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I was thinking it might make sense for people who have to do a lot of brainstorming. If your job is to come up with new ideas and you're having troubles getting started, you could fire this up. It's like playing a game which might make it a little easier to flesh out new ideas.

Where your text might disappear, the thought work that went in to that forced session can be rebuilt without much effort.

That said, I do agree that it's a niche tool and probably not the right one for a lot of people.

[edit] wording - not enough caffeine yet.
If you don't mind me asking, how does your absolute salary fare when moving to a lower cost of living region? Do employers tend to keep you at the salary you had, or does it take a hit (even though it is supposedly "equivalent" in some sense)?
I had a similar experience volunteering for Rails Bridge a few months ago:

http://www.railsbridge.org/

Once we got everything installed, which was a nightmare in itself ("no, Dave, you do not copy the quotes in"), we had to deal with actual "web" stuff.

Me: "Alright guys, refresh your browser to see your changes!"

Student 1: "What's the 'browser?'"
Student 2: "How do I refresh?"
Student 3: "Why can't I go to any websites?" (they were typing the URL in the command line)

I took for granted the technical environment I grew up in; most people don't even know how to use the software they use every day to browse Facebook. And I don't blame them, they don't teach this stuff in school.
Heh, I always get a bit of a giggle when I read sentences like this that end with a ":)" or similar emoji.

I have this weird mental image of your desk being being suspended above a tank of sea bass with lasers, and unless you tell me about how awesome the office is on hacker news, they're going to lower you in.

So you comply, but you include that little emoji at the end as a subtle cue that maybe not all is as it seems.

I really hope I'm not responsible for you being fed to the sea bass.
I guess the ideas is that the worry will go away once you learn that you need to just keep typing.

I used 750words.com for a year (and hit a 500 streak) and can say that the biggest problem was the ease with which I could switch tabs and start browsing e.g. hacker news. This seems like an interesting stab at a technical mind-hacking "solution".
>>If anything, we've seen recent evidence that SV salaries are "deflated" compared to other industries and areas of the country, due to collusion, frequent targeted hiring of very young, often naive grad, inflated time at work, etc.

Conversely, they're also being propped up by the massive amount of VC money at play there, which is driving an arms race for programming talent not seen elsewhere around the country. I'm not saying you're wrong about your point about collusion, but there are multiple factors at play there.
Workaround: Mac speech-to-text app. The timer never starts when you don't use the keyboard. I wasn't trying to cheat, just wanted to save my hands and wrists which have been sore lately from too much typing.
> Here's the litmus test. Ask the Reactive Native team to port their non-trivial paper app or mission critical messenger app or main app to Reactive Native.

Facebook is rewriting the News Feed in RN. That's not a trivial example.
That could easily be more work, and this argument posits that the quantity of work is the problem.
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just curious how you arrived at jQuery comparison. isn't that just a library for DOM utilities while react is a view engine optimized for minimum dom manipulation using observable pattern?
I did read the posted press article and know what transcranial direct current stimulation is.

I think you may not have an objection to what I wrote if I remove the words "thought patterns" and replace them with "brain activity" as used in the press release.

Nonetheless, even this I find implausible. Why should I use the "brain activity" of a commercial pilot and not a meditating monk? Surely any actual information about flying a plane is totally absent from any such transfer. I see no plausible mechanism here.
Could this also be confused with a less condescending term - like Anil Dash's concept of "blue collar programmer"? (http://anildash.com/2012/10/the-blue-collar-coder.html )

(Or Reginald Braythewathe's term of " Clerical engineering work" )
Agree 100%. I will say though that there are many suburbs of SF that are way better to inhabit than visit, and give SoCal a run for it's money (cycling through vineyards on the way to downtown Livermore for example)...
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Taking your IT out of SF/SV means you can pay them less.
I think he meant consistent experimental results by "consensus" there.
> Apparently the individual frames are actual oil paintings made by hand

I don't believe it
That was not a small target...
> I shot them down...

Yeah, don't do that. It makes you seem like an asshole no matter the context.

> allowing coalescence

That's the thing about opinions. Anyone can have them and they change from person to person.

"it's the first headset that I've not wanted to take off."

