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Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, jQuery, Ruby, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Heroku, Git

I'm a full stack developer (4+ years) with a background in UX/UI design (10+ years). I excel at helping others make great product decisions, especially in the early, exploratory phase.
I've worked in roles as a user researcher, lead designer, product lead, and in conversion optimization and retention. I have SaaS product management experiences, trained jr. developers (as head instructor at a leading coding bootcamp) and have shipped multiple MVPs.

I'm currently working on my startup https://dayboard.co/, and am looking to take on a project to help fund development. I'm particularly interested in building software MVPs.

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If you like to see code / UI samples, my email's in my profile. Thanks!
I think there's a specimen in the Microsoft museum archives too. I saw it on a tour of their warehouse about ten or fifteen years ago.
Assembly happens in China, many of the parts are actually made in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. China still isn't great at high value part creation (well, it's more like, no one dares move that tech to China).
Saying "this is aristocracy" is kind of like saying that FDR was a fascist; it adds nothing to the conversation except emotional associations. If the idea will give rise to harmful consequences, say what those consequences are, instead of trying to associate it with a name you don't like.

(See also Orwell's Politics and the English Language, if memory serves.)
> to arrive at their preferred judgment first

> then ... to justify their rulings

Well, unless justification and judgment aren't pretty much synonym, that's a contradiction? The subconscious decision met by such a judge should be guided by an organic sound understanding of justice. The verbalization of this kind of emotion should only bring up the true reasons of thought, maybe polished and cut short. At least, that would be my lame excuse.
Depends on your definition of money I guess. At my peak before I moved to heads-up I was playing about 4-8 tables of 10/20 shorthanded at a time and averaging about 1.5 BB/100 hands after the rake. 4-8 tables online is about 400 hands an hour so that's a take of approximately $120/hour. Granted they were grueling hours and no way could you really do 8 in a day. I could make more contracting programming now I guess, but at the time it was an unreasonable amount of money for someone in grad school to be a social worker.

I know a lot of people that went the poker - day trading route, some who love it and make money. I'm not much interested in business enough to learn anything beyond P/E, and I'm still not 100% convinced that people who make money trading are doing anything but ending up on the good side of the random walk, but I accept that it's possible ;)

I also know some people that went from poker -> day trading -> fantasy sports because there's a lot more casual sports fan playing fantasy sports and making bad bets than there are traders making bad bets.
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An overview of Tutorial D (the language of RelDB):

http://reldb.org/docs/AnonymousAndFirstClassOperatorsInTutor...

More instructive.
Startup 24M’s Batteries Could Better Harness Wind and Solar Power
You should update the Wikipedia article with your findings
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke
So what does the USAF do when they find a crack? If they do rebuilds it sounds like it takes a lot more time to do the same fix.
Only if you are sticking to synchronous IO. With nonblocking and async IO it gets much more complicated.
I think it is highly debatable whether this is a potential dogwhistle. The author explained the facts are they are:

> But if you’re not home, your phone sends the command to a server in China, which then passes the command along to the socket.

> The result is that the unique network ID of your socket is transported in an unencrypted form to the Chinese server — and anyone who gets their hands on the ID can then control the socket.

The problem with tying this to the other security breaches caused by Chinese hackers would actually make this article _more_ sensationalist because that would allege that this company is somehow affiliated with the hacking activity.

If the company and server were located in other countries other than the US, it is highly likely that the author would specify the country as well.
No thanks. I don't hate Tor. You need to find a better solution. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare
Exactly.

And there are much cheaper and more elegant ways to concentrate light than a massive glass/water-blob:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_lens

Just mount a freakin fresnel lens on the tracking device and you have a system with fractional weight ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drE54ctrHBY

(My guess is that this is originally an art project or maybe a Joke that was misinterpreted by some not-so-technical media)

Get your fresnel lenses e.g. here:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=fresnel+lens
If the device's operation is dependent on the GFW passing traffic, that's an operational risk not present for devices backed by servers in other areas.
I was involved in a drawn out litigation over discovery once as a technical SME. Our attorney and the rest of us were very nearly held in contempt for not producing material.

Turns out the judge, in whose chambers there was a picture of him on an all-American football team in the 1960s, was dumbfounded that a DVD could contain 80,000 emails and about 30,000 other documents. The opposing counsel, equally aged, agreed.

We were literally saved by lunch -- we were able to track down the judges clerk and get her to translate.
Pay. More. This. Is. The. Market. Speaking.
For a time at least not for Nexus phones sold on Verizon.

