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"In Japan, English is already mandatory, yet, English fluency sucks."

Spoken fluency sucks. Reading and writing English is much better.

When I lived in Japan, and eventually achieved some basic fluency in speaking Japanese, communicating with my coworkers often consisted of English vocabulary, in sentences using Japanese pronunciation and grammar.

The reason for this is simple. They had plenty of access to English written material, and needed to read and understand it in order to do their job (computer science research).

But they had very little interaction with native English speakers on a day to day basis, so few opportunities to practice real time conversation. Which is the only way I know to actually become fluent speaking a second language.
If you target mobile and your app/site can work on slow connections then the market is huge.
For example South Africa has about 20 million users(out of 50 million) with some internet access but only about 5-10 million has broadband.

South Africa and Kenya has good and fast internet in the cities and large towns.

Don't expect to use AWS or Azure because none of the mayor cloud providers has a DC in Africa. So hosting local is advisable otherwise you incur latency of at best 180ms.
Current evidence suggests it's doing OK for now. The slides from the Snowden leaks showed the NSA was unable to compromise the core infrastructure by controlling relay and exit nodes, excepting a few cases. However, there are attacks a government-level entity can mount that Tor explicitly does not protect against, such as large scale passive scanning for traffic confirmation. It is not believed to be possible to beat such monitoring without compromising latency.
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YouShield free mHealth app for health threats early detection launched today
Sylex Technologies today announced the release of YouShield application for iOS and Android. A new smartphone application is a sophisticated tool that performs health checkup based on user-provided symptoms and health data and is able to generate personalized health risk assessment reports.

YouShield mobile application has been created by Sylex Technologies LLC, a renowned developer of national eHealth system software in several European and Asian countries. The application is designed to empower general audience with knowledge of good health standards and give them the opportunity to self-managed health status tracking. Smart algorithms based on Sylex Technologies’ know-how research provide analysis of user–entered symptoms and lab tests data. The application provides the list of necessary lab tests, based on individual risk.

The application functions without compulsory registration and doesn’t require any personal information. It is easy-to-use and has flexible and intuitive interface. YouShield app stores historical data about user symptoms, complaints and lab results on user’s device. New data can be added, changed or deleted at any time. The app is launched in the Apple App Store and Google Play on May 23rd, 2016 and may be downloaded for free.

About Sylex Technologies LLC
Sylex Technologies LLC is a technology company that specializes in products and solutions for healthcare and insurance business automatisation. For more than ten years, the company has worked closely with insurance companies and healthcare providers to supply them with the most flexible, sophisticated and user-friendly software. Sylex Technologies software includes billing, resource planning, business intelligence, EMR management and other solutions.
You have started the process already. And, you have already hit your first roadblock. The question is how to interpret their lack of enthusiasm.

> Do they not share the 'difficulty' that bugs you enough to create a solution?

> Did your explanation suck? Some ideas are hard to describe in the abstract or we are just poor at articulating problem, approach, solution and benefits.

> Is this one of those things that doesn't resonate when talking about it but actually trying the tech would hook people?

> This might be reflective of future market reaction and even a well executed implementation will still only appeal to a very small subset of the people who could reasonably benefit.
If one thing is useful, then it will be used. The main problem is you can say that only after this thing is done. The way i work with my customers is using a mockup. A graphical interface that simulates interaction and use case. Explain your ideas creating a context, an environment (mobile o pc) and satisfying one need at the time. You'll be successful on defining what is useful or not. You can use Balsamiq as tool.
I just think the TSA people don't want to be yelled at by their superior officers for the mistake they made. Can you imagine the number of times something like this happens? They are hoping you'll just go away or that it'll never get traced to them or the woman will return the mac.
I'm the author of Hanami.

We started at the same time, but unfortunately I never had the chance to play with Phoenix.
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>The USSR was the opposite of conservative - they were extremely progressive. In the attempt to make a new man, they tried to crush all conservative values such as religion, family (with children encouraged to denuonce their parents) or sexual restraint (free love, contraception and abortion were allowed in USSR decades before the West's sexual revolution).

That was also in the revolution's early 1-2 decades.

The USSR turned much more conservative in the 30s and onwards -- including in surprising fields like science. Even arts, which were playing with new forms early one, were afterwards heavily regulated and directed to be towards more classical and petit-bourgeois aesthetic ideals (heroic/lyrical music as opposed to experiments like Stravinsky etc, same for painting etc).

