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This. I've worked like a dog on some projects simply because I was having fun. I try to instead channel that passion into side projects now, but occasionally get a bit carried away on my salaried job.
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I assume you're aware of TinEye (http://www.tineye.com/), which sometimes gives different results. Google is generally better, but can't hurt to double-check.
a) In Canada, the choice for that seems to still be the Blackberry (edging out even the iPhone overall).

b) …but requiring the purchase of a third-party utility to do so easily. (DoubleTwist, I've heard. I don't know as I don't have an Android phone.)

c) Yes, Android is the platform that's decided to go the McDonald's Super Size Me route. This matters to some people, but I think there is a point of ridiculousness about this.

d/e) I haven't seen any clamshell Android phones in any of the carrier stores, or on the carrier websites in Canada. I could just be missing them, but what's mostly sold for Android here are slabs and slider slabs (with the latter taking up a small number).

f) I believe the network effect is much stronger with the iPhone. A colleague of my wife's asked his friends on Facebook what device he should get (asking between the Galaxy II and the Galaxy Nexus S, IIRC)—every single one of his friends said iPhone (I also said iPhone, but I was also able to speak to his use case). (Note as well that the network effect is stronger when you have fewer choices. You don't get choice burnout.)

g) This is an American problem. Please remember that things are different in other countries.

h) This also results in exhaustion and confusion. The aforementioned friend really didn't know the difference between the two Android devices. He'd settled on those two in all likelihood because they were (prior to the introduction of the Note) the most heavily promoted Android devices on the carriers in Canada.

I would argue that there are only two possible advantages to Android tablets:

a) Multiple form factors (size, convertability, etc.);

b) Rate of change (this also has the downside mentioned above; no one will have a clue what to buy because there are too many variations and if they wait another week, someone else is going to release something Even Better Than The Last Android Tablet).

OK. Strike that last. Real people will be confused by the various Android tablets and pick the iPad because it solves their perceived needs very quickly. Other tablet manufacturers need to figure out the single message that they're going to sell to customers—because what they're doing now isn't working and it won't work. If you sell a tablet on specs like you sold computers on specs, you've already lost the simplicity argument.
> Let's assume that you would need 1000 machines to have as much throughput as 4000 people.

I think your assumption is way off. For one each machine works 3 times as long as a person (24 hours a day vs 8).
this sounds exciting. i love playing angry birds to the point that i got so addicted to it!
I'd really like you to better define what you consider a "crap job".

What makes a crap job a crap job? I'd argue expectations beyond the scope of the work contract, and forced acceptance of unbecoming contracts due to lack of better options.

It really sounds, to me, like you're saying "unpaid overtime isn't the problem. Being treated badly is." So, yeah. Probably reading this wrong.
>Those kinds of layers are both expensive AND beatable, regardless of the "optimizing compiler".

No - those layers were invented because those things were such common errors - ie. - most people got them wrong. So nope, most people aren't able to beat those in everyday code, and debugging is expensive. Performance is not the only metric, even in games, and you have to "beat" the other metrics as well - such as bug count/correctness and productivity. Maybe when you have AAA titles and can budget a few millions on dev team alone the equation looks different, and that's why I singled them out. But for small teams (mobile) and indies/amateurs .NET is good enough (and is being used).

And games regularly sacrifice performance for productivity, look up early unreal script (interpreted), and how it was often the bottle neck but was still used in development.
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I work 3 days a week for quite a large social game / mobile web company here in Tokyo. They are asking me every 3 months to become a "Seishain" - full time employee - but I will continue to take the no-benifits, paid by the hour option. The pay's not great but I'm learning a lot. And I can go home on the dot at 6.. However, everyone who is not part time is here before I arrive, and stays after I leave. . . .
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Let's face it people, Google has reached the zenith of it's trajectory, and it is now a fading flower, and it knows it.

Yes, it has had some amazing products and innovations, but everything since Android has smacked of desperation and greed (SPYW anyone?).

And any time Google attempts something Social, I just want to cringe. Why? Because Google just ain't cool. It really ain't. And Social is all about following and being friends with the cool people.

Google is kind of the corporate manifestation of the dorky geek who lives under the delusion that being in the accelerated maths class and attending the school science fair are "cool" activities, mainly because they have been fooled by teachers trying to promote intellectual activities, only to be beaten on at the bus stop after class, and can never work out why.

Google+ was basically Google's last great hope, it has no other major products on the horizon, and is clearly running out of sensible ideas (digital display sunglasses case in point). Coupled with Apple's almost unspeakable, shining success in the mobile/tablet market it is perhaps not surprising that Google has developed a bitter and aggressive attitude (Page's SPYW or fuck off) driven by envy and greed, and has left it's "don't be evil, give away amazing products for free" mantra in the dust for "exploit anything vaguely profitable, kill the rest".
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If your job is such a great learning experience, or the mission so captivating that you want to work 70 hours a week on it, you should be allowed to do that. In my experience few positions will be so exciting that you'll want to do that though. One can only get so much thrill out of writing CRUD apis for years.
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I wanted to say this very thing and am glad you have stated it very well. I have un-followed projects because the news feed became too noisy.
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> elastic fulfillment centers?

with the obvious suggestion here that Amazon might be best-poised to get into this
I love my job, but I've been putting in 14 hour days nonstop for months now and I'm starting to get burned out. According to you, my job must be a crap job (or I'm a bad coder), otherwise I'd be loving all the overtime, right?
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C'mon, guys, that posting was 4.5 years ago. It's old news, and has been repeatedly hashed to death.
The point still stands. It may (should) change in the future as people start asserting their rights. (I have seen the article before, its Foxconn currently, but labor prices and further opportunities haven't reached a point where you can safely bleed off the population away from manufacturing just yet.)

