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I am not a lawyer but there is an obvious thing to investigate. Does it look like they used your code, your icons, etc? If so, then you have a straightforward copyright infringement case, and under US law you can send Apple a DMCA notice to get it taken down.
Thanks for reassuring. The 2008 crisis didn't affect my business at all and I'm more linked to the USA than the EU. However, I thought this up-coming crisis could be much worse.
I really hope you're not implying that the Transformer is Asus "shamelessly copying" the iPad.
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ZeroMQ is more like an interesting sockets library. It's really not very much like AMQP or XMPP.

The "Zero" in ZeroMQ means there is no broker (server) between the publisher and the subscribers. Instead what happens is that each process runs a separate thread which deals exclusively with ZeroMQ messaging.

Another effect of having no broker is there is no disk persistence at all, so unless you take your own steps you will lose messages if any component crashes.
The performances I'm talking for large entries are for our engine "wrpme", not for memcached, I realize it wasn't clear in my post and I can't edit it anymore, sorry about that.
This sounds unlikely. Can't we divide the expenses of a recording studio by the number of albums issued to get average costs?
I agree about the mentality problem, though I think it's mostly due ignorance in general and values that are often toward the wrong thing.

Regarding taxes, it's pretty ridiculous, I would never encourage people to open a business here if they can avoid it.

I'm moving to the US next year and I can't wait to stop paying the ridiculous amount of money (in proportion of what I earn) that I pay now as a consultant.

I think I can add another reason why doing startups is hard in Italy: finding a cofounder or team members. I've worked in one of the biggest startup incubator in Italy (h-farm), and I can say from experience that it's super hard to find talented people, and that makes a difference at the end of the day.
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That article, as written in Vanity Fair, is so poorly written. Paragraph one is evidence enough. More indefinite modifiers so that you don't know who is who.
Also I don't understand why answer 1 is the correct answer regarding Linda. There is simply not enough information given to determine which answer is true.
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>Let’s pretend Italy is your business. No, you could never be that stupid.

This clearly does not apply to the person who wrote this brilliant "article".
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I'm not sure how I feel about that. It just seems so useful to have it, BUT I think there's definitely a strong argument to be made for your proposition.

Alternately, why not just switch to a functional language where, it seems, ambiguity and other related problems rarely make it past the bouncer at the front door.
Try to flush your DNS with ipconfig /flushdns if you get an AWS beanstalk instance or go directly to the new IP at http://50.57.178.108/
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I'm all but certain disks are sealed. If air has a path to the platters then so does dust.
Pure speculation: The hole is for, as you said, pressure differences. The head uses air pressure to float above the platter. Changes in pressure could bring the head closer/farther away from the platter which could have unwanted consequences. Pressure fluctuations are due in part to changes in temperature. Since the temperature is regulated by the oil, and that temperature will change more slowly than with air, plugging the hole is relatively safe.
I thought pegging the Argentine peso to the dollar was what made the Argentine debt crisis worse.
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SSDs in server farms are the way to go anyway.
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I just saw the image of Italy on the backside of an Arduino on desk, and was thinking about how innovative the Italians are. Then I saw this on HN :)
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I was under the impression that I was responsible for sending them the documents in a language that they could understand. This sounds really good. Many thanks for letting me know!
I've found that being in IRC with teammates and attending meetings using a video conference solution are key components to my mental health while working from home.

I work on the east coast for a west coast company, and that means that scheduling is a constant problem for me. Some people in the office are most productive in the last couple of hours of the core work day (i.e. 3 to 5) and that is tough for me because I'm trying to have dinner with my family and get kids ready for bed.

The wife and kids all understand that when I am in my office I am "at work" and interruptions are considered just as if they were asking me to take time from the office and come back home.

The biggest challenge for me when I was shifting into this method of work is the fact that work is always just a few steps away. When you are passionate about your work and job, your brain doesn't stop working just because you aren't at your desk anymore. When a great idea comes to you or you remember something that you really need to schedule or write down, it is very easy to say, "I'll be right back" and suddenly lose an hour or two of your free time. I won't say I have conquered this challenge yet (my wife would scoff so loud I think HN might actually pick it up and post it as a reply), but being aware of it is the critical part. When you are about to say, "I'll be right back", think about what the ramifications would be if you were gone for over an hour.
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So if something breaks on a server, like a PSU unit, or a HDD, would you need to shut down the entire server, drain the liquid (or raise the server), and then swap out affected parts?
Would that not be very unpractical?
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I thought about Apple, but I'm not sure it fits. The company Apple is today is the company that Jobs kept trying to build for 40 years. Proportional fonts and rounded buttons are the result of products, not technologies.

