If you plan to start a family, everything else is subordinate to supporting a happy, healthy family. A big part of that is being somewhere where there's a lot of work.
Another thing to consider, is going where the work is. My priorities are similar, but I am compelled to go where the work and money is. For me, that's the south east of England at the moment.
I hail from Australia, and always felt that I was in a very small country with limited opportunities, despite everything going for it. Probably a fantastic country to raise kids or retire, but the economy isn't as big, and there aren't as many opportunities as, say, the US or UK.
I wanted out, because I wanted to swim in a bigger pond. It was a tossup between the US and the UK, and because I had an easy visa (something you might like to consider), I just went to London. The UK has big social problems (even more than the US, it has a huge, feral, festering underclass, and I get the impression that the UK is a *BAD* place to be down on your luck), but if you're good at what you do, you can probably afford to live in a good areas and send your kids to decent schools and generally stay away from all the shit. London is a huge, bustling, dynamic place that's fairly close by, and there's something here for just about everyone (unless you're poor, of course).
You're southern European, as you say, so don't forget that you have EU treaty rights. There are plenty of options for relocation within Europe.
That said, you wouldn't want to retire here. I certainly don't plan on sticking around past retirement.
For building cool, advanced stuff, and being an elite coder generally (e.g. sophisticated apps, or competitive coding), you certainly need a level of mathematical maturity.
I certainly had to pick up a little for graphics; a mate took some machine learning classes in college without a mathematical background and it melted his brain.
Likewise, the world-class coders who win international programming contests have heavy maths backgrounds and can bring it to bear on problems real fast. The real ninja competitive programmers I've met all seem to have dual maths/computer science degrees.
For well-paying jobs in the finance domain, good maths is VERY useful.
Certainly, for everyday development, you don't need maths. But for anything particularly intense, e.g. graphics, machine learning, anything that used to be called "AI", you certainly need it.
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Interesting.
It probably wouldn't be hard for that loony to get some of his mates to DDoS the Wikileaks website whenever they need to raise a bit more money to keep Assange in his high-flying superspy lifestyle.
I think conservatives prefer Twitter, because what passes for "thinking" for the Right are slogans and canned talking points that fit into 140 characters.
Might also explain why up-and-coming tory politicians on both sides of the pond keep getting caught buying thousands of fake Twitter followers. It boosts their credibility with those who swim in the shallower end of the gene pool, in a manner of speaking...
No, indeed, Gmail for a lot of people is the weakest link because it basically acts as the master key to one's online life.
That said, social engineering is a criminal skill, not a technical one. I've had a couple of friends who were quite serious crooks-- no prospects or skills, but got far by simply being able to blag things. In and out of jail their whole lives -- but then they were operating in the real world, where doing jail time comes with the territory. The Internet however is a free fire zone for scumbags, so the normal rules don't apply.
No "hacker" should call himself such, by simply being able to sweet-talk a minimum wage drone over the phone.
I'm sure there's people out there who are saying 'ooooh hacker skills', in that somebody managed to hack this guy's mail account (or snag his password). Bunch of amateur script kiddies who'd otherwise be huffing hair spray and smashing up bus shelters.
Looks like Scripps Local News have indulged in an open-and-shut case of DMCA fraud and perjury.
However, they most likely will get away with it, as does the infamous quack and anti-vaxxer, Meryl Dorey, who attacks and silences her critics on the Internet by bombarding them with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices. Most people find it cheaper to honour the takedown notices, and make it as difficult as possible for victims to file appeals.
DMCA fraud is an old standby of corporate money grubbers and intellectual pissants all over the Internet.
Well, no. The German people BELIEVED in Hitler (that's what some of the German side of my family said, and what I've heard from elsewhere bears this out). They were otherwise good people who were brainwashed by a monster, and he lead the German nation to ruin. Believe me when I say that the German people suffered for their sins too (and I dare say, deservedly so).
This is precisely why we (the Allies) hung the leaders afterwards -- it's them who make it possible to dilute or magic-away culpability in times of war.
I think there's a lesson to be drawn here: leaders, whether they're business or political leaders, must be ruthlessly and relentlessly held to account. If our democracy has failed, it's that certain people HAVEN'T been jailed (or worse) for their crimes.
BP coopting the government to overthrow the Iranian government, follows a pattern of privatising profit, socializing liability, and getting the government to do their dirty work. And it's our fault for letting them get away with it.
Maybe BP should take another big charge on their balance sheet and wipe out their shareholders, when something bad happens, and we're forced to go to war.
They made this fucking mess, they should be forced to pay for the cleanup.
It sucks, and there really needs to be some kind of truth and reconciliation process, and some heartfelt apologies. A lot of people screwed up, and a lot of very bad decisions were made.
Good luck with that, with Iran's current government. They draw strength from demonising the West, and whipping up hatred against people who otherwise don't have a beef with them at all. Religion has a lot to do with it.
