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really? unable to see dimensions, how about Cmd + I ? and you use column view exclusively? than just select the image, the column on the right has all the file info (I'm using lion, so not sure about previous versions).
This is a facetious question if I ever saw one. Apple machines should be developer-oriented, the author is complaining that they've lost/given up on the plot for the power users who catapulted iOS to popularity by developing for it. If you are developing for Mac or iOS, use a Mac. If you've developing for the web, maybe a Mac.

The thing is, you were complaining about the lack of an octocore, 8GB RAM chrome book, which is at odds with the purpose of a chromebook. You can develop web apps on a Mac. You can even SSH to a Mac or Linux box from your chrome book. The chromebook model is to provide the bare minimum a user needa to get into the Google ecosystem, so that the hardware is attainable for low-income users, and becomes a complete commodity for businesses. Nowhere in there do they account for power users; it's not part of their plan, and they don't need developers on their platform to succeed
Hey dumbass USB has has serial numbers since USB 2.0 your poor man's software-raid-on-a-chip that came with your mobo might not check drive serials and rely on port but don't make shit up.

I ain't even mad.
It's a matter of whether the company can make that into a billion within a few years, and most companies who get to 10 million yearly won't ever get there either due to a business model that doesn't allow that kind of scalability or a market than can't grow that much. So I'd think VCs wouldn't be that interested if such was the case.
No, your criteria are bogus.
We simply have to establish that it is not literal usage.

Calling someone anti-semitic when you mean prejudiced is euphemistic in exactly the same way it is euphemistic to call someone a Nazi instead when you mean prejudiced. This cannot be literal unless said person is a member of the NSDAP.

Which is almost never the case because the NSDAP hasn't existed or had any members since 1945. In fact, "anti-semite" is approximately a synonym for "Nazi", though it is in fact an older term.

The term "anti-semite" was invented by 19th century German racist theorists to describe themselves, based on their social-Darwinistic style theory of race war. (This is also why your dictionary definitions are wrong. Look it up.)

The term strictly cannot apply to anyone who does not buy into 19th century race war theory.

For example, it is strictly a nonsense to call the Spanish Inquisition (or anything else before the 19th century) "anti-semitic".

It is also highly erm, dubious, to call a Russian communist believer in Marxism an "anti-semite".

The correct term is "judeophobe".

You should call someone prejudiced against jews "judeophobic", not "anti-semitic", unless (for example) he is wearing a Gestapo uniform.

The same way you call someone prejudiced against blacks a "racist", not a "White Supremacist", unless he is wearing a Klan uniform.

It was actually shmerl and not me who was getting all hissy about euphemism; I was merely calling him (her?) on his bullshit.

I realize that common usage may be sloppier which is why I did tag my post as being pedantic. I am disinclined to continue posting on this topic.
lowering tax rates while simplifying tax code to reduce/remove loopholes would, in theory, increase revenue. in an ideal world, simpler tax code would reduce the need for accountants as well, further reducing costs.
http://starbucks.co.uk/blog/starbucks-commitment-to-the-uk/1...
So this guy bought a new drive but wait Stack Careers! HN is becoming the mush Reddit is.
Pretty sure with Sinofsky's salary that's not a huge deal.
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These read rather like a horoscope, mainly vague or tautological statements. I'd prefer a blog post of the same length that explores just one of these ideas.

You could make a list of 50 short statements that contradict all of these:

1. Take the time to research your idea and its potential market, customers and profitability before jumping into code.

2. Knowing the basics is not enough, someone on your team is going to have to actually do the work, and they need to have a deep understanding of what's involved. Everyone can learn, and startups are a great place to learn, but you need to have a solid foundation.

3. Your technology stack will be critical to your future success. Don't skimp on this decision, research it well and don't be afraid to learn new techniques.

These are just examples, they're not necessarily any more or less true than the OP. The point is without even anecdotal evidence, they're not much help.

Number 35 has an amusing sentence: "A happy and motivated team is dangerous." :P
There are indeed a lot of people who view income taxes as evil. Many, many people including a lot of people in the UK. But that doesn't stop them being thought of as a necessary evil, and avoidance as worse.

It's quite clear what the intent of the tax laws is, and it's quite clear that announcing a loss to the tax office but a massive profit to your investors is at the very least duplicitous.
At least in Google's and Amazon's case, I'm sure you can add an additional 10% tax on profits without making a dent on the company's competitiveness. They are both extremely profitable businesses, in dominant market positions.
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Just curious, how have things changed?

