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My two cents:

1. Modern nations would find engaging in a large conflict without a many alliance nations economically ruinous. Basically if all (or even some?) of your major trading partners cut you off, it will cripple you.

2. The long range and high precision nature of modern weapons make the idea of maintaining an industrial complex during a 1st world vs 1st world conflict very unlikely. I think this is going to severely limit the length of any such war.

>>US get involved on the ground with ISIL

Compared to 1st. world vs 1st world conflicts this is a low intensity conflict similar to what has been simmering for the past decade. Just a new face for the enemy.

>>you'll see the Ukraine situation simmer out with the Russian's holding the occupied land.

Note this supports the previous poster's comment.

>>and you'll see some major national or international incident with China in the next 15-30 years.

If you are basing this on the "numerous discontent young men" hypothesis you are on sound theoretical ground, but its worth pointing out that China often seems to operate under an alternate sociological law. Its also worth pointing out the immense power disparity between a Chinese civilian and their government is much greater than in say the US; In terms of communications and weapon availability.
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I always found the headsets compelling, yet too quiet. I had the original and then later an Icon, and love the noise-cancelling technology. Even in a convertible with the top down on the freeway it sounded great on the other end.

But I always fall back to my Shure in-ear headphones because the audio was too quiet for me. If you seal the ear canal you can get away with quieter audio, but Jawbones don't seal your ear canal that way. Too bad.
It sounds scummy but honestly increase the price, then say it's free for the next week in honor of <insert holiday>. After that leave it free. There's a bunch of sites that advertise apps that are "temporarily free" and then a bunch of people who subscribe to those apps who want to get paid apps for free.

Also just wondering, what technologies did you use for this?
> People are not being told to use Go grudgingly because it is mandatory. It isn't a required component of some entrenched industry dictum.

You're registering this objection on the basis of JS's privileged status in the browser; I'm invoking it because of The Fine Article's comparison with JS on the server, where it's adopted as voluntarily as any other language -- and where, yes, despite claims that event-driven/callback scattered code are worse than what Go offers, people are able to get things out the door anyway!

And that's true of Node, it's true of PHP, it's true of Java, it's true of most languages people have moved to Go from.

The claim that being able to ship in a language doesn't mean it's wart-free is a pretty solid one, and that's what we're talking about.

> I find it hard to even express clearly why Go feels so...natural and productive. But it does

Does it? I've been working in it for 8 months and... nope. Doesn't feel unusually productive. But I guess your subjective opinion that you can't explain should trump everyone else -- after all, we're using "specious logic!"

> And one of those reasons is that the language is so simple and, well, crude, that you don't stop and sit on questions of approach.

Ah, yes. It's like Java:

"I liked programming in Java mainly because I found it very relaxing. With a bad language, like say Fortran or csh, you struggle to do anything at all, and the language fights with you every step of the way forward. With a good language there is a different kind of struggle, to take advantage of the language's strengths, to get the maximum amount of functionality, and to achieve the clearest possible expression.

Java is neither a good nor a bad language. It is a mediocre language, and there is no struggle. In Haskell or even in Perl you are always worrying about whether you are doing something in the cleanest and the best way. In Java, you can forget about doing it in the cleanest or the best way, because that is impossible. Whatever you do, however hard you try, the code will come out mediocre, verbose, redundant, and bloated, and the only thing you can do is relax and keep turning the crank until the necessary amount of code has come out of the spout."

http://blog.plover.com/prog/Java.html

(When I started working with Go last May, I had no idea or expectation of the extent to which I'd have thought this article would apply.)

> And FWIW, when people talk about the lack of generics causing them great pain, usually they aren't making a solution, but instead are toying with the language.

Really?

> it just...isn't a problem. It really isn't.

Oh. Sorry, then. I'll just realize that the unpleasantness I've encountered working with it really isn't there, and I'm not focusing on solutions.
To be fair, the ECB has largely come around. They're even going to do a form of quantitative easing now. Unfortunately, monetary policy cannot do very much when the interest rates are essentially zero. You'd really need fiscal policy, and so far, the German elite[0] is pretty closed-minded about that.

[0] There are other countries that tend in this direction, but Germany is the real problem due to its power.
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4b. Northern Europeans stop visiting and spending money in Athens, Rome, Algarve, Canary Islands, and buying Mediterranean produce until the end of Northern-sponsored dolce vita.

This cuts both ways, and the ultimate end is economic war and possibly real war.
From the title I thought this would be about marijuana.
Absolutely - I sent a brief e-mail to the address in your bio. Thanks!
So my guess is this is the first time you've been let go, or this is the first time as an adult (post-college) during your profession that you've been let go.

