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I am a freelancer and I would say Odesk is the best place for freelancing. I have worked on both Elance and Odesk. My first job as a freelancer was on Elance and also the last one on Elance. Odesk seems to have more good projects on the field I work on and that is tasks automation on servers.

As far as getting the first job is concerned, I got mine by quoting a price of $7/hour(lower than the minimum wage) and suggesting the client that he should choose python over bash for the script he wanted despite his unknown attachment with bash. And my suggestion worked out pretty well.
I made an account on Odesk on 10th Dec, 2013 and I have already completed 2 projects and 3 are on progress on Odesk.
Top-notch user onboarding. I do miss the "Sedate the Lemur" intro video, though!
You didn't quite explain what you want to say here.

Questions that came to my mind when I read your comment:

- Is the number of Vista/Linux users declining or increasing?

- How long is Steam for Vista/Linux available?

- How many games are available for Vista/Linux?

My expectation is that Vista's falling, while Linux rises in that statistic.

I'd say the fact that Steam is 'new' for Linux and relatively restricted/obscure for now (Ubuntu centric) the percentage isn't too bad.

Given that a lot of games (mostly the oh-so-expensive so-called AAA titles in my experience) are still Windows only or Windows/OS X only, I find the number still quite interesting and not really disappointing.
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I've tried all the solutions mentioned and I settled on Spactacle in the end, because it's lightweight and open source.

http://spectacleapp.com/
Would it be possible to use this in an iOS or android app? Or is there a better way to get OCR in an app.
"The problem was when they took it upon themselves to tell rape victims that they weren't allowed to be offended by rape jokes."

When was this?
Well, there's also the "social and signaling effects" of using something that's non-git, that Eric S. Raymond articulates well: "we cannot afford to make or adhere to choices that further cast the project as crusty, insular, and backward-looking."
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> A lot of developers using .NET tend to go for Mercurial because a while back it felt a lot nicer to use on Windows.

In my opinion it is more elegant. Git only works because it installs hacked up Linux utilities on Windows. In practice it might not matter but I feel dirty when I'm using "inelegant" solutions.

I guess it's a matter of taste or opinion but Mercurial is easier to use too. Though if you're just working on something solo the SCM doesn't really matter at all, you just commit and commit (and I mainly work solo).

Personally I also write mostly in Python so I'm naturally drawn to Mercurial.

Then again I've also been looking at and using Fossil for my projects because it's a single binary with no installer which makes it pretty cool in my opinion. It too works well and it's used as SQLite's SCM so I'm confident it won't screw up my projects. The other nice thing (although I haven't used them extensively) is that Fossil also includes an embedded web server that has a wiki and ticketing system so everything's integrated.
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I suppose you can't capture the details in a short essay like that, but, sure: If tech companies and their leaders don't come out on the side of the end-user, they will be demonized. Microsoft has suffered that for decades, for trying to kill off open source software and embracing DRM. Since he bought his own island with a volcano, Ellison is one white cat short of being a Bond villian.

Now with the NSA scandal, we'll see how the industry lines up. So far, exactly zero major services have offered secure communications or storage products where their end-users can control keys and open source clients that use strong encryption.

The longer they fail to put users' data out of reach of any outside access, the less credibility their claims of victimization have.
works fine = work fine for me after I have spend x hours looking around the net, writing elisp myself. that's the whole problem with lisp. it is not communal, because it does not enforce standards.
That post is a chronicle of interpretations that are the exact opposite of charitable.
I won't argue that "No, because" and "Yes, if" are mathematically equivalent statements. But I hold that the immutability implication you mention is something added by the listener, not information "carried" by the bits of the "No, because."

They may not be proper synonyms, but a listener that's forgiving of input errors can interpret them as synonyms, at least until proven otherwise through further conversation.
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Have not explored Circles enough to know how to do it in that library. That said, you could build something like that with D3.js.
They did. It is called 'Eclipse'.
> My understanding is that he has actually been quite a bit more judicious than Manning about what he has released, putting out stuff that clearly shows what the NSA is doing wrong. I get the impression that he does have more material that could go out but he doesn't feel really needs to be public, as a bargaining chip.

I believe he's claimed to have gotten rid of all materials prior to going to Russia. They're in the hands of the team of journalists distributed around the world.
'Ordinary' criminals? The distinction between ordinary and extra-ordinary criminals no longer exists in the face of a power which views every single person on the planet as a criminal (in potential, at least).

