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Copyrights should expire much, much faster. Five to ten years would probably reasonable. In its current form, copyright is an obstruction to the creativity it was designed to incentivize.
I'm not a huge org-mode user but I do find it wonderful for organizing notes. Changing levels, swapping orders, marking bullet points as todos and done are all quick, once you learn the keys/idioms.
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It sounds like you have done this in the past, and it is blackmail.

And I understand that you don't want to see yourself as a blackmailer.

"I'm more worth than that" and leaving is standing up.

"Give me more money or I leave" is blackmail.

"Regarding your Wikipedia quote, leaving a job in which you are abused and underpaid is not at all unjustified."

Leaving is not the blackmail part, threatening to leave is the blackmail part.
As a freelancer I've had pretty good luck with Upwork. The art in getting hired is crafting an apt proposal, being personable and accommodating. This might require doing a bit of research on the client (not necessarily easy to figure out), learning about their vertical, understanding what they are actually asking for, etc. A lot of this is common sense but often overlooked. However, many of these details are gleaned from an initial interview.

A few notes

- Obviosuly, don't apply to jobs you lack skills for

- Similarly, don't apply to jobs you wouldn't be a good fit for

- Keep your Upwork profile up to date

- Use the Github, LinkedIn, etc accounts integrations. This helps clients verify your experience skill-set

- Don't be afraid to adapt your profile to the job you are applying for

- Be sure your rate matches your experience. If you're billing $100/hour but can't prove your skill-set, experience or the value you provide you won't get hired.

Since 2010 I've worked from a few hours a week, to part-time and in full-time capacity on Upwork. Its gotten me connected to a lot of great startups (mostly SF) and recurring gigs. However, it was very difficult getting started.

All this being said if you're based in the US and can verify your skills you have a lot better chance of landing quality gigs than your international counterparts putting in very low bids.
Yes. There was a recent thread where this process is explained. I'll try to find it, but basically:

You have one lock, and one key (not the master) for that lock, and a bunch of blanks.

You take the first blank. You cut a key that is identical to your key, except you vary the depth of a single cut. You repeat this until this new key works in your lock. That gives you the master key cut depth of one part of the key. You repeat this process forthe rest of the positions. You end up with a master key.

Edit: MrJones' comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10186309
You can do what you like, but if you swear at me and call me f* I'll not hire you.
Almost anyone can get into the mobile stores.

It is a real pain to get into the console market.
I agree on that one.
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That's far from true, I bought my FiftyThree Pencil at Apple Store.
Are we in a tech bubble or not? Look out for “unicorpses”
I guess beggers can't be choosers, but you're describing an employer I would never work for.

> Remove any controversial political views or disparaging remarks about previous employers.

If a person keeps their stupid political views to themselves while at work, it's really not any of their employers business. As far as disparaging remarks go, if it's an awesome company to work for, there shouldn't be anything to worry about.

If your employees have to be as fake as possible to get hired, maybe you're doing it wrong.
Are you this guy's former boss? Saying "pay me $X or I walk" is not "blackmail", it's an ultimatum. Not the same thing.
I wonder if they're being processed as ES6 Template Strings?
SF devs make 150k+. It doesn't mean anything because at the end of the day after taxes and rent they probably take home less than you.
Please slow your roll, you don't need to comment on every single post in here. Also, your definition of blackmail is wrong. From Google:

noun: blackmail
1.
the action, treated as a criminal offense, of demanding money from a person in return for not revealing compromising or injurious information about that person.
see my comment above - in short, very feasible, but someone has to care enough to do (I'm not volunteering)
Your in a good place being a Ruby dev - I went with a family member to a Ruby conf where he was trying to find devs for his startup and there was hardley any devs for hire and about 100 people looking for devs TO hire! Also in the UK ruby contracting has a higer day rate than mobile! Picked a good tech imho :)
It's not blackmail you nitwit.
In my country we say "Dios aprieta pero no ahorca" which translates to something like "God will hurt you but won't kill you".
I wish you all the best , and I'm sure you have a great future coming your way.
I just find it unbelievable that people were naive enough to believe that they can forever protect a master key that is distributed to thousands of people. You only need 1 rouge TSA employee, with a photographic memory and this whole system falls apart.
Made a throwaway account just to post this.
I'm a well-respected professional (in a different, though connected field) with many years of experience and I earn a hair over what the blog poster earns.

I just can't be sympathetic with the desperate tone -- yes, I get it, other devs earn more money, and a Ruby pro can probably get upwards of 70 or 80k. But making it sound like you're on the brink of poverty with 40k? You're spending too much.

