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A real issue, but lame scope. 50 is really a wall... you run into all sorts of 50-somethings who are basically wandering souls doing random consulting things after they get RIF'ed from some big corporation.

It's not a phenomenon specific to Silicon Valley. But insular culture of SV is more well known, but exists anywhere there is a cluster of particular types of business.
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California != Silicon Valley, though. It also includes the LA area, for example.
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Many thanks for pointing this out! I hadn't read far enough to get to it myself. I kind of wish it was closer to the top because it rendered most of the other tips kind of pointless. Well, not C-r, but I already knew that one.

This has made me even happier than learning I could get vim key bindings in vim's own command-line mode[1]. Thanks again!

[1](C-f from command-line mode, or q: from normal)
Dirty yes, secret no.

Straight talk:

I'm the CTO at a startup and I often have to call out the founders and employees for ageism. I resent that they say things that make me think they wouldn't take hiring an experienced engineer seriously.

I resent that they think my profession is best served by dumb happy newbies with no private life.

I refuse to tolerate this in any company I work for and I will ceaselessly call them out for this ageism.

I'm 24 years old and I will not stop programming just because I eventually grow a unix beard.
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It's not just old guys, you know. 8 years ago, I was able to design the same quality of websites, yet no one gave a fuck because I was 'too young' according to them. Today, they are ready to pay me thousands of dollars because I have the age factor and a couple of white hairs. Many people are under the wrong notion that age = experience. While it may be partially true, it isn't all the time. When you're young, you have the urge (and the energy) to make some really bold choices, which you will think twice to make when you reach a certain age (especially when you're married, have kids, etc..). So yeah....age bias sucks!!
Isn't this partly because SV is most interested in developing social apps for hip teenagers?

It's probably difficult for a 40 something year old to know how to design an application for this crowd.
I actually really like it. What don't you like about it?
I, like many others, see a lot of self-serving "founder" spam on HN and at this point it's not worth commenting on. Except for a few grossly abhorrent pock marks, it's easier to let the posts have their time on HN - if not, something else will fill the void.
Unwanted contact is a great way to instantly turn all those 2 and 3 star reviews into 1 star.

"Developer is annoying and keeps trying to solicit more feedback. Leave me alone."
Apparently there is a way:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1865020/php-how-to-disabl...
Well, you've assembled a huge pile of evidence there for the idea that publication bias exists, but I notice that none of the evidence you provide shows that publication bias is stronger for commercial drugs.
> I didn't look in detail at code completion/code assist, which PyCharm does very well.

Also various refactorings (both refactoring-refactorings and smaller rewriting which PyCharm/IntelliJ calls "intentions")
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You can probably find some of them linked to from maps.org under their MDMA research section, but I don't know all of them offhand. You can also just use Google scholar or clinicaltrials.org.

Personally though I think watching the lectures by the researchers (and the MAPS staff) is a better way to learn about this stuff than reading the actual research. Normally I prefer just reading the primary source, but when you have the actual researcher explaining each graph in their powerpoint then it's hard to beat that. (Albeit it is somewhat scattershot compared to reading the entire literature.)
Could it be possible that there is a spectrum of choices which represent a trade-off between cost and quality? What if both authors took an already understood and practiced idea in our culture and took it to an absurd extreme? Every person will desire different quality for different items. Even Dustin Curtis doesn't get "the best" of all of his items. He says that he does, but if you keep reading, what he really means is getting "the best for him." That's what everyone does.

People just pay for as high of a quality as is justified to them by the price. Assuming perfect knowledge, that's theoretically what all consumers do. Different people desire different quality for different items, and have different amounts of money.

I love listening to music at work, so I did a lot of research and got a nice pair of $150 headphones with a $30 headphone amp. They're wonderful. Well, well worth the purchase price to me. Could I have paid $1500 dollars and gotten a higher quality set of headphones? Sure. But who the fuck would spend $1500 on headphones? It just wasn't justifiable to me. Some people will buy the $1500 headphones. Some people will buy the $15 headphones. None of these people are following some abstract philosophy. They're just regular consumers in a capitalist society, buying what makes the most sense for them.
Before putting out a crossplatform IDE/Framework like this one should examine the existing ones like Adobe's PhoneGap or Trigger.io etc.. They have been working on this for some time and they have started out supporting native UI elements.

Magikai may only be useful for people who really have a basic understanding of html and want to create a simple app that they have been thinking of.

