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just to clarify: FT hire in another country != outsourcing

It's more like: devs tell him, "yes, super excited to work in a startup, salary is terrific, challenge accepted."

truth: "oh, it's 5pm, lets go home. we haven't had the time to push production code to fix that bug, but we can do it tomorrow."

it is easy to say that someone is a bad leader/bad recruiter, but the fact of the matter is that it is a common cultural issue (as per other comments in this thread). Hence, why did it work in Poland and not Spain? Many good engineers at large corporates in Spain don't make that money, and yet for less one can get an equal service in Poland.

Clearly "at least you have a job" was not an approach to motivate hires, they were let go.
I couldn't find any information about whether or not this contains a fuse ... Isn't that mandatory for UK plugs?

Seems quite "daring" to launch something like this for only the UK. Sure, it's a big market, but I hope they're looking at modularizing the plug part internally so they can instantiate the Mu for other markets, too.
> While Americans are typically earning less than 1 percent interest on their savings accounts

> If somebody offers you a guaranteed 7 percent on your money for the rest of your life, you take it and just make sure the guy’s name is not Madoff.”

It's funny seeing this. I get 5.15% p.a. on my 24 hour notice money market deposit account at my local bank (http://www.nedbank.co.za/website/content/interrestrates/loca...). High interest rates are one thing I enjoy about living in South Africa.
They probably keep it at under 1000 degrees by circulating a molten salt at whatever rate is necessary to carry away the heat.

No matter what the target is made out of, without that circulation to withdraw heat, it wouldn't get much hotter before it vaporized and there was no target. No doubt it'd be possible to get a much higher temperature if that was the goal.
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It's about time this issue was discussed! In the last few years, even getting a 5% return has been a daunting task.

I'm conflicted how to think about this issue. On the one hand, seeing defined benefit pension plans for govt workers seemed unfair (given I don't have one of these in the private sector). On the other hand, I know I can probably never retire on my defined contribution pension plan (in the private sector).

Can GenY ever retire in the traditional sense? The best I've read on this topic is Tim Ferris who says "traditional" retirement is no longer an attainable dream (he calls this the deferred life plan) ... rather people should work towards many periods of mini retirement during their lives. I don't know how I feel about this because I know in tech, my employability will go downhill post 35-40 :(
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A company that bases his techs on Microsoft products or is sensitive about this would be put off by reading it.

It keeps 'serious' companies from contacting me, improving my accuracy on finding a position I can handle without headaches.
I've seen these in a few airports now in the UK. They seem to be replacing the "What to do at the security area" videos. I think it's a step in the wrong direction. You lose the ability to display diagrams/symbols and understand the information from a distance or in a noisy environment (exactly like a security area at an airport). Even worse, you lose the language-agnostic benefits from a well produced demonstration video.

Their introduction is fueled by the fact that it's "obvious" that people would want to deal with human avatars, and will of course understand information better from them. Though it is in fact a poor form of dissemination for most types of information.
There's also the 'software' links to Github projects and the Github icon at the bottom of the page.
Just waiting for Nokia to release a 800 dpi screen, the higher the number the more people will buy your product right?
Couldn't you have it log to some div on the homepage? Then you wouldn't have to go through your boss.
There are some people who can start a lucid dream intentionally. I am not one of them. They happen more or less randomly. The key for me is: As soon I realize that I am dreaming I can take over. There are many tricks and techniques that help you to regognize that you are dreaming while you are dreaming. I have found out that I am not able to count backwards while I am dreaming. In my reality I count down from five to zero about 10 times a day. In silence of course. When I am dreaming it happens from time to time that my subconscious is counting backwards from five to zero because I am doing this in my real life. Because I am not able to count back while dreaming I fail to do so and then I am becoming aware about the fact that I am dreaming. This works for me. I think one of the best resources is Google in this matter. You have to try a lot of things.
Thanks for the comment! There's way less information on my homepage (peterdevos.com) though.
Yeah, but she's a blogger and Camper is a company worth millions of dollars.

I don't expect good design from bloggers. If they say smart things, I'll read. I expect good design from people who theoretically want my money, because it's their job not to irritate me when I'm trying to pay them.

