeaMonkey, it is community-maintained.
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I think it's important to also show the graph of absolute numbers of computer science students. Maybe the absolute numbers will show that the number of female students did not decrease, but rather the numner of male students increased dramatically, making the female share drop.

Just an angle I would pursue.
Programming is more akin to engineering than factory working. Languages are getting simpler and more powerful but programs are getting more complex. 15 years ago a typical developper didn't need to worry about multithreading, connectivity or security. It's fundamentally an intellectual job and will remain.
I don't believe this narrative of "it's because home computers were marketed only to boys". At least, I would like to see some more evidence for it.

It seems more likely to me that the story starts sooner, there must have been a reason why computers were marketed to boys. Maybe the first home computers were considered part of the electronics hacking scene (radio shack and what not), and that was already more popular with boys? How many women went to the Homebrew computer club were people were trying to create their own computer before you could just buy them off the shelves (people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak)?

Maybe girls saw home computers and didn't like them.

I don't know - but neither do the tellers of the "marketing is at fault" narrative.
I find this part of statistics very hard to argue about. Simulations only work with well-known distributions, but even then not all of them. Even when you have a simulation that confirms hypothesis A1 using distribution D1 it says little about some pathetical distribution D2.

Using mathematical precision might take years to get it right and often there is no easy answer.

What I've been looking for is something that is fast and works "good enough". Estimating the 95th percentile and averaging it did not work well in my use case. Using the histogram method does work well although it certainly is not perfect.
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On Ubuntu it's fast in Chrome and slow in Firefox.
Social media encourages us to follow those we envy
That's what they claim, not sure if they provide any evidence for it.
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Why is that likely?
It's not just that. It sounds like he gets the offer, but it's contingent on his background check clearing.

If that's all he needs though, where's the Kickstarter?
The share of women in computer science started falling at roughly the same moment when personal computers started showing up in U.S. homes in significant numbers... And these... were marketed almost entirely to men and boys.

Great, another travesty for which we have marketing to thank.
So I got down voted for saying having more space causes more traffic? I really am confused????

So the down votes are for the desire that people INCREASE the distance between them and the car inf ront when the speeds drop?
I care.

I will always use the "remove all ads" answer, no matter what.

I'm still on metered bandwidth. And when I'm not at work, ads are another vector for malware.

I'll pass.
It's also often useful to think of the true distribution of the underlying system/dynamic in question, and to consider a histogram as a sample that therefore has sample error. E.g. if the histogram's tail bins have very few samples then they're giving you some information about the shape of the distribution in that region, but not the exact probability of events in that region.
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Original title is The Equidistribution of Lattice Shapes of Rings of
Integers of Cubic, Quartic, and Quintic Number
Fields: an Artist’s Rendering - sadly a tad too long.
I'm trying to parse this statement, and what I'm getting is that there is going to be a lot more programmers, and they are going to be overwhelmingly more male than they already are (is that a thing that is possible?).

Little boys love power tools and fire.
What you quoted from Wikipedia does not support your contention, nor what the Reason article quoted from Stevens' dissent. You might be right, but we'd have to read the whole dissent and we obviously interpret these words slightly differently. Certainly Stevens does not believe in the standard individual right interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, but he's also not shown to accept the conventional "collective right" interpretation, a logical nullity that cuts against every other use in the Bill of Rights, except as stare dicesis, and the latter is telling unless contradicted by something more specific.

Or to restate, it is my understanding that the dissents accept an "individual right" interpretation in some abstract sense before interpreting the whole as meaning nothing for individuals. Which I'll admit is a fine distinction, but this is from the group that finds a right to what they claim is privacy from the "penumbras" and "emanations" of explicit constitutional rights. So making find distinctions like I think I'm seeing, which don't really make any sense anyway is par for the course.
The US is in the bottom half[1] of the education rankings which might impair good decisions. The rest of the world* has a much better functioning health care structure for lower income people as well, medical conditions that may impair their ability to make good decisions.

[1] rank 36/65: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/leaguetables/10488555/O...

* developed world, obviously.
I too have a somewhat similar, but not quite same story myself - I spent 2 years homeless, but I had a roof above my head from various friends throughout that time. I was still poor though - nothing homed that in more than being so poor that one week, I ate oatmeal almost exclusively for a week. I had sold most of my material possessions as well, excepting my clothes and desktop/laptop & monitor.

Somehow I mustered up the will to continue job searching throughout that whole time, even putting up with a really crappy situation at one point where I had to sleep in the same room as a former friend who would masturbate loudly at night, thinking I was asleep (but the noise would be what would wake me up).

Job searching alone did not prove fruitful in my case - after 2 years, I pivoted into teaching myself programming, and entered the web development profession a half year later with a modest ~$50k salary for my first job. Slightly more than 3 years later, I am now at a $160k salary with a career that shines brightly with substantial open source software work.

