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How about a free 16-hour video course called "Java for Complete Beginners"? :-)

It's by a guy named John Purcell. The course covers Java basics pretty well (note: there may be a few new-ish things like BigDecimal that you'll need to look up later, either because he didn't get to them or, more likely, because Java may not have had them when the course was put together).

He has the course on his site, https://CaveOfProgramming.com , and it's also available on https://Udemy.com as a free course and the material is also on YouTube via this playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9DF6E4B45C36D411

(You'll also learn how to use the basics of the Eclipse IDE as part of this course).

I'd suggest setting up Java and Eclipse on your machine and at least following along, i.e. doing what he's doing on-screen, if you can, to get it into your fingers. (Having 2 monitors would be very helpful here).

And then try to write some small programs to use what you've learned (if you can't come up with anything, you can do exercises on, e.g., HackerRank.com, Codility.com, etc.).

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(He has some other free courses as well, including one on Java Design Patterns -- that's available at CaveOfProgramming.com and it's also on Youtube -- here's the playlist for that:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtTVgBdymZBjtal6O9bw1... )
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Eventually they realized that everything became a crisis.
I disagree, there are a lot of applications for cubesats. The problem is physical optics limits the payload capability in such a small package; good images require a good telescope with lenses and sufficient telescope length. Accuracy should be a solvable problem, many small avionics packages with GPS, star trackers, reaction wheels all integrated. Aren't they supposed to degrade in like 5 years out of orbit?
I think it should be still possible technically to allow per installation wake words, just like local per install router passwords. Either during the first use or through some specific reconfigure process.
And it isn't exactly self evident that it is "power that they "don't need." Increasing power production would reduce costs for everyone, which would be great for consumers, especially the poor.
If they reduce H-1B visas, can't large companies just hire more people overseas? How would you make companies hire more Americans?
I used to joke that the reason that Australian data-caps were so low is that they have to get all of the data over by boat.

The way I see things is that having an Internet service that is in high demand is simply incentive for ISPs to peer with you.

Netflix reportedly said (link below) that it regretted offering 'unmetered data' to Australian ISPs, because they feared it would have a chilling effect on the availability of other streaming services.

Their fears were unfounded: Stan & Presto are both available unmetered on certain ISPs. (Quickflix went out of business, but not because of ISP deals, but because they couldn't compete in library size and other major ways -- I suspect there's simply not room for three Australia-based streaming services to license enough content to keep themselves afloat.)

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/netflix...
Ooohhh.

I still remember the time when I bought Acer netbook with pre-installed ubuntu.

It worked. Exactly for one day, before I accepted Ubuntu update, that broke my pc, because of some binary graphic driver.

I had to do some kernel magic to get it working again. On a pc with pre-installed Ubuntu, on day two. I wasn't very happy with that.
>Tests can serve a profoundly useful purpose in providing feedback and diagnosing students’ learning needs. But as blunt labels for students’ abilities, they can be devastating.

This is so spot on. I've recently started taking college math courses for the first time, and I'm astounded by how little actual "teaching" goes on in these classes. My entire term grade for Precalculus was determined by 5 tests of 8 questions each, and the class consisted of a professor reading from a text book for an hour a week with zero feedback or help. I think experiences like this lead to a lot of people becoming completely frustrated and feeling worthless at math, while also outwardly validating that feeling with an unfair poor grade.
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> It also raises the question of how electric something has to be to not work.

In the Dresden Files books, it's a sliding scale and the titular Harry Dresden drives an old VW Beetle because it's primitive enough to still (mostly) function in the presence of magic.
From a technical perspective AdBlockers use a variety of techniques to identify ads: blocking certain domains, css selectors, id elements, etc.

There are a few core lists of domain strings that most of the blockers pull from, Easylist is one of the most commonly used:
https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt

Layered on top of that are some general sorts of behavioral rules, things like:

- Is this image an IAB size

- Does the id or class of this HTML element contain 'ad' (yes, some are this blunt a tool and followup yes, they definitely mess up legit content. Try building a site about Active Directory and not use 'ad')

I'm deeply conflicted about the whole thing. If you want a crisp example of what a mess we are in look at Reddit. They have the cleanest, least intrusive ads imaginable, they don't do 3rd party tracking, they work with publishers to try and make ads that are relevant to their audience etc and yet their ads are still blocked by AdBlockers. What are they supposed to do? Who do they appeal to?
I didn't expect to like it. But despite his slight nervousness, his simplicity and his brutal honesty and self-criticism resonated well with me.

