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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street (2006)
If you want more background on Thorpe, or Shannon, or a layman's view of gambling and information theory, it's a fun read.
Hypothetically, if you were a Machiavellian hiring manager:
You would also prefer a foreigner on a visa because they would have less freedom to leave the company than an equally paid employee who wasn't worried that quitting a job would risk being forced out of the country.
Also this would make the foreigner more worried about the consequences of being terminated for unsatisfactory performance.
Well, not necessarily.
If your reflexes are good enough, and your brakes are good enough, and your tires are good enough, that you can safely stop a bike going 20mph on a wet downhill section, then yes; you are still in control of your vehicle and operating at a safe speed. No legal problems there.
But maybe your reflexes aren't that good because you haven't had coffee yet. Or maybe your brakes are worn down. Or maybe you're on crazy thin road tires that have effectively no traction going downhill in the rain. Or some combination of all three.
The point being, if it's not physically possible for you to stop that bike in whatever time interval is required, are you really operating that vehicle safely? Probably not.
And to the extent that you're legally required to operate at a safe speed and maintain control of your vehicle, your behavior would no longer be "perfectly legal."
So 20 mph + downhill + wet roads may very well be illegal for some combinations of cyclist and bicycle but not others. It seems premature to declare that perfectly legal in all cases.
"here's group A, who we really want to target, and here's group B, the protected class we want to exclude. throw 10% of all impressions at group B so we're not violating federal law."
Then I think you may still be breaking the law. Because you're explicitly favoring one group over another. Whether the ratio is 100%/0% or 90%/10% probably doesn't affect the underlying legal problem.
> Why ruin it
At some point many years ago society latched on to the idea that "equal opportunity employment" was a civil right worth protecting with federal law. One of the major draws of facebook, if you happen to be an employer not wholly committed to this idea, seems to be that you kind of have a way to effectively bypass it. There are people who would equate "ruining facebook" in this scenario with "protecting fundamental civil rights," which is more important than creating a favorable environment for recruiters.
That's more or less the argument I think.
If you posted "Help Wanted" flyers in the middle of a college campus for a part-time cashier job, some 52 year old could--in theory--be walking by the quad on his way to a Frisbee golf game.
It's when you explicitly add in logic to filter out a protected class that you may be in trouble.
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Web:
A List Apart, especially the articles section - https://alistapart.com/articles
CSS Zen Garden - http://www.csszengarden.com/
Magic Ink - Information Software and the Graphical Interface, by Bret Victor - http://worrydream.com/#!2/MagicInk
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Print:
Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS, by Zoe Mickley Gillenwater
The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web, by Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, by Andy Clarke
https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/
And the related video series on Egghead (which I think requires a subscription)
https://egghead.io/courses/professor-frisby-introduces-compo...
Which reminds me, if you can get an employer to pay for an Egghead subscription and/or a Frontend Masters subscription as part of a training budget, both are great. Also probably worth buying on your own if work won't cover it.
Sometimes I'll exit it entirely for an hour or two, but I don't want to look like I'm unavailable to help teammates.
If you're in the right places, you'll definitely see people who value free time over money and prestige.
If anything, assuming most companies have an 'employee referral' program, emailing a random non-recruiter may have the additional advantage that, for no cost to you, someone at that company becomes incentivized for several thousand dollars to lobby for you.
Sarah Drasner - http://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/
Assume whoever looks at your portfolio is going to scroll from top to bottom first, get a first impression, then _maybe_ click through things later.
So build for the question "What do I want people to see if they scroll through my site without clicking on anything?"
It's _not_ because it's convention everywhere else.
(I realize that only really makes sense if you know why it makes sense, so this video gives a pretty good explanation in ~30 minutes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3svKOdZijA)
They'll probably rewrite the CS department site eventually, but until then, it's a repository of all the information about J you can handle.
The cognitive cost of writing the same program in J versus your current favorite functional language (let's assume Scheme) is basically the same. The J version will be much more concise, and probably quicker to write.
But I found it much harder to review and extend my own J code. Where the Scheme program I wrote last month will be mostly self-documenting and easy to modify, the equivalent J program may as well be machine code.
I feel like I _should_ appreciate J more, because it is powerful, but it may be too concise for me to be comfortable with.
-survived the same class (Hi Ryan!)
The Python programmers can probably step through R source code and figure out what's going on without too much trouble.
The other statisticians probably already know and use R.
The non-programmer, non-statistician, business types probably aren't interested in your source code--be it Python or R--and will want you to make pretty graphs and give presentations anyways.
But if you want a full copy:
1. DownThemAll to pull down all of the .pdf links,
2. pdftk to merge them all into one file
The whey protein and olive oil you can get anywhere. The maltodextrin means picking up a giant bag from a brewery supply store once every few months.
I'm coming up with two scoops of protein, eight scoops of carbs, and a third cup of oil, and a bit under half a gallon of water. After that it's just a teaspoon of salt and a few supplements/multi-vitamins and you're set for the day.
He mentioned earlier that it takes about five minutes to prepare the next day's batch, and he doesn't need refrigeration or much in the way of kitchen utensils. That's a fairly tight upper bound on complexity.
Dr. Lewis' book is listed on Amazon as having a publication date of October 30, 2012.
[edit: The author himself will tell you; If you're already familiar with programming basics, and just want to learn Scala, you'll be better of with Odersky's text.]
Which of these points do you take issue with, specifically?:
[1]. Intelligent people are more likely to be homosexual.,
[2]. Humans are evolutionarily designed to reproduce heterosexually., or
[3]. The causal relationship, [2] --> [1]
Are you really expecting a "mountain of evidence" in a blog post?
His main point, that intelligent people are more likely to seek novelty and deviate from evolutionary norms, seems plausible. And it's almost certainly addressed in greater detail by one of the many pointers to suggested reading.
Video games are the only reason I even have a Windows partition.
But if I don't trust the reviews, Yelp effectively degrades into a complicated remix of Google Maps.
Also, I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure it's standard to set it up on your own domain and forward data from any gmail.com addresses you care about.
Go write a compelling, well-cited account of all the things he's done to upset you or--even better--all the ways he's discriminated against women.
Publish it somewhere. On a blog, in a municipal paper, on TechCrunch, whatever. If you can actually write that story, do it. Make it good enough that people care.
But linking to gawker in the comments of an unrelated story probably isn't the best way to express your concerns.
Do you have a link to this article? I couldn't find it on either of those blogs.
EDIT: parent must mean this:
Here's a Harvard professor who advocates running barefoot on asphalt:
Have you seen Mozilla's 'Boot to Gecko' project?