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Yah, I'm on Eclipse (Kepler) for Scala development, but VIM bindings are more efficient editing-wise, IMO.

I would choose VIM over Gedit simply because remote servers tend to have vi/vim installed out of the box, not to mention the fact that Gedit is to me not really all that great (perhaps a bit better than M$'s Wordpad).

VIM is my default editor for sysadmin work; for coding it's Eclipse for server-side and Aptana for client-side (which I guess is Eclipse under the hood, just not as bloated).
No, I'm tired of moaning about income inequality. If every person in the US had their income doubled we would have even greater income inequality than we do now, but everyone would be better off. Everyone benefits from technological advances. The poor can buy better goods for a cheaper price and the rich can maximize their profits.
Not involved with the project at all, just wondering what browser you're using? It seems pretty natural and all working fine for me on Chrome.
People like to dramatize this a bit, I think.

First, I'll quibble with the definition of all-nighter: "I ended up doing an all-nighter in my first week as an intern, which is when you start work at nine, you stay until five or six the next morning, you go home, have a quick shower and then head back into the office and continue working."

If you leave work at 5 and start at 9, and are sensible and live within 20 minutes of work (which you can on a banker's salary, at least in NYC), that's like 3 whole hours of sleep.

Second, how many times did you pull a few all-nighters in a row during college? I can't even count. I certainly didn't die.

Third, he's leaving out the part where a deal dies and you find yourself with nothing to do for days. You may not experience that as an intern, but once you're actually working the 100-hour weeks will be interspersed with very dead weeks.
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I thought HN was full of programmers and the like? surely we still qualify as 'middle class'
I'm a pretty cynical person. There have been incidental abuses with mail, systematic abuses with telegrams (the predecessor to the NSA read them), and lots of telephone abuses (which were addressed by strict wiretapping laws).

Mail is fairly tamper evident. When the government read your mail to Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union, they usually re-enveloped it and put a notice on it. Non-spy agencies had to have a warrant.
This is great news, although I really wish it would have come sooner as we have spent a significant amount of time getting Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) to play nice with our Qt application in the past months.

One thing that I wonder though: Does this mean that the Qt WebEngine will stay more up to date? Because the old QtWebkit was lagging pretty far behind and for instance didn't get HTML5 support until very recently.
Maciej Ceglowski (@pinboard, @baconmeteor) is working on an RSS reader I expect to be the best out there.

I agree that the readers available are largely awful - although I'm quite fond of using Fever, but the Pinboard Reader could change that.
Now I have Margriet Eshuijs in my head.
That is your opinion, I have mine.
Yes. We can call it capitalism.

Capitalism is private ownership of the means of productions. There is nothing in capitalism that implies less inequality. If the balance between capital and work switches to favor capital more, there will be inequality.
I'm still pretty happy with the first version on my iPhone combined with Feedbin. Are there compelling reasons to upgrade aside from the fact that it's an iPad version as well?
Good point. I remember being told as a kid to not become a programmer. That was before kids out of college were pulling $120k building apps :)
Interns don't need to be efficient (they're cheap and disposable), and they don't do very intellectually taxing work, in general. Think making powerpoints, not designing investment strategies or coding. There's little incentive for the more senior bankers to treat their interns properly.
Just my line of thought. If capitalism, regulated or not, leads to neo-feudalism, maybe that society is actually the target for which capitalism is just a catalyst.
In that industry bonuses will increase your salary by double or more... Junior analysts in a big bank/hedge fund can expect to make as much (or slightly more) than a senior programmer in Silicon Valley.
There are more lawyers than there are lawyering jobs. All the lawyer people I know are complaining and many are closing their offices because they can't get enough clients.

Doctors can't get jobs because so many people are vying for the same jobs it's difficult to even get a specialty. Nobody will hire you without a specialty.

Retail ... yeah, you're competing with everyone from high school students to college grads for jobs that often pay like 5 euro an hour.

Construction ... well maybe if you move to China or some other booming place. Most places I've seen around Europe are full of shutdown construction sites that have been standing still for a long long time.

And when I said engineer, I meant all types of engineers. Not just software.
It is rather a matter of missing regulations.
nope. up and running for me.
The current environment evolved only due to specific circumstances involving industrialization and globalization, and the fact the people at large completely missed the concentration of power by bankers and wealthy dyanasties.

I think the problem emerges whenever you have an economic system built round game theory (which really capitalism is) where most people don't rationalize their participation such that the few recognizing the game they are playing can exploit the passive participants and siphon their productivity they add to said game.

We are all playing, but a huge number of people I know don't rationalize that participation. They don't look beyond buying a car, house, nice clothes, paying rent on a dozen different things they don't recieve tangable long term goods from (ie, $300 a month phone service). They don't ever ask why their tax bill is huge or why they even have income tax at all, because their parents told them it is inevitable and they were ground through an educational process with a peripheral task of grooming them to be assembly workers.
lots of info, but the presentation is a bit confusing
It's not a broken experience.

