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Officially, my uncle's tobacco farm when I was 13. I was the stick shaker and I suckered and picked a bit too on my days off. Made a few grand that summer, which bought me my first guitar :)

Unofficially, before that a couple friends and I used to steal CDs and tapes from Zellers back before they had security sensors and resold them to kids in the neighbourhood at a discount. I made a couple hundred bucks that way when I was 11/12. Thankfully, I always felt bad for doing stuff like that and changed crowds when I came back from tobacco.

In high school, I figured out how to make web pages and did a few for friends' parents at about $1,000/pop, which kept me from having to work at McDonald's, or the farm. That turned into a default career move when I moved out and out of province at 18...
Government pensions can't be discharged in bankruptcy[1], nor can PBGC[2] take them over. Some rust belt communities are seeing 25% of tax revenues [3] going to pay retired police and school teachers even as the towns dwindle and get bulldozed like Flint, MI. Because courts routinely treat the 14th amendment, section 4, to mean that such debts cannot possibly be made to go away, then taxes will have to be raised just to pay past promises.

Notes:

1 - Courts have routinely interpreted section 4 of the 14th Amendment to mean that governments cannot discharge debt in bankrupcties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...

2 - PBCG is to pensions what FDIC is to bank accounts. Pension administrators pay an annual premium that ends up covering the pension in the event that the company goes tits up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corpor...

3 - The state of NJ is currently spending about 9% of tax revenues to retirees in the form of pensions and health care. A reasonable rule of thumb is that if a growing community is spending less than 10% of their tax revenues on pensions, then they either don't have one, or they're dangerously underfunding their current pension plan.
Does anyone know enough to pick highlights out of the release note?

I like Wireshark as a tool but I'm hardly an expert.
What absolute horseshit. People who go to college as part of a calculated attempt to make a profit aren't the sorts of people who ought to be in college. College is for living with people who share the same interests as you, learning to develop yourself as an adult, and learning under people who know what they're doing.

I don't know if my forthcoming college degree will help me make money, because right now I don't know what I want to make money doing. College is giving me time to try out a dozen different things and meet a few hundred terrific people, so that when I leave I know more about myself and about what I want to do than I did when I came in.
The category is Rich Internet Applications.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaFX

I'm not just being pedantic, it's that HTML5 is for the browser (not the desktop) and not particularly connected to the server-side (IIUC). However, HTML5 is competing with Flash, and the browser-based client-side aspect of the others.

But I don't claim to be an expert on HTML5, and checking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html5#New_APIs it has "Offline storage database", which is one of the key points for RIA.

That's my reasoning. Now your turn: why do you think Flash is the right competing technology?
What's with that anyhow? How did psychology become the degree of choice for uninspired students?
Linux seems to be a kernel optimized for performance at almost any cost. This is a reasonable goal, it just means that my window manager at work (or any other interactive thing) comes to a crawl if I'm not careful with what I run.

This simply doesn't happen on Mac OS X, although a given application can still bring itself to its knees. And technically throughput per processor may be less optimal than Linux, but it's not obvious to me that this is a problem that needs solving. For one thing, firing off a bunch of compile runs with GCC on my Intel Mac is perfectly smooth, and I can still click on things; whereas, at work, I may have to go for coffee before I can click on my next E-mail message when doing a similar compile.

Apple's multi-core strategy is also among the clearest and most successful that I've seen to date. They may actually meet the challenges of interactive responsiveness and total throughput with one system design.
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It's always inspiring to hear a story of someone who acknowledges his problems, buckles down, and works through it.

Even better when it's a couple. Marriages go into meltdown mode every day for things a lot smaller than this.
My first job was basically a part time developer for one of my school open source project - Archon. It was like half a year ago. And, my second job now is really amazing.
Be warned, doesn't like 64-bit Win7; tacket capture driver doesn't work. Nevertheless, looks sufficiently awesome that I'm going to dust off an older machine just to play with it.
Are there screenshots of the new Mac OS X interface available somewhere?
I'm disappointed by Gladwell misinterpreting Lewis Strauss' remarks. When Strauss claimed that electrical energy [will be] too cheap to meter, he was talking about subsidizing plutonium production. Originally, the feds needed plutonium for nuclear weapon production, and they were paying about $1,000,000 per kilo of privately produced plutonium. At those prices, the sales of plutonium would cover the price of building and operating a plant, and the electricity would be a free by-product.

