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> Why can't the UK have open borders to skilled immigrants and not so open to unskilled immigrants?

You would have the extra friction of proving to the UK government that you are skilled. There would probably be a requirement for formal education, so self-taught programmers are in trouble.

I admit I am speaking in my own interest here, as a Swedish person living and working in the UK. When I got a job here I just packed up my stuff and moved. I showed my passport to the border machine and that was it.

If I needed a skilled worker visa, I would probably have had to pay a certified translator to translate my diploma, send in both translation and original, and hope they send them back. Do the same thing for a dozen other documents. The employer would need to submit something, which may be fine for Google but harder for a startup. Then wait for months, because the home office has no incentive to be quick.
In addition to Office their Windows volume licensing is quite expensive, and I assume most of the Fortune 500 companies use Windows desktop clients.

Sure they're declining on the server-side, but the majority of mid-large sized companies except for tech startups use Windows OS.

For the companies who are 100% Microsoft and who happen to drift everything themself, it quickly gets ridiculously expensive if you calculate MSSQL, Sharepoint licenses etc.
Americans shrinking as junk food takes its toll

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/04/usa

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>A lot of people living just within the north side of the border work in the south and vice versa - they would have to go through border control every morning and evening.

It's just not that there would be border control, there's also question would they need visas to get through the border control?
The jetstream flows east, I imagine they might be trying to make use of that, or at least not have to fight it.
Seems a pretty clear case that Let's Encrypt will win easily. The crazy part is the legal system with the pay-wall before justice.
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Microservices are SOA and there are two ways in which that typically happens: slow offline processing with many different workers. That's not really an issue and something that is a well understood problem. The second however is offloading work to different processes while something is waiting for a result and it wants it quick (a web request). In the latter case it's absolutely important that your services reply quickly.
Who gives a shit about "relevance" in the world? Politicians care about "relevance", ordinary people care about quality of life. And there are plenty of small countries outside the EU or other large trading blocs that have high quality of life.
How can you differentiate between grade inflation and knowledge inflation? Perhaps the increase in grades is because the difficulty of the material doesn't rise as fast as our ability to teach it and students' ability to learn?
You're right of course, the young people (I'm off course talking in generality of the modal opinion) could be misguided in what they wanted, but they wanted it.

I suppose it's also possible there was a cadre of older people who felt the young would be better out of the EU - the same problems but no say in how to fix them and less cooperation, that's got to help /s - but who choose to keep silent about that position?
I am not trying to prove anything, I'm just asking (I'm not from the US).

If that's the case, why are people so many worried about losing healthcare coverage after leaving their jobs (to work on personal project for example)? Is it different if you leave voluntarily vs being sacked?
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Yes, Trails is very good (and Second Chapter is even better) but it is nothing like any Zelda game I have ever played. More like a Final Fantasy game with turn-based, tactical battles which are separated from the overworld.

(On your specific video problem: Trails uses DirectShow to play the videos so make sure your Wine setup can play them)

To the GP: Recettear has combat like the older Zelda games (with a simplistic shop management sim tacked on. I think the Ys series also has combat somewhat like Zelda. Perhaps Diablo clones might interest you. Which bit of Zelda are you looking for?
I like having those regulations and the safety they provide, even if in many cases they might be too cautious. I don't trust companies, specially multinationals, to care for the consumers, their workers and the environment.
Definitely. Designing a system where the order of procedures is not certain would be a very interesting challenge and could be very useful.
In Netherlands they changed the way unemployment is measured. Was something similar done in UK? The change it Netherlands makes me not trust easy figures anymore.

Further, seems in UK there's quite a big difference between working and actually having enough to live comfortably. A lot rely on support or barely can afford anything.

Anyway, that is my impression and don't mind being proved wrong.
Even his choice of idiot persona is an act of genius in terms of how well it has served him.
When I first started teaching (university level), trying to come up with what I thought would be acurate grades would keep me awake most nights.

Asking fellow faculty revealed that they too had wrestled with the same problem, they developed a "feel" for what was right, and that they had simply accepted it as a pain point.

I refused to accept that. One semester I told them at the beginning of the semester that they were competing against their classmates. I was not setting upper and lower bounds for grades, their classmates were.

I used the full range of grades (A+ to F), and when I tabbed the grade distribution, the results freaked me out: It was an almost perfect bell curve. I decided to use the method again the following semester. Same results. I did it again the following semester. Same results again. I then permanently adopted the method.

