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Are you only including developers, or all the people who work on a product? I imagine that MS has a rather large team of non-developers working on products as well.

You want to be careful with that metric. You know the cleaners don't make much money, why not fire them?
In news:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-20012446-62.html
Maybe that's the problem at Microsoft: they think they can solve problems by throwing lots of people at them.

No they don't.
We replaced the lawn chairs with aerons pretty quickly...
So it's a nock off of chatroulette with a business spin? How long will it take until The Gap sees that 90% of their video applicants are actually dudes wanking off?
That, and the fact that the last war to be fought on US soil pre-dates the invention of film.

(US Civil War ended in 1865; film was invented by George Eastman in 1884)

Lamenting the lack of architectural appreciation remains worthwhile.
I'm a huge fan of Orson Scott Card, so take the following with a grain of salt.

Despite "recent interviews" which most people really disagree with, I still think almost all his fiction works are great. So if you liked Ender's Game, be sure to pick up other fiction books by him. I especially recommend "Songmaster" and "The Worthing Saga".
When my karma got to 10, I knew I was an HN expert.
this may be good advice for people who have the potential to earn fu money. the corollary to average people seems to be that it's no longer possible to retire.

how did we go from an age in which average people could hope to retire, to one in which someone with 5M needs to worry?
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* Unconscious Incompetence: The individual neither understands nor knows how to do something, nor recognizes the deficit, nor has a desire to address it.

* Conscious Incompetence: Though the individual does not understand or know how to do something, he or she does recognize the deficit, without yet addressing it.

* Conscious Competence: The individual understands or knows how to do something. However, demonstrating the skill or knowledge requires a great deal of consciousness or concentration.

* Unconscious Competence: The individual has had so much practice with a skill that it becomes "second nature" and can be performed easily (often without concentrating too deeply). He or she may or may not be able teach it to others, depending upon how and when it was learned.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence
If you like Logicomix and other math fiction, I highly recommend his previous book, "Uncle Petros and Golbach's conjecture".
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Lamenting the lack of architectural appreciation remains worthwhile.

Why? Humans conform nature to our needs. If we need a better building, why shouldn't we tear down an old one? All of the previous building's history will remain documented in, say, Wikipedia.

This is probably just the worldview of an inexperienced kid though.

(This is an honest question, not a statement of opinion.)
I use the lightweight emacs alternative 'zile' a lot, I have it installed on both my desktop machines (alongside emacs) and also on some tiny machines like OpenWRT routers where I don't want an emacs install.

It loads totally instantly whereas my emacs configuration is ~0.5s, so if I'm really just jumping into a file for something very simple and then out again, I use that.

One step up in complexity is to alias something as 'emacs -nw' (emacs start in console mode.) Which is almost as quick (depending on your startup files), but you've got all your nice custom .emacs configuration there.

Then, there's the fact you can run emacs in server mode and then your emacs editor windows are just connecting back to a server process and not loading up anything at all.

Finally, there's the fact that a true emacs user would already be interacting with their shell in emacs shell-mode, so they wouldn't need to load anything at all.

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Imagine if OpenSSH were GPL'd and every vendor who implemented it got sued for not releasing a few patch files specific to their product.
Appreciate the inputs. I guess "Social foot traffic for your Local Business",while correct, doesn't quite pack a punch. Perhaps we'll just go with "Social traffic for your Local Business". Anyway, I'm relooking the headline too - so hopefully we'll change the copy to something much more clear.
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OK, thanks for the data point. Thanks in large part to the comments of you and others, I went ahead submitted my application. Unfortunately, the only way you could know that I'm damn good at whatever work I'm doing (whether that be serving, bartending, tutoring, valet parking, programming, or working in a steel mill) is to accept my word and give me some work to do. :)
Haha. That is amazing.

I thought "Bioethics attracts all the weirdos who want to propose really off the wall crazy crap" until I read that list. People actually get paid to write stuff like that?
I think being able to disagree with a point most other experts in the field agree upon, with reason, while being able to explain the more common POV, is sufficient but not necessary evidence of expertise.
I've been on lithium before. I'd prefer to spend the rest of my life as far away from ingesting it as possible.

