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The situation is bad enough that I'm a little sensitive to agreeing with what you've said here. According to a few posts up, that makes me a racist, I guess.

The problem is, I never really understood why it's a stretch to believe that in all of the messy soup of chromosomes and culture (variables of a magnitude beyond what we could ever possibly research) that there are tangible differences between human beings. And once you start acknowledging differences, you have to acknowledge that those differences are going to give rise to advantages and disadvantages to things so random that they might not ever matter. But sometimes they do.

Are these differences, this genetic diversity, the root cause of global inequality? Based on my understanding of economics, I don't believe so. But that doesn't mean the conversation should be off the table.
At some point I'm going to have to get off of Gnome 2, not looking forward to it.

Gnome 2 + Compiz + Gnome-Do completely and utterly rocks, particularly with a dual monitor setup.

KDE was a bit of a mess last I checked. Some people are saying XFCE is maybe somewhat Gnome-2-ish?
It seems difficult to analyze the degree of ambition in any given startup from PR. Although ambition makes for a good story, it doesn't necessarily sell product/get users. So it seems, early stage startups focus on simple messages which the audience will understand. Look at the evolution of PR coming from Air BnB over time.
right now the App Store database is very open. The only data you can't get about apps is their keywords (although we at AppCod.es figured that out ;)), and the AppStore sales data (like download #s for apps, search query popularities etc).

I think the real problem for devs is that Apple doesn't allow us to track conversion ratios - we don't see where our sales come from, and it's very hard to optimize because of that.
I'm generally an April-Fools-in-tech hater, but man, that guy does a great Christopher Walken. I most liked Javascript and MongoDB. Fantastic writing.
I launched my job search engine Neekanee this month:

http://www.neekanee.com
I couldn't find one either. I know a few guys who might be interested in helping out with an Open Source version though. Anyone want in?
by CEO's own twisted logic every non game engineer employee is the weakest link including the company secretary..
1994 called, they'd like their directory icons back.
I released my first solo app to help me capture and remind myself of my ideas. It’s called “Noted! and is available for iPhone -
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noted!/id504164257?ls=1&m...

You can read about my success (or lack thereof!) here - http://atomyard.com/blog/How-not-to-market-an-iPhone-app/
It's still a ridiculous waste of time. It makes work about gaming the system and your boss (is it better to underestimate so he lets you do what you want, or overestimate so you don't get yelled at later?) rather than moving forward and getting shit done. It's inane, stupid stuff designed to make unimportant people feel important.

A programmer who can't be trusted to control his own time shouldn't be hired in the first place.
No it isn't. The author's main point is that corrupt governments siphon wealth into privileged hands at the expense of the public good. This isn't same as "allowing" wealth inequality. You can try to elide these things into being the same, but now you're misrepresenting things to make a politically charged point.
I feel like it's worth it to remember people's names. I also don't think there's any evidence that indicates being better at remembering one thing makes you worse at remembering others. In fact it might even make you better, as you're sharpening your brain, so to speak. (If there's evidence to the contrary please feel free to share.)
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There is also one on the USS Intrepid (Air/Space/Sea museum) in NYC. Beautiful aircraft!
This technique does have a cost. Every time you activate your amygdala (which, in turn, activates your sympathetic nervous system, which primes your body for fight or flight mode), it becomes more sensitive both in the moment and the future. You don't want to be in fight or flight mode. It's enormously unhealthy and hard on your body. Moreover, it inhibits your medial prefrontal cortex, which is your "head" in coloquial terms, the region of your brain that houses rational, abstract thought, making it harder to think straight. Fear is the mind killer.
How about adding: In Progress.
I'm faily confident that full-time employees are more likely to have a job a year from now with same or higher income, than startup entrepreneurs.

I'm pretty sure that on "same or higher income", entrepreneurs have better 1-year odds-- because their incomes are a lot lower.
I'm not the biggest fan of the solution in the article; but my biggest problem is that you're using floating points as keys for your hash table.

Fix comparison for floating point? Well, now you're violating the IEEE standard.

Introduce a new 'equality-for-hash-tables' magic function? Well, now you have another special case that contradicts normal equality and doesn't even really have well defined semantics in many cases.
Genetic differences between races are very minor as compared to the genetic differences between individuals within a race.

In case you're posting from a different dimension, these "minor" differences can change the color of our skin, the shape of our bones, and even (gasp) the size of our brains. If these are minor organs, what are major ones?

