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> a stumbling blindness that makes real disaster more likely

I think as long as there is a party at the table with an interest at stability and that still has deep pockets (Germany) the chance of a crisis is close to 0%. The Greeks right now have little incentive to make real "hard choices" because they know at the 11th hour, no matter how much Germany protests, there is still an almost unlimited supply of money available to bail them out and give them a bridge loan for yet another year.

I will be much more worried in some future year if/when Germany lands in a deep recession, THAT is the time when disaster can happen. THAT is when this state of affairs will stop being sustainable.
If Greece were the only one they just might do that but Greece is just the first of several EU countries in similar predicaments. After them you have countries like Spain and Italy. Same problems with bigger numbers. What you do for one the others will expect as well. This isn't about Greece it's about whom ever comes next.
I've always wondered about a debate about limiting the size of businesses. Only state-owned enterprises building or running base infrastructure could be over x,000 employees. What would that world look like?
Nonexistent if you don't have friends with Macs.

You can do most of the development using platform-agnostic, err, mobile development platforms (Ionic, Cordova, etc) and then test in a non-iOS emulator, but for everything else (publishing, emulator testing, device testing) you'll need a Mac.
Or video captures ;)
>Around 1 million families survive today on the meagre pension of a grandfather or a grandmother as the rest of the family members are unemployed in a country where only 9% of the unemployed receive any unemployment benefit.

This is simply terrifying
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Well they are sold everywhere around the world, not just in Europe. They are quite popular in Asia, for example.
Hardly "randomly", although yes it doesn't follow the principle of least surprise.
Yes. Apple rarely plays anyone else's game. Bowing to Icahn was a mis-step, IMO.
That article is terrible. It doesn't even specify what routers were affected. Even the article it links to doesn't besides saying that D-Link's router reviews on Amazon show they are at fault.

This is why I only use routers that support OpenWrt.
Agreed - Slack is awesome for small teams that need to communicate frequently, but it's definitely not ideal for larger "societies" (as you define them).

I've been invited to a bunch of Slack groups recently, from post-conference groups to ongoing groups around a specific topic (SaaS startups) and every single one of them is a ghost town now, often within a matter of days.

It seems few people have the bandwidth to actively participate in these "societies." I much prefer traditional forum-style software for this purpose, leaving Slack (and real-time communication methods in general) for team-based communication.
It's silly, but I don't think they're lying for attention, more likely deluded.
You write as if Greece has made no real "hard choices".

FTFA:

The public sector’s structural deficit turned into a surplus on
the back of a ‘world record beating’ 20% adjustment

Wages fell by 37%

Pensions were reduced by up to 48%

State employment diminished by 30%

Consumer spending was curtailed by 33%

Even the nation’s chronic current account deficit dropped by 16%.

The whole point of Varoufakis publishing this on his own blog is because the creditors and the media assume that feckless Greece has done nothing but soak up repeated bailouts.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The truth is that Greece took the medicine that the creditors prescribed, and it made the patient sicker.

They shrunk the economy more than any other nation in peacetime. That makes it even harder to pay back the impossible sums owed.
he's publishing material that the institutions sought to obscure and spin

Interesting. Instead of "the institutions", here in the USA we used to say "the Man"[1]. As in "the Man is keeping me down". Sadly, that phrase is from the '60s and appears to have fallen out of the vernacular.

The problem is that in his blog we're only seeing Varoufakis own spin on the situation. What is he himself obscuring? It's hard for us who are looking in from a distance to keep up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man
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Check out his lecture on depression as well. It is on YouTube.
Perhaps the reason everyone thinks there is a shortage of developers, is that 'to iOS dev in a week' is somehow an acceptable metric to determine if someone is a good hire or not.

I can not fathom the mindset that goes into the line of thought "yeah he's clearly a great developer - sadly he is currently working from framework X and we would need him to work from framework Y". I can only hope that such an attitude leaves a company more likely to go out of business (and I suspect it does).

A strong engineer with a proven track record building enterprise-level applications is not going to become a shit-hot iOS developer in a week. However he will be just as likely to bring in 10x his salary in value to your company in his first year, as nearly anyone else you hire. But most hiring managers will probably not bother to promote such an applicant to even a phone screen, since it would take too much time out of everyone's daily 'where are all the iOS devs' bitch session on HN or proggit or whatever.
And that would, as in the case of the banks, create all kinds of moral hazard issues. Being a Greek, I could potentially feel relieved by an outcome such as the one you describe. Nevertheless, any such solution would be just a painkiller that fails to address the source of the pain. The Eurozone is fundamentally broken so, even if it is painful, I think exiting the Eurozone is the most appropriate action at this stage. How we can work together in Europe to make sure this does not mean we default to our obligations towards other European people is the question. And of course this should be based on an assessment of the debts we took to support indigenous corruption and consumption (which we should be paying) versus the debt of the last five years which has accumulated just to support imported incompetence (as proven by the outcomes) and mostly served as a concealed European banks bail out.
> What's usually called gamification is when you create a ticker/counter/award and convince a person to pursue that as a goal even though it has no other real-world importance.

