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Hi, my name is Anita. I'm from Vienna too. I started wienett.com and raumdirekt.com some years ago. I can say it's not only "Angst" that prevents Austrians from being entrepreneurs but also it' s the political and social system. many friends of mine - employees - say they would never be so silly (!) to give up their social security they have being employed. yes it's true, we need role models and we need changes in our school system (learning business), in our insurance system (microbusinesses are treated like big companies) and in our mindsets. I'm on the schnitzelconf mailing list and hope to be in the second batch of early bird tickets ;-) and yes: I'd love to spend 250 euros to be able to meet new faces and people from abroad.
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Hope they've at-least patented it.
The CLASSPATH can be modified at runtime by writing custom class loaders. It isn't trivial, but it is possible. I had to do it to implement Hierarchy:

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If you're interested in what a lot of survivalists pack in their survival kits, they're often referred to as "bug out bags", e.g. http://www.aussurvivalist.com/bugout.htm.
Maybe you don't have enough friends who smoke pot. Not only will marijuana consumers judge by flavor, they will also judge by harshness, and, probably most importantly, by the style of intoxication the strain creates (for example racing, innovative thoughts vs. warm, bodily comfort).
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Maybe it's you who suffers from space blindness. :) People can get used to a wide range of personal space availability. A friend who lives north of Dallas, TX lives with his wife in a 1500 sq.ft. house which seems tiny to them and those they know. When I was visiting recently, he was struggling with how to fit all of their stuff in the house, as quite a lot had overflowed into the garage, making it unusable for, you know, parking in.
re-use is all about technique, not the language.
"I've begun work on a tutorial to get people up and running with Clojure, but I will be recommending Emacs in it."

I'd like to strongly encourage against that. Here's my story: take from it what you will.

2 years ago, I decided to get started with Lisp. I looked around, and the most "official" path seemed to be using "Lisp Box", which is Emacs based. I didn't have any experience with Emacs, but I did keep hearing about it, so I decided to jump in and learn it (I was, after all, in a learning mood).

Of course, learning Emacs isn't a one-day affair. Sure, I could learn enough to do some Lisp (and I did). But it feels like a waste. So I started to learn a bit more about Emacs. Then more. Eventually, I was spending so much energy learning Emacs, that I didn't have any time left to learn Lisp. To this day, I've never learned Lisp.

In contrast, with Python, I spent a day with the IDLE shell that comes packaged as part of Python. Then I moved on to working in files, with IDLE as an editor. Eventually, I moved on to looking for a good Python editor/IDE, a search I spent a lot of time on. But the point is, I didn't need to learn a completely new environment to use Python. Don't forget, a n00b only has so much time/energy to learn, you don't want them wasting it on the editor but on the language. The editor can always come later.
Hi Anita! Nice to meet you! I really hope you'll come to Schnitzelconf, your projects look awesome! Either way, we should at least meet for coffee sometime.

For the record, your friends are extra silly. You know that self-employed people (selbständig) in Austria have social health insurance, pension, and even unemployment coverage?

My husband is selbständig and he even has a part-time employee, all without creating a GMBH. (Don't get me started on how GMBHs are superior to the American LLC!)
Here's a comparison of Retina and Samsung Galaxy S screen: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/iphone-4-retina-display-v...
It's more like, everybody who has a view on the value of a security can put some money where his mouth is. The price will move accordingly, until nobody who has a different opinion has any money left to put behind it.

If smaller differences between current price and opinions can lead to action--because of lower transaction costs--the market is better.
> I am guessing you haven't approached women much?

That's not really called for! The GP is right though; you're unlikely to be, say, given a slap or yelled at! This assumes, of course, your not being leery or crude and not asking them on a date straight off. etc. (where you will likely get a slap).

But there is nothing wrong with saying hi and having casual conversation with someone in the grocery store. 99 times out of 100 it will just fizzle out after a couple of seconds - one time in a hundred you might hit on a common interest and the rest, as they say, is history. I've met a number of great girlfriends in this way.

It's also a great way to get over shyness.

Also; you should talk to random people anyway. It brightens up their day and yours in a perfectly harmless way.

There is this social convention that we all must be silent and look dead ahead when queuing, for example. Everyone I know thinks it is silly but they don't want to be the first to broach the convention - just in case....
Hi Anita, I'm from Vienna and self-employed since 2004! I don't think there are big disadvantages regarding social security for self-employed people. You get health insurance just the same as other people, and if your business really should fail there's very low unemployment and it's quite easy to get a job even in economically stressful times.

