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OS/2 was originally developed by a combination of MS and IBM. It was a much better/more stable OS (I developed on it for a couple of years in the early 90s and used to pity those people in our team left on DOS or the toy Windows OS), but it had one major flaw - it was targetted only at IBM hardware, at least in the first few years. With most of the world heading towards cheap clones, that pretty much killed it as a real commercial option.
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He capitalized on the idea that the consumer is not allowed to choose the operating system of the computer they buy. That idea hasn't yet faded.

That's why I hate Microsoft.
> Judgment is a nice trait for a good developer, but it is subjective. There are some hits and some misses.

I think you might have missed the point of the article: Good judgement is not subjective; it is about avoiding these "misses".
If I'm really desperate, I'd go back to vWorker, but I'd have to be very, very desperate.

I haven't tried out eLance or oDesk but I did check them out around the same time I used vWorker and found no real difference. It would'nt be worth the time I spent on the sign up process.

Tinyproj looked promising but by emails stopped sometime the other week. If anyone can do a Stack Overflow to these sites then I'd reconsider, but not until that day.
It took me some time to find good offer with fresh account and get used to screenshots, but I liked it. Pay was decent and surveillance helped me to focus on work and separate it from breaks.
I'm going to bet that these "attacks" aren't going to do anything to the Facebook network.

Also, Facebook users have opted in to Facebook, and its data storage "tactics". If you aren't happy with it, then don't opt-in. As a 16 year old kid, I'm not missing out on anything important. My relationships, social life and life is still intact, despite not being part of Facebook.

There may be some who argue that people opt-in to Facebook don't know about it (certainly my teachers do). Let me say that complacency isn't an excuse. Only you are to blame if you sign up to some business offering you a $100,000 loan for 0% interest without considering and researching the possible repercussions.

It's your data. Facebook is free for you, but it obviously costs them money (without even considering the cost of technology, there's hiring employees). They have to recoup that somehow, and effectively to keep all your friends, your friends and your friends' friends' friends on it.

Disclaimer: I do have a Facebook account that I use to sign up to services that require that I have a Facebook account, like my school's gaming club, but there's no activity on it.
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These have been around in England as well for at least the last month or so - "free iphone 3GS for just $15/month". I find it incredibly oxymoronic and hence annoying, and I'd really like to see them told to change their language. "Free iphone with a $15/month 2-year contract" would be a lot less misleading...
Is this a case of enforcing strict work hours and conditions as a "performance management" technique to ensure employees aren't slacking off? I imagine it is difficult to know whether someone in a creative job has actually performed as much work as they claim to have done.

The other plausible reason for strict work conditions that comes to mind is for highly collaborative jobs. Jobs where you're not paid to work on your own and produce result X, but rather, you're paid to be part of a team, continually bouncing ideas off each other to produce result Y. I guess it would be similar to pair programming -- with more than 2 people involved.

Other than the reasons above, I can't see much reason for forcing people to work in a strictly-enforced rule-based workplace. Have I missed something?
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RentHop (YC S09) has most of these features, especially the one allowing you to draw the region on a map. The caveat is that they only serve the New York City market. http://www.renthop.com/
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I think lots of the pain is going to be in the vast collection of third party (npm) modules that need to be updated. Will take a bit before all module authors are up to date.
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> Just let me draw a region.

> Not textboxes where I need to type in numbers. Just give me a slider with $100 increments.

You insist on specificity in one place, and you reject it in another place.

Your requirements aren't consistent.

Hotpads is pretty great. It has a lasso tool, and a more powerful price selection tool (the text fields). I suggest giving it another look. If it isn't quite up to par, Hotpads would be quicker in delivering what you want than a newcomer. I don't buy that Hotpads just doesn't get it.
So does HotPads: the lasso below the zoom widget. http://hotpads.com/
The security at WWDC are Apple employees, according to the one I asked at WWDC08.
> Is that what you call a convicted monopolist

That's subtly and importantly wrong:

There is nothing illegal or immoral about having a monopoly. It is the natural state of affairs for many markets. Microsoft was convicted of abusing their monopoly. And abuse of a monopoly is somewhat tricky to process from an ethical perspective: a company using their base in one market to provide an advantage against competitors in a new, related market is totally normal, accepted business practice. It only becomes "wrong" when it succeeds too often. So how does a company decide where to draw the line without help of the courts? At which point do you stop doing an activity that you've been hitherto commended for?

