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If and when those banks reopen there will be a bankrun and they will both go bust. It's only a matter of time.
"In the course of his career, my dad was an infantry officer, a military attaché, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and an arms-reduction negotiator. At home, he was a wrench. Dude could fix anything."

That is a career. I imagine the work at home was a form of relaxation and a way of spending time with family, as well as seeming natural from childhood.

"It's clear, however, that even though boys these days usually have little opportunity to receive vocational education at school or elsewhere, there is still pressure for men to somehow have absorbed traditionally masculine skills by the time they are grown up."

We seem to have lost the idea of education somehow in our chase after pass rates (UK perspective), so schools are pushing the book learning more. Families have less time these days for informal education by helping.
Only in Europe could this seem reasonable. This is a horrible precedent and I wonder how much money will move out of EU banks.
Doesn't necessarily have to be the poster, the upvoters are the ones that get it on the front page.
And what will those people do who have their pensions as the only source of livelihood or major source?
What? It has great keming!
The allegory is nonetheless useful. There are other more concrete examples. In the technical world, there's the contrast, say of Linux with other non-free OSes, ranging from BeOS to VMS to WinNT.

There's Wikipedia vs. Brittanica or Encarta. There's free markets vs. command economies (or both ends vs. a mixed social market economy). Many 17th, 18th, and 19th century advances and institutions in both science and letters were founded significantly on the efforts of amateurs.

The deeper point is that the root of "amateur" isn't some connotation of naive, inexperience, or lesser quality, but "amore", literally, love. And love-of-task is a strong motivator for producing high-quality work.
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Really? I would.

If I was considering hiring someone, and checked out their social streams and saw a lot of negativity directed towards their boss and job, I would only assume that's what I would be getting as well. They would never get the job. Same goes for high amounts of general non-work-related negativity in their streams as well.
Ooh, a sample size of one! Sounds compelling!
All of them. Even a single instance in which the Achievement Gap had been successfully closed would be regarded as news on a par with the moon landing or controlled nuclear fusion. There would be no end of talk about it.
Thanks for that! Much appreciated!
Is that really the case? From what I've understood from the news, accounts in banks that haven't lost their customers' money are safe and operating as usual.

Depositors are only taking a loss at bankrupt banks where their money was wiped out by bad investments, and now EU and Cypriot taxpayers are refunding a portion of it.
The scary part is that the poor aren't necessarily uneducated -- read this article, for example, on PhDs who can only get by with food stamps:

http://chronicle.com/article/From-Graduate-School-to/131795/
You have to check your numbers ;-) In fact, all the bail out money goes to interest payments. Therefore, no sucking just moving money from one pocket (Germans) to the other (German banks). On Germans, we have to have another discussion on their role in corruption in Greece and elsewhere... Maybe they are ripping too the fruits of their corrupted business practices (Siemens and many many more in various cases globally.)
I'm finding it difficult to reconcile the lack of prestige or power of Indian diplomacy (compare to China, France, UK, US, Russia) against the idea that they were significant behind closed doors in averting Cold War crises. Where did all this diplomatic skill go after the Cold War? Where was it before the Cold War crises really took off? Skilled diplomatic corps aren't things that can be conjured out of thin air.

Certainly India would have been a powerful addition to either side of the Cold War, and declaring a third path was a powerful statement to make in itself, but it doesn't follow that the Cold War would have gone live if it weren't for Indian diplomats.
I had obligatory wood shop from age 10 to age 15 (late 80's - early 90's). Endless hours of sandpaper, shavers, and various old school tools. It was fantastic!

Still today, if I really want something made right out of wood, I know I can do it.

Only wish there had been obligatory metal working, too.
The techniques need to enable something like "asm.js without the compiler hint" exist and are in use today in JIT compilation (at least to some degree). Since the source code does not generally change and the generated instructions may, you can make assumptions first and later on rewrite the instructions if your assumptions don't hold. At least that's how I understand it. If you would do AOT compilation and ship the instructions, then you may be right about the halting problem.
I find this challenging. I want to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but when you get let down over and over, you start taking mental shortcuts, even unfair ones. Humans are good at that. I was at PAX East, and there were a lot of hired-gun women doing hired-gun women stuff, mixed in with a small number of women who actually worked at those companies. It was really hard not to start assuming things.
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I tend to think that capitalism is what helps prevent people from getting into desperate situations in the first place (e.g. by letting a family accumulate wealth so that the children start with a buffer). But it has no direct answer for people already in desperate situations, hence the necessity of charity.
Hi, you may have misunderstood. I wasn't asking why there is a dance performance, though that does feed into it. I was asking what the conferences themselves are for. Why would I go to one or pay for an employee to go to one?
Just more proof that feminism has infected the tech community as well. What a joke.
> If someone were to make something like this a step-by-step tutorial/template appropriate for a classroom setting it would be HUGE.

