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Perhaps I missed something. What does the Windows console subsystem have to do with a program that interfaces bash with a VTxxx emulator? It's not hard to make a scrolling multi-line text field that also accepts and passes along keypresses to another program.

If I read it correctly, OP isn't looking to replace CMD or the Windows Console. It seems that he's wondering why bash is so useful, but it isn't bundled with Windows.
I went to school with ekarulf above, can confirm he had the skillset and held that position. I can also think of a couple other folks with skillsets that covered the full gamut. Discussion about pay aside, it's not a mythical skillset. I don't know about the "Rockstar" nomenclature, but the right generalist can do a lot.
Hi nthn, thanks for posting this link.
Josh here - I've put together this course. Happy to answer any questions anyone might have.

I think it's rubbish that 'gurus' have taken over the self-improvement space so I'm working to win it back.
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I don't think markets work like that.
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Ask HN: So what's the job market like for generalists, really?
As I read all the outrage about the Penny Arcade posting today, I'm troubled by seeing two seemingly contradictory responses:
1. A sad resignation that tons of very smart people will end up applying and be willing to work for the conditions that are offered.
2. A belief that the generalists with skill sets even approaching what is requested are in such high demand/short that this posting is ridiculous.

I'm genuinely curious about the state of this job market because as I read the posting I couldn't help but notice that it felt like a perfect match for my own skill set. It sometimes seems like startups are looking for specialists/experts in a particular area to augment the general knowledge they already have. Also, the limited runway provided by seed/angel/VC funding doesn't allow enough time for training. Whereas the Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. size companies don't need someone who can code front-end and back-end, design, and sysadmin all at a passable level because they already have tons of people who can do one of those things at a very high level.
Started a stupid company. Failed. 
Ran out of money. Ran out of credit. Losing house in two months (already foreclosed). Wife pregnant. Three kids all under 6. Pretty sure I am the opposite of everyone here. I am no man. Just a statistic. Everything is gone. Selling spare parts to keep the lights on. It was a nice fantasy, HN. To the rest of you: fight hard and good luck.
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As an employer, you want to find these folks.
There's usually no downside to having these
absurd job postings.

There are at least a few big downsides!

1. You lose a lot of accumulated knowledge when you burn your employees out and need to hire new ones every ___ months.

2. When you're understaffed (er, sorry - "running lean") and every week is basically run-around-with-your-hair-on-fire crunch mode time, you accumulate technical debt like crazy. Pretty soon everything's held together with duct tape, because you're dealing with shit flying at you from every angle and there's often no time to do things right.

3. An unreasonable job description like that weeds out nearly all seasoned, savvy developers. (For a high-profile job like PA, maybe they'll attract enough naive young geniuses who would love to work a zillion hours a week for low pay, and that will kinda sorta make up for it)
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I'll try to play around with my network this weekend. It might be mis-configured, or I might just be stupid.

Thanks much for the information!
> Check your facts.

I've actually read substantial portions of the DSM-III, -IV, IV-TR, and -5. The facts are exactly as I stated them.

> Here is what the sitting director of the NIMH had to say about the DSM and the issue of symptoms, as he announced his decision to abandon it

None of that supports your claim about causes. Nor does it support your claim that psychiatry or psychology are somehow not science. What it does suggest is that pyschiatry is less well-developed than other fields of medicine, which is well understood.

> Psychology does not address causes, only symptoms

Repeating this doesn't make it true. Psychology in its current state doesn't have a lot of information on low-level mechanisms, to be sure, and that weakness is widely recognized; but to the extent that information is available on causes, it incorporates them. Neuroscience informs pscyhology by investigating low-level mechanisms, in much the same reason that physics informs chemistry.

> as the above quote demonstrates

The quote you are referencing doesn't mention "causes" at all, nor does it address "psychology".

What it does address, when taken in its full context (to which you provide the link) is the problem that comes when allowing the existing symptom based categories to limit research to develop a better understanding of psychiatric diagnosis to support better treatment.

> But in the future, unfortunately not any time soon, neuroscience will become the preferred treatment for non-imaginary ailments.

Neuroscience isn't a treatment.

And its been quite important to developing psychiatric treatments for some time, its not a future contributor.
Sorry I missed that. I'm still getting used to the arrangement. (Wish I could collapse sections of the comments to keep track.)
The graphs are pulled from http://bitcoinity.org/markets which, if you click on the "wtf?" link in the top right, provides an explanation.

