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AskHN: How to earn $1000/mth as a self-employed programmer?
I've heard such an idea that to be happy one doesnt need to earn more than a few thousand bucks per month. Believe it or not I'd be OK with only $1000 per month. I have the skills and can cut all costs for things not required in order to survive. But thinking about all the stress removed, no more thinking about competition, etc, that would be a positive gain. I think there are some YouTube videos or articles with guys who quitted development/corporate work just to have a regular job.

They say there are not enough IT workers but thats not what they mean. They mean there are not enough workers to do 5 in 1 jobs. So I'm left to work for myself. I started a first project but as I realised how long it would take to finish it and to maintain it as a one person I abandoned it. My second project is easier and almost done but having never launched a business before I have no guess if I will earn any money with it. We like to think that our ideas are so great and everybody will buy but reality is different.

My goal is not to spend lots of money to make and keep an idea alive but the goal here is to earn a small amount of money each month. So if my idea will fail I dont mind doing what everybody is doing. But I dont know what everybody is doing because I spend all my time coming up with new ideas. If people dislike copy-cats, I dislike the ideas being copied. Even successful ideas such as Uber or AirBnB are nothing new to me. If I knew that coppying an existing idea would bring me $1000 I could do that in a short time.

Last time when I had full time work for longer than 2 months was in 2010. Since than all my job attempts were failures.
Which is under way. Look at companies like Two Sigma, whose assets under management have ballooned over the last few years as people yank their assets out of human-managed funds.
It's called Fermi estimation for a reason!
It's interesting you mention Python, the only major whitespace-sensitive language. Many people have strong opinions about that, too, but like parens, it's not really relevant.

Any decent Lisp editor will do automatic indenting, so you can still look at tab depth for meaning.

You could always try Clojure, which swaps out () for [] and {} for various things (function arguments, bindings, array literals, map/set literals, etc.)
Thanks that was very interesting.
I don't think this criticism is that valid. LastPass et al are the same. After years of use I have no idea how someone would do that.

It's like saying about credit cards - " but what if I randomly read the card number and pin out loud". I'm sure it could happen but it seems silly to bother criticising.
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So would you also ban books about it? News articles maybe?
I absolutely love Rory Sutherlands talks on Behavioral Economics, you can find excellent talks of his on youtube. Hes great at explaining on how to think in different ways. Excellent for people looking to learn about alternative viewpoints to things.
"Also, it is strange for maintainability to be #4 when correctness is #1 because it is equally important for code to remain correct over time. "

Absolutely. This was known far back as Ada which had reduction of errors in maintenance phase as one of its design goals for its syntax and semantics.
Not really.

If this was an article about bad sanitation in India, and someone came and said that diseases like typhoid were a third world problem because the first world had good sanitation, that would be okay (even if obvious and unnecessary).

The discussion here is about allergies, and OP is right in saying that they are largely a first world problem. The rebuke about sanitation practices is irrelevant to that discussion. It's not as if those Indians who live in cities with good sanitation and manage to not get typhoid have a lot of allergies.
If you read carefully she got a lot of compensation as stock. It's the stock price that shot up due to alibaba and yahoo Japan that netted her money. Initial compensation was only 30 mil or so.

Same with picchai. Google is doing very well under him. Stock rises and his gains rises. He is very incentivized to make that happen as the CEO
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A university that puts most of its effort on improving its ranking and gaining more $$$ whilst the actual quality of education declines.
I think this is reading too much into it. One day I'm going to recommend killing Apache somewhere and you guys are going to try to get me jailed for attempted murder of a Native American.
> I do it because I want anyone that uses that code to share their changes back with me

You should be clear that the GPL has no such upstream requirement. Changes only need to be passed on downstream. It's pass-it-on, not give-back. It often works out that upstream gets access to the same channel that receives the changes, but that's not necessarily the case, strictly.
It wasn't for the first JVM; it was for HotSpot, the JIT engine that replaced [1] Sun's previous JVM in 1999.

HotSpot was developed by the same team that worked on Strongtalk [2], including the linked submission's author Bracha, who were later acqui-hired by Sun [2]. See also my previous comments that summarize this and recount the achievements of the rest of the Strongtalk team, who all went on to be significant contributors to various domains [3][4].

[1] http://www.javaworld.com/article/2076604/hotspot--a-new-bree...
[2] http://www.strongtalk.org/history.html
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12160439
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12284279
It is a web application that settles transactions, and works in every jurisdiction. That's worth something.

