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As someone making the move from Miami to SF I can give some approximations that are hopefully time-accurate. Brickell/Downtown/South Beach/Grove 1BR prices are in the $1200-1600 range down here now for a now standard pad. You can of course go much higher, but not much cheaper (cheapest I've seen is $1100, a total steal these days). I myself have paid $1250 or so the last few years, however the building I just left in Brickell now has 1BRs starting at $1400. Demand has certainly moved the price needle up in the cooler parts of town here. For a similar looking place in SF I'm looking at the $1800-$2000 range in similarly cool parts of town. I could of course venture out to the Richmond and save/get more space but that's the same anywhere. In keeping apples to apples I'm comparing the Miami areas above to Nob Hill/Russian Hill/North Beach/Marina/Pac Heights/Inner Richmond areas. If I'm off in the SF comparisons someone please DO let me know. :)
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It does look like you need to have web history enabled in order to use it...
When things change, I think that’s easy to get really wrapped up in the complaints.

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I'm surprised you have to go via recruiters? I would have thought you have enough of a name that you would get applications (if you made enough noise about hiring). Maybe having a tweet or blog post in the last 6 months saying you're hiring might be cheaper than 25% :)
Off topic > I really enjoyed the background song in the video :) I'm wondering who creates all these Google presentational videos and soundtracks.
I don't see why the website would need to verify my key fingerprint. Verification is needed when you care who a key comes from. For typical websites, they don't need to know who I am. They only need to know enough to recognize on subsequent logins that I'm the same person who provided the key at account creation, and the key itself has all they need for that.
Aha, thank you. As most of my C code has been written for a single compiler and a single platform I was less aware of the pitfalls than I should have been. I will know now to be extra vigilant if I ever have to port that code.
I'm on my first real job. I had no idea what to ask for and what I am really worth. I wasn't really desperate for a job but I only asked for something now seems too low (feels way too low after this thread). I screwed up in salary negotiation (Actually I didn't even negotiate.)

Anyway what matters right now is I love the job and it's pretty much what I'd be doing even if I was on my own. There are times that economy gets tight. I feel bad but I always move. Perhaps I'd MOVE ON someday.

Anyway I think there should be some resources that helps a guy going for his first job have an idea what black magic salary negotiation is. Perhaps the fellow HNers have some good stuff to share.
I don't think she is trying to avoid the taxes and stay in business. I think she wants CA to receive the taxes and have local retailers on a level playing field.
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It's being marketed as something that helps people track articles and find new content, share content with friends, and spark conversations, but it's also framed in terms of earning/leveling up. I think there is a bit of disconnect there. People who appreciate the game-like elements may not get so much value from the discovery/social features (and vice versa).

If the badges result in significantly higher usage of Google News, some large news organizations will feel threatened. Making an aggregator more attractive means fewer people starting their search for news on CNN, BBC, Fox, nytimes.com and large local news sites like Boston.com. On the other hand, smaller/niche publishers that are featured on Google News will welcome more traffic.
> You can see that his system has its restrictions too as he enters a pixel based headline size in the demo video.

The fact that he specifies the size unit actually suggests that the system would accept others. It's basically CSS after all.
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There's nothing in the paper that makes it clear that their claimed results aren't the result of save game cheating.
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"With around 60% of users identifying themselves as web developers or software engineers [...]"

That's probably the more interesting point
Here's my canned response:

I want to work with the cool technologies I love, namely Python, Django, jQuery, Postgresql, MongoDB, and if it has to be Java it better be something cool for Android.

I need at least ${insert a very competitive salary for my region} to make a jump. I also need full time and good benefits, I don't do contract to hire.

I need a flexible work schedule, sometimes I like to come in very early, sometimes not. I also hate commuting so being able to work from home at least once a week is a must.

So far my requirements have been enough to keep most recruiters at bay.
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No way. Most people would be irritated most of the time because there would always be some idiot making more than you.
Interesting stats, but this was also reported on the 8th by a different site:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2742196
I don't want to see another browser-specific feature from mozilla. As mentioned here several times it doesn't seem too different from openId and it's for mozilla!

seemed pointless to me.
I just wish they'd stop calling me at work, that's just rude. My email address is on my website, for crying out loud!
Brilliant.

Of couse, recruiters withhold company names because they're scared you'll go straight to the company and they won't get paid.