When the feds quit purchasing plutonium in the early 1970s, it destroyed the economic model for building and operating nuclear power plants. Not the meltdown at three mile island, nor tree hugging lawyers.

Please read The Curve of Binding Energy for more details.
http://www.amazon.com/Curve-Binding-Energy-Alarming-Theodore...
Two things about the numbers in this article don't work for me.

First, Bill makes $23,505 after college? What's his degree, basket-weaving? Shoulda gone into engineering.

Second, Bill and Ernie each save exactly 5% of their income--even though Bill earns much more than Ernie? This is not a basis for a fair comparison, it just means Bill is choosing lifestyle over retirement. I calculate that it would take Ernie about five years of living Bill's lifestyle to pay off his college debts and catch up to Bill's savings. And then he has 25 years of a higher income and hence options Bill doesn't have. Ernie's lack of financial planning does not negate the value of his degree.

In fact, the fact that the article assumes financial illiteracy on the part of both parties is revealing and disturbing. And it reinforces the point that, at least in Ernie's case, he really would have done better to get a degree in something involving some sort of math background.
It's good to hear the opposite arguments, and they're good ones, though those all seem to be specific to employees. From the company viewpoint often having employees leave for vacation individually is disruptive. Especially in so called knowledge based industries. I'm not really wedded to my theory, just kibitzing.
Of possible interest: an interview with Glenn Weichman (co-creator of Rogue): http://www.roguetemple.com/interviews/glenn_wichman_intervie...
> Additionally, why doesn't anyone talk about doing URL shortening on the CMS side? Sure the host portion of the URL might be a little longer than say 'bit.ly', but the remaining portion could be compressed. You could have a blog, news article, or whatever with an unobtrusive "twitter link" on the side. That way content owners still have some view into who is linking to their content.

Some sites do this. I bought some shoes the other day on Zappos and noticed all their permalinks have a shortened URL ready. Example: http://www.zappos.com/product/126799/color/53739

Amazon should do this if for no other reason than most of their URLs are giant and unfriendly.
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I think I was about 8 years old when I started cleaning pet's cages and fish tanks in the family pet store. I think I made about 2 guilders an hour (which will be about $0.80 I guess).
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Eeek. Lead poisoning?
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Yes, yes, and yes :)

We feel there is a lot of room for feature growth, and much of what you mentioned is being considered.

Mind dropping me your email? dmillar at pacsdrive.com
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These are cool statistics.

Apparently I am the #12 commenter here. I should read this site less :)
How many more threads on this nebulous question?!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=661030
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=679886
...and several other related threads.

Here is the answer: Yes, if enough people adopt it sufficiently fast. But they probably won't. The end.

Here is the meta answer: if sufficient articles are written on the subject, recession-weary programmers will learn the new thing to gain an edge because they're worried about developing for a dying platform, and the more innovation will take place on the new platform than the old. In that regard, the recession is good for HTML5 because it raises the economic stakes for developers.
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FYI there were 14 attacks on Indians living in Australia in the past 6 weeks. Or do you intend to mean that such frequent attacks are just usual stuff in Australia??? In either case, I doubt it is stupid.

EDIT: I am Indian. I do not live in Australia. All I know is obtained from the Indian news media.
What is this obsession with things killing other things? It doesn't even make sense metaphorically.
My first job was a CVS cashier, for about two or three weeks, before being offered a sales job at CompUSA.

It bothers me that I made more at 17/18 then any year since (I'm currently 22). I miss commission sales.
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No. This is the fifth story about HTML 5 that has made it to the front page in the last 24 hours and as much as I want to it to replace Flash and Silverlight realistically speaking it won't happen anytime soon. If anybody really believes that IE will implement HTML 5 anytime soon they seem to have a very short memory. Like it or not unless Microsoft decides to implement HTML 5 it isn't going to take off.
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I'd argue it's both, many employers pay more when hiring people with degrees and certainly the people who end up with a degree tend to be the kind that would end up in higher-paid positions regardless.
Yeah, it's an option now and (most?) new customers would be there by default now I believe.
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The "optoelectronic" thing must have been a pretty brief phase in imagineering in the computer industry. I vaguely recall it, but I don't think it was around for long as the "this is where we're going next" idea, was it?

