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> It first appeared in 1861, born out of a necessity for Civil War funding, and in 1913, Congress made the income tax a permanent part of American life.

And federal income tax should again be eliminated. The federal government should get fed from the hands of the state, not the other way around. Having all of the money flow down from the top is helping to create this mess we're in now.

The one that controls the purse holds the real power. Federal income tax is consolidating that power at the top.
Exactly - I call bullshit on the whole thing
Fair enough. I'm sure you can think of a technology, though, that made nice coin for a few years until suddenly it didn't.
The health insurance exemption only helps the healthcare industry; without this exemption, people would rather be paid cash than get expensive extra healthcare benefits. People would probably rather buy their own health insurance than have an employer choose it, and most employers would rather offload the trouble of managing health insurance (as many have healthcare departments, which is not their core competency).

Unfortunately the Affordable Care Act (A.K.A. ACA, Obamacare) cemented employer-purchased healthcare into place with the employer mandate.
Dubs it "Area 404". Yikes.
For what it's worth, I think your experience is a strong point to have on your resume. You have collectively demonstrated an ability to run profitable projects, over an extended period, doing everything that is necessary between you since there was no-one else to hide behind. That is more than many people in our business will achieve in their entire career. As long as you were all contributing substantially and can show that, just to avoid any perception that your team was actually built around one key person or anything along those lines, I expect you'll do just fine.

As an aside, not everyone is on LinkedIn, and those of us who aren't apparently can't see the profile you linked.

Also, full disclosure, it sounds like I'm a bit older than you but my background is somewhat similar, so my views here may be biased. But having sat on the hiring side of the table in various roles, I'd take demonstrated ability to get things done and build successful projects over some random progression of short term jobs with increasingly impressive-sounding job titles any day of the week.
Building a Data Pipeline with Airflow
DD-WRT Companion: manage DD-WRT routers from Android on the go
Terraform was built using CloudFormation as the inspiration, but development became stale quickly and, at the same time, CloudFormation introduced some unique features. Given Lambda and Custom Resources, you can manage foreign to AWS resources now, and CloudFormation does not run on a single machine, but on multiple ones, I will speculate, using Simple Workflow Service. So, I pick CloudFormation as a reliable serverless service; I generate the JSON using troposphere, and I'm more than happy - HCL, which pretty much nobody outside of HashiCorp uses, can't beat Python! I am also not sure how viable HashiCorp is as their business model is strange and the sudden death of Vagrant should be a lesson learned!
It really shows how corrupt the system is. If you buy insurance yourself on the exchange, then you pay with post tax dollars. If you happen to work for a large company whose population is obviously more desirable to insure, then you get a huge discount on health insurance.

If you're a small employer employing people on the lower end of the economic scale, then you pay through the roof if you want to buy a group health plan because your population is probably not too desirable, and if you try to reimburse your employees for their own individually purchased health insurance (because you don't have time to deal with all the stupid health insurance laws like COBRA and stuff), then you also pay with post tax dollars.

Using the tax code as a political bargaining chip is a time honored tradition that, unfortunately, isn't going away soon.
This levitating phone charger can power your iPhone in mid air
Is this no longer a problem because it wont affect YOU during your lifetime?
It is a way for banks to directly invest their own money (rather than depositors') in commercial real estate. Manhattan has something similar going on - ridiculous number of bank branches.
I love NY and Vermont.

Pound of Weed ----> Cord of Wood
Presumably you would have some protocol to passing the messages that handles this, such as at the simplest level wrapping the the message with a preceding length and following end of record identifier, which in conjunction should work.

But that's the (implicit) point of all this, now you've added a bunch of logic for an accumulating writer, a protocol to pass messages between the processes, and state so that partially received messages can be continued when you get back to that process. Now the application has a non-trivial amount of logic and code to deal with logging which might be a source of problems itself. As another commenter noted, individual files per process with an aggregation step (or specialized reader) is much simpler and easier to reason about and mirrors actual case in the article where it was eventually inserted into SQLite, which essentially enforces this read ordering as needed (if there is an ordering field).
The nation is somewhere around 12℅ black, and a little over 50℅ female. Am I the only one that just doesn't see a problem with Apple being 9℅ black and 37℅ female? That is not close enough? Will people only be satisfied when companies exactly match the demographics of the countries they operate in? There are many more white, Asian, and Indian males that graduate with tech degrees, so Apple is to ignore this when hiring? It's not Apples fault that there are fewer minorities and women graduating with STEM degrees. America is so damn race obsessed.
Not to mention making crossings and chokepoints (bridges, tunnels, downtowns) autonomous-vehicle only. That should give people incentives to upgrade.
> I. How do you calculate a price for what you do?

