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I normally wouldn't respond to a post like this but when it comes to career advice, many of you who have not been in the workforce long should hear the counterpoint.

The Austin businesspeople are right: folks who want to make a lifestyle choice of going to Austin from California should get paid less to do it. On average, they'll earn more than most people in Austin, but less than their counterparts in Silicon Valley.

I see no problem with this. It's fair. You usually only get to choose where you want to live or where you want to work. The other one is a compromise. That's life. Compromises. Why would a businessperson not take advantage of this when someone wants to live in Austin? Maybe the OP doesn't want to live there but a lot of people do.

Working remotely is a compromise further: you will get paid less, you'll get promoted less, and you will be one of the first laid off.

The OP can rant all she wants about "[companies lacking] the tools to communicate remotely, [probably] can’t communicate at all", but the all of us who have done this can tell you that remote workers are almost never as productive. They only work for "guy who takes the app and ports it to Android because we don't care to do it here" type of projects. 1-3 person projects. Large projects are hard enough to manage with the people in the office, and going remote is a nightmare. I've even seen 10 year experts on the specific codebase try to work remotely and it be completely unproductive when they're remote.

There will be exceptions. The one guy who's amazing as a remote worker. Sales people are always an exception. And of course, all of this turns on its head when the company is not desirable. A crap company will pay you a lot to work remotely, then go out of business 6 months later. Generally though, what I've spelled out here is the way it is.

Here's a proposal, given that she's in Austin already, the OP should demand $150K from those companies or her current employer based on this blog post. Tell us what happens over the next 3 months, 6 months, 2 years.
My sister is a hair stylist, and I talked to her about apps, and she basically rattled off several different ones for every idea I had, and she even said she has tried to think of a few only to find several that already do everything.

There's no lack of competition, but can you get a stylist to make the app part of their daily business routine?
I'm still trying to figure out why there aren't more women in tech.
From the original article, hilarious cluelesness:

Austin's supply crunch for software developers was bad enough by September to prompt 25 Central Texas tech executives to fly to California in search of new talent.

They offered free beer and pulled pork tacos at the Mighty, a warehouse bar in San Francisco, to attract a couple of dozen job candidates. The next night, they headed to Sunnyvale , in the heart of Silicon Valley, for a Tex-Mex happy hour that drew another 45 potential recruits.

http://www.statesman.com/business/technology/austin-battles-...
First, the problem is not iOS, but the AppStore.

GPL and LGPL are totally fine with iOS.

About the AppStore, the issue is mainly that it does not allow shared-objects, as far as I know, and makes it hard to replace parts of the code. However, IIRC, AppStore allows Frameworks. So, if a Framework is LGPL, and therefore weakly- linked, it might be just fine.

But, yes, it is normal that the FSF does not answer, since this is a complex issue.
But the merger mentioned in this article reduces the number of major labels to three.
As with all technologies, there is use and there is misuse. These sort of fears are why I don't work for the government, but it doesn't stop things from being discovered. Indeed, discovery isn't evil, only what these discoveries and advancements may be used for.
Amazon won't go for that because a number of states treat having an affiliate in their state as a "business presence" which triggers the requirement to collect sales tax in that state.

All the affiliates in my state were eliminated that way.
Why people always emphasis h/j/k/l when we already have arrow keys? Do you really waste a lot of time moving your fingers between them? Also, arrow keys work in insert mode.
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Just like with online referrals, Amazon should release a barcode scanning system with store-identification or perhaps simply a geotracking system where brick and mortar stores get a cut of sales from Amazon made by recent visitors to the store. Everybody wins.

The only difference between online and offline referrals is the difficulty of tracking credit for the purchase but I think that can be surmountable.
Although you may have just figured out why there aren't more women in tech in Austin.
a lot of people here would probably tell you that if you need face time to motivate people and you are the kind of person who unironically says "align the company's vision", you're probably screwed anyway.

I don't know if I personally would go that far, but I can say that after five years of working in an office, exciting ideas communicated succinctly transcend the medium. if you tell your people good things, you can use IRC, twitter, quill and parchment, or smoke signals. it won't matter. they'll be motivated.
What's natural isn't necessarily right; what's right isn't necessarily natural. Respectively those are the naturalistic fallacy and the moralistic fallacy.

The reason people object to the naturalistic fallacy in arguments on this topic is that it is typically used to argue for the status quo by people who benefit from the status quo.

If you would like to see an example of it in action, read the Texas Declaration of Causes of Secession and the Cornerstone speech. There you can see rich white people explaining how black people are natural slaves, unfit to any higher role in society. Which was certainly a convenient argument for them to make.
The title is complete BS.

This is perceptual learning we are talking about, at the very lowest level - in this case just recognizing the orientation of a bar. And that's all the results apply to - not 'Matrix-like learning'.

