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> 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.

That statement alone is enough to discount you completely.
Hey, do you have a link handy for that easy German freelance visa? I'd love to update the article if there has indeed been such a major change in the last couple years and it's now easy to get a visa to stay in the EU.

For me back in 2007, several hours on the phone with Spanish immigrations got me no further than that I'd have to travel back to Los Angeles and deal with the embassy there for as long as it took, and that the best hope of an end result would be a visa that was valid for 6 months (instead of the 3 you get for just turning up).

Anything better than that would be a really pleasant thing to know about!
This is a terrible precedent Google is setting, and it is going to cause considerable harm if it gains traction: It's one thing to stop upgrading "older" devices, but quite another to actually break critical, regulated functionality. The Google employee who decided this was a "small" issue apparently doesn't realize that the inoperation of basic voice functionality of cellular devices is the fuel for fat, deserved lawsuits.

I have a Nexus 5, have no interest in the Nexus 6, and could easily think "Oh well...upgrade", but as the old saying goes -- first they abandoned the Nexus 4, and I didn't speak up...
Or worse, basically just glorified installers for games for windows live, or ubisoft's giant portal thing that you have to then run simultaneously (or in the right order) to get to the game.

Its definitely a rube goldberg machine in action.

I feel like the idea of sandboxing its progeny is going to need to look like docker or some sort of container where it appears to be a standard OS (since games use a lot of low level hacks) but is actually partitioned from the rest of the system.
Out of curiosity, is it natural because you learned Photoshop first or it's just super intuitive for you?

I've touched it a few times but never spent enough time getting comfortable so to me it's all still very unintuitive.
Your talking about the tail wagging the dog. Comics are how they are because the market imploded and they have to appeal to the niche of of niche that is their customer base.

When I was a kid in NYC, I remember going to the newsstand with my dad and they had a few racks of the mass market comics. I'd get spider man and superman, my younger sister would get Donald Duck and similar things. Today there's no newsstand and paper media is imploding, so it's a completely different market.

I don't get manga at all, but it's a different phenomenon that doesn't have mass appeal, and girls aren't in the niche.
It wont be a very accurate adaptation if it is! Mark Watney's a fun guy!
s/surrogat/surrogate → https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/surrogate
Petitions mean nothing, when those signing vote the opposite with their feet and wallets.
Well, at least they're trying:

http://phys.org/news/2014-02-apple-conflict-metal-chain.html
Also, there’s a difference between “Free Speech” as an ideal, and it’s implementation or lack thereof in law (e.g. First Amendment to the Constitution of the US, Article 10 European Convention Human Rights, etc.)
a word about video classifieds -- currently local small businesses advertise with text classified but they would advertise with videos if a low cost video advertising option was available.
As someone else has suggested, keep doing freelance web development while studying at university, it is a perfect flexible income source that pays significantly better than the average pay a student would get from a part-time job.

It might be tempting to take your degree in Computer Science, however that will not set you apart as significantly as some other choices. A CS graduate who is also a competent developer? Great but pretty much expected. On the other hand if you study Design, UX/UI - now you are a wow for front-end web development. A second stand-out route would be to major in Statistics and really focus on mastering Python, R and data visualization libraries. This route would set you up to purse a data science career. In both of these routes everything that you have learned about web development continues to help you post college.

Also, as Patrick McKenzie and others advise, start raising your freelance rates. If you really are a solid developer and write beautiful understandable code that solves a business problem, you can probably double your rate over the course of the next few months. Then work toward doubling your rate again before you graduate.

My own son is 13 and I have been encouraging/nagging him to learn to code. He has the appropriate intelligence. I have often told him that 2-3 years of self study now would position him to do freelancing and pay his way through college and be an important skill regardless of what he ultimately chooses to do in life. Of course kids want to make their own way. I can't complain too much since he is getting pretty good at 3D modeling with SolidWorks and gaining skills in robotics, machining and 3D printing.

Good for you for learning practical, marketable skills so early in life. But I still think that long-term you will be well served by getting a college degree.
Ask HN: How to navigate software development in terms of business domains?
A broad knowledge of technologies is useful, but I'd like to specialise in something.
I would like to find not only a technological area of focus, but also a business area.

Which sectors and industries use which languages, operating systems, databases?
Which divisions of the organisations use different technologies?
What's required to enter these fields, both technically and business wise?
What can one expect to experience, daily, and long term?

Are there any relevant resources on the web?
> Even today, convincing health care providers to take hand-washing seriously is a challenge.

Really? Such an interesting article, and then this gets dropped in.
Would be nice to see more from hardware.co here on HN, especially the HW startups in/around Munich.
I've tried to apply this to my coding, maybe not 4-5 lines, but definitively keeping to short functions/methods.

