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34000 over nearly a decade career. It's 9.3 cases per day for 10 years, without weekends, vacations or holidays. And 45 minutes of work per case. Provided she had 7hr working day and a lunch break. And she occasionally testified in courts. How is that even possible?

well, yes. I am assuming a lawyer call is enough to make 95% of people shut up and pay. at least in western world. So existence of contract reduces your risk 10-20 fold

Overengineered software systems are like sex - every generation thinks they invented it.

"list of conditions for both sides ... predetermined amount of money" - that is what contract is. If they had it - no need for escrow.

Yep, it's easy to spot those mistakes in others', when you look from a side. It's much harder for me to do boring work myself, instead of playing with new frontend libs and writing code. At least you'll be more self-aware next time, few people have this luxury.

Kudos to the author - I am impressed how well Alex Matchneer understands Angular.

Few thoughts of my own: - Ember is a long term relationship with one particular way of doing web FE, a way invented by someone else for you. Ember philosophy is "one size fits all". - On directives and transclusion - it's like Lisp's dotted pair. these new concepts may be hard to understand, but experiments like that often fascinate programmers, and for a good reason - one day those experiments will revolutionize the way we build software.

The debate of a small set of flexible tools vs one tightly integrated system is not new. We had Linux vs Windows, Django vs Flask, etc. It's funny to see it pop up in yet another area.

Thank you for this great write up and raising a bar of this long going discusiion on Ember vs Angular.

because developer.

I should be a target customer, since I periodically interview candidates for programming positions. However, landing page and screenshots failed to explain to me what the unique selling point was. How many people here know what "Feedback-Driven Interview" is?

Whole product seems to be about providing an online testing tool ala topcoder.com. But coding tasks are usually only a small part of the interview process (not that I agree with that, but that's what happens at 90% of companies I've applied for).

They should have mentioned the number of titles at launch for xbox one. If ease of making games is such a big deal why aren't there any facts on how far behind their main competitor is.

> Second, if a client is going to withhold final payment based on Apple acceptance, there is no way I would work for them

It sounds from the article that payment terms were agreed upon before commencement of the work. Why did developer accept that contract if he thought it was wrong or unfair? Walk away / ask to change that bit / extra payment, etc. But renegotiating payment schedule half way through the project, really? That's poor work ethics.

And, BTW, I don't think it's a dumb app - it is actually quite smart, main risk was apple finding technical issues like "you are using wrong api / it crashes on iphone 3g". Customer wanted protection against issues like that.

Rephrase it in a way "you build app, I pay you. If you help me get it approved I give you $200 more". What is wrong with that?

that's just another confirmation that PC is dead. nobody is buying desktops, only portables. Businesses still have desks but they mostly care about the bottom line.

I don't think anything matches macbook's solid aluminium body and build quality. After I've dumped my ubuntu laptop few years ago, I don't want to go back to all that plastic rubbish.

Not all laptops created equal, so yes, you can probably find decent hardware. It will inevitably be priced similarly or above the Mac alternatives. So no gain in HW department.

Now consider OS. I have to use win7 desktop at work, and have to maintain my wife's win7 laptop at home. Both are orders of magnitude worse than ubuntu or osx.

And any decently built laptop comes with Windows preinstalled and manufacturers rarely care about other platforms. Good luck fiddling with the 3d graphics and wifi drivers. I'm not saying it's impossible to set it up, and maybe it's much easier today than last time I've tried 2-3 years ago. Maybe it's not too bad.

But still, is it worth it?

And btw, please share your experience, if you try any of the alternatives suggested here. I'd love to find a good alternative to my MBA. But for now I just don't see a point in trying.

IMO a startup in general typically exits through acquisition.

Do you have any data to back up your claim that lean startup is more likely to get acquired?

You are right about him contradicting himself, but I think first half (rather first 2/3) of his post are just philosophical beating around the bush. He nearly lost me half-way through.

But what he's actually trying to say is that if W3C won't standardize some form of DRM, publishers lobby will fill the gap.

And whatever comes out of that lobby will be thousand times worse for the users and implementers. I don't necessarily agree with that, but this is the message of that blog post.

A lot of users want their internets work fast and without glitches on their PC from 2003, under WinXP and IE8. In order to satisfy interests of those users we must stop introducing new CSS features and JS extensions. That's just how sad the world we live in is.

I tend to think that publishers aren't as powerful as they used to be. Browser market is dominated but rather open Chrome and Mozilla still going strong. Duopoly of iOS and Android is quite dangerous though - if these two reach any agreement, W3C opinion won't matter.

Tone of the article was certainly skewed in Harkonen's favor, so I stopped mid-second page and turned to HN comments.

