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I recommend freelancing.

I am currently taking a year off from college and am on the path to leaving entirely because I started freelancing a few months before making the decision to take a hiatus.

In school, I was not learning enough in a way and speed that matched my needs or mindset. I like to dive into topics and immerse myself in them quickly, while building cool things - I also like to make a living while doing so. A few months before I made the decision to take time off, I tried freelancing and gave myself a goal - if I could consistently make $X/month, then I would take a year off and work full time on freelancing to explore my options. Although this sentence could be an entire book, the short story is that I hit that goal and even started writing a book & building an audience^1.

Anyway, I decided to take the 1-year-long leave and start freelancing/writing full time. I quickly learned two things: The first is that I love to learn. The second is that learning from quality sources can be free or extremely cheap. Since college, the only direct payment I make for my education is $9/month to TeamTreehouse. Through things like TeamTreehouse, building clients' and personal projects, I've taken my skill level of creating iOS apps from beginner to advanced, which helped me increase freelancing income and gave me the knowledge to write a book.

In short, freelancing will allow you to learn more about a technology you're interested in, learn about building a business, make some kind of income, and hopefully connect you with some cool people and opportunities.

^1: I wrote a whole post about how I got into freelancing and writing a book on my website, but the main point is that you should start by building a small portfolio of projects and target businesses (especially local) that have money to spend. Freelancing/consulting is a science, and you can start making a decent amount of money relatively quickly if done right.
Assuming that you are interested in technology entrepreneurship, I'm not sure that an MBA program is the best use of your time and money. It's pretty clear that the two best B-schools to get you ahead in life are HBS and Stanford GSB. The ROI drop off is pretty steep after that, at least outside of Wall Street.

The differentiator is not quality of education, it's brand and network. E.g. see where top VCs get MBAs.
If by "deduced" you mean "guessed" based on assumptions they have not really justified. IF you agree with them that Bitcoin will be used as a medium of exchange for about 10% of online transactions, and IF you agree that it will be used as a money transmission method and will compete as one of the top three money transmitters for volume and that this will add to the Bitcoin valuation according to the valuation of the top companies in this market, and IF you agree that since, "by the way, $5bn is not too far from the current value of total US silver eagles minted", $5bn is the maximum market cap of Bitcoins as a store of value, THEN their estimate may make sense.

They dismissed any use for illicit transactions out of hand because they "don't have any informed view on this subject".

They ignore B2B transactions after saying "we cannot rule out that Bitcoin can become a dominant medium of exchange for B2B transactions". Their total upside is calculated without even trying to make any assumptions about B2B usage.

They've just hand-waved the storage of value bit with a comparison to silver eagles and the relative value of gold vs silver on the basis of long term reputation and volatility, making up a "roof" of 300bn, and then scaling that down to 1/60th based on the difference between gold and silver. Part of this they justify with the volatility, without considering whether or not volatility will flatten out if Bitcoin starts hitting a valuation roof. Partly they ignore the other possible upsides for storage, such as ability to more easily hide funds (e.g. they themselves pointed out a large swing up in Bitcoin value after the threat of the Cypriot "haircut"; they've also not considered the extensive use of e.g. strips of plated gold as a medium of short to medium term storage in high risk areas).

I don't have any better assessment, but this one reads like an attempt to justify pre-existing opinion rather than an attempt to be thorough.
"Pure nonsense"... is that your educated critique, or are you just trolling to make space for a straw man argument? Because I get the sense that you haven't read enough about anarchism if you think it constitutes 'no government'.
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> It's supposed to be a limit function, right? Payout will be ever-decreasing, and difficulty will adjust to keep mining modestly profitable forever.

This only works as long as bitcoin climbs in value vs the rest of the world, no? Wouldn't a long period of price stability break this down?

> What I wonder about is the size of the blockchain. Bitcoin is young and fringe, and the blockchain is already several gigabytes. What happens when everyone and their brother uses Bitcoin, every day? How large will a few decades of frequent, widespread global usage make the blockchain?

My theory is that it will force Bitcoin to slowly re-centralize, with people who provide web interfaces to wallets shouldering the majority of the burden.
Do you still need remote worker? How can I contact you?
You might do well by reading http://www.raikoth.net/libertarian.html
The last point is key. A lot of two income couples upgrade their lifestyle, taking on a much riskier financial profile in order to consume more.

Relocating when only one person has a job would result in a large decrease in consumption - from a house/car/groceries to a smaller house, cheaper car and trader joe instead of whole foods.
There is a point past which you can be too pedantic and be confused with a troll. I think that you may be straddling that line.