You're a criminal. Stop worrying about a distinction that the system in power doesn't make. Go get some cover.
You are all assuming that money is still in use in the future.
Fossil is also used for SQLite's SCM.
I second this, as an European, I would rather not live in the US.

Sure I would like to visit, there are lots of interesting place, but having to deal with the TSA is to much of a hassle on its own.

Government shut-down closing those interesting places once in a while is just the bonus argument, but can prove even more bothersome than the TSA (which is after all only a bad moment).
Nice. One of my first thoughts was do you have any specific communities that you go to for advice from other women? Some of the ones I know of are Debian Women and Linuxchix. Have you ever tried enterprise selling? I'm curious how you deal with mostly male upper management? What about loans or venture capital? Do banks or VC's treat you differently? Do you have any women in tech you follow? When I was a boy I would devour any book on Microsoft because I idolized Bill Gates for taking on the suits at IBM. What's your experience hiring in the past?

I realize i'm asking about stereotypes that may or may not be in Bulgaria. The whole point of this post is to confront those stereotypes so I just ask what everyone may think at one point or another.
Do not act like sheep perhaps?

NSA/etc has been fucking with people's rights for so long and I'm surprised that their main building is not yet burned down.

Someone one time said "[..] by the people, for the people [..]".

If you think that your responsibility begins and ends with a simple vote, you're far away from reality. ;)
According to summer polls 22% of Russians would love to leave Russia. Especially true for students (45%) and entrepreneurs (38%).
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Github became popular because people wanted free Git hosting, not the other way around. Most other Github features just get in the way.

Also, instant branching are really convenient feature. I remember the time when I was using Darcs that I got lost pretty quickly with 10 copies in 10 directories.
If they had lasers or Fonz jumping over them, that would be impressive.
Thank you for explaining my slides ;)
They were designed to be read by people who understand reverse engineering.

There is some errors in your comments, I didn't exploit anything, I just highlighted a vulnerability in the backdoor :D

People, if you are confused by memes, don't do RE :D
And for those who say I could have just written a simple text, well, text is not that simple to write especially when you're not a native english speaker :) and I had a lot of fun doing my draws
If women were interested in tech they would be here.
Followup just to note: UI/UX considerations (which I'm addressing) may not translate into conversions or other performance metrics of the site. But ... well, that's not really my problem. And if your site is sufficiently poorly designed, I'll be going elsewhere anyway.

I'll also note that numerous of these problems have been encountered specifically with commerce sites (several, Target specifically comes to mine, broke zoom).

Now, of course, if your goal is (and/or business model depends on) having frustrated, clueless users on your site you can invert all my recommendations and do peachy.
didn't 70 years of communism teach us a thing or two about "equality" fighters?
Would it not be a much better idea to kill Columbus, and prevent the 'discovery' of the Americas, thereby saving the population of nearly two whole continents? Can't be much more efficient with your time travel than that I reckon.

edit:
Just read the interesting link you posted to 20th centuries bloodiest tyrants. I wonder why Johnson and Nixon are not in the third list, bloody tyrants who killed over 400.000 innocent civilians in the Vietnam war using horrible chemical warfare.
I can see 8 for facebook (two of those are my apps and one is something called "Developer", I guess that's related). Thought it would be more.

Four for google if I count various stackoverflows as one. Five for twitter and that's it. Can't even imagine how would one rise to a hundred.
8 workspaces, 20 windows (a low count), none presently maximized (though 4 are near-full-screen).
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Other (FLOSS) options:

* ShiftIt: https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt

* Spectacle: https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle
I actually never understood the usability behind growing/shrinking the Dock icons. Good icons have enough of a profile to be distinguishable when they're small.
By the way, this Data Explorer is very interesting, I had no idea it existed, thanks
For at least some applications, like Firefox, Command + ' rotates through application windows; important distinction. You can't just flip between two windows that way if you have three application windows open, you'll end up rotating through that third window.
Heh, reminds me of John Titor, the time traveler from the future who was working on the Year 2038 problem: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread61544/pg1
http://use-the-index-luke.com/ helps when you deal with performance issues. The examples can be altered for your particular SQL server including postgres.
I prefer to prevent - I almost never give access to my account to some application/websites, and prefer the plain old email to create an account somewhere.

I've just checked on Facebook, and I have two. A game (that only supported Facebook sign-in, I usually just delete the game if I find that) and a third-party client.