You're right that you end up with a myriad of functions, may of which you only use once, but I was surprised how often I actually been finding myself reusing something. I have much more code reuse than I originally figured.

One thing that might be an issue, depending on your temper is that your code almost becomes a DSL. Programs are pretty much stringed together by this "myriad" of custom functions, that might not be useful outside this one program.
There is also another employee who marked a disfunctional telephony on a phone as "Priority-small."

I think we're seeing a pattern here.
I will never buy a Nexus tablet or phone again. Still no Lollipop for the razorg.
What planet do you live on where $100m is chump change?
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It's shocking to see how often people write code like: memcpy(somePtr, &myStructObj, 12);

So while that warning can certainly be useless information, it does definitely catch bugs. Unfortunately, the people who write code like the above are also more likely to be people who ignore warnings. ;-)
Interestingly enough, Motorola is one of the good guys in this regard, and they make very good phones as well:

http://solutions-network.org/site-sfhtantalum/
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What about getting fired. How many e-dramas have we seen lately over someone tweeting and losing their job? That's about as serious as a license agreement for someone doing iOS development as a full-time gig.
$41.5 billion? Yup, that'd probably stop any companies from trying this again.
Isn't that because the US disallows importing drugs? It's supposedly for safety but of course it's just protectionism as I, at least, have heard of no other country doing the same.
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Mind you, I using _only_ water and nothing else.
Yes, like it or not.

Burger King says "Have it your way", it's your burger, but that doesn't mean you can jump the counter, cook the burger to your own exacting specifications, and pay for it in 1-peso coins.
Would you back up your 99.9% confidence level with a bet? For example, I will send you $1 if he is convicted, and you will send me $1,000 if he is acquitted?

If not, how much would you put at risk for the chance to win $1 if he is convicted?
"Although, we were ultimately not acquired by Facebook, this framework helped us, and key members of our company, make the decision to join Facebook." -> Ah OK.
I'm doing this in Vietnam. Not necessarily by choice at this point (got married, having a kid, need to stay now).

The FEI thing only applies if you are paying taxes in your "host" country. Thankfully, you can minimize the burden in a few different ways. State taxes are another matter though. I was a resident of NYC, but became a resident of Nevada before I left.

The visa situation in Vietnam is fucked right now. I was doing the tourist 3 month multiple entry, which you can reup 3 times in country for a year total, but now you can't do that. Getting the fiancé temporary residency, but you wouldn't believe how Kafka-esque that whole process is here. Though it wasn't as bad, or as expensive, as getting a marriage license. That required a shit ton of coffee money.

It was fun for the first two years, but now I can't wait to get the hell out of this place.
Bulk rice and beans are cheaper than prepared foods, even at Whole Foods. If you're worried about scurvy, buy a lime for 30 cents.

I don't think the food scarcity in Guatemala is relevant. Kale and carrots and dairy products can be obtained for pennies a day, and meat is subsidized and readily available in raw form.

If you want to see the other side of that, which is abundance of low quality, toxic food, check out the various odd Heath problems that are on the rise in the US such as childhood obesity, diabetes, unexplained hyperactivity and so on.
I've the same model (Nexus 4) and can confirm this issue. Can't believe Google's response to this.
When Judge Koh rejected the original settlement, she suggested that she expected a minimum settlement amount of $380 million, based on the previous settlements that had been done by other companies in this case.

So the new amount probably does make a difference.
Since the script is written in bash they could also have used $BASH_SOURCE, which will always point to the correct path of the script being executed, so you can do something like this:

SCRIPT="$BASH_SOURCE"
SCRIPT_DIR="$(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE")"
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This. There are categories of embedded system that don't allow reentrancy; it must be possible to represent the program's callgraph as a DAG with each function appearing exactly once. In some systems (ADA?) this allows for the preallocation of all local variables, too.

Some hardware (e.g. the smaller PICs) has poor support for pointers which can make indirection cost quite a lot of instructions.

Then there's the general principle of cutting your coat according to your cloth. You don't use a generalised pointer-to-rocket-engine system because you aren't going to add more engines at runtime
There are old Hungarian movies about him[1]. He is described as the "savior of mothers" here in Hungary.

[1]I have seen this one, but I'm sure it's impossible to find English subtitles for it:
http://hungarian.imdb.com/title/tt0033035/
There is an other one, I didn't see it and they say that the older was better:
http://hungarian.imdb.com/title/tt0045136/?ref_=fn_al_tt_6

Also I found by accident this link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440757/
I don't have IMDBpro so I can't see any relevant info on this one, I hope this will be good.
FDA trials are only required to compete against a placebo. A drug is accepted if it is safe and more effective than a placebo in a double-blind clinical trial. That's it.

