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Apple doesn't "remove a user visible file system", they just make direct file system manipulation not as much of a necessity. And yet, this is not why their OS is good: it's because, if you want to, you can manipulate the file system and view it in as much detail as a BSD (OpenBSD) server, with just as much ease, combined with great hardware-software compatibility.
As someone that's done some work on parallel chess, I don't see how this could have anything to do with the subject.
I like the concept, but $7,500 is an outlandish amount of money for a vacation. It also represents 5-10% of total compensation for an engineer. Plenty of people take 6 month vacations for that kind of money.
Dotcom would disagree:

> Dotcom complained about the delay in postings on Twitter today.

“Dirty delay tactics by the U.S.,” he wrote on the social media site. “They destroyed my business. Took all my assets. Time does the rest.”

The NZ prosecutor and DOJ screwed this so badly they'll need at least a year to get the same response. In the meantime, the business is still shut and no one is getting paid.
Ah yes, I had forgotten about that.
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But then the "free to play" part doesn't mean much.

From the FAQ:

"For gamers, every game will be free to play: what this means is that there will at least be a free demo"

So it's free to play in the way that a great number of games not generally considered free to play are free to play. Or in the way the XBLA is a free to play platform or something.
See my other comment in the thread; based on the information out there, it really feels like the standards have not kept up with what's going on in the real world, and may be too strict in their definition of whether something's recyclable.

Of course, it's hard to say for certain, because the actual criteria aren't public -- some digging around turned up the fact that you have to buy the documents from IEEE.
I think konstruktor was talking about iOS.
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Well not EXACTLY that, but close :D

Just imagine taking your normal 360 controller and split it along the center. Now add gyroscope/accelerometer and two tracking cameras/LEDs (just like the WiiMotes).
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What? Perth is, colloquially, the arsehole of nowhere.
What should probably get your goat though, is that this method completely destroys price discovery and was a clear case of the market not working because of collusion.

The other things that should strike you is the scale of the fiasco and the collateral damage -

Lets see... I would likely be using LIBOr for financial models, at the very least those focused on bond pricing and hence any shorts/longs made on that - all of those are off.

LIBOR does get used to set variable rate mortgages, Switzerland uses it for national projections for a few other things.

In essence those few terms I've mentioned are already fast approaching nearly a trillion dollars in affected securities and financial instruments.

> they are not the targets of the fraud...

Not being the target means little if you are still collateral damage. Heck the collateral damage was higher, since all the financiers were away the game was rigged by 2006. "LIBOR has become dislocated from itself".

Losers who weren't direct targets would be someone making a deposit - they were getting lower interest rates than they should have.
Oh I see. I had no idea that it was a promotion. I guess I got lucky. :)
The purchase price of the device (investment/capital expenditure) is not neccessarily the greatest expense. Sure, in many smaller companies it will be, but in companies that have (for example) information protection policies or systems/services beyond email, support and operating costs for BYOD can in fact be more expensive.

Consider the simple scenario of using GMail, calendar and contacts - on a MacBook you need to know to configure it as an Exchange service, or you only end up with mail. Many may want to enforce some sort of policy on the device - such as requiring a PIN to unlock.

Spread that across all the device types users might bring in and compare that with managing just a single device, for example BlackBerry.

Sure, there are tools these days that make it easier to manage. Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, for example, can be managed using SCCM. But in many cases BYOD does't deliver the (often naive) expectations of savings.
Have you looked at the Windows 8 tablet resolutions yet? > 1080 will be the new defacto standard.
Labeling would definitely be a key feature set especially if it's heavily integrating with email service providers like gmail. What were you thinking of building it in?

I've been working on something similar in the past year and I'm considering bringing it back.
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They aren't making my job any easier trying to attract new blood to Mapquest by offering perks like that. I'm tempted to interview just to see what they're all about.
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thank you for your suggestion....we will add our information in our about us page....actually we followed our competitors...most of our competitors did not disclose their whois as well as contact information....anyway, i think you have a good point and we will disclose our info in our "About Us" page....
With deregulation I don't mean the lack of regulatory laws. It's not about the quantity here, it's about the QUALITY of the regulatory framework.

