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> I've got points to burn here being an EU national with a bevy of academic qualifications.

I thought EU citizens were free to move to other EU countries without questions?
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>and if it were me doing the hiring

Ie. you are not

This is more about motivation and a financial commitment (for an employer), than love and honesty.

I'd rather hire someone that have a genuine interest in my company, customers, products and technology.
Not very romantic, I know ;)
This amuses me a lot.

I've always maintained that people who pirate are generally lazy (including myself) but avid entertainment fans. Piracy offers me convenience, I can sit down and have a film going on my TV within about 15 minutes of opening the torrent

As soon as the entertainment industries cotton onto the fact that people demand content that's cheap and convenient to access, I think you'll see a drop in piracy rates. Netflix streaming is a step in the right direction but a very slow one.

In fact I'd say that the rate of my nefarious pirating ways has dropped considerably just because Netflix is quicker than pirating and I'm more than happy to pay the subscription fee to get that level of service
Shouldn't have to. Safari is perfectly adequate. Heck, I get the message on v20 of Google Chrome.
Pubs are too damn loud. That's my problem with them. There's very few quiet places to have a drink. Many of the ones that do exist are upper class targeted.
Australia's proposed Internet surveillance powers akin to ‘China, Iran’
I wanted to replay the EXACT same thing, haha
If you really care enough about this to understand the background, check out the old Stackoverflow podcasts: https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/?W4

(They have decent transcripts there)

Jeff & Joel talk about the concept of what makes a good question a few times -- the way they got to there is interesting and worth listening too. Actually, the whole series of podcasts is an interesting view into the thoughts of founders starting a company.
When you use the stm32fdiscovery , you can also write code in lua which is a pretty nice scripting language with easy c integration, using the Arduino API, and use a remote REPL from the pc to try out things.

https://github.com/SalemHarrache/ricm4-Easy-Elua
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That is circular logic at its finest. eBay didn't cut any price by $50.
The Hardest Parts of Programming
Job Title: Problem Solver
If nothing pops up soon, just move to Malmö. Just about everyone here is shacked up with a Dane and living in exile (Denmark changed their residency laws so that now even if you're married to a Dane it's still difficult to get a visa). In Sweden, you'll get at least 6 months on a tourist visa.
Forget ethics; just from a business standpoint, each new piece of legislation like this makes piracy an increasingly better alternative, costing Hollywood more and more money. Pirates don't have to deal with ridiculous restrictions like not being able to legally watch the movie you paid for.

And hilariously, it's not even a matter of price. Dotcom's 15 Ferraris are evidence people are quite willing to pay for the superior piracy experience. This is money that Hollywood could have had if only they gave their customers what they wanted.

Instead, Hollywood's plan seems to be

1) increased litigation and screwing over of existing customers

2) ???

3) profit!

sigh
Marry the girl?
> What do you think is responsible for this?

Legos? That and crappy weather that makes staying inside a good idea:-)
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I'd be surprised if many people choosing to run a command line github interface wouldn't know about aliases.
We Are very international and already have english speaking people on the team. We Are primarily a .Net shop though.
The opportunity gap
Allow or Restrict File Uploads by MIME Type
The main reason is there are no keys around the arrows, making it useless for many games. The layout issue is completely different thing.
Turbo Pascal was definitely Danish (polydata)
Sprint 4G LTE launches… with 3G speeds
This post does an excellent job of explaining, unintentionally, why the decision to remove version numbers from HTML was a bad idea. There are so many new technologies being worked on and browser vendors all have different priorities on which to put resources on implementing.

Think about if HTML5 had been finalized in 2010, with anything proposed in 2011 or 2012 be considering HTML6 (or HTML5.5 or whatever -- who cares). Wouldn't there be a lot of pressure on browser vendors to support all HTML5 features? As it stands today no one can possible keep up with standardization so instead vendors work on what they think is important -- or cynically what will get them the most recognition.
What it made me think of is how silly the whole convention is.

From a back end, sure, log your access in or on and out of off. But from a user perspective, why are we logging anything. Why do we need to sign a metaphorical log sheet every time we come and go?

Is there no better way to do it? Are we destined to spend our lives and future signing the log sheet at the metaphorical security desk for the rest of human existence?
I get the same message in the latest Firefox.
I actually don't think he's trolling, or at least not in the way you're interpreting.

I could be wrong, but I think he just clumsily phrased his response. In other words, he was stating that the point of Android is to be a decentralized operating system. Individual deployments are not controlled by any one corporation, so there can be a lot of hit and misses. Therefore, I don't think he is making a general claim that the 'point of Android to be inferior to iOS'.

