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But you're also not paying ~17000 kronor a month in rent, are you?

If you have a company in an area where the rent levels (and cost of living in general) are high, you will have to pay high salaries if you want to have any employees at all. But presumably having a company in the area allows you to generate more wealth than you would in any other area, which offsets the salaries.

The only way you can take advantage of it is by moving to such a place. But note that companies are taking advantage of the reverse by moving their offices to places where the cost of living is lower, which means they can lower their salaries.
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This is probably good enough for most cases, where ham-fisted cops will pull the plug to seize the computer.

But RAM isn't instantly wiped when turned off. The capacitors take some time to discharge, and it is possible to quickly snatch a RAM stick and put it in a device that will preserve its content and allow to read it later on.

If the strategy you propose becomes more prevalent, law officiers will adapt.
Thanks for explaining this clearly without the legalese.
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Two nitpicks:

1. `/robots.txt` is here to stay, but everything else should use the `/.well-known/` prefix so that they do not squat the root URI: <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785>.

From the RFC:

> To address this, this memo defines a path prefix in HTTP(S) URIs for these "well-known locations", "/.well-known/". Future specifications that need to define a resource for such site-wide metadata can register their use to avoid collisions and minimise impingement upon sites' URI space.

2. alternative DNS root systems have been tried in the past [1] and the IETF has always spoken about them on technical and political grounds. The ORSN was probably the most autoritative alternative DNS root, backed by Vixie and others, and stopped operating few years ago.

From the Wikipedia article

> The founders of ORSN are concerned that ICANN is ultimately controlled by the government of the United States. Their aim was to limit the control over the Internet that this gives, while ensuring that domain names remain unambiguous. They also expected their network to make name resolutions faster for everyone.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Root_Server_Network
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I inititially wrote just that but changed it....

I'm not sure that COPPA applies to GMail. Certainly, Yahoo mail doesn't stop me from entering a birth-date under the age of 13 when signing up for it.
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I would guess that it would be too long if written out in English, and that they'd probably deny a name change to a name that contains characters not normally used in names (asterisks, semicolons, underscores...)
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Yep, pretty much a waste of time on 4+ layer boards
If you're able to pass silly laws, wouldn't it be easier to just pass a law saying discovery can't compel people to divulge encryption keys kept only within their own head?
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Will Apple allow this on the iPhone, since it copies existing functionality?
Apart from the other argument made that SF has a low portion of rent-controlled properties (I don't know anything about that really), your reasoning would only work if all landlords would collude in keeping rent prices artificially high; something that is often claimed by those less informed about economics but highly improbably in reality (for a variety of reasons - there is so much literature on why large-scale collusion for price inflation of commodities is implausible that it makes little sense for me to repeat it here).

Furthermore, I think you're misunderstanding pricing strategies landlords use to set rent prices. A landlord doesn't (and can't) just say 'oh I need a 4% ROI on my capital, so I need to charge 1200$ of rent for this unit to make up for the 800$ I can charge on the other'. As a landlord, you try to capture as much of the value that consumers are willing to pay for housing as you can. There are various ways of trying that, but all involve variables that are completely separate from the rental income made from other properties (somehow the gambler's fallacy comes to mind, I think both lines of reasoning are in the same class of common cognitive mishaps).
Netflix is not an option for me since it is not available in Germany, but I would like to check if can find one of your wifes movies in iTunes. Could you tell me a title of one of those?
*Android OS in unable to run untouched .class/.jar apps.

Im not sure if that is correct. I have implemented a VoIP application using JAIN SIP jar files compiled with Standard JDK 1.6 that ran fine on Dalvik. This was of-course pre Android 1.0 days. Im not sure if that is the case today.
I do believe you cap out the taxes in Sweden at ~50k SEK/m so you would end up paying 52-59.9% in income tax on that figure. And if you live in Stockholm you pretty much CANNOT get anything decent to rent so you are forced to buy.

A one bedroom flat at 34 m^2 in a good Stockholm location you might be looking up to $300,000.

But no healthcare costs so it probably averages out in the end :o
Only two minor quibbles:

1) did not mention Clojure.

2) broke the amusing narrative a bit in the middle by including a true story (Perl).

Really funny otherwise.
If you reinvent the wheel you should at least have one plausible use case that shows the benefit of your square/wheel over existing solutions.