Same for Twitter, I just have a bunch of third-party clients.
I have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650(not very powerful and quite old now) and I can play Dota 2,Left4Dead and other games on windows with no problem at all,while on Linux(Ubuntu 13.10) I can barely open the games.
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Why does htop display an exclamation mark next to uptime?
The README summary is a little clearer than the link title: "Get the elegance, simplicity, and speed of Homebrew for the installation and management of GUI Mac applications such as Google Chrome and Adium."
He also has a job, at a minimum you'd expect some kind of token punishment.

not that it has any value... ever, but if there was a whitehouse.com petition, i'd sign it.
FrontlineSMS/SIMLab,

Nairobi, Kenya.

Looking for Senior Devs, Chief Engineer (lead dev), BA, and leads for some upcoming projects.

We build tools that let people set up automated SMS messaging systems, at any scale but targeted towards small- to medium-scale organisations. Our most notable users are NGOs all over the world, who use FrontlineSMS to communicate with people who couldn't be reached by any other means of electronic communication.

Our dev office is in Nairobi, Kenya, and we're looking for Senior Developers and a new Chief Engineer to head the dev team.

The dev work is mainly Groovy/Grails web development, with some Android work of late. We open-source what we can (https://github.com/frontlinesms/), and contribute to the Grails project and its plugin ecosystem. Our office is in the same building that houses the iHub, Ushahidi, Brck, Mfarm, and other leading Nairobi dev startups.

If you fit the bill and like the idea of living in Nairobi for a few years, please check out the links below.

http://www.frontlinesms.com/
http://www.frontlinesms.com/connect-with-us/jobs-and-interns...
http://dev.frontlinesms.com/jobs/

info at frontlinesms.com
You need to find someone who would have been worse than any of these folks but was killed when very young.
Its really helpful. Apps like "What emotion are you" and "where you will be 10 years from now" have permission to read my messages !. Thanks for opening my eyes !
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Couldn't resist a quick play with PCA. Initially because, looking at the cluster centres, cluster 4 looked much more distinct than the others and I wondered if the rest could be sharpened up. Then realised quite how sharply the cluster sizes differ - two small (6 distilleries each) and two large (41 and 33). Quite an interesting result for k-means, and a reason for sharper/less sharp clusters. Having played with the data a bit, I buy into the smoky whiskies being a very different beast to the others, but I'm less sure about the other small segment (tobacco-but-not-smoky)

On your point, turns out PCA alone doesn't tend to help with Bowmore (or the similar Highland Park). The first component you get is basically medicinal-and-smoky, and these two only score 1 for medicinal. They're also probably a bit too honeyed or floral for cluster 4. But clustering on the components and tweaking the starting values can draw Isle of Jura, Oban, Old Pulteney and occasionally Glen Garioch into the smoky cluster. On the other hand, looking at a biplot of the first two components your could argue for two clusters - the six in OP's original cluster 4 vs. the rest.

The most important thing is that this work led OP to Talisker - result. But I suspect a definitive clustering will require more features - so, sadly, someone needs to taste them all again...
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As long as you have about 4 years of PHP experience we're not too worried about whether you have an official CS degree.

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Almost, but I'd like to suggest an amendment to your first conclusion:

Time travel may well be possible, but unbounded backwards time travel is clearly not possible.

It may be the case that a machine will be invented that allows people to travel back only as far as when the machine was first switched on.

Similarly, a technique may be invented by which you may be able to temporarily travel infinitely into the future, and be snapped back to your present.

It may be the case that backwards time travel consumes so much of some finite resource that few or no future time travellers could possibly make it into our past.
"All four children survived the educational system."
A web browser should not require more than what an integrated GPU can provide, if you have an app that needs more graphic power, than consider writing proper native app.

I'm a web developer, however I don't like the idea of giving full access to my hardware to any random/untrusted script on the web, because people will abuse it, they will write scripts that will drain my laptop's battery and I people will start disabling WebGL completely which will defeat the purpose of WebGL.
Some applications I used as a newcomer to facebook still had access to my profile. And I never knew they still had this much access. Thank you for this link.
I am generally in favor of reduced copyright terms, as a consumer of these works, but the thought has crossed my mind, that authors may be motivated, to some extent, by the idea that they are leaving a long-term financial legacy.

I come from an extended family that once had substantial commercial real-estate holdings, mostly bought by my great-grandfather, and my grandfather and his brothers, with the explicit intention that these properties would help to support multiple generations of descendents . Most of them were lost, but even now, I derive a small income from a share in one of the properties, that I am grateful for, since I apply it for the benefit of my own children.

