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While the article makes interesting points, I feel that it is only relevant to big media and expensive content.

The other side of the web is small businesses and individuals making money with their own web sites for customer support, maintaining a consulting business (I have used my web site for 20 years for this purpose), selling their products, sharing their creative works, etc. I would argue that this side of the web is huge and is still ripe for Google style revenue generaton.

I don't underestimate the effect of mobile app use though, and I don't like raising the bar for individuals and small businesses having to spend money to create apps. This is a shame since the web is better in my opinion. When I do engage in productivity killing activities like Twitter and Facebook, I use the web versions of the sites on my phone. I do this partly to support the web as a universal platform and partly because I resent the access permissions so many apps require on my devices.
Does anyone know if WhatsApp uses Scrum (or similar methodology)? Also, do they do pair programming?

My company has recently learned about scrum and pair-programming, that seems like the only way to success to them. So, it would be nice to know how other successful companies are organized and develop software.
Actually I don't freelance. This just came to me as I thought about it. So probably the answer is after some experience without realizing it.

It's not all that different than a new project as an employee, though you may have less control over your scheduling. If you hand me one project it takes all my time When you come back with another project and ask me if I'm busy the answer is yes, I am 100% dedicated to this project. Taking anything else on takes time away from that so I have to look at what I'm doing and weigh if its important enough to reduce the amount of work on the other project.
Does it support any text editing features? Compared to anybody's favorite dedicated text editor (vim/emacs/sublime/atom/notepad++) editing in jupyther is quite tedious.
Probably their last chance before the next crisis. It was already almost guaranteed, but we will probably see negative interest rates in the U.S. within a year.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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This is why Amazon DevPay(?) exists. You ship software, and Amazon directly bills your customers for the AWS usage. you don't have to get into the AWS-reselling business just because you wrote cloud software.
Also, the main difference here is that Manson and the Son of Sam killer killed simply to kill. The mafia, while an evil organization who ruined countless lives, actually did employ people and provide services and benefits to actual people. It doesn't excuse their actions at all, but it highlights why some might be able to overlook some of their bloodiness.
One thing that disappoints me about GOG is that, for many older video games, they use a DOSBOX version instead of a modern source port.

For example, if you pick up Descent 1&2 [0] you get it in all its 320x200 glory, complete with multiplayer that requires you to enable IPX in DOSBOX, extremely limited controller support, weird framerate issues, and assorted other glitches.

But the modern community has rehabilitated the 20-year-old game [1]. The internal game physics are the same (the ship and the weapons behave like the original) but you get access to higher resolution, better controller support, a multiplayer game tracker, and lots of other metagame improvements (including new modes for team play.) It's a better experience all around, and GOG could easily add a source port without any legal complication whatsoever.

[0] http://www.gog.com/game/descent_1_descent_2

[1] http://descentchampions.org/new_player.php -- install instructions
This is great to hear -- looking forward to it!
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I don't think so.

I know some pretty hard core runners and they MIGHT clip on an old mp3 player.
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I almost thought the Windows XP support was meant as a joke. Seriously, why invest any effort for that? Isn't it in like its second year of not being supported by Microsoft anymore? Is a large portion of your contributors from China?
It's worth noting that Vassar, at #8, is the leading Private university on this list; Vassar was #1 last year. The difference? Last year only listed schools with 4-year grad rate of 75%, this year used a 75% 5-year rate ( http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/upshot/college-access-inde... ); the former only allowed two public schools.

That bears repeating: a 4-year, 75% graduation rate was better than almost EVERY public school in the country. By that measure, the University of California doesn't even make the list.
> Who is paying for that?

That's the best part - it's free! Due to increases in productivity (better technology), people can work less overall.
Hmm... Maybe this is why Kings Quest 6 had some puzzles integrated with their printed manuals. Just a neat way to stop piracy!
Short and written in a gossipy style. If it weren't YC related, it would have already been flagged to death as not the kind of thing for HN.
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Blog is in progress right now.
Another comment mentions http://www.fastspring.com/vat
I chose to use Node/Express at my last startup and Ruby on Rails at my current one. Both are great platforms with fantastic communities behind them. For example, there is an amazing amount of Stack Overflow answers and folks watching for new questions.

