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Personally I wonder why these people are still employed in the technology sector...

Really? This is the second line of the article, and you are questioning the professional competence of your readers?? What do you hope to accomplish here?

...but why not write down all the reasons before I get too arrogant and annoying.

Too late.

Okay, well... I read the article anyway, because I am actually interested in the subject. Unfortunately, the content was little more than a personal rant that would have been more accurately titled "Why Adobe Flash (and btw Acrobat) sucks".
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Rather than increase your rate, maybe you can try and increase your bandwidth. Your rate will be able to go up as your portfolio grows and the size and quality of clients increases.

So keep taking on more and more projects, and bring in someone straight out of college to work for $15 an hour to take on the smaller ones with you. That's how I started at my current job, and my boss has taken our company from $1000 sites to $20,000 sites. The more work you do, the more experience you can leverage to raise your rates.
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As a teenager I learned to program in Win 98 days. I wrote a program that faked the "this program has performed an illegal operation" dialog every few fours and put it on my dad's computer. His programs never crashed but he thought there was something very wrong with his computer. Drove him nuts for a few days. :)
Many/most libraries in Python are built in, so you don't need to hunt them down and install. More importantly your users need only have "Python", nothing more or less and don't have to fiddle to get things working.
When you divert productive capacity of the economy to unproductive use (such as building an unnecessary bridge) then society as a whole pays because of the diversion of resources (including labour and capital).

Do you really think the average unemployed American is doing something any more productive than building an unnecessary bridge?

Also, these projects happen anyways, since in the absence of a US-level program to allocate underutilized human capital our representatives fight like hell to get funding for ridiculous projects in their states, for the sole purpose of providing employment. I'd personally prefer if these projects were devised and approved out in the open by a group responsible for their choices, rather than slipped into important budget bills at the last minute and rammed through Congress because nobody can do anything about it.
Big step, congratulations to everyone who worked on it. When I get some more time I need to look into the code in those projects. It's too bad that they chose to use C++ (as opposed to C) to implement it though (yech, personal preference).
Could you please elaborate on that bit? I am having trouble visualizing the equation. Let's say my company's net profit margin is 10%. What does that tell me about the value I'm generating and what I should be taking home?
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You can downvote me all you want, I stand by my statement. Theories about the world, if they are to be believed, require proof. This article is four thousand words long, there is more than enough space to provide some evidence if they felt like it.
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and google has 24.48B, but what is more powerful is the revenue growth they have on top of that cash. Msft has a large market cap and can't grow like it used to, so goog's cash flow is going to allow for some pretty bold moves (acquisitions?)
To name but one example (of dozens), a study showing that countries with higher Gini coefficients are more prone to rioting, strikes and civil disorder, after accounting for income (third-world countries are obviously more prone than first-world) would qualify as proof of at least one part of the theory.
Except that XPath, CSS, and Regex express the essence of well designed functional programs.
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Their C++ is amazing though. Exceptionally clean and well-designed.
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Um, maybe this guy. Interesting in part because it comes from one of his big admirers.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2010/02/01/ed-schu...
It's truly excellently written C++ code, and they don't go nuts with fancy C++ voodoo template meta-trans-factory-programming tricks or whatnot. And have you seen what happens when you write a huge compiler in C? This: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/reload And I don't think you can reasonably argue that GCC's hackers are sub-par either. ;-)

Language features for abstraction and encapsulation are pretty important for something that huge.
I think he meant software. SQL is a standard on paper, not software.
Map Reduce is a framework, ok. But written in C++?

A software project that i would say counts is ejbabberd. But, that's the only one i can think of.

Somehow i never looked at it in this way, but Lisp has been around since 1958, Erlang and Haskell are not new either. Still there is not much software written in those languages compared to other languages.
My country has been invaded by a self-righteoius army trying to "uplift" me. I call them Christians, and I consider them the real enemy in this country.
what is the unintended consequence of a system that provides no assurances to workers during economic downturns?

It exacerbates the business cycle for very obvious reasons, and it also slows economic growth as it results in more conservative investment, and lower spending on the parts of both businesses and consumers alike.

The real world numbers seem to bear out that unemployment compensation of some sort is a good thing.

