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Good, how much have Apple contributed back to FreeBSD? Apple also forked the LGPL licensed KHTML to form WebKit.

Does Apple have a real model that benefits open source/free software compared to the much smaller Red Hat? The only companies that I knew that contributed the same amount to open source/free software as Red Hat were Sun and Google.

But I must be just, Apple has released some open source code (GCD comes to mind) and as far as I'm informed funded some open source software (LLVM for example).
The correct spelling is "losing," not "loosing."
Hopefully higher salaries are also going to help keeping your existing programmers, which will alleviate the need to go and get more programmers.

Also, if you have a stellar programmer in an interview, they tend to stick out more than their non stellar counterparts.
Disclaimer: I run a competing service.

I’m sad to see Wesabe go; I thought they seemed to get the human aspect of running a service right, and they were forward-thinking with regard to user privacy and making an API available.

However, the fact that they’re going to open-source their software should be a great thing for consumers and startups in the personal finance space. I’d say that automatic updating is the biggest pain (so big I’m not even trying to tackle it right now); the fact that software for automatic updating will be available under an Apache license should definitely stir things up.
I don't think so, if you look at the united states the broadband industry is heavily regulated.
What's remarkable is that vague calls to undefined actions like this can somehow affect credulity. Apparently the power of meaningless soundbites is enough to provide the image of leadership.
Reminds me of what pg said in one of his essays, to get into a good college you don't have to impress the professors: you have to impress the admissions officers, and they aren't nearly as smart. They are the NCOs of the academic world.
"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you."
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My Buffet said it best IMHO... I've worked with some competent, hardworking, and passionate with no integrity who have really caused a lot of problems.
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Don't have any glasses to check out the 3D.

Along similar lines, it's really impressive what people are able to do with Processing. Eg, http://vimeo.com/658158.
Seems like if the route proved popular, a big company like MegaBus (Coach USA) would swoop in and undercut you.
I don't think you know how regulated health care is in the US. For instance, for all the talk about insurance companies being for profit, most don't realize that a lot were nonprofit until the government made that illegal.
There is no way this is the reason. To believe the engineers didnt test the attenuation caused by direct human contact is insanity. More likely is that they tested it thoroughly, found that it didn't appreciably affect the actual number of dropped calls (as substantiated by anandtech), and shipped it feeling comfortable with the product. When the iPhone 4 shipped, the reviews were all gushing over it, despite the pent up frustration over Apple's dominance and questionable app store policies, and people jumped on the first publicized flaw. Much ado about nothing. With any luck, this whole farse will make it easier for me to land a white iPhone 4 when it becomes available.
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Maybe not from a privately owned app store, but since Apple doesn't allow any other way to put software onto the devices any argument about the app store automatically translates to an argument about the whole iOS platform. I think once you start talking about a "platform" expectations about equality, fair treatment and freedom from persecution by the platform owner are very normal expectations. I guess the question is whether iOS is actually worthy of being called a "platform" in this sense - perhaps it is not.
That's silly, physicians, mechanics, lawyers, and many other skilled tradesmen are just like programmers. The problem is that many folks see programmers as somehow different than these folks.
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look at the megabus route map: http://us.megabus.com/routemap.aspx

Their rapid expansion across the midwest and east coast makes me think Megabus will likely offer soon a way to get from Chi to NYC. Perhaps the trip would take as long as the greyhound trip, I don't know. But its worth keeping an eye on. They have seemed to add routes about every 3 months or so. Connecting the midwest to the east coast would seem a natural progression.
> needlessly left the door open for business method patents to issue in the future, and I am concerned that it will lead to more unnecessary litigation.

He's against business method patents.
Ooo, we're on the same page now, and I agree with you. :)
I wasn't going to say anything, but I admit that the "he is not a scientist" line did sting a little. Although it's true that I'm not currently suckling at the academic teat, I did spend three years at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as an undergrad and eight years at Caltech as a grad student and postdoc doing research in theoretical astrophysics. I like to think that gives me some cred as a scientist, and I appreciate your coming to my defense. :-)

One reason I didn't hold the comment against the parent poster is that techiferous == Wyatt Greene, and he was by far the single most helpful pre-launch reviewer of the Tau Manifesto. He is clearly on the side of what is good and sweet and true.

