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Germany's best case is for all countries to stay in the Euro and force them to pay for "their greed" by cutting government programs.

Germany’s strong exports are being bought by all European countries which some argue is the cause of the rest of Europe’s unemployment and fiscal problems. Us in the USA like to think it is because of bloated entitlement programs, which very well could be the major cause or a contributing factor, but it is at least plausible that the absolute real cause is Germany’s strong industrial position combined with their ability to export to the rest of Europe.

If Germany left the Euro, their currency would be so strong against the rest of Europe that it would vastly damage their competitive position in Europe leading to a massive transfer in wealth out of Germany.
Are you sure this was not written by Angela Merkel?

Germany is desperate not to have the euro / union explode, and is basically saying if you want any more cash then there is proper fiscal union (ie everyone follow Germany's industrial and fiscal models.) This will screw most of Southern Europe who don't manufacture anything, so cannot export anything that is not subsidised under CAP.

So the Germans will only pay up if the whole of Europe agrees to tighter fiscal controls.

And you don't agree to tighter fiscal controls, we just walk away. Didn't you see the positive reaction to those articles we planted :-)

However the Spanish government followed the fiscal rules. It was their banks (with political connivance) that massively over reached.

I think fiscal union is the only solution Europe has. But it will also need to reign in banks otherwise another Spain will occur. Presumably a combination of never trading privately (ie only over public exchanges where markets can assess the deals) and never being allowed to exceed certain crash levels (again guaranteed through the derivative markets). Oh and never letting the Greek government lie about its borrowing levels.

Just like every other government in Europe has in one way or another. (The UK government uses PFI - they ask private finance to build a hospital and they rent the hosiptal grounds for 30 years. Never mind it is always cheaper in the long run to build your own, is that private debt? Yes according to UK government. But they will never ever stop paying the rent. Or let a hospital provider go bust.)

Its only becoming clear to me how much debt is an addiction to banks.
I'm not the poster, but Hardy is an LTS release that is still supported in server configuration. It's quite a bit newer than Centos/RHEL 5, which is widely deployed on servers (potentially the most popular platform for existing deployments, still).
In case one does not want to spend $29, the free HTML book [1] (currently in beta) is good enough. I have been following along the book, and can vouch for it. It is a great way to learn to code in C.

[1] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/

EDIT: By posting the link to the book, I by no means meant that the videos are redundant. I would love it if more people en-roll for Zed's Udemy course and support him.
I meant last good Symbian phone before they joined WP7. The Pureview 808 just came out. Also the camera for this phone is cutting edge. The S2 processor in Lumia 900 is 2 years old.
I think this viewpoint represents the best example of the triumph of hope over experience.

European history has been littered with examples of bitter and costly wars between nations and states. We (the world) are still resolving the aftermath of the Bosnian conflict.

There are very smart people wringing their hands over the collapse of the EU and the kind of social turmoil that might develop if the economies of these nations fail. The riots we saw in Greece and Italy were just a teaser.

In 2008, when the US was looking at its own financial crisis, one of the items on the minds of the policymakers was the very real prospects of riots in US cities. There were stories of financiers packing up and leaving the country in anticipation of what might happen.

The biggest mistake you can make is to think your country is immune to ruin. History has shown us many times that it comes quickly and with little or no warning.
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Apple is not streaming the keynote this time. There are a number of tech blogs doing live blogs from the event so you can read their text version and see some pictures in real time. Apple usually posts the keynote video on their website later in the day or the next day, it also might be on iTunes later.
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I'd say there's no maybe about it, in terms of raw power. A half-decent phone is more powerful than my high-end laptop of six or seven years ago, which is itself still fairly usable by most people's standards.

The only thing I see even remotely challenging to these devices is the fact that laying out a web page is a legitimately complicated algorithm, which we've secretly been pouring more and more processing power into over the years. Other than that these things have more than enough power for anything most people want today. There's a class of applications coming in the augmented reality domain and such that people will want more power for tomorrow, but they can buy that power tomorrow at tomorrow's price's.
This is a ridiculous statement, there were lots of measures in place to ensure that exactly this did not happen, with huge fines for anyone who tried to overcharge once the changeover happened.
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The preprocessor, and conditional compilation especially, are not something to love about C. That is probably one of C's most hateful, code-goop enabling capabilities.
Can you really see Greece turning its economy around from agriculture and tourism to manufacturing overnight? Not every economy can be a net exporter of technology, that just doesn't add up.

