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Wait, what? Is there no such thing as someone who has enough experience that they are allowed to speak directly and clearly about an issue? Rather, you think people are supposed to be all mealy-mouthed so that you don't feel like they are too presumptuous?

That doesn't make sense. There are people in the world who are worth listening to. The "democratic" nature of the web means that a lot of people post a lot of crap, and maybe some people are so used to reading crap that they have just forgotten what it's like when people really know what they are talking about. I don't know.

There's a huge difference between Rails Bros and smart guys who attack the hardest problems they can, whenever they can. Charles is one of the latter people and has been for, I don't know, 16 years? I don't want to live in a world where someone like that is not permitted to speak in an uncushioned way.
I don't have any association with Nokia (not even a relative working there, and I don't own stock).

My point is one of simple curiosity: everybody thinks that J2ME featurephones are dead, but actually they're silently advancing and seem to have reached an interesting level of functionality that's not necessarily even provided by smartphones. (Examples include proxied web browsers à la Amazon Silk, and integrated in-app purchasing that works through the operator's billing gateway.)
>> it's so hard to actually find good senior programmers

Most of them either find jobs through referrals, or have become consultants in order to avoid the unwritten rule in many companies that you can't make a higher salary than your manager (yes I know there are exceptions).
I don't know about Facebook, but Google doesn't seem to be hiring many college kids these days. It's hard to find a 22-year-old with both the skill and desire to work in Google's main languages (Java and C++). Also, what you said is quite true: a team consisting entirely of junior programmers is difficult to manage.
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Looks like Ryanair is trying very hard to get customers to use their website, instead of meta searchers that scrape their website. I think however, that they realize the complete opposite. Their website is now even more unusable and meta searchers still include Ryanair tickets.
I downvoted you by accident. Twitch of the finger. Sorry.
Indeed. I wrote the graphics motor for a set top. I'd last year, and that is one of the many optimisations the weak hardware required to make UI animations run smoothly. It's hard to believe that Android doesn't do this.
My gf works for a recruitment company in the Netherlands, and my general feeling looking at these results is that they're on the low side. Senior developers here charge in the region of 50-70 euros/hour, or about 450 euros/day. I'm fairly sure a senior with plenty of experience in an in-demand technology can push the 70 up into the 80-90 rate, and niche areas like SAP can be even higher.
I think you had better have a day off and perhaps investigate home-brewing.

Seriously, most people have more than one career, I'm on my third. I see no reason why the same should not apply to computer programmers.

Right now, I've slowly begun to realise that I can produce documentation and tutorials that people find useful. This may (or may not) lead to career number four.
How old are you? Because usually when I hear this speech, it's coming from some 25 year-old who gets a couple of years of experience under his belt and is convinced that qualifies him as a wise old programmer who can condescend to all those younguns who don't know how to build a program (regardless of whether they actually are younger or less experienced than him).

Guess what? People want their jobs to be fun. Maybe you're a robot who only cares about the most efficient way to build a product, but I'm not. And I'm not going to apologize for wanting to build a stable and fun to build product.
What exactly do you mean by this?

> at least in NT NICs are real devices in the namespace.
Employment information is tracked this way in order to judge if there is a systemic imbalance in employment. We can say (in the US) that certain minorities are over- or under-represented in different fields. Hopefully that knowledge can help reduce the imbalance. Some places (voluntarily or under court order) also track the ethnicity of people involved in police incidents because across the country, ethnically discriminated minorities are more likely to be stopped, frisked, and/or cited than non-minorities. Tracking this information helps reveal the effect of that discrimination.

As I understand it, France also has systemic discrimination - grand-children of guest workers from the 1960s have a hard time finding employment, for example, and the official state position is that "there are no ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities." The Human Rights Committee disagrees with that view, and I think it's a bizarre viewpoint.

The French Constitution and Penal Code prohibit the collection of data based on the origin, race or religion, so of course you haven't seen such a form. On the other hand, it's widely believed that the lack of such information makes it hard to determine if there truly is wide-spread discrimination or not. The view of the French government is that there is no discrimination and so there's no need to measure it. While I say that without measurements, you don't know if it exists or not.
Since when is there an ability, let alone a need, to "back up" gratuitous rudeness? Is there a certification that qualifies one for that?

