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I grew up in an abusive household with alcoholic parents. I was so scared of violence I couldn't sleep for years without my shoes on in case I had to jump out of the window and run for my life. I remember having to clean my mothers' blood up off the walls of our living room because her crackhead boyfriend took a hammer to her head, and the taste of government cheese (surprisingly tasty), and being so emotionally withdrawn that people assumed I was a mute.

Please stop complaining.
As a tangent, we still don't have a good definition of 'large' software project. Clojure hasn't been around for 8 years, so we don't have 10 or 15 year projects to look at. And I think we'd have heard if there was a 1500 developer team using it. It sounds absurd, but there have been plenty of projects this size and they 'work' insomuch as they generate enough revenue the sponsoring companies paid for them to get that size.
Maybe it depends on how big your hands are, but reaching RET doesn't require a move off home for me?

Although it does use a pinkie, it's a nice hand-opening gesture, like when playing piano. As opposed to the left-pinkie hand-scrunching gestures that give some folks trouble.
I voiced my feedback before I left, several times in fact. Not that it stopped you from sending me emails asking why I was transferring the domains out.
The several varieties of bananas that you'll see in the store are most definitely caused by human intervention (actively trying to cross slightly different plants to produce a new hybrid) and propagation. Normally hybrids die out in the wild.

Also, once you have a sterile hybrid, there's not much in the way of selection pressure. And since bananas are clones, there's nothing for the selection pressure to act on.
By "simplicity" they mostly mean "what I'm used to". Same applies for people calling "Windows simpler than Linux". It's the same argument over and over: illegibility (because you're not used to it), too much power to handle (because you're not used to it)...
I guess you didn't get to the part where the author talks about PID controller tuning, temperature probes, and heat-proofing electronics.

Do you have any reasons those statements bothered you or are you just a pro-digital kind of guy?
I found a more recent video here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cHbhOWavE

Interesting to see this is a product of two independent startups (one in Australia, one in the US) trying to solve the same problem the same way that ended up collaborating.
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You should read or reread Woz's comment from OP. He was already quite successful, and widely respected. He may not have ended up being a billionaire without Jobs, but he wouldn't have been a failure.

Jobs on the other hand struggled in nearly every aspect of his life, he couldn't stick with college, he got a job at Atari based on someone else's work, he was such a giant douche to everyone there that they wanted to fire him, he lied to the few friends he had and manipulated them to get money, he knocked someone up and then pretended that his daughter didn't exist, the list goes on.

Steve Wozniak would have had a great life either way. Jobs would probably have died homeless and friendless if Apple never existed.

Jobs proved his talents in many ways as the CEO of Apple, but if it weren't for Wozniak, Jobs likely would have never had a chance to show us what he could do.
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That is the journey of a maker. You make things. Some of them are wildly successful, others less so, but you still make them. You don't do it for the commercial success, you do it for the art, for the job well done, and because you wouldn't do anything else.
Not too surprised, but I think this is just one data point based on the situations and environment you're in.

I can definitely think of places where coming across as too empathetic makes one appear weak, and coming across as an asshole who has a plan and is going to make it happen (regardless of trivialities like feelings) makes one appear like a leader.

On the other hand, I tend to avoid them wherever possible, as I find this setup toxic to my own strengths and empathy.
Those 9 friends are most likely other bitcoin filled pinatas. So the expense of tracking them down will lead to more paydays.
the potential harm associated with "nitrates" has been addressed by someone else, and with MSG specifically, some people simply have unpleasant reactions to it (though these results are difficult to reproduce clinically, they are listed at http://www.mayoclinic.org/monosodium-glutamate/expert-answer..., the desire to avoid the risk of these effects is quite rational) and there's additionally no reason a non-essential compound such as MSG needs to be used - using artificially-isolated compounds to modify one's neurologic reaction to food is a practice that a lot of us choose not to participate in, and we'd prefer the food is of enough quality to start with that such modification is not necessary in order for it to taste good. There is no "fear" that MSG is causing actual harm, only that it's a sign of an otherwise low-quality food product. Hence we appreciate when a product marks it as not included.
As has been stated... The derivatives trading business was a prime culprit for the crash of 2008 so I think it is fair to say that some lying, cheating, stealing went on and the subsection of finance the author was involved in was complacent in it.

Yes that's been stated, but I wouldn't say that it's been proven. There are a LOT of theories about what did and didn't happen as part of the 2008 financial crisis and in the run-up to it. For a take (from an insider) that may be a bit different from some of what has been said elsewhere, read John A. Allison's The Financial Crisis And The Free-Market Cure. Not saying Allison's take is 100% correct, but I just want to point out there are are certainly different points of view on that crisis.

