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Or C, they had a plan for it, but when it actually happened they panicked, forgot the plan, and stuck their foot in it up to their armpit. Many people who have not had to deal with sudden difficulties don't seem to realize just how strong the tendency is to forget plans, intentions, and just do whatever you first think of. That is why serious martial artists, the military, and EMTs train, and train, and train some more. They have to respond correctly even when they aren't expecting problems to crop up.
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Thats a high rate for London UK individual freelancers too. More like an agency rate.

Bear in mind you will need to allow time to search for new work too.
Very nice!

A suggestion: make mockups exportable to images. It shouldn't be hard with something like this: http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/canvas2image/
This is slightly off-topic, but I have a feeling the answer will be a short one. How would a straight out of university -student fare becoming a freelancer? One would have little to no contacts or enterprise experience (part from the degree and/or open source). I don't have a good understanding of what a freelancer contractor/consultant does, but I've always liked the word freelancer. This would be, as I assume, practically impossible?
Maybe, but there are a number of reasons why you might not want to:

1) The US financial system is unsustainable. Specialize in it and you will find yourself out of a job eventually.

2) It's unethical. If you understand that your excess salary is coming from wealth that is stolen from people through the mechanism of inflation, then you may want to opt out of the corrupt system for peace of mind.

3) If the people actually understood how much they were screwed by this system, they would come after bankers, and that might include programmers at banks. This sort of happened in 2008 when bankers received threats. If the US system collapsed, they might receive more than threats. Note that, although traders and bankers are not the same, traders often use leverage with new money created by the banks and the Fed, and thus are just one hop away from the new money and are almost as culpable as the bankers. And besides, the angry hordes might not make such a subtle distinction; anyone associated with finance would be subject to retribution.
one point..

FOxconn views moving to using robots as ideal because the costs of recruitment of workers went up not increases in wages. In other words despite increasing wages they have a hard time finding workers to fill the factories. So not the 'replacing workers' like you claim.
The point isn't that there'll be no jobs, because ten jobs building a hundred widgets an hour can be replaced by ten jobs maintaining a hundred robots that build ten thousand widgets per hour, thus making everybody significantly richer.

The real problem is that increasing automation only creates jobs for smart people, while destroying jobs for dumb people. Not everybody capable of building widgets is capable of maintaining a widget-building robot. We're replacing manual labour jobs with jobs that require a brain, but half the population still has below-average intelligence.
Maybe I have a lingering hope that Airbnb staff couldn't possibly be that stupid…
It looks like you are using _her_ internet access, or at the very least living at her place?

In that case, there's not much you can do since she's technically the owner of the place and should rightly be able to dictate the terms of usage of her house for whatever reason (whether or not they make sense).

Once you are able to afford your own place / internet connection, you're pretty much free to do whatever the hell you want.
Not at all impossible. However, most consultants I know get most of their work through word-of-mouth/network referrals. "Straight out of university" probably implies you don't have a large network of people that can refer work your way. And to the extent you can get work, it'll probably be on the lower end of the pay scale, but that'll probably be the case even if you go get a traditional job someplace.
Do a completely anonymous blog, blog about things that are in the general interest.
I was a Valley engineer for 20 years before moving to Seattle for the last 10 years. (Lower taxes, better schools, worse weather.) My info may be a little out of date, but I have kept up with valley friends and visit often.

The great thing about the valley is that there are so many tech companies there. If your company culture is poisonous, you can switch to a different company without uprooting your family.

Stock options actually incentivize you to switch every 2-4 years, unless your current company hits it big.

There's no social stigma to switching companies for a better opportunity. Do a good job for a while and you'll develop a network of former co-workers who help you get new jobs.

Overall the family quality of life is very good. It's one big suburb, and the schools are not the greatest, and the South Bay can get pretty boring for teenagers, but the weather is outstanding, and people are generally pretty nice. Since everybody's from somewhere else it is fairly easy to form new friends.

(I don't want to freak you out about the schools -- they are not that bad, especially if you account for the large immigrant and ESL population. It is unfortunately quite expensive to buy a house in a good school district.)

Oh, and the fruits and vegetables are really good!

