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Corporate greed is always about blind outsourcing. You get the savings and you don't care how you get them. I have no doubt that Apple is capable of manufacturing their own devices. They chose not to. If workers were getting treated like crap, Apple is to blame. period.

I'm not saying don't make stuff in China, I'm saying we can be good employers in China and set a standard by treating employees like we would expect NA employees to be treated, with respect and dignity.
A non-criminal removal is simply removing someone from the country that has no criminal record and is an 'alien'.

As soon as you commit a crime (and are convicted) you are subject to a criminal removal. The main issue seems to be that criminal removals are procedurally expensive, they take a lot longer and cost more dollars than a non-criminal removal. Having appealed or not is not really a factor here because some people that let their visa expire never went through the appeals process, they just disappeared underground or were forgotten for a long long time. Technically they have no right to be where they are, in practice they're just like everybody else minus the right to vote and the right to social security, and possibly health care issues.

In order to boost the numbers the agencies decided that non-criminal removals are the low hanging fruit that they can use to boost their numbers significantly while cutting costs. After all, it's a lot easier to pick up a hard working guy/girl and their family than it is to go after someone that is aware he's being looked for.

In plenty of cases these people are not just productive members of society, but they also have had children in the long time since they landed and the present, which rips these families apart.

This is the most stunning example of short-sighted behavior by officials that I've ever seen because they effectively shifted their priorities from removing undesirables to removing their polar opposites, the productive, if possibly undocumented members of society.

WP article about this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...

What is sad is that it takes high profile cases such as these to bring this strategy to light, for every well connected person that comes up in this dragnet of stupidity there are 100's if not 1000's of nobodies that are just as important to the functioning of society and whose lives and well being are not worth less than any other persons.
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Well, no, credible death threats aren't sufficient grounds - they would have to show that not only are the death threats credible, but that the government is purposefully not protecting him from the threats.

I can understand that he feel's the US is his home and he shouldn't have to leave, but he's basically been trying to play the system for 20 years. He was told what he had to do to get a visa legally, but he wasn't willing to do so.
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Finally! Yegge has some fine points and I would like to learn about them - but not for this price. And by the way - I really hate his strategy of flattening CS graduates by adding something about how real programming requires writing a parser a year.
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> If they'd just called it the Xbox Phone it would've sold ten times better

It's quite obvious that the Windows brand is burned; people hate Windows -- and Microsoft know it better than anyone else!

They had a campaign some time ago where they tried to demonstrate that people actually liked Vista, if only they didn't know it was Vista.

Of course, what it really showed was that people are incredibly prejudiced against the Windows brand.
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Apart from the obvious semantics, what's the difference between 428 and 412? (412 - precondition failed)
I find Gruber unreadable simply because he is so predictable. If it's about Apple, then it's praise; and if it's about Android, it's criticism.

That said, I think he's smart and knows exactly what he's doing. His audience is probably about 95% Apple product owners and he does a great job at suppressing any cognitive dissonance they may have regarding their Apple purchases - which keeps them coming back.

Reading his column is just another ritual for faithful followers of the Church of Apple.
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Windows does this too.
I have a digital product that I sell it's a PHP script.

I can see the advantages of using you guys to manage the download and payment process.

But the twitter thing confuses me, my only twitter followers are customers anyway and I don't have many. If I was sending out a tweet I'd prefer them to go to my landing page anyway.

So if I were you guys I'd tone down the twitter thing and make the mesasge more about managing digital downloads.

"A simple way to sell your digital products on Twitter"

becomes

"A simple way to sell your digital products"

But maybe this is targeted at people with lots of followers and lots of digital products.
I believe Limor Fried did something similar for her master's thesis.

http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/index.html
It's back up now - they're also reporting that he apparently died from his injuries.
If something that is hosted by a 3rd party 'in the cloud' is open source, does it really help? Since someone else is still managing your data.
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It is the system that allows you to play the system for 20 years. If the process were more clear cut and less slow then I'd agree with you but after some reasonable period of time (say 5 years) has passed and someone has proven to be a productive member of society it is in everybody's interest to maintain the status quo.

