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Once upon a time, the Australian dollar was worth about 50 US cents, so things in Australia cost about double what it cost in the US. Then the Australian economy started booming, and now the AUD is stronger than the USD. But everyone who sells stuff in Australia thought "wait a minute, these guys are used to paying double, so what incentive do we have to change?".

So now you have retarded pricing, like some places expecting you to pay $110 US dollars for a single video game. Don't even get me started on the price of food. Unless Australian retailers change their tactics, they will slowly go out of business, because an entire generation of computer literate people realize you can get 2-3x more out of your money just by buying from online stores.
Where have I heard that before... :)
I use both: I stick my private repos up on Bitbucket (where I don't need to show them to anyone, and thus pay nothing), and my public repos on Github (where I don't need to hide them from anyone, and thus pay nothing.)

And I don't miss Github's collaborative features in my private repos because I'm not collaborating in those :) Bitbucket is literally just "a place to push my repo where it'll be safe" for me[1]; Github is "a place where I can collaborate with others."

And you know what? You can even use both for a single project. Push your public branches to Github, accept patches, then base a private product on the result [just some extra non-pushed-to-public branches] and work on that in Bitbucket. For example, you could have, say, the Chromium codebase on Github, and then Chrome on Bitbucket.

[1] Well, okay, Bitbucket is also pretty good for doing deploys from: you can CNAME git.yourcompany.com to them, set up some Deploy Keys and Deploy Hooks, and it'll feel just like you had your own internal repo server for your deploy server to talk to.
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Wow, impressive. But, to be honest, some part of my mind can't stop thinking: what a gigantic loss of money!
Australia is extremely expensive for a lot of stuff. Europe is too, but less so (having lived in both).

Part of this is that the AUD has appreciated in value so much over the last few years, and retailers are just not willing to drop their prices in line with the new purchasing power of the dollar. They also haven't caught up with the modern world in a lot of ways, considering that they still have a captive audience that can't just order off the 'net.

Part of this is down to protectivist legislation, for instance the price of books over there is huge and that is in part due to measures put in place to protect local authors and publishers. The net result though is that bookshops go out of business because people just get stuff online, delivered from other parts of the world. There are also weird legally-backed 'exclusive importer' agreements that result in the same phenomenon with other goods.

Part of the problem is retail rental rates are so high that traditional retailers have to have high prices, and in Oz the online services are usually run by the same folks. So again, business goes abroad.

Part of the problem is that some foreign businesses (Blizzard, I'm looking at you) just gouge Australians. Starcraft II was a hundred bucks to buy online from Australia!

So there's a whole culture of stuff just being expensive over there. The government needs to clean up their own act, but looking at what the private sector tries to pull is also interesting.

Incidentally Apple seemed to me to be one of the few organisations that were not overpriced over there, comparing US and AU prices on their store it was always pretty even (when tax was accounted for)
So from one consultant to another consultant, what do you say when a potential client starts to say "Actually, we don't think we can do this engagement, because $X is too much" where $X is some number in three digits?
Not only software, also hardware, cars, brand clothing etc.
We've also been discussing this recently where I work. Our problem is that the small wordpress projects quickly eat up the repo quota.

The price isn't a problem, but their largest plan only gives 125 repos, which we'll reach relatively quick at this rate. Enterprise is not an option, as we're not really interested in hosting and maintaining it ourselves.

They do however say "If you need a plan larger than Platinum, contact us for details about our larger business plans." Does anyone have any details about what their larger business plans consist of?

Most likely we'll eventually migrate to Bitbucket.
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Another duck-based animated series that passes the nostalgia test for me is Count Duckula. The heated exchange in the Who Might You Be segment reminds me of some HN comment threads I've read:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHnuFmrQtMU&sns=em
If that's the case, either MS and Sony take MASSIVE loss or hardware is going to be incredibly disappointing this generation.

The Wii U has 2006 PC level hardware at best. If you need to take a loss to sell it at these prices this is going to be really bad (unless the controller is taking the lion's share of the cost).
How so? What would you use instead?
You missed the point of my comment. It makes more sense to single out the US if they are the only one with much lower prices than everything else, instead of talking about every country where it is more expensive - in this case, most if not all countries in the world.

It's the exception to the rule that is interesting, and in this case, the exception is the US.
Hey everyone, I put together a library to help make iOS client/server apps. It's a combo of SDScaffoldKit, a scaffolding framework for iOS, AFNetworking + AFIncrementalStore, a great data syncing framework, and the heroku-core-data-buildpack. This project wouldn't be possible without the great open-source work of Mattt Thompson and the Heroku team.