The line graph shows the current market price of 1 BTC, using the right y-axis which is in US dollars. It's overlaid on a bar graph of trading volume in BTC, which uses the left y-axis.
To be honest, as Breaking Bad is purely fiction I'm not even sure if you can "learn" that you'll get killed from dealing drugs.
...which is an interesting use case as bitcoin as an alternative currency. Africa is full of migrant workers in less stable economies who need to send money home at low cost and with no delay. e.g In South Africa you can buy a code at a grocery store that you can SMS to your family back home, they go to their local branch of the store and get the funds by giving the code. But it costs and it's slower than BTC. Also banking in Africa is notoriously expensive due to the low per-account balances depositors keep. You pay to put money in, you pay to take it out.

A fertile environment for a currency ruled by the laws of nature and math rather than assholes and exploiters.
Instead of tearing down the people who still have decent jobs, why don't you focus your energy on trying to improve things for the people who don't? There was a time when a factory job that anyone could get was at least as good as the average modern day software job.
I'm getting a /64 on my airport express. I do subscribe to blast plus, however I have never contacted comcast about ipv6
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"Ad hominem" is not a synonym for "personal." Just say "personal." Seriously, "ad hominem" is my new favorite HN drinking game.

Ad hominem: "Higher taxes are bad because you're the one suggesting them."

Personal: "You are an idiot for suggesting higher taxes."

See the difference?
So the dude who writes the exploitative job description is fine, while the average business owner is an asshole because you assume their job sucks and they're lying. Totally reasonable logic.
And Lebron James likes playing basketball. That doesn't mean he'll do it for $50k per year.

Someone who meets the qualifications PA has listed can easily get a six figure salary plus stock and benefits at any number of cool companies with interesting problems to work on, nice offices, and fun cultures.

PA won't get good developers to apply with this listing. They'll get people who are desperate for work and willing to misrepresent their experience and ability. Bullshit begets bullshit.
As a member of those "some people" you mention, that's probably why I don't understand all the hubbub :)
> That being stated, I'll agree that similar mechanisms for the JSON fields would make sense for Postgres to consider in the future.

I think they are working on adding modification functions for hstore right now, and the plan is to also add them to JSON once that is done.

You could easily implement your own such functions right now, since PostgreSQL already support atomic modifications in of columns with UPDATE with no overwriting. This statement is safe to use to increment a counter.

UPDATE c SET counter = counter + 1 WHERE id = 42;

And since that is the case this should also be safe.

UPDATE c SET data = my_json_array_append(data, 7) WHERE id = 42;

There is nothing magical about "+".
I just finished this weekend hack I really like.
https://github.com/garrettdreyfus/Libstripper
It's a handy (i think) command line tool to extract the code you actually use from css libraries like bootstrap.

Not much compared to other comments here!
People learn from fiction all the time, though BB isn't exactly fiction that is designed for pedagogical value.
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Well, in this topsy-turvy world, I will up-vote you comrade.
Ah, I see: yeah, I've got 3rd party cookies disabled in Firefox, so that's presumably my problem. If there were a way to make an exception only for YouTube requesting a Google+ cookie, I'd do it. But I'm not willing to give Google+ a blanket pass on all sites, and it doesn't look like Firefox's cookie controls are fine-grained enough for that. (Maybe I could look for an extension...)
Yes. Tapes and tape drives are expensive and awkward to use.
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I've been using https://bitcoinaverage.com/
We take performance very seriously, but we can't locate and fix every perf regression on our own. If you can give us metrics and repro code, we can work to fix the issues.
Well, but any competent software developer who works with databases can (and often does) build database structures, indexing, query optimization, etc. A specialized DBA can do it better and much more, but the database needs for a small company often can easily be met by the 'side-skills' of someone who is primarily a programmer.
Even before asm.js there was emscripten (the primary generator of asm.js and inspiration for much of the spec), which has been used for a number of high profile demos and likely got optimization attention for years before asm.js.
For the simple cases you do not even need that.
To be more clear, ad hominem is attacking the person making an argument as an illogical response to said argument. It's attacking the argument by attacking the person making it.

Merely attacking someone does not an ad hominem make; since ad hominem is based in the study of logic, calling a personal attack such as the comment up-thread "ad hominem" makes no sense. The person posting the job is not entering into an argument.
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There are two early adopter classes that I think matter in this sort of case.

First are what I'll refer to as technologists. No elaboration necessary, you get the gist.

Second are Jane & Joe consumer.

People buying into Bitcoin today are early adopters as far as consumers are concerned, and they're years behind on the technologist scale.

Bitcoin has reached enough publicity at this point that a former business partner of mine - she's in her mid 60's, and is a very very light user of technology, that hasn't yet joined Facebook, has never once used Twitter, has heard / read about Bitcoin. She is a CPA, so we had an interesting conversation about the implications of Bitcoin. She gets the premise of digital currencies, but not exactly how Bitcoin works (why mining exists, who controls it, how the encryption works, and so on).

