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So more argument against publishers adding value.
Andy Lester's book "Land The Tech Job You Love" (http://pragprog.com/titles/algh) covers this topic in exactly the same way. I highly recommend this book.

It's excellent advice, and it really is important to keep in mind - some companies use this information not to just lowball you, but to ensure they stay "with the market" in their salary ranges.

Consider the salary a secret of your employer. You can give a range, but never tell anyone what you make right now.
It seems to be up now, but maybe a bit slow?
"Under your inference, the man wouldnt have mentioned anything unless he had at least one male child. (in which case you can say the GG scenario is gone, but GB BG and BB are equally probable)"

No. I'm just assuming he has two children, and randomly mentions something about one of them. The GG scenario is only eliminated after he makes his statement, because we then know he has at least one boy.
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Apologies for the late response. I wrote "explicitly". What I mean by that is that privacy laws already very likely make it illegal, but those laws don't mention "new" technology, so it's kind of open to interpretation until it's tested in court.

Politicians looking to score will often introduce new laws that explicitly make certain practices illegal instead of waiting for jurisprudence.

In this particular case: if you were to register people's visits to a wide range of locations IRL and sell that information, that would be a clear violation of privacy in many countries. It doesn't take a brilliant lawyer to argue that principle also applies online.
0.48 ~ 0.5 Close enough for statistical purposes!
A common in-between approach in academia is to get yourself made an offer by another university, then approach your dean and explain how you love it here and want to stay, but you have this very tempting offer at 20% higher than your current salary, and wonder if they could at least come close to matching it.

Could you do that in tech to boost salary without changing jobs, by getting an offer and then asking your employer to match it? Or is the act of looking for outside offers going to get you a black mark? In academia it usually isn't, partly because it's often done with the tacit approval of your dean, if you do really want to stay and the dean agrees you're worth significantly more on the open market than your current salary. He/she might want to offer you a raise, but be constrained by policies and budget authorizations, while you presenting an outside offer opens up a separate retention-package process that frees up the ability to offer terms outside the formal advancement policy.
This is ridiculous. Let's do some queries on the world:

From all women: (some 3 billion)

the ones who have exactly two living children: x matches

the ones in which it is true for them to say "One of my children was born on Tuesday.". (this is true or false for every mother that comprises x. y mothers remain (can answer "true" for that question")

the ones that can say "both my children were born on Tuesday": z matches

are you telling me that sizeof z is 1/14th the sizeof y???

(because for me it is either 1/7 that size or exactly 0 if the correct meaning of "one of" is "exactly one of and not both of")
One of the nice things about Siri is that you can ask the same question multiple ways. A single person might not switch up the way they ask something, but you can use your preferred way with Siri rather than being forced to learn Siri's way.

From looking at Cluzee's (broken under load) page, it looks like you need to learn the correct syntax in order for it to work.
I think a large part of the problem is that there is no way to figure out how much each person is actually worth.

Sure we have sites like indeed and salary.com that can give you estimates for the position and you also have glass door that gives you some salaries in your area...but they aren't solid numbers.software developer" makes, is pointless since there are so many alternatives, a VB developer is going to be making less than a Python developer.

Same goes for glassdoor...sure the numbers help, but you don't know if the number you are looking at is current...or if it was added 10 years ago when the site launched.

So here is a startup idea...create a site like salary.com but one designed solely for programmers/developers. Then create an interface, where someone can build out a job description/location to get a good feel of what a fair salary would be for that specific position.
No problem! CoffeeScript's destructuring is really nice, IMO:

[first, rest..., last] = someArray

professions =
programmer:
studyTime: "5 years"
salary: 10000
salesman:
studyTime: "2 years"
salary: 15000

{programmer: {salary}} = professions

console.log "A programmer's salary is %s", salary

EDIT: Fixed bug, "developer" should be "programmer".
I would label it as "essentially correct". The odds are very slim that you will

a) Find gold in California
b) Become a rock star
c) Win a lottery
d) Strike it rich and famous as an 'entrepreneur'
e) Achieve above average, long-term gains by trading tulips

Yet, the selection bias that promotes these dreams doesn't deter anyone who is going to go that route.
What's bullshit to you is absolutely serious to me.