Apart from aligning message with reality wrt. to the Cocoa/Java bridge fiasco?
Yes, we use it in production. However our requirements are for the logging enhancements rather than the dynamic modules.

In our experience it's every bit as reliable as mainline nginx.
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mostly, we use java on customed JVM, mysql, customed Nginx(tengine), and etc.
Corporation tax rates have plummeted in the UK over the last 30 years, perhaps we should bite the bullet and eliminate them completely.

At the moment profits in a business are taxed, then when a shareholder receives those profits as a dividend they are taxed again but with some kludges to undo the double taxation. We would be better off dropping it and focussing on purchase and income taxes.
What a shit blog post.
Don't give permissions to apps for push if they don't need it. And don't install crap. Oh I forgot the mothership needs to protect you...
You're implying that the headline talks about a vegetative patient but the article has an expert saying the patient isn't really vegetative?

Not fair. What the article alleges is that Scott Routley's state (1) would have been classed as "vegetative" according to previously standard criteria but (2) is shown not to be by the new MRI-based approach that Prof Owen's team is using.

In other words: that meeting the current diagnostic standards for vegetativeness (or whatever the right noun is) is, according to new work, consistent with being conscuious, self-aware and capable of communication given the right equipment.

If that's true, then the article isn't sensationalistic at all.

Of course it might not be true -- but if you want to convince readers that it's likely not to be, you'd better give some evidence that actually addresses the point, which your out-of-context quotation doesn't.
Not racist unless of course you only said that because they are Chinese...
Ah, kind of like webscript.io!

The sandboxing does seem to afford it a lot of cool use cases
I don't follow that line of reasoning. Assuming it's fundamentally immoral, it remains fundamentally immoral for a company.

If a person did it, we'd call it immoral. When it's a group of persons doing it, we'd call it immoral. But when it's one group of persons doing it -- the employees -- in the name of another group -- the owners -- it's suddenly unethical not to do it? I don't get that.

I guess it'd be unethical for the employees to act one way when they know the owners want them to act another way. But if the owners willingly let the company act immorally, then they are themselves acting immorally. Which is, of course, the case.
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I haven't read the article yet, but I find the intro

"This lecture is the intellectual property of Professor S.W.Hawking. You may not reproduce, edit, translate, distribute, publish or host this document in any way with out the permission of Professor Hawking."

bad taste for a person carrying a degree granted by the public.

Besides, is my squid proxy already in violation of this?

EDIT: Seriously, why the downvotes?
You'd think these companies would be smart enough to show a small profit and pay the taxes on it ... You don't really gain anything by showing a loss.
One of the greatest minds alive giving a talk about a really interesting thought-provoking topic, and all you can comment on is the top line stating the authors wishes about how his work is used.

If I recall correctly he is in academia dealing with some massive questions, I don't think he has put a lot of emphasis on how his website is constructed or maintained, as long as its readable to the public.

Hmm, I think some people on Hacker News are in too much of a bubble giving no thought to the priorities of others. Not everyone builds web apps. Sorry dude just seems like such a silly thing to comment on. I'll get off my pedestal now. :)
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Businesses are neither immoral nor moral.

They are amoral.
I like putting games on flash drives, be it for transferring or sharing with friends. DRM and installation requirements nowadays (ie "unportable" games) make that impossible though. I don't buy modern games.

edit: oops, the op talked about modern games.
Right. If you're above the Real Googler Line, then not only do you have 20% time, but no one's going to stop you from spending 100% of your time on your 20%T project... it will delay your promotion if your 20%T project isn't successful, but that's all. Real Googlers don't sweat Perf or worry about getting fired. They only pay attention to managerial demands when life events (such as having a kid) increase their expenses and they could really use a promotion this year. Otherwise, they do whatever they want.

If you're below the Real Googler Line, and most new hires are, your 20%T project is your 80%T project: appease your manager. Nothing else matters, not "performance" in the abstract or doing something great for the company. Forget all those distractions. If you're below the RGL, your job is to please your boss and serve his career goals. "Peer review" won't protect you, either, if you're at a lower level, because no one below Staff is taken seriously as a peer reviewer. (Remember, they aren't Real Googlers.)

The whole story around "Google culture" is based on what Google is like for people above the RGL, but it takes several years to get there, and it's next to impossible if you're not at one of the top 3 or 4 campuses.

The Real Googler Line used to be at the Senior rank, but now it seems to be closer to Staff (and some Staff SWEs seem to be below the RGL). That means that if you come in at the SWE 3 level, you're two promotions away from it, in a company where the average promote rate is about 10-15% per year. Unless you have a star manager who gets his reports promoted like butter, you're wasting your time.

