Ah thanks. Sorry about that.
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It was his fun thing to do when he was bored.
As a programmer, he's clearly capable, but I think he serves better as a director than someone who is trying to tackle an entire game by themselves.
The fundamental idea here is that some people learn how to learn, and others need to always be taught.
Learning "huh, when I hit this switch my wifi turns on or off" is pretty simple. Some people need to be told, and even then it's just a rote mechanical process - no thought as to why, how, or even that the switch is connected to anything. It's all magic.
I wanted to learn to lift even though I've never stepped foot in a gym. I did my research and bought the right books. I went into a gym and did exactly what I set out to do.
I need to replace my windshield wipers. I look up the information for it - it's right next to the new blades in Walmart. Dead simple. I bet a lot of people go to Pepboys for that.
It's as if the scientific method never existed, life is magic, and knowledge can only be gained by truly extraordinary humans.
Regardless, I never write anything of worth for those side projects -- mostly experimental things, or using new languages/frameworks I had never tried.
If I'm finishing all my rote work within regular day, at previous jobs I've started working on stupid side projects.
A physics engine in Lua, a maze generator in PyGame, and so on.
As an end user, I don't want to touch your app with a 10ft pole since you're an untrusted/unvetted source holding on to some very important tokens.
"Your Google Fiber account is for your use and the reasonable use of your guests"
I'd consider small-time server software to be within a "reasonable use". If you're hosting a web server with 10 simultaneous requests, you're outside of reasonable use. Any other ISP would have turned your pipe off.
Not saying the ends justify the means, but I wonder how their business would look otherwise.
Doesn't mean you get hurt less, you just have faster (and some times better) care. Title is misleading.
"Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have found that risk of death from injuries is lowest on average in urban counties compared to suburban and rural counties across the U.S."
That doesn't exactly evoke "safe", it evokes "not dying".
"...the top three causes of death were motor vehicle collisions, firearms, and poisoning."
Since when? Pretty sure heart disease and cancer should be on there.
While I agree, focusing on getting something shipped every 2 days isn't a huge pace. It means you iterate tightly and goals are understood to be scoped to only 2 days of work.
If something slips the 2-day goal, it's debt, and it's expected to be nailed first-thing in the next sprint. It's a flexible system.
For bigger projects, you _have_ to be able to split them up. I honestly can't think of a single project where you couldn't break it down into constituent parts in which you could iterate through several sprints to finish it.
If you're doing research-based work, I'll admit this probably isn't the best approach. However, from a business and personal productivity perspective, it's working very well.
Very clear, concise, sharp goals that are actionable and measurable.
Programmers can decently estimate what they can do in a day. I know I struggle to estimate for longer projects.
It's all I can do right now, other than write my Congressman.
I would never use this specifically because of that.
"...a person who came along from my team whose whole job during the meeting was to keep an accurate count of how many times Bill said the F word. The lower the f*-count, the better."
$.post(App.route("attempt",this.playData),e,function(e){var n;return n=e.reason,n||(n=e.valid?["Good Job!","Correct!"].sample():"Unknown error")
When I pop open the Chrome network tab, this is what the response to /attempt looks like: {success: true, dmid: ikspmzs0}
Given that .sample() just returns a random array element, I'm assuming it's freaking out because it's expecting "valid" and getting "success" instead.
Unknown error.
It's not that unrealistic. Correct, it does not solve P = NP. It does, as another commenter pointed out, make it much faster (feasible) to reverse RSA by factorization.
Re: Recruiting. There are a _lot_ of very bright minds working for the government. Don't forget that the government is willing to pay literally any price to get the talent they need, and say "we will give you unlimited resources to all materials, any budget, anything".
Investors look like a joke if you get paid a large sum and have unlimited resources. Often with TS technologies you can still declassify parts of your research for the public and co-author papers. This is the same thing we do when say, the M1 Abrams Tank. We will export everything except still-classified parts to foreign countries for sale.
There are 5 Nobel prize winners at NIST alone, 4 in physics and 1 in chemistry.
That said, I would bet good money they already have working quantum computers, in which case current crypto may have quite a few problems.
I guess they took it down. It responds with a 404 according to Fiddler.
Edit: Here's a Pastebin'd version of the text in case the Google cached version expires: http://pastebin.com/5d7rHmYe