i'm really curious about what could possibly be the use case for this. it seems like a giant pain-in-the-ass way to do symbolic algebra, so i'm trying to figure it out. apparently you need to regularly perform symbolic derivations which mma can do, but the free alternatives (octave, sage, etc.) cannot; however, your uptime and latency requirements are low enough that you are willing to deal with a duct-tape ssh solution. i really have no idea why anyone would want to do this. care to enlighten me?
It's cute that Dice Holdings is so desperate to squeeze some value out of this lemon of an investment, that they'd ask us to shore up their market research. It's funny in so many ways.
Yes, they do "get to keep what they bought". Some of these things are significantly less useful without the service they subscribed to, but it is hard to say what the actual damage of that is, especially since I'm sure it was in the fine print of the EULA that the service could be shut down at any time with no implied liability. iTunes will start supporting the devices eventually, at least for long and just well enough to stave off a class action suit.
it's true. usually Apple buys them to poach a user base, gain credibility, and/or acquire engineers and patents, rather than to just rebadge the product.
Well, PCs have been well overpowered for most "work" for well over a decade, since most of the "work" done on an average computer is office apps. The past two decades of home computer progress have been mostly for aesthetics (you have to do a lot of computation to get computers to feel responsive and look pretty) and video gaming. Now that the improvements on those fronts are yielding rapidly diminishing returns, and battery technology is picking up, it only makes sense to go for portability.
Numerical computation and programming are pretty rare work. If computers were bought and sold just for that, the market would be far smaller.
But they told me in my Coding for Everyone class that we shouldn't use goto, so could you please refactor and post this algorithm in Python for my studies? I think it can be very useful, do you have a github?
The curriculum in a math class like this one is rarely determined by the book. Introductory Diff Equ and Linear Algebra haven't changed in, like, 40 years. The topics are always the fucking same, every book covers all of them. Frankly, more variation in topics covered comes from the professor, than from the textbook used.
Your point about seniority is, sadly, correct, but let's not pretend there's a good reason for it. It's just graft and ego-stroking.
btw, Associate Professor is not a low title. In North America, the ranking is usually: Adjunct, Assistant, Associate, Full. Even as a lowly adjunct, I had say in choosing my own textbook; this probably had something to do with the department chair not having written the incumbent textbook. Frankly, to not allow an Associate Professor to select their own textbook is quite insulting to everyone. If they are so incompetent as to not be able to choose their own classroom material, then how the hell did they become an Associate Professor?
I can't even respect this as an evil scam. The book is published through Pearson-Prentice Hall, which means Goode and Annin are pulling in peanuts in royalties while basically doing all of the dirty work.
If they weren't lazy bastards, they could have just self-published, charged $50, saved their students money, and still gotten out ahead! But no, that would be almost like real work, and would detract from their precious pontificating time. Typical third-tier academics with their heads up their asses.
The slashdot summary includes only the victim's name as "evidence" of his race or religion.
Further, what do the details matter? Whenever stories like this appear, they tend to involve an outsider of some sort or another; the "white kids" are rarely jocks or cheerleaders. Whether it's a pocket protector-wearing über-nerd, a trench-coated psychopath misfit, or a rag-headed mudskin, it's all the same evidence of prejudice in its literal sense of "pre-judging".
Most of the comments are just inferring context to speculate on the motivations and outcomes of this event, which is the same thing we do when it's a "white kid".
It's great that you can try to refocus this article onto "anti-Christian hatred" though; it shows real effort and creativity on your part.
A "security" company has discovered that a cheap, easily available gun can be used to harm or even kill a user at a distance by projecting a small piece of dense metal into the body. The damage has been shown to last a minute or longer.
That's especially worrying if you are ever within the line-of-sight of another human being, as so many users are! Click through for our press release and support our pioneering work.
it's probably both. they'll turn a blind eye to your technically-a-violation mods (note, this is actually a concern to them of some level; basically every consumer-level service agreement is "service Y in exchange for $X per month and all the personal data we can mine". they just hide the latter part in the fine print.), as long as you don't put a drain on their services. this is how civilization tends to work.
Eh, just think of it as try-outs. You know, some company wants to see whether policy X will fly, but they don't really want to be associated with it, so they flog it out to some branch manager with a hard-on for power. He'll be zealously enthusiastic about it. If it works out, they pay him off with a moderate sum and bring him into the fold; if it doesn't work out, they'll deny any association ("Shocked! I'm shocked at this xenophobic nonsense! This is a country of liberty!").
When there are almost twenty competitors for the Mr. America crown, you'll be willing to do anything to stand out. The minders just sit back and watch how the public reacts to this pageantry; they check which lines are safe to cross in which demographics, and at the end they program the Romney-bot (or, equivalently, the Hillary-bot) to pander optimally to the lowest common denominator without rocking the boat too much.
when i landed in Charles de Gaulle airport, almost the entire staff was apparently on strike. there were a few people milling about doing odd jobs, but no one at debarkation. the French arrivals seemed jaded to it, and the rest of us just shuffled, somewhat confused, through a barren airport and wandered into France without so much as a glance.
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i'm really curious about what could possibly be the use case for this. it seems like a giant pain-in-the-ass way to do symbolic algebra, so i'm trying to figure it out. apparently you need to regularly perform symbolic derivations which mma can do, but the free alternatives (octave, sage, etc.) cannot; however, your uptime and latency requirements are low enough that you are willing to deal with a duct-tape ssh solution. i really have no idea why anyone would want to do this. care to enlighten me?
It's cute that Dice Holdings is so desperate to squeeze some value out of this lemon of an investment, that they'd ask us to shore up their market research. It's funny in so many ways.
