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Offtopic, but that's a really awesome idea for our veterans. Thanks for working on it!

We use Rancher with Cattle and do CI/CD via our self-hosted GitLab CI. Pretty easy to setup & maintain. Would definitely recommend taking a look at Rancher if you haven't yet.

Because you don't want it to be or because you have proof? If you have proof, show it.

The crux is we are all social creatures and need to feel accepted by the opposite sex.

Yeah, no.

If we fall short, we will spin ad infinitum worrying about it.

Nope.

Its a deep rooted need within us and cannot be rationalized away, similar to rationalizing you are full when you haven't eaten for a long time.

Lol. No.

Lose weight, eat right, get fit, etc etc etc

I lost 120 lb's and got down to 10% body fat when I was in my early 20's (300 to 180) having been extremely fat my whole life up to that point. I was still a nervous wreck with severe self confidence issues. I did it for women like OP says to above. Please don't make the same mistake I did. Do it for yourself. Do it for your own health. If you do it for such shallow reasons like the OP is saying, you won't keep it off. It takes work and it takes time. Also, you don't need to be fit with a 6 pack to talk to/pick up/ask out women. All you need is self confidence, and thats not something you can get by lifting weights. Anybody who tells you different is naive and a fool (and probably more insecure than you). The best piece of advice I ever got when it comes to confidence: Know yourself, appreciate yourself, love yourself - if you can't do any of those things how do you expect someone else to.

While I see what you are saying, the OP to your post has it correct. You can say a republic is a bastardized form of democracy, but the reverse is not true. You can look at one of the few true democracies that has ever existed as an example - ancient Greece. Every citizen[1] could vote and put forward changes to laws or even create new laws (obviously with a majority vote).

[1] A citizen was considered to be any person born of Greece, white and male.

You don't have to invest in Amazon if it doesn't meet your expectations.

Relevant quote:

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"

- Epicurus

Fantastic db, but maybe not quite ready for production usage. We are using influx for a small portion of our ingestion engine as well as for storing server metrics. The updates/improvements have been pretty astounding over the last year, but also hard to keep up. I had to fork the nodejs library just to update it from 0.9 to 0.12 [0] because there were a LOT of breaking changes. Pre-0.9 there were many issues we ran into when it came to disk space & performance but they have all been resolved as of 0.9.

Another thing to note (after speaking with them on a few occasions) is that they are only providing cluster support to their enterprise offering which wont be available till this summer. They do offer Relay which is their high availability tool for the open source version.[1] You really won't need clustering unless you're doing an insane amount of writes: single server performance is insane right now. We average 10k writes/sec with bursts up to 5x that and it doesn't break a sweat (on a cheap 2 cpu/7gb ram instance, with ssd block storage).

[0] https://github.com/thinkdevcode/node-influx

[1] https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.12/high_availability...

While I could some what see the reasoning behind accredited investor rules, I personally don't agree with them. If I can't spend the money I've earned how I want to it limits mobility and freedom on my part. If I want to invest in a startup, or invest in something like PeerStreet, it should be my right to lose (or gain) my money. I don't make 300k, nor do I have a million in assets, but as an engineer I make a decent pay check and have no dependents so why can't I throw my extra $ around how I want?

A good place to start is this quora link[1] that has many further links to read.

[1]https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-biggest-websites-built-wi...

Walmart must be considered a small corporation then. Good to know.

As someone who's been to LIV a few times, I can say that entrance alone on most weekend nights (fri/sat) is $100. "Premium" drinks like Patron (how is that premium?) are $25 a glass. Those skyboxes on the second floor (that look down on the dance floor) start at $10,000 minimum. Fortunately, I never had to pay because I had a mutual friend with the owner. LIV is definitely on the top end of South Beach nightlife, but there are other clubs that have similar prices.

I click on the "Value Now" button under Equity Value Calculator and I go to Heroku Welcome page...

Edit: all three buttons go to same page

https://exivest.herokuapp.com/

Big companies are already big brands. Most acquisitions take place for talent, IP, or users/customers.

$1600 is roughly an 8 night stay in Miami, at a decent hotel. I think this is a great deal for me as I can stay anywhere they are available when I want. I already pay over $2000 for a single bedroom apartment in downtown Fort Lauderdale - and I am stuck here in a lease for a year.

