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People are also far more comfortable spending online now, this helps both in directly monetizing users an the amount people will pay for ads.
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But, will this work? How do we ENFORCE mutually exclusive Male, Female & Transgendered records for ONE Patient record?
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> “They’re not accepting answers that are mathematically correct,” Abbott notes, “and accepting answers that aren’t mathematically correct.”

I don't believe that 'the professionals' setting up, promoting and administering a system like this can possibly be ignorant of this fact and/or well meaning.

Of course Abbott had to be eliminated as a teacher. She was interfering with the program of deliberate dumbing down.
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My fear would be that he wants to read things that validate what ever it is he feels criticised about.

For example, people who smoke get irritated by being constantly told not to. Non smokers, of course, take no notice.
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>When has someone with these qualities ever failed because he had some perceived weakness in his childhood education? //

Define "failed". Failed to get a job, too right. Failed to fit in to society, check. Failed to be happy, seems to go with the territory(!?).

Will you excuse a short aside:I'm interested in the diagnosis of a 6yo as having ADHD - what procedures and tests were performed to come to that decision. In my, albeit limited, experience of primary aged (4-11yo) boys if they're not running around half the time like some sort of sugar rushing lunatic then they're the exception to the rule. Can he sit and watch a TV show for 20 minutes without leaving to do something else?
I'm not looking to be hand-fed for any software framework I might use, but I don't think it's much to ask for the API documentation to be totally complete. I just want sane, updated documentation on whatever I use. I'm not a professional game developer by any means and it's just a side thing I am doing for fun and perhaps some day will make money on it.

On the other hand, I consider some of the more established Lua game frameworks to be too limited to use for anything really good (such as Corona or Gideros) and I have some years of development experience in native app and web development.

Moai is probably the best Lua framework for games out there, it's just lagging a bit for documentation still (though it looks like they're updating some as of now, like the cloud stuff, which is nice). There's even a post in the developer's forum (http://getmoai.com/forums/post3503.html#p3503) for it where the maintainers of it admit their API documentation needs some help for version 1.0 as the functionality of some classes changed. Having to actually dig through the C++ source to find undocumented features of a Lua based framework is just where I say I can wait a bit and check back on Moai's progress later. I do regularly check on it out of curiosity every few weeks to see if there's much in the way of updates.
1. Replacing "scratch your own itch" by "scratch somebody else's itch" can be seen as an improvement over the original model.

2. AFAIK, "Kickstarter" does not imply "open source".

3. Even the Linus'es of this world occasionally stop hacking to eat, and food costs money.

Having said that, I think anything including the term "Emacs" is "scratching your own itch". I do not hold this as a paragon example of the usefulness of Kickstarter.
If you have lots of cash lying around you could always buy a small parcel of $1k worth of facebook stock. If Facebook bankrupts then the most you can lose is $1k. If Facebook performs anywhere near Google in the next 10 years then you will end up with $6k. For me, losing $1k doesn't feel too bad and I wouldn't feel bad about not buying more if it did end up going up to 6k. [1]

As long as I acknowledge it purely as a gamble I don't see any problems with investing in Facebook. I wouldn't invest my life savings, however. It might be a cliche but "Don't put all your eggs into one basket" is thoroughly explained by mathematics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversification_(finance)

[1] I am not making ANY recommendation whatsoever.
Good point and one of the things the powers that be hated about Gutenberg and those who wanted to print Bibles in the vernacular - was they did not want the hoi poli learning to read and getting ideas above their station.

More recently similar arguments were made against educating freed slaves in the USA
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The really disturbing aspect of these blocking is the blatant manner in which websites which are known for their self-regulation (mainly for quality control) like Vimeo have been blacked out presumably by twisting the Chennai High court order against 'video sharing websites' by Copyright Labs, which seems to be a dummy company http://goo.gl/a1rjS . There is an alarming lack of internet literacy among the law makers and keepers who need to be educated on these issues so that such ridiculous incidents don't happen again.
Care to specify at which point the author of the blog post misunderstand MongoDB? Its not pretty clear to me about that.

Are you saying that one of the way he is using MongoDB is incorrect? If yes, what point did he say reflects that?

His rants seems quite specific.
yeh right we belive you - this is more cynical than Capt Renault in Casablaca.
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So you can serve a production site using Python's wsgiref and SimpleHTTPServer?

Servers do matter - memory usage, throughput, error rate, concurrent request handling etc. If the options are to use a faster server, or hunt down your code for bottlenecks, the choice is clear. Even if I modify my code to be faster, a faster server doesn't hurt.

This "benchmarks are useless" meme is overdone. "Hello World" benchmarks don't matter, but if a server is significantly faster on my real world application, why would that benchmark be meaningless for me?
Thanks, I missed the original and didn't spot it on hnsearch with that name.
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Main thing is ISP guys don't know why they are blocking sites. Specially MTNL.
I agree. Although I think that the right combination of parenting and schooling can take a child much further than good parenting and bad schooling only. After all, the children spend lots of time at school.

By the way, care to share a list of the books on parenting you found more useful or interesting?
When this crap about "learn to code" will stop? Most of people don't know how to code his TV set. Why? They don't care!!! You won't sell them Your programming course!! You won't sell them Your ebook... You're just making mess.

