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"...I do use airline frequent flier numbers because the airlines demand to know my identity anyway."

"...However, I absolutely refuse to take Amtrak trains because they check passengers ID (sometimes, not all the time)."

Are these two statements contradictory, or is there something special about what Amtrak do that threatens privacy more than the disclosure of identity to an airline? This is a genuine question, I have never visited the US.

(In the UK, you can still walk into a railway station and buy a ticket for cash without showing ID anywhere within the mainland. You will not be asked for anything other than the ticket on the train unless you are using a Student or Senior Citizen's railcard to claim the discount.)

The more I think about the nature of software, the more I find Stallman's views about software freedom compelling.
The software industry here in London is really badly paid, for salaried jobs outside finance at least. I know plenty of developers who started at £20-25k as graduates from decent universities and whose salary has slowly risen to 40k over quite a few years. PhD graduates making £35-45k too.
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Come to think of it, that's probably less than one week of groceries from Whole Foods.
In short: they want people with more than a C+ in C++.
There's a big problem with the bar graph in the article. They are lumping Engineering Technology together with Engineering
and Information sciences in with Computer Science.
Engineering Technology is completely different from Engineering, just like CIS is completely different from Computer Science.

Grouping those together is like grouping employment numbers for electrical engineers and electricians just because they have the same root word in their titles.

The article also talks about "foreign born students... crushing the homegrown talent." If they're talking about foreign born students at US universities I wouldn't say they are "crushing" US students at all. From what I've seen the reason so many foreign students are accepted has more to do with them paying way more tuition than in-state students than anything else.
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Yes, it would be, but then again -- computers are dynamic. We manipulate text around on screen, not just read it like we do in a book. Sufficient horizontal space is required for that.
Its actually OK. I write code when I get an idea. There's worse things than being bored. At least Im not spending my time checking facebook all day.
London has a big financial sector, so a lot of the big pay packets probably come from there - hedge funds, banks, HFT etc.

See here:

http://jobs.efinancialcareers.co.uk/Information_Technology.h...
With the caveat that I haven't looked at gcc since I can't judge it, I can deny he's a "genius" when it comes to software and systems. I think he's a bit like me, a scientist type who's very good in these fields (and better than I). But compared to the true genius types in these fields, such as Guy Steele and David Moon, well, we qualitatively aren't at that level.

After all, he's going to go down in history first and foremost as the founder of the modern open source movement, that's not a technical thing per se.
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The UK isn't the best place for software people in my opinion. I have been around for a little over 10 years in the field now and worked for big, medium and small companies. I think this is because people seem to gamble more in SF by investing in companies which we don't really have much of in the UK. You don't get the big angel investors or VCs sticking a million £ into a start up. I know of a few start ups that got some VC funding but most were small under £100k investments and normally by many people. Crowd funding seems to be picking up a bit here though.

I certainly feel valued as an intellectual everywhere I have worked but I may just be lucky?
"Blame" might be too far but there's definitely an argument to suggest they caused the baby's death, in that if they hadn't chased then maybe he wouldn't have driven so recklessly. Hence this whole discussion.
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Disclaimer : I'm not from the UK, nor have I ever worked there

The UK as a whole has long had a reputation for having low wages relative to the US. Anecdotally, I recall coming across a mention here on HN where certain dev jobs were being classified as "clerical" and offered at around ~$20k - $25k USD equivalent.
Heck, I would say the same for when you are driving, multi-ton pieces of steel in motion are unforgiving. I have never trusted people to, say, not blow a red light/stop sign, to turn, even if they have their blinkers on, to not try to cram in front of me at the last second on a packed exit even if there is no room, etc.. Obviously it is more important for pedestrians as they are unprotected, but people generally being more aware/defensive while driving would be a good thing.
Believe you me, if the big immigration reform effort in Washington were just about bringing in new STEM workers via an expanded or reformed visa system, it would be done by now. Certainly a majority of Republicans and Democrats are for it in the abstract. Mitt Romney wanted to "staple a green card" to every STEM graduate's diploma.

But that's not what the debate's about, and it's fairly silly to claim otherwise. The debate is whether or not any immigration reform will be "comprehensive", the Washington euphemism for amnesty and normalization of the existing illegal population. There is a not insignificant block of both Democrats and Republicans who will not allow anything short of a "comprehensive" bill to pass because they believe it's the only shot to achieve such normalization. There's also a reasonable argument often made that opening the doors to STEM graduates and other "desirable" workers while forcing the existing illegal population to continue to skirt the law is de facto discriminatory, because of the way the demographics of those two groups line up.

Zuck & Co. are taking the reverse position: They're pushing for the STEM reform they want just in case this time reform really does make it over the hump, and are happy to push for normalization as well, since it is the only likely path to that result.

Anyway, I don't know how I feel about normalization, but I do know that any nation that has skilled workers who will contribute much, much more than they take lining up to get in would be crazy not to let them in.
I suppose the fastest grep with no GPU support is beagrep - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5645040
Don't get me wrong, I love their production value for what they have in budget! And I wasn't clear enough - it's bad, in a good way!
I dont think you've accounted for the exchange rate. £26,000 is approx. $40,000.
As someone debating whether to do a Mathematics vs Computer Science vs Joint Honours, I'd really like to hear from graduates what worked out for them.

- As a developer, how often are skills from CompSci degree applied on the job?
- What do you wish you knew about the job market as an undergrad?
- How much part did the prestige of your university play in your current salary?
if you need the same folder emptied, but can accept background process deleting in background, you could rename the folder, create empty one with the old name, and run something to delete in background.
I really like this idea and signed up for an account. There's something wrong with your confirmation email message. The link I am pointed to clicking is "/confirm/longstringofcharacters", which is neither a link or functioning path when appended to rankique.com.

