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It's crazy to prefer free technical books just because they're free.

If you're reading a math textbook, or a CS textbook, or any but the most fluffy programming book, then you're giving it so much of your time and attention that any cost up to $100 is meaningless next to how much one book is better or worse than another.

I see people living in the First World and saying things like "I wanted to learn calculus from this very well-recommended book, but it costs $50, so I got this reprint of an older textbook for $15". You're basing your choice of the guide to challenging material that you predict will be tough to understand on the cost of a dinner and a movie. Textbooks are not commodities! Some of them are really good and others are really bad and it depends on the student, too. It isn't always that the more expensive one is better, to be sure. Often it's just the opposite. I'm saying you should just forget about price altogether and choose based on sampling/reviews/recommendations.

Things may be difficult for someone truly in dire poverty, or someone living in a poor country where $50 is more like the month's earnings. Those people should just go to gen.lib.rus.ec and download everything.
We could have used one of those on the Moon.
Ironic as my first job was on campus at CIT Cranfield University which only did MSC and PHD courses and would consider those 3 as feeder schools

They used to say Cranfield considered Harvard, MIT , Ox-bridge as as paces where it was permissible to do ones "First Degree" as long as you did the right course and the right supervisors and got a First.
I'm not familiar with constructive Cauchy sequences. The usual way of using Cauchy sequences is to quotient them by the ideal of Cauchy sequences that converge to 0.
You can't buy food with a piece of paper saying how much you didn't have to pay in taxes.
Instead of that bird's nest, how about a blue marble on a field of black?
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This is sad day for content creators. If the site is full of ads you are not comfortable to view do NOT VISIT such sites again. It's stealing, it's manipulating the statistics.

We can't get good content because corporations taught people to not pay for content and now we will not get good content because people will slice the income of those who use ads.
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Thanks for the context - I'm not sure if we've met, but I definitely know and respect your work. Of course there are compromises with this approach, but unfortunately I need a set of capabilities that are not currently available from a single source. Ultimately this just another entrant in a field of options, some of which have evolved in a similarly ad hoc fashion (though one I'm looking at has been under development for 25 years). I hope it can at least hold its own.
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Ok using a Calculus book as an example was not helpful. They are indeed a commodity. There are dozens of new ones printed every year; they contain the same centuries-old truths in different words. E.g. if you found a really good one, would you throw it away and buy a 'new' one every year? Of course not.
I too depised these things when I took accountancy in school but by the second year I had accepted their value and now cannot see how else it could have been better. Debit/Credit is the foundation of double entry. Most people think accountancy = bookkeeping. They dont get Double entry system. It's understandable, it took me a considerable time to grasp it.
This is the cheapest I've found, ~$15- never used it though.
https://contabo.com/?show=configurator&vserver_id=145
Spacecraft built from graphene could run on sunlight
I don't use DO but what features is it missing?

IMO aws/etc aren't "VPS providers".

If you just want a virtualised machine, they're worse in many ways because you have to work around the "features" of the platform.

If you want an actual VPS provider (or even dedicated hardware or a mix of both), I recommend RimuHosting.

If you want to buy into the platform lock in of AWS/etc I recommend you re-think your options and goals.
Should we expect every discussion about PL to be an occasion to rant against languages designed at Google?

> I think it's fair to say that C# is a better language than Go.

According to what criteria?

> The biggest flaw in Go (lack of generics) is met with the weak excuse that they haven't figured out how to do it right.

I agree that generics would be useful in Go. But this is hardly a major issue for day-to-day programming in most projects.

Here is a better explanation of why Go has no generics, by Ian Lance Taylor, a member of the core team:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/smT_0BhHfBs/MWwG...

> I don't know much about Dart, but Typescript is a stellar language.

I don't know Dart either, but I'm wondering how you can compare Typescript and Dart if you happen to know only the former.

> Google, on the other hand, favors pragmatism over theory and prefers to draw on software engineering experience. Google's languages aren't bad, they just don't seem to have much going for them as languages. Their failings are partly made up for in other things, like the toolchain, libraries, etc.

I mostly agree with this.

> it's clear that PL theory does lead to better languages

Languages are not everything. PL theory can also lead to better tools, that work on existing "traditional" languages (the obvious example being static analysis tools).
What a shit headline. This isn't about stealing talent, it's about stealing property. The whole issue is here:

"hiring Jawbone employees who improperly downloaded sensitive materials shortly before leaving."

"During her exit interviews, Ms. Rosario initially denied taking confidential information, but she later acknowledged downloading its “Market Trends & Opportunities” presentation, the complaint said."