Therefore, you should add something to the letter like "I understand you have to make money. So my pledge to you is this: Unless I have a pre-existing relationship with the company, I promise not to go straight to them without giving you due credit."

That's a fair agreement.
I would imagine if you looked at Facebook's signups shortly after it opened up to the public, it would probably look the same way (if you disregard the college students who were already on there at that point).

Just eyeballing the people in my circles who have actually created accounts, it seems like about a 60/40 male/female split. Most of my friends and classmates are pretty tech-savvy though (well, either that or I've browbeaten them into signing up for things so many times they just went for it this time).
I thought twitter essentially was spam. Just everyone spammed everyone so it was transparent.
In addition to jcampbell1's remarks, which are completely correct, the zooming override issue you mention is, in my experience, nonexistent. I may be wrong, but I have not recently* encountered it on FF, IE, Opera, nor Chrome.

Em sizing is counterproductive because 1. That's not how most designers think, (We use Points, Pica, and Pixels.), 2. It's unnecessary for scaling with normally configured browsers, and 3. If someone changes their default type size, I am NOT going to support them: they have full knowledge of how to change the setting to fix a suboptimal page, and they have chosen to have suboptimal pages in the majority of their browsing (You think leading and optimal line width don't matter just as much as text size?) To anyone who actually forces their typeface choice: please do so on a site-by-site basis--or at least typeface-by-typeface for those you find illegible. Please do not try to override the informed choices of typographically-aware designers.

Sorry if that sounded like a rant. :) I'm a designer, and I'm passionate about my work being displayed and read the way I designed it to. Otherwise, I'd give every user a typeface selection screen when they visit my websites. The fact is, average users don't make informed choices.

*Within the past three years.
No, this is a god awful article. That's a new paragraph when it shouldn't be, that 60% is of the 25,000 single men (edit: No, it can't be even that, the author really messed up somewhere). There are not over 6,000,000 software engineers out of 10,000,000 on Google Plus.
Thanks Ryan. I joined up.
Downvotes? Wow, that's unnecessarily harsh.

Two close friends of mine were the #2 and #4 employees of Friendster. I seriously considered becoming #3. I had a pretty good outsider's view of the early years.

Yeah, they screwed up the scaling pretty badly. But even worse they screwed up the business - after you set up your profile and looked around, there wasn't much more to do (unless you were single and looking). People were already using Friendster as an identity (emailing links as a "you mean this person, right?"). Maybe if they'd opened an API and enabled third-party apps, they could have maintained this position. It's a big "what if" but it can't be dismissed outright.
Statistically speaking, using buckets is like throwing away 1/3 to 1/2 of your data. There was a salary survey on here a couple of months ago.
I couldn't see the free limits or the pricing for upgrades?
What really gets me is the fact that nobody (well, almost nobody) will hire remotely, I guess because they feel like they need a collaborative environment. I get that, but for the cost of living difference between SF and KC, you could easily afford to fly me out every other week or so for a couple of days and we could get our collaboration on! I don't mind coming out to beautiful Silicon Valley regularly, but I can't move my family out there (right away, anyway.)
Excellent concise explanation.
Wasn't this exactly the problem that Django was originally trying to solve?
The problem you see with these applications is that they are bad PHP, not that they are PHP.

If you would, go take a peek at the Symfony2 framework. It's positively brilliant code, and it's PHP--Fabian Potencier and friends are excellent programmers, and they write excellent code in PHP.
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His discussion of editors' thought process about CMS tools and making site parts from apps sounds suspiciously like the reasoning over at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper. I'm curious why their solution wasn't mentioned.
I mean in the sense that he is storing pixel sizes as opposed to some semantic information. This implies either:

1. An elaborate system of decoupling styling information from content via metadata. (i.e. in situation X, this document's headline should be 20px) Their approach would be pretty interesting here. How could this be preserved as their design/layout evolves with time?

