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...anyone grows to love static typing sooner or later, after endless debugging sessions in dynamic language codebases :)

But I think that higher-order functions don't belong to one extreme or the other - anyone uses them, even weekend-coders that do javascript or have been exposed to php 5.4's new features end up using them - they are something so basic that any language has it in one form or another, even C has function pointers. Macros, otoh are a very different creature: they may seem similar to higher order functions in Haskell where you can use hof for what you'd use macros in Lisp, but they are a whole different ball game because you can't reason (formally, or informally but within the "what is" mindview) about code that transforms/generates code (or you can, but it's just TOO HARD), and I guess this is why so many developers are afraid of them and language-designers omitted them or added them as an extra feature and not as core language defining features from day 0 (for example Scala - I bet the language would've been very different if macros would've been there since version 0.1, been more "usable", and used to build more core language features on top of them...).
All the tech workers I know in the U.S. have very satisfying careers, but it depends on your metric and who you're talking to. Many of my Southeast Asian and Indian tech friends work hard to get to the U.S., and I don't see the reverse happening much.
Sources please ?
Singapore also has the cashback and bonus points on credit cards.
You probably don't understand it because nobody has taken the effort to explain it to you simply. Everything I have seen on the Internet (especially programming related sources) take a lot for granted and just spread a little code here and there.

Also, a good idea is not "trying to turn your mind inside out", which is what seems to be needed from a lot of explanations I have read.

It is easy, it is simple, it is normal.

I am sorry I do not have a reference handy (because of the above) but those are good suggestions (otherwise I would not be writing them) that have helped me overcome similar "difficulties".

Edit: Cannot help saying it. The 'a priori' and 'a posteriori' and all those terms are just fancy words (which mean what they signal) which scare a lot of people away from something, I repeat, natural.
In Germany, many businesses don't accept credit cards either (lots accepts debit cards though), and cash is still popular.
What annoys me is when people write irrelevant provocative introductions just to attract attention to their otherwise not so interesting writings.
If you want to print out things you weren't able to imagine, but other people were - then it's an argument for not getting a 3D printer but having it printed at a 3d-printing service; it will be cheaper, higher quality, less hassle, and more options for materials/techniques than a single printer can provide.
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Globalogozation
This article has the same target audience as many of the great design related websites and books. It is created to help BOTH designers and all the "general population" readers to get a clearer picture of "state of the logo design" today. To narrow the subject down a bit, I came up with the term of "globalogozation" (fusion between words logo and globalization ) with a goal of sharing some thoughts on how the modern media/communication affects the logo design.
The perseverance component is often overlooked, I personally believe it is the single most important factor determining the eventual success or failure of a business.
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Hell yeah! I have few RepRaps and thousands all around the world have one I designed! Anyone here with Prusa Mendel?!

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It's just a quotation that makes you think "what if...". I wouldn't fixate on the company names.
Well, it also touches on fraud and impersonation, old, long established crimes, not just computer hacking.
I would imagine that in real life you track the reliability of a drugs test as % false positive and % false negative, rather than a single % reliable?
If you're in Kuala Lumpur/PJ in Malaysia, Makespace has one and you can use it for your work.

http://makespace.my
Anyone else just getting a 404 "We're sorry, but you do not have access to this page." error?
Ask him, why mail hasn't changed a bit since hotmail days?
Ah yeah, I remember that from Patio11's Business of Software talk. I was under the impression that that was mostly for B2B SAAS startups, though, largely due to corporate politics and things like SLA requirements, and just generally not caring a whole lot about money. B2C is a whole different ballgame. If I'm wrong, though, I'd really like to know.

There's also the potential to make this B2B with nutritionists/personal trainers/etc, so your point isn't lost in any case.
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I also suggest looking for volunteers, I think many people would gladly help you.
It doesn't redirect because this is the only way to apply online for "Attendance Allowance (AA), Disability Living Allowance (DLA adult and child), Overseas State Pension – if you are a non-UK resident (including Channel Islands)".

You can download a PDF to mail in from the nice new site, but if you want to do it online the new site will direct you back here.