People have come to the US in their 40's and have died of old age waiting for their paperwork in cases where everything went A-ok (ditto for Canada), it's no surprise that the negative side is just as slow.

Case not finished in 5 years? Here is your passport.

It's typically not the people that go through this mill that control the speed with which it turns but the government side.

Note that it took more than 4 years before they even had their first hearing.
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An interesting factoid. There is no legal way for anyone to just come to US and make it their home country.

Say someone from Africa or South America. They can't simply save enough money, get on a plane, land at JFK and then after 10 years or whatever time become citizens. They would have to be persecuted in a terrible way before being granted asylum, have to marry a US citizen, find a company that would hire them.

I think that is very interesting given that this country was founded on immigrants just hoping on the boat and coming here, either to build a better life or because things got terribly bad where they were.

I personally went through the whole process and it is a fucking mess. I knew how to deal with it, because I dealt with bureaucracy in the old country. I can sense an annoyed low level clerk's power trip coming on before they notice it. Such individual need special treatment. You never want to fall into anyone's cross-hairs, it seems like they would destroy you just because they can.

Also know someone who works for immigration. It is quite a dysfunctional entity. Very inefficient. Lots of internal mistakes, unpaid interns do the job searching through databases and picking people out for violations & deportation. Next time you know someone was picked out -- chances are some kid thought their last name sounded funny and it caught their attention.
I hate to say it but from a brief reading of the information, it sounds like their asylum was first denied back in 1997, and they've been fighting it ever since. They certainly have the right to fight it, but it's been an uphill battle for almost 15 years, so the outcome certainly doesn't seem like a surprise.

The person is obviously a great entrepreneur, he probably should have just left on his own accord instead of fighting it to the point where he's thrown in jail.

The ridiculous thing is that he's in the US, paying his taxes, creating income, etc.... why throw him out? I suppose it's because he applied for asylum that was denied, and they are throwing him out to prove a point, but the entire thing is just counterproductive to what we want in this country.
Cool idea. I might not have a use for it just yet, but maybe in the future. Just a small tip: there's a typo in the 1st answer of the FAQ: "Boxrockit is a simple way to sell digital good on Twitter." It should be "digital goods".
"Imperialist-backed forces" ? Please, get this the hell off this site:

1) The guidelines clearly say that if it's mainstream news, it should not be here.

2) Editorialized headlines, be they about wars or editors, or editor wars, are not welcome.
Ah, I get it. Thanks to you and bostonvaulter2.

It'd be interesting to see whether adding authentication/sign on to a protocol like DHCP would fit better. The hijacking of HTTP, while it obviously works well in the default case, seems nasty and this error code fixes the wrong problem. Better to have a DHCP field that tells you to visit a specific website to log in; then the OS could display that website when you connect to the wireless.
A further advantage of putting it into the connectivity protocols is it makes automatic payment and negociation by the client's software possible—for example, connecting to the cheapest wifi in range.
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As far as I can see, the article doesn't use the phrase 'imperialist-backed forces' anywhere. Seems like unnecessary editorialisation by the submitter to me.
You are making a lot of assumptions.

First of all, lots of us have friends or acquaintances we have never met in "meatspace". In many cases we do only know them by pseudonyms.

Pseudonyms we now can't use if we wish to connect to them on Google+

I started out in the C64 demo scene, and though I never released anything of significance, there were at least at one point more people that knew me by my pseudonym than by my real name. I don't use mine any more, but many do.

For a lot of those people, being able to be searchable by their pseudonym is important if they are to connect to friends, and in many cases, it may be detrimental for them to have their pseudonym tied to their real name.

Conversely many people very intentionally do not want to be searchable.

Google is free to operate with whatever rules they want within the law, but it is pretty infuriating when on one side they've shown they in some ways understand the social graph far better than facebook ("friendships" are NOT in any way symmetrical in real life, and we're usually very careful about what we share with whom), while in other ways totally failing to grasp that pseudonymity is also a massive part of human culture:

We don't carry around giant posters with a bunch of personal information tied to our full name. We often intentionally don't give our last names out. We often choose to either share about ourselves or let someone know our "real" identity.

