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In further fairness, Pathfinder's name was also its job description. It was built on a relative shoestring and in a way, fulfilled its most important function the moment Sojourner rolled onto Martian soil. It was basically a combination prototype/advance scout.
Then again, I imagine a court could just demand the videos legally, so that original monetization idea wouldn't even work would it...
Frog fractions, the least educational educational game.
I'm an atheist, but grew up Catholic and I know religious doctrine very well indeed. Jesus didn't build his reputation on telling people to ignore science and logic; for every exhortation to his followers that they needed to have some faith in God, there was another one that was very practical, such as 'God helps those who help themselves.' There's no way he expected people to pray for rain only to die of thirst, if there was a lake within walking distance.

I don't want to assign the faults of Randians to Rand, but I think it's fair to say tat she disapproved of altruism and reified individualism as the acme of human achievement. I can sort of understand this given the circumstances of her birth and so on, but Rand (or at least the average Randian) seems suspicious of voluntary and specific collectivism as well as mandatory or universal collectivism. I'm a bit of a hermit, but when I am being social I like working on a team and I find the relentless insistence on individualism as the only valid kind of self-actualization rather pathetic.
The idea of 'primitive cultures' historically was used to intimate that certain groups were closer to animals, hence sub-human, and usurp them out of their land.

Wiki says "The term is generally no longer used in mainstream writing as it is widely considered racist and many groups, including Survival International, have campaigned to stamp it out. The term continues to be used in everyday speech among older inhabitants of former colonial powers and by far right groups, particularly those with a white supremacist ideology."

Many (most?) US-icans from 2013 are unable to grow their own food, find clean drinking water, build tools and shelter, hunt, fight etc. Primitive is a judgment against the technology or skills required to survive in the world you inhabit on a daily basis. So if it is has racist undertones and is entirely non-descriptive / non-meaningful.. why use it?

Edit: In response to child comment (thanks), to make clear I was referring to the parent comment, not the article. It was the characterisation of 'superior technologies' and 'primitive' people I was responding to.
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you could do it with channels, but also by extending the go macro itself. The mini compiler behind the go macro is designed to be extensible. In the test suite for core.async the compiler is run through a series of tests using a "runner" implementation of the go macro: https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/src/test/c...

I've had generators working several times with an approach like this, but as it doesn't really fit with the rest of the library, I removed them.

All that being said, these APIs are internal and could change at any moment.
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I would consider it if all of these are true:

1. You enjoy and learn well from traditional classroom-based education (true for some people, not for others);

2. You narrow down to something more focused that you'd want to learn if you had two years to devote to it (more specific than "computer science"); and

3. You can afford it without it causing financial difficulties.

Beyond that, there are of course lots of specific circumstances. If you want to move to another country, doing a masters degree there can be a way to ease into the local job market. It's a particularly common route in places where you can do the masters in English, as in Scandinavia and Singapore.

Alternately, some companies will reimburse you for part-time nights/weekends masters study. That's not the same as studying something full-time for two years, but can be a compromise of sorts. The arrangements vary a lot by company. Some will pay for one course a semester. Some will do it on a case-by-case basis if your manager thinks it's a good idea. Adobe will pay for up to $10k/yr of tuition/books/etc. if your manager agrees it's related to your job (http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/careeropp/additional_benefit...). IBM has a less generous but unrestricted program where they'll kick in 1/3, up to $1000/yr, of any courses you chose to take on your own (http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/learning_accounts.shtm...). Yahoo will give you $5250/yr (http://us.careers.yahoo.com/benefits/tag/118/).
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Then again, we could pay the CEO $5m and the 10,000 workers could make an extra $1,000/year, so some other distribution proportional to the effort & ability.

$5m/year doesn't sound so awful. Are you saying that the $15m CEO is definitely 3 times better? How are you quantifying that? How do you explain the fact that some CEOs see pay rises even though their firm's revenue or share price declines over the same period?
I like it a lot, it's a great basis for working out, though a few of the exercises are a bit advanced for beginners (in particular the tricep and rotating pushups should be gradually entered into to avoid injuring yourself). You can simplify and use some small weights to help work on some muscle groups before moving to the full workout.

I've rounded it out by including a few isometric exercises, some free-weights and balance exercises in between 7 minute rounds. You can get a real sweat from it if you take it seriously.
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People frequently focus on increasing wages but the really important thing to remember is quality of life. With increasing productivity should come lower cost for the same goods (adjusted for inflation).

