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I totally agree, but - release a comic and close the story. There are other mediums than games and you could explore them if Valve thinks H/L as a FPS is dead end right now.

Edit: rewording after realizing dorkly is the geek's onion.
Until the first error in the console ;-)
They aren't necessarily pre-paying for services, and there's no guarantee that they will retroactively receive monies for the days that the government is shut down. So while they may see the bill later, they may not receive the funding to pay the bill for that period
I like a lot the idea of a proxy agent inside the parliament voting for online citizens. It seems like the only viable path to direct democracy. A few times ago I imagined a similar platform where people would vote using gov-issued credentials. But now I don't believe that is the right solution, I don't see my grandma vote about startups taxation and I don't see myself voting about agriculture problems. Then using friends or "online parties" seems a nice solution, though it will undoubtedly create lobbies, fishing, hacking, any new kind of piracy to get people set you as their proxy.

Anyone can suggest a new bill, and if there is a quorum of voters who approve the bill, it is voted on by the full membership, with a simple majority deciding the result.
There is a similar initiative in the EU, it's called Citizen's Initiative, if at least 1 million people support a bill (total of EU Citizens being over 500 millions), then it goes to discussion at the European Parliament:
http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/welcome

Anyways, that's a sweet dream, and a very challenging startup idea.
Also that JS can only run in a browser, and that it requires a plug-in.
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If this is used as input to a randomness pool and filtered through a hash function, ideally together with mouse, keyboard and network event timing as in the linux random device, this should be very hard to break, even with some biases. I would not have used the output of such a device directly, even if the output appeared random on statistical tests, just becuase the biases you mentioned. There will still usually be some randomness in the output, even when it is biased.
Suggesting TraceKit is pretty much:

"In order to get stack traces, you need to wrap your code in a try/catch block like above. Otherwise the error hits window.onerror handler and will only contain the error message, line number, and column number."

TraceKit doesn't do this for you; you still need to wrap in try/catch, so you might as well just do that and have the error/stack trace there.
A shutdown risk appears every three or so months due to reliance on short term continuing resolutions to fund the government. Most recently, formal preparations began several weeks ago.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/...
Not by most common sense definitions, no. Here's a simple one for you: if you don't need to use the app store to get it, it's not an app.
I fully expect Obama and Democrats to use every available tactic to make this as painful as possible for the population.

They truly need to have the US wake-up to an apocalyptic scenario. Anything less than that and people are going to see that the emperor has no clothes. If they could have airplanes falling out of the sky, they would. If they truly use such tactics I really hope people take them to task for it. With nearly four million people working for the federal government --a good deal of them solidly in the Democrat camp-- I fully expect them to terrorize us by fucking things up to the extent of their abilities.

As for the argument of cloud servers and other services in the private sector causing shutdowns, the question is very simple: Anyone thinking that the US isn't going to pay for these services is a moron. This shutdown will last as long as it does and then everyone will get their checks. Anything to the contrary is pure theater.

I just got an email from whitehouse.gov full of FUD. It's a disgrace that whitehouse.gov is being used this way (this isn't the first time). Democrats would raise hell if Republicans were in power and used whitehouse.gov for partisan propaganda. What a shame.

Tomorrow is likely to be the US politics version of Kabuki Theater. Could be fun to watch.
I have a bunch of, what I would describe as, friends, but I know none of their birthdays.

Does that mean I don't have a single friend?
In the 90s Congress failed to pass a budget. Holding the debt ceiling hostage was never seen or tried as a legitimate political tactic before the last few years.
True, and good on them for prepping, but last time it came to a midnight vote no one closed their sites. This might indicate a longer shutdown.
Giving money to child beggars is the least generous thing a tourist can do.
It does have fewer apps.
No instagram, vine, youtube, dropbox, G+ hangouts (really important for a lot of software engineers), tripadvisor offline city guides, starbucks app, airline check-in from many carriers (United surprisingly does have)...

That was just going through the main homescreens on my Android.

> I actually only use three "apps" that aren't built in on my WP8 device.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here... You can't use apps that don't exist, so it's not surprising at all to me that you "only use three apps" that aren't built into the device...
eval("datePickerController.createDatePicker({ formElements: { \"" + $(this).attr('id') + "\" : \"%m/%d/%Y\" }})");

Why, just why.
The agencies are given a single half day to shutdown.
Then Facebook and Skype do count as apps, I guess. (Unless I uninstalled Facebook without ever launching it and it came preinstalled. I may not remember.)
I'm in a similar place. I was definitely, emphatically an "owl" and absolutely convinced there was some genetic reason. I would always struggle to wake up but feel really productive in the late evening/early morning. If I tried to maintain a regular sleeping pattern, it would just drift later and later every night until it stopped at about 4/5am. And this has been the case all my adult life since I was a teenager.

