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MongoDB really is the MySQL of the NoSQL movement (http://dieswaytoofast.blogspot.com/2012/02/mongodb-mysql-of-...), which really, really causes issues. AFAICT, the mind-set tends to be
(1) Theres this new thing called NoSQL
(2) MongoDB is the biggest NoSQL store out there, lets use it
(3) Profit!
Omitting a - critical - step, viz., "what are we trying to solve for here?". The result, of course, is either people getting burned, or a bit of a mess to unwind, neither of which is particularly fun (though it is "Profit!" for others!)

Riak's relative obscurity actually serves well in this regard. Odds are that if you discover Riak, you do so for a reason - you've been searching, you have a specific itch that needs to be scratched, etc. Given that you are already pretty clued when you get to it, you are extremely unlikely to pick it for the wrong reason, and consequently the success rate tends to be astonishingly high.
Mind you, I'll add that the folks at Basho are some of the nicest people I know, and that helps a lot :-)

Bottom line - I really don't expect Riak to go away anytime soon...
FYI, compression was added to Varnish in 3.x:

https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/tutorial/compression....
That personal growth translates to your career as well. I find that the liberal arts education I had forced upon me (I just wanted math/physics dammit!) helps me more than any other part of my education.

Even the philosophy classes I took shape me as a programmer and help me to see and model things from a different and very useful perspective. I really do believe I'd be far less effective as a programmer if I had missed on all of that.

It's funny, in the end I never finished my major classes and I don't think I lost much for never doing it.
I do not understand the fuss about this. If Saverin gave up his US citizenship legally, plans to live outside the US for many years, who cares what taxes is he avoiding? These senators need to get their acts together and fix the tax code instead.
Countries should never appear vindictive, as it also makes them look petty and weak.

[edit] Also, how does it make sense to impose taxes AND bar them from entry? Seems like more of an either/or type of situation. If someone is paying US taxes, then obviously they should be allowed entry; no one wants to fund the mechanism that punishes them. [/edit]
Yeah, I would take this as a grain of salt like any other advice. Fireworks isn't necessarily better, either.

I would definitely create buttons or icons in Illustrator (but you still don't have to do that), and do a lot of everything else in Photoshop. You can try Fireworks and see if it's your cup of tea, but Photoshop definitely isn't going anywhere as far as standard practice for awhile, at least from what I've seen. I've worked with startups all over the country and top web development firms and still all I see is Photoshop/Illustrator.

Not to say Fireworks is bad or you shouldn't use it, but take it as a grain of salt and see what works best for you. It never hurts to learn new things.
There's a lot of interesting discussion on Mauchly in The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff
Anyone notice the tone of the comments? Financial berlin wall being the most frequent.

Sheer lunancy. Saverin is a world citizen who lived in the US for a time while it was prudent and now longer does. The policies that cause this should be looked at rather than creating more broken policies.
Whoa! Thanks for the link, have an upvote.
Even better, the Atlantic's photo articles like this can be navigated with the arrow keys to go from one photo to the next.
Obviously this is because coffee makes you super alert. People on coffee don't get in as many traffic accidents, and also defuse bombs better.
I don't get why people keep saying Saverin filing his paperwork in January 2011 makes it completely obvious that he was not doing this to avoid paying taxes. Facebook was going to have an IPO and the guy was clearly preparing for it.

It may not be illegal, but it sure is disgusting.
"But there should be consequences to his actions"

You mean consequences to actions that he took legally ?
My understanding is that the rule blocking reentry from people who drop citizenship for tax reasons is longstanding. I'm entirely in favor of both the rule and the application in this case.

This goes on frequently within the US, too. A friend of friends made north of $100m in the dot-com bubble on a company that later collapsed. He made his money in SF, but bought a house in Nevada so that he could dodge the California taxes.

It may be legal, but it was a douchebag move, the moral equivalent of going out for a meal with a big group and sneaking out before the check arrives.
California is 20% illegal immigrants, paying no tax at all. Those ones they do not block from entering...
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exactly. could not agree more
He was identified as having a front lisp, so went in for speech therapy evaluation. During that evaluation he was found to have the speech impediment, and was flagged as requiring further screening for occupational therapy and ADHD. We have not yet done that screening.

My understanding is that an important part of that screening is a patient history and impressions from caregivers. Every caregiver has identified the same thing. He's plenty smart and has a great attention span for what interests him, but simply doesn't follow direction. Not in a, "kids don't listen" sort of way. But in the kind of way which causes the teacher in parent-teacher conferences to get all serious and spend the session talking about how she has more problems with him than with the rest of a class of 24 kids.