Care to explain?
Obviously the founder should be rewarded much more than this when the company is seeing real revenue. At what point(s) would you say the salary should be significantly more than this?
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... swallowing a toothpaste tube's worth of fluoride can kill a child ...

Er. That's a pretty big logical fallacy. Almost every substance ingested in huge quantities is lethal, including salt and caffeine.
Things vary considerably, partly because there's no real central registry for journal names: If you're the Journal of X, it just means you were the first organization audacious enough to pick that name, not necessarily that you're actually a legitimate representative of field X.

There are, fortunately, some somewhat more sane bioethics journals, like the one named Bioethics, which has article titles that at least seem to involve legitimate issues at the intersection of medical practice and ethics, like, "Addiction and Autonomy: Can Addicted People Consent to the prescription of their drug of addiction?": http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0269-9702
You can turn your ASCII arts drawings into actual images with ditaa: http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/.

I've found this handy for when you are generating HTML manuals from text comments in the source code, and you want to include a quick-n-dirty diagram in your manual.
When I read yours, I had Homer's voice in my head, somehow :-D
I'm imagining it. Posting a patch to your website is surely better than rewriting ssh from scratch or licensing SSH.com SSH. (Sure, BSD requires less effort on your part, but the community gets less in return. That's not good for the continued existence of the project.)
I don't consider myself a kid anymore, but I'd still love to be part of a startup. The opportunity to work with smart individuals in a sensible environment is pretty huge. The potential to learn a lot about what is required in running a startup is another thing. The ability to make a good living while doing something cool is yet another.

I'm one of those people who doesn't particularly care what startup I work for. As long as it's not a spamming site or something else that generally makes the world a worse place, I'd be excited to work there.

If I wanted to solve problems I was interested in, I'd be a Ph.D. student, create a personal project, start my own startup, or get a completely unrelated job while programming in my spare time. Right now (for the next few years, at least) I just want to make some good, reasonably-steady money while providing value in a job that I enjoy. The specific problems I'd be solving have very little bearing on my thought process right now.
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Wow, 215,000 users @ $9.99 per month and they still need to raise money for sending large files?

I find it laughable that a service like Gmail can handle so much mail volume and provide 7GB of space but the attachment size is still limited to 25MB. I know SMTP isn't optimized for handling large files but it can't be that hard to figure something out.
I don't think anything is stopping you from using IM/irc/chat. The problem that video screenings solve isn't one that you face.

For example, Thunderbird School of Global Management, a top international MBA program, is planning on using Active Interview as part of their admissions process. They're letting applicants answer a video questionnaire to replace 1 of 3 essays. It's purely optional. They have a full admission team of 10+ people, working full time traveling around the world screening applicants. Using a tool like AI saves tons of time and money in the early screening stages. Unless you are a organization like that, you won't truly feel the pain that Active Interview or Hirehive solves.
I miss TechTV.

This question reminded me of this episode.

Pt. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91igg2UX7o8

Pt. 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU88fQkwfws
If you are willing to spend more than 8 hours a day on "work", then you can do well and read mailing lists. If you were at a company other than Google, then your 9th hour wouldn't get you much more than a headache, but at Google, you can learn about cool stuff and get to know your coworkers better.

(I think 8 hours is way too long to spend working in a single day anyway, so company-sponsored mailing lists seem like a nice distraction. I would rather just go home and read Internet mailing lists though.)
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I agree, but what's considered valuable and what isn't is just fashion more often than not. And once the building is torn down, it's too late to reconsider.
FWIW I heard a story of the "Find Dialog" (Ctrl-F) in Excel being written by a separate team of several people that included few developers, few testers, a project manager and a technical writer. It was in '94 and it was told by a guy who presumably left MS not long ago in the context of describing the benefits of the COM.
I don't know, it's not like Linux just lets things in after a week of testing. I understand the need to do things right, but I also understand the natural tendency in developers toward perfectionism. You have to strike a balance -- in some cases Linux may be closer than BSD or vice-versa, but the real thing is that the open-source philosophy of release early, release often is better embodied by something active like Linux.
You haven't seen Dr. Strangelove, have you?
I didn't set out to invalidate your post, just to offer an explanation as to why, in the US, the iPhone isn't offered on any other network but AT&T, and what would need to happen for that to change.