Had he had a weaker personality and Woz a more assertive personality, then I think Apple would have needed to make that shift.
Been working from home for two years solidly now. A lot of what's in this article is true. I used to have whole days when I don't leave my chair, let alone the house. Now I make an effort to at least walk around the block before work.

The points about planning are very well made; it's vital to keep yourself aware of what you're doing.

But you do need to work hard at not losing it. I've lost days to multiplayer 8 ball pool on miniclip (I'm like a sniper on that thing). Right now I've been wearing these clothes all week (but I did have a shower yesterday!). It's difficult when there are other people around - my wife used to get in from work at 5 and start chatting to me and I had to continually remind her that I don't finish till 5.30. I miss fresh air, and I miss talking to people, even though I'm something of a recluse.

It can be hugely fun though! You get a massive amount of control over your workflow, and you get as big a desk as you can fit in your room. Right now I have a shelf unit filled with toy robots in front of me! I voice-skype with my boss almost every day, and we chat on skype all the time. I don't have to worry about taking a few minutes off to pop to the post office or whatever. I save time by not having any traveling time, and I get to make the joke that I walk to work every day!

So in terms of the effects on you personally, yes it can be depressing, but it can also be fun, especially if you manage yourself.

In terms of how it affects your work, we have found that we miss the little 'pondering' conversations by the proverbial water cooler. If I have a problem I'm working on and it gets too much and I want to take a break, I sit at my desk, at home, either tweeting or just thinking to myself. If was at work I might wander over to my boss's desk and start chatting about that product idea we had last week, so it's worth trying to build in some mechanisms to replace those kind of chats between you and your co-workers.
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Ask HN: Outsourcing mobile app development, how and how much?
Suppose I had some ideas for a few simple mobile games, for example a card game and/or simple 2D scroller, a budget of about $5000, and I only have enough time in my schedule to source developers, sketch concepts, approve the work, and source media.

Do I have realistic chance of creating a simple mobile game for iOS (and possibly Android) with these constraints? If not then what am I missing?

For those who have done this, which outsourcing forums do you recommend for this type of work?
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I'm more productive when I work from home. I am more responsive to my coworkers when I work in the office. Both of these things are valuable.

I could probably be about as productive as I am at home if I shut the door to my office. I suspect I wouldn't get much more responsive than I am at home, though.
After 7+ hours on the phone with Adobe Support until I finally convinced one of them to push a manager to execute a 10 minute fix (including walking over to and appropriately chatting up the manager, and passing on my explanation of what actually needed to be done -- whose product/support role is this, anyway?), I was all too happy (as a turn of phrase) to write the strongest cogent complaint I could manage on the site where the installation package was purchased.

I see two common scenarios:

Disposable products lead to or correspond with an attitude that customers are disposable. (And a corresponding, irritating frenzy around "customer acquisition" to address the resulting churn.)

Hotel California: You can check out, but you can never leave. You're dealing with a quasi- or literal monopoly, who know all to well that they can simply tell you to fuck yourself. Once in a while, they'll say it to your face. Most of the time, they'll just ignore you until you give up pestering them.

When I do have a genuinely positive support experience, I usually am willing to go out of my way to credit it, internally or externally.

But these days I'm predisposed to expect a bad experience, especially when I'm not dealing with the other party face to face (or even voice to voice).

It's part of what makes what would otherwise be an uneventful purchase so agonizing: You know that if you "choose wrong", essentially you're screwed. Or if the warehouse pulls the dropped, shaken, stirred, or restocked package for your order.

P.S. I guess my comment isn't really adding anything. I thought I'd gotten over that 7 hour experience -- maybe not quite yet.
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> it's super hard to find talented people, and that makes a difference at the end of the day.

It's difficult pretty much anywhere. And even in areas where there are lots of good people (SV), you then have to pay a lot.