I think a bit part of Austrians having inhibitions about starting their own businesses is as you say, the mindset. And that's what Amy is attacking with the conference. And it will be good! :)

As much as I hate the school system here, I don't think it plays a big part in it, and is used as an excuse to not trying to take some risk (and there is almost no risk!) -- actually, I find it much riskier to NOT BEING YOUR OWN BOSS. Are those friends of yours willing to be someone else's pawn for all their lives? I'm betting they also often complain about how they don't really enjoy their work (at least lots of my employed friends do that). :)

And welcome to the SchnitzelConf club!
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The problem seems to be a little different than stated.

I like this quote from Jorge Luis Borges:

"Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary."

Perhaps one of the consequences of this shallowness is that we become more concise in our communication. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact today many books today have a pretty simple premise and waste hundreds of pages giving examples just to fill out the premise.

The truth probably is that most of the world have always been shallow in their understanding of any subject, it's just more obvious today.

But what many people perhaps lack in depth they will gain in diverse knowledge which itself is a kind of depth.

Quite a few breakthroughs have been made by connecting two seemingly unrelated areas to create new meaning.

To me it seems like an evolutionary necessity.

That doesn't mean that we don't need experts or that there wont be any, just that expertise will manifest itself differently.
IMO, both suck at readability, since you have to read inner expressions first. An example with a "pipe" would be clearer.
Maybe I'm missing something, but...

No offense to the author, but what kind of survival experience is a 6 hour stint? Even the full 48 hours only requires you find your way. Perhaps if I was deep in enemy territory, getting enough food would be more important than traveling quickly, but in this exercise I would have simply started hoofing it and gone hungry.

The points he makes are valid, but the anecdote seems lacking in survival challenge. (though, again, maybe I missed something)
Why do you think poor people are lousy at managing their resources? Do you really think that people are only poor because they can't manage their otherwise bountiful resources? How exactly would you manage the finances of a family of four making less than 30 or 20 thousand dollars a year that would raise them up out of poverty?

Also, unless these hoarders are stuffing their money under the mattress it is getting spent somewhere by somebody. The transfer of wealth by spending is the entire basis of an economy, certainly not something to be avoided. The only argument you could make it favor of giving more money to rich people is that they tend to spend it on development which furthers the economy as a whole. This is called trickle-down economics, and it doesn't work.
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Ah, I thought everybody wanted to be successful? ;)

Thanks for the heads up on 'mensch.' I know it means 'human' but, asking around, doesn't seem anyone finds it derogatory. The yiddish stays!
Just that the philosophy behind Java and Posix (or as you say C/Unix roots) are completely different.
Apparently it means "whore" in Austrian slang [1].

I'm not a native Austrian, but was told several years ago by a friend that I shouldn't use that word as people might misunderstand what I meant by it...

Might be a Tyrol thing tho.

[1] http://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/Mensch.html
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> Python for me is the language closest to pseudocode.

Python for me is the imperative language (with some functional features) closest to pseudocode.
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My husband is selbständig and he even has a part-time
employee, all without creating a GMBH. (Don't get me
started on how GMBHs are superior to the American LLC!)

This might be getting off-topic, but I would personally be interested to hear the aforementioned opinion about GmBHs.
> It's a language with a mediocre design, a somewhat frustrating syntax, and a stubborn refusal to commit to such essentials as real closures and lambdas.

I agree about closures, but why lambdas would be so much better than named functions (already available)? I think named functions help code readability, which is among Python's top goals.
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I click the article. I see it's Krugman. Before I read further, I say, "Ah, Krugman. I bet his solution is to print money."

> ...governments are obsessing about inflation when the real threat is deflation, preaching the need for belt-tightening when the real problem is inadequate spending.

That's Krugman's answer for everything. Dot-com crash? Create more money:

2001 Krugman: “During phases of weak growth there are always those who say that lower interest rates will not help. They overlook the fact that low interest rates act through several channels. For instance, more housing is built, which expands the building sector. You must ask the opposite question: why in the world shouldn’t you lower interest rates?”

Oh, wait, they did that and that created the housing bubble that he's now suggesting we prop up by... creating more money.

This quote from the article is even crazier:

> But no: over the last few months there has been a stunning resurgence of hard-money and balanced-budget orthodoxy.

Balanced-budget orthodoxy? Man, the guy's got huge cojones, at least. When your policy causes problems, insist it on even louder as the solution, and point to classical common sense ("balance revenues and spending") as orthodoxy. Good economics, not so much, but huge cojones definitely. Startup founders could do worse than emulating his confidence when pitching investors.
Lystener.com takes your last.fm username and display the lyrics for the song you're currently listening to. By simply selecting the lyrics you like you can post them to Twitter or Facebook. Clean interface, easy to use website.

