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When I look at resumes and talk to candidates, seeing that they don't at least read about programming outside isn't an automatic no-go but as natch says, it's a red flag. I've worked with people who have no interest in programming, they just do it because it's what they do and they need a paycheck. Not programming or showing an interest outside of work is an indicator of this kind of person to me. Of course it's not 100% but it leads me to ask other questions to make sure they will want to learn. That said, there are plenty of corporate places that are perfectly fine with this kind of person, I just don't work at those places anymore.
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Yes!

http://dekorte.com/projects/shareware/MovieDownloader/
I think necrodome is referring to google's own, similar to travbuddy, reviews presented as Google places. I get 7 hotels listed from Google places as well listed above the link to tripadvisor.
I've run The Online Slang Dictionary (http://onlineslangdictionary.com/) since 1996. On April 11, the date of one of the Panda updates, traffic from Google dropped 20%. Between April 11 and a month ago, I made the following changes:

* Correct spelling, grammar, and capitalization errors

* Where spelling "errors" are legitimate "slang terms", link to the definition pages for those slang terms (gonna, wanna, ain't, dat's, etc.)

* Remove unnecessary extra punctuation, e.g. example sentences ending in "???" or "!!!"

* Checked keywords on top landing pages for searches like "slang", "slang dictionary", "slang thesaurus"

* Remove unnecessary extra spaces in the middle of sentences

* Use complete sentences even where completely unnecessary

* Restructure entire /definition+of/word+goes+here directory structure to be /meaning-of/word-goes-here, since people search for "meaning of" more frequently than "definition of", and since Google seems to have stopped treating + as a word separator in some cases.

* Reworked meta descriptions and page titles

* Removed meta keywords. I know Google doesn't use them, but maybe they treat them as a negative indicator of site quality? Who knows?

* Completely re-designed site's front page

* Switched from Google Custom Search Engine to a custom search implementation, because I think I can provide better results, improve the user experience, and reduce search exit rate

* Delay-load Twitter widget to reduce page load time

* Use rel="canonical" on every page on the site, since Google is indexing the IP address of the site and showing it separately in SERPs

* Removed <priority> nodes from the sitemap, just in case Google knows better

* Fixed the "HTML suggestions" on GWT, such as short meta descriptions and duplicate meta descriptions

* Excluded directories via robots.txt like /word-of-the-day/, since the words of the day are already spidered elsewhere on the site, in case Google is giving me a duplicate content penalty of some kind

I've also made plenty more changes in the past month, but I haven't written up a list yet.

Sine the Panda update, I've seen no improvement in traffic from Google to my site.
Are you telling me I get hit with aggressive ads every time I login to my bank account? :(
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Abe Froman here. I'm no puppet. I've had this account for a while and had never heard of these guys before I saw this post (I don't even drink wine). With all of the hyperbole and big money around companies like scvgr I thoughtit was interesting to hear theother side
For my internship this summer, I actually write code!
I've found that I do little to no non-work programming during the week. However, I do spend a lot of time during the weekend programming.
This would already be a problem for you if you have an online bank account.

An insecure computer means an insecure life.
China is interesting. It's not like USA with just a population of 310,000,000, it has 1,330,000,000 people.

If one group successfully causes enough political unrest, and 5% of the population supports and follows this group, that's a total of 66,500 000 people, the current population of the UK. Its astounding when you start looking at numbers like this. USA, UK, Europe and the Western world will just be a distant memory when China and India start becoming major players.

How can a democracy successfully emerge when you have the potential to introduce great divergence and even possibly civil war?
I'm pretty confused by this post. Just what did you commit in this "exchange"?

It sounds like you wanted to help an LBS service in the wine industry, and the one you picked turned out not to have a sustainable business. Well, none of the LBSes are making money and when the VC wears off, Foursquare may be in the same boat. This is the risk of being an early adopter... it's a bummer when it doesn't work out but I don't see why you are A) surprised or B) angry.

I don't know anything specific about Scvngr's business, but I spent a good chunk of a year building an LBS (www.mobca.st, fwiw) that really doesn't have any financial future. If you are upset for after "investing" a man-month of thought and a few chats with industry bigwigs over $200 bottles of Merlot, consider a moment the disappointment that the Scvngr team must feel when they set aside the game they've poured their hearts into so they can get to work building a dumb Groupon clone. Your punishment doesn't even register.

