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I'd like to throw in the practicalities of survival income that many college applicants fail to appreciate because they are so used to living off their parents' dole. The following are steps that young people ignore until it's too late:

1. Before living your dream or doing "something you love", you have to make your survival income: the first $1500 for food, shelter, transportation. So where does this steady $1500 come from, and is working the necessary hours to make $1500 going to leave you with enough time to invest in that "dream"?

2. So before graduation, have you established your fall back $1500 contingency plan? Do you have a skill (vocational or otherwise) that you KNOW will bring you that monthly $1500? Step TWO is where I believe high school counseling has failed America's youth. Everybody should leave high school with a $1500 skill, whether that be bookeeping, welding, sales, waiting tables, cashier, etc. It is imperative that upon graduating high school, you are able to count on having survival wage skills.

3. Does your college major allow you to skip step two because it is in such demand that the employment rate for your industry is healthy? Back in the early 90's, CS graduates were not having an easy time and were considered the bottom of the totem pole among engineering majors (in my school they weren't even considered engineers, but rather a soft science more akin to biology, insultingly enough). Again, this is the fault of high school counselors who fail to make foresight an essential part of the planning process - this whole "major in what you love" crap just leaves graduates with a sense of disappointment when they are unemployable. Always temper "major in what you love" with the caveat "as long as you already have a skill to pay for food/shelter/travel".

4. What's your exit strategy from your survival job? Plan this every day as you're waiting tables (bartending, welding, dancing,...).

4. Knowing that high schools (both public and private) are too highbrow to ever consider vocational training for their top students, it's up to parents to fully prepare their children. When my son is old enough, his summers will be spent honing a vocational skill so that he will have an employable skill that any society will find useful such that if he wishes to travel the world, he can always pick up a local job should the circumstances demand it. Two come to mind: welding (easier and ubiquitously needed) or electrician (harder, but more lucrative).

This long rant is a part of my disatisfaction with the high school paradigm as currently constituted. The current paradigm is a crapshoot that ill prepares students for the rigors and realities of survival in a world that could care less if they were once a valedictorian or All-State track star. I have known many former high school heroes turned zeroes after college, and it's a fall from grace that their parents have never ever prepared them for because in their world, their kids will always be special.
its more than that since its building nice galleries out of your content (like the previous photo galleries). But they had it in beta for quite a while!
> That's not quite right. The smaller rackspace instances tend to perform better than the smaller EC2 instances (anything below m1.large), especially in terms of I/O.

This is true, I mentioned this as a pro in the quota post. However, the performance is relatively flat - it doesn't scale on higher instances. On the lower end Linode tends to perform better than rackspace cloud.
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Same here. That's really creepy. :/
My first thought is to look for math, philosophy, economics, business management majors. Those jobs don't necessarily have such a direct path into the work place like mechanical engineering, accounting, or nursing. Friends I've had in those categories have a harder time finding jobs, especially if they have no experience.

Secondly, many of the people who work in sales that I know didn't stay long with school, because at some point they realized they could do well based on their hustle alone. College/university is often seen as a 'safe' bet, while dropping out and working as a commission based salesman isn't, so it attracts a different crowd. The recommendation is to then maybe not focus on recent, inexperienced college grads, but focus on sales people without industry experience who are willing to make a switch. Facebook ads could help target these, maybe?
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I'm not sure why you would want something that big.

Heh. I remember the same argument against the added expense of a 15 inch monitor.

Twice I lobbied my boss for a 17-inch mac, was turned down due to reasons of cost.

Why? Because 'more screen' is better, be it terminal windows, emacs, or a browser. Like a lot of guys, my laptop functions more as a portable computer than anything else.
It might LOOK that way, but I suspect it's more likely the opposite is true. If this device landed on a hard surface it would be a very high deceleration, as there is no way for it to deform and absorb the energy. A device of more traditional construction can deform and actually stress the components much less. If the outer case could deform even a few mm on impact (which most consumer plastics would instantly rebound from), that could mean the difference between a 100g deceleration and a 2000g deceleration.
> How would you solve this in Python?

The question is how does codeblocks solve this problem in Python, not how does Haskell solve this problem in Haskell.
I was in a similar boat, and I decided to take the pay cut and spend a few years building my way back up.

I'm much happier this way than I ever would have been in a managerial role that I never wanted.
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I will think about it however free hosting will not solve anything. Other people have paid the hosting for the last three years. Keeping the site up does not change the lack of traffic. It does not change the lack of credibility I have with the CF community. It does not change the general perception that I am some attention mongering egomaniac who got myself well as some publicity stunt. It does not change the fact that no one wants to compensate me for the information there. Given that I am currently homeless, it rubs me the wrong way that people still want to preserve the site but not give me one thin dime. Meanwhile, people in the CF community raise thousands of dollars for the CF Foundation because they are desperate for better drugs. If everyone here is so fucking idealistic, why are there zero donations?