The laptop cost keeps getting mentioned as a huge factor, but a MacBook is $2000 at most, and it can be had for a lot less, especially if you buy second hand.

Don't get me wrong, his treatment at that company was far from fair. And he could and probably should get a job elsewhere. But the drama is non-existent here.
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"I think Python's "datetime" is a great example of a not great time library."

"Datetime" is a bit strange at first, but not that bad. The parsing side is weak; I've been trying to get a parser for RFC3339 / ISO8601 timestamps into that library since 2012.[1] Sure, there are libraries for that in PyPi. There were four of them in 2012, all too broken to parse mail and RSS feed timestamps reliably. Now, there are six.

[1] https://bugs.python.org/issue15873
Fellow literature student here.

I'm very curious how you managed to shift to data analysis.

I've made a successful shift to marketing, but technical work still eludes me.
My email is blowing up. Sorry I haven't answered anyone, I really didn't expect much of a response and this on top of everything else is overwhelming.

I really can't post my personal account names publicly, that would give away the company and, as I've said previously, I do really like the dev team. My team leader has a kid as well and works his ass off, and I want to see that pay off for him when they get through some of the deals they're working on. There are other devs there who are really good people, including one whom I consider a friend. They all depend on it as well. Who am I to fuck with their livelihood to screw with a guy who's going to be rich regardless?

Hell, I'm not mad at the CEO either. I don't really understand if he's just forgetful, but he claims in the emails that he never said any of that about my salary. He's been running around to meetings, so I get why I'd be the last thing on his mind.

To those wondering about the financials, I know that one of their rivals (with what I consider an inferior product) is in the billion dollar club, and they're set to be profitable very soon.
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Just out of curiosity, where do you work as a hiring manager that you get so many candidates to filter out? At the company I work at it's been somewhat difficult to find suitable candidates to even interview with us -- the few that do come in for interviews are usually so-so (and we do pay quite above average). Also, anecdotally, during my own job search I was the one filtering out companies to apply to (nearly all the ones I applied to accepted me in the end), so at least that's consistent with the developer shortage my company is currently facing.

I am very curious how the balance of power can be tipped so drastically in the other direction in some places.
Has anybody ever wondered how Go's date formatting would work if the language is not English?
You're a CEO, and would hire the Real-Estate King, if he could code?

I have a few websites. They don't produce much income, but some guys offer their services for hire; thinking I might hire them if they say the right things? I tell them up front, I can't afford to hire them, but some are very persistent.

They send me their resumes, even after telling them I'm a struggling website owner, and I don't make a living doing this work. From my perspective, it's so easy to spot the Real Estate Kings? This one guy wanted me to join his companies, exclusive website forum. He was going to put in a good word, so the the other Winners would let me in. Well, I went to the forum, and it was just this guy and me. Every article was written by him. Every comment on the site was written by this guy. I couldn't belive the verbage this guy was throwing around. His favorite phrase was "Are you interested in monetizing? Followed by "You need to scale!" It's was almost like he memorized that movie about Facebook? And yes, he had a professional, cheesy profile pic. with a tie, and head cocked. Call me old school, but I wouldn't put his picture into Google Image search, but that same cheesy picture came up at least a couple dozen times just in just Images. He used the same portrait pic. in every website--ever created? My point is I had this guy figured out pretty quick. I think, if he didn't try so hard to sound professional, I would have loved to kick around a few ideas I have? And yes, if we meshed, I have a small bank roll I would be willing to risk.

I thought hiring in tech was about abilities? I don't care what a person looks like? It's so easy to spot "The Real Estate Kings" of Coders; I couldn't imagine trying to hide who you are? Yea, scrub the web, if you can, of anything controversial, but be honest? Honesty used to go along way?
Do you really need that Starbucks fueled, go, go, save world with my app, never sleep, positive vib in order to get noticed for employment?

Maybe it's just me, but I'll take the well rounded individual, with some finished projects over a Cheerleader?
I think the new feature allows you to do it one way : from emails to slack channels but that's all...
And she will, sooner or later.
I'm sure a large part of his emotionally charged reaction has to do with the fact that he has a family.

Sounds like he gave the job his all, but given his situation in life, I don't know how else he could have reacted to this. Added to that he doesn't really have the support of his wife since she doesn't yet know.

My point is that a lot of factors are at play, so labelling him as unprofessional is a bit unfair to him at the moment. He's in panic mode.
I've never been convinced about splitting developers into front and back end.

There isn't any 'one true way' to do it. If a project is best built with a front end team and a back end team, then that's the best way to do it. If a project is best built with a team that does everything, that's the best way for that project.