At the same time though, it shows that as long as you have people who have no option, you can use them to easily produce more value than robots at similar costs. Which is what the Mother Jones article is basically about.

Also, its worth remembering that those robots are also going to be used for capacity expansion, while keeping cheap tractable labour.

TLDR: Improving standards of living will make robotics more competitive, unless there are sufficient people who have no other option but to compete with machines.
I work at Twitter, where i regularly work longs hours (my standard work day is something like 10 - 19:30) and am frequently on call. I even spend time at the weekends thinking and hacking on specific problems.

I feel that the author's post doesn't apply in my case, because:

- Some of the problems i work on are amazing. They're interesting and fun, and i enjoy them outside the normal "work hours".

- Twitter has an "unlimited"—be respectful to your team—holiday policy. I've probably taken about 6-7 weeks off in my one and a quarter years here.

- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served for free. While you might not count that as 'being paid overtime', the costs of food can add up.

- This behaviour is not required. I know people who do 9-5 and that's it. They get their work done within deadlines, and there's no issue with that.

So, am i to assume that Twitter is a huge exception? I'm not so sure. I think that while Twitter is a special environment, there are many companies that offer similar benefits.

Maybe the real statement shouldn't be "don't do unpaid overtime", but:

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle." - Steve Jobs
They don't sell nothing, they sell outsourced information gathering. They're pretty much exactly the same as any other outsourced service. You could do it yourself or pay someone else to do it. People have completely valid reasons for paying other people to do things they could do for themselves, in fact pretty much everyone does it all the time.

Any reporter who questions the validity of that choice is one who makes me question their own understanding of how the world works.
This just made my day...

... even not being a "player", as I do not play that much, this idea just made me say wow!
If you lose your job you may have to pay a lot more (COBRA) for a limited time

No, you'll pay the same as you were paying. Its just that before, you thought you were being paid $100,000 when in fact you were being paid $120,000, and out of that came your health insurance and the other (more-than-) half of your social security and income taxes.
Whilst I agree with the general principle of not working yourself to death (nobody ever says on their death bed, 'I wish I'd spent more time in the office'), I think the author of this piece is missing something crucial.

I regularly work more than 40 hours a week, not because I have to, but because I want to learn. One day I'd like to go freelance or perhaps start up a business, but I need to skill up first. I'm lucky that I have a job in my chosen sector of mobile web development, something which pays me to learn about the technologies I am passionate about. I am seizing the opportunity to learn as much as possible so I can be in a position to just work when I want to in later life.

IMO the author is looking at this from an experienced point of view. Juniors and those starting out often have no choice but to work a little longer to get where they want to be in 20 years time. There's nothing wrong with that, surely?
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Hi Everyone, I'm seeing a lot of talk of Anonymous in relation to this leak but there's no mention of them on http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html at all that I can find.

Can someone point me to the info that shows they were involved? I may be suffering from internet blindness :-)

EDIT: Never mind, found it :-) must have had a Ctrl-F fail.
Isn't this exactly the same as Google Chromium[1]? Boot a minimal OS and load a web browser to do all the heavy lifting. Don't get me wrong, I think doing it in the open is much better than behind closed doors, I just want to make sure that I'm not missing something.

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I think that holds true for nearly any company in Japan though. The main reason people want to become "Seishain" is because you have much more job security. It is very hard to fire a full-time employee in Japan. And if it is a large company, there is the pension you get... a large sum of money when you retire, from the company. It is not uncommon to get an extra 10M - 20M yen when you retire.

Part-timers don't get any of those... but they get some more freedom in their lives (unless they choose to go against the grain, which most Japanese don't).
Am I the only one left to wonder how each 'cell' will receive enough light to be of a meaningful sensivity except in full light conditions (and even then)? I'd rather have 15Mpx noise free than 41Mpx overlayed with so much noise that subsequent denoising makes it similar to 10Mpx.
I think you're overreacting. In some way there are some problems with democracy in Belarus. But I don't think, that people are that desperate as you described. I also think you should don't blame Government, 'cuz there are still some good people out there. I sure, that you don't familiar with all problems, that government is facing. Country has no resources, the legacy, it got from USSR, is miserable. You just must understand, that there is some price for independence. I know that today Belarus is bowing before Russia, but there were some years, it has really independent policy!
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This is absolutely great! You've done an awesome job.

