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A better way to measure a health care system might be "how many stops does the money make on its way from patient to doctor?". You can name it socialist, capitalist, or Dr. Suess, but if the money has to go through dozens of thieving and incompetent hands on its way to the doctor, the system is a failure.

My fear for the "new" US health system is that we're just trading one set of middle-men for another (likely equal) set. People already trained in 2-party thinking will decide that neither works and health care is actually impossible and give up.
a good practice is not to combine stdout and stderr into the same output when the ordering matters. You'll get a different result depending on the shell you are using.
Wait who's subsidizing it?
Hold on a sec... does anyone else see a problem with the concept of an App for one person's political cartoons? I remain convinced that the App Store is at its core an evolutionary dead end.
grb will help you create and manage remote branches. Why something like this isn't baked into git, I don't know. I'm just happy grb exists!

git_remote_branch version 0.3.0

Usage:

grb create branch_name [origin_server]
grb publish branch_name [origin_server]
grb rename branch_name [origin_server]
grb delete branch_name [origin_server]
grb track branch_name [origin_server]

There are also plenty of aliases for the various actions.

create: create, new
delete: delete, destroy, kill, remove, rm
publish: publish, remotize, share
rename: rename, rn, mv, move
track: track, follow, grab, fetch
>Because studying Latin helps people learn about the grammatical structures which they use in their native tongue without understanding.

It would be much more helpful just to study those grammatical structures directly in the native tongue. Studying the grammar of your own language via latin is just an odd way of doing it. English and latin are not very similar grammatically.
I implicitly acknowledged that "man" is such a contraction by explaining that that rule is recently broken.

About for my comparison of USA and Europe, I trust some friends that have visited the states and returned really scared. I also see some videos of music (and other kind) stars that I admire that have got terribly fat, people that were thin when young. People over here also get fat when older, but not that kind of fat. Really.

The most revealing sign for me is that this question seems to get quick downvotes and troll accusations. I don't see it as an "american decadence" trend. I think it's more of a poisoning thing. Even if our lifestyle is probably very similar, the effects are not by far the same. That's why comparing us with the East is not a good measure.
feeling sick and pretending never to have thought of it

Thoughtcrime has not been a major cherished feature of the American experience previously.
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He's right about how Apple got here but now that it's #1 they are using contract law to maintain a monopoly. No less evil than Microsoft at its worst.
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Retailers love web coupons because it helps them close the loop on their marketing and measure ROI from their site.

Not sure about the company the article mentioned, RevTrax, though. Their product sounds interesting but they blatantly stole Werck/Checkout's logo for use on their site.

http://www.revtrax.com/platform.php v. http://www.checkoutapp.com
I love the glossy screen on my iMac at work for one reason: I can see when someone is walking up to my desk behind me. The great expanses of darkness in the empty spaces of my text editor make the screen a gigantic mirror.
No, the problem is that nobody except Apple has private key, that can sign applications, so the iPhone will install them. Unless someone factors it (or find it in some way), it is going to stay this way.

Have a look few threads above - Apple is the only party that can put appications on iPhone OS devices - it is not that others are unwilling to do so, but Apple locked them out and unless there is a breakthrough in asymetric cryptography, it is not going to change.
I don't think so; fabs are also a risky business and Apple probably doesn't have enough volume to fill one. Besides, AMD doesn't have fabs.
You also have to take into consideration the life status of your employees. As we get older and start families, you tend to value stability, money, and fewer work hours over the start-up culture. Google, LinkedIn, and other late-stage startups offer the best of both worlds.
"However: the US has become _more_ health-conscious in the past 100 years, not less. We must have something wrong, if concern for exercise and good nutrition goes hand-in-hand with this kind of obesity."

Naturally--as health and fitness became more of a problem, people became more concerned about it.

Anyway, it's not like fatness was totally unheard of: this guy even got himself elected President in 1908, and I don't think anyone with his shape could accomplish the feat today, over 100 years later: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/William_H...
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Very clean, and simple = Time Saver (as opposed to InDesign etc). I'm glad you launched this app, and from one who has studied SaaS - it's a great business model. Kudos. I must agree, the simplicity is something I value. I will refer this to my friends. Keep up the good work, SA.
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Somewhat interesting phenomenon that the writer gives no real analysis or background on, just, "We did this out of spite, and look, effective frequency!"

Trying out dailyrepublic.com, I wonder how much of this is inflated by the way the search engine appears to turn up multiple versions of the same articles, with altered bylines and modified phrasings (I searched for "murder" and saw a number of such duplicates). Someone looking for more information on a local story could apparently open up many pages - all with ads in the header - just to find slightly altered versions of the same two or three articles.

