laaph

This is quite incorrect. However, a US citizen residing in EU will be covered by GDPR.

But EU citizens residing in non-EU countries are not.

This happened to me. Rather than have an email address that only works in one country, I stopped using the email address.

It was a pain.

I'm not sure why you got downvoted, but your name sounds like you want to be a tough high school kid to me.

I know a professor who taught there for many years. He tells more stories about the heat than about his students, but his stories don't sound like that. Considering that from the way you've talked, it sounds like you've never been there and only have second hand information, so it seems equally valid to me.

Do you want me to tell you stories of people like that in the US? I've worked with plenty of people who tell me that women are good for nothing except making more children. Should I tell you that the culture in the US is all about looking at women just as childbearers?

True, I've never been to a country that starts with a "Q", but I've met many who have, many who tell differing tales. I have been in a muslim country long enough, I have my own perceptions on these things.

I know a website that starts with an H and sounds like it could be associated with criminals. Some guy made an anecdote there, and generalized an entire country based on his anecdote. That's the culture right there.

Brexit will not damage anyone higher up. If it becomes damaging, they leave for another country.

Brexit will take that option away from anyone with lower wages, however.

Once upon a time I used a program called iRate. It had an online database of freely available music, and would download music, and you could rate the music, and its algorithms would attempt to figure out what music you liked and provide you with more of it. While the algorithms sucked, it was really nice to listen to random music, with a menu item that said "download more music", and get more music you had never heard of.

More recently, I used Songbird (which went through a few name changes). It was a web browser that tried to include iTunes functionality. It really sucked - imagine trying to take a normal web browser and make it twice or thrice or more slower - but the idea was nice, you could go to music blogs, and click the play button and listen to all the songs they linked to, and click the download button if you wanted to keep the file.

I am trying to get Nuclear to work, just to see what it's about, but I literally can't get any audio out of the program. That makes it slightly useless.

I would love a program that collated legally available music and provide a music player interface (preferably VLC or WinAmp style and speediness). There is so much music out there that you would never have to listen to the same song twice. Digging through SoundCloud and BandCamp and Archive.org would provide endless music. Archive.org alone, if you wanted to avoid legal issues (even though lots of music is available free streaming at the other two websites I mentioned).

Perhaps I'll have to write this program myself. I already have too many projects as it is, though.

I'm getting the same results. I've puzzled with it for 20 minutes and have yet to get sound out of it.

Happy new year! I have been texting everyone in my phone contact list. But for all of you too happy new year!

Unfortunately, I've lost a lot of hope. I've learned a lot, though. I've learned that you need a hefty marketing budget or else no one will know of your game. But paying advertising for players is a cost; you need to make your game addictive so they come back and watch adverts repeatedly. This considerably distorts game design.

Having said all that, I am working on a new game, admittedly more than just one new game, and if I can focus on just one I will try again! Perhaps free demo with in-app purchase to unlock full game, to avoid the insanity of adverts, despite everyone saying adverts pay better.

I made a game for iOS and Android. It failed to generate any revenue.

Anyone interested can play http://polypogon.com/

You should check out Endless Sky for a good open source remake of Escape Velocity.

http://endless-sky.github.io

Location: Kayseri, Turkey

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, to any EU country

Technologies: Python, Perl, Unity/C#, Matlab, C

Resume/CV available on request

Email laaph@laaph.com

About a year ago I moved from the US to Turkey to be with my wife. My steady remote work had been slowly phased out, and I've been focusing on learning Turkish and my own attempts at being an independent app developer. Unfortunately my finances have been running out faster than my apps (mostly games) and occasional contracts bring in.

I've got a varied history; I've worked in the sciences, in system administration, and in marketing and analytics. While I've listed my main programming languages, I have a smattering of experience in many other topics including Java, C++ (with Borland), Objective-C, Squirrel, PHP, SQL, bash, Wordpress, and many more. I have experience working remotely. I've done plenty of contract work, but would prefer full employment.

I am open to hearing about any interesting positions. Thank you.

I found this article written oddly, as if it were a phenomena that is only affecting the US. Fertility rates have been collapsing world-wide, ever since the 90s if not longer. Yet this article doesn't mention that Europe has had below replacement rates since the 90s, and the rest of the world is having significantly less children per woman than it did back then too.

For each of the specific things it suggests it might be, it would have to be something that is affecting the whole world, maybe at different rates around the world but the whole world nonetheless.

Hans Rosling in one of his videos said we see the birth rate drop when women are educated and have economic opportunities outside the house.

Where can I find someone like this? I need this help.

iPhones are still in almost every phone store in Turkey. I think they've been selling slower due to the currency fluctuations, a few years ago they'd cost 2000TL, now they cost 5000TL, and I last checked a few months ago when it was still 4.5ish to the dollar, so I expect they will be more expensive next time I check.

