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> Until the code has actually been tested, he doesn't know that it works, he just thinks that it does.

After the code has been tested, he still doesn't know that it works, only that it sometimes produces the expected output. (As a mathematician, it's a lot easier for me to trust a proof than an empirical verification; but I agree that what the HM type system proves is not always what one wants it to prove.)
When email dawned with the Internet, nobody ran into these problems because email communication didn't care which client you were on. The communication happened irrespective of where you were.

The same initial mechanism of email communication still persist today except perhaps someone innovated a little to make the group communication little easier (the listserv etc).

We have come far in our journey, but people need to realize that no matter the innovation through Faebook, Twitter etc, the truth is that underneath all the glittering services, the basic communication need is still the same as it was during initial email days.

So there should be multiple Twitters, multiple Facebooks and the average user shouldn't care which Twitter and which Facebook you are on as long as you can communicate easily. The problem is that people are not realizing this basic fact hence we have created one walled garden after another.
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> it's a matter of how much you put into the type system:

It's also a matter of how much polymorphism you have. There are lots of functions `Integer -> Integer`; there is only one total function `a -> a`. (This is the parametricity theorem mentioned by sanxiyn in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215055 .)
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This is true. However it is also true that if you have both bundled and a la carte offerings competing, there is no stable competitive price. See http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/rt... for more. So if you're in a market with one pricing structure competing, be careful about choosing the other.

Of course even if the existing market bundles, you may have little choice. Your minimum viable product pretty much by definition cannot be a viable bundle.
I've been doing iOS apps for the last year or so and lately I've had a bunch of people approach me for work mainly because they liked the apps I'd published on my own. I think if you want to get started freelancing the best thing to do is build up some kind of online portfolio to show people what you can do.

If you're not a designer yourself maybe you could partner with a designer in a similar position that's interested in collaborating on a few portfolio-building projects?
...are up to par with...

We disagree on use of language so we won't be able to reach agreement.
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As sanxiyn points out in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215055, although there are certainly many ways to produce a value of any concrete type, sufficient polymorphism will often guarantee (via the parametricity theorem) that there is only one total function of a specified type.
If I were in your shoes, I'd either work on my own startup, or create some demo projects in a hot area like IOS or Rails. Register as a DBA (Doing Business As) and put your side project/startup as a job on your resume.

Then put your resume up on monster.com. If you become proficient in an in-demand skill, jobs will find you. If the skill is hot enough, remote jobs will be available. Now you have to pass the interviews, but that is another matter. Note that you need to learn all the ancillary technologies to be a strong candidate (git, for example).
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British rule in the Dominion countries went like this: exterminate or wholly subjugate the natives, then flood the place with whiteys from Blighty. Same thing happened in the US, but they took the subjugation a step further into crusade territory with 'manifest destiny'. In effect, Britain was able to transplant its culture and laws directly in these places.

British rule in India couldn't do this - half a billion people is a bit too many to simply overrun. Instead they played factions against each other, one trick being to give a smaller faction superior arms, they keep the peace and a slice of the pie, but are wholly dependent on the supply of arms. British rule in India was a massively different beast to the Dominion countries.
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This brings to mind New York City's horse-manure health crisis in the late 1800's (even though that crisis wasn't directly comparable to this one). Back then, according to the New York Times, there were up to 200,000 horses living in the city, each one generating between up to 30 pounds of manure a day, for a total of up to 6 million pounds of fresh horseshit every day. It just piled up, attracting huge numbers of flies and posing a serious challenge to the city's Sanitation Department. The whole city reeked of it.[1]

[1] http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/when-horses-pos...
This is why Haskell is evil and you should use ML.
Ooo, I like this! Will it work on TV episodes or just movies?
The term for what you're doing in this argument is "tu quoque". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

Examples:

"Yes India's government is corrupt, but not all that much more corrupt than the US government."

"Contrast this to the genocide the US conducted against native Americans who were in the way."

"Consider how much effort is undertaken in the US to hide poverty from view."

"Yet fraud abounds at all levels of government."

Even if this stuff were true (and it mostly isn't), your arguments don't answer the author's points.
my concise oxford dictionary (dead tree, c 1984) lists conjecture as a verb (not marked as obsolete).
The author makes a good point that bundling of services _can_ be of value to both buyers and sellers, but the conclusion that it _is_ of value does not follow.

The example of 2 people, one willing to pay $10 for ESPN and $3 for The History Channel and the other willing to pay $3 for ESPN and $10 for The History Channel disregards the likely majority who would pay $10 for the one and $0 for the other.

