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> If /tmp fills up ... so it needs to be on a partition

Makes no logical sense. When you create an (inter-disk) partition you reduce the blocks available to all remaining partitions on that disk. By reducing partition size you _increase_ the probability of all remaining partitions filling.

If you had said adding disks for /tmp and /var were indicated I might agree, but would still be wondering what kind of applications you have.

Looking back at Unix' history we see that partitioning was only added before RAID and only to accommodate additional disks. It is the failure to understand this history and rational that leads certain sysadmins to believe that inter-disk partitions accomplish anything other than reducing robustness (in absence of a badly behaved application, which is 99% of the time a badly configured server or application, per the log rotation example).
“Especially in social media, cloud computing and mobile apps, if you’re over 40 you’re perceived to be over the hill,” Ms. Stadelman said.

Just as a counterpoint, I recently joined the ranks of a large social media company and was surprised to discover that 3/6 of the folks on the database engineering team (mysqlf included) are over 40, and all but one person is over 30.
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One possible, interesting and visible way to gain experience today is to contribute to an open source project. Or even create your own...
That looks like something I would make. >_<
Well, one option is to make it illegal to discriminate based on nationality. This is the approach taken in the European Union, you are simply not allowed to give a different deal to someone from another EU country (with an exception for cars, that the Germans managed to sneak in). It is not enforced everywhere yet, but several good things have come out of it.

You could conceivably make similar rules on the UN or WTO level. The only ones hurt would be Hollywood and large multinationals. Which is why it will never happen.
Older engineers tend to want more money and more seniority. Yet they have fewer skills and can't/don't want to work as hard as kids fresh out of college.

Nice generalization. Personally, over the last few years I've run into lots of "kids fresh out of college" that can't/won't work to learn skills they need to do their job. Game devs that don't know the math behind changing coordinate systems, and consequently write fragile rendering/UI code. Testers that won't write unit tests, and devs that won't write and/or run them to avoid creating new bugs. Early-career C++ coders that will argue to you that the OS won't let two threads touch a static variable at the same time.

But I don't generalize that into assuming every young person is a lazy moron. I've also met some bright young people that will work hard to learn new theory/skills/languages/frameworks, and care about doing a good job. So I prefer to evaluate each person on their own merits, and that seems to work out a lot better. YMMV.

If a company isn't interested in hiring me because they're afraid I have enough experience to know better than to work 80-hour weeks and take my work home for 50-75% of industry pay while making them rich, that's ok with me. I've got that T-shirt, and I don't want another one.

This is a change from historical times, in which the technology stack didn't change multiple times in a generation and wisdom/experience counted for more.

If simply learning the top of the latest tech stack every few years is making you a lot of money right now, you'd better start saving. I'm thinking something like this: http://www.despair.com/motivation.html

The best way to show this isn't true is for someone to build a startup or company powered by older engineers.

Most people that are so inclined would rather start the company and power it with younger, more fungible people that don't know their own value. ;)

Seriously, though, aren't most startup founders 40+ already?
Wow, that's really interesting. It's also kind of frightening as well. I wonder if in the future Kessler Syndrome will be considered a viable doomsday-like scenario.
You could try doing what I did; It resulted in 20 leads (that's $20k of work), even though I was really under pricing it.

My pitch was: MVP For $1k. You get an MVP for 1k. 0 iterations. I could have charged $3-5k at least, looking back.

See hn thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2075928

This was the building block of my former consulting company.

Additionally, I'd recommend cold calling (you have to be good in sales, if you're not, get better at it now -- go read the ultimate sales machine). It's highly effective. Personal experience.
That you could not work another day and still survive in our economy with reasonable comfort and safety. In an industry like this, that focuses on the new, this will become critical for everyone at some point, although the point where it becomes critical will vary for each person. Hopefully everyone will be employable and viable as long as they want, but shit happens.
This armchair criticism might apply to the hyperactivity subtype but perhaps not as well to the inattention subtype.
As far as I know Stripe does not do ACH? We've actually been looking all over the place for an ACH processor with an API (aka a Stripe for ACH) and have had absolutely no luck. And the one company we found, for some reason, wouldn't take us on as a client (I guess we're considered high-risk). Anyway, I wholeheartedly agree with the need for an "Stripe for ACH". If you actually know of one please let me know.
Seriously? At Stanford? Every professor other than Daphne (I believe) at the AI lab has worked for Google at some point and Stanford is the last place where CS profs look down upon starting companies.
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Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave right now.
I have been off-and-on seriously tempted to find Adderall, but when I stop and think about why I want it, it's because my workload is severe and I don't feel like I'm being productive enough. Then I try to question whether or not I've got unreasonable expectations for how long I can sit in front of a computer and focus on a single task.

