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Wonderful point. There's a Doctorow article I read somewhere that essentially put forth the following logic for digital distribution:

There will be a group of people who would not acquire the content unless it was digital. They may buy or pirate it. This is the group of interest. If more people who weren't going to get the content (b/c of lack of exposure, lack of interest, etc.) pay for it than don't pay for it, the digital venture is worthwhile (This ignores that some people who would have bought it non-digitally may pirate it, though that group is small; if you wish to support to movie by paying for it, you'll most likely do it regardless of medium)

For example:
100 people would have bought the movie if it was only physical.

100 other people will have never heard of the movie unless it is released digitally.
Of these 100, 75 people buy the movie, 25 pirate it.

By listing it digitally, the publisher gets 175 people's worth of profit, and 25 people's worth of "loss". Therefore, it is worth listing digitally.
or multiple monitors.
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This is an awesome tool...
That is much better than the jQuery version - particularly the use of requestAnimationFrame. It still has almost a second of Recalculate Style before the animation, but the animation at least manages to get some frames in.

I'm hoping that if nothing else this post prompts the jQuery team to have a look at their animation function.
In FireFox the problems are either with the timer or how fast a screen is drawn.

On an old laptop, changing the opacity, or set a different color of the same amount of divs takes about 50ms. The next timeout or interrupt, is on average 200ms later. The first screen draw is the slowest with 350ms.

I used absolute position for the divs, so that the browser doesn't have to recalculate the page after each update.
Annual household income => $383K is a bit surprising? Or do I just have a wrong picture of rich people. I thought it would be much more.
Probably because he/she recognizes that any such discussion will not lead to any possibly productive output and instead be a pointless match of tilting at windmills.

For what it's worth, I'm getting the same vibe from you. Your first contribution to this thread was basically taking a big steaming dump over this young lady's accomplishments. Why would you do that? It didn't add anything to the discussion, and instead makes you look like a colossal jerk. If this were not HN, I'd think you were just plain trolling.
For anyone interested, a similar list for the UK was published in the Guardian a couple of months ago. There are a few visualisations available, and the data's also there for download: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/nov/25/highest-paid-job...
Worst defense is a bad defense.

I'm sorry that she had to die (really, I was shocked when I read she had died), but dying at a young age does not make one prodigy. She was (I'm certain of that) an extremely bright and self-confident kid. But better leave it at that. Saying that she was the greatest programmer of all time or the greatest person that had ever walked this earth is just insulting her memory, and belittles her achievements (which is much greater than mine's when I was her age).
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This was a particularly interesting article. You had to spend some time to look through it to find some good take-aways.

- Physicians and dentists are not only a large number of the 1%, the proportion of dentists and physicians who become part of the 1% is extremely high - about 20% combined.

- I was struck by the seemingly high number of secretaries on the list. Yes, I know the chart represents "1% households", but this made me smile, since I figured it means a lot of powerful men are marrying their secretaries.

- For the ridiculous amounts of money that athletes seem to earn (and I don't have a problem with them earning that much), they are a very small share of the 1%, and the chances of a professional athlete becoming a 1%er is low too, only 2% of them.

- And since this is a tech/programmer site, the relatively low numbers of computer science/software people in the 1% seems to indicate that our chosen profession "tops out" at a certain income level below that 1%.
And perhaps they should specify whether they're looking for full time work or freelance.
Yes, i see it now, there seems to be some confusion as to the need of the article. It makes more sense in a tutorial perspective and is needed to pull people off of jquery. Thanks for clarification. :)
If your clients only use your provided libraries then there is no difference between SOAP and REST in this instance as the primary attraction of REST (accessing the methods through HTTP requests) will be abstracted by the library.

So either that 25% wants a RESTful interface because they're going to opt not to use your libraries or because they're conditioned to vote for REST over SOAP.
That doesn't match the current marketing terminology. This is meant to be topical, not strictly informational, though I think it succeeds as both.
A long while ago I hacked some small forth implementation into the Linux kernel. It didn't really do anything useful though, and was a pretty simplistic implementation. It was kind of fun though.
It does seem like they are over doing it a bit. But this is a country with a serious shortage of real heroes.

