This is a lie. Aside from the fact that before we started "helping" the third world there were millions of starving suffering people whereas now there are billions because the increased resources just mean less selection criteria
Completely wrong on this one. There are fewer famines per capita than there ever has been. Even in my lifetime, when I was a kid, they were much more prevalent.
the idea you can move capital around without any consequences.
Text to back it up:
None.
Claim:
Deregulation has brought in a society that is as inequal as the French ancien regime.
Text to back it up:
None.
Claim:
Zuckerberg, Gates and Company are nothing more than 21st century robber barons.
Text to back it up:
None.
How does a post like this get marked as insightful? Do people even know what the word means? The whole post is merely populist ranting with no substance.
Polio is making a come back in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan, thanks to Islam, many health workers were killed because they were accused of trying to make the little children infertile with the polio vaccine
Polio has been wiped out of Nigeria.
Cases in Pakistan are down to about 1/8 of what it was last year.
This is probably not worth my time, but let's try:
Reading this thread and the last, I am struck by how the Left is not just defending Islamism
Why does the Left defend Islamism like this?
Congratulations! You have just demonstrated the breakdown of reasonable dialogue by imposing your view of the world in your queries.
You made a general statement without addressing any specific comments. According to you, people are defending Islamism. Not just people, but "the Left".
You provide no definition of Islamism. Hence, any comment could fix that description.
You don't quote examples of these comments so people know what you're talking about. It's like me walking into a public meeting about the police's excessive use of tasers, and then just standing up and saying "Looking around in this room, why is the right defending racism?"
You attribute all of these comments as coming from the "Left", with no evidence whatsoever. Essentially, you're just redefining Left to mean whatever you'd like (in this case, defending Islamism).
I could not follow this. Since when do they not provide relocation? Virtually every foreign student in my university who got hired by US companies was paid relocation. It'd likely be costlier (and illegal) for companies to have separate relocation categories based on citizenship.
In case you didn't know, most tech H-1Bs are not recruited from abroad. They're from within the US - graduating at US universities.
They cannot quit, they cannot threaten to leave otherwise they loose the green card. This process lasts from 3 to 6 years
Depends.
First, the process can be much shorter if you're not Indian or Chinese - they have separate quotas. It's 1.5-3 years for most other nationalities.
Second, they can change jobs without disrupting their application if: 1) They stay in the same city. 2) The new job has more or less the same skills as the previous job. If you're an H-1B programmer in the Bay area, you're likely in good shape.
The process of changing jobs on an H1B involves exactly what it would do for a US citizen - go and interview, get the job, move.
Except you need the government to get involved. Your paperwork needs to be approved, and there is an annual quota.
Also, if you're Indian or Chinese, you have a long waiting list for the green card (friends in my company - some who joined as early as 2008, still don't have a priority date - for those who know what that means). Changing jobs can require redoing the labor certification which may put you in the back of the queue. For most H-1s, it's not a big deal. For Indians and Chinese who've been waiting for 5 years, adding an extra 5 years is not a real option.
When you are so much further ahead of everyone around you, people can't fully appreciate how great you really are.....but if you are surrounded by stars and yet still shine far above all of them, you look that much more awesome. It's one of the reasons that I spend time with the noobs mentoring them.......also, if I mentor them, they'll be more apt to do things my way.
On academic programming courses - of which I've taught on many - the grade distribution is definitely bimodal and there is a clear gap between those who can and those who can't.
I'm guessing those who can't will not go on to become professional programmers. If you look at active and professional programmers, is it still bimodal?
Lots of people totally lost their shit over this despite the fact that HPV can cause cancer and the vaccine is effective and not just because of donations. The term parental choice was thrown around a lot.
While there were many things wrong about the whole HPV vaccine debate, one fact stood out. The maker, Gardasil, was charging so much for the vaccine that, had it been mandated, it would have been the first mandated vaccine in US history that was expected to cost the health care system more than had it not been mandated.
All other mandated vaccines actually save the health system money: Fewer people get sick, and the money is used treating other diseases.
The HPV vaccine cost so much it would actually take funds away from treating other diseases.
But everyone wants to pretend this was just about religious anti-vaccine nutjobs.