Work in the industry you want to freelance in first. This way you find out how much clients value your work. Then you know what to charge.

> II. How do you write a proposal?

Work in the industry you want to freelance in first. Learn how the proposal writers do their job and what clients expect to see. Improve on it.

> III. How do you draft a contract?

With a lawyer who has experience in the industry you want to freelance in.

I supported a family freelancing for a long time, about 6 years. It's terrible. If you are unsure of how to do something, you have to wonder what value you are really adding. Learn it first. Then execute it as a freelancer.
Maoni: In-App Feedback Library for Android
Reasons Why I Use A CDN
React is a conceptual framework which lays out how UIs are specified and how they behave (via the component model). Then when it comes to rendering the UI, the React framework allows several rendering targets (the classic one is React-DOM, which renders a DOM for web pages). React Native is a React renderer for iOS and Android apps.
What do you think of the U.S.'s record for human rights? To be fair, the U.S. has done a much better job of keeping many of those incidents (Gitmo or elsewhere) secret until fairly recently.
One big impact is the change to food supply. Plants and animals thrive in certain climates (the midwest of the United States for example). Those zones are moving due to climate change. Does that mean they are getting larger or shrinking? Will it require more energy (water, fertilizer, mechanical harvesting) to get the same amount of food? It's my understanding that both land-based and water based sources of food will shrink with a warming planet.

(Not sourced as I am currently at work - presumably someone is composing a detailed response to you as well)
Unfortunately the mortgage interest deduction is a major third rail in U.S. politics and it is probably here to stay.

This article is 100% spot on though--it is a completely regressive policy and privileges those with enough capital to purchase real estate at the expense of those who have no choice but to rent.
AppStore Developer Payout Hits $50B, July Sets Record, Biggest Month Ever
>> If depository banks are going to be very risk adverse they won't be earning much on the use of those demand deposits

> You realize that this is how it used to be, right? Up until 1999. I don't know about you, but I got more interest and paid fewer fees back then...

No it isn't. Yes, the retroactive magic bullet Glass-Steagall act was in place but no they were certainly not very risk adverse. Do you remember Savings & Loan? 'cause I do.

Again, what's stopping you from opening a neo-goldsmith bank today (we have mattresses so you don't have to!)?
Not just pipes - Files, too (actually, all write calls). Assuring your records are always smaller than PIPE_BUF and just using O_APPEND works pretty well.
It's hard to compete when the government sets the rules against you. The reason Western firms have failed in China is because they allow just enough entry to transfer technology, then promptly stack the rules against foreign firms when a local competitor arises. It's not the technology, its the fact that the rules are stacked against them
CloudFormation is stateless as well.
What specialty are you hiring for? Is it something about the people in that area? I have personally worked for two companies in my 14-year career, and most people I have worked with have had similar tenure lengths. I do embedded/systems/scientific-type work, though.
I think it's also possible that a large employer being able to offer health insurance much more cheaply per employee than a small employer can gives the large employer that much more advantage over the small one for no reason.
Signing contracts after you have carefully read them is another issue. In the last five years, two people have sent me long contracts, and buried near the end, was a statement that I would indemnify the company and investors if they were ever sued for patent violation for whatever I was working on. Do people actually sign stuff like this?
The Civil War, and the period preceding it, sort of put the lie to any attempt to idealize the states as somehow a more pure, less-corrupt or less-oppressive place to put government power.
React began targeting the browser DOM. Now, React is actually the shared library used by both react-native and react-dom.

In React (in general) you build components out of other components. Thus react-dom contains pre-defined components named after HTML dom elements. They behave like a very standards-compliant and consistent dom implementation.

So if you want to build a name badge component in React for web, you'd define a "render" method that used the dom-oriented components.

With React-Native, there was no reason to implement a component called Div. Instead, the authors created one called View. Instead of copying the browser DOM's behavior they created simple components that are fairly direct abstractions of native UI toolkit components... Things like ListView, Modal, etc. To build something using React Native, you just compose these existing components to make your own components.

Tangent: Interestingly, you can use a library called react-native-web to render React Native components in a browser, which makes it very elegant to share code between web and mobile versions of an app. There are a few differences, but it lets your pure js components designed for native work perfectly on the web, so it's actually not a bad approach for building for the web... in some cases React Native's components contain behavior you'd end up implementing for web anyway.
umm, that's not true. Not all CPUs with MMUs have hardware support for memory based exception handling often the job of a MPU (memory protection unit). The ARM Cortex-M4 says it's optional [1] and as such Ti Jacinto6 processors don't implement it.

