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Ask HN: How come hardware engineer's salary is declining?
As a software engineer hardware always looked hardware. And for years the salaries of HW engIneers was higher. Now it seems that not only is HWE salaries are declining but also that SWEearn more. Is there a smart explanation for that?
I have talked to support, and yes they tend to be quite crappy. I only know two companies doing it right. They're usually the underdogs on the market, providing the same service as their bigger competitors only much better and with better support. Xs4all is an ISP in the Netherlands, not one of the biggest but definitely one of the best. Spotify advertised so much that they worked Grooveshark out of the market, but Grooveshark's support is sublime and they're also cheaper than Spotify.

Most companies have "almost acceptable" support. You can talk to someone, they talk back, and most of the time (not always) they can solve your problem within 40 minutes of waiting on the phone and forwarding you to 6 others.

Then there are companies like Google and Microsoft. They deliver products, not support. Having trouble with Windows? Try talking to whoever delivered your pc. Not those who made the product and know everything about it, instead you talk to the person who sold you the system. That's like asking a 17-year-old working in a supermarket about why the doctor prescribed a product of theirs. Smart move by the doctor though, he makes way more money when you come in than when he explains his prescription to you on the phone.
Whilst reading Getting To Yes, I kept thinking, "I don't see how this is going to get me a cheaper car", but it did take a while to sink in. I would say it's probably been more valuable in changing how I speak to people rather than directly giving me skills to knock a price down. However, when you define "negotiating" to include eliciting s/w requirements, speaking with managers/colleagues, defining personal relationships, etc. then I would say it's an invaluable read.

I will try Bargaining For Advantage mentioned elsewhere as well.
Hiding something in plain sight, like alcohol bottle from liquor store, your head, etc...
"I don't know where people get this idea."

They get the idea that you didn't confront your manager about your real number because:

1) You've repeatedly told us that you don't know what your real number is.

2) Googler123 has made the declarative statement that your manager could have easily shown you the real number in the internal perf tool.

3) You haven't contradicted Googler123 that it's not true.

4) You haven't told us, "I confronted my manager about showing me my real number in the internal perf tool."

From that, we're quite correct in concluding you didn't confront your manager about showing you your real number in the internal perf tool.

I'm sorry you had a lousy manager.

If there's something wrong with your manager, you're supposed to go to HR and you're supposed to go to your boss^2. In any company. It actually sounds like that's what you did, so why are you telling us all that the outcome is guaranteed to be "fired" or "similarly fucked", "In any company." ???

No, in the company I want to work at, if I have a lousy manager, I'm going to talk to HR and my boss^2. That's what I expect from myself, and that's what I expect from you. It even sounds like you did it - so why are you telling us not to?

Google is a company made up of people. Some of them have even bothered to respond to you in this thread. And yet, you're telling them NOT to do what people SHOULD do.

How exactly is ANY company supposed to get better over time, if the employees aren't brave and do what's right, even if it might have consequences for them?

Or should they just quit, and then take every opportunity to smear the company on websites?
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As the former CTO of that company, I really doubt this. When I was there, the app was built on Django, and I left some pretty competent people behind, so I'm quite sure they wouldn't have made a mistake so rudimentary.

However, I don't know what happened after I left, so there might have been some dubious decisions.
They are Panic.
The connected nature of the internet and mobile devices reduces the cost of disseminating information. It doesn't discriminate about what information is made easier to share. Expecting app stores to play gate keepers sets a dangerous precedent. Imagine if the internet was an AOL app store and Steve Case had the final opinion on everything that would be made available to their users.

You just have to roll with the punches and adjust. It's fine to be appalled at stuff like this, it goes over the top whenever you want someone to have authority to bring a stop to it for you. Adjusting your expectations and dealing with your objections are a better option than giving someone you can't really trust such long lasting power just to temporarily please your ego.

In two days you're going to forget about this app, but then you'll probably have found something else on HN to be outraged about. Maybe it will be the app store gate keeper shutting down an app you liked.
This book was published last month in UK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Yes-Book-Better-Negotiation/dp/0...
Exactly. The OP is mixing things up ... this fusion drive is just a means to convert electric energy to velocity, not a fusion reactor to generate power.
Aha Alpha fail. I don't know honestly.
Start learning web development with PHP, not with HTML
It was a joke, suggesting that getting by on 4 hours of sleep a night can lead to burnout
Men have had the upper hand since the dawn of existence and still have the upper hand in basically every society in the world.
Better question, does being awake 20 as opposed to 16 hours per day result in getting 25% more accomplished?