So they have no data to show with, unless they went above and beyond to get it. (Which should teach them a lesson about testing their drugs.)
Are these bash-exclusive or do they also work on posix-like sh?
Your example is different because you're a layman and you're going to pay attention to someone who knows what they are talking about.

If you were the subject matter expert, and some guy appears and tells you that you're doing it all wrong, ego tends to play a bigger role!
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The settlement offer is off by an order of magnitude or more from where it should be, that's what the OP means. The tech companies screwed their employees out of a lot more money than this, and this being a class-action lawsuit $100m means a pitiful amount of money being distributed among the plaintiffs.

Oh, and have you seen Apple's and Google's quartely revenue reports? This definitely is chump change to them.
Well, if the size of the class is 50000 workers, that amounts to about 2000 per worker... about a weeks wage?
The terminology alone is enough to scare me away. Arvo, Hoon, Nock, Ships, etc.
Also there is Image, Oni Press and Vertigo.
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Chromecast is pretty shitty. It often lags und quality is not great. The first time I saw it in action, it was pretty embarrassing for a Google manager who tried to demo something with it. I replaced mine with an Amazon Fire TV.
I have no intention of questioning your choices, but I think you may be mistaking communing with others as some sort of easy way out. Personally, I find it pretty hard, so perhaps it'd be worth your time to try more real, deep interaction with people you don't know. It can be a serious challenge, and while having no fear of rejection is perhaps ideal, I don't think I would call intentional introversion the most difficult possible life decision.
Sure, and obviously it's not good to make people uncomfortable. But from his perspective he wouldn't care whether the numbers were fake.
Are all terrorists Muslim?
Try this link for some pointers: http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshsteimle/2013/07/12/how-i-ope...
I can check-in from my phone.

Edit: downvotes don't make that any less true. The situation the OP was observing could very well have been that the person had checked-in via phone and when boarding was starting, the phone's battery died.
Someone will mention Scratch, but then forget to tell you that it's a piece of garbage.
Evolution never creates the best, only the good enough. Nature is not an engineer - her only method is trial and error.
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Who's eligible for the class? Only employees of those corporations? Or the tech/engineering marketplace at large?
Just a nit pick... they are sourcing from Rwandans... which is the first sign that they are dealing with bad guys. The materials they get from the Rwandans have come from the Congo... where the Rwandans ethnically cleanse areas so that they can mine the minerals.

So technically... the materials they source from the Rwandans are conflict materials procured from genocidal Rwandans... not really materials procured through child labor.

Of course... that just means it's much WORSE than child labor... I just thought people should have the facts straight more as a matter of principle.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. America has non-superhero comics, of course - the Sandman series, Y: The Last Man, Preacher, The Walking Dead, American Vampire, etc.

...but Marvel Comics is superheros. Marvel is owned by Disney, and Disney has a huge marketing budget. DC Comics is superheros...owned by Warner Brothers.

EDIT: yeah...none of those that I mentioned are remotely for kids. Hmmm.
Somebody didn't replace the default Yeoman favicon...
Which raises an interesting question - do people with such jobs deal exceptionally well with rejection?

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they do, but then I wouldn't be if they were more than averagely depressed, either.

Surely someone must have looked into this.
But accelerating the decline of your profitable niche by withdrawing from the niches that fed the creation of your current niche, is probably not good long term thinking.

In the case of comics, Marvel and DC has a market of 30's males now because they served the market of kids in the 80's and before.

If they want to retain that profitable niche, they better make sure they develop interest amongst younger readers.
This is the moral panic of the religious right all over again. Just like during the 80s and 90s, this one is aimed at sanitizing all adult aspects of society and making everywhere a "family friendly" place.
Yes, which is one of the a whole host of other reasons to stay away from this. Urbit openly states that it has backdoors in place to allow policing by any government.
> What's not mentioned here is California just broke ground on a similar project from "LA to SF" but is more like Burbank to San Jose.

No, the actual termini for HSR are in the city centers.

Unlike Musk's hyperloop proposals, where one part of hitting the low cost number was terminating far from either population center (IIRC, substantially north of LA for the southern terminus, and way out in the East Bay on the northern terminus.)

> it will never meet the legal requirement of getting from LA proper to SF proper in 2:40.

Even if that was true, Musk's proposed hyperloop orientation would hardly be an improvement, as LA proper to SF proper would, in many cases, take that long or longer only considering the time between the city center and the proposed station locations, even if the hyperloop was an instant teleport.
If you have time (and the inclination) then you could report this to the technical support department of the mobile telco you are using.