You would've been much better off asking if they had tried the CV1 and what they liked/didn't like about it, rather than saying their opinion is uninteresting. It's good that you're starting to recognize that though.
A somewhat ironic thought experiment: If a reasonably practical early implementation of Google cars would be to replace municipal bus (drivers)... isn't it in the bus driver's self interest to try and get Google cars to hit them (and potentially keep them off the road.)
I don't think anyone on my team in Austin makes less than $135K/year. I'm the youngest on our team at 33 though.
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In Ontario at least (and maybe other places) it's actually law that you always yield to the bus. Well, maybe the laws actually aren't as strong as that, but the bus drivers know there are some laws that say they have more rights, and the rest of us kind of fall in line.

I mean, he's driving a bus and he thinks he has the right of way. This effectively means he has the right of way.
The problem with mandatory compensation programs (aside from granting legal immunity to private sector entities, which I disagree with), is that they tend to break the discovery process via way of circumvention.

The discovery phase of a case is how truly damning evidence often comes to light. A fantastic example of this would be the Toyota unintended acceleration debacle.[0] If it weren't for the discovery process in those cases, nobody would really know what a total mess Toyota's code was.

As far as self-driving cars are concerned, I've no doubt top tier companies like Google and Tesla are going to do the best job they can, but eventually everyone is going to be in the space, and when a company with an institutional disdain for proper safety-critical software engineering practices ends up killing people, I want their feet held to the fire.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10437117
Its really dependent on the department, but yeah, the MS is now the HS degree for a lot of places. Especially in Engineering. Good luck trying to get hired with only a BS. Credential creep is real. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credentialism_and_educational_...
Interesting concept, but little more.

Enforcing keystrokes every 5 seconds is a horrible way to facilitate writing.

In fact, this reminds me quite a bit of those algorithmic sites that give interviewees a time limit (ie: 30 minutes) to come up with a solution. As the timer approaches 1 minute or so, the timer turns red, blinks, sometimes increases in size, or beeps. I'm sure if you measured the output during those stressful moments, productivity goes down immensely.
Your statistic is incorrect. The incidents described took place over a much smaller number of miles. Only I believe 14 months of the Self-Driving Car program, not the sum total of it's driving to date. (I said 12 above, but I think it's actually 14 months.)

424,331 miles, according to the report. http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/cadmvdisengagerepo...

Nor are you counting all of the times the driving software handed control back to the driver. Consider each one of those equivalent to your human driver falling asleep at the wheel.
No hardware HEVC according to [1]Sam Nazarko at OSMC. It's software decoding for HEVC. He's already had his hands on it.

[1] https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/raspberry-pi-3-announced-with-os...
I left the Bay Area, not Silicon Valley, 6 years ago and since then I've been able to realize a 40% salary increase (this has more to do with experience and seniority than locale - just making the point that good salaries are possible outside SV) and I've purchased a house and a rental property. The latter would have been unthinkable in the Bay Area. Plus the gender ratio is much better for men almost anywhere else.

I don't even think SF and SV are good places to start out anymore. You can learn skills anywhere with the internet, and you miss out on early investments due to the opportunity cost of rent. If you want to live in the Bay Area, it's better to hunker down someplace cheaper for a decade or more, save up a down payment, and then lateral into a midlevel or senior role at a tech company, whose salaries are high enough to service a mortgage but not high enough to save a down payment and pay rent at the same time.
>spend the money you save on offices and increase developers salary.

Yeah, the salary of the developers is usually increased when moving into a lower cost of living area, because of all the money the company saves thanks to the low office rent.
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CA property tax increases are limited to 2% a year and only get re-assessed after a change of ownership or new construction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...
This definitely did a good job in getting me into the flow, the 5 second timeout forced me into writing something down as soon as I had something in mind, no matter what that turned out to be. In one way, that made me rehash several ideas I had just written, in another way, it forced me to leap into a few weird ideas that I've never thought of before, and that happened because I was trying not to do the mistake of rehashing. Interesting how being put on the spot might even pressure you into getting creative!
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He worked at Youtube, which is actually in San Bruno. Living in SF is the trendy thing to do so he probably felt the 'real' experience would be more worthwhile (which it sounds like it was). From the southern part of SF (not South San Francisco, that is different) it's not a crazy commute to San Bruno. To Mountain View it would have been hell.
According to Wolfram Alpha, $140,000 is equivalent to $85,000 in Atlanta, once you've adjusted for the cost of living.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=$140000+in+San+Francis...
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"never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
My base salary went up slightly, and my total compensation went down. We'll see how the options turn out.
To be clear, I'm writing from the perspective of having a family with children. Believe me, I've run the numbers and there's no way I could buy or even rent a decent house there without a massive commute (which I can't stand).