I've avoided buying products from companies who make terrible design decisions. Not even to punish them, just to avoid having to deal with the pre-product bullshit.
I find the Azure platform very compelling and C# a very productive language. The upcoming enhanced support for asynchronous programming in C# 5 is something I wish JavaScript would have for Node.js programming.
The only good thing about the UK plug is that it's possible to push a standard 2-pin EU plug into the socket.
In US dollars, it is a big deal. According to my Macroeconomics course, the market is pricing in your local currency to fall relative to the US dollar. Otherwise, such an discrepancy cannot persist.
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The saddest part of the high fructose corn syrup story is that that syrup is actually only cheaper than sugar in the US, because of subsidies and tariffs.
That's awesome, and I have absolutely no intention of putting a 5" display into my pocket. I survived using old school WinMo slider smartphones and don't miss having a lump of heavy, expensive phone there constantly.
This is a bit wordy. If you are looking for a freelance gig
or business op then you really should be building a business
front. As a freelancer, you aren't sending out resumes, you
are a business selling a service. Your business is very
similar to hundreds of others, but yet none of the top
providers in your space would even consider using a site like
this as a sales tool. So, you need to figure out what you are
really trying to accomplish here, are you trying to get a job
or are you trying to start a business?

Don't mention on Hacker News that you are running out of
money. Any potential partner or consumer of your services
could be put off by that info. If you are running out of
money, then what happens when your business goes completely
broke while you are working on my project? Does my project
take a back seat? Do you disappear while my project goes
off the Rails? If you fail to deliver a single piece of value
then will you be able to refund any of my money?

Ultimately, this will probably do the trick as a lot of people
out there aren't really picky. However, perception is
important. If you look like a world class provider, then
clients won't blink when you hand then a world class quote. ;)

ETA: I see you do have a link to your company, which is a web development service provider. Why not point people there rather than the location you posted here?
As bigger screens become the norm for new smartphones, I wonder if we will see a 5" iPhone 5.
"LG also claims that the high density of the display will make it impossible for the human eye to distinguish between individual pixels."

Wasn't that already true for Retina displays? Maybe I'm missing something but why keep increasing the PPI?
I would really like to see this video because if it is true, then they are covering up their mistakes just to increase their credibility.
I actually think this is a good idea. An email address is unique and easy to remember for the user.

The stupid stuff is the following:

This was not always required. I think there was a transition period were it was not enforced but only advised on the register page. And also somewhat ambigous like "Enter here your Apple ID username eg. BruceWayne@mac.com" I know two people who entered their (company) name in such a way, but without really having a dotmac address! And then dotmac was changed to Mobile Me and even though me.com was retained for iCloud I couldn't use an "old" Mobile Me email-adress, which was sad because it was a nice address with the initials of my name, but had to make a new me.com iCloud account/address. Really Confusing.
In the Apple ecosystem, you need a commitment to good design. It's less strong than it used to be (for example read John Siracusa and early Gruber criticising Apple's design choices with in OSX or Pierre Igot taking every app he comes across to task). But it's always been a defining point of playing in the Apple world, ever since Steve Jobs mentioned his calligraphy classes.
> By which I mean, write a law that says the top compensated individual in any company can only be compensated so many times the bottom.

That wouldn't work that well. Companies would just split along payment levels, then. I.e. either outsource the peons, or take the CEO on loan from McKinsey.
Always assume malice.

First of all, most of the time that is correct and second of all nobody is ever going to argue that what they did was evil -- so somebody has to.
Thanks! Para 2 of "full stack" has a smaller font size (on purpose), but I haven't checked how it looks in OS X.
There is this perpetual balancing game being played. The rules have changed for different US agencies over the years, originally it was only "100% made in the USA" or maybe some select partners (the UK and Israel perhaps) but due to competitive pressures and pricing for a lot of federal products, it's okay to assemble in the US and source parts from where ever. DoD has slightly stronger rules and then really strong rules for some devices.

Bottom line is to make any sort of computer at a remotely competitive price, you're probably going to use some Asian parts. At least some parts. Then it's a matter of where you draw the line and the price vs. risk. How about a Chinese power supply? It all depends on where and how the device is being used. Then it also depends on the system not "promoting" that device to another purpose.

You can manage it all and make it from only 100% trusted sources, but you know what? It's insanely expensive and by the time you get a computer, there are ones on the market 6x better.
Very nice job. I like the feeling you are going for and the illustrations. I've marked-up this image ( http://i.imgur.com/HWiw7.jpg ) with some suggestions and things I would cleanup. Notes transcribed below. Hope these help!

1) Center the headshot vertically with the bubble.

2) Don't use an image to round corners, use CSS3 property border-radius instead.

3) This font is unique to this callout, use the Amethysta font face used on the rest of the page.

4) This isn't centered on my screen. Use font-align to center this text, not a static margin.

5) Using a large typeface for the first line/paragraph of text works well to call attention to detail. Make the following paragraphs the same font size.

6) The background colors of the images and the box they sit in are all slightly different.