Disclaimer: I'm not claiming anything written above is my own opinion, I'm just attempting to clarify a possible ambiguity.
I agree, but you could always simulate the brain's environment as well. Then you could speed up the environment with the brain. Bridging the gap might be annoying, for the brains, waiting to communicate with the glacial pace of the squishy rubbish real world humans, but I'm sure they'd get over it.
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We are, what's this points system?
It does seem odd that they would start taking bulk orders when there are still individual orders they have yet to fulfill.
FWIW, when you want to quit a job in France and you agreed with your company (the hard part;) ), you can leave and get unemployment benefits.

That said, burnout + having to look for a place in Paris without steady employment, it must have been hard.
But when will they be able to deliver them in bulk? I'm still waiting for my single unit...
> I've downsized a few times over the years. 1080 > 920 > 720 > 660.

For five years I lived in a unit that was 384 square feet. And then my wife moved in with me. And shortly thereafter, two cats. We all lived in this space for about 18 months. It wasn't bad at all; we fondly refer to it as The Cave. The only reason we left is because we moved overseas.

A lot of prospective renters weren't interested with the unit because of how small it was. But those who were interested wanted it precisely because they would be forced to get rid of stuff--and would not be able to mindlessly accumulate.

When we move back to the US, we're looking at country acreage (to start a small farm) and living in a converted shipping container. One of the biggest drivers for a larger living space is to have some run-around area for the cats.
Nuke Chrome - Crash all your tabs hapilly
I use a cardboard box on my desk, when I want to stand. Been doing it for months.
Any kind of community can become very addictive, especially to people that are going through a lonely period with a lot of free time.

I know of somebody that's deeply engrossed with Skyscraper City even though she isn't an architect, just because it has an encouraging community and she has a 4 hour commute and works in multiple cities (which makes it very hard to get into an offline community)
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While banning Safari is very strange, the author acknowledges the browser issue:

"I know many would fault me for [not supporting IE] on TNL.net but the design deci­sion of not sup­port­ing older inter­net explorer browsers was based on ana­lyt­ics data that showed me that only 5% of my over­all audi­ence was using those"

Remember, ignoring IE users is not necessarily about elitism, but can also be a financially sound decision.
What makes you think we will get said trade deal with the US?
Assuming we had all taken a wrong turn technologically ie the Internet concept had not occurred to someone, then Rocket Mail would be fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mail
Sign up for a language class. It's easy to extend a tourist visa.
That happened to me in cases like "put out the fire"...
Region free DVD players are sold in Australia, and the continued legality of them is thanks to the... US Free Trade Agreement.

(This is not counting any action the DVD interests could take, i.e patent suits. Most region-free players I've seen are 'chinese' brands)

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/blogs/gadgets-o...

My recollection is that the competition regulator (ACCC) has taken a rather dim view of DVD region locking in the past - but they can't do anything to stop it. They took a similar attitude to modchips but the Federal Court disagreed with them.
Except you can't use the USB key in two places at once.
Disagree entirely

Removing version numbers simply exposed how HTML evolves explicitly, browser vendors will never be forced to implement a particular web standard, they all have their own agenda and goals, while that may bring problems, this fuzzy concencus is the reason web standards are as ubiquitous as they are, and still evolving at a huge pace.

Putting a version number on a specification and dictating that all vendors must implement it by X date (or what?) is just confusing developers about the chaotic way in which standards are built.
Aggregator spam.

Actual blogpost/news is already submitted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4249808
We are, 'though for staying for longer than three months you need to have a job or enough resources such that you won't "become a burden on the social services of the host Member State during the stay".

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/justice_freedom_secur...
Quantum entanglement with notification
Minimize your cloud costs with GLPK and Haskell
And as for people keeping up what works and what doesnt, we need to make sure that everyone knows about resources like http://caniuse.com/
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As the author of a few iOS music apps, I'd really like this to be true but we're still a long way from essential.

The iPad music market has certainly matured a lot in the last year but none of the apps do anything you haven't been able to do on a consumer grade PC for the better part of a decade already.

An article that refers to iOS Garageband as a "21st century DAW" could only be written by someone in total ignorance of how much more powerful the desktop alternatives still are.
I agree this is an issue in the tech world and it leads to dumbing of things down.

When I first got into business, before I really fell into accounting software, I was using tech support services as an opening (I lived in a rural town of 3000 year-round residents). I started getting a number of elderly clients who had trouble with computers and no more luck than the rest of us calling Dell for help. So of course you get to know these people, and wow..... I had a customer who was getting alzheimers, but used to manage telephone and network cabling at Boeing, and another who was a former crossbar switch technician at AT&T. Wow, I've heard about crossbar switches but was confused about how they worked. Naturally my business has moved on, and some of these wonderful people have passed away, but it was an incredibly enriching experience.

