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12-14% is better than average. I was using it as a euphemism for "mediocre", which it is for a person who lives in a high-COL city (one of the main reasons rents are so high is that career progress is faster out here) and in lucrative industries. When people not 1/10 as talented or capable as I am are, at the same age, making MD in investment banks, being acquired for millions, or making 500+ in private equity, I think it's fair to say that a 12-14% trajectory is pretty damn uninspiring. Money isn't an issue, but I'd be calling way more shots at my age if I hadn't taken so many bad risks (read: shitty startups).

I'm 0 for 2 in picking startups. The first just didn't have legs (our CEO had no idea what people actually wanted and would pay for) but my mistake was to spend almost 3 years trying to make it work. The second had unethical management who (a) tried to use my engineering credibility to justify dodgy personnel moves, attempting to force me to sign affidavits claiming my colleagues were incompetent (they weren't, but they had "too much" equity) and (b) after I resigned, did all sorts of disgusting stuff to try to fuck with my career.

You're right that if you don't change employer or get a promotion, you're unlikely to get a substantial raise. I assume that anyone who isn't promoted after 2 years is, unless they have essentially full autonomy to direct their work, going to start looking elsewhere. You'd be insane not to. Your future is your real boss, because the future is what actually pays us.
1. If Nathan believes that, he's been lying/hiding it from every person in the world, repeatedly

2. IV does a large amount of lobbying, particularly against bills that, for example, asked for patent damages to only be given in the amount the patented part was of the whole.

IE In prior law, you used to be able to get damages as a royalty on the full price of the product, even if the infringed patent was in a 2 cent part of a $20,000 product

IV lobbied heavily against this provision (I don't have an exact figure, but they are now within the top 5 money wise on patent issues and are always present at various conferences/testimony/etc ). Same with things like post-grant reexams, stronger obviousness protections, etc.

Hey, but maybe that's part of the front!

If they didn't lobby against helping the patent system, it would undermine their efforts to help the patent system because then we'd know they weren't genuine.

Sorry, but all these conspiracy theories that Nathan really is trying to be helpful are hilarious. Some people just realize they can make money by exploiting the world, and Nathan is one of them.
That will probably never happen. The tool is geared around iOS and Mac development. You have to have Apple's SDK, on a Mac running OS X (which is the only 'legal' way). You'd never be able to compile or run the code.
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I am trying for an hour to buy anything but they have serious problems! :(
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Yeah I customised flatstrap (colors and fonts mainly).

2.css is part of the little CSS build process I came up with for this site. There are a bunch of LESS files in a directory (https://github.com/h2s/ppladdressbook.org/tree/master/_style...). Then there's a rake task to build them into {{site.version}}.css. This means I can update the CSS, bump the version number, run jekyll, and push the changes live being certain that there won't be any annoying caching issues stopping people from getting the updated CSS.
Sorry, maybe I'm not understanding you correctly, but if you accept a chargeback why would you get that money back? Isn't that essentially Stripe refunding a customer because that customer says you shouldn't have charged them in the first place?
Agree, it's awful.
Yup - Emacs bindings included, it'll even remap ctrl-z for you.
Boeing uses 20,000 pounds of potatoes as human to test in-flight Wi-Fi
These are volunteers who are taking the pictures, I doubt they all are professional photographers. Which is fine, photography isn't that hard, these days you can't really swing a dead cat without hitting a decent photographer.

My point was that amateur photography doesn't cost on €12 a pop today, if only due to sheer abundance of imagery.

> There are people that volunteer for rock festivals and did a prototype that was well received. So why not let them do stuff that they volunteer for? Because Polka should be covered as well?

This is not someone's private project we're talking about, but resources contributed by people. These are not their money, they don't get to decide. I clearly don't give a damn about Polka either, but I'm sure there are tons of places in Wikipedia where investment would make more sense.
The Mayans took an obsidian axe to their e-commerce server early.

The contract I'm on doesn't have an escape clause for apocalypses, so I'm gonna need that software soon.
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This, IMO, is how you do two factor correctly (with a device; I still like keys/certs as second factor, too).

Rather than a dumb token which just reports a number to be used in authentication on your main display, this actually puts the relevant transaction info on a secure screen for your review and approval. Otherwise, it's really easy to spoof.

It's also superior to a plug-in USB "HSM-lite" or similar key device (like OneID) because it's a simple hardware device and really easy to verify.

I emailed to figure out how to use this for non-banking authentication. I can think of a lot of applications for which it would be great.
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Gotcha. We have our hand on the pulse and will keep everybody here posted.
I don't really care if you trust me.
Very legit, but they lost a lot of goodwill from me when they shut down their website for several days and announced they were going out of business. It turned out it was all a glorified prank/PR stunt; the whole time all I could think was "great, yet another cloud service where I can lose all my purchases".