If other Pakistani kids are motivated and inspired by her life I think its worth the renaming, adulation etc.
Two married schoolteachers in a wealthy suburban school district near their peak earning years will gross nearly $200k for the household. (I'm related to multiple examples.)

The BLS collects copious stats on how much different occupations are paid. Reports of them being working poor are highly exaggerated.
Re: Secretaries - Or hiring their partner to be their secretary, although the partnership likely makes sense if they get along that well (co-founders in a way)
You do have to keep in mind what the Samwer brothers are doing is executing a fairly well known business strategy, taught in all introductory management courses. They are essentially letting others (Pinterest in this case) find the product-market-fit, then they launch their own version in other respective markets. Say what you want, but don't blame them, thank the education system.
Same thing I was thinking. There would be no google if the founders had just given up when first trying to sell their search engine and were unsuccessful.
It's due to the sheer number: over 10M teachers. So there's simply a lot of them (in absolute numbers) that ended up marrying a 1%-er, even if its percentage-wise not out of the ordinary.

You can see that the color is very pale, and only slightly darker for college and universities.
OP: You should probably add your own comment where you state what you're looking for. Your ad for employment kind of has an unfair advantage over everyone else who posts one.

That said, I think this is a good idea. The "Who is Hiring?" thread seems to be the same companies posting over and over. Here, those companies can pick out who they like and directly recruit them.
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You should take a look at Klarna.

Not really a small startup anymore, but a pretty cool place. I used to work there but quit because of a long commute and being unable to relocate.

https://klarna.com/en/about-us/work-at-klarna
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When I was young (8-9 years old) everyone - peers, teachers, and parents - told me to stop being so outspoken. "Think before you speak" was drilled into me for years, continuously. It was probably the worst advice I have ever received.
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My anecdotal evidence points to otherwise. On the other hand though, I believe 200k is close, but insufficient to place one into the 1%.
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That depends on the management. There can be an incentive for comment/code ratio, with tooling to extract and measure metrics on the comments to make sure they're not trivial. Another possible incentive would be based on metrics of diffs, using a ratio of features added or bugs fixed against the number of lines added, where a smaller number of lines is better.
It's absurd that parks are named after notable people? What?

Someone explain the bile and hatred in this thread to me. I don't get it.
It smells too much like a fad.

Edit: From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad

>>A fad is any form of behavior that develops among a large population and is collectively followed with enthusiasm for some period, generally as a result of the behavior's being perceived as novel in some way.[1] A fad is said to "catch on" when the number of people adopting it begins to increase rapidly. The behavior will normally fade quickly once the perception of novelty is gone.[1]<<

I'm not sure that we are yet in the "large population" phase even though this is like the third time I've heard about this new footwear.
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The the top 1% is $383K and up.
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They were uploading movies to megavideo and streaming them through divx using a plugin.

Difference between Ninjavideo and most other streaming sites is they didn't even try to hide behind safe harbor. Only people who could post links were staff and a handful of trusted uploaders. They plastered banners all over the front page advertising new movies (like "new dvd rip out today woot!"). Talked constantly about how they were pirates.

Even Piratebay comes of as timid and diplomatic. It was just a matter of time before something really bad was going to happen.

EDIT: They weren't just linking to videos, but admitting to uploading them.
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I'd love a summer internship working at (ideally) a fun, fast-paced startup, but am open to any other possibilities.

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My recent jobs have been Javascript-focused, but I'm a quick learner. Extensive front-end web dev experience, as well as various dabblings in Python, PHP, etc, and most recently taking a shot at learning RoR.

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Their site (pinspire.com) is a copy of pinterest.com
Given the way Startcom operates, that could become expensive quickly. Since your private key is your gateway into your account (Why they went with this method instead of requiring a sensible password is beyond me, it's one of the reasons their site is a huge pain...), theoretically every certificate you own is compromised, and therefore you'd be out $25 for each one.

