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That's not the fault of steam that's the fault of Ubiplay and Games for Windows Live for Windows Live Games Live for Windows Live.
> Values? You make it sound as if it's ethical values.

One could make the point that I mean ethical values. Telcos' ethics are certainly at play here. The values to which I refer can be summed up as, "prioritize profit over a robust network and user experience, avoid empowering other entities to compete on even ground."

> How is Skype more integrated with WP, than say iOS or Android?

My understanding (disclaimer: as I stated above, I use an N9 primarily. I do own an Android and iOS device, but they aren't my primary handsets. I don't own a Windows phone) is that Skype (a) comes pre-installed on Win8 handsets, and (b) has its functionality integrated into the OS similar to the way SMS and cellular-network-phone applications are.
Australia's biggest casino scammed $32 million after CCTV breach
Your boss must also be my boss :\
I think that any move to leave the EU would probably contribute to a break up of the UK.

But that's already happening. Ireland left in 1922. Scotland was guaranteed a referendum well before this UK/EU referenedum.
So the K Foundation stunt (burning £1million in cash) would have been illegal in the US?
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I have felt exactly as you felt for a long time. The answer that's working for me is really short: look at the problem and look for something really small and say "I could [do x]," and then immediately do x. This gives you the freedom from thinking about the larger thing it is a part of, from thinking about the order of doing things / trying to optimize it. For example, let's say I want to clean up my place. If I look at everything it looks overwhelming, boring, and I think about how I let it get so bad. This is very unmotivating. But I look for a smaller problem: I see a coat on the floor. I say "I could hang that up." So I hang it up. More importantly it gets me moving. Momentum is everything! The mind latches on to unfinished problems. If I throw one can into recycling it's going to look at the next can next to it and will 99% of the time will be compelled to do the next one. Whatever project I've recently worked on will have a much greater chance of continuing.

You can do the same thing with work stuff. I could just open the spreadsheet. I could just open the email I need. I could just log in the box I need. Suddenly I've started working on it and I'm good for the rest of the day.

Look for something really microscopically small to do next. It doesn't have to be optimal, it doesn't have to be the most important, the most urgent, or even that useful. If the task is small enough it slips under the threshold of such evaluations. I think this also gets you into the habit of taking action immediately rather than waiting. But if it doesn't, you can always kick start yourself again by doing anything small. "I could ...."
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Hey, I am the original developer of ZeroMQ and I happen to live in Bratislava. If you are organising meet-ups in Vienna and want me to give a talk or something, just shout.
Now.. if only my landlord, baby mama and weed dealer would follow suit....
I'm as quick as anyone to bash low price outsourcers, but there's nothing about that situation specific to being Indians. I've worked on many projects here in the states with active codebases that had no source control, and all of their "talent" was home grown.
Just ask this guy to send across a requirement document/ wireframes. Nip it in the bud I say :-D
I don't know what you're comparing. I am comparing mention.net with socialmention.net. One is free, the other is not. Both provide the same exact service minus few bells and whistles.
I don't remember ever taking a Leap.

I think it's because I moved from Employee to Contractor, to Consultant/Occasional Contractor before I really got deep into building products that it never seemed like I was in a particularly scary place.

I was already spending several months at a time voluntarily without work, and taking contracts when I needed to. The only real difference was that instead of travelling and rockclimbing full time during those breaks, I was parking it in one spot with the laptop and writing code. And I guess I started referring to those consulting gigs as "bootstrapping".

That might be a good path to look into if you want to make the transition from "guy in a cubicle" to "dot-com thousandaire". There's plenty of room to take it slow.
For that I use gccfilter which does an awesome job at parsing the hell out of compile errors.

http://www.mixtion.org/gccfilter/

In our project we use gccfilter with the options -c and -p which are colorize and remove path but it supports as well -a for removing the template arguments. Give it a try it will definitely help your.
Sangaku: Guesstimate the "pole of inaccessibility" for an arbitrary polygon
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GPS provides accurate 3D positions. However if you know roughly your position the GPS fix can be acquired more quickly. So the barometer only helps you with an estimate Z pos, which helps you get the GPS fix faster.
Maybe I understand your sentiment - are you one of those children who thinks his/her toy hammer can build ocean liners?