Having talked with my sister, whose son had very severe ADHD, I've been forced to admit that the symptoms fit. (My son is clearly not as severe though.) But it isn't official until he gets the official screening for it.

As for what to do about it, my sister spoke highly of cognitive therapy. She understands our resistance to drugs, had the same herself, but points out that drugs are optional and only needed as a temporary stopgap to give therapy a chance. If you don't need them to make therapy work, you don't do them. If you do need them, once therapy has progressed far enough, you can drop the drugs.
It's not generating total stylesheets, just blocks of CSS from what I can tell. Although an option for loosing the ; and maybe a couple features SASS/LESS has would be nice, and shouldn't be too hard to pull off.
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I find it funny that the US is acting like a scathed lover when in actuality it was her own restrictive propensities that push him away. GG USA for scaring away another great BF.
"the moral equivalent of going out for a meal with a big group and sneaking out before the check arrives."

Not quite. Saverin played a major part in cooking the meal (using your analogy) and deserves his fair share of sneaking out before the check arrives. Heck, he should be paid for making the meal and a thank you!!
I'm finally coming around to thinking that it is starting. About three years ago people were screaming bubble because YC companies were getting $4m or $5m valuations and I wrote the following:

"The truth is this: Bubbles don't exist without my aunt's mutual fund getting involved or my next door neighbor getting told to mortgage his house to invest by his financial advisor. Web 1.0 was all about IPOing on the nasdaq and fleecing the public with business models that disregarded profit. This time around things are different. At every stage of the process you see startups with business models. Guestlist, Github, FreshBooks, heck even Groupon, are making nontrivial money relative to the valuations and expected future growth."

And the money is starting to come in from my Aunts pension fund (Facebook buying instagram because they knew they were going to have her money within a couple months). Just barely starting, so we've got probably 2 to 4 years before the pop actually happens. But what are we supposed to do while it is happening? We can warn people for a while, but it won't change anything. Get money while you can, build a warchest like paypal did and get ready for the winter of 2015 to 2018.
The visa rules already say this, as was pointed out by pretty much all news stories at the time. Is there any way this isn't just grandstanding and cheap point-scoring?

http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/22CFR/HTML/22CFR/0-0-0-1/...
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The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.

If you start from an unproven assertion ('all government spending is waste'), you can believe whatever you want. Things like, "Hey, I'm not being an out-for-myself bastard who's reneging on his obligations to society by being a tax cheat, I'm John Galt! I'm a good guy!".

Without the US ecosystem, it's hard to see facebook being as successful as it has been. It's pretty weak to turn around after that and say you're not obligated to pay US taxes.
What about the hoards of riches who invest in foreign countries?

I mean, they made their money in the US, not just do they use the infrastructure, but also take money from American people directly.

Now they want to send the money out, and help other countries to start businesses and create jobs?! They might as well live in those 3rd world countries themselves, forever!
Perhaps it isn't an issue at this scale but for exporting food products aren't there any regulations / paperwork to fill in? I'm sure I remember hearing the US were getting stricter re: this. Perhaps this is where your missing deliveries are going.
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Re: removing the cap, that was in the case, which is vaguely proposed on and off, that Social Security will never get the money back from its mythical "lockbox", and instead the money will be retroactively turned into just general-treasury money. If it's just general-treasury money, then the Social Security tax is a general-revenue tax (not one earmarked for Social Security benefits), but as a general-revenue tax it's a regressive one.

If the money really is going to be repaid to the Social Security system and used exclusively for benefits, then I agree it's a different situation, more of a quasi-retirement-account.
Flash wasn't ridiculed because of how it looked. The principle of integrating interactive content into web pages is a fine one, so long as it's done in a way that's semantically consistent, machine readable, searchable, accessible, reliable, not too obtrusive, forgiving of network latency and performance, cross-platform, cross-device, and tolerant of errors -- the web, in other words. Flash was... not.

That doesn't mean we stop trying to make web pages look prettier.
> If you want to prevent this stuff from happening, change the law.

Isn't that what they are trying to do?
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Thanks for the candid reply.

I am optimistic you could pick .NET for Unix in a year or two

This really resonates with me. I feel like there's been a language boom in the past few years, but few implementations yet have the maturity and stability that I'd expect in a corporate environment. Given enough time and continued interest in alternative languages, I'd bet that Java's grip on this market will likely continue to erode (though an outright slide into obscurity seems highly unlikely). If it were ten years from now, perhaps I'd even be considering Go for this space.
We shouldn't punish people who take advantage of the US tax code, we should change the codes they take advantage of. But that involves actual work- reaching across the aisle, discussing, drafting and agreeing on law. I'm not in any way surprised that the Senate would prefer to do anything else.

