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My god there is some serious whingey nonsense on that thread. Most of the arguments boil down to accommodation being expensive for students in the centre of a relatively wealthy European capital. Well no shit, as if it's not any worse in most other cities. As a software professional you'd be well able to afford it. I do agree there is a shortage of accommodation at the moment, but that's almost certainly a temporary issue. After the property crash in Ireland a few years ago builders and property developers were cast as the root of all evil. As a result (and because banks were broke and so weren't lending for mortgages), housebuilding ground to a halt even though Ireland has the highest birth rate in the EU and most commentators were warning this would lead to problems down the line. And so it has come to pass that now there is a shortage of cheap accommodation, and in particular social housing. However I expect this to resolve itself over the next few years, and the government has already promised to pump money into public housing.
I was in Italy for 2 weeks and saw more homeless people and beggars than I see on a regular bases in the US. I also saw huge camps with people living out of tents on the Tiber in Rome and several camps of gypses living out of cars and RVs. Its all relative.

There were just as many fat Germans or Brits as fat Americans touring. The Italians were mostly slim.

The cobblestone streets in Rome and Florence had plenty of holes.

You obviously for some reason don't like Americans. The biggest difference I saw was there was almost no opportunity in Italy. Young locals with college degrees bartending or waiting tables for 8-9 euros an hour because they can't get a job (same thing happens in America but the locals I spoke to had desirable degrees).

I've been to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico and Panama and heard sirens and gun violence in most of those places despite guns being illegal.

Been to London and Scotland and heard ambulances at night in the big cities.

It's all realitive but the one thing I've seen in America is more opportunity.
Sorry, I mean "drawbacks".
One of the reoccurring complaints about OO is that it leads to huge codebases. Lots of articles about how X rewrote some Java program in Y and it's not 10x smaller and 100x more maintainable. This is a consequence of languages being designed to be minimal in terms of keywords - trying to push off as much as possible on to library writers. Unfortunately this seems to have serious limitations and all the boilerplate can't seem to be hidden in library wrappers
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I saw teletext.io on product hunt this week, pretty cool.
Not just Spain.

Italy is also having problems with separatists.

Venice want to become a city-state republic again, and the Italian islands also made moves about wanting independence.

Italy is very aware of this, and in the past last time someone tried a independence stunt (some guy built a artificial island and declared independence) Italy bombed the shit out it.

Italian and Spanish "estabilishment" politicians are probably panicking now, since independence movements might consider UK leaving the EU, and the potential for Scotland to leave UK, "inspiration" to make their own moves.
>His persona is that of a charismatic bumbling idiot, but idiot he is not. Underneath this persona lies a highly intelligent, disingenuous, manipulative and calculating operator.

People used to say that about George Bush too. The fact he played off his ridiculous gaffes and wasn't always illucid doesn't mean he wasn't an idiot.

Bojo is conniving and he's managed to acquire a good number of strategic allies but he's still not particularly smart.
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I don't think he will necessary go down as the worst leader, but his name is going to be tarred with being the prime minister who started the dissolution of the United Kingdom.
The comment about the youth being easily manipulated was also frankly cartoonish and insulting.

If anything I see the reverse. Immigrant fears was the driving factor for the Leave vote. Given that UK tabloids have been doing quite a good job exploiting immigrant fears of late, who's being manipulated here?

The Donald Trump phenomenon has very similar parallels (build a wall!), demographics (white, leans no college education, leans elderly), and root cause (largely cultural discomfort). The rise of other far-right parties in Europe shows similar concerns.

This vote to me smacks of the decades of American Southerners (and others in similar areas) voting against their own economic interests in order to protect a race-based pecking order. As in the American South, now England. It probably won't be the last vote like this, either.
That said, there is still a long way from the vote you mention (which basically boiled down to "do we want to give the EU more power?") to a full blown exit from the EU, which I don't imagine would garner nearly as much support as the other vote.

That said, I'm certainly not that happy with the EU myself (also Dane), and really think it needs to shape up, but that is more related to the abundance of literally retarded regulations that they force down upon member countries.
> forced by the EU to ban it

The death penalty is prohibited by protocol 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights [1]. Ratifying the convention is a requirement for joining the EU, but it isn't the EU that is doing the banning. The ECHR is an instrument of the Council of Europe, which is not connected to (and pre-dates) the European Union.