:wink:
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Something like that yes :)

Maybe step 1-3 is on "start.html" and step 4-6 is on "anotherpage.html". So when the user clicks next from step 3, he should be redirected to anotherpage.html and the intro continues.
Regarding your statement: "I've heard good things from other Australians about Vienna of late" I kindly contribute from the middle of Europe the following poster:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/saltation/2836300591/
Okay, thanks for sharing that perspective. Perhaps its the case of different cities having different business cultures within France? Not unlike how doing a high tech startup is going to look somewhat different in the bay area of California vs in Macon, Georgia?
Is he calling "Nexus" a Samsung brand?
I had to read this three times before I realised you were being sarcastic. My blood pressure does not thank you.
Maybe that's why I haven't seen it yet. My laptop usually has uptimes measured in weeks, but gets suspended multiple times a day.
For those who are now pondering a weekend project...

http://twitter.github.com/flight/demo/
See also https://www.elance.com/j/website-like-amazon/37294947/ ("I want a website like Amazon for $1000"), submitted to news.ycombinator on 14 Feb.
The new inspection is quite powerful, I just find the interface inscrutable.
I really wish they would incorporate these in the guidelines. I am not a part of the site's management. By "we" I mean the community.

Unfortunately, this was all discussed in an ad hoc fashion in comments to random stories but I'll do my best to find it.

time passes

First, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring is the bot that submits the "Who is hiring?" posts. It started a few years ago as you can see by the registration date for this user. The problem was that these posts generate a lot of upvotes, and people started trying to beat each other to the punch to try to get more karma points. The problem came to a head when multiple "Who is hiring?" posts made it to the front page, which has the obvious negative consequences.

I just spent about 30 minutes searching for the other two discussions and cannot find them (hnsearch, Google, and my own story upvotes proved unhelpful). Best I can offer is this: about two years ago, IIRC, there was a trend to link directly to Wikipedia. The front page was filled with random posts on there, like the one about the illegal numbers. Wikipedia is great, but often times it was not clear why a post was relevant to HN. The conclusion of the discussion was that we shouldn't post Wikipedia articles directly and the trend died down. @gojomo, I wager you have been here long enough to remember this trend, and I'm sure you noticed that one day it stopped. That's probably the best proof I can offer on this point.

Something similar happened with pg's essays. Every time he posted one, it would show up on the front page. At that point someone posted a master submission, linking to all of them, and in the discussion there was agreement that since pg is so well known here and his essays are so closely watched that it is taking away from other stories to post the content that almost everyone will discover anyway. Additionally, this once again lead to karma farming by multiple people trying to post the same essay as early as possible. Interestingly enough, I just tried posting the link to all the essays and the duplicate matching engine let it through, so I wonder what happened to that post (and/or my memory of it). In either case, it looks like this trend is also starting to slowly come back.

Once again, I really wish I could find these discussions and/or compel the site admins to clarify some of these points in the guidelines. Alas, I do deserve the downvotes in my original post for not including any references.
Even if Britain leaves the EU, is it really likely that they will leave the EEC?

EEC doesn't exist anymore. You may be thinking of the EFTA, which (e.g.) Norway is in. That's a free trade & customs area. However one still has to implement all EU law and allow all EU citizens to live & work there. Euroskeptic/europhobic people would not find acceptable. I don't think there is any details, but I think it's a straight in/out, i.e. leave EU & EFTA.

The cynic in me thinks the politicians are delibrately giving 2 options (current EU membership and leaving EU & EFTA) so that one option is horrible in order to ahem 'help' one option win.
Why is this news? These kinds of postings have been on Elance / RentACoder/ Guru.com / etc since 2000, when I first started looking at those sites. Many of which are probably more outlandish than this.
I think it only speeds up solving for position. Without an up to date local reference, the barometer can't tell you absolute altitude with any sort of precision.

I think the basic idea is that instead of dealing with the entire circle that you get from intersecting two spheres, you only have to deal with the parts of the circle that are remotely sensible according to the barometer.
What is the 'new' keyword in JavaScript?
I don't believe for a second the UK is leaving the EU. It would be a huge disadvantage economically for them to do so.
All that talk is just political posturing to please the idiot wing of the conservative party.

(Disclaimer: I'm not from the UK however, so I'm just evaluating the situation from the outside)
In the drive to identify, treat and cure psychological and mental "disorders", I think we're rapidly narrowing the definition of "normal" to the point where it doesn't make sense. Diversity of thought and behavior is a hallmark of a robust society. We need to be very careful about going about trying to "correct" that diversity. A lot of talented individuals will be caught in the dragnet of abnormality.
I'm reminded of the Futurama episode where Fry drinks 300 cups of coffee, and suddenly the world appears to slow down around him.
for me confirming the application of tax is common sense in America - I always check that sort of thing beforehand
If you have line-of-sight to only three GPS satellites then you don't have enough information to compute your altitude [1]. If you can see four satelites, the altitude can be computed.

edit: spelling

[1] http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/12866/why-does-gps-po...
And this will happen. Usually such projects get half-done and half-paid.
The parallax effect on the final page was a nice touch.