..ouch!
I strongly agree that harm is relative, and that the relative harm of infringement must be balanced against the potential harms of any enforcement mechanism (with significant room for error on the side of under-enforcement).

I strongly object to the idea that IP rights are only real to the extent that they are a) granted by the state and b) encourage additional creative effort. Utilitarianism is a great model for a democratic society to use when encoding things into legislation, but isn't a great "be all" for ethical theory or ontology.

Your test and request are problematic. If there is a creative work that might have been produced but wasn't, for the reason you'd like me to somehow cite evidence for, by what search method (other than knowledge of my own personal creative endeavors) should I seek out such an example? And if I pluck from my own experience, what would constitute evidence that the actual reasons for non-production are what I claim them to be?

I would bet there are thousands of bedroom-class electronic music producers who never devote a ton of effort to their talents because of the rate at which music is pirated. The number of hours it takes to become passable at production is quite large, even with great tools. And even if they become accomplished, they have no great hope of turning that accomplishment into gigs or recordings that pay a living wage, precisely because piracy became so rampant that people now expect new artists to give away their first EP-worth for free or under a "pay what you want" scheme.

The world has decided that the fruit of those first 1000-4000 hours shouldn't cost anything. You're telling me that doesn't have a chilling effect on people deciding whether or not to spend that kind of time?

"But see," I imagine you saying, "Now we only get artists who were willing to do Whatever It Takes to become great!" Yeah well, a lot of those folks suck compared to some other guy who had a family and a mortgage to think about; you'll just never hear that guy.
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I never noticed those before. As far as trying to help, I would think it's a bit beyond the capacity of a well-intentioned stranger. From my untrained perspective, I'd worry about doing more harm than good.

It reminds me of the story of Craig George (http://insertcredit.com/2011/07/25/the-madness-of-craig-geor...): sad and unnerving.
Firstly,I think the real reason why the girl became a media celebrity was not her Microsoft exam credentials or programming ability. It was that she came out as a really smart, intelligent,sweet, eloquent and mature person in every interview she gave after hitting the headlines for being invited by Bill Gates. I wish some of these interviews had subtitles so you could have a better understanding of what I mean. For example when asked(at the age of nine years)what her really outstanding achievement was, she replied that it was her ability to gift a computer lab to a girls school of her native village(after winning awards and grants etc). When asked what she wanted to do next, she said she would like to start "digicon" valley in Pakistan like silicon valley in US. And may more like that.

Secondly, she didn't belong to elite class at all. Her father is a retired Army officer, which means essentially middle class. She was transferred to a better/elite School only after becoming a celebrity.

Here is one interview which is entirely in English:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCUbRsab6iQ&feature=relat...
>Also says that the soldier estimates the target distance.

If the target is behind a rock, the soldier uses a laser rangefinder built into the gun to get the distance to the rock, and then inputs into the gun "the target is 2m behind the front of the rock". So, unless the explosion radius is small, the soldier has to make sure the bullet explodes behind whatever is between the rifle and the target.
And since this is a tech/programmer site, the relatively low numbers of computer science/software people in the 1% seems to indicate that our chosen profession "tops out" at a certain income level below that 1%

This is an interesting point to take away. If you are smart and want to get rich, going into engineering is not your best bet. Same for scientists.

No wonder there are shortages, eh?
True, though MailChimp does offer STS (Simple Transactional Service) which builds on top of Amazon SES (you only pay Amazon's fees, the service is free from MailChimp).

http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/sts/1.0/
https://futurevps.de/

looks promising as well.
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How are either of these sites making money? I see that pinterest has raised 37mm (!!!), but I see no current way that they're monetising their users.
yes i know, this people scaring started with ff2,ie7? - there is nothing wrong with self signed certs, except useless companys wanna make a quick buck selling fud
that is exactly what I am experiencing. MY boss on numerous occassions told me he knows he is emotional but "so its life, so deal with it".

one thing I truly learnt from a situations like this is always expect the worse. for example: my boss yelled at me that a project is not finished. so I told him OK i will work this weekend to finish it. then next day he replied: spend weekend with family you work so hard. so I did. oh naive me. Monday comes and I am being yelled at that project is not completed. But you told me to spend time with family. - well, you should weight whats more important my advice to spend time with family or complete project that would make me and managment happy.

