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My suggestion: take all the presentation. Make it less graphical and more scalable, lets say i dont want red circle with number i want just the overlay part.

Looks good and I will use it no doubt!
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Wow! I read through this entire article and the thing that struck home is even how painful this process sounds vs my experience incorporating businesses in my home State in the United States. Even banking wasn't as big of a problem due to the level of competition among banks and that the local smaller banks still even offer free basic checking to business accounts.
Just because you're not in a cubicle doesn't mean that you've escaped the Dilbert comic strip.

Now that the shutdown of Google Reader is in the news, about two weeks ago, someone posted an offer on Elance for a website with a few RSS feeds posted to it. When I made a proposal asking for details, I got an e-mail essentially asking for Google Reader but with a snazzier user interface. Yup, the asking price was "less than $500."

I sent an e-mail in reply pointing this out as diplomatically as I could. A few days later, I got an e-mail saying that the project had been canceled.

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?
As a HBCU comp sci alum, one important message that should be shouted - entrepreneurship is a career option for hackers. Especially hackers with unique insight into diverse communities.

What I remember of undergrad is that companies were desperate to hire smart CS types. These jobs were, more often than not, represented as the pinnacle for students. With good options to join top-tier IT and other firms, most "success" stories were about doing just that. Not so much about starting companies by wielding your code chops.
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> Would these people try the same thing with lawyers? Or even plumbers?

I'm sure that lawyers and plumbers field questions from people who don't understand what they cost all the time. It's part of doing business.
Starting your business in France? Step 1, register it in the UK...
Sure, but those are not design-related patents, or natural-gesture patents, or for that matter designs based on principles being part of human society for centuries ("slide to unlock" anyone?)

"Nokia finally claims multi-million dollar victory over Apple for breaching up to 46 patents"

"Camera maker Kodak has said it will sue Apple and Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of the iPhone and Blackberry, over technology used in their handsets."

I do not condone those actions. I just think that Apple is here the "worse-guy", opening a very smelly can of worms just because of animosity towards Android (http://9to5mac.com/2013/01/17/google-ceo-larry-page-on-steve...)

And yes, Microsoft is an even worse bad-guy (but largely irrelevant in the smartphone sector), that is why I have not (directly) spent a penny on their products in over 15 years.
FeedDemon does exactly what you mention. I've used it for a long time and tried many alternatives. FD just does what you ask it to and nothing more. It's a shame that, when Google Reader shut down, Nick decided to kill it.
> Markets represent what rich people want.

Do you want to tell us, that it is the rich people that crowd the Walmarts and other temples of mass consumption? If that are your rich people over there in America, then GOD may have pity with you!
There's a nonzero chance that this is a honeypot designed to draw out the bots or incompetent devs.
I think NLTK is pure python because it's supposed to work as a teaching tool as well. Perhaps pypy can come into play for that, although in real world situations I've only see marginal gains from pypy so far.
He promotes a brand he loves and gets paid for it. But yeah, Gruber is either an Apple fanboy and/or someone profiting on other people's devotion to Apple brand.
It's a feedback loop. Lack of startups and support => Lack of successful, prestigious software companies => Geeks have not earned public admiration the way they have in the US via Facebook, Google, etc etc.

It then applies to IT as well.
You can, but his example was lossy to lossy.
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I heard a story from a friend who works in the oil industry. The Indian dev team had updated the software that controlled the oil flow from a field, but they'd introduced a bug that was losing $5000 (or barrels, memory fails me) a day somehow.

They couldn't roll back to the previous version because they weren't using version control for the software.

I've seen some balls ups from UK teams too fwiw, but nothing that approaches that level of wtf.
I agree. I'm Australian, and I'm so used to the very hard line on smoking (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_packets_in_Australia) that the European attitude is really annoying, and I'm very surprised when I openly see ads for cigarettes and even vending machines.

It's probably something I'll never understand, since (to me) it is an obviously bad idea to inhale the carcinogenic burnt residue of some paper and leaves which has well-known, major long-term health impacts as well as compelling you to continue doing so, and to pay for the privilege (not to mention the damage done to others, and the smell all through ones clothes, etc.). Eurgh, the big cigarette companies (and their ad agencies/publicity departments) are some of the scum of the Earth.
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I've heard good things from other Australians about Vienna of late, and you've probably convinced me to drop by before or after OHM2013 in August. Few tips for internationalisation purposes...

Germanisms: citybike, public barbecuing.