This makes me want to visit Austria (and Vienna in particular) sometime soon.
Afshin, I think it would be good if you add an example (usecase, scenario, etc.) to the website for a quick introduction of the functionality.
Paying fees for basic banking accounts is really foreign to me personally as an entrepreneur. In the U.S., the big banks all charge fees, but it has been a point of pride for me to figure out how to get the banking services needed without paying any fees. A smaller, local bank for the corporation and a credit union for my household.
Freelancer websites are full of things like this. "ebay clone with all features" etc.

Problem is, how does one define "all features". Does it mean all the obvious features, like the ability to list an item and have people buy/bid on it.

Or do they want an actual replica of ebay complete with all the anti-fraud stuff that ebay must have and all of the seller account controls etc?

Obviously there's a huge difference between the two, but you won't get much more detail from them than "I just want all the features, should be simple".

So yes, you can probably make an "ebay clone" in a day or two, but what happens if they refuse to pay because it doesn't have some advanced feature that ebay does?
I'm willing to pay someone up to $10-15 to rebuild the transmission on my car, but I need it by this afternoon. It also needs to be converted from manual to automatic in the process. Provide your own parts.
The physical book is yours, and in the US through the first sale doctrine you can transfer it to someone else.

But you only have a limited licence to the contents. You can read them, under the Fair Use doctrine you could photocopy or otherwise use a few small excerpts to teach a class or use in your own writing, etc. etc., but you most certainly do not gain a licence to copy the whole book and give or sell copies of it, or to use this example, do the same with a derivative work like a translation.
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If I post a job to one of these sites, it's pretty much guaranteed to get 20+ responses from devs in India. Most are pre-written responses that don't really show that the project was read in any sort of detail.

I'd actually be curious to find out how these operations actually work. Are they solo devs just casting a massive net ? Solo devs actually outsourcing responding to gigs? Agencies applying for as many jobs as possible and subcontracting them out or having employees on staff to do the work?
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I could do it, but I am going to need lots of hot glue.
Just curious ... why is it nice to see a non-jQuery plugin? Isn't the point of jQuery that it's tested and standardized for all browsers, thus theoretically reducing the odds that a plugin won't work on any given browser?
Place the Next and Prev buttons on a fixed position that doesn't change - for touch devices probably at 50% height, unless they block a tooltip.

The current implementation feels more like a whack-a-mole game than a guided tour. :)
Because both Samsung and Apple are hardware companies making a physical product with a price from which they aim to make profit for their shareholders. Essentially they have the similar aims therefore using that aim as a measure seems reasonable.

Linux and Windows and those involved in producing and marketing them on the other hand have different aims and different business models. The reason it's not right to say MS "wins" in the server market based on profit is that Linux isn't trying to compete on profit, it has other aims (which are as varied as those who develop and promote it).

If he'd said Apple and Google it might have been a fair comparison, but while their execution is different (and while in some ways they complete quite indirectly and it's not a zero sum game, even without the other competitors) Samsung and Apple do have broadly similar goals.
If you think that all developers of $NATIONALITY use version control, I have a bridge to sell you.
Not that we can show yet! But we are currently working on several large client projects that use Sails in production.
This is no exception. elance, freelancer, odesk are full of such projects. And he will get a lot of bids, someone will even be ready to do it for $100! There are lots of people out there who think building and running a web service like email or social network or even a search engine is a piece of cake!

With news of one year old startups getting acquired for billions Everybody wants to be a web entrepreneur. :) During my freelancing days I have seen a lot of such requests, and they never actually get awarded because someone sensible will write a comment saying you can't build such a service for that amount and that the front end they see is just the tip of the iceberg and there are costs involved in running the servers and getting users and all.

But there are some who go ahead and in fact at places like scriptcopy.com you will find clone scripts for almost anything - Facebook, eBay, Hotmail. I have seen someone selling Yahoo clone script for $20! Some even provide hosting. Go figure!
Crown casino hi-tech scam nets $32 million
There are plenty of free trade agreements that don't rely on this harmonisation.

Unfortunately the EU is set on a course of political union, which I think the majority of the UK would not want to be part of.
As I commented, surely the reason we have evolved to find sex pleasurable is more because it creates offspring than because it "brings us closer" or "creates social bonds".
Yeah, that's what I've been thinking. But they've been in business since sometime in 2011, and chargebacks only seem like forever, aren't they limited to 6 months or so?
Ah, we are a services company which helps brands and startups build web applications. Sails is an instrumental tool in making our team agile and effective, so I give presentations on that.
This thing needs some max-width action. It looks completely broken on my 27" iMac.
>Some of the money that those ads generate go to independent developers looking to make income from their hard work, many of whom use this site.

