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I've heard other people say the same thing... It's interesting. My projects have definitely got me interviews, but I admit that it has generally happened when I met someone at another event. You get to talking about what you've been working on and I just pull out my laptop and show them. So maybe that's the difference. I know that when I've been hiring, I always look at people's side projects. If they have a nice project I might not even bother looking at their CV. I might be strange, though...
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I noticed the DELL XPS13 is a touch screen laptop. As a person who generally obsesses about having no finger marks on my computer screen (I feel differently about my iPad), I find it interesting that people would want to do this. Any other views?
Thank you. Good points. Is anybody working on a better bill?
I couldn't agree more with your comment. If you found your favorite framework, which is still maintained and gets the job done, then stick with it unless you have very good reasons not to (and "it's uncool to use this long established framework" isn't one of those reasons).

I saw so much flawed frontend code which wasn't written by bad coders but by people which try to use always the fanciest and newest thing out there. Even if the docs written in marketing language claim otherwise, there's always a learning curve and it doesn't make any sense to switch the framework as soon as the learning curve getting flat.
For those thinking about Angular2, I would recommend angular-cli[1] and then going through the tutorials in Angular documentation[2].

Angular-cli because it provides a scaffold for getting started with the project and getting something up and running. The documentation feels pretty good. I like the example app they are building and the documentation format (they provide the full source code for the files right there in the documentation, no need to navigate to somewhere else).

[1] https://github.com/angular/angular-cli
[2] https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/
As others have said, a side project has been a huge help in getting me into avenues and opening up doors. Start with something small but relevant to the skill set you want to have.

Also, blogging about the industry you want to get into also helps establish yourself as a thought leader. You can re purpose the content for linkedin, medium etc.
I'd argue that front end development tools are complex and varied because the craft itself is complex and varied. Try to strike the optimal balance between usability and fine control. It's not easy. How to welcome newbie developers with intuitive tools while not frustrating experienced ones with blunt instruments. Imagine all the schools of thought for how to best achieve this delicate balance. Not to mention beauty and elegance in design.
gets is impossible to use safely with unformatted input, which need not be the case.
For me, the problem is high DPI support. It just works in macOS, even when mixing high DPI screens with lower DPI ones. In all the version of Windows I tried, including 10, things look like garbage. Things are too big, or too small, or pixelated, or blurry.

I could understand it when Windows 8 first came out, and high DPI screens were still relatively rare. But for the support to still be so bad, years later, is unforgivable.
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Number of people using the service seems like a good metric.
Your assumption is that the startup will have a chance of growing only if it has access to H1B. Why would local talent not be enough for that startup?
Being in automotive embedded industry, I'm sad to report that Toyota's unintended acceleration doesn't have a single traceable cause. It's result of sloppiness and bad practices across the industry.

I wish I could post some code here for your inspection. Suffice to say that what I've encountered is 90s-style C code with technical debt that noone wants to pay. Once I stumbled upon some code that was actually well structured and readable. Turned out it was open-source graphics stack, developed outside the automotive industry. Some modern practices are slowly being incorporated, but the industry is to inert to catch up. It's not only about developers, but there are also serious issues with tooling, determining project priorities, on-site and off-site communication, labor outsourcing and quality control.
> - Startups and small businesses will get 20% of the visas. It'll be interesting to see how this is gamed

Probably the old fashioned way: Tata Startup Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Consulting Services.
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Keep in mind that IANAP.

The information stored is proportional to the surface, not volume.

But also, the holographic principle applies to more than black holes. At any volume, the maximum information you can put there is proportional to r^2. That applies to all the volumes inside the volume you just measured... what means that a volume can not be completely full (a weird case of apparent non-locality).

An hologram is a better analogue to it than information being stored on the surface because, outside of black holes it apparently isn't all on the surface. (I guess for the black hole information loss problem, information being in the surface or in a hologram don't make much difference.)
Find some kind of skill pivot. I.e., so you already have the skill to get employed in your new thing even though you haven't had it on your CV before.

In my case:

- Unix (via Python and devops) to programmer.

- Programmer (via product and custdev) to founder.
It's not. Maybe he's assuming a stay at home wife and/or children which would be a stretch on $130k, it's true.

You can live well and have savings as a single guy on $130k in both those areas.
I suppose someone could've DDOSd Uber's API to force their hand instead of relying on Travis' navigation of the political waters and moral fortitude (hah!).
A. How would you know what they care about?

