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Hell, I'm near my late 30s and I've never made over 28k (and the one time I did it lasted one year). Right now I'm a permatemp contractor (no benefits) but I like the job because I get to do design work a lot. Granted I'm not a "hacker" and more of a mediocre dev. I've read questions on "older developers" for years (back on slashdot and digg), so I've always known it was going to come sooner or later.

I don't know how many other jobs I can get with a certificate that will pay decent. I already have a bachelors in CS, and don't want to go to college again (its several more times more expensive than when I went). All my skills are computer related and I do not plan to go back into tech support ever again. Management isn't me and neither is sales. Guess I'm not sure what I'll end up doing.

Everyone here seems to be rockstars or A-list devs, but I like reading the comments here since it keeps me up to date and I learn a lot.
My thoughts too. As soon as the DBI saw that the unit was illegal, I would have assumed the occupants would have been removed almost immediately. It should not have taken that long for the owner to be able to do what he was legally required to do. But instead he was legally prevented from doing what he was legally required to do. Makes no sense.
Thanks, this resonates greatly with how I would like to tackle things, while I guess your advice falls under industry disruption, I think I like it more simply because it challenges status quo and that is me through and through.
You are correct. I did not read very carefully. Thank you for pointing that out. I focused on the pretty pictures before reading all of the text. I can say with extreme confidence that I am not the only person who made the mistake of not reading carefully so I thought it worthwhile to mention.
It's just as cryptographically secure as signing a paper document and scanning it in. And yes it does: http://electronicsignature.com/esignact/
No, I think the websites I visit is my data.
Totally agree with that, let's see what happens in some years.
Liars are often good at relatively convincingly excusing their own failures. The amount of "congress wouldn't let him do..." or "he can't do [...] until his second term so that he can get reelected" I heard in 2012 was absolutely stunning.
Have you ever shopped for high-end routers, like Juniper or Fortigate? For some reason they absolutely refuse to sell directly, and force you to go through one of those stupid resellers that don't even understand the product they're reselling. Ask the resellers any non-trivial questions, and they forward it back to their contact at the main company.

Never understood that.
Why, because they were nice enough to still let her stay there? Oh yeah, I forgot, it's illegal so they should kick her out immediately.
The users kyledlloyd, fletchtastic and emnroth seem to be fake/astroturfy. They have all commented on the exact same posts with meaningless praise that adds nothing to the discussion. For example, "Great article!"

The posts they've commented on link to wearableworldnews.com.

This is not a smart marketing strategy. Please stop.
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Wow, this is as bad as his original post. And he's added some fresh errors to all the ones I identified last time: Szabo isn't in EST, he seems to be in Minnesota; the Bitcoin whitepaper wasn't written in Latex, it was written in Openoffice.org; his defense of his balderdash stylometric approach isn't remotely correct. And so on.
> You could have a version of OOP that doesn't involve hiding internal state.

That is in fact the default form of OOP in javascript.
> That anyone would try to downplay it to make themselves feel superior is silly.

Why would you think that was my goal? Did i say the author was stupid or didn't pay attention? I simply pointed out a limitation that might not be obvious to others at first sight and which wasn't discussed in the article itself, thus also providing for others an easy starting point to improve on the algorithm as presented.

Heck, in the circles* i run the first part of my comment is even praise. Figuring out ways to approximate "real" results so they can be done in realtime is not easy.

*Have an example of EXTREMELY competent faking from those circles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJfceF0syK8
Not surprising the the housing market crash reduced the eviction rate.

While I don't know if I disagree with the law, it is hard to see it being used outside of sale opportunities.
It sounds like she moved there when it was cheap. Is it reasonable to expect her to leave her friends, contacts, etc that she's built up over decades because the city is changing? Housing isn't widgets: it's not easy to move to a cheaper type if your current type gets expensive. There isn't an easy answer to this sort of problem, but to imply that she should simply "move somewhere else" is simplistic in the extreme.

Reminds me of panel 3 in http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1992-03-01/
Probably more relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-lia-FEIY
It truly doesn't matter when it pops up or if there are worse offenders out there. It interrupted me, I was annoyed, I left. Did not read the content, did not click on ads, I just left. End of story.
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I was going to say something about how companies will sell lockpick sets to anyone and that's perfectly legal even though it facilitates burglary, but I thought of another example that might be more revealing.

