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For me this is rubbish because I find it has very little to do with my personal circumstance and very much to do with my own brain and personality. I've learned to be content with my malcontentedness. In every stage of life I have always wanted to make changes and to progress. In the past I was a poor student and was miserable. Now I'm a rather well to do working chump and only slightly less miserable. If I were to happen upon a million dollar deal tomorrow I'm sure I would find something to take issue with. It's in my nature and I accept it.
This story (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2986791) was #5 on the list and has now gone. I suspect from aggressive flagging. There ought to be a remedy for this, perhaps the names of flaggers should be made public.
I'm in a similar situation, and I can't. I sometimes do IT for a small Windows network and for Linux and the VPN that connects everyone to both. I program in C#, perl, Java, shell, and XSLT depending on which part of my job I'm doing, and some of my job is "software architecture" which other people actually program. My industry is a tiny niche, and generally hires programmers from outside it and trains them, so salaries aren't a function of the industry. How would I find a good comparison?
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Not to mention that employee #1, if an engineer, is probably chained to the engine block (figuratively), toiling with keeping the machines running. He/she most likely remains in the dark when it comes to the business development and deal making that are all important for succeeding as a startup.
Ugh, not that tired old horse - the CRA existed for years prior to the crisis, yet the run up happened between 2001 and 2006. That, by itself, basically refutes the idea that the CRA caused the housing crisis.
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1. It's not clear what you're referring to by "multi-field support", but if it's something that's only available in the 3.x branch of CCK for Drupal 6, note that that branch is not stable anyway (only has an alpha release and should not be used on production sites). The 2.x branch is the one that's stable.

Perhaps you're talking about http://drupal.org/node/695636, in which case you'll see that the new Field API allows that feature to be implemented in a much cleaner way in Drupal 7, and there's already a contributed module for Drupal 7 being worked on to do it (which only has a beta release itself, but appears on the surface to be further along than the equivalent Drupal 6 CCK code).

2. Your comment about the database API is incorrect. Simple one-line select queries do not need to use the new OO syntax (and in fact, should not). See http://drupal.org/node/310072.

As for queries that do need it, it seems like you've missed the point; it's not "added complexity with no win attached", but rather the purpose is to support things like cross-database compatibility and access control. Sure, it was simpler in Drupal 6, as long as you didn't mind that your code might not work at all on certain websites :) If you're writing custom (site-specific) code for Drupal 7 and still don't care about that, you can likely use the simpler syntax for more things than it is intended for (although it's obviously still not recommended).
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you're right, it's not about it being fair, it's about it being the market rate for your skills in your area. If you want to live in Podunk, Nowhere, how can you expect an employer to pay you twice what anyone else in your town is willing to offer you? Especially considering that you'll be mostly telecommuting. Most companies prefer to have you working in their offices. Paying NYC rates to someone working from home, in a low wage area, makes no sense.
Great app. I only wish there was an option to exclude the # when copying, as then I could directly paste the color code into Photoshop.
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It's 让. I think 逼 is vicerally forceful, also meaning "press" (physically or metaphorically). I think you use 让 in most circumstances.
you can start here (read the comments too for more references):

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/is-amazons-mechanic...
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Could you make the listview 2x the size? Really, 5 items per page is not helping anyone. Especially when you get to frameworks starting with C, I, HTTP[], etc.
ADDED In EDIT: As I type this at 13:58, your item is 35th. Better than this poll which isn't in the top 1000.

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It seems to me that a (possibly quite small) number of people have decided that if something doesn't suit their own idea of what is suitable for HN then they will flag it. It doesn't take many, there is no repercussion (to them) and it makes HN better (for them). Hence items that might be of interest to the wider community get flagged into oblivion, never to be seen again.

I've experienced this several times now, to the point where I'm actively monitoring when it happens to me. It means I can't rely on items of interest (to me) making it to the front page - I can no longer assume that HN is a sensible way of filtering my reading.

There's very little value for me here now.

And this was, tangentially, part of the reason for the poll.
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So glad for this. I used to use Pipette on a regular basis, but it seems to be half-broken in Lion. This saves my day(s).

Would be nice to have a copy-this-color mode that didn't include the #, as Photoshop doesn't like hex colors longer than 6 characters, but that's more of a nit than a real complaint.
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I don't think it is generational. I just turned 50 and have heard it, or something similar, every few years about the current "younger" generation (even back when I was part of the younger generation).
> I feel I'm often at the higher or top end of my employers range, and despite the fact that I legally COULD, I don't really see any value in discussing my pay with a coworker.

