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Just too many of us. Yet several generations of a 'one-child-per-couple' policy would quietly reduce our numbers enough for us to cope with our over-population and unsustainable use of resources.

But that sort of thinking is taboo. 'Interstellar', here we come. But unfortunately, there won't be that convenient wormhole waiting for us.
I might be in the minority here, but I think saying "any theory of physics should explain consciousness" is exactly like saying "any theory of physics should explain love" (or replace love with patriotism, friendship, capitalism, any other human concept). I don't see why consciousness is special: in my opinion it is an abstraction several levels removed from fundamental physics. In other words, to a neutrino flying through you, you are only barely distinguishable from empty space, and your consciousness (and love of music, appreciation of art, etc) means nothing.
Go with what you know - get out there and test/validate the concept instead of learning another technology.

FYI go check out BizSpark which is a pretty amazing program - 60k/yr of hosting credits and whilst you continue to host on Azure there are no licensing costs. Architect your software stack properly using repositories/interfaces and develop against these if you are worried about lock-in to Azure - done correctly it will allow you to adopt a hybrid approach of mix and match of offerings between vendors.

Some basic considerations:

a) Ability to find quality .NET talent in your local area? (It's not hard to stand out and attract quality developers in .NET simply by adopting a strong open-source usage/contribution policy. Using languages such as F# behind the scenes will make you stick out even more.)

b) .NET makes hiring simpler - you'll obtain the opportunity to use and reuse the same language/code on the server-side as on the client side. Using Xamarin means you don't need to hire a Android mobile guy to do the app, then hire a iOS guy to redo the same project in another language. You get product/feature release parity for essentially free.

c) Are you in this for the long haul or are you aiming for exit? If exit consider the technology stack of potential acquirers.
WTF does gun control have to do with this topic?
Links are built for economic reasons. There are plenty of good biz reasons to direct traffic from China to Europe and the USA, not much to direct traffic through Siberia and Russia's Far East. Want to send a packet from Harbin to Vladivostok (which is quite nearby), you are probably going to go through SF or at least Japan.

People forget China and Russia were outright hostile in the 70s (one of the reasons China opened up to the US), and Russia is still probably considered a bigger adversary than far away USA.
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I feel like this developer is trying to present a false dichotomy between his "Sherlock" method of debugging and the scientific debugging method. To be more specific, it seems as though the example he gave exactly fit the definition of the scientific debug method.

1. The author identified a problem he wanted to fix

2. He tried to guess the cause of the problem

3. He tested that guess

4. He analyzed the results of multiple trials.

5. When he was done with analysis, he worked out a fix and then tested again.

The only thing of note to the "Sherlock" method is that the author explicitly decided to spend a great deal of time in the guessing phase. What is my point here? Unless you already have experienced a bug and/or know exactly what is causing it right off the bat, the scientific method is still the most effective tool in your debugging arsenal.
I read the Meditations. It was good and I enjoyed it. It has many wise things to say and it expresses itself in a 'modern' voice. The mindset doesn't seem antiquated at all.

That said, it wasn't written for this kind of consumption and the book was repetitive. It took me longer to read than I 'd hoped.

Marcus Aurelius spent several decades before becoming emperor as a general out on Rome's borders which for the most part must have been a miserable existence and the reason, even need, for his Stoicism seems clear.

I consider it an irony of his 'wisdom' that he was the last in a line of 'good' Roman emperors who'd all been appointed by their predecessors on the basis of ability, as opposed to passed from father to son.

It was probably going to be hard to continue the tradition anyway but Aurelius passed the emperor's crown to his son and the tradition was broken. His son Commodus' reign was noticeably less successful than any of the previous five appointed emperors and Commodus was assassinated after 12 years in power.
Is: "Cells surrounded by three or more cells belonging to the same opponent are consumed", not the reason for the non-constant # of cells?

I imagine that is the author's language for the fact cells get captured and turned. In fact, I don't see how it would possible for the # to stay constant; how would anyone color ever "win"(take over the board) if such a requirement was maintained?

I also may not be correctly following your questions logic...
did you ever do paper records or have you always done electronic records?
Electronic Medical Record systems, and their non-healthcare counterparts in Enterprise Resource Planning systems, never delivered the cost savings and efficiency they promised because, at the end of the day, they're designed to streamline the billing/finance department, not the rest of the organization. The user interfaces are universally awful because they're designed to 'get finance/billing the information they need' rather than 'streamline the process for practitioners,' and at the end of the day the people buying the system aren't the ones who have to use it.

Someone once joked to me that an EMR installation was where you replaced all the people in your billing department with the same number of people, at a higher salary, in your IT department.
Not nearly enough programming articles use Zelda games as analogies for the concepts they discuss.