Obviously holographic memory and storage has disappointed us, as well, but I think flash memory has more than made up for it. I was just thinking today how cool and outlandish it would have been ten years ago to have 16GB stored in something about the size and thickness of a dime (Micro SD). Full-sized hard disks back then were in the 40 to 80 GB range, and I don't recall flash drives existing at all.
> You can't get a decent job without a decent education.

So, what makes you think a decent job is a right, because it isn't. Most people don't go to college, most people get low paying and/or manual labor or service jobs. Welcome to the real world.

> Kids these days are finishing school much later than their parents, and they don't have a choice.

They have every choice, they can choose to not bury themselves in debt to go to a school they can't afford. If you can't afford college, don't go.

> the cost of school is sky-rocketting, as it debt.

See above.

> there aren't very many quality, well paying jobs available to young people.

Have there ever been? Really? C'mon, young people have always started at the bottom of the ladder and been shit on, overworked, and taken advantage of; that's how the system works, it isn't anything new.

Seriously, this all sounds like a bunch of rich white kid whining about how hard their life is (despite being full of choices most people don't even have)... you people should just get over yourselves, most people have it much harder. Most people don't go to college, most people hate their jobs, most people make shit wages and have little hope of ever making it.
Google Maps should also do this.
It does, as death is basically being obsolete in the technical world.
you are failing to account about genetic differences between asians, and whites (or other non-asians).

Being European, and having been raised with consuming milk/cheese/yogurt products daily, I was stunned to learn that most people of the world are lactose intolerant, and have hard time digest milk.

Also, we Europeans do use bread a lot. And wheat bread is probably a lot healthier than rice, even brown rice.
Hopefully we'll be able to woo you over soon. raised eyebrow
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Adobe employees will be fine - they get an unheard-of 24 days of PTO per year (three of which are automagically consumed during the holidays).
Nobody knows.

My view is that those decisions should be made democratically, specially with direct democracy (like in Switzerland or California). At least most people will be happy with the rules they live under, since they choose them.
i really wish the modern OS came with a utility to measure the idle time and the in-use time of the battery, similar to what the iphone does. this information is very useful in tracking the life of the battery and gives consumers some insight into their usage patterns.
Futurologists always think of what is technically feasible, rarely of what is economically feasible. Economic miracles like silicon valley happen once a century. The rest of the time we're just expanding the legacy.
divide your goals into smaller sub-goals, that way it'll be easier to manage and finish them, don't bite off more than you can chew
Something cutting edge, like Cut Co., Edgecom, or Interslice.
>Arrest the assailants and interrogate them.

I agree. Curiously, a lot of people I know (Indians all of them), held the opinion that Australia was an extremely racially biased country, much before these attacks started getting publicized so widely. Must have something to do with that extremely controversial Indian cricket teams tour of Australia, I guess.
Okay, here's my $.02. I'm 55 and re-teaching myself Scheme (25 years ago, I edited the BYTE Magazine special issue on Lisp, and I just discovered that an excerpt from my review of The Little Schemer is now quoted on its back cover). I'm in the late stages of my training to be a marriage and family therapist (second MA at age 53), and I have an open-source project that I fiddle with (infoml.org). So what's my take on things?

Consciousnesses is far from binary; sometimes I think it's the most finely nuanced thing in the universe (read The Head Trip, by Jeff Warren). Speed of thought decreases--you got that right--but I've now got decades of experiences behind me, and these lead to thoughts I never could have imagined when I was 25. Unfortunately, it's not true that "quality of thought won't diminish"--my father died with dementia at 85, and it certainly changed the last 20 years of his life. Change is the only constant in life, by the way, and flexibility and openness are your greatest assets in dealing with it.

As you grow older, meaningful connections to others, humble achievements (helping others at a personal level), and balance in all things become more important than power, money, and sexual conquest. I feel I'm far more creative than I was 20 years ago, but my desire to sacrifice balance for achievement has diminished; at this stage of my life, different things (as described above) are more important to me.

