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My (German) perspective on this:

I've traveled to the US (always to Boston) a few times over the recent years. While all of the "take your shoes off" stuff is annoying, it's really not that big of a deal.

The ESTA process can be done online and you can pay with your credit card. It takes about 15 minutes and 15 minutes after that you get an email.

It's all a little bit annoying, but I don't feel personally insulted and so far it worked without a hassle. The border security people have always been nice to me and it felt more like a chit-chat rather than an interrogation.

A lot of the process seems useless, but seeing as it doesn't take away all that much time, I'm fine with it.

I've been treated way worse traveling to eastern european countries by car.
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I see another script like this on http://website-force.com/products/Fiverr-Biverr-Clone.html.
hinting to that effect

hinting to what affect? Having a way to brute force 128-bit AES, or just having large computing power?
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If it's truly open source then there's nothing stopping another business from coming in and offering a hosted version much in the same way that the original did.

I suspect that the reason this doesn't have so much could be licensing of other libraries etc used by the code.
Storyboard is really spectacular. I think its the biggest advance to UI development since Interface Builder. The thing is, it also sets apple up for the next level of usability.

For our next project, my designer is going to have Xcode installed, and working with a copy of the same git repository and committing UI as I program.

I look forward to being able to work in parallel with out getting these long emails with off by a couple pixel tweaks to be implemented.
My experience with open sourcing dead product is that unless there is an interested community which understands the virtues of the product and wants to keep it alive, there are practically no advantages to open sourcing it.

There are graveyards out there full of dead open source code. Will it ever be used? who knows. Without people a product is just dead code.
There is somewhat of a stigma regarding government employees because they are mainly unionized and impossible to fire.

They can pretty much get away with anything short of criminal activity (and sometimes even that). What incentive do they have for being polite? It sucks but they aren't paid as well as private sector and they don't really care.
Already have a MacBook and an iMac which I use everyday. My question was not about productivity, more about curiosity.
Given the number of people that take these ships, these numbers actually prove my point, not yours.
I don't believe that that's intentional. If if was that might be better because we might have a chance at stopping it. Its an emergent behavior. The tighter control, even enacted for "good" reasons now, attracts the type that use it for evil later. It sucks because you can't fight the evil up front. You sometimes have to fight the good intentions now to prevent the evil later. That's an impossible political sell.
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Not if you're travelling from Ireland. You don't need to show any ID - though technically, if you're not an EU citizen you're supposed to join a different exit queue.
Lack of push was a deal breaker for me. They argue they don't want to store the credentials on their servers, but at least with Gmail they don't need to as it supports OAuth. The only issue I can see is holding the IMAP IDLE connections open for thousands of users which can be a bi* and a half to get right. Although http://www.nuevasync.com/ guys have done it successfully.
ACK - I can't edit. FWIW, this was in the year 2004, not 2012.

And... to the extent that people will say "it's got it now"... this the same situation people have with mysql - spouting off about stuff that it didn't do 10 years ago, and don't use it (or postgres from X year ago, etc). Once you hit some rather stupid/useless limitation, it tends to stick with you and influence your choices in the future.

I've used SQL Server on projects since then, but it's never been my choice to start a project with it. Clients have used it, and I've used it because that's what they had opted for, but it wasn't my choice or suggestion.

As someone else noted, connecting to it from outside the world of Windows/.Net is a bit of a pain. The PHP connector situation is weird - it's changed in 5.3, and you seem to have to download a separate connector from MS directly. It'd be super swell if they'd just open source that connector so it could be distributed around (or provide a binary and license terms so at least WAMP-stacks could distribute it more easily).
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I knew all about it, and much more. But not by reading that book - Last month I watched CNN's 1998 documentary about the Cold War. ABSOLOUTELY AMAZING. 24 episodes, each about 50 minutes. Tons of never-seen-before footage and interviews with many of the parties involved in the Cold War (Gorbachev, Castro, Kissinger, Reagan, H. W. Bush, and dozens of other well-informed ministers, ambassadors, spies, soldiers and citizens)

But more importantly, it's fair. It doesn't blame Russia while praising America or vice versa. Bot powers did dreadful things during the Cold War, and this documentary shows them all. After watching it, now I have a very deep respect for CNN and Ted Turner.

It's only available on VHS, and only on eBay (or used, at Amazon). If you don't have a VHS player anymore (who has?), contact me (edit: for download links, not for selling you a VHS player!).

