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Awesome hack!

Did you consider import hooks to accomplish this? Of course that wouldn't make your bootstrap language any different; that'd still be vanilla python. In the imported file you can do whatever you want, for example the inimitable paultag implemented hy, a python lisp, using those.
Putting a thing like language learning in terms of ROI is pretty moronic.
Ok, that's a simplified vision to understand if time spent learning a foreign language is actually well spent.
What isn't really taken into consideration, though, are the indirect cultural advantages of learning a language.

That's an experience that goes beyond the act of learning grammar rules and a new vocabulary. It's a complex process made of many different intellectual and cultural enhancements that help you get the world in a better perspective, and in the end gives you an unquantifiable advantage over the mono-lingual.

Apart from that, I agree that Spanish may not be the better choice in the US, since the position of superiority the non-Latin still has when it come to fluency for professional purposes.
Even for the Romans it made no sense to learn the language of the inferior populations they had around them, and you'll know how it went down. Learning Saxon languages certainly had a bad ROI back then.

Furthermore, if you really had to follow this skewed line of ROI-based reasoning, where the hell is Chinese? I have the hunch that, as an US-born American, knowing the pretty obscure language of one of the biggest traders in the world might give you a pretty big advantage.
This. Most people are unfortunately unaware that having a unique skill set (be it a second language or anything else) puts them at an advantage if applied in tandem. However, you often have to invent your own job.
> Is there really a difference between "backwards e" and "upside down v"?

They're called schwa and wedge. This is actually a discussion I've had (not particularly fruitfully); schwa, being a reduced vowel, is sort of notionally only available in unstressed syllables. So you'd want to say a stressed syllable uses the wedge. But indeed they don't seem to be pronounced differently for many people, or at least not differently enough that there's an obvious answer. Merriam-Webster seems to use schwa even for stressed syllables like "stuff".
Oh of course. I didn't mean to suggest Metro wasn't great for tablets and phones. Funny, I came "this close" to buying a Windows Phone - but I didn't know anyone at the office, or personally who had one. So I stuck with the iPhone.

I liked Metro (on the phone) better then iOS. I like the tiles. I wish more people would buy the damn thing. ;)

And that does bring up something I've been wondering about: why aren't more people buying Windows Phone and Tablets? Is it an image problem? Or was MS just too late to the party?
Odd you'd say that. Though I'm not a native English speaker, I found Spanish to be among the hardest languages I've come across (more so than Modern Greek or German), and I come from a French background with wide knowledge across all of the Romance board. I'd expect a English speaker to struggle even more than I did.

(The easiest language being English, due to exposure, extreme alienation by French a few centuries back and overall simplicity for the more casual ranges of speech.)
In somewhat related news, OpenSMTPD finally replaced sendmail as the default mailer on OpenBSD.

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140313052817

http://www.opensmtpd.org/
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The Neo900 project is still alive and steadily progressing
The article uses misleading numbers. Sure, that 2% bonus is worth $60k if you compound it over 40 years. But that number is almost irrelevant. What's relevant is the opportunity cost. If you spent that time (likely hundred or thousands of hours) working on more valuable skills, you'd likely get much more than 2%. Put another way, the value of that time, when compounded over 20 years, is enormous, probably more enormous than $60k. To compound the value gained from language but not compound the value of the time is extremely misleading - either use present values for both, or use comparable future values for both.
Which is why Rust is so interesting. It has deterministic upper bounds on performance. Not many new languages have this feature. Should eventually be useful for real-time systems and game developers.

But based on my meager experience in the language, I disagree that Ada is a massive pain in the ass to program in. It's probably less verbose and friendlier than Java, for example. Certainly easier than programming in C, and much less prone to fatal mistakes.
It's just feminists. Western version of the Taliban, if you ask me.
Among other things the government wants to discourage the use of private cars: Singapore is too crowded a city for everyone to have a car, you reduce noise and pollution levels, the petroleum dependence of the country...
It does have too easy of a config file. Who needs per directory config anyway? Or the ability to create redirects without a restart? I love nginx, but it has some flaws. The reality is it just has different flaws and strengths than Apache.
That's not a typo. It really is that expensive because of taxes. That does not include the cost of running the car; fuel, road tax, road pricing, maintenance, insurance and so forth. And you get to use the car only for up to 10 years. If you wish to renew the license for another 10 years then you've got to pony up another 70K (at current prices) and lose the scrap value of the vehicle.
Well done! A few bits of constructive criticism, based on my own experiences with making platformers in GameMaker:

- you need to fix the gravity so it doesn't feel like it's on the moon. I used to get the gravity wrong as well, but it makes for so much more fun and snappy gameplay when you get it right (or actually, a bit more right, cause nobody really jumps that high anyway).