I would say that line, or something similar, and mean every syllable of it.

That you don't share my ideals of professionalism isn't particularly my problem.
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Never ever ever lie on a resume or during the interview. Really, don't do it at all if you want to be credible, but especially not during the hiring process. You're going to get caught out for it eventually. Maybe a coworker hears you talking about it at lunch or something. You never know.
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Is that a constraint of local laws aimed at safe driving?
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What 'freelance' developer would build a site, host it and put it live without one payment.
The interviewer followed me, and asked in the stairwell what it would take to get me hired. I said that I had multiple opportunities in the Boston area north of $80k, but wanted to stay local. He countered with "I'll get you $35k, and review your compensation in 3 months". I kept walking.

In the parking lot, we reached an agreement. IMO, it was the first time someone had walked out on him, and he got flustered. I worked in a busy sales job when I was in college, so I was used to dealing with his style. Once they start following you, you've won the negotiation.

Basically, his strategy for any purchase was to dramatically low-ball and act very important. It worked enough that he was very proud of it -- he would extract huge concessions from unwary vendors.
>*You don't need to come up with excuses." //

@rmc, that line "out of professional courtesy" is an excuse. The real reason is that you don't want to harm your salary negotiation.
Siri is a name, it's fairly common in Norway where one of the co-founders of the company that built Siri comes from. [Dag Kittlaus]

In this* article Dag says that he was going to call his first child Siri, but it turned out to be a boy.

* http://e24.no/it/norges-ukjente-dollar-multimillionaer/20119...
This blog post from 2006 (when they were called Schulze & Webb) should provide some context for their broader intentions: http://berglondon.com/blog/2006/10/06/my-printer-my-social-l...

Tom Taylor's Microprinter was a sort of prototype for the ideas therein: http://tomtaylor.co.uk/projects/microprinter
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I really like the look of this, and I can definitely see it being useful. I'm not 100% sure on the pro version idea though - the thing that I love about it is it's simplicity, and "more features" sounds like it might take away from that.

Having said that, there might be a market out there for people who want extra features - but the advice I'd give is to not just add on a Pro package for the sake of making money. Think about what could be of value to developers - whether it's a source of beta-testers, or a list of people who are ready to sign-up to their app when it's live.
Yeah, if you scroll down to the reviews, it seems like that is certainly the chief complaint.
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How's that a privacy concern? Imagine a gmail user in your address book who has not signed up for Plus or you don't care about that person. He/she would be seeing your Plus feed unintentionally. Of course your feed is public in the first place, but the key term here is "intentional". Why would you want to showcase your public items in Plus to some unconcerned people in your Gmail address book?
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That doesn't matter. Back when I wrote my first iOS app (which used private APIs extensively), I had long conversations with several reveiwers (e-mail and phone) where they said it was fine.

We all know how _that_ played out...
It sounds like your company misses one of the most important things about hiring - that both parties are supposed to benefit from the arrangement. You don't get "the upper hand" just because you have the job offer. If you lowball someone, and they find out, they're going to move on, and you get to spend your time hiring a replacement.

When I'm hiring, I want to find someone who will stick around a bit. Hiring is hard.
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This was my first thought as well. This is a good reason why you need to take down payments.

There probably isn't a freelancer out there that hasn't wanted to do what this guy has done to a deadbeat client. I just don't see how going this route benefits you in any way though. Now everyone involved looks like a jerk.
No its not a common hindu female first name. Its not even a name.
The word you are looking for is "Shri"/"Shree"/"Sri" which is used as a prefix for the male name, like Mr., Mrs. etc.
Ars Technica had an headline that standing desks are not as good as many think, but I didn't read it. Nevertheless, work to live, don't live to work.
In the site meta description: "The single greatest video game publisher and production company ever created. Offices in Austin, TX and somewhere cool in England."

Site Title: "Super Official Website"

They sound legit. Esp. with the picture of the crackhead "helpline operator."
This is assuming they can even find out your salary accurately. And they don't know what kind of bonus you might have received.

Inflating your salary a bit is just a negotiating tactic. Considering they are sitting across from the table, trying to screw you, is it going to look that bad that you're fighting back?

There's plenty of misrepresentation going on at an interview. Of all the things to fudge, previous salary seems the least unethical. I mean after all, the potential employer isn't compelled to match or better it.

