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Thats good news that you still enjoyed Ringworld. I was wondering if the orginality of the work was the main strength of it at the time. I still hear mixed things about the Halo books. Goodreads is still giving the first one a good rating, but the reviews are all over the place.
Hey, I just started as Director of Engineering at VanityFair, and I can definitely agree with you our site is in much need of a UX overhaul. We are working to address the points you made plus may more issues that affect the site.
Puts an entirely new spin on Catholics in space. :)

I'll go ahead and second your recommendation. A thoroughly enjoyable read with several really great concepts.
There’s Half as Much Dark Matter in the Milky Way as We Thought
Laugh all you want, what you are saying does not invalidate my point.

How big was the Fritzbox market share?
Dune was on the Army MCoE book list for a while too:

http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/search?keywords=...

It's not on their most recent list, but Starship Troopers is.
As you should be. Good luck! :)
OneDrive for Business is SharePoint. I use it for my files w/ O365 and the domain to view your files is literally *.SharePoint.com
I realize i barely know anything in chemistry. I have zero practical knowledge and would be almost incapable of performing any kind of chemistry exercise anymore ( yet i do have a scientific background).

Anyone here could recommend a book or a serie of books to get myself into shape on that subject ?
I don't think we were discussing "religiously motivated" marriages but rather that a shared religion (presumably one that both participants had before the marriage) was an additional social pressure "like" arranged marriages.

In any case, I think that social pressure can be a pretty strong force and that it tends to counteract the sort of selfishness that leads to a "bad marriage". Of course bad marriages will statistically happen but I don't think you can claim the huge number of divorces we're seeing are all "bad marriages" - my premise is that many could be cured if both participants cared to work a bit.
I live in the Melbourne CBD and have used the city cycle scheme. The problem isn't the scheme. It's the fact that it is downright suicidal to ride in many parts of the city. The cycling infrastructure e.g. dedicated lanes are inadequate, there are blind spots all over the place and car drivers are not taught from day one how to check for cyclists moving around them. I know people who have been crippled from cycling.

And you are being pretty ridiculous by mentioning the health benefits. Cycling without adequate infrastructure is dangerous. Much more dangerous than a bit of a cardio. It is far better for people's health to educate them to stand up and take a walk a few times a day.

Fix the infrastructure first. Then start encouraging the family to ride to work or school.
Would love to see a blog post about the server design.
I think I will still prefer good books no mater age or gender of the author.
I guess the idea of the diversity being good just because of diversity comes from some old male too.
I believe that SnapChat alerts the sender if a screenshot happened. While this doesn't prevent the action, obviously, it at least lets the sender know.
Yeah, I've heard that audiobook was great. I had a period of lengthy commuting when I listed to a ton of audiobooks, and found that Banks' Culture novels -- narrated by Peter Kenny in paricular -- were excellent. Kenny's performances really brought the works to life. A bad narrator can kill a good audiobook, and even a terrific one can't salvage a bad read. But pair an outstanding author with first-rate narration, and it's transformative. Highly recommended! :)
The first book I wasn't able to finish.

The mix of stupidity, contradictions, overstretched scenery, cringe worthy glorifications, weird ideology, stupid characters and the unbelievably slow progress were just too much. I plan to finish it some day...when I'm already depressed maybe. I would like to understand what people see in this...thing.
There are some great books on the list, however it should be a criminal offense to not include Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (first published as Tiger! Tiger!). It's best summed up as The Count of Monte Cristo, in space. Bester's novel is in many ways the forerunner of the cyberpunk genre.
Cool, I didn't know about Egan's short stories.
I have seen dedicated cycling lanes being completely unused.

Why ? Because if they are improperly designed like say their design doesn't match up with roundabouts or crossings etc then it is actually more dangerous to use them. Likewise often the cycle lanes have drains which can catch tyres.
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you shouldn't think the issue here is with an overbearing attitude in physics, the problem is just the categorisation of maths. I'd put it vice versa. since mathematics means the art of learning, literally, physics is a subfield of applied mathematics. Numbers aren't just represantations, unlike numerals. numbers are only of any value, if they have context, even if that is a fictive for the purpose of learning. but teachers frequently use examples from applied mathematics, too.

