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I've never understood the whole emphasize on testing technical skills during the interview phase. In most countries it's either easy to fire someone, or you have legal probation period.

One month of employment should be enough to find out if someone has the practical skills they've expressed in the interview, and catch the 1% that can bullshit their way through.

Of course that 1% becomes a lot bigger number if the interviewer doesn't know what they are talking about. But that's not a problem you can solve with tests.
Well, for instance in the Netherlands, we have a lobby organisation called Bits of Freedom, who are basically an EFF but less Linuxy.

They are usually rather capable of causing a somewhat decent ruckus when nasty stuff happens, and they usually quickly get the support of at least the liberals and the far-right-conservatives (who are pretty consistently in favour of free and open internet though nobody understands why).

Still, nothing about ACTA. Thanks for laying out the Polish case for me though.
That is an effect of car-based city planning. Here in a smallish town in Germany there are three different grocery stores within walking distance of my home. It's like that in every German town that I've visited so far.
>I completely agree. It's sad that we've let cars completely take over in detriment of quality of life.

I agree that they can be a burden if you live in a major city with an average or slightly-above average income because parking becomes an issue. However, I am probably not on the same page as everyone else because I'm a huge automotive enthusiast. I'm the kind of guy that would go on vacation to go driving in another area. I could easily spend more money on renting an exotic car than what I would pay for the hotel. Nurburgring anyone?
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Can you suggest some of the old coin-ops of the same genre? I remember having lots of fun with many but can't, for the life of me, remember any of their names. All that comes to mind is Ikaruga, but that was on the GameCube or whatnot.
True, you spend a lot of time going back and forth, but while commuting by car requires that you focus 100% on driving (and the same goes for biking or walking), doing it by train or bus lets you do actual work if all you need is a laptop.
It seems funny to me, that it needs most probably more lines to write a good lisp tutorial for beginners, than a lisp implementation. Lisps beauty lies in its simplicity.
I wasn't paying attention ... then a direct link to seobook.com would be better.

I actually hate it when people don't submit the original source.
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Most EU countries have a multiparty system with somewhat less buyable politicians than the US has in exchange, though. This might help. After all, why else did it take so long for ACTA-ish laws to show up at all?

Or maybe I'm just naive (I like to believe that most of our politicians are selfish and stupid, but not corrupt) and missing something.
The main opposition to pedestrian streets in the U.S. tends to be from merchants. Their view is that cars driving by is good advertising. Even if the cars don't actually stop, when they drive by a store daily, they're reminded it's there and might eventually visit, while if the traffic gets routed in a different way, fewer eyeballs will see the stores daily (and instead they'll see different stores). State Street in Chicago was pedestrianized from 1979-1996, for example, but merchant pressure eventually caused it to be reopened to traffic.
As Alex and Justin mentioned, users can pre-authorise a given amount, optionally over a time interval (e.g. up to £100 each month). The merchant can then bill the user within this limit directly via the API.
A cross-browser solution for the same problem is to use the Fiddler2 Proxy/API to collect the performance Data. AlertFox uses this approach:
http://blog.alertfox.com/2011/05/upcoming-features-web-traff...
And even compiled add-ons use the thread pool to be async.
This is fantastic. Payments are still so shit across the world. I have a lot of respect for startups that try and take on the task of changing them for the better.
Awesome. I looked into doing this in Denmark about two years ago, but it fell to "schlepp"-avoidance.

It's worth noting that PayPal already does exactly this, although I can see the value in cutting them out of the loop.
while that might be true, what's happening I'm quite sure can be proven to be malicious in court.

I don't like the idea that companies can turn a blind eye to illegal activity just cause they're getting a cut of the resulting profits.
What's the Paypal incident?
Thanks for the reply Steven,

Just to give you a bit of information on that front, as that is something I didn't think to mention:

The company has been under development for almost 1 year part time and about 8 months full time now - we are in the end stages of VC + Angel funding with reasonably confident plans for at least the next 5 years' growth.
(Also, I'm the only 'tech' person on the team and am having a bit of a hard time justifying the spend at the minute...)
The start of the negotiation process was formally acknowledged in various diplomatic venues, as it usually is for these treaties: for such large negotiations the bureaucracy is huge (the days of Molotov-Ribbentropp are long gone), so people knew something was going to happen.