I tend to put proud claims of little sleep in the same category as those of "working" long hours. We've all met people who are at work for long hours, but whether they are actually working, much less producing is another story.
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Technically, they are not censoring you, they just aren't providing you a free podium.
Tried signing up for it with a fake Facebook account with gender set to female, and it did not work. I still think this is really effed up - but honestly was genuinely curious to see what is on this thing! Kind of to see what girls I know that would even use this.
I, on the other hand, think that the ST behavior is ideal and Notepad++ is full of unneeded dialog boxes.

My favorite example is to use Zen Coding in both.
you've never had one of those headaches you get on the third day of not getting a cup.
There are a couple of schools around the world targeted at men, or women...

One very interesting thing, is that schools targeted at women are seem as "traditional" and "bastions" or "empowering", specially if they are ancient and do have good education...

Men schools, once regarded in the same way, are now being attacked, one of the best schools in the US for example is being sued for not taking female students, and a common tag attached to them is "Backwards" or "medieval" or "inquisitors"

If this was a US-only phenomenon, at least I would feel less troubled, except even in Brazil we had a crazy problem...

During the government ranking of high schools (that is made with a test that all high schools students in the country must take if they wish to join university), the first place was a boys-only school.

This is a problem, because it drew attention to them, now there are all sorts of discrimination lawsuits from parents of girls, and the media is bellowing how "less worse" they are, because they accept female teachers, and that when they did not accepted them they were evil, and now that they do they are less evil, but that this would be only a truly good school when they start accepting girls and change some of their authoritarian ways and become more tolerating and egalitarian.

Or some issue with bars... Female only bars in Brazil are allowed and seen as a female fun thing. Male only bars get the cops quickly called on them for refusing entry of costumer based on gender. (Female-only are illegal too, but cops ignore it).

Or one even crazier, it is common to employers to want to hire one gender or other (for example they might want a woman to be the maintenance person of the women's bathroom), yet although signs of "hiring female x" don't attract problems, if you put a sign like "hiring male bathroom cleaner" you get quickly sued for hiring discrimination (that is illegal).

I even had a business owner once complain that a woman sued him (and almost won... a judge chance that allowed he win the case) for not hiring her as attendant in a store for male intimate clothing... The first judge saw it purely in the light of law: you cannot discriminate, period. the second judge had more common sense on his head and imaginated that it would bring even more legal problems to have a woman hanging around men that might want to become naked (or almost naked depending on store policy regarding trying intimate clothes) to choose his new clothes...
Thanks for that link! Very good info on there about the mission parameters and the actual science behind getting to Mars using this propulsion technology. After reading Red Mars (thanks to whomever recommended that book in a previous HN post) I'm stoked that we are THIS close to getting a mission to Mars. If someone like Elon Musk (you knew someone was going to mention him) could fund this...he has the rockets to get to the space station, he could build the ship to get to Mars from there...
What is that? It wants a Facebook.
>Men have been getting the good end of sexual discrimination for centuries. Owning property. Voting. Higher education. Being allowed to practice a profession. Being favored by marriage laws. Being favored by social biases.

Yes, so let's reverse it, and get a female-biased revenge ...on people that weren't even alive back at those times.

Why not also sell white people as slaves?
It was a joke BTW ;)
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My understanding is that diatomaceous earth [1] works in a similar way.

YAA: After a business trip, my dogs and I started having early symptoms of bedbugs. I tried spraying rubbing alcohol in key spots, with no apparent bug elimination. Then I dusted my bedding, living room furniture, and floors with diatomaceous earth (leaving everything very, very dusty). We got bites for a few more days, and then, no more bits. Since I never caught one of the bugs, I can't say with certainty that it was bedbugs. But I can say with certainty that diatomaceous earth exterminated whatever it was I picked up from that nasty hotel room.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth#Pest_contro...
I love the disclaimer at the bottom:

"Information set forth in this press release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results might differ materially. "
Facebook and Google have to do a lot of penetration tests to keep their security in tip-top shape, sure, they have a much larger attack vector in terms of code but my point is there:

Where there is public facing code, there is vulnerability.

Regardless of if you are built on Django, CodeIgniter, Rails or super-secret-obfuscated-language-mark-two, no application is bullet proof and it would be trivial for any highly skilled security tester to interface this way with your database.
Well, honestly, I didn't start noticing my privilege until I was a fair bit older than 20. It's a normal cognitive bias. Nobody wakes up in the the morning saying, "Thank goodness I have legs," as they jump out of bed. We just accept the positives life hands us as normal. What we notice are the negatives.

