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by batoure 13y ago
that is simply untrue. If you spent any time trying to understand the data and the way it is produced you would understand why your comment is so outlandish. The BLS that produces these figures is basically a cult of numbers. they spend a h
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by batoure 13y ago
I think that there are two things at work here. 1. Who is the designed consumer of this data. In the US the CEW (census of employment and wage) is a data set that is primarily aimed at economists or modelers. The startling thing is how thes
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by batoure 13y ago
So I think that there is a difference between something that is fake and something that was unsanctioned. Fake would be if someone had made the document and showed it to a reporter but never handed it out. This document was handed out by a
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by batoure 13y ago
From the site's welcome page: "A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be d
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Bad times in Ukraine.....(usatoday.com)
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by batoure 13y ago
yeah the problem is, that's pretty much what the point of sites like elance and odesk are, is to act as a go between and limit risk. So maybe there is just a niche for someone to cater to that area.
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by batoure 13y ago
Definitely, however this is a situation caused by a lack of teaching talent. Teachers are simply not skilled enough to create a programming curriculum that could be considered rigorous.
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by batoure 13y ago
they are doing basic programming and database work for small banks and businesses. The thing that is important that he said is... >Add to that, a good number of African countries have been blacklisted from PayPal. I actually tried to set
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by batoure 13y ago
I think that this may feel like a fun line to poke at but based on my experience in this part of the world I would say that what the author is getting at is that in education (with no exceptions given for learning software) there is a base
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by batoure 13y ago
Nope, I worked in west Africa and spent time in Accra. If anything he is underselling the electricity issues of that part of the continent. Big organization have their own diesel generators because power will go out 10 to 20 times a day esp
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by batoure 13y ago
sure the perspective is probably skewed, however the salaries listed are generous. I did some consulting in west Africa in the last 5 years and the majority of people working in tech and making 10 or 12k a year are only doing so if they are
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by batoure 13y ago
just used a power screwdriver to screw the desk to the top
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by batoure 13y ago
This is they type of desk that I have and I saved a significant amount of money by just buying the legs and then getting a table top at Ikea. Most of this re-sellers are capturing their margins by having overpriced desktops included in the
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by batoure 13y ago
certainly well written, and you are right nobodies' right to vote is being abridged here. however the constitution of the United states affords us many rights one of which is the right to due process and equal protection(14th amendment
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by batoure 13y ago
yeah the link baiting was why i went out looking for and posted the flickr page
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by batoure 13y ago
So again we see that apple has been good at getting the platform profitable here is a great article that breaks this down. It ends up being less about the fact that iphone apps are better per say (which I think they often are) but more abou
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by batoure 13y ago
This is definitely conceivably true but definitely not true in the current context. 80 million OSX (any version) users world wide in 2012 http://www.cultofmac.com/172693/mac-os-x-by-the-numbers-60-m... 110 million wind
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by batoure 13y ago
I will have to try this out.... the problem with extracting all the recipes... of which there are a ton. is that you are still in a go in print them one by one then parse the pdf. What I really wanted to do was figure out how to read the da
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by batoure 13y ago
I could get it to run in DOSBox but couldn't get things to print right the way she wanted it to. edit: i now see that you found a version of DOSBox that I didn't find that has good printer support.
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by batoure 13y ago
she has been an avid user of PC Gourmet (Big Blue Disk 39) since the eighties. I have never been able to extract the recipes easily and she has been using it pretty much constantly for 20+ years so there are too many to do by hand. It worke
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by batoure 13y ago
>"Well, PG live edits HN" But HN has a persistent bug where the next button on the first page expires and doesn't work. That's the difference between doing something for work and doing something for fun. The willingne
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by batoure 13y ago
I think the machine that they design on isn't nearly as important as the machine that they have in their head as designing for. When testing the early OS and apps for the iphone apple purposely cobbled together a machine that was cripp
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by batoure 13y ago
I highly suggest going straight to his flicker feed its way better http://www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/
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by batoure 13y ago
My 80 year old grandmother actively uses VMware on her windows 8 machine, for real not making this up. And that's the problem with anecdotes they tend to be way more interesting than the real data.
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by batoure 13y ago
I have traveled pretty widely and the most remote place I ever went to was an un-mapped village in sub-Saharan Africa a 16 hour drive from the nearest large city. I was there last about 4 years ago, at the time I felt the most away from civ
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by batoure 13y ago
Nope its actually a totally real and meaningful measure. it measures how much of the market market -> all the people encompasses your share share -> using your stuff Apple has shown time and again that it isn't a good measure of
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by batoure 13y ago
A most truthful argument. However I think that in relation to the OP its important to ask Cui Bono. This is most definitely to the benefit of apple and its shareholder, and so reflects less value to the overall population of technology user
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by batoure 13y ago
There isn't really any useful information in your reply here. Apples "Consumer only" market share is still less than 20% and if you include Ipads..... as a PC replacement their market share is still only around 15% (though th
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by batoure 13y ago
Yeah there is a fascinating income bias at play there. Think about it this way, if you are an engineer and you make over 75k a year gross you are in the top 15% of wage earners in the united states, if you make over 100k you are in the top
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by batoure 13y ago
So, I don't know if people remember this; but in the late nineties almost this exact thing was described as being the way that cellular communication was going to come to remote parts of the world. It turned out that demand made this c

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