For a full comparison, remember that US has both state and federal taxes, and that education, health, retirement and employment insurance are separate expenses that you need to account for over your life time (not just in your twenties when you are young and healthy and your parents have provided for you so far in life).

I've seen all too often in my career introduction of good new processes fail because noone is there to champion them. As a manager of an established embedded development team that is still working "the old way", I accept that I'm going to have to 'do everything for the developers' until I get their buy in. The alternative of forcing new processes on developers before they've seen the value themselves just causes them to grudgingly follow the letter of the process with the intention of making it fail. If the processes you are introducing bring real value, then the developers will slowly see this and embrace them. If the processes don't bring value, then suddenly realising 3 months later that you've increased your own workload with no benefit is the best filter. I've successfully introduced my team to 100% coverage code review this way, and am working on unit testing now.

It reduces the pool of resumes that you have to sort through into just previous employees and liars. Since you know that the previous employees are either no good or have a grudge against the company, you can filter them out and hire the rest for sales.

If they do it properly, those 250 000 frameworks are loaded from the same CDN URL as every other framework laden site out there, so are mostly already in your cache. The problem is all the developers who have copied an old, security hole ridden version to their own server, which they never update.

My "obvious explanation" is the Canadian carriers added their own crap, and now we're not considered a big enough market to fix it.

Not so much that Canada is not a big enough market, but if the carriers are demanding modifications that are low level enough to affect the kernel (as opposed to just adding a few branded apks on top of a standard international image), then LG is going to want them to pay for the maintenance of those modifications. So it is back to the carriers again.

Is it only in Asia that this happens? I ticked the "Disable Advertising" box because of the intrusiveness of the advertising, especially on the mobile site, but it seems that box unticks itself in Asia too.

If you can identify them by their real name in a way that will lead to them being caught and punished, then go for it. If you are identifying them by an online pseudonym that they use on darknet message boards, you are only giving them notoriety that may help them gain future customers.

Keep in mind, /. is not stale news for nerds for the most part.

You must be new here.

I don't think Android M is going to fix your car stereo. It's not Google's fault that Subaru chose to support Apple's proprietary protocol and ignore the relatively open MTP, or Bluetooth AVRCP, either of which can control most Android phones.

I just bought a Korean car. Better luck next time, GM!

You do know the 2014 Cruz is also a Korean car, don't you?

OS/2 3.0 had TCP/IP networking as standard. Remember that in the timeframe of OS/2 2.0 and 2.1, there wasn't a clear leader in LAN networking, with IPX, SNA and others also widely used in small office and enterprise networks, so it made sense for IBM to ship it as an optional addon. In the same timeframe, Windows 3.x not only didn't ship with a TCP/IP stack, but you had to get one from a third party.

But the ash in the upper atmosphere, the lightest and finest stuff, tends not to cross the equator, so the southern hemisphere won't suffer the serious crop failures that the northern hemisphere will.

Considering that the Romans and Chinese have written records of the Hatepe eruption that occurred in 180CE, I wouldn't count on that.

The eruption of Mount Tambora, which caused the 1816 "year without summer" also technically crossed the equator, but at 8deg S is probably close enough that it is to be expected.

You can grant permission for use without handing over "all rights". If the student is taking a yearbook class, and submits his photos to the class, he has a pretty good idea what those photos are going to end up used for. Making a copyright claim against the school later would be as stupid as what the principal is trying to do here.

What is with the modern obsession with renaming things? Does your boss measure your performance by the number of lines needlessly changed in the code or something? Before refactoring support was the must have feature of IDEs, we had stable APIs to program to. Now some kid that grew up with his attention span crippled by the internet and smartphones wants to change the names of everything every five minutes.

The difference between Emacs and an IDE is that with Emacs, you can adapt it to the way you prefer to work. With an IDE you have to adapt the way you work to the IDE.