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It doesn't sound like you have mastered any one particular language. I would recommend pursuing one of the ones you have some experience in (Rails, PHP, or JavaScript) and making projects from scratch. Being able to build an entire application or utility from nothing and understanding all the parts is a great skill to have. I would not recommend learning any particular framework (web or otherwise) except as a tool to gain mastery of a language. Frameworks are scaffolding to allow you to use your understanding of a language to effectively build your idea into working models, they should not be treated as the be-all-end-all of a language. Limiting your learning to jQuery or Rails instead of trying to learn JavaScript or Ruby themselves will not get you the mastery you need to grow as a developer.
If the detainees home countries refuse to take them now, why would they suddenly agree when Cuba offers? I mean, at least the US can do some horsetrading on this issue (which it seems to have), but Cuba is much poorer and has a lot less to offer.

It seems like the most likely outcome is that the detainees end up as Cuban prisoners.
I upvoted you. My apology for any offense. I think we're talking about two different issues.

Frequent moving and deployment are part of the job description with which you were associated; nothing arbitrary or for-amusement about it.

The author declared the relative arbitrariness of his moves yet admitted, "this is extremely hard on others..." This apparently didn't carry sufficient weight in his decision process to change the outcome.

Relating my own philosophy and how I implemented it is just one anecdotal opinion to share in a discussion - not a condemning proclamation nor a cited case study backing it up as what's best for children.
It probably doesn't have many players anymore, but my favorite mod was Thievery UT. I've played some rounds that were, no hyperbole, the most fun I've ever had playing games.

One of the guys involved was actually working on Splinter Cell and I'm pretty sure much of what we were experimenting with has, in some ways, influenced that game. And two of the guys ended up doing games full-time for Valve after working on Alien Swarm, and now Left 4 Dead. If only they'd do a new version of Thievery! Back to their roots...
They're pretty great at most things. Real World Tech goes into more depth on the architecture side, though they don't really benchmark and they're much less prolific. I like The Tech Report's way of measuring GPU performance more, too. But in general I'll go to Anandtech first.
What's that 14.7% of 'Information Systems' unemployed graduates?

People that degree in IT but can't actually code/sysadmin/whatever is the technical skill they're supposed to have?
Drupal. You already know wordpress, but with wordpress a fixed rate for a basic site runs $600, premium site $1800-$2000. There are premium+ sites that you get contract work for. But I've never heard of a boondoggle-scale Wordpress site. With Drupal that's all there is, boondoggle rates. I've never seen fixed rate sites done with Drupal, and there's a reason for that I suppose.
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Do you mean have the US Navy take the detainees with them?

If so, then the question is: where? You can't take them into the US because Congress has made that illegal. You can't take them into other countries because those countries won't let you. So where do they go?
Absolutely agreed there. There were plenty of people who warned AA about this abuse once the HC promotion (and subsequent Kellogg's promotions) were launched. At the very least they learned not to provide EQM (miles that qualify for status) in such promotions; now, it is only possible to earn up to 10k EQM in any given year on a $450/annual fee credit card. Even that only gets one 40% of the way to Gold.

Honestly not sure that anyone at AA thought this one through.
Is it weird that I just caught myself daydreaming about mapping every one of those keys to a vim, emacs, or Sublime command?

Imagine your first day at a new job, and the programmer next to you straps herself into a replica of an F-16 cockpit to get her work done.
The problem with your idea is that Google likely makes waaaaaay more money selling a single banner on YouTube's homepage then they would make in a month or more of thumb-up micro transactions. A simple banner at the top of Youtube can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we're not even talking about the fancy stuff you sometimes see on YouTube.

Until that bubble bursts, I don't think you're going to see ads go away on large sites like YouTube.
This is great - we've actually thought about putting something like this together too, so I'm glad someone has.

If you're a startup, feel free to contact me at borski@tinfoilsecurity.com and I'll give you 6 months free of website security. We were there once too; really, we're still there. ;)
I dont think diversification would do much better. Most big github features are probably handled by separate teams and function somewhat independent of each other as well. But downtime could be a big issue although Github has been generally good at it (https://status.github.com/graphs/past_month) People also rely on github git repos for deployment (e.g. in requirements.txt) so their work would likely survive standard levels of downtime.
Replace "disappear" by no support or no updates any longer ..
I like "We'll succeed no matter what, but raising money will help us do it faster."