That said, I hate to lie. But man do I see it happen often.
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>no way to figure out how much each person is actually worth //

You're not buying a person though. In employer terms you're usually buying the completion of a particularly series of actions. These actions can be analysed and given a money value.
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Most open source applications would include "Windows" in the skillset, so the compariosn doesnt really hold. jQuery is crossplatform. They should have compared "python, php" to "c#, java".
This article is behind the times. By the time most professional women have learned to ask for raises like some men do in 2011, those men will have moved on to a more advanced strategy to make more. It's similar to how an expensive university degree is becoming less useful just as women are earning more than 50% of them.

My point is that these men are competitive and they have momentum and the current salary-negotiation-education strategy won't result in parity. I don't see any reason it has to be that way, of course.
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Wait. What? The author says there can only be one BB but that there can be both GB and BG?

What he's doing here is saying that birth order functionally doesn't matter if the sibling is a boy, but it does matter if it's a girl. How is this correct?

If you keep comparing apples to apple you get:

Older Boy / Boy
Boy / Younger Boy
Older Girl / Boy
Boy / Younger Girl

And we're back to a 50% chance that the other child is a boy.
Trying to figure out why it seems wrong at first: it seems my first reaction would be emotional, that the odds of having a boy should be 0.5. However it is exactly because the total probability of a boy has to be .5 that the probability of a second boy has to be less than 1/2. The fact that you can pair "boy" with any enumerable attribute that can bring the probability down to 1/3 is ... funny.
Thanks. I updated the title. I think I impulsively posted this as a commentary on app permissions in general. Android is notorious for the ominous but very granular permissions. Apple is better but they still have that gaping security hole where any app can read or write to your personal address book.

It appears GET_TASK may be used to prevent ad loading when the app is backgrounded. Mobclix.

Also, it appears if I remove the Amazon App Store app, some apps simply refuse to let you run them, asking for you to launch the Amazon App Store. I think the Amazon released apps, some of them, may be phoning the mothership. I am not yet concerned or paranoid enough to sniff the net traffic with a proxy.
It was the best and worst job that I ever had. The guy wasn't too bad of a boss -- he pretty much left us alone, and was pretty effective managing the company execs. I had an opportunity to fix a bunch of stuff that was screwed up (due to turnover, mostly). There was no dev environment, so failure was not an option. It was an amazing learning experience.

On the other hand, I was paged 8-9 times a week to fix stuff. This came down once we fixed some problems, but it wasn't very good for my social life. I took off after a year.
I think she has been in the trenches...
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It reminds me of the Tandy TP-10 thermal printer I had in the early eighties for my CoCo I.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/360/mc10tp10wz7.jpg/

I honestly wouldn't mind a little wireless printer that I could dump lists to these days. Bonus if it printed on Post It Notes.
Here's another scenario: idiotic developers ask for a boatload of permissions "just in case" and don't realize how sketchy it looks.
Yes, but consider, they may very well alter their effort-level to suit the salary you pay them, thereby saving energy for things that matter more to them.
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It means that people pushing advice usually do so primarily for their own good. This is a universal truth that applies to many situations.
I guess not yet. Alternative to Greader do not meet my needs (either you can't produce a feed of shared items that others can subscribe to with any feed reader, or the UX is to poor), so I'm developping my own (which will be released as soon as possible, there's still a bit of work before it can actually be used and I'm in my exams + school project period) and it takes some time. Time during which I'm still using Greader, of course…
Altogether now! Here's the chart:

B G

B BB BG

G GB GG

Satisfied?
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Nice to find this shared here. Been blogging for almost 6 years now, yet I found many useful ideas and tips in Antonio's book. (Disclaimer: I work in Antonio's team, so I got to read the book from its very first chapters.)
That last comparison is false. In both cases p=13/27 .
That's an interesting question and I don't really have an answer, but just a few thoughts.

If we assume the problem is social (a behavior learned by participating in the society) then the next question is whether it's directly related to something specifically learned/taught or whether it's a result of a lot of different things that are taught.

My suspicion is that it's social and the result of a combination of many things. To try and reverse engineer society's beliefs to change that specific behavior is probably unlikely and perhaps we would be losing out on some positive behaviors in the process.

