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Author actually is doing what she loves and succeeding, by the way.

Any advice should not be taken in a vacuum. It doesn't make it bad advice because it doesn't solve all of life's problems. The point with the notion of doing what you love (and the money will follow) is that too many people are miserable in their jobs. That's an incredible waste. It's much easier to succeed if you love what you do. Of course that doesn't give anyone immunity to life's realities. But if you hate what you do, you've certainly got it all wrong.

I don't think too many people are that naive to think that all they need to do is to solely focus on what they love doing and everything else will line them up with success and wealth, just because.

But make no mistake, if you love what you do, if you are passionate, you are going to do better work than the other sucker who hates what he does (and only does it for the money/security).
You sound a lot like Linus Torvalds. :-)
The best programmer I know works for Northrop, because you can make >$100K and live in a rural or semirural area (near an AFB), you can have $1000/mo rent, vs living in SF making $150K and having massively higher expenses and have to be far away from "home".
> the Discourse peeps, who rejected eg PHP, and wrote it in their pet language, ignoring that no-one cares about language

Are you talking about Ruby/Rails?
I may be wrong, but as far as I know, the only way to access these settings in Win8 (without extra apps) is regedit. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors has the keys you want.
Stop believing in me, please
That's great. But it's POSIX, not native Windows.
Who knows, Scotland might be able to follow that model soon?
As an aside, here in Scotland you quite often don't even need to put up a tent - there are houses/huts in a lot of wild locations, known as bothies, that are completely free to use:

http://www.mountainbothies.org.uk/
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> Politicians definitely don't want to be investing during their term for the benefit of politicians 10 years from now.

you've hit the nail - short term gains vs long term losses. What you need is some mechanism to make it so that the long term benefits align with the benefits of the politician - for example, the project(s) you start stays with you, even after you're term is over.
It's not just about screwing intentionally. Open source also helps with getting more eyes on the code. You need to be able to catch vulnerabilities before the bad guys or no amount of good reputation would survive. That is the primary reason for security software to be open source - reducing security by obfuscation and easy vulnerability check.

That said, all software is written and audited by a group of individuals. Ultimately it all comes down to trusting them. Even audits on open source software is done by a few individuals, so when using any open source security software, you are only really trusting them. Any sense of security more than that is a smokescreen. In that regard, I agree with you. Open source does not help with reducing risk of bad intention. That is a myth.
Isn't it kind of obvious that the best coverage will be when the emitter is in the middle of the area to cover? ;-)
Were she around in 60s/70s, she'd likely have banned al-Kasim, the geologist who discovered Norwegian oil, from moving in.
I would say that it's just Vermont being independent as usual. Vermont has always gone against the grain, in good ways and bad (there's a secessionist movement there now[0]). I've long advocated for treating drug abuse as a disease and making it a health problem.

I'm against complete legalization of most drugs, though. I say make personal use legal and continue prosecuting dealers and pushers.

And for anyone who disagrees, that's fine. This is just my personal opinion.
There is also the related concept of "Dutch Disease" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease) which is what I expected this would be about. The idea is that once a country discovers it has reserves of a valuable natural resource, it tends to exploit and build its economy around that resource, at the expense of its more complex sectors like manufacturing. Norway seems to have handled that decently well so far, and part of the lack of spending probably comes from the fact that they realize their oil's a short term freebie boost not an economic strategy.
The problem is that if you're writing code that you want to be as fast as possible, then you're going to want to pin down the size of those integers to be as small as possible in order to let the compiler take advantage of the vector units found in modern processors. For example, if you're writing a lot of graphics code, not only are you going to be wasting space if you're giving every color channel of every variable 64 bits (8 bytes) of space, but you're going to be giving up a lot of performance, because the compiler has a lot fewer hints when it tries to autovectorize your code. Or, as another example, if you're writing a low-level networking library, then things like byte-level alignment matter. Reducing the integral types may make it simpler, but makes the language itself a lot less useful.
Its not new news that Google was contracted to build the search engine[1].

"Google was also contracted to provide the search technology and servers which makes up “Intellipedia”, a massive, incredibly secure database through which over 100,000 United States spies and intelligence professionals from 16 government agencies share information. And the NSA has purchased numerous servers from Google, utilizing their search technology to analyze and organize massive amounts of secure data all over the world."

At this point I think it safe to assume its the exact same code Google used in 2010, just a bit dumber, since Googles search engine only learns by being used, and since there are far fewer using it, it learns slower.