It's not a silver bullet, but it's a great way to start your next iOS project. The code created is something you can actually build on top of without being locked into a platform. You can even change the server out for any REST-based endpoint. Plus, it's free and open-source. I created a screencast to show how it all works. I would love to hear what you think. Happy coding :)

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Why not? To quote The Lorax "business is business and business must grow." Apple can't ride the iphone wave forever and will need to find new paths to replace the dying/dead ipod revenue stream.
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Not to put you off, but more to provide an interesting case study.. patio11 wrote about the difference between configurable/scalable pricing and fixed plans recently: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/13/doubling-saas-revenue/
I'm in a similar position. I'm a freelancer, and I have quite a few clients for various Ruby/iOS/Node projects. I need more private repositories, but the jump to Gold is too much for my business.

The issue is largely down to older clients that I only occasionally do maintenance work for. I've got about 15 of these, and they cut into my private repo count. Of course, it's easy to dump repositories on a server, which I have done in some cases, but I find my clients often like GitHub's interface. I've also put a few onto Bitbucket to give myself a bit of breathing room, this works well when projects are effectively 'archived' and have little client involvement but are still running.

I'm thinking about using GitLab, but I'm wondering about the amount of effort it'd take to maintain it. Cost for GitHub/Bitbucket vs. time to maintain another web application? Hmm...
I was answering the first part of the grandparent. It's easy to start a self employed business, but I'm referring to limited liability companies in the UK and incorporated companies in Australia. Pretty obvious really, that's why the UK is a nation of small shopkeepers. It's simple to do.

Has nothing to do with the cost of software, except in respect of margins, which I and others have mentioned are kept at near parity in the large retail sector, a sector with somewhat unstressed economies of scale.
This reminds me of working for a software tools company in the late 90's, selling IDEs and metrics tools to investment banks and telcos. One day, a potential customer called to ask about the price of a license. "1500", my boss said. "1500 what?", asked the customer. "Where are you?". It's a good thing the customer wasn't in Japan...
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I think the idea is that all the stuff Github gives you scales pretty much linearly with the number of bits you're storing. Bigger repo = longer commit history; more commits = more issues tracked, more features, bigger wiki, more forks, etc.

When you split a project into two subprojects that are fairly equal in scope, each one will likely get just about half of the number of tickets/wiki articles/forks made that the original would have. So making a new repo isn't adding overhead for Github in any marginal way; the overhead would be there either way, as long as that original repo was being used to do the work of two sub-projects.
You've got to wonder why they haven't tried artificial market segmentation between US States yet.
Probably just the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Kiva. Really early stage stuff before countries even get online.
I like Chrome's UI. There's almost nothing it doesn't do that I'd want. I could totally do without extensions if I had to, but they are nice to have.
I submitted articleak, which something very similar a few days ago, but it didn't get upvoted. Maybe people on Hacker News do not like Tor?

The idea of using Tor is that the site is way harder for authorities to get down, and even if they do break Tor and get to the server, the users will still be entirely protected (there can't be any information about them in the logs or anything).

link: http://articleak.allalla.com/

submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5175234
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It's the way it works now, definitely. In almost any other market this would be considered dumping and anticompetitive practices, it sets an incredibly high barrier of entry to any potential newcomer.
One of the key featuers of Linode (at least it was when I used them) is the control panel which allows you to manage various vdisks (and even various whole OS installs on those vdisks if you so desire, though not with several running on a single account) within the space limits of your account. That and the general support. At the time I used Linode very few other hosts at that price-for-stuff value point offered such control. Neither of these things are mentioned in the comparison so I don't know if DO offers similar - obviously it isn't important to this reviewer but that sort of thing is for some.

I currently use one of the cheap servers from http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ (9UKP/mo for 2Gb RAM, 500Gb space and 5Tb bandwidth (after 5Tb you are not cut off but bandwdth is throttled, though I've never come close to that to see how much effect it has)). Excellent if you don't need any hand holding (it is a completely self managed service) or much support (I've not needed to contact support so can't comment, but again "completely self manged"), or a very specific OS/kernel (they have their own builds, getting stock versions intalled is possible but a bit of a faf), you want a pile of space, and your tasks are not CPU intensive (the cheaper machines only have Atom or Celeron processors). Having your own dedicated drive makes I/O contention a moot point unlike with a VPS (though depending on how loaded DigitalOcean's host servers are they may still outperform this for some I/O patterns due to the use of SSDs).
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As opposed to using pirated Windows, rooting an Android device is not illegal; it unlocks functions not normally available (with the risk of allowing chosen apps to break out of the sandbox). How is that comparable to piracy? There is even vendor support - for example, Sony Ericsson has an official page that aids in unlocking the phone's bootloader (prerequisite for rooting). There's nothing illegal in this (unless you live in some jurisdiction that explicitly outlaws phone unlocking, but that's obviously not a problem with Android), and no pirated content either.

