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It has nothing to do with being a 'cheapskate'.

It also has nothing to do with the amount.

Next to the 'buy' button in 2005 there was text along the lines of "upgrades are free all the way to 2.0". Changing that now, added to the fact that we were all expecting much needed updates in 2008, is just a dick move. It (further) damages any confidence the community had in TextMate.

The fact that I would gladly pay $200 for my dream editor (even though I've already paid for TM1 and ST2, I'm lucky that this would be a practical purchase for me) is just not relevant. As you say, he is running a business. A business that made a promise about what buying the product would get you. End of story.

If I buy a car that has a big sign: "FREE WINTER TIRES", and 6 years later I'm still not seeing those friggen tires, does the fact that I can afford to just buy them make the dealership any less shady?
Same reason they abused your trust in the first place, as you've described it. They don't need to win, just to ensure you lose. But don't lose sleep over it, it's unlikely and I'm just mentioning the possibility because I'm nerdy. You should talk to an IP lawyer though.
I need a good reason to buy a netbook over an iPad? A proper SSH/NX client, full keyboard, full (and choice of) operating system, input/output ports, all for less money?
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Here is a spreadsheet of consultants who are active on this very website.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs...
Python minimizes magic and maintains backwards-compatibility? LOL.

(I'm a programmer who recent dived into python - it's awesome and it's easily my favourite language to use now - but those statements are fallacies).
If I see a project is supported by the Apache Foundation I consider it to be a more serious undertaking than I otherwise would.

There are no end of frameworks and applications that are released as open source and then later abandoned (which is as it should be), the ASF imprimatur is a decent indication that the project will be around a while.
Either the movie industry is poisoning the well, or this is a well waiting to be exploited. A site that explains step by step how not to get caught might be more useful.
top schools does not equal to successful starups;
idea + drive + timing + general business sense (ie know ur market, thinking outside the box, calculated risk taker, etc) are some of the qualities I equate to with successful startus; don't know if top tier schools offer such courses? lol
It must really suck to be a senior software engineer making less than 95k knowing that there are probably some new grads that get an initial offer of more than that.

Wait, really? By "some" we're talking "very, very few" right? Surely salaries haven't come that far since when I graduated.
See also this earlier discussion about attempting to find an inexpensive alternative to the Aeron: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585693 . About half the commenters appear to say, "There is no cheap alternative." I'm using a Herman Miller Embody right now and keep meaning to post a long review of it, but I haven't yet.

See also: http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/09/how-to-choos...
Interesting stuff. I've got a few buddies working finance in NYC on visas, the're still making good bank. I would guess you're a west coaster though? Just things like being in NJ for a tax break, unlikely. NJ has tons and TONS of people(and taxes), don't let the 'little' town of Edison fool you, it's really still one huge suburb of NY. With a huge population from surrounding areas to pull talent from. Also, believe or not, most middle age people (HB1 peeps too) don't want to have to deal with NYC. Also, there is plenty of B2B and consulting work to be done outside the Oracles and IBM's of the world, don't think the big names do all the work, or even pay the best. Often times the smaller company will pay much much more, as their overhead is often a smaller percentage of revenues.
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10 inch model is rumored next year. Also Amazon hinted that one will be coming.
I usually get lucky with using "golang" but the best I came up with were other people asking how to use the SPDY server along with ListenAndServe without any helpful replies.
I would wager that just because the next big thing will start out looking at a toy does not equate to everything that looks like a toy will become the next big thing.
Then there's irony afoot - because by 'giving up freedom', they're gaining more freedom to do what they want to do.

Couching this in terms of freedom is the wrong way to think about the issue, methinks - it detracts from the real issue. Freedom in the US is a very politically charged word - as an outsider visiting the US, I could hear a capital F in the word almost every time I heard it in public.
Actually, something else that bothers me, but I'm not sure there's much you can do about it. I really like the Chrome location-bar search completion thing. Most of the time, when I start searching something, I can see if my search terms are good by seeing whether it's been searched before. If it comes up with nothing, I know my search terms are probably not well-worded.

Not sure how you could provide for that, though.
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Well anecdotally people can get near 90 at Microsoft it seems. So it's not that far off.

