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emhart This just went on HN front page: http://blog.quoteroller.com/2013/09/19/uncomfortable-convers...

I read your comments here and then I saw it. I think it is a sign :)

Seriously, I am not sure this aproach will help you. It looks like to me that it is more about "why do it" than "how to do it". I think what you should do is put yourself in a position where will just assume you will charge for it, so you don't have to say "oh, I would like you to pay for that".

But that wouldn't help with you refusing to charge for long hours. But you may consider a transparent aproach for it. Why not sending an email asking your clients if they feel confortable with you charging some extra hours. If they complain, you don't charge, but I guess some may accept it and even enjoy if they are rewarding a good job. This way it is no more a binary "I don't charge and they never know/I charge and they don't like it". There is a dialogue about that may substitute any confrontation.
You may find, say, rural Wisconsin to be cheaper than Uruguay, by the time you factor everything in. Including the cost of people visiting you. I could visit my grandmother in rural Wisconsin pretty easily compared to Uruguay.

Note that with modern transportation, you can pretty much be in the middle of nowhere while simultaneously being less than 90 minutes from downtown Chicago via medium speed train (or probably 3 hours away by traffic jam car...)

Its not like you'll have to give up modern medicine and go back to faith healing and leaches. One of the benefits of the health care bubble is you'll occasionally see a giant hospital in the middle of nowhere. There's a major Mayo Clinic facility in a rural county that has more cows than people up north, in a city that has fewer residents than my high school had students, next to seemingly infinite acres of recreational areas.
"Saltzberg says he became a scientist partly because of popular culture, such as Isaac Asimov's science fiction and the '70s TV show Space: 1999. He believes the rigor and passion for science he brings to The Big Bang Theory might inspire kids in the audience to one day become scientists, too."

Could be right there. When I searched Instagram for #bbt once, I found a couple of posts like 'I wish my friends were this smart' or 'I want to be a nerd too' with pics from the series. I think the series may give science a good image.
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With the exception of a professional school (medicine, law), do not pay to go to graduate school. If they're not paying you, something's wrong.
fraud has a very specific, nine-point definition that may be more specific than what you believe it to be, for good reason too, because you don't want people going around crying "fraud, fraud, fraud" at the bat of an eyelash.

And to use RICO to go after them is really goddamn scary. RICO act specifically incurred to run-arounds on due process that were designed to go after organized crime. the expansion of that to terrorists essentially constituted the more worrisome aspects of the PATRIOT act.
I haven't seen all those movies, but I have seen many of them and the thing that IIRC all of them have in common is that they all use props that Hollywood can get their hands on without the cooperation of the US Army, Navy or Air Force. For example, if you wanted a military helicopter in your movie, you can probably get your hands on one, but if you wanted an aircraft carrier, then you are going to have to cooperate.

The bright side is that CG is now good enough that you can recreate most of those props entirely digitally without relying on cooperation from the military. On top of that, it is probably now also cheaper to do so in CG than seeking any cooperation in the first place. Where cooperation is still needed is consulting work to keep things realistic, but even that can be had by employing private citizens that served previously.
> I have trouble figuring out why I would want to edit just a few files via a web browser

Because it's REALLY awesome, if you're having problem making something work in a browser, to be able to copy just the relevant conditions that break into an editor like this that you can share with the world. I wondered for a long time why people used gists, or sites like jsfiddle, but the first time I saw somebody post broken code to a fiddle (via StackOverflow), then saw somebody else fork it, make corrections, and post the corrected fiddle back, I immediately realized that whomever had thought of it first was a much wiser man than myself.
Also... Who only saves $90k for retirement? You're supposed to have 10x your income, not .9x.
"My team's time is easily worth $500-600/hr"

Clearly not.
And if your IRA is a meaningful portion of your retirement savings, you aren't going to be able to retire.

Unfortunately, a lot of people that I've talked to who could quite easily save a lot more have been under the impression that maxing out their IRA contribution each year means that they're in good shape.
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It seems to me, intuitively, that the only ways to do that are:

1. Essentially equivalent to streaming, or

2. Essentially equivalent to normal CPU->GPU communication but over the network (and, thus, needing the bandwidth that local CPU->GPU communication has if you want to avoid slowing things down -- GigE wouldn't seem to be enough, much less WiFi, even if you consider only bandwidth and not latency.)
Of course it isn't perfect information, and of course things are changing. But they can't give you the numbers from the future because nobody has them! So projecting forwards based on past trends is just one of the ways we can speculate.

It can still be useful data, too. Assume we are at an inflection point. Concoct numbers, and tack speculative movement on to the end of the graph. See where that puts you.

