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I think programming is a bit more rewarding in this special case as you can preempt the outcome with unit tests ;)
I do wonder what the source of his seemingly-abundant motivation could be.
I should probably post a "Dear HN 'Who's hiring' posters". And put following content.

With the same token that you say HN is not a CraigsList, when an HN-responder puts an effort in going through their product and writing a personal note inquiring about a possible opportunity at their company, posters should have the courtesy to respond to the responder acknowledging that in-spite of their good/bad profile they can't hire him/her.

I know these two advices are from me to you and you to me. All the remaining folks who have been one-liners will continue to be so.

Btw, I am a graduating student from IIT Delhi, who have applied to many startups that interested me with a personal-note and list of projects I have done with clickable-links. While about 10% of posters responded saying that they did like my profile but can't take it further because of visa, remaining 90% never responded.

While I am not the best engineer, when my detailed & clear personal application doesn't get an acknowledgement reply, I can imagine why responders are just sending one-liners. If posters want to hire, they will hire from one-liners. No point of detailed-personal application.

On a side note, my profile with links to projects is https://gist.github.com/sravfeyn/13534c67812183235a2c/ I am hunting for an engineering position at a start-up with product-innovation.
I went back and read PG's essay on this topic and it answered most of these questions : http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
That money sits... forever? Prices don't respond to money being removed?

Savings would still be invested with a fixed money supply, because investment provides a return whether nominal prices are falling or rising.

Sound investments will account for either inflationary or deflationary trends, just as they do now.
What's the legality (in US) for a Kickstarter model R&D and clinical trials for new drugs?
If the market wants more seeds won't the price increase as a result of the increased demand? If it doesn't want additional seeds, should we create them just to "reduce unemployment"?

It seems like the market will price seeds in a way that incentivizes optimal production.
There are however, extremely cheap lunches, which the savvy will take advantage of. From my personal experience, this is one such case.
> I believe it too, that one person could be 100 times as productive as one other. But what the salaries are saying is that one CEO is more productive than all those 100 people below him put together.

We're not interested in the case where one person is 100x more productive than another because the second person is watching youtube. If the CEO is 100x more productive than the average person working for her, then she is, in fact, more productive than 100 of the people working under her put together. That's exactly what that statement means.

And, anyway, whether or not the CEO is 100x more productive, her output is worth 100x more. How do we know? Because that's what she's being paid.

Is she being paid for her contacts? It doesn't matter, so long as she's steering the company in the right direction. You're implying that "having contacts in the right places" is corruption, but it's not; knowing what to build and who to sell it to is a big part of running a company. CEO's don't spend their time conniving in smoke-filled rooms, they spend it trying to push their company forward.

Rich people don't get that way without providing something people want. Wal-Mart may or may not be lowering the quality of products nationwide, but what they're demonstrably doing is providing goods to people at great prices that let them generate a lot of profit. That's something people want, whether or not you agree with them. The RIAA, on the other hand, is a symptom of the power of the music industry - and the way the music industry got to have so much power, and so much money, is by providing music that people wanted to listen to enough that they paid for it.
It's great that you do that. There are plenty of other companies that do the same, and it's really great when they do. I'm not sure if calling out companies or pointing fingers is the way to go, I'd be great if some employers would perhaps see the other side of issue. A little courtesy goes a long way (of course this also applies to job-seekers).
I think you're right that the "finding a mentor" part could help you out. Everyone who programs hits ceilings at various stages through their careers, and you sound like you're interested enough to want to break through. I find that these breakthroughs usually come to me from either a) getting someone else to show me a way it could be done, or b) learning something from the code of someone a little beyond my skill level. If you've stuck around for that many technologies under your own motivation, perhaps you just need to talk it out with someone just on the other side of your struggles.

You're right; there's no sure solution, but having comrades and leaders in learning usually doesn't hurt. Best of luck!
That's interesting because modafinil supposedly has mild antidepressant effects.
On the other hand, look at the history of Apple. It had multiple CEOs, and was nearly bankrupt until Jobs took it over, and built it into the biggest company (by market cap) in the world.

This was clearly due to Jobs' decisions, which were enormously productive in that they produced hundreds of billions of dollars worth of wealth.
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As opposed to vitriolic opinions?
Don't forget Space Invaders (1978). The four note background drone speeds up a little bit with each alien you kill (along with the aliens themselves, of course).
I am in the NY office but maybe I hang out in the wrong circles. I have heard nothing but admiration so far. I read a lot of FUD online (like this thread) but my real life experience has been very different. I do have some friends in startups and haven't seen that kind of attitude either.

Whay exactly do they say ? just curious.
There are lots of them. Dev Bootcamp and App Academy come to mind, but google and you'll find plenty of options.
As somebody who has pondered this problem over a while. You can give different names to this problem. You could also look at this from a Karma perspective.