I'm not sure this is right - there are plenty of examples where gamification is being used for real-life tasks. Things like recycling, exercising, dieting, shopping, etc. Look at how many todo list apps give you points for completing tasks.
It seems a bit odd to spend that much time animating individual electrons flying about. From QM we know that such classical models completely and utterly fail to reproduce almost all important bonding behavior (certainly anything covalent). Don't get me wrong, the schematic bonding formalism employed by chemists is very useful and students need to learn it even before they learn the QM behind it, but showing electrons flying around a ppt slide departs from the schematic formalism towards a conceptual destination which is plausible but incorrect and lies in the exact opposite direction from our current best model of physical reality.

Of course, the instructor may have been ridiculing the model or using it as a bookkeeping mechanism for a more advanced class, but if this slide was made for an intro chem course it sounds like a complete pedagogical mess. A textbook example (hopefully not literally) of doing something only because you can and making things worse in the process :(
I'm a baby boomer, and a few years ago had to buy a new car. I was shopping for one of those entry level cars, and the marketing was millennial-oriented to the point of being comical. I literally ordered the cheapest model in the line, with zero options. As I signed the check, I asked the salesman: So, the marketing for these cars is all hip hop and millennial, but who is actually buying these things?

His answer: "Middle aged cheapskates like you."
Given that hundreds of millions of people live in cities like London, New York, Tokyo etc that are completely covered with thousands of mobile phone towers and thousands more Wi-Fi networks -- not to mention radio controlled cars, baby monitors and all the other things that use the same frequencies as Wi-Fi -- EHS is remarkably rare.

Really, Starbucks baristas should be dropping like flies.

However, the reality is that Wi-Fi sickness or EHS is not caused by Wi-Fi, it is caused by stories about Wi-Fi. It is a Mass psychogenic illness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness

It's like a placebo effect, where fake pills can actually cure sick people (if they believe that they will). However, because it's the opposite effect to a placebo, it's called a nocebo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo

People really do get sick, even though there is no biological reason for them to get sick.

Fortunately, most EHS victims just get the symptoms that are common to all mass psychogenic illnesses, regardless of the imagined cause: headaches (67%), dizziness or light-headedness (46%), nausea (41%) and so on. However. some nocebo's can be fatal, eg witch-doctors.

Journalist training should really include information about nocebos because writing or broadcasting about psychogenic illnesses can cause psychogenic illnesses.

As it is, however, almost all today's EHS sickness is most likely caused by the people who are campaigning about EHS.
Once they were a success, investors did come soliciting. They didn't need it, as they had sufficient cashflow.

If Notch had solicited VC before he was a hit, the VCs probably would have just laughed him out of their office.
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Looks like Google's Street View car ran through this area. I'd wonder what their Wi-fi log looked like around there...
Back button fixed on web only, mobile unfortunately has to be this way at least for now. Its technically single page app, so I'm just manipulating hash URL value, that is why back button is not trivial. Good point on the image, I will add it to my todo list.
Didn't trick me - they're selling headphones to image-conscious teenagers for $100+ a pop. Hard for me to believe they would actually compete on product quality as opposed to promotion, when a sucker is born every minute.
I'm in the upmarket track with Trek bikes right now. I bought my first entry bike for $450. So far I've gotten several thousand miles out of it and it's gone so well that I'll probably just stick with them for the rest of my life.
> Sounds like a good way to get sued by your investors.
You can try and anticipate it and you can model the risk and try to mitigate downside risk. You cannot "plan" for it though - it's a factor outside of your direct control. It's not a target you can hit or not hit, you just are prepared and lucky either way.

> Turns out that a Rails App + someone calling themselves a "Serial Startup CEO" on LinkedIn don't necessarily equate to a business.

Rails, like any other tool/framework, works perfectly well for certain kinds of problems. I would say this is very true for the kinds of businesses that most "serial startup CEOs" are solving. Twitter gave Rails a bad reputation because Twitter's problem was exceptionally bad for Rails at Twitter's scale. In most other cases it's just poor engineering discipline, whether it's in choice of tool or how it is used. It turns out that ActiveRecord isn't really a great tool for dealing with 450M+ write transactions per day. Wasn't designed to be.

Rails is powerful and ubiquitous for very good reasons. The tools that often get the most hate end up quietly doing their jobs or, worse, growing up and becoming better and everywhere. JavaScript, PHP, Lisp, C, Java? And that's just a few programming langauges...There's a holy war over Text Editors that aren't ever going away.

