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Not in Germany.

To get the iPhone 3GS for 1€ from Deutsche Telekom you have to sign their 60€ contract for 24 months. That’s 1,440€. The same contract costs 50€ without a phone, that’s 1,200€ for 24 months or 240€ less.

It’s not really worth it buying the 3GS new and unlocked from Apple (if you want that specific contract) since they want 370€ from you. It usually never is worth it, no matter the carrier. (That is, if those carriers offer a subsidized iPhone. Some MVNOs don’t, but you might still get away cheaper by picking a MVNO and buying the unlocked phone. MVNOs are often cheap and might have contracts that fit your needs better.)

But there is always a difference in price between getting a contract with phone and one without. Some carriers don’t add to the price of the contract but let you pay for the phone in installments. In practice, though, that’s a small difference. (The nice thing about paying in installments is that the installments automatically stop. Your contract will cost you the same increased price, even after 24 months. You have to manually intervene if you want to pay less.)

What you definitely should never do is buy your phone based on the subsidized price. That just makes no sense. You always have to consider the whole package. Deutsche Telekom offers a 20€ contract (30 minutes for outgoing calls, unlimited incoming calls, 0.19€ per SMS, unlimited data, throttled to GPRS speeds when you are over 300MB) and if that’s all you need you have to pay 480€ for two years of contract and 200€ for the 3GS. That’s less than half of the 1,440€ for the 1€ 3GS.

(I’m sorry, I’m currently researching phone contracts for my sister so I have all this crap stuck in my head.)
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One might think that it ceases to be a straw man when someone rushes to defend it.
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If you live in a climate where you have real winter, then being able to tell the difference between freezing and not freezing is very important. -1 means snow from the sky, ice on the roads, lower humidity. +1 means rain, wet roads, and higher humidity. It's a very important divider, which is why it's at a prominent place on the Celsius scale, unlike the Fahrenheit one where it's between 32 and 34.

I don't think it's a coincidence that Anders Celsius lived further north than Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. :-)
Yeah, hopefully between us we can silence the Flash critics who claim there aren't any good tools available :)
I think the fundamental problem exposed in the article is actually not the hiring criteria, but rather that resumes are usually screened by HR departments who have no clue about what a job entails. So the hiring managers have to provide hiring criteria that the HR resume screener can understand. The HR resume screener is not a programmer and has no way to judge the capabilities of programmers. The hiring manager may not be either.

As seen in a Slashdot sig some time ago, "Light travels faster than sound, which is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak." Unfortunately appearances win to those who cannot understand what is being said.
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You're right. HN is predominantly fashion lead hipsters (No offense).
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Microsoft Office was quite good from the get go. WordPerfect may have been better, but Office was more affordable. It won on merits, and although later they preserved this newly acquired monopoly through proprietary formats, Office is a pretty good product.

Internet Explorer kicked Netscape's ass. It only stagnated after version 5, when there was no competition remaining, but IExplorer was then the equivalent of today's Chrome ... fast and innovative.

Also people only remember Windows 9x and cry about the failure of OS/2, but NT 4.0 was released in Jul 96 and it was a pretty good operating system. It evolved later in Windows 2000 and XP. And it wasn't sold to consumers because consumers didn't want it. Instead consumers wanted 100% backwards compatibility - this was a hard constraint to workaround as hardware was not powerful enough for emulation modes.

People also cry about how Microsoft killed Netscape and yet how many people are willing to pay for their browser? Some people do, but not that many. And the Internet is useless without a browser. The irony of the situation is that many of the people blaming Microsoft for Netscape also love free stuff. And you really should do some reading on what Netscape did, because the truth is they killed themselves with whatever remained going on to live as the Mozilla Foundation, which is doing fine.

The thing is operating systems are natural monopolies. And when owning such a powerful monopoly, it is hard to not abuse it ... witness Apple, they don't even have a monopoly yet and are acting like total jerks. Witness Google for that matter and how they basically killed WebOS and MeeGo.

