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I started with BASIC when I was 6. That thing had built-in calculator with parenthesis(and calculators were not that common in the early 80s). So it was totally fascinating.
Of course I never realized there could be anything but global variables and the GOTO was considered bad style.

It was possible to code a small program that draws on the screen (with ijkm [ijkl])in several minutes. Fun times indeed, but I am not sure it's applicable to the young kids any more.
Location: Amsterdam

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Technologies: experienced iOS with full-stack & ruby experience

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email: contact AT iandundas .co.uk

summary: I've worked with a wide range of iOS frameworks and thus have broad experience (worked on 14 apps to-date). Currently enjoying digging into functional reactive programming via ReactiveCocoa and (of course) practising Swift. I can travel to wherever you are to meet and kickoff.
Not taking into consideration

- rent

- cost of living

- More Paid leave and shorter work weeks (in france)

- Included health/pension/social benefits

Makes this a very one sided comparison. I could also imagine a brain drain effect might be at play like with India, where the average talent of the French developer who relocated is somewhat higher than the average of the developers in the original country.
Sorry, how is your point relevant to the rights of individuals to freely choose the seller and nature of transportation services they purchase?
These requirements are not "minimum" - as there are thousands of drivers in Germany that are not required to meet those requirements. I myself was driving in Germany, more than once, without meeting any such requirements. However, somehow the same drivers which were completely safe a minute ago flooding all German roads without any "minimum requirements" become critically unsafe - so unsafe that they must be banned - as soon as they try to earn money. Though the same unsafe drivers are allowed to continue driving freely - as long as they do not take money. The only thing that changes is if the same drivers take money or not - and you're saying it is about safety?
Depends what do you mean by long-ish. It's possible that life span in 10 000 B.C. was 50 and in 1500 A.C. was 70.*

*Aristocrats and other people that had high protein intake, security etc.
In case you're interested in learning more about the motivation behind creating uilang, I wrote a little piece on Medium:
https://medium.com/@bdc/the-educational-side-of-uilang-92d39...
> It would be very easy to assemble such statistics as Uber drivers are clearly identified and any court could easily request data

Let me explain a little about the german law system (IANAL, so take it with a grain of salt). This is a preliminary injunction granted by request of a competitor. So what happens is that the court decides on the base of written arguments from the side requesting (this case roughly the union of german cab companies) and a "Schutzschrift" (written counter) from the accused (Uber). The court does not request anything. Uber could have provided such statistics if it wanted to, but since they have no bearing on this case I doubt it would have helped. The cited violations are all from the Personenbeförderungsgesetz and the court has preliminary decided that UberPop constitutes an illegal and unlicensed Taxi service. This is not about safety, it's about blatantly breaking a federal law.

Uber can appeal and the case will go to a regular court hearing where more arguments can be exchanged. Until then, the injunction can be enforced which is a severe blow for UberPop.

Now we can argue whether or not those regulations are sensible, but that's not for you, me or Uber to decide, it's a thing that gets decided in the Bundestag. Or Uber could restructure its service to comply with the law, but then it would not be as financially interesting as before.
The reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2epdwp/ivory_langua...
> 5000$

way more, and you have to buy textbooks as well.
To whoever downvoted, care to present a rebuttal? I understand there are arguments that coercive redistribution by the state is necessary in the name of some 'greater good' or utilitarian outcome, but I have never encountered a cogent argument that redistribution doesn't involve any coercion.
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The legitimacy of the complaint isn't as pertinent as the effect of living with resentment.
That's a government granted monopoly, not a natural one.
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Bringing up Ferguson is a bit of cheap shot, especially considering the Paris riots and the situation with policing there. Going from Paris to San Francisco might actually get you slightly less police harassment depending on your background.
> I actually come from a country where vehicle insurance - even third-party is completely optional. It's called New Zealand, pretty decent place to live all things considered.

Beautiful country, nice people! I assume you are familiar with the ACC and that that is why you don't need such insurance? Effectively you already have it.

As for why we can't let Uber drivers state the degree of insurance etc, that's not how taxis work, and Uber competes head-on with taxis.

So if you want transportation using a car from point 'a' to point 'b' then there are certain levels of expectation to be met and because people are - surprise - crafty, so in order to make sure these expectations are actually honored the government in Germany chose to license such operators.

Just because 'we're free individuals here' does not give you license to ignore the law.
Against my better judgement I'm going to attempt to contribute to this thread. There are good arguments on both sides but most people are talking past one another. As I see it, it comes down to this:

Uber says there is a surplus, people driving cars with empty seats, and they attempt to capture that surplus. From an economic point-of-view that is a good argument. The surplus undeniably exists, and it would be beneficial to reduce it.

