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Think of it this way: what if someone new to jQuery (although jQuery is almost like a household name to us, there are a lot of people new to web development) wanted some plugins? They would look at the page on the jQuery web site, and they would see spam. This is bad for new users, and especially bad for the jQuery community as a whole if they wind up using buggy or outdated plugins. By contrast, an experienced person who's already been using jQuery is probably just going to go on Github or do their own searching. There's no tangible benefit to keeping it around.

The question you really have to ask: how useful is the plugin page? From my experience, it's pretty useless. A newbie will find most of the widgets they need (with high-quality code) in the jQuery UI/Mobile projects, and there are tons of authoritative blog posts if they do a little bit of searching.
it's a total shame people have to resort to markets like this -- let's have a bar chart comparing the number of murders in a war sponsored by the US to the number of overdoses from drugs
You should really get out and meet more then ;) It does wonders for your career.
This has been posted before, but it looks like everyone needs to promote their blogspam on HN and reddit.
Well, looks like HN is about to be sued into the ground. It was nice hanging out with you fine folks.
Did Google just admit Apple's Siri is the future of search?
That same list applies to before and after android as well.
Well, and is Apple seriously claiming a patent on the idea of being uncluttered? I'm pretty sure there's prior art... ;)
Sure. It is convenient.

Consider the security implications of arbitrary commands like he suggests, instead of using, I dunno, SSH or whatever.
A simple file-based key-value store would be something like GDBM? It's been around since approximately forever and has been used in a ton of things.

NoSQL doesn't have to mean new and trendy.
No reason to be patronizing or get personal, Matt. And I didn't mean to be disrespectful to those who earn even a third of that rate.

My point is that the rate appears to be very much on the lower end of the scale. Which is a bit sad for professionals with over a decade of honing highly specific skills. However the same rate can mean different things, depending on the context.

- Remote worker on Elance: dream rate. Unusual in fact.

- Employee working 40 hours a week: very good rate.

- Contractor assigned to several projects throughout the year, with different companies, but essentially full-time for weeks at end: still good rate.

- Your typical consultant who has to promote themselves to get new clients, go on client's site (possibly with travel involved), etc, will normally book far less than 40 hours a week, even if they end up working 40+ hours to run their consulting business. In such a case £37.50 often ends up being peanuts. Common rates I see around here are about $100-150/hr for expert developers, exactly because of all the overhead of consulting.

That's why in my, admittedly very short, initial message I said "consultant" and not the generic term freelancer or contractor. I understand that you may have an issue with the term I used and the distinction from freelancer, but that's how I meant it.
This is ridiculous by Apple. If they pull this off I hope Palm come forward with the old Pilot 5000 with its rectangle shape, flat screen and rounded corners. I don't get why Apple can claim these features are all theirs and no-one else's.
Taxes exist to cover the costs of governing the people, providing infrastructure and services for the citizens and so on. Even if you can get unplugged from existing governments, someone has to pay for the infrastructure of the seastead and essential services.

Suppose a seasteading nation provided the same transportation, protection, defensive and other public goods as the US government. An eyeball estimate [1] suggests the cost would be 35% of what the US govt spends, and that's assuming the sea-based nation still pays for things like military adventurism and the war on drugs.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2009_US_total

So while it's true that you have to pay some taxes, they could easily be far lower than most first world nations.

You are correct that ocean dwellers should be comprised of people who enjoy seafood or people willing to pay $8/avocado.

[1] I'm including defense, protection (police+fire), transportation and "other spending" (e.g., water treatment, community development).
I actually think it's quite rude of Mozilla to mock people's religious texts like that. I certainly wouldn't do it.
I remember Mozilla people saying something like this few years ago - "We put Google Search as default not because Google funds us, but because it's best for our users."

But now that Bing is equally good (kind of), I think they can really consider it if need be and still manage to not seen as selling out its users.
Apple lives somewhere up in a tree and thinks it can look down on everyone.

It's ok, they need to be taught a lesson and start showing some modesty. After all, Steve Jobs IS dead, why continue to promote the 'asshole company' image?

This drives me away from their products. I was actually contemplating buying a Mac laptop, but decided to go with a regular laptop and just use Linux on it.
This reads like a list of things not to do if you want a sleek sexy product. Not that I'm surprised Apple would instruct their competition to design this way, I guess I was just expecting more subterfuge.
I flew from Spain to Morocco with RyanAir, the hassle was so great (getting a bus an hour out of the city), and the pilot seemed to be in training considering how the wings were waggling on approach to land (no wind). Never flown again with them since, I'll pay the extra euro for Vueling, EasyJet or the big carriers every time.
I think the idea of security still exists, regardless of the viability of one particular group of pirates. Given a big enough target, someone will be motivated to come see what they can get. The question really is, what level of protection/security is necessary to defend a sea-stead?
Thanks for that story.

