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Thanks for the response. Given it's going to the JVM I should have been more prepared for verbosity. I did a bit more reading and with your suggestions it seems my initial reaction is mostly just shock of a change from what I'm used to. I'll do some more research and will probably mellow out a bit :) Any suggestions on ebooks or otherwise to get started? Cheers!
I will have to pay a lot in taxes this year. Still need to do them... For health insurance I have a high deductible plan that comes out to about $280 a month for my wife, son, and I. We also keep about $5k (and growing) in a medical savings account to meet the deductible.
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More like, without them you will likely reinvent (badly) some subset of HTML+CSS+JavaScript.

The problem is that you want to organize the content of the document (HTML+DOM) with annotations and whatnot, and then style it to look pretty or position it just-so (CSS), and then finally maybe add some goofy runtime logic or updating (Javascript).

We've got tools that have evolved already to solve these three problems, so why not use them? One of the happiest days in my life was getting to do UI development on the web instead of an AWT/SWT/Swing behemoth (CAD software in Java) or really clean but subgreat visualization/menu framework (C with OpenGL, C++ with rendering interface, various other toolkits over time).
>> What I'm more interested in is why the most passionate defenders of the second amendment never seem interested in government power grabs like this. Isn't the reason for the 2nd amendment to keep expansive government in check

That is the party-line.

However, if you study American history, you'll see that this 2nd amendment propaganda doesn't square up with reality.

The only times guns were seriously used in an anti-federal-government uprising was during the civil war - but that was armed rebellion by the state "governments" and it was a war to defend the right to slavery. (yes, I know that some people describe it as the "war of northern aggression")

MLK talked about the long arc of history bending towards justice and that has undoubtedly been true in America. Today, native Americans cannot be massacred or driven into reservations, blacks cannot be enslaved to work in plantations, women have the right to vote and many more rights that were denied to them in previous centuries, gays have the right to not be arrested for being gay, Japanese-Americans have the right to not be arrested solely based on their ethnicity etc.

In all of these cases, freedom has expanded far beyond what America had in previous centuries. However, I think it is safe to assert that the 2nd amendment was absolutely irrelevant (in any positive way) in the expansion of any of these freedoms.
This is such an amazing coincidence. I stopped reading Pando articles. It wasn't a conscious boycott. It just happened after reading a few articles and seeing little to no value in exchange for the time reading each one.
Success is not relative. 200k to a mechanic is just as valuable as 200k to a consultant. What is your point?
The interface for iPhone and a lot of iPad apps would not benefit from a stylus. Buttons are huge. That Samsung device has teeny tiny buttons which requires a stylus. There are only two things I think that can benefit from a stylus and that is handwriting (do we really need to do this? It's slower, harder to read, and very constrained on a small device) and drawing (probably only necessary on iPad). Styluses also require you to hold the device in a new way. No more one handed use. You have to hold the device flat on a surface or in the palm of your secondary hand while you use this stylus in your dominant hand to point. Also, unlike a pencil or pen on paper, the small screen will not allow you to rest the side of your hand on a surface. I can't imagine how tiring it will be to keep your hand in this position for more than a few moments. I think you're mistaking something being different and temporarily fun to explore from something actually being better.
It's not technical, the only podcast I listen to is: WTF with Marc Maron - http://www.wtfpod.com/ - he's a comedian who usually interviews comedians and they can go pretty deep sometimes
I wonder if the author did any research or reflection into the supply chain of the local shops he so self-ingratiatingly now espouses. Does he know for sure that the books he special orders from inside of a building other than his home don't just, you know, come from Amazon?
Your story is unrealistic as the teenager would quite easily be able to acquire CS2 for home use, either through the heavily discounted student version or, I suppose, simply by pirating it.

Anyway, GIMP is seriously limited when compared to the feature set of Photoshop. It makes no sense for him to kickstart a design career using inferior software, just because it happens to be open sourced.
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>I meant that everything was per capita, sorry for being unclear there. As in: kill two million people as part of genocide and it's worse than having two million slaves.

OK, got it now. In that case, European colonialism has killed far more people than Hitler's camps. Heck, the death toll for the native populations of the Americas alone is in the tens of millions. And execution, mass killins, genocide and starvation was not at all of the table for colonial powers either. Here's an example: http://www.thehobgoblin.co.uk/journal/h32002_RC_Leopold.htm

>Also I don't know why you're acting like giving more examples of evil acts is going to make me decide the word evil is useless.

What I said is that "evil" is useless in the sense that it doesn't have any explanatory power. That is, "Why did he do that? Because he was evil" is BS.

