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Ask HN: Data on job market for entry-level Rails devs?
Hi HN,

I'm about to pivot my life from using my marketing degree to devoting myself to becoming a Rails developer. My wonderful and analytical wife wants to see some hard data on the number of open junior Rails dev positions vs the number of applicants, or anything of that sort. She's too careful to believe my "everyone says we're in the middle of a Great Dev Drought" protestations.

Please help me find the right data. And if you have some anecdotal evidence, we'll consider that too!

Thanks a ton!

@brainscraps

EDIT: Since there is a consensus that having an active GitHub profile is a good thing, no matter how messy, here's a link: https://github.com/BrainScraps
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PAM is indeed still how authentication on Linux works.
So, Marissa Mayer is past her 30 days. What has she done that is awesome?
> I think Lessig makes a fair case that we should broaden our notion of corruption.

Broadening can also imply diluting.

> Roughly half of congress goes in to lobbying after their terms end, with an average pay hike of about 14x. You think that doesn't "corrupt" their loyalties?

So let's make their salaries $2.5 million per year. It'd be a drop in the bucket.

> How should airlines, financial firms, telecommunications, etc., be regulated?

I bet you couldn't even get people on Hacker News to agree to answers to those questions.

> Organizations being regulated, however, have very strong ideas about what should and shouldn't happen.

The organizations being regulated are also the only ones who have any idea what is going on. Regulatory capture is the inescapable result of a basic problem: people who aren't in, e.g. the finance industry don't understand how it works, so the only people who can regulate it are the people who go through the revolving door. No amount of "taking money out of elections" is going to change that. (Isn't the battle cry here that people who don't understand the tech sector shouldn't be legislating on it?")

If you're opposed to regulatory capture, then you need to get rid of regulatory agencies. But even here on Hacker News I don't imagine you'd get overwhelming consensus in favor of that sort of action (it'd devolve into some fundamentally philosophical debate).
As someone with a mortgage, wife and three kids... Listen to this person! We're trying to sell our home so we can follow our dreams with less stress and worry. Notice I said less.

I haven't quit my job yet but I get similar responses when people hear we are selling our house. They do not understand and think we are crazy. Thank goodness I married a woman as "crazy" as me.

The only thing you can't get more of is time. Cherish it and use it wisely while you still have it.
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Yeah, I didn't consider the fact that not everyone has sl on their machine.
I've bought a home 5 years ago when I was 24. So, I am stuck with it. I do want to create a startup and have began rolling out code for my website. Its very tough to have to pay a mortgage. Which means to work 8 hours a day on something else, so that you have a place to stay so that you can work X hours a night on what you want to work on.

At the time I bought my home, I'd never thought that I would be in any position to create/run a business. I was a naive kid, and in hindsight I'm on the fence to whether or not that was a good idea or not. So, packing up my things to move over to Cali isn't going to be that easy. But whose to say that creating a startup is easy?

I believe I have a great idea. I really do, but the risk to just leave it all behind is daunting. For me, I would (and am) doing as much research as I can. That's why yCombinator is such a great program. They will help you out as far as the world of the startup. I missed this round, but am planning on entering the next one. By that time, my work on my site will be that much more polished and "ready".

I would love to leave it all and wish I had, but I was in no way ready for that at 24. Staying allowed me to move up the ladder, and really learn my craft very well. I would've been a terrible developer 5 years ago. I'm a firm believe that its never too late. Yes, I'm spending every waking hours thinking about code (both at work and for my site), but I have a feeling it will pay off.

Here's hoping...
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I'd be exceedingly careful about putting any kind of HR data or workflow into a public service like Trello.

Otherwise, nice idea, and I can already think of several uses for Zapier so I'm going to learn more about that.
Deliberately making yourself ineffective at waging war because you don't want to wage war is equivalent to pacifism. There's no value to going out of your way to start wars, but you need the ability to end them decisively.
And this physicist now thinks your lab is a pretty cool place to be. Is this really pointless?
Using words like "they" is one reason I don't like to apply labels for no real reason. Rather than seeing a lack of vision as room for improvement (which could apply to almost anyone); now you see it as a group of other people that are somehow inferior.
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Or LA or NYC. American municipalities offer you the full dystopian spectrum. From overburdened socialist welfare state (San Francisco), to repressive authoritarian dictatorships (New York), to banana republics (Wilmington, DE), to post-apocalyptic free-fire zones (Camden). Take your pick!
Aren't Trello boards private?
I think you made a good point with the market size and the fact that professionals "never touch a running system". However, I also want to target semi-professionals and even for them, 50€ in the context of music is normal (thats also the cost of 2 audio cables). But I agree that the price might exclude people. We will see. Thank you for your detailed comments!
Conservatism means a lot of things. It's a loaded word, and I don't think applying it here adds any value.
I don't think that was what that question was about. I saw it more as pulling up a common counterargument to Louis CK's success (people say all the time that he's a "special case" and his success doesn't mean anything). It was more like playing the devil's advocate to see what Louis would say about it.
It's a rare client with whom I spend more than 2 days a year. At my rates, if they didn't think I did awesome stuff, they surely wouldn't (re)hire me.

