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Yeah.

If I was super rich like that, I wouldn't spend it on cars and yachts. I would spend it on coaches, tutors, trainers, personal chefs, training courses, seminars, gym equipment, stuff like that. Use the money improve myself, since that's the only true wealth there is anyway (that and relationships).
It really depends what you are testing for, but using a whiteboard lets you get away from the details of things like syntax errors and language particulars and let's you focus on solving a problem at a much higher level of abstraction. Basically it comes down to, do you want to see if the person can write good Ruby code (use a computer) or to you want to see if a person can come up with clever abstract algorithms to solve hard problems (use a whiteboard).
I live in London; but I very rarely take public transport unless I'll be drinking. There's a middle way: scooters. In most of London, parking is free, cheap in Westminster, and fairly plentiful outside of the City.

The nearest big supermarket is about 30 minutes walk away, or about 5 minutes by scooter, somewhat longer by bicycle (owing to a road that bicycles aren't allowed on). There's a bus that goes directly to it every 15 minutes, but it doesn't really save time, only effort.

I can't imagine only visiting a grocery store every few days, not least because I like my food fresh, particularly for baked items. Having to plan ahead for meals also kills some spontaneity. Knowing that you're 5 minutes away from buying anything you need, for a trivial transport cost, and having no concern for traffic (owing to scooter agility and filtering), is liberating.
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That's true but by the same logic the Mac is a Free BSD device. That's a technically correct description but in terms of understanding the market it's not that useful.

The issue with the Fire is that it's forked, that there may be future compatibility issues, that it will never officially become an ICS device and that those things may hold Android back in may ways (for instance app developers always having to work to a low baseline to access the Fire users as a potential market).

So yes it's an Android tablet but it's one that may be a mixed blessing for Android and deserves some subtlety in the distinction.
Are both fundamentally not the same thing? I understand that company A may have made you a bit uncomfortable, but perhaps their intent was the same as company B's? That is, to see how you logic out a problem. You did say that you got the job in the end, so clearly the point wasn't to see if you knew some APIs by memory as a make-or-break situation.

There's also some benefits that can be gained by company A's method ostensibly over company B's. You get to see their response to the discomfort of not remembering an API. You get to understand their problem solving abilities, not in terms of code, but in terms of interpersonal relationships. In a recent article I read, someone had suggested offering a code prompt and then challenging the applicant to find the bug on completion (even if there wasn't one), simply to see how they respond when faced with that challenge.

Naturally it may not be perfect, it's just hard to really quantify which one is "better" if they're arriving at the same end -- a presumably competent engineer being hired. Are companies not interested in hiring people with both interpersonal skills and technical ability, after all?
Flagged "Seems that only women understand it but you never know, maybe it will actually be the next big thing" - let's keep this type of sexism off HN.
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You'll find many videos of this on YouTube, but here is an example:

Rush hour traffic in the center of Amsterdam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-AbPav5E5M

It is really striking to see how many bicycles and buses there are.

As I live in Norway I'm seeing a stronger focus on public transport here as well, but nothing compared to e.g. Amsterdam or Copenhagen in Denmark.
Are these numbers sell through to real buyers?

I remember high Android tablet sales in the news a year ago -- later, it was found out they counted deliveries to shops.
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> For many languages, it is simply not feasible to rely on the OS maintainer to update repositories in a timely fashion

I'd suggest s/languages/distributions/. Nothing stops a distribution from updating packages immediately after updates occur upstream, and many distributions do. If a distribution lets their packages for a language or particular module get out of date, report a bug. If the problem persists, sure, recommend that people install their own copy (or switch distributions), but don't automatically assume that no distribution could possibly keep up with your language.

> Also, in practice, many applications have a dependency on a specific older version of a library.

Consider improving your language to have a sensible shared-library versioning system, such as the SONAME system used for standard C-like shared libraries. (I hesitate to call SONAMEs entirely sensible, but they certainly solve the problem you mentioned.)

In any case, consider fixing your application to work with the latest version, rather than delaying the inevitable.
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So it's in the customer's best interest to have a separate account for the four-year-old?

If they tried to suggest it, I'd think they're off their collective rockers.
This approach assumes that you, the consumer, are supposed to take on the price (and problem) of delivering goods from a central "market" to your own home. This is an evolution of the old ox-and-cart system, and it's extremely inefficient.