(Not wanting to seem harsh, some things are being done well, but let's not get carried away and forget all the many, many things that are still truly dreadful and need fixed.)
I don't know about Norway, but in Sweden it depends on how new your company is. If your company is less than 2 years old you'll get a compensation based on what the average industry salary of whatever you are doing is. The idea being to compensate for the fact that it's common to take out less than normal levels of salary during the start up phase of company. If it's more than 2 years old it's based on how much salary you reported paying yourself over the past year.
BT Sync is missing one thing : the ability to choose which files to sync from a remote secret.
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The article is not entirely wrong but misleading. The two important aspects are authorization and limits.

Authorization: An ATM does not issue money without authorization which is done by some 'central authority', not the ATM.

Limits: In some corner cases you may be able to exceed your (daily, weekly, monthly) limits. But, as the article points out, this doesn't imply financial inconsistency.
Yes, it's Gulf Cooperation Council. A political and economic union formed by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Oman.
If you understand procedural languages better, the following article discusses a basic naive bayesian classifier and implements it in PHP :

http://phpir.com/bayesian-opinion-mining
My original idea was to run mining while the game doesn't require the full use of the graphics card - i.e. rendering at 60fps requires 40%, bitcoin mining could use another 40%. If the scene is more taxing and requires 70% of the GPU, mining could drop down to 10%.

I've got no idea how effective this would be, but it would be an interesting experiment for an indie game dev.
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Both, Office haves enterprise as target market and people know this and they set their expectatives in this context; the same thing happens in the Internet where the context is "everyone in the world" and is assumed that most things are popularity-driven (likes, re-tweets, etc).
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Yup. If you google the URL you'll get the cached version though.
This prompted me to check my own government's main site (gov.ie). While not as slick, it does have pointers to a Citizens' Information site (http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/) and a simple, but useful page listing many common tasks, ordered by verb (http://www.gov.ie/services/).
No, of course not.

When you chose to be an entrepreneur, you chose a different life style and set of rules. You do so because you see a benefit to you, over and above, or different, from an employed person.

Think it though, do you really want perfect equality between entrepreneurs and employees? For example, the entrepreneur is entitled to the profits from the venture. Should employees be entitled to the same? The entrepreneur can decide not to go in to work when (s)he feels like it. Should employees have that right? The entrepreneur gets to decide his or her salary. Should employees get that right too?

Still envious of the employed?

Edited:
Well, just read the other reply, and wow. Impressive. But I stand by the above in a general sense.
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"The discovery by the Americans that oil and gas can be extracted in commercial quantities from shale rock formations can be, without a shadow of doubt, regarded as the biggest and most important energy related development of the 21st century."

With 87 years to go, Isn't it a bit early to say that?
Nonetheless, linear algebra is the way it's done for real applications. It's how the literature treats the subject as well, so it's important to understand. This tool helps for that goal, so I'm glad it's there.
I think a better solution is to make fines exponential (for repeated reasons), for e.g. 1st time $10, 2nd time $100, third time $1000 dollars and so on.
It could be solved by going the infrastructure route.
I'm thinking a free ISP with ads instead of monthly payments as a source of revenue. The ISP would have a whitelist of websites that are available, everything else is blocked.
Businesses would pay a monthly fee to the ISP to be added to its whitelist. In return, ads would be displayed after users spend a certain amount of time on their website, with ad revenues going directly to the website.

The free, ad-driven ISP would start out as an experiment in a small area. It would be available via public WIFI to primarily serve mobile devices without cellular data plans.
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Pick up a phone and call 50 offices, push through to SysAdmin. Happy to break down why, but for now, try this.

Alternatively, but more difficult, track down some local IT integration specialists, resell through them.

All it costs is your time and possibly phone bills.
I'm almost certain that Gawker had already been banned for months if not years at that point.
Because unethical sentences aren't a criminal offence? I mean, if you gave me the first two words from those sentences and asked "what's the most probable next words", I would give you pretty much the same answer. Let me try some more and I'll put my answer next to google's

"lawyers are" -> "greedy sharks" (actual suggestion: scum)

"gays should" -> "be killed" (actual suggestion: be killed)

"marijuana should" -> "be legal" (actual suggestion: be legalized)

"drug users should" -> "get help" (actual suggestion: be shot)

"macs are" -> "better than windows" (actual suggestion: better than pcs)

As you can see, google's opinion on what is the largest cluster of opinions on the subject aligns with what I expect in 4 out of 5 cases. Also note how you're getting both the suggestion that marijuana should be legal and that people who smoke it should be shot. These suggestions aren't google's opinion on the matter, it's what google expects you to think. Thankfully, they're wrong most of the time.

