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The best way to raise your rates is (a) expose yourself to more opportunities, and (b) stop taking lower paying gigs.

As you get more gigs, and more referrals, you raise your rate with each gig, even if it's $5/hour. Over the course of 20 gigs, you may well be in the $100-$150 hour range, and have a collection of happy clients willing to do the selling for you.
Supercriticality refers to exponential growth in the rate of fission (each fission event in turn causing more than one additional fission event), but unless other conditions are met then going supercritical does not mean you actually get a nuclear bomb style explosion.

There is also the concept of prompt and delayed neutrons. Prompt neutrons are products of the fission of the fuel, while delayed neutrons are products of other fission products and are released shortly after the fission of fuel.

Normally nuclear reactors run prompt-subcritical, delayed critical (meaning that each fission event causes on average less than one other fission event with prompt neutrons, but when you account for delayed neutrons then the average becomes one for one. The lag incurred by relying on delayed neutrons to push you up to critical allows the system to be controlled).

During both the SL-1 accident and the second Demon Core accident, for a very brief moment fission events were causing more than one additional fission events with prompt neutron products. In other words they both went prompt-critical, which is a type of supercritical. Thankfully SL-1 disassembled itself, the Demon Core rapidly heated and expanded, and neither were brought into a supercritical configuration quickly enough. This is the fundamental difference between what happened when the demon core went supercritical when Louis Slotin fucked up and when it went supercritical when the they detonated the bomb made with it over the Pacific.

"one of the design problems to overcome in constructing a bomb is to contract the fissile materials and achieve prompt criticality before the chain reaction has a chance to force the core to expand. A good bomb design must therefore win the race to a dense, prompt critical core before a less-powerful chain reaction (known as a fizzle) disassembles the core without allowing a significant amount of fuel to fission. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_critical#Nuclear_weapons

The second demon core accident was a fizzle. It went supercritical but without involving a significant amount of the fuel.
Or they want to know who they are dealing with, and are reeling them in to find out more about who might sue them next.
> And how many other big-firm lawyers are entwined with "start-ups" that are actually holding companies, created to attack the very corporations they are supposed to be defending?

Considering you can't even by stock at a large firm without clearing it, I'm going to guess: almost nobody.

There is no way mlb knew about the nature of this business. Firms survive on reputation. Nobody hires a firm with a bad reputation for keeping client confidences. Why would the other partners risk their income so this guy's wife could make a buck? It makes no sense, especially considering how much money there is in representing apple as a repeat customer.
I've read that people have had success doing line-by-line conversions of Python scripts to Go scripts without too much reworking. I am guessing that it is the similar level of model and library granularity that drives the comparison.
It's too bad it didn't replace it on this page. Without JavaScript, this page is blank.
what is your hourly pay at the moment? and how did you become a Django ninja? want to follow the same route lol
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edit: formatting
You can build any UI with SVG [ so your app = svg + javascript ]
Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923530
This is certainly a bad thing that shouldn't happen to any company, but at the same time I can't help but think this is some kind of poetic justice Apple is receiving for all the "patent trolling" they've done over the past few years with some very bogus claims. Maybe karma is real. When you breed a certain kind of culture in the industry or in your company, this is what you get out of it.
Markdown-based notepad
It started from my personal problem, "I want to take memos using markdown!"
I use a memo app everyday. I used Evernote, but it's too big for writing memo.

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I started to create a memo app with the following features.

- markdown format
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I thought some people could have same problem when I was creating it.
So I decide to release it to public.

Today, I released my tool "https://wri.pe".
Especially, Tech people would love it!

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/masuidrive/sets/72157633740687207/

Feedback on how to improve it is also very welcome.

I hope you love https://wri.pe .
Python 'compiles' to .pyc files, but I'm not show how much that compresses them, or if it's possible to reconstruct the source from it.
Actually I would say that they are lower that in the U.S. Again it depends on where in the U.S. you're talking about but I would say that £40 is entry level, £50K is for a intermediate level £70K for senior and £100K is pretty much the max before you hit management.