Some parts of getting older truly suck, but I am a lot happier and calmer that I used to be. I really know who I am now, and I can no longer be jerked around by what other people think. It's a great ride, and if you take care of yourself along the way (mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually), it can be quite worthwhile. Good luck to you all doing whatever you're passionate about!
"Private Impunity Game, in which the person who made the offer wasn't even informed of whether it was rejected or not—they simply walked away with their share of the cash."

I wonder if they reject the cash to feel more justified to punch the other person in the face if they meet them after the test. While still irrational, that would cater to an internal sense of fairness.
Aww I thought it would be about the MMIX but I always get confused by Roman numerals
My first job was at a national lab when I was 17. I was paid to write FORTRAN code to help with data mining. Not the best use of FORTRAN, let me tell you.
Why are so many sites filtered out? And by what criteria?

http://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_average_points
I think the point is comparison to parents/grandparents. Most of our parents never went to college - but could still have Dad work a blue-collar job - and still have a nice (small) house in the suburbs with a picket fence.

I think part of the issue/trend is the fact that this generation might end up worse off than their parents.. that hasn't happened all that much historically (that I can think of at least)
A big, key component is the creation of proper tools for building HTML 5 apps. If someone could start building an HTML 5 tool that makes simple Flash-style animations as simple to build as Flash itself, that would dramatically increase uptake. As it is right now, you really need to be a programmer to use it.

Microsoft has realized this with Silverlight and has working on these kinds of tools for the next release. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing more use of it once those tools are out there (which I'm fine with, since it seems faster than Flash in my experience).
The big thing for most people I've talked to about Ruby 1.9 is not so much when the next 1.9.x release will be, but when will most of the frequently used gems be compatible with 1.9?
Why wouldn't they? It's just text.

Also ASP.Net is a whole different beast from Apache & Tomcat, you probably mean IIS?
I sold my website, which I created for fun, to a company in 1998 and continued to work for them, that was the first time earned a paycheck and I was still in college. Never in my wildest dreams did I think what I made would make money with it. It wasn't a lot but it covered my expenses for most of my college (it was in India).
so all cutting edge companies should be named like that? Aren't all startups in the tech scene "cutting edge"?
I suggest you provide a screencast or something first in order to generate interest in your product.
So Australia just announced raising the Pension age (from 65 to 67 -- applies to people who are now about 50 and younger). The figure that came out with that - was that when the pension was established 80 odd years ago - it was for a life expectancy of about 67 - the expectation was that it was support for old people about to die. Since then - people are living much longer - and the age hasn't gone up.

Also note that Australia has compulsory Retirement savings (9% of Gross Income) for all employees! Which is probably going to be my plan A, since I don't expect the Gov to be able to afford to pay for me when I retire.
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Thanks for reminding me again why I love Australia. (20 days Paid Annual Leave, + Sick Leave, + Public Holidays (about 8 per year or so)..

Although I am usually encouraged to take at least part of my time off on the Christmas/NY break (which is Summer for us obviously).
IceBreaker is pretty good, so we have two potential winners: IceBreaker and Pickup Lines. One is boring but clearly says what you get, the other one is more trendy, but more people may miss the app because they can't tell right away what it does...
You know, I don't know of any place in Europe where employees are forced to take their holidays all at once. I'm sure there is some niche industry in some backwater country to which this applies, but I haven't heard of it.
No, we are 'forced' to take our holidays all at once to spend time with our children, who DO have 'forced holidays'.
15, doing web designing/prototyping to a local software company. Got paid something like 10€/hour even I didn't care about the money that much. I was just happy to work with web and being treated as equal member of a dev team. Learned quite a lot about web dev and business back then and I think it shaped me a lot.

Sometimes wonder that if you should try some "real" job, like basic customer service or physical labor.
14 over the past 6 weeks? Could you point me to a source please?
The only similiarities between the Quarterlife Crisis people the article talks about and rioting muslims in France or protesters in Iran is that they are young and unhappy. The reasons for their discontent are completely different.

This is hardly a global phenomenon. You can maybe see a weaker version of it in other developed western countries. But even young people in Europe... well, they don't have the debt when graduating from college and they also don't have the "You're special!" sense of entitlement. At least not to the extent that suburbanite Americans do.
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