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Am I allowed to work there?

No, not really.

But they’re not checking. Places like Southeast Asia are chock full of expats living there, doing silly things like “visa runs” to the next country and back every couple months to remain a tourist for years on end.

Even in Europe, where you wouldn’t be able to get a self-employment working visa (if such a thing existed) with less than six months effort and a good lawyer, you’ll find that they’re really a lot more interested in keeping the various people coming in from the South from doing so than they are in messing with you. Given the level of effort required to find somebody at the Santander ferry port to even stamp your passport, it’s unlikely that anybody is conducting a multi-month surveillance of your AirBnB “office” up in the hills above the Cote de Azur.

Uh, what? No. Don't do this. Just because you might be able to get away with it in certain Southeast Asian countries doesn't mean you can get away with it in Europe. Sure, you might be "fine" for a couple months after your Schengen visa expires, but good luck if you ever need to, say, fly back to the US for a few days, or even hop over to the UK. When you try to get back in, you will almost definitely face consequences.[1]

(EDIT: It's worth noting that you don't even have to attempt to re-enter to risk getting caught. Even a routine traffic stop can get you in trouble. In addition, they check your passport at most airports before boarding a flight that leaves the Schengen zone.)

Yes, self-employment visas do exist (though admittedly only in some EU countries), and no, they do not require "six months effort and a good lawyer". In Germany for instance, a freelance visa is a pretty straightforward process, and the vast majority of people who apply for it do so without hiring a lawyer or even spending much money.

If you're going to work in a foreign country, at least try to do so legitimately. You might find that it's not as difficult as you think, and you won't have to live with the vague fear of serious legal action hanging over your head.

OP, please don't recommend this to people.

[1] http://travel.stackexchange.com/a/13697
Exactly. More importantly the store owner stocks what he sells, or what he thinks sells. If more 7 year old girls came into the store everyday, he might stock something more appropriate for that audience. It is like asking a Harley Davidson dealer whether he stocks Toyota Prius's.

Young teen males buy these comics because there are half-naked, caricatured, over-sized breasted women in them. Later on they just buy porn mags, or more often these these days, just download porn from the internet.
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and I know what you're going to say now: "...I didn't say...

If you know you misinterpreted me, why do it?
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Sure, they've attempted female-targeted comic books. They were bland, pandering, and universally sucked. They thought they knew what women wanted, and they don't.

If they want more female readership, here's all they need to do: Make the same comics you've been making, just without the giganto tits and sexy poses. Women enjoy comics for the same reason as men: great art, great story lines, and lots of action. It's the sexualization of female characters that excludes them.
Private property owned by the government? What sort of odd concept is that?
Do kids not read comics because they wouldn't be interested in them? Or do they not read them because they're no longer kid-friendly? Which is cause and which is effect?
That's right. The other piece of the puzzle is that you have to either show that you're a resident of a foreign country, or that you're physically outside of the USA for 330 days of the year. (as mentioned in the linked article)
YAI (yet another italian), born and raised here, I've been through most of the 'typical' italian IT jobs in my career: IT support, Developer, Consultant, both as employee and self employed, I just want to echo everybody's comment to STAY AWAY from Italy for anything that is related to IT, the country simply don't care and your business venture will likely fail (fiscal pressure, corruption, toxic laws... you name it).

My advice is to rake up as many talented folks as possible (we have no shortage of them) and bring them somewhere else with a decent pay (something that is just impossible to get here).
Has anyone tried this? How did it go?
Yah, you have to be paying taxes to someone else to take the FEI deduction. Unless you are in a low tax country like Switzerland, Hong Kong, or Singapore, it's just a shortcut in doing your taxes, you don't actually save money since you can always deduct your foreign income taxes if you don't take it.
Xin Li is working on the arc4random changes for FreeBSD

https://github.com/delphij/freebsd/compare/master...featuref...
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If my wife had divorced me and i ended up a crying heap on the floor like this guy i would probably want to try this. Most people are not in that situation though, it's all relative.

Fair play to him though.
As a teenager I went to an all boys school, so was very shy with women. One day I just decided to get over my fear and resolved to ask for the telephone number of every pretty girl that caught my attention in public, even if they were with other girls. Importantly to the process was that it was never my intention to actually call the girl - just to see what percentage gave me their number. Since the outcome was not important, it did not matter if I was successful or not.

It worked surprisngly well. I got over my fear and was quite amazed at my success rate. IIRC it was around 25%, maybe even higher.

It was important to not be creepy, just friendly and withdraw if the situation became at all uncomfortable.
O-notation lacks utility. It isn't sufficient for a thorough analysis of the space/time complexity of algorithms, and profiling is much easier anyway.