[1] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....
> the mortgage interest tax deduction, which, at an annual estimated cost of $77 to $100 billion...

Oh please. What a puny number that benefits such an enormous amount of regular people.

The cost of war in Iraq is estimated at $12 billion a month[O]. Eliminating this deduction wouldn't even buy us another senseless and irresponsible war!

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-iraq-war-by-numbers-2014-...
Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics
I posted this as a comment on the article, but I'll share here as well...

This is kind of funny, but the methodology is suspect. For example, Lincoln Nebraska is a college dominated city so the result is no surprise, Omaha Nebraska has a much larger population and not really skewed so much toward a single demographic. When I run your search for Omaha the top result was drivers license. However we all know that your personal search history can affect results and I had been researching voter ID laws. When I try the search in a new incognito window... I get no results whatsoever! So, unfortunately, I'm going to have to firmly place this in the humor category.
Charging Without Wires
> Needless to say this is not how Smalltalk works.

I've always gotten the strangest feeling that Mr. Kay made up the distinction between Smalltalk and later OOP languages after the fact. I think this is precisely the reason I get that feeling: because despite what Mr. Kay says about Smalltalk and OO, programming in Smalltalk feels very much like programming in any other OO language.

I don't mean any disrespect to Mr. Kay. I give him the benefit of the doubt in assuming that his intended language was different from the language that actually materialized, likely due to implementation issues. In that regard, as a language designer I can very much sympathize.
Already climate change is causing disease and death on an alarming (and growing) scale. Rich people, as always, have a buffer. We in the developed world will be the last to be hit by it and the least impacted.

But, Africans are already feeling it. The Zika virus, which was identified in the 40s, was never been considered a serious health crisis, until climate change enabled it to spread farther and faster. Anything that enables mosquitoes to live longer and breed faster is a death sentence for people in many parts of the world.

Drought-prone regions are also feeling it already. It isn't a matter of "just move to another place" when your wages are measured in single-digit dollars per week or month. So, as climate change progresses, more people go hungry.

And, I think what's most alarming about it is that it is progressing faster than even the most extreme (mainstream) projections predicted. Where small changes were expected over a long period of time, we seem to be seeing a domino effect, where slight rises in temperature trigger other events that cause faster change. So, we probably don't have a century to adjust, particularly in areas that already have challenging weather events; Florida and Louisiana because of hurricanes and flooding, Texas and California because of drought. Many of our food producing states will be forced to evolve rapidly...I doubt it will be a smooth transition. There's already constant political battles over water in some parts of California.
Right - best example of that is "How much does a fishing license cost in Montana". People outside Montana are probably going to drown out people inside Montana.

There aren't that many people in Montana
The issue where people can be convicted for these crimes for public urination and similar is extremely important, but also completely separate. People like that shouldn't be on parole in the first place. Considering that they're probably being jailed, complaining about a Pokemon Go restriction because some of the targeted people may have committed a minor crime doesn't make any sense to me.

It's like saying that we shouldn't restrict prisoners' phone calls, because that's unfair to the wrongly convicted. It's technically true, but being wrongly convicted in the first place is far more important.
Who's going to take this a step further, evaluate every programming language against this framework, and tell us who's the Eagle Scout of the group?
Does this render QT/QML components ?
I visited for a week recently, staying downtown mostly. No children, no scooters that I remember.
This is a horrible metric; tons of these are clearly people googling about things somewhere other than where they live (c.f. Alaska, "gallon of milk").
Not really. I never found anything "playable" for Oculus Rift i bought a year ago.

I use it for VR development and show-offing at various events, which in my case are various experience sims like base jumping from a space elevator or riding a rocket-powered chair.

Doesn't have much of a replay value, especially if you know what is coming.
React Native employs the React library. It's exactly the same except instead of using "web components" to construct user interfaces such as <div> and <span> elements, we use native components. For example, the React Native "View" component maps straight onto iOS's UIView and Android's android.view.

Check out the tutorial here for some basic examples: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/tutorial.html
Had been known as "Building 8" quite recently.
http://www.bedetheque.com/BD-Dragons-Tome-1-Les-jouets-olymp...
Sex offenders in New York are required to give the government information about all of their accounts online, so it would be easy to reference against that list. I'm sure it's easy to refrain from doing so and not get caught, but it's something.
Sorry to self-promote a little but, but I just published a dev diary [1] for Eve, where I talk about a lot of the same ideals described here. For instance, the author writes:

> For brownie points, your compiler should explain why the programmer has encountered an error, and for the gold medal it should propose a solution.

