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> If you can deploy the same set up 10,000 times easily

If you had 10,000 web servers, are you telling me its difficult to create a script that will automatically pull files from a centralised network store?

In the above case, that's how I would set up and its trivial.
It's potentially far better value to help people in poorer countries. When you're talking about people with an income of $0.65 a day you probably don't have to give them much to help them out significantly. There's undoubtedly genuine need in your country but I doubt you can provide nearly as much assistance per thousand dollars.

On the other hand it's much easier to audit the good / harm your charity is doing closer to home and you don't really have the whole neocolonialism concern, so there are arguments for and against both.
Affording for yourself two cars and a $900 a month lease apartment while doing (paid?) studies AND supporting an unemployed housewife DOES NOT put you in the "poor" category. That's called having the luxury to afford all that. Furthermore, although you did your "aggressive negotiation" and made it to that (outstanding) $5k, it doesn't change the fact that there is a problem with the medical system that brought you to your knees, read more here (may need to get a free subscription to access it):

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2136864,00....

The USA medical system has broken also PEOPLE THAT WERE HAVING HEALTH INSURANCE, and it is a wrong as the story conclusion to look at charity as the solution for fixing problems that were brought upon a previously prosperous family in the first place.
Very dean and modem.
async.sortBy is for sorting the results of an array of asynchronous functions. It is not an asynchronous sort. Let's see how it fares with process.nextTick(function(){array.sort()}) (or better still, threads-a-gogo).
I'm interested in the technique suggested for font loading. As an exercise I just created a font containing a single character at zero width. The resulting file size is considerably smaller than Blank (1440 bytes, versus 80k) which makes it nicer to inline, but should be able to serve the same purpose for font loading:

Create a span containing the character, with the font family referring to the font being loaded and the empty font (inlined in the css) and when the width is non-zero the font is loaded.
(c) The banks are almost 100% deposit funded (something that regulators across the world have been encouraging because deposits tend to be sticky if you take care of them).

Uh... if you pay 1% or less a year in interest as they in USA. Many Cyprus banks were paying north of 5% a year so they'd have to make maybe 7%-10% a year to break even after expenses and taxes.

8. You never, ever, ever, hit insured depositors.

Great point, expect that no one is touching them. Deposits over EUR 100K are being hit /frozen, those up to EUR 100K are not touched, which just happened to be the insured amount. The banks could have bought private insurance and threatened to take down the next AIG with them (Now that's leverage), but they apparently didn't.

The real fault lies with the banks and Cyprus gov (or the people, indirectly). They could have cracked down on these shady deals and limited the bank's exposures to Greek debt. They didn't and Germans /N Europeans don't want to ask their taxpayers to bail another country. Someone has to pay, it clearly can't be the taxpayers given the ratio to GDP so it's the depositors and bank owners. To summarize:

There is no money.

No one wants to give them more money.

Banks are broke and as usual you can lose all the money that is not insured. It says so, or it should say so on the tiny print.
>because this is a accusation, and it really means a great deal to do so without proof.

This is part of the attitude that gets on my nerves really. Public media is not a court of law. And that was by design that goes along with democracy. I won't deny the design has its problems, but i am more interested in seeing how the design can be improved. If you don't want to examine, just ignore the accusation.
"I'm not seeing any realistic long term solutions anywhere."

What about what Iceland did? They actually held the people that ran the banks accountable and let them fail.
I find asm.js pointless.
If all you need a fast numeric calculations in JavaScript, the better compiler backend would be WebCL - OpenCL binding to JavaScript.
Why? Services (incl. tourism) are great; it's a tiny country in a region which actually needs financial services (arab countries, russia). Is the EU unwilling to save their banks? fine, let them bail themselves (which is what they are doing). Why the fuck do they have to order a whole nation what to do? What's next? ask luxembourg to start herding cows?
>The data fights conventional wisdom: Money spent on alcohol and cigarettes either decreases, stays constant or increases in the same proportion as total other expenses (approximately 2% to 3%).

The article contradicts your assumption.
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This is terrible. You are benchmarking node.js on exactly the thing everyone knows it is terrible at. Besides that yiur scenario is completely unrealistic and your google efforts Should have tipped you off.
There are no results for sorting algorithms on node because nobody sorts on node.js. This is CS102.. Why would anyone ever sort more than 50 items on the server side of a web application.

.net is faster than node but you absolutely failed at showing it.
Sweden isn't in your list. In fact the last "rich" country was Germany in 48.

