skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the person in the apartment below me own my free software contributions because heat from her apartment warms mine?
Simple answer: What works better for the Owners. They're the ones who have to live with it.

Personally, I would start with everyone in the same place and then become more flexible regarding remote employment because it is much harder to go the other way (it will cost you knowledge when you lose employees), working together builds stronger relationships (most communication is non-verbal), and informal interaction is where many creative ideas are developed and interpersonal chemistry is created.

Good luck.
This is not a real issue.

Visual Studio 2010 will continue to work just fine. As will 2008 or even 2005. Anyone with a business license, even a $50 sole proprietorship, can get every piece of software Microsoft makes for zero dollars via free MSDN subscription [1]. This includes licenses for Office, XP/Vista/Win7 home/pro/ultimate, Visual Studio Ultimate, SQL Server, and so on and so forth. The licenses are free forever and ever.

[1] BizSpark program. It's fantastic. http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
Your comment is totally removed from reality. Did you even read the page? Do you think that Scribd is in the business of picking up fruits from grids?
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I suspect that most professional programmers haven't heard of functional programming even now.

You do realize that there's no functional programming language in the top 30 languages on the Tiobe list, and none of the main Microsoft or Apple languages are functional. Most programmers don't know much about the general field of software development, much less follow the fads.

Here's a test: did your father know about Scheme?
Worst case, he has to reimburse them for the cost imposed, plus some sort of rent, plus some kind of punitive damages. No way does AOL get any sort of ownership out of this, though.
The fact that Apple has shitty quality control in their initial approval process so that they more often have to remove apps subsequently to approval doesn't mean that in the big picture it's at least as permissive (if not far more so) than other console development arrangements.
I thought you meant to say you had additional personal experience, but perhaps you've just been reading about Riak today.

Thanks anyway.
Or:
We had a Mutually Assured Destruction standoff for years, but now the missiles are flying.
In the strict legal sense, Apple is not a monopoly. However, they do have a monopoly on iOS app distribution. While they're not the only game in town for users, they are for developers (who will go where the users go).

We would all cry foul if the government shut down your business because it conflicts with interests of state. Why should we not also cry foul for a corporation to de-facto shut down your business because it violates their interests?

I'm not sure that Apple has violated any existing laws (IANAL). But even so, I think the rules need re-thinking when we talk about not just technical platforms, but their marriage to business platforms.

At the end of the day, it makes little difference to Rogue Amoeba whether they were shut down by government tyranny or by corporate whim: it matters that they were shut down at all, and we all suffer for the economic output which they (and others) are unable to create for themselves and society. It's antithetical to the very purpose of capitalism.
I am happy about this. Now c++ developers will hopefully look at the other options (Qt Creator, please try it) and normal users will look at other operating systems (ubuntu).
You don't understand FRAND/patents at all. A patent will rarely impede prevent entire classes of products being made. But without FRAND many standards would never have taken off without cheap and fair licensing. No Bluetooth. No WiFi. No USB. No XBox. No iPhone.

And the reason Google/Motorola is being singled out is because AFAIK nobody has done this before.
You purchase this app, then the next day Apple announces the same feature built in to the OS. You don't feel ripped off?
Laid off, offered job back Vs. 11 week paid Android research project
A couple of months ago I was laid off because the company ran out of money, I never liked the job or the company but it paid the bills. I got offered another job with terrible hours so I turned it down when my old job was back on the table. Today I heard from my school that they want me to develop a Android app, its estimated to take 10-11 weeks. I've built an android app and a couple iPhone apps. The school is aware of my experience and skill level. Should I take the risk inherent in a 11 week contract or go back to a job that I hated and could result in me being laid off again when the money gets tight.
Who's the artist for the team pics? I quite like them. Maybe not the blinking so much though.
I'd be fine with that. In fact, it'd probably be an objective improvement with regard to my search results.

