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This is old news, by the way (April). Ikea followed up here in May:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/about_ikea/newsitem/Swedwood_state...

In short, they plan to fix the mandatory overtime problem, and they claim not to be involved in union busting. The latter charge, even in the article, was weak -- mandatory meetings where management tries to talk people into not unionizing? Sounds pretty benign.

They also denied the charges of discrimination.

Sounds like they hired American management who weren't really on board with their philosophies, and that they're fixing the problem.
The article says they "clocked a prerelease eight-core AMD FX desktop processor to a zippy 8.429GHz".
Hopefully somewhat on-topic, but one of the comments - "$1500 a day?! I'm underpricing myself!" made me want to contribute this:

The consultants who get this typically do more than just code. Often (usually) you'll end up needing to travel. I run in to a lot of talented freelance developers who 1) vow to never travel outside their hometown and 2) wonder why they can't charge high rates.

I'm not saying you need to fly overseas 3-4x per month, but part of being able to charge the high rates is providing value to clients commensurate with the price you charge. Providing value encompasses things like meeting the client in their office, even if it's 7 hours away. Arrange your own flight, charge it back later, etc. Make solving their problems first and foremost.

There's load of other stuff to say on pricing, and there are few universal rules on pricing. I do know that one of the things that's allowed me to charge what I charge is that I'm willing to go out of town to people who need what I offer.

I'm not saying these are my numbers, but if you're charging $30/hour now, but could make, say, $90/hour by going onsite to clients - being willing to travel to other cities for days at a time - would you do it? I'm actually a bit shocked at the number of people I meet who tell me "no". I realize not everyone has the same priorities I do, but still surprising.
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He is not packaging it, though. As he says in the article, his app is basically a simple web browser that automates the process of going to the CBC's website and clicking on a stream URL. He does not distribute the content himself.

Also, it is true the CBC has a right to ask him to stop and that Apple has a right to remove the app at their discretion, but it is not necessarily true that CBC has a legal right to force him to stop. If the app is legal, Apple's policy of removing illegal content is being misapplied to this app.

Edit: Since I received a downvote from a petulant person I will try to explain further. As the writer of this piece explains, his app is basically a paid web browser that only works on part of one site. There is nothing wrong with writing a web browser, charging for a web browser and optimizing it for CBC content.
His next two posts are even worse.

Gruber is nothing but a partisan hack and this proves it. No wonder he is held in high regard only by Apple enthusiasts.
Yes, we did! That is why we love Erlang but not Node.js, Lisp/Scheme instead of Java, Python3/Ruby instead of PHP, C but not C++, Postgres instead of MySQL, postfix, but not sendmail, Emacs instead of Eclipse, vim in terminal window and never use mc! ^_^
I used to think this too, but now my position is more nuanced. Certainly you need to have shown you have a passion for technology that goes beyond the norm, but there are other reasons you might not have lots of recent code outside of work. Maybe you have a family. Or maybe you have such a fulfilling current job that you don't feel the need to supplement it with extracurricular activities. Maybe you are interested in developing non-technical skills that would make you more useful in the future. Etc.

But some positions do require that Olympic athlete mindset. For other positions it's a detriment.
I kind of figured this was implied when Facebook revealed the Open Compute Project a few months back...

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/07/open-compute-project/
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Read more here about the history and direction of the site: http://www.caseypugh.com/post/10164711081
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This is very pretty and I'm sure it's to some extent useful.

However, I also find it misleading. As someone who has been through the process of buying private insurance before: there are a number of sites like this (though none of them as elegant and spare). All of them will give you comparative rate charts. But those rates don't mean anything.

After you select a provider, you have to fill out their application, which is onerous. They then do whatever record pulling they do in their backend and come back to you with an answer, which you can expect to take the form of "we can insure two of you for $JACKED_RATE, and we can't insure the other two at all", at which point you get to spend weeks in their appeals process figuring out which 15 minute doctor visit from 4 years ago put your wife or daughter on a "do-not-cover" list.

I'm not just complaining about the (horrible) US insurance system here. I'm saying that sites like this don't work. No web developer has access to the real information this app purports to have, which is "what can I expect to pay for coverage from providers in my area".

Note also that there are plenty of agents who will do this kind of legwork for you; they're often compensated by affiliate fees from insurers.

(For what it's worth, the identical problem exists with comparative car insurance shopping; you can get rate charts all over the Internet, but it's not until you fill out the application for a specific provider and wait a week that you'll find out how much higher your rate is than the advertised minimum.)

