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> You don't see a lot of twentysomethings ... thinking there's a lot of opportunity there to make their mark

This is a too-common syndrome, and not just with respect to the JVM. Some people are genuinely in love with anything new. Some people just get bored easily. Those might not be the best motivations, but they're not the worst. The worst is the people who jump all over a new language or technology because they know peers are unfamiliar with it. They're insecure. They're not confident in their ability to master the standards and best practices that are already established for an older technology, so they try to get in first on a new technology where those things haven't evolved yet. No rules to violate. Then their arrogance as kings of the new hill, combined with their obvious cluelessness about the broader context, puts everyone off what might have been a true advance in the state of the art. That's the worst.

This is way more common than you'd think. There's a guy on my project, who works around the edges in Go because he can't handle the C that most of the code is written in. I've felt tempted to do similar things myself, writing some bit of code in Lua or something just so others won't be able to review what I've done and say it's wrong. I resisted. Too many don't.
It does come with a 401k, and you buy your own health insurance.
As an immigrant myself, this seems like a vastly superior system compared to most others in the world.

Pretty mcuh every country's immigration system falls into one of the following buckets:

1) Market based. Companies "bid" on foreign workers, either directly by paying for the visa, or indirectly using the worker's wage. Some form of quote exists, and the highest bidders win.

2) Lottery. Set a minimum qualifications, which is pretty lenient, and a quota that is significantly lower than the number of qualified applicants. Use a lottery system to decide who gets in and who doesn't.

3) Central planning. Some government agency decides which professions and industries are most important to the country, and need foreign workers the most. Politics, special interests lobbying and/or government incompetence in judging market needs, all figure prominently.

4) Some government bureaucrat, who reads through your life story, and spends 30 minutes meeting with you, gets to arbitrarily decide who stays and who doesn't.

4 scares the hell out of me. 2 is just stupid. I don't have any trust in the government's ability to effectively conduct 3. 1 is the least of all evils unfortunately.
No, if an employee produces something patent-worthy as part of employment, when they file the employee is listed as the inventor, but the employer is the assignee, so they own it from its inception. There's no "buy for $1" transfer.
More generally, the existing system works on a points basis, which takes into account a whole bunch of factors that have been tuned for years. You get a certain number of points for a degree, a certain number if you get paid X amount &c

And then some numpty who clearly hasn't read past Economics 101 gets it into their head that anyone who doesn't earn 35k isn't pulling their weight.
Why burn an income when the situation doesn't seem dire yet? Take the vacation, come back refreshed, if things are still not good enough, start looking, but keep your paycheck.

Many people assume that not being local to the company is a non-starter. My experience has been that companies will make a lot of things happen for the right fit. Network, talk to people and see if you can fill the need that company has.
I don't see the difference between this and procrastination - there doesn't seem to be a great deal of new insight here.
getpaint.net is mentioned elsewhere itt. Perhaps not quite as bad, but still at least mildly deceptive.
I think that the APIs behind Rhino were a real hindrance, as was performance.
Good UIs have discoverability, but increasingly the software has - whatever the opposite of discoverability is.

Simple example: Mail tries to guess settings for you. If you don't want it to do this - it regularly gets them wrong - you have to uncheck a box in the Advanced tab for every account you have. (Because obviously, that's where you're going to look.)

Then, instead of making the change, you have to click any other account, just so you can get a save dialog.

And if the account is disabled, it ignores your change until you enable the account. Then you can finally save the change and start modifying the settings.

Elsewhere, the latest version of Logic Pro is so bad it's been causing outrage on user forums all over the Internet.

Product management seems to have become completely clueless about user needs, basic UI designer, or QA.

I have no idea who's in charge now, but whoever it is has no idea what they're doing.
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I think you're forgetting that the f35 carries all its stores internally, and can reach that speed and pull those turns fully loaded. In order for an f16 to reach its top speed or pull 9g it has to be in a clean configuration, meaning just two sidewinders and no external fuel.
Well, one is a mobile OS and the other is a desktop OS. And the reason Windows 8 got such bad press was because of the UI overhaul that was critically panned by the press and rejected by consumers. Metro/Modern UI or whatever they're calling it nowadays is still a failure.
Apply for a remote job! I work the hours I want, and took >5 weeks vacation this year. As long as I ship, nobody really minds when/where I work.
It's sad that so many people, myself very much included, now stick with OS X merely because ``it's not quite shitty enough to switch''. When I switched to the Mac initially, I switched because it was vastly better option than XP; now, I feel that lead has been eroded and that Windows 10, while different, isn't far behind OS X in most respects.
>> Risk of government-sanctioned default is the same as any other default risk, and will be priced into interest rates, hurting especially those with marginal credit whom the banks judge most likely to be the "beneficiaries" of some future forgiveness.