--> To all, who want to sell something, with this "learn-to-code" propaganda...
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I am on airtel, got the "This site has been blocked as per Court Orders" message when trying to access vimeo this morning, and was taken by surprise. Why would one want to block vimeo? These guys have to at least say why they blocked it. The most stupid thing is blocking pastebin, if they are going to block a site due to someone writing something that is objectionable, then I think almost all sites which accepts and displays user inputs qualifies to be taken down. If you see the comments in youtube.com/indiatimes.com during an IPL match you can find all sorts of nasty comments and one can easily argue that these sites should be taken down. I am even considering switching from Airtel to some other ISP if they are not blocking traffic.
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"+ will select the immediately following sibling, ~ will select any (one?) subsequent sibling" is plenty clear, I think?
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>Give me a better metric for success that you can measure over the course of a year. //

Define success.

If one gets the best score but has no social skills, no friends, no fun and no creativity then is that success.

This (only considering a test score) is like doing A/B testing but only looking at impressions and not at conversions, or only looking at conversion rates and not at conversion value. In web terms you can succeed by reducing both your impressions and conversion rates (by taking more money of less people and only attracting motivated customers).

Sorry that's more destructive than constructive WRT what the right course of action is.

Are there [large scale] education systems that consider happiness of pupils, reduction in bullying, positive social interaction and such to be metrics to assess and improve?
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"Did test scores improve relative to everybody else year over year?" is a pretty good start. Of course, by definition, this won't work for all districts.
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I agree with you. Slider already has a meaning in windowing toolkits, carousel is what I've always known this HTML element to be called. No need to confuse things, we might want to implement actual sliders in HTML.
The site is quite ridiculous, so you are probably right about it being some dummy company.
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Bingo. Valuations should be based on.... drumroll profits and retained value - EBITDA. When we started basing valuations on arbitrary "well if facebook are $100bn, X must be $y", we set sail for another glorious future of people losing their shirts.

Frankly, it just pisses me off - we're a profitable business which has grown 150% YOY for 6 years, and our value is barely £3M, based on our profits and growth. Why an infant company with little discernable revenue should have an astronomical value is beyond me.
"We Protect your move from spreading through Torrent" - They haven't even ran a spell checker on their site, can't stop laughing at these people.
Sure. More metrics to track should definitely be number of parent complaints, disciplinary actions, and mental health incidents.
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It is a John Doe order being enforced because some big movie is being released and they don't want it to be pirated. Those of us who use Vimeo for leisure or work are evidently lesser citizens ...
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I hope it's not just Mechanical Turk.
They're using a Kuka DLR lightweight arm. It's a rather high-end piece of equipment. It's strong enough to do a pull-up, fast enough to catch a ball, and every joint incorporates a six-axis force-torque sensor. It's definitely strong enough to do damage. Of course, that just means that Kuka loaded it up with safety systems. The FT sensors let it know exactly how much force it's applying, and if they read too high a value the brakes slam on. I've never worked with those arms before, but I'd bet that there's a similar system completely in hardware. You'll also notice that the operator's left hand and the entire back half of the room are never seen; there are at least two emergency stop buttons there, probably more, and one of them is wired directly the arm's power supply.

Really, though, all that engineering is of secondary interest. That look on her face is exactly why I got into robotics. And we've only been at it for 15 years; imagine what we'll be able to do in another 15.
It is not a dummy company, it should be a company with significant backing, may be it should have been put up in a hurry. I was expecting something of this sort when many politicians and their kin started acting in movies and buying stakes in production companies. From their contacts page I could see that they are based in chennai
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"I wish more developers treated learning to program like learning a foreign language. When you're learning a foreign language, your #1 goal is to cast off any poor grammar or pronunciation and sound like an intelligent native speaker."

I'm not sure that's true at all. When I learn a foreign language, my aim is to be able to communicate. The extra effort required to be perfect far outweighs what I need from it. The native speakers I talk to are quite capable of taking my bad grammar and understand my meaning. Wanting to sound like an intelligent native speaker isn't just at the bottom of my list of needs; it's not even on the list.

When learning a programming language, I have no choice; I must have perfect grammar.

"Such poor communication skills would be humiliating when trying to communicate in a foreign language"

Not at all, in my experience. Simply having some simple grasp of the local language is met with delight; just having made the effort goes a long way, even if the locals themselves prefer to speak with me in English.
"I worried more about piracy and it almost spoils everyone in the movie industry" ... only a man of such eloquence is capable of such otherwise impossible tasks ...
Might be true, but it sounds unlikely for two reasons:

(1) If new theories of AI proved to be commercially viable, you would expect that people would continue to develop new theories in the pursuit of money and fame, not "abandon" them because the results are "good enough."

