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> 5) A developer’s best chance at achieving a maximum salary increase is to negotiate during the hiring process. Once you are on board, you are at the company’s mercy unless you bail.

This is true indeed for a worse than average developer: after a year or so the employer learns that they are not really worth the money; at this point it will be hard for employer to cut back the salary.

Any developer (good or bad) stands a better chance to get hired by agreeing to lower compensation. Best developers have a good chance of successfully negotiating a significant salary raise after a year or so once they've proven their worth. At this stage they have much more leverage over the employer because it's quite costly to let a good developer go.

Overall I feel the author could have negotiated a much better deal.
Generally, doing it for friends and family shouldn't be a problem. Occasionally though people expect miracles, they expect them fast, and they're pretty ungrateful.

It's also easy to be sucked in by acquaintances like this: "Can you have a look at my PC after work? It won't take very long and I'll make you dinner." to which you of course agree. The bad part comes later, because you've just set a precedent and evenings like this will keep repeating. Those people think two afterwork hours of fiddling with their ancient Windows crap is worth exactly one burrito and a Sprite. Yeah, it happened to me recently.
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I guess it's inevitable that we have these sort of meta discussions right now, and I'll bite.

How does this become spam? Or, let's say you used the wrong word and didn't mean "spam" -- how is this article or its author somehow bad for HN right now? I add "right now" because I think the answer would be different if the user had been around for a year or two.

I am not looking to prove anything here or argue. I am really curious why you think I should not upvote a submission I found interesting.
Part of this reminded me of [1]. Most of the book is about how employees can deal with different boss personalities.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1564147045/ref=redir_mdp_mobil...
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I guess that means that 370MW is the nominal optimal generating power? From what I read, thermal solar has a capacity factor of only about 20% [1], which means this solar farm will average out to about 70MW, which isn't that much.

Coal has a capacity factor of about 60% and nuclear 90% [2], so this is similar to a 120MW coal plant or a 80MW nuclear power plant. Of course, you can't really compare them only on total power provided, as solar provides most of its power during the day, which is also the time in which the energy demand is the highest.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy

[2] http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epaxlfile5_2.pd...
It comes from the same place as all other currencies, the people's willingness to take it.
Wow I feel ignorant, great stuff!
Note that I think that's a Bash thing, and the default is Emacs-style bindings (C-a, C-e, C-p, C-n) which include C-r for reverse interactive search of the history. I use that every day, a dozen or more times.
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An email is just a text file. It could have been saved for all that time, or written yesterday. In the context of an outstanding accusation of forgery, more easily-forged documents have no evidential value.
This one is not OSX specific though. I've tried it and can not get used to it even though I'm a VIM user at heart. I think not seeing the mode I'm in was tripping me up.
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I probably would have bought it for that price but it says United States only. Perhaps Gumroad or Hawtcakes would work? Or the Kindle store? (I heard you can instantly convert files to Kindle format by mailing them to youramazonaccount@kindle.com)

Another site that I used to visit regularly, for about 7 or 8 years, had a poster who kept his own text-file of all the great posts he'd read over the years. Occassionally he would tease us by posting extracts (of course, everybody wanted to know how many of their comments made the cut) occassionally. But I always thought the file itself was probably worth actual money. And I keep forgetting to make a similar effort for other online communities (HN for instance. But you'd be here all day catching all the great coments on HN).
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I want to believe that serious devs, OSS or otherwise, would be thinking about something along the lines of semantic versioning (http://semver.org/) as they bump version numbers.

Additionally, marketing likes to see the major number change (the "X" in the X.Y.Z). I think the public does too. They feel like they're getting more bang for their buck.
I'm sorry for the rant above, those type of comments get me quite emotional.

I would like to point out some things why Bitcoin and especially Gavin Andresen is so interesting:

1. Gavin is a real forward thinking entrepreneur/hacker who is actually not just trying to make headlines to get venture funded, but is actually quietly building infrastructure for his own startup.

2. If his startup fails, we still get the infrastructure (Bitcoin), public gets enormous value even when/if his startup is dead. Thats quite alot of differrence from startups like cuil or colour, where they burn money (value) and almost nothing is left after the failure, except for cautionary tale how not to do things.