Then negotiators tried hard to keep any interested NGO and independent parties from getting access; inevitably, their interest was piqued even more, and leaks started to appear, as they always do when Evil Stuff is in the works.

I'm pretty sure people like Cory Doctorow were banging the drums about ACTA years ago.
True for Oahu, but certainly not Maui or Kauai.
This article is very broad and (probably because of this) doesnt really go in depth on many issues. If anyone is seriously interested in transportation, I highly reccommend the excellent blog http://www.humantransit.org/

I do take some issue with the title of this article however. Whilst agreeing with the general sentiment of the article (US cities need to generally focus on more accessible development), cars dont 'kill' cities. Cities couldn't survive without cars (and trucks) - this is important. Cars kill pedestrianisation, but this is a different story - only small parts of our cities (even European cities) are (and have to be) attractive and enjoyable for pedestrians....
He was not physically violent with another human being, it is therefore useless to physically isolate him.
Presumably you'll set the direct debit up on the GoCardless service, and then authorise each payment through them. So just like a third-party credit card processor, the merchant never sees your details, just that the payment has been authorised.
I think that a 30 minute walk or bike ride is not "wasted" the same way 30 minutes driving would be. Driving can be a huge stress, especially in rush-hour commuting traffic. A walk or a bike ride is a chance to unwind.
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Obviously, Bits Of Freedom didn't bother to do much about ACTA.
This really puzzles me - if significantly poorer cities such as Budapest and Prague can pull off decent mass-transit, how come Tel Aviv can't?

Can you provide some source? Since, at least according to EUROSTAT the Prague NUTS-2 Region is in EU's top 10[1] and Tel Aviv is not even in the Middle East's top 10.
Also, a lot of the machinery for the Czech mass transit systems (trams, trolleybuses, metro trains, Esko (commuter) trains, buses, fare collection systems) is produced locally, thus directly contributing to the economy. Israel just doesn't have those centuries of excellent tradition in machine-engineering and construction.

1. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/1-18022010...
Yep.

That's a good point about phones leading the way. I'm guessing that in large part that's because the number of phones (iPhones and Android) dwarfs the number of tablets. I'm always slightly surprised at the number of apps that don't work well on the iPad but it makes sense that you wouldn't put your energy there, at least not in the first instance.

But for those applications that do want to develop a tablet app, it's still a big call to exclude the single biggest selling Android tablet out there (which is probably the Fire).
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I think this is interesting because it's the first time I've seen "hacking" presented in a positive light in the media.
The reality is nobody here except geeks was aware of ACTA at all. The explosion of media attention started about a week ago, and even polititians were totally unprepared to handle any reposnse and it looked like they were surprised that finally somebody noticed it. Even the most pro-govt media didn't leave it alone, but it's sad that the case was raised so late. Too bad we don't have any real rock-stars on the tech scene to speak up, such as sopa had google, reddit, etc. Most media coverage include interviews with old tards in suits and some rotting entertainment celebs skewing up the view on this issue talking about their precious mp3s nobody listens to anyway, and on the other side they show protesting people way too young to speak about it in a reasonable manner. I'm all happy about the protests emerging, but it's too bad we lack influencial people in the tech sector to handle this issue on a substantive level.
Hardware performance attracts the games market

I'm not sure this entirely true, the two most popular consoles based on ~6/7 year old hardware.
I use Cambio for car sharing here in Belgium, and it works great for me. The price for one trip may sometimes feel steep, but overall it works out a lot cheaper for us than owning a car. Even when I had a company car, I paid more for it in taxes than I pay now in an average Cambio month. Also, getting to and from the closest pickup point is often faster than the time my neigbours spend looking for parking spaces.

So I'd recommend looking into it to anyone who doesn't need a car on a daily basis. (Personally, I'm lucky enough to live within a bikeable distance from work.)
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> Evidently he was a hacker of some ability;

That is the really important part: NO, he never was. He was always all smoke and mirrors, show and PR stunts. And from his BBS days all the way to megaupload, he has never done anything but shady, borderline-illegal or downright criminal activities.
Also, why it is only decent? The Prague mass transit system has comfortable clean and warm vehicles, extremely good coverage (14 commuter train lines, ~24 light rail, 3 metro and hundreds of bus routes), short intervals and all of that is also in the suburbs. I have been to a lot of places, but haven't seen a system that functions much better.

Oh, and it costs <20EUR per month...
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It may be the story's catchy title or the implying "solutions" of it, but i feel compelled to play devils advocate here, and defend the car.