But not my cup of tea.
I had bad experiences with Eclipse back years and years ago, but I'll try it again. It looks like there's a new release (Juno?)- That seems like a decent starting point.
I don't know why you wouldn't hire someone if 5 years is all you could expect. Do you seriously believe that your retention rates will be higher for someone under 30? Also, why would someone in technology need to retire at 65?
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Harvard's CS50x has a very loose structure. It's open until April 23 and one can complete the exercises, problem sets, lectures on his own time.

MIT's 6.00x has a strict weekly structure.

Udacity's courses have all eliminated the schedule and are now always-open, self-paced.

Most of Coursera's courses are structured.

If you want your friends to actually become programmers I'd recommend that you push both an Intro course as well as codeacademy for language practice. Codeacademy by itself isn't going to get you anywhere. The tutorials don't provide a solid enough foundation to actually implement anything meaningful. As a beginner programmer I went through every Python tutorial in < 30 hours. I used them as Python language practice, which worked well as a supplement to the core Intro courses. Both Udacity and 6.00x use python so they work well with codeacademy's python tutorials.
I can think of a number of ways to interpret this data that don't support your conclusions:

1) Online device utilization is a lagging indicator, since the traffic data is representative of the smartphone market share numbers from about 2 years ago. This is consistent with observations that smartphone device use increases over the ownership period.

2) iOS users are engaging in more casual discovery on their devices, and as such hitting more of the reporting sites in these statistics.

3) iOS better serves data-hungry users, either through device selection, plans, legacy, or some other factor.

4) iOS is worse at managing data use, on-device cache, etc.

5) The "unique methodology for collecting this data" employed by NetMarketShare, which is without detailed explanation or put to scientific rigor could be misrepresenting this data.

Any one of these could explain or contribute to a considerable amount of inaccurate data. A combination of them could exacerbate these effects. So unless you're arguing that people are buying Android devices and throwing them in the trash, the number of bits pulled down by devices isn't a terribly useful indicator of market penetration, just user behavior.

If you want to know what platform to target for a particular service (assuming you can only target one), mass-analysis is pretty lousy. Get to know your target market and what devices they use.

Unfortunately, this looks like the kind of "analysis" that starts with a belief and sets out to find data to support it.
My first thought: narcissism. Narcissists hate being around older people because it reminds them that, some day, they'll be old and unable to do the sorts of things that narcissists tend to do on the weekend. I don't think that all founders are narcissists, but if you want to be able to hire narcissists (which 75% of execs are, let's be honest) then ageism becomes practical, sadly.

Then again, I think some of it is subconscious and unintentional: unreasonably harsh age-grading, coming from an inexperienced and privileged set of people who've never had to do grunt work and therefore have slack-free careers. People who are young and have high career efficiency ratios expect a linear trend-- consistently improving projects-- but the reality for most people (save privileged 22-year-olds) is that they have to take the work they get, rather than being able to focus on their passion or highly-visible (e.g. open source) work. I, personally, would love to hire someone in his 60s with no slack in his career-- I'd make him my personal mentor and figure out how he did it-- but it's quite rare to find such a person.

The reason ageism exists is that most people have to take low-quality, career-toxic work to (a) avoid income volatility that becomes more unacceptable with age, (b) evade the "job hopper" stigma, and (c) remain employable without moving to another city every 3 years, and this creates a world in which premature decline is far more common than it should be.
One of the few. I am a PyDev user, but I have been migrating toward using ipython notebook for development and saving the code into .py files when I need to run in production. PyDev gets used to debug the resultant code when something goes wrong.

PyDev seems to heavy to me when you need to write a standalone script and too buggy at evaluating module dependencies resulting in bad tooltips. Ipython notebook doesn't have this problem because you evaluate code as you develop, so tooltips come from object introspection.
Annnnnnd it's gone.
I never liked the idea of hosting my own files on someone else's server (Dropbox) or sending them through a middle-man.

That's why i just run my own "cloud" on my own premises. If I want to give someone access to a file, I just throw it on my Synology DiskStation and the receiver can get at it via FTP or HTTP client.
You're still designing websites that look like they were made before YouTube existed?
That's a good point, although I feel that "development on KDE" needs a response: KDevelop isn't limited to making KDE applications, and KDE applications like KDevelop aren't limited to running inside the KDE shell - the major Linux desktops are quite interoperable today as far as running applications goes. Furthermore, generally speaking KDE apps are also available for Windows (via the KDE Windows installer) and OS X (via distibutions like Fink), although both platforms are considered experimental deployment targets for KDevelop.
Dustin definitely got us to discuss his blog post, but probably not for the reason we're expecting. That blog post and this comments thread are both huge advertisements for dcurtis.
This is America. Get litigious! Things are illegal for a reason. They can't ask about your age or family status.