[1] http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/hrpolicy/Others_is...
Why does it need to be large to function independently? There are a bunch of far smaller nations in the EU/Europe: Luxembourg, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, etc. If Northern Ireland became independent, it could just join the EU (regular Ireland is also an EU member), so they wouldn't have to maintain their own currency at least, and would benefit from the free trade. If Luxembourg can function as it is, I don't see why Northern Ireland can't do the same.
> I am unaware of anyone in any of the EU countries who support the death penalty nor capital punishment. It is overwhelmingly frowned upon.

No it isn't. (And I post as someone who is against it, BTW.) In every right-wing party in the EU (and the world) there are almost certain to be elected representatives who support the death penalty.

> Polls (until recently?) Which polls? I'm honestly curious.

Obviously not curious enough to make a simple Google search. Here's a BBC item from last year showing support for the death penalty in the UK dropping below 50% for the first time:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-32061822

> And I'm sure there are those in Central/Eastern Europe who still support it (I know life was especially brutal under the communist regimes).

I fail to see what regimes that disappeared a quarter of a century ago have to do with anything.
And all the excuses start coming in. Yes, the people didn't understand what was good for the oligarchs and aristocrats was good for the people too, of course.
It depends on how you view it, many of the party members say things that can be classified as right wing, but then their actions and how the actually rule the country are pretty left-wing in my opinion.
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You really, really want to deal with the paint on those things. http://www.archdaily.com/160892/the-pros-and-cons-of-cargo-c...
>Those people arrive at EU shores, therefore they are EU's problem.

Can't argue with that, but this doesn't mean EU has to take these people in, neither it gives them the right to enter the EU. Several dozen years ago these people would get their boats sunk.
It's a little sad specifically his own government didn't provide him much help. Numerous other issues with the US aside, I've always been reasonably confident that if I'm out of the country, the American embassy will help me.

And going after the IT staff is pretty awful. Generally speaking, we're just there to make it work. While I make a point to work jobs and clients I think do good work and are moral entities, the reality is, IT doesn't generally decide what a company does or what messes they get themselves involved with.
It's back. I also wonder how they are able to do that. The graphics, sounds and music is all from the SNES Zelda title. How can this survive if you aren't even allowed by Nintendo to upload movies to YouTube?
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Which has very disappointing benchmarks at the moment - even slower than some Python and Ruby stacks:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=...

I'm not sure why this is - I've Googled to no avail - but it is rather worrying.
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I think dragging it out and muddling through probably suits the EU's interests very well - after all that's very much what they've been doing when dealing with Greece.
> So your argument is basically this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTnNKhF-EU

s/your/their/.

It is not my argument, I'm a Tory voting, skilled, financial sector worker, who voted remain.

But I'm being an idiot arguing with you. I don't think dismissively posting a clip of southpark has advanced the discussion. This subject never got the detailed and grown up discussion it deserved as one side continually dismissed the other as racist xenophobes (which you are underhandedly implying they are here) and the other harped on about '350 million a week' continuously, even thought that was thoroughly debunked.

There were real substantive issues to be discussed and we failed to do it meaningfully. Kind of like this thread.
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Why? Everyone else is doing the same thing
Yup. I got all that from Leo Breiman, not his earlier work as an "academic probabilist" but his later work in classification and regression trees (CART), random forests, etc.

Yup, if look carefully, in many common cases can do well on prediction accuracy even when parameter accuracy is not so good. E.g., can even do well on prediction accuracy when parameter accuracy is zilch, e.g., some, but not all, cases of over fitting.

You are right about the applied math: Machine learning has a lot that is good and new, however the good is mostly not new and the new, not very good. E.g., I watched a Prof Ng lecture on the gradient descent unconstrained minimization involved in their fitting, and it seemed that either their minimization problem is awfully easy or Prof Ng didn't know much about the applied math of such minimization going way back.

So, machine learning stole a lot from some now quite classic applied math, assigned some new names, e.g., learning and another anthropomorphic name they dreamed up for iteration step size, and claimed something new. That's called academic theft, plagiarism, or some such, right?

Then there's the hype. So, just from machine learning, the pop culture press is extrapolating to the Terminator movies. Absurd.

Then, bigger, there's the implicit assumption, if only from just playing with the words, that the main path to smarter machines is machine learning. Well, if the effort is limited to Breiman's piecewise linear curve fitting, that path is absurdly limited. Much better for making machines smarter, i.e., do more, work better, is just to start with lots of now classic pure/applied math, get out a clean sheet of paper, and derive what need for the problem at hand. As much as I like Breiman, both his early work and his last work, there're oceans more good work in applied math that is nothing like Breiman's last work, e.g., with high irony, his earlier work!

