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In the hacker community, I often hear the following reaction to this kind of story: "You got shafted by the system? I guess you shouldn't have blindly followed someone else's life script."

I'm doing well, and I can't complain. But I'm bothered by the flippant attitude toward these "99 percenters" who played the game as it was explained to them and ended up poor. Sure, for successful hackers who find their skills in demand, it's easy to say that these people are just not creative enough, that they lacked the insight to see the right path through our economic system. When your bets paid off, it's easy to criticize those whose bets didn't.

But it's unfair. Our society insistently thrusts on us a narrative that says getting an education and working hard will provide a comfortable life. And why shouldn't people be able to trust that? When the same narrative is told to us by our parents, teachers, politicians, celebrities, and just about everyone else, how can we deride those who buy into it?

The grand bargain our economic system has made with the middle class--work hard, get a degree, work hard some more, and you'll be OK--is turning out to be a lie for many people. A fair society would not put people into that position. I understand that economic fairness is not a guiding principle of our economy, but it ought to be.
The outward displays are exactly how you know someone loves you. These is no private language of love, since love is ostensitvely defined.
Well, considering LISP is still as valuable as it was 50 years ago (and lisp-variants aren't going away, because people will move to higher levels of abstraction), learning to program in some lisp-variant (i.e. Racket), would seem like a good bet.
If i remember correctly, netflix's streaming contracts expired and they had to sign new contracts with the movie studios for streaming that basically forced netflix to increase their prices. These contracts are also the reason that netflix "decided" to not send out dvds until 30 days after the movie has been released on dvd.
Your comment is kind of insulting to female programmers maybe
> Someone should tell Mr. Klein the unemployment rate among people with a college degree is only 4.2% which is close to the transitional rate

This is the unemployment rate, which is different from the underemployment rate. It's quite possible a lot of these people have a job, but not one that fully takes advantage of their degree.
What about, then, when EU law requires them to leave an explicit backdoor?

Transparency is a top priority, otherwise we're approaching a high-tech East Germany. The group I least trust snooping on the world is the government (ie, above the law).
It's typically "revert to", since the word means "to restore to a prior state".
Most civilized towns in the snow belt have a law saying the walks must be cleared X hours after the snow stops falling.
Some APIs are appropriate for programmers to target. Others are more appropriate for compilers or higher-abstraction libraries to target.
This is important for two reasons:

The first is to remedy the misconception that "C is a really simple language". It's not.

The second is because while you'll never write any code like this, you'll probably have to debug code written by someone who did. That means that in order to use your time efficiently, you need to know what matters and what doesn't. Writing a regex to replace all "static int foo" with "static int foo = 0" is going to waste your time and not expose the cause of the bug. If you didn't know that, your time would be wasted.
Liked it except for the last sentence, which I think is a manipulation.

"In the end, psychopaths need to be given that very thing everyone believes they lack for others, empathy."

Any feeling you give will be used against you in their treacherous games - you won't get true feeling back. Don't be their stepping stone.
The difference matters in terms of predicting future behavior.

If someone loves me, I can safely predict that they won't betray me and will treat my well being as a priority. If they are merely faking it, they might throw me to the wolves (steal from me, kill me, use me, scapegoat me, etc.) whenever it becomes expedient.
Would be interesting to look at these individuals vs their respective socio-economic background.
You can have a completely non-technical PM, I've found, as long as they still get to know their teams, the problem domain, etc... The type of person who proudly professes their ignorance of something is not cut out to be a PM. But much of what a PM does is take the bookkeeping off the backs of the developers so they can go to the issue manager and just read what pertains to them.

A good programmer should never need to lie to his PM to push-back. Knowing how to put your foot down is an important part of delivering a working product. And a good PM should never need to browbeat or threaten the team.

If, for instance, they feel a quick release is essential but the developer feels the product isn't stable (race conditions under customer-levels of load) neither is flat-out wrong. Even with the CEO yelling at the PM yelling at the developer they shouldn't bend - if the developer can't deliver what they been asked for they shouldn't pretend they can.

But this tense situation can be solved by working with the developer to clarify requirements. Perhaps a lite-version could be released that was hard-limited below the danger zone, or with a problem feature left out or set to use offline processing to avoid the race conditions.
Canceled both. I was on the streaming plus one DVD plan.

