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76K is most likely for someone with more experience (just guessing you lack overall experience based on the question, don't take it the wrong way).

To keep this brief, I would counter with something like "I've looked at other positions and really feel that I am worth at least 60K. If you can agree to that, along with a performance review and potential merit increase in 6 (or 8 or 12) months based on my performance relative to other members of the team I think we can have a mutually beneficial agreement"

You can massage the words a bit, but you get the point.

However, you need to figure out what YOU are worth, not what the job typically pays, and also determine if the potential employer has a realistic set of expectations or if they were just looking for a cheap hire.

If you're fresh out of school this is probably a decent (but not great) offer. Keep in mind too that the initial experience may be more valuable than the salary...
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I'm not going to rehash the old arguments here, as this has been discussed to death. Suffice it to say that any investment is not a job, is not a paycheck, and can't be compared to an hourly wage. YC and other high-quality investors provide more than just capital, they provide advice and connections, because they want their capital to succeed.
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There are no .NET Developers.
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Mixpanel is looking for software engineers to scale real-time data
Yeah, but its not surprising that converting from a .net codebase to a java code base takes a few years.... they should have just re-written from scratch.... Once RHEV-3.0 is released though RHAT will open source it, so watch the product grow at that point, just like KVM has been growing in leaps and bounds recently.

I say that as someone who was part of the RHEV support team at launch.... RHEV 2 was a mistake. Red Hat should never have sold a product that depends on windows. They just don't know how to support it.
My goodness. You know what this means? This is essentially Peter Thiel's argument against college applied to startup incubators. Think about it- these incubators are giving startup folks aid and guidance that past generations of never had. This is essentially creating a new elite who instead of going to Harvard and getting a leg up, are going to YC and getting a leg up. In neither case are the kids scrapping together in a garage, driven only by their own vision and living hardscrabble until they can score their first angel investor.
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What I don't understand is why Google was interested in LTE patents? LTE patents are hardware patents and any phone manufacturer will use a chip from a vendor who has licensed these technologies. Google should buy Synaptics, Elan Microelectornics etc. which have patents in touch. $4bn can buy lots of patents, Google has to be smart and selective in building their patent war chest to defend Android.
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Yo dawg, so a heard you liek patent trolling...
what happens if they realized they didn't really liked each other after marriage?
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Wow, that explanation is so well done.. it's a pleasure to learn like this.
Yeah... "world-changing." Don't really see it.
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Perhaps what the author is really trying to say is that people are focused on getting rich quick off trivial business plans, which will be easily commodotized, or will have hardly any market, causing failure and loss of the investor's money. There is some merit to this sentiment given some of the examples he gave.

I'm almost certain that is her ultimate angle.
Depends on where you are. In my town, business cable is 10/1 for $100 only if you sign a 3-year contract.
Ask HN: How do I transition from sysadmin to programmer?
Dear HN,

About two years ago I graduated from a fairly good college with a B.S. in computer science. Though upon graduation even the computer sector was in a slump, much different than today. So I didn't get my job of choice then.

In that rough time I took what I could get and got a job as a Linux admin and have been working as one ever since. I don't do much programming but I script a lot. Now I work at a bank as a linux admin.

I am a pretty proficient C and Python programmer. I would like to take my career in that direction but I am facing some adversity. It seems that when I apply to developer jobs they either don't respond or when they do respond they suggest a sys admin position instead. Some have even suggested not putting my sys admin experience on my resume, but such would leave my work experience blank minus a few teenage jobs I had at the local sandwich shop and laundromat.

HN, What can I do in this situation? I know your first response will tell me to do open source stuff, I do already and they know about it when I apply. My resume has links to both githib and bitbucket with all of my foss contributions.
I'm playing devil's advocate here, but don't you think you're a bit biased? :-)

I mean, I bet James Gosling feels that Java is a disproportionately better programming language.
I find that Django doesn't even come close to MVC. But as to your second point, doing lightweight MVC (not the junk that MS has offered as examples) with Razor is by far the slickest, fastest development environment I've worked with for web.
Whether you meant to have a boss or not, one thing I notice when working for myself is this - absolute creative freedom. There is no boss to tell you to finish a project you don't like. There's no boss to tell you to start a project on someone else's idea. There's no boss to tell you to use a certain technology or tool. If you want to suspend a project to pursue another one, no one would stop you. You have complete control over your creative process.
Certain niceties of MVC break down once your project falls outside of the mold of a cookie-cutter CRUD app interfacing with a 100% Microsoft ecosystem.

