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Inverse is correct.

D-K effect is "If a person is unskilled, then they have high estimation of their abilities."

Converse is: "If a person has a high estimation of their abilities, then they are unskilled."

Inverse is: "If a person is skilled, then they would have a low estimation of their abilities." <-- this matches silv's assertion
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The mythical high paying jobs are in the "private sector."

Well, no. In my local market, $120k is very, very well paid for a typical developer at a typical company. The > $120k salaries you see mentioned on HN are an artifact of two types of companies:

1. Venture-backed startups who don't particularly care about cost management.

2. Large, highly profitable software enterprises like GOOG, MSFT, AAPL.

Step outside these two realms, and developer compensation drops very rapidly.
Yes, please.

I find your essays quite effective, and I think that to communicate most effectively and compellingly on this, you may be best sticking to the tools you know and have mastered.

Hmm... reading others' comments, I'll add the idea of keeping in mind that many of us may try to share the resulting essay with our less/non-tech friends. So if you could make it approachable to them, as well, that might help.

And maybe it would introduce a few more people to your writing and engender their interest in looking at more of it. :-) (E.g. the (high) school essay -- please, world, read the school essay.)
I had job similar to this. I was doing a rights management console for Universal Music to control usage rights on YouTube and Vimeo. My previous two jobs I stayed over 4 years at both. I last 9 months and the CTO yelled at me when I quit.

I did not enjoy the work. I did not feel I was creating anything of use. When friends asked what I did at work I had to say "You know when you try and watch a YouTube video and it's blocked in your country? I do that." It's hard to be proud of that. I found it hard to work when I thought what I was doing was stupid.

The music industry is bizarre. There are so many layers and different people in charge it's impossible to make a descision. Even if they wanted to change with the times I don't think they could.

25% more money and working from home wasn't enough to make me stay.
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This is what has always struck me as unfair and somewhat crude about a flat tax as well. A flat tax is only "fair" if you assume that everyone allocates their funds in relatively congruent proportions, e.g. that everyone spends about 10% of their income on groceries.

But past a certain point, groceries are more or less a fixed-dollar expense, and so the more you make, the less you pay for groceries as a proportion of your income. You can extrapolate this same idea to other critical expenses.

Thus, from the perspective of personal income alone, a flat tax--or a mildly "progressive" tax--is actually regressive, because although it affects all in equal proportion, the effect on the poorest is to forgo life's necessities, whereas the effect on the richest is to forgo some measure of luxury.

Of course, the use of personal income to fund investments and businesses muddies the issue, but the argument still remains, especially since the poorer masses far exceed the richer few in number.
"If you believe reading algorithm and data structures text books and searching for puzzles online will make you a good programmer, then I'm not sure. It may prepare you for interviews, it may also get you a job a bit web giant. It may make you look super intelligent in front of a panel or your team. But in terms of producing software for solving business problems, those facts from memory and even their practice at maximum serves as a catalyst not a crucial ingredient to success."

I call this the difference between being functionally and theoretically great. After finishing my undergraduate, it dawned on me that my education gave me a theoretical ability. Outside the classroom application is what yields functional ability.

"So, just be more productive and iterate your work endlessly. Find flaws and fix them. Do it in iterations. You will be taken care of."

Absolutely agree here too, refinement I think is a big factor to success.
What a damn fine time to be alive.
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"whose" not "who's"
I work for Cheezburger. Believe me when I say we are very serious and the wheels are in motion.
That's like asking "what is the best car for driving". There are so many answers. Here are mine...

Hostgator - $10 a month or less, 'unlimited' everything, SSH access. This is super-cheap hosting and for the most part you get what you pay for, but in general the tech support has been outstanding, for me at least.

Amazon AWS... you really can't beat the learning value of booting up an EC2 instance and configuring your own server from scratch. Same goes for linode.

Don't rule out a cheap laptop loaded with Linux, and a business internet connection. It's not exactly a cheap solution, but it's great for learning, plus you have a dedicated physical server that you can do _anything_ you want with.

Just, whatever you do, don't buy your domain names at the same place you get your hosting!!!
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> * The implication for people who do wait in line is that they are inferior to you, since they somehow fall below the 'worth' measurement - I would never want to even suggest to people that they're somehow less valuable, since I don't believe that people ever are

Personally, my distaste for waiting in lines isn't because I think those people are "beneath" me somehow, it's because in my experience, people are so wrapped up in getting what they want that consideration of the people waiting behind them often goes out the window. I don't mind waiting for things that inherently take time, but I get really annoyed when entitled people waste others' time because they can, because they are not used to taking 'no' for an answer. The customer is always right, donchaknow. And the probability of this happening increases with the number of people in line.