Devaluation makes sense for them because they are indebted, they will devalue their debts and make imports unaffordable.
Isn't this old news?
No, I don't work at Yelp. I don't think I even know anyone who knows anyone who works there or works for their VC investors.

And I'm not saying that a problem doesn't exists: I'm saying that *within the scope of my experience( the complaints about Yelp have been more about owners/managers not wanting to deal with something that sucks about their business.
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Mobile Developer

Location: Malvern PA

Job summary:

Us: The emerging technologies group at FIS; the world’s largest global provider dedicated to banking and payments technologies.

You: Mobile developer, hacker, innovator.

Job: Work with a talented team of architects, U/X engineers and thought leaders to assist with ongoing proof of concepts and research.

General duties and responsibilities:
• Researches, tracks and understands new technologies to provide technical leadership in developing service applications and analyzing business requirements as they pertain to intranet and external Internet-based systems.
• Builds applications
• Provides written design documents, test plans and test results.
• Manages, develops, integrates and implements related applications components, including front-end development,
server-side development and database integration.
• Plays a direct role in programming, maintenance, technical support, documentation and administration of the
applications.
• Establishes and communicates standards to manage cost and ensure continuity of applications.
• Suggests technical alternatives and improves/streamlines processes and systems
• Completes project assignments and special projects commensurate with job expectations
• Conducts planning, analysis and forecasting activities to plan projects and tasks
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline; or equivalent combination of education and experience that is required for the specific job level. Post-graduate education is desired.

ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

EEO/AA Employer

Please contact John Koscielak at john.koscielak@fisglobal.com

414-357-9199

www.fisglobal.com
I partly agree in the sense that if you are using Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Google, etc. for login/authentication then you stand a chance of losing users. You can encourage users to setup multiple login mechanisms, but I bet not many people would take the trouble.

However I thought that Facebook apps can also be standalone web apps with some extra work. Also, It seems safe to use web services for things like MongoDB (mongohq.com), CouchDB (cloudant.com, iriscouch.com), RDF (dydra.com), etc. to power backend services because you can always switch to running this stuff yourself. So, data store platform services seem safe enough, assuming that you trust the vendor.

I am not an entrepreneur (just a happy consultant) but if I did want to start my own business I might use the FB platform, but try to allow alternative access to my business.
Agreed. Not to say there isn't a problem with Yelp's practices (as have been documented elsewhere), but this article does not make a good case against them.

From an algorithmic standpoint, filtering out reviews from new users makes sense. Otherwise you'll get the owner and friends stuffing in good reviews.

Just look at what the data might look like for the 17 people.
-They all sign up in a period of a few weeks.
-They all review this one place and nothing else.
-16 of the 17 never sign back in again.

It's pretty clear that it's a blatant rating stuff, so filter it out. Again, I'm not saying that the algorithm is perfect, but it makes sense to at least filter out these reviews.
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Mobile Developer
Location: Malvern PA

Job summary:

Us: The emerging technologies group at FIS; the world’s largest global provider dedicated to banking and payments technologies.

You: Mobile developer, hacker, innovator.

Job: Work with a talented team of architects, U/X engineers and thought leaders to assist with ongoing proof of concepts and research.

General duties and responsibilities: • Researches, tracks and understands new technologies to provide technical leadership in developing service applications and analyzing business requirements as they pertain to intranet and external Internet-based systems. • Builds applications • Provides written design documents, test plans and test results. • Manages, develops, integrates and implements related applications components, including front-end development, server-side development and database integration. • Plays a direct role in programming, maintenance, technical support, documentation and administration of the applications. • Establishes and communicates standards to manage cost and ensure continuity of applications. • Suggests technical alternatives and improves/streamlines processes and systems • Completes project assignments and special projects commensurate with job expectations • Conducts planning, analysis and forecasting activities to plan projects and tasks • Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline; or equivalent combination of education and experience that is required for the specific job level. Post-graduate education is desired.

ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

EEO/AA Employer

Please contact John Koscielak at john.koscielak@fisglobal.com

414-357-9199

www.fisglobal.com
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I like hearing stories about UX benefit companies' bottom line in the wild.

