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Did I say I don't know the space? Does it sound like I never did front-end development? You should learn how to parse properly. I tried it, it sucks, and that's why.

From my very limited view in my opinion it's not worth it. There is an abundance of new frameworks and libraries and everybody wants to go for the "new cool thing". Things break a lot, things change fast and you need to always learn new stuff which are not necessarily better. It seem annoying and overkill to keep up with everything in the front-end world. Plus, there are no interesting problems to solve there.

If you want to learn probability and statistics I recommend http://probabilitycourse.com

For linear algebra I heard Paul Dawkins' document is great, it's not on his site anymore but you can find it online. I've read calculus 1 and 1/3 of calculus 2 and it's good material.

What about the design? The user interface is important obviously, do you know design 'well enough' to make a passable interface or do you work with a designer?

>Their open-source friendliness has unfortunately coincided with a decline of their respect for user privacy and choice (Windows 10).

As far as I know they give you the option to opt out of everything. Are they bad even for asking?

>I must have misunderstood this somehow, because this is just too idiotic otherwise.

You did misunderstood. Belgium incorrectly offered tax aid to companies and now it's required to rectify it, hence said companies must pay what is legally required.

The second most important thing is taking notes (by hand). The most important thing is applying that knowledge, so doing exercises of various sorts.

You say you are having trouble retaining details, how fine grained are we talking about? Because you WILL forget some details, it's unavoidable.

This is more than feasible in many European countries (and not only).

Switzerland is the most unfriendly country for non-EU.

I tried Pelican just to see how they work and what's so special about static site generators. The downside for me was having to go through the process of re-generating the site and committing just so you can fix something as simple as a grammar error or a comma. It gets old fast IMO. The other annoyance was with images included in the post. You have to copy then write the image path because you don't have something like a pop-up box which just selects the image.

So I switched to ghost and I'm fairly happy for now. The downside of this is that I have to pay ~$4 a month for a shared hosting, which is fine by me.

The registration fees are very low and they're a yearly fee which doesn't make that a big burden.

>"keeping desirable domains available"

Eh, they're more like keeping the domains and selling them to the highest bidder. You're defining the "really really want" here as the entity with the biggest pocket. Domains cost so little for a reason, so everyone can afford them but obviously some people abuse this and it's why we need more oversight. IMO of course.

How does working remotely..work exactly? I know there is a contract but assuming you are from the other part of the world, aren't you at risk of not getting paid if something happens to the company or they start acting unethically? Lawyers can get involved but at that point lawyers might cost more than what you need to recover. Example: US company and European programmer.

No, but I do listen to a variation of sounds from here[1]. I found it's much better than complete silence.

[1] http://www.noisli.com

>There's really no "right" answer to how asynchronous courses should be.

Sure, but given Coursera's popularity it seems to be doing something right.

>On the other hand, if you run things on a tight schedule, real life will get in the way for a lot of people in that many of the better courses are fairly significant time commitments.

But is it? The time commitments are watching few videos, learning and doing the assignments, all of this in a week. I think it's enough even for people working full time. If you don't have enough time on your hands to do all this, I'd argue you don't have the time required to complete the course.

Furthermore having time constraints is very important for students to keep on track.

I did follow a few courses on coursera and I remember the professor saying that the number of students who successfully completed the first/previous iteration of the course was around ~5% or less, so I'd say you are right on the money.

That is a big reason why Coursera is so appealing and it won in the MOOC race. By having a few open sessions a year, they can provide official support from course TA and students all gather in an active forum to discuss the material and help each other. It's why MIT's OpenCourseWare is not nearly as popular as Coursera. I'd argue it's a must for the to keep going with this approach, otherwise it will turn into another OpenCourseWare.

>what risk do you take by going on a vacation for a few weeks?

But what about afterwards? Assuming this to be true, you just return to normal life after a few weeks?

>And don't forget, BBC is also funded by a government. So is Canadian CBC. CNN also gets a lot of gov contracts and gov crossover.

I don't know if BBC is, what is your source on that? As for the others, they may receive money from the government but they are now owned by the government like sputnik. I don't think either are remotely comparable to sputnik though.

The source of the news always matters and it's fair to point out if they are heavily biased.

Sputnik[1] is a Russian government-controlled website with very little credibility when it comes to anything Western. Secondly, this is Assange, while no doubt the US is guilty of a lot of things, Assange and Wikileaks' purpose seem to be an anti-US organization at this point.

I also find it ironic how a group "dedicated to transparency" aren't themselves transparent with their finances.

>The WikiLeaks chief said the US investigation of himself and others involved in leaking sensitive government information is a prime example of Washington engaging in lawfare

>"I'm an Australian, Why Is the US Investigating Me for Espionage?"

Is he serious?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_(news_agency)#Receptio...

I've been there and often am there. The problem for me is that I consume too much irrelevant and useless content. Browsing reddit, HN and other sites, reading many news stories and blog posts, all of this impacts how much actual work I can do and how much I can learn that is really relevant to my work. So to be more productive you have to select what you think is important to read and realize you can only read so much in a day until your brain says "stop".

But to achieve productivity you have to learn discipline. Motivation doesn't last and there are no "tricks" or shortcuts to being productive if you want long-term benefits. As Jim Rohn said "suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret".

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64341.The_Metamorphosis_o...

I don't like it. To me it looks like a doodle a 12 y.o. made and reminds me of comic sans.

3K is not on the low side, it's at the bottom of the barrel. The project doesn't sound simple at all (on the contrary) and the time frame is short. Is 3K for each OS platform or for all three?

Assuming the latter and assuming you work 5 days a week 8 hours a day for 5 weeks, it amounts to 200 hours. You will be working for 15 pounds an hour.

A user above mention Microsoft's PhotoDNA. He could run the flagged images through that first and if it returns nothing maybe look at it.

Or don't look at it until a certain number of users flag it but still run it through the PhotoDNA. Now I am curious how imgur handles this problem.

Doesn't there need to be a "report abuse" button on each image? Users could report it and only then would he use something like Microsoft's PhotoDNA (which an user mentioned above).

We sleep in cycles which last about 90 minutes each. Assuming it takes you around 15-20 minutes to go to sleep you wake up at the end of a sleep cycle and don't feel drowsy. What also helps is going to sleep at the same hour every day, like in your case.

I did the exact same thing as you, I would always go to bed at 11.30 PM every day and wake up at 6AM. After a while I'd wake up a minute or two before the alarm went off.

I think your point is interesting but the article refers to company secrets mostly.

Please stop recommending this book if you have no idea what's it about.

How long can Microsoft keep bing at float? I have several times compared the search results between bing and google and bing still has much more to grow.

Is Microsoft running bing at a loss?

>So if you're in the EU or the US, even large parts of Asia, you're probably safe.

Well, Germany announced that it accepted a patient with Ebola.[1] I guess it's not completely out of the question now?

Wouldn't it make more sense to go where the virus is and not bring it home?

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/109...