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I'm going for the fifth option. Build a software-as-a-service business that pays the bills and allows me to keep working on my own projects. No one can fire me (except my customers) and I still can code and noodle around with interesting stuff.
Can grad students who are interested in leaving academia apply?
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>Obviously no-one is being hired to write x86 assembly. It's taught because it's relevant, important and timeless.

Not everything is timeless. Not everything everyone specializes now will be timeless. Some knowledge will be useful always, but if there is not demand for the timeless positions, or demand shrinks rather than grows, then even if someone has timeless knowledge that may not actually be useful in them getting hired, because what they know wouldn't give value to companies looking to hire.

>You're appealing to authority and the status quo, without actually addressing any of the issues head on.

I refuse to accept without evidence that companies are only hiring younger people because of their youth and not because they give the company some kind of competitive advantage.

>Like most of your arguments, this is a logical fallacy.

That was a question, which was refused any answer, not an argument. You are asserting that people have timeless knowledge making them more valuable employees than younger people without that timeless knowledge. I'm asking why then do companies make hiring decisions which go against their interests.
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With enough tries anything is possible. There is probably even a person who ascended nethack on his first try (using the wiki of course, we're still talking things with p > 0) and didn't play it again because it's too easy and boring.
It actually needs 2.5 GB to install (it won't use it after the installation, obviously).
No doubt. I'm sure it was. I just think it was also a genuinely useful indicator of exactly which reporters aren't/ don't have access to people with general knowledge of the subject and that more people should make jokes like it for that reason.
I would be worried that the "politics of management" would be substituted by the "politics of marketing." Did you not find this to be the case?
I guess we're a bit less vindictive in Missouri. We didn't dissolve Macks Creek, we just redirected traffic fines to the local school district and let it wither away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macks_Creek
last year I wrote a short complaint to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about their use of "world's most desktop advanced operating system" to describe OS X.

here are the responses I received:

1: http://imgur.com/mflFaHW

2: http://imgur.com/ndxyzlM

you'll now notice that the UK page doesn't contain that false statement: compare http://www.apple.com/uk/osx/ vs. http://www.apple.com/osx/
Not really. I think the better term is locked out of the ancient CDMA networks of Verizon. Nexus series is GSM, which is used globally, except for Verizon in the U.S.

Samsung (w/ Verizon) install so much bloatware on their new Android phones it is bordering ridiculous. Why would new Galaxy S4 users want an uninstallable NFL app?

The Motorola and LG Nexus android phones are comparable to iOS in terms of actually working.
You can still use these packages with the slightly longer import path util we find a solution that works for everyone.

import "github.com/dotcloud/docker/pkg/libcontainer"
import "github.com/dotcloud/docker/pkg/netlink"
I did it by pressing up-left-down-right, repeating each direction as many times as possible. That's the worst part - knowing that your carefully calculated playthrough is actually no better than someone just pressing the keys in a set order.
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The app store rejects apps for various reasons.

- It did not respect privacy or other legitimate user interests.

- It doesn't do anything useful.

- It crashes on launch.

- It contains infringing IP.

- It's malware.

- It's a copy/clone of some other existing app.

- It was a shitty app.

- It didn't follow Apple guidelines or rules.

Some of these are different ways of saying the same thing.

As a user, I'm glad Apple rejects crap apps.

As a developer, I try to make good quality, worthwhile apps and I haven't had any problem with rejections.

People probably do quit, but in their case it probably has more to do with their own lack of diligence or caring, and less to do with the platform. However, it is fair to say the platform does not tolerate bullshit as much as some people might hope it would.
All good points - I'm not sure about the practicality of it, just intrigued by the ability to store and retrieve data from HTML elements.

I can't imagine at the moment any project where it would be used, but who knows, maybe someone would, or maybe not. Mainly just seeing what it possible to create and then seeing if there are any ideas to help take it away.
Get back to me in 15 years when ageism is no longer something people complain about.

Won't happen. It will always be like this. People who refuse to adapt blame others instead of doing something about their own problems. If anything people will invent new isms to blame their problems on.
>Extremely small jurisdictions (populations of fewer than 1,000) that are incorporated as cities are highly entertaining...

in small cities these issues are just more noticeable.
With the exception that contractors typically have to spend some amount of time lining up work and interviewing. This eats into your 50 weeks of actual work outside vacations.
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You make a really strong point. I think the problem you described above is why, in truth, closed allocation tech companies are destined to fail. Closed/open allocation is a continuum in reality, but the more closed a technology company is, the quicker it rots.