- assuming your game logic goes a little something like, if the player is standing on something solid, they can jump: instead doing that, give the player a few frames (3-5) of leeway while they still can jump even though they just walked off a platform ledge. it's a very subtle thing, and if you don't pay attention you won't see that most platformers do this, but it makes all the difference in gameplay (if the player feels like they would have totally made that jump, but drop off the ledge instead, it feels like their character just stumbled or something).

the last one is also based on one of the golden rules of gameplay: try to make the game behave as the player wants, which is not always necessarily exactly how the controls are input.

(the following stuff is not really critique of your game but some things to keep in mind as you continue)

similar tricks involve making the hitboxes of "good" objects larger than they actually are, and the hitboxes of "bad" objects smaller (player thinks: "phew! cool! I barely missed that enemy!!"). btw Flappy Bird subverts this rule, which makes part of its interesting frustratingness, but as always you gotta know the rules before you break the rules.

and remember, you can always make your levels harder, if you think such tricks make it too easy on the player. you'll find that in such cases "harder" translates to "challenging" instead of "frustrating".

good luck!
Do you work on projects that get Chinese localizations? It might help to work for a large or non-web company, so that you have a hope of selling into China instead of having a local company clone your product and sell theirs instead.

My Japanese and other language skills are very useful for QAing our app's localization, even though we have an unquestionably professional translation team to do it. In the end I understand the meaning of the app's text better than them, since I worked on the actual engineering.
>It could be through investor like protection for failed projects, or it could be some program where the state provides you some stipend to attempt creative endeavors and they can deal with the arbitrage over failed works.

Well you say the solution is Capitalism but a government paying you a stipend is the exact opposite of free market capitalism. And so is any investor protection mechanism/regulation.

The system you're describing could exist under any economic model. I don't see how capitalism is relevant here.
Probably an overall win for safety, redundancy, and (maybe more importantly) security. That said, considering the number of different exploits that have been assembled for large attacks in the past (how many zero-days were in Stuxtnet?), I wouldn't completely rule out the possibility that the flight systems were hacked. This flight may not even have been the primary target, but rather a test of the attack vector, with the attacker finally directing the aircraft out over a big, deep body of water where it would eventually run out of fuel and eliminate most of the evidence.
I do much of my shopping on Amazon and other online retailers.

It's one of the things that makes it practical and tolerable for me to live in a somewhat isolated, low-population-density town/area where I own a home, pay taxes, receive medical care and various other non-remoteable services, purchase prepared food and other perishable goods, all while working for a company based on the other side of the planet, bringing in a fairly high salary for the area.

My local economy receives far more value because Amazon makes it easy for me to live there than they would if Amazon didn't exist and I instead lived in a much more convenient large city.
You accept the fact that life is't fair, and that you deserve only that which you bargained for. Plus the fact that people are emotional creatures.
The same could be said about any news, couldn't it? I think that's just journalistic tone.

"Jane Doe's alleged rapist" or "Witness X claims to have seen"

I do agree with you that 24/7 coverage is excessive, though; wait until sufficient evidence has presented itself and then do your reporting (unfortunately the current media climate isn't very supportive of this).
It will also cause a significantly lower amount of investment into the site, projects, and overall would decrease the number of fees collected. So it ain't happening.
I must be overlooking something. He mentions several times this is to "maintain your current savings rate". Is $9,400 per month a normal savings rate in Singapore? Perticulary for a student?? Everyone a millionaire in 10 years?

Secondly, just want to correct a few points for anyone who indeed is looking to move to Washington (and you should, it's lovely here and we'd love to have you).

Redmond is not the most expensive place to live, in fact, as long as you move a small distance away from any MS campus, it is a good value.

We have the Puget Sound and a few large lakes in the greater Seattle area. As a general rule, prices increase rapidly as distance to water decreases (most expensive: Bellevue, Kirkland, Downtown Seattle). If you like urban living, try west Seattle, for suburban, Issaquah.

Lastly, $5 a meal will get you nowhere. Period.
Well, "fuck" is okay too (for some people apparently). As in "Fuck you, pay me" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U (not by anyone from github, but still industry related).
The 777 is fully FBW apparently and many (all?) sensors communicate wirelessly. What are the chances that it was hacked by a passenger or remotely and taken over this way?
Yes all screens will eventually be touch screens, but as Nursie said below, touch will probably never be the primary input medium for any productivity task.

