I'm worried that I'm going to overplay this song, but it hasn't happened yet. Enjoy.
Impressive. I chuckled.
Not always - some people are just really bad at it.
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Holy shit, they don't sound very good but goddamn that is impressive. Whoever made this happen must be extremely knowledgeable.
Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not very well read in this area, but it seemed like Reagan and Thatcher had some very similar views. While perhaps Reagan was sort of a George Bush figurehead who had his minions do most of the dirty work, he was nonetheless a figurehead of some extremely damaging and regressive controversial shifts in policy. When he died, there was none of this celebration, but an outpouring of sympathy. I found the UK's reaction to her death kind of odd. It seemed as though Reagan and her were viewed in a similar light by similar groups of different societies.
I'm a big fan of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. However, the entire highway 101 and highway 1 route is spectacular all the way down the pacific coast. My pictures don't do it justice
I was thinking this was a #history post, and an article from the 60's or something. Holy shit.
I'm not saying the North Dakota thing is acceptable. It's not, it can endanger peoples lives. The point I was trying to make (and wasn't very clear about) is that this sort of legislation won't be effective in stopping what they want to stop. The only thing it accomplishes is putting mother's lives in danger in the case of an emergency, and making it inconvenient for women to get abortions. No matter your view on abortion, it accomplishes nothing.
Cardboard boxes were the best toys.
Right, but does anyone have a solid grasp on the future of economy and work? Plenty of people have opinions, and are skilled enough to persuade you of their validity, but my gut feeling is that no one really has a fucking clue what's going to happen. And that's why I think it's such an interesting discussion.
So, there's nothing to prevent anyone from travelling out of state to get an abortion. However, it's scary that any complications in childbirth that had to be dealt with immediately would not be handled properly, which would jeopardize the mother's life. I just can't even fathom the quantity of incompetence that these people possess. It's out of this world.
Ok it's back up! Takes a few seconds to load the dots on the map because my ISP sucks. I'm getting dial up speeds for my upload, which cripples my server.
I hate comments.
This is so much more romantic than how life has turned out. Not really surprising, it is France after all. The whale bus was my favorite.
hackernews, thesamba, twitter, facebook. Damn, that's a boring list.
Actually just last night I rewrote my website. I'll reply to your comment when I put it back up
Oh I agree. I comment the code I write for myself, and generally keep a readme with an overview so when I come back to the project I'm not totally lost. Work is a different story, unfortunately.
Every place I've ever worked has been completely and utterly devoid of comments and documentation. One day maybe I'll get lucky and work somewhere where code readability is a goal, but I'm not counting on it. Generally the only thing that matters is that the project gets done on time..and sometimes your superiors care if it works well. Generally, though, management couldn't give two shits about the fact that it's duct taped together and will be a nightmare to maintain 6 months down the road.
I have a small anecdote to share. I was writing a proxy server sort of thing. It was my first foray into the land of C and network sockets and I was even more of an amateur programmer than I am now. I was wrestling with this bug for a few hours. After stepping away from it for a while and smoking a bowl or two, I came back to it and looked at my code in a different light (it was still garbage, even though I was stoned) and immediately found the bug. Sometimes it's able to give you a different perspective which is extremely useful for squashing bugs. Now, I can't do normal coding all that well while stoned...it's only really useful when you need to step back and think about things a little differently. Anyway, as far as silicon valley goes, it's not really surprising. It's not like pot is a counter culture sort of thing anymore. I would imagine the usage in the tech industry is high, but no higher than the general population. I will leave you with a video of snoop dogg smoking blunts in the twitter office
Oh definitely. But once you've learned how to program a language, picking up other languages isn't particularly challenging, as most of the same concepts apply. Moving from functional to imperative or vice versa can be a little tricky, though.
I'm a little skeptical about this approach. The idea here is to dump people into a massively useful and widely adopted environment (Javascript + the web) which is great, but with that comes a great deal of complexity. There is really a lot to digest, and the oddities and exceptions are overwhelming for a beginner. Doing this overlooks some of the more basic building blocks of programming, which are extremely valuable when you're learning. By building blocks I mean thinking about data, how to structure programs, how to think about problems, etc, rather than "What's the syntax for making a blue square?" Disclaimer: the first programming course I took was an irl version of this course so my view is almost certainly one sided.
I'm not entirely convinced by the study that Henrich used for the Machiguenga people. It seems to rely heavily on the assumption that a choice to accept or punish remains relatively constant as the pile of cash gets larger. I'm a little skeptical of this, and I feel like as the stakes get higher, people are more likely to accept a lowball offer, because it still amounts to a sizeable chunk of cash. It mentioned that the money was equivalent to a few days wages for the Machiguenga, and I'm curious if it was the same amount (in time, not gross dollar amount) when they did the study in North America. And even then, there are plenty of other variables, like how desperate you are for money, how much you have in savings, etc. I suspect there are a lot of other factors at work here.
Yea, this one wasn't as interesting as the user one. The only thing I learned is that tag communities on Hubski aren't really well defined, perhaps due to the common ones that connect everything. In order to pick out groups of related tags, one could walk through the graph and delete the most common edges that are walked upon. That's basically the idea of betweenness centrality, and the general consensus is that if you remove the edges with the highest centrality, you're left with communities. It's an approach often applied to graphs when you want to analyze communities in a larger system.
You won't get any better at it if you delete it immediately. If you're just beginning to learn programming, Python is a much better choice than javascript. It's simpler, more elegant, and has less oddities, is more extensible, and is often (the exception being web front ends) more applicable to your problem. Don't give up. Javascript is not the answer to the problem you face. I'm a little biased, but I've written a fair amount of both.
Old furniture is awesome. Nice find.
Correct, that's the only way to deal with it. It's really just like cancer for cars. Unless you cut out and replace all of it, it will slowly take over. Much easier to deal with early on as opposed to later when it gets bad.
I bet Canada is feeling pretty smug right about now.
Isn't mining bitcoins sort of a snake oil investment of your time?
Sometimes batteries will have some sort of guarantee about exploding and ruining your electronics. Might be worth checking out. And yea, haven't shot as much lately as I'd like to. But I keep saying I'll get back into it soon. The constant rain and overcast weather in Vancouver doesn't make for super interesting shots.