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People that become programmers have a tendency to have very poor interpersonal skills. Some of us gravitate to programming because it lets us limit our amount of human contact, for others it gives us something to feel superior about.

I can't claim to fully understand what the author is feeling but I can empathize. I am an average looking white guy and I also feel like a complete outsider.

I guess I've mostly given up on fitting in at this point. I rather be alone than feel the anxiety of trying to fit in with a group. I want people to be happy, healthy, and successful... just at a distance.
Not sure about Australia but the US has a fairly puritanical culture. I always figured the UK was probably pretty normal for the size of the gambling industry in a first world country and the US was the outlier.
This implicit conset is an interesting area, and I'd wager on seeing more cases like the OP.

Last year a a friend and I spent an evening napkin-sketching a service that would piggyback on an existing js platform (ads, analytics, etc) but would do a little "extra" work performing quality of service tests. For example, it could do timed fetching of images from different sites to test promised speeds. So you could know how fast sever X could deliver to a user in Guatamala, when some other client in Guatamala connected to server Y.
There really isn't any other software to compete at this point. Aviary and Gimp were the only Photoshop competitors. Inkscape and Aviary were the only Illustrator competitors.
No, you are conflating 'social' with 'legal.'
why is caching playlists on your device not a solution?
I feel like I can relate very well to your situation. I dropped out of school in Canada when I was 20 to move to San Francisco and start making iPhone apps. I was also addressing my sexuality for the first time. I remember feeling like I showed up to a party I wasn't invited to. I had a pretty tumultuous upbringing filled with abuse and impoverishment. When I moved to SF, everyone I talked to seem to be a straight white dude with a degree from Berkley, Stanford, MIT, or somewhere else along those lines. I fell into a very deep hole of depression and had zero friends for a while. To this day I still feel like an outsider if I let myself.

A lot of my depression was the result of my own learned cognitive behaviors from growing up. Going into therapy and starting antidepressants helped a bit. Things really started to change when I got into Zen meditation and started to become aware of my own thought processes and preconceptions. At the end of the day, you can convince yourself of anything if you want to. We spend a good deal of our time telling ourselves the same stories over and over again to build up our ego identity. I can feel like a total outsider if I fixate on the past and what separates me. I can also feel perfectly content and at home if I let that go and focus on what's happening now and what I can do now. If you didn't belong where you are, you probably wouldn't be there.

I highly recommend building an awareness of your thoughts and pausing when you catch yourself reinforcing your perception of being an outsider. The more you fixate on being an outsider; the more you'll feel like an outsider; the more you'll act like an outsider; the more people will address you like an outsider.

Hope this helps.
http://allhiphop.com/2014/05/13/dr-dres-beats-by-dre-cost-an...

You are paying mostly for marketing.
Having been in on two previous attempts, let me state my wry amusement at this go-around :-)
Spotify don't pull albums. Record labels does.

The way I solve it is to not listen to them if the record label pull the music. If they don't want my money I'm not going to give them any.
The "exception" to the 4th Amendment would be a search/seizure that satisfies conditions set forth in the language of the amendment. Once those conditions are satisfied, the Constitutional checks are passed and the government can bring quite a lot of power to bear.

One of those powers is compelling cooperation from 3rd parties. Before telecommunications, the government could use a warrant to force a bank to open a person's safe deposit box (for example). Unbreakable encryption would be like an unopenable safe deposit box--it would prevent the execution of even the most obviously lawful and justified search. That would be a shift in the practical balance between government powers and individual rights.

You might applaud that shift, but I hope you would agree that it potentially exists.
I'd argue that this isn't a pidgin or creole. Unless the language has had changes due to contact with other sign languages, it stands as its own language.
Why not just sync the tracks to your phone? Spotify allows you to sync 3333 tracks per device.
I think your interpretation of the amendment is a little too rigid. There is plenty of room for debate depending on your definitions of a variety of words. One key example that is directly related to technology is how do we define a "seizure". Does copying data count as a seizure considering the original was not taken or altered in any way? If so, the government would legally be allowed to copy everything that happens on the internet and then only look at it once they get a warrant. That would seem to be something that is allowed by the letter of the amendment but perhaps not the spirit of it.
Good brand yes, but shitty headphones.
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> Taxes should apply to the production or consumption of utility, not to its random shuffling around.

The Random shuffling part made me smile. Though, that's only looking at individual cases. When you look at the global picture, it's no more random shuffling and the lottery is the tax in its own existence.
Oh, I dunno, what have you got to hide? And before you say "nothing" realize that there's a hell of a lot more laws on the books than you think. You don't even have to dig very far for laws against things that shouldn't be illegal. What if you were living during prohibition, and the court ordered you to unlock your safe that had photos of you drinking in it? The biggest problems with how warrants are handled these days is that many are "fishing expeditions" where even when they are written for something specific, they can get you for something completely unrelated (eg, found a joint in your house while searching for stolen goods).
Thanks for you comment! Your feature requests are definitely where I want the library to go so I went and added them to tracker https://github.com/peter-murach/tty/issues as a future reminder. Please feel free to submit more suggestions or PR!

