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BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 20 Syrian security men were killed when two explosives-laden cars drove into a military camp in the southern town of Deraa on Saturday, an opposition watchdog said, in what appeared to be a double suicide attack by rebel forces.
In a conflicting report, state news agency SANA said three bombs had gone off in the town near the border with Jordan, killing seven people in what it described as a series of terrorist attacks.
Suicide bombings by hardline Islamist militant groups have become a regular feature of the 19-month old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, though there were no immediate claims of responsibility for Saturday's attacks in Deraa.
The UK-based opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the first car had driven into a Deraa military camp and exploded. The casualties were caused by the detonation of the second vehicle which followed it, the Observatory said.
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The Syrian government routinely blames foreign-backed Islamist militants for the anti-Assad revolt, in which the Observatory says about 38,000 people have been killed.
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Thanks for watching! I hope you enjoyed it.
If you're interested in a more serious analysis, here's a gigantic, detailed breakdown.
American technology companies want the government to make immigration easier because they say they can't find enough programmers in the US. Anti-immigration people say that instead of letting foreigners take these jobs, we should train more Americans to be programmers. Who's right?First of all, this is a false dichotomy. I don't think I've ever heard "anti-immigration people" say anything about training more Americans to be programmers. The only times I've ever heard "anti-immigration people" express any opinions in American politics, those opinions have consistently been racist opinions about Latinos in general and Mexicans in particular.
But Mr. Graham opened up his post with a cliffhanger. "Who's right?" he asked.
The technology companies are right.I bet you didn't see that one coming.
What the anti-immigration people don't understand is that there is a huge variation in ability between competent programmers and exceptional ones...Mr. Graham never bothers to identify "the anti-immigration people," and I'm not totally convinced that they exist at all. I mean I know anti-immigration people exist in general, but I think the "anti-immigration people" Paul Graham wants to "debate" here are fictional. Likewise, I could be willing to assume that people who spend most of their time making racist remarks about Latinos might also be unaware of the varying levels of programming talent. But it's not necessarily true, and I've never really seen anything which proves it to be the case. I've even seen counter-examples.
If we're dealing in unsubstantiated arguments, I would feel more comfortable with an argument like "the set of people who make racist remarks about Latinos is unrelated to the set of people who have opinions about the distribution of programming talent." Although I cannot prove it, I have more faith in it. It also doesn't require you to assume that all these "anti-immigration people" don't know what the word "exceptional" means.
But let's keep following Mr. Graham into the hole he's digging for himself:
...and while you can train people to be competent, you can't train them to be exceptional.This is simply false. There's a book which explains how to train people to be exceptional. It was written after the author visited specific, unusual schools all over the world, each of which reliably churns out exceptional students, including a tiny Russian tennis school which has produced more top-20 women players than the entire United States, and an American music school which covers a year's worth of music training in seven weeks. (Alumni include Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman.)
Exceptional programmers have an aptitude for and interest in programming that is not merely the product of training.Again, Mr. Graham seems to think the "anti-immigration people" have never heard the word "exceptional" before. This is only just barely better than quoting from the dictionary.
Then we make a pretty wild jump.
The US has less than 5% of the world's population. Which means if the qualities that make someone a great programmer are evenly distributed, 95% of great programmers are born outside the US.That would be the most gigantic "if" that anybody ever built an essay on, if Mr. Graham were being real with us when he refers to his blog posts as essays, but he's not. They're blog posts. Even if you wanted to humor Mr. Graham's pretensions, this "essay" would be a polemic at best, since it fails his own basic rule that "a real essay doesn't take a position and then defend it."
Nonetheless, this "if" is still a pretty huge "if" to build a blog post on, when your blog is as widely-read as Mr. Graham's.
Does Paul Graham even know who this is?
Mr. Graham doesn't give a moment's consideration to this "if." He just graduates it to the status of fact without ever doing anything to justify that leap. So let's dive in for a second. Are the qualities which make someone a great programmer evenly distributed, throughout the entire world?
Some of these qualities probably are evenly distributed throughout the entire world:
- Intelligence
- Curiousity
- A good memory
- Eagerness to build, analyze, and experiment
- Basic familiarity with machines which use electricity
- The ability to read and write
- The ability to read and write English
- The ability to read and write specific machine-oriented dialects of English
- A general understanding of Boolean logic
- A precise understanding of the Unix family of operating systems
- A lifetime of owning expensive machines, and feeling free to break them in order to satisfy some casual curiousity
Access to electricity is not evenly distributed, but maybe a truly great programmer will still find a way.
Mr. Graham didn't bother with this question, however. Instead, he said:
The anti-immigration people have to invent some explanation to account for all the effort technology companies have expended trying to make immigration easier. So they claim it's because they want to drive down salaries.But this "explanation" did not actually have to be "invented," because it's already a proven fact. Google, Apple, and dozens of other tech companies have been caught illegally colluding to drive salaries down.
The illegal wage-fixing scandal Mr. Graham somehow doesn't seem to know about is absurdly well-documented.
If you don't bother to find things out before blogging about them, then you might think that this illegal conspiracy had nothing to do with salaries and was only about being afraid of Steve Jobs.
You would be wrong.
Google's CEO chastizes Google recruiters for driving up salaries.
Mr. Graham apparently somehow missed this incredibly well-documented scandal that everybody was talking about. So, unperturbed by facts, our misguided hero rabbits on:
But if you talk to startups, you find practically every one over a certain size has gone through legal contortions to get programmers into the US, where they then paid them the same as they'd have paid an American.I'm sure this is true of startups, but it's false of Silicon Valley in general. And, while Mr. Graham's saying that if you want to understand immigration, you should talk to startups, I believe that if you want to understand immigration, you should talk to immigrants.