This seems to be the opposite with student loans. The government has backed those and will not allow them to be dismissed in bankruptcy and all that, yet those loans have some of the highest interest rates around.

Is that just based on the lack of collateral? I mean a person could die and then it will never be repaid. Homes are required to carry insurance, so the risk of destruction is covered. Is that what it is, or are they just screwing people over? These are just questions, I have no skin in the game ATM and hope my kids can avoid it as well.
There's something to say for his place in the market, but I think you are right. Salem has infinitely more capital to create a competitor. By selling, they don't have to deploy that capital, and he doesn't have to fight against competitors eating away his revenue.
They weren't perfect by far. For years I've seen people struggle to figure out something as basic as creating a playlist or syncing to a new device. It's perhaps always been better software than windows counterparts, it always fallen short of the "intuitive" goal it's aspired to (and frankly, bragged about)
Have you read The Lean Startup? That can help.

Also, TSTTCPW (the simplest thing that could possibly work). Pry a little piece of it loose. Don't think too much about which piece. Build the simplest possible version of that little piece. "Simplest" can be a tremendous challenge in itself, because scope creep and gold-plating are so easy. Part of the work will be decoupling your little piece from the rest of it. But make something that works!
We also left the same regulators (who did nothing to forestall the Great Recession) in place for good measure!
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Agree 100% with everything you said: toddlers, teamwork, not-watching-movies-as-a-rule, and not giving up your tool is more an attitude to complete what you started.
Bear in mind that the existing system is better than what's being proposed. Except for the minor difficulty that it lets people into the country that the UK needs, which is against government policy.
Americans are losing jobs to a visa program. Can it be fixed?
I don't think it's a coincidence there is that there is a ice skating rink right in front of the courthouse in Marshall, Texas with giant Samsung logos all over it (relevant John Oliver clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxcc3SM_KA#t=7m53s) .
So, virnet is a spin-off of SAIC. SAIC is definitely not a troll (though i could believe virnet is :P).
He went on stage and gave a sock presentation that made everyone forget about the bugs. Users judged the book by it's well-kerned prettily animated cover.

This is the same old tripe about the young generation's moral decline, and rose-tinted rearview glasses.
In smaller companies where decision makers are usually more empathetic towards the employee, there are various other ways you can get them to move without having to use an external offer as leverage. At bigger companies that are more restricted by process, they do this for a reason and ultimately data speaks louder than words. Assuming you've exhausted the usual strategy of establishing your value that is not fully compensated and they're just not moving, if you have a competing offer for $20k more, they now have no choice but to increase the urgency with how they approach you up the chain.
I was with you until the parenthetical remark, which seems to contradict the point. Platform software is great for getting 80% of the way there; then you can be screwed.

My last company threw away our expensive IP and tried to use off-the-shelf platform stuff. They're struggling now, with a product lacking features, performance and scalability. Funny, that's what the platform promised to deliver!
What would you do if you were Apple? Would VirnetX have refused to go after them just because Apple had not gone after Samsung for "equally silly" patents?

Seems like what you really want to say is "don't hate the player, hate the game."
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Yes, this conflict exists. On the other hand, if a large gap appears between an employees' salaries and their market rate, that increases the company's turnover.

Turnover is very expensive, somewhere between 6 months and 2 years of salary per employee that turns over. So an employer should proactively offer raises to keep their employees' salaries near market rate and help avoid turnover costs.

It's short-sighted to keep salaries low. That's not to say companies don't do short-sighted things though...
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> And $20,000 is still an aspiration. These two cottages and the deck between them cost $135,000 to build. Smith is hoping that if a contractor understands process, he can bring it in more cheaply. Smith will be able to test that hypothesis: Nygren is invested in the collaboration and the concept. He intends to build more cottages and will be raising funds to do so. He says,

This title is misleading. It is $67,500 / house and the costs are on par with new construction for a similar structure. :/
I wonder of someone can help me with a misunderstanding. If "spacetime" is the medium which conducts the matter and energy we (and our stars and planets) are made of, how can we ever know that it's expanding or contracting? If we look at it like Flatland, how could a Flatlander know that the sheet he lives on is actually rippled? He simply traverses his "space" unaware that he's bobbing about in a third dimension. Also in this case, you'd never be aware of being spaghettified[1] by the changing of space.

