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I had this conversation with a friend a few days ago. He was like, "The 5S seems like what the 5 should've been."

When I said something like, "The 5 upgraded the body style, the screen, the processor, and the camera, what's left?" he responded, "Most of that was probably just suppliers saying they'd no longer make certain parts."

He's not a techy, but is a Boeing engineer. I'm not really sure where that attitude comes from, but it's interesting to see what people outside of the tech bubble think.
The article wasn't much clearer.

Is the theme that old people without chronic illnesses tend to be more active?

Or a money manager thinks people should give him more money to manage?

Or if old people give money to money managers they should expect to lose 40% of it as per the star of the article?

Maybe the theme is people who have extreme ups and downs in their lives should plan during the ups for the downs?

There was some discussion about the star of the article being very unusual because he has assets and most old people don't. My experience with ancestors is they have assets until they become sick, then they lose all their assets that can be stripped from them until they qualify for free medical. Then they live on free medical and SS until the end. So I'm not surprised that old people tend not to have assets, thats kind of the point of a for-profit medical industrial complex.
My mother thinks I'm 10X handsome.
Steam OS needs to be on the Public Domain like an Opensource Project..Which it will most likely be..

Steam is a DRM platform with a few user features on top. Releasing an open source platform would be as uncharacteristic as suicidal.
Luckily, most of my projects fall into having production be trivial. Unluckily though, that tends not to stop teams I work with from breaking parity somehow.
When my professors found out that there was a solution manual floating about, they changed the textbook. Apparently all of the student's answers started looking the same.
You realize you need to do all that on the EC2 instances as well, right?

This is the common disconnect I see when people tout The Cloud as a solution to having system administrators - that somehow that instance of Linux running in EC2 doesn't require the same maintenance as a physical one. It does.
I would argue that the 10x engineer isn't a myth - the myth is that these 10x more productive employees are unique to engineering whereas they can really be found across industries.

My starting point is this study by biz school professors (unfortunately paywalled) about how power law distributions define employees in sales, scientific research, entertainment, and really much of skilled labor: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/peps.12054/abstra...

In effect, it's common for 20% of employees to be responsible for 80% of a company's productivity.

I'm a writer at Priceonomics, so you can read the blog post I wrote about the research and the topic here: http://priceonomics.com/whats-so-special-about-star-engineer.... I'd love to hear what HN thinks in the context of this thread.

It's a longread. I think the most important points are:

1) You find star performers in many industries

2) Star performers are not inherently more productive - context is important. They are talented but also benefit from the system supporting them. In one study, the performance of 10x Wall Street analysts crumbled when they switched employers if their team did not come with them.

3) If you get obsessed with 10x employees and A players - and lose sight of important points like the importance of team - you will become Enron. Really. Enron lived and breathed the A players motto until their idolizing of "talent" lost all connection to reality. You can find a link to a great Malcolm Gladwell article on the topic in my post.
Are these atomic counters related to the atomic object feature that was promised with OGL 3.0 and then dropped? Is there a template model now in OGL or is it using a different method to create immutable objects across multiple threads?

Please excuse my ignorance as I haven’t looked at OpenGL since 3.0 was released in 2006. Now SteamOS has piqued my interest in OGL again.

Edit: grammar. Thanks jonah! After some googling, it looks like atomic counters are not the same as the promised atomic objects, but seems OGL 4.0+ has nearly closed the feature gap with DX11.
Doh. My bad.
Literally 90% of startups.
Hold on a second. I have nothing against MBAs. I also very clearly said "may" in my initial post so I am not even claiming my comments apply to every single MBA in the world. I don't see any substance in your comments, just calling me names.

It's not a big leap to assume that MBA students sign up to make more money and have more power. Why don't you tell me what exactly are MBAs after?
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As far as sales - yes. As far as profits, or at least ROI is involved - no.
> To be fair, there are bad apples in every college and it’s likely that expectations from Tier 1 schools are higher. But, below are a few stories that you can judge yourself.

