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I don't understand why you wouldn't be interested in hiring someone who feels that software development "is just a job, but I do it well." And what is wrong with welding?

What is it about programming that requires dedication beyond regular and predictable work hours? If the implication is that the 501'ers aren't thinking about what they do when they are not at work --they say they "...value personal creative projects over commercial products the world doesn't need." Certainly that is an abrasive way to phrase it, but it's clear that they are doing some level of development outside of their workday. This could cover keeping abreast of the state-of-the-art, certainly I feel that it is my responsibility to keep my skills competitive and up-to-date.

You yourself prefer regular and predictable work hours, why shouldn't your software developers be able to enjoy these kinds of hours as well? The implication seems to be that people who work these kinds of schedules will be unwilling to work longer during a "crunch period." I don't see any reason to believe this is the case; I strive to work regular and predictable hours and I will put in extra time when warranted. I take full responsibility for my work and its effect on the company. I don't know what more any manager could ask of their employee and it's not clear where the 501'er is (in your estimation) falling short.

Perhaps you believe that someone who strives for a regular and predictable schedule will be spending all of their time eyeballing the clock, perhaps even "gaming the system" to work as little as possible. For sure, such people exist, but I don't believe that there is any reason to assume a 501'er is one of these people. Again, I have to point out that you enjoy this kind of schedule yourself and you are clearly not spending all day "watching the clock." For that very reason, I find your objection to hiring a 501'er very puzzling.

Lastly, as an aside, I wonder if the objection to the 501'er Manifesto boils down to this: the 501'er clearly values their personal life over their professional life. It seems to me much more difficult for a manager or business owner to baldly argue that their employees should value their work product more than their girlfriends, wives or families. Yet I can't help wondering if that isn't their true objection; that despite what they may say or do they are very much looking for people who are willing to live very unbalanced lives, lives that are unbalanced in favor of the workplace.
Spain's minimum wage is up 50% from 8 years ago. Demand for labor has collapsed.

There's a thing called the law of supply and demand. Price fluctuates to keep both roughly equal.

But when you hold the price artificially high, you get more supply than demand, especially when supply is not easily changed, as is the case with labor.

There is no mystery here. Just people adopting policies whose effects they do not or will not understand.

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=ml9s8a132hlg_...
Well, everybody is going to have some amount of nostalgia, for better or worse. Especially from things that relate to childhood/teen years.

Not only on the internet space, but "80's/90's parties", reliving the experiences, etc.

In a sense, it's very important. The 70's, the 80's and the 90's have been a period of extreme experimentation and learning in culture and technology. In music, cinema, computers, technology, etc

The appeal of this era, I believe, comes from the limitations and the 'quirkiness' of things evolving. See how 8-bit limitations have created a culture and a aesthetics of its own.

Games don't need MIDI music anymore, resolution is not a limiting factor and we can get almost picture perfect images in real time.

How games were designed on the Apple II has its relevance, in both cultural and technical terms.

The main point of the 'internet culture' is facilitating the storage and sharing of these old contents. In a culture preservation sense this is very important.

How much money is spent by studios to conserve a copy of their old movies. Try playing the old VHS tapes in your (or your parents) basement. Oh you don't have a VCR anymore?!

Storing them in YT (or in a digital format) and sharing can preserve the cultural value of the content.
Children under 12 no longer have to remove their shoes. It's minor, but it is an example of them giving up a routine security screening practice (or at least modifying to be less intrusive).

I think they're going to drop the removing shoes thing completely soon.
No, it explains how the purchaser of the patent can get the inventor to go along with their offensive patent lawsuit, which is necessary BECAUSE the inventor maintains veto power. If that weren't the case, the inventor would have no say in the matter.
I've worked in those job environments before at other places, e.g., fast food joints, and there's no joy for me in working in an environment where everyone rushes home as quick as they can to get back to their "real life".

I would far prefer to work with someone who likes his job and is okay with working over a bit, and has a github for personal code, and maybe has a tech blog, and maybe contributes to open source projects. Someone who has a personal desire to learn more overall, not just at work.

To paraphrase something my dad, a highly skilled carpenter, once said: "Knowledge is our edge". If you are disdaining knowing more (in this context, taking the time (at work or not) to know more), then you're disdaining your edge in your profession. And that edge/lack of it accumulates.

If you hate your job and your profession so much you can't wait for 5:01 to roll around so you can escape your workplace and software, I don't want to work with you.

