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There is reason. Usually business plan looks like this:

locked - monthly payment * 24 = phone price + X

X - some money to cover expenses you have as operator because you give phone to user + some money to cover amount of free minutes/MB/SMS (infrastructure is not free) + everything else is profit. Profit might be taken instantly (A) or taken from everything you use above your quota (B). (A) is most probably 0 because of competition.

Now with unlocked phone user might take prepaid card from other operator (that does not work in USA). What happens? B profit goes away. Business is about profit therefore A will grow most probably instead of being zero.
Now wait - I'm a freelance translator, too, so naturally I am curious to know how you're avoiding deadlines...
How about a 'stripped book' analogy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripped_book
This highlights my only real complaint with github (Started out using Fogbugz / kiln [Hg])... Why does EVERYONE need to be notified?

This is counterproductive. We have 15 engineers and we all work on different submodules. When I issue a pull request (Or create a new issue) I would like to be able to select a subset of people to ping about it instead of announcing it to everyone. the current situation just creates a pile of messages 90% of which you don't care about so you have to filter them to find the ones that are relevant to you.

Along the same line I think it'd be nice to send something to a particular person that says, "Hey, YOU must review this and approve the pull request".
It's the same in Colombia now.

And you can keep your phone number even if you switch network providers.
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Both are bad analogies, because owning a book or a printing press is not dependent on third parties after an initial transaction.

Having an internet connection is per definition dependent on somebody providing the connection.
tl;dr - He won't hire you because he has a hyper-focus on the process of the interview rather than the process of finding a suitable individual for the opening. His attitude can be summed up in this one line, "Most people looking for jobs don't deserve them."
Actually, couchbase is exactly the opposite: it's membase with riak bolted on.

(Which is arguably worse, IMNSHO) :)
No, unlisted cities may be partially covered. There is quite an amount of coverage for Berlin, Germany, for example (far from complete though).
E-reading via app on a multipurpose device probably does make more sense for the largest number of people, but that doesn't mean the market for dedicated e-readers won't persist.
Please allow users to change their votes (as reddit does). "I downvoted you by mistake" is a very common comment.
I was convinced the CIA was watching me, because I've been checking Google Maps for over a year now and the same white van's been parked outside my house for all that time. I just saw that on Nokia maps it's left. Thank goodness!
Since it is down i could not sync my org-todo. Thinking of an alternate private git repository.
I find the use of SVN to be a good predictor for a place using the waterfall model and calling it "agile", not using TDD and so on.

It's my "one wrong candy" clause if you will. (can't find the article right now, but some bands make one insane request for their backstage that can be instantly checked, when it isn't perfect, they know to check through the whole list of the stage setup and so on, otherwise people literally die when something breaks)
I've worked remotely since 1995.

The main problem was, is, and shall ever be communication - but that's the same if you're face-to-face. I actually communicate better via email and forum than face-to-face, so remote work is good for me.

Especially in freelancing situations, it's a natural fit for how people like to do business; you have to organize yourself more carefully than if you were simply sitting next to your customer, but that's not actually all that onerous.

I wouldn't go back to commuting for anything. Life's too short.
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Not bug free: http://fredbrach.posterous.com/pas-de-sujet
This is the limit between the 3D data and the flat ones.
I started out by emailing people who post in the monthly "looking for freelancer" threads here on HN. Sometimes even job boards.

Although lately a much better model has turned out to be having a "Email me if you need a freelancer" link on my blog - produces, on average, one email per week. All from americans since that's where most of my traffic comes from.
Here's my take on Blogging for hackers:

1. User tumblr.

2. You're done.

Seriously, the service is brain-dead easy to use, scales wonderfully, and took me 30 seconds to set up, rather than the <X time units> that it would take to set up what the OP describes. If you don't like tumblr, use posterous, or wordpress, or rock it old school with blogger. I don't get why so many people take the time to set these things up when there are better things to do, such as actually writing to your blog.

Pro tip: unless you're really popular, no one cares how you power your blog... they care about what you write on it.
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Making the RC6 engine for Intel graphics the default was reverted at the last minute due to instability, http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAzN.... It can still be enabled manually by adding i915.i916_enable_rc6=1 to the kernel boot parameters, just like 3.1.

