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> The idea is that God -- being good -- would never have intended nature to be full of violence and deception

That is interesting, I was not aware of it. It is kind of the opposite in Hindu philosophy. There is this idea of 'matsya nyana' which roughly translates to 'survival of the fittest' or 'law of the jungle' (it literally means bigger fish eats smaller fish) and the stories say that being civilized means that men must conquer this inherent desire for conquest and violence. When things go bad men behave like animals and destroy one another.
And the NSA, China, and every other politically motivated actor is actively looking for the blithely unaware 70 year old virologist who happens to work on dual-use agents.
>In the case of books, you'd see that by cuts in editing, by authors shortening the amount of time that they spend writing a book, and through authors dropping out and leaving the field to less talented writers with fewer alternative income sources.

I just spent $10,000 editing and producing my latest book that's going to be self-published. Comparing the royalties I'll get with self-publish (not using CreateSpace BTW, though I have no problem with them) including those fees - not even half of which would be picked up by a publisher, mind you - with a publisher who absorbs ALL of my editing/producing costs is STILL a joke. Publishers are predatory towards anyone but the somewhat-ready-to-breakout writers. They do nothing for the established writer except salve his ego and they do nothing for the startup writer who begs for help.
If you're managing your project in a tool like JIRA you could provide your client with a burn down chart. It's the easiest way to tell at a glance how a project is going, and takes next to no effort to produce.

If you're not managing your project in such a tool then you should be. If you're not breaking your job into small enough tasks that the chart looks reasonable then you should be doing that too. Both these things will force you to come up with better estimates and give you a record to learn from to provide better records in the future.
I'm not sure how modern warfare or any warfare among groups of primates above the "natural" limits of a few hundred fit into this. Most people lived in groups of a few dozen until recently. Coalitions of human groups are hypothesized to have occurred around the paleolithic revolution and there is evidence of very large group efforts in existence. But these were probably temporary, fouling on war or other activities.

The Historian Yuval Noah Harari, has some fascinating theories about cooperation, mythology and language emerging together during the paleolithic revolution. After this we see "behaviorally" modern humans. The nature of this behavior is not well known but his ideas put the ability to form larger groups held together by mythology (Gorgoot is the King. We are the Googootah nation!) as the centerpiece of this behavior. Homo Sapien-Sapien's ability to 10X the effective group size put them apart in terms of their impact as a species, perhaps wiping out cousin species like Neanderthals (the timing works).

Getting back to Gwynne Dyer's work, the basic behavior of border conflicts resulting in annihilation (dawn raids) and territorial expansion whenever a group is too weak to defend the status quo. Part of the behavior is a colorful & stylized "warfare" where few get seriously injured. These were considered by anthropologists as an alternative to "real war" but later research showed that these exist alongside the brutality of surprise attacks on weaker opponents. The stylized version acts as a display of strength and a deterrence. Failure to achieve deterrence might lead to genocide.

The deterrence aspect has analogies in modern warfare. A fight between 5 and 10 adult warriors armed with spears and axes might favor the larger group, but how many of those 10 would be seriously injured? Losing half a dozen warriors endangers the community (there are always more enemies), so it's not worth the risk.

Overall, there are communal Gwynne Dyer did a sort of meta research and some first hand research trying to determine the percentage of adult deaths caused by inter community violence (warfare) and compared it to chimp research. He found striking similarities in both behavioral patterns and population effects.

If that similarity is not coincidental, it's revealing about our history. It probably dates back before Homo-Pan speciation four to six million years ago.

Fascinating stuff.

PS, it's known as warfare. 9/11, the response to it, the response to the response, the forthcoming response to the response to the response. It's called warfare. Terrorism is a euphemism.
ClearCase is the reason why I'll never pay one cent to IBM in software if I can.

That's what they sell, overpriced crap sold in a golf course.
I think this is a regional/cultural/national difference. I've used interlibrary loans at local (non-university) libraries in 5 different US states, and never been charged a fee. The "overdue" fees are usually about $1/day if you exceed the 2-3 week loan period, but if you return on time you pay nothing. In the US, the interlibrary loan system is a fantastic and underutilized resource.
So many Nobel winners have said or endorsed crazy shit, that some people have even created a name specifically for the phenomenon: "The Nobel Disease": http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
Three publishing houses offered term sheets to me. Not one offered a decent editing package. And even then, paying $10,000 out of pocket was cheaper than absorbing their ludicrous royalty costs, ignoring all the other externalities that come with going with a publisher...
Thanks Patio. Totally understand what you're saying. 'tis an unlikely outcome.

