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> design the math curriculum so that it steers you towards game development

And suddenly 95% of 5th graders are doing math curriculums with a specific focus on game development. Games and gaming are tremendously appealing to young kids over nearly everything else.
> Until they master such exotic technologies as "streaming video" and "volume control" they're going to keep driving people to torrenting.

They won't master. They focus on monetization before they got the basics in place. Case in point MSNBC. Unbelievable where in the world the page is loading scripts from and phoning home to. Add weak streaming and of course the experience is brittle and virtually unusable. If MSNBC wants to share information with serious partners they may do that but the cheap way they let everyone add a tracker is embarrassing.
Wow, dude, stop whining and start trolling the hell out of this SV techbro shitfest. The more we work them, the harder their job becomes.
Google didn't "solve" spam at all, they are just playing rough. The jail sentences for spam network operators, the the shift to ddos/mining/etc of botnets, and user awareness, bitten by spam helped, but not solved. You probably used a crappy provider, with no feedback loop for spam before.
Some teachers don't have to do that.

One reason we sent our daughters to (private) Montessori school was to have teachers and lessons completely free from Common Core.

Note that Bill Gates also sent his children to a private school that never adopted Common Core, although he was instrumental in pushing and forcing Common Core requirements across the public schools of the country.
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I think you probably need to split gun control proponents into (at least) a couple of buckets.

There are casual gun control proponents who likely don't know this about the gun industry.

There is another, much smaller, but potentially more effective, cohort that very much do. I've read literature from and spoken to activists that very much are attacking assault weapons strategically. Both because of them being an easier target, especially after a mass shooting, and because of the revenue implications.
I feel like there was an expectation that some kind of e-paper would become ubiquitous before print died. But it's looking increasingly unlikely.
I just left a project after I was unable to make peace with being the cleanup guy for an endless, never-improving stream of mediocre code. I am convinced that it's faster to write solid code in the first place.

Once there are two or more interacting layers of code, it gets really hard for the refactoring to catch up. If you fix a bug in a basic layer, the leaves of the codebase break. If you fix a bug in the leaves, you never get to refactor the core. If you want to stop the world and refactor everything at once, you get in the way of your quicker counterpart.

Or think of a multithreaded codebase without any synchronization. It definitely works well enough for demoing an "almost finished" product, but cleaning it up requires a lot of time and can introduce temporary regressions (deadlocks) that are worse than the bugs that the cleanup is supposed to solve (very spurious data corruption). It's a bit like the bullshit asymmetry:

https://twitter.com/ziobrando/status/289635060758507521

Ruby on Rails (from the OP) makes it easy to build many kinds of maintenance deathtraps.
And my point was that it shouldn't be that way.
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We use this for some stuff at my office. It's handy.
Hmmm haven't noticed it but I don't use it too much, just for testing. Might have to switch for a while to see if I like it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/business/business-advanced...
I think it's a dubious waste of time, because forcing people to take ethics classes wouldn't meant that they are going to stick to the proposed ethics. I've took ethics class in my Uni back in the day because I was curious what it was about and it also was a fairly easy one to pass. The prof was nice and informative, but her conclusions were something I would disagree with all the time, and I left the course only with knowledge of some historical stuff, but none of my views on what's ethical and what's not had not been changed. If anything I only got to solidify my position based on facts provided by her. Unless people would adopt these ethics willfully there is no forcing them to.
Can't there be some way of trust/proxy setup to be used here? I'm available...
If you don't happen to read the article and think to mention the anonymous trust way of accepting the winnings. She can't do that either.

"The state allows people to form an anonymous trust, NewHampshire.com reported, but it’s a moot point for the woman — she signed her name on the back of the ticket shortly after winning, and altering the signature would nullify the ticket."

Oh and an excellent tidbit out of the story is that the attorney representing her actually blogged about the winner having been in NH and how the winner should not sign the back of the ticket. Apparently the ticket winner is now using that attorney to represent her in the courts. https://www.shaheengordon.com/New-Hampshire-Legal-Blog/2018/...
I understand why people don't want everyone to know they're rich. I'm rich (not $560M, but some) and you can figure that out from various news stories, and it does affect relationships somewhat. More so outside Silicon Valley.

On the other hand, I understand why lotteries want to publicize winners in their marketing.

A fair deal might be, that the publicity value is defined to be X% (say 10%) of the prize, and you can take the full prize with publicity, or the prize - X% anonymously.
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Exactly, don't put all your eggs in the same basket, especially if you're mixing different types of eggs (personal vs. professional identities).

