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Money isn't everything, and I'd rather have relationships and free time over the need to build something. If I really need to build something from the ground up I go into my garage. I make good money, work at a startup (but not a founder) and if it hits big, I'll get some of the payout, but I won't be a millionaire. Unlike the founders though I'll have a relaxing life! Money and fame isn't everything.
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Does anyone know what Amazon's plans are for merging in the latest Android releases into their fork? It would be a real shame if it took off in an entirely new direction from this point on. A shame for me, because I don't want to develop for a brand new OS.
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Update: "We’ve pulled this story down after talking further with the startup involved. We apologize to the startup and to TechCrunch."
another perspective as someone who frequented edison(indian food - oak tree road!) and lived near by - there's a swarm of small bodyshops, who pay bit more than market rate.My experience is that this "market rate" as per stats is what newcomers get for the first couple of years. (these newcomers are typically not well todo back home.)As these 'new' H1 hires gain market experience, they either negotiate or move on to some other small bodyshop. The big corps like Oracle don't pay as much for similar roles. As the o.p rightly discovered, most commute to NYC (go to edison station at 7.30am). (I don't know if this may have lead few banks to move their dev/it operations to NJ:) ). I know of some companies that didn't pay med insurance for more than 2 years. Few years ago, a top guy of a similar bodyshop was sent to prison for 'buy a green card' scheme he employed using employment immigration loop holes. Every year there are few companies that are in news for the wrong reasons. From what I saw, the non-passionate-just-work-for-pay guy who has worked in the US jumps to start a bodyshop after he has gotten his GC(greencard). It's very lucrative and luring on paper (you get n number of guys working on several clients and you make x over each guy - think 'pimping') I hope it has changed in the recent years.

But this is changing. As more Indians are aware of better opportunities back home (and with the next gen Indian being more affluent than earlier generation), lot of them stay back. It's only the crude who go on and take the bait from the companies.

fwiw, adding to yummyfajitas- it's not only the social separation of state/ethinicity; there's also an abstract eliteness that goes with bank-dev and non-bank - doesn't matter if you are with akamai in piscataway(neighbouring edison). :)
Define "deserve to be covered".

Hint: Every publication has it's own criteria.
How are you getting this completion from ri ? I use zsh, and the rvm's ri (.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/bin/ri) gives no completion at all (ri 2.5.8).

However, /usr/bin/ri (ri v1.0.1 - 20041108) does give completion but different from your list.
ri K<tab> gives Classes and methods (e.g. Kconv\#guess) and not just classes. So it's a huge list. Thx.
It seems misleading to report one number for New York and separate numbers for San Jose, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Fremont, Palo Alto and Cupertino, for which the combined number comes to 1,167,640,693, which puts the Bay Area in second place, without counting e.g. Berkeley, Livermore, Walnut Creek etc.

Edit: perhaps that way Edison should be lumped together with New York? But the Bay Area should really count as a whole.
haha! They VB pulled the article, guess they realized how foolish they looked, and how they were reporting on their own losses.
My roommate is from Edison NJ, and has voiced many of the same sentiments. He's said the community is incredibly closed off, and that in high school the Indian kids mostly kept to themselves.
> you can do the same thing by having .... and a bunch of scripts with which you can start new instances in seconds.

Right, so if you already have everything you need, you don't need to buy it. This argument is similar to "I don't need water when I'm not thirsty". Hardly compelling.

> administrating you servers is something that hardly takes up any time

Sure if your servers never get any traffic, or you never scale.

> It took me a day's work to configure an EC2 instance, including a deployment workflow with Capistrano (for the first time ever). That server is still running just fine, with no further maintenance.

Right, it took me less than a minute to do that with heroku, and with less dependencies (on capistrano). When I decide my app needs an extension written in node, that is another minute on deployment for me, and another day for you. I'd gladly compete on those terms :)

> And if small deployments is not Heroku's strength, than what is? If you've got a successful app that needs special infrastructure care and you can't afford a good developer/sysadmin to take care of it, then you're doing it wrong.

This is just your highly opinionated view of things. Who ever said anything about 'special infrastructure'... Heroku deal in commodity infrastructure (that's the point). You also never successfully made the point that small deployments are not their strength.
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Is this an issue for people?

I have bundle update as a part of my build/release process, if things break, I either update, or freeze the version.

How do other people deal with this?
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How does the split-browser architecture of Silk handles HTTPS?

