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I'm partial to some of this, but since others here have covered other problems with your argument, I'll limit myself to one of your points that hasn't been dealt with. You say:

Is it good for the country that Silicon Valley, arguably the best-performing sector of the economy, has next to no influence in politics

Next to no influence in politics? Seriously? All the major software companies (GOOG, MSFT, APPL) spend enormous sums of money on lobbyists to influence the passing of favourable laws in Washington:

[Google] now has 12 lobbyists and lobbying-related professionals on staff here -- more than double the size of the standard corporate lobbying office -- and is continuing to add people.

Its in-house talent includes such veteran government insiders as communications director Robert Boorstin, a speechwriter and foreign policy adviser in the Clinton White House, and Jamie Brown, a White House lobbyist under President Bush.

Google has also hired some heavyweight outside help to lobby, including the Podesta Group, led by Democrat Anthony T. Podesta, and the law firm King & Spalding, led by former Republican senators Daniel R. Coats (Ind.) and Connie Mack (Fla.). To help steer through regulatory approvals in its proposed acquisition of DoubleClick, an online advertising company, Google recently retained the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.

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On closer inspection I see that it is itself an interstitial, so clearly I'm wrong. Still beats a paywall.
It's worse. The additional term is undefined (it's 0/0-1) for days with no comments.
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This might be well served by adding yelp or other business review sources to the calculation.

For instance, my neighborhood shows a fantastic score (99 - Walker’s Paradise), but most of the locations listed are subpar at best. The score seems to be primarily based on access to transportation and walking distance of local establishments regardless of how much anyone would actually WANT to walk to any of them.

Mind you, I love my neighborhood Because of the fantastic access to the rest of the city, without being a social center. I'm just stating that very fact isn't reflected well
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Why let the exception case (removing an external drive quickly) ruin the main use case?

going forward it seems reasonable to assume ubiquitous network connectivity, so you can simply treat external drives as a cache and show a non-modal alert "please reconnect for sync, expected to finish within X minutes" iff the amount of data synced is large enough to matter via a 3G connection.
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Very true, in Austria many politicians are farmers or teachers because our party system encourages these professions into politics though unions, agricultural chambers and so on. They are represented out of proportion because they have a way to receive political training that is compatible with their original career.

The legal profession in America has a huge upstart politically as votes are required for many positions in the legal system, thus allowing the professionals to acquire experience with campaigns, raising money, taking over public office.
Don't you think that the real reason for their prosperity is that doctors, lawyers and bankers create their wealth collectively and sometimes collaboratively robbing people?

They create work for themselves with some hardwared awareness of their needs.

One doctor doesn't do all the job on yourself, sometimes does a bad job on their subject matter and you get to spend thousands to have this fixed.

Lawyers set up laws that everyone needs to follow and you need other lawyers to help you with that.

I don't even start talking about bankers ...

When programmers become congressmen or create a closed industry like medical services then we can talk about wealth y developers.
Well, in Windows 7 (on my PC) in 1 out of 3 times the window freezes when clicking Cancel during a copy or move operation, my reasons to doubt come from there.

And I'm talking about a Core 2 Duo machine with 4 Gigs of ram.
I will agree with this. I think this one lacks subtlety.
There are many people who sling code who make as much as a doctor or partner at a law firm. More than a few people on HN fit that description, actually.

A partner at a law firm is a businessman first and an individual producer of lawyering second. He has people to do that for him. Many - but not all - ways to do extraordinarily well as a programmer involve becoming a businessman first and a code slinger forty-second. There are many people on HN who run consultancies. If you're unaware how the numbers shake out, ask them what percentage of the money they get came in from billable hours programming and what percentage came from e.g. the delta between what they charge for consultants and what they pay them, or the line-item fees which have no associated hours.

I keep giving this advice: stop calling yourself a programmer. You're right, it is anomalously highly paid and low status. So call yourself something else. If you sling code and make businesses serious money and are sophisticated about extracting that value, you will be quite highly paid indeed.

