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I clean-installed Ubuntu 12.10 last weekend. Out of the box it has an Amazon icon in the side 'dock', I removed it and don't remember what it does. Searching with the 'dash' search box does bring up results from Amazon. The alt-f2 run box, while looking the same as the search box except for saying "run a command" instead of "search", does not perform the Amazon searches. Personally I wouldn't really consider it obtrusive, especially since I've been living with alt-f2 and dock autohiding. I had to go out of my way to find out how to bring up the ads.

Aside from that, I'm pretty disappointed with the desktop environment. It's pretty but managing windows is a pain (can't easily alt-tab into a specific terminal window, for instance; it also hijacks Alt key to enable menu item search). I'm looking to replace it soon, but then again I'm probably not the user Ubuntu is primarily targeting these days.
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Recruiters sometimes advertise nonexistent jobs, or existent jobs at nonexistent rates, to get their foot in the door. I wouldn't necessarily take advertised jobs/rates on jobserve at face value.
Different time zones.
There's other reasons for the drop outside of company performance. This is all based on stock prices and nothing fundamentally has changed. Apple is cheap in comparison to other related companies. Especially with $120B+ in the bank - expected to be $150B in a quarter or so.

From a comment on VentureBeat that seems very plausible for a drop:

The reason why Apple sold off today is that clearing firms are raising their margin requirements for positions due to fears of being too heavily concentrated in the company. One firm, COR Clearing, raised its margin requirement to 60% from 30%. Doubts regarding their current and upcoming product lines have already been priced in for weeks; this price movement seen today was the result of advanced algorithms scanning the news and executing trades, and investors who traded on margin selling shares to meet the new requirements, all of which put heavy downward pressure on the stock.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/05/aapl-sheds-a-yahoo-yelp-an...
...just out of curiosity, what's the worst thing that could happen to this guy if he just comes back to the US?
I was in a similar situation a few years ago, working in games in London.
The only way I found to increase my salary was switching to finance.
It's not an interesting field to me, but my income doubled.
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Here are those that I could easiest find. If the slashdot articles are duplicates of any of the two above, then sorry. I just made a quick search for what I remember since 2007, which was a bit back ago :). If someone has a comment by microsoft in regard to any changed behavior in later versions of windows, that would be very interesting to read.

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/win...

http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/microsoft-updates-window...

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/07/09/27/1345226/microsoft-st...

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/07/09/15/2040259/stealthy-win...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/09/13/1259202/microsoft-ins...
Yes, that's where they get their legal basis. It's a red herring in this argument though. Many countries would rather the US didn't have carte blanche over the three most critical TLDs. Seizing foreign domains on the basis that their registrar is under US jurisdiction is a sign of bad faith, and probably a diplomatic faux pas.
Perhaps the other 9/10ths of the code implement the other 20% of the features?*

* Half joking.
DDG does have an API for the goodies, but not for the search results because they come from a variety of sources, some of which don't allow sub-licensing.
How would this benefit the majority of Google's customers, most residing outside the US?

This would be a complete waste of money which could be invested much, much better.
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What I would enjoy is never having to stop for gas before commuting to work. Charge it overnight, and I am certain to have enough. No more driving on fumes because I forgot I was low and I don't have time to do it in the morning.

The sum of all the time spent at the pump will be greater than the times you spend at Superchargers for the occasional long distance trip.
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I think roughly 40% of the remaining code implements the last 20% of the features, and the other 50% is just random bloat.

Request has a lot of extra code to deal with the global state. It's written as one giant class that sets all of its properties on itself (e.g. this.method = options.method, etc., etc., followed by "http.request this"). Further, when it handles HTTP redirects, rather than instantiate a new instance of itself or something it just calls its init method a second time and has to make sure that it resets all of its properties to their default state (e.g. this.method = 'GET'). This is where most of the bugs come in, as well as most of the bloat.

In contrast, our's is a method that calls itself again with new options based on the context when it needs to handle HTTP redirects so we don't need to worry about that sort of stuff.
> Then, of course, Twitter boiled it down to nothing
> but status updates.

IIRC, Facebook copied the 'status updates / news feed' idea from Twitter.
Do you have iBooks installed?
Actually, w3m may be more apt.
Sounds like RMS...
You are currently earning below the 10th percentile for C++ jobs advertised in London (that list a salary).

You might not get £60K or £80K straightaway but you will get £40K just by not accepting a tiny amount.

