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Yeah, complexity and that we hide the carrots. Bear with me.

I still remember a point in my early teens when I decided I wanted to learn to program. I ran into a wall so hard I stopped for a good year or two.

The complexity is a considerable cliff unless you have a guiding hand (thanks dad for throwing me a copy of K&R and going off to watch startrek!), and if you didn't, you're not getting to Python around today.

First there's the "What language do I learn" search query that turns up so much confusing information. "Depends on what you want to do with it". Oh gee thanks, but I don't know what I want to do with it. I just see that other people are doing cool things with it, so I want to know how they do it.

So you dabble in Python, C, Java, whatever has install instructions you can follow, because the moment a terminal prompt pops out you're scared that you'll screw up the family magic box and get into a lot of trouble. At this point curltarmake sounds like a Polynesian dish to you. Ack.

But you never actually do something useful. Thank you helpful online tutorial, I now know how to print "Hello World" 100 times without copy and pasting it (though that'd have been faster). There's carrots for sure, but you never see them at that point. So you're like "eh, this tutorial is silly, let me try another of these 10 languages suggested".

And then later on, in high school you may have the considerable fortune to get to take a programming class that walks you through Java out of all of the things. All these OO concepts make little sense to you, but eh, you'll be tested on this. The code is still onerous and useless, but you signed up for the class. Towards the end, you'll slowly get an idea of useful things you can do with it (finally! after all these years!). Most of all, you'll develop a distaste of Java.

The wonders of childhood. I honestly believe Assembly is much more straightforward than trying to grasp the current programming ecosystem as an outsider or a kid. There's so much stuff to become acclimatized to.

So recently I've been working with a guy who wants go get into programming, did a bit of HTML&CSS&JS&Whatnot half a year ago, but he was stuck in that "I don't know where I'm going" stage. First thing I recommended him was "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python", which is a book I absolutely adore, because it first walks you through the basics (including setup), and then immediately gives you one library after another to string scripts together with.

Yes, the code may not be teaching the best conventions or habits, it never delves into OO or version control systems, but then it's interesting hubris to think beginners care about that before they got any utility out of the skill.

And he enjoyed it, learned a bunch of things, started writing his on scripts and is now getting into Django and reading through the python cookbook.

So yes, I think we're missing the mark on showing kids and newcomers how to program, in part because it's gotten more and more complex, and in part because we give them keys to doors they don't even know about, whilst withholding those to doors they care about. We've got a major sequencing problem here.
Have you encountered any problems with the App Store review process due to the application being written in OCaml?
I thought they don't like applications that are not written in Objective-C much.
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Lithium ion powered drills are very competitive in the convenience niche. The battery stays usefully charged for months at a time (an issue with other types of cordless drill batteries). The smaller ones aren't even all that expensive.

(Not that I'm down on the hand powered ones, their batteries never get stale...)
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If possible, find out who is going to be there and what their top three pain points are. Focus on showing the person(s) in the room that you are relevant to the problems they personally face -- IT has totally different concerns from Marketing.

Your goal in the first meeting is to get the second meeting. Thus, it doesn't do you a lot of good to have them think they understand what you offer (especially if they get it wrong). You want them to need to talk to you before they make any decisions. This all points to focusing on the problem and convincing them that you _can_ solve rather than explaining how you solve it.
One should also read this: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151203-big-datas-mathematic...
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> Hopefully, a quantum computer in the future would have low-bandwidth write access to my brain in the past. Quantum mechanics.

Wait, what?

I'm pretty sure that's not how computers (quantum or not) work.
Why does it matter that the money goes to the same vendor?

The argument is about whether the software is "free" or not. This only involves the cost to the end user. It is not concerned with where that money is paid.
I wish we pushed for a law that said you can only serve a warrant for a data request to the person whose data you want. I think from a human rights principle it makes the most sense. The only reason the government can take it from third parties that store our data for us is because it's "easier" for them to do that, and because there hasn't been enough pushback against it.

Imagine if the government said "hey, that money in your bank account, we can just automatically take our taxes from it, because we're not really taking it from you, we're just taking it from the bank." Probably not the most accurate analogy, but I think you see where I'm going with this.

Since the ruling that invalidated Safe Harbor, Microsoft has been pushing for laws and agreements between nations that say law enforcement shouldn't be coming to Microsoft (as a cloud service provider) with a warrant for data requests, but to their corporate customers. So for instance, if FastMail uses the Azure cloud service, they're saying that if the government wants access to a user's data, they shouldn't be going to Microsoft but to FastMail with the warrant.