Bonus points for real world examples.
I think society is ready for it. The technology will prove itself over time, but people will adopt it quickly if given the opportunity. I wonder how many cars they would need to test this on to see if it made driving safer. That would be the ultimate test for it, because if it makes driving safer, it's worth the few bugs that it will have. Also, they should mandate that all of the cars have a manual override that still works in case the computer crashes or detects a hazard that it can't handle.
It's good to know people designing specific solutions for people with colored vision. Thank You.
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My name on Google+ is a Hangul transliteration of my very clearly Anglo-Saxon name. I haven't had any problems with it.

(Shortly after the beginning of the #nymwars, I changed my "real name" on Google+ and Facebook to a transliteration.)
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Yeah, a bus driver with no bus lol
We've had this story here several times before, most notably:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599164

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1327746
I honestly think you should give this a read:
http://gigaom.com/2012/01/23/dont-be-evil-is-not-a-slogan-no...
I hate the factual inaccuracies in this post.

For example, it says that Rasmus Lerdorf got the idea for PHP at a neighbourhood Italian restaurant, but Qeqertarsuaq has no Italian restaurants.
I tried looking that up, as of typing, they have not yet issued any statement. So I think they're still good. However, it must be remembered that Rapidshare has had some issues as well too.

Rapidshare has already been involved in numerous lawsuits in Germany and I believe have come out on top on the important ones.
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This has to be the best line - It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.
I agree. I wonder if they'll start coming after sites like Youtube and Tumblr as well.
I use SublimeText on Linux and haven't got any first-hand experience of TextMate. I have seen coworkers use it and as far as I can tell, the main difference between them is SublimeText is much faster. It loads in under 1 second on an old PC and working with files feels instantaneous. It's also available cross platform so you can get the same experience on any computer. Well worth installing the trial then shelling out for the licence IMO.
Maybe companies could build semi-permanent barracks near their offices or something? :p

Take a page from the US Army, they know how to rapidly set up living quarters for large numbers of people.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Military_...

Would it be nice to live in such a place? Maybe not, but it would eliminate rent and the commute time. Also, living in a code-tent seems pretty bad ass (at least after it's over).

A more humane version might be to just rent a large villa and stuff all the programmers in there. Aren't there a lot of abandoned McMansions in the US?

Point is: from an operations perspective, there should be a more optimal solution than pissing away $50k a year on single-bedroom apartments. If a company were to come up with a smarter solution, the programmers could make more net money while being paid a lower gross income.
Why should the US be allowed to punish the native of another nation like this? I don't understand it, Australia should be trying him. We aren't respecting the "jury of their peers" thing we Americans love so much. I remember a similar incident in the news recently as well, some British kid I think.
Yes, I'm afraid game mechanics can be patented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Taxi_(series)#Legalities

The green arrow on top of the screen.
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Mobile phone base stations aren't free either.
This depends on where in the city you are -- most of the housing stock in SF is pre-1979 construction, and thus IS eligible for rent control. In SoMA, there's a lot of new construction, largely either in the form of condos or big corporate rented buildings (archstone, etc.). Most of the landlords for the older buildings own a small number of units (1-4); the big new buildings might have lots of units but not a lot of individual landlords.

Most startup people seem to want to live in the Mission or other older areas, even if they work in SoMA. (something I don't understand; I like the new buildings in SoMA)
Why isn't there something like AirBnB for programmers? I imagine plenty of people in SF could use an extra 1k a month in exchange for letting someone sleep on their couch.
How does preventing the filesystem from writing timestamps solve anything? We're talking about the 'boring partition' having timestamps that suggest that you haven't used it in months (i.e. really old timestamps), when there is probably evidence elsewhere that you have used it (e.g. emails that you've sent since those timestamps).
Didn't even notice it until you brought it up.

The biggest issue for me was a massive, "so what?" I installed the extension and did some searches. A few G+ results, nothing else. Okay, I'll search for things I know some of my friends on facebook have talked about lately. Nothing. Alright, I'll search for "deadmau5". Nothing. What's this? 80 personal results? Sure, let's check those. Hey, a twitter link!... to someone I have on G+.

Really not sure what the authors were trying to prove, here. In the end, I got a snarky logo and the same damned results I would have gotten from Google, anyway. Removed.

Note: this is not a failing of the extension's author; I just went back and tried the same searches with the original script and had the same results. No, I didn't Google "movies" as they suggested, and nor has anyone since 1999. When I google "SOPA" without the script, I get a mix of Wikipedia, EFF, and some relevant links from G+. When I repeat the search with the script, I get the same thing and a snarky logo.