I was probably buying a different service than Netflix thought they were selling: All the streaming movies I can stand for about $10/month, with DVDs as backup if they aren't streamed.

As others have noted, neither service on its own is worth the price to me. Streaming quality is OK. DVDs are usually playable but not always. Once I start the DVD and settle in with my popcorn, a refund or the next movie can't make up for the disappointment and wasted time of a half watched movie.

I'm price sensitive these days, as are a lot of people. I'm going with the library, and the occasional PPV on Amazon or Youtube. I don't have to watch every new movie, and most of my viewing was classics, indie and foreign anyway.
It’s a pretty safe bet. Apple has had a stable marketshare in this rapidly growing market for a long time.
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>You can cramp more useless things (think music school or painting) into the rest of the year, but don't you dare touch summer! //

I used to think that art was useless. Then I grew up and now I think that it's pretty essential to a fulfilled life. Not to material wealth but to personal enrichment.

FWIW I'm rubbish at artistic realism and can barely hold a tune singing (I've no sense of rhythm either).
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That's not really a fair comparison since there is only one iPhone 4 and countless Android manufacturers.
OTOH, if Apple had killed the 3GS this time around, rather than keeping it around for another year, that probably would have been better for devs since they wouldn't have needed to support that old slow platform.
You actually can rate DVD only movies, but you have to click into the movie's actual page (where all the reviews and comments are) to do it...
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I like it. It still gives dynamic types like Javascript, but catches a huge class of errors immediately upon compilation. It's exactly what I wish Javascript had.
Facetime is too integrated into an iPhone that it's easy to miss that it even exists. I've talked to people who use video chat apps on their iPhone 4, and didn't even realize that facetime exists, or how to use it. You also can't get a list of facetime contacts from the phone, you have to memorize if your contact has an iPhone on that phone number or email address or press the small facetime button on the person's contact detail screen on the bottom right corner and see if it will work. On top of that you can't use it on 3G network, which kills most of the use cases for it.
> If you want to make an argument that Android is a better purchase option for mass market consumers, you'll need an argument that actually represents the mass market.

Who wants to do that? The thread parent post said "it is beyond me how anyone can argue that this is not the best smartphone on the market." That is very, very far from arguing which phone is the best option for mass market consumers. For someone running Linux, it is very easy to argue this is not the best smartphone on the market.
In addition to what BCM43 said, the unemployment rate also doesn't reflect discouraged workers, i.e. those who have given up on looking for jobs but would work given the opportunity.
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What exactly are they in line for? This sounds like Soviet Union circa 1980s (ie across the board shortages) when people would join a line in front of a store just because one was formed - without any clue as to what was offered.
I have to say this 'i want attention but i won't reveal why I deserve it' attitude very annoying.
I used to be all about driving. Then I did the same math this author did and realized how it doesn't work out. Then I invested in a data plan and a bus pass. It takes twice as long to bus, but now I get my two daily dose of hacker news on it. You would be surprised how fast 1hour 30 minutes commute feels when you are on hackers news the whole way.
Yeah, you're probably right, good point.
Indeed not - with the 4S they added unlimited storage at the same price, and retrospectively added it to any device running iOS 5, with 5GB for some uses.

It may not be flash memory, but it has to count - it is what Apple intend to be used for bulk music storage with iOS 5.
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A few points on this post:

1) You don't have to sync offline tracks with the Spotify desktop software; you can mark playlists as "available offline" directly within the mobile app and it will start syncing them immediately. I've never synced my phone via the desktop app.

The mobile app is also intelligent enough to sync songs that you're listening to that happen to be part of an offline playlist, saving bandwidth (for example, in the case where your settings only permit you to sync over wifi, but you listen to a song over 2G/3G).

2) The Spotify app used to show song/artist info, but at some point it seems that all the audio apps I used stopped doing this at the same time. Are you sure this wasn't an iOS change?

3) The unavailable song issue is related to the fact that the available songs are completely different depending on the country where you live. I've found that the USA is the worst for what I like to listen to. You could probably change your region by connecting to the website via proxy.

