PhilWright

Is this a thinly veiled attempt at creating a start-up, and your getting others to provide both the idea and the solution outline? Are you a VC perhaps?

Before asking for others to post personal information, how about telling us your own parents numbers?

The idea that more than a vanishingly small number of regular troops are visiting so many environments in a year is hilarious.

See a lawyer and see what steps are needed to ensure you can legally prove you did everything necessary. Might be as simple as a formal letter from the lawyer informing the company that you completed all necessary steps. Then they know you are serious and are legally covered in being able to prove you qualified and performed all necessary steps.

Goings backwards in time will never be invented. Proof? On D-Day there are no stands full of spectators or drones in the sky recording everything. Q.E.D

The plane was not bound for Germany, it took off intending to go to Scotland and indeed went straight there and landed. The pilot was given the previous days schedule by mistake. A simple mistake that no doubt caused consternation to the passengers and great embarrassment to the airline.

The plane did not 'accidentally' land in the wrong place. The headline makes it sound like the pilot turned left instead of right and was surprised to be in Scotland instead of Germany.

Ah, apparently you have met my son and all his friends. Getting any of them to be passionate about anything but YouTube and PlayStations seems all but impossible.

Completely meaningless. The interest rates in 1980 varied between 8.5% and 20%. Comparing the dividend yield from that environment to today where we have around 2.5% is stupid.

If you mean a colony in that it is a self-sustaining outpost then definitely not. If you mean a base that is constantly occupied like the international space station then it is unlikely but possible. If you mean will a person get to Mars then I would say that is very likely.

'When she was 10, she wrote in a school year book that she wanted to become a billionaire. Plot-twist, she became one.'

That is not a plot twist, that is the plot.

It is a nice resource, but the number of spelling and grammatical errors is ridiculous and becomes very distracting. Please use Microsoft Word or some other spell checker on each page.

Is a great developer worth 10 marketers?

Not exactly an unbiased report. The person responsible for hiring and running the team says she did a great job! Maybe if the gender mix had been reversed then it would have worked just as well because she is a great manager? If the take away is supposed to be that you should hire a majority of people as females, well that does not scale. If only 1 in 10 developers are female then building a 70% female team is not possible for everyone to do.

Implementing a full featured web page renderer is a massive task. Correctly handling HTML and CSS and JavaScript and Canvas and animations and etc, etc, etc...

Then test is against the top 1,000 websites and ensure that yours renders the same as the popular existing browsers, otherwise people will complain and stop using yours because it is different. Then maintain it as new standards constantly evolve over time.

Finally your will have a codebase that you cannot sell because browsers are free! Even Microsoft have given up and Microsoft Edge is going to switch from their own renderer to using the open source one from Chrome.

I stopped reading after...

“In roughly three decades, the global population will begin to decline,” they write. “Once that decline begins, it will never end."

..obviously this is hyperbole to sell a book which has to be dramatic to get attention. Nobody knows for sure what the population will peak at and how far it might fall again. The world has never been in this situation before and so everything is currently a guess.

Here is an example from their docs...

"The remote launch feature enables task-oriented user experiences; a user can start a task on one device and finish it on another. For example, if the user is listening to music on their phone in their car, they could then hand playback functionality over to their Xbox One when they arrive at home. Remote launch allows apps to pass contextual data to the remote app being launched, in order to pick up where the task was left off."

And yet, those people are still alive and well. What is the problem with getting less fibre than recommended?

Tax minimization schemes go through trends and fads just like any other area of creativity. When the accountants and lawyers come up with a scheme for one celebrity footballer, it is likely to get used again for others. Once it becomes common enough the government closes the loophole and the creatives go back to finding the next scheme.

Sometimes the court decides the scheme is illegal and then they go after all those that used it. Politically it looks good to grab money from millionaires that look like they were exploiting your system. I doubt the footballers know much, if anything, about the details of the schemes they are involved in. The accountant says 'leave to me, I can save you millions' and the footballer concentrates on playing.

You could try buying an existing very small SAAS which you know you can grow and build into something bigger. Then either keep it running or sell it on again at a higher value.