I feel sorry for the Iranian people, who by-and-large, are reasonably normal, but are stuck with a crap theocratic government through little fault of their own.
Will BP and their friends ever be held responsible for the damage they've done to world peace in the name of profit for their shareholders?
This looks like a calculated corporate "FUCK YOU" from the big corporations to the Open Source community.
Firstly, they habitually dump old and crap software onto the "community" when they're wrung any remaining possibility of profit out of a given product, and want to freeload off the Open Source community to "pay" for maintenance.
Secondly, it's an insult to the developers who've been working their butts off on alternatives like Lesstif, when CDE should've been free in the first place.
How cynical, and what a way to disrespect the community.
Right-wing stupidity is strong today. Must be something in the water supply.
There are lots of people whingeing and whining and complaining about governments "picking winners".
You just can't win with these stupid, vindictive pricks. If you have it contracted out, it's socialism and pork-barrelling. If you then turn around and try to appease the right-wing neoliberal extremists by designing a good, functioning market for US government rides to orbit, then you're "picking winners".
The stupidity and hyprocrisy with the nutjob Nazi Right is breathtaking.
I GUARANTEE you, moron, that most researchers will happily take private funding if it's on offer. Researchers on everything from nanotechnology, to psychology, to fusion energy, are screaming for resources. It just so happens that your fat cat banker and farmer friends have the ears of the politicians.
The only "crowding out" I see, is the scar tissue from all those idiotic Republican talking points crowding out the brain cells inside your head.
If you give them enough money for a private launch, I'm sure they'll be quite happy to fly your and your stuff.
Money buys anything these days -- look at those ridiculous $30m junkets rich people were buying to the ISS recently (facilities bought and paid for with taxpayer funds, no less), for instance.
With the streets being as lawless as they are -- and Friday nights resembling a war zone -- with nary a policeman in sight, you would think the police have better things to do.
The fat, retarded idiots in charge have seen fit to cut police funding by 20% and privatising everything in sight to their fat, retarded corporate cronies at G4S and Serco. Yet they find time to crack down on "fashionable" crimes, like saying rude things on Twitter.
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Mod parent up. Some excellent points here.
If you plan to start a family, everything else is subordinate to supporting a happy, healthy family. A big part of that is being somewhere where there's a lot of work.
Excellent advice, mod parent up.
Another thing to consider, is going where the work is. My priorities are similar, but I am compelled to go where the work and money is. For me, that's the south east of England at the moment.
I hail from Australia, and always felt that I was in a very small country with limited opportunities, despite everything going for it. Probably a fantastic country to raise kids or retire, but the economy isn't as big, and there aren't as many opportunities as, say, the US or UK.
I wanted out, because I wanted to swim in a bigger pond. It was a tossup between the US and the UK, and because I had an easy visa (something you might like to consider), I just went to London. The UK has big social problems (even more than the US, it has a huge, feral, festering underclass, and I get the impression that the UK is a *BAD* place to be down on your luck), but if you're good at what you do, you can probably afford to live in a good areas and send your kids to decent schools and generally stay away from all the shit. London is a huge, bustling, dynamic place that's fairly close by, and there's something here for just about everyone (unless you're poor, of course).
You're southern European, as you say, so don't forget that you have EU treaty rights. There are plenty of options for relocation within Europe.
That said, you wouldn't want to retire here. I certainly don't plan on sticking around past retirement.
For building cool, advanced stuff, and being an elite coder generally (e.g. sophisticated apps, or competitive coding), you certainly need a level of mathematical maturity.
I certainly had to pick up a little for graphics; a mate took some machine learning classes in college without a mathematical background and it melted his brain.
Likewise, the world-class coders who win international programming contests have heavy maths backgrounds and can bring it to bear on problems real fast. The real ninja competitive programmers I've met all seem to have dual maths/computer science degrees.
For well-paying jobs in the finance domain, good maths is VERY useful.
Certainly, for everyday development, you don't need maths. But for anything particularly intense, e.g. graphics, machine learning, anything that used to be called "AI", you certainly need it.
'The RIM Job'
You were good for a while.
Nice knowing you.
Interesting.
It probably wouldn't be hard for that loony to get some of his mates to DDoS the Wikileaks website whenever they need to raise a bit more money to keep Assange in his high-flying superspy lifestyle.
I think conservatives prefer Twitter, because what passes for "thinking" for the Right are slogans and canned talking points that fit into 140 characters.
Might also explain why up-and-coming tory politicians on both sides of the pond keep getting caught buying thousands of fake Twitter followers. It boosts their credibility with those who swim in the shallower end of the gene pool, in a manner of speaking...
No, indeed, Gmail for a lot of people is the weakest link because it basically acts as the master key to one's online life.
That said, social engineering is a criminal skill, not a technical one. I've had a couple of friends who were quite serious crooks-- no prospects or skills, but got far by simply being able to blag things. In and out of jail their whole lives -- but then they were operating in the real world, where doing jail time comes with the territory. The Internet however is a free fire zone for scumbags, so the normal rules don't apply.
