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That still only goes so far, though. If you're building a product on top of a database that's licensed with the AGPL, like Mongo, you have to distribute those changes.* If you build your Intranet site on Mongo, though, you don't need to distribute those changes in a way that gets back to upstream.

* I think. And I don't know if this has withstood the sort of court scrutiny the GPL has.
Y'know what? Up until Jan last year I had never even touched a server to deploy an app, much less set up a CI/CD/DevOps environment.

Now, I'm comfortable with TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Azure (a ton of hosted services), PowerShell, and a host of other tools.

I've set up bunch of HipChat integrations so we know exactly where in our pipleline a particular build is (code pushed, dev build/deploy, and promotions to various environments), if there was a problem with a unit test run, if there were problems with integration tests, and if there are problems in dev/staging/production with our actual live running code via HipChat integrations with our structured log processing server.

There are good tools out there and they're pretty usable - just maybe not at your price-point of free for your environment. I went from 0 to 1-click whole-environment deployments in just over a year.
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The Rising Cost of Not Going to College: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/02/11/the-rising-cost-of...

TL;DR: people without a college education earn less, on average. Yes, in the software development/startup industry that is not necessarily the case, but in society in general it absolutely is. So unless your son is 100% guaranteed to go into programming (and please, please don't force him to) a college fund might still be a wise choice.
Not only is he certain that his son will be a programmer, he is also certain that the labor market for programmers will be exactly the same in 15-20 years as it is right now.
> my only qualm with it currently is it's reliance of X11 for ports to work- I don't like install X11 libs on my servers wherever I can avoid it. :\

Can you give a reference to this? I'm not doubting you, as I always install x11 anyway, I just didn't know this was still the case. I remember an issue with a lib in xbase.tgz a few years back that was required by lots of ports, but I thought they moved it to base.tgz.

Thanks!
Two things pop to mind:
1. The cost is ridiculous in the US. A top state-funded school will cost nearly $120,000 over four years (tuition, fees, room, board).
2. Our tax code has incentives for college savings plans.
How else is one supposed to react to this other than with cynicism? This is the nature of going on the Internet, you will be tracked whether you like it or not. No one is anonymous. The Internet, while being one of the greatest inventions by mankind, has succumbed like all the others to the maladies of greed. Unless some billionaire Elon Musk-esque figure funds a private service to actually not, really, no-for-real track you, it won't happen. Personal incentives motivate people, and until this hypothetical billionaire sees an incentive other than profit, it's not happening.
"but I do feel that it would be a difficult strategy to pull off, as citizens can vote at any time, from any place"

The coercion could and would take the effect of requiring you to vote while the coercier was watching you. If you voted before then, you'd suffer the consequences.

This is an absolute bar to on-line voting as far as I'm concerned; in the US it would likely spark the hot civil war we're sliding towards.
We have it in Canada too through Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs).
I live in Quebec and basically every dollar invested in an RESP could be increased by 30% to 60% b/c of government grants. We can receive up to $7,200 from the Canada Education Savings Grant (CESG), up to $3,600 from the Quebec Education Savings Incentive (QESI), and up to $2,000 from the Canada Learning Bond (CLB).
Altogether, it's about a $12,800 increase, which is quite nice.
There's no reason to have a "separate" investment for this. In particular, if you use certain special types of accounts (like 529s) you may have to pay penalties if you don't use it for education.
One could argue that the they can get the GPL project, build over it too and distribute it.

Not much a comparison to proprietary software.
Ghostery has addressed this elsewhere:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1c4wjz/we_are_the_ghos...

>Ghostery is supported by Ghostrank, our 100% opt-in feature that collects information about the trackers you see and the sites on which you see them. Our parent company, Evidon, packages that information and sells it back to sites who use it for privacy, performance, and security audits; and also ad tech companies who use it for competitive intelligence about each other.

>That information is totally anonymous - it's all intelligence about the tracking industry, none about our users. And Ghostery works exactly the same whether you choose to share that with us or not.
I hoped for actual fiction, like "The Laundry Archives" (where computation can summon demons), "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" (about raising children AI), "The Last Question" (short story from Asimov) or "The Nine Billion Names of God" (about monks buying a computer for religious purposes).

All of the above are highly recommended, by the way.
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It's also a little misleading because trees do get planted without human intervention.
Or maybe he wants to become a software engineer but wants to work for a big established company that requires a college degree (like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, etc...).
Hey, thank you for the thorough response.

Sorry, I was just trying to send the message of "perhaps we should take these recommendations with a grain of salt". But we should be doing that with everything, don't we? All in all, any of your book recommendations that I can reasonably evaluate for having read the book myself, they all seem quite good.

