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My CTO in BT had worked both in the UK and in SV and he commented that he got exactly the same amount of work out of people in both places.

He commented that in the USA hs staff spent far more time gossiping around the water cooler and taking unofficial long weekends to go skiing etc

And BT has more holiday than the average in the UK - from the civil service days.
Why didn't your support guy understand what the problem was?
Sure. It's hard but if you are telling me there isn't enough talent in this world to sustain it given a model to work from then I would really have a hard time believing you.
Mobile is the main web connection for a lot of people in Philippines. Makes sense they will try and tackle that first.
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Fremantle & Rottnest island are good for tourists and cheap to travel to.
Berlin is dead cheap. Cheap flats, cheap office space, several universities with CS programs, a laid-back life style, good living quality in many of the inner districts.
> "If switching to a different editor can increase my efficiency by even 10% it would save a good chunk of my time and let me get back to making cool things."

> "I don’t buy the “you’re thinking 90% of the time and only typing 10% of the time, so your editor doesn’t really matter” argument. Even if the premise is true, the conclusion is wrong."

Interestingly to me, people never (or rarely) attempt to improve their thought process, which would probably result in a much higher increase in productivity than editor proficiency.
I do agree on 'cheap' sensational titles, but I don't think mine was. I think it was a better title more in-line to what Alan Kay emphasized in the article, giving it a bit of context to interest someone to read a great interview, instead of just a generic 'Click Here' like the previous submitter's, leading people to think it was not worth 'clicking through'.
Friends of mine who are planning on open up a business incubator in Continental Europe rave about the Berlin Tech scene.
I use to be a mechanic, and I love nothing more than watching youtube videos of other people fixing problems I should be fixing on my own/friends cars. It requires zero effort but has pretty much the same sense of satisfaction at the end .. until the realisation kicks in that it wasn't my car that just got fixed.
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I just don't get this constant fascination of being the one who changes email. This constant race to invent a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Email is not the problem here. Its a textual piece which is parsed by email servers and your email client to deliver 'stuff' to you. That stuff can be anything in the world. This is what makes email such a success that not PG nor an entire pantheon of gods will manage to 'change' or 'reinvent'. Its the simple technologies that end up being the most genius ones. And every two days someone wants to come in and make simple into complicated because they have this idea that the world will actually prefer complicated. Its not a 'todo list' Mr. Graham. Its a generic piece of message or content I'm being sent or sending. Some of it are tasks to perform. Some of it is my nan asking how her grandchildren are, and some of it is Mr mamboto of Nigeria who wants to give me 35 million dollars - Win!

There is no problem with email. You don't want to change email. This is not the problem you're looking for. What you should be looking, perhaps, is a smarter email client which can represent the contents of various email's differently based on the context of the message. Some messages are todo lists, some are letters from nan, some are offers of a better life from Mr. Mamboto.
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Like Twitter, Apple thinks they don't need the geeks anymore. My fear is they may be right.
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Yet in Germany, workers have 8 weeks vacation and work 8 hours/day.
Amen, I live in Perth and its an awesome place. I meant its off the beaten track of tourists coming to Australia - something like <5% of tourist visitors to Aus take the time to visit Perth.
None of those are "profesions" in the strict sense of the word

Dont forget that many builders/plumbers/electricians are not employees but contractors.

And Hairdressing (at least in the UK) has some bysantine working practices that only exist in that industry
Can I be absolutely certain that the sub-contractors Apple uses won't just chuck the nasty glued bits in landfill as well?
Other countries may not benefit from Apple's own recycling programs.
Looks cool, realtime collaboration make it awesome! It fully utilizes my wide screen. These's my first feeling on this product.

