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The correct rate is that which the market will bear. I'm a U.S. citizen living in the Philippines but I charge the same rate as I did when I lived in the U.S. There is no reason that I should be charging less because I live in the Philippines.

However, the market rate is higher on the world market than it is in the local market of my location in the Philippines. If I were selling to a local mom and pop shop in the city I'm living in, I couldn't charge much. If I were to sell to a major corporation with an international presence but based in the Philippines, then I could probably charge more than I charge my typical client base. So, the answer to your question depends on your target market. Different markets can bear different rates.

Much more important is the overall value you offer your clients, the demand for your services (of course, great value will likely lead to more clients) and your ability to sell. A developer charging much higher rates than most developers might still provide a better value. The more clients you have demanding your services, the more scarce your time becomes, and that leads to your time being worth more. But the developer whom makes the most money is the one whom can sell and take care of the client. The tech stuff is easy, running a business and taking care of the clients is the hard part.

I do find there are some issues that might get in the way of a developer from the Philippines making as much money as I do as a U.S. citizen working from the same country. Overall the Philippines in many ways has the feel of the U.S. from several decades ago. All of machinery which makes life in the U.S. run so smoothly doesn't run quite as well in developing countries. Businesses here leave much to be desired in areas such as customer service, quality control, technical expertise, etc. The Philippines even has a term called "Filipino time" which means "30 minutes late." When you grow up in a society like this then it might be difficult to anticipate and meet the expectations of clients from developed nations whom might expect more than you are accustomed to giving.

Also, if you are dealing with a world economy still very much dominated by the English language, you should be able to speak English well. Time zone differences might be another issue if you are expected to be available at certain times to certain regions. Some of these factors might lead you to slightly lowering your preferred rates, and you can certainly charge less and still have more disposable income than a developer in a much more expensive area, but the cream of your industry gets cream rates.
It's just a Linux distro that launches Google Chrome on startup. You can run this on any standard x86 machine.
I don't think this is Chromium OS, I think it's SUSE + the Chrome browser, as per http://www.getchrome.eu/. Confusing though.
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Pretty cool. Thanks. Video lectures would be nice though and more complete lecture notes... :D
Then again Apple already had the libraries for native app development because they were developing apps themselves. They already had iTunes. And you know what? The same people that approve iTunes music submissions also approve App Store submissions. Most of the pieces were in place - they just had to put them together. 7 months doesn't seem too long for a version 1 app store.

Edit: And the question isn't really were they going to have an app store or not - they very well could have been thinking along those lines but reserving it only for software they themselves were going to create or with select partners - the question is whether they were going to open it up to general developers which I think they did not want to do.
This algorithm is implemented for free in Blender 2.46+.

When you parent a mesh to a skeleton (armature), select "Create From Bone Heat" from the available options.

Or,

After parenting a mesh to a skeleton (armature) or adding a skeleton (armature) modifier, go to the combined weight paint and pose mode, use the W key, and choose "Apply Bone Heat to Vertex Groups".

Export the mesh to any file format or game engine that supports multiple vertex bone weights. ie - COLLADA, or to Ogre, FBX, or if you really just want to get a game written in a couple of weeks, export it to JME.

EDIT: BTW, In Blender, skeletons are called Armatures. That is why the word Armature is in parentheses in this comment.
So can the cat come out of the bag yet? What was the real acquisition price of reddit?
Agreed.

From my POV the easiest fix for a situation where lots of dumbass things are being done is simply for people -- in this case, Apple -- to just STOP doing those dumbass things.

Duh! (<-- hyper-intellectual argument I know)

Reminds me of an old Bob Newhart comedy routine about a rather blunt psychotherapist. His patients would come to him and whine about some bad habit they had, etc. And they would ask him, "Doctor, what should I do?"

He would think for a bit and then raise his hand with a friendly smile and say, "Stop it."

The patient: "What?"

Doctor: "Stop it. Stop doing that."

"Uh, I don't understand. Should I---"

"Ok maybe I'm not making myself clear. Sometimes that happens. So I'm going to say this again, very carefully, and I need you to pay attention."

"Yes, Doctor. Go ahead."

Then he would get up and yell, "STOP ITTTTTT! JUST STOP!"

Then hand them the bill and say the session was over.
"correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see anywhere on that site that she is doing a startup. Sounds like she could use her own advice."