7) I wasn't sure if this title was supposed to be sitting on the right margin. Centering it would work better I think.

8) These are links, but do no look like links. Use color to show they are clickable.

edit: spelling, grammer.
One of the things in mind (as I am not a designer) is that this would make more sense in html, css and svg (it's already on svg), making the graphic talk about your own skills.

I think the same about your site. It's good, but you would take more of it by applying some css and javascript magic to all the images that include text (and then, exclude the text from the image).
Any sources? Margins for most industry are quite public. And while corporate profits are at high levels historically, they aren't that high.
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It's disappointing that nobody seems to support what Julian Assange was trying to do with wikileaks. This Swedish rape accusation bullshit is a distraction and a smear campaign. I was hoping for more insightful comments from HN.
I wasn't going to mention it, but since you ask, yes to both questions.
I get the argument, although the blog you linked to seems broken right now (the graph doesn't show the data that he claims it to show).

I agree: at some point we'll run out of things to employ humans doing.

The big question for society is, what will happen when we reach that point? The relevant evidence is that humans care much more about the continued existence of other humans, to a much stronger degree than they do (in general) about horses.

I am trying this thought experiment: Imagine a human in a position to decide whether to spend a lot of money on saving their horse. Imagine the same human now facing the same choice for saving their neighbor. The arguments are quite different, and it feels morally wrong to apply the economic argument to humans.
So, because in Alpha testing they had two issues that where later corrected your suggesting the hole thing is impossible? Will self driving cars be perfect, of course not. However, the threshold is simply will the first generation of self driving cars be hit by people more often than they hit people and I think that's vary obtainable as in 7-12 years from now they will be expensive but on public highways.

PS: #1 reason they will be adopted after the price drops? Ability for them to drive you home after a night of drinking.
Making it easy to use is design
In fact, the opposite was true: before the revised extradition treaty, the evidentiary standard for extradition to the UK was lower than the standard for extradition to the US. The revised treaty more or less equalized the standards.

The treaty was controversial in part because it did lower the evidentiary standard required to extradite to the US (in other words, it did make it easier to extradite to the US). What the controversy didn't recognize was that the former treaty had been unbalanced.
It's unfortunately not that easy. Many phones require proprietary drivers and tweaking to get working. For a while, Cyanogen on my phone (Samsung Vibrant) didn't have the ability to dial 911 due to missing software. I still don't have GPS support.
Is it just me or is this "article" just a rehashed press release?
That is complete and utter nonsense. There is plenty of well published cases that are unfair to both parties.

You should open your eyes to the fact that the law system here is certainly not perfect, and that a lot of the people in people in power do not have to answer enough for there actions.
Ooh, that too. That would be ironic if it wasn't.
I agree it would have been nice. Apologies for not including it.
I love how you have to drag the shitty image 3 times to get to see the entire 'animation'.
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Most of the machines used on a farm have to do with harvesting, planting or spraying chemicals. They require plants to be planted in monocultures in straight clean rows in order to work. If you move away from chemicals and row based monoculture you can't really use most farm equipment anymore.
It seems rather unlikely they'd be selling this if they didn't comply with UK regulations!

I'm also not sure why you think it's daring to launch a product for, in your words, "a big market".
The error logs I was referring to are on the other side of an API, and the error response isn't being returned to the client in any way. But I get your point, there should be better, faster ways to debug, like:

a) return the error messages, even if only in dev environments

b) convince my supervisor that I should have access to the shared api server

c) run the entire app stack in a local dev environment (which I prefer the most)

We're making progress on all those now, but only after a round or 2 of push back from my supervisor.
If Facebook starts spending their $16bn of cash in companies with "rich" valuations which provide equal or lower implied FB growth rates (market valuation wise), FB's stock is going to plummet. Having a pile of cash can be a problem.
I don't follow this (semi-retarded) argument of "is accused of rape in sweden -> his fault for having sex in their country"
Hey Zeeg,

Any recco's/best practices on how to best give indexing attribution to the correct site? Any resources you can point us to?

Thanks

Max
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I don't think that, but I do say that.

If you start to argue contracts, the history of commerce, international copyrights, etc, etc, etc fucking cetera you bore people to death. If you simply call it racism, or nationalism, then what are they going to do? Argue that racism is okay?