What would be very valuable would be a crowdsourced version of these charts.
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Probably not actually. It is a really good idea.
It looks very streamlined and powerful - quite arguably more functional than today's iPad - but it's problematic that I don't see anything that makes anyones' life appreciably better. A Flipboard clone, mobile Internet, Twitter, Photos - nothing revolutionary. Really, really good, but nothing to give an iPad or Xoom owner buyer's remorse unless these are ridiculously cheap (I don't see how they'll have any price advantage over Apple or Googlerolla). Tablets will own this holiday season, which MS is missing out on, and remember that Windows 8 tablets will ship in the shadow of the iPad 3. Which, in turn, means that Android and iPad will remain the lead platform for large form touchscreen apps for the medium term future.

So: nice, but this doesn't stop their disruption.
Looking at the demo, I could not help but think Microsoft is really doing a phenomenal job here - even to the extent that their competitors have something to worry about Microsoft after a long time.

a) Cross platform - A sizable number of modern apps for Windows are going to be Metro based and thus totally cross platform - ARM/x86_64. Now Android does this already but purely from Windows standpoint - this is a great way to start addressing real cross platform apps. The killer deal here is that people needing legacy x86 Windows apps are not going to miss out on the fun.

b) Backwards compatibility - no explanation required. They continue to do great in that department.

c) Very close hardware/software integration - Across vendors, SOCs and what not - they are really taking steps toward making hardware irrelevant from a user standpoint. If one wanted legacy apps and multiple monitors, they can still buy the Samsung Core i5 tablet with the USB and HDMI port without looking funny - it looks and works as sleek as your ARM tablet.

d) Real usability improvements - Like for example Refresh and Reset your PC, Windows Update made very subtle, Task bar can just span across monitors or can be two or more independent task bars showing only the apps on its own monitor.

The only unconvincing part of the demo was Windows Live - I wasn't sure how much traction that would gain.

Great stuff.
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The right to ask the developer to stop is not what the post is about. The post is about legal threats using a claim of copyright infringement, which is not "asking" by any definition.
I'm rather skeptical of any "workers at factory are mistreated, unhappy, et cetera" story that just happens to coincide with an attempt by a big-labor union to unionize said factory.

Where did this story come from? Why are we reading about it right now? Of all the thousands of factories in America, why is the attention of the Los Angeles times focused on a single furniture factory in Virginia?

Some of the Virginia plant's 335 workers are trying to form a union. The International Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said a majority of eligible employees had signed cards expressing interest.

Which is it? Are they trying to form their own union? Or is an extremely large union trying to get them to join it?

Why is it that the only people they managed to interview for the story were one disgruntled former worker (where did they find him?) and a union representative?

What I'm trying to say is that I think the very existence of this story, and the spin which has been put on it, is a combination of deliberate feeding by the union combined with lazy journalists.
Except that DMCA notices include language like this:

"I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner, of the copyright(s) that is(are) allegedly infringed by the aforementioned content."

That doesn't include any exceptions for "my automated script screwed up" or "we didn't check carefully enough", nor should it.
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Xocai healthy chocolate sells like......Chocolate - Can you believe that?
Obfuscated link's destination is http://www.caseypugh.com/post/10164711081

Please do not post obfuscated links.
I know exactly how to handle this as I did it before and it worked really well.

1. Make sure the feature can be completely hidden from the UI.

2. Add an option somewhere in Advanced section of Preferences that toggles the visibility of the feature.

3. Turn the feature off for all new users and keep it on for all existing ones.

4. If it is possible to detect whether the feature is used by an existing user, then if it is not used, show one-time message saying the feature is being turned off and how to turn it back on if needed.

That is it. Graceful deprecation.
Great points. I added a note/edit to my article to say I was referring more to working with smaller agencies and other freelancers. Thanks for the comment!
It is personal; and that's an area where I'm not so good. I mean, I've always thought like a contractor, even when I was an employee. I see my interests as separate from (but hopefully largely coinciding with) the interests of my employer, and I work for that employer because of what they can give me; they are paying me because of what I can give them. Hopefully, it's a mutually beneficial exchange of value, but if I can get a significantly better deal elsewhere? yeah, I'm going to take it, and I expect the same from my employer.