This appears to be borne out in the other two sites the guy mentions running. Hilariously, searching for "murder" on davisenterprise.com brought out two completely identical articles on Anwar al-Awlaki - but searching for "Anwar al-Awlaki" returned zero results. Thank goodness they weren't using Google or anything...

Looking at all three of these sites, squinting through all the ads and trying not to get distracted by the the help-wanted scrolling marquee lists, I think it might be wise to consider what Boydston doesn't say about the experiment - whether it's earned more money. Supply-and-demand certainly doesn't suggest that they're getting top dollar for all these ads. Nobody will remember to check, but it would be interesting to see whether these newspapers even still have websites (or exist) in 2, 3, or 5 years.
bzr, hg and darcs are not too complex to use.
The irony is that people from authoritarian countries are much more sensitive to censorship, propaganda and other totalitarian bullshit than average American.

I noticed this as someone who was born and grew up behind iron curtain.
bzr has support for filtered views[1] if thats what you mean.

[1] http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/user-guide/filtere...
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It's still a mystery to me why Java "won over", given that Smalltalk had (at the time) better performing virtual machines (compared to older JVMs which were superceeded by HotSpot, which was originally used by Strongtalk) and great tooling.

It's very simple. Smalltalk was expensive. Students, hobbyists, people working at cheap corporations, startups, open source projects, and the like couldn't write, share, and distribute working systems on it.

I understand there were some good vendors with steep student discounts and the like. My roommate loved some of them. But he could not hack with friends for free (or even very cheap) on it.

And that little bit of money makes all the difference. Not that it would have taken off otherwise; there are many factors, but no language or VM that charges for access has taken off in a generation except where access to hardware is strictly limited by law (smartphones) or expense (FPGA, large scale microcontroller projects).
IIRC, Apple's very first SSD offerings were based on Intel SSDs. The move to Samsung came when Apple decided to go leadfree/halogenfree/eco-friendly and the Intel chips didnt have the correct qualifications.
Another form of mobile Ads, will be coupons, based on how many times you check-in somewhere. It's not 100% ads, but it works great for coffee shop, clubs, restaurants and bar that wanna improve loyalty with their clients.
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This is my pet peeve with all DVCSes. I tried this with bzr, hg and git and all fail. Not sure if any other DVCSes handle it.

I don't see it happening anytime soon as long as it justified using "its _source_ control". There are programming activities that require large binary files to be versioned along with source and this is a clearly a limitation of DVCSes IMO.

Apart from that I am quite happy moving to bzr from svn. Life is much easier now.
http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue105

Two of the features that made it difficult to 'sell' Hg for the main SCM of FreeBSD were the lack of Partial checkouts and Partial history
There really isn't that big of one. A bank is an entity that uses an unsustainable business plan, fractional reserve banking, and has to rely on a federal subsidy (FDIC insurance) to make it work.

They are getting a subsidy to mindlessly arbitrage the yield curve and profit by making riskier loans than they would normally be capable of making. Fractional Reserve lending is NOT necessary for a financial intermediary to function. Look at hedge funds or VC firms. They are investing the amount of money they have received from investors and are not allowed to invest 10X they amount they have without raising that extra amount from somewhere.

Banks are not doing anything intelligent that adds significant value, the majority of their profits come from mindlessly arbitraging the yield curve due to a federal subsidy.
Well, they abandon an above-board attempt to do this, certainly. As to whether they're doing it anyway, we can't tell.
Of course it doesn't eliminate politics, but it cleanly separates technical concerns from political ones. With a centralised version control system, technical problems can have political ramifications ("$LEADER said she'd give me commit access three weeks ago and she still hasn't; sure she claims she's suffered a server crash but I think she just doesn't like me") and vice-versa ("$COMMITTER didn't like $OTHER_COMMITTER's contributions, so they started a revert war").
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git already has this in core and bzr has a rebase plugin[1]. I think this problem has been solved for quite some time now :)

[1] http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/rebase-plugin.htm...
Bitkeeper (the SCM that git was "inspired" from), claims good support for large binary assets

BAM solves this problem with a hybrid approach. BAM adds the concept of one or more BAM servers. Each BAM server contain all BAM data, but clones of the server (work spaces) contain only that data that the user requests. Typically this is the most recent version of each binary but in some cases it may even be less than that.

