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People, especially children and young adults will always be interested in super heroes, Marvel will have a long and successful run.
So by "blow up", you don't literally mean "explode", like BSOD, hard lock up, "Segmentation Fault (core dumped)", etc.

There was some computation which produced a wrong result, which was detected, handled and diagnosed.

In what development tool does this never happen?
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The original IDE, and originally outlawed for 'regular' users because it dragged the the DEC KL10 to its knees in I/O traffic if more than 20 or 30 terminals ran it at the same time.

It is an interesting environment but for what ever reason I ended up back in VIM (at school it was Emacs or FINE, at home 'MicroEMACS' and at Sun it was 'vi') Now vim is my go to editor but I'm not as fast as some folks who have melded well with either EMACS or VIM.
indeed, my PhD supervisor is often wrong about stuff. I don't believe my lecturers per se, but rather I remember the argument about cancelling edge effects (which certainly seems to apply here.)
Its based on the iOS calendar sync which, since ios7 has had many many issues with non-icloud calendars. Its essentially useless with google calendar.
Whoosh.

Related: I really need to learn more graphics-oriented programming.

I sometimes am flabbergasted as I look out the window of my office and see the sunset. The skies flawlessly gradient from blue to red, the lighting of the clouds is perfect. Nature's artistry is effortless.

To reproduce that on a screen -- or even a close approximation of that view! -- takes an incredible amount of artistry and know-how. As a more technically-minded person, I'm amazed at how much thought and energy goes into things like this, and how little I know of it.

Very cool read.
Exactly...coupling is more detrimental than one would think. As your codebase gets larger and more developers on-board and features change, what should have been a simple refactor can turn into a nightmare as your test suite starts to give false negatives because you've changed the implementation or removed a now unused private function that your tests relied upon directly. Writing unit tests directly against private functions is a good way to ensure your team's velocity doesn't scale as well as it should.

Unit tests will serve you better when written to assert results rather than implementation details.
That's the problem. Most of the IRC clients I'm aware try to bury as much IRC stuff as possible in the GUI rather than simplifying and abstracting the experience away. I think there's probably a big opening here.
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Within the first year. There is a list at the bottom of the article, and there have been studies that have shown some signs appear as early as 3-months.
So store it. Charge a capacitor for an hour, transmit for 0.1 second (adjust scales accordingly). If you're talking things like thermostats that are monitoring data that really doesn't change much over an hour or so, not a problem.

I've been waiting to see ambient-power products like this since I built a crystal radio when I was 8 or so. Powered entirely by AM radio waves, no problem with listening volume.
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The Phantom Menace came out in 1999. That's a decade and a half ago.
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IIRC, these kinds of approaches are collectively termed "positive psychology":

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

The theories in this field suggest that many disorders can be explained as the absence of certain knowledge and skillsets: in the case of autism, language skills and nonverbal social skills; in the case of depression, stress management and exercise habits, among others.

Another way to look at it is that there are actually several underlying causes of autism, not all of which must be present for symptoms to appear, and only in certain cases can it be reversed. It appears that a particular and persistent functional deficit in the children treated was that they did not understand how to get other people's attention: maybe various events or genetic factors in early childhood can inhibit the way this is normally learned, and maybe that learning process can be retriggered.
The simplest approach I've seen to address this is to embed an IRC chat widget on the project website. Now there's no software to install or configure in order to chat with project members.

This doesn't address some of the cultural expectations in IRC (don't ask to ask, use something like pastebin, stick around because it may take several hours for someone to answer you) but it at least gets over the initial hurdle.
All of the colors are much softer than the old pigments, gives the page a much more friendly and inviting feel. Most modern websites seem to use these similar colors.
> One of the keys to treatment is catching it early.

Well, one of the keys is treatment early. Catching it early doesn't mean anyone is in any rush to treat it early. Don't trust the doctors if they say you can wait or they aren't acting urgently. Early intervention is key.
I wouldn't consider what you are talking about with views, viewControllers, etc to be advanced. That is the Cocoa framework that you need to learn.

That has stayed the same since objective-C. I don't know of many courses that are already out there for teaching swift, but the stanford-online tutorials (available for free on iTunes) are great for getting introduced to the framework.
Ok. But I think you are still misinformed --> For example every insurance claim from any insurance company is run through fraud detection software.

From digging around, this seems kind of a new trend. I seriously doubt that "every claim at any insurance company" is being analyzed this way. And, sure, it's possible it was in use at the company where I worked and I simply did not know. But from reading some of what you linked to, I doubt it. (Though perhaps that has changed since I left.)

From one of the sites you linked to:

"Industry research indicates 10 percent of all claims contain an element of fraud," says Wolfe, and as of the end of 2010, CNA was seeing just 3.7 percent of its claims referred as potential fraud. "That’s considerably below the industry average, and we wanted to find out how much we were missing that wasn’t identified by our adjustors."

