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A little about Grouper Social Club

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We actually improve lives.

We want to help people connect to what really matters in life: spending quality time with friends, old and new. After all, you need stories to take Instagram photos of :)

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We actually make money.

Grouper has what economic historians like to a call a "business model." This gives us leverage to do what we want. We've also raised funding from some of the best investors in the world to help us grow even faster.

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We solve hard problems.

Getting people together offline is a hard problem. Matching algorithms, logistics optimizations, customer service AI, a real-time CRM. Web scale is boring. Offline scale is uncharted terrain.

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We have more fun.

Grouper is about having fun and making life more interesting. And we practice what we preach. We all go on Groupers, have epic happy hours and events, and generally enjoy the real world. After all, that is what we're all about.

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Who are you?

You're a senior developer with a track record of shipping excellent products. You're comfortable hosting a brown bag tech talk. You're a fearless explorer - If there's something you don't know how to do, you'll figure out the lowest cost path to understanding it.

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If this sounds up your alley, send your github profile and an example of something you've built to hackers@joingrouper.com and we'll drop you a line.
Make that two laptops then, a billion each.
Economically no.

But scrounging poors are literally dying on their feet, so I'm guessing that's seen as a win.

Hyperbolic? Maybe a little. But I currently live in a country where people are dropping dead after failing "medical" tests for incapacity benefit and being told to get a job.

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2012/04/32-die-a-we...

It's fucking disgraceful.
If you havn't already read it, "From Dictatorship to Democracy" supports some of your points.

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf
Suspected security hole found in many Samsung devices
It could also turn into a price war at that point.
Identifying IP address of filtering devices in the Great Firewall of China
" As noted by his former pupil and collaborator André Deprit, Lemaître was one of the inventors of the modern Fast Fourier Transform technique.

Lemaître was well ahead on his time regarding machine computing. As early as the thirties at MIT, he used the machine perfected by Bush to solve the Störmer problem. "

source : http://www.uclouvain.be/en-316446.html
Ford paid workers more because he had to to get them to work on the boring assembly line. He did not pay them more so they could buy his products - that's not a viable business plan.
Father of the Big Bang p.s. FFT
Could somebody explain the "HTML5 game engine for mobile, desktop and beyond" part? Is it because it's HTML5, and will therefore work wherever a HTML5 supporting browser will work, or is there something more to make it "desktop" friendly?
Apparently, a fix has already been released, by a 3rd party developer. Site however is currently offline: http://project-voodoo.org/articles/instant-fix-app-for-exyno...
I'd recommend you to try KanbanTool http://kanbantool.com . This application will help you to gain at-a-glance visibility of your workflow and to efficiently manage tasks (using card colors, priorities, due-dates, file attachments, comments and to-do-lists). KanbanTool provides also useful features that empower team collaboration (advanced account access privileges and sharing options, adding tasks or comments via email as well as email notifications for task assignments and comments).
Another revolution that worked: the velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia - non-violent, no guns. And another: the Egyptian revolution last year. Or the 2003 revolution in Georgia. Or 2005 in Kyrgyzstan, and I could go on.

All successful, all non-violent, all more recent than the American Revolution.

Seriously, if you think you need guns to defend yourself, you're basically saying you live in a state which has failed worse than communist era Czechoslovakia or Egypt under an effective dictatorship.
Automatic vs semi-automatics is brought up frequently. The simple fact is that for killing a bunch of people in an enclosed space a semi-automatic is the 'right' kind of weapon, full-auto would actually be a lot less efficient. You'd run through your ammo quicker and you'd put many rounds into the walls and the ceiling.
Grouper Social Club is hiring a senior developer
Grouper is a social club that sets up drinks between two groups of friends: Three guys and three girls.

www.joingrouper.com

Why Grouper?

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We actually improve lives.

We want to help people connect to what really matters in life: spending quality time with friends, old and new. After all, you need stories to take Instagram photos of :)

*

We actually make money.

Grouper has what economic historians like to a call a "business model." This gives us leverage to do what we want. We've also raised funding from some of the best investors in the world to help us grow even faster.

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We solve hard problems.

Getting people together offline is a hard problem. Matching algorithms, logistics optimizations, customer service AI, a real-time CRM. Web scale is boring. Offline scale is uncharted terrain.

*

We have more fun.

Grouper is about having fun and making life more interesting. And we practice what we preach. We all go on Groupers, have epic happy hours and events, and generally enjoy the real world. After all, that is what we're all about.

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Who are you?

You're a senior developer with a track record of shipping excellent products. You're comfortable hosting a brown bag tech talk. You're a fearless explorer - If there's something you don't know how to do, you'll figure out the lowest cost path to understanding it. You're an expert in at least two of the following ruby, coffeescript, python, objective-C.

