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I disagree. Medicine is not that powerful. Doctors don't have that big power over people's lives. And the ones that do have are mostly edge cases, like it is in programming. Most of the doctors just move you around the "system". I can tell you this because I am a doctor myself. And gave up medicine in favor of programming.
Medicine is a beauroucratic closed society, that is not willing to accept new members. They have the power and connections to make their profession seem "elite" and "important" and "dangerous". And they impose expensive university education (which is mostly unneeded in order to "do the job"), government regulations and all kinds of other hindrances in order to hide that their profession is just like the rest.
From my experience so far, programming is much more difficult (unlike medicine, you need to think all the time), changes much faster, and changes are far more radical. In medicine you don't pick a new speciality every few months/years (like we do with languages). In medicine patients don't get released with new versions (incompatible with former ones), every other month. Doctors' tools (pharmaceuticals) don't change with the speed our tools (libraries, frameworks) change. You don't have to pick different "styles" and "philosophies".

I guess you will now ask me "why the hell did you choose programming then"? Yeah, I could earn more money with less work, with less thinking. But it would be much less enjoyable. And I guess this is the reason why programmers get paid less. We love our job. And we are willing to do it just for the sake of doing (and a little money for living).
> I am incredibly happy that this will never happen in software development.

Oh I don't know, the idea of programmers being better paid has a certain attraction to me :-)

On a more serious note, the way that lawyers and doctors (and some other tradesmen in some jurisdictions) have managed to illegalise competition is wrong and needs to be stopped. Vets can perform operations for a tenth the cost doctors can -- is this because vets are less competent? On the whole, no.
Why is it more sustainable to drive yourself to the store and back in a mostly empty car than it is to have the same goods delivered to you on a truck that also delivers to dozens or hundreds of others? The total per-item miles are probably less for the delivery scenario.

Think of it as car-pooling, but for stuff instead of people.
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Feeling is what matters, especially for newbies.. Documentation should be written is a light, non-boring style. Django's or Android's is a best examples.
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We should not seek to emulate doctors or lawyers, but cabinetmakers, watchmakers and joiners.

Programming isn't a profession, it's a craft. The trouble is that traditional crafts are not really valued any more, as their purpose has largely been supplanted by mass production. So, we have no current role models for how to organise ourselves.
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I wouldn't describe nurses in the UK NHS as being underpaid either:

http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/details/Default.aspx?Id=4
I actually thought it was better to be specific about why I liked the parent link, because that way the parent would get more upvotes, which I believe it deserved.
But did he say how much of this was because they themselves make it this way? If you're depressed about e.g. not being able to get a girl then you'll probably do things that make you appear creepy and you won't be able to get a girl.

Contrast that with a normal person who believes in themselves. Sometimes they're wrong but they're not affected by (negative) self fulfilling prophecy.
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What software development tools, mostly in terms of engineering your apps, do you use? Most UML tools for linux, seem to be outdated and very light on features (please correct me). What do you use to plan your apps before writing the code?
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477381
(2.25% of everyone's contribution on the high end)

I'm probably dense, but what does that mean?
"Agile Coach Camp Canada"

Ironically, it sounds as if he is going to a conference about improving public transport.
The print subscription is definitely on its way. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to do it right rather than just dive in. Stay tuned (most probably in the middle of the month).
Good to find something that government is effective at.
It makes sense in PHP. (Thinking in PHP is a terrible thing to do to your mind.)

I believe OP is trying to say: Money is an incentive. But it isn't the only incentive.

(== in php isn't the equality operator insomuch as the 'kinda like' operator.)
My bad for letting that slipped thru. I'll fix it (and hopefully avoid it in the upcoming issue).
OTOH Opera was first to implement <event-source src=""> element (now redesigned as JS-only API, leaving Opera incompatible).

This implementation still seems to be present in 10.6.
Money is a representation for incentive but not an exact representation. The gap between the two, between the model and the real world, is the interesting part.
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What about those Hacker News members who are looking for jobs? Is there a good resource of tech positions available?

Personally, I'd love to see a nicely-indexed list of jobs. Things like location, work environment, remote working arrangements, languages used, expected number of hours worked, typical responsibilities, schedule flexibility, vacation possibilities, who I'd be working with, degree of autonomy, level of recognition for work, perks and benefits, etc. are all factors that go into liking a job. And that's not even mentioning money.

Personally, I'd love to start a job working remotely at $40/hour for 20 hours a week or so. Once it was determined that I'm a good fit, I'd be willing to relocate to a lot of different places (e.g., Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, New York, pretty much anywhere warm and coastal).