Is it fair? Probably not, but MeeGo is also dying because of Nokia's incompetence and WebOS is also dying because of HP and Palm. You can't blame only Android for that.

I got my first computer 16 years ago. It came with a licensed MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups. It was built by a local computer shop. It was a lot cheaper than what I could buy from any US company.
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And discontinuing it a year later.
The lit-up logo is Not powered by a special array of LEDs, it's just the screen backlighting shining through a hole.

You can verify that by changing the display brightness, the logo will change brightness accordingly. Or just hold the turned-off laptop in front of a bright light source, the apple-shaped hole wil, be visible through the screen
How can I even downvote? I only see upvote arrow.

And how did your playfulness bring any relevant information to the discussion? There's nothing wrong with being funny but it should go alongside with usefulness; otherwise you end up with pun-festing.
There's an assumption that compiling to Java source will make this easy for Java developers to transition to, which I believe is completely misguided. If you edit the generated java source you give up the ability to use Xtend at that point; if you don't then it's no different to using a language which compiles directly to jvm bytecodes. Their example of being able to debug through the generated java sounds like a drawback to me: you have to maintain two models of the program in your head instead of one. Much easier to debug through the original source!

I applaud any effort to cut down on the amount of boilerplate required in java though.
Thanks for feedback! About the recognition and acknowledgement - the idea is to allow OSS authors / maintainers / contributors / OSS project team members build and maintain their "authorised" certification programs as a part of the project (just like they maintain documentation).
what about the atmosphere in the room? I guess the paint blocks off moisture and air transport, so if you paint all your walls you'll have nice condensation effects on it. like wrapping yourself in plastic.
Absolutely agree. Find customers, not a job. It may lead to a job, or you may fall in love with the freedom if being able to fire your boss (namely your customer) and make it a permanent lifestyle.

It's what I did and I never looked back.

Oh, and don't worry. If you go this route you will find a niche which will challenge you, stretch your skills, and so forth. I never knew when I started that I'd become the primary developer for an open source accounting package (LedgerSMB).

Happy hunting, and may fortune smile upon you!
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DOS was a clone of CP/M in the same way as Linux is a clone of Unix ... it preserved some compatibility, but the internals were rewritten from scratch. And that's not a clone in my view.

I also played with a Z80 computer - those things were useless. What made the PC shine was the constant innovation coming from Intel - they didn't stop at 8086.
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If it was so that Wikileaks did have positive effect on revealing nasty hidden corruption or abuse with high reliability (whether that is the case I don't know), I would consider him being a dick (your words), or how it is run, to not have much weight.
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You don't have enough karma to downvote. At one time, the threshold was 200 points. I'm not sure if it is still the same.
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I'm not fond of the tradeoff between not having to remember the number 32 and having to use a sign bit for half the year. Frankly you're not totally safe from ice until 35 or so, and it's useful to have a marker around 0 or so that just says "your face will fall off". Likewise, it's nice to have a convenient marker around 100 for "your face will melt off". 0 and 100 are good for extreme ends of a range, not so much for middle values.
But -1 doesn't mean that. A myriad of factors comes into play before you can tell if there will be ice on the road, not least the temperature of the road it self. It takes prolonged periods of cold to chill a road down to where it can sustain ice. Conversely, after a night with hard freezing, ice can remain on the road for hours, even as temperatures climb into decidedly balmy territory. In Denmark people rely on weather forecast warnings on the radio for this more than intuitive reading of the thermometer.
Scala, Clojure and all other functional languages are --and will continue to be for the foreseeable future--, non mainstream.

Only languages with conventional C or Smalltalk based syntax and some functional "injections" have ever become popular.
>Also, Facebook users have opted in to Facebook, and its data storage "tactics"

Not always.

Facebook stores data of people that are not even members, using tricks to make their real-world friends submit that kind of data. Upload you mobile phone contacts, find people from you Gmail address book on Facebook, etc.

So Facebook may well have lots of data about you, even though you do not have an account or any knowledge of that profiling.

