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> It's a seller's market for people with your skills right now.

This gets repeated way too often - bordering on the obsessive.

What are OP's skills? Where does he live? Unless I'm missing something obvious, we have no clue about it.

I a vast majority of planet earth, it is not a seller market for developers. It isn't for basically any kind of skill, simply because there are no jobs. Even if we assume OP is from the USA (which is kind of arbitrary), on in a handful of places you can leave your job without a thought and be almost sure you'll land another good one quick enough .

Now, to be honest, you said your advice was to be taken with a grain of salt, but I still think it's worth pointing out the huge assumption - which is basically that OP is living in Northern California, Seattle or New York.
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I agree. And the managers I've worked with: I'm glad they were there so that I personally didn't have to navigate the company hierarchy. But I strongly feel that the managers who were in the past good software developers have a much better idea of how to be managers...those who weren't, I've noticed a misplaced desire to prove themselves, which has hurt me personally.
clearly you have never used caltrain as a method to get to work.

4h commutes ARE normal in the bay area. the transit system is the worst in the world asz compared to general income and overall development of the country
Let's go even more leaner - 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, smoother then ICS and without cloud collection services like Now and Google Play Services. That was the last pure AOSP Android as we grew to like it.
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I would really love to tank on all your excellent brains and experience and want to ask the question "How would you make this newly released Kids game on Appstore a great hit?"

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/peek-boo-baby-game-improves/id973974976

As a solo struggling indie developer I will listen and implement all good ideas that come up and PLEASE do not keep your ideas to yourself.

Thanks for your eyes and time bros!
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Yeah, they're politicians for sure, they're just in it to actually affect policy in their favor rather than as an ego trip or whatever other petty reasons people usually get into politics. And, they've figured out that directly running for office is sort of a waste of time in that regard, in America.
Forrest was horribly biased against the defense. The prosecution's case was extremely problematic - resting on a chain of flimsy evidentiary and legal assumptions that would never have survived proper judicial scrutiny. The appeal will expose serious irregularities and hopefully overturn the decision.

Forrest spent a year at the Department of Justice before being confirmed as a federal judge in 2011. Her handling of the case was pay back to her sponsors at the DOJ.

From the transcript: "No drug dealer from the Bronx selling meth or heroin or crack has ever made these kinds of arguments to the Court".

Her comments smack of racism and classism. She reveals her implicit belief that since illicit drugs are associated in the media with oppressed minorities or less affluent communities, Ulbricht isn't entitled to such an "uppity" defense. She clearly can't fathom any possible reason why anyone might be opposed to prohibition and mass incarceration.

The transcript: "What Silk Road really was was a social market expander of a socially harmful drug that we have deemed in our democratic process to be unacceptable"

Except polls show that most Americans are opposed to US drug policies, even for "hard" substances like heroin [1]. Any discussion about drug laws that doesn't acknowledge its racist roots or the commercial interests involved is missing the point.

[1] http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2014/04/new-pew-poll-confirms...
Scalingo (a Heroku-like) can host your meteor app http://doc.scalingo.com/languages/javascript/nodejs/meteor/
I personally hate working with people who put things in terms of 'right' and 'wrong', or 'correct' and 'incorrect'.

I honestly believe the key to software development is good decision making. If you're thinking in terms of right and wrong, correct and incorrect, then you're not making decisions, you're simply doing the right thing over and over again. Only it may not be the OPTIMAL thing, or the smart thing, in any specific instance.

For example, who here really believes proponents of unit tests have never painted themselves into a corner? How did that happen? By making poor decisions.

Stop thinking in terms of right and wrong. Seriously. Sometimes unit tests are a good decision, sometimes they're not. Sometimes that hack is a good decision, and sometimes it isn't.

You make a decision on a case by case basis, not because it's right.
> but what about parental bonding?

That's considered paedophilia nowadays. /s
I think SOME people enjoy the long commute to be away from family chores/responsibilities. If you have to make that LONG commute so that you can provide for the family and miss out on doing laundry or doing dishes, hey who's gonna complain?

You can love your family more than anyone else, but you still don't want to do the chores.
Still waiting for 0.0.5. But i guess Dezember 2009 isn't to far off... Dead project!
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So abuse and public humiliation is a style now? Well, if it is, her point is that it's a bad style, a very bad style, and it would be best if it goes out of fashion. Kinda like writing spaghetti code with lots of gotos. That, too, is a style, but generally recognized as a bad one, even if some people like it.
Whether this is bad in practice depends. It is declared static, so it's just a small helper function, not a major API entry point.