Style: US would typically (over)use exclamations! Like, There's loads to do in Vienna! (and BBQ) AU would be Mate, there's shit-loads to do in Vienna! (and have a barbie or BBQ) NZ would be Vienna's wicked chur bro! (or BBQ). OK well, those last two might be taking it a bit far. But you can de-formalize(/Germanify) a little ;)

Best wishes from China... AU/DE/NZ guy of partly-German/Prussian descent.
For me, the essence of it was to stop trying to please other people, stop trying to fit into some sort of mold, stop thinking of myself as being on or off some mythical 'track'. The only track is your own life, and what makes you happy and lets you survive. Everything else is pointless, just a bunch of noise. When you give up that way of thinking, life becomes so much simpler and less stressful. There's nothing you're 'supposed' to be doing, so it doesn't matter if you 'get things done' or don't. When you do decide to get things done, make it something you believe in or at least believe is necessary and important for you to do. And when you don't, so what? Human beings aren't anything more than a bunch of monkeys scampering around on some infinitesimally tiny little speck in the universe. We tend to take ourselves very seriously, but things we accomplish don't matter an iota beyond giving ourselves a bit of meaning and purpose.

I, like you, have always had plenty of creativity and drive, but I have absolutely zero drive for any task that isn't motivated by my own beliefs, passions, and desires. It sounds like you might be similar. If you feel such a monumental blockage toward completing certain tasks, then just leave it, give it up, it's not for you. Instead, find something you do want to put your energy towards and don't look back.

Also, as far as psychiatric drugs go, I suggest looking into some neuro supplements first. 5-htp, L-tyrosine, choline, rhodiola, and a good multivitamin (plus eating well and getting exercise, of course) have worked really well for me. For many people, these can have much greater positive impact than prescription meds without the unpleasant side effects and dependency. It's better to work with the rhythms of your body's chemistry than to introduce abrupt changes, which is what prescription meds do.
One bottle of ritalin and a day later... tadaaa
Why not just install Roundcube[1] on top of your preferred MTA? It's free and it's going to be more polished than any $500 bespoke project.

[1] http://roundcube.net/
Give the job to this guy:
http://fiverr.com/farooqahmed/develop-website-for-you-in-htm...
In my experience writing high end VFX software for three platforms, Linux's libc is the slowest with normal maths functions, and Windows is the fastest.

Intel's math libs are often 4-5x times faster - if you do a microbenchmark of a loop of powf() or sin() functions, it'll be that much faster using the Intel libs.

If building with fmath=fast for fast floating point math, Intel's fast versions are also quite a bit more accurate, and done't produce nans or infs as much.
They are not trying to get away with anything. They most likely don't know what they don't know (as that saying goes).
Exchange rate at time of payment is what I've always used when handling international transactions.
Now that is agile.
You forgot to mention housing (property) investment. Australians worship real estate investment above all things. Most think property will still double every few years even though they are already at insanely high levels.
From Gruber's article:

>By profit share, on the other hand, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley, last year Apple took 69 percent of the handset industry’s profits; Samsung took 34. For just the last quarter, the numbers were 72 percent for Apple, 29 for Samsung. You will note that both the annual and quarterly numbers total more than 100 percent; that is because all other handset makers, combined, are losing money

>That’s a statement of fact, in a Reuters news (not opinion) story, about a company with 70 percent (and judging by last quarter, growing) of the industry’s profits

I would love to see such a narrative written about Microsoft's server platform.

How much profit does Windows Server take in the server OS market? How much IIS take in the web server market? What about ASP.NET vs. Java, Ruby or whatever? Or Visual Studio vs. Eclipse and the rest in the IDE market? They're beating free(as in beer) tools and making a huge profits. Their revenue from the Server & Tools division is about 20 billion a year.

If iOS is beating Android, why can't Windows Server be considered beating Linux by the same metric?
Thanks.

I like what seems to be the differentiating feature here -- highlighting the actual elements on the page rather than pointing at it.

I'm looking forward to the pull requests that fix some of the style issues (next button etc, as mentioned already).
How do you find these guys :)
> Under this scenario, I don't see why anyone would develop new plants.

I wonder how anyone does anything at all without receiving a fucking de jure monopoly first. Opening a store? Not without exclusive license from the city first!

This is madness.
ASP? As in 'not ASP.net'?

That's like trying to build a full sized bridge with raw pasta and hot glue.
Overall though its nice to see a non jQuery plugin! And it's very nicely done.

Could use some finessing, on Opera there appears to be a white square/rectangle that appears on the next element for the second and third ones (not sure why). Then it disappears. Maybe it's an Opera thing.

The styles that get applied to the element inside of the "white box" get applied before the white box moves. This is noticeable for the links in the top right. They turn light blue before the box even moves. It should be after the box has moved, since that kind of stuff is pretty much instant.
It's always an encouraging sign to see the tech community tackling big problems.
I'd be very surprised if that were true. BTC theft is problematic because the thieves don't get caught surely?
> Do I go see psychologist/psychiatrist?