Go after the individual employees for stealing from you, not fitbit for hiring them.
This doesn't seem to be useful on many websites.
Is Google stealing from them when they crawl their pages but don't load in the ads? What about when I wget their page? Am I stealing from them now? Maybe when I disable javascript in my browser? Am I now a thief?

No, I am not. It's not stealing whatsoever, ever. Even if they detect you're not loading in all the content they want you to load. If they manage to detect this, then they can choose to block your access to the content. Or perhaps rework their revenue model if it turns out it isn't working.
Well that's up to the interviewer. I would say it doesn't count as negative, but that's me. I am assuming the conversation around it is what is important.

I recently got asked to do fizzbuzz in an interview. Then "fizzbuzz without the modulo operator". It's such an obvious way to approach the problem, that coming up with an alternative was surprisingly tricky. Caused a bit of a mental block for me.
What? Really? How about "If you want to support ad-driven sites then just don't use AdBlock Plus"
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Wish you had an RSS feed instead of signing up for an email newsletter.
I believe you know what you're talking about, and so are right about what's best (or really, even possible) in rust, but I can still be sad that there's not some magic way to have my cake and eat it too.
The Prisoners Dilemma by Poundstone gives a few stunning insights into the life of Von Neumann. Like how as a child, his father gave him a library of books which he read, understood and could recite verbatim.

Oh and how whilst at the RAND organisation he advocated a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the USSR. Stick that in your Nash equilibrium!
> not as individualistic as the West is

Why is America representative of the west? It's a sample point. I have many European colleagues who have similar values as Indians. Collective mentality is prevalent in many western societies too. Reason Americans are individualistic is because of foundations of American democracy which glorifies individualism. It's not necessarily bad.

>It is also corrupted and racist. The thing is, even the victim doesn't realise s/he is a victim of racism or sexism and so on.

This is rather a naive statement. Victims definitely would realize if something is sexist/racist. They might not be in a position to fix it. India has pretty significant legislation (Prevention of Atrocities Act) protecting minorities. Problem is enforcement.

>Like the author said... You're reading viewpoint of exactly one woman in tech in India.

I could argue the same about the opposite viewpoint derived on a society by reading isolated rape cases or corruption cases in India. I don't want to trivialize the problem of rape or corruption but I think it is unreasonable to think that every woman will be raped if she walks alone in India which is what the western media mostly portrays. My undergraduate class in India where I studied engineering had 40% women students. Most laboratory work was in mixed groups. My advisor was a woman. There were 40% woman lecturers. So I am definitely used to seeing women in Engineering. My mother is one too. If you will, this is an observation of society I grew up in.
I had a hard time reading computer and technology books. They are getting much better, but a few years ago, when reading some books in this field; I felt like I was reading a 500 plus page phone book. That said, I haven't looked at the list, but most books have gotten much better at conveying the information.

When I wanted to understand front and backend website developement, I downloaded the free courses in computer science colleges(MIT, and Harvard) through ITunes. I would listen to the lectures while exercising. They helped me a lot. I slowly got used to the lingo, and it all started to kinda make sense.

I still gave a long way to go, but at least when I pick up a book now; it's not like I'm reading Latin.

The posters at this site have pointed me in the right direction more times than I can count. If I wanted to get the "skinny" on the latest technology; many times I go straight to the comments.

(If I wrote a computer/technical book; I would try to include an audio version--if funds permitted? Reading is not easy for myself either! You are not alone. Oh yea, I'm surprised more technical subjects are not written in well thought out comic book form? I'm not looking for elaborate artwork, but a few visuals go a long way. Teach Youself Visually publications are a favorite go to of mine-- when I do buy a book in this field.)
Amit also writes on http://aigamedev.com

You sorta need to use other tools with A* in order to fully utilise it. Steering forces, behaviour trees an etc :)
Is there anything you feel like you should have learned or studied prior to bootcamp? (Either to make things easier or to have gotten more out of the program). A friend of mine is looking to join a bootcamp and comes from an economics background, so he's looking to get a good baseline before attending one.
You could use those exact same points to argue the opposite conclusion - every book is different, as is every student. Why not try the free ones first to see if you are able to learn from them, before shelling out 100 bucks? If the free one fails you, then go ahead and buy another.
Professional programming is a team sport.
Do you switch channels on your TV when the commercials start and switch back when the show resumes? Blocking online ads is basically the same. i.e. perfectly legitimate.