It can also generate a bank account for you, allow you to store it in your brain, then delete all record that it ever existed, and then at some later date recreate the account from memory.

It can maintain its value during a default of the U.S. federal government.

Money has value to the extent it can do things. Dollars can do things Bitcoins can't. Bitcoin can do things dollars can't. These define their relative value.
__asm{} as described in the comment I am replying to is an MSVC extension which lets you do assembly sprinkled with a mix of C identifiers. GCC's equivalent feature (asm() or __asm___()) is quite different, with the list of inputs, outputs, clobbers etc.
She had a large impact on modern business. My own mother works in IT and writes COBOL for a living.

Thanks for your contribution, Mrs. Sammet
Perhaps, so I just googled "download benchmarks game scripts" -- 4th URL on first page of results.

Perhaps it's merely a reflection of wanting some one else to do work we choose not to do.

(You'll find that there already are duplicates of the benchmarks game repos on github).
This formula could be used to argue literally anything.
normally is a stretch. The term applies to all forms of dual licensing, and dual free and proprietary might be more common, just maybe not in your particular experience.
Someone with enough social capital should found a journal dedicated to only publishing null results. It could start out multi-disciplinary, and spilt up if the publication load got too high.

Everyone could setup a digital journal on an afternoon, but it had to have the blessing of people with reach in the scientific community to get anywhere.
I remember reading about a study [1] that showed that humans recognize faces based on how similar they are to the faces of their parents. It's well known that humans are more easily able to differentiate faces within our own races. But what the study did was look at people who were adopted by parents of a different race. Those people were more easily able to differentiate faces of people of the same race as their adopted parents and had difficulty differentiating faces of people of their own race. The inference is that we actually store/recognize facial deltas, not full facial images.

I'm curious how this study would explain or contradict the results of that study. Also, were the monkeys raised by monkey parents or human scientists? Monkeys that were allowed to imprint on humans might be more similar to humans and, yet, unrepresentative of monkeys.

[1] I think it was https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15943669
I may not know as much as I would like about orbits, but I would think we can find an orbit compatible with interplanetary journeys that we can service from the Earth without too much difficulty. Wouldn't any realistic Mars transport ship for Humans have to be assembled in Earth orbit anyways? I'm thinking it'd be nice for whoever is doing that assembly to have a nice station to live in instead of some kind of tiny disposable capsule.
People say "Google Authenticator" because they feel silly saying "TOTP", which is a term that no normal user knows. But you can substitute any TOTP application for Google's (Duo's is a popular alternative, and there's no phone number link in the Duo onboarding process).

Facebook calls these "code generator applications" and maybe that term will catch on.
Ah, to speak specifically to that question, I think that Dolphin's history proves it can go from closed-source pile of hacks to model citizen, but I suspect the allure of money and the reluctance to split it will keep Cemu to be a closed source project, even if the resolve any potential legal issues and are in all other ways capable of being a community project.
HN should have a black bar in honor of this.
1. Will try. it would take 2x much text.

2. I'm not sure if that's what you meant but I just realized pretty bad bug in current callback=ping flow. When malicions page opens my.app for me and second later opens securelogin://#state=THEIRSTATE... so my sltoken will be matched with their state and they will log into my account. That requires good timing so not super severe but definitely will be fixed: if someone opens the app twice in a raw it will notify the user. Thanks

3. There's pretty much no alternatives working cross platform.

4. Which paragraph are you refering too? When I try to reset my Gmail password it boils down to: "dude you forgot your password, no backup email... we cant help here".
What will the tokens represent? Will it be an equivalent of company shares or something else?
4D Toys is now available for non-VR PC, I just noticed this tweet from the author: https://twitter.com/marctenbosch/status/871073480573202432
I tried using two 27" iMacs with the older one in target display mode and found it a bit silly when you have virtual desktops (or spaces). Similar experience back when I used Redhat as a postdoc, one was enough for me with a laptop as a second machine for secondary tasks. This seems a common setup for people in my field.

However my coding is admittedly pretty simple, mostly scientific tools for data acquisition, processing and visualisation. I'm currently switching from Matlab to Python/scipy and on my iMac and MBP I'm happy with a couple of terminal windows and on the experimental rig taking the data, which runs Win7, I have pycharm docked to half the screen which itself is mounted above an optics bench so I have a nice standing setup.

