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From what I understand of the Washington DC market, senior software engineers are generally paid more than technical managers.

But, given that many good technical managers were at one point good technical developers, it makes sense that they're paid more.

Having done both roles, being the 'lead' senior technical developer is the more difficult of the two. Though technical project management is more difficult than programming.
English-language comments are usually full of prepositions, ambiguous terms and mostly stuff that was meaningful just to the author. Words about data in our out, upstream or downstream are always useless because nobody else has any idea what point of view you're taking (data produced BY your code, or produced FOR your code?)

If you think you're making things clear to somebody coming after you, I'd guess you're wrong most of the time.

And then, the code changes but the comment doesn't. Now its downright misleading.

Also it's arrogant to imagine somebody who writes good code can also write good prose. Testing shows most folks are good at one or the other, right? Math or English, few can do both.
"Because as we well know, people are not perfect (or even good) reasoners"

People are capable of reason. Whether or not they actually apply reason in their own lives is a matter of choice.
Its difficult to know what the figures on that chart mean, after casual inspection. Is it gross debt? Debt net of assets? How are they calculating the debt?

There are more subtle issues, too. Its very hard to know what to count as Irish sovereign debt. Do you count 'working capital' on loan from the ECB? How do you value the assets of the nationalised banks, which perhaps count against debt? Also, adding to the confusion, is that countries have an incentive to use various accounting strategies to minimise the figures.

So its very hard to come up with an estimate that everyone agrees on.

One of the Irish economic commentators, generally thought to hold the most pessimistic outlook, is academic economist Morgan Kelly; he wrote an article in the Irish times, in May, where he estimated the debt at 250B euro (~$340B) (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0507/122429... - pretty grim reading).
Obviously a terrible amount of debt, but its half the amount quoted in the NYT.

How did Ireland get like this? A comment elsewhere on this article has a pretty good summary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3230142

Basically, we had a housing bubble in Ireland, some very careless bank management (like the rest of the world) and a political failure to either A) regulate the banks properly, or B) to deal with the consequent bank failures properly.

When things started to go south in September 2008, the government of the day made a decision to guarantee much of the debts of the main Irish banks. This turned out to be a very bad decision. Its also a decision that the ECB and other EU countries won't let Ireland wriggle out of, as many of the creditors of the Irish banking system are other EU financial institutions (worried about systemic risk) - to the extent that Ireland recently paid off a controversial unguaranteed bank loan, under pressure from the ECB.

So this is why the Irish sovereign debt is so high.

The fundamentals of the economy could have been better - there was too much building construction, for a start - but they weren't bad; the state functions, people pay their taxes, Irelands a good place to do business, and is becoming a very friendly place for startups; so the scenario is very different from Greece; but the level of debt is sadly huge.
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there is pomodoro technique RPG game which makes it even more interesting :)

trying it now, getting gold for completed pomodoros ...
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I interpreted "extremely normal in all respects" as meaning he's someone you wouldn't mind working with. You see, a lot of theoretical physicists are brilliant but have very difficult personalities.
What interested me most is that not only did he figure out how to learn app development, he is also going ahead and helping others through the club.

The basic social traits are there in a 6th grader too. Sharing knowledge for a better world!
...you write this like you don't expect any black people to be reading your comment. I'm offended by reading this, so I can't imagine how black readers of HN that come across this feel.

Also, they're African-American. And no, that's not nitpicking or trying to be PC; it's an important distinction.
In what... Gnome3? Win7? OS/X?
The book just didn't have the Mona Simpson speech moments, or the Pineapple Pizza moments in Steve's life:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
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I would.

He didn't oversell it (which is what every tech speaker does nowadays as they try, and fail, to imitate Jobs). His ton was even, he didn't sound or look nervous. He had minor trip ups a couple time and just kept going. He made the audience genuinely laugh.

Also, what makes you say he took "his cadences/writing style from popular tech presenters?" Isn't that a bit like watching a child score three pointers one after another and saying "ah, isn't that cute, he's imitating Ray Allen"
10-15 years ago, a true monopoly was in control of PCs: Microsoft. I couldn't use Linux or Mac at work. I had to use Windows to share documents because I couldn't get onto the network shares to access them. I couldn't access the internet because my ISP required Windows only software to get online.

Microsoft had 'won' and we all lost our freedom to use software that doesn't suck.