With regards to social status: most white collar laborers don't really have it. You could be a payroll clerk, so count your blessings. If you want it, either a) find a peer group where you have it or b) use code slinging to achieve something society values. You know how teachers have status? Try the line "I helped X million kids learn to read last year" out some time. (Helpful if it is true, obviously.). Or you can just wait until society moves in the direction of Programming is Sexy. (Not as far fetched as you might think. My girlfriend and her circle of friends loved Social Network. If I had reputational stock I'd be IPOing right now.)
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How is this different from tools like Firebug or Chrome Developer Tools?
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If your keys are on a smartcard, you don't need to worry about that. The OS couldn't give up your keys even if it wanted to.
"but had never stopped to think about the fact that the other alumni of my school who became doctors are making far more."

A CS degree, which many programmers don't even have, takes 4 years. There are quite a few 'programming' jobs for which having a CS degree is being overqualified, but let's say that a CS degree is the baseline. To become an MD, with the specialties that pay the amounts mentioned here, one needs to get a 4 year degree, then pass the MCAT, then go to medical school for 4 years, and then do 3 to 8 (!) years of residency, in which you do 60 hours on a slow week and have regular weekend and night shifts. So that's 11 to 16 years of studying. You only get paid in the residency, and even there only around US modal wage.

Never mind that nowhere in this time period, you are guaranteed a high-paying job. You can do your full residency and be told at the end that they don't consider you fit to be a doctor.

Do a quick total lifetime earnings comparison in Excel. Don't forget to include tuition and resulting student debt payments. You'll see that the general picture painted is flat out wrong.

(don't even get me started on lawyers - there is vast unemployment under lawyers, only a very small percentage work at firms that pay the amounts mentioned, and of those only a very small percentage make partner, after working 80 hour weeks for 20 years. Why do you think the US alcoholism rate is twice the national average amongst lawyers? Hint: not because they have the easy-money lifestyle being suggested here.)
There are a few cases where Double Recall wouldn't be so bad. For example, if I had to pick between a Double Recall interstitial and watching a commercial before a video starts, I'd go with Double Recall. I'd also prefer them to pop under ads (which, BTW, I hadn't seen in years until I switched from FF to Chrome).
But sea and trucks depends on oil. Rail can easily be electrified and energy consumption is way less than the other two anyway.

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You know how the usual wisdom is that you can never remove anything from a public interface? I think compiler writers should test that by removing trigraphs. Silently at first, to avoid panic, then announce that a mistake has been fixed where some groups of three characters were lexed improperly into a completely unrelated single character. Never mention that the mistake was in the standard.

I seriously doubt anyone would care if you did it that way.

(Modern versions of gcc (4.5.2 at least) ignore trigraphs by default but issue warnings saying they ignored one and giving the command line option to honor them. But gcc has long honored the dumber parts of the standard more in the breach than the observance.)
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I deleted my LinkedIn account several months ago because the value is gave me, as a professional, did not outweigh the buggy site with its highly dubious strategies. I've received one job offer through the site in the years I've been on it, but I've also been spammed to death by emails that I couldn't turn off and had made something like a hundred connections to people that I mostly will never actually need to be 'connected' to ever again.

I think there is value to be found in a professional networking / career site, but for me, LinkedIn did not cut it.
The guys from MIT who invented a then not explicitly illegal card counting technique earned a lot, it is all about creating value http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Blackjack_Team
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Disk fragmentation has not mattered for the last few years. Most modern hard drives are not storing data in the exact way that they are reporting to the software layer. Hardware manufacturers use all sorts of tricks to make their drives faster, many of these 'break' the original specifications for how these devices are meant to work.
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Software is eating the world and we are part of that world, so software is eating us too!

But unlike lawyers, doctors and bankers we don't have artificial barriers make the industry protected.
In the UK, Hi-Fi/TV retailer Richer Sounds has held this title for a long time I wonder if Apple has overtaken them. Very different brands and sales strategies (as a glance at http://www.richersounds.com/ should reveal), but both sell lots of relatively small, expensive things.
About 50% per year. If you work it out hourly, I do better. I know I'd hate to work the hours she does though. I prefer to choose when I want to do extra work and have time for personal projects and other things.
Consider this quote from http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html about the Space Shuttle software (which has been on Hacker News before)...