I do not know what the answer is but at the moment I see no reason to be idealistically trying to preserve the information for the benefit of other people and I find it incredibly offensive that people are suggesting I should given that I am homeless. Either give me money, help me effectively monetize it, or say goodbye to it. If it has value, it should be worth something to people. If it is not worth something to people, then bleeding a homeless person for sympathy seems pretty freaking sick.
Yes this is true on 64 but m1s. EBS IO is still very slow and m1s generally deploy to slower Intel 53xx and 54xx hardware (although this is still often faster than the AMD 2374 you'll get on Rackspace)
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To be fair far more programmers today (even new ones) will be familiar with .Net than they will be with Ruby (and complex JS probably).

I can see .Net sticking around for a while in one form or anther. Also AWS really isn't that complicated (at least from what I have used which is only really S3). Just think of it as another layer of abstraction around your Filesystem (FTP/Rsync with bells). You can figure S3 out in a few hours and I can't imagine EC2 being much more difficult if you're already familiar with Unix.

I think the crux of the problem here though is that you take a risk whenever you devote any significant time to learning a specific technology as to whether it will still be relevant in a few years.

This problem is made worse by the fact that often your employer will make that choice for you. Imagine being a young hire at your first coding job with ambitions of moving on to a career at Google after a couple of years to then be told that you are to be transferred to the COBOL/FORTRAN team where you will spend the next 2 years.

I think this is probably part of the reason that many developers are so keen to re-implement perfectly working systems in new languages. They will try and sell their boss on the benefits of technology XYZ and how it will be good for the business when really in the back of their mind they are thinking "I desperately want out of this job and XYZ would look great on my CV".
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I wish they'd come out with more RAM, for the work I do, 32GB would be sweet.

I like macbooks and I'd buy one if I could get one with enough RAM but I'll probably get something bulky and ugly from Dell instead.
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This is great! I've been meaning to learn the basic VIM keybindings so I can start using evil-mode in Emacs:

https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home
In 20 years we'll see how right he is. My guess is he's dead wrong. If you look at the software development industry it's relatively new (mid 90s really) and expanding rapidly into every industry. That's producing a lot of heavy demand for software developers and if you think about it on a meta level it makes sense with so many things becoming digitized. With all this demand building up for a job that requires a certain mindset (hindering supply) I don't see this becoming a problem so long as the workforce keeps up its marketability.
My boss uses a 17" mac for design purpose. I think anything less than 17" would be sub standard in his eyes. I'm sure a lot of other designers would see it the same way if I am honest
Me, at 20 years old: "Man, young people are so much quicker and smarter than older people."

Me, at 40 years old: "Just wait. You'll see."
No, Gmelius has the trademark symbol too, with a couple of exceptions (the "What is it?" and "Gmelius Users" boxes).
Perhaps, but he's no English major - didn't support his thesis.
Photo and video galleries, but no music player? Seems like they are a bit scared.
I really like that 'back to HN' link. I wouldn't vote for the article if you didn't make it easy for me, thanks :)
Being able to link to a folder is a godsend. I hated having to share a folder (editable) when I needed to send someone many files.

However, does this now deprecate the Public folder? I thought that was one of Dropbox's best features: knowing only things in the Public folder were publicly-accessible (with a link)—and more importantly, that files located anywhere else were completely private and NOT web-accessible at all—was easy to grok and explain.

I worry that as Dropbox moves toward its stated goal of becoming the "file system for the Internet" that they will give up the focus on syncing our private files in exchange for the allure of allowing every site and app to read and write from one's Dropbox. That's a worrisome future, indeed.
This whole idea that the wisdom of an older experienced programmer isn't somehow hugely useful mystifies me. I'm at the top of my CS class in the UC system and spending this summer interning at one of the biggest Intenet companies. I'm also very comfortable in C++, Objective-C, Java, and a host of "hot" web languages.

