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>I love the stack I built

Please do elaborate.

Also, what kind of work did you do when you were freelancing? And were you subcontracting or working directly with the end client?
Love and Merit
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I agree. Your post reminded me of the welcome post for a new blog started by First Look Media that was apparently created "...to tell the unofficial story, one that describes the reality of U.S. politics as accurately as we possibly can."

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/16/welcome-unoffi...
I'm not sure about the specific chemistry used in Teslas thing, but consumer grade Lithium Polymer cells are usually quoted as maintaining 80% of initial capacity after 1000 charge/discharge cycles (when using proper recharging gear - sub $10 Chinese toys often ignore charge requirements altogether and trash or set fire to lipos within a few dozen cycles). Which fit's quite well with observations of phone batteries becoming problematic after ~3 years of daily charging.
It really is just hilariously broken. I do not understand it.

Many people seem to hanker for re-nationalisation of the railways. I just want to see sensible business methods really.

If you price railway tickets reasonably you have a potential market of millions. Perhaps even 10M+. If you price them as toys for the rich, everyone drives cars. What is going on here? Bonkers.

I take budget coaches because they let me book at short notice, often at 1/5th the price or less.
In this case:

http://www.ij.org/long-island-forfeiture

Our new attorney general (Loretta Lynch) seized the money and just sat on it. Since there was no court case, it was a lot tougher to challenge.
Not all EU countries use ID cards, let alone ones with photos.
I find the comparison of location between Node.JS and PHP quite interesting. I wonder what it is about those locations and/or the languages themselves that makes them more popular in China or North America.
> and this is going to sound arrogant, but oh well -- you should consider the ethics of taking 5+ years

Not arrogant at all. But --- these students decided to pursue a Ph.D. when they applied to graduate school, i.e. before they met me. And if they approached me about writing a thesis, then they know full well that their thesis topic won't translate directly to industry. (Applied stats and optimization are outside my expertise.)

I most certainly don't want to be that asshole who tries to intimidate Ph.D. students into not leaving when they're unhappy, or into seeking academic jobs when they'd rather do something else.

But, I don't see it as my job to discourage students from following in my footsteps.
Hmm, since I'm new to freelancing I don't know if I have a good answer. Maybe try searching "$US_CITY Web Development" -- most agencies seem to focus their SEO efforts on searches in their city, so that seems to be a good way to surface lots of agency contacts. For you, it doesn't really matter which city since you'd be remote, so I guess I'd start with the biggest ones since they'll have the biggest budgets. From there you could just point to your oDesk profile as proof of your skills & reliability.

I think the biggest objection for remote freelance work is going to be the concern that you'll just disappear mid-project, so being able to show a long track record seems like a big point in your favor. Good luck!
True, but can't we at least try to address the likelihood of that being the case.

For instance, if we were living on a 9 Billion year old planet but we could only find fossils dating back to 2 Billion years ago, we'd surmise that it took life around 7B to get life started on this planet. Under those circumstances, your hypothesis would be stronger than it is under actual conditions (4.5B and 3.5B respectively).
MPAA Funds Pro-Copyright Scholars to Influence Politics
SOPA Lives on for the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition
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Too bad google suffers from a NIH syndrome.
I have been reading about ASP.NET 5 with much interest, but I'll probably engage with it more seriously in six months or so. It was still pretty flaky when I tried to get an OS X environment up and running last week.

It's also a bit confusing whether this "Kestrel" embedded server is production-grade (like Golang, or the embedded server options for Spring Boot in the Java world)... or whether it's meant for development only (https://www.nuget.org/packages/Kestrel).

It's amazing that CoreCLR is coming to multiple platforms within the next year or so... but what IS the production deployment story for Linux going to be, seriously? What is the development story for OS X? (VS Code looks interesting, but surely they're going to have to port the "real" Visual Studio, right?)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a naysayer! Since I've started exploring .NET, I've found C# to be an improved version of Java that I'd really like to work with. F# seems like a more coherent alternative to Scala. Documentation, availability of learning resources, and community friendliness are outstanding. Still, I'm not 100% convinced yet of the cross-platform reality living up to the extraordinary hype. It really is too soon to judge, but I'm definitely watching closely and believe that the next 6 to 12 months will be crucial.
> So obviously NSA is an option.

Indeed, my first Ph.D. student was very much a self-starter, wanted very much to work for the NSA, and landed an internship and then a full-time gig. He asked for rec letters from me, which I was very proud to write, but he basically did everything himself.

>It may be hard to get your first few students in, but once you place a few and get introduced to their bosses you'll have contacts and it'll be easier.