I guess my question would be, what's an example of this. I find MVC with Razor extremely productive. I rarely even think of a framework when I'm using it -- I'm just typing what I'd like to make happen (for the most part).

And for me the tooling makes my life much easier. I know this is controversial statement for Django/Rails devs who are pretty much vi/emacs devs, but simple things like being to jump between quickly seeing all defs/uses/implementations of a method/property/class/assembly is extremely useful. But I hacked away on vi for almost 20 years, so I realize its allure.
"Not responding with another illegal action" is not the same as "idly standing by."
Interesting, I've never heard of LightSpeed. I'll be honest that I have a near-zero level of trust for this type of software from vendors in the .NET space, but I'll definitely give it a look.
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At a guess - bored Chinese guy starts learning about hacking, so he can view stuff that's not allowed in China (i.e. porn). Bored Chinese guy gets interested in hacking. Next, he starts defacing sites, or gets involved in organized cyber-crime. He gets busted, and given a choice - prison time, or a job in intelligence.
The article doesn't touch on the fact that all this scholarship, usually funded in some way with taxes, is locked up behind pay walls unless you want to pay $10-$40 per article (that's probably a bigger obstacle). However, ArXiv works because at least with harder sciences you have proofs and empirical results that are more clearly defined. It would be harder to judge papers in economics, humanities, etc. (there's already a lot of variance in quality of scholarship even in the current published model, I don't see how it would flourish under an open model aside from becoming more like the blogs we read here - no offense).

There have been many experiments where people have passed on jargon-laden papers more fiction than research off to "respected" journals. If you can solve the quality/trust problem and make it acceptable for governments and other funding bodies, then we might move forward.

The thing about the current model is that they distribute pdfs of all things when I think the raw text, bibliography files, and even data should be distributed with the article and available at no cost.
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"Emerging market" is a euphemism for "developing country" which is a euphemism for "third world"

Yes, but "is a euphemism for" isn't the same as just plain "is." For example, not everything that's a "convenience" is a toilet. That's a huge logical fallacy there. You use the exact same fallacy twice in an example of fallacious overreaching to an extent which is fortunately rare here.

As a highly educated, highly intelligent person born and raised in the 1st world, why should I sacrifice all the comforts and enjoyments of civilization that my ancestors worked so hard for to please some bored blogger?

You definitely shouldn't do it to please some bored blogger. Are you implying that's the only reason why anyone, ever would want to do it? You're probably not the one to go. No one's going to argue that. It would be pointless to argue that. In fact, I don't see a point to staking out the position in the first place.

It's also quite clear that there are people out there in the 1st world who would want to go.
I guess I don't understand your meaning that "she's not clear in her own mind." I took it as you saying that she doesn't really know what she thinks. Did you mean that you thought her argument was intellectually inconsistent ... or something else?
Apart from the lack of anonymity, I think that the ideals of such a system are very similar to the ideas of any social voting system (such as Stack Overflow, Slashdot, reddit, HN). The goal is to simply have a rating system that works, right?

The trouble is that we still haven't managed to do this well in the technology world. And some of us believe that we need to go back to some level of curation.

I'd love to see a system as described that actually works. But until we (the tech world) manage to figure out a system that works, I'm not convinced that scientific publishing will fare any differently.
Nothing is free, but can be a negligible cost. You can make temporary paper glue out of flour and water, you can boil it down to use for paper mache. You can add food colouring to your water & flour mix to make paint.

Food colouring cost money, as does flours, but you can make your own from plants/cereals if you really feel the need.

Either you have enough money to buy some glue, or you can spend time teaching your kids how to make it. If your kids have an impressive enough attention span, you'll be teaching them something by making the glue, even more if you make the flour!

Money just makes things convient/easy. You're trying to teach, lack of money helps that.
I don't think it's fair to say Microsoft never bought into jQuery.

They've continued moving toward jQuery-centric approaches on both the MVC and WebForms fronts, communicate to developers that it's the preferred approach for client-side development, devote development/testing resources to jQuery and jQuery UI, and threw out their MicrosoftAjax.js based validation for a new approach based entirely on jQuery and the jQuery Validation plugin (and I hear that's coming to WebForms as well).

Even the WCF team has reworked their client-side examples and libraries stuff to be based on jQuery and less cumbersome.