Yes, they do "get to keep what they bought". Some of these things are significantly less useful without the service they subscribed to, but it is hard to say what the actual damage of that is, especially since I'm sure it was in the fine print of the EULA that the service could be shut down at any time with no implied liability. iTunes will start supporting the devices eventually, at least for long and just well enough to stave off a class action suit.
it's true. usually Apple buys them to poach a user base, gain credibility, and/or acquire engineers and patents, rather than to just rebadge the product.
fingerworks sold keyboards, not subscriptions. your keyboard still worked.
Well, PCs have been well overpowered for most "work" for well over a decade, since most of the "work" done on an average computer is office apps. The past two decades of home computer progress have been mostly for aesthetics (you have to do a lot of computation to get computers to feel responsive and look pretty) and video gaming. Now that the improvements on those fronts are yielding rapidly diminishing returns, and battery technology is picking up, it only makes sense to go for portability.
Numerical computation and programming are pretty rare work. If computers were bought and sold just for that, the market would be far smaller.
Who gives a shit about how the company ended up? It sold for $12.5 billion. That's what matters.
But they told me in my Coding for Everyone class that we shouldn't use goto, so could you please refactor and post this algorithm in Python for my studies? I think it can be very useful, do you have a github?
beautiful concept for a troll, but the execution is still a bit copypasta. 7/10.
Kill the motherfucker and chop his legs off!
The curriculum in a math class like this one is rarely determined by the book. Introductory Diff Equ and Linear Algebra haven't changed in, like, 40 years. The topics are always the fucking same, every book covers all of them. Frankly, more variation in topics covered comes from the professor, than from the textbook used.
Your point about seniority is, sadly, correct, but let's not pretend there's a good reason for it. It's just graft and ego-stroking.
btw, Associate Professor is not a low title. In North America, the ranking is usually: Adjunct, Assistant, Associate, Full. Even as a lowly adjunct, I had say in choosing my own textbook; this probably had something to do with the department chair not having written the incumbent textbook. Frankly, to not allow an Associate Professor to select their own textbook is quite insulting to everyone. If they are so incompetent as to not be able to choose their own classroom material, then how the hell did they become an Associate Professor?
I can't even respect this as an evil scam. The book is published through Pearson-Prentice Hall, which means Goode and Annin are pulling in peanuts in royalties while basically doing all of the dirty work.
If they weren't lazy bastards, they could have just self-published, charged $50, saved their students money, and still gotten out ahead! But no, that would be almost like real work, and would detract from their precious pontificating time. Typical third-tier academics with their heads up their asses.
"Oh, I'm so sorry! I was just copying some code off the net..."
"You're fired."
The slashdot summary includes only the victim's name as "evidence" of his race or religion.
Further, what do the details matter? Whenever stories like this appear, they tend to involve an outsider of some sort or another; the "white kids" are rarely jocks or cheerleaders. Whether it's a pocket protector-wearing über-nerd, a trench-coated psychopath misfit, or a rag-headed mudskin, it's all the same evidence of prejudice in its literal sense of "pre-judging".
Most of the comments are just inferring context to speculate on the motivations and outcomes of this event, which is the same thing we do when it's a "white kid".
It's great that you can try to refocus this article onto "anti-Christian hatred" though; it shows real effort and creativity on your part.
no, the data scientists analyze the data once it's been collected. the heavy tracking is implemented by another department.
A "security" company has discovered that a cheap, easily available gun can be used to harm or even kill a user at a distance by projecting a small piece of dense metal into the body. The damage has been shown to last a minute or longer.
That's especially worrying if you are ever within the line-of-sight of another human being, as so many users are! Click through for our press release and support our pioneering work.
P2P is founded on sharing
There's a different word for "sharing" someone else's stuff with yourself.
it's probably both. they'll turn a blind eye to your technically-a-violation mods (note, this is actually a concern to them of some level; basically every consumer-level service agreement is "service Y in exchange for $X per month and all the personal data we can mine". they just hide the latter part in the fine print.), as long as you don't put a drain on their services. this is how civilization tends to work.
Eh, just think of it as try-outs. You know, some company wants to see whether policy X will fly, but they don't really want to be associated with it, so they flog it out to some branch manager with a hard-on for power. He'll be zealously enthusiastic about it. If it works out, they pay him off with a moderate sum and bring him into the fold; if it doesn't work out, they'll deny any association ("Shocked! I'm shocked at this xenophobic nonsense! This is a country of liberty!").
When there are almost twenty competitors for the Mr. America crown, you'll be willing to do anything to stand out. The minders just sit back and watch how the public reacts to this pageantry; they check which lines are safe to cross in which demographics, and at the end they program the Romney-bot (or, equivalently, the Hillary-bot) to pander optimally to the lowest common denominator without rocking the boat too much.
My God, man, that's just unthinkable!
I mean, because it would be so expensive. Apart from that, I don't think anyone would have much of a problem.
god fucking dammit, i meant "00010 << 1" evaluates to "00100".
heh, maybe not even that.
when i landed in Charles de Gaulle airport, almost the entire staff was apparently on strike. there were a few people milling about doing odd jobs, but no one at debarkation. the French arrivals seemed jaded to it, and the rest of us just shuffled, somewhat confused, through a barren airport and wandered into France without so much as a glance.
it's a bitshift operator; so "00010 1" evaluates to "00100".
how about "finger_pointing_up << 1"?
"Other additions include carrot, cucumber, and avocado"
can't we be honest and just put a long skinny dick, a thick dick, and a stubby thick dick, so that people don't have to use vegetable analogues?
otoh, this way we can text shopping lists and sexual encounters/anxieties with the same symbols, so i guess it makes some sense.