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Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.
That is an often repeated but mistaken myth.
There aren't many reasons for a company to agree going through a due-diligence except for the chance to being bought, unfortunately some companies use due-diligence as a research tool into markets they think they might be interested in with no real intention of actually purchasing the inspected company, sometimes even developing a competing product at the SAME time.
"It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission"
So by that line of reasoning I assume that O(1) is reserved for the author.
2) Not really sure about this one, but my guess would be that he is reusing the Nginx server in-front of the Rails app.
I doubt they would have been this quick or this forthright had it been an internal job.
My point regarding the materialism was that if you can simulate the physical/chemical processes that happens in a brain, and I am talking about the molecular/quantum level, the result will be indistinguishable from the original.
The reference you asked for: project Blue Brain by IBM http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124751881557234725.html
While the developer has to define the playing field and the rules, the solutions the computer comes up with are way better than randomly searching through the solution space. check out http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-04/john-koza-has-...
Of course that is no way near strong AI, it is still a step in the direction.
And we are working on simulations of the cortex of simple mammals. (read a bit on Blue Brain).
I am not saying we're close to strong AI, but we are making small steps in the right direction, and if philosophically speaking you are a materialist like me (believe that consciousness can be explained in theory using nothing but physical/chemical terms) than it is just a matter of time until it happens.
A few examples:
* Controlling all C-level positions, firing you at will (which will affect your vesting schedule) * Controlling spending which will force you to raise further rounds, further dilluting you * Board seats * Veto power for exits
Get a lawyer and read everything a dozen times...
The solution is known as 360-contract. Currently labels profit only from the selling of albums and some of the merchandise, but not from tours, sponsorship deals or ads. An artist on a 360-contract pays the label a cut of everything...
The assumption of the labels is that illegal downloads actually boost the total value of the artist, but diminishes their share (artists make more money on touring but less on the records). The labels have started to push their artists to 360 contracts a while back, but until all the old contracts are up for renegotiation they have no choice but fight the illegal downloading.
Most AI algorithms have clearly defined segments that are very CPU intensive, by only using C in those areas I get the optimal balance of development speed and execution speed.
The PSP side is very minimalistic and dumb, you just send it an image in PNG/JPEG format or a short text and it displays it.
The python part is linux specific but you can easily write your own in whatever platform you are using...
Enjoy
And even if you could do all these things without technical knowledge at best you'll be able to weed out the mediocre, never find the best.
In my case I am living of the money from a previous exit.
Plus the PalmOS emulator was never as good as the iPhone emulator.
a = range(6) a[::2] = range(10,13) -> generates a with [10,1,11,3,12,5]
I saw a very elegant implementation of Eratosthenes sieve based on that trick
But I agree that while there is a decent chance that a book with lots of 5s and lots 1s will be of value, the chances that a book with straight 3s to be worth anything are pretty slim.
Suddenly writing code cleanly becomes a very lazy thing to do, it reduces the amount of effort you have to invest in a program over the program's lifespan, unless its a throwaway and then ugly stuff makes sense.
Working out isn't a lazy thing, it is easier to climb a flight of stairs than to train 6 hours a week for a year and climb a flight of stairs. It increases the efforts you invest in things, it might be a goal to be healthy and energetic but then the lazy thing to do is to try to hack your training schedule and get the most benefit out of every drop of sweat.