It's much, much better for you to pick the items you need on the internet, or in a showroom, and have them delivered; the delivery round will be much more energy-efficient, serving multiple customers in one go with one vehicle. We are slowly getting there, one item at a time (first books/cds, then electronics, then nappies, then then then...). The main stumbling block (people who want to check the horse's mouth before buying it) is really not a problem in the age of precise mechanization, food standards and cheap shipping.

I do my grocery shopping online, most of the time.
Does shipments reflect the number of devices manufactured, or the number of devices purchased by consumers? I can't see how the former matters, given the abysmal retail failure of devices like the Playbook.
"Govts kill millions (actually approaching 100M in the last 100 years) and you equate that with the equivalent of a weekend's worth of drunk driving."

Governments kill millions? You seem to confuse governments with wars. Or you mean "kill millions of their own", like, say, Pol Pot? Then you confuse government with dictatorship AND civil war at the same time. Sure, dictatorship is a form of government, but we were talking about representative democracy here.

Historically, every time the governments have gone to war has been to make some rich people richer. It's not called the "military-INDUSTRIAL" complex for nothing.

And no, it isn't "rich or govt". For all your bleating, Larry Page, Larry Ellison, and Bill Gates don't give a damn about me

Exactly. But that's not in your favor. It's just that you are an ant to them, and they can crush you whenever they want if it serves their interests. From Bill Gates illegally bribing and extorting PC makers, to Larry Page using his search monopoly to pollute the results and crash the competition.
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If a city is a conglomeration of asphalt and buildings, then Cars are just a part of that. Sure traffic jams suck, but another effect of a car is less social interaction overall. If a city is a place for people to live, interact, share ideas etc, the picking up the dry cleaning by driving is not only bad for the environment etc, it's also a way to really isolate yourself from others en route to your destination. Commutes on the other hand where you're driving yourself can be equally anti social and wastes the most precious thing we have, time. In NYC, used to take the subway. I was able to read books, meet others. Got to know some neighbors who also took the train the at the same time to get to work, and even ran into friends I hadn't seen in a while. I'm sure you wouldn't want to run into a long lost friend while driving (or anyone else for that fact).

After moving down south I realized how little social interaction I get outside my specifically chosen work group or actively seeking out social engagements. Mass transportation is sparse at best here and walking to the dry cleaners would take half a day.
Udo -- the practice of ramping prices up and down is called Yield Management and is a commonplace strategy for suppliers of perishable inventory such as airlines and hotels.

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

We wanted to our users to be able see how long a price point is going to remain available. Our hope is that most users will be able to make better decisions about whether to book immediately or to wait a little longer.

With respect to whether the price differences are huge or not, the prices are going to be higher. Travel is an extremely price-sensitive category and India is an extremely price-sensitive market. So, in our opinion, this feature lets users make better decisions.

Since the button seems to be causing some confusion, we'll see what we can do to best improve it.
Your candidate sounds rather like Mahatma Gandhi, with his 'swadeshi' policy of local self sufficiency, as exemplified by his weaving.
It remains to be seen, but I think Amazon will shoot itself in the foot if they won't keep up with the latest versions, simply because some developers will ignore the Kindle Fire because of this (while some will do as you say).

I'm seeing this "fork" more like that of Debian and Ubuntu: different software bundled by default, different repository, different philosophies and policies, different management, overlapping user-base, but for practical purposes, they aren't that different.
I don't have a drivers license. Never needed one. Imagine the reactions that gets me when I go to the US.
Only in the "global market".

I.e they add not only Kindle Fire (a custom version which has little to do with Android), but every kind of junk tablet sold all around the world where people can't afford Apple or Apple doesn't have a presence, Applestores etc.

Can we see the same numbers for the US market?
Easy maintainability is a general policy in third world countries already though, eg India makes 1950s design british motorbikes and cars (Norton, Morris Oxford) because they can have replacement parts made by low tech means.

However 3D printers potentially do make more kinds of materials buildable, especially when combined with printable electronics.
good morning - a 10 seconds glance at a US city, 30% of whose area is occupied by parking lots and (always-clogged) highways is more than enough to come to that conclusion.
I use Chunkhost and Bluemile Cloud; I've never had any issues with bluemile cloud (and I run a traffic heavy tor relay, SILC server, and several sites off my box) but I'm not sure if they offer VMWare instances any more. Chunkhost is generally decent but the network on the boxes is definitely slower than my other VPSes.

