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I'll add another voice to the job market for experienced developers and managers. It's terrible. I have an advanced CS degree, in-demand programming skills and leadership experience. I've hunted for full-time, part-time, and contracting work for a couple of months.

Interviews tend to go the following way: pass the initial interview, pass the programming test, pass the technical interview and never hear back (even after a couple of following up emails and/or phone calls). This grind really wears down one's self-confidence and outlook. It's been a depressing summer.

I have over 12 months of living expenses in my savings account and a very supportive wife, so I'm going to do a startup and see how far I can take it. It feels like a better use of my time and promises some new learning experiences compared to more interviewing.
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I can't agree more.

There are even camps in the (academic at least) queer community that argued against gay marriage: we should not be opting to include individual minority groups (while excluding others like the poly community, though the benefits and rights with those would be an absolute headache to legislate) in heterosexual norms, but working to remove the recognition heterosexual norms from secular government.

Even just renaming it from "marriage" to "civil union" would ameliorate a lot of the tension surrounding it. There's no reason a religious or personal ceremony should be of any interest to the government; it's only the rights and benefits that matter.
May the Floss be with you?
I'm heartened to see that AgileBits hasn't removed the single purchase option.

I'm viscerally averse to paying for a software subscription, especially when the essence of the app requires significant investment and/or dedication to the platform. By purchasing a software license, I can at least know that even should I choose to never again spend another cent on the product, I retain control and accessibility to the data that I've entrusted to the application.
> I floss twice a year

Dude, I can smell your breath all the way here in Texas.
For these to be equivalent, your unemployment pay would have to equal the value of 6months in the bank. Ignoring the fact you could have both, I can only think of two scenarios where unemployment / welfare is equal to six months pay:

1. You live in a very socially generous country and the unemployed are paid what they made before unemployment.

2. You did not make very much money to begin with.

Having six month's salary in the bank is a good strategy, regardless of where you live (ignoring countries where banks are untrustworthy enough that people don't bank their money).
I was under the impression it had a central group and had an official platform that chartered other groups.

Also, you don't use lethal force on people you aren't afraid of (somewhat of a generalization here). Cookouts DO help.

Anyway, I'm speaking mostly from headlines and not research or IRL experience. I probably shouldn't do that.
Another job as programmer, or another job as a project-/product-manager?
It's great if you can leverage the SSH keying system, but using SSH "raw" for anything high-bandwidth is a disaster (try using sshfs on a high latency network, you will get two digit kilobytes when you know the network connection can sustain a megabyte)
The payload reminds me of '90s-era malware: more intent on just trashing up the system than with gaining any sort of profit. Wiping random people's MBRs isn't exactly nice, but considering that's all it really does, it's a far cry from what most malware seems to be concerned with doing nowadays.
This is very cool, thank you for sharing. I wish I could demo, but my current work is such that I really can't expose my endpoints/data to a 3rd party (financial services/PII type work). That said, pretend I could provided we had appropriate security - tell me about the security involved.
> Rust, I think, suffers from a lack of empathy with a novice audience.

I'd be interested in hearing more about this. Do you mean a novice to Rust, a novice to low-level programming, a novice to programming in general?

We're actively working on fixing up errors to be even better, so hearing about specifics here would be quite valuable!
True - although one often prefers the OD not be fatal.
Haha, every line is a point, when viewed sideways.

The reactionary "whew I've made it in now close the bathroom door" position you ascribe to certain "T" people wouldn't be shared by all that many "Q" folk, although it is of a piece with some "G" voices elsewhere in this thread. There is a natural tension in any political coalition, between those who join for ethical reasons and those who are primarily self-interested (and, one supposes, those for whom the whole movement is only a political tool). Do we see some fraying around the edges?

Perhaps TFA is flamewar fodder, but that says more about this forum than about TFA itself, which when taken on its own terms is interesting and imaginative.
Its a new tribe. Wherever you happen to live geographically, you see their strange boats landing. They have scary new weapons, weird customs and odd food.