So the laser light has to travel via space and if space contracts, it still has to cover the same amount of space (although, from an external extra-dimensional perspective, it might 'slow down' in a contracted space), and would thus not produce these interference patterns.

If, however, our energy and matter are not 'conducted' by space, then I suppose I can begin to comprehend why such an experiment might work.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification
Although incremental improvements in data quality and data mining can certainly still improve the user experience (I've personally encountered many frustrating examples of this), their potential impact is clear now that everyone has Maps in their pocket.

The value of any such improvements to end users was drastically magnified by the availability of Maps on mobile devices with GPS. And that shift required many advances to occur independently of Google - Apple and the Android OEMs played a key role.
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A very wealthy man once told me the phrase, "There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is where preparation meets opportunity."

I'm sure he had some random events placed in front of him, giving him an unique opportunity. But he executed phenomenally. And we should not discount that. Many have had the same kinds of opportunities and failed to execute.
I must say it's rather funny that Apple is basically passing along their Samsung patent money onto VirnetX.
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Are you in a small enough market that moving companies without moving locations feels like your only choice? Have you concidered remote work?
Whoa, how have I not seen this before? Thanks for the link.
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I recently build myself an ebook reader from a Nexus 7 using Ubuntu Touch:

https://www.exratione.com/2015/10/turning-a-nexus-7-fhd-tabl...

Dealing with other tablets and Touch is pretty hit and miss - you might be able to get it to work, but more likely not unless you're pretty experienced in low-level hacking in OS and devices.

Certainly that hardware doesn't have enough memory to keep Beru happy all the time, which is a pain, but I'm prepared to put up with the minor inconvenience in exchange for not having an reader that reports everything I do back to central.

If an official Ubuntu tablet can be disconnected from their report-everything-to-central mechanisms to the same degree that Ubuntu on the desktop can, then an official tablet may be worth the additional cost just to use as a reader.
Give me a break. Steve Jobs put out plenty of crap products and buggy software over the years. Don't pretend like he had a perfect record just because he's dead.
Can't they just have a stand on the back like the surface does?

Doesn't really give you a "laptop" experience, but at least you can still set up shop on a table.

Anyways, it sounds cool. To me, the specs seem pretty conservative so hopefully it's a low cost device. Something cool to hack on.
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I disagree.

Most "normal" users who used Firefox before Chrome came around are savvy enough to understand that software improves and evolves. There's no doubt that Chrome gave Firefox a much-needed shot in the arm.

Many developers/advanced users, including myself, see Firefox as a bastion of freedom in what is otherwise a land grab by major OS vendors, an attempt to further increase their lock-in. Users remember Firefox as the browser that was so flexible, Firebug was possible, which sent every browser vendor into a tizzy to try to clone the featureset natively. Users remember Firefox as the browser that gives them control over their experience, unlike Chrome which babysits and won't let you interfere with Google's need to harvest data.

The first 2 years that Chrome was out, it trounced Firefox all around. I switched back to Fx around that time. These days, Firefox's JavaScript performance is comparable if not better than Chrome's [0] and its extension ecosystem and extreme configurability make it a much better option than Chrome for me. The only reason I use Chrome now is to take advantage of the proprietary extensions that allow me to use Netflix or Flash on Linux.

Mozilla has always and will always be a tinkerer's vendor. These people are not going to be offended when reasonable experiments are conducted, nor when reasonable experiments fail, as Firefox OS did.

The biggest grudge I hold against Mozilla is really more about the community than the company itself, and that's the Brendan Eich debacle.

[0] http://arewefastyet.com/
> Once you start second-guessing yourself and listening to too many suggestions at once, you'll start to suck.

Wow do I ever agree with that and it's one of my bedrock principles actually. Having started and run my first business (years ago) with nobody to ask any questions and further not even knowing the business (not like it is now) and having to figure it out all on my own. Tremendously helpful to learning (but then again lives weren't at stake..)
Imagine how dense people will be able to be packed with VR. Goggles, Headphones, air filter and each can have a private space or join in a virtual meeting, all without leaving their work chair.
... a 5x multiple is nothing to laugh at. I wish I could sell my autopilot side project for a 5x multiple.
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I currently work on the ML side of neuroscience (EEG/LFP->classifications) and I can't say I've seen any significant projects out there using Go. Simulations seem to be mostly done in C, C++, python, matlab, etc. My own work is done in julia and I don't think that go has that big of an appeal in this space.
The worst thing about Apple is not the drop in quality, but the way in which every fan and user kicking and screaming about it doesn't make them realize how awful their products are.

