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The ratio is actually surprisingly good at Google. Over the summer, my team's ratio was about 50/50.
> Imagine what will happen if there are no competitor and
> webkit core engineers do whatever they want and still
> people use their engine.

Well, I've tried and it is still better than few buggy engines. I am sure Gecko and Presto also have bugs that nobody cares about.
This author is clearly just starting his/her journey with kiddos. I'm constantly amazed by the growth of my kids when they spend just one weekend at grandmas. Moving them out of 'comfortable' situations forces them to use different patterns of existence and forces learning. Our kids schools do this at a professional level.

There is also the added benefit of my wife's sanity from the few hours a week that she gets to be 'off the clock.' Her sanity leads directly to my sanity. I'm not so sure that pre-school is even for the kids.
There is a big difference between a standard and an implementation. If you only have one implementation (webkit), then developers will start being lazy and depending on certain quirks of that implementation. You reach a point where these quirks can't be changed, otherwise half the internet will stop working. Having multiple rendering engines means these quirks are more likely to be fixed, and not relied upon. It's also impossible to say if webkit will still be the dominant engine in 5-10 years.

For the same reason, this also leads to degradation, and slows down the evolution of the engine. A good example is gcc vs clang. For years gcc was the compiler for *nix, then clang comes along. This led to a new found enthusiasm to make parts of gcc better. The same happened for firefox when chrome came along. and works the other way. We even have half-decent IE releases now.
Wow, this helped me to realize that Rachmaninoff clearly was not human!
To all who want to compare webkit being dominant with IE: don't.
IE was closed source, and most important of all: it was not developed for a long time after IE6.
WebKit development is very active, there are several companies involved and there is still a lot of work they are willing to do in bringing it forward.
I've had recruiters contact me about development roles there too.
That hasn't been my experience with CPAN, though cpantesters and cpanratings can serve as a guide to what works and what doesn't. This type of service does not exist for rubygems/pypi to my knowledge.

While Perl's unicode support is unparalleled, there are some things to be aware of:

http://www.perl.com/pub/2012/04/perlunicook-standard-preambl...
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It depends on your taste. I know engineers who write all their code on a laptop stationed in various comfy chairs throughout the building. I know other engineers (including myself) who never use their laptop except for emergencies. (I've always wanted to be able to program on the couch, but I just can't get comfortable.)

The idea is: you can choose. (If you want a couch at your desk, nobody is stopping you. And electronically-controlled height-adjustable desks are standard equipment, so if you want to work at your desk but alternate between standing and sit, you can. It's wonderful.)
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People are willing to pay more, so companies charge more.

There is also higher cost of operating, higher wages etc. But I think all that is besides the point, companies want to maximize profits and if they can charge a higher price and still get a similar amount of sales to a lower price (as in Australia) they will charge high.
I wonder if you use any client side framework like backbone.js or ember.js.
How do you make Client-Server communication? I hope you use websockets, so we can learn how to write tests with websockets.
Thanks
Why do googlers enjoy colorful environments when all of Google's web apps are so depressingly gray?
Hey -- great comment. Thanks.

I'd like to see a show of hands of past psychedelic use at an American dharma teachers' conference.

And I really wonder why one of these teachers hasn't written a little how-to guide for how to deal with the effects. I wouldn't really mind if it was really just a pamphlet for meditation. Just something from some kind of wise -- and nonjudgmental -- perspective. Maybe it's been done.
Aren't individuals essentially organizations trying to make money? Perhaps we're not so different from corporations after all.
I read his page years ago, and found it quite interesting: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/MarioLang
The red 'e' is in the lobby, so that's more for visitors. As for the other pods - sure, it's refreshing to be able to move around.
Two main reasons.

1. Australia is a small market, so for a lot of things there are poor economies of scale and/or cozy oligopolies.

2. Exchange rates.

Then along came:

3. Artificial market segmentation.

Region encoding, per-country versions and so on. There's no technical reason for this, it's done simply because (thanks AUSFTA) it can be done.

The artificial segmentation didn't used to be a big problem until the AUD shot up against the USD. Now that our dollar is at approximate parity with the American, it's very easy to compare prices.

Mix in the fact that retail prices have remain steadfastly fixed in place in spite of the change in exchange rate, and consumers have correctly deduced that retailers and distributors are simply taking a windfall and running with it. That nobody is aggressively undercutting goes back to 1.
Already featuring a request for "cocaine," no author given.

Relying on the benevolence of others may only go so far...
You need a US credit card that can be address-verified.
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VAT and corporate taxes are higher in the UK than the US.
Don't forget the 20% VAT which is included in the British price. The US price doesn't include any tax.
Yes I remember Freakazoid, I enjoyed it alot with the excellent animation and all the pop culture references/jokes.