Only you hurt the creator more online, since the advertisers can now measure the views+clicks. Which is also perfectly fair - They should not have to pay for ads nobody sees. This would also be fair on TV - But there it's impossible to measure.
It's not stealing because nothing is stolen. Or what is your definition of stealing?
Maybe this is intended to be "disruptive." A lot of what is called disruptive, seems to do with replacing a labor intensive middleman with automation, at a lower but still profitable price.
Why can’t Apple and Google take all the profit from Uber, Lyft, et al?
Might like http://blog.codinghorror.com/listen-to-your-community-but-do...
Funny, I looked at this and wished there was something similar for the music world.
Thats a pretty drastic position to take. There are any number of reasons why a company might require Windows that are perfectly reasonable. Everything from "Our clients demand it" to "we are governed by obscure legislation foo that requires software of type bar, and the best we found was goo on Windows."

I'd mark it down as an oddity and ask why they have such a requirement. Their response may turn it into a red flag, but the simple requirement doesn't.
Loss of support for guaranteed income reflects radical shift in values (2013)
Hard to become an estate agent what professional skills do you need to show some one round a house.
What does the general curriculum cover in a bootcamp? I'm just curious to compare it to the traditional 4 year degree etc.
Given that the author hasn't given them permission to distribute GIMP, much less a modified installer of GIMP, can he send a DMCA to them?
Its often helpful to start from where we are, and change things a little. That is more comfortable notion, if nothing else.

But when the system is patently not helping those it needs to help, perhaps a new system is desirable. Most government programs were new systems once. Replacing them should not be any more disruptive than inventing them in the first place.

Basic Income is superior to all the others, in my opinion, because it is trivial to see that it will help the most desperate, and it can be administrated trivially (send everybody a check). There's something wonderfully egalitarian about that. The patronizing approach hasn't worked so well; lets try trusting people with their own lives this time.
I dropped accounting in my 10th grade largely because I made the mistake of trying to get into the "meaning" of debit and credit. Mnay wasted hours there.

Finally in grad school I got it - left and right - and accounting has never been a problem again.
A a Latino programmer, I must say it's never been easier to get a job. From this angle, there's something even beyond a meritocracy.

However, if one wants to raise money(some VCs) or get a finance job, most are biased towards a certain stereotype(skills not as blatant) and that's where the real prejudice exists.
I've worked in VM environments and they are fine for some degraded definition of fine. You can certainly get most everything done with them if thats what you want.

I'd argue a little bit that in this day and age, that unless you have some very specific Linux requirements its a valuable career skill to be able to develop on multiple platforms.
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nice :)
First of all I do not watch TV. I assume that's why netflix is so popular. Please pardon me i am not sure if it has an ads in it or not but i assumed since it's a content on demand it does not.

Also simply blocking something because you can but you should not is cheating.
The Scientific Proven Seven Minute Workout for Android - Workout for the "I do not have enough time" people :)
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I like this one, made my Thursday hahaha
Definitely. Content blocked by Adblock is always top notch stuff nobody in his right mind would be able to live without. I know for sure; I create a lot of those amazing wonders during my workday.
Yeah the main point was that the justification doesn't change what was done.
While I would agree with this line of thought, ad networks have been used for the spread of malware and various scams. Ad networks have also tracked the browsing habits of users, with little regard for our privacy.

It's easy to say that if the site is full of ads, I should not visit it again, however I also do not want to load pieces of Javascript doing the above by mistakenly visiting a website that I do not want to visit. This isn't just an issue of annoyance, but one of online safety as well. I now recommend to every friend I have to use ad blockers.

Therefore I cannot sympathize much with networks complaining or with creators complaining about ad blockers. They've brought this on themselves and unless they change their ways, ad blockers will get more and more popular.
If they are incapable of controlling their own actions to point that they are being violent to society (as you say they are), then they need to be separated from society.
That has nothing to do with what i have said.
To answer my own question, this seems to be targeting Java based applications specifically, with a deploy target of a local VirtualBox or remote AWS deploy. In some ways, it seems similar to the early .Net SaaS offerings for Azure.

I'm not sure in a world where OpenStack and Docker workflows are taking over that this service will catch on... Most environments that use Java and .Net tend to want to deploy to their own internal infrastructure.
If you like the idea of giving such an income (or cash transfer) to people but the idea of an unconditional basic income seems too far away, you can contribute to newincentives.org which is providing cash transfers to poor pregnant HIV mothers. Achieves two goals: reduces HIV and puts money in very needy hands.
Yes, sure smells like a case of embrace & extend.
If they believe that whatever monetization method they're planning is going to stop their userbase growth, they might just as well give up. There's a lot of competition and the users can switch in an instant to something else. LINE had monetization in mind from the beginning and is still growing. Meanwhile Whatsapp is continuing to be a money sink for FB.
I stopped using facebook in 2013 when I quit my part time job as a fitness instructor. The studio I worked for used it extensively to communicate with clients and post daily workouts and nutrition tips so after a month of holding out (had already deleted my account once in 2010) I signed back up (which was a hassle enough as it was, they already knew I had used that email and asked if I wanted to reactivate my old account even though I had explicitly deleted it).

