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Not too wise.

Google for "787 Dreamliner outsourcing". It was costly experience for Boeing.
Part of the selling point of iOS is that it works well.

And it does. And 3rd party plugins that Apple has no control over reduce the quality of that experience, increase support costs, and generally add instability.
I've posted a calendar of all the events going on in south florida in tech over the next 2 weeks.
http://miamitechevents.com/

you can subscribe to your gcal there.
Great! Happy to help you meet new people!
I agree, it's one of those things that really hurts the UK as a whole - and it's much worse than the 1850s, when you had much stronger regional economies (think Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow....)

It hurts the South-East because it puts the infrastructure under enormous strain and property prices beyond the reach of mere mortals, while draining the rest of the UK of its talented young.

This is one thing I think the Germans do right - a much more culturally, economically and politically balanced nation (even taking the East-West divide into account).
For the B2B project I would estimate between 10-15 clients before we committed ourselves, and once we had that info we surveyed about 25 potential customers (10-15 of which were in the first casual group).
One person downvoted you, or at least you were at 0 when I wrote this. If the collective thinks that your post is valuable, it will be upvoted, and will eventually balance out those who think that it is not valuable.

(Disclaimer: I upvoted your original post to 1, while downvoting the post in which you complained about being downvoted to 0, as complaining about being downvoted is explicitly against the guidelines - and you could have edited your original post, instead of responding to yourself.)
That's not accurate. Apple's only control of the hardware is how you use it via their software. The hardware is not sold to you under the provision that you must only use Apple's software with it. Replace their software with your own and Apple has no control over the hardware. Therefore, Apple has no control over the hardware - you do.

The claim "I bought the hardware, I own it, therefore I should be able to do what I want with it and Apple is preventing me", which is the general argument being made, is fundamentally false. You bought the hardware, you own it and you can do what you want with it.
I chalk it up to poor writing. The article clearly makes no sense in that context.
The most interesting thing about Redis is that it removes the impedance mismatch between in code data structures and the data store. It is doing for data stores what server side javascript does for AJAX applications. OO persistence was the first step in this direction but Redis nails the real world use cases a lot better.
Foursquare has a API method that exposes the people who are at the same place than you are.
Then we get their twitter nicknames and find who you have the most followings in common.

We use Rails 3, Memcache, Redis, Resque, Foursquare API (with Push) and Twitter API.
> Readability needs Apple to publish an app in the App Store. Apple doesn’t need Readability.

Pretty short-sighted analysis, overall. In a vacuum, Apple probably doesn't need Readability, or Kindle, or Netflix, or Campfire or any other specific SaaS app, video streaming app, competing bookstore, etc. But it isn't a vacuum; if you drive all of them away, there isn't a lot of interesting stuff left.

Apple seems to be betting that I'll throw away my Kindle account, my Netflix subscription, my interest in Readability, Evernote, et al, in order to stay on iOS.

But for me it seems easier to just replace my aging iPhone with an Android phone and keep using all of these other great programs, OS polish be damned.
I would love to play a good MMORPG based on A Link to the Past. It's kind of pathetic how nostalgic I get for my clearly well-spent youth when I think about that game.
The false negative rate of the hiring strategy you advocate would be significantly higher that the traditional programming interviews. There certainly is a fraction of otherwise competent programmers who would fail to write the linked list code because of the interview conditions (stress, time pressure, whiteboard etc.). What is that fraction? 50%? 70%? I'm guessing no higher than that. Now, what is the fraction of competent programmers who haven't written any open-source code? I'm guessing 95%.

Also, the cost of inspecting carefully enough someone's open-source code is way higher than evaluating their answer to an interview question.

Also, at the risk of stating the obvious, if a significant fraction of employers started looking at the candidates' open-source contributions, all new grads would start producing open-source-spam projects, further decreasing the usefulness of this signal.
For my current project I have spoken with at least 50 people. based on the recorded feedback I have. I would estimate about half the people I talk to have something to say either positive, negative, or both. But we haven't done anything in depth or official for this consumer product.
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Works perfectly fine in canary, though.
This is also a great one:

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/flzut/i_have_som...

More of her best-of comments would be most welcome. And, MORE THREADS LIKE THIS PLEASE.
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This is a matter of statistics for Wells Fargo. Of all their clients, maybe 1% do protest. The other 99% just go to the bank and pay the fees.

Maybe the other 99% doesn't even read the statements and just go and pay.