(emphasis mine :-))

That's the first thing I thought. I teach kids to do creative/interesting things with computers. It's hard to get them writing code[0] (it's not a classroom--they come voluntarily and explore what technology topics they like), one of the older (14) kids started out doing that, however, because he wanted to write Minecraft mods. Those are written in Java, in an Eclipse environment working on a decompiled (and only partially annotated) version of the Minecraft .jar. That was not how I envisioned a gentle introduction to computer-programming :) But he was persistent, and got it to work. This only goes to show what's really important: not if the language is simple, complex, elegant, whether the subject matter is easy to grasp, no. It's just a matter of whether the thing they need to learn is on the path towards a goal they really really want to achieve[1].

But yes, Minecraft is a huge thing among these kids. Others are cobbling together multi-player servers from scrap computers.

While in a sense, brooksbp (sibling comment) is right, there's a LOT going on in these 580 lines of code (I haven't looked at it yet, but I can imagine), 580 lines is not that much either. And if it's something they can run, edit, run, mess around with, see why it broke, edit, run, etc, that's enough to get started. They don't need to understand the whole thing right away. In fact even something as simple (and hardly programming) as changing the colour or textures is awesome because it teaches them that whatever's going on behind those graphics is yours and yours to control (unlike, say, the TV or their aunt's iPhone).

That 14 year-old kid is currently experimenting with Unity, trying to make an actual game. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to get acquainted with that environment myself, so I can only give him general advice. I'm way more comfortable with Python (especially a mere 580 lines of it :P) so who knows.

[0] Which still mystifies me, I was writing my first lines of BASIC at the age of 9, without help from my parents or anyone except library books and magazines. That probably makes me an outlier, but enough children pass through here that I'd expect to see at least maybe one or two. I guess it's different because back then that machine (an Amstrad PCW) wouldn't do anything interesting except word-processing unless I coded it myself.

[1] That was actually a big lesson for me :) I kind of knew it to be the case, but witnessing the process really nailed it down for me.
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I make more money in one week with my full-service IT firm that you could imagine in one week of development.

Don't even come in here saying that I have been living under a rock. I am the owner of my company, on the board with three more technology companies and also a director for a non-profit.
Actually, Schäuble even opposed this idea, but the dear government of Cyprus wanted to avoid disappointing the wealthy investors and hence initially preferred to ignore the insurance commitments it made. Only after the public backslash did they decide to honour at least parts of their previous obligations.
I am totally confused how this comment is even relevant. You have literally no basis for it, and it is not even remotely true.
What happens when your importer cuts off supply? For a small country, you really have no option, but India is a huge country that is more than capable of domestic supply.

What if India was dependent on US arms, and war erupted with China? And what if the US, wanting to keep China and Pakistan onside for their own affairs, bottlenecks the supply of arms to keep them happy?

Or currently, with 50% of India's arms coming from Russia - overland they've either got to go through hostile Pakistan or China itself. By sea it's vulnerable to a strong navy, and you'd see a lot of Chinese naval activity east of Africa. With satellites and other modern tech, you can't play the hide-and-seek naval supply of yesteryear - surface shipping is incredibly vulnerable.
I for one absolutely love this initiative. If I wasn't bootstrapping my company I would fly over this weekend just to be there.

Issues of gender are generally really hard to capture in words and lend themselves much more to being relayed through the other senses, like voice and body language.

I'm sure it will be a learning experience for everyone who decides to attend.
So you suggest that the banks should have been allowed to fail and only deposits up to 100K Euro would be guaranteed?
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I haven't tried. In any case you'd need to host Solr elsewhere because the filesystem is cleaned at each deploy, along with your indexes.
> Cyprus is a 78% services-based economy.

Well, fix that.
Your data doesn't contain a comparison to a control group that didn't employ capitalism, and has otherwise the same conditions.

Also many countries where capitalism is at work don't strive like Chine. Which kinda suggests it's not only capitalism that makes China successful.
Fully agree.

Another dark side of such issues is that when the production goes over the quotas, then the food is just dumped instead of being given to poorer countries.

I know this can also affect the local farmers, but it just seems bad to throw food away when there is so much hunger in the world.
Indeed. I find it quite enlightening that even the medium of the message is raising concerns.
Crawford is touching the subject in http://www.amazon.com/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Value/dp/...

I enjoyed reading that book and it relates to the topic.

I remember reading that 'industrial arts' were trashed in favour of computers and to prepare for the coming of the 'information era'.
Which aptitude tests do you think are effective? And if you buy into the objectivity of aptitude tests, how do you explain phenomenon like the massive racial gap in SAT scores [1]?