Btw, defaulting was an absolute disaster for Argentina
You are complaining a bit too much. Why?
The author notes about himself:

> I work for Microsoft as a software engineer for Bing in Silicon Valley. My group specializes in building platform and experiences for consumers. ( http://www.salmanq.com/ )
Agreed that no depositor should be hit. The failure here is that of the ECB which has not managed to regulate banks properly to reduce the risks of failure.
> There is no shortage of people praising Haskell every day, this is what is in fashion today.

I really don't like this characterization of interest in Haskell. It implies that it's no different from any other language and is just arbitrarily picked up because it's trendy. Learning Haskell is a very substantial investment of time and effort, it is very different from languages that most programmers have used before. It practically tells people “don't even try to like me, I'm high maintenance.”
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Meet people, talk and learn from them directly. Sit with them and do hack sprints. Conferences are awesome and you should try more apparently.
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Actually this is still the reality in most corporations out there.

I seldom see TDD, unit testing, continous integration and so on outside the startup world.

Most of the projects I do in the enterprise start agile and slowly evolve to a mix of agile and waterfall. When stress for delivery raises, many entrerprise project managers just kill unit testing related tasks.
Now, I don't really believe that India or NAM actually played a key/direct/active role in preventing a war on one those provocative and volatile occasions, triggered by either side but I do believe that NAM provided a platform for a large number of countries to stay out of the 'big-game'.

For one, it prevented the world from being totally polarized into two opposites which was, (no dear I do not have a mathematical proof for this statement), a good reason for shelling not happening across every border on this planet - well, simply because the idea of if you are not a friend you are an enemy was absent and NAM was the reason.

AFAIK NAM or India was not at all involved in any direct intervention of any war or war like situation (esp. b/w the big two). India was not capable of doing this either with military power or diplomacy. Hell, it just wanted to stay out of the cross-fire having recently been freed and trying to be on its own feet with a plethora or problems at hand related to caste, religion, education and poverty etc.

>>three events that come to mind where the cold war was nearly going hot

Yeah, that is what happens when sensational journalism and films take over. All we see and remember of a decades long conflict are cannons being fired and spies shooting with silencered pistols :-)
I wonder if this will have an effect on Google's current scraping of goodreads reviews to fluff-up their books section on the Play store...
It is kind of depressing to consider,but your wages have been going up by 5%-8% a year and the tradesmen's wages have been flat to to down. I have a great, problem solving carpenter who charges $25 per hour - a whole day of his work for $200. There is no way I can compete with that. The trouble is he is pretty busy and hard to get a hold of. I tell him every time he is at my house he should raise his rates and mark-up the cost of the materials he buys
So it's mostly about networking?

I'm not disputing that conferencea could be fun, there are lots of fun things in the world. I was just wondering what they were actually useful for.
To be fair to the Cypriot people - they did the same as everyone else in the UK, Ireland, Iceland etc. did and allowed the finance sector to become far too large relative to the rest of the economy assuming that there were no possible downsides.

Who would ever vote for a politician who tries to constrain the growth of a financial sector that appears to be able to generate money out of thin air?
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I suppose not. But my thinking was the help will end at soem point and then the fish will stop unless they've bought a rod and took the time and effort to 'learn to fish' so to speak.
On which platform (OS) the NodeJS is running?.
You are forgetting where and why the financial crisis started. Although in the US the financial institutions were saved by printing money in the rest of Europe the ECB controls the presses.
It's called the Achievement Gap, not my "ridiculous theory." Google it.
You are right about all UIs changing, but the OP is talking about a new version of compose that Google is testing. It removes the full screen compose page and treats compose in a similar way to gChat conversations.

http://learn.googleapps.com/new-gmail-compose/new-compose-vi...

The new design has messaging that says the old version of the compose page will go away. I agree with the OP. Freaking terrible news. I only want to see my inbox a few times a day. Not every time I compose. I am a fan of the new visual style, though.
Looks like a regular town in where i live, East Europe.
I don't program in nodejs but this is wrong on so many levels. First an honest question: what exactly is it that nodejs is terrible at? Please define it.

Now granted every tool has its strengths and weaknesses this benchmark shows a very large difference in operations that aren't uncommon in web servers.

Sorting in memory should concern you, since caching happens in the memory. Again, I don't know the state of ORM technology in nodejs but any NHibernate user will be able to tell you that level 2 caches are a common thing and they will boost the benchmarks even further if you were to compare it to a nodejs stack.