It's probably important to point out that the majority of religious people are not in quite as deep as you were. But they might still be a little bothered by it.
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Long hours, working weekends, staying on call, impossible deadlines, complex and ever-shifting technologies, and high-stress deployments.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but that hasn't been my experience at 3 companies over 15 years. Occasional crunch time yes, but overall I've averaged less than 45 hours a week.

I like the model I've seen of moving great programmers into lead roles (with PM-type duties) and then "uber lead" roles, which also include some program-management duties.

What's worked for me is putting a great PM on the team, where she (they've invariably been women) gets whatever information she needs from me, and then goes off and does the scheduling and meetings and internal negotiations that would drive me crazy if I had to.
Well, .01 EUR plus 'fees' (more fees than I've ever seen in my life - http://www.ryanair.com/en/terms-and-conditions#regulations-t...) including a minimum 6 EUR "Admin Fee" for the privilege of buying a ticket and a 40 EUR fee if you lose or don't print a boarding pass...
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That was one of my problems with it, too, even though I do get rolling pretty fast in the mornings. I think the real solution is to assume that the meeting time is going to be inconvenient for someone and just try to have a big stupid group sit-down once a week at most. Small agile teams can do a lot with impromptu stand-ups.

I think the most important thing, though, is to plan the big stupid group sit-down at one end of the day so that it doesn't interrupt. I've worked in places where they would stop us mid-day and ask what we have been doing and what we will be doing. Surprise surprise, the answers to both are the same 99% of the time. On top of that, they often pull me off something I'm intensely focused on to tell them what I was focused. /rant
TL;DR: Stupid customers are stupid.

I bet she would feel that a non-Christian would not have the "right" to feel offended and complain about Christian imagery.

I am personally an agnostic, and I don't care to deal with the stupid issues that people simple bitch about. I'm okay with anyone's faith, and their beliefs. If these people are this scared of a little, cute demon who has been the logo for FreeBSD for a long length of time and think that staying at a hotel who utilizes the technology for how viable of a solution it is for their use case risks their personal salvation...then that shows the intelligence level of the individual.
The UX designer is supposed to lead the drive towards superior user understanding, empathy in design through features that respect users.

The developer is responsible for defining what is technically possible.

The PM has to analyze the tradeoffs and negotiate a compromise that best suits the product, time available, and company objectives.

When the three collaborate, you have ONE product team. No party is superior or can stand alone effectively.
Yep. It depends on the type of work, type of experience and type of clients. You might strike it lucky with a small client, but it's more than likely going to be low. For new media agencies, they will have years of experience with freelancers, so will push the price down to fit their budget. For big business and public sector, they aren't that bothered, plus you normally need very specialist (and expensive) training to do their work.
While it's crazy to think that you'd want to drive people away, it's probably rather controlled.

The ads (1) open in a new window, (2) Ryanair knows that no one is going to beat them on price, and (3) Ryanair can block any company that they think is a threat from showing ads.

Some governments would be served well by cutting costs to the absolute bare minimum and increasing non-tax revenue streams.
> Proprietary forks are always able to submit pieces of their code back to the originating BSD project

So are the authors of the GPL project.

> Any improvements they make can NEVER be sent back to us without all the contributors agreeing to license under the BSD license.

You have a very poor understanding of the GPL and copyright law. I'm afraid you've been infected by the "viral" meme.

BSD-licensed code that is incorporated into a larger GPL project is still under the BSD license, even though the larger assemblage may be viewed as being under the GPL. Any improvements made to your code may be licensed under the BSD by the people making the improvements if they so choose.

There may come a point where the code has changed so substantially that GPL'd and BSD'd portions are inseparable, but at that point, what good is their code to you, anyway?

Oh, I'm sorry, did you just want to take all their work and use it under whatever terms you like? Odd, then, that you don't want to give them the same freedom...
I'm failing to find a more colorful way to put this so here it is plainly:

One becomes an affirmative-action-privileged race precisely because there are systematic barriers to the keys to wealth and power. If sports were that, and there were systematic barriers to it, we would be having this same discussion about Asians. Being good at sports is overall irrelevant to wealth and power in this country.

This stuff isn't hard.
One demonstration from 1999 narrated by Yeager appears to show an early concept of cloud computing, in which a user could access online applications or "apps" through an Enron network

A user accessing applications via a network is an innovation in 1999? Try 30 years earlier with Telnet, and probably many other examples.