It's important to note that Express, the most popular Node framework, is a clone of Ruby's Sinatra, not of Rails. That's a great back-end when your front-end is iOS or React and you have a relatively simple data model. But it's not as strong a solution if you need to do server-rendered pages (which we need to support IE8).

The bigger issue is that Rails is just a much more mature and full-featured framework than Express or Sails.js (which is designed to be Rails for Node). From migrations to validations to strong parameters to many other areas, Rails just offers a ton of back-end functionality that is not as mature on Node frameworks. The big question is how much back-end business logic needs to be implemented.

I haven't run into any issues with Ruby's server performance. AWS instances are easy to spin up, and any Ruby compute time is almost certainly going to be overwhelmed by network and database access. The performance we're focused on is developer productivity, and I think Ruby retains an advantage there over Javascript (though obviously we use both). If I were trying to support millions of simultaneous web socket connections, I would almost certainly go with Node (or maybe Go).
Unfortunately it's only available with US conference call numbers at the moment - if we see enough interest in the product we will expand to more countries.
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I think the biggest problem with equivocating or lying in general is that you're not truly owning up to your actual situation. OP didn't get offer 70k; he got offered 65k. Maybe that's what he's better worth or maybe he did a poor job interviewing for that job.

Regardless, he got offered 65k and that was his reality. Now instead of owning up to it, he changed it to a nicer sounding number -- 70k. This is where things get interesting. Why not 75k? What's the harm if you're lying anyway? Perhap he didn't think it would be believable because he didn't think he was worth that much. If the employer actually checked his facts, they would have known he was lying and got annoyed. Yet it's fascinating to me that he went for 70k -- a mere 5k more.

OP - I went from making ~100k/yr to 175k/yr because I knew I had the power in the relationship and was probably not tricked by same things you were. I built value in myself and in the work I was doing, and therefore when it came time to negotiate, I shot for the stars and never backed down. I sound about your same age and never had to do it by lying or equivocating or any of these silly games. I did it by building value in myself. This is all you can truly do at the end of the day and then it's about staying firm in what your value is worth. Games will always be games and they are sprinkled with the fairy dust of "5k more" here and another small lie there, but they will never be able to match someone who is truly genuine through and through. These are the types where if they're not worth 70k, they work to make themselves worth 70k (whether thru negotiation or value-building or both). That's the difference and that's why some people don't like to lie.
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And with a sense of humor about it in social media followup: https://twitter.com/Yelp/status/644230950159671296 https://twitter.com/Yelp/status/644244909994676226 :)
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I'm not sure this is actually news worthy. Bloomberg has already had alot of twitter integration.

You can already search twitter from the terminal via TWTR, use NH TWT to get a fire hose of twitter "news", use TWEE to get a curated feed of selected tweets.

And bloomberg has been doing sentiment analysis on news feeds for a while now. If you have $10,000/month you can get the machine ingestable version.
Thanks, hopefully some day soon!
The OP didn't feel it was important enough to note strongly as part of negotiating tactics of putting yourself in a strong position to command more, and mainly talked about value he/she generated for his/her employer. My point was about the importance it has on generating value to the market at large in hireability.

I was making it clear that it is an important part of preparing for negotiations by mentioning it to the extent I did.
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vital for a society to function properly

Is it a problem if the sources don't share jurisdiction, or don't disagree in areas of shared jurisdiction?

I mean, is it a problem if the French and German governments disagree, or if boxers hit each other, or if America decides to use drones to bomb some terrorist training camps in Pakistan, or if the tax authorities pursue offences the drug authorities are indifferent towards?
GOG got me playing Sam and Max hit the road again! I dont know why, but I love that game ! Pick the costume from the book to play lol
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Oh you're right. With your reminder and in the light of day, I realize what's happening: we're no longer including stories that would happen to get cached in RAM over time.

We'll try to fix this so more stories show up.
> it's best to use a PIN or pattern to secure your lock-screen – because there's a trivial bypass for its password protection.

