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I've worked on a big tablet-first site where we first built everything using Zepto, because of the assumption that 'everything would work the same as jQuery, but it's smaller and faster'.

Unfortunately, we encountered a lot of bugs, inconsistencies with the jQuery API and general lack of interest in supporting IE. Somewhere halfway through the project we switched to jQuery and we didn't have any performance problems. Some things actually worked better because jQuery has better workarounds for some of the bugs in older Android browsers.
> Could be a very good coincidence

Literally the last two times I have text my wife suggesting pizza for dinner I have had an advertisement SMS from Dominos moments later. If it wasn't for the shocking state of Dominos tech (website and mobile app) I would think they had some crazy surveillance going on!
> Some will argue that you're better off converting fat into muscle via a strength program than losing weight, at least to start. That's an individual choice, though.

That's not an individual choice; it's a good indicator that the person you're talking to doesn't know what they're talking about. There is no such thing as "converting" fat into muscle. They're different cell tissues, and if the person dispensing the advice doesn't pay respect to that fact, it's unlikely their advice is worth following.

Think about it from a technology perspective. Having a more subtle understanding of a technology allows you to develop better problem solving strategies. If the depth of one's troubleshooting strategy is limited to "turn it off, then back on again", they might be able to reach a solution most of the time, but they can't help you past the point that their single-vector solution fails.

The same applies to fitness. A better understanding of the human body yields more nuanced advice, and more effective results.
> A newly minted Phd, is one type of person that I've found myself having trouble hiring. Same with an newly minted Masters.

The PhD issue makes some sense, a person who just spent two to four years becoming an expert in a narrow area of specialization may want to use that knowledge, and may not be all that much more valuable if you don't need it (especially since his or her other skills may not have "kept up").

However, for masters degrees I wonder if you're considering the fact that the degree (in many fields) can be seen as a "signal" [1]. Many masters programs are highly applied and, assuming a reasonable degree of rigor, more challenging than undergraduate programs. So, looked at in this way, wouldn't it make sense to use a masters degree to help narrow your pool down to people who can handle challenging work? In this case, you would pay more not for the additional knowledge, but for the free screening the degree provided.

Disclaimer: I'm getting a masters degree in CS (and already have one in econ, hehe), although from what I've seen, people don't have much trouble finding jobs, so...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
Or you could be in a situation where you are trying to demo an app to investors, and you find you don't have proper access to wifi.

Or your adsl comes down and you find that over the spotty 3g your app suddenly takes 30s+ just to come up with an error message just due to the google fonts you used.

Those two are JUST personal experience in the last 6 months. Last time I brought this up publicly somebody mentioned that most CDN's are blocked in China too.

Given my past experience, I can think of no possible benefit that can make the additional fragility introduced in my systems worthwhile.

I'm not using CDN's for anything more than the odd jsfiddle in the future.
Isn't -g3 sufficient ? ("Level 3 includes extra information, such as all the macro definitions present in the program. Some debuggers support macro expansion when you use -g3."). [Note: I found -g3 to be extremely costly, but I guess everything has a cost...]
Employees are now commodities. Other industries have realized this and now the tech sector is realizing it as well. Especially now that people are more computer literate than they were 20 years ago combined with globalization plus the internet. The pool is much bigger than yesterday.
If Herbalife crashed tomorrow, I would open the champagne. I think it's exactly as exploitative as Ackman has said. I think they -- like most network marketing efforts -- are in the business of selling hope to well-meaning, desperate suckers. It's a shame that the article doesn't cover any of that.

That said, I think the article raises a legitimate concern. The ends do not justify the means. Astroturfing, dubious involvement of community leaders and government officials, large checks, letters from 'average citizens" who don't recall writing: all bullshit.

I agree that we should hate the game. But the reason we should hate it is that when people play it, they weaken the foundations of our society. If we only hate that when the wrong people do it, then we're part of the problem.
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Sorry, by 'javascript is awesome', I meant 'javascript performance is awesome'.
No, the thing is that there are not enough "interesting" and "complex" things to do - industry doesn't usually need to scale an app to the size of WhatsApp or Twitter, and even when it does, a handful of senior people managing a team of junior devs usually suffice. So, experience usually isn't really a benefit (after 3-5 years of experience), and can be a detriment for the reason you mention (boredom with doing the same CRUD app over and over again).
> Fukushima ...(correct me if I'm wrong), is a lost city that won't be possible to inhabit for thousands of years.

Please edit your comment. You're completely wrong, and it's unsubstantiated speculation like this that drapes everything in FUD. People are already returning to the immediate vicinity of the power plant, having only been excluded this long because of ludicrously conservative recommendations.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/1065957...

