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You can also technically become, for the same price, a Class-3 FFL with a SOT.

It is about $500-$1000 USD per year. You need a secure place to hold your arms, keep extremely well maintained records of anything you buy, and if you stop paying your SOT any post-86 things you have manufactured must be destroyed.

If think you might also have to file a form 1 for everything you manufacture and that takes 1-5 months even stretching out to a year in some cases.

This also comes with a round of your prints being sent to the FBI, ATF, and I'm assuming a bunch of other three letter acronyms that you don't ever want to meet.

But, if you can do that, get a drill press, and make friends at your local PD you can make some good money on the side by building post-86 dealer samples and handling transfers for your local PD.

Believe it or not, but by my current understanding factories cannot ship guns directly to police offices, they must still be handled through an FFL.
It wasn't just local farmers armed with old bolt action weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Pro-Hanoi
Personal gun ownership has been enough to get you to the point where you're still alive to get some heavy weaponry from foreign powers.
My fault. I edited my comment before seeing his.
Indeed it is. Haven't I accrued debt, worked hard, and earned the right to be in a job I should be happy at? I deserve that. So do you and so does every body else.
A related story about Cybersecurity in Israel. Israel's Cybersecurity industry ranks second in the world after the US.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/how-israel-became-the-go-to-pla...
> Yes North Vietnam received military assistance from China and the Soviet Union later on in the war

No, North Vietnam received military assistance from China and the Soviet Union not just "later on in the war" -- in fact, that assistance began with direct aid to the Viet Minh in the First Indochina War against france, and continued through uninterrupted (except that, "later in the war" China withdrew both its aid and direct involvement, after its own falling out with the USSR and Hanoi's refusal to break with the USSR and align with China) through -- and beyond -- the end of the war with the US.

> but the NLF had access to very little of that weaponry.

Which would be relevant if the NLF, on its own, pushed the US out of Vietnam.
Cause I have to much karma points I'll also mention this also happened during the Nuremberg trials.

Really ridiculous stories taken as fact at the time and people still believe even though historians now discount.

We keep getting played.
When police use encrypted radio channels, they can't interoperate with EMS, other agencies or in disaster zones. So becomes a problem.
No you can't write and support it yourself.

When you're dealing with load issues, ops, reporting, i18n, logging, and concurrency, you realize why the infrastructure is there and why it's a lot of work to push out a new feature.

The fact that you're not excited by it is why they're paying you, and NO, you cannot do it solo, not without a team behind you.

Before you say it's all in the cloud, most EC2 admins have to deal with unexpected outages, and it's not exciting in a good way. Fundamentally, 99% of everything is a glorified CRUD app.
But are you willing to accept that the Vietnamese we where fighting were not as well equipped as the entirety of the US military and the local "official" government?
I disagree. The reason why memes are not analogous to genes is that when a meme colonizes your head, you as an individual can use some forward thinking, prefrontal cortex, and change the meme then respread the new mutated meme. This is much closer to, but not identical to, lamarckian style evolution than to darwinian or neodarwinian selfish gene style evolution. One is directed and can avoid evolutionary local minima, the other can not.
> Reddit has thousands of small communities

Was that true at launch? I thought that was added later, but can't remember.
There have been revolutions that involved zero guns. The most vital part was people, not guns. My Glock still cannot offer the protection from "those in power" that many seem to think. 12 unarmed people could easily take my house over even if I was armed with my Glock.

Anyway, I think a revolution is a separate topic, but I could be wrong. There are many steps between government overreach & the people starting a revolution.

Edit: The quote by Patton comes to mind: "Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."
Going via Google circumvents the paywall:

https://www.google.com/search?num=30&safe=off&q=%245.5+Trill...
<From my position telomere length looks a lot a measure of aging rather than a cause>

Sure, so they need to just keep in mind that the goal is not to lengthen (or protect) telomeres for their own sake. But telomeres could at least help serve as a metric or proxy for therapies that do slow or arrest aging overall.

Meanwhile, Metformin is crazy cheap.
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Or you get heavy weaponry from sympathizers in the military - in the United States there would be many, were they ordered to fire on their own people.

