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Thank you for the suggestions on frameworks. I will definitely start learning the ones you suggested. As far as the open-source technologies go, should I look into learning them as an enterprise developer or are there commercial technologies I should focus on? Or are those also frameworks that would supplement your original suggestions.

I have begun learning a new language (Python, Ruby, and Javascript have been my main focuses, as well as dabbing in PHP in case I needed to know it for web development)

Again, thank you for your suggestions. This list of technologies has given me a great point at which to begin.
Anyone who has ever set up a Cisco router to do anything even slightly complex should be able to pick up Mikrotik in a snap. The windows based GUI configuration tool (winbox) is simply incredible. (Runs fine in wine on OSX as well)
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I guess I wasn't really focusing on the wealth as it seems to me to be only mentioned in an effort to get people's attention. I think both stories are fascinating.
While driving? I doubt it. Just like reading a newspaper, doing your nails or any other activity that distracts you from the road isn't allowed.
Does reddit have killfiles?
I've been waiting for Django and PyPy, personally, and they're both comming along at a satisfactory pace, in my opinion.
If you read his reply more carefully, you would have realised he's talking about the move to Python 3.x

There aren't any libraries I know of that work in 2.7 but not 2.7.x
In a strange way, I miss the Cold War.
It really is a hard concept to grasp. It's one thing to have grand plans for a business. It's another thing entirely to be able to communicate those plans effectively to all of the people who will be needed to make sure the plan is properly executed. People who can do this successfully deserve everything they are given in my opinion.
Article says that Goole gets 32% of that $7 billion, which is not out of line with JPM's profits on its revenue. Yeah, Google has a lot more growth potential, but on the flip side, I'd imagine Mohan isn't in the line of fire as much as the CEO of a Wall Street bank...

Point is that he's not clearly getting low-balled at that number.
Yeah, I'm sure there's a vesting schedule. Golden handcuffs and all.
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Some equipment (e.g.: Bluetooth-enabled electronics) literally advertises its presence even when concealed. I've heard stories of thieves canvassing car parks in up-market areas with Bluetooth detectors and swiping Apple devices in particular.
I think there should be two different visa categories.

1. Those who are employed in their respective country for an outsourcing company and are applying for H1B.
2. Separate category for US based companies hiring global talent.
3. Separate caps for small companies.

What is wrong with lottery system.

My wife worked with an Indian outsourcing giant. She worked on a project by an American client. When they wanted to send someone to US on B1 visa they put 10 of their employees in the pipeline. Idea was if anyone's visa gets rejected the next person will try for it. They also divided these 10 people in 4 buckets and each bucket applied with a separate embassy in India.

I suspect with H1B lottery such large companies will also try to make more applications. Bad for everyone.
Thank you so much. Yes this does help significantly.
I am hoping to go into the Enterprise Applications (though of course I am not going to limit myself) so I thank you for pointing those out to me. I'm not sure I know what JSF is but I will definitely look into it. Thank you for being able to separate the technologies into Jobs. This will help significantly. And the pointers for the Java interviews is immensely helpful. Thank you.
It is adorable that the poster feels like unemployed developers line the streets of New York, Boston and other non-sf tech hubs. That's really what I love most about being in NYC - it's so easy to hire developers.

Come on. We get that SF is rightly proud of its startup culture. It was the first and still the biggest. But really. There are other places too with their own very distinct advantages over SF for whole swathes of startups. Lets finally get past this SF is the best mentality and just remember that it is hard enough running a startup - let's help each other succeed wherever we are.
The important consideration are the alternatives. He may easily create that much value but are there other people (substitutes) that could create as much or nearly as much for far less than 100M?
As it happens, I've been working for longer than a month, and yet somehow even this additional time hasn't led me to the fall-into-a-higher-paying-job-elsewhere position described. I wasn't asking for reasons not to try to improve my position, I was pointing out that the ease attributed to doing it is, so far as I can tell, entirely specious.
... with US government funding.

http://cryptome.org/2012/07/tor-exits-usg-funds.htm
I think the compensation is the most amazing part. There are so many competent people out there generating many multiples of value for their employers that it's surprising he's not getting screwed like the rest. That is, that Google recognizes and compensates him for his competence is the "man bites dog" aspect of this story.
> Confronting a thief in person is pretty dangerous (if the police weren't there); there's a non-zero chance of a fight, possibly involving a knife or gun.

one of those moments I'm glad I don't live in the US. a thief with a gun? that reminds me when I recently was showing part of my city to an American couchsurfer, we took him for a walk around a lower class neighborhood to show him something other than common tourist attractions, and when we were passing by some average young scamps around liquor stores, he asked if they are armed. I laughed.
And in it doesn't work out, change your name and carry on - Black water.
There is no such claim in my comment.
We have a similar campaign where I work. I think the suggestion was instigated more by an "incentive" from our health insurance company than any strong desire by my employer.
Shouldn't the final template have a {{code}} after embed/ in the src attribute?
Fantastic stuff! Are there any more equally amazing or better examples of this?
You mean the vintage mode that comes with ST?