Same for other areas of life -- e.g. homosexuality was soon again an issue, abortion was made illegal again in 1936 (and legal again, but much less touted in the mid-fifties), etc. And of course social norms were encouraged to be conservative and held back, with extra emphasis on hard work, the duty of the citizen, etc. (e.g. Stakhanovites). Most early progressive or anti-family laws were again repealed in the thirties and onwards.

Of course such a regime change also brought some new social conventions and broke some old, like the break with religion.

>As for it being nationalistic - the USSR was itself a conglomerate of 15 nation states, where any nationalistic claims about for example freedom for Ukraine or Georgia were obviously not welcome.

The nationalism was for "mother USSR", which was not much different from the great Russia (before and after). Hence the strained relationships with Ukraine or Georgia (still nationalistic under that context).
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Yes. Hanami is Rack based, so Warden or RodaAuth works great with it.
Why don't commenters skip these much-abused emotive references to '(far)right' --> '(far)left' and state what they admire or object to, regarding a group position?

For the man in the street, far-right fascism and far-left communism equate to to more or less identical levels of coercion and control.
Well, actually you were the one to call them "stupid racists", there was no mention of it in my original comment. I was pointing out that people are quick to blame the personal failings of others, "lazy welfare scroungers" rather than debate the actual economic issues behind globalism.
When you are a "TA" - which you basically were, according to your description - then of course you learn a lot. I've been a TA myself, and that alone gives one a very big boost because you spend a lot of time researching and solving problems - and it's fun because you are motivated like hell.

However, that says nothing - nothing at all - about the experience of everybody else in the course.
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Various jurisdictions have consumer protection laws that try to help here. What I think would help is if, for consumer contracts:

1. The weight of individual terms diminished in law as the contract length increases. A reasonable length would be judged by the nature of the contract (a reasonable length for the simple sale of goods would be short, a complex arrangement like a mortgage would be expected to be longer).

2. If for a particular term in favour of party A, party A cannot reasonably believe that party B read and understood it at the time of forming the contract, then the term is void. For example, if a contract is presented to me as a consumer, I clearly have never seen it before and sign it immediately without reading it, the signature should mean nothing and the only contract that exists should be an implied contract around what we are doing.
Yes, that model works, but it is going to use up resources that simply will not be an issue if you're running entirely as a service.
That's not what the article suggests. It suggests that allergies are not a misfiring but rather a real and proper defense against the allergens.
And the app would notify you about changes of its own T&C.

Oh so meta.
I do think we should replace/get rid of the TSA, but the neo-conservative method of government excision where you cut off the cash flow and wait for everyone to get pissed off ("starve the beast") is incredibly unpopular.

I'm not sure that's even in play here. Neo-conservatives talk about "small government" but it's mostly lip service, especially when it comes to anything related to the military/industrial/espionage/security/prison complex. Cutting the budget for the TSA doesn't sound in harmony with the normal neo-con agenda.
> But they do not advocate banning alcohol

Don't they? I'm pretty sure liberals already tried and succeeded at banning alcohol back in the 1920's. They gave up on the idea when it turned out to be a complete disaster.
I've been to the DMV yesterday. You wait in line for 40 minutes in the sun just to get a number and then wait some more. Once you get a number, you're counted in the official wait time statistics published on their website, so the extra 40 minutes are shaved off for free. Who ever though it was going to be different when the TSA was created?
Given that there's often a lot of boilerplate for TOS, would it be fairly easy to come up with a few heuristics for a tool that when fed the text of a TOS, could deemphasize the boilerplate and perhaps flag known problematic (or, at least, esoteric) language? Not a sophisticated AI thing, mind you, just something that cuts a little more to the chase.

edit: I mean that the tool should be a dumb high-pass filter that would work in addition to what tosdr provides through user reviews and manual classification via its plugin: https://tosdr.org/classification.html
I really appreciate the time you took to write this constructive reply. I'm employed but looking and also selective of what I will take right now. If I was out of work I probably would have taken something already or moved. I work remotely now and would like to avoid a commute still. I also narrow down the jobs to things I think I could actually be a good fit for which might be one reason the number seems lower to you.

After such high rejection I'm pretty sure something is wrong with me. One issue is that I'm consultant and the product is basically only implemented by my company. The thing that I'm the best at is not valuable on the market. I have other general web development skills. One of the products I implement is RoR based. I end up writing a decent amount of ruby/html/css/js widgets that integrate with the product.

I'm targeting Front-end Dev and RoR jobs because those are the parts of my day that I actually enjoy. I also target software consulting roles because I have that background. With development jobs I find that I'm not a "real developer". With consulting roles they generally want experience with their specific application or industry. I basically only got my current job because they were looking for warm bodies. I ended up doing great and we got acquired but I'm not thrilled with the new employer.

