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The thing about development, and it certainly may slow down eventually, especially as Moore's law staggers to a halt and broadband peaks, is that no matter what I build, everybody always, always, always wants more. Every framework I ever developed or integrated was met with a doubling of people's expectations. Make it better, make it slicker, give me this feature, et cetera. I think we've got between 40 and 50 years before we can even suggest hitting saturation with our current technical capabilities.
After years of reading HN, it was your comment that compelled me to register an account.

Thanks for the great comment, sharing with my coworkers and friends.
I was shocked when I discovered I couldn't write a simple JS/HTML application and connect it to a local DB like SQLite without going through a server.

You can access a database locally, at least as of the past couple years. It's called IndexedDB. People quibble about the API, the features, the browser support (Firefox, Chrome and IE10 only), etc... but it is a real database you can use locally.
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Surely sticking a period into the citation of a legal statute for the purposes of altering its intent is some sort of fraud?
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A couple of friends are looking for a developer to join them in London or remotely, they're building a product that connects families through private sharing and messaging.

I'm helping them out/advising them, their current stack includes a Python/Django backend/API and an Angular.js responsive frontend. They've already got an MVP built and have families using it, and they want someone to help them expand it. It's early-stage, so you'll be building the actual user-facing product and directly seeing how users like it.

Send them an email if you're interested! I definitely recommend them, they are really nice guys too.
How does personal sacrifice correlate with market
price for your skills?

Requiring personal sacrifice (like medical training does) limits the supply of labour, and limiting supply drives up prices.
Nice. I just finished building an app and I had to spend a lot of time following the view diagrams to figure out what was going on. Eventually I would get it working, but I still feel a bit uncomfortable with all the magic.

I use your DRF for an API too and find that to be much more straightforward. If this is in a similar vain (and it seems it is) I look forward to trying it out! I worry that it might take a lot of time to replace though, after I spent all that time tweaking I might wait until the next project.
The typical case is to not do this. If you're capable of doing the development work for what you want to build on your own, it's exhilarating though. As long as you have external validation (paying customers, ensure you talk to people smarter than you on a regular basis,...) it's nice being able to make your own decisions without worrying about friction.It's a double edged sword with the amount of work you need to do, but if you enjoy what you do, for many who would be crazy enough to do this in the first place, it's mostly a non issue.
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So you'd be fine if your partner breaks into your email account on the basis of "trust but verify"? [1] I'm not. The NSA/GCHQ are breaking into secured computer systems of other countries and the UN despite having signed treaties that forbid this practice. They use the information gained to undermine the negotiation position of their partners. Now, that this information gets published, it's "what everybody does", but back when american systems were hacked, it was "evil chinese hackers".

I'm not willing to accept that "what everybody does" is always a good practice. The USA is currently loosing a lot of goodwill and trust with other countries due to the NSAs actions. Those actions might have provided a short-term benefit in some negotiation, but now that they're exposed do a tremendous damage. I might be a bit of a dreamer, but I always hoped that governments should be in for the long-term benefit and fostering reciprocal trust between allies is certainly better than spying on them.

[1] trust but verify can be baked into treaties, as was done in the START treaties for example.
Web developers are the COBOL developers of this generation.

Software engineering at its core is a universal skill whose applications will almost certainly have a shelf life of hundreds of years, though the various particular demand curves for specific applications of those skills is sure to vary wildly over time. Now would be an advisable time to start expanding your horizons if your core skill set revolves around creating web applications.
My wife and I took off 8 months last year. I like the approach of a month or maybe a bit more. If you're good at your job and have a good employer, they'll figure out what to do to keep you happy.

Eight months was a bit much for us, so we're planning to try a 1-1.5 month trip at some point. My boss was very receptive to the idea.
The list seems to be inaccurate. Unless something has changed, the Washington Post and New York Times don't use Django for their main website (which the article implies), but for certain projects. The same seems to apply to the Guardian: http://davidbliss.com/2010/09/03/sites-built-using-django/. That link actually provides details.

Django is wonderful, but several of those sites don't use Django for their main website. That doesn't mean Django isn't good, but when one starts citing traffic numbers for the main non-Django-powered site, it's simply misleading.
> If you believe most 68-year-olds are gung-ho about learning Android programming, I think you'll find you're a bit mistaken.

