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To judge from blogs and comment threads, it makes perfect sense to that mighty legion of persons who believe that the nation’s laws should strive to ensure that citizens enjoy no advantage whatsoever over non-citizens; or, to put it another way, that the nation’s citizenship should be worthless and the nation itself a fiction.

Software firms are trading in their 35-year-olds for 25-year-olds as if they were aging matinée idols.”
Countering them were a few retrograde souls who had been laboring under the juvenile illusion that US citizens’ interests should enjoy primacy in the calculations of US policy-makers.

It's hard to exactly gauge my moral response to this argument, but if you replaced "US citizen" with "white person" throughout that passage of text, you would come close. It's fundamentally evil to discriminate against people based solely upon the circumstances of their birth. This kind of protectionist jingoism isn't even in the best interests of actual US citizens.
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Nice argument, but don't you think that Facebook used your actions to associate your friends, your time spent on its site, your many interactions with your friends, your uploads etc. Gained your trust. And should in return give you access to a little convenience?

After all if Facebook is good to gain so much trust for all this, then it surely would be good to retain your continuing clientage(?)/usage?

What its doing by not allowing its users to move off its own cool-aid, is insulating itself from future backlashes from its users for various issues that may cause them from moving. It could be seen as FB protecting its own interest, but it looks more like a severe case of FB protecting its own future lapses. This majorly sucks in matters of trust. A trustworthy approach would be having courage to take responsibility for any future lapses if they may occur. And to be prepared to face the music. And making data accessible to users convenience is a sign of this promise.

You go get wasted on FB if you like, but I know whom (http://www.google.com/+) to trust and why.
This is how I view just about any business relationship. They are not hiring me, I am giving them something in exchange for them giving me something. If the arrangement is not beneficial to either of us, it should be renegotiated. I have no problem finding someone else to enter an arrangement with (including contract work).

If I need something I don't go on my knees with my hand out. I understand that in the current economy, the balance of power has shifted towards employers, but it's times like these that the above attitude can make all the difference (for the better).

I also take every job I do very seriously and never abuse the responsibility I'm given. People appreciate those who can get the job done, a lot of which I can attribute to my success. If you do have a cocky attitude, it helps to be able to back it up ;).
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Totally agree.

"Northern California for Northern Californians!!!" sounds pretty ridiculous, doesn't it?
Not a service, but you can go to Kinko's which has retail locations everywhere. And they have high-end printers next to the computers.
The link you provided does not say what you say it does.

Further, I find it hard to believe that the placebo effect is stronger than the well-documented effects of alcohol in impairing judgment, impairing the frontal lobe and motor skills, creating long-term changes to the reward circuits in the brain, and by lowering inhibitions on all forms of ill-advised behavior, which includes aggressive behavior.
I think you are doing it right, with different levels of conviction. If you give a really stern "no" just for something harmless like opening the pantry door, she might not react when you really mean it. In fact it might even be better just to let her in the pantry, and save the "no"s for when you really mean it.
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Yep that's why they took so much time into getting a great web browser on the phone. It was expected that people would make web applications. It wasn't until the cries to develop for the phone itself were too much to ignore that the app store was born.
What makes someone a citizen? In the US, being a citizen is a birthrate or comes via a long, tedious bureaucratic naturalization process. Other countries have different definitions of citizen.

IMHO citizenship by birthright is a pretty absurd notion, but its largely the default for historical reasons tied to war and conscription. Originally governments only gave you the right to citizenship in exchange for the ability to send you to war to protect often economic interests.

The world would be for more efficient and interesting is the "market" for citizenships were far more liquid and people could easily choose their government the way they can already do internationally by moving from state to state and city to city.
Good point :) To be fair I started writing code much younger, but I still chose a bad date.

I still think my main point is valid.
Sorry for that, i will give 40% of the company...
Wow. Thanks! I'll try that.
hahahhahahha...attorneys....hed rather be an attorney! lol. have fun with that. sounds like a great way to spend 50 years. what a tool for $
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Agreed with most of what you said. However I find the cost of living in silicon valley to be an issue.

I think companies should do something really crazy. They should go and develop a new area which would eventually beat silicon valley. Where engineers can find very affordable rents, and very affordable modern deco houses. Where the weather is sunny, driving engineers who sit all day in offices to go outside and get some vitamin D. Where the gender ratio is balanced. Where your neighbors are good at other stuff and are willing to share there knowledge, like a real world quota.com.