(The actual city of Fukushima and the rest of the Fukushima prefecture have been safe, even according to the highly conservative recommendations, for a long time now. I'm not sure they were ever even evactuated. As teraflop notes, the above article refers to the small town of Ōkuma in which the reactor was located.)

As expected, the actual harm caused by the meltdown is essentially undetectable above background levels, and is trivial compared to the tsunami disaster that precipitated it. Most of the harm done comes from fear mongering when no actual risk exists.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/10/us-japan-fukushima...
After they knock the external drive off the desk, they might go looking for a different media for offline storage. The cloud works for some cases, but it's definitely not great for large data volume- at least in the US, with broadband that isn't nearly what it could be.
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In my somewhat limited experience, companies often treat 'senior devs' as team leads, building mentoring responsibilities into the role rather than treating them as 'highly skilled devs who work efficiently and do not require much oversight'.

For a mentoring structure, it is always more efficient to have more mentees than mentors, hence more junior roles than senior roles.

The 'senior' = 'superproductive' structure requires fewer employees overall, but also brings an element of risk since the work is more concentrated.

The net effect is fewer senior roles.
What I often forget is just how dated the graphics are. Which is no biggie or anything, but very much why you only need 16MB of RAM.
> Please don't. The "banana equivalent dose" people make the wrong assumption that the excess potassium brought in the organism by eating a banana stays there for 50 years.

As you probably have noted, the BED has other problems as well, namely the source and kind of radiation is not taken into account - it's actually discussed in the wikipedia article. So reading the article is an enlightening skim on the surface if that's all you need ATM. There's no use in calculating your radiation exposure in BEDs - we both agree on that account.
Probably a lot of people who watched The Good Wife last night and/or privacy conspiracy theorists.
Without any other evidence you can't conclude that this is anything other than a coincidence.
I'm older than you and I've been looking for a new developer role recently. The main problem I see is that there haven't really been "old web developers" in the past - I've got about 15 years experience which is pretty much as much as it's possible to have in the web industry. People with more experience tend to be "software engineers who wrote web things" rather than "web developers" per se. Employers have expectations that web people are young people and as such building web software is something that you can only really do at the start of your career. The assumption is that if you have a lot of experience you'll quickly get bored and move on. Consequently it's getting a lot harder to find a job. I suspect that once we pass 40 we'll all have little choice but to move in to a more business analyst or management style role, or go freelance, until the industry is mature enough that age isn't something that works against you. A shame really.
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Some kind of pavlov's dog response? IE Dominos sends SMS marketing on a roughly predictable timetable, and on a couple of days those messages arrived late, causing you to subconsciously anticipate pizza news and suggest getting pizza?

Probably not, I'm talking out of my ass.
I think this is a clever marketing scheme by Stripe. Now hundreds of HN readers will sign up just to check if they get an email from BlueSnap. I know I did.
I only gave it a half-hearted read, but I assume it's standard journalism's "give both sides equal treatment."
His victims were Americans. He should be tried in the US.
I confess I've been trying a similar kind of thing attempting to promote a website of mine. I find people who've written about competitors and email them inviting them to try my site and asking for their thoughts. Is this scummy or is it acceptable? I'm hoping it's different because the pertinent material is public, rather than private like in the OP's case.

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Edit: I think in retrospect watty has a point, I've removed the links. I also didn't expect this comment to rise to the top, and it is kind of off-topic. Apologies.
That agreement doesn't seem to cover new talent. If the companies are screaming about lacking talent, that they could only acquire more engineers by hiring from each other would be positive evidence for that claim.
Totally agree. We're planning on doing ones for marketing/management/etc in the future.
> According to news reports, both Acton and Koum “took a year off to tour South America” not long before applying to work at Facebook, giving both a recent period of prolonged unemployment.
I have, on the only time I've used Amtrak. It was from Raleigh to Charlotte NC. The train bathroom smelled horrendous, it wasn't confined to the bathroom either, and we had to stop and wait for 2+ hours for the rails to cool when a really heavy freight train had passed before.
I'm not surprised it's Experian. Maybe it wasn't their fault, but only interaction I had with them was: "how do I provide my documents in a secure way?", "here's a pre-paid standard class envelope, just stick a copy of your utility bills, passport, driving licence inside and send it to us".

They're absolutely irresponsible with people's documents and data, at least here in the UK.
http://caniuse.com/css-animation

Maybe it is using Android browser 3.0 or earlier?
I was doing dev at a large utility company in my early 20s. I was only doing it a few years (~4 or 5) when the tech stack was completely overhauled and it required me to re-learn the new stack. I started to transition across (in my own time, at my own expense) and then the company decided to outsource the majority of the work and take on the outsourcer's stack. This left me with the choice to re-learn again within a very short time frame, or make a change.

