This demonstrates exactly how empty the campaign promises to bring back coal were. Nobody wants to burn coal when it's so much more expensive than everything else.

A lot of industries here in the U.S. are facing a similar situation: there's work they'd like to do, but its using skills that either haven't been in high demand in the past or haven't existed before. The only real solution is to create the workers with the skills that you need, but this is both expensive and generally outside of the scope of what the business is capable of doing. Training programmers, for instance, is a very different business than making industrial control systems.

We're taking a proposal to some of our clients to set up these kinds of training programs for them. But it's not a sure thing that they'll be willing to make this investment, because it's going to mean changes in the way they do business as well.

As a manager for multiple developers all working on different projects, for different product owners, what is the benefit that you're trying to bring to these developers? If you can answer that, we can probably come up with some things you can do to reach your goals.

That's like asking if you can walk a dog without a studded collar. The kernel is separate from the init system. I suspect your problem with systemd has little to do with systemd and much more to do with not understanding how your system works, or being unwilling to take the time to learn about it.

Sounds suspiciously like National Socialism. Look at what it did for Germany!

The point of breaking it down is to make it into something small enough to be easily tested. If it can't be tested it can't be trusted. I am deeply suspicious of code that doesn't have automated tests around it, and couldn't imagine shipping code that can't be tested at all. Small chunks, easy to test.

That's not a failing of scrum, that's a failing of the team. If those are mission critical steps, the very first thing that should have been done is write a spike card or cards to find ways to break that down to digestible components.

If you find yourself in that spot again, start asking around for help outside of the company. Writing spikes and then figuring out how to spawn stories off of that isn't always intuitive. But a lot of times just getting an outside set of eyes on the problem does a lot to help you see your way through the problem.

The winters are horrible if you are somebody who should live in the deep south. I've been to Traverse City and Marquette in the winter. Ann Arbor is nice. You don't even need chains.

Also a good place for startups. Cheap real estate, ready access to capitol and low cost of living. It also helps that it's a really beautiful city.

I live in Ann Arbor, and can attest that it's an amazing place. It's Michigan, so you really should have a car, but if you live in the city proper you can actually get by with a bicycle most of the time, and just rent when you need to get out of town. Excellent cultural scene, and as an added bonus many of the speak easys from prohibition are still open (although most under new management).

Des Moines IA is another place to consider. Many multinational and national corporations have big footprints there, and there are plenty of tech jobs. There's also quite a bit to do. I lived there for a year, and while I'm happy to be back in Ann Arbor, I enjoyed Des Moines itself. Low cost of living, low crime, and wide open spaces are its strengths.

The Volt doesn't sell better because it costs $40k and it's ugly as heck. For the same money I could buy a much nicer car. It's cool technology in an ugly and overpriced package.

Stick that tech in a Camaro body and people might pay for it. In a body that makes a Malibu look sexy, what's the point?

Google's own documentation suggests that running native code isn't really a problem, and just use JNI to handle the interface.

C++ for Android is an interesting challenge, because there are multiple processor types out there. Although a Nexus 5 is pretty close to a reference platform.

Immediately jumping to absolutes will be your downfall. The world doesn't work that way my friend.

My point is that making a high profile website that thumbs its nose at law enforcement is a very foolish plan. It's attracting attention to a thing that you don't want to attract attention to. This is kind of predator-prey 101 here.

Of course law enforcement doesn't catch every underground marketplace. Likewise, my cat doesn't catch every rodent that walks through my neighborhood. But the parade of small lifeless bodies that greets me when I step out the front door every morning suggests that she does catch a lot of them who are foolish enough to attract her attention.

Apparently this is being done by slow learners. If the FBI wants to stop you from doing something, they're going to stop you. If you're dumb enough to flaunt your invulnerability in their face, they're definitely gonna want to take you down. And they have a lot of smart people with a lot of experience at infiltrating organizations. Has the takedown of the last two Silk Roads taught you nothing?