It sounded as if you're not convinced that the iPhone will ever be available on any network other than AT&T. Given that Verizon is by far the largest carrier in the US, I can't imagine Apple not wanting a piece of that action. But fact remains, Verizon is still on CDMA, and that tech has had its best days.

As Steve Jobs said at D8:

"Apple is a company that has succeeded by choosing which horses to ride technically, that have a future, that are headed up. Different pieces of technology kind of go in cycles. They have their springs and summers and autumns and then go to their graveyard of technology. We try to pick things that are in their springs."

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2010/06/01/d8-steve...
Really, why is this on HN?
http://sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com/

Original source, also lists the locations.

There are also places in a number of these cities where limited amounts of the ww2 damage are left un-repaired, as a memorial and a live version of these composites.
As a UI developer with about 5 years of experience, that seems about right to me. I think I could have written that app given about 8 months. Heck, I suspect that the page turning animation was a relatively small part of the development.

I don't consider myself a fantastic developer either. I'd be suspicious of any developer with a few years experience who couldn't write an application like that given the right amount of time and motivation.

This isn't to belittle your comment, just that I'm thinking to myself "yeah, that sound correct".
I think the gp was referencing the movie "Serenity". Good movie :)
Nice. +1 for the Wikimedia foundation. If people don't stand up for their rights, soon there won't be any rights to stand up for.
The buildings that tend to stick around the most seem to be made of rocks.

The US doesn't build many buildings with rocks.

(for the purposes of this statement, concrete is not a rock)
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Arch user here. The great thing with a rolling release is that when something breaks there is usually a lot of people trying to solve the exact same problem at the same time. I think I learn a lot in problem solving because of that since I switch to Arch! And now every bug is a fun thing that almost never last long, you must be quick if you want to be the first to write the patch who will solve it!
Nope, I'm talking about PDAnet. Check out their FAQ:

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Early photography used metal or glass plates, not film, and most certainly existed during the civil war. Here is an exhibition on civil war photography from the Met:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phcw/hd_phcw.htm
Do you mean to imply that the post's author was lying, the person he was talking to was lying, or that a top money manager at a major Wall Street firm's opinion is just as good as that of a random person?

If the last one, I'm inclined to think that someone who thinks about something full-time is statistically more likely to guess correctly about it than someone who doesn't.
I nearly picked up RWH (having previously heard nothing about it) at my school library. Please tell me a little more about why I should read it.
That's a good point. I'm just wondering why an old building should be preserved at all. (Honestly, why?)
That's a pretty good question. The best I can come up with is once there is sufficient runway in the bank to feel safe.
One thing that's always been like a junk-science beacon for me in regards to water fluoridation is the decree that the ppm of fluoride in water varies depending on whether you're in a hot climate or a cold climate because "people who live in warm climates tend to drink more water".

That and systemic reviews such as the York review (http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/pdf/summary.pdf) which basically states there has been very little high-quality studies done on the effects of water fluoridation.

Admittedly that systemic review was released in 2000, and unfortunately for conspiracy theorists the York review concluded there may be a slight benefit and at worst a slight disbenefit to water fluoridation, but in their executive summary they did say:

"Given the level of interest surrounding the issue of public water fluoridation, it is surprising to find that little high quality research has been undertaken"

That's almost half a century since we've been touting the 'scientifically proven' benefits of water fluoridation, which I just find stunning.

So unlike yourself I'm very unimpressed with the scientific evidence, and have come to the conclusion that a half-baked health policy was implemented in an age of questionable scientific rigour.

Human and establishment tendency to refuse to admit fault or error has guaranteed this rather flaky practice continues in many parts of the west today.
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As little as possible. You want every bit of free cash to be going back into the company.

The difference between a $75k and a $150k salary is an extra employee.

Peter Thiel has gone so far as to say that the best predictor of startup success is a low CEO salary.
> Intel was telling customers they didn't need it.

They were telling customers if they did need it they should buy Itanium.
I wouldn't want my community to be the first to test it

At the levels they are talking about, it seems like there are communities who for decades or longer have been "testing" drinking water with the proposed levels of lithium.