2. He was just indicating that headline in position X be 20px, communicating with the layout.

3. He was hard-setting it to 20px.

It's probably #1. So if, as he says they switch layouts and output to tumblr, how would that work? Their answer might be a lot of manual work, or it could potentially be something really clever.
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Well if G+ is where the men are I expect you'll see a lot of women from Vancouver sign on pretty fast. Vancouver has way more single women than men.
The title is perfect. Looking back, I'm not surprised you took it the wrong way. It was a bad joke.
Hrm. That's a really good point. It's hard for me to see outside the fact that I've set up what seems like a hundred WP blogs in my lifetime. That adds a solid 5 minutes of Googling, which I still think is a pretty minimal commitment.
Why not? Is it that hard to believe that 6 million of the people that joined Google Plus early on are software engineers? I could believe it. They probably signed up to try and get involved, and a developer would be more likely to sign up to beta software than a non-developer, I would imagine.

note: these are my speculations.
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Correct, Tom Gillis is not an engineer.

He is a salesman who happens to lead a business unit at a technology company.
If you dig this, you might also enjoy Mike Lee founder of the Studiofeast supper club. Here's a link to a recent presentation he did at ITP on hacking the dinner party:

http://studiofeast.com/2011/07/01/hacking-the-dinner-party-i...
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Hey chubs,

I'm thinking about relocating from the States to Australia in the next few years (roughly 2015). I'm starting to feel out the best way to make a move like this happen, and one arena I'm a little curious about is employment. I can't exactly move my family halfway around the world without a job lined up, although I am willing to go to extraordinary lengths to make that job happen.

Do you think Steve would be open to answering some basic ?'s about the immigration process as it pertains to employment? If he's still in the business in 4 years he might snag a commission off me...

Edit: beilabs, same goes to you if you see this first. Any thoughts?
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Not the method I use, but people may trust this method simply since its what Rails uses:

* session_id is a 32 hex character MD5 hash based upon time, random number and constant string.
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The most complex piece of software I've worked on was a CMS. I spent a lot of time doing competitor evaluations, and, without fail, the only successful implementations were using small products in small workgroups. Trying to solve the "enterprise" problem always failed, both because the software became stupid complex and the processes became even worse.

I don't think its an intractable problem, but the people issues surrounding it make it a hugely difficult one.
It would be more surprising to me if they weren't working on something like this.
The semantic information is already in the selector that pops up, e.g. '.headline'. I don't see why they need to store anything elaborate to make that portable. The scope of the change (document, document type, section, site) isn't shown but presumably it defaults to 'type'.

BTW the in-place edit features remind me a lot of this[1] use of Deface[2] in Spree[3]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjgQHzYcxIQ

[2] https://github.com/railsdog/deface#readme

[3] http://spreecommerce.com/
The staggering thing is that they are activating about as much in a quarter now as they did in all of 2010. I honestly thought it would plateau by now, but it hasn't. It's truly hard to appreciate how big the Android tidal wave really is.
It doesn't suggest reordering your build to account for obvious problems (e.g. never building a military unit). It doesn't optimize your build to account for obvious parallels (e.g. it won't tell you it's stupid to queue up units for production when you could put your resources to work elsewhere for immediate benefit). It doesn't even track wins/losses that I know of. It basically displays a series of images based on a script that you provide.

So it's a minimum viable product. That's fine, and if I played SC2 I'd find it useful.

He didn't know about that, and wasted a week getting AspectJ set up and configured while the rest of us were making actual, obvious performance improvements based on data from a real profiler

That tells me nothing about his abilities one way or the other; all it suggests is that your team has communication issues.
Wow, that post is appalling poor and demonstrates complete lack of understanding of their target audience, namely programmers.

Upfront, it tells you everything you are not getting as an employee... free time, good salary or nutritious food. Then it tells you absolutely nothing about what you are getting... like you know, things an engineer might be interested in... interesting work, spiffy new programming languages etc. Instead they ramble on about how great they are and focus mostly on business figures like revenue. Even with regards to business stuff things sound scary. Revenue slopes you would not ski down on? Makes me think of plummeting revenues.
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The world of Content Management Systems is definitely an awkward place to be in, However, I don't think that the notion "The CMS Is Broken" is really justified.

I think the first major problem with CMS' is that people expect them to be the end all be-all solution to their site and content needs. Clients expect them to be an intuitive cheap publishing platform that will magically format, organize and display an endless array of content and content types, while developers expect them to be fast, easy to extend, scaleable, lightweight and fit a theoretical "goldilocks zone" of adhering to conventions but still being flexible.