[1]http://questioneverything2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/googl...
If it's of any consolation, your healthcare is still better.
What is the problem? These whales are not near extinction like some whales outside Japan. The allowed quota for whales each year is strictly regulated by Norway which is one of the most environmental states in the world (yes we have lots of oil feel free to point out the double standard there). The killing itself is in most cases instant. If you care about how animals are treated you should be much more disgusted at how chicken are raised and their living conditions. The whale lives a happy life until it is killed.

Oh and whale meat is delicious.
Why isn't Go linking my assembly properly?
Chess, like the so called "video games" being streamed, ought to be called a sport. Some people who don't know the distinction between a single player game (ala tombraider) and e-sport is not going to be able to comment nor appreciate the power of streaming.
You're suggesting that the only things that will make the business a success are the financial and technology aspects. In my experience that's not the case at all. Money and tech are important, but the marketing and strategy are equally, if not more, important. You can build the best tech in the world, but without marketing and sales to get it to customers it's worth zero. Don't be so quick to discount your friend's marketing/strategy input.

As for the $100k you'd be losing, it's an opportunity cost of doing this startup. As far as the other people involved are concerned it's not relevant to them, so there's no reason why they should compensate you for it. After all, you might have an offer to work for the next year at $100,000,000 - would that mean they need to be offering you more equity because you'd be giving that up? No. The value you represent to the startup doesn't change. You alone have to work out whether or not the deal on the table is enough compensation for what you'll 'lose'. If it's not enough compared to what you could get elsewhere renegotiate or turn the deal down, but don't expect them to 'overpay' (in their mind) for what you'll bring to the table simply because of what you could earn somewhere else.

All that said though, it seems odd to me that the group have left so little equity for the technical founder. Do they actually understand what they're getting in to?
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True, it's an economy car for well-off people here really. In Bergen it's now easier to spot Tesla than a Ford Focus.
I love the app and what it represents. You have a great story and motive behind it. I'm +1 for a mac version as I think your work is beautiful. I'll share this with a few friends.
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Cool demo ;-)
Tried to bounce the head off screen but that worked out differently...
Attempt other models of education - alternatives to universities - so I could still hang out with younger folks, teaching and learning.

Or flee from my country to a place with Amazon Prime.
It is the best looking and best presented Windows app I can remember seeing. Can you show me a single app with similar functionality that is presented as well as this?
The idea wouldn't just be the phone system but removing most people's ability to record photos or video. Point-and-shoot cameras are rapidly disappearing now that phones are good enough for most people.
Yes policy is not the right word, but we have many cultures around drinking alcohol, and sayin that some of them are the wrong culture and this the cause of trouble is either just labelling those of that culture as "troublemakers" which just leads downwards, or a more enlightened question is why are those cultures toxic - which tends to lead back to mental illness, depravation, lack of opportunity and lack of ... A culture that values more ...

And we are back again. Humans are a problem.
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Mining companies own, or control much of the Australian media. There was only one newspaper who didn't go for the coalition in the last election. It was the Age, which was mostly critical of Labor, but not entirely. There were big legal battles for control of the Age, but the existing board one control in the end, but lost a lot of editorial power.

Out an out corruption basically. The country began because of a miners revolution, and to this day they have more power than they earn.

The large coal mine (by an Indian company) despite declining coal prices, and the state earning more money via tourism, is going ahead because of brilliant control by the mining companies. This company has a terrible record of keeping their mines clean as well. Not only that, but the carbon produced is similar to all planned carbon saving planned by the government proving they lied about reducing carbon themselves. Further more coal kills a million people per year through pollution, and China is reducing their spend on coal, like most other countries. Which means the price of coal is only going to fall.
Oh look at the socialist everybody. I don't vote for FrP (party of the finance minister) but these tabloid political personal views doesn't bring anything to this discussion. But yes she does want to increase spending from the "oil fund".
Go doesn't have them. There is no large need for any special consideration of values other than those discussed in the blog post. The programmer can declare the global variable easy enough, and even use Go's Init method to populate the values.
As the blog outlined, variables all have type, and it's only constants which don't have a specific type in Go. It's true it's possible to theorize up a special case where you'd want a slice of these broadly typed values, but that would add a lot of complexity to the language for doing some work which isn't very hard to do without the language feature.
As for wanting a constant variable, Go doesn't have that because in the opinion of the designers it makes the type system much more complicated for a gain that isn't worth the effort and language complication.
> A way of specifying an ABI for a packages instead of a version number?