But, I agree with your overall point that "time is money" is typically a poor justification.
Fox news just did a piece outlining Godaddy's support of sopa in glowing terms through all this boycott uproar. Today I am enjoying the delicious proof that fox news is a state run brainwashing machine. We need link bait to get the word out on internet censorship and net nutrality.
Edit: Never mind. wolf550e and cstross are right. If Falcon Heavy flies it will be the 3rd largest rocket (in terms of payload) that has ever flown behind the Saturn V and the Energia.

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I think you're being a little nit-picky. "Largest" is not exactly a precise term but would generally apply to length and width; not exactly the best way to classify launch vehicles.

Payload capability is the important attribute of a launch vehicle and is generally how vehicles are ranked. Using the word "large" for payload capability may not be precise but it is not factually incorrect.

Payload capabilities:

Ares V: 160 metric tons (cancelled)

SLS (Smaller Ares V): 130 metric tons (in development)

Saturn V: 125 metric tons (retired)

Energia: 100 metric tons (retired - one successful flight)

Falcon Heavy: 54 metric tons (in development)

Space Shuttle: 24 metric tons (retired)

Delta IV Heavy: 22 metric tons (in operation)

Proton Rocket: 21 metric tons (in operation)

The Falcon Heavy may end up being the most capable launch vehicle in operations if the re-incarnated Ares V vehicle (SLS) NASA is developing gets canceled again.

(added Energia)
the author updated with this comment:

http://tech.oyster.com/how-to-build-a-40tb-file-server/?#com...

"Didn’t mean to give the impression that this is the only backup, it is not. It is the “warmest” one — first line. It does not share the same physical location with the primary storage box either, but is less than 2 miles away. So we can easily have a 2 hour recovery time without throwing away those astronomical monthly service fees. (Although many technologists will always prefer paying big bucks for the comfort of being cushioned from every angle by SLAs and such — nothing wrong with that, just a different approach.)

As far as TCO goes, it cannot get any lower since we already have one or two system guys handling all servers, as well as office workstations, etc.. This backup box takes up such a small fraction of their time that its almost negligible — several thousand annually at most. Same goes for power, etc — it is just one of many servers.

The disks are all Enterprise Class 2TB SATA-II, several different models. We were purchasing them right after the monsoon floods in Thailand constricted supply so our choices were somewhat limited as time was a factor.

Raid6 has come a long way since it’s early inception days, but is still a trade-off between raw storage capacity and processor utilization. HW RAID industry is now old enough to not have to wait for new products to mature as we used to when the technology itself was in its infancy. Old habits certainly die hard, but getting the “latest and greatest” was a conscious choice made for this specific problem, not submission to some immature fascination with “elite” new products, or however that may be.. This card has the best specs for Raid6 currently on the market — bottom line, period.

Big Kudos to all who made suggestions and participate in the discussion, keep it coming!"
Actually, NameCheap has had one of the best records in terms of defending domain registrant rights out of almost any registrar. For example, http://www.domainnamenews.com/featured/namecheap-sued-domain...

Good or bad, they aren't giving their customers up until the law orders them to do so. They've never acted as if they were the law as far as I know. So if you want to talk about walking the walk and core values, NameCheap has been doing it as far back I can remember. Their owner owns quiet a few very high profile names and cares very much about the rights of a domain holder.

Disclaimer: I may be biased, I know the owner and think very highly of him.
If you can maintain living in a spacecraft - an environment much more inhospitable than Mars - for 18 months (there and back), I'm pretty sure a month or so on Mars is relatively easy.
Carping I know but:

The car might go that far in daylight if it isn't raining and the batteries are fresh - oh and you do not go very fast...

Plus Tesla are hardly a volume car company - very few cars on the road when you take all the fuss into account - Tesla produces publicity rather more than cars.
Well look on the bright side, in Chaucer's time the "lyf" was shorter. Chaucer himself died at 57.
You forget that astronauts were lining up to fly the Space Shuttle even after two of them exploded.