B. Maybe if you cared, you'd have 30,300 unique visitors, or more. I don't know, I don't know how bad your site's code is.
I can't say for certain why, but GlassDoor is significantly lower than reality for positions in my area (Boston, MA.) Of the jobs I see advertised for Senior developers, most of them are in the $140-$170K range these days. Assuming that glassdoor is accurate, perhaps the issue is that people who stay in positions more than a few years fall behind new hires because yearly raises don't keep up with market rates.
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I'm on a crap connection, and it's not unusual for the styling content to not make it (whether it's CSS or javascript). The ones that follow these principles remain usable, the ones that don't, don't.
Here's one huge reason: every single Windows version (well, at least the last 4-5 of them) have changed around the location of things. The control panel is completely different between some versions of Windows.

When I have an administrative task on Windows, it's like Find Waldo. Where did they hide that setting? The number of times I've had to Google to find out how to do something on Windows... significant.

On macOS, there is a single place I need to look and it's been the same since the beginning. Yes, there have been minor tweaks over the versions, but I never feel like I'm lost. The number of times I've had to Google to find out how to do something on macOS... almost never.

And I'm much newer to macOS than I am to Windows.

Here's a funny thing: Microsoft Office's settings are just like the System Preferences of macOS! In look and feel.
Whose combined salaries barely scratch that of a CEO
> Also, having small children affect sleep although not directly

Hah. Haha. Hahahahahhahaa trails off

One of ours woke 4-6+ times per night, every night, for nearly a year straight. It's beyond just "affecting sleep" and well into Gitmo-style sleep deprivation.
It was tied to another index according to the article.
> I don't agree with any arguments about the semantics of Javascript, this, scope, binding, etc. It's a pain point; something every developer runs into. It should be fixed. Instead, we have about 10 ways of working around the problem. In all the revisions of the Javascript that have gone by, nobody fixed this _very_ common usage of the language.

Maybe I'm not completely understanding you correctly, but es6 and es7 does fix many of these problems, doesn't it? In which case the problem is there is no way to make es6 or es7 code compatible with older browsers other than transpiling. I don't know how you fix that without a time machine.
Fixed link: http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2016-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

The new bill will take "cash bonuses and similar compensation" into account. A rock bottom offer from FB/Google/... to new grads in the bay area is typically 160k.
I love Windows 10 and used it from preview, but like OSX better. WSL is like improved Cygwin for me (I know they aren't the same under the hood and WSL is way more powerful). Still not exactly as smooth or integrated as bash/zsh on OSX.

OS X has better multi monitor DPI handling, more dev tools written for it (brew blows chocolatey out of the park), and in general just feels smoother.
Loads of people use it for going to/from UK-France as it's generally the cheapest method (both for drivers and passengers).
Really what they need to change are the accounting loopholes. When I was working at a large employer most of the offshored work was under 'services contracts' where the legal wordings were such that it looks like services are being rendered for a specific purpose. This is to avoid having those people show up as labor on a P&L which affects the corprate bottom line.

What actually happens is behind these agreements are a team of people with an onshore presence and the actual employees overseeing the on/offshore work prefer to work with the same set of people. Once you get a team and rhythm going on work, it made things easier to predict. So both sides want to game this 'services contract' to have the same team for literally years.

If they make corporations count all of the on/offshore people as contractual labor in their accounting practices, which is what they actually are, then companies will be hit negatively in their P&L statements. These are essentially jobs which used to be done onshore so they certainly weren't 'talent can't be found' types of roles.
>just index it to inflation

It's so that politicians can fight every few years it needs to be raised and say, "vote for me, I fight for wages." On the other side of their mouth, on the years they don't fight for an increase, they can go to businesses, "donate to me, or I might have to fight to raise minimum wage this year."

The minimum wage fight a few years ago is a prime example of this.
What matters is TURNOUT. Always has.

Trump received almost the exact same number of popular votes as Romney in '12, and McCain in '08. The difference is that 10 million Obama voters stayed home for Hillary:

http://i.imgur.com/AT0kqVz.jpg

Whether due to disappointment that Bernie Sanders wasn't nominated, or belief that voting wasn't important since Trump wasn't projected to win, or "OMG Russian hacker!!" conspiracy theories, etc. The bottom line is that Democratic turnout has dropped 15% over the past couple of cycles.

Like the shore in low tide, "swing" locations shift and move out when this happens. I hear advice that future nominees should just ignore blue states and focus entirely on swing locations. That's exactly what the Clinton campaign did! It's a recipe for failure in the modern day. Because once again, turnout is what matters. The rising tide pushed back the "swing" coastline.

This new era of U.S. politics scares me... because I've grown accustomed to Democrats having the luxury of sounding reasonable and centrist, while the Republicans have been forced to pander to extremists in their base. But I think the old conventional wisdom of "run to the edge in the primaries and then pivot back to the center for the general" is breaking down.