The argument on the other side is that this is an issue of public policy. Various countries have decided it is beneficial to legislate people driving strangers in exchange for money. The general arguments are ones of safety, but quality of service also comes into it. Again this is a reasonable argument. There is an information asymmetry when hiring a taxi (I don't know what kind of driver I'm going to get) so legislation reduces that.

The main point seems to be who gets to decide public policy? Uber and "Silicon Valley" types believe that private individuals and companies should be allowed to set public policy. Most others reject this.

The next argument is whether current legislation is appropriate and whether Uber has sufficient features to make existing legislation unnecessary. E.g. are ratings and ubiquitous GPS sufficient to reduce information asymmetry. If Uber wants to engage in this argument it should use the usual methods of setting public policy. I don't know if Uber has started any court cases but I expect they will be involved in some soon if not already, and this is one way to effect public policy.
Perhaps. The end result of simplifying a task is always the same: "oh but I want to check the value of this field on the page", "can I check the local time to do this", "how do I respond to mouse movements", etc. Real programming can't be abstracted into DSLs in abused HTML elements.

The target audience of uilang should never, in my opinion, try to build websites.

Sorry I'm bitter today.
Surely the presence of plants reflects employers giving a shit about the employee environment and that this this is the true reason for happiness and productivity. Really come on... I don't look at a plant and feel happy, it's common sense.
I think its a good idea, but it needs a bit more work.
> health car system

health care.

> these points are relatively mute

moot.
> Genuine question: Is Uber really cheaper than taxi? Honestly: in Italy it's not. It's hell expensive, probably a bit more expensive than usual cabs

There are different Uber products that come with varying prices. In Sydney, I can make a trip with UberX (regular ride sharing) that's $10, or with UberBlack (licensed hire car operators) which would be $30 to $40.

UberX is definitely about 20% cheaper than taxis here in Sydney.
Is drinking milk good or bad for someone looking to lose fat and gain more lean muscle mass?
So who is the target audience? How many web designers are capable of writing the HTML and CSS necessary to create animated tabs, accordions and overlays, but can't figure out the few lines of JavaScript/jQuery necessary to toggle classes on elements? I've never met a single person who would fit that description.
> If you can find people freely willing to provide labour services at the price you offer, I see no problem.

That thought right there is straight from the XIX century. There is no such thing as "freely willing", in the real world people provide labour in exchange for money in order to survive in a society that forces them to do it or perish.

> As far as "forcing" farmers to earn less, how are you going to achieve that?

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jul/02/british-f...

> Finally I highly doubt there is a good market for unsafe food products

Seriously?

http://ecowatch.com/2013/05/09/food-imports-from-china-under...

The food supply chain is much more opaque than you would think, even in Europe where regulation is much stricter than anywhere else. A lot of food producers will skimp on everything they can, short of killing tasters on their first sip.

> Are people too stupid to calculate probable risks and rewards

Not everyone has the education (or the inclination) to make such calculations, every minute of every day. This is why we have regulations in place: because predatory behaviour exists and can result in very bad outcomes, up to and including loss of life. I personally don't want to go back to "the XIX century plus iPhones".
Why can't we simply let people decide for themselves whether they want to ride in insured vehicles or not?

Maybe because society would bear the costs for those people?

Who will pay when those people wind up in hospital, racking up bills of hundreds of thousands Euro, and there's no insurer to cover the cost?

Sorry, but the price for living in a society is that you don't get to pick and chose, which laws are appropriate for you.

If you don't like them, you're free to try to change them.

You are not free, however, to just ignore them at a cost to everybody else.
Is there a law forcing Taxi drivers to go to work during a hurricane or New Year's Eve or something? If not, how is the current system of not being able to find a ride better than Uber's system of making you pay a fair market price for it?
might result in a redistribution of large amounts of money, thus impacting inflation .. which I guess is hardly in anyone's interest

This is the most plutocratic self-serving thing I've seen on HN today. You're arguing for the legalisation of wage theft on the basis that it might disrupt prices.

Yes, if you have an economy where all the growth goes to the 1% and the 99% see no change, that might be good for price stability. But why in God's name would anyone want to live like that?
They don't protest against Uber as such - they do protest that Uber is skirting the obligations that cost them money and use those savings to undercut their prices. Which is a fair point to make. Uber could easily license their cars as regular taxis and outcompete the regular taxi service. They might even provide better service at the same time - I'm all in favor of that. But they choose not to and then whine about how backwards we all are here that we can't see progress.
"you could still completely understand what your computer was doing and what the software running on it was"

I can see a potential return to those days for people who want to be really sure that their systems are secure.
Ride sharing is completely legal in Germany, the court order makes the difference between ride sharing (which is unregulated) and ride sharing FOR PROFIT, which, in Germany, is a regulated market.