3. Bitcoin (if successfull) brings alot competition to financial sector, and if it gains any significant traction it could change the monopolistic practices of currencies issued by nation states.
The only thing i don't understand is why this big law company got into that thing, i mean they have to know if this is just bullshit and this would harm their reputation.
Why would anyone want this?
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If they're going to retract over a couple of grand that means they're insanely cheap. Why would you want to work for an insanely cheap company?
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The author seems to feel a bit envious/jealous of the other peoples salaries and thinks it's the boss' fault (and by the way the boss is just making up stuff to tell him). My advise would have been to get over it! Salary is not black and white. Was he "happy" with his salary before he learned what others earned? If so who cares what the others make. When starting out "many" years ago I knew with certainty that I was almost paid the lowest of everyone, funnily enough it made me think intellectually about what makes the salary beyond just skill and contribution; your context, past history, current market demand (dot com hire vs post do com hire) etc. I never felt bad for even a second.. Never used it in a netotiation. Chase the passion and strive for excellence and solid dedicated work in a "good" organisation working for great people and the money will usually follow I think (or at least you will feel good and happy).

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$25 savings.
Yeah, but did you notice the kid in charge of TechKids(?) finally is repairing is damage to his name for his TC debacle(ipad for article) and is starting again to get press for his efforts.
A good while. There's actually a plant of this design (smaller though, only 20MW) outside of Seville, it's been there for a while.

Also, to the sister post, there are relatively few moving parts in the collector itself. Furthermore, these are all conditions that we've dealt with already with traditional turbine systems (they get pretty hot too), and aircraft design. The harder part is getting the sun tracking right. The Seville (and I guess this one too) plant actually has to point a bunch of mirrors off the tower (they park them into a tower of light above the tower... looks really cool) at peak, since it actually gets too hot (it would melt concrete or something ridiculous I heard...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS20_solar_power_towers
Video is a poor medium for learning to program
> and I'll bite

I'm not a troll if that's what you're implying. I may be a condescending douchebag who irritates you but that's not the same.

I chose the word spam because it turns out the article was posted to bolster pageviews on someones blog. Whether it's actually commercial or just egomaniacal is not really relevant. What matters is this link was posted to sell me something.

> I am really curious why you think I should not upvote a submission I found interesting.

Please read my comment in its entirety. You'll find that I have also upvoted it and I have also stated that it's an interesting article. There is however a larger motive at work behind posting this to HN which became apparent to me later.

To make it extra clear: one article is fine, it's interesting and engaging. Posting another one about the same topic linking to the same blog within hours is gratuitous.
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I think as it is only shown when selecting a book or on the screensaver, and not during main usage, quite a lot of people.
I disagree on the threat of retraction, obviously. Most firms aren't going to risk their reputations by rescinding an offer unless there was something severe (failure to disclose a felony) involved.

However, I think using post-offer leverage to negotiate extra pay is a bad idea. The leverage exists, but it's limited. I'd rather use it to get insight into (and favor in) project allocation than a measly few grand. Project allocation is the difference between having a successful career-- learning a lot, working with great people, getting the promotions-- and needing to find a new job in 12 months. A few thousand dollars is nothing in comparison. This style of negotiation is more subtle, and takes the form of a "reverse interview" than a line-in-the-sand "I want $10k more" statement, but I think the former is better at (a) presenting yourself well, and (b) getting you what you actually want, which is a successful career.

I also tend to subscribe to the philosophy that the first 120 days of any job (including post-offer negotiation) are an extended interview. What you want to show is that you care about your work intensely and that you have the potential to reach very high levels, but also that you expect to be challenged and given appropriate work; not that you are a mercenary who makes career decisions based on a few thousand dollars.
Slightly related nostalgia: when I was 12 and we'd go on a holiday I'd print 300 pages of documents like this (unix&shell commands), and memorize them for fun, and I'd make my mom test me. I felt like a f*ing wizard!

More on topic: I recently switched to zsh again (and loving it), so this is pure gold!
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Are you trolling? nginx supports HTTP 1.1 since I can remember
Value source is pretty much the same as all other currencies too: people use it to exchange goods.

It's actually a big game of trust, that you can use the bitcoin you get today to buy something tomorrow.

As the number of people engaging in trading bitcoins, the market regulates it's self by supply and demand basis ( here is a chart on the current exchange values http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ ).

The difference to most other current FIAT currencies is, that there is a maximum number of bitcoins that can be generated (20,999,999.9769 BTC), and it gets harder with time (exponential computation time needed to get them). This prevents runaway inflation.

