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Your own reply proves them very descriptive and close to reality: If ethnicity is interpreted by the reader as the best statistical signal (which conveys the bias of the reader, not of the resume) the "... actually meet the person... " is not going to happen. Reducing this to an information density problem explains nothing. Why do yo really don't like them?

A bit meager, but it could be FLUID: http://www.slideshare.net/anoras/ndc-2011-the-fluid-principl... (same author)

Summarizing the heise.de article: apparently someone put links to porn-broker trafficholder.com somewhere, there the requests got redirected to the freshly registered movfile.net, forwarding to redtube.net. On movfile.net the IP addresses got harvested. trafficholder.com was primarily used to generate traffic from Germany to the videos in question.

If this is what happened it seems a bit more far-reaching than just an exploit of IP law challenged courts.

"You better..." signals hat you don't agree because the quoted line does not fit your worldview. Meybe "You better" come with some support for whatever point you want to make?

Meanwhile:

http://beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/greece.ht... http://beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/hungary.h... http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/20496.php

Isn't it very ironic to read, buried within comments about the perils of javascript, about some more serious threat to the web ... [omitted question mark]

I ran into http://www.esop.pt/ a while ago which "aims to stimulate the market for open source solutions" in portugal. Oracle is one of its members. What exactly is their role? Gate keepers for governmental procurement? Their admission procedure at least seems a bit obscure.

That is what this article claims: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732399860... (2013)

You just did. And it shows in the stats I happen to see right now.

check: (> x y z 0) vs: if( x > y && y > z && z > 0)

Now the next question is: where do I need that for? Just let it soak in for a while: it is surprising how your solutions change if your tool works differently.

I've been busy with Scala for some time now, but the OO aspect also dominates the FP part. And that OO part is huge: traditional classes, case classes, traits (which are occasionally used standalone) static functionality not in the class but factored out in an object, structural typing just to name some.

There are many aspects I like of Scala, but simplicity is not among them. In teams you will have to have strong communication if you do not want to limit yourself to a subset of the language ("no fp" for instance)

Yes, of course. The article does that.

[23andMe] ... edged closer and closer to marketing their services as a way of predicting and even preventing health problems. And any kit intended to cure, mitigate, treat, prevent, or diagnose a disease is, according to federal law, a "medical device" that needs to be deemed safe and effective by the FDA.

You frame the three points a bit derogatory and seem to have missed the point of your customers.

> Windows was the OS that the company was also using for employee machines, so they knew it.

They understand it, have an idea about the cost and amount of support necessary. "They knew it" seems to convey that they were essentially stupid or not adventurous enough to try something else.

> The IT department only wanted Windows machines on their network

Again: a complete valid reason in my view. Here on this forum you have even people advocating that server and client in web apps should be written in the same language to keep things consistent.

> The customer was afraid of Mac OS X because they thought it would not be stable enough

You make that sound like there teeth were rattling in horror, but apparently failed to convince them that OSX would be stable enough?

I'm not a Windows developer or -user, indications that win 98 runs on my ATM also make me concerned.

But "muhaha, they are just stupid bricks for using windows" (no, you did not say that, but it sums the attitude) shows a lack of understanding and, as a consequence, does not advance the spread of alternatives into these environments IMO.

Do we agree then over the absolute measure of "elegance"?

Others already said it. Only to take the heat off Toyota a bit, two relevant questions from Renault drivers:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091121085512AA...

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?623742-06-Clio...!

In the meantime you might want to notate some ideas: http://scorecleaner.com/ (uses also C++) or do yourself a bit of algorithmic composing (http://www.symboliccomposer.com/page_main.shtml,. since the 90's). And together we wait impatiently for http://opusmodus.com/ to be available (down for maintenance right now).

Indeed is unusable for the points made here.

Under the graphics you have the links to the respective jobs. Just check for yourself what these "Go" jobs [1] and the "Scala" jobs [2] are. "Haskell" jobs are also interesting.

And more: don't forget that currently even Php ads feature the infamous "experience with functional programming (Lisp, Clojure, Haskell) is a plus" line.

[1] http://www.indeed.com/q-Go-jobs.html

[2] http://www.indeed.com/q-Scala-jobs.html

And not to cure diseases: http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-... (slow site warning)

I don't want to go too recursive, but have you ever worked for a boss who became one because he/she did not want to have one?

Remarkable features I found were: Trouble delegating work (it's out of their hands), don't want to be hampered by decisions made in the group, resorting to "because I don't want it" where factual arguments are asked for.

