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That is, imo, a very simplistic explanation of what happened in the Weimar republic. The interwar period were complex and convoluted times

The military overspend during WWI and draconian terms that the winners impose over Germany destroyed the economy of the country, creating a spiral of hyperinflation[1], both led to an inevitable second conflict, as Keynes pointed in "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" that was written many years before the WWII

[1] A great book about Weimar hyperinflation cycle is "When money dies: The nightmare of the Weimar collapse"

One of them developed Siri and the other Watson.

tl,dr: Learn Clojure, Leiningen and popular Clojure web stack pieces like Ring, Compojure, and enlive.

> I am curious, under what circumstances would one use this, rather than something like Rescue? And there is so much competition in this space, what

The goal is not to replace the existing queue solutions, but to create a common API, so the rest of the gems can can just treat all of them in a uniform way.

Quoting Jose Valim:

"The point of the Queue is to be small and provide an API that more robust engines like resque and sidekiq can hook in. So you can easily start with an in memory queue (as you can see, the implementation does not even reach 100LOC) which is also easy to test and then easily swap to another one.

Why this is good? By having an unified API, tools like Devise, Action Mailer can simply use Rails.queue.push() instead of worrying with compatibility for different plugins.

So the goal here is provide an API for queueing and with a simple in memory implementation. It is not meant to be a robust queue system. "

A central event emitter is common practice in client software. It is also known as the event aggregator pattern. A nice description by Martin Fowler[1]

[1] http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventAggregator.html

and .. "Full specifications of the CPU will be released shortly, so the more programatically advanced of you can get a head start."

Plain text is ok for the README file, but markdown is more readable, specially if you are going to include code examples.

The Streisand effect in all its glory

It might refer to the true romance scene about the sicilians:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8XkOYcz3hI

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India have even more good reasons:

- India's domestic consumption accounts for 57% of the GPD.

- India's housing bubble is not even close to what has been going on in China.

- 650 million Indian's are estimated to live on $2 a day (100 millions in china).

- India's population will overtake china's during the 2020's

OTHO, India has other problems like endemic corruption, less investment in infrastructure, or terrible levels of inflation for example.

Great!

RSS feed? How often are planing to release episodes?

Sinatra up and running, is a good introduction to Sinatra.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920019664.do#PowerReview

It looks great.

If anyone want to see a rails-backbone application example Railscasts has published today "Backbone on rails part 1"[1].

[1] http://railscasts.com/episodes/323-backbone-on-rails-part-1

PS It's a paid screencast, but railscasts pro is worth the money.

You should check the Hacker News freelancer thread of this month [1].

I.e. I do front-end and back end development and my rate its around $45 per hour. Its probably on the cheap side, but I am trying to extend my customer network.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537882

May I have your email address, I would like to ask you a couple of questions before I apply. You can find my email in my profile if you prefer not to publish your email here.

SEEKING WORK. I'm based in the Denmark, remote/travel is OK, I am willing relocate for the right project.

Software Developer: Ruby, Objective-C, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, Cucumber, CSS/SASS, HTML/HAML, MongoDB, Javascript, Coffeescript, Backbone, Jasmine, jQuery, Git, and shell scripting.

I would love to hear about your project, drop me a line at pedro.delgallego@gmail.com

Portfolio: http://pdelgallego.com

It is possible, and the Copenhagen suborbital hackers launch a rocket last summer. YOu can read more about it in their website.

http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/

Too late, Bloomberg government[1] its already doing it.

[1] http://about.bgov.com/

The activation email said:

    Activate account at example.com:
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Instead of something like

   Activate account at plangr.com:
   http://www.plangr.com/accounts/activate/xxxx

>> Marketing and distribution is a sizeable chunk of money in a project too

How is a movie marketed and distributed in the film industry?

>> - Camera and grip departement can get huge... I've done only a moderate size productions and my camera and grip dept. was 20-30 people (skilled labour that costs money)

Could the team size be reduced by more/better technology?

>> Sound designers start their work (sound design is a major component of content along with images) - Composer starts their work

>> Prop dept. is rare in talent and costs a lot of money, traditional FX even more so - Sound designers which are good are rare, they cost, their hardware and software costs. Foley is even more rare to find.

How much of this work can be outsource to other countries?

Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström are both Scandinavians.

+ Skype, Zendesk, Opera, Rovio, among others.

What is the default company structure? Any place were I can read more about it?

Unfortunately, many Spanish commercial banks and saving banks bet the farm on the real state market. For example the Sabadell Bank just bought the CAM (a saving bank) for one euro.[1]

The were some talking about burst the bubble in 2004, but Zapatero's government never implement the reforms. The Spanish prime minister regret later about not bursting the bubble earlier.[2]

Spanish banks are well protected against loans because, the asset pledge as collateral" clause is rarely use in Spain.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-08/sabadell-buys-ca... [2] http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/06/28/suvivienda/13092749... (Spanish)

You should consider Spine as well.

Backbone has concepts of Models, Views and Collections (groups of Models) vs Spine that has concepts of Models and Controllers.

Both additionally have client side routes.

Spine abstracts away prototypal inheritance a little more regarding "super".

Spine has localStorage support natively.

Spain did a lot of mistakes. I.e. not to take any action to stop the real state bubble, create unnecessary infrastructure, or the fact that a plenty of youngster stopped their education in order to work as construction workers.

>> And my Facebook data I really don't care about.

If you are based in the EU, them the european data-protection laws give you the right to get a copy of all the data Facebook has on you, not just the data you uploaded but everything.

They have up to 40 days to deliver a CD-ROM with all your data.

>> and am not convinced modern programs should be written in lisp any more (though that's hazy).

Can you elaborate or recommend me some reading that support this point?

I'm not a US citizen, but I'm looking forward to apply for internships in the US next Spring.

What are in your opinion the skills that an intern must have to get a position? It is normal in the US to consider foreigners for an intern position?