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one of the basic purposes of system architecture is to partition a system into one of roles and responsibilities.

For instance, software belongs to the ISV; configuration belongs technicians, and business rules belong to analysts. Since each have their own core competencies and access to tools, one would not expect the system analyst to write the rules out in C++ even if the system was developed in that language.

However, the author is right in that traditional programming processes still ought to apply, and many in non-programming fields will have to learn this skill before they can execute this properly.

Rule engines like Tibco actually provide tools for users to perform regression tests. In fact, in the game world, Chris Crawford had an interactive story engine that will perform regression tests on their storylines - which I find very cool.
looks like this is a list of "how to" instructions than why use git. take it for what it is.

I actually have used both tortoiseSVN and git, and I'm actually in love with git!

you should give it a try.
The text in your link claims: "it is illegal for a FORTRAN subroutine to call itself recursively, either directly or indirectly". That is not true anymore (for almost 20 years), since Fortran 90 has 'recursive' keyword with which you can declare that a subroutine can be used recursively.

(Also the all-caps spelling, FORTRAN, strongly hints that the link only talks about Fortran 77.)
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Censorship is the wrong approach. Our current regime is anti-civil liberty (free speech included). You need to use the right language against them.

SOPA regulations will increase the size of our government, cost millions of jobs, and billions of dollars in market value, while destroying America's technological edge. The legislation hurts small businesses(how can they have blog comments without being sued under SOPA). Also, you need to find a way to call the bill a tax increase.
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While, yes, docs should actually document all of the cases, this post just assumes developers will actually read the docs and cover all the cases. Would be nice.

Twitter supplying a torture test might make more of a difference -- I don't know.
In this specific course, not much. I personally had no maths education beyond year 12, and only what I'd picked up along the way while reading around the subject. All the maths you'll need to know is explained thoroughly enough in the lectures. I think if you already know linear algebra, you'll have a head start - I didn't know it, and it took a bit of work to get up to speed.

There is a lot of discussion of derivatives and partial derivatives in the course, however it's entirely possible to complete the course and feel comfortable with the material without understanding derivatives. At least, it was for me =)

As for machine learning more generally, I'm certain a greater understanding of the maths behind what's going on would make you a better practitioner. I'm sure there are plenty of people currently making their living applying ML techniques without being maths experts, but I'm also sure the leaders in the ML field are maths experts.
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this is exactly what happens in most Indian engineering Universities, unfortunately...believe me, you never, ever want to be in that situation
Well, just like the average retail investor buys last year's hot mutual fund in the hopes that (usually lucky) outperformance persists, institutional investors also got sold the "look how well my fund did last year" spiel.

But before we think to ourselves "I'd never do that - I know that past performance doesn't have predict future returns..." look at the performance of the super popular Fidelity Contrafund (FCNTX) vs the S&P over the last ten years:

60.09% FCNTX
13.58% .INX (S&P500 Index)

You know that investors every day are being sold this fund using this stat, and (the data shows) buying it.
We're probably at a point where Microsoft considers Chrome, not Firefox, to be the biggest threat to IE.
It's also worth noting that many funds make performance feeds contingent on long term returns.

So for the funds in question, if 2008 knocked out all their returns, they can't collect performance fees again until they have fully recovered from 2008. I.e., no more performance fees until the fund recovers from 2008.
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Greetings fellow disciple of Taleb! :-)
You still use a pen? :)

I don't start a slash from the top or the bottom - I start it from the left, and go up or down.

The reasoning is simple: Draw a straight line. Lean it. Is it leaning left? It's leaning backward. Leaning right? Leaning forward.
As far as economic disparity between rich and poor, social liberties, and corruption: China is far, far worse than the US. Maybe some people can find jobs in China teaching English, but you throw away a lot of other things. This article is optimistic at best.
These future prediction posts all seem to say the same thing about lack of ubiqtuious space travel in the near future. It is a real shame that the economic viability of space exploration and travel hasn't really been figured out yet and it is no longer a priority for government agencies. I would love to think I would get a chance to travel in space eventually.

Heres to hoping for medical advances to prolong life until such a time space travel is as common as a transcontinental flight.
Numb3rs is, to me, a grown-up version of Mathnet,

Whereas Beautiful Mind is spectacularly accurate. I used to make a game with other grad students in the math department, identifying what was on the blackboards in the background. It was always real math.
And what do you propose we do with our long lives without literature and the arts?
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This is of course true. look at 4chan. they have enormous traffic and is real active, but totally annonymous!