I don't think that all the people who are pissed about the financial crisis are poor or that they think being poor is noble.

Fair enough. I didn't read TFA as being mainly about the 2008 crisis specifically, but that could be a mistake on my part. I do tend to generalize a bit as well.

I think the main issue the author is pointing out is how ignoble it is to be unhappy with a 2mil bonus for a job that really isn't that important in the big scheme of things. 2mil is a lot of money for the vast majority of people and bitching about it just makes you out to be an asshole.

I can (and do) agree that complaining about a $2MM bonus makes you something of an asshole, especially from some points-of-view. I think what bothers me about these articles is the implicit suggestion that "something ought to be done", which leads to the idea of more regulations, more laws, more rules, more restrictions, etc., which I believe - by and large - are counter-productive.

Again, see the John Allison book... if one buys his angle (and I mostly do), there's a strong argument there that it was government policy and the behaviour of government regulators, things dating back to the LBJ era, if not earlier, that ultimately led to the 2008 crisis. Anything that reads as an argument for more government involvement evokes something of a visceral reaction from me, since I am a proponent of laissez-faire.

It also frustrates me when I see people seemingly painting a picture of "wall street VS main street". I don't think that's accurate at all, and I think it's an unhealthy attitude. "Wall Street" and "Main Street" are just different views of the same system. The people of "main street" can certainly leverage capital markets to build wealth... you don't have to be a bigshot wall-street insider to do that. And, in fact, many pension funds, university endowments, etc., are heavily invested in "Wall Street" which means that many people ultimately do benefit from growth in the markets, even if they aren't day-trading or investing as individuals.

Of coure I'm not saying that everybody on Wall Street is perfect, or faultless or anything. I just think it would be better if everybody saw Wall Street as something they can take part in and benefit from, not as some mythical enemy.
School owns the data. But students are the data consumers, and hence have a right to control how it's presented and consumed. And students are also customers. What is the school afraid of.
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I would suggest just taking one step forward. Don't think too much about the specifics of how you should be going about it and just do it! If you have a list of companies I would suggest start by calling the offices. This is where knowing how to persuade and sell will be helpful. Make sure you can visually explain how your app will work. Whether that is putting together a PowerPoint click-through, piecing together a clever doodle, or just getting a list of "hypotheses" that you have about your customer. Before you can build this B2B app you need to determine if you can get early adopters. If you plan on speaking face to face with people get personable and ask them for a small chunk of their time.

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I'm curious why you think GHCQ claims that Ubuntu is the most secure Linux. Where do they say that?
Depends how you define "failed", in Woz's case.
"OOP is widely-used and easily comprehended because it is a fairly simple way of modeling reality that is compatible with how human beings do it"
I don't see how OOP is "fairly simple", "modeling reality" and "compatible with how beings do it". How inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces, classes, objects, types is a "simple" model of reality? You're simply used to think OOP way, that's all.
>Tbh, it's sad that Woz comes out of the woodwork once in awhile to carp on his one-time partner.

It dishonors both men to allow falsehoods to become the accepted truth. If someone tried to convinced the world that everything that you accomplished in your life was the result of someone else's effort, and they all bought into it, I'm sure you'd be at least a little upset by it.
That depends on what you want to do with your career.

Generally, internships at startups are more flexible and open-ended. Internships at BigCos can be more rigid and less interesting.

If you believe you're going to spend your career in startups, you're obviously better off interning among startup people.

But, be careful: a serious internship at a large, technology- driven company (GS qualifies) is better than a poorly- managed internship at an inept startup.

Also, be aware that an internship at GS carries weight among SFBA startups, but an internship at a random SFBA startup probably carries no weight on Wall Street.
I don't really disagree, but: You write as if the only options are "rich" and "poor".

True... in the name of brevity, and perhaps out of haste, I did generalize a bit. And the two points I mean to emphasize are:

1. Being poor sucks (I think we can all agree on this)

and

2. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with wanting to be rich, even "dirty, rotten, filthy stinking rich".

In the case of (2), I posit that the desire itself is fine, but the actions you take to try and achieve that end, may or may not be noble, just, good, or ethical.
A very long article that seems to not derive the simple answer of wholesale and retailer margins.
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Why be a trader in a bank? Lease a commodities seat and trade for your own account. How hard could it be?
I like the comment on the post:

> "The kettle had caused the trip. It was no longer safe to use the kettle"

> You know enough to start designing a temp. controlled kettle, and yet you overlooked the simple (and most likely) possibility that the kettle was on the same circuit with another high draw appliance (hair dryer, electric heater, etc.) and the combination of the two resulted in the trip from overload. And that there was nothing in fact wrong with the kettle at all.