No "hacker" should call himself such, by simply being able to sweet-talk a minimum wage drone over the phone.
I'm sure there's people out there who are saying 'ooooh hacker skills', in that somebody managed to hack this guy's mail account (or snag his password). Bunch of amateur script kiddies who'd otherwise be huffing hair spray and smashing up bus shelters.
Wait for the dirty tricks and personal attacks to begin.
The fossil fuel lobby won't take such a show of flagrant anti-rich, anti-1% dissent lying down.
Like the poor fool who dares to step between the pigs and their swill, this fellow is gonna get mauled.
Now that's what I would call the bus ride from hell.
Looks like Scripps Local News have indulged in an open-and-shut case of DMCA fraud and perjury.
However, they most likely will get away with it, as does the infamous quack and anti-vaxxer, Meryl Dorey, who attacks and silences her critics on the Internet by bombarding them with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices. Most people find it cheaper to honour the takedown notices, and make it as difficult as possible for victims to file appeals.
DMCA fraud is an old standby of corporate money grubbers and intellectual pissants all over the Internet.
Well, no. The German people BELIEVED in Hitler (that's what some of the German side of my family said, and what I've heard from elsewhere bears this out). They were otherwise good people who were brainwashed by a monster, and he lead the German nation to ruin. Believe me when I say that the German people suffered for their sins too (and I dare say, deservedly so).
This is precisely why we (the Allies) hung the leaders afterwards -- it's them who make it possible to dilute or magic-away culpability in times of war.
I think there's a lesson to be drawn here: leaders, whether they're business or political leaders, must be ruthlessly and relentlessly held to account. If our democracy has failed, it's that certain people HAVEN'T been jailed (or worse) for their crimes.
BP coopting the government to overthrow the Iranian government, follows a pattern of privatising profit, socializing liability, and getting the government to do their dirty work. And it's our fault for letting them get away with it.
Maybe BP should take another big charge on their balance sheet and wipe out their shareholders, when something bad happens, and we're forced to go to war.
They made this fucking mess, they should be forced to pay for the cleanup.
It sucks, and there really needs to be some kind of truth and reconciliation process, and some heartfelt apologies. A lot of people screwed up, and a lot of very bad decisions were made.
Good luck with that, with Iran's current government. They draw strength from demonising the West, and whipping up hatred against people who otherwise don't have a beef with them at all. Religion has a lot to do with it.
... chucking the baby out with the bathwater.
I feel sorry for the Iranian people, who by-and-large, are reasonably normal, but are stuck with a crap theocratic government through little fault of their own.
Will BP and their friends ever be held responsible for the damage they've done to world peace in the name of profit for their shareholders?
This looks like a calculated corporate "FUCK YOU" from the big corporations to the Open Source community.
Firstly, they habitually dump old and crap software onto the "community" when they're wrung any remaining possibility of profit out of a given product, and want to freeload off the Open Source community to "pay" for maintenance.
Secondly, it's an insult to the developers who've been working their butts off on alternatives like Lesstif, when CDE should've been free in the first place.
How cynical, and what a way to disrespect the community.
Right-wing stupidity is strong today. Must be something in the water supply.
There are lots of people whingeing and whining and complaining about governments "picking winners".
You just can't win with these stupid, vindictive pricks. If you have it contracted out, it's socialism and pork-barrelling. If you then turn around and try to appease the right-wing neoliberal extremists by designing a good, functioning market for US government rides to orbit, then you're "picking winners".
The stupidity and hyprocrisy with the nutjob Nazi Right is breathtaking.
That's bullshit, what's being "crowded out"?
I GUARANTEE you, moron, that most researchers will happily take private funding if it's on offer. Researchers on everything from nanotechnology, to psychology, to fusion energy, are screaming for resources. It just so happens that your fat cat banker and farmer friends have the ears of the politicians.
The only "crowding out" I see, is the scar tissue from all those idiotic Republican talking points crowding out the brain cells inside your head.
Is _is_ private.
If you give them enough money for a private launch, I'm sure they'll be quite happy to fly your and your stuff.
Money buys anything these days -- look at those ridiculous $30m junkets rich people were buying to the ISS recently (facilities bought and paid for with taxpayer funds, no less), for instance.
You are dumb. You don't even know what far-Left is.
Typical Britain.
With the streets being as lawless as they are -- and Friday nights resembling a war zone -- with nary a policeman in sight, you would think the police have better things to do.
The fat, retarded idiots in charge have seen fit to cut police funding by 20% and privatising everything in sight to their fat, retarded corporate cronies at G4S and Serco. Yet they find time to crack down on "fashionable" crimes, like saying rude things on Twitter.
The mind boggles.
Right, so criticising the Chinese Communist Party and their infectious (and notorious) lack of principle is racist?
Mate, you're a genius.
Only Facebook would benefit.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Evidence, or STFU please.