I worked with a guy one time who worked harder than me, for longer hours, while making less money, because he knew that if our employer got pissed off, they could put him on a plane back to his war-torn home country. He didn't want to go back and get killed. He wanted to get his family into the United States along with him.
I have absolute sympathy for this guy. First, he was a great guy. Plenty of people could have been mad or resentful in a situation like that. His approach to life was to help as many people as he possibly could. He was able to help me, so I was grateful to him, and he had this awesome attitude, so I admired him. Plus he was funny.
My own parents came to the US from another country, and although it was not a war-torn country, I'm a first-generation American, so even in a festival of straw man arguments like Mr. Graham's blog post, you'd have a hard time lumping me in with the "anti-immigration people." I'm very glad that my friend got to come to this country, and I feel like, for him, accepting a slightly lower wage than I got at the same company was not such a bad deal in context — even though he worked much harder than I did, and was much more important to the success of my team, and I feel kinda guilty about that.
However, Mr. Graham's argument, that great programmers get paid the same at startups whether they're American or not, is completely irrelevant in the case of my friend, a very good programmer who was underpaid at a company which was only just barely too large and established to qualify as a startup.
Most imported programmers in Silicon Valley look more like my friend than the startup programmers Mr. Graham is talking about. And even then, the overwhelming majority of immigrant programmers are worse at programming than either my friend or Mr. Graham's examples.
I've certainly encountered exceptionally talented programmers from other countries, but they're rare for the same reason exceptionally talented programmers from America are rare: exceptional talent is rare, by definition. The silliest thing about Mr. Graham's argument is he wants national policy to be optimized for exceptional cases.
It's odd that I have to say this about a venture capitalist, but Mr. Graham should stop asking for government handouts. He's already rich, and it's not the government's job to make it easy to beat the averages.
Back on the subject of startup founders paying top dollar for foreign programmers, Mr. Graham continues:
Why would they go to extra trouble to get programmers for the same price? The only explanation is that they're telling the truth: there are just not enough great programmers to go around.That is not the only explanation at all. Here's a simpler explanation: they fucked up. Have you ever met a startup founder? Quite a few of them are complete fucking morons. Even some of the successful ones seem batshit insane.
Plenty of startup founders are quite smart, of course. And I'm not saying that bringing in a great programmer from another country can't be a good idea. But Mr. Graham suffers really badly throughout his blog post from a total blindness to the many, many facts and events which undermine his argument, and to say "the only explanation" in that context just begs for a reality check.
People who run startups make mistakes all the time. They're people.
One way startup founders fuck up: failing to recruit the best programmers they can, irrespective of where they're located. Maybe there are not enough great programmers who are willing to live in San Francisco to go around. But startups which hire remote have a much larger talent pool to draw from. If you adopt a modern working style, you might have less hoops to jump through.
One remote worker had this to say on the topic:
I just finished a remote job search. I'm in Los Angeles, and most of the companies I talked to were in SF. I had previously worked remotely for a company in New York (Etsy), and I was honestly really surprised how hostile SF companies were to the idea.As a former San Francisco resident, I honestly think this error is inevitable in San Francisco. One of the few ideas which is utterly unacceptable in any discussion among people in the Bay Area – who are normally very open-minded people – is the idea that the Bay might not be the only place in the universe worth living in.
I have been on both sides of remote work, so I totally get that it's not a slam dunk. It works a lot better for companies that have a strong culture established in a home base, and it works a lot better for experienced folks than green college hires. I have shut down the interview process myself when I felt like working remotely wouldn't work out at particular companies.
Even given all of that, I was pretty amazed how quickly some of the conversations got shut down. No remotes, we don't care who you are or what your experience is. I didn't talk to any companies outside of SF that were that quick to say no.
FWIW I landed at [the YC company] Stripe, which in fairness is probably one of the companies pg had in mind when writing his original article.
Mind. Blown.
I liked San Francisco, but it's not the only thing out there. London's better for music. Portland's better for open source. Los Angeles is better for street food, attractive single inhabitants, espresso, weather, parking signs, and in some cases even public transportation. (Bay Area public transportation is better if you want to go a long way, but Los Angeles completely wins at simple, local use.) As for New York, don't even get me started.
Plus, as beautiful as San Francisco is, it's packed with people like this:
Imagine you've already got a hangover and you have to deal with some asshole using an iPad app to control his girlfriend's mind.
Back to Mr. Graham:
I asked the CEO of a startup with about 70 programmers how many more he'd hire if he could get all the great programmers he wanted. He said "We'd hire 30 tomorrow morning." And this is one of the hot startups that always win recruiting battles. It's the same all over Silicon Valley. Startups are that constrained for talent.But not so constrained for talent that they're willing to explore remote work.
Matt Mullenweg pointed out how absurd this was, and I myself took Mr. Graham to task for this on Twitter:
He responded that remote work is only good for building certain types of companies, but I can't find the remark. I think he deleted it, but it's also possible that Twitter search failed me. I won't get into it, beyond saying that I highly doubt anybody's done any actual research which could grant any credibility to that 20th-century attitude at all.
