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There is a difference between "working" and working.. "working" in a highly inefficient system is very different than working fewer hours in a more efficient system
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Date/time handling code is pretty tricky - not leveraging what's in your platform is going to suck up a lot more time than you think. As for "databases rarely..." the answer to that is not to hand-roll your own wheel in PHP but to get a better database.
No one? (Or the guarantor, who then isn't paid back.) That's what I meant by "bankruptcy." Maybe, if they had "skin in the game", they'd be more inclined to be more responsible in their lending.

Or maybe the answer comes in capping the amount that can be paid back on amounts given, so that after paying for $x for $y borrowed, or paying for Z years, it doesn't matter how much you have left (thanks to compound interest), the debt is considered "paid".

Either way, loans will be harder to get, yes. Fewer people will be able to afford school at its current prices. Schools will have to make a choice of cutting back significantly, or trying to cater to those students who can't afford loans that would have paid for Ivy league schools. Community colleges will have to be community colleges again, vocational schools vocational.

I do know that currently, schools don't care where the money comes from, and lenders (and guarantors) don't really care where it goes to, and each loan that is too much for the borrower to pay back essentially becomes a money printing press. We keep paying, and many keep going further in debt to them.

Our system now can not last forever. A quick Google tells me that in the past 35 years, tuition has risen >900%. That number will continue to balloon as large as possible, until there is reason for it to stop. Maybe those alternative education models Cuban mentions vaguely (we probably know well what we means), but maybe this is what changes it. Allowing bankruptcy.

As long as possible, schools will continue to take as much money as they can get, to offer more, and bigger. And so far, lenders/guarantors seem content to let every person take that loan, and put a noose around their necks, as we've been told since we were children "go to school, do well, go to college, do well, you will do well in life". And as much as people here may value independent drive and self-teaching, I think we can agree that "the system" very much encourages people to attempt a college degree.

At least when the multi-billion dollar banks got into trouble, they had two options: go bankrupt and strike a deal with those they owed, or get bailed out. People only have one, "keep paying." And at some point, that just becomes indentured servitude.
Understandable concern.
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Very easy to embed and small footprint.

Language evolution has been implementation driven more so than say Javascript. As such its been able to reshape itself continually.

Mike's LuaJit is an incredible piece of work.

Its easily extended.
Yeah, Facebook does make it quite safe. Personally, and I know that this is a bit silly, but the thought of all my actual Facebook friends seeing that I have signed up to this put me off at first. Then I was like "fuck it, I'm curious!" - but it doesn't mean that others will come to the same conclusion. It's similar to announcing on Facebook that you've just signed up to a dating site. Lots of people do it these days, even talk about it quite a lot, but it's not something you'd make a status update about.
Exactly. It baffles me that even very smart people can't see this bug. If it can theoretically exist separately while you are alive, it can't be you.

For example, if You and Digital You (tm) were alive at the same time, I could put you in one room, and Digital You in another, and smash Digital You without You having any idea. You could live your whole life not knowing if Digital You was "alive."

Whatever your definition of me is, it seems like me dying should have an effect on me.
I'm not sure that's specific to Portugal - in Brazil most of the companies are like that as well.

But that's only going to change when "we" build companies with that culture, no?
Similar idea is Tastytum (http://www.tastytum.com/), though not much has happened there lately.

I was a "beta tester" host last year, and it worked really well and was a very fun evening. The idea works if you're brave enough to try.

But Tastytum's site also seems a lot friendlier to me, has a less scary name ;) and it doesn't require a FB account. "connecting travellers with locals" just sounds safer than having "strangers" come to your house. :)
Since Nix keeps multiple versions of almost the same binaries, it seems to me that something like ZFS, where several files can share the same physical block on disk, is the perfect match. Is that something you recommend when using NixOS?
I really need something like this. However, I watched the video and came back unconvinced. You don't show me how to manipulate data. How do I get it into the canvas? Can I get it from APIs? from Google Docs? Can I bind data to attributes of the objects I drag and drop into the canvas? Can I filter and aggregate my data or must I preprocess it offline? We really need a web app that brings infovis to the masses — like a Garageband-ified Tableau. There's nothing like that yet. But if you are just a themed clipart canvas, you'll find a formidable competitor in PowerPoint.
Here's what you want to do:

Host these dinners at some local sushi place. Have the owner give you 10% off given that you're giving them 6-7 new customers. Maybe even do something where you collect some $$ from the restaurant as you're bringing them, say, 10 new customers every month...