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/4chans_chris_poole_face...

http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for...
Why not?

edit: I use git for game development, and we check in some big asset files (uncompressed .wav music tracks etc.). As long as these don't change too often, the repo stays manageable. Up to 10gigs is still a reasonable repository size IMO.
They use all-caps Verdana in their headlines, how am I supposed to take their views on web typography seriously?
"Pollution is horrible, the country is governed by a strict authoritarian regime, and I can't guarantee you won't be poisoned, but come! There are jobs!"

I am 100% sure China is as socially diverse as the United States, and there are lovely people and places. Really though, this is about as tepid a "come hither" piece as I've ever seen.
I highly recommend a commonly ignored part of economics and that is the economics of goods with zero marginal cost of production. The two key texts in this area are:

Yochai Benkler's "The Wealth of Networks"
-- This text is a bit dated (2005) and the first two chapters couldn't be more dry and boring, but after that the economic discussion in the book about how economics changes when the marginal cost of product reaches zero or near-zero is fascinating.

Hal Varian's "Information Rules"
-- This book covers the same ground at Yochai's book, but is less academic in tone. FYI, Varian is Google's chief economist.
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You regret a number of things you've done in your lifetime. It's a part of being human. Do you think Zuck regrets his IM logs:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Damn straight he does. He'd love to take it back. It's in the past, and I think we can all agree that it was an immature comment by an early 20 something and he has since matured.
I'm not Parent, but I think that this is his implementation: https://github.com/nickik/Persistent-Vector-in-Dylan/blob/ma...
The last part (line 222+) is what defines it as a sequence in Dylan.

Dylan (and other multi-dispatch languages) don't have the problem of "adding methods to objects/classes", because methods are standalone entities (first-class, whereas in Scala the are not) that exist independently of the data they operate on.

so you can just "add" a method to something by defining it:

define method upcase(s :: String) => (ret :: String)
// code here
end method upcase;

"abc".upcase // => "ABC"
// is just sugar for
upcase("abc") // => "ABC"

so you could define 'forward-iteration-protocol (a method that returns 8 values) on anything in Dylan (built-in or not) to make it a "Sequence".
I believe this video explains it very nicely in businessman's / lawmaker's terms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM
The top of your monitor should be at eye level. I can't tell from the picture, but it looks like your setup will lead to neck strain.
He's asking for them to release the Kernel source in compilable/working form which it doesn't currently appear to be in. He's not asking for the userland apps, or even binary kernel modules to be released.
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As someone who's recently made the move to China (Hong Kong, and not teaching English), I can say it's a great way for native English speakers to jump start their careers and get responsibilities much faster than at home.

Hong Kong is a bit easier getting used to due to a free internet, less pollution, and stricter food safety laws. But I guess there are more opportunities on the mainland.
Silly question: If I'm understanding this correctly, doesn't this essentially mean that statistically it's possible to live forever? Or is there a point when you statistically have 100% probability of dying?
No, it's not. It works like it's suppossed to do for any (not actual regex) /d+ \/ /d+ . See screenshot here: http://imgur.com/gwlHJ

Fonts supporting the frac feature have a separate set of smaller numbers, and these get dynamically composed into fractions once you type them.
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AdamOutler is not one that would have trouble uploading source code to the device. He's saying that it's not compilable. There are other threads and statements saying there are missing components from the source release.
I was actually afraid that I'd get downvoted for this comment, but I was perfectly serious. A lot of the arguments I hear about Android, iOS, etc rhyme with arguments from 20 years ago: I loved using Macs and I used OS/2, and I didn't listen to the market, preferring instead to argue that the technologies I used were superior. I certainly was correct, but both technologies nearly died in the face of Microsoft's "Church of Marketshare". "Strategy by analogy" is dangerous, but, in this case, I'd put the burden of proof on those who argue marketshare is not supremely important.
"Ironically the site features don't work in IE8."

How is that ironic? Even Microsoft doesn't like to be reminded of IE8.
Would be good to have some information on your site other than that you're venture backed.
Jane Street is pretty well known for their use of OCaml in finance.

http://janestreet.com/technology/articles.php
Instead, I'd say come to Taiwan. All the same good food (or rather even more!), friendly people, great nature, multicultural society, technology everywhere, foreigners are treated well, entrepreneurial spirit, more customer protection (and people stand up for themselves) - and don't have to fight the Great Firewall and political decrees at every step.