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wow thank you - that makes sense because I never remebr seeing huge banks of servers. there were definitely a few but I never remember seeing any kind of "rows of modems" or anything.

So you are saying (more or less) 1 T1 for every 24 lines or 24 customers?
UK bookmakers will take bets on pretty much anything.

Here's a list of some of the 'novelty' bets going at the moment:

http://www.oddschecker.com/novelty

Maybe you have a time travelling machine and you know that aliens will show themselves in 2016? Quick! Place a bet!

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/novelty-bets/a...

But it gets more specific than that. Here's someone who had a bet accepted that his 9 year old son would end up playing for Manchester United football club:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209493/Ryan-Tunnicl...
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I haven't opened iTunes in years other than to update software, and I would imagine most people are in the same boat.

I used to take every penny I earned and dump it into the iTunes store. Now I just pay $10/month to Spotify now and listen to whatever I want.

There used to be services like Napster 2.0 and Rhapsody that competed with the iTunes store, but they didn't work well on iPods, and their selection of music wasn't that great. Things are different now: Spotify is in a completely different league. Perhaps Rdio is in the same boat - I've heard great things, but I've never used it personally.

At the end of the day, unless Apple has a music solution that's somehow cheaper/better than Spotify (which is possible, considering how it could be integrated end-to-end with the iPhone itself), I'm done using Apple music products.
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It's well known (I've read articles and heard from inside sources) that service providers like FB and Twitter partner up with big carriers to make use of their app free for carrier customers.
It's possible that these music providers have set up similar deals. But could also be that T-Mobile is creative with their offerings (which they're known for) and offer free music an USP against others like AT&T.
I think the closing of the Beats streaming service is a good argument for owning your music. Especially since it seems that exclusive licensing agreements could mean that I may not be able to hear my favorite band on whatever replaces the service.
Wow, thanks for the downvotes. FYI, I'm totally pro-bitcoin and anti-government, just like you, so trying to punish me for having a conflicting opinion is dumb.

I'm simply trying to enlighten people as to what the prosecution's stand is on the issue, not that I agree with them. Just trying to contribute a bit more than "ehrmehgerd evilll!!!11"
You mean Photoshop, not Illustrator, improved? The latter was Adobe's first app and lovingly crafted by Warnock and crew.

(I know, because I saw them with my own eyes. ;-)
I should have said moral AND legal. Those companies' actions are morally wrong and legally wrong. Social good is totally different.

Are you assuming money paid in taxes is socially good?
They got it from Wikipedia, which also cites Bugs Bunny as the source of "nimrod"'s modern meaning.
... sure, but the experience for the end user is the same: I can't listen to the music I want to on Spotify.
Most moral wrongs are also social wrongs. Laws and regulations exist for the good of society, and flouting those laws is bad for the public good. If you pay less in taxes than you ought to, that means that the average citizen either pays more in taxes or doesn't get the social services those taxes would have paid for. Insider trading means that the insiders profit at the expense of the outsiders, who are typically far more numerous.
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Apparently this is "not true".
Source: http://recode.net/2014/09/22/apples-beats-music-brand-may-go...
Tim Cook even said in the keynote he loves to use it to control his Apple TV.
That's a nightmare if your business is connected with that account. I wish more services employing two-factor authentication had the backup codes feature. My bank, domain registrar, and server host do not have it (but at least have 2FA). For my google apps email, I have them printed out on small cards. One in my wallet, one in my bag, one at home, and one with a trusted third party.
If this dies and doesn't just get rebranded I will be incredibly pissed off. Beats is the only music service that has got it right. All the radio services suck. Most playlists on Spotify suck. But when I open Beats I get a page full of great album recommendations and wonderful human-curated playlists.

Honestly I'll be surprised if it just disappears. In interviews Apple exec's have been very effusive about Beats curation and how good the service is. As much as I hope it doesn't die I also hope they don't just through it into iTunes. The other thing Beats got right was the UI.
Nimrod was a King of Babylon, he was considered a hunter of panthers.

The Greek Orion was supposed to be based on him and shares the same star consolation. So was Osirus. His birthday was December 25th.

It was Arabic that gave the definition of a tyrant, as I suppose they saw him as one.

Bungs Bunny called Elmer Fudd a 'Nimrod' in a cartoon that made the connection of hunter to really dimwitted or stupid person. I guess that is where the second definition came in.

