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> Yet when Google spent only a few months developing the first Dart ... the same criticism was leveled at Google from Mozilla.

Yeah right. Dart was originally dash. Before that it was planned modifications to JS, but nobody wanted to turn JS into Java so you threatened JavaScript "would be replaced".

Dart/dash/google.js is just open-washing. Nobody outside of Google has any say in it, and that's why they don't take to it.
An issue with Greek culture? Yes but what about Spain, Italy and Portugal, Ireland - and now maybe Slovenia? They also have immense problems thanks to their Euro status.

Truth is that these counties should never have been asked to join the Euro in the first place and this problem will never be fixed while they remain. However it's the big cosy idea that counts in the minds of the Eurocrats, never mind the human cost.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_prit...
You could always click the pop-out button and full-screen that bitch.
>If someone were to suggest some innovative methods of monetizing content while simultaneously making it more accessible to a wider audience, that'd be very interesting.

You're talking about business models rather than the DMCA, but let's go with it. Maybe there's something there. Here's Paul Graham:

"[T]he record labels, [] are effectively a rogue state with nuclear weapons. There is nothing we or anyone else can do to protect you from them, except warn you not to start startups that touch label music."[1]

[1]http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html

Hollywood pretty much falls into the same category. You do something novel, they sue you. That's a problem. Asking for new business models on a message board... is not very likely to be fruitful. Thinking up that stuff is work. A lot of times you don't even know whether it'll be effective until you spend six months implementing and testing it.

And people want to get paid, right? Well, hackers are people. And we get paid when we make something that succeeds, not when we try to implement something ridiculously cool but go out of business because of a lawsuit before anyone can even try it. So big surprise, there are thousands of start-ups not working on anything that could help Hollywood, because they don't want to get lawyered into the dirt. You understand that we don't have a budget for that; the possibility of a lawsuit means nobody is going to touch it with a pole, because there are a million other things with a much lower risk of that.

So this is a "let us help you" kind of a situation. Hackers love to make things. A lot of us watch movies. We aren't the bad guys; we get paid, remember? We buy stuff. You don't see a lot of epic shit happening in that space though, do you? Because we're not allowed to do it. That's what the DMCA does. It gives the veto to the guys who would have vetoed the VCR.

Nobody can tell you what people will invent before they invent it. That's not how it works. You have to let it happen first.
The main problem of the eurozone is that debt is not centrally managed. If debt were centrally managed, it would be centrally regulated, and the current crises would have had a lower likelihood. Although to be fair, the U.S. debt is centrally managed, and that didn't seem to help much 5 years ago.
And this is what happens when an expert in one field things he can solve a problem in another field with blind data analysis without any higher-level though, and makes theory-destroying incorrect assumptions along the way.
Sorry about downvoting your comment, did not mean to.
I don't know why you wouldn't look at the city's metro area. And if you look at GDP, really Cyprus is 1/4 the size of Pittsburgh.
Is it possible to just prototype the service with non-sensitive data during development period and migrate to HIPAA compatible servers when you have customers?

If you already have customers, bake the hosting in to the price. They're almost certainly used to paying for things like that already, and I assume that if your app has to be HIPAA compliant, that it probably already has a $xx,000 price at a minimum anyway, so that should work out just fine.
You can always hold cash... of course, that's got its own risks (theft), and you're not immune from inflation...

Using something a store of value is essentially anticipating that someone will give you something valuable in the future. This holds whether that store of value is a promise from a bank (in your deposit account), or a government bond, or a commodity.

You can never be completely sure of the future. But some entities are much better about it than others.
Many companies in Silicon Valley are registered in Delaware or Nevada, but its offices and employees are somewhere near San Jose. I'm implying this medium sized IT company is registered in Cyprus, but it has its offices or employees elsewhere. How else can OP speak so casually about moving his company to the other side of the globe?
It's not any less technically legal for the E.C.B. to levy those bank accounts.
Oh boohoo.

The OP appears to forget that without the European Commission, all of his money would be lost.

It's like getting mad at the guy who chainsaws you out of the car that you folded around a tree because he sawed your car into two pieces.
> It's easier to make your first million working for a hedge fund than it is in a startup.

In fact, this is what Mr. Summly did, by way have being born to a banker.
I haven't read RFC6333 yet, so I don't grasp Dual Stack Lite, but could
you provide some details on why you feel it's "more compatible"? Thanks!
building penises out of dirt right now.

I find this comment a bit distracting, and in poor taste. Everybody knows real minecraft users build castles.

building castles in the sky.
But that itself is only there because the bubble is expanding right now.

What happens when a government decides enough is enough and buys then dumps BTC? It wouldn't take much capital to cause a bank run type of inflation attack.
I work primarily in Django, so I luckily don't have to care very much about which one I'm using. That said, I usually prototype / develop against MySQL, just because it is what I'm most familiar with, and deploy against PostgreSQL, because I believe it to be more stable (when unattended).

