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I agree.
But I do not have the time to go back and do another degree on design. Try convincing people with money to shell out extra for someone with good design experience.
I guess once we have millions of customers we might have to think about it - but small companies without much resources its hard to justify spending a lot of resources on good design.
Even though Ed has a really cool project I am guessing since he does not have a business model it must be hard for him to work on it :(
Unless he figures out how to convince people who are :
1| C# Developers
2| Interested in OS development
To give him money for his work its going to be a tough sell - sadly.
Babel has way too many errors.
I do not care if I am a grandpa for using 2014 tools - but I am not pushing ahead until things calm the fuck down.
"Set of Standard Resources"
Check out Material Design by google - its been a lifesaver to me who is from a very technical background. Best part is with very little work you can really impress your bosses !
Good Luck
I have been seeing a lot of talk about JSPM.
How is it different from NPM ? since I just use it to do everything.
Found the brit !
You can always see biases in each case.
Bill Gates, Musk, etc are going to lose a fair bit of their power, prestige and wealth when someone does finally create super intelligence - Windows and Space X are great but those achievement will be dwarfed by whoever comes up with "superintelligence"
Ray Kurzweil's optimism comes from the fact that he will be unemployed if the govt bans A.I research.
And someone who works as a day journalist needs to make sure they meet the daily quote of generating clickbait traffic - its easiest to do it by writing something that is counter to whatever viewpoint is trendy this month.
Looking at history and how humanity dealt with technology - its fairly impossible to enforce any form of restriction on AI research.
We cannot stop >100,000 individuals from taking over an area larger than ireland in the middle east - good luck stopping the maths whiz with a pen.
I find it funny that we leave it to the economist to decide the fate of research.
I remember in uni I found EE topics much harder and boring then Software topics. Anything below C is a big nope. Verilog, VLSI, FPGA, anything to do with embedded IoT.
Yeah america wont survive if kids today stop valuing EE topic just due to some misguided economical models/interpretation.
The rockets that will land on mars wont be designed solely by software guys - it will require a lot of EE innovations - if america gives up then some other country will take its place.
Reminds of the movie Interstellar.
This is so annoying.
There is no shortage of things for people to do - especially if you are young.
On one hand the government cannot figure out how to pay for rising education cost, healthcare cost, doing simple fixing of roads, etc.
On the other hand young people who are more than qualified for all sorts of work are unable to find work - or make ends meet.
Something is terribly gone wrong.
I agree strongly with this - its the same flawed logic when it comes to "idealistic democracy in the middle east".
Once the poor have some access to social media - it will automatically generate demand for more and better services.
Richard Hamming ( the person who came up with hamming distance ) has an interesting insight - based on the rate of sub-fields being created in mathematics - he concluded that by the year 2000 there would be 1000 different sub-fields for every mathematical subfield !
Do the people in power expect everyone to know everything ?
Knowledge is important - but society will stop working if everyone spends their lifetimes studying.
I read it in hacker news a while ago - the amount of new information we are introduced daily in 2015 was equivalent to what humans received in their lifetimes - for most of human history.
We need better methods to organize information - ( this is why google has its insane valuation - and no its not a bubble )
It should not take me 20 years to understand mathematics at the level of newton - how am I supposed to understand another 400 years of maths before I am homeless ?
Its a difficult question to answer but I think its a question my generation has to find an answer - and fast.
Sublime Text 3 works really well for what I need.
I tried atom editor / shell / electron ??
But it seems its in constant flux. I am waiting for things to settle down and then move on to using it since its open source.
I think the creator of sublime text took a long vacation and he deserves it.
I am not sure if research is getting more expensive.
The biggest problem with particle colliders is not the experiments themselves but paying researchers money to slough through the data.
I am highly skeptical of anything coming out of Accenture. What do they even do in 2015 ?
Last time I heard - they operate on the margins of global inequality - outsourcing anything they can get their hands on to pay pennies on the dollar for the same job in developing countries.
"Our job as leaders is to create the right environment "
Nicely sums of their viewpoint - they do not want my generation to became leaders. Millennials are not there to enrich you - they are in the business of destroying your business model.
The videos are good but something is just off ( uncanny valley ?) about the way the person presents. It seems really fake :(
Doesn't LiveScript already have it ?
As a mere mortal - How hard would it be for a day programmer to built something cool like an JavaScript engine ?
I sometimes have crazy thoughts about the world ending.
How hard would it be to built your own javascript engine from scratch ?
This law is so stupid that it turns out and becames really funny.
You might have american citizens who are the descendants of lincoln - but just because they forgot to pay some "money" - they are not americans anymore.
Punishment and vindication seems to be american way.
Took a entire module on Bayesian Method in University.
Failed it.
Gave the exam a second time - this time I spent the whole summer studying it - failed it again :(
At this point I think bayesian methods is one of those things like Monads - you either understand it or you never will.
Hopefully there is someone out there who finally writes a good book to explain it to the masses of simpler minds.
Read "Learn you a good haskell" - and practice the exercises in that book.
It helped me a lot to understand the practical side of functional programming.
For a book that maximizes the utility of functional programming in your everyday life I would recommend "functional javascript" by the famous author of underscore.js
The more 'batteries included' something is the more time you'll spend learning about the eco-system and less about the language per-se.
Not necessary. As a young programmer who did not grow up in the java dominated world of 1990-2008.
I took one look at Java and noped the fuck out.
I found C to be more useful.
But its hard to beat the simplicity of java-script.
Its market forces that created this condition.
I remember reading about this expert - he spent 20 years becoming an expert on blade design for aircraft engines.
We need more people like that but its hard to think what incentives we provide to people to chug through grad school. Its only in countries like germany where such incentives exists - in the anglosphere - its up to the parents.
There are obvious problems with that model - the thing is you need both - a lot of generalists and an equally large number of specialists for society to function.
But given how centrally we try to control everything its always one or the other rather a mixed bag.
The open source world is flouring in 2015.
There is no shortage of amazing teams working on amazing projects on the web.
Its hard to single out just one of them - so its best if we could know more about your background.
If you are unable to find anything that is good enough then just start your own !
Do not be be demotivated - as long as you find it useful - someone else somewhere will also find it useful.
Even simple logging libraries have their audience.
So good luck !
Its different though - since water is very basic. A lot like food.
The whole thing with california reminds me of the story about that one civilization in the pacific - "what were they thinking when they cut down the last tree ?"
Water exists until it doesn't.
The main reason Asynchronous programming exist is because file operations are slower than CPU.
With SSD and more hardware innovation how true will that stay ? I do think evangelizing async programming is a good think.
Async programming is essentially deferring some task so that your CPU stays busy.
However you cannnot async your entire application.
At some point you need to gather the various pieces of all your async call to perform some needed calculation. That is the main pain point of Async programming.
Its the same everywhere.
Programmers underestimating the value/knowledge of accountants/lawyers.
Businessman assuming tech work is simple.
People by default assume what looks simple for someone to do must be simple - even if they spent 10,000+ hours practicing it.
ad hominem attack much ?
Sure - you should have told the British to stay the fuck away from the Indian subcontinent.
"knowledge of biology"
I am not sure you fully appreciate what " knowledge of biology" means. As a programmer who did a lot of molecular biology in the past - doing molecular biology is not simple. The learning curve for a lot of biological topics - especially the ones that get close to organic chemistry is really steep.
China is almost like a big blackhole.
Destroying industries one by one - the coolest thing about it is they are only doing it to improve the standard of living for their people - having a global monopoly is not the #1 reason.
Like the rest of the world's economy wont matter and are like small planets.