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DSL Internet speed can be explained, according to my brother who lives in the US, with the way that local carriers segmented the broadband network by area. ISPs in the US, maybe in Canada too?, apparently benefit from a quasi-monopoly per location, whereas in France network access is national and guaranteed, meaning that wherever you are in the territory, you can subscribe to any DSL offer from any ISP as a form of public service.

As a result, in 2002, Free came up with their disruptive all-in-one 30€/month DSL box. The announcement single-handedly killed AOL France which was offering 45€/month for an inferior service, like the rest of the competition. The survivors had to align their prices, and there was much pain and rejoicing.

What I saw this morning could be history repeating itself. I wouldn't be surprised to see Bouygues Telecom (the "weaker" of the three legacy Mobile Carriers) shut down within months. However you put it, Free's offer is both superior on paper and cheaper than the competition.

I'm not sure about pricing of mobile plans compared to French ones, it was actually the opposite when I did a quick survey of iPhone plans comparing France's Orange to USA's AT&T offers, I saw something like a 30% cheaper phone and a 10% cheaper plan in the US than in France with napkin maths for taxes. One thing is for sure, we've had quadruple play offers for a while now, and the very low DSL price since 2002 helped a lot with the overall family budget.
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Just worked for me (at 2:43AM PST). Thanks for pointing that out!
Not accusing you of doing so, it just struck me as relevant. I didn't notice before it was just an exact copy of their title. I would argue that in this case a title edit could've been better.
Wow, did Ubuntu finally realize that quite a few people actually use more than one display?! That's so amazing. Only a few years behind Windows and Mac... But what's a few years in the realm of computers. ;)

Maybe one day they'll also realize that most of their potential users come from the Windows environment, so forcing some unnecessary UI differences against decade-old habits (like min/max/close buttons on the left) is a great way to drive most people away.

Heck, maybe one day they'll even fix those trivial bugs that linger in Ubuntu for years... Like being able to change a desktop wallpaper from the Image Viewer more than once in a row.

One of those days (maybe around 18.04 LTS) Ubuntu won't make you feel like ripping your hair out because of the most trivial inconveniences. And maybe then I'll be able to recommend it to people.

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[And that all typed from Ubuntu 11.10, which I use for 4 months now.]

[And yes, I know you can use more than one monitor with Ubuntu right now, but what I'm saying is that it's troublesome (compared to Windows 7) and very buggy.]
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I don't know what kind of career you're talking about, but as a software dev, you just come to an interview, get a job and earn a living. No family or social ties are involved.
Go read a newspaper. You'll notice that every paragraph is one or two sentences. That's why they do it. They're just transferring the news article from the paper to the web.
The reviews on this are hilarious.
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He states he is a 'massive geek', and felt massively disturbed by the Android experience ruined by carriers.

The majority of Android Users are not geeks, and therefore DO NOT care if the mobile is sluggish, buggy, overblown, etc. Thats a fact, i have to deal with it every single day.

Android is gaining traction (at least here in Europe), thanks to non-geeks and cheap prices for the devices, and because of a few apps (Whatsapp, etc.). That's all the mass market cares about. And Android focuses on mass market.
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I wonder what kind of permissions they had to obtain in order to do that? Surely they'd need to worry about air traffic and the chance of it landing on someone or someone else's property (however unlikely). Or maybe they went to some privately owned bit of desert to do it? I wonder how much that costs?

Also - it kind of reminds me of a geek-version of the "bow and arrow" game from the film "Grown Ups"...
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I recently bought this desk frame, that I'm really happ with:

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It has a manual hand crank, so it's a little cheaper, I get a little exercise cranking it up and down (though not much; it's surprisingly easy to do), and I get to feel that I'm not polluting the world with more electronics (I know, ridiculous we you consider what's actually sitting on it...).

It is still pretty expensive, but it's really well (and precisely) made, so I can see that it could be expensive to produce.
I found their framerate numbers quite staggering, with OS X lagging far behind Windows. Is this a surprise to anyone else?

http://www.cuttherope.ie/dev/notes-framerates.jpg
15 year full stack developer here with at least 8 of those years doing GUI stuff. Over the years, the two biggest things that helped boost my skills were:

1) Write a game.