This one does.
Oh, yeah. Sorry, typed that on phone. Just meant "a cycle".
A problem with this is it adds useless commit history. If I make a significant change to some code, but then later on you remove some bad formatting/white spaces the latest commit messages for that code block is most likely "removed whitespace" and not something more meaningful.

That, and tasks that are left to be dealt with later are tasks that never get done.
I have done all paper, all EMR, and a combination of the two. The combination is the worst. So far paper alone is the winner for most situations, although even crappy EMRs have advantages over paper. Most of the problems, as I see them, come from the general baggage of enterprise software (not sold to the people who use it, likely focus of dev time is on accounting/billing stuff I never see) and an attempt to slavishly emulate paper in digital form.
But discussion threads aren't articles. I don't believe they can be summarized with fine-grained precision as if they were, because by definition the quality they provide is primarily to the participants, and terms like "interesting", or "meaningful" or "right" are entirely subjective.

You see this phenomenon whenever someone complains about why a particular story is popular. Any number of people have completely opposing ideas of what Hacker News should be. Everything one person finds interesting is completely noise to someone else.

You could apply user-level filters to the threads, I suppose - choose longer words over shorter, or longer posts over shorter posts, remove posts with words or phrases you object to. Hacker News could mitigate this single-channel effect by allowing tags or sub-boards, but I believe their solution so far is for the mods to manually tweak things when some stories get too popular. The site already puts high-karma posts at the top, which is supposed to act as a qualifier through consensus.

But to me, it seems the more you try to engineer the experience of discovery though automation, the less likely it is you'll discover things which might be interesting, but unexpected.
What are you using as the backbone of your Xamarin app? Forms? MvvmCross? ReactiveUI?
Doctorow echoes, more clearly and vividly than most, Sid Meier's succinct formulation: "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

Because that's what this is ultimately about: whether we want our children to be digital sharecroppers or citizens whose right to read is respected and who can be positively enabled to stand on the shoulders of giants when it comes to access to knowledge.
The latter. :-)
A given Nock implementation is intimately coupled to a matched Hoon compiler.

Attempts to write anything just to T-shirt spec and run on a given Nock-based platform are almost certain to fail. The real spec you'd be required to write to is implied by the platform implementation. Marketing problem: That real spec is not very elegant and it doesn't zip down to a handful of bytes. It doesn't fit on a T-shirt. It's not a stable specification. It doesn't describe an open platform. Yet Urbit marketing copy wants me to believe all those things.
Blaze has a bit of a broader focus than what I was talking about, since blaze mostly offloads the actual computation to a particular backend. But a combination of blaze and a custom lowering of the computation into machine code using numba would be similar (although without the type safety for guaranteeing that certain optimizations are possible)
i Think the best analogy to this situation: Oracle (or its predecessor) published a cookbook and it tries to indemnify anyone profiting from it, like a restaurant or catering service that utilizes the same recipes compiled therein..

the cookbook in itself has copyright, but utilizing the instructions from it for your own food or business is not exactly the same as republishing the cookbook itself or redistributing it

imagine if someone could copyright the way we make grilled cheese sandwiches
The issue with most (if not all) EMR's is that they are driven by the business side of things, not for the medical providers.
"the infamous Altair 8800"

Seeing that this was the machine that fired up the "home computer" revolution and was a direct ancestor to the everyday PC, I can't understand the 'infamous' epithet. In my opinion, that line should read "the famous Altair 8800".
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Nature and evolution provided us with a whole hierarchy of needs, and some people are no longer surrounded by predators and do have a reasonable social security net. A life under warm blankets? The last paragraph addresses the comfort need. "You don't love yourself enough" is somewhere midway in the hierarchy.

Related pseudo-Einstein quote:
"“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”"
That example probably belongs near the top. It wasn't clear to me at all what the usecases were until I got to the end.
I've used something like this for showing supplementary information when a user hovers over an image. Think Dribbble.
Three-letter variable, one-letter variable, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lapidary.
There are xxxx number of cells.

The number displayed in each color block on the left is like a score, the number of cells it has.

Adding together those numbers != xxxx.
If person/people wasn't a two syllable word would we use that instead? Maybe "peeps" needs to be adopted.
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Try pausing the game before painting?
Loved the analogy. These things really help in conveying new concepts if they are well picked.
At first glance this made sense but after a second read it doesn't.

> 3) Creators who choose all or nothing are more committed to the project, the raise, and the process. Keep what you raise often attracts dabblers.