From a market perspective it probably makes sense to have regulations restricting some cases of anti-competitive practices. But it's malarkey to go from "we have regulation for this" to branding someone unconscionable because they run afoul of it.
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"I think kids nowadays never knew the old days of computing where the fear was that Microsoft would do a product similar to yours, not quite as good, but sell it at 1/5 the price."

We now have Google entering your market and offering a better product for free.
Good to know, but I was thinking more in the way of UI, as he said he wanted to skin it like the Windows version.
We tried different prices, but they didn't seem to matter much. However we did not try with the same project, so it's not really the same case (we didn't have that much cash...).

We did see the same with admins and even quite high up (in the rankings on freelancer) ones; the same thing applied. We had an admin team which had super rankings, but their prices were insane, but we thought ok, let's try. So 4 admin teams, 8 servers, 2 each. 2 had ratings and 1 high ratings. 3 were actual teams, 1 was 1 guy (spoiler: the 1 guy won). They all were priced about $50-80/month per server for everything (yes... everything, including monitoring, 24/7 calamity resolve, etc).

During intake, the 2 rated teams performed very very well (spoiler: they do have 1 guy in their office who knows stuff who does only intakes all day, that's me presuming, but he), the other two less professional, but okish.

The first hick up was the highest rated company not knowing what an ssh key was. Or GPG (me asking for the public key for gpg to send over the ssh key must've sounded like alien speak to them)... They kept asking me for the cpanel root password. I usually don't run cpanel as I don't like it, nor does it run on debian.

This turned out to be the actual difference between the intake person and 'the rest' of the company (i demanded a total over these teams of 10 different admins) that they ONLY know cpanel. They absolutely did not know anything about linux but the sheer basics... Amazing.

The one person (coincidentally also the only one not from India) did know debian and was actually good, asking very low prices to get good ratings. We gave them and he's still managing 2 servers.

But how will ANY site trump this common trick for programmers OR admins. Yes using Odesk with camera works. But i'm not spending my time watching someone else, well actually a lot of someones, otherwise my scaling is limited to me watching someone, sit and write code. So usually the intake is with some person who is (very) good and when the cam goes off from the intake (or skype) you get some junior incapable of doing anything. How to prevent that and still enjoy the scalability of outsourcing? I mean if i have to check up on every person of my team, all day, I am better of putting someone next to me right?
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Judgement is indeed an important part of being a great developer, but I don't think the article is doing a good job of explaining why, or what kind of judgement.

First of all, the story about Jack & Dianne doesn't illustrate much. Why Jack ended up with unmaintainable code and Dianne didn't? And what does it have to do with the tools they've chosen? You can write unmaintainable code in any language.

It sounds like Dianne did a better job of understanding requirements. Okay, fair enough, understanding requirements is important (though I wouldn't call it "judgement"). But requirements change. They always do, that's why software has to be maintained - to reflect changing requirements. Which means that whether the code is maintainable does not depend on the code per se - it depends on how requirements change (unless the code is so bad that it can't be changed at all).

Say, if tomorrow the new requirement is to add a new API to the backend, Dianne's solution is probably more maintainable because it's simpler. But if the new requirement is to scale to 10K users, Dianne's solution might have to be rewritten from scratch, and thus completely unmaintainable.

So, to write maintainable code developer has to anticipate future changes in requirements and make tradeoffs based on those predictions. Now, that's a hard problem, that's where we need judgement and experience. This kind of judgement makes a great developer - mere conservatism in selecting tools and technologies does not.
The one I remember from my childhood was the intro to The Great Egg Race (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8peNet8Sg) from the late '70s.
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I guess people don't have anything better to do with their time.
I dunno about that - been metric all my life and I know the difference between 23 and 28 degrees C. Since it's something you generally grow up learning about, the practical usability (by lay users) in terms of dealing with estimating temperatures is something that is picked up along the way too.