Because I didn't see anything being announced regarding vintage mode. Some guys forked the ST vintage package but that's 3rd party.
I haven't heard of Maven. I will have to look into it. Thanks.
As for following "great Java projects on GitHub" How would you suggest I go about finding the projects. What I find great could be considered mediocre at best, especially since I only really have my own code to base it off of. I would like to start following projects on GitHub but I don't want to be influenced by the wrong projects. So if you have any suggestions on finding good projects, that would be great.
Thank you very much for your help.
Couldn't you automate the effect by rapidly switching between the two images? I guess that would basically be traditional 3D.

JS would probably be too slow.
By "silent majority" do you mean "inactive and/or passive majority"? Stories don't make it to the front page by comments, AFAIK.

If there's a hidden majority of HN users who would like to see a given story promoted, then they should exercise the up-vote button.

edit : also, frankly, the Nigerian scam reference was not constructive.
I once started work on https://github.com/Julian/PyVi which was meant to be this, but other things caught my interest so I abandoned it for a bit. Every once in a while I do a bit more work on it though.

It's a decent idea. I'm sure there might be something else that's further along than I got.
Wow that brings me back. I remember my first ping when I had my ppp connection to the internet after using BBS for years.

I actually had dealings with SoftQuad (the last interview) back then.

It's amazing how things change and how we just accept new stuff and take it for granted!
Agreed on the link-bait factor. Though the perfect timing of these two stories got me think why so many great programmers go indie: if you are great at building stuff, try to be next Persson, or if you have great vision, PG will be your model. Otherwise, you're screwed.
Part of the problem with 2.4 GHz in big buildings is that it passes relatively well through building materials, so that in a large building you get a lot of noise from equipment owned by other residents.

Someone measured the difference in transmissivity for different materials at 2 and 5 GHz (http://www.ko4bb.com/Manuals/05)_GPS_Timing/E10589_Propagati...) - the difference is quite large for brick and cinder block; unfortunately, they didn't measure insulation foil, which I expect would be quite a good RF shield, especially if earthed.

So if everyone switched to 5 GHz, the interference situation might still be better than if everyone was on 2.4 GHz.

Of course, being an early adopter of 5GHz probably helps with the other problem in apartment buildings, the 'prisoners dilemma' type problem where everyone who knows how ups their transmit power because of the noise, making the problem worse for everyone else but temporarily better for them, when if everyone lowered their power, everyone would get better speeds (exactly analogous to how everyone ends up shouting when having a conversation with the person next to them at a party, when if everyone talked quietly instead communication would be more successful).
The code on Wiki doesnt seem to have the same comments.
They are all media companies at core, who push all kind of idiocy on the Internet, from DRM to SOPA-like stuff and who support all kind of censorship. At least Verizon is just a communications company, even though their service isn't the best.
This is pretty great. My only gripe so far is the auto-rotating between name / photo. Some people don't actually use photos of themselves so I'd much rather see the name.
As a dog lover, their descriptions of the animal subjects studies they did made me cringe.

>During their exposure, they were unconscious and paralyzed. Gas expelled from their bowels and stomachs caused simultaneous defecation, projectile vomiting and urination. They suffered massive seizures. Their tongues were often coated in ice and the dogs swelled to resemble "an inflated goatskin bag," the authors wrote.

Horrible. If this knowledge is going to actually directly save human lives, and there's no better way, well OK then, but this is just a terrible, horrible thing to do to a creature like a dog or a chimpanzee.
Do people even remember 1999-2001? Remember "NASDAQ at OVER FIVE THOUSAAAND!"