I will quit eventually, but the job is extremly well paid (makes me feel like a bitch I know), and there is no way I can get something similar for this salary (average for my work is 60% less). Thats probably a trick when someone offers you way more money than your job is reasonably worth.
Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but this sure leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Be first or be best, I guess.
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Thanks for the response Marci.

Brewer's article was really useful for putting into context the problem with communicating to congress. I've never contacted Congress as I presume my input will have no meaningful impact. I think what you're working on with PopVox could change this reality by organizing citizen input & communication.

Another idea I've had is to implement something like the White House petitions for Congress with the response threshold scaled to the size of the congressional district/state. So you might need 500 votes to get a formal written response on an issue in Rhode Island, but 1,500 votes to get a formal response in California.

Another idea is to have a system to have voters elect citizen spokespersons on each issue (users vote up good commenters). If an issue becomes popular the Congress member would engage in a live video discussion with this citizen spokesperson(s). This would have a bigger audience than most townhall meeting where only a few hundred people at most can fit into a room. Instead, thousands of people would be able to watch these online discussions.

Your team's doing some great work. I hope to hear more in the coming weeks/months!
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It still does, under a new name Adaptive Server.
Most programmers who make it there would have to be entrepreneurial so I'm guessing they may get filed under a different "hat" so to speak such as management. Also, I'm guessing this is just based off yearly income so if someone cashed out with stock from an IPO but either sold it all at once years ago (and made a ton of money) or hasn't sold the stock yet I'm guessing it wouldn't be reflected on here. I think the paths that programmers take to reaching the 1% aren't well reflected in a chart like this so its hard to tell how many of these people "have been programmers" at some point.
I'm actually keen on this as well. The U.S. population is currently about 300 million people. So 1% is 3 million people, which is an awfully large number.

I've read in several places that it's the 0.1% who have the true wealth and stature to control the legislature for their own benefit. So who's in the 0.1%?

I'd definitely like to know.
This isn't really a good measure. Given the same income, a single person is much better off than a family of 5.
Ah yes, that's a good point. I wouldn't go as far as to say I'm just getting lucky though, as I do tend to reserve my lazy bad practices to very simple cases. But I would never use such code in production anyways.
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Tinker Tailor came out on Bluray a few days ago on Pirate Bay.
http://jobstractor.com/#!/Washington has one Python job at the moment. Also worth checking on a regular basis (or sign up for the weekly email). For people looking for internships as one commenter was, I noticed a few in the current results as well.
So it's great to see people marching to their own drum and not "selling out," but ultimately one has to inevitably "shlep" (per P.G.'s article) and get some food on the table.

Being hostile ("tell[ing] them to shove it") or unreasonable ("sky high" demand) is counter-productive toward maintaining a relationship with someone you'd want to do business. And as a result, this guy failed for a long time at recognizing his own limitations and lost several major deals as a result.

Also, any lawyer worth salt would mention he put himself at extreme liability giving known dangerous prototype shoes to others. Better hope they either signed a liability waiver, have good health-care and are cool.

If there's any hope of commercialization, this article is great advertising. I hope a smaller brand picks this up and wisely suggests a more careful and progressive tone for everyone involved.
It appears to use a Ballastic computer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM25_CDTE), like this one for iPhone: http://ballistic.zdziarski.com/

Given that this is basically an ultra-fast artillery device, the tech in this gun more likely represents a natural evolution of applied external ballistics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_ballistics) - incidentally this is a purpose for which the ENIAC was designed. I bet the magic has more to do with being able to collect and characterize environmental data through sensors and plug these meaningfully into Ballistic models.
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