For them, it's all profits. Even paying this man and their attorneys to get to a settlement doesn't make a dent to the revenue they're receiving of the other 99%.
Absolutely. We don't (currently) use it but amix's redis_wrap is an awesome example if you use Python. It basically makes interacting with Redis look just like you're dealing with normal builtin data structures. I'm sure the equivalent exists or is just as easy to write in any language: https://github.com/amix/redis_wrap
Walmart's supply chain management software

This is what we call cherry-picking an example. Someone who wanted to argue with you might select Windows autorun and its role in the world of illicit botnets and keyboard logging.
For a recent example:

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/03/xbox-live-indie-games-move...

(They did end up fixing it a little later, though.)
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan, but Planned Parenthood won't help impoverished nations with high birth rates. The church allowing condom usage however...
Commodore 64 basic was the first.

10 PRINT "Peter"

20 GOTO 10

Awesome!
OK, we're getting dangerously nuanced now, which breaks all the rules of the Internet.

I think you're conflating the illusion of consciousness with the brain itself. It is possible to take actions to intervene in my own neurochemistry -- I am a self-observing system. I can avoid situations that upset me, I can spend more time with friends and family, and so on.

But my personal experience of depression is that it removes the will to be cured. Yes, you can seek therapy, spend time with friends, take up meditation and these will help. But when you are depressed even the thought of getting help is ... exhausting. A cause for dismay, even. It is a particularly invidious disease.

Each of us has different systemic set points for our internal processes -- dynamic equilibria which our systems drift to over time. Most of these are necessary and useful, they keep us alive. But some of us have set points with unpleasant side-effects. Some people have trouble regulating blood sugar, and they use exogenous insulin to do it manually. I have trouble regulating serotonin, and I use sertraline hydrochloride to influence it manually.

High doses broke the back of a depressive episode that lasted 5 years. Low doses have kept me functioning since then.

Is it perfect? No. I could do without the side-effects, but I expect that as time goes on these drugs will become more specific and effective. Or someone will come up with a gene therapy. Who knows?

I do not regard what I experience as fake happiness. It is as real as anybody else's.
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This really highlights how utterly insane our system is. I'm living off of my own business, which means that I don't have an employer to cover me under group insurance. But I really only make enough to live frugally and save a tiny amount each month--to me, an affordable health insurance plan would be between $50-$100 a month.

Fat chance of that happening. And if it did, the deductible would be so high as to make the plan worthless for anything short of a car-crash-emergency-type-situation.

But not only would it not happen at that price, but as the article says, it wouldn't happen period--even though I'm a healthy, nonsmoking, active 26-year-old male, I've had cubital tunnel problems in the past (typing) and surgery on my wrist (badly broken in an accident). If I applied, I would surely be denied--and again, as the article states, if you're denied once, your chances of being accepted in the future just dropped by a big percentage.

It literally makes more financial sense for me to pay minor expenses out of pocket and declare bankruptcy in the chance of crippling bills than to be insured.

Healthcare in America is utterly, utterly broken; it's damaging poor, middle-class, and rich people alike, and stifling innovation. I have the ability to innovate with my company because I'm young, single, and healthy; but many smart people have existing medical problems, families, or other factors that make them indentured servants to the company that pays their healthcare. As a nation we're under the thumb of the insurance companies, and instead of doing anything serious about it, we've done almost the worst possible option: require every one of us to be a customer of these monstrous companies, with little regulation on cost or other government oversight. I'm the first person to back health insurance reform, but we've reformed it in the name of shoveling more money into the pockets of industry instead of for regular people needing real care.

It's crap like this that's compelling me to make my current expat lifestyle permanent. America might still get the tax dollars my business generates (the only country to still tax you if you live abroad) but it won't get my brain or my talent within its borders.
Thanks, that's essentially what I said, but I am curious what you mean by "most followings in common" (you mean people intersect?) I assumed you did some form of semantic analysis of the tweet streams to intersect based on common RT's or link topics?

I'm actually surprised there is a maxima between people intersects, or that it carries some meaning.

I wasn't really asking about the front-end, that seems like any of the boilerplate environments would have been equivalent, and just becomes a matter of most familiar, but rather the 'backend'.

Let's say you can write a UI, you have a lat/lon, you have the tweet streams from those around you, how, in a meaningful way do you find similarity? That's the core of your idea. Because Mike and Brett both follow JetBlue what does that tell you? However, if Mike and Brett both RT'd a link about the speed of limit hard limit, it's reasonable to assume they have some similarity in interest. That's the part I was interested in getting your thoughts (mainly because its something I've both thought about and worked on)
In elementary school, I started with Turbo Pascal.

I remember that I had bought a book or two and did simple exercises my teacher gave me.
Tom Hanks is a talented actor that went on to produce/direct - I think a very fair comparison would be someone like Paul Buchheit. I'm not going to go around asking, but I think it's safe to assume my sample would have no idea who he is.

