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I oftentimes avoid working with people who describe themselves as a [Rails|JavaScript|Python|etc] developer, for a few reasons.

First, when you're a [language] programmer, every problem is solved with [language]. If there was one language that was perfect for everything, we'd just name it "programming" and be done with this whole debate.

Secondly, and more importantly, I've never worked on a website or app where only one language or technology was used -- and that's completely ignoring the importance of skills like design, usability, product management, databases, etc.

One-language-programmers tend to have a "that's not my job" approach to anything that isn't their language, meaning code from them often isn't wired up or well designed or whatever.

(Naturally, there are some amazing one-language-programmers out there, however my experience tends to be the opposite.)
Secret browsing window to kill any cookies, search for the URL on google, click it there. They can't serve up a different page to google visitors on threat of being banned for spam.

This method also works for WSJ.
I'm not very familiar with dynamic scoping, so maybe I've misunderstood it, but that doesn't appear to be true. What variable a name binds to is determined entirely at runtime, which happens for globals too. You cannot end up accessing a variable in your caller unless they explicitly pass in a reference to it, and it's not possible to write a function which refers to a single global variable in the code, but which can refer to different variables at runtime depending on the caller.
Not much of a practical problem IMX. If going through each implementation of an interface is painful, you're using the wrong tools.
As long as an object's behaviour remains the same, the data can change without any problem. That's one of the big selling points of OO.
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I don't know anyone for whom it was about religion. And yeah, the husband had motives for wanting to get rid of her - both because he wanted to remarry and because of money. Is that why he did what he did? No idea. But in this case the parents should have been allowed to make the decision.
Will someone give me a few concrete, practical examples of using functional programming in JavaScript?

I'm interested in this concept, but I'm not sure how to go about applying it to my own work as a front-end web developer. Most of the resources online are theoretical.
Is there an API that can find books from multiple sellers by say, ISBN? It would be nice to easily find the cheapest book from various sellers.
Yes, except that you cannot expect people to be able to answer this "question" anymore.

There is no doubt that you can uniquely identify the world population with 33 bits, so I guess the problem is to do it with questions people can answer themself.
It depends.

There are extant phage that predate staph, like Phage K. There are some hurdles you'd need to overcome. Foremost among these is when compared to antibiotics, phage suck for treating disease. This is a big part of the reason everyone beat a path to antibiotics

Phage are extremely narrow spectrum. You can select for a high-fitness phage with serial passages: Plate the host bacterium along with some phage. Find the largest region of dead host (a plaque), pick it and repeat for several hundred generations. The good news is that you'll have a high-fitness phage. The bad news is that it will probably only infect the particular strain of bacteria you've been using to select it. I worked with a fitness optimized E.coli phage that wild-type E.coli probably would have laughed off. I haven't read the therapeutic phage literature, but my assumption would be that you may need to optimize

Phage have some issues with immune clearance. The immune system really loves to eliminate foreign looking viruses. The concentration of phage injected intramusucularly falls very fast. Again, this might be something you can overcome with serial passages. There was some work in rabbits where the authors found an enrichment for mutations in the capsid (the phage's head). I don't recall if they quantified the fitness impact of these mutations.

If I ever get out of software development, it'll probably be to work on phage.
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I'd love to purchase all three volumes in a way that supports the group responsible for the free online version, but when its only $20 more expensive to get a really nice hardcover edition than it is for a set of .PDFs, that's a really tough sell.

If you gave a discount for purchasing all 3, for around $80, I'd be surprised if you didn't increase your sales volume enough to make more money than you would at a higher price.
My favorite terse world news source these days is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

For a long time I've wanted a new source that will only show me stories that are likely to be relevant in a year. If no one is going to care or remember something in a month, then I'd rather just skip it. Portal:Current_events is as close to that as I've found.

What I love about it: very short summaries with the most important details about stories that people might still care about in a year, no sensational or partisan headlines, one click to excellent summaries of the issues, and I can easily catch up after missing a few days, whereas many news sites make it hard to see what they looked like even yesterday.

Take for instance the top story on bitofnews.com. The Portal:Current_events summary is:

"<a>A roof collapse</a> at a grocery store in <a>Riga</a>, Latvia, kills more than 50 people."

So it's more up to date than the bitofnews summary that has "at least 32," and if I care where Riga is instead of reading "Riga, which is the biggest city in the Baltics and its biggest seaport" I can click the Riga link and see a map and photo and population etc. If I want to know about the ongoing event, I can click the "a roof collapse" link and I'm presented with a pretty good summary of the issue.

