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by fierarul 14y ago
This is odd: just today I've posted our internship projects and they are all for paid positions. And actually nowadays all students are forced by the University to have a short internship and it doesn't have to include a wage! But I've deci
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by fierarul 14y ago
Mozilla should make more fuss about this because it's important. I see my family happily using Linux on their laptops because 80% of what they need is a browser. And Google with ChromeOS also thinks that a browser should, in time, be enough
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by fierarul 14y ago
Oh, it's not hard to find which model is certified. It's hard to actually find it selling in a store! Also, I don't want to buy a ThinkPad if I have to buy it with Windows then wipe that. So my choices are laptops that come with FreeDOS or
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by fierarul 14y ago
So if I upgrade, for example, on a disk with low disk space it magically rolls back?
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by fierarul 14y ago
In Romania it's common practice to sell cheaper laptops running FreeDOS or some Linux (say, Acer with Linpus) with the expectation that people are just going to wipe it and install a pirated Windows on it. If you look at the online review f
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by fierarul 14y ago
The thing about Amazon is that they sell almost worldwide and they also have customer support. I wouldn't want to buy a System76 laptop in Romania and ship it back to the States if it needs service under the warranty.
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by fierarul 14y ago
I think we easily forget just how broken the rest of the OS were. If I evaluate Linux as if I am a few years back in time, I don't mind the lack of good QA. I've also broken an install because I tried an upgrade and there wasn't enough free
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by fierarul 14y ago
>Project Sputnik, a product of Dell’s new internal incubation fund, features not just full hardware support for Ubuntu on the XPS13, but a notion of “profiles” for developers They could have stopped at "full hardware support for Ubuntu"
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by fierarul 14y ago
Nothing is made entirely by machines. At some point it's made by hand. The thing is software is a bit like doing clay pottery when it's not properly done. Once you add a bit of a systematic approach to it and you test is, review it, it beco
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by fierarul 14y ago
What the article doesn't seem to link is this: http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/tools/data-visuali... , a nice visualisation.
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by fierarul 14y ago
IT people from Romania are not leaving for the West as much as the West imagines. And part of those that leave come back. Working in IT in Romania is a good position socially and economically. You have a good salary and you are part of the
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by fierarul 14y ago
Programming is a way of modeling reality and a preference might reflect a bit of your own mind. Then again, people aren't always consistent, so it might not necessarily correlate strongly. Nice remark though!
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by fierarul 14y ago
Since the US has a habit of forcing it's practices on the rest of the world, I'm sure it would have an impact on the long term. Because of software patents, I already see programming and selling software in the US as a dangerous thing to do
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by fierarul 14y ago
>However, a silver lining could present itself: The jury could affirm that the APIs are copyrighted but that the syntax of the function signatures are a fair use exception. Perhaps I'm missing something, but aren't APIs a documented bun
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by fierarul 15y ago
I mostly meant offline desktop software. The only market that seems to be lively is the Mac AppStore.
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by fierarul 15y ago
Then I assume you are also not a big fan on any online service. An interesting trend I'm noticing is that people stop writing offline software. Pretty soon anything new you want will only be available as a service. What then?
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by fierarul 15y ago
http://reason.org/files/a87d1550853898a9b306ef458f116079.pdf
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by fierarul 15y ago
I assume PayPal is able to do things that are much more interesting than just letting money in a bank deposit. They surely gain a lot just by knowing they can control the cashflow this way.
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by fierarul 15y ago
I guess one could always find a justification. But the fact of the matter is that no other big US company managed to do what Apple did years ago: give money to non-US companies/individuals selling IP. Google's AppStore still supports only a
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by fierarul 15y ago
I guess Google should make a point and release a NaCl Picasa version. If I could grant to a NaCl app the right to read photos from USB attached cameras and a folder on disk with read/write rights then there wouldn't be a need for a dedicate
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by fierarul 15y ago
How does Apple manage to pay iOS developers from all the rest of the countries?
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by fierarul 15y ago
The gist of these kind of articles is that you have a choice! A job is just another kind of mutually agreed relationship and you have the power to change its parameters or end it. But I guess some kind of Stockholm syndrome starts developin
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by fierarul 15y ago
I'm not surprised. Only the "high end" laptops have a resolution that's not 1366x768 in Romania. I used to have a 14" Dell with a 1600×1200 resolution back in 2008. But in 2012 you really have to pay extra for something like that. 15.6 inch
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by fierarul 15y ago
Might be a coincidence, but I think the title is suggested by this HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3820850 >the NY Times is valued at 900 million. >just sayin' I was a bit surprised reading that post and even more a f
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by fierarul 15y ago
>Unfortunately, early-adopting Cr-48 owners are out of luck — the build of Chrome OS in question is only for Acer AC700 and Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks. I found this quite funny considering the Cr-48 owners got them for free.
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by fierarul 15y ago
IP litigation seems a pretty recent thing. What would such a study include? How many countries had IP laws and periods of litigation?
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by fierarul 15y ago
Fulltime REMOTE employee (Timisoara, Romania) http://www.josekibold.ro/jobs Two remote positions: * Experienced Java developer (Swing based app) * Testing and QA engineer (We are in Timisoara, Arad and Targu-Mures.)
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by fierarul 15y ago
Please add some OpenID/OAuth option. I don't want to make yet another user account.
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by fierarul 15y ago
What makes you believe it changed?
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by fierarul 15y ago
I don't see an explanation about VAT, but outside Germany you shouldn't need to pay it, which makes the actual price about 50 euro/month + the one-time 125 euro setup fee. Sadly I just reserved an instance for one year with Amazon the other

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