If a sales guy can't set up a meeting with an awesome prospect his first week on the job (set it up, not necessarily get around to having it), chances are he's not a great sales guy.

If a process-oriented manager can't find some stupid process and short-circuit it her first month on the job, what is she good for?

This standard isn't as crazy as it first sounds. What worries me more is the pompous tone of the whole thing.

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Also, I'd hope that any organization that abides by this rule goes all-in on the Rule of Awesome, which in its original form is the a tabletop RPG principle to the effect of "Anything sufficiently awesome is automatically allowed." :)

(Compare Rule of Funny, Rule of Cool.)
Same here, Chrome 26.0.1410.43 Linux
No, it's just a matter of the data team understanding their relevance to customers and getting to categorizing them. I think they've done enough to go live but it's an ongoing process for sure.
"Oh, so what you're building already exists as a part of this other application"

Perhaps it doesn't focus on that component, then? Can you resegment the competitor's market, at a lower price, so that your product does just the one thing but does it better?

I like the strategy of finding one thing that your competitor does and focusing on that but doing it really well. Makes it easier to explain the value prop, too.

So many times, large offerings are very expensive, have 15 components, but the primarily value for a segment of the target market is just the small piece.

Provide value, price accordingly, and you can succeed.
I recently started working for a company that implements scrum for software development, having never worked in that kind of environment before. And basically, I'd just like to say that if you're as unfortunate as I was and have never been able to develop software in a scrum environment you should definately give this a read. My productivity has sky rocketed under this dev cycle and the amount of satisfaction and structural benefits you have as a programmer are enormous compared to when I think back about before.

I just found this browsing on google for scrum articles, as most probably know Sutherland is one of the inventors of the scrum development process, and this for me was a really nice and descriptive read, hopefully others might find it useful as well.
The question is: what impact does that financing have a sizable portion of the public already supports those views? Conversely, how much impact can corporate financing have when a clear majority of people disagree with those views?

The $1 billion in PAC money in 2012 seems to have had very little impact on the election, other than to pump up the people who already agreed with the messages in the ads.
That's not been my understanding. Citation?
Public perception of the labor-saving potential of computers
So much is this depends on your "awesome" level. Personally I'd be hard-pressed to think of anything anyone on the planet has done this year that is awesome. Or at least that I've heard. A couple of my friends done "pretty excellent" things involving either cooking or overcoming fears in the last year but not a single thing in this past year has filled me with awe.

Call me jaded...
I would not say rooting your phone is not kosher. A little inconvinient maybe but nowadays you don't have to be a hacker to unlock your phone. Every tech literate person should be able to do this (as annectodatly wittnessed by me, a couple of my friends flash CW when purchasing a non Nexus Android and they aren't software devs)
Great little post. I agree and add:

+save your money, don't buy tv's cars and homes. specially when you are in your 20's (i still am, I threw a minimum 20% of every paycheck into savings).

+Debt, and any such thing that anchors you is a NOGO.

+only debt to take if ever is for a business, and only when cash is the only barrier impeding growth. (and if this is the case most VC's will gladly give you money)
We are so far gone, it is depressing: http://youtu.be/KbAPtGYiRvg

Never mind opening the discourse on broader implications and consequences of technology to the 'real' world.

Article gives first world problem examples of interfaces, hardware performance, iphone 5 heft, WebKit growth (Blink Blink), and Netflix discs.

To be sure, many will be squealing like giddy schoolgirls when iOS7 UI gets deskeuomorphed, but how does any of this contribute to, uh, say... uh
energy discovery, cancer cures, controlling world population, feeding the masses, stabilizing peace, et al

Trapped in a bubble, a narrow prison of perspective, so far gone, this article is what amounts for technological criticism.

Siracusa, lemme know when the world moves away from qwerty or get out of the way.
I think Everpix should be both a backup and sharing system, but I don't find it useful for either (since it won't find my actual main photo library but does cheerfully upload random stuff it finds elsewhere (um, sorry Everpix, but not everything in "Pictures" is a photo).

Crashplan ain't pretty, but that's not my top priority in a backup system.
Spring Data JPA, Spring AMQP, and Spring Integration.
This post has received quite a lot of negativity but I think there's an interesting idea behind it. Whilst it may not be a privacy or security risk, imagine how creepy it would be to connect to a server to see a project or whatever, only to be greeted by your name, job, location, etc. Until you figured out how it was done, it would be quite concerning.
Absolutely. If you base your actions on bad data, you'll get bad results - and that original list was painfully bad. I don't know Silicon Valley particularly well, I but I know that list told you to ignore some of the best, most helpful, and most active firms in the New York City area - including people I've raised from, had on my board, and would repeat the experience with in a second.

