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No-one seems to have pointed out that this is likely to be a trademark violation:

"All rights reserved. 'Elite', the Elite logo, the Elite: Dangerous logo, 'Frontier' and the Frontier logo are registered trademarks of Frontier Developments plc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and copyright are acknowledged as the property of their respective owners."

In this case, unauthorised use of their trademark in the same trademark category (computer games), is going to damage Frontier's reputation.

Could someone get David Braben to contact Kickstarter UK?
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My guess is that they did it to make their bosses happy
That's exactly what we're doing (apart from the denormalization approach, which we don't really recommend). The problem is doing this in a way that A) is reactive (i.e. updates in real time) and B) efficient.
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Fallacies are invoked too often in internet arguments. Take ad hominem, for example. People invoke ad hominem as a counter to people who attack the credentials/funding sources of scientists who have an interest in promulgating a particular point of view. However, it is totally valid to argue that the minority of scientific studies that find, say, chemical X not to be harmful were funded by chemical companies. It's not a valid counter for a purely logical argument, but debates on the internet are rarely based on pure logic. Rather, they are usually based on evaluating the credibility of experts, evaluating the relevance of evidence, and distinguishing what kind of conclusions can and cannot be determined by particular evidence.

To me, a better source for internet debate is the Federal Rules of Evidence: http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre. Particularly the modern statistical approach to evaluating the relevancy of evidence based on Bayes' rule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_under_Bayes_theorem.
Becoming a data scientist isn't a matter of reading journals and blogs. You can get a sense of the field and what is required by reading those sites but becoming a data scientist is years of hard work.

You need to develop serious skills in at least 4 of the following disciplines.
Statistical analysis

RDMS query development

NoSQL databases

Machine learning

Natural Language Processing

Web crawling and data harvesting techniques

Programming to access data APIs

Web development

Data visualization

Systems in business that generate data including, CRM, ERP and more

Geospatial data systems

Each of these areas would have its own set of resources both formal and informal.
I removed my post.
You must be right.

a/ I don't think I said we're lacking public funding in France. BPI will invest 1B€ in 2014... slightly more than VCs have in 2013.
b/ I've just found a way out...
So even the Washington Post has decided to adopt Upworthy-like titles, I guess that's the sad future of online news.
I just alternated whether someone was in group A or B, because I responded to the e-mails as they came in, at the end of each day. So it wasn't truly random, no. On the other hand I didn't control when someone wrote in to me, so arguably it at least wasn't fully in my control.

Of course, it wasn't double-blind because I was both writing the e-mails and conducting the experiment too.
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If this[1] is what "increasing inequality" looks like, I welcome it.

[1] http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/~/media/Annual%20Let...
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Saying C is "very hard" is useful to dissuade the unprepared from writing buggy, vulnerable software, but for the experienced developer with modern tools, C is at worst "tedious". Some simple habits, like always writing your malloc() and free() calls at the same time in balanced pairs, can make C quite managable. Add valgrind, unit tests, and static analysis, and I'd have much more confidence in a good C program than an average program in a weakly typed language.
Half the people in this thread seem to have missed the point. This article is not supporting 100% abstinence of these functions. It is doing exactly the opposite - and showing up people who say "never do this" or "that is always wrong" as being as ridiculous as those who blindly support abstinence from sex. This kind of tunnel vision, learning by rote, and refusal to teach what is really happening, is exactly the same stupid attitude that creates bad programmers, as it creates unbalanced teenagers.

Perhaps, just like condoms, memcpy, strcpy, strcat are dangerous or ineffective 10% of the time. But that other 90% of the time, when used correctly, they are perfectly safe, fun and essential to learning and growing. Avoiding them completely does not create a healthy relationship between a language and its programmer. I realize that not everyone in this thread is a C programmer, but this prevailing attitude of saying "this should never be done/used" just because you're heard that from someone else, is a really petty, annoying, and persistent aspect of programmer culture.
This article clearly illustrates the red pill philosophy. He demonstrates a few things with his emails, his time is money, he has a plan and will make your live easier, and you get the impression he's not desperate for work, making him more attractive to future clients. I want someone successful mentality.
>8. Why haven't the U.S. or Europe fixed this?

