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The kids should be taught about the Constitution and that they should support and defend it (especially the spirit of it) against all enemies foreign and domestic, even the President. That would mean rejecting any obvious wrongdoing and ignoring flag-waving rhetoric.

You can see a negative manifestation of the current Pledge when passing by an auto dealership, like this: http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/C...
Not saying it applies in this case, but one reason might be religious belief. Certain parts of the bible discourage
seeking attention for charitable acts.
What do you think the benefits of having them recite the pledge at school every single day are? Some sort of loyalty to government that could not be taught?

If you think loyalty to government is a good idea, that is fine, but why not teach them why that is the case? I'm sure you have plenty of good reasons lined up, so give them those reason instead of making them recite a pledge...
Kinda like a fair trial, yes.

Oh, and it's also very easy to make conclusions from the armchair about how others arrive at their conclusions. It's not like there is no context or continuity at all here, either. It doesn't matter even if Snowden exists; power and transparency are supposed to flow one way, anyone who refuses to play along is to be made an example of. If that's not an old hat to you by now, a repeat of a repeat of a repeat, I just don't know what to tell you.
It's not a performance, just a recording of one. No hay banda, no hay orquestra.
The server can close it though.

Just have the server ignore keep-alives after a certain amount of time or something.
Yeah, you're not supposed to go out there.
In this climate, you should be so lucky that they sue you for copyright infringement.
Probably. When I saw the movie I recall having the same though. Many of these islands are simply a jewell for photographers.
It's not idiotic at all. There are many countries which don't have this sort of issue, eg Iceland (where many were expecting him to go a week ago). Julian Assange seemed quite happy with Sweden until he found himself at odds with the laws on sexual conduct there (and recall that it is to Sweden, rather than the US, that Britain wants to extradite him).

Russia doesn't have an 'imperfect track record' in this area. It has a pretty poor one, and I'm guessing you're not going to see a wave of libertarian idealists heading there any time soon for just this reason. It's not unreasonable to question Snowden's motives based on the company he keeps.
Something doesn't have to be done to an individual directly for that action to strongly influence that person's life. The Union victory in the Civil War, to this day, influences the average American's life much more than PRISM. All actions with wide-ranging lasting consequences are "done to the public."
Should I become Benevolent Dictator of some future anarchist America, the Pledge might actually be the first thing I get rid of. I'm of the opinion that if people are going to pledge allegiance to anything it will be because they want to, not because they were made to recite some prose.

Of course I know that opinion isn't exactly controversial around here.
Yeah, he's such a nasty agressor. Best put him away for espionage, before he can brutalize everyone even more. And to think we even defend that guy! Stockholm Syndrome much, right?
I know you pointed out github but I'd have to disagree about the physical part for consumer facing markets. I'll point to Fictive Kin[1] and 37signals[2] as just two very successful examples.

1.) http://fictivekin.com/

2.) https://37signals.com/
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he is very right, you can't make yourself work so hard and show nothing for it except everyone being too tired to continue working. And you giving someone a false image about yourself can come back to bite you when they expect you to always be like that and perform the way you showed them or better..
If you want to support artists isn't there an argument for torrenting the music and sending them all the money.
The article misattributes this quote:

An unnamed senior Administration official joined the Snowden-bashing
chorus, telling reporters, “Mr. Snowden’s claim that he is
focussed on supporting transparency, freedom of the press, and
protection of individual rights and democracy is belied by the
protectors he has potentially chosen: China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela,
and Ecuador. His failure to criticize these regimes suggests that his
true motive throughout has been to injure the national security of
the U.S., not to advance Internet freedom and free speech.”

This wasn't some "unnamed senior Administration official"; it was the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, speaking in this afternoon's press briefing. It's an official statement of the White House. Here's the video and transcript:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2013/06/24/...
In many schools the only way to opt-out without receiving significant grief for doing so is to claim a religious exemption to pledging to things. I saw kids receive perpetually refilling detentions for refusing to say the pledge, though at the time I found it weird that they would refuse.
I don't really care how many real terrorist plots have been foiled by my PRISM, because the main reason they exist in the first place is America's hyper-aggressive foreign policy.

Thanks a lot NSA/CIA for saving me from the threat you created! Real great work!
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-115

Death is a possibility, depending on what he is charged with, though given the nature of the case I'd personally doubt the government would pursue it. It is, however, within the realm of possibility, especially after he revealed the anti-Chinese hacking information.
I usually take a look at any docs/example code and then start hacking straight away. Not the most academic way of learning but I personally have the most fun learning this way.
> When was the last time military action by the US meant anything other than pounding peasants into (further) submission?