Math's called a structural science for a good reason, it can be used to find or build structures in physics, as well as any other natural science. A strict distinction in it's root seems unnessacary, since logic and all is based in philosophy and engineering, back in a time when polymaths didn't plow just one field. Even nowadays subfields in sciences require vastly different knowledge, so if these subfields count as part of physics, it's fair to say physics is maths and maths is physics.
Microsoft was busy copying the Macintosh in 1985. Late in the year Windows 1.0 was released.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0
I don't like the "gets bored" phrase either ... it's right up there with "he/she changed" (which is a minor variation on "I thought I could changed him/her).

"People don't change" is kind of a funny phrase too - there's some truth in it, but I'm certainly not the same person I was when I married over twenty-seven years ago.

My wife has changed too - we're not young anymore and yet our love (and devotion) to each other is more multi-faceted because we love who we were together as well as who we are now together.

One piece of advice for the nerds out there ... don't stop doing the things you did when you were wooing him/her. It's easy to say "I've caught him/her" and figure that's the end of the project. Just like in software development, at least 80% of the work is maintenance after release/marriage.
>As someone who only sometimes attends church, I wonder why that has a higher risk of divorce than never attending or always attending. Maybe lack of commitment?

My speculation is that this could be a sign that the couple disagrees on religion and is unable to reconcile it. One partner might attend sporadically, but they're really not committed to it as you said.
I hear ya about VB6, I think that making it incompatible with VB.Net was a mistake. But ASP.NET webforms? Ugh. I maintain a slightly older website using webforms, and it feels like I'm in the web development dark ages. Its a literal ghetto of tech that is used no where else.
Atlas Shrugged is many things, but it doesn't look or act like sci-fi by any measure. This choice stands out like sore thumb and compromises the integrity of the list for the obvious reasons.
Sorry, my phrasing was off there. Kind of tired this morning. What I meant is that I don't worry about myself "getting bored". In other words, I would keep working at a marriage rather than abandon it just because I was tired of it. I'm sure I have selfish moments, but the goal is to minimize how many of them I have!
I don't, but I am interested if you find it. We already have a hierarchy in a way.

The domain tree goes from top to bottom this way <---

The resource tree goes from top to bottom this way --->

So, using numbering for order, you could look at a URI like:

0002.0001.0000/0003/0004/0005

Meanwhile, in an alternate reality...

$ ls /net | shuf -n 16
coffee
net
рф
한국
org
dating
pw
中國
institute
இலங்கை
ninja
com
みんな
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政务
I was just about to make the very same suggestion. Ignore the list and just read this book! The threading of the 'jaunting' concept was way ahead of its time in 1956 and the inspiration can be seen in many modern films.
I've been cycling in traffic for almost 3 years in a country with no bike lanes and pretty bad motorist behavior regarding cyclists. It was scary the first month, but then you get used to it and you learn a couple of rules that reduce your chances of getting into an accident significantly [1]

Learning these rules really makes all the difference. Would you prefer to get into an accident and not get killed (thanks to a helmet), or to significantly reduce your chances of getting into an accidents altogether?

A note on gear: get all the lights (front, back, laser lane) and reflectors (for individual spokes and tires too) that you can, set them up to blink, and use a bell and a mirror

[1]: http://bicyclesafe.com/
> there's not really such a thing as a bad marriage so much as selfish participants

This is absurd. It's constructed of a series of suppositions, only a few of which I'll address.

First is that people are static. This simply isn't true. We all know that we all change - not just in age, wisdom, and so on, but in tastes, politics, religious dedication, and the lines we draw between wrong and right, just to name a few.

In just these ways, people can grow apart. The distance between these changes can, in fact, cause "irreconcilable differences."