Perhaps this book might convince you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem

In it Hannah Arendt describes how what we perceive as "the great evils in history" like the Holocaust, were not executed by "evil" people (fanatics, etc), but by ordinary folks who "accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal".

So, even some of the greatest of evils, like the Holocaust, can be explained by observing their underlying mechanisms, the societal pressure, ideology and such, and not by some mystical "evil" quality in people.

In the same vein there is the Milgram experiment, which showed how anyone can be a torturer without having any "evil" quality in them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Is it some time yet? :)
My point still stands. Why would a government need to modify the source code of Windows or Office? Any customisations or modifications to the stock install would be done by reconfiguring parts of it using the standard tools, or by writing (or purchasing) additional software.
What do you think about the new regulations concerning app developers in California? It seems to be enforcing more of a penalty than the usual issue of badly implemented EULA/TOU?
Salute to your efforts and I see a lot of commitment there. Would request you to add these posts in your post as well. Will help people directly coming over there. !!

Once again congrats.
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A powerful programming language here could be assembly or Lisp--that hardly makes it a good tool to use to do the things we expect for making user interfaces.

Simple declarative DSLs (such as CSS) are head-and-shoulders above a general-purpose programming language, especially in a situation where logic is not really needed or required. CSS, fugly though it can be, very neatly and thoroughly solves the issue of "How do I style this content?" without adding the complexity of a programming language.

Not all things want to be programmable and flexible.
Being an 11th grader I can honestly say this is bizarre since I associate so well with both Josh and his sister at the same time. Kids use social media differently than the middle-aged.
How did you handle health insurance?
>See also the people who passionately defend the right of two consenting adults to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own bedroom, but then object if I want to pay someone $2 an hour to clean the bedroom

While I agree with your general point about tribalism, this particular example is pretty silly -- you have to pretend to take the idiom literally for it to make sense.
Josh doesn't imply otherwise.

He is explicit that this post represents reflections on a conversation he had with his sister; it is indeed anecdotal.
The fact that Patrick wrote these sorts of posts even when his results weren't particularly great indicates to me that he's not writing these posts out of a desire to "flaunt" his success.
> That's called an opinion, not the truth. And in this case it is a misguided opinion.

Excuse my style of expression.

> Attitudes like yours directly result in mass pollution, overfishing, enslavement - direct or indirect and so on.

How so?

> Profits aren't holy, and the so called efficient market model isn't. It only works for a subset of problems and quite possibly not optimal at that, especially when looking over the longer term. Do we pollute this river and kill all the fish or do we spend an extra half million to scrub the exhaust. That's an easy decision when translated into money, if you're not looking at that river as anything but an exhaust it is an absolute no-brainer.

Whoah cowboy. You are accusing me of things I detest, all of them. I assume two concepts in all of my writing in this topic.

1. The institution of Corporation is concerned only with gaining profit for its shareholders. In accordance to the law. Now while I believe that it is in the best interest of the companies and their shareholders to do stuff the right way in the most idealistic sense. However none of that is built into the institution of Corporation.

2. First, that every sovereign nation has institutions that get to say how shit gets done here. And second that every sovereign nation by definition wants to say which institutions it observes and which it doesn't.

Many people do not know how third world works. Mostly people do not care at all. They want their bribe and they want to feel important. That is the way they do business and that is the way they want to do business. Until they wont.

Corporations are not helping, that is true. However megacorps are not the ones called to make third world institutions. The third world people are the ones who are called to do it.

Blaming corporations for everything is not helping out in my opinion. Its people's fault, hiding behind faceless institutions, yes. But still people's fault.

The issue you have with megacorps is that they are extra sovereign and that indeed is a problem. However multi national megacorp is an extremely new phenomena and will probably take a while to get properly solved.
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These are the problems you want to have.
Honestly, reading this the only thing I wish is to have been at 29c3 when whoever made the creeper card image did that so I could give them a piece of mind.

I wonder if we couldn't have some sort of allies/mentoring system for people (of either sex) who are confident/connected that are volunteering to be around if someone's having issues - just as a fall-back. I mean ideally it'd be great if every woman had the confidence to chew out creepy fucks, but they shouldn't have to. It's definitely something I'd be cool with doing if it enabled more women to be able to attend conferences and have confidence.
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Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
A government might want to check that the blob isn't opening access to closed networks; or secretly collecting data somewhere; or secretly adding hidden meta data to documents.
>"evil" isn't an explanation, it's a label given in disgust to someone that is beyond redemption.

