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Seriously? All he managed to sell was the aesthetics feel. It's like selling email marketing software solely for the design. How about selling a pen by pitching the frustrations
it solves? Pens get lost. Pens stop working randomly. Pens finish without much of a warning. If you're using it after a while, you have to rummage for a paper to scribble before you use it.

It's hard to recall any pen which solves any of these. So, in the end, selling a pen becomes a marketing problem, not a sales problem.
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Most people do not live on a factory campus the size of a small city where the definition of "at work" becomes a bit hazy.
http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod and search for "EVBACKEND_EPOLL (value 4, Linux)" to read how much fun epoll is :-D
Early version of PG-Strom didn't plan SSD2GPU Direct SQL Execution, however, some users concerns didn't concern about CPU performance only but I/O also. So, I began to implement the feature to accelerate I/O also. Its development started at Dec-2015.
I agree.

The immediate conflation that positive self regaurd = caccooning growing adults form their consequences was a good thing to lump together and assume the readers would accept.

You can have positive self regard for kids and let them make their own decisions, experience mistakes and struggle to some degree to find their way out.

The idea that they need your negative judgment on top of the consequences life will hand them for their actions anyways is the logical flaw and conflation here.
That implies that whether policies are good or bad is just a matter of opinion. Net neutrality - like combatting global warming - is to my knowledge widely regarded as having far more benefits for society than the opposite policy. So yes, it's the cause.

That being said, of course relying on corporations doing the lobbying is bad. A better way would be to rely on groups like the EFF or (gasp!) MPs themselves caring for the topic.

However, we already have the EFF caring for the topic. Apparently this is not enough, otherwise no "industry alliance" wound have been needed.
Tell that to the British electorate.
Although I liked Effective Java a lot, and it does contain a lot of advice relevant to many OO languages - it is the opposite of language agnostic: It's very Java-specific. Much of the content is irrelevant except in Java itself; and some of it is the opposite of "Effective language X". For example, it has a section named "Prefer lists to Arrays"; any C++ programmer will tell you the opposite (and that goes down to some of the arguments, such as Java not supporting generic arrays while C++ supports them).

So - good book, but not for this purpose.
One party had legal residence as determined by the law he couldn't be removed by the cops. The prior owner was a moron.
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The article is pretty sniffy about Hogwarts' security, but it's missing an important point: magic can detect intent. So yeah, it might be possible for Harry Potter to build what Theresa May is asking for, but a) he doesn't exists and b) I'm pretty sure it'd be against his progressive principles.
Goddamn plants, poisoning the air with this "oxygen" stuff.
>> Machine Learning was a branch of Statistics

Thats incorrect.

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Machine learning is the subfield of computer science that, according to Arthur Samuel in 1959, gives "computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed."
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-- Wikipedia
Well, didn't you need to sign anything? A check?

Do you take notes?
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Good. Now fix it up.
I see the first wrong in the post you replied to.

Where's the second?
I seriously doubt a coordinated terrorist attack is done as a public facebook post. Isn't that a whole other issue?
I hope everyone is keeping in mind that constant conversion + more traffic = more users.
Servo might use nightly, but do you have evidence that most projects do? Especially after custom derive landed in stable, most of the reason for sticking with nightly dissappeared.
I'm not really disagreeing with you. I do believe strongly in tenant rights because I've seen what bad landlords can do, and I've have close friends (now basically family) suffer because of the spiral of of homelessness.

What I was suggesting was that no, it wasn't really unreasonable for the buyers to be surprised and expect squatters to not be present in their newly bought property. That is the responsibility of the seller. The seller sounds to have been fairly irreputable and tried to pawn off a problem property.

At no point did I suggest, or am I suggesting, that a buyer should be able to immediately force legal residents or tenants to vacate. I'm saying that they probably had every right to be a bit surprised and annoyed/frustrated to find that the seller hadn't really done their duty.

The story is farcical enough without inventing more ways to be upset at the buyers in the story, and such outrage really isn't useful for anyone.
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Second the Pragmatic Programmer, however: I read it when I just started programming (like not much more experienced than basic hello world and some fiddling) and, looking back, didn't really get it. I mean, I got the principles, but couldn't apply it as there was just not enough experience for the higher level abstract stuff. I recently read it again and it makes complete sense now, but I ddn't learn much new from it. So I'd suggest that if you read it, do so after a couple of years of programming.
Thinking Forth

http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/

Teaches you to think simple and elegant.
Those are reports of two individual cases, hardly evidence of a "recent wave of rapes commited by migrants".
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Thinking Forth
But would this have been possible without the federal money being available? I don't think the two are necessarily separate.
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Toronto is probably one of the safest cities in North America (and that's saying something, since North America is largely so safe). That said, Parkdale is a fairly risky place as far as Toronto goes. Recently some Parkdale landowners have sold land to condo developers though, so something tells me it won't be that way for long.

