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Not an ebook reader per se, but goodreader on iOS is by far the best pdf note taking app around. Not only does it have a gamut of styles of highlighting, but then you can export the whole mess and it makes for a wonderful synopsis of a book, complete with page references.

Too late for an edit, it should be the art of racing in the rain.

If you like dogs, you should read "The Art of Driving in the Rain" it's a surprisingly good novel.

Hey, thanks for the context. I had wondered what Simi meant.

This is still my favorite:

http://imgur.com/gallery/BZ9fPe1

The main point in this article was that the shark did this after having had babies with a mate before. That hadn't been observed in this species.

Why are you being so dismissive of this? I got my start in electronics via an electronic kit as a 7 year old.

The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. This trilogy is a great mash up of science history and sci-Fi (almost)

Or second hand

Nice list! I especially like that you added Resonate in there.

Could you add your personal reason for keeping these books on your shelf? That would make the page more interesting, and maybe help you out with your job search, as it will give an insight into your thought processes.

I upvoted both your comments, as I do believe they contribute to the discussion.

But I do have a question to ask you: When do you feel that statistical significance shouldn't matter? And in what context?

Lets say 171 billion people get a life saving drug, but 700 die. There I can agree with you.

171 billion people get coffee, and 700 are maimed. I think that maybe you should pay their medical bills. And maybe throw a few extra bucks in for good measure. 171 billion people generated a lot of profit. Losing $1.4 billion is not a bad deal

This is a very light treatment of an important case. It didn't go into the extensive surgery she had, and that her case wasn't for $20K, it was just to pay for her medical expenses.

Also, though maybe not important in this article, was the logic behind the jury's award. They placed the award at 2 days worth of McD's nationwide coffee sales.

But I am glad that they did mention the other 700+ suits filed against McDs, but they should have gone into a little more depth about how McDs used its extensive legal department to squash those complaints. A practice that still continues today.

Edit: And for more interesting reads, check out the Stella Awards site. Now defunct, it was devoted to finding really stupid law suits, and debunking urban legend law suits. The quoted aim was to show that there is a real issue with US law suits, that doesn't need fake "I microwaved my poodle because the instructions didn't let me know that was bad" to let people know there is an issue.

I teach lawyers English, and one of my more fun classes is mixing up a bunch of true and fake lawsuits and watching them try to figure out which is which.

Pro-Tip: The more ridiculous sounding ones are actually real.

Case in point - a couple who lost their 2 year old in a lawnmower accident at day care found out that the day care only had a $100K insurance policy. So they dropped the case against the day care center and sued the manufacturer of the lawn mower.

There was a safety feature that was invented 16 years after the mower was built that the mower didn't have. No recall statement or after action was specified by authorities. The jury awarded the couple a $2M award.

But he is not talking about gadgets.

If you are a lifter, you should know that proper position and stance are crucial to making sure you don't injure yourself while lifting.

Can someone add pdf to the title?

Same here. But I must confess that I do get a new laptop every 2-3 years, so maybe it is getting heavier, but I don't notice it.

But I was surprised recently when win10 killed my ssd, so I installed Xubuntu on the spinning disk. And it runs as fast as win10 did on the ssd. The only thing that does take longer is booting up, but I always had the feeling that windows was cheating somehow, it would boot to the desktop really quick, but it was not a usable desktop. That still took a while to become responsive.

I'm a very happy Xubuntu user. Have been for about 5 years, and even switched my partners laptop over to it a few months ago, after her win10 borked itself. Previously I used to dual boot windows and Slackware, but after 10 odd years on Slackware I wanted a Linux system I could just use and not spend every minute tweaking.

I must be getting old.

But I still have fond memories of plugging into Ethernet to get online with lynx and try to find out how did I manage to fuč up WiFi and Xorg by editing and completely unrelated (or so I thought) file.

Ah, good times.

Try this guy:

http://tinyhabits.com

I have a question for you about macOS: Did they fix the thumbnail view shift select issue?

