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Ask HN: I want to become an evangelist, how do I go about it?
So to give you a little insight into myself. I am a recent graduate BS Application Development student. Even before I graduated, I was signed away to a great company. I applied to become an Android Developer, because while studying it was a field I showed intrest in. During my internship I fell in love with web technology. My company was just starting a web-unit, since it was primarily focused on app-development in the past (mainly iOS). I was grateful to be in a position where I could make the shift to something I felt more passionate about. When I graduated I started taking on way too many commitments simultaneously. Trying to stick my hand in as many cookie-jars as possible trying to make money as fast as possible. I want to accomplish and so little time. I'm 22 and I feel if I don't hit it big within the next 2 years I probably won't. Eventually I dropped everything. After which I asked myself one important question: Where do I want to be in 5 years? I am a good developer, I am valued at my work as a developer. However I know I'll never be a great developer, not to be harsh on myself. But I do the google code-jams and what-not and 15 year olds can beat me straight. I have no great mind. I'm smart and tech-savvy and I learn quick, but I am no genius. Before becoming a developer I was a field-marketeer for 2 years selling electronics in stores as a way to make money while studying. My last year I got hired by Microsoft to exclusively sell their products and be a one-stop knowledge base in stores. I loved it, people came to me and I knew how to help them. Seeing that light go on in someones eyes when they understood something was beautiful. Given 90% of the time the clients were tech-handicap, but still. I want to pursue something on the developer-scale that combines both. I know it takes years of experience to become an evangelist. My question is: How do you start? What do you do?
Maybe there are evangelists out there that can give me some tips.
It's fine to be pedantic against someone who is claiming the issues are not what they seem. Even encouragable :)

You are correct of course, regarding auto vs semi-auto, but I mean that the anti-gun lobby makes a lot of noise over 'big scary rifles' when it's actually handguns doing the most damage.

I'm for gun regulation myself, but even if do rifles get heavily regulated in the US, it'd do very little to the stats. It'd actually work against the anti-gun lobby, because the pro-gun lobby would be able to point to the relatively unchanged stats.
Yeah I also don't know why this is the case because it would be more credible and prestigious. His reason was:

First, the idea was publication in a scientific magazine. For many reasons, taking time from becoming a good clinician being the most important, but far from single one, I eventually decided not to go that route.
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I don't see the problem...

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entrepreneurs interviews http://mixergy.com

light financials - http://www.npr.org/sections/money/

freakonomics http://freakonomics.com/radio/freakonomics-radio-podcast-arc...

personal development - http://theartofcharm.com/
> And at the end music sheets are just here for you to learn a music, they are nothing more.

Professional session musicians play directly from the sheet, and can promptly forget the piece afterwards. They do not intend to learn the music.

Interesting enough, a similar observation can be made about writing prose. A printed book isn't usually a tool to learn a novel by heart for recitation.
Fair enough. I brought up thermodynamics because you seemed to be implying that intelligent agents would assign meaning to things without doing any work. It wasn't clear to me from where the "information" was being created.

Would you agree that, in order for simulated rain to be "really rain", you would require a conscious person inside the simulation who regards it as such?
Still they make less money,

Wrong, they make more money for the same work.

bear the cost/burden of child birth,

With modern contraception tech, children is a lifestyle choice, like playing golf, a lifestyle choice they mostly volunteer for.

are more likely to care for children,

That's a lifestyle choice that they mostly enjoy. Child rearing is best seen as a long-term paid for holiday.

are more likely to be physically abused by their partners,

Men are are more likely to be emotionally abused by their partners, and emotional abuse is worse than physical abuse. Moreover, men don't complain so much physical abuse of men is not reported.

more likely to be killed by their partner,

The majority of all murder victims are men.
Not him but if I were my answer would be: not just a joke but a rather clever comment about the logic behind the idea that Greece would be more deserving of debt-forgiveness if they started a war on top of the current situation.
Australia had the massive advantage of its own currency and a low government debt.

Not to mention a relatively natural resource-based economy, and significant trade with China... one of the other least GFC effected parts of the world.
Understood, and apologies for not having kept my own biases in check, but I felt it worth pointing out that ignoring whether or not imposing additional regulations is good or bad, there is much more complication to the matter than just passing a law, especially as the passage of a law that countermands the Constitution is an exercise in futility.
Nothing. Neither with Carthage. The problem is that they rely on the project configuration (Cocoapods requires also an xcode workspace on top of that). It's a bit overkill for just a script.
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West Germany did fine on the DM.