Good luck!
That seems consistent with what I've heard, too.
That's odd. It's not as readable as the PDF for me (under Chrome 12 and Windows 7), but it's still legible. Maybe you should send a bug report to the people at scribd? Or at least tell them that some files are unreadable in your browser/os combination.
Note that <script src>'ing from some random website means that site can XSS you any time it wants to. (I'm not saying the owners intend for this; a third party could just as well hack their site and do the same.)
It's largely sampling bias, though. It seems to us, as regular consumers, that everything is made in China because we buy phones and monitors, but we never buy steel girders and Boeing 777s.
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that sounds like a lot! What technology are we talking about? Also, do this roles require being able to speak french?
4) I'm assuming their housing calculation comes from a single person/family renting and is not dependent on whether or not you have roommates and thus based on the split between them.
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I thought one can directly send bitcoin to another address without the need for a middleman?
> When Windows was better than the competition, it was winning in the marketplace. Now Google and Apple are better than the competition, so they are winning in the marketplace.

hm???
this contains at least as much factual errors or imprecisions so gross it could mean anything that there are sentences. That plus the whole MS Windows vs Google comparison makes no sense at all.
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Nice work! I've been hacking on something very similar. What are you using to save the layouts?
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Most ultra low latency trading strategies are intimately related to the technology platform. Here's an example strategy:

Most platforms slow down when there is an influx of orders into the market. Some are designed to force events during the process (which allows for action while prices move, but the prices may be stale) and others are designed to process all feed messages before forcing an event (which ensure prices are more up-to-date but doesnt allow you to make a trade earlier)

Suppose you are betting that this represents a market rally or collapse (directional). Then, you can make money by figuring out the direction of the move (aggressive processing of the first few messages in a burst) and get involved before every other system catches up in the feed.

Now, it would be very hard to imagine a non-developer having enough of an understanding of the technology to devise this strategy. Not all examples are so obvious, but many microstructure strategies depend on some understanding of the technologies involved
Indeed. What is the point of making so much money if you don't have time to spend it or have anything that resembles a life for that matter.
"What the hell are you gonna do with 500k a year, anyway?"

Buy a house? A car? Invest in your own future business?

I agree with the sentiment of your post. I prefer earning less but working with intelligent, sensible people while also believing in my work because my mental health supersedes material needs.
On the bright side, in a few years we'll have robot dance parties instead.
Except with a lost wallet.dat there will be a lot of BTC that cannot be given back. Customers are likely going to take a haircut because an incompetent exchange lost their money. In the real world the people running the exchange would be going to jail.
For a reason that I don't know and don't understand, their developer program is not supporting all countries in the world or most of them. That is why I can't start (I want to get into Mobile Development and I know C#), I can't publish my apps.
I first got R when I was reading Statistics: an introduction using R (http://www.amazon.com/Statistics-Introduction-Michael-J-Craw...).

That said, I ultimately never fell in love with R so perhaps my experience is a bad example (though I would argue there are lots of legitimate reasons not to fall in love with R)
This is cool, but I don't know on what planet "C, Eb, F#" is a major chord. Seems to be off by a half-step (i.e. should be C, E, G)?
500€ sounds a lot, I'm based in UK and I've never heard of anyone getting paid above £400 per day (in Rails). I've been thinking for a while on moving to Germany, would you mind if I contact you?
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> I am merely planning my career on a long-term basis

I would suggest that if you're planning for the long-term and want more job security, stay away from startups. Too much can wrong and you'll have too much too lose if they go belly-up and/or don't have people that can competently handle your immigration paperwork.

I moved from the UK to the USA in 2001. I came here on a J-1 visa (18 months), then got an H1-B (6 years) and finally got a green card through marriage. I worked for a federal government agencies - they were throwing H1-Bs at everyone and had a dedicated team for handling foreign/immigration issues. When I transferred from government work to 'Company B' their HR screwed up my immigration paperwork so bad that USCIS issued a deportation notice and I lost my job. Nightmare scenario given that I had a mortgage, and my partner was 7-months pregnant, commuting 10 hours a week, working F-T and finishing up her MBA.

Visas/immigration (and attorney fees) have been a pain in the rear for the last decade. I think I'll pay Uncle Sam the $700 just to become a citizen so I can sleep better...
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The idea that fast-forward merges are easier to follow is subjective. I find my --no-ff history easier to read. This author doesn't.

What always using fast-forward merges really means is that you rebase each branch onto master once it's ready to be public. Therefore, instead of resolving conflicts when the branch is merged, the commits are rewritten to avoid introducing the conflict in the first place.