However, like you, I just decided to actively change that. I set an alarm to go to bed. Always in bed before 1am, preferably midnight. And it was a miserable month or so getting used to that. But now it's great and I'm actually still in shock that it's worked so well. Mornings are productive again! In a way I never thought they could be. And I've had a healthy amount of weight loss as a side benefit too. It's like what all those sleep researchers were saying was actually true :) [i.e. practice good sleep hygiene and the rest will fall into place]

> An owl-ish life might not be bad for everybody but from my experience it's very taxing on health and social life and the mental state.

And definitely agreed with this, at least for me. But I felt like it was the only way I could be productive and do my best work at the time, but now I know this isn't the case anymore.
I don't think that's entirely correct. In some cases at least, insurance companies do send a check for the difference. But it is applied in terms of their total revenue and spending, not what they spent on you specifically.
It might do that, but so what? A slight increase in fixed costs, with a massive decrease in variance will decreases the risk of medical bankruptcy considerably, even for the young.

You seem to be under the impression that all potential entrepreners are young, without dependents, and without pre-existing medical conditions. Not true.
The debt ceiling issue is a lot more complicated than that and even if it weren't raised the federal government would continue to be able to spend the money it receives from tax revenue. That would be a more severe shutdown (and likely catastrophic to world financial markets). But it would not be a "full" shutdown in the sense that the entire government stops functioning.
These days the military is violent very very rarely. And it could be just as violent even if it's was a 1/10 of the current size.

Most of the money goes toward hardware, which means engineers, construction, and the like. And toward eduction - of all sorts, from simply paying tuition to basic training to self discipline.
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Yep. This situation is something that can easily be prepared for.

This is probably either mismanagement or political posturing. (I'd bet the latter.)
It's profit controls for insurers, not for providers, though. It doesn't particularly control delivered costs, except very indirectly (due to the lag between premiums and expenditures).

If provider prices go up, insurers can raise their premiums and still stay at 80%.
Theoretically you're right, and for a subject such as mathematics you may even be correct in many cases. But in practise (as my example shows) you're wrong.
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What you mean "may be"? Do you seriously entertain a possibility that US government as of today has ceased to exist and US government bills will never be paid?

You must have misunderstood what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that there's absolutely no need to wait for 21 days for issues to appear, because the same people may do the same maintenance as always and there's absolutely no need to leave the site un-maintained. Of course, staff can be reduced - no new developments, no updates, no proofreaders, no marketing, no answering emails, etc. - to avoid taking too much un-budgeted obligations. But no one doubts there obligations will be repaid, so I don't see the issue here.

>>> provide out-of-date information that otherwise appears to be authoritative.

This is easily solved by putting one line on top of the page that says "All information is as available by 10.01.2013 and can be out of date". I admit, it's much less drama, but it's possible.
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Disk time matters only when you read your data first time. The following queries won't have to read from the disk. The compressed data may sit in memory for days and the queries won't touch the disk. Now, if your compressed data doesn't fit into memory, then disk speeds of course would matter a lot, on this I agree with you.
Can we just start calling the language "JS" consistently? Other languages get to escape from their stupidly-named origins, such as "Personal Home Page".
Also, it's not "worth less than a cup of coffee".

My coffee costs under a dollar, because I buy the ingredients from a supermarket. A cup of coffee in a mall costs a lot more, because when you buy it you are comparing it to other cups of coffee in a mall.

People are idiot savants when it comes to side-by-side comparisons. They can only compare stuff in context. It's called Anchoring. And it's irrational.

The supermarket near me has cheap instant coffee for $3 a tin, reasonably coffee for $5 a pack, and expensive coffee for $10. People buy the one in the middle (because it's "good" value). It's something like 5 cents a cup, vs 20 cents a cup ... but they still fret about the cost of good coffee.

Then they'll walk out of the supermarket, and consider whether a $3, $3.50 or a $5 takeaway cup is better value.

People generally make decisions on whether a purchase is relatively good value, compared to the stuff beside it. Once you get people purchasing stuff in a place that's not in exactly the same context of a $1 app, or a Free app, they'll be less biased towards thinking that $1 is a ripoff.
Counter anecdote. Night owl here. I was in the army. Forced wake up with no way to stay in bed at 6am or earlier, lights out midnight or earlier (in general - every couple of weeks we would stay up later for something or skip sleep altogether.

Most of my mates would be asleep 3 seconds before hitting the pillow; the other self-proclaimed night owls would take 15 minutes to fall asleep. I rarely fell asleep before 3 am.