In the future I want to expand it to saving your favorite quotes, making top ten lists of songs and artists, but for now, this is an app I made in about a weekend (with a week of tweaking) and I'm pretty happy with it :) I wrote a blog post with a longer explanation, for those interested: http://kilianvalkhof.com/2010/web/a-web-app-in-a-weekend-lys...

Let me know what you think!
Some of these are so general as to be useless:

* Giving up too easily or not giving up to easily

* Too little confidence or too much confidence

* Spreading oneself too thin or thick

* Taking too much blame or not taking too much blame

The problem being that there's no way to know (for example) if you're being too confident or not confident enough.
Wouldn't that defeat the original purpose of posting it? ;)
> That's Krugman's answer for everything. Increase spending.

Just like articles from reason.org or cato or mises invariably decide the problem is too much government.

Which is why articles like this are best left to other sites.
I misread it too - as Hand to Mouth in India.
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Right. However, if you ask about Common Lisp's warts on comp.lang.lisp - to avoid learning and following outdated design practices - lispers answer there aren't any.
I suspect the real problem is the evaporation of superficial jobs. We have become a nation devoted to our wants, but when things look bad people quickly cut back on such things. A tiny fraction of our population are "farmers" but with the over abundance of food produced and the only way to make money is to either suck on the governments subsidies or create specialty locally grown, free range, Organic etc goods.

I think only long term way to get out of chronic high levels of unemployment is to either accept we are going to live in a welfare state, or remove the minimum wage.
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Hello.
I'm thinking of learning a scripting (kind of) programming language. I already know C, C++, Java, PHP, C#, etc. I learnt Ruby as well for some time.

Now I have 2 choices, Python or Google Go. What you think, for which language I should go?

BTW, I'm working in IT industry as Developer since 2 years.
You are right I shouldn't have lumped LSD in with Cocaine and Heroine. I have heard before that LSD doesn't even have any real side affects. Is that true?
I've been thinking for a long time that high-end programmers really need agents and multi-million dolar contracts like football players or other professional athletes do.

Programmers might be doing themselves more harm than good by choosing to represent themselves for negotiations since usually they don't have the necessary interpersonal and negotiation skills to get a really great deal.

Seinfeld quote:

MR STAR: Gentleman come in. Now we don't want to take up much of your time. Let's

make this short and sweet. We're prepared to offer you all the free coffee you

want in any of our stores throughout North America and Europe, Plus..

KRAMER: (Interrupting) I'LL TAKE IT!!

(Scene ends)

[Setting: Jackie and Kramer in the back of a cab]

JACKIE: I'll take it? Who told you to take it? Did I tell you to take it?

KRAMER: No.

JACKIE: I know the Maestro didn't tell you to take it, he wasn't there.

KRAMER: Well I thought we were lucky to get anything.

JACKIE: Free coffee?

KRAMER: Yeah.

JACKIE: I don't want free coffee. It's not hard to get coffee. I can get my own

damn coffee. I wanted to hear what came after that "Plus".
Um, sure that's not somebody pulling somebody's leg? The slogan for DM is "Hier bin ich Mensch" and I'm pretty sure they don't mean "whore."

If it also means "human" and "wow!" I can't see how I can go wrong.

FTR, I asked my husband, who is Wiener.
Neither saved Jimmy Carter, though, and taming inflation (started by Carter's appointment of Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Fed in August of '79) was a major factor in saving Reagan's first term.

As far as the "just delay the day of reckoning" question, by partly liquidating debts denominated in the currency in question inflation and/or devaluation does a lot more than that. It allows repayment of less real value than was borrowed.

Hmmm, I should also point out FDR's actions WRT to gold, especially outlawing all contracts that were written in terms of gold. The problem back then was deflation, but this no doubt also changed the game after the Great Depression when inflation later became the big issue.
I dont know if the log was edited or not, but the placement of that comment was completely random. As was the 8th grade outburst. I gotta say that made me chuckly though.
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I should be able to tell, just from going to lystener.com, that it will automatically grab lyrics for whatever I'm listening to on last.fm and let me share them. The site doesn't communicate that very clearly; I had to read your post here to figure out exactly what the site did.
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I'm from Vienna as well and this sounds great. If I manage to get my hands on a ticket, I'll definitely attend.

And € 250 or € 300 are certainly cheaper than hopping on a flight to london or the states to hear and meet guys like those announced.

And even if I don't manage to learn anything from them (what I don't believe), I can at least deliver some feature requests for balsamiq first hand :-)
The survival exercise in itself was much easier than I expected, although I was preparing for something really nasty. The point is that, for most of the time, what we're perceiving as being frightening is much more easier to bare in the end. I intently leave this contrast in the post and I'm happy you spotted it. It wasn't a real survival situation.