Relax, it happens. This doesn't mean you aren't a terrific developer and person to work with. Take a little time to think about what you've worked on, what you've accomplished in the past 6-12 months I think you'll see what a great position you really are in. As others have said it's a golden time for both developers and particularly Javascript coders.

Once you've had a little time to reflect on all this then dust off your resume, update your linked in, and basically get ready for a lot of recruiters calling you.

If you have the means financially don't rush, take your time and really interview your next potential employer as if you were hiring them.

You'll be amazed what kind of work is out there if you take your time versus jumping into the next gig you are offered.

Lastly, at 28 I would seriously consider a startup. You are in a great position to take that risk right now. Since you aren't in a tech hub like San Francisco it might take a little more time to find something there, unless you want to relocate. Perhaps look under Gigs in craigslist, I've found local (Denver) startups looking for coders that way in the past.
Anyone whose tried both have any insights of the benefits of Mailbox over Google Inbox? Since Inbox is newer, there seem to be plenty of articles touting the new betterness, but not so much on why Mailbox is great.
As a user I have experienced this same issue. Also from Google Adverts. Seems the bad guys have been making a lot of headway recently.
I should probably have specified: I don't represent Matasano / NCC Group in any way shape or form.

That said, I don't think you do. Your question is somewhat like asking if you need to study every medical specialty to the bleeding edge of research to become a general practitioner.

No, but any of them you master will definitely be a boon. :)
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Then you hire a new CEO who writes emotional letters to the creditors so he can steal more money from new credits.

While you keep working your ass off washing dishes and prostituting your children.
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Very much agree with the second point. And not just how it relates to the actual project work, as a freelancer, you also need to be prepared to do a lot of things that aren't development. Tools and consultants are available to help, but invoicing, insurance (if applicable, depends on your client types), taxes, proposals, etc etc all have to be overseen by you if not actually done by you. Personally I have been fine with those tradeoffs, retaining a high degree of autonomy in exchange for some less than interesting tasks. But it's a tradeoff you have to be willing to make if freelancing is going to be the source of your livelihood.

Edit to add: especially if the target client js less than savvy, they're going to really appreciate working with a consultant who has the skillset the OP does. Frequently (and sometimes frustratingly) less savvy clients can take a very wide view of what a web consultant should be providing for them. Marketing as a product development and management guru can absolutely become a viable business as a freelancer. There are tons of other freelancers with other specialities whom you can sub to (if the budget and agreement allows) to fill out any gaps you may have in specific areas. Particularly things like design and UI that lend themselves to well-defined scopes and deliverables.
Grant, I'm from the team at NYPL working on the Space/Time Directory effort. This is absolutely amazing. We'd love to have you (and everyone here) help out!

We've been so surprised at the excitement over the response and we've had to bump up our timeline to catch up the energy of everyone who's gotten in touch.

There's a few big things we're focused on right now:
* Improving performance of CV recognition of historical buildings [https://github.com/nypl/map-vectorizer] from insurance atlases.
* Parsing data from historical records. We love old documents that are basically databases in print form. Old playbills, city directories, tax records; lots of tabular data with locations, people, businesses - the names of history. Getting those names out and tied to locations are what become the searchable elements for places.
* Rebuilding the underlying gazetteer. We worked with the team from Topomancy to prototype the underlying system a few years ago [https://github.com/topomancy/gazetteer]

There's a lot more, but that's where were starting. If you're interested, drop us a line at spacetime@nypl.org or sign up for our (comically nascent) forum at http://talk.spacetime.nypl.org where we're trying to coordinate most of the effort.
A Captain Kirk card game? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v77SF4TFUoM
Impersonation is a criminal matter.

This might be a matter for the police, especially if the SEO company is in Canada.
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You make some good points. I think the solution has to be one that looks at the state as a service provider. Until the issues have been depoliticised, decisions will be made for political reasons rather than good business reasons.

As a service provider, the state has 2 sources of revenue, primarily: private customers i.e. people, and corporate customers i.e. companies. Both those customer groups pay for services in the form of taxes. Now, those customer groups must be, by and large, wealth creators for there to be any wealth that can be taxed or even redistributed (if that is your political inclination).

So, it simply won't do to just reform the state, to spend less, etc. A system has to be put in place rapidly that boosts wealth creation. This includes: minimal bureaucratic lag in the creation of new companies (Chile, for example, enables new company creation within 2 days), very low taxes, easy interaction with regulation bodies, a business-friendly environment, etc.