I don't understand why opponents of the 2nd Amendment never consider this a possibility, when in fact the military not splintering under those conditions is the fantasy.
This resonates a lot with my current situation. I'm hoping a job change will fix that since I'm still with my first big programming gig (3 years now), but I'm so burned out. Tired of working with people who give inconsistent directions and don't have their shit together. Tired of people being able to act like idiots and never deliver on time, yet if I make the smallest mistake I go under a microscope. It's just so mentally exhausting day in and day out and it's making me extremely depressed. I don't want to go out anymore or do anything and all my passion for hobbies is gone. I'm moving within a year, so until then I guess I'm stuck.
The EFI standard specifically limits that to removable media. Windows installs itself via the EFI boot variable mechanism; Windows also installs itself to bootx64.efi, but even if you overwrite that, you can still boot Windows via its EFI boot entry. Having Linux systems install themselves only to bootx64.efi would produce a fragile installation (particularly in dual-boot configurations).
I would like to counterpoint. I knew quite a few people I trusted who sang the praises of Lotus Notes.

It was the IBM buyout that started the big downfall.

> all the insane GUIs built using the tools?

Remember VB6 and all the shitty applications written in that? Uh, yeah. And don't get me started on the disasters that people perpetrated on us from the web. And how about the pile of dogshit that was Gtk v1? <shudder>

In addition, this was also still the time of "look and feel" lawsuits.

Everybody had insane GUI's in the 1990's, so singling out Lotus Notes is far from fair.
https://github.com/developit/preact-perf
https://localvoid.github.io/uibench/

In the second benchmark, Preact is only faster in around half of the tests. However, this benchmark only tests complete top-down re-renders and intentionally triggers synchronous rendering in Preact. In a normal app composed of Components, Preact batches state changes which improves performance considerably.
I am intrigued by 18F itself (the organization). Employees are on the "GS" scale (GS-14 thru GS-16). From the "Joining 18F" site's "Government pay grades explained" https://pages.18f.gov/joining-18f/pay-grades/

"… you cannot work at 18F on your position description for more than four years … We believe that in this industry most people aren't going to stick around for four years and beyond. They will join 18F, do their years of service in the federal government, and then return to the private (or public) sector. Due to the high-pressure nature of our work, it makes sense that people will move on after a couple of years. That helps 18F stay fresh and strong."

What the frack?!? Isn't the whole point of working for the Federal Government to have a job for life? 18F is actually worse than (non-startup) private sector jobs in that your contract says you cannot stay in the job longer than 2 (or 4) years. Fascinating.
Any HTTP request that causes the webserver to respond with HTTP status 400?
I see. Well thank you. I do appreciate all of your feedback.
I don't think it's appropriate to throw around insults and claim jfgi when someone asks for a mordicum of clarification.

If you can't even manage one small teensy link, what respect does that show for your audience?

The only value comes from the ptacek brand, and the trust I have in him through context. But that's generally not a strong foundation to build an argument on.

To be clear: I trust him, but it's not his best post. And op was not out of line for speaking up.

Edit: sorry ryanlol I didnt mean you, but tptacek. It was perhaps too strongly worded. Didn't mean to attack anyone, just wanted to show support for yomism's point.

I consider myself a HN regular, but I dont read everything. Linode posts I subconsciously skip, as they don't interest me. This was honestly news to me. "Incomplete information", I believe that's called ;)
Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again.
Depending where, that "cabin in the woods" doesn't come cheap. And the time and effort needed to make a decent fraction of what one does "coding" in jobs around cheap locations is going to take many years of hard work.
I am pretty amazed Linode didn't have their own IP Transit up to this point. Their colo provider is Newark charges some pretty high prices from what i've seen.
This is an excellent idea.

I spent a year at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The number of statutes and regulations for just CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) [1] for example fills 425 pages. The department also oversees building codes, liquid pipeline infrastructure, wildlands defense, fire & rescue, etc.

Whenever a new or amended statute is introduced it takes months to evaluate if it replaces or conflicts with existing code. If passed and signed into law it can take a year or more to integrate.

Every year a newly-elected legislator introduces a bill akin to simplifying existing laws. Every year these bills never make it out of committee (i.e., they are shelved) because it would require years of pulling committed resources (SMEs, analysts, support personnel and millions of dollars) out of threadbare operations.

Every department in the State draws up a similar analysis, and the cumulative cost scares the legislature/governor. But it's a good way to introduce the green legislator into how the state government works.

The joke in the halls of the Natural Resources building is that there are too many rules and regulations, but there are not enough resources to correct the situation.

F&FP had no central repository of its own codes. Analysts had to use keyword searches of the public California Codes website!

[1] http://resources.ca.gov/ceqa/docs/2014_CEQA_Statutes_and_Gui...
To be honest, the number of "linode screwed up" posts on hacker news the last few years would be educational to you, and if I remember correctly, ryanlol even got a slap on the wrist due to one of those situations.