1: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/09/25/sat-scores-are...
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Sorry to be frank, but

"Due to its nature, that whatever was happening, was on a diplomatic behind closed doors basis, where discussions were being held about stances hiding it from both US and USSR bloc, it is very hard to trace, what they really did, and how they did it. "

does not contain any facts and sounds more like something from the X-Files.

I'm not sure what you mean with "NAM Wiki", if you mean the Wikipedia page, I've read that one and couldn't find anything on how they worked to prevent a war.
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Our middle school metal shop was amazing, we had a forge and everything!
High school wood shop wasn't as awesome because, as luck would have it, we went in exactly 1 year after the old teacher left, and the new teacher knew nothing about wood shop (he was learning from the students). I learned a lot from a couple of the students but a teacher have taken us a lot farther.
Cyprus is historically a part of Greece but on a map it is closer to Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and even Egypt.

It is just like the Falklands in that respect, an outpost of one nation that is going to be geographically contested and eventually (just like the Falklands) it will probably be annexed by one of the countries above (most likely Turkey).

The only reason these situations persist is because the nations involved are still able to wage war at a distance, if Greece should go bankrupt (or even if the Greek-Cypriot part of Cyprus would go under) there would likely be a re-alignment of interests such that the cost of maintaining the outpost by force no longer outweighed the benefits.

Cyprus is also one of the reasons why Turkey has not been added to the EU, and why their relations with Greece are as poor as they are.

If Greece and/or Cyprus would end up being unable to maintain the status of the Greek portion of Cyprus Turkey would have to weigh the advantages of going all in on Cyprus versus the disadvantages of cutting a lot of ties with the EU, which arguably has been stringing along Turkey with the promise of membership without the intention of actually following through on that promise for a very long time now.

Turkey is a very important country in the sense that it is the European gateway to the middle east, it has been instrumental as an ally in many military operations over the last two decades and there are large numbers of Turkish emigrants living all over Europe, which means any decision going against Turkish interests has the possibility of mobilizing a substantial number of people in other member states. But there are a large number of member states that do not actually wish Turkey to join the EU on equal terms, at the same time they don't want to see Turkey join the middle-East.
Burden of proof is on you to prove your ridiculous theory.
This reminds me of PG's article about schlep (http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html) and suggests a startup opportunity: If you can streamline the process of managing an investment in a poorly-performing company and/or shutting a company down when it fails completely, there's probably lots of VCs who would love to hand over their stock cheap, just to get rid of the headaches so they can focus on the investments they want to focus on.

YC has proven that startup incubators can be phenomenally effective... who wants to launch the first startup hospice?
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public enum AnchorFace
{
/// <summary>0</summary>
XLow,
/// <summary>1</summary>
XHigh,
/// <summary>2</summary>
YLow,
/// <summary>3</summary>
YHigh,
/// <summary>4</summary>
ZLow,
/// <summary>5</summary>
ZHigh
}

public static class AnchorFaceHelper
{
/// <summary>Normal Vector for the face</summary>
public static Vector3D GetNormalVector(this AnchorFace self)
{
switch (self)
{
case AnchorFace.ZLow:
return new Vector3D(0, 0, -1);

case AnchorFace.ZHigh:
return new Vector3D(0, 0, 1);

case AnchorFace.YLow:
return new Vector3D(0, -1, 0);

case AnchorFace.YHigh:
return new Vector3D(0, 1, 0);

case AnchorFace.XLow:
return new Vector3D(-1, 0, 0);

default: // XHigh
return new Vector3D(1, 0, 0);
}
}
}
What's the point of writing something in Java if you have to do manual memory management and can't use any of the platform library? asm.js makes sense for performance critical code that you would in other languages write in C. So, in a game you could write your game engine or at least your graphics engine in C/C++ and then add a scripting language for logic (JavaScript/Java/Python/Lua/...). You could compile the engine from C/C++ to asm.js and the game logic to JavaScript. But compiling a classical high(est) level, GC collected language that is mostly defined by its standard lib (read: Java) to asm.js seems weird.
Wow, I remember reading about foaf+ssl years ago. Glad to see it's still alive!
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1. It has to be cleared by pilots, senior pilots in that list even clerical level staff come at places. If some one with expertise objects then that objection is either bought, or objector is coerced or sometimes eliminated (esp.) if the deal runs quite long into millions. This 'clearing by expertise/experts' thing was explained by a friend of mine currently posted at Yelahanka AFS.

2. I would like to know this too. Chidambaram has a son who is a crook and I am sure the father is one too. Not sure he was the one mentioned.

3. Well, this sounds credible(your counter-point I mean) and worrying :-)
Just FYI, there are a few branches that are better featured, but I don't remember their names right now. I recommend you seek them out instead of the plain GitX.
Email has identity built in. Email is identity.