With regards to the 'collate links from across the web' - I should maybe reword this. Thanks for the feedback.

I should add, building a mailing list and delivering relevant content (currently, 'collate links from across the web') has a 60-70% open rate and 40-50% click through. Already, I've proven I'm adding value based on quant and qual research.

Having said that, a simple mailing list isn't the future of Pillow Talk- a crowdsourced sex tips platform, is. This is just the early stages.
I was kind of wary at the use-cases Google presented for the device. It all seemed to be some variant of what a gopro does.

I think without it supporting AR it was always DoA in my mind.
That's an interesting hypothetical, but I'm not sure I see how it bears too closely on this scenario which, as I understand it, deals only with the phone records of people actually under investigation. I get that these records will include certain information about third parties (namely, that they called or were called by person x), but this seems a far cry from "all the emails from 2% of gmail accounts."
great job! Sounds great!
Wow, I just disagree with everything you're posting on this thread. You're certainly entitled to your opinions, but be aware that people who do keto think you are just so wrong.

I've lost 33 pounds since May eating LCHF. I just eat until I'm full, and I feel much better. So really all I've changed are my macros.

Macros > Calories.

You should read a Gary Taubes book, and see what you think.
Here's a relevant Twitter conversation on Raptor from last night:

https://twitter.com/brixen/status/523988304627499008

Interesting tidbit is that the DNS may show that Raptor is being developed by Phusion.
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IIRC, the thing about Uniplate is that the API makes it easy to build traversal functions like "get a list of all X nodes in this tree" while SYB provides some folding operators that are a bit harder to work with.
There are also other approaches like the HOPE jit https://github.com/cosmo-ethz/hope and Theano which is more about expression optimization and compilation: http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/
Yet more catch-22. Just out of curiosity, have you had success using recruiters to find jobs?
Can anyone compare/contrast this with the book Secrets of the Javascript Ninja, by John Resig and Bear Bibeault?

I've got a copy of that around that I've been meaning to read for a while.
I wish Fedora had PPA's, I had to ditch it for Ubuntu, got fed up of having to compile everything I wanted to use.
Many people think that ketones are the preferred fuel for every cell in our bodies.
"a bit over two decades ago" eh?
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As a 'devops', I've been sometimes saddled with the unfortunate task of bridging the communication gap between Sysadmins/TechOps and Devs.

Although there are technical arguments here on both sides, I really hope that this 'SystemD vs Freedom Of Choice in Init Systems' discussion gets resolved in a way that doesn't create further divisions.
Excellent points, whenever I read Krugman I always get the feeling that he wants everyone to be a victim so they'll support whatever government intervention he wants this week.

Hachette is a major company that has no problem fighting back, problem is in the internet age they are incompetent, for that they deserve whatever the market is dishing out to their outdated business model.
Or perhaps it is the insulin resistance you get from eating too many carbs.
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Estimates are notorious for all developers, not just new ones :)

Most people have a hard time realizing they are stressed out -- you are suddenly completely freaking out! If you wait until there is a problem, you've waited too long. Risk shows up way before it manifests.

Daily gut checks are an easy way to notice risk. Ask yourself "how is the estimate aligning with the actual work left?"

Once you know there is misalignment, the most valuable way to discuss is focusing on work left.

The most important thing to remember when you know you are stressed out is to take a deep breath and relax. Understanding how you are evaluated for success and primary business drivers will allow you to discuss risk and delays in a language that can influences others and address what is more important.

Things that really help estimations:
1. Thinking about work in relative complexity rather than time allocations. More complex work increases time exponentially. Unknowns are almost always filled with gotchas. Any work that is more than a medium in complexity is best experimented on in spikes or broken down into smaller pieces of value.

2. Use your gut. It knows better than your head because these problems are often too complicated and deep to really have any idea how long they are going to take

3. Firm up definition of "done." There is a lot of overhead beyond coding the solution that makes something complete. Having a well known definition of done that everyone agrees on will help consider all the things that are often forgotten.

Go easy on yourself. Your estimates aren't wrong, they are off. You don't make good money because you are solving easy problems with well known solutions. You are creating simple solutions to complicated problems. Estimating anything when its complicated is most often inaccurate...