The problem with bundles is that they force you to pay for things that have zero value to you. And given that the incremental cost of providing the product approaches zero, this is strongly in the seller's interest.
People should be aware that this:

He said Indians will rarely, if ever, resort to violence. As a foreigner, you never have to worry about being robbed, or having a knife pulled on you, or getting beaten up by a gang of thugs and having your kidney carved out of you. And this is true.

Is not true.

It would possibly be true if he changed it to read "As a foreign man.."

A female friend of mine just returned from six weeks in India a few weeks ago. I'm fairly certain that if Sanjay had met her, travelling alone as OP was, he would've told a very different story. He would've said, as my friend heard from Indians over and over, "Leave. Now. Get on a plane and go back to the U.S. You are not safe here."

She was lucky, and only suffered gropings, attempted kidnapping, and attempted break-ins to her hotel room. But violence against foreign women is on the rise in India. The U.S. Bureau of Consolate Affairs cautions women not to travel to India alone[1]. And "alone" in this case means "in a party without men".

Of course, none of this would be visible to you as a foreign man... you just get treated completely differently. But it's dangerous to spread the idea that women can just go to India and "not have to worry" about violence.

[1] http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1139.html
The problem he outlines about India are real and are serious ones. But the article is a shallow one and the author makes grand sweeps of imagination to make some crass generalizations.

Consider a few of these:

Indian culture itself is quite disorienting. The people can be incredibly warm and hospitable, or cold and rude depending on the context and how they know you. The conclusion I eventually came to is that if they already know you, or if they’re somehow benefiting from you, then they can be incredibly warm and open people. But if they
don’t know you, or if they’re trying to get something out of you, then they are a prickly, conniving bunch.

Is this a specific Indian behavior ? You can find sycophants in any part of the world. It is not that Indian culture is wired to sycophancy.

But what Sanjay told me about Indian people is bizarre but true. He said Indians will rarely, if ever, resort to violence. As a foreigner, you never have to worry about being robbed, or having a knife pulled on you, or getting beaten up by a gang of thugs and having your kidney
carved out of you. And this is true.

Except that it isn't. Cases of foreign tourists being robbed,threatened at knife point, mugged aren't rare. As a tourist one has to exercise caution in India as much one would do in any other country as a tourist.

BUT, Sanjay said, an Indian will lie to your face. He’ll say anything to get what he wants from you. And most of them don’t see it as immoral or wrong. So on the one hand, they won’t stick a gun in your face to take your wallet. But they’ll hand you fake business cards and offer to sell you something that they don’t actually have, so that
you’ll voluntarily empty your wallet to them on your own accord.

Won't any conman from any part of the world operate the same way ? The author is stereotyping just because his Indian friend told it to be so.
They, now, do the same thing at some fast food restaurants to create a more personalized customer experience. It always gives me the creeps. I wonder if this is going to be a generational division. Perhaps, the up and coming generation will expect everyone to already know who they are.
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This was one of the areas I wrote about wanting to do research in in my college application essay, but never did. I'll keep my eyes open for an opportunity to apply genetic algorithms; it should be fun.

I'd like to hear if anyone's evolved significantly improved neural networks (instead of designing them). I don't know enough to say whether neural networks are good targets for genetic-algorithmic evolution, but it would be pretty fantastic to be able to easily evolve networks that are good at a simple specified objective (e.g. classification).
Do you have any side projects? Or any project idea which can demonstrate your abilities? If yes, then work on it and share it on HN/Dribble/Github/Forrst.

I got my first freelancing gig via a side project.

Once you get your first client project, all you need to do is to build on top of it.
If only Google would try to sell it in India and China, but I doubt they have the logistics figured out to do it yet. Maybe with the 2nd gen next year.
I pledged for pretty much the same reasons, even though I'm not overly keen on a sword fighting console game. Perhaps you're right and that there's just not enough interest.
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I like the clear distinctions you've set between a manager and leader (very well written).

I'd like to push this further and claim that a manager in a company has two roles: one that fulfills the business needs of the company (keeping the machetes sharp), and the other to have vision and lead the people (climbing the tree). A good manager has to also be a good leader. The converse isn't always true, and I've seen many "good" managers (from a business sense) get resented by the people by the people they're supposed to manage.
fuck you, I'm not making enough money to care too deeply about this
I don't think those roles are diminishing the value of engineering managers, although I think they are useless as engineering leaders. I think engineering managers are diminishing the role of engineering managers.

