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no, most of peoples just have fears about West countries because for whole lives they got information that West guilty for most of local problems (in same time many loved West culture too).

which of current VMs application able to run OSX on mac hardware?

Oh, it looks very close to situation in Russia except internet connection and online payments. But other is looks close, I guess that setup and operate IT company from Russia is much simple, safe and cheap as offshore (in Cyprus, Belize, New Zealand etc) than local (especially if you would like to build products development oriented business).

I guess for you is best way is to start doing it with java and in some time further switch to scala - for example you be able start developing with Play framework which is support both java&scala in one project.

RoR/Django is good for prototyping and for fast start, but if you don't know it's it no sense I guess, you will make it more faster with Play/Scala.

you may study how data structures can be represented in C

for example from this book:

Ashok N. Kamthane Introduction to Data Structures in C" http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/c/978813171...

some time ago I used Gnucash, it's simple and effective tool but it's has not ideal UX

another dropbox alternative https://github.com/haiwen/seafile on you own servers

I'm a artist/designer/developer (artist/designer who works as developer from time to time (it this year, mostly as developer)).

I think this is only about how much fast you able to translate you brain ideas to images. PS currently is a most faster way to do this (in some cases 'pencil&parer' will be more effective way ).

For example: imagine randomly curved line which is drew by child; how is way more fastest to copy it? 1) draw it's copy on different papper with pencil by your hands 2) generate it's copy by math formula.

Also, in some cases make design with HTML/CSS can be most effective way if the 'design idea' has good fit to html "visual language" (because this way is enough fast to make design by this way and it cut off psd2html part of work) (for example site with 'flat' design like HN).

it's good, if this not prevent you to be successful in school education and you have free time for your social life.

I'm is generalist, but might be not a 'full stack engineer' - because I person who has and use skills from two different worlds Art/Design & Software development.

Some time ago I realize that the generalist skill set it's give more freedom to me, because if you do only something one, you will going into a trap (you will become very dependent on your employer, tools, industry, market etc. and if something of that is going to fail you be a first who suffer from it). As generalist you have more clear view about any problem that you working on, but you can lack in some areas (in most cases it's can be easy solved by short connections with domain experts).

Generalist skills is very suitable for small cool teams, specialist more in demand to big corporations.

My skill set Art&Developing is very helpful for projects like games, and for any projects what is have very strong connection between graphics and technical parts.

But generally specialist&generalist it's not strong terms because you able to be a generalist on some level but on the more hight level you still be a specialist.

place where meteor crashed is only 100 miles from me but I got to know about it today from web-news :)

And I believe that the new version "Sublime Text 3" will be called as "Sublime Text" by everybody (or might be "Sublime Text 2" version 3 :) )

also guru.com is very good place for dev works

I guess it because nobody know about Sublime Text 1 as popular application - Sublime Text 2 it's like the first known name of this app.

is so many apps exist for your needs. For example try to use www.teamviewer.com or www.mikogo.com ( I prefer teamviewer, it's provide easy remote input control and switching between connected computers). Also you can use simultaneously skype voice/video conference and teamviewer session.

I guess that main point of this post isn't about visual/graphical design - it's about ways of thinking and about design approaches to problem solving. It's good to find some new ideas (which could be useful in software development, like idea of Software Designs Patterns has been derived from Architecture formerly) to try think by different way.

I've been working remotely about 2 years and I guess that if company and peoples really want to work remotely they will do it (in my case many team members located in different countries). At now it's very easy, if you have clear mind - we have skype and other tools for day to day meetings, many project tracking/documentations systems like redmine or basecamp that could be started from scratch in few hours, github, bitbucket, dropbox, aws etc. But not all peoples ready to deal with this, mostly because they can live without it and don't have enough motivation to change something in their current corporative systems.

It's depending on project/person. For me it's JVM (but of course JVM is big benefit also), mostly because with JVM I'm not able to create library which might be used in native code for example in iOs app (theoretical it's possible with ECL,Clozure CL or "Scheme to C" compiler).

And, It's really hard to choose one! All of 3 dialects has own unique benefits and lacks.

This presentation is Interesting, but I guess that I already saw many presentations like that. I guess presentations about real user cases with "erlang" will be a more informative.

Something like this:

http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/395/Erlan...

http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/297/Pikko...

Good collection of erlang links. Thanks.

I guess is good addition links is: Erland VM based language Elixir - http://elixir-lang.org/ and newest Elixir presentation http://vimeo.com/53221562