When all else fails default to Uncle Bob's standard answer: 3 weeks :)

Good luck!
I have friends who work at IBM and I haven't heard anything good about big blue in the past few years about them. The entire management seems to have no clue what they're doing. They went through a huge investment period during which they expanded way to much, after that they had to tighten the belt to meet the stock targets and let go of a lot of experienced people and promoted young people way too quick with too little resources for them to succeed (despite them being more than capable of succeeding). Leading to a very bitter and cut throat culture.

I applied a few years back (during the investment splurge), they seemed very enthusiastic, several friends who worked for them confirmed that I would be a pretty good fit in the team/culture.

I nailed the challenging IBM IPAT test with a pretty decent score, I called them twice to ask what the next step would be and they promised me that I would be invited soon. After the second call without a fixed date I forgot all about it and found a better job. I had a friend ask his manager about the status of my solicitation and his manager told him that their team was not a priority for HR because they were on schedule and under budget (thus able to hire new developers) to meet their requirements/release. In other words, if you are doing well you're being ignored until your team screws up.

The called me six months(!!!) after I took the test and almost begged me to come talk to me. I asked my friend how his team was doing and they slipped up on the schedule because colleges and budget were pulled of the release until it was obvious that they couldn't meet the requirements/release. Guess that explained their desperate phone call. He couldn't recommend that I took them up on the job offer and asked if we had any openings :)

Considering what I've heard it doesn't surprise me that some parts of the organisation are so dysfunctional.
I don't understand your last sentence. Things can be made simpler than possible?

If you focus just on inner loops, this kind of simplicity is widespread and essential for performance. APL and its derivates are great specification languages for array manipulation.
If you are writing a networked window system, on the other hand, a "high ceremony" language is more appropriate because you need to cope with protocols and abstractions. Right?
One reason would be that power uses 8 way smt while Intel (with hyper threading) uses 2 way smt. If your code has tons of cache misses you will gain greatly from 8way smt since another thread can run on the physical core while other threads are waiting for memory. I suspect PPC would do very poorly with High performance code with low cache misses. However for something like a Java program where cache misses are abundant I would expect to see a big boost in performance. The benchmarks above are therefore completely dependant on the cache size.
IIRC for some reason it's typical in Japan to not include chargers with handhelds or even sometimes AC adapters with consoles. For people in the rest of the world, the New 3DS will probably include an adapter.
I just made a bunch of people go crazy drawing on one level. It took me 30 minutes trying to get someone draw anything.
yes, I forgot it is actually a single virtual machine running on a physical server.

The main disk is /dev/vda2
My rewrite (focused more on emphasizing your legitimacy and less on emoting about MailChimp's policies):

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I'm aware that adult-oriented businesses are historically considered high-risk in email sending. Pillow Talk is not an adult-oriented business. We're an educational resource which happens to discuss human sexuality. Our content is not explicit and largely consists of links to reputable websites, such as IMDB, Amazon, and [a blog maintained by a Harvard PhD in human sexuality would be a really good thing to mention right now]. We do not include or link to obscene materials -- the raciest it gets would still pass muster at a Borders in Kansas. [Patrick notes: If not true, apologize and fix.]

Previously, we have from time-to-time included affiliate links to marital aids. On re-reading your TOS, I found that this was disallowed, so we will stop doing so immediately.

I understand that MailChimp cannot afford to have elevated complaint rates from flight-by-night operators in seedy sectors. We run a tight ship here, with all emails collected in a proper double opt-in fashion. As you can verify in our account, our complaint rate is [1 / 40,000 emails or whatever], which is well-within industry norms.

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My understanding is that it's the difference in glycemic index. Corn has a GI of 60, whereas spinach has a GI of 0 (couldn't find the GI for grass, so...). The higher the GI, the more impact on blood sugar and insulin, and insulin causes the body to use sugars over fat for fuel. So how does corn stack up against, say, table sugar? Table sugar has a GI of 68, so cows (or people, for that matter) that consume a lot of corn will have nearly identical effects on their insulin and blood sugar if they were to instead eat an equivalent amount (in terms of carbs) of table sugar.

Though I'm not a doctor, that's my understanding.

Edit: Also, there's the compounding effect of insulin resistance. The chronically elevated insulin levels result in decreased insulin sensitivity, which means that the body will require more insulin to move glucose out of the bloodstream, while further preventing the use of fat for fuel.
If I understand correctly, the `pypy` people strongly encourage the use of `cffi` instead of the CPython API, as the latter is tied too much to CPython and does not permit efficient JITing.
Yup never had any issues either. iCloud stops working one a week for most users? Whee is that statistic coming from?
Let me explain further. Take this scenario:

- Amazon continues to drops prices. Great for consumers.

