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I refuse to believe that logic. We have to decide if we're the people who believe that information is best dealt with by elites, or whether we are the ones who believe that every single person has something to contribute.

When I put it this way to other Wikipedians it usually shuts them up. ;)
This is a door which swings two ways. As the world technical expertise is rising, emerging markets are also rising. This means that while we have more competition, there is also rising demand to eat up that talent.

There may be a pain point in the transition, but I believe that domestic markets for developers will keep demand high and availability tight. Look at Chinese manufacturing as an example. China started out as the factory for the world but now the Chinese are looking more towards serving their domestic markets.

U.S. companies are seeing China as an opportunity for growth in sales rather than as a source for cheap labor. Today, developers are bringing in high paying gigs from the West and worrying about competition from developing nations. Tomorrow, developers are going to be competing for work originating from those same developing nations.

"and there are likely people in the world that are cheaper to hire than you that can do the same thing"

I don't think it's that simple. I'm a U.S. citizen living in the Philippines and I have found that live here isn't necessarily cheaper than anywhere else. In some cases things are more expensive. The reason people are living cheaper here isn't because of some national discount on everything for being a member of the "developing nation club," but rather it's because far more people are living in poverty. They have far lower expectations of "having stuff" than people in the U.S. have.

I have also found lately that as a Western developer, I'm not always the most expensive option. I have found that dev shops from India are often charging more than I do. In some cases it's because they have simply progressed to a point where they have been able to raise their rates by being better at selling, and in other cases it's because they don't have the same knowledge as I do in certain areas and aren't as accurate in their estimates.

A typical developer in the Philippines may start out cheap, but as he makes more money his expectations will rise. He will raise his rates as he is able to just like any other developer would. Eventually he is charging global market rates which is as much or more as you are charging. Again, the pain point is the period where that developer is competing with the same work you are competing for in your home country. Eventually he will be able to get those rates in the Philippines and you may be competing with him for work from his own country. The tables have turned!

Don't worry about the competition. Keep doing your thing and growing. As the world economy grows and technology progresses, there will be more opportunities. When this web thing got started, one guy would develop an entire site and he would call himeself a web master. Today it's getting more difficult to be the guy who can cover all bases. We can still do that for a simple site, but many of us are sticking to our strong points and letting other developers take care of the rest. These days I rarely work alone. This evolution creates new niche areas every day and in those areas you only have to run a little faster than the masses.
+1.

Ubuntu has excellent repositories; just can't bring myself to switch away. So I started looking at alternatives. I spent a week trying to use Kubuntu before realizing it was a lost cause. I had a few bad experiences with Xubuntu in the past so I skipped it, but Lubuntu works perfectly - even in this virtualbox environment running on Windows 7.

I do think a lot of people will be put off by having to learn xrandr, but not me. I also replaced the lack of any tiling mechanism with Pytyle.

xrandr --newmode "1680x1050" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --newmode "1440x900" 106.50 1440 1528 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VBOX0 1440x900
xrandr --addmode VBOX1 1680x1050
xrandr --output VBOX0 --mode 1440x900
xrandr --output VBOX1 --mode 1680x1050
xrandr --output VBOX1 --left-of VBOX0
The article wasn't created until after he had died as is made clear by the discussion and the edit history.

People create articles all the time about their recently deceased grandfather who was an ordinary soldier in WW2. These usually get deleted unless the person was otherwise noteable.

If I request that such a "grandfather" article is deleted it is not cause I hate your grandfather or want to hurt you. It is just that there were millions of other ordinary soldiers in WW2 so your granddad wasn't anybody special in history even if he was special to you.
I wouldn't. The online classifieds market does not have any room for new entrants.
I think the complaint is not that there are processes - clearly there must be - but that the processes are opaquely documented, poorly tracked, not transparent to start with, and arbitrarily and often capriciously enforced.
You are misinterpreting what I'm saying. Read it with a little less cynicism.
I'm not arguing against the full language base layer. I'm saying that the op is complaining that he/she needs to learn Haskell to create an XMonad config.

Even if I want to use one of those libraries, I still need to create an xmonad.hs file, and import the library. Vs having an xmonad binary that determines libraries/etc from a config file, and all code-level customizations are libraries/modules.
One of the things that I think puts people off from CouchDB is the comparative complicatedness of the query system, what with having to map/reduce and all. SQL queries are incredibly flexible by comparison, not to mention that SQL queries are how many developers think.

