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Here's what I'd do. Take a couple of those low paying jobs - which are easy specs, and while you are doing them, focus some time toward making a product.

If you can't (or don't want to) do it yourself, there are many of us in the same position as you who would partner up.
In practice, it seems that advertiser dollars always trump subscriber fees.
Well, take solace in the fact that you've lived more than most of us who are stuck behind a desk.
I partially agree. Complete live sessions are easier to watch when the professor is good and prepared. At the same time, Stanford's format had definite advantages in that it's natively interactive and indexed. If I want to review a concept, I can simply click a link to the appropriate part of the lecture. They also have better sound and image quality.
A substantial proprtion of people are travelling alone and want to strike up a conversation with you, even though they're headed off somewhee else the next day.

Youmight not even need to find a bar: the popular sights and major cities of the world are full of hostels geared towards encouraging their guests to meet fellow travellers (some more overtly hedonistic than others). They're easy enough to find in travel guides and hostel booking websites

You'll also be surprised just how many local people speak English in the rest of the world, particulary when affiliated with the tourist trade (Latin America being something of an exception, but basic Spanish isn't the most difficult language for an English speaker to learn.)

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"That said, what matters is not how many devices are sold. It's how many app buying customers adhere to each store, and how much they spend. The vast majority of android phone owners are not buying apps."

This is true. I have been using android since the G1 launched, yet I have probably only spent about 50 dollars total on apps. When I see an app that I want or need, I purchase it. I've purchased 4 different PDF readers in order to find the best one. (not including the PDF reader that came with docs to go) Unfortunately there just isn't much that I would need even on Google's own market.I would probably buy a lot of games, but there's only a couple on the market that are worth playing.
> I think there are plenty of good reasons to bash European healthcare,

Not for someone from the US there isn't.
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Yeah I don't see The Deck as being particularly innovative at all. Not to mention it can't scale very well.
I remember, years ago, reading him in German. A Polish medical student loaned/"foisted" Solaris on me. I rather enjoyed it.

Thanks about the "heads up" with regard to the issues with some of the English translations. I'd been thinking I should revisit it, but these days an English language text would be far more accessible.
I'd bet, though, that many things aren't very well protected, because people designing space systems assume that nobody is going to try to mess with them, and also because they probably use proprietary communication protocols.

But just imagine how cool it would be to ssh into a satellite :)
I have found the recent trend of lets "simplify" everything cause Apple did it at times annoying. Take for example the Gnome 3 shell. Most Linux users want "options" and don't mind complexity otherwise they would buy a Mac.

I find it ironic that Apple has prided itself with "Think Different" and break away from big brother (for those that remember the "1984" commercial) when apparently Apple prefers homogeneity instead of uniqueness.
Tried it the other day but the lack of "show only uploads" made me remove it. I'll try it out again. Not sure about the things to the left (and right). I only check my subscriptions on youtube..
As we say here, "your freedom ends where others' start". You are not forcing anyone to distribute the software or do whatever they want to as long as you respect others' freedom.

What you are doing is not giving the power to restrict others if you distribute it so you keep it flowing. The only way of achieving freedom and equality is (IMO) to equally distribute power on all, so you will end up with the phrase at the beginning.

If you want to use that sense of "restriction", it is restricting power, not freedom. Restricting power is granting others their freedom.
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Is there some website that tries to keep track of these online classes across universities? Seems like it would be useful.
That's an emerging new genre - the startup fan fiction.
Memoization is an optimization technique, I certainly don't use it every day. Be sure you verify you actually get a speedup (especially when using hash-tables for your cache) before you run off and prematurely optimize, as well as understand the trade-off of increased memory and less computation (if it's an actual speedup). As others have pointed out the example of memoizing in the blog is pretty bad. Storing the value in a variable seems like a better choice than in a procedure to me, if your program won't be running over a day.
I don't read youtube videos.
the Lean Launchpad course is the only one I've seen so far that says it's starting in February.
Try "16 CFR 255"

http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005revisedendorsementguides...
I think it would be a good thing if Google Plus fails. Because that means the tech world is getting flatter. It means a 800lbs gorilla with a monopoly in one area can't so easily swoop in and rip your head off like Microsoft was able to do for 2 decades.
Cool. Looks a lot like an excerpt of Smalltalk Best Practices[1] and a bit of Refactoring[2] book together.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Smalltalk-Best-Practice-Patterns-Kent/...

[2] http://martinfowler.com/books.html#refactoring
If your marketshare is based on amount of resources, then your position is sustained by entry barriers, not your skills.