Orgmode is also the most useful note taking tool I've found. Of course, it helps if you're OK doing it in Emacs. I will point out, though, that many people learn Emacs simply so that they can use orgmode - it's that useful. If I had to guess, I would say that since 2008, more people learned Emacs to use org mode than for any other reason.
First, a lot of mathematics majors get a poor mathematics education when teachers teach to the demographics in these classes (which is mostly non-math majors). As a result, a number of mathematics professors have gotten irritated and they'll insist that their courses exist to serve the mathematics students, no matter how few, and if the engineers want something more applied and tied to reality, then the engineering department needs to step up and offer a course rather than leach off the math department at the expense of their students. Of course, department politics and funding come into play which is why they end up having to teach non-math majors.
You may be collateral damage in their battle, but as someone who's been on both the EE and the math side, I think they have a very valid point: Catering to outsiders is hurting their own math program (which ultimately affects the rankings of the math department, although most usually are not driven by that).
Second, if you plan to go to grad school, for many disciplines in EE and CS, you'll likely need all the theoretical stuff that linear algebra professor was trying to teach, and many grad schools will expect you to know it. In my experience, those who know that material coming in will ususally excel. Many EE/CS departments will try to teach the same material as part of some other course that may need it, but the students often don't learn it as well as if they had taken it from a proper math course.
And that's the other battle: Undergrad vs Grad school. In EE/CS, most undergrads do not plan on going to grad school, but the grad school folks are understandably upset that incoming students are ill prepared (which affects their rankings, and more importantly, the university's research). This being academia, the grad school advocates have more say then you'd perhaps like.
I second notmuch. You don't have to use it as your mail reader - you can just use it for indexing and queries. It has Python bindings which makes it really nice. It can search by all the criteria listed except perhaps attachments (it does tag messages with attachments, but I'm not sure what types of searches the submitter wants to do with them). Date based searching is possible, but the syntax is a pain - a nicer way to specify dates has been on their TODO list forever.
At the moment it doesn't support mbox, and all my mail had been in that format. It was a pain to convert everything to maildir or a similar format it supported, but it was only a one time pain...
The Ipython notebook, although not an original idea (I think they were inspired by the Sage notebook), is just fantastic. I do a fair amount of exploratory analysis and it's so much better doing it in a notebook than in a standalone script - I get to see all the plots, and document as I go along. Most importantly, it lets me experiment with commands as one would in a regular interpreter shell, but without the clutter of all my faulty commands.
If anyone wants to help open source, I would strongly recommend helping improve ipython, scipy or matplotlib. Fernando Perez pointed out in a recent conference that while on the surface these all seem like excellent, well polished projects, if one looks at the committers, they'll find most commits are being done by 2-3 people (for each project). It's not healthy for it to depend on so few people. As a case in point, the main committer for matlplotlib passed away recently and everyone's nervous about its future.
I've never come across a news site that allowed "open" comments not become dominated by their inaneness.
Why do news sites allow them? I suppose there may be a connection between allowing them and traffic (I really don't know) - but I see highly serious, respectable local news outlets that already have a strong base suddenly decide "Hey, everyone's doing it, why not us?"
In ye old days we had "Letters to the Editor". Open comments are not a viable replacement. The former were heavily moderated.
Since we're on the topic, does anyone know a good RSS reader that I can install on my own web server?
I currently use Gregarius but the project is no longer under development.
I don't want a desktop based one as I need to ensure it checks the feeds whether my computer is on or not. Also, there's nothing more convenient than simply clicking links within a browser.
Slashdot Mirror
And that clear warning might be because the FTC came calling.
Doubt it. It's been this way since 2012.
Science says that women are better at multitasking than men, but they're still shit at it.
Actually, "science" is still not sure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But yes, even if they are a little better, they're still crap at it.
Must be a different plan than mine.
Mine is "Unlimited Data", but very clearly states that it will be throttled after 5 GB. It's not hidden or in fine print.
This is a lie. Aside from the fact that before we started "helping" the third world there were millions of starving suffering people whereas now there are billions because the increased resources just mean less selection criteria
Completely wrong on this one. There are fewer famines per capita than there ever has been. Even in my lifetime, when I was a kid, they were much more prevalent.
Let's see.
Claim:
The tax breaks are a problem
Text to back it up:
None.
