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Ummm. Perhaps. Actually moved to and found my first job in China at a top company -- the reason I quit after 2.5 years even though no complaints about the job itself: salary, I thought I'm getting behind cause I can't save 3rd world salary for 1st world retirement one day + 1st world student loan debt.

I never in my life dreamed USA salaries after taxes are the same as what I was getting in China after Chinese taxes -- meanwhile living expenses are 10x (food) or the same (housing) or 100x (transport = need car here). What a mistake. (Warning to your college kids: don't believe this silicon valley hype that programmer salaries for fresh grads can be like 50-70k, I'm nowhere near it with 5 years experience)

To me the only turn off about India is the language issue. I assume too many people know English and it is a horrible environment to try to learn and use 100% Hindi.
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I understand what you're trying to get at, Jason. I too have sympathy for those who legitimately can't get a break no matter how hard they try (war vets, the disabled, etc.).

But some of these kids have been given opportunity and are too lazy to take it.

I walk by the Wall Street protesters every morning on my way to work. Most of them are still asleep at 8am while the Wall Street guys have been busting their asses for 3 hours already.

Most bankers are greedy and cutthroat and don't create value. But while some are motivated to obtain wealth in order to buy yachts and sports cars, I'd say most hate their jobs and are slogging away to provide the best possible lives for their families.
Google+ was supposed to compete with Facebook and having people's salaries tied to something this big, you would expect EVERYBODY to be on board.

I'd be pretty pissed if my salary was tied up in this and articles like this come out basically saying, "Your own execs don't think this is a good enough product to use themselves."

Regardless of how private they want to be, they should be using the product or at the very least have some assistant or intern posting for them. I'm pretty certain most celebs and top tech execs don't do all of their updates. You don't have to post private stuff, just make an effort to show you're using the product.
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"They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization."

really? REALLY?

"They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right."

It's sad to see that people can't take responsibility for their own actions. Taking out a loan for a college degree is a gamble. You are not guaranteed a job and nobody has ever told you that this would be the case.

"They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay."

If I, as a software developer, protested because people on bittorrent are outsourcing my labor (IE: downloading it for free from someone else), how would people from this group respond? They would tell me that I'm not owed a wage and that times are changing. My response to the above is exactly the same.

"They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press."

LOLOLOLOL..sorry I'm still laughing about this one..LOLOLOL. You get more freedom of speech in the US than anywhere else in the world. You can freely say anything you want about any political figure and you won't get arrested. There also isn't any firewall blocking political speech. No newspaper is government-owned as far as I know. The funny thing is that most left-leaning countries are all about more government control..including the press.

I could go on, but I don't want to waste any more time. It's just as I thought: This group is mostly comprised of self-entitled brats. If they were actually fighting for a real cause, I might be interested in taking them even a little seriously.
You mean like this? http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...
"Usually"? Apple almost never comments on rumors one way or the other. I can't even think of any cases where they did off the top of my head.
And they wondered why people supported Wikileaks for sharing their "secrets", when everything they do is labeled top secret nowadays.
It's a question of magnitude.

A phone is a necessity. A TracFone, where you can make a $10 phone and $20 of minutes last three months if you're careful, is reasonable if you think a mobile phone is a necessity. This person apparently had a $65/mo smartphone on a $1200/mo income. That's crazy talk.

Ditto the car. If I had a beater I bought from my sister for a song, I'd have believed it. But it hit me up for a $325 car payment. That implies that I bought something decent new. That's a total WTF. A car might be a necessity, but a job that requires you to have that car might as well be on the moon. You need a job you can walk, bike, or bus to. Sell the toxic car yesterday.

As for the dog . . . yeah, I know some people are attached to their dogs. And if you own your own place, and the only cost is its food and occasional vet bills, I don't see anything wrong with it. But when you're skipping food and medical care and best friend's weddings trying to make ends meet, and the dog is costing $100/mo in pet rent . . . it needed to be gone a long time ago.

I think that kind of captures my overall response to the game, really. It's clearly written from the perspective of someone who doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to do what they have to in order to make ends meet. You need to prioritize and cut. It can be done. Not to brag, but I have in fact done it before. But it does require treating the situation as the emergency it is, and taking appropriately drastic measures to establish positive cash flow.
Wow, this is scary. The technology that the pirates will develop to trade files unnoticed, combined with anonymous payment systems like Bitcoin, mean that people in the business of child abuse will have it even easier than they already do. It's great to criminalize college students sharing mix tapes or whatever, but the side effects are what's really frightening. (Also, if we're going to fine someone $1.3MM for sharing music, shouldn't we just kill them instead? Their life is ruined either way, but a quick and painless death seems much more humane than spending 60 years living in poverty as a slave to the recording industry.)