I've seen it far too many times used as an explanation thought. Like, somehow, WWII can be explained away because "Hitler was evil", or complex events involving millions of people, like the USSR History can be explained by the "evil of Stalin".

(Lots of times "paranoid" is used in the same vein, despite having an actual medical meaning).

>To focus on something smaller and simpler, I would say that most serial killers, as in separate premeditated incidents over an extended period, are "evil".

What I take offense with is the way this puts all the blame in the persons itself (which might be abused in childhood, mentally ill, etc), and acts as a pseudo-explanation which justifies medieval punishments like the death penalty (after all, if one is "evil", what can you do? Just kill that "evil" guy).

I'm OK with using it as a label, as you say, but most people don't stop there -- they believe in the label's actual exegetical power.
Congrats, succeeding on your own terms is what it's all about. Thank you for sharing your story, we need more of this and less of "hot new shiny mobile-social-blah raises 69 million, hires XYZ hotshot and fires ABC hotshot."
> As soon as you start having constraints such as "from date must be before to date" and "the quote must have at least one line, and these lines should sum to > 0 and < 1000000" then relational modelling fails. Hard.

Those types of requirements rarely have a big impact on the design. Sure, you might have to write some procedural code in a trigger, but that's just a handful of lines of code. (I don't know why you think the "from_date < to_date" is a difficult requirement though -- as someone else pointed out, that's just a CHECK constraint).

Relational modelling is often a very clean, concise, and readable way to represent many kinds of businesses. You can pile a few extra requirements on top, and a good DBMS will make it easy to do so.

So I don't see a "hard failure" of anything here.
Wouldn't it be good to figure this out before claiming to have doubled your salary? When you have a W-2 job, your employer pays a lot of taxes that are not included in your salary. When you switch to 1099 or self-employment, you now have to pay those taxes yourself.
I assume there are a number of these, this is my version (written in python instead of java):
https://github.com/scommab/impressor

Not surprisingly I like mine better, since you (in theory) shouldn't need to write any code, just create a markdown file a correctly formatted file.
Unfortunately...Humanity is furthering its technology for both it's survival, and its ultimate destruction. We are but a few years from seeing the truth behind the potential of autonomous robotics, machine-learning, and artificial intelligence.

At that point, humanity will play very little role in the evolution of technology.

:-\
> "Try taking a screenshot, scribble some notes on that, and email it."

This only matters if such a multi-step flow is a large human need. I'm not sure it is.
Flaunting isn't necessarily a conscious act. He may have good intention, but the very fact that he is listing his inordinately large income is going to make a lot of people envious of him or dejected by their own meager success.
"Does that mean keyboards will be the next hot accessory?"

Errr.... yes? I assume you meant that as some sort of bizarre out-there statement that was obviously wrong, but I don't think it is. I'm seeing more of the keyboard covers in my local iPad users set and I doubt they are going to be an aberration for long.
I'd like to optimise my images. (The images on my website.) I looked at https://github.com/imageoptimiser but didn't see which tool would do that, or any way to contact the author. Is there an image optimisation tool in there somewhere?
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So I'll step up and be "that guy" who points out they accept Bitcoin donations. 1BTC sent.
Doh, you are correct. I had that piece of info reversed. Thanks for clarifying.
Now that we've debunked the claim that Krugman's assertion is "literally" false

No, its literally false. You haven't "debunked" anything.

Honestly, if you don't understand any of this I cannot help you, further.
I have to point out that most of his income came from the ebooks. His income from consulting and apps came in less than the job he left. Self help has always sold very well the last three decades.

I 'believe' that many who come here and quit their day jobs are usually doing it for _startups_ and/or _app dreams_.

Nathan is working hard, doing as many things possible. Not many people can do this (unless/until they reach some desperation factor which makes one realizes the need to _hustle_ and get stuff done).

Bottom line, it's hard work and all sweat. Of course, knowing what industry sells and finding what niche your skills fit in work too.
>Point is, if one is not willing to do whatever it takes, he probably doesn't really want to do the said thing, but rather tries to live up to social expectations.

Well, not wanting to, say, sacrifice your loved ones for something or play dirty to get it, doesn't mean you don't want it. It just means you are a moral guy, instead of a ruthless jerk.

