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A 10x engineer is not an engineer who works 10x as hard or fast, but someone who knows what to focus on and as result comes up with more elegant solutions.
> 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.

The IRA limits only apply to money you save in an IRA. There is no requirement that your retirement savings be entirely in an IRA.
As a late 20something -- it's hard to predict the future; but truly, I could imagine my wife and I expatriating when we retire to somewhere where it's just cheaper to live.

I've been very fortunate to have spent more than my fair share of time traveling out of the US and there are so many amazing low key places with decent access to necessities. I really have started seeing this as a viable option down the road.

I keep reading about Uruguay, and how it's quickly becoming a target destination for a lot of retirees, assuming I were to be of retirement age today, I'm having trouble thinking of a reason NOT to do this.
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If you're accusing me of bias, my vanity would quite have preferred a different outcome :)
In my case, yes. But the performance is good.
Bit late to the boat but:

Around $700/mo from a themeforest account.

And the more interesting story, about £4.5k/mo from a cleaning business that i bought.

I will at some point write the story up, but the TL:DR is:
Spotted vastly under valued cleaning business with complete staff.
Turnover of previous owner £190k a year.
Profit of previous owner £18k. Yup, £18k....
Bought it for £13.5k.

Still in the early stages and still changing things but the previous owner was/is in massive debt, little free time to put into the business, did EVERYTHING on paper/fax/phone and had enormous monthly costs.

Theres a much longer story to this but i'll write it up in a few months when its a bit more proven.
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Wait, 98k starting salary for Math/Computer Science is median? In the US?

What?!?! This does not mesh with my experiences or the experiences of my peers at all. If you want to include the financial industry, you're talking about the top 1% of salaries, if that. Are they so disparate that they drag the median up that much?

Edit: Looking at the source data[0], they've separated "Computer Science" and "Mathematics" from "Math and Computer Science". What is the purpose of this? Is "Math and Computer Science" a specific major?

[0] http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitwor...
I deleted my account a couple years ago. I used to always get emails from people who were inviting me to join. The emails were from invitations@linkedin.com but contained the name of the person in the subject. The message also contained text that looked like it was from the person:

On March 14, Person X wrote:

> To: bhelx [bhelx@example.com]
> From: Person X [personx@example.com]
> Subject: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

> bhelx,
>
> I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.
>
> - PersonX

The worst thing is I would get follow up emails "Reminder about your invitation from Person X" pretty regularly. I would unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of the email but I found that it was only unsubscribing me from receiving the follow up "reminder" emails from each person I unsubscribed from. It was really frustrating. I assume Linked In was explicitly requesting permission to do this.
I seem to recall the issue was more with returning UnboundMethod objects than with symbols, but possibly what's changed is the fact that now symbols can be GCed?
Remember when LinkedIn's app was caught uploading meeting notes from your calendar?

And despite several fiascoes, they haven't fixed their amateur-hour user-ID policy: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-use...
Maybe, at 77, he doesn't want the pressure.
Yeah. A similar thing happened during Columbia; the cabin remained somewhat intact for up to 39 seconds after the rest of the vehicle really started to fall apart, though it ultimately disintegrated with the rest of the orbiter.

It seems those crew compartments were pretty damn tough.
Is it just me or is it weird that of the current six (rather positive) comments two are brand new accounts and two more have 1 or less karma?
Fantastic -- that might pull the mean up, but it still wouldn't affect the median.
I get basically no LinkedIn mail and haven't for about a year. The settings are pretty easy to change [1][2][3] (though there are a lot of them) and they don't seem to roll out new settings and default them to on like Facebook used to.

Occasionally I log in and check my messages and update my profile, especially when I need to look someone up or figure out how to get an introduction to someone, but generally I find LinkedIn to be pretty unobtrusive. I'm not sure lack of using it constantly is really a good rationale for closing an account though. Seems a bit short-sighted based on the value of having your second degree network so easily identifiable.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/settings/email-frequency?goback=.na...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/settings/partner-inmail?goback=%2En...

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/settings/research-invitations?gobac...
Wow. Oh, wow.

I just discovered that my demo video is recorded at too high a bitrate. It's at 2.8Mbit/s, compared to 1.3-1.8Mbit/s for subscriber videos. That's probably because I used my standard screencast encoding settings (which are set nice and high) for a video that has a lot more motion than my standard screencast.

Fixing this alone will probably do wonders for my conversion rate.

Thanks a million to tankbot for starting the conversation rolling and to alecthomas for helping me to troubleshoot it over email.
Literate builds?
> According to the authors, Komarov answered: "If I don't make this flight, they'll send the backup pilot instead." That was Yuri Gagarin. Vladimir Komarov couldn't do that to his friend. "That's Yura," the book quotes him saying, "and he'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him." Komarov then burst into tears.