"""But how much work the software does is not what makes it remarkable. What makes it remarkable is how well the software works. This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors.

"""This software is the work of 260 women and men based in an anonymous office building across the street from the Johnson Space Center in Clear Lake, Texas, southeast of Houston. They work for the "on-board shuttle group," a branch of Lockheed Martin Corps space mission systems division, and their prowess is world renowned: the shuttle software group is one of just four outfits in the world to win the coveted Level 5 ranking of the federal governments Software Engineering Institute (SEI) a measure of the sophistication and reliability of the way they do their work. In fact, the SEI based it standards in part from watching the on-board shuttle group do its work."""

Perhaps change the law to make companies legally liable for software quality and losses arising from it. Even require software to meet a certain SEI ranking, depending on the industry. Of course you need a phase in process. Eventually, salaries for software workers would rise.
Is it sufficiently better than FreeCommander to justify the 48 USD?

(also, has that website been updated since 1995? 'Order by fax' - WTF? 'Now also with Paypal!' - Uh?)
Another LinkedIn alternative worth mentioning is Xing:

https://www.xing.com/

No affiliation, I have an account, and use it more than LinkedIn.
It's funny how one group of people are bashing this feature for not doing parallel copy, and another group for doing it...
maybe it works in IE
"To be one of the highest-paid, most-wanted jobs. It isn't. Why not"

Because the barriers to entry are really low and there is a vast supply of people willing to have a go.

And, I have to say, compared to many fields most development isn't actually that difficult - I suspect a reasonably intelligent and motivated person could probably be trained to do 95% of all development jobs within a year or so.
I think one issue that maybe takes into account is that all the professions mentioned that do have respect (except wall street bankers of course) are professions that directly interact with people.

Software Engineers on the other hand build a product, which faces the user, but you never really get to see the programmer or interact with him. Our impact on society is a second step from the software that we create.
It also used to be possible to have a submission related to Apple on HN wherein the top comment was something other than Gruber-style fanboyism. So it all balances out in the end.
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Correction:

"Hacker News, since about two years or so when there was a large influx from Reddit and Digg people, appears to be the same as Reddit with regard to how people treat karma"
Because it is such an important case, and it's not as exceptional as you think.
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I was never in love with it to begin with. In fact having had an account there for years, with various biographical details, I've gotten very little value out of that site.
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Describing an end-user experience doesn't need to account for all the details in the first sketch. But pending sync is one of the easiest ones to handle.

You obviously unmount or decouple your external drive in software first and that's a good place for the operating system to inform you that:

Ongoing I/O for your USB mass storage device.
Wait for completion before unplugging.

And if there are many parallel I/O streams going on and this dialog is invoked, automatically prioritize anything that's being copied to the external hard drive first so that the user can unplug it as soon as possible.
I'm also considering deleting my Linkedin account and just moving the same biographical info to my own web site.
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Perhaps this measures capability of SpeedTest, not capability of Google :-)
I agree in part, but in this case I also believe, as ender7 puts it, that "it's impossible to post a serious comment to a case that is already absurd". The comment was funny, but I wouldn't have upvoted it without this last remark.
These 151/92 Mbps numbers are almost certainly flawed results because speedtest.net is a very poor tool to measure high-bandwidth connections.

Let me show you why.

I was in Tokyo in August 2009 at my sister's house. She had 100Mbit/s to the internet. I could easily reach close to the maximum theoretical bandwidth by downloading multiple kernel images from jp.kernel.org, at 95+ Mbps. However speedtest.net would only give me download speeds of 50-60 Mbps. My system was running Linux, so I ran top, and saw speedtest.net's Flash app (npviewer.bin) at 100% CPU... it was being bottlenecked by the CPU! It was an old Pentium 3 1.2GHz, but still. Even a modern 2-3GHz CPU core is only about 3x-4x faster.