This is exactly what we're trying to do with Eve. In one of the examples [2], I show an error that is met with a full explanation of what went wrong, a possible fix, and even a button that offers to fix the error.

On our philosophy toward errors, we've identified that they should be understandable (written in full plain English sentences), relevant (point to the root cause of the error, rather than incidental errors), and actionable (we provide the reason for the error, offer to automatically fix the error where possible, and teach the user why the error occurred and how to avoid it in the future.)

We're still in the early stages of handling errors, but this is at least how we're thinking about it.

[1] http://incidentalcomplexity.com/2016/08/03/july/

[2] http://incidentalcomplexity.com/images/errorExample.gif
You seem to assume that the temperature will slowly increase, giving us time to adapt, without descending into another global war due to all the shufling of agricultural areas and mass migrations.

But there's a scarier scenario, where temperatures change much more rapidly due to a positive feedback loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_climate_change
If they're only reliable in controlled conditions, they're not reliable. The really hard problems that would impact the feasibility of self-driving cars (as the popular imagination sees them) arise in unanticipated situations.

After all the work that was done with the DARPA Grand Challenge(s) in the past decade, it would be an embarrassment to Google if they couldn't get the cars to work in controlled conditions, rather than it being a staggering achievement in getting them to where things are at now.

I really want self-driving cars to happen, but I see the biggest impediment to that vision of the future being the general public's level of optimism and credulity WRT this stuff, to say nothing of the tech community's optimism and credulity. It's a domain that is a nearly infinite bucket of incredibly hard problems, problems that may ultimately prove insoluble as currently specified. If everything goes well, then maybe in 20 or 50 years a lot of transportation will take place in self-driving cars which operate with sets of known constraints in environments that are (to some degree) controlled.

If everything doesn't go well, then people will keep talking about how self-driving cars are inevitable, and how in a just a few years they're going to pick you up at your house and drive you to work using the exact same roads set up the exact same way as roads are now, doing the exact same commute that they might've been doing when driving themselves. This credulity will push the money and the technology forward, until too many disappointing setbacks occur, and then all the money dries up and nobody's talking about self-driving cars anymore.

If you tell somebody that something is inevitable and almost here and it's just a matter of throwing enough resources at it, it's much easier to get people to give you money to do those things, but as soon as anything happens that doesn't fit that script, they will assume you've been lying to them all along (or just aren't credible), and the R&D money goes away. Whereas if expectations are set appropriately, it's harder to get that money, but as long as there are achievable, realistic goals and people aren't basically pitching magic, then the funding is more likely to stick around during the rough patches.
I fully expect to be disappointed at some point, but I've always seen the "use fflush()" approach work, on both Linux and Windows.

TCP Sockets to a server over localhost might also work ( although the flush IOCTL makes no guarantees w/ sockets), then have the server serialize out. One of the nice things about Tcl is that such a server is relatively easy to do. But you may need to mind newlines - don't write until an entire "line" of text has been read.
Jarrett Walker has a great rant on this topic:

http://humantransit.org/2016/05/the-chinese-straddle-bus-is-...

"…If your starting point for urban design is that single-occupant cars, despite their extreme inefficiency in using scarce urban space, should be allowed to go anywhere at all, and that the surface plane should be designed solely for their convenience to the exclusion of all other citizens and needs, then this technology makes sense.

Remember, the primary cost of transit infrastructure is the cost of keeping transit out of the way of motorists, on the assumption that motorists have the prior claim to absolutely every bit of public space in our cities."
So you have to be lucky that

a) your colleagues will do the same so your team can use similar tools

b) you don't have to jump through hoops to install any software at all
I don't see how beating up death row inmates is analogous. I don't support the death penalty at all, but even ignoring that I don't support physical violence against prisoners, no matter how guilty.

I do, however, support punishing criminals. And since letting criminals out on parole is a nice thing we do for them, not a requirement, I think we should consider the fact that these people could easily still be in prison instead. If they hadn't been paroled then they wouldn't be able to play Pokemon Go either, and they'd have a bunch of other restrictions on their lives besides.
You're right that value based pricing [ie what it's worth to the customer] is a better approach. Both the Freshbooks book Breaking The Time Barrier [1] and Brennan Dunn's website [2] are good resources on those. But they might be too advanced for someone just starting out.

You do need to determine what your own base costs are though, at least to ensure you're not going backwards. The calculators I linked to above at least help with starting to think about those costs.

[1] https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/breakingthetimebarrier/

[2] https://doubleyourfreelancing.com
I actually designed and built a decent chunk of Amp'd Mobile's backend integration with Verizon Wireless. I'd be pretty shocked if anyone were more difficult to integrate with.