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No, it was grammar. Because the grammar shaped the meaning. But when you are dealing specifically with meaning or context and not formal conventions, it is considered a semantic, not pedantic. I don't generally correct people's grammar mistakes these days because I myself have laxed quite a bit in favor of "progressing" my language a bit. But I especially wouldn't correct a foreigner just because, only if I felt they would be receptive to the advice. I would certainly appreciate the same when using a language I'm not familiar with.
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You say there's a shortage, yet all software development jobs available require a Bachelor's degree plus 3-5 years of experience. That doesn't seem like much of a shortage to me.
I'm not sure how you can justify this assertion. I find both IntelliJ and NetBeans to be much nicer to work in than Visual Studio.
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And a lot of the proposed immigration changes won't actually reduce the price of these workers either. If anything, it's a power grab by large consulting companies and bigger software shops to be able to hire up the best talent, and just lay off the rest:

http://fightthefuture.org/articles/hr-170-will-all-large-com...
I would think that Walmart probably has a competitive advantage in most logistical areas. They've been moving goods across the country (and world) for longer than Amazon has been a company. They even have their own airline for moving freight (and employees) so they've already solved the 'UPS problem' that Amazon is working on now.

With all that, it would be completely unsurprising to find out that Amazon runs their warehouse and goods movement more efficiently than Walmart does, but they still don't own the entire stack like Walmart does.

On top of that, Walmart gets companies to produce entire product lines at prices that they themselves pretty much set. Amazon is just going to take a cut of a lot of sales while Walmart is getting the margin they want.

Technology wise I'd say it's a safe bet that Amazon is light years ahead, but don't sleep on Walmart Labs and their ability to innovate. Just don't expect it to be as useful to us as AWS.

I know everyone likes to bag on Walmart for being 'cheap' and/or 'shit' but at least if I buy a brand from Walmart I can be extremely confident in it being the real thing. Which has been getting to be (at least personally) a huge issue with me for Amazon and has started moving me to buy more things at other stores (including Walmart).

There are tradeoffs between the two, but I think they both run tight ships and are in the best position to be each other's biggest competitor.
add a (2013) ?
Probably cause you are in a good area? My last programming job was $38k a year, and considered great pay.
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This isn't true. You could use the adapter pattern and require that your reactive elements implement some kind of sane interface and then you're not using interface{} everywhere. It's not as flexible as generics but it's possible. This is how you do promises in go, with the adapter pattern.
A friend of mine studied bioengineering , but she is working out of the field. Low salaries and temporal jobs moved here to another different field. She doesn't repents her choice, as it was an incredible experience. And she would like to work in her field of choice. But the market pays more her time and capabilities elsewhere.
What you wrote was clear to me.

It seems a bit unlikely a dentist would be able to distract a kid from excruciating pain.
You should be able to be 3 times as productive without working harder (for some value of 3).
Then there is also the issue of the ease or difficulty of getting someone from a foreign country to work in the UK. Are work permits required? How much paperwork? etc

If I were an American, what would it take to work in London?
Bit off topic, but how did you manage that?

I currently work in QE, but our team is miniscule compared to the devs, so we would rather just automate ourselves away and then hop over to the other side :-)
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These days its easy for companies to remain mediocre and stay in business, thanks to FOSS and a competitive market lowering their tooling price.
Some time ago I realized that the only way to get the real worth out of value I create (as a highly skilled developer) I need to be building products / services and selling them to these mediocre corporations, I could not see a way I could survive in these companies in the long term. (weather they provided me with a growth path or not)
>Many go on to internships or research projects in the field after their first year, and by then, they’re hooked. //

Are these the same people who are leaving the industry after a few years? Seems like if you hoodwink people in to something that's not really their vocation then that's the sort of effect you'd expect?
Considering how there are a lot more Amazon employees here on HN as opposed to Walmart employees, I doubt your contrarian opinion will be particularly well received. Regardless of its merit. Personally, I agree with you, but having a discussion about it here on HN is probably a waste of time.
Some time ago there was a thread about some app that got popular which the dev busted out in a few days because he knew his way around heroku hackathon-starter / node.js https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter
I came here to write this. I would have the same problem with my parents computer obtaining malware which I had no clue to how. Since I have installed ad blockers on their computers I haven't had issues with malware on their computers.
If you don't want to use this nobody will force you. The overwhelming and unfortunately predictable heap of negativity that comes bearing down on people sharing something cool they made is really awful.