A engineer, earning 120k from year 0 - 4, should very easily be able to save 250k and live comfortably in a 5 year timespan and not have to cut corners.

PG, there is a real problem here with silicon valley. I don't think the salaries are too low but I think the cost of living is too high.

If you truly want to be innovative and crazy, broaden your world beyond the web.
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Microsoft isn't agile enough, Google thinks you should just use web apps for everything, and Apple's already going a different direction with iCloud.
"most SMTP now talk SSL to each others"

Not to dispute your claim, but how do you know this? Is there some sort of global, internet-wide survey of SMTP servers somewhere that supports what you say?
To claim that it's unclear what the effect of a no poach cartel is on engineering salaries is at the same time to claim that it is not necessary that there should be legislation preventing no poach cartels from existing.

Do you believe this to be the case? If so, do you really mean to say that engineering salaries should not be set by market forces?
Not even the entire Bell system would be worth $1 trillion today, and unlike Facebook, people actually had to use the Bell system, it wasn't just a source of idle entertainment.
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Well I think you are wrong in thinking babies don't cry without a reason. Crying is a normal activity for kids. If the belly is full, the diaper clean and there no sign of other discomfort, then I think letting cry is an option. Happy parents is the best gift you can give to you kids, and stress, sleep deprivation, guilt, etc, are not the way to be happy.
> The sample of those who were studied included individuals between ages 55 and 65 who had had any kind of outpatient care in the previous three years.

So they sampled a conveniently sick group of elderly men and then "controlled" for all the things that make them elderly men and that showed that the heavy drinkers lived 2nd longest (not the longest)?

I suspect that they probably had to cook their statistics in order to support their hypothesis. You find that when they have to "control for everything", instead of finding research subjects that they can actually randomize and properly control. They probably had so many variables controlled that it was just bound to fit whatever model they came up with.
You obviously haven't been to Finland, have you? Finnish males communicate by grunts and don't express emotions when sober. When drunk, they communicate by brawls and express emotions in streams of vomit.

Seriously, spend a night in Helsinki sometimes, it's an eye-opener.
Except for GSOC, the students aren't working for Google at all: they're just working on random open source projects and get a stipend from Google for it. This is very different from a company--even an open source one--working with students directly.
Well, to answer the question head-on. I am a self-respecting hacker and I do run my own private mail server for my personal mail.

But I use Gmail for what I think of as "impersonal" mail. This includes mailing lists such as those operated by the OP, as well as general notifications from other sites and services. I gain free storage and bulk management tools for a body of data I perceive of low value and sensitivity.

Moreover, Gmail's spam filters are better than mine (spamassassin). That has particular utility for these low-value accounts that are more likely to have the associated email address disclosed beyond my control.

For things I care more for; personal communications and so forth, well, they still land on the private host.
Ridiculous to even consider? What a ridiculous thing to say. There's plenty of other ways to stay in touch. You're using facebook, as is your friend. Don't pretend that without it you're out of the loop. It may take a little effort at first, but you could do it. Hyperbole doesn't help anyone.
If we take into account that on Wall Street, there are engineers making $330K + for program trading jobs, then why would that not have happened here in the valley.

HEdge funds routinely pay $200+. With a fair market I think we should have seen similar numbers here in the valley.

There are many times more engineers in New York than in SV.
> Could you explain how Stallman is a "software dictator", or how his own version of freedom comes at the "expense of their freedom"?

Richard Stallman believes in the freedom of software, not the freedom of individuals. The GPL ensures that software is always free, by restricting what you as an individual can do with it. To him software being free in more important than a persons freedom. The BSD/MIT/ISC licenses give full freedom to people, including letting people make the software non-free, that is the freedom of choice.

I personally believe in the freedom of people. I believe people should be able to make their own choices, even if I disagree with them. That to me is true freedom. Richard Stallman believes that everyone should do things his way, that people should not be allowed to choose to do things differently. To me that is a form of fascism (http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fascism).
The author misses the point, though he himself highlights it (when he asks the interviewer "Did it bother them that I was forty years old?... No, why should it?"), that business don't care about your age. They care about whether you can get things done.