Google needed to grow a pair and fight to protect its culture from all these transplant executives who brought in terrible ideas from other companies with shit cultures. It needed to man the fuck up and make open allocation an official, unassailable plank of the culture. Now it's too late.
1. You seem to know what most Java programmers think. What do Java programmers think of Java as if not imperative? And what is the thing that they assume Java to be leads to problems? Again what specific problem is the long class name causing?

2. Thank you for correcting my grammar. BTW the period goes inside the quotation marks as in "spot on."

3. While not often used, generated source code are useful as design calls for it. Not everything revolves around static and dynamic.
that's right, kill the messenger.

there's been a literal exodus away from Linux towards Mac and Windows on the desktop over the last 15 years because things have gotten steadily worse.

the problem isn't the handful of enthusiasts who are left, it's all of the people who gave up on desktop Linux or never gave it a chance because the people behind desktop Linux just weren't listening.
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Surely the problem is that corporations are fundamentally difficult to tax as they do not reside anywhere. Individuals have an interest in living in the UK vs Ireland/Bermuda/Netherlands/etc. -- their family, their job, their lifestyle, their worldview, etc.

On the other hand, corporations, especially multi-nationals, are an abstract concept. They do not have a need to reside in any one place or another, except for maximising profit.

It makes little sense to try to locally tax entities that have no afinity to a location.

Finally, at some point a corporation's taxes are distributed to people, via wages, dividends, etc. and these are taxed. This is also the easiest place to tax.
:) I can not possibly do it..... But, I am going to try it someday ;)
Doesn't seem at all ironic. Linux doesn't have a monopoly on open source, and they have no obligation to open source their software nor provide a steaming experience for Linux.
They have another option though, instead of just trying to price themselves competitively they can change the rules and enforce better.

A government doesn't have to compete like this if it holds the key to its market. If the rules are changed adequately you absolutely can say that they must pay to play, and pay what you ask.

A mail-order company like Amazon is a different beast in this respect, but something like Starbucks which has hundreds or thousands of physical locations can't just set up somewhere else if you set the rules right.
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I agree. It's stunning to me that a bunch of executives and lawyers sat together and decided, we are going to take advantage of the infrastructure and workforce in the UK, but will avoid paying any taxes there, using these clever shenanigans. And because it saves money and is in the interest of the company, it's okay.

That most ordinary people would agree that this is the right approach tells volumes about the society we live in.
Fair enough, and I shouldn't just knock it without even reading carefully. It's frustrating sometimes to see discussions like these that seem to completely ignore the very wide variety of sounds that people find pleasant. I've perhaps read too many claims that "music is a universal language" when it far from that.

You should search out some recordings; I played in a gamelan ensemble for a while and quite enjoyed it. The sound is cool, and the interlocking rhythms do neat things in your head. :)

The beats -- I'm not sure if they're rapid enough to qualify as "roughness" or not; I've never encountered that term before, but they're fairly rapid and give a shimmering effect.
If the UK set its corporation tax level down to match Switzerland's, then Switzerland would just lower theirs. Eventually you'd have a whole planet that doesn't require huge multinational corporations to pay any tax at all. How is this a good thing?
If you don't like that, you can use haml for example, or any number of other engines. It didn't even occur to me that anyone would care enough about the <% for that to be the point.

If it matters, it'd take about an hour to put together a wrapper to let you use the @foreach ... { } syntax with Rails. Nobody bothers because this is about item #1045 on the list of pain points in web development.

FWIW: For my part I consider it a massive smell to have what appears to be code in the templates, which is why I prefer Mustache and similar which explicitly force the logic to be kept separate, so to me the Razor example and ERB examples look equally hideous.
I prefer this article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4777423 (Starbucks, Google and Amazon: the tax crash of Monday afternoon)
> It is in my moral code

Someone out there has a moral code that encourages stoning women to death. Doesn't mean that has got anything to do with anything being as it is a vague and meaningless concept that doesn't inform governance.

> Availing yourself of a market

By which you mean acting as a VAT collection body and sending that money to the treasury for transactions within that market that occured under your business.

> the facilities and workforce of the UK

Would you rather the roads were empty because the people of the UK had no jobs?

