American living in Vienna, Austria.
An insider secret for many of us who work for international organizations such as the UN, OSCE etc and are US Citizens, is to go to the British Embassy first! The US Embassy and Consular services are so pathetic (awesome people work there, just their hands are tied by the utterly pathetic broken system imposed above them).
The British system is 1st class worldwide. The US State Department is worthless everywhere.
With the U.S. State Department, EVERY CITIZEN IS LEFT BEHIND.
Lambda the Ultimate
Programming with Managed Time
To appear in Onward! 2014; abstract:
>>Live coding vs. live programming
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But if instead you were trying to develop better nuclear plant software tested via simulation, a live programming environment might make more sense.
My Motivation:
I'm one of those guys "trying to develop better" safety critical Avionics Software "tested via simulation".
IMHO, releasing it with a couple of working examples would be sufficient to get the ball rolling for most of the hacker types who would be interested in working with the prototype.
As the code is C# based, Visual Studio Express would provide the perfect vehicle for experimentation, requiring little in the way of formal packaging.
Release it under Github and let the organic evolutionary forking work.
I would expect there to be a flurry of prototyping activity, which should be culled into a stable release once this phase settles.
I would recommend to get the ball rolling now before the conference in October so that it can be released then.
"Come on, no feedback at all? Lambda the Ultimate
By Sean McDirmid at Mon, 2014-08-25 10:15"
“If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Unleash the Night
Excellent expansion of the material Sean, especially the reference to the influence of your thesis on SuperGlue and self adjusting computation!
The time has now come to set your prototype free, as you promised to. It is one thing to evaluate videos and papers, and quite another to work with a prototype and submit changes/proposals/code.
Managed Time threatens to be stillborn by continuing delay in the release of your prototype. Your registration to this work is cemented, as is Chris Hancock's, whom you continually reference throughout your work.
Children most easily adopt languages before the 12th year of age. Between the ages of 12 and 14 language acquisition becomes more difficult, with the majority failing to obtain native(accentless)fluency after the age of 16.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis
Children and adults have been shown to retain this ability for the acquisition of a third language until the age of 50, if they have obtained accentless fluency in a second language before the age of 16.
Incredible! Extensively checked out all the major European Cities for 2 years before making the move. Government & Commercial Aerospace R&D funding fell off a cliff in 2003 and that triggered the move.
2. What is your particular career?
Safety critical Air & Space Flight Control Systems Design & Certification. Commercial, Military, Space.
3. What were your moving expenses?
$11,000 dollars in 2003
4. How much is your rent or did you buy?
1143 Euros per month or $1545.85
5. Where did you move to/from?
FROM:KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
TO:VIENNA, AUSTRIA.
6. How are the schools?
AMAZING! I had 3 young children (3,7,10) when we moved in 2003. The Vienna Bi-lingual Schooling project is a world famous education initiative. My 2 school age children had no difficulties. My 3 year old went into 2 years native German kindergarten.
After 4 years, both of my 2 older children moved to the German schooling. They have native Viennese accents, without any US detectable accent.
Education in Austria is intense, compared with the US. Up until the 9th year, kids go to school only 4 hours a day, and no homework!
The emphasis is entirely different. In the US, emphasis is on the 1st 4 years of gaining solid BASIC competency, at which point intensity goes to zero.
In Austria, the first 4 years are used to expose children to a large variety of subjects, and then the student decides where their interests are, and then attend the schools focused on that subject.
The 5th - 13th(HTL) years are intense. With the 9th year, students are taught the equivalent of college courses.
My oldest already knew what she wanted. BioEngineering! When we de-registered her at school, they gave us her education records, which contained testing results showing that she was 5 years ahead of her age in math and science!
She attended HTL Rosensteingasse. A world renowned school of chemistry. http://hblva17.ac.at/
My youngest also starts at Rosensteingasse in the fall.
Higher Education is 100% free! So anybody who can pass the Matura(a tough school leaving certificate test founded in 1851) is guaranteed by law a free higher education.
7. Have you become fluent in the native language and was the language barrier difficult to overcome?
Yes, our entire family is fluent. German is a challenge for native English speakers. As Austrians are proud of their english lanugage education in school. They want to impress you with it, and practice it, wherever you go. They immediately pick up on your being a native English speaker when you talk German. You have to be polite and insist on speaking German with them, if in anything other than a shopping experience.
