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You call yourself a business guy but you aren't thinking with a business head in your posts.

First off, freelance developers are also "business guys" because they are running their own businesses. Any "business guy" knows that prices are largely set by supply and demand. A developer charging a high rate is doing so because the market can bear that rate. There is no need for justification here, the demand takes care of that nicely.

Just because a developer in India can do work for cheap doesn't mean he should. If he has world class development skills then he should be charging world class rates. Charging less because of location is a stupid business model and it's not reality. The reality is that there is less demand for their services (especially from the type of clients who are able to pay those higher prices) and they are charging accordingly. These guys are mediocre developers competing in a sea of mediocre developers.

Also, I believe the idea that globalization is driving down prices isn't reality. I'm a U.S. citizen living in the Philippines and I have seen that people are able to charge low rates because they are living in poverty.

You can live for a lot cheaper in the Philippines relative to most of the U.S. but you get what you pay for. Most expats who move here are able to live cheaper simply because they are simplifying their lifestyle. Once you start ratcheting up your lifestyle to get anywhere near the lifestyle you would have in the West, then you get back to the same Western level of spending.

I believe cheap developers abroad is going to be a short lived phenomenon. As developers get a taste of the money they can make, then they are going to want to improve their lifestyle and their rates are going to go up. Cities like Shanghai and Moscow (two countries with a reputation for cheap developers) are as expensive to live in as New York City. Also, as the economies of poor countries heat up, then a lot of their development pools are going to be eaten up by domestic demand.

The reason that developers here on hacker news claim that outsourcers do low quality work is because we see it all the time. That doesn't mean all projects are total crap, but a large number of them are. Sure, the project may result in something that works, but anything can be painted up to look like a success. However, that house of cards may come crashing down when a strong breeze comes along. When that happens you lose money and you look bad. Clients who have a real budget know this and they know that even $150 / hr developers are a small price to pay to get things done right.
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It is obvious, once he's explained the context - Windows has to move it from one desktop to another.

Well, it's not clear that it's slower. Shouldn't it be virtually instant? But I guess there's no easy way to explain every step that Windows does to switch the program to a new desktop, because if there was it wouldn't be so damn slow.
Looking at the screen shot it looks a lot like EverNote. I think the screen is designed to be clean,if not a tad boring. But there is nothing wrong with that.
To play devil's advocate a bit, re-implementing a game is not as easy as paraphrase-typing a thesis. Zynga copied the gameplay from other game, but wrote the underlying code, did the art and tied it to their backend. That's a non-trivial amount of work.

It's like saying Seattle Computer ripped off Digital Research because Q-DOS was very similar to CP/M. In some ways, they did - they were really similar - but one is a reimplementation of a superset of the other.

Having said that, I'm mostly uncomfortable with these "second mover" (or "first copycat") companies. It's not that hard to come up with original ideas and the process you use to come up with those will give you both an insight on what makes an idea good and a number of ideas you may be able to use later. It's definitely worth the try.
Craigslist is not just about apartments though. It's a general purpose online classified ad site. Building a lot of location plotting features might not have any relevance for 80-90% of the listings.
And yet ISTR that used to be security best practice, to avoid shoulder surfers from knowing how long your password was.
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Notes has an entire entry in the Interface Hall of Shame:

http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/lotus.htm

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It's a new display server protocol that uses EGL and a whole lot of the modern parts of the Linux graphics system, while throwing away most of the old parts nobody uses. The reference compositor Weston can be used either as a replacement for Xorg, or run in Xorg. In it, you can even run a rootless Xorg server so you can run native Wayland apps alongside X apps (a bit like Mac OS X does).
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It just goes to show that whatever language you use, you need to understand what the abstractions are doing: what bytes are really going where?
The author is "surprised" that Chinese manufacturers are not honoring intellectual property licensing terms? What planet does he live on?
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Is that a good excuse to just let things slide?
This was in the article, and summarizes it reasonably well.

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Actually, I feel his pain. I'm sick of all the things the parent LoN post talks about, sometimes enough to want to switch off commenting on everything. Most of us have more useful things to do even if we understand that building community takes work. One trip over to a comment thread on a typical YouTube video is enough to make sensitive people lose their faith in humanity a little.
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What do they expect? That a terrorist is going to hide some top secret weapon information in a steganographic photo?

This is just ridiculous.
It sounds to me like they wouldn't be against accepting patches that makes Wayland work on other platforms, just that they aren't going to do that work themselves. At least that's what I get from this quote,

> It's certainly possible to port Wayland to other operating systems, but they'll have to provide the same level of infrastructure as Linux does.
Per object overhead in functional languages is usually lower since polymorphism is handled at the function level rather than the data level. You don't have to store class pointers etc, just the raw data and probably a type tag.