Not all of us believe search engines have some magical obligation to be complete or impartial. If you don't like the results you get from one, try another.
Yes there is. Check out the quote in this Forbes article.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/05/24/38-studios-l...
It seems unlikely to me that scribd are actually looking for a solution to this problem, or an isomorphic one. Have you any basis for thinking that?

There are many standard approaches to the general class of two player board games (they are clearly aware of these, with an alpha-beta based bot).

I would guess that what is going to differentiate winners from losers in this specific game are the exact specifics of the setup. So if they are looking for a solution to an isomorphic problem, it must be a very similar problem - as the general type of challenge is well understood.

It just looks like a neat game to me; I doubt its a cleverly disguised problem from 'social reading and publishing' that they are trying to get a cheap solution to..?
Definitely see your point. During my time in college I only used Linux also. Now I work for a niche company where using C# allows us to get a lot done very quickly for the size of the company, and it's efficiency for getting stuff done is amazing. I love how great it is for completing stuff, but does suck not being able to use on any platform.

That being said unless it's just a quick hack for myself I tend to stray from C# due to it not being usable on all platforms.
That doesn't really make any sense. Scribd is trying to trick you into solving an undergrad-level AI problem for them? Sounds unlikely. Designing and writing the game probably took more effort than writing a bot would!

Coincidentally, I really like the game design. I took an AI course recently and we had some really similar using Pacman and Python, and that was fun too, but I would much rather use JavaScript and compete online than use Python and the annoying framework code they gave us.
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Other factors probably at play: Obj-C MUCH older. CoffeeScript designed to be simple and have fewer "bad parts" thus fewer questions. Many problems faced while coding CoffeeScript are actually javascript or DOM or Web questions so you don't tag them with CoffeeScript. StackOverflow isn't overly loving of CoffeeScript, so I often ask my questions using JavaScript even if my source is really CoffeeScript (and again the questions aren't really about CoffeeScript but usually about JavaScript).
Why may Cygwin no longer work on Windows 8?
And it appears that the legal dispute with Apple that the page refers to was also settled in some way in early 2008 (The details are unclear; all the verbiage the author has produced about his dispute with various entities in the music industry appears maddeningly incoherent and vague to me).
Oh that's an easy one. But it's better to say our economy is based on oil: oil is exclusively traded in dollars.

That gives us a huge advantage over everyone else. And it's also the reason we can carry so much debt. As oil is traded in dollars, we will always be the safest currency to buy. Since oil, right now, is the worlds most valuable commodity.

I mean look around you. Oil is everywhere; pastics, food, drugs, cars, power - everywhere.
As an employee, you certainly take a "risk" that your job will not last forever. You may be fired, downsized, or the company may go bankrupt.

Fortunately, since we live somewhere where you can fire, downsize, and go bankrupt, there are companies willing to hire you for some period of time between when they need you and when they don't need you anymore. Otherwise, who would hire anyone if they could never fire them (here's looking at you France)?

The possibility of losing a job is inherent and essential to the concept of employment.
Could you cite some numbers?

I'm dubious as everything I've seen shows equities winning over almost any 20-30 year period. And by equities I mean a minimal load index fund. It's well known housing pretty much follows inflation (http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/case...).

On the surface, it would seem bizarre if housing could beat stocks long-term. I can't speak much for gold.

1. housing: People have to afford their houses. As long as land is not scarce, this is just going to follow (housing-part) inflation. The reasonable maximum (across the US) is median income growth.

2. Stocks: As a first (0th?) order approximation, some weighted average of US and world-wide nominal GDP growth. Should easily beat #1.

3. Gold: Pretty complicated to track. Demand will rise as world incomes go up. But suppliers respond and pump more gold out. In theory, this makes gold more expensive but advances in technology can make production cheaper. As a naive investor though, I see no reason to invest in gold as I know little about the supply-side.
Google is a tool and Facebook is entertainment. If you look at the history of advertising, entertainment companies have done far better than tool companies. Who made more money in the 20th century--the magazine publishing industry or the Yellow Pages?