Sometimes these changes are brought about by dramatic stress events, from the death of a child to major swings in financial stability. The way in which these events change the unwilling participants can again lead to incompatibility where once there was compatibility.

But worst is the idea that if people just "work on it" they can overcome anything. Sometimes overcoming growing apart - be it over time or rather quickly - is best done by removing yourself from a situation that is no longer positive, and has little ability to become positive again.

This is where I find religion quite often inserts itself negatively. While I agree with a poster above that regular attendance at religious gatherings does often help a couple share a support network, share common beliefs and similar circles of friends, etc., religion often tells you only divorce or failed marriage is an abomination, and a personal failure requiring lifetime penance. It then follows by labeling that person as an outcast, no longer worthy of the community they had once belonged to.

These are just a few reasons (not to mention physical/substance abuse, and so on) that marriages can fail without it being personal failure. Your assertion does nothing but pile on further stigma to those who have gone through divorce. No one wants their marriage to fail, but when it does, it isn't always personal failure that requires additional shaming from outsiders.
Two pieces of information that add up to a larger story:

* The NSA/CSS Commercial Solutions Center (NCSC) is specifically built around Elliptic Curve Cryptography that they acquired from Certicom.

>The NCSC also manages the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) program on behalf of the NSA/CSS. Elliptic curve provides greater security and more efficient performance than first generation public key techniques currently in use. NSA/CSS purchased a license that covers intellectual property in a restricted field of use to assist in the implementation of elliptic curves to protect U.S. and allied government information. - https://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/ncsc.shtml

* Certicom designed the Elliptic Curve DRBG (Dual_EC) algorithm including the backdoor (Certicom patented the backdoor functionality in 2005)[0]. The NSA then included this algorithm + backdoor into NIST standard and payed RSA 10 million dollars to make it the default DRBG.

Putting these two facts together suggests that the NCSC was responsible for the Dual_EC backdoor.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
It was fun reading this, as I just finished _Command and Control_ this morning.
Here is a rehost of the web page since it went down: https://i.imgur.com/rABtgo9.jpg
I am surprised people are so flippant about injuries to the head. How many times do we hear stories of people dying from being punched and hitting their head on the curb/ground ? Or the long term effects of concussion.

Helmets work. Governments around the world wouldn't be making them mandatory just to screw with people.
It's interesting how opinions about Ready Player One can be so polarized. As someone who spent their formative years living through the 80s, this book was a non-stop cringe-fest of embarrassment for me, made even worse by Wil Wheaton's over-the-top voice acting.

While I did quite enjoy the author's vision of futuristic VR, all the 80s camp and nostalgia ruined it for me.
The 200+ person wedding is likely an indicator of a culture with strong family values - most of the 200+ are distant cousins, etc. Such cultures frown on divorce.
This is kinda funny. Our reception back home (the wedding itself was an extremely intimate thing with only a dozen attendees partly because it was a destination wedding), had well over 300 people, but I think our costs were only about $2,000 for the whole thing, which included the destination ceremony and plane tickets.

My wife and I have close ties to our community, and lots of close friends, and my wife's family is large and tightly knit.

Anyway, a big reason our costs ended up so low was because of the size of the wedding. People donated food, services, time, equipment and everything else. If we simply paid for it all, it probably would have cost closer to an average American wedding.

With gifts, we ended up making money on the wedding. Not much, but enough to start our younger selves off nicely.
British Study on Passing Clearance and Helmets
As far as my little knowledge is concerned, I would money should be the major driving force. You should driven by your passion for the idea. But yes you do need to make sure that keeps coming in so cause you need to survive the world, in final stage ideas should be able to fund
themselves with little or no support.
Out of interest, why did you choose vb6? I'd have thought you would need to go out your way to learn such an old platform.
Equal Population Mapper
No one interested in Power8 CPU?
Of all the things you can objectively measure in the world, I am sure a significant majority would disagree that you can measure love.

