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Would they be willing to use Chrome Frame? It seems like the ideal way to target IE6-only customers without "installing" another browser. That way they can use one browser for all their intranet apps.
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Remember when Sinatra and Ruby on Rails were the new, hot, trendy technologies? I'm sure EY was humming a different tune back then.
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A few points worthy of note:

MS has terrible taste (as Jobs famously pointed out), and a lot of people hate companies with a bad sense of fashion and taste. That's a big reason why people hate walmart, I expect.

MS has been a bully and has used its size to gain an unfair advantage from time to time. However, in general I'd say that MS is actually less guilty of this sort of thing than the average run-of-the-mill company of a similar size. Compare and contrast with, say, AEG, Bank of America, or Archer-Daniels-Midland for example. On a properly calibrated evil-o-meter MS hardly registers.

Finally, it's easy to develop a strong mental picture of a hypothetical "better" world, even if that world is wholly impractical. There are fundamental reasons why linux, to this day, is still not the best choice for the average consumer desktop. Even down to a fundamental technological design level there are good reasons why that's so (though there's also android, which still has a delicious linux core). The truth is that "the man" hasn't been holding back electric car technology, solar power, and linux on the desktop merely to prop up big oil and Microsoft. Sometimes it takes time for competing technologies to mature to a level to where they are actually competitive. Linux has done awesomely in the server market, for example, even despite MS's massive expenditures to make substantial inroads.
Case in point: me and some of my coworkers have wasted a good several hours this last week just dealing with having a system which was stuck in the old (pre-2005) DST period.
(Doesn’t WP7 have springy lists? Not that it matters, really.)

Apple certainly is in a position to not allow arbitrary software. That said, I’m not all that sure whether that’s – all things considered – a net plus for Apple.

Jailbreaking isn’t all that hard and has generally always been possible. Apple could easily make it about as hard to unlock iOS devices.

There is this iPhone Configuration Utility from Apple which allows anyone to, for example, configure their iPhone to access some peculiarly configured 802.1X. You have to download it from some obscure support webpage, Apple doesn’t market it anywhere. They could add a switch in there somewhere (hard to find, for sure) to unlock iOS devices, complete with a big scary red warning label†.

They could limit your warranty when you unlock (and, for example, kick you out of warranty when you can’t restore iOS to its default state). They could refuse to answer software related support questions. It would nevertheless be an improvement and bring them a lot of good will.

It’s clear that Apple wants a device that by default only allows their software or software they approve. It’s clear that they don’t want to support any other devices. But couldn’t they still get that and nevertheless allow anyone who want to to unlock?

What do they fear?

—

† I’m adding detail and color to show that this is a realistic scenario and it wouldn’t be a wholly extreme change on Apple’s part.
Elance works fine for Ruby work, and most of the time you can get better hourly rates than your typical full time job in the US. I think having a US flag in your profile also helps a lot.
I was a Philosophy major (yay Lewis, Kripke and Quine) and didn't really get into programming until I wanted to build websites for my friends. Back then we didn't have jQuery, so I learned PHP.

But I agree with this thread -- keep pushing on JavaScript. CouchApps are a great way to learn front end while having the back end more or less taken care of for you, but most apps are gonna require an extra degree of freedom on the back end. You'll find that your JS skills travel well, especially now that node.js is viable.

If you haven't read this article yet, read it an grok it: http://javascript.crockford.com/remedial.html

If you know this stuff cold, then the only thing standing between you and a well paying developer gig is personal networking and a bigger open-source portfolio. Go to node.js and Couch meetups, they are vibrant welcoming communities that value beginning coders as much as veterans.
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Not just work. Store and restaurant hours. Movie times. TV schedules. UPS pick up times. Everything.

If everyone has to shift their schedules earlier you might as well just change the time, that way you save people from having to scrape off and repaint their store hours on their glass front doors.
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I realize that if you're a twentysomething today that IBM almost does't mean anything -- but back in the 80s they really opened the door to the PC industry. And what's amazing is that they're an old guard company that really embraced a disruptive technology -- something that a company like DEC tried, but failed at. By the way if you're interested in the story of how the IMB PC got started this is a nice starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer#Origins
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Java's anonymous inner classes basically work like closures, except that they require that you mark some variables as final and that you have to write a lot of boilerplate. My underbelly feeling is that xtend's closures merely compile to those.

