TomJoad's comments

I have a BA in a social science and have worked as a software engineer for mega-corps, government and startups. Some companies like to filter by degree, but I generally wouldn't want to work for those companies anyways.

The only way it has held me back is specialized fields, like machine learning, would be hard to get into without at least a masters.

Love it, and I don't even use Bitcoin! Anything that decreases the barriers for bitcoin transactions is great for its adoption.

How I read it is only if that other band take half of Spotify's streams. If no one likes them and they get no plays, the original band still receives all of the revenue.

I've been using ownCLoud (owncloud.org) on a raspberry pi set up on my LAN to solve this type of problem. While I don't have it publicly facing, as soon as I get home, any file I was working on is synced to the rest of my computers and devices.

With docker being ported to the rasberry pi recently, I suspect it will be even simpler to set up an ownCloud for $35 + the cost of storage.

Despite its flaws, calling the 12 step program a "dance" is pretty offensive. This coming from a someone who's father died of alcohol withdraw when I was young, and 4 immediate family members in the program.

*edit: Also, while your post was primarily about this pill and addiction surrounding it, I can assure you my father wasn't like "Jerry Garcia.(huge addiction, obese, and diabetic, etc)." In fact, he was in his mid-twenties, and an all-state wrestler and football player in high school, and very athletic after. Sometimes, it has nothing to do with your health, but the seizures which can come from withdraw and an inadequate and unequipped healthcare system.

To be frank, I find your post to be very insensitive and offensive to those who have been through situations like this.

outside AC? The next billion dollar startup?

Or better yet, the full product but doesn't save anything until you register.

I like the post, and it showed me some services that I didn't know about.

What advantage does Amazon's Route 53 have over Cloudflare? I've been using Cloudflare for all my DNS and CDN needs so I'm curious what Route 53 would have to offer.

Any particular reason why blogs.heroku.com would want to know my location? Isn't the IP generally enough?

If you are running Windows 7, you can run XP legally for free: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958559

"There is nothing complicated about the underlying technology that can't be explained adequately to a bunch of intelligent people."

Assuming the underlying technology and it's implications are explained adequately at all. We already know how they try to explain metadata, so how are they going to explain the stuff we still don't know about?

1. He provided his phone number for the NSA to search, a piece of information that they do retain and almost certainly have collected.

2. Not bloggers, just American families: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-k...

3. All information gleaned from the NSA is real information, and you don't send it to the public relations department. Instead it is an actual department set up to handle these requests from the public who wishes to know what their government is doing.

This is great, I've been searching all over for a white-label Square. Others, like PayAnywhere, have fallen short.

What does a "low IQ" have to do with manual labor? IQ or any other measure of so called intelligence, has never -- and will probably never -- have any correlation with a person's occupation. Ultimately, it is the parent's socio-economic status which usually dictates what jobs their children will have.

The fact that you believe it could be a person's "IQ" which dictates what job they may have really shows how little regard you have for people.

Brilliant, time to port it to android. New weekend project: Beer Compass.

This is exactly why I don't take government work that comes with a clearance, despite it being the most plentiful and profitable work in my area (D.C.). Some people's work gets put to malicious purposes despite their best intentions, but someone has to develop that maliciousness. I personally sleep better at night knowing I am not developing that maliciousness.

ILSpy is probably one of the best utility programs I have ever used... It has saved me countless times from poorly documented API's and helps me work around countless bugs in third party libraries.

Reminds me of when DropBox "copied" my idea of automatically uploading every picture you took from your phone. Mine was a web-app with mobile component. The idea was to make it so easy you would never have to think about it. I even had plans that it would create albums for you based upon dates or locations. I was in the middle of writing the application when DropBox released their upload every picture you take service, shortly followed by many others.