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Hi,

Thanks for your inputs. I really appreciate you guys taking out time. This is what I am planning to do.

1. Learn JavaScript and then jQuery. I am aiming at becoming comfortable with JS and jQuery in 3 months.

2. After 2 months I will start creating and selling simple templates (like e-mail templates and HTML website templates) on Themeforest.com. In 3 months I will start developing templates based on Twitter BootStrap

3. I will continue to polish my front end web dev skills from month # 4 to month # 6.

4. If my templates start generating a revenue of $600+ from month # 6 onwards I will be a very happy man. 600 bucks will take care of my family's monthly expenses.

5. If this financial goal is met I will learn Python. At this stage I will also start spending more time programming 7-8 hours a day and will gradually come out of my freelance writing (pays a measly $3-$10 and hour) and Internet marketing gigs.
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Driverless cars are a big game-changer here, because they don't need to stay 'down town' during the day. Hypothetically they don't even need to stay with you at night either. Maybe they just live in a parking garage somewhere near where you live.
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Thanks for fixing it :)

The app itself is really nice. Seems to do exactly what I'd expect. Nice and simple.

Good work.
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Feels great to my eyes. The non-blurred square looks far choppier and eye-straining by comparison. Would love to be able to easily add this effect to CSS3 animations since it'll probably be awhile (3-ish years?) before WebGL is more commonplace.
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Or teachers are rewarded by educating students, and don't look at it from a totally mercenary perspective.

Which is generally what you want from teachers who ideally can be a students champion, guide, educator all at once, for a short span of time.

Once you tell someone their performance is only correlated with income, then they focus on those levers to manage it.

And once you have a sufficiently complex role, such an incentive structure ceases to be useful, and ends up killing creativity and open minded ness.
Yes - that term really sucked. I actually heard it used on a TV news show last weeked and cringed.
I fully agree with Daniel on this one. For a long time, I was looking for an app generator. I looked at many, and Rails App Composer (and the many RailsApps templates that come with the generator) is by and far the best thing I have come across.

I love being able to always know that when I want to create a new app, I have my core gems - that will always be up-to-date once I run the RailsApps generator.

One of the best tools in my toolbox as a Rails dev.

Thanks Daniel for all your awesome work.
Good point,

The mediocrity of a lot of third world education comes from an education system fixed on memorization - Richard Feynman had a comment about Brazilian education in one of this books (though things might have gotten better there for all I know). The thought that the US is creating a third world system out-of its previous first world education system is mind-boggling.
Likewise. I LOVED that game. I still play it at least a few times a year and it's one of the basis for comparison that I use for all other games.
I really hope people will look at RailsApps as a result of this post. It looks like the author may have missed it. I can say that the RailsApps templates have been enormously valuable to me both a) as a way to try out new gems quickly and b) get started on production apps.
Plenty of crazy people have experience tripping on LSD. That does not mean they have the experience with dealing with LSD in the way that is really god for you, your mind, your soul.

Evolved is an appropriate word in every respect. I suspect that those who have some mental knee-jerk against it have not done LSD too much.
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She actually gave him two 100μg intramuscular doses on his deathbed, spaced several hours apart.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/03/most-beautiful-death.ht...
And you find the idea that the interests of groups of people are disfavored over those of individual people where, exactly, in the Constitution?
Where do you get that the author wants to completely remove the option of driving? For example, from the author's web site I read that he has a car.

Based on the linked summary, "If the function of parking in these places was to enable growth and development, the data suggests they were abysmal failures." What this paper says is that increasing parking does not help the city, economically speaking.

If the thesis is correct - which the data seems to support - then having cars diminishes the options for those who want a "vibrant city." If you're in favor of options, then surely you should be in favor of no-car parts of town, no?

If you're in favor of more options, then (as the author comments on a link from his home page), do you think that "factors like suburban infrastructure and the distance to most business centers and even the distance between many stores have made people reliant on motor vehicles" and reduced the transportation options?

You write that you don't want to remove options. The issue seems to be that some options have already been removed, and should be restored.

At the very least, it would get the cycle-only weirdos and walking fetishists out of the parts of town that you want to drive to.
>what you wrote here on HN sounds frustrated… and more than a little bit entitled

Given that you dont know what I am doing or saying, that seems like an unfair and unfounded criticism. I was responding to the comment of someone saying that merely having emails of successful people can open the door to your own success. My point was that this is the exception, not the rule, and not to get too excited just because you may have a direct line to them. Regardless of the reason you are ultimately turned down or simply ignored, the odds are that contacting these people will yield few if any results. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it; it simply means that you should understand the odds and plan accordingly.