This doesn't seem to make any sense. I think people might be a bit credulous when it comes to stories about the SU.
There already are certain privileges to karma: you need a certain threshold to downvote comments at all, and I suspect that thresholds to get onto the front page are based on the karma of who upvotes your story. (There've been times where my upvote alone, going from 2 to 3 votes, is enough to get something on the front page, while many times I've seen new stories with 4-5 points that don't make it.) I suspect PG is thinking of tweaking the weights, automatically, until there's enough of a weight to high-karma downvotes to kill bad comments. You could easily train an SVM or other classifier on some set good/bad comments and then pull out the coefficients to figure out what signals should go into weighting point totals.
Steam doesn't properly support sharing games still. You can share your entire library and if you aren't playing anything at all, your friend can play a game from your library. Which you could do already, you just had to give your friend your password. Currently me and my brother share a library just fine by having one of us set steam to offline mode and then we can all play at the same time. It's less useful than the old behaviour, but without sharing your password. Oh and you can save in the cloud and earn achievements personally for yourself. Excuse me while I vomit.

Useless.
This is based on Don Knuth's Literate Programming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming - but applied to build scripts.

(Readme is docs + executable)
Because what happens when your Braintree account gets arbitrarily frozen under PayPal's risk management policies? It might be working today, but that doesn't mean the rug won't be pulled from out underneath you, and at that stage there will be real consequences for your business, i.e. frozen funds and drama. Then you've got to do the whole migration while putting out a fire.

If you wouldn't want to do business with PayPal, you probably wouldn't want to do business with Braintree if it's owned by PayPal. A different brand doesn't mean that they're not being operated by the same masters.
Your assumptions are correct!
Yes, but the parent also said "MS cannot make decisions. That's what will kill them, long term. Just choose one!!"

The reply just said that two tablets as fine if they would just kill the confusing naming scheme.
Yup, so not only is this article preachy and boring (seriously, how many "I'm quitting $socialnetwork and you should too" posts do we need?), but it's also factually wrong.

Even if the from address was that of the user who sent the message, it's kind of hard to ignore the huge LinkedIn branding the message resides in. You'd have to be a fool to miss it, because I'm pretty sure even a blind person's screen reader would pick up on this.
Ok, in support of your point, I got my BSc Comp Sci in 2011, have previous professional experience, and I'm really just working full time for two months while on grad-school vacation. So while I'm justifiably not paid as much as the real full-time engineers here, I'm more valuable to the company (I would hope!) than an average college sophomore doing his/her first internship in his/her own profession.

Again: anecdotal evidence, disregard that I suck bananas, etc.
What was the app? Tweetadder or something?
I really wish GTA V had a kid-friendly mode. There's so much there that my six-year-old would love to sit and play. A couple of times I've let him play under close supervision, out in the country away from the people, with the volume down just in case, and there are so many things he gets excited about -- innocent things like a cable car, or a fruit stand, or being able to take a boat over a waterfall, or cows, or airplanes you can actually fly, or parachuting from the top of a mountain. I love open-world, sandboxy games, so it's a shame I can't share it with him more than just a couple of minutes.
> Creating a fake print that can fool the scanner is so much harder than stealing someone's debit/credit card.

No, it's not. Starbug used simple means starting from a photo of a fingerprint. The fact that fingerprints are blasted all over the place makes this very easy. You could probably even build a cheap machine that automates this process.
Call me maybe: Zookeeper
Can we stop posting stuff from Forbes' blogging platform? This kind of content is rarely well-researched (or interesting).
AWS was really cool back in 2007, but the truth is their pricing has not come down in line with the decreasing cost of computing over the years and now its pretty expensive.
Yes, life is hard.

Once you figure out a societal system where there's tons of money to going around and everyone can have a cushy retirement and fully paid medical expenses and never has to worry about anything, and where anyone can immigrate at will (excluding Monaco, Finland, Switzerland, etc that carefully guard their unique circumstances) please let me know.
Well, to each their own. LinkedIn has added great value to me. My current job was because a recruiter found me on it. After researching the company, I knew I'd love it there.
But, I babysit my LinkedIn account like other people tend to their Facebook. I comment on articles, posts updates, keep my profile up-to-date, share random things I find interesting. I do this daily, which is what I see people around me doing with Facebook.
If you're working as an intern in software development, chances are you're already making a positive contribution to the bottom line, and $15 might even be way too low. However, if you're a marketing intern, like the person in this story, you might actually have a negative worth to the company (the time it takes others to teach you what you need to know could exceed your productivity), in which case the $10 per hour might be extremely generous.
My thought is to temper disappointment. If they announced the steam box today and it ran a flavor of Linux it would be a disappointment. If we know about steam OS for 48 hours before the steam box announcement, we would all expect the steam box to run steam OS.
My current startup is using AWS for everything and I have to admit I was eager to get my hands on it since it seems to me that familiarity with AWS will be a good thing for me personally and professionally.