Mind you, I'm a complete stranger commenting on your free job without a lot of care :) and written words lose the tone easily. Perhaps it's me, but I read your justifications and I'm afraid my comment might have struck you the wrong chord. I didn't mean to bother you, and I'm sorry if that's the case.

I hope I don't miss the subsequent posts of the list.
(I grew up in the UK, now settled in the US)

The cost of university education in the US is pretty insane, compared to the UK. A college fund from your parents might not even pay for college - just reduce your loans to a level comparable to education in the UK.
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To me the key question is whether these checks are anonymous. If not -- if Firefox or a plug-in is sending a unique ID, than any advertiser or government agency could pay for that tracking information and then your privacy would be toast, at least until you can reset that ID.
According to the article this phone home feature activates even when you uncheck all the share options.
China has an authoritarian government that produces pollution that threatens the entire world, uses the great firewall to attack tech companies in other countries, ignores human rights and free speech, and supports dictators in Russia and Africa. If China gets anymore powerful, the world is doomed. We need to curb commerce with China.
I believe that this is due to a theorem of Archimedes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sphere_and_Cylinder
Interesting. Can you offer any details on which production Google apps were presented?
Probably because Apple doesn't care to get its stuff on Android, whereas all those other companies do.

Apple probably wants Android to be the way it is–owned by Google. If Google is forced to open up, then they might too.
Exactly.

I see posts like this and I recall how many of my STEM friends hated the concept of liberal arts classes, decrying them as useless and unnecessary to their degree, where I think the liberal arts are essential to being a meaningful adult. It's also important for good government and being a good citizen:

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9112.html

> Anxiously focused on national economic growth, we increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable and empathetic citizens. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world.
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This is called bribing the students. Many terrible professors do it and it works extremely well.
If I'm not mistaken, "racing drones" are pushing above 100km/hr
No, but not because of the reaction time. Unfortunately jet engines are much less efficient at low speeds like this. They work best when accelerating a large volume of air a little bit, and that means they work poorly in the hover configuration required for an octocopter. Wiki link for the math: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propulsive_efficiency#Jet_engin...

Larger, slower props are required for maximum efficiency in a hover. The pressure above the prop is never more than one atmosphere, so "suction" is limited unlike when the airplane is flying at a high speed and air is continually forced into the inlet nozzles.

The 800N thrust of those engines is measured at cruising speed, when the only opposing force is drag and the intake and exhaust velocities are very similar. It produces much less thrust starting from zero velocity on the runway, when the opposing force is the inertia of the aircraft.

Jet airplanes, RC electric ducted fans, and jet ski watercraft have similar thrust-vs-velocity response, and are better for their intended purpose as a result - but that doesn't help for octocopters. However, tugboats use a ducted fan for the opposite effect. I am investigating the use of accelerating-configuration ducted fans or "Kort Nozzles" for octocopters.

And yes, the insane reaction time of miniature brushless electric motors is largely what allows these craft to function; you would want variable-pitch props or vectored thrust to make a turbine or internal-combustion craft work well, but that's not the reason they aren't used.
Not just the Network Programming guide, all of beej's guides are pretty awesome -- Specific purpose and very readable (even for non-native english speakers).

http://beej.us/guide/
It is also possible that the people who designed this genuinely believe that they are doing good. A thought process like this "imagine our country with super nice citizens - citizens who are respectful to elders, don't read bad stuff, don't do bad stuff, are polite, have good credit score etc etc. our country could be a model country for others, we'll truly create a society where everyone is nice to everyone else" or something along those lines. They probably thought it is for the greater good. Just one scenario.
The US offers some tax advantaged accounts/bonds for education expenses. 529 Plans, for instance, aren't tax deferred, but the earnings aren't taxed if used for college. And a number of people can contribute besides just the parents.

I'm curious, what's the cost of college in the UK? In many states in the US it's become outrageous, and that's not even considering private universities. That might be a motivation here to establish college funds.
I was working on a voluntary, p2p version of this: https://github.com/neyer/respect
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Gamify is the perfect word, thanks.

I'm curious about what kind of game people will play once given that score.
Then you can justify any vexation to passengers with this logic. If I am forcing all passengers to strip naked, and for 20 years I do not catch any terrorist like that, it means I am doing a good job!
It depends on what you're after, but in some respects I think Dragonfly and NetBSD are bleeding edge in their own ways (filesystem, VM subsystem, networking)
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As we've seen with GPL'd code, many companies are happy to skirt the license restrictions if they feel that they can get away with it. How much money and effort would then need to be expended to enforcement of said new license for OpenBSD? How many companies would do a cost/benefit analysis of the likelihood of OpenBSD lawyers suing them, and even then ignore the license if they thought that it would be less expensive to risk a lawsuit?

