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by tartle 12y ago
"I asked the CEO of a startup with about 70 programmers how many more he'd hire if he could get all the great programmers he wanted. He said "We'd hire 30 tomorrow morning." Evidence-based policy proposal at its fin
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by tartle 12y ago
According to media PHP is used server-side (the system was written using CakePHP). This is decompiled client app that is used by electoral commissions (the one that is hardly working at the moment).
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by tartle 12y ago
Context: State Electoral Commission declared a computer glitch is delaying the vote count. The problem persists, and election results are not yet available.
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Source code of Polish electoral voting system?(github.com)
111 points by tartle 12y ago|62 comments
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by tartle 12y ago
30 USD per hour, so c. 200 USD per day. Poland, but mostly remote clients. Mobile apps (crossplatform, also native iOS), occasionally some accompanying Python or PHP stuff on server.
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by tartle 12y ago
yes, it's only historical art (author dead >100 years)
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by tartle 12y ago
http://wish.com/s/9dDgKQ
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Show HN: Fake users in Swift(github.com)
8 points by tartle 12y ago|0 comments
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by tartle 12y ago
yep, that's quite sad we have so little anticapitalist software projects. Like helping workers to organize, run consumer cooperatives efficiently, construct parecon-style economic networks...
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by tartle 13y ago
ST3 compatibility problem is hopefully solved now, by one of user contribs
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by tartle 13y ago
good point, thanks - will change that
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by tartle 13y ago
that actually is howdoi, just wrapped, so that you don't need to leave the edited file in Sublime Text :)
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Search StackOverflow and paste code snippets without leaving Sublime Text 2(github.com)
41 points by tartle 13y ago|14 comments
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COBOL on Wheelchair(azac.pl)
100 points by tartle 13y ago|40 comments
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by tartle 13y ago
Costs of living haven't been that much different for a decade or so. The only reason most businesses pay poor salaries to Polish workers is - because they can (high level of unemployment + low percentage of workers organised in trade u
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by tartle 13y ago
850 EUR is average salary in Poland (before taxation). Programmers would usually get more, at least in big cities.
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by tartle 13y ago
"2nd world" (Eastern Europe) freelancer here - it really depends what things you work on, even on Elance, oDesk etc. It's not that hard to generate >20k, of course if you know what you're doing. oDesk clients brought
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by tartle 13y ago
by amount of employees compared to market valuation. kodak vs instagram.
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by tartle 13y ago
that's not an answer for the majority of population, when the pace of good job destruction is faster than good job creation. no doubt, there's now plenty of opportunity for tech-workers, who will profit from the process (at least
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Project Cybersyn (1971)(cybersyn.cl)
2 points by tartle 13y ago|0 comments
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by tartle 13y ago
...and when you have learnt it - use a decent cross-platform framework (like Titanium or Xamarin, I don't mean uncanny-valley-html-pretending-native-ui...) for 80% cases, where it makes more sense than producing two separate code bases
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by tartle 13y ago
From what my clients say (I develop cross-platform apps as freelancer, mostly in Titanium), sales still remain much higher on iOS.
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How to decrease sign up confirmation email bounces by 50%(blog.kicksend.com)
1 points by tartle 13y ago|0 comments
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Hayao Miyazaki Retiring(variety.com)
2 points by tartle 13y ago|1 comments
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by tartle 13y ago
people aren't "meant to" live in cities, use wheel, spend life in front of computer screens... but we're not hunters-gatherers any more, which suggests that what we are is far more determined by current form of society t
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by tartle 13y ago
first of all, it depends what you define as socialism. what seems more important, history shows that there are no Iron Laws Of History Written In Capital Letters. what we see is always an outcome of particular circumstances. like - "tr
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by tartle 13y ago
"let's emphasize that automation/technology will ultimately improve everyone's lives so that the middle class lifestyle will be the new poverty" except there's no reason to believe it will happen. possibly new
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by tartle 13y ago
we'll need socialism much earlier than when all jobs are gone. the only problem is how to marry this transition with incentives for further technological development. technological elites enjoying fruits of the economic growth, while t
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by tartle 13y ago
not before I clean up the code a bit - just hacked that together, and variable names are still in Polish :) it's really basic anyway: html parser + NSUserNotification + NSSpeechSynthesizer, I think it's 5 mins to replicate for any
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Get notified about every Hacker News submission (OSX)(azac.pl)
4 points by tartle 13y ago|2 comments

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