If someone can gather the resources and do better than you, then it's better for all the market - not just you. What you do with AGPL is making sure that if it is based on your knowledge, you will be able to improve from who has already improved from you.

If you can't stand someone to do better than you and you can't learn from him, then you have personal issues - and those are holding back everyone. There is nothing bad in not being the best (I think is bad measuring success on money and market share, that's circumstancial) and if you are not willing to improve, then you are in the wrong place.

The same applies (IMO) to patents and industrial secrets. A patent is "public" industrial secret: while you know it, you must act as you wouldn't unless you pay. I think that is for lazy people, they want money for an idea from people who actually implement it - work. Open source is a good example about this.

A free market relies on perfect informatios on whatever technology is being used, otherwise, there is no real competition in the supply and you might end up with a captive demand.

Yes, most business models would need to adapted to this, it is not what most of the markets do. Think of the Nuclear Power Plant market (to be extreme and explain my view). There won't be many suppliers because of the activity, if you totally "opensource" the industry, you will still be buying plants and paying a lot of money - but you will be "safer" because you rely on it.

The same applies to software, there are big players who are willing to outsource and pay more (because is out of their core business or just don't have interests on the topic) if the supplier fully opens and doesn't lock in them. You will end up on a better and "fairer" position.
Isn't that a false dichotomy? You left out completely free content, which is still abundant and could hold your attention each and every day. It seems most ad-driven sites are fueled by screen scraping or opining on external content without adding much value.
I am not sure what this accomplishes, other than making the stats look better in their monitoring tool. They pretty much seem to admit this:

"Conclusion: the loading, parsing and executing of the async third party scripts are quite often very slow and this messes up our End User performance stats in New Relic."

Delaying the dynamic insertion of scripts until after the onload event, doesn't change anything. All the external crap will still be loaded. It might even make the external assets load slower.

Another solution would be to choose a monitoring tool that distinguishes between DOMContentLoaded (or the equivalent in non-Gecko browsers) and the regular onload event.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko-Specific_DOM_Events#D...
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In practice, the difference between LLVM and a stack machine like CLR or JVM is quite small.

LLVM SSA, modulo phi nodes, encodes expressions as DAGs in a completely straightforward sense: every operation names its arguments, and those names serve as unique references to a sub-DAG, since they cannot be reassigned. So given the final operation, you can follow the arguments recursively all the way through, completely transparently. Stack machines like the CLR and JVM encode expressions as trees serialized in a post-order - and to the extent that they use 'dup', they also encode expressions as DAGs.

A symbolic interpretation of a CLR or JVM instruction flow, or LLVM SSA instruction flow, can reconstruct the source expression DAG/tree; at which point you can re-encode it using the other approach.

And producing output targeting LLVM is even easier than it appears, because you don't need to worry about SSA yourself; just allocate stack locals (with alloca) and use the mem2reg pass to turn it into valid SSA.
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Are you willing to pay $10 a month for GrooveShark once they are forced to change their business model?

Pardon the pessimism, but I don't recall any online music service that didn't negotiate with the labels first surviving these lawsuits. Though maybe I am forgetting one that is still around and going strong?
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Is there an official announcement somewhere?
The Xmonad blog seems dead, and the twitter account is not in a better state. It's a pitty because it gives the impression that the project is not actively developed.
I think you're being a bit harsh, I certainly give a flying fuck about interoperability.

Lelylan will provide a REST layer on top of all of your devices in your house. It may not change the world but would certainly make developing apps that communicate with home automation devices much easier. Things like turning on/off any light in the house would be HTTP POST calls. It doesn't matter which XYZ protocols are underneath.

This same idea has been applied to the commercial automation industry as well and it's powerful to be able to navigate and control every device with REST.
Try "Star Diaries" and other stories with Ijon Tichy. I always liked those a lot - I read them first in Polish when I was 12.
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Publishers are clearly struggling to make money from their sites and decline in the quality and increase in annoyance of the adverts is the result. I wrote this a while ago (though not much has changed):

http://posterous.richardcunningham.co.uk/the-problem-with-on...
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If you're a Portugese citizen, you can work anywhere in the EU, right? Why not take advantage, I say. Better, could you take higher-paying freelance work from Germany or the UK but continue to live in relatively lower-cost Portugal?
Sadly your manager did not lie, most people I have met in Portugal (which is also my home country) do get 1k eur/m gross. And they are quite happy with it because that's what most people get from similar jobs. They also don't seem to think much about it. The best I ever got was 1.5k eur/m gross.