EDIT: forgot to mention I've used Heroku and Joyent's Smart Machines before as well. The Smart Machines are pretty solid, but I haven't used my Heroku app enough to say much about it.
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Is it possible to use their recommendation engine without being a paying member? I could use some help tracking down more movies in a cluster that's kind of hard to define (think American Pie, Superbad, Fired up!, films of that nature).
The initial use of 3D printers was largely to produce parts that could then have moulds made from them. Moulds are pretty cheap and depending on the materials it is easier to print the part to copy than the mould, although both can work.
After you, bad_user.
Heroku seems to be the only one with a "yes" in every feature checkbox.
They are out of patent protection, which is why there are already clones. However there seems to be some copyright protection still on some bricks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lego_Group#Trademark_and_pa...

But it would be lovely, just printing out new blocks for the kids...
> Currently we are UK-only. We will be rolling out internationally soon.
I feel that maybe I didn't express myself clearly, apologies. The main point from a user experience design perspective here isn't that Yield Management is happening (which is perfectly OK, the article just didn't recognize it). Instead it's this:

> We wanted to our users to be able see how long a price point is going to remain available.

On a flight where every single seat represents a discrete price point, this information becomes dubious at best. What's more, the UI on your website makes the semantics of this very murky, culminating in unnecessary misunderstandings like this article.

To make it perfectly clear: I'm not suggesting there is anything wrong with your business practices. Instead, the fault lies with your user interface for not making the distinction clear between the number of seats available on the flight in general and the number of seats left at the current price point (which is almost ALWAYS equal to the number of seats the user has requested).
"Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht (Netherlands) III" :)

Utrecht is a much nicer city for cyclists than Amsterdam.
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I don't think this is a bad thing - there are plenty of British only websites, and IMHO, too many US-only payment solutions.
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Does anyone else think there's something strange about these figures?

There's still more iOS tablets being sold than Android, so how did Android manage to gain market share? Surely for that to happen, Android would have to be selling substantially more units?

Would love to be enlightened on this!
One breakdown I saw suggested that of the 39%, 24% was Kindle and Nook (that's an absolute 24%, not 24% of the 39%). That's a massive percentage of the market to ignore as a developer.
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If these numbers stack up (see other comments) then any budding entrepreneurs out there could do worse than to get into some Android development. I appreciate the arguments about how iOS users purchase more apps but I think if android user numbers are growing then that balance will change as the demographics change.

Comparing the number of these tablets about with the amount of development work available should give some idea of how many apps are being developed currently. The stats here http://jobstractor.com/monthly-stats (my site) suggest android apps could still be relatively wide open.
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While it is possible, given that Google has released ICS, I'd be very surprised if the Kindle Fire didn't get ICS in an update the same way the Nook Color got Froyo and Gingerbread in updates. Why?

1. Amazon and B&N are in a dogfight over eBooks, eReaders and (now) "reading tablets". It would be stupid for either of them to skip all of the new functionality and internal improvements Google has released.

2. Plenty of apps Amazon wants in their Appstore are also going to support (and want to use features from) ICS. While Amazon could make them jump through unnecessary hoops, that just makes their Appstore (and, by extension, the Kindle Fire) weaker.

3. Amazon itself is going to be developing applications that support ICS (e.g. Kindle, Amazon MP3, Amazon Mobile, Price Check, ...) and those apps will, in some cases, need to use ICS-specific features to be competitive. They could fork their own internal applications, I suppose, but why would they? Would they really want to risk a situation where an ICS version of an app is better than the Kindle Fire's version of the same app?
Last fall, I had an interview where they asked me to reverse a linked-list in python and to filter out every unique items of a list. I failed because I did not remember the API by heart and they tried to impress me with a python one-liner that would do the job for me. Not so sure if the interview was for me or for them... Complete waste of time.
Far, far too many.

If they've done this right then this is excellent! This has been such an obvious gap in the market too, I'm glad someone's tackling it.
Fair point. :) However, I would argue that in company A's scenario, the discomfort I got from not remembering the APIs would never happen in real world situations where API documentation and Google/StackOverflow are readily available.

Ideally, if one does really well in whiteboard situations then great. But similar to how some engineers give terrible public talks, we can't discount the ones that do get nervous in those situations.
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I don't have a drivers license either, and in the US I find myself cycling a bit. Cars don't really know what to do with you there. ^_^

When I mention that I'm not cycling to work and it takes me 30 minutes to walk, even my fellow Nederlanders look at me in shock and disbelief. 30 minutes, for reference, is about the duration of a typical podcast, and is also pretty standard for downloadable audio lectures, so it's not like I lose productivity -- and even without those, it really does clear my head to spend half an hour with my own mind and no internet to distract me.

