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You forgot to list your skills that you used to make those projects. What languages and technologies you use, did you work in a team did you manage any people on a team?

You resume is still a bit short.

You might also want to create a Linkedin profile and link to it in your resume. Get some friends to endorse you on skills so you get credit for them.
I know for a fact that here in France we have both substantial unemployment and at the same time many job offers available that people refuse to accept because they can afford to live on welfare instead. By definition, if they could not live on welfare they would accept these job offers. As for these countries building their wealth before the welfare state:

- http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-160.html

- http://www.forbes.com/global/2001/0319/034.html
The graph axis appear to start at 0 issues (x) and extend for 3.5 months (y).

The whole graph is so consistently linear and contrary to my experience I feel the data is suspect.

I don't know how to interpret this, other than the team lost half it's developers in early April, or the same team became very consistently half as productive at that time.
> The best I have it American Express which will alert me only when I have a transaction over $10.

You can configure that amount in the online settings; change it to $0 and you'll get an alert for every transaction.
Also, if you can, take the time to donate if you like it.
I previously made a toy VM where a program consisted of a matrix, rows corresponded to instruction slot, and then the values in that row were probabilities for different instructions.
This means probability of emitting a specific output is differentiable in the probabilities, which can then be learned.

Didn't get very good results though.
I loved the original Age of Empires (+ Rise of Rome), I remember asking a friend who was lucky enough to have a CD writer at the time to copy it for me; probably the first game I ever pirated.

AOE2 HD on Steam is great fun, I've really enjoyed playing it over LAN with friends (and online, although the competition is much harder).

Unfortunately a reasonable percentage of games run into unrecoverable issues with the netcode - clients lagging out and going out of sync. It's a real shame and I hope the devs get some time to focus on this, especially now that 2 expansions are out.
How can he miss this: http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2015/03/opinion/ctl-child... ?

Maybe he sees the poor, but labels them as lazy and not driven. It makes it easier to explain how some people worry about how their car doors open, while others worry about their next meal.
The Economics of Tidying Up
Numba would still be faster. It would fuse away any intermediates in the code and remove any Overhead to the compiled code.

also have the option of devecting to loops.

both of which are generally faster than vectorized jumpy code.
Gee, it sure would be helpful if the Chinese government had a switch they could flip at will to slant the internet to a pro-Chinese position. Why, that would be almost the definition of "secure and controllable" when faced with periods of civil unrest...
His family is fine and he just got a few gallons for free off you. Do this a few times to different people and you got like $20
> But that is the straw man.

That was my point -- consider the source and the motivation of the author.

I see I got downvoted after a while, wonder if that idea didn't come out as clear.
If you have a bunch of tiny apps, how do their data models relate? Who runs them, and owns the data? Theres a lot of assumptions baked into the status quo described in the article, that technology has been developed around. Sweet spot for building this stuff might be a little different.
Interesting rhetoric: first, PG ridicules people that fight inequality by using a straw man, to then call then infantile (ad hominem) and call for an us vs them, wolves and hunters, Silicon Valley against the world, in the most Goebbelian style.

But most infantile is his metaphor of the chair maker. Yes, we know in fact that economy is not zero sum game. But economic inequality is not generated by chair makers that gain an advantage over those who don't make chairs. Economic inequality happens because the owners of chair factories (who, are not, the chair makers) get to own both the factory and the chairs that chair makers make. Hence, while the chair makers get a salary to support themselves, the owners accumulate the surplus value of the chair producing business allowing them to expand their business, acquire more assets and, too, influence politics to turn the game in favour of capital instead of labour. This is too a simplistic metaphor, but hey, it's at least a bit closer to reality than PG's view of the world.

Of course, he is a venture capitalist, not a chair maker. His way of living is extracting surplus of founders that in turn extract surplus of engineers and other workers and contractors that support their businesses. He is in the business of selling ever increasing inequality.

This PG article is pure ideology. Ideological class war. It's a hoot--a network of fallacies building some sort of implausible moral self-justification. PG, you are not a wild animal in a room of hunters. It's more like you are the hunter, and this is a bait that we won't bite.

I'm sure he would argue that my chair makers are exploited only because they are not smart enough to start their own chair making business. His utopia is one in which everyone is an entrepreneur--a CEO or a VC. I wonder who makes chairs in that world (if it's machines, someone has to keep the machines running). See, not everyone can be a winner. It's not about killing the rich. It's about making sure that those that lose in the game--who are in fact, too, valuable and indispensable to society--have a chance to a decent and realized life in dignity.

