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If half of the country is unhappy with the current circumstances, it's probably pretty difficult to call this a victory for the UK. It's more like an exposure of just how divided things really are.
Doesn't seem to work on FB Fan Pages. I suspect that majority of your users will be small business owners looking for a social media dashboard. I have been looking for something like this to connect all my startups social accounts into a single dashboard and it seems that i can only link my personal FB profile.
Scotland's secession would have reduced the Labour vote in Britain by so much that the UKIP or (heaven forfend) even genuinely nativist parties might have had a chance at governing the natives. It is no wonder that the BBC and every other ruling elite in England were dead set against it.
IIRC, both the Linux and BSD socket implementations let you do this with a combination of a few sockopts.
Nice infographic by the guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2014/sep/...
Here's a story from someone who actually did buy some military vehicles for the guys in the South-East:

http://vk.com/juchkovsky?w=wall151630709_7596%2Fall

He says he bought two BRDMs (like the one in the article) for ~$40,000 each, and a BTR-80 (a relatively new fighting vehicle) for ~80,000. The difference is that the vehicles are fresh (new from old stock/conservation) and they "come with all the accessories, if you know what I mean" (wink-wink, nudge-nudge, say no more).

Maybe the guys from the South-East really did buy their stuff at the surplus store, like Putin said.

According to the same source, a tank (with all accessories included?) would cost ~$200,000.
Generally when I'm shopping for a car, "it can't be stopped" is not a selling point that I'm looking for.
The SYN packet can contain data, but the spec requires that it not be passed down to the application until the three-way handshake is complete (so a SYN-with-data from a spoofed source address won't elicit a response).

The TCP Fast Open proposal gets around this by using a cookie, so that the first connection requires a normal three-way-handshake, but subsequent connections between the same client and host can use an expedited handshake that eliminates a round trip.
Some interesting facts about this vote:

* 16 & 17 year olds were allowed to vote in this referendum, although they aren't normally able to vote in British elections.

* Turnout was extremely high, 80-90%.

* Anyone who lived in Scotland past a certain date (I believe) could vote, even people who were English or otherwise not-Scottish. Makes sense, in a way - if you live there it's your country too.

* The opinion polling always had "No" in the lead up until the very end, but there was some suspicion that the polls were inaccurate. I guess not!

As an expatriate Scot, hopefully this results in some additional devolved powers for the Scottish government.
Turnout is estimated at 86%, I think everyone was pretty well represented by the voting.
Build a project. Then build another project. Then build another project.

Stop shopping around languages until you've actually made something, even if it's with older tools.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-09/msg00...

Heh, nice email header.

Guile is an old GNU project (https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/History....), it languished for a long time but recent developments have really pushed it forward.
Linux does support this for "TCP Fast Open" - the system call used is sendto() or sendmsg() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag set, in place of the usual connect().
Your point being?

56% is not much more than 46%, and having 46% a country which wants to be independent isn't a good position to be in.

The 3rd largest city in the UK just voted to leave the UK. Explain to me how this is good for Scotland?
So you simply choose to believe they are lying with no evidence at all.

Not much point in discussing anything with you, I guess.
The point of getters and setters (rather than having public fields) have always been to control how an object's users access the internals of the object and how state is changed if at all. The idea that you should write them as a ritual or a boilerplate is just bananas.

In this discussion of major programming paradigms it is important to realise a couple of things: That this is very old discussion and that there are no clear winner. The productivity and usefulness of a language is ultimately shown when it is put to the test of big practical development projects. Currently business is dominated by the object-orientated languages (C#, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, C++ etc.) and probably for good reason: The dominant problems that software spends its line count on seems to be things like user interface and interface to other "platforms/paradigms" such as relational databases, web services or data files. Object-orientation have arguably shown itself to solve these problems well.
actually parker was founded in 1888 and was independent until 1993 when gillette bought it. i imagine they didn't need gillette's help to scale their manufacturing..

i think there're plenty of small firms, from furniture makers to knive makers to bicycle makers to audio equipment makers, that do quality at low volumes. i'd imagine a startup is exactly that - low volume. and they could probably figure out how to scale when they need to? its a good problem to have, right?

i'm thinking of a car analogy.. its like.. i can't imagine that porsche, when they first launched the 911, were thinking about how to make 100000 of them a year.. or for that matter, a more recent example like koenigsegg or even tesla..they didn't exactly start with a 100000/year plant either..
I intuitively disagree that uninterrupted reading is beneficial to human development. I don't see this behavior from the few people I secretly wonder if they wouldn't be considered genius, if they would only take the test. What they do, however, is read a wide variety of topics often. One very rarely leaves the house without a book, has files on his phone as a backup, and downloads enough non-fiction that I wonder when he can read it. Does he read in long chunks? Sure, if the internet is down or he has to wait. Does he do this often? Not if he can help it.