Always research the words you use to describe your project, there may be negative meanings to them. Even in a foreign language as well. Chevy Nova, in Spanish it meant the car doesn't run.
Is sketch considered more of an Illustrator competitor?
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> it will be only practical to deploy in dense urban areas in my view

Docomo has an eye towards an initial roll-out in time for the 2020 Olympics, and the development of a 'phantom cell' user plane makes a lot of sense given the device density Tokyo. The MIMO beam forming looks like a huge challenge.

Glad to see Docomo moving the goal post forward, though!
This isn't "NSA surveillance when you've done nothing wrong".

This is a proper legal process initiated against you, with a proper court order.
What greater process do you want?

Do you believe the answer is "you should never be forced to disclose this?".
If so, the answer is to expand the fifth amendment. It doesn't say that :)

"What if you were living during prohibition, and the court ordered you to unlock your safe that had photos of you drinking in it? "

Don't do illegal things?

"The biggest problems with how warrants are handled these days is that many are "fishing expeditions" where even when they are written for something specific, they can get you for something completely unrelated (eg, found a joint in your house while searching for stolen goods)."

So then your problem is essentially "you don't liek what is illegal", and "you don't like that warrants enable the police to investigate"?

Seriously, i'm not trying to make light of your concerns, i'm just trying to see what you see as the solution, and i can't see how "not having to unlock your phone" is the solution to any of the concerns you raise.
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I think the issue at the time was that none of the big banks/financial entities trusted each other anymore. Everything was grinding to a halt and one by one companies were collapsing and having to be bailed out by the US government. I think a point was reached where it was decided to let Lehman fail, stress test the system in order to see who was really solvent and who wasn't and then prop it backup and reinflate it.
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There is a real-estate / state government sourced investment bubble in China ATM.

In short, the Chinese federal government sets GDP growth targets for each and every state. Every state is therefore obligated to meet these targets. Post 2009, real GDP growth has been underperforming, and more of the remaining GDP has to be made up for in infrastructure spending (which includes building apartments, airports, and the usual roads, bridges rails etc on debt). This is visible in various "ghost" cities and malls which have popped up recently (in addition to undercapacity airports and elaborate train stations). This in itself isn't necessarily a problem. The problem comes in when increasingly, a large amount of the money the states are lending is coming from "shadow loans" (unregulated black-market loans, analogous to sub-prime mortgages (kindof)) because regular forms of more legitimate financing have dried for these purposes (too much infrastructure already).

This is simultaneously fueled by difficulties rich Chinese have in being able to invest abroad, leaving condos in these ghost cities being owned, and purchased by investors' excess capital as assets (similar to a real estate bubble as what happened in Dubai a few years ago).

This excess capital, sourced from underperforming Chinese states leaking over to other markets, have been responsible for local real estate bubbling over in major cities like London, Vancouver, San Francisco, New York, etc by foreign nationals buying these properties as investments as a way to shelter money. It's very likely this capital is also indirectly being displayed in public equity markets.

(note: this is my own analysis of several articles and reports I read, so take it with a grain of salt)
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I'd say if filesharing counts as stealing then copying counts as seizure.
I always thought that git was a form of got or get.

Get me the source code. I got the source code.

Git is almost like a slang word that means get or got.

Yeah in British English it means a stupid person, you useless git! Almost like Nimrod means stupid dimwitted person.
Especially considering their 'correction'.
It's not either/or. I want to own the music I really like, and stream the music I get the occasional itch for. Seems like a lot of people do this.

The minority is people who listen to music only if they own it.
Apple Inc. owns the trademark now so they can pretty much do what they want, I'd think.
Perhaps even more troublesome, seems Adobe is buying out a company that provides or could develop competing software. Judging by discussions here there's been a lot of dissatisfaction with Adobe's retrenchment to "cloud-only" SaaS policies, and alternatives are sparse.

Likely it's not accidental that there's essentially no competition in the professional graphics software arena where Adobe products dominate. This acquisition gives the appearance of Adobe trying to maintain its monopoly, and I'm inclined to think it's not really a healthy development.
Great article, well written and fun. Though how is nobody weirded out by him just leaving his hive on the roof of an apartment he no longer lives in. What a hilarious dude.
Perhaps Atlassian's VP of sales and marketing (now president)? https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaysimons
>> "The way I solve it is to not listen to them if the record label pull the music. If they don't want my money I'm not going to give them any."

How does that help? If they don't want your money...they probably don't care you won't give it to them.
Apple still makes a lot of money selling tracks on the iTunes store. My guess would be that it's going to roll out a streaming service, but on its own terms. This probably means renegotiating a lot of the music rights previously negotiated by Beats, and starting with a clean slate. Apple probably figures it can get better terms from the labels than Beats did.