In this case: The constant coefficient in a DNS lookup is very small, whilst the constant coefficients in a DNSSEC response are very big.
That was an odd piece. I'll start with the provably wrong statement: "Even in Europe, where you wouldn’t be able to get a self-employment working visa (if such a thing existed) with less than six months effort and a good lawyer"

It took me about 2 months to get a self-employment residency permit for Sweden. While I looked around for lawyers to help, I couldn't find any, and ended up writing it myself. It seems very few people do that option.

YMMV of course. Which is my point.

But as for the other parts, it depends on the type of person you are and what you want. I did the 3-month-at-a-time tourist visa option for a bit over a year. (It's not quite a 'visa run' because it wasn't a cross over the border and back thing.) It got tiresome to start make friends and then leave them, then come back, only to leave again.

On the other hand, there are people who do that for decades, and love it.

While I sell software, my customers are businesses, in a market where most contacts start by meeting people and word-of-mouth. Most of the people who might buy are in the US or Europe, and that's also where most of the conferences are held. It's much more expensive to send my bundle of atoms from South Africa (one of the places I considered living) than from Sweden.

Again, this isn't true of everyone. There's a big difference between "and start bringing in a few hundred bucks a month from paying customers" and my software, which sells for a few tens of thousands.

It also becomes harder if you want to have access to a local user's group (I co-founded the local Python user's group) or makerspace.

So if your interests are surfing, rock climbing, Swedish women, and beaches, and you are selling direct to customers who expect no personal connection, etc. then certainly living overseas can be a great idea.

I do believe that living or even just a multi-month travel overseas is a good thing to do at least once. Just bear in mind that it's not always as rosy as this author paints.
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I doubt that. It's just that gamification requires you to buy into the premise of the game in the first place: to agree to try to maximize whatever "point" system the game scores you with. In some sense, income is a point system which you're almost certainly trying to maximize.

Your comment reminds me of myself when I used to claim marketing doesn't work on me, and that it even made me less likely to buy things. And then found out about the brown bag effect (a marketing technique which uses drab colors and minimal text to look non-flashy). Gamification isn't as developed a science as marketing, but it still works pretty well, and it's very unlikely that it doesn't work on you.
This seems like something right out of The Martian (which I am 75% through reading, and highly recommend) - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007564-the-martian
That was the most succinct summary of the attitude i've seen many times amongst doctors. I'm saving that :D

It's always funny when someone thinks they're the center of attention... yes in a perfect world I'd remember everything and care only about you but if I do that I won't be finished my job. After a while I've noticed even as a student (and certainly picked up that a few doctors) that if you try care on a more personal level about every person, you'll be knocked down more and it'll be harder to function. Hence why I think a middle ground or even lack of care is what you see.
You know now that they are correct. The other doctors didn't know for sure then. I think is undeniable that, even with the doubt of that being correct, they (the other doctors) should have behaved more scientifically about it. But when you are not sure if the statements are correct, it doesn't help if the proponent attracts antipathy.

In the end, I believe the veredict is, with justice, that the medical society at the time failed as a whole. But we might have had a different outcome if Dr. Semmelweis had more political skills. I don't want to acuse the man of anything in here, and of course this a personal, subjective, unfounded opinion; but it might be that his proud about being correct was more important to him than his wish to save more lives. Even unjusticed heroes have flaws, especially vanity related ones.

I am sounding like devil's advocate here, but I really don't want to blame Dr. Semmelweis of nothing here, nor discredit his accomplishments. I just want to give some perspective here, a human perspective. Science is a lot about humanity. Both in the human beings learning about a major scientific breakthrough and the human beings responsible for the breakthrough. If you want to change the world, you have to make sacrificies. Sometimes in your pride.
FWIW I read Asterix, TinTin, Lucky Luke and grew up in America.
You might want to have a think about what the drug trade does and has done to some South American and East Asia counties before you cry victimless.

A legalised drug trade could be victimless, but not the one which exists now.
How did you read a threat in my statement?

Direct action also involves political change, for instance prohibiting or limiting carbon extraction.

So don't piss your pants just yet.
Programming without knowing it is at the core of the spreadsheet. And Spreadsheets require programming in assembly language.
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Yeah, yikes. Definitely don't overstay a Schengen Visa. I'm not sure where you got that from the article but you're right that it's not a good plan.

Beyond that, I can only speak from personal experience. 15 years and counting without running into any issue working from the road.
My guess is that 18-35 year old single men who like superheroes outspend any other demographic by perhaps 10:1, presumably because they have the disposable income to do so.
> when would one choose to use an awk script over something more general purpose such as a python or ruby script?