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/19/2250218/DRM-Free-Ga...

That said it's a great service and I've started buying from them again. Many (most?) of their games are just dos executables wrapped around dosbox, but what's nice is they get the licenses and sell the games cheap. It's also nice that many of the games are cross-platform.
IntelliJ IDEA has the functionality of all of their other products except appCode available as plugins, but the plugins aren't necessarily as up-to-date as the standalone products. The plugin version usually gets updated a couple months after a major version of the standalone product is released, in my experience.

For example, the plugin list for my copy of IntelliJ Ultimate 11 (cheap upgrade to 12 incoming, woo) shows a PHP plugin whose description says "PhpStorm/WebStorm 4.0.3 version". PhpStorm 5 was released in September, but a lot of the IntelliJ plugins for its features haven't seen an update since then.

Edit: Upgraded to IDEA 12, and it looks like the bundled plugins contain full WebStorm 5 functionality.
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it seems like this could be generalised to arbitrary rdf triples in some way and used as an interface to a general graph of information. have you considered something like that? it seems like it would start to get complex when you need to distinguish between nodes with the same name...
>There are people that volunteer for rock festivals and did a prototype that was well received. So why not let them do stuff that they volunteer for? //

Isn't the point - in part at least - that you aren't letting them do stuff they volunteer for but are paying someone else to do it. And that the payments to some editors or content providers automatically adds a political/social bias by favouring rock concerts over other performing arts (say).
The things you discuss, though, are things you would apply over the mass of people based on (ostensibly) observer-independent factors. That's not the sort of bubbling to which DDG and its ilk object, because it is not based on individualized preferences, nor is the data gathered by tracking people.

It could be argued that it's a sort of bubbling nonetheless, based on the preferences of some unspecified authority rather than each individual. But that's outside the scope of what DDG tries to address anyway.
Whoa... this is the second link on juggling I've read in the last 30 minutes
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12-14% sustainable raises for the same position aren't likely - but after x years of experience you should be holding a different, more complicated, and much higher paid position.
I hope it's not written in the same code these guys are using!

OK, that was a bit snarky, but this site's design definitely feels too "clever" and, weirdly, looks like something that might have escaped from a time tunnel to 2006. Since then, everyone has got into the whole minimalism thing, and web design has generally been better for it.
Reading a manifesto is probably not a good introduction to the site — it's a bit "tell" instead of "show".

Submitted to news.ycombinator about ten hours ago, the qz.com "Check your US tax rate for 2012-and every year since 1913" might show a little bit more of the kind of interactive blah responsive blah storytelling multifluidic blah they aim to do: http://qz.com/37639/check-your-us-tax-rate-for-2012-and-ever...
Hi there thanks for commenting! I think there's a bit of a disconnect between the stuff you mention here and what our target market is going to use/need.

We're aiming squarely at hobbyists/independent people who want to share/sell their knowledge of things like: knitting, painting, gardening, cooking, small renovation projects, setting up a home theater, and so on. There's no testing at all, in fact!

Ultimately I don't think myself or my wife are in a position to make an appropriate product for the corporate e-learning market. Long story short - neither of us lasted long at the corporate/cube jobs we had after finishing school years ago, and stuff like Active Directory and corporate training programs are pretty far from our minds at this point :)
> This is not someone's private project we're talking about, but resources contributed by people. These are not their money, they don't get to decide.

Thats where you have it wrong. Once you donated the money, it is theirs and they can use it at their discretion, as long as you haven't stated what the money is specifically for and the use isn't fraudulent. Yes, they can even spend it on beer to improve employee morale and they certainly do from time to time.
I decided not to sign-up since they asked me not to.
"...as my colleague John Cassidy has pointed out, the company’s founders and early investors are likely to do better with this much-hyped [IPO] than individual investors."

So, a group of people built something used by millions all over the world, and made money from it. Where was the problem again?
I'm wondering about a class-action lawsuit to stop those ads claiming your donation is needed to keep it on the air. That's just a bald-faced lie. Is that permitted under fundraising laws?
I'm trying like hell to get a copy of AppCode, guess I'll be hitting F5 all day trying to get it in the cart. For $25 I have to try it... big fan of other JetBrains products.
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Do we have any feedback for the problem from Jetbrains?
If you're hired a fresh developer, after 3 years of experience he is worth much more than a fresh developer - that's the market price. He'd be able to get that price elsewhere, and you'd have to pay that raised price to get a qualified replacement instead of another newbie.
It's not uncommon to see people use "cargo culting" to refer to doing something without knowing (or being aware of) why. It's not exactly right but it's not exactly wrong either, it's simply attaching a broader meaning to what used to be a more narrow term. Happens all the time.
In your analogy, the activity was illegal until the law was changed. If a patent is declared invalid, then it shouldn't have been valid when it was used in prosecution, so it's logical for the defendant to ask for some kind of redress. Whether the law actually works like that, I don't know.
@skiabox we are working on it. sorry for any inconvenience.
All the developers at the company I work for are very excited by this. We're all trying to buy stuff but it's 404ing :-(
I thought about this a bit. I considered using C, but decided against it in the end.