Technically impossible for many languages (have fun figuring out what it would look like in Perl...). And even when it's possible, it's not a guarantee: you can have a semantic change without an ABI change. Cargo, Rust's newfangled package manager, supposes semantic versioning, and I think it's a sane attitude.
> trying to get different kinds of people to agree to the same laws at the same time.

That seems inevitable, even two people won't agree on an entire body of laws.

> What is your feeling about open carry laws? Someone comes from another state wearing their gun collection into the grocery store, and they think your state's laws against it are picky and burdensome.

The same as I feel about the individuals in the article transporting marijuana - it's, at worst, a civil matter. A small fine, possibly of increasing amounts for repeated violations, is appropriate if the individual wasn't merely passing through your state (as would've been appropriate for the individuals in the article).

Imprisonment for accidentally staying on the interstate too long is silly. It's incredibly easy to make a mistake and end up in another state - rarely as easy to enter another country by mistake.
Short of putting a physical button for it, I don't think there are solutions to doing that in a way that can not be bypassed by software
I'd be more interested in seeing all the open source software it uses, as I'm sure it does and whether it has funded open source software development which I am not sure of but I can imagine happening indirectly and whether the programmers were aware or not which I imagine not happening.
Are you seeing the unified search? As in the Google search box disappears and only the search term is in the universal address bar of chrome?

That easter-egg div is not behaving any differently for the triggering of zerg-rush. The zerg-rush behaviour is nested down way further in the DOM tree.
Well I think he was just comparing it to the corresponding erlang programme on a single core. I don't see Joe saying anywhere that it will run N times faster than a c program.
I can observe the issue even after disabling all the extensions. Even in Incognito.
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Interesting! Certainly seems to be the exception, but good to know nonetheless.
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I don't know where did you get that rule? There are a lot of public software companies without $100M ARR. For example Boulder darling Rally Software has been slowly growing from $30M to $75M in yearly revenues over 4 years https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ARALY&fstype=ii&ei=Xn...
Try Stockholm, it has a huge tech sector and you can go there to work as an EU citizen, no questions asked. You can't afford to live in stockholm either without a job of course, but programmers get jobs quite easily if they speak English, and salaries are decent.
If only the state would spend more money on this strategy. But we aren't.
His taste, if you will?
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The initial contact is 'en masse', but the followups are all by hand. Time spent by the scammer to respond to potential marks is, in fact, a scarce resource.
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When you ask for solutions, the first thing to be clear about is what the question is. I was addressing the matter of the study and understanding of economics rather than of the economic system itself, though both are pretty profoundly troubled.

For the first, I think adopting a systems approach as suggested by Limits to Growth would be a good start, and find the writings of ecological economists (Odum, Daly, Hall) to be superior to most of the orthodxy, with Hall perhaps among the most rigorous.

In terms of the economic system itself: I don't see a solution to the present crisis. There are too many people, consuming too many resources, and yet we want to increase both values. There's a simple formula that was derived in the 1970s that describes this: I = P x A x T

Impacts is equal to population times affluence (material resource utilization per capita) time technology.

Alternatively: k <= S x A x P

Sustainability x Affluence x Population is subject to a maximal constraint k.

Which means that you can optimize at best any two of the three. Your choices are high affluence and large population, but low sustainability. High population and high sustainability but low affluence. Or high affluence and high sustainability, but low population.

Or of course, optimizing for at most one or zero aspects.

The "solutions" in this case involve deciding reducing population, accepting crushing poverty (as existed for much of human history), or wipe ourselves out.

I'm not predicting an imminent collapse of the global order, but things could turn south on relatively short notice. More likely this is a scenario which will play out over decades, possibly a couple of centuries paralleling the rise of human population following the Industrial Revolution.

Economic growth has to top out at some point, simply due to physical planetary limits. And no, we're not going to overcome those any time soon, if ever. Even planetary space travel is tremendously expensive, let alone interstellar travel. And there are multiple things we'd have to solve to address near-term challenges, with energy, phosphorus, other minerals, soil, and fresh water chief among them. Look up Leibig's Law of the Minimum -- any one constraint is sufficient to limit growth, and we're facing many.