(OpFacebook is stupid anyway)
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I didn't read the second page, because the first page seemed to miss the point so badly.

The most popular types of jobs programs involve state tax breaks or subsidies that seek to seduce a company from one state to another. While this can mean good news for “business-friendly” states like Texas, such policies don’t add to overall employment so much as they just shuffle jobs around.

Such subsidies can also seduce people from one country to another. And in that sense, they would indeed create jobs.

The same argument applies to the industry-specific legislation he mentions later.

Finally, he doesn't mention, on the first page, the very straightforward way that politicians can create jobs: by spending money on big infrastructure projects. Those certainly do create jobs, and they have been a common method to do so in a recession.

To top it off, lumping politicians in with "everybody else" seems unfair. As argued above, even politicians can and do "create jobs", but it is ludicrous to argue that the founders of Google or eBay or Paypal didn't create jobs. They created tens of millions of jobs that people live off of, in the US and in other parts of the world.
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Everywhere I've lived, humidity is a feature of climate and not weather. If you live someplace dry, it's dry. Heat is a dry heat, cold is a dry cold. So you actually can take temperature as the most significant variable.
There is so much room for improvement in this space.

I might be working soon on an awesome project that seeks to be the missing link for hiring in the 21st century. And, we have a way around the chicken and egg problem that dooms most attempts, im very excited about it.

Follow me at @dylanized and I'll keep you posted!
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Any numbers for node on ARM? I was told that recently v8 releases have had significant performance regressions for ARM devices by a JS dev at a meetup.
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I don't get the market estimate where you include the guests. It seems like you're treating each wedding as an independent event. I'm attending two weddings in the next month. Are you counting instances as the same person at different weddings as the same person?

Otherwise, the presentation looks amazing and it's interesting to see a company be so open about their deck.
Oh no we don't. Claims that Google Docs are better than MS Office are total BS. The free price comes at the expense of your privacy which in invaded by personalized ads. Not to mention much of the world still runs offline whereas Google assumes de facto connectivity in most things they do.

Of course where search, mail,browser and android are concerned, Google has done an excellent job, but for productivity software MS is still the king.
One can be optimistic, perhaps there's certain applications were it doesn't matter that its not conventional, and it could spread from there. For example online gaming communities over different time zones and (nerdy) teams collaborating over time zones.
People are so caught up with office hours (which I think work because they expect people to come early but leave on time) but the real gem is rigorous quantification of tasks in 15 minute increments. It's like the Pomodoro technique at double speed.

“I’m one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline,”

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"Paying penance after the fact doesn't excuse the original actions."

Wouldn't paying penance involve actually doing good in the world? So far as I can tell he's basically an overgrown man-child whose using his billions to basically enslave low-income minorities via school 'reforms'.

Plus he's made a lot of investments into technologies to help third world countries, which have mostly been a bust.
The real fallacy in the article is an unstated assumption - that developers should be homogeneous. Why not have a "rockstar" Jack and a "sensible" Dianne, in dynamic tension? Teams of one are the exception. In multi-person teams, focusing on the same attribute not only misses an opportunity to hire developers who complement one another but often leads to outright conflict as multiple developers lay claim to the same decisions or assignments. The author's point is slightly more applicable to choosing a lead developer, where judgment is at even more of a premium and many people would make the mistake of promoting Jack over Dianne because of his higher profile, but even then I think the article does more harm than good.
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Our entire industry is Buddhist metaphysics writ small, particularly the circle of death and rebirth.

Ideas in this industry never die. They merely turn up later with different names.
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No, there will always be timezones, even if we call them something else. Even on swatch time, I still have to keep track of which one-hour window I can schedule a multi-continent conference call in, because my colleagues in New York aren't going to be in the office three hours before sunrise, no matter what their clocks say.

Also, with no timezones you lose the language to speak about time. Now "he usually gets up before 2pm" means one thing, and "gets up before 4am" means another. If you abolish timezones those statements become strongly location bound, to the extent where I imagine people would start to develop language based on local time, such as "he sleeps into the early afternoon".