Speaking of good vs. evil, you sound like a supporter of the Jedi. While it is true that I am a Sith lord, it is my duty to inform you that it is the Jedi, not the Sith, who are truly evil. How can this be? Suffice to say you've been exposed to a lot of anti-Sith propaganda. ;-)
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One of my friends thought it looked like base85, but it is not.
How many job postings even mention salary beyond "salary commensurate with experience"? We must be seeing different types of postings.
I read the cover and thought, wow, maybe some new methods of bootstraping I haven't heard of yet. Then I am as always let down because it is stalking about business.
Previous HN discussion of the same article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1350320
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This really implies other rights for the requirements to access the broadband connection. Shelter, electricity, computer, etc, would all be needed for someone to realize this legal right. Will these also be provided by Finland to its citizens?
> The best programmers I know seem to be indifferent to cash.

No, they do care about cash. How do I know?

>They work on the most interesting project they can find that pays them enough to live.

There. That's why. If they weren't making enough money to meet their needs, they'd be looking to trade up. Money isn't the only answer. Everyone likes to talk about how money isn't the solution. I'm pretty sure every one is making a bit more than minimum wage or aren't looking to get compensated in some other way in the future.
Job postings have salary ranges. If I have 80 years of experience and ask for $500k/yr salary, I'm not going to get it.
guess: biological meaning, not psychological. saying X has reached maturity means they were immature before. calling something/someone immature has an insulting quality to it. the other does not.
I've been wanting to use PostgreSQL. Does anyone know any good GUI tools for MacOS X for it?
Ask HN: How to market a new social network?
I've built a small social networking service that is a spin on Twitter, amongst other services. The main problem I'm running into is that it's hard to get users to start using it.

I think most people find social networks interesting because people they know are on it. But without an established user base, how do you actually attract the early users?

I've tried the general spray and pray method of submitting to various blogs that cover startups and social media, at various tiers. I've also reached out to friends to get them to try it out, and a small contingent have been using it and do enjoy the service. However, it seems hard for me and them to spread it beyond that.

Social networks are all about virality. I've added various triggers for my service to piggyback off of Facebook and Twitter, and allow the users to share/publish to their friends. However, I need that initial group of users in order to get the ball rolling. Any ideas on the most effective ways to do that?
Docs, mechanics, skilled tradesmen, lawyers,...hell even accountants have location knowledge and expertise that is location specific.

- You won't drive your car cross country to a cheaper mechanic.
- You won't get a lawyer from India to represent you in America.
- You don't go to a doctor... well thats changing isn't it? Too bad doc education still costs so damn much in America.

Its about group supply and demand. Don't forget that homes cost and arm and a leg and that a programmer in a particular neighborhood should be able to afford a home in that neighborhood and should charge accordingly.
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Database duo deliver Windows Phone 7 apps storage
A tiny database duo are promising what mighty Microsoft won't deliver with the first Windows Phone 7 - an on-phone database for non-Microsoft applications.

McObject will support its object-oriented Perst .NET open-source database on Windows Phone 7 after Perst was ported and offered as a product by enterprising consultant APPA Mundi.

The presence of a local database on Windows Phone 7 means applications written by anyone other than Microsoft now have access to local storage, search and retrieval.

While Windows Phone 7 will ship from Microsoft in October with SQL Server Compact Edition, it will only be for use by applications built by Microsoft rather than third parties, as APIs for Microsoft's miniature database will not be exposed to outsiders...
Absolutely. After I watch it, I feel like I could go out to my garage and build anything.

And Shane Carruth is my hero. He wrote, directed, starred, editing and scored Primer. Someday I hope to do the same.
It's nice to see some governments recognizing that something which was once a luxury is now becoming a necessity as offline alternative for mandatory services (paying bills, job searching, etc) get stripped down or removed entirely.
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I do. However, I think it may be superficial. I do not think depressed people are overall as successful as the true leaders are, common sense says they may be less successful than the general population.
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The conclusion also seems unsupported. Is it really the case that "running just one bus line could be profitable"? My guess is that it wouldn't be profitable, because it's fairly expensive to operate, and cheap flights (as noted in the post) put a cap on how much you can charge.

Maybe someone like Megabus could do it profitably, because they have some economies of scale and existing capital equipment, but I'd be really surprised if a small-time operation running a single Chicago<->NYC bus were profitable.
This is a link to page two of the article, which talks about the antenna.

Summary:

* The bars display is EXTREMELY misleading.

* Holding the phone can result in a drop of 24 dB
To add to the pile-on, the highlight should follow focus, not mouse over.
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Is this really all that surprising to anyone? I wouldn't trust any of these location services...even google Latitude. My location is just something way to central to my privacy, and my safety, to be left to a company like this. Money, emails, whatever else that can be stolen on the internet can be recovered. But not my privacy.
I read a great article in the Harvard Business Review about what defines a profession. Their question: are managers a profession akin to Doctors and Lawyers?