You can get started on the compiler/interpreter specific learning as long as you already know a programming language and basic data structures. You do not need any math skills.

1) Lexical Analysis (Tokeniser)

The first step of your compiler takes in free form text and turns it into a set of tokens that make the rest of the process much easier. To understand this you should learn about Regular Expressions and Finite State Machines.

2) Syntax Analysis (Parsing)

Processing the above tokens and ensuring the input has the valid syntax of a program is your next step. You need to learn about Context Free Grammers, Backus Naur Form and Abstract Syntax Trees.

3) Semantic Analysis

Just because the input has valid syntax does not mean it makes actual sense. Here you need to learn about Symbol Tables and Type Checking. The specifics are very dependant on the actual language you are dealing with.

4) Code Generation

A compiler will be generating code but an interpreter will perform actual execution of the Abstract Syntax Tree operations. Again, the specifics are very dependant on the actual language you are dealing with and the target. Start by looking into Code Generation, Code Optimizations and Assembly Code.

I recommend an online, free course, like the following from Stanford that is self-paced and results in a compiler that generates assembly level instructions for test running in an emulator.

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...

Correct me if I am wrong, but the pictures seem to show a plane and not a flying car. Given the wing span, there is no way that would work as a car. So it is a small plane. A specialized plane for autonomous transport of small packages or one or two people. But still not a car!

I wonder why the top players in tennis (Federer, Nadal, Williams) are lasting longer than is traditionally the case?

- Better nutrition and recovery than previous generations?

- Unusually dominant top players, resulting in easier matches and less wear?

- Playing styles that result in less wear and tear?

- Upcoming generation not as good, so not challenging them?

The author starts with 'David Kadavy is bestselling author of The Heart to Start'. I find this odd, because he only managed to sell 11,000 copies. Don't get me wrong, 11k is nothing to be ashamed and 11k more than me, but surely that does not constitute bestselling, does it?

Then I read on and 'Selling more than 11,000 copies in the first year is great (okay, 8,000 if you don’t count the 3,000 I gave away)'. Wow, so actually you sold 8,000 and not 11,000. Apart from this one line the author repeats over and over again about selling 11,000. But he didn't be sold 8,000 but constantly misrepresents that number everywhere.

I don't know if his books are great or not but the hyped headline, inflated numbers and spammy feel of the blog post make me unwilling to try it.

I don't think so. When people think about the USA they only think about the 1 or 2 most significant problems overall. With Europe you think about the 1 or 2 for each of the constituent countries and so it seems more problematic. To be comparable you would need to think about the 1 or 2 most significant problems for each state in the USA. Once you do that the number of issues is not that different.

Great start, but how are you going to monetise it? Getting people to sign up for a free newsletter is one thing, getting them to pay for it is quite another. I think you would be better of keeping it free to the users and then once you reach a critical mass, you allow recruiters to pay to be on the list. Would need to have a very large list of users before that becomes viable.

You agree that your article does not identity anything unique and makes a poor argument? Then you ask for what you missed! What you missed is any marketing insight!

Coal comes from dead plant matter that decays into peat and over millions of years into coal. Oil/gas from organic material that are buried under sedimentary rock.

As the Higgs fills in the last missing particle for the Standard Model, creating such a new accelerator seems very speculative. Maybe there is nothing else to find at higher energies, there is no hint of them at the LHC and the Standard model does not predict anything. I understand professionals always want more experimental power, but given the $10billion+ cost, it seems hard to justify.

As the Higgs fills in the last missing particle for the Standard Model, creating such a new accelerator seems very speculative. Maybe there is nothing else to find at higher energies, there is no hint of them at the LHC and the Standard model does not predict anything. I understand professionals always want more experimental power, but given the $10billion+ cost, it seems hard to justify.

I would agree that a developing economy can copy the best practices and latest technology from the leading economies to, relatively, quickly catch up.

You say that the USSR got close to the leading economies in the mid 60's. But that does not explain why they fell so far behind afterwards. How come they did not continue to be just behind for the succeeding decades?