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Why don't you consider Germany? US is great in terms of taking technological inspirations but I wouldn't want to live there as that would mean working for the landlords. I've been to Berlin for a year and consider working for any company there (big or small) because the prices (rents, food, travel, entertainment) are low and the incomes (whether salary or hour based) are high and they pay satisfactorily to IT workers. They prefer more enterprise stuff though such as Java and SAP. And in some areas being fluent in German is a requirement. Still, it's worth it, they have more open and straightforward visa applications.

With the Win32 API, we saw some innovative use of C in action, such as the function pointers and the callback functions.

>> Not many people seem to use Lion these days though. An app that I work on has less than 6% (of the 13,000 users who have opted in to providing system stats) on Lion.

Locking an app to a version of OS is still a bad practice, particularly for an app aiming to network effect. I have Viber and it works on my Lion! Btw, I think that Viber blows away the competition by having everything: VoIP, Pic,Video, Message all for free!

No OSX Lion compatibility too. And they've put it on App Store as if it's the only way to distribute it. Looks like a BS.

In my country (turkey) such thieves are quite common. In my whole life I 've had things stolen from my car for 3 times. The last one happened, even though there was nothing to steal from the car no backpack, anything. The thief stole the CD Deck! And yet another theft we had on our basement last year. The thief took my (about $60 worth) socket wrench set. I observe there's a certain pattern on thiefs actions and deeds: They seem to know if there's something worthy in any area and when they find one they steal without anyone seeing.

He might have summarized the whole Node.js concept as SOA - Service Oriented Architecture

A similar thing might be done for e-books, too. Because e-books are sooner or later falling into torrent networks becoming available for free.

Hey dude I'm on your side on this issue, I wholeheartedly see everything you say. By saying "why complain" my target was those dictatorship-practising web instances and the thing is to remind them that nothing's irreplecable, particularly on the Internet.

Nothing's indispensible, particularly on the Internet. So why complain? Just go and find another environment. If you can't, build one.

I used to complain about Delicious and after a while I stopped complaining and decided to use another service. As simple as that.

When it comes to SOA, I think Node is one of the greatest examples. Btw, has anybody noticed that npm has become extremely common? It looks like npm is used even on projects which are not based on Node.js.

The names inside the nodes are not readable. They don't display name when clicked or hover the cursor over them. So I closed the page after 5 or 10 seconds.

Looks like a language with no name :)

It can't find any course related to 'Scala' whereas I can find courses on the Coursera's website. FYI.

A big silence in comments :)

If one is too eager to make easy money, it's likely to go into trouble.

I hate and ignore those apps which require registration w.o. displaying the main page. Quora is another example to this.

good point

Looks like another cloud-dependent app.

For the time being, Twitter is accessable from within Turkey using the DNS of the biggest ISPs of Turkey, 195.175.39.39

This reminded me of some other brands which practice the "anti-feature" on their products. There's an IP Camera brand which uses the same PCB board on their range of indoor cameras but blocks usage of some components on it such as MicroSD reader. I noticed that when I opened one of them, it had MicroSD reader inside but it was blocked by the case outside. That's done to justify its lower price, what a foolish thing to do really.

There were also talks in the past about Microsoft turning off features off the Windows to justify the price. Again what a foolish thing to do.

According to BBS Earth Biography series, half of all the water in the world came from a comet colliding to earth some 4 billion years ago.

I regularly follow the links and comments but I very rarely submit links and occasionaly post comments. This is my option :)

Many people here in Hacker News, Turkish and non Turkish tried to exploit this news as an oppurtunity to attack Turkish people by making some generalizations and talking about massacres, which are totally unrelated to the problem at hand.

They fail to realize that the Internet restriction practices are not specific to any one particular country. Similar practices are emerging in Britain, Ukrain and even in the USA.

If I was to talk about Internet restriction in the USA would I start talking about individuals in the USA or what kind of massacres took place in the past in America? How big a non-sense would that be!

We are faced with serious problems here in Turkey and most of those problems are artifically created and one-sided. The Internet Restriction law was proposed by only 27 parliament members and law's passed wo asking others. It's sure to die soon because it's created in a one-sided manner by a small group of blind people.

Are you sure it's a PHP book? It says it's a node.js book.

A horrible memory

This reminded me Richard Stallman's notes about the newly emerged Cloud Computing. He defined the CC as untrustable and advised to avoid.

I'd suggest IP Telephones. Most of them are capable of making direct P2P connections without even any VoIP server. They only need an external STUN server to arrange the NAT configuration if you use the IP Phone behind a NAT router (which is almost always the case) There are many free and realiable STUNS servers running on the Internet or you can construct your own.

it might happen to anyone who is an absolute beginner

I haven't even known such a brand existed but their products are fine

The author exaggerates the compatibility of Linux drivers on a given Laptop.

It's nice to see Mac OS X stem from Unix

just 3 spontaneous impressions:

1- The site (front page) is not bad. Anyway it addresses the one big problem of buying and selling the desired jobs. 2- The name and position of "Watercooler" is interesting and invokes curiosity about the site. 3- The presence of Linked-in as a login option is bad, because the Linked-in is bad. I've deleted my Li account after a crazy frustration upon their wanting me to become a paid member just for me to send a message to a member! No need to link to a doomed site such as that.

That's all.