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Ask HN: My skills are aging.  Where can I go to try to keep up?
I was humbled at a job interview yesterday almost to the point of a beat-down and realized that although I know what I know, my skills are getting old and I'm getting to where I don't know what I don't know, which for a tech guy is a bad thing.

I was wondering if there were any sorts of "top 100" book lists for programming, development, architecture, or really just technical stuff. I don't know if I can keep current just doing my day to day job, so I need to make sure I at least know what's out there.

And/or, are there well known blogs I should be keeping up with for software development? How about conferences? I am going to try to hit No Fluff this year, but is that something I need to be investing in every year? Java One? Anything else? I don't mind spending the time/money, but I want to know it's worth it.
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I think the days of Apple having a rock star CEO are over. I genuinely believe that a big part of Apple's success is down to Tim Cook, and I think the company is in good hands. But I doubt he'll ever take to the stage or become the face of Apple. That's no bad thing, but Apple has become a sort of entertainment, a movie almost, that people love to watch. I think those days are over and a new era of "mysterious CEO" is about to be ushered in. If anything, Apple is about to get a lot more secretive.
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He does not have pancreatic cancer, (if he had, it would have been too sad and he would not have seen iPad).
It is some other neoplasia that happens in Pancreas.
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Relevant: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
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I'm not sure why they are announcing CloudFoundry and all its news when it's in limited beta. I tried to get an account, but no luck.
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It's the lack of a trading option. You can't give your games to someone else once you're bored with them. There are also geographic restrictions, the games you bought in the US you may not be able to play in the EU or vice-versa. Technically as well, if your account gets hacked and the hacker gets VAC-banned, there is no recourse, bans are near-impossible to overturn.
To quote the man himself (from Playboy interview):

> When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers,
> you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even
> though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll
> know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of
> wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic,
> the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
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Any ideas for your new project? I'm also looking for same but for practicing python.
Did you read "The passionate programmer - creating a remarkable career in software development"? I really loved that book, it contains a lot of practical tips and advice for how to improve your skills (among other things).

I read books on the commute to work (on the train) so this time feels less wasted. I especially liked:
- Implementing lean software development
- Implementing scrum
- Domain Driven Desing
- Head first rails
- The leaders guide to radical management
- Presentation zen

This is not only technical stuff, but I think the non-technical books are important too - they give you context and perspective.
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I see you are trying to draw attention away from the fact that Apple has on repeated occations shown to be dishonest, disengenious and outright misrepresenting competitors by presenting information in ways they knew to be wrong.

I see you do that and I wonder why on earth anyone would be so loyal to a corporation that they would be willing to drag their own credibility down to defend the credibility of a corporation which in they have no vested interest. It baffles me and makes no sense.

That aside, let's get back to what you said:

I don't think he meant truth in terms of marketing ...snip... but truth as design fundamental.

Can you elaborate on what you think this is supposed to mean, apart from being a divertion away from the fact that Apple, more than any other company currently out there, manipulates and lies to their audience and to sustain their image as "different"?
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It's really just a little twitter-like web app. Nothing big or special, but maybe I'll put it online when done - just to ensure my web server doesn't get bored ;)
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I'm doing an ExtJs (a rich JavaScript framework) project right now.
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It might very well be tech contractors. For people with specialized skills (not your typical .NET, PHP, RoR guy) who contract on stuff like SAP or similar, it is definitely not unheard of, to have a rate of £2K for a 8 hour working day. Especially not if you are in the banking / financial services sector.
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This article has an economics spin to it, which is interesting as only insiders seem to understand how much mathematics is required in that field. Greg Mankiw lays out a similar defense of mathematics in what we might assume to be a more logic or intuition driven field. (http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/09/why-aspiring-economis...) His advice for aspiring Phd students in economics suggests as much mathematics as many undergrad programs require (http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/05/which-math-courses.ht...).

What's this mean about calculators and learning the basics? There are concepts that you can't mentally understand if your mind can't map the basics of math. I see it in real world examples (people can't make quantitative business judgements on the fly) as well as abstract reasoning. One of the critiques of Google is similar - by reducing what we need to remember, we reduce our ability to process certain ideas on the fly.