It was useful but I pretty much only used it in my role as a fitness coach and when I quit that job I deleted all posts, photos and details, changed my primary email to nonsense and changed my password to something I would never remember before going through the two-week "cool-off" period they force on you to delete your account.
The vast majority of low income people in the US do live in apartment complexes. There are apartments in almost every town in the US, except for the most wealthy or the most rural places.

Trailer parks are just a picturesque (for lack of a better term) stereotype. Apartment complexes are so ordinary that discussing them isn't interesting.
What is disturbing, and what state are you referring to?

Jaynes' theory is more aptly described as fringe science, something far from the mainstream but without any of the obvious shortcomings of "crackpottery".

Personally I am a bit surprised by how most people are so dismissive of his theory. We really understand very little about consciousness and the human mind, and there's no archeological evidence that falsifies his theory, rather, it seems to provide support.

> saying everyone back then was 100% schizoid [...], and could be fixed with a few pills (in theory, anyways).

Not in theory and not in practice either. Psychiatry attempts to make symptoms go away, and we understand very little about how it does so. We know about neurotransmitters and genes that are implicated, but we don't have much more than such correlations. I think it's possible that everyone back then was 100% hearing voices and that it was adaptive at the time.
100% scummy. Question is, what do we do about it?

I wonder... Is bundling adware installers with GPL software a violation of the GPL? (If not, should it be? v2?/v3?) Where's the installer's source? It wraps it in one linked executable file and presents itself as an installer for it, so I am not clear that any "mere aggregation" defence would hold?

There's also a reasonable argument that this brings the official project into disrepute: The GIMP may not be trademarked, but would it have to be?

Firefox, of course, is trademarked. I dearly hope they've never wrapped Firefox installers with adware, because Mozilla would not like that.
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Why doesn't the signal set all lights to red, leaving the junction clear for the ambulance to go through?

The best reason I can think of is if the idea is to improve traffic flow in general in favour of the ambulance (e.g. allow cars in front of the ambulance to move on through the lights), but that quicklt becomes a much more complex problem.
FYI - your domain is currently rated with Bluecoat as suspicious so will get caught on most corp proxies.

http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp#/?search=submi...
Given the way Linux uses physical memory and swap space, pumping up the amount of RAM available to the VM might provide more fine grained control [1]. Since the implication is the developer will be primarily in the VM, constraining the physical memory available to Windows somewhat is less likely to impact performance particularly if Windows configuration is tailored to the usage scenario.

[1] And RAM is cheap.
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We've taken a good look at the product, lovely interface and ux! Easy to use on a desktop.

I have a question about mobile. What is your plan for devices regarding the Editor itself? Do you plan to go native?
> the professors put forth as potential solutions [...] education, infrastructure, entrepreneurship, immigration, and basic research.

Couldn't the other solution be less greed on the part of business owners? It seems like the bigger issue is that they just aren't paying their people enough.
The only thing Facebook was ever good for was finding those old friends. Now that you found them, now what? Do you need Facebook? The easy way out is to message all of them saying you are quitting Facebook and ask them for their email address. That's all you ever needed, but there was no index/search engine for it until Facebook. And once you have that part of the index you care about, you'll never need it again.
Normal people would do that. Hell there are even sites that have whitelists of sites that you should support.
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Libre Office is a well known and big project with a large non-technical user base who can make use of some great documentation. As an editor the project might be relevant to yourself too. https://www.libreoffice.org/community/docs-team/
Its not just that they bungled it. Its a question of who owns my computer. I do, so I get to say what is displayed and what code is run. So clipping out the ads is entirely my own business, done in my own home on my own devices.

No, I can't possibly agree with the line of thought of the parent comment. Its self-serving nonsense.
pyspool is the reference implementation of the SPOOL (Secure Public Online Ownership Ledger) protocol and part of the development stack of https://www.ascribe.io/
I like this approach. Question about the "workflow automation service" you're making. Are you separating each step of the workflow into distinct API's and separate rails apps? If that's the case, how do you manage users across them all? I'm thinking of how this could scale.
It's probably not going to be a free for all but a 2-3 sided conflict with alliances of several countries on either.

US+EU+allies can probably manufacture all the war machines they need, as does China+allies.