Your past civilizations and empires weren't global in scope and yet even their falls typically precipitated long periods of darkness. And yes, life for much of human history was pretty interesting, in a Chinese curse sense of the word.

The solution in a nutshell? A man (or all humans) have got to know their limits.
Nobody else responded? Its not supposed to happen and yet it does. Not often. And yes it really confuses ARP.
Well I get asthma, so I need all the O2 I can get!
As if apt-get would solve the problems that we have. Good luck in installing multiple versions of the same package with apt-get.
Just like California is issuing very few carpool stickers for hybrid cars. It's like a lottery that bumps the value of your cars 5 grand up.
A program that reads between the lines has to have a notion that the entity writing the words can have a bias to misrepresent behavior in support of an ulterior motive. Humans devote a large portion of our brain simulating the inputs and outputs of other minds. And until machines do the same, you will only find correlations with deception rather than seeing the purpose and reason behind deception, which helps us figure out where to examine to find further proof of the deception.

A dog app that reads between the lines can realize the nature of a deception when the bird app is running away in suboptimal direction. The birds actual behavior, compared to what the bird should be doing to flee, indicates that the bird has an agenda to prevent the dog from being in a certain area. What things might a bird be motivated to prevent a dog from finding? A nest.

That program read between the lines by comparing the possibilities/outcomes of enemy behavior over what they chose to do. You simulate the other entity to a certain level of confidence, run the inputs through that simulation, and compare it to reality. Any discrepancy reveals an error in the model, or a possible deception.
Didn't see that at the time. This could have been a defining, legacy-creating decision for the leader of the time.

I hope the opportunity to capitalise isn't completely lost.
I don't get it, do I have to pay you for this service? It's not at all clear from the website.
> In addition to Nix, there is also a newer project: GNU Guix. Guix is built on top of Nix but replaces the custom package configuration language with Scheme, among other differences. https://gnu.org/software/guix/

Personally, I'm rather more keen on Nix; the language is pretty much designed for writing JSON-style configuration except as a formal programming language, which is what the vast majority of Nix code is (both package definitions and system configurations).

Additionally, with Nix, you can be close to certain that if you build something twice, you'll get the same result, because it can't access impure resources.

Finally, because Guix is a GNU project, the official repositories are going to go nowhere near non-free software. Nixpkgs contains non-free software, although disabled from installation by default. You might be a little less likely to have people help you get non-free software working on the GNU Guix mailing lists, if you happen to use any.
Flying towards Alaska south of the Kamchatka peninsula...

I bet he saw this hypersonic vehicle being blown up and the lights from a massive observation fleet.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/experimenta...

"An experimental hypersonic weapon developed to reach targets anywhere in the world within an hour has been destroyed by the US military four seconds after its launch for “public safety”.

The test in Alaska in the early hours of Monday morning was aborted after controllers detected a problem with the system, the Pentagon said, and the launcher is believed to have detonated before the missile was deployed."
What the hell? I belive this might just be gross incompetence and not a deliberate manouver.
That won't happen. Some evil geek would write the parser and sell it to all of them.
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That sounds like most telemarketeers to me.

Outbound call centers employ these people by the legions.

And selling crap stock to retirees is no better than pretending you're a Nigerian prince.
and you won't believe what the other 20% wanted.
excellent read sir. really appreciate you posting this.
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Yes, there's that too.
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Bruce, not sure if you are interested in commercial success, but assuming you are, one suggestion is : whatever you may feel about Scala, I believe that Martin Odersky had the right strategy when he noted that Object Oriented Programming did well despite it's flaws because people could build real, working things with OO languages. This probably holds true even more for PHP.

So my suggestion is to do the same for your language : build a cool, new mp3 player that reminds folks of the days when WinAmp was so awesome. Or build a scalable server-side framework that makes WhatsApp-scale chat easy as pie. Make it easy for folks to achieve commercial success, and your language will thrive, too.
I really like his minimalistic writing style. Wish other authors (especially americans) would follow his example. Not every simple fact needs an anecdote.
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How do you guys and girls go about adding self employed periods to your CV?

Are they a help or hindrance in tech?

I've got quite a few periods in mine and are updating it at the moment. By reading some message boards it appears self employment is a really bad thing!

Any thoughts on how to market self employment?

Thanks :)
It doesn't seem to do what it says.
According to it, Outlook initiated it's first Network connectivity just now. A point in time where I had already sent and received mails for some hours.

At least it so much better looking than other windows apps…
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