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Understand that your technical abilities are a small part of why people actually hire you. If they feel they're going to have a hard time communicating with you, or that you're not a good personality fit -- the hard truth is most people will pass.

Here is my advice: See a good speech therapist. If your stammer is triggered by your emotional state, see a good counselor. Take a communications class. Start interviewing like crazy (just to get comfortable with the process itself).

I'm giving this advice out of my own experience. All of these things have improved myself and my spouse's life immensely. You'll feel more confident and have certain tricks and tips up your sleeve to help you nail interviews.

You've got a lot of life ahead of you. Don't live it out of fear.
What little similarity I found between the disciplines in law school evaporated in practice. I was at a middle of the pack Biglaw firm (not exactly chasing ambulances) and very few partners could form a logical argument. Not that they needed to - threats, leverage, and obfuscation were plenty effective with emotional clients, overworked/underqualified(domain knowledge) judges, and dumb opposing counsel.
Precedent only deals with regression, which is also useful to document in code, but should not be your only source of documentation.

The purpose of testing, though oft missed due to the name we have given it, is to document your code. The tests explain intent, usage, etc. that can often not be conveyed by the code alone. Verification that the documentation does what it claims comes as an added bonus, of course, and is why we recommend testing over writing comments. Though comments can also be useful in certain situations – right tool for the job and all that.

I feel like law could benefit greatly from something that mirrors TDD, not only to help convey intent of the law, which is information often lost as years pass, but also to help third-parties better understand what the law says. The exact same reasons why we write tests for code. Starting to write that documentation after the code is already in production, so to speak, seems too late.
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> "...medical care is one of the core things that a 1st world country should make available to anyone, for cheap, by subsidizing it and enforcing transparency and price normalization for common needs..."

Yes, exactly. This is pretty hard to accomplish in our current state of political inaction, misinformation and 24-hour news cycles. I'm sensing a build up to a tipping point on public awareness about how we're all being swindled by these hospitals and insurance companies, but perhaps I'm just paying more attention to this now that I'm starting to get a little older.

For what it's worth, and for those of you who haven't seen this yet: http://truecostofhealthcare.org/
The ability of people in the States to insist that our health care system is "the best in the world" because of the action of the free market while simultaneously not understanding why prices are thus important is what usually leads me to believe that most Americans have no idea what a free market is. (Or what health care is, to be honest.)
This was an actual challenge at a hack-a-thon I was at way way back (I'm guessing around '92). The total instructions were pretty much "(best game category) build a pac man variant", the restriction to pac man only mostly there to render quite a bit of the prior-to-the-event design less useful when it was announced. It was over 48h though. There were some pretty creative entries. I built one with more ghosts (increasing per level) with generated mazes, but from a predetermined per-level seed so that level 1 was always level 1, but there were still infinite(ish) levels (I was in a kind of Elite phase again after Elite II). Didn't even end up entering, I'd had a HD crash a few days before so I didn't even have my normal go-to bag-o-tricks in terms of stuff to render, time, do controls, etc and did it from scratch. By deadline it worked "almost some" but not enough to really be playable.
I disagree. There are parts of the city that are terrible, but there's so much that's lovely, and the physical environment is almost peerless. Corona Heights park; Glen Park canyon; Ocean Beach; the Embarcadero; Holly Park in Bernal Heights -- gorgeous.
Get your facts straight. Have you ever read a CPI report? Do you even know how the CPI is calculated? Here's the list of CPI weights.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiri2010.txt

Food: 14.792%
Housing: 41.460%
Fuel: 5.079%
Energy (included inside of "housing category"): 5.096%

If you're curious, you can further subdivide that into milk and eggs. But the list becomes way too unwieldy at that point. The averages are then computed using a geometric mean.

Also, Bond bankers are willing to accept a loss on TIPS, because a fair number of them are betting the opposite of inflation: the potential of deflation between 2008 and 2012.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w14701
http://www.frbatlanta.org/research/inflationproject/dp/

When big banks were buying up US Treasuries constantly because they're worried about deflation... to the point where some bonds are offering a negative return... the switch of Monetary Policy that favors inflation is the obvious move. Notice: Gold Dropped in value since last year, while big investors continue to run towards the safety of US Treasuries... pushing yields to absolute lows. Why? Because during 2012, the major banks and investors were worried about deflation risk.

Buying commodities and gold when there is considerable deflation risk is dumb.
Sounds between acceptable (Central London) and good to me. With an 18yo there's the risk that you decide to ship out to uni, travel the world, or are bonkers but no-one's noticed yet.
It's more that A/B testing will find the local maxima; you might get a 0.1% improvement to conversion by making the "Add to cart" a better color, but you could get a 1% improvement by streamlining the checkout flow.

