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I love unix and composing operations. But I have a hard time thinking "excellence" when it comes to command line parameters of some of these tools. "inconsistent mish-mash" is what I think more often.

It's a relatively minor gripe, but I believe legitimate none the less.
There are degrees to this, bad health will cost you money and reduce your earning power in all the states. However if you fall in bad health in the northern states treatment will be paid for and dying as result of lack of health care is very rare.
> Have there ever been lower taxes for women in any country?

Yes, that is the way it is in India, and it has been for many years now (as long as I remember). Here are the current rates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_India#Tax_Rates

Also note that the rates are lower for those (of either gender) above 60, and lowest for those above 80.
I have created two UK limited within a 10 year interval without putting my feet there. I recommend you not to do it alone but find a local accountant in UK + an accountant in your country who knows a bit about the UK + your country rules. It is extremely easy to create a UK company, but this creates both obligations in UK and in your country of origin. For example, in Germany, if you are the director of a UK limited, you cannot get "family" health insurance, so you need to have another job or be employed by your UK limited or go private for your health insurance.

So, take the time to see how it affects your situation in your home country.

Note: It will cost you money in all the cases, it is not something you do "just for fun" or you are going to have problems. Setting up a business is work and must be prepared thoroughly.
I had a similar thought (http://words.bencohen.net/blog/2012/01/06/copy-for-the-peopl...) yesterday, and I wonder if we'll see the same sorts of issues as the fabrication of physical goods becomes easier for individuals.
I interviewed with Tom's startup last week. I was impressed by the business logic questions. If you're looking for a job in London, you should apply there. They are a great bunch of hackers working on very interesting stuff.
Theres a Perl implementation in CPAN as well, though I haven't made nontrivial use of it, so I'm not sure how fast/robust it is: http://search.cpan.org/~tobyink/Task-HTML5-0.103/lib/Task/HT...
He did talk about a balance, a very important one. He compared the cost of an employee to the value it can bring him as an employer.

A business simply can not hire when the cost of an employee exceeds the benefits, and if it can't make do without employees, it will simply go out of business. It doesn't matter at that point how much it cost to "create employable people" (itself a terribly loaded formulation, but moving on), because society has priced itself right out of the market, apparently.

Something a lot of people seem to forget is that if you want to use businesses as a piggy bank to fund social ambitions, you have to let some money actually flow into the piggy bank. It is not simply a given that money will be there.
I don't know what's all this about. Yes, someone open sourced a service that is providing an all-around solution for data that's easily trackable-- but the user's location.

If you've used free services to convert an IP to location, you know it's not so reliable. And that's the issue with the open-source version, which tracks me to the US, while I'm actually in Mexico City and it's quite accurate (12.8 kilometers off).

Yes, there's a geolocation API, but it needs user authorization and when you're building a service that requires knowing the user's location without them doing anything, visitor.js appears to be both reliable and at a fair-enough price.
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I hadn't noticed that until the last subheading:

The chips, like dust -- references The Stars, Like Dust, a 1951 book by Asimov.

And then the rest became clear:

Empire and foundry-nation -- probably a play on Foundation and Empire, the second novel in Asimov's Foundation Trilogy.

"The Dead Past" is an Asimov short story first published in 1956.

"The Wedge" is a short story Asimov published in 1944.

"Birth of a Notion" is a 1976 short story by Asimov.
Full ack. Github and it's widespread usage is actually the only reason I switched over to git as my main VCS. Close to 100% of my usual use-cases would be well-served by a recent version of svn. I know, there's a ton of use-cases that benefit tremendously from git's model, but those are not mine.

I still hate how the raw cli interface with tons of switches forces me to learn git's internals and storage model. Git advocates usually tell me "you need to know to unleash the powers of git" but actually, I'd rather prefer not to know and regard it as an opaque tool.

Compared to svn or hg the cli feels crude and not well thought over either. There's commands that accept the full verb (add, diff, checkout, clone), others that accept an abbreviation (rm, mv), but no (remove, move). I can set that up using aliases, I know. But why do I have to? Then there's add, move and remove, but no copy (which is "cp <file>; git add <file>). I often find myself typing the wrong incantation because there's a mismatch in how the commands are named. In that respect svn really shines in comparison.
"you hire a replacement and risk being stuck with unnecessary employees in 3 years"

That is not how it works in Sweden (nor anywhere else that I know of). The replacement is hired as a temporary position until the original employee returns.
I built similar functionality into sites I built back in 1997 in PHP (and later in ASP). I.e. all of the things that you can get from the request (OS, referrer etc) plus a crude geolocation based on an IP lookup and a few heuristics (which worked pretty well for everyone except AOL users).