I would say that salaries like this are pretty much on par with most major metro areas in the U.S. (not just silicon valley)
If your going for attention you don't even need to go critical. A dirty bomb should be enough for that.
Confused as to why this is front page. Article is from 2010.
> The solution I've been thinking of is some sort of work on demand program, where, while your unemployed and reiciving your guaranteed income, you can be asked to do short term work for the government (and/or private companies).

Corvée labour is actually the oldest form of taxation. It's stunningly inefficient compared to just taking money, for all the reasons that barter is inefficient plus the resentment people have towards working for nothing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corv%C3%A9e
I had reached till 3. Thank for the amazing feedback, will try my best.
Jeremy Ashkenas : Taking JavaScript Seriously with Backbone.js (Video)
Heads up, your initial URL is incorrect because of a typo.
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Do you have a link for speaker.js? I found "Speak-js" (https://github.com/mattytemple/speak-js) which is also emscripten-compiled from a C++ speech synthesizer. Same thing? Also, great game thanks for sharing with us; I very much enjoyed it.
Sounds like this lawyer is going to find it hard to find work. Ever again.
In Romania an entry level dev gets 30% more than the national average and that raises quickly. In 7-8 years he's able to earn 400%+ more than national average. And still be paid less than an entry level in UK.

National average net income is about 400 euros
I was surprised by how incredibly good the Amazon android app is—it seems to have basically all of the features of the website in a vastly more focused and usable form.

Of course some of that is because Amazon's website is awful, full of noise and random goop that's simply distracting 95% of the time.

But still, I think that actually reflects a lot of websites: the actual content takes up a small fraction of the page, and is surrounded by noise; even those which are less clumsy/cluttered than Amazon often fill the space with graphical prettiness rather than useful content. A small-screen interface can often just eliminate the noise and will be better for it.
Really, its like blaming someone else for your mistakes. Uncool
Thanks for the insights! What level (in the hierarchy) were you?
They both approximately match up on mental effort /friction/hassle for me, which largely seems to be coincidence since they do have dissimilar feature sets. For example, it use to be that I would use Python when I thought that C (my language of choice) was going to be too much of a hassle; now I use Go when I think that C will be too much hassle.

I think this accounts for a large portion of the Go<->Python talk you see.
I am not an expert on polling or collecting data like this so I cannot tell you. But that is irrelevant. My thesis is that these polls follow a 100% identical path: a badly conceived poll is posted, the top half of the comments debates how you cannot trust this poll or any online poll, the next quarter discusses the flaws with the actual poll setup, but circles back to how this is an online poll, and the last quarter is an assortment of comments about the actual topic. Nobody seems to learn anything useful in the process.
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GoDaddy is awful. Digital ocean is great, but you have to manage the server yourself. Dreamhost is a little easier to manage, but you don't get a vps for that price point.
That was just caused by me not processing input properly. I've set up a proper rendering loop here and now only render the most recent mouse position on each frame:

http://jsfiddle.net/eymAS/84/

It's better, but still limited to 60fps, and since I render to the state at 0s, the worst delay we can see is ~16.6ms + rendering time.
There won't be any "model" units in this building anytime soon, unless you staff it with 24/7 security.
Judge: Google must give user info to FBI
I do like the idea, but it inevitably suffers from the same flaw that afflicts all other compile-to-js libraries: making sense of errors will still require knowledge of how the underlying javascript works.

Perhaps a development plugin for Chrome would allow debugging in python?
That sort of caution is very typical scientist-speak.

I realize that we hear a lot in the media from scientists who do not speak in this cautious way - they get publicity precisely because they are (among the minority) willing to make bold claims about future applications of their research.
The idea isn't that people work without being paid. Effectively, the government is paying (via the Basic Income) for your work (or willingness to do work when none is available). If you refuse to work, then your right to a basic income is revoked (or reduced).