What good are thousands of pages of "regulatory" law when they are filled with loop holes? In fact these monstrous laws are perfect for the big corporations, their lobbyists and lawyers. These people live for this. Heck, they even often write the laws themselves!

Have a look at the deregulation of California's energy system. These are not small laws. However, this is an example of clear deregulation, and was not a regulatory effort.

In fact Enron was able to pull off completely immoral, but often at many times legal, shenanigans. I mean they shut down half of the power plants because their energy traders could make a profit from the rising prices. Holy shit. In the mean time they cried wolf and said that regulation was killing them. BULL SHIT. It was the exact opposite.

People actually died from these power outages. Again, holy shit.

With big so-called regulatory and "deregulatory" frameworks filled with loop holes, small business owners are basically shut out of the market because they don't have the resources necessary to even begin to understand the matter.

In the mean time, big corporations can fully exploit these custom-made laws, profit from them and then later, call for "more deregulation".

I hope you do realize that this is a vicious cycle.
Since you apparently get the full $7500 regardless of how much your vacation costs, what he's effectively doing is docking everyone's pay $7500 if they don't take at least one fully disconnected vacation a year.
Care to elaborate? What programs bundle this?
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Well said. I'm an ex-quant, and one thing that is supremely irritating about discussions of Abacus is the inability of people to distinguish between acting as a fiduciary and acting as a market maker.

When a counterparty calls GS up for a quote on the JPY/USD cross, they don't care one iota what GS's internal positioning is, or where GS thinks the JPY/USD will be in 3mths time, or any other number of things. These are sophisticated counterparties (as you pointed out) who

1) know that GS doesn't owe them a fiduciary duty, and
2) don't expect it to.

It seems like theres a whole population of people out there who think that GS is playing some sort of trusted financial advisor role in OTC derivative trades, when in fact it's in a bidding war between 4 other banks to get you the lowest rate.

That's the case in Abacus as well, AFAICT. If you don't want to trade thinly traded opaque credit derivatives, don't trade them. No-one is forcing you to. But if you don't understand your risks, you trade, and your position moves against you, don't blame your counterparty. Blame yourself.
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I'm curious to know if he waived his right to speedy trial? If he hasn't, his US legal team is ready, and the prosecutor isn't this will be over in 30 days.
Cranks don't really put their money where there mouth is. If you haven't seen it yet, I'm sure you'll enjoy looking at the STEPS project: http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php

In summary, the goal is a user-facing system in 25k SLOC, from kernel to GUI apps, including all the code for compilers for the custom languages they made. They call the languages "runnable maths", or "active maths", where they think of a minimal notation to specify how a system should behave, and then implement a compiler to run that notation as code. They manage this through a compiler-writing language, ometa.

For example, to implement TCP/IP, they parse the ASCII tables from the RFCs as code. Seriously, they just take it as is, and have a compiler to run it as code. The implementation is supposed to be around 200 LOC (includes the code written in Ometa for their compiler).

There's also a graphic subsystem, apparently with all the functionality of Cairo (which is 20k LOC) in about 800 LOC.

Crucially, all this code is supposed to be very readable. Not line noise like APL. The expressiveness comes from having custom languages.
I like the idea, but I wonder a little bit about the implementation. When you say "disconnect" do you mean from the company? If so then I totally agree. (Granted if I were an employee, I'd probably go somewhere on the beach, swim in the sea during the day and program my own projects in the evening or afternoon for a couple hours when the kids are taking a nap.)

There is no greater joy in life than watching things that you make come to life with your mind and with your hands. It's one thing I love about brewing, cooking, gardening, and programming. That isn't so great when you work for someone else, but one thing vacations can give people with a creative drive is a chance to create their own things.

So I guess one thing I would caution about is that it might be worth pointing out that IP assignment clauses shouldn't reach vacation time either.
You seem to be missing the point of this exercise: HFS+ is a Unicode-aware filesystem, so the idea that "you want your filenames encoded as ISO-8859-1" is fundamentally invalid and unimplementable. You can't specify an encoding for the files you are saving, as they are semantically "Unicode" and saved by the filesystem as UTF-16 on disk as an implementation detail.

