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Should I be paid more?
Ever since I started my career in software engineering, I have always wondered what exactly I should be paid, or in other words what is my worth? I know the answer depends on a lot of factors such as location, experience/knowledge, day-to-day responsibilities, supply and demand, company size, company profit, etc… But I wanted to give a brief background information about myself and wanted to get honest opinion from my peers at hacker news so I get a better sense of what I’m worth and hopefully this post will also help someone else who may be wondering the same thing.
My title is Mid-Level software engineer with 2 years of experience. I have a CS and Fine Art degree. I work for a small private company (government contractor) in the Washington Metropolitan Area (Northern Virginia to be specific). I am currently the only and lead Software Engineer for two Java enterprise applications. I ship code about 5 to 7 times a year with about 200-320 development/test hours for each release. I lead and take part in every phase of software development lifecycle including customer support. I have managed to clear two Oracle Certifications in one year, and preparing to clear another in the near future. According to my yearly review I was told I was doing an excellent job and will be promoted to Sr. Software Engineer within a year at the pace I’m going. My company size is in the range of 20-30 people and yearly profit is about somewhere in the range of 5-10 million. I have lot of experience in Java and J2EE technologies, but I am also very familiar with PHP, ROR and somewhat familiar with C, but I can learn anything in a short period of time. Right now I make about 75K a year.
Hope that is enough info to give you an idea of how much I should be paid? So the big question is ‘Should I get paid more?’
Thank you all!
I'm not 100% sure why they have a "repo" for an "installer". It sort of rather defeats the purpose. If they're going to do that, just put the client in a DEB and put that in the repo. At this point I see no reason in adding the repo to apt.

Either way, it'll get sorted, Steam for Linux is already quite great. Still can't get over that TF2 runs better in a window in Linux than I've ever had it run in Windows.
very cool! What's on the road map for Moonbase? Clearly, there are some very interesting things you can do here.

Particularly, I'm interested in the node & connection model. Any chance we'll see custom nodes (followed by sharable nodes, modules)? At the very least, custom equation nodes would make entering math easier and then you wouldn't need to provide a node for all math functions. Notably, `exp` is missing (would be nice to have damping in animations - and then expose the time variable).

At any rate, this makes for a very interesting platform!
Great screencast: testing and refactoring legacy
I don't block Facebook completely, but I do use ghostery which blocks Facebook Connect. Had to pause ghostery to get anything but the footer to show up.
archive.org does a lot more than make archives of web pages. I really like their music collection.
I'm certainly open to the idea that the rate is being systematically underreported, but the article I read suggested that most of these employees lived in dormitory-style housing on the factory premises.

For example: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/us-apple-foxconn-i...
NEW DORMS ... Foxconn committed to building new housing to alleviate situations where multiple workers were squeezed into dorm rooms that seem inhumane by Western standards.

And http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57527579-37/foxconn-confir...
Foxconn, which has 1.2 million employees in China, has come under scrutiny in the past few years amid reports of employees committing suicide at company facilities. The company has also been accused of employing underage laborers, providing poor living conditions at its dormitory housing, and overworking employees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides The suicide rate at Foxconn during the suicide spate remained lower than that of the general Chinese population[8] as well as all 50 states in the United States.[9]
There's no right answer to "should you be paid more" - either you can get someone to pay you more or you can't, and the only way to find out is to go and ask for it. Your salary is whatever you can negotiate, no more or less.

A quick glance at GlassDoor's salary data is that $75K is pretty typical for someone with your experience, skillset, and location.
Out of curiosity, did the movie air with subtitles or over-dub, and do you know if all the translations were true to their original?
Coding Practice
I am a Computer Science Undergrad and I love to code.. The obvious way that people say to get better at coding is to code more but I want to know of some good projects that other people work on in their free time..
Topographics stems from the 19th century as historical fact. The rest of your post is just full of bluster. [1] Both the market and art-history have already conceded as much. So, I'm not sure what you are looking at, or what price point you are at, or what your vested interests are. Its honestly irrelevant.

It would be better not to make such statements at all...

-- As you said.

http://artblart.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/hyman-writing.jp...

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[1] Citations for context, if you need them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_photogra...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhein_II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Topographics

Non-topographic 19th Century art with 20th C influence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cameron_julia_jackson.jpg

_________

Is "Photography is at the cutting edge of contemporary art"?

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Photography-Matters-Never-Before/d...

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Does art exist?

http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Objective_Eye.html?i...

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The problem is that you really need to weaken the system before you can completely smash it. By reducing the value of patents it gets easier to argue for the complete demolition of the existing patent system.
At a large corporation, it's generally a good idea to avoid letting your boss know how much free time you have. The problem is that if you volunteer your extra time, you'll end up doing 80 hours of work in 40 hours. This is not nearly as beneficial to your career as spending the 20 hours developing deep skills.