BlueNRGY / Draker Energy - Fort Lauderdale, FL - ONSITE, REMOTE (for the right candidate)

Come work with a small knit group of engineers in a rapidly expanding market - renewable energy. We're primarily looking for a senior Ruby on Rails developer to work on our flagship SaaS product, but would love for you to also be open to hacking on other technologies (NodeJS, Go, Aurelia, etc) as we build out new and exciting products for our industry. We would prefer on-site, but for the the right candidate we will allow remote. Also a plus if you can geek out on data as we are moving towards analytics and machine learning on our rapidly growing dataset.

If you want to find out more or meet for up for a coffee, email me: eugene_alfonso@bluenrgy.com with the subject HN.

http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/ArmA%20III

Usually the top streams in the Arma 3 directory are RP streams.

Self-driving cars

The OP wrote a blanket statement stating if you follow this specific path you become "rusty" and ultimately end up not being able to code. He then states this becomes an issue when architecting solutions.

To me this is clearly non-sense as someone who's followed this path (and know others who have as well). Being an architect allows me to see the big picture and move the organization in the right direction (as we see it), while still being able to get into the trenches with my developers when something arises or help is needed. Granted, this is different for large enterprises but for startups/small/mid sized businesses, yes, us architects still get our hands dirty (or else we're irrelevant).

Gee, that's the path I followed. Now as a chief architect, I guess I can't code anymore. Good to know!

Imagine you don't swim, yet you consult with an active swimmer, a professional swimmer, and a scientist who studies swimming and they all say you can swim. Do you jump in the deep end?

I wouldn't. And what OP said is absolutely true when it comes to nootropics. Moda should not be taken lightly. Start with the basics and work your way up.

By future-proof I didn't actually mean forever. It heavily makes use of es6/es7, so it was designed with "forward-thinking" design choices (forward thinking is what I intended when I wrote future proof). Right now it relies on babel, but as es6/es7 gains adoption it'll grow out of requiring it. Similar to Angular 2.0, which is also being developed with a forward thinking mindset.

I also highly recommend Aurelia. It's a fantastic and future proof front-end library.

Out of curiosity, why Spark over Scalatra? (http://scalatra.org/)

The one piece of advice I was given years ago:

There is no such thing as "sales", and you aren't a "salesman". You provide a solution to a problem. Listen, understand, and then offer a solution.

I forgot who told me that but it's fantastic advice. As far as understanding people, the de facto book to read is "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. I'd highly recommend that.

I don't usually reply to HN posts but in this instance I'm deeply troubled by most of the posts you've made in this thread, but the most unsettling thing you've said thus far is:

Because they are creating a world that is just very slightly more considerate than the one before.

Who gives you, or anyone else, the right to "create a world" in which I am a member of and can dictate what I can and cannot say? Why do you get to decide what is "considerate"?

I see this in our next generation and this trend is most troubling indeed.

In this instance, a massive and towering inferno in a port/construction zone/etc would be a reasonable marker that an explosion is possible and likely imminent.

This is why you stay away from doors and windows during a possible explosion:

https://twitter.com/OrRavid/status/631538952747380736

New, new, new hotness is Aurelia! Get with the times!

http://aurelia.io/

Edit: just wanted to point out that this post was only partially satirical. I absolutely am in love with Aurelia atm.

You witness those who've made it as devs

If you read my other comment you also read the part where I said I have been around a lot of terrible developers (worked with, for, under, around, consulted for, etc). These people have "made it" as you said, with long careers in software development, but they are far from competent. Which leads us to your next point:

how many of them end up as decent developers

I don't honestly think where or how you start can be used as any sort of determination for how "decent" you are. What matters to me is passion (i've said this a few times already in other comments). When I am hiring and interviewing developers to bring on to the team I barely look at their resumes and I definitely don't look at their education history. Whats more important to me is the initial call, and then the face-to-face. I don't even bother asking any real technical questions. What i'm looking for is a spark; something that tells me this person loves to build and learn. Self-taught or university taught makes no difference at the end of the day, and should never be used as basis to judge whether a person is a "decent" developer or not.

We ALL need to be able to learn quickly or we simply don't last.

I totally agree with that statement. In my response, I meant that self-taught devs have a leg up, so to speak, in the beginning. In the end, we all need to learn quickly and adapt regardless of how we started.

Assembly, lisp/ada/scheme/etc., C/C++/Java, graphics, computer learning, computer architecture, etc.

From my own experience as a self-taught developer, I have learned, though maybe never used professionally, almost all of those topics to some degree because I had a keen interest in understanding software and computing in general. I find that self-taught devs, though not a majority, are like that - they want to know and understand because its passion of theirs. Also, i'm not saying that university trained students lack that passion either. I believe at the end of the day it really doesnt matter whether you are self-taught or not, only the passion you bring into learning and understanding is what matters.