Of course the offer depends on previous experience such a internships and your job position (I imagine SDEs probably make more than SDETs and some teams pay better than others) but it's not unheard of.
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"some of which are those low-level-design type of choices where if you go the other route, a different set of people complain"

This is actually a wonderful scenario. If either party successfully grows the market, both can benefit.
Thank you! Sorry if that came off as antagonistic, I think I really need to start using some form of password manager or another.
What's worse is that the copy isn't even better... if you're going to copy it, at least improve on the aesthetics or something. Sheesh :)
How can you not understand that $60 is huge money to some people? It doesn't matter the price, it's expensive to someone. He made a promise about what that $60 buys you (namely, TM1 and TM2), so he better deliver.
He has a lot of very nice things to say, certainly, but the actionable thing he says is the most derogatory. How can the Fire and the iPad both service the same market if one is a laptop replacement and the other is not?

Yes he dresses it up with a lot of really nice sounding verbiage, but at the end of the day this is a "well, she's really good at {math,sports,engineering}... for a girl" sort of backhanded compliment. It's like saying that the Model T is a really, really nice car, almost as good as a Hispano-Suiza... but it's not a horse replacement.
> It's going to be odd to see Microsoft, Google and Samsung in one stage, celebrating Android.

Microsoft? I don't see an mention of them in the post.
I know this pain; I am forced to work with GAE every day now. And let me tell you, the only thing worse than not having 2.7's features is having un-patched bugs from as early as 2008--like one that prevents keyword arguments from being unicode strings, for instance! Seeing the other list of changes/"mandatory improvements" in child's link makes me weep all the more. I will have to start another crusade to get 2.7 support and between stuff like documentation, testing (gasp!), Django-nonrel, and HRD, I am fresh out of crusade slots.
I started a studio to develop video games. Its definitely not hard to get into at all. You just need the passion to complete a full game then release. The biggest thing to decide is which market you will choose, because some are better than others. I wouldn't choose the console market as the indie games on there struggle to get decent revenue. I love the mobile development choice because when your meeting new people and friends you can whip out your phone and show them on the spot. Its part of the reward of releasing a game.

When you release a game immediately start working on either promotion, features to improve the current game, or your next game. Do not do what I did and sit around looking over all of the numbers, that will disappoint you. Start thinking about the next game you can develop and expand upon what you learned from the previous project.

Once the feedback and numbers start coming in for the released game start tweaking it and release updates every other week until you are happy with the numbers and players stop requesting changes.
Actually, I'm from Canada which is why I don't know much about US cities outside the brand-name ones.

Thanks for the clarification though.
Yeah, I agree here. I think that kind of offer is way above the norm, but don't forget, college kids often think they are going to make a killing right after school, and it usually doesn't pan out that way. But still, I think 95k for a senior software engineer at msft is pretty lowball, unless something is left out, like bonuses or something.
IANAMathematician, but isn't this implied by the incompleteness theorem? Is this result significant because the seams in the consistency of Peano arithmetic haven't been formalized yet?

edit: After a quick visit to Wikipedia, it appears that completeness and consistency are actually separate things. I'll go back to coding now.
I don't think this is completely Amazons fault. The device is heavily centered around Amazon Prime and the various streaming content services they have. Most of these services are U.S. only thanks to requirements of the publishers. I'm sure Amazon would love to ship it worldwide, but it wouldn't be nearly as useful without the cloud services behind it.
Well count me in for somewhere between #3 and #9 then :-P
"They took the face out of Facebook."
Not a big Frozen Synapse fan here but I like donating to the EFF through these things. Since they have Amazon payments it is dead simple and it helps me expand my Steam library. In the past they have added more games later in the offer, hopefully the trend continues.
looks like there was a minor error there. The prevailing wage is not the wage offered to the H1B visa recipient, so it's not necessarily how much is being spent. That field is a required field for filing the application and is itself a statistic generated by a third party. it's a nice analysis though.
I imagine the answer to your question probably has something to do with the fact that most developers are staring at a screen for the majority of their waking hours. If you want to dress up in your 3 piece Armarni to impress your 27" LED then good luck to you...
If you mean for example the average of all programmers inside Microsoft compared to the average of those on H1B, no I can't since that data isn't public.

The H1B database is public and you're required by law to register every H1B hire in it. That's the data source I was looking at. Companies don't typically advertise what salaries they pay employees if they don't have to.
Anyone want to start work on a nginx module? :)
The number has been anecdotally creeping up. It was less than a year ago that I was reading a really good software dev could expect to make a little over 80k straight out of college.

Either the competition for good programmers really did get that fierce, or HN's collective estimation of a good programmer salary has been undergoing self-inflation.
I've been following japhr's blog http://japhr.blogspot.com/. He has some great articles on his chain about writing http://spdybook.com/

If you want to know more about spdy from on node.js w/ full unit testing then I recommend reading through his blog and book.
When I first got my iPad I put a timer app on it, and at some point I got really frustrated by how much time I perceived was being wasted, so for a few weeks I timed it every time I wasn't able to work when I was trying to (wifi down, no power, going to a new place, etc). It was crazy, actually, but I was losing half my working day (shortly after that we joined Affinity Lab).