I'm not saying lie. If your boss has something that needs to be done and asks you to do it, then get it done. But don't volunteer for extra work.
taking a glance at python.org, djangogigs and SO, looks like you are missing quite a lot of jobs in there. and 2 of them have location filtering.
we don't. It's capped at $169 a month which is nothing given what Shopify does. There is a transaction charge on the lower plans but this may change.
Replacing Amazon SQS with something faster and cheaper
Economists can give probabilities too; it depends on the type of model used.

Predicting a crash immediately before it happens is not so difficult. Lots of economists were clanging the alarm bells all through the mid-00s. Predicting exactly when and exactly what the trigger would be? Basically impossible. Economists don't do that (it's left to advisors, pundits and newsletter salesmen).
Always love these indie bundles, Shank 2 should be worth it alone
How many potential clients are they really excluding here? In other words how many people would use this service and not already have a facebook account?
I wonder why they NOT gave up the issues earlier at all. They were battling in my view as a lost battle before they start.
I would be surprise if these new chips even comprise of more then 20% of the current total market shares. There are many who claimed to have Hardware Decode of Vp8 are actually not fully hardware accelerated.

Then there was the quality issue. VP8 Sucks. It sucks less now but it is still inferior to x264 encodes.

Then there were the cost benefits of converting to Vp8, no bandwidth saving, more storage cost, and other resources for converting its existing library of video FAR out weight the benefits of using a "not yet proven" patents free video which gives not quality or other improvement.

Dont get me wrong, I am not against Vp8 or Patents Free Video Codec. But i am just being realistic here. It is going to be hard, but at least Opus has proven you can actually create Best of Current Audio Codec and patents free. And Mozilla are already working Daala ( Code Name, and i Hope it remains as a code name only ) aims to have superior performance to h.265.
> truly revolutionary are the ones where as soon as someone describes it you think "man, that makes perfect sense".

the purpose of the patent is to prevent secrets from being lost due to the fear of competitors stealing it. Say you have a formula, or a special method of manufacturing a widget. You tell no one, and so stay in business because the widget is useful.

However, in the long run, such behavour is bad for society as a whole. Patents encourage these "secrets" to be revealed, for the price of an enforced monopoly.

If, however, a "secret" method that's being employed is readily and easily discerned by a skilled practistioner in the field, then it deserves no patents. Pinch to zoom is one such "invention" - the mere fact of describing it to somebody means they can implement it.

Amazon's one click buy is also another example.

In other words, if the workings of the invention is easily discernable in such a way that a skilled practictioner could replicate it without knowing what would've been written in the patent, then it deserves no patents.
Modern humans have never refused to consider how to improve everything.

But it is important to realise when we're licked. We can't solve the TSP in linear time, we can't travel faster than light and it looks like -- in both theory and practice -- markets are better at solving economic problems than planned alternatives.
I don't see how or why. The enclosed space is too small, and what advantage is there to be gained from having a 360° still frame of bouncing boobs? The rig is not even designed to capture motion.
Think about what you just said. Complex systems generally don't scale linearly.

Of course everyone else could do the same thing. But would it have the same effect? I don't know.

Edit: That said, my intuition is that default + devaluation is actually the right way to go for many countries. But the effects will be much more complex if many countries do it, and if bigger countries do.
You make a seriously excellent point!
Pretty much proving today's field of Economics to be a bunch of quackery.

In every respectable field of study there are certain basic scientific expectations - supporting your positions with evidence and data, reversing your views when your theory has been disproved etc. At the onset of the 2008 crisis, some people very accurately predicted the type of crisis it was (a financial panic) and recommended policies that were tested and proven to work. The mainstream camp however, thought otherwise and most of the world followed their advice.

With 4 years of data we now know who was right and who was wrong, and yet that has done almost nothing in the field of Economics. Few high profile economists have reversed their deeply flawed views and the views of those baked by data and correct predictions are still not taken seriously. It's as if the LHC found the Higgs, yet most physicists still denying it exists - the situation really is THAT absurd.

Economics is deeply corrupted by politics and the financial interests of its practitioners. If the quacks and charlatans aren't purged soon, the either field will be discredited. You can't practice alchemy or voodoo and expect people to treat you like a scientist.
For a lot of jobs, there just is no way to become passionate without also becoming unemployable and insubordinate.

