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That seems pretty harsh considering the attorney in question didn't work on anything remotely related to Apple (or even patents). There are 1,300 attorneys at his firm, I'm sure you could find a conflict with nearly any investment.

Now if he were billing to Apple's account while also running the lawsuits that he was defending, that would be something worth discussion. Alas, he was not.
Have you tried Bitbucket? While it lacks a lot of the social integration, it has the benefit of giving you 5 free private repositories.
http://bugseverywhere.org/ does distributed bug tracking.
I would say you are over-analyzing my word choice.

As I noted, congestion taxes have a similar goal (reducing traffic), but less questionable motivations (they generally directly address externalities rather than behavior).

I was coming at it from the perspective of thinking about mechanisms that might be useful to try to shift aggregate group behavior towards something that is better for everybody. I certainly wasn't insisting that it was sensible.
But oil and gas will run out eventually. Norway should be planning/investing for the transition now - Not waste the oil revenues like the UK did
I ... just did it. Handed in my notice, and started looking for contracts. Jobserve is a good place to look. Find people contracting in your field, or places that hire contractors, and ask them which agencies they use. You'll always get a better rate outside of agencies, but they'll get you started off nicely. You'll make more if you start a limited company, but start off with someone like http://www.giantgroup.com/ to ease you in to it the paperwork.
Tech startup doesn't mean social media startup.
Remote, Portland, OR

BatchGeo.com - we are a small, but fast growing (profitable) company building mapping tools for the masses. We are looking for full-stack developers that can wear many hats but excel at JavaScript and PHP.

Let us know if you are interested: jobs@batchgeo.com
Am I only one who doesn't have a clue what are you talking about and who is jonstewart?
"But very human."

People also fail to take into account significant others and their family in this discussion. Your spouse sees you have made a certain salary and wants something. Your kids see you have money and want things their friends have (because you live in a nicer neighborhood). Your spouse wants more kids (or kids) because you can now "afford it". You are exposed to things that you can do with money that were never on the table when you had no money. The list is endless.
Claiming sth is "better" requires two things to be comparable, and thus, reasonable similarity in their resp. nature. Claiming something is better than something else implies this similarity (otherwise any comparison would be moot), which I refuted in this particular case.

On a side note, the same people who claim that sum types are "better" are never able to come up with a constructive proposal how sum types could be integrated into Go in an elegant way.
mpyne mentions bugs.kde.org's mailings as a fallback, but GitHub issues e-mails too.
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If you get an accountant that specialises in the area (I use Nixon Williams, they seem good but I have nothing to compare them to) then most of the paperwork is taken care of, which is rather nice.
Neither does Portland: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/22/4355312/portland-residents...
Passenger :)
There is. China essentially needs to sell off a lot of yuan and buy up a lot of dollars to keep its currency weak, and it does this by purchasing vast amounts of US debt. There's a series of videos about it at the Khan Academy if you're interested:

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/core-finance/money-and-b...
If I was pursuing the thought in a way that had negative consequences for other people I could see room to question my motivations and empathy.

As it is, you are basically just shouting at me because you didn't like what crossed my mind.
Since they're using MySQL, is there a technical reason (as opposed to historical/lack of time reason) they're not using Galera Cluster?

I'm in the process of migrating an existing datastore to MariaDB+Galera, and so far it seems like everything I could hope for in a clustered RDBMS.
Looks like quite a few of these replies are mixing up freelancing, and contracting, which in London are very different beasts:

* Freelancing - you're getting paid to do a project, and the risk is all on you

* Contracting - it's a very well-paid office job with no security

I've done both, and the latter is much much less hassle, much much more lucrative, with less freedom.
That's roughly where I am, but that's why I asked.
> A company doing business in Bangladesh has a fixed amount of money they can spend on compensation + safety + etc.

That's not true, the safety expenses should be mandated and everyone's prices will increase accordingly. Prices are set according to costs and in the developed world, safety is a required cost. It could happen overnight if the big customers actually required it. Imagine if Walmart suspended billions of dollars worth of contracts until safety standards were met.
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I agree with you PommeDeTerre. It's hard for me to take this meme of "HN is full of negativity" seriously when I constantly see people (like thedanfilter above) complain about comments whose only faults are that they aren't full of glowing praise.
I worked overseas for three months for my last permanent job (back in 2007), and really enjoyed the flexibility of being about to avoid winter. But since that was a one off (and I was sort of planning on moving country), I quit that job... then put some feelers out for possible contract work. And for the past five years I've been completely busy with that.