So no, it's not a ban. It's the requirement to make business akin to getting your business registered.
55k is average for Ruby in London now: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/default.aspx?page=1&sortby=0&or...

I'd say £70k+ for senior. Contract rates are £450+, so ~£100k a year.
French work week is 35 hours by law, with five weeks of paid leave per year worked. I bet that the double pay looks less attractive when you realize that Silicon Valley programmers work nearly double hours.

http://www.expatica.com/fr/employment/employment_information...
The author here. The project contains a lot of hacks to make sure the page works even if you save it to the local desktop! Cross origin requests with HTTP authentication while being served as file:// is an incredibly constraint environment.
This is an instance of finding the Pareto front [1] of a set of points in a two dimensional space.

This problem is also known as "skyline queries"!

According to [2], author's bound O(n log(n)) is the best bound for d=2.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
[2] http://pdf.aminer.org/000/211/201/on_the_computational_compl...
35 hours by law, but it's not uncommon to be more in practice for IT workers.
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I had the same impression.

Many people tell me they don't use Facebook because it's just for show-offs who want to populate their opinions.

And then their Twitter account is all about this.

There seem to be very few people who just use it to broadcast some informations about their projects and ask simple questions.
You forgot to add the unemployment allowance and paid retirement, which are a huge benefit. In particular in the tech scene, the unemployment allowance means that you can be paid up to 80% of your previous salary for almost two years (… way to seed startups!).

All this plus what parent poster mentioned are what we call the "deferred salary", it's hard to evaluate precisely but in now way it's negligible.

Also I don't know in which Parisian university you went, but I bet that it would be a lot more than $5000/year to get an equivalent "service" in the US.
It may not collect the statistics - but people claiming it is unsafe should. Note that none of the Uber drivers is actually required to stop driving - they still can drive as much as they wish, however unsafe and dangerous they are. The only thing they can't do is to earn money. Is the money the thing that makes them unsafe?

>>> If they comply with those rules and they are still banned then you could argue about cartels and such, until then that is premature.

Sorry, that makes no sense. That's like saying "we're not banning blogging, we just require every blog would have an editor, a corrector, a staff of minimum five reporters, an HR department, a building and a printed paper copy, since the newspapers do it just fine, so we're just for responsible reporting". Of course the regulations protect the cartels - that's why these regulations exist in the first place, and saying "we just require them to follow regulations" is completely disingenuous - because following regulations is possible only by becoming part of the cartel.
Just throwing this out there but when signing up for sites while using Safari, Apple gives me the option of using a (Apple generated) random password that is stored to my keychain and synced to my iCloud account. This means both of my MacBooks, my iPhone, and my iPad all have access to these sites with no effort on my part (I never could remember my passwords) while also being random and secure(-ish?).

All that is needed is a service (Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook) that you trust as your password manager and is integrated either with the sites you browse or the browser you use.

Having read Apple's iOS security document (http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_Feb14.p...) I have just the right combination of convenience, ease of use, and feeling secure with their services to use keychain for most of my password needs.
The City of London has that arrangement because it's a district where vastly more people commute in than live there. It's a square mile almost entirely populated by offices.

(Although it has "corporation" in the name it has nothing to do with limited liability companies as the usual meaning of "corporation". It's a local government that's a millenium old and predates both modern banking and company law.)
The protests in London were just an amusing summer diversion from vested interests. The thing is we already have a much greater degree of taxi deregulation in most of Europe than the US. Eg in London minicabs just need safety and non criminality checks. While the US has far more restrictive practices. But we do like safety checks. Uber is in a different environment and is not really such a disruption here.
What you can earn is only relevant when compared to what you spend, and what your perceived quality of life is.
My phone often has no service, which would make 2FA with you a roadblock. Please consider using Google Authenticator for generating the code, instead of sending a text or voice call.
The video game industry is traditionally a combination of low salaries and long hours, which isn't particularly attractive.
So you'd be fired.
Sure. They also had neither vaccinations nor antibiotics, had no understanding of bacteria, etc. Take any modern teenager and stick him back in the stone age and I doubt he makes it to 40 even WITH modern knowledge.
Is this a mistake or Google trying to force the standards process in their favour? Users seem to be blaming Firefox, not Google.
> Uber says there is a surplus, people driving cars with empty seats, and they attempt to capture that surplus. From an economic point-of-view that is a good argument. The surplus undeniably exists, and it would be beneficial to reduce it.