After about 4 weeks, I exhausted whatever reserves there were, and started falling asleep at every opportunity during the day (good or not, sometimes while standing up, often instead of eating). After another couple of months, I was able to function with a couple of 15 minute power naps.

This lasted for 8 month until I managed to get a different assignment. Food wasn't according to your plan, but otherwise, I was forced into larking for a reasonably long time. My eyesight deteriorated, and health otherwise declined - but I remained owl throughout
Just being honest here! This is my experience after coding in different contexts for 23 years. Your mileage may vary ;)
I think that's missing a major point (I'm kind of agreeing with you/considering that required for 'secure', I'm not on Saurik's side of the debate):

Open source means it's not going away. I won't, ever again, buy into a network that I cannot keep alive. Which is one of the reasons I don't use Whatsapp and actively prevent my family from using it. No G+. Leaving GTalk (Sorry, 'Hangout').

BTSync? Nope, unusable. BTChat? Same. Even if some highly trusted party would explain to me that BTChat is the most secure network, period: As long as I don't see the means to keep that thing alive it is just another potential trap.
> via farm subsidies and transportation subsidies, mainly

A transportation subsidy might be local (maybe - interstates are national, not local), but farm subsidies end up being distributed nationally since they basically just mean that certain types of food are cheaper than they otherwise might be. So you can't count farm subsidies as "consumers of federal funds".

(It's definitely an artificial distortion of the market, but that's a different argument.)
This has nothing to do with prescriptivism whatsoever. This is like calling the blue "e" icon in your desktop "The Internet". It's just plain wrong naming.

In tech, things should be called by their name, or you risk future confusion.
I for one, find those alternatives helpful and the hint honorable.
What are you reading instead?
Given by whom? Were they kept in the cave without access to TV and newspapers for the last month? Did not they know it is a possibility? Did not they know it is a possibility now for years since we have a split Congress which can not pass a proper budget for years? Why they had to prepare for this entirely foreseeable circumstance in half a day - US govt can not afford one risk management specialist that could evaluate such circumstances and prepare a plan?
I appreciate the sentiment but good luck with this one.
I started back in the third grade, when I was 7. I, like many of my friends, played Club Penguin. I wanted to make a website dedicated to Club Penguin, so I taught myself HTML (and eventually CSS) and hacked something together. That soon led to the introduction of JavaScript and eventually C++ and Java. My parents weren't huge fans of computers, so they severely limited my access to computers, limiting my ability to learn at the time.

I taught myself Objective-C in the 6th grade after I bought my first laptop with money I made from doing contract web development work for local businesses. I made a few simple iPhone apps and and started to appreciate the beauty more than before.

In the 8th grade I started to find school severely lacking and enrolled as a computer science major at a local community college. The courses weren't great, but I learned how to get through a textbook, which I've learned to appreciate.

I got my first proper job at a small (3 person) startup when I was 15. I'm still at this job and have loved every moment of it. We're set to ship our first product sometime next week.

Answers to your specific questions:

* How did you learn to code?

Coding, running into an issue, fixing it, repeat. Books. MIT OpenCourseWare. Community college. And some MOOCs.

* When did you start learning?

Back in the 3rd grade, when I was 7.

* At what point did you start working professionally?

I started doing contract work in either the 4th or 5th grade. Got my first full-time job at 15.
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Your average Starbucks in London, UK over the last month seems to have the following market share: couple of ipads, single iphone, couple of Samsung android handsets and a lot of windows phones, all Lumia. To be honest I'm quite surprised myself even as a WP user. You see chromebooks a lot as well. Not seen a single surface (yet).

As a side point, I get a lot of people ask me what to buy after they threw £450 on a 4S and broke it (I'm the local informal tech advice guy for the school my kids go to's population of parents). The iphone doesn't have a great reputation in the UK after the first purchase from experience: it's expensive, unreliable (icloud is a piece of crap) and breaks easily and every repair place is dodgy including the apple stores here. This makes it a really bad investment. I don't suggest a solution in particular but people come back with Lumia handsets over new iPhones as they are much cheaper and are functionally equivalent. Either that or they buy a shit android and hate it.
If anything, the whole post should be deleted. Then again, it's Oracle, so who cares?
Dreamweaver comes to mind.
I expected to read about a plastic bowl of petunias and was mildly disappointed.
I use Windows 7 because I rely on Photoshop. I'd use mint if that were not the case.
Isn't this—kind of—what iDoneThis and Lift are trying to solve? My problem even with them is if I'm in an unproductive rut I won't bother checking in on them.
I was with you until the "only 20% margin" bit. That's a great multiple for most industries that aren't software. On here, we all think that's horrible, but for a non-software business, that's great. I guess you could argue that health insurance should in practice be as scalable as software and is essentially a software business, but we all know it's not, at least not today.
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The Economist surely loves Sweden. The reason the banks are so profitable is that in the last few years they have raised mortgages from about 2% to 4% across the board. So I and most other Swedes who has borrowed money to finance their home has been hit with a huge extra monthly interest cost. Meanwhile the government has lowered the interest rate banks has to pay it to loan money to record low levels. The gap is what gives them big profits. Big gap, big profits.

