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As somebody who's read a lot of MMM, I think your impression is mistaken. (At the very least, MMM hates commutes: he'd rather everyone live close to work and walk or bike everywhere.)

Everyone wants more, but more often doesn't lead to happiness due to hedonistic adaptation. His philosophy is not about being cheap: rather it is about carefully examining what really makes you happy and choosing to align your spending with that, which naturally leads most people choosing a more frugal path. (Also note: frugal != cheap)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/10/24/frugal-vs-cheap/
there are quite a lot of shellcode tutorials on the internet (or in bookstores)...

This shellcoder handbook is good...

http://www.amazon.com/Shellcoders-Handbook-Discovering-Explo...

And articles such as this one by steve hanna

http://www.vividmachines.com/shellcode/shellcode.html

and this one by Aleph One on phrack,

http://phrack.org/issues/49/14.html

(by the way, many articles on phrack are really good)

Some more recent versions of smashing the stack are,

http://www.mgraziano.info/docs/stsi2010.pdf

https://paulmakowski.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/smashing-the-s...

also check out the ezines by 29A -- although they are old, but you know, some good stuff are still really good today...

just do a little search...there are tons of articles out there on this topic...
When you use gutters sometimes the math doesn't work out quite right. http://codepen.io/anon/pen/xGEMYY
I hear a lot of talks about NDA's but I have never heard of one being enforced. Anyone else seen where an NDA was successfully enforced?
I really liked the compassion and care that MMM shows for his kid. In too many articles like this, it's clear that the author cares more that the child adopts the parent's ideology than that the child is actually happy. The goals and methods were moderate: earning one's own money (at an appropriate age), learning to control one's own life (I would add "to the extent possible") and not over or undervaluing wealth.

My only reservation was the artificial 10% interest rate. The current interest rate is 0%. Over the last 100 years interest rates averaged 5%. This is a concern to me because people on the Right tend to fetishize compound interest rates, while MMM seems to focus on true fundamentals.
"It's not the 80ies anymore."

It never was the eightyies.
Closest i've found was mighty quinn's. Alchemy, tx (somewhere in queens), blue smoke, and pride and joy. My bigger issue is finding a traditional NC type place that's up to par. Most of the NC style places are NC-ish plus either texas or KC or some such (hyrbid if you will). Good luck:)
Human Reaction Times and Fighting Games, or Why Blocking Isn’t Always Easy
I was going to share the best bbq in SF here, but decided not to. The really good stuff in cities, those who know about it, we keep it a secret.

Edit: what I meant by this comment was to emphasize a key distinction between country bbq and city bbq that was neglected by the article: country bbq is by definition distant from the large bbq-loving population. So there may be equally good city bbq joints, but there are a number of (individual) parties in whose interest it is to keep them secret.
I'm a decade in. I know what you mean about complex hierachies, but inheritence is a very, very dangerous tool; you either take the time to review the results, or you suffer the consequences. That's where the review by senior developers comes in. You learn or you don't. Who would want to work with devs who don't?
thank you so much for sharing your experience. I am about 6 years younger than you but followed pretty much the same path. I also ran Linux when the kernel was pre .2 etc (Redhat 1.0 was the first commercially linux product I remember.) I think I remember getting Redhat Linux on 10 floppy disks.

I was lucky enough to live in a geographic area where there were a few universities, and my father had access that allowed me accounts on several Unix workstations.

Again thanks for sharing this, this was a really nice read.
All these things may be solved by flexbox, but they were also all solved by tables 20 years ago.
The "Millionaire's Next Door" in that book were working in an environment different than the current, that's a fact. Now whether the current environment is "less honest and merit-based" (as I happen to believe), or not, it is certainly different.

Bubbles come and go, some are long, some are short, some are consequential, some are not. For example, real estate bubbles: these are most dangerous because it is usually the most substantial asset purchase an individual ever makes, and it is typically 90% leverage. If you fall ass-backwards into the right spot on the development curve, you can literally turn $50k (down payment) into a million++ dollars - if you guess wrong, you're bankrupt and you pray that you have a non-recourse loan.
Why did they use condoms?
10 Lessons for Foreign Entrepreneurs in Sillicon Valley by Tytus Cytowski
New research finds bias in elite professional services hiring
In fact, many Apple executives describe their strategy as "Last Mover" quite publicly. And I think that holds up to scrutiny. Remember the Rio? And I certainly recall pre-iPad tablets. And of course, as cited above, many, many Android "smart watches".
Do ou own one?
It depends on what skills you bring to the table. (Personally) I know I can execute and grow. But I can't for the life of me find an idea to get started with.

