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I am a heathen, and not an atheist (I am not the GP poster either).

I don't see suicide as a tragedy nor do I see life in itself to be sacred in the way Christianity teaches it is sacred. For this reason I am pro choice but don't even try to differentiate between abortion and infanticide--- personhood is a social concept and where we draw lines is arbitrary. Just because we draw the line before birth somewhere and the Vikings drew it a few days after birth doesn't make one more right than the other.

I don't particularly frown on suicide (note, I am not untouched by this, having lost two friends to suicide both which were suffering from mental illness). However, I think that if one is competent to decide, that's the key thing. It;s tragic when we sent people off to war and then don't give them the treatment they need when they come back so they kill themselves. It is tragic when people find themselves rejected by long-time friends in their hours of need and slit their wrists in hotel rooms. I am not saying these are good choices.

But having known people who made these choices badly does not give me a right to discount it in other circumstances.
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You should read the following from 'jacquesm'

http://jacquesmattheij.com/attitude+does+not+scale

His point about small town versus large city is wonderful.
Way slower, because it includes vendored files I don't care about.
I think a better title would be 'Don't outsource if you don't have any way of overseeing the process locally'. Really it's a valid warning for anybody who outsources whether locally or internationally. I guess doubly so if outsourcing to a country where you don't have trustable local contacts and an easily accessible legal system.
I wouldn't go as far as generalizing all outsourcing efforts as dubious, but I do find it particularly shocking that government bodies deny assistance in a million dollar shamble.
There were some people suggesting that the Occupy movement or “the 99%” should be the Person of the Year—I suppose this is pretty close ;)

To those who say the TIME Person of the Year should be an actual person, I think what's happening is that sometimes there's a single person that does extraordinary things in a given year. But sometimes, people, in numbers, anonymous, make changes so much more radical than those a single person can, that it's almost foolish to try and pick a single person for the year, because any given individual's contribution to the year's changes is so very minuscule compared to the crowds that gathered from Σύνταγμα square to Tahrir square to Zucotti Park—some more effective than others, but all changing the way things around them were being discussed, and all fueling each other.
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Correct, the template can only be rendered on the "client" in cases where JavaScript is available. In other cases (including for the small percentage of users who have turned off JavaScript and mobile devices without JS support) the solution is to render the templates (turn them into HTML) on the server.
Certainly while undying fame is hard to win, I believe it can be done, and those who commit suicide tend to fade from memory just as fast as those who don't. There are good and there are bad reasons to commit suicide. Doing so solely so one can be remembered, unless it is in a particularly memorable way (like the Buddhist monks in Vietnam protesting the Diem regime by setting themselves on fire in public) is about as stupid a reason as one can get.
This article seems more like simply "don't be a fucking idiot".

And judging china, India, etc. is unfair. I once worked with a guy in Toronto, Canada, maybe 4 hours away from my home in New York. He ended up stealing $3,000 from me and there was nothing I could do.

So "don't outsource" isn't necessarily a good message in my opinion. A better one would be "try to avoid working with random people you've never met or heard anything about".
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* Website discoverability sucks ass; at any rate you can advertise an app on your website and ge the best of both worlds

* Websites require connectivity

* Web development is unnecessarily tedious and requires coding in multiple half assed languages and targeting different browsers and platforms (and scale)

* Most websites don't make any money at all regardless of which rules you play by, but you're playing by google's unknowable rules at minimum

* Websites lack basic features of apps, such as offering complete control over the user experience (e.g. Not wasting screen real estate on web browser cruft)

* Let's be honest, including games every website could be implemented as an app.

I actually agree with your post in many ways, but all your points can be turned around without even being clever or disingenuous. I think some things (e.g. Magazines and most content apps) should be websites not apps. Other things should be apps. A few things should be both. Websites need to devise ways to work offline (which magazine apps do, but suck anyway).

Let's take a simple example: Ken Rockwell sells interactive camera manual apps for iOS devices. Could this be a web site? Sure, but not much use when you're hiking or caving or doing a shoot on a building site huh? Also much harder to monetize.
Honestly, apart from dialing, how is talking on a phone any different from talking with a passenger?
Bribing someone is a crime, and not something you want to admit on a website. I think there are U.S. laws that also forbid U.S. companies from bribing foreign officials.
I expect that telecommuting and/or salary are the dealbreakers here.

These auto-resume sites apply pretty dumb filters right off the bat, and you probably got kicked out of the responder queue the second you ask for a six-figure pay rate and/or the option to telecommute.
If you complete phone screens on 1 out of every 10 inquiries you send, you are doing very well in my opinion.

