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> governments are immortal and can print their own money

The part with governments "can print their own money" is actually incorrect for many European countries. That is the main problem for the PIIGs right now.

Thanks for the recomendation, I just bought the book. I am trying to learm more about visualizations (and D3). Any other recomendation?

>> Take your first, crappy implementation and rewrite it in the same language and you'll probably still see at least 10x improvement.

You will probably will get the same mess. There is plenty of literature about that. I.e: A complete rewrite is what killed Netscape

You are the native speaker, so I guess you are right. In my defense, I checked the wikipedia before I posted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Both has been happening for a long time. Romans used to say: "Bread and circuses"

Honest question, Are people concern because there are not enough afro-americans/hispanics/etc in the software industry?

In DK you also have the Kontanthjælp, that used to be the last line of the welfare system.

Unfortunately we are not quite there yet. If we were a more cohesive union, there wouldn't be such a thing as a European debt crisis. We will have Eurobonds, automatic states bailouts, a fiscal union, etc.

It might take another 50 years, but we, eventually, will become a single union. This are interesting times

I see that they mention backbone and ember, but how does Yeoman play with angularJs?

Advertising is one of them. I wonder if google/facebook/apple will go that path someday. Actually, is more matter of "when" than "if".

Not, but removing hundreds of thousands of taxi/truck drivers will do it

You forgot to mention another consequence, the return of the Luddites

There is an upcoming AngularJS meetup in London

http://www.meetup.com/AngularJS-London/events/78531572/

Now the OP just need to teach himself programming in ten years [1] ;)

[1] http://norvig.com/21-days.html

The command line is a bicycle skills. Any programmer should learn it.

ditto

Dont forget to blog about it

Well, the OP is about Copenhagen, Denmark. It is not exactly warn and sunny here.

I was kidding. I moved to CPH three years ago from Andalusia, Spain. I am still in shock

It was that or the weather :)

This is your best option, apply to everything

http://it-jobbanken.dk

I am in the ship, I have signed in the statistics 101 class [1] at udacity. Its very basic, but it's a good starting point. Coursera have also several math related courses [2] (calculus, autmata, logic, ...).

I have also signed in a class in nearest community college in my area.

[1] http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/st101/CourseRev/1

[2] https://www.coursera.org/category/math

Happy logarithmic!

I will love to be able to switch career path at some point in the (far) future, but I don't see how to start doing the move.

Two essay with opposite views on the relationship between innovation, employment and prosperity, Race Against The Machine [1], and The Great Stagnation [2].

[1] Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy

In "Race Against the Machine", economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee ask the question: Could technology be destroying jobs? They then expand on that to explore whether advancing information technology might be an important contributor to the current unemployment disaster. The authors argue very convincingly that the answer to both questions is YES.

http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-The-Machine-ebook/dp/B005...

[2] The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better.

Cowen's central idea is that the pace of innovation has slowed, and that we are now on a "technological plateau" that makes further growth challenging. If you consider technology in the broad sense (energy, transportation, home, etc), this makes sense as things have not changed a lot in recent decades. However, I think it is also true that progress has been highly concentrated in information technology and communications, and that things continue to advance rapidly in this area. Cowen notes this but seems to feel that the Internet is the only really major innovation. http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Stagnation-Low-Hanging-ebook...

Hi Brian,

I was looking forward to see your presentation in SpainJS next month, but I might not be able to make it.

Is there any of your roy talks online or any gentle introduction to roy besides roy.brianmckenna.org?

There are plenty of twitter boostrap themes for ~$20.

A fellow HN user started this theme shop:

https://wrapbootstrap.com/

There are a couple of interesting books about that topic [1, 2]

The premise of most of them is that innovation its outpacing the hability of the average person to keep him self employable. That will lead to massive unemployment, bigger wealth inequality and social unrest.

[1] Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy

[2] The lights in the tunnel. Where will advancing technology, job automation, outsourcing and globalization lead?

I mean the spartan user interface approach the followed in the early 2000s in their core product.

We give for granted now that applications should be clean, focus, etc, but for many years that was not the trend. To put it into perspective, its major rivals at the time (Yahoo, and MSN) followed the opposite path.

Google had a huge impact on how web interfaces are done today.

They also popularize ajax when they launched gmail but that its another story.

There are a few important missings. Just to point one, the Googles's original UI was as revolutionary as many of the examples here.

> Since moving inside Europe is really simple, I'd urge anybody curious to take a shot and stay here for a while.

Not everywhere in the EU, I moved to Denmark almost two years ago, and I am completely sure that the Danish system was designed to keep people out of their border. Simple tasks like open a bank account are a troublesome for even EU citizens