The point is that he reads. Often. Likely more than most people get in their half hours intervals - but if that is the only way for people to read, I fully support it. I do not doubt many of the benefits of reading, but I think uninterrupted reading is more of an exercise in extended concentration and Im sure there are multiple ways to learn this.
Slowly here should mean not the speed of reading, a-la words oper second, but the checking/matching of every meaningful piece of information against your internal (trained) 'map of the universe'.

BTW, one could speed-read only texts on a familiar subjects, the way most of us read 90% of narcissistic nonsense here. On the contrary, those wery rare pieces of meaningful thought from self-made professionals (nothing in common with so-called and usually self-proclaimed 'experts') requires this slow reading of 'the deep structure' - reconstruction of author's model of the universe.
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If they would have followed Payment Application Data Security Standard as many others do, they wouldn't have had this problem.
As a Scot who voted "Yes" I must admit I am disappointed with this result - but also not in the least surprised, this is pretty consistent with the polls.

However, thinking about it a bit more (even if it is 6am) - I'm actually pretty pleased with both the turnout and that 45% of people voted "Yes" - a few years ago that would have seemed crazy.

In some ways this reminds me of the devolution referendum of 1979 - while the result then was also a "No" it raised the topic as a realistic alternative so when there was another devolution referendum a generation later it passed easily so now we do have an independent Scottish Government which has a fair amount of power within Scotland (although no powers over things like foreign affairs and defence).

I suspect that, just as in '79, the UK is in for a lot of political upheaval over the next decade and I suspect that now that independence has been introduced as something to be seriously considered that in a generation or so it might also look more sensible than it did at first.

My immediate concern is that I hope that everyone can put the differences introduced by the campaign behind them.
Yes we are done because you can not seem to distinguish the singular and the plural.
Yes, Jacques Littlefield did it all the time when he was building the tank collection, however there are constraints. And one of them, especially for combat vehicles is that they are 'demilitarized' which generally involves some damage that would render them unfit to use in a fight. As I recall one of their tanks had the barrel cut off and then re-welded back on with a slight offset. Any attempt to fire it with a shell would cause the barrel to explode in a backfire. However some black powder and wadding was OK which gave a satisfying 'boom!' and smoke.
Wait, wait... eco-doom-mongering and population control abortion-mongering represent "conservatism"?
Objective-C is probably the saddest story of any programming language.

Absolutely fantastic libraries, incredibly easy to write high-level abstractions over very low-level C code, and completely useless outside of one platform.

I wish projects like GNUStep would get more love.
I think one of the big reasons we haven't seen the kind of progress our predecessors had hoped for is because most people don't have the physical or mental energy. For big technological and social advancements, you need everyone (or at least most) engaged, enthusiastic and focused. Most of the world, including most citizens of the United States, are still moving up Maslow's hierarchy of needs. So yeah, you get Angry Birds instead of a Hyperloop because most people are so stressed and tired that they're just hoping for a tasty bite to eat and 5 minutes of peace. The corollary is that if we want a Hyperloop (and we do) we should be actively engaged in trying to bring everyone up that hierarchy. When every day isn't an emotional or financial crisis for so many people, we'll have the kind of progress Peter is hoping for.
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yes, but over thousand of connections its significant. what was a millisecond or less becomes 20ms. so 20x slower.
not sure how much impact this has in real life, but this is one of the issue with this design (also one of the reason is rarely implemented like this but with HSMs instead)
Well, that, and the fact that they spontaneously burst into flame from time to time.
Heh, I can see where the confusion would stem.

Somehow though, maybe because this came a day or two after Suster's response to the Gurley interivew, I had a good idea going into it that the post had something to do with the impending VC crunch.
>it wouldn't fall on deaf ears.

I agree completely. I am only arguing that their efforts are better spent in currently untapped markets.
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It's not a foregone conclusion that with sufficiently exotic technology you can't transfer your mind from the form of a human brain to that of some synthetic thing, all without disrupting your phenomenal experience.

However, if you can do that, it also seems like you could split your consciousness in two, while making the transition seamless for each. In effect, not just a copy of your 'mind' but a copy of your 'self'. I'm not sure what to make of that.
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I hope so. Currently, VC money is a horrible market distortion that encourages what is basically dumping - companies with good products and actual business models being starved of oxygen by cashed-up competitors who simply give products away for free. I'm not even sure of the economic term for it but wouldn't be surprised if it's illegal in a few years, after we've gotten more sophisticated.
I don't think there is an overall tech bubble like 1999, but there may indeed be smaller scale bubbles in overheated or overhyped sectors.