I almost get a sense that people are signing up for AWS because, well I'm not positive about this, but it seems like its trendy. Possibly some startups don't realize AWS is just providing you with pre-installed systems that you can easily install yourself? I don't think it's a bad decision necessarily because depending on your size you may not want to devote any time to configuring servers. Maybe some people who have made that choice could set me straight?

My gut is telling me that, for my current situation, the main benefit of AWS - the automatic scaling - will be quite expensive that by the time we actually do need to scale. So we will be probably looking elsewhere for hosting at some point int the future. Much like the article suggests.
The reply-to being from the user is super useful. It means I can talk to someone who wants to connect without having to go back to LinkedIn. It's good UX design.
>* Windows RT needs help. Remove its artificial limitations.

Sigh, you're not the only one that wants this...
If you're not a 10x and assuming one exists, do you really have the expertise to tell that he is 10x?
Of all the engineers you've worked with, if you can think of eleven such that you'd rather hire one rather than the other ten, then that person is a 10x engineer.
CAN-SPAM requires an option to unsubscribe, though.
Yep, I was thinking exactly the same thing a couple of weeks ago. What annoys me more is the constant money grabbing - things like asking me to pay to view some people's profiles, asking me to pay to see who viewed my profile, etc. linkedin has provided me with zero value over the years.

Anyway, I'm so pissed off at linkedin that I've spent the last couple of weeks developing my own lightweight, less evil alternative. Once it's complete I'm just going to update my linked profile to say something like 'see my full profile on ...'. If other people find it useful then they can use it too.
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Their data is incorrect. If you pull up the linked article, the table they sourced is #12 on page 15, titled "Top 10 Majors with the highest median earnings".

That's the median of all salaries for all people in that job description where the highest level of education is a Bachelor's degree, NOT the starting salary as indicated.
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If New York has a law that imposes the criteria upon which opinions shared with others must be based (I can pretty much guarantee that they don't), it will be quickly tossed out on constitutional grounds.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Apple is using QNX for iOS in the car...

http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/
OK, great, you don't find LinkedIn useful. I respect that, but I do not at all understand it. LinkedIn is about 100x more useful than Facebook in my life, even if I spend more raw time on Facebook (and I'm not 100% sure that's true, actually).

I guess it depends on how you use LinkedIn, but for me, it's a marketing & promotion channel (via LI groups mainly), a constantly updated Rolodex, an expertise locator, and a source of information for market research, competitive intelligence and general industry awareness.

Now, to be fair, I am a startup founder, where said startup is in the B2B space. Maybe that makes LinkedIn uniquely useful for me, compared to other folks who aren't in this position. I don't know, I just know that LinkedIn is wildly useful for me. shrug
> A quick scan of my Google account reveals that I have granted access to 49 different websites. AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT MOST OF THEM ARE, OR WHAT PERMISSIONS I GAVE THEM.

Okay, at the risk of sounding arrogant, you have no rights to complain if you give out permission to 50 different websites without knowing what they do. You cannot complain that you are being exploited, when you allow yourself to be exploited. My google account is linked to fifteen different sites which I know what they are all for.

> go check your inbox for an “Invitation to connect on LinkedIn”. They don’t come from @linkedin.com, which THEY ABSOLUTELY SHOULD

Again, you gave them the permission to do so. And to play the devil's advocate, would you be less* likely to accept an invitation from your friend if he sent you an e-mail from some foreign account, or his account of which you are familiar? Again, you gave them the permission. If you don't like it, just make a linkedIn account without a connection to Google account. You've not done so because connecting to Google is convenient. You are paying a fair price.

I get minimal number of e-mails from linkedIn because I didn't give them permission to send me every gritty details of other people. It does exactly what I told it to. Maybe you should as well.
As others have said, the important point here is that the core of Linux support is here. They've already ported all of their major titles to Ubuntu-based desktop linux, and I would be extremely surprised if SteamOS did not inherit greatly from that effort.

Even if SteamOS uses different toolkits or packaging (which it very well might), the amount of effort to get those titles to run on typical desktop linux distros should be relatively very minimal.

I highly doubt it would be more similar to Android than Linux Mint simply because they have already invested time and money into making Steam run on the Linux Mint family of distros (i.e Ubuntu), and (to my knowledge) none working on the android stack.
I agree. There's a difference between review one: "I tried their yogurt, and it tastes like New Jersey Shore Sand", and review two: "Go to my_shOes.cOm and get great sneakers for chEap."

