I get a lot of emails from headhunters from offshoring firms that want me to do 2-3 month contracts for Cocoa development, which I'm assuming is because their people in India don't know how to do mac development yet and they need to get the ball rolling on iPhone apps (and possibly train their developers in India to do my job).
I get the feeling that a lot of the companies that are looking to move into iPhone/Mac space these days are trying to offshore Cocoa development to get around the fact that this kind of development is a unique/limited skill which would require paying the non-indian hobbyists/indies who've been doing Objective-C/Cocoa for years a substantially high salary. It's the old "Experienced and expensive developers vs. throw enough cheap warm bodies at the problem" situation.
If we follow the pattern to its natural conclusion, we'll have $6.00 Altair 8800's, then $3.00 PDP-8's, then $1.50 UNIVAC's, then 75 cent ENIACS, then 3 Babbage Difference Engines for a nickel, and finally a Jacquard loom that you couldn't give away.
Faithfully recreating the beer pong experience would involve your Wii giving you a nasty week-long cold that you get from the other players who drink from your virtual cup of beer.
In some foreign countries, using the Internet to say something less than flattering about their religious figures or their government is considered to be an Internet crime.
If the practice of extradition for Internet crimes is allowed to continue, what safeguards will there be in place stop citizens of free countries who practice free expression on their side of the ocean from being extradited to places where they'll get their heads cut off or be sent to gulags?
Microsoft had tens of billions of dollars and their usual way of doing things drove MSN into the ground. Why do they think that their usual way to of doing things combined with a Microsoft-owned Yahoo will yield a different result?
News for nerds scandal would be a linux distribution CEO's son inviting Bill Gates to his house for dinner while his parents were on vacation believing he was having wild parties with drugs and sex.
A more interesting comparison would be programmers who come from math/science/cs backgrounds vs. those who come from humanities backgrounds. I'm guessing that mathy kinds of folks like their stuff real terse and uncommented and try to syntactically write as few lines as possible, whereas the english/psych majors probably comment the living hell out of their code and aren't afraid to use lots of extra lines to do stuff.
They could name the show "Last Virgin Standing"; during epic battles they could have hot babes attempt to seduce top scoring players away from fighting.
Slashdot Mirror
No clue. Litigation tends to be the last refuge of the incompetent.
Given the number of pages that were designed using the 1 x 1 transparent gif workaround, it might end up returning the entire Internet itself.
I want NVIDIA to come out with a card that gives boring DOOM clones intriguing plots and compelling gameplay.
What's to stop widespread vigilante justice against either side?
Hot double agents who promise to aid the hackers in their jihad against perpetual virginity in return for non-interferenece.
And the locker room will be full of girls wearing invisibility cloaks.
An "I've Got A Really Big Penis" app that user must purchase from the App Store without using their hands and standing 12" away from their iPhone.
I get a lot of emails from headhunters from offshoring firms that want me to do 2-3 month contracts for Cocoa development, which I'm assuming is because their people in India don't know how to do mac development yet and they need to get the ball rolling on iPhone apps (and possibly train their developers in India to do my job).
I get the feeling that a lot of the companies that are looking to move into iPhone/Mac space these days are trying to offshore Cocoa development to get around the fact that this kind of development is a unique/limited skill which would require paying the non-indian hobbyists/indies who've been doing Objective-C/Cocoa for years a substantially high salary. It's the old "Experienced and expensive developers vs. throw enough cheap warm bodies at the problem" situation.
Point taken, people are exaggerating when they talk about slavery. Perhaps sharecropping would be a more adequate analogy.
Also, keep in mind that $100k in Silicon Valley ain't much in an area where the average small house is $700k and poverty level is below $50k.
Airport security will get a lot more uncomfortable when they catch somebody trying to light a bomb hidden up their ass.
If we follow the pattern to its natural conclusion, we'll have $6.00 Altair 8800's, then $3.00 PDP-8's, then $1.50 UNIVAC's, then 75 cent ENIACS, then 3 Babbage Difference Engines for a nickel, and finally a Jacquard loom that you couldn't give away.
No, because they are no longer a military organization and "Fanatical Devotion To The Pope" is technically classified as a "Chief Weapon."
Faithfully recreating the beer pong experience would involve your Wii giving you a nasty week-long cold that you get from the other players who drink from your virtual cup of beer.
In some foreign countries, using the Internet to say something less than flattering about their religious figures or their government is considered to be an Internet crime.
If the practice of extradition for Internet crimes is allowed to continue, what safeguards will there be in place stop citizens of free countries who practice free expression on their side of the ocean from being extradited to places where they'll get their heads cut off or be sent to gulags?
Microsoft had tens of billions of dollars and their usual way of doing things drove MSN into the ground. Why do they think that their usual way to of doing things combined with a Microsoft-owned Yahoo will yield a different result?
The rockstars of the mac development world are the people who craft applications with amazing user experiences.
The rockstars of the OSS development world are Linux kernel hackers.
News for nerds scandal would be a linux distribution CEO's son inviting Bill Gates to his house for dinner while his parents were on vacation believing he was having wild parties with drugs and sex.
I misread it as a porn-related article.
China To Microsoft: "You're trying to have a monopoly on what we've rightfully stolen"
A more interesting comparison would be programmers who come from math/science/cs backgrounds vs. those who come from humanities backgrounds. I'm guessing that mathy kinds of folks like their stuff real terse and uncommented and try to syntactically write as few lines as possible, whereas the english/psych majors probably comment the living hell out of their code and aren't afraid to use lots of extra lines to do stuff.
More likely it would be "Hot Coffee With Clarence Thomas".
How many blonde jokes involving computers would each candidate laugh at vs how many would they respond to with "What a coincidence--I do that, too".
They could name the show "Last Virgin Standing"; during epic battles they could have hot babes attempt to seduce top scoring players away from fighting.
Now the infinite number of monkeys will only need to *think* about Hamlet.
If he had just waited two more years, the tiles would be twice as small and the box would hold twice as many.
Don't be paranoid. You'll still be able to blog about how great it is that the trains are running on time.