Say I'm an asshole and make an app that scrapes Facebook statuses. I call it "Who's Not Home?" If someone posts something like "On vacation in Barbados" in their status, it puts their name and address (plenty of people put their addresses on Facebook, or at least their general area) on a map. Why? I feel like it. I'm not making any money off of it, and the software is completely open source. Of course, the only real purpose of this is for burglars to get easy targets.

Would this be legal?
Altavista worked ok, but I'm glad Google came along.

I think that your comment isn't a bad one, but should go more in depth. Some markets really are unassailable - others aren't. The reasons are many and sometimes complex, so analyzing one is often quite interesting.
>"What makes it crummy are the software systems that let managers schedule people on variable, on-demand schedules, and policies that micro-manage bathroom breaks and the like. There's an entire industry focused on getting additional tenths of a percent out of service workers."

The problem that you see here could also be characterized as a lack of demand for the labor services of the employees. Perhaps we should attempt to find more, new productive activities for low-skill workers.
It's too bad that we're focusing on this kind of event, because it gives people a false impression of the reality on the ground. The fact is that right now there are whole families that are being displaced out of their homes and communities with absolutely no fallback net. And as we all know, it's hardest to bounce back when you're down low.

I lived through troubled times a few years back, but I always knew in the back of my mind that no matter what, I'll never be homeless -- a nice big paycheck from daddy was only an asking away - at the cost of only a little momentary humiliation that I was the only person not 'made' in my family. It's tough to even imagine what happens to families who're not well-networked or financially secure to begin with. There is a problem right now, as much as this particular story may hint otherwise.
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Washington Asks Saudi Arabia to Finance the Crisis in Ukraine
I can't help but suspect that this is exactly how this story was designed to read.

They could have chosen between any of the Ellis Act evictions in the dabrownstein figure (~4000 of them), and yet the person they chose to interview

* has health care retirement benefits

* has the ability to go back to Germany and use their social programs

* has personal attention from social workers and relatives finding her options

* has a car

* has a shelter offering a place to stay for the night

* is a member of a social group (female, white, older) that is not the bottom of the charity priority list

* hoards, smokes, intentionally antagonizes her landlord

All of this raises questions about how representative Inge is of the evictee population. I suspect the answer is "not very."
Does anyone know what language he coded the game in? It's kind of a feat in itself that he ported it (by himself) to Android rather quickly. Is he using some sort of wrapper?
Some of us only skim articles.

It's not a sin.
WTF Delaware?
So I'd like to make it easy for clients to sign sales contracts. I see a lot of companies using DocuSign or EchoSign for this. Is the advantage of HelloSign the integration it has with various services like Google Docs? (Well, and it also appears to be cheaper.) Is that helpful even if clients don't want to install any plugins or apps?
we only have to look to politicians to assign the blame, in the East its called rent control, whats its called in SF?

It is like any government handout, except here in the case of money they merely take your rights away to your property.
Unity produces native Linux games. What are you on about?
What provider are you using?
> How can a representative democracy function when all the candidate representatives are liars?

I'm happy more people are finally becoming aware of the fallacious nature of labeling it a representative democracy.

When the implementation of a system is providing massive amounts of power to a tiny group of people, in exchange for non-binding promises. In the rare event someone is held accountable for lying, they get replaced by another politician who over time is indistinguishable from the last one.

But everyone keeps trumpeting the idea that voting and replacing politician x with politican y is the solution to a broken democracy. I'm not buying it.
It was illegal, and they made the decision to do it. Anything that follows that gets little sympathy from me; I believe that people should own the consequences of their actions in situations like that. Your illegal tenant refuses to pay you rent, leaving you with no legal recourse? Cry me a river.

And make no bones about it, it wasn't a sense of charity that made them decide to let her stay. They were charging her rent (and in fact, attempted to raise it at least once).
Academics have dug their own grave here. They keep pushing for last century's publishing model and then they use this publishing model to gauge their own academic value.
Unemployment wasn't what was at issue. It was the structuring of particular jobs in ways that are particularly unpleasant for those who remain simply because it lets you cut one more job.