The New Yorker is based in New York City where I live. Both renting apartments and purchasing housing has increased in cost significantly because of an artificially induced housing shortage through zoning laws meant to favor wealthy landlords over those who rent or want to purchase an apartment/coop. (this is called by economists, economic rent)

There are many, many laws like the zoning laws in NYC that cause economic rent that favor certain groups over others. Another example in New York City are Taxi Medallions which limit the number of taxis and making them less affordable for passengers.

Instead of focusing on wage increases which might be limited by globalization, we should look for all of the economic rents and removing them through legislation thus allowing markets to do their job.
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Contrast with the aftermath of Yalta and Roosevelt's confidence in Stalin keeping his promises.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_conference#Poland_and_th...
"Primitive" may be racist, but the article does not say that.
You sound like a pretty boring dude. He's just a guy in the Internet writing stuff, and you're just a guy on the Internet talking about him.
As I began to read his thesis I was reminded powerfully of Conor McBride's Epigram system [1]. It's a very different kind of system, but the parity between a user's intent and the computer's ability to interact seamlessly with that intent is a powerful feature of Epigram.

[1] I can't seem to find the source anymore, but there are many papers like cs.ru.nl/~freek/courses/tt-2010/tvftl/epigram-notes.pdf‎
Partially agreed. But I think the notion of protesting in a virtual fashion should not be diminished, but rather encouraged as long as it can do some good. To that end, I encourage anyone who has this sentiment to consider donating to charity on behalf of the cause as a demonstration of its importance [1]. I've chosen the EFF as the charity for my symbolic donation as I stay home with family on this Independence Day. But several other mainstream charity options are available. (Note that the linked site is my side project, and I apologize for the grievous self-promotion.)

[1] https://usa.brianstaskforce.com/task/386/stop-unwarranted-su...
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Oh, boy, what a finding.) Guess why people are running long distances..))

To put it simple - running and swimming are all about better circulation and "massage" for all internal organs.
My partner and I have twins, and are not married. We both have been married previously, and it really doesn't make a big difference to us. We have a better bond than either of us did with our former spouses, and have been together longer than we were with the people we married. It's cool.
would've been good to see some more detail on the source of the game (like how it worked, and what other "cheats" you can hack in). Interesteing read nevertheless.
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This bothers me as a former professor, because these fringe ideas undermine teaching and waste time. Imagine trying to present a lesson on evolution, and one of your students brings this up. You spend a few minutes discussing it. Of course, you've never heard of it before, because it's beyond implausible. So you spend your evening looking into it, and the holes in the theory. Next class you spend more time discussing it. If you're good, the student understands and you move on. If not the student leaves thinking this is a valid alternative viewpoint. And no, an idea does not become valid simply because it's not impossible. It's not unreasonable to demand more than a faint hope probability before judging an idea worth serious discussion.

This happens once, and you can make it a teachable moment. But when the scenario starts to repeat itself it undermines the effort you're putting into teaching real science.
FWIW, it's a circuit meant to be done 3 times -- 21 minutes. Probably closer to 25 minutes with unplanned breaks.
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> But the certification, listed on a résumé that Mr. Snowden later prepared, would also have given him some of the skills he needed to rummage undetected through N.S.A. computer systems and gather the highly classified surveillance documents that he leaked last month

Oh, really? Are you sure? Dunno, such sensationalism, probably. He had access, I doubt he needed these ninja-hacker skills to do what he did.
The FSF is not a court of law.

As such, their opinion on the interpretation of the license has no particular standing. It's helpful that they're the author of the license, and if it came down to it in court, it may be persuasive. But another lawyer might have a different opinion, so the question of how it will actually be interpreted if two parties disagree remains open and unsettled. Therefore, anyone undertaking to release a bit of open code should consider the range of interpretations when choosing the license.

That's all that antoncohen was getting at, I think.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey might be my favorite novel.
Coincidentally, one of if not the best programmer I've worked with was previously a programming sysadmin for a big name in the games industry.

His stories corroborate what is often heard about gaming companies - that the continuous crunch time isn't necessary so much a matter of exploiting an endless supply of young, enthusiastic talent.

I'd certainly see myself having issues with that kind of environment.