I'm a full-stack, jack-of-all-trades sort of dev. Bit rubbish at design (but I have a great designer I partner with when needed), but I do a bit of everything, from infrastructure, networking, database, middle tier and front-end html/css/javascript.
Any specialist in any of the above will wipe the floor with me skills/wise. But I'm pretty comfortable communicating with clients and helping get the best bang-for-buck with them only having to basically describe what they are trying to achieve.

My key bit of advice would be to fire difficult clients and only work for time and materials. If a client is too high a maintenance, you may not be a good fit for them, or them for you. In that case I try and transition them elsewhere, recommending someone that may be a better option.

Equally, fixed prices quotes are almost never worth it in my experience. I'd rather release early and often, then the client can then see how much business value they've gotten for XX amount of hours/money. After which, they can make the decision to either continue or to terminate, depending on whether they feel they're getting value or not. It's normally a completely different way of working for most clients, but I often offer a two week shared-risk starter deal to ease them into it. If it doesn't work, I'll absorb half the cost and we'll call it quits. But so far, every relationship seems to have worked out well.

The biggest downside is possibly taking time off. I'm pretty flexible about timings. I'll work when clients need it, and take breaks during slack periods (of which there haven't been enough). But my ex wasn't supportive of me having to work while on 'holiday'. It wasn't a lot (no more than 20 hours over a two week holiday), but YMMV depending on how understanding your partner is/isn't.

As far as transitioning goes. Try sounding people out for possible side projects you can do while keeping your day job. I worry that I'm not a good networker, and that one day the work will completely dry up. But on the flip-side, I kind of want that to happen, so I can focus more on projects that I want to do myself. And it's hard to do those when you've got paying projects to do. But if you can pick up a couple of side projects, once they're earning almost enough to live off, you've no excuse to pack in your day job and do that full time. I've got a couple of mates who started contracting this way.

Unless you mean just straight out contracting... as in, apply for a typical contract and work there.. just like a day job. In which case, it's a piece of piss... just start applying. But I find recruiters(pimps) rather distasteful to go through, so I've avoided them completely. (There are good ones, but they're few and far between)

Good luck!
To be fair 99.77% uptime isn't very good.
I also read that story yesterday, and I thought, "this is pretty cool, I wonder how it works. It probably compiles to JS" and clicked through and looked at the site for a bit.

At the end, I thought it was a really awesome idea, but didn't comment -- I guess I should have, and this blog post makes me feel kind of guilty.

I've learned my lesson -- If you like something here, or even think it's remotely interesting, say so.
Considering there was no lock box of money (we ran a deficit the vast majority of the time she was paying taxes - a world war and a depression will do that), yes... money she paid in income tax before medicare was completely separate from the money used to pay for medicare.

She didn't buy her own insurance. She got sick and in order to avoid bankruptcy and continue living, she got on medicare just like all the "takers" she so famously railed against.

She certainly didn't pay her fair share for the insurance. Heck we don't even know if she paid any taxes during that 5 year period which was after she stopped writing and Objectivism had ebbed quite a bit.
How many years experience from graduation would you recommend before 'taking the leap'?
Honestly, no different from how I got permanent jobs; I sent CVs to recruiters and talked to them on the phone. Since then I've been obsessive about building up my contacts book to make sure I can get proactively in front of them as and when I want to, but renewals have come in enough that it's not been needed (though probably available from August - if you're looking for an MS stack guy with heavy SQL in the UK Midlands from then, mail me on greg.webb@alpinered.co.uk).

Honestly - the grass isn't as much greener as you might think. It's more hassle, less security and holidays suddenly become horrendously expensive. But if you fancy the lifestyle and think it's for you, give it a try. It doesn't have to be any harder than permanent employment to get into our stay in (if you use umbrella companies and are good enough), it does have its benefits and if it doesn't work out, go looking for permanent work again, enough people switch between them that you'll be fine.
"These people are my friends. They are my students, my relatives. They have no «hidden agenda» as the state likes to say. Their agenda is out there. It is very clear. The whole country is being sold to corporations by the government, for the construction of malls, luxury condominiums, freeways, dams and nuclear plants. The government is looking for (and creating when necessary) any excuse to attack Syria against its people’s will.

On top of all that, the government control over its people’s personal lives has become unbearable as of late. The state, under its conservative agenda passed many laws and regulations concerning abortion, cesarean birth, sale and use of alcohol and even the color of lipstick worn by the airline stewardesses."

It sounds as if the protestors, if the author is genuine, are protesting something I call "Singaporification." It's the fusion of authoritarian quasi-fascist rule with capitalism-- a kind of socially conservative, often (but not always) religious conservative, but economically neo-liberal state of affairs. On the surface it sometimes looks theocratic, but in reality it's more of a dictatorship of gentrification. Religious morality (or sometimes secularized versions thereof) is used as a facade to condemn any form of social deviancy and especially to mentally control the lower classes by manipulating their religious faiths.