Right now they just want to build their little forts on your land and live in peace. But make no mistake. They believe in manifest destiny and they are here to assimilate you.
Just curious, how is he laundering them? Wouldn't he need to get clean bitcoin back in return?
Why do you assume this was illegal in Sweden in the late nineties? In Sweden, downloading of IP was illegalized 2005-06-01. Before that it was only illegal to spread digital IP...
That's true, and I think this article was just using Uber as a jumping-off point to talk about doing business in China. I worked for a company not long ago that did business there, and the hoops they had to jump through were enormous.
Given the proposed price relative to funding raised it's likely the investors will get their money back plus a small return, employees with options will likely get nothing or perhaps a token amount (after all the preferred terms are cashed in) and the founder gets to sell off another highly unprofitable business.

This will be chalked up as a "failed" startup but at least the investors get to take their money and play another round elsewhere. For the employees this is likely not a great thing. I'm guessing when they joined a hyped up startup it was in large part because they didn't want to work for companies like WalMart and stood to strike it rich if Jet went public or hit it big. Now they could be wearing a WalMart badge and the company sold out to save the ass of its investors.
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> I have over 12 months of living expenses in my savings account and a very supportive wive

Good on you. The family support is key during this - have been unemployed and non-productive, and family support helps tremendously to get through that period.

What sort of skills do you have, and what are you looking for (email me if you'd like)

It definitely can get very wearing on your self-confidence. Good luck to you!
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apparently it indicates divergence, i.e. the function does not return at all. Very interesting, I've never seen the notation before.
Thx. Updated the article.
That's weird. It's honestly never occurred to me to go to a newspaper for any "literal" claims about politics.

That's--well, that's what Snopes is for.
but there's also the fact that it's nice to be relatively young and healthy when you're chasing toddlers around the house.

Eh, on this point, I'll relate a comment I heard through someone recently. They were talking to a family member, getting their thoughts on the trade-offs between having kids younger versus older. Their answer was wonderfully succinct: "You're trading energy for patience."

The rest of your points are definitely valid. I have plenty of friends who've had kids later in life, naturally, without spending money on IVF, but there's definitely increased risk.

As for Downs, the magic number seems to be 35-36 years old. Even then, the odds don't go to 100% but they definitely increase substantially, so it's something to keep in mind (as well as your feeling on the ethics of prenatal testing and the associated decisions if they come back with a positive indication...).
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It helps that signing packages for Linux distributions costs $0, since they all use GPG. I actively avoid adding repositories that aren't signed with GPG keys for this reason, though it still doesn't protect me from compromised keypairs.
A few years ago I gave a talk at a university discussing this very topic. My view is that you should focus more on an "arrow" shape:

- become a senior with one topic (you don't have to be the ultimate master on this)
- have mid-level skills on topics surrounding that one main skill
- have a junior-level skillset on the outlying topics
- have some knowledge of anything beyond that

For example: a back-end developer should be really good at back-end development but they should have a very good understanding of the front-end, DevOps, and DB as well. They should have some rudimentary understanding of how UI/UX works and system administration as well. Beyond that, they should have basic ability to understand what's being discussed regarding product development, marketing, how the OS works on bare-metal, etc. etc.

I feel like that makes a more well-rounded employee that has an easier time moving around their space, understanding their co-workers, and, worst comes to worst, shifting to a new topic when it becomes relevant.
I didn't see numbers, but the two sides looks like they'd only be about as wide as a car lane, so not as wide as a tram lane, and the vehicule is possibly higher capacity than a tram...
I was thinking of chunkier savings, i.e. more on the order of 10-15 years' worth of expenses. The evaporation starts to hurt more at that scale, and here in the UK fixed rate bonds (which I think are the equivalent of your CDs) still pay less than inflation. Even "official" inflation.
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There isn't a lot that peeves me more than working with developers with poor git commit habits. As someone who takes every commit they make seriously, it can really demotivate/depress me when I look at my team's git log and see a series of poorly thought out commits and messages. It's always enjoyable to look at a piece of code, wonder why it is the way it is and to find that answer in a well written commit message by the author of the change. If a tool like his can at least help developers keep the diff portion of their commits usable, then I hope more people consider using it.

It'd be interesting if it could learn from a project's history and have a developer confirm that they really want to commit files that it has determined to be unrelated, together.
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This is pretty sloppy reporting. The single-wing tail-sitter drone design depicted in both the picture and video accompanying this article and discussed in the text had been abandoned as of last year: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/17/google-working-on-new...

