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This is the unfortunate truth.

So much for being smart and logical, most will never apply this to anything outside of a computer.

And most will turn their noses up at the ethics which would have them converting their technical ability and wealth into long-term power. (To see how this could be done, look at the relationships and rent-seeking behaviour around startup incubators. Others are deftly stealing your lunch.)

The affordance which a software engineer now has will not last forever; power left on the table is power lost. As engineering becomes more commoditised (through education and simpler tools) the pay check will drastically decrease but the less-than positive terms will remain.

It's a personal choice that anybody can make to raise their opinion of themselves, to learn how an executive (and other professions) behave and to not accept less than they are worth. There's so much opportunity to be had. Nobody should be acting like a cog! You should all be playing greater games and constantly redefining what you believe you can do.

A hustler is just a social hacker; a hacker is just a technical hustler. But a human being, they are neither: they are whatever they wish to be.
If that data exists, the plaintiffs' lawyers will get it.
For pointers on that sort of thing, I'd try the IRC channel. #rust on irc.mozilla.org. Or try the mailing list: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev .
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You compare Apple to Orange. First you ask if the employee could generate this revenue on her own, and then you compare that to a trader that could generate the same revenue at another firm. Are you comparing employee productivity with and without company resources, or employee productivity between companies A and B?
sounds like a class action. I'm in. The only reason I bought TWO chromebooks was for the 3g. I haven't even activated the other one. They owe me about 3gb and they also changed their rates, eliminating 3gb for $35. Now it is 2gb for $30
Unfortunately, I went to Small No Name College for undergrad, Large But Not Terribly Well Known University for grad school, and didn't major in CS or Software Engineering either time. So, yeah, I'm showing up to many, many networking events these days. :P In fact, I'm writing this from the Bay Area Python meetup where Guido is speaking.
HIV, which is admittedly another "moving target", isn't that way because of artificial selective pressure because of vaccines.

It's because RNA transcription doesn't have error checking.

Nor does an unstable antigen profile (ala HIV or influenza) necessarily imply more severe disease.
Curious how you feel about Robert Morris, Jr.

I think he caused a lot more damage than temporarily defacing a newspaper's website.

What is a reasonable punishment?

Everyone has an opinion. What's yours?
I am so glad this is being revealed now. It's not exactly new, but this is the perfect time.

Why? Because Google Bus Protests, that's why. This is a chance for the people and the engineers to line up, shoulder to shoulder, on the same side and take down the fuckers who've become the elite of this system.

The resistance begins.
Hopefully in multiple places, in case of fire!!
You are making the same sort of evidence-less dismissal that you accuse the OP of (whereas the OP actually explains the reasoning behind his assertion).

If you want to question the post's premise, at least point to some of these libraries that you believe are on par with react. Personally, I'm not aware of any that have nearly as compelling a model with regard to performance, composability, and minimization of mutable state. But if they exist, I'd love to know about them.
Have you looked at something like the iPad app codea? http://twolivesleft.com/Codea
It uses LUA for the scripting language, and a really nice IDE.

We also did something similar, except it is all visual programming (I know you said you are not interested in visual).. Its called GamePress (http://www.gamepressapp.com), free iPad app check it out :)
Is there a windows/linux equivalent for this?
Technically, this isn't even published, it's a preprint service, and it's hardly the worst thing I've ever seen come out of arXiv.

If you want to blame someone, blame an uncritical media.
The HP Chromebook 14 comes with 200MB/month from TMobile.

"4G for life. 200MB of free data each month, no annual contract, for the life of your device." according to their site.

I just got one from Costco. It's a bit more than the Samsung ($379 at Costco, a little cheaper at Walmart) but so far I'm liking it.
Can you elaborate more? I would have thought your example isn't comparable, in that we death is inevitable, but being robbed isn't (as much, depending on circumstances)
What made you stay?
This isn't X or Y, this is X and Y.

Plus, to be really frank. HIV has broader consequences. If it ever mutates to spread through air or water, like common cold viruses. Then we are staring at an extinction level event.

The risks are far more higher.
The thing with and H1-B is if they lose their job they have to leave the country the same day. That is a big incentive to work very hard and accept low compensation.
I think there are two different "programmer archetypes" that help prevent unions from forming. The first you identified: programmers who have conflated, mistakenly, "doing what you love is more important than compensation" with "compensation is unimportant if the work you're doing is something you're passionate about."