Mr. Graham continues:
It would be great if more Americans were trained as programmers, but no amount of training can flip a ratio as overwhelming as 95 to 5. Especially since programmers are being trained in other countries too. Barring some cataclysm, it will always be true that most great programmers are born outside the US. It will always be true that most people who are great at anything are born outside the US.Again, this 95% number is ridiculous, and Mr. Graham is starting to get carried away with this whole "born outside the US" thing. He hasn't even substantiated the claim that most great programmers are born outside the US today, and obviously most people who are great at American football are born inside the US. But rather than slow down, Mr. Graham gets stupid nutty:
Exceptional performance implies immigration. A country with only a few percent of the world's population will be exceptional in some field only if there are a lot of immigrants working in it.Brazil's population is smaller than that of the United States. The Brazillian national football (soccer) team is the most successful in the world, and has been so for more than fifty years. There are not a lot of immigrants working in the Brazillian national football team.
Given enough time, I'm sure I could find about 50 more counter-examples, at least. The Swiss watch-making industry is probably made up mostly of Swiss nationals. Enzo Ferrari and Ferruccio Lamborghini were both native Italians. Immigration probably does not explain the French advantage in manufacturing cheese, or the Japanese superiority at making anime, or the exceptional quality of British bondage gear. Thailand completely dominates the field of elephant feces tourism, and the source of their advantage is probably not imported talent.
The coup de grace comes next. Mr. Graham, not content with his extra large bullshit enchilada, demands a colossal side order of what the fuck are you even talking about:
But this whole discussion has taken something for granted: that if we let more great programmers into the US, they'll want to come. That's true now, and we don't realize how lucky we are that it is. If we want to keep this option open, the best way to do it is to take advantage of it: the more of the world's great programmers are here, the more the rest will want to come here.As far as I can tell, his argument is that we have to take action immediately, because conditions could change over the next 50 years. And it would cost politicians nothing to abandon anti-immigration policies, somehow. And nobody will remember Ferguson, or the wars in the Middle East, or the bank bailouts, or Edward Snowden, or climate change, but we'll curse the name of every senator who ever voted against H1 visas.
And if we don't, the US could be seriously fucked. I realize that's strong language, but the people dithering about this don't seem to realize the power of the forces at work here. Technology gives the best programmers huge leverage. The world market in programmers seems to be becoming dramatically more liquid. And since good people like good colleagues, that means the best programmers could collect in just a few hubs. Maybe mostly in one hub.
What if most of the great programmers collected in one hub, and it wasn't here? That scenario may seem unlikely now, but it won't be if things change as much in the next 50 years as they did in the last 50.
We have the potential to ensure that the US remains a technology superpower just by letting in a few thousand great programmers a year. What a colossal mistake it would be to let that opportunity slip. It could easily be the defining mistake this generation of American politicians later become famous for. And unlike other potential mistakes on that scale, it costs nothing to fix.
So please, get on with it.
And somehow, we can find "a few thousand great programmers every year." No, we can't. Mr. Graham flatters himself when he refers to his blog posts as essays, but back in the day, he actually did write essays. One of his best essays argued that identifying great programmers is incredibly difficult, even for other programmers.
It's hard to tell great hackers when you meet them... You also can't tell from their resumes... the only way to judge a hacker is to work with him [or her] on something...So we need to import a few thousand exceptional programmers, even though we have no way to identify them in the first place. And language barriers will not make identifying them any harder. And somehow we're going to do this on a yearly basis.
Hackers themselves can't tell how good they are...
If there is a Michael Jordan of hacking, nobody knows, including him [or her].
Meanwhile, in reality, Mr. Graham's worst fear came true a long time ago. Most of the best programmers have already collected in one hub, and it's not here, or there, or anywhere. It's called GitHub. It was built as a distributed company around a distributed version control system, and — because Conway's Law works in both directions — it is training every programmer in the world to do distributed work.
Silicon Valley was once the center of the universe for programmers. In a sense, it mostly still is, kinda. But the real center of our universe is no longer a physical location. The real center of our universe is a virtual location which is training us all, every single day, to work remote.
And even GitHub is only barely central. There's Bitbucket and GitLab, and any communication through GitHub is typically supplemented with additional communication through IRC, email, videoconferencing, Slack, Twitter, SMS, and more. The best-case scenario for face-to-face communication in 2015 is that it's how you augment your other channels.
Do we seriously need to explain to a guy with three Ivy League degrees that a decentralized networking technology will have a decentralizing effect on every industry that uses it? Can't we just send him to the Wikipedia page for economics or something?
Some of Mr. Graham's other writing is much better than the nonsense I've dug into here. You can also create a great Paul Graham essay if you take one of his classics, The Python Paradox, load it up in Vim, and run a quick
s/Python/remote/g. But if you ever took his arguments on immigration seriously, even for a fraction of a second, then you owe it to yourself to do the following simple exercise.
Make a list of all the programmers who fit these criteria:
- They created a technology which completely redefined its category.
- You can't find them living in the Bay Area.
- You can find them working on GitHub.
Or, for a more amusing list, count the number of YC companies which hire remote, despite Mr. Graham telling me on Twitter that hiring remote isn't appropriate for the type of work YC companies do. I know of at least seven such companies, and I haven't even tried putting it in a search engine.
The alleged Bay Area "talent drought" is only half real. Programming skill is certainly both valuable and rare (although well-managed tech companies are probably rarer, and that might not be a coincidence). But the other half is self-inflicted, because an industry organized around innovation and disruption is clinging to a bafflingly archaic work culture. VCs and founders are shooting themselves in the foot, while the execs at established companies form illegal conspiracies to keep programmer salaries low.
("Low" is a relative term, of course, but housing costs are relative too.)