Instead of chastising Google for not including results from networks that don't want their social graphs exposed, these "independent engineers" might want to focus on doing social search themselves. Why aren't we complaining that facebook doesn't include G+ in its search results? Might it be because this entire issue is a tempest in a teapot stirred up by companies that wanted to dominate social search, but were beaten to the punch by a company that dominates (surprise, surprise) search?
No. We are talking about Apple. You may be talking only about Apple's Chineese subsidiaries. Even so, they do not exist in a vacuum, and it is foolish to think that Apple's IP, brand and trademarks would be as secure in China without the global system of IP protection that the US government has been instrumental in building.
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Also if I may make a shameless plug for mine:

http://www.rioleo.org/a-reflection-on-stanfords-ai-class-db-...

Ironic, I just posted this 3 days ago.
Ah, the false dichotomy, another pinnacle of nerd legal reasoning :) (not using nerd as an insult, just as a general description of a too strictly logical frame of mind)

The point is not that everybody is always in some form of violation, the point is in uncertainty. There are always cases where to facts don't clearly map to the rules as they are written down, or where the facts are unclear or open for interpretation. In those cases, even specialists can't say if something is 'illegal', for a broad definition of the word 'illegal'. Despite the huge amount of legislation and case law we have nowadays, still not everything is covered; in the past, there was much more uncertainty than there is today, because much less was codified. And to answer your question, yes, uncertainty at the margins is an unavoidable aspect of reality.

This is also what bugs me about the commentary on the Megaupload case: people claiming that Dropbox might be next, because they too allow for sending data and don't have a way to search what's available. The fact of the matter is that it's about intent - the Megaupload people encouraged copyright infringement while hiding behind a thin layer of compliance veneer, whereas Dropbox doesn't, their main use truely is 'personal document storage'. Everybody who visited the Dropbox and Megaupload websites a few weeks ago could see so. Now the nerd reaction to the legal aspect is 'oh but there is no law that indicates the exact boundary between the two, so the Megaupload bust is illegal'. Back on planet reality however, softer interpretations of 'intent' and 'reasonable' etc. decide what crosses the line and what doesn't. Could Megaupload know in advance exactly how far they could go? No. Is that proof that our legal system doesn't work? No. If anything, it shows that people can get away with much, and that only egregious abuses wrt copyright infringement are prosecuted.
Semi-recent transplant to the Bay Area here. I honestly wish I asked for a bigger raise, but I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I got a very respectable raise switching jobs, but between state income tax (I came from WA) and the insane living cost, I'm actually coming out behind from where I started.

I'm making a sum I would've thought to be astronomical a few years ago, but yet I find myself pinching pennies in places I never had to worry about before.

A few of my friends from back home know how much I make, and are apparently envious, but they live better than I do on one quarter my salary.

The real "tragedy" of it is that guys like me are trapped. I've often thought about going back to a lower salary and living better for it, but the problem is that where I come from interesting, challenging software jobs are as elusive as the Loch Ness Monster. It's not the pay cut, it's the loss of challenge. Woe be unto the engineer who craves fast-paced, high-impact, challenging work without typical corporate bureaucracy.
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As a sibling commenter noted, it is the other way around. Constrained supply and high demand are driving the prices.

Now it is true that the one-bedroom rent increase probably is blowing away the added after-tax salary. However, if the tech worker lives with roommates (where rents hit ~$1000/month), he will take home more income in the Bay Area than elsewhere.
I visit northern California between 2 and 4 times a year for work, have done for the past 4 years or so, but I live in London.

The most noticeable thing is that the lowest end of the economy seems to run on cheap Hispanic labour; food especially. Fuel and general goods are cheaper, from probable combination of lower taxes, more competition and scale from the large market.

Major roads are in surprisingly poor surface condition; back roads in the Santa Cruz mountains are frequently narrow and dangerously uneven. The whole place generally has a feel of being hastily put together in a few years; which it has, more or less, from the combination of earthquakes and its American youth.

Consider the lack of density outside of central San Francisco - how spread out everything is - and it seems clear that infrastructure investment is thinned out over the larger area.

It's a nice place to live if you like being outdoors, but if you don't have a lot of money you'll need private transport to get to a decent bit of that outdoors.