I think IT wages are flat due to everybody's fear of moving jobs.
>I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding the way these kinds of things happen at Google. Most projects of this nature have to work to get internal adoption just like any external toolchain.

Well, Dart and V8 are too examples to the contrary.
For this particular example, why don't you use just ddg reviews samsung "note 2" ?
I don't really know what my favorite programming language is, i'm currently most efficient in perl and java, but that doesn't mean that they're my favorites. I've not found "the language" yet.
For the PDFs, see my reply to snprbob86.

For the pictures, see the "install software" part of my post.
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A lot of clients are actually willing to pay for you to host their site, just as long as they don't have to do anything technical. We're talking £350 for a year in a lot of cases and the site could simply be an addon domain on a package with a few sites on it. This also includes a walk through of setting up emails on Outlook, iPhone or what have you.

They just don't care because you end up doing something that takes you 5 minutes and little to no energy which would be next to impossible for them.

Since the margins are so high, you also have freedom to make nice discounts without a loss.
I just completed a charting update to an application. I ended up using HighChart because of backward compatibility with IE8, which is still in major use in corporations.

xCharts doesn't offer anything over highcharts that I can see. SVG Support coming to IE9 was great but it will be a few years yet before we can depend on SVG.
Not that I know of. If I have to do this, then please see the "additional software" part of my post.
The closer you are to the money, the more pay you get. Money in term of how the company makes its money. IT is often far away from the money and get lower pay.
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As this is just a little project I have done an hour here or an hour there in the evenings or whenever I get a minute, don't expect mindblowing amazingness at the moment...version 1 is out now, 6 days in and I have had 200+ installations!
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Result: chance to die on your birthday is about 14% higher than any other day of the year; based on investigating time and causes of death of 2 milion people over a period of 40 years. On your birthday, sadly apparent there is a higher chance for a stroke, accidents and suicide. People suffering from a long-time illness like cancer also have a higher chance to die on their birthday.
I don't think NIH counts as NIH when you have a very clear and justifiable rationale. The best projects document their rationale and provide a direct, unbiased comparison to allow developers to make a better decision on which to use, as you have. The worst (and true NIH) projects pretend that the original project does not exist or document a biased comparison without acknowledging the points that are subjective.

There is one improvement I'd make. Your story here (spent hours debugging and filing bugs; spending the same amount of time rewriting got you further) is the most convincing reason to me. I'd document this in your comparison!
I guess it's hard to pay for an employee that you never see

Then again we live in times with high bandwidth connections to almost everywhere, where video conferencing is easy, phone calls are free, setting up chat rooms is easy, distributed source control systems enable efficient collaborating on source code, and shared documents (such as Google Documents) are ubiquitous.

I'm sure a useful middle ground is possible, if companies were actually using all the toys they (help) develop themselves.
The thing that's been keeping me from buying an Apple device is being associated with their users. This "better than you" attitude is something I just can't stand, it's repulsive. Instead of being ashamed that they wasted $3000 on a computer they could have had for $500 (and could have donated the other $2500), they feel smug about it? WTF!
That comment so made my day :)!
For now. All the apps out there are still signed with Apple's cert.
"I think the bug tracking system is one of the best features of the site."

It's a fantastic tool for avoiding annoyance with bug reports by losing track of tickets. It's perfect for that.

Seriously, though: any ticketing system that doesn't have a way to assign and sort by priority is just fundamentally broken (and no, tags don't count). But almost everything about the usability of the thing is goofy: bulk updating allows you to inadvertently delete tags (oops! hope you didn't need those!), you can't filter based on assignee, and it's easy to get stuck in a view where managing/filtering tags is impossible, with no indication of how to get to the useful interface again (why do they even have a view like that?)

But truth be told, I recognize that GitHub isn't an issue-tracking tool. That's fine. I have these sorts of complaints about nearly every part of the web interface. It's gotten to the point where I avoid using the web UI whenever possible -- it's just a hosted git repo, nothing more. And given that the product is little more than a UI wrapper around git...well, I feel like these are pretty core problems for a user-focused team. So what are they focusing on, anyway?
Dropbox is essential for getting files onto your ipad. Stupid I know, but that's certainly what I've found.
You sir, have made some pretty good points there. I'm just starting off, looking to launch my app in February. These shall help me in the long run.
The other reason would be that the Internet worked fine until now and is great just as it is.