Back in the day, I used to work for this place where, you've guessed it, according to the people who did my salary reviews, I was always close to the top end of my employers range. So, yeah, you can imagine how that worked out :)

While it's always possible to get a general impression of what a coworker earns (always assuming it's possible, or legal), it's no substitute for numbers.
Oh, man, do I know a lot of people that whinge about the lack of historian positions.

- former Ph.D. student in History.
That would've been my reaction as well: Of course positrons are hidden in the protons (or something).
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"If anything this sets up a reverse incentive to live in NYC like a college student and pocket the difference."

It's a choice; everyone makes lifestyle choices, like you say, as an employer there's nothing you can do about that. Peldi's policy gives you a chance to make enough money to live comfortably wherever you want to live; I think that's quite a perk, for most people. If your lifestyle choices completely trump your professional interest in joining the company, you'd probably not be a good match anyway.

Besides, the policy is weighted by bonuses, and sounds more like the starting point for a conversation rather than a straight-jacket. Knowing the man a little -- we went to the same highschool, although he already was a celebrity and I wasn't ;) -- I'm quite confident he'd do his damnedest to find a satisfying and realistic agreement for anyone interested in joining.
They didn't, because, AFAIK it wasn't there in the first place. You probably had some plugin installed -- http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/ or http://www.panic.com/~wade/picker/. Also, some programs, like Acorn, loads their own hex color picker plugin inside the app.
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>remove all the barriers that make it difficult for the poor to become rich

So... they want to remove barriers to market entry and the overwhelming power of corporations?
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>the 5.0 website we redesigned

Someone please clarify this for me. Is the mention of v5.0 web meant seriously or is the author making fun of the whole web v2.0/3.0 etc thing?
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People get over it.

I work for a public sector employer. My salary is fully searchable and posted on the local newspaper's website.

Unless your company is doing dumb things like discriminating against certain types of people, there aren't many surprises to be had. Frankly, working with a useless coworker is frustrating regardless of salary.
There is risk everywhere, getting out of bed in the morning is a risk.

Working for a start up is almost always inherently more risky than working for BigCo, regardless if you are employee number 1 or not.
Making compensation public adds another layer of complexity.

Doesn't hiding compensation also add layers of complexity? Not only does the boss need to dedicate energy to maintaining the secrecy, but she must also keep track of the possibility that the secrecy has been breached without her knowing (i.e. the scenario you describe is in effect but nobody can talk about it).
Only if you were unable to actually turn a net profit.

What would happen instead is that more actors and writers would be willing to work with you because they knew they'd get a fair share of the whole deal.
an electron is not a thing, it is something that happens under the right conditions. just like everything else.
Haskell can cope well enough. We don't focus on ultra-high frequency trading so much, though we'll take any latency advantages we can get. We focus more on high-level trading strategies. GC pauses are not really an issue. Our system is tuned to avoid doing GC at inopportune times.
I’ve added my aliases to my bashrc instead.

alias git="hub"
alias ga="git add -A"
alias gap="git add -Ap"
alias gc="git commit -m"
alias gs="git status -sb"
alias gd="git difftool"
alias gb="git branch"
alias gco="git checkout"
alias gm="git merge --no-ff"
alias gp="git push"
alias gpl="git pull"
alias gf="git fetch"
alias gcl="git clone"
alias gr="git reset"
alias gl="git log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative"
alias gre='git remote -v'
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The current laws already can be used for covering software. That is why you see EULAs everywhere that begin with WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT THIS SOFTWARE MAY CAUSE.
When I'm interviewing programmers, I would define "amazing programmer" as a combination of 3 things:

1) Talented: Can they code well, even when things get tricky? This loosely correlates with things like TopCoder rank, but it leans more towards software engineering and debugging skills.

2) Driven: Are they relentlessly productive, even without supervision?

3) Solves the right problem: If there's a solution which provides 80% of the benefits for 20% of the cost, do they find it? Do they also know when it's time to turn a nasty ball of hacks into a rigorous model?

