There are educated people in most countries, you landing there to do work on the cheap is not necessarily help to them, donate money on the other hand and they will be employed to help their own communities.
When Haiti became independent, the French embargoed the country and eventually managed to wrestle a commitment from the country to pay for their freedom. In my country we call that blackmailing, I don't know how you call it. Haiti was paying that money as late as the middle of last century.
Then the cleptocrats Duvaliers (father and son, read about them, fucking bastards) ruled the country thanks to their impeccable credentials as anti Communists (guess which country was a good friend?)
To top things up, Jean Bertrand Aristide, the guy that raised against the tyrants from the slums, was swept away from power when he tried to implement reforms that would have benefited the poorest people in the country. The military junta was eventually recognized by the usual suspects that say to promote democracy and liberte, fraternite et egalite.
So I will also give my prescription for Haiti: the only way they will ever leave poverty is when France and the US actually decide to support a democratic government there (sometimes it would seem that Haiti will be forever punished for having challenged the idea that black slave could be free, they have paid dearly for their temerity).
Really, one of the first news is that the Presidential Palace was destroyed.
For all practical matters it seems like Haiti has stopped having a functioning government (and no, I know that the demise of the Palace would not necessarily imply the collapse of government, but I am using it as a symbol, before you wise asshats point this out...).
Second comers to profitable markets are a fact of life.
Apple itself was a second comer to music players and mobile phones.
So to call Apple imitators with derogatory terms ignores the reality of trying to sell a successful product: trying first what seems to be working elsewhere.
I actually got a request to interview for Google, but they were asking me to relocate, so sadly I had to turn them down (googlechaps, next time you say you have a position in London look at the map: Dublin is not a London suburb!).
There is nothing particularly different to applying for a position anywhere else as far as I remember.
I have worked for companies with US HQs in the EU. Since they have to respect EU law I have never worked more than 40 hours a week.
But perhaps some people in the US should grow a spine and learn to say no (I worked in a couple of countries with shit labour laws, where other people were working regularly 50 or 60 hour a week, I still worked no more than 40 because I made perfectly clear I wasn't going to work for free).
This Talibanized mentality about programming really has to stop.
People can arrive to the same knowledge by many different ways, it is simply stupid to expect people to arrive to a certain degree of competence by the same means as you did.
So I have told them to stuff their jobs where the sun does not shine.
I got a new job now, with people that knew me.
I didn't even have to go through an interview.
Morale: don't burn your bridges, plan for bad times, so you can maintain your dignity even during times of hardship (I don't have much sympathy for the folks that frequently cite "putting bread on the table" for accepting being humiliated or doing unethical things in order to keep a job).
... apart from RED's, supports RED camera workflows?
In any case, in the words of the director of "New Town killers" (Richard Jobson): RED workflow is a real PITA (so bad that he prefers to use Cannon DSLRs in video mode to shoot now).
Like breaking the law in pretty much all major localities around the planet.
What are you? A masochist?
If you hear a chorus of disapproval maybe, just maybe, there is a frigging reason of why people feel so aggravated.
Google and Apple now have quite a dominance in the markets that will matter in the future and people are far more cool about them because they are not complete and utter unethical bastards.
In other words use common sense ( I don't need to be a frigging lawyer to know that).
Develop the game, release under an open license.
If anybody is interested about it in the legal sense, then they will bother you about it, at that point you stop any alleged infringing activities if youcan defend yourself legally (it can't be copy right, it can.t be patents, it can't be trademarks, the vague "look and feel" or a general idea about a game is not protectable, the myriad of "look and feel" clones of famous games or even of famous hardware should put your mind to rest), now if the company wants to pursue the army of developers of the application in localities outside the US, well, all the power to them, for starters there are certain to have no patent, trademark or copyright claims in the EU and many other localities.
There is no way that people with vast DVD collections will "upgrade" to Blu-Ray. Simply the cost benefit is against the new format.
And frankly, since DVD is good enough for most people, I fail to see how companies will entice users to move away from DVD.
When people were encouraged to dump tapes there was a clear advantage in using the new medium, but with DVDs we have a medium that does not degrade and that can be copied with fidelity to bits in your computer, this creates demand for DVD players that says to the media companies that they need to continue providing entertainment in the "old" format.
Unless they do a 1 for 1 swap I don't think the last incarnation of physical media will be widespread (sooner or later all access to media will be purely digital, DVDs will surely become a distant memory and Blu-Ray discs a curiosity akin to laser disc or SCD.
Any company well organized will have procedures to install software, part of it would be to do due diligence checks about the software being installed.
Application calls home? It shows in firewall logs. Application is running? Is it authorized? No? It shows in log files. Application is changing files? Changed files show in log files, situation is investigated until culprit is found.
You don't look at the code, but check for unusual behaviour.
Any application trying to call home will show up in my logs, the behaviour will be reported (or if I have the skills the code will be examined) and the problem spotted and fixed.
This simply will not happen with closed source software, where the companies decide what is deemed necessary to fix and the rest be damned (I have seen companies with serious production issues having to continue using broken software because the provider could not be arsed to fix a problem, with open source you have options if you provider is trying to hang you out to dry).
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There are educated people in most countries, you landing there to do work on the cheap is not necessarily help to them, donate money on the other hand and they will be employed to help their own communities.
... if you discourage the good intentions of others for no apparent reason.
But there is a context prior to that.
When Haiti became independent, the French embargoed the country and eventually managed to wrestle a commitment from the country to pay for their freedom. In my country we call that blackmailing, I don't know how you call it. Haiti was paying that money as late as the middle of last century.
Then the cleptocrats Duvaliers (father and son, read about them, fucking bastards) ruled the country thanks to their impeccable credentials as anti Communists (guess which country was a good friend?)