The first decade or so after reunification was in all respects unusual so I'd rather not try to draw any conclusions from that. They /did/ have trouble around 2000 or so and Schröder was brave/dumb enough to make drastic reforms in order to improve things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept

(And it turns out that I don't know how to spell Hartz. Rather embarrasing.)

The way I as an outsider understand the economic history of Germany, Hartz IV was the one that really mattered.

Whether or not you agree that Hartz IV helped or that it was necessary, I think you can at least agree that it hurt :/ -- in which case one can't complain that Germany wants drastic measures to be undertaken in Greece without being willing to taste the same medicine itself.
> There is no abdication of responsibility in a democracy and the Greeks should know that better than anyone.

You get history sadly backward. The no abdication of responsibility is what dragged the world in 2 world wars and what Europe is supposed to fix.
Please don't conduct flamewars on HN.
I assume this is a serious question.

I suppose the simplest answer is: to increase your spending (ability) right now, with the expectation that after the debt has been paid off you will be achieve a net positive value.

A small business might borrow to buy expensive equipment which will enable them to offer additional service, or to access other market segment.

Along a similar line, a country might borrow to accelerate their growth (e.g. investing in infrastructure projects).
Every two or three months, I check to see if there have been new write-ups on the architecture of big sites, or otherwise interesting budget scaling examples (think: plenty of fish, Etsy, or Stack Exchange). Maybe once or twice per year I find myself looking up something I read there previously on an architecture.
Spot on. Disdain for Ebonics is one of the last remaining ways in which it's considered acceptable in polite society to be blatantly racist.
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That doesn't have to be the case. Eg lots of people can write prose faster on a keyboard than on paper. Computer entry of musical notation doesn't have to be slow and cumbersome.

It's hard to beat pen and paper, but not impossible in principle.
You are talking about historical consistency. What the European establishment needs is political consistency. The Baltic states, as well as Spain, Portugal, and Ireland did go through varying degrees of austerity. If you start treating one member differently, right after other members went through difficult reforms, why should other members then play ball? And that is false reasoning: does this mean that any country can wage war and racial extermination and then be forgiven, because Germany already was?

Regarding the bailout thing. A bailout is, per definition, paying off the creditors (banks in this case). The reason people do it at all is to keep the confidence of the money market. Greece wouldn't need a bailout if they were planning to stop taking on any debt at all. But they aren't.

To answer your question, if the banks would take the hit, then it would hurt private households. People think of banks as some super dodgy prop hedge funds, that use their own money to reap super profits. They don't. Banks invest the money of their clients and bag any difference between the interest rate they've offered and the interest rate they've earned. So again, the hit would go to pension funds and possibly depositors. Now, what kind of political climate would be in Europe, if say a German pensioner suddenly got less, because the Greeks couldn't pay back?
Frankly, I thought this would be perfectly obvious, so did not need to be explicitly stated: My intention was to underscore that criticism of the ex-FM from the sidelines should be tempered with the knowledge that there are intractable problems here which he was genuinely attempting to solve.

That this might be taken to imply that the long-dead author of the quote which I used for its poetry somehow endorses a position in contemporary political debate is so obviously absurd that I cannot imagine a HN reader doing so.
Could you perhaps add more detail to this?

Did she drink? smoke? Was she a pescatarian? or her diet consist of lots of leafy greens? Lived in conditions closesly resembling a blue zone[1]?

Anything else besides the IF that was out of the ordinary in her regimen?

[1] Blue Zone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone
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this is wrong. in the Eurozone the target value for inflation rates was 3%. problem was that while most countries got over 3% Germany was much lower, thus damaging the relative competitiveness...

recently the euriborturned negative- the reason for that was to increase the money available to the economy as saving on bank accounts lost attraction and turned to stock exchanges...
Yes, but there will be consequences of course (e.g. inability to borrow in the future).
As well as ignoring the banks culpability here, you're doing the same thing the original starter of this thread wanted to point out. Greece is a country, not a person. Did all Greeks benefit equally from that money? Or is large amounts of it sitting in accounts of corrupt politicians and the corporations (not necessarily Greek ones) that the money got spent on.

I've seen accusations that the high military spending goes to northern European arms dealing countries. I have no idea if that's true but the pattern is very familiar, the UK have a long history of giving "foreign" "aid" which is basically giving taxpayer money to arms dealers.
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Probably "We are going to disclose your data to party X. Do you consent this?". Saying that you are going to share user information with undisclosed 3rd parties seems like a bit too broad.
Firstly, good communication is very important to being an evangelist. So you should edit your post into separate paragraphs to make it easier to read.
Ah, what you see is one reason why the old Taoists railed against Confucianism so much in their philosophy - Confucianism tells people what they should or should not do, and in doing so, defeats itself in the kind of society it wants to promote.