It could be better, but when I think of all the things that we could fix, like decentralized DNS, I'm pretty sure any regulators will take it in the opposite direction.
You know what they say, some people's bugs are other people's features :) Well... actually I think noone says that, but they should start...
I heard someone said that Apple have moved on from Google Maps
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Couldn't agree more. How about photos, something supposedly mainstream?! Have fun recreating all the events/albums/locations on each device. It's just a pain to deal with. Instead, I save my iPhoto library on Dropbox so that I can sync it between devices. Sub-optimal, to say the least. Apple services have always been underwhelming.
Did not work with Conkeror (based on emacs) either.
This is the single biggest thing that relegates them to "just a consumer electronics" firm - and as we know, CE firms are lucky to have 10 years on top.

Yeah this is the thing exactly. Amazon and Google are essentially content plays in mobile. Devices can come and go but as long as people are using their services they're making money.

Apple is a hardware play and that gave them a big first-mover advantage but unless they can keep coming up with iPhone/iPad level home runs that advantage deteriorates quickly. I will never buy anything in iBooks, for example, because I don't want to be limited to Apple's devices to read my books, even if I do currently have an iPhone, iPad and MBA.

They do have some platform tie-in with iTunes Music but the writing is on the wall there. Subscription models are the way forward.
You don't have to install software. It's standard on a mac, and photo software is standard on a PC.
It's a HyperLocal service, the point is buying&selling things around you at that moment in time.

Thanks for your comment.
It sounds like you see all the pieces, so you hopefully have all the information you need to fix your situation.

Everybody finds themselves in the same underpaid first job (or three) out of school while they build a reputation. The important thing is to recognize when you've become a Computer Vision Specialist with strong C++ and Python skills and on that day go out and find the place that pays $200/hr for that sort of thing.

There are lots of that place. As you've no doubt noticed, none of them are advertising in the London newspapers. But if you started networking your way into the computer vision scene in California and maybe finding some folks who might be in a position to hire a guy for a remote position, I can't imagine you'd do much worse than you're doing now.

Incidentally, the fact that "everybody" is trying to hire at comically low salaries doesn't mean that the market salary is comically low. Quite the opposite. If the market really did contain skilled people willing to work for such terrible wages, those companies wouldn't be hiring anymore. The fact that they keep at it is adorable in a way, but from your perspective it should be taken as meaning that they're just not being realistic about what a skilled developer should cost.
The feedback feature seems broken:

>> :feedback my@email.com "my feedback" (I also tried without the ")
"Sorry your feedback could not be send :-( Please try again."

I love it. I really do. Congratulation and keep up the good work with ddg!
The vast majority of telecommunication companies are either openly, or in practice, arms of their respective governments, so increasing telco power is tantamount to centralizing power towards governments.
I would assume 99% of users install iBooks on their iPad. It's not that hard to download it.
I use Ubuntu on two personal machines, and I really wish that it had a "back door" as nice as Windows Update.

Well at least Ubuntu, when it offers updates, offers updates to all programs installed on the machine in one central place in a sensible way.

My experience with windows is that every application has its own upgrade checks, or even a background process specifically to check for upgrades for that application. This hogs down the machine, and ofcourse they all require rebooting every single time there's an update.
(which would be ok-ish if it was just once, but as it's not coordinated they all want you to do it in turn)
Hmm, I don't use Linux myself so I can't really be 100% sure. But I found the info here. Maybe they don't mean "platform rendering engine" when they say "system fonts"?

http://blog.jetbrains.com/webide/2012/10/phpstorm-webstorm-5...
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Using a secure RNG is always a good idea, unless you know you need lots of (predictable given the seed) random numbers for example in Monte Carlo sampling.

Even in randomized algorithms you may have to be careful what RNG you use, because of DDOS risk. For example see the problems with Python and Ruby hash tables that could be exploited to have worst-case behavior because their behavior was entirely predictable.

In a MMO you most certainly want to use a secure RNG, as cheating is rife in them. If a player can get an advantage by predicting the RNG, someone will.
How is this an issue with Apple fanboys? They're not the one's complaining about Apple.

Surely it's an issue with the people who tend to be Open Source advocates, complaining that Apple are no longer open?