If those phone screens do not turn into full interviews or offers, that is a statement on how they went, not on company responsiveness.

Frankly, I don't think your stats show a lack of response at all. I think they are very reasonable, as some level of non-responsiveness is natural, when you account for the fact that you gave them enough information to summarily dismiss you from consideration if you don't match their needs or culture.
Good idea--I'm uploading the video to Vimeo now and I'll link to it or use it for the embedded video.
I'm unconvinced that the rights of 30,000 dead (may they rest in peace) trump the rights of safe, responsible people who enjoy driving themselves.
How about a screaming child in the back seat with only the driver in the car? Maybe that child is old enough to unbuckle themselves. Is that more distracting than talking to passengers?

I find it odd that people feel they will be safer with legislation like this. The NTSB is making their point through scenario specific testing and while it is interesting research it doesn't reflect other real world situations that may be even more distracting than phones.
This Prashant guy is insane and I don't think this has something to do with outsourcing. Guys like Prashant are everywhere so companies will just have to be careful who they hire or work with.
The article is useful because it repeats and glorifies this shibboleth: "So America's great 21st century contribution to fomenting freedom abroad was not imposing it militarily but enabling it technologically, as an epiphenomenon of globalization. And for a second act, globalization returned the favor, turning democratic uprisings in developing countries into inspirational exports for the rich world."

First, the Arab Spring protests were the culmination of long-standing movements that magazines like Time paid little attention to until the very end. When Time finally noticed them, Time wrote about the movements as though they were the product of American social networking sites. It always struck me as a very USA-centric thing for an American to look at the Arab Spring and say, "hey, look at what we did!"

Second, the Internet's impact on global freedom is ambiguous; as Evgeny Morozov points out in The Net Delusion, the Internet can be used to promote freedom but also can help oppressive regimes by making propaganda and surveillance easier.

Third, whether the Arab Spring actually promoted "freedom" and democracy remains to be seen; removing a dictator is certainly a step in the right direction, but it isn't the whole journey.
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A lot of them probably chose not to reply because there were other candidates that were a better match or you didn't meet their minimum criteria.

Generally at most companies you have to be significantly better than the other candidates to be worth considering as a remote candidate.

I don't think they chose not to respond after deciding that you were a suitable candidate.
You didn't post your full resume, but as a hiring manager I can tell you that the telecommuting preference and the previous listed experience as CTO might have disqualified you from a number of companies, even if they are presumably open to distributed development and multiple levels of talent.

On the other hand, the fact you didn't receive a response at all from so many (we typically send a note to every applicant who makes the effort to contact us) is surprising. Many companies use a tracking system of some sort to classify and manage recruiting workflow - most of these are utter tripe.
Space travel is of ultimate benefit to humanity. They see that we are capable of being a multi-world species, and that's one of the greatest goals there can be. Nanotech and robotics are huge parts of it. These spaceships only work with extremely small computers and smart robotics. But the drive to be a real spacefaring civilization with colonies on Mars and perhaps Ceres is huge - with a potential at that point to go interstellar.
If they did so, they would be breaking U.S. law—and it’s one that is being fairly well enforced (the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, I believe).
EDIT: this wasn't really a coherent response. Maybe I'll come back later with something else.
What is the other side of the truth?

Common, who would spend 240k/yr on a ecommerce website in today's world? There are so many ready to use open source stuff. And how can someone who has access to your server steal the domain? This is like handing over your email account to the developer that has access to the godaddy account in order to manage the server.
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I quit fb long ago, but for different reasons. I was never into this 'my' thing (I hate posing for photos etc). My problem was scrabble. I was spending hours playing scrabble every day, and it was much easier to find people to play scrabble with, on FB than elsewhere.

In any case, FB doesn't add any real value to life, that much I am convinced. I wonder how long before FB fatigue catches up with people, and they start using it less, if not quit outright?
I had this with some nice Latvian guys back in 2002 (please note: I have nothing against Latvia - just these guys). My little experience:

Our director decided to "cut costs" as we didn't want to take any permanent staff on for a job (as they are hard to get rid of in the UK) and chucked stuff over to a company in Latvia. They were sent a detailed (900 page) specification to extend our application which was put together with in mod_perl. What we got was something completely different that plainly didn't work and was full of script and SQL injection attacks. As we were in the crap if we didn't deliver, we threw them a load of cash and gave them another chance to fix it. Nothing arrived. We'd paid 2/3 of the agreed total by then.