Then we had all the imaginative villains like Candle Jack and t
how would they differentiate from someone like me, who has software bought in the US, while living in the US, but who now lives in the UK?
It's a mix, at least in NYC. Some teams have their own rooms, but more than 50% are out in the open. (The allocation seems to be random.)

On the floor where I work, they've installed devices designed to generate noise that makes the office seem quieter. (Or so I'm told.) It seems to work pretty well; there are a lot of people on the floor but I don't feel the need to listen to music unless I am really in the mood for music. When everyone goes home, it kind of sounds like a gurgling stream. Apparent but not distracting.

I don't really understand how it works, but considering I prefer to work from the office than from home, they must be doing something right.
AFAIK the basic cost of living and salaries are higher so is this really a problem?

Its the opposite of people moaning that people in some 3rd world countries earn so little but this isn't usually a problem as every day essentials are actually much cheaper.
With the exception of old and obscure papers (i.e., 15 years or more and not cited in the last 5 years), I don't really see what the big problem is. I have yet to mail an author and not receive a pdf of the paper, usually within days, sometimes within minutes. When you have a reference and Google, you're seconds away from finding that author's current affiliation & email address. I once emailed the author of a book that retailed for 150$+ on some Elsevier subsidiary to ask for a few pages. Turns out the book was basically her PhD thesis (many, many books are like that) and she send me the pdf of that thesis a few hours after I emailed her. All this brouhaha over access to papers is a storm in a glass water if you ask me, instigated mostly by those who don't even need the papers but rather are looking for a big meany to pick an ideological fight with. Maybe it differs per field, I don't know.
It would still be breaking the terms of the license agreement. Presumably that'd be just as bad as getting a bootleg copy.
Not any more...

Of course the 'abuse angle' was taken into account, it's a bit annoying but any user facing service will have that aspect.
Pedantically, the US Constitution originally favoured white land owning men. :P
It's not your imagination, but if you were a kid in the 1990s, then you probably didn't watch a lot of new kids' cartoons in the 2000s.

- Futurama (it counts as 2000s if Simpsons counts as 1990s)

- Avatar: The Last Airbender

- Invader Zim

- Samurai Jack

- My Little Pony (well, 2010)

I'd personally pick "Avatar: The Last Airbender" over any of my childhood "Disney Afternoon" favorites. I'm actually kind of jealous of kids growing up with better programming. The other side of the pond (no, the other pond) gave us some great stuff too, such as Shinkai and Kon.

I think Shinkai deserves special mention, because he got a theatrical release with no staff and no funding: just himself in his apartment with a PowerMac G4 (although his fiancée helped with voice acting). We'll only be seeing more people like him as time marches on and the technology becomes affordable for hobbyists.

My guess is that the 2010s will be my favorite decade for animation, at least for the next ten years or so.
IE wasn't open source and wasn't maintained on any other platforms than Windows (the Mac and Solaris versions were woeful).

WebKit can be maintained, forked etc as the world pleases.
This is complicated. Google tries to create (or emulate) something like community of individual engineers which rests on principles like "do no evil" or whatever. An order of some kind. It works. So, we could say that contributions are of individuals, not of Google. Even if contributors get paid for full-time, it is their own intention in the first place. At least it is what they want things to look like.

As for Apple, there are probably just programmers on a payroll. Apple has a different culture. It is a Steve's workshop, where they "invent" things, or whatever they think these days.
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I imagine it's pretty easy to find out if someone has been living in the US within the past N month or not.
Yep, but not in that building.

I prefer this one, though. It's cozy, and has engineer-oriented amenities like workshops. :-)
Everybody on Hacker News wants to make a wad of money so they can fuck off from corporate drudgery and play around -- there's an end goal, it's a rational process for most individuals, not a world-devouring cancer.
though VAT makes up for some of the difference, it doesn't make up for nearly 1:1 USD:GBP pricing.

If they can charge it, they will.

That assumes all companies charging an extra percentage are actually paying their VAT bills as well.
Disclosure: I'm a co-founder of GitLab.com

I agree that a per seat pricing model is better because it is more predictable and relates to the value a company gets. We plan to use such a model on GitLab.com http://blog.gitlab.com/pricing/

Also, if you self-install GitLab it is completely free (MIT license).
I work in the design industry in Australia, and it's very rare for anyone to have a legitimate copy. By no means quantitative data, but the piracy rate is probably quite high. Adobe doesn't exactly make it easy by dropping backwards compatibility for a version behind.
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One who seen the god knows it is just a reflection of himself therefore becomes either object of fear or worship or denial from other bunch.
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BitBucket's pricing is at $1/seat/month in the worst case though (assuming you match one of their intervals there). But yep I agree, Github is surely significantly more profitable than BitBucket.
No, no we aren't.

Individuals try to maximize something quite different than money, money is mostly instrumental.
Github really only makes sense for open source projects.

