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You are right in the sense you absolutely cannot get a deep understanding of Statistics without Calculus.

But with a mere background of high school algebra, you can learn more about Stats than most college graduates have, and that knowledge is far more relevant to the day-to-day lives of the average person in America than Calculus is.
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I also tried it some months ago and didn't like it. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but it somehow felt awkward to me. I just downloaded it again though - going to give it another try before I make my final decision.
I never bought that excuse. There's zero scientific evidence for breaking a habit humans and our ancestors have been doing for literally millions of years. "Social interaction was hard" seems like a face saving excuse for "I wasn't able to beat evolution."
Which would be easy to dump off on the provider. "I have a firewall and anti-virus, what more can I be responsible for if my provider isn't securing THEIR network?"

Ignorance of the law isn't a plausible defense in the eyes of the law, but you when you have so many parties besides yourself involved, I would think it would be easier to claim it was something on their end.
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Since alot of us consider ourselves as having "Delayed sleep phase syndrome" I'll also share my sleep cycle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome

I sleep at about 2-3am every night. On weekdays I'll sleep 5-6 hours. On saturday, around 10 hours, and on sunday around 8 hours. That averages to around 6 hours per night.

I've been on this cycle for over 10 years, and even though I always feel bad about it and want to "fix" it, it works quite well.
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Sounds like the old suppliers' adage about WalMart applies here: "Not doing business with WalMart is awaiting death. Doing business with WalMart is inviting death."
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Aside from highly specialized tasks, or those leveraging media/interfaces that web apps don't yet have access to, I'd imagine that's quite possible; not unlike the situation on the desktop today.

I'm just not optimistic about that "next battery technology" arriving any time soon.
"""But surely the success and therefore usefulness of Wikipedia is down to the fact that it's available to everyone with a web browser? """

It's success when it was created, and maybe now, yes.

But how about a future where everything has a mobile phone and/or tablet, but fewer have or care to use a web browser?
But the companies who what those workers do.
$0.0013 doesn't sound a lot. But it's equivalent to about $1.50 if somebody listens to an album 100 times.

That's less than if they were to sell the album in a shop. However they don't have the same distribution costs and Spotify users are almost always going to listen to far more music than they would if they bought CDs.

So while $0.0013 per stream sounds stupid, it's closer to a sensible level than one would intuitively think.
The reason why this conversation is coming up again is that so many applications that are web applications on the desktop are more commonly accessed as native apps on mobile. For example, on iOS I use a native client for IMDB, my bank, Mint, Wikipedia, and so on. But on the desktop I use web sites for these services. There has been a shift back to native on mobile.

I agree that we'll end up with both but perhaps more importantly is that the difference between web and mobile will blur together even more.
Much of the stdlib was written before niceties like keyword params and generators, others just don't have as nice a design as they could, hence the helpers.
This conflates the act of creation with the public presentation of what has been created.

Lots of people create lots of things that are never shared. They are no less creative for that.
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That "if" is doing way, way too much work in your sentence. Yes, I must admit it's possible CIQ's executives and engineers are hardened criminals waiting to flee the country the the first hint of an investigation.

But I find it very unlikely (the fact that they haven't fled being a rather important piece of information, no?). I'm far more willing to believe that the FBI (quite correctly) sees CIQ's data as a useful surveillance tool and is using it in active investigations.

That three of you guys now are going out of your way to (seriously?) argue the opposite seems just mind boggling to me. I mean come on: of course the FBI wants CIQ data.
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Nice. So that pretty much guarantees that only those SAAS apps that are operated by the largest corporations, and that harvest your personal data most efficiently, are the ones that dominate. Everything else is only that much more likely to disappear in an instant, taking with it not only all your documents, but the app's functionality itself as well. I really don't know what people like you are smoking.
I thought it was interesting everybody thought the site was s joke. Now we have a highly trafficked site using it as a means to convict the companies who are going after the pirates.
It has to be noted that a lot of the >referential< constraints are just necessary because an RDBMS wants you to split your "object" over several tables. What I found pleasant with the non-relational databases is that these constraints CAN just fall away because you e.g. nest "comments" inside of an array in a "blogpost" object. When deleting the blogpost all comments will be deleted too and cascading deletes are just not necessary.

Some of the other constraints you'll have to implement in your software. The advantage: you don't put application logic outside of your application. The disadvantage: Every bit of code touching that value has to know the limitations.
I wonder if this could be solved by using a message queue and just have dedicated step for updating/deleting data
Totally agree.