There are plenty of talented people in Italy, that is not what I would consider the major problem.
Looks like you could add fraud to any list of legal action.
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In the past I've succeeded in offsetting this (and staying connected with the team) by going into the office 1-2 days a week, and working from home the rest. I found it was a nice balance of autonomy and socialization.
How do you implement it? Paper+Timer or electronic?
That is slightly bizarre restriction, but can be worked around by naming the app "AppName Pro by Developer".
I don't think they copied any of my code nor assets. However, their app does basically the same as mine, but lacking and lot of features and their is UI not as polished as mine (the app looks pretty amateur).
Are humans just simply bad at long stretches of focus?

This is a great question. I think the answer is: It depends on what you mean by focus.

Humans are certainly capable of long periods of concentration, of all sorts. Sitting in a tree waiting for the prey to come into range. Sitting under the tree patiently digging out edible roots. Sitting in a band jamming for twelve hours straight. Sitting facing the wall in Zen meditation.

But, in programming, the word focus has a specific and somewhat paradoxical meaning. When we are focused on programming it feels as if we are focused on something. And yet when you think about what you're actually doing in programming the word focus seems less and less appropriate.

Here's programming: You think about the feature you want to build, and then you think about the existing system that you want to attach it to, and then you think about the big picture, and then you think about an individual data structure. And then you sketch the module on a whiteboard, and then you write an empty module file, and then you use a C debugger to find and fix a bug in the module loader, and then you patiently write an editor macro to change a giant text file from XML to JSON, and then you write a unit test for the JSON parser. Then you write the parser. Then you stare at the parser and try to imagine explaining it to a junior PHP developer. And then you sigh and mentally kick yourself for overdesigning and quickly reimplement the parser, except without the tricky metaclass and the tail recursion and the nifty hack that reads like obfuscated Perl, and then you sigh again and get some coffee. And then you find the module loader is still broken after all and you do ten minutes of research into alternative module loaders, during which you realize that maybe you should have used an entirely different framework for this system and make a note to research the alternative framework for your next system.

And this is what programmers call "focus": Bouncing up and down among five or six layers of abstraction, hopefully doing no individual task for longer than five minutes at a time. (After all, this is programming: If you've got an hour of rote typing to do, why isn't there a macro that can do it for you?) But you're focused on something, because the hours are flying by and if someone interrupts you, you tend to want to throw things at them.

And perhaps this is why we programmers have such trouble with focus: The state we call "incredibly productive focus" is actually oddly difficult to distinguish from ADD. But it's focused ADD, and that's the secret.
He's talking about 3.1, while publicly 3.0 is still in beta. Does anyone know when 3.1 will come out?
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I don't think a reasonable person would ever claim the technological equivalent of a right of rescission for data contributed to a community-collaborated document. Rather, people are taking exception to unconscionable clauses in the terms of service of Facebook, Google, etc. that effectively grant to each respective corporation a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to "use" any content posted on or in connection with each service. It's the overbreadth of the term "use" that people balk at.
What you describe is impossible. Apple reviews and approves every app in the store, so abusive apps can not be published.
Why not? No kids yet. Limited downside. At most you've wasted some time and a small amount of cash, and you can always fall back on the steady job.
Listeners of the 5by5.tv podcasts will have heard of this concept before. That's where Midas Green Tech advertises their "virtual private servers submerged in oil".

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Whats kind of interesting is that this post will probably keep me from going there. Maybe they owned their mistake, maybe the woman that doesn't mind a little souris salad still gulps her soup there.

But a mouse in the salad? Thats pretty much the worst quality control I've ever heard. The only thing worse I can think of is half a mouse in a salad.
> Doesn't follow - if the banks were forced, as you say, to make loans, the bubble should have started then.

The housing price data shows a run-up then.

Like I said, there were other factors, but without the "encouragment" to issue subprime, things would likely have been different.

> That's fine, but there is no indication, in the actual mortgage data, that banks were being forced to issue subprime mortgages. The data shows that it was mainly mortgage companies were issuing subprimes,

"banks" in this context is shorthand for anyone offering mortgages, which includes, by definition, mortgage companies. (It doesn't include banks that didn't do mortgages.) The policy cited explicitly said that.
I love that sketch! :)

The only problem is, now I'm working from home full time, my friends accuse me of that all the time...
I heard the situation explained as Italy and Greece had systemic spending/borrowing issues before joining the Euro zone. Everyone knew this and thought once those countries no longer had their own currencies they would shape up.