(Been here for more than three years and counting:)
The market rate for (caucasian)private school English teachers in urban China is between 100-150 yuan/hour ($15.80-$23.75). The cost of living is higher than you would imagine, but you can live quite inexpensively once you get used to the city.

That being said, I do not personally find such teaching jobs enjoyable. And the author, it seems, is not well acquainted with the drawbacks (or advantages) of living in China. (Read Peter Hessler for an accurate account.)
A lot of reasonable, sensible, intelligent, math & business oriented people saw this coming. I surely did and I'm not a financial professional. Financial products are basically snake oil there to enrich the salesmen at the expense of the clients. The clients eat the losses, the salesmen eat the gains.

The stock market in general is a rigged game there to enrich insiders and salesmen.

The reason financial products proliferate is because a sucker is born every minute and most people are too unimaginative to see alternative avenues of investment.

It's not a productive industry. It's snake oil at best and more realistically is just a giant parasite on the economy.
Well ... maybe just click the link and read the article? It is pretty clear.

Ahh, the famous behavior of Lisp fanatics. Tragic, how it is obvious to everyone – except themselves – why no one wants to use their language.

> No, CL is not statically typed. And your point would be...?

Uh ... what about

a) Author complains about the inability of the compiler to prove some property of his code.

b) Untyped languages – by definition – don't provide any substantial proving abilities based on types.

c) Therefore, you are completely missing the point.
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How does your salary in Hong Kong compare to your previous jobs? Is it at least on the same binary order of magnitude?

Grad jobs in Australia offer at least the minimum wage of $40k per year. Note that I haven't seen a single job offering only $40k. The very very low end of what I've saw is $45k+. I've heard of offers of over 100k for really talented graduates.

I asked around in Hong Kong, and graduates there are only offered around HKD$15000 a month. That is only $25k per year.

I haven't mentioned the long working hours, expensive rent, and relatively expensive cost of living compared to the salary.
(Yeah, sarcasm, but) You don’t have to take any of their views seriously. All they are doing is implement OpenType features. They are not in any way pushing for new features. You can already do that stuff pretty much everywhere except on the web. (Can you imagine how happy the long neglected typography on the web nerd inside me is about this? Well, took ’em long enough.)

InDesign could do all that stuff since forever (literally!). I’m not sure, but I think OS X could, too.

The only fear you can have is that they screw it up. That, however, seems pretty unlikely, considering the trampled path – scratch that – superhighway they are driving on.
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When I first saw this post my initial reaction was...
The data must be wrong, it doesn't make sense!

I thought about it, and thought about it, then I realized it makes perfect sense.

Hedge funds as an asset class should net to zero. Meaning, there should be zero profits on average from Hedge Funds. Since hedge funds hedge, meaning they supposedly eliminate the effect of market movements, the aggregate of all of them should be zero.

Overtime, the bad managers loose their clients money and shutter and the good managers make billions.

Mutual funds should net to inflation.

Anything above zero for hedge funds and inflation for mutual funds represents alpha. (alpha is the additional return the manager returns).

It makes sense that if the industry is returning any profitability to their investors they should be paying a fee. If you pick the right hedge fund manager, you should make excellent returns. Picking the wrong manager results in you taking gigantic losses.

Even the best managers only make 20%+/- in addition to a carrying fee. But, the loosing managers suck the other profits out in carrying fees and losses.

I'm not sticking up for hedge fund managers, but I think it is important to note that it makes sense that 87% "of profits" go to managers after you take out the losses and lost fees on shuttered funds.

Winning funds still only take 20%ish of profits.
Sure, it's optimistic, but he admits it's not for everybody. I think when people have been unemployed for a long time, they become more willing to take risks.
That has nothing to do with the issues mentioned in the original article.