No thanks.
Let The Other 95% Of Great Programmers In is the worst thing Mr. Graham has ever put on paulgraham.com. That's why I portrayed him as intoxicated in the dramatic reading. I couldn't think of any other way to reconcile his obvious intelligence with the fact that he wrote that thing.
(Likewise, I used the uniform of a Silicon Valley middle manager as my costume because I don't think Mr. Graham's given one iota of thought to what these words might mean coming from Silicon Valley in general. It's entirely possible he constructed his wretched pile of illogic with some honest mistake at its foundation. But if that "essay" made any real progress in national politics, it would be promoted for incredibly dishonest purposes, by incredibly dishonest people.)
In conclusion:
Dat Footnote Tho
Mr. Graham's post contains a few footnotes. I'm not going to bother with them, except to point out that one footnote includes the hilarious phrase "it should be easy to write legislation." And to quote this bit:
it is dishonest of the anti-immigration people to claim that companies like Google and Facebook are driven by [a desire to drive down salaries]He says this despite the fact that Google was sued for illegally agreeing not to hire people away from numerous specific companies — which suppressed salaries — in a well-documented case which Google has not contested. The judge rejected Google's $324.5M settlement offer because it was too low.
Again, quoting Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO at the time:
Google is the talk of the valley because we are driving up salaries across the board... We need to get this fixed.If your CEO tells you that driving salaries up is a problem, what direction might you imagine he prefers?
Mr. Graham's argument equates Google with startups, but calling Google a startup today is like calling Microsoft a startup in 1998. It verges on delusion and it leads to completely ridiculous claims. Graham says "the anti-immigration people" are being "dishonest." But I'm a first-generation American. My parents are immigrants. And I'm pointing out something Google actually DID.
If your argument implies that it is dishonest for people to remind you of facts, your argument is probably flawed.
Speaking as a first-generation American, I'm not against immigration. I'm against indentured servitude. I'm against corporations using fraud and collusion to evade both labor laws and the real market price of programming ability. And I think most American programmers are uncomfortable with H1 visas for the same reasons.
By the way: at the company I work for, Panda Strike, we've hired programmers from France, Argentina, Germany, and India. Some of them live in the US, some of them live in their home countries, some of them have wandered through Australia and Thailand while working for us.
We're certainly aware that programming talent comes from all over the world. And I'm not saying American immigration law is perfect. There are foreign-born programmers we would hire in a heartbeat if their visas didn't make them captives of their current employers.
But we use modern technology and modern development practices, and we recommend you do the same. One easy way to start: let the other 95% of American programmers in. If you're building a company, and you want access to the best possible talent pool, you need to know how to manage remote developers. If you want to learn about that, check out our blog.
My opinions are my own, of course. That was just a shout-out.
Also, a quick note: there are some uncredited photographs in the video. Lost track of the links when I was making it. If they belong to you, sincere apologies, and feel free to email me:


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200th Inspire Me Tuesday
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The Java Client
The sample Java client is written as a Java Swing application, which includes a user interface with buttons to make requests, and a list view to display the server responses (see Figure 2). There's also a button labeled
Connect, and when pressed, the client attempts to connect to the server at the supplied address. The address defaults to localhost, but you can change this to any valid hostname or IP address. As a result, you have the choice to run both the client and server applications on one computer, or on separate computers, without issue. We'll examine the sample C++ server application later.
Figure 2: The sample Java client application user interface.
The heart of the application is the Java network and IO code, which is encapsulated inside one class,
SocketClient, shown partially in Example 3. This class contains two embedded classes called
Listener and
Sender, which listen for requests and send responses, respectively.
public class SocketClient { private Listener listener = null; // listens for requests private Sender sender = null; // sends responses public boolean connected = false; ServerResponses viewer = null; class Listener extends Thread { // ... } class Sender { static final String HOSTNAME = ... static final String MEMORY = ... static final String RANDOM_NUM = ... // ... } public SocketClient(String IPAddress, ServerResponses viewer) { // ... } public boolean isConnected() { return connected; } public void requestHostname() { sender.requestHostname(); } public void requestMemory() { sender.requestMemory(); } public void requestRandomNumber() { sender.requestRandomNumber(); } }
Example 3:The SocketClient class implements all of the code to send requests and listen for server responses.
A connection to the server is established when a
SocketClient object is created. The first parameter of the constructor is the address of the server to connect to, and the second parameter is a reference to an object that implements the
ServerResponses interface, shown in Example 4.
public interface ServerResponses { public void onHostnameResponse(String msg); public void onMemoryResponse(String msg); public void onRandomNumberResponse(String msg); }
Example 4: The ServerResponses interface methods are called as response messages arrive.
As a result, the user interface code drives the connection and request process by instantiating the
SocketClient class when the Connect button is pressed, and later calling any of its public methods —
requestMemory(), and
requestRandomNumber() — when the associated button is pressed. When a response is received from a prior request, the appropriate method is called on the
ServerResponses reference provided.
In this sample Java client, each time you press one of the request buttons, a request message is sent to the server, and the associated response message text is displayed at the top of the list view (see Figure 3).
Figure 3: The Java client displaying some server responses
Here, you also see that the display has been updated to show a connection to the server at address 192.168.0.180. Let's examine the Java network communication code in more detail.
Java Network Programming
When the
SocketClient class is created (Listing One, the complete implementation, and related files are available here.
