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Which is a better customer for the worker, an Apple making 70% profit or a Apple making only 4% profit?

An Apple only making 4% profit is going to negotiate hard to lower the production costs or look for lower-cost suppliers. An Apple making 70% profit is not going to put up as much fight when Foxconn raises their prices a little bit so they can pay the workers more.

So really it's the Dell or Microsoft making 4% profit (completely made up number) that is far worse for the workers. If we cared about the workers as opposed to some PR / ego thing then we'd go out of our way to buy Apple products and boycott Dell/MS/etc.
Thanks for posting this one ...
OK, can't argue with that.
That's not true at all or even how Canada usually works. The bill is very balanced because it has been years in the making, taking consultation from many sides. It also hasn't passed the Senate yet as far as I understand. Write your MP and your Senator about it.

Here is the Parliamentary summary of this bill's history, which is very well written. It should give you greater faith in our system.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/LOP/LegislativeSummaries/41/1/...
Well Apple and Foxconn are swiftly constructing a vast manufacturing installation in Brazil right now. Several actually. So now maybe everyone will stop complaining about working conditions. But I doubt it.

Of course...maybe they will just start complaining about the D@#N Brazilians stealing our jobs. Somehow I think complaining is just part of what people in the developed world do.
Could you explain the moral argument against raising many peoples' wages by the same relative amount as one person's for their crime of not being American?

I'm not being facetious; it's a widely held belief and I haven't been able to find someone who can coherently explain the assumptions and logic behind this thinking.
I've done a lot of work in Lua and haven't really found it to be an issue. As long as you stick to doing things the "lua way" (i.e. pairs / ipairs), the specific indexes matter very little. Every once in a while I'll have an, "oh yah," moment where I use the wrong index and something doesn't work, but I don't see how it's a deal breaker for anyone.

There are many features of Lua that have caused me more problems (the somewhat inconsistent string conversion, for instance).
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>"If not to buy Apple, what’s the substitute – Samsung? Don’t you know that Samsung’s products are from its OEM factory in Tianjin? Samsung workers’ income and benefits are even worse than those at Foxconn. If not to buy iPad – (do you think) I will buy Android Pad? Have you ever been to the OEM factories for Lenovo and ASUS? Quanta, Compaq … factories of other companies are all worse than those for Apple. Not to buy iPod – (do you think) I will buy Aigo, Meizu? Do you know that Aigo’s Shenzhen factory will not pay their workers until the 19th of the second month? If you were to quit, fine, I’m sorry, your salary will be withdrawn. Foxconn never dares to do such things. First, their profit margin is higher than peers as they manufacture for Apple. Second, at least those foreign devils will regularly audit factories. Domestic brands will never care if workers live or die. I am not speaking for Foxconn. I am just speaking as an insider of this industry, and telling you some disturbing truth."

This doesn't excuse Apple or any of the other companies working with Foxconn, but it suggests that there are many sides of this issue, and many voices yet to be heard on it: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/01/many-chine...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_ranking. By some international rankings many US universities are in the top 100.
Did you read the article. The workers are not extremely low income workers. They are better off than average for where they live. That is a perfectly valid point in the same way that I would not accept the pay I get in Florida for the same exact job were I living in D.C. or New york City.
Lua is a great platform, but I think there are a lot of areas where it can be made more programmer friendly. That's why I wrote http://moonscript.org/
nope. you?
Didn't Google stop operating in China a few years ago because they'd rather lose business than support censorship? Then they said, "ah, fuck it, censorship's cool if your country has a billion ad-watching eyeballs". Now this is like the "censorship for everyone!" service pack.

I think the answer is to make it easy for people to host their own content. Sort of an "anti-cloud". FreedomBox is a great concept, you guys that are better hackers than me (most of you) should find some way to contribute: http://freedomboxfoundation.org
Amazon Posts 57% Profit Decline, 177% Kindle Sales Increase
Thanks! Done completely on Skype on the iPhone. A few spots got out of sync, but good quality over all.
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The simplicity of any code is really underrated. Like 4 orders of magnitude underrated: http://www.vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm (Long story short: a typical mainstream desktop weights more than 200 millions lines of code. The guys at the Viewpoint Research Institute can simplify it down to 20.000 lines.)
How does WePay contrast with Stripe?
As a Linux/PC gamer (non Android user, at least at this moment :)) this is the first time I have doubts whether to buy the bundle. Two of four game we're already featured in previous bundles.

