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Well, with such an unbiased source as United Liberty quoting "full-time cleaning lady" as their economic analyst I guess the matter is settled.
> At least my Mac recognizes and uses a second monitor when I plug it in, unlike the bloody Fedora 19 box that I use at work. And don't get me started on that second graphics card that the system can't figure out how to use! And the wifi Just Works(tm), unlike the Ubuntu laptop that I had before that.

For what it's worth my debian wheezy laptop detects second monitor just fine (and I am using awesome-wm) while my 2007 iMac randomly lose internet though it's connected to my routeur via wifi. So... data points.
Well that's another case of "careful what you wish for", assuming the money coming to the company is the same, but the output money is (any amount) higher, somewhere must be the cut to keep the profitability, and it's the easiest way to cut the perks...
There's a fix for the Wifi issue - trashing your bluetooth prefs. Solved it for me: http://www.imore.com/how-fix-mavericks-wi-fi-zapping-bluetoo...
I don't know about the dark mode, but can you answer, is 10.10 stable enough? I'd like to try it on my home system
pretty neat! I am not an iOS developer but if i understand correctly this uses the new Sprite Kit stuff included in iOS8 for 2d rendering right ? Is this a threat to existing 2d/game engines ? Not sure where SpriteKit integrates into the existing stack for making a game.
This doesn't go into any detail about how 'caller ID' works. It just goes over how the information is stored…
This is a fairly common thing here in the Netherlands actually, four day work week. Most of my colleagues I know who does this to have some extra time with their family/kids.

Usually it's a split in the middle of the week or something, for example my manager doesn't work tuesday's, it's his "papadag" as he then spends time with his kids and don't have to send them off to day-care or get a nanny.

Another colleague of mine dropped his contract from 40 hours a week down to 32 hours so he would have an extra day to work on his music career and an upcoming album.

Obviously these arrangements will affect your salary as you work less.
This argument really needs to stop. 89% of minimum wage workers do not live in poor households. (see my Marginal Revolution citation on this page). It's extremely misleading to insinuate otherwise.
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Africa is a large heterogeneous continent ... I'm a software developer from north Africa (Tunisia). You can find here some regular white-collar jobs. But the startups scene is nonexistent.
• Studies of the impact of minimum wage increases on restaurants’ operating costs find that an increase of 10 percent in the minimum wage increases operating costs by about 1 to 2 percent.

• Researchers find small one-time price increases in the restaurant industry (of about 0.7 percent following a 10 percent minimum wage increase), but not in other industries.

from "University of California, Berkeley study: Who Would be Affected by an Increase in Seattle’s Minimum Wage?" which is one of the two pieces of research commissioned in the development of the Seattle ordinance.[1] The research explored empirical evidence provided by similar minimum-wage increase ordinances in other cities. (9 total, I believe, including San Francisco.)

[1] http://murray.seattle.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/UC-Berk...
I'm Dutch and I work 4 days a week. My productivity in my startup is the same. This is what researchers say about our average number of hours per week:

For example, Dutch workers are on par with American workers in terms of productivity per hour. They pay higher taxes and earn less than Americans. But on average, they work roughly 11 weeks less than their American counterparts each year, have access to government-funded health care, pay little or nothing for a college education, and have far more leisure time than the American.
When UNICEF recently ranked 21 industrialized nations by well-being for children, Netherlands was on top and the United States was near the bottom, in 20th place.
I would of hoped that faulty crypto wouldnt be implemented, although there is that old saying that properly implemented DES can be stronger than poorly implemented AES.

Truthfully i dont know enough about cryptography to answer that, hence the OP.
Maybe you should read the article. They're quoting from "Assunta Ng, publisher of the Northwest Asian Weekly"

http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2014/05/blog-seatac-tells-us-15...
While I agree, I think Apple's core demographics does not want to think about the file system. There are enough abstractions created by the apps to the point that users don't think about where their files are at all.

It's not how I want to operate either, but that's the direction Apple has been heading to for a long time
Wonderful article, and quite insightful. While reading I was asking myself if it wouldn't be a good idea to provide tools to enlarge our possibilities of time perception:

The dominant time perception in North-America / EU is linear: the work day is segmented and tasks and appointments are scheduled. Calendar apps and project management tools help us with this. But what if I wanted to take, say, the circular time persepctive? I'm not aware of any tools or apps that would support such a perspective.

