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> Taxation is an injustice? How so? I don't find it to be unjust. I get a lot of value, personally, from the taxes I pay.

Then pay the government voluntarily. I would have no problem with that. The problem is with taking people money when they aren't okay with it. I consider threatening someone with violence unless they pay you money to be unjust, which I don't think is that bizarre of an opinion.

> I personally don't feel that drugs should be considered contraband but many people have.

The error you're making is trying to represent government action as something voluntary or up to personal opinion. Just like with taxation, you say that you don't consider drugs contraband, but many people do. That would be fine if it was left at that. The problem is that the group people who do consider drugs to be contraband have implemented a vast organized system of violence against the other group. I don't have a problem with the difference in opinion. The problem is with the violence.

> I live in the United States. It is a Republic. This means that while most laws flow from the majority and everyone must live under those laws the rights of minorities are protected. Thus tyranny is held in check.

Did you go to public schools in the USA? I did, and I was repeatedly taught that as well. Later, when I actually looked into it myself, I realized it's simply not true. The USA government was founded in an attempt to create one of the smallest centralized governments in history, and in a relatively short period of time it has grown into one of the largest centralized governments in history. Just because a legal document, your school, and you yourself say that rights are protected doesn't mean they are.

> The same person will find themselves in the majority on some issues and the minority in others. In short, individuals often don't find their will wholly repressed by the rules of the majority.

Sure, no one is "wholly repressed," but that's a pretty low bar. I would prefer that no one be violently oppressed by the majority at all.

> This is opposed to a tyranny where the rule is absolute, arbitrarily applied and make no room for unassailable rights.

Have you followed the legislation, ongoing attempted legislation, and executive action regarding the "war on terror" in the past decade or so? American citizens have been assassinated in drone strikes without any pretense of legality. Alleged criminals or "terrorists" have been tortured and detained indefinitely without being charged. Prominent political leaders have explicitly said that the rule of law does not apply to people who are considered by the government to be a threat to the government.
Definitely spot on regarding 0 not representing 'nothing'.

However, 'int *' is inherently "pointer to int or nothing" (in the same style as your NSString example), so I'm not sure I agree with your assertion that some types are option types while some aren't in C. Any type can be an option type (in your sense of the term, again a la your NSString example) by making it into a pointer.

Similarly, using an NSString without a pointer (which might not be possible in ObjC, but definitely possible for regular C/C++ objects) makes it not optional, like the 'int'.
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My main question here would be could I use this API in an app that is installed on phones on AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, etc.

I'm sure this is just my ignorance of understanding the press release.
I don't know about your family, but there's no way I would expect my parents, my sisters, their spouses and their kids to pay $10/ea for a service like this. Someone just wouldn't show up, which kind of defeats the purpose.

If it was valuable enough to us, I could imagine paying a reasonable monthly rate (say, $25/mo or less) to host our entire family... but disposable income varies wildly in our (and I'm sure most) family.
While I'm not running a startup, I can vouch for your method. I did the same for 3 years in South America, except instead of hostels, I rented rooms on a month-to-month basis. I was also never rich doing it, nor did I come close but I must say it was pretty sweet.

I'm currently working on the details of my next stint abroad.
One last thing I forgot to mention: there was a typedbytes support pull request for mrjob at one point, but it was behind the dev branch enough that it wasn't practical to merge. It is possible (probable?) that typedbytes support will make it into a future release if an interested party could put in the time. I would have done it myself if I had been able to make head or tail of the typedbytes documentation.

Also, if you're just starting out or want to look over the docs, I'd recommend using the dev version hosted on readthedocs instead of the PyPI version, as the author did: http://mrjob.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
Interesting read. I've been doing some reading on starting 2-sided marketplaces. Here are some resources you might find useful:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/09/29/ubiquity-illusions-and-...

http://www.quora.com/Chicken-and-Egg-Problem-Social-Startups...

http://platformed.info/

Good luck!
'I'm stumped as to how to handle video games with my kid.' This stuck out the most for me.

I never got as serious as you but I played an ungodly amount of Halo throughout high school and college. Tournaments etc. Thankfully not enough to really hurt my life. Once I got into web development it's taken a backseat. In really stressful times I still return to games to be able to escape. I'm very very undecided on what my overall take is and how I'm going to handle it when I have kids.
You should expect this when you're part of a social network. First you join it free, you share your data which is ...then used to get bucks. What do you want? should not they earn money? I bet you will be doing same.