But after studying data structures, I realized that most other databases have a lot of time complexity involved that they are basically sweeping under the rug, whereas Couch's relatively simple query model can guarantee that it's roughly O(log(M) + N).
"We don’t run ads because doing so would sacrifice our independence. The site is not and should never be a propaganda tool."

I really don't understand wikipedia's continued hesitation to accept advertising--nor the argument that it would sacrifice their independence--anyone can edit it already, so I question whether sponsorship needs to have any impact on article content whatsoever.

What's the problem with having a banner at the top saying "Wikipedia is brought to you today by McDonalds..." just something small, as a way of saying that they care about free access to knowledge too.
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So is this like a true mesh network, or just a traditional wireless network. If it's a mesh network, do nodes have multiple point-to-point links. I assume they would over the larger than a few km distances you're talking about.
"Simplicity isn't just a visual style. It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep." -- Jony Ive
One way to distinguish between distros is package management. Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and other Debian derivates use apt/deb. Fedora and other RH derivatives use rpm. Other distros use whatever they use.

If you don't care one way about package management, then you might care about which versions of packages are supported by default. For example, this is Lubuntu's (essentially Ubuntu's).

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lubuntu

You can check other distros' package versions there too, as well as package management, file systems, etc. Of course nothing says you can't install whatever version of whatever package on whatever distro that you want, but it's nice to know from where you'll be starting.
FaceKicker, the match %'s induce a sort and provide a rough gauge of how similar someone is to you, and to what you say you want.

Users can tweak their answers or importance levels and are even encouraged to do so.
Programming for lawyers, the law for programmers
I'm trying to learn how to program and the easiest way for me to understand it is by comparing it to something I understand better. For me, that's the law.

Programmers often use a framework to make their job easier. Legislation is a type of framework and when you're drafting a contract (a program) you can sometimes opt-in to provisions contained into legislation. It makes your job a lot easier as a lawyer, but they will also need modification. This is a very general comparison but it holds true (imo).

Pushing code is similar to having your contract (program, remember) tested by a court.

variables, functions, all these things have their equivalent in the law, but somehow getting the hang of programming seems a lot harder.

Syntactical errors and typos are frowned upon in the law, but they happen all the time and they don't break the whole system

Sigh...
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The myth of wikipedia is that the people who run it are the people who are most responsible for creating its content. That is not the case and the ongoing friction between the community that effectively is wikipedia and the community that actually runs wikipedia is the single most likely cause for any future downfall of it.
Huh? A good "programmer" is a good problem solver. You can't be a good problem solver if you don't have a conceptual understanding of algorithms or have any notion of what it means for a problem to be "hard".
> You need a department that can take responsibility for account lockouts and resolve them! STAT!

Most companies have teams similar to this, but they are often used wrong, have the wrong type of staff, bad/poor procedures and processes or are under/over-utilized for escalated problems (so too much or too little goes to them).

Additionally, you might be surprised by how difficult it is to find quality staff (especially at the relatively poor salaries often on offer) that has the "right" mindset to be successful for a role like this. The level of customer service, problem resolution skills, knowledge of possible problems & their resolution (without checking a manual, notes, colleagues), quick response and thick skin/hardheadedness for the abuse you will get, when you are trying to help. Sometimes customers are irrational, make mistakes, blame the company for their errors and won't accept it was their error. More often the case (when I did this role), it was a joy to help customers to resolve the problem so they are happy (or happier) with the result.
It's reasonable to assert that about 40% of the sales came from domestic sales.

Historically Apples international revenue has floated around 40% (i.e domestic at around 60% by revenue). In recent quarters these figures have reversed due to international iPhone penetration. (By revenue iPhone makes up around 43% of Apple's business with the iPad and Mac hardware roughly on par at 19%/20% respectively. iPhone significantly outsells all other business models by units and revenue.)

Apple's last quarterly results(Q4 2011) indicated 63% international revenue over all business units. Leaving 37% for domestic revenue.

Applying this figure directly indicates 4.11M sales alone in the last quarter, or 9.25M over the three quarters stated, which is reasonably consistent with Gruber's math.