Entrepreneurs who just go by this instead of doing their own research (which really doesn't take that long) are doing themselves a massive disservice. Which is ironic, because this whole promotion was wrapped in a big bundle of 'rah rah, I'm helping entrepreneurs'. Not at all so.
Always love people who go beyond the traditional route to find a job.
Hey sreyaNotfilc.

I'm in nearly in the exact same boat, but I've started to see some movement on the career front in just the last few weeks.

It took much more than those few weeks to get there, though, and a lot of little things over time to change course. You can find my email in my profile if you want to exchange notes.

Good luck!
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There are 211 jobs available with Ruby on Rails positions advertised on AngelList. 47 of those jobs advertise $100-109k positions & 64 are offering .5-.9% equity.

You can enter your area etc for a more detailed range etc:
https://angel.co/salaries
The original Halo had a health bar.
Or Haskell semantics allows more aggressive optimization than C.

icc's not actually that much better than gcc in optimization, it's primarily a much better runtime library that gives icc its speed boost.
There is a way to fix it: don't select text in document order, but only in visual order. Apple does something like this in their PDF reader. This would probably break things people do today, and there would be whining.
How much Facebook pays to its employees.
I was in a similar situation, but with 2k/mo in mortgage, passive income and about 12 month's expenses saved up. His situation is much better! My business turned out ok. I just asked myself, what's the worst that can happen? Get another job in 10 months. Ok, no brainer. go.
It's never bad to post something that might seem very trivial at first. I learnt the trick of checking an odd or even with this post. Thanks OP!
" ... if it can prove the global memory state does not otherwise change between calls in a way that impacts that pure call

Would it still work with -fno-strict-aliasing? I guess it should, for functions that only work on stack and get parameters from stack, right?
I tend to use a key per machine for ease of revocation, so yes.
Because it's going to be reasonably priced and running something closer to stock Android than almost any other device by a major manufacturer.

There's a chance that the new Motorola's will run close to stock but apart from the Nexus range and the more obscure brands, nothing else does.

So - word might get around that these are worth buying ironically - to avoid custom skins.
Show HN: Unlike App
Not sure where you live, but have you looked into renting the house in a way that would cover your mortgage?
Sure... one of my colleagues was doing something awesome according to my CEO, another not so much. The former was demonstrating open-source software build by others. The latter implemented lots of stuff adding intrinsic value to the community.

Manager, if you require "awesome", you will get "awesome", but it will be tailored to you and won't surpass your intellect or vision.
Indeed, they can be: http://i.imgur.com/MVXeF8l.png
Biggest site I've got access to analytics on gets me 10/9/8 at 18%/56%/19%. So, someday!
Another alternative is to save aggressively working at a lucrative job when you're young, then do the startup when you're thirty-five or forty and can live, with discipline, on the gains from your investments. I know at least one very successful person who took this approach (anecdote != data, I know). Not always an option depending on your credentials, but there's something to be said for a hybrid approach of building a personal runway (and gaining skill at the craft) before quitting and throwing the dice.

Obviously you shouldn't do anything to shorten your personal runway if you plan to make a startup. Big houses and mortgages and expensive cars are out, even if you don't plan on quitting immediately.

Some of my bias may be showing here, because I'm fairly satisfied with my life and work at BigCo right now.
Why has this changed the rules? It's a launcher. Google still has a zillion other hooks into the Android ecosystem.
I'd be interested in seeing the first post, but there's no link. One of the biggest advantages of writing online is the ability to link.
If you honestly appreciate butchers more than entertainers, you are far from the norm in America (and Western society in general, I dare say).

Most people look down on butchers (and most other blue collar workers), while idolizing entertainers (and other people who make a lot of money).

"a single entertainer can entertain millions, whereas a single butcher cannot feed nearly as many"

Even per capita, butchers and other blue collar workers are going to be making far less than even a mediocre entertainer. When was the last time you saw an individual pay $30 to $200 (and up) for a butcher to ply his trade?
In bitbucket, you could simply copy paste clone command in the text field. Isn't text field is far more safe since there should no hidden element?
What about doing both?

Work at a great company and your own projects on the side. Seems like the best of both worlds.

Ever since starting to read HN a few weeks ago, I've become interested in learning Ruby, Rails and general web development. I love where I'm at now (which is not hidden but easily found via my name and profile link) and the fact that I can spend my free time on weekends learning for the sake of learning, without the stress of having to make an income from it.

