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Pretty impossible to compete with someone who's got $8B+ in capital to win with. That's like bringing a nuclear bomb to a knife fight.
I wonder if, like 4G, it actually won't be 5G [1]

[1] 2010 http://gizmodo.com/5680755/the-dirty-secret-of-todays-4g-its...
5G requirements:

- 1-10Gbps connections to end points in the field (i.e. not theoretical maximum)

- 1 millisecond end-to-end round trip delay (latency)

- 1000x bandwidth per unit area

- 10-100x number of connected devices

- (Perception of) 99.999% availability

- (Perception of) 100% coverage

- 90% reduction in network energy usage

- Up to ten year battery life for low power, machine-type devices

http://networks.nokia.com/news-events/insight-newsletter/art...

Many new industries like automation outside factories (self driving cars, drones, smart grids, etc.) want more reliability, flexible adaption, lower latency and more coverage, everyone wants more bandwidth.
Thanks. I realize how premature my wish is but unfortunately not in my qualifications to help on the project. Modern group chat and Kanban are two apps my users desperately want and I can't deliver unless I capitulate to our cloud overlords, such a sad state of the industry.
There are a couple of cryptocurrencies based on this idea (CureCoin [1] and FoldingCoin [2]). But as far as I can tell these both rely on a trusted third party to distribute the folding work and verify that it was done. That's because unlike hashcash and similar proofs of work via hashing, protein folding is not cheap to verify.

If you're concerned about energy use and willing to trust a third party to verify the transactions, then why not use VISA?

(I looked at the CureCoin site and skimmed the FoldingCoin white paper [3], but I couldn't find any description of how they verify the folding work. Can someone point me at an explanation?)

[1] https://www.curecoin.net
[2] http://foldingcoin.net
[3] http://foldingcoin.net/the-coin/white-paper/
How is the power consumption compared with other PoW e.g. SHA1?
I would say the actually desired goal is more like one person [1], one vote and the hard part is anonymity not decentralization.

[1] Actually it is probably more complicated, one entity, one vote, so that it can include companies and the like. This alone seems non-trivial, what exactly qualifies as a separate entity?
You can always compile the programs yourself - you will have to pay for a dev account for iPhone (I think) but Android is free and you can sideload the new app you trust.
> Let me ask you a simple question - who gets to decide what stuff should or should not be shoved down people's throats?

Why the enlightened progressives of course. It's for our best.

Anyone who disagrees is just morally wrong and must be shamed and silenced.
This is a topic I'm really interested. Hoping that there would be more replies!

This will be a long post but if you have anything to say, please comment.

Here is my story;

I have more than 7 years of experience on programming, I started at 16 years old with PHP. I have a degree on computer engineering. I have 4 years of Rails experience, 1,5 years professionally. I have a good portfolio of projects I was part of, some of them are open-source.

Also, I'm doing mentorship and training on pair-programming platforms(HackHands, Codementor, AirPair) and I have dozens of happy clients and reviews from them on there.

I started freelancing 6 months ago at $55(€50)/hr and I thought I was getting overpaid because I was seeing that people are getting $20-$30/hr. But my client was really happy and I delivered everything they needed.

I believe the way getting good clients is through networking not platforms like Upwork or Freelancer. My first client reached me through Reddit. But the thing is I live in a 3rd world country and its hard to get high paid clients here.

I've talked with a talented developer who is at Toptal, and he said he is working at $30/hr and rates are generally around $30-$40/hr. Toptal says; 'Hire the top 3%' and they are paying $30/hr to top talented people!

So seeing that people are working $100-$200/hr sounds crazy to me after all this.

Now I have a gig at $35/hr which I really don't want to work on because I think I'm underpaid, but it's the only one I have and I'm struggling to find a new client.
Hmm, I happen to know a colorful-logo company that has a internal unrecommended tool that has the same name and does the same thing :) Are they making this public?
I haven't. My ancestors have. My very own grandparents have fought a civil war in my country. Have some respect.
You have 2 possibilities yes, but afaict Angular 2 doesn't push you to use 'its way', unlike the early days of Angular 1 where 'the way' to do state was $scope.

So I could see how you could comfortably use Angular 2 with Redux as long as your team was on-board to always do state the Redux way.
Initially Meteor didn't have any support for testing apps. Since it has always had support for testing packages, teams generally had to split their app up into several private packages to allow for testing (with benefits to modularity too).

