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You seem to think "southern countries" collectively decided to increase costs while Germany took the high road. Southern Countries HAD their costs increased and their internal inflation out of control, so the ECB could help out the then-struggling Germany and France duo.

Germany was stagnating in 2000 and MISSED their promised objectives, while Southern Countries were growing healthily. Then they found themselves with extremely low rates to help growth in Germany and France, which was basically "free money" and an out-of-cycle policy they simply did not know how to deal with. Their internal corruption did the rest.

There is one way to enforce responsibility: stop giving away free money, either be it through low rates, or through "rescue packages" done to ensure your banks won't need to swallow a massive hole from not having their lent money back.

A bit too late for this, but hey, better late than never.

- raise the rates. NEVER drop the rates below 5% as long as there is a single overheating economy in the monetary Union.

- drop the debt. Suck it up. No more rescue plans, also buh-bye to the money irresponsibly lent away. Maybe you didn't know this but you have already dropped a lot of it. Now it's when the big monster Merkel has been avoiding will rear its ugly head: the same will have to happen with other MUCH bigger countries than Greece. This will cost Germany and all the other countries massively, you will be in RECESSION for some years.

Otherwise they will be out of the Euro and then you can bet your lucky pants they will declare bankruptcy and they won't repay the debt or any rescue we (EU members including the UK that's not even in the eurozone) have given them, as Argentina did not that long ago when they let their currency float. Simply because they are unable at this point to go into a position from which they can repay.
What? No I really don't think it is. If you are right though, they've done a great job to make it seem like it's not.
Why I feel these questions are so Quora-like?
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Digression:

> Without it, I can't login anywhere

Here is the problem with 1Password and other similar tools: if you are in a place where you don't have access to 1Password, you can't login at all (i.e. you are screwed). This is why I force myself to remember all my passwords even if they are complex and numerous.
I'm not sure if everyone noticed, but the primary interesting thing here is NOT that it blocks off domains at certain times (everyone and their dog wrote such scripts for themselves). The nice thing is that each rule is defined as a function, which means that you can put a bit more complex rules inside, or just add some logging and track every name resolution against given domain.

Which actually brings me to question: aren't domain-IP pairings cached by the browser?
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What this article misses is that the indeed statistics are potentially bogus since many job postings will include phrases like "Looking for a Groovy person" and are false positives, since the word groovy is an adjective here, not a proper noun.
Some relevant interesting threads on reddit by the devs for Facebook for Android

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/h7nx1/we_are_the_de...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/n5my6/we_are_the_de...
PHP hate is often a knee-jerk reaction here on HN. It's a language that has both some very cool features and some legacy baggage it carries around - and it's absolutely possible to use it for good (and to use it well). I think PHP's image problem comes from the perception that there is some very low-quality code out there, but it's definitely mainly an in-group coolness issue.

It's one of those things that (negatively) surprised me about Hacker News, actually. People go around and unproductively bash each other's programming languages when they could use their energy to elaborate on the stuff they actually like. The group consensus seems to be that Lisp is the best thing a language can hope to be; and since very few people actually develop in Lisp-likes, they fall over each other to claim the next-best place in the All-Time Universal Programming Language Hierarchy(tm).

I believe the origin of this behavior might be a somewhat mistaken PG essay[1] implying that all non-Lisp languages are "Blub", which is a synonym for "sucky, powerless, inferior language".

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Only if you are at 'home'. If I where to use 3G on my phone when traveling in the US, I'd pay $17/MB! Even a 3 hour drive from my house (a trip a regularly make) will put me in a new country and I'm paying $7 for the first 50MB and then $3/pr additional MB. That makes watching movies kind of expensive.
Using mobile app just once, they are able to access your phone contacts. I guess that is enough reason for them.
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omg you got plagarized? omg on the internetz?? omg serialz???

It's the internet shit for brains. Lemme ask you: Ever downloaded a torrent? Ever hotlinked an image?

The content you wrote sits on a web page, written in html and served with the http protocol. Anyone can save your webpage as file on their desktop, copy it, put it in a torrent, whatever.

Getting plagiarized sucks but man up and understand the game you're playing here though you could argue that you do know the game by bitching about it on hacker news and reddit, that's a good place to bitch about such things, the girls here like to get worked about this kinda shit.
and then this happened: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/22130068036/givin... :)
I cannot say who the client is for this, but it's a government department.