4) Regarding your question about supporting the bands: from what I've read, artists receive almost nothing from Spotify licensing fees. If you want to support the artists, the safest bet is still attending concerts/buying merchandise directly.
Yes, I would care. Someone who didn't know might notice the sizeof() and note that it returns size_t, but not know what to do about it, and end up saying "screw it" and just using "%d", which is not portable, and the program might crash when compiled for a different system. It might even run on his sytem today, but not tomorow, or run in the debug image but fail in production. I've seen this and similar things happen many-a-time.
I think he's saying that if you're expressing such skepticism and cynicism about the subject because of lack of scientific objectivity, you're probably incapable of experiencing it or giving it. And I think that is what he thinks you're missing out on, the experience of really giving and receiving it.

If you want to call it a fairy tale and say the emperor has no clothes... the logical conclusion would have society be unable to have real examples of trusting love, and it would subsequently break down into a series of make-believe emotional transactions.

The societal and circumstantial evidence does not seem to corroborate your premises, even though there may be no scientifically tested objective data.

He can correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm not an american, I have to say that I'm surprised that paying taxes is being punished over there. In that case, the poor/middle-class over there are taking quite a punishment; if I'm to listen to Warren Buffet ( http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ec... ).

Elizabeth Warren's point is simple, if you don't want to pay taxes, then don't expect any of the services that are paid for by those taxes. Plain and simple, otherwise you end up with a society that has extremely sharp inequalities and then you will really know what "class warfare" is. I think the point here is simple, buy your nice house and drive your nice car et al, but please save a little for the next guy.
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I've always been in IT, so I don't know if my experience applies or not. But in my field, I have to continuously keep studying and learning -- and that keeps my value up. I _suspect_ (and see it around me) that many people land a j.o.b. and then just coast. They don't continue to work hard (ie studying, reading, staying abreast) and then are suprised to get caught. In other words, (prior) education != marketable skills.
I love arguments like this, but feel like they're useless in our culture. Specifically, the "value of time lost" argument. Most Americans take the hour or two that they gain and piss it away in front of a television anyway.
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As a society, we are experiencing a crisis of feedback. There are two dimensions to this crisis: a wealth gap, and a generation gap.

How does wealth make it difficult for our society to listen? An anecdote from last year may illustrate. I was around when a PAC for an automated trading firm was being set up; there was a presentation given on the purpose of the PAC (which was to make the case that algorithmic trading can be beneficial to society). Someone asked, "What do we get per dollar spent? Are we buying influence?" One leader responded, "No, we can't buy influence. But the reality is that money equals access--access to politicians so that we can have our side heard." Given the high barrier to access, significant portions of our society feel alienated from the democratic process, and Occupy Wall Street is part of our society's struggle to introspect on fundamental problems we face--especially the broken political process.

How does age impact our society's ability to hear its own feedback? The generation gap is between the "pre-" and "post-" internet generations. By my estimation, the delineation is currently somewhere around 35 years of age. If a person is under 35, there is a good chance that he or she treats social networking tools like texting, email, twitter, facebook, reddit, etc. as first class communication. Over, and the chances are low that communication of highest import or urgency happens through these channels. The average age of the U.S. House of Representatives is 58.

The following analogy helped me understand why there is no "unified message" from protesters: "When a person has a problem, like an addiction, the first step is for them to admit the problem. The second step is to identify the problem. It's not until the third step that they try to solve the problem. Right now we need the US as a country to admit there is a problem. Then we can work on identifying it, and then on fixing it. It is no good if half of the population says "Here's how to fix the problem" when the other half is still going "what problem?" This is why it is very important to reach out to people with all sorts of different political viewpoints so that we have a better conversation when we try to figure out the cause of the problem and how to fix it." -- Granito (reddit.com)

I think we can all point to grievances or suggestions from Occupy Wall Street that are unreasonable or simplifications of larger problems. The needs that people have, however, are the more important part of this ongoing discussion, IMO. There is frustration with the processes our society has in place that give voice to the downtrodden. I think that if we keep that in mind--that we don't have to agree with every demand, but that we can agree the need for understanding and better processes exists--then there is mutual benefit to be had from this current event.

Just like a business will profit if it develops its customers, engages in their needs, and has good customer service, our society will profit by listening and understanding this new phenomenon.
No, I grew up in Stuttgart and now I'm an Oregonian. My mom grew up in Mecklenburg so that's pretty close.
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I've done a little climbing but can't parse it ... so what did the mother do to the boulder problem?
Ask HN: US tax prep for Canadians
What tax preparation services do my fellow Canucks living in the US use (for filing personal income tax)? I'd really appreciate any recommendations (positive or negative).