To specifically fix that issue, one would probably have to campaign and educate if you wanted a more 'free' solution. A more paternal solution would be mandating equal pay for equal work and enforcing it across genders.

I don't really know what the solution is, but I do know that I don't see an easy fix.
If the price is right, this would be a fun thing to have at the house. I could see sending notes, puzzles, and funny drawings home to the kids while traveling for work. It would be perfect to print the grocery list and todo lists, two things that we manage via apps, but that are really easier to consume on paper.

Hopefully they will have some sort of API to go along with
it.
It's amazing what the US has turned into. US citizens are subjected to torture by the government and its agencies, citizens are put through hell and treated like criminals by the TSA just to fly, the rich and the powerful are bailed out of their own mistakes while citizens are left with nothing.

To someone looking in from the outside (like me), it looks like the US is slowly devolving into a third world state going by the shabby treatment of its own citizens.

Edit: I forgot to mention the atrocious debt!
No. Google Navigation works perfectly in Canada, as do countless other voice-controlled navigation products.
OP's throwaway account is named " techmanager12345", and in the comments says,

"Ouch! Sorry to hear that the world is tough there! I have never heard from anyone in media, I tend to only know about engineering/tech type jobs."
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For those interested in the details, the (excellent, as always) blog of Richard Lipton sheds some light

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/a-breakthrough-on-m...
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Alkaline batteries can explode however it is quite different than the failure of Lithium batteries. If shorted out or exposed to current they can produce heat and hydrogen gas and because they are in a sealed metal canister they pop, sometimes violently. Note that this is different than Li-ion which can short out internally.

Here's an article about it happening:

http://www.wthr.com/story/15008952/13-investigates-exploding...

Considering how much more common standard batteries are, you can assume it is indeed pretty rare.

As for the energy density of sugar you're right that they're not really directly comparable but yeah I think it is more energy dense. Actually, wikipedia has a nice table for it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

I think we're actually in agreement here. My whole point was that the chemistry of how the energy is released is more important than the energy density.
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It's always the perfect time to start and finish thinking about, then start and finish developing an idea to be successful whether or not YC exists.

I'd guess the YC application due date for Summer 2012 is April 2012.
[author of the article here]

You're right, and I thought about including it in the article. However, I decided not to include it as to not cloud the waters, for two reasons:

1) Oracle v Google is a US case, and this opinion only covers the EU.

2) Oracle v Google seems to be more about patent infringement than copyright infringement. This opinion only covers copyright.
Seriously question for the iPhone toters among HNers -- do you actually use Siri? Anecdotally I've found that many of my 4S equipped peers have already abandoned it. After that brief excitement over Easter eggs, it just doesn't excite them.

I use my Android's voice control daily. It follows a different philosophical model (as the Google guy said, it's the Star Trek versus the Star Wars model, which is a comparison that is apt), however the result is a device that does the majority of what I want perfectly. I am never guessing at the limits of its lingo (all current natural language systems have limits, which is why they are so uncommon) because I know the specific commands that do the things I want.

The real competition to Siri is that people don't want to treat their phone as a human. That the slow imprecision of spoken language is only a worst-case substitute for alternative options.
From Friedmud on MacRumors:
"It is true if you think about what they did here. All they did was make an App that talks over USB to your computer. Nothing wrong with that.

It just so happens though that the "talking" it is doing is transcribing bits to/from the internet connection of the phone.

The App itself is incapable of "tethering" without the piece installed on your computer that translates what the App is sending into a normal looking ethernet device.

Think of it this way... if I made an app that was called USBTwitter... and all it did was read bits over USB and posted them to your twitter account... then I made an executable that you ran on your Mac that sent text bits over USB... you would then be able to post to twitter _through_ your phone (ie tether).

This is the very same thing... but of course more general.

You honestly can't stop this without disallowing apps to use the USB port on the phone (or trying to explicitly ban it in the developer terms... but it would be hard because there would be plenty of "non-tethering" applications that would want to talk over USB and send bits over the phone's net connection simultaneously...)

It will be interesting to see what Apple does here..."

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=13929912#post13...
Must have had a heck of a bad experience to be so bitter. She must have been one of those 'carried off on their shield'.
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