They do still have a program for drone delivery, but we know nothing about the drones involved except that these aren't them.
How is this 'laundering'? Laundering is putting dirty money into some system and getting clean money back. This appears to be just giving some bitcoins away and getting nothing back. Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding something.

[edit: okay, paulcole just beat me to the punch.]
Yes, I did read it and saw that the part of the intervention that actually worked was changing diet content rather than quantity. But the headline is "you'd be happier if you ate less", and that is a false and pernicious statement.
That paragraph might be clearer, but Simon is referring to supporting logical replication from 9.1 to recent releases, which essentially means backporting logical decoding (added in 9.4) back to 9.1. There's no way this could get to official 9.1 branch, as that'd be a major risk / behavior change.

Making "zero downtime" upgrades possible is part of the whole logical replication effort - both within the community and in 2ndQuadrant in particular.

Petr Jelinek actually described how to do that using UDR (uni-directional logical replication) in 2014:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/a/a8/Udr-pgconf.pdf

There might be a newer talk somewhere, I'm sure he spoke about it on several events.
You can also git add -p, but that's a habit you have to develop.
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This; and HTTP has a massive install base, readily available clients on every platform, casual debuggability from tools many people already possess (browser address bar, browser js console, browser addons, curl).

Specific protocols have their merits, but they can only really compete in the backend-to-backend space, and even there they have to compete against HTTP endpoints. In anything that can be construed as vaguely front-end, HTTP has a massive first mover advantage with the ecosystem it brings.
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Congrats on landing WebRender 2.

> "Externally we'll probably just call it WebRender. Not many people knew about the first one and most users won't care that it took us a few iterations to perfect :)"

It's your choice, but considering the audience of people interested in browser features (especially browser features for Servo) is largely tech savvy, I'd recommend against it. Of the examples I can think of where version numbers have been messed with, I can't think of a single one that hasn't caused unnecessary issues (Final Fantasy 3/6, the "new" iPad, XBox One).
Is there any particular reason, beyond it being a saying, that it should be 6 months in the bank? (Is there any data to support that number?) Just wondering, if anyone knows.
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A new concept in Las Vegas - and in the country - Imaginland offers convenience for single working parents and dual-income parents trying to juggle work, meetings, errands, time for themselves alone or as a couple, emergencies, and taking care of kids. With the ability to register for childcare through their mobile phones, and get an instant reservation 24/7, parents find relief and solutions to their problems when babysitters cancel, they have to work late, a last-minute lunch is required to close a big deal, an old friends comes to town, or an emergency comes up.

Imaginland is now taking names on an Interest List for the November Opening, and the center will be offering perks for new members through its Indiegogo campaign launching in September.

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Mackup (https://github.com/lra/mackup) is a great tool for this. Beware, however, that it creates symlinks in place of your existing files. So if you decide you don't like it, run the uninstall command before removing the Mackup folder or bad things will happen (I learned from experience).
Often times, part of being an entrepreneur or creating a startup is doing it lean. Living off rice and beans and ramen. Doing that at a fancy ski resort sounds impractical.
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> I think I'm covered for a decade if necessary.

Really? Not doubting you, but that would mean a whole fairly big pile of money already.

I didn't say 'large' companies at all, did I? It's a balance finding smaller/medium companies, but there's definitely loads where you can make an impact and negotiate to be rewarded appropriately.

If you have 10 years of savings, why are you worried about layoffs?
Totally agree, jet just...doesn't have some things. But it does have some other things, and sometimes slightly lower than amazon. It's so low I almost made a purchase with them once!
Europe is a has been. And it has been for at least 70 years.

China is rising.
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When the article is less sensationalist, HN often expresses an interest in stories about drug addiction.

I can see a couple of reasons for this.

First, there seems to be a prevailing view here is that the war on drugs is an abject failure.

Furthermore, I believe addiction gets attention here as a fascinating scientific puzzle, whose questions and answers are deeply involved with philosophical issues such as free will and the nature of desire.

This is probably why the article made it as far up as it did on HN.
> the event as a whole doesn't seem worse than Spain's derailment that happened two years later

Spanish authorities didn't tried to censor the accident, nor did they tried to bury the wreckage with corpses and human remains still mangled within the wagons.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8658959...