With that said, I'm aware I truly "don't know jack" despite being one of the best in my degree program. If given the choice of hiring a new CS grad at $75k a year or an experienced developer at $150k for a startup, I'd choose the experienced developer every time. Maybe it's a product of my self education supplementary to school, but someone who has done it before(even if using something as ancient as COBOL) is the person I want to be my superstar.
You will be hopeless without watching this:

http://www.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/world-of-listv...
Actually it depends on for what purpose you intend to create that landing page. If it is for a B2B service, obviously it looks unprofessional. But for most of the other services, a short blurb in footer isn't too distracting.
"Under the law, debtors aren't arrested for nonpayment, but rather for failing to respond to court hearings, pay legal fines, or otherwise showing "contempt of court" in connection with a creditor lawsuit. "
That looks like fun!
I would say how unique the fingerprint really is is actually an important issue, I wonder how much traffic / time does it take before collisions start to occur. In the current setting it would probably suffice if the fingerprint generated one of just 100 or 500 values, the traffic is probably rather low and you visit the page for maybe few minutes and you probably won't go back to it in 3 days or even in 1 hour just to check whether some other guy didn't overwrite your secret word.

Regardless, it's a very interesting idea, and also picturing how difficult and counter-intuitive security can be if you do not study such issues, as an API designer I would surely have a hard time foreseeing that exposing the screen size or fonts list can turn out to be a security issues for the users.
Well, I don't think they ever allowed you to link publicly to an entire folder, so that's pretty new.
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How about these?

http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Culture-Commitment-High-te...

http://www.amazon.com/neanderthals-work-people-politics-driv...

http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Leadership-Personal-Journey...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Only-Sane-Working-Here/dp/00716087...
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I hate inconveniences of travelling and after I have travelled I quickly forget almost all of the things I've seen or experienced. Nearly same amount of memories remain in my head regardless of whether I've been into 3 or 30 places.

I don't want a house. I prefer flats. While living in a flat you just have to bother with what's inside. House is much greater burden.

You don't buy kids. Kids happen. If I had kids then probably I'd need more money than I do now, but kids didn't happen to me yet.

Every hobby also requires time. And time is neatly eaten up by all my hobbies that don't require money and by some work I do. If I wanted to take up some new hobby I'd have to reduce time I devote to my current hobbies so that wouldn't be a huge gain. Especially because to fund the new hobby I'd have to increase time devoted to work and reduce time devoted to current hobbies further.

My freedom does not require a lot of money. I'm 33 and I never had a boss.

I could travel much more than I like. I could get a house. I could replace my hobbies with new paid ones. I could have kids. But isn't this a bit much to just get "money hunger"? I want to increase my motivation but not at the cost of doing things that would tire me to tears.
Thanks! I'm glad it provided at least some amusement for you. I too wish to avoid bloated IDE though, which is why I'm happy with my current editor. :) (Which has a "Vim" mode too :) )
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Underpants could be a synonym for underwear, in which case it could make sense: you'd like to keep you fingerprint private on the web, and your underwear private in real life.
This honestly looks kind of fake. I can't get audio, so I don't know if he explained it away or not, but all I see is targets exploding after getting hit by bullets. That weapon "mounted" is no way big enough to be a cannon, so at the very least it's hilariously staged with pyrotechnics in the targets.

But the inconsistent effects of recoil (there isn't any shift when firing from first person, but you can see it recoiling from the external view), the complete lack of operator safety, and lack of detailed views of the gun from a useful angle leads to me believe that it's all fake.
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Yeah. And they haven't even noticed that 'Remove the "People Widget"' is in Gmail settings.
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Another point to bear in mind is that us programmers can be a vain lot and since it is possible to be highly successful in software very early in your career. This can mean you will be put in a position of doing the hiring early on.

We will naturally prefer someone younger and greener than us that we can mentor rather than hire someone 10 years our senior who's experience we might find threatening.
Drifting off-topic, but look at the Thinkpad W series. When I evaluated workstation laptops around a year ago they seemed nicer than the Dells, so I got one for a project and have been happy with it.

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/w-series/w...
Good gravy, I hope not. Xcode alone almost demands you have a 17", especially if you are IB'ing up iPad. Not to mention Photoshop.
I would actually have bought it for 5$, but seeing 15$ for the download is kind of a bummer.

Louis CK (a pretty well known comedian with his own TV shows) charged 5$ for his evening special in a hassle/drm-free HD download and was pretty successful with it.

I am not quite sure where the sweet spot is, but I think they might be able to reach a broader audience for 5$ :-/
I love my 17". It's my third 17" Mac laptop (the first one having been a PowerBook, so you can see I've been using them for a while), and I'm very glad I picked up a new one last year. Yes, it's a bit large at times, but against that, it has plenty of screen space for development work -- I can pull it out anywhere and work as effectively as I would at home.

Granted, programming is the only task for which I need this much screen room. Otherwise the 15" would be fine.

I'm also glad it has the optical drive, which I still use on occasion. For the 15", I can see the sense of leaving out the optical, but the 17" should be a desktop replacement, seems to me.
I had this issue when I copied over a a new application.css.scss - it wasn't being precompiled in development.