But even in a legal and political system that are very much (and increasingly) biased towards capital, I've seen coops, foundations, institutions and other forms of sustainable and non-exploitative businesses that succeed and provide real value pushing the game out of the zero sum. We can also see this in the libre and open source world--it's an outcry from software makers to collaborate on producing value in a way that they still own (instead of the proprietary firms that they work for). It provides collectively a leverage to our society that very few SV startups can claim to. In a way, in this other utopia, everyone is as well a business owner. A business owner and a maker, organized in the democratic networks of both competition and cooperation. No VC's needed though. Sorry Paul.
Slightly off topic but one of my best musical decisions of 2015 was to purchase the AoM soundtrack...amazing study/writing ambient music with just the right amount of nostalgia.

If you still have the game CD you can find the files there. For the rest of us...Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003TL16O6?ie=UTF8&qid=&re...
It's not unreasonable for everyone to go into one sector, and then for that sector to eat the entire rest of the economy (a la a16z's "software is eating the world" investment thesis). Imagine that software is an innovation akin to assembly lines. If you started a company in 1840 that used assembly lines, you were going into a very specific industry: textiles. If you started a company in 1890 that used assembly lines, it could be one of dozens of industries: textiles, steel, oil, tobacco, meatpacking, etc. If you started a company in 1930 that didn't use assembly lines, you were insane and destined for failure.

What's happened, historically, is that as a technology diffuses into new ways of doing things, old industries simply die out, and then the new industry differentiates into replacements for it. Specialized production in the middle ages was divided into guilds (many of which are family names now): you had smiths, cobblers, bakers, butchers, weavers, etc. When the industrial revolution happened, there was simply "industry"; it was only later that this differentiated into the steel industry to replace smiths, the meatpacking industry to replace butchers, the textile industry to replace weavers, etc.

Similarly, when software got started in the 50s, there was only the "software industry". Now, 60 years later, it's differentiating into search, social, messaging, e-commerce, developer tools, homesharing, adtech, fintech, ridesharing, delivery, etc. And it's likely there's more to come: if I had to locate us in the history of the industrial revolution, I'd say we're around 1890 or 1900. At that point, the great industries of the mechanical age (mass-produced automobiles, airlines, plastics, radio, television, recorded music) had yet to be invented.
It's true that post Civil War blacks weren't doing well. (Actually, a lot of whites weren't doing well either.)

But it's a real stretch of the imagination to say the current United States (especially post income tax and Social Security entitlements) is anywhere even close to post Civil War circumstances.
A good reminder about calculating statistics and making accurate predictions.

When analyzing why a group of objects (usually very small, like successful companies) have a certain trait, it is not enough to find something all these objects had in common and say that it was the reason. At bare minimum, you have to look at all the rest of objects and confirm that they did not have that thing in common too. And even that would not be enough. After finding something ONLY these objects of interest have in common, you should test the prediction on new objects whose outcome is not yet known and confirm the accuracy.

It sounds really simple, but sometimes even scientific paper writers can't resist urge to release "finding" that has hidden flaws like that.
You're crediting the tech community for not exploiting their abilities?

BF Skinner, famous behavioral psychologist, wrote about this in "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" -- that much of positive emotions coming from choosing to do the morally "righteous" action exist because of the capacity for evil.
Let's agree to disagree. While the current system, at least in the USA, is not perfect, it is still better than other systems tried in other countries. Things that I would fix is decrease corruption as much as possible. What you are advocating is communism.

If you really believe in your system start a company and employ your ideals. I'm sure you will have no lack of talented individuals wanting to work for you for a greater piece of the pie. In no time you should be able to destroy that evil Walmart corporation that practically enslaves its employees. Please try it and prove us all wrong

I don't want to sound harsh but there really are people that deserve what's coming to them. In my high school too many kids wasted their time while trying their best for me to also waste my time. They had all these incredible opportunities to better themselves and still ended up as loosers destined to work minimum wage. And now you are saying that that is unfair and they deserve more. I think not. They deserve what they work for.

The USA will give you rent assistance, medicaid, food coupons, financial aid, student loans and if you still cannot drag yourself to college then it is on you. I know because I come from all the way in the bottom. The only thing that stopped all my friends from following was: nothing.
My point is that there are tools and techniques that will solve these problems in ways that are more valuable than the compiler's type system.

If you seriously "refuse to review Python code" because you feel you need to visually check indentation, I think you might want to take a step back and evaluate your methods.
I really enjoy reading such articles that focus on the details of a topic that at first would seem trivial and boring, but actually turns out to be far more interesting.