A lot of this comes from having experience, you know the right place to start looking for the problem.
I love Livemocha - the online community with feedback from native speakers, and the breadth of languages offered are phenomenal. It's the only service I've found that offers Hungarian; Rosetta Stone doesn't have it, so I certainly hope Livemocha doesn't get shut down or otherwise degraded.
Wow man, you are sooo underpaid. I know there are a hundred other comments telling you that but just thought I'd add to them. Know this, there are loads of companies out there that REALLY want to hire you, it's hard to hire programmers at double your current salary.

Just tell people about the stammer, you'll find plenty who will understand and be accommodating.

Check out the monthly "Who's hiring" threads on here as well, the latest was posted yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472746

Go contact some likely looking positions on there right now! Seriously, you're a programmer, programmers are really in demand right now. You can and will find something better.

Also, fuck your current employer, how dare they take advantage of that to pay you so little.

Good luck! Why not let us know how it went when you've had try...
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You can also plot with Gaston, which is a frontend for gnuplot.

https://github.com/mbaz/Gaston.jl

Docs: https://bitbucket.org/mbaz/gaston/downloads/gastondoc-0.5.5....
Elephant in the room indeed.
The gimbal is 95lbs, and the camera another 5.

Also, photos of JetRangers.
Only if you are using line-height to hack together a print baseline on the web.

Let me put it this way, if there was a semi-reasonable solution, I'm sure you would have heard about it.
The higher cost of living factors into that majorly though. I know where I am (Dublin) it's very expensive to live in the city and I imagine London is the same. That's why employers in those areas have to pay quite a bit more.
At 2c an hour * 365.2425 days * 24 hours a day /12 months * 4/5 = 11.70$ a month. But, if you want an always on connection for 1+ years you can get discounts dropping down to 8$ a month and if you link it to a high volume account you can get another 20% discount.

Which sounds cheap to me.
That is interesting. I know the prices for things like LASIK are completely transparent, but that's because insurance isn't involved. I'd assume that insurance generally does cover cataract surgery, however.

Some of the reasons might be that the procedure is fairly quick, the eye is easy to get to, it doesn't require general anesthesia, and doesn't require a full OR in a hospital (I think - correct me if I'm wrong). In that sense its closer to oral surgery than a gall bladder removal, for example.
Welcome to the US, where the solution to the problem of expensive health insurance is to make it illegal to not have it.
I couldn't really survive without socat:
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat.html#EXAMPLES
So a post based on "who you know".

Most grad jobs in London will top out at £30k.

http://www.technojobs.co.uk/search.phtml/graduate-developer/...

Those that are higher are not real "junior" jobs - there's one that advertises "up to £50k", but then asks for 3-5 years experience. 5 years good experience puts you at the top end of mid-level.

There are a few finance jobs, that are looking for junior quant. developers. Yes, they are advertising above £30k. But they don't make up the bulk of the jobs on offer.

(And yes, I have a lot of anecdotal evidence too, for outside and inside London, having spent my early years working for a company with offices in Bath/Bristol/Reading, and the obligatory London "HQ").
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I'm with you, except I was born in a first-world country (next door to you). At least in Singapore the wages are better than in Malaysia, but the Singapore wage of USD35k pre-tax for a fresh/newish web developer is still pretty crappy pay compared to SF and even London. And rent is ridiculous, so basically every local lives with their parents.

There are people who make it to SF from here but it's mostly to the big corps. The rest of us will hang around Asia earning relative peanuts while possibly hoping for a side project to take off. Given the poor wages here, it only makes sense to try to get a business going.

Come work in Singapore anyway, you deserve better.
"everyone knows it"

No, see - that's the problem. The vast majority of the electorate has no idea either that our system is broken or that other countries actually do things better - indeed, that it is even possible, in principle, to do anything better than current practice in the United States.
Ignoring the actual price, any industry is broken if you are charged random prices that they don't (and can't) tell you before you choose.

At the very least, it is by definition not 'free market economy' since you can't even choose where to buy based on price if they aren't telling you the prices.
Looks like swish is a little bogged down at the moment. My connection attempts are timing out :)
Taking on new customers when existing ones are sufficient is risky for developers as well. I myself only take on new projects from customers I haven't been working previously only under three circumstances:
1) I'm running low on my reserves.

2) The project is really interesting for me.

3) Someone I know has referred me, and I have checked with referral that the person is worth to work with.

Based on my experience with vworker and odesk, in both of which I have been in both sides (customer and contractor)- there are good freelancers out there- finding them is tough though.