Also, if you already have an existing business (such as the OP), then you may be able to bring some cost savings (therefore more profit) than someone coming in cold.

Or if you already have an existing client base, adding another business to the mix means you may be able to sell to them
USBdriveby emulates a keyboard that types commands at inhuman speeds, and since keyboards are plug and play.. you can probably guess what happens next ;)
Actually the article is completely wrong.

If you make money "squarely" as described in I-IV, then you have created some value. Cashing out in section V is simply consuming that value.

All we can say (given the assumptions in I-IV) is that the person was a net positive (or zero) for the Congolese economy.

The technical mistake that the author makes is not realizing that adding value to the Congolese economy means increasing the total amount of physical wealth in the economy. When the person cashes out their yacht, they are simply exchanging cash for the physical wealth they helped create.

I don't think you can logically say that I-IV are "libertarian twaddle" and that V "brings it home", because V is predicated on I-IV being true. If you're interested in the theoretical basis behind "econ 101" I suggest you look into general equilibrium theory.
All the people I know who have received theirs already have actually described just this experience (essentially, 'I didn't think it would be useful, but within a day, I realized it was pretty amazing,' &c.).
Contract programmers.

I was one in 1989. So were many of my coworkers. Someone told me that Apple employed so many contractors so that it could inflate the ratio of revenue to employees.

Hiring more contractors doesn't make a company any more money but it does help inflate the stock price in a purely artificial way.
In theory the person running this protocol can just calibrate their settings until they are comfortably flying under the radar. You could make the "messages" less frequent which means someone trying to log the traffic will consume more bandwidth (increase the cost to log it) & tweak the algorithm to make it consume more CPU to decode/encode (making it difficult to "try" all the combinations of traffic to see if they happen to decode into something that matches a heuristic for a hidden message). Given a sufficiently large enough amount of "cover" bandwidth to hide in, and assuming your message is sufficient small, you'd be impossible to detect. Pretty brilliant.

Maybe the vibrations of our universe in "string theory" are some sort of message, too ;)
I run www.hearthstoneplayers.com

It's a profitable site (making enough profit the equivalent of a 2nd job), minimal upkeep - just managing/scheduling content/writers. If anyone is interested in taking it and scaling it or even automating it (it's about 2 years in and I don't mind letting it go and moving on to bigger stuff), I'm open to contact!
That cases raises an interesting precedent issue that I have not been able to find the answer to. Let's assume that the Supreme Court decides not to take the appeal, so the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that APIs are copyrightable stands.

What courts is this precedent for?

Generally, the way precedent works is that if appeals from court X go to court Y, then the decisions of court Y are precedent for court X. If court Z is not on the appeals path from X, then the decisions of court Z are not binding precedent for X.

For copyright cases, appeals normally do NOT go to the CAFC. They go the Courts of Appeal for the circuit in which the court appealed from resides. E.g., copyright cases from district courts in the 2nd Circuit go to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.

In general, that is the appeals path from the Federal district court. Copyright cases aren't specifically singled out.

Oracle vs. Google was tried in the 9th Circuit. If it has just been a copyright case, the appeal would have went to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. However, it was also a patent case, and patent cases are singled out. They are explicitly diverted from the normal appeals path and go to the CAFC. If the case is also some other kind of case, such as a copyright case or an antitrust case, the CAFC is allowed to hear those aspects too.

So does this mean that if P sues D in the 9th circuit over copyright, with no patent issues or any other issues that would bring the appeal to the CAFC, then the district court would only use the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for precedent (which I believe disagrees with CAFC), and ignore CAFC's Google vs. Oracle copyright ruling?

Even more confusing, suppose P sues D over copyright and patents in the 9th Circuit. The district court figures that the case, if appealed, will go to the CAFC, and so follows CAFC precedent for the copyright aspects. Now suppose after the court rules, neither party appeals the court's decisions on any of the patent issues. The only appeal copyright issues. Does the case still go to CAFC? Or does it go the 9th Circuit? If it goes to the 9th Circuit, do they apply their own copyright precedent or CAFC precedent?
Your fourth option, I think, is the most important one to understand here. Just about any business, assuming you have a competent employee or two, can kick along without your input for a while. But without you, the owner, actively putting in work? it's going to do worse this year than it did last year. It's gonna fade pretty fast. And yes, if you do need to ignore it for a while, selling it to someone who won't ignore it is a good option, too.