This 'issue' only matters to developers. My mom or sister or any other non-developer would never make any of these claims. For them, it's all on the Internet. A web page is a web page and an app is an app. The thing that matters most is the connection to do something.

There's room for both and I get so tired hearing these pointless arguments..
You're assuming that the only people interested in these languages are only people locked in to Java-the-platform. That defiantly isn't the case, especially for Scala and Clojure, as they offer combinations of features and language traits that aren't really available elsewhere.
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Long caching headers can keep your javascript heavy web-app from being downloaded every time - the first time you hit the url it "installs" (by caching the files) and after that it loads in about the same time as a native app.
Yeah, the Jesuits said something like that, too. Their distinguished pupils included Voltaire and the Castro brothers. One begins to suspect that pedagogues overrate their influence.
Faulty headline; FBI did not admit to anything. Please stop paying attention to findings of an idiot who had no clue what he is doing.

http://packetstormsecurity.org/news/view/20285/Dan-Rosenberg...

Read what real researchers have to say on this subject.
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Another round of anecdotal evidence:

I did the everyman for about three months when my startup was doing a big pivot a few years ago. It took about two weeks of being completely blurry to transition, but once I did, it was very effective.

I would wake up ~7AM and get to work, have my first ~1/2 hour nap at 11AM, next nap at 6 in the afternoon, and then a nap at midnight. I'd be totally awake and aware until ~3:30AM, and then I'd go to sleep.

After the transition, once my body got settled, I'd usually be awake a few minutes before I set an alarm, and my caffeine needed to stay alert went way down.

Like most of the other anecdotal evidence, I stopped for social reasons - my girlfriend wasn't a fan of me coming home from work at 6, immediately snagging a nap, and then be up rattling away until 3 in the morning every day.

Also I wasn't able to fill the day - I'd be burnt out on work after 12+ hours of grinding away on some Rails code, and have to do something else, so I'd either tinker in the garage, cruise the web, or play games. Once I started up with the video games, I decided it wasn't worth it, and flipped back to a "normal" sleep cycle.

It took ~2 nights to go back to a normal cycle.
It's much cheaper to counterfeit old currency that is still in circulation than to invest a lot of money in trying to replicate the latest security features.
> Once things start moving smoothly, they tend to continue to work smoothly.

This is flat out wrong. If you're on a language all the cool kids are using, you'll find those cool kids have an obsession with perfection. To the point where they deprecate things instantly and break everything that worked before. See NodeJS and Python for examples.

If you have 10K lines of code, not so bad. So you do a rewrite every year. When you have 100K lines of code or more, their obsession with perfection will destroy your business.

A rewrite becomes an immense undertaking. You end up running old versions. Those old versions require dependencies which require you to run old operating systems. Eventually the entire ecosystem implodes.

But guess what? Code that was written in PHP3 over 10 years ago works just as well today under PHP5. You can even mix and match. Does that make the syntax of the language ugly? Sure. It even encourages bad practices. So what? You're running a business, not an art gallery. Code should be beautiful, but not at the expensive of having a successful business and a working product.
On linux, I've been using tiled window managers exclusively for about three years now and the lack of good tiling features is almost painful when I use windows (though the win7 tiling features certainly were a welcome addition). I personally hate having to reach for the mouse if I'm typing, so tiled window managers are a perfect fit for me.
The problem with Scala is that you end up having to use lost of Java libraries.

And those were not written to be used with Scala.
As a seller on Amazon, do not expect the same level of service and efficiency you receive as a buyer. I had a client selling on Amazon that had all kinds of surprises. On one occasion, they took down listings because the product was selling too well - it took days to resolve, and the launch's momentum was killed.

Here's the key to getting these issues resolved:
1) Always use phone support, not email support. Email support will almost always paste the easiest reply - it may as well be automated. Phone support gets you a a real human being on the phone who will actually listen and understand what's going on.
2) Keep escalating. If they deny your appeal, appeal again. There is absolutely no consistency in how they handle these situations. One person may say there's nothing that can be done, the next will push a button and instantly make the problem go away. And the more you annoy them, the more it's worth their while to actually look at and resolve your problem.

Good luck.
1. do go see a therapist. seriously. just talking to someone who will listen to you without judgement is healing in itself, but a therapist will also be able to help you set goals and work towards them. and that is not even to mention the depression.