And don't put any valuable eggs in a free basket.
the design of git tends to encourage creating a lot of individual, single-purpose repositories

Which is weird, considering it was designed to be used as the Linux repository control system, which is a monolithic repo.
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My understanding is that the lotto wants free advertising at the cost of the winners being made very public.

It seems like this individual is doing a tremendous public service by taking this to court. I think most of us would balk at the risk of somehow losing the millions of dollars.
It's not particularly popular to say here but the reputation of Georgia Tech has decreased more than little bit since the OMSCS program started.
Risk management barely answers the question. I can sell when I go below a threshold, but how do I buy back in?
Maybe, but then when you turned off the computer, you might have gone to sit in front of the TV with your family, or played a board game, or talk on the phone with your friends. All of those things can happen online, and so I don't know that it's fair to compare computer usage of the 90s with computer usage today.
I tend to tune out every time a journalist cites the main problem with "the dark side of tech" as "fake news".

Firstly, it's devolved into a term to play upon the confirmation bias of people who think those who hold a different opinion than them did not arrive there out of differing life experience, but because they must be either stupid or evil.

Secondly, there are many dark sides of tech that are of greater importance than what is usually a subjective assessment that news is fake; such as unfettered personal data mining, engineered addictiveness, cooperation with oppressive governments, and growing soft-censorship of users whose politics differ from that of major platforms' operators.
I hope she wins. There's a pretty funny (or sad, I suppose) reddit comment about winning the lottery that seems pretty true:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_...

Winning the lottery (publicly, at least) seems to be a real monkey's paw wish.
My doctorate is not in CS, Math or an engineering field, but I did (somewhat unknowingly) apply ML/statistics to my thesis, which was (more or less) generative adversarial search 20+ years ago.

Everything I did then turned out to be strongly related to techniques like Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, Principal Component Analysis, Boosting, Bagging, and bunch of other techniques that get reinvented over and over again. Once I mapped them over to their ML incarnations, they were familiar territory going forward.
His problems are tragic. His life is innumerably more difficult because he's schizophrenic. His career and his personal relationships have suffered, and the last I heard he's effectively homeless, living out of a vehicle. His life is filled with skill, but it is not quiet, and you're coming awful close to calling his struggles entertaining. (I know it's not what you meant to say.)

Let's not romanticize what he's going through.

I'm not sure what your problems are like, but I'm glad you've found a positive way of dealing with them.

Terry's videos being gone is actually pretty tragic; they were interesting, and his accomplishments can't be denied, and should be documented.
The SAT solvers related to Lingeling use kNN to "predict the origin of the benchmark" (I assume to figure out which bucket or set of SAT problems the system was given and then tune itself to the optimal settings in the bucket).
I believe this answers your question:
https://superuser.com/questions/1293529/when-did-chrome-star...
Correct. I've used Netflix accounts in Canada, the US, Taiwan/HK, Japan, and the UK. They all have different content. But access the content is tied to the account's home region rather than your location (at least for the short term on trips).
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I agree, but perhaps a functional search is asking for too much. I'd be happy with either. If you don't have a good key word to use, then jumping to a date range is the next best thing.
This is an accurate statement.

Sometimes tech reminds me rich, bored, stay at home SO's that are constantly redecorating their house. Not because they need it, but because they are bored and the next trendy design looks cool anyway.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/538966/what-is-the-oldest...
Also an irony in criticizing both devalued community and people living at home in their twenties/thirties. In many (most?) non-American cultures, emphasizing collectivist/communal values goes hand-in-hand with living at home in your twenties, which is deemed perfectly normal. In fact, I would say it's more abnormal on a global scale to kick your kids out at 18.
They currently can't get my messages to reliably send, stop my UI from turning to Korean, keep my pinned chat groups at the top, or make the answer call button work reliably.