I code at home. I'm proud of this. And I want to work with people who understand that.
There is a difference between a job and a career. Taking a job you don't like to make ends meet while you try to find work doing something you're passionate about is one thing. Having a career doing something you're not passionate about is entirely different.

There's also a difference between passion and enjoyment. I can understand your work being enjoyable but not your passion. During one trip to LA I got a burger at In-N-Out. The high school aged people working there were clearly enjoying what they were doing, they made it fun while providing fast, kick ass customer service. I know developers who enjoy what they do but their real passion is something entirely different.

To me making a career out of something you don't enjoy or aren't passionate about is crazy.
Where did you find that information about per-launch costs of the shuttle? Another post here claims this data hasn't been released.

Edit: so it seems $1.2-$1.5 billion is the accepted figure from outside analysis, but I don't see how this is possible. With a total budget of $7.2 billion in 1985, I don't see how they paid for $10.8 billion in launches.
Sorry, but my vote is for $foo and $bar, by far.
G+'s Takeout seems to do better. I don't think it has all you want, like friend requests or photos you tagged, but it has a lot.
My experience is the exact opposite. Whenever I struggle with an FP concept, those deeply nested in the community tend to be both eager to help and pretty unassuming. This is especially true among Haskellites (Haskellistas?) who usually understand there's a high learning curve associated with the language.
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I thought that article was pretty ridiculous.

"Hologram Tupac is an inheritance of arena-rock one-upsmanship, the latest step in rap's forced march on Spinal Tap-ism."

This, to me, just screams that this writer knows nothing of rap/hip-hop and it's current trends. Sure, people who don't actually pay attention to the music may see it that way because of artists and performances like Kanye and Jay-Z's "Watch The Throne" tour but currently hip-hop is coming back to the point it was at in the mid-90s, with thought-provoking poetry on one side and money/cars/girls anthems on the other.

"Over the past 16 years, a lot of Tupac's music has been gradually sullied by all that's followed. "Dear Mama" is held up to make him a sensitive feminist, which he wasn't, while "Hit 'Em Up" is held up to make him a hyper-violent gangsta, which he wasn't either. "

What does this writer know of Tupac's actual life or his reasons for writing and performing those songs? Hip-Hop is a way to express not only one's own opinions, but also the viewpoints and stories of others that we wouldn't normally see in our lives.

I understand where the article is coming from but it seems like a lot of over-analysing. It seems unnecessary and a grab at a few reads just because this whole "hologram" is currently trending. Hip-Hop is and will always be a large part of my life and I just don't think this guy really gets it, just my two cents.
> I couldn't disagree more.

I know. Trust me, I know.
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I don't agree that "OOP entered the scene and became dominant in a short amount of time", though I guess it depends how you define "entered the scene" (Simula 67? Smalltalk 80? C++ in the mid 80s? Java in the mid 90s?) and "dominant" (presumably the rise of Java as a mainstream language in the late 90s?). Maybe if by OOP you just meant Java?

Note that in the early days of OOP (pre-Java, say the first few years of OOPSLA in the mid to late 80s) there was a lot of overlap between the FP and OOP communities, both because CLOS was one of the pioneers exploring some of far corners of OOP, and because aficionados of weird languages tend to flock together.
> Why? If the man sticks money under the mattress, he reduces inflation (slightly) and increases the buying power of the rest of the world.

Because the money under the mattress doesn't produce a good or service. The maid does. By spending money you increase the number of goods and services available to the world. That's the way our economy tends to work. You spend money to get goods and services, which encourages the production of goods and services. Money in motion leads to more stuff. Money not in motion means people are sitting idle, not producing the goods and services they otherwise would. Whatever good the money under the mattress does for the inflation rate, it's more than counterbalanced by the fact that the world has less stuff to spend its money on.
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"It's just 8 hours a day. 5 days a week. Roughly 25% of your life."

That's only if you're lucky. At least in America, 10 or more hours a day is quite common. In the tech field, some weekend work is also not unheard of. In some companies and industries (like game development, startups, finance, not to mention insane shifts that nurses and doctors are forced to work), death marches and sweatshops where you work 14 to 16 hour days for months on end is the (pathological) norm.

The above doesn't even count the times where you bring the work home with you, nor how the crap you have to deal with at work affects the rest of your life emotionally and the (usually detrimental) effect it has on your health.