In the new rules, candidates have to LIVE out on the edge in order to keep their bases energized and draw turnout. I think we're going to see extreme left candidates facing extreme right candidates (or whatever Trump is), with a goal of get-out-the-vote operations rather than winning over swing moderates. As a swing moderate myself, this sounds disastrous no matter who wins.
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> I reckon fitness could become a factor in interviews

Interesting. Another HN post a while ago mentioned they fought any ageism by being physically fitter than those younger than them - racing the younger ones up the stairs of the building without breaking a sweat.

Actually, here's the blog post, On Getting Old(er) In Tech by Don Denoncourt:
http://corgibytes.com/blog/2016/12/06/getting-old-er-in-tech...

"A year or so ago, I was attending a two-week training session with about a dozen 20- or 30-something developers. The training was on the 22nd floor and, every day after we came back from group lunches, I’d always take the stairs. The first day or two, one or two of the kids would join me, but I got no repeats. It’s pretty hard to be considered a has-been when they can’t keep up with you."
By any objective standard, the last 70 years were the best ever for Europe, and the world as a whole. There are certainly differences of opinion and interests between Europe and the US, but they are far from negating the overlaps. The ideas that the US has propagated are fundamentally sound, and any US hypocrisy may undermine the effort to spread them, but not the value they offer.

If you are an average citizen anywhere in Europe, throwing the dice in either the time or spatial dimensions is a losing proposition: there is almost no time nor place of higher prosperity, lower physical danger, better chances regardless of class/gender/race/etc, higher life expectancy, more vibrant cultural life, more freedom to explore your interest/kinks/obsessions etc. And the shift of the US under Trump is a throw of the dice in the best case. In reality, it is unlikely that a new world order build by an orange buffoon could in any way rival the current one, which was build by people who had the foresight and moral compass to invest trillions into a continent, and even the very country that had just plunged the world into the darkest crevice of history.

I'm not saying that all is well, just that we are, historically, closer to the best than the worst, or even to average. But any assertion that the system was fundamentally broken is obviously not supported by the outcomes it produced, and the way to optimise a system running at it's historical best involves carefully planned tuning, not destroying it with a sledgehammer and asking a reality TV character to build a new one.
Maybe allow taxis to pay for a background check.

https://checkr.com/

Also it would be easy enough to allow someone to send an invoice with their own payment options.
The problem is that other web designers will laugh at you and kick sand in your face. Possibly in front of your clients.
The Foundation Center is a fantastic organization dedicated to the education of non profit orgs and fundraising. They have a really nice library in NYC too. Lots of resources on these topics:

http://foundationcenter.org/find-funding
I doubt that category is really as fixed as you are thinking. At one point fast food prep was categorized as factory workers to make some statistics look different.
Great. I have another form of mathematics that I need to learn. I'll put it on the pile on top of geometrical algebra and stochastic processes.
My daughter used to love Club Penguin. This story gave me a bit of a nostalgia hit. Especially the image of the final party town centre with the big two-penguin picture.
The first two paragraphs of the article are about a journalist covering war crimes exiting a country and being searched.

Fifth amendment distinctions between passwords and fingerprints aren't a solution to the problems in Egypt, China and Turkey as those countries aren't subject to US law.

In that situation, from one perspective a duress code that wiped the phone might seem useful - it would establish that there's no point in continuing to torture you for the unlock code, as there's no longer any data to decrypt. But when the thugs saw you'd used the factory reset duress code, wouldn't they throw you in jail anyway?

What you want in that situation is to present a plausible alternative story ("as you can see, I was writing a story about the great success of your glorious leader's agricultural productivity reforms") while keeping the war crimes work hidden from accidental or forensic discovery.

Of course, it would take work to keep the alternative story plausible - which a journalist working on war crimes might be willing to do, but your average mobile phone user probably wouldn't.

[1] https://cpj.org/imprisoned/2016.php
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I'll post a comment from ProductHunt, which might give a bit more context to where the founder sees this going, and why cash rides make sense under certain circumstances he designed the app for:

[…] I have gone to the founder's blog and it provides a better understanding of where he sees it going: Uber (and similar apps) will never reach many remote villages, cities and regions around the world (and don't have to), but technology could greatly help the local communities in solving their transportation problems that are as "simple" as getting from point A to point B with no other feasible options available.

For more details, here's the founder's blog on this: https://medium.com/@romanpushkin/how-i-made-uber-like-app-in...
>What would that gain you? Wouldnt the same capital holders pool their wealth into a newly minted corporation to continue exploiting the resources they have accrued?