We sometimes forget that our hacker minds can be a weakness :)
Glad I'm not the only one who frequently over thinks purchasing decisions :)
I just checked it out again and it looks like the situation is improved now that Youtube is http (the biggest source of external embedded content).

That being said, there is still a significant monetary cost, not in terms of servers, but in terms of the fact that Akamai, the CDN for reddit, charges an arm and a leg for SSL support.
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Not in the sense we are talking about them as they relate to financial markets. From what I've read they came about in the 1600's with the rise of the famous tulip bulb bubble.

http://husky1.stmarys.ca/~gye/derivativeshistory.pdf
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yep, anti-trust is rather good. but very much less fact than fiction, i'd say. (no, i absolutely do not like gates. not only because of the glasses he used to wear.)

if anybody is into documentaries:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIZGDT7ZqdM

http://vimeo.com/6303800

for the german-speaking audience (there might be an english version, couldn't find one though):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k_NcVpADgM
Learn C, not C++. C++ is much harder to learn than C, not much more valuable either in industry or at expanding your horizons, and, most importantly, you can be productive in C++ without really understanding the most important aspects of bare-metal programming. C++ is also full of blind alleys: you can waste a lot of time on class design, double dispatch, arranging your header files to optimize compilation, pImpl classes, and template metaprogramming, none of which will really help you in the long term.
I don't think a good kettle has to cost $90 - There's one one amazon with 80% 5 star reviews for $20. http://www.amazon.com/Courant-Cordless-Electric-Coffee-Maker... . Still there are lots of wealthy people with $100 + to spend so manufacturers will naturally make stuff for those price points if customers will buy it.
I agree with most of everything you described about power in DC. I do think you're showing a bit of staleness in experience when it comes to life in downtown DC.

D.C., the city, also dies after working hours and on weekends. There's minimal night life.

In the past 10 years, there has been an absolute transformation in housing and retail from Gallery Place/Chinatown, to 14th St and all the way up to Columbia Heights. I challenge one to stand on the corner of 7th & H St and say that the city dies after working hours and on weekends.

It's so bad that many of the Agencies are moving or opening very large satellite offices 20 miles or more from D.C. just so they can find qualified workers.

Unless you work for GSA, I wouldn't make assumptions like this. It is impossible for the federal government to open up a new 500,000 sq ft facility in downtown DC because there simply isn't any available space at a reasonable cost. Sprawling complexes are cheap and easy to build in the exurbs and the employees don't have any choice but to follow their agency to its new location. It has nothing to do with finding talent, especially in the hills of Virginia where fewer people choose to live.

The really powerful people, people sitting on all three legs of the tripod, don't live in D.C. at all. They'll live in Northern Virginia or Southern Maryland.

Suburban Maryland (esp. North of DC). Southern Maryland is Waldorf, St Charles and La Plata, which I would argue are not places where Senators reside. Though, I think you will find that more of the recent politicians are residing in DC. For example, Obama, while a Senator, resided in an apartment building in downtown DC.

It doesn't help that the residential parts of D.C. are rather grim and not very pretty. Even the old historic row houses are rather gritty looking piles of old bricks with broken sidewalks outside and overgrown weeds and grass everywhere.

Again, you might benefit from taking a walk anywhere in DC. H St NE, areas around Union Station and even New York Ave & Florida are nice.
I was explaining the article's explanation of DPR's rationale. This isn't my viewpoint or the author's.
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It's pretty simple. Work at a pizza shop, get a lot of free pizza. Work w/ people's money, ...
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Not quite true, if I understand you correctly. Clones are a form of asexual reproduction, not that different in principle from what is observed in bacteria. So plant clones do undergo mutation and natural selection.
I can't speak to the others, but I've worked with EatStreet before, and I know all the restaurants have signed contracts with them and EatStreet manages their websites.
It worked out for you because you fit the mold (perfectly, if I might add). Most other kids don't fit that mold. And for those kids it can be a living hell, look at the Gunn suicides.

Edit: I should have mentioned I'm referring to Cupertino/Mountain View/Sunnyvale area. I don't really have anything to say about SF and Santa Cruz, they sound like nice places to live.
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Unlike "The Pirates of Silicon Valley", "Jobs" was painful to watch and it was not only because it was a bad movie but because I've already red the biography by Isaacson.

It felt like somebody was lying to me to things I know that are not that way. It was like a creationist teaching me the evolution theory.