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If this sounds like you, send your github profile and an example of something you've built to hackers@joingrouper.com and we'll drop you a line.
Samsung Exynos kernel exploit offer Root without Flashing
> The same goes for high powered fully automatic military style rifles. Zero use for hunting an animal, perfectly tailored for hunting humans. That's disturbing to me, and I wouldn't want to live in a society that vehemently fights for the right to bear these arms.
> hey look ma I bought a M16 from Walmart today hur hur

It's a sad thing that your opinion will soon be discredited on the basis that you do not know the fact that automatic weapons are much more strictly controlled in the US, and that they are very rarely used by criminals.

I also live in a country with a strict gun control (to get a gun, apart from a plausible reason to own one, doing an expensive course on gun usage and safety, tons of paperwork, psychological tests and similar stuff, you also need to have one of the 16 county sheriffs to approve, and they usually don't). The result is 20 homicides using guns last year, in the country of 40 million. Recently I was having a lunch in a bar, during which two policemen entered the bar, also for a lunch. I have seen their guns at their belts, and it made me feel just as uneasy as when taking night bus home, with drunk people shouting insults at each other, even though I knew that they would only use guns to protect me.
I thought the same at first, but pressing the right arrow on my keyboard moves to the next "slide".
God Bless Texas!
> We do not sell automatic weapons without a whoooole lot
> of paperwork and money

Availability of money has zero bearing on mental health and fitness to carry a weapon, so that criterion goes right out the window. What kind of paperwork is required? Does it entail thorough background checks etc.?

Erecting barriers isn't sufficient; we need the appropriate type of barrier.
> Any tips from anyone here for making people feel more inclined to ask questions?

Become more of an asshole.

There are probably more eloquent ways of phrasing that, but I want something that will stick in your mind when you're actually on the spot, and that works.

The idea here is to stop caring quite so much about what others want and what others will think of you.

If you constantly worry that you're interrupting the flow and that you'll be bogging everyone else down, don't. Embrace the asshole side of you to ask the question and damn the consequences.

If you worry that the people around you will think you're dense, fuck them. They don't have the first clue about you, and you're in that class for you, not for them.
Investment? It is all current spending basically. Not sure how to measure the return on that.
I Know Who You are. What your Browser Can Reveal About Yourself
I have no problem with the military and police having access to weapons. They are (or should be) highly trained, Psych tested and they work within a regulated, highly structured, hierarchical organisation. All of this serves to keep the wanton violence (almost completely) in check.

The issue arises when every schmoe off the street can go in and purchase a fully automatic, purpose built people killing machine.

I also don't buy the people vs. the government scenario you allude to. Could you really picture a reality where a group of citizens could overthrow the US government just because they had some AK47s?

In the event of run-away government, a far more rational and realistic scenario would be for mass protests that essentially halt the economy over night. There are countless examples of almost completely bloodless revolutions happening in exactly this manner (Polish Solidarnosc and more recently Egypt during the Arab Spring immediately come to mind). The alternative is a bloody coup which usually ends in civil war or military dictatorship.
The 2nd amendment: 1791. The first practical automatic repeat firing weapons didn't show up until almost 100 years later and they still required a crew to operate. There was a touch of progress in that first 100 years.

I'm going to go ahead and make the weak point that bombings, poisonings, and sabotage are a slightly different animal than purpose build firearms and would likely be treated differently in the law. There is a huge element of luck to those attacks.

The crux of it is, that rampages last 5 to 10 minutes. This is probably going to be true whether the first responders are armed citizens or police. We're going to have to decide how many people we're going to allow a private citizen the capability of killing in that time. We're going to have to very explicitly choose or technology will choose "a whole damn lot" for us by default.

I'm thinking your point just indicates that we should have started addressing this long about the time Swing was King.
The crucial difference is not the one about printing money. In a country of sufficient size, most of the economic activity is exchange within the country. This is not true of a family, so the math is not the same. In the case of a country, it becomes recursive and difficult to understand, hence all the arguments.
There are three interesting blog posts in this one. I would suggest the titles

3D Printing @ home

3D Printing @ labs

3D Printing @ Star Trek

( Furthermore I think a symbol for 3D printing should be invented. The @ is slightly too 90s.)
Robots and materials and a few technical staff to run an automated factory all cost money. That money is only spent when there is an expectation of return. That return comes from selling the output of the factory. Nobody will pay others to consume. The typical person is dependent on a job and if unemployment is bad, they'll scrape. Ford won't rescue them.
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
This is very correct.

