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It doesn't really mean much to me to hear that an EU citizen can travel through the EU with minimal hassle. Plenty of Americans have traveled to dozens of US states, some of which are larger than EU countries with minimal hassle, no fingerprints taken, no interrogations or passports required. About 10 years ago, Canadians could do the same with just a driver's licence (and it was reciprocal for US citizens visiting Canada).

On the other hand, EU visas can be very troublesome. I wouldn't recommend London as a photographer friendly place, either. Now, Hong Kong... that's a city/state/SAR with fantastically efficient and painless customs.
I'd imagine that a photographer doesn't have the time to require looking for clients across six continents.
British, White.

I'm not sure it is really related to that, my colleagues (a mix of Asian, Arab & British looking people) all have the same sort of experience.

I think it is a product of being a) foreign (in general) and b) young.
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I'm a South African living in the UK, so I need Schengen visas when ever travelling to the EU. I have found the staff at the borders fine (have travelled to the EU about 10 times); I've never had any problems. Sure, they're not the friendliest, but I've never found a country that did have friendly border staff.

My issue with the Schengen scheme is the process of getting the visa itself. The requirements are a bit over the top, and it's expensive, think its's about £80 for a French Schengen.
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I pronounce it that way in speech.
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I switched flights in Dubai once. I was on my way back from Asia, travelling in the full backbacker gear. I had ripped shorts, a dirty tank top, an ugly hat, and flip flops. I carried a huge backpack as well as a guitar and an ukulele.

When I put the guitar through the security scanner thingy, the guard stationed there ran it through several times and looked at the screen with suspicion. Then he let the guitar through and started eyeballing me real bad. I got scared shitless as I figured I might have forgotten a bag of weed or so in the guitar case (Dubai is notorious for their harsh drug laws) and I definitely had THC in the system.

After what probably was just five seconds but felt like ages, the guard asked me "what is that?" and pointed to the guitar.

"A guitar", I said.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"Can play Hotel California?"

"Yes."

"Okay, you can go."

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"Okay, you can go."

But you can never leave!

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I asked the guard to bring me some wine.

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He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since nine....

...eleven."
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My understanding (though as an EU citizen) is that it varies ridiculously from country to country within Schengen. As much as I'd hate to revert to national stereotypes... they're likely accurate ^^

The UK, however, is pretty well known for being rather strict with immigration procedures and border controls.
Your jab at Obamacare is also wrong, it would be $600 and most likely this provision will be removed.

There are such things as day labor positions and in many cases these people are taken advantage of because there are no regulations in place to ensure they are getting at least minimum wage.

Most low end jobs are service sector jobs that require a certain number of staff be on hand at all times to service customers. It's not going to work if you have 10 employees show up one day of which only 3 you can use, while the next day you only have 1 employee show up & you're short staffed.

In a lot of cases many part-time jobs offer rubber banding hours. You may have 25 hours one week and then 10 hours the next week. It's very hard to work around & in many cases it can interfere with your schedule. Your work usually wants you to be there regardless of other obligations or else you're fired. This has to do with workplace policies and not regulations.

As far as the employer side goes, if you are going to invest time and money into a new employee, you want to make sure this employee is going to make a good return on your investment. If the person shows up smelling bad & reeking of alcohol or is high, this person probably has issues that a three-day on the job training course making sandwiches is not going to fix and may end up costing your business a lot more money than they would bring in. Training employees is not cheap. Training 100 people, when only 20 will show up on a regular basis is essentially asking business to throw money out the window.

I laugh at the idea that you would want to hire people who have drug abuse problems to work with dangerous construction equipment or allow them on your premises, possibly unsupervised, to clean.

Usually flex-hours make sense for higher end positions where there are obvious goals set & your product may not be entirely physical in nature. Rarely will you find flex-hours viable in low-end service sector or manufacturing.

Usually the homeless have a multitude of problems. They need drug-detox, healthcare, housing and education. All of which will cost money. Putting this burden on business is not viable, there is no incentive to do it.
The EU borders are somewhat more formal than US state borders. So while it is not a good similarity to the US border control, it's equally unlike state borders.
> You don't need to push that branch unless someone else wants to work on the unfinished feature with you, or needs something from it before it is ready.

If you want to share a commit that isn't ready, it really should go on a feature branch and not the mainline. Then you can squash it into a real commit when its ready.
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I'm a non-EU citizen living in Austria for the past 6 years.

