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Social Jitney Inc Launches Packaged iPhone Application Solutions
SocialJitney Inc, a Fremont, California based company has expanded their iPhone and Android application development services to now bring Packaged Solutions where users can choose from three different packages and get their app developed and published without going through a complicated development cycle.
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As a data point, I'm currently trying for a PhD instead of a "regular" job. That does involve trading immediate and lifetime earnings for more interesting work.

I'm by no means unique.
I'm sorry I got to this so late. I realize noone will probably read this, and I only stumbled upon because I have had a few beers and was browsing old posts. In any case, I have a couple qualms. First, political philosophy does matter. Patents is about maximizing "progress" in the useful arts and sciences. Thus, depending on what you believe politically, you will have different views about how to accomplish this.

Further, in reality, most patent reform does take place in courts. For instance, the Supreme Court mandated the processing of patent appeals in the federal circuit. Why? Because this way we could have a fairly uniform set of decisions from a fairly specialized court about what the law means. Much like corporate law in DE, one could consider a "common law" approach, whereby the courts would attempt to find a set of laws that would best promote the goals described above. In Federal Circuit jurisprudence, there have been many attempts to reconcile and improve the patent system but they have been reluctant to make broad changes like those described in the article. The reasoning goes that the courts are afraid (I think with good reason) about what might happen. I believe this is one contributing reason. Another might be that the court is fairly conservative (not a lot of free market easterbrook-posner type guys).

I do agree however that large scale reform would necessitate legislative action, and perhaps some of the authors points would require this. Nonetheless, I think there is about 0% chance that many of these changes happen via the legislature. Examining the past, much, if not all the change, after the patent act (which was passed in I think 1952), has been judicially mandated and described. Legislators dont want to touch this for the same reason. The system works ok (not great), other countries copy us, and if we change it, who knows whats going to happen. Maybe this is a little bit of a rant, and I apologize for being terse in my initial description. I do believe though, that the author does himself a disservice by taking describing himself in the way he does, because if he was proposing a unique and passable patent reform, it would be hard for 1) politicians, 2) academics, and 3) legal professionals to take him seriously.

Thanks for reading, assuming anyone makes it this far!
I had a long rant here, edited it to remove the vulgarities, edited to keep it fairly anonymous, and was left with just this sentence:
Why on earth should someone have to change companies to get paid what they're worth?
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...are told the resolution, and then say “Huh. OK, if you say so.”

Adding punctuation helps:

John, while James had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had more fun.
The given graphs don't show linear growth; they show the cumulative cost over a certain period of time, assuming that one is running a single EC2 Windows high memory instance for all of that time. The latter graphs add in one-off development costs.
Probably Maslow's hierarchy of needs is part of the explanation. Pay comes in pretty low, so when the base-needs are fullfilled, it becomes more personal as to what you consider important next. This might me more money, quality of life, growth within, etc.
I've heard, from assorted friends an d such, that one of "the problems with capitalism" is that businesses must grow or die.

I never quite got that. I mean, I understand that a business may be driven by shareholders to just keep going after that one extra dollar, but it's also quite feasible to have a sustainable business that earns its owners a good income, isn't always trying to grow, and leaves everyone happy.
More hads can be had there -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_ha...
My first "computer job" (early in high school) started as gopher duty at a local PC shop in my hometown. I unpacked boxes of hard drives, swept the floors, and occasionally cleaned the bathroom (aside: every high school kid's first job should involve cleaning a toilet!). Eventually, I moved up to doing diagnostic and assembly work, and the owner realized that he could hire high school kids to do most of the tech jobs. The guy is still in business nearly twenty years later, and as far as I can tell, he's done quite well for himself.

The only problem is, it's not the most intellectually stimulating work in the world, and it's certainly not for the high-aspiration type of person. But when you can hire smart high school kids to do most of the labor, set up some basic process automation and establish a reliable network of customer recommendations, it takes very little effort or time to maintain the business. I'm sure I work longer hours in the bit-mines than he ever did.
That often gets quickly over-valued because it gets the default return.
Sure, but that's about as big as the range gets, and it's still much smaller than my example. The point is that people are not choosing between offers that are the difference between night and day.
Work that people enjoy more probably pays less because people enjoy it more. It's supply and demand: there's a greater supply of labor for jobs that people want to work at. Most people consider having a nice work environment to be worth $X to them, so their indifference curves get shifted over.
Your mother is a monkey!

But seriously, I apologize if I went over the top. I understand and respect what you're saying. There's nothing wrong with getting the current state-of-the-art stable and usable; I shouldn't have intimated otherwise.

Edit: And don't tell your mom what I said or she'll tell my mom, and then I'll get it.
"Paying a college student $9/hr is a win-win in my opinion."

If you find college students who actually know shit about computers might they not have some other means for making better than $9/hr?

I have no idea what the market is like for these things, but I'm wondering if you'd be better off somewhat overpaying and making sure you had people you could trust to sort out problems when some repair routine doesn't quite work.
Why on earth should someone have to change companies to get paid what they're worth?