This effectivly makes the government the employer of last resort, in the same way that it becomes the buyer of last resort to escape depressions.
All the talk about how great the affordable care act is before it's fully implemented in 2014 smells highly of Microsoft trying to market vaporware to keep people from buy expensive apple products.
I was trying to figure out why it was that I disagreed with so much of what Michael O Church raised here.

Not only is Michael O Church clearly smart and well spoken, but it is simply statistically unlikely to be so often anti-affirmative by accident; not merely disagreeing, but holding a position that is the opposite of (what I believe to be) correct.

I came to the conclusion that I probably am seeing a very very different Bay Area than Michael O Church, and filtering the part that I see in a very very different way.

I think the reality is that perhaps mass culture is negative in the direction, but not magnitude, described here.

But what I see here, in the bay area, is a small tribe, embedded in city of San Francisco, energetically, beneficently, earnestly, relentlessly working and helping each other out, putting their considerable time, capital, and intellect towards building the future and solving our biggest problems. Nowhere else in the world are people really trying to solve these problems. And maybe it's not nearly enough of the bay area, but damn it, people really are trying. Not everyone believes and lives what they say.

But I think that, just enough of them, do. Enough to change the world for the better. And it feels, genuinely, like it is happening here, more than elsewhere. It would be a shame if that signal is lost to the noise.
It's not considered trolling when you're defending your own products. What do you think patents are for?
I would recommend selling more value and not just the technology. What value do you bring to the table for a company to warrant them investing $150/hour for your work?

There are others with possibly more completed projects, clients, time under their belt with more developers, if they are a company, what value do you offer that they cannot provide for less?

Go for bigger clients with bigger budgets, government projects would be a good place to start. Just make sure you have your business setup correctly along with a website, list of services and value you are providing using Django and that you meet a companies prerequisites (Incorporated, LLC, insured, mailing address, phone number, business bank account, etc.).

Ask yourself what value can you bring to the company that will make them want to pay you the higher rate. Once you answer that question and can back it up you will get the rates you are looking for.
Just recently I have put a hard floor at $50 per hour, but its hard to get people to accept $50 per hour when I can't give an exact time frame for all of their wants to be met.

They try to push for a flat rate, but I won't anymore because I have been burned many times by this.

It's not as easy a road as I thought it would be. My flat rate projects always ended up taking longer because of client demands and so my hourly actual pay went way down.

I got good with Django by building things and doing a lot of googling whenever I ran into problems or needed to do something new.

I had a basic computer programming background before this though.
What is even the need? And it needs JS to work. Not so convincing demo!
There is more in "the old class system" (or the caste system) than just attending elite college. It is genes.

You like it or not, breeding matters a lot. What all those companies buy is not grades, it is not even a particular phenotype, it is a few generations of fine breeding, well-educated parents and relatives, etc.

So, most of those guys "with a sociology degree" worth it, you like it or not. It is just one of these small unpleasant truths about life.
You're right, SF is very nice for this. I was mainly thinking of the South Bay definition of Silicon Valley. Finding a nice job in SF will give you a very different lifestyle / quality of life than one down in the physical valley.
My parents went on a few nice cruises after all their children went off to college, and they had the same experience of meeting such people who were using cruises as retirement homes. When my parents shared this story with me, I had a similar reaction as you did.

I imagine such a life would be much more interesting than life stuck in a single place with no new faces.
I love NPR. Thank you U.S. Citizens and companies for making contributions to this important part of society.

When I have enough money I'm going to make a donation. From Australia.
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I second this request.

It boggles my mind, just how much productivity and potential the form-factor of a phone sacrifices for portability and comfort. I learned to code by tapping away on my TI-83 in class when I was bored; I can't believe that doing work on a phone is so impossibly inconvenient.
If this is karma, it's karma that travelled backwards in time and attacked Apple 3 years before any of the patent law suits Apple filed against other companies in the current mobile device IP war.

