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I find all of these learn to code posts very interesting. I would consider myself to be a beginner coder even though over the years I have spent time learning or trying to learn C++, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Node.js, jQuery, Objective-C, Python, Ruby and others. For each language I had a different reason for wanting to learn, generally it amounted to wanting to build something and trying my best to learn the pieces necessary to start.

The key thing that ties all of my different attempts to learn together, and why I still consider myself to be a beginner is that I always stopped short of achieving my goal. Generally this was due to hitting some sort of blockage that I couldn't figure out how to get past, or generally getting bored with the slow learning process.

Both of these recent articles have really resonated with me, as I have personally struggled with Codecademy (currently 66% done code year), and I regularly bite off more than I can chew. I like the suggestion of finding a mentor and putting my head down, as well as focusing on small projects that build off of each other.

In the end, I really want to learn how to code, but so far I haven't found a method that sticks. Maybe that says I don't really want it, but to me it says there isn't a great learning method out there for me yet. So while Codecademy is great and all, I really think there is still a hole in the market. Figuring out how to fill it is the key.
I don't think being purely front-end means that you will get a lower salary, because I've seen front-end and UX people get paid equal salaries. Some of the ninja UX guys get paid really well.

If you are purposely staying in this place because "the work is good", then make sure that the $10k-20k less that you're making is worth the extra goodness, whatever it is. It's always a tradeoff. Also, no harm negotiating a raise.

In the end, you are selling your services, so don't get jipped. The very fact that you are here is a strong indication that might be.
Yeeeaaah... you know what happens, I don't watch the video. Maybe this is a good idea but I'll never find out.
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“We certainly do not wish the law of patent… to develop on the lines where there may be a vast gap between the coverage and the disclosure under the patent; where the scope of the patent is determined not on the intrinsic worth of the invention but by the artful drafting of its claims by skilful lawyers; and where patents are traded as a commodity not for production and marketing of the patented products but to search for someone who may be sued for infringement of the patent.” said by Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Desai.

Well! This says it all
You could say that about any company that is mostly digital and uses Amazon for a majority of their infrastructure (i.e. Netflix).
Switched from Dropbox to Google Drive a few months ago. the UIs are very similar, and Drive is much cheaper. My only complaint has been syncing:

1) After a week of repeated attempts, I gave up trying to get video from Dropbox to Drive. Maybe the files were too large?

2) Also, syncs are faster and more seamless across devices with Dropbox. There are noticeable lags for most syncs with Drive, even small, single files.

3) Event when Drive thinks it has synced, it hasn't and I have to restart the app.

There are other benefits to Drive, but I never had any sync issues with Dropbox.
> Not sure there is as big as a difference between BTC and the current as people would lead you to believe

1) The value of your card is unlikely to be stolen by a hacker, unless you make an online purchase.

2) If someone spends the value of your card, you have recourse

3) Bitcoin is used to store much large amounts of money than you likely had on your VISA card
This is known as the Peter Principle. But, I would think a meritocracy would strive to test for, or respond to, promotions into levels of incompetence by pushing the person back down into a role where merit is higher than other available candidates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
If this is a serious post and not a joke then allow me to humor your situation. You are trying to gauge external fairness by getting a layout of responses in the regional industry. The fact of the matter is some will make more than you and a good amount make less than you. Some will have more experience than you and make less and some will have less experience than you and make more. Ultimately there is enough evidence on both sides of the spectrum to sway you either way. The choice is yours on what you choose to read and go by.

If you are happy with what your compensation, great. If you are not then do something about it. Offer value and I guarantee opportunity for compensation will come knocking.
I have no clue how people who don't understand Marxian political economy can understand things like...

Your statement implies that economic events must be analyzed from the standpoint of base & superstructure, but there is no rule or law that requires it.
It's interesting in the way the weather is interesting.
Ah, that makes sense. Unfortunately, the only way to make more money as an engineer in Malaysia is to go into management (at least that's my impression).