Because the fact that your skill set has grown doesn't mean that your employer's needs have grown identically.
No, you're not - and kudos for articulating that feeling of frustration so exactly. Without criticizing any particular company o industry, this sort of thing is rampant nowadays. It's just as bad, if not worse, in my business (independent film), to the point where I'm now surprised when someone makes me a good offer or accepts my price without significant haggling. As with coding, it's such a cool profession to be in - and intense pressure and challenge can make for such strong team bonds - that it's almost infra dig to say you also need to make a decent living, or that you might want to spend money on something quite unrelated.

For a while I'd argue on the basis that being freelance is more expensive, equipment is expensive (substitute training courses or whatever), taxes and cost of living all force me to set a price X...but I realized that this kind of argument was putting me in an inferior position and giving the power to the buyer. So now I just say that I like really, really high quality hookers and blow, and that such luxuries don't come cheap. Although this is a joke, it serves two purposes: first, it reminds the recruiter/ producer/ publisher that you have concerns of their own, about which they know nothing and which they are not competent to evaluate; and second, it's aggressive enough to make the other person uncomfortable, by demonstrating your lack of shame about your own worth, which is a great negotiating tactic.

It doesn't have to be hookers and blow of course, that's just a funny cliche in my business. It could be solid-gold golf clubs or putting juice in your Ferrari or whatever. The point is that you're a busy person and you are the sole arbiter of how your time should be valued, and that for some kinds of things, the price is what it is. If you can't pay, then you don't get to play.
Why would they need to do that? The standard library is a mix of PHP, which they can already handle, and C, which doesn't have to be rewritten.
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You had the option of not going there though, right?
Yeah, you seem to have added that script which turns Google a little glossy. I have that thing enabled in Firefox not in Chrome.

Okay, as far as your question is concerned, Yes I have seen results like that.
Admirable as they may be individually, they were part of a very tiny social class and their funding came from the ruling cleptomaniac families.
>programmers didn’t like web forums for submitting patches, and later proper mailing lists were setup.

I've been curious about this for a while. Any particular reason? Forums to me seem 10x easier to read.
Only if you think that our democracy is a sham. I don't think that's entirely the case, and I don't see how that prevents broad access to the resources needed to start a startup.
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I'm curious, why do you open the comments in a new window? I would have thought that you'd want it all in one tab (since that seems to be the goal).
Isn't this a bit similar than what GWT does? GWT requires Java which is clunkier than a modern dynamic language, but still...
Is money the only goal? I'd rather take an enjoyable job with 20% less salary over the higher salary mediocre job in a crappy location. There's a lot more to life satisfaction than money -- as long as you have enough money for your lifestyle and future plans, why compromise on the rest?

Anyway, salary negotiations are by definition adversarial, and offers are negotiable. The best negotiating tool is a higher offer from someone else.
Programming languages aren't that hard, so I'd say, if it makes them way more productive later, then no it's not a waste of time.
how does this k-shell metric compare to, for example, pagerank?
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There's a huge difference between getting paid for something that you'd do for free anyway, and being sold a bill of goods by a company that is trying to convince you to sell your time for less than it's worth.

Maybe it's because I came from academia, where people are always doing truly interesting work (for crap pay), but I'm also routinely disgusted with the glorified advertising companies who try to dress up their web engineer positions with "brilliant people changing the world" rhetoric. No matter how smart my colleagues may be at Blub.com, their work is unlikely to be as interesting as the stuff from which I walked away. Interesting work is important, but ultimately, a salary indicates professional respect.
I wasn't talking about the heel strike, it is understood that this is about barefoot running. So the strike is on the ball of the foot. I was just saying that even striking the ball of the foot many times against concrete is a lot harder on the feet than doing the same on grass, mud, or sand.

The idea behind barefoot running is revert to the conditions for which the human leg has been adapting to for many thousands of years. My argument was that perhaps we haven't yet adopted to very hard surfaces, such as asphalt or concrete sidewalks ...
I tried to copy and paste the URL for the example Facebook clickjacking, and couldn't figure out why it was failing. And then I thanked myself for having installed NoScript.
I started writing an abstraction system... Then I realized about 5%, maybe even less, of my development time is actually in the HTML. Even for front end most of it is in CSS/javascript after you get the HTML structure ready. Copy and pasting is because much of that structure is repeated, but still there isn't much copy and pasting on the whole.
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I bet Natural Language Processing Engines would crap them selves if they try to parse this correctly.

This is why we can't have nice things
Are you what you earn?
I did this through college, really was stressful compared to almost any other part time job. Paid better though.

It's very hard to be empathetic and be in the business, you end up undercharging but still going too far above and beyond to meet their schedules/needs, and ultimately feeling bad you didn't do a 100% perfect job after you give them the bill (because in hindsight, you could do any job in half the time)

Oh and you'll get calls 2 years after you close up shop.
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I'm always reminded of this by code like

Buffalo buffalo = new Buffalo(BUFFALO);
I'm not sure how working 20 feet from the guy makes him an authority on how us "nerds" would react.