If we keep in mind that the iPhone is skewing the revenue split to international purchases we can assert that 40% is indeed being conservative.

Reference: Apple Q4 2011 earnings call: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/18/apple-records-q4-2011-ea...
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This is the same process that happened to me when I created http://dummyimage.com (Complete history of the project: http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/the-history-of-dummyimag...)

The funny thing is my project laid dormant for years until a friend of mine shared it here on HackerNews.
Dumb, dumb, dumb people can learn to follow all sorts of rituals, if they’re sufficiently motivated. That fact does not, in and of itself, justify the rituals.
It depends what you do in America with regard to 55k / year after 2 years, I gravitated towards a platform / language that pays higher than median for developers as a whole so I got past that fairly quickly, but for guys who work mainly on the front-end or higher level languages it may be about the same, depending on location of course
I share your sentiment. It's disrupting their entire way of thinking regarding the programming field.

It would be amazing to get to the level of programming enlightenment to be able to create a compiler or kernel, though. That's a goal of mine with-in a decade.
Re: "real news" - http://www.propublica.org/ comes close...
I propose a businessman whose output cannot be measured very well earns p/r+log(e)+k, where p is the profit the company makes, r is his rank within the company (CEO is 1, CFO/CMO is 2, etc), e is the number of employees beneath him, and k is the base salary at that firm.

The idea here is that upper management at certain companies effectively own the firm and distribute profit accordingly, while middle management usually advances in income by increasing empire.

Edit: variable name.
... and they don't reduce our multi-core cpus to a crawl.
I think he's referring to individuals. Companies with commitments, contracts, and accountability are quite different. In individuals, I too have seen a trend of declarations wildly exceeding completions.

For the exceptions, I believe that's where "sometimes there’s a reason it makes sense to wait" comes into play.
It's much worse than that. The linked article is about the 'median wage' at each of those education levels. I can't imagine a metric less interesting to HN than 'median performance.'

Show me the top 10% of earners, then give me the breakdown of how much traditional education those people consumed. Hustlers aren't getting by on their credentials.
Cool thanks for the pointer. Seems legit considering processing costs.
When talking about a starting value and a new value, I find the percentage change formula on the page you referenced to be the most logical. When considering a change, your frame of reference is usually the original value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_change_and_difference#...
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> I ask honestly: why should it be easy to participate?

Perhaps because the tagline of Wikipedia is "The free encyclopedia anyone can edit", not "The free encyclopedia anyone can edit after conducting 20 hours of intense self-study into the arbitrary bureaucracy and 'standards' that let us have a page for every Pokemon and Justine Ezarik's 300-page iPhone bill but not a page for a band that's won 15 local music festivals and produced 3 records"?
Coming in an hour later, it looks like you just italicized the uppercase. I think bane met to use italics instead of uppercase. If this is on purpose, well played. :)
There are several great organizations that have no way to make money, so they rely on donations. Wikipedia isn't in that situation. They could sell ads that were clearly marked as such. A simple small text ad on each page would give them more money than they would ever need.

They're costs seem to be low enough and the value of ad space is high enough that they wouldn't have to put up with anyone trying to extort them or take away there independence.

If they are worried that the surplus of money would corrupt their organization, then they can give the surplus away or just limit the number of ads they sell (but maybe hire a couple more devs first).

That is why I will not donate.
Does this mean my MacBook would be tax free?! I could live without milk for the rest of my life, but not my computer.

Oh, and I love the way you slip in "lean" meats. Your own political agenda at work.
May I suggest downplaying the downloads stat? I'm assuming you get this from summing up the downloads on pypi but it only sort-of correlates with usage. Many people with pip/virtualenv will download the same packages over and over as they redeploy. It also tends to favor old projects.

I think a better metric for popularity would be a blend of activity in the source code repos, activity on mailing lists, wikis, blog postings etc. I liked djangopackages' use of a "I use this" metric because it helped me make comparisons across github and bitbucket. Much harder to gather but much more useful.

Edit: Also another issue with downloads can be seen with something like the Requests library. It has 40k downloads. Is that a lot? What do you compare it to? For me the important questions are: are people moving to it or away from it? Is it active or not? How popular is it in comparison to other libraries that do similar things?

