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I'd say that's the very reason the upfront costs are high. We dont get good automation technology from China, so we have to manufacture it here. Thus its expensive up front.
I'm the OP. I'm 90% sure I submitted it as "Reaction Engines" - I was surprised it was "Reaction engines" when I visited the site an hour after submitting. I would've edited it when I revisited the site, but wasn't able to by that point.

But, then, it's also entirely possible I submitted it incorrectly.
I did a year of a 4 day/9 hour schedule (our normal work week is 35 hours). I would do Monday-Thursday one week, followed by a Tuesday-Friday, to make alternate weekends 4 days long. For the last year, due to a head injury, I've worked 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, in 2.5 hour chunks. While my hours are shorter, I've found it really refreshing to have a 3 hour midday break. Lunch is never rushed, I have time to watch a tv show or run an errand or two, and I generally come back to work in the afternoon very refreshed. On top of that, it's easier to focus in - 2.5 hour blocks don't leave time for distractedness.

I liked the 4/10 schedule, but I don't think it fulfilled my hopes for it. My intention was to use my off days for my own projects, as I was starting to burn out and feel uninspired. What I found was that it was difficult to shift gears for just a day or two, especially after working long hours the previous several days. For the most part, the off days would just be when I would run errands. Instead of taking a half day to take the dogs to the vet, I would use my free day. So, it was nice enough, but hard to fully utilize well.

Of course, I think the real trick is finding a job that lets you have a good work life balance. My work year, if I were full time, is only ~1500 hours. That, more than anything, is what I'll be looking for in any future jobs.
Just as long as you don't try to do 40 hours in one day...
(heck, why not... we have multi-tasking now....)

But really, I'll believe 4 day work weeks when I see them. They will always find something wasteful for people to do to eat up the hours even if we do become on the whole more efficient. Besides, all the insurance people and real estate people will still hang out chatting for 60+ hours and then tell everyone they work 60 hours a week. (My girlfriend is a realtor...that's how I know what they do. She doesn't understand why she can't just call to chat anytime while I'm at work because... I'm working! And no, I probably can't "work" 60 hours a week for an extended period of time. But given the choice, I'd prefer to have to work 60 hours a week rather than have to chat 60 hours a week.... so I say they deserve their money!)
It's completely dead down the I-5. At first, because I'm not from here, I thought it was pretty normal. But as time when on it's pretty obviously not the case.

Off I-99 we had to take some farm roads and we can just see water near the edge of the farms just gushing groundwater into their irrigation systems. It's absolutely incredible. No regulation, just 100's of gallons of water flowing out of a groundwater pipe into a larger irrigation pipe.
They didn't discover a correlation between drawing ability and intelligence; as the article admits, the Draw-A-Man test has been in use since the 1920s. They established a correlation between DAM scores at age 4 and scores on other IQ tests at age 14. Which is a little interesting (since the most common rule of thumb I've heard is that IQ scores are near-totally unreliable before age 6), but not very.
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It's fine to read these for the literature and/or a peek into how earlier people saw their world, but beware of ideas whose underpinnings are still touted as fact - such as those from the Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith may have been among the intelligentsia of his time, but he made claims far outside of his expertise which have long since been shown to be fantastical imaginings. And if you've ever seen A Christmas Carol, you'll have passing familiarity with the debtor prisons and Irish potato famines justified by classical liberalism (economic theory, not to be confused with the popular modern term) which has today become neoliberalism (which contains justification for neoconservatism, so let's not get partisan about it) since about 1980 with Reagan in the USA, Thatcher in the UK, and Deng in China and isn't any better for reasons I won't currently go in to. (Crosby, Harvey)

For instance, Adam Smith argued that barter was an inefficient way to make transactions because it required a dual coincidence of wants by both parties. Nevermind that communities simply didn't function this way, instead giving what they had now in a system of credit rather than debt. This is one of many examples undermining Smith's ideas, so be careful if you decide to read such books. Unless your degree concerns historiography, your time would be much better spent elsewhere. (Graeber)

Smith is easy to debunk, but ideas contained within many classical novels provide popular justification for cultural imperialism. They're not so easy to address. (Said)
Those plots really need labels.
They don't seem to be doing their job very well, then, if President Obama had to 'reaffirm' it:

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/obama-zero-day/
But it is free of charge, which is what the post you're replying to actually said.
"Fridays are half days as long as you get in your 40 hours by noon on Friday" means they're working 40 hours over 4.5 days, instead of 5.
Just ported MongoBox to Redis
I've loved using MongoBox for testing Mongo code. I could not find an equivalent for Redis. FakeRedis is a great in-memory mock of the client, but I wanted something with as close to a real backend as Redis. https://github.com/ziadsawalha/redisbox
Some tech companies here (in Argentina) are implementing implementing 9-2 or 3 on fridays. It's a nice touch.
That's an example of an argument that assumes what it should be proving, the original meaning of the expression "begging the question."