Maybe one should think of ways to open our management culture to other time perspectives, maybe even enabling us to shift between the perpectives and unify them. Something like a 'multi-cultural project management tool.' I can imagine that this could have quite some impact in globalized economy, and maybe even could be the basis for a new management philosophy
SpriteKit was released last year with iOS 7. It's a pretty much self-contained 2D game engine like Cocos2D, including stuff like physics simulation. iOS 8 is going to ship with SceneKit, which is similar but for simple 3D games.
For the day off does the entire company not work or do different people take different days off. My reasoning is because if you are working supporting a 24x5 or 24x7 platform then you need full time cover.
Switching to SSD in my mac mini made a huge difference even just browsing the web. It's absurdly good.
I'm not sure that a small businesses can afford to make shifts (or 4 days week) if the company must be reachable by a client.
Swift is a new programming language. Does this implementation also use Metal? What is the Scene Kit relation to Metal?
the most incredible libertarian assumption is that all companies operate in such a way that the smallest hike in pay absolutely must result in cutbacks elsewhere. apparently, no company is making any profit! :D
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I'm not sure why I am getting downvoted to hell (also Igglyboo's entirely legit question). I just stated a fact, it's really undeniable.
Couple of things that are still not clear to me, even when people keep saying that it's similar to C#:

- How about Garbage Collection?

- Many mentions to "type inference", is it then a statically-typed language? Or is it hybrid?
I got mixed feelings about the language at first sight. I guess my mammalian brain recognizes languages based on the particular combination of the following naming decisions.

* func, function, fun, defun fu, funct

* CamelCase vs snake_case

* whitespace, semicolon or comma usage

* var, int/integer/uint64/Integer/

* choice of (), {}, [] or better (){a[]}

* import/include/require, class/class, override, self vs this, new vs Class()

PS: next time you design a new language just make a random unique combination of the above.
I'm running Yosemite now. The same feel you get from iOS 7 UI is prevalent in the OS. They flattened the window headers. They flattened the toolbar on the bottom. They flattened the status bar on top. It makes for more of a content-focused approach.

The translucency they speak of is in regards to the side menus in apps. In order to give a dynamic feel to the UI, they added some translucency like they have in some iOS 7 apps.
ObjC and its quirks was a major reason i never did Mac development. This sounds more interesting.
"Work from home is almost common in the US and basically non-existent in Europe."

It is not non-existent in Sweden.

"Somehow socialists are always one step behind Mother Nature, i.e. free markets."

The free market has nothing to do with "Mother Nature" (animals and plants don't trade at all). Sweden has a free market economy, much like the US. Not exactly sure what is meant by socialists here. Anyone who advocates shorter working hours?
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I work with a really great Nigerian programmer, if that helps, and one of our project managers is from Mauritius. My boss (CIO) was born in Tanzania, but is of Indian descent.
I've found myself more and more depending on raw data dumps rather than APIs, so was extremely happy to see mention of this on the openFDA page. Are you currently offering this or is that still to come?

I've been doing luigi pipeline work recently, I might see if I can get yours running and get some pull requests in :)
I work with a really great Nigerian programmer, if that helps, and one of our project managers is from Mauritius. My boss (CIO) was born in Tanzania, but is of Indian descent. I previously hired a South African coder.

The one thing all those people have in common: every one of them left Africa for better opportunities elsewhere (US, France, Brazil).
This sounds like a microcosm of the market. Engineers/investors want the largest possible returns on their capital, so they chase projects with the largest potential. This makes for big splashes and little follow through, even on things that the customer population has as core needs for the overall company. Welcome to capitalism.
I love seeing Netherland at the bottom of lists like this: http://cf.datawrapper.de/mv47r/3/

I too work 4 days a week, and wouldn't have it any other way. I have had to reject at least one very interesting job offer for it, though. Even when employers know full well that a 4 day work week makes sense, some of them still have trouble accepting it. It makes for weird conversations where they totally agree with me, and still cannot do it.
It really reeks of 80s. I 'd rather program in plain C.
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Who said that? Why attack the minimum wage and not the EITC (which directly helps the poor)?
Different people take different days off to ensure continuity.

I also found out that during the off day I'm processing the stuff that has happened on the job and this helps me in my focus and deciding what the next steps are. Considering this, my productivity and effectivity both went up.
Well, the primary goal is, of course, to raise the income of minimum-wage earners. Failure criteria probably include things like a) a marked increase in businesses that rely on minimum-wage earners going out of business relative to other and/or b) a marked increase in unemployment among minimum-wage earners. I don't know what thresholds are reasonable. (Possibly confounding: as minimum wage increases, the available labor pool will also increase.)

In the case of Seattle, they commissioned two pieces of research for this ordinance:

UW Evans School of Public Affairs study: Local Minimum Wage Laws: Impacts on Workers, Families and Businesses [1]
University of California, Berkeley study: Who Would be Affected by an Increase in Seattle’s Minimum Wage? [2]

The second paper addresses a lot of the questions I suspect you're interested, and it addresses them with empirical evidence based on previous such experiments in other cities.

