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Not just PayPal but pretty much every bank here in the UK and EU have banking apps. I do almost all of my business and personal banking using iOS apps (just because they are a lot more convenient than online banking websites). Can transfer money to bank accounts with no charges. And I'd find it pretty objectionable if Apple wanted to take a 30% cut of me transferring money into my personal bank account.

There are also a number of simple payment apps backed by banks for doing low value transfers (under 1500 GBP) like Barclays Pingit and so on.
I like OVH and everything, even if I don't host with them anymore.

However I tried this service a few months ago, and it was very unreliable and slow to sync files. Sharing files between different people in particular was quite a hassle, which is why i quit using it. Also, I had a lot of trouble with the Linux client.
It may get better with time though as the project was only started in 2013 i believe.

It's good to have cheap alternatives but if you can pay for Dropbox there's just no comparison in the products.
Not exactly what dewey was referring to, but for example they unilaterally cancelled their VoIP service to a large part of their customers in Europe, without any kind of explanation.
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I get that there are considerations like this. But in that case, would it mean that Google should gradually sell off this stock?
Your reaction is normal for someone who didn't see this coming, or believe it was happening already. Remember how Toffler described how those who dealt with "Future Shock" successfully, they took control of aspects of their own life. That's what you have to act on, what you can control. So they question you should ask yourself is - what can you control? Anything you can control, you should be able to teach others how to control, be it their computer or their online behaviour.

That is unless you are happy with the present state of affairs and are comfortably numb.
It is not a constraint to deploy an Android app in Go. You can use Go, or create an android app for example.
You would be surprised, but unlike USA that was never the case in Russia, as far as i can remember. There's some sentiment among people like "Ah, again they want to show how bad and evil Russia is. Nothing's changed. Annoying".
If the contract is to create another contract effective at a specific date based on what makes more money for the employee, that raises no red flags in my mind from a legal perspective or an accounting principles perspective.

Unfortunately those are not the only things at issue. One key thing involved is uniformity from an investor's perspective and I think that's where the idea runs off the rails.
So, take your popcorn and watch the sell off.)
Gay pride in Moscow? You must be nuts, honestly :)

Neither do we want it here, nor feel the necessity to allow, either practically, or legislatively, period.

As for the alleged atrocities happening to those against whom the law is aimed, let's read the paper linked.
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The "arbitrary" I was referring to was from the article -- a direct quote from Horowitz.

I'm saying that if knowing things like the legal requirements for running a company isn't expected to be part of your job, then you should pay someone a hell of a lot less to do the job than most executives are paid. If you just want someone to wing it, give me a call -- I'll work for probably 10% of the salary.

It's not that the salary is compensation for the possibility of going to jail. It's that compensation correlates with responsibility. If you hire a programmer for $250,000 a year, you damn well expect him or her to be better, more responsible, and more independent than one you're paying $50,000 a year. If not, then what are you paying 5x as much for? So if I hire a CFO at say, $3.5 million a year plus stock options and all the other perks (that's Google's CFO compensation at the moment), what am I paying for if I can't assume that they won't have bothered to figure out the accounting laws?

Also, you're assuming that companies would be innocent, unknowing participants here. That's an assumption that, very often, turns out to be false when we have occasion to check. I don't think all those valley companies thought they were allowed to enter into those wage-dampening agreements, but they still did it. I don't think that was an honest mistake or misunderstanding of the law. I don't think Enron, Tyco, Global Crossing, AIG, and a million other examples thought they were shining beacons of moral virtue victimized by a complicated legal system either. People, and by extension corporations, will quite often break or at least flirt with breaking the law in exchange for money. You're asking me to just take your word for it -- sort of a "well obviously we didn't mean to do anything wrong" defense. It isn't obvious.
I doubt we'll see "massive performance gains" from the very first version of such a chip. The gains will come mostly the same way we saw Moore's Law in silicon. So we'll get 5Ghz graphene processors, then 7Ghz ones 2 years later, then 10 Ghz 2 years later, and so on, until we reach TerraHerz a couple of decades later.