The question at the center of free will is whether there are any deliberate, choice-driven elements in human behavior that also and coincidentally defy advance prediction. Your argument is that the presence of unpredictable elements proves the existence of unpredictable elements. It's also a tautology.

And finally, unpredictability doesn't prove free will, it only proves the existence of unpredictability. Free will would be a deliberate steering of the process toward some goal, something that true randomness contradicts.
Learned League is fun if you treat it as a quick daily trivia quiz. I'm convinced that it is rife with cheaters, though, which makes the competition part not as fun. There's really no way to prove it, but it's impossible not to be suspicious when there are people who get 1 wrong answer in an entire season, or when you give up 3 points to someone on an obscure theater question, when that person is historically 2-30 in that category.
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The problem I see is that since Soundcloud continues playing after each track, those with ads are going to get some kind of preference in the queue.

This may not be the case, but I am guessing that I am going to start hearing ads even tho I don't typically follow anyone who would put ads on their music.
You made some really good points, but the game that you developed is... a casino game (slots vacation, from your profile). No game can show all that's wrong with the game industry more than a free-to-play mobile casino game. If that's being a professional, I don't wanna be one.
How much someone is paying you to write it and how much it costs to replace are good criteria to start with.
I thought this was an interesting comment buried down below: about Utah adopting a 4/10hr work schedule to cut operating costs during the recession.

http://le.utah.gov/audit/10_10arpt.pdf
Are you a subsistence farmer? If so, society owes you nothing.

You live in a society that was built over thousands of years to allow you to earn your fabulous income. Without it, you'd have nothing. You owe all of your income to society; you're just lucky that society has decided that you work harder when you're allowed to keep some of it.
Very capitalist for a socialist_coder.
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One thing doesn't exclude the other. At one of the best places where I've worked at we had to fill out timesheets. It was actually used to make sure people worked a sane amount of time. If you piled up on extra hours you were told to go home and take a day or two off.
Games is a a glamour industry like music, movies and fashion. In all of those industries you see the same dynamic. Legions of very poorly paid people, lots of people making literally nothing. They just want to be part of it and to get their shot at the big time. Meanwhile a tiny percentage "make it" and get massively rich.

For every person in the Beatles there are massive numbers of people in bands who never make a dime. Similarly for every developer who starts a game company like Id that make serious money there are massive numbers who make little or nothing.

>Is it predominately the ultra low-end of programmers or something?

Actually the opposite is often true. Certainly those who have any amount of success are often exceptionally good programmers. As one boss at a non-game software company once put it after we hired a former game programmer to make software for oil refineries, they are the jet fighter pilots of programming.
Just search the changelog for the "super subtle bug" fixes. Duh!
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Night vision uses the photoelectric effect to translate a few photons from the lens into a picture you can see. It doesn't change the frequency of incoming light - it absorbs it and transmits an electron. Basically you are carrying around something similar to an old style tv on your head.
I seem to recall an article from some years back about someone using welding goggles with multiple layers of a specific blue filter on a very bright day and being able to see near-IR.. or something darn close to it.
Vary: Accept does not make resources uncacheable. If you are experiencing this problem, either your caching headers are misconfigured or your client is behaving incorrectly.
Careful, YouTube might be watching
It would cost us $232 a year for an ad-free internet
This tool was pretty responsive to draw with using a tablet, and I'm glad the pen width isn't very large.

I love using a Wacom tablet for drawing diagrams, and wish there was a good shared whiteboard tool that supported pen pressure.

I didn't know if this is possible at first, but a quick search revealed http://muro.deviantart.com/, which supports pen pressure using a plugin.

Any chance you might add that kind of flair to whiteboardfox?
I hate how they lump "equal opportunity" and "affirmative action" together, when they are fundamentally different things.

"Equal opportunity" means we will hire the best candidate regardless of their race/religion/sex/etc.

"Affirmative action" means we will give preference to candidates that aren't white or Asian males.
> Health care is already free of charge in most of the modern world [...] why not extend that to food/water/shelter/tertiary education?

Because we don't want to support a permanent underclass of parasites? As you adjust the rules of society to favor having children and not working at the expense of those who work and delay their children, you'll find that the demographics of society adjust to the new rules.

Or, in the words of Kipling:

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all

By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;

But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,

And the gods of the copybook headings said: If you don't work you die.
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>But when you think about it, is it truly a pinnacle of humanity if good things (treating people) are achieved by doing bad things (stealing from people by threatening them with jail time and confiscation if they refuse to pay taxes)?