An interesting thought, thanks. That said, I will probably end up advising around 10-20 students over the course of my career (and that's if I'm lucky! Most around here advise fewer, our program is small).
Lower learning curve than both Swift and Objective-C

I would have to see some evidence of that. Neither Swift nor Objective C have a particularly scary learning curve.
I hate to be this way but I assume SF is like the show Silicon Valley. I've lived in LA and loved all the street performers. In fact, seeing so many of them has inspired me to take that leap into making my creativity public. Some people laugh at the performers but I envy them for having the guts to do what they do.
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Cursed are those that search in private browsing mode.
Hating others because of what they are or choose to believe is a waste of time if they are not harming you or others. People who find refuge in hate are small minded people. They are inefficient with their time and energy, they are far from rational.
I2C/TWI (Two Wire Interface) Tutorial – Part 1 [video]
This is an important point which I think many miss. I'm not remotely religious, and I see the errors in the so called truths of each religion. I used to consider people of faith to be either stupid or brainwashed, but then I watched The Day The Universe Changed[1], a beautifully written BBC documentary by James Burke from 1985. It's much easier to watch it[2] than me try to replicate everything said on there. But the essence is the point that dropit_sphere made, and that is both religion and science are trying to figure out the truth. But use different methods to acquire it.

The difference is that the scientific truth is always changing. The scientific truth today is different from the truth 300 years ago. And will be different again in 300 years time. So how true is that 'truth'? If the things we believe to be true today are untrue tomorrow, then how can people of science be so hostile to the 'truths' of religion? And what's the end-game? When will we finally know the truth?

People of faith get their absolute unchanging truths from their religion, not that the religions themselves are truth seeking in the same way as science.

Anyway, it's definitely worth a watch and very thought provoking. He also predicts the potential totalitarian use of the internet, along with the ideas of global communities sharing knowledge and ultimately each person's own truths.

I have since stopped being quite so brutal in my opinions about people of faith.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Universe_Changed

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QgNpYg0IOU
When I was freelancing I built entire django websites according to exact
specifications of the client. I worked directly with the client, and each time
made the client very happy, collected a reference, then bumped my rate by for
the next client. I made sure to really focus while working to give my client
the best value for money.

Our stack:

Jenkins & Gerrit for code review and automated unit-testing
Nginx, Django REST framework
* Set of classes I wrote that it makes it easy declare field-level
(and view-level, of course) permissions, e.g.:
fields = {
("majors", "minors"): [
IsUpdateOnly, IsOwner('user'), ],
("id", "user", "url", "relation", "branch", "organization"): [
Or(IsCreateOnly, IsReadOnly, IsOwner('user')), ],
("interval",): [
IsCreateOnly, ],
# Stuff that should be viewable if its public,
# or able to be created by the user:
("location", "position",): [
Or(
Is('user.is_public', True),
And(IsCreateOnly, IsOwner('user')),
), ],
}
Gulp
Node.js
server-rendered React.js / Angular.js (depending on product)
* A standard pattern to retrieve data from the server, like a poor cousin
of Facebook's graph API - child data elements don't
depend on their parent data elements.
I've been doing C# after years of Ruby, and every time I find myself needing or wanting to do 'duck typing', what falls out is an interface and then using generics.

After years of Ruby, this is so handy because you end up formalising 'on the side' the commonalities of your modelling.

I had no idea what generics were for, and I thought interfaces were mostly for over-abstraction but lo, I was wrong. They are very handy. They are typed duck typing!

Combine that with type inference, and you've limited all the ugly 'everything is typed' code, and what you get is code that looks a lot like Javascript.

And if you don't like, that, there's F#, that as an ex-Ruby guy, looks rather compelling, but with all the benefits of C# as well.

I didn't realise until I was out of the echo chamber that Ruby is only a small spot on the radar compared to the rest of the software world.
FWIW, whatever Iridium might be doing with "phoned home" data, it's spectacularly unlikely they're capable of getting anything like the datamining utility out of it that an assumed-currently-doing-evil-Google could do. Google Analytics across 60% of the web, Adwords, the other end of a large proportion of my email content even if I don't use gmail (because it's sitting there in my correspondents Google hosted mailboxes) - Iridium don't have any of that to correlate my browser's behaviour with.

And from a person assumed to have no privacy rights by the NSA (since I'm not an American citizen) there's some benefit of that phoned home data existing in a non US legal jurisdiction too... Even if you _don't_ assume Google is currently doing evil, we _do_ know they're subject to PRISM and NSLs...
Thanks. But could you recommend a "someone else" I might steer them to?

Our undergraduate CS and math majors are not strong (and the local job market even more so), and I suspect that our career services office has adapted accordingly.
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One thing I never understood -- and these articles don't appear to cover, is how laws enabling civil forfeiture were never struck down as unconstitutional in the first place. Isn't this an obvious disregard for the fourth amendment?
Collective bargaining for better wages and working conditions is part of what got us a step up from the world described in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. It took 30 years, but did you expect it to get fixed quickly and easily? Politics is a lifetime grudge match. The Capitalists you sell your labor to, ideally, want you to work for free with perfect efficiency 24/7/365. That's why they are replacing workers with robots.