C lost out because I wanted to use this project as an opportunity to try out full-on TDD, and C's automated testing tools seemed like a pain.

I also wanted to build something that I could release relatively quickly to validate the idea. Not to mention my eagerness to be able to use it for my own address book needs. I'm not very experienced with C so it probably would have taken me six months to get to this point instead of one.

As it stands, the main downside has been that I've encountered a lot of Rubygems-related woes resulting from the choice. Some earlier versions of Ruby are still very commonly installed on peoples' computers and don't work with ppl because they lack certain methods. I'd rather that than another five months of the app not even existing.

I wouldn't be averse to a C port, if the stars aligned just right so that it was both necessary and possible. For now I'm hoping Ruby will suffice!
With the exception of reShaper, YouTrack, and the Obj-C environment, I think that's called IntelliJ…
From the license page, it does not look like you are allowed to use your copy at work (would be great if this were possible ;) ):

"Personal licenses are not available to companies in any way or form. Transfer of personal licenses to any third party and/or reimbursement for personal license purchase by a company are prohibited by the Personal License Agreement"

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/buy.jsp#personal
>"Sure, that's average, but why stay at an average company?"

How many years are you talking about being employed? Because doubling your salary every 3-5 years is completely unsustainable. If this occupation is so leveraged that 10% annual salary gains are "average", and 20% are "expected", there is going to be some heartache at some point. That isn't happening anywhere else on the planet.
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There seems to be some political calculus where it makes sense to pass unconstitutional but popular laws, then let the courts strike them down. Frequently vs. the 1st, now against the 2nd, 4th, and 5th. Of course, the courts never really seem to rule for the 9th or 10th.
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n thanks..
"No, this isn't like ACTA at all, it has an entirely different acronym"
I seem to remember 40 hrs was a compromise - a 4-day work week was proposed, and job-sharing was proposed. President compromised on a federal standard 40-hr work week.
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A week ago I’ve decided to learn VHDL and as an exercise, implement The game of life.
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Every Ruby user I know personally that's tried RubyMine loves it; from total beginners to experts (myself included).

Note that IntelliJ effectively includes both RubyMine and PHPStorm (+ PyCharm); it's the better choice if you're wanting both.
The future of news has nothing to do with code. That's just "when all you have is a hammer" talk. We're already trending towards Facebook-ized/Twitter-ized news, and I don't think anyone is impressed. The problem with the news is content, and the people, and I don't think technology is going to help with either.

As an aside, I just bought a subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek on my iPad (first newspaper subscription ever) and I have to say I'm impressed. Quality long-form writing, covering business and Wall Street without the conservative slant of fellatious tone of the WSJ. Very recommended.
GraphML export/import would be awesome
Hm. For sales anyway. For the assembly line, the weakest link is absolutely the critical point to address. Etc.
I don't do windows development, and I've never installed any of the Visual <insert proprietary language here> environments, but I cannot believe that Visual F# takes over an hour to install. Is this true?
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No more mediocrity
Is it true that there's no difference between IDEA with plugins and PyCharm, etc? I haven't used these products before so have no idea and I've heard a few people saying similar things.
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No, the grant is for supporting wikipedia volunteers to fulfill their project. There is a detailed discussion here:

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussio...

(in german, obviously)
Well, thanks a lot for your thoughts/insight on the subject. We discussed/thought/slept on it at length and still think the price is right.

The biggest single piece that convinces us is that the people we're aiming at are hobbyists. They are already using free tools (often wordpress + plugins, or similar) and only pay PayPal fees. We want them to stop screwing around setting up custom blogs and password protecting them (posts are 'lessons', upload videos to vimeo and password protect those too, etc) and use something end-to-end/hosted instead, for which they pay a small cut of their revenue.

As I mentioned earlier it's the same fee structure as kickstarter, and it seems to work well for them.
Oh yeah, that sounds familiar! But that DEFINITELY was not the legendary name we all forgot. SimHouse and a few names like that were floated around, but they were't very exciting or apt, since the focus evolved from the architecture to the people.