I think you're right. I was only objecting to the absolute character of the original pronouncement, as thought it were always true, not that there isn't evidence for it in many cases.
This isn't specific to HN though. You can see it on slashdot, reddit, and elsewhere -- basically anywhere people are free to post ideas or accomplishments.

Those kinds of replies always read to me in one of three ways:

1. "I wish I'd thought of this obvious application of X, and because I didn't I will denigrate it." Typical responses are as you described.

2. "I am special. I am more special than the person who posted this thing or had this idea, so I will discuss how neither the person who had this idea nor the idea itself aren't that special in a passive-aggressive way" These are especially common when the person originating the idea is exceptionally young or otherwise noteworthy.

3. "This person is not as smart as I am. I will prove it by attacking his or her idea." These replies are typified by off-the-cuff responses that outline one or more extremely obvious weaknesses in the idea/approach being discussed. Such responses ignore the likelihood that the person or people who have spent weeks/months/years formulating
the idea could have possibly considered such a basic flaw that the respondent spotted immediately.

There is also a fourth reply: genuine criticism of the idea, including suggestions on how to improve it. In fairness to HN, I see that type of reply more often here than anywhere else.

It would be cool if more people realized that someone else's intelligence and/or good ideas don't reduce the intelligence of other people, nor take away from the ideas of other people.
Where do you live that or and awe sound the same? I get or, oar and ore, but awe (such as awe shucks, or awesome) and aww sound nothing like or in the midwest.
"How many 2D Unity3D games have reached high up on the top grossing list?

Quite many, I'd say. Looking at top 50 grossing for iPhone right now, I see Temple Run 2, The Hobbit, Kingdoms of Camelot, Subway Surfers, CSR Racing at least; and probably some others I don't recognize. Many others have been in the top charts at various points in the past.
How about some "native" browser engine video instead of Flash? Seeing all this "native" browser stuff playing in the least native format possible is not inspiring.
There is a well-known engine with interesting graphics, audio, video, and network capabilities, also programmable in JS.

It's installed on almost every PC for the last decade; it is called Flash.

Can you mention a couple of key things that make your product diferent and desirable, instead of Flash?

Because we remember other nice engines of this kind, e.g. Silverlight.
Railscasts was really useful when I was learning Rails, so there's no begrudging Ryan.

But still, part of me has to wonder, how much of this is TextMate Syndrome[1]? By which I mean, how much did Railscasts end up earning?

I was signed up for about a year -- $108. Ignoring those who would pay their personal money, and just considering those who could expense it (a whopping $9 per month!), I have always just assumed (but don't know) than many thousands of others must have subscribed.

Making hundreds of thousands of dollars more than you expected does really make it harder to keep working on some nerd shit, instead of... not doing that.

[1]: http://blog.macromates.com/2006/year-in-review/
I am unable to read the text you linked to. :(

Sounds like the Bimbache people could support 4x the population that the Spanish could (8,000 vs. 2,000), which makes sense (water being the limiting resource in that landscape).

Why discount pp156 again? The numbers are perfectly doable with a carefully placed tree that uses the surrounding landscape to funnel fog to it.

Lead pipes wouldn't be needed for the entire length — clay-lined spillways would more than suffice. I read it as using lead just to the cistern.

Great research, thanks!
He might even get into Y combinator, if he tried.

There, I did it. Haha.

Can we stop beating dead horses, we all read Hacker News around here?
Two thoughts: I'd love it if there was a website or book that discussed these big websites' workings in depth. Not just "here's this cool thing we built and an interview with the tech lead" but "here's how authors enter content" to "here are the problems we encountered while templating" to "here's what we wish we had built-into our software stack".

Secondly, a couple years ago I went directly to a "we are really good at Django" web host to try learning Django, but the amount of plumbing required was really annoying. I asked a Django-using acquaintance to send me his documentation on deploying Django-driven apps on this host, and I received a four-page Word document packed to the gunnels with instructions. :-/ I really want to try out Django though so I guess I'll swallow my pride.
...so that others don't sink their time, too?