Won't someone please think of the children?

(Do we really want to start fighting a losing War On Sharing alongside our War On Drugs, War On Liquids-on-planes, and War on Afghanistan? Can society afford another losing war?)
As someone who is only a couple years out of high school, yes, abso-frigging-lutely, and as much as the top comments here touch on some practical implementation matters, teachers are frankly too over-worked to be able to care.
does anyone know the acceptance rate for last year? and how many applied?
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http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare-iphones/

Footnote 2: CDMA available only if iPhone 4S is sold and activated for use on a CDMA network.

Oh well.
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A large proportion of taxes are for the purpose of wealth redistribution. We do it because giving $900 to a poor person (arguably) results in more of a benefit than the harm caused by taxing a rich person $1000 and spending $100 in overhead.
Yeah, the article addressed that pretty well:

VENKATESH: So one of the strange things we found out when we spoke to baseball players is that they have their own language for quitting. They actually quit. They just don’t call it that. They don’t call it quitting. They don’t call it giving up. But, they say, “You know what? I’m just going to shut it down for a while.”

VENKATESH: So, what does it mean to be a quitter as opposed to a “shutter downer”?

HALL: Probably the same thing, is just sounds better when you say ‘I’m just shutting down.’ You know, it’s like you’re not really doing it, but, you know, you are.
A lot of talk here about the types of businesses that normally do .NET work and how they aren't very good to work for, so I figure here's a good place to ask for some advice.

I've been working full time as a .NET dev and doing my degree part time for the last 5 years, graduating next month hopefully around the top of my class. I enjoy .NET, particularly ASP.NET MVC, and my current job has let me have full control over the development workflow, I use TDD,Git,MVC,Jquery etc. Looking at what I should do next if I was to change jobs it kind of feels like russian roulette trying to find a company here in Brisbane, Australia that hires good devs to do interesting .NET (or any development work) while paying well and without being a sweat shop.

My question is, where should I branch to if not in .NET? Java seems like the other big area around here but its all enterprise stuff as well. I've done some mobile development in my own time, got a couple of apps on the iOS app store and some Android on the way. One of which uses a NodeJS/MongoDB back end, but I'm not sure there's that many jobs around here for that (iOS/Android development may be a good option, though I do like web dev). I'll be looking to relocate in a few years, but for now, does anyone have any suggestions for what framework/language I should learn next?

To all the people here who said they moved away from .NET due to the kinds of employers and fellow developers that use it, where did you move into and how did that work out for you?
It's a protest, not actually an attempt to comply with the law, especially because (unless I'm mistaken) the law hasn't even been passed yet.
One of the ideas I have been toying with is using StoryWall as the visualisation tool that plugs into your other apps ... so purely for communicating and visualising workflow, and the details of your system are in tool of your choice.
They are doing it behind closed doors so Australians can't find out how it affects them.

https://www.pirateparty.org.au/
Going by the comments there, I believe the blogger updated the video to one with just the older clip, so as not to confuse people.
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Yes, insiders to a group generally get more leeway to make broad declarations about the state of the group that outsiders aren't qualified to make.
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Read this if you haven't: )
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3071593
> Natural language is hard, and reminders need to be 100% reliable.

Indeed; hence Apple confirming its interpretation of the reminder with you before committing anything.
Shows how important family support is when building a company.

Not knowing about the VC process, what's the implications for the investor in this - were you not on the hook to deliver? Is the investor not upset that you bailed because your parents ordered you back to school?
What an utterly awful use of a pie chart.
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Put another way, employers hope that whining instead of paying the market clearing wage will find employees.
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>We "refuse to be terrorized" but instead we give up liberties like they are tumors that we will gladly shed to increase our perceived chances of survival.

I don't know if it is appropriate here on HackerNews, but there's this one Philosoraptor (an image meme) which just perfectly sums this up in a single sentence:

"If terrorists hate us for our freedom, does this mean
they're starting to like us?"

http://i.imgur.com/XbmFg.jpg
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If done right, it shouldn't be that much of a performance drain, and the benefits would outweigh that.
> Windows 7 is at 2GB minimum now. For what exactly?

Multiple user logins is a big part of it. All editions of Windows 7 above Starter let an additional user log in when the machine is locked without disrupting the locked session. It's an expected usage pattern that a family of 4 to 6 users will often be all logged in at the same time.