The code in the constructor attempts to connect to a server at the given IP address on port 8080. This code looks similar to the following:
try { java.net.Socket socket = new java.net.Socket("localhost", 8080); this.listener = new Listener(socket); this.sender = new Sender(socket); } catch ( Exception e ) { e.printStackTrace(); }
The code is simple:
- If the connection attempt fails, an
Exceptionis thrown
- If the connection attempt succeeds, the active socket is passed to the
Senderclasses to perform the real work.
To send a network message using this active socket, you need to use Java IO streams, which are part of the
java.io package. The
Sender class encapsulates this implementation, but in summary, to send a network message you need to begin with the socket's output stream, which is used to send data. For efficiency, we wrap this stream in a
java.io.BufferedOutputStream object, and then write the message's bytes to this stream:
String xml = "<Request><Name>GetHostname</Name></Request>"; BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStrean( socket.getOutputStream() ); bos.write( xml.getBytes() ); // writes to the buffer bos.flush() ; // writes the buffer to the network
The code to listen for network messages is similar in that it also uses Java IO streams. However, due to the nature of waiting for a message, you typically perform this task in a separate thread. The
Listener class extends class
Thread, and makes its call to one of the blocking
read() methods in the
Thread.run() method when started.
Executing this code in a separate thread ensures that the rest of application is able to execute (and respond to user input, for instance) while the blocking
read() method waits for data for an unpredictable length of time. This solution is simple and elegant enough for this application, but for applications that need to communicate over many socket connections, creating a thread per socket may not scale well. Alternatively you can specify a timeout on the
read() method and call it periodically (polling), or perform non-blocking IO (beyond the scope of this article) in those situations.
The code in the
Listener class that performs this task is similar to the following:
public void run() { // Create a reader to wrap the socket's InputStream InputStreamReader inputReader = new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream() ); BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader( inputReader ); while ( true ) { // readLine blocks until a message arrives String xml = reader.readLine(); // process the XML ... } }
As stated earlier, the Java Swing code controls the sending of request messages as the user clicks on the appropriate buttons, and subsequently displays the server response messages in a list view. Listing Two, which contains this implementation and the complete Java client application and related files are available here.


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Ayn Rand, original name Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, (born February 2, 1905, St. Petersburg, Russia—died March 6, 1982, New York, New York, U.S.), Russian-born American writer whose commercially successful novels promoting individualism and laissez-faire capitalism were influential among conservatives and libertarians and popular among generations of young people in the United States from the mid-20th century.
Early life and career
Her father, Zinovy Rosenbaum, was a prosperous pharmacist. After being tutored at home, Alissa Rosenbaum, the eldest of three children, was enrolled in a progressive school, where she excelled academically but was socially isolated. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, her father's shop was confiscated by communist authorities, an event she deeply resented. As a student at Leningrad State University, she studied history and became acquainted with the works of Plato and Aristotle. After graduating in 1924, she enrolled in the State Institute for Cinematography, hoping to become a screenwriter.
The arrival of a letter from cousins in Chicago gave her an opportunity to leave the country on the pretext of gaining expertise that she could apply in the Soviet film industry. Upon her arrival in the United States in 1926, she changed her name to Ayn Rand. (The first name, which rhymes with "pine," was inspired by the name of a Finnish writer, whom she never identified, and the surname she described as an abbreviation of Rosenbaum.) After six months in Chicago she moved to Hollywood, where a fortuitous encounter with the producer Cecil B. DeMille led to work as a movie extra and eventually to a job as a screenwriter. In 1929 she married the actor Frank O'Connor. Soon hired as a filing clerk in the wardrobe department of RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she rose to head of the department within a year, meanwhile writing stories, plays, and film scenarios in her spare time. She became an American citizen in 1931.
The Fountainhead
Rand's first successful play, Night of January 16th (1933; originally titled Penthouse Legend), was a paean to individualism in the form of a courtroom drama. In 1934 she and O'Connor moved to New York City so that she could oversee the play's production on Broadway. That year she also wrote Ideal, about a self-centred film star on the run from the law, first as a novel and then as a play. However, she shelved both versions. The play was not produced until 1989, and the novel was not published until 2015. Her first published novel, We the Living (1936), was a romantic tragedy in which Soviet totalitarianism epitomized the inherent evils of collectivism, which she understood as the subordination of individual interests to those of the state. A subsequent novella, Anthem (1938), portrayed a future collectivist dystopia in which the concept of the self and even the word "I" have been lost.
Rand spent more than seven years working on her first major work, The Fountainhead (1943), the story of a handsome architectural genius whose individualism and integrity are evinced in his principled dedication to his own happiness. The hero, Howard Roark, blows up a public housing project he had designed after it is altered against his wishes by government bureaucrats. On trial for his crime, he delivers a lengthy speech in his own defense in which he argues for individualism over collectivism and egoism over altruism ("the doctrine which demands that man live for others and place others above self"). The jury votes unanimously to acquit him. Despite generally bad reviews, the book attracted readers through word of mouth and eventually became a best seller. Rand sold it to Warner Brothers studio and wrote the screenplay for the film, which was released in 1949.
Atlas Shrugged
Having returned to Los Angeles with O'Connor to work on the script for The Fountainhead, Rand signed a contract to work six months a year as a screenwriter for the independent producer Hal Wallis. In 1945 she began sketches for her next novel, Atlas Shrugged (1957; film part 1, 2011, part 2, 2012, part 3, 2014), which is generally considered her masterpiece. The book depicts a future United States on the verge of economic collapse after years of collectivist misrule, under which productive and creative citizens (primarily industrialists, scientists, and artists) have been exploited to benefit an undeserving population of moochers and incompetents. The hero, John Galt, a handsome and supremely self-interested physicist and inventor, leads a band of elite producers and creators in a "strike" designed to deprive the economy of their leadership and thereby force the government to respect their economic freedom. From their redoubt in Colorado, "Galt's Gulch," they watch as the national economy and the collectivist social system are destroyed. As the elite emerge from the Gulch in the novel's final scene, Galt raises his hand "over the desolate earth and…trace[s] in space the sign of the dollar."