You do get compensated somewhat financially for this. But how much is your health and emotional well-being really worth?

Consider this next time some company sends out a pitch for a ninja or rockstar that loves to work in an "exciting", "fast-paced" environment.
100K USD?

I make a third of that (a fourth after taxes) and live happily in a coastal town (Vilassar de Mar, if you want to GoogleMap it :)) 25 minutes by train from Barcelona, with my girldfriend (no income). So, yes, with 100K USD you'll be fine ;)
1. GDP can either be viewed as the total income or total expenditure of an economy. The government taxes income.
2. The government taxes any money it spends and tax dollars do not increase GDP.
It runs perfectly under wine.
"tilt" as well
The timelines are all messed up now. What's the difference between 'early' and 'pre' beta? Are these still later than the $500 'absolute earliest user testing' pledge?

If licences are now down to $15 - shouldn't all the pledges that contained multiple licences be adjusted as well? e.g., the $500 pledge included $200 worth of licences before, but now they are only valued at $60.

I understand KickStarter doesn't allow you to change existing rewards, but this is turning into a bit of a confusing mess...
Employers and investors who have a problem with this are going to have to weigh the cost of these restrictions against the cost of turning away high-value engineers who can afford to be selective about where they work.

During the hiring process, lots of employers are already giving candidates verbal assurances that their patents will only be enforced defensively. Now, software engineers have a practical way to demand that they make these assurances binding. Employers who fail to do so will have a much tougher time explaining themselves.

I'm probably going to start requiring this of any employers that I work for in the future.
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I agree with everything you say, but I believe you may have actually obfuscated the discussion rather than advancing it. The problem, ironically enough, is in the terms involved.

My comment was about the discussion around economics, not economics itself. Of course mathematical models are more or less useful and all of that, but if the same English term is used in multiple arguments where it has a slightly different meaning each time? One columnist uses GDP as a stand-in for "size of the economy". Another uses it for something more akin to cash flows. That's not a problem with models, that's a problem with common usage of terms.

Secondly, and related, is the use of the term "useful" There's a lot of wiggle room in "useful". You could drive a truck through it. :) Useful to whom? In what context?

There's a larger and deeper discussion about the Wittgenstein-ian problems with networks of terms -- I believe it may be more accurate to say that GDP is a structured observation, not a metric. It's a subtle difference, but I believe it has a huge impact on the study of economics in general. But hey, like I said, I'm just an observer.
again, that's very little original content?
Someone has likely written a better download using the FB Graph API. If not I bet someone on HN will write one. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/
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I think I've seen far worse. For example, I saw some code where the variables were a, b, c, d, e, f... z, a1, b1, c1...z1, etc.

Never underestimate the willingness of programmers to obfuscate in the name of (supposed) job security.
An iPhone app with Steve Urkel? Sign me up.
Right. It's technically correct but it's misleading.
I like the idea, but how does this work with unreasonable work expectations? What stops your boss from assigning you an impossible task? Now if I have to fight for a few days to get the code to even start I get to leave at 5pm and forget about it, it's their problem when they assign something to me and I can't even start. In your world I get a deadline and some tasks and where is the work load balancing mechanism?
Original article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/18/tim-berners...
I think he was referring to value, not liquidity.
And fastly is crazy expensive.
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On a side note, could you pony up for a designer? I felt like I was perusing a README file for StarCraft.
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Spain is a nice country to live in. With that level of income you can live without any kind of economic problems. Our sanitary system is free and pretty good (for now), so no worries about medical insurance.

Crime rates are low, so no security problems neither. Cities like Madrid and Barcelona offer all kind of services and their public transportation is great (you don't even need a car). And, of course, our climate is really great.

In short: Spain is a good country to live in. Although all the news you can hear with "Spain is sinking, Spain is doomed" we still live (I'm talking from my experience) very well.
A surprising lack of electronic options. Seems like it's Dubstep or nothing.

And what would something like Parov Stelar fall under? ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P5fkw10OkE )
With 100x the customers, maybe that's a bargain?
I've been programming a couple dozen years for a dozen companies, with side projects too. Some of that time I've been a 501 developer, and some of that time not. I think my natural tendency is to go beyond 501, and I'm happiest when the company environment positively reinforces that tendency. When the company seems to be indifferent to me going beyond (there can be a lot of reasons for this), then I fall back to being a 501 developer as a coping mechanism.
The mutable methods of the Date class all look to be deprecated. No?
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I think it'll come with time. Startups are disproportionately staffed by young people who actively seek living in city hubs- I know I'm one of them. But as that population ages, priorities will change (having a family, etc.)- I'd like to believe that the industry can shape itself around the wishes of those who create it. We'll see.
Dating based on smell compatibility
If you are developer you will have no life of your own, or will you?
Implying that most other economists in the US are dishonest is a bold claim that needs some significant evidence.