Glad to be proven wrong here. I'd go back and entertain offers I've had if I knew I was wrong.
I made the comparison because at the beginning of the video, he talks about how they split into two teams; one used jQuery and the other React. Apparently the jQuery team moved significantly slower. I found that hard to believe given all the hacks they had to with React later on.
surprised Denver/Boulder isn't on this list.

I've gone from lusting over migrating my career to the Bay Area, to becoming almost completely averse to the idea over the last two years.
Author of the app here. I use this daily, mostly for journalling. I like to think of it as a way to shut up the inner editor, and separate writing and editing into two different steps (as they should be) - and it works amazingly well for that.
It's useless trying to talk sense into someone who clearly has a deep sense of resentment.
Yeah I think the use-case here is more the writing that you have to do, but don't want to do. For me, I have to write up some method sections for a paper. Boring, but easy. This 'app' is nice for that; you don't want to lose progress so you just crank something out as fast as possible and fix it later. You're right though, it's probably not for inspired writing...
This was a nice trip down memory lane, first to FlashDevelop and then to FDT (which is what my team always used to use) - it's actually rather nice to see that both are still being actively developed.
I don't think consumers know exactly how these devices could be accessed - the assumption for almost anyone is that cameras and microphones don't turn on when the user doesn't know about it. Were there a company that did such a thing the backlash would still be incredibly strong I think - even the most anti-privacy "I have nothing to hide" person would object to their watch microphone turning on in their bedrooms. Unfortunately we need to get to the point of having some real public privacy disaster for the public to pay attention. We have wiretapping and recording laws for a reason - the idea that people give their right to privacy up to a EULA on a daily basis is a false choice - either stop engaging with the world or give up your privacy to the goodwill of a company. There'll be a tipping point sooner or later.
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Maybe they should let users pay to recover their deleted writing?
"Support Vector Machines (which as I understand it are largely dead, but the theory behind them is interesting and could lead to more developments)."

Wow, that happened fast. SVMs seemed all the rage a few years ago.

I think it shows the importance of understanding the formalisms underlying machine learning approaches, and their corresponding strengths and weaknesses. Neural networks had been on the outs for a long time, before the realization that having much more data to train against could massively increase their usefulness.

Wonder what the next ML technique to see a resurgence will be.
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That's why I think a smartphone app with well calibrated alerts would help. People learn pretty quickly how to administer a router when Xbox Live doesn't work properly.
Are there other family-related costs that are significantly lower in Atlanta than in SF? I'm still having trouble making the math work out.
> ...which means knowing how computers work.

In that case, assembler is more appropriate.
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I'm about the furthest from "trendy" you can imagine. But our quality of life living in Bernal Heights was amazing.
Main focus is unfortunately on tips instead of actual gameplay content. The puzzle concept itself is great, though.
Regulation isn't a magic bullet though. I've seen countless companies check the boxes of regulation for their software in the government space only to have them fail spectacularly because it was done as cheaply as possible.

Regulation will never cover all possibilities of a company acting shitty; if companies find ways to doing things cheaper and still being able to check that box just so they have no liability then they will do it.

I don't think these types of get-out-of-jail-free-cards, even though they're very well intentioned, are ultimately a good thing.

But time will tell either way :)
No, it can't distinguish because it doesn't know either.
That's really interesting; I wonder why that's the case. My girlfriend and I are split on this particular issue. I have no problem moving around to wherever the best job offers are (even if they're in a different country), whereas she wants to stay in the town she grew up in — or at least within a few hours drive of it.

The difference may come down to how we grew up; my father traveled quite a bit when we were younger, so I lived in France from ages 3-6. I thought those few years added to my life experience and gave me a unique cultural perspective. My girlfriend never moved growing up though, and she believes that moving hurts the friendships that young children develop. To be honest, I'm not sure who's right. I was always kind of introverted, so I didn't have particularly strong attachments, but she is very outgoing and extroverted and still keeps in touch with friends from elementary school.
This also assumes that everyone can become a good programmer, which is IMO far from being the case.

Programming is an ART, not everyone can be Bach or Picasso even though most can slap paint on canvas or hit keys on a piano. It's actually a lot worse with software engineering because the end result doesn't only have aesthetic value but is an interconnected system that in many cases subsumes many facets of our everyday lives.

Software engineering is hard and requires intelligence, creativity and experience. Pretending that everyone can be a good/effective software engineer through training alone is supremely naive, actively encouraging this sort of society is extremely dangerous.