The fast iterating development culture of many Internet-era companies certainly sound nice, but never having worked in one, I'm not sure how of the hype to believe.
We can't jail him for that grossly inappropriate comma, can we?
Seems pretty hypocritical of you considering you are in the same position.
The challenge is that, after a certain period, additional training becomes a requirement of continued payment. So, if you're 20-something and been out of work for 6 months, they'll require you receive training and qualifications if you want payments to continue. A "Certificate 3\4 in Business administration", for example.

The training is a covered cost, so its not out-of-pocket for the unemployed. I think it is a good method of helping reduce structural unemployment, as most of the cyclical unemployed are likely to find work before the training requirement kicks in anyway.
There were rumors that older generations of spacecrafts fly on lisp systems. Nevertheless, you see, they had C-interpreter (REPL) there.))
I honestly dont think the structure at has been generated in the US will work as it stands today. There are a lot of edge cases they're not discussing, i.e. if people move to another state how do they track it? If people leave the country? I know a bunch of issues like these, that took a while to iron out in Australia that will likely take a while in the US too. I hope it doesn't get thrown away before it gets the chance to settle in.
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Is there a problem with that? Taxes are there to benefit the society, not the individual. In Norway's case, it definitely seems to be a benefit for society.
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And there is a cool "app for that"....

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MoongLabs....
I'm so glad this is getting some attention. It is an amazing system and while a bunch of issues like people leaving etc are pointed out, for the most part "what goes around comes around" but in a very positive way for the nation.

People feeling free to travel and experiment, while being educated, just means eventually when they return home they bring a lot back with them. You wonder why a nation in the middle of nowhere can thrive? Well yes there is a mining boom, but also the country is well equip enough to make the most of it.
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>I don't like it when people overemphasize the impact of "choices." Choices don't have the same meaning for all of us. Life is a different kind of easy when fucking up doesn't mean derailing all of your plans.

I'm okay with that. What would be the point of being wealthy if it didn't make your life easier?
I'm pretty sure that pg _was_ implying that the NSA program was frowned upon by the laws in the Bill of Rights; while it seems that the NSA is in fact complying with all applicable laws (based on what the government has revealed, as quoted in Wikipedia and other media outlets).

Regardless of whether Snowden is correct or not, I think that there are government functions that the general public should not be informed of. Having a policy of detailing the exact nature of PRISM could be just as damaging as, say, having a policy of publicly detailing all planned drone strikes. I bet the NSA's job is already harder because of Snowden's leaks.

I also think that there is a very real possibility that people who would seek destruction could acquire possession of an aircraft carrier's control systems or the control systems of the missile defense shield. Should the US not pursue those tools because of that possibility, too?

The citizenry will have a hard time exercising it's natural rights to participate in debates about national policies in the American Republic if each citizen has to also worry about protecting himself from thieves/bandits/pirates/foreign armies.
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Depending on the application, hstore can see real performance increases.

http://blog.artlogic.com/2012/10/29/performance-of-custom-fi...
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Why so many points? Does this considered a good writing nowadays?)
Yay. Another email harvester..
NSA does not object to any lawful, peaceful protest.

Especially when it gives us an opportunity to build a geo-associational database of potential troublemakers cross-referenced with surveillance cam data, social media breadcrumbs and other applicable metadata sources.

You know, for the day when things get serious.
> For example, maybe they admit it, plus there is authenticated video + eyewitness + whatever you like evidence that they did it.

Then that would be good enough to convince a jury the accused is guilty. You can't allow the defence to just claim "well, he did it", as you appear to desire, because that's ripe for abuse.
Bad debt is a good point, and it comes down to the loan provider agreeing on what they will and will not pay for. In below references to the Australian system you'll find that the load provider (the government) will at times stop providing funding for industries, or limit the number of funded positions (you still have the option to go at as a full-fee paying student) when there is less of a need.

A great example of this would be teachers, there are limited positions as there are a lot already and new positions do not open up as rapidly as universities can train teachers. A great way to control this and push people in other directions is to simply not fund that degree to the same extend as say various engineering courses.

Don't be afraid of it just because the government is involved. It can, and has worked. There is a lot to gain from having an educated society.
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In fact, the Incans did know about wheels, it's just that wheels are considerably less useful when you don't have any large pack animals to pull things.

The Incans did not have the wheel (when we refer to people having the wheel, we mean with an axle). They used wood beams to roll things around, but that's not a wheel. As far as I know, the only group that had the wheel in the Americas were the ancient Mexicans.