So, yeah, that's relatively recent and the searches I did sort of imply that this is an emerging market, they are still trying to convince insurance companies to do this, etc. Insurance is a very conservative industry. They tend to be somewhat slow to adopt new technologies. They are regulated by both federal laws that cover financial companies and also federal laws that cover medical companies (like HIPAA). So they have a huge regulatory burden and this makes change especially hard. Any new tech or new processes have to really be put through their paces to see if they still pass muster on multiple fronts. The de facto result is that insurance companies are kind of sticks in the mud.

Where I worked, a lot of the software was homegrown. It had been developed in-house. They didn't like hiring outside vendors/buying outside solutions. From what I gather, they were fairly cutting edge -- though, of course, it is possible that was just company hype. Since I worked there, I sometimes knew that some statements amounted to spin-doctoring. But I did only have an entry level job and was not really expecting it to turn into a career, so I am sure there is plenty that I missed.

Thanks for replying.
It's probably due to me recently become a parent myself, but the thing that gets me the most (and I'll admit I can barely read it without tearing up), is the last bit about Jackie and her son Matthew, who has not responded to the treatment at all:

Jackie’s son, Matthew, now 24, has not had that conversation with his parents. In fact, he barely has conversations at all. At the group home where he now lives, near a horse farm in the Berkshires, the staff can generally interpret the sounds he makes. Sometimes he types clues on the iPod Touch his parents gave him, because he long ago learned to spell the things that matter to him. But mostly he seems absorbed by his interior life.

...

The idea that Matthew won’t recover no longer pains Jackie. “At some point,” she told me, “I realized he was never going to be normal. He’s his own normal. And I realized Matthew’s autism wasn’t the enemy; it’s what he is. I had to make peace with that. If Matthew was still unhappy, I’d still be fighting. But he’s happy. Frankly, he’s happier than a lot of typically developing kids his age. And we get a lot of joy from him. He’s very cuddly. He gives us endless kisses. I consider all that a victory.”

I'm without words. Remarkable people.
This looks like the perfect combination of security/anonymity and a beautiful consumer experience. Are you working on challenging problems?
I wonder if any doctor would be willing to get half their $250k for half the work hours.
Are you sure that is a list, and not something else, like a tuple?
I spoke with a radiologist once who took half of his $640k in exchange for working only 7 months out of the year (20 weeks of vacation).
> Its also interesting to note that this is how Nintendo has handled backwards compatability for every gameboy generator.

Same pattern as how they handled Game Cube compatibility on the Wii, I believe. I wouldn't be surprised if Wii mode on the Wii U were similar, but I'm not familiar with that.
The issue itself may not be partisan, but it will still be interpreted that way. The media has been a political strawman for both parties for a long time. Each accuses the other of essentially controlling it to further their agenda. Once accusations of 'treason' are made from a media source, then inevitably at least half of the country will dismiss it as propaganda.

If a media outlet did, I think they would probably have to do so carefully.
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You are not going to like this, but projects like OpenHatch feel to me like extrovert and social people have discovered Open Source and now want their piece of the pie without actually contributing much.

The whole site smells of a lot activism with little actual progress.

The recipe for successfully contributing to projects is:

1) Shut up and code.

2) Do not be discouraged by project politics (if applicable).

Glossy "get together" websites do not help.
Yeah, I kept thinking it was a PDF or something and was amazed it wasn't.

It also loaded really fast.
A lot of the chat apps have IRC support. I was part of a channel where the majority of people were using Adium (Mac) or Trillian (Windows). It was pretty easy to get people to join if they were already using one of these IM clients for AIM/MSN/etc. For people who don't already use a multiprotocol IM client like that, I often point them to Mibbit as a quick web-based way of getting on: http://mibbit.com/. But the people already using an IM client were more likely to become regulars.
DSM-5 explicitly states that diagnostic criteria may apply "currently or by history". This makes a cure for autism impossible by definition.
The ratio of attending physicians to residents must be relatively low, something like 1:4, so a hospital cannot get more residency spots approved unless it also hires more attending physicians.
Pardon me, I should have said "ratio" rather than "rational". (definition: rationals are partitioned into ratios and integers).
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Sure, you can only find the mistake while repeating the experiments (perhaps, as someone else suggested, in a vacuum might be a plan).

I hadn't noticed the constant thrust problem you mention, I'm now recursing back through the equations I remember to try and work out why it costs more energy to push something that's already moving fast... wait, force applied was never anything to do with energy to start with, impulse/power were. Brain-fart resolved.
You chose the really hard way, the reference source is public - http://referencesource.microsoft.com :P
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If you want to cut down on DNS-induced latency, Route 53 is a fairly good option. Their latency-routed DNS doesn't perfectly map to all geographical zones, but it works fairly well for DigitalOcean's locations.

I wish it was easier/cheaper to run your own anycast network...
I'm not into comics but still saw The Avengers anyway and thought it was... OK? It passed the time on a flight but I honestly don't understand the excitement over it. I actually found the X-Men movies far more interesting because they deal with topics like prejudice, segregation, etc., while still having the explosions and action pieces you expect from a summer blockbuster.