Additionally, weather reports will usually qualify the temperatures (with things like "warm and sunny" or "hot" or whatever), which is needed regardless of measurement - 25 degrees C in humid conditions is a very different "feel" from 25 degrees C in dry conditions. Add in wind chill/warm factors and temperature by itself is not actually that useful by itself to determine the weather practically.
Sure, but when just seeing the "name and rating" of bidders, this detail isn't directly visible. Many times buyers decide very quickly whom to give the work to, based on a very superficial glance on the ratings, without entering each dev page and examining it in detail. This is mostly true for the small jobs.
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+1. I don't particularly care enough to get into a fight about Bill Gates' personal reputation (I'll happily accept he has done many good things alongside the bad), but the original Forbes article is offensive bullshit. So being a nasty capitalist convicted multiple times of abusing monopolies is OK if you throw a trinket to charity? This argument isn't just about his reputation, its about more than that - it's about what type of capitalism we do have and what type we should have.
I tend to agree with the OP on this; the top post cites a lot of complicated language but the conclusion is kind of weak (why do these "popcorn lovers" feel it's worth more to buy it at the movies?).
The answer further down that points out that someone on a date buys it there so as not to look cheap is, to me, more insightful than citing a bunch of papers. I guess I find an explanation of why the market will bear the high price at the theatre more interesting than a whole lot of economic jargon around it. Although this is the economics stack exchange thing, so maybe that's what's expected...
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At the risk of looking the odd one out (no Mac here!), I use a dusty Dell tower (8GB RAM, 3x24" screen) and my 13" HP laptop, though I've been working almost exclusively off the laptop for the past few weeks - with a dirt cheap TeckNet wireless mouse that is by far the most comfortable mouse I've ever used.
Methinks you're confusing "good judgement" with clairvoyance.

Sure, you can anticipate change, but the decision for how much change you account for in your strategy still remains an educated guess.
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"Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas."

Am I the only one who read that and thought, 'Wow, Steve Jobs could be a bit of an asshole'...?
There was a Channel 4 programme (in the UK) recently where super chef Heston Blumenthal goes to various food based businesses and tries to re-invigorate/turn around fortunes.

In this particular episode (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hestons-mission-impossibl...) he goes to a large multiplex to see how he can create alternatives to popcorn. He produces some amazing concepts but the bottom line is popcorn is too profitable to strike off the menu; less than a penny to produce a bag of popcorn that retails for £3-£4. Even the paper bag the popcorn comes in cost more to buy than it does to make the popcorn.

PS: Link may only work in the UK.
I don't think it's just HN readers; I think most people don't mind a few trailers, but the last movie I saw had half an hour of them before a 90-minute movie, which seemed a bit over the top to all of us given that we'd paid quite a bit to see it (ie. it's quite different to free-to-air TV). None of the others I was with are HN readers, but we were all pretty sick of it after that. Probably didn't help that they were all for totally inane movies that we had no intention of seeing - and that "THIS YEAR"/"THIS SUMMER" voice-over really started to grate on me after a while.
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Just because there was conflict among the Wikipedia staff doesn't prove that Assange was in the wrong. In fact the German Chaos Computer Club has severed ties with Assange's former colleague Domscheidt-Berg and his OpenLeaks project because they didn't like his style. So maybe he isn't a Saint, either.
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Exactly. This is why I'm irritated every time I see a comment comparing Jobs to Edison. He wasn't an Engineer. Even from the beginning.
Can't speak for the internals of that organisation, but the main reason I've come across for corporates still being on IE6 is the very real cost of migrating.

Many legacy web applications were built to work on IE6, and changing to a more modern browser can subtly, or completely in some cases, break these critical apps. It may be a pain for users when their favourite social media site looks rubbish or doesn't even run in IE6, but it's nothing compared to the finance department not being able to run their end of year reports because one screen in their GL system doesn't render properly in Firefox.