Racial privilege was the one I noticed first. And that was mainly because I lived in places where as a foreigner I was outside the normal framework. That made it much easier to see race and class dynamics at work. It was only after that I could start seeing gender dynamics more clearly. But they're still hard, because you can't try be an outsider to that in the same way.

I agree that we should be working toward parity. I just don't think we're there yet.
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Do you mean 'taboo', as in something that's considered off-limits due to cultural sensitivities? (Wondering out loud if the etymology is similar to voodoo and related suspicious stuff)
This is an aside, but does anyone know if there's a way to get Google Apps but keep using your gmail address? I'd be happy to pay the Google Apps subscription rate, but I don't want to go through the pain of switching my email address to a new custom domain. I'm guessing that you can set up a forwarding rule from the gmail account to the new one, and then use the Send As feature in the new account, but that seems pretty kludgy. Is there a better way?
I'm not sure it's fair to call this benchmark unfair.. LMDB enables use cases that simply aren't possible with non-zero-copy technologies. For example imagine a database full of large objects, and an HTTP/1.0 server that supports an API returning offsets from within these objects.

In a situation like this it is possible (and efficient) to say, store 500mb-sized files in LMDB and have the first and only copy of file content be done by the kernel as it faults and copies relevant portions of file data directly into a skbuff (e.g. by passing (value_pointer + offset) directly to write(), etc.).

Another use case is streamy decompression. Why read or fault an entire value into memory if the reading client disconnects after consuming only the first kilobyte?

In any database where copying the entire record value occurs first, designs like the above simply aren't feasible.
Don't forget going to battle and lots and lots of dying.
Funny analogy. I guess many would even say it's really true ;)
> How on earth could this app get funding?

You sound like you expect investors to somehow be more guided by ethics than other people. Ever consider that it might be the other way around?
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I had a similar issue - I couldn't recover my email after it was compromised (on a side note - a log in from South Korea, Burma and US spanning an hour seems like a candidate for suspicious activity?) I couldn't use the recovery email or provide proof of ownership which complied with whatever algorithm had been implemented - was basically rendered helpless even though I could provide other details such as exactly when I had set up the email and other personal details. Incredibly frustrating and fair enough it is a free service but I would've happily paid for some "support" and saved a lot of trouble. Instead it has caused me to migrate as much away from G as possible and rethink any dependencies.
Nonsense. The tribe of intelligent, hairless, miniature purple cats that you will come to associate closely with after several weeks with minimal sleep will help you get by.
Yes, most of us use git.
I don't have Facebook account myself, but it's related to Lulu app and onlulu (according to the faq). Apparently, guys can see what girls say about them.
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I can't wait to see this buried beneath older stories with fewer points and comments, the way every story on sexism gets buried here.

Oh wait this is about how awful women are to men. Never mind.
Didn't get enough sleep in the night, so the joke escaped me :-)
Resisting marshmallows is hard. Adopting TDD, too.
>Men have been getting the good end of sexual discrimination for centuries.

Not really. Men have had more freedom but less security. Just because you personally like your gender role (as it seems), that doesn't mean other men agree (or agreed in the past). Sure, men were allowed to be employees and women cared for the children at home (though reality was actually a lot more complex than that, but we can accept this caricature for now), but men had to work or they wouldn't find a women to marry. Women didn't have to work, as they could be supported by their husband. Work was pretty gruesome in the past, even if homework was also harder in the past.

Of course, there's little proper scientific research on this subject, as "women's studies" start from their assumption that women had and have everything worse without really proving it.

The problem with saying that the men's gender role of more freedom but more responsibility doesn't take into consideration that some people prefer to have less freedom and less responsibility, while some women prefer to have more freedom and more responsibility and some less freedom and less responsibility (or at least prefered in the past).

>Having received a substantial boost just for being born with a dick, I'm ok with manning up.

Even if we assume that men had better starting position in the past, that doesn't apply anymore. Young women are outearning and have more success in education.

True equality can only be reached through the abolition of gender roles for both men and women, not assuming that men need to "man up" and therefore saying that gender inequality is somehow positive and should exist.

You also made the claim about "imbalance". There's no imbalance in favor of women in Western countries. Men have just as much gender equality problems as women, but even speculating this is politically incorrect. Here's a study o the subject: http://granum.uta.fi/granum/kirjanTiedot.php?tuote_id=18450
Patent problems are no secret around here, but I'll reiterate one of the key points: Patents deal with possession of technology, not the implementation. In other words, if I violate someone else's patent in a product, and you buy it, you have become liable for the violation.

Now, with that said, you cannot possess GM seed without the necessary license agreements with Monsanto due to the above. Theoretically farmers, who have acquired the necessary licenses, could grow second generation seed, except those license terms provide additional clauses around the use of the second generation seed. You can disagree to those clauses, but then you will not be granted access to the patent rights.