If we start getting too close to the end of our “real” input buffer, we can just copy the remaining bytes over to a small temp buffer

You can also just make the input buffer slightly larger that required, so the "padding" is always present at the end and no copying/extra logic is required at all.
I'm calling this the "It's not all about you" principle - the "you" being a person's employer. The OP article reads as if jobs are all about the employer, when there's also the employee's life that overrides any and all things that the employer has to offer.
> Can you do a progressive tax on consumption, such that the rough cost for essentials is essentially untaxed, from there to average upper-middle-class consumption is moderately taxed, and O(a yacht) is highly taxed?

Of course. But weird taxes are very hard to get right.

You can basically order taxes by how progressive they are. The least progressive is a head tax; everybody pays a fixed dollar amount every year, income and consumption irrelevant. Next is a flat tax; some universally fixed percentage of total income or consumption. After that it isn't really a straight line: Luxury taxes, property tax, graduated income tax, etc.

The problem with everything more progressive than the flat tax is they heavily induce tax avoidance and often hit the wrong target. If you tax cars with big engines then wealthy people start buying trucks with big engines. If you tax trucks with big engines you end up hitting working class people. If you tax real estate then rich people invest in the stock market and working class people can't afford a home. If making more than $250K/year brings you into a very high tax bracket then people find all kinds of deductions and tax losses to take, or arrange for their $1M/year compensation to be paid as $200K each to yourself, your spouse and your three children. And so it goes.

The trick is to stop trying to outsmart people. The problem is the least avoidable tax, collecting the same dollar amount from everyone, is very, very regressive. But all we have to do to make a very, very progressive tax is invert the sign. Have the government pay everybody a fixed dollar amount every year. Basic income. If you pay for it with a flat consumption tax, which is the next least avoidable, the flat tax is more progressive than the head tax that the basic income is the inverse of, so you can make it however progressive you want just by changing the amount of the basic income. Then there is no tax avoidance to be had anywhere, no argument about what should be taxed or not, and everyone pays their share.

> Are you also suggesting a high estate tax, so that you're encouraged to spend or invest it instead of building up wealth for your family?

"Invest" and "building up wealth for your family" are synonyms. Estate taxes are silly. It's the same problem with separating owners from their businesses. Then the companies become incorporeal diffusely-owned soulless sociopathic conglomerates. Who cares if the family that started some chain of stores continues to own it forever? Care instead if people in the middle are better off than their parents were.
I feel your view is rather narrow and missing something (or a lot).

Clearly these companies are making money somehow?
Markets do not care how "important" your work is when it values how much you are worth. All it cares about is supply and demand.

If people want food, and nobody is growing it, but you have a surplus of welders and nobody wanting steelwork done, of course the farmer is going to make more money. Farming is more valuable than welding, regardless of training.

The training itself is not a cost center. It is a barrier to entry to providing goods and services in the exact same way possession of seeds and land to plant them in is a barrier to farming. If there is not enough market demand for welders to make people train to be welders over farmers that is not a tragedy, it is an optimization of the economy.

The economy is the will of all the money in the system. Albeit its not the will of the people, but thats because people are not equal in wealth. But its a strong reflection of what is worth being done, because money would not trend towards something that is not beneficial.

And sane progressive taxes wouldn't be disicentivizing welding over farming - if people stopped training to weld because of reduced profit potential because of taxation, the demand for welders will go up to compensate. Not all of it, but your losses are counterbalanced by any sticky demand.

Additionally, almost anyone arguing for taxation today better be doing it as an equalizer of people. If you are being taxed as a welder it means you have a baseline to fall back on in case of a dramatic oversupply of your skills, so rather than being destitute and homeless you just have to downsize your standard of living. And anyone proposing progressive income taxes better not start advocating taxation until at least the happiness threshold of income, or I'd laugh them out of the discussion. A conversation about taxation should be about excess, not what constitutes a successful life.
I'd like to remind you that there's openage, a free engine for Age of Empires 2.

https://github.com/SFTtech/openage

It will be the future if you wanna accomplish things the original engine is incapable of doing, especially a sane mod API.

Help us make it more awesome :)
> Every single handy US guy will weld his own tank instead of buying a plastic one because it's manly and DIY.

All the more reason to be fucking afraid. One bad weld and the entire tank ruptures when slammed into (or it might just fail from ordinary vibration!). Or it leaks either gas or a sloppy weld on the top side vents fumes - the OP actually mentions a driver lighting a cigarette, causing his truck to explode.

Welding together a truck might cause it to fall apart. Welding a tank might cause a disaster.
I'm aware of the postings, but in I think an interview (maybe at Blizzcon?), Blizzard said that they weren't getting around to actually updating them anytime soon.
> But he's defending against a strawman

Yes. That was my point. Consider the source and the reasons for writing this. I didn't necessarily say whether this points are valid or not just strawmen, but rather that he has an incentive to take the position he took.