Another interesting change concerning Logitech Unifying devices is that multiple devices are now given separate /dev entries, instead of being multiplexed into one device.
Anyway, this is definitely less absurd then SOPA.
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To what point? Already large portions of Riak (the performance-critical ones) are in C, and have been for a long time.
Exactly. The first version of the HADOPI law was censored by the French Constitutional Council in 2009 on the ground that only a judge could restrict a fundamental right. This is the case with the current version of the law.
What's your feeling on remote workers?

@Llambda - isn't the process of the interview also the process of finding a suitable candidate?
The EVM part interests me. It provides a way of guaranteeing that a file has not been changed by using a combination of a passphrase and a key stored in the TPM, along with hashes of files stored as xattrs on disk.

More info here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/394170/

One question I have though is how to guarantee that the kernel hasn't been modified to misread the xattrs or log the passphrase. Anyone know?
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What I meant by the 10 foot pole part is now, when asked by people about getting a domain, more people than before will actively go against GoDaddy. By itself not a huge change, but with everything else I think they actually got hurt long term
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Definitely not avoiding them in my freelance work - they help to keep me on schedule.

The 'no deadlines' line at the end refers to the translation community/tools startup I launched recently - that's a new kind of remote work for me and will need adjustment from the world of deadlines.

Once I start working on a site, I can be absorbed for hours and deadlines become superfluous as I could do in a day what would take a secure-salaried staffer a week. But managing freelance projects and startup promo is a challenge.
I just checked Copenhagen and it has 3d buildings as well.
Kopimism has been recognized as a belief community and not as a religion[1][2] and as such does not give the followers of Kopimism the same umbrella of protection that is provided to mainstream religions in Sweden. More details on this discussion can be found on reddit[3]

[1]https://lagen.nu/1998:1593

[2]http://www.sweden.gov.se/content/1/c6/02/78/31/04636561.pdf (English translation of [1])

[3]http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/o2m6d/filesharing...

As for the effectiveness of this movement, I'm skeptical. If the intention is promotion of freedom of information and critique on intellectual property, there are much more effective ways to go about it; and if the intent is humor/satire, there's not much of that either. I'd avoid discussing Scientology here despite the parallels because discussions about "religion" tend to be more verbose and speculative than what is acceptable at HN.
I think it can be tricky. We know the process doesn't always work. Some companies, e.g. Google, believe that it's better to adhere to a tough hiring process and reject most people even if a certain number of those people who are rejected may be brilliant engineers. But what I think is important to remember is that the goal is to hire the right person for the job. The hiring process you use may or may not be an effective and efficient means of finding that person. But certainly having a very narrow view, say by having a very strong focus on the process and little else, is a sure way to miss the right person at least some of the time.
Do you know of a way to have a Tumblr blog running on a rails app?

Example: I'd like to have www.mydomain.com/blog
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Thanks for pointing that out.

The project I was thinking of was going to be a tower defense game, and I wasn't planning on trying to develop any rules automatically. Rather, I was thinking in terms of using an evolutionary system to pick weapon and enemy strengths that lead to balanced gameplay.

So, I would probably get away with it, but I'm wide open to different ideas.
Something is wrong with both CouchDB and Damien
No scale? Not a map.
Still feeling the Nokian love.
Do these same managers consider themselves to be 100% "utilized"? What would that mean for a manager?
Do they think that just because they're a religion, they'll be able to infringe copyright and get away with it?

Imagine if I claimed I could go around doing (insert religious privilege here) because my religion said I could. I wouldn't get away with it.
Zero to Superhero: http://zerotosuperhero.com took me four and a half years to research, write then format and self-publish, so I know how much work it can be.

Then again, my second book Economtricks: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/economtricks/6123536 took only a year and a half, and every aspect of it went smoothly.

So maybe there's something to be said about having gone through the process once, it gets easier.
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I've been thinking about this a lot recently. Guest account too, but mainly other user accounts. Not for phones but for tablets, these tend to get shared more - there's a way to have multiple user accounts on iPad but this requires jailbreaking, something I'm not too fond of. It'd be nice that each family member can use their own instances of mail and safari etc...
I like distributed teams because they force you really figure out communication and your team processes. It's hard work, but the reward for getting it right is that you have access to talent all over the world.

That said, I think the experience varies based on your situation. I'd be careful signing up to be the first or only remote worker. You'll find you miss out on a lot of the conversations where decisions happen; people can forget to dial you in or bring you up to speed. Don't underestimate how much work you'll have to do to keep the communication flowing. Working remote is a lot easier on a team that has other remote workers.
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No ano de 2007 descobri ter uma doença; a SIDA em Setembro do mesmo ano assumi ser seropositivo perante um canal da rede da Ptnet e o resultado foi ter sido “convidado a sair” do mesmo a convite do founder.