[1] http://murray.seattle.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Evans-r...
[2] http://murray.seattle.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/UC-Berk...
so, give up on your pay, in order to maybe get tips and perks. charity > pay ?

also, kinda illogical. the tips got reduced when the waiter got a minimum wage, really? that doesn't make any sense.. and the perks for the hotel worker, it sounds like the hotel took away from her a greater value in perks then she got in the increased pay. are they exacting revenge on her due to their dissatisfaction with minimum wage laws, or what? why would they take away more? they used the introduction of minimum wage as an opportunity to squeeze her even more, under the pretense of being forced by the new wage rules?
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I'm sorry to say I did run a piece of java code to see how it handled creating many threads.. Didn't mean to cause any harm. I was just curious.
As seen on a the screenshot for the new notification center calendar, the Life of an Apple user begins at 10:00 with a crossfit session. After that it is not that you go to work then. Relaxing talk with Anne on the phone, maybe talking a little business on the side, but not to rough. After Lunch you do not start to work either. Just let out all those wise thoughts gathered while living your apple lifestyle in a fresh stream, like you do.
Agreed. Also there seems to be an implied assumption that these "no-profit" companies are only holding on to their current low-wage workers out of some kind of charity that will expire when they have to pay them a few bucks more an hour, which seems absurd when all of my experience as a retail consumer suggests that modern companies staffed primarily by minimum-wage workforces are generally incredibly under-staffed already in the name of increasing the profit the companies employing them supposedly aren't making, as evidenced by the generally poor customer service, long wait times for service, etc (I'm in SoCal, YMMV in other parts of the country).
This is not a good study. They are a couple of anecdotes, for all we know cherry picked to promote the views of rich people trying to make more money off poor people.

Also, I'm not sure a cleaning lady, and a waitress are even qualified to figure out their financial situation. Especially since functional illiteracy, and innumeracy in that region is around 40%.

How do we know that the companies didn't use this situation to take away the benefits and blame it on the minimum wage laws? It sounds like a typical negotiation tactic pulled on the powerless. Sure, the managers need to come up with more money to balance the budget. Taking less profit, or increasing efficiency, or charging more are harder than simply taking away benefits from easily replaced low skilled workers.
Aside from:

- silly mixed-case directories with spaces

- case-insensitive filenames

what negative aspects of the filesystem would affect an 'intermediate' user (e.g. a high-level hacker) on a day-to-day basis? Admittedly, those two are very frustrating, but I'm struggling to think of any others.
How extensive is the physics engine implementation?
Friday is by far the most popular day to take off. Many offices are nearly empty on Friday. I'm currently alternating weekly between Fridays and Wednesdays, with my wife taking the opposite day, because we both agree Wednesday's free afternoon would be a great time to do things with our son, but it's also a day with important stuff happening at work. Before that, I had Mondays off.

Jobs that need full time cover tend to have a schedule for their employees. And when it's 24x5 or 24x7, you're going to need a schedule anyway, because a regular 40 hour work week doesn't cover that either.
The video of that rescued, repaired and running PDP-11/34 just created the coziest feeling inside my mind. There is something magical about those old Digital PDP machines that were so deeply related to the development of UNIX and C. It just makes you want to simulate every little bit of it and somehow make it last forever. It's too precious to be lost in time.
what about that McDonalds story, fabrication?

also, for me it is far more improtant to note that, if i may guess, >90% of companies paying most of their workers a minimum wage do not operate on zero profit.
Currently there is not much discussion about a general reduction of the work day to 6 hours in Sweden.

If anything politicians are pushing for more work (though not longer days). Lower sick pay, later retirement and conversion of part time jobs to full time have been implemented or proposed.

(Also, it is not Volvo Cars that is downsizing, it is Volvo Group).
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Shouldn't this post title have a "(1998)" next to it?
A lot of them in Ghana go to this school: http://meltwater.org/
I've had similar feelings over the course of my education. Many students show up wanting to be taught how to do game dev, web dev, iOS or what ever the "hot" thing is. It is unfortunate because technologies (like Rails or iOS) aren't difficult to learn (in the grand scheme of things). Though a detailed understanding of CS both from the theoretical and engineering standpoint is something that is hard to impart.
Looks like a good way for Apple to lock the developers to their platform. In past glory days people used to make games for iOS first and consider porting to Android much later. These days developers think cross-platform from the start, esp. since it's much easier to test waters and iterate on Android. I guess that SpriteKit is an attempt to stop this trend. Smart move by Apple IMHO, but perhaps a little bit too late.
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Even so, just the reactions from Dutch people here on HN show that a lot of them are working 4 days a week. I do it too. My brother does it. Many of my neighbours do it. A 4 day work week is particularly popular with parents.
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duplicate of a post six days ago i believe...
This seems to be Apple's answer to Google's RenderScript. It is too bad big companies (Google, Apple) are developing their own GPU software stack instead of building upon and furthering existing frameworks such as OpenCL. OpenCL desperately needs a kick in order to catch up with CUDA. Instead they are focusing on things like SyCL, hoping to catch up with already superior projects such as C++AMP. OpenCl should rather fix their poor specification and get implementers on the same page about it. The mobile community could have been a driving force. Instead, frustrated with what OpenCL is, mobile decided to roll their own. As always.
It would be an interesting and compelling secret if there was evidence for this occurring. Research indicates that it's simply untrue.