But why should I have to buy a Nexus phone just to receive OS updates and not get crapware?
Miguel de Icaza: “As of today, I am officially miguelMicrosoft.com”
I will continue to ignore Amazon product reviews.
Just want to say that this is one of the main reasons why "compromise" is not a viable option between gun control advocates and gun owners.

Gun control advocates want "common sense regulations". As a consequence, they slowly start nibbling away at gun rights.

Gun owners would like to keep their guns.

It makes currently owned goods, which were legally purchased, illegal. Sort of like an eminent domain gone wild.

The legislation like it's written would outlaw you lending a gun to a friend to go duck hunting. It's unclear whether you could let your friend shoot your gun while you're there, but he couldn't borrow it to check it out on a range trip.
I'm wondering what is the cognitive dissonance with employers who are unwilling to train workers. I mean, I understand the reasons if you're a an SMB, but large corporations used to train their employees or hold something close to apprenticeship programs.

I'm guessing this is more along the lines of "we want qualified work but we're not really willing to pay for it"?
Would the rep who claims to be in fear of losing her/his job be employed from that cottage industry? That would make the claim sound a bit more plausible, assuming, of course malice in the review-for-discount corps.
Probably a good idea, but I can say that when I worked there in 2011 it was EASILY the most political place I've ever worked, including the US Government.
"So instead of a discussion you just want others to agree with your perspective otherwise, to you, they're "not contributing." So essentially to you there are two types of conversations: An echo chamber (contributing) or disagreement (not contributing)."

No, you're not contributing because you're trying to define arbitrary markets to prove your point. And when told that's not how it works, you continue to base everything off the arbitrary markets that you've defined.
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How is it coerced? The author reports the facts exactly as they are.

If the author had instead attempted to tie this to, say, past security breaches caused by hackers operating out of China, then that would be framing the situation in a coerced way.
This is so good. Why did u get djen.co instead of djent.co?
"Now who's making up arbitrary markets?"

Still you.

"Apple allows no other app stores on its platform. There is no competition."

Sure there is. Android is still out there, and they run apps too. If Apple is too controlling with it's store, developers will go to Android.
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Our actual compensation is flexible and we want to work with you to make sure we land on something that we both feel good about.
Sure and I am doing that, but 'stuff' can happen.[1]

[1] And already has, at least to me.
€200,000 in Spain seems a pretty good wage
sounds awesome! just applied = )
People have an OK grasp of formal logic, that is the formalism. It's learned at an early age, it's prerequisite for deductive (or inductive?) learning actually. Most might lack the cognitive ability to exercise those formalism in an abstract synthesis into long formulas.
The article says the average salary in Spain is around $22k. Even at twice that, it's not hard to see why developers are not working for (or maybe even in) Spain. I suspect the problem has more to do with Spanish businesses not being willing or able to compete for developers with market salary rates.

It's frustrating that they don't provide data like that in articles like this. Instead of they a single data point anecdote about how a company can't find an Agile project manager for "up to" $220k.

How about comparing the percentage of software developers in Spain to the US? Or discussing how the education for technology is different? Or what percentage of the unemployed are developers? Or software developer salaries compared to rest of EU. Or the number of Spanish developers working abroad or for companies abroad. Instead have a graph of Spain's GDP and a graph showing the size of their workforce.

This is why I rarely ever click on articles and only read the comments. Most of the time it's the only place with any substance.
Consider the following:

Man kills man.

Man kills black man.

White man kills black man.

Assuming the facts are all the same, do you understand how the selective informing of facts frames the readers understanding or impression of the issue?

Thanks for the downvote though.
What's weird is that Apple has a lovely, convenient system for in-app payments called Apple Pay that has a great pricing model that everyone is happy with (usually 2-3%). They just don't allow it to be used for subscriptions. Why? What is their goal here? Let's survey the possibilities...

1. To make a ton of money by extracting revenue from developers and content providers. This is the "obvious" goal everything immediately thinks of, but I think it's actually unlikely. Apple makes MUCH more money from device sales. It makes more financial sense to have a robust offering of content and apps. They are making good margins on their own services, but their business model in terms of the app/music stores is to run them just above break even.

2. Convenient payment. Not the reason, because Apple Pay would do that at a lower price.

3. Customer service. Since Apple is technically the merchant here reselling a digital good, they can also provide refunds and customer service. But I doubt they need a 15-30% margin for this. They could just contractually require that developers refund in-app Apple Pay transactions under certain conditions.