The big problem was that nobody had any idea what players would think of it, so we just kept developing it and playing it and changing the design, while wondering about what it was all about.

There was one terrible phase we went through, trying to frame it like a simulated situation comedy, complete with a laugh track. That resulted in the first characters being named Edith and Archie (and I named the visual programming tool "Edith" for Edit House).

But fortunately the idea of simulating a TV show was eventually flushed down the toilet. It just took a few weeks to walk all the way to the bathroom. ;(

I was rooting for a weird name like "Perky Pat Layouts", based on Philip K Dick's book, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which had an uncanny creepy plot about adults on drugs playing together with physical miniaturized doll houses in order to enter a shared virtual reality. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?bnum=577 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsN... But EA didn't like the idea of selling CAN-D...

I've put up some old design documents here: http://www.scribd.com/collections/4050497/The-Sims

This "Happy Friends Home" initial proposal from October 2 1996 is pretty funny, and captures the essence: http://www.scribd.com/doc/117483854/The-Sims-Happy-Friends-H...
This doesn't need to be a Rails feature. Rails is for building web apps. There is a whole bunch of extra stuff Rails does that a web api doesn't need to care about. So, it really doesn't need to be a mvc web app framework feature.

Also, why tie this idea to Rails at all? Why not just make your own plugin or Sinatra app or frameowrk or whatever?
The sign up/don't sign up button is dynamically generated based on the perceived desirability of the user. I wouldn't take rejection badly, the main thing is to learn from it.
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Wikipedia seems to do a good job (even if not precisely specified), but I wonder why no competition has emerged at all (or has there)? Why is there no Wikipedia that allows everything?
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I hope you're not suggesting they are doing this for the people. Because the people weren't even aware they introduced this provision in the NDAA 2012, so it's not like it would've scored them any brownie points with the "kill the muslims" crowd. They tried to do it in secret, but civil libertarians found out about it, and then some backlash started.

Now the House passed NDAA 2013 with the same provision as in 2012, and the Senate adopted an amendment that banned that "indefinite detention without trial" provision. But the negotiators for the two bills eliminated that at the last moment. So indefinite detention without trial is back. So now it's up to Obama to reject it, but I hope there are no illusions, like last year, that he will actually reject it. He won't.
Does anyone know why he's got such a bee in his bonnet about anything that works against the continued expansion of copyright?

I realise he's a journalist and so sells the copyright to his own work, but he's so aggressive about it I always assume there's something else going on, like some weird religious or political affiliation? Anyone?
International ecommerce, including China, I can't speak to the exact numbers but the revenue from 6 and 7 is in the millions so we're not quite out of that maintenance cost to revenue hasn't quite tipped yet. Though we do display the ie6countdown.com banner along (and I may have messed it up a bit to display for 7 as well.)
>their ToS is malformed otherwise you wouldn't have to trust them //

License terms have a certain purpose behind them just like the law and just like the law unless you specify ever possible scenario then you have apply generic terms. The level of depth varies but a license that considered all possibilities - and so wasn't 'malformed' would be very difficult to work with.

So a company needs a certain level of freedom so they can disclaim copyright infringement in circumstances such as showing adverts alongside your work. But that level of freedom means they could by the letter of the agreed terms use your images for advertising, but the company have told you that's not the purpose of the clause and that they don't intend to do that.

So you're fine as long as the company continues to act ethically. There's possibly an implied license, worth the paper it's written on, etc., etc.. Should they really go in to specifying what "alongside" means and the relative proportion of advertising text on a page and whether advertising overlaps; whether an interstitial (lightbox) based ad would be allowed if it showed some of your image through the semi-opaque background; whether adverts for the site that say had a glimpse of one of your images in the background were allowed; suppose there's a trade show and you happen to be friends with a speaker and your image shows in their timeline ... is that within the letter of the terms. And so-on and so-forth.

This is why trust is important to save wrapping up our entire lives in legalese.

If a company respects it's clients as people, then even if there is a loophole in the ToS whereby they can screw those people up they won't.
I've gotten asked a lot where the name Miranda IM came from and I honestly have no idea. I was creating a new solution in Visual Studio and I needed a name. I remember it took under 10 minutes to come up with, I was browsing a bunch of name lists and I came across 'Miranda' and I thought that sure is a strange / unusual name, I'll use that. Turns out it's a fairly common name. I still think it's a good name for the product.

I remember when I was working on ACDSee, the original author said, "If I knew it was going to become popular, I would have picked a better name." The company originally made catalog software, and a Co-op student made ACDSee as a side project. It's sustained the company for almost 20 years.