This isn't the fault of all MBAs or all engineers, but it's quite arguably the fault of the particular engineers who built the tools to manage that way and certainly the particular MBAs who chose to deploy those tools in a way that makes people miserable.
> What terrible consequences does someone who prefers python to shell scripting face?

Terrible consequences? Probably not. Shell script dependencies are easier to handle, because the commands you're relying on are built right into the OS. They're going to be there because they have to be. How often does sed, grep, awk, and cut change?
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A very scary premise, but it's also possible that the future will be more egalitarian, with technology liberating us into an age of abundance.

I also wonder if the future of armed conflict is really going to look like robot warfare. In the near future, it probably will be the case, but if I was one of the fortified 1%, I'm not sure I'd feel all that secure. I suspect there's a coming age of biological engineering that will completely transform warfare away from robots and into things like targeted viruses.
I've been saying the same thing for years. My hope is a company like Spotify or Rdio will lead the effort in this. The biggest obstacle is actually getting licensing rights, but honestly, I would pay so much for the service.

That said, I think the cable companies would just jack the rates on internet service to compensate for their dwindling cable usage.
Depending upon one's starting debt load, any person of average intelligence or better would be able to, after a few days to a couple of weeks of that income, "retire" to a lower stress job, or even have the freedom to work for oneself in a less public arena.

In the US, $350,000 (1 week @$50k/day average) works out to somewhere north of $200,000 after taxes. That's a lot of money, even if it's not life changing for somebody in the tech industry with a typical salaried job in the Bay Area.
Joseph here, cofounder of HelloSign.

No, they don’t have an integration with Google Docs Add-ons.
I'm not too strong with trig. Would this also work with curves that have more than one bump? (sine, etc.)
No reason she couldn't have moved 40 minutes out of the city, or perhaps if she does have friends she could move in with them.
I have an open source XNA/MonoGame implementation of a similar lighting technique available here:

https://github.com/sq/Illuminant

It's hardware-accelerated and has a few other useful features; we're using it in Escape Goat 2 and it works on Windows/Linux/Mac on pretty much any D3D9-spec hardware. You can see some of the levels using it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9s1PyotS18#t=1m20s

For EG2 we have a pair of separate lighting environments; one for the foreground plane and one for the background plane. Most light sources exist on both planes but have different parameters in order to create a depth effect; some light sources are only on the background plane. We apply a customized ramp texture to the light sources in order to replace the smooth attenuation with quantized attenuation, and we don't use soft shadows (though we do render lighting at a lower resolution and upscale it, because that softens things a little.) We also do a simple HDR camera model by sampling lighting intensity across the scene's foreground/background planes and using that to adjust the range of the final lightmap so that we can automatically tune exposure/white point etc to highlight certain parts of a level.

I also have a similar pure-software-rendering lighting library from around ~8 years ago available here, in C++:

https://github.com/kg/Fury2/blob/master/libraries/SoftFX/mod...

That one's garbage, but may still be of some use.

I'll note that the author's approach (needing extra intersection points at +- 0.00001 radian) is a little perplexing. I'm not sure why that is needed; I've never needed it.

A better approach for 'fuzzy' shadows is to model the penumbra; you can render it as a single triangle that borders on the actual shadow umbra and then make it smooth by using a simple lookup texture. This technique is described here:

http://archive.gamedev.net/archive/reference/programming/fea...

Another great option for 2D lighting is to associate normal maps with your sprites and do per-pixel lighting against each light source using the normal map. This can produce some really great results. I think that SpriteLamp, http://snakehillgames.com/spritelamp/ does this; the Fury2 library I linked above also did per-pixel sprite lighting with normal maps. The upcoming game Full Bore (http://www.wholehog-games.com/fullbore/) is using per-pixel lighting on its sprites and environment art, and I believe Spelunky for PC/XBLA uses it on environment art.
Hey Steven, you should include the actual clickable URL. Noob
And yet, here we are a few weeks later, and he's in Rolling Stone magazine. The game hasn't been forgotten. He had the #1 game on the iTunes App Store charts, the same store where people now buy music by rock stars. I wouldn't dismiss the comparison too quickly.
Yup, Romney ugh. Don't get me started.
Government regulations are the villain here. Is it legal or stay in a car with cat litter around but living in a room with height less that 7' is illegal ?