As designer, all too many times do I give advice and get strongly told - "that's nice, just design it this way.." It's sad because if I don't want to design it, there'll surely be a fresh upstart that'll do it to take my place.
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If the Germans do nothing at this point the Euro collapse will take down their banks as well.

The other incentive as I see it is that this could also be argued as a more politically palatable solution for the ruling party since they have been (rather disingenuously) selling the line that only the Germans were responsible in the run up to the crisis and pulling out of the Euro fits rather neatly into that model of the world. My understanding is that most Germans that support the ruling party see inflation as something that is bad for them and erodes their savings and they link Euro-bonds and Euro QE with that. Bringing back a strong Mark that does not devalue would present a facade of non-inflation since there would be no QE for the Germans and no German-sponsored Euro-bonds but the new Mark would bring actual inflation because the Euro would immediately devalue.

As has been pointed out elsewhere the big problem is that the Germans pulling out of the common currency would be a step backwards in the political union objectives. If you believe that there is even a remote chance of a European war between major powers then this is a bad thing (I do not).

I think it is clear that the better solution is more political union in Europe instead of trying to drag the current arrangement through the crisis as-is. We have unfortunately seen a real rise of an "I got mine jack" voting all over the western world and this crisis is really not being dealt with precisely because that philosophy is tied to the right-wing parties that have risen to power (and are now maybe starting to fall) in Europe.
This article is absurd.

The cost of doing so would be gigantic. Nobody in Europe would want to pay that.

Actually the Euro was introduced to keep Germany under control:

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/historischer-deal-mitt...

Without the Euro the Bundesbank had controlled the most important currency, the Deutsche Mark, alone. Many countries in Europe had been depending on the Deutsche Mark anyway - without being able to influence any decisions.

The Anglo-Saxon press is obsessed with the Euro. I've been reading a lot now over the last years about the Euro - mostly written against it. Article over article predicted its death, often within days or weeks. The Euro is still there.

Instead the articles get more laughable day by day.
Polished software is important. But Nokia has outsourced most of that to Microsoft now. The SGS2 and SGS3 dying in 3-4 hours? What do you mean? Like playing a 3D game? The SGS3 is one of the most battery efficient phones on the market now. Are you saying a WP7 phone can outlast it? In Anandtech's benchmarks I've only seen WP7 phones with mediocre battery life and very poor Sunspider performance. I've seen nothing that shows that overall WP7 phones are more battery efficient than Android so far.
The second part differs from the current situation exactly how?
Sure,

I would think of the phone as your identity... your data, your apps, your storage... That's what makes the difference.

Further, I don't forsee all applications working cross dock.. Some sure, all no.

RE your earlier point on the workplace - The smartphone could always act as a key/SSO type device, and you can only access certain information when docked in a certain environment, within a VPN, etc.

Basically this thing becomes your identity.. if you lose it, yep you're SOL. Thank god for remote wipe? With hardware becoming cheaper as you say, and cloud storage, get a new one, sync and go on your way.

I agree with your point on redundancy until you want an ipod/camera/phone/mobile apps... You're already carrying it around... why not make laptops/desktops/tablets a hollow extension of the computer in your pocket?

I don't think it's about the hardware as much as the interactive storage, the effort that goes into maintaining your data, apps, life... the things iCloud and dropbox try to solve, and while they can still serve their purpose aren't quite right in terms of a truly portable lifestyle.
C is not good at web development? Most of the "web" stack is written in C: OS/NGINX/apache/php/java/perl.
If you do write the top of the stack in C, it will run faster than anything else and be smaller. This means lower turnaround time which is VERY IMPORTANT in web apps. C, in many cases, is the best Web language.
The driving force here is that the phone does need to be capable of being an independent computing unit, so that tends to force things onto the phone. A new GPU and CPU etc may be nice, but for most people won't be necessary, and I suspect your average clamshell simply won't have it. I think the general case will be dumb clamshell with nothing but peripherals, USB ports, and a battery. The alternative is significantly more expensive, yet brings the average user no benefit. (Possibly negative if its less reliable.)

A clamshell that does have everything in it will simply be a laptop, and laptops will continue to outclass phones in raw performance for a good long time. (The presence of additional, usable volume will continue to be an advantage for a good long time yet, and by volume I mean literally three-dimensional space.)
are all focused on faith, not wealth

How can you assert something like that? It's really quite preposterous.

