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I agree on the Steam thing, it's up to the point where I probably won't buy a game if it's not through Steam.

Though Steam has its issues too. For some reason Civ5 stopped working on my Mac a week ago, and the only way to run it is to execute it directly from the shell.
Except in at-will states your employer doesn't need to state a justification to fire you. This means if you discuss your salary and get caught, you have to prove that to be the cause (which is nearly impossible).
Similarly, I have set myself the goal of becoming an awesome mobile app developer. My goal is to first become one of the most valued developers at my current workplace, and then to move on to a better job.

I would appreciate any suggestions for how one can apply this 'Pyramid method' to the field of programming. What should be the pyramid here - Github? StackOverflow?

Or is there another way to approach this quest?
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Absolutely ask for more. They never come in with their highest offer. You ever go in buying a car offering the highest you'll pay right off the bat?

They won't retract the offer or anything. And even if they did, you probably wouldn't want to work for them in the long run, so would be doing you a favor.
The only thing I miss with Steam is the ability to give or sell my games to somebody else. Obviously they want to keep people from buying a single-player game, beating it, then giving it to all their friends one at a time, but I've no doubt people have been doing that since the first game cartridges hit the shelves. What Valve could do is limit how frequently a game can be gifted and charge a very small percentage fee for selling a game.
Not sure why you say "Except..." since that's exactly what I meant and said. Beyond this though, At-will isn't practiced outside of the US (as far as I know).

I am curious though with whom the burden of proof lies. If your employer says they fired you for no reason (as they can), but you say they fired you because you discussed your salary...something's gotta give. If you can prove that you discussed your salary before being fired, I would think it would look very badly on your employer. At-will might mean that they can fire you for no reason, but it doesn't mean that they can fire you for any reason.
I'm an IT Manager and communicate with my peers and friends in real time. Anything of merit goes into a helpdesk ticket or our knowledge base.

When I am not doing my job, I have a life with friends and family and don't plan to spend it writing up all the things I did or experienced while I was working.
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It looks very nice...
as for applying this method, does anyone have suggestions for finding a forum that could provide clear feedback specifically for web design?
UTC does not address the whole issue of different timezones and such which ebeats and swatch internet time do.
There are few things that will drive me away from a site faster than an auto-playing Flash or video ad with audio, or really any sort of auto-playing audio. It really sucks to open up a bunch of tabs for later reading and not know which one has just started intruding on my speakers.
would the accomplishment be any less than how we view Xerox PARC today?

Most certainly. Remember, PARC never shipped. Instead they created the foundation upon what we ship with today. AltaVista and Hotmail weren't horrible experiences. Google provided an incremental boost to these that made them, yes, much more powerful. But it was evolution, not revolution. PARC was all about Revolution.

Of course Steve Jobs says, "real artists ship." He took what PARC created and shipped it and made money. He advanced the state of the market. PARC advanced the state of technology. That's the difference.
Apologies if this has been suggested before.

I'm curious if something like the BCS ranking system in college football could work for online communities. The specifics don't translate, but the general idea is that you use a weighted combination of human and machine generated rankings. This can be seen as maintaining the user-driven voting system but tempered with an impartial community spirit moderator in the form of a machine learning algorithm.

How could this be applied to HN? Let's leave the standard karma/voting system as it exists, as that seems to generally work.

Next, determine the general distribution of votes per comment. This will allow for things like z-scores to be determined that can notice if a particular comment has received significantly more votes than usual.

Next, perform a machine learning algorithm on a corpus of comments. Something as straightforward as Bayesian filters can work, though self-organizing maps also have potential. This is effectively doing the same thing as spam filtering, but instead of simply flagging something as spam, it would provide its own +/- vote. The initial training would start with a baseline of existing comments, and then periodically, say once a night, be updated with recently added comments and votes. Additional information, such as the karma of the commenter, can also be incorporated.

The final ranking then, which here would be how high up on the page it appears, would be a weighted combination of user votes, z-score scaling, and machine votes.
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i am not in a mood to compare both..my life will be almost awful without any one of them.
There is a somewhat questionable practise, that has proven very effective (by friends of course).

After negotiating like patio suggested, you receive the offer and ask a few days to consider.

You then contact back and say that currently there are two/three offers on the table that you are considering. And since each has its merits, you decided to choose based on compensation and ask if there is any wriggle room on their offer.