Edit: and the recent Batman trilogy. Untouchable by comparison.
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On a related note - all the blockchain contracts are limited by their inability to access real world data (e.g. stock prices, websites). For that you need distributed oracles:
https://github.com/orisi/wiki/wiki/Orisi-White-Paper
"Timeful is being built by a team of about 20"

That sounds like a shockingly-high amount of employees.
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Unfortunately this had to cooperate with an existing root environment on the target, so buildroot (as fantastic as it is) was not an option.
I do both C# and F#. But, at this point I think in ML no matter what which language I'm using. That said, though I'm delighted by F#, there are things that I really miss about C#:

* Haskell's type classes are awesome, and neither F# nor C# have them. But, you can realize them with a really simple pattern in C# whereas in F# you have to resort to reflection or generic hacks[1] (but inline functions usually make such hacks nicer in F#).

* Sum types are awesome. F# realizes them in two ways: with discriminated unions and pattern matching (mainly), or with abstract classes and inheritance. Both are powerful approaches, but the latter is particularly useful when you need unbounded sum types. Unfortunately, inheritance is somewhat crippled in F# because you can't define protected members (though you can override them). I find myself needing this when I'm designing a solution rather than merely implementing one. For instance, I find that designing a language/compiler is much easier with C# than with idiomatic F#.

* This is kind of a summary of the first two points: idiomatic C# is a better dynamic language, and I'm not referring to the `dynamic` keyword, though it certainly helps. I've created some really nice and secure APIs by making use of user-defined conversions. System.Linq.Xml is a good example of what I'm talking about.

* Finally, idiomatic C# is a nicer classical OO language than idiomatic F#. This is kind of obvious since F# is a "functional language" with OO features whereas C# is an OO language with functional features. But, when I say classical OO, I mean the Smalltalk style OO that came before C++. Alan Kay defined that kind of OOP as (1) Encapsulation, (2) Message Passing, and (3) extreme late binding. Neither C# nor F# quite has (2) and (3), but C# gets me the closest without coloring too far outside of the lines. Of course, this begs the question that OO is better than functional. Having done both for a long time, I'm convinced that it is the case (though I do think learning functional programming is the fastest path to getting good at OO). Lamentably, I can't yet defend this point too vigorously because I've only just discovered the joy or Smalltalk. But, here is a preview of sorts: Imagine being able to update a database schema and having your statically-typed code continue to run without needing to recompile.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9868327/f-type-constraint...
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> like Pixar was for a time

I don't follow the CGI movie industry as close as I used to- is Pixar unanimously considered not to be on a roll anymore?
Yes, there is a certain amount of hive-mind here and with certain topics you are best to not go against this groupthink if you value your karma. But since karma doesn't really have any value (beyond unlocking additional features) you should be able to speak your mind even if it is unpopular. Down-voting is not meant to be for well formed opinions you disagree with... but it does happen. More often, down-voting is for comments that are off point, personal attacks, general rudeness, and other things that are bad form.
It's not always about marketing "magic". They have a killer product. Marvel and Disney produce superior entertainment, despite their politics.
I'd dig something going in the opposite direction! Especially packed in a shell script, e.g. `cronglish "echo testing" every half hour >> ~/.crontab`
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Ah, fair enough. I see your point. Thanks! :-)
For projects hosted on Github, take a look at https://gitter.im

I'm a maintainer of a reasonably big open source project and it works great for us, since you can link issues/PRs directly and get a Github activity log right next to the chat.

It also preserves the chat history, which was one of the big reasons to switch over from IRC.
$50 is almost what the average person in Nepal earns in a month, so that seems unlikely.
Physicians working in private practice have that choice. Though the fact that those private practices are going out of business and are steadily being bought by hospitals is probably a sign as to the long-term viability of private practice as a business model[0].

Don't look at the salary of a physician, because not all doctors are salaried, and even for the ones that are, net worth is a much more meaningful measurement. $250K is a little high for some specialties, and it depends heavily on the part of the country. In any case, once you factor in the massive debt from medical school (plus the amount of time that physicians spend making essentially minimum wage while training in residency), the answer is that many doctors can't afford to make much less than they currently are[1].

(Also keep in mind that most statistics you see for "salary" for private practices are really more equivalent to revenue, since physicians in private practice obviously aren't salaried. Oftentimes, these numbers include only some, not all, of the costs of maintaining a practice.)

[0] This is a trend that is over a decade old (depending on the part of the country) but accelerated in recent years (before the ACA, though the ACA has also contributed to this trend as well)

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/1-million-mistake-becoming-a-doc...
In countries where it's more socially accepted for doctors to work part time, and where half a doctor's salary is a livable wage (i.e. you don't have to pay off half a million dollars of student loans), a ton of doctors do, especially women who want to stay home with their kids. Hell, here in Germany I know a lot of residents who are happy to take half their €48.000 for half the work hours. (I don't envy American doctor working hours, but I sure do envy their salary.)
Well, SF has had about 1 century.
Using Tj to businesses advantage is a really beneficial idea. Uber's current $10 rides across the boarder is a great example of this. Safe and cheap transport for people which will also make Uber a good amount of money.
I wonder if "run your own anycast network as a service" would ever make sense as a product. I can't see anyone other than CDN or testing being terribly interested, and a lot of this is included in the raw CDN use case.
Actually anyone can obtain the source, it's publicly available.
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