(2) There are still lots of smart people working on AI in academia today that were around in the 80s. (And the 70s. And the 60s.) They remain keenly aware of the breakthroughs that occurred then, because they were the ones making them. And they're familiar with the technology of today, because they're using it in their new research. So if any big rocks were left unturned prematurely, I'm sure they're being examined.
What if the test makes good doctors quit? (As seems to be the case here.)
'Transgender'? You know that's not just one big lump of people? There are trans women and trans men. Also it would inaccurate (and possibliy) illegal to refer to a trans man as anything other than male in some cases (ditto for trans women).
42B API requests / month = 42000000000 / ( 86400 * ( 365.24 / 12) ) => 15971 req/sec. From the graphs in the talk probably peaking to 30,000 req / sec.

Remember there are a billion nanoseconds going by every second.
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It would be p^.foo instead of (^p).foo or p->foo. Less awkward when adding or removing one indirection level too.
Interestingly enough, even though I don't value Facebook much, it's the only one that would be hard to replace: Google could be replaced with Bing or DuckDuckGo, iPhone with Android, but where will I keep track of all my Facebook friends?
Damn. It is blocked in certain ISP only. Everything is working on my network
I'm certain real-world languages are much harder too. I'm surprised that the author, a perler, didn't make the connection to Wall's "Natural Language Principles in Perl":

http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html

This document is quite old and I disagree with some of those things now (in particular Perl's "more than one way to do [say] it" lead to a lack of enforced standard idioms; compare python). But other points eg "acceptable levels of competence" are valuable for the humble programmer to keep in mind.

Similarly, I like the idea of a programming "accent": the effects of previous programming languages on your current language. For example a (ahem) rubyist that starts to write in python might reach for map() when they perhaps ought to use list comprehensions. A speaker with a heavy accent can still however make themselves usefully understood.
> I've found that the length of time most people take to form a "consistent picture" of someone else is very short.

Indeed. I believe this is called the illusion of asymmetric insight: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:youaren... (cache since the site seems inaccessible).
I assumed that arbitrary levels of indirection would be flattened, hence a loop. I'm not asking for this feature, I'm only arguing that C was never explicit to begin with.

For example, you cannot tell how many indirections happen in a[5][2][8] either. Every game programmer must have seen a newbie try to cast a[4][4] into a :)
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I am on MTNL. I switched to Google DNS and all sites can be accessed again. Some days the Google DNS workaround was not working.
Dummy meaning it is a facade put up by some vested interests. To my mind there is no way a genuine company can get this done without a legal (or should I say, illegal) backdoor.
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>Better education for parents about how to meet their responsibilities is the way to go. //

I'd really love to have more autonomy, as a parent, in teaching my child. My preference would be for a mixture of homeschooling and regular school. That way, for example, I wouldn't be trying to jam a reasonable maths education in to the margins.

My ideals don't align with the school my child goes to, which is fine to some extent, excepting that they therefore think that I don't want to educate my children properly; ergo that I'm an irresponsible parent. With the budget they have I could do so much more.

I don't think those designing the curricula have a clue what they're educating the children for.

To get parents on side this needs to be addressed. Indeed does the assumption of long-term (4-18 in this country) structured education need to be challenged.
It is when it comes from the founder of a company that sells itself as a 'scalable realtime backend for your web-app'.
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There is a non-zero subset of people out there who will look at any given fixed list of genders and insist they are not any of them, or be offended at being classed as "other" or any artfully disguised equivalent term. Data modelers have to draw the line at some point.

Besides, since we are in medical context, your chosen gender is less important than your physical sex (including all the known intermediates and nons), which is what is actually useful to the medical system. Your chosen gender might as well be a write-in slot for all it matters ("Jedi").
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I don't think that this really fits into my analogy, but if losing a few good teachers is the price we need to pay for preventing a toxic culture of no-accountability where administrators are not allowed to make metrics-based decisions then so be it.
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Unlike website visitors, the teachers in a school are not acting completely independent of each other, but part of a social group. Even if you could adequately measure their 'teaching quality', you might miss factors that contribute to the success of the school as a whole.

And measuring 'teaching quality' is not a simple as counting ad click-throughs. Education is at least as much about helping people learn about their role in the world, as it is about learning facts, concepts, and tools. Just measuring the increase of students' scores on standardized tests misses a lot of the impact teachers have on their students' minds.

Nobody in his right mind would judge a developer solely on the amount of features he has implemented during the previous year, but also on how robust and maintainable the code is.
I you want to take these factors into account, you have to actually read the code, understand it, and ideally talk to the developer about it.
Unless you do this, you can not judge the quality of the code.

The same holds true for evaluating teachers, imho. Administrators need to talk to students, parents and teachers and form a comprehensive image of a teacher's ability. I really think it is that simple. Certainly not perfect. But not less perfect than standardized testing.

As a German, maybe I am misunderstanding some properties of the US educational system.
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Yes you will often get objections no matter what you say. However in the UK, under the Gender Recognition Act it's a criminal offence to reveal that someone is trans ( http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/advice-and-guidance/your-... ).

Designing a database system, and leaving a criminal liability open like that, is very unprofessional.

Not to mention that Data Protection Law in the EU requires you to store accurate personal data, and allows the person to have this data corrected (i.e. you have to change it if they tell you & can prove it). So you may think "We'll just lump you in the 'Transgendered' Category", however if the person says "I'm male, here's my birth cert showing male", you are legally required to change it.
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