Cars improve the lives of drivers with increased range movement, more time independent movement (start your journey when it suits you, not when a timetable allows you to) and allow for more freight to be carried.

When cars are criticized for bringing down the quality of life it is mostly an issue in urban environments. People in rural or suburban areas rely heavily on cars. The car may even have saved the quality of life in rural areas (ie stopped/slowed down the flight from those areas into cities) while it's what makes the existance of modern suburbia possible. It therefor provides cheaper housing and a broader choice of how you want to live (Not everybody needs five starbucks and a movie theatre in the neighbourhood). They also slowed the population increase of cities.

Adding costs to drivers in urban areas mean higher burdens for people that have to commute by car, since suburban/rural areas are too thinly populated to allow for efficient public transportation.

The quality of life argument often tends to demonize technological progress and romanticizes the past. The funny thing is, that this romance is only possible because technologies provided us with spare time. So did motorization. People who lived back then, would have always opted for the new technologies.

That being said, cars do decrease urban quality of life in certain ways. But it is important to not let generalization allow for bad policies. Light Rail for instance is alwas proposed, while it costs more than individual motorized traffic and while rail tracks usually decrease nearby quality of life more than any road could.

I'd propose simpler measures:

1) stop providing free parking. Allow the parking space usage to be priced at what the value of that land would have provided in real property taxes, if it had been tilled with a house. There's an interesting book about the "cost of free parking" by an UCLA Professor http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf

2) get rid of cab driving restrictions to dramatically lower cab fair prices. cities with limited amounts of cab driving licenses have higher fair costs. A NY cab medallion is considered a better investment than gold http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-31/ny-cab-medallions-w...

3) If property owners where to decide, they'd propably opt more likely for narrowing the streets and expanding sidewalks as it would increase their properties value. BID (business improvement districts) often do this. Enable more owners to make those decisions.

4) start with yourself and ditch your car if you don't need it. Do you really need more range? Do you really need to be able to start your journey every minute and not just every 10 minutes. And do you always need to be able to haul up to 4 fridges? And thus do

5) car sharing. i'm a very satisfied user of http://www.car2go.com/ and similar services.

6) if there's a growing need for light-rail, chances are, this need could have already been eliminated by using more buses for public transport.
How many days can you feed your family on 2 bags of groceries?

1-3 depending on what I buy. Fortunately both my girlfriend and I walk past a couple of different grocery stores, fish mongers and vegetable stands, on our way home from work, so it's never a problem to drop in and pick up anything we happen to need.

Gonna carry the new TV you just bought on the bus with you?

Nope. Most likely I'll get it delivered to my front door (same with furniture and other similarly sized purchases). If for some reason that isn't an option, I'll call a taxi. Fortunately I buy TVs very rarely.

I can't imagine doing normal shopping without a car.

Are TV's regularly part of your "normal shopping"?
This is protected by the Direct Debit Guarantee scheme:

http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/publications/ombudsman...
Interesting, thanks for pointing that out.

So id have to get the customer to agree to authorise an amount larger than their current subscription fee so that it has scope to cover upgrades and extra services - something doesn't quite feel right there, maybe I'm approaching it completely wrong.
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You can't stream multiple things at once, at least not in Canada (emphasis mine):

> Q : Can I watch movies instantly on more than one PC or Netflix-ready device?

> A : Your account can have up to six unique authorized devices activated and associated with it at any given time, including personal computers and Netflix-ready devices; however, you may only watch on one device at a time.

I've heard that there's nothing stopping you from starting a second stream, but that it can cut off at any time when the system notices, and that they're enforcing it more now than they used to. YMMV in the USA or UK.

While you might find it user hostile, I, personally, don't see anything really wrong with only allowing one stream per account. I doubt you can't understand why it's being done either.

You have to assume that most people watch a lot more movies via streaming than they did with DVD-Only, both because you don't have the lag time between sending movies back and getting new ones (you just choose a movie and watch it), and because you can't watch a movie then delay the next one by procrastinating/forgetting to send it back (you finish one movie and the next is instantly available without user action). Because of this, there are likely fewer ghost/inactive accounts silently collecting their monthly charge, and content producers probably demand additional funds using the additional viewings as a negotiating tool. Adding additional accounts per household both adds revenue, which is additional funding for content licenses and original productions, and drops the view/account metric, which couldn't hurt when negotiating with content producers.
Presumably the fee is on the aggregate payment, rather than individual transactions.