Atlas Shrugged was notable for making explicit the philosophical assumptions that underlay The Fountainhead, which Rand described as "only an overture" to the later work. In an appendix to Atlas Shrugged, Rand described her systematic philosophy, which she called objectivism, as "in essence…the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
Although the book was attacked by critics from across the political spectrum for its perceived immorality and misanthropy and its overt hostility to religion (Rand was an atheist), it was an instant best seller. It was especially well received by business leaders, many of whom were impressed by its moral justification of capitalism and delighted to think of their occupations as noble and virtuous. Like The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged also appealed widely to young people through its extreme romanticism, its accessible and comprehensive philosophy, its rejection of traditional authority and convention, and its implicit invitation to the reader to join the ranks of the elite by modeling himself on the story's hero.
The Collective and the Nathaniel Branden Institute
In 1950 Rand agreed to meet a young admirer, Nathan Blumenthal, on the basis of his several articulate fan letters. The two established an immediate rapport, and Blumenthal and his girlfriend, Barbara Weidman, became Rand's friends as well as her intellectual followers. In 1951 the couple moved to New York, and Rand and O'Connor soon followed. There the Brandens, as Nathan and Barbara called themselves after their marriage in 1953, introduced Rand to their friends and relatives, some of whom later attended regular meetings at Rand's apartment for discussion and to read newly written chapters of Atlas Shrugged. The group, which called itself the Class of '43 (a reference to the publication date of The Fountainhead) or (ironically) the Collective, included Alan Greenspan, an economics consultant who would later head the president's Council of Economic Advisers (1974–77) and serve as chairman of the Federal Reserve (1987–2006). Among members of the Collective Nathan Branden was unquestionably Rand's favourite. She openly acknowledged him as her intellectual heir and formally designated him as such in the afterword of Atlas Shrugged, which she co-dedicated to him and to O'Connor.
In the late 1950s, with Rand's permission, Branden established a business designed to teach the basic principles of objectivism to sympathetic readers of Rand's novels. The Nathaniel Branden Institute (NBI), as it was later called, offered courses in objectivism in New York and distributed tape-recorded lectures by Branden to "objectivist centers" in various other cities. Despite its outward appearance as an educational institution, NBI did not permit its students to think critically about objectivism or to develop objectivist ideas in novel ways. Through the success of NBI, Branden would eventually become the public guardian of objectivist orthodoxy against innovation or unauthorized borrowing by objectivist sympathizers, especially among the growing student right. In 1962 Branden and Rand launched the monthly Objectivist Newsletter (renamed The Objectivist in 1966). Meanwhile, Rand's fame grew apace with the brisk sales of her novels. She was invited to speak at numerous colleges and universities and was interviewed on television talk shows and on the news program 60 Minutes. Growing into her role as a public intellectual, she published her first work of nonfiction, For the New Intellectual, largely a collection of philosophical passages from her fiction, in 1961. The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966) were drawn mostly from lectures and newsletter articles.
Later life
In 1968 Rand learned that Branden, with whom she had been having an intermittent affair (with their spouses' knowledge) since 1954, was involved in a romantic relationship with a younger woman. Accusing him of betraying objectivist principles, she stripped him of his partnership in The Objectivist and demanded that he surrender control of NBI, which was soon dissolved. The closing of the institute freed various self-described objectivists to publicly develop their own interpretations of Rand's philosophy—all of which, however, she rejected as perversions or plagiarism of her ideas. She was especially incensed at the use of objectivist vocabulary by young libertarians, whom she accused of disregarding morality and flirting with anarchism. Meanwhile, Branden's status as Rand's favourite disciple was assumed by Leonard Peikoff, an original member of the Collective whom she would eventually designate as her intellectual and legal heir.
In 1971 Rand ceased publication of The Objectivist and replaced it with the fortnightly Ayn Rand Letter, which appeared with increasing irregularity until 1976. In 1974 she underwent surgery for lung cancer. Although she recovered, she never again had the energy to pursue large-scale writing projects. In 1979 she published Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, a collection of philosophical articles originally written in 1967. She was working on an adaptation of Atlas Shrugged for a television miniseries—eventually unrealized—when she died.
Legacy and influence
Rand was continually frustrated by her failure to gain acceptance among academic philosophers, most of whom dismissed (or were simply unaware of) her work. This neglect, which she attributed to collectivist bias and incompetence, was partly due to the fictional form in which the best-known statements of her philosophy appeared, which necessarily rendered them imprecise by professional standards. Other factors were her idiosyncratic interpretation of the history of Western philosophy, her tendency to rely, even in her nonfiction works, on broad ad hominem attacks, and her general unwillingness to tolerate disagreement with her views among those with whom she associated.