In the end, it's not impossible to write an ethical filter the same way google has a spam filter, the only reason they haven't done it is because there's no pressure to do so. If you don't want to see such suggestions on google, you have two options:

1) Make people not talk about killing gays or how all lawyers are scum

2) Pressure google to add a filter

Also, white people really are partly neanderthal https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neanderthal&o...
It did not stop.

Ada, Modula-2, Modula-3, Delphi, Oberon, Oberon-2, Component Pascal, Active Oberon, Zonnon, ...

The industry just decided to look into another direction and now with buffer exploits everywhere, it is rediscovering that you can have strong typing with compilers that produce native code.
I can't speak for their digital strategy but their universal jobmatch site is abysmal. A truly awful piece of work.

https://www.gov.uk/jobsearch
Zealous
Google has said they're working on Glass hardware that'll clip onto regular prescription glasses.
I just drop it here: http://btsnc.at/
Ah the metric system could have caused that.
Would it be viable to rent a (GPU) cluster for mining? $3700 in 14 days seems doable...
Maybe in the near future it will be able track the rounding of the lens (ciliary muscles) so you can have a responsive interface (e.g. hide interface when the user is not focusing its eyes on G-glass)
In this case, it was a quote of a relevant provocative sentence, where the provocation itself was irrelevant. Really, the title was far more intriguing than the quote, but unfortunately the article didn't quite live up to it.
Really awesome tool.

Couple of suggestions:

Not sure if it is possible in the current form, but it would be nice if I could specify some ingredients to be used in a given plan. The scenario is that I have picked up some cheap carrots for example and I want to use them soon.

Also would be awesome if there was a seasonal preference setting so that it try to select ingredients that are currently in season such as winter veg etc.
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Actually this is mine aproach to do something webbish with bittorrent sync.
I do it because lots of people who don't understand what to do with this "secrets".
Its not small. Say he gets 1000 customers in a month. That's a thousand dollar difference. Now, say he gets one thousand customers per month. It compounds pretty nicely. Just a dollar.
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The end result is an expression executing Bayes' rule and it is used much like an if expression.
Naming it Cause and Effect is misleading; it makes it seem like bayes rule only applies when there is a causal relation somewhere. It also make the symmetry of the first line seem off. I would write the first line as

P(A and B are both true)
= P (A is true) x P (B is also true, given that we know A is already true)
= P (B is true) x P (A is also true, given that we know B is already true)
In a real application, you don't even know the transition probabilities to begin with, so actually performing the computation is the least of your worries -- the first problem is coming up with numbers, which wasn't mentioned. :)

So I feel that if the goal is to give a conceptual understanding, linear algebra is overkill. If the goal is to show how it's done in practice then this isn't terribly useful since it doesn't even show the tip of the iceberg!
That's just redirecting to the old Directgov/Jobcenter site, which I've always felt was quite good at what it did. It might not be the prettiest, but it's not awful.
Because randomly winking at people might give them the wrong idea.
Nate Silver's book The Signal and the Noise explained it to me really simply, and was a great read. Not as immediately helpful perhaps as some of the links in response to your question, but I thought it was worth sharing.
I was actually going to write A and B at first, but then realized that wouldn't show the relationship of the formula to the disease example very obviously.

I thought it'd be better to make it easier to understand (and more practical) by showing how it helps you infer causes from effects.
That's nitpicking, we all know the term MDI refers to MS Windows style Window manager within a Window.
Yeah, I often feel like PHP is trying to destroy me.

/ used Haskell at uni, loved it

// first job in the real world is... web dev, on a sprawling legacy PHP codebase, with no documentation or tests

/// I miss my static guarantees :(
Linux gets frozen, what do you do?
In the not sure button, after selecting "metric" It still talks about calories after clicking "calculate".
Could use a bit more separation of ingredients, cream and sour cream should not share the same selection. Creams would great in many sauces and have a completely different effect than sour creams.