The real world numbers also seem to bear out that if an undue portion of that compensation must come from the former employer specifically, that it creates some unfortunate disincentives towards hiring in the first place, which reduce (or in extreme cases eliminate) the benefits.

In short, Patio1 is right in thinking that the French system has some drawbacks... but his claim that the French system is some sort of inevitable end result of worker rights is utter and complete rubbish. The problem is nothing to do with workers rights, and everything to do with the specific implementation.
They either need to shrink expenses massively

They have a large expense in the form of putting news, in ink, onto pieces of paper and distributing those pieces of paper all over the world. And I know that's the first thing I'd look at cutting if I were them...
This is essentially what EngineYard does with their Cloud offering and how they've been able to reduce prices recently:

We’re able to provide this new lower pricing because of a new capability from Amazon Web Services that allows us to group all our customer accounts into a single billing entity with Amazon. So, we’re now able to use a single virtual pool of reserved instance capacity from Amazon, and pass along these savings to customers. This means all of our customers get to reap the benefits of reserved instances without the need to pay the reserved instance costs up front. No other cloud platform provider has been as aggressive as us in slashing prices as our cost goes down.

FROM: http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/announcement-engine-yard...
I also bought Doom Classic and found I got much better at it after just 20 minutes of playing. Still no comparison to mouse/keyboard for FPS games, but neither are console controllers...
If you want your money to look pretty, you have it all wrong. And brands/trust are based on reputations of principals in the finance world, not on the website. Hell, I don't know why they have one in the first place...
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You are right about the next older generation getting even a better deal, but I am not complaining on my own account: when I graduated from college in the 1970s, it was really easy to buy a home, and generally have had an easy life style.

I have to admit to a bit of a morbid fascination about the economy: I expect that in the USA that local governments will go bankrupt, the federal government will devalue the dollar to get by, etc. Thing that I have no idea about: will this happen in 1 year, 10 years? ...
This has made me re-think having google host all my email.

Also, I just logged into HN with my google account.
People spend money on politics because they want government to act in a certain way. The spending can be to support or defeat a particular candidate or to insure that existing politicians attach importance to the spenders' interests. In either way, spending is an attempt to exercise some control over government.

When a lot of money is spent on politics, a statist sees a restricted government. The statist wants to free government from spenders' influence. The statist wants to give the government more freedom to act.

When a lot of money is spent on politics, an anti-statist sees an oppressed people. The anti-statist wants to free the people from government power by decreasing the importance of government. The anti-statist wants to restrict government's freedom and power.

Under this framework Lessig is a statist. He sees political spending not as a sign that government is too powerful, but rather that government is not powerful enough to act against the big spenders' interests. Lessig advocates more restrictions on the spenders. He thinks that Citizens United (rebuffing government's attempt to silence corporations) was wrongly decided.

Massive political spending is of concern to both statists and anti-statists. For statists, it is a sign that government is not acting independently and disinterestedly in the people's interests. Money is corrupting government. For anti-statists, it is a sign that government is seen by the people as a large threat or a large opportunitiy, neither of which is good because it implies that government is important, which it shouldn't be.

Little political spending is viewed favorably by both statists and anti-statists. For statists, it is a sign that special interests see political spending as futile to stop a government from acting in the common interest. For anti-statists, it is a sign that government is too weak to matter very much or is acting so neutrally that no one is complaining.
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That's quite an assumption. 1,000-1,200 billable hours per year tends to be more the norm.
After doing application-level programming in C for a while at a job, I learned to re-appreciate some of the abstractions that C++ gives you that you have to code by hand in C. Once you get used to the ridiculous compile errors and slow compilation times, isn't it nice to have access to a built-in string library and efficient data structures? To not have to roll your own implementation of a v-table and inheritance if you want OO? To be able to do compile-time generic programming where the compiler can more easily do things like function inlining?

I'm no longer certain which I consider is the better language to code in overall. I've heard the C++ hate from Yossi Kreinin, Linus Torvalds, Steve Yegge, and other high profile people, and I've experienced the pain and misery of trying to understand and use its more complex features myself, but in the end, for most applications are you really better off sticking with C than using a "tasteful subset of C++" like the LLVM team does?
Seconded. I actually discovered Io specifically due to the prototypes vs. classes issue. After running into the limits of class based design while working on a moderately large codebase for a commercial program, I began to question what it would mean, philosophically, for a language to have objects but no inheritance (and by extension no classes), and that led me to finding Io.
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"I think he meant software."