> tartups and access to capital could be a great equalizer for opportunity equality ... It allows individuals to control so much of their destiny.

It sounds like the exact opposite of a great equalizer. It puts the wealth in the hands of a few owners and the rest get magic options funny money in exchange of a dream of landing a job in a future unicorn.

> Opportunity equality is what almost everyone is pushing for,

Who is pushing for that? I remember seeing the "meritocracy is a myth" a lot more than "we just need equal opportunity".
OP says it had nothing to do with Donald. They might be lying, but at that point we have nothing to discuss at all.
Indeed, alongside lumberjack, robin hood and rock on. Even in LAN party multi player mode we used to allow these cheats, as it made the game more fun. Players would build enormous defensives with those resources until the mother of all battles would conclude the game.
Have you heard of social democracy, i.e. taking those ideas and not implementing them by being a murderous crazy dictator? It's working out just fine for the countries which are consistently ranked as the best to live in in the world. As opposed to the US, which is closer to third world status when it comes to things like low median wage, little to no maternity leave, expensive and poor healthcare system, school shootings, poor literacy rates, high drug use rates, etc etc.
I think the scam would be taking a look at your PIN number when you fill his canister up.
This is sorta tangentially related...

I used to think DI was a good idea, but as I've gotten more experience... I'm no longer convinced using a DI framework nets you huge wins relative to the added complexity. My hypothesis is that good design can remove the need for a DI framework in many cases, or at least that's been my experience so far. Maybe I just haven't worked in an application that's big and complicated enough to justify a DI framework.

Don't get me wrong, there's usually going to a few moving parts you'll wanna inject, in order to make testing easier. But you can just... do it manually.

Perhaps I'm wrong about this, but I get the impression DI tends to encourage people to obsess over unit testing and abuse mocks. While I certainly believe that unit tests add a lot of value, there's definitely a point where they start to add little to no value.

Anyway, with that being said... The framework looks very interesting. I love looking through frameworks like these and seeing how people decide to tackle certain problems.

Thank you for sharing!
Same boat thanks for the tips (you and everyone else in this thread).
Yeah the smart thing to do is schedule "important" user submitted images for heavier recompression, but even then you might get in trouble for very large PNGs, and need to gate based on dimensions. For huge PNGs I am not sure the 80x - 160x time penalty is tenable, you might be talking 30 minutes in some cases.
Logged in to say the same thing I've said in other threads: mindful meditation works for me. Had some overwhelming stress over the last couple of years which lead me to learn and attempt mindful meditation - works very well for me.
I am trying to understand what the purpose of this blockade is?
By the way here is a great talk about how the Great Firewall works https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7196-how_the_great_firewall_disc... by CCC the biggest European Computer Club ;)
What's happening is we're all watched over by machines of loving grace. There's no way to communicate with them to report errors, so it's better to stop talking about it in public. Just relax and trust the system. It knows what's best for you.
Like Fred Koch, Post and Kellogg, Hughes, JP Morgan, and Du Pont?

I guess a difference would be that now you don't need employees.
Supposedly I get a call from the POTUS asking me to be a part of the USA digital service with a mandate to dismantle (or to come up with a plan to dismantle) the NSA surveillance system, I would say yes in a heartbeat, no matter how good my current job is, or how attached I am to my coworkers or working environment.

There's no such thing as "shields" I agree with you totally.
Hundreds of millions of people believe that producing iPhones is a form of doing good in society.
That's a good point. It depends what gets compared to what.

Compared to 100 years ago, everyone is doing better. Compared to Africa or under-developed countries we are doing better. Compared to Western / Northern Europe we are doing so so depending on which metric you look at. Compared to an imagined parallel "what we could have" universe we might not be doing as well. Etc.

> capabilities than their connections the inequality discussion will be more about luxury.

Speaking of, an interesting side note: relationship of luxury and technology is kind of funny. Technology can bring luxury to regular people. Apple products, even those on food stamps could conciveably save enough money to own an iPhone, iPad etc. And that is a the same luxury product that a multi-billionaire would get. I doubt many have custom designed and manufactured phones (custom OS, custom gold plated batteries, etc). That almost never happens with anything else -- housing, cars, clothes, vacation destinations, food, free time. But it happens with technology. That is kind of crazy when you think about it.
No News Is Astounding News
Interesting; I can't get very far in this, since after install, hitting F5 and saving my temp.txt just opens the "Viewtop" window again; maybe a problem with command line arguments is causing it to just run "rebol" again?
The problem with this method is starvation. If you treat a queue like a stack, and you have a steady stream of incoming people, the first person in the queue will die of starvation before they are helped.
32C3 CTF: Docker writeup