ryanmim

Thanks! The hints can be toggled on or off with F3 (the feature is introduced later but the toggle works from the very first exercise).

I defaulted to showing them so that completely new Vim users don't get stuck or lost during the lessons, but maybe you're right and I should default them to off after the first couple of intro lessons.

Okay so normally I hate people that bring up gender, but there were some interesting correlations between professions and gender here. Assuming there aren't many guys named Sue. For example, meteorologist: 100% male. When I think meteorologist I think newscast in front of a greens creen so this is perhaps a case of my terrible misconceptions showing.

Also, WHY are things separated by color and opacity? If we're going by opacity, apparently one of the most populous and important professions is...race car driver. Really? That's one of the few professions on that huge infographic that is at maximum opacity?

Ya I checked out your root project, will give it a whirl when you open it up. I'm moderately interested in adding voice commands to an app I'm working on and haven't found a service that fits the bill yet.

This is a pretty good explanation of why almost all practical applications of NLP are now accomplished by statistics rather than fancy linguistic grammar models you might have read about in a Chomsky book.

Old school NLP has always fascinated me though, and I'm pretty excited about what might be possible in the future by using more than purely statistical methods for accomplishing NLP tasks. Maybe the author could have speculated more wildly in his prognostication ;)

There are two people talking in my head while I read this post. One says :

Too many people obsess about backends. Yes, build your startup in C# and a .NET stack if that's what your familiar with. The backend ultimately doesn't matter, and the faster you can create and then iterate on your product, the better off you'll be. The primary factor that will decide whether your startup is successful or not is if people like your product and actually use it. None of your users will know or care what you built it in, be it .NET, RoR, Django, Yii, whatever.

The other person in my head is saying. "OH MY GOD NO". I've used the .NET stack and various OSS stacks to build complicated web applications. From this experience, I've concluded that the .NET stack sucks. Yes it works, but almost any OSS Framework will provide a much better developer experience. Better while developing the initial product, and better when maintaining and extending it.

Hey thanks for this man. Yes Korsakoff's is something I've worried about, and the symptoms are terrifying. However, the cause of Korsakoff's syndrome is a vitamin deficiency, and it's easily avoided by an informed alcoholic who maintains a decent diet.

In this case I feel like a hopeless addict trying to rationalize his addiction in any way possible, but people who want to drink REALLY want to drink, and they will find any rationalization available. There needs to be unassailable reasons telling them that they shouldn't, in order for them to be effective.

Yup, the login wall is a major PITA. Enforcing that for people who simply want to read the content is a mistake IMO. However, Quora made the decision that it would force enough signups for it to be worth it...not sure I agree, but they have more data available on the issue than I do.

Quora is the only one of these that interests me primarily because most answers are posted by people using their actual names. Yeah it's not perfect and it has a lot of issues, but this is a big selling point for me. There are advantages to anonymity, but there are also advantages to sticking faces onto posts. Quora should be the place for the latter, and should play that up more.

I like this a lot. Let's be honest, there's not a lot of services built that are geared towards a small customer demographic of limited means. Which is what this service is geared towards. Those with huge expense accounts don't care about paying ridiculous rates for roaming charges. These types of services seem geared towards people who don't have that luxury and are in a location that doesn't have an internet connection of sufficient quality for skype. This is a demographic that I belong to for quite a few months of the year. ++ from me.

I drink way too much. I've accepted this. What stops me from drinking way too much? Not much, because I'm able to rationalize my drinking with the many beneficial effects touted. There's a lot of information about how drinking a bit is helpful for heart disease and how it basically reduces mortality across the board. More information is needed about how drinking is HARMFUL beyond cirrhosis and the short term effects (violence, drunk driving). I don't drive while drunk and I'm not a violent drunk, but I drink too much. I know I'm at risk for cirrhosis but I also think there are more dangers than simply that. These other negative effects need to be more prominent for those of us who are these "contributing to society" drinkers.

I like it, quite useful to be able to quickly preview the themes without having to wade through the description pages.

One thing that would make it much better (at least for me) would be the ability to filter by marketplace. Creative Market is by far my favorite because of their license terms (much better than Themeforest or WrapBootstrap).

This is interesting, but I don't see how it is news. Our brains can take gibberish and impart meaning to it if we are looking for it (as our brains are primed to in the example in this article). Maybe I'm missing the new insight, but this seems like a very old and already known thing. This is basically why you can see faces in clouds and things as weird as moldy bread--because your brain is looking for faces.

If you have enough written content that you've placed online, the US government can identify you anyway. A person's writing style and specific use of function words is their handwriting for the digital time. Creepy/cool linguistics.