I can't find a reference for erlang's representation but I believe it has only a little more overhead than ocaml which is described here - http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/ocaml-internals/
He just has user styles and scripts applied, he knows to code, right? :-)
This reminds me of the "Du bist Terrorist" campagin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdIA0jeW-24 (German with English subs)

Most of these terrorist indicators seems like common sense to me. Paranoia over reason once again?
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One minute we hear people complaining that Google Maps cost too much money (if you have heavy volume) and next we hear that Google Maps cost too little money.

I don't know if Open Street Maps will be that successful in France though... If you plot the density of documentation in en.wikipedia on a map, you see a hole where France is... Germans, Dutch and English like to participate in free culture and open source -- I don't know if it's a language problem or if the French are too smart for that and will only work on something if you promise them a pension first.
Interesting article. It basically cover loss leaders. Not news, but perhaps it was to apple.

HP gives away printers to sell ink.

Safeway cuts the price of bananas to 30 cents a pound so you'll buy overpriced oranges.

It appears the same with Amazon and the Kindle.

It's possible to make a great product, but lose money with poor strategic positioning. What makes Apple so much money is they nailed BOTH the product and the business model that allows them to make money.

It seems clear the business model mindset is there to stay. Will the product revolution continue? This is one reason the P/E is closer to that of a more mature company.
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ISPs surely already have information about some of their infected customers.

If it's acceptable for an ISP to mess with DNS and provide an ad-laden search page (Virgin Media) or to redirect to a "Fair Use limit reached on your unlimited account" page (T Mobile) it must be okay to redirect people spewing spam or malware to a list of clean-up instructions and anti-malware sites.

The other problem I have is that removing malware from a machine isn't usually easy. While people on HN may enjoy tinkering around seeing where the hooks are the best (quickest, surest, cheapest) method is to wipe and re-install. People visiting a "are you infected" site are probably not keen to wipe and re-install, and are possibly just going to end up with worse infections as they search for anti-virus solutions.
It's time to not just resist further expansion of copyright and copyright enforcement, but to push back.

* Reduce copyright terms to the original 14 years.

* Retroactively.

* Make copyright non-renewable

* Require registration of works with the copyright office

* Assess an annual fee proportional to revenue earned from the copyrighted work

* Provide for stiff penalties for asserting copyright over works you do not hold the copyright to.

* Affirm that public domain works can never be copyrighted.

Make them fight on those terms.
I think he is surprised not by the violation, but by the lack of legal action to correct the situation.
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I think he's just making the point that the battle is futile.
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iPhone was introduced after 2,5 years since inception. I guess they have some stuff in pipeline for some years to come, also (I hope) the culture is still there.
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That's great, but perhaps they should teach some of this to their colleagues at IBM first.
I'm French and I really think that's a shame.

What's next? Microsoft to sue Google because Docs are free?
Reporter totally misses the point. The point is that google provided google maps for free. That is great. except when all other competition dies (because who can compete with a better, freer version of your product?) google starts charging pretty rediculous rates.

That move in itself is what contributed to the ruling. OSM is free for everyone. It is a wiki. If OSM destroys google, bing, etc, and then decides to go on a charging spree (it can't) then it would also face similar decisions.

Kudos to the french for this.
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OK so lets shut down Wikipedia next.
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I have always wondered why Facebook does not display any ads in their apps - after all, the traffic generated by mobile devices and iPads must be substantial. Perhaps that was the reason why they did not plan any iPad app at first - forcing users to view ads?
I'm sure that they will do fine, though - the desktop won't die soon. I often find myself switching to the browser version because I can't stand typing more than a few words with a soft-keyboard.
I just created an account to reply to this... because I think your method (plotting density of en.wikipedia on a map) might be flawed. Not being French (or living in France) myself, I happen to be aware of the fact that they tend to do a lot of stuff in, well, French. Just saying - maybe plot fr.wikipedia on a map and compare to ge.wikipedia and es.wikipedia and then we will have some interesting data...

You wouldn't switch to the new world domination lingo as easily, if you already spoke the old world domination lingo, right?
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This feature is still present in the latest version. When I enter my password I get a window like the one here:
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Really though, this is quite low down on any list of Notes UI issues. There's a whole can of worms there that's best left unopened.
Did the way you use Facebook change significantly last time they changed the layout of the news feed?
France is one of the most active open source country : http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/ossi-index-ranks.pdf
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"Draw the text"? How?