The second is the cadre of elitist programmers who think they are more intelligent than anybody else, and that therefore if a programmer isn't swimming in money shoved at him by an employer it's because he's not good enough. The egos in the software world dwarf those in the academic world I come from (and that is, believe me, an impressive achievement). Hilariously, it seems to me at least that far more programmers fancy themselves a sort of Programming John Galt (or, perhaps, being a citizen of some Programmer's Lake Woebegon, where all the programmers are above average). They relish competition because they believe, erroneously, that they're working in a meritocracy and that their own skills are so exceptional they will definitely rise to the top anyway.
> Why aren't we getting paid like lawyers? If they win $20M they will get paid at least $2M. But if we make a product that generates $20M profit, at best we get $20K bonus. This has to change!

Is that really true? Their firm might get 2M. But in a big case, I imagine there are many lawyers and assistants involved. Sure the partners are going to do quite well. But, the founders of a tech firm also do quite well when their company receives a windfall of cash.
Interesting.

Is there anything that ties this specifically to node apps?

I find one thing Docker is very useful for is cases where you have diverse platforms to deploy.
These students did absolutely nothing wrong.

They submitted their paper to a well known, well regarded preprint service (arXiv), which is pretty normal for a number of fields.

Then, presumably, the paper would go to peer review. Where one would hope the reviewers would point out a few glaring flaws (like that an SIR model without either the creation of new susceptibles or waning immunity must go to 0 and they are 'dooming themselves to success').

The paper would get rejected, or heavily revised, and the world would keep spinning.

They didn't actually do anything wrong. If you want to blame someone, blame an overexcited media that grabbed something off a preprint server and ran with it, knowing full well arXiv has no 'Is this right' quality checks, and isn't peer reviewed.
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What do people think about Service Organization Reports? Do you trust them?
> Look at the way so many programmers choose to dress and groom.

Doctors/lawyers interact with clients/patients a lot, so they dress to impress; whereas programmers only interact with other programmers or managers, who don't really care. If you're a programmer, the code you write matters much more than the human interaction around it (arguably the same can be said about doctors and lawyers, but a lot of people wouldn't hire a lawyer dressed in jeans and a t-shirt).

Also, there are external dress requirements. For example, a lawyer might get thrown out of court if he/she shows up in casual clothes.
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You missed the part where salary ranges are shared, that before an offer is made the current employer is made aware of what is about to happen, and more... I suggest you read the article it is quite comprehensive the measures taken to decrease pressure on rising wages.
"Google is doing this to get people to complain to their ISP that they are not getting as good a deal as people on Google Fiber."

That plan only has a chance of working if they increase coverage by a lot to put real pressure on ISPs across many local regions. What does the local duopoly of ISPs where 99.99% of us live care if we know that Google Fiber is much better and cheaper when our only option of getting it is to move to KC, Austin or Provo? They won't give a shit until Google is actually competing in their backyard.

FWIW, Google's half-baked plans for the spectrum failed as well, Verizon never did shit to open the upper band of 700MHz up for open access after buying it and after their recent court victory, it is virtually certain they never will.
> When you say extort you mean seek payment for licence rights for their IP

What Microsoft does is very different to that and very arguably close to the definition of extortion.
There are free wifi hotspots he can use with any portable gadget.

He can also make use of library resources for email, searching, etc. It's non-ideal, but it might have some perks; having to chew on a problem for a bit before you can get to a library may help him develop some serious problem solving chops.
I think you need a better system. Seriously, I just don't understand I guess I don't get it. I keep my browser on "forget everything on close" mode and I keep my passwords in a password manager all auto generated passwords. If I were to get robbed I would have to reset exactly zero passwords. Forgive me for being stupid, (I'm not trying yo be mean) but where you logged into every service you ever signed up for when you were robbed?

Did you ever think to sign out after you were done?

This is a personal preference, but I sign in, do my business, and then sign out after I'm done with the service.
What, you can't take a little bit of someone else getting a little bit of overt critique?
Not sure why the other comment was killed, but it seemed to list them: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/microsoft-barnes-noble/
He was also breaking the law.
And this is exactly the sort of stupid, antisocial behavior that leads this site to rely so heavily on hellbanning, terrible though it is.
Japan called. They would like to do some, er, "scientific research" on these.
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I'd like to say I have just been informed by verizon that they have recinded my free 100mb service midway through the 'contract'. they gave me some jargon, that I did not retain because I was fuming. To my knowledge there was no 'expiration date' on the free 100mb THAT CAME WITH THE CHROMEBOOKS.
My main business is running a YouTube network so I'm signed into about 10 accounts in one browser session. Merely, to maintain my channels. All passwords are 16-character random strings with two-factor authentication enabled. So if I'd let my browser "forget everything on close" as you mention, that'd take even longer every morning to sign in to all these accounts.

Opening up my password manager on my phone, then writing the 16-char password, then entering the two-factor auth code takes about a minute for each account. So that's 10 minutes to sign in to all those accounts. A bit too much for me to start my day with :)

Then there's my personal email, my work email, my web server logins etc.