Definitely come up with a better name. I'm not sure how it's supposed to be pronounced, which makes memorization and spelling even more difficult. Good Luck!
One company I worked for didn't look for and hire rockstar talent. They had a shop in India with lots of diligent guys who followed instructions, a decidedly inelegant architecture with lots of "repeating yourself," and a good position in an industry where just getting data from one place to another and usefully aggregating it made you tons of money.

Don't underestimate the value of being in the right market and simply knowing how to manage people.
That would be the point of comparison I believe.
This is surprising considering cost of living in London is higher than San Francisco (at least by my perception and a quick google search).

http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/san-fran...
My rule: if there are cars around, never cross (legally!) unless you have eye contact. That person making a right turn on a red light? They're likely looking left and will you over if you legally start to cross in front of them.

However, I will note: even if you follow this rule, be prepared to jump out of the way. I have to, and often. I walk 4 miles/day in city streets. The number of times I've had to jump out of the way when I had the right of way... ridiculous. Defensive walking or you won't be walking for long.
I'd add that for jobs in startups (a focus for the HN crowd) salaries are particularly low.
Yes, this is extremely relevant.

Note that 1 in 5 STEMs don't work in software because of pay or working conditions (we can assume that means, for instance, long hours).

But if you're scared of being fired (and therefore deported), startups have a free hand to exploit you.
Actually Cook the one make me think this way when you remember Jobs when he say that he made ipad before iphone but he thought that phone is really important this time so he put ipad on shelf until it's time come; here you see man with not just vision i don't know i think there is no word to describe Jobs visionary, genius, etc combined :) and look for cook speeches i can't find any of this.
Yeah this is my experience as well. I was fortunate to start on quite a good salary and have managed to maintain that while changing jobs. London certainly isn't the place if you want to make a big career though. Even a start up here is so much harder than in America. People just don't want to invest much until you have a solid business.
I am swe 3 at google, one below senior, base 140k (supposedly maxed, but I've heard other swe 3 making somewhat more), total comp excluding benefits 230k.

As for verification, I'll bet you lots of money at 10:1 odds that these are accurate within 10k (flux depends on stock price).
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What's the main difference with CQRS?
Sigh, that would be very difficult.

Without going into the personal details, based on my interactions with him in the '80s I'd say that's not going to happen, especially since he's old enough it's unlikely he'll "mellow out" until possibly when he gets a lot older.

Maybe, someday, but that's not the way to bet.
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It's not an actual year. You can get a full time offer with only one summer internship (3 months experience) under your belt and nothing else.
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What there is is a shortage of ultra-elite American-born talent, and Silicon Valley wants to hire the very best in the world. The view from Silicon Valley is that a lot of the US talent, while bountiful in number, just doesn't stack up.

That's a tautology. By definition, there's always going to be a shortage of ultra-elite talent. If we had a surplus of job candidates with that level of talent, it wouldn't be considered elite anymore.

SV wants easier access to the entire world's pool of ultra-elite talent, not just the US's. They want more selection and lower prices.

I don't blame them, but I don't think what they want is necessarily what's best for America. I think we would be better off if companies went back to the old-school method of "hire smart people locally and train them for the specific job skills." Because you have to train people anyway, no one is really a plug-and-play hire.
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These are the biggest protests I've seen in my lifetime, and I'm 34. People are reported wounded and dead, but no one knows how many.

I called my parents in Anatolia to ask them about the protests, and they didn't know there were any. Nothing on Turkish media about the protests. Stuff like this would have appeared on TV twenty years ago, but now they are all self-censored.
Well, there's freelancing, but that market has serious problems with flows of information. (Which would be worth tons of money, if you could solve them.)
You have to compare like with like: number of days holiday is different (we have different numbers of public holidays); you don't have to pay for health insurance; the numbers here are in sterling not USD; do we value experienced developers more than very new ones; how many have bonuses as a major part of their salary [which this doesn't show]?
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What are some example use cases for this?
There isn't just a shortage of ultra-elite local talent, there's even a shortage of halfway competent local talent.

I've done a lot of hiring, mostly from colleges, and I can tell you that there are some schools that should just shut down their CS departments. You know there's a problem when you've given someone a 4 year degree, and they can't even get through a for loop. There's a reason fizz buzz is an interview question.

I refuse to outright ignore any school because I believe great people can go to any school (or no school at all), but some schools I have experience with are definitely a strike against you on your resume.
also does a PhD really help when programming (serious question)?
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I'm not sure of the sense in comparing a $129 AMD CPU to a $329 Intel CPU. Sure, they both have integrated graphics but the budgets of people building a system with these CPU's are going to be very, very different. It'd be silly to build a system with an i7 and no discrete GPU when you could use an i3 (or even a Pentium) and use the savings on video card.
The issue has to do with free will. Not much else.
I would also add a 4th point that the lifestyle in the bay area is very different. I find it far higher in cities like London than in the Silicon Valley -- this is of course very subjective, but it closely mirrors the opinions of those who graduated with me. The closest city to London here is SF (which pales in comparison IMHO), and living there may require a very lengthy commute unless your company is actually in the city.

Of course, if you love nature, the bay area has its perks :) but be ready to spend a lot of time in a car.
Why not just use SVG, every time I see one of these posts I think, "Cool, but wheres the filesize comparison of CSS + Markup, SVG, and various file formats (e.g. crushed pngs)?
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I was just looking at that. The authors use of 'a' in the command (for directory) made is confusing. Thanks for making your clearer to read at a glance.
I released my ios app a week ago (http://pixelhali.de), only about 1300 downloads so far.
few years ago, A friend and I released an app to the android store, we got 130k within one month.

it looks to me that the app market is kinda saturated.