Often, such closures are enough. E.g. with Google Guava's predicates and filter/map methods, you can do with Java (guava + anonymous inner classes) what LINQ enables in C# (System.Linq + lambda expressions). The Java version has a lot more line noise than the C# version, however, which is what Xtend fixes.

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That's not necessarily the case. $200 is still $200. They pay the contract regardless. The same argument could be made about only getting the high end 64GB iPhone since $399 is a drop in the bucket compared to your contract.

Or cable boxes. I assume that you have a top of the line TiVO rather than using what the cable company offers? Cause the upfront cost of the TiVo box is dwarfed by your long term cable bill.

Some people just have different priorities.
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I would say a great developer should have the followed waxed:

1. Accurate time estimation & communication skills

2. Not suffer perfectionism

3. Know where to find the right answers

4. A good understanding of general programming concepts and when to apply

5. Ability to write code in a way that it's easy for future dev to understand

6. A good understanding of tasks other than programming and how they all fit together in a business environment

7. A good dose of enthusiasm - things can get tough, how are they going to deal with it?

I'll end my comment by saying that you won't know the extend of the damage caused by a bad developer until it's too late.
As a 21 year old building a tech startup, I can't help but feel like our industry is experiencing a very important shift. To me, it's not about mobile, apps, or the social stuff. It's about the tech leaders that are leaving us and the incoming generation that is only beginning to enter the workforce. Seems like there is a lot I should learn learn from John Opel.
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> The fact that Xtend can be easily translated to Java source code is a big sign that it probably won't have any dramatic impact on your productivity.

It appears to be common Hackernewserthink that "productivity" equals "the ability to write code as fast as possible". Beyond the first few weeks of coding, you'll spend much more time reading code and refactoring it.

What Xtend offers is an object model and type system that anyone with Java experience can understand right away, but with significantly more readability. This means better maintainability, which means a significant productivity increase once you're past the "hack away, guys!" stadium.

Coffeescript has exactly the same major advantage over JavaScript. The point is that because CoffeeScript/Xtend so closely mimic their target language, there are no leaky abstractions, so no thinking-in-two-worlds headaches. Yet, the code becomes significantly more readable, which matters.

These developments really are major. There's a reason so many more people use CoffeeScript than, say, ClojureScript or GWT. The only reason why the same wouldn't happen with Xtend in the Java world is non-technical: too many Java shops are conservative and afraid of change, even change as low-barrier as Xtend.

They should've called it "Coffee", though.
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Closures are code+data and objects are also code+data, so adding closures to a language with an object system does not increase expressibility.

The main difference is that with closures you write the code and the data part (the environment) is captured implicitly, whereas with objects, both the code and data are explicit. This makes it possible to convert a closure into an object, and an object into a closure, without having to change the whole program.

It is a little more difficult to go from closures to objects because you have to find the free variables and make them explicit, but it still isn't a global transformation. If you want to see how to implement objects with closures, check out SICP.
I like that idea, but what if you want a very large wall-sized pane? That would involve cutting and moving a huge piece of glass.
HN is the wrong forum to discuss this. Many people here are not the target audience who don't use Java and have a preconceived dim view of it.

(I'm expecting downvotes but whatever.)
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Make me a website that does the following and I promise you unbound riches:

- To select an area: Allow me to draw a region on a map. No dropdown of giant arbitrary areas. No checkboxes of giant arbitrary areas. No keyword search to determine area. Just let me draw a region. Even a rectangle will do.

- To select a price: Allow me to enter a price range easily. Not a dropdown with $500 price chunks. Not textboxes where I need to type in numbers. Just give me a slider with $100 increments.

- To view the results: Show me the results. Optionally, let me sort and filter. Bonus points for showing number of results that have each characteristic (eg: doorman (5), outdoor space (15), etc). Do not make me provide an email address to see results.

- Show me, within a block, where the listing is. I am planning on living there.