Usually works perfectly, and even if it doesn't. You end up feeling that you really got the best they could do.
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Hey! I already mentioned narrowing it down to a family of choices. ;-)

Both these tricks are used by IDE's (and e.g. vim). But this is still thinking in terms of a touch front-end to a conventional language. I'm suggesting an intrinsically touch language - so well-fitted to touch, that a text front-end would be awkward (and difficult to even imagine).

I like your point about choices. It seems that however it was done, it would always boil down to making choices (in some way) among alternatives (of some kind). I also seems we'd need "methods" (or, to be more general, "verbs": for something to be done).

A way to specify what a method does (instead of using instructions) is to actually do it - as macros are implemented in vim and office. Like the writer's admonishment: show, don't tell. But to invoke a method, you still need to choose it in some way - so there's the choice problem you mention again. Maybe the subset of choices available could be constrained by a strict hierarchy of macros... or maybe we could just admit that this doesn't work well with touch, and instead restrict it to a Domain Specific (toy) Language, for very specific and common tasks (rather like the macros of vim and office are arguably DSLs). You don't have to have recursion or turing completeness for a tool to be delightfully useful for the job (e.g. hammers and cars aren't turing complete).

But I just have a nagging feeling that there is a way to do a touch-based general programming language... start by going back to basics and thinking about how we reason and communicate in practice (e.g. in the physical real world) - instead of being trapped by the elaborate programming languages that we happen to be familiar with. Solving the actual problem, not forcing a preconceived solution.

What about speech for choice of verbs? touch + "this one goes here".
Seems pretty intuitive and workable actually....
Right in that scenario the salary was a question "how would $80k do?", in my experience employers have rarely been so cavalier. They're a little more firm, i.e. "The offer is £80k"

I'd be interested to see if anyone had a good comeback for that
As the other commentors mentioned, there's nothing improbable about it -- but there shouldn't even be anything too surprising about it. It's not even as if Minecraft is the first time this happened or the most extreme case of it happening. It's probably the most widely-publicized example though, at least among the tech media.

Of course, this doesn't at all reduce the value of Minecraft's success -- it's just that Minecraft is not some singular magical exception in a world of failures. This has happened before, and it'll happen again, and it'll happen bigger.
Hey there, i can't give you insight about the legalities and taxation details.

But in the most cases(Germany) its the lack of trust why we are not offshoring to india or bangladesh. The customers or even management have some anxiety about sharing their specification/code with other firms outside of europe or even outside of germany.

I worked for 2 years in a company where the long term goal was to offshore all of their technical stuff to india. And i can say it took us a long time to build the confidence between the employees(project manager etc.) to work with india in an efficient way.
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Sorry but your previous post is literally pure fiction. You could write a similar story about most other big corps and it would be true.
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As a manager, it's been a personally eye-opening experience seeing how companies pay staff and how the constraints a manager has to work under affects their pay rise decisions. People wishfully hope that they get paid based on their contribution/skill level, but there are so many additional factors that come into play.

In all the technical teams (sysadmins, dbas etc) that I've managed, I've consistently seen variations of between $50k-100k between the lowest and highest paid person of the same skill (ie I'm not comparing junior to senior staff).

The things I learned as a manager:

* Always know what the market is paying for your skills. Even if you are not looking for another job, remain subscribed to job websites so you understand what the market is after and what it is paying

* Sharing salary information with people you trust is incredibly valuable - you need to know where you stand. It's in the companies best interests to keep everyone in the dark - it means you won't know your true worth.

* If you love your job, by all means stay - but make sure you aren't using that as an excuse to cover up the fact that you are scared to make a jump, or that your ego is wrapped up in your job title. There are no medals for long service - and as companies (in my experience) generally only pay market rates to external hires, you are better jumping jobs every few years than staying in the one place. You'll develop more skills, earn more money, and I believe in the long term more employable.
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Won't buy one until they have full color displays. While I understand that the battery life of the e-ink is far and away superior to any color display, every time I see a Kindle, (or any e-ink display) I can't help but see the old dot-matrix gameboys. Having read books on my iPad, I don't think I can go back to monochromatic displays, regardless of price or battery life advantages they offer.
The biggest gaping hole ever is that most of the CAs can be pressured by most governments (and perhaps criminal enterprises) into giving out certificates if push came to shove. Pretty much every government has at least one root cert in their control, with which they can MITM each and every site ever.