Your comment seems to agree with the spirit of mine, while somehow lambasting it as being rooted in frustration and entitlement. You may have a future in politics.
Was she a mouse or a mechanic?
Yes, the existing code could not handle overlapping objects of different colours, nor textured objects.

However, in theory, the technique and code can be extended to handle those cases. It's just more demanding computationly-wise.

Adding overlapping objects of different colours is somewhat easier (but still hard) than adding textures.
Thank you for the links to the census figures. Having read recent buzz about "rehoming" offshore operations, I might have been too credulous about the plausibility of Anderson's hypothesis; plus I was so focused on the possibility that he is unfamiliar with the recent history of US-Mexico trade that it didn't occur to me to check whether the numbers support his argument, which clearly they do not. I am suspicious that he just doesn't really know what he is talking about.
how about copy the current line?
"Dan Bunten was an idealist from an early age. At university he protested the Vietnam War, and also started a bicycle shop, not to make money but to help save the world. According to his friend Jim Simmons, Bunten’s logic was simple: “If more people rode bikes, the world would be a better place.” When he watched Westerns, Bunten was an “Indian sympathizer”: “It just seems like such a neat, romantic culture, in tune with the earth.” A staunch anti-materialist, he drove a dented and battered old Volkswagen for years after he could afford better. “I felt like I sold out when I bought a 25-inch color TV,” he said. That 1960s idealism, almost quaint as it now can sound, became the defining side of Bunten the game designer. He campaigned relentlessly for videogames that brought people together rather than isolating them."

It's quite fashionable to be condescending towards hippies and the 60's counterculture these days, but I find them incredibly inspiring.

I wonder how different today's gaming world would be were more game designers and studios more concerned with expressing their idealism through their games rather than squeezing out a few more FPS, making prettier graphics, or making games according to tired formulas.
I've used gnuplot; though it requires you feed it plain text files.
I think this might work both ways though. I think that generating an app from a template allows the team to get up to speed quicker on particular gems, and thus might enable a better decision about whether or not to use those gems -- whether they use that gem in a generated app or build it from rails new.
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The US has had punitive damages since its inception. The point of punitive damages is to deter conduct when the mere threat of actual damages is insufficient. It is exactly the same principle that leads a ticket for a skipped tollway toll to cost $75 when the underlying damages were only 80 cents: if the ticket only cost 80 cents, or even a buck sixty, nobody would pay tolls, because it would be economically irrational to do so.

For whatever it's worth, the RIAA offered --- on two very separate occasions --- to settle for actual damages.
Marathon sessions with a few friends in dorm rooms in college. Hotseating, taking turns. Lots of fun.

Those wild college years.
This is stupid. There is a deactivate button on their website. It literally took me a minute to find it the first time I as looking for it. I've been able to deactivate and reactivate on more than two computers. The author should have done some research before spreading FUD.

http://i.imgur.com/Ei5wx1V.png
> Since when is having more choice bad?

http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...
You can set a `context` on key bindings to trigger only in specific language scopes or per project by referencing the `settings` key in the sublime-project file. In fact, you can even write a python plugin to create your own contexts that you declare in the sublime-keymap json. Check out G's docs: https://sublime-text-unofficial-documentation.readthedocs.or...
Out of interest, how do you approach the legal aspects of funding/supporting side projects? In particular, what happens if one of those side-projects becomes insanely profitable?

Do you just ignore it?

Do you formally give your employees full rights to their work (which is part funded by you)?

Do you have a formal agreement giving you a stake in their work?
Cyberspace is real in that there is much going on in the world that is not reported on in the news.

For example, if a man or woman had 1,000,000,000 highly detailed pictures of porn in his/her house and that got reported to the news because they were stacked up on the porch, flying around everywhere, it might make the evening news in a "What a perv!" segment. But if that same person has access to even more pictures than that on the web and views them, they aren't called out on it if it is within the range of acceptable online and offline behavior.

By the same token, I'd post what I think on HN and would say it in person to the same people in a bar having a drink, but I'd never post the same things in an editorial in a newspaper or on a blog. However, on HN everything is public and global. It just isn't the same as the rest of the world, even if in the end it is contained in physical space with real physical people communicating with one another. So we have another term for it.

