Yet another example that years of experience is a poor measure of skill.
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As for loop unrolling, I bet you a loop with unrolled calls to 2 different unDRY functions will be slower (and not only because of the most certainly present extra branches to select for them)
Had they raised alarm early on, more countries would have enforced proper procedures (look at South Korea). Instead, the thing spread around and starts impacting economy.
To me, WHO lost all credibility.
Introduce land value tax.
In the countries using it, stop the mandatory Ponzi scheme retirement pyramid where young people are forced to pay a sizeable part of their paycheck while having no hope of receiving any in 30-40 years - that's straight up, time-delayed stealing.
Close the tax gaps used by corporations.
Provide free healthcare so people don't get ruined by medical emergencies.
Stop the student loan madness, provide free university education.
Restrict mortgage lending - it makes the property prices baloon in the long run and encourages housing bubbles.
Most importantly, start treating renewable energy and emissions seriously because we are destroying this planet with a speed with which we probably won't have to worry about economy after a few more generations.
Unfortunately, all of those would require enormous political changes and are impossible to implement.
The upside is that you can replace multiple "normal" ops people with just a few K8 folks but that also requires a bit of culture change of how you do development.
Kubernetes might not make sense for your small scale projects but it's great when used for enterprise scale microservices. It makes deployments easier, faster and more secure (with things like network policies, namespacing and RBAC).
Sweden is prototyping an electric highway for trucks. It'll make transport cheaper and less damaging to the environment.
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2012/04/spy-photo-camera-...
It makes it harder to see any details when the company wants to stay secretive about their new car.
You really have to be aware of what is happening though, it's hard to learn not to flinch/close your eyes when the hand is flying to you. But if you are completely relaxed and see it coming, with good footwork and balance you can dodge many of them. You don't actually have to move your head that much, it's just the tiniest distance that will take you away from the trajectory of the punch. The thing with punches is that once you throw a punch, you can't really change its direction or it will lose most of the momentum and speed... That's why it's possible to dodge them, because they fly into particular spot and you can just move away.
It's important because it lets you counter instantly. You can only really hit somebody when they are exposed, meaning not holding the guard - so when they are punching. If you were to block the punch with your hands, you couldn't react as quickly because your hands wouldn't be in the ready position. It's really good skill to have but takes years and years of practice to develop.
They literally decide lives of thousands of people when they change their algorithms. With one update, they kill thousands of websites someone lives off and then they replace them with big brands or their own services.
This isn't healthy for anyone and I wish there was more competition. It would do a lot of good to everyone.
Basically, whoever answers most of these questions correctly, earns $15,000. People submit MILLIONS of answers.
This list is then incorporated into the Xrumer itself.
I can tell you that these things are easily broken: a) Answering questions and building global list of answers, as in this case. b) Reading image captcha - spammers send it to Pakistani manual solvers for dirt cheap. c) More complex puzzle captchas can also be broken in software if a lot of websites implement them.
What works the best is using non standard html form field names. Also, try to not use text labels for the fields ( no "password", "captcha" etc. ) - because the software will try to match the best field by text surrounding it. It is better to use image for labels.
This solution will stop spambots because they simply match form field names. Unless someone specifically targets your website, in which case there's not much you can do.
From the most common of captchas, Mollom seemed to be the biggest pain in the ass for spammers. Mainly because it banned suspicious IPs ( you could solve the picture correctly and it wouldn't authorize it. )
Trying to emulate biological brains might not be the way forward. People tried to fly by constructing bird-like feathers and wings - it obviously didn't work. We had to understand the underlying principles governing flight. The same applies to creating neural networks.
There's some underlying principle the brain uses. It doesn't mean we have to crack brain structure to achieve strong intelligence.
We should look for inspiration in biological systems but we should not try to copy them.
I recommend the "Dirty Pictures" - a documentary about his life:
"According to flight attendants Amy Sweeney and Betty Ong, who contacted American Airlines during the hijacking, the hijackers had stabbed flight attendants Karen Martin and Barbara Arestegui and slashed the throat of passenger Daniel Lewin.Lewin, an American-Israeli Internet entrepreneur, had served as an officer in the elite Sayeret Matkal special operations unit of the Israel Defense Forces. Lewin was seated in 9B, and Suqami was directly behind him in 10B. The 9/11 Commission suggested that Suqami may have stabbed and killed Lewin after he attempted to stop the hijacking. Lewin was believed to be the first fatality in the 9/11 attacks."
PS: I was using AdSense from 2008 to 2013 - over 5 years so it's not like only new users got banned.
Ironically, what Google could be summed up as is a scraper website absolutely FULL of ads above the fold ( http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2012/01/... ). If you place ads like Google does, your website won't rank shit.