But it's just plain wrong to think that you can look at the current numbers and assume they will go forward without more input from the owner.

I would argue that the whole idea of 'passive income' when combined with the idea of a 'small business' is a little flawed, or really, a lot flawed. Owning a small business is not like owning stock in google. You are an active participant in the business. A small business owner is fundamentally different from someone who owns shares in a large corporation.

I kind of like using marxist terminology for it. We are bourgeois[1]. We are not full members of the capitalist class; we still need to combine our labor with that capital, or else it's all gonna go to shit pretty fast.

But the real takaway you need to understand is that owning a small business is not at all like owning stock in a large business. It's a completely different thing, and your return on investment capital should be very different (and in my opinion, much higher.)

[1]no, not necessarily in the 'poor taste in lawn furniture' sense. I don't even have a lawn.
The Author's allowed to do this. While the copyright assignment requires any commercial use to be licensed through the IEEE, any personal use, including putting it on a web page, is allowed.
Title/position affects it significantly. When my title went from software engineer and manager to independent consultant (and later, CEO) it went way down because they usually don't want to deal with corp to corp consultants/firms.

Of course, I do occasionally get people pitching me for software development and staffing services, even though my profile clearly shows I do both. You can't avoid the robots and grossly incompetent.
Event processing in Rails
> Why buy a legacy when you can do something better? I guarantee you that whatever SF has can be done better and cheaper.

> Why not get hungry sales people who are willing to take SF's customers away from them?

Isn't that what Microsoft's been trying to do for a decade with Microsoft Dynamics CRM?
if a business owner insists on a much higher multiple, that usually has more to do with how much he or she enjoys that job they are selling you than it has to do with the fundamentals of the company.
Haskell as a JavaScript MVC framework
> "income is not something that employers or the government ration out to you based on a rigged system",

He retired in his 30s and derives income from "a rental house or two". I'd suggest he's doing well out of this rigged system. I'd also suggest that saving $70 on coffee is utterly eclipsed by his equity gains on these two properties and that the rent derived from them would enable him to bathe in coffee daily.
I work in a small heterogeneous Linux/Windows SaaS environment where most coding is done in Java or Python. We don't use an MS toolchain because historically MS tools want you to use other MS tools almost exclusively.

But in terms of DevOps things MS as a whole could do that would make our life easier:

* Contribute to Vagrant, Packer, Saltstack and Ansible etc to help make Windows clients better first class citizens with those tools.

* Keep shrinking the disk and deployment (both time and space) footprints of Windows Server and SQL Server. And making sure they stay close to that original size after extensive patching without ballooning out.

* Somehow make licensing and activation etc less painful.

* Native SSH and rsync servers and clients shipped with Windows Servers for better interoperability. No need for a posix command shell, we'd be happy with executing Powershell over SSH - eg if remote Powershell had an SSH transport option as well as WinRM. And being able to forward ports over SSH too.

* Make high availability, robustness and security features common across SQL Server editions. We don't care about business intelligence, reporting etc etc but do want things like mirroring and compressed backups etc without paying through the nose for it.
The Iraqi Shiites and Kurdish Christian/shiites should be fighting Isis. Saddam (a Sunni himself) kept the Sunni radicals in check for decades. If the people of the region won't do it or even try why should you? It's like the u.s. never learns and keeps getting taken advantage of by people that don't even align with their beliefs.
The difference in energy density of bio-fuels and the most dense liquid fossil fuels can be none depending on which one you choose.

You know, ethanol is not the only bio-fuel.
We've been on the (Dave) Ramsey Plan for years and I find that many of these plans boil down to a simple thing:

Delayed gratification. Give up the "wants" for now to get a bigger benefit later.

It sucks not going out to eat or buying Starbucks as often as we used to. But we do it by choice so that the $5, $10, or $40 now stacks with the $5, $10, or $40 from next week and the following week and can be put to something more important later on.

As a result, we were able to wipe out all of our non-mortgage debt in about 2 years. We didn't have a ton by current standards (2 car payments, student loans, small cc balance), but killing all of that immediately reduced our stress and increased our options.
All imports are "cheap" whether labor, steel or iphones. Cheap is good, because if you can get something cheap it means you can get it with minimal resources.

The only reason to limit immigration is externalities. For example, Israel has very open immigration for Jews. It does not allow open immigration for African refugees because they believe it would have a negative impact on their society. For some strange reason, other nations are fearful of stating the same thing, but they clearly have something like this in mind when they limit immigration.