It's attempting to make something perform in a way it was not designed, nor intended, for. Just because a Honda Civic can't compete in an F1 race doesn't mean the Civic is broken.
Certainly was for couple minutes.
I think what's annoying to me is also that they were so opaque with their plans. They could have said "we'll be releasing a new version for money that will have the new feed sources in it."

But instead, they kind of half-supported feedbin et al in the iPhone app and then there was radio silence... And in the meantime, with zero information, I wasted money buying a bunch of other reader apps... Which I would not have done if I'd known they were coming up with this.

Feels like they were not transparent and, well, wholesome about their plans or vision.
Wait … no it isn’t. In fact Word sucks at all of that!

You would assume that the writer would then tell you which tools do those tasks better. If he says that in this post, I couldn't find it. I did find him saying that "LibreOffice isn’t bad per se, but there are better writing tools out there." I read through his suggested "better" writing tools and the first one he likes better is a writing tool that only works on Macs/iOS and the other is a WordPress plugin. Weird suggestions.

Suggestion: save your time and read something else. There's nothing more than a Mac user's opinion going on here. As a 15+ year author, I've used .doc probably 90% of the time and it's worked, as it does for nearly every major publisher in the past ten years. There - that's my opinion. I just expressed it more succinctly.
Was it intentional or unintentional that your comment also describes the life of entrepreneurs/startup founders?
Wait, why are central bankers "necessary"? We invented bitcoin 4 years ago, and it didn't take that long for the rise and fall of pagers to go through.
Drugs. Sneak sleep. Throw Blackberries. Write canned reports. More drugs...
Is there any reason, from the user's perspective, to still send a User-Agent string at all in modern browsers? What is it useful for, besides making clear that you aren't a (self-identified) robot or script?
There's more to retail than shelf-stockers. Would you count running a brick-and-mortar store as being an entrepreneur?
I won't buy it. This developer will drop support of his app as soon as it's not too lucrative. This happened with a desktop version of the Reeder. I had been waiting for the google-reader-api-free version but had to buy Caffeinated app instead.
Even if/when the actual requirements aren't too outlandish, the description is just as ridiculous. I read one on here just the other day that was seeking a RoR force of nature - someone who could move mountains, etc.

Who writes this crap?
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These issues are the outcomes and culmination of corrupt and pernicious actions taken a long time ago in the USA. If you look at Europe and other places around the world, there are sufficient models to emulate to solve these problems; but the corrupt master class has no interest in solving the "problems" that serve their interests and they have no interest in letting us, as a people, realize that we are not exceptional and therefore could learn by looking outside of our own culture and borders.

What America doesn't realize, even the supposed most intelligent and informed, is that we are no different than any other people living under a controlling regime, we just have more resources to burn that allow the margins for error to be humongous compared to other places. The controlled media, corrupt politics, the rationalized abuse of laws you are destroyed for not abiding by, the propaganda, the war mongering, the racist subjugation of certain groups. It's all there, we just don't see it, as a people, because as with the same form of national socialism that destroyed Germany in the early 20th century, the American version of national socialism has brain-washed people into doing, thinking, and saying things to and about others that they would never want happen to themselves.
Ask HN: Volunteering for Non-profits (programming/webdev)
I searched around on google, but I couldn't find much; or at least that matched my criteria. Is there somewhere that I can go to find non-profits in need of X? Where X is web development, or programming expertise (about all I can offer).

http://www.volunteermatch.org/ and idealist.org were the two that stood out, but I couldn't find anyone looking for those skills.
I feel as if bourbon is a better drink for coding while tequila is a better drink for going out all night and puking before bed
I think what you're confusing here is a shrinking economy with a push to become entrepreneurs. Being 'jobless' is not the same as wanting or having to become an entrepreneur. It's true that in times of economic shrinkage there will be more one-man or one-woman companies founded in lieu of employment but that is usually an indicator of a broken social fabric than some desire on the part of the newly minted entrepreneurs, the majority of which will fail in the first year. Think of it as a last ditch attempt to make ends meet, if you can't be employed then you can attempt to be your own boss for a bit but if you then still can't find the (non-existent) work then it is quickly game over.
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Frankly, I'm surprised the attitude of many people seems to be: "I'm going to work at an established company for X years to get experience, then break off to start my own."

Then they write blog posts and postmortems about how they lost their friends and spouses, became horribly unhealthy and severely depressed. But it was worth it in the end, of course.
>The low paying jobs today are in the service industry - largely retail and fast food chains. These jobs are dead end without paying anyone enough to live on.