P.S. I know this might not be appropriate for HN. I have had zero luck asking people in my social network and google/yelping hasn't been helpful. I think there are a number of canucks in the US doing tech, and thought some of u might be around here.

Thanks
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In Canada it's not hard to get 10-13mbps down speeds with HSPA+ devices, But that is with a 21MBit device (USB broadband stick). All the carriers in Canada are now 21.6MB HSPA+ and converting to 44MB HSPA and 75MBIT LTE. What G would you call that?
And thus thus the satire :)

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They will be the biggest losers because by the time the cataclysmic implosion occurs, the middle class they depend on so much will not have much left to back the up with. If you think that 2007 was something, brace yourself for what is next if things don't change.
The sad thing is that I doubt that President Obama has what it takes to make the necessary changes.
I suspect the default state of AI would be psychopathy. As I imagine it, an AI with goals, but not morals or empathy would behave exactly like a psychopath. Maybe psychopathy is the default state and empathy and morals are just evolutionary add-ons t encourage cooperation.
The problem with bucket lists...
That must be why they all have different names. But hey, at least that is better than "Macbook Pro (early 2009)".
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This is only true if you want to have iLife. I personally don't use iLife, didn't when I was on 10.4, and upgraded to 10.6 from 10.4 for $30.
I think LWP is more equivalent to Python's urllib2 (ie. both big beasts!). So this i believe is closer to what LWP::UserAgent (https://metacpan.org/module/LWP::UserAgent) does.

Also check out Mojo::UserAgent (https://metacpan.org/module/Mojo::UserAgent) for a nice(er) alternative. And don't forget that Perl now comes a nice lightweight alternative as standard: https://metacpan.org/module/HTTP::Tiny
I can only wonder how much of the costs are fees to the music companies. Is there any way to figure out at all what Spotify , Rdio, etc have to pay to provide their selection?
Digressing a little bit, but if you use an SSB for Gmail, have you checked out Sparrow?
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I assumed the point to be that it wasn't true that the mother is spinning a li[n]e.
I bet applying to Y Combinator is an important enough process that barely needs a deadline reminder.
The biggest difference between the US and somewhere like Germany is the price of land. While land can be expensive in certain highly desireable places, it is possible to buy habitable land in the US for what is a derisory amount of money to a European - often less than $1,000 per acre. This drives the cost of home ownership down to levels that can be aspired to by many people. There is a lot of homebuilding as a result, which also keeps costs low.

In comparison, buildable land in a European village or small town can be $100,000/acre - not that you can find an acre to buy anyway. Even if you could afford the land, you would then have to find the same amount again to build the house - so it is much cheaper to rent.

Edit:

Sorry, you wanted a reference. This older story:

http://www.economist.com/node/13491933?story_ID=13491933

It captures some of the US pro-home-ownership arguments lower in the article.

Edit #2:

Yeah, there are places in Europe cheaper than Germany, but $700,000/acre does not surprise me. I should have added that construction standards are very different between Europe and the US which also accounts for the low cost of housing. In many (most?) parts of the US houses are made of simple timber frames and hence are simply and quickly erected - I have seen houses (the outer shell obviously) go up in as little as two days. In Europe a lot (most?) of housing is made of brick, a more laborious process.
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Why do all these things have to be presented as a "law". Their not laws, their observations, while the semantics of the difference dont really matter (to me at least) the usage and understanding of the observations has been skewed by the use of the word law. Every time I hear someone say that "in two years computers will be twice as powerful as they are today because of Moore's Law" I cringe. Computers won't be twice as powerful because of Moore's Law they will become more powerful because technology marches forward and humans are a creative bunch. Moore's Law is only an observation of the pace at which this happens.

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Tldr: people need to stop attributing Moore's Law as the cause of technological innovation.
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"The correlates included demographic and status variables"
The problem with this line of thinking is that there's no one person or group in charge of "society." Blaming society is the same as blaming yourself (who else makes up society but the 99%-ers?).

To me, it's disturbing that the quotes come from people who seem so detached from their own failure. I'd like to see what the majors of these people with their "advanced degrees" that can't find anyone who thinks they are worth hiring.

That said, the correct response to these folks' predicament is for them to change the culture. The best way to do that is not to stage an aimless protest, but to cut up the credit cards, get 2 or 3 jobs, and teach your children the right way to handle money.