If you have these 3 things, then you will easily create 5 times more value than the average programmer. Note that you won't necessary get paid 5 times more, because that also depends on your negotiating skills, your marketing ability, and how much money your clients or employers have.
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I am working remotely. I'm getting paid "London" rates, not "Greek village" rates.
Yeah, but your employer probably has a pretty well defined process for setting salaries and giving raises, right? Perhaps it isn't a fair process, but at least consistent. Private companies aren't always like that.
I think I didn't expressed exactly what I meant, so to respond to all comments under the parent post:

I do love spending time with people. I'd say, I like to do it too much sometimes. However, I also found it to be a super-effective way of escaping from harder problems, not only my-job-sucks related, but general my-life-sucks related. What I meant to say in previous comment is that (for me) it has similar 'signature' as escaping problems by reading / discussing on HN. It's not a waste of time, but I know for myself that I could spend here much more time that I should. Ditto for socializing. Sometimes you actually want to solve your problems instead of complaining about them to other people.
my theory is that any payment provider that grows large enough will eventually become just like PayPal

when you enable international processing fraud rates spike (double-digit percentages in some countries) and you end up building an agressive fraud protection scheme like PayPal have

the new startups have the advantage of only serving a relatively small less risky market, and being obscure enough not to be a target of fraud groups

these new startups have nice features such as simple API's etc. but I haven't seen anything yet that is revolutionary in terms of technology that will break out of the fraud/blocking cycle

Edit: to add, I am not being dismissive of the new startups, on the contrary I am using Swipe on a new product, and I really do hope that one of these guys nails this space
Karma points is fine with me, but to me the real reward for helping others is in knowing that you've helped.

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Not just beta invites.

I often get emails along the lines of: "Annoucement! Spluttr adds 25% more foo to free plans!" or similar.

Now I probably signed up to Spluttr 6 months ago, took a quick look and decided I wasn't interested as I needed 25% more foo.

In the intervening months, you've lived, breathed and sweated Spluttr whilst I've signed up for another 20 services and forgotten what most of them are for.

Remind me in every email.
Maybe the legal turf-grabbing has been so vicious that you haven't noticed. Microsoft basically sued Linux off of store shelves in the 2000's. The only reason they had nominal competition from the Mac was that Apple is one of the only companies with enough patents to keep their lawyers at bay.

I strongly disagree about robustness (mostly due to the turf-grabbing, so I'm actually agreeing with you at this point). One company controlled the platform for most computing for most of the modern computing era and they were pretty lousy at it. It's shocking how long it took Microsoft to put things like a useable e-mail client and calendar into a standard PC (because it would have interfered with their Outlook sales). The browser most people use sucked for most of the 00's and you have to wonder if misaligned incentives were at play.
This is a good example as to why 99% of the ideas themselves aren't worth anything.
Not really. Don't think of badges & karma too literally. They are just tools to provide gratification.

It wouldn't be effective for Wikipedia since only the feeling that you are contributing to the most popular encyclopedia in the world gives you enough gratification to do it. Linux contributors don't need badges for the very similar reasons too.

But of course, the smaller you are, more tools and tricks you need to utilize to help users feel gratification for their contribution. This is the key.
I assume this was a Ponzi scheme that worked out really well. Whether or not it's 'allowed' or 'legal', I won't touch.

What I learned from this is that if you have a problem with a company, and it's not resolved, make sure you write it on the internet in a place that won't disappear. For others to see. At best, you might get 'fixed' to shut you up. At worst, others have a warning to go by.
That concept just doesn't work for knowledge workers. Cash incentives for non-mechanical tasks have minimal value.

You need to pay people enough, but not too much. The rest is about having leadership in place that can create a good work environment.

If compensation was correlated to performance, industry would have figured out a way to pay for performance and let the people doing nothing go.
Of a framework? As in API? I am not sure if I understand, how would one make a screenshot of ROR? or Django? or jQuery?

Unless you mean top application using a given framework, but then, it is not indicative of the framework, but the amount of time one spent on graphics on top of the framework.
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Suppose you release a product with execution you believe perfect and it flops. The problem could be the idea, but it still could be your execution.

Whether you're Apple or a nobody, you still have to keep iterating until it's right. The way you tell what to try next is by studying how the last one went. You just eventually decide to work on a different idea.