Why can't I type the text and have it drawn for me?
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This article really doesn't have anything to say other than they found a new feature, and we should install it. What was the speed difference? Did it alleviate load on their servers?

I spoke to my web host about mod_pagespeed before, they reported that it was far too buggy to be used just yet. Just an anecdote, but I happen to like my host a lot.
As soon as they start charging for access. See, this is the problem with deceptive headlines, they make people argue points that don't exist.
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If you put in an address without the "http:// it pops up an error saying you need an "http://. If you know that it's missing this, why not just add it automatically?
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Europe has loads of nice things. You should visit sometime.

This ruling, presumably, is about a big company subsidising its unprofitable mapping business with another part of its business until the small fish die.
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Well, either you did not understand the comment you are replying to, or you believe that Wikipedia will charge for its access. What does make you think such a thing ?
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I'm still waiting for the list of lists that do not contain themselves.
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Didn't they start charging because they started getting sued for offering it free of charge?

And according to other reports it's apparently illegal in France to offer something for free if it costs money to develop. But what about those who enjoyed using the free stuff and even built businesses on top of it?
And then when they work from (nearly) the ground up to fix it all, they catch all kinds of hell from Internet folk.
Wait, what's this got to do with Europe?
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This seems ridiculous if it is the free version of the Google Maps API. But, if Google is offering the paid-for Business version of the API for free, then Bottin has a case. I don't see it stated anywhere if the case specifically targeted the free or business version of the API. Does anyone know?
As the comments on the article point out, this seems to be about the enterprise maps service to businesses which ordinarily is at a cost.

From Le Monde[1]:

"As such, it considered that Google Maps distorted the rules of free competition by providing the same service to businesses while it undergoes costs to design the product."

["A ce titre, elle considérait que l'application Google Maps faussait les règles de la concurrence en offrant gratuitement aux entreprises le même service alors qu'elle-même subit des coûts pour concevoir son produit."]

The enterprise service FAQ[2] contains:

"Google Maps API for Business is extremely cost-effective, starting at just $10,000 per year. Pricing is based on the number of map page views for externally facing websites. For internal uses, it is based on page views or number of vehicles being tracked. Please contact us for more information."

Slightly changes the story.

[1]: http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2012/02/01/google...

[2]: http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps-faq.html
> Terrorism is a military tactic, saying "you are a terrorist" is about as meaningless as saying: "You are a right flank", "You are a military operation" and "You are a deployed F16 bomber".

While I agree that the main post is ridiculous, I'm not sure that grammatical issues are the real reason why. We've long since accepted calling someone a guerilla who engages in guerilla warfare; why should calling some a terrorist who engages in terrorism be any less valid? (Or perhaps the term 'guerilla' isn't valid either?)

Or perhaps the point you're making is a more subtle one, that being a terrorist is not a label that is permanently affixed: i.e., that it's reasonable to say to someone "you are a terrorist" precisely to mean "you are engaging in terrorism at this moment", just as you might say "you are a flanker" (or whatever) precisely to mean "you are on the right flank at this moment"?
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A terrorist is someone who employs the military tactic of terrorism, just like a guerilla is a practitioner of guerilla tactics. I don't see the problem here.
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funny thing is if you read Obama's wife comments on privacy she could be label a terrorist..

Why are both democracies and non-democracies so damn afraid of having choosy and thinking citizens? What are the World governments hiding?!
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I actually found one list of lists of lists on 'list of lists of lists'. 'Lists of Americans' > 'Lists of African Americans' > 'List of African American Jurists' > 'Dennis Archer'. Going to see if I can find another and create the epic 'list of lists of lists of lists'.
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I really wish everyone would stop talking about mobile access like it's this entirely new thing that's never been done before. Using facebook from a mobile device is absolutely, 100%, without room for debate using "the web". Sure it's a mobile device, but it's still HTTP and it's still a mobile browser based app. Just because it's not a "desktop" version of a browser does not mean the access isn't "web".
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There seems to be an undercurrent of resistance against student athletes, when keep in mind that even engineering schools have athletic programs. They are generally D3, but the athletes in these programs face a relatively demanding schedule. And, from my experience, these slots are usually not walk-ons in the pure sense of the term, so the students coming in are noticed during high school for their athletic abilities. I'd hesitate to say 'recruited,' because D3 - and D2 - recruitment is not the same as D1 and I think D1 is the model people conjure.

Maybe we (as in the scientific and math-inclined) like to feel special, because 'we solve hard problems.' Maybe we were always picked last, while we watched the more athletic and popular lead. And they took our lunch money. Whatever the case, rather than trying to minimize athletes, we should try to support and encourage each other, athletic or not.