Fear of being caught blindsided & not prepared propels me to continue to work hard and develop my career. The last thing I want is to regress into that situation again.
Also, after getting girls interested in programming, one of the problems is how to keep them in tech. Currently, over 40% of women leave tech mid-career, which is more than double the quit rate for men (https://keepwomen.com/info/aboutus).
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The nice thing about evolution is that over billions of years, nearly any idea we can come up with has probably been "tried", be it genius or hare-brained (including putting brains in hares).

I remember seeing a program on TV years ago about how giving the hulls of airplanes a rough structure like the skin of a shark reduced their fuel consumption significantly.

So I expect more of these "inventions" to inspire engineers in years and decades to come.
Maybe they're just not into it. Maybe that's perfectly fine for a child no to grokk what his parent likes.
>There are two kinds of background checks.

IBM. Wells Fargo. Frontier Airlines. T-Mobile. Experian. Daimler Chrysler.

These are some of the companies listed in the article. They are some of the biggest in the world. They don't seem to me to be the type of companies that take the latter approach to recruitment, possibly opening themselves up to discrimination legal issues.
I was thinking along the same lines (personal computers = more boys interested in CS). Then I found this in the comments section of the article:

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n134/im_thatoneguy/CSDegr...

Interesting that there was a dip of both males and females around 1984. So I'm not so sure of the statement above anymore. However, around the year 2000 there's this peak where males do outnumber females by a great deal (even if the number of females joining also increased).

If all these graphs are accurate I'd wonder more about the Y2K rather than 1984...
AFAIK, the tax is only applied when the value is realised (i.e. sold/liquidated).

I wouldn't have thought just holding bitcoins would be grounds for taxation.
This is so fucking stupid.
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today = 2011.
When people talk about "prescribing more conversation, even if it’s uncomfortable, not less", that's what they mean these days - preserving the status quo. The only conversation they want more of is about how awful anyone is who challenges it, and the only people they want to make uncomfortable are the ones that do. Witness for example the Erika Christakis debacle, where a university professor accused the university of attacking free speech for saying that some Halloween costumes mocked other races because it might make white students uncomfortable wearing them, and yet was portrayed as a hero standing up for the grand university tradition of saying things that make students uncomfortable while her opponents were accused of demanding to be coddled and protected from views they disagreed with.
Just makes folks look no better than Trump.
It's important to consider them in context though. The very same article states:

"More importantly, consider its effects on pollution. Just 15 of the world’s biggest ships may emit as much pollution as all the world’s cars. Nuclear-powered ships emit no CO2 or greenhouse gas. Replacing just a few of the biggest ships with nuclear reactors would make a significant dent in air and ocean pollution."

Given what kind of fuel current ships burn, I wouldn't be surprised if the damage to the ecosystem of such sheap leaking or sinking would be much greater than of nuclear-powered ones (people like to forget that nuclear waste is less dangerous than many of the chemicals industry deals with, and dumps into the environment without much supervision). I still feel that the opposition is mostly grounded in public's unfounded fears.
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Now make "self driving container ship".

Would that scale them down? The crew cost/cargo value would go to zero. So you could optimize for singe size of ship that is mass produced.
How do you group or categorize your images in a web project?
How do you group or categorize your images in a web project?

In a web project you must have an images directory. Do you just throw in all images or do you group them?
> What the world needs is an operating system (or systems) or even an application or set of applications that almost everyone would want to use that require programming in some form or fashion to accomplish everyday tasks better.

Tangentially related, but this is why I think Emacs is a great... should I say, 'platform'. Maybe not for young children as in the case you talked about with yours, but a quote from one of RMS's talks about Emacs [1] I think shows what I mean:

> The editor itself was written entirely in Lisp. Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program.

Maybe it was the syntax of lisp (by which I mean the use parentheses/'S-expressions' vs. using other 'strange code-like' symbols such as curly braces or semicolons) was a part of why they didn't realise they were actually programming?

Of course, this will not work today because editing/writing text in anything other than a WYSIWYG word processor interface is too unfamiliar to the average general purpose computer user, and therefore Emacs would too easily 'scare' off most users. But your comment reminded me of this and I thought it would be interesting to mention.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html
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Yeah, My kids love downloading instructions from the lego site for sets they don't have, but still have almost all of the pieces.
You missed the part of moving the tape reader head to match how the tape was recorded. :)

Or using a tiny screwdriver to lift the tape deck when it wasn't possible to move the head.
Prolonged sitting and poor sleep can work together to shorten your life
"The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
That last line is the rub here. I used to play Monopoly as if my life depended on it. Now I don't, because no one will play Monopoly against me anymore.
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We have Minecraft which had the potential to create legions of people interested in programming, but the reality is that it's an awful awful introduction to programming.