But people who are wired the way I am don't stay employees. Or at least, we don't stay good employees. Employees seem to genuinely love the company. They have loyalty, and expect loyalty. Hearing someone say that about my company actually makes me feel a little uncomfortable. It's one thing to be engaging in mutually beneficial exchange of value; it's another entirely to manipulate someone into producing value for you because of how they feel about the company. (Of course, I'm not trying to manipulate anyone's emotions, and I don't imagine I'd have the skill to pull it off even if I was.)

Paradoxically, as far as I can tell, most employees like to feel that they are working out of a sense of duty or love towards the company; they can feel offended when I approach employment as the mutually beneficial exchange of value; like I'm accusing them of being greedy sellouts or something. It's foreign to me, because I always scoffed when the companies I worked for talked about loyalty. I felt like they were treating me like a child. The boss I thought respected me the most would give me my performance review and then say something like "But that's just talk. Your raise this year is X%" - meaning he understood, as I did, that while there were non-monetary aspects to our relationship, it was primarily about the money.

But yeah, If I'm going to continue managing other people, this is something I'm going to have to come to understand.
Your car radio is definitely charging for access. How'd you get that car radio in the first place? You bought it. With money.
Would this (high frequency CPUs) be useful for hardware emulation accuracy?
Related: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/accuracy-takes-po...
A good example is all those Wikipedia and Stack Overflow content-suckers. Perfectly legal.

All this application is is a nice interface to "curl http://radio-stream.whatever/ > /dev/dsp". If this application is illegal, so is anything capable of speaking HTTP.
I tried to password-protect the page in question. It may not be working properly.
Being "not the typical use case... in industry" doesn't make it bad. It just makes it a pure mathematics book. Formal theorem proving in vector spaces is the typical use case of a pure mathematician; this book is for them.

If you're looking to do application, use an applied book. Gilbert Strang's "Linear Algebra and its Applications" is quite good.
Phones will continue to have a separate OS, but as both are branded Metro, I would hazard most users wouldn't be aware of there being any difference. One is just on a smaller screen and doesn't come with the desktop fallback.

Metro will also be appearing on 360 soon.
There are non-free browsers that can access CBC's radio streams. Those must also be infringing.
In part that's because, unfortunately, there is not that great a correlation between these advertised rates and how much they'll charge you once you actually go through the application process and have them pull your medical records, either.
Car radios are not free. Windows Media Player is only available to people who have legally purchased Microsoft Windows.
The problem is that the poverty line used by the census is basically arbitrary: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_0... , particularly the part about how at its discretion the government may tweak with the line to produce the desired results w.r.t. program eligibility. Since it is apparently the official cutoff for many programs, many people are motivated to keep it moving up.

I don't have a particular objection to that line as used for government program eligibility, but it's not valid to use it as an actual measure of "poverty", whatever that may be. 2011 poverty and 1959 poverty in the US are pretty much entirely incomparable no matter what definition you use.
"Put simply, we are looking for a .NET developer and one of the most important things that we look for is passion"

How much passion is there in the .NET scene anyway? It's very business oriented, I'd expect developers to be more sort of corporate and better at time reporting. It's not like you have to be a hipster to churn out spreadsheet automation scripts.
They probably built the tool specifically so that they could pin the manual review on Warner. Many copyright holders have a reputation for spamming takedown notices without reviewing even the filenames they want taken down, because the initial burden of proof lies on the hosting service.
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It's is being covered in Sweden and they did get some response from the company.

"Plant officials didn't return calls and declined to meet with a Times reporter who visited the Virginia facility. Swedwood spokeswoman Ingrid Steen in Sweden called the situation in Danville "sad" but said she could not discuss the complaints of specific employees. She said she had heard "rumors" about anti-union meetings at the plant but added that "this wouldn't be anything that would be approved by the group management in Sweden."

What's interesting is not the conflict between workers and management at a camp, but how similar the coverage of the story is with bad press in the home country for outsourcing work to the US.

PS: Still, it's an old story and the company responded by reducing the need for overtime: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/about_ikea/newsitem/Swedwood_state... " The audit team identified one issue regarding excessive use of overtime. Although the use of overtime at Danville is within legal parameters, it does not live up to the high demands of IWAY. The remark has been taken seriously by the Danville management, which has designed a process to solve this issue and they are well on their way. IKEA will continue to monitor the situation to ensure an acceptable level of voluntary overtime in Danville. "
Would/do Jose Diaz-Gonzalez's plug-ins solve your problem?