4. Privacy. Now here's a real reason. To offer a 2-3% fee, payment processors need to control for fraud. One way they do this is by verifying contact info. Now, for physical goods there is no way around asking for the billing address, so Apple Pay supports that. But it's not necessary for digital goods. Apple would not be able to offer Apple Pay for subscriptions without degrading user privacy.
That's not true at all. The market is very clearly all of mobile software. You do not need a court to define that.
If these facts are accurate, this is bad.
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> I'm wondering what is the cognitive dissonance with employers who are unwilling to train workers. I mean, I understand the reasons if you're a an SMB, but large corporations used to train their employees or hold something close to apprenticeship programs.

It was far less common for people to change jobs back then, too. Neither employers nor employees feel any real loyalty towards one another, so investing in one another feels foolish. There's nothing to incentivise someone to stay once he's learnt the skills he needs to get a position elsewhere.
> I wanna know the best way to remember what key maps to what character.

When I started to learn typing on a keyboard, I had a keyboard layout printed out and taped it on the side of the CRT screen. I never looked down on my keyboard, which is a reason every time someone using a extra fancy backlit keyboard makes me cringe.

I did the same thing for Cyrillic layout, the same thing for Greek layout, the same thing for Japanese カナ, the same thing for Chinese 五笔，and the same for APL.
Markets aren't for working stiffs.
You have two groups:

1. 5 million unemployed people
2. very highly sought after workers

The employers complaining about people in group 2 being scarce are merely not paying enough. The workers complaining in group 1 need more skills that the market wants. They're at different ends of the spectrum.

Other than that they live in the same country, they really don't have much to do with each other. Whether you can convert people from group 1 to group 2 is an interesting question, but generally if it were easy to be in group 2, a lot more people would be in it.
Any specifically in the software space? Operating at scale?

I've looked into cooperative business organisations in the past. From my recollections, these typically fall into a few classifications:

1. Political parties. Often themselves strongly aligned with cooperative or anarchist principles.

2. Labour unions. In some cases.

3. A few creatives collaborations, but with pretty loose integration. Artists, performers, or writers organisations.

4. Food-based businesses, typically smaller tea or coffee houses, or co-op food stores.

5. Mondragon Corporation. Pretty much an only-one-in-class, of an industrial cooperative. Also almost everyone's default example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

6. Producer co-ops. Often in agriculture, though others exist. Blue Diamond Almonds, and, previously, both Visa and MasterCard (the latter have both since reorganised as for-profit joint-stock companies).

I don't know of any business organisations that perform software or consulting services on a cooperative basis, though of course, the entire Free Software movement is a non-business organisation of such work.

Of course, I DDG on posting and immediately find: http://www.software.coop/info/

Though I'd argue that the fact I'd never heard of this group and their size somewhat emphasises my point.
Umm, doesn't the signal has to go up to the satellite, and then back down? That is not good for latency. You can see numbers like >1s round-trip time.
I too did this during college. I remember specifically deciding to go for a SUPER HIGH VARIANCE playthrough and just did 3 max bets in a row, won all 3 and then Autobet a dollar at a time while i went to the beach to finish the rest. Made about $2k for laying on the beach. Gosh I miss those days.
ssh and vi in a terminal would probably work well in this case.
For me, the backlighting isn't so that you look at the keys while you're typing, it's so that you don't start typing with your fingers shifted to the side and have to back up.
As I recall, when I started using Google in the late 90's,
it was fast, amazingly fast, and that was in the days of a clunky internet.
"D) The court observed that market conditions create a feedback loop, e.g. more people write apps for the dominant platform, that make the dominant platform more attractive to write apps for, round and round it goes, etc. This is obviously true for the smartphone market."

Is it? Android dominates mobile marketshare. Yet iOS is not hurting for apps.

Everything else considered, you would have to make an extreme stretch to say that the app market does not include Android.
That part, I agree with.
Starting about 2009, there have been a lot of discussions about whether the unemployment in the US was "structural" or not.

Some argued that a huge number of laborers and potential employees did not have necessary skills and therefore would be unable to find work. Period. This was a big component of unemployment.

Others including Paul Krugman and Dean Baker argued that, because employment was down across most every field, the cause of the unemployment was insufficient demand. They basically likened it to the Great Depression, where highly employable people were thrown out of work despite their skill levels.