The author defined a professional as someone whose work you have to take on faith. Not being doctors or lawyers ourselves, we're usually unable to evaluate the quality of legal advice or medical care we're receiving. The best we can do is seek another opinion.

The author drew this line because he feels it necessitates the things we expect from a profession: shared ethics and a rigorous certification process. Professions require would-be professionals to jump through a number of hoops to make sure that all who deal with these professionals receive some minimum level of service from someone with a minimum level of competence.

Have software developers arrived at this point? Can someone check the quality of what they receive from a developer without being a developer? If they can't, will this always be true?
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If Microsoft made a portable device with Xbox live capacity, hmm, there's a thought - I'd actually consider researching into maybe consider buying it. I mean Xbox Live arcade got some good things right, only if they applied what they learned there to Win 7 mobile.
There are 2 problems with your proposed solution.

a) Salary is rarely disclosed in a job posting. Salary negotiations usually happen after a candidate was interviewed and deemed worth hiring.

b) Even if you were to disclose a salary in a job post, an unusually high salary might make it easier to find a qualified programmer (because more people will apply) but it is not likely to increase an average quality of submitted resume, so you'll still have to look at 200 resumes to find 1 good candidate.
Apple would never allow it.
Not necessarily related to this article, but doesn't Finland also require every citizen to enlist in their military for a few years?

I remember reading about it in some Linus Torvalds interview, seems like an interesting policy.
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How do you do it at all? Some kind of web interface?

You know, I don't own a smartphone but I had never thought of this. I rely on my bookmarks quite a bit...
I disagree. People would join voluntary local cooperative that can better deals with network providers. They can take a loan out to build the last mile and then just pay to connect to a bigger hub and then even have ability to switch.

Condo home owner associations get better deals for a lot of things than the individual could.

One might think that a city is just one big cooperative, but of course, its not really voluntary at all (except that you decide to live there) and is usually not as transparent or as responsive as a cooperative that forms without any coercion.

There's a certain point where increasing size of a group causes more overhead managing the size of the group (otherwise know as "politics and corruption" than it gets you in buying power.

Of course, such things can't really happen once a provider convinces a municipality to to make it a regulated monopoly. Once it is a monopoly, it can devote itself perpetually to reducing this regulation instead of improving its service, as incentives to do so are greatly reduced.
This speculation may or may not be correct, but you are absurdly naïve if you actually consider it "insanity" to consider that a company may have shipped some number of defective units due to a failure of testing.
A car used to be a luxury, now it's a necessity.

Do you think owning a car is a legal right?
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Wesabe was the only alternative to mint in Canada :(
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Flagging this as this article is wasting a lot of words to just say, "Apple keeps everything secret. Maybe they always had them in cases to keep them secret." Sorry... but lame. The Andantech review is more like what I like to read.
Yeah, I can't really think of many other companies that acquire smaller companies, and then let them operate with their money as autonomous entities. (No sarcasm.)

Apple and Microsoft surely don't, at least.
This just begs the question, though. If you assume that talent chases money and nothing else, then it follows that talent chases money and nothing else.

Particularly your second point about developers ignoring jobs salaried at less than their current pay. Working in a toxic environment, or doing meaningless work, or staying where one's range of expression is limited, all have a cost. You won't know until you get there, but when you do, you will.
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Company I work for issues a basic data structures test to be completed in 1 hour for all resumes worth their paper (about 10 to 15 out of 100 candidates). The test boils down to 'fill in these two functions'. About 20% finish both functions correctly in an hour (I still had an infinite recursion at the 1 hour mark and submitted a correct entry 10 minutes later).

In conjunction with a phone interview we typically only have an actual sitdown with 2 to 4 candidates out of the initial pool of 100. We recruit out of college so resumes get handed in like candy, but this process has effectively helped us find candidates that are at least capable of learning the monolithic code base and getting fully up and running in a few months.

Our company still has an absolute terrible code base. It is very feasible to nuke skilled programmers once you have them.
But lawyers don't normally work in a management hierarchy, do they? And I'm pretty sure hospital administrators hate physicians just as much as managers hate programmers. (Not all of them do, of course, but I'm guessing it's similar.)
I have been paying for quota and I was effected by the recent flaky behavior of the datastore (as were some high traffic production apps). This was a pretty huge deal for a lot of loyal app engine users and I am pretty sure Google will not let it happen again.