I think the question isn't so much why is it so hard to find the right employee or job. The real questions are:

What are the actual job requirements? I don't mean traditional notions of what a reasonable work week are. I mean what do you truly need? It might be possible to get a rock star developer working for you at a cost of $40K per year, if you can eschew the standard notion of a 2000-2500 hour per year commitment.

If you're a potential employee, what do you really want from the job? Focusing on the money is not the answer. Make sure that what you'll be doing, who you'll be working with, and where and when you're working all fit well with your personality and work habits.

And why is it so hard to match jobs and people up? Is there a decent resource anywhere that I could use to actually narrow down job opening according to a slew of criteria? In a high-demand field, doesn't it make sense for the potential workers to post what they want in a job, and have the jobs bend to that? Maybe I'll make a submission along those lines...
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If you are happy with the IDEs then just use them. Having learned both vim and emacs over the past few years. I learned emacs so that I could use slime with lisp. Vim so that I could edit stuff on any server. Emacs has a big learning curve, vim is a bit easier to get into. If you use a mac you can try textmate, I've heard good things about it. On the vim side macvim, gvim are pretty good.
That was solved years ago. Just consider how a professional soccer team (including the double) are managed and paid. ^_^

hint: it is not just a performance and productivity, its also morale, influence and starness factors. And it works.
This is another one of those nonsense excuses. If they can't pay the proper price, they won't be able to get the best people. Period. I'd like to drive a Lamborghini Gallardo yet I'm stuck with a crappy Citroen. Do I go out and bitch on a blog about how I can't find Lamborghini's (with the implicit assumption that I can only afford 1/10 of the normal market price)? No I accept that I can't afford it and make due with what I have.
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CEOs, VCs, etc.
Wave is indeed developed in GWT, and the Adwords management interface was rewritten in GWT in the recent years (as mason55 mentioned). They talked a lot about it during Google I/O 2009 (the session videos are still available online: http://code.google.com/intl/fr/events/io/2009/sessions.html#... ).

While not a "web app", SpeedTracer ( http://code.google.com/intl/fr/webtoolkit/speedtracer/ ) was also made using GWT.

What's interesting, is that with the Adwords UI, Google started using GWT on an enterprise app, and thought about ways of writing such an app. This project lead them to introduce many best practices for large GWT enterprise apps:

- MVP (Model View Presenter) and testable UIs: MVP is good for SoC, but it's also very important if you want to unit test your UI logic in pure java (which is a lot faster than GWTTestCases)

- EventBus

- Command Pattern

- UIBinder (declarative UI in XML)

Ray Ryan's talk ( http://code.google.com/intl/fr/events/io/2009/sessions/Googl... ) at Google I/O 2009 created a lot of interest around these concepts, and many GWT developers around the world started discussing / following them.

Google I/O 2010's sessions also have a lot of talks about these subjects, and while the best way of writing GWT apps is not yet known, we are getting there.
The first interview (at the end of which you'd talk about the salary) is only an hour or 2, so I don't think it's that bad.
one question, in the last page it says printed:

"Hacker Monthly is an independent project by Netizens Media and not affiliated with Y Combinator in any way."

Why do you feel its necessary to be so explicit about your non-affiliation to YC?

May it be perhaps that you have chosen to "borrow" HN's color scheme?
A whiteboard.

Seriously. A whiteboard, post-it notes, and lots of pencils and paper.

I'm a firm believer in UML-as-sketch (vs UML-as-blueprint), and for sketching, nothing I've seen beats the old school.

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The British FirstGroup PLC owns Laidlaw Int'l which owns Greyhound. FirstGroup, with the tag line "Transforming Travel", seems to see this relic of America's past as its ticket to Britain's future and features it prominently on FirstGroup's UK home page. A bankrupted company that is part of the "holdings" of a clueless company that itself is a property of an investment vehicle for moneyed "Lords" on the other side of the planet is about the closest thing the capitalist west has to a Soviet / Chinese / French government agency in terms of service orientation.
Can anyone remember the last time MSFT innovated something (not followed an existing market/paradigm) and led the market by sheer quality of the innovation (not because of monopoly)?

I can't remember the last time any tech company created a market/paradigm and then proceeded to lead it [1]. Can you think of any companies?

[1] Presumably you meant for some particular measure of time.
A dumbphone with a few select (and highly refined) features from the smartphone, but with dumbphone pricing (plans and hardware) could have done well then.

