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> $100k base salary in Waterloo adjusted for cost of living would be like an $180k base salary in Mountain View.

Um, no. Even though SV is a high-cost location in a (relative to the U.S.) high-tax state, personal income taxes are still substantially higher in Canada. Housing might be somewhat more in Waterloo than in SV, but the net take home at the end of the year would still be higher.

Assuming you're married and can file a joint tax return w/ your spouse, the U.S. tax advantage goes up even more.

There is no question that if you want to make a lot of money in tech, the U.S. is still the place to be. I say this as someone who has lived and worked in Canada, Southern Californian and now Australia.
I personally think the single most compelling reason to develop on Linux is package management. That way, you can with just a few typed commands install multiple versions of many, many different compilers and interpreters. Keeping updated is mostly automatic (or not if you want). Windows requires visiting each website, finding the latest version, downloading, installing, and then updating later-all manual.
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I would like to know about things that the powers that be specifically don't want me to know about. Laws that are being slipped through under the cover of night. Any changes to civil or human rights issues. Funding connections to politicians. Abuses of power.

Basically, a transparency module. And yes, I know this is what newspapers used to do, and some blogs attempt to. The signal to noise just isn't great and delivery is not very directed.
Game theory would suggest that, since SOPA opposition is in part a coordination problem, one person arbitrarily picking a day may be all it takes to get multiple groups with similar interests to organize.
Gotcha, and thanks again for the links. Some apps I knew about, but some I didn't.

Not sure I'd call $20 a profound price difference though. The current AppleTV has been in stores for over a year and costs $99. The Android dongle has no shipping date and is supposed to cost $79 when it comes out (we'll have to wait and see).
Citation needed. That description doesn't match test career trajectory of most Amazonians. It doesn't even match on job title. If you said VP instead of product manager, your claim would be slightly more believable.

And 1 million what? Dollars? Units sold? The vast majority of Amazons divisions aren't even direct revenue drivers. Only the merchandising groups are.

Any group larger enough to be identifiable as a business unit measurable size is far too complex to have a "product manager" running it.
This doesn't take into account the payoffs of some sort of moral sentiment that may be valuable to the CEOs. Not all payoffs are monetary.
You're right, I should have looked up the actual stats and I was just guessing. Should I delete my above incorrect comment or leave it there?
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Well that's nice for them, but for me I’ve received a much warmer welcome from Silicon Valley, including first class flights, an office, and funding for several years of development.
I am sorry, but I can't see link to edit or delete my submission. :(
Wrong Gosu.

He said he used www.libgosu.org for Ruby but the library also works with C++, so I'm wondering why he's switched to www.libsdl.org
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Worst idea ever. Worst privacy violation ever. This would would be a boon to stalkers, perverts, creeps, serial killers, and I imagine 99% of people would never opt into it.
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I disagree entirely. The author conflates "making technology easier to use" with "making people dumber". He decries the invention of the typewriter because it ended calligraphy, and the printing press because we no longer have to memorize books. In other words, he is a luddite.

He then makes the classic mistake of conflating "intelligence" with "consciousness", completely ignoring Turing's main insight: that consciousness is not testable in human nor machine, and thus, if it acts human, we have no reason to deny it consciousness.
Are you saying there's no malware or viruses for Android? Why then do so many Android users use a virus scanner?

And yes, I meant the Matroska container. Because of its "MKV" abbreviation, I often confuse it with the Hebrew word for chariot.
I'm curious as to where you heard this particular tidbit, as I currently work at Amazon in a relatively new division (and I'm not buying a word of what you've said).
Most Canadian start-ups that have investors from the Valley also have investors from Canada.
Not accurate. The current wait time is documented at http://developer.apple.com/news/

iOS submissions reviewed in the last 5 business days:

New Apps: 96%
App Updates: 99%
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I find Steve Jobs repellent, but he was once committed to manufacturing hardware in the United States.

The minor undercurrent of criticism since his passing has been Apple's manufacturing vendors in Asia. Forgotten is the drag on NeXT by its decision to build a factory in Fremont, CA. It was way overbuilt, and sucked up a lot of the money fronted by Canon and Ross Perot to keep NeXT alive while it was largely unable to sell much of anything.

http://allaboutstevejobs.com/pics/places/fremont/place/light...
1. not news.
2. ruby? for game dev? really?
3. the author seems to think C and C++ are the same language.
What about working in things that can be sensed? Motion, sound, temperature, force etc.
Hopefully the story is more honest than the title, since Foxconn is less an "Apple factory" than it is the company that pretty much assembles all of the best electronic devices in the world (at least according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Clients).
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That has more to do with the unacceptably high audio latencies endemic to the platform and the complete absence of any MIDI support. I'd like to port some of my audio apps over but until Google makes these things a priority it's just not an appealing target for a music app.
The story is told by a self-described Apple fanboy, but he does explain that Foxconn isn't only making products for Apple.
Why not coincide with #OWS' Occupy Congress?
Yup:
http://www.athinkingape.com/events/

Hope to see some of you there.
No, direct retention of radiated infrared energy is vary important. There are plenty of feedback cycles, but they don't all warm the planet so it really does take a lot to shift each of those 0.1C increases. People are directly responsible for ~1/4th of all carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which is not exactly a minor change. (We are around 391ppm and adding a little over 2pmm / year.)
Yep, it's the 5th largest employer in the world.