Luckily, this was a temporary state. I promise you, if Apple 'wins' the mobile war, their victory will not affect you for long.

Further more, if Android 'wins', we're much more screwed. I've already lived in a world of feature phones controlled by the carriers. I did not like it one bit and I had far less freedom than I do now with my iPhone.
I help coach a FIRST Tech Challenge robotics team. When I opened up my MacBook one day there the kids went nuts seeing XCode and the iPhone simulator open. A couple of them would probably rather be building iOS apps than doing robotics. One of the kids even has apps in the Android store.

I think back to my middle school days and it doesn't seem that different from us tinkering with (ok, I'm old so humor me) BASIC and assembler on Commodore 64s, Atari 800s, and Apple IIes. The big differences are that kids today have a chance to publish stuff without years of building business relationships. There's also something Paul Hegarty said in his iOS class in iTunes University (another thing we didn't have as kids - access to free college-level courses): There's just something neater about having your app in your hand to show people wherever you go.
Yes, that could easily have been what he meant, but then again, a university would be more likely to care about the "gay, communist, whatever" thing much more than how easy he was to work with. Therefore, I think that the former was more important for Oppenheimer to communicate. Any university would want an Einstein. Only a few, or maybe even none, would want a gay Einstein or a communist Einstein.
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I would have gone, but I'm over here meeting YC today!
The suits have 'a feeling of the business'? If its as accurate as their views about 'commodity programmers', that explains a lot.

Management's output has no unit tests, no spec, few stats to hold accountable short of annual revenue. In my experience (30 years) they function through a combination of personal feelings and witchcraft. Those that luck out are considered special for no good reason - statistics shows there are usually outliers, so a dart-throwing monkey may do as well.

Ask the suits what problems they have? Its their job to drive the program. As 'commodities' why on earth should we have to pry vital information out of some overpaid manager? I don't mean to be spiteful here, but managers that don't know intimately the details of their program, tasks, direction and resources are useless drones.
I'm not sure. It's an impressive, yes. But I doubt that I'd want my (young) children to own a mobilephone that's worth $$$.
No, he's already conditioned himself to answer certain "high-priority" emails quickly while responding with high latency to voicemails.

His girlfriend who will be more likely to change her behaviour in response to this exercise, rather than him (i.e. he's already conditioned himself).
It's not often that people get to pick who writes their biography, I think it's very possible that Jobs picked the wrong guy.
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You're comparing a semi-controlled environment (Foxconn) to entire fucking society. That's some pretty shoddy statistics to say the least.
You can s/static typing/unit testing/g and still get a pretty good essay.
I like a recommendation letter from a CMU prof of John Nash,

This man is a genius.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr.#Post-grad...
Right. Writers are told all the time "I have a great idea. You write it and we'll split the money". I read of one writer's response "I know this boxer; you fight him and we'll split the money"
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Its biggest plus is that it is cross platform. They have apps for Blackberry, Android, iOS and Symbian. So you can talk with almost anybody out there. At least in my home country, most people have Blackberry/Symbian. Imagine having a group conversation with people on different platforms and in different countries.
And why is that worthy of a downvote? Suicides aren't valid negative things? I am not against Steve Jobs. But to say all he did was hurt feelings is ignorant. He hurt feelings and perpetuated a supply chain with a lot of negative elements to it. And no, Apple is not the only company doing it.
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>There's just something neater about having your app in your hand to show people wherever you go.

This is so true. I used to build TI-83 games and physics apps for precisely this reason. Handheld devices are hugely popular among kids and the ability to go from a content consumer to a content creator is huge for them.
Supply and demand.

In some places they get paid more.
I'm not at odds with your opinion, I agree. My point is that a lot of other fragile attitudes impact the person holding them. But a cavalier attitude like with Jobs or people set on having an impact on the world is fragile in that it can impact many others. That's the only concern with me.
I know in stocks you can sell futures. So you say, the shares are worth 1$ today as a fresh start up, in 2 years we will buy them back of you for 20 $, if the share is worth over 20$.

If your are Zynga and you are confident that they could go above that its a good buy and the worker feels a bit more secure but wont earn these too high returns that Zynga may not like .