Cheap labor is a net positive. The only valid reason to oppose immigration (and I think it is very valid) is the negative social externalities that immigration causes.
Some of the Islamists had western education, they were from the UK or Denmark. There are reports of them asking their friends and supporters to send condoms.

Many of them have diseases and share victims.
Majority didn't use condoms given the reports from the refugee camps.
Here's a company that focuses on buying/selling apps specifically: http://www.appbusinessbrokers.com/
My quote is from the article, not the title.
Ok - downpayment on a house of 50k, 90% LTV. Must be 500K. Doubles in price to $1mm. Let's say it does this in 10 years. Wages haven't appreciated much. Where does that 500k come from? The next generation.

Zero sum game. Rampant inequality. Crashing social mobility.

As you say it's not merit based. How many people can save 500k in 10 years? Leveraged mortgage debt then becomes the only game in town. Game set and match the banks.
The line strangely reminds me of the rose-tinted view of Atlas Shrugged.
Why, specifically? ... I came to Netflix on a H-1B, and they have been awesome. But if there are specific concerns (eg, no grace period in case of termination? something else?) I'd be interested to know what they were.
I'm glad to see someone quantifying that "secret" questions are a basically useless security measure and inherently harmful.

Probably the worst example of these security questions is Tradeking. Normally, I just answer the security question with a random password stored in 1Password. Unfortunately, Tradeking has the genius practice of displaying your answers as a multiple choice—when 84209t920tq3g is offered as an option for a hometown, it's pretty obvious. Needless to say, this caused me to close my account immediately.
Using Webpack transparently with Django and hot reloading React components
Instead of Growl, consider Snarl. I found that it works as well, if not better, and is actively developed, where Growl seems to have stagnated. Growl also hijacks an important Emacs hotkey. Personally I'd like to see Snarl/Growl integrate with the new Notifications center in Windows 10. This way you could have applications written for Windows and other Operating Systems share a common notifications API that is exposed through native implementations on each OS.
Tax write off? He's too profitable, perhaps!
Sounds like more of the same. Exaggeration and propaganda from both sides to raise emotion and get people that have nothing to do with the fight to commit to kill. The people of the region don't even want to fight this battle.
Every civil court is backlogged with business misunderstandings / disagreements. People sue all the time for what may may not be legitimate reasons. All it takes is a simple majority of the jury for a victory. It's a highly subjective process whose most prized skill is the ability to sway a jury. More like coin toss, less like justice.

In business it's a bad idea to deceive business partners or to sign an agreement intending to ignore it. Your reputation will catch up with you, and don't be surprised when you get sued.
These salaries are hilariously low, at least for my company.
So use a tool like Autoprefixer or SAS and re-roll your CSS occassionaly as compatibility improves.
If that's what you believe that's the outcome you get.

Everyone gets the financial outcome they want.
A few years ago I would have been skeptical, but in the last year I started using Office 365, was accepted to BizSpark, and bought an inexpensive Windows 8.1 laptop that is surprisingly nice to use.

I think that Google Now is interesting, and sometimes useful, but Microsoft might be in a better place to extend Office 365 to act as a general life assistant agent.

All that said, I would rather have an open source kit that I could modify, but for a commercial solution I would rather pay Microsoft for a life agent rather than get something for free from Google because they would need to monetize on my personal data.
For installing, don't forget about Nuget. Use Chocolatey today and although I don't know what the Windows 10 system will be called, they've already announced an OS system based on that tech.
hadn't seen them before, looks pretty good. thanks a lot.
As jerf said - the embedded struct, while exposed to users of the external struct, still has no access to anything in the external struct. You can't override the methods it calls, etc. All the methods it calls will always be its own methods, never one from the external struct.

Inheritance implies is-a, and implies that you can modify some of the internal workings of the class you're inheriting from.

Embedding is strictly has-a. It's really no different than having a member variable in any other language... there's just some syntactic sugar to make it a little nicer to access the member's methods and fields (and the methods "count" for fulfilling interfaces).
Thanks for pointing it out. Will Correct it right away.
Funny to me it sounds like an argument for Basic Income.
I think that the requirement is that anyone who releases a program that was linked with my library must also release it in a form that allows it to be relinked without the library. I'm not sure how that applies to Rust's linkage model.
> The flexbox spec is the best resource for understanding flexbox.

Link to the Flexbox spec for anyone interested:

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/