Seems like a foolish business plan (or maybe a business plan designed to profit from the foolish).

Then again I had the same reaction when I heard about Groupon's business model.......
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Thanks for your answer. I can't speak for other people, but that's what I thought (that is, they don't like the current regime, they're not trying to become american or anything). And I also agree that it is more likely that Tunisia and Egypt will end up like Iraq than like a western country.

But you answered my rhetorical setup, and not my actual question: Why do you believe Iran is different than Syria, Egypt and Tunisia in this respect? (although it can be debated, I'll accept that Libya wouldn't have happened the way it did without western support, and by support I mean "strong coaxing, military aid, and monetary aid")
Sorry in advance as I'm not trying to make you feel stupid but.. I used to use that feature a lot before they were acquired by Getty (and their prices got so ridiculous I stopped using them.) So at least six years ago.
This could produce an interesting and possibly strange image viewer if you use it to control the color scheme of the page. For example, you upload an image and the css of the page itself updates to be complimentary to the photo.
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Wow, I can use this. This is great. I run an online football game http://deeproute.com and players upload helmets to go with their team.

I can use this to check that helmet image they are using, and grab the color palette and then use those colors to drive their color scheme.

Brilliant! Thanks!
Wow, very well written, inspiring and a pleasure to read.
Some commentary at SemiWiki:

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Yeah, pro-government interventionist is a pretty hilarious phrasing. Let's talk in comical absolutes, that's guaranteed to generate insightful discussion.

What's anti-government interventionist? You don't believe in having police to intervene if you're getting your ass beat? Don't believe in courts to intervene in contract disputes? Man, I am so right I can barely stand it.
I rather dislike how the author dismisses the fact that other people have other use-cases.

The author chooses one use-case of his liking and demonstrates how (in his opinion) git handles that use case far superior than hg. I remain unconvinced that git's handling is actually better and while that may be a common case for him, I have yet to meet that use case.

I know of at least one company that still uses cvs as VCS of their choice because it perfectly fits their use case, does exactly what's needed and does not introduce any artificial complexity. Probably pretty much any modern VCS rips CVS apart in terms of features and storage model, but I can understand their reasons. By the authors reasoning they should switch to git because it's clearly and demonstrable superior in all respects.
I'm pretty sure he has worked on compilers and OS kernels. They just weren't as popular as GCC or Linux. I don't think judging one's programming skill based on the popularity of one's projects is rather fair.
Visitor.js is arguably not very innovative. The only "added value" that I would consider is having it all in one nice library.

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I made a gem to do exactly this with RMagick, you can check it out here: https://github.com/mquan/prizm
Probably because they are Reddit users who think downvoting is normal behavior. Keep doing what you are doing (upvote the good stuff, ignore the majority of comments and [perhaps] downvote rude and spam comments) and maybe they will go away again...
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Do you really want to start acting more like lawyers? I mean I get not doing anything that would require serious time investment on the whim of some friend, but not talking with friends about technical issues? Personally I usually end up enjoying these types of conversations.
PHP: if you're not looking to build from scratch, then building off Wordpress, Drupal, or Joomla is a popular way to go.

Python: Django or Pyramid are the two frameworks to look at.

Ruby: Rails, I guess, although I've never used it.
Meh, not true.

I have a friend that wrote a very uninnovative, very shallow app a few years ago in a couple of months and barely works on it nowadays. He thinks he will make $60K this year and there are at least five or six different open source competitors (read last word as Daniel Plainview please.)

I could write something to replace it in a week or two.

Just make sure you know your audience: if you are selling to developers, you are probably SOL. If you are selling to managers, they really don't care whether they pay or not but it solves their problem.
I use Wellwood Hoyle associates, as do a few UK tech companies you've probably heard of (but it's not my info to post)... I've never met the guy, but I send him 90 quid a month, and he takes care of my somewhat complicated Ltd company expenses. Highly recommended.
Conservative Republicans are often in favor of government assistance to mothers because they want to encourage families. Conservative Republicans are in favor of wars without end, of a restrictive policy against drugs, of restrictive policies against the internet and are generally against the protection of the environment. They are for indefinite property ownership, even if we end up living to be 500 years old. They are against immigration. For the death penalty. For standing armies. For conscription in times of war. For a strong national government. For copyrighting a number. Against free use of encryption. For clandestine intelligence operations.