In the name of protecting tenant rights government has made regulations that deeply hurt the land owners and reduce their incentives to create housing opportunities for poor.

"In San Francisco, a landlord can’t evict a current tenant just because they are selling or buying the property; by the time the unit was purchased. "

Burning down the house in that case sounds like a lucrative offer.
As Landes and Posner say in 'The economic structure of intellectual property law' (Conclusion, p422, s3) (2003):

"Economic analysis has come up short of providing either theoretical or empirical grounds for assessing the overall effect of intellectual property law on economic welfare."

And that is echoed in various other economic comment in later years. So there is an uncomfortable lack of research.

Now, the main purpose of copyright is to get the best trade-off in production level and access to goods. So given both that model and the lack of evidence, to say an increase in availability of goods, with a still strong level of production, is a good thing, seems very reasonable, does it not?

> losing 'potential income'

What does that even mean? Really, what? If people buy more coffee machines and make coffee at home, perhaps coffee-shop owners are going to say they are losing 'potential income'. Oh no! we had better ban the use of coffee-making machines!

The law is not there to ensure certain businesses make as much money as they think they should. (Well, sadly it currently is, but it ought not to be.)
I don't even think a stronger safety net would have helped in this case. It sounds like she simply wasn't interested in changing anything and that just doesn't work when you have to move and have to change your lifestyle (e.g. stop hoarding).

This is all-too-familiar to me, after having helped a couple older relatives through serious late-life changes like this.

Further, the general lack of safety net doesn't really apply when you're talking about a person with $1300/mo in disability/SSI, 'free' medical and some savings (/settlement payments). She could live, certainly not lavishly, but at least as well as she did before, just not where she did before or how she did before.

Which is the crux of this entire story.
Using grunt watch for things like automatically linting my files, and running unit tests based on what source / test files are changing was a revolutionary jump for me and my development with Node. Having a near-0 feedback loop to indicate your impact to code quality and tests is priceless!

Grunt also makes it super simple to do add tasks which are wrappers for things like Vagrant etc. For example, you can bootstrap a vagrant vm with a mongo service provisioned inside the VM and have that auto-deploy before you start you development workflow.

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> First came the arbitration hearing, where Inge’s lawyer and the landlord’s lawyers tried to strike a deal to avoid any type of elongated legal dispute. This ended somewhat peacefully: Withrington agreed to pay Inge a settlement of $14,000 in resettlement fees, and she signed a contract agreeing to vacate the property within 60 days. The first eviction notice was issued.

Yet she refused to do so and is now homeless, with a fraction of $14k to her name. It sounds like the landlords went above and beyond, I would kill to have landlords like that, and yet because this woman was her own worst enemy[0] she ends up on the street. Barring mental illness (which is quite possible) I can't see this being anything else but a conscious choice on her part to end up on the street. Furthermore, it seems like this woman was actively taking away resources from those who are in more dire situations[1]. Maybe we should be more concerned that the multiple social workers (and the post author) didn't consider that the woman might have needed mental help?

[0] “I personally went out and found stuff -- my own mother personally went out and found stuff. We put Inge in touch with multiple social workers and housing agencies. The problem is that a lot of these places come and check where you’re living and only take you in if you meet their standards. Inge is a hoarder, a smoker, and has a cat. The smell in her unit was absolutely…just...unbelievable. That didn’t work out well for her.”

[1]“It took three truck loads to get her stuff out,” recalls Withrington. “And the help of a whole team of social workers.”
I'll add you to my list of contacts that may be interested testing down the road, no problem
by another politician who over time is indistinguishable from the last one

It's worse than that. You can replace every politician in Washington DC and you'd still be left with a massive bureaucracy of unelected officials who will go right on doing what they're doing, oblivious to the needs of the voting public. Their numbers are legion, they have a great deal of power, and they are entrenched beyond comprehension.
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Were would be Salt on that bag (http://www.saltstack.com/)?
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I've already tried something like this. I found that Twitter suspend the account incredibly fast if you interact with the website automatically. They can tell it's not natural. I switched to the API which is much more lenient.