Friend of mine went to work at McDonalds during high school. By 22 he was a manager and making over 80k a year. It may be dead end, but that is more than enough to live on.
Must be a tradition, the old Newton had some interesting names for functions in its API dealing with horses.
This is an interesting perspective. However, I come for a different vantage point: I'm a terrible employee and I feel that the world worked hard to force a "corporate career path" on the wrong guy for years. Perhaps startup life should be always an anomaly because it isn't for everyone, but it's the only place I've ever felt like I was a meaningful part of meaningful work.

I do think it's still underrepresented as an option, though that appears to be improving. Also, access to investment and radically cheaper startup costs have made this very difficult path just a little less difficult. I think it's an amazing time to start something, an amazing time to be an indy developer. I also think these early-stage laboratories will help replenish some of the SMBs America has lost on the street corners. Maybe the days where you can make a living as a local grocer are gone. But the days to make a living as an innovative, startup grocery delivery service are just beginning.

EDIT: It's timely that the post immediately under this one on the front page is "Pushed to the limit as a banking intern". Maybe it's just my nature, but I didn't work less in a corporate environment. I was just more disconnected to my work and the results. I didn't feel the same impact.
The cool thing about starting your own business is that you can build it however you like.

You can work 80 hour weeks or 10 hour weeks. Your choice. You can neglect your friends, family and health, and work yourself into the ground. Or not. Again, entirely up to you.

Surprisingly, the end result will probably be roughly the same. If you're good at building software, and work in bursts like most of us do, then a few good deep sessions a week will get your thing built plenty fast. And since so much of the other 90% of building a successful business is measured in "calendar time", it really doesn't hurt much if you don't get in 60 good hours one week.

Naturally, if you take VC money, they might prefer you do things the "normal" way. Fortunately, that's another thing you get to decide whether you want to do.
>3 whole hours of sleep

>100-hour weeks will be interspersed with very dead weeks

That still sounds pretty dramatic man. Would you want your doctor on that schedule? Your bus/cab driver?
One way to deal with income inequality is to shrug your shoulders and pretend it's okay - "let them drink latte" - which is what this guy is recommending.

Another way is to claw back some of the financial regulation that once protected America's middle class from the full force of market instability. Take a look at this chart comparing income inequality and bank failures over the previous century:

http://www.tobinproject.org/sites/tobinproject.org/files/ass...

There's not some magic force of technology driving growing inequality. In fact, even in this writer's argument, technological aptitude provides one of the only routes out of the lower classes. Inequality is growing because of financial deregulation since the 1980s.
(Telia || Level3) && AWS having issues?
Not sure if all or one of the above.. I've been seeing connectivity issues towards AWS..

Anyone else?
Precariate - I like that. We need such a word.

Upward mobility might be easier though, even as poverty and precarity increases. Elites would have to shutdown Internet wealth generation somehow to prevent upward mobility.

Right now it's never been easier to start a business and generate income for yourself. We're seeing easier upward mobility for those equipped to take advantage of this, even as others see their opportunities shrink.
I had looked at Spark a couple of weeks ago. I'm looking for a lightweight service-y sort of framework which just happens to have a good HTTP service available out-of-the-box. My application does back-end processing and coordinates a bunch of data feeds, thick-client HTTP requests, background processing, etc. all together. Spark was too web-centric (not a bad thing, just not what I need). OSGi was an attempt to be what I want, but its requirement of classpath isolation (a good idea conceptually) is onerous in practice. Right now, I'm using a homespun amalgam of Grizzly, Guice, and java.util.concurrent (for thread pooling), and other stuff. I really didn't want to build my own container. I'm intrigued by Apache Karaf, but OSGi is a huge pill to swallow (If you haven't debugged OSGi classloading issues, you'd be in for a treat).

In a nutshell, I want a service lifecycle container which allows me to write small, lightweight, modular services which depend on each other. The container should provide for cross-cutting concerns like monitoring, management, configuration, logging, auditability (I have concrete definitions for these things -- they're not just abstract biz-speak to me). HTTP should be an out-of-the-box, optional module. A service which exposes another service via a RESTful interface and depends upon the HTTP service should be another. For my application, services which listen to multicast data streams are just as important interfaces to the world as JSON-over-HTTP-via-REST. I want to write the HelloWorld method body and be able to do stuff like: expose it via a RESTful interface, invoke it every N seconds, inject an interface exposing the HelloWorld contract into other services, etc. When I want to know how my HelloWorld service is performing, there's a pre-built web interface which provides New Relic-esque views. I'd like to capture audit trails of the transactional flows through my services from an origination point (HTTP call, scheduled job, etc.) so I can translate failures, poor performance, usage rates, etc. into meaningful information (I wrote a poor man's version of this myself, and it's been quite useful).