It's not a "web 2.0 startup" specific problem we're talking about. Rapid growth is notoriously one of _the most common_ reasons that companies fail (regardless of if that failure puts them out of business or not).
Nobody down here in Australia: a frigging 3-series costs about $100k AUD.
The only reason why Node is taken seriously is the fact that beginners only have to learn one language and switching languages initially can be a deal breaker for many.

I have personally taught programming to a few people, and most people are really motivated if they get to see a usable web app rather then a terminal program, and for a web app NodeJS + Browser is far easier to teach then PHP,Rails,.. + Browser in my experience. They never really understand callbacks initially, but they can mash things up to see something on their screen.

Another big thing about Node is the boilerplate to run NodeJS programs (compared to PHP where installing apache can be a nightmare for beginners, and makes it much harder to understand the big picture)

Async is hard, and takes a long time to breath in I agree. But closures + callbacks nearly look similar to to sync code in other languages. Async code looks much more scary in other languages
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I think WWI is a bad analogy. In WWI all sides were completely caught off guard by the destructive power of modern industry applied to warfare. WWI was a case of ignoring the looming technological disruption of international relations and politics caused by modern warfare. I think WWI is basically the most panic inducing analogy anyone can come up with. It's great propaganda, but not at all realistic.

I think what's going on in Greece is that the new world financial order, where permanent vassal states are created that must obey and pay tribute to their banker overlords, is slowly unravelling. Not because of outright revolt, but because it's just so impossibly awkward to operate these farces in the context of nominally democratic states. The Greek people are proud and patriotic and they aren't going to believe that their country should be essentially denationalized over debt. What is a government's power if not the way it spends its tax money?
How you liking Reagent? Why did you choose that over Om?
Lockheed Martin has at least managed to gum up the Google search for "Fusion in 10 years".
Your choices are totally sensible.

What I meant was the idea that everyone is just waiting for JS to go away seems like you're extrapolating your preferences onto other people.
They are a funding source for mostly very reasonable research.
The US and China account for ~38% of BMW sales (with China taking a slight majority of that split).
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But probably won't.

http://lee-phillips.org/lockheedFusionAgain/
A tall achievement in and of itself.
The IRCv3 work group is making some good progress: http://ircv3.net/ .
Wow that is a fantastic lecture! Shit brings me back to the undergrad days.
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He's the finance minister of Greece. He can have an op-ed published in the international press more or less at will. He's had no trouble doing that several times in the past.
It is, and that's why the institutions have urged Greece to introduce a social security net.

It's not as if the other Europeans want Greece people to starve by cutting pensions etc. They want Greece to untangle this mess where there is no dependable social security and instead small social benefits like lower prices for electricity is handed out in an ad hoc way as part of election promises by the political parties who come into power.
I should clarify that by "hard choices" I mean giving up control of their fiscal matters entirely to the European Union (Similar to how US states function.)

This has nothing to do with cutting more pensions. Cutting pensions is an easy choice, in comparison (and they're still misleading the extent of those in TFA by saying "up to 48%".)
Ironically, in the US that class was called "Home Economics"
If you are interested in drawing attention, I'd suggest maybe hosting a cheap demo version on like a $5 DO instance for people to play with. ;)
No.

By "the institutions" he's referring to the ECB and the EU's Council of Ministers, specifically, and making a claim about those institutions that's objectively true (regardless of the merits of his own arguments here).
I think IRCCloud is really neat and as soon as the BNC comes along you got my money. Till then I'm hosting my own with ZNC, I just can't give up my weechat client, love it too much.
How is
that debatable? We teach coins and bills to 8 yr olds, but for some pseudoiberal-arts-intellectual reason we don't teach propaganda and compounding interest to hif schoolers. (I actually learned propaganda in a school-funded after school academic "sports" club, but my case was rare)
Url changed from http://sploid.gizmodo.com/lockheed-martins-new-fusion-reacto..., which points to this.
> I should clarify that by "hard choices" I mean giving up control of their fiscal matters to the European Union

Ceding sovereignty to an undemocratic body.

Wonderful.
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Well, while I would like to see many of the cool JS projects out there written in a language I am more amenable to (and thus, would like to see an end to JS), I recognize that not everyone agrees. So, in the meantime, I have the unfortunate stance of not using many of those projects that I would otherwise be interested in.

Though, if a significant number of people feel similarly to me (that there are better options than JS and that wasm could catalyze the move towards those better options), then I do not really see a problem with JS going away. Perhaps that is just me.

Again, I did not write this post with any intention of flaming or insulting those who like JS.
He extrapolated to me quite well. The existence of hundreds of languages that compile to javascript is pretty good proof that there are tons of people that are waiting for JS to go away.
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The more intersting part is the cause and effect. A perfectly sane and techincal reason for the restriction of wifi, and the effect being people turning up for that reason.

