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If you got a international arrest warrant sent after you for something which every lawyer you talk to (and lawyers media talk to) describe as a "he said, she said situation that has zero chance to ever reach a court", and this days after you made international news, what would your theory be?

My conclusion would be that the Swedish investigators are trying to gain some diplomatic points. A "US extradition" might or might not be on that road map, but equally likely (or unlikely) is justice. When a suspected witch hunt is launched, you don't stay and see what kind of punishment the mob is going to do. You think of the worst possible thing they might do, and then hide.
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Yes there are many web developer who rely on rubygems, but it was written and continues to be maintained today by people who are (not perfect) but good developers who like Aaron, find shit like this and fix it.

If you actually cared, you'd be out there using your vaunted skills to improve the software other people use, instead of slagging off other developers on Hacker News.
I know a few people who live in France, Germany and Belgium but are (IMO fully) taxed in Luxembourg based on the fact that they work there. They are called Grenzgänger / frontaliers.

http://www.diegrenzgaenger.lu/
http://www.lesfrontaliers.lu/
Or somebody actually managed to find this on their own.
Judging by your comments you weren't a backer, so here's an alternate point of view...

> Yet professional is what's badly needed. Look at the Doublefine mess with Broken Age (massively over budget, massively late, massively under-delivering in every area).
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As one of the Broken Age backers, I think you're overly harsh on Double Fine. Personally, I feel I've gotten more than 10 times my money's worth despite Act 2 not being finished yet.

You describe it as massively late, but is that fair? The original plan was "we'll make a flash adventure for 300k", but because of the large budget they changed that to "we'll make a cross-platform, voice acted, hand-drawn custom engine game with a longer schedule" and I'm okay with that.

I got to see the entire design and development process behind the screen, which was super neat. I saw the hard discussion on decreasing scope vs delaying the game, the discussion whether to gut Act 2 or release the first part and use those funds to create an Act 2 worth of the original scope.

I think the art, music and voice acting is gorgeous. The puzzles were a bit underwhelming, but everything I've heard is that the difficulty curve is better in Act 2. All in all, for the 15 (or was it 25?) dollar backing I feel the project was a great success, massively exceeding my expectations about what I'd get for the money.
Why can't the police just enter your house and use your LEGO toys?

Because the laws forbid them to. Not because your house is extraterritorial.
> You could say "paragraphs and punctuation only guide your eyes, but to know what the text says you have to read it, there's no other way around" - ancient greek was written without word spaces, it barely introduces any ambiguity.

I'm not sure to understand. But I fully endorsed your paragraph statement up to but not beyond the remark that a parenthesis is a punctuation. I was not suggesting we don't need some kind of punctuation or blank lines in code. I was pointing out Lisp dialects are proof you can basically code with just three signs of punctuations: newlines, left parenthesis and right parenthesis.

Are we also clear on the fact every programmer knows how to program in Lisp, even if they didn't even program in it? It's just like function calls, except for the whole language. Really. There's no need to write Lisp code a lot. It is enough to take a few steps back, consider the whole picture and see it for what it is.

Lisp is chainable action perimeters. And that's very easy because it is just like function calls in C, Java, Javascript or many other, more mainstream languages. If you know one of them - and I bet that's the case - then congrats, you can program in Lisp! Whether you choose to do so or not, you're the judge of course and either way is fine with me. But don't say reading or understanding Lisp is hard because for that you only have to learn the vocabulary, as is the case for every programming language.

Anyway, thank you very much for the pointer to SRFI 49! I have searched a bit about indenting Lisp code but never found something that detailed.

I'm sorry for the absurdly fine-grain of my stats. It's just that I have my own Lisp code parser for that and it includes inner comments and blank lines. So it's really that precise but I was silly to recopy these numbers without thinking about the issue.

My point was to say they are consistently that low. And for some languages, it's clearly not the case. But from the few codes of Python I have read and given your own stats, it feels like Python is very consistent. And in my eyes that's definitely a very good thing.

> "Ultimately "no, this language is more awesomer" gets nowhere, I think. You're clearly passionate about Lisp and think it is the best."

I just read again my comment and it can so be read like that... I should have been more careful. I'm truly sorry to have almost versed into a flame debate.