When the others are not around. Sometimes you need to work on weird old or stripped-down boxes that don't have python or even perl - but awk is (almost) always there. Like vi.
I wouldn't say pointers themselves are not well understood. The concept itself is painfully simple. The problem is that code that abuses pointer tricks can very quickly become poorly understood. For the type of software JPL writes, they'd rather sacrifice a bit of speed for easily verifiable correctness. My reading of this document is that they treat pointers like Java (and others, of course) treats references, conceptually.
Would black coffee count during the 12 hour window? What about minimal cream?
I was pretty impressed with the demo. Great work.
Anyone doing this in Hong Kong? The GF is considering a move to HK with work and I'm trying to sort out how I'd scrape by if I wanted to tag along...
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Imho, it's less to do with "misusing" pointers at the micro level and more to do with the macro level effects of pointer dense code. Of course, if you're not allocating or freeing any memory after initialization, then you avoid many of the risks... but structural spaghetti that can hide bugs can still ensue.
...except for a high-level non-visual language, which is missing in those lists:

https://mono-ue.github.io
My first program at all was in HyperCard when I was 8. I don't think I consciously decided I wanted to program, but I certainly haven't stopped programming since then.
That's the thing with problem creation, it becomes either too easy or too difficult. (Not saying that this one is way too easy)

I recollect someone suggesting letting bots(AI) play a number of variations of the game first and then use the outcome to ascertain the difficulty - may be an overkill for a fun game like this?
Whilst on the whole I agree with you, the amount of doctors I know that would react (quite strongly) negatively to that is quite high, so anyone who takes your advice should be prepared. The most common response I've seen to your question was the doctor reminding the patient "there is always something called a second opinion", a couple of times though I noticed them taking the time to explain it.
> The main titles have narrowed their focus even more compared to the 80's and are now overly sexualized and aimed squarely at men in a very narrow age bracket.

They're aimed at the people who are left reading comic books: men who grew up reading comic books. Who are now adults. Kids don't read comic books and don't care to. It's been that way for quite a while. I'm willing to bet the comic book companies have done a little market research before going in this direction rather than intentionally alienating younger readers.

> and then you wonder "where are the other sections? Where's the comedy stuff? Where's the rest of the newpaper strip collections? Where are the westerns? Where are the rest of the serious graphic novels?

If those genres sold well, there'd be more of them.

> Maybe in the US.

Well, we're talking about comics in the US here aren't we?
In my very limited experience, German universities are generally the same, just with proper maintenance. There's no luxury there either - it looks old, but not worn down.
Governments in the West encourage children, because without them the whole economic ponzi scheme would collapse.
"Instead it will focus on 'future versions of Glass' with work carried out by a different division to before."

Is that division made up of people from Magic Leap by any chance? http://gizmodo.com/how-magic-leap-is-secretly-creating-a-new...

The next step is to project 3D images directly into the eyeballs!
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I think the point of MAC was understated: the important idea (AFAIU) is that in traditional unix root is god, while with MAC the intent would be to make the whole "got r00t" pointless because root is just another user with some specific capabilities (e.g. create users, but not access the database).

Like, AWS' IAM for the single server.

I recall some ten years ago DAC vs MAC was a frequently debated topic, nowadays seems nobody talks about it, not sure if because trustedbsd/selinux/apparmor didn't deliver on the promises or anything else.
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This is definitely a self-fulfilling prophecy. Many other nations have a wider audience for comics, but in the US we've followed your advice so long that all the audiences that aren't adolescent males have been pushed away. Which leads to where we are: comic book companies chasing after a tiny fraction of their potential audience, because they can't make comics for anyone else, because not enough others are hbothering to look for comics anymore. They'd have to rebuild other audiences from scratch, having burned through them all.
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Asterix and Lucky Luke humour still makes me laugh. So many levels in deceptively simple drawings.

Later I spent a huge amount of time on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onard_(comics)
I did this with a few differences. It was 2004, so a few services from these days were not as "available" from a quality perspective -- particularly, VoIP. I left to France with a PSTN phone device that answered calls to my business number, and forwarded them to a French PSTN fixed phone number -- all at international rates, which were a bit more expensive back then. I did later move to a VoIP service, when the quality was reasonably acceptable.

Time differences in Asia would be different than France - maybe a few hours too many for me. I particularity loved the time difference between France and the US (~8 hours). Everyday, there was a whole day of work before my clients in the US would wake up. If needed, I could make a few calls before I had dinner and went out.