Well someone has made this, and now you can decide if it's worth it for you as an individual to decide whether you like it or not and then if you don't, then don't use it.
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oh ok. I read your post and my take away was that this entire topic is garbage. My bad.
And yet unemployment (U 1-6) is nearly back at pre-recession levels.
Gotta love the fact that when you're not logged in to FB, clicking on that url shows you the FB login page with a parameter where to redirect you next, which is normal enough, but it also has the referer URL (this HN comments page) as another parameter. They want to know who's linking to their delete page!

(OK they probably have that in every login page redirect, and the cleverer way would be to silently record the HTTP header...)
> Its ok to protect yourself when there is a conceivable threat.

But that's not the argument.

The argument is about if the policy put forth by Trump&Co make sense given the data. To ONLY part of the data for policy decisions makes no sense.

Consider this:

Immigrants and refugees commit crimes at lower rates than others. http://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/us-record-shows-refugees...
https://www.cato.org/blog/immigration-crime-what-research-sa...

Comparatively, what is the threat of terrorism:
http://www.businessinsider.com/death-risk-statistics-terrori...

I cannot speak to the vetting process for allowing refugees into European countries, however the current vetting process is a lengthy 1 1/2 - 2 year process.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/11/20/infogra...

Do our policies make sense:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/01/tr...
I feel like there's an easy Kickstarter grab here for some startup founded by someone with experience in display manufacturing......
No. It is a shortage in that Toyota corollas are selling for 100k a year.

I know lots of mediocre devs who are way overpayed in the Bay Area. You do NOT have to be good to make 6 figures.

Mediocre web developer is a very high paying gig.
I graduated in 2000, and I applied for a company doing telemetry processing in Java. I learned Java in 1997 (because Gosling was a PhD student at CMU a little before that time; we eat our own dog food). When I interviewed they asked me all sorts of questions about Java (GC, JIT, JVM, bytecode, etc) and I passed with flying colors. However, they said they wanted someone with more Java experience and I was rejected.

Two weeks later I got a callback from them saying they wanted to offer me a job. I had already accepted a position. This is when I figured out that hiring managers have no idea about the talent pool they're dredging.

This company wasn't even in SV. They should have offered me a job on the spot, because the fact I had any knowledge of Java.
>For example, Facebook login becoming essentially a universal identity provider.

Yep, this is the #1 reason I still have a FB account. Until recently, I needed it so I could use Tinder. I have a great gf now, but just in case that fails, I'll want to be able to reactivate my Tinder account, and I need my FB login for that.

The only other reason I have a FB account is so I can be "friends" with some family members and some other people, because they use it. In practice, however, I never actually look at anything on there unless someone tells me "I sent you a FB message about such-and-such!".
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I've never used Facebook, see no reason to start.

I occasionally get pushback from some relatives who tell me I'm not taking part in family stuff. That probably matters to some people, depending on their family dynamics. I simply point out that I also publish stuff online in places they don't choose to look.

I also miss out on some community chatter and the occasional event with a couple of orgs I'm involved with. I don't personally care.

In general, my calculation is that my life is noticeably better without it. I'm not someone who needs constant human contact, in fact, too much is bad for me. I'm also apparently pretty far off-median on the Bell-curve in terms of the value I place on my privacy. YMMV.
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I am getting a 503 for all their js files hosted on the cdn.melowdown.com
I like it. My wife subscribes to a service that will automatically print and mail her a small printed photo book for every X photos she favorites on her phone. It doesn't have the nice tagging and dates and notes, but it creates a chronological hard copy series of photo books that are great to have around, without requiring much forethought.
This is why I get many of my computer parts at Frys because it's on my way home. I still do my research online before going though because they often don't have what I need when it's more esoteric.
As am I. It also crashed my browser somehow.
Well, I for one find this pretty cool, especially the part where you can select the altitude. As a licensed remote pilot, this gives me a good idea of winds aloft at-a-glance without having to parse an entire full-briefing with all METARs, PIREPs, AIRMETs, and whatnot. My main question is the "altitude" in this AGL (above ground level) or MSL (mean sea level)?
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I prefer to not assume that I know what's better for people than they do themselves, so I'd rather they did far greater things for themselves before I worried about humanity's loss.

That said, there are many people who enjoy mindless jobs like that.
Watch John Preskill if you love Quantum Mechanics. Or Spacetime. Or Information.
Specifically, Mark Zuckerberg is a co-founder of FWD.us which "is mobilizing the tech community in support of policies that keep the American Dream achievable in the 21st century, starting with commonsense immigration reform" according to their website [1].

The major issues they lobby for are (1) increase in H-1Bs (2) illegal immigrants. The one thing they don't talk about is legal immigration paths for people on H-1Bs. People on H-1B from India and China have long backlogs for Green Cards, which causes them to stick with one employer for long, with reduced negotiation leverage, and there by depressing wages for the entire industry. But FWD.us does not have a care for that aspect of immigration - presumably because this helps the bottom line of everyone involved in FWD.us. Meanwhile they don't miss any opportunity to shed crocodile tears for the plight of DREAMers. Sigh!