If we could just have a rule that said "don't get Apple's first version of a product", but they continue to be terrible. I recently lost my entire music collection because my Apple Music subscription ended, and now I have to download them all one by one via iTunes - even though I only want to stream them to save the disk space.

This happened across both Windows and OS X, of course.
LOL. Nice try. If you thought I was a sock puppet for LM, it would only take a few minutes of looking at my comment history.
Of course you can do that, but in my opinion that just delays the change. If your company hesitate to give you a raise I doubt you will increase your chances by taking holidays.
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I really admire what you guys do. Not something I could ever do at all. [1]

[1] As opposed to reading success stories on HN where I think "I could do that easily.." or "luck played a large role in that success".
I mean there is Mozilla Thunderbird, but it hasn't been the focus of much development since 2012, with intention to decouple it from Firefox development in 2015.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird]
[https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/]
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I think "having to ask" is the #1 pain point.

Money is usually not a topic people are comfortable talking about.
I'm glad someone has written about this because it's something I've noticed over the past few OSX major releases. The interesting thing is that speed and stability appear to have been getting better for my use cases. However for the first time in my 20 years as an Apple user, this has been at the expense of visual fidelity. Both iOS and OS X seem to be slightly "glitchier" and applications end up in bad states where the only clear path to a fix is relaunching.
Probably referring to the British torture of dissidents in Northern Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_techniques
I don't see it. Unless you mean debt subsidized growth involving inserting "internet" or "mobile" into existing things and calling them "blue oceans". I think what Goldman Sachs is trying to say is that capitalism ( in any flavor: laissez faire or mixed economy ) might favor evolution to a small number of large entrenched winners rather than eternal competition and churn.
> you must be ready to walk out when negotiating a raise

that's so true...
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I fully agree with this article. So much stuff on OS X is neglected. The recent releases only focused on minor updates of the UI, while many components in the lower layers have not seen updates since OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (2011). And if they do, it gets as bad as the disaster around discoveryd introduced with OS X 10.10 Yosemite [1].

On a small sidenote, Apple's ticker symbol is actually AAPL, not APPL. I hope you did not invest into the wrong company's stock!

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/01/why-dns-in-os-x-10-10-i...
He commented a few brief points:

He said he worries 365 days a year that he'll lose out somehow. He specifically mentions the dependence on Apple, e.g. if they change their search algorithm he may be fucked, and there's no independence there. He's small-time and has near zero revenue streams outside of the apple store. (he mentions the Android port being a failure).

About the Android port failure... he's saying Android makes him barely any money at all, but you can imagine he spent $10-20k on that at least last year.

The first year he did things like hire a studio to record an audio book. That may sound cheap, but a bible audio book is 70-75 hours long, and each hour recorded costs $300-600 (you could also do it for $200 or $800, but both aren't very typical). Even for low-quality, shortened books, it's still a significant expense.

He's got costs, the $100k isn't even operating profit, let alone net income.

For example, he mentions he increased his revenue from $75k to $100k from y1 to y2, but also lost money due to new licensing deals that cut deep into his margins, saying that he's not sure it was worth it.

Between a new revenue stream of which he doesn't think it was profitable, and a port to a new app store which he says generates practically non-existent revenue, it doesn't look like he's got the resources to singlehandedly build this out to a ridiculous cash cow. The $100k of course is awesome, but he's had to put in time to make it grow (inc. a brand new app, none of that he refers to when he says he has 1 hour of monthly work to sustain the app), some of these growth projects failed, and he probably invested quite a bit in the first place, more than the $500 he refers to as his initial investment.

After taxes and expenses I'd expect say $50k to be left as net income. I'd take $500k too, for sure. That $50k to say $75k tops he's netting per year, takes at least 8-10 years to beat a $500k lump sum that's reinvested. Now of course he has opportunities to grow the business, but here's the thing... if he grows the business, he's now working part-time or full-time, which carries a significant opportunity cost, too. And it's not without direct costs, either, like developing or licensing content. Further, in those 8-10 years everything can change, particularly the competitive landscape, the OP's purchaser probably would've bought another top 5 app and thrown resources at it.

In short, I think he did quite well with $500k but that's based on a lot of my assumptions and interpretations of his brief comments.
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Ion thrusters aren't comparable to common chemical engines and they don't need to be. They can't offer same high acceleration (to enable escaping the planet gravitation for instance). What they can offer however is very long operation and constant acceleration (even if not high). What it means that when in outer space you can accelerate the spacecraft to huge speeds over long time, which you can't do with regular fuel, simply because you quickly run out of it. It's not a revolutionary idea by any means (at least not anymore) - it is pretty well known.
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