It may sound cheesy, but it gives you a frame of reference to work from. Most people have played enough games to know when the interaction feels right or wrong. If, like me, you decide to write a game in the browser, it will also teach you many, many things about working with the DOM, optimizing for performance, managing memory, etc... Plus, it looks freaking fantastic on the resume. I recommend a 2D side scroller (I did Mario in JS) or top down (zelda would be cool). Be careful of anything with large numbers of moving things on the stage at once (contra, for example). Optimization can kill you with those.

2) Write in a framework.

For instance, if you write a iPhone app, the obj-c based framework tends to guide you towards a usable, responsive app. Same thing with Rails and QT. You can also find scaffolding for all of the above that will lay down the groundwork for you to expand on.
Light on facts and heavy on statements like, "all the latest studies show..."

I agree that school is boring and that we don't teach big-picture or connectivity enough. I believe this is because our teachers don't understand the domain they're teaching well enough. I've known a few teachers and their qualification courses to teach a given subject seem to be absolutely minimal. How can you teach how concepts are connected when your command of a subject goes no further than the current textbook?
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That's too short-sighted.

Even if you expect to be a software developer the rest of your working life, there are a lot of job opportunities that won't be available if you don't network - even if you're brilliant, there might be another guy just as good as you, but who got the referral instead of you (and that's being optimistic and a bit naïve and believing that it's all merit-based).
Exactly. Any lead Microsoft wants to take on the Web, I will have a hard time ever taking seriously given their history of anything Web related.
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It looks like we're not there yet.
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XP is about a decade old now. I think its completely reasonable for a web app showcasing modern technologies to not even acknowledge it's existence, let alone support it.
On my iPad it just stops at 73%
yup. Still needs improvement
I'm not sure I understand what's so "faux" about the openness of Android.

It's not just an idea: http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html

Being that it's an open source project, why wouldn't the carriers have the freedom to add or remove what they want? I don't necessarily like the carrier builds, but they're free to do with Android what they please. That's the general idea behind open source.

I'm not disagreeing with your conclusion that Apple is consistent. And there are certainly closed source Google Apps for Android. But your implication that Android isn't open source is a bit silly.
Its great to see how much stuff there is going on behind such a useful tool like this
You cannot trademark or copyright a handbag, or other fashion design, in the United States. Your edge case doesn't exist.
Mozilla supports the Audio Data API which predates Chromes entry into that space: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API
At some point this will be battled out in the W3C and a standard API will appear.
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"Apple, for all the shit they get for being closed and evil, has actually done far more to wrestle control back from the carriers and put it into the hands of consumers."

What Apple did was to gain control for themselves; not the user. You need look no farther than Apple's opposition to the DMCA exception for smart phone jailbreaking to see what they think of user control.
I came here just to say this. Why do people in the US continue to ignore the rest of the world? Only in the US does this carrier branded phone bullshit occur.

I live in Australia and I'm quite content with my unlocked Galaxy Nexus on my $40 Amaysim plan. Sure, it would be awesome to have paid $99 for my Galaxy Nexus and have the rest of the $700 I actually spent on it subsidised by Google, but that's the way it is at the moment. If anything you should hate your own stupid US carriers.
My Galaxy S (which I simply tolerate now), came loaded with a porn application from my carrier. The damage these companies allow (or do themselves) to their brands is astounding given the competition in the market. I won't even consider Samsung for my next phone because of how bad this one is.
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It's also disruption by simplicity:

– the Terms and Conditions sheet will only be "one page long" and "understandable by anyone", compared to the multiple pages of legalese of the current operators;

– they only have 2 offers (with a variant for current clients), compared to hundreds from the competition.

We all know the value of simplicity when making purchasing decisions (explained in The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz).

Well done Free.
I live in Australia too. Carriers are still able to have their way to some small extent.

I was regularly inquiring about android handsets for the last couple years. There were still carrier exclusives (for x number of months), and no one would sell me a high-endish, unlocked handset (e.g. Galaxy S).

The easiest way to get an unlocked Android handset is buy it online (be careful you get correct handset variant).

If manufacturers weren't capitulating to carrier demands silly things like this would not happen.

If you want an unlocked iPhone you go to an Apple store and just say so and it works on all carriers.
I've done this in the past.

