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Agree with you about waiting ... but i think you will not wait more than the next WWDC to know if Apple will survive after Jobs or it's about time to Go down Or Find the next Jobs to Run the company ... Just saying i hate to see this company stop to INVENT.
Thanks! Agreed about the porch but that only works for items of small value.

Another huge thing people don't realize is box size. In most cases you can save up to 50% off the shipping price if you can fit your item in the tightest box possible. There are only a few sizes USPS provides for free using priority mail.

We have about 20 different box sizes to take advantage of this.
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Thanks for the bug, I'll look into that.
And yes, I still don't know what I was thinking when choosing the name...
I did two years of computer science, then quit. I use very little of what I learnt, and the personal development (no pun intended) outside of what I was taught at university has been far more important to my career.

If money is your goal, knowing how to sell yourself (in job applications and interviews) is very important. For job security and progression in general, people skills are essential.

My advice? Don't bother with university, start work ASAP, and keep learning in your spare time.
This thread reflects how little HN has to do with hacker culture those days. I read the article and enjoyed very much his description of the process by which he learns foreign languages and how he tries to make maximum use of every bit of free time. Then I went to the comments and saw the batshit comments about ties.

Time to rename the site to "Hater News".
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I guess it does to some extent. Would be cool if they summarized some of the stats and reminded you reach out to your friends in some psychologically acceptable way.
> he thought that learning Django was a feat of strength...sigh.

Unbelieveable, pulp fiction or Jackie Brown if you really must, but really why bother?
"Genius or not, is he a misanthrope?"

From Wikipedia: "Misanthropy is the general hatred, mistrust or disdain of the human species or human nature"

Nah, just a "difficult" person, at least based on our interactions in the '80s. He wasn't that bad a person to be around as long as you're not in one of his "bad" categories, i.e. there was a big change in our interactions where I started to work for "Software Hoarder" UniPress after previously working at e.g. Lisp Machine Inc.
You pan Keynesian economics as misguided, and while I'd agree that ramping up public spending is not the solution everytime, clearly austerity is not leading to the "investor confidence" that would spur growth in the periphery. The truth is, no approach is going to work in every situation, but it's almost foolish to say austerity was the best approach to the Eurocrisis.

Of course there are complications when you're dealing with a common currency, but the budget constraints and subsequent skyrocketing of debt hasn't alleviated the situation. If anything its burdened the finances of the periphery with an unbelievable amount of default risk, which if I understand austerity economics correctly, that is exactly what it's meant to avoid via boosting investor confidence. Odd how even though results were different, people still believe it's a good solution to the Eurozone's woes.
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Open to applications from a diverse range of backgrounds, whether you're an experienced dev with commercial experience, university graduate or not done/completed a degree. Just have a passion for development and a project or two to show us.

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Is RMS the proto-hipster? He only likes music until it becomes popular.

I wonder if he tries to be different so he can be different and unique, and that all his bluster and quirks come from this desire for uniqueness rather than his fight for "freedom."
What happens when the automation of the robot servicing fails? Do you have servicing of the servicing of the robots? Seems like a massive clusterfudge if you ask me.

The same thing that happens if we were talking about humans instead of robots. They are replaced.
Wait, could you explain to us outsiders "the way the City works?" Are bonuses that important?
Wow, that's well above the norm. What job is it?
Sure, a lot of things here are taken care of. But compared to other jobs for smart graduate in the uk, e.g. law (£35-40k as a graduate trainee), investment banking (£40+k as a graduate, rising very quickly and with significant bonus) it is poorly paid.
1) The article is talking about SF specifically, not Bay Area.

2) Of course you don't have to spend a million dollars to buy a place in SF if the median price is one million. Half the houses for sale obviously cost less than one million.
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It's not that I'd use Perl for the task, just that I don't think rsync is special. Indeed, rsync has the overhead of forking a child and communicating empty/'s bareness.
I noticed that as well. It struck me that the third group may have been focussing on the function more than the physiology.
I'm not sure about the hn-profile :/ just send me a mail to me@nikolasgoebel.com :)
Yahoo! had similar problems
If you're a non-junior engineer, and one of the first ~10 employees, this is fairly common. At least at the point of issuance; 2-3 VC rounds reduces the percentage (but increases the value, at least in theory).
> denying you access to the firmware was never their intent.

Unlikely. With a new person or company it's sporting to give them the benefit of the doubt. With Microsoft if you're still ignoring everything illegal and anti-competitive they do you're on the payroll.

Microsoft specifically modified its products to sabotage a competitor, and lied about it. Microsoft faked evidence to use in Federal court and Bill presented that evidence though it was clearly wrong to anyone who'd used windows.

Why on Earth would anyone give them the benefit of the doubt?

