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I've been using Anki on and off for a while but I don't feel I can get much out of it without the ability to review my decks when I'm on the go.

Unfortunately AnkiWeb isn't a cure for my cheapskate problem, because the signal is so bad on my commute!
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Exactly where I got the idea. I just automated the majority of it.
> take bribes as well as ensuring only the independently wealthy can be politicians

Those are other, unrelated problems that need to be addressed in their own right, but cannot be used as justification for high pay scale of politicians.
I got a lot of BS answers to this question when I wanted to be an investment banker. The only reasonable answer I got is that it's a low-risk way to make a ton of money. Instead of risk you give up your life and/or health.
The opportunities investment banking opens up are fantastic. It's the easiest way, and often times the only way, to get into private equity, hedge funds, or corporate development, and make a ton of money while doing so. It also helps get into a great business school. The modeling/valuation work is also something that I and most finance people find the most interesting, even though that is probably 5% of the job for an analyst.
It's something I was and am still willing to do but it's very hard to get an interview if you didn't go to a top school or know anyone in banking, neither of which I have going for me.

I enjoy what I do now, corp finance for a tech company, but banking would be ideal.
Only if you're looking from a particular angle. Given the growth of more and more powerful type systems I'd say there's an important sense in which, as languages improve, they keep moving away from Lisp.

This story isn't really OCaml becoming more like Lisp; rather, it's OCaml finding a way to implement Lisp's best feature without the downsides of being Lisp.
I heard about this back in 1971 or 1972 as an undergraduate student. In order to satisfy a general humanities requirement I took a class, 9.01 to be precise (or roughly Intro to Psychology). It turned out to be nothing like I expected. There was only one lecture (two hours) per week on thursday nights. Right away I realized that they were going to be different. The largest lecture hall at MIT (capable of holding half of the entire Freshman class) was packed. People would sit on the stairs and aisles between the fully occupied seats and the head and creator of the Psychology department Professor Hans-Lukas Teuber[1] lectured. It was like listening to the most fascinating episode of Discovery every week. He was an amazing intellect, and he lectured on brain science. During the lecture on memory, he discussed this very case and his experience of meeting this patient. He said that every time he entered the room he had to be re-introduced to the patient. But he said there were hints of the mystery of memory. He showed the patient a half-dollar with an image John F. Kennedy on it and the patient said something that indicated an awareness of JFK (assassinated in 63). He published a few papers with Brenda Milner.

As the semester passed the lecture hall filled more and more until there was finally standing room only, and the final lecture was followed by a standing ovation. It was an absolutely masterful introduction to brain science, delivered in a series of two hour lectures, without ever using notes. Professor Teuber spoke of the need to study the brain scientifically, to treat subjects and patients humanely, and the need for appropriate ethical guidelines in the field. He made me realize that everything we do, from recognizing our grandmother, scratching our back, or recalling an early romance involves fantastic processes in our brain.

After that course, I decided that I would change majors. I went to the Psychology department where (fortunately) they told me that MIT didn't offer an undergrad degree in Psychology. Math and EE/CS was where I stayed.

[1] http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/m...
That's fine if it works for you. I won't judge.

I just mentioned it because I've had several people, both on- and offline, mention it as a symptom of poor technical understanding of how the Internet works. In truth, I think it's more a matter of convenience and habit.
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I'm a native Brazilian and I practice my english by writing texts that aren't meant to be published and talking to myself when I'm walking home. This could be an excellent alternative to improve my english. I'll certainly get in touch with CNA people in my hometown :-)
Yes, but it's not a badge of honor; it's a matter of necessity, and the tech world nowadays is sufficiently aware of the performance detriment that comes with working long hours.
More like one in 40.

The city administration in Munich has about 33000 employees.

Since parts of the city administration were privatised in the 90s (municipal utilities with 8000 employees, public transport with 3000 employees, hospital with 9000 employees) the number was higher in the past.

The police is employed by the state (Bavaria), not the city, so they don’t figure into this number, either.

I looked over the list of job advertisements and the offered jobs are quite diverse. Lots of clerks, obviously, but also engineers, mechanics, plumbers, all kinds of IT jobs, lawyers, one painting restorer, all kinds of child care workers and teachers, headmasters, medical doctors, editors, cooks …

Teachers are a pretty big group (and the only one I could easily find numbers for): 4500 teachers for 72000 students in the city.

You do need quite a lot of people to run a city. Of course, this always also depends on what exactly the city does, what is privatised and what is done by other levels of government.