Are you talking a grey/black box system?

The best place to start as a programmer is probably with Tradestation easy language.

https://www.tradestation.com/trading-technology/tradestation...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyLanguage

It all depends on how complex your algorithms are.
Well, we can at least arm you with all the helpful information we can dig up. Personally, I would hammer on a few main points: SOPA is ineffective, expensive and dangerous. Build from there. Lead with your best arguments, cull the weak ones, hammer on them with the points they're least able to refute.

* Ineffective

Australia had a bill like this (which is dead... for now), but also did some trials. Read the reports to see how big a failure that was (scroll down to "Live filtering trials"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...

Even if you have full control of a network, it's not so easy to keep pirates off of it. Why else would there be pirates on the RIAA's own network?

https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-someone-else-is-pirating-throu...

And there are already countermeasures, so the law has been rendered obsolete even before being passed:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/285170,firefox-add-on-circumve...

* Expensive

As you of all people know, these new requirements would be incredibly taxing for startups, preventing new jobs from being created. This would require every site to implement filters, slowing everything, raising costs and blocking innocent things by mistake. The CATO institute has shown, using the MPAA's own research, that it won't even save one job all told:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120104/04545217274/cato-i...

Their numbers are overblown:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100801/17431810439.shtml

http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/playing-numbers-why-sopa...

How much will this cost? I could make up a number. Indeed, a lot of numbers have been made up in support of SOPA already. We've already established that it will be ineffective, so the benefits are approximately zero, making it difficult to justify any cost. So rather than inventing numbers, I will point instead to what I do know, that these are the people who will be paying the price:

https://www.cdt.org/report/growing-chorus-opposition-stop-on...

* Dangerous

Whether they're trying to hijack DNS requests or web pages, censoring firewalls are bad for security, because if you control the device doing the hijacking, you can use it for whatever. Incidentally, existing products like SmartFilter already perform MITM attacks every time you try to visit an https page. In theory, the organization is supposed to add their key to everyone's computer and then they sign a bunch of fake sites with the firewall. When they don't bother doing that, you see it attempting to hack your connection all the time.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111214/18075617093/former...

Or you can refer to these:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120109/10413817347/co-cha...

http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/managers-amendment-sopa-...

Also, it undermines our own State Department's efforts to promote freedom & democracy abroad.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120105/13282317290/us-sta...

Anyhow, I hope this is enough. Please make any use of this you can. Good luck!
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Exactly the same where I am. I have vanilla ICS on a Nexus S with a pre-pay that I can leave for a better deal at any time. This guy's article is totally off looked at from a global perspective. The billions rising out of poverty into the global middle class will never be able to afford an iPhone, Android is going to totally dominate in these markets. That's multiples of the US population. Apple has no hope at all in clawing that back.
Well, your question includes the answer itself. The US is not the anomaly, France is and for a very specific reason: Free.

France would have been in the exact same situation as the US if Free had not been a disrupter. Free isn't the natural byproduct of the sane telecom environment that existed in France at the moment of its inception. It's rather an initiative championed by very very smart people, with very decent ethics.

So the question isn't so much, why the US (and Canada) have such gouging prices, but rather what could be done to recreate the Free experiment there.
> unrestricted internet access up to 3GB

: they lower the speed after.

> Phones are not include but can be bought with independent 12, 24, 36 months credit plan

and 0% interest.
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I'm sad you think so. So what we say/said on Europe, on Immigration, and on the Deficit even before the election, that was all "what people wanted to hear" was it?

Tuition fees was technically a lie, because all our MPs signed a "pledge" which some of them (more than half) then broke by voting for it or abstaining.

However, other examples are hard to find, because compromising on a manifesto to form a coalition is a legitimate reason to diverge from "what we said" in "what we're doing."

The Guardian did some analysis (which I can't seem to find now) that said something like 60% of our manifesto was being delivered under the coalition. I think that's pretty good going for the smaller partner, and while some of what the government is doing makes me good and angry (DLA 'assessments,' housing benefit changes especially in London, Tuition Fees, scrapping of PCTs, and so on), other bits are much better for it (the Tuition Fees repayment system, the Pupil Premium which was doubled again recently, raising the income tax threshold, the Youth Contract, and so on.)
Why does it seem so hard to find work that one really enjoys? Or is it just me?
If you don't yet have a clear idea of what you want to do instead, should/ would you quit your job now, if you're feeling unhappy in it, or wait till you've come up with a clear plan/ alternative?