The only scenario where I see nodejs faster and better than .NET are the very smallish script scenarios like a log receiver etc, where no state is needed and minimal memory footprint is required
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Fred: how do you feel about a template that makes it possible for mid-growth businesses (the 10-30%/year growth companies that aren't speeding to liquidity) to make returns to investors? Here's a first scratch I drew at that concept: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/gervais-macle...

The idea is that extreme transparency in profit sharing and compensation makes it possible for the mid-growth businesses to kick back dividends to investors while still growing-- instead of several years later at a liquidity event that may never happen. Thus, investors are fairly treated and get to participate, financially, in a space of business (mid-growth) that's currently underbanked.

The VC ecosystem is pretty abominable, and I don't think it's because VCs are bad people. They're not. I think it has a lot more to do with the fact that these red-ocean gambits require huge, fast-growing companies, so it's a natural oligarchy. It requires businesses to swell to 100+ people before they have the cultural readiness to grow to that size while maintaining a decent culture (hence, most turn into cutthroat, horrid messes).

It seems like if we could come up with a structure that enables the financing of mid-growth businesses-- equity financing for the 10-30%/year growth companies with less risk of total failure, that could also use their slower growth to optimize for creative innovation and cultural health-- then everyone would win.
This challenge covers much of compilers research. Many heuristics and techniques that are used in practice in compilers (certainly in ours and GHC and ocaml and other research ones I've talked with) have solutions we've all verbally shared with one another on how to solve these problems. But we're all convinced we couldn't get a paper out of it (novel enough, but it's too hard to meet the "evaluation bar"), so it remains stuff we talk about during breaks at conferences and in "Limited" circles on G+...
Did you read the whole article? The corruption in big military deals is mentioned as a big worrying factor.
I go to conferences for professional development.

Typically, conferences are for professional development. Here's how a conference is superior to me clicking my way to professional development.

1. I'm not distracted by the demands of my day job. When I go to a conference I leave my day to day concerns behind. I can completely focus on learning and networking.

2. The biggest benefit for a conference for me personally is that I'm inspired by speakers, by what they're doing and working on, and by what my fellow attendees are doing and working on. This temporary reprieve from my day to day in #1 in conjunction with #2 has me itching to get back to my keyboard to code.

When I attempt to skip a conference and just watch the videos, I rarely watch them because of all the other things that are competing for my time and attention.
Well, THIS is going to bring on the haters.

(keep in mind, microsoft haters, that microsoft is currently a HUGE proponent of node.js - a lot of the Azure Mobile Services and the like are built on node)
Other than convenience why wouldn't you open several bank accounts?
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The rich get all their money from tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans, which they steal from important benefits paid to poor defenseless old ladies and lazy people.
What surprised me is that someone left a barely used Volkswagen Beetle there and didn't even return for it...
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The BS is strong in this one.
Technologies are tools in a toolbox. The bigger your toolbox is, the more complex and wonderful things can be built. For any given problem there are a number of parameters involved: available resources (skillsets, fun factor, hardware platform, OS, budget restrictions), time to market, expectations on scalability/security, functional requirements and so on. Thinking that one tool is inherently more suited to all tasks and problems is the equivalent of the old saying about the hammer.
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> Sweden (1812)
As a rich person with very little money I am offended ;)
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Poor/poverty is defined by earning less than $2/day, taking into consideration purchasing power parity. You do not know what poverty is till you cross that line. Things start to get really ugly!
So the exact details of the OPs story doesn't add up. Maybe it's because they're lying, maybe they're being deliberately vague as pr. your third point.

It certainly is plausible, the Indian government is well known to be highly corrupt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_India#Politics
For a short notice (such an) event India might be in trouble unless some other nation/supplier comes forward with a better cost or commitment to some sort of alliance/favour or support and solidarity.

If it happens not in a war like situation then the contract was broken by the supplier and India is fully capable of using those manufacturer's patents and manual as recipe book just like China has been doing for decades. Now, that country can't go their government or Indian government and say - "hey, look we screwed India and now it's screwing us back".

If you wanted a short an final answer - then yes, India will be in trouble.
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Surely there's a better way of expressing yourself that isn't so snarky and condescending.
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Javascript is slower at sorting numbers then .Net!

mind blown
I know your father. He is the only honest officer in the Indian Air Force. Since you are his son salute to you too!
Charity, not welfare.

When it's welfare, you have one monopolistic "service" provider, which ends up getting managed by bureaucratic means (to ensure low graft and wastage, leading paradoxically to a specific and growing amount of wastage as the bureaucracy expands, but that's a different point).

With charity, you have multiple providers, and they compete for funding from contributors so are incented to be as maximally efficient as the charitable services market allows.