Even if we do see somewhat big gains initially, it will probably have the price point to match, like we saw with SSDs, which were ~3x faster than HDD on average, but 10x more expensive per GB.
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Only restricted time for sharing ?

Or is an add-on planed for permanent shares (e.g. for companies)?
> Finally, let's not forget that outside accounting- and law firms are motivated to keep their clients happy, to be perceived as team players, and ultimately to get hired for repeat business.

See Arthur Anderson and Enron...
They're probably just trying to be sensitive to their audience and sponsors. Google also censors pornography because a subset of users are offended by it.
Their support by email / Internet is just nonexistent: I've never had any reply to the many messages I've sent this way. The support by phone requires you to wait about ~20 minutes until someone takes your call, but then, it's very efficient (in my case, at least).

I'm very happy I almost never have any problem with OVH (I've two DSL connections with included Hubic accounts and a few web hosting with included domain names), because the support is not great at all.
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> Google also censors pornography because a subset of users are offended by it.

Censoring pornography doesn't infringe anyone's human rights.
Interestingly, most of Russian press (both in internet and, by a vast majority, in print) is anti-establishment. The government only has the TV ^)
The British Empire was rapidly weakening. It didn't have the resources to maintain it's massive navy, and the head-start it had in the Industrial Revolution had waned. Germany was an ascendent power and the UK was no match for it. The UK was very much fighting for survival - the counterbalancing alliances of European powers had been in considerable tension since at least Germany unified.

Look what it took to bring Germany and its allies down down - the immense manpower and resources of the Soviets, the industrial might of the US, and the naval power and combined might of the UK and the Commonwealth. And good old General Winter working for the Soviets. And this was only 20 years after WWI's peace treaty where the factories of Germany were stripped of heavy machinery. The UK was certainly fighting for survival. When you get bankers training to use catapults seriously intending to use them (however comical the Home Guard was at times), you really are in the grip of total war, fighting for your survival.
It removes the right to have certain things, such as, money that is in your control.
Unlike what everybody here is saying, it's entirely possible that you are the problem and not them. It's possible that they really meant you weren't getting up to speed quickly enough, not that they were expecting a significant positive output. It's possible that they gave you some beginner starter project that you ought to be able to finish in a day or two, to get you up to speed with the code base, but you took... 2 weeks. And maybe you didn't communicate enough with them to overcome your travails. Or maybe you did and they realized they shouldn't have hired you. You haven't given us enough information to really know, and since there isn't specific information about what happened, it's hard to recommend how to improve, other than, "get better at programming (in a sustained effort over the course of a week or two)."

I mean, clearly they don't fire everybody that they hire, so there's something other people are doing that you aren't. If you hire somebody and soon you realize that they're a complete FNG, it's annoying to keep them around for months just to achieve 99.99999% certainty.
Because it was known he was there. It would have looked very bad indeed if Roger went to Gox and didn't release a statement.
I'm curious. Why the scare quotes?
"Reporting showed that, in fact, Lenovo was merely disclosing what Google might own, should the deal go through"

It's not clear if these are options or contingent obligations. If the latter, the original story may be closer to the truth than this "clarification". Either way, its news that was non-obvious from earlier announcements.
I wonder if this is the typical left doesn't know what the right does in regards to Apple's "personalized" cryptocurrency policy, so someone approved it without realizing the top executives don't want it there, and they might request for a ban later - or Apple has an incredibly inconsistent policy regarding cryptocurrencies. Neither one makes much sense.
Any recommendations for resources to improve one's Javascript code running on the back-end, for example node.js/V8 or vert.x/JVM.

Specifically: (i) how to leverage Javascript to write better networking code (e,g; cluster, websockets, etc), and (ii) for number crunching on the server-side, should the relevant code be written from scratch in functional Javascript, or is it better to fork a process that runs (say) Julia code?
maybe the fact that it is read only plays a role.
No, that's completely the wrong way around. The rights owners could not sell anything to the BBC if the BBC were to simply refuse to buy anything they can not publish without DRM, and not selling anything is not a particularly good business model in most cases.