As recently as 1991 or thereabouts.

I would count 2001 myself to dislodge Al Qaeda but I might understand why you wouldn't.

And before 1991, a U.S. warship escorting merchant traffic was almost destroyed by a mine placed into international waters by a fairly advanced Mideast nation, so it's not as rare as you seem to think.
I think you misunderstand, not he. By under-promising he lowered the value of his standard output, because the client adjusted their cost expectations downward.
You're making my point for me about CSS: it's symptomatic that we need something like SASS to get over browser inconsistency.
Most of my learning is from "print".

I always start with the available documentation, coupled with code reading to help me understand certain aspects better. Once I have a good feel for the language, I buy books to help me understand the nuances I may have missed
initially. I usually end up buying books on languages and systems I expect to use a lot. I used oreilly's safari for years, but eventually stopped because I discovered that its available changed my learning style: I browsed more and read less deeply that usual.

No videos but I do use blogs occasionally.
> Is he wrong though? He fled to a country that has a "Great Firewall" and Internet censors

He fled to Hong Kong, not mainland China. Having been in both places, I can assure you that HK doesn't have a great firewall and internet censors.
It was more my mental picture of who heroin addicts are, rather than who artists aren't. I don't really have many views on artists, or much interest in most art - but thanks for the suggestion.
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> the actual number is 18,750.

150 million times $10 divided by 80,000 is $18,750. However, smsm42 was talking about giving 1% of that to the artists, which would be $187,50.

> nowhere close to that many people pay pandora, and the monthly subscription is $3, and not $10.

Which I covered in my alternative scenario.
This makes sense, especially considering most people use WiFi to access their DSL or cable modems which are delivering substantially less than 54g anyway.

Few people have a use for the ability to quickly move large files around the house. Media professionals, pirates with HTPCs... what else?
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How about a big red nose next to the padlock?
> Whoever wants to constantly relearn the same stuff over and over and over, and today relearn the Ribbon, tomorrow Metro, and so on, is free to do it. But normal, everyday folks should not have to deal with this shit

I like and use Linux. But I wouldn't say that it is great at providing a stable user interface. Things keep changing in in as many arbitrary ways as it does with Windows, perhaps even more.
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Thanks. My goal was to write the tutorial I wish I had when I started. Your description also matches my own preferred learning style.
Card game reference.
This is great and will help people move away from Heroku very, very quickly.
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The point is you want journalists working in an environment where it is expected people stay neutral. Whilst one person will have a bias, you always have other people who read the piece and edit it to keep that in check. That sort of person, even if they are just as biased as independent reporter X, will produce much more balanced work. It's all well and good to say "Oh everybody has a bias" but everybody's bias is not as large as anothers, and doesn't affect their writing in the same way.

I would much rather read pieces by a reporter like Greenwald that makes it clear where he stands, than a journalist that pretends - maybe even to himself/herself - that there is an objective truth they can report.

That's fine- as I said, you can read what you want. I'm just explaining why a lot of people see it differently.
I don't see it, man. We build awesome sites and apps at my shop, and they show their value within days of deployment, yet clients will shudder at anything above 150k. Don't get me wrong, I love what Snapchat is doing, and I wish them the best, but I don't understand the numbers.

Does anyone have insight into where these very high numbers come from/why they reach these levels?
I use Stack Overflow first, searching for "Stack Overflow learn ____" and seeing what they recommend.

I believe the best way is to BUILD something, so in the past lynda.com has been useful to get code into the IDE because you can write it with video, tweak and experiment (where the real learning occurs), and then go back to the lessons.
Sure, but by the time companies are at that point, the equity they give out is trivial (sub-0.01%) and the important positions are already filled.
I understood your point completely and I disagree completely. The point of the democracy is not to enforce majority's views on the minority, at least if we're talking about modern democracy. The point of the democracy is to protect people's rights. Since you have no right to tell the restaurant how to pay their servers, or to restaurant patrons if they should leave tips of not, no democracy can or should give you this right, and it shouldn't matter how many people agree with you - otherwise slavery would be OK as long as slave owners are the majority. On the contrary, one has the right not to be enslaved (or, made to work for other man involuntarily and without mutually agreed compensation) - which makes slavery not OK. It is rather ironic that you invoke slavery - i.e. work forced, ultimately, by government coercion - in support of applying government coercion to mutually agreed trades between people.

>>> No business would have to go out of business and no costs would need to change.

Of course they would need to change - changing the structure of charges would require changing all the prices, and as any price rise, perceived or real, would cost business.