Well I understood her as saying "Instead of whining about how there aren't more women in software, let us(women) get out there and build something".

She doesn't have to create a startup for that to be a point worth thinking about. (If it were, only soldiers could decide whether and where and how long to fight).
But why use temperature to trigger them into action? Why not mix them with some kind of hormone for activation?
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IANA evolutionary biologist, so this is only a just-so story, but...

With ~4 million sperm cells per... egg, there is enormous selective pressure that gets exerted by competition among individual spermatozoa. So the sperm cells that are the most temperature-sensitive (hence best able to take advantage of the metabolic boost due to increased ambient temperature, hence on balance faster-moving) would be heavily favored.

I feel like there needs to be a Your Mom joke in here somewhere...
Very interesting article. Just like most things, this could be very good or very bad depending on how it is used. Seems like the human body is the most advanced breakthrough of all time. Can a computer chip augment that?
I was a little puzzled by the nature of the comments as well. A web centric (to put it very mildly) OS should be a boon to the HN set because it emphasizes exactly the kind of applications we usually create while neatly cutting out the desktop space where we don't. The top comment being a complaint about a desktop app that doesn't run seems like an odd miss here somehow.
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And modified version intended to non-English Windows users mainly.
Because some Windows zip file has legacy windows codepage filenames in zip files.

When archive file was made in OSX, it only has UTF-8 filenames in it except ASCII filenames.
Therefore non-English Windows user can't read non-English filenames.

If you assign Windows encoding(such as CP949 for Korean, CP850 for French which can be given libiconv encoding list) on zip format , you can make Windows or linux compatible zip archive file.

It also support Unicode zip filename in zip, if filenames are not encoded with above assigned encoding. This behavior is same as Windows's Winzip did.
So it reserves maximum compatibility. when legacy windows Archive utility open this file, it can reads non-Unicode files at least.

But for multilingual user, I recommend to use 7zip format.

In case of 7zip format, it supports Unicode normalization.
So some characters which are stored in decomposed way( such as u umlaut ) are archived into Unicode NFC(Normalization Form preComposed) way which mainly used in Windows or Linux.

I recommend you to use CleanArchiver, when you exchange files between Windows or Linux users.

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Undiscovered oil and gas means (logically enough) oil and gas that has not been discovered yet. The existence of this stuff is a mere guess. Not only that but different people are making estimates for different countries using different methodologies, and different countries have different incentives for under or over estimating.

You cannot say that the US has more oil and gas based on estimates or guesses as to the undiscovered oil.

But wait. Lets assume that you are right. Lets assume that these undiscovered oil and gas estimates are perfect and all of the estimated undiscovered oil and gas actually exists. Well then if you try adding up these undiscovered estimates of table 6 to the proven oil and gas reserves of table 5 you will still find that russia and saudi arabia have far more oil and gas than the US. So your initial statement is still incorrect.

Well congratulations on being an entrepreneur and good luck. I hope you get some of that undiscovered oil. But you should not let your enthusiasm nudge you into massaging the facts.
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I think those criticizing Chrome OS for missing obvious features are missing the point. Google is making a long term play here -- and not even that long term. In five years, the distinction between the web and desktop will have completely eroded for non-professional users.

Chrome OS supporting only web apps is not like the iPhone only supporting web apps; it's like how the Palm Pre only supports web apps.
I agree. Actually it would be really useful if someone wrote a book that tied together a lot of these topics -- XHTML/CSS/JavaScript/DOM/AJAX.

The class already uses Agile Web Development with Rails, which is fantastic.
Sorry for this but TextMate? LOL
Well, it is a big company and you cannot treat individual employees as speaking for the company. Different employees have different responsibilities and the ones you interacted with probably weren't the ones responsible for protecting Apple's trademarks.
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nop, because that will require a server... and this will be like having installed a git server on all your dropbox machines
You mean like functional tests, end-to-end integration tests, and view tests?