Confucianism claims the values of humanity are filial piety, kindness, benevolence, justice, loyalty. The following passage from Tao Te Ching challenges Confucianism directly.

The great Tao fades away
There is benevolence and justice
Intelligence comes forth
There is great deception

The six relations are not harmonious
There is filial piety and kind affection
The country is in confused chaos
There are loyal ministers

Chapter 18, Tao Te Ching

The Taoists say, by the time you're writing a rulebook about how to have humanity, all the values you're "treasuring" have already been lost. They complain as you do the lack of spontaneity in a society following confucian order.

The Sinic civilisation has been following a cycle swinging the pendulum between Taoism "spontaneity" and Confucian "filial piety and benevolence" for the past two thousand years, so I wouldn't worry about it.

The Tao is constant in non-action
Yet there is nothing it does not do

Chpater 37, Tao Te Ching
Agreed.

That said, thus far, handgun regulations are the most easily struck down under Heller & McDonald. The sea change of going after "assault weapons" has less to do with mass shootings and more to do with the Brady group's adaptation to the court's relative intractability on handgun regulations.

As ownership (keep) and carriage (bear) of arms has been upheld by the Supreme Court as individual rights, the shift has been more and more towards "feature tests" that are defined as such that the assault weapons fail them. California has had luck simply increasing the feature list such that almost every firearm is effectively banned, but I suspect that won't last.
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It sounds pretty similar to my impression. Therefore, one might equally ask: which modern political histories of South Korea have you been reading?
> Maybe all their debts will be forgiven tomorrow.

Greece is not the only democracy in Europe and Merkel likes her job too much for that to happen. Sure, if the US/IMF think that the debt should be forgiven, they’re welcome to purchase it and hand it over to Greece, but that’s even more unlikely.
Assembly[0][1] is a great example of this I think. They have a number of community driven products in all stages of development. I think rather than just feeling like they have ownership the contributors do get some actual real form of ownership in the product. I am actually unsure of how that works though.

[0] https://assembly.com

[1] https://assembly.com/discover
Now just throw away the DOM, replace it with something more suitable for applications instead of documents, and we can have something akin to Smalltalk back.
I do understand your logic, but my statement was akin to a mechanic buying the cheapest tools, slightly out of tolerance, and and a diagnosticstool that don't quite give them all the correct error codes.

In the long run that descision will cost them more, than buying the correct tools in the first place - so if they cannot afford it, it's hard to justify the existince of that business. Perhaps it's a telling sign of a manager that doesn't understand the implication of that decision, or a dying business.
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A strengthened Euro would wreck our (Germany's) export-based economy. I'm sure we'll find a way around that.
That is.... far less than expected. Does that include a monitor and peripherals as well?
> He's been caught lying on multiple occasions.
Has he? Why should we believe that those deals were not offered as he said seeing the change in the attitude of the Eurogroup (which is a loose group of friends as it's president claimed when he decided to kick out one of it's members last Sunday)or even the IMF (which recognized with a report what he always said about debt sustainability) last week after the announcement of the referendum.
Anyway by honest I was referring mostly to his political and ideological position and not to his negotiation tactics.
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Yes. Pretending to negotiate while not in fact negotiating is a very effective negotiation tactic.
Given that Syriza came to power claiming the could both eliminate austerity conditions and keep Greece in the Euro, I have a hard time believing that this is delivering in any way, shape, or form. Greece is now going to have an unpleasant austerity imposed on it by collapse of their banking system and exit from the Euro. In the long-run this is possibly better, but it is going to be very unpleasant for quite a while.
if( abs(x - y) < 1e-6 ).

Testing for absolute error is often incorrect. Here is a better floating point comparator:

http://floating-point-gui.de/errors/comparison/
Honestly, on reading that entire post I'm convinced the writer doesn't know what he is talking about. He doesn't even mention the term paradox.
> war reparations. We didn’t received any from Germany and chances are we never will

Incorrect. West Germany paid 115 million Deutschmarks to Greek victims of Nazi crimes in 1960 (a lot more than the $45 million reparations that were demanded by the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty), while victims of the forced labour camps were also compensated individually.

Shame on you for spreading bald faced lies.
"According to some experts, the prevalence of rape is such that people smugglers may require women to have a contraceptive injection prior to the journey as a precaution…"

Sounds more like prostitution (rather than rape).
Flexibility is not 'bad' - it's a tradeoff. More flexible languages are better for writing DSLs, etc; but using them means a lot of self discipline regarding code style.

One thing I wish JS had is a PEP8-style canonical style document. I would find that more useful than classes.