The windowing environment for each user takes on the order of 50 to 100 MB, plus figure 200 - 400 MB for the programs each user is likely to run, and you can get to 2 GB pretty quick.
hm, OK. in that case, I'll give Apple the benefit of the doubt and say that if 10.1 and 10.7 could possibly run on the same computer (since 10.1 was PPC-only, and 10.6 and 10.7 are x86-only), they'd let you upgrade directly for $30. thanks for the clarification. :)

(though, I'd still argue, an extra $70 per decade is not exactly breaking the bank.)
>Also, I'm a bit disturbed that you see field trips at school as a luxury rather than part of a solid, well-rounded education. //

It's a luxury because one can't afford it, not because one sees it as a frippery.

My lad wants to do an after school club that the school has been promoting, wants to go to a uniformed group with his friends, etc.. These things would be good experiences, provide useful educational opportunities and best of all be fun. We can't afford them. They are luxuries in the sense that he won't be unloved, malnourished, unfit or uneducated without them.
I like Google Plus, I post many things every day. But I'm among those worried about its future. Out of over 700 people I follow, only around 30 post daily, most posted at one point (I don't follow people who never posted) but don't anymore. I think people have a use for Twitter, Facebook, but G+ is inbetween and doesn't have enough of an obvious use yet.
Are you taking into account payroll taxes, sales tax, property tax, etc., when deciding that the US's tax system is not regressive?
That's great news. Firefox needs this if they're going to stick with the 6 week update schedule. But this is just one of the features where they catch-up. They need more features where they differentiate/stay ahead of the competition in a big way, if they really want to get people's attention.
I read it all and found it interesting, but it saddens me to see that his parent's love is conditional. They should've supported their son instead of "removing him from the family" if he didn't return to school.

Best of luck to you Marc and hopefully your parents support you on your next venture.
> I would also use the auto-complete to find things as a second (distant) use case.

I launch programs and find files like this every day. I find it one of the most useful features of 7 vs earlier versions (though I skipped Vista so maybe it was there too).
> There was no dialysis.

Read up on the dialysis situation in the US before pimping it as progress in medicine.
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> pre-marital sex was taboo

Pre-marital sex happened in droves throughout human history. Whenever it's been taboo, that just means that it was behind closed doors and hush-hush.
oh man. so they use he.net, too?

(I kid, but it's been a pretty horrible week for DoS attacks there, too.)
Interestingly, Mozart got paid to write music for his patrons. Today, I don't see any bands being willing to write music for payment. Could I get Elton John to write a ballad for my S.O., for instance?
So, all those women who were brought up without strong parenting due to busy work, overcrowded schools due to underperforming kids and bored youth groups with no programs are going to avoid unprotected sex? That's not considering the amount of drugs, crime, etc to 'escape' life.

I'm not saying that those women (or men) are stupid, I'm saying that they are brought up badly due to the neglect. You're taking so much 'choices' for granted when they are actually educated choices. For example, finances (how much will a kid cost? Bigger car? Food? Rent?), job security (are the parent(s) comfortable?), time constraints (do they have time to spend with them?). Ironically, they may end up neglecting their own children despite best intentions (eg Working overtime on minimum wage so the kid can get into college for example but the kid ends up a drug addict).

The way USA's poverty is a form of a Spartan kid's bath. Many will suffer, a few will make it through and be strong. All the more while other countries provide social programs (Social governments) or strong families (Communal communities) to make it easier and more aware of the responsibilities of having a kid.
Ruby and Python break backward compatibility too often even with minor language version upgrade.
It's harder to maintain working language version across servers than do real sysadmin tasks.

Perl rocks and robust to that.

See Perl equvalent to Ruby's Capistrano/Puppet/Chef.. or Python's Fabric/func..

Rex - http://rexify.org/
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>> They employ slave child labor to make your cheap plastic shit.

>They make high-end electronics, they make industrial equipment, [...] and manned spacecraft. //

Are you saying they don't employ minors in China at poverty wages in the manufacture of "cheap plastic shit"?

That would be news to me.
Depends on the field trips. Most of the places that the field trips go probably have free days. The only difference is that you wouldn't be going with the class. For example, once per month the Portland Art Museum is free from 5pm-8pm and less frequently there are 'free for family' days on the weekends. Going on field trips doesn't mean that you aren't exposed to culture.
Something innately eerie about this, nice work. Did you come up with the "scene" yourself or is it borrowed from somewhere?
I worked on a farm in high school. I was making $12/hr in the 90's -- pretty decent money.

Sitting on your behind is easier, regardless of pay.
It seems the actual speech recognition happens on a remote server, not in the device itself.
Yes, because teenagers are well-noted for their life experience, level of education, and decision-making abilities. And abortion is freely-available everywhere, with no social stigmas attached.