Instead of complaining and wastint a few hundred bytes and CPU cycles and more important..your energy, you could simply delete account and move on. Expecting something extra ordinary personalize from a social network is nothing but day dreaming.
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"Using queues also exposes you to the noisy-neighbor syndrome. If you have 25 jobs on the queue, all consisting of the same resource-intensive work, your queue could get bogged down while less intensive processing is blocked. Queues represent a false form of parallelism and are subject to such congestion."

This isn't a failure of queueing. This is a failure to use queueing correctly. You either haven't defined the proper queues, or you are failing to use priority.

Overall, I'd say the process partition model wins best when you can take advantage of sequential access paths to your dataset. In that case, don't enqueue work items for each individual data key - enqueue a work item for a range. Queues are fundamentally an excellent mechanism for managing work items.
Thanks @esharef - we really are focused on making the experience very simple and painless. For developers, we can extrapolate a lot from the basic information provided (GitHub/Salary/Goals/Location/Resume)...the goals in particular are often revealing. It may take one or two pitches to calibrate but overtime pitches get more relevant.
First a DI container is not a necessary to do DI in any of the discussed languages. This is shown by the fact that you describe using duck-typing as method of doing DI in Ruby.
Yeah that's what I'm doing. Started last week. I saw their bootcamp was 5K for 9 days. Insane. Though there is definitely a market for a GOOD iOS dev bootcamp IMO.
Same here. 880+ connections and NO SPAM.
IIRC our bot was about 5k LOC.
I switch it up. Sometimes I use my phone's static noise generator (Ambiance on iOS and Android) and set a timer for 50 minutes.

If static noise is causing my mind to go numb, I'll switch to classical...well-known pieces that I've listend to hundreds of times. When I'm not doing anything particularly mindbending, I'll put on alt-rock...Lana Del Ray and Florence + The Machine have been my go-tos recently.
> Do 'conscious' cognitive biases exist?

Yes, and apparently studies have shown that, counterintuitively, being aware of a cognitive bias only strengthens it.
I did this for about 5 or so years, earnt great money building corporate web services, general business automation stuff, and web sites. I stopped as I grew bored of dealing with large enterprises and general depression from the repetition and changed tact. Seriously considering returning to doing though just for the amount of freedom you get.

Just yesterday I was feeling jealous that a friend posted on facebook he has locked in a contract with the Tonga tourism board and is currently sailing his yatch to Tonga to start the contract. After sailing to New Zealand for the Hobbit premier. I met this guy wiring up financial web services between banking mainframes in Singapore and some reporting companies. Not exactly what I'd call scummy side of the internet.. unless you have a very low opinion of financial traders LOL.

Once while on a diving boat in the Red Sea I was chatting talking to the others divers before our next dive and it turned out 3 out around 7 of us where free lancer software developers. I have been told by people that Britain does have an unusaly high work from home rate for IT workers (never verified that statement though).

As for rich though... I used to get paid a hell of a lot, but in all reality I burnt a hell of a lot of cash really quick. I think the aforementioned diving trip was £2000 for 8 days for example. And there was a lot of down time as well. I had some contracts that took over a year to finalise.

Loneliness was never an issue either. I was doing all this around the age of 25, and particularly working in London you could literally waltz down to a pub, use the free wifi and chat to the locals. If you choose a decent pub the culture there is amazing and the local bar flies will introduce you to every person in the neighborhood.

The only time I ever suffer from loneliness was living in Northern Ireland, anyone that knows the history of NI can piece together why that place can be a harsh on strangers.
Yes, Call Management is cross-carrier. Don't worry about not understanding the press release. Those aren't ever written to be understood by humans.
I participated in the public competition a few years back with a few other classmates. We had a blast, but definitely underestimated the amount of time required to reach the upper echelon in the tournaments (finished middle of the pack). As a side benefit, we were actually able to convince our university to honor this class as a directed study and pick up a few credit hours as well.