Quasi-related tax rant: I am not a US citizen, but I live here. I want to get a green card (the process for that is another rant entirely). If I get one, I will owe tax on my earnings in any country. Earn £20,000 in the UK? Well, the UK gets a tax cut of that. Oh, and so does the US, for reasons unknown. America is the only country that does this, as far as I know.
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I see food differently. Eating/Cooking tasty, healthy food is my hobby. It gives me a break from all the other things. Somehow, I struggled to achieve the same when I'm away from my kitchen.

Often at work, I feel hungry. Unless you're located near downtown area, your option to step out and get something good is limited. I go to the vending machine, and find the same old junk food. I wanted to create my own virtual vending machine that has snacks I want to eat, and has more varieties. Healthy and still tasty. I tried hunting for solutions on the web without success. I started grocery hopping to discover new snacks for my work. Later I realize that it’s painful and I found more snack options than what's available in the supermarkets and more affordable too.

I started thinking more about the pain points and started some research. Next day I had the landing page ready using Launchrock. Launchrock is good if you just want something out quickly and attract early beta users but it's kind of limited in expressing your product. I decided to custom build the page, and here it is at www.recmend.com. Give it a try, and let us know your feedback. Likes, dislikes, we're here to learn. Leave a comment if you share the similar pain and share your story.
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Is there anything like this for Django?
Have you done any blue collar work? Depending on situation, many folks carry large thermos of coffee with them, and between morning and afternoon breaks, and lunch, quite a bit of coffee is consumed. Yes, this is my experience (and that isn't scientific), but simply stating that only office dwellers drink a lot of coffee isn't exactly scientific either.

That said, I agree with the sentiment here (and of the siblings) that controlling this sort of study is rather difficult.
I don't think Saverin's contributions are really proportionate to his windfall. But even that aside, yes, it's great that people come to this country to build things. But this country also offers a lot that makes that possible (there's a reason they come here, after all), not least the enforcement of laws and a relatively level playing field, and part of the bargain is that you pay some back when you win.

You could argue that what he's doing now amounts to insider trading.
Wouldn't this be a retroactive law? Surely it wouldn't apply to him as he renounced his citizenship before the law was made?
This is what saddens me the most. We are no longer able to have any real discusion about anything anymore because pretty much everything can be stuffed into a "partisan" pigeonhole.

-- Shrinking Middle Class == Partisan
-- Failing Healthcare System == Partisan
-- War on Women's Rights == Partisan

Now, on the face of it, sure, any of these topics can be construed as "partisan", but I had hoped, especially with outfits like TED, that we could get beyond that and focus on the "grey areas", the "parts in the middle", and try to have an honest intellectual debate.

But we're not allowed that anymore, even Intellectualism is partisan now since it's "so Elitist".

Welcome to the era of Politically Correct Stagnant Decline.
I agree and I've been trying to clean up some hacks just a bit (things like removing API keys that should have been in a config file from the start…) and put them on GitHub. Not because they're great and the world needs to know, but mostly because someone, somewhere, might come across it and get something out of it.

Though this difference between "open-source project" and "putting code out there" is where I'm not sure what companies/recruiters think about when they say "open source contributions is a plus". Most likely they'd love to see someone who is a core committer to an important project, but I would think that the truth is that not many developers have contributed significantly to a medium to major open-source project.

I contributed mainly to one project some time ago, but nowadays, I prefer to work on my own things even if they are much much smaller.
Not to mention you're probably free of any major cardiovascular problems if you can tolerate that much caffeine.
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That was kinda my point - and that the rate is unlikely to sustain...
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"Isn't that what they are trying to do?"

No they are not. They are trying to skim money out of someone who worked his ass off and when it is time to get paid, he is being shortchanged.
Will this also include corporations that use foreign incorporation to reduce US taxes?

And I can't connect …owns an estimated 4 percent of Facebook and stands to make $4 billion…
with …help him duck up to $67 million in taxes.

He is allegedly avoiding a 1.7% tax on his projected $4000 million? It sounds a bit of a stretch to say he'd renounce citizenship just to save what amounts to trading noise. (e.g. AAPL and GOOG each moved more than that in the last 3 hours, in opposite directions.)
Or, the photos from Italy. Or the ones from Vietnam. Or the ones from Germany. Or Afghanistan. Or Algeria. Or the UK. Or Hong Kong. Or Cuba. Or Venezuela. Japan. Guatemala. South Africa. And the Mongolian one that you mention.

