The 48 Laws of Power
Background[edit] Greene initially formulated some of the ideas in The 48 Laws of Power while working as a writer in Hollywood and concluding that today's power elite shared similar traits with powerful figures throughout history.[5] In 1995, Greene worked as a writer at Fabrica, an art and media school, and met a book packager named Joost Elffers.[4][8] Greene pitched a book about power to Elffers and six months later, Elffers requested that Greene write a treatment.[4] Although Greene was unhappy in his current job, he was comfortable and saw the time needed to write a proper book proposal as too risky.[10] However, at the time Greene was rereading his favorite biography about Julius Caesar and took inspiration from Caesar's decision to cross the Rubicon River and fight Pompey, thus inciting the Great Roman Civil War.[10] Greene would follow Caesar's example and write the treatment, which later became The 48 Laws of Power.[10] He would note this as the turning point of his life.[10]
Finding Existential Solace In A Pink Tied Psycho
Forbes: "Stock Traders Are Psychopaths"-- ... a University of St. Gallen study that shows stock market traders display similarities to certified psychopaths. The study... compares decisions made by 27 equity, derivative and forex traders in a computer simulation against an existing study of 24 psychopaths in high-security hospitals in Germany.
Java Interfaces
Java includes a concept called interfaces. A Java interface is a bit like a class, except you can only declare methods and variables in the interface. You cannot actually implement the methods. Interfaces are a way to achieve polymorphism in Java.
50 Fascinating Things I've Read Lately
Pretty simple. When I read something I like, I try to write it down. In no particular order, here are 50 things I've read lately that, for one reason or another, caught my attention. "Today, of Americans officially designated as 'poor,' 99 percent have electricity, running water, flush toilets, and a refrigerator; 95 percent have a television, 88 percent a telephone, 71 percent a car and 70 percent air conditioning.
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The Terrible, Awful Truth About Supplemental Security Income
(posted at askmetafilter in response to a mostly unrelated question) I. I need to write this and get it posted before the Fingermen come and black bag me.
Compilers Course Coursera
This course will discuss the major ideas used today in the implementation of programming language compilers, including lexical analysis, parsing, syntax-directed translation, abstract syntax trees, types and type checking, intermediate languages, dataflow analysis, program optimization, code generation, and runtime systems. As a result, you will learn how a program written in a high-level language designed for humans is systematically translated into a program written in low-level assembly more suited to machines. Along the way we will also touch on how programming languages are designed, programming language semantics, and why there are so many different kinds of programming languages. The course lectures will be presented in short videos. To help you master the material, there will be in-lecture questions to answer, quizzes, and two exams: a midterm and a final. An optional course project is to write a complete compiler for COOL, the Classroom Object Oriented Language.
What Type of Shoe is That?
We decided it was time to update Soletopia’s Guide to Shoe Terminology with a Dappered-inspired infographic. This was made as a rough guide to help people understand the shoe terms that get thrown around. We’ve covered the Oxford, Blucher, Derby, Balmoral, Saddle, Austerity, Brogue (half, full and quarter), Monk, Spectator & more. We also look at the different toe cap terms such as, the Cap Toe, Medallion & Perforated.
Imaginative Package Designs - Design.inc Blog - StumbleUpon
Imaginative Package Designs Packaging is a very important marketing strategy to glamorize a product in order to attract the consumer's attention.
The Decline Effect Is Stupid
Is there something wrong with the scientific method? asks Jonah Lehrer in The New Yorker. The premise of the article is a well known phenomenon called the Decline Effect. As described in the story, that's when exciting new results, initially robust, seem not to pan out over time. Today a series of studies shows X, next year studies shows less than X, and in ten years it's no better than nothing.
C++ Programming
In the first unit, we will learn the mechanics of editing and compiling a simple program written in C++. We will begin with a discussion of the essential elements of C++ programming: variables, loops, expressions, functions, and string class. Next, we will cover the basics of object-oriented programming: classes, inheritance, templates, exceptions, and file manipulation. We will then review function and class templates and the classes that perform output and input of characters to/from files.