Everything the EC2 backend does, like recompressing images, pre-rendering pages, resolving DNS records, etc, would require man-in-the-middle interception and decryption of TLS/SSL connections. Not good. I hope they leave HTTPS connections untouched.

That said, for plain HTTP traffic, if they can manage to significantly reduce page loading times, well done. I would prefer to see the fundamental problem resolved of course (lower latency on wireless networks), instead of relying on a complex back-end which will no doubt have issues of its own (availability, bugs, etc).
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Flagged -- HN can do better than this. That was a terrible article, and does more to damage VentureBeat's credibility than anything else. Here is an excerpt from the now-deleted article:

"Of course, we have no proof whether TechCrunch was really part of this sort of deal-making. But at least, according to one reading, this start-up thinks that’s the way things work in Silicon Valley."

Translation: in email correspondence they had with a founder, they figured out shoehorn into what he said the idea that he thought he could trade favors for TC coverage. They then wrote up a story slamming this founder and TC, apparently before talking to anybody.

I don't work in the media, but it feels like a serious breach of trust to write an article indicting someone over a flimsy interpretation of something they say to you in a private email.
Not sure what this post offers over the coffeescript website?

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
ironic that in the end Venturebeat destroyed its own credibility
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> and that makes them no stronger than regular expressions

Again, no. This is simply not how computational complexity works and this statement is factually incorrect. Please do your research.
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Good write-up, Justin.

My frustration was this:

I feel like diversity fuels creativity and innovation. I like finding myself in a room with a variety of different sorts of people, and the YCNYC event felt like I was in a room with approximately 1000 copies of myself. The most visible example of this was the number of women present. I personally know many times more women in technology than I saw in that entire crowd of a thousand or so.

I know that YC is going to appeal to a certain sort of person, but I would've been much more impressed with the whole event if it had been apparent that the organizers had gone just a little bit out of their way to reach out to different kinds of people who work in technology in the city. There are so many, doing so many amazing things, coming from so many backgrounds. Get people together who don't normally talk and see what new ideas start forming.

If NYC has any chance of outranking the Bay Area when it comes to start-ups, it's going to be because the NYC scene learns how to leverage the extreme diversity of talent out here. Not because a thousand young, male nerds get in the same room together to talk about the same stuff they all just read on Hacker News.

Anyway. That's my rant. I did enjoy PG's talk, even though he has a kind of odd aspect on stage. Glad I went, but it could've been something more than what it was.
The vast majority of outliers do indeed seem to be data entry errors. There are a lot of cases where the prevailing wage is something like 85k but the person makes 890k. They probably actually make 89k.

Also, while I know New York is expensive I highly doubt any Assistant Research Professors are making 661 million dollars a year when the prevailing is 54k. More likely it's 66.1k.
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Doesn't keep me up at night, but it was something I was doing manually and I thought better off scripted. Even with fuzzy/handwave "~> 1.1.1" specifications you can end up off the most current version. I've got a handful of projects on the go and as a rule I don't like to let them go stale.
Hold on, brazilian fellas... One day the Kindle will be sold on Brazil, and we'll no longer have to buy the ones smuggled from Paraguai from that famous auction site.
"Pure Capitalism"... Does it need to be cited? (again!?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
I am a little annoyed with how Mode7 is handling this. I bought it for full price a while ago (because everyone said it worked great in Wine, and it does). Still no linux download for their previous customers!

They should have

1) quietly released the linux build to their customers so that we could find bugs (and I am hearing there are a lot of bugs, good luck getting it to run on nvidia)

2) waited three months (while polishing the linux build) and been the big title for the next "real" bundle
cloud computing companies like amazon use oracle in their backend.
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Andreessen is in the the board of HP , which is positioning itself to become a competitor to oracle.I would take his comments with a grain of salt.
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This is very elegant. Just a couple of questions -

Using await - is the program flow suspended until the corresponding function returns , or does await keyword act more like a 'pause and continue' mechanism.
but, just simply leaving the version number blank, "bundle update" will get the latest. correct?
I think you've misread the parent. nupark2 is distinguishing between what Amazon is planning and what Google do. jcampbell is saying "doesn't this already exist" and nupark2 is saying no.
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It exits the function, and resumes it when the callback completes. So other requests can be processed while the async function is (a)waiting.
Since we can't see vote counts anymore, I just want to chime in and say I agree. As a previous DDG user, I feel much the same way. And mining !g sounds like a great idea, though there might be some privacy issues to deal with (I'm imagining a dedicated DDG user who wants to Google his name).
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Hey HN,

I'm a student in dire straits. I was recently accepted into college for a computer systems technology program, after being told I was on a waiting list and my chances of being accepted were slim to none. The problem with that is that I have not been working for the past few months since I just moved to Western Canada and my tuition fee is due in a couple of weeks.