Our world itself is just as unreal, though. The media and government and even our friends and family just show us part of what is going on, and don't act or communicate as they would if they were being true. This is the reason that both philosophers such as Plato and Socrates differentiated between truth and what we learn in the world, and why popular religions such as Christianity teach us that the world is not truth- that there is something beyond it that we must aspire to.
When God puts the fear of Hell into you, you try to avoid nightmares and you seek-out the holiest things. For me, I thought little house on the prairre was the ideal.

I don't fear Hell, so much, now.

Jesus has delightful parables. Y'all have to learn them. The parable of the talents is about cowardess. If you're not scared enough, be afraid of being a coward. LOL

I sometimes like to imagine God is a results-kind-of-guy -- it's a naughty thing. Beware of what you wish for.

God says...

28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword,
among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather
but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

28:39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither
drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat
them.

28:40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou
shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his
fruit.

28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy
them; for they shall go into captivity.

----

Jesus could talk to a mixed crowd--young and old. I'm too lazy to try to talk in adult code.

I took an interest in Pixar, the other day. I think I just liked hobnobbing -- after thinking about it we had nothing in common.

I am in awe of how much toil it must be to do animation. They get paid.

God says...
2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at
the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by
them that heard him; 2:4 God also bearing them witness, both with
signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy
Ghost, according to his own will? 2:5 For unto the angels hath he not
put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

2:6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that
thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?
2:7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him
with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
2:8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that
he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put
under him.

----

Got any advice for behaving with young ears?

God says...
committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and
right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

18:22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be
mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall
live.

18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the
Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that
the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he
hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath
trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

----

I might be committed to a mental hopsital.
To make overlapping geometry possible, UAVs could be used.

See here: http://www.gamedev.net/topic/622099-representing-interval-se...

It's the same technique that can be used to achieve Order Independent Transparency.
Mexican here. Living in a city very near the border (3 hours away), work in a offshore software developing agency, friends and my father works and used to work at Ford's maquiladora and other industries.

For a very long time, foreign investment have played a large role in our economy, since early in the 1900, there is a lot of investment in minery particularly on the states near the border. With the modern age, a lot of "maquiladoras" exists in the cities that are near the border, Tijuana, Juarez, Monterrey, Hermosillo, Nogales. The labor hand is incredibly cheap, and it's not only because the companies like Ford or Motorola or Samsung wants to pay low wages, the government plays a large role since not very long ago our economy secretary considered that a person who makes ~$500 a month can afford to have a car, a good house and send their kids to private schools (which is of course a stupid lie). A typical laborer works 48 hours a week and is expected to change schedules as the needs changes, often working more than these 48 hours sometimes pulling up to 60 hours a week or even more. The average salary for a laborer in a month is around $600, which is around $3 an hour. It is enough to live a fair life. To put this in perspective, the minimun wage is around $4 a DAY.
The article says the average wage is $6 an hour, but I find that inaccurate from what I can see every day.

A laborer typically hasn't finished their school, probably dropped before going to college or are graduates who studied something with not a lot of demand, like administration (probably the most studied grade) or graduates that fail to find a job for what they studied. In the eyes of the big companies, the laborers are just disposable people, there's always more from where they came from. People settle with the first opportunity they see, a lot of people dream is to find a job in the government and retire 40 years later. There is a lot of apathy and I think that's one of the reasons we don't progress as a country (Our president is a disgrace, for example).

Luckily the software industry is MUCH different. It's one of the best paid professions here, very flexible hours and working Monday to Friday and the pay is 4 times greater than that of an industry laborer and even then that's less than a junior level engineer would earn, all you need to know is how to speak English and learn some web development. A well paid software engineer with around 5 years of experience, earns around $14 an hour, which is I think around twice the minimum wage in USA? An entry level engineer earns around $5.

Life here is much cheaper, I can go out with my girlfriend, eat something fancy, buy a 3 liters of beer and go see a movie with $25 and still have some money left.
This happens so rarely that POTUS having done this is itself now becoming a huge political football.
The other issue with the earn out, from the entrepreneur's point of view, is that you're providing the acquirer with effectively interest free financing for the earn out, while you're working on integrating. And there's nothing guaranteed in the earn out, and they're usually all-or-nothing structures (ie, get $0 if you hit 99% of target)
Kind of a bad choice analogy... As per sales figures and TFA, a lot of Wiis might have been sold but their owners aren't using them all that much, and Nintendo is posting large losses.

