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> I'm sensing some religious overtones... Everyone is a born into this world an innocent child, but the world is not run by God. But everyone wants to reconnect with God.

Very weird that you took the comment that way; it's an atheistic credo that all people are born atheists and must be taught to believe in god. So this is actually the exact opposite of a religious view.
Yeah, it's not really going to hold up for very long.
Hmmm. I've been in the trap scene myself lately, and this is the trend I see. Soundcloud just works so much better because of the community, the ease of linking artists together (I love how rappers will feature other rappers, then you can go listen to that other rapper and explore an entire new world of music), the overall presentation of audio with waves, similar to an audio player (Google tries to do this more with Google Play Music rather than Youtube). Souncloud is just a much more polished experience for music.
looks awesome... will try this out
Not to mention the complete lack of conversion tracking. He's measuring success of the mobile app ad by monitoring game activity WoW which is laughably unscientific.

Facebook supports conversion pixels as well, so conversions through his signup flow could have been measured. Instead we just get a vague disappointment in WoW signups
Thank you for the response. I agree, more or less. In this case, of course, I made the assumption that OP didn't want to quit his job. His skill sets are fairly common, based on what he posted. Considering that, I thought he will have a better chance of building something on the side, since getting high enough consulting rates for PHP work is hard, especially when you are trying to do it part-time. (As you said, there are outliers for this also. I assumed OP falls close to the mean/median when I wrote that.)
Lets hope so, because IBM and Intel are actually laying off people again.
Be proactive.

I make plans to do other things I enjoy. Computer time is a filler if I'm not busy doing something else, like spending time with family/friends, being outdoors, running etc.

I agree with mbrock also that avoiding a smartphone (or having a data-less plan) is a good way to stop time being swallowed up. When you're on a net-connected machine eight hours a day at work, you don't need more screen time!
I find the docs very comprehensive. http://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/
FWIW, I haven't had any update issues for years. If you have hardware setup that was easy to install on, then you'll have a hardware setup that is easy to update. If you had to do anything special after the basic install, you'll probably have to do the same thing after each update.
Mozilla Persona is a good start.
It can still read and write to memory. If it needs to "initialize" anything, it will have to commandeer the CPU by creatively rewriting memory that is in use.
A pencil can be used against someone but it is not the primary intention. A pistol can be used against a Tank but it is not the primary intention. A molotov cocktail is primarily intended for anti-vehicle use, as many instances throughout history (indicated on the wiki page), shows to be the case.

I'd never heard of it being used in an anti-personnel situation (you primarily hear about/see it in its intended capacity). But I guess it would be ridiculous to claim it never has been used against an individual.
How is it different from something like "I don't buy a house I can't afford"?
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Most of the owners of rental property I know are usually very happy with, and encouraging of, the renters of their units.

One of the issues with renting is that you DO end up paying for the owners property taxes, not directly, but it is factored into the cost of running the rental. If the local government decides to increase property taxes, or housing appraisals increase in the area, then rent may increase. This is often seen as "bad" by the renters, but really there is nothing an owner can do about it.
I don't understand how the internet would be a better place without Twitter, please explain. I don't see them doing any harm. And if they are doing harm, could you please tell me what harm they are causing?
Yeah, you're probably right...I hope...and Java still seems to the only game in town for unified web + desktop functionality.I just don't see another choice.
I'm currently wearing the Firefox shirt I got from donating $100 to the NYT ad campaign. It's looking pretty rough...I guess it's been eight or nine years. I've been meaning to order up a new one. It's always been a favorite.
I would very much contest that there is no similarity between slavery and proprietary software. But that wasn't the point anyhow (you see, the fact that fighting for a cause being bad depends on the cause being bad does not in any way depend on whether your cause is similar to some super-awesome cause someone has fought for - fighting for better street lights in your neighbourhood is not bad because someone some time fought against slavery), so let's forget about that.

"fundamentalists are bad because fundamentalists are bad, period" - are you serious? That is supposed to be a rational argument? Arguments of the form "x is bad because x is bad, period" are quite typical of ... fundamentalists! And you know why those are bad? Because they don't demonstrate any rational connection to the real effects the promoted values or actions would have on humanity.

And now, would you mind explaining how all of that contradicts what I've been saying? Or does it?
A company in Mountain View is using San Francisco's public infrastructure for private purposes and not paying for the costs associated with that infrastructure. Furthermore a plausible case has been made that Google's use of San Francisco's public infrastructure is having a negative impact on some of San Francisco's citizens. The impacted citizens are paying for the public infrastructure in their city.

In essence the citizens of San Francisco are subsidizing the tax payers of Mountain View because of their unwillingness to create affordable housing and provide public transit that serves the needs of its workforce. Google's buses are the means by which that subsidy occurs.