Our director sent them a nice letter saying that it was a pile of shite and we weren't paying the rest (which was within the contract terms).

That evening, all our VPNs dropped and about 10 minutes later our SDSL connection fell over. Thanks to someone else's (uttery awfully simple) password and their box set up to accept telnet, they'd brute forced it and got into our network. As it was an pam LDAP set up, that was it. Whole LAN down. They ripped everything off and trashed it. We pulled the plug on the interface and cleaned everything up which took about a week.

About 2-3 days later we got a nastygram via email saying that they'd ripped us off and were going to fly over and rape our children. I shit you not. Nice people eh? I slept with a fricking baseball bat and hunting knife for about a year.

Also, after about 9 months we found the application up for sale at $200 on one of those crappy script sharing sites.

Now nearly 10 years later, I'm dealing with the same mess from a larger "more professional" outsourcing company in India. The irony being that I have to QA and clean up half their check ins which are just small packets of shite thrown over the Internet. They don't even write test cases and it's hard to understand what the hell they were thinking in most places. I could have written them myself and checked them in quicker. Also most of them required training in our technology which gave them a professional advantage in India so we basically end up training them and watching them move on. It's just a more professional mess.

Why people don't learn, I don't get.
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You already got an excellent reply, but I'd also like to add that a foo -> c++ -> binary compiler chain is considerably simpler than a foo -> x86 jit. Certainly both are within facebook's capabilities, but the former is both quick to write and leverages the capabilities of the c++ optimizer and c/c++ runtime. The latter requires understanding the instruction architecture and writing your own runtime support.

Matt Might has a couple nice posts on compiling toy schemes to c or java.
Just as a warning, angel.co is completely useless if you don't already have a number of preexisting connections to the angel investing community. If you start with 0 followers, you will have 0 followers forever, and nobody will ever see your profile.
I remember The Plant. Stephen King made over $700,000 writing a partial novel which he declined to finish not because it didn't turn a profit, but because his download statistics didn't show the opt-in payment ratios he wanted.

It's an instructive example of hubris and mis-aligned goals. Stephen wasn't interested in generating a profit. Had he raised the same revenue with half as many readers paying twice as often he would have continued the project.
Just to clarify one thing, it's very unlikely that you'll take a 50% performance hit when moving from JS to CoffeeScript. That may be true for Dart as well--I don't know.

Also, since CoffeeScript transcompiles to JS, it will generally reap the benefits of future improvements to JS runtimes, packaging tools, etc.
This article raises red flags on the author's credibility. This looks less like a truthful account of a story, and more like a frustrated small company who had a partnership go bad, and are trying to defame their partner.

A whole web site, with linkbait headlines, set up to tell one story? Their about page doesn't even say they are trying to start a discussion... it just rehashes the story. With a few other pages to give a token appearance that they will tell more stories later.

I am sure there was fault on both sides, and I am equally sure the other side would have a vastly different story.

But this whole site sure looks like juvenile vengeance.
I wish we invested more into space exploration. Like, serious resources from every country in the world. To think that we squabble over silly things on this planet every day when there's a whole universe of stuff we can't even comprehend out there. Things always seem so trivial when you imagine the bigger picture, yet we worry about them anyway and I don't know why.

There's a saying that struck a note with me... "We've been born too late to explore the earth, but too early to explore the universe".
Please note my comment was not meant to be blasé but rather my, admittedly, cynical view of the Christmas season.

Telling the clinically depressed (including self) that everything is wonderful and indicating they should feel the same is a bit like telling a man in a wheel chair he should go jogging. I get this a lot.
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Hrm...

I tend to agree with the OPs thoughts - companies often don't respond, even when, in general, the industry (and perhaps some of those same companies) publicly moan about not being able to find people.

When did having 7 years of experience make someone a sr level developer? I don't think I started using that level for myself until I had 10 years experience. I guess to each his own. Just like everyone's a "founder" these days, everyone else is a "sr level developer"???

What's a "CTO of a side project" look like? I understand it shows a lot of initiative, but depending on the types of companies applied at, it wouldn't come close to what they expect of a "sr level developer".

I guess I'm just old (sorry, senior) and grumpy this morning. :)
You get a change log, a central repository, and the ability to roll back to previous versions.