Other results included the, "Why didn't I get an "A" on Project/Paper X" drama during office hours dropping off to nothing;

Student's were much more comfortable knowing they were competing against their classmates, rather than trying to "figure out" their professor;

My Teacher Evaluation scores didn't change across my changing grading methods;

My stress level went _way_ down, and allowed me to better concentrate on creating and delivering content.
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Sorry, it's one of many languages with no connection to Latin.

Latin languages are French, Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Romanian. That's it. All the others are not.
Solarus (http://www.solarus-games.org/) is both a very polished fan sequel to A Link to the Past, and also an engine for building your own action-RPG games in Lua.
It's good enough that I occasionally slip up and forget whether I'm on the US or DE site, since I check prices at both for used books and use the US site when buying stuff for people back home - sometimes, the only difference in the sites is the currency of the prices.
Political power is concentrated among a small group of people. This happened because of centralisation of and amalgamation governments and corporations. To reverse it, logically you'd just have to reverse this trend. Break up the EU. Break up the corporations. We might sit here and think it's people like to do "dumb" things like elect volatile politicians like Trump and Sanders to upset the status quo, or do "dumb" moves like leaving the European Union. I'd like to say people are a smarter than we think. I am one of the people, and I think people will figure things out by themselves, just fine. Don't worry. Be happy. :)
Sorry I don't get you. I was able to vote in the EU elections, as were commonwealth citizens. What I was taking issue with was the insinuation that it is ridiculous to think that EU citizens should have been able to vote.
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Unified systems continues to be used and evolve all sides of business -enterprise and consumers.Combining video,messaging,voice call and enterprise calling could have made a huge impact on LinkedIn and the same fate could happen to twitter.What do u think?
As an observer out here in Africa, I understand why the Brits may be fed up with the way immigration is being handled. The citizens of Europe are being told to be welcoming. However, there is no solution in sight in the home countries of the immigrants. When are all the wars in the Middle-East going to end? When are the African dictators holding their countries to ransom going to be replaced by good governments?

I purposely did not go into reasons why the said regions are unstable. At the end of the day the wars and governance issues need to be sorted out to stem the flow of immigrants. I don't think anyone has the answer. The solution is certainly not for the whole world to migrate to the "developed" countries.
Of course the education institutions need to be able to get feedback on their teaching if they are to be effective (the tighter the loop the better), they should just not be charge of determining if it is effective.
not really, more RoI giving massive discounts on tax at work.

Most tech on the island is south of the border due to that.
They are doing pre-employment drug screens because it gets them a break on their corporate insurance rates.

I want to be clear here: There is no way that you will get the offer if you either tell them you've recently used, or fail the test. They almost certainly don't have any leeway here because it's an all-or-nothing thing.
That's an interesting point of view that I hadn't considered before. Apple (or any company) doesn't have infinite eyeballs and can't possibly inspect every nuance to their systems. So, you release it to the world and have them surface any issues. If there are no trade secrets and everyone is honest and reliable, then it is a great way to increase your security footprint. :)
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I would wait a bit to see how things go for UK because Spain current situation isn't that good either.
> Not having to pull from git on every deployment eliminates the risk of a github outage keeping you from being able to deploy. Of course it’s still possible to run into this issue if you rely on DockerHub or another hosted image registry.

lol
The UK national debt is all in Pounds.

But whether or not that is an advantage is hard to establish, that all depends on how much of an export position the UK will have post brexit.
"he saw a potential route into number 10 and took a gamble on it."

The funny thing is that basically Cameron used a similar gamble to be elected.

Push Brexit referendum, and hope for a Remain outcome.

I mean, it would be funny if the well-being of millions of people would not be impacted by all this gambling.
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Coca cola, modern sports, national health care, the Internet, videogames and on a more serious side a higher degree of respect for minorities that countries bordering the EU, no death penalty, gun control, a will to improve civil rights and liberties, ... should I go on?