In 1986 Barbara Branden published a memoir, The Passion of Ayn Rand, that disclosed Rand's affair with Nathan and revealed unflattering details of her relations with members of the Collective and others. Despite the resulting damage to her reputation, her novels continued to enjoy large sales, and she retained a loyal following among conservatives and libertarians, including some high-ranking members of the Ronald Reagan administration (the most notable being Greenspan). In the 1990s and 2000s her works undoubtedly contributed to the increased popularity of libertarianism in the United States, and from 2009 she was an iconic figure in the antigovernment Tea Party movement. It is for these specifically political influences, rather than for her contributions to literature or philosophy, that she is likely to be remembered by future generations.
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D-Bus is a Free/Open Source software interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism that is in widespread use by open source desktop software today. It is part of the freedesktop.org project and used in a wide range of applications. Examples include hotplug notifications on Linux, desktop search queries in strigi and as the primary means of IPC in KDE 4. This tutorial looks at the basic concepts of and terminology used in D-Bus from an application developer's perspective.


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No, a superfan. If you know this game, feel free to say it out loud and pat yourself on the back. Good job! If not, read on.
Originally released on the PC in 2005, fantasy sci-fi visual novel Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na was turned into a manga and an anime as well as being ported to the PS2.
Check out the game's opening.
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LETTERS: Distressed driver gets a helping hand
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Recently, my wife and I were driving from Wichita to Manhattan, Kansas. We had just passed the road construction on highway 50 when a rear tire on our minivan blew-out. We pulled over to the side of the road where we began to change the tire.
Off duty Marion County Sheriff Deputy Larry Starkey and his wife were on their way to Wichita. They stopped, Larry identified himself to us and proceeded to help change our tire — in fact he did the brunt of the work. It would have taken us much longer to complete the task had Mr. and Mrs. Starkey had not stopped to help us.
We appreciate their help tremendously. Your communities are fortunate to have such kind and helpful people living there.
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Free Course for Volunteers in London on Friday 10th June
Projects Abroad have partnered with the British Safety Council for the last couple of years. Volunteers in the UK are able to join the free course where they will gain a Level 1 Certificate in Health and Safety at Work. They will then be given a briefing on how to deliver the programme when they are overseas.
The course is available to UK volunteers joining Teaching or Care placements with Projects Abroad overseas. The British Safety Council pays for all transport costs, accommodation (where necessary), as well as providing lunch. If you want to join one of these programmes you can read more here about the Projects Abroad partnership with the British Safety Council or email Sebastian Tarnowski at firstname.lastname@example.com. The next course is on Friday 10th June 2011.
If you are going away and interested in joining the June course please contact Sebastian. The course is being run at the British Safety Council headquarters in London.
Ian Birbeck, our Recruitment Director said "It is an exciting partnership. We are hoping that lots of our volunteers will take up this great offer from the British Safety Council not just to get a qualification but also be able to deliver health and safety education to children would not get the opportunity otherwise."
Thank you!
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Eric Ebron, C.J. Mosley, and Ha Ha Clinton-Dix—arguably the top tight end, inside linebacker and safety respectively in this year's draft class—all come with high ceilings. All three are potential Pro Bowl type of players.
Unfortunately, all three also come with potential red flags that make them risky propositions as first round NFL draft choices.
Perhaps ironically, the three biggest needs of the Packers entering May's draft are conceivably at the same three positions: tight end, inside linebacker and safety. And not coincidentally, all three players have appeared in a myriad of speculative mock drafts as being selected by Green Bay.
The Packers and general manager Ted Thompson need to—and likely already are—vetting the backgrounds of all three players if they hope to address any of those positions with the 21st overall draft pick.
No matter the player, the money, attention and expectations that come with being a first round draft choice are unbelievably steep in the high-stakes world that is professional football.
The level of concern with Ebron, Mosley and Clinton-Dix each exist to varying degrees, and it's possible that none of them will concern the Packers.
If these were second round draft choices or lower, the Packers and most NFL teams might not bat an eye at these perceived warning signs. But for the millions of dollars invested in players expected to become cornerstones of a franchise, the least a team can do is thoroughly investigate each situation.
North Carolina tight end Eric Ebron
While flying under the radar in the mainstream media, NFL Draft analyst Tony Pauline of DraftInsider.net is leading the charge on the character concerns of Ebron.
During a recent podcast, Pauline uses several emotionally-charged words to describe the Tar Heels tight end:
I've heard he's a high-maintenance personality. Over the past 72 hours I've spoken with four sources who just say that from a character point of view, a lot of red flags are being thrown up about Ebron. Basically, he's a 'me' type of player or person. He's a guy that's been called sort of a primadonna by some of his teammates. He does a lot of finger pointing. Basically, the world revolves around Eric Ebron, which turns a lot of people off. It's turned some of his teammates off.
In many ways, Ebron is reminiscent of Packers free agent tight end Jermichael Finley. Not only do they have almost the same size and playing style, their personalities would appear to be much alike as well.
As those who intimately follow the Packers have come to know, Finley had a disposition and temperatment that sometimes needed attention, caressing and assauging. He also lacked a filter that got him uwanted attention in the media.
What the Packers have to decide whether they would want to enter a relationship with a player of a similar mentality and makeup after just escaping one in Finley, assuming he doesn't re-sign.
Alabama inside linebacker C.J. Mosley
Several injuries sustained by C.J. Mosley over the course of his college career are no secret. According to an article at AL.com, Mosley dislocated elbow as a freshman, dislocated his hip as a sophomore and underwent a minor procedure on his shoulder heading into his senior season. Charlie Campbell of WalterFootball.com also cites unnamed sources pointing to a knee injury. Whether that stems from what was initially feared as a knee injury in the 2012 BCS National Championship game and later confirmed as the dislocated hip is unknown.