Unfortunately, the opposite happened and these nations started borrowing more thanks to their new found access to cheap money Germany and France's economies basically subsidized the borrowing.

Rather than cutting back on benefits, slimming corporate and government budgets, ending nepotism hires and enforcing sane tax policies, Italy and Greece just continued their lifestyles all while issuing more and more Euro backed debt. Now the party ends.
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the price-points for the two are way off the scale e.g. on newegg, a 120gb ssd is expensive than 1tb 7200rpm sata..
If the derivatives market expects the value of the stock to settle downward post-IPO rush, then anybody selling you a put option would charge that expected difference and you still don't make any money.
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Android is open, and adroid in its pure form gets quick and easy updates, it is because it's open, company's can add custum uis and choose not to send fast updates.. It's the prise of being free. I use android and i have total ontrol even if I turned off my hacker brain :)
I think this is a design issue that is orthogonal to functional languages or static typing. We could easily create a language where writing "if foo" causes an error when foo doesn't resolve to an instance of Boolean. If we like, we could add coercion to boolean through the #to_b" method (although I have issues with implicit coercion).

At a deep level, I wonder if my issue is with if stamens and boolean operators being magic outside of the object system. Smalltalk gets this right. Scheme gets this right. if "if" is defined in the standard library rather than being magic syntactic construct, we can write our own control primitives:

provided account = Account.create(params[:account])
...
end

:-)
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Wow.. really? Is this a trend with any documentation?
Seems to me that there are still a lot of mentions of SSD failures floating around the tubes, and that plus the significant cost for large scale storage over traditional platters would make it a very tough sell to any organization wanting to deploy large quantities of servers.
I'm going to copy/paste the relevant section:

Then they went around asking people the same question:

Which alternative is more probable?

(1) Linda is a bank teller.

(2) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.

The vast majority—roughly 85 percent—of the people they asked opted for No. 2, even though No. 2 is logically impossible. (If No. 2 is true, so is No. 1.)

They say: "If No. 2 is true, so is No. 1.", but they omit that the opposite does not hold. Perhaps they thought it was obvious enough.

I think they get it and just left that second part out. They may have worded it poorly (better would be "it is logically impossible that #2 could be the correct answer"), but it was very clear to me when reading the article that the editors meant exactly what you describe.
Super excited watching this take off.
Congrats Josh and TJ.
This is really the essence of Perl and also its "problem".

If you need a book to explain one-liners, it will be challenge to comprehend a program with 20 such one-liners.
a multiclass-classification but yes. i am enrolled as well ;)
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Good thing we've had all those recent discussions about not offending the too few ladies in our industry. And I guess the conference title should have a couple of swear words in it as well. Otherwise, how will anyone know that it's just for edgy, hipster dudes?
</soapbox>
Wow, programming can really be romantic.
Please, take a look at this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3220187

TL;DR Apple won't care
I have worked from home since early this year, and it has definitely been up and down for me. I can relate to the author with the wife and kids situation, but I have learned to cope with that pretty well. My wife generally respects my space and the kids are getting better. One downside to being home all the time is that my kids think I work all the time now, even tho I am always around. Out of sight, out of mind.

For me the social piece was the hardest part. Luckily for me there are a couple of co-working places that I hit up once or twice a week. I try to schedule coffee or lunch as much as possible with people I know, and don't know. I also do the occasional coffee shop session, but I can't stay there too long b/c their chairs usually suck.

So I would recommend that people try to network more. Get out of the house. Go do some co-working. You will find that you are not alone on an island, and that really helps.
California is an At-Will employment state, Zynga is located in California - Pincus could just fire these people and be done with it - as long as he wasn't discriminating unfairly

Actually California's At-Will employment is a bit different then standard At-Will. It's got an "Covenant of good faith and fair dealing" exception. Taking back option grants may be in breach of this (though it would have to be tested in court). Point being Pincus can't just fire these folks arbitrarily for not giving back shares with no risk involved.
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