[1]: https://www.fwd.us/
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In my experience, almost all of those "must have X years of experience with Y" requirements are written up by HR people who are loosely interpreting poorly understood requirements told to them by either the hiring manager, or other HR people. In many or most cases, the people writing up those job postings are not the same people who would be interviewing or hiring you, and they're more aspirational requirements than anything else. They hope that someone with X years of experience with Spring will magically come out of the woodwork and send them a resume, but they're just as likely to hire a fresh grad who doesn't know anything about Spring other than what they skimmed on Wikipedia right before going to the interview. And the people doing the interviewing and hiring might actually be fine with that.

Basically if something looks perfect except for some random "must have X years of experience in Y" requirement, just apply anyway. Most likely it won't be a dealbreaker for them (the hiring manager at a decent-sized company may not even know that that was in the job posting), but the worst case scenario is that you won't get the job but will get some good interview experience.
When I told Hinton about SPWs and that they are related to RBMs, he told me that he had a theory which required the existence of SPWs. That is not a coincidence, they seem to have been inspired by neuroscience and real neural network phenomena.
> but the UI is atrociously complicated

Linus himself admitted that he isnt good at UI. Anyway, I think git just wasnt designed to be used directly, but via another UI. For example, I use it within Visual Studio Code, and that covers about 90 percent of usecases, and then Git Extensions can take care of almost everything else. Sometimes cli is needed, though.
oh, neat. thanks.
> it'll be cheaper per-unit to produce a TV with smart TV crap with a market of one million than it will be to make a basic TV with a market of ten thousand

I would go even farther and say that (in longer term accounting) it will be much cheaper to produce a smart TV with 10,000 sales than a basic TV with 10,000 sales.

Or haven't we learned that the first thing a processor + network connectivity is used for is extracting marketable analytics?
Right, you need to have 10 years of experience, have a degree, and also be 23.
I'm so glad you highlighted that music file. I read the article with interest but didn't notice that music file. What a great song!
Sounds terrifying until you think about the average fresh-out-of-school kid. I think I could probably manage it just by not being as distracted by shiny shit that breaks constantly.
Jet has crazy penetration in some locales. I was visiting some relatives in Brooklyn on garbage day -- every house had a bunch of Jet boxes.
In the long run, we can hope that the high salaries will convince some to get the necessary education and training to qualify for those jobs.

If the demand is high, the market should respond by increasing supply in the long term as well.
And... In this good area, there is a shortage, correct?
Sad way to look at things. Have you ever had luck with women? Are you in shape? I'm guessing you might be because you go to the gym. If not, work on packing on some muscle.

Then, focus on having fun, interesting hobbies and going out and meeting people. Build an interesting life first and it will be easier to find someone to share it with.
Walmart recently picked up Dan Makoski of Google/Moto/MSFT fame (and most recently at Cap1), so I've got my eyes keenly pointed at what they may end up putting out.

Walmart's literally the Fortune One. I wouldn't necessarily count them out quite yet.
Looker makes Google cloud customers very happy. The Data studio announcement changes nothing.

(Work on Google cloud big data)
You should read this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2039924/

I believe you are correct. Memories are maintained during sleep. Some are believed to get strengthened, while others are apparently pruned.
On Android, Xprivacy uses hooks provided by Xposed to "MitM" a lot of functiom calls. Don't want an app to know your phone's serial number? That function call returns a spoofed one. Same with GPS location.
The "Stone Age" bit might have been a reference to the "totally obliterate them" comment she made in 2008 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O894bXmqqGU :

> Well the question was ‘if Iran was to launch a nuclear response be, what would our response be’ and I want Iran to know that if I’m the President, we will attack Iran; and I want them to understand that because it does mean that they have to look very carefully at their society because whatever stage of development they might be in their nuclear weapons program in the next 10 years during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them. That’s a terrible thing to say but those people who run Iran need to understand that because that perhaps would deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic.
>I believe there is room for a private social network that is peer-to-peer, encrypted, with no central servers and an open spec.

We already have this. It's called "Diaspora". It's a great idea using all the things you talk about: decentralized, peer-to-peer, etc.

No one uses it.

>but I don't require mainstream adoption to use it.