8. How long have you lived in this country? Are you a permanent resident or do you plan on moving back to the US?
We have lived here for 11 years. We are all permanent residents. Vienna is home for all of us. We have fully integrated.
I love my country (USA) but hate my government (USA).
Every American deserves the quality of life that Austrians have, thanks to the structuring of the Austrian Constitution on the US Constitution after WWII, Austria is the country that the USA used to be when I was growing up. A government of virtue, and a nation of "self interest rightly understood". A land of safety and security. A land of highly educated and intelligent people.
Now, its a nation given over to legalized (legal is what you can get away with (Bill Clinton)) piracy (take what you can, give nothing back(Captain Jack Sparrow)), kleptocracy and crony capitalism. Dog eat dog, everybody for themselves, and buyer beware. Injustice is everywhere you look. Crime is rampant. There is no "America" or "Americans" any longer. Just selfish spoiled brats who never grew up, and their victims. The rare exceptions can be found in the "flyover states" places like Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, and Missouri where we lived before emigrating to Austria. However the disease has now infected these once sheltered areas, and taken hold in a majority of the population. There are a few isolated pockets such as Boulder Colorado, however the signs of infection are now visible here as well.
The USA is a majority population of Apostates (who have perverted the rule of law, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Urinating on wisdom of the founding fathers.
I am proud to be an American. I am embarrassed and ashamed of my government, and the people who disgrace our proud heritage as cowards who tolerate the destruction of this once great and proud nation.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Where is the outrage. Where is the revolution?
Only a "second republic" of the United States of America will solve this problem.
I am a 3rd generation US citizen with all of my genetic heritage from Ireland.
I now live in a land with a terrible past (NAZI Genocide in WWII) which learned the tragic mistakes of the past and now respects life, and personal freedoms more than the victor of WWII and the worlds only superpower. I respect the Austrian Government far more than the government of the United States of America. This is a personal tragedy.
At this moment it is deeply painful even thinking about possibly giving up US citizenship (Hold out hope of revolutionary change). I regret that this however has become inevitable. The USA shall not recover its virtue in my, nor my children's lifetime. The people have to be willing to fight for it! FREEDOM IS NOT FREE. Citizens must hold its government accountable to the rule of law. US citizens choose not to given the cost of personal sacrifice. A Napoleonic "DIVIDE AND RULE" has poisoned our people and our politics.
We should be Americans first, but sadly we are now Americans last.
9. What was the process like to become a permanent resident?
Permanent residence in Austria also conveys permanent residence in the whole of the European Union.
Permanent residence requires B1 level German competency.
After 5 years of full time employment in Austria, exceeding a minimum income requirement, one can become a legal permanent resident of Austria and the EU.
10. Did you have to already have a job when you moved to that country?
Yes. In 2003 this was the case. However this is no longer the case with the Red-White-Red card (EU blue card)
11. What's the cost of living compared to where you moved from? Has your quality of life improved or not? How and why?
The European Union spends far more money on Aerospace R&D than any other country in the world. Its why Airbus is the world leader in commercial aircraft, and Ariane is the number one satellite launcher. NASA is a hollow political bureaucracy compared to world leaders DLR & CNES.
Weather: mild winters and summers.
Skiing and climbing in the Alps.
Austria is a country which tries its very best to eliminate "uncompensated externalities"(subsidies and privatizing gain while publicizing losses are extremely rare, but do exist here but in lower proportion). Actual costs (healthcare, pollution etc.) are incorporated in product pricing. Most things, as a result, cost more than in the US.
Austria is a "social" country(not socialist/communist). Over 50k in income taxes are 50% or greater, and very few tax deductions are allowed.
My quality of life has skyrocketed in comparison. Vienna & Zurich Switzerland for the past 40 years have had the highest quality of life in the world. I gave up my McMansion in a gated community in the USA for paradise on earth. My children have the very same freedom I had as a child growing up in the early 70s. Children here as young as kindergarten travel unaccompanied on the public transportation system to school. There is virtually no crime, especially violent crime. There is no poverty.
In Austria the private funding of political campaigns is illegal. The government funds 100% of the costs. As a result, the government belongs to the people. In America, nothing short of a revolutionary civil war can eliminate the corruption of the government by wealthy individuals and corporations.