Uh, here's another case where it looks like a machine has learned -- stochastic optimal control. In some cases, it can look darned smart. Another place -- game theory, to be more specific, the von Neumann-Morgenstern work. Then the Nash generalization.
But such things are far from the current machine learning.
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Reddit/r/Ireland is extremely negative about everything. Some of the negativity doesn't make sense. The piece about not living in the city centre and instead the suburb commuter towns is madness. Totally the opposite. The commuter towns to Dublin are boring as hell, housing estates with very little services. Inner City Dublin is rejuvenating very fast, and parts of it feel like a smaller, more intimate version of Shoreditch or Williamsberg (except with better pubs and bars!). You can basically walk across most of the city within 45 mins.

Transport is poor compared to European standards and the cost of living is quite high. But if you live close to the city in Dublin it's not bad and it's a great place to socialise and be within 45 minutes of nature. It's probably one of the few capital cities in world where it's not unusual to strike up a conversation with a random person beside you on a bus.

Also it's a pretty easy place to do business. Our nature is humourously sarcastic and not liking authority which means we are pretty good problems solvers and management tends to be quite flat. The software is also small, so your only ever really a phonecall away from having a pint with whoever you need to speak to in the whole sector - from a graduate you met at a conference to a government Minister.

People also work to live not live to work (like the US) which makes a big difference. Also a big part of worklife is around interactions with colleagues - it's basically an assumption that most offices are full of at least a few characters who like to have the "craic" and banter. When working abroad I found I really missed those tiny interactions you have on a daily basis in Ireland - e.g someone telling you a story and making you laugh. Even in London you don't get that. It's not something you can pickup by getting an MBA but it makes such a big difference to the quality of life - compared to a stale work environment.

If your thinking about moving, drop me a mail!
If it were a free market, you would see prices advertised. This is how you know it's not a free market. This is true in a lot of markets, not just healthcare.
It may not be fair to enable adblocking if you want to compare other engineering components, but these results still mean users in the real world will see more battery time with Opera than with Edge.
> If this really worried you, you would move to outlaw procreation, since procreation produces new workers to compete with you about 18 years from now.

Only if the birth rate is above replacement which it isn't in any developed western country.
Is there any evidence that manifest destiny was a widely and deeply held conviction amongst common Americans? I'm not asking to be contrarian – I really have no clue.

It seems more believable that it would only be deeply held (if held at all) by the westward bound.
"send up to 20 TB of data using FTP... " -- that's funny. At 24 MBit/s it comes to 2,000 hours, which is more than two months.
Why not demand 100% voter participation and at least 75% any which way? Ridiculous: vote as long as it takes to get the result you want= Demo-crack-sy
Functions have no internal state. Early languages used global variables to share state across functions without explicit message passing (everything was a singleton). This created worlds of pain. The alternative was passing state with each function call. This also got painful as people often passed data down through functions.

OOP lets chunks of functions share state and hide that state from the wider application. More importantly you could have multiple instances of that shard state without explicit management, saving a lot of complexity and effort.
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So the author is discovering this about the video game industry right now? This has been apparent for anyone to see, if you cared to, for the last 10 years at least.
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You're probably not the kind of people they're trying to prevent coming there.

You're right though, I'm sure people will totally forget that the UK exists now.
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Oh connection pooling is handled automatically by the standard library ...jk not really, it leaks sometimes ... and ...down ...goes ...my ...production database. 2 weeks ago.
Just make everything as recyclable as possible so we can repair and repurpose it in addition to recycling.
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At least in my case it seems that the distribution of GPAs becoming more skew left and closely grouped has made it much easier to distinguish myself. Companies recognize that GPA is becoming a less useful metric and are quick to consider anyone who presents them with anything else to consider. I've had very little trouble finding work or getting interviews because I've mainly focused on personal projects and actual experience rather than school. Anyone could, in a month, do more to distinguish themselves from the pack by completing a personal project than by hunkering down and raising their GPA by a few points.
There are spelling mistakes on that page. That does not bode well for the book.
No mention of what technology is backing the service, however I like the support for existing file transfer protocols (particularly SFTP), no need to wait for or build yourself an integration, existing tooling just works.
That is exactly true!

I have experience teaching kids Lua, and with the right metaphors and a little bit of backtracking and foundation-building, even complicated ideas like emulating classes and single inheritance can be understood and even implemented by young students.

If I taught them lua reserved keywords, and a couple little math tricks here and there, they usually would all bunch up everything into a couple huge functions, and their game would (sort-of) work but be impossible to reason about, and very painful to extend.

