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Different languages and cultures across Europe will prevent formation of a Federal Paneuropian country. US benefitted from English being primarily the common language across different states.

Dissolution of EU and abandonment of common currency is the only long-term solution for situations like Greece.
Considering the nature of the system, I doubt they're going to state if/when/how many they are receiving.
I have similar worries about Steam but at least we still get the games. I miss having the physical case and the cd like the good old 90s and early 2000s.
This is a false dichotomy but I'm not surprised, especially in the js world. JavaScript is so little opinionated that developers refuse to read each others code, because it's usually not written in the way they think js should be written. And soon it will be worse with classes,proxies and all the python like "ninja" features of ES6.

It's not about "not using framework",it's about reading the source of anything you're going to use and vet it. Obviously that's the last thing js developers like to do.

That's why I like Go by the way.The language is so limited anybody with a minimal understanding of Go can read it. No fancy stuff,just ifs,functions and for loops.

Angular is what, 10000 of codes with the comment striped at most. Well you'll learn a lot of "architecture" just by scaning it.

Don't listen people telling you not to use frameworks,where do you think their skills come from,how do you think they earn money,by spending time building their own undocumented ,sub tested ,full of cross site scripting exploits, frameworks again and again? bullshit.

But use libs and frameworks you're ready to spend time debugging. Thus something with a source code YOU can understand.

I agree however, that angularjs "check what error codes means online" instead of explaining them in the console is terrible.

I say it again, want to be a great dev? read source code.You'll learn much more about programming because the practice is right here in the source, than with crappy article like the OP.
"I'm also not sure if it is the best strategy for Greece to bite the hand (EU as the IWF is just the beginning) who transfered billions of $ to Greece over the last decades."

No one gives away any amount of mouney, let alone billions of them. I think you should inform yourself better before forming an opinion.
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>Perhaps with the new Russian conflict they could trade in EU subsidies and wealth transfer to renting bases to Russia. But they will find out it's much harder to break a 100 year contract for a Russian base in Greece than a contract with the IWF.

It isn't a base currently, it is natural gas pipeline ("New Blue Stream"). Bolgaria - under pressure from US/EU - has recently refused "South Stream" and thus Russia's acute need for new way into Europe met Greece's souring relationship with EU. And yes, gas pipeline is a contract which is pretty hard to break.
Russia and Greece's relationship spans over a thousand years. They do share the same religion (Orthodox Christianity), after all. The defining moment in slavic history was when St. Vladimir converted to Christianity. This of course also created their alliance and ties to the Greek Byzantine empire... Even the Cyrillic alphabet was based on the Greek alphabet, with extra characters for slavic language.
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Ahoy's videos also cover some other topics such as firearms (specifically their depictions in games) and beverages. He also has a good video about easter eggs in games.
I am guessing the down votes are from people who love jumping the gun.

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Problem is the Greek bailout was actually a bailout of the German and French banks who lent Greece money.

The EU sacrificed Greece to save their own skins

https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/thomas-fazi...
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No, we can write off the debts in intelligent ways and manage the cost over the whole EU. It's just a costly political decision.
I think Greece deserves to be more than just the Mississippi of Europe.
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Long-term, would people really mind if their politicians speak English when participating at the 'federal' level? I can't imagine there would be such a large objection, and as a rule in my experience with Germans (the largest EU economy by a large margin, followed by the UK), they are proud English speakers, and English is a requirement for serious business or political participation. Germany and the UK would almost certainly be all right with federal English, and together account for 39% of the EU economy. The French (third-largest) have different feelings but I doubt that they would object to the simple fact of their leaders speaking English at the federal level. Just Germany, France, and UK, together account for 55% of the EU economy. Smaller countries would have more trouble adapting, but, really, how many leaders need to be involved at the 'federal' level? Local government can, of course, remain in its own language. I don't see why this isn't the correct solution long-term.
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By what right do you have to actively prevent (through threat of violence) someone from copying bits?
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> people who ran into you work on this open platform and liked it so much that they appropriated it for their own gains

ftfy
> So cheating others who lent you money out of their money is democracy.

well lending money doesn't guarantee you're going to get that money back. It's business and business is risky. I'm sure you believe in free market right? so that's free market in action for you, creditors didn't do their due diligence, nobody's going to cry for them.
There have been numerous wars in Europe over control of the continent. No thanks. No more wars.
There is some degree of hostility towards Greece in this thread (albeit mostly from 2 people, one of whom joined HN 30 minutes ago).