I built a cluster which used a disk array for storage. When I was contracted to build this I was assured that they were building several other clusters for use as test, QA and prod and that all I had to do was build the dev system and document so thoroughly that the other systems could be built from the documentation. At the time I wasn't yet security cleared so would not be allowed to build the other environments.

Some time later (6-8 months) I was called back to help solve a performance related problem. When I arrived I discovered that the dev machine was now production, and that no other machines were built. I would have to do the work on production.

Worse though... their backup and failover mechanism wasn't what I'd documented, but involved an identical piece of hardware nearby which was powered off. They hoped to simply turn it on when production failed.

Their daily process was to approach the disk array and remove the 1st hot swappable disk from the live machine, and swap it with the 1st disk in the powered off identical system. When the array had rebuilt the first disk, then move the 2nd disk.

I am seldom speechless. It was only a critical part of a £2bn project. Beyond all of the obvious WTFs, I still wonder whether the 2nd machine could be powered on at all given that all of the disks were pulled at different points in time.
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Well, the point is, to get to a green space, you need to get in a crowd in the first place. You cannot avoid them that easily. It's like you get double-punishment before the reward.

Tokyo is simply a city that is OVER-capacity, not by a factor of 1 or 2, but 10 or maybe more. If the train is 10 minutes late for any reason, any station would be filled with people on the platforms you can cross through it anymore. That says a lot. I feel New York is way more livable, from what I can compare.
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So I'd assume 20 minutes of an expert's time is worth $500, right?

Edit:
Seriously, I'd charge $500 if the client picked the time and $100 if I could pick any period during the day, on short notice.

I'd actually charge more for a client-picked 20 minute period than I would for a one hour period because a 20 minute period would be very unlikely to repeat since 20 minutes isn't really enough to demonstrate great expertise.
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All statistics contain noise, but how many job postings are about groovy programming vs the obscure edge case you mention?
I feel exactly the same way. Suddenly I feel like a curmudgeon.

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I wouldn't say you'll use IRC directly to promote. It's just another communication channel with people. Think of like twitter, everyone is almost always online thanks to bouncers or irssi+ssh setups and you can query whoever you want or need. They may respond if they see your message and think it deserves an answer.

I'd say most of its interest comes from the support channels like #rubyonrails or #python where you basically help people. After a while, you get to know regular users and thus making new connections or even friendships. As an example, I've got friends hanging out in a french sys-admin related channel who sent to me people looking for python training. I made an offer and we later called to them to finalize the order. I'd say such things are a consequence of your genuine participation in channels rather an objective in itself.

I use quassel as an IRC client, the core is installed on my personal server, being always connected. I connect from my home or my laptop and always get only what I haven't read thanks to quassel acting a bit like IMAP. I also have a bitlbee setuped in order to act as a gateway to gtalk and hipchat, meaning I got every single possible chat protocol I may use in quassel.

I desactivated notifications, which means If I minimize quassel, I won't see anything, letting me focused. After each focused work cycle ( like every 30-45 minutes ) I just check if anything happened there and answers depending its importance and my current priorities. I don't say I'm not available, which may lead in a debate on why I can't answer right know, I just don't answer back until I got prioritized stuff done first.

This way I can handle chat with wrecking daily productivity. As opposed to that, phone just trouble my productivity, I almost never answer on my phone except for a few people and use almost exclusively chat to avoid that.
seems like there are easy ways of finding the pid.
Its funny you mention the train being late, and crowds. When I lived in NYC, traveling on the train during non-peak times was so stressful I avoided it like the plague. Always late. Noisy as hell. Smells like a cesspool. During rush-hour the train might stop in the middle of a tunnel, and the lights go out, the whole time it is not even air conditioned. I visited NYC 2 months ago after a few years away, and the floating filth in the tracks was still there of course. My Japanese travel companion who had never been in NYC before took only two train rides (at non-peak hours) to declare a strong negative impression of the NYC subway.

Maybe you live in another NYC where there are no trains? Or you just drive everywhere, but you don't mind that it takes an hour stuck in traffic to get out of Manhattan on a friday evening. In Tokyo it takes about the same amount of time to travel any distance whether it is 9am or 3pm, since the trains actually work.
The a) and b) do not only apply to Tokyo. The top 10 cities in Japan can offer the same degree of convenience, less the "alienation from humanity to a level almost incomprehensible anywhere else in the world", which I find a very good description of the situation, by the way.