Like many things, it's ultimately a trade-off. Are the things we mentally miss from utilizing calculators and Google more or less important than what we gain in added productivity? (Is it worth the health hit of driving 5 miles to work rather than walking? Can you mitigate it by spending half the saved time in the gym?)
Sound implementation is extremely buggy and poor in all browsers, hopefully browser vendors will work to resolve this soon. It's really hard for developers to work with at the moment.
I think the markup would be even higher for this kind of manufacturing.

What you'd need for truly "local" production is some kind of cheap shortcut. 3D printing uses this "bits of molten plastic" process, which isn't exactly industrial injection moulding, but workable enough. Book print-on-demand doesn't use offset, it uses relatively cheap and crappy laser and inkjet printing (and e.g. no hardcover as of yet). I can't think of any universally acceptable equivalent for electronics (common processor or FCPGA only work for a certain subset), and the plethora of different connections are beyond any sane automatic manufacturing concept. In addition, this would to be highly automated to be profitable, laden with patents and still quite huge. So it's quite likely that this will be run by a international chain, which kinda makes the "support your local electro-plutocrat" argument moot. Haven't seen someone calling for support to their local McDonalds…

This needs some really big manufacturing breakthroughs to properly work, and given those, the whole world would look quite different.

And we haven't even talked about regulations…
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I'm a bit confused. When is hard drive space a problem? With digital distribution, you can redownload at whim, and with discs, you can reinstall at (slightly less convenient) whim.
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Hi ahsanhilal!

Thanks for the vote of confidence and your message :) You are right, one criticism we keep receiving is we are describing the product in too much of an abstract way. It definitely needs work!

If you have any suggestions I welcome them fully! Please do drop me an email or post them here!

Also we are a bit disappointed we can't seem to get much notice on HN, it's a shame we really think we have something great, maybe this is a good illustration of our product not being described optimally.

Tom
Given that it's raising money for a charities, and that the donations only accelerate the publication rate, I would be surprised to see Rowling object when she hasn't objected to previous chapters.
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I know my first comment got down voted but perhaps it was because I didn't provide enough details?

Apple will continue being Apple - that is they won't change names, they'll continue innovating and creating amazing products. But to say they'll be the same Apple with and without Steve Jobs is silly and belittles the importance of having Steve in the company in the first place. There's no doubt that the path of Apple will be different.
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The stack: Python, Django, Backbone.js, MySQL, Solr, Redis, Nginx, Gunicorn.

The integration between Django and Backbone.js was a b*tch. I'll hopefully be osing two small apps that make it a breeze for others.
According to Wikipedia, you're right, but for a man the individual median is still pretty close: 45,000 for full time work.
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As per my knowledge these technologies are currently being used and are in demand according to type of application:

A)Large Enterprise Applications - .Net/Java(J2EE)

B)Web application

1)Server Side - Python+Django/Ruby+Rails/PHP+CodeIgnitor/node.js

2)Client Side - HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/Ajax Libraries like jQuery, Yui, Closure/backbone.js

3)Database : MySQL and any noSQL database like mongodb

C)Mobile Application

1)For iPhone - Objective-C

2)For Android - Android SDK/Java

D)Web APIs - Facebook,Twitter,Google,Google+(when available) and Amazon Web Services

E)Desktop Application - Large companies like google, yahoo, etc still stick to C++/Visual C++ but in general C# is also a decent choice.

Keep checking sites like HN, Stack Overflow, Quora, Reddit etc and be genuinely interested about whats happening in technology and startup space. Who are the emerging startups and which technologies they are using..etc stuff.

Try to learn one technology per month in weekends.

I would also suggest you to read two books from 37signals - Getting Real and ReWork.
The service looks great! In what format are the google docs stored on Dropbox/Basecamp?
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Right now I'm consulting (got to update my profile) for a client in the rent-a-car business. On the side, I'm still chipping away at a new version of threddie, my little chat/brainstorm app. All of it in the familiar lamp stack.