You won't get instant gratification that you would by using a bugtracker but technical reports back to the vendor (in this case Google) do eventually get sent upstream.

If enough people complain via Google's channels then the bug will be brought up at higher levels eventually.

The other option is to tweet at senior Android guys and see if you get a response.

Good luck.
More than the fact that tickets like this get closed, I find the way that they are closed infuriating. You would think that dozens of comments, many of them with lots of details, would merit a more extensive answer than a single

> contact customer support.

How about "Thanks for all your comments. Unfortunately, this is the wrong forum to report problems like this. Please contact the Nexus customer support and let them know about the issues you are having."
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And their new products are even far worse than advertised, for no real reason.

for example compare http://i.imgur.com/IxwQwqk.png with http://i.imgur.com/DrzdQKJ.png, it’s not like it would have been much work to implement this design, and it would have made it far nicer, but they didn’t do it.

It seems like Google is trying to save on every end and while trying to not spend a single unnecessary penny, they butcher their services.
material design would have been nice, if Google would have actually implemented it: http://imgur.com/a/Xtey7
Google is well know for their abysmal costumer support, but this is just the last straw; a telephone that cannot make calls, not even emergency 911/112. And such issue is marked as "Priority-small" and dismissed.

It was good while it lasted, but it's clear now that Google not only cannot be depended on for their software (see Google Reader), but also cannot be relied on for our hardware needs.

At least they have the search thing...
The planet where $100m divided over 64,000 employees affected comes to ~$1500 per employee i.e. chump change.

The planet where Google's yearly revenue is over $50bn and Apple is the most valuable company in the world.
The newer versions aren't much better. The Nexus 9 is the worst Nexus device I've ever owned. First it had a rotation-not-working issue that they never acknowledged, then there is a major battery charge problem (mine takes 7 hours+ to charge. That's a full work day) that they also do not acknowledge
Not really at all. The analogy is entirely wrong.

Yes, the exercise anecdotally served the purpose of improving his confidence. But no, your assumption that he would be unable to ask for a number he really wanted is unfounded and has nothing to do with your false analogy.
How do you change your negative sign on a unixoid? The only reference to negative signs in locale(5) is under LC_MONETARY.
Create a currency, create an exchange for that currency, create a market for that currency. DPR = Karpeles = Satoshi would be brilliant.
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See sibling comment about domain-specific language; there's nothing wrong with long function names if your autocomplete is working. Codebase I'm working with has names like "auditNullRecipeCursorAtEndOfOrderLineAdditionsIfRequired" and "getUnselectedSiblingWithSametabIndexOrCreateRepeatedChildIfLessThanMax"
I think they are starting to regret the Nexus line as they don't make any money off of it and users have high expectations. You can tell, imo, that they are looking to just slowly kill it off.
Many Manhattan vehicles are delivery trucks or service vehicles driven by construction or foodservice workers. Many are taxis or car service vehicles. Some are avoiding the $17+ toll on the Verazzano Narrows bridge by taking the free Manhattan Bridge & Holland Tunnel. Parking a car for a reasonable price is essentially impossible in much of Manhattan, and garages are also packed by valets that pack cars in tightly in tiny garages accessed via car elevator. Unless you're a cop, in which case you just park on the sidewalk because you know the other cops won't ticket you.

And, of course, the number of pedestrians is far more vast than the number of cars.
They did actually, the thing was designed to drop on a random angle and bounce around for a while on airbags until it came to a full stop, before said airbags would deflate and it would self-right itself by opening up. Here's an image with it having landed on an uneven surface: http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.jennings1/beagle.jpg
This looks brilliant. I was hoping it worked for my ruby-1.8.7 application though :(
Are there similar applications for versions of ruby lower than ruby-2.1.0?
I remember reading the google+ page of JBQ a while back where he openly lamented having to do customer support bullshit all day because Google is terribly organized without enough Android staff.

Also the stock lollipop Nexus4 image doesn't fix this, you still have to reboot every so often to get voice back. It will only happen at the most crucial times too given Murphy's law, like phoning a cab in the pouring rain with only 5% battery left, and when I called a girl I met back and ended up calling 4 times looking like a complete inept fool or harassing weirdo when the voice first disappeared.
How can the market fix this?

If there is not enough demand, then publishers aren't going to create these titles.
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>If people don't like Apple's terms, don't develop for them.

This has been the EFF's exact response, and this community has lambasted them for it. We are told that organizations like the EFF and developers of security/privacy software should compromise on their ideals and not forsake deserving users on iOS. This is a classic Catch-22, because providing beneficial software (Chatsecure, Firefox, etc.) to these users just perpetuates their abusive relationship with Apple.