But to read my comment in the direction that Lisp is more awesome or simply the best is to amplify too much my claim which was relative to a precise issue: the needed amount of lines of code against the complexity of the problem. I really said nothing more than Lisp has an edge there and I think the examples give an idea of complex problems: parsing code to get a precise line count or to identify dependencies or to even execute automatically step-by-step the code, these are surely complex tasks. At least it is for me and I can't imagine coding it in other languages than Lisp. Because of their very syntax.
I want to know how to make time feel slower while enjoying life and having more "presence" in my day. I think mindfulness meditation might help. I've also heard that practicing a martial art can increase your awareness.
Such a fantastic idea. There really needs to be more awareness on Mental Health and this is a great step towards that.
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What social changes would you expect from the pricing policy changes of marginal EC2 instances?
On a related note VATMOSS came in in January 2015 which means if you're selling to Europeans then you, the business/seller, have to account for VAT (ie sales tax) on "e-services" in the country of the purchaser. That's right if you sell online to people in any European country then by law you have to deal with every different tax system in Europe. [There are exceptions! It's on e-services not physical goods or training involving human interaction]. Oh, and FYI, under common market legislation you can't refuse to sell to any European country (if you're in Europe) so you can't choose to make e-sales only to your host country to avoid facing VATMOSS.

Now there's a question of jurisdiction for USA companies - but I gather that under treaty obligations the law is relevant.

VATMOSS is a scheme to handle the payments to the different tax offices.

Just felt that if you're in the reverse situation of selling to Europe you'd want to factor this in.
> Obama "We don’t have a stronger friend and stronger ally than Nicolas Sarkozy, and the French people."

That is the kind of thing presidents say in speeches. It just means "I want to be polite to you". It's diplomacy, don't take it literally.
I vote for wierd al to sing the song at the end

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So? There are no passport checks in EU. You can get a residency in Hungary, and live somewhere else in the EU.
I'm not a ruby dev, so I guess maybe my perspective is not that great on this particular issue... but hats off to the dev with the fix, indeed this is how free software collaboration is supposed to work in my opinion.

Even the dev with the fix wasn't rude about the original problem, he seemed pretty humble about it actually.

If you think the Ruby guys are such shitty programmers you should be able to dive into their codebases and find the plethora of problems to show them what's up... so either give them a pull request or STFU ;)
Even more fundamental than the voter is information itself. Voters would be the ultimate drivers if they had perfect information. Since they do not, their choices are limited by their access to information (as well as their ability to process it).
the ties between the NSA & GCHQ state otherwise
I'd argue that it's really a distinction between an engineer, who should understand this stuff, and a technician, who doesn't need to to do a job.

Certain segments of our industry are currently engineer heavy, such as embedded, and some appear to be technician heavy. I don't see that as a problem per se but it clearly causes friction occasionally as we tend to conflate them.
Is this even a bug or just a case of "in version 0.1 we'll do this quick & dirty", i.e. unaddressed technical debt?

I make a point to keep track of all technical debt in my projects so that I have an easy way to quickly identify opportunities for improvements when there is spare capacity, and also so that technical debt isn't left unaddressed.
My condolences to you. This is a great loss. I wish you peace and closure.
Not sure why parent is getting downvoted, there is a serious problem in the Ruby community that very few of them have read GoF, TAoCP, and/or K&R.
Anyone else feel this is a complete non-story?

Friend offers friend part of liver. How is this related to tech or startups, or frankly how is this anyone's business?
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You'd have thought he considered that before raping someone there
You're going to need to provide a proper citation for that. Because it wasn't mainstream news and literally two words is not a quote.
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This is one of the more bizarre artifacts of our system. And it took the concentrated efforts of almost everyone involved to make it this way.

But in a way , cheaper is always better. Nutritious food is also cheap, relatively, unless the "nutritiousness" of it is also a price differentiator. Frozen veggies are pretty easy to get, IMO - but it seems there usually has to be a largish supermarket to buy them in. And that implies a finance model, which implies a governance structure, which in the end means more dependence in suppliers being "standard". Junk food makers probably can spend more bandwidth on being "standard" and less on "quality".

If I had to describe Whole Foods model I would say that it intentionally "violates" this tendency.

I have never been to a Trader Joes, and I usually use a mix of WalMart and the dominant local chain - Publix when I lived in Florida. Whole Foods is kinda creepy to me to shop in. I can't say exactly why.
If we are analyzing the words, then the term rape also get a qualifier. He is accused of initiating sex with a women who was half-asleep, which falls under "helpless state" in the rape laws.

The confusion is caused by Swedish laws having specific crimes and categories of crimes, in which "rape" is both a specific crime and a category.
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It's not silly at all. I'm 38, a friend of mine died almost six months ago (he was 37). I still haven't really parsed the permanence of it, or the fact that half a year has passed already; even as I stood beside his grave last weekend. It does feel very strange - indeed I don't have the words to describe it any other way.
> Are you really arguing that, in the far-away-in-the-multiverse world where it didn't have to look like Java, I had time to make a safe, FFI-free subset, etc. etc., Python 1.3 in Netscape 2 would have evolved any faster than JS did?