You can never truly know whether a repeated flop is due to your idea or your execution.
karma would be the best thing, IMHNO. it has no monetary value, but can have social value. the "free labour" to your site is just that - free(monetarily, anyway). it has no monetary value in and of itself. as others have pointed out, once you do start to assign monetary value to it, then greed begins to naturally take hold and people just game the system even more. someone who is a frequent contributor on many sites, though - they tend to acquire rep - on the internet, no less, and will naturally attract all the things that a good rep attracts, which some would say is worth far more than money.

think of it like this - when you play a game of Monopoly, you're playing for play money. you get rich in the game, but the money you earn there is worthless outside of the game. at best you might earn some rep among your friends for winning (more than likely tho, they're a little pissed at you for screwing them in the game in order to win), and even that is pretty worthless outside of your social circle.

take the same game and play it with real money, and now it is gambling. see the difference?
If you're willing to effectively penalize people for making lifestyle choices, why not also cut salaries for people without kids? Or people with spouses with good jobs? They don't need the extra cash. This sounds like a deal you'd offer a co-founder, not an employee.

I'm sure Peldi's intentions are good here but from a potential employee's point of view I don't see why anything but the quality of my work should determine my salary.
I've experimented with different types of music while working/coding, and noted the following;

1. I am quite a verbal thinker. Anything with lyrics seriously damages my ability to think verbally about a problem.

2. Music that is too slow or relaxing is unhelpfully soporific. I don't drink coffee, so I need any non-chemical stimulant I can get.

3. Anything too catchy will encourage me to hum it in my head, which actually has a similar effect to lyrics, disrupting my internal verbal processes.

I've found the perfect thing that works well for me, which is soundtracks from RTS games. They're instrumental, vaguely electronic, and specifically designed to fade into the background and create a general sense of urgency and focus.

If you are a big starcraft player for example, playing the background music from starcraft can create a sort of Pavlovian Response, telling your brain "You are sitting at a computer carrying out a difficult task which takes a good deal of focus and mental exertion. This activity is fun and rewarding, and it is urgent that you do it as well and as quickly as possible."

Give it a try.

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The hope is that Hollywood would settle rather than take that risk. It's happened at least once before. Perhaps with higher stakes they would change strategies.
As does the childcare industry. 2% of people in the childcare industry (in the UK) are men. I suspect this sort of experience early in many children's lives causes more significant gender relationship issues than when they hit the workplace.
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Longer descriptions on the homepage:

"Tapku Library is an open source iOS framework built for iPhone & iPad. The framework include..."

That tells me nothing about Tapku other than it's an open source framework for iOS, and I don't really need the iOS part because I'm aware I'm on a site for iOS frameworks.
Clever, but ironic that yesterday was the decade anniversary and that was not accounted for.
I'll add an option for that. Thanks for the feedback.
You should definitely understand how the tools are being used. 1 way is to use them yourself. But that puts a lot of bias on your view of it and you can end up with something that's really useful to you, but nobody else. (Which is only slightly better than not being useful to anybody.)

Asking customers how they use it, and really following along, seems to work better for me... At least, when I can get them to answer my questions, instead of the questions they think I'm asking. Still trying to figure that one out.
I cringe whenever I come across a piece of code I've written years ago, but you know the old saying 'If it ain't broken...'. It also reminds me of where I came from as a coder.
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This information was leaked internally at a company I worked for years ago. It turned out there were some pretty wide discrepancies in salaries for people in similar positions. I suspect this is often the case at private companies and it definitely wasn't good for morale.
Just a tip - bloggers will fill in parts of the narrative that you haven't fed them. Readers love comparisons - 'heroku for x' , etc. and if you don't give them one, they will create one for you

tech savvy ppl may roll their eyes at the comparison headlines and call them out for being lazy - but since readers spend seconds scanning headlines you need something that can be grokked by non-tech users quickly
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Interesting.

When I look at the homepage for Basecamp, I see a somewhat-vague benefit ('projects manage themselves'), followed by a whole lot of argument by consensus ('millions use', 'over five million people worldwide'), some appeals to authority (the customer blurbs, the logos), a bit on pricing, reassurance that the product is simple, and then some things that look very much like features rather than benefits - for example, "Keep all your project files in one place." That's followed by some vague benefits that could apply to a lot of products - "Basecamp’s focus on simplicity, clarity, and ease of use make it truly unique."

There's no denying that Basecamp's a huge success and a great product, but when looking at Basecamp's main landing page, I see way more appeals to emotion than features or benefits.

Hmmm. Very interesting.
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