There is a much more frightening experience which I described <a href=http://www.dragosroua.com/the-sun-always-rises-at-dawn/>..., if you wanna know more...
What do you mean by "etc" when you list the languages you know?

Python is more widespread than Go. I don't think that Go is proven enough for a production environment, and you'll find many more resources for Python.

Go seems to have potential, though...

I think that right now the best bet would be to learn Python, and later, when Go is more widely used, learn Go.

If you have the time, why don't just learn both?
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Buy me a coffee sometime and I'll be glad to tell you. :) I live in the 6th and work in the 14th (for now).
Cpan-outdated
I like the idea! Couple of things:

* Supply the user with an URL that he/she can use like lystener.com/user/username so it can be a bookmark

* Poll the user feed so it updates the lyrics when you start listening to another song

[edit] o, actually it does this, but it didn't work at first.

* Find an API that supplies more results because:

Now playing: Paparazzi by Lady Gaga
We don't have lyrics for this song :(

Seriously? :)

Good luck!
I think you need to relax the timing of the event listener action on the input box a bit, wait for me to at least finish what I'm typing. (Unless the disco light effect is intentional.)
Apple has been doing way worse things and nobody (of importance) seems to care.
Looks great, and can see it being used. Just tried it. Love Last.Fm, glad it has that integration. but it couldn't find the lyrics for last song i listened to: Rhinoceros by The Smashing Pumpkins

Good luck! Bookmarked!
I'd say it'd be wise to learn Python instead of going with a language with syntax that you're already extremely familiar with.
With all due respect, our conferences are completely opposite :)

Schnitzelconf is didactic. And I don't mean how to pitch to VCs. It's an entirely different worldview, not a networking event, and there will be no rumors. I doubt anyone will hear anything that is hot news. Just solid advice, business sense, war stories, and action steps.
You mean yesterday?
I don't do a whole lot of freelance work, but when I do I always talk to the person over the phone (or face to face if local) before starting. You can pretty much read a person after a minute of conversation and know, but with IM or email you just can't (unless the guy goes crazy on you like this one).
I can see the jokes coming, but no, it's not a repo full of "CPAN is outdated" cracks. It's a simple program to check what Perl modules are outdated. This functionality is present in both cpan and cpan+, but it's very slow in both (in my experience).

At the moment, cpan-outdated itself doesn't appear to be on CPAN. However you can easily install it via git{,hub} and cpanm:

git clone http://github.com/tokuhirom/cpan-outdated.git
cd cpan-outdated
cpanm .

Edit: Nope, I'm an idiot. I always forget the App::X namespacing for apps. cpan-outdated is on CPAN as App::cpanoutdated.
I think this app has potential, but:

Your lyrics database is too small or I am unlucky, I just listened to Muse, The Smiths, Jacques Brel and Muse again and it didn't find any lyrics. (For some reason it seemed to miss the Brel song entirely).

Furthermore Amarok does not update last.fm quickly but this should be an easy fix.
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I like it I think it's defiantly an awesome job for a weekend project. I'd have to agree maybe you should add a little more to the description (that it only works with last.fm). Although I can clearly see your interface is similar to backtype there.

Looking forward to what you can do next weekend! I'd like to see you mature your logo a little too, although it looks great even now. =P
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The problem is, you don't simply "have" health and pensions insurance, you are forced to pay somewhere around 250 euros per month for that insurance, regardless of your income. During the first 3 years of your first startup it is less than that. Unemployment insurance (which is a ridiculous idea for the self-employed anyway) is voluntary and costs extra.

In the UK, the minimum contribution is around 20 euros per month. It gives you health coverage (no dental) and you are not forced to pay into the pensions system. In my view, the UK system is hugely more attractive for startups. Ireland is similar I believe.
My biggest complaint is that I went to the site and was greeted by something negative when I took action and entered my username. No Lyrics Found. While that's understandable as my music tastes are not very mainstream, pulling history and saying, "but we do have lyrics for this other song" might have been nicer. I do love the concept, because to be quite honest, I used to use Songbird because of the lyrics plugin. (I don't use it now because it's extremely bloated and slow unfortunately)
I think sometimes pretty will sell better, sometimes ugly. It probably depends what you're selling. What were you selling?

(Side note for everyone: Please don't withhold useful information from your readers for fear of self-promotion. But if you must, at least fill out your profile.)
thats right. i had no idea what the app would do "find lyrics. share them" isnt very descriptive.