There is nothing preventing Google from routes that pickup and deliver exclusively upon private property. Nor is there anything preventing Google from opening access to its bus service to the public.

There is not even anything to prevent them from operating their bus service at a profit...except the impossibility of doing so.
All that and nobody figured out that the cookie isn't 63% things that are not chocolate chips. The Chips are milk instead of semi-sweet and so they are 37% Chocolate.

Just like these are not 28% not Chocolate bar.
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From the sound of it, it's not going to get a huge amount of use. Movie nights, events, etc. And, they look easy to make. So, if they have a lot of T-shirts, and if the interior foam holds up OK, they can just rewrap them in new T-shirts as they wear out. I'm sure it'll be fine. Cotton is pretty resilient. I have T-shirts that are more than ten years old and still mostly intact.
The article is wrong. They already aired a short segment of the nterview and Siemens was just used as an example by the interviewer. Snowden said something like "The US intelligence agencies would spy on Siemens if they had information that could be exploited by American corporations even if said information had nothing to do with national security". At no point did he claim that specifically Siemens was affected.
Thank you very much for your response.

I guess my struggle now is about how to reconcile the fact that simultaneity in General Relativity often isn't even globally well-defined for one observer at a time with the pretty well defined gravitational time dilatation. How can one say that time flows slower in higher absolute gravitational potential then somewhere else without being able to unambiguously say what's before and what's after at those two points.

Cauchy surface at least from wiki description doesn't sound much like a simultaneity line/surface/subspace. Is it dependent on the speed of the observer? I'm looking for some concept that in universe without mass reduces to SRT simultaneity. It might be twisted, branching, looping as in you lensing example but smoothly transitioning towards SRT simultaneity as mass goes to zero. Also time distance at two remote points between such surfaces should be reflect value of gravitational time dilatation between those two points. Is there something like that?
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I hadn't seen sqlx before, but this looks super convenient. Thanks for the tip!
Standard I'm not so sure.

Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany covers the period, focusing extensively on the cultural and artistic aspects.

http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780691157962-0

Related, from Powells:

http://www.powells.com/subjects/history-and-social-science/e...
This looks like a great resource! A bit of a rant (not directed at the person who wrote this, because the link at hand is great):

Writing APIs in Go is not the hard part. There are a ton of options for routing basic URLs to handlers. There are a few areas that are a nightmare, total total nightmare:

* SQL - The raw database/sql package in Go is very low-level. It is a terrible experience to use in a project that makes anything more than a handful of simple queries. I'm not asking for an ORM, but it would really benefit the community if there was a SQLAlchemy style (the non-ORM part of it) library for Go. It should be MUCH easier to make basic queries to SQL and get out results.

* Templating - The built in "html/template" package is just not good enough for a web app when compared to something like Jinja (Python). "html/template" gets points for being simple, and actually its not a complaint against "html/template": I think there just needs to be a more feature-packed templating package like Jinja for Go. "html/template" doesn't support things like inheritance, didn't even support comparison operators until Go 1.2, etc.

These two problems have made it so I've pretty much given up web apps in Go for now. Services in Go are _amazing_. But if you're trying to get a full blown web app (again, not the point of the linked article above), then you're gonna have a bad time.
All we know about the Google protestors (as a collective) is that they're opposed to increasing housing prices which make it difficult for them to continue living where they used to live. There's nothing to suggest that this is a communist movement: you're making a generalization, and making unbacked generalizations is never helpful, it only leads to divisiveness. You're using the term as a derogatory statement and a scare tactic, and your point would be stronger without it. Also, using the argument "Oh politicians do it, so that means it's okay for me to do it" is a pretty slippery slope.
See http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbsurdlySpaciousS... for more on this.
It's revealing that my not having internet at home would be considered "extreme," when I'm online for at least 8 hours every weekday. :)

But to answer your question, I'm actually coding on an IRC client with decent offline support. I run it on a VPS and sync the state so I can read backlogs at home if I want to. Well, it's not so much a need as a fun hobby project...
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Multiple income streams is the best starting point imo if you don't know what you want to double down on. Getting $100k itself is not an easy task, let alone trying to get $100k off of a single thing. It's easier (and more pragmatic) to get to $100k by getting $5k on product A in YRR, $20k on product B etc... These things will eventually add up and need to be easily maintainable projects (as opposed to timesink projects). I wouldn't recommend writing a super complex app consisting of millions of lines of code for example that requires a lot of support towards your customers; instead, consider writing an e-book and selling it for $10-30 a pop. Or a SaaS that nets you $10 MRR per customer.

Another upside imo of this approach is that you can discern at a later stage which one of your projects is most successful and has the most chance of getting you to $100k YRR, on its own. This will allow you to decide if you want to double down on it or not.