I found this an extremely useful troubleshooting guide. Thought those on Hacker News who are just starting out with Ruby on Rails (like myself) would find it useful!
Can't they just place something in the footer saying "Gmail and all the logo/name/whatever is trademark of google and whatever". I know nothing of this kind of legal stuff, but I remember seeing places where there were only notices in the footer but they were not repeated all over the page.
I don't really get you then. You seem to claim that design is important but at the same time deny it.

I do not want to live in a world where the current state of thwart CSS defines what is possible. That is an awful world. The earlier we can flee it the better. I do not want to live in a world where good presentation is not possible.
I'm 36, and you sound exactly like me when I was 31. Same situation, surrounded by a team who was on average 10 years older than myself married with children, working on mostly legacy stuff. Nobody seemed to really care much about their jobs, just wallowing in skill rot. When I was 32/33 or so I was offered to go into management.

I turned down that management offer, kicked butt where I could and got promoted to a principal engineer. It was at that point I realized I was in a dead end job, went nuts in my free time reading book after book, tutorial after tutorial... and two years later finally summoned the courage to do a Rails project pro-bono on the side for a small local marketing firm; for about 4 mos I was putting in 60-70 hour weeks between my day job and side gig.

Now I have another Rails project lined up for a NYC fashion site that pays about 15% more per hour than my day job and I've been contacted for no less than 5 full time Rails positions, one of which I interviewed for and turned down. The demand for this stack is fierce. And you know what? I'm madly head-over-heels in love with the latest and greatest the web has to offer (ie. meteor.js gives me goosebumps, and at the very least in the near term I want to do a front-end mvc project ala backbone). I'm not great - yet - but I feel like for once I'm really in the game. It's exhilarating. I feel more alive than I have since my early 20s. This NYC contract is about to be signed, and once that happens I'll be saying goodbye to the windows world altogether, join a co-working space, build a network, go to local tech meetups, etc, to ensure I have a steady stream of work. It also helps to have at least 6 mos of savings in the bank to mitigate risk.

Seriously, go thru easy/free books like Learn Python the Hard Way, Eloquent Javascript, Michael Hart's Ruby on Rails Tutorial, the tutorials on the W3C site. You should be able to do all that in a couple months, and that's probably 50% of the battle (okay - there's alot more, but once you have some foundation the rest will be much easier).

EDIT: Wanted to mention about the full time Rails positions, 3 were for small startups, 2 for larger companies. Naturally the small startups you can expect to take a pay cut if you're mostly maxxed out in your compensation in your respective area. But the 2 corporate Rails gigs the recruiters wanted to put me in at or slightly above my total compensation package at my current job (partly due to those being a mixed environment and needing someone with both C#/C++ and Rails skills).
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Yes, I can imagine far more people wanting to hire Mark Zuckerberg than Richard Stallman.
Ask HN: Do you work with your laptop on a 8+ economy long flight?
Economy tickets do not come with a power plug, nor a wifi connection.

Do you normally get to do some coding on long flights, or just prefer to kill the time by something less hardcore?

If you do work on long flights, any tips?
After seeing many responses which contain many paragraphs, I tried to condense this one down as short as possible:

Readers may find it interesting to reflect that this question, "is it okay to want to make money?", is not really much of a question in other religions, and ultimately stems from the Christian background of the Western cultures. In Indian religions, for example, doing well in business and earning a bunch of money are considered good actions, good karma, and will bring you a better rebirth. Being good at what you do is just part of being good. Now, it won't allow you to end the cycle of rebirth to achieve moksha/mukti/nirvana, because all karma binds you to the cycle of rebirth, but it will let you "climb the ladder" to a life where you are better suited to pursue these ultimate goals of self-annihilation.

So if you're a Christian the answer is probably "no" -- "harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle" and all that. But the linked post is trying to utter something more Confucian or Hindu; it's your duty to make money to support your family, go and do your duty.
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"The Underpant Gnomes"[1] were honestly the very first thing that came to my mind when I read the name.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_%28South_Park%29
@zalew, the current option you're mentioning in Gmail settings does not allow to regain the space at the right of your msg used by the ads. Gmelius does it.
To have a single self-contained computer with enough resolution to work with 2, 3 or 4 windows comfortably (in a keyboard-driven way like SizeUp.app, of course).

Remember the 15 is actually 15.4", so it's less than a 2" difference.
Interesting, I had Chrome Flash Block enabled but it did not seem to thwart this.
Unfortunately, for those that actually utter things like this (the younger me for example) a list of "what not to say" is not going to explain "why not", which is the most important part. That usually comes with experience.
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