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It's a truly great resource. Have you thought about the Primer for people who are newer to curves? For those unfamiliarized and looking to start adopting beziers, the Primer's layout, length and depth may be off-putting from a learning resource perspective. The layout makes it seem like you have to learn all of the parts in sequence which isn't the case. Depending on a person's use case, it could be that, for example, only 20% is applicable and found in sections 1-3, 17, 20-23, and could be learned without going through all the sections in-between. Someone totally new to beziers wouldn't know where to start making the distinction for which sections apply to them and give up entirely.

My suggestion is, think you could create an "applications of beziers" page which lists common bezier use cases? eg. Draw a curved path. Animate using easing. Animate along a curve. Animate along a curve with an ease. Then link from there to only to the sections you'd need to learn and apply to get to that application? It would be infinitely more helpful to new learners.

The Primer would then remain a great resource as a standalone. And the Applications page would be a great navigation and learning resource page for people looking to start.
Yahoo had been in trouble for a long time before Mayer got in the driver's seat. She got picked. She tried. It didn't work out, but one has to admit it was a long shot for "success" if your idea of "success" is completely turning around a behemoth floundering company.

What would it have taken to make Yahoo viable again? I don't know if anyone could have done it.

Now the next best thing is a sale and that appears to have been a success of sorts.
I've seen people use tiny paper filters in them. No idea if it's something you can buy though - I'm not really a coffee drinker.
What were all these bad calls that weren't just due to hindsight?
Well lets reverse out the numbers.

The median cost of a room in a flatshare in Zone 1/2 is just under £700 month, that's £8.4k/year. Let's assume other costs of living to be £10k/year that gives us a total of £18.4k/year.

Let's say you want to save £40k over 4 years, so 10k/year, that would require a take-home salary of £28.4k/year which implies a pre-tax salary of 37k.

37k should be comfortably achievable for a software developer 1-2 years out of uni.
Maybe a juicer startup?
I like my job. A lot. So we make sacrifices.
I don't think that's quite the same thing though, at least not for Slim-Fast (I haven't heard of the others). Soylent claims to be nutritionally complete-- as in, you could theoretically live off it alone-- and Slim-Fast does not. I was looking for a competing product along those lines.
I don't think replacing one set of risks with a smaller set of risks is at all morally similar to killing one person to save three.
I think its largely because she's a woman. Yahoo was a already sinking ship when she took over and I think she did a decent job.

There are loads of overpaid executives in tech and no-one else gets as much hate as Marissa does. The main other unliked executive is Sheryl Sandberg who's also missing a Y Chromosome.
>These are things like persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence (there are a lot more, too).

Side note... The author repeatedly mentioning "grit" and "self-control" seems to be citing (maybe subconsciously) Angela Duckworth's research[1]. As an fyi, there has been criticism of her study:

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/05/25/479172868/angela-d...

If Duckworth's research is flawed (e.g. IQ is still the #1 statistical correlation we have of a measured trait and economic outcomes), it means the blog author's paragraph is wrong:

>Most people think that IQ, the ability to memorize, etc., are the key metrics for determining the future of a child. These are what economists call "cognitive skills" and it turns out they are not very good predictors of future success. What are good predictors are what's known as "non-cognitive skills." These are things like persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence (there are a lot more, too).

[1] book: https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duck...

other writings: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/889/
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I hear this sort of thing a lot and I have trouble reconciling it with my experiences. I live in SF and my total expenses (rent, food, entertainment, etc.) were ~$15,000 in 2016. I don't feel like I live a life of great deprivation.

I get that the article is talking about a family of four, but even if we assume there are no economies of scale, my costs would work out to $60,000 for a family of four.

I also get that I have some privileges: healthy enough to bike rather than drive/take transit, minimal medical expenses, no student loans. But I am surely not the only person in this position.

What's happening here? What are the other major expenses that people have?

(I understand this comment probably comes off as obnoxious, but I'm genuinely trying to understand. This incongruity makes it harder for me to understand/sympathize with others on this issue and I'd like to regain that ability.)
A consideration that seems to be constantly missing in such evaluations is that of waste. It's externalized, and I wish there was a way to force those costs back on producers. Creating short-lived products just to keep growth going is simply evil.
Biggest complaint:

Unreadable format, as mentioned in this thread.

{"key:A<A
>":[["values"],["here"]]}

This doesn't mean anything to me as a developer, unless I've seen the spec. It's kludgy. It's not reverse-compatible if you don't install a TJSON parser.

Two solutions immediately strike me as better, one has been mentioned here.