I think this is a great universal negotiating technique. It's also useful for job hunting. Once you have time on your side (cash flow) you can afford to walk away from suboptimal deals.
Early in my career I worked in the Sim lab at General Dynamics (before Lockheed bought the fighter business). Looks pretty similar to what I remember we had. This was early 80's. The working ones had screens around them to display imagery. We had a bunch for testing the computers. Never got to fly one though sadly.
And can you imagine the onus this puts on the driver? Right as they get to become one with the car, knowing how it will react to their every move, they change him to a new car. And no two cars drive alike when it comes to racing. You see this in two+ car teams.
Raphael really goes deep on the browser compat side of things. It supports IE6, falls back to VML. As a result, it's quite a bit heavier than SVG.js.

Raphael also seems to be a bit more about abstracting SVG away from you, where SVG.js is more direct manipulation of the SVG document.
I wish companies had a policy that "unproductive time is recognized as normal and if you are not productive right now, go home".

As with "please take a nap if you need one", another policy that would benefit the bottom line, I believe the usual absence of this policy is more about managerial "control theater" than about actually getting paying work done.
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Actually guys are much more likely to be staring at a womans crotch area. Tits are fun to look at but that's not where you want to go.
That's what is supposed to happen but the MBA asshats use it purely for cost cutting...
Not at all the same as mugging people. Better comparison: Free candy.

YouTube is a bowl of free candy sitting in a public place with a big "free candy" sign posted next to it. Each candy has a flyer for some product attached to it. You take the flyer and the candy. You might throw it away later, or not even read it, but you take it. I just pry off the candy and leave the flyer there.

If enough people do that, perhaps we will have a future where there is no free candy. Or no flyers. Or really strong glue so you can't pry them off. Or the stuff on the flyer gets printed in tiny letters on the candy itself.

We will however not end up with a future where there is no candy, because people still want candy, even if it's not free. Just perhaps not as much.
Nice job! No doubt Living Social has run into all kinds of problems.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/livingsocial-is-all-kinds-of-fuc...
The article is erroneous in stating that F1 has the same engine for all teams. The engines are mostly similar but they are made by different manufacturers.

See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Formula_One_season
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It's worse than that--- N=4SYM is known not to represent reality. However, it has some features that make calculations particularly easy to do. The analogous calculations are doable for other theories, but are trickier. So they've done the simplest example with this new framework.
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But who owns the side projects?
Well, what about fun? Both for games and television I'd argue that they're fine in moderation, and that it depends on what particular game or film/show.

The Wire? Awesome and very educational. Planescape Torment (or other RPG's)? Better, in some ways, than a great book.

Also, chess is a game too, so really just a subset of 'games'. I don't really see what you're trying to point out with that comparison.
This stuff is mostly consistent with what I've found to be effective. I would also really emphasize the effectiveness of learning about your prospective employer, not just the company but the actual individuals in it. Demonstrating that you're genuinely interested in the people you're talking with and the company they work for can really pave the way for you. The book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie has a lot of good examples of how to get what you're after (in an honest, non-manipulative way) by focusing on the other person's interests before your own.
Weighing in at 400+ lbs I'd say yes they are probably large. Lithium batteries are known for getting "warm" also. Plus the motors themselves will need to be cooled along with other hardware like computers.
Take them to the US anyway, then by the time the Supreme court rules on the matter (and it may go either way) it will be too late - there is putting that genie back.

It is hardly less legal than the spying program or plenty of other things the president has done.

It is the very least the US government can do as a token of reparation for the huge injustice that was/is Guantanamo.
1. We wrote a WYSIWYG for Markdown (https://github.com/Wiredcraft/Moleskin). Also, everybody learns Markdown at Wiredcraft.

2. Actually, the standard would be PDF for legal documents (never understood why people send you a contract in a format that is easily editable). The tool we're currently building allows you to use our WYSIWYG to collaboratively edit documents online while keeping Markdown in the backend.
It takes a lot of chutzpah to ask the question, "Into the sea?" as if that's what anyone wants, as if a rational being could ever commit that misunderstanding, and then get all butt-hurt when someone points out that the vast majority of abductees have been released with no problems.

Aren't you the ass who came up with "green lanternism"? I actually googled it: the first usage was Brad DeLong pulling heroic pundit duty on the Fed Chair campaign of Larry Summers. Just as I said: status quo Beltway-insider conventional wisdom. Do I have a sixth sense about this shit or something?

Now you want "to be proven [sic] wrong"? Please. If anyone has a burden of proof, it's whoever who describes Guantanamo as "pragmatic". Good grief. If the commander-in-chief wanted prisoners in any USA military facility in the world transferred to any other USA military facility in the world, he could send an email and have wheels up within an hour. Of course, keeping a campaign promise might have consequences for him. He might have to send a Joint Chief to testify to Congress or something. I'm not sure how he'd recover from that harrowing ordeal, but I still think he should keep his promise.
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> But it's always wise to choose the best tool for the job.