As for the manufacturers' support, for most devices sold with Windows, it is explicitly limited to the hardware - "no OS support here, call MS for that."

The author of the article is trying too hard to find similarities, IMNSHO.
Seems they've fixing it:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732488050457829...
But that wasn't a problem with Chrome's rendering engine: there were plenty of WebKit browsers on Android from the start (including Browser).
Apple stuff is still about 10-20% more expensive and the refurbs are about 10% and older versions.
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Incorporating a company is relatively cheap ($450AUD) and the last time I did it, it was done <10 minutes. All you need to do is scan and email through some identification, nominate the directors, and set the allocation of shares. Most online "company incorporation" providers send you all the material to conduct your first meeting of directors and the Corporations Act provides a standardized set of "replaceable" rules that you can use as is, or modify to form your company's constitution.

You can then register with the ATO (<10 minutes) and you're all done: ACN and TFN.

Summary: In Australia <$500 and <20minutes gets you a Pty. Ltd. from your couch at home.
That is pretty much the case with every VPS provider in my experience. Many will make best efforts but hardly any will offer any garantees so officially distater recovery is your responsibility not their's.
He prob. means specifically the pods.
Maz Spork released the Z80 ASM source[0] of Buggy Boy[1] for 128K Spectrum, though it since disappeard from his site.

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> Cost for GitHub/Bitbucket vs. time to maintain another web application? Hmm...

Both Github's and Bitbucket's prices max out at $200 a month; if you're a freelancer, that's worth about 2 - 4 hours of your time per month. That amount is easily spent on hosting/managing your own repositories. If you can avoid spending 2 - 4 hours a month on repositories, go for those.

$200 is nothing if you're running a business.
25% of the daily volume (100K out of 400K) is pretty huge if you ask me, yes.

How much is money-laundering? How much is people just moving stuff around for the hell of it? Of what's left how much is online gambling (an economic activity but not necessarily a 'good' one)?

These things would be very hard to tell I would have thought.
Gist of the post: "we messed up by building three separate apps and had to merge them, so you should merge your stuff too, ok?".
I wouldn't worry so much about that.

Seems like Bitbucket was acquired by Atlassian for two reasons:

1. Free DCVS hosting as a free perk to existing customers, with tight integration to existing Atlassian products.

2. Free DCVS hosting to non-customers, with the hopes of converting some to the Atlassian suite.
If you are of a significant size you will want to have a release or build engineer anyway who will normall be the person who takes ownership of these things. If not then it will be your office unix guy.

I'm also not a fan of quantifying productivity lost in ££. When someone has a bowl movement do you chart that against company productivity?
Why should we pay 200$ a month though when there's a competitor with a far better plan?
Really?

Because price difference was always effectively a rounding error when I calculated US price + Australian GST vs Australian price. I haven't looked for a while though, having moved back to the UK last year.
What is a casual worker?
Do we really care what music our friends like or are listening to?
There's a lot of talk about "feature, not a service" in the music space generally, so I do wonder if the large streaming startups are barking up the wrong tree.
Stuff them all in a basement, or a hangar, in a "space efficient open floor plan that encourages team collaboration and communication" (read - easy micromanagement, and cost saving). Who needs all that comfort, they should be toiling away, not enjoying themselves...
Alternatively, I also work in the design industry and have friends who do and aside from students, most have a legitimate license from my experience and also speaking for myself.
Even within acadaemia, if you don't have access to a paper, it's common enough to ask your friends at other institutions if they can get it for you. We're mostly happy to share knowledge, and we don't feel much solidarity with the publishers who charge £30 for one PDF.
So basically he rediscovered poorly Bauhaus works about design and some 400 years old knowledge about typography, and he missed the last 10 years in computer industry (when screen size changed from 640x480 to 1920x1080 and industry adapted).
He missed the palo alto parc works (let's say the creator of all modern computer interface) stating scientifically (biomechanic stuff) touch screens based interface will never ever works.
And of course his slides contradicts what he says (blue letters on blue background vs the advice of high contrast).