No. I'm arguing that assuming it evolved at the same rate as JS, "ECMA-safe-FFI-free-Python-1.3 5" would be a substantially better language for writing today's web applications in than ES5 is. I repeat: stagnation isn't the problem with JS, fundamental design (a product of the constraints you were working under at the time) is.

> Most of the rest of your post is flogging "Blub is better". No one agrees on Blub, and there's no way to replace JS with it.

Status quo and sunk costs. No-one can agree exactly which of A, B or C would be best, so we won't do any of them, even though either of A, B or C would give us something better than what we have now. Seriously, every serious proposal I've heard - Python, Dart, LLVM bytecode - is one that I'd take over JS.

> Betting against evolution on the Web is risky, in my view.

XHTML2 was evolution. <audio> and <video> weren't (an evolutionary approach would have been to specialize or adapt <object>). Web history has its share of successful radical new solutions and failed incremental ones as well as vice versa.

> I never refused "as a matter of policy" to embed Dart.

That's what matters here. Seriously, I'm really glad to hear that; it's not what I'd understood from the public statements and reporting.
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Meditate! I still suffer with anxiety (muscle aches, shortness of breath, inability to focus on anything but how anxious I felt) and my therapist recommended meditation. I work in a cubicle city so I sneak away into one of empty conferences room and meditate for 20 min. I use the Headspace App (I have mixed but already paid for it kind of feelings toward it). Good luck!
Windows definitely has this "problem". I used to have %TEMP% on my SSD until I realised that VS builds were still bound by temp file + object file write bandwidth, so I've put %TEMP% onto a 1.5G ramdisk. It works very nicely.
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Um... isn't this a data structure not an algorithm?
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That grandmaster video is truly great. I remember watching similar videos of Tag Heuer. Apple's making videos are nothing compared to these.
> I think the German one at least discussed some tools to use/build for the entire vote/poll mechanism which I assume is built into your collaboration product

I think they built this tool (or considered using) Agora Voting[0] (Django/Python) which as far as I know, has put A LOT of effort into security and fraud-prevention (PKI, Mix-net's, etc), IMO the biggest issue here.

It's a soft derived from the Spanish Internet Party, I guess it's the equivalent of the argentian side from which DemocracyOS came into existence, or at least both draw a lot of parallelisms.

I wonder if it wouldn't be better for all these DD parties [1] to just unite forces and focus on a single tool... The idea is certainly interesting.

[0] https://github.com/agoravoting

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_direct_democracy_partie...
I read that sentence as 'there is a systemic problem in society that young men aren't allowed to be fragile, sad &c' and that with the overlap between men in tech and that problem, we have an opportunity to give you a nudge in the right direction, should you need it.
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Yes, I think he would be arrested immediately, but I guess there's no reason to keep him.

The bail has been forfeited. And if the prime cause for the arrest warrant is gone, he would (and should) walk free.

At least I think so.
My dad had pancreatic islet-cell cancer. After a local surgeon determined that the tumor was inoperable, a heroic team at the Mayo took it out. Several years later he developed cancer in his liver, which is now largely nonfunctional.

He just turned eighty, so I don't think a transplant was ever under consideration, but I wonder how he'd be if, say, five years ago I could have given him part of mine. I doubt he would have accepted it either.

I'm happy to say that he was recently kicked out of hospice for being too healthy, but the chances of him making it to eighty-one are very slim.
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[I'm specifically not talking about Assange here but a generalised situation.]

So, if there's a suspected rapist (someone accused of rape for example) who has been on the run for years then you wouldn't bother to take them to court as you'd consider their sentence to be served out whilst on the run?

Would you apply this to all crimes? How do you determine the length of "sentence" without having a court case? Or is it just "well, he says it wasn't a bad rape and he's been hiding out for a few months let's call it even"??

The 'statute of limitations' for a crime needs to be much longer than the crime's potential maximum sentence.

Paying a high cost now is necessary to avoid the well connected from being able to bypass the justice system in the future. It's not just about this one case; that can be seen as a flaw in precedence based systems.
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This depends on how nomadic you are, what the laws of your host nation are, whether you're prioritizing tax burden or access to services, etc.

1) US citizens have unambiguous legal requirement to file and pay US taxes wherever you live.

2) The Foreign Earned Income Exemption will excuse you from taxes on the first 90k or so of profits, though not self-employment taxes. This makes it advantageous for many Americans to file and pay US only. This may or may not be kosher under laws of host country -- treatment of immigrants with unique situations varies WIDELY, sometimes even between clerks at same office.

