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Nope, never a mass profession. Here's why.

1. This partially depends on which area of programming you are talking about. The web development industry is not an area which sees mass hiring. Most web development shops are small teams or one man shops. Running a web development shop is very hard because you have to make a living from running your business as opposed to punching a clock at work. Web development is difficult enough, add all that is required to make a living off it and that cuts the number of people who are able to make it by quite a bit. The article mentions Elance and Odesk jobs which pay "$15 to $20 or more per hour" but the only people who are able to make a living off those wages are living in low wage companies. In the U.S. you might as well be flipping burgers rather than attempting to live as a freelancer at those rates.

The same could largely be said for startups, mobile apps, etc.

2. How many coders does companies such as Google and Facebook have compared to the peak of companies such as Ford? Coding is not and never will be the sort of mass employment industry as manufacturing has been.

3. Coding requires a great deal of self motivation to learn and keep up with. Most people aren't willing to put in the effort that this requires. I learn by doing and I have never had the patience for books, classroom learning or even tutorials. Most people can't pick this stuff up without the sort of structured learning environment which doesn't work well for learning how to code. The number of people who are willing to put in this effort is likely the same percentage of people who are coders today.

4. The labor crunch in the coding industry is not just a crunch of people who know how to code, but rather a crunch for coders who are near the top. The industry could find plenty of people if they are looking for mediocre developers, but that's not where the jobs are going.

5. Knowing the basics of coding for working magic in spreadsheets isn't the same as being handed the keys to commit code to the crown jewels of the company. No matter how many people who know how to code and no matter what the basic expectations are for prospective employees, there won't ever be a significant increase in the number of people who are able to write the code which drives the company.

If the industry needs more coders, then probably the best solution at this point is to be more open to remote developers. That will increase the pool available. Education will also increase the pool, but not on a massive scale.
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This is a good example of how HN has gone down the tubes. I've been downvoted to -1 based solely on a post where I raised a possible security concern. I admitted that I wasn't fully versed, but I expected someone to correct my if I was wrong. Instead, I'm downvoted, but no one has bothered to actually post useful information. Am I wrong? Did someone just 'not like the tone' of my post for some strange reason? Who knows? No one is talking.
this issue isn't something new either. I mentioned Google+'s looted copyright content problem back in September
http://www.seobook.com/the-doors

Google creates the Panda algorithm against thin content & then they shag the ad impressions that quality content deserves...it's pretty hard to have a sustainable quality-based content business model when Google can just displace you with their copy of your own content!
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I'm super excited about Couchbase and the team. It is already a great product and gets better all the time.
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1) incredibly poor rollout strategy (imo)
2) what problem did it actually solve again?

forgive any appearance of snark; i just wanted to be concise, and i don't think that "the ideal marriage between email and IM" is something that people were - or are - desperately crying out to have.
I've observed that flouxetine lowers ones inhibitions drastically, more like a stimulant than like alcohol. Interesting results, as they basically confirm this.
Excellent work. My only feedback would be to look at the camera more, that way you're talking to the audience, not just to the interviewer.
The right to keep and bear arms is also similar. That right doesn't entitle you to free guns.
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The FAQ [1] tells me that Couchasebase Server 2.0 is open source. But, the link to source tarballs and git repos is conspicuously absent from all the pages i've looked through on couchbase.com/org.

[1]http://blog.couchbase.com/couchbase-server-20-most-common-qu...
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The more "makers" on this planet the better. Software moves us further. We need more hands to pitch in on the effort.
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It's a pretty impressive emulation, even has some vim features. That package was the only thing keeping me sane during a year spent in VS.
Yeah, but then I have to have a "guest" log-in. My computers are always on, so people never feel bad about asking to use them, and I feel it's unnecessary and unsmooth to log out.

Since I've already been perfectly demanding|whining about a feature I'd like to have, what I _really_ want is to just click a program that boots up a vm with the same OS, but only the browser ready to go with a fresh lack of cookies, history, etc.

IS THAT REALLY SO MUCH TO ASK? </overdramatic>
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"We are moving more and more of the core database in C/C++, while still using many of the concurrency and reliability design principles we've proven with the Erlang codebase. And Erlang is still going to be part of the product as well, particularly with cluster management, but most of the performance sensitive portions will be moving to over C code. Erlang is still a great language, but when you need top performance and low level control, C is hard to beat."

This is interesting. If I remember correctly, CouchDB was first written in C++ and then moved to Erlang. Now the project has come full circle (which is fine of course).
No kidding. I really need to dig into Windows 7 and find a way to restrict VLC's history. Browsing history is of course also risky. I suppose I could make a guest account, but I really just want a one click solution that authorizes basic web access for ten minutes.

This is primarily a problem on my laptop which lumps to much diverse media together.
When your brother says he likes to code, what does he mean by that? Does he like grokking out web apps, does he find hacking away on a bash terminal far more interesting, or does he enjoy implementing algorithms in a variety of languages?

If he likes grokking web apps, and foresees himself not deviating too far from this career path, then lots of proven coding experience + open source commits might work out for him better than going to college.

