Didn't even read the story as soon as I saw it was an economist article. It's a complete rag written by hipsters, there's a reason no article has writing credits.
Just because places aren't hiring doesn't mean you don't send them a portfolio of work anyways. Find a place you want to work at and harass them gently for a job.
If you need extra money troll the bitcoin forums for posts of people looking for small store software to be built or other forums. Troll local craigslist in the 'gigs: computer' section, write and sell ebooks, write android or ios apps for the thousands of entrepreneurs looking to get into the game for enough change to buy a ticket and flee
Maintainers left and somehow the decision was to start integrating LLVM with base instead. I think openbsd devs prefer pcc but there is just too much work to do on it and no motivation right now, so LLVM it is
The CEO of Steam Gabe Newell disagrees with you. They (and Blizzard) are moving away from Windows 8 entirely.
Steam is coming out with it's "steam box" which is a linux run gaming and home entertainment system. You can also run windows on it if you want it's not a proprietary console device apparently.
There are articles everywhere how Windows 8 completely killed the PC gaming scene
I am forced to use mysql for an experimental homomorphic encrypted db. Now that I know there's actual pro support for PostgreSQL that have commits I'm never going to use mysql ever again as I was just hung up on a few things while porting to Postgre. Great success I can't wait to nuke mysql from my system forever
The cult of the cloud is great business for me since I specialize in finding VMM and KVM bugs.
Since corporations want to cheap out and host their previously secure physical boxes all on one server with a wide open console and management system to get into this has made pentesting much easier.
I especially like projects like Whonnix, where fools construct this complex layer of virtual machines on top of virtual machines. It's like taking the shit sandwich of blobs and bugs that is x64 architecture and ethernet drivers, and building a whole mountain of shit right on top then calling it secure.
The cloud definitely has some benefits, but if you're handling finance or require serious privacy better shell out for some OpenBSD racks, virtualize the routing table and set up pf firewalls to isolate the network with real actual isolation and not pretend magic isolation. Best of all there's just one operating system, not three of them piled on top of each other.
The .biz site is cookie cutter bullshit full of buzzwords I wouldn't want to pay for it either but I applaud these guys screwing over their stingy boss anyways. Every web designer I've met has plenty of stories of not being paid or being asked to build a megasite for an insultingly low figure by cheapskate startups
This is the corporatist way. Everything is measured so it can be 'tweaked' by managers and technocrats because school is a business now.
Having a bad teacher to me doesn't matter when any kid can turn on his phone or laptop and watch free MIT lectures, free Stanford lectures, free Khanacademy lectures, free Android and iOS developer courses all over youtube, ect.
Gates obsession with teacher metrics would be better spent on building an entirely free university with worldwide standardized credits, so somebody in Pakistan can have their education credentials accepted should they start working overseas instead of being forced to drive a cab around Montreal while spending thousands to retake what he/she already learned.
Walking around campus I still see an endless sea of Apple products, though it's more of a fashion accessory now.
I am a pariah with my IBM Thinkpad running openbsd. When I spot the other heathens using Thinkpads we nod at each other like it's some underground secret club.
As for tablets the new google nexus tablets will be in the $99-150 range and you can manipulate the source to custom build whatever you want.
There's a good reason people left Europe to build new lives in Canada and USA, because they left behind the old world entrenched hatred, corruption and religious intolerance.
US may be responsible for institutionalized modern slavery with their insanity prison system, but at least you don't have mainstream political parties calling for the death of romani and jews like they do in France, Greece, Italy and Hungary.
Even the Netherlands has seen it's fair share of ultra fascist political parties that used soccer jingles to rally hooligans to their cause and beat immigrants in the streets. That these fascist parties would now use Twitter to further organize their members is not surprising but at least on Twitter there's a diaspora of people to refute their bullshit racism and scapegoating. Simply censoring it will not make it go away.
Speaking of Italy Berlusconi used Holocaust Memorial Day a few hours ago to praise the leadership of Mussolini. No I didn't make that up. That's how screwed Europe is right now.
Games are already being ported to other operating systems because of microsoft greed.
MS wants to copy everybody with an app and game store, which will be the only authorized way to download and install anything on to windows 8+
They also want to charge 30% to any vendor that wants to sell in their store. Since game makers like Steam have their own content delivery system which will be blocked by MS they already panicked and announced a new linux client and have claimed to be committed to switching everything over the next few years and dumping windows
Bill Gates eradicating disease is pretty awesome. His weird school ranking system in the US is pretty bizarre and utilitarian.
"Students would be better served by measures of which colleges were best preparing their graduates for the job market." is total corporatist bullshit. How about more free courses online like what MIT and Stanford are doing.
-authorities won't care msgs are anonymous and will assume you wrote them or know who did if your phone is seized, you will get rubber hosed anyways
-just having the app on your phone means guilty of dissent if arrested the erase function pretty useless. should camoflauge the app
-wandering around with bluetooth enabled while your adversary is a despotic regime with money to buy corporate intelligence contractor provided sophisticated malware and spyware is dangerous. hey here's my phone wide open for you to exploit even better, create spyware that jumps from phone to phone as we pass msgs you can create a virtual listening network to spy on the entire revolution
-intel can be changed by agents or censored before being passed on
to pass the app between devices could use nfc or wifi but that would also be dangerous to leave on all the time should agents get close enough to you and exploit your nfc to copy contacts or inject spyware, or wifi.
that said this is better than nothing which is the alternative
Here's an older yet excellent argument and slash piece why the economist is a piece of trash http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=10127&...