I travel extensively through the EU (probably cross an EU border at least 10 times/year on average) and never had any issues except for 1 time in Berlin where the immigration officer asked why I have been in the EU for so long.

I showed him my Austrian residency permit and he waived me through.
Why did this get upvoted? You're dodging the point of the comment. You're logic seems to be:

Person1: Bad things are happening in the US
Person2: Well, bad things are happening in Brazil too.
Person3: But it's only fair for the Brazilians to do bad things
because the US is already doing bad things.

The original article is griping about how bad things are travelling to the US, and how it's not that bad travelling anywhere else in the world. Someone countered with some examples of bad experiences travelling to Brazil, and then you responded saying that it's only fair for them to go tit-for-tat (which really has nothing to do with the original discussion).
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My experiences have been as bad too..I am an Indian citizen and came to the US for graduate studies about 3 years back. Immediately after graduation,I was supposed to join a reputed company but due to some administrative glitch by the USCIS, it took me 6 months to get the required work authorization. I was barely able to convince the company to hold my job. Those were the most harrowing days. I came to India this December for vacation and my work visa application has been again kept on hold status since the past 2 months and I am struck here. I am again on the verge of losing my job. The worst part of all this is, the administration at no point does seem to care about letting people know what causes the hold up and the estimated time for it to get resolved. The lack of transperancy is so frustrating. Each day you just pray that you will get some update from them. And I am not alone, I know atleast 5-6 persons who have been held up for some reason or the other at this time. I really like life in the US and the opportunities it provides, but now I am seriously contemplating if all this is worth it.
I have a friend who spent 4 days in jail because he was caught near a bar without a drivers license. He didn't have ID, couldn't prove who he was and got locked up. They didn't let him make a phone call, and he stayed there until they decided he'd "learned his lesson". This one was sometimes homeless, but not a drunk or drug user. Just lost his ID.

Wait... what? To me, that just sounds evil. Why shouldn't I be able to walk around without any form of identification?

I genuinely want to know - is it really mandatory to have some form of identification on you at all times? Sometimes I just don't - should I worry?
the systems used by discussion-oriented communities could be usefully easily transferred.

The specific mechanisms would have to be different, but the underlying economics would be the same.
By the law of averages, all insurance is a waste of money. Insurance companies make money. They do this by collecting more fees than they pay out. In aggregate, they win and you lose.

The real question to ask is, "can I afford this insurance" and "is it worth it to me". If you buy a $250 mp3 player and the "insurance" is $300 and lasts for 6 months, it's a waste of money, because you aren't going to break your mp3 player twice in 6 months. But if it's $20 to insure your $10,000 of camera equipment which has a replacement cost equal to a month of income, then you should probably go for it. It's a bad deal, but $20 is the cost of a few beers, which is also a bad deal.

Anyway, someone makes money on every transaction. That doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't be a party to that transaction.
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The EU borders are very professional and straightforward. They don't ask you personal questions or base any decisions on how you look.
This is a dupe post... there is one in top 30 already.
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I am a Danish citizen. She is a university-educated project manager for a large international engineering firm in Thailand.
I need to say one thing though, how is this going to beat against Facebook groups?

The "new" facebook groups can group chat (with online members of a group) and also semi-message (via a news feed) and could potentially message a bunch of guys in the group via facebook messages.

Of course they haven't done it to the point of having short topic threads of any kind, which is what I like with concore. (in fact, every topic in a group in convore is like a channel of its own.)
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A nice idea, but in the end I suspect the tricky part is the definition of "essential government services" and the criteria for determining whether a person or corporation is "hurting anyone or the environment".
That would appear to be an inconsistency in Wikipedia - on Columba's page he is listed as a patron saint of quite a few places/activities, including Scotland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba

Wouldn't it be great if something like Semantic Web technology could actually detect these inconsistencies?
"if Americans want to visit other countries that they are finger-printed, interrogated, X-Ray'd, delayed and otherwise harassed."

That's exactly what Brazil is doing and mentioned elsewhere in the comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2234963
A group of us colleagues were heading into SFO for a work conference. This one guy who was a Sihk but no turban got asked what did he do for a living, so he said a C++ software engineer. The border guard then asked a few C++ questions like what is a virtual function.
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Were I to find myself unemployed for longer than a couple of months, my resume would acquire a new item--consulting contract at a defense contractor that I cannot name due to an NDA.
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Nope.