> in which many more were killed

Honestly, with all the censorship forced by the chinese communist party regarding the accident, how can anyone really tell?

In fact, how many accidents have occurred since then that were successfully covered up?
If you have a product people have paid money for, and say you're releasing it as open source because it isn't sustainable, the people looking for that code aren't typically interested "training data".

I get your point that messy code may be useful for other purposes, but believe that the vast majority of users are looking for code to solve their problems, not "training data" or research.

That said, as you say, rights holders can do what they will.
WordPress is a mess. It's a never ending source of problems. It'll save you some time upfront and then it'll cause many headaches later on.

It's just better to stay away from it. It's not about being snobbish. It's just pointing out the truth.
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Good luck! Truly. I think if you can't find a place that wants you, then you make your own. Or at least try. Something will work out for you, I'm sure of it. Key is to not quit, to not stop, and to always look for another way. :)
> I'm not sure how cutting back social services points to a liberal and progressive government at all. If anything it points to a more conservative one. Most progressives simply call themselves that but, like the Clintons, their actions are the exact opposite.

That depends on which services are being cut, and why.

If policies do not achieve liberal goals, even if those policies were initiated by liberals at some point in the past, it makes sense for today's liberal politicians to modify or eliminate those policies.

For example, if a welfare program is keeping people in poverty indefinitely, it doesn't work. A liberal or progressive would want a program that lifts people out of poverty. That was Bill Clinton's argument for welfare reform.
Right, a $6000 Eames lounge chair just appeals to "innate human preferences", and has nothing to do with demonstrating power and wealth.
If you think winter might be coming and want to prepare financially, the #1 most important piece of advice is this:

Lower your expenses.

Nothing gets you into trouble more than having a high expense load. Get as close as you can to spending nothing.

The next most important piece of advice is to build up cash. 6 months of your monthly burn is cutting it way too close. You should save until you have at least two years. What's more, you should save until you can actually invest some money.

These two bits of advice go hand in hand. The lower your expenses, the easier is to save 24+ months of runway up. And the reverse is true too.

Beyond that, you can do a couple other things to prepare yourself. You could join a larger, profitable company with no history of major layoffs. (Eg Google, Facebook, many others.) Or, you could take the opportunity now to start your own company, and maybe think about what sorts of businesses could benefit from an economic downturn when you do so. Focus on getting it profitable, rather than focusing on rapacious growth. Obviously, these moves (getting a job at a stable company or stating a company and getting it profitable) are more out of your control and harder to pull off. Which is why cutting expenses and saving as much as possible are the most critical endeavors.
lets start by removing the labels of gen x and millennial. It's degrading. I personally try to not take age (or gender, race, clothing choice(please can we stop with wearing suits and ties to interviews, it's dumb), or anything other than skills and culture fit) into account when interviewing people. But I can say that looking out over the people at the company I am at, it's mostly young people. Is that ageism? probably some but also, guess who costs more? old people. That's why older folks have a harder time getting hired. I also suspect that due to the glut of young kids coming into the market they will feel similar pains at trying to get hired just due to sheer numbers, and of course jerks who don't want those kids on their lawn.
A lot of people have responded by recommending the T shape. I had never heard of it before.

Why is the better than being n or m shaped (great at 2 things; fairly good at 3 things) and so on?

It seems the point about the deep skill going obsolete still stands.
Thats my read. Really any lower then that and its a firesale which sends a horrible message.
Apart from the photocopier sticker, that seems pretty reasonable.

If you speak both languages (or have employees who do), how difficult is it anyway?
Ha! I also like people who say "recurse".

(In truth I am sympathetic, but still it's hilarious).
A Zulu-immersion charter school is my new Toronto-based startup idea.
Oh, absolutely. I wouldn't want that much as savings or CDs. My goal is 2-3 years worth of savings in this CD ladder scheme (international dating has seriously hampered my ability to save at my desired rate). But, yes, you're correct, for that amount, savings and CDs or fixed rate bonds suck.
They look in your mouth and make assumptions that fit their preconceived notions. ie: "These teeth are in good shape, this person must've followed my advice on brushing and flossing!"
I built this mostly because I really like git add -p, but afaict it doesn't work at all for adding totally new files, and it's easy to miss things in the middle of big chunks of changes. But yeah, that's exactly the inspiration.