From my experience, the things you've done and the people you know matter much more than your age.
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The biggest difference is that GSOC does not support Google directly. Plenty of the projects Google supports this way are not even useful to them at all: for example, a silly 3D game I used to play was part of the program for three years. Internships are great, and there are some open source companies that have really neat ones (Mozilla comes to mind), but most small projects run by volunteers can't afford to pay for an intern themselves.
PG is just saying that if it had been a competitive market we dont know the extent of how much it would have increased engineering salaries. Thats true.

However lets take the case of NEw York where you can get program trading jobs for $300K and I have friends who got these kind of jobs. Hedge funds routinely pay $250K plus.

I think this is what would have happened in the valley.
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Hey responded because you insulted him. Of course, you were right. Enough people hate dave winer that RSS does need a new face, but you, like a lot of writers, backed down when confronted with him. You should have stuck to your guns, because you were right.
Last year I got to spend the entire summer rewriting 10K+ LOC of C into 2k loc of Perl(with increased performance!) and adding support for sqlite backends.

It was awesome.

What was I working on? Printing under linux.

Perhaps the very definition of not-sexy. Which is just fine by me since that leaves tons of unsolved challenges.

Before I would never have had the courage to contribute to a linux sub-system. Who am I to bug true unix hackers with inane questions like: "How do I build our package?" or "I'm sorry I made a mess of our changelog."!

GSoC solved this barrier. How? Because I knew I would be able to put in the time to learn the domain and be useful. And in turn they knew I would be around long enough to justify the inane questions.

I am very thankful for GSoC, and I think my new co-contributer, and former mentor, is as well.
To each their own. I never drank alcohol, not until long after my student days had come and gone. Some of my best friends never drink, either. It doesn't stop you from having fun, nor does the inverse guarantee you'll have fun. But in the end, it's your own choice, and it's always interesting to see different points of view being discussed on HN.

Haters gonna hate.
its the gopher argument..

Some of yo may remember an alternative to web called gopher..

It eventually died due to web being free and it not being free.

The form that is more'free'than fb as far as barriers, etc will out-compete fb.. DW, etc have very little to worry about as this changes rapidly and does not stay the same.
So it starts throttling at a half gig later? And you have to deal with crappy phones? Great deal you got there.
The OP ignores the fact that at most decent tech companies, a TON of time is spent on annual or semi-annual reviews to determine raises and bonus comp for better performing employees. The exact reason this is done is to ensure they're being compensated fairly and don't go off shopping for offers.

It's not true that management has the goal of minimizing comp for employees. Management tries to minimize _total compensation expenses_, which includes the costs associated with replacing an employee (and those costs can equal a full YEAR of comp in most cases.) Not to mention the disruption to projects that occurs when a key team member departs.

Really smart tech companies take a step farther: if you're in good standing when you leave, they have a special process for hiring you back if you decide you want to come back later. It's smart: they expect that lots of the best employees will want to try their hand at a startup or smaller venture at some point, but they don't burn the bridge with someone they know is a good team member.
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In this case, the author of the bill answered questions in the Slashdot thread, so it's actually worth reading. In general though, I agree with you.
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Gender ratio is a consequence of our industry being gender imbalanced and tech being the superstar industry of the area. If you want to find all of that except for the climate, you can find it in Seattle. The wages are almost bay area levels, the housing significantly cheaper and better quality usually, no reams of crappy 1930s craftsman track houses everywhere. You have no state income tax and tech doesn't dominate as much, so it's significantly more gender balanced.

Austin also has that potential I hear too and it's a sunny place. Texas also doesn't have state income tax.
Right, that one doesn't require precision or tight-timing.

Basically anything turn based or slow is doable.
Treat your employer like a relationship. As long as it works, be invested in your job and do your best. If something isn't working (like your comp), man up and have the hard discussion with your employer. If they don't fix it, find another job, but also leave properly - give proper notice, put your work in order, etc.

Don't be paranoid. Don't get into this thing that you're "putting it to the man." Yes, some bosses suck, and some are cheap. Most are just trying to do their job, and most would rather keep you around than lose you.
Meh, your analogy doesn't hold up at all. A nation is by definition a collective of people. The collective of people should operate with the best interests of the people it represents in mind. The analogy with white just isn't valid.

