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by rabble 15y ago
For what it's worth, the same basic setup is in place in Latin America. Brazil the effective cost is 2x the take home pay for people as well. Maternity leaves are much shorter, and you can fire somebody, you just need to pay a hefty severan
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by rabble 15y ago
They do it because many people and most cybercafes around the world have their language configured incorrectly in their browsers. Most of the time, for novice users, the geo targeting is more accurate than browser settings. I agree, it's hu
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by rabble 15y ago
Most folks who are fit and 21 just go without health insurance. If you've got a job and aren't contracting, then you usually get insurance through work.
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by rabble 15y ago
Or where it's easy to fly from one place to another. It explains why there are so many hackers in Portland. It's a nice place to live with noticeably cheaper cost of living than Seattle or San Francisco. I know folks who consider it a bedro
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by rabble 15y ago
New York is perhaps a very big city, where you can be in 'new york city' and still be 2 hours subway ride from lower manhattan. I'd guess the other thing is that in new york you're exposed to people who are very wealthy. It distorts the per
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World wide cost of living rankings for 2012(numbeo.com)
75 points by rabble 15y ago|60 comments
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by rabble 15y ago
I've not done business in Chile, but i have in Uruguay, which ranks about the same in terms of various transparency / economic freedom / gdp per capita as Chile. Everything he complains about is just the reality of living and working in lat
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by rabble 15y ago
My question is what happened the week of September 18th? That was when Google+ went from flatlining to a huge jump in growth, then followup growth. Anybody know? My guess is something to do with android pushing folks to sign up, or maybe th
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by rabble 15y ago
Gosh, i explained REST to my wife by explaining that it's just HTTP and then sending her a link to Roy Fielding's doctoral dissertation. So frustrating to assume that women can't be perfectly competent hackers in their own right.
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The Rise of Developeronomics(forbes.com)
6 points by rabble 15y ago|0 comments
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by rabble 15y ago
I know this sounds over the top, but 500 Startups hires http://www.micro-documentaries.com/ to shoot for them all the time. I'm sure at some point it's cheaper to hire a full time person than constantly be hiring out to a shop.
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by rabble 15y ago
I didn't know about paid SU... i'm going to give it a try with one of my projects, www.plansharing.com. I've tried Facebook ads and Google AdWords. Neither of which has been very good. Facebook REALY doesn't want to send you off site, and m
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by rabble 15y ago
The video is a mix of two different videos, one from 1987, and one from 1997. The CyberDog / OpenDoc stuff in the second half is obviously not from the 80's as those projects were created in 1996-1997.
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by rabble 15y ago
No i just have a really crappy WP layout and for some reason i have it set in my CSS to do no whitespace between paragraphs. So the lazy solution, instead of fixing my css, is to do br nbsp br between paragraphs. I know, i should fix it.
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by rabble 15y ago
Yeah, i think blog posts aren't such a big issue, since often important news gets reblogged and the posts come from there as well. It's more likely to be a problem with the initial announcement of a url as being life. Say, AirBnB.com change
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by rabble 15y ago
Ok, that's a good point. I assumed poster quality mattered because posts which are highly rated are mostly from posters with high karam. Confusing cause with effect probably. That said, the quality of the titles matters a lot, and getting s
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How to block sites from Hacker News(anarchogeek.com)
48 points by rabble 15y ago|23 comments
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by rabble 15y ago
<sarcasm> I thought that was was google did? Hiring Asbergers (Autistic) programmers is pretty much the norm, no? </sarcasm>
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Draw A Stickman - Interactive Canvas Story Telling(drawastickman.com)
32 points by rabble 15y ago|2 comments
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Pirate Party Wins Berlin Regional Election - Hackers in Parliment(nytimes.com)
2 points by rabble 15y ago|0 comments
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by rabble 15y ago
By 1999 there was a lot of heavy java development on the sever happening. But i'd say the most common server environment was perl. A lot of applications wrote out to static html to handle scale.
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by rabble 15y ago
Remember that Tony's doing this stuff in http://Lift.do out of Obvious. He's to polite to mention it in the post, so i figured i'd mention it here.
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by rabble 15y ago
Guess it's one of those 3rd screen things, sit back, watch the game, and make bets on your ipad. Not sure it's safe for the pocketbook, or the ipad if you spill beer on it.
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by rabble 15y ago
Damn, poor java people. 10 minutes just to build! I thought that more than 3 minutes to run the full test suite was so long it killed productivity. No wonder java developers like 2 week or 1 month scrum cycles and infrequent releases. They
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by rabble 15y ago
It is illegal for US players to do real money gambling. But the world is big and the there are other markets. As long as the US players are prevented from playing the US doesn't care that it happens elsewhere.
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A Hacker's guide to monetizing a free-to-play game(blog.betable.com)
34 points by rabble 15y ago|10 comments
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by rabble 15y ago
What total BS. The truth is that if you ask good programmers, they almost all started before they were 15, most before they were 10. Almost all contributors to Debian are the same way. The vast majority DON'T talk about it, it's assumed. It
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Charles Hudson's Six Android Challenges (and how to tackle them)(blog.betable.com)
35 points by rabble 15y ago|0 comments
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by rabble 15y ago
Yeah, programming languages, of course what other kind of languages are there?
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Advertising in Mobile Games is Broken(blog.betable.com)
44 points by rabble 15y ago|39 comments

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