At this point, I am bored of people asking for citations on hacker news for things that are should be part of our tribal knowledge.

https://www.google.com/search?q=linode+hacks&ie=utf-8&oe=utf...
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The presentation was very enlightening. If this was the future of business application programming I could see that or maybe even the future of programming websites. But as a game programmer I'm having trouble connecting it to my world. But it's titled as the future of programming, so I figure that would include me as well.

What's interesting is the problems you want to address I deal with every day programming games. When you're making games you have to simulate physics in your head and the setup to just get a project ready is a gigantic pain. How could a game programmer use this type of system to make a game? It seems like the complexity would just get out of hand.
Sure. But the US was also a democratic state where internal public opinion is influential. A single shot fired at Kent State was probably more effective than a thousand fired by the VietCong.
I read Origin of Species before The Selfish Gene and I enjoyed it a lot. I actually knew enough about evolution to follow all arguments easily. This is not surprising given that Darwin tried to introduce the idea to an audience that was largely alien to the concept.

I think what I liked most about the book is the (clearly labeled) speculations. He was already anticipating a lot.
and degenerative disease... and the immune system... and obesity...
Shelled-out Commands in Golang
> The crucial thing with genes is that they are "binary", you either get a gene from a parent, or not. Mutations happen, but they produce new genes. Genes are "immortal" (exist for many, many generations in identical form). Memes, on the other hand, are not binary in this way. Ideas constantly change, and we can't reduce them to a binary code.

Memes are not ideas, they are behaviors. They are either preserved exactly (like genes) or something modifies them to create a new replicable behavior (again, like genes.) The difference you attempt to paint here is spurious.
This is actually a great app.

Reminds me of how Blake Masters took Peter Thiels notes and ended up writing a book with him.
no one deserves anything
Sure! The extension was online and available almost 1 year.
No because as far as I am aware (and I may be wrong here), agnosticism is a concept that applies specifically to your views towards religion and spirituality, which to me more concretely means your inquiry into the question "Why are we here?".

The question begs another though and I think this is what you're really trying to ask: Why is belief in God given special consideration apart from beliefs in things like Thor, Santa, Unicorns, FSM, other works of fiction?

Am I right in this assertion?

EDIT: If this is the case, my answer is similar to one I gave above: Religion is 'special' because it was woven into society long before we developed the scientific understandings that we have now.
Why do you need the 2nd Amendment to get weapons smuggled by soldiers, though?
(1) "Mordicum" isn't a word in English, though it should be, and it is in Latin.

(2) Nobody is entitled to detailed comments from anyone on HN, and keeping comments terse simply isn't disrespectful.

I appreciate that it is annoying to have to make decisions with incomplete information, but that's life.
I rather much agree with him. What the hell was the point of getting a supposedly in-demand degree, graduating top of my class, maintaining my skills at the top of the industry, if I was just going to get stuck in a corporate hell-hole?

Programmers of the world, unite.
"And, btw, you may want to actually read TSG, it's pretty cool :)"

I second my sibling poster. You are clearly a very smart person who has no qualms about confidently misrepresenting a book you haven't read. It's not a charming combination - acquire some rigour in your thinking (for your own sake, if nothing else).
"[In the wake of increasing ad blocking adoption, the winners will be those that best understand their user and their customer] and know how best to reach them–whether that’s through video, native advertising, or influencer marketing." -- emphasis is mine.

This is a good point. Doesn't ad-blocking adoption tell you about the market already?

"Publishers understand that video has the highest CPMs and it is the most impactful form of media. Unfortunately, most publishers have limited resources and are still living off of legacy practices. Because resources are limited and video production is expensive, the industry still has a long way to go until the Internet looks more like TV and less like a newspaper."

Everything is a hammer to the IAB. So you want to push TV over the Internet to make more adverts.
React-docgen: extract information from React components for doc generation
That was a weird moment, Reddit's September as everyone flooded in.

I'm maybe the one person who enjoys digg more today than before. I like the curation they do on videos, there's far less variation in quality than when it was all user submitted. Really no social interaction there anymore though.

I think they killed something broken that a lot of people loved, and replaced it with something kind of neat for a completely different use case. Like if McDonald's started making electric cars or something.

Widely hated, I'm still not sure it wasn't the right call though.
> Because it's trivial to figure out why he's saying that by simply typing "linode" into google, but as of right now googling starfighter doesn't immediately bring up any reasons to avoid them.