And it got hit by the recession really hard. They reduced the workforce by over 300.000 people. That's a lot of pink slips.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers
Blackout + link to petition + contact details of most relevant SOPA supporting politician + black top bar afterward (with links) would be better

add: perhaps a black top bar for websites would work well as a JS, or a countdowned blackout script?
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The short answer is: radiation.

Military robots are hardened. Civilian robots are not.
Yes, this is the correct link/form the devs I know have been using in the past.
Obviously it is a case by case basis but for the folks I know their apps were not anywhere close to a top 100 position, and the review team did for them the "right" thing and got their updates approved ASAP.
Their apps was not a first version but they had done multiple releases, and never had to ask for the expedite review. So I think that the review team took that in consideration, and on top of that the fix was required because one of the web service outside their control changed their API without notice.
It’s a clever way of framing it. Apple has become this huge and powerful entity and they are very much unlike every other technology company out there.

If you list all the companies or pick another one that’s not Apple they will just say noncommittal nice things and try to shift responsibility away from them. “But we have to do this to stay competitive, everyone else does!” “We have even stricter guidelines for our suppliers than our competitors!” “Have you tried looking at this other company?”

Apple is extremely successful, extremely rich and always in the Spotlight. They are the most likely company to actually do something to improve conditions.
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Hi there. While I agree with some of your points, i.e. issues with certain large companies being anti-competitive in the startup environment rather than being supportive, and the fact that the tax incentives offered could be better structured to be more accessible to technology startups, I still think Canada is a great place to build a company. Why? Well:

1. Canada does have great tech talent. Finding them is a bit more difficult, but talent retention is much better. And if you reward your employees well (i.e. competitively with any other company out there), you can attract world class talent.

2. Building a great company does not necessarily mean raising a huge VC round. In fact, if you can build a business that is growing quickly without the need for VC, they'll come looking for you. One thing that some people get hung up on is that you absolutely need to get funded to start a company. That's not true at all. Although, when the time does come to raise money, most US investors are actually comfortable with investing in Canadian companies.

There are a few things I do notice though. Canadian culture is a bit more conservative (i.e. less willing to take big risks, which also explains a bit of the lower valuation). It makes a bit of sense, since most of the larger industries are around 'traditional' sectors, like natural resources and finance. But this is changing. And as more and more successful tech companies emerge, the startup community will only get stronger.

Also, the tax incentives are well intentioned, however the way they're structure has been a 'one size fits all' approach. The rules put in place make sense for some industries (e.g. medical R&D), but make it a bit inaccessible to tech startups without a lot of effort.
To be clear, unless they've changed it recently it is six four month co-op terms, not four. Also to be clear, students do frequently spend two co-op terms at the same company.

If you're really ambitious, nothing will hold back your career. An ambitious person will use co-op for exactly #1 and #2. A lot of (or at least many) people spend their six terms at six different start ups in NY, SF and other technology hubs, and meet a ton of people. The nice thing about being a student is that everyone just wants to help you, and you get a heck of a lot of business cards.

The reality is that there also a lot of people who are smart and get things done, but don't necessarily have the motivation or are too risk adverse to really reach out there and try things. Or some people still have a sense of loyalty, and once they've accepted a job they don't want to jump around every 18 months. Or after they graduate they are ready to start a family. The beauty of co-op is that it lets smart people experience a lot without needing that career ambition, and it exposes a lot of people to things that they would otherwise not get the opportunity to experience. This also inspires entrepreneurship, as people can tour software companies (and not software companies!) and really see what culture is like, what they like, what they don't.

Internships are great too, but the risk of an internship is that you end up with a bad placement. I had a friend who got a job as a tester (they lacked the self confidence and interview skills for something more), and that shattered them - they went from timid yet smart computer scientist to burned out in the 18 months (I am sure that there are people with great internships too). With co-op, there are bad placements, but you get many chances to get it right.
Naturally. The article discusses that.

Remember, the reason the article exists (IMO) is because of the inherent shock of hearing that the nation so often reputed for being the world leader in robotics was forced to depend on US robots.

Personally, I'm hoping it will spur the nation to spend a little more time on (ahem) practical robots...
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Is "recalibrating your iPhone home button" bullshit?
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> they're so far removed from the person they were when they were 20 and 30 that it's just not fathomable to go back to that.

I asked my wife's grandfather on his 88th birthday: Forget the mirror, how old do you feel on the inside? His answer: 33.

As a 48 yo, I gotta tell you I wouldn't believe I'm mentally past 22 without the mirror. But maybe that just means I'm incredibly immature. :)
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"they can easily drive their loan servicing costs below zero at fairly modest inflation rates"

Why will Japanese people buy government bonds that return a negative interest? Stuffing cash in a mattress seems like a better option at that point.
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The memo says "all major device vendors".
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I think you misunderstood (or didn't really read) the whole thing.

