automatwon

Have these executives shorted the housing market?

Except when that culture is toxic

And somehow they manage to tie it back to Trump

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vjm5YdmOH5LrubFhHf1v...

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.

There was a time you've seen more math notation written about anarchy? I'm curious. It'd be great if you can link.

Hmm. No one responded self-driving cars as a solution. Maybe with internet connectivity built-in so people can work en route.

Google's a business. Why does it have the responsibility to pickup the tab for these businesses?

iOS apps generate more revenue than Android

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-app-store-revenue-per-u...

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!

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!"

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...

Makes me wonder what other activities academics have / will invent notations for

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...

Either this is exaggerated, or people write incomprehensibly dense JavaScript code.

If you read the article it says fired. This is also reflected in the title, and in the headline.