So, the issue is that you cannot buy GM seeds in the first place without entering into a legal agreement, and that legal agreement dictates how you use future generations. There is no scenario where the second generation can be logically free of IP rights, because if you disagree, you cannot reach the point of growing a second generation.

Of course the real issue here is that the patent system needs to be fixed, and not just for seed and software.
No, protocol relative URLS work fine in IE6. (The article you linked to doesn't say they don't)
You're doing it wrong. If you want to Godwin a thread, you actually have to mention Hitler or the Holocaust. Just making ridiculously over-the-top historical analogies isn't enough.
Chinese Media Take Aim at Microsoft
I was honestly just trying to help. I tested the only way I know how, via my own Gmail account.
But then those people will talk to their friends, and so on. And, contrary to what you might think, there's plenty of highly educated women who are sufficiently steeped in feminism (due to the process of acquiring that higher education) to see this as perfectly fair payback for patriarchy's many evils, and to use it without regret. So you end up targeting a thin sliver of possible women: not too superficial, but not too educated, and with no friends in either of those categories. Good luck with your dating.
Sounds like our experience. One email address wasn't working, out of 25, and all they had for support was a troubleshooting page. After wasting an hour contacting Google, we got an automated reply that some accounts were being affected, and then about 2 days later the problem magically went away.
I don't see how it would prevent a man to create the fake account of a woman and post advantageous stuff about him (like the mentioned "big feet").
Who cares? Would you want to date a girl who uses a gossip app anyway? No. Hell no.

If this helps steer the superficial airheads in another direction, I'd only have one thing to say to Chong: "Thanks!" Saves us the trouble of finding out the hard way, at least.
Technology changes the scale, though. Gossiping with your friend about your ex is different from sharing your opinion of said ex with thousands of people.
The scales still have a way to go. Sure, it's sometimes more acceptable to make sweeping negative generalities about men than women, because we're more tuned in to misogyny than misandry, but the reality remains that women still have serious issues to contend with, including by not limited to:
- lack of representation in media (look up the Bechdel test)
- street harassment
- pay discrepancies
- discrimination in hiring processes, etc

And even calling women "sweet" isn't always appreciated. See http://rookiemag.com/2013/04/no-more-nice-girls/
The once a minute firing of the engines feels like it'd be a very unpleasant sensation - I wonder what the momentary acceleration experienced would be.

Also - this craft sounds perfectly suited for laser-transmitted power (rather than carrying a large solar array) - have one or more earth-orbiting lasers beaming energy to the craft. Though I'm not sure if we have the technology today to aim & focus a laser at that range (?)
You are completely missing a point of this. It is a propulsion system, not a power generating one. Chemical rocket engine doesn't generate any electrical power either.
Main factors in propulsion is specific impulse and reaction mass and this idea promises a huge impulse - basically once in orbit, it could ferry between Earth and anywhere-where-solar-power-is-sufficient because it doesn't need tonnes of fuel, only relatively small load of pellets would get the job done.
Of course there is the issue of getting it and it's payload into orbit, but I'd say Skylon will take care of that
For those that don't know, Composer is PHP's darling of a dependency manager.

I've completely stopped using PEAR and managing outside dependencies by hand - Composer has completely changed how many developers and projects work, and is one of the biggest reasons for people adopting the PSR-0 standard.
No. that's not the point.

Besides, you can download your subscribers from Google Groups.
> trivial for any highly skilled security tester to interface this way with your database.

It's not if you're not doing dumb stuff.
Where are all the feminists now?

This is the perfect example of double-standards implied by women. Imagine an alternative scenario where men could rate their female counterparts on the basis of their 'assets' as defined by some vague methodology. Imagine how much fire under men would be, with ALL men being broadly labelled as sexists because this app was targeted at men.

I am seriously asking - Where are all the feminists now? And their blind-folded feminism?? Especially the ones who know this app..
Isn't this just a direct rip-off of the original?

http://xkcd.com/1110/

Here's the original HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4542367 - also linked from there are several sites showing the entire layout, etc.
Oh wow, I'd always found myself wanting collapsable comments, this is nice.

Only thing is now for some reason chrome isn't displaying urls at the bottom of the page when I hover over links?
I have to agree with this. while I'm not always happy with the outcome of the support exchange (i.e. "it is how it is, we cannot raise the attachment size limit even for paying customers") the support staff was always prompt, technical versatile and friendly. once they even called me back after a day or two to verify I'm happy. and this was just for a 4-user google apps account.