I feel this one needs more evidence to back up the claim. I'm sure there are plenty of serious teams who are just as committed on either approach. Just because someone put a number on something doesn't mean they can actually deliver if they hit that goal.

> 4) All or nothing raises more money. The amount of money that is raised every year in crowdfunding via the all or nothing model dwarfs the amount of money that is raised in the keep what you raise model, except in the charitable giving category.

That may be little more than a function of Kickstarter being larger than the others. Not really a helpful datapoint if you're trying to compare the the two approaches.

> A founder can’t go out to raise $5mm and then say to the investors “well we only got $2mm of capital committed, but we are going to close on that next week.” That just doesn’t fly

Isn't this exactly what happens in a 'party round' or a rolling close? We may never know what the the founders were trying to raise, since they'd close at 2MM and announce it as a success. I'm aware that I'm comparing Angel to VC here but my point is that some investors are ok with approach.

Oh, and the ending is unnecessarily insulting.
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The worst part of "billing" driven EMR's is that doctors get really good at recording procedures and diagnoses to fit what the insurance companies want to hear, not what the real medical condition is. This has the effect of distorting the patients reality polluting the medical data, rendering it mostly useless or of poor quality for any decent medical research work.

You got a throat ache, but that is not payed by the insurance? uhhmm immediate upgrade to a pharyngitis.
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Essentially, I'd say most peoples' brains are better at associative memory than they think they are.

When you see a digraph like -> or ?: in C, do you think "hyphen greater-than" or "question-colon"? Your brain long ago learned to treat these as individual symbols, not strings of two characters. And this despite not even having easy-to-say names for them. (In Hoon they are "hepgar" and "wutcol" respectively.)
Yep, folks is a good go-to term I reckon.

Or peeps :)
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Wow, there's a cottage industry for booking young models as fake national beauty contest winners to participate in fake international beauty contests. The quotes are surreal:

"My first stint as Miss America for hire had been that September, in the desert oasis of Dunhuang, for the city’s International Grape Festival. It was a surreal experience in which 40 models, including me, were paid to walk down a catwalk for about 2,000 locals. Later, we rode camels across the dunes of the Gobi Desert, crisscrossing the sand in single file. The photos of all 40 of us on camelback—some only in bras, to dodge tanlines—are wonderfully absurd."

"For the second pageant, in October, I was hired to cruise around Dalian in a fake gold Mercedes golf cart with five other girls for three days, in an effort to lure potential buyers into investing in a miniature replica of Versailles. A printed guide to the event offered fictitious backstories in Chinese about each contestant, and her purpose there."

"Of the nine 'fashion shows' I booked while in Beijing, only two were on a runway. The rest were fake pageants, car shows, and trade shows—but I was not informed of their nature until I was en route to the events. Models flagged as having low earning potential will do fake pageants frequently, as they’re easy to book. I once met a Russian teenager who was stuck traveling on a bus for 10 days across rural China as 'Miss Argentina.'"
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X dollars go in, x dollars go out. before, average revenue per market participant category was x/n. Now its x/(n+1).

At the end of the day, unless their participation increases x by more than their cut, they're just taking revenue from everyone in the game who actually provides value.

They don't make the market more efficient.
When the driver behind the EMR implementation is the billing department, the UX just reflects this needs. Doctors (good doctors at least)want tools that helps them do a better job, but no one wants to pay for it.. (Including doctors themselves)

If we built EMR's for epidemiological reasons, the reality would be totally different.
There is a great chapter in the book "Hacking Healthcare" that addresses the challenges met with writing software that bests paper. I have linked it below for any software engineers interested in this problem space!

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/hacking-healt...
I had a client that made an EMR that was built on the concept of disease management. The basic idea was that by giving the doctor the right data and questions to ask, the doctor would help the patient manage their chronic condition and help them not need to come to the office so often. Doctors loved it. Patients loved it. Management didn't buy it because it lowered per patient revenue.
We do too, and it is tied into the TDD cycle.

Guard will first execute the rspec tests, and only if those pass it will execute rubocop. This way you don't have rubocop immediatelly complaning if you make a style violation and can focus on making the code work first. Once you are done with that you will still nagged about style before you commit your code.
That's because it is the one from Golden Eye ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory#In_Popular_...
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So I'm starting out with freelancing now, and am kinda lost. I definitely don't want to use email to communicate with clients.

I tried looking for a lot of options, but couldn't find any that would fit my needs. What I need is this:

- Adding projects (duh)
- Adding client(s) to projects
- Invoicing and payment (optional, can use another solution)
- Milestones (I like to break my projects into smaller chunks)
- Milestone reviews. (Client should be able to leave reviews on milestones before we sign them off)
- Discussion with client (So we can share files, brainstorm etc)

It's just me so teams' features aren't required.

