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As a British native who began his career in the UK and later moved to San Francisco, I can tell you that the going rates for developers (can't really speak about designers) is a lot lower in the UK than in the US.

It's part of the reason I moved here.

Switching to salary-paid positions for a moment (as they might be easier to compare to your own compensation), £28k (~US$44k) seems to be a going rate for a mid-level developer and £40k (~US$62.5k) for a senior developer in London right now. Ignore financial services-based engineering positions, although there are a lot less of those today.

Current equivalent in SF right now could be $75-$90k for a mid-level developer and $100-$150k for a senior developer (or more).

Keep in mind London is a more expensive city to live in than even SF, taxes are higher (yes even compared to CA+Fed), health insurance isn't included (ok, we have socialized medicine but my point is that's part of your comp here in US), sales tax in UK is 20%, and unlike the US you have to pay property tax (council tax) on the property you live in regardless of whether you rent or own it.

Living in the UK, especially London, is incredibly expensive and I sometimes wonder how I managed frankly :P

EDIT: Oh and the reason I think wages and rates are low is because software engineering isn't a primary industry in London and a great deal of developers end up working for marketing agencies etc where they are simply "code monkeys". The BBC is another big employer (my former employer) but they only pay non-commercial wages as they are a public-service and it (used to be) seen as prestigious to work there.
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I think the circular nature of tech is a good chunk of why older developers are seen as "stuck in their ways" or unwilling to learn.

At a certain point, you realize that people in tech are constantly promoting the holy grail. So you buy into it, learn it, and then see that it has different, or even very similar weaknesses to the old tech. Also, you begin to realize that domain experience is a very powerful thing.

So, I would rather be happy, operating in the 'zone' with the platform I know, doing 20% more work to hack around sub-optimal language feature, than spend time in distress, trying to wrap my head around a completely different platform, all because someone on my team is obsessed with the new flavor.

(for the record, I've been on both sides of this)
The glaring usability issue for me was deleting a post.

Swiping doesn't work, nor are clues provided in detail view. The answer is that the delete button is hidden inside the Smiley Face/Like button, which was not intuitive to me. After all, if I want to delete a post I obviously don't like it and won't think to look there. As a caveat to what this article says, it would be better for swipe to be reappropriated to the expected behavior. This is going to be more of an issue if more apps adopt under-tableview navigation.
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I'm gonna +1 on making it easier to read (maybe slightly bigger font, but definitely lower font weight) and I'm a 19y/o with 20/20 vision.

I too taught myself rails with an aggregator, and you've done a really good job at solving problems in that space. I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on this.
Taught by Anthony Tomasic this semester, but yes.
This doesn't hold true for me at all. I take about the same amount of time to get back to any email that comes in, 1 - 2 months :P

I like email, it allows me to respond when I am ready, but at the same time friends, family, co-workers and bosses know that sending me a text or asking me over IM is going to MUCH faster than waiting for me to respond to an email.
He was purposefully creating an anecdote to illustrate what's wrong with the OP's conclusion.
https://www.google.com/ for a little thing called "google search" using spdy!

Spdy actually shines brightest on things like plus.google.com or picasa because of all the little icons.. images.google.com is also a very big beneficiary.

It would be an excellent fit for things that look like facebook, ebay, twitter..
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Any way to compile libstatgrab (a dependency) on OS X? It isn't on the list of supported systems, I know, but maybe someone tried already?
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Helpjuice.com. We compete with Zendesk's knowledge base.

This is so rude from Zendesk. In case you think someone has ripped of your product, in any way, you (as the CEO of a 30+ company with 10,000 customers) SHOULD NEVER, EVER write something like that.

I'm 100% with Freshdesk on this one specifically because of the tone of Zendesk and Freshdesk. The way Mikkel responded to Freshdesk is silly and childish.

If someone were to make a knock off of my product, I wouldn't tweet at them like Mikkel did. Or support one of my buddies (who is perhaps disguised as a blogger for blog XYZ) that's trolling a company's image, saying that they're the same as Zendesk. Or calling them Indian cowboys.

Zendesk, I hope you understand that you've turned me (an actual person who supports everything you do, and someone who talks to the folks at Assistly with a great and friendly tone) into someone who honestly hopes you loose this "battle" and have left a nasty look in a lot of people's eyes.

I don't know much about Freshdesk's product, but I know the way they reacted was nice and professional (exactly the opposite of how you responded). +1 on that.

