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You complain about old men being frisked, and then immediately complain about your friend being selected based on his appearance. Do you not see the massive contradiction there?

Yes, I do. See "farce", referenced in my first sentence.
Posts like this have an almost PUA quality to them. Weird.

Developers are people. To hire them you have to establish a relationship with them. If you try to shortcut that, you're gonna have a bad time. It's a long-term game. Yes, you can get some attention with parties and other stunts. That is no guarantee of quality or retention and it isn't sustainable. pastProlog nails it elsewhere on this page.
The key thing is to make sure you understand why the customer is saying no, or why they are saying yes. If you don't get a firm no you can never actually ask the questions that will let you understand where there is a mismatch between the potential customer and product. After understanding you can better alter the product or customer you go after.
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Nothing works always.

Instead of making assumptions ("all pricing ever does is confuse the visitor...") without any backing, you can spend 10-20 minutes setting up an A/B test and let the numbers speak for themselves.

Then, if you haven't already (and too many companies haven't), make sure your Google Analytics (or whatever solution you're using) is set up properly to track visitor flows, conversions, and segmenting visitor types. You can learn a lot by looking at the sequence of pages your guest visitors (non-users) view before converting or exiting.
Not quite. I'm in San Antonio. Fresh grads start at $55-60k here and move up to $80k within 3-4 years with senior devs making >$100k pretty easily.
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I don't see it as something unfortunate, just a consequent application of your other conclusions. :)
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Most long-term remote workers have solved most of these problems. You have to have an office (a separate room, with a door), and use it only for work.

The just chatting part is more difficult.
Unless you give an example that includes your rationale, we're not able to judge one way or the other.
Reminds me of something I wrote similar to this, learned it from another founder who went to Stanford and did his MBA there: http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/16/hacking-the-system-how-to-...

Context: I was writing a book and needed it finished before final exams my senior year. I had to get people to say yes or no, but no responses were just wasting time. Not a single person was offended when I used this trick.
One approach I've seen at Microsoft is to have Product Management, Engineering and QA report to the General Manager. It seemed like a very good solution to empowering QA. I'm guessing that structure evolved because of the need to ensure that Windows worked on a vast variety of plaforms.
Some thing tells me this dude spent way less on development. Justifying it is easier when there is no budget.
Get one :). You're not selling your soul. They don't require much beyond an email, IIRC.
Cheers, that's nice to hear. :D

Though, i guess i expressed it poorly. I didn't mean to imply that you intentionally hid it, just that the way you laid it out hid it to the average user no matter what and since you probably have both devices, weren't even aware that an important piece of information wasn't available until after the sales pitch. :)
> ...if you double salaries, more developers will show up fairly quickly.

Because throwing money at a problem is always the best way to solve it, right? Why would anyone consider hiring the type of developer they actually need?

Here's the inconvenient truth about startups in the Bay Area... lots of them have basic CRUD apps with little to no traffic that a self-taught programmer out of high school could build. They don't need "engineers" with CS degrees from top schools who are Google or Facebook material.
This is very similar to the helicopter game back in the day! What a simple idea, amazing! :)
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For those people who complain about $250 annual fee, just think about how much a plain old phone line would cost.

Regarding the $750 hardware cost, if you build 15-way video conference system and sell it with $200 operating margin and one year hardware warranty, good luck if you can hit $750 price point. The price will surely go down over time, but it is way cheaper than anything else on the market.
> But real issues show up due to fundamental problems with "is-a": Even if an X value "is-a" Y value, an X variable is not a Y variable (because it can't hold all objects of type Y). So passing a mutable object reference to a function is fundamentally different than passing an immutable object -- but inheritance hierarchies treat them the same.