If you are small shop with private repos, bitbucket does everything github does for free

If you are small-med+ shop you can pay per user and you should really be considering a more enterprise level of project management other than "issues and wiki docs"

First you'll have the money to pay Atlassian for all their tools, and second you will discover you can't live with out them once you have them and will rarely, if ever, visit the bitbucket page for a project (which is a "Good Thing" imo)
> Moreover, there is a strong argument that deflationary currencies are morally wrong because of their effect on generational wealth inequality. In a society with a deflationary currency, nearly all wealth will be held by older people, simply because they got there first.

Sorry for the stupid question, but isn't this morally equivalent to being old and had more time for your direct or indirect investments to grow (pension funds, ...). I mean in the current system old people which weren't stupid/unlucky to throw all the money away usually do have more money than their children (in fact in Italy where I lived, the young generation regularly needs help from parents for buying a house, a car etc).

I believe that you argue that since in a deflationary system "being old" per-se grants you wealth, this is unfair because you didn't earn it, it just happens. However you can still throw all your money in booze and games when you are young, not unlikely the current situation.

But probably I don't get the magnitude of the bitcoin deflation. Wonder what is the predicted deflation in 30 years (assuming an optimistic widespread usage, not the real case)
Opera value preposition was in that they provided a complete solution (rendering engine, network stack, filesystem integration, security, customizable UI, etc.) People and companies often picked up WebKit for their hardware platform without realizing how much stuff is there besides the renderer itself. As a result, they had to spend more time on porting the rest of the stack and were late to market. That's, for example, what happened to Nokia with Symbian Webkit and their clone of Mini.

Opera provided SDK and offered custom development services around their platform for a good price. Honestly, I don't think that their business model would suffer much because of the switch.

The primary benefit of Presto are very modest hardware requirements. It can run on almost every hardware platform (even something that doesn't have a proper port of Linux core and GCC). That used to be pretty important in 1999, in 2005 and even in 2009, but in recent years it gets a lot cheaper to grab a good enough ARM core for your device, slap either a small Linux kernel, or even Android on top of it; rather than having a dedicated team of engineers struggling with something that barely runs an odd build of Watcom C compiler.

Opera was always moving against the mainstream. They optimized for worst hardware while it was getting better. They optimized for limited bandwidth with Mini while network speeds were rapidly increasing. They optimized for memory consumption with Futhark while Mozilla and Google were busy breaking JavaScript speed records.

None of that were bad moves per se, but this company is very different from its competitors. Maybe that's the main reason why it survived and has been moderately successful during all these years.

As a result, their userbase also moved over time. They got popular in Easter Europe in late 90s, moved to South East Asia and South America in the middle of 00th, and now are very popular in Africa. They used to be pretty big on desktop, then moved to mobile, and now to embedded and devices market.

I remember seeing a number of blog posts where web developers dismissed the importance of Opera, saying that only Russians and people from Africa are using it and they are not the ones who click on ads and make purchases. Wbedevs criticized poor developer tools, poor graphic performance, weird bugs. Google always tried to persuade Opera users to switch (http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/google-browser-sniffing-and-th...), Yahoo pulled it from their Grade Browser Support (http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/10/16/gbs-update-2009q4/), John Resig's slide got picked up by masses (http://ejohn.org/images/cost-benefit.png).

One thing where Opera shines is a UI innovations. When Chome was released I counted about 30 big and small things that they wisely borrowed from Opera UI. That was almost five years ago and Opera was moving fast, too. Mouse gestures, broad customizability, passionate users and some of the greatest people working in the company. I'm pretty certain that Opera's future is bright and shiny!

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Former Opera employee and devoted user, speaking for myself, obviously.
A monopoly is bad for competition, but do we need competition in a market where pricing is irrelevant? It's better to have all vendors collaborating on a standard engine than multiple proprietary ones. What are the negatives?
This is very interesting. I'm very curious how this relates to the human eye.

I remember playing around with adjusting something similar to this, but it was mostly to compensate for how monitors display images.
As I stated on the other thread: It's a wise move for Opera. Now they can hire webkit-engineers from anywere without heavy training on their own private model.
Ha.

If that was the engineering office, they would be. Since it's sales.. well.
A lot of tech stuff is pretty cheap. Hardware which is sourced from Taiwan and other nearby tech supply countries are reasonably priced when landed by the smaller, sometimes Asian run firms.

The big retailers have a cartel like influence you could argue. Just about everything not made of pulverised rock or grown in pulverised rock is imported from somewhere. This allows what should be tech commodity businesses to charge what the market will bear, rather than competitive prices. A bit like mobile carriers in the states really.

Australia has a high tech take up, but its a very small market with a high dollar, so it's easy to get your dollars without worrying about volume.
You need competition for technical evolution. Pricing has nothing to do with this.