There are two areas of worry from what I see. One is free apps and services with high burn and no good path to revenue. Another is what looks to me like a mini-bubble in startups that cater to other startups. Scene-centric inbreeding like that is probably more worrisome than the overvalued pic sharing services.
I'd like Hangouts to do a lot of things. It looks like they made the right choice in moving away from XMPP compliance in favor of usability. It certainly improved the apps' popularity but took a lot of back steps on security and openness. I'd like to at least see google include hangouts as part of their upcoming [end-to-end](https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/) extension.
In my experience it doesn't matter as long as you have enough experience. Or in other words, any difference in behaviour/knowledge fades away after a few years of working on serious projects. After 5 years your initial formation might not matter anymore if you kept on learning new things regularly.

For the image aspect, I often worked with self-taughed people who lacked generic knowledge like design patterns, but where openly enthouthiastic about learning anything new. Overall it's a wash.
IMHO if you have 5 years of professional experience, having a CS degree is merely an afterthought (unless you are going for a teaching or highly specialized occupation).

One can only really teach one's self to program.

List your work experience prominently and highlight your responsibilities and achievements.
That looks really cool, awesome to be able to generate static FSM code. I use my FSM (and started to use Jake Gordon's) when I need a lightweight state variable, a step up from a collection of bools when it starts to get messy with lots of ands and ors.
Probably the coolest antique military vehicle available for $9k USD, depending upon where you live, would be one or more horses.
All of this is a distraction game played by VC's to avoid the real point of entrepreneurship.

Make a product worth something to a target market. Sell it or get enough traction. Find a company who would like to buy you or go public based on your growth.

All this other stuff is a distraction created to keep you from focusing on what you are here for. To build great things and sell it for profit.

Otherwise... whats the point. The best negotiating term is having a great product. You won't raise your way to a product/market fit.
NVIDIA has started creating some significant scientific contributions, as in scientific applications on GPUs built in-house. I'm quite impressed by what they're showing at their conferences and I can recommend these (GTC) to anyone interested in GPUs and computational science.
A related argument had been made a lot lately about how "free" can lead to scummy business models like surveillance and manipulative black hat media tactics.

You can do free sustainably if your costs are low and if you have something a tier up you can sell. That's freemium and it can work for some things. But if your costs are high or if a paid tier does not materialize... Now you have a big problem. You own a liability, one purchased via massive investment and employing many people. You must find a way to make it pay, so you start looking at what you have a little differently. Your users... Now there's a product.

South Park parodied the grow-first-monetize-later gambit in the "underpants gnomes" episode:

1) collect underpants

2) ...?

3) profit!

Nobody knew the second step back then. Of course now companies like Facebook have shown us what step two is. It's:

2) sniff underpants

:)
Ok. Maybe I am not getting the joke then. So thingsToFrobulate, logit, cleanupOldest, processOld, doNewThing, cleanup and FrobulatingMessage are "metasyntactic variables" too?
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As consumers, we really don't have many ways to make an impact, so I can understand why you would be so exacting. With that being said, a particularly skilled engineer could find his or her way into just about any closed system. Check out CVE Details[1] to get an idea of how many security exploits are reported for software that surely you use daily.

For most companies, the mess that Home Depot is facing never occurs. Not because they were so successful at anticipating security holes, but because they were never targeted by a successful attacker.

Details have not been released (and may never be fully released) regarding the attack; but this is just food for thought.

[1] http://www.cvedetails.com/
> Thankfully, a nearby construction site loaned us their crane.

Hahahaaaaa, brilliant! The kind of things you would never be able to do in a western country "Think of the insurance liabilities!"
The Android Runtime for Chrome (ARC) beta is available for Linux/OSX/Windows too: http://dfiles.eu/files/i565k9sv8 (CRX file)
That's because it is limited. It's not meant to be a way to provide polymorphism. One of the things that it does provide is the knowledge of every possible case and a reminder from the compiler if you missed one. This is not possible in many OO language.

FP languages have different ways to inject new behavior. You could for example define a function a -> (a -> Int) -> Int. This function now works for any type for which you can also provide the "interface" a -> Int.
I don't think it's about concentration, but more about the exercise of putting yourself mentally in other people's shoes.

And I don't think the benefits of uninterrupted reading are necessarily becoming 'smarter'. They are more like being better able to understand people different from you, more easily able to change your mind based on new information, etc.