Think of Facebook like a magazine. When people read through National Geographic, are they looking to buy a camera right then? No. And yet all the camera companies advertize heavily in Nat Geo because having their ad next those photos creates a positive brand association.

Facebook is developing the ability to show ads that are contextual to whatever you're reading or talking about on Facebook. Their success won't be measured in clicks, but in the same way companies have valued brand ads for decades--by statistical research.
They don't _need_ to support IE either, by this reasoning...
Is it? It seems to me that suggesting browsers that are not the most common, actually does much more for the open web than the alternative.
How Sony accidentally did the right thing with Light Peak (2011)
Hey Wes, is there a table of contents available yet?
In fact Microsoft has in some cases gone to great pains to avoid introducing features for which independent ecosystems already exist.
Hi Michael, your site looks pretty slick. Reminds me of airbnb a bit.

The way I understand your marketing pitch, you hate expedia and are going to undercut their prices. I compared one of the top hotels you list in la fortuna with expedia's rates and they are matching tripfab. Seems like their cancellation terms are more lenient also.

http://d.pr/i/LFjl
http://d.pr/i/oe1s

Actually, the rooms are shown twice and they could actually be beating your rate, hard to tell. When I tried to proceed to get the tax breakdown I got an error page.

Expedia has a lowest rate guarantee, so how can anyone really hope to undercut them any way?

--

For reference:

http://www.expedia.com/Arenal-Volcano-Region-Hotels-Arenal-K...

https://tripfab.com/en-US/costa_rica/la_fortuna/arenal_kioro...
Wouldn't that mean you're drinking Konqueror kool-aid?
... because in the long-run, everything will work better if everyone just behaves selfishly ... ?
John Maeda once told me: “No advice really. Just take risks with your career.”
Don't worry, it says the same thing on Firefox and Opera also.
How many people does "The Atlantic" have promoting their articles on HN and other aggregation sites? Is it something that all the authors do?
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Yes, you have binaries in windows for clojure on clojure.org - as clojure is written in java. You can also download clojurebox to have an environment to play with clojure (http://clojure.bighugh.com/).

Have fun!
Web startup, circa 2004
Maybe the ecosystem just isn't big enough yet. Too much of the market is still not yet using Apple's products.

Maybe when Apple reaches Microsoft-level penetration, and of course that is their goal (Exhbit A: Apple pricing trends), you might get your druthers.

It really should not be necessary to "jailbreak" a device in the first instance. The user should be able to easily install their own choice of software on the hardware they have paid for: e.g., applications, OS, bootloader and BIOS. If you want to install Apple's software, you can. If you do not want to install their software, you can install something else. Simple.
This really isn't a big deal for me. Mainly because I have no urge to develop for Windows now, nor will I have the urge to do so then. That makes things so much easier.
Or they paid for it because the alternatives weren't any better. Visual Studio Debugger is very nice, I don't know of anything that's as good, and as mature. Attach To Process with a nice UI is a great tool compared to the command line debugger.

VS 2008 and 2010 are worlds better than 2005 -- so if we count the last 10 years nearly half of that will be people using 2005, and yes that was awful. Two version later, is it worth asking for a good price for a full featured version? Probably.
Maybe they should be banned. Only something of this magnitude would draw the necessary level of interest from apathetic voters to make this a campaign issue, thus positive change might result. If a couple of years without Xbox's is the price for patent reform, I would gladly pay it.
Safari private mode is broken
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Is it? With all the modern webkit only extensions and prefix usage, FB promoting browser diversity seems like strictly a good thing!
http://mate-desktop.org probably won't go all "tablet" any time soon.
I'll see if I can get one posted; should be soon.
odd seeing another "tikhon" commenting about scribd.
Because Postresql is not a NoSQL database despite the recent lipstick additions.