For one, it's much too slow because you have to cover the whole screen to interact with it. The mouse operates on a translation of the screen that is much smaller, making moves much faster.

For two, I sit over a meter and a half from my screen and couldn't touch it without standing up.
> Would it better if, instead of $340M/year in royalties, they got $0?

From the point of view of many artists, yes. Especially since the artists don't even see $34M/year out of that.

Most artists would rather that either A) their music not get distributed or B) that they distribute the music for free rather than enabling the current situation.
A wrapper for shell scripts with a dependency on Ruby but lacking determinism, templating, etc? In other words a remote command dispatch and execution tool.
man I loved this when it came on TV for the first time. gotta watch it again someday
I think the implication was relative to men...
You are obviously right! Changed to "5 characters". Thanks for pointing that out.
You should also know that at such frequencies, displaying hardware matters. You can have distortions from refreshing frequency. If you show and hide image in software at 50hz and your display refreshes at 60hz, you eaither have tearing (one part of screen is black, other still has image) or "frame drops" when you use v-blanking synchronization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_blanking_interval). Such artifacts ARE visible in case of image/noimage transitions and can alter results of experiment. Your friend should use some 200hz tv for tests. For measuring on/off, he could also mask some part of screen, display a white rectangle there and measure on/off with a photodiode (photoresistor may be too slow) under this mask. Of course just turning LED backlight on and off won't have such problems if displayed image is still static.
That "force-fight voter" concept is pretty cool.
I think a better comparison would be changing an aspect of the mathematical notation you're using to work on the problem space because it's impeding progress for whatever reason.
Polymaths like Da Vinci and Bacon disagree with you (however rare they may be).
I think that oil is poison for humanity, it leads to resource conflicts and providing money for evil governments. Thus we need to get off oil to have long term peace on earth.

Elon Musk is a hero
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Realistically, because the lists of the world's "most expensive cities" usually only include cities with populations over a million, with exceptions for capitals and smaller international jetset/business/gov't towns like Geneva or SF.
What is up with same product names ? Example: https://atom.io/
You take what you have (good or not), and make the best of it. That includes what you choose to do with your reaction to things. We all have emotions, and emotional reactions to situations. Recognize that, respect the emotion, and then move beyond it to something positive, productive, constructive.

It's not easy. With practice it becomes easier.
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> As I've said before, Copyright is an obsolete concept that no longer benefits society, and needs to be abolished entirely.

Why? So big companies can steal everything?

Copyright is actually fine. If the author wants to lock it down, that is their right. Sorry.

The big issue with copyright is the term. We need to put this back to something sane like 10 or 20 years. I'd even be willing to have some form of ballooning payment in order to keep copyright over time in order to get Disney off of everybody's back (ie. first 10 years free without registration--next 10 free with registration--payment doubles every 10 years after that).
The primary user of your implementation is the next developer to maintain it.
Oh yes, you can. But once you're doing that, why stop at a single statement? Why not macros https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy
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How do you perform the equivalent operations on Windows?
The other well-known one is SilkAir 185.
Being from Europe myself, I can't help but smile at this article. It's such an American way of thinking! "Return of investment in dollars", lol :-)

When I started learning foreign languages, English being one of them, it was because I was interested in different cultures and to be able to experience the world at large in a more sophisticated way. Never in a million years would it have occurred to me that I should do it to boost my career.
He does, mum and dad don't, and it's still a hassle.
I prefer this alternative:

c_millisecs = 50000 * 60 * 1000; // 50,000 minutes
The secret of Flappy Bird’s success: easy to learn and difficult to master
English has some good features:

* Limited number of glyphs is a killer feature for the keyboard age
* No noun genders to remember
* The informal 2nd person ("thou") got chased out of common use centuries ago, along with its verb conjugations
* Reasonably forgiving sentence structure

Its too bad the spelling and pronunciation are such disasters.
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Persian is also an Indo-European language with no noun genders: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_grammar
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I also speak three languages, and I'm learning another two. I'm also a hacker. I find programming and foreign languages highly complimentary. In both cases I'm supposed to communicate ideas in a specific vocabulary and grammar.

Also, my two geeky pre-teen sons equally like learning Python and French (on Duolingo).