Any suggestions?
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I have first hand experience doing this, true, for some cases it is invaluable, but in most cases extracting valuable data from something that was designed primarily for billing purposes is just as hard.
Ah, I see now.
My apologies.
The file system is just a shitty db. Why does it matter whether it writes to a file system or to sqlite3?
If you s/is/could be/, I would agree. I would say s/is/should not be/. That is, it is possible to screw this up and create "intimacy" (high coupling), but obviously I recommend against it.

Put it this way: when it's properly done, the jets (specific optimizations) are coupled to your compiler and libraries about the way your display server is coupled to your graphics driver. As a programmer you can't, don't and shouldn't know what if any GPU is executing your GL. Or at least, if you do - mistakes have been made.

Added to this is the fact that it's possible to obtain at least decent performance just by using standard basic math, eg, decrement. Yes, you can roll your own decrement - but at this point you are just being perverse.
For a second I thought you said MySQL and was a bit puzzled.

I know indirectly that MSSQL is quite good database, but since you are putting Open Source and proprietary database next to each other it makes me wonder why you picked MSSQL and for example skipped its competitor such as Oracle.

This is an honest question, I know very little about MSSQL or Oracle so I'm curious why you picked this one. I know that at least 10 years ago MSSQL and Oracle were close competitors, did Oracle lose their race?
Ooops, you're right. I'm not Marry Poppins, after all. Sorry for the outburst.
I think the example in TFA is great: I'm not likely to pick up a cute devops guy at a conference (seing as how I'm a straight male). Like it or not, language matters and it is deeply tied to the culture in which it has evolved. If we want to change our culture (to be less misogynistic), we'll have to change the language we use, to facilitate the thoughts we would like to think. It will involve trying out new terms, seeing which ones fit our meaning without being too corny.

As an aside: what is a devops guy/girl/individual anyway? Isn't the core of devops (as opposed to system administration/system development) a holistic approach where everyone has a responsibility for implementing the system as a whole, including both development and day-to-day operations? Hence:DevOps?
More importantly global traffic is 24/7, but people sleep. The US has strong links to Europe and Asia AND there asleep though most of Asia's work day. So, even if the Asia - India - Europe or Asia - Russia - Europe links where just as strong they would also be in use during most of Asia's work day.

Don't forget Routers care more about congestion than how far they need to send a packet.
Unless Poitras committed 40 different crimes or various crimes spanning 6 years, I think there's still something to be said about the rule of law based on what's been reported...which I think we both agree may not be the full story.

It's one thing to question/investigate someone in conjunction with specific, credible evidence as part of a larger, legitimate investigation; but having your devices searched or being questioned repeatedly at border crossings dozens of times over six years--especially for someone at least occasionally based in NYC who could have trivially been visited by law enforcement while home--seems a lot more likely to be part of an intimidation strategy than a legitimate investigation.
I'm a resident physician. EMRs are simultaneously awesome and awful. Awesome because most of the data and past records on a patient are a click away, just as promised.

Awful because they're invariably run by underpowered servers and delivered via laggy-as-hell Citrix windowing to crappy end-clients with smallish monitors.

Awful because they are all proprietary silos, and good luck migrating your hospital system off one and onto another. The idea of a portable electronic health record is largely a fiction at this point.

Awful because so much of the documentation you have to write has nothing to do with patient care, and more to do with defensive medico-legal CYA, and everything to do with the hospital getting reimbursed at the level it wishes to for each patient seen.

Awful because the software is legacy enterprisey garbage with a codebase written in MUMPS (look it up!) or some other esoteric language in the 1980s and carried forward with ongoing encrustation and decay since then. Awful because the UI actively gets in the way of our patient care workflow, and not the other way around. Need to look at lab data while writing progress notes on a patient? Too bad, you can't open both at once! Need to look at lab data or inpatient notes while discharging a patient from the hospital? Too bad, there are two layers of modal dialog boxes related to the discharge blocking access to anything else while you're discharging.

I've used the two market-leading big-enterprise EMRs in the US, Epic and Cerner, and they're both like this.

I used to write software for a living. The crappiness of even the most expensive EMRs (the ones that will set a big hospital system back a couple hundred million for an initial install, like Epic) completely floors me.
> Of course, the stakes are higher, now. It's not hard to earn $0.30+ per minute per channel. In a day, you can earn $30k just compromising one little box and 10Mbps of bandwidth.

Is that from premium number dialing or something else?
I loved that game! I must've sunk countless hours playing against the AI's. For being so simple, it's remarkably fun.
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you can, but they become a special second-class type of reference separate from ownership.