Someone commented that the situation in the US is actually not that bad, and that it's worse in Brazil: "Oh, c'mon, this sounds very over-the-top. My experience is that TSA and USCIS (formerly INS) are very professional and follow a strict protocol. The protocol may be unfair or not, but that's the protocol, not the professional's fault. In places like Brazil your entire trip is at the hands of chance: Most times you get a nice officer, but sometimes not."

But that's not true. Travelling to Brazil is rather unproblematic for citizens of most countries. Only citizens of countries that harass Brazilian citizens are harassed equally.

So I agree that related to the original article my comment was off-topic. But it's very on-topic in regard to the off-topic parent posting (because from a non-US citizen's perspective there aren't any problems when traveling to Brazil, but plenty of problems when traveling to the US).
Every month or so, somebody drops by the bsnes[3] forums asking why bsnes pegs one CPU core and leaves the others idle, instead of using each core equally. The answer, of course, is that a SNES has a number of different processing units all running at different speeds, and it's much more efficient to design the emulation core with coöperative multi-tasking[4] than with OS threads. Since bsnes is implemented in C++, I've wondered whether a language more focussed on concurrency could make a multi-threaded emulator possible, but it looks like GoSpeccy isn't a particularly useful example of it.

From the "Architecture" page[5]: In consequence, the whole emulation core is basically just one goroutine

[3]: http://byuu.org/bsnes/

[4]: Like, ridiculously more efficient, making it possible to sync millions of times per second. The system bsnes uses is called "libco", and although it doesn't have its own web-site, you can browse the code here: http://gitorious.org/bsnes/bsnes/blobs/master/bsnes/libco/

[5]: https://github.com/remogatto/gospeccy/wiki/Architecture
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A good roguelike is an expression of pure gameplay: as a developer you can turn your ideas into games for the people to enjoy, without the constraints of 3d modeling or expensive graphics creation.

Developing a roguelike also allows you to portrait a theme within the limitations of abstract or simple gfx output, but having imagination as a tool to recreate infinite environments and stories

Summon your indie gamedev friends, be they roguedevs or not for this, the annual roguelike development party!
Nah, the only reason to go with a startup is if it's better than the big guys, or you need personalized service, or you think they'll move much faster than the big guys, and it would block you otherwise.

If they're not much, much better than the incumbents they're competing with, they're going to go out of business, leaving you with a broken dependency.
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Sounds like a great opportunity to test your potential employer. Tell them that you must do a demo and ask for advice. If they will say "OK, do the demo first" then just do the demo and take the offer. But if they will insist on the interview on the demo day....then you should think twice, because it means they do not appreciate employee loyalty. A bad sign. Nevertheless, good luck!
I think you may be confusing cause and effect.

Apple is struggling to source enough components to satisfy it's own demand. By buying up all it can it is able to secure a supply for itself. If there was enough components for everybody it wouldn't have to do this.

I fail to see how paying suppliers to build new factories equates to blocking competitors.
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Pfft, no vision!

However, this thesis seems mostly sensible. I think the crucial answer is that the "Skillz" of Batman are attainable, and there is a reasonable proportion of people in the world with potential to attain them, BUT the problem of being Batman is not in the technology.

The problem, as highlighted, is that there is no role for Batman in our current society. Vigilantism is frowned on, and, practically speaking, having a secret alter ego that lasts only happens in the movies.

But the real problem is that Batman exists to solve a problem; Gotham has a massive crime problem, way beyond what we see in any major city in the world. And it is a city where number of crime bosses, criminal geniuses and psychopaths exist, and where they can act fairly freely.

Given a real life city with that setup, yes, Batman would stand a better chance.
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Americans can be pretty suspicious of outsiders even if the outsiders are fellow Americans. Where I grew up, walking around town (instead of driving) or standing at the bus station meant you were at best are some sort of vaguely criminal transient.
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Interesting, of course, that the multitasking UI was copied from the original iPhone Mobile Safari UI. :)
Link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2234932
Very entertaining and funny, but could people please stop saying "Quora is different because of the crowd and it's serious and bla bla bla"?
Firstly I'd definitely look at improving on the 32-bit security for the 'secret key'

Secondly, comparing this to the likes of Mint for instance looking at their TOS - http://www.mint.com/how-it-works/security/terms/ and then comparing it to your TOS:

"We've done our best to make this site as safe, secure, and reliable as possible.

