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I am a fullstack engineer (front end mobile/web, backend server/api, database, production infrastructure) and can take a project from idea to release. Please email millermichael at gmail.

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Objective-C (iPhone, OSX), Node.JS, GWT, Java, PHP, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Python, Windows 8 SDK, Unity3D, Flex, Action Script 3.0, .NET Framework, C#, ASP.Net, VB.Net, ADO.Net, SQL, XML, C++, C, HTTP, ASP, openGL, Microchip PIC

Cloud Platforms:
Amazon Web Services, Heroku

Database:
MongoDB, MySQL, GAE Datastore, Elastic Search, MS SQL Server, Berkeley

Management:
I have experience creating company/project budgets, making HR decisions, deciding company/product direction, managing a small team, and creating complete project plans.

Architect:
I have experience in requirements gathering, full stack technology selection, system design, application design, application implementation, systems testing, load/stress testing, system trouble shooting, production rollout, some experience with globalization/localization, as well as some experience with custom circuit board/hardware design and programming.
Under-the-table arrangements are like the majority of BitTorrent traffic, economies that occur despite rules because there is net utility. People still pay taxes and still license (not own) retail movies.
I don't believe that first sentence is true. The studies I've seen for programmers put money relatively far down on their list of priorities. See McConnell's Rapid Development for a summary of the research.
The article says that AT&T has data not just on its customer but on any traffic that passes through its switches. I suspect that's much of it.
> Okay, I think I see what you're saying about the decryption binary blob. With all this Ed Snowden stuff, it would not be unreasonable to have some suspicion of any network-software that has a wide user base. Netflix-app would be a good place to have a government backdoor...

No need even to go so far. DRM by definition implies that they don't trust you, the user. So, I see no point to trust them in return. It's normal to assume that DRM is always a risk of privacy violation. Surely, it's a good ground for sinister abuses like your example as well.

> Then how do we deal with piracy?

DRM doesn't deal with piracy. Publishers and distributors don't even hide this fact these days. So what are they using DRM for? Guess yourself, but expect nothing good in there.

The recipe for dealing with piracy is ages old - increase quality to be competitive. I.e. some part of piracy which can be affected is caused by the fact that pirated content has higher usability (no DRM, regional restrictions and other such junk). By releasing quality products while being DRM free and delivering them with high level of convenience, distributors can compete with that sector of piracy. The segment of piracy which is caused by people being crooks and getting free stuff won't be affected at all. DRM doesn't affect it either.
So that's why North Carolina Republicans just outlawed "Shariah law".
Minimum salary won't get you out of poverty either. It means 2-4h in a packed bus, work for someone else, see your kids only when they're sleeping, have no alternative but public health and education, which usually is hellish.
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If you operated an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), wouldn't your traffic still be going over AT&T's or some other carrier's network? They'd have access to the information whether you wanted them to or not.
Can you make an IC without understanding quasiparticles? Who created the knowledge that lets you do this? What equations govern EM radiation transmission? Knowledge genesis is the primary domain of knowledge creators, not employees.
It is comments like this that make people think libertarianism is simple-minded twaddle.
You read some threads on HN about low-level details and they annoyed you, and so now you get to imply that I "just learned js/ruby yesterday and [am] afraid of low level details" because I used the words "OS" and "mentally ill" in the same sentence, context notwithstanding? Knowing what you know now and rereading my comment and your reply, can I expect better of you in the future? Perhaps a bit of due diligence and more charitable interpretations of other people's comments is in order...
The article notes that:

"Representatives from Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile all declined to comment on Sunday in response to questions about whether their companies were aware of Hemisphere or participated in that program or similar ones."

If they were not participating in Hemisphere or similar programs, I'd expect them to be quick to say so.
Scala has the Try [0] and Either [1] types that can be used to achieve this. However, I believe Scala also allows any type to be NULL. In Rust there is no NULL so you don't have to worry if a value is ever NULL unless it is explicitly wrapped in an option instance.

[0] http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.html#scala.util....
[1] http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.html#scala.util....
I don't know if they keep billing data for MVNO customers. And, a $500mm/yr MVNO would have the power to negotiate contractual terms which regular individual or business customers wouldn't; not like showing up with pitchforks at exec houses in the middle of the night when violated, but with huge payments required at least.
The last time I went to a bar I went up to order a drink and all 6 20-somethings at the bar were on their iphones (that's 6 individuals, at a place of social gathering).