I'm so tired of this meme. Yes, in some situations there is a "right tool". If you are working on embedded devices you probably should just use C. But in the wider world of programming there isn't a "right tool". In web development especially, there are many tools that can get you to the same place. And because of that it's perfectly reasonable to debate that one is better/worse than another.
> When a thief is forced to give back the money they stole, the victim tangibly benefits [... while] emotion isn't transferable capital

I propose that you would feel differently if someone had emotionally assaulted you or your loved ones via rape or violence. Perhaps this is a difference in personal ethics, but I despise such assaults more than property damage; at the very least I hope we can agree that such crimes deserve to be redressed.
The point about having an outlet to destress is a really good one; its something I struggle with (feeling guilty about "wasting time" even though I know some amount of relaxation is necessary to stay productive).

Tangentially related, the author's product looks awesome too. I'm probably going to need to make some websites for my parents businesses soon and I'd like something that I can maintain happily with emacs but that they can post to and modify from their browser; this thing looks like it might just be the ticket.
Airports aren't cheap to run, and they take up an extraordinary amount of real-estate, something the municipality involved would surely like to benefit from in some capacity.

Not to mention the amount of noise and air pollution planes in general generate.

The tax is simply an offset to this.

The problem here is prices are not advertised tax-in.
Where do you think the money for those subsides come from? Productive workers who pay taxes (under threat).
threatening to resign if congress won't bend on this

jacquesm, I want you to change your position. If you don't do that, I'm going to give you $100,000.

There, that should be effective. I'm sure you'll change your position monentarily.
Haha, yeah, that's pretty much the single most useful thing I learned.
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I think it's analagous to eBay, although admittedly typically involves much more money. The concept of renting holiday appartments/rooms has been around for much longer than BnB though, so I don't see it as fragile.
They likely stay in Cuba, yes, but at least they are semi-free (and will be completely free once Cuba gets rid of the commies).

Castros government will treat them well because it is a huge propaganda victory for them.
If the takeaway from ios7's redesign is "my app doesn't have to have an intuitive UX anymore" then you're doing it all wrong. Apple has a little but of leeway because everybody already knows how to use it (and honestly I'm not a fan of any design that just assumes knowledge, no matter how ubiquitous).
If you went play framework w/ Scala it would be pretty hard to avoid learning some OO and you could also learn some functional stuff. You've got enough background to get over the initial hump, now start writing "interesting" stuff not just yet another CRUD app.

You seem to have a database sized hole... The hard part about databases isn't the syntax, or peculiarities of specific DBs, or even optimization tricks to make things faster, but design. What is normalization? Why/When would you want it? What tasks need a relational design, or not... Even if you never pivot into being a DBA it helps alot to at least minimally speak a DBAs language when you write a CRUD app talking to his DB.

Programming as in slinging code syntax stuff, or higher level design? Might want to crawl inside algorithms for awhile with Knuth and other books. Much like learning Algebra its not like you'll ever use it, its more to discipline the mind to figure out other complicated stuff. You should really google for and spend a lot of time at "project euler" if you're trying to learn higher level programming. Many of the PE problems aimed at turning you into a better mathematician can be hacked on brute force-ish to make you a better programmer. As a hint the first problem you're not "supposed to" brute force add those together, you're "supposed to" figure out the easy formula. But writing the brute force adder is none the less an interesting experience if you've never done it before in your language of choice. (edited to add, buy and read and "do" the entire "little schemer" series, or at least the first book)

I don't know if this would make you more employable, but in terms of extending your greater computer-ish knowledge you could do worse than some embedded stuff. Get an Arduino and some shields and some servos and some sensors and make it do something really well. You claimed to know a little bit of C so here's something fun to do with it.