But man, these folks are so clueless it hurts.
That was Quake III https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1349542/john-carmacks-un...
That's actually just a bug in the autoformatter; the url was simply embedded in a sentence with a semicolon in it.
Eh. I read it but a lot of the particulars of how code is made doesn't really apply anymore.

The concepts and terminology are absolutely invaluable to understand, but you can pick those up other ways.
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That's not what I'm saying at all. ASCII is just a standard for how text is encoded into binary. However it hasn't been around forever and before it there were lots of different -incompatible- standards. It was so bad that some computers would have their own proprietary character set. Some computers also didn't even have 8 bits to a byte and since a byte was the unit for each character (albeit ASCII is technically 7bit but lets not get into that here), it meant systems with 6 or 7 bits to a byte would be massively incompatible as you're off by one or two bits on each character, which multiplies up with each subsequent character. This meant that text files were often fundamentally incompatible across different systems (I'm not talking like weird character rendering; I'm talking about the file looking like random binary noise).

ASCII changed a lot of that and did so with what was, in my opinion at least, a beautiful piece of design.

I did a quick bit of googling around to find a supporting article about the history of ASCII: http://ascii-world.wikidot.com/history

There was also some good discussions on HN a little while ago about the design of ASCII, I think this was one of the referenced articles: https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/

The history of ASCII is really quite interesting if you're into old hardware.
In addition to those already mentioned here, I enjoyed the book 'Algorithms' by Robert Sedgewick & Kevin Wayne.

The algorithms are explained, and demonstrated (in java). But with the knowledge of how the algorithm works you should be able to use them in another language.

(And even though henrik_w already mentioned it, Code Complete2 is a really good book to read!)
This doesn't entirely match the criteria in your question but I think dipping into the standard library for your language (if it has one) is a good idea. It's not only useful to see what you're using but it can also show you how language experts use the language (which can be useful stylistically) and be an archaelogical exercise in the history of the language and its priorities (particularly true with Ruby's stdlib, I found).
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This is like playing Nier Automata once again, but with the save files undeleted... T_T
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Problem: college tuition is too damn high.

Solution: universal, free or heavily subsidized access to quality higher education.

So, Americans, number 1 war economy and slaughterous rulers over our blood and minds, what exactly is your major political malfunction preventing this?
You can believe in whatever you want, have aversion to symbols, think how special you are vs other co-citizens, etc.: your free-speech is protected by the Spanish Constitution, the UE, and the UN. Mine is protected, too, and in my opinion the Catalan region culture is pretty similar to the culture of the rest of Spain, and the ones painting the Catalan region as "different", in the ethic sense, lie, or simply don't consider the majority of the Catalan population as human beings having the same rights (check Catalan people family-names: are in the same proportion as the rest of Spain; you can check also religion, gastronomy, even trash-TV show taste is similar to the Spanish average, etc.).

Regarding the "Catalan people", I am "Catalan people", too, and the only oppression I see in the Catalan region is the one pushed by the Catalan regional government towards forcing uniform ethnic brainwash from public administration and schools, in Catalan-only, instead of bilingual Spanish-Catalan. A reminder: not only Catalan-speakers -mother tongue- (35% of inhabitants of the Catalan region) have rights, Spanish-speakers (55% of inhabitants of the Catalan region) have rights, too. So next time you fight for your rights, be sure you're really fighting for your rights (I would endorse you), and not for quitting/removing/stealing other people's rights (I would not endorse you). Respect works both ways.

Kind regards.
Yeah, I've flagged the story.
And the house wasn't even in particularly bad condition as the new owners try to imply. Sure, it was neglected, but taking out trash, hiring a cleaning company, getting new paintjob and furniture would make a place livable, and as a bonus, you'd save ~$1m. My kitchen and bedroom in a rented flat during university years looked way worse than these "horrible conditions".
We bought a $3 million bungalow full of bats and were not happy with the result: https://www.thebeaverton.com/2017/05/bought-3-million-bungal...
Thinking Forth is a great suggestion since the approach goes way beyond Forth. I also would read the Brad Cox (objc creator) books if you can get them.
On the software side, I'd argue that a SOA/microservice model accomplishes this: boundaries between services are defined by APIs based on open protocols and formats (HTTP, JSON, XML, graphQL...); new functionality can be achieved by writing a new microservice that mixes and matches functionality from existing services.