There will be no shortage of qualified volunteers for the first Mars mission, and the idea that people will go insane simply by being in a capsule for 9 months has been pretty much disproven by the recent Mars500 project.
What if they don't "fix" things? Is it then okay to go ahead and boycott Google? I would say no. I would still say even if they did nothing about this that dropping all Google support would still be throwing the baby out with the bath water. I'd honestly be happy if they put out a simple statement explaining why they're going to sever ties or continue doing business with GoDaddy and just honestly explain why. As a business owner I know that you can't really control some of the people you do business with and you really need to pick your battles. Google dropping GoDaddy because they hold an unpopular opinion, however wrong it is, would actually look sort of bad for Google. The guys who are fighting censorship (Google) just severed ties with a business partner because they have a differing opinion actually seems a bit like censorship itself. "If you don't agree with me then I'm going to punish you" is what that sounds like. In any case, its unfortunate that Google ended up doing business with them but Google couldn't possibly know this would happen when they first partnered with them and severing ties now just feels wrong to me.
If you use rackspace, make sure to call up a sales person and make a deal... you should never pay the list price for Rackspace servers.
Here's a link to an article mentioning that they announced support in October: http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2011/10/in-case-you-missed...
The main reason for this kind of turnover is that work in most companies - especially the larger ones - is completely broken.

Employees are paid for the time they waste while being chained to a desk where rather they should be paid for actual work accomplished. Many companies actually value the enforcement of ridiculous 9 to 5 schedules and the requirement of working on site (rather than at least partially remotely) higher than the work you do. In many settings you can easily get away with virtually doing nothing at all as long as you do it during fixed office hours.

What we describe as work today basically is cargo cult from the Industrial Age. We're working with computers and the Internet, yet work is still organized as if we were standing at an assembly line working piece rate.

It's quite telling the article doesn't even mention the possibility of remote or otherwise more flexible working conditions. If they want to retain developers CIOs have to realize they need to forego some control in exchange for more flexible, happier and hence more efficient workers.

As for Harry Fox Agency, music licensing today is - thanks to the outrageous behaviour by the music industry - a somewhat seedy business that probably doesn't appeal too much to ethical, idealistic and loyal people.
The GWT compiler doesn't ship with the Java standard library though. You're not gonna be able to compile most Java code with the GWT compiler.
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If SOPA is bad legislation then opposing it should be a supportable noble thing to do, it should not require defending hate speech.
The article mentions that Timeline will be activated on all Facebook accounts by the end of this year.
I'm curious: does not allowing SOPA-supporting companies at YC Demo Day mean the SOPA-supporting companies won't be investing in YC companies? I am not familiar with the process; is this just cutting them out of the very first round, or is something being done to prevent SOPA-supporting companies from investing at all?
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Let's call things and people the right names.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
I can't promise I can do it, but I'll work on it. ICANN accreditation and registry access is all about money. If I can get the working capital then I'll get DNSimple accredited in 2012. Believe me, I'd love to be able to do it.
The talent is out there, and finding it is easy.

Try finding a quality company where you don't end up working for a d-bag is the difficult part.
Many of the important registries (particularly .com) are also based in the US, so presumably they can also be forced to do the same, even if the registrar is Canadian.

I have long wondered how far this jurisdiction goes. The DoJ could presumably not do much if they want to pull a domain name under a non-US ccTLD because in most cases neither the registry nor the registrar are US-based.

But the root zone itself is based in the US, in the sense that US persons manage and control it. Just as they could pull bar.com if foo.bar.com hosts something they don't like, could they pull .uk or another ccTLD if they are targeting bar.co.uk?
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There have been experiments that show we could probably make it without going insane. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars500/

Dying of other random space hazards is still something to think about.
Did anybody solve this?
I only have one domain there, which I renewed on reflex a month ago, so I won't bother.

I will change next time that domain is about to expire. To help me remember I made a filter in gmail to apply the label "change registrar" to all email from GoDaddy :)
There was a huge jump between the 8-bit and 16-bit hardware in particular - more memory to play with, faster CPU, and better graphics hardware all at once. (Of course, not all the platforms were equal, but the general trend was evident)

So while the 8-bit games generally needed micro-optimizations and completely unportable techniques just to do basic 2d rendering in real-time, the 16-bit generation and on often had some "room to waste" for those kinds of games.

When looking at the level of optimization needed, it's not really what the platform can do so much as combination of the platform + the desired kinds of processing. So Infocom was able to do a VM right from the start because their games were text-only(and later a few static pictures) while today's AAA games still have to do near-metal optimization because they set the explicit goal of pushing the hardware near to its limits, and even so they still manage to waste a lot since the overall project scope is larger.