I want a new car, but I'm not willing to steal to buy one --even if I have some scheme by which I would not get caught. I'd rather work and find my way to pay for it. That doesn't mean I don't want it.
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point 2 is the most important one in the long term - once your initial sources run dry, you need to find new clients/customers. this breaks a lot of freelancing careers, have seen this time and time again in my circle of friends.

going solo means you not only spend time on building/creating stuff but also devoting time on building up a pipeline of work - which is initially a lot of unpaid work.

good luck to you nathan!
I thought a lot of malware on android was distributed directly from the store rather than sideloaded?

If you are going to sell software to people then you certainly have some responsibility not to provide dangerous goods.
I think that's what jevinskie was implying, as in this is a non issue since service hooks are already established so there is no reason bots should be allowed, they should plug into the correct API.
That's certainly helpful but there's no doubt that someone would use a GitBot for nefarious purposes disguised as something useful.

Either they insert something in your pictures that you don't realize is there, or just good ol' spam (like Travis4all), or a backdoor that looks like a fix…
Curious - all of our parents' preferred methods of communication cost money...letters, long distance phone calls, mobile phone calls. All of Josh's sister's (and her peer sets) methods of communication cost nothing (Instagram, Facebook, Kik, Twitter, Tumblr). Just an observation. Implications of this? Will companies one day pay us to talk to each other?!

Separately - isn't Skype basically Facetime over 3G/4G (and not just wi-fi)? What is Skype lacking here?
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Love this article - your transparency is commendable. Thanks for sharing the numbers, it's something I wish more people did.
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Well, it depends on the software. If we're talking about Windows and Office, they're very high quality, standard pieces of software that are an excellent choice for the educational market. As well as having a larger number of people already experienced in using them, both as users and specialists.

For example, it's worth paying for Windows Server just for how much easier it is to run large deployments of PCs and users from it using Active Directory, group policies and suchlike. Rather than hacking something up in Linux or whatever.

Your argument assumes that the commercial and open-source offerings are equal in quality and features, when in fact the major commercial software is far superior.

My argument isn't an abstract commercial vs open-source one: it all hinges on the quality of the software: if Microsoft suddenly open-sourced their entire operating system and productivity suites, they would still be the top choice in my book.
Why do you have $4000 a month in expense in Idaho??? That's like bay area expense level and a sr. anything makes like 150k...
Individual should be assumed flawed, shortsighted and selfish. As long as the individual makes decisions for herself its all ok, it is considered freedom. The problem is big companies act like the individuals even though their effects are far reaching.
Not wanting anything does not necessarily imply a Zen-like state of being one with the universe staring at the sky in eternal bliss. It may mean feeling empty, directionless, amotivated, detached from everything, a modern Sisyphus rolling boulders in a meaningless, absurd universe. So be careful what you wish for.
Yeah, I've heard some great episodes of WTF. It's one of the few I listened to this past year as well. Its interesting hearing a more serious side of comedy, the guests he has on are pretty well-known too.
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My take on social Internet trends and technology seems to be everything is rushing towards mobility and has been since about 2004.

When I first got on the Internet in the early 90s you sat at a desk with a CRT monitor and used a dial-up 14.4Kbps modem when the phone wasn't being used by your mom or sister. I didn't even have a cellphone yet.

Then into the PDA phase, wifi came along, cable Internet, then better phones, more people on the web, commerce really picked up and then blogs etc.

Each generation is exposed to mobile technology that's more powerful and the Internet it seems to young people isn't seen as a thing that is on monitor but a poor version of it is now on my phone, it's a tool to be used. Even tablets I can't see being popular like phones since they're too big, now if you had a folding tablet like Microsoft's killed-off Courier I could see that being popular.

I can see mobility being the only way the Internet will be used by young people teens to 20s. The desktop computer will be too formal and seen as too stuffy and slow, chained to a desk at home.
Thanks for sharing this, Nathan. I co-own a web development agency and share your consternation about accounts receivable. Our strategy has actually been to vet clients much more carefully and (as the agency has grown) to begin limiting the clients we take to larger, stable organizations where the accounting department and the product owner we're working are not the same person (so that a discussion about payment does not become a discussion about project status and vice versa).

Overall, congratulations on your success.
I think you're missing firstly how dangerous the sentiment of your initial response was - it reeks of complete ignorance of what women face, and is at points flat our victim blaming "she brought some of it upon herself".

> and the project developed on Twitter during an open conversation. You seem to have conveniently ignored that part of the post.

No, they were pointing out that they were an organiser not a technical person.

> it only takes one or two people for that sort of thing to happen.

Does. Not. Matter. The fact is that when one or two people do it and it isn't met with outright condemnation and vitriol from the other 99%, it feels like this sort of thing is accepted or event silently celebrated.

Fuck passive observers.