Part of me thinks that the only reason a la carte purchasing still exists is because there is no way to get everything from one streaming service. To use a TV example: I can't get most HBO shows on Netflix; ergo, I use Netflix and HBO Go. Same thing with Showtime, so I use Showtime's app as well. And some things I can't get anywhere through a streaming service, so I buy them. I'm not buying a la carte because I feel the need to "own" things. I'm buying a la carte because the fragmented streaming landscape has significant gaps in its coverage. What I'm really doing, when I buy, is covering those gaps and/or hedging against the risk that something I love might go away on my streaming services.

My wild hunch is that Apple realizes as much, and it's moving to get as much content as possible under new license before it reveals its streaming service. It knows that a streaming service, in 2014 or 2015, needs to be as selection-complete as humanly possible. And anything not on its streaming service needs to be for sale on iTunes. It's very hard to thread that needle when you're working with legacy licenses under two different entities, presumably applicable only to those individual services.
This has been refuted by an Apple Spokesperson according to Recode [1]:

Tom Neumayr, Apple’s PR rep, says the TechCrunch story is “not true” but wouldn’t go beyond that.

[1] http://recode.net/2014/09/22/apples-beats-music-brand-may-go...
"wasn't popular (if even existent) in American English until it's use as the name of a DVCS."

... and the quoting of Monty Python
You are fully right that a good relationship is what makes you feel you exist and that life is worth it. Sometime you are lucky and find excellent relationship partners and sometimes it's so so.

There is something you wrote in your text that caught my attention. What do you mean by feeling exploding inside ? Is this like a strong tension inside ? Like the opposite of depression ? Could it be a light form of bipolarity ?
> If you pay less in taxes than you ought to, that means that the average citizen either pays more in taxes or doesn't get the social services those taxes would have paid for.

No, it means SOMEONE is paying more. That someone could be a rich person, another company, or a smorgasbord of other taxpayers. You can't assume it's Joe the Plumber who's paying more taxes (on average, because proportionally, corporations and rich people pay most taxes).

Also, don't assume those taxes would have paid for social services. They could have also been used to kill innocent women and children in unspeakably nasty ways (on average, most of the budget does NOT actually go to social services).

The vast majority of trading is done by institutions, so here again, your assumption that Joe the Plumber gets hurt by the big bad hedge funds doing insider trading is faulty. Yes, 401(k)s might get hit, but it's not your average E*TRADE daytrader who's losing out (again, on average, based on trading volume).

Anyway, in the name of morality, it's irrelevant to speculate WHO pays for your wrongdoing and for WHAT your taxes would have been used.

The action is immoral and illegal. To say it's socially wrong is a big stretch. There are way too many unknowns to make a definitive statement.
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Does it matter? If it's possible to abuse, it's a problem.

In a security-centric view, if the door is unlocked, you are inviting people in. Or at least should not be suprised by it.
"Dunce" comes from the name of the philosopher Duns Scotus.
Yup except with keyword tracking.

Found this comment b/c I have an alert set up for "karmalytics"
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Whoa. I'm not saying people are actually doing it(not asking for raises for fear they'll be fired), I'm just describing, hypothetically, what a person's logic might be in that situation.
I'm not an egyptologist or a physicist. But I've always wondered what happened to the "concrete pyramid" theories. I know that it's only been pushed by Prof. Davidovits but I haven't really heard any proper critiques of it. (I'm not sure if that's because I haven't researched enough or if Davidovits is considered a quack.)

Here's a NYtimes link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/africa/23iht-pyramid...

And the geopolymer institute: http://www.geopolymer.org/archaeology/pyramids

edit// and the geopolymer papers download page: http://www.geopolymer.org/formulaire/download-articles
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Though the adoption has fallen, ActionScript 3 was a near strict improvement over 2, and it was released a good while after the Macromedia acquisition.
Here's a trick that has sometimes helped pull me out of ruts:

Once a day, find three new things to be grateful for or about.

These things don't need to be anything monumental -- the idea is to force yourself to search.

I'll admit that at first, this can feel self-condescending or humiliating -- but bear in mind this is between you and yourself. Treat it like a game; try approaching it tactically. After a few days of trying it, it seemed to work for me. Some studies have found that keeping a journal[1] enhances the effect.

This shouldn't be confused with incessant "positive thinking" (which is generally bad advice[2]). The key difference is that you're not suppressing negative thoughts or trying to "drown them out" with positive ones; it's merely a brief, daily exercise.

Of course, this obviously isn't a cure-all for depression; just another tool for your toolbox. You should seriously consider therapy if you haven't tried it yet.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/i0c/for_happiness_keep_a_gratitude_j...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/janbruce/2013/11/19/how-positive...