TL;DR There is no room for egalitarianism in software, it should be a meritocracy first and foremost, where the best are encouraged and those not cut out for it swiftly dropped from further participation. We have experienced what bad software engineers can do and the cost to society at large that they are directly responsible for. Let's not pretend that this new populist push will improve matters.
Probably not. I don't think it's sufficiently well-defined for me to trust an arbiter to resolve the bet satisfactorily. Also, time value of money.
Oh yes. Even in Germany. When some nutcase whizzed past you on the autobahn doing 200kph, it was pretty much always a BMW.
I found this to be a great article and can identify very closely with it. I created a webservice back in 2010. Fortunately I am still operating, although certainly not "killing it". At least not enough to go full time.

Lesson 1. Sales and Marketing. So true. I think every entrepreneur greatly underestimates sales and renvenue growth. It's easy to create "top-down" market share spreadsheets and imagine the opportunities. It just never works that way. I am starting to learn that Sales is a major part of any company. People tend to think that just because there are fewer and fewer brick and mortar stores, and face to face meetings for that matter, that sales isn't an integral a part of a company.

Lesson 2. Indeed money is important. But at the same time how necessary is it for a lot of what Silicon Valley is producing these days. Hardware and development tools are the cheapest they have ever been. You certainly don't need a ton of venture backing to create a web service. That is the approach I am taking.

Lesson 3. With my web service I never created spreadsheets with forecasted user growth. But at the same time can say growth never really took off the way I had hoped. More important to me is year over year growth.

Lesson 4. I am still running this as a sole founder... Anyone out there interested in sales/marketing?

Lesson 5. Great point. Always a difficult decision knowing what features to add. More and more I add features and have the requesting customer at least partially fund the development of it. And more often than not don't release them as a "public" features. Sometimes you have to resort to "consultingware" until your fully self-serve web serivce takes off on its own.

Lesson 6. Indeed. Never be afraid to reach out to people who sign up for your service and ask them more. Stackoverflow is a great site to "find peoples pain".

Lesson 7. Yes - you always have to keep your chin up, especially on days where you feel

It would be interesting if Ross could share some indicators on his revenue. If not, other metrics like how long it took to get the first sale, etc.
Pretty much :)

The way we consume media has changed. 20 years ago I'd have a daily newspaper to read on the commute and subscribe to a few magazines - say 5 a month.

In today's terms a spend of perhaps £1.50 a day for media.

Now I'll read 5 articles on the Guardian, 5 on Ars, 1 on Wired, 2 on the register, 1 on the Telegraph, 1 on NYT, another on The Atlantic etc, etc. Tomorrow will be a different selection. If I bought subscriptions as they are typically set online I'd be spending £30 or something a DAY on media. That's ridiculous.

So yes, there needs to be a better micro payments model for media consumption. I'd happily pay. The Google way of doing it is closest thus far, but doesn't give me any control of who gets paid. eg I'm not happy with a percentage of my micro spend going to the clickbaity upworthy article I clicked and bounced straight off.
Thank you for this! Very helpful. It worked great for AT&T. However, for Verizon, I couldn't find the settings they were talking about. I'm not sure if it's because I'm not a Verizon mobile customer (only Internet), or if they've changed it in the meantime.
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Come to Alpharetta, Ga (or Atlanta in general). It's great. Home prices are not terrible, taxes are not bad, great schools & people are friendly. Only real problem is traffic - staggered commutes and working from home can mitigate that.
>In mathematics, multiple authors are always listed alphabetically by family name; ie there is no "first" or "second" author.

Is there any research showing this standard to be fair? People pay more attention to the first item of a list than to the middle ones, making me think that one's position on such a list could have a small benefit. Less important if there are overall less multiple name papers, which it seems from the rest of your comment, but still a factor as long as multiple names on a paper do happen.
Next I expect they will tracking license plates and spending enormous amounts of money correlating those plates to actual people.
Yay! Congrats, glad to make something useful (and yet silly)!
It's geographically close enough.
One thing I've noticed about cost-of-living discussions is that people fail to take into account that the cost-of-living isn't some abstract constant, but is still buying something "real". In general, which area has more crime: The 90th percentile cost of living area or the 5th percentile cost of living area? Which area has nice stores with a wide variety of organic fruits and veggies, and which area has stores where they can't afford to replace the floor tiles when they pop out? As you say, you can't just do a cost-of-living calculation blindly.

That said, adding in those factors often makes Silicon Valley come out even worse. I've visited it quite a bit and it is not nicer enough to account for cost-of-living difference, unless you simply can not stand to live somewhere with less than perfect weather. But I think that's special to the Valley.