Once you start meeting people from all those countries you realize even more how similar your cultures are. Some common sayings, some common tales, very similar political divisions, etc

There's a reason why Europe is many times referred as a whole. "They do it like this in Europe", "In Europe they prefer that" (and it's not always ignorance ;)).
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I think you are on the right track when you compare the Brexit surprise to the Trump phenomenon. There are many of us who view the main difference between the Democratic and Republican establishment as only the particular special interest, large donors they serve. George Bush was many things, but a fiscal conservative is NOT one. He was the one who pushed through Medicare Part D which contributed greatly to our unfunded liabilities. Every president since Johnson has raided the Social Security Trust Fund to help hide our debt. President Obama has presided over the doubling of our national debt, to over $20T. He had a lot of help from both sides of the aisle.

Many of us here realize that this exponential growth in national debt supported by printing unbacked fiat currency cannot continue. We will be in especially deep trouble if other nations decide not continue to use the US dollar as the reserve currency. We cannot continue to outspend on defense the next 11 or 12 nations combined. We cannot solve every crisis in the world.

We do not have a perfect choice for president. We never do. We do know that Mrs. Clinton is another one who sees more government intervention as the solution to every problem. She was not very effective as Secretary of State and I am surprised she has not been indicted for compromising national security with her private email server. Even if they had put up Sen. Sanders, his own wife's experience (shutting down the college she presided over because it was economically unsustainable, getting a nice severance package, leaving the students with debt...) shows that his plan is unworkable. At least Mr. Trump realizes that not every expenditure is possible or prudent. He seems to understand the concept of 'vital national interests' - that we must get our own house in order before we can continue to help the greater global community.

Those of us who say this are often publicly vilified. We do not seem to be able to have a peaceful, rational exchange of ideas. So people will keep their mouth shut and go cast their ballot in the privacy of the voting booth, exercising their fundamental human right guaranteed by under a constitutional republic. Gee, it sounds a lot like what the voters in the UK just did.
You are right.. I was thinking EU relating to visa requirements, but that is Schengen in much of the EU, including Ireland.

It seems there will be no change in regard to visas.
Both sides can be appalled though. Did you not expect bitter feelings? Whatever values the EU was founded on, it's now irrelevant for britain.
No mention of how to debug code in containers... or shared containers created so developers can share libraries.... or a multitude of other things which do happen when you start letting developers directly push things to production

If you are using docker you need to ensure the docker container author takes the pager for the services he provides :)
Yes. I believe Texas Republicans call for independence with some frequency.
As much as I dislike Google's practices, I don't think a self-described Marxist can claim moral superiority over anyone.
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You are right, that the Brexit does not help the British. But that is the problem with this voting, it is dominated by illogical feelings. The problem is also not the EU as such, but the governments of the EU countries.
Yes don't let the schools choose who is going to be assessing if their teaching is effective.
Having worked with R1-educated EEs who didn't know which end of a soldering iron to hold, I've got to disagree with you there. Abstract knowledge and social signaling can get you a job, but they can't make you useful once you're there. Some educators will feed you a line of BS about learning how to learn so that you can learn on the job, but that's very hard to do if you don't have any actual concrete skills. If, as you imply, you're still in school, I'd recommend you learn to be useful before you get out.
If UK wants to trade with EU, UK still has to follow all EU regulations. If UK wants to trade with EU, UK still has to follow EU immigration policies. If they want to avoid those things, they don't get access to the single market, there's no way around that.

If you're so sure the UK will be better off economically, you should put your money where your mouth is and trade against the overwhelming deluge of financial analysts who say the exact opposite. Last I checked the UK banks were down ~30-35% today, sounds like a cheap deal for you.
I'll have to do some A-B testing.

The key here is that I've integrated this particular type of graph as part of a larger interactive visualization or UI. Within that larger system, the graph is generated in real-time in direct response to your input about your own behavior.

I put up an interactive demo here: https://benome.ca/Intro/

So in the intended context, graph's meaning is more clear than it appears at first glance. But in any case, it's easy enough to switch a graph's direction.
The French were the external enemy of the English and subsequently the loyalists in the US. At the time of the Revolutionary War, the French were instrumental in winning it by bombarding English ships en route to the US. At the time of the Revolutionary War, the English were the common enemy of the revolutionaries.

It wasn't cut and dry, there were many English loyalists in the colonies at the time of the war. After the US gained independence, most of them fled.
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As an american you should realize that nationalist sentiments are stronger in europe. It's like baptists or racists or antifeminists lashing out against others in america. The problem is that nationalist sentiments are a lot more dangerous. The saddest of all is that there was barely any talk of talking out a deal instead of separation.