That's pretty valuable, even without the ability to merge.
Specifically in response to the time gaps: it's true that time gaps are bad, but keep in mind these are startups, which means they're juggling about twenty thousand different things at the same time. I think in that domain in particular, some slack may be in order as compared to a 20,000-strong corporation with a dedicated HR department.

Re: weird extra steps: the idea isn't that they're cool. The idea is that if you are willing to attempt it and solve it successfully, it says something about your problem-solving skills. It's not the be-all end-all, but it seems like a decent first-pass filter.

Re: cultural mismatch: if it's a cultural mismatch, you probably shouldn't apply anyway. The thing about a startup is, there are five or ten of you. This isn't just another job. You generally don't just come in at 9, work work work, maybe take lunch with your teammates, and trip it out at 5. You don't just attend the company Christmas party. A startup is typically very much like a family, because everything is riding on everyone. When someone quits IBM, the teammates write it off as a “whatever”. When someone quits at a startup, you spend some serious time looking around to make sure there's nothing scaring them off, because every individual counts a great deal.

In short, culture is critical, and even as a married father of two, signing up for a startup is signing up for a culture and a tight-knit group of friends as much as it is signing up for a job.
In Alberta a new law was passed that bans all this stuff, including while on a red light.

I guess this is to prevent people from not noticing when the green light goes on. I don't think I've seen any less people talking on their phones while driving though :(

http://blogs.canoe.ca/canoetech/in-the-news/tough-alberta-di...
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It is also an instructive example of novelty. His initial experiment was reported very widely, and tens or hundreds of thousands lined up to "prove it could work", putting their dollars to demonstrate it.

Once the novelty wore off, the viability of the approach disappeared. The opt-in payment ratios started generously, and rapidly approached zero.

Little can be learned from CK's experiment because it was novel -- it got covered far and wide, encouraging a lot of people to "show" that the model works.
That's absolutely correct, but launching above most of the atmosphere means that you don't have to design the rocket to take atmospheric loads. Light-weighting a rocket has a pretty big effect on the payload / rocket ratio which is good.

Taking X kg off the weight of a rocket typically means that you can take X/k (where k < 1) off as well because that was additional structure, fuel, or engine capacity that is no-longer needed to support what you've already removed. Of course, now that the rocket is even lighter, there's another round of mass reduction.

Don't worry kids, the series converges in a few iterations, but the point is that removing any weight from a rocket is a huge deal.
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Some of these complaints are side effects of Apple's implementation and not apps in general.

Frequent updates are often used to churn an app for visibility on iTunes for better discoverability. Thanks to this, apps are updated for very minor reasons, and most people don't give a crap about minor updates.

apps are still little islands of functionality that don't talk to each other

That's not entirely true. Apps are only islands if you make them that way. Many iOS apps talk to each other using URL protocol handlers as an interchange mechanism. I just bought TextExpander Touch, and it works with over 120 other apps. There's some Twitter clients that do something similar. No question that this would be even better with more support for it in the OS, but it works now.

I spent much of last year working on an HTML5 app. Maybe HTML5 will equal the app experience someday. But that day is not today.
Criminality is related to breaking laws. Doing business internationally is difficult because the laws are not consistent and cross-border enforcement is difficult in the best of cases. When entering into a business relationship you often don't know much about the people you are doing business with. People make similar mistakes in the U.S. by giving full and complete access to their source code to unknown and untrusted agents and then get screwed.

To be fair though, the developer probably has a different viewpoint. I've been screwed out of ridiculous sums of money on different deals through unscrupulous business owners thinking they had me over a barrel. Ultimately I always found it cheaper to walk away rather than trying to resolve it even in the U.S. court system. I have to wonder what would cause this person to react so hostilely for such a sustained period of time. This is personal somehow, there is no profit in this for TSC according to the story (100k wouldn't justify this).

There are always two sides to every story, this is suspiciously one sided and perhaps more disturbing it paints the entire indian culture and economy with the same broad brush.

The lesson here should be that development in general is hard. Outsourcing is even harder. Business disputes often get very messy, cross border disputes even more so. When engaging in any business transaction give serious consideration to what happens if this transaction goes south. Do they have access to your core systems? How bad can they hurt you? These exercises are just as valid with internal developers as they are with any external agent. Once you grow beyond the startup stage, building a sustainable and protectable business should be one of the main focus points of any management team. These guys made mistakes, who doesn't. This developer is acting childishly, it happens. Don't over-generalize from this single example.
Am I crazy thinking it'd be a good idea to have an elevator which analyses its own usage patterns and adjusts its behaviour accordingly?