It seems appropriate to point out that it is public knowledge that the EU was/is irrationally hostile towards Greece during the Eurozone crisis.[0]

Now they have to play high stakes fiscal politics with a very clever bunch of largely unrestrained leftists. Frankly, they can't blame anyone else for this problem.

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11226828/Tim-Ge...
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Seriously. Populism in utterly corrupt Greece is not an example of functioning democracy.
all I can say is holy crap.

but wonder if this can translate into increased situational awareness or just more distractions
Odd. I don't see the same kinds of news - making it look like a Greek exit is imminent - elsewhere, like ft.com or wsj.com, who certainly cover this kind of thing.
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If for no other reason but to tighten their grip on their own national minorities. The Basques and Catalans would have a viable case for independence if they could be EU members and most Western nations are founded on the principle of self-determination. Should Spain continue on its present course of denying self-determination to the Basque Country and Catalonia, they will reject the basic values that the EU is founded upon.

I'm not necessarily saying this as an advocate of Basque or Catalan independence. That is a question for the Basque and Catalan people. But a modern, moral, Western country would at least allow a binding referendum, as the UK has done in Scotland and as Canada did in Quebec. If Catalonia has a referendum and they choose to stay part of Spain, that is their choice. But the Spanish government refuses to grant them that choice.
The "Nixon shock" was suspending dollar convertibility to gold that lead to the dissolution of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates. The Bretton Woods institutions that were put in place to support the system - the IMF and the World Bank, survived, albeit with new interpretations of their missions.
Many consider breaking promises to be wrong and contracts to be promises, and so consider breaching contracts to be immoral.

Many others also consider the long-term negative consequences of breaching contracts to be worse than short-term positive consequences. If they consider short-term thinking at the cost of the long-term to be immoral, they would consider breaching contracts to be immoral.

To you, breaching a contract might just be another IF-THEN which is implicitly or explicitly coded into the contract, but others consider it to have moral weight.
> write the software you want, not the software you think someone wants you to write

It's not always that easy =(
We are already printing a trillion Euros in the current round of QE / stimulation. Why not make that 500 Bn more and use that imaginary money to release the economies of Greece Spain and Portugal. With the carrot of debt freedom, almost all economic and structural reforms become possible.
If you need something free/opensource, there’s not many options. When you like it old-school, you can give Knuth’s companion to TeX MetaFont¹ a try.

Then there’s FontForge², which is by far the most evolved, feature-heavy project, but until recently had bad UX/UI and was a pain to install and run on OSX. It seems, that’s changed, though.

FontLab³ still is the type design “industry”’s de facto standard font editor, but development lags behind, and it’s quite expensive for a hobby project.

There are a few other proprietary offerings, notably the DTL FontMaster⁴ tool suite. But Glyphs⁵ seems to be going the winner, steadily taking over market share from FontLab.

If you like scripting your designs (esp. in Python) you should definitely try RoboFont⁶.

When you’re looking for volunteers/collaborators on your project, then do check in at Typophile⁷. For over a decade, it’s the principal outlet for all things type and type design: on the fora you’ll meet some very knowledgable experts always willing to help.

Since you mentioned punctuation, I suppose you’re familiar already with the _Shady Characters_⁸ project (and its companion book⁹). As for a detailed history, I can highly recommend Malcolm B. Parkes† authoritative monograph on the subject, too.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont
² http://fontforge.github.io
³ http://www.fontlab.com/font-editor/fontlab-studio
⁴ http://www.fontmaster.nl
⁵ http://www.glyphsapp.com
⁶ http://doc.robofont.com
⁷ http://typophile.com
⁸ http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk
⁹ Keith Houston, Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks. W. W. Norton, 2013.
† Malcolm B. Parkes, Pause and Effect: Punctuation in the West. University of California Press, 1993.
I have that as well, and agree that it's well worth a read.
I agree. Back when the financial crash happened and people were walking away from their mortgages, there was a lot of bloviating about those people's moral duty to pay their mortgages. There is no moral component to it at all. Only a financial one.
Depends on the country.
I recently had a case in France where a very well known magazine used one of my photos without permission; my lawyer advised that photo worth is judged by the reputation of the photographer.

If you're an amateur happy snapper, you'll get hardly anything.
If you're a world famous photographer, you'll get significant amounts.