Obviously not all of those need their own personal computer for their work (some don’t need a computer at all), but many do.

Altogether about seven percent (that’s about one in 14) of Americans work for the government (I think it’s about six percent in Germany, so a very similar number), so the number for Munich’s local government shouldn’t really surprise you.
I don't think streaming can beat having the actual files on disk (and owning them). Specially if you like listening to high quality flac instead of lossy compressed music.
Great innovative lead-gen. I'm more curious about your database of destinations. Do you have formal partnerships with the sites you're linking-to to syndicate their listings?
Banking != investment banking. I work in asset management I do a 45 hour week most of the time, with very few exceptions.
I'm just asking for proof of B. Even though I would argue the portion returned in taxes would be insignificant.

I gripe frequently about local towns awarding contracts to entities not within the town/state/region, but I'd like to see some sort of data about how this helped the local economy and wasn't just a xenophobic/isolationist response.
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And considered it harmful.
Point of order on the methodology here.

This benchmark gets harder the longer it runs. Which is not in itself terribly unusual. It is pretty smooth for the first bit, where the benchmark runs, but right about where things get hard on my iPad Air is when the test stops.

So this raises a question about how the test endpoint was decided. Because of course if you run longer, the performance would be worse, if you run shorter, the performance will be better, etc.

Now according to the previous article [1], this endpoint is exactly 60 seconds, and an average is taken over that entire period except some time at the beginning for JIT. Now 60 is a suspiciously round number to arrive at by trying to hit X many sprites on the screen or numerically deriving some benchmark objective. Probably, somebody just eyeballed what a Space Blaster game looked like and one minute of runtime was about right.

That probably is a reasonable predictor for Space Blaster, but it is quite the leap to use these results to predict "most other HTML5 games" as asserted in this article. Some games will have half the sprites and others will have double, some games will be more spikey, and others will be more well-behaved, etc.

If I was going to use this benchmark to predict my game's performance, I would do what the benchmark designer probably did. I would ignore the results table, run the benchmark until the sprite count/size looked about right, and take my own average of the FPS indicator around that time.

[1] https://www.scirra.com/blog/107/boosting-mobile-html5-game-p...
I agree, but the general point is that specific marketing tricks that work well should be hoarded, not shared, because sharing them destroys their value.
It's not the only one by any means. E.g. scala's type system is turing complete - http://michid.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/scala-type-level-enco...
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Format shifting does make you, in their eyes, a bad person.

The fact that you paid for it in one format doesn't mean you're legally allowed to format shift it, especially if by doing so you have to download a torrent which involves some amount of uploading.

I am not saying that I agree with the laws.
To me, this is a big no-no. If you're answering someone who posted a question and it's clear that you're the business behind the product/answer that's okay with me. But if you're using a personal profile (real? fake?) to push traffic to your website, you're actively misleading people.
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You would need to calc solar insolation http://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/properties-of-sunlight/ca... for the site and the bulk cost of electricity over the lifetime of the plant.

I don't have specifics but it looks like they have more capacity that they bring online at the beginning and the end of the day to flatten the power output. So I would use a more trapezoidal curve (or just assume a 10 hr day).

290MW * 10hrs * 42$/MWhr [1] => 120K/day

With a nice fatti 0% loan and no increases in the cost of electricity payback is about 30 years. I wouldn't be surprised if costs didn't rise at least 2x to 4x in the next 20, soo I'd say they are probably going to do ok on the ROI.

Even if the raw capacity of the plant was 600MW (derate panels over lifetime, more consistent output), the panel cost was less than 1/3 of the total price of acquisition and construction. And as the grid becomes smarter they can probably start to put a more variable amount of power into it.

[1] http://www.powerisknowledge.com/
hahaha with an endorsement like that, you know I just had to go and look them up. I found this [0] in which they portray themselves not as "a GPS alternative" (ugh, boring) but as out to "save lost humans everywhere!" That's me! I'm often lost in cities!

It also has a very cute picture of one of my personal favorite internet memes ;) I'd be willing to give this a shot...

[0]
http://blog.citymapper.com/post/82979788709/citymapper-annou...
Sorry, I've come to use the terms interchangeably. That's what happens when your friends are all investment bankers.
Personal computers came later. I remember in the mid nineties when I was in my teens and bought my first PC. I was one of the few people in the village to have a PC.