(1) Not optimal, but actually spell out words in key names. There's no reason "A" has to mean Array. That doesn't mean anything to me. If I'm seeing it for the first time and have no idea what TJSON is, the very next value could be "key2:B<B<t>>".

(2) Far more optimal: as an example has been provided with "date", just nest objects as values for any extended types. Then this spec is completely reverse compatible and compliant, and as a developer I don't have to worry about parsing key names.

e.g.

{
"some_nested_array": {
"type": "array.array.string",
"value": [
["values"],
["here"]
]
}
}

Extremely easy to implement and not reliant on a governing body.
In my opinion, the primary use case of self-diving cars aren't personal ownership. Society as a whole wastes a lot of resources when every household has a car that stands still 95% of the time. With self-driving cars, we can plausibly improve that.
Options that Americans would choose to use?
Did not know, thanks!
4 years prior to Mayer becoming CEO.
Perhaps she could go to Uber?
Why doesn't someone just buy up most of Detroit and create a massive campus with affordable Victorian homes everywhere.
XML provisions an extensible way to markup your data though - TJSON is just a hack upon JSON...and it's full of potential problems that XML has solved years ago.
I don't think you understand how much the Alibaba shares that Yahoo held were worth (~$40 billion) and how little the rest of the business was worth (<$5 billion). This is not a normal situation, where your point would usually be correct. She had zero responsibility for running Alibaba. She ran a business that was worth less than $5 billion, but was compensated based on a stock price that primarily moved based on the run-up in the $40 billion worth of Alibaba stock Yahoo held (and such stock was acquired before she became CEO).

Here's one of many Matt Levine pieces that explained the Yahoo/Alibaba situation, although it's now dated: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-01-28/yahoo-wou...
I know people who don't have the discipline to keep spaces open, but large open spaces can be wonderful (and easy to maintain). The tough thing is maintaining large arrays of intricate special-purpose rooms which you don't need and which are full of stuff that makes it feel small nonetheless.

Space is wonderful for doing things like dancing, hosting guests, exercise, communal/family cooking (sprouting many kilograms of chickpeas, fermenting 40+qt of kimchi).
I'd say Instagram did a better job of killing Flickr.
However, if autonomous vehicles are just for the wealthy end of society whether directly or by way of limo and taxi services, they're not going to be particularly welcomed by everyone else (aka the majority of voters).
Yes, but feel at home has predated this for years and also works outside the EU (US/AU/NZ). I don't think it's just that. Though Vodafone's new EU roaming offer is definitely just that.
I know plenty of men who lived through that era (and one man who was born 4 years after Feynman) who are not in the slightest bit sexist. Or are at least far too polite to show it.

Feynman was clearly a bit of a prick. It also appears that he behaved rudely toward women [0]. In my opinion, the fact that there were some (significant) negative aspects of his personality doesn't take anything away from what he accomplished, or from the (significant) positive aspects of his personality.

[0] http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
Everything you said is true, except one thing. You assume that the supply can increase if there's more money for rent. But, that's not entirely true. As you said, NIMBYs are blocking developments at every turn. The supply is not being allowed to increase. And by hamstringing developers with affordability requirements, that's going to decrease supply even further.
BTW, for those interested in trying to fix things in the Bay Area:

* http://www.sfyimby.org/

* https://techforhousing.org/
Good on you for keeping it up to date. This page is extremely dense with information and clearly has cost you a lot of your time.
I think the meaning here is that French identity has been formed slowly over time while interacting with the outside. I would be surprised if a group of academics, specially if French, denied the existence of French culture. I suppose some French people find disgusting the idea of having much more in common with a contemporary German (for example) than with a medieval French. I'm not French nor do I follow French politics so just guessing by extrapolating what I know from my own country.
Medical food and meal replacement shakes existed well before soylent, they're usually intended for people who are on a feeding tube. There's a lot of common brands like Ensure, and you can find probably at least one decent option in a reasonably well-stocked grocery store. If you want to order online there's some interesting stuff like:
http://www.functionalformularies.com/liquid-hope-information...

Soylent's main distinguishing features are marketing and sloppiness. They are also a little cheaper than other options, but here as with most things, you get what you pay for.
I would love to hear the details of what your process is on developing that.

I am not sure I even know enough to ask the right questions on this. But what tools, languages, computing resources, etc do you use?
You may or may not be aware that the Yahoo component of Yahoo is worthless (actually worse less than nothing) while the stake in BABA exceeds the value of the whole thing. NOTE: she also had nothing to do with the decision to buy into BABA.

She did however, buy Tumblr (huge failure), ruled against remote work, drove a mass exodus of engineering talent, oversaw Flickr's hideous decline, and sat in the leadership seat for multiple hacks.