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-10466637-7.html
Why does this png display differently in Chrome/Firefox than in Safari/IE?
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I started a new Django project at work using Python 3. Fun part is it gives me an excuse to help some of the various Django libs to move to 3 (if the authors are still around to take pull requests :/).
Thank you. These technologies will all be looked at. As far as the two suggested IDE's, I have used both (I use Eclipse for recreational coding and Intellij at work). I will have to look further into the other suggested technologies you listed.
I'm in a very similar position, except I'm a 4th year who just declared a second degree in CS that I'll be finishing by next spring, and I have minimal coding experience. And I have the crazy idea that I can get a job offer in software development before I graduate.
Hmm. I see nothing but the instructions and a white screen on Chromium 25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 and Firefox 20.0 (both running in Ubuntu 12.10 32bit).
Being that there aren't many people with this ability, and that there are absolutely no indicators as to their performance apart from letting them do the job over a prolonged period (as many companies hiring hotshots discovered), and that the position is directly responsible for billions in revenue - I'd say that it's not realistic to expect a drop in replacement.
Have you tried to just show them what your working on and explain it? Show them your doing something productive, and learning in the process and not just screwing around.
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I have do not mean to disrespect any human being sir. (Also, I think I should apologize for using a specific company name in my comment but please read it only as Company X). To be more clear I belong to one such companies which is sending large number of H1B guys to US. When H1B visa is over its the turn of B1 Visa.

H1B visa is for specially skilled people who are in short supply in US. Most of the people including me in reality have no "special" skill that is in short supply in US.

We come here to US and paid enough just to survive + Indian salary.
Thank you for these suggestions. The only one that even looks remotely similar (yes I am still a novice when it comes to other libraries) is GSON, due to my work with JSON at work.
Thank you for the book suggestion. I will be purchasing it when I get the chance.
Here's my current working hypothesis.

The part of the body that learns how to program[1] doesn't speak English. You hear it even in the metaphors programmers use: code smell, this "feels" like a recursive problem, "listen to your code," etc.

That means to learn as quickly as you can you want as many parts of your body involved -- the English-speaking part, your muscles, your eyes, your memories of all the times you've made a stupid mistake only to have it cause you hours of frustration down the road, etc.

[1]: Really, the part of the body that learns anything doesn't speak English. English is just the data exchange format. ;)
Real conversation at at an over-the-top office party:

Me: "This party feels like 1999 all over again."
Partygoer: "Yeah, well, I was 10 then, so I wouldn't know."
Google pays a starting engineer fresh out of college that much salary, and then there is stock and bonus incentive compensation.
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I had the same problem growing up. I would suggest explaining your case to your parents, showing them your plans or your work would definitely bolster your chances of them being on your side and understand.
It is probable that they simply don't know what you do and always assume that you aren't doing something productive, maybe going through the route of getting a teacher on your side and helping you out may be really helpful too.
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I think when you start talking about the financial future of your family, it makes more sense when you're a line employee. But when you're on a salary well into the six figures, it sounds disinegenuous (to me) to say "we're struggling here". By all means go for "hey, I'm in demand and thinking of moving - business is business", but "I'm moving because I'm concerned about my personal finances"?

But then again, I'm not the guy who does salary negotiations...
Please don't tell my parents I'm a programmer.

They think I'm a piano player at a brothel.
Thank you for separating the technologies. I had a feeling Spring and Hibernate would be important to learn but I also wanted to make sure I didn't mess up by learning useless technologies.

The fact that you pointed out SQL was interesting to me as it seems you were one of the only ones that did so. I firmly believe that my work, both in school and at my internship, allowed me to excel in SQL. So, personally, I believe I do have that and the database understanding under control. But I do thank you for pointing those out. I was worried I wouldn't be using those skills again.
Well, the thing has no landing gear, so the inland city better have a lake or something.

The 7500 meter figure, is that with cargo or without? Aircraft can typically do pretty amazing things with an empty cargo hold and a few sips of fuel in the tanks.

Honestly, I'm really having trouble seeing this thing as anything but a Soviet propaganda project with no real economic argument for it.

The thick, warm, rich air at sea level is not exactly the best operating environment for turbojets. And if there really was a benefit to harnessing the ground effect that outweighed the negative effects of low altitude, why not use a proper aircraft like an Antonov and just fly it low enough to take advantage?

And I assume the 50%/50% figure above is in relation to contemporary Soviet aircraft? Which where, themselves, thirsty compared to contemporary western aircraft let alone modern aircraft. The thing had 8 (Eight!) turbojets!
Well, while I'm sure this might raise eyebrows among those that are protective of their personal data, I was just happy to see there was no shitstorm after requesting a no-fingerprint entrance --- I think it's good that that is a "oh, no big deal" option.

I don't understand though - why the fingerprint? So that you can exit and re-enter the park?
https://github.com/jdm/asknot/blob/master/locales.ini#L62

I love getting pull requests!
Same here, nothing happened. Firefox 20, Chromium 26.0.1410.43 (189671) and Opera 12.15 (build 1748). All on Linux.
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You are absolutely correct. The domain doesn't match the content right now, but I'm going to be running a sprint to fill it out with non-coding-related activities soon. You can see a prototype at http://www.joshmatthews.net/asknot/; I'm mainly lacking experts who can provide me with content and links.
You could buy that Audi A3 now, if there are any left.