I'm interested in `Anomaly: Warzone Earth` can anyone give an opinion on the game?
It's one of the largest IPO's in history.

http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Inc-company/Will-Facebook-be-t...
For anyone in my predicament, here's a handy comparison guide I found while looking for an alternative:

http://aaronhockley.com/photo-sharing-comparison-2012/

500px is looking pretty though I wish it had a mobile app for uploading...the lack of geotagging is also annoying.

G+ also seems nice. Might as well throw everything in my uber-online presence...
I don't understand the argument here. If the issue is morality, then an effective boycott of Apple products harms Chinese workers, because nobody is working at Foxconn instead of some better latent opportunity in the Chinese economy.

If Apple paid workers the prevailing wage for US skilled labor, Apple would not be paying workers in China at all, because the discount on labor is the primary reason it outsources to China.

One looks at the spread between Apple's COGS and Apple's list prices and wonders how it can be reasonable that Apple captures that whole spread. But that's why we have markets: over time, wage pressure erodes Apple's margins; Foxconn (or comparable companies) obtain better clients, or are simply forced to increase their cost because of competition from other firms.

When Apple responds to that pressure by finding another third world country to buy from, it's simply repeating the same process in that country: unless they source forced labor from Myanmar or North Korea, the only way they can get labor is by improving the wages that were already available in that country.

Part of the issue here seems to be the (unreasonable) expectation that one company can fix third-world rural poverty instantly. Improving the lives of millions of people in Asia is a process that will involve many, many countries and take many decades.
A little story about Flickr...

I work for a local search engine in Switzerland - http://www.local.ch

Back in 2007 we were really interested in integrating content from flickr in much the same way as Panoramio is on Google Maps. Interested enough to pay reasonable license or usage fees. But as it clearly states here http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ (not much has changed since 2007)

> The Flickr API is available for non-commercial use by outside developers. Commercial use is possible by prior arrangement.

Although we weren't going to make money with it _directly_, we are a for-profit business, and having content from flickr would have made us more attractive to users.

So we followed the official procedure to request use for the API for commercial reasons - http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.api_keys.html

> Currently, commercial use of the API is allowed only with prior permission. Requests for API keys intended for commercial use are reviewed by staff. If your project is personal, artistic, free or otherwise non-commercial please don't request a commercial key. If your project is commercial, please provide sufficient detail to help us decide. Thanks!

We did, carefully describing what we wanted to use it for.

Reaction: zero. Nothing. Not even an automated acknowledgement.

And OK if we _really_ _really_ wanted their content, we would have found someone who knows someone but it wasn't _that_ important to us - it was just a nice feature we wanted to add part of our site. But that's not the point...

Building revenue streams around flickr is a no-brainer. They could provide channels, complete with payment, to help photographers sell their content or in crowdsourcing; commission work via flickr "I want pictures of
all the storefronts in the high street of this town". But if you ignore the people trying to give you their money...
An infographic that outlines "Cloud 1.0" and "Cloud 2.0". In some ways, the opposite of Pinboard's recent down-to-earth view of hosting. (1)

1. http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/01/the_five_stages_of_hosting/
You could suspect that too for a game pack, but then comes the low price.
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>Didn't Google stop operating in China a few years ago because they'd rather lose business than support censorship?

That's just the PR reason. The real reason is because they had recurring problems with local hackers getting into their systems.
If an alien descended to Earth and offered me a job for $40,000 a year, and I was barely scrapping by as a part-time employee at a coffee shop. I'd probably take that job and be incredibly grateful. Got a solid gig. Rock on.

If I later learned that the alien's race on average makes $50,000,000 a year, and that $40,000 was something they give their children in allowance... Would I feel exploited? No. Would I think, "wow I'd love some of that", probably. But because the salary I make earns me a living relative to those around me, I really wouldn't see the issue.

I think you are ignoring the economic context. And no, Foxconn employees are not, for all intents and purposes, Apple employees. That's kind of absurd to say. If Foxconn employees are essentially Apple employees, then hell, so was I. In a previous job, I worked for a company that supplied services to Apple... I guess I should have demanded a higher salary, and that would probably look nice on my resume. Maybe I'll add it.
Actually, the previous versions of FCP 7 did stop working in one very important way; a multi-seat system built around FCP 7 could no longer be expanded legally.

Sure, you could finish what you were doing, provided you needed no additional resources. But you couldn't switch to FCP X without cutting yourself off from audio post, effects pipelines, and so on. If you wanted to grow your operation in the "who knows when support for interchange will appear" window, you'd have to abandon FCP altogether, and re-invest in Avid or Adobe.