Implying that something is dishonest because it is different than it was in the past is a non sequitur.

"Personally, my 3 biggest expenses (rent, food, energy, in that order) have been going up at almost 10%/year over the last 3-4 years. I don't see a reason to doubt the shadowstats CPI metric."

What was that you were saying about sound statistics ;)
> In the interest of science I just loaded apple.com 70 times on an iPhone 4 and the battery indicator is still showing a full battery.

Did you clear the cache every time? Are you certain it's using the same amount of bandwidth each time?
From some side conversations with MIT administration and faculty, professors are the owners of their course material and can distribute it as they please.

MITx would be encouraged, with incentives, but a professor would be free to use Udacity, Coursera, etc if they please.

This reasoning would match previous MIT-wide initiatives. OCW material was put up at professor initiative with some financial incentive. DSpace, the open source paper repository, is opt-out. If the professor wants to sell his rights to a publisher, who will typically charge others for access, that is completely their choice.

Whether this is a legal statute or if it's just that MIT would not sue a professor was not made clear to me.
I agree - I'm pretty disappointed in kickstarter's tools.

Here's a rough guideline:

Earliest access - August 2012

Pre beta - October 2012

early beta - Decemeber 2012

Official Beta - late January 2013

Launch - May 2013
This is the app story that all my Windows Phone friends talk about as "a success story". It's really "the success story", as it's the top downloaded free game (except for XBox Live Extras).

I wonder what the revenue numbers for the top free iPhone and Android games are? Tapitude looks like it's doing about $3,000 a week / $400-500 a day. (Am I reading their chart right?) Didn't we hear plenty of stories about how Draw Something was doing $100,000 a day (now that's probably combining ad revenue and in-app purchases from the free version plus the sales of the paid version).

I'm not saying that there isn't money to be made on Windows Phone, but if the top free game is only doing $400 / day, it's orders of magnitude less than on iOS. Is it worth it to have your app in the "smaller pond" of a less-crowded app store? Maybe.

I suspect their huge spike over the past 2-3 weeks is due to the Lumia 900 - everyone trying out some new apps on their new phone. Time will tell if this is the phone that really sells the public on Windows Phone, but it's clearly their best success yet (top selling phone on Amazon).
Can I be in your world? It sounds like heaven.
Really? Because I seem to recall many intellectuals with degrees to fill up a room, and tons of thinkers, participating in "rich-bashing".

It has nothing to do with "immaturity", and all to do with your theory of understanding the world. A lot of theories of political economy --and they cannot just be dismissed a priori-- say that rich people are rich because of taking advantage of other people, societal imbalances, and, on top of this, that most "primary amassment" of capital in a society involves actual crimes.

So, it's only "immature" in some specific theories of economy/society, not all of them. That it happens to be considered "god given fact" in the society you might live in, is no proof that it is right. Contrarian theories are also quite common elsewhere.
Same guy, 8 years ago;
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/03/the_worlds_two...
Out of curiosity .. when was the last time you read a story that told of company x dominating the market because they used programming paradigm n.. just a thought.
I was playing with the "new" browser geolocation features and came up with this idea for a quick first rails app. I know the location space is pretty crowded right now, but I could see myself using this when traveling. What do you guys think? All comments/suggestions/criticisms would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
“Step one? FIX. Step two? IT.”
IIRC the common wisdom at the time, was to put all of the private risk onto the public which is what was proposed, Iceland said no, you got yourselves into this mess and you are not going to spread that risk to the public. Austerity was the proposed solution, in other countries, only after the governments became saddled with the consequences of private risk taking, conveniently after the private risk takers where clear of the consequences of their speculation.
Well, if this sort of agreement becomes widespread, it would effectively opt them in to being sued by other companies who have patents assigned under a similar contract. Also, it would be in breach of any other IPA contracts they've made with other inventors.

It's a neat concept. The more widespread these contracts become, the more litigation you expose yourself to for using your patents offensively.