Mind you, I would add that "This removes all the communication issues." is completely wrong. Having one person write the code for both sides compounds the communication issues, because it means no one other than that developer knows anything about the system. If communication is a problem then resolve that problem as soon as possible by writing good API documentation and sharing knowledge among the team, because if you don't you'll end up with an unmaintainable mess of code that's eventually sunk by the weight of technical debt.
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Monads come from category theory. You can certainly know what they are without ever having programmed. "Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists" and "Category Theory (Oxford Logic Guides)" are good places to start.
Meanwhile, on the cover of Fast Company: http://www.fastcompany.com/3050250/what-makes-uber-run

Lyft just can't beat Uber at PR.
I continue to be amazed at all of the neat projects being built with Go these days
/etc/ and /usr/local/ are still editable.
Precedent for general copyright, yes, but according to other news sources and PhantomAlert comments they were in negotiations for data-sharing that fell through. The chances those weren't covered by NDAs as well as likely more stringent contractual obligations is very low, so there's a contractual element. It's very different for me to sue you over data you've scraped than for us to sign contracts covering what you're allowed to do with our data and whether you're allowed to use it at all. In my experience financial data is just about always fenced by contracts, simply trusting the guy's you've been competing to take care of you is pure incompetence.
> Would I hire someone who swears and uses f* in a conversation with his boss? No.

Where are you based, out of interest? I don't think I've ever worked anywhere where saying fuck in front of your boss would be any kind of problem whatsoever (in the UK).
No, we are not in a tech bubble
Yeah you can say so. But you know the way USPTO is rejecting patents on the basis of Examiner's subjective examination is even more evil.
The power grid people do that, but after the leap second. It takes about four hours, as every 1800 RPM synchronous motor and generator on the grid makes 30 extra turns.
Using something like "professional-looking LinkedIn picture" as a filter is just throwing out candidates for the sake of getting the number lower. Any company that would be this lazy as to potentially throw away their best candidates in the first round of filtering on criteria that has such little actual signalling is not one that I would want to work for anyway.
You seem really bitter for no reason.
Well put Linux on it then. No one's forcing you to use Windows.
This whole "Pruning redundant branches" stuff essentially reduces to "do A* search".

It is fascinating that we don't have a definitive method for formatting, yet.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/formatting_code.html
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Oh I see. Sorry. I didn't mean it to come across like that. Just had a recent personal situation I'd rather not go into on a public forum that would have turned out a whole lot better if me and the truth were more in alignment, sad to say : / Anyway, one lie begets another. Just tell the truth, less cognitive overload, less trust issues. Easier said than done I know; we all want to save face, we all have our shame to hide.
>Are stand up comedy fans, kickstarterers, and film creators not part of Apple's target market?

They are, but only if they buy/sell on iTunes.
but they get to live in a better city than you.
Just because you can doesn't make it more professional imo.
Well, you as a co-founder should know the answer to the question.
This is great advice for anybody seeking a job. When I'm going to hire somebody I'll stalk them online until I'm comfortable I've unearthed as much detail as I can before pulling them in for an interview.

Another quote is "act as if" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-robbins/the-law-of-attrac...

Like Mark said, your attitude is at least half as important as your ability to code.
Metaphors a tricky. Reminds me of the many attempts to explain objects and classes in terms of real-world object. (Cars, fruits, persons etc.) These explanations are often more confusing than enlightening, since object and classes are actually not like real world objects at all.
Probably because of the needlessly aggressive pile on heir getting.

They make a reasonable point: first stage of hiring is filtering out people; this blog post will to some emoyers be ideal signal to cause OP to be filtered out; it might be an good idea to try a different style when looking for work.
In addition, this is a fairly comprehensive list though maintained manually:

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-board...
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First: it's all about reducing latency. Split the work, implement in parallel then you'll ship in "half" the time.

Second: Good developers are hard to find. Backend requires both good CS background (algorithms, security) as well as development skills. Frontend requires some feeling for design and can tolerate poor development skills.
What's the betting this will be become like BitTorrent Sync where it gets limited and a 'pro' version is introduced?
Another emphatic "no" here.

Science without ethics has already degraded into an apparatus of profiteering.

The worst thing about the medical industry is the lack of collecting ongoing informative feedback. From a game theory/power concern it's actually in their interests to avoid collecting data which may reveal their mistakes, but the clients/patients are all worse off as a result. This in turn also creates a positive feedback mechanism as a need for increasing the size of the medical sector to deal with said uncaught mistakes and continues ad-infinitum.