Many of these people were smart and technologically savvy. I found with a little attention to detail I could set up the computer for the Alzheimer's sufferer so that she could figure out how to do what she needed to do without having to learn it. And the other crossbar switch technician? well... he quickly became one of my favorite customers. He used his computer more than many people half his age, and when he wasn't on the computer he was in the wood shop. Amazing man. And to think I got to know him because Dell didn't consider his blue screens might be heat related (he had a broken heat sink retention assembly).

I have spent most of my life in rural parts of the country. Flyover country as they call it. Most of the stereotypes are just plain wrong. Rural areas I have lived in, for example, don't tend to have political ideologies resembling the sort of conservatism that can come out of big cities in part because with fewer people around, there tends to be less of a heavy trend towards rugged individualism. And I don't think it's just where I lived. I think about the Bank of North Dakota, and it occurs to me that the county where I normally live used to have a tax-funded no-fare bus system until big city conservatives told us we couldn't do that.

All the things you don't think there are in the country-side, there are.

The danger here obviously is that a lot of tech talk regarding product development is slanted towards a market that doesn't exist. It's why I always say "work with the customer, understand their use cases, and work with them to make the interface easy." Customers are wonderful people if you listen to them.
And a PDF with a comparison of all those 39 models http://omgfire.narod2.ru/SBC_comparison39.pdf
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(Although it would typically be cause for a downvote, I'm going to point out that they have good buffalo wings.)
Push for iOS (hint: Sparrow) is coming
Is there any way to search within the list, e.g. search for abc within the 10000 results?
Great article. In particular, I like the story about the CEO meeting with a customer every day and then following up.

If you run a real-world business like a restaurant or a corner store, you can't help but soak up details about the customer experience. But running virtual businesses it's easy to have no idea what's going on. (Indeed, a lot of people want to have no idea what's going on; look at the million suckers seeking "passive income" internet businesses.)

Once you have the skill of talking to strangers, talking with customers is surprisingly easy. Most people love to talk about themselves and their experiences, especially if it lets them feel helpful. That's one of the things I think the Lean Startup folks have right: the sooner you start talking with potential customers, the more likely you are to build something that serves them well.
I'm out of town this week. I wish I could have made it!
They've got a pretty interesting mobile payment start-up named iZettle: https://www.izettle.com. They're currently using Facebook integration, so you might be able to help them out with that.

There are a bunch of other companies in the same space in Sweden alone, apparently: http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/05/25/mobile-payments-....
I'm pretty sure it's been possible to buy them in the past (certainly PS2's were region locked by default) but it was also pretty easy to get a region-free player if you wanted.

Also, I suspect they may have legal protection now; I was under the impression that the poxy copyright amendment bill of a couple of years ago added something along those lines, but I don't remember specifically enough to be sure (since I no longer live in NZ it's a bit less relevant).
The desperation and almost panic is amusing:

"The firm stressed that the figures related to the volume of P2P traffic, not necessarily the number of users.

This made it possible, it said, that "hardcore" file-sharers might have become more prolific since the ban while casual users have been discouraged."

Really? All these weeks later? Oh please.

I found out about the ban when one of my kids can down to tell me how to circumvent it. Not the geeky one either. The geeky one snorts at TPB.
How about making trip outside of EU and return back which should give you another 90 days tourist visa?

It is not permanent solution, but it give you some more time to get better visas.
The trouble was that if you had the balls to tell this fact you were irrevocably dismissed as an Apple fanatic.

Trashing Android tablets hardly qualifies as an act of critical bravery. "There is only an iPad market" has been the mantra of opinion piece on the subject for as long as I've been reading them.

The truth is that we've had non-crap Android tablets for a while now but none good enough to seriously challenge the iPad.
Employees could pay for their own training, and receive a wage premium for their trouble? That's what happens now, and it seems to work well.

The only real issue is that the education establishment seems to sell a lot of low quality training that doesn't provide much in the way of job skills. But that's an issue with the educational establishment, not with the purchasers of skilled labor.
marry her
Ask HN: Title for someone who takes ideas to pixel-perfect conceptual products?
I hate titling myself "Entrepreneur and designer" or "Entrepreneur, designer, front-end developer". I hate titles altogether but they're sometimes a necessity. What I do seem really basic to me. I'm exactly like a carpenter who creates a new piece of furniture from an idea. In my case it's idea -> concept -> pixel-perfect mockup. I suppose I'm not alone. Do we need a new word for this?
Perfect timing! This is will be great for my $1 NameCheap coupon... https://www.namecheap.com/deals/30000-retweets-0.98-domains-...
+1.