"The rights owners" are in a market, and if the market simply refused to buy broken products, they would have to either deliver a non-broken product or go bankrupt, there is no way in which they could force people to buy broken products in order to sustain them.
That's why some players (like Foobar2000) have "Shuffle" and "Random" as separate options.
But then the game would be to find an hash collision with a malicious code :)
> Also, three main sponsors of Olympics including AT&T have also spoken out against Russian laws.

"Spoken out", boohoo! So scary! They'd better put their money where their mouth is.
i think they just removed that hilarious unboxing scene. original here: http://youtu.be/CNfQwrtKxWk?t=1m10s
Dogecoin is an example how your story about your product could make it or break it. Dogecoin is not yet another digital currency and this has nothing to do with it's technology.
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It doesn't make sense that they'd just drop a comic and substitute it for another. Maybe Adams released one, Yahoo caught it and then he changed it for another, with Yahoo's scraper already having updated?
can you post a link to the difference? i don't see anything on the dilbert site for the 7th feb, and the one on the yahoo site doesn't seem particularly inflammatory.

http://i.imgur.com/1IueyOE.jpg
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I have to say that this doesn't make sense to me. Yahoo, despite all its issues, strikes me as progressive.

I wonder if this is some kind of mix-up? Maybe two strips were released and in some automated fashion, the non-pro gay one was chosen?
Why? Pornography is speech too.
Icons/UI details could use a lot of work in this. Actually the website is much better designed than the actual app.
But "at will" means you can be fired for any reason except if the reason is "being in a protected class". Those include pregnant women, for examples.

It is so ridiculous it is funny. In the US, the law guarantees NO paid maternity leave, but you can't fire a pregnant lady. So, as soon as she gives birth, you can stop paying her (but not fire her), and then, two weeks after she comes back from maternity leave, you can fire her (because she is no longer in a protected class). So, basically, all this protection amounts to is ... about two extra weeks of severance.

US is pretty sad when it comes to labour law and employee rights - and most people living in the US are somehow under the illusion that it is better for them.

Does anyone know if sexual preference or sexual orientation is a recognized protected class?
To be fair, they probably agreed to sponsor it long before the homophobic laws were even discussed.
Yup. In my previous job I wrote a UI framework for set top box developers in my company to be able to be able to create interfaces relatively easily. One of the exercises I used to give them during training was to write exactly this game (well, except artwork). It's ideal for a platform that has an RC remote control as its interface... So it's far from an original idea, you have to just assume that the developer got lucky.
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It doesn't seem to be a wallet app, just for checking balance.
I have to agree it seems a bit odd, however there may be some syndication meta data that is sent from dilbert.com that includes the topic of the strip. Again it seems odd.

Of note I find the style of the comic up on Yahoo to be 'old'.
I can't help but feel that Russia making homosexuality illegal is a simple troll-move. Have the world go ballistic, so noone will look at the things that are truly important (not saying gay rights aren't important, but in Russia it's less than a drop in the ocean).

I think we're all feeding the troll.
As a followup, someone apparently flew from Australia to Japan to try to get his BTC and has just posted an interesting writeup: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x9gue/my_protest_a...

MtGox has been building up failed transactions for over a week: http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/04/major-bitcoin-exchange-not-e...

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I find it a little hard to believe they'd be able to implement EMV very easily, given that EMV was designed to prevent exactly the kind of credit card skimmer fraud that Coin makes so easy.
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Keep in mind that no-one but the Germans were aware that blitzkreig would be as fast as it was. Up until that point, war was a somewhat leisurely affair - this is the exact reason why France fell so ignomiously. War was declared, now we can start shifting things into place while the Poles hold the Germans and... holy shit, the Poles have collapsed in only five weeks.

Same thing happened to the French - the German army moved so fast through the low countries that the French couldn't move fast enough to block them. The last time everyone fought, months would go by with only a few miles of land exchanged. This time round, a few miles of land only took an hour to obtain.