There are ways to address this issue as discussed endlessly. But the last thing this is is immoral. It may not be just nor fair, but those do no interact with the morality of a benign government and their laws and regulations. It doesn't help the argument but it is rhetoric that is being thrown around that as much as anything hinders progress on this issue
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We talked about doing this at my last job, and never did. When I read "...gives a small group of employees 2 weeks or ‘a limited amount of time’ to work on a project outside of their normal responsibilities at Apple", it made me think of the same attitude- the inability to commit to full-on innovation and creativity. Tim Cook, you are a great CEO, but you don't know how to take sufficient risk to get the reward. Everyone should get the 20% time. Don't do anything half-assed, ever. Even better would be to 1-up Google and say that you don't give a flying fuck what your employees do as long as they are innovating for the company and doing what they love to make people's lives better.

This is an awesome post. I award you with an Indignation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtCiP8B2xpc#t=7s
Starbucks runs coffee shops, they are most definitely tied to location. They are most definitely operating a business within the UK and should be subject to UK tax laws.

It makes little sense to me to allow multinationals a huge advantage over local business by letting them whisk away their profits.

These profits are indeed distributed to other people, in other places, not subject to UK taxes. It's not only (IMHO as I said below) immoral, it also distorts the market.
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For anyone who hasn't lived in China it's hard to imagine how much better Taobao is than EBay. No fees for buyers or sellers, no transaction fees for up to 1000 RMB purchase, same day delivery in many cities, prices that are way better than retail, and the ability to find just about anything.
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> They are both extremely profitable businesses, in dominant market positions

Amazon are not profitable as far as I read their sheet.
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Just curious if Taobao is using this stock branch in production servers. Any proprietary modules loaded?
what exactly is the problem with Jews talking about ways in which they were hurt as a group in the past?

The problem is with shmerl saying we can't use the phrase "affirmative action".

At no point did the OP imply that there was no discrimination against other groups.

From the Frenkel article: "People of other nationalities, like Tatars and Armenians, against whom there were prejudices and persecution—though not nearly on the same scale as against the Jews"

One who thinks the Soviets hurt anyone more than the Ukrainians and Chechens is deluded.
I agree.

But that's kind of my point: What's in a marriage, if not 'stability' or the vow to keep it going? If you agree that this isn't the case anymore for large parts of the world, what's the value or meaning of being married?

Of course non-marriage relationships fail all the time and the very same impatient / lazy outlook on life might be part of the reason. I'm just arguing that marriage was meant to (in culture, religion) be different.
"No man in the country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel in his stores. The Inland Revenue is not slow, and quite rightly, to take every advantage which is open to it under the Taxing Statutes for the purposes of depleting the taxpayer's pocket. And the taxpayer is in like manner entitled to be astute to prevent, so far as he honestly can, the depletion of his means by the Inland Revenue"

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"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands."

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I don't want to start a political debate but I think a decent argument could be made that companies should not pay any taxes outside of direct use taxes for infrastructure and so forth.

Providing jobs and products people want is already quite the social contract contribution.

At the very least a tax code that people can actually understand would be a decent start. I think it's pretty silly to point your finger at other countries for making "shady deals" with companies. Pretty much every nation does it, that's one of the reasons why tax codes are so complicated in the first place.
That was added after my comment.
Someone out there has a moral code...

I didn't claim morality was objective, no need to behave as if I did.

By which you mean acting as a VAT collection body...

What are you trying to say here? That because they collect VAT that's ok and they should be exempt from other taxes?

Would you rather the roads were empty because the people of the UK had no jobs?

False dichotomy. It's not the ability to move profits abroad that keeps people employed in the UK, arguably it sucks money out of the country and is a net loss to our economy.
Hawking is a great writer, I first encountered his writing with his "A brief history of time" book - which was easy to read for someone without much physics knowledge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time
>Such a camera would be straightforward to build at relatively low cost and could easily be chucked into the back of resupply ship for astronauts to set up when they have free moment.

Having worked in a space agency allow me to say "AHAHAHAHAHAHA". Nothing gets "chucked" into a resupply, the best they can probably do is try to schedule it in sometime in the next five years. This won't be happening tomorrow.
I would think of it more like 'couponing' than cheating the system.

The companies in question are availing themselves of the laws available to them to get discounts on their tax obligation, just as an individual might claim their children as tax exemptions, and use charity contributions as write-offs.

As you indicated elsewhere, morals and law do not necessarily align, and you are trying to attach morality to a legal obligation here. That companies do the same thing as everybody else does shouldn't be counted against them, especially as it is legal.
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> It's quite clear what the intent of the tax laws is,

If it was then what they are doing would be illegal