"Change the license" isn't a silver bullet. Companies aren't machines that are fed licenses that they then obey like punch cards into an old IBM machine.
Try Docker instead. I can build Docker containers that provide our devs with a full blown dev environment that mimics production, which anyone on the team can then pull down with a simple "docker pull <registry>/<container name>:latest" command.
The problem is that this trade-off isn't properly explained or qualified in the original posts.

Do you think I'm doing the uninformed public a favor if I go around yelling:

"Vaccines frequently cause fever, pain around the injection site, and muscle aches. In rare cases, much more severe side effects can result from vaccination."?

Hey, just keeping the layman informed.
A few years ago while on vacation with my extended family, all my brothers and I decided it would be fun to drop dime size chunks of dry ice into a water bottle with a few inches of water in them and then throw them into the pool. We did this and given a few minutes they would explode, harmlessly - not much more than a fire cracker.

Then we had the bright idea of tying a 5lb weight to the water bottle and let it sink. This was a bad idea on our part. When it exploded, it sent a shock wave through the ground. It was pretty intense make us brothers kinda freak out. People rushed from inside the house and asked what explosion was. We were afraid we had cracked the pool, the concussion wave was so strong. Luckily, we hadn't for my brother's sake. It just makes me think twice before containing dry ice.
Of course we haven't. In many cases, DevOps == have developers push code to production platforms.

IMO, there's been a lack of attention to the engineering side of the platforms themselves. In the places that I've seen that yammer on about devops, I see a lot of agile projects where version 1.0 works great, but the ongoing maintenance of the platform (whatever it is) is a complete nightmare.
Where's the tax incentive in that?

You don't get taxed at the federal... or possibly state level... in what you put away in 529 plans.
I don't doubt that this is true in general and is sufficient to destroy any attempt to have students control professor selection, but I'm hesitant to take too much away from this. The best professor in my school's math department was also the most beloved; he was routinely showered with praise by students, and his students were also very successful in later classes. And his classes were not at all easy.

I guess we can rank teachers in three tiers:

(1) The lowest tier, consisting of teachers both loved and despised who either way fail to prepare students for future classes.

(2) Abhorred teachers who do succeed in preparing students for future coursework.

(3) The highest tier, consisting of beloved teachers who do succeed in preparing students for future coursework.

It's very hard to get into the third tier, because it requires remarkable finesse to make students feel good about having to work extremely hard and possibly still not getting a good grade.
It pays amazing for a part time gig, but it's really hard to scrape together anywhere near 40 hours a week doing it.
What exactly is the problem here? If you care about security, use the TBB, each session is still unique because private browsing. If you really care and use tails or whonix, this still won't de-anonymize you. If you aren't doing that, any website you visit gets your ip.

I'm trying to figure out what attack model you'd have a reasonable basis to think you were protected against, except for the fact that these plugins "phone" home. If you're using a setup in which that matters, you've already lost.
I would like to write my geek code. Is there a nice Q&A-tool for that?
I'm using it in bash scripts - it's a very good tool.
Four years ago, I fell in love with the idea of not needing to go to college. It's a meritocracy, they said. If I work hard, spend time learning on my own time and get experience then a degree won't matter at all. It's just a piece of paper, after all. And so I didn't accept the place I had at a decent (UK) university.

Four years later, I'm doing ok. I recently left my job to start a startup. And I was right, I didn't need to go. But honestly, I really wish I had. I'd like to move to the US to work, but without a degree that's very hard. There are a number of jobs I'm interested in that haven't "caught up with the times" and still require a degree. Maybe they'll change with time, but maybe not.

I was in Silicon Valley a year or so ago and was invited to a dinner at YC, with other attendees of Startup School. The second question almost everyone asked me, after "what are you working on?", was "which school did you go to?". And that was at YC. College isn't obsolete, no matter how much we wish it was. Not even close.
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irc://irc.freenode.org/#hn has a bot that copies the title and url of each HackerNews news almost as soon as they are published.

Sources at: https://gitlab.com/com-informatimago/com-informatimago/tree/master/small-cl-pgms/botihn
A funny thing about college is that the absolute value of a degree keeps dropping, but the relative gap between "has degree" and "lacks degree" keeps growing.

It's analogous to monetary inflation: give almost everybody a bunch of new money and you don't make them much richer -- the currency just buys less than it used to. But people who don't get any of the new money end up significantly worse off.

