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This is not a software engineering problem but social and political one. Thus, any attempt to solve it only by means of some smart engineering would be bound to be rendered uneffective for most or all of the masses.

History has shown us repeatedly that concentration of power and resources is the root of all evil. Let the world be a collection of thousands of small states with maximum autonomy to each to govern itself. We used to have this exact configuration in past but that resulted in frequent battles between states. That was again an attempt to grow big and concentrate power. Part of the reason was that the arangement was not created rather it grew out of the natural evolution. So as we re-create such an arangement, we can take measures like creating loose federations of multiple levels with UN-like institution at each level. With autonomous small states, the true democracy can be realized quite easily.

However, this decentralization has to be done not only for government but also for economy, because concentration of power by any means – be it money or military will ultimately force concentration of other powers.

"My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest… No country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak… Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism… True democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village." - MK. Gandhi

You can use accelerator for worker roles as well. Though it is not updated any more but it is open source.

With Azure websites (in preview) deployment of Mvc4 projects is in the matter of seconds (I have been using it for some months). If you fork a hosted service, yes deployment does take time if you use the official way. Afaik, you can also use the accelerator for web roles [1] to reduce this delay considerably [2].

[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/07/12/now-...

[2]: accelerator is no longer being updated (afaik), chiefly because Azure websites are designed to handle the scenario it was developed for.

I have found books from Jon Evans very delightful and interesting to read:

1) Beasts of New York – http://www.beastsofnewyork.com/

2) Invisible Armies (thriller, drama, computer hacking) – http://www.rezendi.com/invisibleArmies.htm

Both books have their digital edition freely downloadable as well.

This is awesome! What would be the average cost per-mile to fly this? Considering cost of maintanence, fuel etc.

Though not living in the first world, I feel it the same way.

Risk aversion – fear of losing what you have earned by hard-work is the key here. The attitude prevails in families, customers, investers and even in aspiring entrepreneurs. Even if they trust you, they don't want to bet on something that has a risk of failing. The attitude has developed over the many years due to the dismal socio-economic conditions and is completely justified. Until recently a successful business is a lottery that only a few could get either by many years of perseverance or by being lucky to have been born in a wealthy family.

We not only need individual successes but these should be more visible similar to what we see in bollywood/cricket and people will start appreciating the potential on a wider scale.

email in profile

I found the process of ctrl+c, open dropbox/<folder>, ctrl+v, alt+f4, somewhat annoying, so created this. Created this a few months back. Have been using it since then, recently pushed on Github. Maybe useful for some folks. No installer as of now, if you need one, I can happily create one.

Last time I checked, Udacity was built on angular.

Everything moves in cycle. Yesterday I started coding and found fragmentation to be the biggest issue so I thought I needed a framework to do anything reasonable. That issue got solved and I have got used to it. So today I am finding that performance is the issue. I again decide to dich the framework and start hacking it by hand. Tomorrow I find ...

I focus more on tools rather than building things that matter in the end.

I can help creating it. Email in profile. We can discuss and I can show you recent mvp created.

Old thread on this topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4058761

SO discussion (linked in thread above as well): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118984/how-can-you-progra...

In my experience, programming, in general, has nothing to do with sight – its more about how you load the entire application (architecture/design/flow – whatever you may call it) in your head. Great description by PG on this particular phenomenon [0].

As far as accessibility goes, there are blind developers for all the 3 major OS – Mac/Linux/Windows. Basically you use a screen reading application to get speech output and rely on keyboard shortcuts heavily (in GUI environments).

[0]: http://paulgraham.com/head.html

Edit: Ok, let me give you a more realistic picture: yes, every other day could prove to be a challenge especially if you are programming in a gui environment – UIs are designed primarily for visual and pointer interaction; however, being a programmer, you have more tools and techniques at your disposal to find alternative ways of doing things than a basic blind computer user. You should always be exploring and shouldn't give up. That's my learning after having been working as a developer in .NET (web/windows) for 5 years and you know, with every new major release/product, Visual Studio and Windows constantly change and break accessibility support in one way or the other.

Please please don't use google recaptcha at least for audio, it is completely unintelligible [0]. I think speech parsing is an easy problem compare to CV for computers that's why recaptcha audio has been made difficult to the point that both (or at least) human and computer alike cannot understand it. Machines have passed turing Test in speech it seems.

[0]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/recaptcha...

Edit: Never assume that a person with audio recaptcha need would not be visiting your site; people with different needs are more daring and frequent on internet than in real world.

I agree! But are they also better than others in terms of price and other features? I think price is the most crucial for telephony apps, provided reliability is not compromised.

> But Massoud found activity, again, on several more IME files on the night of June 27, three days after Shane’s body was found. He said someone looked at IME folders – including one labelled “Supervisor” and one labelled “Goal Setting” ... One file in particular was opened and closed but closed improperly so that a “shadow” file was created. That shadow file was then deleted by the same person. Massoud located the original file on the drive – it was a PowerPoint presentation of the “Layer structure and summary of Veeco grown HEMT wafer”. This contains the scientific formula – a specific recipe – for enhancing a GaN chip. “In that two-minute window, someone is perusing. Something is happening. And it’s not automated, it’s a person.”

Certainly harddrive is again manipulated long after it had been detached from the laptop by police.

wondering why didn't the person possibly looking/cleaning the evidence from the harddrive take it with him in the first place? Isn't Suspense theory indicating something deeper?

> Hours later, in the middle of the night, someone went into Shane’s hard drive and accessed five folders, all labelled IME. ... Since the time of Shane’s death is uncertain, Massoud could not say who looked at the IME files. > But Massoud found activity, again, on several more IME files on the night of June 27, three days after Shane’s body was found. He said someone looked at IME folders – including one labelled “Supervisor” and one labelled “Goal Setting”

Edit: Usually the actual suspect would want to remove the evidence itself – in this case, the harddrive is carefully tampered with. Still the contained information is enough to put the blaim on a party – or the actual accuser is more profound than it is semed?

Incidentally, I just stumbled upon [0]. I'm also newbie in seo.

[0]: The Advance SEO Guide (by Neil Patel and Sujan Patel) http://www.quicksprout.com/the-advanced-guide-to-seo/

http://Lync.com – IM/audio/video/screen sharing/keyboard access

Udacity uses this. It's one of the awesome startups these days.

Show HN feels more natural when you are launching something – you are wanting people not only to review and provide feedback, but also to sign up and become users of the product. This is just my understanding having been lurking on HN for over an year.

And to find potential customers other than your mom&friends, [0] HN post can certainly help!

[0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4987836

does somebody have a coupon to avail the discount. I'd need 99.9 percent discount :-).

I have this thought recently that firearms should be replaced with faintarms for general public. Guns for public should be designed to cause faint to the aponent if discharged rather than killing. This way individual claim to 'right to defend/protect' him/her is maintained while at the same time, his ability to kill somebody is also curtailed with the use of that gun.

Just a thought.

The way you have piched it, doesn't show a difference from other freelancing networks:

"Then, you can review their profiles and get in touch with the ones you like" – that's how it works with odesk/freelancer. "When you see a project you like, just click on Apply. Project owners will be notified of your applications and will review your profile to determine if you're the right ..." exactly ...

"Short term projects" – these websites already showcase plunty of such.

Now you have added restrictions like $50 and only saturday to see projects.

I think there's an opportunity for a dev marketplace where client post a project, and it automatically finds a right candidate.