Ok.

The AXD301 switch contained over a million lines of Erlang, and reported to achieve a reliability of nine "9"s. Would that count? RabbitMQ?

"Nobody uses it who actually cares more about getting things done" is a stupid (and more importantly wrong) thing to say. Joe Armstrong is a very "get things done" person for example.
So did the third compilation produce a binary identical to that of the second one?
i'd be all for that. who wants to start it?
I always wondered about that. I had assumed I must be misunderstanding either what Prototype.js did or why I was named Prototype.js and not "Class.js". Apparently I was not misunderstanding.

It's sad to see people take a cool feature and undermine it to try to make it act like less useful but familiar feature. I guess it would be like someone writing a macro library for C++ that converts all exceptions to C-style error code returns.
An extremely long winded post about how Python is a good language because it behaves mostly according to the author's expectations. Unless you have no experience with dynamic languages there isn't anything to learn and even then there are much more succinct explanations.
Do you see the discrepancy in your recognising that you need to give all sorts of specific details as to the background and circumstances leading to the immigrant employment problems in Japan, but you're willing to make broad generalisations about France? In truth the two situations are likely as mind-boggingly complicated as each other.
I think Bezos was right in most of his predictions, except for food staples being ordered online. As the demand for locally grown and organic foods increases, I doubt we'll see the majority of people turning to the internet to have food delivered. I could be wrong, though.
Will someone please explain what this means.
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Chuck Moore (invented Forth) announced new CPU: 144 cores, 100 billion ops/sec
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I assume that an investment banker, a CPA and an M&A Attorney are basically required. Are there any other specialists/advisors that would be helpful in maximizing the transaction.
"But what's with this language about how location can only be used to 'provide beneficial information?' Who makes this decision ..."

Apple.

Has RWW not been paying attention?

"... and where on earth does Apple get off making a policy like this?"

It's Apple's platform, Apple's app store, Apple's game, Apple's ball, Apple's rules, Apple's car, Apple's house.

How can there be any surprise?

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Apple.

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Sorry about the title, I couldn't fit in who Moore is and have it make sense. I wanted to say: "Chuck Moore, the inventor of Forth, announced GreenArrays new CPU: 144 cores, capable of 100 billion ops/sec"
To be very fair, I love how honest and forthcoming Mike was with this news. That was hard and he could have covered it up. To all the deniers and Mike-haters out there, I think this only goes to show the type of person he is.

Also, I love how the identity of the intern wasn't disclosed. Not only does it allow him to make amends and learn from his mistakes, it also shows the level of professionalism that stems from TechCrunch.
I guess I should be more specific. When I say code, I mean "cryptic and unintuitive." Yes, you may say FP is intuitive if you've used it for awhile, but at a glance, Python is much friendlier than ML.
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"Functional Programming is more like mathematics." I would completely agree. In fact, I would add to that and say FP is mathematics because its "Functionally" based and was originally created for easy inductive proofs.

However, from a readability standpoint, english is better than mathematics, and readability counts for quite a bit if you aren't planning on throwing away your code.
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>"I think you'll find that your downvotes are because you disagree with the majority of readers of this site, not because of tone or sarcasm."

If he argued that the article author was wrong in a civil tone with a thoughtful manner, I doubt he would have downvotes. There are highly upvoted comments on this very thread that disagree with the article author.
Seconding this.

Just doing a few reversing projects really helped fill gaps in my knowledge of fundamental computing. Debugging, assembly, and low level memory usage are core skills needed for reversing, that for me were not easy to practice doing other types of programming.
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screw that, unethical behavior like this needs to be exposed...if Mike won't say who it is, I will:

if you want to know who it is go here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1102828
go buy a ds and swallow that comment.
"However, from a readability standpoint, english is better than mathematics"

That depends on what you are reading. Try reading differential calculus in English, without using notation.