There is a fundamental tension between egalitarianism and elitism when it comes to college. Fifty years ago, any college degree was a signal of elite status. Today, only the most exclusive colleges still provide that signal, which is why the pressure around them is greater than ever.

I agree with the author's basic premise that college-as-we-know-it won't continue, because the economics don't line up. But it will be the large middle-tier of colleges that die or change. The high end is still going strong because it still signals elitism. And the low end -- the community colleges -- still provides reasonable value for the money.
It is a perfect example of how much genuine humor can arise tangentially to the game. The author's argument is that CAH is not truly funny or that the players are not truly funny because it's just slapping a few naughty words together. The video serves to demonstrate that CAH can provide a solid foundation for spontaneous humor, professional status notwithstanding.
The EU is not North Korea.

A fork would make sense if the EU puts enough man-power into the project and they don't agree with the current leadership.
For a similar tool written in javascript, check out json (https://github.com/trentm/json). I use both.
Most Americans do criticize the government, but only on a few party-aligned talking points. Few agree on what is worthy of criticism, and many miss the important issues because they are preoccupied by relatively inconsequential hot button issues.
> As I said four years ago, I probably won’t interview someone who doesn’t have a LinkedIn profile and a GitHub account with some activity

This guy is nuts. A good number of our best recruits didn't have either.
Why is $20 "slightly expensive" for this book? Or was it not $20 when you bought it?
Splunk is a log management first and foremost. It has an indexer system to index your logs of course.

Disclaimer: I work at splunk.
Wouldn't 529s be a very good reason to have a separate investment? Tax breaks, potential matching grants from states, etc.
This happened when Apple adopted pf they added a few enhancements of their own but wrapped them in Apple's license so pf maintainers could not add the changes back into upstream pf.
Author here. I studied Electrical Engineering for free at the University of Buenos Aires. Moved to the US in the 90s, got my masters degree, moved to Silicon Valley, did great. My parents both studied medicine in Argentina for free as well. My son will know that it's possible to get a world-class college education in other countries without spending a small fortune. Have you considered that? If not, I could say you're the short-sighted one.
Even if there's no unique ID, if you've installed a lot of plugins this combination can uniquely identify you. If you query addon updates daily, they could associate your IP of the day with your "I have installed these addons"-fingerprint.

A debian style update mechanism could solve this, but this would be really bandwidth expensive.
The logic in this article is near-insane.

"In the absence of linkedin and github, we chose candidates based on colleges...now that we have those, I judge based on that."

Does this imply that because they're a stronger signal for performance at a company (debatable) that they're a good stand in for education?
"Geek" nowadays means "has a Captain America Shield iPhone otterbox".
While jarring when I first used PowerShell, once I realized what it was doing, I immediately understood it as a powerful concept. It allows shell pipeline processing to work in much the same way you can filter lists of hashes/dicts/arrays in more traditional scripting languages. I haven't used it much, and not at all in the last few years as I'm not often on Windows boxes, but I've always remained impressed.
For iteration speed in-IDE linting/checking makes sense I think.
I don't remember the last time I wrote a cover letter..
> Dorms/Apartments, food, cars, books are all very expensive on their own.

And how many of these are necessary? If you live in a metro area with a University, you don't need an additional dorm/apartment expense. Cars? Again, if you live in a metro area big enough to have a University, odds are there's public transportation. If you relocate to a dorm, you don't need a car period.

I'm curious about the cost of books. I'm currently a University student - the cost of my books is about $400-800 CAD per semester, depending on the exact courses. All in, tuition plus books is around $7000-8000 per year (assuming 5 courses per semester). Not cheap, but compared to rent ($18000 per year, although I'm married so we have a decent enough place) and the overall cost of living, it's not so bad.

And I know most Canadians have a college fund too (I didn't however). The worrying part is that costs are rising in large part because college funds exist and credit for education is easy to acquire.
My son's engineering textbooks can cost $200-$500 apiece
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> So unless your son is 100% guaranteed to go into programming

And let's keep in mind that today's cultural norms in software dev probably won't be the same in the future. Maybe earnings will be much lower, or they'll stay high but companies will be more selective.
I think the argument is that Apple's software isn't available to anyone so it only effects Apple's phones.

On the other hand by giving Android away from free Google pushed all other mobile OSes out of the market. Why develop your own for hundreds of millions of $ when Google has one you can use, developed faster than you can, with more features and apps.

Basically, Google dumped their product at a price point no one else could compete with and strangled out Palm, WinMo, Symbian, etc. taking over the non-Apple smartphone OS market. (ignoring mismanagement that may/did happen at those companies).
That's true, so one should investigate what type of long-term investment fund will give the best options, but the point remains:

Start investing now.