Good luck on this project. It seems like a good start.
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Under ideal circumstances, what contribution would you have wanted him to make?
What's interesting to me about your comment is that databases seem to be the pain of programming in general. Trying to shoehorn OOP into data schemas and vice versa, whether manually or via ORM, is in many cases rather unpleasant.
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I mostly agree.

On the other hand, I would block any ad they posted, so I'm not sure how much my opinion should count.
It's really not all that complicated. The only process that really has a lot of discussion is when people have disagreements and are trying to come up with a sane way that allows everyone to get to the best content possible. Only in those situations doesn't anyone ever refer to the guidelines or processes for handling issues between people.

The few exceptions are when we as a community feel there is a gray area left to interpretation because the action is large enough to possibly effect a good number of editors. We hold a discussion in those cases. This happens more often than not around page deletions, page merges, category deletions, category merging, tag merging, cross included template changes that effect a large number of pages, changes in process, and other huge things.

There isn't any extra processes and bureaucracy on wikipedia then there has to be or then the community feels is necessary.
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We are in the early planning phase, but our intent is a true mesh.
milk and fruits are often considered ingredients in these laws - chocolate is too, chips are often taxed. stuff gets complicated depending on who wrote the law.

what's with the down votes - I didn't write the damn laws like this
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Freenet, i2p and Tor are good examples of what we are trying to do, but they are not quite what we want. Our end goal intent is a completely separate network with it own infrastructure.
You have deliberately ignored the most contentious part of the Wikipedia policy regarding articles, which is the "Notability" rule. Why an Internet-based encyclopedia with no editors, printed version, or quality control feels the need to limit articles to "notable subjects" is beyond me - it isn't like we're going to run out of electrons any time soon.

In this particular case, it was quite clear this person existed and that she worked in SEM. There were plenty of sources to back that up. That should be the relevant criterion for whether an article can exist in an Internet-based encyclopedia. There was no reason to delete this article other than "Ha ha, I know the rules of this bizarre system and will throw W:PDQXYZ links at you until you go away".
I don't know that this is specifically resistance to contribution by subject matter experts. I think Wikipedia is more precisely indifferent to their subject matter expertise when it comes to considering direct contributions. If Danny Sullivan wants to edit Wikipedia, he's welcome to, but nobody's going to treat him with more deference than any other editor.

What they do make great use of is indirect contributions. If a physicist or a cardiac surgeon writes and publishes a paper on the topic of their expertise, that is fantastic raw material for Wikipedia. Which is precisely the relationship that most subject matter experts have with any other encyclopedia, so it seems reasonable to me.
The problem with all of these common justifications for advertising is that they are all despite itself. Yes, the occasional ad is more entertaining than the content, and occasionally an ad will give you exactly the information that you need.

But fundamentally, ads do not exist in order to entertain or inform you. They exist to distract you from what you want to see, towards something someone else wants you to see. In general, content is always more valuable than advertising.

If looking at ads is the cost of looking at content, so be it. The point is that it is a cost, not a gift.
My guess is because execs have a much higher % of stock.
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I don't get the reluctance to use advertising. Wikipedia could place one small, unobtrusive text ad on each page and they would have more than enough money to operate their business and pay their employees what they deserve. If there's money left over, they could offer scholarships or make charitable donations. I don't think that placing small ads on a page in an effort to keep information free and prosperous amounts to propaganda or a loss of independence.
The problem is perception. With ads, there is the possibility of influence, so there is also the possibility that readers would trust wikipedia less.

Although I would prefer that they take ads rather than disappear.
This is backwards. I'm not an admin on wikipedia (but I do have admin revert and reviewer flags) but I do help "run" wikipedia only because I participate in it.

I been vandal patroller for years. I follow the AfDs and other actions and contribute to actions in different wikiprojects. I can say for a fact that there is no clear line between any of the two camps.

Admins don't have the time to push agendas. They are way to busy with chores as a whole to really get into silly battles like that.
> I really don't understand wikipedia's continued hesitation to accept advertising

Try to think of an example where editorial maintained independence from the sales department.

My favorite example from dead-tree newspapers: For all the noise they make about the sacredness of editorial, I don't think it was a coincidence that the number of articles about the bubble in real estate were inversely proportional to RE advertising dollars.