And quite frankly, I'd rather live in a charitable society than a welfare society.
In terms of VM performance, nobody would doubt that .Net (or the JVM) would outperform V8; especially in number crunching. If anything, the benchmarks are only proving that Node.js is fast enough.

However, I would guess that typical Node.js apps would be better at handling concurrent connections than typical Asp.Net apps; since Asp.Net apps are not usually written in non-blocking style.
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Unless you can point to something incorrect or unfairly biased in that article - why does this matter?
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I find this not constructive at all, to put it nicely.

So if there was a field with a low male participation would you set up a male bodybuilder show? Or a half naked men dancing show? These are just extreme examples but it's to make a point.

You want more female in tech? Instead of paying dancer go to mid school to show kids how cool is to program. If you do a good job also young girls will give tech a try.
Because .NET is Microsoft's baby? How is this not a huge conflict of interest? At the very least, he should put a disclaimer of that conflict somewhere in the article.
My hard drive code uses ATA PIO. IN/OUT instructions go 4Mhz max, or something like that. I don't use PCI which is faster.
I think Iceland is a great example of a better option. Iceland is still a tourist destination with educated people providing other products and services. As long as your country has stuff people are willing to pay for you'll be ok (even if you go bankrupt).
For a country whose sole gdp generator is the banking sector, with that amount of foreign holdings it would be fatal. I'd only imagine how their relationship with Russia would be if Cyprus null'ed their holdings.

I may be exaggerating, but think of it as Switzerland losing it's bank sector. How would you begin to build up a new economy which, as of yet, biggest sector is banking, for instance. Think of the large population that would be instantly out of work.

At least, that's my guess at why an insolvency wouldn't be the best option for Cyprus.
I know nothing about node but the last paragraph of the article reads like it came directly from Microsoft's marketing material. Shame, because it makes me doubt the rest of what was a very interesting comparison.
Or, "How to shoot yourself in the foot in 60 seconds". Your MySQL server is now exposed to the internet; your only hope is that it contains no vulnerabilities. Also, allowing MySQL-root access from an outside machine is...unwise, to say the least. Moreover, you have now broken any scripts expecting the MySQL server to listen on 127.0.0.1, and you need to fix their config.

A much more secure way would be to make a SSH tunnel, and forward the SQL connection through it - for the MySQL server, the traffic still originates from localhost, you are not exposing the MySQL server for the whole world to crack, and SSH provides significantly better security options than MySQL could hope for. (This has the drawback that you need to set up the SSH tunnel before connecting with the MySQL client, but 1. most decent SQL tools can do this for you automagically and 2. if yours can't, it's a simple command-line invocation)
This doesn't seem to be about feminism specifically (although your classification of an equality movement as an infection would certainly demand extraordinary evidence).

It seems to be more about gender, and gender roles. There's a really big question here that I find interesting as a hacker: how much of what we call gender is biologically constructed, and how much is socially constructed? Obviously, say, having a penis is a direct function of biology, but what about something like girls' supposed preference for pink? This is almost certainly a social construct, and one that only arose in the early twentieth century [0]. And yet dressing little girls in pink has certainly influenced generations of us - do you know many guys who would be comfortable using a pink wallet?

The big question becomes important when we look at an issue like girls being the minority in engineering/technology/business leadership/etc: how much of this is due to some inherent biology, and how much is due to a lack of role models or social expectation for young girls to show interest in these areas?

[0]: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2831/was-pink-origi...
At minimum you should use or have an expert in Node.JS (etc) to make sure things are done efficiently or used in the manner that makes sense for the use case.
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Flatter than flat.
But of course there is a control group: China under Maoist communism, when they were desperately poor and the government murdered millions of people.

Capitalism isn't the only necessary item, but when missing it's obviously missing: like in North Korea vs. South Korea, or East Germany vs. West Germany, or Cuba vs. Chile, or Maoist China vs. Taiwan/Hong Kong/Singapore.

Charity doesn't enrich a nation for the simple reason that people stop giving once that other nation catches up even a little bit and isn't completely flat on its back.
It comes as a surprise to me that this comes as a surprise to you. Really, you didn't know Ruby is pretty much as slow as it gets?
I used to subscribe to this belief until I had my eyes opened by a wise friend. Systems are always gamed by the powerful and a system like this could (and quite probably would) be gamed in order to suppress or even wipe out minorities. It's often best to favor the solution that requires the minimum reliance on an external authority. Currently the best proved solution for overpopulation seems to be increasing education, wealth, and life expectancy.
What's the point of linking directly to the code?