I'm also trying to find the time to go through Zed's Learn Python the Hard Way.
Don't know about living costs in Japan, but I've lived in Thailand and Russia where doing a bit of remote consulting and a bit of product development earned me around 2000 USD a month without a whole lot of sweat.

In those countries, it was more than enough to live well above average. Taxes are naturally also much, much lower which have a large effect.

At the moment I'm back in Europe for a contract. 2000 USD while living here? After 50% tax, that's only enough to cover half my rent! Techies in low-cost countries really do have it easier, as they can price their products / services to an international level, while still having low local prices.
does this improve a user's experience on a web app or a website? this won't last. users won't stand for it. i would stop using a website or web app if i had to do this every time i access it. other than that, it is a great idea. perhaps finding another use for this (like captcha) will save it in the end.
also fps on chrome was really bad. Didn't try ff but on ie its was better.
Musket, have you tried enabling Chrome hardware acceleration in the settings? http://technicallyeasy.net/2011/03/how-to-enable-graphics-ha... By default this is disabled, eventually browsers will ship with this enabled by default. It should allow a much better FPS.
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For your database example he'd be absolutely right to do so. Removal of inconsistencies is a detail that too many programmers think isn't important, but something as simple as a column name can cause all kinds of consequences down the line.

If it stayed in a programmer further down the line would have to spend a few moments trying to decide if s/he should be using customer_id or cust_id, might have to go into the database to double-check, might have to write additional code to handle special case tables with cust_id, all of which requires additional testing and adds to the amount of cruft code that needs to be maintained, whereas they could have just written generic code to consistently use customer_id in all cases.

It's like some sort of code butterfly effect.

Of course, if it was a manager who called me on Sunday who was incompetent or who had poor taste in visual or code design... well... then it would be a different story.
I have two big projects: a parallel raster(map) reprojector that does some interesting resampling and a semantic web representation of the nation's geospatial datasets.
On WinXP: was slow on FF6, but smooth on Chrome 14 Beta. Nice.
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I agree with you that the BCE policy is too tight, but, for one, what makes you think that Greece, using competitive devaluations, could still be admitted in the EU common market without barriers and tariffs? Maybe a little economy like the Greek one could be allowed, but I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't be the same for Italy and Spain.

And in the case of Banks that invested in Greek bonds, don't forget that the accounting was falsified exactly to get low interest rates which albeit higher than the German ones were VERY much lower than what they would have been without the Euro, to the benefit of all the Greeks. I'm sorry for those who are getting the direst consequences, but I don't see the Greeks having any moral high ground in this situation, not even against the evil German banks who lent them money.
There's a HN meetup in London today?
Right now I'm totally focused on what we like to call "ZenDesk for voice" - http://talkdeskapp.com
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I see potential for MarketBrief to be acquired by Thomson Reuters or Bloomberg or News Corp or Yahoo! or a PE fund easily for a billion plus good change, I think they can get 100m in revenue annually.

Also, I can see same chance for Codecademy to get acquired for around or just under a billion. They can easily get 50m-100m in revenue annually, many ways this can be achieved.

Both have become good brand names already and can become great.
After reading about a bug where, in C, a comment line ended with a backslash leading next line to be commented to, I tried it in your ide and the syntax highlighting does not reflect this.
(details of the bug here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2919511)
Awesome to see the Construct guys moving so quickly to embrace HTML5.

The experience in their demo games is awful at present, but most of the problems seemed to be stuff rooted in the low quality of current browser implementations (bad audio functionality cross-browser, etc).

Two more concrete nits, though: The camera in the ghost shooter demo borders on unplayable, and both demos suffer from long, frequent garbage collection pauses. Even years from now, I doubt that GC pauses will be gone, so if your goal is to ship good games using HTML5, you need to take steps to control the rate at which you create garbage.
Thank you.

All true, but with the exception of the fact that Valve gouges their European clientele, none of that really disturbed me much.

The fact that I don't have to fumble with media to me is so valuable that it balances the disadvantages out.