That being said, the point I was trying to make is that you can become very successful in SV and have nobody outside of the tech community know your name - your product is your product. In Hollywood, your product is you, success is, by definition, corellated with fame.
Also, how do you search for anything with punctuation? I frequently use Perl, which makes use of punctuation for functions, and am constantly frustrated on how you can't search Google for them. Try searching for "perl $!" and you won't get any pages referring to Perl's error handling function. Not even results referencing Perl code that uses it. Google just ignores it.
As far as outsourcing stories go, I find this one to have a very nice silver lining for developed countries.

R&D is not factory floor oppressive work for people who have no options and often little political power. It is the domain of the intelligent; people with options who are more fully aware of what their options are. IOW, a true middle class. The more the thinking class grows the better all of us are.

R&D is not a zero sum game like manufacturing. With manufacturing there is only so much demand for the manufactured goods; only so much material with which to make the goods etc. With R&D the only limiting factor that comes to mind is the size of R&D budgets. It is relatively easy to increase the size of that pie if R&D brings results.

This class of people will be in a better place to act on opportunity as well compared to the low payed laborers whether it be to move to more developed countries once they have some valuable experience or to take their ideas and experience and create enterprises on their own or to simply demand higher compensation with these other options in mind. I'd bet they'd also have more political clout as well.

In short, more R&D in these countries will accelerate parity with their counterparts in more developed countries and might even pull their labor class with them.
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This is a nice story however I don't think the same principal should apply in this case. You have to look at intention of the behavior to judge ones character like Roosevelt did. In Roosevelt's case the intention was clear, the guy took away from another and knowingly disregarded the loss the other guy suffered. It's this character of hurting others to benefit self that made the behavior bad and immoral.

In this kid's case, information was copied. The intention was not to take away sacarce resource for self benfit. He got the source simply because the act of looking produced a copy. Not because he was trying to seek self gain. You should not equate the two and pass the same judgement of character simply because we tend to label both acts as "theft." They are completely different. I really think there should be another word to distinct between these different acts.
Does anyone have any experience with small-business health-care pools as an alternative to buying individual insurance? They've been talked about for a long time, and some states supposedly have programs for them, but I haven't heard much about how or if they work. Can you join one and get insurance at any sort of vaguely group-negotiated price with fewer of these kinds of problems?
An unequal power dynamic does not at all imply that you can't be friends. If either of you make each other's life more difficult, you're not going to be friends - but isn't this always the case? If, however, you have a healthy business relationship, there's no reason why you can't be friends as well.
I started with QBASIC in middle school, but then picked up HTML once my family got our lightning fast 56k modem, and thus a web nerd was born :] I dabbled in Visual Basic and C++ in high school, but ultimately decided to pursue web programming (XHTML,CSS, LAMP).
Sure, we've looked at Phonegap and Appcelerator and it seemed like building native apps seemed a good idea at that time with Apple threatening to ban them because of Flash apps being cross compiled.

But right now, I'm just looking for any good open source projects in the mobile space that I can contribute to ..
Yes, and I frequently have been.

The power relationship at work is only one part of your relationship with somebody. It does introduce complexities, and you both have to accept that friendship can't muddle the professional waters; if she or he thinks you're doing a bad job or the situation calls for layoffs, they'll need to give you feedback and potentially let you go -- and that can put a lot of stress on a friendship. Conversely if you think they're doing a horrible job as a manager, that'll also cause complications. But if there's good communications, friendships can survive even in these different situations.
I have my family on a $10,000 deductible per person ($30,000 for family). That still costs over $500/month.

Unless you have cancer, heart surgery, or some other major thing, and are in good health you'll save far more over buying a lower deductible plan.

We used to have reasonable insurance, but the annual increases have been enormous, without any claims.

More people will drop insurance, leaving the companies with only the sick, if they keep pushing younger, healthier people out of the system.
Sweet! I'd love for them to make some new retro versions of the nes or super nes versions. We've got a hidden tribute on our website @ Gamify that surprisingly no one has ever caught.
The subtle but crazy part about this is at the bottom when it details the author: "Donna Dubinsky, a co-founder of Palm Computer and Handspring, is the chief executive of a computer software company."

