It's an awful article, but I originally saw this a few weeks ago and it was coming from the CSIRO, so I really doubt it's as braindead as the article makes it sound.

I do know that it was exclusively for very rural areas with a low number of users.

The ones who speak perfect english, went to university in Australia and are only a 2 hour drive away.

Having worked with Indian outsourcing for IT projects before I'd say 3x the price for onshore is a no-brainer. But no doubt it's more competitive than that.

labor. Labor. LABOR.

But I'm sure, outside of being unable to spell the name of the party that has been running the state for the bulk of the last 30 years, that you are very well informed about victorian state politics.

This possibility has intrigued me for a while. We have a lot of very very very cheap land in rural towns that already has roads/water/electricity/sewage and has basically sat idle since the mechanisation of agriculture.

There do exist knowledge workers who don't want to live in a city, or hell just want to be able to afford a house.

I would say this policy was net-neutral and potentially net-positive at the election for the government. The number of people who voted for the Liberals rather than Green with Labor preference or Labor outright because of this policy would be miniscule. The number of christians who were swayed to stick with Labor because of it would be very small but likely larger than the first group.

It's a stupid policy and it's dead on the water, just quit with the hyperbolic screaming, you already won.

Being that you managed to misspell the name of one of the two major parties we have in this country, I take it you don't follow politics and so will help you out.

The filter is dead, both the liberals and the greens are against it so it can't get through the house or the senate.

I'm a developer, I've been asked for advice on things like what database to purchase on numerous occasions, I also am obviously involved in discussions like "which databases should we support?". I imagine most developers are the same.

The idea behind non-static typing is that type errors are so uncommon that having such strict checking of them is a pointless hindrance.

The idea is *not* that you can re-implement static type-checking with your unit tests :-S

Conroy being a member of the victorian right could actually end up minister of something a bit more meaty, and hopefully that he has some fucking clue about.

Kate Lundy would be good, isn't she on the record as supporting "opt-in" for the filter?

Funny thing is when it started happening I said "whoa, gotta be the first victorian pm in a while". Took a good 30 seconds before I figured out why people were looking at me funny

Twitter is used to distribute 160 characters at a time, what those characters represent is up to the grey matter.

I pretty much only follow software engineers; Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Robert Martin, Jeremy Miller, Michael Feathers, Eric Evans. I'd hardy call what these people say "socially relevant" but it is relevant to *me*. As well as being interesting. ... Well, mostly interesting, uncle bob's political tweet's aren't very interesting but they're very easy to skim ;-)

It wouldn't work in theory, the developer is not apple, apple is the distributor, the distributor must provide access to the source they can't just say "yeah it's somewhere"

Pretty sure the small breasted thing is just RC, ie not to be imported, not child porn.

The classification board comes out with weird shit like that every now and then just to remind us they're still there.

Jesus christ. You read that book different to how I did.

From what I understand last word from HTC is still that 2.x is coming to the G1.

Personally I don't care, Cyanogenmod 5 for G1 will likely go stable in a couple of weeks and I'll be set.