Really good, no-nonsense talk. Good watch!
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> There are more black men under state custody or supervision in the United States today for acts that no sensible person regards as criminal (drugs) than were enslaved in 1850.

How does it look when you adjust for other factors, namely poverty?
Critics agree that some excess capacity is needed. And, in fact, state regulations require a 15% cushion. California surpasses that mark and is on pace to exceed it by 6 percentage points in the next three years

Hmmm... as soon as I hit this point in the article I really lost a lot of enthusiasm to keep reading.

The article throws out all these shocking stats about too many power plants, show a scary graph where the supply keeps going up even though demand if flat. Frightening!!

The they readily admit that a 15% surplus in generation capability is a good thing! In fact it's a requirement by law. Suddenly a 21% excess doesn't seem all that scary.
The way generation is regulated, excess capacity doesn't necessarily reduce rates (the utility gets approval to increase rates to cover the capital cost of generation).
I use shared hosting too and I got into cPanel like 3 times a year for 2 min each. Sure, it needs to be there but regardless it fills the needs already.
What do you mean by 'rapey' then? There's no way the book was on Draco's side when he made that comment. And I'm not sure what you mean by 'the whole Bellatrix stuff', but wasn't she a victim of the evil antagonist? If you think those bits were awkward, inappropriate, badly written, ineptly conceived, or whatever, I'm sure you'll find plenty of agreement. But calling the book 'rapey' seems to imply that it displays some kind of pro-rape message or attitude. That's a really harsh claim to make without strong evidence.

edit: maybe you just mean that it contains gratuitous references to rape? I guess that's a fair opinion to hold, but I think it's clear that the Draco thing wasn't included for the fun of it, but was intended to show how messed up his upbringing/society was in a way that would genuinely shock the reader. And I can't remember exactly what happened to Bellatrix, but I also don't remember getting the sense that the book was revelling in the grisly details or anything like that.
Yeah, this is just California staying ahead of a potential problem. Good for the people in charge.

So we have a 50% buffer against our legal threshold and for very little money. That's just good planning.
I think the biggest problem will be that drones can't open doors or cabinets. You'll still need someone there to look under the sink, go into the basement.
I'd like to add that cargo ships, while being very efficient in terms of how much they can transport over a unit distance given unit energy, require enormous amounts of energy.

See some resources:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport...

- https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch8en/conc8en/fuel_c...
I've had about 50/50 when it comes to sound. I don't know if it's certain chips or manufacturers or what, but I never really expect it to work for me OOTB.
> If the set of all numbers any can express in any sensible way, and the solution to any problem any could ever have is countable

This is trivially true, since there are only countable (finite) expressions and problems.

> why do we need the other uncountables?

You can't do calculus without reals.

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1880741/why-cant-cal...

And calculus is pretty important (e.g. for any branch of physics ever).
At the scale of California being 6 percent over requirements is an enormous waste.
Mostly so that someone else "running a radio" doesn't get to degrade your tv reception, or your mobile phone connection, or your local police/fire/ambulance service communication, or air traffic control's ability to safely manage airplanes, etc.

The radio spectrum is scarce - and while there's a lot to criticise about how governments "hand out" chunks of that spectrum to telcos, commercial radio networks, tv networks, et al - there's clearly a public-interest-need to be able to slap down _hard_ people like this:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/lonewolf-radio-hoaxer-hack...
What about the ones that include the pulp?
Mechanical Turk for Programming tasks would be great to see.
Agreed. I'm currently looking for a new phone, and everything looks like a locked-down POS. I'd love an open, hackable, "actually linux" phone, but I don't know if one is available.
Winamp was (and still is) great software, but it's usefulness has run out. When was the last time you downloaded an mp3? For streaming video and podcasts I stick to VLC, but for music I've switched entirely to streaming apps like Spotify.
I love the radial treemap used by baobab. I've used the radial treemap from d3 in a few web visualization projects and it always wows.
Producing more energy than it's possible to consume and then "splitting the bill" is especially a tax on the poor, since they will feel the 50% difference in price that article mentions, more than anyone.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic also.

The point I was trying to make is the how assymetric the employee/employer relationship is; they expect more than 40 hours "during crunch times" but they would laugh if you suggested working less or paying more. This is the phrase I was parodying:

"Hi Bob, it's crunch time with the new product. I'm gonna have to ask you to work a few extra hours this month, you know, just until we ship."

Never got a bonus, ever. When I wanted a raise, I would give it to myself by moving to a new company for more money. Loved going to work and worked for great companies.