But all your points are valid and while I probably wouldn't personally make use of a rental option it would sure be nice to have (for example: to evaluate a more expensive game before buying it. Thinking about it; This is probably the very reason why they don't have it, but I digress).

Trading or gifting games would probably be a no-brainer to implement, then again it would be bad for business.

Overall I just haven't found a comparable service that works so well, which probably makes me that relative fan.

That doesn't mean that there's no place for improvements or a better product / service in the future.
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Interesting that you say that. I've skimmed but have been meaning to properly read Nelson's: Radically Elementary probability theory http://www.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/books/rept.pdf and http://www.stat.umn.edu/geyer/nsa/. They do away with that problem all together as well as infinite constructions (replaced by hyperfinite) by replacing measure theory with non standard analysis. The gain is at least increased intuitiveness.
Sorry, you are right - I was lazy when I wrote that.

I should have stated it like this: given "engineer" in title AND posted on HN what is the likelihood that it refers to a Software Engineer.
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I think I've become one of those people. I'm trying to work it out, though. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2924456
Cloud Foundry is more like Heroku than Amazon's EC2.

Sure, I can go onto EC2, fire up a new instance of Ubuntu, install Ruby on Rails, web servers, proxy servers, database servers, etc and manually manage everything myself, but that's a lot of work and a bunch of people have already solved that problem. The solutions are implemented in a way that hides all the complex "web-scale" details underneath so you as the developer only needs to focus on your code.

Cloud Foundry is an open source version of that solution. AppFog ditched their proprietary solution and decided to use Cloud Foundry's codebase instead.
>News.YC community is being much kinder towards Apple than it acted towards Dropbox for identical security bugs

My old HN account got shaddowbanned after I talked shit about Dropbox when that happened. The post got a big number of points (more than anything else I had ever posted) and sparked interesting discussion, but I now know better than to question the Hacker News community's Sacred Cows.

>or ranting how this lapse is unforgivable.

I ranted against Dropbox because of the amount of people downplaying the severity, I'm not seeing that with this OS X issue (yet?). With the dropbox password thing, I saw a frequent argument, also used in their encryption scandal, one that really pissed me off. People were defending them with what boiled down to "you're stupid for expecting them to provide any level of service, as reasonable as it may be, unless their underlying tech doesn't force them to provide it".
"was briefly considered a contemporary of Bill G and Steve Jobs"

I think you mean that he was considered to be a "competitor" or someone "playing in the same league". Contemporary means someone who has lived at the same time, which he certainly was.
Much like the description of the framework i think people are looking for a more specific answer to this question. I'm starting to think you are a super hero yourself. Captain Vague we'll call you.
Chrome 14 (out in 6 weeks or so) has a hardware accelerated canvas enabled by default, so should skip along nicely then.
Not to be morbid here, but it is likely questionable whether Steve Jobs will be alive for many more presentations.
I'm not trying to be obnoxious or anything but doesn't this just show how much cleaner CoffeeScript is compared to js?
One thing I really like about that first quote is his humility and pragmatism. He didn't say something dramatic like "and if the answer is no, I stop and change everything then and there". No, he knows sometimes you have to do stuff which you don't like, but it shouldn't become a habit.
If all providers start actively trying to not touch these ads the expected incentive of posting them will go down; hopefully enough so that they end up having to negotiate directly with websites or something like this.
True. Must have skipped that.
Maybe because Vic said "My prayers are with you" in the end.
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It's amazing how many times I hear this same story about the iPad. When Jobs first introduced it I was skeptical. After seeing how adults and children alike have taken to this device, it yet again proves that Jobs can see what others do not.
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A database that looks and acts like a spreadsheet. You can say Person.Name or you can say Person.A5. Every cell can itself be another spreadsheet/table. So you can query Person.A5.C3 or Person.Kids.Age. A query of :"Ahoj" will get any instances of that value in O(1) in any column of any table.

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That really helped. Thanks! It's looking more and more like we're going to change the name. It's too bad because I really liked the current name. I think I enjoyed the shock value, and thought it would be a good thing.
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