NFL Draft analyst Nolan Nawrocki raised questions about Mosley's "long-term durability" in his profile at NFL.com.
Mosley declined to run the 40-yard dash at the Combine but did so at the Alabama pro day, clocking a best time of 4.62 seconds, per Gil Brandt of NFL.com. He still has not done the bench press. At his pro day, Mosley told the media about medical examinations he had prior to the Combine and insisted he checked out fine.
"Everything was good then," Mosley said. "There weren't no red flags thrown up or anything they had questions on I got an MRI or X-Ray on, so it turned out well."
The Packers and all NFL teams had their opportunity to closely examine Mosley at the Combine and very likely have access to any X-rays or scans they could possiblly want to see. But things also have a way of going unreported. For example, it wasn't revealed until after last year's draft that another former Alabama player had a previously unknown surgical procedure, that being Packers running back Eddie Lacy.
Despite other teams passing on Lacy because of his injury history, he proved there was little concern after having a successful 2013 season that ended in him being named the NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year.
Alabama safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
In early October of 2013, Clinton-Dix was suspended indefintley for accepting an impermissable benefit in the form of a loan from an assistant strength and conditioning coach, one of nine on the Alabama staff, that reportedly had a connection to a sports agent.
According to the Tuscaloosa News:
(Corey) Harris made a short-term loan to Clinton-Dix in an amount less than $500, after Clinton-Dix's car was broken into on the night of June 25 or the morning of June 26. The Tuscaloosa News has obtained the police report filed by Clinton-Dix after the break-in, detailing the theft of money, an iPad, a backpack and sandals — both embroidered with Clinton-Dix's jersey number (No. 6) — stereo speaker sub-woofers, miscellaneous shirts and Nike Air Jordan shoes.
Clinton-Dix was reinstated by the NCAA after two games when it was found he repaid the loan and did not have contact with any agent or representatives. The strength and conditioning coach providing the loan was initially placed on adminstrative leave and later fired by the university.
Talking about the incident in retrospect, Clinton-Dix is quoted saying by AL.com, "It was a downfall on my part taking that extra benefit. They made a decision, they had to do what they had to do to punish me, to teach me a lesson and teach other guys a lesson and they did that. I just called it a downfall because I made a mistake."
Like Ebron, there are worse things Clinton-Dix could have done. He did not break the law, but knowlingly accepting money from a coach has called into question his decision-making. What NFL teams will be looking for is that there's no more skeletons in the closet.
For what it's worth, Clinton-Dix also underwent a minor knee scope after Alabama's final regular-season game but participated fully in both his team's bowl game and the NFL Combine.
It bears repeating that the concerns surrounding each of these afore-mentioned players are minor on a relative basis. But the question is not whether these players are the next Aaron Hernandez (character) or Justin Harrell (injury); the question is if they're worth passing in favor of a player that doesn't have as many question marks.
Should any of these players be on the board when the Packers are on the clock on Thursday May 8, might Green Bay be better served by taking Texas Tech's Jace Amaro, Ohio State's Ryan Shazier, Louisville safety Calvin Pryor or any other number of players instead?
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LONG BEACH — David Barton, vice president of the Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education, has resigned from his position due to health issues, school officials announced Wednesday.
Barton notified both LBUSD Superintendent Chris Steinhauser and Los Angeles County Superintendent Arturo Delgado of his resignation "for reasons of health" effective immediately, according to a statement from the school district.
The notification was dated Jan. 22 and was received on Wednesday at the Board of Education office. Barton was absent from the board's most recent meeting on Jan. 17.
Barton couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon.
Since his term doesn't expire until 2014, the school district will now have to take steps to fill the vacancy, said LBUSD spokesman Chris Eftychiou. The school board will discuss the matter at its next regular meeting on Feb. 7.
Under the Long Beach City Charter, the school district is required to fill a vacancy with a special election, which must be held within 120 days after the vacancy.
Two other school board seats – for District 2 and District 4 – are up for election in April.
Barton was first elected in 2006 to represent District 5, which includes East Long Beach and portions of Lakewood. He ran unopposed for a second four-year term in 2010 and was selected last year as vice president.
"David has served with distinction on the school board," Board President Felton Williams said in a statement. "Together we have navigated extremely difficult times that have included unprecedented cuts in state funding, yet we have maintained our focus on improving student achievement. David's leadership in this regard will be missed."
Steinhauser said Barton played an integral role in LBUSD leadership.
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Barton, a long-time teacher, grew up in Massachusetts and attended Boston College, where he received a bachelor's degree in English in 1972. He came to California to earn a doctorate in English from Stanford University.
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CENTER VALLEY, Pa., June 11, 2013 – Olympus, a precision technology leader in designing and delivering innovative opto-digital solutions in healthcare, life science and consumer electronics products, announced today that the Company's all-employee band, "Peripheral Vision", has advanced to the final round of the 13th Annual FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands. The band performed against other bands across the U.S. and will compete for the title on September 28th at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, OH.
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Pennsylvania's biggest wind farm is up and running, its owners announced Tuesday.
The $250 million project, which consists of 88 wind turbine generators across a 9,000-acre stretch of Wyoming County from Noxen to Mehoopany, is expected to generate enough electricity to power 40,000 homes annually.
"As BP Wind Energy's communications director, I am very proud of the team's efforts to get the project up and running," Amanda Abbott, director of government and public affairs for the company, said in an email. "On behalf of BP and our partner, Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, we are grateful for the support of the local community and its leaders whose efforts enabled us to build the largest wind farm in the state."
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