You also seem to have an OS sized hole in your list of experience so some systems programming type experience might be interesting. Get a couple free machines (castoffs) and figure out how to use Puppet to make them jump thru hoops. Since you have a cluster, there's a lot of fun you can have learning how clustering/replication tech works and scales. Don't worry about using old junk computers, there's absolutely no difference between clustering on new big iron and on a free junkpile P3 other than the new stuff is faster. Make your own DB host and a bunch of front ends and see what happens. Maybe try a cluster of DB hosts and FEs talking to the DBs. Much like the DB thing you may never become a sysadmin but learning to speak their language will help even if you stick to webdev work.
Yes. :)

you would have to give your bank 50 million 1 Pfennig coins (*separately*)
You can, but it's highly suggested you don't. First off, it's a deprecated property. Second, RegExp.$1 is the 1st match of the last RegExp ran. No matter where in your page it was ran. Extensions, events, functions, wherever. In this case, it should be safe, but don't ever actually use it on your page.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Almost as irritating: requiring that people sign in to your site via Facebook or Twitter, which in turn requires that they be members of these websites. I'm looking at you Medium.com.
User-perceived response time has little to do with the choice of language on the server. Access to DBs, lack of proper caching strategies, CDNs, minification of CSS and Javascript play a much larger role in the big picture. Only when you've extracted all the juice from all those lower-hanging fruits must you start to blame the language or framework used to developer a website IMHO.
Not sure what you mean? Each offer opens in a new tab and the homepage itself doesn't seem to hijack anything...
If you do not comprehend the type system in your language, your program will be inefficient garbage if it runs at all. This is true in Racket as much as in Go.

And Racket's type system (being an expandable, routinely expanded language) is much, much larger.
You have a good and reasonable argument, but I'd like to offer a couple of counterpoints.

1. In other contexts, the sheer perfection of their 1.0 products are exactly what Apple is judged so successful by. As with the commentary on the fingerprint scanner: the praise is that while other manufacturers deliver buggy, incomplete features, Apple gets things right on the first try.

2. While it's true that everyone makes mistakes, Siri and Maps were arguably the highest profile features on the 4S and the 5, respectively.
I believe, in most cases of those milliseconds amount to network and database/storage latency, not site code's performance.

So it's just insignificant (performance-wise) whenever you write site in carefully optimized C or just write some Ruby magic that performs, say, 100x slower. 1ns vs 100ns is insignificant when it's your database that responds in 300ms.
My problem with Racket is that it's startup time is slow. Because of that it competes with Clojure, and Clojure is frankly just better. I would probably use Racket if it started up instantly; could be great for cli programs. But Chicken has a decent ecosystem and is blazing fast, so I use that.
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YouTube has ads? I use AdBlock (not AdBlock plus) and I don't see ads before YouTube videos.

Also, when I have seen ads, they are like 15 seconds long, or if they are longer, you're given a "skip" button. Are you seriously that impatient that you can't wait 10 seconds?
And what about email address as a username? I have it like this on one site so the user has 2 in 1 - username and email in one.
I guess I'll wait to see it in person before calling it pure magic.
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>They were too dumb to understand that they were writing unsafe C code

"Too dumb to catch vulnerabilities in their code" is a much wider category than "too dumb to learn anything else [besides C]". You're not really providing an example of the second.

>The vast majority of C programmers are much less skilled than Apache and Linux developers

So we agree that at least some C developers can write consistently safe code. So a person is not necessarily "not smart" just because of this language choice.
If government has ruled that detainees are no threat, why are they still treated as if they are, shackled even when alone and watching television? It costs $2MM per year per detainee to keep them in Gitmo. Wouldn't it be much more cost-effective to provide some relocation assistance? I get that repatriation isn't always possible but can it really be true that less than 200 people can't get at least temporary visas somewhere else? That's less than the capacity of a single trans-oceanic flight. It seems silly (and apparently very expensive) to me to perpetuate the farce, and wringing our hands and talking about rationality while letting people rot in prison just because they can't be repatriated without exploring other options seems either equally silly, or not to be the real reason they remain there.
Depends on the fine print. The fine print on such things often has a disclaimer along the lines of "not responsible for errors."
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Seconded on the hours bit. Its not about working harder (more hours), its about cooperating and coordinating with the team. We all require communication with our teams and reports etc, but that communication only needs to happen for part of the work day -- most of the day should be spent on work unless you have meetings or need to get together as a group to discuss and plan the work.
I should have worded that another way to make it clear that it isn't something with which -I- particularly struggle. I'm slightly over 6 feet and need to get up multiple times per flight to use the bathroom due to 6 gastrointestinal surgeries. That said, I am more than willing to give up exit row when I'm lucky enough to receive it to someone substantially taller or whom really needs it. The unfortunate thing is when someone who spends their days buying thousands of dollars of vanilla reloads at CVS, to manufacture spending on their credit card, takes a seat from a tall or disabled person who spends thousands a year traveling and legitimately needs that seat. These persons are often the most unwilling to accommodate other passengers on the plane and, frankly, strike me as more entitled.

Thankfully the Airlines are moving to a revenue based frequent flier model specifically to discourage this kind of behavior.
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