I imagine that people in their 40's and above got acquainted with computers in office settings when they were already adult. Adult non-geeks can be very resistant to change, especially repeated one.
We do. For most for most of the providers we have arrangements that give us commission but they're all providing us with an API or data dump of some sort.
Did you try their mobile apps? I suppose after syncing, the decks would be stored locally on the mobile.
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This kind of relentless simplicity should be the aesthetic of all engineers. Personally, i think if we had gone to war with the USSR, they would have won just by surviving the dust and breaks in logistic chains. (Assuming, for the sake of rhetoric, that the human race wasn't exterminated by radiation.)
I use Anki almost every day (for language learning) and from a user interface it is a terrible piece of software. It is inconsistent and not at all intuitive, even simple tasks usually require looking up documentation or tutorials.

That being said it is still the best software out there that I've found for this type of thing. I hope something better comes along at some point.
And a bunch of people who don't have time on their hands (staff and faculty) who will probably just go "Fuck you guys, now you're getting in the way of work."
Try getting beyond your distaste for weapons and look at what lies beneath. Most of the time the method of delivery should take a secondary position to the content. Even if the subject is revolting to you there are valuable lessons to be learned here.
They are also in a better financial position if they can supply guaranteed power instead of variable power. If power fluctuates relative to the weather then energy traders get involved in your pricing and no one wants Goldman Sachs and Enron in their business.
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I'm not really sure I understand your point. The value of x is still going to be in memory, but you may not have any references to it and it will be garbage collected. The disconnect is in thinking x is a variable and not an identifier. x points to the object in the parent until it is overridden. This allows me to dynamically alter the functionality of a class and all it's subclasses that don't override that functionality during runtime.
For the most part, yes. Here’s a list (German): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtverwaltung_München

Police are employed by the state (Bavaria in Munich) in Germany, but the rest should be included. Teachers and all kinds of other child care workers definitely are. If it isn’t done by the church child care is usually organised by the city. Public schools are the norm (only about six percent of students in Germany go to private schools). Munich has 4500 full time teachers for 72000 students.

Municipal utilities, public transport and the hospital were all privatised in the 90s, so those aren’t included (about 20,000 employees).

Really, to compare the numbers you have to go through them item by item. However, Munich’s number doesn’t seem high compared to US numbers for local government.
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From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ivy_League_business_sch...)

Two Ivy League universities, Brown University and Princeton University, do not have business schools. Princeton is home to the Bendheim Center for Finance, which specializes in quantitative finance and offers an undergraduate finance certificate and the masters in finance degree.

Edit: The article correctly states that those two individuals are pursuing Master's Degrees in Finance at Princeton. (Photo caption is incorrect though.)
I think that is because by the time this was written (1982) Davy Crockett and other tactical nukes had been phased out due to both sides being capable of a "second strike".

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
It now reads "master's candidates in finance", which is a program at Princeton: http://www.princeton.edu/bcf/graduate/
Have you taken a look at LibreOffice[1]? It forked from OpenOffice a few years, and my understanding is that it is much more actively developed than OpenOffice.

[1]: http://www.libreoffice.org/
And for all the fellow foreigners:

"Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering.[13] It does not have schools of medicine, law, divinity, education, nor business, but it does offer professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance."

:)
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If you want to try an alternative, look at Mnemosyne:

http://mnemosyne-proj.org/

I use this daily for my foreign language studies. It has less features than Anki, but the interface is pretty clean, intuitive to use, and has a powerful plugin system. Plus, the whole thing is open source, written in Python, and highly extensible.
> including, unfortunately, on Wikipedia last I checked

I'm gonna be that guy: did you try editing it to make it more accurate?
The point is that the older employees are hazing the new ones to limit entry into the company. Employment within finance is declining sharply. It would not be shocking if it returns to its low level of prestige that it was at before the 1980s.

I would say that it's not a great sign that Ivy types are looking to recreate the happy-slappy Greenspan years in another sector.

My father worked for Goldman in the 1990s, up to a relatively high level. He was home at 7 pm each day and would often eat breakfast with us before school, and he rode the subway to work. Now, he would also often be commuting cross-continent and be gone for all the weekdays at a time, and would have to spend some time reading reports and financial journals on weekends, but still he never went through the sort of fraternity absurdities that seem common now, even when he started in the industry in his early 30s.

Also, clients have more options now and can demand more from the banks -- their relative bargaining position is weaker. Being that they're all public companies now rather than partnerships, the entire culture has shifted, and they're under more performance pressure. The raw dollar amounts are much higher, but the core business model is eroding.

OK, if you're a client, do you want to have your account handled by some frenetic kid on amphetamines working 100 hours a week, or do you want it handled by someone with class who is going to likely be with the firm for the rest of his life? Junior on speed is going to die of a heart attack at 27 and might jump to another firm or a hedge fund. Taking your confidential information with him in his head to some other firm who might use that information against you some day.

