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I strongly disagree with stray and edent.

You have already admitted that you do not want to be a developer. I assume you want to be merely proficient in software engineering because that will help you build prototypes/MVPs and will help you outsource work / find a technical co-founder. You've admitted that right now you only want to learn what's essential.

Someone who builds quick prototypes and glues together APIs and frameworks does not need very much knowledge of theoretical CS. Even someone who is technical and builds web and mobile apps full-time only needs a very superficial knowledge of CS theory (data structures / algorithms).

You are on the right general path in terms of learning to code. Understand that Treehouse and Codecademy are extremely basic, to the point where you honestly would not be able to build very much after having gone through them. Head First C# should be more in-depth than both of those. I'm not actually sure what type of programs you want to create (are you building windows apps?). There is no substitute for actually going out and building things.

I can tell you straight up that Algorithms Part I is way overkill right now (red-black trees and heapsort are fascinating and are studied by any college CS freshman, but are really not relevant to you), and you will probably never reach a point in terms of technical proficiency where those topics would be helpful to learn.

Here is some CS-y stuff (really really basic stuff) that might be helpful to learn: the difference between an array, a dictionary, and a set (and the performance differences in terms of insertion and lookup). Knowing what stacks and queues are is also helpful. I've listed topics that you could read up on in about an hour. Honestly, knowing just those topics, you would probably know as much theoretical CS as you'll ever need to know as a jack-of-all-trades founder.

Even if you wanted to one day be a technical co-founder (for web/mobile apps), three or four online classes would just about cover all the theoretical CS you would need to know.
Is any of the equipment based in England? You might want to check the Gambling Commission website to check if you need a licence.
Well, yes and no - we have all the normal options that involve a merchant account and so on. What we don't have yet is the simple-to-setup solution that Stripe offers (unless https://www.paymill.com/ offers that solution - I'm not sure).
Free and uncopyrighted are different things. The author didn't claim the books were free.
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Really? I guess I'm more used to shitty smartphone keyboards but that was relatively painless. You only had to go to the "standard" symbols button twice.
Well, I'm going to extend it to 2022 by the end of this year. I'm not advocating forgetting it for half a decade, but having a backup plan in case you do.
For the people living through the supposed transition between the Classical Period and the Dark Ages, though, apparently, there was no such stark difference.

Yes and no. Roman decline really happened, but the significance attached to 476 AD is an artifact developed later, when the decline actually happened over hundreds of years. As you noted, the Eastern Roman Empire carried on for another thousand years, and the Catholic Church remains the largest religion in the world.

There was a decline in trade complexity, literacy, and probably standard of living at the top of society. Medieval historians did believe they were in a time of decline and ruin (this was heavily influenced by Christianity and its apocalyptic prophecies) but the average Germanic peasant didn't know enough to care either way, and probably had no substantial change in his material well-being from 100 AD to 600 AD (or 1700 AD).

One of the things to keep in mind is oblique comparison. Most people who perceive decline compare their status to that of elite people in the past, creating a sense that things were better then. You'd certainly be better off as a Roman patrician than as a peasant in 7th-century Bavaria, but that's not a proper comparison.

From the perspective of a literate elite, there was civil and industrial decline, explaining the impressive infrastructure that had fallen into disrepair. For the average European, there probably wasn't a directional change, but the average European left no writing.
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This is the last launch of the Falcon 9 v1.0, with the square engine configuration. The next launch is the Falcon 9 v1.1 with the Merlin 1D engines
http://en.wikipedia.oro/wiki/File:Falcon_9_v1.0_and_v1.2_eng...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9

https://twitter.com/SpaceX

NASA TV Media is LIVE:
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we are not a casino.
this is a tiny side product built by a couple of guys over a couple of days to explore bitcoin.
Try drinking a few "Venti" glasses of water instead of coffee. You'll find yourself in the bathroom just as often.
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When will this fascination with how much other people in private corporations earn end? I know, I know, it never will...
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Oh no, somebody call the bitcoin police, quick.
Ready :-)
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I'm starting to hate Stripe threads because all it becomes is people complaining it's not available in their country.