Hell, it can still do well now. Imagine a facebooking, tweeting feature phone that costs you $20 a month to operate. It would be a huge hit.
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I believe Amazon use AT&T's roaming relationships rather than having to do deals with operators in each country, so the device is always using roaming data when it's not in the USA, thus the reason they turn off some of the features that use more bandwidth for international users.
But you have to order two days in advance - so how is that better than having 2 day free shipping with prime?
Thanks for this. I went through @tptacek's comment, but I don't see any of the quotes in the article. Am I missing something?
This is not a community concerned with upvotes. It is a community concerned with content, and especially with getting good content as quickly and as easily as possible. We upvote to signal good content. We do not comment to signal good content; that is what upvoting is for. We comment to add content; this can be in the form of insight, correction, elaboration, humor, summarizing a long article well, adding a personal anecdote or expert knowledge, answering a question, or any number of other things. Our comments should not be complaints, memes, or other wastes of space and time.

Before clicking the reply button, ask yourself, "Am I really adding something, or should I stop procrastinating and get back to work?"
It's great for the browser market as a whole, Chrome, IE, Safari, FF and Opera each want to constantly one up each other so if Opera has pulled ahead again in speed you can be sure the others will be aiming to beat it.
My problem isn't with the initial cost. But I honestly don't see myself paying 10 dollars for fake (well, you know what I mean) version of books that I can get used from the corner bookstore for a dollar or two.

Give me a selection of books older than 5-10 years at a discounted price (hint: the same cost as a new paperback at the time of release is NOT discounted), and charge me whatever you want for the Kindle itself.
I meant to add "in the private sector." It's a great way to turn a private company into a pseudo-gov't bureau.
Django's or Android's is a best examples

Yes, but how can you put those in the same bucket with MySQL's?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysqldump.html
vs
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-pgdump.htm...

Note how half the page of the mysqldump docs is spent explaining the braindead semantics and dangerous interaction between --opt* and pretty much everything else.

Moreover the MySQL docs generally read as if they were written by a monkey with ADD:

mysqldump can retrieve and dump table contents row by row, or it can retrieve the entire content from a table and buffer it in memory before dumping it. Buffering in memory can be a problem if you are dumping large tables. To dump tables row by row, use the --quick option (or --opt, which enables --quick). The --opt option (and hence --quick) is enabled by default, so to enable memory buffering, use --skip-quick.

This is frankly just a random example from recent memory. Compare any two pages and you get similar results.
I don't agree with the comment you're replying to, but wanted to point out that there's a huge difference between being teachable and trying to learn. The "eggheads and tinkerers" are perfectly teachable, but the labeling presumes dilettantes who don't seek out either mastery or leadership, or a role in the greater world.

You can inspire somebody like that to change, but it's a lot more work than taking somebody who's already seeking it on their own.
Well logically you should complain about faulty buttons and be unimpressed by working ones. But people don't work logically so it's the same effect as wearing too tight shoes or the childrens' story "A squash and a squeeze", the relief you feel from something bad returning to a normal level is palpable and can actually feel better than just having things work in the first place.

Like you, I think it shows that if you get the important stuff right, then people will be very forgiving of your faults, while still being harsh about similar level faults in competing products (which perhaps get a different set of important stuff right for other folks). People are funny that way and while I find it interesting, I don't think people should celebrate it any more than placebo effects should be attributed to new medicines.
How is is NOT a knock-off?

- The functionality of Q/A seems to be exactly the same
- The visual design is almost indistinguishable from that of StackOverflow
- The classification of questions (votes/answers/views with tags) is identical
- The badges that users can earn is a blatant copy from SO
- "First time here? Check out the FAQ!". Hmmm, where have I seen that before...?
- etc.

There may be some examples where the derivative vs. knock-off classification is debatable, but here, for me, the answer is clear.

Please note that I'm not making a judgement on whether this is better or worse than SO, and I'm not making a judgement on the skills of the developers. Building something that clearly builds on someone else's work without any attribution that I could see, leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Unless of course I don't know the whole story and SO ripped of someone else. I'm awaiting enlightenment...
I hear that people like to pay money for peace of mind.
Anyone clever enough to be worth $200K a year in salary will also know that anyone paying £200K a year probably has some very particular expectations - i.e. they have a ROI in mind.

People who are really good tend to have their own ideas of what platforms they want to work on and what kind of problems they find interesting. Anyone paying $200K a year probably doesn't expect to give much leeway.