This is a terrible article and the above line confirms that it's essentially collecting some bad anecdotes to paint a broader picture of "tier-1" interns.
How do you propose to credit check car thieves? Ultra effective car alarms that only deactivate for people with good credit?
I don't know how to respond to that. What meaningful insights am I ignoring that I should be picking up on?
I've had this happen with Spotify. I connected my Facebook account and after a while I unconnected it, yet it still tells me to add people that I'm friends with on Facebook.
I'm a value investor myself and was seriously considering buying into this stock if it dipped any further. The thesis for investment is pretty darn clear at this point: Blackberry is trading at levels significantly below asset value and below the amount you'd get from tearing down the company

The balance sheet numbers per share:
1) +$13.50 - Net current assets (i.e liquid assets)
2) +$2.50 - Real estate holding (less liquid)
3) +$6.50 - Book value of IP
4) -$7.00 - TOTAL Liabilities

Meaning if you shut down the company you could realize a value of around $16 per share. Even if you discount current assets & IP since they might be over-valued in the books you can realistically get to a $11-$14 range for the value of the stock.

Essentially this means that any smart owner could realize a significant profit at $9/share just tearing down the company smartly (i.e. not a fire sale). As such, I expect Fairfax:
1) Maintain the businesses that are profitable TODAY
2) Shut down the unprofitable parts of the business that are destroying earnings (and thus slowly eating into asset value and the investment thesis)
3) Shop out ownership / licensing of the IP given it's significant value

I don't think this means that Fairfax is trying to turn around the company and restore Blackberry to its earlier glory; that would be a bit irresponsible and reckless for a value investor. Don't expect Blackberry to be the same company it was before, although I expect parts of business to continue.
It's crazy to me that online poker companies make this information available. Shouldn't tables be private or something to stop this?
> But again, US law doesn't (yet) specify criteria upon which I must base opinions that I choose to share.

That's a non-sequitur, since neither US law nor the criteria on which opinions were based were the basis for the case. New York Law on deceptive business practices and false advertising was the basis.
Don't see much here. For many people LinkedIn is a good way to connect with other professionals, and you can always change your email settings. I'll need a better reason to delete it. This article just seems like someone who never saw the value in something deciding to get rid of it.
I wouldn't go that far. Yea he made Wolfenstein 3d, but he started his work only after seeing a demo of Ultima Underworld (which was a much better 3d engine and complete game).

He is good at optimizing and using algorithms, but I don't think anyone says he is that good at writing programs. He popularized and sped up a lot of the techniques already in use. Raycasting wasn't anything new when John Carmack used it to build Wolf 3d (it was described as far back as 1982, 9 years before Wolf3d). It was also used in other games by other developers around nearly the same time, with games that were in development a lot longer.
I thing part of the mythology about the 10x engineer stems from the very real and shockingly widespread existence of the NNPP or the "Net Negative Producing Programmer".

There are many environments in which NNPP's are pretty much the standard, programmers that produce more problems and bugs than actual working and sustainable solutions.

In such an environment any competent developer will quickly stand out and will easily be labelled as a "x-times engineer", when all they actually are is just good at their job where others fail miserably.

The 10x myth is a way to give a positive spin on the shockingly common incompetence in our field.
> A good chunk of the console games barely make it to PC/Windows as it is, let alone a PC/Linux platform... seems like a tough sell.

True today but both the PS4 and XBone are now 8 core x86 platforms with desktop style GPUs. I would imagine most developers already abstract away the OS/graphics APIs as much as possible to facilitate porting to both consoles, adding a third platform for a 'PC port' should be much easier this console generation, particularly given that the relative pain of coding for the PS3 cell processor is now gone.
He had a "low 6 figure" salary, ie. >= $100,000 per year, and over all that time he managed to save $90,000. So let's say he worked for 25 years and had no interest at all from his pension, that means he saved about $300 per month. Which (considering he was paying off his mortgage and putting his kids through college) is I guess a pretty respectable amount to save.
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I have to agree with this. I've worked in small startups, large corporations, and for my own company. The reality is that only in the forge of big companies can you get the experience that makes you a badass engineer. Of course, just working in a big company is not an automatic ticket. But you take a good engineer with talent and put them in the right environment - for some years - and they will become what people might refer to as '10x'.
Calling the XBox "PC hardware" is really picking nits and missing the point, in my opinion. The problem with PC hardware in the living room is that no matter how you dress up an HTPC to resemble a piece of consumer electronics, it's all cosmetic, and it's still a PC in that it's not a fixed hardware configuration like a console. This makes the software more complicated, adds driver issues, support costs, hardware reliability is unknown, etc. The result is a tradeoff in how polished the product can ever really be. Geeks will put up with it. Regular folks probably won't. Again, my opinion.
>Oh you are an experienced neurosurgeon? Oh from Russia you say? Well, here's a broom, good luck.