Edit: Hmm, with a ceiling of £2 that doesn't make sense. Oh well.
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Back in 1997, Microsoft invested $150m in Apple along with a release of Office for the Mac. That worked out pretty well. Now after a bit of inflation, it's $250m and a release of Windows Phone.
That's not what I meant.

White-boarding in a high pressure situation is simply a different "skill"... I think it's fair to say that most coders are "internal" thinkers / introverts, that do their best work when they have a chance to quietly think about a problem.

On the whiteboard, you're asking them to do the exact opposite.

Eliminating the "brainfuck" white-board questions doesn't mean you need to soften the interview. You can actually give a more substantial take-home problem to your final round of candidates.
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Isn't this the exact same thing guys like Adyen have been doing for several years? (https://support.adyen.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=...) Or am I missing the point here?
That sounds very inefficient. Fill the roads with cars that don't even have drivers in them. The optimal solution it to just commute less.
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Others would say that would be a terrible waste of money that could be used to improve e.g. poor kids' lives. There's no such thing as true wealth, only opinions.
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Soon KDE 4 will reach r5, then it will be KDE 4.

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Some people are good at talking about coding (or pen testing, or sysadmining, or architecture, or...) but when you put them in front of a blank black screen with a cursor they're incapable of making forward progress.

It's five figures cheaper to ask everyone to FizzBuzz than it is to fire someone even after a week, and God help you if they're in a protected class.
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Yes, and no. Bank has APIs for including/opening popup with a very simple "focused on this transaction only" form for a quick payment sign from the user. So this is integrated into the seller site purchase flow.
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Sarcasm?

That worked out pretty well.

If not snark, I must disagree. It was a very poor competitive investment which is only justifiable if the gov "cornered" MS into making it over anti-trust.
That "minor usability problem" has caused others to buy tickets just because of that: https://twitter.com/#!/jayeshb/status/162512878287589377
We were in Krakow recently and just about cried seeing the number of trams running through the place - in Edinburgh we're spending about a billion pounds for one tram line that goes from not-quite-the-airport to the city center.
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Over here in Vienna, you do normal shopping by stepping out of your house, walking 5 minutes and entering one of several local super markets.

Why would you need a car for shopping in a city?
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Let it download and install the packages and go to sleep :)
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Law enforcement is created by society to protect PEOPLE not corporations.

So, are you arguing that corporations should not be protected or that law should protect him or both?
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> Today there will be protest in Lublin, Poznan, and other cities. I'm going to the one in Lublin.

In Warsaw protests are moved to tomorrow because of legal issues (you have to notify 3 days before)

http://www.tvnwarszawa.pl/informacje,news,protest-przeciw-ac...

Other cities today, as you say http://www.tvnwarszawa.pl/informacje,news,acta-podpisana,393...
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Not overriding other countries' legal systems.
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With no discredit to the author (because this is a decent piece) but numbers sometimes do lie. Outliers? Correlation != causation?

You know what really shows human behavior? Speaking to someone face to face.
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"The technical questions should focus on the logic behind a candidate’s solutions, not what functions or libraries a candidate may or may not remember from the API documentation."

Finally someone said it. I'm an Asp.Net dev by trade, yet I don't even use or know 80% of the available functionality. Yet, interviewers are very adamant on you knowing this.

What it seems is that they don't understand that a lot of solutions can be solved purely with logic, not by some specific function, library, etc provided by the framework. I don't need to know the full scope of Asp.Net because I'm able to hack up a quick and logically sound solution. The thought process from A to B to C is vastly important compared to the API. In layman's speaking, Batman's brain is much more useful than his utility belt.

And let say you do need those items to complete a task, Google is always there to help. I sometimes wish that they would test out your Googling skills instead of asking you a framework question.
Your screenshot shows the tooltip visible, which aren't by default (as already noted by a couple of commenters already).

Someone on twitter mentioned that they had bought some flight tickets only because of this 'confusion' : https://twitter.com/#!/jayeshb/status/162512878287589377

Is that a one-off case because of confusion?
liability in the UK is different: credit card transactions are heavily protected (you're guaranteed to get your money back), whereas direct bank transfers are vastly less protected (with the exception of direct debits).

can you even have a one-off direct debit? I didn't think the system was really designed for that.
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