And yet another presentation from 2000 includes a demonstration of an on-demand movie service similar to those available on most cable TV systems today

The Wikipedia article on VoD cites existing commercial services already having launched in 1998.

I don't doubt that there were a lot of smart people at Enron; but whether they were ultimately producing value is in doubt. These examples don't seem to provide much evidence.
all land on earth is claimed by a state in some fashion, its much easier to sea stead than to deal with the politics of claiming political independence.
It’s not that much different from flying with them. The cabin is laden with ads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ryanair_B737-800_Cabin.jpg
Now I am offended. Devil is a great guy. He is doing his job in hell. Do you know how difficult it is to actually define punishments for each and every sin we do? Its practically creativity of 6 billion people versus one guy. Even superhuman powers cannot overcome those odds. But he does and runs hell perfectly from the early days. Then one day one of his employees (daemons) gets some sort of recognitions in (pop?) culture and you take it away. He was just looking good by proxy and people couldn't even stand that. This is just wow.
This is why clinical trial registries are so important. Unfortunately the last I heard they were a confusing mess, with many not actually providing the openness that was necessary for them to be effective.
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Few years back I used to reply to email much faster than I do now. Now its slower mostly because of having too much mail and procrastination. In any case, I hope they look at normalized response time rather than actual response time.
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But they're not discriminating on the basis of race. They're not attempting to fill a quota with a certain number of people from X group. Race is but one of many signals to determine if you're someone that will benefit the university. This country is not as culturally homogeneous as some would like to think. Race correlates pretty strongly with this.
I would rather they defer the handling of plugins to Github. The social features of Github makes it easy to evaluate what plugins are popular among respected developers. Github also encourages contribution to an existing plugin as opposed to creating two dozen plugins that all do the same thing.
News just in: cool and fun side project doesn't do things the 'serious' way.

Hubot doesn't "require" Redis, don't load the `redis-brain.coffee` script. Problem solved.

Hubot is a framework for building your own useful things on top of it. Sure it doesn't provide a billion and one ways to do useful thing, you add those yourself. If it doesn't work for you, don't use it simple as.

Given it is a fun side project a company can use, I don't think the concept of "production" or "development" comes into it. You just run it. Plenty of people have run it without issues, and anyone that have had issues has been helped to have them resolved. Feel free to send a pull request to improve documentation rather than just slate it :).

Hubot is what YOU make it, not what you can just download and hope it brings useful things to your team.
> If enough large corporations do the math and find that moving to an off-shore platform is a positive value proposition when compared to continuing to pay taxes

I think we can be reasonably confident that somebody in these large corporations has done that math. What this argument misses is that the comparison isn't seasteading vs US taxes, it's seasteading vs existing tax havens like Bermuda and the Channel Islands and Caymans. Those probably get you 90% of the way there on avoiding US and EU taxation, and would seem to be good enough that corps haven't had the need for seasteading or they'd already be doing it.
I've been disappointed by the quality of many of the plugins listed on the site for a while. I often have to rely on plugins I have used before, read of on HN in the past, or ask other developers--rather than going to the plugins page. Granted the plugins I end up using are also in the list I would have seen, there is nothing separating them from the really bad ones.

I wonder if the number of bad plugins comes from the relatively small disparity between being able to use jQuery and writing a plugin. jQuery's whole premise is being an easy to use programming language. In other models (wordpress for example) the bottom 50% (or more, I don't know, I'm just making up numbers) of "administrators" would have no idea how to make a plugin. Verses the bottom 15% (again completely fake numbers, just for demonstration) of jQuery users may be unable to do so.
But it's not a false proxy; its a pretty good one. This country (America) is not as culturally homogeneous as some would like to think. Race correlates with this, especially when dealing with underrepresented minorities.
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What I meant to say is that I want to start my own startup in the not so distant future.

Sure, I run a magazine.
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Perhaps the rates are higher in the Netherlands because taxes are much higher compared to the UK. Even for people who work full time and benefit from the expat discount, it's still quite a bit more. So there's a higher cost of living.
As much as USofA political and religious fundamentalism (on all sides) amuses and entertains me, a couple of things make me take it seriously:

1. USA has a very strong political power and exports its culture.

2. I am old enough to have witnessed the effects of state atheism personally and directly in my country. Atheism can be as stupid and evil as any other religion.