Sorry if my application of basic futures to Zynga are bit off, hope explains more or less what I mean, my memory is flaky here.
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> "To a person fighting a critical bug they lack this luxury. It's my job when I create code to help the person debugging it (even if it's me) to understand the code as quick as possible so that they may find and solve the problem as soon as possible."

I am quite often in this situation - maintaining code written by others on a very tight schedule, weekends, evenings, trying to find and fix bugs and still make it to the next family commitment, etc. Wish more people understood this and considered the many future maintainers when writing their code.
From the original question: Given that programming is generally more difficult […]

IMHO, one can stop reading at this point because an argument based on a flawed assumption is, well, flawed.
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Why not just call them what they are: American.

Let's remove all stereotypes, not just the ones you don't like eh.
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Testing and development cost so much because it had to work on 60 phone models and in most cases required rewrites and compiles from device to device.

This is also the reason most efforts on "artist apps" are for iOS. Fragmentation hurts!
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Every time I click a pin, a pop up comes up in the map view then immediately closes. Am I using this incorrectly?
I know very little about the economy in the UK and I'm curious to understand why you say that your economy is closer to that of the US than that of France or Germany (or any other EU economy for that matter).
12 years old is high time to learn responsibility, I reckon. Throw a ruggedized case like LifeProof and a 3rd party warranty on it and let 'em have it.

Hell, adults should do that for their phones, let alone kids.
This seems very similar to the Amazon Route 53 Alias record which I've found quite useful for pointing to ELB instances:

http://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs/#Supported_DNS_record_typ...
I tried to post a reply last night from an iPhone app but it didn't go through. Maybe if it had my Karma would not have gone from 11 to -10...

Anyway, the reason I'm "trotting this out" is because to say all he did was hurt feelings is ignorant. He hurt feelings and perpetuated a supply chain with a lot of negative elements to it. And no, Apple is not the only company doing it. But I'm looking at some of the negative elements Steve Jobs had. Yes, he was rude to people. Also, he took part in a labor practice that I think is messed up, personally. That's all.
Will you eventually have to pay for usage of Google Maps (http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction...) if you go over 25000 views per day?

I'm asking because I'm cooking up a similar concept, and the upcoming price increase of Google Maps makes me a bit hesitant to use them.

The Google Maps Premier page, where my only option is to "Contact Sales" also doesn't seem very friendly to small sites and apps (http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps.html).
I do have exactly the same problem/need and would add the following requirements:

1/ add history per contact: e.g. met X during event Y and talked about Z.

2/ integrate w/ my prefered mail application and other communication means (twitter/fb & co) to keep track of the interactions I had w/ the person in question.

Anybody interested in building that? I'd be more than happy to help :-)
I cannot see why an employer would not want to hire someone with extensive Python knowledge for a Django position, assuming the candidate also has web development experience. It is not as though Django is especially difficult to learn.
They certainly are on my work Mac (Snow Leopard).
We need more kids doing things like this. So cool to see self-motivated, young entrepreneurs, starting things.
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In some regards, they did. The crash reports from Windows XP indicated that around 20% of all OS crashes originated in the display driver (1). Vista introduced a new display driver model. One of its features is that the OS will now survive a driver crash. The screen just goes blank for a few seconds.

1) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480220.aspx
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I wonder if such a letter would be available for posterity if it were written today. Technically the student has the right to see what letters are written about him, but most schools want the student to waive that right (if they don't already have a policy of discarding the letters after matriculation). I suppose I am merely deathly curious about the letter I had written before my transfer from the University of Washington (since I only had one instructor I really expected to know anything about me, and I never got to see the letter), as obviously nothing written about me will merit later revisiting. At least not yet.
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Which is why Walmart et al. are desperately trying to build brandshare there. They don't want to be left out of the China frenzy and "stuck" with the reliable old US embarrassment of riches.
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I've said this on other comments, but comparing an uncontrolled environment like and entire society (China) to a semi-controlled environment like Foxconn is bad statistics and foolish.
He sounds like a kid who's seen a lot of Apple keynotes. A lot of his tactics he takes right from Jobs, but for some reason his diction reminds me more of Scott Forstall, who's always a little more eager and a little more rehearsed than Jobs was on stage. (Jobs always took his time talking.) Not that this is a bad thing! When I was his age I was mimicking my favorite writers' styles, and teaching myself the comic pacings of my favorite comedians. That's how you first develop a sensibility, by studying the people you like.