In case you're posting from the same dimension, your fallacy has a name:

https://www.google.com/?q=Lewontins%20fallacy

Furthermore, it is very doubtful that you can find any statistically significant genetic differences between some of the countries mentioned in the article (e.g., England and Spain).

You've been keeping up with the latest genomic research, I see! Ha. I jest, of course.

Again, your own eyes are a great start - they really never lie. Have you been to England? Spain? Would you be confident in saying: "Englishmen look just like Spaniards?" Or if there's a difference... what's the cause? The weather, perhaps?

Personally - call me crazy, I know - I feel I can tell an Englishman from a German with much better than random accuracy. If I note that English weather is pretty similar to German weather, does that make me... oh, noes... a racist?
I saved many $100K by not porting our civil engineering and mine planning apps to Mac

It all depends on your market!
...No, not really. The extra development work required to support IE9 on top of other browsers is vastly smaller than that for IE6.

It's a cost-benefit analysis. Messing about with words by stretching the what you can reasonably describe as "few glitches and IE specific stuff" to try and draw a false equivalence doesn't change the actual analysis.
>Genetic differences between races are very minor as compared to the genetic differences between individuals within a race.

So do you agree or disagree with people being "born-that-way", for lack of a better term? That's what's being argued here (at least by me). Not whether "all whites are born that way" or "all blacks are born that way", which is where you seem to be trying to steer it.

Can we not talk about genetic diversity without associating it with race?
Can't you surround your CSS includes with conditional comments to load ie-specific stylesheets? I'm not a web-designer by any stretch, but I thought that was the usual way to work around IE-specific quirks.
Sodium benzoate in combination with vitamin C produces benzine - a known carcinogen.
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> there is no reason why any food we made ourselves is likely to be worse for our evolved body than any food that was around when the digestive system evolved

Of course there is. Take an organism, throw it into a random environment. Chances are that it's not going to do as well as it would in the one that it's evolved for.

That's essentially what we're doing when we eat a modern diet - sugar, starch, wheat, beans, etc. are not what we ate when we were hunter-gatherers. It's not particularly surprising that it causes lots of weird and/or bad side-effects.
Not for me - I hate that desert island moral dilemma thing. Inevitably, what is really being asked is "What would a person in a contrived puzzle situation say"?
At the same time, when you run a business, you can't ever get fired

That's not true. Business failure is harder, for most people, than getting fired.

What is true is that you're better off as a consultant if (a) you're not dependent on a single client, and (b) your clients don't talk to each other. If (a), you can effectively be fired (see: late Season 4, Mad Men). If (b), then you're screwed in the same way and just working a lot harder.
> If it didn't exist 150 years ago, or you cannot find it in nature, it's processed food.

Is the corollary true as well? Lead sugar existed a few thousand year ago - so is that processed food?
IE10 looks like it will be the first version to not take much work. 9 is not as glaring as 7 or 8, but it is definitely the lowest common denominator.
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Your link is a 404. Perhaps you meant: http://www.blurb.com/about/jobs ?
Patrick, have you tried a large thematic change to the BBC site in the past? It is pretty neat to see the changes for optimization to the site over the years. Still, I can't help but think the "loud" colors lead to less optimal performance. Disclaimer --> Not a mom or teacher.
Fibre doesn't have any nutrients - it's essentially indigestible. The reason it helps with sugars is that it slows their absorption down and helps to reduce blood sugar spikes.
Oops, sorry, yes. (Would correct, but edit link has expired.)
I made an in-browser JavaScript runner for the programming class I teach, which is held in a room full of PCs with IE8 installed. Syntax highlighting, logging and JSHint.

http://jsrun.heroku.com/
The 20th-century scientist probably most influential in bringing about this change of perspective: Franz Boas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Boas

You can evaluate Boas' logic yourself, by reading his The Mind of Primitive Man (1911) - free online:

http://archive.org/stream/mindofprimitivem031738mbp#page/n10...