I would suggest choosing top 3 contestants and giving a days worth of work to all of them- then continue to work with best performer.
Good question. Now I use "android:" namespace by default (if no other namespace was given). So, for custom namespaces you write "mynamespace:foo", for android namespace - just "foo".
I've just updated AAML to use prefix "=:foo" for default namespace or no namespace. If you prefer other syntax for empty namespace - you are welcome to suggest!
I've really enjoyed Livemocha, for years, and really thought that having native speakers in one language grade written and spoken exercises of those learning new languages was a great idea.

I hope that some part of this stays free. But it looks like a lot of the other options in this thread are worth looking into.
I'm a person who stammers (probably 7/10 on the severity scale) and make as much or more than my top peers. I'm also a contractor, go through and pass more interviews per year than the average full time developer, despite completely blowing some interviews in moments of silence.

1. Your compensation is directly correlated to the company you're dealing with, knowledge of market rates, and negotiation skills.

2. If your employers do in fact don't give you a raise due to your stammer and keep you 'locked up', they are unimaginably terrible mentors and leaders and you need to discard this toxin from your life as soon as you can.

3. Enroll in stammer-specific therapy. The Camperdown speech shaping program is one of the more recent ones for long lasting effects.

4. Read literature about organizational behaviour and power; your quality of code and unit test coverage has very little to do with winning any battles.
Can a DDoS break the Internet? Sure… just not all of it
Type I diabetics tend to be intensely aware of the consequences of neglecting their immediate care.

(Looking at the above, I see that I should make it clear that just I'm bringing it up as an example of a group that approximately thinks like you say.)
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Indeed, same here. It does seem like it would be a popular offer.
No better way to get the absolute maximum possible use of your pipe with the absolute minimum amount of security! Netcat has saved my butt when that 12GB package absolutely, positively has to be there within the next minute.

One of the coolest network utilities around. It's literally like a cat piped through the network. These are all great examples.
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A few thoughts:
- I think CarFax has an affiliate program that might let you link through to their reports, keyed by VIN. These reports are a pretty valuable tool to shoppers as the condition of a used car is driving 50% of the buying decision.

- One data point that is really important to dealers is how long the car has been on the lot. Hypothetically you could just track how long the same car has appeared at the same dealership. The longer the car has been sitting there, the more motivated they'll be to sell it. I remember hearing 30 days is a long time for dealerships to sit on a car. For buyers this could be good information to have.

- Getting the mobile experience right would be a huge win. So often the cars the dealer lists aren't actually the cars they have on the site (I'm not sure how much of this is intentional and how much is a matter of how fast inventory turns over). So when you get to the dealership, you want to quickly and easily be able to comparison shop - get that right and you cover people in that really critical uncomfortable moment.
I prefer using rem over em. Em values multiply when nested where rem values do not.
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That's even more weird because I'm in France, using a french ISP without any proxy or whatever and I can see cars from Texas, Nevada, ...
See also ncat - netcat for the 21st century: http://nmap.org/ncat/
It's better they look all the same and beautiful than original, unique and mostly ugly.
How is this legal under contract law?

They extend an offer, you agree the price, you agree to buy and they sell. But they're suggesting that you buy, and consume the product, before agreeing a price?

Is it just that they don't know what's happening at the doctors? ie, they could offer a base price of $X per 15 minute appointment; $Y for writing a prescription; $Z for referring on for other tests?

Or can they not even tell you how much a basic 15 minute consultation would cost?
That would mean that everyone is in speculation, as everyone is in some industry, and we are all at the receiving end of the food industry.

The difference being, that farmers as well as consuments have an interest in sustained prices and in the product itself while banks are actually speculating - trying to convert money into more money without care for the consequences. (For consuments the sustained interest is obvious, but farmers are also interested in stability since they can't shift their investments around as easily and lossless as speculants can.)
Ask HN: Android devs -- Google play market policies question
I'm working on a project with a windows app and an android app. (They both do the same thing) My client has potential deal with a large computer manufacturer, but the manufacturer wants it so if someone buys one of their systems with the windows app pre-installed, they can also get the Android app for free. Otherwise the Android app must be purchased. I'm trying to figure out a way to do this.

Here are some thoughts I had:

1) A paid version and a free version in the market, where the free version only works in conjunction if the user has the windows app, using some sort of custom licensing code.

2) In case option 1 isn't allowed. A free app that has the abilities to install other apps (uses the PackageManager and has android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES set) in the GPM. This would download the free version and prompt the user to install it if they had the license, otherwise send them to the GPM app for the paid version. I'm thinking when they register the windows app, it sends a link in email to this installer app.