Which methodology you guys follow behind this product? Is it Scrum? If so, could you talk about the different with sprint.ly?
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Thanks for all comments an replies, I did post a quick wrap up on what it means to pick a language : http://blog.8thcolor.com/2012/07/you-are-not-just-picking-a-...
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That assumes standardization of the ARM platform that mostly doesn't exist.
"The photos themselves go straight to Amazon S3"... Is there no image resizing involved? It's pretty hard to find stuff about scaling image resizing, It's hugely CPU intensive, that's a sure thing.
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The big advantage of email is its federation and no need for end-to-end connectivity (Store and Forward paradigm). Today due to cloud computing this could be attempted as a monolithic service and the messages can be stored in the cloud until delivery (or even afterwards).
So a new email protocol should take into account if it needs federation (distributed) or not and what would be the intended reach.
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Title should read: Groupon moves INTERNATIONAL headquarters to Berlin
+ excellent filter coffee culture :-)
You could make the difference between 'just in case' kind of reading (I could someday use this) and 'just in time' kind of reading (I need to know how this works right now).

If it belongs to category 1 it is entertainment/waste of time. Else (and if good content) it is actionable, valuable resource.
I'm just about to get started learning how to develop for Android and I thank you for posting this link. The article seems very helpful for beginners.
Why picking a language is not just about picking a language
>> You really want a source for the fact that his site was a piracy haven? Are you that naïve?

IANAL but I figure that for the law to be upheld in an unbiased manner it must be considered naive for all intents and purposes. Simply because that's really not an argument at all, no part in the process can just come up and say "you are being naive not to believe my allegations".

Naivete, common sense, good judgment... those are really just "recourse to infinity" type arguments that only serve the speaker and have no objective meaning whatsoever. They must have no place in applying the law.
I seriously doubt germans have 8 weeks of vacation (I think it's four and wikipedia seems to agree[0]) but maybe I am missing something, would you care to share some url about it ?

Because I am moving to germany if I get to not work for two months.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_emplo...
This is a (very) recent side project of mine, Scratching itches and learning to Ship, one project at a time. :) Some feedback would be awesome.
I worked at a company with 'unlimited' time off, it very much favoured the company. In California you need to hold cash for all employees holiday pay, with a pto system you dont need to worry about that, people took a fairly minimal (by uk standards) amount of holidays, and even then there was the off remark by managers about counting days etc.
This is ridiculous - its like saying replace the car, because gas is too expensive, so we're not doing it right. Its simple - people use email incorrectly - they use it for task management (as you state). So maybe task management tools (the one billion of them) aren't doing it right. If you use email properly - solely as a ways of communication. Than it does it's job correctly.
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It's pre-taxes. And an extended trip to Europe (8 cities, 2 countries, round-trip airfare from the US) just cost my girlfriend and me about $6000.
I've been writing Python code since 2003 and I still have that problem of having way too many frameworks. I still remember back in the old days where you had to write CGI manually.

I for one am glad for the existence of frameworks, but this can lead to pretty schizophrenic programming. For example, one of my latest projects has 3 front-facing ends. I somehow made a wrong judgment call and ended up with Flask, Bottle and Web.py on each end (the web.py end has been culled just today).
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Only a limited number of days. Currently, 6 days, I think.
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tl;dr: Esp. for standard positions, Berlin combines low salaries & rents with a growing (young & international) population and trustworthy German processes; bureaucracy is the same hassle all over Europe.

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Germany is no(t much) better or worse than other EU countries in terms of bureaucracy or immigration barriers. To deal with legal/ tax/ privacy stuff, you would mostly set up a formal HQ in Ireland, Luxemburg or Switzerland (the latter being home to Groupon EU's legal HQ).

The comparatively low salaries across the board in Berlin coupled with the potential for subsidies from the state make it a good proposition to have a working office.
(If you're looking for engineers and highly skilled staff, Zurich and Munich still have an edge but are much more expensive.) Berlin is also large enough to have a talent pool for most positions/ departments and is growing due to perceived and/ or real attractiveness. And with the influx of young people from all over the world, informal immigration barriers like language are vanishing, too.
You need to draw the line somewhere. Building your own operating system, programming language or database isn't the best idea. It is a tradeoff between time and trust.

I think it is wise to learn other frameworks and languages. It will help you with making wise decisions when developing your own tools.
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Betteridge's Law of Headlines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines

So, I'm guessing: No.

As an aside, in this podcast [1], Johnny Arbitrage is mentioned as a model of entrepreneur. Essentially someone who takes advantage of the difference between the money in their own country and a cheaper country, and moves there to try to make things happen.