The subjectiveness on the mental health side of things only amplifies this effect. Can anyone else see a problem here...?
Off the cuff, I agree with you, but I also wonder if it isn't an approach only used by a minority of people involved in hiring, primarily those with a technical background. This is the sort if matter on which I would love to see an empirical study based on real data from the industry, not stimulated hiring experiments, unlikely as it may be to happen.
Dude, get your stuff together and stop playing a victim. Just.. stop! It's embarassing.
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I'd like to donate some money and I am sure other people would do that as well, how can I donate a few $$$?

After having kids and be broke myself in the past I really feel for you.
Come on now, it's not that ridiculous to save $40k+ a year on a $150k salary, even in the Bay Area. That's saving more than the other poster makes in his entire pretax salary.
Luggage locks were never really meant to secure your baggage. They were mostly just to keep the luggage from opening accidentally.

If you want genuine security on your luggage, get a starter gun and go through the checked firearms procedures.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/expensive_cam...

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/08/matt-in-fl/more-on-...
Slightly different process. The TSA keys aren't "master keys" in the normal locksmithing sense; they typically go into a separate lock that's only used for that key. For instance, the lock pictured in the article is normally used as a combination lock, not a key lock.
Is it worth it to go to a photographer? Or does that signal narcissism?
Please someone hire this guy i a nice company.
OP,
I have been in a similar boat as you.

Back in 2013, my daughter was born and within 2 days I was laid off from my position as IT Manager at a small MSP in Dallas.

No college degree at the time, no savings, wife and I were not working. The one thing I did have though (fortunately) was experience in the industry - about 8 years of IT experience (dev, systems engineering, architecture, management).

I freaked out initially - the stress of a new kid, no money kind of ate at me. For not only was I a dad (a young one at that), but also now my family has no income (wife was on maternity leave).

The first thing I did was head to a local coffee shop and busted out my laptop.

I hadn't edited my resume in a few years. I deleted everything and started over. I knew this crappy employer wasn't going to dictate my families future. I also knew what I was worth.

I immediately got on LinkedIn and started connecting with everyone I knew/asked for references and then started connecting with hiring managers at prospective companies.

I created a burner phone number (google voice number) and used this on my resume - then created a Monster, Dice and Careerbuilder accounts (to attract headhunters) and filled out those profiles entirely.

Having not spent a lot of time in a few years looking at salaries in different segments of IT, I spent a few hours figuring out what in the hell I wanted to do - and what would make me some $$$.

I found that in the Dallas/Fort Worth area (at the time), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and VMware were heavily searched terms by recruiters on LinkedIn and Indeed.com.. I started looking at what I could do to leverage my current knowledge/skills and find a lucrative position.

After spending a few hours researching, I found that I could leverage my systems (Windows/*Nix) administration experience and help developers deploy their code. I was pretty good with Python and was interested in learning Ruby.

Bingo - DevOps!!

I found what interested me - the best of both worlds and I started targeting my job searches/applications towards that.

By the end of the day, I had a call from a local recruiting agency looking for Cloud and DevOps engineers. By the next morning I was on the phone with the hiring manager - and by the end of the day (3 phone interviews later) I had an offer in my inbox ($90K more than my last job).

In summary:
What you went through completely sucks. Don't beg. Show people that you can get shit done. Do the work, be the prize.
The gun trick doesn't really work well for international flights though.
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I'm in the US and in the (admittedly few) jobs I've had in tech swearing hasn't been a problem so long as it's in conversation. Losing one's temper and swearing at someone is a different story, however I'd argue that in that case the problem is the outburst and not the swearing.

In general, I would expect tolerance for swearing at work in the US to vary significantly by region, industry, and role.
My point is that absolute numbers don't really mean anything. I'm not saying SF devs are poor or struggling but if you factor in taxes and living costs then the absolute numbers no longer look so impressive.
Paying an employee for work and services is not "a loss". It's an exchange.
and his mom is a psychiatrist, so they're both "doctors"
http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerbergs-dentist-dad-...
Your liberal use of the question mark has created a very unique narrative style in my head.
How about you calm down instead of spewing nothing but toxic comments at almost every single reply this post has? I fail to see how OP is in any sense blackmailing his boss. All he is doing is asking for a pay raise. Regarding your point about making his boss look bad, may I remind you that never has once did the OP mention the name of his boss or the place he works at? If OP really wanted to make his boss look bad, would he have gone through the trouble of hiding his identity?

I take great offense at "try to understand why your boss only wanted to give you $45k and work on yourself". You're pushing the blame squarely on the OP. He has clarified that this salary is even LOWER than his intern pay. Now, wouldn't it be more reasonable to ask the boss why the pay is even lower than his previous salary?

You have made yourself look like the very kind of obnoxious boss that OP is talking about.