Seriously?
I've never accepted or offered referral fees as far as I can remember. I'm not sure I've thought about it enough to have an opinion on it.
I agree. This is probably the best way to relate the situation to someone in the US. No one would take you seriously here if you proposed splitting "blue" states into a separate country and proposing a split there seems equally far fetched.
Yes, 'tis a pun :)
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It's all fun and games till someone loses a lawsuit.

The Tetris Company LLC has for years claimed copyright and trademark rights over all falling-tetromino games and sending out C&D letters to independent developers. The developers laughed it off, until TTC vs. Xio, in which a district court judge ruled in favor of the plaintiff.

By doing something like this the developers are risking serious lawsuits, and the invalidity of the "candy" trademark really can't be established except in a courtroom. And I think most of the smaller devs will settle way before then.
Right. So imagine if you have two or more monitors, and the one with the taskbar is two or three feet away from where your focus is. The little blinking square is hardly noticeable then, especially if you rarely use the taskbar (and how would you if you have four screens, it will give you RSI just mousing over there every time).

There is one semi-cheesy third-party app which adds more obvious notification, but as it stands, email arriving in Outlook is way easier to see than IMs in Lync, even though Outlook knows all about your Lync conversations, including when you are missing one (i.e. it quietly puts the chats you are missing into your Missed Conversations, even while it is notifying you with a big popup about incoming emails). In 1999 AOL IM would just pop up the chat window on your screen where you could see it.
They didn't just destroy the hard drives, they went the extra mile and grinded away every single chip in the computers. Their reasoning must be that some chips have a little Flash memory for firmware, which might have been used to store a little data; even RAM chips can retain some data after they've been powered off. Of course that's a precaution that doesn't make much sense in the grand scheme of things: storing data in these areas is technically difficult, inconvenient, and low-capacity (for Flash) or unreliable (for RAM). A person smart enough to pull this off would have been much better off keeping a backup off-site.

They ended up destroying every single part of the computer -- perhaps they spared the keyboard or the display, but that's not likely since they could argue that a storage device could be hidden in there.
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My T60 is bound to be replaced... sniff ;(

After checking out the current Lenovo "propositions" I'm wondering if there are meanwhile better "Thinkpads" produced by other brands... I could just put the classic/nostalgic "IBM ThinkPad" sticker on the best candidate, which I sadly suspect will not be from Lenovo.
Would it be possible to run another experiment using "would <date-and-time> work to discuss this further? Let me know how I can help."
"Milk my duds! They claim they own the word 'Candy'? And 'King'?!"
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I often see this touted as an excuse as to communication barriers. While it certainly addresses the seemingly incoherent sentences, it does not address a lack of necessary information. Regardless of your human language capability, you should have the ability to provide enough evidence of the problem you're stating, error outputs from logs, etc.
Can tell he came from France... You can't have a democracy without capitalism, if you remove capitalism you instead have to put in place a committee, if someone in the committee eventually makes a grab for power (at some point this will happen), then you have a dictatorship...

It's happened tons of times throughout history, no matter what people want power. If a society values money the most (as in a capitalist society) one will strive to make money and in turn products. If the society values position, then one will strive to gain status, and so on with military, strength, etc.

The point being, regardless of work, it's fairly clear though a remedial understanding of history (Rome, Russia, North Korea, Greece), capitalism doesn't destroy a society nor does it create a gap. The gap is always there, it simply changes form. If for example the average worker has a home, food, water, essentially a stable life they will still complain because they want MORE.

This will always happen, I know very few people who don't want more. I suspect that this is the root of it, the root of all statements such as "Capitalism vs. Democracy.."

It's pathetic, it's as if these authors sole goal is to destroy democracy and instantiate communism.. We've seen that in the past and it doesn't close the gap between rich and poor it makes it worse. For when you remove the hope that work can make you rich, you put in place instead a status (or military, strength, etc.) based market, where the "wealthiest" in the society are those with that instead of currency. Unfortunately, that change in efforts towards status, or what have you, forces greater despair. As time goes on the society eventually will lose all hope and collapse...

/end rand

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School
Unix tools? You mean Linux....
I think you're mixing up two things. He's only suggesting using the <date-and-time> trick if the client actually already expressed his want/need to meet. In your case, Group B is a poor ending because you are still offloading work to the client: having them figure out what would have to be discussed (and taking up more of their time).

If -you- need to discuss things further it may sound like you're the one who is confused and that does not evoke confidence. "Let me know how I can help" is probably better than what "let's discuss this further" implies. (OP calls this hand holding.)
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This philosophy is applicable to much more than just sales.