Could work for many people with the Phillipines I guess.

[1] - http://www.lifestylebusinesspodcast.com/seven-types-of-entre...
I'm curious, would acquiring/hacking your fabrick "admin" machine give me access to all your servers?
I love PA. I hate kickstarter because it is operated in a disorganized manner so I feel like I have been bait & switched.

See comment by "Joseph P. - PLEDGE THIS. "

Penny Arcade's violations of Kickstarter guidelines:

1) This is for an open-ended project
2) The funding covers business expenses
3) The rewards are not produced by the creators
Are there any reliable numbers on how many Filipinos are using Android?
Funny, because loading assets from different domain actually can help improve page performance: for one it allows to work around maximum-parallel-request-per-domain restriction, for other you may serve resources from cookie-less domain shaving a few more milliseconds.
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Yeah, it can be nigh-impossible to get vacation time in Japan. Add to that the loyalty to their employer (I call it stockholm syndrome) and many won't even ask. My girlfriend is lucky if she gets 2-3 weekend days free a month, let alone any vacation days. On top of that it's not unusual to have to leave home before 5 AM only to not get home again until after 8 PM. For 2-3 days in a row. And she's not especially well-paid either. My and her mother keep prodding her to quit, but of course her position in the company is essential and she'd never want to "betray" her employer. No matter what explanation I try, she doesn't understand how it's her employer who's exploiting her...
The Memcached maintainer's reaction to this sudden, large code drop of a fork and the way it was communicated to the community:

https://github.com/twitter/twemcache/issues/2
Beyond a point, mastery over a particular framework comes only when you look at the actual code. Just fire up a debugger with a breakpoint set in the problem area. Figure out what happens and understand why your code is breaking. Rinse and repeat for ninja level in your framework of choice.
When I started using Unix in the mid-90s, RAM was still expensive, and the rule thumb was that to get best use of a workstation you should have 2x main memory as swap, 4x for a server. This was reckoned to give the best trade-off between the number of processes running and the working set you actually needed.

Shortly afterwards this stopped making sense because RAM got cheap. Should a 4G PC have a 16G swapfile? Should a 256G server have a 1T swapfile?

In short virtual memory was a hack to get around economical constraints. If you have the main memory, use it! Were it not baked into the OS at a deep level, I've have stopped using swap 10 years ago. It could be taken out of the next version of all the main OSs altogether, and no-one would even notice.
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Publishers are a bit like VCs. They invest in a number of different books hoping that one will become a bestseller. All the other ones are either complete failures or midlisters (books which are not bestsellers but are strong enough to economically justify their publication).

If you have a bestseller under your belt I guess a publisher makes sense because you would presumably have earned enough money to let other do the boring jobs for you. On the other hand, if you don't break out of the midlist, it may make sense to remove the middle man and go for it alone if you want to write for a living. All the services provided by publishers can be contracted out, specially if you go the ebook way.

Finally, I am not a writer but I helped publish several books. Here is a link to someone with a lot of experience and numbers to back it up:

http://jakonrath.blogspot.co.uk/
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Handheld linux gaming, on the go!
oh so comapring two totaly diferent era's then?
The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZt-pOc3moc
I'm not particularly satisfied with this app (not my design - its quite conservative), but it works and is a MOAI app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.allaboutapp...

I'm working on two more titles that will be in the store soon that will be a bit more games-like ..
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> bureaucracy is the same hassle all over Europe.

This would indicate that that is not entirely true:

http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings

My more subjective impression during two years in Austria was that it's just about as bureaucratic as Italy, just that they tackle it with more efficiency. I imagine Germany being similar.

Opening a company in Germany, for instance, is not as cheap/simple as an LLC in many US states or an Ltd in the UK.
The question really is whether the signing deaf community want to be integrated with rest of the world.

An interesting but often forgotten part of the development of the Cochlear Implant was the stiff opposition by the signing deaf community that considered the implantation of deaf children as a form of 'genocide'.