I love the database but it is not optimal if you have a fluid schema like many use cases have today.
Not in this article, but that's what I've heard from everyone who works there or knows people who work there.
I do know what it is; I was speaking broadly, not intending the strict legal definition. And I'm aware that Apple may not be guilty of violating existing anti-trust laws. However, that doesn't mean Apple hasn't violated their spirit or intent, and if so, I believe those laws need rethinking.
I've dealt with primarily C# and VB.Net users so that may be where the discrepancy is.
Assuming RA included this key and they probably suspect this is the reason but it stands to reason that they can still play dumb and say they haven't been told why the app was yanked.

note: followed lloeki's link above into the comments and there's this from RA's Paul Kefasis (italics mine)...

"There should be no legal issues here whatsoever.

Airfoil Speakers on the Mac and PC has had this receiving functionality for years now, and now it’s on the iOS platform as well. Airfoil Speakers is a clean-room implementation of the AirPlay protocol. Further, as you note, Apple approved the app after review. So, we don’t anticipate any issues here."
" Simons said he was able to score $50,000 in seed funding from Ulu Ventures and Silicon Valley VC Paul Sherer.
"I was aware" of Simons living at AOL, Clint Korver of Ulu Ventures told CNET. "Tenacity and commitment are key attributes of a great entrepreneur. Eric has these in spades as demonstrated by his willingness to do whatever it takes to get his company off the ground."
Agreed. But they shouldn't toss about the word "support" without they themselves being clear.

It isn't malicious, it isn't "stupid." It's "corporate." ("We'll fix it later.")
Huh? Any investment is going to incur capital gains taxes when sold. Commissions are trivial for large stock purchases and certainly are very low compared to say gold or property.

If a company is ejected from the S&P 500, tracking funds tend to eject it as well. Also these charts tend to not be dividend adjusted, further increasing the benefit of stocks. Check out SPY; it actually has out-performed the S&P 500 (I believe due to dividends and what not).
I started off as a hobbyist developer who thought you had to use Visual Studio to develop for Windows. So I pirated a copy because I couldn't afford the real thing. As soon as I figured out that there were cheaper or open source alternatives, I uninstalled and went that route. The Express versions made me look at Windows development again.

Even though I can afford the Professional version now, I really don't like to see the way that they are going. I think its boneheaded and might close them off to a new generation of programmers. Open Source and IOS development are already seen as the "cool thing". I don't see how this move gets Microsoft back into the good graces of a younger generation of programmers.
I'd recommend to hire someone from an all-functional-languages school over a .NET or Java school. I would be confident that they would find things like Java or Python very easy.
I beg to differ. I've written code on Windows, OS X, and Linux, with tools ranging anywhere between Xcode, VS, and plain old vim.

Visual Studio is a fine IDE that has a lot of things going for it. Hell, now that I write Obj-C for a living I wish Xcode was more like VS (especially when it comes to stability).

In contrast, I'd rather marathon American Idol than use Eclipse for a single day.
This works when a class is about acquiring knowledge/learning material. As a high school student, I've never understood the purpose of these classes except as a vehicle for skill development; the skills-based classes have always been more enjoyable.

I sincerely hope I'm not going to pay $35,000/year to learn facts I could just as easily look up.
"Where Apple was a monopoly was in mp3 players, and where they were abusing it was with their DRM.... They removed it, and I don't think it had anything to do with consumers, it was simply an anti-trust target that was growing larger by the day."

You seem to have gotten the history wrong. DRM on itunes was mandated by the music companies. After a very public push from Steve Jobs, the music companies tested DRM free with Amazon and after that they gave Apple the green light.
After watching the video, the takeaway for me was don't run $database on EC2 instances.

Last night I just finished replacing 6 maxed out medium instances with one $100 box from SoftLayer. :/
DDD, Netbeans debugger and Eclipse's debugger are on equal standing. I've used all heavily.

However, I tend to rarely use the debugger on my own code in any language since I started doing incremental TDD and using assertions galore all over the place to check inputs, outputs and assumptions. Prevention is better than cure (or debugging).
"Why do you think Apple has both a "Photo Album" and "Camera" app? And both a "Phone" and "Contacts" app?"