I had a 3 year established list of clients when I moved there, so that helped. A fairly stressful aspect of living abroad was that all my clients came in "locally" by way of local google advertising. And as it happens, when someone picks up the phone and calls a number that seems local to them, they tend to assume they're talking to someone who is physically present in their city.

Many clients were turned off after realizing that I was working abroad -- and not telling them (which I tried a couple times) was very strange as well -- it's just a balancing act. So my suggestion would be to get into a borderless niche business, if you can -- something like doing "websites for x" -- where a company would much rather work with someone with niche products and expertise, rather than someone local. Then the subject of where you physically are never really comes up, or makes sense. SAAS would work in that way too, of course.
As I replied to the other respondent, I myself am not planning anything, so please keep your calls to the FBI to a minimum.

I'm talking about direct action in the face of intractable individuals who deny climate change or any sort of anthropomorphic effect.

Now, am I also alluding to the fact that there are elements among humanity that will look at this news and take actions against the industrial infrastructure enabling anthropomorphic global warming. Just like I predicted that people would start shooting cops for being cops a few months ago, this is what I do: suss out the threads of the future in the present.

Humans are so scared of ideas that they automatically conflate "idea" with "action."
"rarely"? I use OpenBSD for a long time, mostly on laptops, and rarely found hardware which isn't supported.

Of course that there are some wi-fi devices that require blobs, and I'm glad OpenBSD do not support these. However, I learned that no support at all is better than half support of some crap drivers.
Except of course they actually do. It'll just take you half a year to figure out who they are.
Okay, so installed and added today's KAT db in.

A few initial thoughts:
1. It took 2-3 hours to add in the whole KAT db. No problems in parsing the data from what I could tell, but a long time to do it. Maybe that's my machine but it's not ridiculously slow. I'm not going to be adding in the bitsnoop db of 24m+ torrents at this rate.

2. Pulling up 'browse' takes 45-50s just with the KAT stuff indexed and it takes that long every time I click on browse. Could you add some kind of caching to that page?

3. There's no paging. It loads a page of results and no more.

4. Search is very very fast. Would be nice to be able to specific the category when searching.

The main thing it's missing that makes other sites good is all the ratings, seed/leech data, comments, meta data. I wondered, maybe you could do a large scrape of KAT every now and again that grabs all of that and provide it to people as a kick-start to their database....? Then they only need grab updated files every day or something.
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I loved Asterix comics as a kid, but my all-time favourites were the Commando comics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commando_%28comics%29
I wonder what would happen if Google started to add some HyperTalk-like scripting to Google Presentations and eventually allowed it into integrate with Sheets?

It wouldn't be an Excel killer, but it could inspire a new round of developers just like HC did (and like it did for me).
In Japan there are entire genres of comics targeted towards women. Now whether they are any good, or any less sexist than male comics is debatable.

Am I supposed to believe that women love stories told with words, but are incapable of appreciating stories told with pictures?
Yep, I've popped 6to5 in our gulp build process (it also handles JSX which is bleedin' fantastic), and my team and I are absolutely loving it.

The fact that, for instance, you can use ES6 modules, and it will be converted to whichever module loading system you're actually using (AMD or Browserify, for instance), means that our code is actually more portable now (our React/Flux/browseify app may well have to be integrated into a project that uses backbone/AMD soon, so that's no longer a headache.
Get your vaporware template now, with all you need to not-launch a not-product: a label saying it's "almost done," a stock photo of a Mac and Moleskine, a link to a "privacy policy" that doesn't do anything—and wait, there's more!
> However - it doesn't help you get from the final stage of "amazing feats of wonder that should never have been done in Excel" to "a real program in a sane environment". Many people who construct those amazing feats of wonder don't even realise that what they are doing IS programming.

And sometimes if they do realize it's programming, they use that as a reason to pass the buck to a developer. At my first job, I inherited a number of Excel "codebases" in this way.
Your post is a gold mine of potential points to attack but I'll save it and just focus on this:

>the supply of doctors is kept short purposefully to ensure they make money++

No. It's costly to train them, and it's hard for an average person to afford.
"guys who, for some reason, enjoy seeing sexual cartoons"

Yeah, that's really weird. What's up with that?

But in seriousness, let's remain clear on what (supposed) problem you want to solve: men being interested in sexual attributes of women, or poor selection of comics that appeal to women? Those are not the same things.
If the OP is reading this (I had a connection error when I tried to register to comment there) check out the Mary Jane comic aimed at teenage girls. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_Loves_Mary_Jane
7 million is about the population of the Randstad, the agglomeration in the west of Netherland that contains the major cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht) as well as numerous minor ones, grown together into what's practically one giant city.

But there's still 10 million people living in the rest of the country.
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