About the only thing she can claim is that she didn't commit fraud.
The C&D indicates you had a developer account with Smarterer. That seems significantly different from Mark Zuckerberg having a MySpace account.
Because she didn't. Yahoo's value was the stakes it had in other companies (Alibaba and Yahoo Japan). Mayer had nothing at all to do with their increase in value, and therefore nothing at all to do with Yahoo's subseqent increase in value.
i read dependent as child. Yes if they are true dependent you are correct. Remedies can be created in such cases and it isn't necessarily true that dependents in 100% estate tax societies have to be destitute. Policies and programs can be created put in place. Exemptions can be made too. Whatever the case, it is bad policy to base inheritance tax for everyone on the small possibility that we are discussing.
Thanks. Not sure where/how that phrase stuck in my brain, but it's still there. Fixed.
Snopes is one of them, surely, that I've seen lots of partisan propaganda, especially on political topics (of course, it's hard to put propaganda into a topic like "did a woman in Florida marry an alligator and gave birth to alligator-headed twins?" so it's in political topics). But I purposedly didn't name specific one because they are all like that - snopes, politifact, fatcheck, you name it. I'm not talking about specific screwup of specific outlet, you can always explain it away, I'm talking about how things are developing (at least how it looks to me) in general.
Self driving cars also offer the chance to dramatically increase that figure. They have failure modes that do not exist with human drivers. Cautious is good.
Among other things, childcare is wildly expensive. Throw in life insurance, and you want your kids to live in a good school district, right?
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Around the likelihood that it gets earmarked at the post office and you proceed to fall for a Controlled Delivery.
From June onward there will be a new EU legislation which would make it so that you can use thee whole 100GB in the EU (under small roaming restrictions).
I agree with your evaluation of where things stand now. I disagree that you can really call that "working."

Working, for me, is when a typical consumer can buy it and use it day-to-day, on typical routes.
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I'm still not sure how that would involve uber in selling secrets; still sounds like buying to me.
> moving to the numbers

I lived in Portland for six years and never once heard this expression and yet I know exactly what you mean.
Here's a point of view that is more in-line with what the everyday man thinks (which just so happens to be my view):

>"Who cares? I'm using Uber because it's convenient and has more coverage than Lyft."

> Yes, but what about all of the shady things that Uber has been doing?

>"What things? If they've done things, I haven't heard of them nor does it seem like it affects me in anyway."

> You don't care that a company is being shady, sexually harasses its employees, tracks it users... ad nausem?

>"No, it's not something that's important to me."
Still not as bad as Seattle, though here the rental market has started to slow, while the house market is super hot.
Haters out in force I see. The share price was $16 when she started. It's now $48. It's irrelevant what she did or didn't do to get that.

False. More than 100% of that $32 increase in value was due to Yahoo's stake in Alibaba, especially due to its IPO. Yahoo itself ex-BABA lost value.
This looks cool, at a glance it looks similar Deis Workflow. Workflow is an open source project - any other key differences? How do you imagine the pricing panning out?

I will check this out sometime in the next week.
Very cool experiment! A fork bomb spawns processes at an exponential rate, however it looks like this just creates a linear chain of Docker daemons?

> Now wait patiently until your hd fills up.

This is obviously slower than a fork bomb, but I wonder which happens first: either the hard drive actually fills up or you run into a process limit.
There are plenty of medical sole source of nutrition products available, catering to a range of different dietary needs.

That they don't advertise to the general public; or don't say "you can live off this and nothing else" says something about Soylent's unethical marketing.

The Ensure range is easiest to get hold of for the general public. (Ensure and Ensure Plus are sometimes used as sole source nutrition in forced NG tube feeding for hunger-striking prisoners or eating disordered patients.)
Open-spec networking Mini-ITX has 1, 2.5, and 10 GbE ports
Good for her. She took a shit job at a company with no future and tried to turn it around. Of course she didn't succeed. No one could have. The company was a mess. She got hammered for years no matter what she did. The press and the bloggers all said she was doing a crap job.

Good for her. She deserves every penny.
And this is why tech jobs are going to continue to lead the charge to being mostly remote workers. Major tech hubs are crazy expensive, and the jobs are pretty amenable to remote work.

At some point, there's going to be another inflection point where a lot of people making comfortable upper middle-class incomes move out to, well, anywhere. Basically, someone's going to do the math, and recognize that remote workers are just as productive, and are a little cheaper then having a bunch of 20-somethings in the office physically. And the incentive for anyone who wants to have kids to work remote is just going to be really, really high.