And it's not passive, either. Subjects were asked to "somehow regulate activity in the posterior part of the brain to make the solid green disc that was presented 6 s later as large as possible (the maximum possible size corresponds to the outer green circle)."

That's effortful, although yes, they may not realize what effect this has on patterns of activity in their brain (patterns identified by fmri that the experimenters are trying to get the subjects to reinforce).
Ha. Good point. But I think with women at least (basing this observation on my wife/sisters), there is an element of sharing, i.e. "check out my new haircut" or "like my new haircut?" and so some central social way to do this could be good.

I'm not the demographic but if properly positioned, I could see women primarily using this.
Is Apple is using patents to hurt open standards?
gps service? checked!

Well kind of. Last summer I did a road trip to newfoundland (canada) with a laptop, a gps and a webcam onboard [1]. The idea was to have people (friends and family) to follow our trip through a website to which I pushed webcam frames and gps coordinate in real time using websocket (socket.io) over my smarthphone. It was fun!

[1]: http://blog.rassemblr.com/2011/07/how-to-hack-a-road-trip-wi...
After few months of reading hacker news articles and reading comments I decided to be a part of this community. The discussions here are of the highest caliber from any other community out there. Already over the past few days of joining, I've learned a tremendous deal. I can't wait to see how my development (personal and technical) will advance over the next year!
Average is the important metric in startup investing, because the distribution of outcomes is extremely skewed, and the median is likely a net negative outcome at re series A stage. It's those few blockbuster hits that make VC investing work.

New founders might care more about the median, but big investors, not so much.
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What do you mean by "the issues would have been transparent"?
Spaced repetition fans should be aware that there's a great Anki deck available for learning vim commands:

http://alfmikula.blogspot.com/2010/11/using-spaced-repetitio...
If you touch-type, keeping fingers on the home row is essential. So, yes, it's a huge waste.
The thing about vi vs emacs is that at the very beginning the learning curve for vi is already very steep. Simple things like keyboard navigation and even editing are non-trivial tasks.

This puts off a lot of people, especially if they're working full time as a couple of days fumbling with a text editor equates to real dollars lost in productivity. (In my experience though, it'll take at least a few weeks to be even mildly proficient).

If you're a student (I was 13 when I first picked up vi) this is no problem, as I had infinite time on my hands, but when you're working full time, the amount of time you have to experiment drastically reduces.
This submission's title is misleading, and the original work could be better summarized as "improving at one task while doing another". The authors first determined a pattern of brain activation (indexed by blood flow) associated with the presentation of a target (visual) stimulus for a given subject. Then, they gave subjects real-time feedback about their brain activation while they performed a superficially different task. The trick is that the feedback on the second, different task was based on a subject's ability to cause the same pattern of brain activation (again, indexed by blood flow) that the experimenters first observed when the target stimulus was presented in the earlier session. Finally, subjects were tested on their ability to identify the target stimulus and others like it, and they showed a statistically reliable improvement for the (unknowingly) trained target, but not for other, similar items. It's fascinating, but suggesting that this is anything like what's been depicted in science fiction movies (yes, like The Matrix) is silly.
To make that task even more complicated, people don't agree on what many of the rules are. Your "law compiler" would have to take in input and have output that's maybe this, or more likely this, but it could also be this...
While it may be correct that "folks who want to make a lifestyle choice of going to Austin from California should get paid less to do it," that is not what this article is about. Instead, the author is talking about Austin companies trying to bring developers there that otherwise would be somewhere else (i.e. people who do not want to live in Austin). In that case, its a simple matter of value to the potential employee as to how much extra they need to be paid in order to relocate to somewhere that they had no intentions of living.

edit: repeating myself
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I'm with him. TwitterContests seem like it might have some use but you should devote yourself to something to a bit more interesting.
I can completely believe that federal guidelines allow for that kind of shit. And I'd also be inclined to believe that there's some sort of criminal statute for possessing a counterfeit good. It's probably a felony, no less.

As per proving a sale, they'd better have something written or recorded. I'd be calling the cops damn quick if they tried something like that with me. Unless they have proof that I ageed to a sale, the loophole well, isn't.

Now about that user who insulted you, don't let it bother you. Just remember that Sturgeons law also applies to people.
After proclaiming that she deserves extra money to compensate her for the displeasure of working in Austin, she shouldn't expect to feel welcome here. She made her bed, and she can lie in it. The hostility and disrespect I communicated were intentional, not motivated by her sex, and, in my opinion, a modest and proportional response to what she wrote.