When a product goes south, the stringed instrument which plays Ave Maria for you is limited to:

* Founders - Double Bass

* Employees - Cello

* Investors - Viola

* Paying Customers - Violin

* Everyone Else - AM radio, if you can get reception
I prefer something half-full: As the knowledge island expands, so does the shore of ignorance.

I don't expect astrophysicist PhDs to understand finance, politics, sewing, etc.
Consistently, Apple's "dirty secret" has been their use (and sometimes over use) of cheap offshore labor. This has allowed them to release products quickly and earn high profits.

RIM is still in a position to take the high road. Their devices don't need to compete on price. They can compete on quality. With manufacturing brought completely in to North America, RIM could say things like "take pride in our products - we do" and "Apple is in it for the money, we're in it to make our lives better".
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All those activities in other professions don't involve learning. Presumably, balancing a checkbook is a solved problem but an enthusiastic accountant may have brushed up on Sarbanes-Oxley legislation to learn how their craft would get impacted. Lawyers may not hold mock trials but they may read journals in their spare time which cover interesting precedent-setting cases. Doctors don't do surgery for fun but they may read up on newly discovered surgical techniques for reattaching severed nerves. And someone in construction might read up on new, energy-efficient construction techniques and materials... but odds are good they don't lay bricks at home.

So yeah, don't go home after work and write Hello World or re-implement bubble sort yet again. But do keep up with developments in your craft. If you don't have this opportunity at work, hopefully (for your own sake) you still do take the opportunity outside of work. Software changes so fast that most don't have time during work to keep up. If you let your knowledge get too out of date, your value diminishes rapidly. I think this speaks for a need for more work-sponsored learning opportunities, whether that's courses, conferences, or Google-style 20% time.

Personally, I wouldn't want to be operated on by a doctor whose knowledge of surgery stopped in 1960.
The right question is, What is it about certain/many good developers that leads them to program in their spare time?

This is a good question, but it does lead me to a thought... why does it seem like most side projects are done by people for whom the predominance of their work appears to be side projects? Let me explain.

Most of the programmers who produce large products, don't do much in the way of side projects. Carmack seems to be heads down on Rage. I don't see a Carmack GitHub project. Nothing from Tim Sweeney either. I don't see anything from the devs that did GTA or Halo or RDR or the latest Mario game.

What about David Cutler? Linus -- he did Git, I guess a side project(?) -- other stuff? Any of the iOS architects have GitHub side projects? WebOS architects?

It seems like we have two classes of devs. Those that ship large products. Whether its iOS or Grand Theft Auto 5. And devs that ship little projects. Small startups, little tools here and there. The overlap between the two seems rather small.
Interesting response:

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Whoops - good point! With all my thesaurus fatigue I forgot to talk about my app!

It's basically another customer support application for web apps in the same vein as Tender (http://tenderapp.com/), but (hopefully) geared more towards supporting SaaS apps than anything else.

Edit: I should add that so far my best idea for names is Secret Sauce (because customer support is the secret sauce behind a lot of things), but it doesn't pass the "does 'Hey, did you log into Secret Sauce today' sound dumb" test.
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I think it depends.

I can't speak for developers but almost all of the best designers or creatives I know experiment a lot outside of work. Myself, I do interactive side-projects all the time as I can execute sites that I would simply not be able to do in my full-time job.

Regarding medicine: My Dad is a doctor and spends a lot of time outside of work reading dense materials about certain diseases or findings, which is definitely not light reading nor recreational. I also have had friends who've volunteered their medical expertise to aid the homeless or less fortunate.
> I think that someone may have lied to you when they explained the words "open" or "standard".

h.264 is not royalty free, but it is open and a standard (from Ars:
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/01/googles-dropping-h26... )

"In the traditional sense, H.264 is an open standard. That is to say, it was a standard designed by a range of domain experts from across the industry, working to the remit of a standards organization. In fact, two standards organizations were involved: ISO and ITU. The specification was devised collaboratively, with its final ratification dependent on the agreement of the individuals, corporations, and national standards bodies that variously make up ISO and ITU. This makes H.264 an open standard in the same way as, for example, JPEG still images, or the C++ programming language, or the ISO 9660 filesystem used on CD-ROMs. H.264 is unambiguously open."
Rental prices didn't go up much during the bubble, and they are not coming down much while it is bursting.