Por essa razão, por sentir que a única maneira de poder ter um espaço de debate, sem ideias pré-concebidas, seria eu mesmo criar um canal.

Nasceu assim o #Moritz.
Yeah, I agree with that. I just don't think it will be a very large or important market. Sorta like the market for calculators, which is limited to those interested in curiosities, the nostalgic buyer and those with highly specialized needs.
When you're in school, it often doesn't seem like the work is given to you. I remember knowing this, and I remember when it switched over for me in different subjects or different contexts. I'm not sure that start up world or "real world" is any different, there are just new (more difficult) contexts which can start out seeming mysterious but can become routine (often in retrospect).
1 month sprints are certainly ok, 2 months is rather heavy and 3 months is way too long.

As for taking advantage of those major events, again it comes down to planning. Ratcheting up efforts to meet a goal is one thing, but waiting until the last minute to address those goals is another.

I think we're saying the same things here, just depends on the situation at hand. I especially agree on scope creep, which I recently heard described for one project as "flexibility to change gears". The long-term negative effect so substantially negates the short-term gain, yet project owners are remarkably blind to the situation.
Also you have to add the email obfuscated in assembler or brainfuck or with some suitably esoteric algorithm; that's the rule!
In my area (Canary Wharf in London) with Google I can see the Crossrail works going on but there nothing happening on the Nokia maps so Google is more recent here.
Do you have a link/paper ont his? Legitimately curious.
I don't feel like there's any gap there.

The Redditor is talking about a specific trap that some people who've been told from a young age that they're smart fall in to, at different ages. The trap involves - mostly - having not been challenged previously, and not knowing how to work through things that don't come easily.

When I was a kid, I spent 6 years at a school in Barbados, and some time at a school in Thailand, where I was unambiguously the smartest kid in the class, with the top grades, always. Then at 10 I went to the UK's largest prep school. I was behind in Latin, French, and a bunch of other subjects - especially those which required any rote learning (which I hadn't come across up to that point).

The transition to a school with /much/ better teaching saw me become a distinctly mediocre student almost straight away - faced with challenges, and faced with not being able to simply smart my way to the top of the class, I started rejecting work wholesale - something that stayed with me throughout the rest of my formal education, and led to me getting some truly shitty A-Level grades, to the disgust of teachers who saw much greater potential there.

Hard work and talent are both important, and so is the ability to encounter and handle challenge. If you grew up in an environment where you were coasting at the top, the first time you encounter serious challenge you might well fall apart.

I've recently started an MSc at what Americans would call an Ivy-League university (having talked my way without an undegrad degree), and the first module I'm working with is "Software Engineering Mathematics". Working through the chapters of the book I have consistently had real trouble getting to grips with the material. I want it to just fit in straight away - and I just want to understand it - and it doesn't, and that's a constant challenge.

Being a little older, and a little more mature, I'm throwing everything I have against it now, and seeing real dividends for perseverance. But every day is a struggle of fighting against the part of me that doesn't know how to deal with challenge, and I put that down to the sudden transition from coasting to the top to sudden massive challenge, and having not dealt well with it at the time - which it sounds like the very very original poster was also struggling with.
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It looks as good or better than google earth, particularly the trees, but the (texture) caching seems to be limited, which could be obviated by using local storage.
Your comment systems can statically integrate the comments in a post ?

I'm thinking at statically integrating the comments in a post each time you rebuild your site.
Isn't 3D Invaders from this guy just an app made from a 3D game development tutorial which is under a CC license which doesn't allow commerical use?!

It looks exactly the same ...

http://www.androidpit.de/de/android/wiki/view/Spieleentwickl...
Presumably this is a precursor to replacing their 3D plugin version at http://maps.nokia.com/ - at least for browsers that support WebGL.
As I understand your post, CouchDB and CouchBase are both NoSQL document stores, but CouchBase is designed to be more scalable with a better defined support. I think this is fantastic and I look forward to take a ride with CouchBase.

A few questions:
If you are using the best parts of CouchDB, then how is this not a Fork? Will you use any of the code?

Similar query about Memcached / Memebase: What is going on with that code base? How have you merged the two with regards to functionality?

