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Most of the content that I watch and the content creators that I'm subscribed to comes from the recommendations. As far as I'm concerned, the algorithm works great.

To this day the name of the professor brings a smile to my face. If I remember correctly, I didn't even plan to take this course (had no interest in finance), but after watching the Intro video I was hooked.

Christians make up 52% of the population (Serbian Orthodox 36%, Catholic 15%, Protestant 1%). There are also a few percents of atheist, Jews, and others.

Edit: Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina#Ethnic_...

There's a shortage of talent willing to work 80 hours a week and get paid for 20. There's a shortage of talent with 5 years of experience in technology that is 3 years old. There's a shortage of talent willing to jump through an absurd number of hoops in order to work for you.

In early 2000s, Microsoft basically told Win32 API developers to either migrate to .NET or to go fuck themselves. There was a lot of FUD flying around. At one point, people were wondering will the new Visual Studio ship with C/C++ compiler.

In it's quest to promote .NET, Microsoft even got Borland to kill itself by jumping on the .NET train. The days of native Windows development were over and the best alternative to MS stack, Borland with its Delphi, decided to commit suicide.

That was the chance for D to shine. I was among the developers looking for non-MS solution for native Windows development and D was my favorite, but the Tango vs. Phobos thing killed it for me.

Like many developers at that time, I left Windows for the Web development. If D was then what is now, I would stay with Windows a bit longer than I did.

First, I want to tell you that my comments are not malicious (at least, not on purpose), just telling you what impression I get when looking at it.

Rust got a lot of love from the beginning, a lot of people tried to use it before it was anywhere near stable. They've got burned when their two weeks old code wouldn't compile. I know, they were warned about it, but it still kinda sucks.

If you look at the Rust FAQ[1], it promises yet more incompleteness and breakage to come:

>4 Is any part of this thing production-ready?

>No. Feel free to play around, but don't expect completeness or stability yet. Expect incompleteness and breakage.

Another question people have is: "Are we web yet?" and the answer is: "No, we are not." [2]

No stability, immature ecosystem,... Either the docs are outdated or you're "selling" it wrong. The message I get is "Rust is awesome, but not here yet".

[1]https://doc.rust-lang.org/complement-project-faq.html#is-any...?

[2]http://arewewebyet.com/

D is what C++ should have been. It had some traction in mid-2000s but the Tango vs. Phobos debacle killed it.

Go is the most serious of the three languages mentioned. It has the momentum, solid community, solid tooling, and corporate backing. It's well suited for networked services, but it is not replacement for C.

I'm not so sure about Rust. Unlike D and Go, Rust can replace C (in theory), but I don't think that will happen. Rust has a feel of a hobbyist language in perpetual alpha.

Is there some JS framework called Sinatra? Either you made a mistake or I'm out of the loop when it comes to the JS world.

The only Sinatra I know of is http://www.sinatrarb.com/

I guess I'm having a bad day and the author's malcolmgladwellization of the paradox of choice was too much...

I'm familiar with the Schwartz's paradox of choice, but the author is pushing it too far. Does anyone really agonize over trivial choices such as which bottle of water to buy? Is anyone really getting dehydrated and unable to chose among many alternatives? Does anyone even considers opportunity cost when making such trivial choices?

My problem is not with the paradox of choice, my problem is with the author's trivialization of it.

That's just ridiculous!

According to the author, a towering aisle of water battles reduces you to the Buridan's ass.[0] Yes, there are some hard choices that will force you to think hard and put you through emotional hell. Yes, there are choices that will make you stuck in analysis paralysis, but choosing which bottle of water to buy isn't one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass

In my opinion that is unfair assessment. From my reading of the article, the author is attacking the overzealous evangelists, not the meditation per se.

Lie on your bed. Relax. Instead of trying to fall asleep (and thinking about it) think about making yourself as comfortable as possible. Turn this way, move your arm that way,... Once you've done it, the sleep usually follows. In short, think comfort not sleep.

P.S.

I've used to have troubles falling asleep, but that simple method helped me to solve the problem. I would give the credit to the original author, but I can't remember where I read it.

Trying to make a profitable predictor for the English Premier league. Currently, the predictor is profitable on the whole season, but not on the weekly basis.

I've train it on data from the 1992/1993 to 2011/2012 season, and tested it on the 2012/2013, 2013/2014, and 2014/2015 season. In tests, it shows profitability from 4.12 to 8.40%.

You don't have time for everything. Therefore, you must choose what to do, but also you must choose what not to do. That is the hard part - choosing what to let go. Once you did that, the rest is (comparatively) easy.

Ideally, devote yourself to one subject and immerse yourself in it. Stay focused, refuse to do anything else. You'll have distractions, you'll doubt your choice, but don't start anything else until you finish what you've started.

If you have to do two things at the time, split your day in two. In the morning do one subject, then take a break (have a lunch, go to walk,...) Then, you study the second one. This break is important, don't jump from one subject to the next without it.

In summary, make your choice and stick to it until completion. Ignore everything else.

[1]http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

EDIT: please disregard my answer, read the davorak's comment

This.

If you take a look at the MIT course "Mathematics for Computer Science"[1] you'll see that the only prerequisite for learning the math for cs is ... calculus!

[1]http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

First of all, learning the command line, git, vim, and Python is a bit too much for a beginner to handle all at once. IMHO, vim alone will scare off a lot of people.

Second, being exposed to a lot of different programming languages is very beneficial for a beginner.

The rule is: "Write as you speak and read as it is written."[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet

Lottie Dexter doesn't know how to code. She said it in the interview.

EDIT: Twitter is back. Must be a glitch.

Can't speak for the whole community, but here's my opinion:

The main problem with code.org is that the message they are sending is "programming is something easy that will make you rich and you should do it for patriotic reasons".

I think that's the whole point of the article. I'm all for making programming accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds, but we shouldn't lie to them.

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/06/david-goliath-m...

[1] http://youtu.be/g-alzyvTtVE

P.S. I wanted to write a more elaborate comment, but it all boils down to the sentence above.