Love the idea btw!
Helicopters aren't used for VIPs here, no.
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I have no need for the service, was just curious about the details.
One little thing: the ordering for "how far you are willing to travel" is a bit messed up. It goes 10, 5, 20, 30, 50.
I just wanted to know how it works. I don't think I have the courage to meet completely random people though.

Oh, and there's a whole bunch of periods missing (sorry).
You need a vacation.

Unplug yourself for two weeks. Travel a bit. Sit back and relax. Stop thinking about work.

Then come back and start working on your momentum again.
Usability and accessibility sacrificed for the wow effect. This is typical for skeumorphic UIs.
> I think we can agree that things like the Bill of Rights affirm more individual liberties in the US than many other countries.

The Bill of Rights is so 18th century. I think you'll find that most industrialized liberal democracies have constitutional guarantees of freedom that are more modern and comprehensive than the US version. The UK is something of an anomaly in that it still relies on common law and tradition rather than an explicit bill or charter of rights. The honour system works fine and tends to be self-correcting over the longer term, as long as the government is willing to play along nicely.
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Nope, your friends won't know about it. Facebook is used for authentication and verification only.
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I'm in two minds, I want a near native code execution environment in the browser but wonder if something like Xax offers better room for performance of dynamic generated code.
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You mean you had to pay up front for the whole week? That seems like the problem right there. In traditional accommodation stays you always have the option to pay cash per night so normally its a good idea to just pay for one night, then if it doesn't work out, you can just leave.
As the 4 columns show, productivity & hours worked go diametrically opposite (negatively correlated). All the countries in the most working list are also in the least productive list. So, it still doesn't change the German assertion that Greeks are not doing enough.

Second, the article itself accepts - " because the two labour markets are structured differently, it is actually hard to compare like with like."

That means the headline is pointless as it is contradicted by the sentence above.
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I'm starting to build a small personal project to use Dropbox as a simple interface to manage/create a website.

The basic idea is that the user uploads a script to his hosting server, logins with his dropbox credentials, at which point a new custom folder is created in the dropbox directory which represents the htdocs of the host.

From this point on files are basically either PHP, HTML, or Markdown files, and any changes to the local files will be reflected right away on the host where the script was installed.

It's intended to be a sort of replacement to Drupal/Wordpress and other CMS software designed for developers and hackers - I don't want to be bothered with installing various scripts, running through a UI whenever I want to upload a file or a new post in my blog/site, and I'd prefer to simply manage my site as if it was a local file system, no databases (well, maybe a little SQLite), a basic caching system (after parsing the files, we want to store them in some form that will not rape the server every time a new visitor arrives), and something that can be easily extendable.
Great idea, I'd really like to try it, join or host a dinner in Paris but I don't have a Facebook account and don't want to create one.
Taking a good paying job != abandoning your dreams.

Take the job, and use the experience you gain from it to build a better side-business.

You are not failing, just moving forward.
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Even among well-funded startups, having a usefully specific definition of the target customer and where you fall in relation to their existing value structure is something of an accomplishment.
The phrase "third world" has nothing to do with economic conditions, and everything to do with allegiance to a particular policito-economic block. Thanks to the work of the allies (and particularly the brits) during the closing parts of WW2 Greece is aligned with NATO after WW2. After the collapse of the soviet union I don't know that it makes much sense to talk about 1st, 2nd and 3rd world countries any more.
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MST is polynomial, so you can't use it as an NP oracle, anyway.
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nice to see another tool to search for properties, however hijacking is always not a good way to advertise your service - to be honest.
If we view slime molds as a sort of computing machine, which responds differently to different inputs, an intriguing angle is to use it for generative art, the way people use other computing formalisms like context-free grammars (http://www.contextfreeart.org), cellular automata, and other things.

The tricky thing is that slime mold tends to either die or gunk everything up if you aren't careful, but there are some artists "collaborating" with it in producing paintings, which makes for interesting outcomes sometimes because the mold seems to carry pigments around, and responds differently to different pigments and preparations of surfaces: http://slimoco.ning.com/
I disagree. Your individual consciousness will diverge of course (you are just a meat machine) but your computer copy will continue on and your ideas, ideals, and personality would continue.