>>> You yourself gave a great examples of how McDonalds manages to run their restaurants without tipping.

I don't go to McDonalds, but I go to other restaurants. So converting all restaurants to McDonalds would cost them my business, that's kinda the point. That'd the difference between our positions - I advocate that both models can work for different people and different situations, and people should be allowed to choose which one they prefer. You advocate that only one model is right for everybody and all others should be banned by the threat of government coercion, and nobody should be allowed to choose what you dislike.

>>> I like it the way it is and no one should tell me to change

It's called freedom. There was time it had some value in America. Now one has to explain what's so valuable about it.
A Kickstarter-like model seems like it should work quite well for music. When enough funding is earned, the album can be released to the public. Providing only some teasers or something along those lines to fuel interest in the meantime. It is pretty hard to pirate content that is not available to anyone, and once you feel you've made enough money to release it, it doesn't matter much much "piracy" happens beyond that point – you've already been paid.
"The very fact that we're seeing so much html/js game dev"

We are? Games that make money? Most games may not need the raw speed of native, but they do need the raw latency. If a game is being programmed in a garbage collected language you're gonna have a bad time.
Indeed, I wasn't disagreeing, just demonstrating ways around the problem.
Maybe if someone could script up something so we could all just auto-fill a bunch of online petitions, it'd really make a big difference. They'll listen when every petition gets 30k signatures.
Yes, this - but with more languages and in the format of this topic. Just a really easy read.
The goal is to get shit done, not necessary with the best talent.
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And while I have no view at all about his guilt or innocence of rape in Sweden and would argue against his extradition to the US I am certain beyond all reasonable doubt that he is guilty of breaching his bail conditions for which I think he should be punished.
I think you are painting an exagerated picture of DNSSEC deployment. Off the top of my head every gov/mil domain is signed, debian, archlinux, fedora, paypal, freebsd, icann, ietf, isc...
Microsoft has insanely long support cycles for their products. Windows 8 will be supported until January 10, 2023. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/lifecycl...
But the problem in the other thread is the assumption that a radio listener and a Pandora listener are the same. They're clearly not, because if Pandora streamed the same thing to every listener it wouldn't have any customers. People pay Pandora for music customized to their personal taste. From the musician's point of view, that makes it less effective than radio at reaching new listeners.
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Seriously. My father, while he was still alive, wore way more band shirts than I ever did.
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It has nothing to do with "loyalty to government." It's loyalty to the concept of a free country, where you can even choose not to say the "pledge." I really don't care what you do. The point of the pledge has nothing to do with a physical piece of cloth, and everything to do with the "republic for which it stands." That's the benefit. It's a reminder to be loyal to the people, not to the mechanisms of the government. The fact that people from all backgrounds/countries can be united under common principles is the point.

So, no, I don't teach my children loyalty to "government", but rather their country, which, up until recently was pretty free from their government.
This article has first world rich boy problems written all over it.

DHH is ambitious, successful, and contributed a lot of value (much of it open-source) to the world. His disappointment does not justify this sort of demeaning commentary -- least of all on HN.
Taking an engineering job at Microsoft at 19 y/o makes perfect sense, too.
Which is why you're under-promising. So that when inevitably things don't go as well as planned, you have a buffer.
I've recently been thinking I need to learn Chef or Puppet. This thread has convinced me to pick up and try Ansible first.
One think I learned from these type of situations is that it is important with some clients to stretch how difficult the project is and keep a constant flow of signals that show the hard work we put into the projects. In my perspective everything is super difficult. Unless the client knows that it is super difficult then it must look really easy. But it is a very nuanced approach, not that black and white as I describe it.

The client must take away the feeling of "they moved heaven and earth for me and I really can't expect them to pull such inhumane hours for me next time" and not "well, they clearly can do a lot more if I just challenge them a bit more". It depends a lot on the client relationship and the related communication.
That's disingenuous. How well would it scale for a musician to personally handle depositing checks from millions of fans? There is a very good reason that many musicians become involved with labels, promoters, distributors, etc., which is to free up the time of the artist to focus on what they are actually interested in doing: writing and playing music.
the music industry not understanding what was about to happen

I think the music industry understood it moderately well and didn't like it; the small independent labels understood it especially well, because their bottom lines shrivelled away to nothing without them having the capital or market clout to create an alternative.

The time when David Gilmour could make living sitting on his fat arse is over.

Right...all musicians are exactly like David Gilmour or whatever former star you consider to be an overpaid has-been...even if they never actually got rich or famous, they should pay the price of his arrogance.