Not that it's really an issue at all, it's just different strokes for different folks. With computers doing as much as they do now it's seems highly unlikely that a single company will ever fulfil all our computing needs. Certainly having seen the Wintel domination of the 90s it really doesn't seem that desirable so really what's the problem?
The problem is that we don't have a choice. There's only one premium option to go for. And it's apple. It's surprising how none of the others have at least created a luxury brand, similar to Toyota/Lexus or Volkswagen/Audi.
fast forward a thousand years.... sentient rats using human remains to build new commnunication networks....
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> Mac OS specific APIs for video, 2D, 3D, networking ....

Which other platforms had/have non platform specific APIs for 2D and video?
Team Best Buy seems pretty unethical, and when Best Buy's lawyers manually check which CEO e-mails were relevant to the case I'm sure honest mistakes sometimes get made. It would be awfully easy for dishonest 'mistakes' to be made with one or two of the most incriminating e-mails.

Are you really saying there's no independent auditing? That the entire system relies on Best Buy's lawyers incriminating their co-workers and the employer who puts bread on their table? That seems exceptionally trusting in lawyers' professional ethics.

Does the discovery at least have to be done by an different law firm to the corporation's day-to-day legal work?
Same here. I'm typing this on a macbook pro that I'm currently sucking data off onto my x220 running Arch. Similar setup. That msata bay rocks with an SSD in it, eh?

FWIW, specs say 8gb max but I've got 16gb ticking away in it nicely. You're probably aware of that but worth posting here for others if they are interested. One of the best laptop keyboards I've used.
iCloud is not a joke, it does it's job well for the 99%. I turn on my new phone, enter my apple id, and I have all my settings, apps, etc synced and ready to go.

You must not have used iTunes Match on a daily basis. Very often some songs do not play at all, no matter how often you retry. Every week or so I cannot connect to the 'iTunes Cloud' at all, reducing my music library to what I have downloaded. Match and iTunes in the cloud are terribly broken.
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True - but there are also real jobs for this rate and higher. The advertised rate for that posting is lower than my current daily rate.
I have a feeling iCloud is just testing the waters with Photo Stream. Full on cloud hosting of photo libraries is a large undertaking requiring masses of storage. I expect it will come eventually.
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The top comment here is misguided at best TMobile in the uk is actually the only company that current has an LTE network.
And one of the most innovative , TMobile USA seems to be a total joke of a company that just shares the name.
Let's compare apples to apples (pun not intended) but it is fairly obvious you cannot do AS much on a tablet as on a desktop computer. You cannot do graphic design as well, you cannot do 3d modeling, photo editing, you cannot type office documents in the most efficient way, you cannot compress movies at reasonable speeds, you cannot develop for it (although I know this is technically possible it is far from being accessible to anyone compared to Desktop experience).

It is not just about programmers. It's about people who want to do more than checking email, reading websites and running a few apps here and there for convenience. When parents want to edit HD videos of their kids taken with their camcorder they will not run to their iPad to do it, because it would be too damn sluggish for that. When you need to produce something or edit something and you do not want to do a dirty job you will sooner or later have to go back to sit in front of a laptop or desktop and use a mouse unless you like wasting your time, no matter what you computer knowledge is.
I don't get this. Why are you using svbtle theme if you don't belong to the svbtle community ? I know there is some wordpress theme out there that clones svbtle but it's not an excuse.

Using svbtle theme does not make you smarter.
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Exactly? No one should use that theme.
> the IT field operates at full employment. At 3.7% unemployment you have a huge amount of bargaining power.

this could also be seen as a market at equilibrium, so the bargaining power is already accounted for.
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There is also a contingent of UNIX users who use Mac OS X pragmatically. I have never had the illusion that Apple wasn't a consumer device company at heart. But Macs have been great UNIX workstations for the last decade or so. Once they make more serious attempts to turn their laptop line into 'iOS computers', I'll switch back to Linux or BSD. But for now, it is good hardware with a good UNIX operating system.
Coincidentally I submitted a HN article earlier that included this on a list of libraries.

HN discussion url: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4880974
Not all political action should be seen as advantageous for oneself...but it should almost certainly be advantageous for oneself. I think that any politician that proposes sacrificing their own team's quality of life for the benefit of others won't last very long.
.com/.org/.net are not desginated to the US. They are generic top-level domains operated by a US company. Go use .us if you want a ccTLD for the US. Or .edu/.gov/.mil which are sponsored TLDs for use by the US.
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Oh no! Are you telling me that someone can read my plain text emails or check my facebook for what I publicly post there!?
I wish to concur the statement that Ubuntu is now the fastest most user friendly modern OS out there.

Try it you might be surprised.
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Excellent find, thanks!
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