Its interesting to read Daesh in Boston Globe, a western propaganda media. The usage of the degrading Daesh is very common in Russian friendly media like vineyardsaker or southfront.
Well, those old Russian propaganda experts knew, that its important to deny them their prefered words like "Islamic" and "State", but instead call them with a bad word, that accidentally is also an acronym of their name.
My idea for o3db is currently: I'm using date to calculate version number. But the server side will announce protocol and version. This allows both a continuous release, and experimenting with server protocols.
The thing I wonder about her: She did not had sex for two years, and still wants to continue taking the pill, to be available anytime to men who are to stupid to ask (or to smell), if she has the 3 days when French games are topic.
The main problem of social science like history or economy is that they are political shaped sciences. Both pick those pattern that fit into their world view, to form a religion like truth of how the world worked. And state payed historian or economic scientist will normally preach the view of their system.
I did not have time for this year Riksbanks Rris, but e.g. in 2013 we saw a typical price " should discard its mathematical pretensions " and better just tell its political agenda straight. Instead they used a positivistic computer simulation, which basically means: I have a row of theories (CAPM, OPT, EHM, ...) that have several unknowns and I tweak their parameters till simulation shows the results that I want to show.
but it then falls short, by only pointing to the tip of the iceberg, the rising prices in city centers. But the problem is much bigger in the rural, in 2nd and 3rd world, where former small farms are replaced by big agriculture corporations.
> To understand why, we have to look at the reasons land has value in the first place.
And he totally fails here. He fails to explain, that land ownership depends on the state monopoly on use of force, and legalization of murder, rape and genocide during the time the state acquired the land. He fails to explain that money equals debt, debt is often preferring land as security, and therefore land prices are doomed to rise globally.
I do not expect a Marxist analysis in Economist, but I would at least expect some in deep comparison of how different countries cope with this problem. Point to massive buyout of agricultural land in eastern Europe, point to the housing bubble in Spain, point to how Hartz IV stabilized the German housing market, ... but this article is only pointing to the iceberg in front of the unsinkable.
Old but classic is C.J.Date's "An Introduction to Database Systems". This book covers most concepts required for databases, and the reason why relational databases had been an improvement over prior key-value, hierarchical, and network databases.
One could consider relational language as a database kernel language.
Both do same error, that they start with premise of curing addicted people. The same error that nearly all psychologist or psychiatrists share. They declare people who are not normal as insane, and want to change them. A better way, imho, is to make people conscious that they are different, and thats important for them to find a place in life, where their difference is a bonus.
One of my favorite parable, is the imagination: You are very talented. You can lay eggs. Society defines being healthy as not picking on other chicken or own feathers. But its not you who is insane, the cages are a system of insanity.
The extreme cases of junkies on the street, and alcoholics in their flat come into mind, when thinking about addiction. Those are extreme cases of people who have no place in real life also. The drugs, are their way to find a place in life to be happy. Even if only for a short time. Teach them ways to become autonomic, to find their own path through life, and addiction will calm down by itself.
I really hate those. Especially sites like github who capture the Tibetan Unicode block for their font, as this is a character set that I need. http://kephra.de/src/WylieUTF8/
ok I'm likely one of the few who can read Tibetan, but this shows a typical US ignorance, and certainly gives github a bad karma, as they make it impossible to display any Tibetan text on github.
11: Sites that can be viewed better without CSS, if you are a NoScript user. e.g. main page of Medium shows a grayed out layout where its not possible to click on articles without JS. But the become readable again once you disable CSS also. eBay does similar.
I'm using hierarchical backup. Logfiles of backups could tell when and how maleware spread. And even more important, one can restore a system after infect quickly.
I'm using a detached screen for ssh master control, and an rsync script to sync servers to my backup server, from where hierarchical backup is done to USB disks in the most simple way: `cp -al` and rsync. I have 3 piles of disks. One attached, one in the shelf, and one at a neighbor and shuffle them weekly.
I'm using network scans, and keep things containerized with tight fitting firewall rules.
The generated sniplets have a lot of pentatonic intervals. Of course pentatonics makes music more harmonic, but we are used to more disharmonics adding color. I can not look at the notes sheets, but I guess the genenerated music has less disharmonics then original Irish fiddle.
I think most people first think about developers who can not build from scratch. Those who require frameworks, and can only fill the gaps.
So one trait a from scratch developer must show, is being a toolsmith. Most startups do not have the time to build everything from scratch. Instead they have to pick tools to solve their problem. A toolsmith can quickly validate if a tool is suited for the task, and is able to create new tools if necessary.
So there are few things one can check before hiring a developer:
A toolsmith published his tools, frameworks or libraries.
A bughunter contributed to 3rd party projects. ...
Or in short: A developer who did things from scratch, will be proud showing them. An this will show where his strong and weak points are. ( e.g. my weak point is design )
I solved many challenging problems, e.g. I wrote a parser generator, that can generate itself, I wrote an UN/EDIFACT parser that was parsing the human readable UN standard to create a parser for a semantic translation. My Y2K PTFs run on every MVS and OS/360 system. I did a lot of machine learning in the last 10 years, e.g. optimizing maintenance of Siemens power plant turbines or quality control for injection molding machines.
But ... I'm taking the biggest challenge right now. I'm coding my Onyx database client idea for 3rd time. The hardest problem was to start o3db. I failed badly with Onyx 20 years ago by burnout holding over half a million lines of C++ in flow together with nearly 10k lines of my own 4gl, during the 3rd customer installation of Onyx. I was very shy of coding UI/UX afterwards, escaped deep into server stuff, machine learning - escaped as far away from user as possible.
So, my biggest challenge was to start Onyx again: A user facing UI/UX for common business database applications with its own fourth generation language. I've decided for Scheme as an intermediate language this time, and the prototype running well. I now have a non recursive Scheme interpreter and GUI running in browser, able to process the meta tables defining an application. Its still a long road to my vision. But to start a project again, I failed with a burnout 20 years ago, and to code it with actual technology, was the biggest personal challenge.
/join #o3db on freenode, if interested in a startup to create common business database clients for the web.
I know a dirty Spreedsheet for browser. I first seen it in IRC, iirc. I was a greedy copycat to paste it into my site, for the case paste server goes down.
Well, those old Russian propaganda experts knew, that its important to deny them their prefered words like "Islamic" and "State", but instead call them with a bad word, that accidentally is also an acronym of their name.
PS: consortiumnews is also using Daesh