2. see a naturopathic doctor. a lot of people suffer from non-pathologic illness that are not typically diagnosed by by conventional medical doctors. here's some common things:

* adrenal fatigue
* vitamin D deficieny
* sub-clinical hypothyroidism
* blood sugar issues
* food/environmental allergies.

i could go on. the mind can often be greatly affected by the health of the body.

3. start attending technology users groups. interacting with real people will; give you much more perpsective thatthan reading about the great things that bubble up to the top of HN.

best of luck. know that you are not alone; a lot of us have been in your place. it feels horrible, but it is temporary, so hang in there.
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Funny I've been thinking about just this .. .my gf is far too good ... I'll probably never beat her but getting within a reasonable percentage seems reasonable. Maybe writing some minigames would help. Not just for learning two letter words, but helping with stuff like being able to quickly spot popular prefixes and suffixes..
Because ":split otherfile" is faster, easier and provides a better result. I don't need to fuss with windows or even take my fingers off the keyboard.
Is the point of this to fund project like kickstarter? Because I think what the FOSS community needs are much smaller, less marketable fixes and bounties. Like 'port django to python3' not 'write a new FOSS video editor'.
I don't think they mean spoof in such a technical way. I think they just mean it as "the You Have Downloaded website could be just generating files to go with IPs", and similarly "any torrent logs may have been spoofed/made up."

Obviously the next step for the You Have Downloaded site is to track in real-time and say "This IP is currently downloading x,y,z."
I tried überman couple months back. I started of by not sleeping for 2 days so when I do start to sleep I go right in to rem sleep. It was really rough for the first week and then I started getting the hang of it 30mins of sleep every 4 hours. The problem was that around the 3 hour 30 mins mark my brain would just shutdown, I couldn't think straight until I got that 30mins of nap in. If I was driving it become really dangerous. I did it for about 3 week and gave up on it as it become really hard to keep social interaction on this sleep cycle. I also had to stop drinking alcohol and coffee just to maintain this sleep cycle and avoid high in suger food before my naps as they always led to be not geting into rem sleep right away. All in all I will not be doing this again, I'm happy with my 7 hours a night of sleep.
No, he's stalking the poet, silly. :-D
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CERN openly discriminates people, who weren't born in western Europe. MC-EST.

"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y) [where Y>X]

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I'm assuming it is to differentiate it from TM1 during the alpha.
The up side is, you can easily create elegant conventions for this. The payoff is less friction between you and your features.
The Gun.io creator posted several bounties previously, which are still up. Including several which are fixed or have fixes in his GitHub pull requests (for LightWrite).

They haven't been closed so I assume the bounties haven't been paid. I get bad feelings about this.
Once you involve a photocopier in your "sketching" process you've officially jumped the shark. I am a big advocate of sketching wireframes before moving to the computer, but that means paper, ball point pen, and a minute or less per sketch. What he is creating is hand-crafted design - it looks beautiful, it communicates ideas very well, but it is totally inefficient in reaching the end goal of a usable, functional product.
Like the Google Search Bot. That's always fun (and strangely unlocks a lot of sites).
I have some hacks for making migrations literally painless I'll share soon. It takes some tinkering to figure things out but that's why it's exciting, because the solutions are actually better.
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>Because you can get a web application up and running quickly in PHP

You can get a web app up and running quickly in good languages too, and then you also don't have ongoing maintenance nightmares and the massively increased hardware and hosting costs that come with PHP.
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My girlfriend is looking to switch careers but doesn't have any experience outside of the call center job she's held since college. She's finding it impossible to get a job in the areas that she's interested in (librarian/archivist, executive assistant, customer service, office manager) and is emotionally drained from writing cover letters and sending résumés to job sites only to hear complete silence.

I had the idea that she could work at a startup as an intern. She'd get lots of experience doing a wide variety of things that she'd immediately be good at (customer support, office manager, receptionist) as well as get to be introduced to completely new things such as marketing, product, or design, which could be her dream job. Plus, she'd learn about the tech scene and could network to find other opportunities instead of having to blindly submit résumés.

I think that even just three months at a startup would give her much more experience than working as a drone somewhere else, and she's really excited at the prospect of working in a small team with other young people.