Many, many engineering managers are the people who got into technology with the goal of being a manager. As such, they did the minimum amount of actual engineering they could get away with, say 1-2 years. They are motivated only by the fact that engineering management is one of the highest paid professions out there. Linkedin shows some extraordinary insight into this phenomenon as anyone with a few connections can review thousands of resumes. There are managers, directors, VPs, and CTOs who have almost zero actual experience in the technical field they are supposed to be managing. For whatever extremely messed up reason, the tech industry actually supports this.

So you get a whole industry of engineering managers who are not and never were engineers. It's no surprise that their role is the same as a project manager. That's all they can do. They can't steer the technical focus of the group, lead the team towards innovative ideas, or anything that even requires basic technical knowledge. If there's anything eroding the responsibilities of engineering management its the constant dumbing down of the job by the non-technical money chasers trying to get into the job.
It's also worth noting the correlation between the reduction in urban horses and the reduction in human cases of tuberculosis. TB killed up to 25% of the urban poor in the late 19th century; infective vectors included infected milk (from bovine infection reservoirs), poor living conditions that enforced proximity to TB sufferers, and proximity to TB-infected livestock -- of which horses would have been the main reservoir in urban areas.
Yeah - once you're on the plane there's really no need for your image, because you're virtually guaranteed to be in the seat you're assigned to (especially in business class and above), at least until you've taken off.

BA actually issue their senior cabin crew with iPads, both to digitise various pieces of paperwork but also to allow them to get more direct access to things like seating plans and passenger manifests, allowing them to welcome people by name, etc etc.
I'd like to understand what he(?) means by "time as a first-class construct", separate from versioning. He goes into a lot of detail about the encryption requirements, but not that.

Overall, I fully approve. I don't think it's just a nerd dream; I'd like to see it become a neccessity. It's just going to be hard.
I may have answered your question here: http://isomorphismes.tumblr.com/post/15431506533/i-never-did....

The benefit of DIY maths is that you get to focus on what your interest is, whether that be algebra or geometry or stats/data analysis or discrete maths or foundations or whatever. (Contrary to some answers here, I don't think trig, measure theory, or planar geometry are necessary, unless you read something and it catches your fancy.) If your goal is just to do more maths, then just throw away anything that bores you and dive into anything that interests you.

If you're interested in C.S. applications then I think discrete maths is the thing to focus on. Eg, "Concrete Mathematics" by Knuth. But you can go an even more direct route and if algorithms is your goal, there are some free courses available online that do just that.

MIT OCW and AcademicEarth are excellent for in-depth (course-length) treatments of material by seasoned teachers. Wikipedia and math.StackExchange are good for broad overviews and quick Q's, respectively.

For "proofs, and other practical applications" -- that's quite broad. OCW has a course on geophysics and a course on signal processing -- both are "practical applications" but I don't know if that's what you have in mind. Most of the OCW stuff -- whether it's chemistry, materials sci, DSP, whatever -- is aimed at engineers (other than the upper level pure maths), and therefore practical.

As for proofs, you will see them in almost any maths textbook. Spivak makes some challenging ones and if you haven't taken calculus or linear algebra then Flanigan & Kazdan might be worth a skim. But if you're interested in CS applications then you can find those kinds of argumentation in an algorithms course.

BTW, I do not recommend the Khan Academy. It gets a lot of press but I have not found it so great. (It is fine but so is just surfing Youtube -- a lot of people make videos besides SK.)

Also, if you can still edit this question, you might give us some idea of where you're starting from and how much time you expect to spend, to elicit better answers.

HTH.

PS By "the hard way" do you mean doing exercises? Because pretty much all mathematics texts expect you to do it "the hard way" if that's what you mean.
You are ignoring a very important point, A dam collapse does not have any significant affect on a person living on the same land for thousands of years.
i wouldn't call using underscores for namespaces and forced filenames "sane".

The built-in spl_autoload offers better support for modern code than the PSR-0 recommended autoloader
If you're still talking to people in USA, especially through Skype, your conversations are probably already monitored [1]. I think NSA already has a (secret, illegal) mandate to monitor all American communications with any foreigners.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218002/Microsoft_see...
2: So I'm lying in a hospital bed, bald and vomiting in a bucket and I'm supposed to go to court to continue to afford treatment?
Yes India's government is corrupt, but not all that much more corrupt than the US government.

Not really. The Transperency International which ranks countries by corruption ranks India at 95, where as U.S.A is ranked at 24[1]. Lower the rank less corrupt the country is.

1. http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/
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Ok, I apologize for the tone of my previous post, it was pretty flippant.