FYI, Cal actually covers this in his book-he has a very specific framework for figuring out if a career has a reasonable possibility of giving you the autonomy, competence, and freedom you need down the line.
Free education: Learning new lessons
For some kinds of experiments, Mechanical Turk is helping to alleviate the problem: http://pps.sagepub.com/content/6/1/3.short
US healthcare has an abysmal cost-to-benefit ratio in comparison with most of Europe.
F# from your browser
You're describing PayPal. Splitting a bill at a restaurant using your phones (or Palm Pilots back then) was its founding story 14 years ago. [1] Now 230 million people have accounts -- surely you've heard of it?

1: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/07/20958
I think the best approach is to make sure whatever service you decide to use has good import/export features.

A boss at a job I worked at a few years ago still keeps his contacts in an ancient version of Lotus organizer without VCard export support. As a result he's pretty much locked into it unless he ponies up $100 for the latest version of the software (released in 2003) which has VCard export. He's too cheap to do that so he'll have to stick with it as long as he is still on a version of Windows that supports 16bit software.
A C++ Conversation with Bjarne Stroustrup [1 hour video]
There were two, and they were 'bad' in different ways. Neither had any talent for teaching, both were unwilling to lift a finger to help outside of class. One was a typical powerpoint jockey, and consistently had incorrect statements on his slides. Anything from popular misquotes (Bill Gates saying no one will need more than 64 mb of memory) to downright misinformation. Brutal grammatical errors and typos in EVERYTHING he wrote. Gee, it's almost like he didn't care. Though it's less relevant, I found both obnoxiously holier-than-thou; very much the condescending academics.

Anyway, I just want to know where to direct my complaint. What's the most effective way to be heard?
God Save the British Economy
> 5.The ability to produce “hard to build, easy to use” services is inversely proportional to the number of articles read on startups and productivity. The number of times I visited Hacker News and the like in the last 3 months can be counted on one hand [3].

Great way to take the focus off a marginally worthwhile blog post.
Thank you for sharing. It's always helpful to see what people respond to in these types of tests. It appears as though the word "contribute" is at the core of your lift. It's a much more meaningful term than the vague "sign in" -- and it gives visitors a lot more information on which to base their decision to click (or not). The CTA copy also does a nice job of supporting your headline.

Your statistical confidence is a little low, however. At those levels, you're taking a leap of faith. Good directional data, sure, but I've seen plenty of tests go from 84% "chance to beat original" to flat in a few days.
The Billion-Dollar Question About Tony Hsieh's Las Vegas Experiment
Bold? He's already popular on Reddit and this will double or treble the magnitude of that.
How is paypal easier than Stripe? I just signed up for Stripe and was shocked at how easy it was. I thought surely there had to be more steps, more ID verification, etc. I've only done 3 transactions but it was very smooth. I will never go back to paypal for anything other than peer to peer transfers.
I don't mind haveing color variables. When I need a new red, I define @projectRed or @redAlt. It is so much easier to remember red than some dangerColor.

Why will they choose hyphenated variables instead of camelCase?
Yes the world economy would have collapsed and like Iceland recovered much faster (Not that I'm sure about it but thats the point being made here).
Company Tracks Computer Delivery Driver Stole Gets His Photo & Locatoin
The Unequal State of America
Iceland did what numerous other countries have done in the past to deal with the same situation, including Argentina in the 2000s, Sweden in the 90s and the US during the 30s.
There is a subreddit on Reddit called Play it Forward for giving away games to other Reddit users: http://www.reddit.com/r/playitforward. It’s not fully automatic – you need to choose a winning commenter on your thread manually.
Yeah your own submission says you're a clinical coordinator and in charge of "it stuff." You didn't go to medical school.
Bruce Lee in the screenshot? His quote as the prologue would be relevant.
I don't recall "doing this before" with you in specific. I recall talking to you. I recall it was amicable, which is part of why I replied at all. But this type thing does happen to me a lot on the internet generally, which is incredibly frustrating for me personally. It also happens a lot on HN specifically: I get dismissed by people who are convinced they know science, thus their vague generalizations and personal opinions apparently do not need to be backed up. Granted, it's a huge sore spot for me, but your latest reply doesn't strike me as remedying that at all, though I do appreciate your willingness to discuss it.

There are a lot of people who are either obese and have tried everything and can't lose weight or are thin and have tried everything and can't gain weight. But your opinion is "some people just eat too much", apparently with no real cause. Equally, you are comfortable with "bacteria are everywhere -- if you eat too much you can grow them". You really aren't willing to admit that different people carry different bacteria due to exposure of some sort and this might be a factor in why some people "just eat too much". In your view, the eating too much has to precede the bacterial overgrowth. Seems awfully convenient. But people don't get AIDS or anything else because "well, germs are everywhere". They get AIDS from an infected lover or contaminated needles or due to exposure to some other specific vector. You can "eat too much" all day long and if you weren't exposed to a specific pathogen, you won't grow it.