To top things up, Jean Bertrand Aristide, the guy that raised against the tyrants from the slums, was swept away from power when he tried to implement reforms that would have benefited the poorest people in the country. The military junta was eventually recognized by the usual suspects that say to promote democracy and liberte, fraternite et egalite.
So I will also give my prescription for Haiti: the only way they will ever leave poverty is when France and the US actually decide to support a democratic government there (sometimes it would seem that Haiti will be forever punished for having challenged the idea that black slave could be free, they have paid dearly for their temerity).
Really, one of the first news is that the Presidential Palace was destroyed.
For all practical matters it seems like Haiti has stopped having a functioning government (and no, I know that the demise of the Palace would not necessarily imply the collapse of government, but I am using it as a symbol, before you wise asshats point this out...).
Second comers to profitable markets are a fact of life.
Apple itself was a second comer to music players and mobile phones.
So to call Apple imitators with derogatory terms ignores the reality of trying to sell a successful product: trying first what seems to be working elsewhere.
Go to the company's website.
Find positions available.
Apply for a job.
I actually got a request to interview for Google, but they were asking me to relocate, so sadly I had to turn them down (googlechaps, next time you say you have a position in London look at the map: Dublin is not a London suburb!).
There is nothing particularly different to applying for a position anywhere else as far as I remember.
I have worked for companies with US HQs in the EU. Since they have to respect EU law I have never worked more than 40 hours a week.
But perhaps some people in the US should grow a spine and learn to say no (I worked in a couple of countries with shit labour laws, where other people were working regularly 50 or 60 hour a week, I still worked no more than 40 because I made perfectly clear I wasn't going to work for free).
And still they get all the jobs.
Bloody sour grapes from you and the GPP if you ask me.
Just talk about programming.
It takes 5 minutes to know if the person in front of you is conversant with the field or not.
This Talibanized mentality about programming really has to stop.
People can arrive to the same knowledge by many different ways, it is simply stupid to expect people to arrive to a certain degree of competence by the same means as you did.
What you should ask is to implement a quick sort routine.
Then give them the necessary book explaining the algorithm, or a computer with internet access.
Rote memorization is not a skill I would want in a programmer as a main trait.
So I have told them to stuff their jobs where the sun does not shine.
I got a new job now, with people that knew me.
I didn't even have to go through an interview.
Morale: don't burn your bridges, plan for bad times, so you can maintain your dignity even during times of hardship (I don't have much sympathy for the folks that frequently cite "putting bread on the table" for accepting being humiliated or doing unethical things in order to keep a job).
... apart from RED's, supports RED camera workflows?
In any case, in the words of the director of "New Town killers" (Richard Jobson): RED workflow is a real PITA (so bad that he prefers to use Cannon DSLRs in video mode to shoot now).
I have tried them all and concur with the GPP.
"Microsoft have done a lot of things wrong"
Like breaking the law in pretty much all major localities around the planet.
What are you? A masochist?
If you hear a chorus of disapproval maybe, just maybe, there is a frigging reason of why people feel so aggravated.
Google and Apple now have quite a dominance in the markets that will matter in the future and people are far more cool about them because they are not complete and utter unethical bastards.
Do I need to clarify the point any further?
"Whats the news here? That MS complied to laws and judge orders?"
if you know the answer?
"Most women want something more then pure sex. And this is proving very hard to get, as most men just want them for sex"
No wonder we still have women that still feel aggravated about male attitudes towards gender issues.
No further explanation is required.
In other words use common sense ( I don't need to be a frigging lawyer to know that).
Develop the game, release under an open license.
If anybody is interested about it in the legal sense, then they will bother you about it, at that point you stop any alleged infringing activities if youcan defend yourself legally (it can't be copy right, it can.t be patents, it can't be trademarks, the vague "look and feel" or a general idea about a game is not protectable, the myriad of "look and feel" clones of famous games or even of famous hardware should put your mind to rest), now if the company wants to pursue the army of developers of the application in localities outside the US, well, all the power to them, for starters there are certain to have no patent, trademark or copyright claims in the EU and many other localities.
Your tastes are law.
There is no way that people with vast DVD collections will "upgrade" to Blu-Ray. Simply the cost benefit is against the new format.
And frankly, since DVD is good enough for most people, I fail to see how companies will entice users to move away from DVD.
When people were encouraged to dump tapes there was a clear advantage in using the new medium, but with DVDs we have a medium that does not degrade and that can be copied with fidelity to bits in your computer, this creates demand for DVD players that says to the media companies that they need to continue providing entertainment in the "old" format.
Unless they do a 1 for 1 swap I don't think the last incarnation of physical media will be widespread (sooner or later all access to media will be purely digital, DVDs will surely become a distant memory and Blu-Ray discs a curiosity akin to laser disc or SCD.
As long as we are stuck with the mechanics or hard disks, using them as "backup" is sheer lunacy.
Any company well organized will have procedures to install software, part of it would be to do due diligence checks about the software being installed.
Or some of my former colleagues.
That is why we are paid to do (Admin, security).
Application calls home? It shows in firewall logs.
Application is running? Is it authorized? No? It shows in log files.
Application is changing files? Changed files show in log files, situation is investigated until culprit is found.
And so on and so forth.
Companies and people that know what they are doing will spot unusual behaviour and trigger an alert, following the problem up until it gets fixed.
You don't look at the code, but check for unusual behaviour.
Any application trying to call home will show up in my logs, the behaviour will be reported (or if I have the skills the code will be examined) and the problem spotted and fixed.
This simply will not happen with closed source software, where the companies decide what is deemed necessary to fix and the rest be damned (I have seen companies with serious production issues having to continue using broken software because the provider could not be arsed to fix a problem, with open source you have options if you provider is trying to hang you out to dry).