Note: I know people who get paid that much, I wouldn't want their jobs. I've been approached for positions paying roughly that amount and said "no" purely on the description of the working conditions.
Jeff/Joel really buggered up. They did a bit of course direction and ended up even further off course. Oh well. The platform is important, but having the skills and personality required to build a bonza community are more important.
Okay, that would explain it. Turns out that AT&T has no data roaming in Finland, at least according to this list: http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/dataconnect-...

It's AT&T who doesn't have a deal with Finnish operators and not Amazon, then. I still have to wonder why, though.
So, to summarize your experience or advice: At the center, figure out what _you_ like and do what engages you naturally. On the fringes, keep a portfolio of small bets with the outside world and see what engagements come out of that. I like that advice, seems like a good way to wander through life.
I know it's "hip" these days to use a vote up/vote down news/reddit type system, but sometimes I just wish a site was laid out more like a flat forum or directory.

This is definitely one of those times.

I'd much rather see things organized - by language, by type, by author. But never by (upvotes/date submitted)

Great idea though.
Might be something to do with lots of luggage? I'd imagine this would be a lot cheaper on a bus than on a plane?
Great video showing how blind people use iPhone/iPad with VoiceOver
Feedback to the owner:
The screenshots are displayed behind the flash movie. As this is a jquery fancybox I would propose you just visibility:hidden the flash movie when someone clicks a screenshot (there are hooks in fancybox to use) and make it visible again on close of the fancybox (also a hook for this).
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Indeed, I was expecting something very different, not a one-man version of programming reddit '07.

(But then I thought the book Beautiful Code was over-rated, so what do I know).
Wow, that is some seriously radiopunk shit. I knew Tesla was awesome, but it doesn't sink in sometimes till you read something like this.
I guess that's fair. It should be against the TOS to ask for more data than you need, and result in a takedown after a warning.
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Just as with personal plans, organizations with no need for private repos have a free plan available.
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I've been hoping that they would release a new version of the DX. Alas, the one feature that I want - next and previous page buttons on the left side, isn't there. I realize lefties only make up about 10% of the population or so, but that's still 30 million potential customers in the US alone that they missed a chance to make the device more attractive for.
Is it actually just imagemagick and a procmail script?

PS: If you've got one of those old fashioned iPhings, check out JotNot which does this sort of thing on the phone.
Yes you can cheat if you use your own memoizer too, if you "know" what your function does. Mine f'rinstance memoizes data fetched over the network even tho' as a function that is wildly impure, it can either age it out or check the last modification time. So I have one decorator for pure computations performed locally and impure performed remotely. Obviously this can only be done if the same person/team is maintaining both or it'll all go horribly wrong...
As noted by the others, you get used to the transition time very quickly, and I don't think it takes any longer than turning a page in a physical book.
OneNote. Probably the best wiki in the world. Runs only on windows though...
One suggestion: make Readability the default option for the articles, with a link to the original article.
Unfortunately, when they killed it I assumed that it was because it was a hoax submission. It was news that this community was waiting days (months?) to hear about, so, although perhaps not a full news story, it was certainly of interest here. And probably of more interest than "X reasons I love/hate Y" for a lot of us.
It's just a repost of Boy Genius Report article that was already posted on HN, but with more linkbaity title.
I'm sure Finland like Sweden has public transportation going virtually everywhere already. A car isn't a necessity, transportation is.
Suggestion: make the video on the website usable on the device the software is meant for, or just put up a bunch of screenshots.
SO excited. I continue to be impressed with Opera corp in 2010. They fumbled a bit with inital 10.x release but recovered in a big way with 10.5x and now this one is the Best Opera EVER. This one even beats out Iron Browser in Peacemaker benchmark for me, which has been a very formidable opponent until now..

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Agreed. I'm guessing they also have a script that tells AppleCare technicians how to handle people complaining that their screen got scratched really easily. That doesn't mean that they are snowing people about screen durability flaws they "know about."
If all you were is pissed off then he has good reason to exploit you like this over and over.
Interesting idea. But if you pay the user for installing, what does that do for the business model of the developer? When will he make money?
I spent like 3 minutes waiting for the video demo person to type some long comment, so I could see the rest of the app.
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> In a nutshell, Apple knows the phone has problems but
> will insist that users are simply “holding it wrong.”

I think it is a wrong implication from leaked documents.

The problem of Apple is that they always state, that their products are the best on the market. And this is probably true in many aspects. However most people understand "the best" not as "better than others", but as "ideal" or "flawless", which is not true. And this wrong understanding rockets the expectations of customers through the roof, ignoring physics laws etc.