(I work for myself now. My boss is a jerk.)
AFAIK, QoS traffic-shaping is only vital during link saturation, which is never what a backbone should experience. The last paper I read about backbone traffic explained that they aim for less than 50% maximum utilization.
It's already much cheaper to pay a programmer overseas than to hire someone on an H-1B. If the jobs companies are using H-1Bs for were easy to offshore, they would already be doing it.

Obviously reducing the number of H-1Bs will change the math, so that a few jobs may move overseas, but there are many advantages to having employees in the US.
I'm hoping the fairphone (https://shop.fairphone.com/en/) works out well myself, and that I'll be able to install something like ubuntu or sailfish on it.
There were advantages for users and advantages for Microsoft. Both sides won.

As for your "garden", anybody can build their own Windows PC and sell it, without restriction. Anybody can write Windows software, and sell it. Anybody can use a Windows PC and software for any purpose they choose.

If you want to attack people for restrictions, you can find far more of them in other parts of the tech world.
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The visa system is prone to abuse as long as it is the sponsoring company that controls the visa. The visa should be issued to the individual and be valid for a fixed length of time.
Have you seen Sand Flea jumping onto building roofs?
http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_sandflea.html

So instead of tube, how about a delivery robot that's like an alley cat? One which grew up watching Indian Jones and superhero cartoons. And loves tightropes. And wants to be flying squirrel. And is wired into Google RealTime City Map...

I haz the cheezeburger. My human customer hungrily awaits. So I roll down the alley, and around the trash. Pause for traffic, and scoot across the street. Time for my usual northbound path. Up onto the roof. Down a toll zipline to another roof. Leap, wings out, glide, grab a street-pole cable, wings in. Roll along the cable, dodge pole, cable, pole, cable, etc. Roll down a quiet side street. Roof, alley, jump fence. Quick charge station. I consider Uber, but no! Here comes city bus #1726! Leap, electromagnet, hitchhike. Drop, wait for light, down sidewalk. Jump to porch, landing before the hungry human. A human lucky that it is I, city cat, that haz their cheezburger. And not some blind dumb hulking oft-clogged brute of a straw. Though if the straw ever gets built, I may ride that too. I take my bow, and my leave.

What constitutes travel infrastructure depends on what you can cope with. Wrt power, mechanics, sensors, information, and computes. It may be that those advance more rapidly than our ability to build large-scale physical-plant infrastructure. Like cars were easier than moving sidewalks. Robots that can use custom infrastructure where it exists, but can cope "on the ground" in the infrastructure gaps, would have higher complexity cost than say drones. But as costs change...

And hybrids may be interesting. The midday Amazon truck drives down the main road, shedding drones and robots, and taking on those dropped in the morning...
Buysellads is very close to this, and has been around for a long time. I ran beaconads, their subsidiary, for a short time and the biggest issue is that most ad buys are coming from a handful of massive companies.

Old Navy doesn't want to deal individually with a site that doesn't have 10,000,000 visits/month. So we end up needing an intermediary at the same scale as the big advertisers.

Not saying this can't work at some level, just that there are some big economic forces fighting against scaling a product like this.
I know it doesn't belong to Stallman. I thought I remembered reading before that Stallman doesn't like videos with him in them on Youtube due to some kind of patents on the codecs or something like that.

This is the only source I could find though. Not sure if its accurate: http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/02/08/no_more_stallm...
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Here are a few, and I frequently have these conversations with VCs, albeit biased toward areas I work in:

- Spatiotemporal analytics usually in the context of IoT. Most people currently repurpose cartographic tools for this purpose but the impedance match is poor and the tools are seriously lacking elementary functionality. There is no magic technology here, just exceptional UX/UI and an understanding of the problem domain and tooling requirements.

- IoT database platforms, no one offers a credible solution for this currently. Everyone defines this in terms of what they can do, not in terms of what is required in practice. There are many VCs currently hunting for this product but the problem is one of fundamental tech; you can't solve it using open source backends.

- Also for IoT, ad hoc clusters of compute at the edge being able to cooperate for analytical applications. The future of large-scale data analytics is planetary scale federation for many applications. Significant tech gaps here.

- Remote sensing analytics. Drones and satellites are generating spectacular volumes of this data and no one can usefully analyze data of this type at scale. Today, companies wait weeks for a single analytic output on less than a terabyte of data.

- Population-scale behavioral analytics. Many startups claim to do this but none of them can actually work with relevant data at a scale that would deliver on it despite increasing availability of the necessary data.