That's not a problem with "is-a", its a problem with unsound use of mutation in inheritance heirarchies. A mutating method can either:
1) Anticipate that it can fail, or at least the mutation component can (however that is signaled, whether by return value or exception), on some combinations of argument values and object state, in which case it works fine as a method anywhere in an inheritance hierarchy, or
2) Be guaranteed to succeed completely with any arguments of the appropriate types, in which case its fundamentally unsound anywhere except in a final class (since declaring a mutating method is essentially logically equivalent to declaring a method with a -- potentially additional -- return value whose type is simultaneously both the the type of the class it is declared in and the type of the class it is used in.
In what world are 2-3 years of experience going to double your salary? And $400k is not what your average senior dev is making. I don't know where your 2x/5x numbers came from, but I've never seen anything close to that.
I'm a WINE contributor so I'm aware of their meticulous legal requirements. It doesn't mean that MS won't go nuclear in the courts. ReactOS or CodeWeavers are small enough that they could easily be killed with litigation alone, regardless of outcome. After years fighting one premise, MS will be ready to go again on another premise, until the little companies that create these products throw in the towel.
I'm not talking about the system. I'm saying that your two complaints completely contradict each other.
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That presumes that recruitment is a limiting factor. Given that there are thousands, perhaps millions, of young, single, Arab men willing to martyr themselves for the cause, and roughly zero of them attempt to blow up or hijack US airliners, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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I don't and i'm not sure how you got the idea. It only speaks to me of a developer who at worst focuses so much on apple products that they don't even consider that other platforms might exist, or at best is slightly distracted and might be able to make use of an oversight being pointed out. In either case, whenever i see their name in the future, i'll have to look first whether their product runs on any of my devices, or whether watching their ad will just be a small waste of time leading possibly to unfullfillable desires.
It's always nice when something beneficial comes out of watching hundreds of hours of television.
As far as games, there are no libraries besides basic OpenGL bindings, but there is https://github.com/jayschwa/Quake2.jl, which is extremely impressive.

Not sure quite what you mean by network building, but IO/networking is libuv-based so should be pretty good. There is TCP client/server functionality built into the language and UDP is coming soon.

As far as web, there is http://juliawebstack.org/.

None of this is polished yet and there is still a decent amount of work to be done on the core language. Additionally, since Julia is targeted for technical computing, the standard library includes linear algebra support and requires BLAS, which is great unless you don't need it and are on a system with memory constraints or want to incorporate Julia into another application, although there has been talk of decoupling the linear algebra support from the rest of the language. But yes, Julia the language should be suitable for all of these purposes.
Interesting article. Thank you for the link.
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Yes, I think "streaming data" and "big data" really are different things, and I like your term "Fast Data". From a lower-level perspective they involve very different challenges.

If you need to store the data (Twitter-like data) then storage becomes your primary concern. Analysis can be done later and in less-than-real time. But if your data are coming in so fast that keeping up is the problem, then storage isn't even a consideration (you generally just don't) and analysis becomes the challenging part, you need to aggregate do be able to update your metrics on the fly.

So they really aren't even overlapping problems outside of the fact that they both deal with lots of data.
I'll believe it when I see more posts about programs being made with it than posts about how it is good.
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From your profile I see you live in New York. Silicon Valley is a different world, where the total compensation (salary+stock+bonus) for a senior developer can exceed a million per year: http://www.itworld.com/cloud-computing/399839/man-or-myth-3-...
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I actually like the syntax of Julia after taking a look from an article that was on HN a week or so ago. But being 1-based threw me off. It seems like such a small thing to fret over but I can't get past it. I must be brainwashed but everything starts at zero, even your ruler.
Funny you say that. If you study history you will learn Mozilla org was big on pushing proprietary non standard compliant extensions. Rise of IE curbed their enthusiasm because roles have changed.
I think it was in one of the interview videos at
https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet
This isn't exactly blogspam, but it's an extremely low quality article with little evidence or new thought. It's basically a small handful of unsupported paragraphs, with almost no information content, and a few shoutouts to the realtor group this guy works for.
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Why the frack do they keep doing that!?
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While i love your idea, (and am glad you found the context to show your project off again. i read the original post), i do have two nitpicks.

You said it downloads the entire site when i open a site. Now, this is completely fine for normal text-based blogs, but what if it's an image heavy site? Like theChive? Wouldn't i end up storing several gigabits (possibly terrabytes) of data for that site?

Secondly, if somehow we extend the concept to dynamic content (don't ask me how) wouldn't it effectively mean each of us running a server and hosting it on that?

Maybe your idea can be implemented on the server level instead of the client level... like proxy servers doing what you want the clients to do and thus the content would be all over the internet instead of a few specific servers. (not saying that's a good idea btw)
Interestingly. Snowden's revelations showed that the US govt does hack journalist computers.
imgur was created by someone for reddit and digg on the same day.
Was linking to page 4 of the article instead of page 1 intentional?