In one regard, that seems fair - and in another - grossly unfair.
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Richard P. Gabriel critiqued this notion of "patterns should be abstracted and instantiated" in his 1996 book Patterns of Software [1].

To summarize as briefly as possible: abstraction has costs, too. Sometimes it's better to spell out the pattern.

As you probably know, the idea of patterns came from architecture, where "reusable abstraction" translates to "modular house" – which is not obviously better.

[1]: https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf
im sorry i cant help you, but the "experimental punctuation" got my attention. can you give out some more info about that?
The interesting thing with the Economist is that they alone seem to be able to do what they do. A weekly editorial summary of news and relevant stories that people pay for, which is read by business people. Is there a competing magazine? I am not aware of it.

Their content is unrivalled, although you really need to be aware of their biases. But I don't feel they try to hide them, rather the opposite.

However, with so few global sources of information, like The Economist, that do a good job, aren't we in danger of quite a narrow understanding of what is going on?

I think the Guardian Weekly is an interesting counterpoint, but it isn't avaiable on digital afaik. Are ther other weekly news magazines that reaches the Economists editorial quality?
"irrationally hostile"

Yes, very "irrational", after discovering that Greece had blatantly lied about pretty much everything relevant to the Eurozone.

Wars have been fought over a lot less.
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I've never worker for big companies, but I'm thinking about it as being an easily replaceable cog in a wheel and that scares me...

On the other hand, in small companies you have a significant role, everyone knows you, etc... There is another type of fear here - fear (feeling guilty) of leaving, disappointing people. You fear that if you leave the company will fail, or at least will have a huge loss...
if you want to update your profile with an email (or email me) I can summarize my thoughts on society privately - it would just be noise in this thread.
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It's going to be really interesting to see how far creditors are willing to go in order to get the money that Greece either (A) doesn't have or (B) is unwilling to pay.

I think (A) is more applicable in Greece's case. The Euro has favored export economies, such as Germany's, for the past decade. Greece needs a currency that will support its economy, which is much different than Germany's. The Euro's benefits of easier inter-Europe trade and increased European power in the global currency markets have been far outweighed by its inability to cater to the very different economies of the various EU nations.

It's important to look at who owns Greece's debt to see who is really pushing for repayment. [0] The EFSF owns 45% of the government's 315bn Euro debt. Amazingly, according to the EFSF's last financial statement in 2013: "As at [sic] 31 December 2013, the EFSF as an issuer has been assigned an AA rating by Standard & Poor's, an Aa1 rating by Moody's and an AA+ by Fitch Ratings and the highest possible short-term rating from all three major credit rating agencies — Standard and Poor's (A-1+); Moody's (P-1) and Fitch Ratings (F1+)." Germany, Italy, and France own the largest number of shares of the EFSF with Germany at 771k, France at 579k, and Italy at 509k. Most of the other countries own anywhere from 5k-100k shares. [1]

I just wonder if people are going to get greedy/desperate enough to pull a vulture bank maneuver and start seizing real assets - see the seizure of an Argentinian Naval Vessel by hedge fund Elliot Capital. [2] Now that would be a very messy affair.

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/greece-see...

[1] http://www.efsf.europa.eu/attachments/EFSF%20Financial%20Sta...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/world/americas/seizure-of-...
Irrelevant for the point that was made on cheaper transactions. If Microsoft had accepted the payment in any other way it'd have left them with less profits on that particular transaction.

It's relevant when talking about e.g. bitcoin as a store of value, but that topic wasn't raised. On that topic you could say that accepting bitcoin and buying a derivative to hedge, a bit like Bitreserve or Coinapult locks, would allow you to transact and store bitcoin, immune to bitcoin's volatility, yet cheaper than your average 3% Paypal, Stripe, Square or Creditcard transaction.

Beyond that, it's merely semantics.
Probably a matter of setting precedent vs. not setting precedent, etc.?
While calling the bursts FRB is certainly descriptive, I kind of miss the whimsy of names like LGM [0]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1919%2B21
I understand the independence movements but I don't understand why Scotland, or Catalan what independence only to become part of the even more un-representative EU.

I'm sure EU policy makers on the other hand love small regions becoming independent and wanting to join the EU as they're easier to push around.
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The quoted article is one point of view. As with all current events, only history will tell who is wrong or right.