Next time, rather than just assume that the poster isn't smart enough to realize that a compromised password should be changed, maybe you could take in the fact that it's probably just an example of data that you might want to extract from your history if it's automatically there. I can think of numerous scenarios where someone might want to remove a password from the history even if it's not compromised (e.g. want to publish a private repo).
I think you should probably review the WikiPedia notability guidelines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

I didn't make the rules, I'm just saying I believe Dogecoin fails to meet the qualification for notability. A few blog posts about it and a storm of facebook status updates does not "notable" make, IMHO.
If you know how it works then where did your last question come from? The bit you're "confused" about?

It's obvious what the answer is if you know how it works, so what was your point exactly?
Do you remember ninja hackers do that?
Not between point releases.
I just read it, and it has huge, gaping holes and tons of hand-waving. E.g. ignoring all B2B usage; ignoring all illicit usage; estimates of market penetration they've just pulled out of their ass.
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I'm a little to young to have known love in a time of snail mail, but I agree with the point of your comment: some mystery and romance my have disappeared, but romance is still to be found in other places, even in the new technologies that obsoleted the old.

Generations before us also felt like they were missing out on life and love because they were born decades to late, this is nothing new. People will feel the same about life at the advent of the Internet in 20 years.
> What NSA doing is OUT OF integrity with their mission statements and values of this country.

How can you trust that there are no nefarious forces at work here on the NSA's part, when 1) there are many clear and obvious incentives for them to exist, and 2) everything about the NSA and what it does is kept a secret?
"A worker moving to a new town 30 years ago took a huge leap of faith about her new home and workplace. By making information more accessible, the Internet has improved the quality of any given move. As a result, Americans’ moves are stickier these days"

The implications of this are even more encouraging than they seem. Assuming that this explanation is true- that the Internet makes any given move less uncertain/higher expected quality for me - then I'm now more likely to move for marginal gains. I don't need as big a payoff to compensate for the chance it doesnt work out, because there's a smaller chance it doesn't work out. So we could have not only the same economic gain with fewer total moves (due to less bouncing around with failed moves) but also more people moving who wouldn't have before, i.e. net gain at a lower rate of moves.
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No it's not, it's just how things turned out. The different commands have a whole bunch of separate options, and the fact that they turned out to be split upon certain lines isn't a reflection of some "philosophy". (Also, I'm glad you find it so easy to find ways to convince yourself you're not a dumb person.)
That's not disagreement. Those passwords are stored in the keychain.
> the percentage of married households with two earners has hardly changed over the last thirty years.

I think the statement just barely covers what 2 incomes mean in the 80s verses now. It's far easier to move if one skilled and one unskilled partner find a new job. A scientist and a secretary for example. It's much more complicated when 2 partners have career and salary parity.
> My usual guess would be that you can often hope for a 50% speedup in a tight loop by dropping from C to assembly

The problem with inline assembler is that it is almost untouchable by the optimizer. By adding some inline asm, you may inhibit a lot of optimization that could give better perf overall.

For this kind of tasks it is often a lot better to use intrinsics (e.g. xmmintrin.h for SSE) or use compiler extensions __attribute__((vector_size(16))) etc. This way you can utilize the CPU features you have available while still allowing the optimizer to do high level optimizations.
It would be fair to say the same about farting.
So, you have no knowledge of the philosophy of anarchism (not even the amount of knowledge you would have gained from actually watching the video linked), but feel both empowered to dismiss it, and capable of explaining what it means.
One interesting bit from the article:

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The Johnstons' involvement in creating Miles' Batman adventure went beyond designing his crime-fighting escapade and convincing friends to play supervillains. Sue's engineering background and EJ's software expertise combined to help create an array of props, from The Riddler's Device — to which Sue was bound and gagged in her role as the damsel in distress — to the wrist-mounted projector that Batman wore.

"We knew that Miles really liked the gadget side of the Batman character," said Jen Wilson. "EJ took that to heart and thought about it, trying to make that part of the experience ... We wouldn't have been able to do anything like that without him."

"Everything that I did, Sue and I worked on together," EJ said. "She has all the really good shop tools and the experience using them. Everything we ever do is a collaboration."

(Step-by-step details on how those props were built are available at Instructables, uploaded by Eric [0] and Sue Graham Johnston [1].)

[0] http://www.instructables.com/member/LabRat/
[1] http://www.instructables.com/member/HotSharpToxic/
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Yes, this is something above the Byzantine Generals Problem - that scenario didn't take into consideration, that the general's "agenda" is changing over time.