Planet Money did a podcast on this exact topic at the start of the year. It is near impossible for a doctor to come to the US and start practicing - even those who are top of their field and working in countries with highly respected medical schools (Europe, Asia, etc). I can't find the link to the full episode, but here's a summary and excerpt from All Things Considered:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/15/172108835/should-t...
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I haven't gone to the extent of deleting my account, but I have removed my entire work history and all details except a "contact me via another medium" message. I suppose it is at least a placeholder to stop anyone trying to impersonate me.

But I have missed exactly zero content of worth. All I ever got were endless spammy e-mails from recruiters.
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"Yes, I know that college was worth it 30 years ago, and even 15 years ago, and even 10 years ago. That is not the real question. The question is will this continue to be true in the future?"

I think that's a very good point, considering that (1) the cost of college education has been rising very steeply in recent years and (2) unemployment and underemployment among college grads is currently very high (there are tons of college grads who would be overjoyed if they could only get an unpaid internship).

If you really want to treat a college education as an investment, you have to keep in mind the disclaimer that anyone selling an investment has to make:

"Past performance is not a guarantee of future results."
It's strange to me that he can't find any other work as a consultant or something related to his former field.
This was pretty much my reaction. We switched about 3 years ago from a self hosted Exchange system and up until now it has been pretty good. Only issues were isolated accounts offline for under a hour.

Back then I could say we are about 75% back and give a full description of the issue in laymans terms which usually curbed the anxieties. Today I basically pointed them to the status page saying that this is all I have to work with. In my experience Google's support has been pretty bad but that is because most of the time their products work well, but yea I feel in the dark when something like this occurs. Still their uptime has been better than having that "oh shit" moment because a DC is degraded.

In the end, everyone could still access the email and nothing was lost.
The 10x is a huge simplification, but it doesn't make it any less true. Obviously there's a huge range.

I'd go so far as to say there are 100x engineers -- but it's not that they personally achieve 100x more than another programmer sitting in front of the computer. It's that they have the vision and talent to set a project up the right way from the start, so that the normal programmers can be productive. They're the difference between a project being delivered in 2 mos with a new batch of properly-working features coming 1 mo after, or a project taking 2 years with 8x more programmers, crashing half the time, and further features becoming impossible.

And then there are -2x engineers, who mess up things in the code base so bad that every hour of their work takes two hours for other programmers to fix or undo.

Then there are engineers that accomplish things that other engineers simply cannot. Call these infinity-x engineers.

No matter how much people want to call the 10x engineer a myth, there is a truly gigantic variation in productivity levels, which is especially magnified at architecture-level roles (where productivity can have a multiplier-effect on other engineers, for better or worse).
Just google it. There are many methods to do valuation of startups. And again, you can not issue stock options without IRS-supervised valuation. Most startups on the website are post-seed with more than 3 people on the team already BTW. So it's pointless to discuss pre-seed valuation at all.

Whatever numbers you have in your valuation I need to know how you got them to decide if it makes sense.

(Edit: You may be from the UK, so it's a little different than US. I was speaking for the US case here.)
I agree, particularly with the anecdote of the intern countering for a $15/hour wage. NYC is by no means a cheap city and even I was making $15/hour as an intern many, many years ago. $10/hour is rather insulting and barely makes a dent in the living costs of a student yet alone their tuition costs.
https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/game...
"Interns who want to get paid > $10/hr to do professional-quality work are unwanted."

Is there a browser plugin that erases Forbes and Medium links from HN?
You know what put me over the edge with Haskell? Monads were difficult enough, but one of the first things I wanted to do was randomly shuffle a list. That led me to this: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Random_shuffle. I knew right then that this was not the kind of language I was interested in.

As for JRuby, fair point, but I'd rather steer clear of Java as much as possible. I have to use Java for Android development and it makes me cry big hippo tears every day.
One interesting comedy about retirement planning is a professional retirement money manager quoted in the article suggests saving 20 times your annual income before retiring.

If you're poor, you're not going to have the spare money to save.