To fix the client problem, clients need to understand software does not create good content for you. Content needs to be curated and software is there to help with the heavy lifting. Instead of forking out X amount of money on software, spend half that and spend the remaining half on writers, photographers and people to make your content great.

As for the software/development problem, each specific case can require a different platform. Just like one specific programming language is only one tool in the box, one CMS follows the same pattern. Educate yourself about all your tools and explain the pros/cons to the client before making a decision, but in the end, isn't that what were being paid to do?

Sorry if my comment is a little more about the business side of things and not necessarily about the CMS itself, but I feel its a pretty important point on this issue
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Is this supposed to be a joke on the nature of those adult dating website ads that always advertise "Single ladies in your area"? Being in Vancouver myself, I never found out until recently that some of the ads always said "Vancouver" no matter where one was. Quite strange.
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And how does the USB Keyboard have the permission to go ahead and launch software on the user's behalf? It's precisely the same issue as autorun on a thumb drive.
Thanks for the support and the great idea about the Work Journal. I'm not very good about time budgeting, so I think that having a work journal will keep me on the right track.

(Also, I love look back at my current work memo months later and seeing what I was thinking months before)
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Why did you agree to 25%? Standard contingency fee is 20%. For multiple openings you can negotiate less.
I have trouble believing all these "accidental leakages" are actually accidents. The new trendy marketing gimmick?
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Interesting considering he works from 8am-2am. How on earth do you come to the conclusion he's not contributing to OS because he chooses to design within the box?
I'd find that especially amusing because "Google is an AI company, they just don't advertise the fact." If they can't make money on anything except AI, that would be strong confirmation.
Findpeopleonplus is set to release a larger set of index and statistics report. It will be interesting to see if the trend is along the same lines or shifted.
I guess lime green is the new orange.
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next time try this
http://www.readability.com/articles/1fyqqx1d

or instapaper. the design sucks indeed, suites paper format, not web.
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Surely you gave Arrington the heads up on this... RIGHT? YOU BETTER HAVE GIVEN HIM A HEADS UP.
Not surprising. Any girl would be saying "Why do I need a second Facebook?"
So after you subtract housing, assuming purchase, the Raleigh engineer is better off initially. Of course, assuming Palo Alto housing prices don't plummet, the valley engineer is putting equity into the house which he can use if he moves for retirement.

And the NC person isn't putting equity in to a house?
Why not? Is it that hard to believe that 6 million of the people that joined Google Plus early on are software engineers?

According to the BLS there are 3.2 million Americans in "Computer and mathematical occupations" (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.htm), and there seems to be a reasonable consensus that 12 million is an upper bound for the world (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developer...). There's no way 6 million are on Google+ already.
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I think that in addition to location, degree of expertise or years of experience are important factors which often correlate with location. For instance, if you live in the midwest and make your living tweaking wordpress themes, you may consider yourself a "programmer". However, that wouldn't fly in a major city. So I would speculate that salaries are higher in SF, for example, but the quality of the "programmer" is significantly higher than in other locations. Just my 2 cents...
I do not think those pictures show what you think they do.

I can clearly see the back button in all 3 UI pictures, including the one for Firefox 5. For that matter, I can see the back button in the Firefox 5 window I'm using to type this comment. I agree that Firefox 5's UI is simpler and cleaner than Firefox 1's and Netscape's, but I don't know where you got the idea that they'd eliminated the back button.
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Note this is not referring to literal x-rays nor black boxes.
The web isn't print, it was never meant to be. The content you publish online is going to be displayed on any number of devices at various resolutions, scales, window sizes, colours, etc.

If you're a web designer, keep in mind that you're displaying content that's useful beyond the artistic merit of the typeface and other decorative elements. If you want to show off a design, make a PDF or an image. If you are making content useful to the widest audience you can reach, there are compromises that have to be made.
MOG was around way before Rdio. And for me, its all about the music. I could care less about social features and never ran into problems with the AIR client or the phone client.

Also, MOG just finished a HTML5 redesign anyway.
All the women I socialize with regularly are on Google+, and not because I told them about it.

It's a limited beta, anyway. People will start joining when their Gmail tells them to.
(edit: No, it can't be even that, the author really messed up somewhere)

The only thing that makes any sense is that it's 60% of the people who listed their occupation. Even that seems high, but it might be plausible given that the initial invitees would have been the friends of Googlers.
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