I generally try to avoid highlighting problems unless I can suggest a solution. People don't want to hear whats wrong, they want to know how things can get better.
One thing that wasn't mentioned in the article was about the reasoning behind Putin's customs union. Putin is very pro-Soviet Union. He wants to make customs union to make it resemble Soviet Union with Russia as the leader country and others (such as Belarus), former Soviet Union members as satellite countries. He also sees it, as mentioned in the article, as a counterweight to EU, which he views as a threat. So his personal interest in Ukraine goes beyond "care for Russians living in Ukraine". He basically wants to rebuild Soviet Union, and Ukraine is a key component.
Intimidate. Scare. Show their higher ups they were doing something. You know; the usual totalitarian M.O.
And I would have love to read a comment of someone who actually tried to understand the article before posting.

I think you need to read that: http://www.rudebaguette.com/2013/05/28/stop-blaming-the-ecos...
That's an interesting thought, although I think it's a confusing call to action. Also I'm not really in a position to do another experiment since I just started building something else now! (http://uphex.com)
Yeah, I'm not crazy about the overly simplistic way some of these "fallacies" are constructed. I've always thought people who go on about fallacies in argument are incredibly smug, and the fallacies themselves are just names given to things we already recognized and understood.

In the "Appeal to Pity" fallacy the example given is:

Jill: "He'd be a terrible coach for the team."
Bill: "He had his heart set on the job, and it would break if he didn't get it."
Jill: "I guess he'll do an adequate job."

The argument that Bill cares immensely about the job IS evidence that he would likely do it well. A coach who cares is more likely to work hard, be more invested in the outcomes of games, etc.

But the real problem, as you mention, is that people don't argue to logically prove something. People argue to convince someone else (often not even the person they're arguing with). If you can convince people you won the argument, you won the argument. It doesn't matter whether you appealed to base human emotion or made a logically/factually empty argument.
Besides the language issue and the politics, I suspect there's also an age issue. From talking to friends there, the younger people want to gravitate towards Europe, as Europe is seen as more progressive and open. While the older people prefer the stability of going with Russia.
They also license the name "iPhone" from Cisco. They reference it in the first few lines of the legal section in the settings panel.
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I would love the system you described, you're just not going to get there by bounding geographically, and thinking you can is earning you a lot of negative karma. If the statement I'm responding to here is indicative of your actual position, then it is a noble one -- if you believe that discriminating geographically will help you obtain that objective, then the nobility aspect is out the window.

As for haole, that is exactly how I was using it. The direct literal translation is 'foreigner', to my understanding, and whites just happen to have caught the slur because they were foreign to Hawaii, and annexed the place by force, not without a bit of hard feelings.
As somebody who did little other than C for just over a decade, my answer would be "FreePascal", which lets you do similar low level things, but has a few "safeties" built in. Objective C looks to be a little better with strings as well, but I'm not very familiar with it. (dabbled in iOS years ago)

The people who brought us the [in]famous "Why Pascal is not my favorite language" article would have done well to look at their own glass house.

OTOH, C does make a great portable assembler if you are using it to implement another language (which is exactly what we did at one of my jobs in the early 90s)

... Had to explain to my daughter this morning why I was laughing at the "abstinence" posters ...
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I do a lot of my work from the cafe at Barnes & Noble, and I routinely walk away for extended periods of time, leaving my laptop sitting on the table, my car keys and wallet in my backkpack beside the table, and a cup of coffee sitting there. I've been doing this routinely for well over a year, and I've never had any of my stuff messed with.

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I don't really feel like the crowd of people who come in there contains a lot of people who are going to try to steal a laptop or anything. And there are usually plenty of people around, and I've gotten to know a lot of the other "regulars" so that probably helps as well.
SPDY wouldn't be a thing if HTTP were sufficient at the massive scales we're talking here.
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Nice write-up.

I'm surprised people don't mind chaining together the information flow like this; it feels more like the runtime should do this sort of leg work. I understand why you'd do this on servers, but not as much on clients. Why not tie up a worker thread waiting for these things?
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Elite Systems have been around a long time too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_Systems
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Logical fallacy #1: that actual argumentation in real life can be reduced to some axiomatic system where you can just discard arguments as logical fallacies.

It's easy as a nerd to fell into that trap, but real life has much more nuances than those fallacy lists capture.