I'll agree with you on principle, though. While gameplay > graphics every day of the week and twice on sunday, coming to the table with graphics from half a decade ago in this market is rather.. unwise. It's a huge blow to developers, a huge blow to imagination, and a boon to their competitors.
>Yes, I'm sure it was a positive experience, but the idea that you can learn wisdom and maturity via chemistry, well, that idea never panned out. Instead you get the typical empty-head drug talk about "seeing god" and "being nothing." And for all the elaborate salesmanship, what do these people get in the end? They're extremely ineloquent and whatever wisdom is purported to be there, just doesn't seem to be there.

Psychedelics give an empirical experience that is undeniable but most people don't have the cognitive constructs to interpret that experience in a logically consistent way. Take for example the idea of frequencies. To me a shift in perspective is like tuning into a different frequency. It's a metaphor that conveys the many alleged isomorphisms between these two phenomena. But to someone who doesn't have this logical background or frame of mind will take a syncretic interpretation like beings literally giving off vibrations and perspective literally having the attribute of frequency. As Sam Harris says, taking psychedelics is like getting into a sling shot, you don't really know where it's going to lead for any given person. They will give you "trans-rational" experiences but you still end up interpreting that experience through whatever cognitive constructs you already hold. If you're a fundamentalist christian then you're going to interpret the experience through those constructs. If you're an atheist you're going to interpret it through those constructs.

The most striking aspect of the psychedelic experience to me is the isomorphisms that present themselves. I start seeing one-to-one mappings between different phenomena(real or not). This hyperawareness of morphisms extends into the visions where every aspect of the vision correspond to some meaning. It's an amazing experience that isn't so easily dismissed.
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You can select "Use external editor" in Arduino preferences, this will save you the copy and paste. Once done editing in SublimeText you just tab over to the Arduino IDE and "CMD+U" to upload.
> I would speculate that LSD turns on System 2 where normally my System 1 brain would give me an immediate response.

As far as I've read, LSD is, surprisingly, just a serotonin agonist, similar to anti-depressants or MDMA. (Technically, it's a non-selective serotonin agonist, and it does this by reversing the chemical reactions that take serotonin apart, to basically "un-use-up" serotonin you've already spent--which might explain its differing experiential effects--but in the end it still means "more serotonin in the brain.")

Now, the two things serotonin has been heavily implicated for in neurology, are pleasure (though not reward; that's dopamine), and neurogenesis: serotonin is basically released when something "feels good" in a sensual way--something looks aesthetically pleasing, something tastes delicious, etc.--as a signal to the rest of your brain to backtrack to what caused this stimulus to happen, and build up the neurons involved. Basically, if I find some tasty berries while foraging, reinforce the memory of the walk I took to get to the berries. [This effect can be harnessed: consume a bit of some fat-saturated food right after you study something, if you want to remember it better.]

But LSD, MDMA, and other drugs that stimulate serotonin release, can have psychedelic effects well beyond what you'd expect from "remembering things better." This is because the reaction to serotonin, neurogenesis, goes way beyond sensible memory formation. It takes any spikes in electrochemical activity that are going on in the brain at the time, and says "that: build up the synapse for that." And, of course, neurons have an underlying level of noise, that usually gets buried under actual cognition--so, when you turn the "gain" up on what "becomes brain cells", suddenly you start forming 'concepts' for ideas that are made of nothing at all--the feeling of seeing shared properties between things that have none. Which would indeed, likely, be best described as "a trip."

Of course, this also informs the other thing people--especially those in creative fields--say about LSD: that it's a life-altering experience, quite foundational for later productive work. This is basically because pushing up the "noise floor," if you have a lot of potential ideas lurking just below the surface as potential connections you haven't made between concepts, ready to be exploited--they'll get wired together by the non-selective flood of serotonin too. But, unlike the nodes for "the purpleness of music" or what-have-you, these nodes will actually self-reinforce once created--that is, they're useful to have, so you'll keep using them--so they'll stick around, whereas the other synapses will just get their reactivity scaled back down when it turns out how purple a song is doesn't have any causal impact on anything else. :)