If the state is too sclerotic to reform, it can be set up through free-trade zones in isolated parts of the country. This was China's route, when they essentially replicated Hong Kong in Shanghai, Shengzen, and all the other FTZs. It allows to you to be ultra-reformist in small experimental areas without putting at risk the power structures that exist in the state at large.
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What's the benefit of a startup? Seems like more hours for less pay while always needing to get things done. I fail to see the appeal. They just have lunches and dinners which appeal to people.
Great to know model/insight difference. You have drawn a clearer line for me, which I always struggled to think it through, even I was quite aware that they are quite different.
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Any new discovery should not be mentioned in the press before it is fully understood then?
Like others, I also like to see a sample before sign-up. Also, there need to be assurance that given email won't be used for other purposes/shared with others/spam ...etc.
> Interestingly, the fake clinic domain name is VERY similar (one letter difference) to another, legitimate clinic in the city.

Contact the organization administering the top level domain and file a typo squatting dispute.

Also, most likely these SEO people will stop impersonating the doctor's office when it's clear they won't win the account (edit: they'll start impersonating a different doctor). Their mistake was picking up the phone call. It's common practice and arguably ethical to set up and optimize a placeholder site. Any pre-launch website with a link to sign up is doing exactly this.
Failing with the following error in Chrome:

GET https://primroseeditor.com:8082/javascripts/ga.js net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT

And in Firefox it's not even loading the home page, with an error of "too many open files".
This can work very well (experience + know many who have done this). Make sure to http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com !
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Was a small CSS issue. Fixed.
Can you elaborate on this? Their FAQ explicitly states:
"Although some features are a work in progress, Neovim isn't at a stable point. Using Neovim should be done with caution as things may change."
> Sift through projects on Odesk / Elance. You may find some part time work that may provide some supplemental income while at the same time improving your dev skills.

You're probably better off taking unemployment and working on some quick projects to spiff up your github account. I experimented with Odesk/Elance for side income and the best job I managed to find was $20/hr.
Not sure if you're serious, but in case you are, it's a simple programming exercise to make sure that you can program your way out of a paper cup in your proclaimed language of choice. Details on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz
Exciting. Looks perfect for Meteor integration (streaming to a Meteor.Collection), any news on that?
http://boingboing.net/2012/06/13/meritocracies-become-oligar...
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I've ported apps to Sandstorm with literally no prior experience with the languages those apps were written in. Porting to Sandstorm involves more deleting stuff you don't need than actually writing code yourself. :D
On the downside, there's less cost for being stupid which I think is probably bad for influencing cause-effect considerations, even though one effect is potentially death.

When I was a kid there was no nerf-padded society (late 70's into the 80's). If you made a stupid move on a bike, you bled on the ground and thought it over for a while. From that you got a very real sense of the implications of your actions and relied on your wits more, as not doing so would get you really screwed up.
Just out of curiosity, how would Greece having control of it's own currency reduce the real value of it's debt at this point? Considering 90%+ (to my knowledge but I could be wrong) of it's debt is to foreign countries and currently in Euro, even if it left the Euro and returned to the Drachma, wouldn't printing more money just reduce the debt's real value to it's internal creditors (pensions)?

Wouldn't that also be against what the current government is trying to achieve?
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When I first posted that response I was thinking that the scale that mattered was the compton wavelength of the particles being emitted, but having actually finished my coffee now I'm no longer so sure. My point was that so long as the horizon is sufficiently fine on the scale of the particle's compton wavelength then hawking radiation can still be emitted, even granted the horizon is not infinitely fine. This may be correct, or not.
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It's true that you cannot replicate Rossi's allegations independently because he refuses to reveal the way his alleged reactor works. However, the "independent report" mentioned in the article basically tested this thing as a black box for more than a month; Rossi was present at the start and at the end, but not during the test, and all the equipment and so on was not his but procured independently. Even if Rossi did some screwy stuff, it cannot explain the 1.5 MWh gain for more than 32 days - the only thing that could explain this, assuming it indeed is a con, is unreliable heat measurement. While it is true that there has been some doubts expressed on that subject, the researchers have a lot of experience performing such measurements; and they are far from being disreputable researchers or shady characters. One of the authors of the subsequent paper is also, by the way, the previous head of the Swedish skeptics society - someone that does have some experience in debunking bullshit claims.

