James_Duval

Well, even if the price doesn't go up you may be able to increase your original investment with a DRIP. BTC don't give dividends.

They are not scared of homosexuals, but of homosexuality. It represents a threat to set values and a set way of living to certain individuals. If it wasn't considered a threat to those values, why suppress it? It's homophobia.

I hope that most people would say the same thing as seivan in a face-to-face conversation. I know I would.

Quite simply, they thought it would be too hard for me. I don't actually program for a living (yet?), although I do work in a related field where programming knowledge is useful.

So perhaps there was something to it, but I still enjoy programming so I'm going to continue with it as a hobby.

No, in fact they actively discouraged me from pursuing an interest in programming.

A CPU will be better off mining Vertcoin in the long-term, as it uses what they call Adaptive N-Factor scrypt algorithm, meaning that RAM becomes more important over time than raw processing power.

That, of course, is assuming that they have equal value, which clearly they don't.

Also, as it's still a new coin with less take-up than Doge you may be able to 'get in on the ground floor', so to speak, but it's less likely to soar in price in my opinion.

That leapt out at me, too! The image used on his Wikipedia page is very Jobsian, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satya_Nadella.jpg

I find that much less readable than S-expressions. Well-formatted S-expressions actually make it pretty fast for me to find what I'm looking for in code, probably faster than in C-like languages - and I mostly use languages which are more-or-less C-like.

I thought that your GP did hold your full medical history. I did some work doing data entry for a GP, and most patients had their full medical history on file at the surgery - in both physical and digitised form for the majority.

On the Dogecoin subreddit, people have been arguing that Bitcoin is gold, Litecoin silver, and Dogecoin is money.

Another adjective springs to mind, also beginning with "P-A"...

Great to see this confirmed. ~ an SEO

It is indeed still awful. I know someone who works in Magento and they frequently come to me with genuine WTF bits of code. Added functionality would be a nightmare.

A rewrite is sorely needed, and will help developers who have to work with and on Magento to save their bosses time and money.

I think masters of great works are pretty well-recognised in Japan. Matsuo Basho, for instance.

I have to admit I don't see the difference between what Udacity are doing in this particular course and what Open University has been doing for years.

It is different from BTC - it's a fork of Litecoin, meaning it uses scrypt rather than SHA-256 and cannot be effectively mined using BTC-oriented ASICs.

There is already at least one scrypt-focussed ASIC, however. https://alpha-t.net/product/scrypt-asic-miner/

Twitter - yes at least one https://twitter.com/tipdoge, Email - I've seen rumblings, but not now I think.

Most of these fall under:

They can get a better deal (non-monetary) elsewhere

Just won the lottery, close relative received terminal diagnosis, got pregnant, believed their horoscope, saved enough to retire - these are all cases where someone believes they can get more value for themselves by leaving their job.

Spouse has had an affair with a co-worker probably goes under "not happy with the culture"...

You might like Clearly? I've found it pretty useful, especially for Wikipedia articles with big, complex tables.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkii...

I get the appeal of a premium service, but what's wrong with ArsTechnica or The Register?

I'm constantly impressed by the quality of these site's articles (although I find The Register difficult to get on with for the same reasons I find Private Eye difficult to get on with).

Oh yes, that's what I was thinking.

I wasn't implying that kaizen was causing culture which was causing JRPGs. I was implying that the same culture was causing kaizen and JRPGs.

I was also talking only about kaizen, rather than about any of the other management ideas touched on in the article.

Could such attitudes form part of an explanation for the JRPG/WRPG gulf?

JRPGs typically encourage training, finding efficient ways to grind (improving processes) and perfecting character builds through trial and error - at least on the first playthrough. This seems like a Kaizen approach.

WRPGs typically encourage a focus on fight-by-fight tactics and a priori evaluation of build options and strategies to find an 'optimal' team, tactic, strategy and build. This seems like a 'secret formula' approach to management I've seen a lot in my own professional life.

At their worst, JRPGs are grindfests where the gameplay consists of finding ways to minimise that grind or maximise efficiency.

At their worst, WRPGs are spreadsheet and inventory management simulators.

I think I am stretching a little here (many Japanese RPGs are indistinguishable from so-called WRPGs), and I appreciate that this is something of a tangent, it was just something that struck me.

I wonder if people who came of age after that period see him more as a global good guy and philanthropist

From personal experience, almost exclusively.

The difference is more marked outside the tech sector, too. None of my acquaintances in the 19-30 age range outside the tech industry consider Gates evil, and many love him.

Within the tech industry, I can think of one acquaintance within that age range who considers Gates evil -- and he is exactly 30.

It's difficult for people of my generation to quite understand Microsoft's wrongdoing during that period, when now the company's not nearly so powerful. The 'evil' all seems quite abstract and far away, while the Gates foundation seems to have much more direct results.

My results are skewed because I know an awful lot of people who work for charities and non-profits, who'll naturally have a better opinion of someone who works in the same (ish) sector.

I think it's supposed to be useful insight into how you can improve your approach to daily life, nothing more -- at least in the context of being posted to Hacker News, that's what it is. It's a dirty cognitive hack to help you look past high-level concepts rather than anything academic.

I had absolutely no FP background and I found it fantastic.

Hard, yes, but fantastic.

You have to be prepared to put in the hours that the course says you should put in, and you have to be prepared to spend a lot of time reading about other people's confusion on the discussion forums.

You used to be able to do this, though.

You'd have to eat it first, and servers can be crunchy.

Typically, that would be Amazon, or the big banks. Starbucks is actually a new one on me.

Really glad to see Sussex getting recognition for their work.

The fantastic thing about Sussex is that they are passionate and enthusiastic about teaching non-scientist students about quantum physics - and talented teachers as well.

I think that they are saying that Scala is the proverbial bread being offered to you, and your concerns about productivity are akin to insisting that your bread be soaked so that it's easy to eat.

If that is what they're saying, I disagree with them.