Here's a somewhat better article on the topic:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201401/...
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Not actually a tank. No tracks, no turret, no armor piercing gun.

EDIT: it does have a turret. Still not a tank.

EDIT2: the main armament is a machine gun. Totally not a tank.
Steam is down (probably massive ongoing attack)
And where exactly does Apple make money from their NFC payments?
PADSS is a CYA tool, little else.

You can't checklist your way to good security.
>As consumers, we really don't have many ways to make an impact

Use bitcoin whenever feasible?
Here's an idea. Start a group of ISP users and give each group member a router that also acts as a vpn point. Have that router contact a command and control type service that sends traffic data and such. Have vpn subscribers connect to that command and control service that then directs users to whichever vpn point is available. Maybe use some firmware like dd-wrt or something similar.
I read a lot of fiction... (checks kindle) looks like about 100 books a year. I definitely start skimming when the story isn't engaging enough.

Roughly speaking, I think the better a book is, the less I tend to skim. A truly great novel I will read at probably 10% of the speed of a bad one. (If it's really bad, of course, I stop reading and throw it away.. that's probably the case with 20% of the novels I start).

With most nonfiction, technical books, etc., it is different -- I skim as much as I can while still extracting the info/knowledge I am trying to get out of it.
Fabiano's performance rating was 3098. Karpov's Linares was 2985. Carlsen's top rating (not single tournament performance) was 2882, the highest yet recorded.

Fabiano's performance rating was more than 200 Elo points higher than the top-rated player. Karpov's 1997 performance was less than 200 points better than the then top-rated.
>Otherwise, what's the point?

Convenience.

Credit cards are based on a broken "pull money without permission" model.

The only way to get good security is to start with a system that doesn't suck; specifically, one that involves "pushing" money to an account rather than "pulling" it from an account.

Bitcoin got this right. So did the various non-CC services like Paypal and Venmo.
I feel like we've heard this before:

2008: http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/10/sequoia-capitals-56-slide-p...

2011: http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2011/08/winter-is-comin...

And it makes me think of 2 things:

1. "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

2. The way large companies use layoffs not to actually cut the total number of jobs, but to cut deadwood. This seems like the VC equivalent.
What arrogant hogwash.

I was exposed to functional programming my first year at university (it was used in the introductory courses) and quickly noticed that contrary to the hype (similar to yours), functional programs tended to be more bloated with trying to work around limitations of the less expressive programming model/language and not particularly more robust.

That doesn't mean certain aspects can't be nice to have ('let' is kinda nice), but even that is mostly for programming-in-the-small.

Your unsubstantiated claim of 3x productivity increase is, er, "interesting".
Qualcomm MDM9625 is the powerhouse behind VoLTE and connectivity. This isn't the latest MDM from Qualcomm though...
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That might be, but that's not relevant to the point of what dosage is necessary for a psychological effect.
And also because he does not face competition.
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This seems like a pretty bad deal for foreign investors.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2014/09/15/four-reasons...
'skeumorphic' - did you mean 'anthropomorphic'?
>>So what you're saying is that it's actually more efficient?

No. Simply put, there are different types of efficiency. The term "economies of scale" refers to spreading the fixed costs of production among a greater number of units of output. They are about production efficiency, and to a lesser extent, operational efficiency.

What we are talking about here is efficiency when it comes to the allocation of resources across different business units. Central planning is very inefficient in this regard.

>>The inefficient parts subsidize already efficient parts making both parts more efficient in the process.

No one is arguing that this is not the case. What might be true, however, is that we may not need some of those inefficiencies in the first place. Our current and most popular model of corporation involves central planners. This doesn't necessarily mean that we won't find a more efficient model of corporate management.
My advice is to completely downplay your [lack of] education. If they ask you about it, just tell them you are self-taught, and wait for the next question. You should focus on what you've done at your job and outside projects. Emphasize the results you've gotten and the systems you've built.

You might have a slight disadvantage during the initial part of the recruitment process (resume submission). My advice in regard to that is to try and get in touch or meet the non-HR people at the company. That way you get can a referral and your resume is just a formality. If this isn't an option for you, the just make sure you keyword your work experience well, and pray. :)
If you know Python, it's an amazing language. Ruby and Javascript are incredibly useful for web dev, but like angersock said, the key is to build projects. Period. If Python's the language you feel most comfortable in, get going with it and don't switch until after a project is complete.

I'd suggest Flask as a starting point if you're looking for web framework experience. Twisted might be more your style if you're looking at highly concurrent networking projects.

'Distributed systems' is a little broad almost- are there any software projects in particular in that space that you're interested in and could develop expertise in? If so, I'd focus there.