From the headline I was expecting some woo people, had managed to ban wifi in a town. (reversed cause and effect)
There's "MacInCloud" http://www.macincloud.com/

You can rent time on a remote Mac, preinstalled with tools, on an hourly, weekly or Monthly basis.
> It is, and that's why the institutions have urged Greece to introduce a social security net.

What? You mean a social security net like the one that the "reforms" Greece had to implement destroyed?
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Jury is out. I wouldn't bet against research 75 years in the making. Anyway, Phillips isn't.
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No. Greece has never had a social security system comparable to most other states AFAIK.

It was always "ask for money from your grandparents' pensions".
The free alternatives are just 1990s-style office suites.

Compared with Office 365, you don't get the free 1TB of cloud storage, the 50GB mailbox, the full online versions of Office, the ability to stream Office programs without installing them (so you can use them on, say, a cybercafe PC), the add-ons and extensions, the cross-platform tablet and smartphone apps, the free upgrade to the next version of Office, and so on.

Office 365 is a huge ecosystem play, whereas OO/LO have no ecosystems.

Otherwise, UI changes are annoying, but the basic Office UI hasn't really changed since 2007. It changes less often than, say, Gmail.
Well, they ceded the control of their currency to the EU, and I think it's clear that isn't sustainable without more fiscal unity. It's too late to complain now that they have adopted a currency that no longer under the control of their democratically elected leaders.

So the only options remaining for Greece, long term, are to either cede fiscal control as well, or go their own separate way again (grexit) with their own currency.

(But as I said, none of this matter as long as Germany is willing to continue underwriting their debt, which they will continue to do for years, most likely... but not forever.)
Or, at the very least, that there are many people that feel unsatisfied with JS in its current form.
Artists are double dipping? Boy I hope you don't run into an artist who knows that you just said this...
Human language is ambiguous. As it has been since it was invented. And people abuse this ambiguity to further their interests.

Ultimately, that's my point. Are there any colloquialisms that everyone would agree can have only a single definition?
The "fucking article" is written by Greece's Finance Minister. His bio at the bottom of the blog post doesn't mention that subtle point that not only is he affected as a Greek, he actually has a horse in the race.
> I get the feeling that the EU would rather forgive Greek debt than see Greece either leave the EU

I don't. For one, France, Britain, and Germany would have hell to pay in their domestic politics if that happened; for another, Italy, Portugal, and Spain would be the next cabs off the rank if an example is offered that simply refusing to pay the last round of debts gets you forgiveness and more credit.
This is a real problem for Toyota. They created the entire Scion brand to attract young people because the average age of a Toyota owner is getting pretty high. And what's happened? A lot of the Scions are being bought by cheapskate "oldsters" (like me) who know it's made by Toyota and want the low end. (Alas, I didn't buy a Scion this time around but I sure looked at them a lot.)
Labels put up all the capital

For Taylor Swift, sure. But there is an increasing number of musicians owning their own recording equipment and producing pro-level recordings out of their home (just like starting a software business out of your home is increasingly common).

For these people, they put up the capital. While I won't condone piracy of any copyrighted works at all, it's not reasonable to assume that all musical artists are impacted by copyright infringement in the same way.

Home producers may well be absolutely thrilled to make a few thousand dollars in sales a year, in order to continue funding their own work. Why take that away from them through piracy?

[There's also the argument that small act home producers should be thrilled to get the exposure even if nobody is paying for their recordings. As a home producer myself, I find a small amount of comfort in that, but professional-level recording and music equipment isn't cheap... I'll fund it with other income as needed, but I'd rather have my music outfit be self-sustaining.]
Baby boomers are on 55+ now.

Gen X is middle age now, and they eventually got low paying jobs working for the baby boomers.

Gen Y happened, but we were boring, so we got retroactively split up and rolled into Gen X and Millenials.
People use JIRA and Confluence, because they are fully-featured, and complicated. It's easier to created a dumbed-down faster tool. Plus, they've been around for years. I'm sure one day they will rewrite them from scratch, but HipChat is not slow at all.
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We are not talking about asking people to do work for free. If you agree to work for some number of hours per day in exchange for a salary, then you should work those hours and not try to find ways to do less. The latter is straight up dishonest and unprofessional. If you don't think you are getting paid enough, then don't agree to work for the rate offered.

It's astonishing to me the number of people here that feel entitled to try to abuse their employer. Being motivated doesn't mean working more hours than you are paid for, it means trying to do a good job during the time you do work vs trying to do as little as possible while not being fired for poor performance.
I don't think we should be teaching finance any more than we should be teaching cooking. It's mainly a life survival skill, not an academic subject, and thus should be the responsibility of parents.