If you're interested in Cold War history and want to know more, watch this definitive series. You won't be disappointed.
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Yes, that was one of the proposed solutions. Again, as I said in one of my replies, this was in mid 2004 - we were using SQL Server 2000, not anything higher, because it wasn't available to us yet.
Ah, apologies for jumping to conclusions :-)
A lot of people will be able to tell the difference. For example I routinely try to read pdf books on my iphone 4 ibooks (without zoom), but it's hard because there are not enough pixels!

http://www.displaymate.com/iPad_ShootOut_1.htm

.. Apple’s definition of a “Retina Display” is actually for 20/20 Vision (defined as 1 arc-minute visual acuity). However, 20/20 Vision is just the legal definition of “Normal Vision,” which is at the lower end of true normal vision. There are in fact lots of people with much better than 20/20 Vision, and for almost everyone visual acuity is actually limited by blurring due to imperfections of the lens in the eye. The best human vision is about 20/10 Vision, twice as good as 20/20 Vision, and that is what corresponds to the true acuity of the Retina. So to be an actual “True Retina Display” a screen needs at least 573 ppi at 12 inches viewing distance or 458 ppi at 15 inches. The 326 ppi iPhone 4 is a 20/20 Vision display if it is viewed from 10.5 inches or more. ..
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People good at math, or data mining, or etc might enjoy working for GCHQ. I assume they'd enjoy working for NSA.

There's a bunch of very smart people, with interesting tech, and, uh, low pay.

I don't know about NSA but GCHQ is subject to a lot of oversight; breaking laws would be problematic. Laws get written with specific exclusions for GCHQ. And there are creative methods to evade other laws - US in theory cannot spy on its citizens so they team with UK and ask us to do it for them.
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Part of this may be your country of origin, part of it may be because you have ESTA clearance, and part of it may be because of the airport you fly into.

As a US passport holder I'm pretty much done using LAX, MIA, and EWR.
That's true. Chinese visa procedures are nightmarish, and can change without warning. But it's a bureaucratic and paperwork nightmare, not an inter-personal nightmare - there's no third degree. And once you land on Chinese soil, border control is a breeze. I'd much sooner take the grief weeks before the trip than when I land, tired after a long haul flight.
I did GMail-myself backups before Dropbox was around, and now have stuff on a Time Machine backup as well. But the networked backups are dependent on Google and Dropbox actively maintaining their servers for me, which it makes sense for them to do, but it's hard to depend on. If Google lost all traces of me today, that would be fine because I have a local backup, but it would be no big deal to them because I'm not a paying customer. As far as I know, they don't even have a legal obligation to maintain my data.
If I have a photo or text I want to be available in 30 years, I think that printing it out and sticking on a bookshelf is much more reliable than depending on a nebulous third party or trusting that I won't inadvertently lose a set of backups.
What impact does this have on SEO?

while I enjoy the use experience of fast loading single page apps, if it means it makes a large amount of your content uncrawlable, that seems like a worrisome business tradeoff.
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an Android version wouldn't provide enough revenue to warrant an employee or contractor.

A statement with absolutely zero backing.

Readability did the analysis and certainly seemed to believe that Android supported their product. Marco doesn't do analysis but instead just parrots the standard rhetoric, seemingly hoping that his words alone will make Android irrelevant and thus unnecessary of effort. His loss.
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Yep I'm a rails dev so I understand what are the right tools, but that doesn't answer my question.
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I agree that open sourcing it is one way, but is it the best way?
Since the users depend on it, that would mean that they would pay for it right?
I think that the obvious need here is to find a way so that it would make it possible for somebody to build a good enough service and then be able to just neglect it, the same way you can neglect desktop software.

Before there was an "app store", people would think the same way and just open source software they cannot find a way to build a business from but that has severely changed thanks to having something as convenient as the app store.

I can think of some ways that a platform like this would work, and I think that it could be built by using something like Cloudfoundry, though I have the feeling that somebody is building it already somewhere.

It could be a platform where you create an application, someone confirms that the application is good enough and does what it is intended, you push the application, and offer it to other users in the same ecosystem.

Then you create the platform so that other users can clone an instance of your application by charging them. If you burn out, you can just stop developing the application, and the users that relied on your application. Otherwise you can keep on developing the application and then charge for the updates etc... etc... etc...

I think someone should do it, at least an abstraction of it. I would be "too frightened" to do it, maybe you could raise VC capital and become part of the problem by saying that it is the app store for web apps or something.
I second this. I travel to America at least once a year with my EU passport and never really had a bad experience at the US border. The border control process never takes more than 30 seconds. I think the trick is carefully reading everything, filling out all the forms properly and not being too unlucky. Having a passport from a low profile unknown little EU country also helps.
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You have a rock solid point there. IMHO, a very important thing a lot of people don't understand is that there is no 'magic' in real life. Success is not easy to come by. You have to keep working on going from where you are and where you want to be.

Extensive networking. Learning things. Acquiring new skills. And making stuff.

That's it. Even if you do make it to YC, there is no guarantee that you'll succeed. In fact, it's more likely that your startup will fail than not. Start a startup if you truly have to (just want to is not enough). And go start working.

It may seem like a paradox but your chances of getting into YC are higher if you don't need them as bad (ie you already have a product that people love). In plain english, be successful to be successful. Think it through, get a good friend along, brainstorm and make something. Figure out how you'll get past the inertia involved in making things. Talk to people. Network. Iterate.