Actually, if I'm being completely honest, MOST of what I deploy to is a mix of Postgres and Oracle, but that wasn't asked, and I don't recommend Oracle to anybody that isn't specifically selling on-prem solutions for Enterprise or government customers.
The way some Americans rate city populations is weird to my (Australian) sensibilities. We assume the metro area in the city population - because the city is referred to as a whole. If I go to visit a friend in the metro areas of Sydney, I'm still 'going to Sydney', not 'the Sydney metro area'.
There seems to be some confusion as to what a bank is on this board.

Every time you deposit say $1 with a bank, they lend out $.90 of it at interest for mortgages, payrolls, etc. It's these investments the bank makes that can (and do) wreck money. The government of the US and EU recognize this risk for most people is detrimental and offer insurance on the first 100,000 deposited.

The phrase "seized account" does not appear to be correct, more correct would be "The Cypriot banks lost something like 40% of all deposits and all depositors over the 100,000 insured mark have lost their investment."

Any deposit in a bank is still an investment, even if they don't pay interest, because banks don't just put all your coins and bills in a vault, they just mark you down as a number in their books. The risk you take is that government backing the deposit insurance AND the bank don't do something dumb. Banks are usually much more highly regulated than hedge funds, but a quick look at how often banks fail (the US has something like 800+ banks on the unnoficial FDIC watch list) should sober anyone up.

Hold physical money is the only not to be at risk of losing a deposit, and then you have to provide for security, and you sure aren't going to earn interest.

I'm not really enthusasiastic about bitcoins, but one could argue they solve the problem of trying to keep a bunch of wealth out of the risk of banks, without having to have a huge pile of physical currency/valuables.
Oops, I updated my post. Meant to say avoidance instead of evasion.

Being legal doesn't change my sentiment.
I'll also be pushing out a whole bunch of nice open source ones that (if correct) everyone should use very soon.
Cyprus's banks are more than just dumps for dirty Russian money. is a banking hub for a variety of entities who want to do business with Europe. They help western Europe and Russia (and, more recently, emerging markets) invest in each other, get stocks listed on each others' exchanges, comply with the applicable financial regulations, and things like that. They do lots of "financial services" and consulting.

Or they did, anyway.

Wikipedia:
"As a result of the reforms in the past decade Cyprus has developed into one of the world's more important international business centers. In the years following perestroika it gained great popularity as a portal for investment from the West into Russia and Central and Eastern Europe."
The nice-ish two bedrooms in the Lower Haight for 3600/month are where I suggest new transplants to the city move.
Can You Be Nice And Successful?
The idea of "safeguarded savings" is a conceptual abstraction. Think of a barter economy. I trade you a loaf of bread I baked for a haircut. Where did we get the idea that I should be able to bank that haircut, and come to you 10, 20 years later and still get that haircut? It's a view that comes from seeing money as something of intrinsic value, rather than what it really is: a proxy that decouples transactions in what would otherwise be a barter economy.

In nature, "savings" are subject to loss and decay. You "save" by building a house to live in or storing away grain--all those things are subject to deterioration, disaster, etc. Financializing it doesn't change that underlying fact.
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"[Cyprus] had something like 150 billion in private funds stored in two of its banks: the Bank of Cyprus and Lakie"

As of today, deposits stand at €68 billion [1]. The peak was €73 billion in May 2012 [2].

[1] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f13edbfc-9780-11e2-b7ef-00144...

[2] http://www.centralbank.gov.cy/media/xls/2nd_MFS_January_2013...
Can read you your link: "To explain the problem with female dancers at an industry party is that these women are on display. Even if they were dancing in a PG-13 manner, they’re still detracting from the purpose of the event: a professional gathering."

Which is what I say in the post you're replying to.
And has a longer commute to downtown by public transit than Oakland
Looks like pyglet now runs on OS X: http://www.pyglet.org/news.html
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Although the screen is just 5 inch, and just 960*544 in resolution, gamers still can enjoy their collected movies on it whenever they feel bored of playing video games. And to that target, as the most popular Blu-ray Ripper software for Mac system, it is necessary for DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper for Mac to support to rip Blu-ray movies to PS Vita compatible videos on Mac computer.
No, He might not be Cypriot but he has his company based in Cyprus, that is why he is saying he will have to let go all his Cypriot employees..
When all your assets are taken away you don't have a choice but to run from that place and start somewhere else in hope it won't happen again. Like him many people have lost trust on EURO ZONE, and many businesses are trying to move out of the Euro Zone.
Sounds too good to be true, but I signed up due to curiosity.
It amazes me how many people mention tax evasion, and other excuses for apportioning of liability.