Yes. Try several until you find one that clicks.
>I'm not aware of 3rd party DRM on steam titles prior; open to correction here

I normally check The Big List of 3rd Party DRM on Steam [1] before I buy a game there.

I also have to note that Steam itself doesn't mandate DRM and can be used to distribute DRM-free games [2]; the DRM component is called Steamworks.

[1] http://steamdrm.flibitijibibo.com/index.php?page=DRM_Lists/T...

[2] See http://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_games_on_st...
The sad fact is that global, multi-million dollar production value media (film, computer games, etc.) is a seller's market. As long as they consider it more profitable to implement DRM, it's not going away. It works enough to be of some limited use to the content producers, and that's all they care about.
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The differentiating feature of Reader for me was that I could have extremely good discussions around various items with a circle of friends and friends-of-friends. I'm not as interested in algorithmically-suggested items, but if somebody whose taste I appreciate has something to say about an item I'd like to be able to discuss that. And that small circle of people has a larger signal-to-noise ratio for me than HN or Reddit comments.

So I think the appeal of a minimal social component in an RSS reader is not adding to the already-unmanageable deluge of information, but to add richness and depth to the existing pool.
i and a lot of other people are actively working on the technology part, i.e.: http://www.viennajs.org/ meetup, https://www.facebook.com/RailsGirlsVienna, http://events.jquery.org/2013/eu/ (happened a few weeks ago, but will happen again next year), https://metalab.at/, http://www.gdg-vienna.at/, ....

said that, if you want to live in vienna and are an experienced dev. send me a tweet, we will hook you up with a job in no time
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To be fair, we don't know the expected use and it says to state the features to be included. If you throw in non US labor rates, you might get something useful. Admittedly, I'm reaching.

This is why I don't look for work on these sites. I'm literally better off just sitting here waiting for the phone to ring.
Yet another option:
pyliner - A Python line processor (like Perl):
https://gist.github.com/dgulino/4750088
The UK government is not angling to leave the EU. The tory party (largest but not majority party) has promised, if elected in 2015, a referendum on EU membership in 2017. This was done in an attempt to head off the rising UK Independence Party and shut up some of their right-wing back-bench MPs. The same party (and both other major parties) will be pushing to stay in with the vote. But the rise in popularity for UKIP is not rooted in a dislike of the EU (although there is some, some of which is misinformed), but in issues with mass immigration - the EU enforces free movement between any EU nation (Polish population went from almost nothing to close to 1% in the years following their accession to the EU in 2004). By 2017 Bulgaria and Romania will have already completed accession. Without any prospect of stemming immigration, and the fact that the costs/benefits of EU membership will have to be actually debated, the UK is not going to vote to leave the EU.

But coming back to the point; do you even need to hop on a train? (what can not be done by post?. assuming this was a suggestion to incorporate in the UK and not to base there). Regardless, even in a worst case scenario (which really, isn't going to happen), there is five years before anything changes, which would still make sense for the benefits to a startup IMO (if you still exist in 5 years, the cost of a man-week then will be much lower in 5 years). I'm not sure what the 'second best EU country to incorporate in' is, but it's surely not France.

In short, the idea to use EU free trade to avoid the French issues is surely a good decision.
Does anyone have the text ? The site seems down.
What I need, moreso than this, is a tool for parsing really long and winding multi-screen error messages involving templates (screw up a std::map key or value? At least 100 characters in the error message just to describe it. Add an additional 50 if you try to use string [basic_string ...])
A WEEK!

Think about it, there are two of you working on two maybe three pages. So you're telling me that you need more than 100 hours (because of course, it's a start up, and we're on "salary" - so yeah, overtime) to build TWO PAGES! My opinion it should take one, maybe two days max.

I don't think you guys have the drive to be working at a startup (<- heard this before)
"Functionally cured" is the key phrase in that article. They still have the HIV virus. But their immune system keeps it in check.

That last part I don't understand. At that point, isn't it just a fine balance that can tip over at any point in the future, were the virus can come back stronger? Like if the person gets a cold, or the immune system get's weakened somehow (even for just a short time).
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>and the people are friendly and charming.

hmmm, must be another city
I can't speak for lawyers, but how many people bodge their own plumbing because they underestimate the skill required by professional, trained, plumbers?
I don't understand what they expect them to do? Drop their entire current system and build a new one?

What alternatives are their?
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That's a huge problem in Austria, coming here from Canada I was shocked that you could still smoke everywhere here. I rarely go out to bars or cafes here due to the fact that I then have to change clothes and shower in order to get rid of the smell of smoke.
LAMP is out? What?
Steam's DRM is reasonable.