It is possible to love someone deeply and still separate. The cause of separation might be out of love.
I was thinking, "Atlas Shrugged, what the fuck?" but then I re-read the title of the article. As is [ironically with a sense that is lost upon them] common to admirers of Ayn Rand, the author feels compelled to "should" on their readers. I was warned.

I've read most everything on the list, though the dead horse of Animal Farm was first beaten for me in sixth grade...and that was long enough ago that Cold War MADness was a reality in the days when "PG" on a movie meant "tits" and Murray and Ramos could parody the US Army...if the list has talking animals, where is Watership Down?

But I digress...

A few years ago, I came back to science fiction and started reading the Hugo Award novels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel#Winne...

What I found is that the list gives context to the novels...the line of telephones ringing are forgivable in 1985's Neuromancer in a way that they wouldn't be in a movie made today. The competence of the grunts in 1960's Starship Troopers is a reaction to the USMC in the Second World War and the experience of the US military during the shooting phase of the Korean War. 1998's Forever Peace shows how much computers changed the meanings of "combatant" and "battlefield" in the subsequent 40 years.

One of the other interesting themes of science fiction is the evolution of the post-apocalyptic world. The alien invasion of 1950's Day of the Triffids and the pandemic of 1949's Earth Abides [not a Hugo Novels] giving way to the nuclear wastelands of 1961's Canticle for Leibowitz's and 1966's This Immortal [when Zelzany's novel tied Herbert's Dune for the Hugo and rightly so].

By 1996's Diamond Age or 2010's Windup Girl the apocalypse is a slow moving tragedy of the commons brought on not by rash misunderstanding but by long term economic rationalizations...bringing us full circle, and you were warned.
Its a good list of classics, but dropping Doctorow in there seems a bit incongruous. I've never cared for his novels. They always strike me as little more than pandering spackling together of snappy glib dialogue with pop culture tropes and memes. They leave me feeling about as satisfied and intellectually stimulated as eating ice cream for lunch does for my nutritional needs. I say the same about Scalzi.
I wanted to like it but couldn't get past the first couple of chapters. The reason? It's just so poorly written; the author never shows when he can just tell. It reads more like a description of a novel than an actual novel.
I would probably drop I Robot (yes, really!) from the list, and replace that with Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama.

And if you do read Rama, don't bother with the sequels/spinoffs. The closes depiction to the feeling I had after reading Rama II has been captured by xkcd in the Matrix strip. [0]

[0]: http://xkcd.com/566/
Why is Firefox still to slow to play this?
Stop Trying to Control How Ex-Employees Use Their Knowledge
Russian original here: http://www.mathnet.ru/php/archive.phtml?wshow=paper&jrnid=rm...

French translation here: http://math.unice.fr/~rchetrit/smf_gazette_78_19-29.pdf
Interesting. I know a few times I've had to kill the dropbox process while changing my selective sync settings before.
>So your argument is that ls is not efficient enough in its implementation

My complaint wasn't about the efficiency of ls, it was the fact that valuable information that is required for correctness is thrown away to achieve compatibility with the unix 'stream of text' interface and the attempt to recover that information leads to incorrect results. The paradigm is just fundamentally broken.

>you would suggest replacing all of that with an object model that implements the equivalent of Ruby's enumerable. Got it.

I don't even like Ruby at all (ironically, I find its grammar far too complex and shell-like to be able to parse in my head), so I've no idea what you are talking about. You seem to be assuming that everybody who dislikes the shell must be some strawman hipster.

>there are exceptions -- e.g., files with newlines in their name

I honestly find it extremely bewildering that any programmer would see that as being acceptable. It's not just that it fails to give the correct result, it fails silently. Silent data corruption is surely just about the worse class of bug.

>But pedagogically, I can assure you that teaching people shell is easier than teaching them map-reduce.

I presume you mean the functional ideas of map, reduce, and filter, not MapReduce ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map-reduce ). The latter is irrelevant to the discussion.