I had a MBP for about a year in 2014-15, and one thing really surprised me (as I got it for iOS dev and photography) is that if I had a finder window open in thumbnail/icon view I couldn't click one icon and then shift-click another and have everything in between selected. It just acts as though you'd click-dragged a square selection area. You had to shift to list view to be able do this. At first I thought it was me, as I was new to OSX at the time, so I went a-googling and I found out that no, that was the intended behavior. I mean, even linux has what I think is a standard UI behavior.

The interesting thing was going to the Apple support forums and seeing hardcore Apple fans saying that this is the correct behavior, better than what me and a lot of other people expect and, especially for working with directories of photos, needed.

So what would you suggest? The article gets a little hand wavy about what donors should do - eg the playpump worked at first, then sucked, and is now working well in some instances.

So should I have invested in it at first, then stopped investing as it started sucking, and then reinvested again to the new people using it?

Given that type of friction, I may give up donating altogether. Or good ideas which hit a genuine rough spot may lose all funding and die off before reaching their full potential.

What would be a realistic ratio of overhead to target? Apple-like? Say 30% should be acceptable overhead? Or a sliding scale? For example, if a charity raises $1bn does it really need $300m for overhead? Maybe there is some middle band of maximum overhead percentage, say up to $1m <=5% $1m-$1bn up to 30% and over $1bn <= 15%?

Thanks for the link, a long, but extremely eye opening read. I has made me rethink how I donate to charity from now on: I really did use only one metric- overhead percentage.

Now I will have to reevaluate this.

Murphy's law in action, there was a correction made to the paper you quote, so I clicked through to see what was corrected:

Notice of Republication

This article was republished on March 30, 2015, to correct the sizing and placement of the figures; none of the article content was changed. The publisher apologizes for the original layout errors. Please download this article again to view the corrected version. The originally published, uncorrected article and the republished, corrected article are provided here for reference.

I'm completely out of my depth here, but couldn't we develop some kind of force field to do this? I'm thinking something along the lines of a Faraday cage, but for the GCRs.

Is anyone researching this line of thought?

Steven Skiena's The Algorithm Design Manual. Especially the "war stories" contained within.

My suggestion would be to implement TeX.

It's non trivial, and the whole program is available in book form as a literate program.

There are a bunch of comments saying "Why not just learn python or R?"

But as a programmer, I still use excel (actually open office now I'm on Linux full time) as a brainstorming numbers based scratch pad. Somthing about the infinite grid, auto fill, not having to figure out all the parts of a 2D array allow me to chase an idea in its initial stages.

Eventually, when I have a handle on the problem and all the variables involved I will switch to jupyter notebooks or something else.

I still think we as an industry are still missing the point of why are so many people using excel, especially in areas it shouldn't be used in. There is some hidden UI/UX point we're subtlely missing.

I have excessive hope, and that is one of the many causes of my depression. Another cause is apparently a chemical imbalance in my head, which certain drugs have helped with.

How would you suggest I go about curing my hope problem? I have too much of it. It's a double-edged sword in that it keeps me down, but it is also the only thing that stops me from 'pulling the trigger'.

In production. With paying clients.

It's the only way to be sure.

Shame I saw this comment so late, but I do have a reason for this.

I'm an enthusiastic student of Buddhism. I long time ago, during university (late 80s) I attended a guest seminar called "What the Buddha Said" It was fascinating for a number of reasons, but the one that stuck with me over the years was about the translation.

As we know, language changes over time (my favorite example is from rap: "Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good) So what had happened in the translation of a key Buddhist text was the understanding of one word: year. It was translated literally to mean a year, but actually, at that moment in time, the word actually meant a season. So 20 years passed, really meant 20 seasons, or 5 years had passed. And this led to a knock on in the meaning of words used.

So after that, I decided that one day, I will learn to read the texts in their original language.

It ends up in an infinite loop for me :(

I have read the first 50 pages about a 100 times.

Does that count?

P.S. I have never recommended it to anyone though, I don't recommend books I haven't read all the way through. I will get through TAOCP one day, (it's now on my retirement bucket list, along with learning Sanskrit) but I first need to read through a bunch of Math books forst, so I can get past the 50 page hump.