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You are completely dead-on with this assessment. For me, and I suspect for a lot of people, "tech" was a place that we could go during our childhoods where people would just leave us alone.

If I was sitting in my room trying to figure out some bizarre IRQ conflict between my sound card and my wireless card, nobody was standing there making fun of me for not being able to run as fast as them, or not being able to do any pushups.

"We judge people based on what they say and thing, not what they look like, and you call us criminals."

I think that's why a lot of kids turned to tech.

Well the same thing is happening now in the workplace. If we just shut up and sit in our cubes, nobody will bother us. Standing up to $boss means that we might be embarrassed.
What's more ridiculous is that they changed everything that doesn't matter. Nobody complained about the thickness, the speed or the covers. What we really wanted is an optimized-for-tablet OS experience. You know not having to quit our app, find settings, go to general to finally activate Bluetooth, or having to struggle without tabs on the web browser. The worst part is people wont even see that, they're all brainwash to Big Brother apple.

‎"The cameras are severely lacking, the screen -- while extremely high quality -- is touting last year's spec, and its operating system still has significant annoyances, like the aggravating pop-up notifications"
-iPad 2 Review (Engadget)
$21 was the actual IPO price, not adjusted for the 9 splits.
> (Isn't version control mostly for text files?)

No. For long-life projects I snapshot entire build systems (toolsets, documentation, you name it) so that a precise image can be re-created later.
I had a coworker who was super resistant to switching to git because of the command line thing. I decided to give him a walkthrough in the hopes that I could answer any questions. You know what the problem turned out to be? He didn't know about tab-completion on the command line.
>If I turned round and said 'I'm sorry, that information's irrelevant,' what would happen?

Could you ignore the question and give them the information that you want instead?

Interviewer: "What salary are you currently getting?"
You: "I'm expecting $120k for this position"

?
In the interim, you might want to have a prominent series of buttons on each analysis page which says:

Trade Now [Fidelity.com] [TD Ameritrade] [E-Trade.com] (etc.)

i.e., something that has the look-and-feel of the addthis.com widget on blog posts, but each of the icons goes to a different online broker.

That makes it easier for me to act on the recommendations; while I'd still need to go to my other account and login, the what-to-do-next part is clear.

If you get decent traction with that, then you can call one or more of these brokers and say "Have you noticed how much traffic I'm sending you?" as the basis of doing a more direct deal with them.

BTW, another thing that would make it much more appealing is being able to quantify the returns.

I.e., instead of "Compare with professionals like Warren Buffett" could you support a claim like: "Make Warren Buffett's Portfolio Your Own and See Returns of 35% or more" ?

If you can really show me how to do something like that with specifics, then I'd consider a trial membership at least.
I think you're way too pessimistic. Anonymous is anyone and everyone who wants to be Anonymous. Even if the current people called Anonymous in the lime light right now aren't what you would hope for it's still an inspiration of what can happen.

I remember years ago someone warned against a company angering the internet. I laughed. What is the net going to do? Spam email them? Shut down their network documentation? BFD. Anonymous is like in the matrix where Agent Smith managed to escape the virtual world and could affect things in the real world. That is power and that is potential.
> They all have [their] merits

That is a poisonous meme which should be fought tooth and nail. It basically follows the structure of the fallacy of grey¹: "every tool has qualities, therefore they're all fine".

It doesn't account for the fact that some tools dominate others. Meaning, they are demonstrably better in every way for every foreseeable usage. But we tend to cling to our old ways, instead of just saying "oops"² in exchange for new powers. We sometimes even actively try to deny others the very powers we refused to take.

Here, you were very close to make that mistake about svn vs Git/Hg/Darcs. Git doesn't dominates svn yet, but I'm sure it will. Then, subversion will deserve "you should stop using it".

But most often, this mistake is made with programming languages (it's a variation on the blub paradox). And the effects are far worse there.

[1]: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Fallacy_of_gray

[2]:http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Oops
AV != IDS. Goal of the AV is to stop known malware from propagating.

Goal of the IDS is to detect (or block) attacks (or your penetration tests).
It's not actually 1 MW, it's 1 KW.
It still ends up including a lot of legitimate sites I recognize for crazy reasons. The main DNSSEC site, dnssec.net, and he security blog dshield.org are both apparently "mfa" ("made for adsense"), the musician deadmau5.com is "spam", and boonex.com, the author of the Dolphin CMS, is a "malware-domain".

