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I'd wager the use of "the" is mostly about making the meter work and having the iambic pentameter sound the way he wanted it to.

This isn't a data science question. Especially if the data science is blind to meter and to phonetics.

As a playwright, Chekhov is second only to Shakespeare.

And you get get through his 4 major plays in only a few days. There are even great adaptations on YouTube in English or Russian (with subtitles). Highly recommended.

No. Not even close. I assume you're talking about organisms with the complexity of animals.

Maybe the Wooly Mammoth project can give you some insight on how far we are from having DNA to making it into an organism: http://reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth/

It's easier to learn old tech than new tech. Copying manufacturing is easier than making new software.

I would pay >$100/mo for something that has intelligence. If you could create an AI to replace a junior marketing analyst, it's worth it. But you have to first talk with businesses and really understand what kind of intelligence they need.

Given how many of these app development shops there are out there, it's surprising that one of them hasn't hit a home run.

There's probably something inherent in the people, structure, and incentives that prevents it from happening.

I would assume that most companies that work remotely are flexible enough that you can squeeze a nap in.

(Waiting for the upcoming napjobs.io)

The book Programming Collective Intelligence has a step-by-step example of how to build a recommendation system. Highly recommended.

Knowledge is an interesting subject. When I read, I don't remember the exact order of words. Especially in the age of Google, we have a choice of what to burden our memory with and what to leave to Google. Are names and dates important? What's important is to have models of how things work in your mind. It is through the process of reading that we develop and refine these models.

In two years, I went from starting doing stand-up comedy out of boredom to getting third place in a contest at the best club in the state.

My advice is:

* Don't be afraid of being stupid or being unfunny.

* Do everything to kill fear. Face your fears to kill them.

* Follow your gut.

* Practice in front of a live audience as much as you can.

* Observe and notice everything. Question everything.

* When you're inspired to write a joke, notice the things that inspire you.

If you have a bunch of accounts, they are unsorted and you can't search through them. They are probably sorted by ID or something.

It adds some feedback to the user saying "I recognize the type of cart you've entered."

If you do many small tests, you can pick confidence level less that 95%. Even if you call tests at 70% confidence, as long as you are iterating rapidly, you'll end up ahead in the long run. Also, you can revisit the same tests later. As long as your testing ideas aren't prohibitively expensive in time and implementation, there's very little risk at calling tests below 95% confidence.

Is there a reason the todos list is a list of text inputs? It makes sorting them awkward because there's so little area that's draggable.

I'm Lithuanian and I think we have the best bread.

But what are the reasons for the more traditional kitchen? I haven't thought about it.

So, what about Basecamp Classic? That's something they won't sell to another company, but is it something they'll continue supporting? I'd imagine it's simple to maintain.

1. Apple won't release a new product category (like an iWatch). But they'll do just fine by having the best industrial design and hardware.

2. Bitcoin and other digital currencies will take the world by storm.

3. Google will make a major improvement in AI with Google Now.

4. There will be another SnapChat or Instagram like product that'll make communicating with phones fun in a new way.

5. The internet and social networks will continue to cause social upheaval in authoritarian nations.

6. Facebook will add auto-playing video commercials and people will hate them.

7. Low-end cameras will start dying off rapidly. There will only be phones and high-end professional cameras in the future.

8. As technology automates more and more things, it'll contribute to unemployment of people who are unprepared to be knowledge workers.

9. People will start taking MOOCs a lot more seriously as an alternative to higher education, especially in meritocratic fields. Not a big change in 2014, but it'll be more obvious.

10. TV will start feeling like print media in the face of the internet, it's inevitable.

https://github.com/aemkei/fishbone.js/ - A super lightweight (½kb) JavaScript library with automatic method chaining, automatic context binding, event support and simple inheritance. c-{{{-<

Easy to program, but how do you get it off the ground? It has the same chicken and egg problem every two-sided marketplace does. 37Signals can do this because they've built an audience.

Is this just 1v1? How many people could this scale to?

I would just bike around, lay at the beach, and eat great food. And I would not have a care in the world. Serious answer. That would satisfy me.

JavaScript Jabber and Ruby Rogues.

There are JS errors in the presentation and it doesn't show an example of an actual test.

What got you stuck on CasperJS?

I've been thinking about creating a web front-end to CasperJS.

Autechre is hacker music.

What does it look like? Add some screenshots.

What is it with women and tech?

Let's take another industry, like the entertainment industry, isn't it extremely sexist? They do things that are much more "worse", but there are plenty of women in it.

Or take an industry like medicine or law, do they have problems with sexism? (I don't know)

I don't think the problem in tech is sexism or misogyny. It's more likely to be a combination of poor marketing (it's simply not appealing to most women and women don't fetishize techies like they do doctors and lawyers) and, compared to say entertainment or advertising, there are fewer rewards in tech for being good looking or social or having a female perspective.

It's not bad. jQuery is a JavaScript library and you'll learn JS as you go. It's only bad if you fall into the stereotype of not caring and just copy/pasting jQuery snippets from Stack Overflow.

Especially for a young project, I think this is ok. You don't want it to be set in stone too early. Once there is an established ecosystem around Ghost, there will be a lot more pressure to keep it stable.

Yeah, probably. A closely related problem is cleaning up data. Something that can detect unclosed quotes and/or unclosed HTML tags. Something that can figure out when a word should be capitalized or lowercase.

Here's another problem: how do you make a field in a CSV that when you convert the document into JSON, the field becomes an array?