I am now living in London and sometimes I look at the job boards, it usually starts at 2k gbp/m for 3 years of experience with rails. For iOS development I have seen much higher offers.

Check adzuna: http://jobs.adzuna.co.uk/search?what_c=iOS%20Developer&w...
There's also a movie on something like this, about the moon landing: "The Dish" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/). Was a good movie I believe, but it's been a while.
I am an Xmonad user that tried Awesome, and the main thing that didn't work for me is that it seemed that Awesome workspaces (tags) were tied to particular monitors. Perhaps I just didn't take the time to figure out how to do it properly, but that was a deal-breaker for me.

In Xmonad, I have configured twenty different workspaces, and I can easily swap them in and out of any given monitor. With a triple-monitor configuration, this is quite handy.
> Is there anything I can do/say to try and convince clients that good programming skills are actually worth paying for?

Try to diagnose the root of the problem. I see three possibilities:

#1: People don't want the services you have to offer. (There is a poor market.)

#2: People want the services you have to offer, but don't know about you. (You're having trouble finding each other.)

#3: People want the services you have to offer, but don't believe you have them (they don't trust that you will deliver for them successfully).
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First time usage fault, sorry for that.
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You can process an image client side using HTML5 FileReader [1]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/FileReader
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Tis true. And if not merely coincidence, it leaves us our choice of interpretation: was it cause or consequence.
Love the concept and look of it however I know companies before had issues integrating listings from craigslist because of their terms of service. Has this changed at all? If not it may be something to watch out for...read what happened to oodle: http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/10/crai...
Based on what I've heard about US healthcare from people I know, it holds a much higher quality than European healthcare for those who can afford the best insurance. European healthcare fluctuates between bad and adequate, US healthcare fluctuates between terrible and excellent. Neither solution should be immune to criticism.
I clicked a few pages and thought it was great. I did wonder if you decided to supply starter templates. So I could start with Futurama's Bender and just increase the size of his head - however, I suppose copyright would come into play.
Yeah, from what I know it's been a problem. I think because of this we will release it as a free application to start off on and see how things go.

Time can only time I guess?
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I'm also using XMonad on Arch Linux. I found it hard to setup correctly, but once it is, it's a real productivity booster. Firing up another terminal (Meta-Shift-Enter) and not worrying about it's position is a time saver.

If you want to try it out, I can help you by reducing the time needed to set it up. My dotfiles are here: https://github.com/wunki/wunki-dotfiles

Best nuggets for your setup can be found in xmonad.hs, xinitrc and Xdefaults files.
I think Google plus seems to be missing one VERY important factor for getting and keeping customers...it doesn't have a clear value proposition. I am one of the 'early adopters' and I still don't understand what it does or the benefit of using it. Until Google can make their value proposition clear they have no chance of staying alive.
Ties.com?! That's one hell of a domain name.. Cyber Monday.. woot woot
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I'm 35 years old, married with 4 kids, in the middle of a career change, and teaching myself programming. If this, or anything like Code Academy, were available in the Indianapolis area, I'd be ALL over it. I have a Master's degree in another discipline, I learn fast, and am very motivated, looking to put my creativity and drive towards doing good in the world through programming. If there was an option for doing something online, I'd consider that as well.
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Eh, there's a first time for anything. Maybe it'll finally take a company with more guts than brai^H^H^H^Hbusiness acumen to finally stand up to these bullies.
That's what did it for me too. I'm sure there is a way in awesome to do it but its not as easy as xmonad.

Xmonad seems to not get in the way as much as awesome. For my purposes xmonad is just a lot simpler, but I am sure I am barely scratching the surface feature wise.

A lot of the awesome docs/screenshots reminded me of enlightenment-porn back when e17 seemed like vaporware. I don't need crazy graphs/apps/eye-candy just help me arrange organize my windows and go away.
If Universal shuts down Grooveshark they set a precedent that can get Youtube shutdown, because they are run on the same model. Users upload content, Grooveshark removes content and users when they get DMCA complaints.
Sounds awesome. I wish you luck, please keep me in the loop! (email in profile)
I was honestly a bit confused by this headline. For a bit, I thought it was something about about a JIT/heap sprayer for the ARM platform, or something to that effect. Oh, well.
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This idea that BSA's view = Microsoft + Apple's view has always been an utterly ridiculous assumption for the press to make. This posting's title is equally ridiculous for directly equating the two. It's infantile and this kind of fact skewing doesn't belong on HN.