The reason that HFS+ came up is that, as a filesystem that stores filenames as actual "strings" as opposed to "arrays of bytes", you actually get the correct behavior now on OS X with Python 3 (which you also seem to have missed); thristian contended that this behavior would also work correctly if I mounted the HFS+ image on Linux, and it does not.

To explicitly demonstrate this on Mac OS X (where the filename will be sent as Unicode through to the Unicode filesystem API and then saved correctly through HFS+ to disk with the original name, no matter what encoding you happen to have set as part of your locale, as your locale truly should be irrelevant in this specific situation, just as in my JSON analogy):

mac$ cat test.py
#!/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import locale
print(locale.getpreferredencoding())
open("testä", "w")
mac$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ./test.py
UTF-8
mac$ LANG=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 ./test.py
ISO8859-1
mac$ ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 4 saurik staff 136 Jul 11 00:36 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 278 saurik staff 9452 Jul 11 00:28 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 saurik staff 159 Jul 10 18:07 test.py*
-rw-r--r-- 1 saurik staff 0 Jul 11 00:36 testä
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even 6th ed has more than 10000 lines, but I incline to think the writer dropped one zero accidentally.
Is nobody worried that this developer wonders out loud why he can't re-use his GitHub key with Heroku? Basic knowledge seems missing.
I don't know about other European countries, but at least in Germany that's already a very real thing and has been for decades.

See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urlaubsgeld (use google/chrome translation).

Not everyone gets it, it usually depends on your (or your union's) salary negotiations with the employers.

While the Vacation Money is typically paid in June for the summer vacation, many companies also offer another an extra salary (or only a certain percentage of your regular monthly salary) in December for your christmas expenses.
Well in Austria (and Germany afaik) we get a vacation bonus pay ("to be able to afford vacation"). Its about one month of regular pay. Additionally, we get another month of pay for christmas ("to be able to afford gifts for the loved ones").

It's often called the "13th and 14th month of pay".
Come work in Europe ;-)
Yup, there's also been some news recently about companies with unlimited vacation policies. Both seem like a pretty cheap recruiting/retention strategy.
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> Consider the simple scenario of using GMail, calendar and contacts - on a MacBook you need to know to configure it as an Exchange service, or you only end up with mail.

Actually, you can't set up Google anything with Exchange on a MacBook. For whatever reason, Google Sync only accepts connections from mobile devices. I'm not sure if the ActiveSync protocol is substantively different for mobile vs desktop, or if Google is looking at user agent strings, or what, but you can verify it for yourself pretty easily.

The only way to get calendar and contacts on OS X 10.7+ is to set it up as a GMail account, which magically does the right thing.
That is not so bad, I didn't read clearly enough and was under the impression it was for actual expenses. This just means all existing employees get a $7500 raise, and are now forced to take a disconnected vacation. Future employees will just treat it as part of the compensation package.
I just logged in to my unused dropbox account with my galaxy s3 ... surprisingly, I get 48gb for free for 2 years just for having a samsung phone ... thats a nice touch :)
With relational databases, I found that when I actually took at look at logic and set theory that I started to really understand what Codd wanted to achieve.

Only... less Latin, more Math :-)
all those triangles look kinda cool. i guess.
> "what he's effectively doing is docking everyone's pay $7500 if they don't take at least one fully disconnected vacation a year"

That's only true if their base salary/bonuses are $7500 below market, which I doubt is the case.
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Also, that only helps in boolean contexts, not with any function calls.

Could you clarify?
The same is true in Spain (in 90% of the jobs). Of course, that means that you'll get less each month to make the same amount at the end of the year, but it is convenient.
You're missing your parent commenter's point. He/she means to say if more people are wrong then the odds are stacked higher against the candidate you expect to win therefore the payout in favor of your candidate would be higher. Sorry I think my comment is even more confusing but I hope you arrive at this conclusion anyway.
Why is the title of the post renamed? Should the titles be boring and dry instead of being informative one line summary of the article that people may find interesting enough to read it?

Look what happened to the previous submission of the same article here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4224966. Such a good article went unnoticed because the title was plain unattractive.

Can we have a little bit of 'submitters freedom' here?

P.S: Original title was: "Internet by Brilliant minds, Web by Amateurs, Browser a lament"
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> The same is true for projects: there are relatively few projects that force you to use some particular language.

