For Android users who enjoy Slay the Spire, I recommend checking out Rogue Adventure. I just found it a week ago and I'm hooked. (In fact it's the only game I've been playing since I installed it.) It's free with ads, but the ads are 100% optional and you can pay $5 to get the same rewards.
I won't claim it's anywhere near as well-designed or as well-balanced as StS, but there are 12 classes and it looks like there's a similarly deep replay value.
One of my favorite things I've ever read is David Stove's essay on this subject, "What is Wrong with Our Thoughts?" wherein a cranky old philosopher excoriates his profession.
To be fair, as the GP states, most philosophers are honest about this. How much better off we'd all be if economists would admit the same truth about their "discipline".
That is certainly an interesting article. He bluntly declares it obvious that a bunch of leading, mainstream philosophical thought it utter bullshit without explaining why (and instead arguing that nobody can explain why), and I completely agree with him.
Well, except with the bit that numerology is to astrology as astrology is to astronomy. It seems to me that numerology is to mathematics as astrology is to astronomy, but I admit that like the philosophers he's criticising, I too have not read a book on numerology.
(I wrote that before I finished the article. I still haven't quite finished it, but he later ponders about the possibility of creating a nosology of thought; a system to diagnose these maladies of though. And then he gives up because it can never be simultaneously complete and usable. I think that's foolish; you can enormously expand the current nosology by identifying, naming and describing even just a few of these (and some of them seem pretty easy to me). And that vocabulary can grow slowly as people add more.)
Yeah I didn't check the agreement before, I had assumed the integration with AWS was there to make it attractive, but you're right it locks you out of any other third party service. That does make it a real choice.
Not to get too pedantic, but Java need not be involved, though it will certainly be the most common language involved. Anything running on a JVM (including Clojure, Scala, JRuby, etc.) could have the vulnerability if it uses the Apache Commons Collections library, or some other library that does (which is probably a lengthy list).
Not all VCs are equally (in)competent. I've always felt that one of the root causes of the ~2000 dot-com bubble was a proliferation of incompetent VCs chasing the glut of investment capital. Things seem roughly the same these days, or maybe even worse, since the eventual-rationality of the public markets can't come into play if there's no IPO.
The first VC who backed Theranos is a pretty smart guy. Was first in his class at Stanford, has an otherwise pretty nice portfolio of companies he has funded
My take on this is that theranos started out with good intentions, and just hasn't been able to make it happen so they are trying to buy time. The early stage investments were probably sound, but later rounds are a little questionable. Sometimes you have to know when to fail.
Browsers don't make money at all, not directly, as you know.
Microsoft pulls in 11 figures a year in online advertising revenue. As of earlier this year, Apple was still earning more mobile ad revenue than any other firm. And Mozilla is funded almost entirely by companies that earn billions in online ad revenue like Yahoo and Google.
>Browsers don't make money at all, not directly, as you know.
Which is neither here, not there. As I wrote those three browsers don't make money off of ad revenue and/or private data. Chrome does.
Whether the money are made directly or indirectly is beside the point for the purposes of the discussion.
>Microsoft pulls in 11 figures a year in online advertising revenue. As of earlier this year, Apple was still earning more mobile ad revenue than any other firm. And Mozilla is funded almost entirely by companies that earn billions in online ad revenue like Yahoo and Google.
Not that relevant either. Apple sells display ads (iAds etc) and that's it. They don't deal in personal data. Mozilla even less -- whether Yahoo/Google pays it to be the default search engine or not.
Serious editor fail: the main subject of the article is an acronym used ~20 times without ever defining it. I know what it stands for, but I'm sure some readers were frustrated by that.
"Although MOOCs were hardly new in 2012—the term had been coined four years earlier by Canadian educators to describe their experiments with “connected,” open online learning— ..."
I suppose that passes as a basic explanation, but I agree that a better definition would be nice.
That's brilliant. One of the business development guys I work for was showing me a company that aggregates social media feeds for integration into your website, I asked how these get filtered, "no, they just get everything". Never understood why you want something displayed on your website you have NO control over!
I won't claim it's anywhere near as well-designed or as well-balanced as StS, but there are 12 classes and it looks like there's a similarly deep replay value.