This doesn't mean anything. I could get horror stories about any cloud service provider via Google yet we're only being told not to use Linode. Providing some context makes all the difference.
"... 30 LOC ..." followed by three or four more in the same logical chunk seems like the smell you should be worried about if fitting everything on one screen is the concern.
Who's throwing around insults? I specifically edited my comment to make sure it's not misinterpreted.

There's links elsewhere on this thread and Linodes security fuckups are a recurring subject of discussion on HN
Try part-time freelancing. That's how I've been able to survive these last 5 years. I spend about 20 hours a week working for clients and the rest of my time (usually another 40 hours a week) I spend on my own projects. I don't make a lot of money, but I make enough to live on. And I get to spend most of my time doing what I love.

Freelancing is hard. It's especially difficult to get into a part time situation. Most clients don't want a consultant, they want an employee they don't have to file HR paperwork for. But if you network enough, you'll get there and it will be fine.

I think, if you can get out of the soul-crushing chasm of despair that is wage employment, you'll find that software development is indeed your calling. You just don't like being treated like a child in that calling.
Everyone deserves everything. We live in a society that is capable of creating a post-scarcity economy (and in many cases, such as media and software, has) yet is putting itself through ever more convoluted contortions to make sure poor people don't get to have anything. Eff. That. Noise. Work is not a moral imperative.
That was over 7 years ago. How is it "fair" that people don't know?
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Correct, you don't.

I was just pointing out that opponents of the interpretation of the 2nd Amendment being a counterweight to an oppressive government almost always say, "you can't fight the army with rifles!"

That argument is coming up a lot in this thread.
I don't have to bootstrap anything that my distro is already shipping. If I'm using GCC, my .spec file has a BuildRequires tag that tells rpmbuild to make sure an acceptable version is present (from my RPM mirror).

If I'm using some obscure tool that my distro doesn't package, that's when I mirror the version I'm using, and build my own RPM from source if it needs to be deployed to prod servers rather than merely run from rpmbuild.
In case anyone wonders who would buy these and why, the government has made it mandatory for banks to buy these themselves if they have deposits or loan. So this is effectively a tax on banks.
Oresme in Paris did it graphically. The calculators apparently produced the "mean speed theorem". It's written in the full text of the paper:

"The “Oxford calculators” of the 14th century CE, who were centered at Merton College, Oxford, are credited with formulating the “Mertonian mean speed theorem” for the distance traveled by a uniformly accelerating body, corresponding to the modern formula s = t•(v0 + v1)/2, where v0 and v1 are the initial and final velocities (12, 13). In the same century Nicole Oresme, in Paris, devised graphical methods that enabled him to prove this relation"
I strongly agree with the comments about doing your own projects and going to meetups. When I began to just submit applications and then stop thinking about them, it freed up much more time to actually do programming. This in turn made me feel more productive and allowed me to learn new things, which is a big source of happiness for me. The compounding positive effects from sort of tuning out the noisy signals from HR staff and recruiters and putting energy into what I love (programming and math) has made me feel much more positive about my job search overall.

Any time I have a day where there's just nothing good to apply to, or I don't hear back from anyone, I just tune it all out and write some code and it helps me feel much better.
> What the frack?!? Isn't the whole point of working for the Federal Government to have a job for life?

No, though certainly the opportunity for a long-career with a stable employer is part of the attraction for some people of some federal positions.

OTOH, even term-limited positions like those at 18F don't really conflict with this, they just mean you need to find a different federal position before the term ends, leveraging your 18F experience.

> 18F is actually worse than (non-startup) private sector jobs in that your contract says you cannot stay in the job longer than 2 (or 4) years.

Limited-term-contract, non-startup, private sector jobs where you need to line up a new gig before the contract expires to keep working are not exactly uncommon, so I'm not sure how you characterize 18F as worse than non-startup private sector jobs based on a feature it shares with many non-startup, private sector jobs.
It just depends on what you mean by "a cloud".

I usually refer to Cloud Foundry as a PaaS. It sits on top of an IaaS like AWS, OpenStack, Azure or vSphere, managed by BOSH.
As the other reply says, it's a civil case. Preponderance of Evidence applies, which is a much, much lower bar. Think, millions of dollars awarded over coffee that was served too hot.

And, civil or criminal, if you think that sentiment doesn't come into play, then you probably think justice is blind, politicians don't lie they just over promise, and that the markets are rational. What a wonderfully, blissfully ignorant state to exist in.
But that's not descriptive at all.