Lesson learned: You don't do marketing by bashing on someone's product without looking like an ass (and perhaps loosing a couple customers).

P.S.: (to the Freshdesk folks) Congrats on stepping up and putting time in to create a page like this. I would have maybe included screenshots of the product to further help your customers understand that you're not a knock off of Zendesk.
cool, all the concepts for this type of stuff i've seen in the past have been very heavy on the browser
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If we're talking about a "last mile or two" what's wrong with a conventional bicycle? These other things seem to be needlessly expensive and complex solutions to that problem.

The big problem with all of these though is they are all unpleasant in inclement weather and cold temperatures.
Any Android users out there that want to see Android succeed should star the issue linked in the parent comment. There are a significant number of excellent music/audio apps for musicians and tinkerers for iOS that are not possible on Android because of the above issue. For example, search YouTube for "EveryDay Looper".
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they do, the bug is if the url doesn't have a file extension
The idea of evidence is not implied by the article, only by the commenter above. She is describing her experience, and it jibes with other women's experience whom I have heard. If you don't accept the validity of the viewpoint, just do that as such.
It said no to sites I had visited. Unless that is what is was programmed to do I'd say it did not work. You can message me for any other info about the test.
What are these walls that you hit? Is the problem too hard to solve with your amount of experience or something else? Perhaps you should explore why the walls happen.

On finding something to build, it can be tough. You have to keep thinking about things that scratch an itch of yours but are also practical to build. For the longest time, I used to think and even plan out ideas that really seemed to be like science fair projects: 2D drawing using contour maps to design 3D structures like for game design, an app to tell me how to fit a bunch of boxes optimally into a truck/van, a form creator (an ultimate GUI over DB to replace many GUI-over-DB apps). The problem is that I wouldn't use any of these for my own needs because I don't need these things. And I didn't know anyone who actually needed this stuff and could use it if I built it. Find something that scratches an itch. Do you need something but all the existing tools aren't quite right? Go for it. And don't worry about using "cool" tech to get it done. If Clojure can be used to solve the problem and you really want to learn it, great. If not, then stick to what you know but focus on getting the problem solved and building something of value to you.

Perhaps a new job might give you a fresh environment, a change of pace, or something different to learn during work. That could be used to stimulate more or different learning on the side.

As far as feeling depressed when you see hackers who have done a ton of stuff, I imagine everyone looks at someone who has done more than them and wonders the same. What matters is that you do more than what you are currently doing. There are times that I wish I had started sooner on things or been more passionate about things. I can't change the past now. But I can change the future.
You're demanding evidence from an article that doesn't state up front that it's trying to present it; it's just telling her story as an anti-pattern. That's all I mean. If she had a legal case, she wouldn't discuss it.

Also, this wouldn't be a story if she didn't feel that other teams didn't work that way. This implies a difference in culture, and I have had this difference pointed out to me by many women in the tech industry.
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My own strategy would probably be to slowly create talking points about empathising with the user and the good it does to products. This is fairly subtle and you're unlikely to be called out on it. Eventually your detractors will be playing in your frame when they next try to argue that you're 'too empathetic/emotional'.

That or just leave.
I'm sure it will. It doesn't change my perception of them. In my opinion, anyone who thinks taking the time to create a web page for an argument or who thinks a product in the same field with a similar name is a copycat doesn't care about me, the customer.

They should be spending their time improving the product, coming up with new ideas, or responding to legitimate support inquiries.

Neither of these companies showed any "brilliant" response. Both end up looking bad.
Such stories give the impression that you can say the exact same thing to both men and women, but women will by and large interpret it (or at least act on it) in a way quite different from men. I find that hard to believe.

For myself (a guy), if I worked someplace where I was often reminded how replaceable I was I;d be looking for a new job all the time. Likewise, if I was often told I was being "too emotional" I'd wonder if a) it was possibly true, and b) consider that perhaps I need to work someplace where my personality is a better fit.

In general, if you want to make anyone quit, keep telling them they are easily replaceable, or frequently lob baseless subjective criticisms at them.
Please forgive me, but I'll use this post to ask a question I've been wondering for a while. Is it better to use a minified js/css of all pages of the website or to make each pages as minimal as possible? For instance, if I use 4 jquery plugins on a splash page, 2 jquery plugins in the "signup" part and 5 other jquery plugins a little bit everywhere.. should I bundle all these plugins into one big .js, minified it and put it on the splash page so that it is cached?
Cruise ships already face these issues successfully.
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..deep down they really want the goodies that come along with a society with complex government.