@a3camero, I admit that as someone from the south, I should know better than to say "darling." I reached for a patronizing term and used it without ism-checking it. Serves me right for being nasty. It's hard to be offensive to one person without inflicting unintentional and regrettable collateral damage. I apologize.
Yeah, I know, but in Ruby you can drop the parentheses. And in 1.9+ instead of `:something => 'value' you can write just `something: 'value'`. Python: `make('coffee', sugar=2, with='poison')`. Ruby: `make 'coffee', 2, with: ['poison']`. I prefer Ruby's style but it's still lacking.
Ruby's had the much more featureful Pry for some time now: http://github.com/pry/pry.

(And there have been various projects to provide some sub-capabilities for years.)
I am about to take a Game Theory final tomorrow so this post if very relevant :)

The Yale Open Courses Game Theory class is also worth checking out. Material is taught in a very accessible manner.

http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/game-theory/
i haven't tried this yet, but the idea of a web-based django IDE sounds intriguing ..
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Oh boy. Pretty soon we will need UDP sockets in the browser.
Where is there example code? I didn't see that on the site.
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I meant the "darling" thing, but I'm from Ontario where that would be an unusual thing to say and probably sexist.

Maybe it isn't in Texas, in which case, my apologies. Texas is on my list of places to visit and if darling is actually used in a way that isn't sexist, well you just bumped it up a bit more on my travel list!
I used that website for my micro econ final 2 days ago

If you skip classes to work on your side project, that web site is must see.
Are there any studies that demonstrate the amount of correlation between money-raised and exit valuations?

Yes, many. That's what any study of the returns of venture funds is measuring. And since the returns of the top venture funds are consistently at least positive, we can be fairly confident that $7 billion is a lower bound on exit valuations.
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> This is absurd. I was originally considering moving to the US for my postgraduate studies, however, after speaking with peers I decided against it, as other countries that offer far more favorable visa terms exist. Currently, my leading option is New Zealand, bundled with their student visa is a permit to work 20 hours a week, and a year's residency after the completion of your program among other things.

US has almost the same case, as far as STEM students go. You can get a F-1 visa for 5 years, which includes permission to work 20 Hours on campus, or 40 hours off-campus for work related to your education (like a internship or something). Once you are done with 5-6 years of your PhD, you get Optional practical training time(12 months), during which you can take a job, etc. If you are in STEM category,you get another 17 month extension. So in all you have about 2.5 years after your studies (assuming you join a PhD in CS).

As far as students are concerned, US has a very good visa program, but getting a visa to stay after 2.5 years of work seem to be the tricky part. They are not very enthusiastic about keeping students in which they invest a lot of money and time.
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It's all well and good if you can find good candidates who already live where you are located, but the article that Garann is responding to here is about how there are no such candidates in Austin without a job. The only choices left to companies there are now (1) relocate candidates who most likely don't want to live in Austin, or (2) relocate the entire company, likely losing the employees that you already have because they are the ones who do want to live in Austin.

It seems to me that, unless you're a two-man startup, relocating the entire company is clearly going to be more expensive.
The webOS stack looks roughly like this:

5. Enyo (webOS 3) and Mojo (webOS 2) JavaScript application frameworks
4. SDL native development kit
3. Luna RPC messaging system
2. OpenEmbedded userspace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded
1. Linux kernel
I use ipython's "ipdb" or plain old Python "pdb" for the same functionality, and a bit more -- people don't seem to realize that ipdb gives them a full-on REPL within the calling context.

I usually wrap it into our error logging functions, so an environment variable enables debugging where I would normally have a catch-all -- very handy when looking for heisenbugs in AndBug.

AntiLog -- https://gist.github.com/a256ed1295619fad7cfc

AndBug -- https://github.com/swdunlop/andbug
No, the law says that once they're in that position, that position has the power. The question was why we keep putting them in that position.
I assume the median valuation will ultimately be zero. I.e. I'd be delighted if the success rate of companies we funded was as high as 50%.
I don't think the initial difficulty of Vi is that much greater than that of Emacs. The real difficulty is in the fact that everything is completely different from what you are used to; perhaps this is more true in Vi, but the difference between Emacs and Vi in this regard pales in comparison to the difference between using a mouse and arrow keys and either of the text editors.

Also, while my approach will certainly cause a small amount of difficulty at the very beginning, I think you will actually win out in the long run. That is, let's say you normally code at 1 productivity unit (whatever that may be). My way, you may spend a some time at 0.1, then a bit of time at 0.5, but, in a couple weeks at most, you will start working at 1.5 or 2 or more. On the other hand, while still using arrow keys, you may first be at 0.8 for a bit, then back at 1 then maybe at 1.2. But you will not see any drastic improvement for a while, and so will actually be less efficient in the long run.
If the kind of people who get paid $150K to write software are having trouble getting motivated, maybe you made a mistake in hiring them, or at least paying them $150K.
I'm puzzled by why syntastic was so counterproductive for him. It's helped me more times than it's hurt. Does he have autowrite on?