Another interesting angle is, that in case of Bitcoin, both groups have vested interest to cooperate with the other group and having the matter resolved as soon as possible; that's what actually happened in March. It seems to me like a variant of the "Prisoner's dilemma".

This is what I think that the "hostile takeover" is highly unlikely (in Bitcoin scenario), since that would very quickly brought the BTC value down. So like in the Prisoner's dilemma, both groups will become silent and cooperate, rather than "betray" the other.
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Since when was 10.10 an LTS release? 10.04 was an LTS release and 12.04 was an LTS release. All in between were intermediate releases.

10.10 is an 18 month support release, which long passed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases#Version...

10.04 and 12.04 are the only ones with current support.
> The "PC" was at one time a revolutionary device that brought the power of computers, once reserved only for those who could purchase and administer mainframes, to the home and business. Where would Apple, Google if not for the PC revolution?

Not really, there were other platforms already.

What PC brought was commoditization of hardware instead of proprietary extensions used by other competing home computers.
Data for User A is on server 9, and data for User B is on server 43. Joins across servers is not really supported in mysql.

Another issue is connections between DB servers. Generally you want your DB server to be as fast as possible, so having it handle the connections to other servers slows everything down. If you offload the DB server connections to your web server, you can easily scale by just adding more web servers and having each DB server handle only its own data.

The best solution would be some type of 'mysql proxy' that could run on every web server that would transparently handle the joins between all the different mysql data servers. I think I saw a project attempting to do this awhile back, but didn't really keep track.
sorry, meant 10.04
Awesome. However, I am 100% certain that there can be no one toaster that 80% of the world would agree is the best. So I think to some extent we are stuck doing our own resource (directly or indirectly), since only we know what we want. (There's no perfect spaghetti sauce.)
Will the patriarchy stop at nothing to keep women down?!
This is written in Python, so does that mean that your smartphone needs to run python in order to create a Whatspp compatible smartphone app?
What about a bonus for up-voting a story that eventually receives a high score? Or is that what you meant?
So the original line of code has apparently been present since the very first import by Sigbjørn Finne in https://github.com/nominolo/HTTP/blob/c4765e822eb92196fec955... (check line 443).

If a Haskell expert (e.g., he authored hdirect -- an IDL compiler and interface with Win32 COM -- sadly defunct now) makes this kind of mistake, how are mere mortals supposed to reason about algorithmic efficiency?
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Well, reading this article makes me wonder where I'm. If a 40 work week is tough, what about people like me who are having a routine 40 hour work week job and trying to bootstrap a company/work on side projects by the evening and night.

I am sleep deprived regularly, often I just come to home totally tired after work and travel. Only to find I have to pick myself up and throw in another 5-6 hours. Add to this stress when things don't workout,an occasional bad day and occasions when I have to face failure after days of work. Plus I have a family to which I have to tend to. Often they feel I'm just not spending time with them.

I completely agree that currently I'm in some sort of tiring march. I'm tired already. I see wins rarely, but continue to put in record efforts. On the other hand, I see the only reason I'm doing this is because.

a. To some extent I enjoy what I'm doing.
b. I want the money.
c. I see I'm literally getting addicted to it.
d. If I don't put such efforts, I feel guilty
that I might just be getting lazy, or
under performing.
e. There are good deal of people whom I would like to
prove wrong.

I've discussed this with my mentor, who is a veteran of 3 successful start up's and has had a great career so far. He tells the modern internet techie's narrative of stress and tiredness is just plain whining, complaining and asking for sympathy. Though he agrees its a little stressful and tiring. Smart people eventually realize achieving something big demands hard sacrifices.

I also see many other smart successful people putting ridiculous efforts day in and out to win. And its in every profession. Whether its sports, medicine, software, hardware etc.

I feel at the end of the day, its just like a rubber band. You can stretch until it breaks. Some people just practice it stretching enough number of times to keep the breaking point a little high. After some time you just get numb, and absorb failures, stress, big sacrifices and just keep moving forward. And then what happens doesn't really matter.
I kind of like the premise, but I agree, the idea is quite dumb. There's no way this would work as a casual, real-time sort of thing. Especially considering the fact that many people probably blog without clothes on, while on the toilet, etc.

A simpler as well as potentially better idea might be to just make it easier for bloggers to attach small animations or videos, of any length, to their posts. A way of sort of merging Youtube vlogs with regular text blogs. A GIF or MP4 of the author could maybe make gestures/facial expressions at certain things on the page as you scroll down, and perhaps you could just have a static one waving in the background. Probably audioless as well.