I figured it was a sector in constant skills cycle and decided to get out of the rat race.

By my late 20s I was a business analyst - having the tech/dev background really helped.

Now, I work in security. the tech/dev/business background is invaluable.

In short, generalism seems to be the path (in terms of skillset), whereas you can specialise in terms of career direction).
Swimming and running are poor indicators of fitness (other than perhaps endurance, if you're swimming/running over a matter of miles). They require more technique than fitness.

As someone nowhere near the traditional definition of "fit", I can still out-swim 99% of the people I run across at the gym over short-medium distances, simply because I have technique they don't have from spending 16 years doing competitive swimming.
They work walmart or fast food or sell insurance until they turn 55. Once you turn 55 it gets real easy to get Social Security Disability.
We also know some levels of radiation may actually have protective effects (killing some viruses/bacteria which cause some cancers).
Even if someone is around, what exactly are they going to do about it? It's not like they can wave a magic wand and get your data back.
The lack of "Me too!" responses leads me to believe this is just a coincidence.
Unless you depend in a big library that doesn't support Python 3 (and they're getting rare), I would suggest moving

Then the ones left behind can be adapted, tested, or alternatives found, and the whole ecosystem can move on.

If we keep using Python 2 to be safe nothing will change.

Using Django and Python 3 and so far it's been a breeze, with minor bumps.
I'd say that if you're using public info that they have chosen to share, e.g. blog posts, then acceptable. If using underhand tactics like tracking them via an ad network, then maybe scummy.
Are you a citizen? As I've very rarely heard of a fortune 500 company sponsoring a new grad's visa.

I will mention that I've interviewed for Facebook in the past, and have found them to be very pretentious. The interview really made me not want to work for them.

Also as a Gatech student as well, did you primarily do on-campus interviews E.g: Career Buzz. As I've found Career Buzz to really suck at getting students jobs. You're talking like 50+ students interviewing for 1 job. And the interviewers are looking for that closet nerd most of the time.

I kind of have a philosophy that if its a good job, the company doesn't need to approach students. The students will approach them.
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You seem really sure of yourself.

Here's the counter argument from a noted short seller:

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2013/07/it-was-night-befor...

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2013/01/notes-on-visiting-...
This article was heavily debated on HN. Needless to say, these numbers should be considered with a big fat grain of salt.
People who signed up for anything other than to use the service are of no value to Stripe. As a marketing consultant and someone who used to work in a marketing agency, I think many people here over-estimate the cleverness of marketers.
You only need this [0] and this [1] to run the game.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.postram.wi...

[1] https://docs.google.com/a/shir-man.com/file/d/0B1bdCV3iqJ-MT...
That's exactly right. I told those close to me that an overseas financial services company I was using collapsed. I only specify Bitcoin if they press for details.
I too suspect it is coincidence but two questions to add to my database, one are you using the Chrome browser, and regardless of browser do you have any extensions that help you 'fill in forms' ?
This was announced in September: https://nest.com/blog/2013/09/25/calling-all-developers/

When that happened, I immediately filled out the form asking for more information. And I have heard not a single peep since then. I've actually been assuming that since the Google acquisition, this project may have been shelved. Is there actually a sign of life? The submitted link doesn't seem to have any new information.
You're talking about the linear no-threshold model, which is used because it is conservative, but it is definitely not accepted as fact by the scientific community. Please don't present it as obvious or settled. There are good arguments that low doses are handled by the cell's mutation correction mechanisms in a way that cannot be done for high doses.

> One of the organizations for establishing recommendations on radiation protection guidelines internationally, the UNSCEAR, has recently recommended policies that do not agree with the Linear No-Threshold model at exposure levels below background levels of radiation to the UN General Assembly from the Fifty-Ninth Session of the Committee. Its recommendation states that "the Scientific Committee does not recommend multiplying very low doses by large numbers of individuals to estimate numbers of radiation-induced health effects within a population exposed to incremental doses at levels equivalent to or lower than natural background levels." This is a reversal from previous recommendations by the same organization.[2]

> Whether the model describes the reality for small-dose exposures is disputed. It opposes two competing schools of thought: the threshold model, which assumes that very small exposures are harmless, and the radiation hormesis model, which claims that radiation at very small doses can be beneficial. Because the current data are inconclusive, scientists disagree on which model should be used. Pending any definitive answer to these questions and the precautionary principle, the model is sometimes used to quantify the cancerous effect of collective doses of low-level radioactive contaminations, even though such practice has been condemned by the International Commission on Radiological Protection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model
At FoundationDB we use this technique extensively (we call it "buggification"), along with deterministic simulation to make the results debuggable.