As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, a WebKit monoculture will stifle technical innovation in web rendering engines, because they'll be constrained with being (bug-)compatible with WebKit.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. If by acting in my best interests I mean 'checking available applications for security issues and API compliance such that they won't use my resources (battery, data) in unexpected ways', then I think you can expect someone else to do that.

Certainly I could use the device without that service, but then I would have to do it myself - as I do with other platforms.

I think the OP wants a smartphone, not only a phone.
The picutres are sourced from here: http://www.camenzindevolution.com/Works/Google/Google-Campus...

So it's possible that the captions are added by the design firm rather than Google. (If you look at office pictures from http://www.google.com/about/jobs/, the tone of the surrounding copy seems different. Though perhaps still a little corporate :)
Your last point is the most salient. Until downloadable software became all the rage in recent years, there was effectively nowhere else to buy from.

I once bought a new Thinkpad on ebay from a guy in New York who ordered them in sight:unseen to resell to Aussies. He had no idea why they were so expensive here, he just saw he could make a bob or two reselling the retail US models for 2/3rds the Aus price.
IE was dominant on one OS. It wasn't dominante on anything else than Windows world. Please, and that dominion lasted no more than 10 years. It ended with Android and iOS.
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So if the screen is really dense, say 20000px wide, you would need a 10kHz refresh rate.
That contradict the contrast experiment.
Hard to make comment without being able to see what was considered defamatory, but these cases always have the taint of large corporations using their size and cash to squash criticism, no matter how valid their defamation case.
I haven't gotten to that point in the series yet, but WebSockets are on the agenda, probably using Socket.IO.

The only client side library we're using at the moment is JQuery, other than test frameworks.

In general, the show tends to focus on understanding things deeply before applying frameworks and libraries. JQuery (and eventually, Socket.IO) is an exception because of how it abstracts away browser differences.
The effect of motion blur on our perception of frame rate
> Adobe for their complete ownership of the creative
> software space

How is that their fault? What should they do, develop an alternative to Photoshop themselves?
Looking for a Photoshop alternative ? Please take a look into Gimp, I'm using it for a long time now. If the money you pay for licensing Photoshop was put in new creative ideas in Gimp, I'm pretty sure it would look as awesome, as Photoshop! Take a look please :)
Presumably because the enterprises that Google sell to prefer the depressing grey.
Agreed, Github does not make sense for small consulting companies. We have hundreds of repositories (way more than the Github top plan) and only 10 employees. We have been hosting our own git server (previously Gitorious and now Gitlab) and haven't looked back. Way more economic than Github enterprise. I guess these days Bitbucket or hosted Gitlab would also be a reasonable alternative.
Out of interest, how would you say you compare to BitBucket? Your given plan structures seem to suggest that their pricing structure per user is superior.

"A startup with 30 repos and a team of two is completely free." Same with them.

"A professional plan with 60 repos and 5 collaborators is $9 per month." 5 collaborators is free with them.

"A business plan 150 repos and 10 collaborators is $72 per month." BitBucket supports teams on all plans. That plan would be $10, although I will admit I haven't used their teams feature so you may have superior functionality there.

Self-hosted sounds great though, that's a really cool move.
Starting a business in Australia is ridiculously expensive. In the UK it's £20 ( last time I looked ). In Australia it was $900 or so when I looked. Lots of regulations on this and that. My pet theory is that it started out militaristically and has stayed that way ever since.
We've been using bugsnag for a couple of months and it's really good. Their support is great, they're iterating fast and I never saw their backend stop getting the errors (as opposed to airbrake or exceptional).
This might only be a tip for the young (or young-at-heart) but hostels, for all their associations with debauchery and loutishness, are frequently full of exactly the sort of people you'd want to spend time with. Interested, excited, informed people who want to have authentic experiences in the cities they're visiting.

It's not for everyone but if you'd like to meet people and get off the tourist track, that's my tip.
Sorry, just to confirm: GitHub's cost model aligns with your revenue model (as opposed to your cost model), and this is a bad thing?
>I don't know where the recent Australia-specific articles are coming from

I think they are coming from the inquiry into overblown prices that the Australian government is currently pursuing: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/news/16114230/tech-gian...
If I'm not wrong Opera has already been acquired by Facebook.
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Different strokes. I rarely even plug into my external screen and keyboard and end up sitting using only my MBA and using the monitor as a wall.
We solved that by having the client decide on the code hosting. If the client decides for Github, he is expected to create an Organization and pay for the private repos he uses.
Experience suggests this works for small evolutions, but not more revolutionary changes.
If it runs faster, with less memory, or is easier to port to new platforms that the other browsers have problems reaching.

Do you remember how long it took Google to port Chrome to Android? There was a Firefox and Opera release for Android even before Google got their own browser ported to their own OS.