In a review, I'd call out requirements for buffer overflow detection outside this function.
"And there may be businesses that are okay with that. But it ought to be somewhat of a self-defeating behavior."

This type of libertarian self-solution rarely works. Things do not self-defeat because the affected groups are small and grow slowly. Consider the restricted fly list -- part of it was was government lead but part of it was implementation lead -- companies decided their own filters. Some were horrible -- you selected "Muslim Meal" option and the next thing you know you cant get a boarding pass. Problem is, you dont always have options. If you got restricted form American Airlines, as I did, suddenly you found yourself with half the flight options. If you got flagged again by United, now you were in real trouble...are you going to fly from NY to Charlotte via Detroit?
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Any ideas, hints, tips, pointers?...

Trying to extract Roll Call Votes of Cambridge City Council. The challenge is that Roll Call Votes are embedded in Council Documents, for example

http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CityOfCambridge_Content/documents/councilor_votes/CMA_4380_20150622_20150622_letter.PDF

at

http://www2.cambridgema.gov/cityclerk/cmLetter.cfm?item_id=34162
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From 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8264501.
Bringing jobs to poor countries does bring some wealth to them, so it helps reduce global inequality, but that wealth is extremely inequally shared, for several reasons (eg. the poor workforce has zero bargaining power, few labor laws etc.)--thus this also transfers more equitable profit-sharing work to much less equitable parts of the world. The net result is often debatable.
I think some developers need to go out and meet more people in person. There is no need for a toxic communication style.
Usually things are said much harder to people on mailing lists than is said face to face.

Get out talk to people. People working isolated being an issue
In more developed countries we have laws that protect workers for such long hours.
>> I'll have failed if my kids grew up in the same town/city all their lives.

I grew up in a family that had to move around a lot, to the point where I attended 3 different elementary schools, 2 different junior highs and 1 high school. We were not rich but poor. And I SO WISH I had grown up in same neighborhood so that I could've have made some friends in my childhood.

You can go live in different towns/cities when you are older. For kids, I highly recommend for kids to have stable environment with mostly same friends at least until college time.
Forget about Google Glass banning facial recognition...any CV-type activity is too process-intensive. It will burn thru the Glass battery and the entire unit becomes stove-hot in 20minutes. I know because this is exactly the problem I tackled for three months (I was doing Glass-based CV for hand gesture recognition)

Glass, the current version, is not meant for CV-intensive operations.
That distinction gets very weird. If it's a full-time project, they are working on it full time? So they are being paid by Google to develop it, they do so during regular work hours, the code is owned and released by Google, yet it is not a Google product.

I understand the point you are trying to make but at some point it becomes semantics.
Donating to Bernie Sanders because you believe universal healthcare is important is also spending money to elect public officials who support your policy objectives. Like I said, I disagree with some of the policies they advocate, but unless someone is donating to a politician because they like their rock-hard abs (I literally cannot think of one likable thing about any politician except their policies), they fit that description as well.

You (and I) may disagree with the causes they find important, but that's a somewhat different topic. The article points out many, many instances (or rather intimates they exist) where _policies_ are immune from criticism -- my concern is when _people_ are criticized. There's no public policy value in humiliating someone, and it's happening anyway.
I recently left a company where the CTO was exactly this kind of personality. He's actually an awful programmer but he complains so much about other people's code that management sees him as the authoritative figure. Despite his behavior directly causing a high turnover rate for engineering, the founders have still kept him around because they're brainwashed into his elitist point of view. When you're in a situation like that, you're better off jumping ship. Nothing will improve...
Depends on kids, some adjust very well some not well at all. If they don't adjust well you are abusing them and creating psychological problems that will haunt them for many years to come.
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I recommend reading the short book/guide The Underachiever's Manifesto as an alternative view (which someone here had suggested awhile back). Decide on the right amount of effort, place, and time to do something good instead of great. The person who will care the most about anything you do is yourself and good enough is good enough for most things in life. Especially when you're here for a short amount of time and there's so much you want to do.
Tangent:
I always chuckle at how prescient Minority Report was on some aspects, yet they didn't envision network storage or wireless communication -- do you remember at how they would transfer small glass disks all the time...how burdensome. LOL.
If you are optimising for having nice accommodations for your family, but never see them, you get points as a provider I guess, but you fail at being a parent or spouse.

I would of waaaay rather of lived in a trailer, and grown up actually having a father around, instead of some distant workaholic male figure that is the "great provider" that allowed an upper middle class lifestyle.

For some I feel being far away making money to send home is the easy way out of having to actually be a parent.
A minor note: the author refers to "Volkswagen corruption". I have not seen the company's actions called corruption elsewhere, nor was it justified in the provided link.