Amusingly (and embarrassingly), some of our early alpha and beta releases shipped with buggification accidentally enabled! It hurt performance a little, but didn't break the database for anyone that we know of.
U-Prove is interesting, but it doesn't solve the problem I posed.

With our current ID cards, the identity provider is already ignorant where I use it. All they did was sign the certificate in my card, and now third-parties can check the chain without informing the IdP about me.

The problem with U-Prove is that it still relies on a single identity provider. What happens when, by incompetence or malice, the State revokes your identity? And assuming that you can voluntarily revoke identities (e.g. if they're stolen) and not lose you bank accounts and so, there must be some way of proving that your new identity is just a new version of the old one. So, what prevents the IdP from creating fake identities that allow them to pass as you?

The idea of applying Convergence would be to decouple the identity from that single provider, and I don't see how U-Prove helps with that.
Sounds pretty above-the-board to me. They've publicly written about the subject and you've invited them to explore another option.
> However, in this era of e-mail, Skype, and many people working successfully in the technology business from a large distance (e.g. India or China), why exactly couldn’t the desperate “starving” technology companies offer him a job he could do from Texas?

I feel like there's a blindness by some STEM professionals to the fact that not all jobs can be done nearly anywhere, least of all those available to semiconductor engineers. I blame the acronym for bundling us all together unnecessarily.
Demand for Blu-ray is there. Perhaps not as great or immediate as the demand for DVD after VHS was (thanks to great backwards compatibility), but at least everyone I know or have met has switched to Blu-ray for their new movie buys.

If there's any repression in the movie market, I would blame prices/multi-format bundling. I don't want to buy a six-version pack with two different digital versions, a Blu-ray copy, a DVD copy, a 4:3 DVD copy, and a VHS copy for $40. I want ONE DISC, Blu-ray, for $8-10
Yes, Python 3.3 is absolutely fine, I wouldn't bet on 3.2 or anything earlier though.
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Yes to Chrome, no to form fillers.
He runs a hedge fund. He gets 2 and 20. That 2 means that his company gets 2% of invested money every year as a fee. He may not make money immediately from his actions but if his investors are happy then he will make money the following year.
That site is not responsive :-| (whatsmybrowser.org is)
And "cultural fit" can also be code for classism. Too bad for you that you didn't go to Stanford, Harvard, etc.
Sucks that there is no way to paste a requirements.txt file. Lots of projects I work on are in private GitHub repos.

Edit: Ah, here we go: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/caniusepython3. This is the command-line version.
Thanks a lot for your data and citations!
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Well, many Ruby webapps use erb, which is basically the same thing.
Who makes how many of the things we code for
I thought about this idea a few years back when kickstarter was really starting to get going. I even made a note of it in evernote somewhere, for future reference/consideration.

Campaign donations poison the political pool by acting as a filter to remove candidate of strong conviction, in favour of those whose policy is easily bought for donations. With campaign budget being a factor in probability of election success [1], there needs to be a way for politicians to get funding without donors expecting an influence on policy so as to even the playing fields.

Could the masses fund politicians via something like kickstarter? I don't know enough about the laws, whether it would be viable, or even if it was, whether it would be enough to break the status quo. Regardless, it's definitely an interesting thought.

[1] http://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/0472099213-ch8.pdf
Well, the current version of WhatsApp is eating my battery like crazy on my Android 4.4 / Nexus 4. And I hate their accounts / login system, as it depends on having an SMS-enabled plan and capable device. This means I cannot use WhatsApp on my desktop, on my iPad, on any device other than my primary phone basically, or when traveling at which point I shun roaming charges for local pre-pay plans.

Facebook's Messenger for example, or any messenger service not mapped directly to your primary phone number, has no problems with any of that.

> did I forget MORE FUCKING SHITLOADS OF ADS?

Facebook's Messenger has no ads, or promoted posts, or anything related to your stream in it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.o...

This goes for Google Hangouts, Skype, Slack or XMPP services in general (hosted by you or not), amongst myriads of messenger services that don't do ads. So I think you're exaggerating.
Actually, rdl was referring to Bin Laden's folks who, as non-Afghans, were using the country for a base of operations early on to train.
Ah, no. Being computer literate is not the same as having skill in programming, QA, DB, UX or whatever you need. Being tall does not mean you can dominate in the NBA. I was the same size and weight as Michael Jordan but that doesn't translate into 6 NBA championships. If you need skill you have to pay for it, not just fill in the blanks with random people who work cheaper.
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I hope so, that would be awesome.
You think the media is going to be LESS reliable for long-term preservation than existing optical media?

Wow, if so, it sure seems sketchy to brand it as 'archival'.
Can you elaborate on this: where have you seen it? Was it a POC or in-the-wild?