I'd advise you to try applying to larger tech companies in the US if you are interested, they will fly you over for an on site interview if you do well for phone/remote interviews. Singapore also seems to have a growing startup scene, if that's what you prefer.
>According to whom?
Anyone with a brain. Steve Jobs wasn't successful because he found it appropriate to act like a 2 year old in a business environment. He was successful in spite of it.

>Leadership isn't about making friend; It's about getting people to obey.

I agree that leadership isn't about making friends, but the other half of the book's title is "and Influencing People," which is about getting people to do what you want them to, which is exactly what you said leadership is about.

Hitler and Stalin were not good leaders. Sure, you can force people to do things if your commands are backed up by the promise of torture and death, but that's not leadership by any stretch of the imagination.

You can be successful for a number of reasons. Most good leaders are successful, but success alone isn't an indicator of leadership ability. Good leaders are far too rare for every successful organization to have one.
This is just fucking amazing.
The word "meritocracy" comes from a satire, The Rise of the Meritocracy. It would be as if people were using the word "doublethink" like it was a great idea.

The author's point is that social class is now guarded through education, and the most successful people give their children the best education. There is no longer the opportunity to work your way up from the mail room to the CEO chair. All the positions above a certain grade need a college degree, and often an advanced degree. Unlike the old aristocracies, there's no noblesse oblige; those at the bottom deserve to be there.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

One of the great things about computer programming (and the open culture of programming as it is now) is that we can achieve merit outside of an institutionalized system.

Edit - I didn't expect this to be the topvoted comment... so just to restate, even programming isn't perfect here. There are still many filters and barriers. I think raganwald's point is that our filters are often sufficient to exclude vast swathes of deserving people, if we robotically look only for certain kinds of objective merit.
I meant that jobs are in greater supply than developers - developers are rarer than jobs. This is true where I live at least (in London.)

Having said that good jobs seem as rare as good developers...
Quite effectively, too. My average commute is now 10 minutes less each way. The difference after they got every light into the system was immediately noticeable.
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I am taking part in a business plan competition at my college next week and I was wondering if HN could give me some feedback on my landing page: www.MailTheHouse.com

Basically, I want to create a web and mobile application where people can write a formal letter they want to their State/Federal representatives but mail it using the internet. I'm going to have an automatic printer and have someone who will manually fold/stuff envelopes. My goal is to secure advocacy groups as my clients and allow them to coordinate mass mail campaigns.

What do you think?
So you've traded one big company for a bunch of other big companies? I trust google with my data more than I trust Facebook or LinkedIn or Microsoft.

Google runs their own ad network (and it's generally an honest and upstanding ad network, unlike some others). All that data they collect on you is for their own internal consumption. If they ever sell their data, they are giving their competitive advantage to their competitors - not going to happen. Other companies are also logging and collecting every scrap of data that they can, but they aren't consumers of that data. It just gets sold to the highest bidder. I'd much rather have google tracking me and know where that data is going, than have somebody else tracking me and never knowing where that data is going to end up.
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For moving away from Gmail, I'd be interested in solutions that help you data-mine ahead of time how many mailing lists/services/etc you have linked to your address.

It might be easy to just "switch" one day away from Gmail, but it could easily be weeks and months of manually unsubscribing/notifying/etc providers of the new address to use.
Farmers tend to be quite conservative about crop changes and new techniques, technologies.

Interestingly, they possess the capability to form long term memories.

This means that no, actually, they don't stampede from crop to crop. The boom/bust cycle in agriculture prices is largely driven by the weather and shifts in consumer preferences.
Your advice is basically common sense. I would find it hard to believe that you are actually reaching anyone here, though. :( If you're the type of person to send out the "meh" emails, are you really likely to be the type of person that reads this kind of post and says "AHA! I shouldn't do that?"
I see. What an endless chain. Consumers can't switch out of cable because they want to watch GoT. HBO makes sure that you can watch only on cable because they make so much money out of it. We consumers pay way too much to cable operators to get so little out of it.

I think the problem is sports. If sports could move to online streaming, then the entire cable industry would crumble.
Maybe he can stop using computers and go back to stone age.
> What you're receiving is a bunch of Minimum Viable Job Applications. It's a rational strategy that maximises coverage and minimises disappointment.