No reason they should - after all, price to buy incorporates the speculative value of a house while price to rent does not.
Although it is on a New York Times blog, not on the main site...
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It is very hard to push your skills forward without side projects. Do accountants balance ledgers in their spare time? No. But good ones do read up on their craft and push their knowledge forward off the clock. It just so happens that pushing your knowledge of code forward usually involves coding.
+1 for Waterloo. I'm not far from it.

"3) I am not sure if [Blackberry apps are a problem] anymore."

Yup - they are. I think the solution is in the money developers can earn. Quote from Gizmodo: "BlackBerry App World debuted in 2009 and had about 26,000 applications as of April 2011. Android had over 200,000 apps and iOS was pushing 350,000."

"In my opinion, it all comes down to how well QNX can create a compelling smartphone operating system."

With the current outlook and direction of RIM in mind, I completely agree with you. However, Apple's mobile devices are founded on cheap, disposable hardware. It's a sound strategy. RIM however previously found a great deal of success by founding their products on the hardware along with a secure, reliable OS. The times have certainly changed, but I think that the fundamental problem with RIM is that they have lost sight of this.
As long as you re learning, be it newer technologies, languages, frameworks, patterns or whatever it is that interests you most during work time, spare time, any time, you would always be a better developer today than you were yesterday.
I could see someone who only programs for work or school becoming a competent developer, and a good employee.

So, do you have to program for joy to not be a bad developer? No. But if you don't love what you're doing, it's unlikely you'll ever be great. People who are the best at anything reached that point through a combination of natural talent and vast amounts of work. Chris Broderick ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkpZ645ztl0 ) wasn't born this way... when everyone else was hanging out with high school buddies or going to college, he had a guitar in his hands 4-8 hours a day. Loving what you do is more powerful than desiring the rewards. If you love what you do, learning to do it better can feel effortless.

On the other hand, having a passion for a topic to the extent that it consumes your work and personal time isn't always a good thing. When you do it in lieu of things friends, a romantic life, spending time with your children or simply resting your mind, you may regret that later on.
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How in the world is any normal person going to be able to really "understand the underlying psychological principals"? That is really akin to saying you shouldn't buy software without understanding the underlying architecture and design principals.
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If you used GET for the username parameter, it would show up in the URL & encourage cut-and-paste virality.
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No. Just means you write more code. If you spend that time learning different languages and design patterns, it can make you a better developer.
Profitability has a direct impact on user experience, in that it fuels the third-party app ecosystem. A platform is only as good as its apps, and a company that is on the verge of bankruptcy is not likely to inspire confidence in developers.

The GP's car analogy falls apart here because when I buy a car, unless I'm an after-market modder, I don't plan to add more functionality to the car. Instead, I expect the car to continue to work as I bought it (aside from normal wear and tear of course), regardless of what other cars are on the highway. I expect my phone, on the other hand, to be able to run the latest and greatest apps and games, so when another platform keeps getting all the shiny apps, it impacts my user experience.

Yes, "true" multitasking might be a desired feature for some people, in which case it should be weighted accordingly. But it's not anymore odd to consider a company's profitability as a decision factor.
> good accountants don't balance checkbooks in their spare
> time, do they?

How much did balancing checkbooks changed compared to that of 20 years ago?

> lawyers don't hold mock trials

IANAL, but I assume a big part of lawyers work is that would be considered "side project" in programming, namely going through different cases and looking for stuff that can be useful.

> doctors don't do surgery on their friends as side projects

Doctors don't experiment easily on one hand, and on the other hand, if I am not mistaken there is some mandatory training once in a while to ensure that doctors are
informed of the latest best practices in the field.

> construction workers don't pour concrete for kicks on the weekend

Are we talking about code monkeys there?