Failing to grasp this is one thing. Continuing to boneheadedly refusing to acknowledge the problem and fixing it is another. It shows that Google understands the social graph far less than what the initial rollout of Google+ seemed to indicate.
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Review my experiment: Chocopick chocolate subscription service
You can find small home based chocolateries in every bigger european city. I love how different stuff they all make and usually it also tastes wonderfull. So my idea is to find some of those somewhere in europe buy i.e. box of their selfmade chocolate and then send it to subscribers on my page.

However there are some problems with this. i can only ship stuff which doesn’t melt or break before delivered. Then there is the price, shipping would make around 8$ per package, which forces me to set prices for more than 20$. Isn’t it too much? Every month there is voting for next chocolaterie they’ll get next package from on our facebook.

Do you think this is good idea. Leave a comment please.

http://chocopick.com
The Amazon part was a very good bait though. Without it I think a lot fewer people would have read the entire thing.
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i'm not sure if i understand the problem. couldn't you just take the inverted result of every other flip?
> (A) User behaviour is better and more dignified when real identities are used

But they are not enforcing real identities, but real sounding names, which is the worst of both worlds: It makes people more likely to think they are dealing with real names, while it is trivial for those who want to use pseudonyms to continue doing so if their purpose is to be trolls.

> Which is still fine for most people.

That it's fine for "most people" still means it will effectively silence a lot of people on Google+ that a lot of other people would like to be able to communicate with.

It massively reduces the value of the service for me, and others.
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Reports from users keep steadily coming in, where Google decided to trash all their Emails or lock their account.

So I want to migrate to a different email service. Is there a good alternative? It doesn't need to be free, but should've a relatively good Web UI.
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead - Twain, Pascal, Cicero et al.
If you've got a mockup then you've done all the hard work. Getting a mockup into a working app is trivial for most web developers.

Here's my recommendation to you.

1. Get yourself an account on odesk.

2. Post your project.

3. See what kind of quotes you get and the quality of the developers.

I would pay someone by the hour, in odesk you can see what they are doing with their time and how productive they are.

If you're not happy, pay for the hours used and stop there.
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Look at this recent Mozilla thread, asking the same question:

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_t...

It offers reasons why it's a bad idea, and an alternative (in HTML5 instead of HTTP).
I remember that these cameras could make the whole picture to be in focus. I think 3-d movie makers should start using similar technology because it's kind of weird when you're watching a 3-d movie with the glasses and the background is blurred even if you're looking right at it.
It requires a different kind of (more formal) communication skills though. Of course you need to be able to report your progress, your obstacles, work out requirements, and discuss who is going to do what. This could be through IRC or through Skype or whatever...

However it is completely different from an "extraverted team environment" in which you're expected to be social and cheerful about all kinds of unrelated stuff.
There is no way that I will ever sign up to a web site that blocks a users view of a web page with a pop-up demanding that one sign up or otherwise part with personal information. I assume that some people must comply with such demands as otherwise sites would not do this.

Would it be reasonable to "flag" posts on HN that lead to such nonsense?
He wasn't a legal immigrant. His status never changed.
We really like Group Office, whilst it doesn't have the class of Gmail, or the search prowess it works really well for small teams.

If you are taking about using something like Sup then I think there is too much faff should you ever decide to migrate away from it. Whilst it looks and works great it is useless for interoperability with your phone etc..
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AtMail Open seems nice?

problem with most webmail apps seems that they want to be desktop apps for some reason and completely miss the point imho
Most of us don't walk around with a big sign around our neck with our full name when we socialize. Most of us don't even do that during work even with customer facing jobs, and plenty of companies that do require name tags allow pseudonyms.