Fish selections might want to expand the number of white fishes listed. Interestingly enough some recipes given have vegetables not listed as selectable, cucumbers and water melon are two I noticed; they were in same recipe! Perhaps an advanced list of ingredients could be offered that allows for more picky eaters.

Still amazing number of recipes.
For some reason, your comment reminds me of those anti-piracy adverts they show on DVDs (in the UK) that you've legitimately bought: "You wouldn't steal a car." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2023878
Why the next iPhone screen could be made of sapphire
Submitted more because of the fascinating discusssion of Silicon wafer production.
Agreed - but it was actually a sloppy editorial work. However due to your feedback, it is now a better piece.
So I randomly set the ID in the URL to http://btsnc.at/11 and got a secret: RXSYSTTQYRSRY4PU7DMW32GUVXOBHI4GX

Is that a valid secret.. I don't know. But if it is.. then not much of a secret if I can get one by just guessing btsnc.at URLs!
There is no empirical evidence of any benefit of unions. Ultimately everywhere where unions grew strong, problems occured and companies failed. There's no single succesful company that has strong unions.

And do please stop talking about reallocating proceeds from management and shareholders. You probably read too much Marx. Go read how that worked out for the WarPac countries, or better yet, read "Animal Farm".

Those people get more because their work is either worth more to the company or they risk more.

You want to earn more? Stop being a crybaby and do something that has more value to people around you.
Yes, we do! Using Java from Clojure is much more pleasant than using it from Java IMO :)
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The answer is twofold:

1. There must be a reason that the clients expect that a fixed quote must be possible. If you are developing something that is already existing, it is very very difficult to convince that you really can't know how much budget is needed and it is a project with extreme unknowns. For example if you are building a pretty standard CRUD application, the client will insist that you will offer a fixed budget within a range or margin.

This can mean that you haven't standardised your product or service enough to be able to offer it in a standardised way. The client intuitively does demand a standard product because they feel this is already existing and don't want you to reinvent the wheel on their costs.

2. The development is really custom and complex, it can't be standardised in to a product or service. But the client just doesn't want to pay for it because it is expensive. Then you must really check whether the investment is worth it. (The Product Owner is actually responsible for this part.) Often the client has just a lousy business plan and the only way that their business will workout is if they get the software almost for free. This is not a situation that you want to be involved. Sometimes the business plan seems realistic and you can point out easily that the return on investment is worth it. Sometimes the client just doesn't have the money and require indirectly that you invest in it. (Then you can just make that explicit and give an answer that you are interested in or not. But never let assumptions or vagueness get in the way.)

Trying to do sprints without a strong product owner will cause a lot of trouble. I would advise that you don't take that responsibility by just trying to fill the vacuum.

So, there is a question that you should ask before the sprint versus fixed price negotiations. If it is clear that it is a innovation driven project and predictive methods will not work, you can work something out for the pricing like a pre-determined sprint price.
I think you're seriously over-stating how bad it is.

I mean it was designed to be used on a touch-screen interface by people of all ages, they're going to have to lose some functionality for that alone.
DWP are in the process of transitioning to their new gov.uk site. It's all well and good criticising their old website, but what do you propose they do about it? Transition to a new site? That's exactly what they're doing.
Two lines of equations aren't a simple to use programming tool. It's debatable whether TFA achieved that goal, but you certainly didn't.
IMO, what matters most is how much effort the sender was willing to spend on sending the note. That's where the emotional impact comes from.

Because of that, people have learned to discriminate between modern computer print, classical printing, and handwriting (the latter two leave impressions on the paper), so that they can distinguish the real thing from, say, a personalized "Congratulations, mr. Smith, you have won a million" letter sent by some marketing department.
> "What if Bayes' rule was as simple as an if statement?"

As the article clearly showed, this is wishful thinking.

And there's one simple reason why:

- Bayesian inference is generally computationally intractable.

- "If" statements are quite tractable.

Any language in which you could perform Bayesian inference as easily as you perform "if" statements in would result in horrifyingly slow code and become useless.
I would like to buy one. If they get cheaper and my income increases then it will be on the shopping list.