There is a great quote from Who's Your City that states you need an additional $133,000 in annual income to make up for the happiness from seeing your friends and family on a daily or weekly basis. That's a big jump for those quitting to move halfway across the country.

The quit-to-startup culture is certainly enticing but there's really no reason many of us can't have the best of both worlds without quitting a great job at a great company.
This was just a short weekend project. Someone posted a fake "unlike" app before, and I wanted to see if I could throw together a real one in 2 hours.

I used some of the effects from my framework to make it quick and slick. Let me know if you encounter any bugs on your local environments / browsers.

The only thing is - you can't really unlike anything because the app needs to be whitelisted by facebook.

This app is completely open source, and I encourage you to fork it. If any of you want to, you can juts copy & paste the HTML and it host it somewhere. Just register your own facebook app id. If you're able to improve it, please post the URL here. If you're able to get your app to be whitelisted for the "unlike" to actually work, definitely post here :)
If there were a big enough set of images with serial number data associated to them, it would be trivial to link one image to another - which might be used as a profile picture on Facebook, or perhaps a picture on a dating site.

Being able to link the photos to the same owner could potentially lead to PII becoming available, and could lead to embarrassing, or potentially dangerous situations.
Don't forget that Google's primary goal with Android was to avoid an Apple (or anyone else's) monoculture. That was a serious risk when the iPhone came out and it no longer is.

We're now looking at a market likely split between Apple, Android proper, Android forks and maybe some market share for RIM and Microsoft.

That's a lot less horrific than Google being shut out of mobile entirely which was a not-implausible scenario at one stage.
> Fair enough, but that advantage is well deserved if they worked to build it.

But the point is we didn't work to build it. Merely being born were I was gave me extremely high odds of being amongst the richest people in the world.

At most you could claim my ancestors "worked to build it", but that's still a massive stretch - the main reason for the wealth I grew up around was oil and European imperialism.
The good thing is homes can easily be bought and sold. It may be less of a trap than you think. Children, on the other hand, are more difficult to move on the open market...
What sources would you suggest they use to do their research? This data was from Crunchbase which is the first place most entrepreneurs tell me they look, so I wonder if these New York firms are less motivated to update it. Is there some other place where they're announcing their deals and signaling to the community that they are active? I am researching this and would love to know what sites I should regularly crawl.

New York 500 Startups dude Shai Goldman has a good list going here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArI2sAC4lTszdGN...
I was wondering the same thing. In my merchant marine cadet days I've taken a ship (steam) up the Hudson from the Atlantic to Albany and it's quite a twisty river, sometimes with tall, steep, wind-blocking banks. Assuming they're planning to transit the Hudson, it will be an interesting trip.

However, I love stuff like this and if I'm convinced that they can pull it off, I will contribute what I can.

Now I'm wondering how many acres of soybeans it would take to power the barge by biodiesel.
I love the idea of Lisp and Scheme, and I have spent considerable weeks learning and playing in it. But at the end of the day, all those parentheses just make my eyeballs swim.

I want more than one way to group things together so that the grouping conveys some meaning without me having to read words. I.e., I want some syntax.
Or get married to someone who can support you while do something risky. If the Korean immigrant with a wife and kids who starts a dry cleaning business in your neighborhood can do it, then it can't be intractable.
As somebody who quit a job to pursue a startup, I'm going to take the opposite side.

Don't quit your job to pursue a startup unless:

1) You have a customer base lined up and some income is all but assured, or...

2) You have enough savings to get by for at least one year (including insurance) and a skill set or network that would enable you to jump back into a similarly desirable job right away.

Quitting with just an idea and strong cofounders is a recipe for disaster, stress, and misery. Remember, building is fun and easy, making sales isn't.

First whittle down what you really need to start (often times it's a lot less than you originally thought) and examine whether you really have to quit. If you are building something that your employer could lay claim to due to your employment agreement, it's a little more tricky, but if you are careful it is pretty easy to get around that.
Perhaps you are not hired for awesome stuff, but just for your name, your connections, your looks...
Really? Wow, I thought optimisations had to provably avoid affecting the correctness of your program. Hence:

"This need to avoid imprecise intermediate results often prevents compilers from exploiting mathematical properties like associativity when optimizing FP arithmetic."

from the explanation under Q4.
There is actually very little differences between Republicans and Democrats. Politicians on both sides push wedge issues you listed in front in order to get elected. But majority of legalizations are not related to these wedge issues: corporations make decisions.

It would be great if somebody can "hack" the entire political process and be elected without "big money".
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To be fair to Homebrew (the example I'm picking on here), it does install to a nice sandboxed area. That area is named "/usr/local", but you can give it its own path and everything works pretty well. (I find I have to completely remove and reinstall Homebrew about every two months, generally because libgettext changed yet again.)