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Beatriz Gimeno, a feminist, writer, activist – and former head of one of Spain’s national equality bodies, the Women’s Institute – attacked the men for creating a female persona in their publicity for Carmen Mola books, over several years
I’ll believe it when Wall Street liquidates their real estate positions.
Have these executives shorted the housing market?
I thought management’s job was about creating “culture”.
Except when that culture is toxic
It'd be great if Snowden got a pardon in the process, too.
The Trump administration could do much more to damage Americans’ health than just repeal the Affordable Care Act and leave people without access to hospitals and medications.
And somehow they manage to tie it back to Trump
The 'Parse', 'Transform', 'Validate' icons look alot like Google Cloud Platform Icons.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vjm5YdmOH5LrubFhHf1v...
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest" - Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
I tend to think of self-interest being equivalent to selfishness. Your point makes me wonder if self-interest is not equivalent to selfishness, at least to Economists.
some time
There was a time you've seen more math notation written about anarchy? I'm curious. It'd be great if you can link.
I'd get rid of the manual process of driving to the office every day
Hmm. No one responded self-driving cars as a solution. Maybe with internet connectivity built-in so people can work en route.
Some companies have used it for language tutoring... What this change will do is chop off those offering free services at the knees and drive the premium services to Twilio, etc.
Google's a business. Why does it have the responsibility to pickup the tab for these businesses?
Feel free to write an app for non-Google Android users, but not many people will buy it or even encounter it
iOS apps generate more revenue than Android
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-app-store-revenue-per-u...
Google's closure compiler already addressed that
Can confirm. Happened to me.
Recently made it to the cancellation page. They offered two options: pay a penalty for canceling early, or get two months free.
Took the two months free and signed some agreements. Wish me luck!
any test that questions the motivations of the author without asking the author is a big baloney sandwich
English 101, Homework Assignment: Write a 8 page literary essay about book-X
I presented my thesis and draft to the the instructor. She told me that I was completely wrong and that this paper would receive an inadequate grade. I admit, like all my other English papers, this one was BS, too. That doesn't inherently mean it's incorrect, though. I went to the library, sifted through a bunch of academic journals (which the instructor believed to be the only legitimate source of truth, unsurprisingly), and found an article with a thesis and supporting evidence that paralleled my argument! I showed the instructor this paper, and just like that she said "oh, okay. The thesis makes sense." I received an A+ on the paper.
Informatics 101 'Social Networks', Pop quiz! "HTML is for the following... (check all that apply)"
Times up! The correct answer is "specifying the LOOK and FEEL of the webpage."
It was 2011, and the professor of this "Social Networks" class, ironically, had been throwing 'Web 2.0' all over his powerpoint slides. I politely consulted him after class, as to not embarrass him that HTML with inline styling is frowned upon, and styling should be specified in CSS stylesheets. It was a matter of principle, rather than pragmatism, that I wasn't penalized for this invalid quiz question. He responded "we can talk about JAVA and the document-object model if you'd like." I immediately dropped the course.
Oh, and he has tenure. (Fortunately in the 'Informatics' department, rather than my own Computer Science department)
My point with these two anecdotes is that in the case of the 'Social Networks' professor I could have, in theory, filed a complaint to university should the professor refuse to acknowledge the invalidity of his grading and material. The English professor asymmetrically held power. My grade is dependent on what she deems a valid interpretation. Sure there's a "rubric", but the same thesis I had went from a D to an A+ in a matter of seconds.
In both cases, I grew my distaste of academia. Despite abhorring my English class, I do appreciate nonsense literature. It satirizes the intellectuals randomly throwing around fancy words like 'Web 2.0', 'Java' and 'document-object-model' in the same sentence, the intellectuals who base validity solely on academic authority, the intellectuals who try to standardize intellect. I leave you with the poem Jabberwocky, by the master Lewis Carroll.
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
When comparing the types of function parameters, assignment succeeds if either the source parameter is assignable to the target parameter, or vice versa. This is UNSOUND because a caller might end up being given a function that takes a more specialized type, but invokes the function with a less specialized type.
A Google query for the definition of unsound: "not safe or robust"
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil...
You're portraying TypeScript as if it's perfect. Typescript is is permissive and structurally, rather than nominally typed. This is not TypeScript's fault. There will always be tradeoffs. Among other things in the FAQ, there is a section on how to prevent two types from being structurally incompatible. "A possible FIX if you really want two types to be incompatible is to add a 'brand' member"...
https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/FAQ#type-system...
In the ’80s, a few jugglers with academic backgrounds had developed something called “siteswap” — a mathematical notation for objects in motion.
Makes me wonder what other activities academics have / will invent notations for
It does not solve every problem JavaScript ever had. By definition of being a superset, it's still JavaScript. It just induces a prescription to mitigate symptoms of type unsafeness.
Null AND Undefined still coexist, though type safety helps. There's an idiomatic way to specify classes, as opposed to using a pattern of object returning closure function for instance. There's still both the == and === operators.
A problem beyond type-safety is the confusing semantics of 'this': https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/'this'-in-TypeS...
With just a few lines of JavaScript, engineers can move markets, change lives, and build the future.
Either this is exaggerated, or people write incomprehensibly dense JavaScript code.
Theranos said on Friday it has fired 155 employees
If you read the article it says fired. This is also reflected in the title, and in the headline.
What a coincidence Snapchat is supposed to IPO in 2017...
The wide array of topics studied by residents reflects the diversity of the residents themselves — some come to the program as new graduates with degrees ranging from BAs to Ph.Ds in computer science to physics and mathematics to biology and neuroscience, while other residents come with years of industry experience under their belts
I didn't even know Shopify was in the unicorn category. I previously worked on a project that generated coupon codes programmatically for a Spotify shop. I just closed my testing account a couple days ago, and thought to myself 'wow, Shopify is still a thing'. No offense, I'm a programmer so I'm completely ignorant to the value I guess.
Looks nice. But $40 bucks though?
Did they 'move' to Wechat? I went to school and made friends with chinese students. They were already on WeChat, and made a Facebook account after coming to the U.S. I agree, though, that they seem to have left Facebook.
Before actually reading the article and just the title, I was curious what's the association with Beats by Dre.
"Anti-uber gang"? How does the article not mention that Uber owns shares of Didi as a result of the truce in 2016? And that their CEOs are on each other's board.
The title "Send website events to Google analytics without code" is not true. "Follow the simple on-screen instructions to add a tiny piece of software on your website." That's like saying a manager can produce a software product without any code...
1. What if there was a function like the Y-Combinator that returns a fixed point?
My primary use case for Dropbox, actually, is getting videos onto my iPhone. You can't simply drag and drop a video file into the phone as a mass storage device. With ITunes, the sync feature purportedly sync the video to the device, and consumes space accordingly, but there's no way to access the video on the device. It's actually way faster for me to upload a video to Dropbox from my computer, and download the video on the Dropbox app into my photos. The video quality is excellent, too!
The 60,000 employees at Google seem to be making "great money". That seems like several Tons.