And the small-timers, with their meagre holdings and pension funds would be wiped out.

Corporations aren't monolithic; they are a collection of people working for and owning stake in. Their dissolution wouldn't be small and contained, it would be large and messy.
Facebook did (still does?) shadow profiles, which is illegal in EU, a sizeable part of their business.

I suspect Google collects and keeps personally identifiable information in ways that are illegal in EU too. And of course YouTube directly created and profited from copyright infringement.

And the internet industry as a whole has very effectively sabotaged the EU "cookie law", by implementing it in a way that annoys everyone and benefits nobody, pointing the blame at politicians while making big profits from privacy invasions of unsuspecting people.
Because if they profit they are either uninsured, or need to sort out extra cover.
Then you disagree with Jeff Sessions who said "the attorney general has a responsibility to say no to the president if he asks for something that's improper." Ironically he did this at Sally Yates' confirmation hearing, he went on to praise John Ashcroft for resisting the Bush administration.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/677012/watch-jeff-sessions-urg...
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I haven't seen any warmongering. But what was broadcasted in the campaign I honestly rejected as too ridiculous to be true, and a case of media exaggerating about a candidate they don't like.

But now it turns out that what was broadcasted in the campaign is in fact what the current President means to do, and this is scary. From what I remember from my history lessons, it smells too much of how Hitler started his rule, and I don't recall him saying he wants to invade the rest of Europe either. That only came up after he was entrenched in power and stepped up the internal purges.

Assuming this doesn't happen, there's also a second scenario I fear - the US will say "fuck you Europe" and utterly withdraw, and Russia will get expansionist ideas.

Either way, I don't feel that what's going on leads to a safe and stable life here in Europe. (And that's beside the fact that the same sentiments that led to Trump's victory is also clearly visible in many parts of Europe; with nationalist tendencies on the rise, EU breakup and/or a war in Europe aren't beyond possibility).

Call me paranoid, but I am afraid. Not in a hypothetical way, I actually stress over it and it impares my day-to-day life.
How is that any different from taking a taxi nowadays?
I found the setup far more than a day. It took me weeks to research which hardware to buy, since what hardware you have directly affects your life after the install.

And for dot dot releases, I had a terrible time with updates because I really, really wanted a RAID 1 for my system drive (using an approved hw RAID card). Turns out, this is a very rare setup, but one that made upgrades between minor macOS releases very tricky, with the tools provided. And I got almost no help from the forums (because no one there had done it).

After two years, I gave up and got a Mac Pro 6,1. And, even though the video card I had was very beefy, Lightroom performance was much better with the nMP, I guess because Adobe supported the standard video card in the nMP but not the one in the hackintosh.
I'm, for one, completely fine with the last example.

On more serious note, such functionality is meant for formatting freestanding dates/times (eg. contents of table cell labeled "last modified") not dates in flowing text.
Contractual labor is a service. If it wasn't, it'd be employment. Both show up the same way on a P&L statement; they're both expenses.

It's all the additional regulation and requirements for employment (healthcare coverage, disability insurance, termination protection) that companies want to avoid by hiring contractors.
That's not my experience at all. I use the vanilla Ubuntu 16.04/Unity, and it Just Works. Never had to worry about drivers or setting up anything, it just works out of the box.

I'm sure it is possible to start fiddling around and configure stuff if you need/want to, but so far the XPS 13 (well, Precison 5510 in my case but it is the same line of product) with Ubuntu works as I expect it to
> The article says this bill makes it easier for students to get a path to citizenship but doesn't say anything about H1-B workers.

My understanding of the text is that it just makes student visas "dual-intent". This would allow prospective students to get an F-1 visa without having to prove that they have no intention of staying back after completing their degree. It's an open secret that a large percentage of students actually want to work after graduating and many intend to naturalize eventually. This would spare them having to lie on the application. Other than this change, the bill does not do anything to make it easier for students.
Also, hard science PhD students are typically hired on J-1 (when they stay in academia/research) or O-1 visas (if they find a relevant position the industry).
>Though corporations are just groups of individuals who themselves could absolutely be guilty of crimes.

...or completely innocent of crimes.

I think it's important to remember that when there's talk about beheading corporate executives (and this isn't the first time I've read that on these forums): people are more likely to be innocent than not.
In the context of our space - more tools, more people coming to use those tools, learn and build awesome stuff.

It is a meaningful metric because it's our whole raison d'être - providing free access to more and more advanced workshop for building stuff and learning new skills.
I used the Office collaboration features last with Office 2013 on Windows, and they were quite primitive. Basically, the document is synced with OneDrive.

The online version of Office has realtime collaboration AFAIK.
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