"A larger body of economic research investigates the effects of state and federal minimum wage increases. These studies compare employment trends for states or counties that have different minimum wages. The best studies make comparisons to nearby states or counties to control for regional economic trends. These studies also find no statistically significant negative effects on employment or hours at an aggregate level or for low-wage industries such as restaurants and retail stores, or for specific groups of workers such as teens. These studies also do not find substitution effects (such as shifts in hiring away from black and Latino teens)."

...

"In a prospective study of the San Francisco minimum wage, Reich and Laitinen (2003) carried out a representative survey of establishments. They estimated that a 25.9 percent increase in the minimum wage from $6.75 to $8.50 would result in a 1.1 percent increase in the overall wage bill. When viewed from the perspective of operating costs, a 26 percent increase would result in 82.0 percent of establishments experiencing an increase in operating costs of less than 1 percent or more, and 95.2 percent experiencing an increase in operating costs of less than 5 percent. Breaking down results by industry, they estimated that 17.9 percent of restaurants
would experience an increase in operating costs of 5 percent or more, as would 8.6 percent of retail establishments. For manufacturing, entertainment, hotel, and personal service firms, the estimated increase in operating costs was close to zero.

Pollin (2004) similarly estimated that the average increase in firms’ costs relative to sales under Santa Fe’s 2003 minimum wage ordinance would be 1 percent; the average cost increase for hotels relative to sales would be 3 percent.

Benner and Jayaraman (2012) analyzed the impact of a proposed increase in the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 (a 39 percent increase, not accounting for inflation during the phase-in) on the food industry. They estimated a maximum increase in operating costs for the food service and drinking establishment industry of 2.25 percent over three years, and 1 percent in the retail food industry. "

from "University of California, Berkeley study: Who Would be Affected by an Increase in Seattle’s Minimum Wage?"[1], one of the pieces of research commissioned during the development of the Seattle ordinance. "This research was based on nine localities in the United States currently have enacted minimum wage laws: Albuquerque, NM; Bernalillo County, NM; Montgomery County, MD; Prince George's County, MD; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Santa Fe, NM; Santa Fe County, NM; and Washington DC."

http://murray.seattle.gov/minimumwage/#sthash.u0fx1kth.dpuf
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The dev environment in Africa (at least in Nairobi, where I live) is growing quite quickly. Co-working spaces (mostly with attached incubators) like the iHub[1], 88mph[2], etc. are extremely vibrant spaces. In the iHub, we have frequent talks by prominent figures from the technology community (Larry Wall, Marissa Mayer, and Eric Schmidt are some of the ones I knew about). IBM research opened an office in Nairobi, and I hear they're recruiting Kenyan programmers.

[1] http://www.ihub.co.ke/

[2] http://www.88mph.ac/

Edit: Fixed links.
What laptop did you find that had 1800p?
I can't really speak for anything north of the equator, but I have travelled fairly extensively in the southern half of Africa.

The impression I get as a visitor to many of these countries is that except for a few big cities it is just too difficult to guarantee power and telecoms access to bet your job on it.

Most people will find a job locally doing "boring" software since there is less risk. Working remotely for a company in the US/Europe requires them to understand your (african) problems which is always difficult.

If I am at the office and we have no power, my boss understands; If I am remote-working, will my "American/European" boss understand why I just lost a day?

The advantage of staying here (in SA) means that even if you are doing boring software, your salary is probably good enough to give you spectacular buying power compared to 99% of the planet.

As you move to more remote places, the salaries just keep increasing. I was recently looking at a job in Tete (Northern Mozambique) which paid around USD450k p.a.

So, I guess that doesn't really answer your question, but I think Africa is quiet mostly because the "boring" jobs pay disproportionately well --- the incentive to be an entrepreneur is mostly gone. (I say this as someone working at a startup of sorts)
I suspect this is better for employers though. Honestly I don't think I can code effectively for more than 6 hours a day anyway - when working 8 hours the extra 2 hours will be spent either on meetings and other overhead or on slowing down so I don't burn out.
Maybe it simply is not possible for us swedes to work from home like that because of our smaller houses?

I certainly wouldn't know where to put the chemistry lab or the industrial robots. I barely have room for the mine-shaft.