I find it hard to qualify for junior dev roles and if I do it's usually such a drastic pay cut that I can't really consider it. I'm almost to the point that I would be will to take a cut though. I'm probably going to end up stuck where I am until a layoff then forced to take something at lower pay.
Sounds good. Another way could be to feed the ToS URL into a visual web scraper (e.g https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia, scrape, then compare and notify via email.
I've lived in the upper mid-Atlantic/almost-but-not-quite-New England area my entire life. I've driven just about every combination of AWD, FWD and RWD with summer, all-purpose and winter tires.

Obviously AWD with new snow tires will let you cut through just about anything. I mean it felt like driving a tank sometimes, it's amazing. And that was a sedan - I can't imagine how easy that much be in an SUV or Jeep.

I've also driven FWD compacts with snow tires and experience was worlds better than AWD with regular tires. If AWD + snow tires is 100/100, FWD + snow tires is 90 and AWD + regular tires is 50. My point is that AWD isn't all it's cracked up to be, even with feet of snow on the ground.

And just because it's standard doesn't mean you're not paying a couple thousand dollars for it like everyone else - it just means you don't have the option not to.

And OT: I never understood this "smart people like $CONSUMER_PRODUCT" mentality. Different products fit different use cases. I wouldn't drive a BMW Z4 in Augusta, Maine just like I wouldn't drive a Subaru Forester in San Diego.
Why would you want them to change? And change to become what? To become more like you? To me Western civilisation has this recurring feature to want other people to be like them. It was the case with proselytism, colonialism, etc.

I understand a will to change a threatening country, or to get rid of a really evil tyran like Pol Pot. But a country having a different level of censorship of the media is not, to me, a casus belli.

We can be proud of many parts of Western values and culture and even whish more people adopted them, but then it should be like with a friend with some weaknesses, you'll be more friendly and show by example how to handle things differently, instead of taking distances or lecturing constantly.

So either you use brute force, against a major threat against your people or a tyran, or you try to promote the soft way your best parts, by showing their good effect on your own society. In this case, with all the very worrying problems we have, I would understand other countries like China to be sceptical.

And by the way, China has already embrassed many of the good (hear: useful) parts of Western culture, like science and law. But it takes a lot of time to implement and get the positive results, around 50 years.
I'd say that Plastic's closest living relative is probably MetaFilter. Reddit feels closer to Usenet because of the multiple subreddits and, frankly, because of all the trolling and shitposting that goes on. Actually, let me clarify that: The content/discussions found in most subreddits would fit comfortably into the alt.* newsgroup hierarchy. The methods by which we discuss things on the Internet have changed, but the kinds of things we talk about haven't, really.
Why would I feel any different if they stored it on Amazon cloud, github or on their own systems?
"When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine."
-- Pablo Picasso
Cars are almost always an emotional purchase. I don't think everyone else are idiots for not getting a Subaru, it probably means something about the car did not resonate with them. For me, it was the lack of luxury features. I am also from the south where AWD is not needed as much. The Subaru WRX is a great car though.
This is very hearsay-ish, but I have a friend of a friend who had to work with the CryEngine (I think it was for one of those Sonic games) and it was described as so incredibly buggy and you have to debug it constantly.

Maybe this is their attempt to have the community fix it for them =)
Last time I passed through a Swiss airport I was handed a screwdriver to gouge out the contents of my Zippo lighters.
Apart from Jai [1], are there any languages which support transparent conversion from one format for the programmer (who will prefer AoS) to the other for the compiler/cpu/cache?

This feature - plus the inversion of the `inline` keyword (specify where the function is used, not where it is defined) - was what I remember most from the writeup.

1: https://sites.google.com/site/jailanguageprimer/
> Why would you expect the above to work? It is a pretty clear violation of the type rules on any sane language.

It doesn't violate structural typing rules, so I disagree.
I've driven 4WD and AWD and 4WD is the clear winner. When my wife replaced our old GMC Jimmy (a terrible car in most respects) that had 4WD with a Forester with AWD, I didn't feel pride or love or satisfaction. I felt I had been short-changed. It cost too much, has fairly low gas mileage (26MPG), is small and cramped. I'm 6'4" and while there's headroom aplenty (ok that part is pretty nice) the legroom is middling to poor.

And AWD! It comes with something called 'traction control' which in Iowa means, pulling out of a parking lot onto a snow-covered street, it starts vibrating the drive and you drift across the lanes like one of those little football players in the vibrating football game. How is this supposed to be a good thing? You can punch a button to 'turn it off' but other than displaying a message that its disabled, it still happens. So major fail there. I can drive on snow; have for 40 years. I don't need some Engineers broken idea of how to 'help me' drive.