Volkswagen deliberately subverted regulations on emissions control. It would have been corruption if they also bribed officials to get away with it.

I'm not attempting to defend Volkswagen in any way, but the phrase is sensationalist and strictly incorrect, even if only very slightly so. This is interesting given the overall point of the article.
Tech and Asia focus makes this list different and more unexpected than other similar lists.
Idk, I think the networking is vastly overated unless your in some elite program.

It's not as if new networks would not exist in abscence of college networks.
Since 4.4 apps could only write to "their own folder" on sd card. A "SECURITY" measure (only android and some retailer like samsung file manager had full access). Making sd card close to useless without root for some people (want to change tags on your mp3? Move to tag changing app folder, change tags, move back).

And no, I have not read article yet, will do later. Was expecting tl;dr ansver to my question.
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The car is two years old, I don't think I need to change anything to be warm in winter :P And in any case, what do you mean by heaters? The only source of heat is the engine coolant, which circulates through a radiator in front of a fan in the cabin - until the engine heated up the coolant, there's no warm air coming out.
Look who owns often cited media for example the Economist on Wikipedia. Journalists will most often not criticize the hand that feeds them. A way of buying influence is to own media oulets and have think tanks pushing agendas which is in their best interests.
An extra 4 hours of sitting and looking at screens? Can't wait for that! :)
But Jason did send diffs, and we are discussing his situation as an example.

Anyway, like it or not, in the OpenBSD community, working diffs, especially ones that fix a security issue, are the best way of winning an argument. You can try to blog about it but you probably won't be taken as seriously. So if you really care to convince the community from the outside and everything else has failed, and you can't code C youself, find a friend who can and ask for help.
Someone needs to introduce the author to /b/.
* resigning with a 30 million payout
You know.. IMO you shouldn't and you should consider to relocate or change your job. There are probably towns / cities that allow for a great job and a great place of living close enough that you don't have to commute for 4 hours.

I have as of now, approx. 20 minutes with the subway which I think is kind of long. But in my new job (in the process of changing it) it will be less. At summer time I will be able to bike to work in about 20 minutes.

Also, it is a more meaningful place of work IMO. You can do that kind of change too.
You can do that in most trains, too.
Sure. Something to monitor reddit for highly upvoted and interesting content. Once it hits a certain threshold, add the post to WP. Generate the cache entry and you're pretty well set.
Maybe, a better question is, what problem TPP solve?

You say "free trade is generally a good thing". Maybe it is, but a lot of knowledgeable people say that we already have free trade. Globalization is already a fact but "somebody" is pushing for more.

What we have seen in the last times is the use of international agreements and organizations in order to make the states powerless. I have problems believing this is not what this is about. Steep by steep the frog is boiling and a new brave world is being built.

You have to be very naïve to think that when the people that writes these agreements think of “America” or “Vietnam” they are thinking in the persons of America or Vietnam. Well, they are, because corporations are persons after all.

We should be, at least, suspicious of all this.
He was never charged with killing anyone, nor convicted of it. The charges were all dropped, probably all trumped up charges to smear Ross.
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That sounds like a nightmare.

Charles Montgomery wrote a book, The Happy City, about how urban design affects people. He cited multiple studies that showed that long commutes are very detrimental to people's happiness. Long commutes dramatically increase divorce rates for example.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/01/secrets-world...
No, it is absolutely not. And your sarcasm qualifier is out of place, because it is no sarcasm, it's not even cynicism, but something even worse, although I lack the vocabulary. Please leave comments like this off HN.
> we have uranium for the next 10 000 of years at least.

No we don't. If you keep up with energy demand it's more like 300-1000 years.
As a heavy emacs user, this was one of the best things I ever did. I used to think the term "emacs pinky" was a joke, but it is really not.

And anyway, I cannot remember needing CapsLock even a single time, but I do remember hitting it by accident many times, so I do not really miss it.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10337134 and marked it off-topic.
I agree within reason. I believe there are certain things that must happen, even with a 'get it done' mentality or the subsequent gitrdone is not possible due to productivity issues.

Things like error detection and reporting in the system absolutely have to be useful. I've seen systems where that isn't the case, and it destroys productivity.

So I agree in general, but I think there are a few areas that you need to get right or you can't gitrdone effectively for very long.
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Not all the things need a comments section. I welcome this change and hope it will bring good.
I love how everybody in Silicon Valley claims ideas don't matter, only execution does, then hate on the company that is taking that maxim to its ultimate conclusion.
Ehh, popular USA advice is to follow your passion. Mind you, everybody min maxing the money majors ends up ironically creating the same scenario . Practical money making majors are the top choice in poor countries which in turn lowers pay rates. More engineers =/= more engineering jobs.
He needs to feel superior. He is confrontational to prove himself, he needs to "win" to feel he is better than everyone and validate himself.