- AI based on algorithmic induction tech i.e. not the usual DNN and ML tech everyone calls AI. This is way more interesting if you have a novel approach.
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The human element of home inspection is invaluable. That interaction between homeowner (or prospective) and a knowledgeable professional is critical. But drones as tools for that professional could be great.
From reading the web page, I think an Unravel user won't need to specific, pre-defined language, in which case it's very deliberately not a DSL like Gherkin/Cucumber.
And not having capacity means millions of people and $$ wasted. Pick one.

Since it takes much time to build a plant they plan ahead.
I can agree on this, the booster was super key to show all window, I've never been this fast to context switch between window.
And the printing press could spread dangerous ideas!
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> The status quo right now is that mobile operating systems are super locked down and almost all the software you install on it is proprietary stuff you get from an app store.

I think there's been a shift from developers. As a collective we used to value open source a lot more, now the focus seems to be on getting venture capital for private services and the great mobile land grab.
One can do that with affiliate advertising to some extent. I don't think it would be easy to use other pricing models since advertisers wouldn't trust small website's metrics. (And large websites already manage their own ads through many different methods.)
Suddenly a 21% excess doesn't seem all that scary.

California has 39 million residents. 15% over needed capacity is already a lot of excess, and bumping it to 21% is pretty ludicrous.
Are there technical solutions here?

The client-server model of the WWW seems to tilt in favor of consolidation. What about something more akin to database replication for sharing information? Data moving around asynchronously, viewed at the users leisure, and synchronous actions are only needed sometimes (e.g. for buying things). Right now, a lot of synchronous things happen, requiring users' action and attention for little reason (but encouraged by the client/server model because you need to make a request).

It would certainly change things. "Engagement" might be harder to measure and monetize, so it might force us toward something more like micropayments. But micropayments might be more possible in such an environment as well. With little money on the line, it's easy to update a database record and move the real money around later (if that's even required -- you could imagine digital IOU records acting like currency).

And more importantly, I think it would reduce the need of companies like facebook and other consolidating forces (though perhaps not google search).
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Wasn't this how independent websites use to work before ad networks such as Google ads took over the internet? Problem with managing your own ads is that it would be very hard to get quality relevant ads if you have a small website, not to forget the overhead involved in maintaining ad space without a dedicated ad server.
The main one I see is that it is too hard for programmers who don't fully understand haskell/functional programming.

I see people complain at times about it's performance but there is always someone there to rebut that it's fast at some things but not others.
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>modern malware does not try and break your system.

Unfortunately, malware has shifted back into breaking systems, under the form of ransomware.
A lot of that is really really specific for what you do. I think people are generally trying to solve ONE problem rather than creating a solution for the general problem, because usually, a general solution breaks down very very quickly and thus low retention rate.
And give Realtors even less to do? /s
We need to simplify the whole lifecycle of data management. It is still considerably complex. We'll see an accelerated revolution in other areas such as machine learning when this simplification is complete.
Evidently, having devs live in SV is important enough that companies pay enough so that their employees can afford the hyperinflated cost of living in the Bay Area. So I don't think it's the case that anyone would be making them hire more Americans; rather, by limiting the ability for companies to hire people from overseas who will work for less, the theory is that they will hire the people who already live in the US, presumably people who already have citizenship.

The interesting thing will be whether SV will be willing to absorb the (presumably) higher labor rates for these citizens. Their other options will be to outsource the jobs or to develop more infrastructure in less costly areas of the US.

This is the most plausible explanation of the theory, unless of course you believe the version where the motivation for H-1B hires isn't purely economic, but rather that there just aren't enough Americans available who can do the work.
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How would your comment change if they had 390 million residents or 390,000 residents?

A heat wave would still put every AC into service.
Can you show a citation or credential to justify your position?
I have been dreaming about this for a long time...I'm gonna make it someday.
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Yeah, I've thought about this. I've even run some numbers.

You'd need to combine an ISP and MSP with an add-on like analytics and integrations.

Trouble is, then you're competing with AWS and GCE.

You have what amounts to bare metal through AWS, available by the hour. You can have that today, plus the ability to scale across geographies at the click of a button. Few colos can offer that.
Could you be more specific about the IoT DB issue? What would a credible solution do?

Thanks in advance.
Any thoughts on what happened? Health benefits aside, vomiting after drinking orange juice is hardly a typical reaction.
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But that's exactly what 99% of the Google customers are trying to avoid to do. They don't want to handle the management. They don't want to host the ad management platform. They just want a paycheck after the cut (and after all the legal contracts). They just want a tool that works and everyone is familiar with.
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That is incorrect[0]. When spreading FUD[1], expect assertions such as these to be fact checked by others.

0 - http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cgav%7C1%7Cg%3A%22joda-time...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
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