To be very honest it does help if you are from MIT/Harvard. But, you can always substitute that with a strong portfolio. To re-iterate ewokhead's point: yes, you do have a chance if you create it yourself.
I'd agree with that. Ignore the SPAM at the very top and read the article. I've been Hugh's fan for over 10 years now. I have the book. Great stuff.
No need for the disclaimer, your theory matches practice quite accurately - well said.
Last time I went to China I and several colleagues were placed into quarantine (biohazard suits around us) for about an hour, and later had to bribe a customs officer to get the tech. equipment we had shipped seperately out of the airport.. not always a breeze!
I don't think you can actually enter at all without ESTA clearance
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Here's some more anecdotal evidence about the nonsense of the ESTA form. My g/f is British, we live in Toronto. We flew to the US and her ESTA application from a few years back had expired. (Every 3-4 years I think, you have to renew). So at the airline check in, we're informed she'll have to re-apply. We though we were screwed but no, she just had to apply right there on the spot using my iPad and the airport's free wi-fi. Went to the ESTA site, filled out some info, paid the fee with a credit card and then proceeded to US immigration (which in Toronto, is in the airport itself).

How much security could that form be adding if you can apply for it literally minutes before travelling to the US.
Didn't I just say I can tell the difference? What's your point? This isn't an argument, it's just contradiction!
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tangentially @ "isn't this like the post-office opening all your mail"...

Iran does exactly this. When my grandmom used to send stuff here from Iran, sometimes the letter or package got to the US already shredded open and in a plastic bag from USPS saying sorry it was already like this when we got it. Same in the other direction.

Just sayin...
Article loaded fine for me.

It's a pretty good overview of the differences between percona, mariadb and drizzle, with more on what the focus of each project is, as well as the pros and cons. Probably nothing many of you didn't know at some level, but nicely collected in one spot without any major prejudicial comments.
Yup, nobody buys b-movies, documentaries or anything like that. People simply only wait for "MPAA-Approved" content to come out because it will be the only thing ever to be worth purchasing. Things like 21 jump street are so good in fact that my unworthy eyes won't even go see it.
My parents want to move to the States from Canada (long story) and it's staggering all the paperwork they need to fill out.

One of the requirements is to document everywhere you have lived for the past 16 years, including home addresses. With all the places they have lived in Canada, it's taken them weeks to Columbo up the information.

Myself, I've lived five places in 6 months about 10 years ago (another long story). Recollecting those times and places is something I'd rather not do.
Woops, my fault. I figured HN would have stopped a dupe, but the URLs were ever-so-different.
Interesting. So what do you see as solutions?
Chile seems like it's doing well lately.

Other than that, set yourself up so you can live somewhere you like and work remotely.

Also, Italy is very different from north to south. The north is still not a great place to do business, but it's a lot better than the south.
For Canadians, it is infinitely easier to enter communist Cuba than the United States. I passed through extra screening in Cuba once, because I had previously worked there, which made them nervous. The secondary screen was more in than speaking to a normal American guard.We had a great conversation, actually. We laughed, and talked about my work in Cuba.

In the USA there seems to be a no laughing rule. In Amercan airports, you're treated as if you're doing something wrong by being there. The guards glare a you - it's very strange.

For some reason, land border crossings are usuall better. So I try and enter by train or car if possible. While i've had 1-2 bad experiences by land, the guards are usually quite nice.

The TSA seems to be the main problem, and their toxic culture has infected other airport personnel.

I like Americans, but I avoid traveling to the country.
The green I-94W (visa waiver) form is what the ESTA has replaced. The ESTA website does its best to re-implement the I-94W in exact detail, right down to the background colour.

For the first couple of years they ran the system in parallel -- ESTA was a legal requirement, but because the systems weren't integrated they kept handing out the old I-94W's. Now they've spliced it all together the paper forms are no longer required.

The white customs declaration is still used, though. And I suspect it'll stick around for a very long time (because the precise details change for any given traveller on any given flight).
Agreed. While it's often hard to distinguish Santorum's genuine beliefs from his pandering to the redneck vote, the distinction is somewhat irrelevant. He now stands for that base, and he needs it as a bargaining chip in pretty much any outcome that can occur between now and the convention. At a brokered convention, he'll be able to cash in that voting base for a cabinet or advisory position (probably not a vice presidential slot, but at least something) on Romney's ticket. If Romney ends up beating him outright before the convention, then he'll cash it in for a lucrative talkshow deal, a la Mike Huckabee. At the very least, and certainly in any event, he'll be able to sell a mountain of books.

The point is, from a game-theoretical standpoint, there is no benefit to Santorum in backing down from his rhetoric at this juncture. He's in an especially lucrative position because Romney is so perfectly ill-positioned to win over the base Santorum has carved out for himself. (In the eyes of the evangelical, white, working-class base, Romney is every bit the "snob" that Obama is).
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So you might not allow spying of NSA personnel above a particular sensitive grade or something.

And if you're worried about families of NSA personnel being spied on, they might not come from your arbitrary geological area and so are currently fair game.