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Having some cider and sitting in the dark programming. I went for a rather long walk this evening though. Friday/Saturday night are really when more of the festivities are.

Self-taught here. I started with a intro to CS text in java then oracle's java reference book. If you really want to learn programming these books will help though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming

and

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

Just don't check the 'share my genome with 23&me/participate in their data mining shenanigans' button. Otherwise it's a cool service.

This new trend of a kinderocracy is troubling to say the least. If we are not able to accurately assess risk, how will society at large manage social norms and not turn into a police state?

One of the main things that parents fail to realize is that most of the child abusers are actually not pedos in the park with slr cameras. "about 60% of perpetrators are non-relative acquaintances, such as a friend of the family, babysitter, or neighbor. About 30% of those who sexually abuse children are relatives of the child, such as fathers, uncles, or cousins. Strangers are perpetrators in only about 10% of child sexual abuse cases." -VA.gov http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/pages/child_sexual_abuse...

My guess why society at large has actively been ignoring the reality of child is abuse is that we as humans and families obviously want to be able to "do something" to protect their children. Saying that non-relative acquaintances are the most likely to be abusers is not going to go over well, but hell I could be wrong.

The incredibly technical solutions suck if you live in the USA. If you have $10k and are stopped in a car, there is a high likelihood that the government thugs (police) will attempt to relieve you of the money, or you will have to prove where you earned it. Doubly so if you are a minority in the south.

Otherwise you might be able to get a Swiss bank acct, set up an offshore investment trust in some tax haven like the caymans (invest everything for awhile), transfer the money to a third country and then to a US bank. Another way would be to open up a quickie-mart/nail salon/hotdog stand and over-report income - this is what criminals do.

If you are an actual criminal with $billions then you could just talk to one of the big banks like Wells Fargo (which absorbed Wachovia) and ask them to launder it for you. So the government has already made criminals of anyone that decides to cash out large chunks of btc and bring the cash home.

As a white natural born citizen not carrying more than $100 on a domestic flight from SEA to SFO, still suspected.

The weird part of it was after opting out the TSA thug asked if I wanted to go somewhere private for my government-blessed groping. They must have had the cattle prods and waterboards ready.

In all seriousness, if we want the TSA to remain in any way accountable we need to opt-out, and to do it in public with other fellow travelers watching, since there is no telling what happens when they pull you aside in a room for an "enhanced pat down".

There is a perverse irony to the whole thing though, if a man decides to sit alone in a park, say to get some coding done outside in the sun this automatically means that you are a pedo and the soccer moms will not hesitate to call the police on you. On the other hand you have actual TSA agents groping kids all the time at the airport (http://articles.philly.com/2011-04-23/news/29466700_1_tsa-sp...). They get to wear a uniform and stick their hands down people's pants every goddamn day. Is this what freedom looks like?

Seattle. Live out in the suburbs for like $500-600/mo for a room, and take an express bus into town for work for cheap. There is no state income tax/weed is legal(sorta)/gay marriage is legal/most guns are legal.

I was reading about Jehrico and Bulgaria on Wikipedia right before I posted this. Probably should have put the 'Samson Option' in there too, just to cover all the bases. And the other flu virii strains are keyboard-punching.

Of course the government was spying on everyone since before 9/11. This whole terrorist boogeyman show has happened before, except they were called communists then, and the time was the red scare. Only thing that has changed is that it is much easier for the government to spy on and track the population now since they all seem to be carrying smartphones.

Quit carrying smartphone except for business. Quit carrying ID...this is legal here, unless I am driving or going to a bar. Started using cash/btc for everything. Emailed myself a list of the flagged gov terms. *Use TOR and Tails to visit certain websites that the men in funny hats might not approve of, and to talk about certain things that they might not approve of.

Wonder if I'll get raided by government thugs...

It is curious that there was not on-demand admin access to any windows/mac os install among the docs that Snowden leaked, maybe Greenwald is saving that for another couple weeks.

Oh and for kicks here's something for the NSA bots to chew through, "Assassination, Attack, Domestic Security, Drill, Exercise, Cops, Law Enforcement Authorities, Hazmat, Nuclear, Los Zetas, Snowden, gPGP, DDOS, Hamas, Bulgaria, Jericho, Chemical spill, Cloud, Bacteria, H5N1, 32D3, F2H3, Toxic, Government, Tyrant, Roman empire, Bread and circuses, Avian, CKIR, Subway, Snowcrash, Moon landings, Area 51, Government, Idiots, Orwell, Gas Mask, Hurcles, Windows backdoor, UNIX, Hackers."

First ask yourself what kinds of problems can want to solve [pain points].

Then look at the technical details like industries/languages/frameworks/os that these people work in.

Almonds and whey protein might be a better choice than the crickebar.