I'm no security expert, but my understanding is that email is pretty flawed when it comes to establishing the true identity of the sender. I guess you could use something like DKIM or SPF, but plenty of people don't have that set up.

If you use obfuscated inbound email addresses then it's not really a problem. But, if you're identifying people by their FROM address on a very public inbound address, be aware that it's trivially easy to spoof that.
My claim that a plush toy has been keeping this town from being hit by asteroids is roughly equivalent to your claim that NAM countries were "the actual reason that a war between the West Bloc and the East Bloc never really happened".
Still doesn't make it a planned action by necessity. When the Spaniards discovered the Americas with all of its Aztec gold, it was an accident that made them very rich for a long amount of time; still it would be stupid to claim Colombus was sent on his journey with the task to deprive indigenous people of their treasures.
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Wow, that just brought back a massive flash from the past. I actually remembered how I felt then I wrote those lines (or something very similar) for the first time. It's a powerful feeling. Thanks for that.
probably exactly the way someone feels when a non-technical person wants a website made and a google search tells them it only costs $200
Sometimes the terms might be more restrictive than is actually enforced. Doesn't really help with your fear, but if you avoid undermining them in every way you can, it's probably less likely that they'll try to cut you off. Having a backup plan (Google Local API?) probably isn't a bad idea, though.
Please, if you have a link or would agree to send us a copy on request, that would be amazing. I haven't seen the code yet, so I don't know how badly it is needed, but I am definitely going to use this project for teaching programming. And if you already have a cleaned-up version, that would be a great help.

If, for some reason you don't want to link the code here, I put my email in my profile info.
> I mean, how else could he write such an innovative language

He used Prolog and was inspired by it... Prolog is far out.
As an indie developer who had established an online business in cyprus and is now being hardly hit by the bail-in, i agree with a lot of the observations made. Cyprus offers high quality financial services for people who do international business transactions. I am not aware how much of this business is from russian mafiosos, but I was certainly not one of them.

Establishing a business in southern europe is risky anyways in the past 5 years with national governments failing left and right. The red tape and the ability of the state to impose arbitrary "urgent taxation" (has happened twice in greece already) hurts all business planning in an already shaky business environment. For me, cyprus was an obvious choice because of its "most lawful" status (the country is in the EU and in the euro for years, which requires a high level of transparency, and it is not in considered a tax heaven by OECD), plus when you don't do business in your home country you have the freedom of choice. Compared to the bailed-out european south, cyprus was actually the safest option. From my experience, i did have to provide adequate documentation for all business transactions and the red tape overhead was much reduced.

The whole handling of the situation until now is a hugely chaotic freak show, a pretense battle between white knights of capitalism and socialism, and a huge display of how ineffective it is to run europe without a central trustable government.
Yes. The whole "inherent ability" thing is bullshit - even if it does exist, schools don't actually group by ability, they group by (a) how well kids do on tests at a young age and (b) how good the kid's parents are at convincing the schools to put their kids in a higher set, both of which have as much to do with race and socioeconomic class as they do with actual ability.
I like the fact that you investigated this before posting rather then being "ra ra conspiracy" like the other posters.
Put some effort into learning Emacs (or Vim) and forget about Xcode if you really care about not being frustrated.
One more reason not to attend Rails-related stuff.
> still it would be stupid to claim Colombus was sent on his journey with the task to deprive indigenous people of their treasures.

Wikipedia: "In the "Capitulations of Santa Fe", King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella promised Columbus that if he succeeded he would be given the rank of Admiral of the Ocean Sea and appointed Viceroy and Governor of all the new lands he could claim for Spain. He had the right to nominate three persons, from whom the sovereigns would choose one, for any office in the new lands. He would be entitled to 10% of all the revenues from the new lands in perpetuity. Additionally, he would also have the option of buying one-eighth interest in any commercial venture with the new lands and receive one-eighth of the profits.[31]"
Your assumption though is that they will spend the money on the 'fish' rather than the 'fishing rod'. Is there any evidence for this?

And if they did buy the fish, are we sure that really was worse than the rod?
Probably all true, but based solely on this blog post i still wouldn't hire your IT service super company, blabla.. (to be clear, i have seen enough guys calling themselves CEO of a one man limited or whatever, i don't care for titles or how you are on "the board" of three firms, i'm a tech guy, not someone that is impressed by titles or certificates.).

Edit: Still kudos to you, for running a business at that age, respect for that!
Why is insolvency not an option for a country? It was in Sweden, which is doing fine now, and in Argentina more recently. Oh look, there's a whole lot more of them[1]. It only isn't an option for a member state of the EU. I sure don't see how Germany's strategy of starving those already struggling economies to death is going to work out.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_default#List_of_sover...