I believe what they're talking about regarding an "AJAX grid" is the idea of using an HTML helper to render a collection of data that matches up with what the upcoming jQuery UI Grid widget expects. You could still draw a parallel to server-controls there, but it seems harmless. Ultimately, it's the sort of thing we all end up writing ourselves anyway.
I think there is a notion that there is a finite quantity of innovation, or rather innovators- and if the economic environment favors photo sharing apps and so on, most innovators would rather try to make a quick buck putting their efforts and using their skills to solve "first world problems." And so the ultimate condemnation is that smart people are wasting their resources on issues that are of less social value than issues in the less advantageous world.
God, I'm wrapping up a MVC3 app, I can't wait to sprint away and never, ever, ever come back. During this project I've, installed Visual Studio 3 times and my current installation leaves me still unable to debug Azure deployments and Microsoft has no fix for me but to reinstall Windows and start over.

.NET and csharp are a joy, but I'll never touch a pure-Microsoft stack or anything I can't (easily) run in Mono ever again.
Your article was also an old one (from 7 years ago in this case). You were also not the first to post that article (preempted by 4 years). I mention the author because there's usually a rush to be the first to post new his new essays and they get upvoted highly and quickly (although I believe they are well-deserved votes). Typically reposted articles get translated into upvotes for the original article submission, but this is not always the case (although I believe it is the intended behavior).

As a general rule, if it's from pg, it's either new or it's been posted before. This opens up an entirely new debate over whether reposts are good for an online community or not. Generally, I'm for them, provided they are voted up because of their value to the current user audience, and not any sort of fanaticism.
T4 is used more for codegen; or, you can write a code-generator plugin for Visual Studio to handle a specific type of code generation (e.g., where you can expand a file in the solution/project pane and see the 'code-behind').

Most of the codegen for MS tools actually generates code in whatever language your project uses (like C#). CCI is a library for manipulating .NET bytecode, and is much lower-level than you'd normally need (or want) to deal with.
What if there was another ISP in the area offering a similar service but also had the same restrictions? The problem would be exactly the same and this guy would be in the same situation. Competition and having options wouldn't really change anything. It ultimately comes down to the data cap restriction first and foremost.
Even cooler would be to have each person (explicitly or implicitly) set other people's vote importance. I can imagine a complicated system wherein voting cliques are detected, and used to feed back into the rankings of what papers show up on your page.

Ideally, the voting could be more than just "+1/-1" as well, potentially with a couple different axes, so that I could, for instance, say that I think a paper is important to the field, but likely wrong. Just because a paper is controversial doesn't mean I don't want it to be discussed (for instance, if it introduces a new computational technique, but the input data is flawed somehow).
If I had to guess what the actual issue is; I think my neighbourhood is connected to some rather old copper lines and they can't make the kind of reliability guarantees that they make to business clients on it, and they don't want to upgrade or replace the copper. The neighbourhood is fairly new but the area it's connected to is fairly old (road paved and utilities put in way back in the 80s/early-90s for other places near by). This is all speculation from knowing the area and the fact that their residential services has had a number of unexplained outages/issues with bandwidth fairly often (6-7 times a year it'll be out for a few hours or very very slow, and they say they are working on it).
I've often resorted to doing the same thing, but one problem with that is having to go back to the HN site to find the story to vote on it or comment. If a large number of people are pushing stories out to new tabs and ultimately ignoring the HN site after that, might it begin to affect the voting / ranking ?
Thanks for the response. I've actually got more than they required experience and my skill set is just what they are looking for. I feel I am worth at least 70K per year, but this is a tough job market and this is essentially the only position currently available in my town.
I thought it had been re-branded as BUILD this year (and was going to have a massive Windows 8 focus). I've seen some reports of "PDC 2011" but then the dates and location are the same as build....unless they're going to run to conferences concurrently, which I doubt.
I wouldn't mind a two tiered system, with a curated membership and paywalls, and the riffraff/unwashed masses in a lower tier. Exclude the latter from making comments, but give out the knowledge for free.
The article becomes a bit absurd when it makes the implication that entrepreneurs may settle for cheaper locales like Chile or Cabo (I just returned from the latter and trust me although it's beautiful it's anything but cheap).
Success depends not only on the abundance of VCs but also the available talent pool, experienced attorneys, landlords who get it, accountants, etc.
I doubt anything one has to pay for could be a 'human right' but, if so, my bet is on '3 meals a day' becoming a human right before 'internet access' does.
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I'll throw in my anecdotal evidence as well then. At work use ruby for a lot of configuration management with puppet mainly due to it just being easier to just throw some extra ruby in place than shell out to another script. So ever so slowly we have been getting more and more ruby into our "enterprise".

We also have another more "corporate" type piece of software that uses python that gets... less use, but that is more due to it really being written in java and having performance closer to a glacier. Which is why we have puppet now in the first place.

