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Nope, it's the opposite, in fact. You confuse devaluation with depreciation. What should really happen is that Germany's currency should devaluate (via inflation).

I think of it as this: GIPS have massive debts in "German"-Euros. They also have prices too high in "Gypsy"-Euros, which is equivalent to say that GIPS have also salaries too low in "German"-Euros. They just can't pay that debt, because Gypsy salaries are too low, the prices are proportionately too high, and the debts are also too big.

What you do is, you create inflation only in Germany. Now German Euros are valued less, so wages and revenues grow. Gipsy Euros are valued the same as they were, so prices stay the same, and wages and revenues stay the same.

Now, this means that Germans want to buy more cheap Gypsy stuff and services, so there's now a trade deficit for Germany, and a trade surplus for the Gypsies. Which means an increase in wages and revenues for the GIPS, which is allocated to paying German debt.

The result is that the Gypsies get German jobs and German capital, and the Germans get their debt paid. This debt is, of course, of less value now for the Germans, they have to pay more for everything German, and there's less jobs on Germany, so they are pissed off. The thing is, they still win on the long term, because now they can buy cheaper Gypsy stuff, like Spanish-built German-designed cars. They can concentrate on more capital-intensive production, to offset lost jobs. Also, at least, they got back some of their debt.
Gaming is huge and growing. There are ways to make arcades work, it's just not a straight rehash of the 80s arcades.

Take gamecenterarcade.com in san mateo. You might not know it's there but it's full most days for various game specific meetup/tournaments. Turns out their niche is giving the community a space to exist. They mostly charge on entry instead of play, and it seems like most gameplay is done on consoles not coin-op.
I have no idea how this is working with the app store but I know that on the Android play store to request refund was not simple. Now you'll have to get out of your comfort zone for let's say $0.99-3.99 - something you wouldn't even consider (your time is more valuable). Disputing that charge is even much more a time sink than asking for a refund as you would have to probably sign on several forms and fax them back to your credit card company, then you always have the possible cost of the chargeback being denied (I know my CC impose a penalty of $10).

I would say anything beyond $10-20 would be worth figthing. Of course it depends on where you are located (I would imagine someone in a poor country more likely to fight for a $5 refund than in a rich country), and your socioeconomic class (as I would imagine that a 18 unemployed year old would more likely ask for a refund than a 45 year old professor at Standford).

Just my 2 cents.
must be tough to program a cron script to send emails through smtp relays on certain events. watch out!
What could have been interesting is to know when to post on HN to maximize the chance to be in the top 10 or some insights.
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You're not limited to 10 total, you're just limited to 10 at a time. Once you use those up, you just go get more.
Personally, I think "short-term'ism" is a disease that plagues business (if not society as a whole) in America these days. I also think taking more a of a long-term view can be an advantage on many levels, and I have often said that - when we get to a point where we can hire employees - one thing we will do at Fogbeam Labs is focus on hiring younger, less experienced folks and provide training, education, and mentorship... and build a "promote from within" culture where we aim for long-term relationships. Some sort of profit-sharing plan would seem to be a good idea as well.

Then again, we have all sorts of radical "against the grain" ideas. Like, the idea that you don't need to recruit at Stanford and MIT and Harvard to get great people. We believe you can recruit at, say, NCCU[1], UNC-P[2], ECSU[3], etc., - or even WTCC[4] - and find talented people who will not demand the same salaries as the Ivy Leaguers, but will also be hungrier and have a something to prove.

Time will tell...

[1]: http://www.nccu.edu/

[2]: http://www.uncp.edu/

[3]: http://www.ecsu.edu/

[4]: http://www.waketech.edu

(disclaimer: by saying "younger" I don't mean to say that actual age will be a factor... it's just that less-experienced folks tend to be younger by nature. But we would hire a 65 year old who had just undergone some sort of career retraining program, for example, if he/she was qualified. Discriminating by age, color, religion, ethnicity, etc., isn't just illegal, it's bad business. Why narrow down the pool of quality people you're working with?)
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It's a very good think. This law was against our vision of what Internet must be.
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Usually. My group isn't IT, so with almost every purchase we ask for customization. (IT gets custom stuff too, but they also buy a lot more off-the-shelf stuff.) We have disqualified vendors for not being able to customize their product fast enough or well enough. We pay (a lot) for this. While we could write the code ourselves for a lot of these customizations, the vendor can do it faster and it's easier for us to buy the software than increase our headcount to do the work.

You'd be amazed at how much an enterprise is willing to pay for software, if you have the right niche and are going to make life easier for a bunch of people.
Just like the 'lolwut pear'.
Well, pedantically speaking, providing a free app is also a technical issue and not only a business one. Many of the paid apps have no in-app payment set up at all. For the OUYA, you'd need to implement that. Which is easy, but there's still some engineering and design time to invest to adapt (some) apps to the OUYA.