To break it down to simple terms: it has value because people believe that it has value and use it to exchange goods and convert it to other currencies.
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I've actually found my experience is somewhat different. I'm reading more comments now and voting more often. I imagine your comment, as it now stands after 11 hours at the top, has plenty of votes behind it -- previously I wouldn't have considered voting for it since it already had plenty of "momentum," now, I can't tell, so I voted. Conversely I'm less inclined to just vote for a low total post to "promote" it. At the end of the day I find I'm treating each post more fairly without the count displayed.
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Thanks for that. The second paper you reference contains more details of the data structure. I have submitted an updated version of the second paper - it will probably appear on arxiv in 2 days. We have a much improved version of it, though, which I hope to post sometime next week.

For more information about append-only B-trees and SSDs, see http://www.acunu.com/2011/04/log-file-systems-and-ssds-made-...
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This relates to an issue that I personally struggle with. The issue is that I am interested in a number of different fields, mainly business, software, and writing (and politics, somewhat). I find the most inspiring achievement is that of the polymath and I aspire to someday be worthy of that label.

The issue is that in a world of six billion people and innumerable domains of knowledge, it is difficult to achieve true expertise in even a single field. Laser-like focus on a single skill, as described in the Pyramid Method, offers the potential of becoming amazing at that skill to the likely exclusion of any others.

My dilemma is therefore whether or not I ought to try to become an exceptional software developer or businessperson or writer, or whether it's okay to just be pretty good at all of those things and never achieve major recognition for any of them.

How possible is it to actually become a Renaissance Man these days?
I'm well aware of why Bitcoin's fans think it's cool. I still don't want to see a Bitcoin article on HN every three days.

Seriously, look at http://searchyc.com/submissions/bitcoin?sort=by_date. There's a couple of people who will upvote everything with Bitcoin in the title, so every last one of these submissions has made it to the front page.
You know, I consider it a bad attitude to (1) trash a good product without a valid argument and (2) completely ignore my comment.

Here's how to search on Flickr for "flower", from date 04/01 to date 04/12 (i.e. from the beginning of the month) AND sorted by interestingness:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=flower&m=tags&d=take...

Also consider that this does MORE than what photo.net's form you gave me does -- as Flickr doesn't have a rigid taxonomy, but a user-defined and very dynamic folksonomy, and they do need to do a full-text search for this.

keep in mind that Flickr gets thousands times
more traffic and number of photos uploaded

Precisely -- Flickr cannot do dumb sorting based on metrics collected from a dumb rating widget so easily, because (a) they are bigger and (b) they have more noise, which follows from (a).
Seville has one

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6616651.stm

but the idea is as old, Archimedes is said to have used mirrors to set fire to a roman fleet.
"It's unfortunate that company policy means losing talented new developers over a measly $5k but I wish you the best. Have a good day."
The best mobile app developers I know are equivalent or even better graphic designers than they are programmers. If you truly want to become a better mobile developer, focus on improving your ability to design the visual side. When a user sees your mobile application, they are interacting with and see only the tip of the iceberg, your UI. They don't see the underlying iceberg of code.

As far as a specific tip for the Pyramid method, get involved in your local mobile development SIG. For iOS, it is Cocoaheads (weird name, I know but Cocoa programmers are an interesting bunch). Once you get involved (or better yet, start one up), start presenting topics. By presenting, you will be pushed out of your comfort zone. Don't know AVFoundation? Volunteer to present on this topic and then build your first AVFoundation based app. As another comment in this thread pointed out, hackathons are a great way to meet other developers and improve your coding production. Seek out the good developers in your local area, nothing beats buying someone a beer or coffee and listening to their experience and advice. Do a pro-bono project, ideally one with a deadline (and one that would be difficult to back out of - e.g.one with personal commitment)

StackOverflow is a good practice area. If you have free time, go find some questions you don't know how to answer and answer them.

One last thing, buy a lot of apps. Use them, try to reverse engineer them (not from object code but from the app itself). Money well spent.
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kid? He's already 20. Anyway, he now has to build his business up the old fashioned way, going out and making contact. Whether people will remember him from his TC days is a different matter.
The first step is not to be so vague.