Not to take anything away from your point (and I think it is a good one), but there are all kinds of code. Functional Programs can be astonishingly elegant.
dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1072939
We all make mistakes as a teenager, often involving a lack of ethics. He just happened to do it in a very public way. As Michael said, hopefully he will learn from this situation.
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Anyone ever worked with one of his cpus?
There's going to have to be a "natural" Olympics pretty soon as bodybuilding does (i.e. take whatever you want for the real Olympics). Either that, or just admit it's over and say we had a nice run.

Bob Goldman showed that it's basically going to keep happening anyway.

Soon enough, you'll be able to get Pringles with AICAR and Repoxygen "flavour" (or whatever turns out to be awesome+safe), and then it'll just be ridiculous that the athletes are the only ones not taking them.
Oh come on, he's a teenager, and it's pretty obvious he's the intern in question. You didn't have to submit this as a story.

Also, if you think this is an isolated incident in this industry, you are sorely mistaken.
Python or Ruby.. that is the question.
Why weren't the people/person(s) who gave him the compensation fired as well? They enabled him and are just as guilty in my opinion.
He's 17 years old ffs. This is not appropriate content.
hmmm Bill Gates return? jus like Jobs return to Apple.
as for mobile product, i want Surface technology in WinMo.
Or, more practically, what has MSR produced that's active in changing the world, compared to a handful of startups acquired by Apple?

the premise of funding basic research (as opposed applied product-driven research) is that only by giving researchers freedom from short-term demands can it be possible for them to do something truly innovative and 'out of the mold'. a 'classic' example is all the work done by brilliant researchers at Xerox PARC in the '70's that was way ahead of its time; of course, Xerox execs have been kicking themselves in the rear for not capitalizing on those technologies (Apple and Microsoft did), but the hope is that Microsoft will be smarter than Xerox was and actually capitalize on basic research created in MSR. Giving researchers freedom will breed lots of supposedly-useless work (that's only useful or interesting to academics), but it provides a greater possibility of doing something totally game-changing.
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While I mostly agree...

> we are at the point where it is essentially a genetic lottery

training for the something like the Olympics is 4+ years of insane dedication, it's not just a genetic lottery. (Unless you consider the mental tenacity required to be merely genetics I suppose via a brain 'gift').
Deleting the guy's account and leading with "Our attorneys have advised us not to disclose the name . . ." indicates that keeping his identity secret was very low priority.

Expect a public apology from the kid in the next 24hrs.
I'm not a Microsoft apologist either, but they did plenty right to get where they are. Read Accidental Empires by (almost Dr.) Mark Stephens.

Microsoft got to where they are because Bill Gates was one of the first people, perhaps the first, to see that there was going to be a large and enduring market for personal computing software and he had the ability to make MS a force in that market. PCs were a disruptive technology that (effectively) killed mainframes and minicomputers and created many new uses for computers.

Even if MS do everything wrong they are still going to be a large and profitable company for many years to come. Their software is a de facto standard in too many places now for that to change in a hurry.

Their business is now in a mature phase. That means that while profits are huge growth has declined. They should be using that war chest to fund new tech. Ballmer seems to be quite smart but I don't know if he's a visionary. Perhaps he should stick to milking the cash cow and ask Gates back to recommend where MS should invest.
It's so obvious it's him, any idiot can figure that out. We don't have to out him, though. Let him privately make amends.

You, sir, are disgusting for just writing this post.
Cached content of his posts at http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=daniel+brusilovsky&d=50...
That was hard to watch, the graphic below the video explained it all, minus his awkward stage performance.
I understand, vaksel, that you abhor this unethical behavior, and I agree with you that it is bad; however, is it really worth harming his image for it?

More importantly, I would understand if Techcrunch did it, but it didn't, so neither should you. You are violating the companies request to not disclose the name of the KID! Don't you think YOU deserve some kind of punishment for this as well?
It takes 2 to tango. If the intern was punished, the company that bribed him should also be punished.
I was never this dumb about stuff like this, but I was just as dumb about other stuff. I'd give him a second chance.
Presumably the compensation came from startups willing to pay to be featured.
I believe it was not TechCrunch staff who paid him - it was outside firms who wanted to be promoted on a high-traffic technology blog.