In any case, the UK deserves some credit for hastily allying with the Polish in an attempt to dissuade Germany from invading in the first place. And after the war, the Soviets were ascendent in Europe, with the rest of the Allies afraid that they would continue their march through the rest of the continent. They had a plan to take on the Soviets, but they didn't have the power to realistically defeat them.
Channel 4 in the UK also has added the rainbow to its logo for the week, but Google didnt go as far, C4 have a "Gay Mountain" video too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6RID82Ru-k
That has to suck. The most healthy question at this point is "What makes the company's expectations seem reasonable to the company?"

A project manager in a small shop engaged in consulting where all programmer time is assigned to projects is unlikely to want a high overhead ratio staff member on their books. A company maintaining a big ball of mud doesn't gain much value from attempts to understand the codebase generally because the codebase is inherently incomprehensible. A manager in a giant corporation with keystroke monitoring wants to keep their boss off their back.

The second question is. "How could you have uncovered the explicit expectations earlier in your interactions with the company?"

Good luck.
Really?

Scott Adams' mild political satire is understandably censored because it is comparable in offensiveness to porn?!

By the way, Google doesn't censor porn. They categorises it.
If they were either dropping all porn or replacing all porn images by pictures of little ponies, that would be censorship.
Where are the numbers?
Pretty happy with Crashplan but I might sign up for this also just to have some storage I can access via an API. Crashplan only works with their client and their client isn't exactly lightweight to leave running 24/7.
since when did Russia make homosexuality illegal? It's still illegal in Texas. What Russia made illegal was promoting the, 'alternative lifestyle' to minors.
"for the same job" - there's almost nothing like 'the same jobs' google hires for and 90+% of the rest of the tech jobs out there. No, most companies aren't competing against Google for hiring people, unless by "most" you're only looking in SV.

I was contacted by Google last summer for a potential job. I was shocked at how mediocre their recruiting staff were - unfocused, intentionally vague/evasive, rambling, didn't answer my questions, didn't followup when they said they would. Perhaps Google can't convince some people to uproot their lives and move across country because they're not doing a very convincing job in their initial outreach?
Perhaps because "homophobia" isn't a good word for it.

Hitler wasn't a jewphobe.
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Why is this news? There's been other Dodgecoin apps in the App Store for a while now.

I've been using this one personally to track my wallet balance: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doge-tracker-dogecoin-price/...

Infact I think the one I've been using is probably better designed, although it isn't free.
From the page:

>MYĐOGE is read-only. It can be used to monitor your Dogecoin at a glance, watch the markets or read about Dogecoin.

So it can't be used for transfers. It still doesn't look like Apple is approving apps that send *coins
Well I have to cop out from this one a bit, it was one of the central points of the course on criminal psychology I took as part of my law degree but I don't have references at hand. My books from that time are in storage because I'm moving.

Of course one can't quantify exactly how much several factors come into play when making a decision, but basically the overall conclusion from experiments was: as long as the severity of the punishment outweighs the benefits of the crime (e.g. a fine of at least 11$ for stealing 10$), that severity doesn't matter very much any more. So punishing all theft by death is only a marginal deterrent. The policy focus should be on increasing the chance of getting caught. (death penalty is an exaggerated and probably silly and untrue example, but the fact that people still steal in places with Shariah law which punishes theft by loss of a hand shows that extreme punishment is not an absolute deterrent).

But yeah - I can't point you to the literature. Coincidentally I read in the news paper a few days ago that my prof from that course is caught up in a scandal about a book on an unsolved murder and hasn't been heard from for 2 weeks, so I can't really expect he'll answer an email about it either ;)
so I really don't know what you mean by not a particularly difficult war.

To me it's blindingly obvious that I'm talking about the experience of the Western nations in these wars. You seem to be more choosing to be obtuse rather than not actually understanding what I'm saying: that we as citizens of western make effectively zero sacrifices in pursuing these wars.