Bottom line, speedtest.net, due to the high overhead of the Flash VM, is a very poor choice to benchmark high network speeds, as it is CPU-constrained at about 150-200Mbps even on a modern CPU, which is exactly the number reported by this Google fiber user. I am shocked that no one knows this.
Exactly. How many ways are there to design a device which has a large screen and just a couple of buttons?

A wall mounted LCD TV looks remarkably similar to an iPad - it's just a little bigger - and, those have been around for a while.
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I honestly think that most people in the software field have no idea of the level of personal responsibility that junior doctors and lawyers are given and what that can mean in terms of stress levels.
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You obviously unmount or decouple your external drive in software first

You do? I'm often too lazy to.
Programmers should try to solve problems and not try to achieve lofty goals set by management like "improve the copy experience".

When you try to achieve goals set by management you compile all the problems together into one package, nicely designed or not, without actually solving any of the root concerns.

How you really bring results as a programmer is when you divide the issues into the smallest reasonable parts and then find the best way forward for each one of them.

And then later bringing all of the separate lines of work together into one whole symphony of code and experience, so to speak.
You obviously unmount or decouple your external drive in software first

You haven't met most users, have you?
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I've been doing some sketching lately and I highly recommend it. It's the root of a lot of visual art, so you get to learn a lot of the important art things (perspective, lighting/shading, how utterly and completely your eyes lie to you about the size and orientation of things). But what's really unbeatable is the convenience. Materials required: 2B pencil, eraser, paper. Put them in your bag. Draw when you've got time. Done.
I work in DC. Outside of telecom, tech is very under-represented and is ineffective at manipulating the levers of power. It is getting better, but to put Google's 12 people into perspective, the AMA has over 200 DC lobbying staff.
> a strait line on a map

Pun intentional, right? ;-)
> Given how important [education] is, then, you'd expect [teachers] ... to be one of the highest-paid, most-wanted jobs. It isn't. Why not?

The wages for teachers and programmers are set the same way as the price for any good, e.g. bananas.

Not by vague notions of importance, value, or respect, but by supply or demand.

When people start arguing that foo good (profession) with a low price (wage) is inherently more important than bar good, I think of a person arguing that bananas are more important than apples and should have a higher price, disregarding their supply and demand differences.
Because that paradigm is currently restricted to rich people in first-world countries where always-on fast internet is ubiquitous and you can sync everything to the cloud without much trouble. The rest of us will continue using not-very-high-capacity USB sticks to move photos, videos and other data around for the foreseeable future.
"Are programmers top government advisors? Are they national heroes? Do doctors and lawyers and policemen tell their children that, if they work hard and practice, one day they can grow up to be a programmer? No. Obviously not."

No. Because a majority of people don't like software, programmers and automation. They don't see programmers as an example because they don't want it to be this way.

1) They are perceived as eating their jobs. You can explain increased productivity all day, but someone out of a job due to a computer program curses you.

2) It is hard to understand for laymen what they actually do. A doctor's jargon is also hard to understand, but at least solves problems visible to most.

A lot of people are borderline-luddites, others are more compromising and like applied technology as long as it serves them. But very few, I think only scientists and programmers (and the people that get rich from them) actually like where the world is going.

Not that it is possible to stop the software eating the world... It could be that the problem will solve itself, eventually, because the more of the world is 'eaten' by computers and software, the more powerful the people controlling them will be.
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Cue iOS.

Which was a nice experiment which proved that it didn't work. You know what you can't do on iOS which most users want to be able to do?

Yeah. Work with the same document from multiple viewpoints, or applications. You can't work with documents across applications on iOS because you supposedly don't have files.

Like I said: A nice experiment, but it proves that "no files" only works for the simplest of use-cases and limits the ability to work with data beyond the limits that people reasonably expect to find.
I know the whole deal with hackers and such, but I consider myself a "hacker" FWIW, and that list sounds terribly boring.

Tech is fun and all, but man, all summer? Really? Where are the art gallery recommendations? Culture precints? Good music venues? I know a lot of that is personal taste, but there is far more to life than tech.