Maybe if the guy invents the transistor we'll listen to him long enough to get the formula, and if he amasses Ty Cobb's batting average we'll probably elect him to the Hall of Fame (but, perhaps, neglect to remember where we put our tickets to that year's ceremony), but even these things don't excuse being a jerk. They just coexist with the jerkishness, uncomfortably.
You are truly free according to the license and the law. That fact has nothing to do with how people will treat you if you choose a decidedly less free license like GPL.

Honestly, this is like complaining that people got upset at you for bringing a crying child into a restaurant, despite the fact that it's perfectly legal!
It's social coding.
Generally yes, but a country's central bank may prohibit that. Singapore's for example does that.
I don't know that the vampirism is intentional. Even in investment banking, the most evil non-war/oil industry on earth, the bad hours have more to do with a dysfunctional workflow (the real work begins at 4:00 pm and has a next-day deadline, but it's only an 8- to 10-hour day of real work) and secrecy (i.e. hire fewer people and have them doing less interesting work => reduce leak risk) than intentional malice.

I don't think that's happening at companies like Google and Facebook. Companies like that bend over backward to prevent their workers from burning out (massages, healthy cafeteria meals). When people burn out after 2-4 years, they leave behind legacy horrors (speaking of vampires) and that can easily cancel out any benefits you get by working people 60+ hours per week.
I think that was actually his point.
Though this is pretty minor in the scheme of things, I'm constantly surprised at how horrible they can purposefully make the experience and still have people clicking to them. Myself included. From every interview I've seen with MD you get the impression he despises his customers. But they still make money. I guess until someone comes along who can compete and at least pretend they give a damn then it'll continue to work. I wont pretend I know how they could do it but the moment I have another option, Ryanair have lost me for ever.
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My local supermarkets used to have those Kodak kiosks in the place they used to have 1-hour developing (a decade ago). Last year, they tore out the kiosks to replace them with DVDs and magazine racks.

My local camera store tried to manage the transition to digital, but couldn't hold on. They finally went out of business a year ago, and the building torn down. In its place is a new bank.
Note that the data is heavily skewed -- 77% of all SR listings apparently are for one UK seller, who probably just had the misfortune to pick that day to flog his wares. You'd need to automate data retrieval and average it over a few months to get a better picture.

(edit: listings, not transactions; thanks archivator for the correction)
I usually like Ted's posts but this is past the valid criticisms of Node.JS and into pure troll. The real troll is that he wrote an overly complicated command line interface to campfire. Watch me wave my arms around, I'm so impressed.

Hubot is cool because it takes advantage of the surrounding ecology. Ditching that is a bad design decision, pure and simple.
My experienced as an unofficial team lead of a few programmers with various experience (which I conclude that they were Jr. Programmers with a few years of lack of mentorship) was to do the following:

1) Define structure

Set some rules. Coding styles, check-in etiquette

2) Find tools to limit mistakes

Static code analysis, automate build that breaks when #1 fails.

3) Always on alert

Do a lot of code reviews. A lot. Argue and fight over little things (variable naming convention, missing documentations, unclear code).

Now this might not sit well with others so get ready:

4) Become a "drill" sergeant

I find that becoming the "bulldog" sometime works. You've got to become some sort of "drill" sergeant. People may dislike you at first but if the project is successful, they can hate you all the way to the exit door all they like.

That was my experience. I made a concious decision to put the success of the project as the top priority. Even if it means breaking some bridges with other programmers. I hope they learn why I did those things in the future. If they don't, I won't quarrel or regret my action.

5) Be nice on other occasions

I may be the biggest jerk during code-review and check-in commits but when my co-workers stuck, I'll be gladly help them even if it means I have to sit with them and do my overtime. This can gain you some respect after confrontation/intense debate/being a jerk.

I always try to be friendly during office/release party. Give credit to the team, etc.
I don't think I'm cut out to have a career per se, it's startups or nothing for me: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3283401

Which got quoted on teh Internetz: http://unicornfree.com/2011/fuck-glory-startups-are-one-long...
French competitiveness is not going to threaten American interests, which is business as usual I guess.
There's a difference between using a new technology and being clever. I've seen clever -- I've been clever. I've seen the "immature" dev who comes in and says, "So here I've written a dynamic binary interpreter that will inject into all known JS engines which will give me the ability to modify stackframes of the running Javascript program. So in scenarios where I write this code in JS, part of which will block a DCE, because I need a specific value on the stackframe, I can now access this below in Javascript. How you ask? With inline assembly in JS -- which I've also added. So now you can create a wide range of selectors."