Over the last couple of years my diet has improved a lot: less meat, less sugar, almost no junk food, more nuts and fruits and vegetables, and at least a liter of water per day now. Before, it was a rare day that I drank even a glass of water -- I usually preferred chocolate milk or heavily sugared iced tea or something.

I also get a lot more exercise now and try to maintain a more regular sleep schedule.

At 33, I'm in the best shape of my life, and I've found that now when I do need to sit down and do work, I can do it for longer and with less frustration. When I get sick of sitting and focusing on a stupid little screen a couple of feet from my nose, I know it's time to get up and do something else.

So as I gradually develop more discipline in the rest of my life, I wonder if maybe that's all I really needed to begin with. People aren't that far removed from their hunter-gatherer days, and now we sit all day surrounded by walls, without sunshine, eating really poor diets -- maybe an inability to focus and concentrate all day is just our bodys' way of objecting to that rapid change.

"Eat better, get exercise, reduce distractions" isn't a very sexy answer though, when compared to, "take a pill and become awesome like that guy in Limitless."
Tech careers continue to be remarkably short: 10 years or less if I remember correctly, which is crazy given how much fun programming inherently is. But people aren't stupid and often see the writing on the wall: if you want the big bucks, outside of either being a founder or a Very Special Person at a few Very Special Companies, you have to start managing and playing the political game.

I blame this for the inherent cyclical nature of technology: young kids with no experience come in, get whipped into a frenzy over some technology we've been over before (see Node.js/cooperative multitasking) and then slowly learn the shortcomings of that approach, just in time for the next snake oil to hit.

The irony is that I think that as technology continues to knock down the amount of developers necessary for a given project, older developers who know how to get from point A to point B with the minimal amount of effort will become more valuable in relative terms, so long as they can avoid getting ground down and stay productive. Couple that with another controversial observation of mine: that theoretical technological progress has slowed dramatically in the last decade (implementations are still catching up, but are getting there), and I think we will see small, elite teams of experienced developers become a preferred (or at least common) way to build software.

That's self serving, of course (I'm 35) but I do think it is true.
looks like you've been hell-banned, bobbyi [for people who don't have showdead enabled, they suggested hibernate].

my understanding of hibernate is that philosophically hibernate is more like django-orm than sqlalchemy, in that it doesn't embed sql in an dsl (you either map objects directly or use hql in strings). the kind of think i was meaning by "sqlalchemy in java" was something more like c#'s linq, or the scala equivalent(s?).

but i may be wrong, as i haven't used hibernate much. in which case please educate me...

[some context for java people: sqlalchemy will let you define an sql schema in python, then create the database from that, and then let you construct - again, in python (objects and chained method calls) - sql queries against that database. so it's more like "sql in python" than an orm, although it does also support orm if you want (and i suspect because of that sqlalchemy's orm is likely closer to ibatis than hibernate).]
I think "two pixels" is meant to describe the magnitude of the change rather than the precise measurement used. 2pt, .2em, 2px, 2mm...
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Agree 110%. People just don't ask. But people starting out assume they will ask, so they get nervous and maybe even bring it up themselves.

Also I used to charge super cheap, because I figured it was good for me to learn and good for them because they pay less (highly not recommended).

Charge a decent amount upfront, it means you can spend more hours working for them, they will value your work more, respect you more and a whole list of other things. Also if your in competition with other people bidding too low will only land you the worst clients. The best clients pay more and because they are successful will respect your time.
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In early 2000s, Silicon Valley was changed from a hardware hub (HP, IBM, etc.) to a software hub (Oracle, Informatica, Google, etc.).

And now it is changing from software hub to "social networking" + "new business models" hub which unfortunately do not require hard core engineering skills. For example web design skills are very much in demand.

I'm in 40s, and I wanted to move from my corporate job to something like start up I found out that majority of jobs in new startups are to get young people (so called talents) to work on simple applications for under-market wage (wages which are ok if you don't have any dependents) with benefits and "culture" intentionally set up to attract only young people.
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Just add the "freelancer" line to your resume and voila, you've no longer been unemployed for a few years. This also assumes that you've been doing something that could qualify as freelancing like working on some phone apps or a website or something.

If you've been sitting on your ass for 2 years, yeah it's going to look pretty bad to employers.
"The currents of 1–2 mA make it easier for neurons in these brain regions to fire. "

wouldn't this just make you do connections in your reasoning that you usually wouldn't do (maybe for a good reason) (is this why this method is ethically questionable?)
I've been wondering if the perspective won't shift as the current generation of developers ages. When will HN be the old farts site; will perspective's shift then? More of a hypothetical question.