The destruction of presence is more than just lack of eye contact. Not so long ago certain people could enter a room and demand attention - they were social beings whose mere presence affected brain waves and nervous systems. Their presence was sharp.

I don't see that anymore. People are dulling. They recede to the safety of a screen because it offers a way of saying - 'I don't need you, cooler things and people are in my phone'. We're in a perpetual standoff.

The problem with a free market is that consumers do not always know what is best for them. Local maxima rule the day. We need narrative, insight, and leadership to provide the activation energy to get ourselves out of the social wasteland we have created.
This is a good point. A company should not be expected to just throw a bunch of shows out and see which ones stick. Too expensive.

What stuck out to me most in the speech was Kevin Spacey's quick mention of Netflix's response to the pitch: "We ran the numbers and we think our customer base would like it".

Media outlets thinking of taking the all-in approach will need the technology to calculate and hedge the risk . Netflix clearly has that in place, and it helped convince them to take a chance.
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I know it's possible to build a performant system without knowing how it works, it just isn't deterministically likely.

There's also a difference between "building a database", and "using a database". I'm not suggesting that people who write SQL should be able to write a DBMS (though that certainly helps) -- just that they should know, for example, how a B-tree index will most likely perform when joining two large tables. Or how storing a text column is different than a string. And so on.

I've spent a lot of time cleaning up the messes of people who can write SQL -- sometimes, on large, heavily-used systems -- but had absolutely no idea why their multi-way joins were slow, or why doing LIKE queries over a large text column is a performance hit. These are stupid problems that anyone with basic CS knowledge can understand how to avoid.

Aside: this is also the reason why fans of certain trendy technologies (...rhymes with bongo...) are routinely pilloried for making dumb technical decisions. Those who don't understand CS in theory are doomed to learn it in practice.
Cash is really easy to use and is accepted everywhere. There's no similarly elegant solution for mobile connectivity if you want to stop revealing metadata information.
If you define "innovation" narrowly as basic research, then sure, funding for that typically comes from DARPA, NSF, and big corporations. Being science, it doesn't even have to work out, let alone have immediate applications, let alone have a way to make money from it, let alone pursue it.
I like how you construct your 123 answers to support your own opinion. You would make a good politician.
Gravity can be tested just by dropping your pencil. The invisible hand takes a lot more faith and fervent wishing, IMO.
For PowerPoint 2007, you need to add the below line (like in the example for Excel) for the window to be visible:

Application.Visible = 1
Of course, the assumption is that people living at the basic income level will spend their money wisely; a hard assumption to make. When you work a full time job to earn your money you have less time to spend it. Spending money you sweat for is much harder than spending money you got for free, I don't care who you are. You are probably pretty tired when you get home and you just want to eat, relax in front of the tv for a while, and get some sleep so you can do it all over again the next day.

If you suddenly start receiving a basic income and no longer have to work what the heck are you going to do with your time? Sit and watch tv all day long? Or will you spend your money now that you have the free time to enjoy it? I think it's naive at best to assume that everyone will budget their BI perfectly and sit inside their houses not bothering anybody.

The likely scenario is that people will treat their BI like discretionary income and spend it as soon as they get it, most likely on entertainment or luxury items. Once it's gone, they will go back to the same menial jobs to earn whatever little they need to actually survive and the cycle will continue. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
My original comment wasn't necessarily directed at you specifically, it was a sort of open question based on having seen threads here discussing mental illness and writing an OS.

That said, it's not so much of a stretch to take a literal read of this:

> I get that he's mentally ill (I read up on his OS the other day)

... and conclude that there may be a link between OS and mental illness in the author's mind. I did find it a puzzling juxtaposition.
Let's not forget about the big internet companies that participate in PRISM.
Yeap. Locking it all away for an absurdly high price or just giving it all away are suboptimal. Charge a "no brainer" price that most people won't have a problem with is supply meeting demand more optimally... For potentially higher profits.
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Never said it's $7T - it's $6.4T.

And who said anything about Federal only?

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/breakdown
Well, not really everywhere. If you tried to buy an airline ticket with cash, you'd be subject to a lot of scrutiny.
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By what measure is Vietnam beating Indonesia?
Why is Microsoft all over the blogosphere for stack ranking, but I know dozens of Google folk and this is the first I've heard of it at Google?
The goal is to make it really simple to use even for the non technical crowd. The pastebin type sites would overwhelm regular users.
I know the difference. That's why I said "median".