Claim:
the idea you can move capital around without any consequences.
Text to back it up:
None.
Claim:
Deregulation has brought in a society that is as inequal as the French ancien regime.
Text to back it up:
None.
Claim:
Zuckerberg, Gates and Company are nothing more than 21st century robber barons.
Text to back it up:
None.
How does a post like this get marked as insightful? Do people even know what the word means? The whole post is merely populist ranting with no substance.
They use some cool theory initially developed by two Swedish mathematician, (one who sadly passed away a few years back),
I've yet to meet someone who happily passed away.
Polio is making a come back in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan, thanks to Islam, many health workers were killed because they were accused of trying to make the little children infertile with the polio vaccine
Polio has been wiped out of Nigeria.
Cases in Pakistan are down to about 1/8 of what it was last year.
This is probably not worth my time, but let's try:
Reading this thread and the last, I am struck by how the Left is not just defending Islamism
Why does the Left defend Islamism like this?
Congratulations! You have just demonstrated the breakdown of reasonable dialogue by imposing your view of the world in your queries.
You made a general statement without addressing any specific comments. According to you, people are defending Islamism. Not just people, but "the Left".
Some corrections to your comment:
and (2) they do not need to provide relocation.
I could not follow this. Since when do they not provide relocation? Virtually every foreign student in my university who got hired by US companies was paid relocation. It'd likely be costlier (and illegal) for companies to have separate relocation categories based on citizenship.
In case you didn't know, most tech H-1Bs are not recruited from abroad. They're from within the US - graduating at US universities.
They cannot quit, they cannot threaten to leave otherwise they loose the green card. This process lasts from 3 to 6 years
Depends.
First, the process can be much shorter if you're not Indian or Chinese - they have separate quotas. It's 1.5-3 years for most other nationalities.
Second, they can change jobs without disrupting their application if: 1) They stay in the same city. 2) The new job has more or less the same skills as the previous job. If you're an H-1B programmer in the Bay area, you're likely in good shape.
Well, of course. Every foreign worker hired is a job that doesn't go to an American worker.
Claiming that hiring foreign workers doesn't take jobs away from American workers is bizzaro logic at its best.
Zero sum fallacy.
Seriously. This is about as stupid as the debate can get.
The process of changing jobs on an H1B involves exactly what it would do for a US citizen - go and interview, get the job, move.
Except you need the government to get involved. Your paperwork needs to be approved, and there is an annual quota.
Also, if you're Indian or Chinese, you have a long waiting list for the green card (friends in my company - some who joined as early as 2008, still don't have a priority date - for those who know what that means). Changing jobs can require redoing the labor certification which may put you in the back of the queue. For most H-1s, it's not a big deal. For Indians and Chinese who've been waiting for 5 years, adding an extra 5 years is not a real option.
When you are so much further ahead of everyone around you, people can't fully appreciate how great you really are.....but if you are surrounded by stars and yet still shine far above all of them, you look that much more awesome. It's one of the reasons that I spend time with the noobs mentoring them.......also, if I mentor them, they'll be more apt to do things my way.
See this above?
This is an example of an asshole programmer.
On academic programming courses - of which I've taught on many - the grade distribution is definitely bimodal and there is a clear gap between those who can and those who can't.
I'm guessing those who can't will not go on to become professional programmers. If you look at active and professional programmers, is it still bimodal?
Let's say in the US we routinely had bombs blowing up by a nonidentifiable group, so we can't perform any real profiling.
Say 5000 people[1] were killed every year in the US for the last 15 years due to these hard-to-identify terrorists.
The public would scream for biometric everything.
[1] - Scaling to match the US population.
Lots of people totally lost their shit over this despite the fact that HPV can cause cancer and the vaccine is effective and not just because of donations. The term parental choice was thrown around a lot.
While there were many things wrong about the whole HPV vaccine debate, one fact stood out. The maker, Gardasil, was charging so much for the vaccine that, had it been mandated, it would have been the first mandated vaccine in US history that was expected to cost the health care system more than had it not been mandated.
All other mandated vaccines actually save the health system money: Fewer people get sick, and the money is used treating other diseases.
The HPV vaccine cost so much it would actually take funds away from treating other diseases.
But everyone wants to pretend this was just about religious anti-vaccine nutjobs.