And it costs money firstly to test every single function of every single app that your business uses, and secondly to fix those places where it breaks (especially when it's an external vendor's application). That time and money can often be better spent doing one of the thousand other things that are making demands on the IT budget. Most companies are slowly making this transition, but unfortunately it's not just a case of saying "This browser it better/more secure than that one. Let's upgrade".
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I'd be interested in shooting you an email (similar situation).
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Greetings from 60 degrees northern latitude. We just turned our clocks back an hour a week ago. That means that there's an hour more sunlight before I wake up and it's dark by the time I'm out of work. I have to say, I don't really like the arrangement of daylight saving time.

Today the sun rises at 07.52 in the morning and sets at 16.14 at the afternoon. It's going to be getting worse for two more months and that means it's 4 months before it's any better than today. For a six month period most of my life is walking through these orange tunnels that appear when sodium lights illuminate wet asphalt and concrete. The first symptoms of limited sunlight exposure are starting to show around this time of the year and supplemental vitamin d has to be taken or wild mood swings start to appear.

When I used to live at a student campus, I had a period of "hibernation" every winter. I lived an ascetic lifestyle in the one square mile around the campus and the uni. I only left to go home for xmas. I re-emerged when the catkins started appearing on the willows.

In these latitudes, it would make sense to be in permanent daylight saving time ("summer time"). During the summer and the winter there's really no difference since the sun is practically constantly up or down. It's the fall and the spring that make the difference.

And if anyone knows of good software engineering career options a little closer to the equator, drop me a line :)
Why would a router need to know what daylight saving time is? I just use UTC for everything with servers...
After doing some initial research I think I've narrowed it down to either Python/Django or Ruby/Rails (unless someone else can suggest another option).

Which is the most popular in the industry at the moment (or the fastest rising)? I noticed on the Tiobe index that both Python and Ruby popularity is falling, but I don't know how reliable Tiobe is.
"The paper shows that expressivity, power, and conciseness come the most from those features…"

I do not accept your implicit claim that a language must be more expressive, powerful, or concise to be more productive.

As a counter-argument for the expressive claim, consider a language that required one to prefix each line with the number of non-blank characters it contains. I am fairly sure I would be more productive using a preprocessor that computed those prefixes for me. Real world examples of the same are the abolishment of line numbers in Basic, assemblers that know about structure offsets, the C preprocessor, and type inference. Each, I think, helped increase productivity.

'Power' cannot be a factor at all, as basicly all programming language are equally powerful; there are no degrees of Turing completeness.

That leaves conciseness. I do not think that claim would need debunking, but for completeness: if that helped productivity, everybody would use single-character variable and function names (should mostly be possible in languages that allow Unicode source code), and program in APL or perl.
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They were not convicted for giving a browser free with their OS. They forced their OEMs to supply with only IE, and not with Netscape. If the OEMs supplied with Netscape they would lose volume discounts & mktg money.

Since no OEM could sell without MS, and losing the discounts would be death in a super price competitive market, this essentially meant Netscape couldn't use the same OEM channel to market.

That's misusing a monopoly to enter a different market. And that's what they were convicted of.
> At the time, IE6's chief competitor was a bloated, slow, crashing version of Netscape.

At the time IE6 was released, every competitor of Internet Explorer had already been pushed out of the marked by the illegal bundling of IE4 and 5 with Windows 98.

Microsoft had a precise Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy for the World Wide Web, IE4 was the Embrace, IE5 and IE6 were the Extend and then the IE team was disbanded and the plan was to never release a new version ever again (Extinguish).

So, the reason IE6 is so hard to be compatible with is not just because "it's old" but because it was meant to be hard to be compatible with ("Extend") and it lasted so long because it was never meant to be replaced with anything (Extinguish).

I'm surprised people couldn't see this happen 10 years ago, when Microsoft screwed us over, I'm even more surprised that some people don't see it now that the screwing over has happened. We should learn something from history.
Agreed, I tried to get that across with the "split continuing" bit. :-)
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