The only feedback I have is that, when you're not hovering, or exiting a chart with your mouse, the balloon displaying the information at a certain point should disappear.
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This really depends on the work you do, obviously. Just like no amount of off-by-one errors will make you a great coder (no, mistakes aren't always the great learning opportunity), 80 hours of writing DAOs in Java won't either. Remember it's 10000 hours of deliberate practice, not practice, so somebody working 40h in a better job may learn more.
This is stupid. Why? Because you are getting legal advice from someone who isn't a lawyer. The spirit of his post is fine, but the reality, for a lot of people, is very different.

<IANAL>

In Ontario, the Employment Standards Act, which defines all of this (and a lot more) has a ton of exemptions. Here's the exemptions for "Information Technology Professionals":

http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/tools/srt/coverage_go...

Notice that we are exempt from "Hours of Work", "Daily Rest Periods" and "Overtime" to name a few. This means that, aside from your employment contract, there are no laws that protect your right to refuse unpaid (or paid) overtime.
In the real world, there aren't only great jobs and crap jobs. Most jobs are just jobs. Period. You put in work, you get paid. It's not horrible, it's not always great fun either, but it's neither awesome nor crap.

This is what most people do for a living. If you call that "stagnating" or "crap", you missed out half the point of the post: that the majority of people don't live to work, they work to live. They don't expect to get any fulfillment out of their job, they get it out of their life outside of work.

The idea that you cannot expect to get much out of life if you only put in 40 hours a week is bullshit that reduces the majority of the population to drones who's happiness is irrelevant.
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Yeah.. I've been there (at an admittedly insane company), and "enjoyed" the benefits of cheaper health care, pension.. at the cost of sleeping under the desk a few nights a week, coming in at 6 or 7 just to read every single mail which circulated not to get caught out having missed some minor little thing by my senpai..

Now I balance this with really laid back face-to-face english teaching. It's actually quite nice. Half the week staring at a glowing box, half the week talking casually with people who are motivated to learn. edit: I'm quite broke though!
All of the issues you cite are actually just a matter of choice by the designer of this map stylesheet (for lack of a better word).

OSM rendering is extremely customizable. One can present city labels on zoom level 10 and above, or they could just start showing the city labels on zoom level 11. Each zoom level can have different parameters for the 2000+ map components. In a way it is overwhelming, but it's also fabulous!
...Interesting. I read a less sensitive article regarding LoseThos recently. The contrast between that author's point of view and this article's is jarring.
I think that std::string does not support conversions as part of the class because those operations do not need direct access to the internal data of the string class. They could be written as helper functions (as opposed to member functions) easily without loss in efficiency. Member functions are used when they need direct access to the private fields. For example, C++11 has a new group of functions, std::to_string(...), and their counterparts std::sto*(...), which are not member functions [1].

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Or perhaps the union system has merit, but its in great need for a spring cleaning.
I realize it's meant to be funny and the journal title is fake, but is the synthesis valid? I'd be curious to know if this is good organic chemistry in service of the joke or not.
Thanks, it was one of many internal battles, and I think we won those that mattered. Working somewhere like the BBC is great, but as you are part of such a huge machine you have to know when to fold, or you will never get anything done!
Programmers here are discussing if they choose to work unpaid extra hours or not. You don't make a country great by forbidding extra work regardless of the employee desires. You make a country great by allowing employers and employees to decide amongst themselves case by case. If labor wants to forbid this for other vocations good for them. I would like to keep my right to work more hours on salary or not.
It's good thing you're not a lawyer because nothing he said violated the law or a contract. :) Unless I missed it, the only thing he discussed relating to laws was how other countries dealt with this sort of thing. Refusing to work unpaid hours is just fine, perhaps you will be fired, but it is definitely you're right but no boogeyman is going to come and lock you up for banging out mindless Java code to meet some unrealistic deadline.
If you live your work life, say from when you're 25 to 65, working from 9 to 5 on something that you don't really care about but you do just to pay the bills, aren't those 75,000 hours of your life you flushed down the toilet?

That's almost half of your adult life, if you exclude sleep, that you throw away just so you can "enjoy" the other 8 hours a day you have. I personally have failed miserably to be happy with my life if my 8 hours of work a day sucked or were mediocre, I want all of my waking hours to have meaning. Not everybody has that luxury, but I feel it's something we should all strive for.
According to the GAO, approximately 25 percent of the work force is overtime-exempt. Though computer-related jobs are called out specifically in the law, programmers would also likely be exempted from overtime as "professionals", in any case. I don't think that the overtime exemption for programmers has anything to do with fear of losing jobs overseas, in that most programmers make SUBSTANTIALLY more than the minimum wage. If employers were forced to pay overtime, then they would just reduce base salaries accordingly.
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Coming from a student, for those who might really enjoy the project they are working on and have a comfortable enough lifestyle to not worry about money, working more is its own reward. I am only paid for a maximum of 20 hours a week though I work more than that since I enjoy working.
Regardless of what is legal or not, you do have the right to seek another employer (if not, then you really are some sort of slave) and your employer is also free to either accept your employment terms or find somebody else.

So if you're valuable to the company enough that seeking a replacement costs a lot more, then the employer will probably accept that overtime is not an option and if not then you've got options to consider.

Employees should really learn to use capitalism to their advantage.
Or ironically get called dead weight later.