When your CEO gets up and says "We don't hire anybody over 28 years old," a dozen lawsuits should be filed within a week. It's amazing people let other people get away with ruling the world this way.

*edit: I had over/under switched in the CEO quote. Fixed.
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I despise this new trend, and it kills me that Google seems to be embracing it more and more.

Google Groups is the worst offender for me - it completely breaks my browser's keybindings for going backwards, so every time I'm, eg. searching Googling a bug and open a mailing list archive to find an answer to a bug, I inevitably end up collapsing the thread each and every time, when what I really want is just to go back to the search results. I don't want every Google website to have its own tiling window manager within the page - that's what my OS is for!

Of course, they have no intention of fixing this, it seems. Disabling Javascript just yields an error message - 'Please turn on Javascript to view this page'.
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So hacks are not solid marketing? I think SEOs understand how people and the Internet work, and so we're well positioned to be the ones driving this forward. I've personally helped clients with growth strategies based off of new sections of their site to drive traffic using some very cool technical "hacks" that have worked terrificly well and are search engine friendly.
For what it's worth, it wouldn't be a problem for you at all here (MongoHQ). Anecdotally, I don't think it would be a problem at the more desirable YC companies either.
My first instinct is, when a client doesn't know what Github or something like that is, just use it and teach them later if you must. For issues like this that have relatively limited downside, better to ask forgiveness than permission and just get on with it.

Regarding his response, that usually means call him and explain it in a conversation. Hackers tend to be email-oriented b/c it's asynchronous, but many business people tend to be phone-oriented.

Short terse emails like that where they don't elaborate on why they don't understand or ask any followup questions tend to be a strong signal that they're not email people. So just schedule a call and explain instead.
They are calling this "a secret"? - more like overt bigotry from what I have seen. Isn't Y-Combinator one of the worst offenders? From what I have read Paul Graham brags actually about his age discrimination.
What the heck is a Growth Hacker, really?
> Voting is a method that a group of people use to pick the “best choice” out of a set of candidates. It’s pretty obvious, right?

And like many other pieces of "common sense", this isn't correct.

Wikipedia says, "Voting is a method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion—often following discussions, debates, or election campaigns. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting." This is very different from "picking the best choice".

I realize that the American public has been indoctrinated for the past few decades that voting is the only way you make yourself heard, but this isn't true and never has been. I recently learned about Wellstone Action ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellstone_Action ); I encourage everyone to look into enrolling. (I haven't done so myself yet. I probably will at some point, though.)

> On one hand, this seems to be an endorsement of the two-party political system we have in the United States.

Actually, what it's an endorsement of is all of our other voting systems where the choice is between APPROVE and REJECT. You have to endorse the existence of political parties in the first place before you can endorse a two-party system, and Arrow's theorem goes nowhere near that.
Tim Cook is the CEO. It's ultimately his responsibility--and his apology shows him taking that responsibility--but he's got to be able to delegate decisions like this. It's not like he's going to personally test every feature. He's got other things to do. (He probably reviewed Maps, but by all accounts the issues with it aren't immediately obvious in the valley.)

His real responsibility is to hire people who can make solid decisions on his behalf, and to fire or move them if they can't do so.

When you reach a certain level, you have to stop passing the buck. Hell, if you want to reach that level, you have to stop passing the buck. Maps was Forstall's responsibility--to ship well or sound the alarm. Unless you have evidence that he was overruled, he's the right person to take the fall.

(This is setting aside all the personality politics, which likely played a bigger role in Forstall's exit. But that aside, Maps was still Forstall's job.)
LOLz. SEO = spam. I see what did there.

I'm tired of that argument. Read some real SEO blogs and you'll see that it's not. Do the investigation.
So I am confused here: Are you being asked in an application form to list your education? or Is this during an interview call/email?

If it is the former, I wouldn't think too much about it. People probably use standard forms for these purposes. If it is the latter, just tell him that you did school for some years and decided your time could be better spent outside school.
Heh, good question. I've never thought about it. Looking on Wikipedia, it does appear that you'd have to come up with the money from somewhere:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartering#Tax_implications
And then somewhere in between are the partisans of "good enough" When I'm eating food I like to get as close to "The best" as I can reasonably afford (I'll spend $50 on a steak but I won't fly to Japan just to get some fresh Kobe). On most other things, "Good Engough" is a good enough. And when I buy a car, I ask myself if I'll care if the bumper get's scratched - if the answer's yes, I look for a different car.
Let me ragechannel pg for a minute: People are not created equal. Some are much smarter and much more capable than others. Once you reach a certain age, if you haven't "made it," you aren't one of the smarter and much more capable people. Being younger, you both don't know what you don't know and you haven't become set in unchangeable broken ways yet. Google likes to hire young so they can brainwash you into being "googly." Same with other companies. Once your brain thinks you need six TPS reports every day, it's not worth fixing you when we can hire younger, unbroken people. VCs love 'em young. Sequoia bluntly states they prefer to fund two guys working from a dorm room.