When I had a bike, I lived further away and spent 50 minutes cycling to work. The thing is, that was only maybe 5 minutes longer than my next-best option, public transport (bus-to-train-to-bus). A car would have been a tremendous, polluting investment, and I lost something like 35 kg just because I got my daily exercise in.

So yeah. If you live in an urban environment, driving works but seems lazy.
First you argue the greatness of packages and then you purpose to just remove it?

Packages are great! Installing and updating many applications on Windows can be a major PITA.

The only problem, as I see it, is that vendors sometimes fail to keep their packages up-to-date. Until recently, Perl on Redhat lagged 8-9 years behind!
When my wife and I went to Oahu for out honeymoon, we thought it was absolutely insane that anyone would rent a car while visiting the place. They have a free bus system that shuttles you around the down town area, and there are loads of tours that can get you to the regular hots spots that everyone wants to visit.
This seems to be e really strong competitor to stripe.com. But what all these services are lacking at the moment is international support.
The percentage of the market looks quite different if a developer is targeting phones as well as tablets.
I would have bet on an association with vegetal roots, or more like rooting for something, but yes, it might be overly optimistic expectations.
I made an edit and my text chart got ruined!
They're talking about share of current sales, not share of installed base.
Sounds like a minor usability problem has cost you a potential customer. The question is how many other customers have had the same problem but not bothered to write blog posts.

Relying on tooltips is probably a bad idea. Maybe change the button text to 'X seats at this price'. Don't make me think. :-)

On the bright side, be thankful for the good user feedback. I wish everyone who stopped using my product wrote a blog post.
I hope when those cars arrive, I won't have to own one. Instead I hope they'll just make cabs so cheap that I can always use them in cab mode.
Well, they're all forgetting a factor of 8 bits per pixel...
Can you explain more about your app?
Is Bratislava on track to join the top European tech startup cities?
Hope they come to Germany.
>almost every EU country will have a number of subsidies for car ownership and a number of processes that, under the guise of promoting "environmental" and "safety" standards, really just force people to periodically upgrade their cars for the benefit of the car industry.

Could you elaborate?
Doesn't look like you can make payment requests via the API without sending the card owner to the gocardless site first.

Our need is to be able to take a customers card details, store it with a provider (and get an auth code) and then bill that card via an API. Hopefully they'll expand on their current offering soon, UK businesses really need more options in this market.
Its a great idea, but will customers really be comfortable providing websites with their bank details in order to make a single purchase?
GoCardless don't charge cards... they take Direct Debits.
also, how many programmers are self employed these days...?
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We have set up a small company with a 4 letter name (say for the sake of our bandwidth it is called "Hido"), aimed at an international audience.

Currently we have "HidoUni.com" (it is university related) but have come across an opportunity to buy Hido.org from a seller. A large international company holds Hido.com and I'm a little concerned they may grab the .org if it goes up for sale.

We are only starting up however and don't have a lot of money as yet to being to just buy the domain without having a good reason to and I'm trying to decide whether there is a good case or not. So I thought I would ask the experts and see what your opinions were.

(Also - Arguably, a .org tld would be applicable for the nature of the company but I'm not sure whether such a perception is maintained internationally.)

What do you think?

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What's with the £2 limit though? And what prevents me from splitting my payments into several £2 chunks?
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I don't get why the US and UK rely so much on payment methods that rely on the secrecy of some unique codes, that you have to trust every payee to secure. Seems backwards to me.

Here in Portugal we have both direct debits and "service payments" (for one-off stuff), and in both cases the payee is the one telling the bank about the payment (usually on the bank's website or an ATM). There are codes involved (the merchant's), but since they can only be used to transfer money to them, they don't have to be secured.
That's the cost to the seller:

No set up fees, no monthly minimums, and no hidden charges.

Simple, transparent pricing - we charge just 1% per transaction up to a maximum of £2.00.
£2 is the most you'll pay as a fee. 1% or £2, whichever is lower.
The limit is how much they charge you...
This is okay if you're a tourist traveling between popular tourist spots. As a local, taking the bus 10 miles from home to work would take me at least an hour and half to two hours, verus 40 minutes in a car.
That requires your customer to actually go to the banks website/ATM and pay you.