Most of the world is politics and in politics its not about presenting a logical comprehensive argument. It is about winning, and making the enemy lose.
I agree completely. The last two pieces of software I bought were both for a computer that doesn't even have a CD drive. But it still makes me feel better to have the files, in a way that more or less guarantees there's no prerequisite of having a functioning internet connection (implying their server will also need to work in order for the software to)
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You just evaluated a hardware reversing project in part by the design of its web page. Do you have any background in this field at all?
Nodetime has been ported to Windows
There is a problem of enforcing any kind of law or promises on the people at the top:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRUxmoq1weY

http://www.jeffreywigand.com/7ceos.php

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Automation is not the cause, but an increase in farmers per capita increases resistance to unhealthful or immoral food production practices (crowded, drugged, chemicalled animals; GMO crops, nutrient-depleted vegetables, corn-raised cattle, raw milk bans).

More people getting into farming could really help turn around American food
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DPI is the new megapixel count.
I thought those were some really great suggestions to a really already great resume.

I didn't know you can round the corners of an image in CSS ...
As long as you keep buying the DVDs, you are perpetuating the problem.
You're not comparing the same pixels, one is a true pixel out of 3 subpixels, one is out of 2 subpixels. Thus higher subpixel density. You could see the colour difference.
The graph shows machines already overtook horses and will eventually overtake humans (even if it hasn't happened yet). No data is graphed, it's just a schematic diagram (as is evidenced by the lack of axis labels).

You are correct that humans may feel more charitable towards each other than towards horses. But the point is that mass unemployment is likely to occur and this will be a completely new phenomenon. I.e., we can't look at the past to predict the future.
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Why?
It's not interactive, it's basically projector with cardboard cut-out playing looped video - I don't see why that would necessitate background check (that said, whole idea of background check is kind of foreign concept to me, since I don't live in US.
I've had a plug disintegrate inside the socket. (the metal prongs somehow detached from the plug). So, don't do this!

I'd argue that the really good thing about the UK plug is 1) the switches in the sockets and 2) that the devices are all well-grounded. The EU one is usually just 2 contacts, with an optional 3rd one for ground. That's bad, anyway I look at it.
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Also - will anyone be able to take advantage of these developments, or do you need to have a special deal in place with Google?
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My point is that cookies are, and always have been, an optional feature of the web. If you go back a decade or so, you might remember annoying IE dialogs warning you that "a website is trying to put a cookie on your computer, do you accept?" While cookies may be used for nefarious purposes, they are essential to many, many legitimate features of the web like maintaining a user session, and to an end user, their importance has trained them to automatically click "Accept."

They are so ubiquitous that browsers typically accept them by default now, but they are still an optional feature. This EU mandate could have been just as well fulfilled by required browser vendors to have the accept cookies warning turned on by default and let users turn it off at their peril. Instead, it has just added another chunk of compliance for web workers to adhere to. Users are still going to be the same ol' users who click "Accept" because they want to get into whatever they were trying to get into. Only now, there's a lot more room for lawsuits.
Wow, it's great to be so confident. You must be correct then. /sarcasm

If you dig a little deeper into the foundation of analytical psychology, you might be surprised. Carl Jung popularized the terms Extravert and Introvert, and there have been at least 2 studies (that I know of) in neuroscience showing that dichotomy to exist, physically in the brain.

I'm hyperrational, started 2 successful companies, majored in CS, atheist, don't believe in horoscopes, or any bullshit for that matter, but do believe not all brains process information in the same way.

Now to say the MBTI test does not have some validity issues, would be delusional. But on the other hand, only an arrogant fool, would conclude that therefore there is a fundamental problem with the theory.

For example, if I construct a test that asks 500 people (assuming highly randomized sample) if they like sugar. And 250 people say "yes". One cannot conclude 50% of people like sugar.

The best you can hope to conclude is that 50% of people, self report as "liking sugar".

So what this means is that the test makes some flawed assumptions: eg

1. people are honest (consciously and/or subconsciously)
2. people know themselves enough, to give accurate responses

There may be more, but those appear to be the major flaws accounting for validity and reliability issues (engineering synonyms are, accuracy and precision). It is also plausible, that these challenges are not insurmountable.
I work for CloudFlare. We're looking into why that's happening.

EDIT: Fixed.
Follow the link by Christine Assange (his mother) which lists many interesting points and events in chronological order.

http://wlcentral.org/node/2486
Thanks for commenting! I'm looking for a freelance gig for 6 months, to build up some cash to bootstrap the SaaS application (which will be the business front), so I'll need just 1 good project, not hundreds of clients. It's a different model than that of the top providers in this space.

The money part concerns my SaaS project I'm bootstrapping in 6 months from now, the 'current business' (me paying my rent and food) is in no way in danger (and hasn't been in 15 years).
My Nexus S on T-Mobile in the US has IPv6 already.

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So what underlying protocol would you have used instead?
It's like flash websites all over again, bring back HTML4!!!!
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