We socialize without tieing things to our full name all the time. Why should online be different?
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You can use bash expansion to do this:

curl http://open.zorinaq.com:{100..200}/

Unfortunately the server doesn't send back the port number in the HTML. Use this to see which port numbers you can connect to:

curl -v http://open.zorinaq.com:{100..600}/ 2>&1 | grep 'Connected to'
What exactly do you expect them to do? They are not a charity or a non-profit. They either have to stay competitive or die. I hardly call that evil .
You don't think he's planning to host it himself in the cloud? Quite a few platforms make this easy enough, if not very cheap.
I just used an N8.

My pocket review: absolutely not ready for prime-time - number pad shrank and grew a couple of pixels every time I touched it during a call, with associated delay for the redraw.

The hardware seemed ok (although I'm no fan of their design language now, and yet their first WinPhones will have the same?), the display crisp and the telephone functionality was entirely fine.

But the clunky software, as well as the user interface just reeked of something rushed out by amateurs in the mid 1990s. Competitive? Nope.

As a current Android user, I await with interest what WinPhone can offer. Nokia's homebrew? Not so much.
In Europe, consumers are persons and have rights.

In some issues, consumer rights have the same importance than big-fat-company.

I don't know if in other continents everybody is pro unscrupulous vendors.

Greetings.
I was looking into something similar to this for the UK a while ago - tricky part is the legal implications and the fact that you have to use post-fact data to identify the "best" deal when the user behaviour might change the next day.
It's most probably the only one where an optical zoom would fit. A quite ingenious solution. A periscope-like mount would also be viable for cellphones - it would still be at least twice as large as a common camera, but it wouldn't be much deeper.
AFAICT the best alternative, interface-wise, is Roundcube, and it doesn't seem particularly exciting (it's also written in PHP... which doesn't necessarily have to count against it, but makes me a little wary).

I've foolishly started to build my own, which at some point may become good enough to open source (I certainly don't want to commercialize it).
I moved to gmx.com about half year ago from google.
I never worked in a remote project, but for me it is easier to communicate via email/chat than by talking to people because the asynchronous way gives me more time to think about what I want to say.
To take an example from "history". Ask a random person on the street who Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, and most of them will be completely clueless. Ask them who Stalin was, and they'll at least have a rough idea...
Was the linode migration at your instigation or did they decide to do that all by themselves?

(of course you should have configured the box properly and done a test reboot to see if it would all come up well but as you already wrote there are multiple factors at work here and I'm wondering if Linode is in the habit of taking machines down that are working just fine without their owners consent).
It looks fairly bland and aged (and especially bad when compared to screenshots of the commercial AtMail webmail client).
I went looking for something suitable a while back, but I didn't find anything. The search is nice, but I'm really more interested in the mail interface. The features I use:

Sending and receiving (duh)

delayed mail (in case I make a mistake... And I will!)

filtering (and tags/folders)

keyboard shortcuts

simple search, with folder/tag support

browser-based, so I can access it anywhere
Oh yes! I forgot totally about bash expansion. :)
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A new error code is definitely needed.
SUP is supposedly modeled after Gmail, if you enjoy the benefits of text tools. I myself am using mutt.
There's no arguing about taste.

But I seriously don't want anyone imagining I think vaccines cause autism.
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I always found Opera to be ahead of the curve when it came to changes and new features in web browsers.

But I made duckduckgo the default search engine in Opera almost a week ago!

C'mon guys, don't let me lead the way! (It's a scary thought)
Spatial resolution will increase at the same rate the process allows the sensor elements to shrink, so, in a couple years, a Lytro-like imaging sensor will have the same resolution as a top-of-the-line DSLR.

I think they are on to something
Now, instead of talking about the points that Yegge raised, everyone is talking about how cool Google is for not firing. But for me the important thing is the content of his rant...
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> eradicating every bit of what was left of this dream.

I have never, ever seen a phrase so absolutely and totally full of hyperbole on this site.
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I felt kind of nostalgic about the form factor - it reminds me of my Canon Photura.
From what I understand, most of their revenue for the desktop browser comes from the fact that google is the default search engine.