So on total I code across four screens but each on different machines!
It already exists for some fields, but these journals tend to be cited less, which hurts their scores in impact analysis. The problem goes deeper even than publication bias.
Experiments disproving the hypothesis are usually deeply unsettling, because in most cases, we have a pretty good reason for having that hypothesis to begin with---often lots of other experiments from the giants in your field. Those really smart guys (and, unfortunately it is mostly guys and not gals) are more impressive than you, J Random Gradstudent, so maybe you just screwed up the experiment. And even if the ruling hypothesis is wrong, then that means you're going to have to come up with a better one that fits both the old experiments and your new one, which is probably going to be hard to do if you want your new hypothesis to be simple and clear.

So a really clear rejection of the alternative hypothesis is great (which the article advocates for), but most of the time it's the more ambiguous non-rejection of the null (as you put it, actual failure), with a slim chance of bashing the old guard with your probably janky new hypothesis that explains it. They laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Einstein, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown... and you don't want to be a Bozo.
In China, because of the one child policy, people had more sons cause "they were considered better" in some sense. Now they don't have enough women to match. Some of those boys will be angry about it. What problems will that cause? Increased warlike tendancy? More prostitution? Leaving the country to seek a mate? Who knows. Also the population would not grow the same as it would with men and women in normal distributions. Then will they have the 'elderly worker' problem that Japan has? Maybe not enough workers?
It was included in GPLv3 drafts and then removed and split into a different license. Insider politics, but story as I take it basically that Google and similar threatened nuclear war on FSF and GPL if it had the Affero clause. FSF decided it was more important to get buy-in on other loophole-closings (tivoization, software patents) than to risk getting no buy-in for the update. Some people involved are still very frustrated about the compromise.
Me too - actually bought the paper version from a vintage book shop. Looks like this covers much of the same ground.
"I would guess (conservatively) that they have at least 10 developers still working on it now in 2017. An average of 15 developers over 30 years - gives around 450 person-years - all paid for by the Industrial-Military complex that funds the opaque behemoth that is Siemens PLM. [2]"

You make it sound like a bad thing when it's actually a solution. What you in effect said was there is a pile of money in defense contracts that can be used to subsidize development of FOSS tools. Some people are doing this (esp Galois Inc). Whoever was trying to make FOSS CAD happen didn't do this and still isn't. If they want high-quality CAD, they need to figure out how to get defense sector funding paid, skilled programmers to build the hardest parts with easy extensions by volunteering contributors. I've seen enough people in defense sector griping online about low-quality CAD tools they have that there's certainly demand. Probably just needs to be priced much lower than a lot of the others.
Co-op play is a game changer, especially for most women in my experience.
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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a COBOL, Dies at 89
I didn't get that far. that's clearly a silly tradeoff.

As with everything in the world, there are unintended consequences. It's moral to want people to be safe, have an opportunity for education, food, a decent lifestyle. I want that for everyone. What makes me happy wouldn't make other people happy.

My friends had a situation where they had a couple of kids and the wife was pregnant in the first 3 months and the docs discovered she had breast cancer. They decided to get an abortion and get treatment. She seems to be fine now. Imagine making that choice? It would kill me to face that.
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Not wanting to defend IRA but often they warned in advance before attacking purely civilan targets, didn't they?
This is exactly the sort of situation where fast compiles often do help, in my view! Debugging is one case where speed of progress can depend on build time, because you need to run the code after each change to see what effect it had and to decide what to do next.
>but what if I randomly read the card number and pin out loud

Except that's a reasonable scenario with an easy answer: If you compromise your credit card information, you call the issuer and you cancel the card.
> names of flowers, plants

Assuming you mean a [partial] description of a plant, then that is botany -- individually, each page isn't a big concept, but I don't think they deserve to be lumped in with sports players etc.
A programmer can't get "in the zone" and be truly productive unless he/she is afford several undisturbed hours at a stretch. It doesn't necessarily need to be silent time, but it does need to be undisturbed time.
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If not this protocol, I would be happy if any passwordless auth wins. Really about time to make a switch!
Powers your cell phone and cleans your jewelry.
I started my career in 1996 working in the University mainframe department at UAB (Birmingham, AL) that ran the administrative systems (grades, bursar bills, departmental accounting). Our team was half women, my manager was a woman, and most of the institutional knowledge of the systems was in the head of one amazing woman (Joyce Iannuzzi) who had worked there for 20 years and insisted on working from an original IBM 3270 terminal.
So you would have gotten a minute taste of what it's like to be a woman in today's society.