Of course, now that I can't get to a co-working space, I had to get way better at planning and finding good places. Now I don't waste much time.

For that matter, I think I am more productive (for now) because I can't chit-chat and get distracted as I would when I'm around people I know. All of our work is offsite and online right now, so no productivity is wasted.

The biggest trick is, if it's a 3hr commute there and back to your office (plus settling in time) you have to weight it each time whether it's worth the trip or not. But I hit the coffee shop every morning, like it's my office, and gain 2.5hrs. You just can't slack off.

I wouldn't suggest doing it forever, but if you're going to do it, that's how.
Outsourcing companies have lower salaries on average.

Google salary
http://www.salarylist.com/company/Google-Salary.htm?order=1
Microsoft salary
http://www.salarylist.com/company/Microsoft-Salary.htm?order...

vs
Wipro
http://www.salarylist.com/company/Wipro-Salary.htm?order=1
Accenture
http://www.salarylist.com/company/Accenture-Salary.htm?order...
Don't give up hope buddy: have you tried making a few iphone or android apps? Your english is perfect so i assume you could make apps for the english speaking market, it really could change your life.
Related topic but different subject: I'm a non-tech founder looking for a past YC tech with PS3 level gaming development/producer experience to assist/co-found my social gaming seed startup. Applying to YC next week. I'm highly skilled on the business/strategic piece but need the right programmer. Any advice? Would it be appropriate to post request under "jobs" section? Please advise.
Ouch, you're right.. I really screwed up there. There's a wage_rate column and a prevailing_wage_rate and I should have used the former.. I'll try to fix this up asap.
That's right. The prevailing wage comes from the Dept of Labor. Companies are required to pay at least the prevailing wage.

I know when I was on H1-B, I was paid a good 50% more than the prevailing wage.
Thanks a lot for open sourcing Color Picker Pro, I think it's an awesome utility.

As for the calculator, it nice to see a different approach to a simple problem. There is, however, a line of code missing from the :buttonPressed function. For the case of kButtonSubtract, it needs to set deleteInput to YES.

Thanks for the awesome Cocoa contributions. Please, keep it up.
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I'm a first time entrepreneur right now and the answer is "yes". I feel the same thing.

I've spent so long getting things designed and prepped and ready to go yet no matter what I do it feels like my expectations are not met. I guess I am optimistic by nature and I try to bring down my estimates to fit, but they still end up failing.

Oh well...I need to really start focusing more on learning. That is a good attitude. The more you learn now, the more you make at a future startup
Some context/theorizing about Edison, NJ. Edison is a largely Indian town. In particular, it attracts many people who don't want personal exposure to the US or non-Indians - such a lifestyle would be difficult anywhere besides Edison or Jersey City. They are only in the US to earn USD.

My theory as to why Edison wages are so low: most of the Edison companies are low end bodyshops - if you need a warm body with J2EE, they will give you a warm body. Their competitive advantage is that the Edison guys they hire never talk to non-Indians [1] and never discover they are ridiculously underpaid.

Incidentally, the food in Edison is fantastic. Jersey City also has good low end food (e.g., dosas), though nothing great at the higher end.

[1] It's not even an Indian nationalism thing - many of them avoid socializing with Indians from a different state/ethnicity. I get dirty looks when they see me with an Indian girl.
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I don't think this is helpful at all, and it may give a false sense of security. By the time a movie shows up on the list, you've already been sued.

Given the rate at which these cases are being thrown out, if you receive a settlement letter you're probably better off ignoring it and waiting to be "severed" from the other defendants. Not legal advice, obviously.
I agree that it isn't Amazon's fault for governments imposing duties, but I think the parent was referring more to the fact that Amazon wasn't upfront about the total cost before he had to go through the entire checkout process. I think what he was suggesting was Amazon determine what country you are in, and show the prices for your country.

I think that's a reasonable request to make of Amazon.
Just for the sake of curosity, which key shortcuts and features do you forget?
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You're a small, if not tiny, segment of the market. Most of the market doesn't even know what SSH is, let alone require a SSH client in a portable device.
Suspicious me thinks this seems like a great way for DMCA lawyers to harvest potentially lucrative ip addresses.
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statistics is hard. There is a good field description list out there... also it might be interesting to look at the status of applications.