Tho, as an IAP advocate myself, I'd argue that every game dev in their right mind should have that already by now. And I applaud OUYA for "forcing" developers to do the smart thing. But unfortunately, some will still need to adapt.

But you're right, I'm just pointing a detail.
That's because they license the hell out of their patents to each other.
The app isn't what worries me, it's what else is running on the phone. Android malware comes in the form of a rootkit, usually, which means it has total control over your device.

Not scared? How about this article[1] from over a year ago, which details over 50 apps in the Marketplace using a rootkit which not only controls anything you do, but can download new code to keep changing at a whim?

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/mar/02/androi...
Huh? I think you're getting Scheme and PLT Scheme confused. Racket has replaced PLT Scheme, but there's a whole world of non-Racket Scheme implementations out there.
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The point is that with first-class types you can do O(1) method lookups, whereas with type predicates you can't get better than O(N), where N is the number of types.
I attended this talk at QCon São Paulo. They scaled through incremental, non-breaking changes. This approach seems to have worked very well for them.
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Apple's performance here is inexcusable for a software company. It displays either a complete disregard or a complete lack of understanding of basic security.
Detecting it on your side and blocking the call there would still be really useful. Most people who use HTTP instead of HTTPS probably do so by accident or out of ignorance, and detecting that during development and telling them to fix it would be useful.
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Are they really talking about Ninja-Rockstar engineers, or "only" developers at the 10x end of the Mythical Man Month spectrum?

Because you can hire a junior engineer close to that end of the spectrum. It's just harder to know whether they are really that good without seeing a track record.

From the article:

>The rationale you'll typically hear is along the lines of "a great developer is 10x as productive as a mediocre one." That might be true, but it is an impractical startup hiring strategy.

So...they grant that "it might be true," but recommend that, instead of hiring someone on the 10x end of the productivity spectrum, you should instead hire ten "cheaper" developers? At the bargain of $70k/year each instead of an expensive $107k per year for one of them?

Oh, and don't forget to throw in the cost of a more experienced lead to manage those 10 junior programmers, because they won't manage themselves.

Someone isn't really thinking about the math here. Or they like to spend their Series-A funding like it's going out of style.

Don't get me wrong; there's a place for junior programmers in a start-up, after you've gotten enough 10x programmers. There are lots of programming tasks that don't need the 10x programmer and frankly are a waste of his or her time.

But there are also a lot of tasks (depending on the start-up) that require a 10x programmer (or better). Past a certain level of complexity, 1x programmers will never be able to solve a problem well. Even if you had ten of them. [1]

What people don't realize is that the 10x programmer isn't a rock star/ninja -- as Joel said a while agao, you're not actually hiring the top 1%. [2] The best developers all just have jobs and aren't looking most of the time.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html

[2] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
Spot on. I visited the page and immediately thought "Dark Knight," for whatever reason, and I was telling myself this person is a great designer. Out of curiosity I went to the homepage, and the pitch, while moving and honest, kind of took away from him.
Disruptive Innovation: Anticipating Effects of the Single Serve Coffee Market
A great article talking about the increased tension between quality and convenience that the single serve market is introducing, and the potential inevitability of single serve erasing the divide between the two.<p>The closest I come to being religious is in how I go about selecting what coffee I brew and how I go about brewing it (locally roasted, fresh ground beans in a french press). I often spend the night at my brother's place when we are heading out for a long-weekend bike trip, and am perpetually <i>fascinated</i> by the convenience of his Keurig (http://www.keurig.com/brewers/special-edition-brewing-system) and inescapable draw that convenience affects on me.<p>As somebody who is downright unreasonable when it comes to skimping on quality coffee, I think the author nails it when he highlights the threat that increasing quality of K-cups pose to cafes selling single cups. A fundamental truth when it comes to brewing coffee is that to get the best cup, you have to grind your beans directly before you brew. This is unassailable, right? But what happens if K-cups whittle down the difference in quality between their method and fresh ground in blind taste tests? Should the perpetuity of this quality gap be dismissed?<p>The mass market is the mass market, but I wonder how many pro-sumers of coffee K-cups could one day lure away, despite their resistance on quality grounds.
I've used this approach since gmail added supported the active sync protocol. It's work out quite well.
Well, of course they were. Everyone was. The iPhone was a groundbreaking, hugely disruptive device. And everyone else's products sucked in comparison. And Samsung knew it, and wanted to know why.