And AWD is essentially a differential? So at no time are all four wheels gripping the road and clawing my way through the snow and drifts. Like 4WD does. So again, a big step down.

And finally, they put a smarmy stupid badge on the back, 'pze' which apparently means "Partial Zero Emissions". What kind of double-speak is that! It offends me, and embarrasses me to have it on the car.

I could go on, but I'll summarize. No, not a Subaru fan.
Oh. Well shit. I signed up for the beta without realising this.

At this point, the only thing keeping me on BitBucket instead of GitLab is Mercurial support.
Did you mean to quote the same passage twice?
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I'm a physicist and went to a number of Vipassana retreats. I also disagreed with the science comments and was fairly agnostic on the reincarnation comments. But, in Goenka's favor, he basically says, ignore all of the metaphysics and just see whether or not the technique works for you. Give it a fair try and if it doesn't work, don't use it. It wasn't about reincarnating better, but whether or not it offers you some benefit in this life. I really appreciated that attitude.
> The most important change of all: 2010 saw the advent of the Walled Garden App Store, commercially available native applications for smartphone and tablets. Forget web development: mobile was getting it all.

This is the real elephant in the room. Everyone is looking for the "next Rails." There will be no "next Rails" because the web is not what it was when Rails came out. It's not "dead" or "dying," but it is just not the same.

> Experienced people often forget the learning curve when they were themselves beginners, and at that time Rails was so attractive, so sexy.

I always like to say Rails is for those kids who used to read the players' guides and instruction manuals for video games first, so they know all the secret moves and bonus areas before they even start playing.

Some people prefer the challenge and power of discovering and designing things on their own, and they are never going to enjoy Rails because they'll be too caught up negotiating with themselves about how they would have done it.
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Anyway, given the Microsoft of today, it's doubtful they would try something like that, so this isn't relevant anymore, but it demonstrates that EULAs are written in the language of laws and unrealistic for users to read and grasp correctly. MIT and ISC licenses are simple to understand, whereas GPL and Apache are long and some sections are hard to follow without a law degree. Same issue with EULAs.
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Why can't you believe you're saying this? Many others have also suggested it.

I remember reading that a former head of Israel's airport security told Homeland Security that he could smuggle a bomb through American airport security, and he offered to show them how. I don't know whether they ever took him up on it.
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The danger of the TSA is that the employees truly believe they are doing good and important work. The brainwashing is so strong that it almost reaches a religious level.
Why is it a problem if it's only useful to you? Build the thing you want, and if it really is useful it will have been worth the effort. Really though you aren't a unique snow flake, none of us are, we're mostly predictable carbon copies of each and if you truly have made something useful for yourself, then you've probably made something useful for others as well.
The right has one simply solution which actually in the short run is the most rational one.

Stop immigration.

I am sure calling someone an idiot just because they represent another view than you is under your own normal level too.

You aren't an idiot just because you are skeptic towards immigration. National Conservative is a totally fair position to take.
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> Did we try to teach everyone how internal combustion engines or transistors work when they came up?

As you note, software influences our lives in a much deeper way than internal combustion engines and transistors, and this will only become more and more true as time passes, so I think this may be useful.

I don't expect most students to become programmers; I hope they'll grasp some software concepts, the most important being (IMO) that software isn't magic, and has limitations and costs.

People could get away with thinking that internal combustion engines and transistors were magic with far less consequences than thinking that software is magic.

Btw, they did teach me how an internal combustion engine and a transistor work, at school—not to a professional level, but enough to understand the basics.
Makes sense given that Uber has more funding. I personally can't wait to see how Silicon Valley salaries change over the next few years.
I would really, really doubt this. My assumption is that they either:

1. They have statistics that they have to keep up, and having a ding like "a crime was committed on your watch" isn't a good thing, so they try to avoid it, or
2. Classifying it as a crime versus an accident comes with a load of paperwork and hassle for everybody involved that no one wants to do.

I really don't think this was malicious in the manner you describe.
Yes, those are very good points. Another is that the current refugee crisis is as much a crisis about quantity as about culture.

We've had plenty of situations in the past where significant migration has occurred, Indians to Britain, Turkish to Germany, Irish/Italians/etc. to America. But they've all managed to eventually integrate well because no-one gave up on them.

The major difference as I see it today is that it's a question of quantity. How do you successfully integrate a million Syrians?

Old fashioned slow integration (watch and wait) worked because people for the large part, genuinely wanted to be in their new country. With the refugees that's not necessarily the case.