Regarding hardware: There are still plenty of companies selling build-to-order PCs, and sourcing parts is extremely easy. In fact, I'd argue that in some segments (such as gaming), DIY builds are much more common than they were 20 years ago. Of course, these machines aren't truly "open" for every definition of the word, but that has never been the case for the modern PC market.
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Any good book on statistics would be a huge asset, as well as a book about debugging strategies.
"Opened their second needle room"?

Not sure what it means?
Though it uses a subset of C++ for the code examples, Elements of Programming by Stepanov and McJones. It shows how algebra can serve as an effective foundation for engineering generic, reusable programs.
To me, this seems like one of those issues that's easy for a human to parse, but hard for a computer. For example:

* Terrorist attack in London

* Terrorist attacks in London

The only difference is the plural. However, the first is probably time-sensitive, looking for the most recent attack that's in the news right now. The second is more general.
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It was ridiculous to begin with.

How about accepting that a good 20% of the population are religious republican nuts, and a good 20%+ were not particularly feeling like voting for the established candidates once more (because of lost jobs, prospects, the feeling of a country changing in ways the don't like, etc), but rather vote Trump and see the world burn? And that they were distributed in a winning way, even if some "full democratic" states had a few million more Clinton supporters?

Whether Russians leaked the emails (which is quite unlikely), that is inconsequential as far as the vote is concerned. The momentum was there from a year before, and Trump had marched on and on already (not to mention few even heard or cared about those).

Now, if Trump's circle tried to make some bucks with Russian deals (like e.g. Bush Jr. made with Saudi deals and connections before and after the elections), that's something else.

The most hopeful thing from a Trump presidency (since obviously in internal affairs he would be a republican wrecking ball) was whether he would stop the warmongering and interventionism that's been a constant for decades. And of course, established Democrats and Republicans only push him towards not doing that, to keep the military machine going, and even applaud him whenever he puts his marching boots on.
I suppose that's a variation of Hanlon's razor, but this isn't a rule of thumb situation. They are winning at gaming the biggest source of information, which shouldn't be hapenning regardless of their motivations.
they're already here... but unfortunately these algorithms are becoming the masters, an increasing workforce relies on an app to tell them where to pick up customers or where to pick up amazon products.
"The Elements of Style" by Strunk & White. Not exactly a standard programming book. Not really language-agnostic either -- quite English-centric.

I here assume your source code will be read by others; or by yourself after more than three months has passed.
They're expected to act like robots. They'll soon be replaced by actual robots.
Thanks for the warning. How recently did this happen to you?
Let me spell out the day to day consequences I experienced of living in Germany, down the street from a refugee home: there were none.
Like WMDs were under active investigation, with agencies checking on them, the NYT, CNN and other "serious" outlets informing the public about them, and even a whole war (and tons of lives lost, not to mention a trillion dollars spent) was justified on their presence?

Yeah, "BS excuse of large part of the establishment for their own incompetence and disconnect" would be a better moniker.
Some places have safe, clean, injection rooms. This is good because it reduces some of the public health problems associated with injection drug use.

People use clean needles. They get information about rehab if they want it. They can dispose of the sharps safely. There's help nearby if they overdose. They can get other medical advice about infection or sexual health.

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"We're literally at war."

When discussing foreign policy on an internatioal medium it would be helpful to formulate your responses by specifying the hypothetical combatants and coalitions explicitly rather than implicitly (i.e 'we' is an ambiguous definition in this context).
> But there's a good case to be made that machine learning introductions should always be done like this : linear classifier (when that works) -> SVM (when that works) -> NN -> Deep learning.

Do you know of an ML introduction course/book/site that follow this order?
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The most interesting part that translates the natural language Inform 7 code to the more traditional Inform 6 code has not been open sourced. Graham Nelson talked about wanting to release the code as literate programs[1]. Currently the status of the publishable release for the ni compiler component is "as of April 2009, about two-thirds done"[2].