Second, and this is a broad statement, society is currently in a phase of devaluing the older mind. We're too quick to assume older minds cannot learn as easily, and older minds accept this as fact in a self-fulfilling way. The reality of the situation is that we're living longer, so we'll need to make valuable contributions later in our lives. Tech definitely isn't a mistress for 50+ year-olds, but that's a problem with our culture and not technology.
They don't pay as well in Iowa, but then again, the cost of living is a lot less.
It's simple: we change the license agreements. Media licensing right now is controlled by people who want to pretend that the Internet can easily be split into regions just like their physical distribution networks. Distributors have a lot of pull: Apple was able to convince the record companies to allow purchase of individual songs, and now that's a huge profit center for the industry. Next time the licensing is renegotiated, companies like Amazon and Spotify just need to convince big media that geographic blocking is throwing away money and encouraging legit customers to turn to piracy.
Bad, but they've had shockers before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_G3

or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Power_Mac_G3_AIO_corrected...
I'll start doing this.
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/ is pretty awful also
They've had a page like this for a while – I've joked before that this must be the page they give to interns on their first day.

Aside from it's generally bad color scheme, the code is semantically wrong in several places (unescaped `&`, each poster is a `div` with a `ul` inside of it etc…)
You know that anecdotal interviews are a fairly bad way to collection information, right? This is why humanity developed double-blind studies, statistics etc. We can actually quantify the probabilities of these side effects.
half-joke: sqlalchemy with jython?
It's simple: build something relevant or at least interesting. If you can do this you probably don't need a job.
The bottom line is tech is for people obsessed with learning and creating. For many people, with age those obsession wear thin as the hair on their head.
Maybe it's so bad in order to prevent it from accidentally shipping before it's done? If it looked decent they might ship it, but if the gradient looks like orange vomit then they won't? Who knows, maybe all their pages start this way until the content is approved...
The word develop is the right one. It is the same translation in German, my mistake.

The big problem is that while you take it, it feels like it. To make the observation that this is not permanent, while influenced, is very difficult. The feeling is very subtle and not obvious like being drunk for example.

You are right, there are extreme forms who need medication. The article suggests, that the whole ADD existence is still not clear and i was diagnosed myself as a kid. I assume that just a little part of the people who take Ritalin really need and benefit from it.
And volunteering as well. But these things take time and being able to spend this time requires income or savings which people may or may not have.
Some responsive sites to test it with: http://hicksdesign.co.uk, http://happycog.com
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Fascinating analysis. I am in my mid-40s. My group at BigCo had exactly the PM you describe: younger and better looking than anyone else in the group. but somewhat clueless :-(

I tried hard to help in a nice way, but looking back I'm pretty sure I came across as a pretty grumpy guy. But what do you do if the product is being flushed down the toilet? Its hard to sit back and say "OK its just a paycheck", unless you're waiting around for a green card, or you're too young to know any better.

I was right, because the product has been canned and myself along with it. I got lucky though because I have ~3 offers even before the layoff has been announced publicly.

To summarize for us middle-aged/old farts I would say:
1. Keep that network going.
2. Keep your skills up to date.
3. Transition into a customer-facing role if you can because there is no better way to figure out where the market is headed.

Moving forward I'm not going to worry about seeming grumpy, patronizing etc. Its better to be the old jerk who complained about a bad product than the cynic who just sat around collecting their paycheck.
Unless I'm totally misunderstanding the numbers, Thor looks like a good thing. Pre-Thor, publishers printed much more than they could sell. Post-Thor, that is a bad approach. They come out better if they do a better job of not going to far over.
you are being forced to shape your data to your queries (no relational calculus/algebra as in RDBMS)

I think this is wrong twice over. First, there are commercial column store RDBMS systems already, starting with Vertica. And secondly, in any large RDBMS, you have to shape your data to your queries and your queries to your data. There's a reason that people with very large databases want very skilled DBAs and DB developers. The notion that row stores allow you to build enormous data warehouses without giving any thought to how you layout data on disk, what sort of indexing you use, how to normalize, etc is just absurd.
Glad to see a nod to VSP's at VSC's (as you call them). They do exist after all.
Looked a bit better in 2010.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100304023305/http://trailers.ap...
I don't quite follow the reasoning. Wouldn't it make more sense to make legit media consumption easier in countries with lax copyright enforcement and widespread infringement?
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Raganwald turns fifty this year. That’s “grandpa old.” The trouble with being 40+ is that "I’m not young enough to know everything,” as Oscar Wilde quipped.
How much programming requires you to know about Taylor series? I think they're nifty, but not very relevant to most work. I sort of agree with you that experience matters, but I'm not so sure math is useful unless you're writing programs for scientific computing or you want to be a professor.
While ugly, it's not as bad as iCal, where the design actually gets in the way of using the product.