Median world income is $2/day. USA poverty line is $46/day. That's a 23x difference, 20x if you round in the direction of common qualifiers.
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You can for Word and Excel. Just set Application.Visible = False.

However, I haven't found a way of turning this off for PowerPoint. On the other hand, one of the weird quirks is that the API draws much faster if you keep the window dragged. I've spent a fair bit of time keeping the PowerPoint window dragged while Python drives COM!
The sooner we refine unobtrusive mobile computing (Google Glass?) to the point of the smart phone, the sooner this can go away :)
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That's what I was getting at, we'd have to double taxes, though for anyone below $70k/year, it'd be a net positive.
David Simon pointed out something like this when PRISM itself was first leaked. The courts and law enforcement have combined for some pretty incredible types of surveillance and investigation possibilities, and have done so for years and years.
Still, you are sort of begging the question, which is whether we actually can absorb this shift and something you state as fact.
A good example is the docklands light railway in London, already automated railline that serves the financial district - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway
If you had problems with T-Mobile blocking illicit tethering (I do), a VPN solution or even Hotspot Shield on the phone works wonders. Obviously if you use 200 GB/month this might not be sustainable, but something worth looking into for others.

Thanks for the great updates and detail!
The median is not found by (H-L)/2+L. Read that Wikipedia entry again.

Disproof: 1, 1, 2, 10, 101. The median of this list is 2, not 51.
Although I used the word "build", the entire post is talking about the investment. Regardless of whether you consider the people who "built" it to be government employees, the funding was military funding. Things like ARPANET were Department of Defense projects.

I have no idea what point you're trying to make.
No. This is simply supply and demand. The more workers available for positions, especially ones who are willing to work for less impacts the supply and prices I can charge for my work go down. Management isn't going to give me a raise because they saved a buck on someone else. In fact, they're more likely to try and find a way to get rid of me and replace me with someone who charges less.
This reminds of Fred Wilson's post about Piracy http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/01/screwcable.html
I used to have a dumbphone from '06 until it crapped out and I went to an Android one. Everyone always made fun of me for having the older phone but then again everyone was always trying to be quick-draw on fact-checking some random bit of pop culture that came up in conversation, checking in, updating statuses, or taking pictures of events instead of being a part of them.

In terms of the phone zombies, it really bothers me when I see someone walking across a street engrossed in their phone. I always imagine them getting nailed by a car or cyclist b/c they aren't paying attention (and I'm sure, tragically, this has been happening). Same things with runners and their iPods prior to iPhones. Your ears and eyes are there for a reason.

Sidenote: Maybe the most interesting part of the NYT article is the first line "Last weekend, I was watching television with a few friends, browsing the week’s most popular YouTube videos, when a piece in the comedy section called “I Forgot My Phone” caught my eye." This goes beyond the meat of the piece but it's so interesting to see that that's a current browsing behavior that's possibly common enough to mentioned.
Here's a thought: anyone supporting the BI theory, don't say any more about it until YOU are providing BI, personally, to at least one other person unrelated to you.

If you intend to use the police power of the state to take thru threat of force the lawful and moral possessions of others to give to those you are sympathetic to, then you should at least FIRST be willing to do it out of your own pocket without coercion. If you won't do at least that, then you have no moral stand thereon.
Thanks for the suggestion. In fact, I've already done that, and am aware of what talent can charge for my line of work.
Yet another reason to legalize drugs.
It does not remove "perverse" incentives. Human nature dictates our desires. If we could have everything we ever wanted then there would be no "perverse" incentives. I could have my own amusement park where there would be no lines and I could ride any ride I wanted at any time - not to mention someone would carry me from ride to ride.

People will always want more, to achieve more. The "perverse" incentives exist simply because of that fact. If you cannot accept that, you should go live in the woods far away from people and be happy.

Life isn't fair, you do what you can to help those less fortunate around you. But, if you think for a second that some sort of "equal" pay will solve our worlds problems you are either ignorant or in denial of our human nature.
But on the other hand, making the U.S. congruent to every despotic state tends to cheapen the sacrifice of those who actually had to live (and die) under those despots, instead of sipping a venti espresso at Starbucks while typing away on their MacBook Pro.
So flawed, pretending to know what direction of evolution looks like.
Wow, fellow bike bum in Whistler. Small world.
> Who profits from software patents? Who gets held back?