On classes, I am among the less excited about them; however, we are in a ridiculous situation where there are about 500 different library implementations of class inheritance. Backbone has one. Ember has one. Node has util.inherits. Various transpile-to-JS languages (CS, TS) all have their own slightly-different implementations of the resulting prototype code. There is plainly a need for classes in JS, felt by some of the leading projects in JS land.

ES6 classes at least gives all these disparate implementations a refactoring target. How many of them will get there is another matter.
Yes.

However, the cynic in me suggests that those who sell weapons to nation-states tend to receive protection from nation-states.

Which percentage of their customers will not be pissed off enough to watch them burn over sticking their neck out to help, though? Probably only the most corrupt, if an appropriate amount of funds are dispersed to support rapid processing.
I don't know how it is over there, but legally mandated record keeping requirements are a pretty good excuse for not using public key encryption on corporate mail servers. There are products that act as middlemen that transparently convert between keys that are public and self generated... but that kind of defeats the purpose of public key encryption.
Yeah, I thought about that, but you'd think there would be at least one or two high-profile voices talking it up that didn't have millions of dollars riding on it.

Back in the mid 90s of those expounding on the potential and promise of the internet some no doubt had direct financial ties to its further development, but many others likely didn't, academics, govt people, etc.

Are there any academics, or NGO people, or similar who are super excited about bitcoin, or have some insight into future applications?
> I'm 22 and I feel if I don't hit it big within the next 2 years I probably won't.

Two years is not long enough to become regarded as an expert at anything. You are potentially shutting yourself off from much with this attitude. I think many people have this fear of "never going to be as good as the others", but here's the thing -- many people think it, very few admit it, which makes it seem disproportionately scarier.

Stick with it. Learn from the 15 year olds until you beat them straight.
As a native Dane with a decentish working knowledge of German, I'd say the Danish word "distanceblænder" ("distance blinder", "distance dazzler") is more fitting:

Someone who (or something which) superficially dazzles with apparent qualities but on closer inspection disappoints utterly.

http://ordnet.dk/ods/ordbog?query=distancebl%C3%A6nder

(I agree completely with your description: some good arguments at best and then only if...)
Some info from 2011: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-feat...

And again in 2012, it was widely speculated that the bailout was granted on condition that Greece kept up buying stuff from Germany: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/19/greece-military...

And these are the first two google hits, really.

Adding a bit of context: Greece basically had a full-out war with Turkey over Cyprus about 40 years ago, and tension has been high ever since. The Cyprus issue is one of the many sticking points that resulted in Turkey being refused EU membership. If you look carefully at maps, you'll see that many Greek islands are extremely close to the Turkish mainland (tourist guides joke that you can get "instant Greece" when visiting Turkey with a quick boat trip). Part of the reconstruction process of Turkish national identity after the end of the Ottomans involved ethnic cleansing against long-time Greek enclaves. This is complicated further by the Cold War and the strategic location of both countries, which means they both "have to be" NATO members by hook or by crook (i.e. the US will never let them go). In this framework, high defence spending is not unnatural; however, reliance on specific northern-European dealers is a bit suspect.
You're correct, getting paid for posts is a strong incentive. In the end, we won't know unless we try.

Personally, when I think of a decentralized reddit, there's nothing monetary about it. Simple points equate with popularity and that's incentive enough, but it's hard to build up a large audience like reddit did. Honestly, when I started reading your article, I was expecting to read a proposal for something like Namecoin, but for a decentralized reddit. Then the monetization part took me by surprise because that would totally change the social dynamic of the site. I would feel it would be less about the content and the popularity and more about trying to make money.
What would you have done? They have tons of problems. I mean, who will give them money now given that they're telling their creditors, "And I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride"? There was that kickstarter to donate to them but...
When did you do it?
> France and Germany has no option but to negotiate.

Again, basic knowledge of the current public opinions of either countries on the subject strongly indicates the contrary.

I do not have the background required to have an informed opinion about the economical consequences of such situation.

Just stating the obvious from a pure political standpoint IMHO.
> But they are not as free as Americans.

Oh, give over! As if the US of A were the ultimate land of freedom. With the NSA, Guantanamo, race-based police violence...

[Disclaimer: I have nothing against the USA (well, almost nothing). But I can't stand people talking about it as if it was the only true democracy/free country/heaven on earth.]
Not only for those reasons, but also for creating a malware market driven by nation state money. The way we have found and fixed vulnerabilities in civilian IT systems has been turned into a market where the end result are less secure persons, companies, organizations and states.

A fabulous way to spend tax money aim to protect us imho...
Replication without proper controls is just confirming a poorly designed experiment.