I'm not sure Google Play Market policies allows this. Does anyone have experience with anything like this?
Seems very useful (looking for a car right now), but the filter by price range function seems to return zero results with no regard to the values entered.
BTW this is not an April fools joke :)
Again, I know senior developers that were pulling down £65k and generous bonuses. I know software architects with 15 years experience who are earning about the same too.

But to me, they are the outliers, of what is a market that is generally not paying much of a premium above outside London salaries (I knew some architects on £70k, waaaay outside of London, and many seniors on £50k + bonus).

And I didn't want to make the comparison, but yeah, these numbers are terrible compared to what you will find in the major USA cities.
Although not specific for languages, memrise.com has flashcards for a handfull of languages. It also remembers what you got wrong and reiterates accordingly.
I imagine this will happen via Payment Service Providers first. Merchants that don't want to manage their own payment code outsource it to some third party company.

Those PSPs compete and one dimension they compete on is breadth of payment methods. Who wants to be the only one who doesn't offer BTC?

Once PSPs have integrated bitcoins, many merchants will accept them.
I tend to give my brain play-time, when it can freely roam around. At that time a whiteboard however is much more useful than a browser with tabs, where you will end up with 40 open tabs that you plan to 'work through'.
What I also found most useful is cycling outside. I research and let my brain binge on information, then I do a long walk or a cycling trip for two hours. During that time the puzzle solves itself. Then I have a voice-recorder ready and record my completed train of thought, which later at night is typed into Powerpoints for work and Mindmaps.
The trickiest part of all this is that it's difficult to fit this around fixed schedules.
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Oh, I know. I thought your comments were poignant, and mine weren't meant as disagreement. I was just responding to the lsat part, "It is also damaging to their argument that so many are willing to to support the government's disregard of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th and 10th amendments while fervently supporting the 2nd."

It often seems like people that support the second amendment care about none of the others, and I'm sure in part that is true for a number of reasons, but that doesn't discount that there are many more "second amendment supporters" who are concerned with the broader spectrum of civil liberties, but whose views aren't necessarily represented because there are groups like the ACLU that represent "all civil rights except that one" and the like.

Are you also in Maryland? Have you considered (or are you already) joining Maryland Shall Issue?
The correct thought to have next is "Why?"

The answer makes that into a complex statement, and if your company can solve that problem, then it has solved a great many problems.
To which I think the only response to Western Union can be: Whoosh.
How did this blogspam get upvoted? If we want to discuss vintage pg essays we can, but breaking a series of essays into a few dozen bullet points while stripping out the reasoning in between does violence to them. If you're only capable of thinking in bullet points, please do the rest of us a favor and don't inflict your mental disability on the rest of us.
Agreed on all counts, and I'm in Iceland. I also know that local ISPs have dedicated caching servers for YouTube videos, which gives them an advantage in my region.

I realize that it's very expensive to have great connectivity in all regions, and I definitely think they should focus on player improvements (which might of course involve considerable sever work, too) since my main beef is with how slow connections are handled by the player.
People who do a lot of "save image as", bookmarking - check the no.8 :)
I've received 0 quotes and I'm not sure if what I'm asking for is going to cost $1k or $20+k.

As far as a budget goes, I'm not sure really. I understand that you get what you pay for and I also understand what it's like working as a freelancer, so I'm not trying to lowball anyone.

I mean, for a down and dirty idea of what I'm looking for is basically pcpartpicker.com but definitely not a clone and clearly a different industry. I saw this site the other day and it has a lot of things that I have written down for features of what I want.

Anyways, I just feel like I've been talking about this site idea for over a year and have yet to really find anything that's better than what I came up with and figure it's time to just get it out.
This made me cry a little inside. I make slightly less than a third monetary wise of the lowest Average Salary by Speciality with 4 1/2 years commercial dev. Most of the 'high' paying jobs in South Africa is around the $66K a year mark.
That show was great. Not as well known as it should be because it had the bad luck of premiering on 9/11/2001.

Ianucci also made The Thick of It, which you should really watch if you haven't seen it. One of the best pieces of political satire ever made.
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I agree in part, but the workflow of "this is what's wrong with you, this is what we charge, this is what insurance pays, and this is what you pay" seems exactly the same, even if what's covered and the reimbursement rates are very different.

My main point is that I've never been to a doctor where I've had to schedule a followup appointment and been presented with a itemized invoice (and the dentist's office can usually prepare it in under 5 minutes).
Well, it would have been a surprise, anyway. (Currently on "page 31" ("location 623 of 7372").

I actually didn't read the article above once I saw the mention of the book to avoid spoilers. Guess I should have boycotted the comments as well....