Throw into that mix 'abstinence-only' sex education, and your 'choices' disappear. If you don't know about protected sex, and it's clear that all this "choice" you mention is just illusion for a great many people.

You can't say "why didn't you use a condom?" if you block the information about condom use. Hell, in some parts of Africa, the Catholic Church is spreading information that condoms cause AIDS. Where's the choice there? Where is the 'luxury' there?

By the way, I didn't say the sex was the luxury, I said your stance was the luxury - this expectation that kids come along when you plan them. If you actually speak to parents, you'll find that kids frequently come along despite using high-reliability birth control, and sometimes never come along despite desperately trying for years.

What really is beyond ridiculous is your cold, calculating opinion of how humans operate, combined with this expectation that all humans have access to the information you have.
Interesting idea, though I suspect the more regular version in the final diagram could be made to work reasonably well, with less work on the planning and surveying sides. Each block would have a different shape from all its neighbors, so with trees, differing houses, etc., you'd have much of the same benefits.

That said, I don't see that this would have any impact on HOAs. More significantly, I've seen developments with straight grid layouts that are closed, only having one outlet to a public road. That could happen just as easily with a wavy or liquid grid.
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Ever since the beginning, copyright was about protecting the interests of the powerful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Early_European_printe...
Answer: maybe. Daniel Singal wrote a 1991 Atlantic article on the subject called "The Other Crisis," which asks the same question: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/politics/educatio/singalf.ht... .

I suspect the bigger problem in K - 12 education at the moment is simpler: the system isn't really able to optimize teachers at all. For more on this, see the article collected here: http://jseliger.com/2009/11/12/susan-engel-doesnt-get .
While the investor incurs some liability for a situation like this, it's important to build a solid team from day one. A business will soon become bigger than any one person and be able to continue and thrive.
"Management caring deeply about their company’s products and using them every day is almost always a prerequisite of making great products"

..when management is also happens to be in the target market of the product. Quite a broad and incorrect generalization to kick off an analysis like this.
>Shepard's plan [in "Scratch Beginnings"] was simple. //

If he did the same but tutoring a small group of randomly chosen people from the jobless line who were nonetheless motivated to achieve then I think he'd be on to something.

Now just to find some way to buy the book ...
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It was a lose-lose situation once the parents became definitive.

Ultimately, our investor took the long-term view on this situation. Hopefully, I'm going to be doing this for years, so take the hit now and finish everything up.

Lose-lose nonetheless.

Thanks for all of your comments.
Agreed. Thought I think the fact so much of the management doesn't even have a Google+ account is a much more telling/troubling indicator.
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I tried v3 on OS X when it came out, and got several crashes in a few hours. I went back to MS Office 2007, for the lack of something better, and haven't tried it eversince. I'm giving it a new shot right now (OS X 10.6 32bit).
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I like the live in-browser compiling feature. I would love to see this become the norm in programming tutorials in the future.
Show HN: GiftcardMate, an easier way to manage Giftcard balances
Hey Guys,

Wanted to show you a recent project that I started to see what others think of the idea.

The idea is to make it extremely easy to keep track of Giftcard balances.

Just several weeks ago I realized that I still had 3 Giftcards in my wallet that I was given last year around the holidays and didn't know what the balances were on them.

After a frustrating half an hour trying to find the darn Giftcard balance checkers on several of the company websites, I decided that I wanted to make the process easier for everyone else.

I'm looking for some constructive criticism and feedback on what the community thinks of both the idea and the prototype. I am also having a Thanksgiving/Holiday giveaway of 25 Giftcards to promote it, to hopefully encourage people to at least give it a try and see if it does make things easier for them.

The website is http://giftcardmate.com

Look forward to hearing your feedback!
yeah, Microsoft's main competitive shortcoming against Apple in desktop strategy is twofold:

- Apple can let OS X be its loss leader, whereas Microsoft doesn't have a thing to let Windows be a loss leader for (the Windows Store, maybe, post-8?)

- breaking backward compatibility hurts Microsoft's sales, since there's no single source of application updates, and since so many Windows licenses are in the enterprise; it doesn't affect Apple's sales (maybe even helps them) because it sells shiny new Macs for shiny new features and because Apple doesn't live or die on OS X revenue.

its saving grace is that retail sales of Windows licenses are probably dominated by people refreshing their computers.
It does have an f2.4 lens, so it should be good in lower light.
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Verizon has HSDPA service? I thought their "4G" equivalent was LTE and that HSDPA was for the GSM carriers.
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I'd love to see this in action - do you have a link? Do you literally serve a precomputed array as part of the JS and iterate over that using opacity/IE filter/whatever, or is it more nuanced than that?