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by srdev 15y ago
Any sources that the Nexus is actually built in Korea without Foxconn involvement? Samsung is a Foxconn customer.
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by srdev 15y ago
I'm not sure what marknutter's intent was, but Foxconn really manufactures a lot of stuff beyond smartphones. PCs typically have Foxconn parts in them, as do routers. Any tablet you own has a good probability of being touched by Foxconn.
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by srdev 15y ago
Foxconn builds a lot more than iPhones. Take a look at all their customers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Major_customers If you own computer equipment or a smart phone, there's a pretty good chance that something that you own wa
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by srdev 15y ago
One has to be willing and open to learning to be educated. Often, people discussing politics or economics feel that their understanding is already good and have no desire to learn. This is the main reason that these topics tend to turn in
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by srdev 15y ago
You don't have to be trapped in the ecosystem. I made a transition from a .Net ecosystem into Linux + Java a while back. It's hard, but not impossible, especially if you keep up to date with your non-.Net skills.
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by srdev 15y ago
Boycotts against the other companies have been discussed. It was explained to me as wanting to make an example. Rather than spreading a boycott out over 149 companies, they wanted to pick one or two and dog-pile on them, so that the effec
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by srdev 15y ago
When I read it, the message I took away was that current sexist gender roles tend to force men into being breadwinners as opposed to caregivers. Women being a breadwinner with a male caregiver is still looked upon as kind-of curious in cer
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by srdev 15y ago
As tempting as it is to simply look at the raw facts, context does matter in a situation like this. The software industry is still male-dominated, and that can be intimidating and draining for people who are not male. Have you ever gone to
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by srdev 15y ago
Kind-of tangentially related, but I find that there's a high tendency for people to interrupt other people and speak over others. This often leads to poorly-thought-out discussions, because people are rushing to get a word in edge-wise. A
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by srdev 15y ago
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I think that's because discussing constitutionality isn't a winning strategy. Constitutionality hasn't been a primary concern in the legislative process for a while, especially when internet commerce is involved
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by srdev 15y ago
I had an opportunity to try out the Fire and didn't think that the display was terrible at all, for what its worth. Seemed crisp enough to me.
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by srdev 15y ago
I don't use my feelings regarding the manner as a measure of reasonableness. I've really tried to understand Stallman's arguments, but I really can't come to agree that proprietary software is, in and of itself, unethical.
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by srdev 15y ago
I agree. I was trying to offer a data point to lambda's question about how someone might "stand against" Stallman. I suppose I went off on a tangent. I agree with the gist behind the article that we should not attack Stallman based on th
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by srdev 15y ago
That he sees it as unethical at all makes our views incompatible. You're speaking of less evil, but I don't think proprietary software is evil at all. The idea that proprietary software being unethical is fairly fundamental to Stallman's
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by srdev 15y ago
I think the argument, with regards to Jobs, was rather that Stallman was inappropriate on writing his statements so soon after Job's death. Edit: To clarify, the bulk of the arguments where not against his ideas but rather directly concern
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by srdev 15y ago
I can't speak for kenjackson, but Stallman states that writing proprietary software is unethical, and I find that idea unpalatable. I generally think that its better for software to be open, but I don't think a person who writes a piece of
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by srdev 15y ago
I can think of a few good reasons, but none of that includes consuming data that I ostensibly own.
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by srdev 15y ago
As I have an interest in video games, the all-FOSS-no-proprietary approach is particularly troublesome. You see very few indie games being done as FOSS, and pretty much zero high-quality big-production games. Proposals for a system of fun
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by srdev 15y ago
As with most big companies, whether its a caustic environment or not really depends on which team you're working for. The culture instilled by your manager or manager's manager is more powerful than the corporate culture as a whole.
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by srdev 15y ago
Interesting. To summarize, it looks like the $50 loss comes from an analyst comparing it to the iPad, whereas the $50 profit claim comes from a firm comparing it to the more-similar BlackBerry Playbook. The research firm that did a tear-d
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by srdev 15y ago
Has that been confirmed? I've heard anywhere from $5 to $50, and its always been from analysists trying to estimate the cost from parts. As far as I know, the only people who really know how much the Kindle costs to make are Amazon.
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by srdev 15y ago
I think there's a balance. One should spend effort on showing manner and being considerate of peoples' feelings. At the same time, sometimes these sorts of things can become pathological to the point where you spend more time making peopl
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by srdev 15y ago
My observation is that a fear-driven culture is often not intentional. They usually stem from a culture where cutting the bullshit and getting to the point is encouraged. Most people are used to a culture where niceties are important, and
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by srdev 15y ago
People too. There's plenty of people that would like to move to find employment, but have a mortgage that they need to get out of first. The market is pretty terrible at the moment, and these people end up being stuck. I know a few perso
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by srdev 15y ago
Yes, they'll have to implement Secure Boot if they want the little Windows 8 sticker. There's nothing there that says they can't provide an option to turn it off. All arguments make the assumption that Secure Boot is required to be on at
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by srdev 15y ago
True, but I think that "idea guys" on HN tend to be entrepreneurs who like the term "idea guy," rather than a person with an idea and nothing else. Entrepreneurs, or non-technical co-founders, bring skills to the table that a technical per
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by srdev 15y ago
I actually find "idea guys" highly insulting. What does it say when they view the hard work required to implement an idea as trivial in comparison to their idea? How does that view reflect upon my expertise? Moreover, do they really thin
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by srdev 15y ago
At the risk of being slightly offensive, college hires are high on energy and enthusiasm but low on ability to produce reliable code (on average). They can produce a lot of code, but they tend to have blind spots when spotting failure scen
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by srdev 15y ago
Amazon doesn't just pay salary. I got salary, "signing bonuses", and stock. The overall compensation seems to be pretty good from what I can tell online. Then again, I could be lucky since my stock grant was near the bottom of the recess
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by srdev 15y ago
2 weeks vacation plus 6 days personal days when you start. After a year, they bump it up to 3 weeks. They raise it to 4 weeks after 6 years of employment. Not too terrible, really, but not great either.

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