With that kind of hit rate, I have to wonder how many of the 1.1M domains they banned were errors. :/
The pricing is a bit in flux right now because the cost is going to be largely based on the number of people who actually attend. Our target is to keep it under $750 no matter what. So that's on the high end of the pricing scale. Chances are really good it will be less.

The reason BOS is so expensive is because it's in Boston and they don't have sponsors. Vegas is significantly less expensive to host a conference. We did look into Boston and it was kind of ridiculous.
Sparkmuse will be there!
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They would not tolerate it and it wouldn't work. The only way to negotiate effectively is to come armed with information. As an employee of a company, you have no authority to delegate your confidentiality agreement to other parties (very few people in real companies actually have any signing authority). At most companies, you'd also be violating the unspoken norm that salaries are private. You can disagree with the the reasonableness of those two points, but the simple fact is the "service" would get you fired.

A far better idea for a service would be for negotiation counseling. This service actually already exists, but is so touchy- feely- that it isn't taken seriously by hard-nosed tech workers, who as a result get rolled by their employers.
I've done this a lot during interviews, and results vary greatly. Most people expect an answer to this question, and often times I found people getting confused (and even a little offended) because I wouldn't give it.

My generic response is usually something along the lines of "Well, they're two different positions, so I'm not comfortable giving out that information. Do you have a range in mind?"

Every time I ended up mentioning what my salary is, I've gotten screwed (rightfully so), and I've never been shown the door for refusing to reveal it. It's always helped in the long run.
I'm having my review today and I am not making enough to live on. Every month, after mortgage on the house, modest car payment, and insurance for wife and two kids, I dip into savings to pay the bills.

It's already too late to "plant the seeds" for a big raise, so I'm anticipating some little 1% raise today at my review.

I had my chance a few weeks ago, when I stayed late to confirm and fix a bug that would have cost us a $2M contract, and everybody knows what I did and how important it was. Still, without me actually pushing for a big raise, I know it won't happen. It's a small company and money is not wasted. To pay me a big raise I didn't ask for would be throwing money away.

So why didn't I ask? I think because I don't want the commitment a big raise would impose on me to stay indefinitely, and I don't want to be comfortable. I like feeling the pinch of money, as it keeps me motivated to work on my startup ideas. If I allowed myself to get too comfortable, I fear it might not be the best for me, long term.
Seems like he should've had half the class do the staring, the other half take the test normally, and give as many points as appropriate. One could get a lot of data after doing that for several classes.
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It goes over iTunes right? Kids these days probably already have iPods and get songs off iTunes.
What is it? That isn't clear to me at first or even second glance. It's nice that you provide information such as "do I need to make a long term commitment?" but first make it clear a commitment to WHAT?

Edit: I see, you linked to the signup page. Perhaps not the smartest thing to do.
True if they can find a pool of candidates that don't care about getting better compensation. Many people, like me, are not in that pool. If they can't get me the compensation I ask for, they won't place me. Someone else will place me instead. So by not doing that 20% of work, they are losing not 20%, but 100% of what they would make from my placement. But yes, perhaps they can make it up by finding people who don't care about compensation.

But really my take on this is different. If it takes an extra 20% of work, then the hiring company is probably not for me. I'd rather work for companies where good compensation is a given, because they tend to do other things better as well.
A lot of it boils down to the fact that anti-virus vendors pretty thoroughly lost the war quite some time ago. Almost by their definition, signature tools are busy detecting the last generation of threats while everyone has moved on. You can, after all, check your code against all the AV engines before you ever let it out. Most heuristic engines aren't in much better shape.

In the end, these types of software are more about providing a security blanket than anything else, the world is pretty ugly out there and few people have anything better to offer an individual.
Dear programmer.

You are not the ipad's target demographic.

The end.
I've developed a source code editor for iOS. It started out as an iPhone app for quick edits of PHP/Javascript files. I ported it to iPad before launch and the consumer demand for a more generic code editor beyond editing HTML over FTP connections became obvious. I'm currently wrapping up the 3rd overhaul of the text rendering engine (thanks to Apple finally including CoreText in iOS) and I'm finally poised to add all of the typical editor features such as find/replace and intelligent syntax highlighting. I hesitate to share the link because I think the pending update I'm working on puts the current version a little bit to shame: http://is.gd/nimbus

I realize the article is concentrated on actually building applications on the iPad itself, but I personally think that puts the overall user experience into a jeopardy that Apple isn't willing to risk. Just wanted to point out though that people ARE writing serious code on their iPads.
this greybeard is looking forward to going retro videogame mad with gameduino.

http://excamera.com/sphinx/gameduino/
People consider $15 for a game on the Nintendo DS to be relatively inexpensive, while Angry Birds sells for $0.99 on the App Store.
Just to play devil's advocate here, and definitely not disagreeing with you, but...