It's a small improvement, but Microsoft and all of the other companies should be pushing so this works for all of their customers, not just the corporate ones. It's exactly the same principle, but Microsoft just takes the easier way out here, because that still gets them off the hook, and it's really what they care most about. The corporations (even if they are "people") shouldn't be having more rights than actual people.
If you feel that, you certainly should. Going after simpler tools may give you
somewhat different experience of programming, but for pen and paper, it's
totally different. It has much friction along most of the axes (you can't
cut'n'paste or easily rename your variables, and it's difficult to pre-plan
the length of a block of instructions), but along some, the friction is
non-existent (invalid and ad-hoc created syntax, not defined functions,
ellipses for obvious arguments and statements). Combine all that and your mind
starts thinking in a different way, focusing on different things than it would
with a computer editor.

I find it very beneficial in the early stage of planning a program (or
a subsystem of program).
I see all white pages with no text on them. "Show grid" shows yellow and green rectangles. Linux, Firefox 43, Nvidia proprietary drivers.
Mac isn't a modern development computer. It's a very specific modern development computer, and not necessarily the best in terms of quality/cost.

We're getting unnecessarily deep into dissecting this single line anyway. The original poster's point was that Apple's hardware and software ecosystem, while of great quality, still isn't the "bicycle for the mind" because it's terribly locked down.
There are also Beth numbers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_number), closely related to Aleph numbers, but as far as I know that is the only place hebrew letters show up in mathematics.
> That's what the OP asked: what 5-10y software research, which we currently benefit from, would not have happened were it not for patents?

First of all that is explicitly not what OP asked - he asked:

>> To rephrase, what exactly do we lose out if patents didn't exist?

> In medicine, this is extremely easy to answer. Hence why the vast majority of software patents opponents are fine with those.

Then it seems you've answered your own question? Obviously the patent being in software as opposed to being in medicine doesn't make any distinction -- since there is no logical way to qualify that criteria into a rule that can be unequivocally applied; that the patent system is greatly beneficial in other major areas of research (and supposing you admit the net benefit to be greater than the net harm) makes it inevitable in software - whether you like it or not.
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Ok, so if OMZ is Russian, do know this:

Russia currently is 'blocking' several websites. I.e. blocking at a DNS level, so this might be half witted attempt on keeping the censorship..

And as @swiley noted: some people only use the easier to remember 8.8.8.8 (I do that for instance)
Your attempt at a "gotcha!" is a pretty tone deaf. "Creating art" is a job. It is work. As is caring for the elderly or young children - a lot of this is currently considered not working, which is laughable to anyone currently doing it. (It's also the only time I suggested people might not hold down a traditional job.)

I don't think production and output would go down and I most certainly don't think it would lead to societal collapse, or I wouldn't be arguing for it. Obviously.
Agreed about strategic tanning bed/booth use in winter. I don't understand the worry when you can precisely dose the minimum light you need vs. A random amount of much more ionizing sunlight.
Great advice here. Regarding beat drawing of diagrams with lines drawn from the elbow, there is a great set of online lessons that teach this through exercises. I totally recommend it:

http://drawabox.com/lesson/1

I have improved my drawing ability significantly by following these lessons.
I didn't say that you said that.

Why would spinlocks be better than no locks at all?
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This looks like it would integrate really well with newsbeuter. Having to refresh my full set of feeds is always what's kept me using a cloud-provided RSS reader.
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~20 years ago I knew a guy who had done programming with a hand drill.

He was maintaining an old mainframe that ran a steel plant and had to modify the boot sequence. Originally the device booted from paper tape but over the years/decades the paper tape had been replaced by a stout piece of leather. So to modify the boot code he had to resort to a hand drill!
Security and performance of hypervisors will never be like physical, PDI can that is Storage agnostic can deliver both better and with full compliance.
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I like seeing CSS frameworks as a source of inspiration. Now that i'm using CSS Modules I can't really see myself using any directly. It'd be interesting to see what types of frameworks crop up with CSS Modules in mind.
That's not the fact that was "spun" into the sentence you quoted.

They're clearly talking about the money the government seized from SR publicly, not the money rogue agents took. To claim that they're somehow talking about the second while neglecting the first is itself spin on your part.