I'm not sure my alternative would be very useful either, but I think it would be a little less "retarded".
Which was IMHO the first of its kind.
Looks great Sol. All the best of luck.
How boring and defeatist.
I'd take the retina data input further, and say that I want a bypass for all nervous system communication to my brain, in both directions, in order to achieve all of

1. Unlimited augmented reality
2. Perfect virtual reality
3. Automated body exercise (while in virtual reality).

That said, I also want this to not have any unintended negative consequences, either personally or societally...
No, it isn't. It's a very very bad security mistake, and I honestly thought it was obvious to most people by now (it used to be "debatable" 6-10 years ago).

People disagreeing tend to reply with blanket sentences like "if there is a process reading the files owned by you on your computer, you're already doomed", ignoring that security is made always made by layered levels, it's not an black/white issue. A file on disk could for instance end up in an unencrypted backup that goes into a server which is then exploited; it could be in a VM where you cannot control the supervisors. It might be end up being mailed to yourself for mistake while migrating computers (I know many people who do it), and thus being stored on remote servers; you might be running on a NFS-based deployment where you don't want to necessarily trust all present and future sysadmins with your personal passwords.

What's worse is that there is an alternative, safe solution to this which is using the operating system keyring, which stores passwords fully encrypted, and also enforces per-software / per-process ACLs ("app X wants to access your password for Y, do you want to allow?"). Pidgin (and other multi-platform software) tends to be resisting to this because it requires even more OS-specific code to be added and tested.
well, if i think about real life the drama appears because of actively (though not always entirely conscious and willful) missed connections. people not telling things, forgetting to tell things, not feeling like talking right now, not feeling like talking at all, feeling embarrassed, etc...

there is lots of drama with perfect potential communication. because - lets face it - that is all technology is only ever to give us. potential.
My point was that phone records is often used as a distraction from the rest of the programs, "see look, it's just the outside of a letter!".

In reality, two things are wrong: a lot of letters' insides are analyzed as well, and keeping a central database of just the outsides turns out to be a huge privacy violation, anyway.
In my experience a package's ability to cope with a complex uninstall scenario generally improves with the initial upgrade - or any upgrade for that matter - (for example, sometimes dist-upgrade-specific issues are only discovered by the maintainer as part of the coordination for a release) and so (in my experience) the reliability of the "dist-upgrade" is usually increased by doing an "upgrade" first. Dist-upgrade is one of those things that "should work" of it's own accord, but there are ways of increasing the odds; I have found a pre-"dist-upgrade" upgrade is one. (Sometimes I'm impatient and only upgrade apt/aptitude before a dist-upgrade though.)

I would say it makes more of a difference on systems that are infrequently upgraded in general since a few points away from the current versions aren't going to contain many differences anyways, but I'd certainly be more hesitant to dist-upgrade from a .0 release (6.0 to 7.x, for example). I'd almost rather clean-install in that scenario since it amounts to a similarly-sized download.
Is it? It's not really clear what a 'transformation of data' entails, or why handlers and actions are separated.
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I see researching and shopping for toasters as one of those menial tasks that you agree should be eliminated. You can do it yourself and dive into the 1000 choices if it's important to you, but it's nice to be able get a "quite good" result without having to give it much time or attention. Save the energy for making more interesting decisions.
Why do you think this article is about keeping women down?
Some more than others. But I'm pretty sure that the average consumer os is vulnerable to someone with the skills. Even if the os itself isn't, there will typically be hundreds of unaudited programs running under escalated privileges. Any one of those would suffice.
While I agree with your general point and sentiment, the falloff happens a bit later, and I'd widen to include Sloan, Wharton, Tuck, Kellog at least.
For those questions, I like to follow paulg's advice:

"Another way to figure out which fields are worth studying is to create the dropout graph. For example, I know many people who switched from math to computer science because they found math too hard, and no one who did the opposite. People don't do hard things gratuitously; no one will work on a harder problem unless it is proportionately (or at least log(n)) more rewarding. So probably math is more worth studying than computer science. By similar comparisons you can make a graph of all the departments in a university. At the bottom you'll find the subjects with least intellectual content."

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With the naive representation of a string as a list of characters [Char], it is. The only way to get to the end of the list is to recursively take the tail of the string (see the source at http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.6.0.1/docs/src/GHC...).

There's alternative representations with different trade offs, such as Data.Text