Introducing objects as a way to represent things that they want the game to do (draw things, shoot things, eat things, etc), it becomes clear to them that there is merit in structuring programs with objects beyond "shrugger says to do it like this!"

OOP on its own doesn't make much sense. You can't teach someone to drive stick shift if they don't know what a car is. Maybe you could, but that's probably even worse.
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where did the 24mb/s come from?
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What is the difference between Standard and Entreprise except for the latter being more expensive?
The US was not nearly as federalized when the Civil War broke out as it is today.
No one is saying that foreign businesses and trade will completely disappear from the UK overnight.

With Brexit, London is no longer seen as a [english-speaking] doorway to the EU. Foreign companies will more likely prefer Dublin over London. For businesses, it also makes more financial sense to focus more energy on selling their product to an entire continent, instead of a tiny island. They will still have offices in the UK, and trade with the UK, but there is better ROI in trading with the EU.
Normally I would agree with you and say that "worst leader ever" statements are hyperbolic when the leader is still in office, but this time I think it's appropriate. The United Kingdom is probably going to ultimately dissolve as a result of this vote, and Cameron is going to be remembered as the moron who let it happen, all because of a catastrophically failed gambit to pander to the Ukip-leaning Tories. "Worst leader ever" seems apt when you directly caused a nation's end.
> You write a case/when block that chooses the right name.

I think this starts to get to the heart of the issue. This is why Configuration Mangement gets so complex - because your CM scripts need all of this special purpose logic to work around these kinds of environmental differences.

The CM scripts become their own source of complexity.
This looks great and seems feature-rich enough to get started with straight away! I'll definitely check it out for server backups over scp.

My only suggestion is that you have a native English speaker proofread the text on your website. There are a few grammatical and translation errors which make the service seem less professional.
The rig helps with the outside environment as well. Don't have to fake tires going over multiple surfaces when you filmed real tires. Then there are the reflections. And so on.
> "no arbitrary geographic borders limiting the freedom and the rights of the individual"

Wouldn't that be nice? Too bad no one stops to think about the rest of the world...
> Greece is about the only country that actually did significant Austerity but its not working.

Greece did not do any austerity; just like the Croats, the Greeks lived on debt and piled up more and more... and I watched some hidden camera documentaries on Greece (VICE comes to mind), that secretly filmed how nobody in Greece issues one a receipt upon payment, basically eschewing paying taxes and committing tax fraud... on a systemic and massive scale... why? Because Greece has a corrupt government, so the citizens want to "stick it to the man". Why does Greece have a corrupt government? Because they tolerate one, and the guys which replaced them, and the guys which will replace them, will be just as undisciplined and just as corrupt.

Meanwhile, German citizens were footing Greeks' systemic embezzling through German taxes and by German government fiat; and now all of a sudden when the Germans demand Greeks pay back their debts, you think it's okay to default?

It is not okay to not pay one's debts. That's German citizens' money. They didn't embezzle, they pay their taxes, they work hard, they save, and they deserve to have their loans paid back.

How would you like it if you lent someone money, and they purposely defaulted, with the intent of not paying you back?

> The EU should have let them default or take over their debt completely.

No! That would mean Greeks would have lived on someone else's labor and walked away with financial and material gain scott-free, or supported corruption by people who did. That is not okay!
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Isn't that exactly what Keynesian economics would predict if a country launched "meaningful" austerity?

Without external input, decreased spending would decrease demand, which would decrease output, which would reduce the expected revenue:spending increases from the initial spending cuts, which would require further spending cuts to hit ratio targets, etc etc.
People in the North are UK citizens already (and free to also get Irish citizenship). I believe they mean they're an Irish citizen living in the UK (maybe England itself) and they're worried that they might not be able to stay living there.
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And 100 years ago they maybe would even be shot - problem solved! Fortunately we live in a civilization that is much better and we don't treat people in need like shit. At least I hope we don't. If someone is genuinely escaping from war, they should be given shelter, I hope there is no discussion about this.
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In defense of the Boaty McBoatface incident, that was not democracy by a long shot. That was an internet poll, not any kind of official vote. It was a poll of people who actually knew about it, and bothered to get online and vote about it. That's nothing at all like a proper election where there are proper ballots (though a lot of government elections these days lack those too, but that's another discussion...), voters are notified, there's independent monitors, etc.

I don't think you can call the BMbB name "the will of the voters" in any intellectually honest way. If it had been made a ballot proposition during a regular election, then sure. But not with some silly internet poll.