The BSA, which they support, wouldn't give you the benefit of the doubt.
The horse population was huge in the 19th century, and then drastically fell when they were replaced with cars, trucks and trains for transportation and machines for labor. We didn't need biological horse labor anymore, and they became luxury items.

The same thing could happen to humans. I'm sure the 1% or the 53% wouldn't miss the irritating 99% or the 47% once we're no longer needed to maintain their lifestyles.

"Look Daddy, that family has a human gardener! Can we get one? Please?"
There's freelancing and remote work, which are less restricted.

The flow of information between transacting parties is a fairly central problem of economics. It's believed to be why companies exist (since alternatively the logical end point for a perfect free market is a thin gas of individual, rational agents), and it explains the "Market for Lemons".

Solving that problem preoccupies a large part of the economy. And making it worse, another large part. All hail the Red Queen.
I live in Canada in a small town with a fairly large (per capita) Lebanese population (Tweel, Haddad, Rashed, Jabour).

We have bad drivers here but I am willing to bet we exported the behaviour to Lebanon not the other way around.
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Android Specialist. We are looking for someone to join our team working on native video SDKs. We are a small team of 3 working on iOS and Android. We plan on expanding to other platforms, possibly Xbox, Roku, etc. Right now we looking for someone to come in and own our Android SDK, but who also isn't afraid to hack on some iOS or other platforms if needed.

You:

- Have current experience working with the Android SDK,
though you may also have a background in JavaScript,
Flex/AS3, Silverlight, Cocoa, or WPF.
- Are able to think within the constraints of memory and
network availability, yet still deliver sophisticated
end user interactivity.
- Understand the importance of proper version control
and dependency management. You love Git and Maven, or
want to teach us how to use better tools.
- Probably have strong opinions on programming
languages, tools, and software architecture, but
aren’t beholden to dogma – you are as interested in
learning from others as you are in sharing your own
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Not required, but we'd be impressed if you also have:

- Experience programming with media playback technology
(any platform)
- Development experience on iOS, MacOSX, Windows Phone,
or game consoles (Xbox/PS3)
- Experience/interest in using RxJava and functional
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source projects

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Maybe not for web or mobile development, but without getting into specifics I'm thinking of friends with PhDs directly using their skills in optimization and machine learning in their jobs.
As well as added a way to create personal campaigns with milestones and share some of this information more openly with selected personal mentors or advisors. Come to think of it linkedin could do this better?
Some places have very big bonus' with average salary. I have a few friends on 35-45% bonus on £35k a year as swdevs.
In the City, you get hired based on a "total comp" package that includes salary and a practically guaranteed bonus, that can be as much as your base salary or even more.
"not everyone can be a tech worker..."

Why not? Isn't it possible that we are affecting our own evolution? Those with rational and logic-oriented minds will thrive, and the numbers of those who aren't able to develop that capacity will begin to dwindle. Given the inclination towards pacifism, scientific reason, and tollerance that most rational people exhibit, seems like a net win for the future of humanity.
They're literally the same panels as the Dells and Apples.
When my friends and I discuss such things I like to emphasize that even if you as a pedestrian or cyclist have the right of way but you're hit and killed your objection is invalid since you're dead.
Maybe when the founders are unemployed and give love to each transaction. After they grow, that's like saying "charging below cost is their moat". Amazon and eBay to CS cheaper per transaction than a small startup.
From my experience(graduated last year) the range people from my class took was 16-32k.
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' will take "48 quintillion years"! Sweet!
Everything but the inane comments I can understand. If you want to avoid those, you might as well just move to a Tibetan monastery.

It just seems like an odd, circuitous route to take. I would have expected him to just use Lynx or something.
There was an article going around here some time ago about a company in the described position that was literally flabbergasted about not being able to hire all the top engineering talent that they wanted in the US ... at $14/hour pay.

That pretty much summed up the real issue for me.
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Thanks. All great suggestions. The bulleted list in a notepad approach is something I've used successfully in the past, I'm going to start doing it more regularly for personal projects as well.

Learning just for the sake of learning — good point there. For example, I really have no good reason to read Elements of Programming. I'm not a compiler designer or anything. That said, it is still fun and interesting to read. Probably makes sense to split reading into stuff that is clearly productive and helpful and things that are just intellectual entertainment.
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London's an awful lot better than most of the rest of the UK. I'm on a similar package as the post above, but only since moving to London.

Working anywhere else in the UK, I'd struggle to get half that.
It's too bad they can choose to stop once they've started. Like the patent trolls new-egg is fighting.

New-egg should essentially be able to take the trolls to court and part them out for sale, down to their CEO's organs, for trying this in the first place.
Well, my wife recently started in France, with M.Eng. in CS, for what translates to around £25k/year. And that is considered well paid.
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Wow, yeah, that validation in advance must be a powerful motivator. There's definitely projects and stuff that it wouldn't work for, but when it's possible, I'll try to do that in the future.
I have a problem with "If supply of workers is short of demand, price should go up". In a very basic view this makes sense. But not in even slightly more sophisticated models.