If the developer chose a model of making money that pisses of their users so much they go to the trouble of getting other software that does literally nothing but stop the developer's annoying monitorization model maybe the dev should work on a less offensive way to make money. After all, they've shown that users are invested in their app in some way, there must be a way to turn that into revenue.
If any service providing a game goes down that uses this kind of DRM, I will pirate it if I bought it afterwards. How would it even stand up in court that you are "stealing profits" from a business that no longer sells the thing, especially after you already bought a license with no hard-coded expiration to it?
In theory that might be true in practice there are issues with using jpeg on a jpeg if you repeat it enough.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/a-comparison-of-jpe...
I'm quite like you, maybe not so severe, but I also can't start doing things before it's the moment I'll be really fucked if I don't. And I'm actually most motivated, when I fuck something up, it's like a guilt motivation - when I achieve something, it rather drives me into procrastination rather than doing more. My other strong motivation is though curiosity - I am focused until I find a solution to a problem, but lack energy to implement it.

With social interaction it's also the same - I do get bored really fast, about the time I start to find someone's behaviour predictable (but for me it's borderline people who I can get along with for longest time).

Where I'm different is that I rarely fail my exams - but I believe it's because I'm kind of talented. Most often it's enough for me to take about 75% of classes (not even listening all the time). And it's also kind of annoying - the fact my GPA is much lower than it should be, considering my natural abilities.

I've been trying meditation recently, and it seems to help - even after 20 minutes I'm able to clean my room without mental pain normally associated with it. Unfortunately, I often even meditation suffers from my procrastination - and the less I meditated in few days, the more chances I won't in the following day. But I guess I'll keep trying.
But they allowed it on their platform. It's like DRM on top of DRM!
Awesome - well done :) I'm loving this!
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Which compiler are you using? Clang is much better at dumping template related error messages and recent versions of gcc are getting better.
Apple’s Payment Problem
I think it is wider than just mass immigration. There is also the whole course of closer political union that the EU is determined upon which is wildly unpopular in the UK.
> It saddens and enrages me to ponder how many people either have so little respect for programmers or so much ignorance of programming that they think that they can get away with this. Would these people try the same thing with lawyers? Or even plumbers?

I don't think it should sadden or enrage you. The vast majority of people posting on these sites have very little idea what it takes to get things done, what constitutes quality work, etc. If they see they can get a dev to work on something for $5 / hour and detail what they want and get it delivered, I fail to see how it affects you in any way. There is always going to be a low-end market for developers. If wages in countries currently popular for outsourcing/contracting go up, there will be another group of developing countries with people willing to work for "low" wages.

If you're looking for work, I know at least oDesk allows you to filter based on price, so you don't need to see these types of jobs. I know many people are willing to pay higher wages to experienced designers and developers who do quality work, are reliable, and can easily understand specs and offer expertise. While I imagine a ton of work on these sites are done for $5-10/hour, I do see some people getting paid $50+/hour for their work.
How do you achieve the effect of the rounded corner box w/ box-shadow masking the overlay, but allowing content to show through?
The comparison is an interesting one. I guess the differences are that A) Apple and Samsung are both classic for-profit firms and B) they're shipping hardware.
There is no way to stop people's ability to pirate things if people want to bad enough. I think the only real way to eliminate pirating is to find a way to make people not want to. Maybe it is naive of me to think this, but i honestly think that if you made a good product that very convenient to get and allowed people to use it in the way they want then a lot of pirating would go away. People are willing to pay for convenience, and when you introduce DRM which makes getting/using it less convenient then you are actually pushing a segment of people towards pirating.

PS: I know it's an old article but if anyone has not read "What color are your bits?"[0] it is a great article on protecting copyrighted digital material and why it is so hard/impossible.

[0]http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
TechBritain.com might eventually build in that facility. It ties in along the right lines of making the UK ecosystem more efficient at forming and supporting startups.
So.. it's a change from "The patent is yours.. unless somebody comes along with a convincing story about how they thought of it before you and just didn't tell anyone" to "The patent is yours"

I don't understand the negative slant this article is trying to put on it. Other than the same kind of knee-jerk "Change is bad!" that you see every time Facebook changes its page layout, what's the problem with this?
Does anyone know how or weather prior art will be affected?
If you want to be paid for your content charge for it. If you put it open on the web then I have the right to consume it how ever I like. That's kind of the point of the web...
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Before you spend a lot of time on this person, I would check their comment history...
>last year at the same time a guy was shooting down schoolchildren and their teacher, because they were jewish.

A once in decades terrorist incident. I could use the same argument to say that Oslo is orders of magnitude unsafer than Toulouse.

Talk about anecdotal evidence...
Githug is also a really great way to learn Git - https://github.com/Gazler/githug