Agreed. Once the technique has been worked out, the labor needed to produce and administer this treatment should amount to no more than would be needed to administer a standard course of chemotherapy to the same individuals. Less, probably, because I expect fewer sessions would be needed.
There's no guarantee the computer has a trackpad because of the Mac mini, iMac and Mac Pro.
There's a lot you can do without multitouch, though. Most things I do on my phone could just as easily be done on an emulator with a single traditional mouse pointer. Make the emulator treat the scroll wheel (or modifier key + scroll wheel) as a pinch/stretch zoom gesture and that'd cover almost everything.
Software is no more to blame then pencils and papers were to blame for the same practice decades ago. It's just a tool. Blame whoever's using it for this.
The problem is, the whole reason Facebook is popular (like Myspace before it) is that everybody else is there. Consumers will pick one or the other, and then go to where all their friends are.
Exactly this. If regulators really want to break up Facebook they should not force the company to split, but force them to have open APIs which allow interoperability among social networks. I bet you'd have a million different social network providers if you could remove the hurdle of getting a critical mass of people to switch to something new. Facebook might still be the dominant player for a while, but they'll lose ground quickly when they no longer have a locked-in user base.
.gov TLD is for United States government agencies.
France has the.fr TLD though to organize as they see fit.
This is why I want to see the abolishment of all TLDs except the country TLDs. No more.com,.org,.gov, etc. You want a virtual presence in a country? Follow that country's rules to get your name there. If there's a conflict between two parties over a domain name settle it in the courts of whichever country owns the ccTLD.
I was listening to an interview with one of the Biosphere 2 team the other day. It wasn't a failure, it was an experiment. One which didn't go exactly as planned. But that's not a bad thing. They learned a crap ton of stuff from it, probably more than they would have if it all went perfectly. The sphere is still out there and still being studied, though it's not a closed system anymore.
The moon is a logical next step. The person interviewed said they had some rough times in Biosphere 2, but at the end of the day they knew that if it got to be too much they could just open the door and walk out. The moon is the next step up from that. You can't just open the door, but if things go sideways rescue is only days away, not months. Mars is far enough away that there's pretty much no hope of rescue. If things go wrong, all we can do is watch them die. We can't even send words of encouragement without a substantial time delay.
Biosphere 2, like any Earth-based habitat, is a tricycle. It's hard to tip over, and if you do the worst that happens is you get a skinned knee. The moon is a bike with training wheels. You can tip it over and you might actually get hurt, but the injuries are unlikely to be fatal. Mars is a two-wheel bike in traffic. Failures are going to leave a pavement stain. It's a really good idea to have an intermediate stage between the tricycle and riding in traffic.
(And to extend the analogy to the point of absurdity, I'd argue that colonizing a moon of Jupiter or Saturn is careening down Mt. Everest on a mountain bike. An interstellar colony is a unicycle on a tightwire over Niagara Falls. Blindfolded. In a hail storm.)
Tabs. Why? Because if you don't like the indentation the way it is, you can easily adjust your tab spacing without altering the code. No matter what the person writing the code thought is the "correct" amount of whitespace between edge and indented code, your setting will provide whatever amount you consider correct.
This is true, but... You have to make sure you use *exactly* one tab per indent level, and only use tabs at the beginnings of lines. You must use spaces within the line if you want to align anything else (such as equals signs for a bunch of variable assignments). You must even use spaces to add extra indentation to continuation lines. Use tabs any other way and your clever "We can all set our tab width however we like!" utopia falls apart.
If you find yourself working with a non-zero number of other developers you'll find that these rules are too difficult for many people to grasp. Your code will become polluted with a mix of tabs and spaces that ends up working with only a single tab width setting anyway.
Headers? If Apple is smart they will have released multiple versions of the "don't leak stuff" memo with subtly different wording. Seeing which variant got leaked should narrow it down to a particular department or group.
I saw 2001 a couple times on TV. Never did anything for me. But a bunch of friends were going to a showing of a 70mm print in a theater and I tagged along.
WOW! It's a completely different experience in the dark, on the big screen, with a good sound system. On TV I was only paying partial attention. In the theater the movie demands your full attention. It has one of the most disquieting scenes in movies -- Frank is outside fixing the antenna. We only hear him breathing in his suit. The pod approaches... We hear breathing. The pod reaches him... We hear breathing. The pod snips his air hose. We hear... nothing. And see him spinning out into space flailing his arms about trying to reach the air line. Damn. The ending is still a psychedelic trip, but it's a full-sensory psychedelic trip. Just sit back and let it wash over you. If you want the rational explanations, read the book. It's a good book, Clarke is a great writer. The movie ending isn't about the rational, it's about the raw experience of meeting with aliens so advanced they're literally beyond human comprehension.