I don't think he's conflating "tech easier" with "people dumber", but rather bringing up an interesting way of thinking about the issue.

Also, he isn't conflating intelligence with consciousness -- his whole point about the Turing test is that he thinks people "don't get it" -- that it's not really proving anything (and he uses the logical device of saying "what if the judge of the test is dumb").

Here's the text of slide #80, for example:
•The real test is consciousness, not intelligence
•An “intelligent” machine is not necessarily conscious
•Conversely: a machine does not need to be too intelligent in order to be conscious (many people are not intelligent)
Both of those links have people using 'blackout' in unclear and mixed ways. Several of the hits for the 'blackout' search discuss click-through interstitials and temporary page-blackening (a technique that has been used before in mutli-site protests without completely withholding services, for more than a few seconds' delay).

The Declan McCullaugh 'nuclear option' prediction in CNET [1] only mentions the home pages simultaneously "turn[ing] black with anti-censorship warnings that ask users to contact politicians".

The Wikipedia (en) thread where a lot of this escalation-of-attention can be traced to included a mixture of both disablement-blackout (as I believe the Italian Wikipedia did for its domestic protest) and interstitial 'blackout' discussion.

The term is very broad without added context clarifying each use.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57349540-281/sopa-opponent...
Neither would I. I wish that had been the title.
This isn't as exciting, but along the same lines, I once spied on the people repairing my MBP: http://ecritters.biz/applecarefacility/
Wouldn't that wipe out the very same people who invested in Japan? There are a lot of regular Japanese people who hold Japanese debt. Wiping it out via inflation is equivalent to wiping out the wealth of regular Japanese people to save the Japanese government.
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Hello folks,

I briefly wanted to run this concept by you to see what you think of it. I would greatly appreciate comments/critiques/anything else that comes to mind. Thank you very much!

Concept:
It's a social game where you and your friends band together to solve tasks. A law firm somewhere wants some digging done regarding a patent they are working on invalidating through prior art, and they'd like a big blob of people to look around the Internet and see if they can find something compromising. As a team, you pick one of these tasks and start looking around for prior art regarding this patent you're trying to invalidate.

As a player, you pick the role of either a finder or a grader. As a finder you look around the net for information on the target patent and submit links to that info. A grader's job is to rate the submitted data from other teams: you filter out spam, you give low grades to data that's obvious and trivial (like the first results on Google) and give good marks to data that you feel is extremely important to the case. Teams with the highest scores are rewarded monetarily with portion of the sponsorship money for a job well done.

The idea is two wrap the underlying mechanics into a social game shell, analogous to, for example, Travian/Planetarion/MafiaWars. Why? Because ideally an average Joe with no expertise in IP law could play this game, and so through sheer numbers the data could beat in value what other companies are doing, who rely on domain experts to perform the searches.

You compete with other teams to get as much quality data as you can within the given amount of time. At the end, this filtered data is sent over to the company sponsoring the search and they use it to supplement their case for debunking the patent. (This is the business plan part of the concept)
Additionally, and this isn't very fleshed out yet, as part of the player experience, you learn more about how IP law works, you trade information with other teams and you solve quizzes for points.

So, what do you guys think, is this something you'd actually participate to as a player? Does this sound fun? Any big gaps?

Thanks again!
Instead of revealing the individual's identity, FB could send them an automated msg pointing back to your profile with the option to connect (or at least chat). This would leave the decision (privacy protection) in the hands of the recipient.
It is mean. That's nothing wrong with trying new thing even if most people are saying it's the wrong choice. And there's no shame in failing in the process. People will say, I told you so. But you never know until you have tried it, and you would learn a lot in the process. And sometime you might just have a break-thru.
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There's also some major confusion between bipedal bots, which are almost exclusively toys for PR consumption / blue sky research, and Japan's (true, demonstrable) edge in robots which actually do useful stuff ever. (The overwhelming majority are in factories, and they're about as sexy as ERP systems. These are not all that useful for novel tasks in arbitrary environments for the same reason that screwdrivers make poor dental instruments.)
This is a great article. Just started learning C a couple of weeks ago. The peculiarities pointed out in the article make much more sense now. It's great to read about original hackers long before there was HN.
I find most opensource projects assume a Unixy platform if not Linux specifically. For instance a quick look at the Rubinius website shows install instructions for Mac and Linux, none for windows. RubyEE on windows? nope. MRI windows support is provided by a third party, that builds it with unix tools on windows. That isn't to say it is a bad thing, just it is a fish out of water. I find gems with native extensions are often less likely to work on windows, but it has been a few years since I fooled around with ruby. Salmon have been known to swim up stream, doesn't mean swimming with the current isn't easier.
The reason this is interesting is not so much that some companies have apparently provided backdoors so that governments can spy on their users. We already knew (or could reasonably surmise) that that was happening.

No, the fun part is that one government's spies (India's) have apparently used these backdoors to spy on the agents of another country (the US). So, you see, by mandating these sorts of security compromises, governments have in fact made it easier for foreign governments to steal their own secrets—an irony apparently lost on the author of the Indian memo and on the authors of these policies.