Another viewpoint is: It is "public knowledge" that the same "bitter EU medicine" worked well for Ireland, Portugal and Spain. So from the "Pigs" countries - only the "g" refuses to take it. That is their right. But then don't blame/insult the doctor.
IMO one of the main reasons why US democracy is so dysfunctional is because they've centralized so much power in a single location, Congress. Because the people making the laws are so far removed from the people that the laws affect, transparency and accountability go out the window, the door is wide open to corruption, and even when they do try to fix problems, the one-size-fits-all approach makes for crappy solutions that don't take into account the nuances of different regions. I sure as hell don't want this for Europe.

To give a couple other examples - why is 'separation of concern' better than a 'god object' in programming? Why is democracy better than monarchy? Why is an ecosystem of smaller companies better than a monopoly? Because centralization is unmanageable (too many dependencies in one place), brittle (single point of failure), inefficient (lack of locality means solutions are sub-optimal) and (when humans are involved) creates perverse incentives.
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Would be interesting to know more about these people.
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In Germany, university admission is based on your final grades in school, which are an accumulation of your grades of the last two years.

Rich parents can of course help their kids be better in school, but there is no efficient exam prepping.
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Yes, Greece isn't blameless but

Let's not forget the Germany and France were the first to break the Euro's rules and the rule were changed so they weren't fined.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16761087
Don't use that in prod, because it doesn't work in IE and it will cause your js to stop working.

In IE the 'console' object doesn't even exist if the developer tools aren't displayed, so if you use "console.log" in your program, your js will just throw an NPE.

Note that if you try closing the Developer Tools, 'console' is still declared for this page and all descendant pages. To test 'console.log' you need to avoid opening the devtools and open a new tabs.
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We're not talking about creating the universe from scratch, here. We necessarily build near the top of a pyramid of architectures. In the browser, for example, we build on top of JavaScript and the DOM. In many situations, Unix can be seen as the underlying architecture.

Compared to those underlying architectures, most frameworks are ephemeral and indeed "bespoke." JavaScript, DOM, and Unix are specified in standards and have several implementations. They embody decades of shared solutions and conventions.

"It can't be" is a bold claim. "Massive quality advantage" as well. Which frameworks are you talking about exactly?

I think "circular" sort of gets at the point. A circle keeps going round.
I'm full of ambivalent feelings towards Syriza, on one hand they are (were) a nice breath of fresh air, a promise of some positive change, on the other: they turned out to be kinda arrogant, kinda short-sighted and pretty bad at diplomacy. Politics isn't about being right 100% of time (not that they were), it's about being effective, and in that they are lacking badly. Seems they entered this whole thing with this cocky approach of "now we'll show 'em, them dumb fucks!". They've got their wrists slapped for that and now complain again on how bad EU is treating them. Hard to get sympathy for that.

Good article on this from Foreign Affairs:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/143294/david-gordon-a...

Some quotes:

"Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek Finance Minister, for one, singled out Italy for having debt that was “unsustainable,” which served only to infuriate Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan"

"Within a day of winning the Greek election, he (Tsipras) called the Russian ambassador and protested the EU’s statement condemning Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists for an attack on civilians in a Mariupol market"

"But even then, Greece could have survived its mistakes were it not for one other fatal decision: to move forward with its electoral platform before renegotiating its debt, increasing government spending without the requisite funds and reversing or stalling key reforms (...) All these factors positioned Greece to buckle in its negotiations. It was simply hemorrhaging far too much money far too fast to hold its position."
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The nice thing about the public scrutiny of the F-35 program, is all this normally-classified capability information that's released out to the public to get them excited about the project. Such level of publicity of cutting edge weapon systems simply didn't exist a decade ago.
FontForge [1] is available in most Linux distro package repositories and is very powerful for creating and editing fonts. There are Private Use Areas (PUA) in Unicode [2] where you could create custom glyphs as needed.

[1] https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas
I think there are plenty of people in Ireland, Portugal and Spain who would argue that the 'bitter EU medicine' worked for them.

Spain has an unemployment rate of 23% for starters.

We should also take a look at Iceland, where going a different route to the EU medicine worked well for them.
Highly recommended related video by the same person (XboxAhoy / Stuart Brown):

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"Worked" is still very much arguable: unemployment high and resulting in emigration. Crisis very much not over in Spain.
that hasn't been the case since IE 9
Or maybe Greece condition is worse and the side-effects of that pill would kill it anyway, and Greek government suspects it and tries to try other alternatives first.
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As a Portuguese, it's far from accepted that it worked well for us.