I have already applied for loans and grants, but of course those aren't guaranteed. So to keep a long story short, I need a source of income very soon. In terms of skills, I have been building websites for the past few years, most of what I have worked on is static HTML,CSS, JS, and wordpress sites. I also know some Java and PHP.

I'm looking for similar work to improve my portfolio and raise some money to pay my tuition. I'm also open to learning any technologies I am not familiar with. I know a bit about Ruby on Rails, from the rails tutorial and Code School.

If no one has any work available, I'm also open to tips. I'm very much in a bind, so anything would be helpful. I'm also looking for any kind of part time job I can get my hands on, but those take time.

Thanks in advance guys!
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These are ubiquitous technologies. You are going to get flooded in enough waste that 20 mere questions, no matter how clever, are not going to help you too much.

First, find a developer whose sole job is to help you hire other developers, preferably a friend or someone you trust. They don't even have to necessarily be experts in, say, MYSQL or anything else you have listed there. Great embedded C dev? Great! Java master? Fantastic. Great news is that this person is not going to be doing any developing for you whatsoever so you can take on someone who has a day job without worrying about IP issues or anything...

Now, you are not going to want to waste their time (and your money...you should definitely pay your consultant and don't rely on favors) so step two is to put out requirements for some piece of functionality you need done. Ask for portfolios and resumes (but take them with a big grain of salt) and pick some with your consultant that seem to fit the bill. Pay the cash and let them get cracking. DON"T try to get them to do any work or take a test for free to prove themselves. That is a sure way to skim the cream off the top and get left with the dregs. If you can't come up with requirements, you've got bigger problems. By the way, this is a good place to shake your acquaintance tree...let it be known that you are looking for people to pick up small projects that could lead to a more lasting relationship.

Review and test their work. Pick out a few with the help of your consultant that seem to write good, functional code on time and with good communication. It is possible to have some major stand-outs here. If so, you might want to jump on them but try not to get too excited.

Now that you have your finalists, give them a larger task...perhaps a tougher technical problem if your needs drift in that direction or, more likely, requirements that are not fully realized. Have them email each other copying you on everything, as part of a team...pay attention to how they communicate with each other and hash things out. Who's having the ideas? Who is happy to coast and let others drive? Who's a bully? etc... THIS IS KEY! This is going to separate the merely good developers from the real value creators. If you end up with a bunch of people constantly begging for direction or flip flopping on every issue on how to proceed, you need to cast a wider net and start from the beginning armed with that much more experience. It might seem expensive but not half as expensive as anchoring yourself to the mediocre. That being said, keep the solid followers in mind when you need to fill gaps with freelancers. Ditch the bad attitudes and low performers and keep your value generators -- the key performers -- the stand outs that work well, create solid deliverables that make you very happy and work well together.

Treat your people well, rinse and repeat as you grow (shaking your team's talent tree as you do).

Good Luck!
How does this compare to http://chris6f.com/synchronous-nodejs ?
The second isn't just a Google problem, all sorts of software with autocomplete / move-the-cursor-for-me items has problems with just accepting what I type and not fucking around with it.

Typically breaking backspace, or filling in unwanted trailing information, but often worse.
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I've been wanting to implement something like this for a while! Great job. It looks elegant and basically pushes the continuations into the background.
Not sure to be honest! I am still very new the to scene so I am unaware of this project. At first glance, we seem to have different approaches towards the same goal though.
Most people don't produce content? Hello most people are emailing, writing things out on 'Pages' or other Word Processors, perhaps even Google Docs. I don't understand what you mean by most people don't produce content. Hell the iPad has two cameras which product content.
This is a very interesting post.

I did not know that authors who are not with the government had tried to put works in the public domain, that are submitted to IEEE. I didn't know this was possible.

I know it certainly is standard policy for government researchers and labs to retain copyright when work is submitted to IEEE (or anywhere).