Yes, it's speculative, but that's all we've got right now.
That's incorrect data. That's the median for all salaries in the field, not starting salaries.
I don't expect to ever be able to retire unless I get truly wealthy.

This is a fairly ugly thing. I'm not sure what I would do if I lost my health or my skills fell too far out of date for me to catch up.

And I'm one of the lucky ones. I have actual earning power. Most of my cohorts do not.

I can't imagine this ending well.
And the brain drain out of Russia accelerates...
I don't really see this as a "social justice" article. More like an article that drives home the human impact of engineering.

I mean, the people responsible for this are almost all dead now, and the government that pushed to hard has long since dissolved. The lingering relevance is engineering and risk.
Will we see a USB device for Smart TV's later this week?
$352,700 pledged of $5,000 goal

impressed
"you will find yourself...banking on the thin chance of landing a job in some part of the country usually only seen on American Pickers"

Because those of us who live in rural areas are worthless degenerates, right?
Ex-pat life sounds good, but is very isolating. Do you want to live your retirement years far away from most everyone you care about and that cares about you?

How about just leading a more moderate lifestyle in the States? Live in a town, not downtown. Keep a single car, and bike a lot. Live in a small house or condo. Etc.
True, but its fun to watch the memes fight it out:

1) You need an IRA to retire.

2) You need 20 years income in the bank to retire.

Its fun to watch those two memes fight.
Friends and family, home you enjoy, local culture, not learning a new language; there are tons of different factors when talking about someone putting down roots.
You're kidding, right?

We could also just keep using lynx for web browsing. It worked fine.
But you don't even need that. If you glance at the V-USB wiring examples, all you need is a few diodes & crystal depending on the freq you want. For my projects, I do use the attiny85 and use the built-in oscillator. I use 16mhz for usb communication, but drop down to 1mhz after the boot procedure.
"I don't expect to ever be able to retire unless I get truly wealthy."

Why not?
This hits close to home currently working as an enterprise web dev.
There are two different articles: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmo... http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/03/135919389/a-cos...

The second article is an update, and does not have the picture.
As an aside, I was watching BBT just yesterday (on a long plane ride with limited entertainment options) and I was reminded how uncomfortably awkward it makes me feel. In short, the core problem is that the characters are not sympathetic -- you're meant to laugh at them, not with them, to say nothing of the show's terribly backwards gender roles.

This essay was quite popular a while back and summarizes all this and more, quite well I think: http://butmyopinionisright.tumblr.com/post/31079561065/the-p...

Edit: Interesting to see many of you have a completely opposite take on these characters. That's fine with me, as long as we don't have to watch BBT if I'm over at your place. :)

Edit 2: Can we at least agree that laugh tracks are awful, even on otherwise-phenomenal shows (Seinfeld)?
> If New York has a law that imposes the criteria upon which opinions shared with others must be based

...it would be completely irrelevant to this case, which isn't about criteria on which shared opinions are based. As I said the last time you raised this red herring. Its based on New York law about deceptive business practices and false advertising, not anything about third-party independent reviews and the criteria on which they are based.
The 401k needn't constitute their entire savings.
Indeed, Canada has pre-tax and post-tax savings accounts. They have separate limits and I'm sure various other countries (including the US) have similar systems.
> Considering they lost $1,000,000 in the last 90 days...

$1,000,000,000
That's actually pretty ridiculous if you think about it. Almost any other website displays the same info wherever you're from and if it doesn't, it's considered an anti-pattern (and rightly so).

I remember, back in the day, Google didn't used to do this. That was 8-10 years ago, though. At first it was interesting, a curiosity, seemingly clever. But from the start it was annoying (at least, it was, in a global community centred around ways to search the web) because there is no easy way to select what "view" of the website you want to see. (there were ways but they kept changing, and I didn't keep up)

Maybe that is the worst anti-pattern. Most websites that change their entire behaviour depending on what IP you came from, at least offer the option to select a different behaviour, or specify from what locale you want your perspective.

Best would be if one could simply link to such a perspective, so that this article would actually make sense to everyone, instead of just the people that live in the "correct" part of the world ... :)
Almost by definition fewer people want to live in rural areas.
Holy crap. I don't think any other Jepsen post has ended with a simple "Recommendations: Use Zookeeper." I kind of miss the little ASCII dude flipping the table over in rage, but ZK must be doing something right. An interesting architecture suggestion: Zookeeper (which is CP) pointing at an AP data store. Writes won't always be available, but you have in a sense isolated that write unavailability, which could be an advantage.
My question is: why are you doing a startup in the first place?

If it is to project a sense of coolness and accomplishment or to stroke your own ego you are doing it wrong. You may win a few popularity contests from time to time, but you won't build a successful business.