So no, it's not karma or poetic justice. It's just another symptom of the same underlying problem of patents and the ridiculous farce it has made out of the tech business.
Source maps should resolve this issue
> As always, voluntary response data are worthless.

Much less than over-generalizations and stereotypes.)

The validity of data to which statistical methods could be applied is a very big distinct subject.)
They invented the stuff they protected. The system, as it stands, only works if the owner of the patent/trademark/IP takes step to defend it.
Good point! I ashamed to say I hadn't thought much about how source maps will pave the way for anything-to-javascript web programming... very cool.
Lots of great stuff here but let me underline this bit:

I think less of teams that propose short contracting projects to candidates to try them out, because I would never agree to interview on those terms.

Amen. "Contractor for two weeks" and "full-time employee for the first two weeks of a years-long job" are fundamentally different positions. They require different sorts of deliverable [1], different contracts, different social positioning relative to the team and the company [2], and (of course) different pay rates. To pretend that one of these positions is a special case of the other invites trouble.

I'd say more but your earlier post said it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4559389

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[1] My rule of thumb is not to accept a "contracting" gig, even a "temporary" one, that doesn't have more specific deliverables than "show up and work X hours per week while looking competent". Work that is measured only in hours is not contracting: It's employment with additional risks and no benefits.

[2] The team knows what a contractor is, and they know what a full-fledged fellow employee is, but the arrival of someone who is neither fish nor fowl tends to sow hesitancy and suspicion. I've seen what happens with "probationary" employees: The label never quite fades away. I remember one fellow who turned out to be a real star: At company parties people would say things like "hey, I remember when we hired X even though we were worried about his experience level, but he turned out to be really great!" This always struck me as a painfully barbed form of praise.

Hire like you mean it. When you add someone to the team, add them to the team.
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The lead-up describes somebody who definitely seems destined for research work, PhD, think-tank analyst, that kind of thing. It's not surprising that a run-of-the-mill code-slinging J.O.B is a terrible fit and I feel bad about it - but it's never too late to change paths. Why not make an effort to steer out of the situation into a career that is a better fit? You smashed a multivariable calculus course in less than a week and here you are working next to people who barely scraped through a general arts degree. It's painful to even hear about.
Well, that's different. Workfare or Mutual Obligation. In Australia we call it "Work for the Dole" [1].

It's not a substitute to normal employment, though it is certainly better than plain "sit down money". But a lot of the problems of welfare still persist anyway.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_the_Dole
Because it seems most new Go coders come from Python or Ruby, with limited experience in any other language.

As such you tend to see a comparison with the other language they know, which for many is Python.
Why doesn't IE10 get the fancy page Chrome does if you claim to work on modern browsers? The IE10 page (famo.us/c/) is really bad.
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So far http://jsfiddle.net/Y9AtR/1/show/ ;)
I find your comment to be incredibly immature, in a very sad way. There are so many interesting things to discuss about this case, and yet you couldn't find anything to say other than "haha, I love how they are being given a taste of their own medicine!!!"

edit: bring on the downvotes. The HN crowd certainly loves brainless cheerleading.
Why regulate? If the pill doesn't do what you want for a price you find a reasonable, don't buy it.
It would also likely be an extremely regressive tax so I'm not sure it would ever be sensible. People live in the suburbs because they can afford something that doesn't suck. The ultra poor and the ultra rich live in the city, the rest of us commute. And that's only slightly hyperbolic.
You are both true & making good points. It sounds like another "offshoring" idea then.

The bigger problem from my POV is that the old folks they serve are being treated as "steady state", when in fact their conditions are often deteriorating. And, when Grandma dies, will her family have to wait 1-2 weeks for her ship to return to port for a proper family gathering & funeral? Stinky...
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If you want to X to replace Y, shouldn't first order of business be letting me know why?
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