- To trust you: Not 100% uppercase. Not as if every listing is the best listing on the planet. No exclamation points, asterisks, triangles, trapezoids, or polygons of any sort.

- The big one: Have up to date listings. I don't know how you will do this, but if you do it, you'll be rich.

Hipmunk for apartments. Somebody get on this. PLEASE.
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Expensive, but an alternative is to have the glass cut and mount it to the wall yourself.

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This doesn't solve the problem, it just shifts it around.

How do you judge whether an airline flight that arrives at X time UTC in Tokyo, Seattle, or Moscow is arriving in the morning or evening? What do you do to plan your arrival? Do you check into a hotel and immediately fall asleep? Do you get breakfast? Do you need to get a friend to pick you up because it's so early in the morning that the local public transit isn't running? Similarly, how do you decide when to schedule a meeting during normal business hours with someone in another part of the world? There are a million more things, of course.

The point is that you need to keep track of this sort of thing. Which means you need to have some sort of system to do so. And if you don't have time zones then you need some other method of keeping track of similar data so that people can make use of it and computers can use it to help implement their business logic. In the end you end up duplicating the idea of time zones except in a half-assed, non-standardized, non-straightforward to implement way. Whereas if you just have the idea of time zones and "local time" you can deal with problems that depend on relative time of day.
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In a previous experience, I found that companies hired me without even glancing at my CV or portfolio after I started my development company.

There was some level of pre-created trust purely because I had a business operating in the field.

It's not hard to put a nice looking website together, choose a business name and start operating on the side.

It might make it easier for you too.

Goodluck!
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Wait until the lockout period for the employee options expires, like in 6 months, then short it hard. Do it like 2 months beforehand because everyone else is thinking the same thing.
"Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements"

Nice. Explains Google commoditizing mobile operating systems (complement) to increase demand for their product (search).
I bought one of the early Amigas. They used commodity hardware, but would alter the connector so you had to buy it from them. No thanks.
I did some work for Rent-a-coder (nowadays "vWorker"), my experience summarized here: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2007/04/21/doing-some-work-at-r... and also here: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2007/07/14/more-about-my-rentac...

One thing that pisses me off about these sites is that there's so many of them. See, reputation is worth a lot, and it's not transferable between sites :( You work hard to gain a high score on, say, vWorker, but then at Odesk you're a fresh dev with 0 experience, unlikely to get any piece of work that can really bring normal pay.
Wordpress. They have an open source software, and they also have a Wordpress.com site that serves the same software as a SaaS service.

But I'd say it would be very hard to maintain both an open source project and a web app at the same time. You should probably focus on one at least at the beginning.
I don't see how centigrade would actually help. I agree that it's better for scientific measurements (if not as good as Kelvins) but the typical Fahrenheit range is much better suited for weather conditions than centigrade from a usability standpoint. The typical weather conditions on the inhabited parts of the earth don't range much further than 0-100, whereas centrigrade can't represent any kind of legitimately wintry conditions without resorting to negative numbers and everything above 50 is completely unused. From a usability standpoint, it makes sense that typical temperatures should be distributed along a 100 point scale, and that only genuine extremes should exceed the ends of that. Fahrenheit meets that requirement; centigrade doesn't.
I agree, I don't see a reason to switch from Groovy. I don't see the Scala or Clojure people switching, either. But even if you're just trying to convince Java developers, Groovy's ecosystem (including Grails) is hard to beat.

And actually, I'm using Groovy++ (http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/), which addresses the concerns about static typing, inference, and performance, all for the cost of an extra jar. It's really surprising how few people - even Groovy programmers - have heard of this. I think it really ought to be included in the core language.
I am an okish software engineer from Pakistan who has been in touch with the tech industry for quite sometime.

I have followed what Google has done all these years for the web. And what Apple has done in the mobile computing. It's all awesome.

