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