Sometimes publishers say tough words about how this isn't possible, and you have to sign their copyright form, and you're holding up publication of the work. It's BS. The government copyright people will talk sense into them, and retain copyright so that the work can be distributed openly.
There's a cool site here http://www.bundlewatcher.com/ that can read your bundle definition and provides a RSS feed of updates to all your gems.

I have all my gems locked on specific versions to avoid surprises, and this site shows me when there are updates and I can decide to update my bundle to use the updates.
but you didn't patent the idea. They signed an agreement not to disclose what they learned from you. If they breach that agreement you can sue them.
Apple started out as a get rich quick scheme, not a "lets change the world" scheme.
From a development perspective its an Android. Write once,.sell in two stores. Let's see how it goes
When did you load the article? Seems like it was pulled a bit before your comment, just wondering if you have a cached copy.
What is it that makes the iPad a possible laptop replacement, but the Fire not?

The iPad has an SDK and app store. The Kindle has an SDK that's been in closed beta for something like two years and a bookstore that also happens to sell apps from a handful of companies.
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Yes, that's correct.

Personally I always assign the working version numbers to the Gemfile. What happens in say a years time when you're meant to come back and maintain the site? New versions could mean a drastically broken system and you won't be maintaining a contracts codebase if you are not getting paid to do so.
The proper fix is to introduce coroutines.
That project requires fibers, in the first place, and doesn't seem nearly as elegant.
Very cool, but it's too bad you have to deal with all that to begin with.

I've been using LuaJIT embedded in Nginx (LuaNginxModule). Lua supports coroutines, so a function can just yield. Here's a brief example:

-- Query a database using an http backend.
-- Yields and handles other requests until the reply is complete.
local record = util.getUserRecord(userId)

-- Send some text to the client. Yields control while
-- the actual transfer is in progress.
ngx.print( "Result=" )

-- Send the result, encoded as JSON, to the client
-- Again, this call doesn't block the server.
ngx.print( cjson.encode(result) )

With code like the above I can easily handle into the thousands of concurrent connections per second on the lowest end Linode VPS node available, with barely any load on the box -- and I'm told it should be able to handle 40k+ connections per second, if I were to do any tuning. Oh, and I have only 512Mb of RAM, which it doesn't even get close to under load. And the longest request took less than 500ms at high load.

I've been using OpenResty [1] which has the Lua module and a bunch of others all configured together. Works great, and I can't complain about the performance.

Someday I'm sure I'll hand the maintenance of this off, and then I might regret not using one of the "popular" frameworks. But the code is SO straightforward using this stack -- and what I'm using it for is so simple -- I think not.

[1] http://openresty.org/
That's exactly how this was done. I'm going to implement "yield" as well when I have some time. They both just leverage coroutines.
Radically Elementary Probability Theory (REPT above) is an excellent book. A very thin volume that anyone who labored through measure-theoretic probability would enjoy at least scanning.

It is fascinating and original, like the proof mechanism mentioned upthread.
Yes, if there were no health implications I would absolutely eat fast food most of the time. 90% of the taste for 10% of the hassle works for me.
My annual bonus (cash and stock) at MS was about 30% of my salary. I dunno if that's the norm for the big/lucrative software companies or not.
What wasn't implemented then? It seems to mostly work, besides some of the buttons not working correctly.
How do you figure the movement of each joint? I saw some were kind of wobbly.
Same thing happened when they bought Omnisio. Took a fabulous site (basically a special-purpose YouTube for presentations, with the speaker video on one pane with slides in another pane), and just buried it. The sad truth is that acquisitions are often real swell for the founders; not so much for the users. As time goes by, it makes me progressively more wary of relying on services provided by startups, sadly.
...being an H1B programmer in Houston doesn’t seem to be all that lucrative...

The 'Avg. WAGE_RATE_1' table puts the Houston salary at 67K, the NYC Salary at 112K.

But Houston has no city or state income tax, and much cheaper housing, food, transport, and other goods. In fact, according to the Cost-of-Living calculators at...

http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.htm... ...or...

http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/mortgages/moving-cost-of...

..earning 112K in Manhattan is equivalent to earning only 48K in Houston. (112K in Brooklyn = 57K in Houston; 112K in the NYC suburbs of Bergen-Passaic NJ = 79K in Houston.)

So in terms of standard of living, 67K in Houston isn't so bad.
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Now is that because books and other paper literature is considered to be a different beast than the written word on the Internet? Or are we just accustomed to such old media while we still need half a generation to get used to text delivered electronically.