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Obviously you have never been through an 'audit' before, and last I checked, the IRS is very inhuman

play kicks serious ass -- if I were to write any webapp in java/scala I'd most definitely use play -- see that they've been coming along a lot in the past year

I can answer this

The reason delphi is used is because the majority of this stuff is for Windows. Delphi has a LOT of stuff that makes development way way faster than say c++ when you are dealing with windows -- and the majority of these HAVE to use something lower level because of 'interesting' security implications that you can't utilize in stuff like the CLR (via c#)

everyone likes to say speed -- but it's not just that -- it's memory management as well

and just to show how prevalent this is:

http://installsmarket.biz/index.php?lang=en

there are hundreds of markets like this, it's cheap, it's easy, and I could name TONS of companies that do NOT CARE that their affiliates use them

this isn't surprising at all -- latin america boxes are extremely cheap to buy -- the only ones that are cheaper are asian ones

BUT, the reason people still buy them (the computers) is because if you are trying to sell something (rather than just DDOS someone) it is easier to convert someone from say Brazil rather than China through say a dating offer to match.com from a popup

you'd be surprised at how close to reality that idea is

your right it's not an 'outright purchase' but it is a 'purchase agreement'

I just don't understand why all these announcements say stuff like 'we have 150k users' -- but they won't even mention their name? I understand if you are IN 'stealth mode' but if you have so hundreds of thousands of users -- that's not exactly stealth anymore is it

od -h -- I used to run into this problem a lot when I was writing grammars against different locales

agreed -- ftp use should have stopped in the 90s

some do like discover.com (unfortuantely) truncates your password at 8 characters, downcases, and sends you in plain txt email

still it'd be nice to see more companies support linux -- there are quite a few pieces of software out there that flat out don't work well under linux, even if they have ports, (especially 64bit)

quit quit quit

like alain mentioned -- get 1 consulting gig first but it will do wonders for your self-esteem once you do

you'll also find that being a contractor is actually MORE safe than working for some random BigCo that can fire you at will

to anyone else reading -- note that he has 6 months of savings -- I'd say depending on your age and responsibilities you want at a bare minimum of 3 months -- I def. don't like having anything less than one year but each to his own

can someone please explain what the deal is here for us uninitiated? sounds like they are throwing the book at him for stealing books? seriously? why is the prosecution being so aggressive? did he profit from it or something? this sounds so petty

ahh -- my bad discover.com redirects to discovercard.com.

also, I just double-checked -- I have a mix of upper and lowercase in my password -- I downcased it and submitted -- and got in -- can someone explain that? I mean you have to pretty much goto lengths to do that... it's insane

want to get the gold star? make it to where I can have a styled confirmation box when onbeforeunload gets fired and make it have cross-browser support

uhhh... check your math bro -- as of this moment there are 6,453,450 BTC in existence -- and you can buy them for $18.24 a piece leading to -- 117,710,928M USD -- sure it isn't a billion but it's more than enough to hustle a few hundred k through whenever you want

think we need a prediction market to take pre-emptive action against federal intervention

oh no! say it isn't true!!! it tracks our browsing history!!??!?! that's like as bad as dropping bombs on 8 year olds in iraq isn't it!

SEEKING WORK

In the Bay Area right now -- I'd prefer remote and am not interested in any equity offerings.

work in ruby/java mainly but am very strong in ops/admin work

email in profile and github is username, mail me for resume/refs if that is your cup of tea

I love the idea of alternate currencies and think BitCoin is a step in the right direction but this article points out the obvious -- the # of bitcoins does not grow is a straight up lie. I don't know why people keep believing this when you can look at the design and plainly see that it's not true.

+1 for the troll! subtle until you see who committed the challenge ;)

it's not the 'un-necessary' part -- is the fact that not even giving out the SIMPLEST of offerings like 'how much memory is my software using?' -- 'how much memory do I have access to?" -- things like that are a given in almost ANY serious sofware project -- and if you can't have them then you have NO CLUE what you are doing and shouldn't be writing software

I understand that there is a lot of people out there that see this as the easiest way to get something out there ASAP but for any real business -- the 'platform' is an utter joke

interesting fix to this problem!

yeh this is useful detach/re-attach, however, I usually have a screen session opened locally so when I'm doing remote work I typically open several ssh connections since they are cheap -- anything I want to put into the background I do so the typical way and not through screen -- good point though

yeh, apologies to anyone who finds the way I talk offensive -- this is how I talk 'normally' 24/7 -- anyone who has ever met me knows this is how I talk -- kinda surprised so many people get offended by it considering 70% of the internet...

anyways, your right, I should have organized my thoughts a bit more before getting into this -- I tried writing them down on a notecard beforehand but eventually I was like 'fuck it'

eh... yeh. that accidently slipped by -- just random testing of the webapp I was working on.. ;)

that last little bit about distinguishing between being homeless by choice versus misfortune is just bollocks -- as someone who has been in those shoes (homeless by choice) and having met a LOT of 'homeless' people I can attest that it is ALL by choice -- sure it might be pyschologically harder for one person to bring themselves back up into 'society' if they have let rougher circumstances befall them but it's still a matter of choice -- living pro-actively instead of re-actively allows you to define your situation rather than letting it define you