Yes, I don't think you should even go into business without either:

1) A reasonable expectation of getting screwed (maybe reasonable is less than 1%, maybe it's 50%)

2) Money to pay at least some legal fees

In order to ensure fairness, you have to play some kind of game of attrition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_attrition_(game) against others who would seek to gain by harming you disproportionally. In the U.S., we usually play that game with lawsuits. Perhaps in Russia (I am broadly generalizing and stereotyping) you might play it with bribes and cronies. In Somalia, it might be with actual guns and attrition.

You can enforce a contract against a larger company, size does not have a 1-to-1 correspondence with court case outcomes.

Again, sorry for sounding like a big jerk.
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Why does taking the game world as an input seem so odd? Thanks to Clojure's structural sharing "returning a brand new world" can be efficient.

Judging from later parts of James Hague's series, he was working with Erlang which doesn't seem to have this feature. He also complains of lacking a good map structure — not a problem with Clojure.
This has been tried; the big idea of xhtml+xsl was that your server would answer any request with an xml api response and some xslt that transformed it into a webpage. Now admittedly part of the reason that failed is that xslt is a pile of crap, but even if it hadn't been the aproach is wholly unsuitable for building modern, responsive UIs. The behavior you want from an API - consistency, separation of concerns -is completely at odds with what you want on a page, and there are a whole lot of concerns you want to hande server-side (e.g. pagination) but that don't make sense for APIs. It's not that no-one's thought of this, it's that the current approach, where you have a thin but distinct server-side presentation layer (or even client-side javascript - the point is that you need a full-eatured program to turn go from API calls to good UI), works better in practice.
My wife and I went out for a celebratory dinner recently when our net worth finally turned positive after years of grad school.
DMC explicitly mentioned Yammer as one of the things that some of his former co-workers had done. (He neglects to consider all the things his other colleagues have done which failed, classic survivorship bias, but that's not my point.)

My point is, from a certain perspective, everything looks stupid, and everything has a limited impact, and everything could have been better. Maybe some people who work at Yammer feel they're doing something important, like democratizing information flows within big companies. But it's also a knockoff of various social networking tools for the enterprise. It's a matter of which perspective you choose.

DMC looks at Yammer wistfully because it seems like a big score that was within his grasp. But I bet that if DMC had worked at Yammer he'd be picking a narrative closer to this: I worked for a lame knockoff of innovative companies like Twitter and Facebook, and we failed to thrive independently, and in the end we had to be sold to a dying and clueless organization like Microsoft. And I made a little money, but I never achieved a higher executive rank - any idiot could have made the money I did, and it was barely enough to cover a small house in a not-so-great part of Palo Alto. But the real players made serious bank! People that I worked with who didn't seem much smarter than me! I wonder if I will ever do something worthy of the promise I had when I was a child....
I don't know where the author is from, what I want remind him is - "Open your mind, you are blind". Your are seeing what you would like to see, it's your problem.
Just in case someone doesn't know. You can build your own:

http://opensimulator.org/
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It's bizarre that you start your list of recommended books on mathematics for "people who never got far with it at school" with Penrose's _The Road to Reality_. No one should follow that recommendation. The book is not really readable without a background of a Ph.D.-level knowledge in math.
Your users aren't "addicts"
So in theory one could make a document un scanable by putting the EURion constellation in it?
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Maybe "alright" wasn't the correct phrasing.

I meant something more like:
"Just because people can live in a shelter of newspaper, doesn't mean it's okay for that to be their only resort against the elements."
Wouldnt this break a movie like 2012?

#2 remove year and stuff following it
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FWIW, I'm in Search Quality and I find that the "lightweight" system works quite well for myself and for many of my peers. YMMV.
Check out www.ehealthinsurance.com. It's legit and many health insurance company websites use their platform to return quotes.

Be careful if you have certain prescription needs and check with each company if they cover what you need; the list changes company to company.
Doesn't Xylitol do something similar by starving them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol#Dental_care
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I don't have a Ph.D. and I found it a fun read. But this is why I say everyone has to follow their taste.
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It was my first visit to the site and I read a few articles - I've now added it to my feed reader. So thanks!
Based on the tone of the question, this sounds way too ambitious.
"But I still have a couple hundred gigabytes in my home directory that I pull across to every new computer I set up."

That seems... like a lot. Maybe I'm used to the space constraints of tablets/netbooks/SSDs, but I've been pushing everything not inherently tied to my local machine to a home NAS (e.g. a Kurobox or Buffalo NAS) for years now.