If you have a vision that you really believe in, then focus on that and forget about the other nonsense.
You don't even need that. The attiny85 is sufficient.

See https://github.com/Bluebie/micronucleus-t85 It's a bootloader that detects usb in the boot process. If usb is hooked up, you can upload programs, then it will run whatever code is loaded. This bootloader is the same one used on the digistump.

You need 3 diodes and 2 resistors along with the attiny85 chip to make your own usb to serial converter.
I don't know about the intent of the author here, but there are huge salary gaps between rural and urban locations; even after controlling for cost of living a gap can remain.
This sounds pointlessly complicated compared to just a shell script with comments that does the same thing.
Nope! It's easier to complain about it online! #angry #omg #whyisthishappeningtome?!?!

I love the internets, technology and how we've progressed at an amazing rate. I also like how everyone has a voice, but at the same time...that part isn't always as shiny.
I agree with your post 100%!
I would rather them invest more into ARM, and use the Surface name (a great name) for the direct iPad competitor.

The Surface Pro is just a Windows laptop with decent build quality. It's the one in a boring (and shrinking!) market.
I gotta say I respect this guy a lot.

For a lot of people their ego wouldn't be able to handle the step down in status.

This guy took care of his family and now he's taking care of himself.
I am currently about a year away from my PhD in computational physics and chemistry and looking out towards the future I have very similar sentiments to this professor. Finding a decent job in academia is very very difficult. Even when you do get one it really won't be worth the work and time you have to put into it. At least in my field it is much better to develop your skills elsewhere and use that to enter into industry. I just wish someone had told me this 4 years ago.
I could not agree more. I'm getting real tired of seeing sensationalist platitudes on HN. Next up: 'Why I stopped going to the bathroom'. It's fine to buck the trends, it's a bit awkward to try and make other people taste your sour grapes.
Another problem with a pure financial projection is that it does not fully consider opportunity cost. The cost/benefit is not simply the difference in earnings, minus tuition, interest, missed earnings and investment on earnings.

The real cost is that being in debt limits your options to pursue possibly more lucrative opportunities, or to enjoy your life outside the system. The better term would be liquidity cost. Every one of us will at some point come across a great investment opportunity. Every one of us can have an idea we would like to pursue. But an employee fully loaded with college debt, added with mortgage and kids, can't afford to do anything else but add to a 401k each paycheck.

Furthermore, every financial investment should have a healthy margin of error to compensate you for risk. This should be at even higher margins when the more leveraged you are. Things like college and a mortgage are a total leverage of your earnings potential as an employee. Thus the question isn't whether college is merely worth it. The question should be if college is totally a no-brainer as an investment.

And it looks like it's not anymore.
If they announce Half Life 3 as an exclusive launch title for Steam OS, I think there are a lot of people who would give it a shot. Steam is a very influential and well-connected company, don't underestimate them.
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Yeah, in general if you have a production system in place there's not much incentive to rip it out and replace it with something else - especially if your system is relatively new and shiny.

It becomes more interesting when a) your system has been running long enough that you've learned operational and design lessons that justify an upgrade, or b) you're starting fresh on a new architecture.

Most of the Docker community is made of these groups A and B. If you're starting from scratch, or if making significant changes anyway, it makes a lot of sense to federate the development effort and reap the benefits of code reuse, common tools etc.
Where did you read that the instructor pushed me? I pushed myself that hard, plain and simple. And then afterwards I did even more lifting (moving apartments).

I overexerted myself, plain and simple.
Promises/A performance hits you should be aware of
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Oh dear, thank you for these! I've finally moved from the 'I can edit existing code' category to authoring my own simple scripts so these will definitely come in handy. I've got some reading to do!
One entertaining part about retirement discussions is apparently young people think all old people are executives. Wikipedia "median household income" article claims $29056 for the USA in 2010 for "annual median equivalised disposable household income per adult".
"because college has to be paid for with present dollars, but its claimed economic return comes in future dollars"

Please explain how someone who has school loans at low interest rates has to pay for college with present dollars as opposed to future dollars.

Re: "Ivy League" - Separately none of any of these analysis ever takes into account things that simply can't be measured. I can attest to the doors that open when you have attended an "Ivy" school because guess what enough people are impressed to provide a benefit. Perhaps someone can write that off as an "anecdote" but hate to say it I've seen it with others to many times, and, well even the mainstream media always points out when someone goes to a top college (or is a Kennedy for that matter). Of course you could also argue that people aren't impressed when someone is a Physician if you want but that also opens doors and gets better opportunity in many many cases.

Like a pretty girl (or tall handsome man) who gets more attention some things just can't be quantified with all the academic apparatus and analysis known to man. But irl if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's a duck usually is correct an overwhelming number of times.
Does this even need scientific validation? There seem to be people who can't code at all, so if you can code, compared to them you are an infinity times engineer.
He receives $1,200 from Social Security and a $600 a month pension from his last corporate job.