The majority of people live each individual day inside one (perhaps two adjacent) timezone. The system should support that by far most common usecase.
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There's a site like that for Japan, unfortunately only in Japanese though:

http://www.datadata.jp/chintai/

You select a price range & other conditions, and a spot on the map with a radius, and it shows you all places that fit those requirements in that area. Very simple, very useful.
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Thanks lurchpop! Btw. Good job on reddpics, in some occasions it's faster as Scrolldit (I guess because of the prerendered thumbs), your site was one of my favorites before I build Scrolldit :)
I was referring to the fear, not the actual products. If Google entering your market doesn't scare you, you are either a fool or lucky to be in a defensible position.
Even if the malaria vaccine is the only thing that pans out, it would have been worth it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/10/18/glaxosm...
That's indeed a problem if you scroll for a long time.

I can't really remove content from the DOM since that would cause other boxes to float back to the top (moving chaos in your window). Maybe replacing the images not in focus with a 1x1 pixel stretched to their size is a fix to decrease memory usage (although I think this will differ between browsers). Anyone here with a good idea how to fix this?
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I didnt list it as an innovation. It sped up the adoption of internet technologies.
The buttons set up a clear linear path between "reading our slides" and "requesting an intro", with gentle animations showing your progress on that path. It's a simple but powerful metaphor. For me, far from distracting from the message they are trying to convey, the extra attention that has been lavished all over this page sends great messages about the competence of the people involved. Clearly to some this is going to come off as gratuitous; as usual it comes to down to how well they have judged their audience.

That said, as actual navigation I didn't find the buttons very usable. It would have been nice if there was a visual clue somewhere that the left and right keyboard arrows work.
Presumably he's referring to the electrical grid (hence the PV and batteries) rather than trying to avoid WiFi so he doesn't get migraines.
I fully agree that time zones are an essential part of determining not just the relative local time of day, but what day it is. A million things, as you say, but that's the killer one for me.

If you switched to UTC only, then if it is Monday one meter west of the prime meridian, is it really Tuesday two meters to the East? And what time does Tuesday start in Los Angeles - 4pm? Crikey.

A day is based on the period of the Earth's rotation, and for most life forms it's linked to the time the Earth faces the Sun. Time zones are a granular way of knowing what time it is in other longitudes consistently. Changing the granularity from 20-odd to one, or a thousand, makes it much worse, not better.

The idea that removing time zones "solves more problems than it causes" - I don't buy it either.
I think the post could swap "developer" for "hacker" - where you seem to be switching "great" for "hacker".

I think what you are saying sort of agrees with the post. A bad hacker will make a mess, a great hacker exhibits judgement - and brings in new technologies because they are the right solution.

Indeed, the post says nothing about the great developers experience with Sinatra... perhaps it was what she always used. Or perhaps she knew a little about it, and realised it was the most effective tool to use (and therefore used it for the first time).

What the post is talking about is the bad rockstar hacker who doesn't ask the right questions (lacks judgement), trys to over engineer the solution (lacks judgement), uses new technologies for the sake of it (lacks judgement).

I can't embrace a definition of a great developer, where the primary quality is to avoid causing trouble for the company, the project, the team or their boss. That has almost nothing to do with the discipline. You're describing a "great employee" or a "great team player".

The post is talking about the aspects that make a great developer.. working in a company.

I think they are right; they need a developer with the judgement to find out what the company needs, build a solution with effective tools and who has the ability to iterate as the spec develops. All of that ties to having good judgement.

Not someone who gets all enthused with the latest tools and delivers a much more elaborate solution :)

From the perspective of hiring or contracting a new developer someone who doesn't cause trouble in that way is a good thing. Especially as what the post describes is someone who actively produces solutions instead!

Both of those people can push the envelope...
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So this is a thread to share your stories as someone who is hiring. Hopefully, it will make it clearer what people who hire for startups are looking for.