Microsoft could, if they port it to a sensible language and structure, drag in millions of young programmers.
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Please correct me if I didn't understand this correctly, I think I misunderstood China's move. So, are they setting up a unified gold account for entire Asia, then promised if China get to control 60% of it then rest of the countries will also somehow benefit? If so, why would any Asian country join? Giving China gold so it can become more powerful.﻿
As a matter of fact, we kind of feature it on our flag.
The problem is you haven't caught up with what computers have become: a utility.

They were a novelty when you were growing up, but they are a utility now. What that means is that people who deal with computers are going to be professionals ranging from the spectrum of architect to plumber: there are more plumbers than architects.

Do you think your plumber had an innate desire to be a plumber? No. They looked at their options, picked one and executed.

That's what the future looks like for computing. So, if your child was always going to be the type to be an architect, they'll be one. Or they'll be a plumber.
Sure, if you disregard all the damage that crack cocaine specifically does to individuals and society.
Well, on the one hand it might help to show up the absurdity of our current laws against hate speech, on the other it might keep Trump from visiting, so it's kind of win/win.
Depends who owns the company you spend the $100k with.

They'd need to pay 30% tax on their income, leaving a net outlay by the government of $15k (15%) overall.
I would like to know how to get from 1800 to 2100, fast. I'm stuck at 1800 level for many years(I'm not an active player though).
From my Western European point of view, I see a lot of these intellectual jobs being outsourced to Slovenia, Poland and even the Philippines.

I am advising my kids to have good technical skills but also great people skills.
As others have pointed out system package management is quite different and solves an overlapping but distinctly different set of problems to programming language module package management. In particular system package management isn't cross platform whereas programming language module package management tries to be. The programming language module package management has to integrate with whatever system package management is doing.

However, I do think you have a valid point in that there are plenty of commonalities between the software module package management needs of different languages. There is little need for each language to re-invent its own system.

It certainly would be considerably more challenging to develop a system that could work for multiple languages, and then there are the existing ecosystems to consider in terms of (the huge) cost of migration, mindshare, etc.

But in principle, you are right, even if economics means that it cannot happen in practice. No need for Yet Another One. But it will happen because economics.
Thanks!

Now I feel guilyt for wanting an Aprilia SR50 :( (one of the few modern two-stroke scooters) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aprilia_SR50
I wonder if it's not just because it's integrated with other apps, and a top suggestion when you want maps. I still find that google maps is leaps and bounds ahead for navigation.
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I wonder if what these companies are (not) doing is actually a crime under the European personal data protection laws?
Google loons seems to attack this problem by having high altitude ballons that drift on the wind, but can keep their approximated position using air currents.

By not using a wired backhaul, seems possible to get to those remote areas.
Isn't Slack just another proprietary platform? They may leverage some open protocols, but I don't see how Slack decentralizes messaging. Am I missing something?
Many e-juice providers are really responsible and do self-regulation. It's important to know who you're getting your juice from.
Adversarial machines
He only mentions it indirectly but two things are crucial to your game as well, and you should spend significant amount on that:

1) Get good ressources. He mentions a few books, but they may not be best suited for you. There are also a lot of other tools, like training websites, programs, video guides, classes. Reason is: Instead of experimenting out the best path through some ideas, you can read about them and get that realisation much faster. Having better ressources and knowing how to use them may cut 80% of your time to achieve a certain goal.

2) Find the right better players. Not everyone that plays better can also transfer some of that to you. And some people are simply just not right for you.

Where books etc are the way to learning the right thing (instead of everything), the right teacher is about giving you better feedback. You can only see your own lacks and mistakes so far. A lot of your stupidest mistakes you simply don't even see as a mistake. For instance, one of my major problems in hitting (kung fu training) was that I slightly lean back while stepping forward. How could you even realise that without a teacher/experienced friend?

Find good resources, find good teacher, learn from the mistakes/experiments of others what is the right path, then do it a lot, then get feedback from the right person, then continue exercise and feedback sessions for a few years. Recipe to learn anything.
This just backs up why I think Finland's recent move[1] to give every citizen a basic salary is the way forward.

You'd then give everyone that basic level of security and enable them to progress in life. Yes there are potential flaws with the Finnish scheme (some people on benefits may ultimately lose out, and millionaires getting the same amount as poor people) - but crucially it would probably stop most, if not all, of cases like this, where someone can't escape the pull of homelessness even with opportunity there.

1 - http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/finland-plans-to-give-ev...
> uses == vs =

So does Python.

On the other hand, Smalltalk is way older than 20 and some of its features are innovative even today. I think finding the sweet spot between novelty and familiarity often beats innovation for its own sake.
That would be a worse a measure.

Let's imagine that the number of female students did not decrease. Now the question is, why the boys increased much faster than girls? You can't "angle" that inequality away.

Besides, I wager that the number of students of any gender increased quite significantly in the last decades. So the fact that one gender stagnated in absolute numbers is less interesting than the fact it decreased in relative terms. Absolute numbers would only be interesting if the total stayed relatively constant.
Amazon's been profitable lately, but don't expect it to last
Our medical records are a mess