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Next for windows developers is trying to get npm to work. The sheer popularity of unix tooling in the build process means that using node libraries is likely to remain a challenge.
>>Setting the precedent that web browsers should be free (even for commercial use)?

That's revising history. There were plenty of free browsers back then. Netscape itself was derived from NCSA Mosaic which was free.
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Indeed. I am quite familiar with the Luddite fallacy. Unfortunately, it is predicated upon two assumptions:(1) humans are infinitely capable and re-trainable, and (2) technology creates more jobs than it automates.

Both of these assumptions are quite untenable given our understanding of human biology and technological progress.
I used Elance and it worked pretty well. Be careful though. I posted project specs and had about 15 bidders. I found out once development was done, one of the bidders who didn't get the job liked the idea so much he wrote his own version, based on specs I provided for the bid. He even used the same name. So, on the appstore, I had to rename my app AND had a competitor immediately. Luckily, Apple and Elance took care of it and his product was removed.

I really liked the way elance gets you in touch with the developer and handles payment really well. Also, the communication system worked well. Would do it again.
So MS is supposed to just give the magazine money? If MS really needs to advertise in that magazine, they'll pay to do it. It's a simple value equation. You do realize how MS being an advertiser (non paid) can immensely help that magazine get paid ads? Who is getting hurt here?
Media will be led by their consumers, and to a good first approximation, no one anywhere (including many talented people in "highly technical" fields) has a decent grasp of statistics and probability.

Maybe if we didn't wait until university to teach people the unintuitive stuff, more people would get it or retain it longer. Sadly, for many people there exists no such thing as an unintuitive truth.

Update: ...or maybe I'm projecting my own faults on more people than is fair.
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Not sort of, they've fully embraced it at this point. The Kinect SDK is directly caused by what the hacking community started.
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Big infrastructure project don't work in this day and age. The recession would be long over before the environmental impact reports are even submitted, and you'd need to repeal Davis-Bacon to make things affordable.

But some variant of the New Deal approach would be possible. For instance, instead of paying people not to work for 99 weeks (as we currently do), we could pay people wages equal to unemployment benefits for jobs that would otherwise be done by a unionized government employee. For instance, unemployed skilled workers could become DMV clerks and unemployed unskilled workers could become DMV janitors.

Such an approach would allow us to both create jobs and cut spending. Strangely, we don't go down that route. It's almost as if our elected officials and unelected bureaucrats aren't looking out for our best interests.
It would probably be an even worse idea to cut government wages than to cut government jobs (also a very bad idea). It is true that people are unhappy if their wage increases don't keep up with the rate of inflation--if inflation is 4% and you get an only 1% wage increase, you're unhappy. But people are furious if your boss cuts your wages--if inflation is 1% and they cut your wages by 2%, you're not just unhappy, you're enraged. There's something about cutting the number of dollars that you're going to be paid for doing the same work in the American psyche that gets people really angry, and makes them really unwilling to put in the effort to be good workers.

And so, because each company know that cutting people's wages is a way to guarantee that they'll do a lousy job, businesses are overwhelmingly unwilling to cut people's wages at all. They would rather fire more people.
The Unix model of innovation didn't work. We wound up with a zillion fragmented versions, and writing applications that had to run on multiple platforms was a terrible, expensive task. There are few companies left from this era; one exception of note is Oracle.

It seems that to survive in a "fair" proprietary ecosystem -- please recall that Unix /was/ proprietary in the 80s and 90s -- that you need to be rapacious. Microsoft used E/E/E, predatory dealing with manufacturers and gave out candy to developers, while Oracle followed IBM's old pattern of FUD backed by armies of consultants.

Apple barely made it; they were circling the drain when The Chief Jerk returned and started kicking the antheap and killing his predecessors projects. It was a near thing.

[Jack Tramiel failed in his attempt to bring Atari back to life in the mid 80s because he mistook 'being aggressively cheap' with being ruthless.]

I like the Chief Jerk theory. I've seen a lot of orgs get complacent and consensus-driven and /go under/ because they lose their edge. You need to stay hungry and driven, and one way to get this is to have someone who is not very likeable -- but that you still respect -- at the helm.
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Learning front end languages is essential as an employer wants to know that you can get a site live when the hits the fan. If you can't slice up a PSD and build a basic site there MIGHT come a point when you're useless to them.