In many developing countries, there is no option to work harder, get another job, or work at all. The opportunities just do not exist, and the cycle perpetuates. This is why the New Deal was so necessary, it was a jumpstart to the economy by getting people back to work anyway possible.
Http://www.theredpin.com/blog/canada/anonymous-hacker-toronto
Dropbox's answer to conflicts is dumping a lot of copies of the files, appending "([user]'s Conflicted Copy)" to the filename.

https://www.dropbox.com/help/36/en
I do agree these two are different situations. However I would think banning firearms in the states would be next to impossible, given how widespread firearms are, and the strength of the weapon makers in lobbying the congress. Instead, I would say having teachers trained in shooting and equipping firearms in schools for emergency access could be easier to realize (compared to outlawing firearms). I kept wondering if the teachers were armed, would the death toll be any lesser?
"when he was Chancellor he did pretty well"

Most of the economic mess in the UK (particularly inflated public sector salaries) was done on his watch as Chancellor.
There is an important difference between the Federal Reserve and other central banks which is that the Federal Reserve is privately owned by the banks, whereas in other countries it's owned by the people. Ultimately then, the Federal Reserve is more incentivized to maintain the system than in other countries. One day this may be important.
This is more like, you go on an austerity program which also includes your train ticket to work. So you are spending less money but there's no money available to generate more - because you are not working you are not generating money and so your debts are increasing.
Interestingly, the US Treasury has resisted calls for larger denominated notes precisely because of criminal concerns. Cops don't want criminal organizations to be able to carry more than a million or two in a suitcase.
I like that you didn't list backing up data as a bullet point. I really think SCM is terrible for backing up data, but it often gets listed as an advantage. Forget to add a file or ignore the wrong one, and it's gone. (Though of course the internet is quick to blame it on the user)
Split PDF files using Saaspose.PDF REST API
During WWII, we in the US were spending far above our means and there was widespread rationing. Yes, that is austerity.

The question is who will live more austerely for the sake of whose pocketbook, and what they will be made to give up.
OT: seconded. If anyone knows of a way to commit to a "staging" repository, then bundle my broken wip commits to the main repository, I'd love to know.

I'd like to keep the main repo clean with one commit per feature/bugfix, but still be able to commit regularly and walk back/bisect changes whilst working on the feature.
So basically we're going to repair the damage by effectively choking our economy by reducing spending everywhere? Fantastic.

I am from the UK and knowing many public sector workers, disabled people, women, people searching for jobs, and working class, I wholeheartedly think George Osbourne can go fuck himself. Ain't it weird that the supporters of his monstrous plan are those who are not affected by it in the least?
> I kept wondering if the teachers were armed, would the death toll be any lesser?

No, the total will be higher.

From all those cases where right now there is no weapon a weapon, so no incident at least one suddenly becomes available. The number of incidents would go up, but in case of an incident the death toll would go down.
Somewhere in the middle. Ford was a bit more than just a focused capitalist. He had a product that few could afford, and saw a future of new consumers. He also needed work done in his factory, and saw an opportunity to do some social engineering and set an example...and it worked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordism
Radio interference - Phones up in the air
What to do if you have a Great Business Idea
>A lot of the fear-mongering about the PATRIOT Act that was waved around in 2001 just hasn't come to pass

What? The PATRIOT act has almost exclusively been used for non-terrorist cases. I.e. we were lied to about what it was for. And if you think how Gitmo has been used "wasn't that bad" I'd like to know what would need to happen for you to think it actually was bad.
Great idea d0ne. I hope you do understand, that what the boys in Washington hate most, are people thinking they have rights and taking actions to protect them. If this gets any coverage, don't be surprised by the pressure to give up (tax audits, no-flight list, credit ratings).
The difference is marketing, a form of psychological manipulation. Given that value is a relative term, it can be created out of thin air. Even the more intelligent of humanity is not immune to these manipulations:

http://www.formalifesciencemarketing.com/newsletters/scienti...

It's a wonder how this society allows itself to be manipulated in the name of others' profit.
A better example of the flaw in GDP is the smashed window paradox: if a thug breaks a shop window the owner of the window will have to fix it, paying a tradesman. That cost gets included in GDP but it's not really meaningful increase in society's value.
> The idea that we'll all have 3d printers in our home is possibly a bit silly.

I have a 3d printer at home, or at least a half-assembled one :) You can get one for yourself at http://reprappro.com/ . The smaller one is only around $669.
Less vulnerable, but now my camera doesn't work. Is there any way to fix that besides waiting for the official update?
In one way or another, its' "value" represents its value to some people.
Okay, we both write a poem and sell it to each other for a billion dollars. How's that? Or if you want something more physical, we both make an ash-tray by scraping a groove in a lump of wood and sell those to each other for a billion each.
He was making a valid analogy: both events satisfied your requirements. Where do you draw the line? What is the differentiating factor between them?
>such mass murders are simply the price of the freedom to have guns.