This very much seems like a misdirected argument, at least from the ethical perspective. The question isn't whether or not Samsung was trying to emulate the elements that made the iPhone a success, the question is to whether it should be allowed or not. A world where that kind of "copying" is disallowed isn't one I want to live in.
Apparently this has disappeared from the front page. Anyone know why?
A great article talking about the increased tension between quality and convenience that the single serve market is introducing, and the potential inevitability of single serve erasing the divide between the two.

The closest I come to being religious is in how I go about selecting what coffee I brew and how I go about brewing it (locally roasted, fresh ground beans in a french press). I often spend the night at my brother's place when we are heading out for a long-weekend bike trip, and am perpetually fascinated by the convenience of his Keurig (http://www.keurig.com/brewers/special-edition-brewing-system) and inescapable draw that convenience affects on me.

As somebody who is downright unreasonable when it comes to skimping on quality coffee, I think the author nails it when he highlights the threat that increasing quality of K-cups pose to cafes selling single cups. A fundamental truth when it comes to brewing coffee is that to get the best cup, you have to grind your beans directly before you brew. This is unassailable, right? But what happens if K-cups whittle down the difference in quality between their method and fresh ground in blind taste tests? Should the perpetuity of this quality gap be dismissed?

The mass market is the mass market, but I wonder how many pro-sumers of coffee K-cups could one day lure away, despite their resistance on quality grounds.
Maybe I'm just going at all the wrong times, but any Taito Station pretty much hovers between 1-10% capacity (maybe 20% on weekends). I think they could certainly benefit from cheaper games, if only to give the kids on the way back from school a quick thrill with any spare coins they've got. Even making them 50円 would go a long way, since a 100 would get two games. I don't know about others, but I would never start a game if I only had one shot. Two tries, especially if a friend could go as well, would be good enough to draw me in to even the lamest pinball machine.

Note: I'm in Yokohama. I don't frequent arcades much so don't know about Tokyo, though I'll be in Diver City tomorrow to check out the ROUND1 (I heard it has a set rate for the facility).
There are certainly some important take-aways in this article.

What certainly hit home was the reference to high turnover. In my experience, attracting and retaining (perceived) top 1% developers is no small feat. It's damaging to a project when a "rockstar" developer builds out a product set in her chosen (often bleeding edge) framework / language, and then departs at the sign of another "fun" opportunity elsewhere. No one needs to sign an oath of loyalty in blood or commit to a project for life, but fickle engineers - no matter how talented - can be a net loss to a team.

Insofar as the salary requirements are concerned, the numbers are a little off. Top developers in this area (DC) command north of $120k, with junior developers starting at anywhere from $50-60. Regardless, however, I tend to regard salary (within reason) as an appropriate investment.

Lastly, as he mentioned - not all teams are equipped to handle & mentor junior engineers. This requires a formalized and real commitment, which unless executed properly - will result in un-productive junior hires. Like the author, I believe that mentoring and training junior staff (and interns) is a fully achievable goal, but one that requires planning and forethought.
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More anecdotes: I bought one of their uber-low-end netbooks, and the thing's kind of awesome. Doesn't get the best battery life, and tends to run a bit hot, but it's still pretty nice -- surprisingly speedy for a netbook.
That made me read about `+` accumulation, happy day.
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Eh, but there is a reason for this "short-termism" - people want to exit before the current favorable business cycle ends. Business cycles are famously quick and famously dramatic here in silicon valley.
> Also, some of the boards are full of people who can be described as insane- despite not having porn/gore/etc. For example, /g/.

Yes, and Facebook is full of strong black women who don't need no man.
... but Aretha Franklin only gets paid IF she performed, she doesn't have bi-weekly paycheck.

Apples vs Oranges...

But I agree with the rest :)
Would be interesting to hear your take on [1] :-)

In any case, if you're ever in the greater Tel Aviv area give me a shout! (my email is at my profile)

[1] http://www.quora.com/Israeli-Culture/Why-are-Israeli-people-...
I can't think of a time when I didn't see the last four digits of my credit card on a receipt. This is a totally boneheaded move on Apple's part
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What % of Android tablets in circulation are the Nexus 7? I'm sure cyclinghacker2's friends are referring to the Galaxy Tab, the Xoom, etc.
A bit sad that a reporter talked to the Insert Coin(s) guy, who's sort of a newcomer to the space but very successful, and didn't get a chance to chat with someone who's an expert in a similar space in the same city: visitors seemed to be coming in at a nice pace on our recent weekend trip to the Pinball Hall of Fame (http://www.pinballmuseum.org/). I don't see how they make any money, but they've got a great set of hardware and they obviously love their craft.

It would be awesome to see places like that and, say, Funspot Arcade grow financially so they could expand their offerings. Can you imagine how much fun it would be to hang out at the venue from "Hackers" (1995), but in real life? With a giant Wipeout game and stuff?!
Consumer demand doesn't necessarily equate to success or profit for the inventor.