Do you know how we communicated changes before git and other team tools? With our voices, markers, and boards. If your team steps on each other's toes, might that not be a problem with the team dynamics and not necessarily the tools themselves?
PSD and PNG files are not usually counted as "large". When someone says "don't version large binary files", what they mean is "don't check in a DVD ISO of Fedora".
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I think EA's marketing muscle is the reason their games tend to get "discovered", not that gamers are paying any attention to the EA brand (mostly they seem quite hostile towards it).

I'm not sure why people think there is any particularly high amount of noise to break through in the app store. If you write a book and get your local bookstore to carry it, there is almost no chance you are going to sell a lot of copies just by putting it on the shelf. The same would apply to records or PC software if people actually bought either of those.

If you don't have people coming to the app store specifically to buy your app, you aren't going to sell very many copies. That isn't a grim reality of the app store, it's a grim reality of selling anything anywhere.
Great suggestions, thanks!
That is only one controversial App Store issue in which Gruber has sided with Apple. Even then he did have some criticism of it: "I concur that worst aspect of these new subscription policies is that something that used to be allowed now is not. It has a bait-and-switch feel to it."

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/03/marco-disagreeme...

ubernostrum should not have been downvoted. Gruber has consistently been highly critical about other App Store policies:

http://daringfireball.net/2008/09/app_store_exclusion
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/16/scratch
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/16/app-store-reject....
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/09/29/isinglepayer

The only thing more consistent than Gruber's support of Apple is the ad hominem attacks inevitably made against him.
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I have found the salary.com Web site to be a helpful tool in setting expectations: if you actually cough up money for their report, you can fill in your location, job category, years of experience, company size, etc., and get back a report showing the range of salaries people like you are earning.

The one thing I am uncertain about is how I would place myself on that range: should I be asking for a 75th-percentile salary and settle for 50th, or ask for 90th and settle for 75th?
You're thinking of RCS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Control_System
Are you showing us the sign up form or the application (flowdock.com)? I don't understand what FlowDock.com is (tho I do know that you have a 30 day free trial).
I think you're almost hitting a great point home: git solves a different problem than subversion, just one in the same domain.
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I wish more people took your attitude. That last paragraph nailed it for me. As a tech recruiter I get treated with such disregard by experienced candidates as it's assumed we are a purely and simply a middle-man.

Keep in mind that something around the lower number of the range is what the offer will come in at

Not strictly true. Every employer wants to pay as little as possible obviously to keep costs down but if the salary range is, for example: £100k to £120k and it's clearly communicated to the employer that your minimum expectation for the role is going to be £120k then there is no reason why you would ever end up being offered much less. The key, as you mentioned is to be clear with the recruiter from the beginning. Recruiters have no reason to lie about the salary. Bottom line is, the more you get paid, the more we get paid. It's in my best interests to get you the highest possible salary on offer and I won't waste your time, my clients time or my own time putting you forward if you tell me your minimum is £120k and the client told me their absolute top end is around £110k.
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Its like a sports car enthusiast getting into a generic 'coupe' with an Automatic gearbox and whining about the lack of a stick shift.

It just doesn't make any sense, and these kinds of posts show that our community really doesn't understand exactly why the ipad is the success that it is.
> Anonymous is anyone and everyone who wants to be Anonymous.

Well, that's simultaneously the benefit and the drawback. Nightly News ran an exclusive the other night that interviewed some chain smoker who whored it up as well, and the piece highlighted Anonymous's accomplishments of taking down VISA and MasterCard. That's what Nightly News indicated that they were known for. I don't even recall if they mentioned Scientology, and if they did, it was in passing.

Regardless of what Anonymous can be, the media has latched on to the "computer hacking," and that's what Anonymous is now to every non-informed person who gets their information from press. A bunch of basement computer nerds, triumphing over old money establishment with all the suspense of a Grisham novel; that made a lot more headway in the international media than Project Chanology ever did, because it's a more interesting story.

The important part is that Anonymous isn't making strides to fix it: they're learning where the reward is, and all of the recent operations have lingered in that area -- countless SQL injections and DDoS attacks later, any possible positive outcome for Anonymous has long been overshadowed by the destructive. Even if, as you say, all of the destructive ops have been the work of a group that's genuinely out of touch with what Anonymous should be, the inherent drawback to anonymity itself means that their tactic has won the fight.
You manage to do all these complex things with SVN and yet you can't manage Git? If this were any other site I would straight up call you out as lying. As it stands I would like to know exactly what it is you're doing that's so hard with Git.