I highly recommend this competition to anyone even remotely interested. You're at a disadvantage entering with no experience from previous years, but it's still a very worthwhile experience.
One small data point: for the one business-class customer I have that would be interested in this, I think they would be willing to pay a factor or two more than $5/month/account (although they would also need archival, which might be outside your scope).
> See, for example, the British aristocrat who was truthfully outed as a Nazi sex fetishist...but won a judgement against the tabloid that published the pictures.

I know of a similar, somewhat high-profile case in the US[0]. The point is not even whether or not the plaintiff can win; the issue is whether they have enough of a case to make your legal fees + opportunity cost of time wasted in court sufficiently high.

[0] I'd try and find it, but I'm hesitant to Google the keywords at work!
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Yes if they are serious about being pitched relevant jobs. It is one of the filters so we don't pitch jobs that will not meet your basic salary exceptions. If you don't have experience and your expectations are unreasonably high then you likely wont receive many pitches.
it would be awesome if the code behind this was open-sourced. I like most people have a hard time letting a third party handle sensitive information like this.
BattleCode was the best thing I did while at MIT, and one of the most unique and rewarding experiences of my life.

The way David and I were able to win it in 2003: at that time, robot positions were stored as two doubles (x,y). You could move yourself by a precise amount or read the precise x,y position of another robot, each in only 1 bytecode. So instead of using broadcastMessage(String), checking that no other team was trying to screw with our messages, all of which took lots of bytecodes to get right. Instead of that, our robots communicated through the low bits of double values in their positions. Kind of like bees dancing for each other. This gave us enough of an edge to beat out all the other players. This was 100% David Greenspan's idea, by the way. I just worked hard to help code it up.

MIT classes are supposedly a lot of hard work, but at that point I had never worked as hard on anything as I did on our BattleCode player.
You're right, forgot to mention that. If you're staying somewhere for a longer period (>1month) it's usually better to rent. In peru e.g. you can get a room in a good location for 100-150usd/month (except for lima problably which is pretty much the most expensive area around peru according to my experience).
We need more user friendly tools regarding online privacy. In this regard (not talking about devs who fully understand and use GPG on a daily basis),... Email is broken.

Most people don't even realize their gmail/whatever account is like them standing naked (literally more naked than any psychanalist would ever dream to see you naked) in [google/whatever]land.

Stasibook is quite good in that regard too. To sortof paraphrase [obfuscated]berg, <<Privacy for the masses is sooo 2008>>.

As long as you keep true to your users, don't store any users metadata except the bare minimum to make the service work, try and be what spideroak is to dropbox, or wickr is to imessage, you have my (worthless but sincere) blessings.

Way to go.
Interesting. Got any citations? A LessWrong link will do :)
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/91bd6e711db3418baa287e93..., it would allow for %i{foo bar} to equal [:foo, :bar]
On the one hand, if you are in need of work (maybe you quit to do a startup and then your startup failed) and you do you have a resume that is starting to throw the "job hopper" flag, it might be time to ask yourself why you're even applying for another company and if you'd be better off reinventing yourself as a freelance consultant instead.

On the other hand, "Because I'm broke and need a paycheck right now" is probably the most common answer, and those are exactly the people who get bit by this stigma. Because no company wants to permanently hire someone who is only applying out of temporary financial need.

I think that as a society we need to create the political and economic conditions necessary to make freelance consulting a more viable career path for skilled individuals. There are a lot of obstacles and frictions that could be reduced.
There's a whole series of them now actually. 6.470 is a web programming competition, 6.570 is an Android App competition, and we (MakeGamesWithUs YCW12) are helping set up 6.670, an iPhone game programming competition. I'll be giving the first lecture to 80 students tomorrow :)
The tech sector is pretty big. It should be able to get its way some of the time. How big do you think Hollywood is? I would be willing to be that Google's annual revenue is bigger than all the major studios, put together.