Of course, I learn languages because I'm interested in the culture of the people who speak those languages. In the same way, I learn programming languages to broaden my way of thinking about computing.
You'll need a multi-core (sic) browser to view fastcolabs's website; it just chews CPU for very little benefit that I can see, a total pain on a laptop.
Not to dismiss your experience, but The Economist actually is a British journal.
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i'm a singaporean here

most expensive city? not sure
too expensive to live? definitely

you ever heard of certificate of ownership? it's a cert that requires you to own a car. a mazda biante here cost around $150k SGD, not sure about other countries though.

furthermore, there's a lot of taxes we need to pay and we don't even know where these tax goes to! it doesn't really even help the poor as far as i can see. Furthermore, ministers' salaries are in millions per annum and there are so many ministers and you defiinitely need to pull strings to get that job

still have a lot of more to complain, but then i'm too tired to keep typing so much
Won't services pop up that mine away, accumulate successful computation tokens, then sell them cheaply to spammers and flooders?

Not as long as the cost of mining per e-mail is higher than the average revenue per e-mail.
> To see the full article, subscribe here.

Nope. Does this "suggestion" work with anyone? When I hit a paywall I am angry and pissed, so no, I will never subscribe.
This simile is utter nonsense from the outset. Pi doesn't change. It's the same regardless of who you are, whether you're a human, a dragonfly, or a rock; it's the same whether you're measuring in planck lengths or astromical units.

Language is the utter opposite - it constantly evolves and changes, with new words entering every year and grammatical patterns changing over time as well. The only way to stop a language changing is basically to stop using it.
I prefer

(1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 2) == 2 days
Calm down with the flamebait.
Esperanto has two problems: Spanish and English. Spanish was what Esperanto wanted to be, English did what esperanto wanted to do.
I love the delicious lack of self-awareness with which these things are delivered. Like people who pay $50,000/year for college to study a subject of no practical use telling me to "check your privilege".
Interesting information about the long range aspect. I wonder if this jet could be used as a weapon in the near future. God speed to the technicians investigating.
I think you're making a distinction that doesn't exist: lambdas are a (written) language - the have symbols, morphemes, phrasing, syntax, semantics, pretty much all the elements to define a language. Just an incredibly small and concise one.
Whats the purpose?
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Where was you reading this?, I love that type of stuff.
Diego Garcia is a total red herring. Having space comms/surveillance doesn't equate to a super long range terristial radar capability. The Indian Ocean is a big place and curvature of the earth puts a hard limit on radar range (hence AWACS).

What does interest me is that the Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT) cannot be disabled by pulling circuit breakers and would be picked up by satellite (SARSAT).
There are other ambiguities - try Ireland, Israel, and India for IST [1] Turns out those abbreviations aren't part of an official standard anyway, afaict, so best to avoid altogether.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations
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This is not immediately obvious, even if given your word.

Since you've listed Mandarin on your CV, you must recognise that it could have been a contributor to a hiring decision. Otherwise, why did you put it there?
To answer the question in the title, you should look at the purpose of the study. The study naming Singapore as the most expensive city come from the Economist Intelligence Unit's Worldwide Cost of Living Index, which is supposed to "help human resources and finance managers calculate cost-of-living allowances and build compensation packages for expatriates and business travellers" and is "based on the assumption that an expatriate has a right to live at the assignment site in the same manner and with the same kind of goods and services he would find at home" (source: https://www.eiu.com/public/topical_report.aspx?campaignid=Wc..., http://www.worldwidecostofliving.com/asp/wcol_HelpWhatIsWCOL...).

In other words, it's comparing the price of living a Western executive lifestyle, not the cost of living for a regular person. Transport costs are high because Singapore has very high taxes on cars (more expensive than the cost of the car itself) - the target audience isn't going to be using a bus pass. Food costs are based on prices at high-end Western restaurants, not $5 worth of groceries. The housing comparison definitely isn't based on a studio apartment. And so on and so forth.
None-zero but then most events are.
I bellyfeel banning words is doubleplusgood.
The opportunity cost of not learning more code for everyone here is really, really high. In whatever time it takes to learn just 1 single foreign language, you can add +$20K per year to your salary FOREVER. ($60K goes to $80K, $80K to $100K, $100K to $120K, $120K to $140K, $140K to $160K, $160K to $180K).

In that sense foreign languages have a huge negative value as an investment - but then, so does reading literature.
That s not entirely true. English is the lingua Franca, you need it if you are going in any competitive field. And it's not like you learn it the British way, my English is half-British, half-Hollywood. Also with so many different languages in Europe, choosing a language to learn can determine the country you will be moving to.
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However most insiders feel that the suggested proposal for ICANN's HQ to move to Switzerland will probably come to pass in the medium term. Obviously US will still heavily influence ICANN but it's influence will definitely be diluted by this; the GAC will obviously still have a large influence via the Affirmation of Commitments (AoC).
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Not sure what it does? I don't need controlling the browser remotely, I sit right behind the computer :)