Sometimes, this is really simple -- I added a line in one spot, you added another line in the same spot, you merged first, so I rewrite my commit to add my line next to yours instead of merging and resolving the conflict. Sometimes, it's not -- maybe there's not even any text-level conflict, but your feature and my feature interact in subtle and unanticipated ways and something breaks. Now, there's no "good" point in my branch to refer to, because I rewrote it on top of something where (I didn't realize) it was never really going to work. The unit test I now need couldn't have existed because it involves things that, when I was developing the branch, didn't exist.

Rebasing first is trading off when you do that work. There's more to review when the branch is ready, and there's a stronger incentive to get it right the first time. I think this may work better for the "two founders deploying from master when they feel like it" scenario -- you pay for manageability with context switches. If you have a formal QA process, I think being able to distinguish between "this branch failed QA" and "the combination of these branches failed" may be more helpful -- you can parallelize work and hack on a different private branch.

Git, thankfully, does not force us to choose one model or the other :-)
You can't. Instance types are fixed. He was likely using an EBS-root configured AMI, where the mount point for EBS is /. These are EBS-backed, but since the EBS block is automatically created when you spool up the instance; it is also automatically deleted when you terminate the instance, unless you specify otherwise.
In France we benefit from a system called "Entreprenarial Vacation" - anyone who spent 5 years in their company can ask to take a year off in order to start their own business. The company can accept or refuse. After 12 months, the employee can decide to leave the company for good (business works) or return to his former functions and keep his job/salary (business doesn't work, founder is not fit, crisis in the world- you name it).

I oversimplified it a bit of course, but basically you should check out if there are any system like this one in your country. I personally took this chance and I am freelance right now under these terms. I already had a contract ready to execute when I started, which helped tons.

Just one thing: expect up to 3 months delays in payments and expect administrative delays (at least three weeks, for me it was two months- don't ask) from the moment you have a bank backing you up until you can issue your first invoice: that's what it takes to incorporate a company. So worst case scenario is even if you start with a gig right away, you might have to eat all your saved up cash before seeing any money income.

Looking back at how it went for me, I would have rather started working on all the administrative details before leaving my previous company. Then again I'm talking about the French administration, I don't know the specifics in other countries.
Squirrel it away for 5 years then retire on 5% returns on a million bucks ($50,000) a year?
His name is spelled Marc Andreessen, please fix the title.
There's a reason real banks use mainframes, not cloud services...
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Well, the turbulent flow in the wake generates some noise.
Your analysis is a bit superficial. The government connections keep them from being regulated but don't adequately explain how they can skim so much off the top. For instance, how do the big firms (e.g. Goldman) manage to get into oil futures, create new fangled products that others will buy, get everyone to follow them into the same market sector, raise the price of oil, pocket billions of dollars, and leave the market before it goes south. It's actually hundreds of years of accumulated know-how in a somewhat needed but mostly bogus market sector -- of which the first priority is how to convince very intelligent and hard working people that they are doing some admirable or at least neutral when they are in fact destroying the economic base of the country they are in, siphoning all of the talent into meaningless and counterproductive tasks, and pouring their money into the political machine in order to increase corruption so they will never be held accountable for their actions.

The short answer is an excellent understanding of human psychology leading to good marketing. Most criminals think they aren't doing something wrong. Most people can be trained to do very damaging (even evil) actions by acculturation and habituation. Americans have been re-educated in the past fifty years to think that all sorts of things are okay that they never would have thought when we were the industrial superpower that invented and produced everything imaginable (e.g. car, plane, tv, space shuttles, etc.). Of course, most of these changes in American thinking aren't politically correct to mention.

Nowadays people either go into finance or work on some little web startup in the hopes they will make a billion dollars -- but at least that is better than being a patent troll. The AirBnB scandal is in fact a great example of the present dynamic. It is a great service on top of existing infrastructure. That's basically all Americans do these days -- a service economy on top of actual products that are increasingly being produced elsewhere. Sometimes those services are good, sometimes not so good, but barely anyone actually builds anything that is made to last -- nor do they seem to care.

Wake up America!
There are startups willing to go through the troubles of H1B sponsorship. Engineers are in demand and the (typically) $5k it costs is a small number when signing bonuses can be much higher. There have been periods where this was a timing problem, and a small gamble, but the past couple years and this year there has been a significant drop in applicants. What this means is that your H1B is all but assured if you're qualified.
If you are specifically interested in this kind of continuous deploy process then "Continuous Delivery[1]" is a decent book on the subject. The IMVU post "Doing The Impossible 50 Times A Day[2]" is another good place to start reading.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321601912

[2] http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/continuous-deplo...
I don't know if it's true that we've done alright. Realistically speaking, if you were employing 200 people to do something, and you can replace that job with ten people with ten cranes, you should be able to keep on paying 190 people — less the cost of the cranes — to stay at home and not work. Instead the difference goes into the pocket of the employer, and 190 people need to find new jobs or starve to death.