IMHO In order to succeed, you have to provide a bridge from CouchDB to CouchBase, but you said there is no upgrade path. Can you elaborate?
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I wonder how photography will be affected by this sort of technology in the not so distant future, as the images and point cloud data increase in definition. For instance, instead of waiting for the perfect weather conditions for the desired picture, the "photographer" could simply manipulate lighting and such, then render the scene in high definition.
The algorithm for determining when writeback from memory to persistent storage is interesting:

https://lwn.net/Articles/456904/

(Linked from http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.2, which has more detail than the HN posted article)
I found it surprising that Damien comes off so completely unapologetic about his decision to abandon Apache and the CouchDB community. As a long time CouchDB user and open source believer the whole tone of his post leaves a dirty taste in my mouth.
I can't tell if they're satyrizing religion or copyright, or subverting religion to undermine copyright, or what, but I am interested to see where it goes.

It also makes you think about these things in different ways. I mean, don't the debates on copyright seem as idealogical as religious debate? Can you imagine their idea, however tongue-in-cheek, could spark effective change -- on either copyright or religion? Which church would you rather go to, a mainstream one or theirs?

I've seen far crazier religions and far less effective ways to comment on copyright.
That sounds useful, but not a scientific notion from what you're telling us. Could you start by defining what you mean by clearing the table? Is there any way to compare/contrast it to what sleep does?
You appear to be complaining about effect, not cause.

Every US immigrant I've spoken to wants to stay here, build up savings, buy a house, etc. I do too. But if there is no path for me to become a permanent resident then, yes, I'm going to take my savings and go home. I don't want to, but I won't have a choice.

Making the immigration process difficult is counter-productive for everyone.
It has been awesome experience for me. I have been working as remote consultant since at least 2 years. And with all tools available right now, I think it is best time to execute anything from anywhere. I think besides different time zone world is really flat.
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That's pretty easy, I did it with my blog. Check their help docs:

http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains

In brief, you would set up a custom domain name, and then if necessary set a redirect so that "blog.mydomain.com" points to "mydomain.com/blog".
I think this is destined to eventually replace their plugin-based version at http://maps.nokia.com/ - at least for WebGL browsers.
Its entirely up to the people. I've hired 3 contractors for remote work in my life. the first one, on 'mates rates' left the job half done which taught me the lesson: pay people what they're worth. The 2nd + 3rd have been great so far. Communication is key.
The estimate wouldn't be a deadline or for billing purposes. It would be more of a tripwire for "this task needs attention" to make sure a developer doesn't get bogged down in a task that he / she is unwilling to admit defeat on. Sometimes all that is needed is a fresh perspective from someone else to look at the task and offer a different approach. Think about those situations where you bang your head on a wall for far too long on a problem and then take a break or sleep on the problem and then fix it immediately when you get back to the task. Another developer could also offer this fresh perspective. The task may simply be bigger than originally estimated and the discussion may be no more than "okay, adjust the estimate and keep doing your thing."

Also, in some cases there actually would need to be a deadline and there would need to be pressure. It depends on your situation. X startup working on their own application may have wiggle room for their timeline, but I do mostly client work where our deadlines are pretty much set. Often I need to give estimates which the rest of the team will use as part of tracking and projecting the overall timeline as well as setting the expectations for the client.

I agree with you though. It sounds like you guys have a great setup.
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I don't have a citation for this, so please take it with a grain of salt, but according to my Swedish friend, this movement does not legalize file sharing and those purporting to be members of the movement won't be covered for the sake of being members. In other words, it doesn't really do anything to protect its members from file sharing laws.
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> "Most people looking for jobs don't deserve them."

I don't know about that, but my experience suggests that most CVs you get for a job interview will be unsuitable.
here's the HN thread : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3284169
also while all analogies have problems the verbosity here introduces more complications.

Technically the store isn't shut down it's only removed from the phonebook. At this point the analogy breaks down as that doesn't sound as drastic at all. However, on the web, being removed from DNS would be a death sentence to legitimate sites but ironically (and tragically) not for sites dedicated to copyright infringement.
Hmm... most subscription packages around here are of type "1000 Min, 1000 SMS, 1000 MB" or some such so B profits aren't really high.

Also pricing being competitive, there's not much difference in SMS/data/call prices outside dataplans.

That makes that claim still silly.
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Thanks for the tip.

Im not sure if this would have any averse effect on the site's SEO though. How did you deal with that? Did you do a 301 redirect for everything?

Example blog.mydomain.com/article1 to www.mydomain.com/blog/article1
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