On careful consideration, I prefer London. I end up with a lower salary, a similar cost of accommodation, I'm a lot lower in the social and financial "pecking order" owing to finance industry etc., but I have a lot more choice of things to do.
If Bay Area is so expensive, how people with shitty jobs (sweepers, fast food chain workers...) can afford living there?
Yes, and the point is that there are market niches that would either have gone unserved, or would have been served at greater expense because there was no suitable alternative that are now being served by PV solar. This what the start of disruption looks like (though by no means speaks to how far it ends up going)
The average salary of a professor at Stanford is $148,000. I think it's unfortunate that he had to step away from the possibility of influencing those who do make it to Stanford in favor of catering to the world. It's great that he does so, but there's also plenty of reasons why he would be affecting many different minds at Stanford.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/14/...
Also make sure the XXX material is fully paid for and licensed, or they'll no doubt slap pirating charges on you for your porn collection.
yikes -- IQ test

Q. Bush wants no child left behind money to go to schools, not prisons.

A. Bush does not want localities diverting money.

B. Bush does not want to fun babysitting.

C. Bush hopes school will keep people out of prison.

D. All of the above.

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ich they are capable?

Exactly.

But when either of the two other principles prevails, it fails
in attaining its own pleasure, and compels the rest to pursue
after a pleasure which is a shadow only and which is not their own?

True.

And the greater the interval which separates them from philosophy
and reason, the more strange and illusive will be the pleasure?

Yes.

And is not that farthest from reason which is at the greatest
distance from law and order?

Clearly.

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If it was licensed under the "normal" GPL, then no, if it was released under the AGPL then yes.
but that's obviously an edge case rather than something you'd optimise for in the system.
As a guy making way less than that and living quite comfortably in San Francisco proper, I'm always amazed at this sentiment.

I'll give you that you can't comfortably have a stay-at-home spouse and two kids on that salary. But if you are single, it is tons of money. If you have a spouse making similar income and even kids, it is also tons of money.
From an outsider point of view, USA is good, if you want to live there for a several years, save some money and return to your home country. On the other hand, Norway (or any similar "kind-of-socialist" country in Europe) is good if you want to live there permanently.
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I've always found these cost of living calculators to be enormously useless. I've used them for every city move I've made, and the results have never been close to reality.

This is particularly true for housing, since there's more to finding a place to live than the median price of a rental. The "median" apartment in SF is likely a studio in the Tenderloin (e.g., stabby stabby!). It doesn't take into account what is being rented, nor where it is, nor transportation, nor any other crucial factors. The metric "average price of a rental apartment" is pretty much as useless as can be.

Take this for example, I moved from Seattle to SF not too long ago:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=moving+from+San+Fransis...

According to Wolfram, housing in Seattle is about half of SF. Except, if you actually shop in both markets, you will find that in Seattle you'll find a big 1BR in a nice part of town, with a doorman, elevators, probably nice shared facilities like gyms, hot tubs, BBQs, and saunas.

For 2x that in SF you'll find a 1BR in a crappy part of town, not close to mass transit, built at the turn of the century, comes with a book full of asbestos and lead-paint warnings, and forget about the gym, you probably won't even have your own damn washing machine in the flat.

So yeah, apples to oranges really. Cost of living calculators can go burn in hell.
Chosen: makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly
A few people have mentioned simple computers and BASIC.

They may be interested in these links.

(http://hackaday.com/2012/01/23/maximite-harkens-back-to-the-...)

(http://geoffg.net/maximite.html)

> The Maximite is a small and versatile computer running a full featured BASIC interpreter with 128K of working memory.

It will work with a standard VGA monitor and PC compatible keyboard and because the Maximite has its own built in SD memory card and BASIC language you need nothing more to start writing and running BASIC programs.

The Maximite also has also 20 input/output lines which can be independently configured as analog inputs, digital inputs or digital outputs. You can measure voltage, frequencies, detect switch closure, etc and respond by turning on lights, closing relays, etc - all under control of your BASIC program.

The design and the firmware including the BASIC interpreter is free to download and use.
> Note that the word “smartphone” is already a major misnomer, because a pocket device that can run apps is not primarily a phone at all. It’s primarily a general-purpose personal computer that happens to have a couple of built-in radios for cell and WiFi service […]

I love this. It explains both why locking down your customers' iPhones is evil (assuming it is Wrong™ to sever freedom 0 from a computer), and why people accept it (somehow they act as if it is not a "real" computer).
I don't like Apple's proprietary tactics (not any proprietary format for ebooks for that matter), but greed and incompetence on the side of the publishers killed the viability of ePub as a standard a long time ago.

It's virtually impossible to publish anything other than simple text without running into all kinds of trouble with the different interpretation and implementation of ePub in various readers.

Apple should have just completely created their own format instead of extending ePub, and we wouldn't be having this discussion. Now Apple has become the convenient scapegoat for ePub's failure, whilst others, most notably Amazon, get a free pass for doing exactly the same.