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> I think you need to add a little more empathetic wiggle room for things you may not understand entirely.

You may be right that victims of trauma are not entirely understood. Even so, you seem to be suggesting that society _should_ "avoid provocative subjects entirely" and "pursue ignorance", as the parent puts it, to avoid upsetting victims of trauma. In the end, is that a strategy that will actually help any of us?

After you're done with vimtutor, check out the book 'Practical Vim' by Drew Neil. Also check out his vimcasts.org site, which has some great screencasts for free.

I usually click the link first. But sometimes I'll read the comments first. And, on occasion, I've skipped the story altogether because the comments made it clear that the story was not worth the time to read.

Have you ever considered funding enough to attract people who have financial obligations, such as kids, a spouse and a mortgage? It seems like a huge, untapped, resource that no one else is going after.

10-15% less salary does not equal "several magnitudes" more risk. To my mind, for a funded company, the risk is the same for founders and employees. The worst that can happen for both is unemployment.

Ah yes, the good old days.

Where did that headline come from?

mechanic = not respectable job, programmer = high society. Interesting classifications. Very different from the way I think about these jobs.

You don't have the right to never be offended.

First thing I thought of was photos, and they are all on the computer. Which is backed up, but onsite.

> along with an invasion of a country thousands of miles from home

The U.S. didn't invade Iraq as a response to terrorism. They invaded Iraq because of the threat of "Weapons of Mass Destruction". Many people just assumed Iraq was behind 9/11 simply because the government wanted to invade them after 9/11, and the government did little to dispel that mistaken notion. And we all found out that Iraq having "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in the first place was a mistaken notion as well.

I only got a third of the way through it. It is interesting, but not really well written. There is no overarching narrative -- it's basically a collection of dry snippets. But the ideas are fascinating. I have every intention of finishing it.

The parent used the word "Terrorist", but in that context, I think of it as a "Resistance Fighter". It would have been the people in charge, in this case the Nazis, who would have used the label "Terrorist".

I'm sure these people would laugh at a discussion of how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin, but this is just an updated-for-the-space-age version of that discussion.

Doesn't seem to be working.

I agree. I can't tell you how many times I've heard about interesting web sites and checked them out only to find that I cannot do a single thing until I create an account. No demo, no trial, no nothing. Of course I just leave.

Chrome 34.0.1847.116 m Windows rejects it even with the "Check for server certificate revocation" _disabled_

I hope it doesn't take 10 years.

That's what jumped out at me as well. First the article extols how the Wisdom of Crowds is smarter than the experts. Then it goes on to say how some of the crowd are superforecasters, (essentially experts), and the rest of the crowd makes no difference.

It would be interesting to see how small the group of superforecasters would need to get before their accuracy falls below that of the CIA analysts.

AR is not just about persistence. AR is an object-relational mapping which maps an obect oriented object in your code, to a row in a relational database table. It is an adapter between two different ways of representing data. But don't forget that Objects are not just data, they are also behavior. They are your domain. The 'object' comes first and the 'relational' comes second. AR encapsulates your data and makes database access transparent, but it still represents your domain.

Martin Fowler's Catalog of Patterns: http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/activeRecord.html

Shareholder litigation is typically brought under federal securities laws. In this case IBM misled the market by failing to disclose material adverse information which caused the stock price to fall. To prove you suffered losses you only have to show that you bought stock during the time period affected, and lost money as a result of the information coming to light.

This is interesting. Investors have a right to all material information about a company, and public companies are obligated to provide that information, and SEC regulations require that they do so. But, in this case, that information was classified, so IBM would be breaking the law by revealing it. Conflicting laws.

If the shareholders win, who knows, we may see more lawsuits like this. Maybe that would compel these companies to stand up to the government.

"please don't set up a strawman about how it's not statistically valid when in fact there is no way any such endeavour could be."

So you agree that it's not statistically valid. Therefore it's not a strawman argument.

"50% of your capital gains are taxed"

True, but that is an exemption that gets used up. There is a $750,000 lifetime capital gains exemption. Which most people don't hit, but a successful founder could.

Nice idea. I like the clean interface and it's very responsive. Nice comparison feature as well. I think you need some kind of canonical name resolution though.

For example, searching for 'Moscow' returns nothing -- but it is found as 'Moskva'. Also, nothing is returned for 'Nairobi', but it's there as 'Jomo Kenyatta International' which is their airport. Not exactly obvious.

Overall very nice work.

Just that I would point out that Peter King (R-New York) has supported terrorist organizations himself, namely the Irish Republican Army.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King#Support_for_the_I...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-10-2011/radical-...

The reproduction or the distribution of copyright material is a felony.

(Who knows, the MPAA and RIAA might be up on Capitol Hill as we speak begging for access to this data.)

If you like the vim key bindings, and you use Chrome, you should check out Vimium. It will let you browse without ever touching the mouse.

Actually, if you are in 'insert' mode in Vim all the time "you're doing it wrong". Vim shines when editing and tweaking existing code. You should be in 'normal' mode almost all the time, where you do your "thoughtful, creative, deliberate process" by reading and navigating the code base, and reformatting, moving, copying and deleting code, to get it just the way you want.

If you are just doing straight-ahead typing, you're right, Vim won't help.

The book "Practical Vim" has a nice analogy with how artists work. "Pause with your brush off the page." Painters do a lot of things besides applying paint to the canvas. "The painter does not rest with a brush on the canvas. And so it is with Vim. Normal mode is the natural resting state."

The author's point that the most successful forms of Bayesian statistics accord much better with sophisticated forms of hypothetico-deductivism is reminiscent of the epistemology of normative value(s) which furnish a provisional lens for the analysis of the systemization of statistical transparency.

OK, half of that sentence is from an academic bullshit generator. I won't tell you which half.

Unfair, I know. That paper is clearly not meant for the general public, but still, learn how to communicate.

Depends how you look at it. A minute and a half a day? Doesn't sound too bad when you say it that way. A 3-hour outage every 4 months? My cable company can barely do that.