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by jbarham 15y ago
FWIW Nexmo charges $0.0376 per SMS in the UK ( http://nexmo.com/pricing/index.html ) and supports over 200 countries. (I am not affiliated w/ Nexmo.)
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The Rise and Fall of Programming Languages in 2011(drdobbs.com)
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Health care is a given in the U.S. if you're making that kind of salary so for me it was always a non-issue. Try re-calculating the tax rates if you have a non-working spouse (as was my case since I was on a work visa) and you're significan
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> $100k base salary in Waterloo adjusted for cost of living would be like an $180k base salary in Mountain View. Um, no. Even though SV is a high-cost location in a (relative to the U.S.) high-tax state, personal income taxes are still
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by jbarham 15y ago
But if you need the reliability and scalability that App Engine provides, I still think it's cost effective compared to attempting to build the same functionality yourself. You get the benefit of directly using the work of Google's top fli
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by jbarham 15y ago
Speaking for myself, I down-voted because of the absurd false dichotomy of comparing Google App Engine to $2/month shared PHP hosting! It's like complaining that an oil tanker costs more than a rowboat. The value proposition of App Engine
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by jbarham 15y ago
Go handles this type of situation nicely using deferred function calls: "Go's defer statement schedules a function call (the deferred function) to be run immediately before the function executing the defer returns. It's an unusual but effec
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RIM chops all PlayBook prices to $299(theglobeandmail.com)
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That's what I assumed myself initially, so I spun up an AWS micro instance in their Singapore data center. But then I found that the ping times were almost twice that for instances in the US west coast, because some Australia ISPs (includi
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by jbarham 15y ago
Hopefully that means they'll be opening a data center in Australia before too long. EDIT: To expand on where I'm coming from, I'm the technical lead at a web agency in Melbourne so I make recommendations on what hosting providers we use, bo
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by jbarham 15y ago
I've done a fair bit of Go programming ( https://github.com/jbarham ), but have programmed professionally mostly in Python for the past 10 years, and for me Go does feel an interpreted language because it requires so few type declarations c
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by jbarham 15y ago
Probably not a good idea to fly a UAV in lower Manhattan...
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> Ever considered moving back to the states now that you're established? Not without a Green Card. I'm Canadian, not American, and the constraints that you have to live under on an H-1B visa whilst in the multi-year wait for a GC are I
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by jbarham 15y ago
Have you tried the trick of buying yourself am Amazon.com gift certificate?
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I meant AWS opening up in Australia would create severe problems for a lot of local high-cost hosting providers. But Amazon may not bother as US west coast latency is often good enough. (Keep in mind that Australian ISPs might route traff
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by jbarham 15y ago
And we all know how well that worked out for Borders Australia. E-books obviously make import regulations of books irrelevant so I don't think Amazon would bother setting up a retail operation in Australia. But if Amazon Web Services set
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by jbarham 15y ago
I didn't miss anything: my most recent purchase from Amazon cost $11 in shipping and arrived in less than a week. I have a USD credit card, but even if you pay w/ a AUD card the currency conversion is instantaneous and costs maybe a couple
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by jbarham 15y ago
Having moved from California to Australia a year ago, the main thing we're finding exceptional about Australia is the high cost of living. IMO the Australian economy is currently being squeezed in a vice between the insane property bubble
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by jbarham 15y ago
Having moved from California to Australia a year ago, I'm amazed that Australians deny that there is a property bubble. Anecdotally, in the neighborhood I'm living in, it costs at least twice as much to buy a house as to rent . I live in
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by jbarham 15y ago
Conversely, a very foolish policy in Australia is negative gearing, which IMO is one of the major reasons behind the property bubble. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_gearing_%28Australia%2... for details.
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by jbarham 15y ago
Go is also moving very fast and they often make backwards-incompatible changes to the libraries (and sometimes the core language) but upgrading code can be done automatically 95% of the time using gofix, which programmatically rewrites code
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by jbarham 15y ago
Thanks for the detailed writeup. > Postmark is $1.50/thousand (or less) with no minimums. You can literally spend $1.50/month with us and get the same level/quality of service as someone spending thousands of dollars/month with us. Agai
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by jbarham 15y ago
I chose Postmark over Sendgrid because Postmark supports bounce callbacks for any volume, but for the same feature from Sendgrid we would have to pay $80/month, and we didn't need to send even a small fraction of the emails that that plan i
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by jbarham 15y ago
> H1B visa holders are not slaves. They are free to quit and work elsewhere whenever they like. Red herring. H1B visa holders cannot quit their job if they want to maintain their green card application as the GC process (and multi-yea
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> And once the initial paperwork is filed, they're then bound to you for years while waiting in line, since if they lose their job (or have a change in job title), they have to restart the whole process. This is precisely why I decided
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I'm Canadian and a year ago I left the U.S. for Australia (my wife is Australian) primarily because I did not consider it worth it to stay in a lousy job for at least another two years for the possibility of getting a green card. This vote
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by jbarham 15y ago
Designers and agencies often do a lot of unpaid work when they pitch to a new client, and this is accepted industry practice. How are design contests any different?
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I've just finished reading "Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World" by Michael Lewis, a follow-up to "The Big Short". It's an enlightening and sobering read as it shows how destructive the temptation of cheap money (i.e., debt) was to I
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by jbarham 15y ago
> That has enabled other players to do things Telstra said were impossible or uneconomic (for example, smaller players rolled out ADSL2 much quicker than Telstra said was possible using this access). Not if those other players are rolli
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by jbarham 15y ago
By way of comparison, I'm living in Melbourne, Australia, and pay $55/month for the Nexus S w/ unlimited calls within Australia (including to other mobile phones), unlimited texts (IIRC) and 500 MB of data. That's for a one-year plan w/ Vo

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