You can perhaps criticize them for not mentioning the second at all, but that's different from the critique you made.
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Maybe kungtotte is talking about accommodation or vergence, though I don't see how these are relevant to f.lux or colour temperature.
Vitamin D will help but it is not the only beneficial compound produced by our skin in the presence of sunlight. Strategic tanning bed/booth & Vitamin D supplementation works best imho.

There seems to be attitional benefits to the sunlight induced vitamin D production, possibly related to the oxidation of cholesterol & sulphur as the cholesterol is converted into Vitamin D.
Besides salary/ownership, what would be the difference between this management role you describe compared to executive role?
Creating art is always work, but it's probably not a job unless you can regularly sell the product for sufficient funds to support yourself (short of that, it's more of a hobby).
Maybe later in this century we'll have the alternative of objective Trial By A.I. instead of by peers. Lawyers wont like this because they win by manipulating humans.
And they still would have lost to Amazon as they would have priced it such that no one except the government and extra large companies could pay the bill.
Well that's a convenient excuse. (Get it?)
Thanks for the feedback. Keep it simple and descriptive is what I am hearing.

I also appreciate rankam's comment about labels and whether or not they matter. I've tried not to overthink my part-time work as the work has been steady so far. However it seems prudent to come up with a description or tag line going forward. Early work has come through friendship which may not always be the case.

Thanks again.
Whatever his change in programming ability, I would guess that his change in typing ability from carpal tunnel problems overshadowed it.

There's also the change in programming ability due to switching from Lisp to C. (And then having to dictate C code to a typist).
Not to comment on your situation specifically, just some interesting related information:

The national lung screening trial [1] which had on the order of ~25k CT scan patients and ~25k radiograph patients found 96.4% and 94.5% of the positive screenings to be false positives. This screening trial has been a large motivator for computer-aided detection, diagnosis, and characterization of lung CT scans (although work on this goes back to the 80s and 90s).

If you look at the fleischner guidelines [2], the key factors in determining follow up are patient background and nodule size and growth rate. There are secondary diagnostic characteristics that are correlated with malignancy as well, e.g. spiculation and texture patterns.

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4356534/
[2]: http://radiopaedia.org/articles/fleischner-society-pulmonary...
last time I looked into this specific case, the software from precision tracking was pretty crappy and I am not remotely surprised they aborted that partnership. somewhat surprised this is still going.
The ressurgence of AI is just as hyped as expert systems and logic computers in the 1980. I just hope the inevitable AI bubble crash is not as damaging as it was then.
According to whois he's still around as of 2015:

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From the review, they found 2986 unique papers on the subject, they then assessed 91 papers from the 2986. From these 91, only 1 had a rigorous double blind testing but on only 46 people. The exposures for the light source was 2500 lux, IR light and no special treatment. The results were not significant.

So, lot-researched but maybe not well-enough researched.
That's interesting. I do the reverse. I have a trail of hundreds of mind maps and lists on paper, some of them probably recycled by now. I've always wondered if it would have been better to save them and review. I think I've lost a lot of work on some problems/ideas I wanted to explore that way. Probably forgotten a good number of problems I was interested in to start with. Mostly personal though - professionally, my desk piles up until I'm forced to review the usefulness of each piece of paper (still, the 'where's that sheet gone' dance is common).
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> There’s clinical evidence that ramping up the brightness gradually before you wake up (“dawn simulation”) is highly effective.

Can someone recommend a ready-made solution?
I know what you mean, and yet this buzzword heavy cosmetically obscure quote, when realized, results in an IMO simpler, clearer, and more elegant end product and developer experience. Funny, that.
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What I love about SAP is that the only way to work in it is to be trained inhouse at the cost of literally tens of thousands of dollars.

Even Oracle lets you install their database for free to figure out how to use it. You'll never get that chance with SAP. Is it any wonder SAP analyst get paid so much money? I'd say it's not just for their expertise, it's because SAP have sewn up the market.
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Why would they be blocking it? Google promotes 8.8.8.8 as the primary dns server, and, as far as I know, as long as it keeps answering, clients won't fall back to the secondary 8.8.4.4.
Hairdressers, barbers, restaurants, corner stores, garages, and nail salons.

High-volume, cash businesses.
Should have done it thru London property, then the establishment get a cut.
Awesome! I used this the other day and it is great. The site seems to be down, I recommend bookmarking it and coming back!
I often get told that my iOS coding app takes people back to their BASIC days. Most people who use it end up telling me they are strongly reminded of the magical feeling when they first discovered programming in their youth.