I like things like this last study quite a bit: there are people who obsess over the importance of double-blind clinical trials, but those are invariably an investigation of a single chemical substance on a relatively small population, often just looking at the incidence of some particular problem ("cancer of the left-pinkie")-- whole population studies tell you something about the way actual human beings live, and don't make implicit assumptions like dying of cancer is worse than heart failure (or getting hit by a car...).
But such studies are, unfortunately, more vulnerable to confounding factors. For example (and I'm just making this up, I haven't read the study) what if the reason coffee drinkers are healthier has nothing to do with the coffee? Maybe many people who drink coffee do so because it's convenient to pick up while they're walking to work, and it's the walking not the coffee that confers the benefits? Or maybe the benefit comes from having a cup of hot liquid, *any* hot liquid, in the morning, but because the study was done in the US the majority of the study's population were drinking coffee instead of tea, cocoa, or soup. These studies can pick out correlation but they're not so good at proving causation. It's a balancing act, and why it's so important to have corroboration from other studies.
What we need to do is design a portocol/service, then build low level tools to handle it and *then* the UIs. Diaspora is a hack by the web camp. It's the WordPress of solutions. A badly designed stopgap, that sort of kinda works but could be done better.
I've been thinking this exact same thing. What we as end-users want is to be able to communicate with our friends, family, clients, customers, audience, etc. The ideal way for us to do that is with some open protocol. Then I could be on the service I prefer and you could be on the service you prefer and we could still talk to each other, just like email or Usenet.
What I can't get past is the idea of getting other people to buy into it. They all want to communicate with friends, family, etc. too. Right now everyone's on Facebook, and despite its flaws FB is acceptable to most people. Initially everyone's going to still need a FB account to talk with the people who haven't switched yet, and if FB is still marginally acceptable then why even bother with the new thing? What we really have to do is get FB to buy into it and support the open protocol. But why would they? It runs against their business interest of keeping all these eyeballs captive.
So we need an open API that allows interoperability and resists vendor lock-in. It needs to be possible to write open-source clients but has to have enough opportunity for monetization to make it worthwhile for paid providers to get in on the game. There has to be a choice of clients, but not so much choice that users are left dazed by the number of options and trade-offs available. (I honestly think that's why Slack beat out IRC. Too many choices to make when choosing and configuring an IRC client. Slack is just Slack.)
Like a lot of things I know how I want it to look in the end, but I have no idea how we get there from where we are now.
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Agreed. Decimal time is dumb. What we need is to eliminate the entire base-10 system and adopt base-12 for everything. I'd almost go so far as to advocate for base-60, but I don't want to have to learn that many new digits. Two extra seems workable, though.
The same could be said about self-checkout lanes in supermarkets, and they seem to be here to stay. Some people actually claim to prefer them to human cashiers, though I really don't know why.
If it gets the point of the interview and you've still got people being biased or discriminatory, then you've got bigger problems because at that point there's no excuse for falling back on some preconceived notions as everyone who makes it there should be qualified to work at your company or your screening process sucks.
Sounds good, but it fails to account for the fact that resumes often lie or at least exaggerate. "Experience with Foo, Bar, and Baz" could mean anything from "I work with these all the time" to "I read an article about it once, five years ago." You never know until you actually ask them questions about it, and at that point you can usually tell gender and nationality by their voice. Maybe you can give them a written quiz or come up with an objective set of questions administered by some person who has no say in the hiring process. No matter how good your screening process is though, it's *really hard* to weed out all unqualified applicants before the actual interview. (It's also hard to weed out all unqualified applicants during the interview, but that's a separate issue...)
The reason airlines won't change boarding is because they'd no longer be able to give out "in the early boarding group" as a perk of having lots of frequent flier miles or whatever. Changing boarding order would mean that they can no longer give out an intangible benefit that costs them nothing.
Yeah, that stops being fun when you get to the point where the details revealed are encoding artifacts.