That is the only question that matters (beyond just "software" patents,) And there is a lot of work by a lot of people that try to answer the question. Search ssrn for work by authors like Risch, Merges, Allison, Lemley, Mann, Zeidonis, Etro (just for starters) and you'll see that the issue is much more nuanced and complex than what the common narrative tells you.

So does the narrative matter? Well, let's look at the rest of your comment.

You mention a "doubly linked list" patent. That patent is not the greatest ever, but it is not a doubly linked list:
http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/738/prior-art-for...

(Note that even the highest rated answers there get it slightly off.)

Then, pinch to zoom; I'm not sure what you refer to by that, but the last time Apple's patent was mentioned on HN, its scope was also grossly misrepresented.

Your reply makes two things clear:

1) you have strong emotions about this topic; and

2) you don't really understand how these things work.

And seeing other comments on HN over many years, I can safely extrapolate another thing:

3) your condition is common to the vast majority of commenters here.

At least to me it seems clear why the narrative matters.
The notion of what makes a flop is quite different in the netflix model vs normal TV.
I did a simple application for a client that was a simple JSON-to-Excel dump. It was a breeze. Took me about a day to do it. From zero to finished.
Sorry for the late response. But from looking at the Madrill site, it looks like the API is a RESTful API so you should be able to use it with Python. And also should be possible to build a Python wrapper for it.

EDIT: And as I clicked on another link, it looks like they already have a Python wrapper built. Check out https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/index.python.html
At least in Indiana where I love, these aren't guaranteed. Food stamps only last for a year or two and then you're done, even if you are still in a bad situation. Subsidized housing is a lottery with something like 1:4 odds. Even if you are lucky enough to get these things, you aren't in a stable position, because they can be taken away from you.

I also think the comments here about how its luxury compared to a 3rd world are true, but also note that it is more expensive to live here, and there are very few fallback options if the government programs don't work out. The homeless in my town don't have a shelter they can legally sleep at, and with all of the regulations we have in place, a minimally legal structure still has a pretty high cost.
The people who make more than enough money to survive (many tech people), what keeps them pushing for more? The drive to prove oneself, the drive to rise above the rest, the drive to obtain what others do not have, the drive to fame. Those forces will always exist, and will always push people.
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Denmark, who is finally recognizing that they are having problems with their welfare system.[1] You know something is broken (and unsustainable) when the people on welfare are getting more income than the people with jobs.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/world/europe/danes-rethink...
Overall, very good comment. My one point of disagreement is where you dismiss sum types because they clutter your program. Since sum types are the correct answer to this problem in theory, it seems to me that we shouldn't move on from that answer due to problems with implementing it in practice. Further, I think that the problem has already been solved pretty well in languages like Haskell that support type classes (like Monad) which make it so that you no longer have to worry about the sum types except when explicitly working with them (e.g. pattern matching on Left and Right). There's still room for improvement on working with sum types in Haskell (e.g. nested sum types can be annoying), but it's the best solution I've seen so far. Joel even makes note of Haskell's solution being good in the article, but only briefly.
The average American adult works 24.99 hours per week.

Just sayin...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-13/how-average-america...
Not to mention that American adults work, on average, 25 hours per week:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-13/how-average-america...
If only...is a cop out.
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Maybe I'm just optimistic but she must be able to do something productive. Even if it's sewing toys together for children or making sure the elderly don't fall over. To me that's one of the benefits of a basic income, to help people find their niche, as humble as it may be for some
Agree with first paragraph a hundred percent. How can we teach those in poverty that the way they live their lives is counter productive? The politics have to get out of the damn way or it will never happen.
From my brief research, they still handle all of the SS7 part of things as an MVNO, so even if they don't have 'billing' information, they definitely have the call origination/termination records/history.
not surprising for those of us who can generations in Asian countries that developed rapidly in the last few decades. Japanese men's height has a difference of about 10cm between the middle aged men and the youth as diet became westernized.
I know that.

But, without context, if you hear about someone that his "personal hygiene left much to be desired", it just means "he stinks", right?

Then when you write about Middle-Age peasants who died for some lack of understanding of contagion mechanism, you do not write "personal hygiene left much to be desired", unless you want to be ironic, sarcastic, or whatever figure de style you are trying to add.