Some additional tips:

* As your # of plugins grow it helps to isolate plugin-specific config to separate files. Example: https://github.com/cldwalker/vimfiles/tree/master/after/plug... .

* If you want to stop seeing vim as a series of unforeseen tricks, take the time to learn the 300-400 keybindings you find useful. I'd recommend a free flashcard program like anki which also has a vim flashcard set, https://github.com/amikula/vim_flashcards

* One helpful pattern I've noticed in memorizing keybindings: uppercase, left characters i.e. P, ( map to above and reverse; lowercase and reverse characters i.e. p, ) map to below and forward

* If you're looking for a more powerful to search your vim docs, check out my vimdb project, http://github.com/cldwalker/vimdb
I like wearing shorts. At night. The fact that I can do this, at least some parts of the year, in New York, makes it a great city. In New York, I never once left the house wearing a tshirt, walked a neighborhood over, spent a few hours at a friend's, and then nearly died of hypothermia walking home. The fact that residents of SF have to check the weather every two hours and every time they cross into a new zip code is, imo, a fatal flaw. Yeah, it's often nice, but never nice enough for long enough (48 hours of reliable 70+ temperatures). Now, a few miles down the peninsula, things get more interesting...
As someone who spends most of their time in Xcode doing Objective-C work, I find the debugger to be particularly delightful. Between the gdb/lldb shell, mouse-over displays, variables view, "automatically run in the debugger when I set breakpoints without needing to be in a special Debug mode", the Static Analyzer, and Instruments, I find it to be a treat.

What do you find atrocious about it? Perhaps it's something I'm missing as I haven't used Visual Studio's debugger in forever (or Eclipse, or Qt Creator)..
Record companies are still relevant because they provide what is probably the most important element of a band/musician's success: marketing.

This is not something music fans are likely to admit, but their tastes are determined more by shrewd marketing than by some "objective" measure of talent or quality.

It reminds me of an article I read recently - a world-renowned violinist played in the DC Metro for a day. Not a single person recognized him, and very few people recognized the quality of his performances. Most just passed him by and some dropped quarters as if he's just a run of the mill subway performer.

IMO, people do not have the discerning taste they seem to attribute to themselves. This goes for movie buffs, music fans, video game connoisseurs. Everyone.

So, in an environment where people's perceptions of art and media is more determined by preconceptions and biases than any pseudo-objective measure of quality, the difference between winners and losers is who can shape their image the best. This takes a shitload of money, spent in a shrewd way - record labels are still very, very good at this.
This is a perfect place to post a Vim tip that I think helped me the most in starting out.

Disable arrow keys.

It's extremely painful for the first 5 days but I promise that's all it takes to get use to it. And it makes huge difference in your productivity. All that time does add up.

Add the following to your .vimrc

map <up> <nop>
map <down> <nop>
map <left> <nop>
map <right> <nop>
imap <up> <nop>
imap <down> <nop>
imap <left> <nop>
imap <right> <nop>

The reason you want arrow keys disabled in insert mode is that arrow keys breaks the modal paradigm. Again, I promise that once you get comfortable, it becomes more efficient to go into editing mode and make the change rather than navigate via the arrow keys in insert mode.
That's a terrible analogy and if you want to go there, Disney has made plenty of little girls cry every day.
Yes, absolutely. This hjkl navigation (combined with other vim code motions) you can really fly are files.
I also miss pattern matching when using other languages.

As an aside I just had a look at what stage Reia is up to. The github page says that Reia is now defunct. (https://github.com/tarcieri/reia)

There is also another ruby-like language on the erlang VM - Elixir (https://github.com/josevalim/elixir)
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Thanks for sharing this! It looks interesting!
What I really like about Khan Academy is that Sal takes away all the magic. The limit as x approaches 0 of sinx/x isn't 1 because "that's the formula," it's because (insert Sal's 15 minute proof showing the graphs and allowing you to intuit the result).

In contrast, I just watched the first two lessons of this series and so far it feels like a lot of magic. It's just a "rule" of strictly dominated strategies that each of player 2's middle column values are larger than their end column values, so we can eliminate the whole column. Why is this? What do those values represent?

For anyone who has watched more of the videos, does the series improve in this regard?
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Stanford will be continuing its tradition with online courses this spring and one of the classes they plan to host is an introduction to game theory: http://www.game-theory-class.org/index.php .
No, it's sexist in Austin too. For sure.
Lolwat. No one proclaimed any such thing. Sorry to break it to you, darling, but your reading comprehension skills need work.
For the Timeline idea, something similar exists with <a href="https://www.lucidchart.com/>LucidChart</a>, which is an excellent app.
Got it. I don't know of a way for end users to replace frameworks with a newer version so it seems unlikely. Was there ever any discussion of going to an even more open license such as MIT/BSD?
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