Fascinatingly, in the introduction to the 1938 edition (copyright police missed this one), Boas writes:

"Still worse is the subjection of science to ignorant prejudices in countries controlled by dictators. Such control has extended particularly to books dealing with the subject matter of race and culture. Since nothing is permitted to be printed that runs counter to the ignorant whims and prejudices of the governing clique, there can be no trustworthy science. When a publisher whose pride used to be the number and value of his scientific books announces in his calendar a book trying to show that race mixture is not harmful, withdraws the same book after a dictator comes into power, when great encyclopedias are rewritten according to prescribed tenets, when scientists either do not dare or are not allowed to publish results contradicting the prescribed doctrines, when others, in order to advance their own material interests, or blinded by uncontrolled emotion, follow blindly the prescribed road, no confidence can be placed in their statements. The suppression of intellectual freedom rings the death knell of science."

Indeed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Watson
I am a sucker for Tower Defense games. That I can defend my own house from the creeps is awesome.

One of my favorite strategies is as-many-as-possible long-range, low-power, fire-fast towers. Just made level 100 with all 100 lives in tact with blue towers only.
An apple 200 years ago was picked at the peak of ripeness - i.e. very sweet.

Today they pick them early, so they try to get the sugars in there sooner.
Well if the author/ copyright holder stops publishing the book and no one else is allowed to it is going to quickly fade into irrelevance, even though there are a few copies out there being kept safe indefinitely. Whereas if the book is in the public domain, the quality of the book and popularity will decide whether it continues to be read, rather than anything artificial.
Is a degree in mathematics considered cs related for this poll?
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No. But I'm not even really old enough to have one. So the question in my case is sort of a moot point for now.
'monospace' fallback added. Thanks!
He starts by saying sugar and high fructose syrup are the same, then concludes by testing high fructose syrup and finding it's bad - but not testing sugar.

His test does not support his conclusion.
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Well, ok I guess, if that's the world you live in. I observe things changing quite a bit more than that, but admittedly at different rates in different places. You know what, though? I'd rather work on making that unbelievably good product you mention than figure out how to make myself seem something I'm not. Lots of people are succeeding. Not all of them take funding.

Besides, if you make something great that people want, your chance of getting funded is not so small, because you can apply to YC, who are looking for people just like that and have none of the prejudices you describe.
I was mostly commenting on the old adage that in business you want to offend the least amount of customers to increase your market share e.g. the reason why mainstream news is so bland is that it helps to sell advertisements.

I was leaning towards calling it sexist because it by default chooses one gender over the other and has in its name a specific judgement on gender. "Girls around me" It could have been like Sonar and chosen the "networking" approach and named itself "People around me" and by default shown both men and women.

Perhaps they are like the Fox News of apps and are trying to target a very specific segment of the market i.e. creeps?
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I ignored a job advertised in the paper once because it said it required a master's in CS. I had a bachelor's in mathematics. The job was for a Unix kernel and system hacker at a company making Unix workstations. This was around 1984, when Unix internals experience was not widespread.

Several months later, a headhunter sent me to interview for that job, which was still open because they hadn't been able to find anyone with the necessary Unix experience before I applied.

I got the job.

They could have had me several months earlier, and without having to pay several thousand dollars to a headhunter, if they had not stuck on that requirement for a master's degree in their ad in the paper.
That's simply avoiding the question. For what reasons does the art community consider some things art and others not?
I frequently get asked why I didn't do Computer Science as a degree. Before I even left school to go to University (I'm British) I was already running my first startup. (I was 16 and it was game hosting company. I peaked off at two full racks worth of physical servers (several hundred virtual servers)).

At that time in my life, it wasn't even possible for me to have a computer science degree so this startup clearly wasn't affected.

It was around this time also (when faced with the prospect of wanting to go to University for a degree) that I look around at all of the courses available to me and did some research on what I wanted to do.

I really didn't like the look of a single CS degree. I was only really interested in the web and most courses which had any focus on "web technologies"/"the web in general" were so outdated. I didn't have anyone to ask for advice so I figured I could probably learn everything I needed to by hand. I still wanted a degree so I picked a degree which I knew would be well regarded for my entire life. I don't regret that at all.

The only gaping holes in my knowledge which I wish I could fill in, would be advanced maths, some cryptography theory and general algorithm knowledge.

I wouldn't say that I've suffered one bit by not doing a CS degree. The startup that I'm working on has applied to YCombinator and I've build up everything I've needed to through self taught work.

