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Love the team over at 8base, incredible customer support, and an even more impressive product. I really love how easy it is to get up and running. Much better tooling/ui/workflow than appsync/amplify.

Yes

That was uplifting.

They used to

Great and insightful article. Loved the line about getting larger pants to fix a weight problem.

As a founder of a tele-health technology company, and I can say from my vantage point that this type of service is the future. We are just waiting for the payers, both private and government, to catch up, as well as appropriate legislation to be changed/enacted.

this, but for diagrams

A service to draft males for the US Military.

They need to sign up for the selective service. It's a requirement for federal jobs.

Cops are in a weird place. People don't like them until they need them. I work with a lot of cops and most of them are good (and yes they can occasionally get overreaching) but that generalization widens the divide between on-duty police officers and civilians. I would say if we treated them like I get treated being part time Military (hand shaken, dinners, etc) that they will be better people. You'll also see less of this.

Humans like positive situations, they like being praised, they like feeling loved and needed. They will defend the things they hold dear.

Do you support marketplace models (internationally)?

Wow, that judge would not stop interrupting the lawyer. Is that typical?

Can you do this sort of thing in the US? Are the legal/political barriers too high?

Great books, like others have said, thanks!

I live in Nashville and I have lived in Chattanooga and I definitely don't share your sentiment. Maybe it's not obvious to you, but there are some phenomenal happenings here.

"If you want to see a traditionally conservative, "sleeper tech city" look no further than Greenville, SC. Greenville has recently (in the last 7 years) entered a rapid development phase with numerous tech startups, co-work facilities, etc"

Nashville has checked all of those boxes.

Did I mentioned we have an incredibly active developer community here? Its not all big healthcare companies running Java & .Net, for instance, there is Emma (http://myemma.com/), Stratasan (http://www.stratasan.com/), The Skillery (http://www.theskillery.com/), Wannadao (https://www.wannadolocal.com/), inquicker (https://inquicker.com/), Moontoast (http://www.moontoast.com/), etc

We have events like coderfaire, hacknashville, hack-a-day, nashville code brigade, nashville user group leadership (group), etc

We also have very active user groups for functional programming, dynamic languages, ruby, php, python, javascript, flash, etc

We have tons of co-working locations, not going to name them all.

Not to mention that a ton of large SV types have remote workers here (I'm looking at you Github, SurveyMonkey, etc).

We have an incubator (http://jumpstartfoundry.com/).

What makes a city a "sleeper tech giant"?

Hey everyone, we are accepting talks, I encourage you to submit: http://www.pytennessee.org/speaking/cfp/

Good luck if you had "find my phone" turned on.

Actually I completely disagree with you. Coming to Clojure with absolutely no lisp or functional programming background (and little java experience), and while it's been challenging to learn a new way of thinking, it wasn't hard to find documentation, read source code, or ask a question in #clojure. Leiningen really made the process more streamlined.

http://cemerick.com/2012/05/02/starting-clojure/ http://clojure-doc.org/ http://clojure.org/cheatsheet

and (source <thing>) have been great resources.

I too have been enjoying Clojure with the same ferocity as the above poster. I also really recommend Python, as its got some solid engineering practices "baked in" and a great community to boot.

I would love one! [email protected]

The constitution doesn't necessarily apply to members of the Military in it's entirety. They abide by the UCMJ or Uniform Code of Military Justice. Yes, all members are sworn to uphold and protect the US constitution and POTUS.

As to your personal question; I would stand against any unlawful actions taken against a detainee, and anything requiring unnecessary personal harm or danger. I don't like treating anyone inhumanely.

Exactly. I'm a MP in the guard and I wouldn't be driven to cause him any more discomfort than a normal detainee.

Most of my peers would take a _much_ different approach to that situation, I'm sure.

that already happened

I used to live in Chattanooga, and recently moved to Nashville. Not much going on there...

EDIT: Also the crime rates are pretty high, and traffic is terrible. But downtown is really quaint. Lots of homeless roaming around downtown though. I probably wouldn't suggest the move, you give up a lot in the community and professional development space for a few bucks.

Totally concur. It's gotten to the point where there isn't an obvious amount of features/changes to be done.

Most of this didn't make sense to me, what resources could I use to get a better idea of the topics discussed in the post? Book recommendations?