I'm happy to see more news sources like this appear though. My only problem with the Portal:Current_events is that it doesn't have a good RSS feed and if I check it more than once a day, or mid-day, then it can be hard to see what has changed since my last visit.
Also applies to the eternal wheel of centralization / decentralization. Or the peculiar 3-phase of interpreted / tokenized / compiled.

On a larger scale paradigms usually pick a spot along the verbosity continuum. Concise and information dense or verbose and information free? This is another eternal cycle. Some modern java looks about the same as 1960s COBOL to me.
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I guess it's better than the millionth blatantly obvious Bootstrap layout.
M3 and M4 are two of the absolute nicest cores to program for. A reasonably orthogonal ISA that's still small enough to fit on one side of a reference card, enough registers, and a wonderfully simple performance model (everything is single-cycle except for multiplies and memory ops).
yea its mostly the interviewers who ruin this mentality. I'm currently programming a few languages at work (js, Java, using a bunch of other tools) and unfortunately when I apply for my next job they're not gonna believe I did anything other than my job title. Bigger companies aren't so hung up on this thank god but a lot of the startups and mid-size companies are.
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And there he goes and spoils it with the GA script.
Point taken.
The parallel today is "suicide by cop".
GPL3, then charge target market for a different license and upgrades/support.

I saw someone else doing this and they said it was working well for them (sorry do not remember who).
It doesn't really matter if it turned out not to be discontinuous. The fact that it looked like it was going to be for a long, long time is still a big problem.
Most people who lift are overcompensating one thing or another.
Simple hack yet very nicely structured content.

However, these kind of cold-marketing techniques will remain bubble. Personally I think we should practice white-hat techniques, it pays well in long term.
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> I'm not sure how often she came across that particular dilemma.

Not very often -- AIUI she spent most of her time "freezing" patients (inducing hypothermia).

Somehow we got on the subject of DNRs and she explained their policy/reasoning to me. Basically, if a patient w/ a DNR "coded" and a family member was yelling to save them, they would.
"but paying just to leave money in the bank would be highly unusual and unwelcome for companies and households."

LOL I'm the treasurer for a kids organization and no one seems to care that we're paying about 10% on fees (sadly I wish I were kidding) in addition to real world inflation specs (not made up .gov propaganda) so we're already used to losing about 15% annually at the bank.

My personal account at a credit union with much higher balances and lower fees only loses about 5% annually on deposits.
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I don't think they're overstating this claim. It's a double-edged sword.

If you have an infection your doctor can give you antibiotics and send you home. Antibiotics tend to be wide spectrum and kill entire classes of bacteria, like gram-positive, indiscriminately.

A phage that kills one strain of E.coli might be completely incapable of infecting a closely related E.coli strain. Thinking that a single phage could be effective against closely relate pathogens, for example E.coli AND Salmonella, is wishful thinking. This might have the upside of preserving gut flora, but it's easy to see how it would confound treatment: some things are very difficult to grow in vitro.
heh just because there is no official backing organization doesn't mean that there isn't a contingency with an interest in this playing out. In fact.... well all those who have money invested automatically fall into that camp.

I feel you about the split in personalities though, ugh...
The one thing I remember from economics class is the concept of marginal utility. It basically says — if I remember correctly — that the perceived value of a good declines as a consumer accumulates more of it. One cookie? Delicious. Ten cookies? Each one doesn't taste quite as good.

I mention this because I think that fucks are like cookies....The first one: well, that's something special. It's funny. It makes a statement. The 70th one? Well, I'm not sure what to do with all these fucks.

In other words, I can tell that there's a potentially poignant idea about web design in this post, but it was a little drowned out because of the way it was presented.
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This is one motherfucking 'extremist' message, but funny as hell!
It would look better with Bootstrap though.
That was the point of zero interest from the Fed. When the interest of a savings account is barely better then keeping cash under the mattress, it encourages people to spend/invest their dollars instead of hoarding them. Whether that actually makes sense in the long term remains to be seen.
> even the gender one

Sure, but if you ask "do you consider yourself classically male" and "do you consider yourself classically female", you'll get the vast majority of people, so you can still eliminate large swaths of population with either of these.
Bitcoins don't charge a fee.

Note that people have owned gold and "valuables" for a long time. If you think owning a serious art painting is free, you're in for a surprise, especially if its insured against loss. And my safe deposit box has both a monthly rental fee and some valuable pieces of metal inside it. (And most importantly a set of USB flash drives periodically rotated in storage, which is a bit off topic)
What about a "verbal DNR"?

I was recently involved in a pretty bad motorcycle accident and was asked multiple times (by EMS on the scene, medical staff in the ER, medical staff right before going into the OR, etc.) if I had a DNR and/or if I would want them to attempt to save me if something happened.