It's great that the journalist found the debunking study and mentioned it. But does the order matter? He goes on and on about how "a sizable proportion of [scientists] might be in jail today".

Most readers would drop half way through, as I did. What will they learn? Oh, there was evidence that drug can be lifesaving but technicality killed the white knight.

The problems with after-the-fact analyses are well known. I reckon there should be a strict mathematical proof why those are wrong. We just got yet another example of that. How else can you keep charlatans out if not by being rough on those who break the rules? Especially when breaking the rules possibly has lethal consequences for less sophisticated yet desperate consumers.

I'm not saying Harkonen is a charlatan, but he certainly jumped the gun. For whatever reason, but he did.

and he can still make a living while doing that.

Second that. Smallest font on the page, light grey while everything else is black, pushed to the bottom of the side column - certainly looks like fine print to me.

There's no option to opt out of VIP membership - if I haven't said I want it, and was not asked whether I want it, I shouldn't be paying for it, should I?

I think OP has a case here.

Do they ever try to remind customer about the upcoming charge?

Spot on.

When government is spending taxpayers' money it doesn't care about efficiency, only about getting a slice of the pie. Family members, business partners and overcharging contractors feast on these multibillion dollar projects, and only them.

We've seen this happen with "Building the edu revolution", house insulation and so on. Porting bloody e-tax to Mac cost them $5.2 million.

The smaller the spending on NBN the smaller the waste.

Govt should focus on reducing friction for business, eliminating monopolies and building a healthy economy.

Competition and market forces can take care of the fiber just fine. If we had those.

looking at that scary diagram and thinking "will all yapp apps (yapps?) be as structural as the underlying framework?"

I think single Main Reason why Google requires 3rd parties to use an iframe is that it keeps them in control of when and how ads are shown, what can be rewinded, etc. Without updating the 3rd party app and republishing it to all stores.

They loosen this requirement for google's own youtube clients because they can push new version of those apps whenever they like. They had no guarantee that MSFT would respond to their requests for changes in a timely manner in the future.

Why didn't MSFT want to use an iframe? Because arrogant ignorance of the open standard of HTML5 is part of company DNA. Any web developer can rant for hours how crappy IE6-9 are and what a drag it is to maintain compatibility with IE when you are building a modern webapp.

To remind everyone that IE11 will be dead on arrival, I'm copying some html5test results: Chrome - 463 Firefox - 410 Safari - 378 IE 11 - 355

But if MSFT bothered to properly implement HTML5 then a) they wouldn't have difficulty building a youtube app in accordance to the google's terms and conditions b) WP users would enjoy better browsing experience c) developers wouldn't have to deal with the compatibility mess caused primarily by IE6-10 and not yet released IE11

Everyone would win.

Author probably wants to make money out of it, why else do people lock stuff down? Funny how virtualbox licensing issue got overlooked, because we are all used to download stuff from github with an assumption that any public repository is public domain.

is it IP based, or will chrome anonymous window be enough to always reliably tell my status?

omg. you can be banned but still allowed to post?!

how do I check whether my account is banned?

can you please quote the 'first point in this post'?

35 years? means we won't hear about any entertainingly silly patent claims?

would it be legal, if the author paid them whatever they wanted, transferred the domain out of godaddy's control and then requested a CC chargeback with the bank? Banks usually side with the customer.

They have a long list of what's wrong with git. They think git is too hard for their average customer. They have a list of features, some will be easier when storing some metadata in the git repo.

There are certainly ways to build a compatible and good product. It is possible and not incredibly hard. But it is Microsoft we are talking about. What is their track record in playing nicely with the community and supporting open standards? IE? OOXML?

They have deadlines, technical burden of millions LOC, backwards compatibility with whatever crap RCS they are currently supporting, etc.

When all these come into play, guess what will be sacrificed or postponed till next release?

I get it that it can be done right, I believe some of their engineers sincerely want and try hard to get it right. They have already made quite a few design decisions and big steps in the right direction.

But there are "real world" constraints. Management wants to report gazillion new features this quarter, Marketing wants unique value propositions, Engineering wants to hold back the release until git maintainers accept all the patches. Guess who will lose this tug of war?

straight from the horse's mouth: > Git can be, um, esoteric. We’ve been working to > codify the standard “best practices” for Git in the community to > make Git approachable and easy to use > by everyone while not sacrificing the power. ... > give you the best all-up ALM solution ... > work item association, change tracking, build automation, > My work, Code review ... > We are doing work on auditing, access control, > high availability, online backup, etc. All the things that > an enterprise is going to be particularly concerned about. ...

I bet they will screw up and their git will be incompatible with the rest of the world.