/facepalm
Quick log check. For the last month at least, all SMTP-TLS that my servers received from Google was using ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA. Same for Yahoo mail.

Hotmail, by contrast, never uses it, nor is STARTTLS offered by their MXes.
I would go farther and say that its not that analysis paralysis is a related concept, but that the concept here is a special case of analysis paralysis.
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Project Euler (http://projecteuler.net/) is great for this kind of thing.

The problems start simple, which is perfect for the "learn the syntax" / "learn the tools" phase.

Then the problems get harder, which is perfect for the "learn the advanced features" / "learn about the community" phase.
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The part that rang false for me was equating "learning more" with "earning less". In my experience that's been a false dichotomy. If it's obvious that you'll learn more in one job, then yes, take that one. But if you're choosing between two jobs and you can't decide which one will teach you more, pick the one that pays more, because:

1.) Paying you more indicates that they have more to pay; their top-line is higher, which means they're probably in a more lucrative and dynamic industry.

2.) Paying you more means they value you more, which indicates they may have more work for you to do and be willing to give you more responsibility.

In my first job out of college, I had a choice between 3 jobs. One was a public radio non-profit that needed a techie. One was a VC-funded financial software startup. One was a bootstrapped financial software startup. The last offered me about $15K/year more than the others. When I left it two years later, I'd seen two products through from idea to launch. The VC-funded startup actually had a better outcome for the company (they got bought), but I wouldn't have seen much if any of that cash, and since their product was already pretty set in stone by the time I was interviewing, I wouldn't have had nearly as much of a chance to learn and make decisions.
I wrote a blog post on my process here: http://syskall.com/tips-for-learning-new-technologies/
As recently as 1991 or thereabouts.

1991? You mean Iraq? "It's only a war when two armies fight" -- Bill Hicks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_(testimony)

^ Explain a stunt like that in presence of an actual, credible threat. I'll wait.

And before 1991, a U.S. warship escorting merchant traffic was almost destroyed by a mine placed into international waters by a fairly advanced Mideast nation, so it's not as rare as you seem to think.

Meanwhile, the US just shoots down an civilian airliner and refuses to even say sorry... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

Anything else? I mean, don't get me wrong. I know it's bully 101 to consider even being looked at the wrong way as an attack, while considering anything defense as long as they are the ones doing it. I also know bullies don't like it when people have sharp bones on which their fists get hurt. But other than that...
It's not a leap, simply put. It's the only logical outcome if he is caught. The government has been extraordinarily clear what will happen to Snowden. When you have some of the most powerful politicians calling him a traitor, along with clear statements from the intelligence community on the matter, it's all beyond obvious.
> How well would it scale for a musician to personally handle depositing checks from millions of fans?

Like many scaling problems, that's a good problem to have: at that point, you can afford to have people working for you depositing checks, which is pretty much the inverse of the power relationship artists have with labels.
Flow, interest, readability.
I laughed because you're absolutely right. I just figured that if its near Manhattan, it can't be that bad.
Is he really "keeping their company?" Seems more that he's using the US foreign policy apparatus for protection.
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I don't have time to watch Oprah, so lets get back on track: are the FISA courts really Article III courts?
Since when are encyclopedic references expected to be imprecise? As a reader when I come across a reference to wikipedia I interpret the citation as a literary expression of accuracy and expect the cited value to be extremely close to what I would find in the wikipedia article. Without the wikipedia citation I understand that there is some wiggle room. Similarly, if someone says "the board is five feet and one half inch long" I expect that they are within a half inch if not closer. But if they merely say "the board is five feet long" I am not shocked to find a board that is 4'11" or 5'1".

You wanted it to be imprecise because it made your argument sound better. Lets be honest you really did your best to come up with such a verbose example:

"42%, based on the fraction of bombers deployed, as reported on an unlocked Wikipedia page five minutes ago"

versus

"Wikipedia reports that a little less than half the force that bombed Dresden" or

"Wikipedia reports that almost half the force that bombed Dresden"

The latter example required the addition of six letters or one word.
There are lots of different types of clients. Some use your response to their first request as a measure of your standard output. Once that is known, a difficult client might continue to demand more.

I've found this happens often with clients who are the least knowledgable in your area of expertise. Sometimes their insecurity compels them to avoid getting screwed, by making sure they're getting everything they can out of you.

Other clients, with lower expectations, might be overjoyed by the the same efforts. All clients are not equal.
Sounds like you should have started a kickstarter and provided an app for whatever you felt was reasonable. Or even done it for free.

But you didn't.