This news story makes me think that we have some combination of the two stories going on in Spain. And maybe also the US?

Of course, how the country responds to that situation is a separate discussion.

Maybe the government can just borrow some cash (at historically low rates) and, instead of building another airport somewhere, educate twenty thousand IT engineers, even paying them to go to school. Maybe government could demand that employers train people.

Also, what's going on in the EU with the free movement of labor? Don't some IT people want to move from Estonia and Poland down to sunny Spain?
It is self-evidently not.
"Up to" 200k, allegedly, from a single source. This is either lazy or biased reporting.
I think if you wanted to truly implement some type of functionality like this, time on site could be a component. It would definitely filter out the case of someone like me, who clicks through to the comments and then clicks the story link in the comments.

I do this so my browser history points back to the comments when I'm done with the article. I have no idea how many other people do this.
The wages were too low. The skilled spaniard fled the country.

Combined that cuting spendings in education.

And now act surprised at the result.
I think that "no strong governments" is the key. At the very least, manufacturing business needs strong government in order to maintain reasonable stability. It doesn't necessarily have to be a particularly nice government, though a nice government (at least at some minimal level, not trying to be too optimistic here) may be necessary for a robust consumer market.
Very true. Just compare salaries of software engineers in most EU countries with salaries in the US.

If you're a good developer, 99% of the time it's better to work remotely from Europe for a US company. It really is a simple problem to solve -- pay talented people in Europe more. And yet, for some reason, this is often dismissed by CEOs as a ridiculous statement. They're probably the same people who think you need 100 software engineers to complete a complex technology project.
> There's nothing to incentivise someone to stay once he's learnt the skills he needs to get a position elsewhere.

Are there no velvet/golden handcuffs allowed in .es?
Maybe a dumb question but I don't see any mention of frequencies/power they use to test in the wiki.

I'm a little fuzzy on cell bands but I thought they were all restricted(lots of ham gear has cell bands explicitly locked out).
"Original research" is banned.
I've been a top Amazon reviewer -- at one point I was #84 -- and at no time have I seen any reviewer complaining about someone else's review. At least not if it's an honest review based on hands-on experience. (There can be quite an outcry if it's obvious the review is fake, such as someone who clearly didn't read the book she's writing about.)

But if you give an honest opinion -- even one with which I disagree -- I'll never even downvote it, much less report it.
"The 30% doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that Apple prevents you from passing that cost on to your customers. You're not allowed to have your regular price be X and your Apple price be X+30%. That's what's anticompetitive to me."

That's not true at all. In fact, Spotify did have IAP in the app, and they charged an extra $3 for it.
WhatsApp grew to billion users focusing on product, not technology
It's a brand like anything else, and this is business. Ironically, what you've managed to do is make any actual posts for jobs in "Australia" harder to find by mentioning it 4 times. Let's keep this thread professional, please.
The benefits were far better too. I've worked at the same place my father did; the benefits he had when he started 35 years ago are literally unobtainable for our generation.
I don't use Java EE since I know there is a thing called J2ee/Java EE – 10 years ago.

IMHO, Don't call self a Java SE if you just know how to configure some shity XML configuration files in Java EE stacks.
Yeah, that's what the client is willing to pay to the consulting firm who don't want to hire the guy at more than 24K ...

Sad truth.
Even the opt-out seems backwards.
I checked the setting, immediately saw that the button was disabled and thought, "Oh, I'm good." Until I read the description and thought about it. The switch needs to be "on" to opt-out.
http://imgur.com/ZZTL3ct

Important to note is that it also says "...if you clear your cache, you will lose your opt-out setting." What cache?
I have a problem finding credence with any article which talks about preventing a future financial crash without mentioning the Central Bank Of Japan.

They've taken the liberty of purchasing vast amounts of equities in the hopes of financing the Japanese retirement fund.

>While the Bank of Japan’s name is nowhere to be found in regulatory filings on major stock investors, the monetary authority’s exchange-traded fund purchases have made it a top 10 shareholder in about 90 percent of the Nikkei 225 Stock Average, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg from public data. It’s now a major owner of more Japanese blue-chips than both BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest money manager, and Vanguard Group, which oversees more than $3 trillion
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-24/the-tokyo-...

Demographics and central bank balance sheets being what they are, there is no way these purchases can continue indefinitely and this is certainly not indicative of a healthy market.
Sounds like the company is Chinese though.
Or just, you know, abusive partner.
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