I love this guy, so bold that people may believe him.

BTW, doesn't it strikes you that his domain name is «prophets.be» his quotes uses a lot of words like mantra, and theologic crap, and that a theologic website is an example?

Doesn't the word illuminated come to mind?

The cool stuff about religious people is that they can make you believe impossible stuff are possible. It is almost has fun eating shrooms.
I'm surprised no one mentioned the exorbitant prices of electronics in Brazil compared to the US. For example, the top of the line Macbook 15" retina in the Brazilian Apple store costs R$12599 which is around $6395USD, while the same in the US is $2799. A Brazil/Miami return flight is also around $1000 depending on the time of year. So theoretically it's cheaper for Brazilians to go to Miami, have a nice weeklong vacation, buy a Macbook Retina, iPhone, iPod, iPad, clothes, and much more, than buy a single Macbook here and still wait for shipping. The problem is the government/customs knows that and thus catches and taxes a lot of people who try to bring over $500USD worth of products. And for whoever mentions that the cost of living is cheaper in Brazil, the big cities like Sao Paulo is the same or worse than NYC if you factor in salary.
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I think if you are trying to replicate the same functions you are right. But if I have, say, a User model then it is merely a conveniently name for two groupings of functions.

My client side user should know nothing about Dbase lookups or persona verification - just as server model should not care about displaying addresses. Overall I think getting the crap out of the server makes it much much easier to reason and architect
I agree with you on Tor and/or i2p. I don't know if you can be as categorical as "It'll never go down", but at least it will be significantly harder to get it down. And it can be anonymous, which is important of course for the people offering the service, but also to protect the users of the service…

I don't know if such a website can survive to the scientific publishers' lobby, especially when its builder is publicly known.

Edit: it seems this exists, as another comment point out on this discussion page.
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That's a presomptuous (and unnecessarily aggressive) you are making here. I certainly don't want to pay more than 3 euros a month for the use I am making of my VPS (it's still very useful, don't be mistaken), and LowEndBox was incredibly useful in finding a good provider for that price range.

People certainly have different uses than you (and your expensive 100's of hosts), that doesn't make all of them script kiddies and 12 year old hosts.
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Could there be something in the constitution to prevent it? The Australian constitution is derived from UK and US, and section 92 mandates free trade between states.

Update: it seems there is. http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2010032513551...
The project itself looks ok to me - I don't really mind the logo, though.

Concering growth/spreading of the project: BangWithFriends had huge media coverage because it was something new and also a little controversial. I'm afraid PairBuddy is missing this aspect.

I nonetheless with you the very best of luck with your weekend project.
I feel compelled to jump in and give a warning about Opera. I also know that the herd mind will probably pound my comment into oblivion, which is why I made a new account.

Opera is scammy, unreliable software. DO NOT DO MISSION CRITICAL WORK WITH THIS BROWSER. It will flake out on you in so many uncanny ways its not funny.

Also, Opera had the weird habit of becoming my default browser on my Win 7 machine repeatedly, despite me never doing so and only referencing it for testing purposes.

That, along with Opera having the top 3 spots on HN's front page further indicates to me that Opera is not for real. Like I mean, come on. How many of these submissions and upvotes are fake.

Opera, you're not on the up and up and you know it.

TL;DR: Don't trust Opera.
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What happened to just have a server rack in place?

We never use such public hosts.
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If you're copying comments from HN to Disqus, know that a lot of commenters will be unhappy about not being informed that their comments may end up in more than one place.
The only reason I have a bitbucket account is because github's pricing model is so bad. I even wanted to pay for a small account, but 5 or even 10 repos is nothing compared to my number of repos.

In business cases like this, a bad tradeoff is being made. There may be some amount of money that their repo based pricing might make them over a per-user model. If they leave that money on the table though, they'd shrink what is left for their competitors and make themselves harder to disrupt. They would also get a greater pool of accounts that may grow to paid-status.
Like this: http://xllfunctional.codeplex.com/. Not easy to use at all, but it is possible. Barely.
This is precisely the reason why we switched from github to unfuddle. Why should my developers start rationing for repos and start putting everything in one large repository, just so that we don't hit the limit with github. For example, we use node.js heavily, and I would like create npm modules that can be shared across repos, and put them in a repo of their own (so npm can install them). Github's pricing forces me not to do this, and discourages code reuse.