I'm self-taught and found learning HTML, CSS, JS and a bit of PHP and MySQL was more than enough to get a job in the UK.

Build some sites, get some experience.
Thank you. I've worked at a theater, and this is accurate.

Amazing the answers you get when you throw a bunch of economist at the question who know nothing about the industry.
You're bang on - all of the economic jargon on the StackExchange page is funny. People are overcomplicating matters. I used to work for the largest theatre chain in Canada and remember that George Lucas demanded 100% of ticket sales for the first 3 weeks of his Star Wars releases (and re-releases), which is unheard of, but he can command that.

Popcorn & soda is where theatre chains make their money. From what I recall the marginal cost of each soda was about $0.25, popcorn is even less.
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There's a huge market out there of people who don't really care that much about what the phone is (and so we have the wall of phones at every phone store). They'll definitely consider the 3GS on cost alone, and the fact that it's an Apple can't hurt.
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Love trailers, hate advertisements. I can't help but think that showign trailers must be much more economical than advertisements. During ordinary advertisements I just shut my brain down, but when I see a trailer I like, I will almost certainly come back to see the movie when it comes out.
It's not an easy comparison to make, yes. But Go isn't really that low level. It has garbage collector, type inference, unique concurrency support that hides threads... And it's provided on App Engine.

App Engine also supports Python and Java. I figure folks could use Xtend to write Java web apps that cut some of the boilerplate and perhaps even deploy to App Engine, for instance. Giving folks an alternative to going with Go as a static typed language.

Perhaps Xtend using Java source-code as an intermediate medium confuses people a little. Using Eclipse to program using Xtend/Java may just be too seamless for it not to matter much after you've grown used to it.
Thanks for posting, have been looking for a startup scene in Hamburg in vain since I am working on my startup from here until December- looks like I need to start making regular trips to Berlin ASAP
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Go is cool. Go isn't too fast and doesn't have as much tool support as Java/Xtend. Go may be great if you're doing network programming on Linux. Like many tools originating from Unix environments, the cross-platform support may not be a top priority.

You're set as you already use Eclipse. :-)
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Every tax creates distortions. If the tax break was high enough it would encourage people and corporations with extremely high incomes to hire people for 366 days and then fire them and hire another domestic replacement.
It was only about 10 years ago that we understood how to allow the economy to create jobs and operate properly: keeping a steady monetary base, cutting taxes, loosening regulation and ending wasteful gov't programs that crowd out private investment.

It's a shame that 1921 and the post-war boom have been buried under theories that tow the line for the managerial-state.
I just did some quick research. Neither AT&T nor Verizon offer lower rates for bringing your own phone, T-Mobile offers a $20/month discount between month-to-month/BYO phone and contract plans, and I couldn't find anything on Sprint's site about prepaid options (I believe Sprint tries to steer its prepaid customers to it's Boost Mobile subsidiary).

As other commenters have mentioned, this is usually not the case outside the US. For example, Vodafone UK offers both different plan prices AND handset prices depending on length of contract.

As an example of the power of "free*", my mom went to buy one of her employees an iPhone and told me in amazement how it was the first time she walked out of an AT&T store without spending a dime. I'm sure I'm not the only one she's told the story to, and I don't think she was as excited about the time when she bought my grandmother a $50 3GS just a few months ago.
I don't really understand your objection. If, instead of trying to impose an artificial scarcity on copyable works (which includes inventions), we had a pool of "awards" that were distributed to creators proportionally to the value of the works, then of course that would provide incentive to disclose copyable works. So what if Knuth would get paid for work he would have made available anyway? There are plenty of people in our economy getting paid to do what they love and would do for free/much less.

The main problem with the idea is that it eliminates negotiations between self interested parties as the means for value estimation. "Voting" on the most valuable works is quite simply a terrible idea. With copyrightable works, we could probably have some technological way (think DRM) of tracking popularity / frequency of use. But for patents, I'm not sure how it would work. I suppose that as long as you make it where the total tax levied on an individual to fund this system doesn't depend on how many or which works they used (though it could depend broadly on what they produce, what industry they are in, etc), they won't have an incentive to hide what they used. It's not at all clear to me that the difficulties inherent in such an approach are greater than those in current approach (which can be charitably describe as "a mess").
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This is actually quite a fascinating article. It's pretty impressive that current technology allows someone several hundred (thousand) miles away to interact with you, yet still receive your physical product a mere 15 seconds later. I'd be even more interested to see the sort of technology behind the scenes (load balancers, load switching amongst call center employees, pipes/servers/protocols being used).
Big infrastructure projects have the problem that they cost a lot of money and time. Another disadvantage is the inherent problem all Keynesian ideas have, they very much depend on timing. If you start such a project too late you severely harm a recovering economy, start it too early and it won't help at all or even have a negative impact.
The only thing that surprises me about this article is the continued widespread existence of drive-throughs.
I'm not saying the device can't be secure. It' the inconvenience due to the physical impact and the fact that eventually you have to carry around a whole key chain.
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"Structural theories of unemployment are merely theories which claim that you have no idea what job they can profitably perform"