3) You get a dollar for dollar tax credit against US taxes for foreign taxes. If you live in a high-tax country like most of Western Europe or Japan, you may choose to file and pay locally then take the foreign tax credit to extinguish your US liability. This is often useful for services/immigration status/etc. Foreign Tax Credit can't be double-applied over FEIE, so in practice only matters if you have high income or you generate capital gains (not subject to FEIE generally).

4) Read those tax treaties! Get competent pro advice! I overpaid US taxes by $10k prior to finding a single piece of paper existed that excuses Americans in Japanese Social Security from US self-employment tax. Front-line clerks in both countries were ignorant of it. (Edit: On the chance that there's one other self-employed USian here who or on a future Google search wondering how to demonstrate status under the US Japan Social Security Totalization agreement, where that status means because you're paying Japanese social security taxes either personally or through your employer then you don't have to pay US self-employment taxes or social security or medicare, the answer is ask for a J/USA 6 form from your local Japanese social security office. If they don't believe that exists, they're wrong -- have them call the International Affairs Desk at the (national) Social Security office -- we literally had to get word directly from the mouth of the 年金局の国際年金課長.)
Products are now cheap. Informational products are basically free^. What remains expensive? Property. You have people with iPhones living in cupboards.

Food and energy are kind of on the boundary. I regard the increasing fripperyness of high-end dining as a sign that food is still affordable. Services that require an actual educated human in the West are still expensive, e.g. law, medicine.

^with advertising, piracy, privacy loss etc.
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>He tells Apple designer Jony Ive in the book: "I just don't like television. Apple will never make a TV again."

This is hilarious if true. How many man hours of rumour cycles have the tech blogs wasted over this, based on a few comments in Isaacson's book?
You seem to be reinventing "median voter theory", which got rebadged "public choice theory", which nearly nobody attests to in public.

In the US at least, government was designed to be ineffective and deadlock-prone. When there was a monoculture, individual legislators (say, Tip O'Neil) bucked the central tendency to ... do whatever it is we do now out of a sense of duty and pragmatism. And as the monoculture faded, so did that.

As the culture got noisier, you had to yell louder. Once you ( you public servant ) get used to living without dignity and a sense of gravitas, it just gets easier... eventually the system selects for the lack of those.

There's much more money in it now, and money makes people take less risk. So you get cookie cutter.
"Life, finds a way.."

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It is a precedent, and it hasn't been followed in this case. 2010 case, linked article is in Swedish: Irish musician batters swedish citizen; prosecutor doesn't want to do anything. "Extradition can only be used in serious cases, like murder", http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article12621641.ab
> 400 pages will become 4000.

The actual rules aren't even close to 400 pages. The 400 pages consist of the legal justification, the whys and hows, and dissents. The actual rules are seven pages.
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That isn't his filing deadline, FWIW.
Not quite. The project was an "old-school adventure game" of a then yet to be defined idea. The $300k that was asked had been budgeted for a short, simple game that could be made by a small team in a few months.

When they got ten times as much funding, it came along with hundred times larger expectations which caused the scope to grow a hundredfold equivalently. Tim's fear to meet those expectations caused him to make the game he wanted and knew people expected instead of the one he pitched. Scope grew to include hand-painted art, professional voice overs, orchestral music score, and a much larger team for a longer time so they could make a longer, more polished game. On the first few documentary episodes their struggle to match perceived expectations with the actual budget is clear, and the wishful thinking on estimates and plans also clear in hindsight.

All this because it turns out that, after all, $3M is not a large budget for a triple-A game, specially when you remove kickstarter and amazon's processing fees, rewards costs and shipping, and the costs of the documentary. Consider a team of developers, designers, artists and animators that are needed to build such game, each costing a conservative estimate of US$100k+/year to the company, then add all external assets and services. The burn rate is big for a project on that scope.

All in all, I'm fairly happy on how it turned out so far, and looking forward to part 2. I back independent games on Kickstarter to encourage the shift on the stagnant producer-driven market and don't treat it as a pre-order. Broken Age turned out to be one of the better ones I got (Book of Unwritten Tales 2, Wasteland 2 and Shadowrun Returns were the best ones, Takedown was probably the worst, glad I skipped on Clang).

In fact, I think the documentary alone is worth the $30 I dropped in the pledge. If you haven't seen it, it's available for purchase for $10 and they started releasing episodes publicly for free recently: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIhLvue17Sd7F6pU2ByRR...

If software development or game design are things that interest you, go see it now, it's very good.
If we are going to include fruad there are lots of things you could do.
I'm am also in Ireland what is the price range for these bootcamps? I am studying software development part time (open uni) would it be worth getting into a bootcamp?
I'm a web dev who has a degree in CS. Do you think I'm a unicorn?

Of course not. Stop generalising.