If you're rich, the IRA contribution limits begin to hit. Hmm lets say 75K/yr * 20 years / $5K per year contribution limit that'll take 300 years to save the 20 years worth.

If you're in a career that's short term, its going to be difficult to save 20 years of annual income if no one over the age of 35 is hired into that kind of work or the average worker burns out in less than 10 years.

And the only purpose of the whole racket is so the medical industrial complex can simply confiscate it all anyway before you get to enjoy it.

Finally the article implies the guy likes going to work and only does it for extra beer money. And whats wrong with that, other than people who actually need the job to live can't get his?
Indeed, the writing on this piece is good. And the fact is that the studies bolstering a "10x engineer" belief did have some flaws.

However, an couple of anecdotes and some 140-character broadcasts hardly sway me that pronounced productivity differences are a myth.
The six figure salary is also what he was making only at the peak of his career, so it's possible (probable) that for the majority of that 25+ year career he wasn't making as much.

Edit: Actually it seems I'm not really correct. The article clarifies this:

> His big break came in 1975 when he was recruited to The Cooper Cos. as vice president of marketing for the Oral-B dental-care business.

> The job gave him a high five-figure income and an executive’s life at age 39. He flew first class to Cooper offices in the U.S. and in England, Sweden and Germany. He helped win an endorsement for the Oral-B toothbrush from the U.S. Olympic Committee. He had a closet filled with business suits, and on weekends he played golf with other executives.

> So in 1980, when he was 44, he started a consulting company, with Cooper as his main client. He also did consulting for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson and others.

> In flush years, Palome had several clients and earned about $120,000. Though he saved for his kids’ college and helped his elderly parents, retirement wasn’t on his radar.

> “I never thought I’d live this long,” he said.

His wife also died in 1983 so he had to bear the full cost of raising his children. It seems that he chose to provide a good life for his kids over his own retirement, as far as I can tell. I know a lot of parents who made or are making the same selfless choice. This is a slightly different topic, but it's really unfortunate that for most middle class families having multiple kids is effectively deciding not to retire comfortably.
Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal are not good examples of "good" PHP code. They work, and are used extensively, but experienced developers who care about code quality blow a gasket when they look at the source code.

To do proper PHP development you should have a local VM. I created something to help in that regard[0]. It's been fairly well received.

There's also websites like PHP The Right Way [1] that act like a collection of best practices. If you're not using Composer[2] you should start doing so. I wish Javascript had a package manager as robust and useful as Composer (I know of Bower, but imo it's not nearly as good!). PHP Developer[3] is a source of good daily blog posts. The ones I read on a regular basis are ircmaxell [4], fabpot[5], lornajane[6], philsturgeon[7], richardmiller[8], and phparch[9]. I also sometimes write some things[10].

[0] https://puphpet.com

[1] http://phptherightway.com

[2] http://getcomposer.org

[3] http://phpdeveloper.org

[4] http://blog.ircmaxell.com

[5] http://fabien.potencier.org

[6] http://lornajane.net

[7] http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog

[8] http://richardmiller.co.uk

[9] http://phparch.com

[10] https://jtreminio.com
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If you're throwing the notes away, why not erasable board (http://www.theinfinitybinder.com) or digitizing tablets/pens?
Alienating their main user-base for the sake of promoting their own console seems like a high-risk play when most people already are aiming at spending their "console-allowance" on the PS4 or One.
The Steam Box is supposed to be modular (upgrade-able), while being strictly plug&play, this alone gives it a huge edge over existing consoles.
Now we know SteamOS will be Open Source, and we know both Nvidia and AMD are commited to improving Linux drivers.
What that means is AAA-titles don't even need to be ported, the Wine layer is able to provide 1:1 performance as proven with for instance World of Warcraft.
The Wine devs don't even have the luxury of source access like game developers to.

All in all, if Valve does this right they're sitting on a potential goldmine.
This is a valid thought, but I would piggyback on your comments and add that there are also engineers who put so much thought into their code - usually with the goal of eventual design expansion or reuse - that their code becomes over-engineered to the point that it, too, causes loss of overhead.
The article was, but you didn't seem to be speaking so specifically
First step stop making $1B worth of devices no one wants to buy.
What about scrapping the conversion to streaming video entirely and replacing it with a networked graphics protocol that allows one PC to draw on another's graphics natively?