"Like doing this common technique from jQuery?"

"Sure, if you want to suck the life out of programming you'll use that, but I prefer to keep my job fun. BTW, this will break on every rev of Chrome, so I have an alert set up to remind me to fix it for each new version. Anyways, I already checked it in. See you in three weeks, I'm going on that vacation I forgot to tell you about."
Whenever I've had the choice between EasyJet and Ryanair, I've always chosen EasyJet. They're a bit more expensive but at least I don't feel as much treated as cattle.
You missed my point.

Even rails kids can write in such fashion if they want. The fact that nobody cares makes it pathetic though.

Obviously, many people will care about Charles Bloom's opinions. _That_ is the difference. Out of respect of his work they don't mind whatever style he uses. That's enough for them.
Why wouldn't it be? Why would they care if others find it pretentious? I suspect the author itself could care less about those who find his writings pretentious.

Why do you care?
All I am saying is that you cannot impose on others the respect you give to a third person.
Amazing to throw away more and more usability in their platform and still retain customers because their price scheme is cheap.

I guess their budget is not good enough to hire a good programer. I wonder if the CEO hire his nephew, the one with some frontpage/dreamweaver skills for the job.
I'd estimate that about 1/8 to 1/4 of the purpose of the laws he's breaking is to protect commuters from harassment and the remainder is to protect the profits of businesses like the kiosks that sell candy, drinks, and newspapers on some of the platforms. Basically, I find those laws to be more of a bug than a feature.
To put people who may not know Ryanair in context: is a low-cost Irish airline that operates in Europe. You can get round trip flights starting at EUR 0.01. His CEO is a very controversial person who has been on the press for suggesting aggressive measures to make air travel even cheaper, like run flights where passengers stand during the journey, removing toilets from aircrafts and the most recent one, providing paid porn movies on board. Once, I travel Madrid-Paris with them for less than 20 euros. Most of their fleet are Boeing 737-800.

Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair
Um, many of those are pretty commonly clustered by race.
In America we have a diverse pool of folks, so we make up 'races' by skin color or whatnot. Under that system we see that race doesn't matter much; people vary all over the map.

But race in other parts of the globe correlate pretty much to culture, and personality, communications style, even socioeconomic group correlate strongly.
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You mean the listings are heavily skewed - this is not about transactions but listed items on the marketplace.
Proprietary forks are always able to submit pieces of their code back to the originating BSD project. That's fine -- proprietary developers never claimed to be anything other than what they are, and if they eventually submit something back, that's nice.

GPL developers claim to be open, but then take the originating code and place it under onerous "open" terms. This triggers the classic "hypocrite" response: they claim to be open, but they're actually attaching a viral license to my work. Any improvements they make can NEVER be sent back to us without all the contributors agreeing to license under the BSD license.

In real terms, the GPL fork is a dead-end one for a BSD licensed project. The commercial fork is, actually, not -- the company is quite able to push back changes at any time.

No contributions will ever result from the GPL fork, and given that the BSD license provides a superset of the freedoms of the GPL license, it's clear that the GPLers are only licensing under the GPL to enforce their own politics on the BSD licensed code.
Great suggestion! I've started implementing that, and now I only have 30 running processes and 60 pipes for my chat bot. That's much more reasonable, but I still have a small issue: each plug-in FIFO blocks after each request! The plug-ins that perform web requests block everybody else from marking a request to the same plug-in while the previous request is being processed... And some of those requests can take several seconds, or even timeout!

This is turning out to be much more complicated than I had originally expected. With the UNIX way saying of "using the right tool for each job", I kind of wish there was a tool to build scalable network programs... Oh well, until that comes along, I'm going to stick to Bash.
Meanwhile, I have a phone with nearly identical specs to the iPhone 3GS (a Motorola Milestone), and it "feels" slower than my first-gen iPod touch, which manages to do beautifully smooth scrolling with really wimpy hardware.

I don't know the technical details (though I'd assume hardware acceleration is a big deal), but evidently Apple can achieve a good user experience while consuming far less resources. It's taken Android years, and I probably have to buy a new device.
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There is a language of symbolism and iconography that exists in Western cultures. This image of a demon/devil/satan has a relatively coherent meaning. It developed this meaning long, long before some guys in a computer lab chose to use it to represent something completely unrelated...