And of course people complaining about people complaining about it not being available in their country.
The best webcast for these launches typically comes from SpaceX itself, and can be found here:

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
Strangely, even downtown Palo Alto has homeless people.
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In the USA, and legally speaking (I know, YANAL), can this blogger really, truly give up copyright by just having a link to a notice like that at the bottom of the page?

I mean, you don't have to mark stuff as "copyright", and you don't have to register it, it's automatically copyrighted as soon as it's fixed in tangible form. At least since 1976 the USA has worked that way. So why should some carefully, but not legally, worded notice allow you to give up those rights? Can anyone point to definitive information about this?
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Even getting all of paredit is not essential imo - I'd settle for just slurp and barf support.
The ability to tell the Compiler I don't particularly care for type safety and want a byte of 0x01 to be true in certain situations. Especially in the .NETMF.
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God says...

4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of
God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest
have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with,
and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well,
and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? 4:13
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water
shall thirst again: 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I
shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him
shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

4:15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst
not, neither come hither to draw.

4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
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Why are you not a casino? People gamble with bitcoins and can win more bitcoins. Your site describes itself as "Win Bitcoins playing classic exciting gambling games at our Bitcoin Casino. Fair and Verified Games. Instant Withdrawals."

My apologies if I've mischaracterized you, but a casino is "a public room or building where gambling games are played." bitino seems to clearly be an online variant of that.

(Edit: can't grammar)
at least in 2007 the pill was free as well.

Contraceptive implant, coil, IUD, all still free last time I checked. It's not only condoms. And if your local surgery can't provide what you want due to a skills shortage you can go to a sexual health clinic with no problem.

When I was chatting with the GUM clinic staff last time I had my implant changed, she was talking about how common it was for teens to have it, since it's such an easy fire and forget contraceptive.

Preventing STIs however, that's another issue.
Why does it have a monthly fee? What are the differences between the US and AUS markets that require Australian users to pay three different fees to use a payment gateway?
Couldn't you just use `dynamic` for the first feature?
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Yes, how dare people make money. Those bastards!
Which makes the judge even more amazing in my book.

10 years ago it was more then extraordinary to entrust a gay couple with adopting a child.

Times and attitudes have changed massively in this time, which is a good thing. It's much better for a kid to be brought up by a loving, caring gay couple then in a total dysfunctional traditional marriage.
I would say that the expectation is "right" (ethically), and where it contradicts the world, it's the world, not the expectation, that is flawed :)
IANAL either, but there exist legal tools like CC0 [1] for releasing your work into the public domain or, barring that, waiving as many rights to it as possible. That said, even the FAQ for CC0 [2] carries the following notice:

"Please don’t take the 0 (zero) in the name “CC0” literally – no legal instrument can ever eliminate all copyright interests in a work in every jurisdiction.

CC0 doesn’t affect two very important categories of copyright and related rights. First, just like our licenses, CC0 does not affect other persons’s rights in the work or in how it is used, such as publicity or privacy rights. Second, the laws of some jurisdictions don’t allow authors and copyright owners to waive all of their own rights, such as moral rights. When the waiver doesn’t work for any reason CC0 acts as a free public license replicating much of intended effect of the waiver, although sometimes even licensing those rights isn’t effective. It varies jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

While we can't be certain that all copyright and related rights will indeed be surrendered everywhere, we are confident that CC0 lets you sever the legal ties between you and your work to the greatest extent legally permissible."

[1] See https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Incidentally, this license was developed by a US non-profit, so it's reasonable to expect them to have paid special attention to it working with the US copyright law.

[2] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_FAQ/
Oracle investigating after two more Java 7 zero-day flaws found
As a long time X11 user, I say "It's about time". But that's just an opinion.

When the author writes Users find skeuomorphic design more intuitive as virtual interfaces emulate real life elements I felt irritation. Folks have been repeating that sort of thing since 1984, mostly without the use of the word "skeuomorphic". Is it true? Has anybody done any science on that, or is it just one of those things (like "the average commute is 23 minutes") that just ends up very widely believed?
The other problem with SQL is the "standard problem": you have so may of them to choose for that when you need to support several databases, the additional layer of complexity and black magic of an ORM can be worth it.
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IANAL, but the license to what you create is yours to set, it just defaults to copyright. If you say "I release this into the public domain", lo and behold, it has been done.
This is not new. Government officials and corporate executives have always been targets of espionage. That spies would disguise their attempts as common spam/phishing is unremarkable; as is the notion that some ordinary hackers might also preferentially target this class of people.
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Thanks a lot, that was really helpful. I already have a MVP, so this is more about iterating it than building new ones. It is a web app, written in C#, running on Azure, that is why these are my focus.
I will take a look on the topics you mentioned.
Not sure if this is really appropriate, it's only showing a very small part of "Internet" namely TCP/IP and a little bit of routing.