I remember thinking that was kinda weird since my assumption was that such requests would need to be in writing. Perhaps it was because I was incapable of writing or signing my name, though (two broken wrists)? Instead of me signing any documents, they just asked me verbally after making sure they had two other employees present as witnesses.
I've gotten the impression that the reverse has been happening: broadcast digital TV removed quality and reduced number of channels as a reason for sticking with cable. I know a number of people here (Washington DC) who've talked about dropping cable TV because they really only used it for live things (e.g. the Olympics, disasters, etc.) and a $20 antenna works well enough for that to make paying an additional $50+ per month completely unappealing.
No one here seems to have mentioned Hunch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunch_(website) ).

Picking discrete questions like this is equivalent to building a decision tree for humanity. This is actually something that could be approached as an engineering problem (and there are mechanisms for optimizing decision trees).

The problem still remains in the face of both the technological capabilities of decision trees, and practical implementations like Hunch.com, that decision trees are reductive and discrete. Reality is neither discrete nor reductive.

It may very well be the case that there is a set of questions that could uniquely identify humans, but the insight that could be drawn from those questions might be essentially pointless.

For example:

* Were you born in the northern hemisphere?

* Were you born on an even numbered year in the Gregorian calendar?

* Is the country of your birth governed through a representative system?
I've said it before in response to these sorts of articles, and I'll say it again: if these people wanted random people "cold emailing" (what a weasel term for spamming), they'd have put their email address in a more accessible place.

Sure, you always hear the stories of "how I got X interviews by randomly emailing people", and you can argue it shows technical aptitude, but that doesn't make it any less scummy, and it completely ignores the dozens (hundreds?) of people you are now blacklisted by for doing such an asinine thing.

I tip my hat to the OP of this article for not posting source code (although if he did, would that accelerate the response to make these sorts of attacks infeasible?) and for not abusing it (at least by his standards).
- Financial crisis... everyone wants safe liquid assets, like short term Treasurys, bank deposits.

- Those instruments get bid up, rates go to 0.

- This breaks retail Main Street banking model... no point in banks paying to rent and staff branches, take deposits from customers when they have more deposits than they know what to do with, no safe liquid place to invest that pays any return at all.

- To not make the crisis worse with branch closures, bank layoffs, Fed starts paying interest on excess reserves... bank takes deposits, puts them at the Fed in excess reserve account, Fed pays 0.25%.

- On the one hand this saves bank branches from closing, retail customers from being charged fees... on the other hand you're paying banks not to lend in a back-door bailout.

- My first guess would be that the Fed would have to taper QE, let short rates rise above 0 before ending IOER. But maybe there is some room to reduce IOER a small amount where a retail deposit would be breakeven but the back-door bailout would be reduced/eliminated.

- Naturally the banks are going to squawk. Ultimately one side will back down and depositors probably won't have to pay fees.
Definitely sounds like a good opportunity for a startup (or at least a lifestyle business)! Here's an idea: build it and launch it to bitcoin communities.
Occasionally I come across a statement that succinctly explains some complex cultural phenomenon as well as or better than an entire book could. This is one of those statements.
Alright someone in here is going to mention Snapchat, so I'm gonna go ahead and mention it first: Snapchat.

Guarantee a good portion of you were thinking the same thing while reading that.
I downvoted you, and for a lot of reasons.

Mainly, because I very distinctly got the sense that you didn't read the article, but I find the idea that people who lift are doing so to ameliorate some other inadequacy that they feel.

I don't "lift" in the traditional sense, but as someone whose close circle of friends has recently undertaken a workout mantra, I'll share with you that the number one motivation is "to live longer".
Whoa whoa whoa. You can't take what I said and then decide I'm lambasting everyone who ever joined a cult. That's your projection, not my comment. I'm sympathetic to people who find themselves in a cult or religion that goes against their self-interest. But... there is a spectrum. Killing yourself to somehow spirit away to an imagined UFO following a comet is at the very far end of that spectrum.

My point was that IQ and/or technical competence are no assurance that you won't make really, really bad choices in life.
Too bad college graduates are leaving college like indoctrinated Haskell/Scala/Python drones. No one wonder China and India are leaving us far behind in terms of technology. Western colleges have been infected by teachers/professors with a programming language as religion.
Depends on the method of killing. And even a painful one is still probably preferable than long drawn out suffering.