[1]: http://inform7.com/sources/inweb/
[2]: http://inform7.com/sources/webs/
Get the new edition (the old 1930 edition is still sold, but is not the one I'd recommend)
Privilege matters a lot.

In this case something as simple as "having a family member with $150k" creates a remarkable difference in consequences.

They did something stupid, which is embark on a renovation without sufficient funds and having no idea what they were doing. The consequence for them is owing a family friend money and being even higher on the wealth and assets ladder with growing equity.

For the person that doesn't have that, the consequences would be losing all of their savings, foreclosure, ruined credit, and a near zero chance of getting another shot at doing it again.

Having access to resources compounds and grows over time, and and changes everything about ultimate outcomes.
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Those categories are fast whittling down, as the terrorist attacks are now apparently a weekly occurrence.
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Fast inverse square root as seen in Quake (as mentioned in other comments)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...
I don't think it is fear exactly. More that people favour "strength" and reject "weakness". Nukes are strong, and disarmament is weak. That is the same choice people make again and again. The actual sense of the policy is ignored in favour of simplistic rejection of naive liberal weakness (as they see it).
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A good books on OOD are "Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby" (http://www.poodr.com) and "99 bottles of OOP"(https://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles/) by Sandy Metz.
Whenever I read stories like these I tend to take it with a grain of salt. There is always another part of the story we are missing. It will however be interesting to follow the development of this. Hopefully Washington Post or another outlet follows up with this.
The Aosa series of books are brilliant imho:

http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

Titles :

* The Architecture of Open Source Applications (volumes I and II)
* The Performance of Open Source Applications
* 500 lines or less
As a reader, I am happy when I come upon a page that has been generated from plain text or markdown. There's a tendency for the authors of those pages to focus on content rather than loading it with graphics and Javascript and such. My time is valuable. I can read what they're saying and get on to other things.
That's assuming that these degrees are actually necessary for these people to do their jobs, which isn't the case the majority of the time in my opinion
Indeed, the Pragmatic Programmer book's subtitle is "from Journeyman to Master", and that's exactly what journeyman is supposed to mean - someone who's a few years into it, not bad, but not great (yet?).
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What are the prime factors of "-e+i"? My point was that if we're being pedantic, "numbers" is a very general term - positive integers, not so much.
What a maniac!
Joy of Clojure & SICP. To a lesser extent, Learn You a Haskell. 7 Languages in 7 Weeks is an excellent good baby step book if these are too daunting. 7in7 was my first intro to many new ideas.

Any language worth learning has this property of influencing the way you think forever. TDD, Code Complete &co are all very integrated into mainstream industry and are no longer novel. If you find yourself needing to recommend your colleagues to read Code Complete you might consider working on the skills to get a better job.
> This is a limp answer, he seems to be selling another pen, not the one in his hands.

This answer is not enough "out of the box".

> Why not get a beautiful bimetal nib fountain pen with navy ink?

This answer is too much "out of the box" for most CEO's.
Hopefully all of the websites I visit have disabled all of their telemetry as well, but I doubt it.
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ASCII wasn't nearly as universal as you think it was.

And a byte never meant 8 bits, that's an octet.

ASCII definitely was - and is - a very useful standard, but it does not have the place in history that you assign to it.

In the world of micro-computing it was generally the standard (UNIX, the PC and the various minicomputers also really helped). But its limitations were apparent very soon after its introduction and almost every manufacturer had their own uses for higher order and some control characters.

Systems with 6 or 7 bits to a byte would not be 'massively incompatible' they functioned quite well with their own software and data encodings. That those were non-standard didn't matter much until you tried to import data from another computer or export data to another computer made by a different manufacturer.

Initially, manufacturers would use this as a kind of lock-in mechanism, but eventually they realized standardization was useful.

Even today such lock-in is still very much present in the word of text processing, in spite of all the attempts at getting the characters to be portable across programs running on the same system and between various systems formatting and special characters are easily lost in translation if you're not extra careful.

Ironically, the only thing you can - even today - rely on is ASCII7.

Finally we've reached the point where we can drop ASCII with all its warts and move to UNICODE, as much as ASCII was a 'beautiful piece of design' it was also very much English centric to the exclusion of much of the rest of the world (a neat reflection of both the balance of power and the location of the vast majority of computing infrastructure for a long time). If you lived in a non-English speaking country ASCII was something you had to work with, but probably not something that you thought of as elegant or beautiful.
Which investigation?