If you call hiss bullshit he'll probably go into denial (sooner or later). He can also become depressive, or even more aggressive. Those are defense mechanisms. They are triggered in confrontational situations, the "fight or flight" instinct. Men usually fight, women usually flight. Best option is for him to actually feel good about himself, as people "at the top" do not belittle the little people, as it would mean they feel threatened (and, as such, are afraid, meaning they're not as strong as the other).

Best way imho is to be friendly to him, and when he belittles someone, instead of confronting him, you approach tangentially, making him feel he would be even "more superior" if he helped. This way he will be validated by his experience and by his understanding.

For example, "man, you don't need to go that far. I mean, you've [been doing this for a long time]/[studied a lot]/[put a lot of effort], you must have made some mistakes too. And you're [one of the best]/[probably the best]/[an awesome] developer. If you could give us some tips sometimes, II bet we'd become an even greater team. :D"

And obviously, whenever you can, praise stuff his done well and ask for opinions. Can be on conceptual stuff or whatever, just help him feel "validated" for his good points and he will naturally shift to a less confrontative behavior, plus he will focus on the stuff that got people to like him.

He should do therapy btw, but suggesting this will probably make things worse. If nobody can make this work, all the good devs will end up leaving, and the company will be left with people that have no other options... Not a good place to work at, unfortunately.
I agree, having grown up similarly. It's very important to be able to grow roots. Not being able to because of frequently relocating can cause a permanent feeling of being disconnected throughout adult lifehood as a result.
FWIW I'm in Vegas right now using exclusively Uber and every driver I've talked to has been ecstatic. One even told me about how his first ride this morning was a cab driver getting a haircut, who prefers uber to cabs.
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That is an absolutely pathetic article...

Edit: And after reading it closer, it seems to be from someone who doesn't understand how neither reddit nor food work. I wonder why they felt the need to print it.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10335389.
The content is about a bug, but the form is bad. You can effectively communicate that the patch is bad and that the approach is to never break user space without saying shut up, is crap, and without to be so verbal aggressive IMHO.
Wow! that is a long commute. I have a friend who commutes from Leichlingen (20mins out of Cologne) to Aachen every day! He catches the RE48 into Cologne, and then ICE to Aachen, about 90mins one way. He said that the changing of the trains really stops him from doing any meaningful work on the laptop. I can understand that

He said that he use to drive, but that was killing his motivation. He told me is biggest fear is his reliance on the public transport with strikes and transport reliability. Fortunately, both are quite rare in Germany when compared to other countries.
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Smoking causes all sorts of harm besides "old age diseases" the happen to "old people." Smoking related deaths and disease effect all ages including fetuses as well as quality of life.
For four hours commuting I'd rather work from home then. Half the workday spent in a car? No thanks.
he seems like he doesnt know whats going to happen next, just like everyone else.
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I grew up in the same small Scottish town my whole life, as did all my friends. I'm now 32, live in London, have travelled the world, but best of all, I still very regularly see my old school friends. Giving kids culture growing up is one thing, but giving them the gift of being friends with the same people since they were 3 is amazing. My uni friends have come and gone, I barely see them, but I see my old school mates every few weeks and every time it's full of laughter and reminiscing from a lifetime together.

My dad worked in the oil business in the 80s and 90s and spent months at a time in places like Saudi, Norway, etc. In hindsight, I would never have wanted to move around with him as a kid. Sure I would have liked him at home more, but at least we all knew where home was.
I have no idea about the legality, but the implications of this might be bad enough for the betting industry that they could ban this themselves.

Otherwise the general public might be less likely to want to bet because they know that the insiders will get a disproportionate amount of the winnings, effectively lessening their odds.
Depends on context - over here (north Europe), diesels may be more a symbol of wealth than a gasoline engine. Gas guzzlers are prole, for people who have furry dice in the rear view mirror and silly "vocational school mustache".

Compare that to your statement about "smaller petrol engines" for which your example is Macan Turbo 3.6L engine. Over here, such an engine is ridiculously large and almost stupid.

A small, efficient petrol engine over here is something like a 1.0 litre turbocharged gas engine in a Ford Mondeo.
Being at home tired Fridays to Sunday afternoons is not what I would call good parenting. It means the wife (and I guess we're mostly talking about women here) is carrying the family.