Working in Flash in 2011, I am able to support a complete in-game editing toolset, via a popup console that contains a Lisp-like repl. The resources are there to do such things, and the amount of code needed to implement them is small, while the benefits are massive. It's a very different ball game.
Redditors pledging to donate thousands to Wikimedia if they dump GoDaddy
Yeah, I got one of my domains there about five years ago, and have wanted to switch for about four but haven't got around to it. Since I use external nameservers I haven't needed to log in there pretty much at all since then.

This will probably be the straw that breaks the camel's back - I'll take it to Namecheap with my other US domains.
It's actually a requirement for gTLDs like com/net/org. When you transfer a domain the registry automatically extends the domain 1 year (or the minimum). If the registrar is charging for the transfer and the extension then you're being taken for a ride.
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To be fair, there are a bunch of people who have been considering migrating from Godaddy for any number of reasons anyways. The SOPA stuff is just the icing on the cake that's pushed them over the edge. This migration has been coming for a long time.
You are obviously talented, so I wouldn't give up. But marketing is also a skill.

I mean people are fighting hard to be in the top 25. That's where all the money is!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail
I, of course agree with point author makes in this post, however 10,000 hours is also meme that Malcolm Gladwell uses to sell his books. I read articles that disprove his assertion and show that often he will fudge data to make a point.

Still 10,000 hours is really good metaphor and it should be understood as such. It is a lot like that left and right brain, sounds really good and people pick this up because it sounds good.
Yes. Instead, let's make the top comment on the top post on the site a pointless flamewar about a single word in the title instead of the content of the post. Your idea is much better, thank you.
I transferred about 25 domains.
I'm very annoyed there is no ICS. Maybe I have to try this out cyanogen stuff.

I was at a tech meeting in Singapore where a Samsung rep introduced their android tablet last year. Someone asked him when Samsung would stop putting touch wiz on the phone just give us the vanilla os. He said that would never happen because phone companies want to 'differentiate' themselves.

Its plain weird to me that these companies can't accept that these horrible customizations are not giving them an advantage. Their differentiation is going to be on price and hardware. I guess they can't let go of the old business model?
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The end is near Facebook. Milk Wall Street while you can bro.
> This begs the question of how close is close enough.

http://begthequestion.info/
Since I'm being downvoted, I figured I'd provide some links to back up my claim that GoDaddy's position has been clear from the beginning:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111029/07003216560/go-dad...

http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2011/10/in-case-you-missed...

Anybody could have found these by doing a Google search.
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The 10,000 hours predates Gladwell. He just wrote a book based on existing research. I haven't seen anything that actually disproves the assertion (again, it's not Gladwell's). Do you have references?
> He made a name for himself infiltrating some the best protected computer systems in the world (including NASA’s)

funny. anybody who was part of the scene back then would tell you that NASA was far from the 'best protected' network. jpl.nasa.gov became a running joke.

I had multiple runins with Schmidt back then (many people did) - the guy was a poser and a script kiddie, all too happy to talk up other hacks as his own in the media.

but anyway, most people know Kim Schmidt is behind the Mega companies. nothing new here. He went from being rich to being broke again a few times in his life (including a pump and dump that he was charged for) and started fresh out in Asia with Megaupload.

Though I wouldn't be surprised if these celebrities were paid to be in the video. I wonder if anybody has thought of asking them.
I honestly don't think history can prepare us for the concept of colonizing another planet. In fact I think the only thing history can tell us is "Humans are part of a very long chain of life that has evolved symbiotically with planet earth", beyond that I'm pretty skeptical. Mars has no magnetic field, 38% of the gravity of earth, non-existent air pressure, and is geologically and biologically dead.
It's usually just a sign of low optimization or polish when the background needs a visible rendering process before gameplay resumes. Most 8-bit games written in BASIC did this, and at a glacial rate. In assembly games it was usually fast enough to just be a minor artifact on transitions.
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> Who has studied the effects of low gravity on a growing child? That's of course a rethorical question: nobody has.

There's a first time for everything. We should be able to answer a lot of questions by raising small mammals on the ISS.
How is that beside the point? They're a company that fit the bill for a service I needed. Knowing Wal Mart screwed people over on car repairs probably wouldn't stop me from buying produce there.

SOPA is something that could directly affect me, that's why I take a special interest in this. You might be surprised to learn that not a single one of those Hacker News stories directly affected my quality of life. That's why it is different to a lot of people.
False.

For the type of vector arithmetic you do in games, SSE (much less later flavors like SSE2/3/etc.) is a big win. SIMD instructions for number crunching is huge.

Your example there is more GCC being shitty than anything else.