On the corporation consulting world I work, the technology is always part of the RFP sent by the customer to the consulting companies.
In Netherlands they hold back part of your salary each month then give it to you in one big chunk for Holiday each June (or maybe each June and December).
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The "disconnect" rule is an excellent policy for several reasons. In addition to the ones outlined in the post - there is the concept of seeing your own work with "Fresh Eyes". I truly wish I could do this once very six months at least.

I was shocked last year when I came back from a couple of weeks abroad to discover that the very first Architectural decision we had made on a project seemed blatantly off. Turns out it was - no one had considered questioning an implicit assumption - no one (especially me whose job it was) had even caught the assumption.
Saved us at least 3 iterations when we fixed it.
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Though I have a question: How have you confirmed the last two steps (BKK to KBP to JFK)? I tried Aerosvit site, Hipmunk and Skyscanner and haven't been able to replicate this result.
Looks like the arts patronage is back.

People often ask what there could be instead of copyright, and patronage is one of the options.

Besides targeted donations like this, you could have a general fund (restricted geographically, or worldwide), and pay a portion of it out based on viewership.

Anyone who donated anything at all to the fund gets to go to the performance/movie/play/circus, etc. They count how many viewers they had, then they get a proportional amount.

In exchange they don't claim copyright, only moral rights.

To encourage donations people above certain funding levels get extras, like backstage visits, lunches, public thanks, etc.
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If the team is small (if it is big, maybe chuck the teams for this purpose?), the whole team may consider going together for a week or two of company-sponsored paid vacation. Last year in December, we took the whole Wingify team to Thailand and the camaraderie couldn't have been better. All of us realized it was a great way to disconnect and a fun way to increase the team morale. Each one of us loved it :)

For the curious, here are some pics: http://team.wingify.com/thailand-trip-pictures
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If it can only be done by Apple, it is safe to assume that in 99%+ of the cases it wont be done.
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I think the key feature of "paid paid vacation" is that the money can only be spent on a vacation, use it or lose it. So you can't save money by not going on vacation.

Does austrian vacation bonus pay have to be spent on a vacation?
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This again? It's nonsense.

Why do people believe garbage like this?
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A while ago someone on HN suggested that whenever he reads about something like this he creates an alert in google news for keywords, and then forgets about it.

If anything comes of it, you'll get a notice.
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Hah, when I saw your question and Tidbit popped into my head - quite amusing to see you got ticbit as your first option :).

I'd almost not go for an adjective. Think about names of popular companies such as 'Blizzard', 'Electronic Arts', 'Zenga' etc. You could call it 'Storm' or 'Zero' - the real trick is just to get a name that hasn't been taken yet.

Good luck.
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Are your scripts online somewhere? As the creator of "frankenstein's ___.sh"[1] I am always looking at ways to improve it, mostly by peeking at other people's code.

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https://wiki.mozilla.org/DXR would be a starting point.
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I love this...I bet they see a spike in job applications. This is so awesome.
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SPDY requires SSL and SSL for all intents and purposes doesn't work with name based virtual hosting (it doesn't for all versions of IE under XP and on Android < 4) due to the lack of SNI.

Aside of a noticable hit in performance for the encryption work (some say insignificant which is probably true if you are google), enabling SSL is a considerable additional administrative hurdle both because of getting certificates (and keeping them fresh) and because of the requirement of needing one IP per domain.

The latter problem is going to get worse as more sites want to go SSL and we're already out of unassigned IP addresses.

If only we could have widely supported SNI. Then we'd back at only the performance issue (which is going to get less and less noticeable as our hardware gets better) and the administrative overhead for the certificate.
Yeah, it doesn't feel clean and solid. Appreciate the effort from the makers, but the result is not appealing at all.
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That was the usual model in Germany until the 80s, then it was scaled back and now sometimes exists in big corporations ("Urlaubsgeld").
There's capitalism in general, and then there's our particular implementation. And just because we've (mostly) done well thus far, doesn't mean we've done nearly as well as we could, or that our manner of making progress is economically/ecologically sustainable. (Disclaimer: I believe culture trumps both economic and political systems in measuring long-term societal success.)
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