You can't expect detailed advice without providing any details yourself.
A friend of Mark from this time could easily say if this is his writing style or not.
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The Mac App Store opened for business on January 6, 2011 with 1,000 apps. Designers will be happy to know that there is an entire category devoted to Graphic & Design Apps. While some Apps may cross-over into other categories such as Photography, Utilities, and Developer, there is a growing list of Graphic & Design Apps and new titles are literally added every day.
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Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407334. The author seems to have taken a good look at some of the suggestions given there - or am I just imagining that?
In general, I agree - as you'd expect, practical implementations of this structure will naturally deviate quite far from the paper's presentation, and indeed we do make many optimizations for SSDs and rotating disks. But, in theory, disk vs RAM is no different to RAM vs L2. A central trick is the 'stratification' procedure that operates on arrays - that could be helpful elsewhere.
By this logic Apple is not innovative.
The first experimental solar power towers were built in the 1980s. The first commercial plant was constructed in Seville, Spain and became operational in 2007.
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Their pay is only relative to what they sell. Which is about as absolute as you can get. Developers, and many other occupations are paid relative to each other. A mid-level developer in Missouri will not get NYC rates no matter how hard they try.
> (You might not be hopping jobs at the moment, but you can negotiate a lot more than your salary.)

Play boardgames, if you have no other opportunity. (Diplomacy is good, and can be played by email.) Or start haggling in shops.
My favorite is C-t to correct typos like 'liek' instead of 'like', I put the cursor between the e and the k and i press C-t.
I have to ask: what reasons do you have in mind for the "sketch why this could happen". I have never worked for a large corporation, and besides usual miscommunications between departements about official policy, I cannot find any reasonable explanation.
I think he could launch a whole series of notebooks with smart/funny covers. Or someone else could. I don't think it's just the PR in this case. This guy has a good product idea
Personally, I'd want to have a --disable-v8 option. If I'm writing a web application in C, I must have had tight speed/memory/code size requirements; a JSON-based v8-backed template language doesn't seem to fit very well. (Yes, v8 is pretty fast, but if it's fast/small enough for what I'm doing, I wouldn't be using C.)
I learnt today that Gagarin's flight was 100 years to the day since the US Civil War began (April 12, 1861 and April 12, 1961).

Neither were good days to be American, and while it's merely a coincidence (I'm sure the connection would be more prominent in Soviet literature had the date been intentional) it makes me wonder what blows to the US nationhood may be waiting to strike on April 12, 2061? China? Martians? Almost something as seemingly unlikely to us today as space flight was to the Wright Brothers in 1911, and a Civil War would have been to the founding fathers in 1811.

Civil War Source http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13040351
Bring up "About this Mac…" from the apple menu, then click on the OS version number and it will cycle through some extra information including the serial number so you don't have to try to read the 2 point tall, minimal contrast serial number printed on the case.
Yes, yes and yes. This is awesome advice. If they have a very fixed salary, they'll say no, and then that's fine too. But it's also quite likely they'll say yes.

It's HARD to find good people to hire. And when you make them an offer, you really want them to take it. 5K doesn't make a dent.
The article is more about the entrepreneur and less about bitcoin.

Also you could make the same argument about Twitter/Apple/Facebook/Google/Android/Node.js before that there was RoR. Are those news(or even PR releases) more valuable than news about Bitcoin?
Awesome question, but probably won't get a great response here because potential answers can't be objectively debated. There are patterns worth observing though: find a handful of people who have achieved similar to what you have in mind, study them, and look for common traits to emulate.
That's also a good title for a blank book
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The idea that one can never again obtain formal education if he drops out of college is absurd, and I hope the quote about "screwing up one's career" was taken out of context. Many universities require that all credits for a degree be earned within N years of each other, but N is usually a very large number compared to the timelines of 20 year-old dropouts. Furthermore, who would want a "career" where those evaluating you looked negatively upon having once done a start-up.

Are there any universities which, in practice, will not take back a student who left on good terms (passing grades, left at the end of a semester vs. in the middle, etc.)? My guess is that the real risk is that scholarships would not be renewed and the returning drop-out would have to pay full fare.
I really dislike how ads have managed to insinuate themselves everywhere. I wouldn't use this even if it were free.
I don't think its enough of a discount to be honest. I would not even consider it for $25. $50 maybe. I would have thought amazon could get $50 / user for these ads over the lifetime of the device.
$25 just isn't enough of a discount for something that was already pretty well-priced.

I don't mind ad-supported sites / apps especially if it means I don't have to pay for them, but to put ads on an entire device that I own -- that's a no no for me.
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SSDs are typically great at random reads, but not so good at random writes, particularly when you start rewriting the device (see http://www.acunu.com/2011/04/log-file-systems-and-ssds-made-...). The attraction of append-only structures is in alleviating the random writes; but you still need to be careful. For example, CoW trees and log file systems often have a big space blowup, which translates into a slowdown in insert rate, and potentially random IO in the log cleaner/GC. That's a scenario in which the Stratified B-tree does a lot better.
Not really the bottleneck if you are running PHP. Linux optimises most of tcp out over the loopback device anyway.
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