Concerning the "well maintained parks", several parts of Tokyo feel/look dirtier than many other places in the country, except maybe the southern part of Osaka.
> I was in a job interview once where they googled my name and they had a print out of snarky comments I had made on a public mailing list.

That would have been awesome. I would have sent a snarky tweet about it on the spot.
Would be interesting to see a follow up in 6 months or so..

It doesn't seem fair to compare [old tech] with [new tech] when you've felt all the pitfalls with one but not the other.
I've been using http://api-status.com/ for ages, seems pretty similar
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I don't think my company will get a lot of work done this week. That's what happens when new Blizzard games come out. What about your company?
Domain availability checks with Ruby, I love it
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I don't have the time to organize my thoughts but I would like to pipe up here and say that the it's not fair to call the Django ORM 'terrible'. It's extremely easy to learn and does a good job for a very large chunk of plausible use-cases.
If you don't have enough experts, hire smart guys and train them. Problem solved.

If you are looking for three months without success, in the same time a good programmer with some web experience could have already become a great Rails programmer. Another three months in a team with great people and he will write any code you want.
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This is a great idea, BUT it'll slow your system so no thanks.

My tip to you guys is to turn off Internet access until you need it, close the browser. When you open Reddit, HN, Facebook or whatever - close it deliberately. Practice that. Move the cursor to the X, push it and MEAN IT.
This is pretty much exactly what happened to me. I started building parts of django in Flask in my own weird way (probably complete with anti-patterns etcetera) so I thought why am I doing this when there is a team of highly skilled people dedicated to making another system to do exactly this? So now I use Django. And it is AWESOME.
Ask HN: Advice for a final year Comp Sci student (Getting into Google,FB,MS)
I am in the final year of my Computer Science course in a reputable college. I have above average intelligence and am willing to work hard. The thing is, I haven't spent the last 3 years of college wisely. I do love computer science and programming, but simply slacked off these last 3 years. A couple of my direct seniors in college got hired by facebook and about 6 of them by Microsoft during campus interviews. I feel guilty for wasting all this time and for not utilising my potential. Many of my friends have been coding on TopCoder and similar websites while I have done nothing... Apart from this, I have quite a load in the upcoming year with my final year project for which my professor results in terms of publication in some top-journal.

Anyway,

What advise do you have for me? I have about 3-4 months from MS interview and about 8 months from Facebook. Google doesn't come to my campus, but I hope to make it through the online application. Is this sufficient time? What should my study plan be like? I know it's subjective, but how good do I need to be?

P.S - I have ordered the CLRS (Introduction to algorithms) & Algorithm Design Manual from Amazon yesterday.
I wouldn't start with amazon associates, there are plenty of smaller affiliate networks who would love to help out and promote this service.

Amazon associates presents a big tracking challenge because their system seems to be designed to give up as little data as possible. It is by far the hardest network I have come across to login as a user and retrieve transaction data in an automated way.
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Take FB out and Thiel has a horrible investment record. In case people missed, he has a horrible investment record. A coin toss would be better than his choices, let alone low cost index funds. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-12/clarium-hedge-fund-...
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Ummm, no. D'Angelo put $20 mil in his own company so it's just $30mil, unless I read wrong. That $30mil is nothing, Thiel is making over $2 Billion on FB so this is just some crumbs as a thank you and "just in case."
A counter example:
He mentions graphing data as one option. I'm pretty sure people with excellent GNU plot skills can make a GNU plot script that does what I want in 10-20 mins, and I really can't be arsed to figure it out myself everytime. Seems like the type of expertise that is currently hard to sell and might benefit from this sort of site.
The iOS facebook app has gone from being fast and nice, to a shitty piece of bloat and lag. It's come to the point where I can't be bothered to "click through" on stories, because bringing up the list of comments on a story takes ~30 seconds. Forget about clicking on a friend with timeline enabled: The screen goes into powersave and autolock before the page even starts to render.

"Facebook for iOS"? More like "Loading... for iOS"!
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Here's a fun Scheme example: http://ll1.ai.mit.edu/shriram-talk.pdf

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The one thing I hate about iTunes (besides the sluggishness of the app) is that it's a massive pain to keep a single iTunes library shared with all other computers in a network, especially with OSX and Windows.