I'm going to go out on a limb and say money is not an issue for Donna, yet she still can't even buy insurance if she wants to. I've always thought healthcare access was a bigger hurdle for entrepreneurs than tax rates. If I make a lot of money with my startup, great, I really could care less if I pay 15% or 40% of that to the gov't, because it will be a whole lot more than I make now. But not having health care insurance (or worse, having crappy insurance that denies you all the time like most individual plans do) is so damn risky it makes me afraid to step out on my own.
Wow, I'm so surprised that Gruber takes Apple's side 100%.
I recently tried Natural Stress Relief (NSR) meditation per Alex Payne's suggestion (http://al3x.net/2010/09/07/startup-health.html). The technique requires carving out around twenty minutes for meditation twice a day (morning and evening). Even with a schedule as flexible as mine (i.e., extremely flexible), I found this virtually impossible to maintain; forty minutes a day may not sound like much, but it is, especially since it has to happen at specific times (before meals, not before bed, etc.). For example, I work much better if I eat within 30 minutes of waking; since (according to NSR) you're not supposed to eat before meditating, that leaves almost no slack in my morning schedule. It's also incredibly easy to forget to meditate until an hour before you have to be somewhere, and then you have to (say) shower, dress, eat, and meditate in order to keep up with the program. (Actually, per the eating rule, you would have to meditate and then shower & eat. And possibly be late to your thing.) And you know how hackers operate on the Maker's Schedule? For me, meditation became one of those things that breaks big chunks of time in two. Not good.

NSR emphasizes the importance of doing two sessions every day. After a couple of weeks on the program, I found that the stress of scheduling the meditation, combined with the stress of missing the occasional session (and hence, horror of horrors, not following the program), completely overwhelmed any stress-relieving benefits from the practice. I abandoned it within a month.

I'm not sharing this experience to show how much meditation sucks; I'm inclined to believe those who say meditation works wonders for them. I'd appreciate some advice from those who have faced and overcome the problems I've described—if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
Is it just me or does this comment not make sense?
I remember adding a ";" to the end of the Print statement and being absolutely mesmerized by the pattern the scrolling text made :)
I've talked to an agent about that. In Washington State, she said a group plan v. individual would not make much difference. At least not enough to warrant they additional paperwork and/or insurance company switch.
<sarcasm>But it's written by someone involved in the tech world, that makes it hacker news</sarcasm>
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I think I get an email once a week or so that tells me what people I'm connected to have changed. That's basically the only time I ever even consider checking out LinkedIn's site.
In Ruby, you can't[0] access an instance variable without an accessor; they're private by default, with all that implies. Also, when you use attr_accessor, all it does is literally[1] create a getter and a setter method. Adding logic to them later is a simple matter of replacing the attr_accessor shortcut with a method with the right name. None of the client code has to change, and that's the important part.

[0] Not quite; see Object#instance_variable_get. But that's cheating, ugly, and generally frowned upon.

[1] Not quite, but the difference is an implementation detail.
As long as you both think each other are good at your jobs.
The sad thing is that I liked this article. I just don't want to get pulled into another political discussion on HN about it. The thing about these things is that they're like car wrecks. You know you should just keep going about your business when you see one, but for some reason, you feel compelled to stop and stare.
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I don't think it's worthwhile to point out every time somebody pretends to be Steve Jobs on the Internet. There's no good reason to even consider the possibility that Steve Jobs is commenting on this company's blog. Steve Jobs is not known to comment on blogs.
I think it's hacker news because hackers struggling to become ramen-profitable (or even just thinking about it!) are directly affected by the cost and availability of health insurance. It's a big factor for many people in deciding whether they want to quit their cube jobs that keep them insured to strike out on their own.
I think she could buy insurance if she really wanted.

I've thought about this a lot because I could easily be in this situation. If I did anything on my own I would need a group plan quickly. You only need 2 people to create a group.

So you can buy insurance its expensive, here is how you do it.

1) Start a company.

2) Hire another employee (this costs a lot)

3) Make a group health insurance policy for the company.

There you bought insurance.

I know this is stupid, but I'm just the kind of person that when someone says "You can't do XXX" I automatically have to see if I can do it.
Linux, Samba, OpenOffice etc not competing with MSFT?

They claimed they were in their market statements
Have you looked into this (for California but there are different plans in every other state)? http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions/preexisting/states/...

"$499 for a 50 year old subscriber in San Francisco"

Looking at other states, there are premiums as low as $172/month.

It would surely be much cheaper for you as a 26-year-old. Not quite the $50-100 you're looking for but I'd bet you could afford it.

Things are bad but maybe not as bad for you as you think.
He'd probably be a good hire now, but his confession to Gabe was only a few months after the incident. If you knew it was a naive kid that didn't understand the boundaries, that alone is enough reason to wait a few years before you hire him. People who think it's cool to swap your company's proprietary information with untrustworthy outsiders should be avoided.
He's the Glen Beck of Appleism. :)
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Edit: Apparently you need to go through Google for this to work. See comment below.
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