I wouldn't get your hopes up
I think requiring payment when your customer is at their least pleased is probably not a good business move.
The top end of engineers and researchers in artificial intelligence earn magnificent salaries. That domain is not, itself, the top end of software engineering, it's a specialization of it with its own salary track. You aren't actually comparing like for like here, because most engineers doing work in "artificial intelligence" aren't even pulling down the salary you noted for the top end of plumbing (which is itself wildly unrealistic).
Did Erling Johnson's work build on this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrophosphate_process
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Too bad, so sad. Potential top 1% problems. I live from paycheque to paycheque. I have no sympathy for her. Why did she play in the first place?
If that were so I would expect aversion therapy to work.
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Can someone suggest any service that do this? Also how would you build an AI to sync audio transcriptions? I input some audio and text and the AI outputs when each word starts
Thanks, unfortunately I can't take too much of the credit personally as I've only been involved in the last few months of a multi-year project. Might be Brett that you know?
just visit their twitter help acct and you'll see how grate their customer service is https://twitter.com/UpworkHelp/status/963348399213834240
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I wonder how air-tight you can make that reasoning. I suspect you could structure the settlement as paying to use the underlying technology _including_ the patents etc., rather than licensing the patent per se (so the fees paid are not directly predicated on the existence of a patent).

Be interesting to see how the courts would react to that though, and if they see it as a sign you are negotiating in bad faith.
"The medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm.."

I always liked that "do no harm" statement. Notice how it seems to imply "do only good" but it doesn't. Clever.
I just completed the task in under 10 minutes for the example socialite one. It would be neat if the candidate could mark the repo as finished, so that you don't have to wait the whole time before it is over. Cool idea overall!
I understand the desire to be anonymous, but things like this get out. While taking this route might benefit future winners, it will likely make her own situation worse via the "Streisand effect": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
If I'm not mistaken, it's about more than just publicity; it's also about avoiding fraud. As someone put it before "come spend money on a chance to win a very large pot of money; don't worry, we have given some out before, but you just have to believe us".
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There is no such thing as a "fair" salary, especially when you're talking about the differences between $300k, $750k, and $2 million. There is what the market is paying similar people, what leverage you can use to negotiate higher pay, and how much [above|below] market your employer is willing to pay to keep you away from its competition, among other things.

The entirely idea that it's "fair" to pay someone $400k a year to do a job but "unfair" to pay them $350k to do the same job is silly.
The Reasonable Person Principle was the best thing I learned from CMU

* Everyone will be reasonable.

* Everyone expects everyone else to be reasonable.

* No one is special.

* Do not be offended if someone suggests you are not being reasonable
Strongly agree. Still, do keep some of your powder dry and look for opportunities to join a better team or company.

An engineer once told me he cried with joy when he saw the interface and used some subsystem I had written a year earlier (in C, for an embedded system). So, I encourage you to write such great, beautiful code that other engineers will cry with joy when they behold and maintain it.
> Yes. They get to write off equipment, marketing, etc. "It's not like plumbers are working jobs back to back 40hrs a week." In California probably more like 60hrs.

Are you just making up numbers? You've asked for sources, other commenters (including myself) have provided several, and the sources disagree with what you're stating spectacularly. I'm baffled by how confident you're being about something that, as far as everyone can currently tell in this thread, is plainly incorrect.
Your lack of emotional depth is one of the many reasons you will likely remain out of the 1% wealth cohort. Best of luck.
The point isn't to have sympathy for her. The point is to call out violations of privacy for anyone - no matter how much money they have.
Thanks! I suspected I had the wrong angle but couldn't figure out the right one.
And large parts of those photos can be seen still today.

Biggest differences I noticed:

1. You won't see those cars obviously
2. Shop fronts have changed styles. More modern branding. More large chains

But if anything I was surprised by familiar they look. I grew up in London in the 70s and 80s and I remember scenes almost identical to those. And even still you can find large parts of London that resemble that.
At that point, you could probably bring in Legal. Not only are these just poor coding practices, but some of these things are very serious security vulnerabilities. If you've got contracts with clients, or even if you're licensed straight to individuals, it's a good bet that you're breaching some data security/privacy rules. Legal would definitely want to know and take steps to correct.
It honestly may have been, I had no money in it, and didn't try to do anything with it until after the money came through when I transferred it out.
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"This is one of my least favorite innovations of Silicon Valley, the opaque, confusing, no stated reasons practice of banning users.
"
This isn't a silicon valley innovation, it was the modus operandi of insurance companies, disability roles etc for years.

(and i'm sure various industries before that)
The worst case would be FB never being compliant. Withdrawing from the markets would be the best case scenario, given non-compliance.
I can't speak to other countries, but here in the UK, you basically have to be on Facebook to engage in anything at university. Societies, sports clubs, parties, they're all organised on Facebook. There's not even a comparable service for people to theoretically move to. So I would disagree, it's still a vital service for young people.
Edie Freedman came up with the concept and chose the early animal prints.