My experience is the exact opposite. I found understanding the concepts of map and filter trivial. If you can understand a loop you can understand them. Reduce/fold isn't hard to understand either, although a bit tricker to make use of. Your example didn't use reduce anyway. Map and filter are typically much easier to use and reason about than a for loop in C, or a chain of commands in a shell script.

The shell is an absolute nightmare to learn. I have tried to learn to use it numerous times of the last decade or so, and I have always forgotten it the next time I come to do anything in the shell. The amount of knowledge you need to actually do anything is huge (the awk language, obscure and terse command names, complex regexes, memorising a bunch of command flags, memorising the output format of commands - usually a format designed for displaying to users rather than machine parsing, the shells ridiculously complex grammar, how to escape things etc etc) Your example illustrates that. It would have taken me 20 mins at least to put together that line of code you gave. Also, it's not like you escape having to understand concepts like map and filter. If you don't understand them (not necessarily by name) then you won't be able to write the line of unix commands you gave.

>Shell is easy to learn because people innately understand "and then do this with it".

People might find the concept of piping data easy to understand (I'm not convinced they do to be honest), but that alone won't do them much good because as your examples showed, you always need to run a bunch of complex and obscurely named commands, regex, or awk on the data to make the next command able to understand it.
Anomalies, Concerts and Data Science at Command Line: Jeroen Janssens Interview
Gotta disagree with you: marriage is a contract, forsaking all others, so long as you both shall live. Divorce means your word is worthless, and that your own wants are more important than your word.

It IS a personal failure, but go ahead, rationalize all you want.
The really interesting concept in RingWorld is the genetic predisposition of luck.
Stanislaw Lem: Fiasco

Stanislaw Lem: His Master's Voice

Strugarsky Brothers: Roadside Picnic

Olaf Stapledon: Star Maker
I am very glad I asked :)
Preview of Sozi 14 is available for testers
You're not allowed to be imaginative or speculate here about topics that people have been conditioned to patriotically think non-critically about! Just give it up man! We all know that the official stories about 9/11 are 100% true!

(For a group that hates censorship as much as these "hackers" do, isn't it funny how they love a site that lets everybody censor each other by downvoting comments into invisibility? See? Help meeee I'm meltinggggg....)
The data manipulating functions embedded in my skull were quite amused when they digressed from the topic and started wondering.."What do these people do all day long?"
Kaya: Declarative Reactive Language [video]
The book "The Five Love Languages" really helped my marriage.
I can tell they brainwashed you well in Cupertino. ;) They probably left out the part where Jobs borrowed the ideas for the Mac from Xerox I suspect too.

More accurately, there is probably a Mac here because they were building Office for it.
I don't really pay attention to the gender of the author of a book, and I'm not sure why someone putting together a list of what they consider to be good science fiction should have to either.

That said, people are obviously going to have a lot of their own opinions about what books would go on a list of must-reads. Personally, I'd never include Ayn Rand on any list, except maybe one that gives a list of authors that aren't worth reading.

In the science fiction I've read and enjoyed, most of it is written by men, but I'd rank books by both Connie Willis and Ursula K. Le Guin highly.

And, of course, in terms of enjoyment, I've loved much of what both Margaret Weis and Anne McCaffrey have written, even if their writing isn't exactly award winning.
If you enjoy prophetic scifi, you might be interested in a 1909 story called "The Machine Stops"[0][1], a short story by E. M. Forster, which predicted the internet, internet addiction, video conferencing, and other later technologies and scifi tropes.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

[1] - http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
Modern day WinForms in .Net work just as well for coding up simple GUIs.
Rapture of the Nerds and Makers are both competent utopian/distopian novels respectively. Little Brother etc. are sound as teen fiction. If spackled memes aren't appropriate, then Orwell probably should not be on the list unless pandering to anti-communists in an English accent counts as gravitas.

At least Doctorow takes on the world wide media machine that is the Rat of Orlando.
"Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet." - Schneier on DRM