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by jfaucett 10y ago
There's two massive (i.e. large GDP und PPP) largely homogeneous markets in the world: the USA and China. If you want to hit the Chinese market with your products knowing Mandarin and the culture is essential, just as knowing US cultur
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The World in 2050: will the shift in global economic power continue? [pdf](pwc.com)
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As much as I feel sad about losing so many amazing languages, these arguments are weak emotional appeals at best. The only legitimate argument you can make for keeping minority languages around is to basically reframe the context and say yo
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by jfaucett 10y ago
unfortunately, i agree with you. Ive moved to elixir for all web work and the erlang vm just blows ruby out of the water at restapi/web services stuff. Im a huge ruby/rails fan though, and have earned a living off the ruby ecosyst
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Hi Alan, Do you think we'll ever have a programming language that isn't fully text based and gets closer to a direct mapping of our own thoughts than current systems? If so any ideas what properties this language would have?
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The Monty Hall page(math.ucsd.edu)
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I'm mixed on your views, I agree with your math problem analogy, but I think there is general advice - just as there are general properties of numbers - that can always lead to better financial outcomes if people abide by it. For insta
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Borges has been my favorite author ever since I first read El Aleph. His work is amazing, and it sometimes surprises me how few of the "non literary scholar" crowd have read his works, since so many of his stories are crazy enjoya
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The Dawn of 3D Games(grenouille-bouillie.blogspot.com)
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Exactly this. I moved to Germany around 6 years ago, and I've noticed huge differences in cost of living just in the few cities I've lived in (southern Germany was the most expensive i.e. Munich). Also, as someone who has lived in
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by jfaucett 10y ago
This goes a lot deeper than the article seems to suggest. There was an quiz on spiegel a while back that went in depth into the hidden meanings that only HR experts can extract from these letters ( http://www.spiegel.de/unisp
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"As a result of the legal battle the site (sci-hub.io) just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.&quo
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by jfaucett 10y ago
from googling and looking at the source this looks like it has nothing to do with c, its more of a logic error where a handler delegates control to another process, curl for example, based on image type. I could be wrong but thats what it l
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by jfaucett 10y ago
i agree with you, but am doubtful as to whether they'll do it. The gov't and its nearest banking buddies benefit enormously from the new money before it inflates outward across the economy and devalues.
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I can second this. It gives plenty of working examples and lays enough groundwork so you can dig deeper where you need to.
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by jfaucett 10y ago
I think this boils down to just knowing what you are. Are you a computer scientist or a programmer? These are two very different things - as much as many people like to think they are not. To be a good (or very good) general software progra
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by jfaucett 10y ago
"What in particular do you like about it?" As someone who has also used Erlang in the past I can tell you what's nice about Elixir: super modern developer friendly ecosystem. Mix - the pkg manager - is dead simple and does th
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by jfaucett 10y ago
So the real question in the article boils down to a moral dilema: Should a government ban ideologies which it considers could lead to detrimental outcomes for society, when said ideologies do not directly cause physical damage on anyone or
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by jfaucett 11y ago
thanks, my device was too small and the methodology link wasn't visible, I found it after zooming out though. methodology: http://rsf.org/en/detailed-methodology questionnairre: http://rsf.org/site
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by jfaucett 11y ago
Can anyone provide: 1. What factors were used in deriving this list? 2. Who funds this project? I can't find it anywhere on their site.
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Introduction to Randomness and Random Numbers(random.org)
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The median of a trillion numbers(matpalm.com)
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The gap between the premises and conclusion of this argument seems broad to me... Here's the summary: (leaving out some smaller arguments i.e. scala/rust vs Go language philosophy) 1. Go challenges peoples identity. 2. Challenging
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The Reading Algorithm(github.com)
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Computer Science Field Guide(csfieldguide.org.nz)
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by jfaucett 11y ago
"1. There are libraries for that." Yes, but I just think unicode support is so pervasive its not something you should really leave up to a library in 2016. Still this is just my biased opinion as a developer who needs it on virtua
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by jfaucett 11y ago
I'm not a big OCaml user, have used it on occasion for a few small projects and I liked it, but from what I remember, I think a few things are missing from this list if OCaml wants to obtain widespread adoption. 1. Really good unicode
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by jfaucett 11y ago
Are we really already far enough along in understanding genetics to do a better job than the process of natural selection? Given, we've been manipulating it well for over a century now, which makes me wonder what percentage of the glob
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by jfaucett 11y ago
First "expert" should be defined. If by expert you mean someone better than 90% of all humanity at some task X, then the time to get to this level could be orders of magnitide smaller than a 95%, which itself is orders of magnitud
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by jfaucett 11y ago
these books are so incredible well written, but because of their style - very inner thought and subtlety focused - I think any director would have a difficult time realizing the intricacies and tense plots of the books. But if captured in t

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