Anyway, the thing that got me was the "technically", otherwise I may have let it slide. You could argue it's not a compiler in the commonly accepted sense of the word, but technically it most certainly is a compiler.
That makes me really glad that I am working in cleantech, user-pays and a technology that people are more than happy to pay for.
+1 for RVM. Stupidly easy to use.
This language looks pretty awesome, reading the example code I can see how it would slash my loc for ajaxy stuff by at least an order of magnitude.

However, I am confused about this announcement since I cannot discover what your company does from the web page and except the video there's not much to go on about the language. Perhaps you want to fill in some blanks in the comment section?
I saw a video a while back about Cyc where Lenat talks about how they make sure their AI is still acting somewhat sane by feeding it sentences like this one, or, "Can a can can-can?"
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Maslow's hierarchy was discredited a long time ago. It survived only because it seems to make so much sense.
Hey, whaddya mean "even" Australian? ;)

I agree with you otherwise, though I'd remove Japanese from that list. The streets of Tokyo are not exactly paved with gold these days.
If it increases the chance of a technology or people acquisition it would be creating value.
Cool. Not surprised that it went smoothly at first, but do let us know how that works out for you after a few OS X updates.
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There is a video that goes with this too.
Propaganda for salary manipulation, really? I'd hate if HN started to upvote conspiracy theories.
Google constantly emails me asking if I want to apply, though I'm not sure they'd hire me if I had the patience to go through their interview process properly.

I'm 34, have a bachelor's in math and one in comp sci from Carnegie Mellon, and I have about 11 years of full-time software engineering experience on my resume, primarily in C and C++.
I saw a ton of things in the user interface that could improve the overall experience. It's these kind of things that Apple understands:

1) The map tiles shouldn't disappear when a new detail of tiles are being loaded, just draw over it.

2) iPhone applications have a "loading image" that is displayed whilst an app is busy launching. The browser application is just a white screen of nothingness.

2) Even if you're zoomed in to the max the iPhone has a bounce effect that allows you to zoom in just a bit but immediately bounces back to the maximum zoom when you release.

3) The zoom level should be reset when you're loading a new page. He switches from mobile Engadget to normal and the zoom level remains the same.
If not boasting was a test for anything the US would fail miserably. Just listen to all the ridiculous shock and awe rhetoric from the Iraq war or cultural pearls like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(movie).

I think we need to know much more than official grandstanding and parades in order to judge wether enough individuals in a particular country are driven by a will to innovate and succeed and are willing to take some risks as well.
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Ah, fun with grammar ;) Dutch comedian Kees Torn came up with a (Dutch) sentence, repeating one word 16 times in a row: "Als er bij het drop (waar bergen bergen bergen bergen bergen) Bergen bergen bergen bergen bergen bergen, bergen bergen bergen bergen bergen." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHnpjsR5q6g)
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You reckon? Who do you suppose gets the most bang for their military buck? Who's got the bigger manufacturing base, which is what all big wars come down to in the end?

The USA still has the superior military, yes. But even now, it would be a very nasty fight indeed. In ten years' time, when China has handsomely exceeded the ship numbers of the US Navy, it's anyone's guess who would win, and let's hope we never have to find out.
I am also reminded of Marklar from South Park.
D'oh! Touché. ;-)

(Not that it's an excuse, but there's actually a relevant reason for screwing that up: in one of my first labs, people referred to them as "Helen Lang" cells, presumably because they didn't know the name of the woman, just the story of her uterine cancer. Hard habit to break, I guess.)
The correct response is not to say "fuck you, pay me." It is "wow, that's awesome, pay me."

Working at a good company, on a good team, on a cool project - those are true benefits, that's why people talk about them. But in this context, they're just a negotiation tactic. Therefore, don't feel like you have to take a wage below what you feel is justified. Decide what you think you're worth and ask for it.

On the other hand, if you don't get what you want, then either you're not very good at negotiating or your market value doesn't match your perception.

(On the other other hand, you could just apply to Netflix where they make it a policy[1] to pay you the highest salary in the range for your position. No negotiating needed.)

* [1]http://www.netflix.com/Jobs?id=5366#reason4
What I was thinking, worrying giving that I'll probably be doing a fair bit of work in language processing this year.
What's wrong with stock grants? That's much better than stock options. If you get 40,000 shares vesting after, say four years, why would you complain? Sure, there's no guarantee the stock won't collapse, but on the off chance the price holds or goes up, isn't two million after four years not too shabby? Not sure I understand why Google would be lumped together with companies that offer only options, or grants of dog stocks.
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It's much easier to mange your inbox to your own liking than it is a forum. Flagging, sorting, filtering and deleting are all much more difficult in a forum.

It's also much easier to have all the things you do point at at one location than have to check a bunch of forums.
When a friend of mine was in grad school, he helped a classmate prepare for her Test of English as a Foreign Language exam. They were going over some fine point about past tenses when, attempting to explain a mistake she had made, he said: If you had had "had" here, you would have had to have had "have" there. She screamed.
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Email goes through one central location, be it gmail, gnus, mutt or whatever. You get to control how it's consumed, how it looks, and you get to check it when you want, how you want. You can set up notifications via sms, thread it, dump it in folders, or whatever. In other words, you control the experience, something you most likely do not with some random web forum.