The Velocity project [1] was started to address this issue and now supports testing apps with Jasmine, Cucumber, and Mocha. There are also individual testing frameworks for Meteor apps such as Nightwatch (now StarryNight).

Even with Velocity, testing a Meteor app is not as easy to set up as testing a Rails app so I would guess most teams don't make it a priority unless they are going into production.

Packages, however, are another story and my impression is that all of the most popular packages [2] have fairly extensive test suites.

1. http://velocity.meteor.com
2. https://atmospherejs.com/packages/most-used
Or we have fewer kids today than we have old people, which means we spend more money on old people than on kids?
How does this make sense? Greece accounts for less than 1% of German exports. Germany gave Greece 80B to protect 4B worth of exports?
If something is called a "product", then its in search for users. If its called "process", then its the way to do something. The author exchanges the terms – but mixing both will get you nowhere while both are neccessary to succeed: You don't go from zero to MVP but have to develop a process to create a working MVP.
Man, I can't imagine a world without Uber but that math is tough.
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The irony is that Germany also owes Greece $300 billion, but refuses to acknowledge it. The German position towards Greece is extremely hypocritical, selfish, and undermining the stability of the EU.

Also, if a company borrowed money and couldn't repay it, they can declare bankruptcy and have their debt restructured. Greece needs to have their debt restructured. Most financial experts say it's irresponsible to expect them to pay it all back, but Germany took those debts from the banks (in order to protect the banks) when it was already clear Greece couldn't pay, and then used their political weight to enforce full repayment.

The way Germany treated Greece is disgraceful and foolish on several different levels, and it's extremely damaging to the EU.
Education should not cost anything at all. Full stop. Free education for everybody should be considered the biggest achievement by human beings.

If a society is not able to provide free education for the upcoming generations, then the basis of such a society should be questioned, rightfully so.
as unlikely as it might seem, we've found the best gender neutral toys are at Ikea

Why would that seem unlikely? We up here the North are the cutting edge of equality, after all...
Conversely, I didn't party much at all in college, and I don't really have a professional network from that period of time. I developed all of that later, post-college, when I started partying (I'm a late bloomer, I guess). I hate "networking" events, and have never managed to get much out of them when I've forced myself to go, but love meeting people organically through regular social outings. Some of those people turn into friends, some turn into professional contacts, and some turn into both.
Actually it would be nice to see that functionality as a compiler warnings.
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The compose key is a concept, not a physical key :)

If your operating system supports it, you can bind any key to the compose key, such as the right alt key.

Here's a link to several options to get software support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Software_support.
I sense that there's some media manipulation going on here.
Because having a product available for sale constitutes it being "shoved down our throat"?

You must feel awfully afflicted every time you enter a store. So many things being shoved down your throat. How do you even function?
I've always wanted to visit SAP headquarters in Germany and see how they book their own vacations and submit their own expenses. It can't be with their own software...
seems so. https://github.com/include-what-you-use/include-what-you-use...
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> In that respect it's been a wild success, I'm not sure we've ever had such a lasting amount of peace.

It's weird, but we basically had decades of peace in Europe with only minor conflicts before WWI. Interestingly enough, most of this minor conflicts happened in the balkans, much like recent history.

EDIT: not trying to deny your observation, or your conclusion that EU was a success in this, just mentioning an interesting fact.
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The only way to test it out is with code. In my own tests spinlocks turned out to provide the highest throughput. I do not care about the problem enough anymore to go try out your implementation. If you implemented a lock free queue, you should be the one testing it out if it actually is better than a simple spinlock.
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Reproducible builds are on our very-near-future roadmap at Cyph, which will be important to mitigate a hypothetical scenario in which we somehow lose our minds and deploy code that differs from the GitHub repo.

We control the whole packaging/signing framework (WebSign), so there isn't any need for us to wait on a third party to roll this out.
For perspective, I'd like to invite readers to this 2004 update by another author

http://garote.bdmonkeys.net/commandline/
>Greece was loan-sharked by Germany and other "investors" for the explicit purpose of pumping up German exports

I hear the same argument with the housing crisis; that people were somehow "suckered" into borrowing money. I don't understand how other people can be blamed for borrowing, spending, then failing to repay.
You don't declare profits. You just invoice or lend between international elements of your group with timing such that at the end of year/quarter/reporting period in each jurisdiction you've lost money or made none.

A lot of money vanishes this way, a lot of money is invented this way.
Education should not cost anything at all.