This is the pattern we need to break. The problem is that the only economically feasible system in the long run is some kind of welfare state — at some point food will become so cheap that we have to give people free food — but it's absolutely politically infeasible to even talk about the ways that might be good.
So one takeaway from this gem of a post is that if you don't write open-source code you're a shitty programmer?
Yes, the major should be (C E G). (C Eb F#) looks like a C dimnished, though I think it would be better written as (C Eb Gb).
But I don't want to retire! I know that by doing what I love for the rest of my life, I'll have enough to sustain my basic needs. 500k seems excessive. It's simultaneously too much for me to spend efficiently for myself, yet too small for me to do bigger things like fight cancer, invest in education, etc (like Bill Gates).
I think it is more an issue of sales velocity. Android took a little time to achieve significant velocity in a marketplace with only the iPhone as a touch screen competitor. Looking at WP7 it is apparent that Microsoft is in it for the long haul - and you don't drop a $billion on a "Pre"liminary project unless you are.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/12/08/andy-rubin-google-act...
Fast C++ is an oxymoron. Real men use C and assembly. And yes, I bootstrapped my own HFT
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"2. Be willing to do something that's deadly boring to most smart people", ...

... and super lucrative to their employers.

Otherwise shelf stocking might be a good route to riches.
I very much agree that this point will eventually be reached. We won't suddenly stop automating tasks and making those automations more and more functional.

It'll be interesting.

I've spoken to people that feel our role will be to move back to an intellectual time of philosophy and cultural advancement while our mechanical counterparts take care of everything else.

As a side-note, part of the Animatrix compilation was an anime short by a famous animator that portrayed the future where we have throngs of robot slave labor. Just abusing, destroying, crushing and pushing them harder and harder, throwing them away as they are "injured".

It was a perverse vision to be sure and only made more perverse by the need to make the robots human-like and then eventually given them AI (in the anime at least).

All of these things will be unexpected challenges.

Will you cringe in 2040 when you see a humanoid robot fall from a skyscraper or accidentally have a tractor drive over it while moving something big?

These are the strange/unexpected/unprepared scenarios I think will catch us off guard.
I think the point is that anybody can say they write great code if they never have show it to anyone.
I think that's a bit over the top. It really isn't that hard to keep your coins in your own wallet and back it up.

What this demonstrates to me is that people are too trusting. You really shouldn't trust any of these services until they become more transparent in who is backing them, what their infrastructure looks like, their disaster plans, etc.
I agree that some sort of cushion/runway is very important. But why do you suggest 12 months? Is the idea that you can spend 6-8 months making no money chasing around contracts and then you've got 6-4 months to find a job?
Administrative details aren't quite as bad here, and anyway I've already got a company set up from my web app launch a few years back. Thanks for the input. Haven't heard about anything comparable to "entrepreneurial vacation" but some people do take extended, unpaid leaves of absence for various reasons. Maybe I'll talk to my employer about that, would make it far less risky - though it would also give me less of a fire under my ass :)
Doesn't sound to me like he's really suffering. Suffering requires someone to suffer. And no, to me this isn't really pedantry.
I think you're doing the right thing, but you did miss something :)

Oddly enough, I think that the algorithm you need here was also on HN a while back.
(Disclaimer: former MS employee): Writing WP7 apps has always been a really awesome experience - making your app look awesome with animations and transitions as well as custom styles is really easy compared to iOS and Android. Being able to replace the look and animations of a control without having to subclass it (i.e. rewrite the interaction logic) is really powerful.
$10k is plain wrong. It's $2500 for the application (paid to the gov't) and decent lawyers typically charge $2500. Greencards on the other hand are much more expensive, $15k-$20k.
Good point, but does it have a conclusion?

I think Kurzweil refers to it as the Singularity... but basically what happens when AI reaches the point where it can manage itself or advance itself?

This is certainly in the realm of "what if" because we haven't established if sheer compute power CAN get us AI that eventually becomes self-aware.

I sort of assume it can, but I don't like to make sweeping statements based on my assumptions. We might find some missing "human" link in the intelligence chain that stops computers and AIs from making that final leap once we get to that precipice.