A company makes a certain "marginal" revenue off the employee. It's not always easy or even possible to compute the exact amount, but the salary is limited by this marginal revenue. The difference between marginal revenue and salary is the marginal profit. If that profit is too small, management might not be able to get the money to even hire this employee.

Supply and demand in the labor market is a very fickle thing, and I am certainly no expert. But adding job opportunities and subtracting immigrants is not going to fly.
In the relevant Boston area business and social circles in the '80s, a techie wearing a tie, even to interviews, was pretty much unheard of, so I'm pretty sure that goes way back further.

If you'd been in those circles in the '80s, you clearly would have been viewed as eccentric as RMS for being a "frequent tie wearer", but all else being equal, we would have loved you as much as we loved him ^_^.
Is this poll in pounds or USD?
That's pretty nice. What powers the file preview?
Edit: Ah, it's the Google Docs viewer. That's a handy part of the Google Docs service that a lot of site owners are not aware of.
Its simple really, I've disabled Facebook notifications on my phone, so I only see them when I open Facebook myself. Second, my phone (and many others) has a do not disturb feature I use to silence all sounds while I am sleeping. Tech has made communication instant, but it has also made it easier to manage and screen if you use it appropriately.
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This will only be a problem if technology is monopolised by a few. So another reason to worry about intellectual property.
Especially with mobile, where the government parcels out the ability to play (spectrum) to the companies that cooperate with it.

At least in areas without natural monopolies you can shop around.
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Yeah, I figured that defeated the benefit of streaming. And I agree, withConnection is cleaner, I'll add that if I do a followup (which I think I will given all the good advice I'm getting from HN). Thank you!
> I'm not really convinced that pay has anything to do with it. The general problem really seems to genuinely be finding engineers that are good enough, just in the recruitment process period -- at least in many cases.

It's neither the pay nor the talent. It's the combination of both. Companies in SV want to pay the highest talent the least amount of money. They do this while masking their actions as a shortage of STEM workers in the US. Programmers are the new labor force and just like the ones before it are being outsourced for cheaper work. Only this time the employees must come here.
Don't get caught in the desire to "judge back". If anything you stoop to Stallman's level. It's perfectly fine to be critical, but at the end of the day, who cares if Stallman doesn't like wearing a tie? If you don't either, cool. If you do, that's cool too.
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It is possible. You need to remember that in a modern mobile phone, there are two high powered processors, the baseband processor and the application processor, communicating only over a very very high level protocol. The application processor runs Android or iOS (or Windows Phone), the baseband processor a propietary RTOS or similar embedded system.

The problem boils down to this: baseband (the chip doing the GSM, LTE, .. communication) processors are completely propietary. There is no source for the software running on them, it's a big binary blob. And the other big problem is that baseband processors have become a hub for any analog processing. They run the GPS chip and they are the DSP for the microphones. Combine access to all vital systems and the primary communication link, and business practices in the big, sometimes partially government owned, companies producing the software for these chips.. it makes for an explosive mixture in a "mobile first" world.

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I have a lot of problems with this article.

> 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.

So you're saying that the US has a shortage of the world's best talent? And that Silicon Valley wants to be able to hire the world's best? Those 2 suppositions seem too obvious to bear mentioning. Are we supposed to expect the majority of the ultra-elite of anything to come out of the US?

Then the article looks at average salaries for STEM workers over time to "prove" that there's no shortage based on "the fundamental laws of supply and demand." OK, but average price would only rise if the supply-to-demand ratio was also shrinking, not if it was relatively constant. I don't see this brought up in the article.
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16:9 is practically useless for development, at least for me. It's a trend I am not enjoying.
The youth's don't necessarily start it - but they are primed to carry it on. What happens is a groups with something to lose (the french middle class) takes advantage of another group that has nothing to lose (the poor). You can't start a fire with only a spark; you have to have a fuel source.
That is a good starting salary. Make sure you stick to your guns when you move about. If you are staying in your area of expertise you should never take a pay cut. Ever.
I find that skills from more traditional, hard degrees (maths, physics, chem, history, philosophy) translate into high-level employable skills more than raw computer science. raw comp sci (and basic programming jobs) is a useless skill without advance business domain knowledge (and the traditional hard subjects provide the scaffolding, if you will, to pick that up more quickly.)

One think I wish I knew about the job market before I started: you'll be more successful using programming as your "secret weapon" in some other domain than as line-engineer elsewhere. of course, "success" here is defined in terms of what I like, and may not match you.

I found my personal development and existing work mattered a lot more than my university.
Thanks! It depends in the file type. Most doc (pdf, doc, xls) are powered by Google doc viewer if that's what you mean.
I started looking at attoparsec after the post. Thanks, I'll look closer and see if I can figure it out.