Sounds legit.
Paul Graham (the site founder) has commented on a type of comment that he thinks is very harmful to the community, but hard to identify by a key phrase: the "middlebrow dismissal." He wrote,

"The problem with the middlebrow dismissal is that it's a magnet for upvotes. The 'U R a fag's get downvoted and end up at the bottom of the page where they cause little trouble. But this sort of comment rises to the top. Things have now gotten to the stage where I flinch slightly as I click on the 'comments' link, bracing myself for the dismissive comment I know will be waiting for me at the top of the page."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920

As other readers have noticed, my idea of an interesting water cooler conversation with colleagues is referring to verifiable facts about the external world while checking the reasoning of a submitted article. The Internet is, indeed, mostly about sharing unsupported opinions, as the article kindly submitted here suggests, but I enjoy having my opinions examined by comparing them to facts in the real world, and I try to extend the same favor to the friends I meet here.
OSX is a failure compared to Windows Desktop Marketshare. And this is important because software is built for Windows first and OSX later or never. Case in point, mac users often 'need to' run VM's to run windows apps. Windows is the dominant platform for the desktop.

Windows Phone on the other hand is a failure because at 4% marketshare, Microsoft has no workable business model. They are losing money to play catch up.

Carriers have cheaper and better margin alternatives to pushing windows phones. Developers don't have the user base to justify apps for the platform. Consumers don't see the compelling reason to switch from iOS or android.

The sad thing is, the windows phone business (6.x) was doing great at 16% market share before iOS and android. Microsoft got disrupted by new technology.
I personally knew competent programmers who, a couple of years after, I would describe as living in poverty.

I believe that I am able to judge programming competence, and my bar for labeling poverty is not inaccurate.
The real problem with Star Trek Into Darkness‘s bungled Blu-ray release
There's another interesting similarity not discussed in that autoworkers in, say, Wyoming, were pretty thin on the ground and not so well paid. In the Detroit area, sure there was competition and excellent pay. But in rural Wisconsin there was one (of many) rural assembly plants. Pay wasn't awful, but it wasn't as amazing as working in Detroit. And there was "a" plant. You get fired, you better move out of town because there is only one employer (now zero)

In the same way, if you're a software dev, yes, you can get eight times the average salary in two geographic areas where the cost of living is only ten times higher than the rest of the country (LOL). However, outside NYC / SV... pay is still good, although lower, and jobs are Extremely thin on the ground. Your average non-coastal grad is more likely out of the field (UPS, starbucks, unemployed) or at a helpdesk or admin doing non-dev work, not actually slinging code as an actual dev. If the schools insist on slurping out a couple hundred grads a year, and there's only a couple software dev positions total, you do the math. If anything, the concentration is even more intense in software development than it was in automotive manufacturing. GM had a major plant in a podunk city in a podunk county in rural Wisconsin, well, at least until it closed. Wake me when Google, YC, and Facebook open branch offices in rural Sparta Wisconsin.

I believe this is a large part of the lack of interest. 99% of the country desires not to live in SV or Manhattan, therefore the lack of interest in becoming a developer.

I would agree with the legendary enrollment oscillator theory having seen innumerable cycles inside and outside CS. Everyone knows there's infinite demand for new nurse grads everywhere in the country for decades, right? LOL tell that to my cousin's newly graduated wife.
While works produced by Federal Employees in the course of their employment are in the public domain as far as copyright is concerned; trademarks are different than copyright. And while the Federal Government and States and State owned Universities don't normally register trademarks with the patent office; they generally have a similar-to-trademark-protection of their marks, seals, and insignias under a seperate federal of state code.
True. Although the part that you can legally visit is still nothing like the real thing (http://www.zoriah.net/blog/2009/02/catacombs-of-paris-the-re...)
Detroit was also sunk by massive pension costs and held hostage by union requirements.

Software has much more creative destruction - the startups of today paying ridiculous figures can go bust tomorrow and wages collapse. That happened after the dot com boom after all.

I do think there will be downward pressure on wages, especially US ones, it just won't be a sudden implosion.

What's interesting is just how expensive US developers are compared to other Western countries. I can see a future of people moving across the Atlantic, especially more established companies that don't need "rockstar ninjas" - although plenty of threads on here about healthcare and government snooping encourage even them to move.
I think we're talking at cross purposes.

I think it would be really useful for some core information[1] to be made available in best quality form, and in many different languages. This would be things like "How does science work?" and other simple introductory science texts. This would be things like man pages.

This would help people learn the basic concepts while they're also learning other languages. Having short form, excellent quality, science and math educational material available in many languages could do a lot to make the world a better place.