https://github.com/josegonzalez/josediazgonzalez.com/tree/ma...
Add to that the fact that Hyper-V is part of Windows 8 - interesting possibilities.
When the build conference keynote's over, watch the recording. I think the killer feature will be having every device you pick up be tailored to you. When you hand it to your wife, it's tailored to her... just by signing in with a Windows Live ID instead of a local user/password. Your contacts, e-mail, calendar, photos, files, apps, desktop, bookmarks, individual app settings -- it will all be there on whatever device you pick up, whether it's a tablet, a phone, a desktop PC, your work PC. Windows 8 uses Microsoft's cloud to bust through firewalls on every end to connect every device you touch.
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The thing that stuck out to me is their move to try and group friends and what they're doing based on location. They already have the ability to add your location on the status updates, and this kind of takes it to another level. Is it just me or are they moving to try and directly compete withe companies like foursquare and other companies like that?
The moral of the story: if you willfully appropriate someone's trademark and intellectual property their lawyers will settle for nothing less than complete surrender. Get over it and move on.
This explains why Engadget never said anything about the hardware it was running on. They were prohibited to say anything about it. I wonder why?

"Keep this in mind as you read: both the operating system and hardware are developer preview builds. In fact, the [REDACTED] hardware (we're prohibited from even revealing its manufacturer or specs) isn't even going to run Windows 8."*

http://gizmodo.com/5839665/windows-8-slate-hands-on-its-fant...
Alternatively: real wages should have decreased considering the increase in competition among workers.
Looks like my birthday is on Programmers' Day, nice.
Couldn't you encode the sizing with the size of the pie? ie, if Independents are the smallest group, they should be a smaller circle. In this manner, area allows for accurate comparison (it could be that more Republicans disapprove of direct voting than Independents approve for example).
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Should HTC Buy MeeGo or webOS?
It's hard to relate to the excitement when the demo was chock-full of usability failure. How many times did the presenters struggle to register their gestures?

Someone will no doubt say "it's a developer release – we'll fix all that". My response to that is "Apple would never let that see the outside of a top-secret lab".

Also, am I the only person who thinks this is the polar opposite of "post-PC"? Desktop, start menu, right-click, etc. Maybe "touch PC" is more apt?
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I think you're on the right path and I think that the fact that you are consciously involved with this means that at some point you will find that understanding.

If you have a good working relationship with the journeyman person why not discuss that with him/her openly? After all you're already reconciled with losing them anyway so there is absolutely nothing to lose, and who knows how much to gain. You might even find a worthy partner there.
How do you know they nailed it in terms of performance? It's running on a Core i5, on which even Vista or Windows 7 runs well. We don't know how well it will run on Atom or ARM yet, which will be the "tablet optimized" chips, with higher battery life. The Core i5 will give 2 hours of battery life, especially in such a small package compared to a notebook.
From the CBC terms of use:
"ANY USE, REPRODUCTION, ALTERATION, MODIFICATION, PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OR DISPLAY, UPLOADING OR POSTING ONTO THE INTERNET, TRANSMISSION, REDISTRIBUTION OR OTHER EXPLOITATION OF THE WEBSITE OR OF ANY CONTENT, WHETHER IN WHOLE OR IN PART, OTHER THAN EXPRESSLY SET OUT HEREIN, IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF CBC/Radio Canada."

-http://www.cbc.ca/aboutcbc/discover/termsofuse.html#ownershi...
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Ext4 2x faster than XFS?
I consider myself very passionate about programming. I do a lot of research and learn about programming in my spare time, but have hardly any personal programming projects to show. After work, instead of grinding away coding like I do every day, I'm learning how to draw, and paint, and play music. Does this mean I'm not qualified for this .NET position?
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These questions aren't unanswered; Windows 8 has been demoed on many ARM devices now, and the build conference demos show specifically how tuned for power usage it is. The new kernel is very much focused on power management.
You can still make an analog radio yourself without having to purchase a license to do so. At least, in he US (not sure if you need a content license). So that argument is a little off. Plus, in that analogy, the authors argument still holds up - you are buying an app (car radio) that lets you view (hear) content that is otherwise distributd (broadcast) for free.
'M$' ? Really? Didn't expect to see that on HN. Thought people were more mature here.
Is there any way you can edit that into the OP? I don't know what the edit time limits are.
Too much touch in Windows 8?
It's not like you have to be a hipster to churn out spreadsheet automation scripts.

You also don't have to be a hipster to contribute to open source or be passionate about your craft. What makes you think he's looking for a hipster?
I was under the impression that SO "could" for instance copyright all user submitted content. In that case the republication of that content without the permission of the copyright holder would be illegal.