That may not save you. If you enter either one too many times Android falls back to the password screen.
That's very kind of you. And I so wish too!
Being mercenary is not even slightly the same as being an egomaniac. Or even being ruthless or selfish. Why are you conflating a series of different traits into one?
I also spent more on video games in the last year than it costs. What's your point? That it's so cheap he should just buy it, even if there are better, cheaper tools out there? That seems like a waste to me.
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The methodology is overcomplicated and opaque. Why don't they just report on the # of Pell students, instead of the total population and pell fraction?
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She swallowed the ball very long
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Only comments as to a part of your question, but: "Employees rarely attend a meeting". Stand-ups are still meetings.
I actually got a lot better response, in that my opinion was valued higher. Compared to being considered a mere code monkey.
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Its frequently requested by users. Like or not XP is still with us, and likely will be for a while -_-'

The argument frequently used is if supported platforms were decided by userbase size there would be no reason to support FreeBSD or Linux.
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Didn't they already go there? They haven't been to my university yet.
re: "Unfortunately Google killed that dream with Android"

I am curious why you think that since Android seems a little more open than iOS?

I mostly run Linux (one Mac laptop, 3 Linux laptops) and I do get that owning your own hardware, using open source software, and prefering to use your own domain and web site for your business and general web presense is the way to go. I think that we are in agreement.

That said if I am wasting some time reading Twitter using the default web browser on my Android phone, that seems like the same experience using a web browser on my laptop.
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Hi,

do you know maybe if there is some production ready PostgreSQL ORM for node.js platform?

Best,
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No Single PathSingularity-implanting chips in brains not insane?
There are many such proposed systems. A better question is if there are any such proposed systems that aren't silly and predicated an a refusal to understand human nature.

I know a number of communists and anarchists who seem to believe they can just wish away aspects of primate psychology.
My mortgage lender asked me for my access code to Work Number.

What shocks me is that Work Number is legally allowed to publish data without the individual's authorization
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By switched to two six-hour shifts with full pay and no break for lunch you get more efficient use out of machines and buildings. Add that with increased productivity per employee, lowered costs to sickness and injury, higher personal retention, and the increased operation costs are directly paid by the increased production and decreased costs over time.
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Malloc in C/C++ is not particularly fast.

Java for example does object instantiation much faster.

It's also common to replace malloc with an in house implementation for performance sensitive code.
I've noticed that yes there is headroom, but 15%? This seems like alot, but honestly I'm probably undervaluing it myself (something I'm working on).

As I'm just now transitioning from being what I consider "mid" level to "senior" (relative titles I know), I'll try to keep your comment in mind for future jobs. It makes me a bit sad that this game has to be played so much in order to get the full value of your worth.
If that works for you I'm glad, but I've had to deal with credit card fraud hitting my service, and it tends to be an arms race. There's simply too much money it for them to be deterred. If you are an attractive target it's difficult to find something which prevents credit card fraud without also hurting your business.
Except that nobody's actually that interested in you.
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I guarantee you that The Work Number does not include the value of bonuses, perks, benefits, and appropriate equity valuation.

TWN includes base -- which is what banks care about.
Quite a large number of users on XP, yes. As has been said many times, if we judge by usage, Firefox would drop desktop Linux support before dropping Windows XP support. And we all want Rust code to make Firefox better, don't we?

(Not that this decision was just because of Firefox, mind you. Users ask for it.)

> Is a large portion of your contributors from China?

I don't know about a 'large portion' exactly, but yes, there is a lot of attention, interest, usage, and contributors from China.
I know what semver is. But my claim was that if you want all three claimed properties (which are claimed as incompatible), you can have them all.
As an employer and an employee I know this much.

Never ever use another offer as leverage, both the employer and the employee need to come to the table with good intentions.

Asking for more money is usual business, both for employers and employees, but with more money you are asking you need to explain why you are worth more money, why I as your employer need to pay you more.

For most part, when someone goes after other offers, even if you give him a raise, he/she will leave after since it's a symptom of not being happy and being confused that more money will make you happy, but it doesn't.

If an employee used another offer as leverage with me, I would probably 1) not give him a raise, 2) give him notice.

Lot of people come into those negotiations stressed out and assume that there's some magic behind it, there isn't, be honest, completely honest, state your case and more often than not you will get what you want.

As a rule, I never lie to my employer and I expect the same from my employees, same with people interviewing. I think it's wrong asking "how much are you making now in your current company?" during an interview, but if I was asked that I would be honest and I would not even say 1$ more than what I was making.
You can explain why you think you deserve more, but never lie about how much you are making during an interview.
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I believe a valuable asset like the git repository should be free from the banter and be about the product(s).
Actually, that's trickier than it sounds. The original licenses for the Descent/Freespace source releases prohibit commercial use from what I recall.