(e.g. create new iCal event, command-i to edit, see where DELETE is where SAVE should be, etc...)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4385355/WTF%20%E2%80%94%20Info.png
Good heavens. You need a good 1.5-2mil in capitol if we assume modest 3% returns on your money, if you want to live at $40k/year. How can everyone stockpile 1.5-2mil by the time they are 35?

More importantly, what will happen to our economy if everyone stops working at 35?
If it takes n workers to create a widget, which before took x*n workers, then with a more effective system we can create x widgets with the same workers.

There isn't a hard limit on how much wealth can be created (at least not until everybody has everything they could ever want), so more workers are a good thing.

The secret is to have a skill that somebody is willing to pay for -- and to keep looking for new things all the time.
Sadly in manager buzzword bingo they are a success, they "built a team" and delivered " thousands of lines of code."

Everyone needs to stay current. And people who do stuff in their own time often have no trouble finding work because the "off time" work often is more relevant in the next job than their 10 years of experience on their employers proprietary system.

The warning sign should be if all you do when you get home from work is watch tv or play video games, you are falling behind the skill sets of those entering the market.
I say throw ethics out the door. In sports the idea is to entertain and compete fairly so steroids reduce the value of sports.

Memory and math? What is this a competition? Why on earth would you not want to increase your capacity for memory and math?

The analogy is that steroids are to a mover as this thing is to an engineer. Do you really care how your mover found his strength?
I was wondering about GPUs, after reading that sentence about "massive farm of CPU cores." GPU processing is here now, and I'd be surprised if the movie-quality rendering industry, who stand to benefit hugely from increases in speed, haven't explored this option yet. Especially as both GPGPU APIs have special structures and functions to help with graphics-related tasks like image loading, handling colours, etc.

On the other hand, I could see some difficulties: a lot of cards don't yet support 64-bit floats, and there are some severe memory restrictions. However, with a card on the expensive side, you can get can around both these problems, and it really will render the scene thousands of times faster than a CPU so the cost would pay off. Something like the NVidia Testla "personal supercomputers" are "only" on the order of 8000$ or so for 6 GB of video RAM and just an amazing number of cores available, a drop in the bucket for a company whose revenue depends solely on rendering graphics.
A portfolio is a quick way for someone who doesn't know you to get an idea of what you're capable of. Try and get a gig through people that know you, they won't need you to prove as much. What type of gig are you looking for? What are your skills? What skills are you trying to improve?
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/ is a similarly bad design with recent films - this isn't an unfinished, abandoned, or years-old product.

I'm not sure where this is used - the Google link: operator doesn't yield any enlightening results. I know old versions of QuickTime had a "movie trailers" feature but it doesn't appear to exist anymore, and iTunes points somewhere else for its movie trailers.
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I've been using the Sleep Cycle app on my phone for a while now, and it's been great. What is the advantage of this approach over a standalone app?
A lot of people already have an iPhone, so leveraging that existing infrastructure costs $0.
The age has nothing to do with it. It is all about accomplishments.

Some people would have no problem getting hired.
Think of Peter Norvig (56), Larry Wall (57), Guido van Rossum (55), Linus Torvalds (42).

And you don't have to be this famous. Ex. publish a good iPhone app on GitHub, offers will start to flow in.
Oh my god- this one makes it look like it was intentional and not a mistake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
Exactly, and even if you could do that, where would you set it up? Even the largest bookstore has limited floor space, and that's not even considering those small convenience store spinning racks and the like.

Ebooks are roughly 50-250 KB in size. Figure out how many of those you could fit on a hundred buck TB drive. :-)
Yes it would — except, apparently, under Hollywood logic.
Why companies last?
One easy way to start is by looking for so-called "contracting" gigs - where in practice you join a team, usually on-site, but instead of joining as an employee you bill by the day. It's not very different from having a job, but it gives you a chance to get paid for working on a diverse set of projects and to build relationships with other people who are already working as freelancers. Typically this type of work is shorter term and more flexible, so if you see that you have an opportunity to get some freelancing work you can moonlight on it, or reduce your work to 3-4 days a week.
Presumably because it watches you, rather than just timing you.

Personally, I've found that if I set my alarm for (some multiple of 2 hours) + 10 minutes from the time I go to bed, I almost always wake up easily. I like 8 hours, but if I can't get that, 6 will work fine. If I can't get 6, I'll take 4 rather than 5, and while I'll be tired, I won't be "put a bullet in my head please" tired.