Don't worry, it's only a matter of time until those encoding artifacts are revered by the audiophiles just like tube amps are today. "I hate the modern stuff. It's cold, lifeless. It doesn't have the rich, warm sound of a good old-fashioned MP3. Just make sure you encode with a constant bitrate, you can hear the warble as the variable rate encoders add and drop bits. 192 Kbps is the sweet spot. Now hand me that Monster Cable so I can listen to my 1st gen iPod."
Me? I only listen to the fall of rainwater, that or pure unmodulated sine waves. Everything else is a plot by the commies to take away our purity of essence!
"[New studies] find that cell phone radiation is potentially linked with certain forms of cancer, but they're far from conclusive. The results are complex and the studies have yet to be peer-reviewed, but some of the findings are clearly important enough to warrant public discussion."
No. No, no, no, no, no, no. NO. You're sciencing wrong. Studies which are inconclusive and complex definitely do *not* warrant public discussion until they've been peer reviewed. Let the fellow scientists look over the data and methodology, maybe even try to replicate the results. If peers say, "Yup, looks like they're on to something," THEN you have findings which warrant public discussion. Until then you have bupkis. You have complex and inconclusive results that are only good for whipping the Jenny McCarthys and Gwenyth Paltrows of the world into a frenzy. You get headlines proclaiming that green jellybeans cause acne because neither the news media nor the public are going to be bothered to do the analysis themselves.
I started working from home a few months ago because I moved. I must say, I prefer being in the office. I like the interaction and I like the physical separation of "working" and "not working". At my request my manager installed a big monitor and a camera in my team's work space, so I still get some office interaction. We just keep a constant video connection up during working hours. Others on my team also work remotely but prefer to limit contact to email and Slack. Whatever works for you and whoever you have to interact with.
This was my bane all the way through school, I like numbers and figured lots of mental tricks (natural to me) for solving things, and was familiar with lots of number patterns (like powers of two), and so much of time answers were obvious to me, but I was marked down for not "showing" the work I never did. They didn't want me to know how to find the answer, they wanted me to crank through a rote procedure. As a simple example, if you add stuff up in your head there is no work to show.
You're thinking about it wrong. They're not just trying to teach you how to get the answer, they're trying to teach you how to explain to someone else how you got the answer. There's no answer key for the real world. It's not enough to just get the answer, you often have to prove to someone else that the answer is correct. You have to explain to others how you got there and why your methods and results are valid. If someone disagrees you have to be able to reconcile the differences. You can't do that if you don't show your work.
To counter your simple example, say I go to the grocery store. The cashier tells me that I owe $123.45. Wait, how did you get that? "I just added stuff up in my head, there's no work to show." Bullshit. At the very least I want a list of all the prices. If I bought 3 items marked "4 for $1" I want to see "3 @ $0.25ea" or something similar. If tax is added I want to see " * " listed. Prove to me that I owe what you say I do. There's always *something* to show, even if it's just the list that you added in your head.
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Agreed. Once the technique has been worked out, the labor needed to produce and administer this treatment should amount to no more than would be needed to administer a standard course of chemotherapy to the same individuals. Less, probably, because I expect fewer sessions would be needed.
There's a lot you can do without multitouch, though. Most things I do on my phone could just as easily be done on an emulator with a single traditional mouse pointer. Make the emulator treat the scroll wheel (or modifier key + scroll wheel) as a pinch/stretch zoom gesture and that'd cover almost everything.
Software is no more to blame then pencils and papers were to blame for the same practice decades ago. It's just a tool. Blame whoever's using it for this.
Exactly this. If regulators really want to break up Facebook they should not force the company to split, but force them to have open APIs which allow interoperability among social networks. I bet you'd have a million different social network providers if you could remove the hurdle of getting a critical mass of people to switch to something new. Facebook might still be the dominant player for a while, but they'll lose ground quickly when they no longer have a locked-in user base.
Lightning Struck Her Home. Then Her Brain Implant Stopped Working.
You'll be amazed at what happened next!
This is why I want to see the abolishment of all TLDs except the country TLDs. No more .com, .org, .gov, etc. You want a virtual presence in a country? Follow that country's rules to get your name there. If there's a conflict between two parties over a domain name settle it in the courts of whichever country owns the ccTLD.
I was listening to an interview with one of the Biosphere 2 team the other day. It wasn't a failure, it was an experiment. One which didn't go exactly as planned. But that's not a bad thing. They learned a crap ton of stuff from it, probably more than they would have if it all went perfectly. The sphere is still out there and still being studied, though it's not a closed system anymore.