BAM has been successfully deployed in the game development space with great success. Game developers continue to enjoy the benefits of distributed work flow without the penalty of carrying all versions in every workspace.
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There's over 5 million people in the D.C. area (D.C., Southern MD and Northern Virginia). Coupled with a highly educated workforce, plentiful higher education options, and a rapidly modernizing federal government, and you actually see very very few unemployed developers. Most places I know in the area get the vast vast majority of their resumes from incoming immigrants looking for an H1-B sponsor or a Green Card sponsor.

D.C. proper by comparison has very little going on.
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If it looks like a duck[1], and quacks like a duck, why would I go looking for a cow[2]?

Without explicitly knowing this was a test, I would think this company's developers were just sloppy. Sorry, but I don't think this will go to prove anything about a developer's abilities. Sure, maybe some quality web developers might "pass the test," but I'd wager just as many—if not more—would roll their eyes and go elsewhere.

[1] server-side error
[2] client-side error
Displaying a semi-transparent FLV file in an MX VideoDisplay control in Flex 4
Irrespective of what Torvald says, I would probably choose svn over tarballs. But you should look also at bzr and hg. I don't think they integrate with Visual Studio but have good guis.
I was reading an unemployment report the local Fairfax county paper (in northern VA if you don't know). During this recession the unemployment rate was 5.6%. I think it normally hovers around 4.6% or something.

This isn't to say that the housing bubble did not affect the area. It did. But the unemployment rate is still very close to "normal."
Ah, but there's a catch: many of the jobs require security clearances. You need to be a US citizen, and usually need to be cleared already. If you're cleared though... it's a license to print money (heck, you might just BE printing money).
There's another level that's ignored here. Some retailers go as far as sending you unique coupons that only you can use and which may or may not be tied to an expiration date/product EAN. It's just another level of targeted marketing that shows favoritism to repeat customers.

If you bought the 1st harry potter book the retailer may send you a unique coupon with a special promotion on the other items in the series if you buy more than 1. Doing it through search urls is just another avenue.
I hope this is indeed true, as I've been having a helluva time finding Rails dev work in West LA...
> I have a 1-line script that does that, automatically adding time stamps to the name of the tarball. How is checking in your version simpler?

The important question is, do you have unit tests for that script :)
I'd wager focus has more to do with it than size.

If you're an engineer, it's a bad idea to join a start-up if their focus doesn't align with your interests. Even if there is significant equity and a great salary (it's not uncommon for funded start-ups to pay more than big companies), it's terrible to feel underused, unfulfilled and behind the technology curve in the topics that interest you. If you're the _only_ person knowledgeable about a certain topic in a start-up, there's nothing you can learn about it from coworkers. If one is uncertain of their focus, there's also no ability to switch groups and work on something else.

Your start-up (OpenDNS) is fairly unique in San Francisco, if not Bay Area as a whole, in being focused on network infrastructure (and I applaud you for it, it's a great service!)

Unfortunately, it (+ several other start-ups e.g., rethinkdb) is an exception, not the rule. The focus of most other early stage start-ups is web development. Engineers interested in solving other kinds of problems (e.g., algorithms and scalability challenges) but who like the flexibility of working for an Internet (vs. shrink-wrap product) company typically consider the medium (Facebook, LinkedIn) and big players (Google, Yahoo, Amazon).
You have his equation wrong. He says in this article that SVN is still better than CVS. And really, I would agree that tarballs are better than CVS. So the equation is more likely SVN > Tarballs > CVS. Don't put words in Linus's mouth.

Also Subversion no longer stores it's data in a database so Linus's objection in this article has been resolved.

Finally, Linus's needs are pretty unique in the world. Linus isn't satisfied with Subversion for the same reasons it might work perfectly well for you.
Gotta second this. I know more than a couple people at Goldman, and they weren't happy about being made to take the funds, and were especially unhappy that they've been vilified for it, when they didn't want it. It's kind of annoying reading all the uninformed mob anger directed at them.

The media has made them into a scapegoat out of them in particular, and for some reason, everyone is following along.
Good point. However, the similarity is also just as simple - the "instincts" of our Federal government is not all that different than the Chinese Communist government.
Yes, it's highly unlikely that DOJ, Google, Yahoo, CNET etc are colluding to misreport this event.