I'm not understanding this line of reasoning. Are you assuming the US didn't have inflation in that time? I know it would be less than the lira but even still I'm not sure there would be a direct correlation.

But the ads are not about “not liking foreigners.” They are about a country with very different beliefs and attitudes

People with very different beliefs and attitudes exist in the same voting blocs everywhere. Should people in Portland Oregon complain that people in Jon Day get to vote in the same elections? Rural people tend to be far more religious and have very different beliefs and attitudes.

I write this to point out that, in the US, people will treat any crank seriously if he has enough money or enough prowess in another field.

I once attended a lecture given by Donald Knuth on the topic of a verse in the bible. The first thing that he said was "I'm not sure why people would come to a computer scientist for his thoughts on religion".

The celebrity effect is real; by being a celebrity you can venture in to worlds you know nothing about and people will take you seriously.

I know why I went to see Donald Knuth that day, and I got to hear his reviews on his religious life. Even though I recognized him for his work in comp sci I still listened to him. (Not that I will accuse him of not knowing what he was talking about, I'm the one unfamiliar with that topic.)

I also recommend https://old.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/

I'm trying to get an app to the app store. Mysteriously, the archive button on XCode isn't working. It says it compiles successfully and yet there is no archive to submit when I'm done. I've googled all over and everyone else has a different solution to this problem. This little issue has delayed release a day so far.

I've done this 50 times before (10 times in this project!) and these kinds of issues still occasionally occur. How does anyone predict for this kind of thing?

I wish I learned to take care of my health at a younger age. Of course, I'm overdue to go to the dentist, so perhaps I'm still struggling with that.

I wish I had learned not to have a fear of other people at a younger age. It's easy to say that I was "shy". I think it went much further than that. I'm in a place where I don't speak the common language, and let me tell you how hard it is to learn a language when you are "shy".

I wish I learned to recognize abusive behaviors and asshole-ism much earlier than I did. I occasionally shock people by telling a story where awful stuff happened and at the time I didn't think anything was wrong.

I wish I learned whatever it is that makes people want to hire you in interviews. I've been through thousands of interviews, and the only jobs I've ever gotten are ones where I wasn't interviewed. Even when recommended for jobs, where I'm perfect for the position and the job is perfect for me, I've never gotten hired that way. Most jobs don't easily let you in the back door; usually you still have to go through an interview process. I still don't have this one sorted out, even if the previous two I have down much better.

It was intended to stop the large abusers but it just stifled small companies

It also hasn't gone in to effect yet, so I'm not sure how much stifling it has done so far.

Can you clarify which API I should be using for data access? My last project involved determining locations parks and rivers, and I ran in to a lot of the same problems. But, if I just want GPS coordinates, I'm not sure where else to go. Mapbox is find for rendering but less so if I want the raw data and use it myself (for a phone application for example).

That's their job when the situation warrants it. It's not their job to practice on every Tom Dick and Harry just for the fun of it.

ALL THEY DO IS HOST YOUR FRIENDS' PHOTOS

If that's all they do, why do they just show me my friend's political rants and never the photos? I have to click on a specific person to see their entire timeline these days ("Most recent" only shows me a couple things, and then tells me to add more friends), and it's almost always their political rants and links, and rarely their photos.

I've started using Instagram, ironically also owned by facebook, because it's photos and not weird political rants.

I was suspected of going to Syria, and they did not search my electronics (or anything) at all. It wasn't until after all sorts of questioning that they searched me, and they didn't tell me the reasons for their questions until they were done either.

Oddly enough, I had a raspberry pi with me (with no case or packaging), and I thought I'd get accused of making bombs like the girl at Logan airport. However, the kid searching my luggage said "cool, a raspberry pi! What projects do you do with it?"

This is awesome!

This is also not blocked in Turkey!

It would really be nice if there was a pager for it. As it is, the easiest way to use this is to enable logging on your terminal, look up your article, and scroll scroll scroll. Some of these articles are huge.

I like your suggestions, but I have to tell you my anecdote. As someone relatively new to Turkey, I followed r/Turkey to find more information and understand things better. But I quickly found that your description of it is pretty accurate. But as someone still struggling to learn the language and wants information on Turkey, where are better forums to look?

I blame people who care more about illegal immigrants than the disenfranchised citizens suffering in poverty in the US.

Would you like to blame me?

But, from my perspective, I heard very little Trump say that would affect illegal immigration (his only proposal for that was to build a wall), but I heard lots of things that sounded like heavy bigotry to me. He wanted to ban muslims, ban refugees from the very places where the US instigates wars, and generally said a lot of vile stuff.

I may have taken it all a little too personally. Trump literally advocated for banning my future wife from the US. I'm too old for DACA, but when I tried to get a passport I discovered I didn't have paperwork to get a passport. Recent changes in laws mean our families literally can't visit each other, and we are discussing what to do.

On the other hand, I imagine some people would like their mother-in-law banned from the country. It would at least make a good joke for someone.