The moon is a logical next step. The person interviewed said they had some rough times in Biosphere 2, but at the end of the day they knew that if it got to be too much they could just open the door and walk out. The moon is the next step up from that. You can't just open the door, but if things go sideways rescue is only days away, not months. Mars is far enough away that there's pretty much no hope of rescue. If things go wrong, all we can do is watch them die. We can't even send words of encouragement without a substantial time delay.
Biosphere 2, like any Earth-based habitat, is a tricycle. It's hard to tip over, and if you do the worst that happens is you get a skinned knee. The moon is a bike with training wheels. You can tip it over and you might actually get hurt, but the injuries are unlikely to be fatal. Mars is a two-wheel bike in traffic. Failures are going to leave a pavement stain. It's a really good idea to have an intermediate stage between the tricycle and riding in traffic.
(And to extend the analogy to the point of absurdity, I'd argue that colonizing a moon of Jupiter or Saturn is careening down Mt. Everest on a mountain bike. An interstellar colony is a unicycle on a tightwire over Niagara Falls. Blindfolded. In a hail storm.)
This is true, but... You have to make sure you use *exactly* one tab per indent level, and only use tabs at the beginnings of lines. You must use spaces within the line if you want to align anything else (such as equals signs for a bunch of variable assignments). You must even use spaces to add extra indentation to continuation lines. Use tabs any other way and your clever "We can all set our tab width however we like!" utopia falls apart.
If you find yourself working with a non-zero number of other developers you'll find that these rules are too difficult for many people to grasp. Your code will become polluted with a mix of tabs and spaces that ends up working with only a single tab width setting anyway.
3) Buy *two* systems, one to hack and one to play new games. Double the sales! Nintendo is just looking at this wrong.
I was taking him seriously up until "blockchain". Once he said that I knew he'd gone senile.
"A new breed of American Frontiersman. Rugged. Independent. BROADBANDLESS."
Couldn't be worse than Duck Dynasty.
Headers? If Apple is smart they will have released multiple versions of the "don't leak stuff" memo with subtly different wording. Seeing which variant got leaked should narrow it down to a particular department or group.
I saw 2001 a couple times on TV. Never did anything for me. But a bunch of friends were going to a showing of a 70mm print in a theater and I tagged along.
WOW! It's a completely different experience in the dark, on the big screen, with a good sound system. On TV I was only paying partial attention. In the theater the movie demands your full attention. It has one of the most disquieting scenes in movies -- Frank is outside fixing the antenna. We only hear him breathing in his suit. The pod approaches... We hear breathing. The pod reaches him... We hear breathing. The pod snips his air hose. We hear... nothing. And see him spinning out into space flailing his arms about trying to reach the air line. Damn. The ending is still a psychedelic trip, but it's a full-sensory psychedelic trip. Just sit back and let it wash over you. If you want the rational explanations, read the book. It's a good book, Clarke is a great writer. The movie ending isn't about the rational, it's about the raw experience of meeting with aliens so advanced they're literally beyond human comprehension.
That's when I became a major Kubrick fanboy.
But such studies are, unfortunately, more vulnerable to confounding factors. For example (and I'm just making this up, I haven't read the study) what if the reason coffee drinkers are healthier has nothing to do with the coffee? Maybe many people who drink coffee do so because it's convenient to pick up while they're walking to work, and it's the walking not the coffee that confers the benefits? Or maybe the benefit comes from having a cup of hot liquid, *any* hot liquid, in the morning, but because the study was done in the US the majority of the study's population were drinking coffee instead of tea, cocoa, or soup. These studies can pick out correlation but they're not so good at proving causation. It's a balancing act, and why it's so important to have corroboration from other studies.
I've been thinking this exact same thing. What we as end-users want is to be able to communicate with our friends, family, clients, customers, audience, etc. The ideal way for us to do that is with some open protocol. Then I could be on the service I prefer and you could be on the service you prefer and we could still talk to each other, just like email or Usenet.
What I can't get past is the idea of getting other people to buy into it. They all want to communicate with friends, family, etc. too. Right now everyone's on Facebook, and despite its flaws FB is acceptable to most people. Initially everyone's going to still need a FB account to talk with the people who haven't switched yet, and if FB is still marginally acceptable then why even bother with the new thing? What we really have to do is get FB to buy into it and support the open protocol. But why would they? It runs against their business interest of keeping all these eyeballs captive.