I've used both ruby and perl for equal amounts of time, and I've recently started to use it at work to replace old perl and shell I have. That and I've switched vm's to rubinius so those old "ruby is slow" gripes to be honest never cause problems. That and having a jit+vm that isn't java on each of our os's is really awesome.

Don't get me wrong, Python is a great language but you are 100% right, there isn't much need for learning both Ruby and Python. They both are roughly equivalent featurewise, but they both take completely different roads about how you approach general purpose programming. That said I know both but rarely use my Python knowledge much. But it does have some great libraries out there for numeric computation/etc... I also know of a few companies that use ruby as their goto language to get failing (java) projects out of the door.

Disclaimer: I never use rails at all, haven't since I looked at it source in the 1.x days. Was REALLY put off with all of the monkey patching they did.
That's the throughput, though (which was always capped, in Mbps) not the amount of data. The latter is unlimited.

They're limiting the amount of data not because it's scarce, but because that forces people to limit their throughput - since if you use at the max levels, it'd reach the data caps in no time - because they're overselling too much and don't want to pay for the infrastructure upgrade.
What's the culprit do you think? Azure stuff? I've never seen problems like that with MVC3 (but given the gamut of all the crazy things I've seen I don't doubt you)
I have one single solitary paper that has been published in a peer reviewed journal, so my experience is present but limited.

What I gained out of the peer review process was an article that had grey areas filled in and statistical methods applied better. The quality of the reviewed article was much better than the quality of the submitted article. The reviewers were reading the article with an even-handed critical eye; they weren't just looking for support for their pet opinions.

There's also an aspect of criticism - criticism is expected from reviewers, but random dude A on the internet is frequently going to get something along the lines of "who are you to criticise my methods", or any request for more info declined. "Please provide more info" will work if you need to get a paper published, but won't work if you have already published your paper on scribd - where's the motivation to do rework (beyond honour of course, but scientists are human and that does not always apply)

And then there's the point that popularity doesn't equal 'correct'. Here on HN I've seen time and time again that a throwaway popular comment gets upvotes, and a well-reasoned but unpopular comment gets downvotes. Peer-reviewed articles should be about scientific rigor, not visceral feeling. Consensus of the masses is orthogonal to the needs of scientific rigor.

The main article describes very, very little in the way of quality assurance.
Dude, with 7 years exp you should be able to get more than 70k... for development. 53k is real low.

That said, 4 days vacation for the remaining 2011 sucks too. It should be prorated and industry standard (which is low) is something like 2 weeks vacation (so pro-rate that).

You really want this job? Counter offer with more vacation.
Actually, from what I've read, your brain actually is specialized to benefit reading, and humans have adapted a lot for agriculture.
I was at the BBQ as well. I didn't realize it at first, because the BBQ she describes is completely different from the BBQ I attended. I'm so perplexed, it leaves me wondering if this is ethical journalism.

"At a BBQ last week with a group of Y Combinator graduates, the conversation went predictably back and forth, sounding something like this: What batch were you in? How many times did you pivot? How much did you raise? From who? How many users have you got now? What’s your growth rate? Who’s going to acquire you? It’s never about the technology or impact it’s having, it’s about the game of entrepreneurship; getting users, funding and exiting as quickly as you can."
The idea for this just hit me last night--I envision it being useful on places like Craigslist where proximity is useful information but I wouldn't want to actually make my address public.
He said 7 yrs. Thats bit more than qualified.
Just say no thanks and get something else. There is no deal to be done here that will work for both party long term.
It keeps track of the sites in memory. That means if the machine gets kicked, old urls can be submitted again.

It is also just simple URL based limitations, adding some bogus parameters to a url, or a hash, would be enough to get around it.

I don't know the specifics of the algo, but it may also add sites to its cache if someone visits one of the old comments pages, which could make it look more sporadic and picky.
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Coming to Silicon Valley and expressing dismay that the typical founder is single-mindedly focused on profits and liquidity events is a little like showing up at Rick's and expressing shock at all the gambling going on. It is all well and good to pass judgment on what you see, but what did you expect? Nothing fundamental has changed in SV over the years and the Valley has no need to justify itself.
That's actually very interesting - what you're proposing is that to create a viral effect you don't send the same joke to everyone but tailor it algorithmically to suit each recipient based on his history or some other parameter.

The trick, of course, is being able to gather and mine the data needed to do so.

It seems that facebook, Google, and a lot of other successful companies are following this model.
I have to admit I wanted to spice things a bit, playing devil's advocate on purpose. Make the discussion more interesting by challenging status quo and see if it holds up.
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