The former is certainly true; the latter, probably not.

I'd simplify to: "It's a rational strategy that maximises coverage."
This is also an awesome website (genuinely quite cool imo). http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
I wrote a hacker koan
(for those who don't know what hacker koans are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan )

A hacker was working at a large company where he had just been hired.
One morning, the project manager asked him:

“I want to see what you’re doing. Send me email reports of everything you do.”

Eager to please, the apprentice set up a script to email his boss on every git commit he would do.

This worked fantastically the first week, and the apprentice was delighted to have pleased his boss.
On the first day of the second week, the apprentice was figuring out a nasty bug, when the manager erupted in his office:

“I haven’t seen a single commit from you this morning, what are you doing?!”.

Embarrassed, the apprentice didn’t know what to say.
He turned to his left, where sat a greybeard hacker who had been at the company for decades. Slowly, looking at the angry manager, the wise hacker said:

“I’ve changed a setting on the email server; you’ll now get daily digests.”

At that moment, the apprentice was enlightened.
From the perspective of privacy, Microsoft/Bing anything isn't a meaningful alternative to Google. They have almost the same privacy policy and were far less transparent about adopting it.

See: http://marketingland.com/microsoft-privacy-change-google-att...
Given his reference to downloading apps from the Play store and Amazon store... it sure sounds like he's still using an Android device.
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Okay... more like, Joe can get done in a day what would take Jim a week.. or Joe can do more in a month, than Jim could do in a year. Perhaps the exponent is a bit off.. but more than cumulative output was implied.

A lot of this coming from being able to expect/plan for future enhancements/changes than the one-off output. My own personal reference with this comes from managing several projects with local and overseas teams with varying degrees of experience.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Good handloads are better than anything you can buy. However, I personally don't see extremely experienced shooters buying this rifle. It seem's to be more of a gun for the moderately experienced who want to have a high degree of accuracy with a minimum of practice. Maybe the assumption is that these buyers do not have the precision to create a repeatable handload? However, I completely agree with you. Did the article mention that handloads are not allowed? I can't imagine handloads not being made for this rifle.

The computerized gizmo does not offer any improvement over a highly experienced human calculator/shooter. What I see is a computerized gizmo that greatly simplifies the act of a 1000yd shot, not something to help out military trained snipers. They don't need it. A rich, casual hunter needs it.
Forgot to add some recent coverage: http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2013/in...
New York City clearly uses a similar system if you've spent any time in Manhattan at all.

North of 14th Street the city is almost entirely on a grid (Broadway runs diagonal and there are a couple of other exceptions). This has, at least from my observations, had three distinct advantages:

1. Building subways has been relatively easy (a lot were built by digging long straight tunnels and building the avenue over them);

2. Almost all streets are one-way, which greatly simplifies lights. A lot of cities have gone away from one-way streets because it "confuses" drivers despite it being clearly better; and

3. The lights are synchronized.

Now not all city's have NYC's regularity but the Manhattan grid has to go down as one of the greatest forethoughts in urban planning ever (IMHO).

Anyway, it's interesting to see this work so well in cities that are less regular.
Good luck. You're swimming against a tide of people minted from education with the mindset of deflation bad, inflation good.

Of course, everyone likes deflation when it means they can buy more for less. Of course, if prices of things get so low that people start to purchase, then deflation will eventually reverse, unless you assume that deflation will continue forever until prices reach zero and everything is free. Of course, everyone force-fed a diet of Keynes assumes that hoarding relates to stuffing mattresses full of money instead of holding cash in banks, where the bank can lend the money out and still invest. They uncritically swallow the line that a central bank inflating at will is the best thing for an economy.

Inflation/deflation are just two phenomena with different winners and losers, the same as high/low currency values. Deflation favors lenders and savers, and inflation favors borrowers and spenders.

The inflationists always assume that the borrow/spend nexus is far more important than the lend/save. But of course saving drives all investment, so a period of deflation isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact we see deflation in specific markets like housing which helps to clear out the bad decisions and mistakes and set the base for future expansion.