I do think a nation should attempt to limit immigration when there are people in the country who can do the job (full disclosure: I'm American). If their skills are rusty, then train them. It's simply good social policy. The benefits of the nation (strong economy) should go to the citizens of that nation first.
Except it's always a Vi expert making that assertion. I've yet to hear anyone say, I'm a Blub expert, but Vi is better.
I'm 37 and enjoying the best year of any of my careers. I work with incredibly bright people, get paid pretty well in an inexpensive city, and get to do fun (mostly) fun work all day long.

Welcome back.
I'm on the side of the small business owner here, but for some perspective on why restaurant businesses have to go though hell to get set up in SF, search Yelp for "9th avenue burger king". The short version is that people in the neighborhoods go insane if businesses (particularly restaurants, and especially chains) set up in their area.

People still line up to start restaurants in SF.
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Didn't know about Seattle. I will have to visit.

I was trying to formulate an ideal living area, not just for engineers but for anyone who loves knowledge(think Quora).

I feel modern cities have so many problems, why not just start from scratch or from the ground up.
I've seen these kind of people, and the fact is that they are not "the fun of the party" though they themselves of course can enjoy themselves (and the drunk people don't mind).
It's the "drunken" people providing all the fun and atmosphere (no, you don't have to be wasted, just a little drunk so that you don't have so many inhibitions).
Thanks. :) I'll ask my people to check these out.
Gopher was open:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436

It just sucked compared to HTTP.
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I think a rock band is a better analogy. If your guitarist isn't showing up to practice and just doesn't keep up with the rest of the group anymore, you can replace him with a new guitarist. That doesn't make membership in the band worthless, or the band itself a fiction.
Great to have this, but I very much dislike the idea of changing the base Form classes just to get a different rendering.

What I've been doing in Django is using Jinja template macros to create my own rendering for the standard form classes. Not ideal, but sticks to the idea of separation of logic and presentation.
After a fair bit of research, I think this one looks like my best option. What's the learning curve like? (considering I've never used a framework before)
As I see it there are three reasons the tech community hates usage-based billing.

- First, any time a company tries usage-based data billing, they charge absolutely criminal rates. If you paid attention to usage-based cell service over the years, you'd know what I speak of.

- Second, in an "unlimited" model, some users use more, some use less. In general the tech community will be the ones using more- so they benefit at the marginal expense of other users. They pay comparatively less by volume for their usage.

- Third, in my opinion there's at least a tiny bit of entitlement going around in the online community as a whole. Nobody wants to pay for anything. You know, because "information wants to be free!" and all.
If you're talking about the ASPM regression introduced in 2.6.38, it looks like it's been resolved in a patch that should drop in 3.3.

Here's a Phoronix article on the issue and fix that covers it in detail: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux...

And here's (what I think is) the corresponding bug for Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/760131

Please note that even though that Ubuntu bug is marked as fixed, the following comment on it seems to call that into question:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/760131/...

Either way, it sounds like it will be fixed in 12.04.
That sounds like a reasonable assumption to me also.
Making software non-free is not something an individual does with software. It is something an individual does to other individuals.

You can do whatever you want with free software. You just can't prevent me from doing the same thing.

Similarly, you might describe freedom of the press as a form of fascism - in a land with freedom of the press, you lose the "freedom" to censor my newspaper.
How can he say he didn't displace an American who would otherwise have gotten the job? Or that he didn't help his company outcompete another one, causing them to lay off Americans?
Ha, I was just looking into something like this.

Interestingly one approach is to use the django uni-form project with the {% form|as_uni_form %} filter. You can then output whatever HTML you want. The https://github.com/kennethlove/django-uni-form-contrib project provides a good starting point for templates compatible with the bootstrap project but looking at it, there's still a lot to be desired and it looks somewhat inactive.
I don't run bittorrent at all (nobody on the home network does), mainly has to do with my current employment. Between my room mate and I we do 200 GB on average, we've had one warning sent out for getting to 245 GB.

Here is our yearly usage chart: http://i.imgur.com/wZbU1.jpg (since the router/gateway was last rebooted). Do note that there is NO illegal downloading at all. NetFlix, Hulu, Pandora, Spotify, Steam, Dropbox, WoW and many others.
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Forgot to say the technical CoFounder that im looking for, have to be an iOS developer,strong in html,css,javascript,have a keen eye for ui implementation... Also i want to remark that i don't want a monkey coder for me, i'm trying to find a partner in this business...