The thing is: software development is still young and evolving field. Unless your employer sends you to the training courses, conferences, and has some kind of "20% for own project" rule the side projects is pretty much the only way to learn new things and experiment.
I tried to visit your site but got redirected to a "Java Downloads for all operating systems" page. I do have java installed, but somehow your site doesn't notice and I always get redirected. I'm using ubuntu+chrome.
It's annoying. I might not ever use the site, but I can't even see it with javascript enabled.
The S and K combinators are simply referred to here as S and K, but the pictures of them resemble a Starling and a Kestrel respectively. This is surely a reference to Raymond Smullyan's To Mock A Mockingbird, a ... unique ... book in which combinators are personified (avified?) as birds.
> when i'm working a 9-5 job, the last thing i want to do is go home and program more. i'd rather throw the ball around with the dog or rock out on my guitar.

Just my two cents: I don't see programming in my spare time as, well, just programming. I see it mostly just as a tool that helps me with my hobbies. I like to read history very much, especially about my city, then why not build a heat-map based on the constructions years of its buildings? (thanks, gheat! http://code.google.com/p/gheat/). And how to get said constructions years? By just writing a small Python script that parses some big real-estate agent website.

And you can do the same thing if you like sports, going to the theater or if you like Medieval history (I have a home-project for each one of these domains). And while you're at it, why not learning a new language/technology when trying to implement them?
I mentioned to someone that in my spare time I made iPhone games. They asked, "as a hobby or you trying to make money?" I replied that sure, I'd like to make a few bucks. He said to me "If you let your hobby become your job, what will you do for a hobby then?"

At that point, I realized that making a distinction between a hobby and a career path is a good move, and you have to know what you are pursuing. For example, I tinker with arduino in my spare time, as a hobby, and I don't intend to sell or make money off anything I make with arduino. There is nothing wrong in learning, say, Ruby in your spare time because you know that it will come in handy and that you could make money with it. But that's not a hobby.

Doing iPhone development (among other things) is my full-time job, and I am loving it -- mobile app dev was never my hobby, but a career choice, and I'm ok with that because I am happy at the place I work.
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I think the reason he was able to succeed was because he was using such a small, non-militaristic plane. I'm sure an invasion force would've been met with much stiffer resistance.
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Carmack has a side gig running an aerospace company which includes coding all the control systems and telemetry. Some devs are just prolific.
Most developers I know - in real life - don't program in their spare time, never mind going to conferences or evening meet ups. If you work as a developer and your hobby is developing then there's a good chance that you'll burn out.

That's not to say that it is bad for people who do it, just try to expand your hobbies to something outside of technology.
"4. I do not think they can do this, huge part of their brand is software"

I don't think that RIM should ignore their OS or the software that runs on it - far from it. I think that RIM needs to make a course correction and that the course correction should focus on hardware. Software is will easily make or break RIM (as you've noted with QNX), but centering their products on a strong, reliable, thin and easily extendable OS should become front-and-center.

"5. Not sure, my plan costs me $35 cdn and its unlimited sms, 5gb of data etc (go WIND!)"

Sadly, Wind is only available in heavily populated metropolitan areas and RIM has done nothing to ensure low rates. Wind is simply competing on price.

RIM needs to publicly open discussions with every carrier in the world. They need to form collations to reduce cellular data fees so that their devices proliferate even faster. How much more popular would the Playbook be if it came with an unlimited data plan that cost $5 a month? How many more Blackberries would we see (regardless of product changes) if they openly supported the customers who used their devices?

Beyond offsetting hardware costs with term fees, monthly data costs are outrageous. Battling them is a way to win favor with the public and secure a larger number of users.
Doctors and lawyers have continuing education requirements that have to be fulfilled to keep their licenses. This is in addition to day job.
Then why don't professors hire contractors to do programming? Because grad student code is "good enough".
This is a reason, but is it a good enough reason to divert resources from other areas for?
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They were one of the earlier ones, but not the earliest. If my memory serves me right, a VPS as a viable option first gained publicity with Johncompanies.com, who were one of the early sponsors on kuro5hin.org following the famous DOS-attack on it. From the domain name registration it would appear that Johncompanies have been around since 2001, while linode.com was registered in 2003.
sigh

Not another "Download this shell script over insecure HTTP and pipe it to sh" gimmick. Really? While http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661209 is directly above this item on the front page?

Have we learned nothing?