The liability should lie with the people who bought the Cypriot/Greek debt in the first place. They are the ones that in essence lent the money to these two tiny countries when it was obvious it was out of control and would blow up.

But where is the incentive not too when the liability is offloaded to people who had no part in the debt transaction; either the citizens or other third parties.

To me these risk balances are way out of whack and are just asking for the irresponsible fiscal activities we are seeing.
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The meaning of CSS
No, don't buy treasuries. Getting back inflation destroyed dollars is not risk free, in fact you're getting defrauded because you're not actually getting your money back at all.

A quick check on what dollars will buy (the true judge of the value of a currency), spanning 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 years tells you everything you need to know about the destruction your capital will suffer while yielding almost nothing to offset the devaluation. And now the Fed is working harder than ever before to abuse the global reserve FRN standard.

Now is the absolute worst time possible to buy treasuries. The era of cheap money is coming to a close with a frantic flailing about of currency devaluations, binge stimulus, bailouts, and robberies. Anybody that claims hyper cheap money lasts forever, is selling a pipedream (which may be accompanied with the words: it's different this time).
The Atlantic was banned from reddit for spamming last year. Wouldn't surprise me if they were doing the same BS here.
It's known from the start:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/16/iclou...
The same thing is the case here in the US. FDIC insures up to 250k. After that you are liable to lose it if the bank goes tits up.

In this case, the bank went tits up, he got his 100k EUR back from insurance.

As for mortgages and loans, those aren't insured to the bank either (unless underwritten by the gov't ...), so if YOU go bankrupt the bank is out that money. In most cases you have some equity backing that loan so even if you go bankrupt some part of the money can be recovered by for example selling your house.
Why is the area around the Golden Gate park so much cheaper than the surrounding areas? Is it working class? Seems strange that with access to a large park (and no other info) that it would be considerably cheaper than neighbouring areas.
I'm running OS X 10.8 and ran into the same problem as the OP. This workaround unfortunately didn't resolve the problem.
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> Although I've worked for plenty of men who seem to be perfectly comfortable with the arrangement of using the money they earn with their own skills to pay for someone else's expertise, there are three reactions I've grown familiar with that suggest there's often anxiety about letting another guy do your "man jobs."

I grew up here in the U.S., but I still find Westerners weird sometimes. My dad grew up in a village in Bangladesh, and for him it's always been a great point of pride for him that he could afford to pay someone to do "man work."
Sometimes ads are useful. In this case you still have the blank pages except they're blank, instead of being filled with a potentially useful ad.
That's plain wrong. You don't buy treasury bonds unless you know the interest rate. Even after all the bail outs, all the crisis and despite rising government debt there is no safer investment.

It's just usually not used as the sole investment, but rather the safest position in portfolio...
If they want to annoy Amazon that's a possible motivation... although it's far from obvious they have what it takes.
I don't care for this stuff. I don't think children should be placed into these tracks; it reinforces many problems. You have kids getting stuck into vocational trades because some administrator thinks they can't handle it or perhaps they haven't "blossomed" intellectually, or because of their family or family's station in life, think that's all they can do.

Sorry, but the "honors if for state college bound and AP is for UC bound" little formula you have there just makes my eyes roll.
Ah, CFG being "control flow graph"? I don't think I've seen that usage of "CFG" before.
"When you deposit money in a bank you become a protected senior creditor, but creditor nonetheleas, to the bank."

This might be true when you put your money in savings account, and are earning an interest on it. But what if you are paying the bank for keeping your money safe, and paying them recurring fees to operate a current account which doesn't earn any interest? Most businesses need an operating account to pay for day to day expenses. And current account should be treated like SAFES, as bank is actually charging money for them and not paying any interests.
Babylon's bait and switch
Since the OP wasn't originally raised to be specifically responded to, I'll post my thoughts here as well -

- there are plenty of ways to distribute "less taxes", and if "mafiaesque government" remains constant, then that implies that taxes just simply need be distributed less equitably to satisfy that condition.
> I'm not sure why you think oddly shaped CFG's that have goto's would hurt it. At worst, you can always turn oddly shaped CFG's into sanely shaped ones at the cost of code duplication.

Very true, I hadn't thought about that. That's a great point. I believe that the Relooper falls back to a large switch statement for irreducible control flow (which is very rare), but it could do code duplication instead.
Basically, someone deposited his money in a tax haven, with patently risky banks. Then the banks went into trouble. The European Union tries to help them avoid total loss, and now that same someone blames the EU for the partial loss.

Total loss was the alternative to the bailout...
Postgresql.

I have been working with postgresql for more than 8 years now.
I created FPPostgreSQL a cocoa framework for Postgresql (the only one?). (developer.flyingpigcorp.com)

What makes postgresql better?
- Better SQL features
- PL/SQL
- Stored procedures
- Performances
- Configurations options.