Case in point: "the no true scotchman fallacy". In real life groups CAN be argued to have certain characteristics to recongnise members from non-members, hypocritical members, non-practicing members, posers and "fakes". So the "no true scotchman" fallacy breaks down when you're dealing with such nuances.

Or take "appeal to tradition": 1) X is old or traditional 2) Therefore X is correct or better.

Well, it depends on how you define correct or better. If you value tradition and see conformance to it as the most important metric, then X is indeed better for you.

Who is to say what metric you should use for "correct", in issues like ethical ones, that are not clear cut and measurable as things are in the hard sciences and mathematics?
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It's worth doing both. Sometimes someone is doing something which is really stupid, and the solution is 'stop doing it'.

Being constructive is important, but being realistic is even more important.
I'm pretty sure the its very hard refers to string handling in C, and also fairly solid in my agreement that unless you have a very very good reason, that is one of the places most people are better off staying away from (especially once you start playing with C unicode constructs).

(but your point is totally valid with regard to C in general~)
You seem to have a grudge against the world for some reason. Why are your posts so hostile?

Do you not see the bigger picture? The runserver problem is only 1 thing. People are expecting to be fed tens of thousands of dollars through kickstarter to create features that people want instead of the core django devs implementing them.

The reason why rails has an amazing development experience has nothing to do with rail's API or ruby.

It's because rails is extracted and built out of a product that some of the core devs work with 24/7 (basecamp). They add useful things like a development server that isn't garbage because they work with it on a daily basis full time.

I don't want to see Django fall over because they don't add any features that people actually want and instead force the community to beg for money on kick starter to do it.
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"[D]efies left and right orthodoxy by arguing that worsening inequality is an inevitable outcome of free market capitalism."

Huh? How does that defy left orthodoxy? Edsall might want to pick up some Leftist works... Maybe something from that little known author Karl Marx.
D has this. A lot of people assume that D is just C++ with some GC and some improvements, but it's really more like C with GC and some improvements -- including a native String type.

There's also a string module in the standard library that includes a lot of convenience methods, including ones for interoperating with C and for working with Unicode[1].

For someone like me with a background in dynamic languages like Python and Lua, as well as some background in C, D was a great fit. Unlike when I started learning C++, D felt like a very natural extension of C to include GC and lots of modern language features.

Lamentably, not many people are interested in D, and so aren't yet a lot of third-party libraries, and many of those that are abandoned. But the core language and standard library are great, and there's a nicely growing and incredibly fast web framework (vibe.d). And Facebook has started supporting the language. So hopefully it will start seeing some growth.

1. http://dlang.org/phobos/std_string.html
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From what I can see on their website they are just checking if the address is resolvable via a Chinese DNS. I'm more interested in detecting those filters that just redirect you to a custom page that state the website is blocked, or to a 404 page. I suppose detecting such filters would require using some technique that compares differences in webpages from two different locations.
Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll try to get in touch with them.
Agreed. There was also AdBlock Lite, but they now recommend ABE too https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock_lite/
That's even worse. So the author of south threw out all of his work and re-wrote it from the ground up rather than the core devs just working on it?

That's disgusting...
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Not a journal or blog, but I highly recommend Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera.
so what's France? Is France capitalist or socialist?
Here, runtime, make some results and put them into this (character array) buffer I'm providing for you. Oh, the buffer wasn't big enough? Well, I'm sure the stuff after the buffer's end that you wrote over wasn't all that important, anyway. Probably just a few neighboring local variables that my function was storing nearby on the stack, or maybe the return address on the stack, or maybe the heap management data (block size field, free list pointer, ...) around the block of memory I allocated from the heap.

I wonder what the next pass of my loop will do now, or what will happen when this function returns???
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Is there any resource on Web or even any book that documents all the risks. I had once seen a talk given by you .. was good !! Any other such resources out there ??
Works with online dating too.

"Would you like to go out some time?" bad

"I really like you, would you like to meet?" terrible

"Let's go out at the weekend, <barname> is really great" good

"I am free Tuesday and Friday, let's get a beer and continue this conversation in real life" good
> Can tell he came from France...

And you certainly sound like the stereotypical ignorant North American.
No, I am not. You're right, nothing is absolutely necessary, there is not point arguing about this.

But let say that if I had to cancel one flight to save money / fuel, I would cancel this one rather than a standard flight.