If you meant do I believe that NO level of email monitoring is occurring by ANY government agency, the answer is no. The NSA most assuredly does to some degree, but it is important to emphasize that any information they collect extra-judicially cannot be used in court.
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OK. You win. Dalvik bytecode it is, whatever the difference ;-)
That's a temporary problem, and one that the market will solve. As independently produced music becomes the norm, a new model will emerge for high-end post-production work. I would imagine that contract-for-service work will become the norm, or perhaps engineers connected with studios for hire. That sort of thing.
The real problem with the rejections of Fiore's cartoon app or Mad Magazine's Bobblehead Federal Register app is not the App Store approval process itself. It's the same problem that underlies Apple's recent banning of auto-generated app frameworks.

The real problem is that pure content is being treated as an application.

There needs to be a separate whole section of the iTunes Store for this shit: Music, Movies, TV, Apps, Interactive. It'd come with its own Webkit-based development environment, like Apple is doing for their new iTunesLP format. The people making these pointless apps don't really give a shit about integrating with the phone, and they aren't doing anything they couldn't do in Mobile Safari -- they're in the App Store to get paid for their work.
I really don't understand a lot of these product comparisons. They read like every other iPod killer out there. All the iPod killers have more storage, FM receivers, smaller, more battery life, etc -- but they all had one thing in common: they never killed the iPod.
Although simple, I do think you could use a little more design. I'm not talking about eye candy graphics. Just some CSS touch-ups would do.
This is silly. I could take a dump and then say I have a monopoly on things floating in my toilet. It's true, but meaningless.

Most people don't desire to be "freed from Microsoft". They don't give much of a damn one way or the other. They want a $600 laptop so they can check their Facebook page. If having a monopoly on something only some tiny % of users (not even all Mac users, which is 5%) care about ever becomes illegal, I'm expatriating.

Legally speaking Apple is doing nothing wrong. And ethically. Whether their walled garden approach is a solid business decision remains to be seen but it's not monopolistic.

Other companies do make great CE devices. Ignore phones (a topic about as fruitful to argue over as religion) and you can probably think of 10.
Well I was going to make some comments on specific parts of this blog post but there is just too much crap. Don't do anything the woman did in this article. Not even what she settled for at the end. She kept looking to quacks for quick-fixes where she didn't have to do any work when in reality all she needed was some physical therapy (which is hard work and a longer process and actually fixes your dysfunction).

If you don't want to get into this situation in the first place there are even preventative physical therapy programs like egoscue and specific types of yoga. Avoid joint/bone "manipulators" and all that other new-age BS, though.
Not at all. It cannot impose interface changes that break old code and cannot force developers that develop for both platforms to use the newest interfaces that are not supported on the other side. They have to continuously bloat the platform in order to keep it a moving target.

Apple is playing an impossible hand.

Android doesn't need to defend ground to win. Making Apple lose ground suffices for them - Google thrives on fragmentation. Besides that, Android could be made as language-agnostic as Google wants it to be. I see no reason to prevent keeping the core logic in Obj-C and Android-specific elements in Java. The semantics are very similar.

I would love to see not only this, but also a Wine-like compatibility layer for OSX developers to deploy their apps on other environments. Some parts of it are production-ready in the form of GNUStep.
Letting a massive insurance company fail, and then letting dependant, blameless companies explode in a wave of secondary explosions throughout the economy as a result is not good national-level policy. There's a reason the govt. didn't let that happen, and it's not that they wanted to bail out their buddies.

I'm for criminal charges for those that committed fraud, investigations, more regulation, and so forth, but this "We should have let them crash and burn, damn the consequences" idea was not likely the best course of action, though it seems to be a pretty common attitude for some reason.
What is a picker or chooser? I know exactly what a spinner is: it's named for a spinning number control (like a mechanical odometer with a knob), unless they're using "spinner" to describe something completely different from what a spinner is in desktop UI parlance.

My point is that the API decisions are probably based on experience with a different developer culture, in which those words make perfect sense and "picker" and "chooser" are completely vague. Different groups have different terminology.
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We were in the same situation recently. We looked for programmers in specific programming/framework forums (ie. Cake Forum, CodeIgniter Forum since we are using PHP framework). After receiving a bunch of applications/resumes, we filtered out to the ones we think are good, then we phoned them and had a chat. With the Internet, you could use video conferencing programs like samratjp suggested. In our case, we were lucky since I was on a trip to where the programmer was so we actually met up before hiring.

Anyhow, good luck with the hiring!
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We need to have another Hacker News "Who's Hiring?" thread.

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And while it's telling you the pagerank it's sending your entire browsing history* and then some back to google so the can store it in the google cave.

*probably minus https/intranet sites
Can you and others please stop implying that people are getting paid bonuses directly out of taxpayer money/loans? It's completely false.