As for web apps, mysql has "better" integration with many scripting languages, but when it is time to select a DB you'll get pass the few integrations issues you might have and focus on perf and features.
Since acquisition by Oracle, MySQL is getting better and better, but still my heart is with PG.
PG will deliver the performances you need.

Note: I just came back from while42 event in SF @ socialcam, and they use mostly postgresql for the db work.
Google being sloppy with data (Google Glass contest)
Making Airport Security Lines faster and friendlier to others in line.
When push comes to shove, the deposit guarantee may not protect your money.

"Back in December 2012 the FDIC and the BoE published a joint paper outlining their new approach for how to resolve any future collapse of one of the Too-Big-To-Fail banks...

'deposit guarantee schemes may be required to contribute to the recapitalization of the firm'[1][2]

...the new system raids the Deposit Protection scheme, gives it to the bank instead of you and when that fails to save the bank…then what? The bank fails again and there is no money left in the Deposit Guarantee scheme."

[1] http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2013/03/plunderball-the-new-euro-b...

[2] http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/news/2...
I suppose you think they should have sunk it all into aqueducts and amphitheaters.
basically, there is a reason we don't start mathematics education with set theory, even though it's more "fundamental"

Ah, that brings back memories, because I grew up in the heyday of "New Math". We called September "Set-tember", because every September year after year we started each school year with yet another review of sets: union, intersection, subsets, empty sets. If Set A contains blah-blah and Set B contains foo-foo, list the elements in A union B, A minus B, etc., etc., et cetera.

We were all so sick of sets we could hardly stand it, had no idea why they were seemingly the most important topic in all of math, and couldn't wait to get past sets and, around October or so, find out what we were actually going to do in math that year.
And "usually" housing prices don't go down in tandem across the country....
It doesn't fly in the face of what we know. If you take VC money, your investors will be looking for some kind of exit, and they will also be trying to achieve that through their connections. That doesn't mean every company needs to take VC money, but that's one way that people play this game.
I think this has an enormous amount of practical problems in terms of implementation, class room dynamics, and so on. You really think public schools should do this?
People don't actually need to pay attention to that. Most banks in the European Union are already watched and have regulations up their collective funnels to avoid exactly these kinds of problems. The only mitigation strategy neccessary is to split your cash assets in multiple accounts...

And of course, if you partake in a well-functioning state, which protects your rights against all sorts of problems, educates your workforce, regulates your food and healthcare, you might consider the taxes a bargain.
> It is regulating your conduct as an American taxpayer

It can't regulate conduct it can't see.
Amen brotha, but don't tell that to the PhDs. P.S: I'm a PhD student.
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That's effectively a 1 year freeze.
You've got to be joking. I mean, I'm not at advocate of what the article is proposing but this is crazy. It is always inherently racist?
I pay far less living in Tokyo, and I can walk to Shinjuku station in 20 minutes. I pay a lot more for food and my apartment is tiny, but rent is affordable, and if you share a place, it becomes really reasonable.

However, it's certainly not as cheap as Philly was.
By the way:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115863474911002159675/posts/L3o9...

More SPEEEEEEEEEEEEED coming down the pipe in 1.1 for Go's net/http. :)
As of December 2012 62% of deposits in Cyprus were by domestic residents. Removing the €5,3 billion in non-Cypriot euro-deposits and we find about 31% of the mostly Russian and British deposits [1]. The political problem were the foreign deposits. The financial problem were 2011 foreign deposits at 82% of GDP, total deposits 2011 nearly 3x GDP, and bank assets 5-7x GDP.

[1] http://www.centralbank.gov.cy/media/xls/2nd_MFS_January_2013...
The funds are currently marked as frozen. I presume that they're still figuring out the exact percentage for the haircut, so the only assets he can use is anything up to the insured amount.
Budget cuts, yes, but remember that the materials you're using are basically one-shot and manufacturing isn't nearly as big as it used to be, so there's less justification against cutting it, unlike, say... biology and chemistry.
Here, here!

ORMs seem to be great if you are doing prototyping, but most of my analysis tools have to be built against existing datasets or ecosystems. I'm either shoehorning in two databases from two separate architectures together or at the very least working with one that is populated by another tool.

ORMs fall flat on their face in these circumstances, and I'm left with having to fight against it in cases where it may be tightly coupled.

One of the biggest problems I have had with a lot of the cool new frameworks is that they make basic assumptions about how they will use them.
Then, as a direct line:

1. Ignore pirates. They are not customers. Spend your energy/money on customers. Research indicates that piracy has negligible (and sometimes positive) effect on revenue levels.

2. Don't punish buying customers with anti-customer technology. The pirates don't have DRM. Don't turn your customers into ex-customers.

http://xkcd.com/488/ <=== READ this carefully. Show this to your connections.
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