We may also see more software engineers sticking around as engineers instead of becoming managers as well. Because the incentive to grow your income via management may be relieved.
If you're making it unreadable with types, you might as well switch to a statically typed binary JSON format like bson or ubjson instead. You get smaller files, faster parsing, partial parsing (skip what you don't need), and (in some implementations) streaming of large files.

http://ubjson.org/

http://bsonspec.org/
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Something similar to this happened to me recently -- My Ubuntu 1604 hard drive was unexpectedly full and cpu was being used by docker processes. Killing the docker processes and deleting info saved by them restored my system.
I'm teaching a data structures class w/java this coming fall semester, and am putting together a reference text/notes in markdown to provide for free, since it seems really silly to require a paid text for this stuff.

Every single item that contributes to the learning objectives of this course is incredibly Google-able, but as new students to the field, they do need at least some curation and direction to keep from getting overwhelmed. They need a reference resource that they can trust which is academic enough to be true, yet reasonably conversational. Textbooks used to fill this role, but publishers priced and walled-gardened themselves out of relevance.

Side note: if you're an professor who has done something like this in the past, I'd love to compare notes with you.
This a great question, but harder to answer than "How did you acquire your first 100 users?" and probably more important.

Besides an obvious pain (like many users saying X is bad), users usually become indifferent and just never come back. These users will likely never give feedback unless they've had an abnormally bad experience.

Whenever you lose users, it's painful. But could be a good thing if they weren't your target since you may waste time servicing them or building features they say they want.
And? Was Meyer not the CEO when this happened? I'm pretty sure she was.

Just because she resorted to something other than organically growing the business to increase the value to her shareholders doesn't mean she's a failure. We're all assuming that her job was to "save" Yahoo. I don't think that was ever really on the table.
I used to live in south Florida (Ft. Lauderdale) and would move back in a heartbeat if I could find steady remote work. It's great, and still relatively cheap!
What are your best tips for creating a good facebook ad?
Two days ago, Breitbart News started appearing at the top of news search results. That's not a sign of improvement.
> I photocopied

Didn't you read the PDF!?

> Photocopying of Assignments from someone else’s text is a violation of copyright laws, so please purchase your own text.

You could have been sued!
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Or, it could just be your confirmation bias. I'm not saying women aren't treated harshly, but plenty of male CEOs also get flak (uber, Adobe etc).
IMHO, women are treated unfairly at lower levels of work, it is hard to sympathize equally for someone who has risen to the CEO level and still feels discriminated.
So what if you split the dataset to say 70-30, tried to find hypotheses in the the 70% dataset, then validate them with the 30% dataset. This is the process I use often with machine learning, would it also apply here?
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If you're interested specifically in the petroleum side, I've heard "Introduction to Petroleum Exploration for Non-geologists" by Robert Stonely is good. There are probably more up-to-date books out there, though.

For the more general geology portion, if you're wanting something that's a bit more detailed, but still very approachable, "Evolution of the Earth" by Prothero and Dott is absolutely fantastic. You can probably find a slightly older paperback edition quite cheaply, as well.

If you're really okay with a quantitative approach, Turcotte & Schubert's "Geodynamics" walks through an impressive amount of basic tectonics in a "let's do the back of the envelope calculations" manner. It's the most dog-eared book on my shelf. It's incredibly useful. However, it's a graduate level textbook, and it assumes you have at least a basic understanding of geological processes and terminology. It would be a very tough way to dive in.
Because that's the contract she signed knowing that this was a possible outcome and could ruin her career.
The mining machines shown around 1:22 are the stuff of dystopian science fiction nightmare.
I'm sure they won't have any touble hiring statisticians. The only unreasonable thing is that they expect people to work for free.
I used to live in Aubagne, the Legion's headquarters city. I spent quite a few evenings smoking pot with légionnaires bragging about their war stories.

One was about as wide-shouldered as high, with huge musculous, brown arms covered with burn scars. He told me his personal speciality was shooting a big machine gun, without tripod, running around Rambo-style, and the burns were from the hot barrel.

Another one proudly displayed his scarred belly: "this is when this guy attacked me with his knife, etc, finally I broke his neck" "this is when in Chad I received a 7.62 bullet" "this is when I was drunk and had a fight in Libreville".

Funny guys, better have them as friends than enemies :)
I'm going to assume that you're commenting in good faith but this is painfully close to trolling, so please don't do it here.

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No one wants to live in Detroit. Uber couldn't even convince its workforce to commute to Oakland; they backed out of a deal to move their office there a month ago.
This. You can try it on a bright day easily by alternating your open eye, and closing both with hands over them for a while to reset the phenomena. I discovered it decades ago on an extremely bright day where I couldn't keep both eyes open without discomfort.