Never mind the actual window-washers and builders who made these buildings are de-facto slaves to the Monarch of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Then in the next demo over they try to get all multicultural with the first nations language "ᓱᑯᑦᑎᐊᓃᒃᑲᓗᐊᕐᖓᑦ ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ? "

http://www.vice.com/vice-news/the-slaves-of-dubai

this is crazy.

Eastern Europe/Russia/HK with a .su or .ch domain. Of course encrypt it.

The alphabet gangs are really getting out of hand.

Tell lifehacker or other popular blogs about your app?

So this is google's crazy impression of what kids look like now. He can listen to 'adult' music/movies, but the guts of this tablet are _completely_ hidden.

When I, and probably much of this site was that age I was dicking around with Linux distros and trying to get nvidia binary drivers to work so I could play quake 3. Then there was that whole thing when I discovered shell scripts and python. There are cs learning apps for android, but nothing like opening up a bash shell in linux and getting the python interpreter and command prompt. Hopefully that kid has access to a real computer, and a bloody password on his account.

Stop playing computer games, look to HS sports like bb/soccer/baseball/track as a way to learn social interactions instead of playing Diablo 2 and Starcraft.

It could work if it was accredited/malpractice was covered somehow, then just make a hospital in Mexico or the Bahamas. Of course it would need to be less expensive than the USA, have better outcomes, and have the same level of legal responsibility...we are a very litigious nation.

So what are the negatives? This NYT article reads like a PR piece for medical tourism... What about malpractice insurance in Belgium/Poland and what happens if there are problems down the road with TFA's hip implant?

You can run OS X vm in vmware player. If you have a decent desktop box it can be quite usable. This probably violates apple's TOS, but whatever.

Not under powered, not too sure about that. The Ubuntu website says 'Fastest multi-core CPU, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage', ok good...but there is no way that it will even be as fast as a quad-core desktop i7 processor when it is used like a desktop (plugged into a lcd w/ kb & mouse).

Get a gigantic bag of brown rice(15), gigantic bag of beans(10), cumin/spices from an Indian/middle eastern store(5-10), 2x gigantic bag frozen vegetables(10) some garlic (4), olive oil(10), Siracha(5), and optionally coffee(10). That is enough food to feed a few people for a month for $74.

How about he does something productive and bans 50 shades of grey.

TFA said that Facebook paid it his parental leave. If FB thinks it is worth it to retain him as an employee, it's their money.

The US government on the other hand seriously doesn't give a fuck about families since most of their programs are oriented to single mothers. Also there is no federally mandated parental leave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave

Sortof. You still have to worry about taxes/bills, which are not insignificant in places like SF... You also have to ask permission from the local hoa/local government if you want to paint your house a certain colour. You also have to pay dues to the hoa.

Assuming: 150k/yr salary * 0.5 (paid leave) * .33 (4 months) =$24750 for just raising a kid, damn.

To be the devil's advocate, why not let people who do not have children take a 4 month paid ($24750) vacation every 5 years? I would like to take a round-the-world vacation for 4 months...

Red flag linux in particular... http://www.redflag-linux.com/en/ altho based on RHEL.

If by large companies you mean Amazon/Microsoft/Google, look at about 100k/year (inc. stock) if you make it thru the interviews, but there are like 5 of them. It is mostly C++, but Amazon's back end is alot of perl, and you would be on call much of the time. There is no state income tax, so you could save lots of money.

How about the PRISM and hardware tracking built into iPhones?

edit: let the down votes commence, I've got some karma to burn.

So you are a straight European dude in your 20s-30s in one of the most lucrative and in-demand industries in the USA in SV/SF. This might give you a slight case of rose colored glasses. You might have seen in your travels to other parts of the country that many Americans do not have this standard of living. To be blunt, it is likely that minority women in the deep south would have a slightly different expierence.

The realitiy of living in the USA is : 1. Don't get sick. We don't want to pay for you to go see the doctor, even if it would save $millions in medical bills for diabetes/cancer/chronic disease. There is the legal obligation for any emergency room to stabilize you, but then they kick you out if you can't pay.

2. Don't have kids. Kids cost a fuckton, and the governmnet doesn't really want to pay for it, but they partially do through a clusterfuck of programs (WIC/CHIP et al). There is no legally-mandated Parental leave or anything, that is for those lazy Frenchmen.

3. Don't be a woman. People will make rape jokes about you all the time (hello microsoft, E3) and that would be just the start of it. Never mind access to affordible healthcare like cancer screening and abortion.

4. Be christian, or if that isn't possible be Jewish. Just don't be Athiest/Muslim/Hindu/Bhuddist/....

If you aren't Protestat Christian there is no chance you will be president, JFK excepted.

5. Belive that USA = #1. Keep that flag flying and that coolaid flowing.

Disclaimer: I'm just a white guy trying to get a PHD/marketable skills so I can leave this country and move 140 miles north to Vancouver. Yes I know Vancouver has a bit of a heroin/prostitution/housing problem, but it's better than the current situation.