In fact, the thing you described is trivial in Scala.

implicit def Upcase(s: String) = new { def upcase = s.toUpperCase }

"abc".upcase
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This is great. Nice and concise. No zealotry, just sane practical experience. I'm going through exactly the same thing.. Longtime java dev, surprised and delighted by all the activity around node, seriously considering it for my next project. At least for prototyping it. Never imagined i would embrace end to end javascript! But it seems like a nice balance of productivity and robustness.. And the author is right to emphasize the importance of good frameworks. Too many of these new fangled language HN posts overemphasize language-level details and miss out on the critical role of good frameworks in making you productive. For whatever reason (javascript) the node community is super active in this respect.
The one thing that you miss with a desk like this is the ability to have a far off focal point behind your monitor. When you are working and thinking hard at a desk and you want to rest your eyes, it helps to have the space behind the monitor to be open so you can gaze off into the distance.

Mounting the desk on the wall means that you can only gaze at a wall to rest your eyes.

If I recall correctly, this design pattern is discussed in Christopher Alexander's "A Timeless Way of Building"
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He's been there a year and can put in print that this is the 'best decision of his life' ? Seems a bit premature, doesn't it?
Only a truly stupid person would run for political office in search of financial gain. The level of work is extremely high (hours like a startup) but the amounts of money are small. For instance the average House campaign is just a bit over $1 million, and that funds dozens of people working very long hours for almost a year. Compare to capital funding or revenue levels in business. People willing to work that hard could make a lot more money in almost any industry.

As hokey as it sounds, people get involved in politics because they want to change the world. It is the natural end result of activism like we are seeing around SOPA. It's possible that at some point, someone fighting SOPA will decide to work for a candidate or run for office themselves. At that point they'll need to start raising funds. Will that corrupt them automatically? I don't think so.
He's not asking for that. He's an experienced Android kernel hacker. He knows the difference between kernel and userland. He's informing B&N that their kernel source is incomplete. B&N is required by the GPL to release the full source of the kernel, build instructions and everything they compile directly into it (read: not 'apps') in order for another developer to be able to compile the full kernel. All of that is required by the GPL. If you don't follow it, you're not permitted to redistribute works under the license.
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You can make the argument that Harvard is an unregulated hedge fund.

"I say get rid of exemptions on profits while keeping the charitable deduction for donors. Why should Harvard be tax-exempt on the dividends it receives from Microsoft or IBM stock, when everyone else is taxed on that dividend?"

"So, in my mind, Harvard is a hedge fund that has a relatively small, money-losing education business on the side. I can see a justification for an endowment in a world of uncertainty when there are “bankruptcy costs” associated with the failure of a non-profit. However, large endowments are disturbing and are possibly evidence that a non-profit has not followed a zero or negative IRR strategy."

Excerpts from the comments, not from the article

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If I'm not mistaken SOPA can take down websites that merely link to infringing sites. I believe that is very dangerous for the Internet, because it's what it's built on, and it's also very dangerous for freedom of speech. Linking is speech.
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He's an experienced Android kernel hacker, so he's no amateur. He's saying it won't compile using what they've given. He's also stated it fails under the common Android build setups he's used for other Android kernels. One of the requirements of the GPL is to provide the build/make instructions to allow other developers to build it themselves. It would appear B&N isn't quite doing this.
I have worked in Beijing for more than 4 years as a researcher for a big American company (Microsoft). Its not that bad here but you definitely have to fight the traffic, pollution, and the great firewall. The political situation is mostly transparent to us, except via web blocking and some weird archaic events (military parades anyone?). Other places in China are a bit better in terms of environment but then those cities are not as comfortable in western niceties (e.g., coffee shops).

If you are experienced in tech, you can always get a job here that pays fairly well; maybe 80% of what you could make back home if you are just a good developer, more if you are very experienced or in management. The talent market in China is very skewed toward junior workers, and so experience is very much desired. The tech scene here is not very deep, although their are some entrepreneurs who do startups (most of them that I know of are in mobile gaming).
since a large amount of programming is all about state and side effects

IANA web developer, but...

Doesn't web development typically put state into a database system instead of the scripts the server runs to generate the requested pages? It seems reasonable enough to have a function that takes a page request as input, calls some other functions to look up info from the database, then constructs and returns a page and a sequence of changes to make to the database.
That's what the name "hedge" originally meant but for the most part they are pure investment vehicles now.
Silence.

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Yeah, and it's trivially proven. To the extent that hedgy X captures alpha, hedgy Y will not, and since they are both representing the same class of rich suckers, the only money gotten is the rake, aka, the 2-and-20 fee structure: mathematically the only people who can win are the funds themselves. Nothing complicated about it.
Tell them that if SOPA passes, socialist European countries will be more free than America.
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