All religious organizations have a strong need to fundraise in order to continue to exist. Many churches I've visited are lined around the entire periphery with money receptacles that have candles on top. You pay a donation and then you may light a candle and access God, etc.

The idea that faith motivates anyone (from clergy members to suicide bombers) is absurd. No matter how religious a person is, it's well known that faith is a goal and not a reality. Humans suffer from tremendous doubt. Angels, on the other hand, are faith robots which do not doubt... which is a consequence of their lack of free will.

Humans are mostly the same. A sampling of San Francisco residents is likely to be just as prejudiced as a sampling of Alabama residents. Similarly, a sampling of Scientologists are just as likely to be corrupt as Catholics or Buddhists.

As an even more general rule, all organizations tend toward corruption. What prevents corruption is not the virtue of individual members but things like transparency, competition, accountability, focus on results, etc.

Religious organizations (and to a lesser extent political and corporate ones) have evolved and continue to evolve clever ways to avoid accountability, to avoid transparency, etc. Secular organizations suffer a big comparative disadvantage in that the results they claim to have delivered are typically expected to be observable by humans.
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Thank you for this, love movies.io, though how do you add movies to 'watch lists'? I signed up and found I could change a lists name but could never find any way to add movies to this list.

The trailer feature is cool, but in order to close the trailer requires clicking the link again. It'd be cool if we could also press escape or click on the backdrop area to close it.
Most German citizens would be very happy to get rid of the Euro, but the ruling parties refuse to have democratic elections of this question. What we are seeing is democracy being eroded away under the banner of European unification.
Wait four years.
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And such undemocratic machinations are a really good reason to abolish the Euro. Or don't you like democracy?
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Except the riots. But that might happen regardless.
> Germany’s strong exports are being bought by all European countries which some argue is the cause of the rest of Europe’s unemployment and fiscal problems. Us in the USA like to think it is because of bloated entitlement programs, which very well could be the major cause or a contributing factor, but it is at least plausible that the absolute real cause is Germany’s strong industrial position combined with their ability to export to the rest of Europe.

I seem to remember reading an article around 2007 or so (anyway, before the shit started hitting the fan) about how the German employees' real wages had been practically stagnant in the previous decade, and about how the employers' association had basically told the unions that "it's either you keep your wage demands in check or the jobs will move to Eastern Europe". It seems to have had worked, if only for the fact that the German consumers weren't as easy going with their money.
To me, the phones primary purpose in this scenario is to maintain state.

I can be working at home and instantly sleep my "phone-computer", slip it in my pocket and then resume right where I left off when I arrive at work by re-docking it.
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Your comment may have gone over better if you included specific examples. For one, here's a story about Lisping at the Jet Propulsion Lab: http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
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Does anyone know what is happening with AeroFS? I got into the beta (or alpha?) and things seem to continue to work but the company has been extremely silent. Just wondering if this is a dead-end or not.
Before you have had any children, does the calculation include your love for your children? They don't exist yet and might never exist, so I can't see how a decision can be founded on love for them, before they exist. After they exist is another issue.
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Interesting that there was no mention of Dean Kamen's "slingshot"

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/colbert-and-kam/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/04/04/big-problem...
Yelp specifically mentions that this would lead to blacklisting of comments in their help, for the reasons of resulting bias (you only ask customers who are happy, you might provide a discount or preferential treatment etc).
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Germany may have profited from the spending sprees of the southern nation, but it did not directly cause the problem. Lack of discipline is what caused the crisis. Germany passed difficult structural reforms in the 2000s and is now reaping the rewards, whilst the southern nations abused the availability of cheap money. Germany reformed and invested, whilst the southern nations didn't! And it is not like Germany was just sitting by doing nothing... That money going to Greece and Spain is coming from somewhere! German politicians are very hard at work keeping the German population from revolting about so much money being "transferred"!

My personal opinion is that the correct way is austerity, but not like it is being forced unto Greece at the moment. The greek economy is in shatters as is, the current austerity measures are not helping. I think the solution is that Germany should lend Greece way more money than currently so that they can build up their economy, whilst enforcing structural and governmental reform (ex: taxes must be collected, bureaucrats fired, etc)... Finally the money should be paid back over the next 40 years, as the economy recovers.