That being said, as someone with recent CS Uni experience in the States, I found my time there quite helpful from a knowledge perspective. From a pure CS/coding perspective, CS curriculum introduced me to lots of different computing fields and concepts, as well as provided a mentor/teacher to explain them I might not have found in the "real world", beyond basic data structures and algorithms. Exposure to some of the upper level math also helped hone problem solving skills. Ultimately, I think it ended up working for me, I left with a pretty wide range of knowledge--practical and theoretical--and decent problem solving skills I can apply to most problems.

I don't know anything about UT's program, but I will say if your brother wants to get into lower level coding, a decent CS degree will go a long way to giving him the basic theory & knowledge to jump into the field.
I have read the piece three times, and I get the point, but I don't see the purpose. I suppose he is trying to say that "freedom of access to information" is the real right, and that declaring internet access as a right is foolish. I agree.

The problem is that I know of no country that offers "freedom of access to information" as an ordained right. In America, we accept Voltaire's line: "I disagree strongly with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." but that is not quite the same as "freedom of access".

I wish Vint Cerf had actually said something rather than just waxing poetic.
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It is interesting, when they dropped Couchbase Single Server I jumped on #couchdb irc channel and said how there will be a developer drain from CouchDB since quite a few of them work for Couchbase and will be working on Couchbase Server only (instead of supporting and sending patches back to CouchDB as well).

I got a lot of disagreements and nasty responses back, suggesting that it would not happen and CouchDB is doing awesome, and how this basically doesn't affect CouchDB at all. However here is its creator, urging everyone in so many words to drop CouchDB and switch to Couchbase.
Some very convincing examples would be appropriate here. As for myself, even if I would want to read secondary sources first, I would still want the original content at the top of an unbiased search, recognizing that my desires are somewhat weird and that the original content has a certain moral right to be at the top when searching for that exact content.
When I was in intro CS in college, my prof told us that 90% of whatever specific skills we learned would be obsolete or unnecessary within five years, it was understanding the principles that mattered.

I am a university math teacher. I couldn't give a flying damn whether my undergrad students learn calculus. I do care whether my students learn to reason both non-rigorously and rigorously, that they understand how to read and work with definitions, that they can recognize when their solutions are plausible, and that they learn to explain themselves clearly to others.

I am biased obviously, but I think that a college education is tremendously valuable. Also, I know that University of Toronto is a damn good school.

+1. I respect you greatly for helping out your brother, and for soliciting advice. I can only speak for the path I took, conceivably another is still better, but I can testify that college education is truly valuable.
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I agree with you to some extent. However, one of the problems with how the Republican party communicates is that, amomg their target base, they will often conflate "memorizing and regurgitating" talking points with understanding/groking the issues. They may not know why they don't like Obamacare, but they can memorize that catchy word and they know it spells trouble. But later when/if their party decides to change positions on the issue, a new catchy term with a positive connotation is coined for the masses to latch onto.

I think this runs at odds with what some people are trying to do, which is educate the electorate on why this kind of thing is a bad idea so that these types of issue branding tricks can't get past the public.

All that being said, I'm not sure that much of the electorate can be educated in this way, which probably does account for the success of this sort of thing.
Is denying the entertainment industry crisis out of the table?

You could mention the recent study from the swiss government:
https://www.ige.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Juristische_Infos/e...

Interesting quotes:
- "in spite of numerous media reports and public awareness
campaigns, a majority of internet users still do not know which offers are legal and which are
not."
- "The percentage of available income spent in this area by consumers remains constant.
However, shifts can be seen within this budget. For example, money saved by consumers at
exchange platforms is still being spent in the entertainment sector. However, that available
amount is now being put towards concerts, going to the cinema and merchandising instead
of music or film recordings."
Is your company receptive to folks working remotely at all?
I suspect this is their repo:

https://github.com/couchbase/couchdb
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I'm curious about one thing. If it's a human right in France, it would appear to be an alienable right, given some conditions, such as the "three strikes" (HADOPI) law[1], which seeks to address copyright infringement, allows for suspension of internet access for violations.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law
So, the poor don't have a right to education because they cannot pay? What about food aid to Africa? I think the concept of human right is independent of the cost or who pays for it, at least in principle.
Oof, seems like a lot of inefficiency in retraining, redocumentation, converting, etc. Not to mention the debugging issues between two different technologies.

Why would it be fine?
My understanding of a "right" is not something that must be provided--rather, it's something that cannot be proscribed. A right is passive; all that's needed to provide one is inaction. You don't have to pay anything to not stop me from speaking.

Something that has to be provided is probably better called an "entitlement".
He didn't specify a time zone in his comment but the commit sure as hell has a time zone. The date in the comment could be UTC.
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The use-case for it usually suggested is one VM for work, one for personal use, but it could be used for this scenario too.
I always though it was interesting how the right is very good at sounding authoritative, but when they try humor it comes across poorly or obviously self serving. The left however is very good with humor and satire, but when they try and speak strongly it more often comes across unclear or whiny.
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>it's childish of you to blame Google+ for it<

It is childish to run a search company & create platforms for stealing content without checking for stolen content during the ranking process.