And there are only four major banks so competition is out of the question. They know it is much more profitable to cooperate instead of trying to steal each others customers.

In a fair system I would be able to borrow directly from the central bank like the private banks can. Then I wouldn't have to finance their profits.
It does help potential entrepreneurs with preexisting conditions. But it hurts potential healthy entrepreneurs whose rates have skyrocketed. So it is unclear if there is an overall net benefit, and the article doesn't provide any evidence that it would drive a tech boom.
Of course, Java code is all binary, not at all human-readable or writeable. And there are not compilers for Javascript (except for a few JIT compilers in Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer, and maybe Opera).
> they blew their budget harrassing children and illusionists about bunnies

Blew their entire $155 billion budget on bunny inspections, did they? How many of their 100,000+ staff are bunny inspectors? All of them? Or just 90%? What a load of nonsense.

Your hysterical "talking point" style comments add nothing but noise.
You have heard of a web browser haven't you?

Everything that there isn't an app for you can do on the damn browser which is good as its the same as full desktop IE10.

This is a poor excuse and justification.

As for shoddy apps, Google Play has its fair share as well don't forget.
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Does anyone know what this program is written in. Just out of curiosity, it looks like it's something custom, does not use default widgets on OSX. It does not look like Java, I think it's all HTML5.

Just wondering.
A good question, and one for a historian to answer - not me! The example I picked shows bias, but as I stated earlier I'm unsure as to which article is closer to the truth.

Just for the record, though, the English article includes 9 citations, including a primary source (Wellington's notes), while the Spanish article mentions 4 history books (and 3 novels and a comic) yet doesn't specifically cite them in the text. Again, I suspect the English article is probably more accurate, but as use of citations is also a characteristic of fraudulent scientific papers this difference certainly isn't a completely dependable indicator.
Which means older people, who have generally been much less able to participate in startups at an early stage, can now have affordable insurance as individuals. Before not only could someone older (though not necessarily very old) be burdened by a high cost of insurance, but you could never be sure that your insurance wouldn't spike to some unrealistic amount. After a certain age insurance companies have been very willing to price a person out of the individual insurance pool (and force the person to move to government or employer insurance). Also god forbid you have a kid.
> 1) the demand won't last forever;

this is one of my greatest fears. at the same time, it seems inconceivable - i can't picture it.

could programming really go the way of being a lawyer?

how would that happen - less demand for software, or an oversupply of software engineers?
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Great, so now we've got an image format which does not work by default.
Durable goods, that $750k took a lifetime to build. The least you can do is see it last another lifetime to hand off to someone else.

Things that will decrease your monthly out of pocket expenses. E.g. if you have a home, solar panels, and a solar hot water heater. Extra bonus if you convert to solar powered hydronic heating.

http://www.reddit.com/r/buyitforlife
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That strategy worked for them when their figure was miles ahead of Android's. It won't when Android's figure is miles ahead of theirs.
Correct. But PNG works and is widely deployed today. Considering SVG fails at one of the primary use cases where it could have an edge over PNG, it's no surprise few care for it.
Thunderbird+Lightning (for calendar and contacts). Or Claws mail for a "pro" (rough but very fast and functional) solution.
Right now people avoid self-employment because if they get seriously sick it will bankrupt them. Under the new law it won't.

That's the argument. The premiums you pay when you're healthy are beside the point.
Seriously? As i said below there is a web browser too.

None of those have any real value for me personally so I can understand where Android might be more suitable but I really don't need an app for any of those.

As for trip advisor city guides, Nokia Here Maps does the same stuff offline (and a load more!)

The only missing point from above is that YouTube works fine in the browser. The press are full of shit about interoperability there. Not only that there are a multitude of quality youtube apps but you don't need them.
If they take in $100 Billion, that means they can pay out $80 Billion and still have $20 Billion in profit.

You think $20 Billion in profit is going to hurt them?

Do you actually think the callcenter and data processing jobs are going to be in the USA? I would bet there is absolutely no law requiring those jobs to be domestic.
Besides the fact that it is illegal (http://www.bsnlawfirm.com/newsletter/OP0413_Natter.pdf) employees are NOT guaranteed to get their money. In the past congress has sometimes not provided backpay.

Also, if the website gets hacked, without sys-admins to fix it, the server's data could be corrupted or stolen, backdoors installed, ect.
I'd rather not have a Department of Labor.
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