Although the real-estate/IP analogy does break down at some point, should authors of works not have the right to ensure that their works benefit their granchildren, and great-grandchildren? Does this help to motivate at least some of them? These are not rhetorical questions, and it would be interesting to see what the answer is.
I am sure that's true, but the problem is that the costs of space exploration haven't gone down the way that e.g. the costs of air travel have gone down over the same period. That, combined with the fact that none of the expected advantages of manufacturing and research in space have panned out means that it turns out there's not much for people on a Moon base to usefully do and it's a lot more expensive than expected for them to do it.

If SpaceX actually does manage to crack efficient rocket re-useability that will certainly help with the cost side of things. The potential there is really exciting, but since there are plenty of uninhabited bare rocks on Earth for people to establish colonies on if they want to, it's still hard to see why they'd choose to do so on the Moon.
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I wouldn't be surprised if XP's share increased. Most of the desktops at a large healthcare company we had as a client were still running IE6.
I was an electrical engineer before I was a computer programmer and people liked asking questions about Ohm's law and calculating total resistance of resistors in series and parallel.

EDIT: I should clarify... They weren't asking about the theory behind Ohm's law but rather to apply it to various circuits.
As an avid git user, I believe that git's victory against current tools does nothing to stop someone from creating a better DVCS in the future. They'll just have to identify why git won and address those points, if they want to dethrone git.
I doubt it will too, but I hope it gets a nice "marketshare" so people try to experiment and find new ideas. Emacs will probably benefit a lot from cross-pollinisation too (it excels at absorbing new ideas).
Of course, but 5-6 years ago some of us were teens who had no idea about online privacy. It worries me to see how many application I used long time back had so much information about me.
I have a legal question, perhaps someone here would be more educated enough to answer. Which part of our "systems of checks and balances" is supposed to balance the system in this instance. The president seems uninterested in changing anything, congress seems uninterested (and incapable) of doing anything, and the supreme court can only knock things down. It would seem to me like there is a large amount of people who want an action taken, both to change the system, and to pardon snowdon. Is the answer really only to wait until the next election cycle?
Here it goes:

1) Go to elance.com or odesk.com hire feelancer, build MVP
2) Show traction
3) Convince co-founders
Wait ... how did you do that?!
I'm pretty sure Atlassian is the only major supporter of it, and even they co-host Git on BitBucket (I suspect to stay competitive with GitHub).

And in my very biased opinion, Atlassian markets themselves with an aggressively old-school mentality (closed source everything, monolithic software, questionable terms of use, strong force in the enterprise market, etc.), which makes Mercurial look bad by association.
Just a note, I would not use "Ubuntu doesn't even have" as an argument that something is not viable, since Ubuntu has its roots in Debian and there is a tendency to have old crap in the stable release.

For less popular stuff, even the most current release (trusty) is not likely to be kept up-to-date unless one of the core developers is an Ubuntu user. It's not as bad as Debian (used to be?) and I can't come up with an example off the top of my head of something that I needed that was too old and still is, but the most recent memory was Vim, trying to install YouCompleteMe, they had already come out with Vim 7.4 and the most current release of Ubuntu only had 7.3, with about 600 patches behind current and ~75 patches too few to be supported.

(It works now. This is not a bug report. You should file one if this GNUstep interests you, unless it's really an upstream problem.)
getting people to steal your idea is pretty hard thing to do. even if they happen to like it they will want to put their own spin on it. now once you've proved it can be successful thats different.
I'm constantly impressed with Homebrew. The team that maintains it always outdoes themselves when it comes to building new things to make using software on a Mac the best experience possible.

On top of that, every single interaction I've had with the project through Adam, Mike, Misty, etc has been a downright pleasure.

I wish there was a simple way to donate to the Homebrew project (besides the kickstarter for brewbot). I've checked out this thread on Github but it seems closed: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/20482

If the devs are reading this, consider setting up a link even if it is just to get you all a few beers.
The Doctor already made sure that efforts such as these would be doomed to failure: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Bad_Wolf_virus
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Thanks man, that hack saved me so much pain when I had a 510 and needed a router with uPnP. I've got a 5801 now which has a "DMZ+" mode, but AT&T makes me pay 6 bucks a month for it :/
That's about 300 Shark Fin Soups with a really easy hunt.
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My intel gpu:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)

actually doesn't just work. I think it says "DP error slip" or something similar. That reminds me I need to submit a bug report ;)
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That impulse is exactly what I was trying to counter. It's far better to put "bad" code out there (and you may even find someone improves those things for you) than wait to tidy it (which often never actually happens).
Aren't most of these "Facebook Apps" just using Facebook for easier account creation / login?