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My startup, tasq.ai, was founded to solve this exact problem, as we have a live, successful product with all of the features you describe and more.

We're happy to have a conversation - feel free to reach out to me via my profile email or you can find our contact details at https://www.tasq.ai/

A similar concept was used in Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny, but with fantasy elements.

https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Rediscovered-Classics-Roger-Z...

Thank you, Eliezer. It's been a great run and the last few weeks have been indeed special

Hi,

Quick comment on item 2.3: SHOULD NOT update a var using loops or conditions.

you conclude that this expression is the best option: val sum = elements.map(_.value).sum

This expression is not equivalent to the previous options in performance and memory, as the map expression will create a entire new sequence.

For large sequences, a better option is to write: val sum = elements.view.map(_.value).sum

Fun fact about the UK. In order to get a license to drive a taxi in London, applicants need to pass an extensive test. Passing the test takes years of preparation and multiple attempts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom#...

According to site you're citing, the nomination was actually an attempt at satire by a Swedish MP:

"Apparently though, Brandt never intended the nomination to be taken seriously. Brandt was to all intents and purposes a dedicated antifascist, and had intended this nomination more as a satiric criticism of the current political debate in Sweden."

No need for complex explanations when a simple one is given.

For the interested, some links to Bayes' theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes'_theorem

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes

Useful if you want to know (or need a good way to explain) what a posterior probability is and how it's different from a prior probability

Akka adds something similar in Scala land (and Java) called Dataflow concurrency.

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/dataflow.html

You should take a look at scala's OpenHashMap - a mutable hashmap in the scala standard library that is often as fast as ju.HashMap. Link to scala doc: http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.html#scala.colle...

Meta comment - as somebody who recently introduced Scala into an organization as our preferred language for new development (co-existing with a Java code base), I'm really happy to see all the demand for Scala engineers here.

OP here:

The current news is that they have actually started building a production center.

I don't know anything about this field, but the potential is exciting.

The link (in Hebrew): http://www.calcalist.co.il/markets/articles/0,7340,L-3595334...

+1 for the 'functional programming in Scala' mention. Really awesome and fun class to take.

Lecture are available here: https://class.coursera.org/progfun-2012-001/class/index

'actually have them interacting positively with people in the United States'

Most (all?) Iranian players would probably be playing on European servers.

This is in part due to the hour differential, and partly because WoW clients sold in Europe automatically (only?) connect to EU servers.

In far too many hours of playing WoW, I've never encountered a player from the US.

Sounds great.

Mandatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/638/

Oh, I realize that. I even agree with their reasoning.

I just don't like the fact that their algorithm is so bad that I came up as a false positive. Algorithms is the one place you don't expect Google to fail.

I mean, come on, the have thousands of my emails, my geolocation, my facebook profile is public, and they can't figure out Or is my real name?

I wish I could upvote this more.

Thank you.

I've been using Windows for many, many years now. Never encountered anything like it.

In addition, I don't think it's a random bug. Having a standard error file that programs are supposed to write to, without any sort of automatic control by the user or (better) the OS is not 'being ready for prime time'