Yes and no. Sure, the iconography has a history. No, "some guys in a computer lab" are hardly the first or only people to use the iconography for "something completely unrelated."

Do the same people who are offended by the BSD Daemon get all bent out of shape over the many devil and demon themed sports teams and other organizations that exist?

http://www.thesundevils.com/

http://bluedevils.org/

http://devils.nhl.com/

http://duke.fanatics.com/COLLEGE_Duke_Blue_Devils/browse/

Or by the existence of devil-themed consumer goods?

http://www.reddevil.com/

http://www.google.com/search?q=yellow+devils

Why should computer geeks be singled out for this sort of abuse?
Actually, I don't think that'll happen.

Who flies with Ryanair ? People trying to save money.
If their website is too easy to use, these people will peruse it for hours, trying to find out the cheaper combination of flights to go from "somewhere near Madrid" to "somewhere near Berlin".

If RA raises the bar a little bit, these people will probably give up one or two queries earlier, hence picking some more "natural" route that will likely make RA a bit more money. Most customers won't think (or know) about the competition, RA has a very strong brand, so the chances that they'll just give up and go elsewhere are fairly slim, especially after having invested all that time going through captchas.

Captchas are very unfriendly towards older and less computer-literate people, but those segments are more likely to go through phone or agencies anyway.

(Not that I care, I stopped using RA years ago.)
Have you ever been to Rochester? Kodak has been doing layoffs for decades. Its not like there are 18,800 jobs waiting to be taken there. Especially for image scientists.
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I love reading stories like this, but with a background in fighting spam I'm a bit skeptical. I would love to hear more details.

For those of you who don't know, most of Microsoft's anti-spam efforts are from techniques I suspect are hard to translate to the HIV domain. Microsoft catches the overwhelming majority of spam (98%) using IP address blocking. Most of the remaining spam is caught using long lists of regular expressions managed by humans. I would not expect researchers to be crafting regular expressions or mapping blocklists to protein sequences. Maybe they are, but the article makes it sound like some algorithmic approach.

Obviously there are more modern techniques for fighting spam, but Microsoft isn't using them yet, and I hardly think of Microsoft as a leader in this space.
They don't like scrapers, they don't even allow links to their website without permission.

From their TOS:

"5. Links to this website. You may not establish and/or operate links to this website without the prior written consent of Ryanair."
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> I wish I knew how the Googles and Facebooks hire a crowd of junior programmers and have them do these amazing things

Volume. You are forgetting (and/or haven't been privy to) all their failures. Statistically if you do 100 things 1 or 2 of them will be amazing, the rest are crap. We've seen publicly a few of those companies' failures. I'm sure there are many more we haven't.

They haven't managed jr devs any better than the rest of us. They just brute forced it with shed loads of money and people.
I seriously doubt the aerodynamics mattered at the slow city speeds the thing runs?
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Correct me if I'm wrong. Enterprise SaaS usually charge by the seat (with a few asking for discounts). So at the end of the day whether it is 3.5k customers or 15M users. They all pay.

That is my point.
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They just don't care about "good anything", they only care about cheap. If it was practical for them to provide only a telnet server, they would do it in a heartbeat.
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He seems to be complaining about a double standard.

Some people (proprietary software) are applauded for bringing crying children into the restaurant, while others (copyleft software) are criticized for the same act, to use your (weird) analogy.
It's not stated specifically in the article, but from the large number of respondents who offer act as both designer and developer, I suspect this survey is focused on web freelancers, as opposed to developers in general. I would expect to be able to charge far less for generic CMS-backed web site building than for more specialist areas.
I think this is a fundamental misinterpretation of their position.

OpenBSD can both complain about lack of contributions AND still believe that the BSD license is most amenable to their goals.

If I put a bowl of candy out at my restaurant, I will probably complain about a customer that takes all the candy in the bowl. However, I will still leave the candy out, and there's no fundamental incompatibility between my complaint and my choice to make the candy available.

I would reserve special invective for a customer that took the entire candy bowl and then -- claiming to be a liberator -- passed it out on the street outside my restaurant alongside a coupon for their own restaurant.

In my mind, the first example (takes all the candy) is the example of a commercial organization that doesn't give anything back. It's unfortunate, but it's the cost of doing business, and their decision doesn't directly negatively impact me (other than losing some cheap candy).

The second example ("liberates" the candy and then uses it in a way that causes direct material damages to my restaurant's business) is how GPLers that fork BSD licensed code are perceived.