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It's only impractical in a poor job market. I take it you write code?

As a fellow Canadian, I have only one suggestion: get the fuck out of Canada. The market for programmers is piss poor, the selection of jobs anemic and mostly drudge-work monkeying. There are other geographies that offer much more interesting work, double-to-triple Canadian salaries, and a strong enough employment scene that nobody can hold much over your head, least of all fears of being on the street.

You sound like you're being bullied. Your employer is holding your basic survival over your head to get you to commit to unreasonable demands. I'd highly suggest turning this around.
That's really good news. lxml and PIL are also great addition.
Yes, it's theoretically perjury, but getting a prosecutor to go after it seems like a pretty far reach, even though it seems clear some of these notices are an abuse of the law.
The first three are indeed a big irritation, and a big motivation during writing this book. There is a lot of work going on to improve all of these at the moment, notably through Core from Jane Street providing a well-maintained accessible standard library, and a convergence of packaging systems. The good folks at OCamlPro are also working hard to better editor and documentation support, so I except there will exist a documentation/package repository before this book is released.
I never really got Twitter. I found the 140 character limit quite infuriating and ended up deleting my account. Google+ for me is Twitter without the limitations that I found frustrating.

As to how busy your stream will be, if you only follow quiet people then you won't see much in the way of posts. There are a lot of people on Google+ sharing/creating interesting content. It's just a matter of searching for them.
Thanks for responding!

Well, I suppose what I'm looking for is:

1) Will we be able to spend money on some sort of hobby for my spouse? 2) What kind of car insurance rates are we looking at as new immigrants (also young and relatively inexperienced drivers)? 3) What kind of vacations could we be looking given the income and living expenses? 4) Will we be able to have nights out, go to a sporting event every once in a while etc?

Basically, will a $90K salary for a household of two in SV/San Jose force us to carefully set up a budget, or will we be able to not worry too much about money?

Also, you mention that you're in a 4 br house with a garden for $1800. This sounds amazingly cheap to me, at least from what I've seen looking for housing online. How does one find a deal like that?

Again, thanks!
If Torvalds is either nice 99.99% of the time, and 0.01% of the time gets involved in flame wars, guess which gets reported?
I feel like you've got a little over-dramatic here.

Firstly, i'm not married nor do i have children. Secondly, these things will come, in time.

I find it discouraging that you feel that one can't take pride or enjoy work while being "a cog". This isn't about 'everlasting glory'; it's about enjoyment, it's about fun, it's about being proud about what you've created and owning it, it's about respect from your peers, it's about being a part of something.

As you said, "if it is something you actually want to be doing then that is one thing". It is. It is exactly what i want to be doing.
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I've never met a person who has ever thought he would like to mooch off welfare or what have you forever, or even a short amount of time.

I have. I currently live in a town where, due to the recession, a large percentage of people are living on social welfare. The thing is that a shockingly large number of them (that I know personally) have no ambition to do anything else. Some of these have been on welfare for five years already. I mean, why work when the government will just give you money, right? Another shockingly large number of young couples are having children because they see the extra child benefit money - someone that I know personally who already has two children under the age of four and wants a third one recently said how much easier their life would be with the social welfare benefits of a third child... I'm not sure if they ever considered that 1) children get significantly more expensive as they get older and 2) how unfair it is to the children to bring them into a low income family. But thats besides the point: my main point is that I do, unfortunately, know people who are happy to get handouts and have no ambitions to change any time soon.
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Twenty-one issues later, the magazine has about 4,700 subscribers worldwide, Lim said. Annual subscriptions cost $88 for the print edition or $29 for the digital .mobi/.epub/.pdf bundle. Only five percent of subscribers get the print version, he said, but that’s still a tidy sum of about $20,000 on top of an estimated $130,000 in subscriptions per year. He also sells full-page ads.

Holy fuck! I'm beginning to see that I have some SERIOUS limiting beliefs about the possibility of making money like this. I've never made a single dollar because I didn't even think it was worth trying. Serious inspiration value here!

If I had that kind of money coming in I could release an issue every month, easy peasy (getting the content has never been the bottleneck for me, rather it's the graphic design side of things (I use a volunteer who works for free in her spare time)).