Of course, that's assuming that the deliberately introduced lithium is in the same form, with the same chemical availability. I would hope that would be a requirement if anyone actually decided to try and do this.
Everything in the world has a U-shaped value curve. Most valuable when it is new, at some point it loses value, may even become worthless. Down the track, it will become priceless and irreplaceable. Note 'value' here isn't strictly monetary, it can be cultural as well.

Dropping buildings in the midst of the U never gives things the chance to recover and move past fashion. Most buildings discarded are due to the design being old and out of date. But old buildings in a city plant the cities history in time and allow it to tell a story. Remember that 'Gothic' cathedrals were so named because the term was in regular use as a description of something vulgar. The Notre Dame in Paris was at one stage due for demolition until the story of Quasimodo re-inspired the public to keep it - the restoration is still ongoing.

Buildings can be re-purposed and still keep their charm. The mistake is in discarding things just because they are old.

It's very true that not all old things are worth keeping, but the benefit of the doubt must go to the building until the current fashion has moved into the past.

Also, in the case of Berlin, a lot of damaged structures have been reinforced and kept standing as they were at the end of the war. It reminds the city of what can happen if continual efforts towards peace are not made. These scars on the landscape are a constant reminder of the cities turbulent past, and help develop a sense of the story of the city while walking around.

Buildings are the ultimate encapsulator of society - it's where we live, die, make decisions and create history. As such they have a special importance in being kept to tell that story to newcomers.
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I love OpenBSD's philosophy and documentation and enjoyed testing FreeBSD but I always return to Arch for my desktop and laptop and Debian for my servers. Except for two project that are on my todo list for years but never been completed: a router firewall using OpenBSD (with the wonderful PF) and a NTP server using FreeBSD and a GPS with time pulse signal.

I hope someday I will give them the time because I feel that I could have a lot of fun with that.
Complete secrecy is the typical modus operandi of companies. You'd probably be paying extra for SSL telnet.
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I keep seeing this pop up on HN and I'm intrigued.

Any wealthy people out there using this who can comment?
As remote as these images might feel, it's important to remember that some of our parents and grandparents went through this time. We always feel that the world is a peaceful place, but things got this bad in a very short space of time. Certainly in a shorter space of time than the war in Iraq has been going on. Things can fall apart very quickly, and the ones who fight for peace the most are those who can remember once proud buildings with artillery damage, and soldiers on the streets with weapons ready.

Peace is a fractious and rare state in human history, it's easy to forget that in a modern life. That's where the power of these images lie.
Traditionally one has a single, long running Emacs process that you do everything in, even quick edits. If you had to wait for it to start up from scratch then yeah, that would be pretty annoying.

My fingers frequently go `sudo vi ...' because I'm not used to using the sudo mode in TRAMP, but that would arguably be my deficiency, not Emacs.
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Only if you're Andy Rubin.

When I look at the dollar amount of some of the largest-ever Founders Awards and then see how many people they're split between, I can't imagine that the payout is anywhere close to even an employee's payout for an acquisition. I dunno how the Founders Awards are divided up, but I'd imagine that it's a skew distribution, with most of it going to the initiators and key early team members of the project. Some of these teams have hundreds of employees; I really doubt that someone who joined six months before the Founders Award makes off with any more than a "Hey, that's a nifty bonus" amount.
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There is a foreign function interface floating around in Mozilla land. js-ctypes. I have no idea how it relates to this javascript engine, but it tantalizes.
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...which is basically what Google (and several other software companies) does. That's why I say that some people simply call it "development".
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The LOC has quite the collection of civil war photographs:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/
They don't put salt or caffeine in your tap water.

If they're going to make you drink something daily for a lifetime without your informed consent, I expect some reason better than cutting down a few bucks of dental care expenses.

The fluoride is in enough concentration to be effective in the brief time it passes through your mouth (that's the idea, isn't it? Or is it supposed to somehow work systemically after ingested?). A tube of toothpaste will last a few weeks. There is, in principle, reason for concern. To claim it's scientifically proven to be safe you need lifetime double-blind studies controlling for any pernicious effects, which they obviously didn't run before starting this. A shame, considering there's apparently plenty of people who would be happy as uncompensated guinea pigs.
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