All the hard work on scraper sites doesn't apply so long as the content is hosted on Google.com???

As a search company your primary job is to deliver relevant search results to user. But as a secondary goal (every bit as important as wrapping everything in ads is) you need to ensure that the right people who are putting in human and financial capital get rewarded for their efforts. If you don't then the ecosystem you create becomes a ghetto.

Sites like Mahalo requiring the Panda update were funded by Google. Sure Google may have (eventually) solved that problem, but they created it too.

And in terms of "Google as scraper site" this isn't Google's first time around with this "accidental problem" either, as I distinctly remember them doing the same thing with Google Knol.
http://www.seobook.com/google-knol

Worse yet, when they did it with Knol they even had a check for how related the article was to other content that they posted right on the article, but still chose to outrank the original source.
http://www.seobook.com/images/knol-similar.png

And I publicly posted about the above Google+ scraper site issue last September.
http://www.seobook.com/the-doors
I know Google engineers read my blog & read that post, so PR spin that tries to blame another party is simply unacceptable over 3 months later.
One of the most talented network admins I've ever worked with has a degree in History and spent his 20's working on cars. I wouldn't be concerned.
Just making people aware that any cognitive biases exist would be a huge win.
You switched from "using something without someone's permission is morally wrong" to "using something without someone's permission is morally wrong, unless you add value to it". From the perspective of the person whose work was infringed via parody, they don't care that something was added, only that their work was used without their permission.

Which is why intellectual property isn't a moral right, but a tradeoff. And currently a lopsided one, at that.
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:) True. That is why it is essential to continuously engage with potential customers while defining what goes into the product.

If we were to work in a closed box environment "assuming" what is required for MVP, we may end up iterating a lot internally. It is essential that what we build is what we validate with customers as "must-haves" for first version.
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I still have my hardcover copy of this book, while I wouldn't say I agree with his stance on several issues, the world needs its extremists.

Here's a review I wrote on it a few years back:
http://www.yyztech.ca/posts/books/free-as-in-freedom-richard...
Depends on where you're from. There are some countries where that's true and some where it is not.
I wish he had added that if internet access is not a human right, then it surely follows from one that we haven't articulated yet. I hope he would agree with that, but this article creates the opposite impression.

I know it's onerous for people who think logically, but authors should think beyond the literal correctness of what they're saying and consider how their words will be read in the forum where they are published. I think his resistance to declaring internet access a "right" stems from his understanding that a particular technology is not the right level at which to articulate such a right, but in an op-ed column in a newspaper for general readers, this piece says that it's completely possible for citizens to be denied access to the internet with no infringement on their rights. I realize he said no such thing if you read his words precisely and logically, but dammit, that's not how op-eds are read.
IIRC for USA: Is access to a lawyer in court not a right because it is paid for by the court?
The sources all seem to be sitting in https://github.com/membase/ -- they are componentized, so may be... interesting to work out how to get a running server, but it seems to be there :-) ep_engine looks like the heart of it.
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Vint Cerf has been some combination of politician/lobbyist/bureaucrat for 30 years. Expecting him to have something meaningful to say is a sucker's bet.
Call me crazy, but Reagan was a pretty funny guy.
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I agree, and didn't mean to imply otherwise.
"A rose by any other name..."

I'm the author of 2 traditionally-published books. ISBNs, dead trees, the works.

The first one (Flexible Rails) was something I self-published on Lulu as I wrote it. It started at about 200 pages and ended up over 500 pages before I did a deal with a traditional publisher.

At what point was it a book? My publisher approached me about publishing my book, not my manuscript (or rose). People all over the world bought my book when it was just a PDF. It made my mortgage payments for a while. In fact about 70% of my profit over my book's lifetime was from PDF sales.

As its author, I considered it a book when I first published it. My readers did too. Publishers like O'Reilly, the Prags and Manning probably consider their beta / early access books to be books.

Finally (since I'm typing on a phone), ebooks are to physical books like web apps are to shrinkwrapped software: you can do way more releases. At what point is a release real? Our answer is it is when you have paying customers. That is a commitment to your readers, and it helps you write and keeps you motivated.

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This is a weird piece, I didn't quite understand what he is riling against. One place where I would like to clear the distinction is:

"we have come close to this with the notion of “universal service” — the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must be available even in the most remote regions of the country. When we accept this idea, we are edging into the idea of Internet access as a civil right"

Let's not confuse access to Internet (which is described here) and free access to it. You can have free service to all houses in the US but if the likes of SOPA are implemented, I think most people agree that some rights are being trampled on. Otherwise, why oppose SOPA at all, or why find the Chinese Firewall objectionable? To put Cerf's analogy on better ground, it's as if you have phone service but can only call some numbers.
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we've been doing this for about a year now, though we just use stuff like:

// debug: something %s, here

compiling to:

console.debug('something %s, here)

etc, along with some for profiling etc
I would forget the emergency pin. Maybe if they recognized a backward PIN, but I would probably be so flustered while being mugged that I couldn't enter it backward.