Once you clear your head of the foolish 'borrow and spend' mantra of the last 80 or so years, and realise that investment and production are more important than spending and consuming, it becomes obvious that a bit of mild deflation isn't necessarily the hobgoblin it is made out to be.

The simple fact is that no economy and social order has ever imploded due to deflation, but inflation has some pretty terrible economic and social effects when it gets out of control. Deflation, like any long position, can only ever go down to zero. Inflation, however, is like any short position and can go to infinity.
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I meant it when I said "minimises disappointment".

Being rejected is unpleasant in any context; one way to minimise the unpleasantness is to downplay the value of any one interaction.

If you make a big effort, the disappointment is magnified. This is why the first and most important advice to folk on dating sites is "message and move on". Otherwise you're going to get bitter, which is even more self-defeating.
That's a pretty ridiculous thing to say.
I'm more curious what the author uses for his self-hosted email. None of the IMAP servers I've seen so far are particularly stellar.
"File Sync puts your files at your fingertips from any computer"

...

"Sorry, we only support Windows and Mac OSX at the moment"

I can't say I'm surprised, but that doesn't stop me from being disappointed.

I know they would probably claim puffery, but it's just as bad as companies peddling 'unlimited' usage, IMO.
This is great - wish the government would go the next step and open up the traffic optimization to the general tech/data community to help. Think of Netflix recommendation challenge, but helping millions of people cut down on their commute.
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>Gold is a piss poor investment

This is a foolish statement no matter what the subject:

>dotcom stocks are a piss-poor investment
>railroads area piss-poor investment
>Apple is a piss-poor investment

All of these are true and false at some point. You can't make blanket statements like that. There are times when Gold as a store of value makes more sense than a central-bank inflated currency. There are times when the opposite is true.

What is certainly true is that Gold is a very good long-term store of value, and the prices of Gold relative to other things, such as a loaf of bread, a barrel of oil, a parcel of land are quite stable over a long period of time.

People often make the mistake of comparing Gold against fiat currencies and decide that Gold may be going up or down in value. What they don't do is look at Gold vs other things, which typically are rising in price just as fast as Gold.

Certainly one thing is for certain, putting your savings into a fiat currency is a very bad long term plan.
Aww, Heroku is like our own little Miss Cleo

"I foresee...mass confusion in your near (like, this week) future..."
I completely agree. If I'm looking for a job seriously, I won't make my first impression saying "call me" it will be an email asking questions about the person posting the information's thesis research...
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Average speed has increased to 30mph? Sure, it sounds like a great system, but wouldn't it be even more helpful to have a few hundred miles of subway/rail? LA seems to be expanding but for city of that size, it should probably have more rail than NYC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Rail_(Los_Angeles_County)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway
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The issue is that they'd need an agreement with these stations. They don't need one with, say, NBC, because NBC is broadcasting their content over the air, and Aereo's arrays of tiny antennas are all receiving them. To do a similar thing for a cable station you'd need one cable subscription per user, which is pretty likely to wreck their business model. Third-tier stations looking for more viewers are more likely to license their stuff cheaply.
> All the positions above a certain grade need a college degree, and often an advanced degree.

And often an advanced degree from a particular set of schools followed by work experience from a particular set of institutions. With the rise of a "professional manager" class, many (most?) companies prefer to recruit their executives not from within, but from places like McKinsey, etc. Now don't get me wrong--these are smart and hard working people. But they're also generally very privileged. Not in a "my daddy is a hedge fund manager" privileged (though often that privileged), but almost always in a "my daddy was upper middle class, so I had all the educational support I ever needed, could afford to do extensive community service instead of working in HS and get into an Ivy league school, never had money distracting me from my grades, etc."

> Unlike the old aristocracies, there's no noblesse oblige; those at the bottom deserve to be there.

Relevant: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/07/chris-hayes-book-he...
There are also a lot fewer banking regulations which allow other companies to try new models with less risk of intervention. (e.g recent crowd funding/SEC issues)