When the 2008 financial crisis hit, what little Palome had saved -- $90,000 -- took a beating

He then sold his New Jersey home for $180,000, kept what he needed to quickly pay off his credit card debt and divided the rest among his children so they’d have down payments for their own homes.

Ok, so he retired with $270,000 of assets plus $1,800 per month from private and public pensions. Buy a life annuity (as a 65 year old male) with the $270,000 and you're getting around $1,600 per month. That yields a total income of $3,400 a month or $40,800 a year, which is considerably above the national median income (around $28,000/year according to wikipedia).

As I see it, the problems here are entirely of his own making:

1. He gave away 2/3 of the wealth he should have been relying on during his retirement,

2. He gambled his remaining assets in the stock market rather than making investments suitable for his demographic (mostly bonds) or buying an annuity, and

3. He picked up expensive habits when he was younger -- he takes regular flights to visit relatives and occasional vacations.

(And I suppose I could add 4. He should have saved far more money before retiring -- but my point is that even at the point he retired he was in decent financial shape.)
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https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/peak-pee...

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pique

(Nothing against you in particular, just a very common misuse.)
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1. Steam

2. Steambox

3a. some VR peripheral (looks like a VR goggle/headset to me)

3b. some special cross-play between Steambox and Windows/Mac/Linux

3c. cross play between steambox and PS4
Okay, so the article is wrong! Whew, that makes much more sense.
I like the way Mike Church put it in a Quora answer (http://qr.ae/NHgRJ): employees are either multipliers, adders (most common), subtracters, or dividers (fire immediately). Whether multipliers are 5x or 10x more productive is a matter of nebulous metrics, but there are obvious standouts whose presence brings a very nonlinear increase in value to the team.
At 64, when an 800 square foot manufactured home he’d seen in Plant City, a Tampa suburb, became available for $21,500, he purchased it with a credit card to amass frequent flier miles. He then sold his New Jersey home for $180,000, kept what he needed to quickly pay off his credit card debt and divided the rest among his children so they’d have down payments for their own homes.

Selling the house was smart, but dividing the rest and giving it to his children was a terrible move. Homes in the US are used a proxy savings accounts - sold at retirement or later to gain retirement funds, or used as a (hopefully) no-rent living space.
I think you might consider changing some of your cartoons so that a Woman is running the business. I think it's a bit strange[1] that it's the male character all the time.

I don't know if that's something that might turn off a woman, but it did sort of jump out at me.

[1]Full Disclosure:I only browsed through a few pages, I did not to a page by page gender analysis.
I sometimes wonder whether there is indeed less need for professors or whether it is easier and cheaper to use postdocs, adjuncts, "research professors", etc. for the work that professors are supposed to do. It appears that universities are trying to avoid offering tenured positions at all costs. Florida polytechnic for example adopted a non-tenure faculty model which according to its Board of Trustees will help recruit and maintain top talent[1]. I wonder if they actually believe that.

When I was a phd student I did an informal check on the professors in my department. Even though it was no ivy league school, on average it took them 2.8 years from entry into the phd program to getting a tenure-track position. Now 2.8 is probably the average number of years as a postdoc you need to have.

1: http://floridapolytechnic.org/news/non-tenure-faculty-model-...
I gross approximately 75k a month in RR, split between my business partner and I. 60k from IPhone apps and 15k from Android apps.
That's making a lot of assumptions about future lifestyle choices -- But point taken, I do suppose if my wife and I had kids now, that quickly changes the overall mindset of retirement.

Still though, I hardly consider it a selfish choice -- shit, I would have loved to have gone and visited the grandparents in some tropical destination as opposed to northern Idaho.
$4 - $5k monthly from PHP apps for webmasters and premium Wordpress plugins (the latter works better recently). This is far from passive though as it requires constant updating and support.

We have a bunch of content sites but they barely bring $200 - $300 from adsense and affiliate (used to be 10x a while ago).
Yea well reading it closely, the red's value is what you see with the highest frequency of change. You can see that red increases then increments green, then starts over again at zero, so by looking closely at red, you can see where the computations stop and start over again, thus giving you the reds pattern. As to what it means, who knows.
If you assume that its the governments job to keep you safe and in detroit it takes over an hour for the police to show up then you are in trouble. If you are in one of the many isolated areas and rely on the local sheriff for protection who is miles away you are in trouble. If you are in the woods hunting or hiking and run into trouble, the sheriff cant get to you. America presents a variety of diverse situations which come into play with gun laws and general law enforcement issues that other countries in Europe dont have to face.
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