Further, devices like wheel barrows and carts are incredibly useful with or without pack animals. Doubly so if you had the incredible manpower that the Incans had where you can easily just use humans to pull them instead of pack animals. Wheels aren't just for hauling things around either, it is hard to express how incredibly useful potter's wheels has been for the last five thousand years.
You're likely thinking of this essay: http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
> Cryptocat did not give those warnings. Cryptocat said it was secure.

This is just not true. There are ample warnings on the front page of the website as well as on the login screen on the app. Cryptocat has never said it's completely secure.
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Women/people certainly CAN choose to educate. Your presumption that she SHOULD or, rather, "The proper way to handle this issue is..." is what I took issue with. There is no "proper way to handle this issue" except the way that makes the violated feel safer. If that means she moves away from the perpetrator, then that is proper way. If it means opening a dialogue about improper behavior, then that is the proper way too. Ultimately, it comes down to the woman/person in question.
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> Once you've started down that road, where do you stop?

On the corner of hitler road and stalin street.
Why are we covering Edward Snowden, AGAIN?

NSA is still collecting to your emails, facebook, and other communications... I'm sure Edward Snowden would be happy to answer everything about him when the NSA stops doing all of that.
I didn't mean they were blaming cosmic rays. I've worked with completely terrestrial programmers who are prone to blaming "cosmic rays" or "compiler bugs" for their own mistakes... and the claim that the Pathfinder engineers chalked up the reset to a "hardware glitch" reminded me of those sorts of rationalizations.
I gave up on those walled-garden crippled-pc set-top boxes and just took an old pc, hooked up the HDMI port to the living room TV, added a wireless mouse, and all was well with my family.

They have completely stopped watching regular TV. They now watch YouTube Videos, Foreign films, can play games on Steam, and Stream European cable tv nearly 24/7. Everything from bittorrent to youtube to netflix to Amazon to whatever can be played on a PC. Music and Video Games included. My Home Theatre PC is on 24/7.

The reason these Set top boxes like (GoogleTV AppleTV Boxee) keep failing is because they're just crippled PCs. It's not about the UI, it's the freedom, it's the usefulness. People will take something useful and ugly over something useless and shiny. Why get a set top box when you can just watch things on your laptop? What's the point? You want to watch on your big screen tv? Then hook it up using an HDMI cable to your big screen tv. Or grab your tech savvy son or daughter and have them hook up an old pc to the big screen tv.
I'm not sure I would've interpreted it that way were I in your position, but fair enough.
>Many people end up with nothing from SS even with significant contributions.

Personally, I think those people should get some portion of their money back. I'd also like to see a lower minimum and have people who only paid in for ten years not not draw so much. It's not fair to people who paid in for 45+ years.
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So far, there are two proven gene-flow events to Homo sapiens from non-sapiens: Homo neanderthalensis and from the Denisova hominin population. In the latter case science isn't sure yet whether the Denisova hominin was a sub-species or species.

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

We probably got some immunity-related genes from neanderthals, but probably not red hair - red hair in neanderthals is caused by a different mutation that doesn't exist in humans.
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The penultimate paragraph compounds my confusion:

> For Mr. Hollock, the “Born to Lose” author, the issue is readers, not dollars. His award-winning book, published by Kent State University Press, had a steep list price of $35 to begin with. In the author’s view, Amazon is simply compounding the trouble by raising its price to more than $30 from $23.

Why is the author complaining about Amazon, when the list price is as high as $35? Yes, Amazon might have gone from $23 to $30, but that is still a 14% discount.

Why was the list price so high in the first place? Shouldn't the author be complaining about the press?
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It was the same thought I had too.

I remember reading it in a article some time back. Software for this sort of systems isn't written like we do. Come to office, fire up IDE and code. Rather by and large software is first written on paper and the possible side effects and correctness is first verified thoroughly.

I know of a embedded programmer from 80's/90's era. He has done embedded programming both in assembly and C heavily. I recently happen to run into his journals/notes at his home. Turns out even for things as simple as a telephone answering machine or a ECG machine. They would heavily work things out on the paper first. Prove its correctness, once they've got it all figured out then they go out and do it on an editor. I mean it was so well organized on paper, he had all the tests figured out to there most extreme edge cases and he had everything on paper.

I did a small project with him and it was fun to watch him work. It felt like bulk of the work happened on paper first and then on the real tool. There was hardly any room for error, bugs were very minimal. And beyond all, working on paper has its biggest benefit. There is no dangerous distraction called the 'web browser'.