For example are there any applications where the wage rate was below the prevailing wage and were accepted?

What is the relationship between % over prevailing wage and acceptance of the application? That might lead to a useful model.
Its not the resolution thats the issue, its the actual physical size thats the problem. The iPhone 4 is 960x640, not too far behind either device pixel wise. But the 3" screen or what ever it is where the problem is.

The tethering is a thing off the past as of next week, its a legacy thing that was left over due to the evolution of the product range.
I still can't figure out why you're hung up on this 'laptop replacement' thing as though he dropped trou and took a dump on right on the Kindle Fire itself by saying that. It's not a huge derogatory criticism, it's an observation. You're certainly free to disagree, I do as well somewhat (below) but you're massively missing the point if you think two sentences about laptop replacement is the only "actionable thing he says" and that it's derogatory.
That is an... interesting approach.

I, for one, who would gladly pay for TM2 separately had I not already purchased a license for it, would not appreciate that kind of attitude and make sure never to do business with Macromates again.
I'd imagine you can opt out of that by either installing another browser (like Skyfire) or going to some settings in Silk.

I don't think Amazon will track your browsing without your explicit approval, and I'd imagine it would be much easier to send each request as a stateless request to any of its EC2 instances.
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The point is that we all did pay for good tools. We paid for TM1, and TM1 included the promise of a free update to TM2. I already own TM2, see?
I have heard from a friend at Zynga that highliy-skilled grads are being hired straight out of college on 100k or slightly more.
Is there nowhere good to run or cycle near you? You will get a lot more out of it if there is.

I have been a big cyclist, but only started running in Sydney, since it is dangerous to listen to music and cycle in that city. But there are plenty of parks to run in and listen to music.
And most people don't produce content on their personal computers, yet this thread screams of people scrambling to justify the purchase of $500-$600 devices that are built to consume primarily and I suggest near exclusively (and dismiss the Kindle Fire because it makes no bones about being media-based). There is this auspice of them being used as "productivity tools" but I can only think of rare occasions where I would agree and they're very highly specialized apps where again, a cheap commodity ARM device could be produced, run Linux and run the application just as easily without major costs to the organizations that are paying Apple an arm and a leg to have a flashy device.
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95k's pretty good life already and data is 2 years old.
As someone who sells apps on Android and iOS, this has been my experience
I think this previous comment by michaelfeathers supports what you're saying:

"The fact of the matter is that too many people think that projects can be run through the interface of stories and feature lists without paying attention to the quality of the software underneath. And, when you don't pay attention to it, it suffers. This, really, is _Joel's Law of Leaky Abstractions_ applied to process. Business wants to see features, and if that abstraction is their only view of the project, they will be blindsided by creeping quality issues. It's nearly inevitable."

Quality issues aren't always architectural issues, but architectural issues (especially lack of any planned architecture) always cause major quality issues.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2978806
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Which may be more indicative of the cost of living in the valley rather than a rise in average salaries for grads.
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I have been using Posterous for Smileecards blog (http://blog.smileecards.com/), but recently have started using Tumblr (http://smileecards.tumblr.com/) as well to try to put content in different places.

I'm mostly using the basic features of these services and I like both services so far, but have found Tumblr to be easier to use; it's more intuitive to me.

I dislike the interaction of the image manager in Posterous, especially if trying to add multiple images to a post. I also don't like the difference in white space between edit and view mode of posts.

To the audience - what service do you use for your blog and why? Posterous, Tumblr, Blogger, etc.
"Performance" is a variable metric. And not looking towards the best people in a field for guidance because you don't want to attain their level of achievement is, I think, misguided. If you don't do that, then you risk being taken in by charlatans.
I use it for shopping for my next book when I'm too lazy to get out of bed and go to the computer.
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"A union of researchers" is a pretty good description of a research university, I think.

As others have pointed out, collective bargaining is a particular way of giving up individual freedom.
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Ok, fair enough.

I thought what you were trying to argue was "Your tablet can never be a replacement for your laptop. Period."
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I will join you, if there is more than $200 to be covered. What are the expected odds?

edit: seriously, this would surprise me significantly more than the neutrino thing, and I'm happy to take 100-1 odds on that.
I could be wrong, but I believe that Alpharetta is part of the Atlanta metro. It's result should be merged into Atlanta.

IMO the results for all Bay Area cities (SF, Palo Alto, Fremont, Cupertino, San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mtn View) should also be merged into a single result.
The flyers were probably printed before Samsung decided to pay $5 - $15 for each Android they sell to Microsoft.
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