Also, the upcoming "business class" service offers an SLA so it appears that the platform is maturing nicely. Since the recent datastore fix performance has been superb.
Yes, but offering more money to someone who feels like they already make enough is amazingly ineffective. My point is that, in my experience, great programmers place a much higher value on doing interesting work than they put on making more money.
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That must really depend on where you live. I don't own a road registered car, and feel no ill effects because of it.
You can say that about smart people too. It is just hard to
jump outside the framework of your own education and experiences and come to a conclusion that conflicts with
everything you see as being right. He should have validated
his hypothesis by backing into his conclusion using several independent methods and not relying on just one.
Health care is a labor intensive good. Labor is more expensive in the US than in most other parts of the world, particularly high skilled labor. A haircut or a yoga lesson also costs more in the US than in most other countries for this same reason.

Further, the US healthcare market has more regulations than you think. One example: in most of the world, you buy birth control pills at the store for cheap. In the US, you must first pay a doctor for permission.
There undoubtedly would have been some amount on-site tests without the shield, but it is possible that they didn't hit the issue in those tests.
btw, how could I run this on Linux or FreeBSD? ^_^
One option is to find a qualified technical individual - either someone on staff (such as a systems administrator), or someone from outside the company whose opinion you trust (perhaps a service provider, or perhaps the lead developer at your friend's startup, etc.).

Find someone who doesn't actually want the job, but who has the skills to help you narrow things down. Trim out the people who obviously aren't qualified (or who didn't even read the job application properly). Pay him by the hour (his normal IT wage, $75-150/hr, whatever he's worth) to sift through the resumes you've narrowed it down to. Have him pick out the most qualified or most interesting candidates with little annotations as to why yes or why no. Doesn't have to be complex - notes like 'Only Microsoft experience listed', or 'lots of experience with web app development' or 'he lasted four years at BlahTech; if he weren't awesome they'd have fired him after three months', or 'he wrote half the code on the database system you're using'.

It's something he could probably do in his spare time, lounging at home on the couch with a stack of PDFs. If he spends five hours at $100/hr over the course of a week, that's $500 that went towards not wasting your time in useless interviews, or less risk of hiring the wrong person and wasting far, far more. That could be a dozen first-round phone interviews you've skipped over by narrowing the candidates down. If each interview is an hour long, that's a day and a half of everyone's time saved.

It's pretty easy to find someone with technical skill if you do your research; the hard part is finding someone who's looking for a job, or at least the one you're offering specifically. A 'clueless' manager won't know what to look for in a candidate, but if they can narrow things down and then hire someone else who can, it can save a lot of time and money.
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How exactly does offering a higher salary prevent hordes of unqualified candidates from applying?
That's partly because it's nearly impossible to build a telecommunications network in the private sector, due to the fact that you don't have eminent domain power, can't dig up roads, etc. And if we're going to have the government assisting private businesses, granting them local monopolies, etc., then sure, they should be regulated.
> the US has perhaps both the least-regulated

It is difficult to argue about this because there's no good unit of measurement for regulations.

But I would look at practitioner licensing, drug availability, tort law, and insurance requirements. My impression is that the USA is highly regulated (and more importantly, poorly regulated) in those areas.
"Hey, I've got 'two years of experience with .NET'! I remember, because it was my birthday last week and on my birthday two years ago I wrote a little digital clock app from a tutorial I found in a magazine. Man, who ever thought ten minutes in Notepad would net me a $100k job! I'm totally going to apply, and when I get this job I'm never working at another Burger King again!"
> As Milton Friedman said, you can never judge a government program by it's intentions, only the results it gets.

The results, as far as I can tell, are that Scandinavian countries have very good publicly owned infrastructure.
Doctors and lawyers can't engage in their profession since the age of 10 or so, like programmers can.
Doctors generally cannot be self-taught like programmers (what practice surgery on a neighbor?).
Programmers can literally envision things in their minds, and then make them come to life after putting hands on keyboard -- there's no effective equivalent in medicine and law. (Biology/biochem/chem, sure.) Also doctors and lawyers have to be accredited by a government board at least at the state level, programmers do not. Doctors and lawyers generally have to spend (or go into debt for) 10's to 100's of thousands of US dollars before being officially allowed to practice in their field -- programmers do not. And in general, the cost of mistakes in programming are small, with no lives or fortunes at stake (in the general case.), unlike law and medicine. Lastly, from what I can tell, in the US the average programmer will make anywhere from 1/2 to more likely 1/10 what a lawyer or doctor will make in their respective careers.

There are many differences between the professions of programming, medicine and law. So it's hard to make sweeping generalizations and use that to draw definitive conclusions.

Programming is very different.