You could also question this in very different ways.

I've tried to study this problem in many ways. To an extent I can tell you karma works in very mysterious ways, its slow and there are simply too many factors which are often unknown to us to make a judgement on why a person does or doesn't deserve X in life.

Let me explain with an example. Somebody you know didn't study well in college, he is also not known to be very brilliant either. You are a super genius and you get into Google, he attempts every job interview and fails. But finally makes it to a start up as a very low level employee doing some menial job. You both go on to live life as usual. You assume his career his over. Now something strange happens, in the start up the guy is pushed, is put under tough demanding deadlines. Now the guy who wasn't good with books and exams suddenly discovers despite all that. He has something in himself to 'get things done'. The start up becomes a hit, he climbs the ladder pretty quickly ends up making a lot of money.

You might ponder how this idiot got so successful, though he wasn't good with books and exams. How come he made it that big without knowing even 10% of what you know?

Karma/meritocracy works in its own ways. You don't know how hard the other guy is working, you don't what is valuable to the world or why it is valuable, you don't know how much taking a risk pays off when done properly, you don't know many million things about the other guy to come to any logical conclusion. There are simply too many unknowns to ask 'If it is fair'?

The world is actually fair, in its own way. You simply don't have enough data to decide if the world was fair to somebody or not. Or many times you are jealous or biased or whatever.

Ultimately karma works. It actually does.
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It's interesting that tolerance is always mentioned when modafinil is brought up, because no research studies have found any evidence of the reported tolerance, and users of said drug have no incentive to hurt the modafinils image.

I wonder if repeated use simply makes the user feel that the changes are normal, when in effect, they are in a high functioning state.
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Yup. It's amazing how a small interruption (or even closing a single lane) in a crossing can snowball into huge traffic jams.
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That strategy requires that you have brass eggs.
"And, anyway, whether or not the CEO is 100x more productive, her output is worth 100x more. How do we know? Because that's what she's being paid."

That is classic circular logic. According to this, it is impossible for any CEO to be overpaid.
I was curious if you saved any metrics regarding how often a particular location (pixel) is clear or cloudy?

We didn’t, but it would be pretty easy to re-derive. The cloudiest places at this scale are the sides of mountains in the Intertropical Convergence Zone[0], where wet air rises several thousand meters, thus cooling and thus condensing. For example, tomorrow I’ll be spending a lot of time looking at Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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How would one distinguish the karma hypothesis from mean reversion?
That's my main gripe. I find it hard to believe that the time it takes to send an acknowledgement or rejection compared to the time it takes to read a cover letter/resume and decide on the candidate is that big of an issue. Really, just hit reply and say "Sorry, but we're looking for someone with more experience". Took me 5 seconds to write that.

As for job platforms, they usually give an automated receipt. Dismissal rarely. I still have applications with the status "new", from November.
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You are joking right?

But if you are serious, error is here: But I discover that prices have dropped by 4%

You do not simply drop prices, like that. Why did prices drop? (Price) deflation is just a descriptive name not a moving cause. (Price) deflation is not a knob which someone simple turns up and down.

Now depending on why exactly the prices did drop, and by how much you may be either in or out of luck.
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Stuff like this is just weird:

What Raymond and O’Reilly failed to grasp, or decided to overlook, is that their effort to present open source as non-ideological was underpinned by a powerful ideology of its own—an ideology that worshiped innovation and efficiency at the expense of everything else.

I wonder if this makes more sense if you've never used or written free and/or open source software.
> And, anyway, whether or not the CEO is 100x more productive, her output is worth 100x more. How do we know? Because that's what she's being paid.

He's only 100x more if you measure productivity entirely in money.

I'm not implying corruption, I'm saying it's separate from productivity.
I use modafinil regularly. I have (had?) some variant of ADD, and while it does not trouble me as much as it did when I was younger, it can still be frustrating, mostly if I am trying to focus on work I don't particularly enjoy.

I use it between a few times a week and a few times a month (my desire to take it at all fluctuates quite a bit). I'll take 10-25mg in the morning and get on with my day. I generally don't really notice it, but looking back in the evening, realize I was a bit more productive.

For me, it's less euphoric than coffee. I'll feel happy and energized after a cup of coffee, but after taking modafinil, just a bit more alert.

What it does seem to do is raise overall energy levels during the day, and increases short term memory (useful for programming).

I think many news stories about it, like this one, blow it vastly out of proportion. Cumulatively, it could make the difference that pushes your work to the next level, but sleep and exercise are a way bigger factor. Still, I am very happy to have it.

For those worried about giving money to big pharma, buy it online from one of the many sites that import from India.
"And, anyway, whether or not the CEO is 100x more productive, her output is worth 100x more. How do we know? Because that's what she's being paid."