In order to lift women up, yes it's necessary to push men aside to make room. But women are being and have been pushed aside every day by men for almost all of history.
What on the website tells you that is the point?

>> Even a few simple bar charts <<

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs-...

>> would vastly aid comprehension. <<

Is it possible that you are just wrong?

Is it possible that simple bar charts do not aid comprehension but encourage thoughtless instant conclusions?
Note that GPUDirect is only available on nVidia Quadro and Tesla series GPUs.
"Well, if it work for an assembly line..."
Supporting != users are using it. Especially outside of tech bubble.
I myself always cringe when forced to setup TOTP. Yes, I seriously would rather take the risk of my gmail reset compromise than dealing with TOTP again.
COBOL has been "modernized" quite a few times, but the syntax still looks pretty archaic, most likely to avoid breaking too much existing code. I'm sure backward compatibility is of paramount importance for it.

I saw that there's a version that compiles to .NET bytecode, so you could conceivably write an XBox game in COBOL.
I have a couple of work colleagues. I don't know if it makes a dozen. All but two of them have left the state since I've worked with them, so I can't meet most of them face to face anymore. They all do seem to have better careers than I do, though, so the potential to find a good position through them seems high. I have them on LinkedIn and have let several of them know that I'm currently looking for software engineer work. Currently they just don't know of any open positions.
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>The fact that the electrate doesn't care about these issues..

Might have something to do with the absurd level of right wing control of the popular media. The Daily Mail preaches it's daily diet of,'jail em, hang em, deport em' for everything it doesn't care for. The snoopers charter achieved almost zero coverage during its final stages. All the papers were discussing was Brexit.
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If the impeller is capable of developing sufficient force to move a submarine at operational speeds, it will require serious axial thrust bearings.

The impeller pushes against the housing with the same force that a conventional shaft develops against a shaft-mounted axial thrust bearing would for the same speed and vessel geometry.
Can you copy across scrollback in tmux? When I see an error and I scroll back to copy it to the clipboard I can't do this on screen (and scroll at the same time). Plus it conflicts with my emacs keyboard bindings.
Right. How big is the chance that somebody hacks all 3 barriers? Your password, your SMS and the TOTP passphrase?
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(That comes with associated risks of bank stealing your money, i.e. don't own them. Just an analogy, not a bitcoin zealot.)
The C kernel I've written here

https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/270

is contrived but the structure resembles code I maintain related to differential equation integration. Autovec provides a very nice speed up for very little effort.
Erode another freedom to gain further control over the lives of citizens to fight an extremist viewpoint hell bent on controlling the lives of its subjugates.
I used to believe that as well. But it's fully possible to have data no one else does if you source it yourself (and I do). Furthermore, it's alright if a small number of other participants have the data as long as it's not yet priced in to market consensus.
> I don't know exactly why … and without profiling it I'd guess a huge hit is that alone.

Don't guess. Look at the measurements. Look at the source code. That Go PCRE program is faster than --

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

Maybe faster still to use some of the techniques from this other Go PCRE program --

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...
Would you please not post such unsubstantive flamebait here? We're trying to have a conversation in which we stand to learn something and this never takes us there.
If women don't choose to go into tech, that's their own choice.

It's not as if men went into tech because of positive social reinforcement for being a nerd.

There's still a social stigma attached to it, which I'd love to see change, but it affects both men and women.
Yeah I didn't mean that I would be over backwards to make it work, just that I happen to see great speed ups for my real world code with almost no effort.

For more complex stuff I'd be looking at ISPC or OpenCL before assembly since I can't afford to write ISA specific code.
"Perhaps it's merely a reflection of wanting some one else to do work we choose not to do."

Entirely valid position to take. There's only so many hours in a day, so many days in a year, and so many years in a life.
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You can generalize this in any way.

Height: Hey, all the conference speakers are really tall, there's no way I a 5'4" male be a conference speaker.

College: None of the conference speakers are from my university hence there's no way I from an unknown university can make it in the industry.

There are already a ton of female only events including conferences happening in the tech industry and if most cutting-edge stuff in a narrow field/tech (electron) is being done by male counterparts (or they are more interested in speaking about it) that shouldn't be a bad thing.
Because less maintenance? I don't see the logic here. Does AAA have something to gain by requiring anyone to pay more insurance?
You're arguing that the price of the car going up or down makes a difference for the decision if you should use a loan or not to buy it. That only makes sense if the loan is based on the car value. If the loan is based on other collateral the price fluctuations of the car are irrelevant to the price of the loan and don't enter the decision at all.