Anyway, a professional organization will give you more far flung networking opportunities as well as intelligence on what's going on at other firms, which will increase your value as a worker, and presumably, your pay.
This is exactly my point, the browser doesn't make me choose comic sans and wingdings. I hold in my hands, the ability to not make a site look like garbage...by using less crazy css. Information is what is relavent, it's the designer's choice to make it look like poop. This is exactly the argument that it's your job as a developer/designer to apply good css. If you do some crazy positioning and lock down your text size so it looks great on a 27inch iMac, its not the browser's fault when it obeys your styles and renders like a turd on an Galaxy S1, 2, or 50 million.
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As I said, unfortunately I don't think that there's any local company which I know of and which I'd recommend to a talented student.

This place is very, very much not Silicon Valley.
There are significant benefits to using AWS or a similar service, even when handling traffics loads large enough to justify the investment in bare metal. For starters, you can scale your infrastructure up and down as needed.
I'm sure there are law enforcement officers that disagree that there are perverse incentives. So the reporter has to quote somebody, he can't just state it as fact.
COULD BE MUURDER
Robertson: http://www.hamishrobertson.com/about-me/

Teran: http://anditeran.com/about/

They both seem to be doing fine, but "from the deserts of West Texas" (Teran) doesn't seem like the tagline of a trust funder.

The thing I have observed about LA artists and "creatives" who are featured in the NYT is that they are well-connected, but not necessarily wealthy.

There tend to be repeats; i.e. one person's art will be reviewed one month, and then five months later there will be a spread with their garden, or an opinion piece on work/life balance that quotes them. I assume it's just laziness, or (to be generous) keeping it simple by looking into a NYT pooled rolodex for [LA] [artist] while under deadline.

Probably all it takes is a lucky encounter, or a well-timed press release, and you're "in the system". It seems like Teran has linked to a couple of articles about moving NYC->LA, and has a book coming out with Penguin in June, so there's your peg.
What happened when the Jew found he was an anti-Semite?
http://brothernathanaelfoundation.org/
> perhaps you could invite some companies for talks

That might be an interesting idea. Might go nowhere, but could be worth trying.
So, from an investor's POV: if you took money, you are committing to work on that startup full time. If you start something new without shutting down and discontinuing the old thing, I could see myself being annoyed at being kicked out of what is essentially a pivot, since you embody most of the value of the invested startup. They invested the money, you invest yourself.

However, I feel that it is unreasonable to expect ROI from the founder shutting down the company and taking a job (even if it is in the same space.
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On the other hand, if you can walk five minutes to the store, it's insanely easy to keep a tiny pantry full of fresh stuff. Especially if, like me, you're lucky enough to have a weekly farmer's market two blocks from your place.

But like you said, different people have different definitions of "convenience".
imo this just screams unintelligent person.

Ok, fine, you hate jews, whatever, that's your opinion.

But then you find out you're atleast partly jewish so you go whole hog into the jewish culture instead, and we're supposed to celebrate this?

how about thinking for yourself and not basing your thoughts and beliefs on who you think your ancestors were?
>If I got paid a Google salary, there's no way I couldn't afford to find an apartment in Santa Clara County.

Sure, an a google or facebook or linkedin salary, you can afford a place to live in the area, no question. But two or three grand a month, post tax? That's still a lot of money. I mean, it's not the choice I would make, but I can totally understand why someone would want to live in the office, even though they could instead spend a lot of money on rent.

There's a lot of reasons why you'd want to save that money; Just one reason: How many of us remember 1999? If this is anything like that, a lot of us will only have a few years in this industry, or we will have a few years in this industry, then spend half a decade doing jobs that pay dramatically less before the economy recovers to the point where we can work in this industry again. Salting away as much cash as you can while the hunting is easy is not a bad idea.
> So the reporter has to quote somebody, he can't just state it as fact.

Why not? Its economics 101 [1]. Incentives matter, and the existing rules create "perverse incentives."

Or are we talking about offending law enforcement and government agencies? Because fact and ego are two different things.

[1] http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/10_Principles_of_Economics
Kind of like Opera Unite (sadly defunct since Opera 12)?

http://www.operasoftware.com/press/releases/general/opera-un...
Every question you ask is going to be manifest in relationships between subsets of observable states of reality. Even if you ask a nonsensical question, it is possible to determine that the question is nonsense by observing the context of the question. There is nothing here that prevents science from working to answer the question.

If you have a question with no possible scientific answer, then it has no answer at all. You do not get better results by refusing to use the best tools.
LA is a vain, gridlocked, smoggy, disgusting city that cares only about what you look like and what car you drive. It lacks any intellectual curiosity. It not only loves money, but it loves shallowness. In it's absence of morality, it created Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Hugh Hefner, and Larry Flint. It values sequels, misogyny and mindless violence in its games, tv, and films. It seeks not to improve humankind, only deprave it.