This is actually not what Uber says. Ride-Sharing would be fully valid as long as the fee paid is lower than the cost for the car owner. It's specifically exempt from the law. However, the fee that Uber proposes is far above the accepted costs per kilometer (it's roughly 1 EUR, while the accepted costs are roughly 30cent), so they don't qualify. There's a german startup (Wundercar) that tries to capture specifically that market and they just reduced their prices in response to a similar injunction.
Revenue tax (impot sur le revenu) is also much higher in the US unless your salary is really high in France.
I was thinking server side..
Comcast hasn't dominated the market through market forces, it bought it from AT&T in 2001. Comcast has now ~21M customers - AT&T Broadcast, which they bought, had 22M.

AT&T, has one should know, was a legal monopoly; hardly a free market participant.
How do you cope with getting injured by a driver who cannot pay for your medical treatment?

I'd be very surprised if there was not some mechanism in place. Maybe taypayer money, the state paying for it and trying to get reimbursed by the driver?

Something else?

In Germany we handle this issue with mandatory insurance.

I'm pretty sure that you're comparing apples and oranges.
You need to have been fired for that - you won't get the unemployment benefits if you quit your job. On the other hand, unemployment can be a cushion for employees of a failed startup.

I don't know if founders of failed startups can get the unemployment though.
My biggest takeaway from china is that people are generally ambitious. There's a vibe of wanting to achieve something, and the discipline to achieve it. Most of the people in the city are young (below 30).

I can confirm on the visa part. Get the right visa. If you are there to work (ie. get a paycheck), you will need a 'work visa', not a three month business/intern visa, as I happened to have.

Shenzhen<->HK travel will count as an enter/exit the country, so if you plan to do this regularly you will need a multi-entry visa.

Other than that, Shenzhen is great. And if you don't want to learn chinese, there's always then shenzhenstuff website.
Yes, at least in Germany, there is. Taxi companies are obliged to provide a minimum level of service or loose the license. The administration can even order a license holder to expand his business if there's public need. (http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pbefg/__21.html)
It is obviously for the passenger's safety and convenience, not for the driver's.
As a recent transplant from San Francisco to Nantes, France, I'd like to point out that my salary is about half of what it was in the US, taking into consideration exchange rate, so the article is right on. However, my purchasing power has gone up about 2x. My apartment in San Francisco was $4000/month for a 2 bedroom. In Nantes, I pay €800 euros for a 2 bedroom that is about 25% bigger. Some things are more expensive in France, but one the whole, it is much much cheaper, and I'd argue that quality of life is way better.

For what it is worth, I am American with a french partner. Probably not as easy for others to get a Visa to work in France.
But Monads are Applicative Functors. Go for arrows instead.
I didn't know Germany had laws about this case.

I meant in the general sense that their business model is based on exploiting this surplus. It is their value proposition, if you like.
That's like saying "we're not banning drugs, we're just banning drugs unless you're a surgeon that needs drugs to sedate a patient". Effectively, that's banning what they're doing, if they wanted to open a taxi company that'd be completely different business.
Wrt 1. Are the numbers in the article not before taxes (including the income tax withheld by the employer)?

In general the cost of living in United States is lower than in Europe. Not higher. Even when you compare the hotspots (like New York to London).
So Uber themselves cover insurance for drivers and their passengers. Is that not enough?
£50K doesn't sound like a lot for London. Its an expensive place to live.
Exactly. I've worked both in France and the US. My salary was indeed double in the US. But with everything factored in, it was not really different salary-wise. Also, I have much more free time in France which is very important for me. I really loved the US for the whole living abroad experience and would go back in a heartbeat for this reason, but my quality of life is better in France (not in Paris though).
EDIT: (I also didn't have to pay anything for my education.) I'm a bit tired of those articles that announce a brain drain because France is supposedly so unfriendly to talented people or entrepreneurs. We live in a global world now and it would be a shame not to experience living in other countries. Doesn't mean that France is doomed to bankrupt because our economy isn't as liberal as it is in the US for instance.
But isn't that what you argued for? Uber has decided to not follow the law (offer their service) and go to court.
> I'm not familiar with the German regulations and the article is light on details

Ah, ok, never mind me then.

It's hard to argue from assumption, but this is not the only article about this subject, there are many more and this case has been working its way upward for a while in this court and others.

Essentially the German authorities position is that Uber is operating an unlicensed taxi company. Uber is welcome to become licensed but refuses to do so, which allows it to compete with the existing taxi companies but without the associated costs.

The existing taxi companies feel that this is unfair and have brought suit, which the courts have now decided has enough merit to warrant an injunction.
First of all, low level low pay employees are held up that standard you cite. They do not get breaks and other similar perks.

Second, I would much rather work 40 hours with very little chit-chat then mandatory 60 hours with 30 hours that time being wasted. I actually worked in such environment and liked it. I would note that it was team culture, not something enforced by a set of punishments.