I don't think this aspect really gets the attention it deserves, as all the technical articles remain so technical. Its like not seeing the wood for the trees.

My thought is to tie CAs to TLDs. If you want a certificate for a .uk domain, go to one of a select band of CAs for that TLD. And don't get upset when the British government ever does blantantly go snoop. But at least the Russians would have to hack it to do likewise.
> pirated software is often more user-friendly.

If you go back to the 1970s and certainly by the 1980s, this was true of pirated/cracked software for systems like the Apple ][ and Commodore 64. Specifically, by removing copy protection stuff (which often relied on specific aspects of floppy drive hardware) the cracking groups could fit multiple games on a single floppy, a great boon in an era when downloading software meant dialling up a BBS and transferring it over a 1200 baud line.

So I suppose there's two lessons here: DRM hasn't worked for over 30 years of trying, and DRM crackers still know how to release a good product.
You always have to be willing to walk away. If you're early in your career, this means building up your skills (and certs, if you're in IT) to the point where you feel very confident that you can get another job quickly if necessary. If you're more advanced in your career, it means keeping your networks/skills fresh and possibly doing some freelancing on the side.

It's not even just about salary negotiation; knowing you can walk away whenever you want to (and actually believing that you will if you decide to) gives you the freedom to take risks and just have more fun at your job in general.
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Thanks. Not sure if I agree with PG's opinion though.
As far as I recall, it's mostly duo, ambo, and 2nd declension nouns by analogy in archaizing poetic passages.
Sorry, misread the OP.
Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments
Bookmarklet: https://github.com/niyazpk/Collapsible-comments-for-Hacker-N...
and Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hockhafcdegocajmjh...

(I've only tested the Chrome extension, but it's based on the bookmarklet so that one should work to.)
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BTW: the eee PC has num lk, which transforms part of its keyboard into a numeric keypad plus operators. Still not ideal of course.
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Link to the actual book: http://www.scribd.com/doc/52729281/The-Best-Of-edw519

I really like this idea and will buy the book. However, it would be nice if the comments were time-stamped, as not all advice is timeless.

Anyone know of any other forum-comments-turned-book examples?

EDIT: I would buy it if I didn't have to be a US citizen to buy a digital book in scribd. Why is this a problem for a book like this?
Didn't Campaign Monitor require your users to be confirmed opt-in or when you receive their email address you initiate a confirmation email to them ?
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What a presumptuous and substanceless article.
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They do this already. It allows the phone to detect whether you're in the same place as someone else: if two phones are hearing similar sound, then you're likely to be next to each other. Color shows you photos taken by people near you. Audio is one signal for detecting who's near.

Note: GPS sometimes doesn't work indoors, where there's no line of sight to the satellites in the sky. Cell towers and Wi-Fi work, but aren't as precise.
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The taxes mainly catch the slightly-rich

Perhaps that's the point? This is just a devil's advocate argument, but maybe those with the power to actually change the status quo don't, because they want to keep a nice buffer between the old money with billions and the nouveau riche with millions.

Consumption taxes and property taxes, for example.

The primary problem I have with property taxes is that my first emotional instinct is that property rights should allow a person who outright owns a property to live on and benefit from that property indefinitely, even if they later become too poor to afford a property tax (or the tax is raised to try to force a farmer off his/her land, for example). I haven't yet given enough thought to the other sides of the argument to claim that we should get rid of property taxes, though.
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I run a small startup in the UK (www.mycurrencytransfer.com) that helps people compare currency transfers from different providers.

We've found specialist currency brokers such as Moneycorp, The FX Firm, IFX, and World First, amongst others, offer more competitive rates than the banks.

They are what businesses tend to use when paying overseas suppliers, and people purchasing properties overseas.