I don't claim that The Pirates of Silicon Valley is completely accurate but but Jobs(movie) was out of line. It's not just that it got many facts wrong or lacked very important events, it felt so wrong on many levels, especially the way characters were portrayed.
I agree with this revision. It's important to frame your fight in terms of intellectual freedom within the academy, which is perhaps a conceptual framework your faculty can comprehend. Yale does not have any de facto obligation with regard to your free speech, legally or contractually speaking. Unfortunately, our society generally permits speech to be legal cause for termination/dismissal in private institutions (e.g. employment at a company), except in cases of discrimination and failures to adhere to equal opportunity laws.

The best advice I can give is to ensure you have open-minded faculty members at your back. If you have professors you feel you can talk to, I would try to have a casual conversation with them as soon as you can. Their advice and backing will be invaluable, if and when a formal situation arises.
"Yet college students pay teachers thousands of dollars per course..."

No. College students pay colleges and universities thousands of dollars per course. There's a difference.
Reply to self, in case anyone comes across this:

Moving the /private/var/db/systemstats directory out of the way and rebooting seems to have solved the problem. Guess something there was corrupt or too large.
And there are severely starved and malnourished African children with bloated bellies whose rotting corpses will serve as feeding grounds for the vultures that watched and patiently waited.

Your problems do not invalidate his.
Decentralization in itself do not have a cost. When this architecture is applied to some concrete case it may have cost it even be wrong.

For example one can argue that if Europe had been kept under a central authority since Charlemagne, Europeans would have suffered much less wars, and maybe would have had less need to bring war and colonization worldwide.

But for a currency, distribution of goods, communication, etc decentralization is probably better, i.e. have more value than its implementation cost.
>in practice only databases that are not a side effect of the core activities of the creator are protected //

Presumably that assertion is based on caselaw as I see nothing in the Directive itself that says that. A substantial investment - but note that can be qualitative and/or quantative - is in Art7(1)¹ however.

If your assertion is true then databases could be simply compiled by an offshoot company in order to meet the requirements.

¹ -- http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...

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Edit: http://www.out-law.com/page-5698 gives a run-down including some caselaw (as does http://www.out-law.com/page-392 with more caselaw detail). It doesn't tally with what you're saying exactly but suggests that the investment needs to be in the compilation of the data, not the production. It might well be argued that this [theoretical] case would be akin to the "Judgments on the Fixtures Marketing lawsuits" and so like the football league match listings not warrant protection. However it seems it's rather difficult to be generic in judgement. Any part of law that says "substantial" appears to be well-placed to let lawyers earn their keep.
Here is a study that shows giving poor rural Indians a stipend. Positive results: http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income
I can't remember the last time someone wore a suit to an interview here.

General rule of thumb: unless your mom has heard of the company, don't wear a suit. If it's a startup, don't even wear business casual: wear jeans.
Last I heard, Mastercoin is just a specification. It's too early to pretend it's going to work. I heard an interview w/ the author and it sounds like lots of talk and big dreams w/ no real technology to back it up. When asked how long it will take to release a working prototype, I think he said two weeks if he gets enough donations to quit his job. OK suuuure. You can find the interview on YouTube. It's almost comical.

As far as "Colored Coins" looks like the same scenario--just an idea for a protocol? Their video is vague, doesn't really explain anything. Bitcoins backed by car titles? Let me guess, a decentralized vault full of luxury cars nobody can drive? LOL. http://coloredcoins.org/about/our-team/
Which is my point. A basic kettle should not cost much. The $100 kettles are those with temperature controls.
You don't find large-scale Clojure projects, because Clojure is very concise.
I've never heard anyone, experienced or newbie, say "JavaScript has classes". People at best will say "You can sort of make classes in JavaScript using objects".

To me a Class has always been "a family of objects with the same structure and behaviour, and a way to create them". Stuff like hiding, constructors, type checking, polymorphism and inheritance are interesting, but secondary details. But then, I was taught OOP using Modula-2 back in '89, so I'm used to the idea that language features and paradigm features need not match 1:1
FreeBSD has pretty decent ZFS support. That would be a good reason for a home NAS.
First and foremost reason, ZFS. But if you're looking for something easy to manage, FreeNAS (based on FreeBSD + ZFS) may be a better option.
This is actually quite interesting,

I'm from Australia (Sydney - one of the major capital cities) - and house prices here have basically been rising continually for the past few decades.

House prices are predicted to rise 10% per annum in most capital cities (less in smaller cities):

http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/australian-capital-c...
http://smh.domain.com.au/real-estate-news/boom-time-sydney-h...

Hence, investing in a house is seen as a solid investment - most people will tell you to get a mortgage, and put your money into a house - to do anything otherwise is seen as silly, since the prices only go one way, and interest rates are incredibly low.

Occasionally, you'll get one or two people talking about "bubbles", but they're regarded as a bit kooky by most - and there doesn't seem to be any fundamental reason prices would shift.

What are people's thoughts on this?