Has anyone else gotten their significant other into the tech scene? How should I approach another startup if I were to ask them in her stead (she's in Atlanta now, I'm in NYC)? What things should I do to help prep her for her interviews?
I did (but admittedly not for long). It didn't have the same level of polish. Has this changed? I can already use TM bundles on Sublime Text, but it just felt more feature complete.
It is new for some people, not everyone lives in your world or has the same experiences.
How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper

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Unlike eBay or craigslist, items on Amazon are listed under fixed, pre-existing products, with variations (in condition, included accessories, etc.) noted in its comments field. On a baseline seller account, it's not even possible to create a listing for a new item that doesn't already exist on Amazon.com.

So I found an X220 listing with different specs, and noted the specs of mine in the comments. The other two used listings had done the same.
"but it is totally inefficient in reaching the end goal of a usable, functional product."

Why? Inefficient, yes your opinion but this does not prove this process would not yield a usable product.

Your comment makes me wonder how we ever got to where we are today with computers.
So far it feels difficult to administrate outside of code, but I am confident that will improve.
arj barker has a great routine about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEaBtgl7K7o&t=120
I'm talking at a simpler level than you are.

From what I can tell (and remember), elementary & high school math is specifically designed to take you from 0 to calculus. (well, maybe not ALL the way unless you take AP math)

Personally, I find basic stats and prob far more valuable in day to day life than calculus. So my point was just that I wish schools would focus on that area of math as the goal.
Eh, it's a continuum. It's definitely on the refined side of sketching. Really, sketching is a subset of drawing.
But, I don't use the languages those cool kids are using. :) I imagine I would have to formulate a very defensive strategy to deal with breaking changes that would gobble up my productivity gains from using said cool language, just like the people that use Mongo have to DIY the checks that RDBMSes get for free.

I use Java and C++, and I don't rush update the second new libraries become available. My team has a large regression suite, too, so it's been less painful (can't say painless) to detect breakage when our dependencies need to be updated.
The patterns that could emerge from that are exciting.
I don't think I'd call it amazing, but Facebook isn't as big as you'd think (especially compared to Google). It's around 3,000 total, with some fraction of that being engineers. Engineering currently makes up 64 of 402 open positions.
I really hate ST2's handling of project-wide file system controls on the left. Renaming a file keeps the old buffer open and I've been caught a few times re-saving under the old name. I've yet to figure out how to open a project directory from the GUI, too.

I always liked the file browser column in TM better.
Or I'm really fast?
I believe Steve skipped several steps in team formation and jumped to "capability" aspects of the individual team members in forming the team which I consider to be the last step before forming a core startup team.

From my past startup experience, the core startup team need to consider following aspects before considering working together.

1. Passion (intrinsic motivation) - Ideally, each team members must be passionate at high level about the domain or technology or market everyone will be working in. And, the intrinsic motivation shouldn't be $$$ as the light at the end of the tunnel.

2. Chemistry - There needs to be chemistry between the team members but avoid the extreme ends of groupthink (likely to miss information that might be critical to success) and devil's advocate (likely to never agree on taking next step or becoming disenchanted).

3. Commitment - Once team members have passion for the domain, technology or market, then work together to refine the high level vision into the specific business idea, problem you will be solving etc. A team that comes up with the idea together tend to stay together. If it is one person idea that other bought into initially, that person need to continuously cheer-leading the rest otherwise at first hurdle, the people who bought in will start considering alternate options or walking away.

Once you have figured out these three aspects, then consider the "capability" aspect and who will do what and what need to learn by someone to be able to fill holes.
but the point is, why did he just jump to poet and not other than this? it can't be coincident either.
It can be both.

Only a very few people are willing to adhere as tightly to a set of ideals as RMS, despite the severe personal hassle and time/energy expenditure. Perhaps 'nutcase' is unnecessarily pejorative but his behavior places him well outside the bell curve under which the vast bulk of humanity falls. Regardless of whether those ideals are correct/justifiable/etc.
That is actually the principle behind enterprise java, I thought. Force everything into its own isolated and replaceable small black box so that your grunt development can be done by "commodity" programmers.
You know the people who make phone software are actually aware of this?

In Android, the concept of Activity and Intent serves to essentially promote this. Its not a solved problem by far, but work HAS been done in that direction. Rest assured, this work is only going to speed up from here.

After all, smartphones and tablets are marketed as consumption devices. The manufacturers would be hugely remiss if they didn't learn anything from the internet. And as we know, Steve Jobs and his industry descendants are anything but remiss.

This is not to say the OP are wrong. Web doesn't compete with apps, it supports them. The two are complementary paradigms, not competing.
All of my weekend listing was done from home. Don't remember accessing my seller account anywhere else recently.
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