(We see the latter in America with the "culture war," which is a way of distracting the largely-religious working classes while their future is sold out from under them.)

In conversations with fellow techies, it's disturbed me to what extent many seem to tacitly support this kind of thing. I've been in many conversations explicitly praising Singapore -- a country that permits death sentences for minor infractions -- as a viable model of the future.

The thing that makes Singaporification scary is that it works. The scariest dystopias are not hideous hellscapes where nobody would want to live, as those tend to self-destruct or at best persist in tiny enclaves and never catch on. Who would want to emulate North Korea? But seductive dystopias are dangerous because they can catch on. Who wouldn't want low crime, clean streets, and a wonderfully healthy economy? In that sense I find Singapore to be the scariest dystopia in the world today.

Historical precursors include Franco's Spain. Think of Singaporification as a gentler, less overtly violent form of Spanish fascism. But as we see if you openly challenge it, the gloves rapidly come off and your shiny clean utopia busts out the tanks, tear gas, and death penalty sentences.

Edit: on second thought, it also represents a fusion of liberal nanny-statism, conservative social authoritarianism, and neo-liberal economics. Government by and for the uptight, culturally xenophobic urban professional.

As Benjamin Franklin said: those who sacrifice liberty for security and prosperity deserve neither.

Worth watching: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/

"Buy, and be happy."

If action flicks are more your thing, this is a fun and a bit underrated riff on the same theme: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/
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Well, the well-known formula is "Nature and Nurture" - we are what we are due to genes and environment. This is, of course, huge over-simplification, almost a meme, but it is correct one.

Of course, "genes" does not mean the destiny, even if preferences and abilities are "encoded" there. There are long and boring debate about role of genes and IQ score and the consensus is that "almost everything is inherited but without proper environment, training and fertilizing the potential could not be fully expressed".

Well-off, well-educated parents, in a few generations back, is what could be called the environment. And what it amounts for is not just self-esteem and developed, refined mind, but also non-verbal behavior, which, like looks (a signal of good genes) are much more powerful drive that people like to admit to themselves.

As for ideas of so-called equality, be it socialism or equality between men and women, these are just theories. In reality (at least what we could see in labs) genes are the vehicle of evolution process, which is all about inequality.

It is correct to say that these theories, being intellectually attractive, are in contradiction with the very process which made us. So, it is better to check ones premises.)

For example, people might like it or not, a good-looking person (due to genes) will receive much more attention from people in all his endeavors, be it studying or carer building, or simply having a good time. Too much attention could ruin, and it is well-known in the field of personality disorders.

Please, do not even mention that nonsense that what is considered good-looking varies from culture to culture, from age to age. Good looks are youth, health and lack of deformations ("average" face considered the most beautiful) or signs of good genes.

Actually, any modern psychology textbook treats those subjects is very clear.
Ask HN: How would you get users for a free service?
I've made a unique file host that allows people to sell digital content for Youtube subscriptions. Now that it's live, there are no users. It's a free service so I can't pay for advertising. In my mind the only thing I could do is spam youtubers with PMs, but I don't want to do that.
You are being COMPLETELY condescending.

All the technologies you cited are AWESOME. And I would be screwed if they weren't.

Everyday I have to thank all the wonderful minds that bothered to come up with easier and more elegant solutions to problems that made me pull my hair out on the past.

To say they are more of the same is untrue and very mean.
Agent orange is an herbicide.
Essentially, you're saying that the point is not to use DSL's. The benefits of DSL's are explained everywhere, so I don't think I need to repeat them here...

Parser combinators are not what you said they are -- and you won't be able to write the kinds of things you can in Haskell. e.g, to parse 10 comma-followed-by-int:

replicateM 10 (parseComma >> parseInt)

How would you implement that in Go? Even if you violate DRY and re-implement replicateM in every monadic context I don't think Go will be able to encode anything similar in power to parser combinators.

> But I have a nagging feeling that adding logging or exceptions in this context is quite a bit more convoluted

To add exceptions, I use an EitherT transformation on my Transaction monad.

To do a debug log, you just insert an impure debug log as you would in a non-pure language.

To insert an actual production log you would use a Writer that accumulates the logs in order to eventually write them outside the transaction context. Otherwise, aborted transactions will also have the production logs. If you want these semantics, add logging capabilities to the transaction monad. Otherwise, you get nice guarantees about what can't happen.
Millionaires on royal caribbean? What are you talking about?
They probably interpret your use of "emotional" as "irrationally emotional".
I live and work in Prague and recently our team have finally found a sponsor for our software project. I am very happy that in a month or two, together with full-time system administrator pay with maximum bonus from state research/education institution we work for I will finally be able to pay my rent and food at the same time.