I assumed the poisoning would be easy and doctors wouldn't look for it but that may not be trivial. But if you actually cared it would be worth a few hours of research at the very least.
I've recently purchased a Roku as well so I can use Netflix. So that combined with Plex + downloaded content means I hardly ever watch broadcast TV any more.
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I'm having trouble imagining a definition of "important" which excludes a new communication paradigm that connects literally millions of people.

(Whether or not that communication paradigm will ever break a profit is, of course, a separate issue.)
that's my prediction. 10-20 years.

so yes, i'm saying that almost everyone, including even
"experts in the field", has drastically underestimated
both problem severity and shortness of the time-frame.

and extinction is just part of the problem. because the
extinction of apex predators means that other species in
the food-chain get overpopulated, causing more problems,
then undergoing crash/boom cycles, thereby upsetting the
delicate balanced ecosystem on which we depend so much.

(not that it was "delicate" before, it wasn't, but once
we've thrown it so far out of whack, it'll be very hard
to achieve the delicate touch needed to restore balance,
especially as we'll lack time, desire, and frame of mind.
we'll just wildly swing, from one to the other extreme.)

and that's just out with the big-enough-to-see animals.
dynamics in the virus-world, with the now-acknowledged
looming uselessness of antibiotics, will be even worse.
and that will impact human life much more squarely than
an extinction of the lions and tigers and bears, oh my.

this crap will happen sooner than we believed, and will
snowball much more rapidly than we thought, plus there
will be all kinds of ugly "surprises" in store for us.

for instance, how long do you think the bees will last?
and when they're gone, what happens to our food supplies?
how long will we remain civilized when food grows short?
and just how long do you think we can live with no food?

i was being conservative when i said "10-20 years", since
people would think i am nuts if i said "7-11 years", but
-- once the shit starts to hit the fan -- the time-frame
will not be best measured by _decades_, but by _months_.

mark my words.

i hope i'm wrong. i really really really hope i'm wrong.

but that's my prediction.

-bowerbird
I agree with the main point but disagree with the often regurgitated utopia of choosing the right platform/language to fit the problem. That has never been an option in my experience, and even it was an option there would be multiple equally good choices available. The ultimate decision on what choice to make will be influenced by many other factors, team skills, experience, availability of talent, long term strategy, risk....
Pointcast wasn't even the most egregious example of this type of bullshit company. Look at Blue Mountain Arts, the online greeting card company. These guys let you create a hokey greeting card and e-mail it to a friend. HTML greeting cards over email. Probably 2,000 lines of bad Perl CGI scripts and some decent artwork. They sold this company to Excite@Home for.... $780,000,000.

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/224981

Granted, $430MM of it was paid in Excite@Home stock which was worthless in short order but still, the previous owners took $350MM in cash. Their grandchildren will never have to work.

Another awesome E@H acquisition: iMall.com. They provided little storefronts for people to sell Harley Davidson keychains and stuff like that. Selling price: $425MM in E@H stock.
Only a little better than most of the fluff that has been posted on this topic. This one in particular seems to have a bias towards web development. Not that web development is wrong, but the article presents a very narrow path.

Then I found the notion of Java and C++ being "hardcore" to be quite odd. Is manifest typing considered hardcore these days? C++ is complex, but Java is the definitive dull enterprise language.
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Right. That's the NSAs job, apparently.
That's actually _better_ than a written document as far as I'm concerned. A DNR basically says "If I'm unable to speak for myself, here's how I would like to be treated." If you _are_ able to tell me how you want to be treated, then there's no question (assuming I'm confident in your ability to make informed decisions... not drunk off your ass... etc...)
I can certainly relate, but please don't try to pretend that this is a pleasant reading experience on a desktop. Lines of text should be about 45–90 characters long (including spaces) in order to create a pleasant reading experience. Do not make me resize my browser window to do this for you.
I'd love to be able to buy MP3s of his lectures for download. I have been unable to find them online, does anyone here have any pointers?
"One of the greatest, truly worthless ideas of its time was Pointcast."

Pointcast was essential network news on the data wire (the notion that it was all advertisements is the sort of asinine over-rationalization to pitch a point that completely devastates the speaker's argument), and it brought to the mainstream the concept of push information. Whether it could be duplicated was irrelevant to the value which was in a very well known, widely deployed name and product. Through the perfect clarity of hindsight we can now proclaim the idea an obvious failure given that the execution faltered, but I hope most see past that inanity.

But then the author holds as the counterpoint the papers of the Google founders. Their notion was, essentially, links count for ranking points, and the more ranking points the more your links count. Is that the brilliant heavy lifting? Because it really isn't, and the fact that Google has excelled doesn't prove some sort of point.

Most of the heavy lifting in the world has gone completely without herald, much of it leading to failure.