Bikeshedding!

Education always costs a great deal. Teachers need to be paid, schools need buildings, universities needs labs, etc.

The only question is how payments are organised: taxes, fees, some hybrid ... Whatever mechanism is chosen, somebody feels hard up and will seek to change it.

Yet, it's always the old paying for the education of the young, just like it is always the young paying the oldies' pensions.
That's an excellent explanation for why they didn't sell Rey toys with lightsabers early on. To my eye, it falls a bit flat as an explanation for why they didn't sell Rey toys without a lightsaber (since Rey didn't have one for 95% of the movie).
I can tell you some thoughts I have, but please be skeptical.

If the number of combinations of sounds in your language's sound system is lower than the number of things and actions you want to talk about, words might have to get pretty long to unambiguously represent ideas. To avoid having to talk so much, we might use shorter words that would be ambiguous without context. I think this is kind of what's going on with spoken Mandarin. Too few sounds are chasing too many ideas, so there are necessarily a bunch of homophones. But it still works fine, as long as there's context, and the listener can ask for clarification.

But reading a book isn't a dialogue. The reader can't ask for clarification. Maybe this is part of the reason Mandarin tends to be written differently than it's spoken? I'm not sure, because I'm not advanced enough. Reading advanced Mandarin like in newspapers is very daunting. In text messages and IMs, my friends and I seem to write exactly how we'd talk out loud, and it works fine. But maybe this is because we're talking about simple subjects?

There are actually at least two issues here. One, Mandarin written with Chinese characters is often written differently than would be spoken aloud. Two, reading Mandarin in pinyin would be annoying.

On the first issue, I think it may be possible to write Mandarin just like you'd say it -- I think maybe it's just a tradition to make it so stilted. On the second issue, I think the problem is that there would be a bunch of annoying misparses that required back and forth clarification.
I saw this project the other day for alsa-refugees who have to run apps only supporting pulseaudio (some of my games, skype): apulse. It emulates pulseaudio for the given app.

[0]: https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse
Insulting people for honesty is a dick move. The article is doing its best to show you how to avoid situations where you have a terribly weak bargaining position.
Everyone cites profit, profit, profit as what makes Market Capitalism work, but even more important than profit is competition. Disney owns an intellectual property monopoly on the Star Wars universe. If the Star Wars toy lines have a ginormous blind spot and completely ignore the huge market of female consumers, then no one else can fill that gap--no one else can compete. The only recourse consumers have is to complain on social media, blogs, and in the news and hope the corporate overlords deem their consumer demands worthy of fulfilling.

Monopolies completely undermine capitalist economies. We see the same thing with utilities, where one company has a regional monopoly on the electric grid, internet service, or water, consumers suffer from the lack of competition. So the government steps in to regulate.

I'm not saying the government should regulate the Star Wars universe to ensure female consumer demands are met, people should instead flock to science fiction/fantasy universes that meet their needs, but--as you note--those other universes don't have the corporate backing to get films into theaters. I enjoy Star Wars and Star Trek, but after 40 and 50 years of playing around in these mythoses, I would really like to see new worlds explored more deeply by the mass public.
>The irony is that Germany also owes Greece $300 billion //

Can you cite a source of this and perhaps go in to it a bit more?
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FWIW, in Italy the general complaint is that the EU needs reform, or that the Euro sucks, but none of the major political entities has a platform of leaving the EU (the Lega Nord does but is below 20%).
Just to provide the counterpoint (perhaps from a less biased position than Soros): the EU was doomed from the start due to member countries (excluding GB) losing sovereignty over monetary policy (i.e. common currency) but retaining sovereignty over fiscal policy. This is a problem because there is no strong mechanism for 'horizontal fiscal equalisation' (HFE) across EU member countries.

Take Greece and Germany in the lead up to the GFC for instance. Germany's economy is going great-guns and national income is rising thanks to their strong exports. Greece is not doing so well, with low productivity and low or negative economic growth. If Greece was not in the EU, they'd have had two options to stimulate their economy: government spends more (fiscal policy) or its central bank lowers interest rates (monetary policy). The latter option also has the nice side benefit of depreciating their currency, meaning their exports become more price competitive.