I'm none of those things. I'm a geolibertarian.

The math part of it was the resolution in the supply demand curve when government intervention increases the burdens on commerce, not whether or not the government should provide services to new mothers.
Just realize that it's one guy's take on open source software. He's not more authoritative than anybody else.

The essay became important because it was written at the right time, and because ESR decided to take a role as an advocate to industry. Not really due to its quality.
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It would be interesting to see if you could use a system like this to automagically derive background colors for image display, picking muted complimentary colors to make the dominant color in an image "pop", so to speak.
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How would you phrase it? Call them liberal? Socialist? Conservative? Populist? Corporatist?

It is phrased that way on purpose because most political leanings favor government intervention between individuals where neither party is committing force or fraud.
That's a terrible idea. If you're living above the poverty line, the tax breaks for being a limited company are huge, and will pay for the overheads of accountants very quickly.
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Interesting suggestion, but part of the problem is that a woman who works 5 out of 10 years at $100k pays the top marginal tax rate for those 5 years and no taxes for the next 5. A less ridiculous tax policy might get you that for free.
You can do this by representing the colors into HSV and then modifying the hue by 180%, desaturating them and then adjusting the brightness (v). Most color libraries will let you deal in RGB(A) or HSV so this is pretty straightforward to DIY.
This was a really bad comparison/argument for git. Anyone actually trying to decide between the two should just forget everything you've read and start with a different source.

That aside, I've used both over the last 3 years (2 in git; 1 in hg) and although I prefer git, hg is a fantastic tool. I think the largest difference between the 2 is usability. I do believe hg is quite a bit easier to pick up. It does a really good job of, by default, making sure you don't shoot yourself in the foot and also keeps you further away from the 'nitty-gritty'. Git, on the other hand, allows you to do whatever you want and generally makes the assumption you always know what you're doing. The details are not very far down from the surface and it's easy to get yourself in trouble if you don't know what you're doing.

Personally I prefer git because I feel so close to the metal, but there's certainly a perfectly valid argument to choose hg over git.
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It looks like they're going for telepresence. Their purpose of monitoring detainee health probably involves a doctor logging into the robot and making the rounds.
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Ah, herein lies the genius of experienced lobbyists. It's straight from the regulatory capture playbook - in Canada, for example, telecoms know they need to approach the CRTC (which regulates telecommunications) with an extreme list of demands so that they can negotiate down to their desired items while making it seem like a compromise has been reached.

I think the only right way to do it is in reverse... start with a list of idealized demands from a citizen/consumer point of view, then let industry push back on the really egregious items until an actual compromise has been reached.
I don't think you'll have a big problem meeting that goal. I just hope you guys can move to other markets (I assume you're only in SF right now?). There's a severe shortage of Rails devs in other places, because the best ones tend to migrate.
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Seconding taskwarrior for being a great todo handler. It has a minimalistic interface, but doesn't lack any features that you (might) find yourself wanting after a while of use. The IRC channel (#taskwarrior on Freenode) is active too. The command-line tools are perfect and let you make your system as minimal or as complex as you want. Over time, I've:

1) Set up a cron job that pumps my current list out to a text file behind an .htaccess'd directory. This way, I can see my list without needing SSH access.

2) I've also got a little Dashboard widget that pulls that text down, so I can swipe to the top-left hot corner and see them at a glance.

3) I'm using Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com/) on my Mac, so I wrote a simple trigger called "task add" that connects to my box and adds it there. There's also a few posts out there for DropBox integration if you use that.

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Why are businesses forced to pay for maternity leave, and not taxpayers?
Yes, I get advice on how to cheat the system, too. But it does not mean it's the only way to succeed.
Maybe I'm an odd case, but I have managed to build a business where I can still respect and pay my employees properly, where I could be happy if someone was having a baby, and where I pay my taxes properly. And I still make a profit.
Yes, maybe I would earn more otherwise. But I have always seen it as a choice, and my integrity and the well-being of others was more important.

My point was only that the system is not _that_ bad that you wouldn't have a choice. Of course, that choice is yours to make.
Very interesting. Not only for that, but it's the first time I've run across the S Asian numbering system. Fascinating.

