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This is a great book. Highly recommended.

Great, thanks!

Would you please publish the raw data? That'd be very interesting.

There is another reason why downloading software from "somewhere else" is less than ideal in a case like this. The reason is that the pirated download might not be the original software as provided by the developer; there is no guarantee that it doesn't have, for example, some virus in it.

Steam on Linux works perfectly to me. I have also used Steam with Wine for games that won't otherwise work on Linux. The experience with Steam + Wine is uneven; some games works perfectly and others don't; but Steam on Linux works fine for me.

You have to click on another cell for them to evaluate (pressing return does nothing).

Very nice! I worked on a similar steganographic system (not for tweets though) that you can find here: https://github.com/hmoraldo/markovTextStego There you'll find both the source code and a link to a paper explaining how it works and how it differs from other approaches.

I don't think he's a hard read myself. But I do think it is an usual occurrence that Spanish speakers find it hard to read, and I think it is because of the language mainly, and not because of the content. But because I don't think it is hard myself, and because I didn't make a survey, I can't say this is exactly the case for most of the population.

Borges use of the Spanish language was perfect. He had a very deep knowledge about the precise meaning of words native speakers use in a more careless way. And he had the accent, etc. of a native speaker. People might find it hard precisely because he uses the language with an exactitude and a vocabulary that is really uncommon.

I don't have any references, this is based on personal experience of living in Argentina and having seen what people say about his books here (he's considered the hard writer). It's a shame though, because his writing is really wonderful.

This is kind of surprising, because he is typically considered a tough read for native Spanish readers. I wonder if the reason for this is that, although he uses a much wider vocabulary than other authors (making it harder to read for native speakers, specially young ones), he writes in such a precise and masterful way that it ends being easier for non-native readers. [or maybe because he is like a programmer between writers; his writings have some kind of formal language feeling in them]

A pen could be compromised with a micro camera as well, if you want to be really paranoid.

http://theoldreader.com/ worked fine for me.

I can only see all the potential the security issues for this idea. I don't think I would have this enabled with my credit card details.

I had a similar problem as the same you are having now... I was a successful game developer (considered by many as one of the field leaders in my country), but I started getting bored. After a lot of trouble, I could manage to start working in machine learning and other related areas of what used to be known as AI. I'm really happy to be working on this now, and I have a lot to learn. Almost every day I work in an interesting challenge, which is very different from what I used to do.

It was not so hard to leave my previous field, which I was bored of, but to get a chance to work on this new field. I got to do this by doing a slow transition, first doing work that was halfway between game development and different areas of AI, and every time pushing forward my objective. It took me a lot of time to do it but now I'm very happy with the results.

If I can give you my advice, investigate the many areas related to programming that exist, investigate what companies that you didn't even know that existed do, and find something that you really wish you could do too. Then start moving in that direction, one step at a time.

I'm not by far as successful in the new field as I was in my previous life. But hey, I'm having a lot of fun. And with time, you get your knowledge and experience back again.

Popego.com does something similar, but for a newsfeed instead of search.

You can keep programming, there are many specific disciplines inside software development / programming that are intellectually deep. Getting into them is hard, but the reward is infinite.

I think you need to read the full article, which is really good: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Erobins/YouAndYourResearch.html

He talks about Nobel Prize-level research, and justifies what he says with a lot of examples of researchers he worked with, who won Nobel Prizes or similar awards.

The original article is really not fluff.

I learned something interesting from your comment, thanks.

Thanks!

Do you get more than the preview?

Looks like Opera to me.

I have used twice monitors once, in a different office setup than mine, and I found it incredibly useful. After that experience, I wouldn't stop before, say, five monitors no less. But I keep using only one as I don't really care that much.

I don't think this is a gesture. He's learning about the company and about how to improve it.

"Uses web framework, creates functionality; knows Python/Ruby, Javascript, AJAX, Flash(?), HTML, databases."

This is a very weak description of what a hacker is by the way.

Wow thanks!

"A group of scientists will be sitting around the cafeteria, and one will idly wonder if there is an integer where, if you take its last digit and move it to the front, turning, say, 112 to 211, it’s possible to exactly double the value. Dyson will immediately say, “Oh, that’s not difficult,” allow two short beats to pass and then add, “but of course the smallest such number is 18 digits long.”"

So how did he know that?

So what does anyone good get then? (salary-wise)

In a salary or for freelance? I think salary hours are typically 0.5 * freelance hours, is that right?

So inside a company, $1250 is less than a week's worth of work for anyone good?

I think the comment above is the best path you have now. Get another coder, the development costs so far have been lost. And now pay him every time he/she delivers on a repository (always have the source code with you).

Having a one year project and having no source code for what you paid for is unreasonable for a key asset of your company.