ivanstojic

Western Union, IB, sendwave, bank transfers... there's all kinds of options really...

USA to HRK, only one option - transferwise.

Are you sure you didn't build a transferwise clickbait? I know for a fact there are other services that do this transfer.

Your colonialism is showing.

There are two assumptions here that I’d like to point out: that the US labor laws are the best worldwide, and that there is an inherent problem in other countries that would be solved if they just adhered to the US laws.

US historically had, and still has a large number of cases (either legal or just public discourse) of employers treating their employees unjustly, unfairly or with malice, despite all of the legal protection that US provides. There are always edge cases and loopholes. That said, I do believe that to an extent, the precedent based legal system of US trumps European style jurisprudence systems.

Secondly, there is no evidence that by and large the workers are treated better in the US, or that other counties are clearly inferior. International employee engagement is pretty close to the world average in most modern countries.

These companies (freelancer, upwork/odesk) aren’t really escrow companies: they are scalpers of financial transactions they enable and provide.

Sure, but look at the flip side: it’s a way for people from tiny, remote countries to get access to an integrated market of software projects, and a payment platform.

The payment part in particular is lucrative for that population.

A large majority of people providing work on these sites is very far from any country where such a notion exists.

For a lot of freelancers in smaller countries, these sites provide a way to accept payments internationally and get access to a very big job market.

There is some value they provide - but they enforce their place in the food chain harshly.

I did a lot of work on similar freelancing sites in the 2000s. While it is true that there is always more than one side to the story, there’s also a massive power imbalance with these services.

Most of the workers come from outside of the US, work for already ridiculously low fees, and they have no recourse if they do end up having their payments cancelled or their accounts frozen / locked.

It’s not the easiest way to make a living.

Mistakes happen, even terrible ones. They can be fixed though. The biggest issue is the fact that Etsy is stonewalling the issue and not willing to talk about it openly.

I believe the above commenter talks about the ease/pricing of Fi as much as the experience. I'm using Fi on my iPhone (and have for a while) - and it works worldwide for $10 / 1Gb. It's actually downright magical compared to other offers (even the Apple SIM powered ones).

The title on the PayPal list itself reads "List of Third Parties (other than PayPal Customers) with Whom Personal Information May be Shared."

If that's true, this is just the "worst case" scenario - you are very unlikely to hit any significant fraction of these companies for any single given transaction.

Or so I hope.

It was on a Mac, which I admit probably isn't where the core of development lies.

Back in ~2015, there were several Firefox developers who visited a local hacklab where I used to hang out. I was aware of a bug in the current version of FX at that time, and I knew how to fix it. I wanted to get their help to create a patch for the bug and get it submitted.

After about two hours of trying, we were unable to produce a working build from a tagged release point in their version control - even before applying any changes.

I'm hoping the new tooling works better.

There's an SF writer I really like for his books in the vein of this. His name is L. E. Modesitt, and some of his books that discuss this are the "Parafaith War" and probably the best "Adiamante."

I live in WC and worked for a while in Palo Alto - and THAT took two hours on a good (week)day.

Which is not used by DynamoDB in any form or fashion.

I honestly don't think it's terrible as such. I'm sure that there are people in the company who enjoy the environment and the acceptable attitudes, I just realized I'm not one of them. My feelings are that I learned a lot there, but not quite what I thought I'd learn, and I did make a pretty penny in stock price. I make much more money in Oracle, but I wouldn't go back to AWS for a 50% more than what I make now.

Another 4 year ex Amazonian here who moved to OBMC. Totally standing by everything Twirrim said.

So, effectively, it's playing with its food?

It always pains me when I see people use "cat" left and right, even when they don't need it.

This makes for good reading: http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html

I guess I'm never visiting Oklahoma.

Keep. Add a bit of margins, slim down metadata and make links bigger / easier to hit. I like the improvement though.

The OSX "show info" dialog block shows the file size in disk blocks, as opposed to the actual bytes of file content. There might be a misunderstanding between people because the "real" file size is different than the "actually occupied" disk size. This is of course aggravated by lots of small files.

It seems like the author of MacDown might also have some sort of a philosophical axe to grind with the author of Mou (http://mouapp.com), another popular (albeit non open source / future non-free) Markdown editor. Mou implies that it will become non-free once it leaves the beta, but it's been in beta for years now.

The source of the issue seems to be a tweet by Mou's author in which he says that when people say "inspired by X" they actually mean "idea stolen from X." (https://twitter.com/remaerd/status/484914820408279040).

At the risk of sounding like another one of the "Google is evil" people, I'd like to voice my concern that Google is better at managing mail then I am.

I just moved from one country to another and I can't change the billing settings on my Google Apps account because... Google Apps don't support that. The official stance is that I should just download a backup of my accounts, delete them, recreate them with different billing options. However, other than preserving my mail and Google Drive, this won't preserve any of my other content which must either be backed up using third party tools and then manually recovered/recreated.

I'm not sure how this can be interpreted as a sign that Google can do this better than I can.

Eh, it's the old "I paid for your product X and I implicitly expected to get Y as well" problem again.

We've had those before, you see, and the point is - unless something's explicitly promised, calling it a dick move when you don't get it is funny. I've been funny like that myself a few times before, but in the end I learned the lesson:

You only get what you are explicitly promised, and if you don't want to be treated like that, then don't pay for the product and use free alternatives.

Also, stop disparaging tools you don't use.

It's kinda sad that, in order to protect himself, he has to put a disclaimer on his blog about four paragraphs down from the start.

I believe they patented the specific way that they remove causality and interaction with electronic circuits, not the idea itself. I'm reasonably certain one could come up with a few different/non-infringing designs that accomplish the same goal.

Instead of this, I believe we need a kosher computer mouse (like the light switch here: http://www.kosherswitch.com/live/). You click the button. In some random amount of time the mice might or might not produce a click event. So you hit the button on the mouse and walk away for a cup of tea :-)

I'd say it goes further than that, as this isn't 1992 any more. I can't possibly find code pronunciation to be of imperative importance because I rarely debug code over the phone.

At any given time, I'm likely to have at least two of the following with me: a phone, a tablet or a laptop. Just e-mail me the code. Make a gist with the problematic section. Push it to a branch in our git repo so I can take a look at it myself. IM it to me. Don't read it to me.