It's not that they have no idea which jobs they could profitable perform, but that there are no jobs which they could profitably perform. This is because their marginal rate of productivity is too low for any position. The way around this is to reduce income taxes, corporate taxes and sales taxes. This reduces the cost for employment and production, which brings the "you need to be this productive to be profitable for us" bar lower. This helps to make more room for on-the-job training as well.

The mismatch between skills and demand for skills is real. This is mostly a result of government intervention and the business cycle causing unsustainable booms in industries.
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FWIW, this is apparent in the data as well---employers are price sensitive, but not nearly as price sensitive as people might think. They good employers aren't stupid and realize you get what you pay for. In fact, the number of one predictor (by far) of who gets hired on oDesk is not experience, hours, tests, county etc.---it's how customized their cover letter is (I took the Levenshtein distance between an applicant's cover letter & their previous cover letter to create a "customization score" that I used as a predictor in a model of hiring).

At least for development work, where each job is only receiving ~10-15 applicants, a well written cover letter that talks intelligently about the employer's problem can cut through the noise of low-quality applicants & lead to a hire.
I always wonder when people say Microsoft is holding back innovation why they don't say the same at Apple. I think Apple does some great marketing and design for their products but from a developer perspective I can see the noose closing more on Apple's platform versus Windows/Android these days.

The App Store removed a dictionary app (don't remember the name) that had foul language in it, really? I like that the App Store ensures quality from an operational perspective, BUT I hate that they can filter out content of the apps that they personally don't agree (illegal items excluding). Where does the line get drawn? Now with this sandboxing for the MacOs App Store apps it seems that they are creating a gate keeper like iPhone apps. Apple tries to block competing apps on its iTunes store while if Microsoft did the same people would scream bloody murder. I hate the word fanboi but I see quite a few Apple ones that after he passed like he was some saint, he was a business man don't forget. Holy shit.

Yeah Bill Gates did questionable things to get where he was but I respect him more for not being and arrogant dick about the products he releases, and now he is GIVING most of his wealth away. Steve Jobs was quoted as saying philanthropy would be distracting, and understandably stopped the charity program when the company was on the urge of bankruptcy but never reinstated it when it was flying high. I respect Apple more now that Tim Cook is in charge for re-instating the charity program.

Did I like Steve Jobs? No he was arrogant and kind of an asshole, traits I don't admire. But I respected him for taking quality products to market and marketing it to people making them think they absolutely needed it. I say he made technology fashionable, and fashion changes every season. That was good for business.
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"Then why not use spoons?"

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/
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What's the right forum for this, then?
You can't go wrong with either one. The best way is to spend some time to learn the basic of both languages and find out which one suit you more.
Publishers love variable fee rates. Consumers prefer flat fee rates. Such is life. I don't understand why they are not looking at the renting as advertisement. It would be interesting to see if sales go up as a result of the borrowing. The other problem is that there really is not very many books available (5,000 sounds like a lot, but if you can't find anything...). The last problem is that it is at most one book a month. I can read a substantial book in 3 days.
I write cpu-intensive audio apps. The difference in performance between 3GS-level devices and the newer models is big enough to require some serious architectural differences in my code.
This looks like one ambitious dream. I'd be pleased if news articles consistently offered simple links to primary sources. Even that has quite a way to go.
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what would the ex unionized government employees do then?
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"We wound up with a zillion fragmented versions, and writing applications that had to run on multiple platforms was a terrible, expensive task."

Sounds like Windows to me.
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The point is that this kind of stuff was debunked 70+ years ago. (Actually, you can go back to Bastiat with "The seen and unseen")

We keep falling for the same mistakes. It makes me wonder why people hold their convictions for their theories of economics so strongly as opposed to, say, the theory that the speed of light can't be surpassed.