It all adds up, that I'd rather save the sessions.

But I agree, there's definitely space for some digital minimalism here :)
No, I have no idea about the relative values of server businesses and apps. But I know that very few people will pay $3 a month for Snapchat.
Would it really be an extinction-level event? I've read in many places that the life expectancy of a person with HIV on retroviral therapy is pretty much the same as it would be without HIV nowadays.
I absolutely love the Venue 8 Pro I received from my wife for Christmas. It is quite remarkable and liberating to have a full PC in such a tiny form factor. Put simply, it can do anything my desktop PC can aside from display dozens of windows simultaneously. And of course it's not as fast as my 3770K. But it's shockingly fast for such a small device thanks to Bay Trail. And Windows 8.1 does the "tablet" thing really well at that size.
I doubt we will ever be able to "measure" the effect. We can only guess and debate it with hypothetical scenarios -- "what if all these CEOs had had to compete for talented employees, instead of fixing the market for them?"

Regardless of the effect, it is a shame to see that these leading CEOs, who for years have vociferously complained about media & telecom oligopolies for preventing competition, were for years simultaneously using their oligopoly to prevent competition for employees.

Apparently, they're all for free markets, except when it affects their bottom line!
I back a shitload of kickstarter projects that are basically 'help me collect enough preorders to get a print run', and I'd much rather kickstarter be a hub for that kind of thing than another bottle opener / wallet / watch design.
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In theory MemoryMap supports all platforms (i.e. Linux, BSD, Windows and OSX), with a uniform for the basic functionality; but the more specialised uses (which aren't common across operating systems) may require using some platform-specific flags.

But, yes, I don't think there's been much effort put into streamlining it fully.
Yes and no. They have my data until I left to Asia in April (9 months ago). Luckily the thieves left a backup of my main drive I just did the day before. Really glad they did.
Given it's the name, I understand that one of the main objectives of your keyboard is to save space. However an option to simply stack two or three boards for those who could compromise screen space for multiple languages would be nice.
> Except for my clothes and toothbrush, they’d taken everything. MacBook, iPhone, debit and credit cards and much, much more.

It's surprising to meet someone who doesn't keep their phone on/near their person, even when sleeping. It does; however, raise a good point:

Does everyone have some sort of contingency plan for this kind of event? Show up at a friend's door to use theirs? Library or other public computers? Prior to this article, I hadn't considered how to change passwords/cancel credit cards/notify bank(s) without at least one of my own internet-connected devices.
Source: Me, who runs (among other things) mail servers for an ISP.

ETA:

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wow, I just bought a t-mobile hot spot so I could use my other devices. I am not willing to toss any more doe on chromebooks, but I am curious if the upsale plans in the chromebook are any different than their data offered at the store.
Despite the title, I don't think the book actually teaches Ruby. It seems to be more about general programming concepts, with the main character being named Ruby because a) the author herself likes Ruby, and b) Ruby is both the name of a programming language and a common girl's name.
Dankjewel! Succes met je Nederlands. Lijkt me een behoorlijk moeilijke taal als je er niet geboren bent :) Waarom ben je het aan het leren?
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I consider myself something of a hardcore techie and I am very happy with my Surface Pro. Although I have high-spec workstations both at home and the office, the Surface Pro is a terrific form factor for carrying to work and back every day as a pedestrian commuter. It's great to have with me in case I have to do some work away from my workstations.

As a thick tablet, the Pro is stunningly fast compared to other tablets. With the keyboard, it's up to any task I'd throw at an ultrabook. The touchscreen is totally natural and fitting for such a small device. It's great to be able to just click UI buttons with your finger on the screen, even in the "laptop" orientation. The battery life is more than enough for my use-case.

I don't use the stylus much—I wish it had slightly better precision.

What achievements must I unlock to earn the hardcore techie badge? Maybe I'm still a few shy.
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> programmers only interact with other programmers or managers

This is the problem half the time. Nerds in childish t-shirts want to sit around pecking out code in isolation instead of taking full responsibility for their work by putting on a jacket and working the organization. This is why IT projects are consistently such disasters and why executives have the idea to get cheap grunts to do this stuff under a layer of middle managers.
Personally I just keep a log (as a text file) of date and hours worked, and a one or two line description. When I do the monthly invoices, I use that log.

In 10+ years of consulting, I've never gotten a complaint about the detail of my invoices.

Don't nickle and dime your clients with emails. If you're writing a document or something that needs to be emailed, sure, bill for the documentation work.

I also don't bill for anything that takes less than 5
minutes, like one line text updates, etc. It's not worth my time to track that stuff.
> I see you're using Windows, so would you mind also listing your tech experience?