I'd say that in any case, they had to have Contacts and Photo Album apps for the iPod Touch and iPad.

Why also include them on the iPhone? Well, Photo Album has more features than the Camera app (access to Events, Faces…) so it might be simpler to have one codebase for a Photo Album app shared with iPod Touch and iPad, rather than trying to put all the features of Photo Album in the Camera app. For me, it's better too because it makes the Camera app more easily replaceable. (as seen with the OP)

For the Contacts app, I'm not entirely sure since it seems to be a clear subset of the Phone app.
I can't wait for the .bash_profile tld to become available.
Xcode is horrid. I used it for a year or so in 2008 on a project so I agree there.

Eclipse is fine when you get used to it. It has a fairly hefty learning curve but when you get there, it's awesome.
In my comparison, WiiWare is guilty, and Steam is not. If WiiWare kicks me out because they think I'm a jerk, I have no recourse: their store, their console, their rules. If Steam does the same, I'm free to sell a PC game on my own website, or whatever other stores there are.

Perhaps we need a new term beside "monopoly". Obviously it's not a monopoly to consumers. Rather, they are the sole gatekeeper to thousands of businesses. The closest analogy I can see is company towns, or as many others have said, plantations.
I know a professional developer or three who write low level and high level code on multiple platforms and use vim and gdb fluently and who prefers Visual Studio for coding on Windows. If you do the kinds of development that it is designed for, especially the dotnet managed stuff, it is a really good development environment.

But for doing lower-level native Win32 code, the kind of thing Microsoft seems to be wishing would just go away, I prefer a command line compiler. Linux and Mac are generally much better for that kind of development.
It's already shoddy on Win7, with all the emulation it does.
That depends on the project:

https://github.com/CM7-GB/android_device_motorola_droid2we

Note the language breakdown, under the Graphs tab.

But yes, it all hinges on how Github measures popularity. For one, I'm curious how forked repositories are counted; if I have a 100kloc Blub project and it gets forked 100 times, does Github count that as 100,000 or 10,000,000 lines of Blub?
"sort of defense" is right. When the people with rubber hoses know you are using a "deniable" encryption system, they have little incentive to stop beating you after the first, second, or any subsequent decryption.
Microfinance Data Scraping from MIX
opera? wtf
Nope, I thought it was worth $1 the day before and I would still think it is a nice feature. I'd blame Apple for that for being so opaque or for not including it in the first place. The developer is not the problem in my eyes -- they just made an awesome feature for my phone.

Perhaps most customers have a different stance than I do, though.
I can only suggest that either your users or your perception of these users is heavily skewed in an odd direction. VS is not without issues (bloat, Intellisense) but imho it's absolutely the best at most of what it does. Specific users with specific preferences will prefer something else, and in most cases they will consider themselves 'super power users', but for most developers anything that's not VS is a step down in features and usability.
I disagree. For a few hundred/thousand line projects it's ok.

I deal with large (1Mloc+) 10 year+ old codebases in C#/ASP.Net and it is in no way capable of handling a large project without chopping it into miniscule assemblies and having solutions for each.

The IDE is monolithic enough to have severe usability and performance problems. It doesn't scale well and therefore is a risk if you want to continue using the platform for many years.
They remove the and app and oh, what a coincidence iOS 6 has the exact same functionality baked into it. This is one of the issues with the whole closed market thing, Apple can no longer come up original phone features, so they take ideas from popular apps and bake it into their iOS, remove the app they took "inspiration" from and people clap and pat them on the back for being so innovative and introducing a revolutionary new feature.
Whoops -- cancel the party folks. Apparently the rankings just count the percentage of GitHub repos with any amount of the language in it. I bet CoffeeScript's recent rise has a lot to do with a handful of auto-generated-by-default files in Rails projects.

Source: https://twitter.com/joshpeek/status/205783659830198273