OTOH i think most europeans do not consider britain racist relative to some continental countries.
I live in a very poor state and yet:

> I'm well off, as well as my temporarily unemployed neighbours, there are no beggars in the streets, the roads are paved nicely and I can visit a doctor without him bankrupting me.

...is pretty well entirely true for me - the temporarily unemployed seem to do OK, there's no homeless people, roads are very well paved, doctor is relatively cheap, while...

> They also live in gated communities with armed guards, have to put up with theft and batter, carjackings, etc.

Sounds like some alien civilization. I've never even seen a gated community, I have never, nor known anyone, who experienced theft or battery and certainly not a carjacking. About ten years ago there was a carjacking a few miles down the road from my parents.

I understand that in some urban areas there are places like this, but I hesitate to put that too strongly since I've never seen them in the cities I've been to. It is certainly not representative of the country as a whole.
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The count has finished now. My comment was referring to before the count had finished, and the BBC title of the actual article was "BBC forecast: UK votes to leave EU".
How is this different from having to account for different state and local taxes when selling software inside the US?
I am honestly struggling to see how people believe leaving will make us richer (as has been the rhetoric from the leave campaign) - taxes will quite likely not change, that money will almost certainly not filter back into the pockets of the workers, and will be used to prop up other sectors of the economy that will suffer as a result of this, or to just pay down other debt (which whilst a benefit, still wont help most individuals over their working lives)...
I am not a lawyer nor a native english speaker, but in both cases we have a central power which limits the powers of the constituting states. In the USA you have the constitution, in Europe its the treaty of Lisbon. And there is a high European court which is the counterpart to the US supreme court. So I am not sure what the fundamental difference is you are referring to.
> Message passing implies one way broadcast.

Can you explain that since its contrary to my experience. PDO and normal Objective-C methods had a return and are not one way.
I think it was just because they didn't realise, rather than being fine with it.
Don't sell your friends and loved ones short. You might want to have a look at Bryan Caplan's book "The Myth of the Rational Voter". Quite eye opening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter
"The most recent SPI report (2012/13) gave annual median income as £21,000 before tax and £18,700 after tax.[1] The 2013/14 HBAI report gave median household income (2 adults) as £23,556." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_Kingdom#T...

You can be outside the top 1% and still be significantly better off than many.
Well said. There's a big difference between "want to stay" and "afraid to leave". If the EU isn't working for the people, then it's pretty hard to support.
Don't knock the pass/fail thing until you've tried it :)

I attended another UC that offered students the option to take classes pass/fail. I used it for gen-ed requirements so I could focus my attention on getting good grades in the classes for my major. It was really nice not to have to stress over a test in a non-core subject knowing that it wouldn't hurt my GPA. And, in retrospect, I think I actually remember more of the material from those classes than the classes I took for a grade. My guess is that stress is counter-productive to actually learning.
As another commenter already noted, the common market covers goods, people and services, including financial services. So in order to sell financial services, you need to be located in the EU. That just changed in the case of London, with obvious consequences:

— Ben Thompson (@BBCBenThompson)
June 24, 2016

Sources at Morgan Stanley tell BBC it's already begun process of moving 2,000 London based investment banking staff to Dublin or Frankfurt
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It was expected that racists would vote for brexit loudly anyway. The problem is why everyone else, and especially what you would consider moderate people voted against EU (which is not really a vote against immigration; and it will barely stop it)
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Fossil (of Richard Hipp / SQLite fame) has a built-in distributed ticket tracker (+ bonus wiki): http://fossil-scm.org

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Search here to see it in action: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/ticket
Good developers must learn to ignore this sort of news & get back to work. That's what I'm going to do!
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"When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.
I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.
Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world."
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> Think the UI the way I code it (declarative)

Windows Ressource files exist at least since Windows 3.x

> Don't have to bother with non unicode stuff

Just use the WinAPI functions that are prefixed with W (Unicode) instead of A (ANSI), e.g. CreateWindowExW instead of CreateWindowExA.

> Have access to well behaved widgets

Call CreateWindowEx (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...) (yes, the name is confusing, accepted) with lpClassName value, say, of BUTTON, COMBOBOX, EDIT, LISTBOX, MDICLIENT, SCROLLBAR (for a more complete list look at the MSDN site that I linked). This creates such a widget.