Which goodies, specifically?

Also, since most government programs are excludible (e.g., don't pay SS taxes, you don't get SS when you are old), do you feel libertarians would choose not to exit if given the option?
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Chrome native client, Flash plugin (built in), PDF browser.
The PDF browser is the only one useful to me, and it's been broken in Linux for the last 3 versions of Chrome...

Some of the newer WebKit features are getting bloated as well, and are built-in even if you don't need them - e.g. the new Javascript de-obsfucation feature in the developer tools.
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Aaron, why don't you work on self-driving cars?
Doesn't apply to me at all. Any emails I send to my closest friends rarely ever receive a response, and vice versa. And the volume of email is far less than 30 a month. More like 1-5. In fact, I have longer and much more timely email exchanges with complete strangers than I do with my friends.
Er, really?

She gave direct, (presumably) factual answers to direct questions about a colleague's solution to a problem and that's "going off"?

Perhaps her tone was snide or condescending, but that information is not supplied in the post, so you can't really judge based on that.
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This might be a good lesson in don't feed the monster so it gets more attention.

When the big guy talks smack about a presumably smaller guy, it's because they're threatened?

Who cares if their pricing is a rip off, it's good for Zendesk if Freshdesk is a ripoff, because no one will use it. By saying and doing nothing Freshdesk could spiral into a blackhole of me never hearing about it.

Instead Zendesk put Freshdesk on it's own level by talking about it as an equal.

Zendesk used it's brand power to legitimize Freshdesk as an option just by talking about them like this.

Instead of never seeing Freshdesk, I checked out a Zendesk competitor because of Zendesk, with more than normal scrutiny. One feature I now like about Freshdesk is that it manages multiple SLA's.

P.S., I use neither Zendesk or Freshdesk.
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I want to see someone build a cheap (several thousand dollars) version of an enclosed motorcycle like this: http://green.autoblog.com/2011/09/19/lit-motors-c1-enclosed-...

And then a self-driving model :)
They're all freaking rip offs of Request Tracker. :)
I am in law enforcement. This is not always the case.
It should be noted that the person who called them Indian cowboys has no relation, direct or indirect, with ZenDesk. That tweet is masterfully used by FreshDesk to stir emotions in the reader.
Hey girish,

Can you write a post in a week to let us know how many customers you gained from this? If you can find out how many came from ZenDesk, even better.
I've never heard of Path before today - why use Path instead of Facebook/Google Plus?

It seems like an instance of "Yet Another Photosharing app", which is getting tiresome. Sometimes reading mobile development news makes it seem like photo/status sharing, and todo lists are the only things people do on mobile phones.
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If we had to pick a loser here, I'd still go with Zendesk.
fun class. I took it a few years ago, i remember one team did a 'nethack' style game using photos they'd taken in wean hall (i think they'd done the whole thing the night before). It was pretty funny to sit there while they presented and politely not try to laugh. Of course they thought it'd be humorous, and it was, but at that time the humor for us students was more from sitting in the audience and trying to re-live what must have been going through their heads the night before.
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has a lot of explaining for that ridiculous and risible "Indian cowboy" dig. Twenty times worse because he doubled down on it while backpeddling.
What an individual programmer or even a team does may not qualify as engineering, but the infrastructure that has evolved over the last 30 years provides something approaching the reliability of the Brooklyn Bridge.

One nice thing about software right now is an "engineer" can build on the code created by tens of thousands of other "engineers."
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Why would they not be interested? I happen to interact with them from time to time. Now, I can't say for sure, but I would imagine this is something they would certainly be interested in.
I really like the idea of a fleet of computer-controlled electric cars that function like an on-demand taxi service.

Think about it, you need to leave for work at a certain time? Just jump on Google Taxi (I use Google as they're the only company that has working driverless cars that I'm aware of at the moment), log-in using your account (that you either pay per ride, weekly, monthly, yearly, yearly+ etc.), calculate your commute, and reserve a car to show up at your house at that time and place. It takes you to your destination then shoots off to an electric or hydrogen-based fleet of these cars standing by at charging facilities in neighborhoods and cities all over the world. If they became ubiquitous enough you could have as little as a five to fifteen minute wait for a car.

However, I think the auto industry would fight like hell to keep this kind of system off the roads as it would severely dent auto sales. I mean hell, I know I wouldn't want a car if I could just have a subscription to a car. Especially if it wasn't just like Sedans. Imagine being able to rent a truck immediately at a moment's notice, then ride back home in a Sedan, all without having to worry about driving anywhere?