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Why can't you believe it?

Do you not deal with people in a daily basis that disagree with your libertarianism or your presuppositions?

I read you are a data guy, I am a statistician myself, dealing with data this should not surprise you.
I'd talk in specifics instead of loaded terms and comical straw-men.

In the linked article, I'd have a problem with the length of that maternity leave, 3 years seems excessive. I generally think the US system of "you can be fired for anything besides discrimination" is the right system for knowledge-worker jobs. I've got a lot less of a problem with the idea of taxes in general, since stuff costs money, and am unabashedly in favor of government-provided healthcare on a dollars and cents basis: Every other developed nation delivers healthcare more cheaply than the US's system, no matter how messed up their national healthcare system is. I'd much prefer paying X additional dollars in taxes if the alternative is 2X additional dollars in healthcare premiums.

EDIT: Sigh, apparently my support for a shorter maternity leave term than 3 years angered an anti-government-interventionist.
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Heh. Downvoted as expected. Still true though.
Those who add value, have nothing to fear. Anyone below average or anyone insecure about her value, wants socialism and unions.

The society-first groupthink belongs in the XX century with its mass conveyor belts and replaceable workers.

If anyone wants to survive today and tomorrow, they need to increase their individual value as set not by a government body, but by the market, aka flesh-and-blood people.
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A fine example of terrible writing.
How did you decide what the core of Parse is? If you happened to start with it, then how does one go about finding the core of their product?
I haven't been keeping up with the GOP speeches (I assume you're referring to the GOP nominees), but all I've been able to come up with is Santorum mentioning Iranian nuclear sites, and only if they weren't open for inspectors rather than some sort of display of machismo. Are there others I've missed?
Interesting factoid:

"Between them they shifted perhaps 8 billion ARM-based semiconductors in 2011, half of them in mobile phones and mobile computers, the other half embedded in consumer items and elsewhere."

"According to IDC, a research firm, the market for PC-powering chips that use Intel’s x86 processor architecture, which Intel dominates, was about 400m last year."

8 billion ARM chips to 400 million x86. I hadn't realized that the disparity was that big. No wonder Intel is desperate to get some mobile wins.
Look into the marginal cost of raising a child. Children are a bigger expense for upper-middle class people who expect to send their children to a private school, pay for them to go to an expensive college, want each kid to have their own room, etc. For poorer families the main expense of a child is food. The younger ones can wear hand me downs, it is possible to shove two or three children in one room, etc. The poorer the family is, the less having another kid costs until it is actually a negative cost because each additional child actually brings in income by working.
This is exactly why it doesn't interest me. I love hacking, and don't need a school to learn to hack. Being a great programmer is not my problem. Building a business from programming is.
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Look, my post isn't about Europe, but Hungary. And here, we do not get enough for our money. When you go to a hospital, you're scared to death. Okay, I didn't write a dissertation. It does simplify things, yes it sounds like whining. But it's very original. :) It is how I felt when I first wrote it in Hungarian, and I was sober. I wanted to buy beers, but they refused to sell it after 10 pm. Why? It's now legal to drink, but illegal to buy at night. My overall point is that the state is like an elephant in a porcelain store.
It's just as fun to be a coach. FIRST is an easy way to give back and help future engineers. Volunteer to be a coach or mentor. Very few public schools have teams.
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>I assume they weren't doing yoga?

Exactly. As pointed out by the OC, Yoga is about ridding the ego and assuming awareness. "those people" were not practicing that at all, but rather the exact opposite. They were pushing themselves to do things they were not ready to do in the spirit of ego (or "I should be able to do this by now.").

>Those who claim that there is a true way walk a dangerous path.

This is true, however I believe it to be misapplied in this case. You could also say "That person eating an orange, how can you say he is not eating an apple? Is there not more than one way to eat an apple?"
Yes, you're correct. I should have worded that as supported over our current system.
That works to spoof GPS for your phone in a controlled location, but not for a drone that's flying unpredictable routes.
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I didn't want to assume you were a republican, I just noticed that your views are skewed closer to the conservative right. Sorry for the confusion.
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I'm not saying, that it's _that_ bad, that it's actually _impossible_ for everybody, in every case. It it _was_ that bad, it would be too bad. :) It would mean, there would not be any companies left. My point is, goverments should not promote the idea, that employers and employees are enemies. Because they're not. Or as somebody here has put it, "business are people". I am, for one.