Yes. Health for all trumps the badness of paying taxes for all.
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or don't forget to raise your volume so that you don't miss anything
Thank you very much for your feedback, I really appreciate it!

I've made a few iterations of this idea, but I am most proud of this one... at least I am improving.

I see this app being similar to Yik Yak, the more popular app (that I know of) in this niche. I decided I wanted to do what I can to improve on this.

Being anonymous/not requiring to sign up to use this app was one major component, which is done... but I wanted other users to be able to get to new locations and be able to contribute there (if you're familiar with Yik Yak, it's read-only at other locations other than your own).

There are a lot of apps allowing location based apps, but I wasn't aware of any that made it... visual on a map like this app. IRC and other apps like this are mostly just the "message list" part and not see "more detail/context" on a map.

It was a fun project to work on nonetheless :)
How will they handle hiding the camera rig?
You must not have come to the part about the stolen Playboy magazines yet....
> Because we don't want to support a permanent underclass of parasites?

Why do you think that would happen?
If I recall from Linus Torvald's biography, he took advantage of his 8 years at university to write his first prototype of what would later become the Linux kernel. Sounds like the Finnish system liberated him to work to pursue important work without having to worry about basic economic concerns.
Why are working hours in the medical industry so crazy? It doesn't seem to be in anyone's interest.
No, it's not, which is what the post you're replying to actually said.

You are paying for it, somehow, even if you are not paying an invoice every time you go to the doctor. The money is not simply created out of thin air, the doctors and nurses do not work for free out of the goodness of their hearts.

If, as the original comment suggests, no one should have to "work to survive" in any way, where is the motivation for anyone to do it? The students are already hiding so they don't have to compete for jobs in a tight job market, what's to encourage them ever to do so? At some point you run out of people working and paying those taxes so that everyone else can live for free.
>Because we don't want to support a permanent underclass of parasites?

Yeah, just the permanent parasitic overlords.

>Or, in the words of Kipling:

Yeah, the poet laureate of the Imperial parasites roaching off the hard labor of billions working as they slaves in colonies like India and elsewhere...
I agree. I prefer 6 days but shorter days - plus 2 week holidays where one switches off totally and sabbaticals once a decade or so. Its a recipe for creativity, not just grinding it out.
I don't know if it counts as "advice/tips" but I follow many blogs and a few periodic lists of news and articles like this one for .NET http://blog.cwa.me.uk/
and this one for JavaScript http://javascriptweekly.com/
any plans for an iOS version? looks really cool.
There was absolutely no need to inject such politics into a seemingly innocent post about a collection of old books. Your topic sentence claimed that you disputed the wisdom of old classics (notice the plural) but really your extended post was a diatribe against The Wealth of Nations and classical free market economics. Save your politics for a political topic.
> Given the correlation they discovered, it is accurate to say that drawing ability predicts intelligence to some degree.

Not in a scientific sense. For science, the existence of the correlation isn't enough to argue for a predictive relationship. For science, someone would have to design a test in which the drawing was proven to anticipate later developments, rather than accompany them passively (and with a rather marginal p-factor). In a human study with ethical standards in place, this is quite impossible.

In the strictest scientific sense, a study like this would have to show a mechanism, a cause, that connected particular drawing traits with later intelligence. Merely observing a correlation without a proposed explanation is suspect.

For example, someone might say, "The development of brain area X by age Y simultaneously shows itself through a particular drawing ability -- to the exclusion of other explanations -- and has been shown to be a precondition for specific intellectual processing ability Z at age 14." Obviously a study like this can't possibly reach those heights while remaining within its budget and while adhering to prevailing ethical standards and neuroscientific knowledge.

I emphasize I am not advocating what I say next, it's only hypothetical, to make a point. An imaginary study could say, "We snipped out a small section of brain tissue from region Q, and saw (a) a decline in drawing ability, and (b) a subsequent decline in overall intellectual capacity later in life."

But you know what? Such things are done all the time in animal studies, unfortunately with dubious relevance to humans. Also, my hypothetical study would still not explain why that result came about, only that the hypothetical snipping was correlated with a specific outcome. Remember that proposing and then testing explanations is the essence of science.
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My brother in law just finished a residency and we asked him the same question. Apparently more mistakes are made in hand offs between doctors than from tired doctors.
> But when you think about it, is it truly a pinnacle of humanity if good things (treating people) are achieved by doing bad things (stealing from people by threatening them with jail time and confiscation if they refuse to pay taxes)?

Calling taxation "stealing" is an odd bit of cognitive dissonance. On one hand, you embrace the law's distinction between mere dispossession and "stealing" but reject the law's distinction between "stealing" and taxation. You embrace the right of the collective to create property rights but not their right to subject those property rights to taxation.
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Question 6 is a trap, a very useful one
One can hope but in places like Australia and the UK we are actually seeing a regression from largely free and supported education to a user paid model.
This is why I love the TV show "Mountain Men". I get to enjoy the great outdoors isolation fantasy from the comfort of my suburban home.