Anyone who has any input on how to monetize my magazine, please contact me now!
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I was in Canada for most of my life. I'm in Asia now. I agree, getting the heck out of Canada is a good idea.

None of this is about me. I just think the article really comes off quite sheltered..."I can do what I want and who cares if I get fired, so should you!"
> The title is so misleading its just funny.

Yes, it's sensationalist, Google offers $1 million in rewards to hackers who exploit Chrome would be much better.
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What is the difference between Stratfor and the WSJ or Economist? They all are relatively expensive publications that provide information only to subscribers and not the general public. The author seems to be upset that Stratfor was making a lot of money.

Startfor is not the only private intelligence group. IHS Inc. [0] owns Jane's Information Group (defense/strategic intelligence) [1] and iSuppli (industrial intelligence). In my opinion Jane's publications and subscriptions are way overpriced.

The book Jane's All the World's Aircraft (2012) costs well over $1300 on Amazon [2]. I doubt there is anything in there that you can't find on Wikipedia (or, if not, a quick Google search). That does not stop every mil/intel office worldwide buying a copy of the latest edition each year. Their customers seem to like having all the latest information in a big heavy book. There is no point in hating on Jane's for providing a product that is demanded by the public.

So Stratfor does marketing to enhance their image and increase their subscriber base, what businesses don't?

I am not interested in subscribing to Stratfor, but I don't hate on them for meeting consumer demand.

[0] http://www.ihs.com/

[1] http://www.janes.com/products/janes/index.aspx

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Janes-All-Worlds-Aircraft-2011-2012/dp...

Edit: Added Links. Clarified thought.
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I don't know much about US employment law, and what I do know, I don't like. But what I do know is this:

No employer has ever, ever given me free money, and I have never expected it. There for, I have never ever given an employer free time, and never ever will.

To do different is insane. It lowers one's worth since the deal is an exchange of money for time. It makes the employer think your free time is theirs to exploit and frankly damn wrong.

Like I say, the day employers give out free money is the time I give out free time.
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Site seems to be down, heres the cached copy:

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So if we go up...six levels of comments, we reach batista saying: "And, no, the reason US has a slightly more advanced economy than, say, Sweden, is not due to harsh working conditions. It's has more to do with human capital, a large unified market PLUS tons of military might abused to ensure cheap oil and resources."

Now you say "I wasn't suggesting that this was about American prosperity." Which I think means you agree with everyone in this branch of the discussion except batista (who's the only one who asserted that it was about American prosperity). shrug In any case, I agree with you. Just another textbook example of public choice theory, of the sort you'll hear about endlessly if you hang out at Ron Paul rallies.
There are other HIIT techniques, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_train... and I gather a common problem with the model is that you have to squeeze the real intensity out of each session, which can be hard.

It's also interesting to read about the genetic test for aerobic fitness progress. I wonder will the future allow better tailoring of health care where genetic evidence helps people get far more precise nutritional and exercise profiles? For example, if you are a non-responder you might be hurt by too much exercise, which is non-productive and which makes you hungry.
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My only worry about software working with this model (one time fee, download install etc.) is the source code. Things like this, particularly, will need to be easily modified and extended to fit into certain environments, and with no sample source code it's very hard to know how easy that will be. Obviously don't open-source, that kills your business model, but maybe it would be nice to provide a few sample files, or even a stripped-down "basic" version, just so we can get an idea of your coding styles and see if we'd be able to extend the code to fulfill our needs. This isn't a specific criticism of this software, which looks cool and seems to provide a lot of the features of the more expensive enterprise-y solutions at a much more friendly price point, it's just a general criticism of software on this model.
Thank you for writing this.

I've been thinking about the trajectory of knowledge lately and I've noticed that some of the really great mathematics work (e.g. Grigori Perelman) seems to come from outsiders, those who reject the establishment on some level.