I have the current hatchback version, and with the factory-supplied, swing-down parcel shelf installed and the lift gate closed, the area behind the rear seats is totally enclosed by rigid, opaque surfaces; it’s impossible to see any of the contents from inside or outside the vehicle.

I don’t know whether this area has the same legal status as a trunk, but practically speaking, it’s no more accessible to the driver than the trunk of a sedan having rear seats that could be unlatched and folded down by someone in the passenger compartment.
This guy facilitated the ads that support google's wide range of quality services given free to anyone anywhere in the world. Google maps alone has had a positive humanitarian impact to a great many people. It's not the stereotypical marketing exec in an advertising company that only makes adverts.
You should put together a Get Involved wiki page and submit a pull request.
How about the snarky ones like "Hacker News? Really Zac?"
We're definitely blurring the bounds of official-ness. Everybody in the organization who has seen it is always enthusiastic, and nobody has asked me to remove the tabzilla branding.
This sums up its status remarkably well.
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Have you considered that it might be easy to hire developers because there are more unemployed developers there? Contrast that to SF, where it's really hard to hire developers.
I'm fairly certain that if the thief wanted, he could have found out the author's identity from his fellow friends/partygoers that attended the party. I don't think the author is overly worried about concealing his identity.
Even if there were no atoms, you must consider the electromagnetic field (or photons if you want to think that you have particles).

If you have a perfectly empty box (with total vacuum inside) and the walls have some temperature (for example 2.7K) then, after a while, inside the box will appear the electromagnetic field with the blackbody radiation of the walls temperature.

It's convenient to assign properties to the electromagnetic field, in this case the temperature. And the correct temperature of the electromagnetic field inside the box is the same as the temperature of the walls.

And the best thing is that the walls are not necessary! You can assign a temperature to the universe background radiation. If the distribution of frequencies of the electromagnetic field is equal to the blackbody radiation of a 2.7K blackbody, then you can think that the temperature of the electromagnetic field is also 2.7K.

More details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_gas
GAH! As much as I hate seeing Reddit-isms on HN, I actually got bitten by this last week.
More about it here:

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2013/04/04/movi-a-revolutiona...
You have hit the problem on the head. I'm very interested in surfacing better information for potential new contributors, and these are all points that I've harped on before. There's an eternal tradeoff - things like wiki pages are easy to slap together, but just as easily can grow stale. Information that is retrieved from live databases is almost always better, but such dashboards can be complicated beasts to both build and make useful, especially with projects like Mozilla that are distributed among many different silos. Getting other people to care about keeping information relevant is another problem I face. So yeah, no solutions, just acknowledgement that you're right.
No. That kind of 3D requires the viewer to wear active glasses that are synchronized with the rapid switching between the images. When the image for the left eye is displayed, the right lens of the glasses turns opaque, and vise versa, such that each eye only sees the image intended for it, allowing for the stereoscopic effect.
There's a lot less circle jerk in NYC et al.
Learning to play an instrument is fine.

Learning to play an instrument in order to "change the world" and become the #1 rock star is worrying.

There are other factors involved, lots of people want to be rock stars, so there is a lot of competition, and many of them are very mean people who don't fight fair.

There are lots of people who wanted to become rock stars but didn't make it or aren't smart enough, and they will be jealous and try and stop you. They don't care how hard you are trying. They will even try to steal it if you succeed.

You CAN do it, but it will probably take ten or twenty years or more and be much, much, much harder than you think.

You will eventually have to become very obsessed with programming and spend 12 hours every day doing it, just like a rock star or basketball star spends all day practicing. You won't have any friends or girlfriend or normal life.

If you don't succeed, you will become mean too, and have no choice but to work for somebody else like a slave, even though you worked so hard.

That's probably what your parents worry about.

It's up to you. Are you the smartest? Are you willing to work the hardest, harder than anybody, for 20 years? Are you willing to give up your entire future?

That's what it will take to "change the world," and in reality, the world won't change very much no matter what you do.
Even Steve Jobs only really gave people new cellphones, and he spent his whole life trying that hard, and died very young because of it.
"Glass, Kinect, AWS and iOS are pretty interesting, and they all occurred inside of a large company."

If you are lucky enough to be working on those sorts of projects when they are still small, secret teams - you'd be an exception. 99% of people working at BigCorp are not on such projects.
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No, because 3D works by showing a different image to each eye. What you propose would show both images to both eyes, and you would get the same thing as when you look at current 3D displays without the proper 3D glasses; the two images pasted over each other.

Add shutter glasses and a way to sync them up with the switching images and it should work though.
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safari on mac no problem.
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