It's actually still an active topic in the Bioethics field. http://www.neiu.edu/~gmoreno1/Special_Education__Courses_wit...
zwass, I'm not sure why you're using that tone to reply to me. It seems you're assuming that my reply was made AFTER they posted the fix. In fact I had read the thread until the end before I posted. The fix came after my comment.

Anyway, I still stand by it, in my reply to the previous comment that maybe the user had misunderstood what they meant by security, and I backed my argument with the words of the service provider's representative.
I'm late to this, but I'm betting it was this one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4101355
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Google created map-reduce

Only if they also created a time machine, map and reduce are there in the Common Lisp spec from '84 and doubtless pre-date that by a decade or two.

mostly solved fan-out on a massive scale

Well, if you mean created a poor copy of what Teknekron (now known as Tibco) were doing in '86, and they were mainly commercializing research from the '70s.
I think it is funny that the article ends with "If you read this far, you should follow my RSS feed here." ...

Following feeds definitely falls into the mental masturbation category.
Who has the time? What would be the point?
Spain doesn’t have corruption as high as in Greece but they’re in deep shit already. Judging a financial crisis with stereotypes isn’t the best approach.

I don’t know if you heard lately about the Barclays scandal. Seems like we don’t have the monopoly of corruption after all. Even the almighty Brits fucked it up big time. Hoorah!
I know this technique in many companies I worked for.
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It is only expensive now because its a startup. Once the economy of scale tips, with more users, it will get cheaper..
> I'd be inclined to allow New Zealand as part of Australia as the only exception.

Sure - why not, there's only a sea between us that you can fit an area the size of California to Nebraska into ... pretty close really.
Australia/NZ has an interesting concept called Long Service Leave: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_service_leave
Also, remove Hacker News from your favourites/homepages/pinned tabs. You'll procrastinate here less.
> Parent suggested that despite this there are only ever thirty articles on the front page at a time, so we shouldn't see more finance ones.

No. Parent's point was the same as yours: numerator increased and denominator unchanged implies fraction increased.
It is in the US's interest to protect "intellectual property", because right now that is the only profitable export it has.

Not saying it's right from a moral perspective, but from an economic perspective I don't think there can be any doubt about that.
Looks interesting. I see a part of it as being useful to anyone, the world over, interested in outsourcing to the Philippines, but it looks like there's then a bunch of other material that's perhaps less useful from that point of view, and likely has a smaller audience: those interested in actually operating in the Philippines.
And 80% of the comments.
Kinda sounds like the Spinal Tap amps that go up to 11. Why not just get paid a little bit more every month?
> The latest published version of the standard (5.0) runs to almost 1500 pages:

Most of those pages are the just repertoire: a printout of a long uneventful table that lists all the available code-points. For each code-point is gives you a reference pre-rendered glyph, the languages where you can find it, the kind of character it is (numeric, alphabetic, symbol) and so on.

From an implementer point of view there are about 200 pages of interesting and extremely detailed stuff. The rest of the pages can be downloaded as text tables from the Unicode site and its companion sites.
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Ask HN: What should I do for work experience?
So my school makes us do three rounds of work experience.

I'm wondering what kind of company I should go to. I'm interested business startups and coding but I'm not very good yet. I have some basic html/css/javascript skills. I'm also a drummer and wouldn't mind going somewhere musical. So far I've tried a startup incubator and a recording studio without success.

I'm living in north county Dublin and frankly there isn't much around that interests me. I'm worried about not getting a placement.

Suggestions and tips would be greatly appreciated, if you know somewhere and are willing to recommend me even better. Thank you.

P.S. I Hope this is appropriate Hacker News material.
I was a bit put off as well. I'd prefer the term kickstrapping.
In short: "Start every day as a PRODUCER, NOT a CONSUMER. Start your first free moments of the day with thoughts of what you really want to do" One of the Best Practices, I recently came across on Reddit/HN and I am still 'trying' hard to follow :)
Could someone plug these into the AWS monthly calculator and try to figure out the monthly cost, when I try I get around $10,000 per Months, but I think I am wildly underestimating the bandwidth usage. AWS Calculator http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
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