Given the incredible depth and breadth of David's work work, I'm starting to believe that we are more likely to find a true solution to P =? NP in the notebook of someone like this than in a scholarly journal. There are not many of us, even here on HN, that have the willpower to pull off something like LoseThos.
I was going to upvote you for the quote, but then I got to "her description of this job doesn't sound all that bad"... It sounds pretty bad to me, at least for a first-world country.
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Great looking landing page guys. Looks similar to Stripe. :) Amazing interface, really slick jQuery slide effects, and just a beautiful UX. Why though, not make it SaaS?
I doubt you have complete understanding though.

Do you understand how SSL works? Do you know your way around PHP's internals? Do you know exactly how TCP, IP, Ethernet, etc work? Could you write a Photoshop plugin? Do you understand how parsers and compilers work?

I doubt you (or anyone else for that matter) could answer yes to all those questions. That's the point I think this blog post is getting at. It's no longer possible (question for the reader: was it ever possible, given how deep the rabbit hole goes?) to have a complete understanding of how all the technologies you use every day work.

A lot of people have a decent understanding of most things they need to deal with. That's probably good enough to get by.
My point is, you can write good, readable, performance, large-scale codebases in C++. Note that Carmack wrote his previous engines such as Quake3 in C, and switched to C++ at some point. I think one of the reasons was that as their programming team size grew from 5 to 50 at id, C++ started making more sense for them. If you look at a book like "Large Scale C++ Software Design", the subset of C++ it uses is about the subset that I think makes sense in practice, roughly C with classes. To be fair, I think that was the language subset that actually worked in compilers at that time.

Irrespective, I don't doubt that C is a valid and perhaps better choice for writing an OS kernel. There's less abstraction in C, and you have to worry less about making sure you don't use a language feature of C++ that has a hidden cost.

https://github.com/mtrencseni/quake3

The book I mentioned, "Large Scale C++ Software Design":

http://www.amazon.com/Large-Scale-Software-Design-John-Lakos...
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The difference is what each makes themselves out to be. I have subscriptions to both the WSJ and Economist - neither is particularly expensive. And the WSJ/Economist are precisely what they make themselves out to be - a business newspaper (thought I haven't touched the actual paper in 3+ years), and a weekly magazine on international affairs (ditto with no physical magazine touched in several years).

Janes, WSJ, and the Economist all do original sourcing/reporting. Regarding Janes - $1300 for the good research report on Aviation Assets is roundoff error for the people who need it (typically people in the Airline Industry who need market research on airplanes - $1300 is eminently reasonable for a good market research report on a vertical sector) for people who don't "need it" (Almost all of us) We can get it from Wikipedia/Google searches - and much of that data you find will be sourced back to Jane's.

Stratfor makes themselves out to be some amazingly elite intelligence reporting organization, when, in fact, they offer little more than what you would get from a simply reading the WSJ/Economist + a bit of googling.

This would be fine if they admitted they were an aggregator with a small amount of local reporting - but when you charge $40K for a subscription, you expect to get something somewhat special.

That, is why people consider Stratfor to be a joke.
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Here's the thing I find most confusing, and it somewhat goes with what you wrote: Frontier took over Verizon's operations in Eastern Washington, Oregon, and Fort Wayne (Indiana). For a year or more, they were ambivalent or even hostile about the idea of selling FiOS TV. Now, all of a sudden, they've renewed or let stand existing TV franchise agreements and are full-out marketing it again.

I think Frontier realized what you just wrote: Being a "dumb pipe" provider--especially when your company took on a pile of debt to "buy" both aging copper and new-fangled fiber--is not a strategy for success. So now, they figure they've got the TV equipment, so why not go for it?

Personally, and this is apparently me having a minority opinion, I utterly despise Hulu, NetFlix, et al. Why? None of them has matched the ease of use of my TiVo connected to a linear cable lineup. Television is supposed to be an "idiot box" and for me and the other two people in my household, TiVo + FiOS TV = astoundingly easy.
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If you're looking for a fairly brief overview of what LoseThos is and how it works, check out http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=342... .

Unfortunately, it takes a somewhat mocking tone of the creator's mental illness, but it provides lots of screenshots.

e: LoseThos' creator posted in the thread, view filtered posts with this link: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=342...
This depends on the definition of "complete". Yes, you've described a pretty comprehensive summary of the web stack and related tools. But this is all application software. What about the underlying network protocols? The OS kernel? The CPU architecture? Cache coherency protocols? Direct memory access to shuffle data to the network card? The physical layer signalling to get this data across the wire? PCB layout? Schematic design? How about the power supply for all this?