My favorite line from the show: "What do I do for a living? I live for a living."
Wow, the function naming alone is terrible.

for i in range(len(path_parts) - 1, -1, -1):
if not path_parts[i] in resource_types and path_parts[i] in resource_tokens:
return resource_tokens[path_parts[i]]

This bit of iteration is painful to look at as well.
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> If prediction markets were really the best way for a large, centralised entity to make decisions, you'd think at least a few successful corporations would have implemented it into their corporate governance.

Only if you think that every "best way" to do every thing has already been done, which I highly doubt.
Which one do you recommend: Sqoop or Lingual?
Mr. Mario is facing a challenge on his project for a client, who needs to import some risk transaction data into Hadoop. the inhouse developers seem to be very comfortable Java SQL because of having worked a lot on BI, and somewhat less so with Java. That gives me a bit of a starting bias in favour of Lingual, but my concern there is that the extra layer of interpretation going into providing a fuller SQL interface may impact performance negatively. The import needs to be done on a fairly frequent basis, and the data volumes to be migrated are in the order of about 15 TB each time. The data is all alphanumeric, with no images or files.

Participate in the IT Challenge and share your views. (http://www.mytechlogy.com/IT-challenges/4820/sqoop-vs-lingual/)
I think we can all agree that Torvalds is the exception, not the rule.

Plenty of people, especially those who are younger and don't have families, spend their evenings and weekends working on side projects after work. I don't really see a compelling argument in your point...
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You're right. My knowledge is about the Buddhist traditions.
I actually just got enrolled into the program. It begins at the beginning of October and this will be their first cohort for the program as it is brand new.
> Better policy for them, perhaps, but not for everyone else.

That's precisely what the prediction market purports to solve.
I prefer "I am coin-operated."
someone here recommended this book a month or so ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb

I'm about halfway through, well worth the (long!) read.
I think you're thinking of this: http://amasci.com/amateur/irgoggl.html

It did take a bit for me to dig it up... I actually ended up having to use Google image search because I remember the guy talking about how trees looked. Without that I got a series of short uninteresting breathless YouTube videos on the topic and a whole bunch of contentless reblogging of said video that drowned out the original article.
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This analysis misses the point that, if Internet access was subsidized either by direct fee collection from end users, or by way of public funds, advertisements would reappear unless they were declared illegal, because it's a way to make money. And if advertisements were declared illegal, someone would sue in federal court on free-speech grounds.

Advertising is here to stay, regardless of such arguments, because advertising is too much like protected speech to be controllable.
I don't currently hold this opinion but I'll argue it for the sake of discovery: But what if all we need is the exceptions? Torvald's contribution is many times greater than a single regular person working. Perhaps the total value generated goes up as long as we find and win the exceptional cases like him?
Yeah but in all fairness that's only a couple years and is where most of your learning will occur.

Moreover, if the ama didn't limit the supply of physicians to boost salary, you could get better hours (post resident) at the cost of lower salary (still over 100k). Is that a trade you think most physicians want?
> Why Zipf's law explains so many big data and physics phenomenons

Wait ... I should read an article written by someone who doesn't know the plural form of "phenomenon"?

A quick read of the first few lines shows a near-illiteracy betrayed by the title.
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Holy crap. Wow I have a serious respect for the Seattle PD now, that is very open.

edit: I found out why that one is real time. It isn't Seattle PD but Seattle Fire. (https://twitter.com/SeattlePD/status/502651325117526016)
Let's say, as an experiment, we decide to work four days a week. Which day do we take off? Just a hunch but the top two candidates most likely are Monday and Friday.

Friday's claims:
1) "TGIF" now has some teeth.
2) Friendly gesture towards our Muslim countrymen. Hey, we took the rest of Saturday off to help get along with our Jewish friends.
3) We can still hate Mondays.

Monday's claims:
1) A lot of work for artists churning out anti-Tuesday work that oddly resembles the old anti-Monday work.

Aw, screw that - I have a better idea. 365 divided by 7 = 52.14whatever but 365 divided by 5 = 73. So if the 4 day workweek seems unworkable, let's instead eliminate Saturday and Sunday. MWahHahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
I'd say that they certainly try to, but the block-erase and page-program granularity of NAND flash makes it pretty much impossible to guarantee any atomicity of operations without ridiculously wasting the capacity. Furthermore, pages within a block can only be programmed sequentially to avoid corrupting previously programmed pages (this is known as "program disturb"), and each page can only be programmed once, also to avoid program disturb effects.