Also, it should probably have a 2011 tag to indicate it is an old story.
While I think your response is justified in this specific case given the small sample size, I don't think making two "contradictory" complaints is necessarily wrong in this context. If you make a lot of Type I errors, it might be the cost for reducing Type II errors, and if you make a lot of Type II errors, it might be the cost of reducing Type I errors, but if you make a lot of Type I and Type II errors, then maybe whatever you're doing just sucks.
Well, for sure. I understand what he was saying and I don't even disagree. I'm just stating plainly that people use Godwin's Law in exactly the manner as what he was criticizing to begin with. It's just become another tool to ruin conversations.
It's also pretty incorrect, because Julia is much more appropriate as a Matlab replacement than an R replacement.

Matlab and R aren't even close to the same thing, so not sure where these statements are coming from.

Julia does seem great, and I hope it replaces Matlab, if only because it's open source. A faster and more consistent R would be nice, but there are other people working on that too.
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Quite good fiction, I'd even say!
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I have an office with a door. What I really need is a time lock on the refrigerator and pantry.
If you mean Netscape that was a different group of people at a different time with different goals. Some of those people carried over to the Mozilla project but the goals have always been different.
Fun fact: there are only four minority groups in this discussion, those being "wrong color", "wrong gender", "wrong religion", and "wrong politics".

Fun fact: discrimination in the workplace is generally legal. The law lists only a few exceptions. But when someone talks about anti-discrimination policies, they mean those few exceptions and not the entire universe of all possible ways to discriminate.

Fun fact: billionaires in the US are indeed a minority, but not considered a traditionally oppressed minority which, you know, is the point of this conversation.

Fun fact: there's plenty of evidence to show that being female, being black, being Muslim, and being a communist in the US is more likely to have a negative effect, compared to someone male, white, Lutheran, and Democrat.

Fun facts: California still has a law preventing teachers from being in the Communist party: http://www.dailybulletin.com/social-affairs/20130113/califor... , and in 2001, Michael Italie was fired from Goodwill for being a member of the Socialist Worker Party. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2... or http://www.themilitant.com/2001/6543/654302.html .
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A shortage isn't characterized by your inability to acquire something you want. There is a price component. If throwing parties and potlucks is working, then it is clear that the price equilibrium has not been reached, and therefore anyone offering less are simply not in the market.
The multiverse theory, in case you're unfamiliar, says that each time there are different ways a quantum event could go, the universe splits into multiple universes, one in which it went each way. There is an extension to this in which free will is manifested by your consciousness following a given universe in each split.

This has the strange consequence that only you have free will, as perceived by your own consciousness. I don't think this makes any less sense than anything else related to quantum physics, but it is definitely weird.
Yeah, having to buffer the stream in order to set the correct value for the content-length header on the last part of the multipart upload is what I was referring to. Your example using a 20MB part size is quite feasible. Thanks! Is it safe to use the master branch? Do you have build instructions? I haven't used go before.
Why don't you mount SFTP as a drive? That way you can use any app with remote files. I don't use mac but a quick search shows there are tools for that just like on Windows: https://www.google.com/search?q=mac+mounting+sftp

(ExpanDrive, WebDrive, MacFusion, Transmit, sshfs)
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I'm a strong supporter of zero-based arrays (I grew up with C and for me zero-based indexing just seems natural and elegant), but in using Lua, which has one-based arrays, I've found I don't really mind at all.

I think the crucial difference is that Lua doesn't have the emphasis on pointers and address-arithmetic that C does. Zero-based array calculations are really useful for that, but for simpler array usage, either style seems to work fine.

So while I still favor zero-based indexing, I think the context matters a lot, and one-based indexing is not always a problem.
The US government never admits to being wrong. The only way to overcome a confrontation with the US government is to get a newer bill signed into law, at which point you can protect other people from the same adversity but the government will pretend the past never happened and you won't get any kind of amelioration of already-wronged wrongs.
I'm in Austin (though I have friends in and visit SF often).

When I graduated UT quite a few years ago, friends were getting offers of between 75 and 85K. Granted, they were really, really good and were already consulting on the side.

San Antonio might be a bit cheaper.

You /might/ be able to find a decent Texas State grad for 60K. Maybe.
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Hey,
I'd like to take a train ride (preferred) from NYC to some place easy to get to by train (1-4 hours) for a coding retreat. This is for a side project that needs a push and dedicated attention. Has anyone done this?

I'd imagine it would be best if a train ride that had wifi but that's not super required (long stints with no internet would let some code get written). A hotel or nice AirBNB cottage would need to have wifi and to keep it cheap under 150 a night.