One is obviously lousy to the business. The other, just SEO.
>The reason it makes sense to worry about terrorism to the tune of billions of dollars is that a WMD attack on American soil would cost potentially trillions of dollars.

Nope. The truth is that it simply doesn't make sense to worry about terrorism to anywhere near the degree we do. We'd have done far better to chalk the whole thing up to "act of God" and move on.

Regarding the risk of a "WMD attack", you're making the same mistake you just accused the other guy of doing. He conflated suicide with homicide; the term "WMD" is intentionally vague so as to conflate actual nuclear weapons, "dirty bombs", and every variety of chemical weapon. The bad guys don't HAVE nukes or chemical weapons and 9/11 did nothing to suggest that sort of attack had become more likely than before. The risk of damage from a "dirty bomb" would be largely self-inflicted - we'd harm ourselves due to our own paranoia. The risk of damage from chemical weapons is pretty small even if our enemies had them, which they don't. If you correctly separate the threats you'll see each individual one is really really small.

> Certainly 9/11's impact was massively expensive both financially and psychologically.

9/ll's impact as massively expensive because we chose to LET it be massively expensive. If we had shrugged it off, it wouldn't have been.
That could be interesting... but I must say, the Xbox360 controller is fantastic, inexpensive, and easily integrates with a PC. Sort of a solved problem, if you will, so unless they have significant value to add, I'd hope they'd focus elsewhere.
It's not like Gmail adds a link to unsubscribe from all Gmail users' emails. If a user sends a message, LinkedIn can deliver it without falling afoul of CAN-SPAM.
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I'm French, I've had (and loved) horse meat. I guarantee Burger King is not serving horse meat.

Edit to reflect responder: I do get the point.
Have you taken a look at their offerings? I would pay double just to have the 1-click handoff to clients. It saves me loads of back and forth emails.
The kicker is located in the middle,

> The median 401(k) balance for households headed by people aged 55 to 64 who had retirement accounts at work was $120,000 in 2011

The 77 year old highlighted is just an easy way to personalize the larger statistics.
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While I agree in part that internships are generally a form of "charity" or public good that a company will provide in return for a small amount of work being completed, the case for $10/hour is still ridiculous in this day and age. And I'm not even getting into the discussion of minimum wage jobs.
> one doesn't learn anything of it.

I agree that the sale is in bad taste, but I think you go too far there. At the least some people find value in humbling reminders of our own mortality. In that way it is not entirely dissimilar from guided tours of battlefields, camps, etc. The information that you learn during those can be picked up in more 'sterile' books, but that lacks the emotional impact of actually seeing where something happened, or hearing something happen.
As far as I can tell, this dude made some choices, and is happily dealing with the consequences. He chose a consultancy over a pension, and has chose to give to his children over keeping for himself. And, (a) he notes that he doesn't have to work but choose to, and (b) any of his kids would be happy to support him.

From what I can tell, this is a media outlet looking for a juicy story about seniors festering in poverty where such a story doesn't really exist.
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> I were to be of retirement age today, I'm having trouble thinking of a reason NOT to do this.

Family? Helping your children with their kids instead of selfishly running away to some tropical destination?

After you get past a certain age, you may also want some help for yourself from your children.
Yeah! All Ivy League kids demand to be paid too much and then just fall asleep at their desks and lie about deaths in the family!

Disclaimer: I go to UPenn, but that doesn't make this article less of a pile of bullshit.
Not sure you understand what my point is.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have employees that are so good others want to poach them.

I'm saying that by giving someone a title (that they might not deserve) you are possibly making them more attractive and more likely to be poached. This was said simply to counter the parent point that "there is no cost".

Let's say I allow you to put on your card "VP of Software Engineering" vs. just "Software Engineer" as only one example. (Forget legalities I am using this to prove a point).

Or, "National Marketing Manager" instead of "Marketing Manager".
This is likely to be coupled with some manner of hardware launch, as well. I am skeptical that the name "Linux" will be a particularly useful term in that context.

Couple that with my skepticism that they're actually shipping much if any traditional Linux userspace software, and it's even less useful to compare potential SteamOS users to traditional Linux users.

Other than that I agree that with Valve as a patron there's a lot more credibility. Steam was a long-term move, and it paid off. So Valve has a good track record and solid momentum. If they can help make it easy for game companies to port their work, taking out a significant or non-trivial amount of work and offer the carrot of sales & paying customers, I could see this taking off.

I was skeptical of Steam back in 2004 but I wasn't thinking long term enough. Launching your own operating system isn't a short term move. It suggests to me that this will only get better and more impressive over time, if Valve is as committed to this as it seems.
Most murderers are people who have been convicted of multiple violent crimes. An interesting related statistic is that most murder victims also have been convicted of multiple violent crimes. So if you aren't a violent criminal and don't know any violent criminals, your chance of being killed goes way down.