No developer should limit themselves to unit tests.
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Legal writing is the only type of writing for which copying someone else's ideas (i.e., precedent) is a virtue rather than a vice. But it's easy to slip in "snake oil," even in a business context. Let's say you have two contract parties in different states (or one in another country) and each has a local lawyer. How do you use which state--or country's--law will apply. A contract isn't just an agreement, it's an attempt to predict the future. Because U.S. law is forever changing, it's difficult to know what it is likely to be.
But I don't think that the "language that survives" in contracts is necessarily opaque because of Darwinian principles. Look at the almost universal notarization clause. That's pretty clear, I think.
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Try contacting your own trademark/domain name lawyers. There may actually be a way to keep the domain name. You should not believe everything lawyers that are adverse to you say.
Exactly like a phone company - except 10x cheaper because they don't have to pay for all that central billing and support services
If I create a website that tells you that you should play the (already existant) Super Monkey Ball app by wildly swinging it around like a monkey, should Apple blacklist my site from all iphone users? (Bonus points: if not, why, and how is it different from your example?)
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kudos to the first programmer to come up with a local console so i we can emacs -nw, vim, and a shell with google-chrome in ~/.xinitrc
I think you've missed the point. "Chrome OS can't run Skype" succinctly explains the chief obstacle to such a play.

Regarding the apparently "frightening" lack of discussion about Chrome OS's impact on Microsoft and "the future of the web", what did you expect? Chrome OS is just not that big of a deal.
Zck's answer points out the fallacy of the "why" question, but in gneneral I would surmise that co-evolution of sex-linked traits like this are a harder hill to climb than simple evolutionary adaption of the sperm alone. Developing a "program" that is not much more than "when you hit body-temp it is 'go time'" is less susceptible to external forces or attempts at subversion by either other sperm or the female reproductive tract.
> Google is really the only company in the world that can rival Microsoft's speed in development (when it sets its mind to it)

I'm curious -- what MS product specifically are you thinking of here?

I think Apple at a minimum has consistently out-executed Microsoft. Nintendo, VMWare, and Facebook also all come to mind (along with any other small company that MS acquired).

The most interesting things from MS I've heard about recently are Project Natal, Pivot, and Azure.

Are you thinking of something in particular?
I am not all that familiar with this topic, but I was under the impression that the article's author distinguished what he did from what you are describing because his is volumetric diffusion while the method you named uses surface diffusion.
That's a lot of meaning to read into 10 words.
"Microsoft boasts an Acid3 score of 32/100, and actually believes that Acid3 is to blame."

Can we get a quote on that one ? I saw on PDC (it was broadcasted live ) the presenter saying that IE9 displayed was just their most recent build and that it will get better. Nothing about Acid3 being to blame.
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I was just being sarcastic.
I'm hoping more for a decent editor in the browser. Firefox has that editor, but its really buggy last time I tried to use it.

I like the idea of having an editor running so wherever I have internet I can code w/e pops into my head. I know you can do this with screen and ssh but I don't have access to those(atm).
As a photographer, what is your opinion on the "going rate" or similar for a spread of five natural looking photos, compared to what you get offered ("just a few bucks")?

Curious if it's similar to what happens when people in "typical" social circles find out I'm a freelance web developer, offering as little as $100 for what could easily (after graphic design and so forth) be two weeks of work.
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Hmmm. So in 7 years it depreciated from $35e6 to $35e3. Thousand fold depreciation corresponds to \log_2(1000) ~= 10 halvings in 7 years = 84 months, so about one halving every 8.4 months.

Moore's law is generally reported to be doubling of transistor density every 18 months -- though of course the analogous laws in storage and the like have varying time constants (e.g. GPUs were at one point moving a lot faster).

This depreciation would then be at roughly double the speed of Moore's law (i.e. 8.4 rather than 18 months).
Linkbait is accurate. Your article's title and introduction imply drama which by all accounts is non-existent. Reducing to the more accurate title you've suggested above reveals this to be what it is: a non-story.

However, I had never heard about the Google offer. That's pretty cool.
It is because of our web-centricity that we are so ambivalent about ChromeOS. We're much more aware of how far HTML and Flash can go, in part because those limitations are our opportunities. Web-only may be enough for some consumers - but are those the same consumers that would buy such a device instead of an actual computer?

[Edit] Come to think of it - what's the advantage of ChromeOS over Android?
I've always been treated well by QA. I'm sure there are problem QA departments out there but I doubt they are the rule. It's amazing to me that the parent got down moded for supporting the task of QA.
I know for this particular example the problem is tightly related to California's state budget problems, but the astronomical increase in the cost of a college education over the past generation drives me nuts.