We are looking at ~£13K each.

I am very competent in C, Python and do Racket for fun. Both other guys are competent in Python, one of them have some Android experience, both are competent in modern web stuff. One of the guys just learned PgPL/SQL in a week, on flu, because it was needed.

Do we even live on the same planet?
site is throwing "Error establishing a database connection" on pretty much every page except the front page.
It's sad that the taped interviews by Isaacson haven't been released to the public with the Jobs family's permission.

There's perhaps so much insight, and so much brilliance in those interviews.
Sorry, I ever meant to imply that.
Nice, but where's the Java Enterprise (tm) solution?
What do you mean by sell digital content for youtube subscriptions?

You mean just as a platform for people to sell videos they've made to youtubers?

Not being sure what you made, I can still say this however:

1. Did you solve a real problem that exists?

2. Having a free service doesn't mean you can't pay for advertising, it just means you'll take a loss on it. And it may very well be a good idea to PM some people with successful youtubers and ask what they think. Introduce yourself politely, and get some opinions (I'm still kind of unclear on what your site does)

3. You should have some sort of money plan. If you grow, your costs are probably also going to grow, at least have something in place to offset that.

4.Post the site on places like HN, Reddit (in the appropriate subreddits), and see what people think
I built a rough prototype of a developer tool I planned to sell that got some interest from consulting companies. Since we weren't making enough revenue yet but I was full-time at a normal job, I figured going into contractor work would be a nice transition to going full-time on my company, plus the hourly rate was about 2x what I was doing at my full-time job. They seemed happy to have me help them out for a bit.

It worked pretty well and I only had to do it for a few months, but I learned I don't really care for client work.
I've been here for 3 years. I don't think there's been a decline, but I think the usual value of discussion has been strongly overshadowed by the hate and vitriol that winds up in just about every discussion now. Worse, those are usually the top-rated comments. These days, I mostly avoid the comments entirely for that reason.
Simple: Get a client.

As a developer, there is lots of demand. People will ask to hire you. Politely decline and offer to contract. Eventually someone will accept. Then when they want to hire you, politely decline again. Eventually they may even offer to hire you at a fair salary, which you may choose to accept.

Keep in mind you need to be more than a developer. You are now a professional with a private business, and you need to act that way. You need to be your own boss, be accountable, communicate well, and hold yourself to a high standard.

If you are a cave dwelling developer who's bitter about managers and non-technical people, you should probably stick with your salaried job.

I can't understand how a competent, experienced developer with basic communication skills would have trouble finding contract work once they start looking. That said, I've encountered plenty of incompetent or obviously lying developers looking for contract work. If that's you, keep working until you are competent and don't have to lie.
One could see hundreds actual evidences in any alpine slalom world cup, or US golf cup or a Paris fashion show.)
Turkey: A guide to the protests
Hacker News response:

"They knew the risks they were taking. They were all expert electricians who fully knew that their pay of almost $10,000/year would compensate them for the risk they were taking. If we started regulating companies like this, pretty soon there wouldn't be any companies and the entire world economy would collapse, people eating people, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and you don't want that, do you? Besides we all know government is bad. These people preferred their life of liberty and horrific, agonizing electrocution to a life lived under repressive workplace regulations like putting insulation on high-voltage wires."

Does that about sum it up?
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Out of all the ways to fight sterile sprawl, why choose a method that promotes sterile density? Smart Growth suffers from a very severe and unfortunate unintended consequence: Drastically increased barriers to entry.

It is sad to see how many higher density proposals are squelched because they don't fit the vision of Smart Growth planners, or because the developers don't have multiple years worth of cash flow behind them to support the permitting process, public approval process, and zoning approvals process. Oh, and if you happen to want to have small scale low impact manufacturing (such as clothes manufacturing) instead of Mid-Scale retail or B-Class Office space...good luck waiting another few years for the Smart Growth planners to determine if your appeal is "smart" enough for them. These barriers to entry are how Smart Growth developers (like Paul Allen's Vulcan Real Estate) end up owning entire neighborhoods (like Seattle's South Lake Union).

Manhattan was almost completely built out, with an extremely diverse and interesting landscape, long before the planners took over. There is no need for them and their vision.
The short term repercussions are certainly clear:

Chinese goods are cheaper than they would otherwise be, which increases production in China.

Purchasing power of people holding Yuan (i.e., the Chinese people) is lower than it would otherwise be.

Basically, China is making it's people poorer in order to stimulate production.

In the long run, China is stuck holding a lot of US debt, the value of which will eventually be inflated away.