That's a world I would like to live in. Then once populations reached the 5,000+ ppl/km2 we could start building mag lev rails and get more into that kind of public transportation.
Ironically, this blog post brings to mind a different female stereotype: too much drama.
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It can only be used on women who give a crap about being viewed as emotional. The proper response to such a thing is more long the lines of: "Why does your job description list that you're looking for passionate (or whatever other BS they are feeding people to get them to view the company as anything more than a source of income) people? Passion is an emotion, you've preselected for emotional people and are now complaining about it, you really need to make a decision as to what kind of people you want at your company and act accordingly."

The work environment sounds screwed, good on the OP for moving on.
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It's a pretty decent proxy, unfortunately, given that you can't meet people before you interview them. Re: asians-

I went to a magnet high-school in the late 1990's, and at the time it was about 25% asian. My brother went there later, and by the time he finished (10 years after I had started) the demographics had skewed to 50%+ asian and the culture had changed dramatically. People were a lot less fun and a lot less outgoing, and a lot more intense and competitive.

When I went to law school I met a lot of fun, outgoing asians, so I don't want to paint things with too broad a brush, but honestly I wouldn't want my kid going to a school that was 50%+ asian. College is a time when kids should be getting socialized. Drinking, figuring out the opposite sex, even a little bit of risk taking are valuable in teaching people to navigate modern American society, and when you're surrounded by people whose parents spent 18 years telling them not to do any of those things I think you have an impoverished experience. Actually, when my brother was choosing between HYP and Caltech, I helped him lobby my parents for the former for precisely these reasons.
They do not always have large budgets. But for those agencies that do, why can't they invest in projects such as this?

I'm still trying to figure out why people are against practical applications of this project. It's datamining illegal online activities. Isn't law enforcement a no brainer here?

Please let me know what I'm missing.
Steve Jobs had a separate set of rules that applied to Steve Jobs. Like free-for-all parking at work, everyone's equal... unless you're Steve Jobs, then you get a reserved spot.
I wonder if the women who complain about bad treatment in IT also read Dilbert. Just as a basic impression of what it is like to be male in the industry.
> There might be some inherent value of avoiding javascript

CSS transitions are faster than JavaScript animations[1].

Browser could easily optimize them (since each keyframes are predefined) vs. DOM manipulation, which is always slow.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/CSS_animations
Hi,

I'm an Belgian computer science student looking for a co-founder who has serious interest in creating a new manner to buy/sell used and new products (like eBay, but completely different). I'm not looking for someone to work on my startup, I'm looking for someone to work with me on a startup. If you're interested, don't hesitate to contact me or add me on fb.
I guess I lump sales and marketing together
If you think that will help the HN community,I will. I have another post almost ready where I wanted to share my Series A fundraising experience . But then this happened!
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And Google could probably provide the service for dirt cheap or even free by charging commercial venues per person delivered (at least if your business wants to be at the top of the list for "sushi.")
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> I'm 100% with Freshdesk on this one specifically because of the tone of Zendesk and Freshdesk.

Why would you decide who is right based on tone?

Why not on the validity of their argument?
Law enforcement agencies use contractors and buy software all the time...

Are you saying that's not a valid market to target?

Or do you have ideological objections to selling work and products for the purposes of enforcing laws you personally disagree with?

I personally (and I hope most of the people on this site) would take issue with building and selling products that had no legitimate use other than torture. But I have no problem selling software that could be used to gather information and profile suspected drug dealers or others breaking the established law of the land; even if I disagree with drug prohibition as a policy.
It's on a login page, presumably operated by the ISP if they're the ones responsible for the logo content. Under that condition, why should they be prevented from advertising what technology they use? Should they also be forbidden from using their own name?
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5000 people per square kilometer is only 20 people per acre, and any standard rowhouse neighborhood has 14 lots per acre, so this is only 1.4 people per house, a much lower density than you would get with large families or with multistory apartment buildings. A lot of cities that fail to meet this density are only because their legal limits also include a lot of essentially undeveloped land as well.
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How about bicycles? I live 4.2 miles from my NYC office and it takes me 45 minutes to walk/bus/walk. On bad days, it can be 90 minutes. The congestion in the NYC tunnels and in the bus station during rush hour is unbearable. Let me grab my bicycle and a place to store it during the day and I'll use it 10 months out of the year.
The comments in these gadget threads are so polarized, it's positively toxic.