So we need an open API that allows interoperability and resists vendor lock-in. It needs to be possible to write open-source clients but has to have enough opportunity for monetization to make it worthwhile for paid providers to get in on the game. There has to be a choice of clients, but not so much choice that users are left dazed by the number of options and trade-offs available. (I honestly think that's why Slack beat out IRC. Too many choices to make when choosing and configuring an IRC client. Slack is just Slack.)
Like a lot of things I know how I want it to look in the end, but I have no idea how we get there from where we are now.
Dear ACLU, here is the information you requested. [REDACTED][redacted][REDACTED][redacted][REDACTED][redacted][REDACTED][redacted][REDACTED][redacted][REDACTED][redacted][REDACTED][redacted][REDACTED][redacted][REDACTED][redacted] and the horse you rode in on. Love, TSA.
Agreed. Decimal time is dumb. What we need is to eliminate the entire base-10 system and adopt base-12 for everything. I'd almost go so far as to advocate for base-60, but I don't want to have to learn that many new digits. Two extra seems workable, though.
Everyone who works nights already has this problem. They've learned to cope. You can too.
The same could be said about self-checkout lanes in supermarkets, and they seem to be here to stay. Some people actually claim to prefer them to human cashiers, though I really don't know why.
Sounds good, but it fails to account for the fact that resumes often lie or at least exaggerate. "Experience with Foo, Bar, and Baz" could mean anything from "I work with these all the time" to "I read an article about it once, five years ago." You never know until you actually ask them questions about it, and at that point you can usually tell gender and nationality by their voice. Maybe you can give them a written quiz or come up with an objective set of questions administered by some person who has no say in the hiring process. No matter how good your screening process is though, it's *really hard* to weed out all unqualified applicants before the actual interview. (It's also hard to weed out all unqualified applicants during the interview, but that's a separate issue...)
The reason airlines won't change boarding is because they'd no longer be able to give out "in the early boarding group" as a perk of having lots of frequent flier miles or whatever. Changing boarding order would mean that they can no longer give out an intangible benefit that costs them nothing.
Don't worry, it's only a matter of time until those encoding artifacts are revered by the audiophiles just like tube amps are today. "I hate the modern stuff. It's cold, lifeless. It doesn't have the rich, warm sound of a good old-fashioned MP3. Just make sure you encode with a constant bitrate, you can hear the warble as the variable rate encoders add and drop bits. 192 Kbps is the sweet spot. Now hand me that Monster Cable so I can listen to my 1st gen iPod."
Me? I only listen to the fall of rainwater, that or pure unmodulated sine waves. Everything else is a plot by the commies to take away our purity of essence!
No. No, no, no, no, no, no. NO. You're sciencing wrong. Studies which are inconclusive and complex definitely do *not* warrant public discussion until they've been peer reviewed. Let the fellow scientists look over the data and methodology, maybe even try to replicate the results. If peers say, "Yup, looks like they're on to something," THEN you have findings which warrant public discussion. Until then you have bupkis. You have complex and inconclusive results that are only good for whipping the Jenny McCarthys and Gwenyth Paltrows of the world into a frenzy. You get headlines proclaiming that green jellybeans cause acne because neither the news media nor the public are going to be bothered to do the analysis themselves.
I started working from home a few months ago because I moved. I must say, I prefer being in the office. I like the interaction and I like the physical separation of "working" and "not working". At my request my manager installed a big monitor and a camera in my team's work space, so I still get some office interaction. We just keep a constant video connection up during working hours. Others on my team also work remotely but prefer to limit contact to email and Slack. Whatever works for you and whoever you have to interact with.
You're thinking about it wrong. They're not just trying to teach you how to get the answer, they're trying to teach you how to explain to someone else how you got the answer. There's no answer key for the real world. It's not enough to just get the answer, you often have to prove to someone else that the answer is correct. You have to explain to others how you got there and why your methods and results are valid. If someone disagrees you have to be able to reconcile the differences. You can't do that if you don't show your work.
To counter your simple example, say I go to the grocery store. The cashier tells me that I owe $123.45. Wait, how did you get that? "I just added stuff up in my head, there's no work to show." Bullshit. At the very least I want a list of all the prices. If I bought 3 items marked "4 for $1" I want to see "3 @ $0.25ea" or something similar. If tax is added I want to see " * " listed. Prove to me that I owe what you say I do. There's always *something* to show, even if it's just the list that you added in your head.