Does anything like this exist? I sure can't find it. Modern JBoss (now Wildfly) might actually be closer to my requirements than I think. Perhaps I should look at the work they're doing on Version 8.
Because the innards of a PC are a complicated mess compared to the back of this phone?
There aren't too many businesses where the customer is asked to take the business' health in mind when it comes to purchasing. Your lack of planning is not my problem and such.

The real issue is there is a mindset of unlimited free upgrades in iTunes that app developers are benefiting from at the first purchase. Reeder got a bunch of buyers who most likely assumed free updates for life and were not told otherwise. Charging for updates is fine, but some backlash is going to come due to the fact you benefited from the status quo while not participating in the status quo.
That's the only way.

Coffee without coffeine. Beer without alcohol. Sex, but in condom. War but without casaulties. The very core of the post-modern folk is that they want the thing but without the most crucial element of that thing.

Revolution without a Revolution?

That's why nowadays nothing changes. Because all that's left are empty words.

"Terror without virtue is fatal; virtue without terror is impotent"

You propose impotent solution. That won't work.
Even a modest motherboards costing $50 minimum. A cheap GPU could run less than $50 if you're lucky. A CPU's gonna be at least $100. A power supply could go for $20. A case $20. A hard drive $40. You're already over $250 and this PC won't come close to matching the graphics performance in games of an Xbox or PS3. I'm a PC gamer who uses a $1000 gaming PC and a $1500 gaming laptop, but I understand why people buy and will continue to buy consoles. It's a no brainer.
No kidding!

For those who aren't interested in clicking through to the site, and then clicking through to the app store launcher page, and then having iTunes automatically open:

"Reeder is a RSS reader and client for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler, Fever, and Readability."
Plenty of people also work these hours not to get rich, but just to get by. Over-working is a problem in our society in general, not just banks.
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Same. No support, no bug fixes.
> That's not capitalism, that's feudalism

Why not call it capitalism. They call it capitalism, everyone else does. How much do you want to bet going around asking what economic system US has and less then 0.1% will say neo-feudalism.

Using alternate monikers used to justify still believing in this magic religion (oops I mean magic economic system) is a bit silly. This is the typical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Why not just assume that capitalism is an idealized system that never works, it is just too unstable.

If this pattern seems familiar, it is not surprising they used to say the same thing about communism. Oh what they have in country X is not communism. "True communism is not like that, this is Y (replace with ugly sounding term)".

> That's the only way to revert back to capitalism and liberalism.

Revert to what? Guillotining people in the streets? Or rather are there good examples of capitalist paradises on earth here to inspire us?
Apple's 'Twiggy Mac' comes back to life
Of course, the developer did make an update to the iPhone version which had already been rewritten that worked with a few services with easy APIs to transition to.

And of course, the developer had been deep into a complete rewrite from scratch on OSX and iPad when the announcement was made and this created a whole new architectural challenge to probably the only part of the app that wasn't going to be complete rewritten.

And of course, then Apple announced iOS7 with a completely different UI and whole new language for how users interact with the app.

While I am spoiled by more highly communicative developers such that Reeder's relative silence frustrates, the reality is the context makes the delay quite understandable. Even now, people are wondering why the whole thing wasn't redone again to be iOS7 only. Having used the product, its even more clear why it took this long.

A few months with only an iPhone version has stunk. But those who were willing to pay the original $10 price on the iPad version in the first place are folks who live in RSS and are willing to pay for the best reading experience out there. Silvio has provided that in spades.

It's actually kind of remarkable how well his app works on iOS6 considering the whole UI/interaction paradigm feels exactly like I expect iOS7 only apps to be like.
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To mitigate this, simply bind to the "touchmove" and "touchstart" events as well.
You wanted to know the reason why companies choose cloud computing, and I answered. Computing power is - no - not exactly like other things like electricity and water, but it's headed that way for certain types of applications.

What hosting solution(s) your own company use?
I'm embarrassed to say that I actually know this, but it's so ingrained to type it in caps. I even did it twice in this thread.

It was an interesting exercise in college when I took a class on numerical methods and some programs where in "old" style while other were in "new" style. It made the non-programmers go bonkers.
You do realize the Parent was being funny?

And seriously, saying something is feudalism doesn't make it so. There is so much wrong with your post I don't even know where to start. Just wow. Feudalism is a military system with lords and vassals. Vassals provided military services to the lord in trade for land. Calling SF neofeudalist in hystrionic nonsense. No such thing exists in SF. Nothing even close to that exists.

You might want to google feudalism and capitalism. Here's some links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism

http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/difference-be...
Naively when I see a job ad asking for a rockstar programmer I assume there will be a supply of coke :P. Asking for a ninja... well that doesn't seem as much fun.