Personally I hate command line interfaces and try to do everything I can in the windows Git GUI. I have to fall back on the command line a lot for cherry picking (when the GUI wont do it for some reason), stashing, rebasing (including various kinds of history rewrites), complex merging, conflict resolution, etc. and I find this easy to do with very little training (mainly just the Git pro online book). I would never even attempt the things you do with SVN because it would just be way too complex.
Pretty neat integration of SoundCloud & Foursquare
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Am I right in thinking that a use case for this could be: I'm about to leave a friend's house to walk back to my place, so I launch the app and it tracks me until I get home, so my friends can know I've made it back safely or, if anything happens they have a log of my activity?

Sounds like an innovative idea!
Yes, just wanted to share the new signup form that supports Google/Facebook and also lets you specify your company.

If you want to know more about Flowdock, the most advanced team messenger, it's better to check out the front page: http://www.flowdock.com/
This blog post has the results of the survey we posted a couple wks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2256293

Thanks so much for all your help.
That's certainly one good way to go. The other is to leave them where they are. Whatever works is the good way.
I'm more of a pencil and paper guy, but at first glance it looks very nice.

A couple of quick thoughts:

1) You might want to make it clearer which features are in the basic model and which are in the "Pro" version on the landing page

2) I'd maybe change the wording around the "More Features" section. Maybe I'm being hyper-critical, but it sounds more like "here's my project, what do you think?" rather than "Here is my professional piece of software that is being actively developed and having new features added daily".

Maybe something like:

"Taskrr is under active development, with new features being added on a daily/weekly basis. Please feel free to suggest new features via [feedback form link?]. You can see our current roadmap here [link to dogfooded dev roadmap using Taskrr!]"

Hope that helps.

Mark
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Which is why they clearly state:

If you had the good fortune to have bought 100 shares at the $21 offering price that day and sat on the investment for 25 years, it would have mushroomed into 28,800 shares over the course of nine stock splits and be worth about three quarters of a million dollars today.
I was really hoping for something inspiring, something that would make me realize I wasn't being the best human being I could possibly be and would give me insight towards how I could achieve that. Instead I got a crummy made-up story that only contained platitudes and unrealistic expectations:
If the work would have mattered to you, you would have found a solution.

Your work and other elements of your life can both matter to you. It's not an either-or situation. "Don't worry about my dog being hit by a car and bleeding out on the street, I got those BI reports done on time, boss! We can fromogulate an additional 3 widgets per year! Can I leave early and go bury my dog?"

I wonder what the author's excuse for this drivel is?
Some related advice I just gave a family member on this subject:

In most mature companies, you're reviewed on a cycle, and the bump you get is preprogrammed according to an HR spreadsheet. The conversation that results from this is not a real salary negotiation. Your goal needs to be to break out of the cycle.

What I think you should try is, let the review run, and get your HR-approved comp pellet. Then say,

"Thanks for increasing my comp. I appreciate it. I have a question. What were the factors that led you to raise my salary?"

They'll give a platitudinous answer. Let them. Then say,

"That makes sense. I have another question. Over the past year, I did XXX, YYY, and ZZZ. You didn't mention these things. That's fine! But I'd like to make sure I'm putting my energy into things that the business values here. Instead of XXX, YYY, and ZZZ, what should I do?"

Then have the conversation, in specific terms, and follow up with an email recapping the conversation.

I have a couple theories about this approach:

(1) (Extremely important and something I know to be valid:) Business isn't a meritocracy. The winners know how to market themselves. Coders look over each others shoulders on Github and developer a sense of who the bad-asses are. Successful business people always broadcast their wins. You need to seek out and seize opportunities to toot your horn on the record. This is something tangential to salary negotiation that introverted and meritocratic tech people also suck at.

(2) The "objectives" most people are given at salary reviews are inevitably vague. This serves the purpose of the business by making comp something out of the control of both the team member and the manager.

(3) Even if you don't want to push for a bigger bump (and most of you, if you think about it seriously, don't, or you'd already be making more money), it is still in your long term interests to establish a winning track record on your terms. If you leave it to the managers to decide what goes on the track record, you will lose out to every member of your team who is better at politics and marketing than you are.
Thanks for writing this -- it made me write my thoughts down on some things I've also been meaning to write.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2309723