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You're not underpaid, but you could be making A LOT more money. A lot of the suggestions seem to be learning how to do backend development or other skills. You could become a badass full stack developer, hone your skills and then apply for other positions. But why wait?

Talented developers are known for being able to pick up any skill they can on the fly. So you're not really at an advantage spending months or years becoming really good.

The problem is many developers aren't good at marketing themselves. You don't really need to be an expert at something like MongoDB, Backbone or any other technology to get paid more. You just need to clearly explain that it will be no problem picking them up because you've worked with dozens of other no-sql data stores or javascript frameworks.

You want to demonstrate the business value that you can provide to them -- like hiring you will finally allow them to work on that feature that will increase sales by 20%. If you can convince an employer of that, they'll pay you lots of money. An extra 15-30K salary is nothing for companies at that stage.
Your argument begs the question many are raising on this thread. What is stopping anyone from creating content and giving it away? Nothing. It turns out that the existing copyright laws are integral to the process of getting the huge resources together to create high quality content.

Content is not like air, and arguably limiting access to content through "artificial" means harms no one as these methods do not preclude the distribution of other content.

On the other hand, if there is a worry of harm to the public of having an under supply of sufficiently awesome content, property rights are an established method of ensuring this production.
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> so there's a real emphasis on only hiring perfect "A"s

Most companies want those perfect "A"s. However, not all projects require perfect "A"s. In the startup world we like to pretend like our projects are technically demanding and require the best people.

That's not necessarily so. Your project may be the hottest thing since sliced bread, but it may actually be boring from a technical perspective, in which case I would personally trade the qualities of a an A for good hard-working B+ programmers.

Hiring bad apples can happen of course. However this can happen at all levels, regardless of background. Many superstars of our field achieved that status because they know how to market themselves. I've seen people really good at marketing, you know, walking the walk and talking the talk, with stellar resumes, but otherwise lazy and of dubious skill.
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You aren't paid according to your productivity. I don't know who came up with that idea.

You're paid according to how difficult you are to replace.
I've hired developers whose middle-of-the-road CVs I otherwise would have ignored, thanks to their cover letters.

A line as simple as "I like the sound of product X and think my skill in Y could be useful." makes you stand out way more than you might think.
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The rich Indians will go abroad for treatment. The poor Indians can't afford the drug anyway. The middle class will be squeezed, but they will manage through relatives, friends etc.

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I have plenty of issues with Rothbard... but, a fascist? His capitalism is a very different capitalism than what most of us would associate with the word capitalism. Even your quote of requiring police to be liable for their faults isn't something that any police force in the United States is subject to.

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Well if this isn't a somewhat glowing endorsement of a pill that is being abused, I don't know what is. As someone who is close friends with someone suffering from narcolepsy who actually needs this pill to function normally, I find it worrying people are abusing a pill that can have some serious side-effects.

Good job publicly endorsing a pharmaceutical drug NY Mag. I have a feeling as word spreads, the abuse will make it harder for legitimate suffers of narcolepsy (and other cases treated by Modafinil) to get access to the pills.
Just me being cynical, but this fact is what is wrong with the entire world. Everyone wants to make things as cheap as possible, and then sell them as expensive as possible.

Every single thing in our lives is driven by this dynamic and it is a cancer.

What is the way out of this that keeps people happy and doesn't destroy us?
You're doing it wrong. I just want a quick note explaining briefly who you are and why you're applying. It shouldn't take more than five minutes.

Seriously, try hiring someone, the influx of irrelevant applicants and those who won't take even thirty seconds to read your ad is truly dispiriting. If you make even the tiniest effort with your application, you will stand out, guaranteed.
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Nor do I buy 54, the idea that rich people create more wealth for society from by-products, like Henry Ford gifting us with the automobile. I don't think it's correlated.

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That is very odd. I have never heard of somebody having euphoria from Modafinil in any of the medical literature or on any of the nootropic/drug forums.

http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil list off 10 different citations for the line "But what does medicine say? It seems to report no euphoria, tolerance, or withdrawal/dependency."
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> Ultimately karma works. It actually does.

What is that, your opinion? What is that based on? Does it apply to the kid who got caught selling pot for the third time, because he didn't know what else to do with his life, because he grew up in a place and a family where no one gave him any other choices, and is now spending the rest of it in prison?

Here's my opinion: Karma works sometimes. And other times people are crushed by the ugliness in this world.
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This is bad statistics. You're cherry-picking the state schools to consider (plus what Evbn said). The S&P 500 has ~500 CEOs, so some random deviation is to be expected.

(This is purely a methodological comment; I haven't looked at any data either way. I agree, at least, that going to a state school should not mean that your life is over.)
> Everyone, just admit that the CEO's are paid for having contacts in the right places.

I haven't been able to fully shake the idea that our modern notions of wealth, money and currency are built on a type of social proof pyramid. But I can't quite articulate why. What do you think?
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