We have no excuse for being as inept as we are at politics. It is a game we can win, but first we have to decide to play.
Just went through the signup process. There should be a textbox for those of us who don't maintain great github profiles to say a few words about ourselves.
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I'm very happy that adobe did this! I sure hope photoshop/premiere CS2 is as good as CS5.
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I am terribly sorry, but I do believe that your two responses (shall we call them, perhaps, 'violent anger' and 'illogical naivete') really do only serve to further my point.
It was from the YT video that was in the blog post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-...
I'm not trying to say he has a "bad" life or is doing a "bad job" at something. But he seems to be saying that these things are meaningful as a representation of a year in his life. It's not bad to text or drink coffee or ride the bus, but I wouldn't want to think of a year in my life in these terms.
I understand you're trying to create an alternative to spam from say Linkedin, but that really is what I use for my resume these days. Can I use that for my "application"
8tracks, and usually whatever I'm feeling at the time (Reggae, Blues, Indie Electronica, or Hip Hop).
"I'm stumped as to how to handle video games with my kid. And it's a problem that needs answering."

Nothing works better than the old fashioned way: spend time with them. I can only assume that your parents and your friends parents were like mine - too busy with their own things to really guide you through life.

All I needed was to be enabled to do something different and get good at that instead. This sounds trite but it isn't if you are a kid. Simple things like encouragement goes a long way. Help them research what is out there. Make them feel like a priority - I never explored anything else because I felt like I couldn't, for example something that required my parents to drive me around.
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Good idea. If we can't infer enough information sometimes we'll reach out and ask one or two questions.
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> It's almost impossible to use their services without being forced into a G+ account nowadays.

Google+ is Google. It is a way to consolidate all Google services. Requiring a Google account to utilize Google services seems pretty okay to me.
Some do... do well enough at Poker or Magic Online, for example, and you get invited to real-world tournaments and real-world money.

They're extremely dangerous because they provide real-world possibilities.
Can you give a brief overview of how the API works. I can't really understand the press release on what solution does the API provide.
It's an xss attack that takes advantage of the fact that you're logged in, they don't need your password. The best way to avoid it is to only log into your account in a separate browser that's in incognito mode. That, or log out of your Yahoo account immediately after you've done your business with them and don't hit any other web sites while you're logged in.
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Haven't seen a "who's hiring" thread in a while...
Please lead the post with the location of the position and make it clear if working remotely is a possibility.
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And, I'm guessing all the jobs are going to be in the Bay Area, judging by the salary levels...
Which mobile app? The web app? I find the Android/iOS apps pretty great myself (much better than any other social networks official mobile apps).
Thanks, that's really helpful. We mostly based that price-point around Google Apps for Business, but besides offering encryption we also intend to offer way-better-than-Google-because-what-couldn't-be customer service, so I think you have an excellent point. Right now we are mostly focused on a) building an excellent product and b) getting a lot of people to use it, but we will keep your advice in mind when we're ready to offer custom domain support for businesses.
My salary expectation is pretty different based on whether I take a job in Seattle, San Francisco, or Austin. How is this accounted for?
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A bit of a mountain out of a molehill but...

First, the article is setup as if Khanna was being held hostage over this disagreement.(By contrasting his time while he was on the payroll with how he was now a "free-agent" because he was no longer on the GOP payroll. Then there is implication that the internal response of the GOP to his memo was driven by the content industry.

None of the above is disingenuous until we get to the blogger quote talking about how the GOP is just beholden to money interests. What's the value of that quote? You immediately throw in this disclaimer like sentence about how they could change their stance for their own benefit, but why put the quote in there in the first place?
I believe several ISPs have deals with Yahoo to offer an email address to their customers. BT (British Telecoms) in the UK use them, as do AT&T in the USA. A huge number of people never change from their supplied addresses, and seeing as they tend to be more likely to click on a link in an unsolicited email, this has the potential to cause quite a few issues.
Att is one of the many. At&t and others will increase prices to keep their profit so maybe that's the wrong way to look at it.

The average looks to be in excess of 10%. That's pretty extraordinary. Certainly well in excess of the market average.

Not good enough to be Google though at over 15%.
You may also want to compare earnings and debt. T has http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=T+Key+Statistics over $60 BILLION in debt and relatively low earnings.
Why the Google+ long game is brilliant

I'd usually expect an article like this to at least end up with what Google really gains from G+. Whats the big win in this game? Eyeballs? Behavior data? It may or may not be successful, but honestly I'm not sure I ever see a mass seachange of friends and family from Facebook to G+. I think its much more likely for a challenger in this space come from out of left field.

I'd love to see Google doing something else with the G+ resources, something really new and innovative then iterative. The whole G+ thing seems kind of a waste (I say this as I see my usage of social networks start to slip every day)