A couple decades ago one could actually buy a computer as a kit and put the circuit boards together. And even then it was unlikely that you could know everything: even if you were Woz, you probably would not have seen the masks used to make the CPU.
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"I don't believe that most such employees see their work as "slavery" when they have to work excessive hours. I think they see it as career development"

That made me laugh.

"Top executives" typically have compensation packages that, to some degree, directly tie their compensation to the overall company performance. Thus, the harder they work, the more likely it is that the company will perform to or above expectations, and thus the more likely it is that their stock or option package compensate them for the "excessive hours". These "top executives" are also incentivised, by their compensation structure, to obtain as much value as possible out of fixed-cost resources.

But, as an average employee, without generous option packages, you start to rationalise the 8th week of working 80 hours as "career development", because the alternative is to confront the fact that you are helpless and beholden and powerless to refuse to work the extra hours without risking your health insurance, or your job.
It's at-will employment, if you don't like it, you can leave at any point. Basically if you don't like being exploited, quit and get it over with. As people pointed out though, it's a different story once health care is part of the equation.
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It's almost 100 years since Scott died on his expedition to the South Pole (29 March 1912). We live in a science fiction future.
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Isn't every critique of programming languages necessarily very personal? After all, programming languages are languages. They help people develop and express ideas, and we don't know a whole lot about how creativity actually works and how it is influenced by the tools we use in the process.

Take inconsistencies for instance. An inconsistency between two things means that one but not the other can be inferred by applying a particular principle. But who chooses the principle that is applied to decide whether or not there is an inconsistency?

There is no shortage of "principles" in people's heads, many of which are not at all formal, maybe not even explicitly stated and they might not be called principles at all. They may be complex webs of associations, habits, or patterns that apply in some but not in other application areas.

Another such thing is the balance between generality and special casing. You could probably find out empirically what level of either is outside of what most people can use productively. But no individual is most people. So everyone has to decide what makes them personally productive.

The only regrettable thing is that so few people even try to find out.
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I agree. Also, C++11 probably makes a good deal of the FQA less relevant (except with regards to the sheer complexity of the language).

Also, I still agree with the basic premise of the FQA: for the majority of new projects where C++ is used, C++ is not the best tool for the job (not taking into account programmer expertise, though even then…).
Notice the dates on these papers though. 2005 and 2007 are a long time ago in C++ compiler land. I'm using the STL in very low latency DSP code with zero problems. You have to make sure you don't allocate memory in realtime callbacks but that's just as true of malloc.
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No built in flash?
Unions exist in other countries that have highly successful industries, take Germany for example.
My thought would be security/responsibility/liability.
Well, Facebook is a patent troll too right? Still, very sad. When will software patents finally go away?!
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I think it's the addition of new information/technology without reflecting on and simplifying existing information/technology which is leading to this problem of information overload.
The problem is that Obj-C message passing is always going to have a cost. STL implementations can inline accessors, for instance, to provide containers and algorithms with essentially zero overhead that can even be faster than raw C because the compiler has more type information.
Yeah, but honestly SSL, and AES should be sufficient enough right? Also, if you buy it yourself, you have to be sure you can secure it and go through the hassle of doing SSL, etc. Wouldn't it be nice, if they just take care of security for you?
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You're right, if they left out the + sign on the beta keyboard UI they probably forgot all the calls to free(), WebSockets, and maybe CSS. Outlook is bleak.
11000 pages at 3 min per page is roughly 550 hours of reading, which is roughly 3 months of full time reading. Double that for some exercises and review and a good understanding is doable in about 6 months.
was it ever possible, given how deep the rabbit hole goes?

I don't think so. People have always complained that the more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

But lately we're more and more confronted with our limitations as humans. There are so darn many details, so much information.

And no field is static, it's hard to keep up. As programmers/software engineers we're required to have a lot of specific product knowledge. And much of it is very important at one point, and nearly useless the next moment, as new versions are released, as new systems replace the older ones, and old assumptions are overturned.