Also, consider building things someone wants: I know, I know, easier said than done, but it's often a good place to start at what you'd like yourself. In a worst case scenario, you'll at least have 1 customer (yourself) ;-)
Be careful of any externally controllable strings which might allow XSS and give panel access to an attacker.

More of a problem for admin dashboards which have two-way control, which this one must if it can do on-demand refresh.

That's why I prefer munin static pages.
"I don't know if this is an American thing or not, but to a Dutch person this remark is rather revolting.
In The Netherlands, if you pay for your home it is your right to live there, regardless of how you finance it. Home owners are not somehow more privileged than renters are."

Can you elaborate on this more? Does a tenant have the right to force an owner to extend a lease, perhaps? From my experience, an owner does have more rights to the property and its use, purely because they are the owner. If a lease ends, they can increase the lease payment[1], and if the current tenant cannot afford it, they have to move. Is this not how it works in your country?

[1] Many (most?) places here do have a limit on how fast you can increase rent prices to help alleviate the problem of kicking someone out by pricing the unit out of their reach all of the sudden.
Cool. I cancelled my home internet service a after I got an office a couple years ago and it's been good. Recommended.

In my case I kept tethering on my phone but it does raise the threshold for doing anything online. It's actually a bit like having dialup, you could call it "intentional internet access."
ASUS Zenbook UX301: $1,999 (Amazon.com)
Apple MacBook Pro 13: $1,799 (Apple.com list)

Both with the Intel Core i7 2.8GHz / 3.3GHz TurboBoost, 8GB RAM, 256GB flash storage, etc.

The main difference is that the Mac display is 2560x1600 and the ASUS is 2560x1440 and the ASUS has a touchscreen.

This is a realistic competitor – I can't speak to build quality never having touched one but this is hardly the “way better specs” you've been claiming.

The same holds true for the Dell XPS 15. Comparing the only Dell XPS 15 which uses SSD primary storage[2] to the MacBook Pro 15" leaves us at $2,349 vs. $2,499. Again, I can't speak to build quality but unless you find a touchscreen a killer feature versus Apple's modern trackpad this boils down to how you feel about Windows 8 versus OS X or whether you've had a bad experience with one of the two vendors.

You've proven that your earlier “double the price of every other PC laptop out there with the same specs” claim was simply untrue.

1. Only the top-end model has an SSD as primary storage if you don't want the weight + power + size hit of an extra HDD: http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-15-9530/pd?oc=dncwx1249h&model_...
2. http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=ME293L...
Never forget, the Jews say of the Shoah. It becomes harder to keep that promise if it's seen as uncivil merely to draw comparisons to that era. And it's important that the promise be kept. One can accuse someone of an intolerance akin to Nazi supporters without accusing someone of wanting to re-enact the Shoah. And it's certainly reasonable to analogize contemporary attempts to level the 1% with the corollary attempts in Germany in the 1930s. That analogy is not the same as to depict Occupy sympathizers as Nazis. When it is taken that way it's likely simply an attempt to divert serious contemplation of the actual similarity between the motivations driving those two movements.
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This post really highlights what I like about Go so far vs other languages -- the evolving community. Like Rails, there is an emphasis on abstraction and productivity. Unlike Rails, the blog posts I've seen so far seem to be centered around explaining how to implement the functionality instead of just wrapping the functionality and providing an easy API. Now that I've read this post, I could download his library, implement my own, or extend the parts I want to customize very easily. I feel more powerful.
Pando.com is making a big play on this kind of class-focused journalism. Mainstream outlets will do it from time to time, but mostly as a sideshow to the conventional liberalism of the Red/Blue culture war.

America has a lot of liberal news outlets, but not many left ones.

I am genuinely curious how this experiment will play out.
My biggest issue with gpl/copy left is that it is a _kind_ of freedom obtained by forgoing other freedoms. It isn't a more _free_ platform, it is a more _open_ platform.

If I work on a gpl product I give up important characteristics of ownership in that work. I lose certain freedoms to gain others.

I define freedom as the ability to do as I wish. The gpl restricts that, and thus can't be said to be totally free.

The gpl is an interesting and in many ways compelling philosophy, but it ties you to its philosophy - it doesn't allow you the freedom to follow your own.

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You mention long term value. I think that, like the medicine patent system, copy middle gives us higher long term ecosystem value at the expense of short term value. I should put my assumptions into an economic simulation some time and really model out the question of in which circumstance copy middle vs copy left gives higher long term value.
Correct me if I'm wrong... But didn't the Nazi's actively protect their 'rich leaders of industry' as long as they toed the line (Farben, Krupp, Etc)? They even provided them with concentration camp victims as slave labor at points.