Writing this I just had a major existential crisis because I realized that at the exact point of divergence there is a point where 'you' are both alive and dead at the same time, Schrodinger's Tomb.

I agree with you in that I think a gradual change is less crisis inducing even though it equals out to the same thing. I think that I'd get a brain backup anyway, just in case.
Love the idea...but why do you think someone would rather use this than just download a PSD with a lot of elements ?

I think the real value you could be creating is if you're able to get tons of designers giving you their 'infographic themes' for cheap, and then charging for access for the app. However, you'd have to make it more 'general', a lot of the themes seem to be very specific, for example, one is for some kind of data around the US demographics;
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I got an "internal server error" when I tried to sign up.
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> Play is a frame of mind

It's more than that. The environment matters. Real play is risk free. You can do whatever you want and there are no consequences. This is not true for work.

At the end of the day business doesn't want their employees to treat work as play; they just want them to be more engaged while at work. But instead of looking at why their workers are disengaged they hire people who set up cute little games and contests and tell people to pretend they're not actually working. Which is all well and good until somebody drops the ball and they get fired. Whoops. Sorry Bob. I guess you didn't understand we weren't actually playing after all.

Gimme a break. Gamification is just bullshit newage snakeoil.
As I understand it, Greece's problem is the wealthy completely dodge taxes, putting the burden on everyone else (or collapsing the government). It's an idealized version of America's wealthy dream-state.
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The Facebook login. Come on now.
I assume that this means that versioning of CSS / JS files now works - one of the problems I've experienced with Cloudfront is updating files that don't normally change very often (eg CSS). As Cloudfront doesn't support query strings, changing version number of the following didn't work: stylesheet.css?ver=201200505, but now it should.
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Cool idea. Guess we're not original afterall.
It's very easy to blame simple people for the mess that capitalism created.

Greece has a problem with government debt. How do you blame capitalism for this?

What happens in Greece is that we're taking loans upon loans to save defaulted banks that are based mainly in Greece, Germany and France.

If that is the only problem, why not simply default and let the banks fail?
What makes you so sure of that? What is the important difference between the copy and you, assuming that they behave identically?

How much "like" you would a copy have to be before it caused you ontological distress?
The lesson of the Holocaust is "look at the nasty things that Humans can do. Don't do that." It is absolutely not "look at the nasty things that Germans can do." The more that people make the latter argument, the less they've learned the learned the lesson of the Holocaust.

NB.: I'm of Jewish ancestry and have counted several Holocaust survivors among my friends. This shit is personal for me.
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I'm biased, I'm German.

But last year I think there was an article linked that explained how Germans have more productivity output per year than US Americans, although Germans have more holidays.

Said that, it's obviously a generalization. I'd think it's very company specific, and depends on many factors, especially the number of "meetings" one has to attend, those that are not work because they have no agenda, no action items, no decisions made etc.
Great idea, but I would never use Facebook to log into anything.
The implementation of the Lua and now LuaJIT2 VMs are part of the reason for the language success. It's had good performance and low memory overhead for almost two decades (the incremental gc came in 2006).

Javascript has only been coming to age recently.
In a GitLaw there won't be merge conflicts. There will only be merging to the trunk. The first one (by UTC time) to commit will be revised first and either merged or rejected. Then later entries processed in the same way. Trunk is a current working law. To prevent overworks there should be made freeze periods (180 days is sufficient I think) where no merges occur and merge periods (30 days max) when commits are processed.
This leaves problem with system abuse with millions atomic commits to disrupt work process. Can be solved (probably) by setting penalties for abuse (fines etc.).
System abuse is very hard topic overall, preventing it sufficiently will be hardest thing to make in all GitLaw project.
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True.

The msgpack serializer was probably used in a suboptimal way. The integer 3 can be encoded by msgpack in one byte as well. I never use doubles which is probably why I didn't think of this case.

Integers are actually always <= bytes in msgpack than the JSON ascii representation.