Clearly, depending on the field you want to go into, my path might not work for you, but I've not suffered.
Honey has a lot more nutrients in it than sugar, so generally it's better for you, and doesn't spike your insulin so hard. Here's a round up which has some links to further research: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/is-honey-a-safer-sweetener/
agreed. i have a philosophy and cognitive science degree, but have several yrs of programming, data mining & machine learning experience; haven't ever really had a hard time getting a related job.
Looks rather interesting when you tell it to do 1000 rays.
Since node is still a little finicky, some installation hints:

- Be sure to have latest node version (0.6.14).

- Don't use -g, just 'node install codestream' instead (-g requires root and should not be used)

- The binary will then be in ~/.npm/codestream/0.1.0/package/bin/codestream - just symlink that to somewhere convenient[1]

- If you get an error try: npm install pty.js
(pty.js was a missing dependency for me)

[1] The npm-dev is sadly not very unix-savvy, hence these extra-hoops
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After working for several years in a similar environment to the one the author is in right now, I had the exact opposite experience.

Wrote soulless boring enterprise software for a customer I never met, using some of the most ancient development techniques, while having the department boast about innovation and "spearheading engineering excellence" every other day.

Shared buildings with hundreds of other ninetofivers who couldn't care less about the quality of their work, all they wanted was the great health insurance, the chance to get a green card in a decade or two, and the option to buy a nice home in the area for their 2-3 kids. Clock in, clock out, occasionally play office politics for that sweet principal position in 10-15 years. Experienced every agile aberration known to man, including predicting down to the hour every single thing I would be working on, and then have the boss breathe down your neck when you're off. The best part is when he tells you that he cannot "trust you" anymore due to the latest estimate being off by several hours, and you should multi-task more to get things done quicker. How about keeping your reported work hours purposefully low, even if you're working weekends? Your boss will think that you were good enough to get it done in a couple of days, and will promote you over the guy who's honest with his hours. Happened ALL THE TIME.

When I left, the few good friends I had while there asked me what my best memories were after half a decade. Not a single one, everything I enjoyed (including software projects) was outside of work.

If I never have to hold a lowly corporate job again, I'll die a happy man. I'd rather make a third of what I was making there, but at least I'll be proud of the work I'm doing and I will look forward to doing more of that every time I wake up.

Randall, you're in your mid 20s, brother, what is this comfort you are talking about? What do you have to lose? Go fuck up a couple of businesses, give it your best shot, get a few battle scars, and then maybe we'll talk about wanting comfort. You're way too young to settle down, it's sad to see someone like you waste his talents.
The cost is negligible with respect to the total carrying capacity of your brain. I don't have a source, but I've seen this stated in a few books.

It is often mentioned that there is a cost in that an additional association seems like more work. (To disclose my bias, I find visual memory techniques to be a boon to my apparently concept-driven mind.) Consider, however, that work must be done both when constructing the memory and also when repeating it. Visual memory, mnemonics, and the like, all work, I believe, because they increases the strength of the encoding, decreasing the need for repetition later. So, there may be more work upfront, but there is much less over the lifetime of the memory.
Would love to check it out, if you can provide a market link!
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I voted 'no,' but it's kind of misleading. Maybe there should be an "I'm in the process of obtaining one" option.
Just note that many of us will vote for having both a CS degree and a non-CS related degree.
Its not browser elitism when you have 4 browsers that work and 1 that doesn't. If you are doing trivial ui work, it is not hard to support IE. If you are doing anything close to innovative or competitive with what is out there, it is a huge pain.
Currently working towards one. I've been offered many promotions despite not having one, and I have almost 5 years of experience now in the field.

But I still feel like completing my CS degree, just because it wouldn't hurt to have it, and just because there's some personal pride involved (first person in my family to pursue a degree).
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I often wonder about these types of theories. They are often hard to prove or disprove. It is fun to try and come up with a theory that is equally as plausible given the information provided.

To your theory on art, could art be defined as anything which a group of people would define as art? Or potentially anything valued by a group seemly without functional value? It seems to be a balance between simplicity and informational content.
While having a degree in CS by no means guarantees this, I feel it has made me a better programmer by forcing me to learn theory behind things I would probably have otherwise ignored. Not every job needs this understanding, but the lower level you work at, the more you need it.

Also, the contacts made can of course be very helpful. That's what got me my current job. These can also be made elsewhere, but it's easy to be surrounded with lots of other CS people when you're in school.

However, if you're motivated and a good self-learner starting out, I don't think most places care where you got your knowledge once you've had some real world experience.
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