When did the Nazi's persecute the rich? Or is this just more "something something Nazi" rhetoric being used blindly?
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Sorry, I don't follow what you're trying to say.
I've read the sand is very abrasive, and any kind of "wiping" would have scratched the panels.
ActiveRecord may be a stepping stone for those just starting out, but for serious, long-living, evolving applications I firmly believe it does more harm than good.

Back when I did Rails contracting, cleaning up code which conflated database access with business logic was quite possibly what was keeping us in business.
It does but notice I put it in quotes. Anyway hopefully it is clarified now.
Visiting a chiropracter for back pain might help. Do not let them crack your neck (increases risk of stroke) and I wouldn't let them crack my spine (it's my freaking spine) and you might want to ignore all the woo. But it's a nice back rub and some stretching.

Good chairs help. There's a thing called backmate (http://www.backmate.co.uk) which is cheap and useful if you don't have control over your choice of chair.

I haven't tried it but lots of people recommend Alexander technique.
Just curious, but what type of programming do you do for your investment bank? I've been programming for 30 years now, have done c/c++, Java, reverse engineering, have security clearance, etc but seem to have maxed-out at 130k. I don't know that I've ever seen a job like yours advertised, much less one that pays so well. Can you share what type of programming you do, and how you got into it?
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How is asking for 'the rich to pay their share' a corollary to any Nazi actions? Am I missing some examples that I should know about of the Nazi's exterminating wealth and industry (rather than what they misguidedly considered 'undesirables' for racial purity reasons)?
Well to be contrarian his comments about progressive radicalism echoing the socialism of fools in pre ww Europe is actually quite strong.

Trouble is he obviously doesn't have enough historical background I wonder if my comrade Dr Flett might be able to suggest a reading list

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/alanjohnson/100255874/nico...
I would like a cookie with 62% chocolate chips.
It could be ironic that I was critiquing readers with poor reading comprehension (who were missing that that comment was not equating the two terms), and in response you seem to have confused me for the person who wrote that comment.

I'm not.
There's even a nice tutorial: http://go-database-sql.org/overview.html
It just isn't going to happen for Netflix in the medium term.

You have to believe that Google cares about TV and video content. They've made so many moves in this direction: YouTube, movies and TV on Google Play, the deal for Girls (or whichever show it is) to premiere on YouTube before anywhere else…

The challenges Netflix has are three-fold as I see it:

1. They only have enough cash at hand to do, what, five pieces of amazing original programming each year? Six? The halo isn't big enough to make them huge like YouTube is huge.

2. Google has an insane amount of cash. They could really "unify the division" by creating the first truly undisputed king of content streaming (which would just be YouTube + licensed movies and TV shows with a premium version and a heavily ad-supported version). They could also finance new shows.

3. Content owners can see Netflix's share price. As soon as they start doing well the price will go up on content licenses. Unless Netflix negotiate 5, 10, or 15 year terms they aren't going to be able to avoid arbitrary price hikes.
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> Does RMS go trolling on dev lists for permissively-licensed projects?

Are bears catholic?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.tcl/7JXGt-...
I was hoping for an article about the Delight language, http://delight.sourceforge.net/ . Python-like syntax, compiles to D.
Scalyr [1] can do this. (Disclaimer: I am the founder of Scalyr, and it's a commercial product.) We aim to be a one-stop-shopping monitoring tool: collect everything you might want to collect, and let you analyze it in any way you want. To your question, we can collect CPU, memory, I/O, and other stats for specified processes [2], and give you graphs, rolled-up dashboards, and alerts on that data.

We're always looking for feedback, and we're happy to give out discounted or free accounts to startups. Drop me a line -- steve@[company domain] -- if you're interested.

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This is incredibly confusing: 37% of what? By mass or by volume?

The answer about even distribution pre-supposes physical dispersion characteristics, but does not mention which measure of proportion is relevant (it would seem volume); nor any means of reliable testing. As another commenter has aluded, the "100% chocolate%" concept (even for the chocolate) is also at best inaccurate. So, this looks to be more of a coincidental alignemnet of numbers, and a game of causation/correlation. To wit: A cookie with 37% by volume of 72% chocolate is in no way the same cookie as one with 37% by mass of 40% milk chocolate. Either by taste, consistency, or chemistry. So, i would think any proper answer for this question would need to be robust the these particulars.
The effect on internet disruption on my mind are pretty staggering. For the first hour I feel anxious from the void, then time dilates and then I feel a deep sense of focus into doing anything... 'back against the wall' time perception.

ps: Rich Hickey (of clojure) did a very nice (as usual) talk called "Hammock Driven Development" mentionning getting away from the machine : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
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