- They drop prices so low that either publishers reduce how much they pay writers or they go out of business.

- Writers then start shifting publishing to Amazon who can give them a bigger piece of the pie.

- Publishers die out leaving Amazon as sole publisher + distributor.

- NOW they can exploit their power. They can raise prices and we can do nothing as they are the sole publisher and distributor.

- Things are good now for consumers but long term Amazon can increase and exploit their power.

Maybe they are a nice company and won't screw us but that's not a risk we should be willing to take.
There you go; "fanboism". Took you long enough. You have consistently squirmed around this, but there it is. Oh, I get it. I get that you clearly have an agenda.

Edit:

Your whole argument revolves around Apple doing something behind our backs; which the blatantly haven't. The warning is there, front and centre. That's not an apology, that's a fact.
From the debianfork.org page, which this is apparently mocking:

"Why don't you do that yourselves?
We are excluded from voting on the issue: only few of us have the time and patience to interact with Debian on a voluntary basis."

If you don't have the time and patience to contribute to a project like Debian, how are you planning to muster up the time and patience to run a full-on FORK of Debian?
> needs to reinforce the idea that there are no fixed cost estimates prior to the completion of the discovery process and sign off by the client on the wireframes and/or software specification document

I've also found that this is the best way to approach estimation. Granted, I'm not a freelancer, but at my current job we were quite dreadful at estimating so we had to figure out a solution.

Basically one of our developers sits down with either a client or QA/BA type person and for 1-2 weeks constructs a lengthy document (that can be later turned into user stories etc.). Based on these, developers can make estimates etc.

Then and only then we present the client with a timeframe. It worked out well for us so far, especially since it also acts as a filter and keeps clients who only have vague ideas out.
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There's Fedora Copr [1].

[1] https://copr.fedoraproject.org/
I'm spectacularly bad at keeping up with previous co-workers. I'll certainly admit to that---it's one of my "listen to my advice, what I'd do, and then do something completely different" points.

But then, I spent 8 years at one job and in grad school. Anyone I knew before that would be really hard to find even if they could be a useful network.

And I was really bad at connecting with my committee--I graduated, but without a good network there.

Then I moved across the country.

I've never had any problem finding work, if I shop my resume around to local contractors and "body shops". In fact, I've made a pretty good career out of that. But "exciting" work? Not so much.

At this point, I'm considering getting out of the field. And I love what I do. I just hate what I'm doing, if you can see the difference.
It's trivial to remove the DRM from Google Play EPUBs, and load them onto a Kobo or other eReader.

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To quote cstross himself, "No, it's not a fucking lifestyle — it's a job."

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/cmap-8-l...
I'm not sure it's exactly a fair comparison though; the right-hand file is shorter and simpler largely because they've split the work of the old init script across at least three files: the one shown, /etc/mail/make (which presumably now contains the messy preparatory work that made up most of the old init file), and sm-client.service. You could do that with traditional init if you wanted.
No, that was propaganda.
That makes sense. I wish he'd stop writing obviously linkbait titles like "Haskell is Exceptionally Unsafe" when what he means is that there are some really obscure safety implications for typeable exceptions. I completely agree with bjterry that it has probably caused more people to not look at Haskell to begin with, than people to look at ML.
I read this book a little when it was in its infancy. The author does a good job of explaining the closures
My understanding is that CAs have been compromised for a while now. Does no one remember the RSA scandal and the NSA's manufactured hash collisions through deliberate injection of vulnerabilities into random number generators? I may be off a bit but I recall the revelations basically concluding the whole system was compromised at the fundamental level.
Minor correction: on Chrome you can still get to the page if the browser doesn't trust the CA, the option is just hidden.
Why can I store images, files.. online but not my variables?
Slackware or Gentoo is an option.
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Can you give a few examples, please? I've been using Fedora as my primary home and work OS, since v14 and was gradually upgrading it and so far I never needed to compile anything.
This is unfair. You can actually do a shared shell library that other services use and also have just a few lines service definitions.
Once again, that's 180k in a market where that's close to the average developer salary and the cost of living is quite high?
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As a regular Goodreads user, I've found that it definitely hasn't been a good start thus far.
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