Publicity wise, Bitcoin is quite widespread, it has spent months in the mainstream media at this point. Consumer adoption is clearly still in the first inning however.
Bitcoin market adoption looks like a skyrocket curve compared to other tech. Hence the early adopters window closed a while back during the first 4 years when 50 coins were being mined every 10 mins.
Mozilla seems pretty desperate for asjm.js press :-/
An apology that is followed by screwing up along similar lines is really not worth very much.

Apologising is nice and all, but if no actual change in behaviour occurs (whether intentionally or unintentionally) there really is no point to it.
It's not 'a centralized' database at all. Calling it that only adds to the confusion.
> actually, capitalism is an idealised philosophy which is easy to follow

No, its not. Its a system that evolved organically without any coherent philosophy, was criticized (and, in the process, named) by 19th Century socialists (who did have a coherent philosophy opposed to it), and since has evolved a number of different after-the-fact defenses (which often aren't even defending the same system, despite using the same name for it.)
This was my opinion too. I'm shocked that they didn't take it into consideration. Ironically the plaintiff tried to discredit Diffie by mentioning that the GCHQ "invented" the encryption even before Diffie did (this was mentioned in a previous Ars Technica article) which makes it prior art to the alleged patents too. A sad day :(
Your benchmark results look very different from that of the web framework benchmark:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7...

In that benchmark Go's JSON performance is almost 3x higher than that of Node.

Any reasons why there's such a big difference?
I'm working a job that pays $100k a year, and I'm miserable. I've never had more fun working a job in my life than when I was working in a PA-esque environment (as far as I can tell, it was a very anti-PC office) making $60k a year. Money isn't everything, and there's something to be said about waking up every morning excited to go to work.

Also, how many software developers do you know that'd be doing what we do even if it paid $30k a year? Because I sure as hell would. Lebron might even be ballin' for $50 a year, if he loves it enough. And that's kind of the whole point of the job posting: if you're in it for the money then PA doesn't want ya, and you probably don't want PA.
Yes, would very much appreciate some flamegraphs http://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/03/19/flame-graphs-in-rub... comparing the apps behavior on 2.3 and your latest (and 4.0)

Without exact profiling information its very hard to fix these issues.
The Chinese are gambling.

In Hong Kong, they gamble more money on horse racing in a single day, than the UK does in a whole year.

In Macau, single card draw is popular, for an instant adrenaline rush, nobody wants to sit around a poker table all day to win what you can win in a few minutes.

Bitcoin is no different.
Digital Tulipmania.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulipmania
Regarding point 1, there's a widespread view in the Bay Area that it's good to get a "fresh" perspective in companies that are toxic enough to continually burn out employees, which is many companies, probably most.

Furthermore, high turnover is very, very common in VC startups, including CEOs.
Hang in there man. Care to share more about what kind of company? How big of a gamble was it?
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You're right, that's precisely why they changed DES.
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There's an IETF standard that says IPv6 home routers should have a default deny firewall. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6092#page-15 Some people are trying to get it changed: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-v6ops-vyncke-balanced-ipv6-...
Discussing an accusation of ad hominem inevitably involves you discussing that person's ad hominem-ism, which is ironically meta-ad hominem. Unavoidable I think... though strangely comical I must say!
You'd have to define merit. For instance, on the one hand 'general intelligence' has been shown to be heritable (via adopted twin studies), but on the other, 'general intelligence' scores have increased massively in Africa as schooling becomes more widespread. So, is general intelligence heritable? Do our tests for intelligence really measure how much like a middle class European you are?

These are interesting academic questions, but I wonder if you'd agree with this - having access to 5MM in no questions asked family funding is more useful than 50 extra IQ points, because you can always hire clever people.
OH: "Stupid Rails team. Why can't you fix performance issues based on anonymous New Relic stats alone?"
Is there any difference between the ability to make money and "merit" in this discussion? There definitely is a difference in the world, but in this discussion, you seem to be conflating them.
What they claim to expect and what they actually expect are probably a bit different. It wouldn't be surprising to see them sell much earlier than they publicly indicate.
Ouch, hang in there. Go get a 'real' job until you get back on your feet.
Which kind of company did you start? There's always hope. If you are a developer or sysadmin you can easily find a job.

Keep up!! Everything is going to be alright in the end!

Don't give up, keep your head up and keep looking up, then you will find some positivity in your life.
Sorry to hear about this, hopefully you'll bounce back.

Did you plan for this eventuality when you started the venture? Can you spare any details about what went wrong?
I just wish someone would find it in their economic interest to do for Ruby what V8 did for Javascript. Doesn't seem like there is any fundamental reason for Ruby to run slower - it's just a matter of putting the (substantial) resources in to make it happen. JRuby might be the solution to this though, if they can catch up with MRI's functionality and stay on par.
Don't give up. When you hit rock bottom that's when you have no other choice but to turn it all around.
That's one tortured and oriented way of looking at it. By your logic, every single dev who has ever made a js lib can make an article titled "Chrome and Opera Optimize for Whoever-Pioneered whatever.js", since the changes improve their lib.