For your energy, attitude and stamina it seems better anyway to have a positive drive ("I do because I want...") and not being steered by avoidance.

http://digitaljournal.com/article/302333 discusses limitations of Diamond's approach, http://www.livinganthropologically.com/anthropology/guns-ger... mentions where the GGS approach to explain history falls short, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/08/03/ggs makes an interesting note of framing in GGS.

> Probably we will see less new justin timberlakes/drakes/britney spears level superstars, and more local/regional/niche stars.

This is being parroted around here for a while, but that does not make it more true. Big artists are less affected than small labels. See also: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/20/business/fi-cotown-i...

The dataset comes with GPS locations of users and venues. With that data alone you can retrieve individual addresses in not too densely populated areas. Missing links will get caught in the social net.

We already learned that Warhol's 15 minutes of fame should read 15 megabytes , but, to cut the "it's the users choice to post that data" apologists short: almost no-one I speak to understands the implications of all possible interpretations, classifications and groupings that their online traces allow.

You might try NSA, they have possibly even more data to boggle ones mind. You find that fascinating because of the means or of the ends of it?

Yes, it's only an anecdote, one of these which this kind of article provokes; nevertheless it summarizes the content nicely.

I was giving guitar lessons some 20 years ago, among my students a well-mannered and friendly little, maybe seven years of age. Being a bit shy he did not tell much about himself, but he did not study much and I tried to find out if he was bored with me or the instrument.

"It's just, that I do not have so much time to study. I also have recorder lessons on Thursday and I get some extra private lessons because it's not going so well in school"

As he continued he revealed a stunning package of forced child labour extending into the weekend. Keyboard lessons, swimming, soccer (training and competitions), judo (also contests every second weekend). Not a single free minute.

Halfway the year he stopped. On the time of the guitar lessons his parents had scheduled regular counselling with a psychologist.

This happened 20 years ago (in the Netherlands). While we tried to find a kindergarten for our oldest sun two years ago, we learned that we could opt for mathematical and English training in some of them (we live in Portugal right now).

I understand that parenting also means: offering your child a future. For some this means: education, keeping them busy, making them competitive as early as possible. Not having done "the best" for your child: a nightmare, a failure! But often doing your best is: having trust, do nothing and let things grow. No need to hack your children.

Paper here: http://people.umass.edu/gbecker/BeckerChes13.pdf

Careful though, antibiotics are not directed against viruses but bacteria. These in turn are not being "preempted" by vaccination, to use a threading term for a threat.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/medication/question...

As a challenge a Dutch research: http://www.vwa.nl/onderwerpen/risicobeoordelingen/bestand/22...

From the abstract (freely translated): "... guessed is that a third to half of resistance encountered in germs within humans is of agricultural origin."

Important is that not the antibiotics are transferred from animals to humans but the already resistant bacteria.

A short summary is here: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/08/31/Antibiotic-resist...

It's outlined here: http://www.x.org/wiki/guide/concepts/#xisclientserver . In a nutshell, X "serves" the application to the (in- and output) devices.

> ... is commonly used as the delimiter between first, middle and last names...

Where? Everywhere in the world?

Anyway, I thought that the reasoning that a customer could not be served because address or name "does not fit into the system" were frowned upon since the time of COBOL mainframes, but seeing this whole thread with its resort to a hyperbole of "0.01%" cases is a welcome contrast to the otherwise high aiming goals plastering the homepage of this site.

Interesting point concerning net-neutrality:

First this:

This proposal will end discriminatory blocking and throttling and deliver effective protection of the open internet. It sets out clear rules for traffic management on the Internet, which has to be non-discriminatory, proportionate and transparent.

Then that:

Companies would however be allowed to differentiate their offers (for example by speed) and compete on enhanced quality of service. There is nothing unusual about this – postal services (express mail) and airlines (economy/business class) have done this for decades. But this is subject to a vital pre-condition: that the quality of open Internet must not be impaired.

There is without doubt an asymmetry at play. Try to read the following headlines with reversed roles: http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/us-ambassador-to-spai... In many countries the patience is running out. If that turns out to have political consequence remains to be seen. But I do not believe that all governments are the same in that respect.

I don't believe what I'm reading here: You suggest that the medical industry is more or less a monopoly / oligopoly with lack of competition and at he same time barf at people dependent on that system to keep out of the discussion? Maybe you (or I) missed a sarcasm tag ... Otherwise it might be the place to remind you that the medical industry does not operate on a free market because sick people mostly don't have much to choose from. I cannot imagine why the profit seeking aspect of that industry should not be questuined and/or observed?