Unwinding that licensing mess so that they could use it is likely not worth the return on investment.
Yeah, that does clear things up a bit.

It sounds like you're interested in Christian philosophy about The Universe and Everything. It is believed that the apostle John wrote his gospel as an answer to questions revolving around the nature of Christ and His theology.

It's a little dense, but read up a bit on the concept of "logos" in Greek philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos

Then read John 1 (at least to verse 18), substituting "the Word" with "logos", as that was the word used in the original Greek: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1&version=...

It's clear reading John in the context of contemporary Greek philosophy that God is the point of everything, including everything in the universe. With all that in mind, the Biblical view is that if you want to know about the nature of the universe, ask Him. God likes to work in personal spiritual experiences and He might choose to talk to you through one. Also read through the Bible (again?), but not like you'd read a novel. Read through it like you're trying to find out about its Author... the way you'd try to understand Churchill or Lincoln by reading their writing and letters.

Keep at it!
That's exactly why I said you don't understand what targeted advertisement can do. Let's talk about 3 concepts:

1) Relevance. Take your cooking website example, say if that recipes has chicken in it. Then the magazine method can show you an ad about local supermarket for you to buy chicken. Then how do they know if you "probably" prefer walmart or wholefoods or local farmer's market? What if you are an organic guy? (which means you probably prefer wholefoods) Traditional magazine method doesn't make the result relevant enough for today's online advertising standard.

2) Feedback. As a brand who wanna do an online campaign, how do I know if my advertisement works? Today's advertiser no longer count on clicks, they count on impression. They don't need you to click to ad. They just want to make sure you see it. How do they if you didn't block to ad? How do they know if you didn't go to other tabs when their 15 second youtube ad is playing? That means at least 1 additional request send out from your browser. Usually it's more because they wanna know if you watched half of the video or the whole video. Things above don't have to be done with tracking you profile, but the other things does. For example, how to the advertisers know if they reach their target audience? If I'm selling the new mustang how do I know if I show the ad to ford people instead of chevy people? It's called on target percentage and it's one of the top metrics advertisers care about.

3) Availability. In many situations, there's just no ad available that actually relevant to the content. Then it's better for advertisers to show you something that may relevant to you instead of something completely random or no ad at all.

Your magazine method has works for decades doesn't mean it will continue to work in the future. Does magazine itself still work?

BTW, when I raise the WSJ thing I didn't target you specifically and I have no idea you had that comment you posted before. But as you said, you (and probably most people) won't pay for subscription for such ridiculous publication. Then advertisement is the way for you to read it freely so you can identify if the article is ridiculous or not. Or maybe just don't read it and comment by title?
Yes, and they had to create an ad-hoc layer over systemd using a particular K-V store. Contrast to the more generic and seamless option of RPC interfaces, which are more versatile in making policy decisions.
Are operating costs going up? While they have to hire more people, they don't have to replace people as often, and they don't have as many mistakes/errors, which can be expensive.
If you like Cherry Coke, your local politician will smile and nod, blithely registering your support for Coke over Pepsi. If you like grapefruit juice, your local politician will tell you to FOAD, knowing with full confidence that he or she already got elected without your support, and you're not likely to support anyone that stands a chance of beating them, so there's no need to do anything to court you.

Non-cola-likers have always fared better with protest demonstrations, news media publicity, and rights-based lawsuits. Voting has done nothing.

With the entrenched structure of the system in place, any issue that is not likely to switch your vote from Coke to Pepsi, or vice versa, can be safely ignored. Don't like that much sugar/HFCS? Ignored. Don't like carbonation? Ignored. Don't like caramel color? Ignored. Don't like phosphoric acid? Ignored. But if you like Cherry Coke better than regular Coke, well then Pepsi might just trial-run a Lemon Pepsi! Do I vote for that because it is closer to grapefruit juice than anything else on the ballot, or not vote for it because it's still just another falalahking cola?

The only group likely to make even a tiny dent in the status quo of Beverageland is the people who like coffee. But coffee never stands for election. Nobody ever even considers that coffee might be better than any cola. What does this mean metaphorically? I don't know; it ran away from me there.