Kids and schools who use my programming app seem to enjoy the same feelings, but for the first time instead.

I don't believe that it was ever easier to code than it is today. There are myriads of ways to discover the magic of programming. Coding isn't "for the gifted," it's for everyone. Just because the gifted were the only ones who got past the opaque interface of an empty BASIC editor, doesn't mean we should go back to those days.

Your reminiscence for the early days exists right now in beautiful recreations of those environments by the people who loved them [1].

I have been developing a friction-free programming environment for over three years now. And it's not dumbed-down, or toy like. It's instantly on, and you're immediately inside the most interesting place to code, and you instantly run your programs.

I code with my three year old. We do logic and programming games, play with visual programming, and so many other things that never existed when I was a kid. It will only get better from now.

You and I live at a time where every new day is the best day ever to learn to code.

[1] https://github.com/antirez/load81
Hey, Iian. Not sure if this will be useful to you, but you might consider checking out http://endlessorigins.com/ (the largest structured collection of human events, available for download as a single TSV file). And good luck with your project! :)
A similar project is ProtobufDumper from SteamRE[1]. It's tailored to Valve games and Steam.

[1] https://github.com/SteamRE/SteamKit/tree/master/Resources/Pr...
I think @nunobrito covered most of what I wanted to say.

Without knowing your product it's hard to give you the best advice, but here are things that worked for me in the past:

* Use real data that they can relate to. For example, if you're software does case management for non-profits. Find out who their customers are and create an "fake" example of how your software would work to manage a case for that company, from start to finish. This is partly for the 3 minute presentation, but more so for the barrage of questions you'll get asked afterwards once they like what they see. It's always easier to sell something when you find a solution to a pain your customer has right now, with one of his customers!

* Use only the terminology that they use and understand. Similar to #2, use the language that your customer speaks. Know your user and which language and acronyms they are using on a daily basis. I've seen so many times young startups use scientific terms or executive mumbo jumbo that the audience didn't understand.

* The 3 minutes is only the beginning. Whether you succeed or fail, it's not the end. Before, during, and after, identify the lead of the group that will be using your software and try to identify the decision maker. The person who signs the check if often different then the person evaluating your software. This is a sales cycle and they are both important for you to convince. Get a meeting with them, figure out what makes them tick, what their budget is, when will they be in a position to evaluate your software, etc..

Hope this helps a little, good luck!
Is it really a violation of the ND clause to PRODUCE something from a changed version of the "SOURCE CODE" (so to speak)? As long as the changed version is not being distributed...?
I've come across the same sort of exaggeration on eBay when I was buying LED bulbs a year or two ago. An awful lot of bulbs claim to be much, much brighter than they can possibly be; it wasn't uncommon to see `3W' bulbs claimed as outputting 500-600lm, which would place them at ~170-200lm/W. I was always disappointed with their brightness when I got them, until some googling revealed that, as a rough working figure, 80lm/W was more realistic. Once I started working on that basis, the bulbs I got were more in line with my expectations.
It's called 'evaporation'.

On a less sarcastic note: Water has no problem evaporating at room temperature. A batch of clothes is usually dry overnight. In fact you can even dry stuff at below-zero temperatures through sublimation.
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That seems too good to be true. It's difficult to find prices for this product, but a couple of German stores I found charge at least 10x the price:

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http://www.lightpower.de/fileadmin/user_upload/lightpower/Ho... (1000 EUR, used)
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"Perfboard DIY – Don’t try this! While a basic Cmoy might work cobbled together on perfboard or protoboard the O2 is different. The higher performance and greater complexity mean you’ll almost certainly have problems without using a proper PC board."

Does anyone have any insight into the nature of the problems that might result from a quick lash up on Veroboard?

PS: the comment made in the OA about the verbosity of NwAvGuy certainly struck a chord!
> I know you can invert colors in OSX but the effect is desktop-wide and you can't use a hotkey to enable or disable it.

I haven't tried this myself, but I believe you could rig up something in Automator/Script Editor to toggle the inverted colors, then set up a hotkey for that service from System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts.
This is an advertisement - Any time there is a model number or a price in an article it has been placed by someone who paid to have the article written.

EDIT - I guess people don't understand why they see articles like this when they do.
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Title seems like click bait to me. Article is an interesting bit about Nural Networks in specific, not AI in general.

Also, not seeing any "revolution" going on.
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