It seems like this is one area where market forces can't do their job, because almost no one seems willing to forgo paying the exorbitant price of a college education, so there seem to be no pressures for prices to decline or remain stable. Instead we've changed the culture so most of this generation starts their working lives with tens of thousands of dollars in debt. If you're not willing to put up with this, you could very well be shutting yourself out of the middle class. It's not right.
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I think you miss the point.

Developer relations are central to Apple as a whole. Apples needs iPhone developers, desktop developers, web developers and developers for whatever they do after the iPhone. If Apple creates hostile feelings in the developer community with its App Store behavior, Apple is going to have ongoing problems regardless of whether it needs third party developers at the moment.
From http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/11/18/an-early-look-at... which was posted to HN a few days ago:

Some standards tests – like Acid3 – have become widely used as shorthand for standards compliance, even with some shortcomings.

I read this, at the time, as a somewhat whiny "if Acid 3 was a better test, we'd be able to pass it".

As for the "boasting", they included a screen shot. And to be honest, this score is so low, I didn't even remember what a 32/100 Acid3 result looked like, so the screenshot was useful.
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One problem with putting standards compliance at such a low priority is that then they continue to screw the developers -- in the same way they have been with previous releases. It doesn't matter if the javascript engine is fast if the page looks like crap or developers continue to spend a lot of time trying to get a consistent experience across browsers.
I was just going to comment on that. Who here hasn't been through a dozen or so "next big things" or "Microsoft killers"? Chrome OS is a niche product for niche hardware. In terms of significance, it's probably equivalent to the original Palm OS. Show me some cool hardware that runs it and I might get excited.

Almost everyone here is a software developer; the most important application for your mom is the web browser. For me, any device larger than my mobile phone should be able to compile something. My netbook is full of apps and with XP it runs them pretty well.

On more thing: there just wasn't anything exciting about the Chrome OS launch. We all knew it was going to be a Linux-based OS that only ran a browser. So now it's launched and that's exactly what it is. What is there to be excited about that we didn't get excited about months ago?
I would seriously recommend you pick up 'The Rails Way' by Obie Fernandez.

The Rails framework and methodology/philosophy is somewhat hard to just "get into". A complete picture of what's going on - ActiveRecord, Migrations, etc - is incredibly hard to get from the "15 minute blog" screencasts.

I picked up the book last night and so far it's going well.
I think it far more likely that this kind of transparent OS portability will come from the cloud, rather than from carrying it around on my mobile phone.
All Google services continue to work perfectly on traditional desktop operating systems which makes Chrome OS irrelevant right now. The big potential game changer for Google is the day they decide to launch some amazing new service that only works on Android & Chrome OS. The fact they are building the infrastructure for it suggests either they intend to offer exclusive Google services to Android/Chrome OS users or, more innocently, they want to ensure that, regardless of what their competition does on the platform side, they can still deliver their services via their own platforms.
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But see this is the dynamic between the user and the developer. This kind of tension is necessary to the process.

When developers can make whatever they feel like making, we get linux.

When Steve Jobs is there to lobby for the customer, to lobby for beauty and ease of use and a focus on the details and thorough documentation, then we get OS X and the other "It Just Works" features that Apple is becoming known for.

Customers want a Steve Jobs parental figure to stand there beating back the hordes of opportunistic Bonzi Buddy coders trying to make a quick million. That's why people pay premiums for Apple products.

Love it or hate it, the philosophy behind the App Store is a large part of Apple's growing success. The philosophy is that the user will pay more and in return the developer has to jump through some hoops and get his app approved.

Having said that, obviously the approval process needs to be adjusted. It sounds relatively trivial, in fact, for Apple to implement a procedure that would allow minor bug fixes while still putting apps through an approval process.

It would be great if customers could trust developers, but the truth is they can't. This has been proven over and over again. For every hacker that is dedicated to making something people need, there are ten willing to code exploitative Facebook apps and spambots and spyware and toolbars and programs that run in the background and phone home constantly so they can sell user data.
$10k is a GOOD DEAL for a UC education. Carnegie Mellon's tuition runs 4-5x that.

And in other "screw the students" news

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/21561211/detail.htm...

tl;dr Pittsburgh Mayor comes up with bad budget, needs cash, screws college students with 1% tuition tax (1% of $50k is 500 bucks)