However, because they're a member of the EU monetary union, they're stuck with the Euro as their currency. Which has a single centrally set interest rate. So with Germany (and other EU countries) doing well, while Greece (and others) doing poorly, the European Central Bank sets the interest rate 'too low' for Germany, and 'too high' for Greece. Therefore, Greece's only option is to deficit spend. And they have to spend more than normal because EU monetary policy is working against them and they have little to no control over it. And because there's no HFE, they have to go in to extreme budget deficit despite being monetarily yoked to countries like Germany.

I think that the monetary union will eventually dissolve and EU nations will move back to sovereign monetary policy. It's hard to imagine the alternative: an effective and formal HFE mechanism being agreed. It's a hard sell in domestic politics, especially if you happen to be one of the 'successful' countries, who must now cross-subsidise 'unproductive' neighbours.

It's just my speculation, but I suspect they'll hold on to free trade and 'open boarders' within the EU.
Their official distro/platform/whatever is Lakka: http://www.lakka.tv

I've personally had a better experience with it than with RetroPie. Less configuration-fiddling. Had it on a Pi2, now an Asus Chromebox, great on both (better on the Chromebox—way more single-core horsepower, which is what counts).
>banks which had lent lots of money without oversight

If you sign a legally binding document that you will repay a loan, plus interest, or your assets are on the line, what "oversight" do you need? Wouldn't the world be a better place if people paid money back as contracted, rather than ripping off (and somehow blaming) the lender? If you don't like the terms, don't accept them. "But we need money!" isn't an excuse.
Can't wait to try this out
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Sorry for my ignorance but what's "HONY" style?
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This looks awesome. And it installs right through Gulp too? Very nice find
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There might be many more success stories if children growing up closer to the poverty line were able to do so in more nourishing environments. However, discouragement, lack of confidence, anxiety are things not restricted to any racial or economic background. Not having a silver spoon is in many ways a better environment in which to be raised.

The OP does not say that his parents didn't show him any love, which is more important for the development of a person than any economic status. Many of the other struggles might be used as fuel for building positive character traits, unless one doesn't let it.

Having read through the post, it doesn't appear that he's actually arrived at a valid point, and is just trying to brand himself as being underprivileged through the telling of his life story, which has turned out to be successful by most standards. He uses the argument that "mindset inequality" gave him a chip on his shoulder so he was able to succeed, and therefore others fail because of it, which seems contradictory.
>Perhaps deploy emergency connectivity faster than a satellite can be launched?

New Shepard points straight up for the entire duration of the burn (110 seconds), because the goal is to get the payload to just barely 100km and then land more or less in the same spot. Any object on this ballistic trajectory will fall down to Earth very quickly.

Project Loon is better for communications equipment - the balloons stay up for longer, they are closer to the ground (essential for low power applications), and they're much cheaper to launch. https://www.google.com/loon/
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> edit: got my facts straight

Well, not quite because

> To put it in perspective this rocket went about 100x as high as an average international airline flight but would still need to go about 4000x as far to reach the moon.

The height at which airliners fly is about 10 km, and 100 km is only 10 times as high.
So we agree. You've done nothing and believe you have a right to the liberty you have simply because you were born at the right time in the right place.
I'm learning this with my website (http://muxme.com), which is only a month old. I've pivoted about a hundred times, which makes me question what truth is, because literally every bit of copy, UX flow, and strategy has changed. Yesterday the site was personal, friendly, and quirky. Today the site attempts to create the illusion that we're multiple people operating a business. The one truth that is true and universal is that people can enter and win with no purchase necessary, which is what the website revolves around.
"rey action figure star wars" - 199 results
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Most of Rey figures were announced after the backlash. Anecdotally, I went around shopping and was able to find everything SW, except for a Rey figure. They even had action figures for minor characters in the Rebels series, but no Rey.
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I would tend to agree
It's a bit scary. Here's the relevant (I think, I could be wrong) bits of law.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/part/2/crosshead...

The sex that is being prevented is listed:

> (3)The acts are—

> (a)engaging in sexual activity involving a child or in the presence of a child;

> (b)causing or inciting a child to watch a person engaging in sexual activity or to look at a moving or still image that is sexual;

> (c)giving a child anything that relates to sexual activity or contains a reference to such activity;

> (d)communicating with a child, where any part of the communication is sexual.

Here's a press release:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-powers-for-tighter-re...

Here's an explanatory PDF:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Soros is definitely weird at times, and he is almost always too-certain. But your negative characterization of "billionaire investor" is a disservice to you and him. Rather than learn about the world by selling products or climbing a political ladder, he formed opinions and made bets. Massive, massive respect.
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