If we can approach physics with humility and admit ignorance until further study, why do people not adopt this attitude with things like economics? :(
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If we have reached the point where 2) is true, then there is no more work to do and everything is done! :D
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Not trying to be snarky, but why does gender matter?
I don't believe the goal at this point is to be the Netflix equivalent of books. This is an incentive to get people to sign up for Amazon Prime which should translate into sales across the other realms (purchasing, videos etc..). If you look at one book a month that's about $6.50 per month which might still be making Amazon a profit depending on their margins, especially if they purchase other products as a result. This is a stepping stone and a feature of Amazon Prime only - it's not for people that read 10 books a month nor is it to replace their book library.
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Since the New Delicious lost the 'Networking' feature (the ability follow groups of selected users' link activity) I'm looking for a new home - does anyone know of a good alternative?
Businesses tend to fire people because cutting wages is likely to cause adverse selection - the good people (with options) quit, the bad people (no options) stay. This is why during the recession, jobs were cut, but comp (per worker) actually increased.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ECICOM

Regardless, the government could cut overall comp without cutting any individual's comp and therefore never making anyone mad. They could simply freeze wages (rather than raising them, which they did during the recession) and apply the lower pay scales only for new hires/promotions.

I.e., a current G6 makes $30577 (ignoring COLA). When he upgrades to G7 under the current pay scale, he gets $33979. If all pay scales were lowered by $2500, the individual would continue making $30577 for as long as he is a G6. When he transitions to G7, his pay would only go up to $31479. No individual's pay is ever cut, but compensation for government workers as a whole is reduced.

http://www.fedjobs.com/pay/pay.html
Don't focus on the end goal, focus on the journey. I'm a self-taught web developer (used to be a self-taught designer) and I learned my way through development by simply building stuff. I've had stable jobs for over 5 years now.

Once you've built some useful projects (I built Backbone Todos amongst other things), people are going to find you through them and contact you with opportunities all the time.

You've already started putting your work out there on Github, now you just need to market yourself a little better. a Github account isn't enough. Blog about your experience, build a Twitter following and other promotion techniques.

Maybe extract some smaller bits out of your bigger projects. Those are usually more useful and get more popular quickly. Abstract some of that application-specific code and release it. It's both an exercise in programming and marketing.
The notion behind patents is that if we didn't have them, society would be poorer off because people would invent things and then keep them secret, perhaps far longer than the term of a patent, like the formula for Coca Cola.
A good thing that there are so many quality alternatives for Microsoft's shitty business software!
Also, there is no way to show whether a government project is profitable or not. This means we can't tell whether the project actually helped or hurt the economy.
I'm not sure about the providers in the US, but comparing a "free with contract" iPhone 3GS to a $150 Android phone with contract is ludicrous.

I can get a Samsung Galaxy S2 right now, for $99 and a contract. That thing will run circles around that old iPhone. This is a marketing ploy, nothing more. Is it any wonder the global economy is in shambles when people can't determine what's free and what is "free"?
At our old apartment, we just got a piece of scrap glass for a pittance at the local glass shop. Glass is awesome, it never wears out and is always easy to erase.

In a pinch, you can always write on the windows, though you can't read it if it's dark outside. ;-)
Get jobs that actually help the economy. The government can't add jobs to help the economy by definition, because they don't work in the realm of profit/loss. This is called the economic calculation problem. We've ignored this problem, and that's why we keep creating jobs from stimulus while losing twice as many as created.
For thousands of years, horses were productively employed in the transportation industry. When the automobile was invented, they were unable to find gainful employment and their wages fell below subsistence levels.

This hasn't happened to humans yet because technology has not replaced all possible jobs humans can do. That doesn't mean it can't happen, it just means it hasn't happened yet.
Maybe there's another cause: a huge mismatch between the skills needed and the skills provided by schools. Schools were designed for the industrial era, not the post-industrial era etc. etc. etc....
People who can't afford to pay $300 up front for a luxury device probably shouldn't be buying it.
It's still his moment! I clarified my question a little. I really want to be convinced to buy.
Because economics is not a science. Don't believe me? When was the last time someone published the results of an economic experiment and another economist was able to reproduce it?
Given the indecision of the HP board as of late, how can they expect developers to make any significant effort to develop for their platform?