These days,"young people" are part of the technology. It's not something they learn as abstract concepts. They are it and it is them. You wouldn't expect a 50 year old Elbonian mud farmer to go to school and learn to be a world class electric car designer. But, you would expect a 50 year old world class electric car designer to still be hot shit.

Or, in song lyrics: maybe I should learn to shut my mouth -- I am over 25 and I can't make a name for myself; some nights I break down and cry.

The brilliance of our current situation is what "they" think of you is more and more irrelevant. Just make something people want. People have unlimited wants after all.
This line of thought doesn't make sense to me, because marketers are in the same business of getting into the heads of the 18-25 demographic and they seem to do pretty well at it despite not being 18-25-year-olds themselves.
You may want to re-read your comment. If Toll-free inbound is higher than outbound, then why wouldn't they do outbound more often? We're talking about (in many cases) businesses like banks which offer toll free numbers. So obviously cost is not the dominating factor here.

Some systems did implement outbound calling for increased security. I'm thinking dial-up (BBS/remote access) scenarios. Windows NT, for instance, allowed you to allow a user-defined or preset callback number. Although, for user-defined, its more likely a cost issue than security.
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Apple is a victim of its own success and its marketing of that success.

Google doesn't try to make every product they announce seem like the greatest innovation since the wheel lost its corners.

Apple does. They release a video of Jonny Ive talking about how Apple had to "rethink everything" to produce their latest gadget or idea.

This causes the average consumer to be far less forgiving of Apple's mistakes or shortfalls.

I love my Apple products but they are not flawless and there are many other products on the market that do many things better or just as well as my Apple products do them. I am not delusional.
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What kind of things do narcissists do on the weekend that would be specifically limited by age?
is Apple maps problem strictly an international issue or do most people find it lacking in the US too ?
Because a lot of times "Tom Jones in Skokie, IL" is actually a competitor going around giving everyone else a negative review
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I like vi-mode in my shell primarily for j/k to navigate through history (arrow keys just always suck imho, and C-r to search backwards in history is just overkill most of the time) and 'c[motion]', which is what I almost exclusively find myself using to correct things I messed up ('d[motion]' pops up less frequently). 99% of the time those are 99% of the things I use; for that set of features I think the vi sequences are definitely have the advantage.
How often are you syncing? I use offlineimap and haven't noticed any issues.

If that's the case, though, seems like I should start looking into alternative email providers....
Hello, I'm part of the NINJA-IDE Team, and first to all, I would like to thank everyone for the feedback (good ones, as much as bad).
Currently we are working to make NINJA-IDE compatible with Python3 (among other features) and taking care of several issues to ensure better stability (and guide the development process with tests).

I hope we can find the time to take care of some of the stuff mentioned here as videos, screenshots, user guide, etc.

It's a lot of work, but we are proud of what we can achieve with a free software project.

Thx everyone!
Score voting is actually slightly superior to Approval Voting (which is Score Voting with a range of 0 to 1). To my understanding, the Center for Election Science ("electology.org") is the preeminent organization championing Approval and Score Voting.

http://www.electology.org/score-voting

Eric Sanders of that same organization has written a few articles on the subject, including the following:

http://bigthink.com/action-in-action/why-the-republicans-los...

I've personally been trying to campaign for the adoption of score voting:

https://usa.brianstaskforce.com/task/362/score-voting-for-na...
They may have committed to launching Maps with iOS 6 early on, and been so pissed off at Google that they burned their bridge (that is, their iOS 6 branch which retained Google's maps). So in that case, the choice in front of Cook would've been a) launch iPhone 5 with shoddy maps and iOS 6 or b) launch iPhone 5 with iOS 5, or possibly c) don't launch iPhone 5 and watch the stock price crater.
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I had someone look me in the eye and tell me that at age 32 I was "over the hill." (Wasn't at a YC company, though.)

That was five years ago, so I can only assume that now I'm completely useless for anything beyond gumming food into a paste-like consistency.
That's not a "cloud," that's just a server. There's an important difference, and people need to stop using them interchangeably.
The real pivot here is pivoting from free to paid. The medium isn't an inherent shift in the business model.
Drudge numbers are inflated now, and this year due to it being an election year and one where the very people they cater to were trying to knock out the President. It's going to grab a lot of traffic from that.