However! In the real world, security is only as secure as its weakest link, and in a world designed by humans there are bound to be human flaws contained somewhere within the design.

While we strive to provide you with a safe, secure, and reliable service, we do not and cannot guarantee the safety or security of any information or data that you hand over to us.

By signing up and logging in, you've agreed to release us of any liablities that may result from the usage of, or is somehow related to the usage of our service, MonkeyPeanuts.com.

If this is unacceptable to you, please immediately delete any accounts you've registered with us and clear your browser cookies.

Thank you for your consideration, and we hope you enjoy MonkeyPeanuts.com."

If I was a user, I wouldn't find any trust with this service specifically the reference to the flaws and the safety of my data. Mint go as far as creating a seperate page with regards to security and have Truste certification etc.

You should really have a look at your TOS as well as, certifications for your website and the encryption issue.
There are a fairly large number of "real life superheroes," actually (http://reallifesuperheroes.org).

None of them have magical superpowers that let them control the tides or have Adamantium skeletons, but hell, it's something. My particular favourite is Life: http://reallifesuperheroes.org/wiki/index.php?title=Life
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Yup, that's the one.

Thanks, mate.
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I would say as a non-USA person travelling to other countries is quite pleasant vs going to the USA, his statement is not over the top.

I would the experience of a USA person travelling to other countries wouldn't be quite as pleasant as their is a lot of pent up rage against USA in other countries and when they get to meet a yank they have a chance to express it.
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As a British person I find it sad (and slightly scary) that the best advice given to him is to start carrying a gun.
They have that webcam picture experience in the US too, at least for non-citizens.
So how does this tie in with continuous deployment where people "release" several times a week, or even several times a day?

Not that I disagree, whenever I was working on pretty much anything the constant "We can't release this, there's this missing and this, and that thing doesn't work, and that isn't the prettiest" ... well it can kill pretty much any project.

Release early, release often. Hide in shame if you have to, but just bloody release.
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This should make it easier for releasing my code and testing. Though I realized that someone should make a growl plugin for node.
We're (almost) always in a bubble. The important question is "when will this bubble pop and the next one start".
Continue learning C++. It will teach you fundamentals of OOP. Then make something nice and useful with C++. Make yourself feel comfortable with C++ and then try make some Android app. They have good documentation and it's fun :)
I think the point that people are trying to make is that ideas are important, but not nearly as important as the execution of those ideas. And from what I can tell, the OP is arguing against the ridiculous concept that someone can "own" an idea.
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AFAIK there were no formal contracts signed. I'm betting had FB not just settled they would have won the lawsuit, but I'm sure they determined it'd be cheaper in the long run to just settle.
These days they have a good hold on their position. But back then, if IE had shipped with ad-blockers built in, Google would have had a serious struggle.
I'm pretty sure they didn't own a copyright on the concept of social networking.
For the vast majority of things Flash is being used for, it's crap.

Namely, video, and site navigation.

For other things it could be used - but you could also use HTML5 like the site in the example to do anything you'd do in Flash, and not lock out iPad, iPhone, Android users. Plus, it's open.
I'd like to use it without connecting it to a bank account - I don't want that level of automation, but I'd be perfectly happy to enter the information manually. I'm currently writing my own glorified spreadsheet type system, but you've already got a framework for the kinds of things I want to do with that.

Do you have plans to do this? Automating is one thing, but you need to allow a way for users to edit the bits that the automation misses, gets wrong, etc., or that people want to disregard, IMHO.
That's true. I can imagine how bad it would hurt to be in Winklevoss' place. But wasting their entire lives suing fb isn't the best course of action. They should forget what happenened and focus on other things and try and make a mark of their own in whatever they're interested.
Yes. But if nothing else is said, I expect people to talk about the standard Haskell 98.

C++'s type system is isomorph to lambda calculus even without extensions, and nobody made this joke there.
I don't get why this is better than standard, non-animated text. I just want information about the freaking leaf. By all means, make the typography and design look pretty, but stop with the damn animation. I don't want to have to re-learn a new interface every I want to learn about a new product.
Indeed. Though I should probably have been more generous with my input. (And growing up in Germany, a school is something completely different from a university there.)