That's the epitome of a broken product.
I have been looking forward to this release, but the hardware I want to use it with doesn't exist yet. I want to use a Mac Mini has a filer head, connected to a small JBOD, using the data integrity, compression, dedup, and snapshot features of ZFS.

So to the hardware manufacturers, here's what I want. Either a Thunderbolt to SAS adapter, that basically has an LSI Fusion-MPT card in it, and of course a Mac OS X version of the mpt2sas driver. Then I could connect it to any JBOD. Or, integrate the SAS HBA into a drive enclosure, directly connected with Thunderbolt. What I don't want (dear Promise) is a $2500 drive-less 6-bay enclosure with hardware RAID. I don't want hardware RAID, ZFS will do RAID better than hardware.
How much are we talking here? Many states have to be above $5 to 7.5 thousand to get lawyers involved out of small claims court. Also, many lawyers will do brief consultations on your case without charging you.

For future reference, don't back down when threatened with litigation. If it's actually a bullshit claim, they'll either settle out of court (on their own lawyer's recommendation) or they'll end up paying your lawyer for you when you win your case.
The Forbes headline seems to say WePay is backing or at least somehow rooting for Occupy Wall Street.

It's a misleading headline. OWS is using WePay for donations, and WePay didn't shut down the OWS accounts, omg the controversy.
Id Software Open Source releases on GitHub
There's a similar music albums bundle sale at the moment, but it's not exactly the same (not pay as much as you want, but 10$ for 10 albums, which is great also!)

http://www.soundsupp.ly/
Finalists for SXSW Accelerator Competition Announced
I also think that Lua has a perception of being an embedded-only language (which it's very good at). The biggest code bases are World of Warcraft interface modifications and other plugin architectures. The features Lua would need to be really competitive as a stand-alone language (ex: good library management[1]) are still developing. I think it has the potential to be very powerful, though.

If you want to have some fun with Lua, check out LÖVE[2].

[1] http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaModuleFunctionCritiqued
[2] https://love2d.org/
We should just have tariffs on imports that don't meet our labor and environmental standards.
Lua strings aren't C-style: they're prefixed with the string length. Lua's strings are suitable enough to store UTF-8 encoded data, but none of Lua's built-in functions are equipped to process it. Unicode libraries don't need to provide a special Unicode string type, they simply need to provide Unicode-aware string processing functions.
Greek Debt Negotiations - Opa
I've talked to a few accountants but they don't seem to have a clue about how to set this up, and I'm not quite sure what I'm looking for either, so any tips would help. Thanks!
I never got commission or any sort of profit or pay for being an Assistly partner. I did it because I enjoyed the product, but at this point the company itself can't be trusted to have their customer's best interest in mind.

And yes, the product is no longer as great.
I think Pinboard's piece is great - but only talks about the past. This piece talks about the future and a "NoOps" option that doesn't exist in Pinboard's piece.
Google, Bing & Yahoo in Partnership to Sell Top Organic Local Listings
Lessons for Facebook from the high tech IPO trenches
Roll-your-own prototypical inheritance. I also vaguely recall rolling my own approximation to class inheritance long ago.
See the Conservatives had to actually work to get voted in Ontario. They see being elected in Alberta as a entitlement.

Other parties don't even put in any major campaign resources out here anymore: The Liberal name has been tarnished ever since the NEP/Trudeau, and the NDP spend what little cash they have in ridings they'll actually have a chance.

I agree with you about http://www.sorryworld.ca, not every point embodies everyone's values, although you have to admit the world's perception of Canada has degraded drastically since the Conservatives have come to (true) power.

Bill C-11... the oil-sands PR mess.. and now banning trans-genders from flying[1]... The Conservatives are just cashing in their blank cheque.

[1] http://chrismilloy.ca/2012/01/transgender-people-are-complet...
That actually makes a big difference. As a supplement to what's taught in class, I think the language is probably appropriate as it is.
Could you name a few, alls I see are kepler based ones..
Yeah. Put another way, the USDA makes all sorts of really stupid recommendations that should be viewed with skepticism. The food pyramid, for example, is totally off.
The problem is that everything on this website is absolute heresay. We have no way of knowing whether someone is posting truth or lies.
Fire Your Bad Clients
Ruby on Rails... Python... anything really that supports REST
First point:

The author is mistaken. One can be poor without suffering exploitation in the labor market.