I'm not saying this thing is working as advertised, mind you; but this report is troubling and warrants further research. And the article isn't only about the e-cat: it's about another researcher, Parkhomov, having set up a similar experiment based on what he could glean from Rossi's alleged reactor, and witnessing similar excess energy production. This other experiment is, by contrast, completely open and can be verified/replicated/debunked, so I suppose it's just a matter of time before someone attempts such a replication and confirm or infirm this new experiment.
They got into YC with Flynn (https://flynn.io/) which kept them busy for a while, but Tent 0.4 development is starting to pick up again.
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The situation bears a certain resemblance to a period of history in the USA between the successful bid for independence and the ratification of its constitution. During that period, the articles of confederation was the document in force and among its many disasters was economic chaos. It was a monetary union (actually not even that as each state printed its own money but efficient currency exchanges were still a century or two in the future) without a political union.

I didn't invent that phrase - Der Speigel mentioned it several years ago in reference to the Greek crisis.

And while I lack the expertise to prescribe the form of a "more perfect union" in Europe, the USA can at least address competitive imbalances bewteen states through a process of income redistribution. Take for example West Virginia. It perennially ranks in the top of USA states that receive more federal money than it generates in federal taxes. Some people complain about this, but most accept it if for no other reason than the knowledge that WV is DC's fallout shelter.

Last time I checked, only two or three German Laender (sorry for not using umlauts) generated net positive federal revenues. Certainly some Germans complain about it, but it's not realistic to expect every political jurisdiction to break even on the tax / revenue ledger.

Both Germans and Greeks (and everyone else in the EU as well) should be willing to bear some of the blame and some of the burden as well.

The Germans are smart enough to know one cannot maintain a competitive advantage forever without bankrupting one's customers. If beggaring the Greeks was part of the plan, then EU rests upon a foundation of bad faith and does not deserve to exist.

The Greeks are smart enough to know that remaining uncompetitive is also not sustainable. If mooching off the Germans was part of the plan, then the EU rests upon a foundations of bad faith, you know the rest.
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Part of the reason I don't like watching, say, American football is that I used to play it in highschool. Once you've actually played the game, watching other people play is kinda boring. Especially when you see what a comically capitalized affair the whole thing is.

Also, this part from the article is kind of silly:

The machoness and absence of women in the highest levels of most professional sports bothers me deeply.

Most sports are built rather heavily around the design constraints of the human body. For what is effectively organized physical conflict, the genetics favor males heavily.
Oh, the E-Cat again. The E-cat takes in electric power, and supposedly puts out more heat than would be expected. The electric power to resistance heaters is input in a "proprietary waveform", and is measured with a wattmeter.

This is a typical thing with "free energy" scams. The same thing was tried back in the "piezos" era, when putting resonant piezoelectric devices in an oscillating tank circuit was supposed to produce more power than went in. (But it did not, of course, run self-sustaining, without outside power).

Measuring wattage of unusual waveforms is hard. W = E*I, or watts equals current times voltage, but you have to integrate the instantaneous product over time. Many wattmeters don't do a full integration; they're mostly for sine waves, and may have frequency limitations. The E-Cat guy won't let observers use a scope to see that "proprietary waveform". All it's doing is driving a resistance heater, so the waveform should not matter to the heater.

A simple RF wattmeter, which has a resistor whose heat output is measured, would clear this up.
I'm still unsure why knowing really matters.

Anyway, I think the impact on the other kids is much more important than whether it's an advantage or not.

If giving the advantage to one kid removes an equal amount from the other kids, that's bad.

If it removes even more from the other kids, that's terrible.

If it doesn't affect the absolute education level of other kids, then probably go for it, even if it's unfair.

Raise the average quality of education, even if it's selfish.
Which is pretty disappointing since originally their mission statement seemed to be that they wanted to escape that mindset (most of the original team came from Engadget and such).
As a working programmer and a bit of a language geek, a few years ago I decided to try to get as many programming languages as possible installed on my dev machines. From this, I eventually tried to get as many of them "scriptable" as possible, creating at a bare minimum a "Hello, world!" template that could be run from the command line. I like having options, or a bare minimum, having things around to play with/learn when I've got down time.

I remember something in "Mythical Man-Month" that extolled the virtues of scripting programming for concept exploration, and I've often felt this is one of the major advantages traditionally scriptable languages have over compiled. Once you can run a program without compiling it, iteration tends to go faster.

So sure, some languages require more boilerplate to get started than others, but I've got templates for that, and I happily scripted almost all the exercises in "Thinking in C++" because it just made working them out faster, even in emacs where I can bind the compile key to any command I can dream of.