Say you're a one man start up and you invent something really cool in your garage. You start marketing it, get a bit of leverage and sell a few. It's going great, you've got some orders, get some money from an investor, you've got a proper workshop and are growing nicely.

Then Samsung or Apple see what you're doing and think it looks cool. They get their factories up to speed and throw a few million dollars into marketing (that you don't have needless to say) and before you know it they're selling millions. Everyone wants it, consumer demand is off the chart and no-one cares a jot about you in your workshop any more because Apple and Samsung can make the thing cheaper and get it to consumers faster.

So, it made it to market, there's plenty of demand and yet where's the incentive for you to do anything when you have your next great idea other than go and get drunk in a ditch because you've got no desire to get screwed over again?

Yes the consumer benefits from cheaper devices but they also benefit from great people having great ideas and being incentivised to do something with them because they know they could get a reward.

And that's before we get into talking about how we do want to encourage failure because if we try 1000 long shots, even if 90% of them fail, we'll have more great stuff than if we try 100 things and half of them work out. research risks benefit the consumer in the long term.
If a company didn't want to hire me because I'm not active on Facebook, great! I wouldn't want to work for someone that uses such a heavily weighted metric in their hiring process.
It's also probably worth acknowledging that many organizations do use MS-CHAPv2 for their inner authentication credentials, precisely because they want to depend on it for mutual authentication instead of managing/deploying a PKI.

Since the Defcon talk, I've gotten a ton of emails from people thanking me for making this available as a service, so that they can easily demonstrate why relying on MS-CHAPv2 for WPA2 mutual authentication is a bad idea to their organizations.

The article is correct, but the solution they outline is only "simple" in theory. Most organizations do not have a BYOD enforcement or onboarding process for their enterprise wireless networks, and they used to think MS-CHAPv2 made that OK.
Yes, it would. The idea behind two factor authentication is that an attacker now needs two things to access your account: Your password and your phone. With two factor authentication, even if an attacker acquires or changes your password (which is what happened in Matt's case), they still won't be able to login to your account.
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The best developers all just have jobs and aren't looking most of the time.

Sounds like another good reason to focus on hiring recent grads, career changers, etc., to me. You just have to figure out a way to predict - better than chance - which ones will become great developers. Whether or not that's doable is, I suppose, an open question.
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More like, this community doesn't appreciate sarcastic jerks who make assertions without backing them up.
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The funny thing is that you can do that on Android by default.
For support organizations, hackers and social engineers are still edge cases. The primary use case is dealing with paying yet indignantly impatient non-technical users. These people treat identity verification as stalling, thinking you're trying to get them off the line so you don't have to deal with their problem.
It won't work. you won't do the promote from within step, or you will promote one guy, or you won't pay enough money with the promotions. It will take your employees 2-3 review cycles to learn what's up. At that point your (now experienced) people will leave for places that pay more for experience.
We've already discussed this in the G+ thread.
Hmm, thanks for the heads up. Not sure what happened there. I'm on the latest FF too. Was this when you went to the article page?
true ..

I think symbolics.com is the oldest (still existing) site / registered domain name

what was the domain name of this (whatever is on the post) site ? when was it registered? anyone??
How does it work with pop3/imap?
> It’s appalling that they will give control of your iCloud account to anyone who knows your name and address, which are very easy for anyone to find, and the last four digits of your credit card, which are usually considered safe to display on websites and receipts.

Not trying to defend anyone. But has this been reproduced enough to confidently say they'll give control to "anyone"? Or was it just an employee mistake not following the policies in place? It would be a mistake on their part either way, but I'm just trying to understand what the mistake was.
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True ninja-rockstar engineers are professionals that don't exhibit the traits described.

The senior engineer described resembles more of the diva who is actually rarely that good, because he cares too much about his ego to question himself and progress.
I think that might be too harsh. For people like us, customer service policies aren't normally included in "basic security". Obviously they should be. But my guess is that this kind of vulnerability exists all over the world in all sorts of industries.

In the US, at least, regulated banks have some security requirements that might prevent this (though I'm not sure). But outside of that my guess is that it's routine for a customer service agent to be able to make any modification to an account they want, without an extra authentication factor or supervision.

So yes: blame Apple. But be wary, they can't possibly be the only ones.
You shouldn't need to log into anything to be able to view the page, but at any rate, as tomku points out, we are going to use G+ for classwork discussion, so it's either now or later.
I implied nothing of the sort.

Just because a hacker can get the last 4 digits by physically being near you so they can obtain your receipts, doesn't mean that it's therefore worthless to remove that capability from hackers who are not physically near you.

Besides, you should be shredding/burning your receipts anyway.