Second point:

Krugman argues that wages should not be raised (which is presumably the course demanded by our conscience) because it might hurt the very people we seek to help.

"And it might not even do that. The advantages of established First World industries are still formidable. The only reason developing countries have been able to compete with those industries is their ability to offer employers cheap labor. Deny them that ability, and you might well deny them the prospect of continuing industrial growth, even reverse the growth that has been achieved. And since export-oriented growth, for all its injustice, has been a huge boon for the workers in those nations, anything that curtails that growth is very much against their interests. A policy of good jobs in principle, but no jobs in practice, might assuage our consciences, but it is no favor to its alleged beneficiaries."

This is the same logic which underlay the arguments against divestiture - i.e. that exploitation is preferable to some imagined alternative form of suffering.

Third point:

Foxconn et al may or may not be exploiting workers.
My experiences run very, very counter to this articles. While I keep coming back to Node as I want to use it, I can't for these reasons:

1. I always have trouble updating to latest release. Something like Node, with how fast it moves, needs something like RVM or virtualenv. And it does, NVM. Problem is that NVM doesn't seem to work have the time, or rather, getting a specific version of Node is broken more often than not.

2. Javascript really is a ghetto. The language is ugly and it is really hard to get around. I've taken to writing Coffeescript, which is a way around it, but I end up having to read Javascript somewhere along the line and it, plainly, sucks. And worse than writing JS, is reading someone else's JS. My god, there are some really badly written libraries out there!

3. The whole setup thing. I already mentioned that something like RVM or Virtualenv is needed, but I want to reinforce this point. It is REALLY needed.

I'm the type of developer that doesn't like fighting my tools; I'm a maker, not a hacker. So, I like my tools to work so I can concentrate on my problem domain. When I have to fight my tools, I have less focus towards what I'm trying to build....and that starts to irritate me. When Node lets me focus on my problem, I'll gladly use it.
Non-sensical and vague enough to be a astrology reading.
1. Smugmug isn't owned by Yahoo.

2. All of Smugmug's users are paying customers (even if it's less than $4/mo).
One of the big problems with web consulting and clients that don't pay is that unlike other business situations, these clients often lack physical assets and storefronts that can be used to collect on a judgement from a court. Traditionally, if you had a small claims judgement and it's not paid, you could have the Sheriff or the like serve notice or even put a lien on assets.

When a client's business is entirely virtual, there's a risk they'll simply change their mailing address or otherwise dodge a judgement, and it can be very difficult to enforce the claim (or at least not economic to do so.) I've seen this happen a number of times in recent years in situations where the amount ranged from $1500 to $10,000.
> Linux:
> Processor: 2.4 GHz
> Memory: 1 GB

Pff.. is a x86_64 distro supported or not? Also, "2.4 GHz"..., that simple era is over.
There are some really cool resources to learn on the web, but nothing beats hands-on, especially for beginner coders like myself. From personal experience, Code Academy excels at being the place you go to learn, to bounce ideas/questions, and a place where the progress you make dictates the flow of class. Online resources are static, they can't flex to your needs, and really when there's no community right there on tap, it's too easy to fall off.
>and the HTML didn't validate

Stupid as it is to go down the publicly naming route, what has the HTML validation status of the code got to do with anything? This is a measurement that only means something to guys who measure things - it has nothing to do with business generated, traffic, or the user experience of a website (the true yardsticks of good work).
This site strikes me as slanderous and defamatory. Anyone posting personal accounts on it of another man's integrity had better be ready to prove their statements true in a court of law. At least in the US, most states have slander and libel laws to protect us from this kind of nonsense. There is already a system of public record and courts to deal with this kind of stuff.

If you get ripped off, and you can't sue, you are doing it wrong. TBH, you should be holding back your deliverables until you receive some payment, getting money up front, and so forth.

A better name for this site would be "HowIGotRippedOffBecauseImASucker.com"
500px has been taking off in the photographer community lately, though they're nowhere near feature-parity with either Flickr or Smugmug.

No geotagging, not even API access, makes the use cases somewhat limited. But what is there is impressive, and the general caliber of work on 500px is higher than Smugmug, and a lot higher than Flickr.

I do find the discoverability features somewhat annoying due to the userbase they bootstrapped with. With Flickr Explore you'll find some puzzlingly banal photos making it to the top. With 500px's "most popular" galleries you'll just find a lot of nudes. It's like nothing else on that site gets any hope of rising to the top if it doesn't slip a nipple.