Having read some of your other comments I see that you're aiming the "learn English, it's really useful" to people working at a much higher level than that. I gently agree with most of that - there are many areas where learning English is very useful.
The NSA's crypto "breakthrough"
WFTPD
Too bad autoworkers never made $100k+/yr even with inflation adjustment.
Very far fetched.
the wife of a (chilean) friend of mine is a speech therapist. the discussions here prompted me to contact her - she thinks she could help my spanish and i'm considering going to some sessions.

if anyone else in santiago wants an introduction / contact email me (to be honest, she may be doing it as a favour to me, as i think she works more with children, but she will have other contacts, and here it's generally better to find people through recommendations than cold calling...)
Thanks for explaining that. As a heads up, you might want to put some of that in the video... I had no idea what was going on at the end.
I believe a more accurate analogy would be

helpdesk/admins/sysadmins/support/cable pullers map to factory line workers

vs

software devs map to mechanical engineers

Detroit has always had genius level engineers doing amazing stuff. Totally different issue if any of it is ever allowed out the labs into products, but ...
How different is your marketing, really?
1. You get what you pay for. A lot of individuals who outsource the development of their "startup idea" end up with a less-than-satisfactory solution because they lacked the capital reasonably necessary to pursue their venture and as a result outsourced to the cheapest developer they could find.

2. Business requirements are a two-way street. Many non-technical folks have a hard time sufficiently describing their business requirements, and even more simply don't have the skill and patience required to work with a technical resource to turn business requirements into functional and technical requirements. You can't blame a technical resource for this shortcoming.

3. In today's market, good developers who are eager to make money generally have no shortage of employment and contracting opportunities. In certain geographic areas of the United States, experienced developers can easily make six figures annually. Outside of the United States, it's not difficult to find freelance developers earning far in excess of the average local wage. Unless you have a personal relationship with a developer and a co-founder relationship grows organically out of that relationship, it's naive to believe that a developer willing to work for you on an equity-only basis is going to be the cream of the crop.

In short, there's a reason there are so many non-technical founders running around like chickens with their heads cut off looking for a technical co-founder: very few good developers want to take your 1 am call so that they can do all the work for free while you sleep.
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> Has anyone changed their opinion on Edward Snowden?

No

> There is a difference between this, and exposing potential crimes toward the American people by the NSA.

Yes, sure, but only marginally: The NSA is spying on other nations and the UN, violating treaties the US government voluntarily signed. IMHO, that's a pretty clear sign of a secret service out of control - unless it's the administration that is signing treaties left and ordering the secret service to break them on the right. I'm not certain which idea appeals less to me.

If that's standard SOP for every country I think it deserves a public debate and that's what's happening. It's the spectre of the NSAs actions that comes back to haunt the government. Same as the whole WMD story in Iraq: Now the "undeniable proof" that Assad used chemical weapons is questioned. Nobody trusts you if you treat your friends like shit - and everybody on the receiving end is entitled to be pissed off. Sure, they'll use that in future dealings, but well, that's the price you pay. SOP, you could say.
I'm not sure about Russell's account of socialism, but yes, utopian vs. scientific socialism is important.
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I tend to use such phrases as a shorthand for "I can say that X is true based on my own experience, but have not explicitly researched this topic and so am open to disagreement from someone more knowledgeable".

On the other hand, expecting such nuance to come through in the phrase "I'm almost positive" or "nearly certain" (my preferred variants) is likely a bit unreasonable.
I think any geek interested in improving their English should check out my website: http://www.antimoon.com
especially the "How to learn English" section, which is a guide based on my own experiences and some language acquisition theory.
http://www.antimoon.com/how/howtolearn.htm

I've been writing about effective language learning techniques since 2000, with an emphasis on pronunciation (which is an oft-neglected topic in English classrooms). The site is written in simple English, so if you're a native speaker of English, don't be put off by the spartan writing style.
Leaving shortly after -- good for you! Being told to stop bringing up a problem (that really is a problem) is for me, an indicator that the foundations of an organization is rotting, and the end is near.
I know of pit deputies and shot firers who make £100k in the UK
They most likely do test for security vulnerabilities. However, the attack surface and overall complexity is so large that things will slip by even with the most rigorous testing.

For now, the best you can hope for is a layered defense and rigorous dev and ops practices to help minimize the attack surface and reduce the overall damage a single successful attack can achieve.
I share your antipathy for the comment, but not bafflement. How long have you worked in software dev? So many devs are like that.
Interesting. I'd never have thought of LA as a tech hub, but it kind of makes sense. Defense and tv/movies are big in LA and they never have recessions.