So, OK, there was a bit of a focus on the US, and countries that the US was heavily involved in (like Vietnam and Cuba). But for you to claim that this is US centric except for the Mongolia photo is a bit unfair.

And why would you expect something else from an American magazine? Of course it's going to be the world from a US perspective, as it's a view of the world from a US perspective.
Yeah keep in mind that the really popular websites don't use adsense. They sell their own advertising space for more than they can make using adsense. Most website owners like to a/b test all kinds of things though. I've tried lots of different ways of monetizing mine and have ended up back at adsense because it's been the best for me. Given that, I would definitely test facebook to see how it did and if it did better i'd keep it, if not I'd go back to adsense.
> If they just start printing money

too late. Inflation and QE already happened.
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There's no evidence he qualifies under that clause. He didn't renounce to avoid taxation, quite the opposite: He was paid up on his taxes and paid an "exit tax" according to the quote in an article I read last night.

The USA requires you to get permission before renouncing. Part of the process of getting that permission is being audited by the IRS to make sure you're up to date on your taxes, and paying an excise tax on the money you're taking out of the country.

The clause you're referring to is for people who sneak money out of the country and then trick the US into "letting" them renounce where the US thinks they are up to date on their taxes but they aren't because they hid the money.

There's no evidence he has hid any money, and no evidence that he has renounced to avoid paying taxes.

Unlike most countries, the USA taxes citizens on their worldwide income, no matter where it is earned or where they live. This means that unless you want to be paying taxes to the USA for money earned outside the USA for businesses outside the USA, you have to renounce.
No, they normally never control for anything that smells of class (like income) because if they do, the health effect disappears. There was a good recent case or rerunning a study and controlling for class, thereby eliminating an effect (I think it was about potatoes and weight gain or something.) Don't have access to it here, but I'll try to post it when I get home.

IMO 95% of the health studies that catch fire in the popular press are repeated rediscoveries of class (smoking, fast food and types of food, etc.), or the qualities of illness (people who sit more die earlier, people who are depressed die earlier, etc.)

They did mention controlling for smoking, though, because they found that it counted against them.
I really wish politicians were willing to sit back and do nothing for one-off non-problems. I can't say I approve of Saverin's maneuvering, and dodging taxes by renouncing citizenship is in poor taste, but do we really need a law just for this one guy?
How would this help anything?
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Why would you assume it would have to be 10x? But I agree with your broader point that it would have to have amazing metrics to support that valuation on purchase. Instagram, from my point of view, was as much as defensive move as anything else - not sure there would be the same driver here.
"Reaching across the aisle"? Hee. You must not have read much about Republicans in Congress lately. It takes quite a bit more than a little elbow grease and "reaching across the aisle" to get anything real passed these days.
Well they probably pay sales taxes, just saying....
If he truly intends to live outside the country and not return here, then what's proposed has no teeth. But it's more likely that he's doing what many wealthy people have done before him, namely renouncing citizenship officially, but continuing to spend as much time as they please in the US. It actually seems pretty reasonable to deny reentry to someone who has left and had a nice windfall as a result. (Perhaps cleaner: demand repatriation of any capital gains as a condition of visa issuance. Assets acquired after the renunciation are of course exempt.)
Well of course he has been paying US taxes, while he lived here. When he stops living here, the USA shouldn't have any claim to tax him anymore, that's just common sense. He's going to pay taxes on the stocks he owns when he leaves as if he had just sold them; that's about half a billion dollars in taxes. Congress thinks that's not enough, apparently.
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It should be small transactions because cash is being used less and less often for medium-to-large transactions.

It's not safe to assume that all cent values from 0 to 99 are equally likely because of the fact that cash transactions tend to be small. The number of items being purchased will also tend to be small. So the fact that most prices for individual items tend to end in 99, 95 or some other multiple of five cents should have a huge impact on the distributions in real life, especially for transactions to which sales tax does not apply.

For example in Oregon, a state with no sales tax, the fewest number of items you'd be able to buy at $0.99 or $0.95 to get a $x.32 total is at least 20. (That's a whole lot of "fun size" bags of potato chips.) The total would come out to $19.32, at which point a lot of people would just pay with plastic, anyway. Perhaps most people would.
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This doesn't pass the laugh test, even if you had a source, which you don't.

Have you heard of the sales tax? You might have come across mention of it somewhere. I'll give you a hint. It's around 9% in CA, depending on where you live.