Once you delve into the more low-level stuff (BGP, routing, AS, peerings, RIPE and all that kind of stuff) you get to know that there is soooo much more advanced, deeply technical stuff going on. It's just so much more then tcp/ip, dns and http.. You just typically never have to care about that kind of stuff if you don't happen to work in that area.
Perhaps I shouldn't have picked medicine as an example. The principle of professionalism is sound, but many of the traditional professions have departed from it. Law has outright imploded, while medicine has seen very long hours on account of the doctor shortage.

If they aren't seeing patients, they aren't billing.

Right, but 2000 hours per year wasn't traditionally the requirement. That may have changed. The professions have declined over the past 30 years.

For example, before the legal profession went to hell, 1200 billable hours was the requirement. Remaining time was for networking, keeping current, attending conferences, etc. If you billed 1500 hours, you were a rock star and guaranteed to make partner. Enough money was made in the billed hours to pay for the off-meter stuff.

They go to school an unthinkably long number of years and then they're put into a sleep depravation nightmare called "interning" for years

That is true. Medical school and residency are extremely difficult.

before they get to have a career that normally includes "on call time" where they're woken up at all hours of the night to go save someone's life.

Obviously, medicine can't be limited to the 9-to-5 hours, because people get sick all the time.

Regarding the very long work weeks, this problem was at least partially created by the AMA. They've been limiting medical school admissions to keep an artificial shortage of doctors. That has created an environment in which working hours are much more than they used to be.
Does anyone know if I'll be able to get out of the 12 month contract that I agreed to with Be in August because of this?
Way to go! "You can not steal what's given freely!" :)
We can't say much about timelines since so much is outside of our control, but we definitely want to launch in France.
So how do you protect yourself from these highly-targeted attacks?

How about running the browser in a sandbox that resets all changes on exit? I've actually set up Firefox (hardened) + Sandboxie on Win7 but exactly how good is this setup?
Uncopyrighted != free. The first thing he says in the statement is: "If people buy my ebook...".
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ICSE 2013
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Uh, sorry, what exactly did I say? I said mostly giving up sugars, which is why I mentioned keto.
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Or the regular police would suffice, in this case.
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If a content creator wants to release everything they've ever created without copyright, or for free, they should absolutely have the right to do that. However a content creator should also have the right to be restrictive, to say that only people that pay $1000 for a license can access the content, or that another company can sell access in return for $1000.

That’s good for any content creator

That's good for any content creator if they value in-discriminatory consumption, which they are under no obligation to value. A content creator should have control over their content. It should be just as acceptable for this author to want everyone to have access for free as it is for another author to want $10 for every copy.

If you love and agree with his view point, great, but so many people agree with him and then take it as far as "well this content creator is okay with it, so all content creators should be!".
You could still do identity verification using either a 3rd party service, or by getting sight of ID documentation. (Certified copies of passports posted out, for instance. Sounds mad, I know, but I worked at a gaming start up and we had to do that for some customers!)

In fact, you'll have to do that ANYWAY to be compliant, regardless of the method you use to fund accounts.
Related:

http://web.archive.org/web/20091023030542/http://diveintomar...
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Obviously.

I've found in my experience working with other people's code and maintaining large code bases you find that overly nesting functions causes a lot of problems when you're trying to read or debug code.

You often also see problems where the essentially dependant functions start to separate in the code as people accidentally add new functions between them.

The article I linked is good, John describes it well. It's a nightmare to work with when you get triple or quadruple nesting of tiny functions, like in the code of this program. It's totally unnecessary.
Reminds me of the Unlicense: http://unlicense.org/
Is is the role of govt to prop up business models that are failing? There is no "right to profit".

Failure is a vital part of the market. Failure is the market saying, "This capital can be used more effectively somewhere else."