This is absolutely not true. There are plenty of places with standing armies (i.e. pretty much all eligible males have guns in their homes) and don't have anything remotely like the gun murder rate of the US.

Micheal Moore made "Bowling for Columbine" to prove that the reason for the violence was guns themselves. By the end of the his movie, he didn't seem to believe it anymore himself.
There are some great images showing off the end result. Quite like the logo.

However, the text styling looks awful. I can't read any of it. Unfortunately, that makes it unusable for me, the entire process becomes trial and error
UFC-158: Georges St. Pierre's Elephant in the Room at Tri-Star Gym
As I mentioned, I'm from Australia, so if I misrepresented anything about the US then I'm happy to be corrected.

In my original post I described an exaggerated caricature of gun ownership. The point still stands though: that any private citizen (regardless of the amount of paper work they filled out) can choose to sleep with an assault rifle (or shotgun or semi-auto pistol etc.etc.) under their pillow at night is rather .... disturbing.
These are not source modules I'm talking about. If it was only necessary to set $GOPATH to point to source modules then everything would be fine. The problem is that go requires that $GOPATH points to a project's source tree to be able to build it, if the project is organized to store other go source files in subdirectories. We aren't talking about packages or modules intended to be reused in other programs. We are talking about how source code trees are organized.
It isn't misleading! You're the one being misleading by claiming we need to cook the data to come up with the result you want to have instead of the reality of the situation.
Here's a real world example of Version Control saving thousands of dollars of developer time. From three days ago:

Text is rendering blurry in the thing I'm building. It used to look nice and crisp, but now its as though it's all nudged half a pixel off the grid. It looks terrible. And I don't remember having touched the text rendering stuff or the vector code recently. wtf?

So I pull up the change log for the project and it gives me a giant list of everything that has ever been done on it back to version one where it was nothing but "test.html" moving a yellow box around the screen in time to an audio track. I grab a version from a few weeks back, 50 checkins ago, and click "update to this version". Reload the project in a new tab and sure enough: beautiful crisp text. Tab over to the current version: blurry blurriness.

So it's on. Jump forward to yesterday: still bad. 2 weeks ago: good. 1 week ago: bad, and so on. Until I'm looking at one checkin that definitely contains change that broke this. As luck would have it, it was a big one, so I get to try individually updating each file in turn. And since the culprit is nowhere near touching either text rendering or vector stuff, I get to go line by line on it until in disbelief I find the single "if" statement that's been flipped to a configuration that allows opacity animations to occasionally get left at 0.9997 instead of locking them at 1.0.

And we're fixed. In ten minutes.

Now I can honestly say that I don't think I would have found the cause of this bug without version control. All the places I would have thought to look were innocent, and the most innocuous thing in the world turned out to be the culprit. With nothing but tarballs and hand-renamed folders I would have been completely screwed. Not just more time to fix this, but several orders of magnitude more time. And most likely we would have simply resigned ourselves to ship with blurry text and kept an issue in the tracker about it for years.

Now, in case you missed it, this happened to me three days ago. It's not some isolated instance I heard about once. Version Control saves you like this on a daily basis.

If you see a software company that's currently in business and shipping software, I'd say you can use that as empirical evidence of the value of version control.
Which is irrelevant
You can do this with git and squashed commmits, but while it seems like a good idea, it's really not - when you're bug-hunting, smaller single-change commits make it far, far easier to track down and kill the bug. Having to crawl through a 3000-line squashed commit to find where a bug was introduced is awful.

A better workflow is to use feature branches to work on a feature, when when you're done with it, rebase and merge it back to master and create a tag for the feature. This gives you an easy timeline of what features or fixes were introduced when, lets you commit often without breaking master, and doesn't destroy your valuable commit history.
> governments are immortal and can print their own money

The part with governments "can print their own money" is actually incorrect for many European countries. That is the main problem for the PIIGs right now.
Amazon invents airbag for smartphones
The end of year startup checklist
More likely is that it'll do both-- there'll be cheap Chinese smartphones that compete feature-for-feature with much higher-quality products, some of which might be heirloom quality.
So, when faced with criticism mentioned in the blog post and referred to in a post, instead of thinking about it you mindlessly insult others and say absolutely nothing about what has been said. Who exactly is the troll here?
Nullable types? I thought that was one of the bad things about C#. I asked Anders Hejlsberg about it when he was in the country, and he said if he could go back, he would remove nullable types from C#.
Um. All money is imaginary. Money is money if we both agree that it is money.

So I don't really know what you mean by switching away from imaginary money. That's not actually possible to do. I guess you could go with the resource-based economy guys, but that's not actually money anymore.