Anyway - benchmarking is hard.
Single-inheritance, but interfaces can have default implementations? Isn't that... multiple inheritance?
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Greg Egan's short story Closer has people implanted with a device, a "jewel", that learns to mimic the behaviour of their brain - to the point where people actually choose to switch from their biological brain controlling their body to their jewel....

http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer&pagetitle=Closer&se...
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So what? People seem to like Lua for the details.
Try burst.net

OVH should have their east coast data centre open for customers in August. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/04/30/europ... I am an alpha testing and their service is great. They are not just a data centre that leases bandwidth from others. They are an internet backbone with ownership in back haul fibre. They are big enough to add 290gbps to their network in days. http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showpost.php?p=42216&postcount=66

Most of the links are 10gbps so it is just a simple hardware upgrade to 40gbps or 100gbps.
www.grubwithus.com is doing this.
C'mon; short of Skynet code doesn't have the capability of intelligence so calling code stupid is calling the person that wrote it stupid for having done it. When one says "this code is stupid", there is absolutely no express nor implied caveat of "...but of course I totally separate you from it". (I suppose someone further along the autistic or sociopathic continuum than most might genuinely make that distinction.)

Of course you are correct in the absolute that Crockford doesn't think the author has an actual mental deficiency, but that's not what calling someone stupid means, either.
Sounds awesome but here's my 2 cents/2 suggestions

1) you're creating a html5 app but you cant disable the buttons on your slider? you only have 1 slide so disable the arrows

2) you need some sort of demo of what the finished product looks like. doesn't have to be editable... just show me what it makes.
I think that coding an app is the less important part, if you want your app succeed you have to know how to promote it, how to make it grow, how to make it easy to use, etc ( maybe is boring, but must to be done)
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I don't sign into things with Facebook. I don't trust them, I don't trust what information is passed back and forth, and I can't access it from work (so I can't currently sign in, even if I wanted to).
> Consciousness is mortally bound to the physical body, and will die along with it regardless of how many mental copies are made.

Why? Can you explain more? I would believe that you can be a fully functioning human living in a simulated reality if we ever managed to fully simulate the human brain..

However, since our brain modules are so messily coupled I don't know if we can easily "delete" memories and not impact anything else.
It does now! Great work!
If that's what you're after you might want to check out Fastly. We're a CDN entirely based on Varnish, with all the features that implies.
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>A country has "continuity of the state" (if I recall the term correctly).

If you would recall correctly, you would know that there's a difference between a country and the people in it.
I'm not going to spend a fortune in Photoshop.

However if someone provided me of a piece of software to this effect (producing output in open formats) then I'd be all over it. Where is this software?
Could you recommend me a PR company for support to launch new project?
Could you recommend me a PR company for support to launch new project?

Google gave too many results, but did not give any answers is who really best from these companies. :)

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If you set the TTL for a particular origin to 0, CloudFront will still cache the content from that origin. It will then make a GET request with an If-Modified-Since header, thereby giving the origin a chance to signal that CloudFront can continue to use the cached content if it hasn't changed at the origin.

I wonder how well this works for content that is truly dynamic. Seems like it would necessarily be slower for those pages that change on every request.
Hmm...I have a Linux server out there, serving web pages and also running a Dropbox CLI client. My laptop runs the usual Dropbox client. The two computers share a folder between them; this shared folder is also the web root for a site on the server.

So, any changes I make at my local computer are synced to the server via Dropbox. No logins (beyond the initial set-up), no manual uploading; just save the files locally and they automagically appear on the server.

Is that what you had in mind? (this is the link for the command-line client: https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx )
In all fairness, if I am meeting with random people for lunch I would like to at least see who they are on the web, it is not any sort of guarantee but it's good to at least have an idea.
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For an example of non-finance related rates, general Oracle contracts start at around 400UKP per day. I work with Oracle Retail (Merchandise ERP), which commands 500UKP plus.
Totally tangential to the issue discussed, but years ago I was doing interviews of college kids for dev jobs in a unix env. The recent graduates had had some unix in school, but not much. When asked some questions about it, one candidate let slip that he wanted to see what other people were doing so he started looking in their home dirs.

We hired him. He was absolutely fantastic.
great to see anything that helps finding property in London easier. Any reason you're only showing flats and not including houses as well? I'd imagine once you go outside zone 2 houses will be in the majority.
>Indeed, if things are just left alone I would not even say the default state is that you'll be in control of your own code. It will be a company that develops this technology first, since the alternative is inconceivable, and they will have their own agenda. There's a lot more possibilities that could emerge than just a happy utopia.

One might argue that these technologies are so advanced that they will not be developed until the current resource scarcities which govern our lives have been removed, and as such we wouldn't be subject to the same degrading economic pressures.

This makes some sense to me, but maybe I've just been watching too much Star Trek.