I propose an 'iTunes Server' - a central music database which allows iTunes clients to connect to it and browse the music library with full access and the ability to add songs to the central library.

It'd have to be cross-platform too.
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Interestingly enough, most people will be able to understand exactly what you wrote there. People can easily recognize common words "by shape". They only ever have to look at the first and last letters.

I'm not saying people won't notice there's something wrong with what you wrote. They will. But they'll be able to understand you perfectly despite that.
Ok, it's awesome, but auto alignment is probably most important feature there, I understand why it's premium, but you could give a chance to try this.

Also move "guided tour" option on a visible place, I discovered myself that I need to do, and dropped an image to the canvas, and after 5 minutes, when I was starting to write this comment I found where "tour" is.

It's cool, but developers probably will love desktop version of this and cross-platform of course. There nice though.

Good luck with service.
"Don't ever look backwards, it's a waste of time. Learn the lessons of your misses and take them with you."

Sometimes, for me at least, it takes months or years of reflecting on the past to learn from a mistake. Looking backwards can be healthy too.
Why work for the current market leaders? Work for the next one! How do you know which one that will be? You don't. Find work, start your career, see what happens and go with the flow (and bend the flow a little to where you want to end up). Don't stress working for one of the big boys, you'll have tons of competition. Including university graduates that are a lot smarter than you are. Find yourself a nice smaller company or a job as a consultant. Get experience and look for better and more interesting opportunities.

That's what I did after I graduated as a bachelor in computer science. First I worked for a small local company, pay sucked but it was 10 minutes from where I lived. Now I work for a large consulting firm, good pay, sometimes long hours and sometimes an afternoon off, but I have to travel about 3 to 4 hours a day to get to my work.

Most importantly, look for projects that interest you and make sure your employer is dedicated to educating you further because you don't know shit when you leave college / university. Take it from a guy with about 3 years of working experience under his belt.
Actually, the boss should carry the can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_responsibility
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Commenting online becomes addictive. It becomes a horrible time sink and a useless waste of time. Either arguing with people who don't understand anything, or endlessly circle-jerking with people who have the same viewpoint as you. Some even fall into the trap of believing their "karma" score somehow means something. All it means is how much time you waste online commenting.

Once you start commenting online, you can't easily stop. So it's not as simple as "Don't go to them".

</recovering addicts view>
Well - that depends on what you mean by "think differently".

If you mean that they've all got to mutually agree on some working practices that are going to enable them to work together effectively - then yes. If you mean have the same outlook or skill set - then it certainly doesn't seem to be true in my experience :-)

In fact, I'd say the opposite is true if anything. If everybody has the same outlook and skill set the group tends to more rapidly moves into a committee like non-self directive setup from what I've seen. I'm guessing that's because they don't have to come up with techniques for handling dissenting opinion as much.
re user engagement the "threshold" for submitting a funny picture or pun anonymously is much lower than writing a well-written answer in your full name.
Yes, but it modifies the response to have a very low TTL so that it's cached only for a show while (in as far as browser actually get the query response).
Consciousness means different things.

If by consciousness you mean introspection or self-modeling or something like that then consciousness is definitely real. But it's just a property that some minds have, and that someday will probably be analyzed and replicated in silico.

But if you mean some kind of special conserved "essence" that makes you "you" in addition of your memories... then yes, it's probably just an illusion.

Which is a disturbing thought, I admit.
This trend has been getting my goat for a while! Such a lame use of pixels to confuse the mind and yield absolutely no cognitive benefit!
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In your metamorphosis example, is the finished project essentially be a robot? Would you have the same problem when a software agent is transferred from one computer to another?

Assume a negative answer. Then, the interesting implicit belief, is that there is something special about body composition. Whereas in physical law, there is nothing unique in principle about the body. So, the laws would have to be wrong or incomplete(fail to include consciousness) in an important way.
I had to learn Objective-C, how to use a Mac and Xcode inside of a month, because the company we normally outsourced this kind of development to didn't have time.

Never in my wildest dreams would I've guessed that the actual programming would be the easiest part.
Because a Facebook ad could start poking around inside your corporate firewall looking for security vulnerabilities... you can lock down app installs much more than someone accidentally agreeing to allow socket permissions.