One minor complaint: I wish cmd+D had a "whole words only" setting. Its confusing when using with the "highlight all matches" feature, which is "whole words only" IIRC.
It works in the normal search, but I want an extra tab that shows the results of a fixed search. Couldn't get that to work yet.
Essential? Really?

> es·sen·tial   [uh-sen-shuhl]

> 1. absolutely necessary; indispensable: Discipline is essential in an army.

> 2. pertaining to or constituting the essence of a thing.

I think the phrase the author is looking for is "pretty cool", or "actually quite easy to use".

Edit: On reflection I think I'm being overly snarky. But I seriously do get wound up when a writer uses a hyperbolic word when a plain and more accurate one would not just suffice but actually work better. iOS is NOT essential to making music. It is, however, representative of a commonly overlooked aspect of tablet computing.

A lot of focus seems to be on gaming, but this has never really appealed to me. Making music on a tablet is where it's at. I've never owned a tablet (hence my snootiness when I read the essential above), but when I played with Garage Band on my friend's iPad my mind was blown. I can certainly see how musicians are using it to work in new ways. Remember when Gorillaz wrote recorded and released a whole album on the iPad? Incredible. However, this is a gimmick and will soon pass (has already passed, even).

iOS has taken the lead in mobile music composition and production, simply by virtue of being on the first successful tablet computer line-up. Obviously the Android tablet platform has barely kicked off, so it'll be a while before there's anything comparable available to us Droid plebs.
If you mean the Nexus 7, then it is outside NA. You can buy one in the UK for delivery in August.
I would need to stay out 90 days as well before returning for another 90 days...
you seem to be underqualified to make qualification assumptions of the Danish labour market
I like this model, because then you have a scarce resource (albeit artificially so) that costs you nothing to make more of and you can use it to encourage users to do stuff you want, like inviting others. You could very well do it Dropbox style: you get 500 posts for every friend who signs up, and they get 500 too (starting out with 3500 in your example). It's not spamming if there's a gift.

If there's a "Like" or "retweet" equivalent you might also get extra posts for that (like you get more credits to post questions on Quora when people upvote your answers or follow your questions).
How can coffee capsules add value to your daily routine?
Freshness is another value which a coffee capsule can add up. Coffee capsules compatible with Nespresso are air tight, and 0% exposed to the air and moisture. That is why whenever you produce out a coffee capsule it provides you with extra bit of freshness which is practically impossible with traditional style of coffee making.
Yeah its almost your civic duty to warn potential customers. But you have to be careful at the same time not to attract more attention to it than necessary.
"People should be required to learn the basics of programming first. They should start with immutable data objects"

We weren't talking about freshmen in college. And talking about freshmen in college is not so interesting because they agreed to listen to bullshit (information of questionable utility) by joining college.

It's much more interesting to talk about kids or adults because they have the choice.
Front-end is a waiter, back-end is a chef
Yup, I have fond memories of my USRobotics Palm Pilot 5000.

I think another reason Graffiti worked so well is that it's just plain easier to train a human to use an alphabet that's similar to their native alphabet than it is to do full blown handwriting recognition. In other words, it wasn't just that the graffiti gesture set was easier to recognize by software, but also that people could learn a gesture set that could "help" the software along.
The Microbee was my first computer, bought by my mother from the school she taught at when the school was replacing them with Apples.

I came home one day and there it was on a little desk just high enough for me to sit at, and I was so excited that we finally had a computer of our own. Mum knelt before it typing incantations on its clicky-clacky keyboard, and suddenly it began to play "When The Saints Go Marching In", and I don't need to describe the sense of wonder I felt because everybody here has had that same wonder at some point in their lives.

I asked her to tell me how she'd done it, and she just smiled and handed me the BASIC programming guide and gave me a hug, and from that moment onward I was hooked. I read that manual back to front a dozen times over, got my hands dirty poking around CP/M, and wrote hundreds of little games and tools and silly programs in the years that I owned my little 'bee.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the Microbee (and my mum's ability to engage my sense of wonder) literally decided the course my life would take.

Thanks, Microbee, and I love you, mum.
> THIS is exactly what people on HN should be doing.

I don't think so. If you start a business and you neither have a clue about your core product - i.e. security - nor care about asking someone who does, you better fail soon and the world will be a better place. There are too many wannabes already, don't you think?