That title is making it sound like the changes were aimed at making that one case faster, when they weren't.

And them adding a library to their benchmark doesn't in any way mean that they aim to optimize for it, only that they want to keep a reference on how their code perform.
Just because I regularly check how my website renders in IE 6 doesn't mean I'm optimizing for it or that I consider it a target.
Yes, that's correct. The market isn't nearly as illiquid as some of the commentors on this forum would like you to think.
I'm also finding it funny how upset people are getting, but I'm attributing it to a different cause. I think that a large number of developers have inflated ideas of how rare and valuable we are. Actually, that's not quite true. We are valuable, we're just not rare.

There's plenty of developer talent to go around and job ads like this are getting filled even by firms without whatever prestige Penny Arcade may have. It can be scary to know that this is what your next job might look like and I think there's a lot of denial out there, but basic supply and demand is going to keep moving developer jobs in this direction.
Your terminology may make sense to you, but it isn't commonly used or understood that way.

The more common term for what you describe is "processed"

Additionally, there are legal issues around that definition. For example, redefining "retention" to really mean "processed" means that things like proxies may suddenly become liable for things like copyright violation.
Right. Work is family until the minute they decide it is in their financial interest to lay you off. Then they are "forced to makes a difficult business decision." Don't buy into bullshit business rhetoric.
The big problem is going to be too many applicants. Suggesting the job will be shitty and low paid seems to be a great way to filter out competent applicants.
Litecoin is nearing $20 as well, and still relatively easy to mine. In fact, many of the altcoins are skyrocketing in value now that the Chinese exchanges have opened.
Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin price increasing?
You should comment with a list of skills, maybe either a fellow HN-er offers you a job, or knows someone else that might be able to.

It's close to Christmas guys, help this person if you can.

Edit: Also, I noticed you said you're pretty sure you're the opposite of 'us', I can assure you, there's at least another 'failure' to join you, me. I've failed plenty of times in various ways. I used to have a company (not a startup in the common sense though, just a small business) as well some time ago, it didn't fail per se, but I ended up closing it voluntarily because things weren't going in the direction I wanted them to, lots of external factors out of my reach. I felt terrible about it for quite a long time though...now I'm better.
I broke the dam.
When I was young in Brazil we had an inflation rate that was crazy ( 1985+ )

I remember my parents getting their paychecks and running with me and my brother to the supermarket which was CROWDED to get the whole month supermarket done. If you waited 3 days or so you would not be able to buy all the food you needed.

It is terrible I can assure you that.

Here is the kind of inflation I am talking about.

"It stayed in the 100% level until the mid-80's and then grew to more than 1000% a year, reaching a record 5000% in 1993." Wikipedia.
Stuff will show up in my Google Now? It's cool to search for a place on my computer and then have my phone ask me if I want directions when I'm leaving.
I'll be honest with you guys. Since G+ integration, I've found the comments left on YouTube videos to be far more intelligent and appealing to read.
You may have lost your dream, but you have gained time to focus on your family and well being.

Find a job and take it easy for a while. Rebuild and come back stronger!
Yes, you're right, other than the idea that the job posting isn't entering into an argument - I'd say that it is, the person is taking a position that they feel this is a reasonable and justifiable job to advertise.

We can reasonably consider this implicit position and draw conclusions, and yes absolutely, because something happens to be a personal attack, it isn't necessarily ad hominem. Saying 'ignore what this person has done and listen to me telling you he's a great guy' very much is.
To me, G+ having a niche audience is a feature.

That's not a feature, it's a bug that google is trying to fix by shoving g+ down everyone's throat.
Most of the research Shamir does at this point is basically crap like this, which is why it's on a website instead of in a conference or journal.
Still waiting for Hacker News:

$ ping6 news.ycombinator.com
unknown host

Funny thing is, this site runs behind Cloudflare, where IPv6 is available by checking one box. Although that will cause IPv6 addresses to appear in the CF-Connecting-IP header, so perhaps the devs can't figure out how to manipulate them, or they just don't care.
Keep your head up and don't be afraid to reach out to this community or others for help. All is not lost and you are no different than anyone here, though you may have over-extended yourself. Beating yourself up will not help you or your family.
A simple improvement would be to make overlapping drops unite into one big oval, but it's otherwise very realistic.
Isn't Republic Wireless a Sprint MVNO? So they'd need to wait for the CDMA version, right?
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Exactly. The job description is written that way on purpose, to weed out anyone who does not really, really want to work at Penny Arcade.
A perl programmer who uses Windows?
Uh, didn't they make a huge deal about moving some of their manufacturing back to the US a while back?