(Sorry for the "shameful plug", I just thought I'd chime in seeing as it seemed appropriate)
The comeback is identical.
Wordpress/Automattic made their ToS and privacy policies available under a CC license...specifically to allow developers to use them as a template in their own sites:

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"90k and we have a deal."
I don't think she's going to leave Google. This article feels like a fabricated trolling more than anything else. Just because new people are assigned to the heads doesn't always mean all the old people will be out.
Then again, if Marissa Mayer does leave Google, it will be a pretty big loss, as the article points out.
"there is no indication to the user at all that the camera is in use unless the app provides its own. There is no permission alert, nor any LED indicator like a webcam. An app could secretly be recording your face with the iPhone 4′s front-facing camera and sending it to who knows where."

http://www.bunnyhero.org/2010/08/17/thoughts-on-ios4-camera/

As a fellow iOS developer, I believe this is true. It's pretty amusing that there's a guy on the Apple Discussions forum claiming that this is impossible. Actually, it's very possible.
> The analysis involved calculating the satellite's orbital trajectory and eclipse schedule, and such information cannot be shared with foreign nationals under ITAR.

Kepler was a foreign national. I think the cat's out of the bag on that one.
Can you share what the max connections the Yelp app was pulling from the article? And how many total connections it had?
Is there a similar one for linux?
I agree with you, but I'm failing to see how your comment is relevant to my suggestion.
It's somewhat similar in that BigTable (and Cassandra) perform writes as sequential I/O by writing to arrays (for stratified b-tree) or to SSTables (for Cassandra) and then merge them together using more sequential I/O. This is the not-so-secret-sauce that makes inserts stay fast compared to vanilla b-trees.

However stratified b-trees bring some algorithmic rigor to the merging process of the arrays that provides guarantees on the search time.

The authors do indeed provide some comparison with Cassandra which should answer your question - http://www.acunu.com/2011/03/cassandra-under-heavy-write-loa...
http://www.acunu.com/2011/03/cassandra-under-heavy-write-loa...

Summary: 1) Single key read performance for Cassandra depends somewhat on when the last compaction was done (Bloom filters help here but even just a couple of false positives per query eats random I/O. The less SSTables there are the less random I/O) so write spikes create poor read performance and 2) Bloom filters don't work for range queries so they tank in Cassandra in general. Stratified b-trees don't need bloom filters and performs better and with more consistency in both cases.
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It's also often in a letter/email, not a phone conversation where you might mention that +5k as a natural reply.
What I have trouble believing is that anyone could, using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (which was the subject of the comment I replied to) process characters (or words) that flash on the screen as fast as (or faster than) 25fps.

Problem with serial presentation is of course, you cannot skip words or process words in parallel. I suspect when you attain 1,300wpm, you are focusing your eyes on half a page or perhaps the entire page, and only skimming sentences and absorbing key words and ideas, rather than processing each word one at a time.
The problem is that the amount of raw cpu power you can burn for a storage miss is _much_ larger than for a cache miss. So the tuning is invariable completely different, leading sometimes to completely different algorithms.
You aren't familiar with the DMCA, then. It's true that §1201(a)(2) and §1201(b)(3) restrict distribution, not personal use.

§1201(a)(1) does restrict personal use. That's what makes the DMCA really insidious.
Actually, that's exactly what it means. At-will means that either party (the employer or employee) can end the employment for any reason, good or bad, or no reason at all. Anti-discrimination laws have amended this, so the reasons aren't allowed to be "because the person belonged to a protected class", and there are a few exceptions for things such as employers not being allowed to fire employees for refusing to take part in illegal activities, but it is otherwise largely intact and very well can be used to fire somebody discussing their salary.
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Great intro to scaling, and great material for answering the inevitable "how do you scale?" question in interviews.

I wish there was more explanation about the 'platform layer'. Author also kind of skirts around map-reduce.
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It could only render for a single viewpoint. I would imagine the simplest approach (i.e. without tracking) would be to render for the viewpoint of the closest detected head.
Any sympathy I had for the author was lost when he said that he would have been happy had he not seen the list. I'm aware of the cognitive biases in effect here but, really, if he was happy with his salary it shouldn't matter if someone else was getting paid more, and if he wasn't happy the list shouldn't have had anything to do with that.
it doesn't really make critizing foreign countries over human rights abuses easier for the US. and it's hard to argue against accusations of the US having double standards by governments like China's with this kind of news.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/11/china-us-human-r...
80,000 sterling is an interesting number, and while I'd love to work with you, it would depend on the entire package. How much $PICK_A_PERK does that include? 20 days of vacation? Interesting. I believe we could compromise on the 80,000 sterling number if you were prepared to offer 24 days of vacation instead.

The other option is treating the firm number as what it is, which is a suggestion which they intend to scare you into not negotiating. The CEO heard the firm number line once, too. He laughed at it, because haha, it is funny.