WTF? Please explain your comment. If I take it literally it sounds like sheer unadulterated bigotry.

I am hoping that I completely misunderstood you. If that's the case, I very sincerely apologize and owe you a beer or two.
Hi frozenport,

Thanks for this honest feedback. Zidisha definitely isn't for everyone - it is really a do-it-yourself platform rather than a managed charity.

We do have an autolending tool, which gives lenders the option of having their repaid funds automatically recycled into new loans. However the vast majority of our lenders opt to choose their loans themselves, and some even develop online friendships with the borrowers - exchanging recipes and children's photos, like old-fashioned pen pals except the communication is instantaneous. Our platform is really optimized for getting directly involved with each individual loan.
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> Normally, once you show someone how it works and explain that it isn't likely to change, they adapt.

Soon we'll read reports of pipes bursting and apartments flooding because a Nest switched off the heating during winter after a Google calendar user added an event named "Feature freeze on home delivery project". Of course people will adapt and simply stop using temperature related keywords in their event titles?

My point being: Users shouldn't need to adapt to unexpected features. If such features exist, they are implemented badly or shouldn't exist in the first place. That's Interaction Design 101.
I think exposure and access to investors is a pretty big one. I also think that YC should be able to bring some of the 'startup culture' to a domain that has historically been very enterprise-y (perhaps for good reasons of heavy capital needs).
Last time, I have no problem honoring a license on code written by others EXCEPT when the license presumes to tell other developers that they must do something with code they wrote in separate and not patches made to the original code. This is not irrational or bull. This presumption that the GPL code should impose itself on other code to force it all to be GPL is impolite at best.

I have no hate for the GPL. It is a license for a community that loves it, but saying GPL code can be freely included in other works is a very strange definition of free. It is also poor for teaching as it brings a burden on the future works of students if they directly use the taught code directly. It is a license that should be evaluated like any other, but it imposes burdens on more than the source written under it.
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Hackers will attempt brute force attacks on unprotected SSH servers. News at 11.
Is there reason to believe Julia is actually fast outside of microbenchmarks? Their strategy of aggressive specialization will always look good in microbenchmarks, where there's only one code path, but could blow up in a large codebase where you actually have to dispatch across multiple options. I've never seen a Julia benchmark on a big piece of code.
Strangely, it seems the F-22 is doing ok these days.
Very nice. I think the bigger issue is that there is a huge amount of academic research in which a fancy model (usually involving the latest academic fads) is considered a substitute for serious statistics.

I think Facebook's models with linear time trends are actually much more believable than the original paper.
The comment about taxes is a complete non sequitur and detracts from the rest of your thoughts.

Do you voluntarily pay more tax than you are legally obligated to? Likely not.
There has been no deindustrialization - the US manufactures more than it ever did in the past.

No, we just redefined "manufacturing" to include everything down to and (probably) including "manufacturing" burgers at McDonald's.
Yep, and the Osprey actually has a better safety record than the helicopter it is replacing (scary).
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You can force it if you want to, but in normal operations, starting sshd without waiting for the network to appear is just flat out wrong. It will not work.

So once in a blue moon you want to run systemctl with "--ignore-dependencies"? That's a much different argument than "would prefer to do my own thinking, not have the computer try to outsmart me."

You're right, it's not smarter than you—but it does has a better memory than you. To want things dumb for the 1% case seems stupid to me and an untenable position to take, hence my initial sarcasm.
A lot of people think its not enough money. In this case it appears to be about 30K USD.

Here's an issue with paying more: the security engineers employes are paid around 100 to 150K a year.

Imagine you'd get paid 100K for a big exploit. It wont be valuable to be a security engineer anymore (since you can't be paid additionally for finding the bugs), it's better to be unemployed and spend your time finding the bugs.

I think that's one of the main issue, at least until bugs are extremely, extremely rare (which really, they aren't - these news are really the tip of the iceberg).
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Eh. What per cent are the people who spent their childhood in SF, and what per cent are those who showed up in the last ten or twenty years, displaced /those/ people, and are now outraged it's happening to them?
Apparently, they're all for free markets, except when it affects their bottom line!

Seems to be a trend in every discipline, why should Big Tech be any different?

See: Big TELCO, Big Banking, Big Oil, Big Ag etc...
How on earth did you get any of that from the illustrations? I got the "Snow Leopard is a loner" reference (hah), but I don't see anything deprecatory towards Python or anything suggesting the book will actually teach Ruby syntax or idioms as opposed to general programming concepts. Anyway, the references to operating systems and programming languages are clearly meant for the adults who are reading alongside their kids. I very much doubt a young child with no prior exposure to computer programming will pick up on the jokes.