Valve is much like Google. It works reasonably well most of the time, but if for whatever reason you end up on the wrong end of the stick you are basically hosed.
> Backward support pretty printed stack trace on GNU/Linux only, it will compile fine under other platforms but will not do anything.

:(
You would see similar offers for other professions, if there were sites called rentalawyer.com or rentaplumber.com.
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A barometer is present in new smartphones as a part of the GPS because GPS only provides accurate X/Y positioning, and using barometric data (which varies predictably as elevation changes) allows the GPS to have Z data as well, giving it a better representation of your location. (This is the best explanation I've seen, please correct me if I'm wrong).

If you want to donate your barometric data for study, I recommend checking out PressureNet https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...

The PressureNet dev(s) are active on HackerNews and have made a couple of posts about the app.

For the record, my Galaxy Note II has a barometer as does the Galaxy S3 -- meaning the S4 didn't change anything in this regard!
I was about to post this exact same thing. It actually would be quite easy to do.
These people are not cured.

> The 14 adults still have traces of HIV in their blood, but at such low levels that their body can naturally keep it in check without drugs.

For a transmissible infectious disease with a reservoir, cure means eradication. These people appear to have one of the following (just my guesses):

1) Early HAART led to selection pressure on HIV in such a way that, for some people, the HIV itself that became embedded in the latent reservoir is defective in some way. Therefore, the reservoir continues to produce HIV particles, but these are relatively ineffective at infecting additional cells.

2) They are supercontrollers via a previously undescribed mechanism (since they were stated not to be classical supercontrollers).

Again, this is complete speculation that would require sequencing and functional studies to investigate, HIV is not my field, etc.
What if the API is superior to the "standard access"?
haha that's true. viennese people love to be grumpy :D
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If so then Elance is 90% honeypots.
Technology sector in Austria in general is booming, coming here as a Canadian fresh out of school, after under 6 months of German schooling I was able to land two job offers in under a week. I'm in Linz which is an industry city but from what I've heard it's mostly the same all over.
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Thanks for the post! It couldn't have come at a better time for me. I'm actually in the process of quitting my "real" job (next Friday is my last day). I'm completely terrified but so thrilled to do something that's exciting, scary, and where I will undoubtedly learn a ton.
You're pointing to a highly specific example about a particular instance, about a tiny sample from an entire lot, about something that shouldn't have been outsourced in the first place and then trying to conclude in general that "therefore X group of developers sucks". I would rather label this argument with 'wtf' instead of your (pointless) example.
Well, this is hair-splitting, but I'll bite. A company can be considered (by me) a "good-guy" if:

1 - they do not want to steal from me (by using legal tactics to shut down competitors)

2 - they are not making my life difficult (by actively fighting standardization of protocols/formats)

Bonus points for improving life for everybody by releasing quality open source software (which Apple has done, in a limited way)

I have yet to be disappointed by Google. I am sure I will, sometime in the future, but not yet (lots of open source software, little legal activity - mostly retaliation - data liberation, open formats)

I have systematically been negatively affected by Microsoft (I am still waiting for a universally accepted document format, which Microsoft largely destroyed with their back-room tactics against ODF; I am also fed up that most laptops on the market are only offered with Windows tax - which I attribute to Microsoft abusing their OEM market power)

And Apple has tried to reduce my choice on the Smartphone market (it has failed); they are trying to destroy a truly open applications market on the web (by offering "Apps", same applies to Google, following suit); and they are largely responsible for the trend in locked-in content (iTunes, books, whatever)
With the App.net storage API, you could just use it for sync'ing. It'd be up to the individual apps what features they extend (push it to your stream, make an RSS stream that others can follow, etc). In theory, it should be possible to partition the space for users who want them separate.
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Sure, the referendum is just a political ploy. But it might pass.... EU membership isn't up for voting in any other EU country.
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We are austrians, not australians btw..
> "Storing your data somewhere else where it gets held hostage in a proprietary format is a lot of pain waiting to happen."

Which isn't really all that different a situation from having your data held hostage in a proprietary format on your own machine. And now we all sound like RMS.

Somewhere along the line, most people draw a line between security and convenience. Some will get burned by this line. Others will appreciate the risk, plan accordingly and come out ahead for having had a fallback and profited from the convenience in the meantime.

It's harder to say where a reasonable exchange has been met when it comes to media. But for things like, say, Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn or even SaaS offerings like Salesforce and such -- who's to say a user wouldn't have gotten acceptable value from it before its inevitable end (or a change of terms such that the user won't get any more value than if it was simple closing forever)?

So, for most, the "pain waiting to happen" isn't, by itself, a deal-breaker. It's simply a cost that ought to be considered, but no different from any number of essentially-unknowable surprises this world saves for those who dare to make long term plans.