See: http://animals.oreilly.com/origin-of-species/
If a customer needs same-day turnarounds day in and day out they're getting a hell of a lot more than $280/mo in value out of the service, I would imagine. Maybe not enough for a full-time designer but certainly more than $280/mo.
How'd it go? :)
> Google could offer a search engine free of any ads, as they did in the early days. They have more than enough cash to do it. This would make users very happy. Google could try to support itself by selling something, besides advertising.

This reasoning doesn't make sense to me. Many startups offer their services for free or low cost, burning cash, to acquire users/mind-share until they find a way to be profitable. Google and Facebook found advertising as that way, and thus survived instead of running out of money. And are able to offer their services for free.

"Google should ditch that and start again" doesn't even start to make sense.
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I've heard people longing for this, but unless you have huge binary assets, what's the point?

When he checks the history in either of those, he only sees commits that affected those directories or their subdirectories.

And in git, you just enter the directory and do "git log ."
Self-regulation should always come with a clear, convincing, and transparent rationale.
>> In practice, they're often frustrated for years by the lack of infrastructure to work on their ideas, but live with it because life is good.

Definitely heard this problem for Silicon Valley returnees to some smaller markets.
The Barbican makes me feel like I've woken up in a J.G. Ballard novel.
I honestly don't see the issue. The only reason the lotto works is because people know you can win and it's not rigged, and the only way you can know that is by making the winners public. Finally, the only reason said lottery was $XXXM is because of the people who tried and failed, funding it. I doubt lotteries would pay such large amounts long term if anonymous lotteries were standard as fraud is inevitable.

Being able to take half a billion dollars of free money anonymously and safely is hardly a right. I mean, you could simply not take it.

Seems fair to me. Am I missing something?
Presumably that rule was in place when she played, so I don't see why she should win. Even if I sympathize with the desire to not have all of humanity know you're now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Not giving me anything useful on this pretty straightforward table:

http://www.dsden93.ac-creteil.fr/spip/spip.php?page=ecoles
I concur. We used that book to teach three of our children to read at ages 3 to 4 and it is mind numbing. It worked for our kids though. One of them was reading "The Hobbit" when she was 5 years old and except for being a professional musician she's more or less a normal young adult now.
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Kuwait's position, of a rich weak nation with no military alliances bordering a hungry strong one, was somewhat untenable. It is folly to fight a war for a short-term benefit. If spanking Saddam and then leaving would so obviously result in his invading Kuwait again, then the decision to deploy was effectively a decision to deploy indefinitely [0]. That was also folly. One can forgive impermanent mistakes, however. In retrospect, withdrawing troops soon after they repelled Iraq and then encouraging fracking in USA would have been a better decision. It was certainly discussed at the time, and Korea was certainly mentioned in those discussions. The reason we didn't "choose" to do that, is that military-industrial complex would have made much less money in that case. That's always true, however. An ineffective military that is always fighting is an eternal fountain of money for them.

[0] One supposes that another option would have been to disrupt the governance of Iraq such that it would stop invading Kuwait, but later experience suggests that could also have had its drawbacks...
Obscure programming tests will also filter out all of your examples. I think finding someone that is genuinely interested in programming, more than just a 9-5, is a better hire than someone who studied "Cracking the Coding Interview". Also, if someone is super dedicated enough to run marathons, I would put them at the top of the list as well. All opinion of course!
If you dial back the date in streetview, you can see it more clearly.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5189372,-0.0763029,3a,75y,...
This is really cool! I've been looking for something like this to give an app walkthrough without needing test data or a demo environment -- thanks guys!
So the question is who if not Google? If Google steps aside, who?
Really? She knew what she was getting into. No one is forcing her to play the lottery.
That's a relief. :)
Aren't court proceedings public record? Her name would come out that way even if she wins. Can she grant another person the authority to sue on her behalf and remain anonymous?
an incredible way to improve the traditional delivery service through technology.
The point of it is to avoid fraud.
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Remittances, family abroad (easy via BTC to circumvent restrictions). Bitcoin is stable compared to a hyper inflation of +2,616%.
I disagree. not like Walmart can deny their employees their pay. The move to independent contractual work instead of salaried work means workers are at the mercy of not only a bureaucracy but simply not getting paid.
It is very, very important in this situation, however, to not be outright mean. Do not let anything through that you would not be comfortable maintaining, but don't be a dick about it. All that will end up accomplishing is that you'll be blamed for things not going through, and then you'll lose your credibility as steward of the code. People will go over your head to the boss, who will just make you pass it.