But when I look around as a human and see what Bill's foundation has done to simply eradicate malaria and polio from my nearby villages which were the hub of these diseases only a couple of years ago. It's amazing. It's far too easy (even as an engineer) to ignore his previous short-comings.
I never understood what was wrong with bundling the browser with the OS. Every OS comes with a bundled browser, including Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OS X, the iPod, the Kindle, darn near everything. I'm annoyed that there's no bundled browser in my Roku box.
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If you have the luxury of being able to sleep well regularly then an hour here or there can be accommodated for without terrible disruption. However, a lot of people work more than 40 hours a week, and have significant commute times as well. Typically what ends up suffering is sleep. When people are chronically sleep deprived shifting an hour earlier can have a huge impact (e.g. going from 6 hours of sleep to 5, or even 5 to 4).

Also, sleeping in on Sundays doesn't help. By definition if you don't use the new time to control when you wake up on Sunday morning then your sleep schedule will not be adapted to the new schedule at all. All that will be different is you will have a stronger incentive to go to bed an hour earlier due to the time on the clock, though your body will still be set to fall asleep and wake up an hour later.
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Not everyone can just roll into work, lunch, dinner, meetings, dates whenever the hell they feel like it. People have to coordinate their schedules.
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I love Mac OS, but I definitely do not hate Bill Gates. He made computers affordable and accessible, while making a lot of money. A lot of that money has gone to charities which is great.
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Judgement:

For it to be judgment, it must be living and active in a programmer's mind. It can't be switched on some of the time, it must be switched on all of the time, for the mundane and the monumental. It must be sharper than a double-edged sword; it must discern the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Generally it's a percentage cut that goes down over time, as you say.

I've never heard of 100% gross to the distributor (studio), about 85% is the highest I've heard of, and that was for super-high demand premiere weekends. I think most blockbusters are closer to 70% on opening weekends. But it's all case by case, with a number of factors at work. There can be minimum run length guarantees (this many weeks on this particular screen), which can sometimes be conditions for getting other movies from the same distributor. Each deal really is individual.

The rule of thumb is about 55% of box office goes to the distributor over the entire run of the film. The distributor then takes a cut before the rest is passed on to the production entity. Of course, it's often the case that the distributor and the production entity are two divisions of the same studio, so welcome to the accounting games.

I had a friend who was assistant to the president of distribution at one of the giant studios. He would tell me that the dist. head would be able to discuss individual theaters and even screens with the big chains. They knew the demographics, seating capacity, all of it. The exhibition could be negotiated on a very fine level of granularity.
My experience is that creative work is trial and error. Can try to put yourself in a position to have inspiration, but then your actual task is to catch it when it comes, and then figure out how the hell to make it work. If it doesn't, then try something else. By being immersed in the work, working it, you are more likely to have inspiration (Poincare worked like this). Sometimes you have inspirations that are solutions to a problem - sometimes you have inspirations of what a problem is, and that it would be really cool to solve it, and that a solution exists (just, not what it is).

Some writers have this attitude too, saying they keep fixed hours when they must be at the typewriter, whether they feel like it or not. [Note: this is successful writers, who publish regularly - some might call them hacks, like Stephen King. Hobbyist writers don't need this.] There's an old writer's saying that nicely sums this up:

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I hope you realise that judging programmer performance based on how busy they appear provides perverse incentives that are bound to lead to grossly inefficient behaviour.

This kind of system has been gamed for decades if not centuries in physical workplaces and odesk prides itself on perpetuating it in the virtual world.

For some types of work this is simply wasteful, but for software development it's outright destructive. You get below average programmers because they are benefiting most from the system, and you get unnecessary code that you have to maintain down the road.

I think odesk gives you a false sense of "value-for-money". But I guess it depends on what your alternatives are.
> Rather than asking "what's the time in New York?," I'll be asking "what part of the day is it in New York?"

Except that the current time zones dont really tell you that, sice most of them are decided politically, not by mapping to sunrise/sunset as closely as possible. The world time zone map is a irrational mess, including time jumps of 2-3 hours when crossing a land border, or time zones changing backwards becuse of convulted political borders.

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Seconded! When I saw the title of this post, I hoped more people would chime in about their experiences outsourcing. At this moment I used one contractor from odesk (for some audio recording) and it went very well (beginner's luck?). Hoping to outsource some artwork soon.
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