He absolutely shows signs of nervousness – his movements are twitchy, he speaks too quickly and runs over his sentences. Clearly he spent a lot of time rehearsing what he had to say, and he does a good job of it. He gets the audience to laugh, though I'll be skeptical and suggest that audiences are predisposed to laugh at jokes made by young people, and also at jokes involving Justin Bieber getting whacked.

The reason I wouldn't call him great (though he is clearly good at this) is that he doesn't take his audience's perspective into account. I'd be stunned if he could; it's a damned difficult skill to have learned when you're a preteen. He takes (and sells) some effective cadences, but what he's actually saying fits awkwardly within the frame. He spends time explaining certain things unnecessarily, because from his younger perspective certain details are more interesting than they are when you're even a little bit older. Again, not surprising, and not a ding against him.

As for your Ray Allen quip, unfortunately I don't know basketball well enough to respond, but I argue that there's a difference between a basic action (like shooting a three-pointer) and a pattern (like constructing a speech in a certain way with certain rhythms). It would be like if a basketball player had a certain famous technique for making his way across the court once he had the ball. You could watch a younger player and notice that he was mimicking the tactics of certain players. Once again, not something to be held against a young person figuring out the rules of a game – that's one of the best ways to learn! But this kid is still sticking pretty rigorously to a template. It's a good template, and I think it's cute seeing a young kid mimic speakers with whom I'm quite familiar.

I just wouldn't call it great – because for me presentation is a nuanced art, and there's a lot more to it than what we're seeing here. Calling this great might close minds to the possibility of more sophisticated presentations, and that would be a real shame. It's nothing against this kid, who's clearly bright and having a lot of fun in the spotlight.
>I do daily exercise, have done strength training for years

Mixing those two is a bad sign, because strength training takes a while to recover from. You might be doing something wrong -- how much do you squat?
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In the environment where I used Flex printing was always a problem as well. There was an (understandable) expectation that they should be able to print out a meaningful representation of what they saw on the screen. A _huge_ source of pain.
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Steve Jobs - I have to admit, it is not at all what I expected. I thought it would be a gushing tribute, but instead he comes across as a complete asshole-tyrant (so far... I'm about halfway thru the book) and his success was almost in spite of himself. He was dead wrong almost as much, if not more, than he was right (at least until he rejoined Apple, which is where I'm at right now). Not a glowing biography in the least, which is shocking but I guess refreshing.
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I'm not an Apple hater nor spreading lies. Unless the Isaacson biography is made of lies.

If you were a Penn State football fan and recognized that Coach Sandusky was fucked up, you're not a) spreading lies or b) being a Penn State hater. You're recognizing a negative thing that is unfortunately a part of something you generally like.

I generally like Steve Jobs' message and his speeches and products. But I'm recognizing the fact he, like everyone, was not perfect and had negative qualities. I'm also recognizing his involvement in a supply chain I don't feel 100% happy about. I still buy his products but I'm aware of the negative stuff, too. I'm just trying to be informed and fair about him.
It is helpful, you just don't want the help enough.

60-90, median in the 70s. Equity entirely dependent on what employee # you are, but expect well under 0.5%. That's the answer you were looking for. Do us a favor though and save Patrick's answer somewhere where you'll find it in 10 years, and see what you think of it then.
Having been both a programmer and a project manager, there are difficulties to both jobs, but frankly, the difficulties of project management are harder to see.

Programmers have the difficulty of the unforgiving reality of having to make things _work_ - pass tests, compile, perform. This makes their job challenging, but it also makes it rewarding in that you know when you've gotten it right, when that piece of work is done.

Project managers have a task much more like herding cats: a poorly (or non) defined problem, moving goalposts, and a lot of "least worst compromise" kind of decisions. They have to deliver business results while keeping engineers and execs happy, in many cases with much of the responsibility for a projects success and little of the authority (i.e. they can't hire or fire engineers because the engineers don't actually report to them.)

I'm not saying one is actually harder than the other - that's very situation-specific. Just that the "difficult" parts of the project manager's job are less obvious to a programmer. (And, I'd note, often the _exact_ types of discomfort that most programmers would love to avoid dealing with themselves.)

(A good project manager is a shit umbrella, a bad one is a shit funnel. If you're in a shitstorm, learn to love your umbrellas.)
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