P.S. I come from Eastern Europe.
In Windows NT device objects get instantiated in \Device, including network cards. Also, different TCP/IP layers are accessible as well, like \Device\Tcp, \Device\Ip. In Unix the network stack is not accessible in the file system at all, there's nothing in /dev, it's just a special API in the kernel.

In Windows you'd use a networking API as well, but the networking API is a convenience layer over file based I/O.

The difference between Windows NT and Plan9 is that Windows NT device I/O is IOCTL based, not composable, not replaceable and not exportable, but it's just how you'd do things in Unix v7.
In my ladder, Public Domain is at the top, and proprietary is at the bottom, all others are just in between, varies in some parts, identical in others.

I do not see how SQLite could have done any better with any other license for instance.

If someone on this earth is low enough to remove credits from code, or even worse, ship it under own name, there is nothing to prevent him/her from doing so, not even lawyers GNU will never hire to to sue this cracker.
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When a lot of people were commenting that Apple doesn't want anyone else to make rectangular tablets or use rounded corners before, everyone thought they were exaggerating and joking. Apparently, Apple did actually believe that.

Maybe their design patents would make sense if someone made a tablet that is 99.5% alike, like some Chinese rip-off. But "rectangular" tablet? That's exactly like saying other car manufacturers shouldn't use round wheels.
Being the "product guy" is a shitload of work. I know, that's the role I serve in the company that I founded. Customer interaction, roadmaps, design, prioritization of features, plans for growth -- it's hard and it's a lot of work.

It's so much work that I don't even have time to code any more, because it's so much more than 1 job.

Seems like developers just like to hate on anyone who's not a developer because the developers can't see the work they don't have to do.

Whether or not many Product Managers in bigcos are full of shit doesn't say anything about the profession whatsoever. What it says is that most people are incompetent at their jobs, and lazy. Which is also true of most developers.

It's sad for me to see HN continuing to leap to confirm its own biases instead of questioning them.
I think the fact that it's packaged as childrens' literature has a lot to do with it too.
It's actually a pretty big area where they have been operating:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Somalian_Piracy_Threat_Map...

[NB I actually did some sailing in 2010 right on the edge of the area on that map, just north of Mombasa - I did wonder about pirates at the time, but I assumed I was being silly!]
What a shock that those with a reputation to protect or untarnish would wish to push an alternate narrative.
I hate to break it to you kid, but no matter what you do you'll end up writing boilerplate, filing reports, and listening to assholes spout nothing on a very regular basis. Thats how business works and why it can suck. Running your own business will likely mean you have to endure more of these life-sucking tasks (but only until you hit the big time, right?!). This isn't to say that we must all resign to this fate, but you're deluding yourself if you think that self-employment or startup work is all that much different at the end of the day.

Its hard to read your comments in this thread without thinking that, no matter how proud about yourself you are right now, you're exactly the type who will fall to attrition within a few more years of your career.
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Mozilla is in trouble if the PC and the entire "desktop computing" model continues to be sidelined in favor of mobile devices and natural UI's. Of the three mobile devices I own (phone, tablet, ipod) on none of them do I need to go to www.Google.com to find information, nor I do use any Firefox browser. What happens to Firefox when I no longer need a laptop or desktop computer of any kind? The quality of the browser and the team, the philosophy, and goodwill is meaningless if their product isn't on the devices I'm using.
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That's fairly standard legalese for large companies. I'm not saying it makes any sense, I'm just saying I've seen it a lot. I believe this is an attempt to lay some groundwork to support the removal of links from sites that you don't want any corporate association with.
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Wait, no tests? Think some should be added to be brutally honest.
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Hopefully pg will remove the link, so HN isn't associated with Ryanair. ;-)
If I was to create a jQuery plugin site, I would make it a "shopping cart" system where you can pick and choose all the (curated) plugins you want and the site will package it all in a nice zip, provide you with a snippet of code to run it properly, and optionally give you a (paid) hosting of the customized code on a CDN. It could eventually have paid plugins available for further monetization.
Great point! I couldn't have agreed more. Thanks for the comments iSloth!
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No, they're not likely to say it, but they'll know you lied about it, and that will color their perception of you. It just seems to me like a bad idea all around.
Saying "I changed and grew" is not the same as the narrator changing and growing. You just agreed with everything I said: "he just says what he has to say."

That is engaging and persuasive for almost no one.

Moreover, him saying "I changed" comes late in the essay. It's too late to establish either credibility or sympathy.

No wonder the high school kids reject some random adult with boring, bald statement sentences telling them how they're all wrong.
That's almost as good as Amtrak. You have to confirm your email address every time you buy a ticket, even after you've logged in to your account. And the form blocks paste, so you get to type it out each time.