Chinese CEO?
How'd you like it if a headline said: "American CEO says ..." rather than state which CEO and of which company?
It's like a headline that says "African man says ..."
(Yes, yes, I know the summary has the information).
I work in an engineering firm. There's so much legacy Perl out there that there'll be a need for it for at least another decade.
As for VB, it'll remain as long as Microsoft Office is used in companies. It's way too handy and there's no alternative.
Orgmode is also the most useful note taking tool I've found. Of course, it helps if you're OK doing it in Emacs. I will point out, though, that many people learn Emacs simply so that they can use orgmode - it's that useful. If I had to guess, I would say that since 2008, more people learned Emacs to use org mode than for any other reason.
Can be. But mostly isn't.
Kinda like paper.
If you ever want to explain to the layperson how damaging patent trolls are, point them to this episode of This American Life.
It's patently ridiculous...
(Note: Although it says Part Two, it's really the whole thing - they include Part One into this episode).
While you have a point, I'll make a counterpoint:
First, a lot of mathematics majors get a poor mathematics education when teachers teach to the demographics in these classes (which is mostly non-math majors). As a result, a number of mathematics professors have gotten irritated and they'll insist that their courses exist to serve the mathematics students, no matter how few, and if the engineers want something more applied and tied to reality, then the engineering department needs to step up and offer a course rather than leach off the math department at the expense of their students. Of course, department politics and funding come into play which is why they end up having to teach non-math majors.
You may be collateral damage in their battle, but as someone who's been on both the EE and the math side, I think they have a very valid point: Catering to outsiders is hurting their own math program (which ultimately affects the rankings of the math department, although most usually are not driven by that).
Second, if you plan to go to grad school, for many disciplines in EE and CS, you'll likely need all the theoretical stuff that linear algebra professor was trying to teach, and many grad schools will expect you to know it. In my experience, those who know that material coming in will ususally excel. Many EE/CS departments will try to teach the same material as part of some other course that may need it, but the students often don't learn it as well as if they had taken it from a proper math course.
And that's the other battle: Undergrad vs Grad school. In EE/CS, most undergrads do not plan on going to grad school, but the grad school folks are understandably upset that incoming students are ill prepared (which affects their rankings, and more importantly, the university's research). This being academia, the grad school advocates have more say then you'd perhaps like.
I second notmuch. You don't have to use it as your mail reader - you can just use it for indexing and queries. It has Python bindings which makes it really nice. It can search by all the criteria listed except perhaps attachments (it does tag messages with attachments, but I'm not sure what types of searches the submitter wants to do with them). Date based searching is possible, but the syntax is a pain - a nicer way to specify dates has been on their TODO list forever.
At the moment it doesn't support mbox, and all my mail had been in that format. It was a pain to convert everything to maildir or a similar format it supported, but it was only a one time pain...
The Ipython notebook, although not an original idea (I think they were inspired by the Sage notebook), is just fantastic. I do a fair amount of exploratory analysis and it's so much better doing it in a notebook than in a standalone script - I get to see all the plots, and document as I go along. Most importantly, it lets me experiment with commands as one would in a regular interpreter shell, but without the clutter of all my faulty commands.
If anyone wants to help open source, I would strongly recommend helping improve ipython, scipy or matplotlib. Fernando Perez pointed out in a recent conference that while on the surface these all seem like excellent, well polished projects, if one looks at the committers, they'll find most commits are being done by 2-3 people (for each project). It's not healthy for it to depend on so few people. As a case in point, the main committer for matlplotlib passed away recently and everyone's nervous about its future.
I've never come across a news site that allowed "open" comments not become dominated by their inaneness.
Why do news sites allow them? I suppose there may be a connection between allowing them and traffic (I really don't know) - but I see highly serious, respectable local news outlets that already have a strong base suddenly decide "Hey, everyone's doing it, why not us?"
In ye old days we had "Letters to the Editor". Open comments are not a viable replacement. The former were heavily moderated.
Since we're on the topic, does anyone know a good RSS reader that I can install on my own web server?
I currently use Gregarius but the project is no longer under development.
I don't want a desktop based one as I need to ensure it checks the feeds whether my computer is on or not. Also, there's nothing more convenient than simply clicking links within a browser.