BSA acts independently, but on behalf of it's members. BSA have proven themselves to be a bit nutty when it comes to infringement, so it wasn't surprising that they jumped on SOPA initially.

However, as above, it was already a stretch by the press to connect BSA's view point on SOPA to the idea that all BSA members unanimously supported SOPA.

This sudden change of face from BSA indicates that indeed the members have spoken up and they do not agree with SOPA, and that the entire thing was just a load of fuss to generate clicks.

Companies like Microsoft and Apple also have a significant amount at risk by this wayward legislation.
1. Spent a week or two confirming that the concept was possible

2. Left my day job to work full-time on the new project

3. Gathered some basic feedback

4. Got hosting, domain, and email sorted

5. Put up a notify signup page at http://blueprint.io

6. Made 50% progress on my MVP web app
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I'm pretty certain that YouTube links are not "unexpected video." Perhaps it's flash, but I think the original means an entirely flash-navigated site.
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Not that I'm trying to turn HN into a jobs board but if you're finding it hard to get freelance work, an email and a portfolio in your profile would help.
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Isn't 2k quite low? That is around 30k euro per year. In Germany you make more with an entry level position...
I've found odesk.com to be heavily favored towards cheap labor, is that just because I haven't established a portfolio there yet?
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Thus, the MPAA is protecting the $180 billion ...

That should be 180 Million, not Billion.
That worked with Gnome 2, but I'm not sure how well that will work with Gnome 3 and/or Unity. Unity is pretty tied to Compiz (some portion of it is implemented as a Compiz plugin).

At this point, it's probably easier to either create your own session script to start up the parts of Gnome that you want along with XMonad (e.g. gnome-screensaver, gnome-power-manager, etc) or to see about using XMonad as the window manager for XFCE.

Also, you used to be able to set the $WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable in ~/.gnomerc, to turn on XMonad as the window manager.
It helps the end user experience if you want to have some javascript run after the DOM is loaded but not wait until all the 3rd party scripts have loaded and run. Maybe the javascript runs some sort of animation.

Without this code, the animation would wait until facebook, google + and twitter are all loaded, but with this code, the animation would start right away.
Just to get two things out of the way: I'm an ASF member (albeit not very active lately) and a huge fan of git with or without GitHub. I'm one of the many people advocating for git internally at the ASF. I have been met with opposition in the past, but a lot of it has been around who's going to maintain the infrastructure, given it's a volunteer system. Let's just take it as axiomatic that the ASF is going to self-host its code. So it's at least a fairly pragmatic argument. And I think we finally have a solution.

My real issue is with the bouncing back-and-forth the author does in his post around the notion of IP. It's a shitty topic that most devs don't want to be bothered with, but alas, it's quite important in the real world. And GitHub is mostly a landmine field when it comes to this. I don't think it's a failing of GitHub itself, but most projects just don't have licenses attached to them. Unlike with SourceForge, there's no requirement to have an OSS license on public projects. Then many that do fail to meet the copyright header requirements for the license. Or you could have a public project with a restrictive license [1]. Being public doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want with the code. This is dangerous and bad for OSS.

Apache gives you that protection. There's never any question about it. That's the primary reason projects go through the incubator -- to make sure the IP is all in order. It's an annoying, bureaucratic, but necessary process in a litigious society. But because of the care and protections Apache provides in this regard, I think they've done more to get OSS adopted in traditionally closed companies than just about anyone else.

[1] I came across Tom Preston-Werner's repo for his site. He's one of the GitHub founders. It's a public repo with a license that restricts usage of certain portions of the project (generally his content): https://github.com/mojombo/mojombo.github.com
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> Please, do elaborate! In detail, why is git better than subversion if all I need is a central repository for a few people working at a company on one site, sitting in the same room with permanent network access. No distributed or remote or on-the-go development, no forks.

Because with svn you end up having dirty working directories that go uncommitted for days because committing would break the build, as a result:

1. Everyone ends up making a second working directory because the first one they have is dirty with changes they can't yet commit and they need to make a quick change

2. Those dirty working directories are branches in practice, even if svn doesn't call them that, they are just dealt with with inferior tools.

Also: cherry picking commits from a branch into another branch isn't as easy, making a new repository isn't as easy, git is way faster at (almost?) everything (including large binary files), and being able to check the history when you are not in the office or connected to the VPN is nice.

However, I agree that the conceptual model behind DVCS is harder to understand, significantly harder, svn can be good enough especially for a small, local team.
Have you tried doing that?