Failure is _not_ bad. It may be painful but it's necessary.

Think about it, should the govt subsidize every startup so that none fail?
So no hits in Google? Even if it isn't free, you can buy it and put it up on the Internet for everyone to download.
No mention of Dublin?
But by giving up his right as an author to decide how his work is copied and distributed, he has no way of enforcing that. Instead he relies solely on the goodness of his "customers" hearts. Most open source licenses understands this and keep a final say in how the work can be used, for example.
The whole "Dark Ages" thing is a little contoversial, because it depends on your point of view. If you were living around the Mediterranean basin, things weren't so bad. If you were living in the periphery of the empire, civilization basically disappeared and reverted to tribal living or feudalism.

One of the big changes with Rome was that at some point, they became too big. Earlier in Roman history, the Romans would either kill everyone (Ceasar's conquest of Gaul killed a substantial proportion of the population) or begin a process of Roman-ifying the populace. The Roman armies kept the peace and spread the civilization.

The problem is that you had this built-in tension between keeping Rome (the City) under control, which was extremely challenging, and keeping the provinces in line and secure. Emperors had to spend fortunes subsidizing the City with grain, festivals/circuses and other support. Getting those fortunes meant levying onerous taxes, and collecting in the provinces meant enpowering the local Roman officials and military -- which in turn created rivals to the emperor.

Another issue is that as time went on, gaps in agricultural technology fundamentally changed the society. The core of the Roman republic was citizen solders and civil servants -- many of which were yeoman farmers. As crop yields declined and demand grew, these farmers went out of business and consolidated into much larger estates that were dependent on slavery.

All of these things resulted in changes to the character of the Roman system. Roman armies were not made up of Romans. Roman generals were not necessarily loyal to Rome. It just turned into a big mess.
>The studio was the latest casualty of a trend that’s been plaguing the VFX industry in recent years: an outflow of work to countries with better tax incentives

Seems like the failures aren't just caused by the free market.
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You could try Braintree, it's what GitHub uses.
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He's got a point. If you believe the singularity people (like Kurzweil) Human technology has always advanced exponentially. And, is there any evidence that copyright and patents laws have changed this much? Inventors will invent, and creators will create, and not much will change that.

Personally, I don't see a lot of rich artists, designers, musicians, inventors, scientists. But, I sure do see a lot of rich lawyers and business people.
Correct. I probably should not have invoked medicine, because (a) the doctor shortage has produced a culture of very long hours, (b) high fixed costs (e.g. malpractice insurance) skew the relationship between hours worked and payoff, and (c) there is a well-known and long period of intense professional hazing.

The ideal of professionalism is a good one. It has been under attack over the past 30 years.

Incidentally, both the medical and legal profession have suffered in opposite ways. The AMA imposed tight limits on medical school admissions in order to create a doctor shortage, and that has generated a huge per-doctor workload. On the other hand, the lack of control (and declining standards) in law has created a surplus of attorneys that has destroyed the professional culture in traditionally "white shoe" firms.

Doctors suffer very long hours (especially as residents) because there is too much work. Lawyers live in an imploded culture because there is so little desirable work (per attorney) that the partners hold all the cards.

This is irrelevant to software engineers, who should (by any standard or moral calculus) have the autonomy accorded a profession but, currently, do not. It's up to our generation to change that.
Interesting... It's very uncommon for startups to develop web apps using ASP.NET (I'm assuming that's what you're using C# and Azure for). Is there a reason you chose that?
In a practical sense these concepts only exist to the extent that the "owner" is willing to enforce them. If this guy says he has uncopyrighted everything and doesn't bother chasing after people for copyright violations, then there you go.

On the other hand I believe an officially registered copyright is required to merely go to court about a case, so if he says he's uncopyrighted everything, then turns evil, registers a copyright, and starts suing, I imagine that wouldn't really stand up so well to a judge in court.

Really though I find the entire concept of copyright and intellectual "property" to be pretty ridiculous and baffling so maybe my interpretation is wrong.
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This is a great idea. May I ask why you chose to go with a pre-ICS layout instead of building on top of Holo?
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Personally, I'd rather have a Dream Chaser.

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

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6 confirmations finally occurred, was able to withdraw. So, all in all, no problems.