Why would you trust your business with a team of substance-enhanced Juniors with impeccable academic credentials?

Like Bill Solomon recently said on his 100th birthday (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-02/billy-salomon-turns...):

"When you are a partnership there is a different atmosphere,” Salomon said. “You’re working for each other.” That discipline helped instill a culture where clients trusted their advisers, he said."

That trust is gone, and it can't be replaced by just throwing amphetamine-fueled-all-nighters at the problem.
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"Spanning two decades"
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"wiki <your term here>" ;)
If you can do it for say 10 years and make enough to retire comfortably that can sound like a good deal.

(To me the more curious question is why anyone would employ people to do that, given that you get less done in an 80-hour week than a 35-hour one)
It's a matter of how many people you piss off. Ditch the browser, you have to change the whole web. Ditch the processor, and you have only a couple browsers to change.

Apple did, it you know? Changing from PowerPC to X86. And they had native applications to contend with. I believe they got away with an emulation mode of some kind, I'm not sure.

I for one wouldn't like to see the web take over the way it currently does. It's a mess, and it encourages more centralization than ever. But if it does, that will be the end of x86. (Actually, x86 would die if any virtual machine took over.)
RequestPolicy is not available for Chromium. In any case, HTTP Switchboard can be configured to mimic how RequestPolicy function[1], but really these benchmarks are time-consuming and I have to limit the amount of extensions I benchmark.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/HTTP-Switchb...
True, Beats' revenues are large but nothing compared to Apple's. Beats revenues + Apple's huge cash pile make it an almost risk free deal as you say. I think the streaming Beats streaming service (which I use - I don't use their headphones) is actually very slick and underrated. We all know how bad Apple is at consumer cloud services so this part of the acquisition should be useful. It's also important to point out the investment Beats have made in their streaming service (the number of curated playlists they have and the quality of them is astonishing) and it would take Apple a long time to match that.
I'm not usually one to initiate OSX/Windows comparisons, but it is rather surprising that menu searching isn't a thing on Windows.

While it's obvious that MS would have a reason, I have no clue what that could be. The only thing I can think of is that people seem to use Google rather than their app's help functionality even if the latter would do a better job.
Why would you want to put anything other than a string in a list of strings ? That's just looking for trouble IMHO.
I'm pretty sure Billy Joel fans are well aware of the problem of overfishing, at least in the New England region.
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Or you do like a friend of mine - you work for 3-4 years like a slave, once you move in the hierarchy you still work 90 hours a week but that now include "networking" activities like golf and extended lunches.

You drag it while you can, buying a new flat cash with the bonus you get each year. At 32, the bank finally noticed, you are fired with a few years salary and you retire in your all-paid luxury flat, enjoy income from your other 5 flats, get kids and enjoy seeing them grow while living in a luxury.

The only problem of that lifestyle is that in the first 3-4 years, you have basically 1 chance in 10 to make it through. After working in such pressure, you are brainwashed, so it takes some serious willpower to first invest your money properly instead of living the high life and then prepare your exit strategy.

edit: the bank finally notice that you are not as eager as the next batch of freshly promoted coworker. So if your department made slightly less profit, you get selected in the next batch of firing that happen generally just before bonus time.
That's like saying you shouldn't fight a war by attacking the soldiers.
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Afaik, in the EU it's even regulated that the lowest contester wins the bid. (Or it was, until January 2014)
There is definitely some mixed feedback, apparently for the users it wasn't actually that pleasant, some describing the switch as a nightmare. A green politician made that public, and she was subsequently shouted down. Only found a german source, sorry:
http://www.silicon.de/41595329/ob-kandidatin-kritisiert-limu...

Personally, I would never use OpenOffice or even Linux Desktop. They would have to pry my MacBook Pro from my cold, dead hands - and yes, MS Office on OSX is actually not that bad. At least not as bad as OpenOffice.
That's ridiculous.

People often write about making web stuff here. And their email addresses are often easy to find. Does that mean that we're all asking for outsourcing firms to send us "manual, personal" form emails via a 99.8% automated process, even if a marketroid blesses each one?

Of course not. That's spam. Similarly, if I post a question on Twitter, I'm asking my followers. If some random jackass butts in because it's profitable for them, that's spam too.
+1. Why would you spend time creating examples for particular languages unless the demand is there to justify the time creating them.
People don't understand the value of their time, news at 11.