Quality of life has a high price that Americans are just not willing to pay.
"Taxes are what we pay for civilized society"
US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A 3rd Generation US born Citizen, his wife & 3 children turn their backs on the corrupt and apostate citizenry of the USA:living the American dream in Vienna, Austria:
A 3rd Generation US born Citizen turns his back on the USA:living the American dream in Vienna, Austria:
Lived in Silicon Valley for 20 years founding 4 companies in the process. I am an honest and decent person who was raped each and every time by my co-founders/investors. Only the soulless/ruthless succeed in Silicon Valley. SILICON VALLEY IS A TRAP! Everything is dried out and dead, including the people. Everything is about money, and everybody including your employer has their hands in your wallet. Child care is hideous. People are shallow and self centered. Homeless camps are everywhere, and there is no empathy/compassion for these older "former heroes of high tech" fucked over by the Vulture Crapitalists masters. Work weeks of 80 hours are the norm. Your company owns your soul. Schools are 3rd world. You have no life. Three hours sitting in traffic to get to the beach. No Culture. East Palo Alto is being bought up and the people tossed out on the street. Crime rate is now "off the scale" in both Menlo Park and Palo Alto (Facebook paid to construct and operate a Menlo Park Police Station just to protect its corporate HQ campus).
Lived in Boulder Colorado for 3 years. Closest thing one can find to living in Europe in North America. Fell in love with mountain climbing. Primary reason I chose to move my wife and 3 young children to Vienna Austria 11 years ago (easy access to the Alps).
I am giving up my US Citizenship this year to become an Austrian. I was back visiting my family in San Jose last year and could not believe how bad the quality of life in the US had sunk to.
Vienna Austria:Everything that the US was while I was growing up in the 1970s. Absolute heaven on earth! Those days are over in the USA. Amazing 5 weeks of vacation time. Founded my own GmbH 7 years ago. Government here is more involved with business: Austria has a high hurdle to start a business. 35,000 euros in startup capital, and avg 7 months approval time. This is actually a good thing as it eliminates much of the fraud in US where anybody can become a founder in 20 minutes and 20 dollars. Virtually no crime. Vienna is the best city in the world for 5 years in a row.
WELCOME TO THE USA:
NOW BEND OVER:You have no credit history so be prepared to pay dearly for everything! Credit Card: 30% interest rate. Apartment: 6 months rent as deposit. Car loan: 40 percent. Power/Gas 600 dollar deposit.
Americans are impossible to develop deep long term and meaningful relationships with. They sure are polite, but all relationships are shallow. Everyone is waiting for you to fuck them over, so no one trusts anymore.
Austrians are cautious at the beginning, but after a time they are the most trusting people I have ever met. I have never had as many good neighbors and made true friends as I have in Austria.
Austrian education system is far superior to the USA! They invest in their peoples future with free higher education and apprentice training programs with the result of the lowest unemployment rate in the world.
Austrians, and most Europeans are "social" in "people before profit". As a lifelong capitalist pig, I had no idea that "American Capitalism" is pure theft. Socialists are not communists. Republicanism (US Representative form of government) is not Democracy, and the wealthy minority are protected at the expense of the majority. The Republican form of world government is 4 Oligarchs (US, RUSSIA, INDIA, CHINA) fighting over a lamb (the people).
Advice:Stay in Europe! You do not appreciate how good you have it! Do not be suckered into the fraud known as the American dream of getting rich, or of ever owning your own home (bought and paid for).
Glitch is an approximation to Backus's "Applicative State Transition Systems".
see:Backus:"Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?"
www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/backus_turingaward_lecture.pdf
Since 1980, I have applied ASTS in the development of Hard Real Time Avionics Systems Software for Military & Commercial Aircraft and Spacecraft.
I have licensed this code exclusively to Aerospace companies over the years.
It has proven its value in the development of verifiable software.
For reasons that Backus states, the approach is not easy to comprehend nor apply, and requires very specialized tools (data flow debugger & proof system).
The tool is known as "Synthesis" in the Aerospace Industry.
The British system is 1st class worldwide. The US State Department is worthless everywhere.
With the U.S. State Department, EVERY CITIZEN IS LEFT BEHIND.