Then I encourage you to set up your own Diaspora account. Maybe if enough people do so, it'll eventually get somewhere.
On the other monitor / panel side, if anyone isn't aware of it, TFT Central is amazing. http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/
How were you impaired though? I'm not doubting you, but I've been a vegetarian for almost 4 years and the diet you describe is basically my diet (minus high amount of fruit). What negative impact did this have that lasted for so long?
I get a MS degree in biology, which is STEM. I happen to know programming. I do not even seek job in biology, because i know the field is oversupplied.

instead, get a decent software engineer job instead, without degree, without any real world experience.

If the market is the same in biology and programming related jobs. I would get job related to my degree.

It is obvious there is a shortage in people who have programming skills.

I manage to get above average productivity compared to my coworkers. I realized that even more shortage for productive software engineer.

sure, any adjective is relative.
The question is not how many engineers are there, but how many _good engineers_ are there.
AWS provides much better margins than some of their other businesses though, to the point where AWS profit can actually be more than the overall company profit (it allows them to run other divisions at a loss strategically). That doesn't seem to be that case in the most recent filing[1], but it did beat out the North American division.

1: http://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-posts-mixed-q4-results-a...
> Do you know the shortest way to drive yourself out of business? The fastest way to wipe yourself out? The easiest way to make your life harder than it needs to be? Charge an hourly rate.

In this you cite lack of direction as the biggest challenge to working with clients. And I totally agree. I think it's rare for a client to come up and say, "Oh, do you have any X, because I want exactly one unit of X." So to get them to what they want usually takes iterative journey... research & discovery, on through build and maintenance and growth with ongoing consultation along the way.

So if you aren't charging by the hour, or by some unit of time, how are you flexible enough to accomplish the work? And once you get done with a phase, aren't you back doing sales again for the next round? Isn't that a pain point?

I bill all of my clients on a monthly retainer; they pay up front for the hours they want me to use (and get a slight discount on those hours) and if they need more, and I have it to give, they can buy my time. Finding long-term partnerships is my goal because I want to minimize the amount of time I waste doing sales work.

So how exactly are you proposing to charge? Fixed bid? If you don't time box it / rigidly lock down the scope, then how do you avoid losing your shirt while you help a client figure out what they want? If you time-box it... aren't you essentially charging by the hour? Maybe if all of your work was the same, but... I don't know how to bill if I don't bill by some unit of time.
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My argument is not that the "terrorist" label that is unique about Muslims; it's that the frequency, scope, and violence of their actions is unique.

Disagree, but at least disagree with what I said :)
If you're a lone developer (or a small team of developers) isn't a lot better to use something like CloudWatch instead of messing with ELK?
You talk like the transistor was invented last week. Computers have taken away mental jobs for half a century now.

That era has lifted the greatest number of people out of poverty in history. Employment and income keeps going normally.

I agree that it's possible that this trend will break. But be aware that all through these 250 years, people have constantly predicted this, and always had plausible arguments for why "this time it's different".
This has not been true for me, or anyone else I know. Even friends from colleges I've never heard of with degrees in non-CS STEM majors found jobs paying 100k+ within months of graduation.
Second that! I love the analogy ;)
I did exactly the same with an xps 13. Gave my Macbook Retina to my girlfriend, as the new models were not compelling at all. Fedora 25 is lovely on it and I can run docker and KVM on it natively. I will buy another Mac if they give me a proper value proposition.
Damn, I need me one of those. I'm a mediocre web developer getting paid... well, not 6 figures.
>Ah, I concede this. Maybe this isn't an issue in US as it is in the UK..

You shouldnt, i later specified i was including CS grads - i was a CS major until i switched to MIS, so most of my college friends are from one of those two programs.
Do you mean to imply the parent is being negative? I think its a perfectly valid question. Unlike languages like Java which only have concurrent primatives Go is very opinionated how about to do concurrency.
That is an Economists definition of a shortage. Not a normal persons definition of a shortage.

Let's say a loaf of bread went up in price to 100$, and the majority of people in the USA were literally starving to death.

Yes or no, is the US suffering from a food shortage?

I would argue, yes.
I unplugged my Alexa after being woken up at night with Alexa yelling about something or another too many times. It seemed like the perfect noise maker that could also casually perform a limited number of other tasks and parlor tricks when needed but the tech just isnt there.

It has a lot of issues hearing me when I want it to and yet somehow picks up when I'm talking about a friend Alex from a room away. It's not quite as disappointing as the Kindle Fire I bought but at least my girlfriend can use that to watch movies on.
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It is mostly done already, if you consider numpy. But the top-layer glue code, which is Python, needs to allow it to tun in parallel, where it's not automatic.
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You are ignoring the vastly more likely 5) he wiped a test machine that lacked relevant information or 6) he wiped a new machine that had no data from him or his company.

If you break something, starting over and not doing the same thing is often a vastly better than trying to debug what happened and then fixing it.