Anyone ever done this and would you have suggestions for towns or specific cottages/homes that you've done this at?

Thanks!
I recall reading about printable, flexible OLED displays in the 1990s, but it wasn't until recently that OLED displays reached consumer technology, and even more recently that they began improving in size and color fidelity relative to cost. Give graphene another 10-20 years and we might see applications.
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Sure but calling this 'shutout' is pretty abusive of language to me. Is Chrome shut out of modern macs? Safari does come bundled after all. And I don't consider the DoJ case to have any merit so there's no authority in it.
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imgur becoming a credible threat to reddit's eyeballs (and ad dollars) does not require them to have feature parity. See: Facebook vs Instagram.
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Preprocessors aren't incompatible with components. I usually structure my frontend code like

components/
widget-one/
template.html
script.js
style.css
widget-two/
template.dust
script.coffee
style.styl

And then the style file for a component is completely scoped to that component's main class:

.widget-two {
.widget-two-control { color: blue; }
}

The build script can handle each component separately and stitch the results together. Just because SASS/compass encourages a monolithic style doesn't mean it's necessary.
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Oh, woe be the accountants!

It's difficult to take this opinion seriously when the comment author is so unread about the law that they don't know the difference between "council" and "counsel"! It's a very strong opinion which is devoid of any learning or context whatsoever -- has the author never heard of Arthur Andersen?
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I don't think NYC is that different. Starting salaries here are pretty similar ($100k+ for people fresh out of college is becoming fairly normal outside of startups).

Maybe the spread is bigger in Silicon Valley? If so, I wonder why. Doubling your salary based on 2-3 years of experience doesn't happen here, and 5x for senior engineers would require a very narrow definition of senior.
I had a privilege and luck to travel and visit that part of Russia in late 90s.

People are very nice (never refuse vodka if you are offered :)). But it is really poor place. There are open manhole in the middle of road - the big one, my friend would take out battery from the car bring it up with car keys, ...

So it is not really "semi-hidden agenda" - it just that Sochi is not Moscow.
I wouldn't count 80 year old men out as recruitment targets for suicide bombing.

Traditionally, the rate of suicide among men only goes up as they get older and in the US is at ~29/100k/year after 65 years. If a group were well-funded they could make this an attractive offer to take care of families for folks who had no assets to pass on. The have less to look forward to and thus less to lose/more to gain. This already happens in other ways besides suicide bombing.

I think the perception that most terrorists are young single men demonstrates less about their willingness to blow themselves up than what they're willing to trade blowing themselves up for. Young single men, especially poorly educated ones, are generally dreadfully bad at cost-benefit analysis and planning for their futures. Terrorist groups tend to be incredibly poorly funded without state sponsorship and then it all depends on which state.

Tangentially, all[1] decisions are economic decisions.

[1] most
Skype doesn't allow screen sharing or video chat for 3 or more participants without a paid premium plan.

Once you've got that, Skype's screen sharing leaves a bit to be desired. Hangouts allows for screen sharing of individual app windows, which I consistently miss when using Skype.

Additionally, Skype video calls under the premium plan have a fair use policy with a limit of 4 hours per session with a monthly cap of 100 hours total. That may be okay for an individual, but is probably not the best solution for something sitting in a conference room shared across a company.
Did you really just write 40ish words belittling someone's opinion because they picked the wrong homophone?
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It's almost as if there are different people demanding different things for varying reasons or something.

Nah, just like Reddit, HN is a hivemind, and we all want the same thing at the same time. Any contradiction is evidence of our hypocrisy, not of the disjointed nature of our composition.
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OK which of you broke it? The site is currently down.
Curious why it's 100% US employee base.
Wtf is up with how that guy opens the MBA box?
In the case described in the story, I don't see any signs of the former.

Good thing we have more than just a blog post on the options backdating scandal, as it's a well-known scandal

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Options_backdating#Overview_...

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/regulation/20...

Options backdating was a big fucking deal a few years ago.

The CFO proposes certain practice, it is not obviously illegal (like not paying taxes or stealing office supplies from competitors at night)

It's not obviously illegal to lie about the date on which you granted an employee his/her options?
Hurting the soviets was about establishing hegemony. If you don't agree here, then, I mean, I don't have that much energy! :)
I love a few things in life more than the sight of old ruins.

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