Perhaps you are attracted to it because you are in tune with it.
Using GNTP for remote notifications? I wouldn't
I disagree vehemently.
I'll also mention that - in a completely unfair-to-you way - I just went and scanned through your comment history to see if I could quickly identify NSA shilling... Such is the nature of the discourse these days. Sorry. (Or, if you _are_ an NSA stooge, congratulation, you do a reasonable job of hiding it...)
How was this legal in the first place?
Err... what you said just reminded me of something, and I realized all the code I just showed you is really over-complicated and that Nim has much more straight forward options using `const`, like this:

static:
# define a compile-time list first
var names = newSeq[string]()

# add some values (at compile-time)
names.add("foo")
names.add("bar")

# define the compiler vars as run-time const
const runtimeNames = names

# define some run-time variables
var name1 = "foo"
var name2 = "blah"

# check runtime variables against const variable
if runtimeNames.contains(name1): echo "Has Foo!"
if runtimeNames.contains(name2): echo "Has Blah!"

Sorry about the rather winded (and bad example) replys :| But thanks for the conversation, it reminded me of this and now I have some cleaning up of my own code to get too. Cheers!
AAA did it in 2011: http://newsroom.aaa.com/2011/07/ev-charging-statio/

"Level 3 charging" here means DC fast charging: 125 amps at 500 volts (depending on the vehicle)
It seems you're interested in having an argument that is totally unrelated to TFA.
In my mind the issue is not absolute turnout but representative turnout. If only 1% of people voted but they were a good representation of the varied interests of the population, that would be just fine.

The problem today is that certain groups (poor, young, ethnic minorities) are less likely to vote and thus have less of a voice as a group. There are systematic changes that could be made to encourage more representative voting, such as easier voter registration practices and a national voting holiday. Australia even imposes a small fine for not voting, which surely would not sit well with many in America but would probably be a good thing for our republic.
Though I suppose if you take your position to its logical extreme, everyone who is Jewish should question their Judaism, since its dependent on who your ancestors (specifically your female ancestors) were.
As someone who made the ev switch just over a year ago, this is not as much of an issue as I'd thought it would be and that's with a leaf (and me commuting over 50 miles a day one way).
http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/01/irs-steals-107000-from-con...

The above article doesn't leave out the fact that this seizure was initiated two months after the policy change. Looks like the policy has only changed on paper.

It also doesn't fail to mention that the justification for the gag order was to prevent tipping off the suspect, but it has already been established that McLellan committed no crime, so its explicitly being used to keep this from the public's attention.

It's unfortunate that NYT is so bad at reporting the relevant facts.
Putting the code up on, say, GitHub would also help with stopping people from doing malicious things to the site, because people aren't always mean and villainous, they can be nice as well and help out. One of the benefits is people fixing your code for you!

If you're worried that somebody will do something malicious... what is there that one could maliciously do? As long as you don't have, for example, credit cards on there, not much to steal then.
Perhaps somebody is malicious enough to decide to take down your website for their perverse pleasure, in that case anybody can have their own, local copy of the library in case the internet-facing one goes down.

EDIT: What I meant and managed to completely fail to convey well in the first paragraph is that by obscuring the code, the vulnerabilities that you're afraid of people finding don't go away. And people can find them nonetheless. By opening the code, other people can fix vulnerabilities, etc. But keeping this paragraph in mind, to relate it to the others, seeing as how your library still exists, nobody seems to have bothered to try to destroy the library in the first place using their own means, so what difference will putting the source up make? :)

tl;dr: Security by obscurity? For shame. Put the source on GitHub! There's nothing to lose, and everything to gain. :)
You can pretty well see by grepping whether it's going to create a dangling reference or not. For example, in C++ codebases I'm most familiar with, anything that takes a const foo& isn't going to retain a reference, and for unfamiliar stuff that takes a const foo* or foo*, you can look at the outputs, which, if it's a P<Expr>, all you need is the institutional knowledge that Exprs don't have dangling references.

You don't need to debate with me the merits of replacing visual analysis with sound analysis. (If I have a negative opinion of Rust on the matter, it's that it's not good enough at that.) My beef here is with the way the blog article overstates the case, saying you just wouldn't do this sort of thing or this specific thing. You so would make temporary references deep into an AST while expanding derived implementations.
Some of them are simply crooks, using their positions for pre-planned theft:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-w...
I used to love perl but switched to python almost 10 years ago. It is beautful how perl code can be so terse - at the same time I was constantly having trouble to understand my own code 6 months after I wrote it.

IMHO Python has a better compromise between expressiveness and maintainability but of course it's a matter of personal taste.