How much of how you view your prospects is coloured by your unhappiness with
your current job?

Is it possible to make yourself understand that irrationality - that the future
may be shaped but is not determined by the past, and that you shouldn't
therefore let your feelings about the past or the present define your view of
the future - at an emotionally convincing level?

... is this the wrong forum to ask questions like these?
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The behind the scenes writeup is good: http://www.cuttherope.ie/dev/

Although the senior developer says in the video: "Objective C is object oriented, has classes and structs. And those things just don't exist in JavaScript." .. Well, except object orientation, of course ;-)
Is there a public database of HN links (rather than multiple people crawling PG's server)?
Tell them that if SOPA passes, there might very well be no more YouTube, no more Facebook, no more Tumblr.
Networking is nice bonus but not depending on it for making a living gives you even more leverage.
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No. This was Cameron's personal adviser who hangs out in number 10, it wasn't in a report.

His name is Steve Hilton, and he suggested (among other things) that Maternity leave be scrapped:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/86670...
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Thanks in the name of all visual impaired, but for 30px font is simply to large for me to read.
I didn't ask for jokes at all, actually. I was kinda hoping for something more convincing....
No permission is required, they just need to notify their local FAA facility of the launch.

They need to stay away from airports and populated areas, also launch during the day and when there isn't cloud cover that would hide the balloon.

See here: http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn...
> Actually IIRC the whole iTunes music store is also disabled when you're on 3G and not Wifi.

you didn't recall correctly (at least not for my carrier).
And does he give you specific advice on how to do those? I mean, everyone wants to know if they can grow, but for certain kinds of startups, there's a hockey stick curve, meaning that before it grows... it doesn't.
While I agree with most of what you say you really can take away something from the video.

When I was growing up I always had questions about how everything I was learning had any relation with all the amazing things (sending rockets, experiments in science museums etc.) the world was doing. Needless to say I thought I would understand in higher grades and after high school I thought may be I can connect the dots in college.

It did help in college but some of the little things I still connect. I have a degree in CS and I am pursuing my masters now. It's amazing how even now I connect those little dots and get my aha moments. What is surprising is that I’ve come to realize that with a little help I could've made such simple connections even when I was 10 (when I first learnt the concept of Light) or in high school (when Bayes theorem was nothing but a magical formula) rather I was shunned by saying “you have a long way to go”.

I always wished someone saw the passion I had for solving geometric problems (i was helping higher grade students solve cirlces theorems when I was 12) and gave me a direction. Heck I bumped into Euclid’s Elements like a year ago. In fact, I remember people suggesting me to leave geometry coz it’s useless. Everything starting from computational geometry, probability to number theory I do today is aided by those geometrical figures I played with.

I really got carried away there, but coming back to the video, I think the video captures one of the essential elements of education which is to make that connection from time to time with simple examples. It all boils down to people who can do that, who has a liking to the workings of all things around them, who have open and inquisitive mind, who likes to see students realize those aha moments, who are true teachers.
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can you really not purchase a pay as you go SIM card in the US? I've successfully bought these in many countries around the world (UK, Australia, New Zealand, pretty much anywhere in Europe, Thailand, Malaysia, etc.) When visiting a foreign country I usually buy a local SIM as a matter of course in order to avoid excessive roaming charges. Surely this is also possible in the USA?
IoC is a very useful concept for any OO language. For instance, ObjC uses it a lot through protocols. More info on that subject can be found here: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/InversionOfControl.html

The above link has some very interesting links about OO design and SmallTalk right at the end.
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The most important point is that the money people "save" by not spending it on software or music or movies, gets spent somewhere else in the economy. For the media industry to get a few billion dollars more of revenue, other industries have to get a few billion dollars less of revenue, which in turn leads to a loss of jobs.

The amount of disposable income in a country doesn't magically increase whenever some actors on the market want it to.
> I wonder if the lack of state is why I keep getting the "Unknown or expired link" message all the time?

As front page keeps changing and reordering, the "Next page" link after some time becomes meaningless, so maybe it's because of that.