I have lost enormous amounts of weight in recent years. I never counted calories. I had zero goal of losing weight. My only goal was to kill off the overgrowth of germs which were killing me. Last year, I lost so much weight, so rapidly that total strangers began stopping me in public places and asking me how I did it. I did not feel like getting into my medical situation, so I made vague noises about dietary changes and walking a lot. However, I am a sample of one, so that will also be dismissed by most members of this forum as "not scientific".

I really doubt this discussion will do much for either of us. I regret making my initial post. I really should know better by now, but my recollection was that you are a very reasonable member of the forum. So I chanced it.

Please have a good evening.
Indeed. Unfortunately the Greece public valued the Euro too much to tell the ECB to f' off. Now their economy is entering serious depression territory with none of the devaluation benefits.
>What do you think I should do? Keep up the fight, or let the expletives deleted win?

You lose either way. Either, you fight to keep your app, and you're helping a company that doesn't respect your contributions, or you give up, and you lose with less effort.

Lose the easy way. Make an app for someone who cares.
I find it rather interesting that I tried to post a link to this article on Facebook and got this:

http://i.imgur.com/REvQR.png

The content you're trying to link to is spammy or unsafe. If so, FB Purity is the best malware I've ever downloaded.
Hi Xal,
I'm on your site right now and it says you charge a transaction fee. http://imgur.com/eXbZp - So essentially I'm getting dinged ~2.9% from Stripe and another 2% + software fees from Shopify... effective transaction fee ~5%.

Cant wait till internet tax + state tax takes effect. :)
URL suggests you're right: EBC_Pumori

EBC is presumably "Everest Base Camp."
I've seen a rig similar to this used for capturing images to be translated into 3D objects. No shadows would definitely help with the processing and it wouldn't matter that you couldn't capture video with it.
did you ever think about whether facebook's marketing and influences have an effect on this evolution? Its not like "society" can think for itself - its just made up of people.

It isn't evolving "independently" - its just the sum of the actions of everyone. So, to dicate it, you can attemot to convince your friends of the benefits of moving off it. If it is true that there is benefit form moving off, then it will happen eventually.

...oh except of course, if you get locked in, as designed.
I've found bittorrent to be an effective way to quickly download ISOs of free operating systems.
Not that universal, but still useful! And I found language a bit hard for non-English speakers :) Great post!
Oh, I didn't realize that. I don't see this written anywhere though, the best I could find is a quote from Paul Irish that features on Canary get to users in 11 weeks, "unless there is a delay".
What do you plan to offer over the free job board on python.org to make it worth $249? http://www.python.org/community/jobs/
You don't even have to Google it. The Wikipedia article on C talks about K&R C vs. modern C:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29#K...
Some guys? http://postimage.org/image/xwf2yb46t/ from another view of tour.
Too small? o_O
http://postimage.org/image/b584kmjod/
I almost never use Facebook to log into anything, and vastly prefer using twitter as my catch-all account. You absolutely must put in a real account system as an alternative to Facebook if this is going to take off.
>You can't practice alchemy or voodoo and expect people to treat you like a scientist.

You can if you have all the money...
http://postimage.org/image/b584kmjod/ ?
You raise an interesting topic I've never really given much thought to (time vs generations). Makes me think of other questions about genetics that I just don't know the answers to but that someone must have thought of.

Things like:
How do they account for recessive traits?
Can something that is recessive become dominant?
Can something dominant just disappear (I imagine that it could with mutations happening so much)?
Is there a specific animal they use to test these things?
Do different traits take longer to evolve towards?

I imagine they use something that reproduces rapidly (fruit flies? fleas?).

On the topic of this spider and how does it know what it looks like...I don't know how much brainpower the spiders have but I know that we have a part of the brain that tracks where our body is (at least in relation to other body parts). Is it possible the spiders have something similar?
Can this even be used to make a rough representation of oneself?

I am going to have to google some of these later as I'm now curious.
The employees and people from MYWOT cyber bully me and make me depressed
I don't know why but they allowed people to post images of my home address on mywot.com and they won't remove them... I have a little website and in 1 day my reputation went from 93 to 59.... I wish someone would do something about them =(
When the banks get bailed out its not of primary importance that bankers keep their jobs or "get a raise". The people being bailed out are the banks creditors. Iceland didn't tell the bankers stuff it (well they may have too--it's just less important), they told the lenders stuff it.

Iceland was in a position to hang out the creditors, because 1) they were all foreign; and 2) they didn't have an immediate, present need to tap the capital markets.

While not being in precisely the same situation as Iceland, Ireland probably could have done something similar. Greece cannot, because they continue to need to borrow immediately.

I think the (correct) point of the original article was that listening to and following the advice of your creditors is typically the best thing for them, but not for you.
Still punting ARIA support?