The "Real Googler Line" concept (and, as you know, I was only at Google for half a year and have no insight into what the place is like now) is the recognition that, above a certain level of recognized merit, people should be trusted to allocate their time and energies. As you said, people just below the trust thermocline where it goes from open to closed allocation (on whom the company relies to perform the most thankless, ugliest tasks) get resentful. You don't have a solution until you lower that trust thermocline down to the people who aren't capable of doing useful work, who you don't want to retain anyway.

The only conclusion I can reach is that a closed-allocation tech company doesn't work. I realize that open allocation isn't right for all industries, but in software, it seems to have minimal downside, incredible upside, and no reasonable alternative.

So, I agree with you. One shouldn't fix a tech company by elevating a couple top performers. (They'll get lonely.) One should go to full open allocation, and then those political issues go away.
There's a good book about it: http://madebits.com/aep/index.php
Searching around for the perfect tool is so much easier than actually doing something, isn't it?
He must have some interest on the NSA continuing their mass surveillance efforts, or something. Juicy federal contracts aren't something you turn your back on when you're a 20 year old kid with a public voice.
Felt the same with with iOS 4, whatever it was on the 3G. It was assured to work well, in reality it was completely unusable.
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App Ops is virtually the same as the privacy controls for iOS. It was pulled early from the Kit Kat release because it was breaking so many apps.
"The problem for some people is that these kinds of more generalized roles put you in charge of systems that do not have the sort of clear-cut deterministic behavior you remember from your programming days", what could you be possibly talking about? So generalists work on non-deterministic systems? Clear-cut? Gimme a break man that statement and perhaps your whole remark is a load of bull. You are making a statement that generalists arent programmers. Generalists make more money than anyone else except for security specialists.
Goanimate would have paid for such a post! must be good.
Everything I had planned today has been put on hold until further notice. :)
There's a right time and right place to publicly criticize a country's actions, and I think it comes after you no longer depend on that country for political asylum
I don't know, you might want to try it out before you dismiss it completely.

Rooting/installing ROMs is completely optional. It's just there if you want it, and it can be a lot of fun. You did buy a pocket computer after all - don't you want to see what it can do?

I use Swiftkey instead of Google's stock keyboard, and Firefox instead of Chrome. Both are quality apps which look great, have zero malware issues, and seriously enhance the quality of my smartphone experience. The improvement is way beyond what you can get on iOS, simply because Apple won't allow anyone to modify the core experience so deeply. And I haven't explored the offerings in full - I still use the stock caller and messaging client. I'm confident that high-quality alternatives are available.

I use simple stock widgets currently - Gmail and Google Calendar only. They look great, they're simple, and again they seriously improve my phone experience. Again, I haven't really explored widgets yet but I'm sure there are some seriously powerful, high-quality options available.

And the filesystem is only visible if you download an app for it specifically. Out of the box the file management is similar to iOS, just more powerful with the intents system. This isn't an example of Google not being able to make up their mind, they've just decided to allow people to explore that side of the system if they want.

Android is really a great system for people who like computers. All of the things which Apple decided people shouldn't be interested in doing with their pocket computers are available in some way on Android. It's very gratifying for curious people.

It's fair enough to say that all these options come with dangers. But they also come with potential! Great potential.
A seriously great way to spend 30 minutes on hold with Verizon.
You could, but that would be a spurious argument since it could apply to anything you didn't like.

If you don't like iOS, just say so.
thanks for this, guess they will get a lot of twitter followers..

Story of my life - i started at the bottom to look at twitter accounts on the list.
It's more than that. It's an extremely easy to use frontend. For instance, that link you posted doesn't have any way to see the JSON form of the profile. It also doesn't do any of the fanciness you mentioned below with joining together split up profiles that you mentioned in a comment earlier. More than that, this space needs some sort of de-facto standard for the protocol, and yours is as simple as any else.

Here's the use-case I'm thinking of. I want to create an in-browser pgp-messager using pgp keys that are on the nmc blockchain. If the onename "protocol" became ubiquitous this would be more or less trivial. A simple webpage with a "username" field and a "message" field. Javascript fetches the public key listed in the profile and encrypts the message (ignoring potential issues with using javascript for encryption).

That would be awesome, and there would be a million other applications besides. The problem is "onename.io" is a central point, both for failure and attack. If others could run this same pretty frontend, then there could be third field on that page for "onename endpoint", which would default to "onename.io" but could be anything. I could have my own personal instance, my employer could run one, my ISP for my neighborhood, etc... Farther down the line it could even be something built into a browser or OS, where you can specify custom default endpoints just like you do with DNS.

I don't really have any say with what you've created, it's your thing and you do with it as you see fit. But in my opinion your "pretty front end" is the best one so far, and I think could actually have appeal outside of crypto-geek-world. You just need to open-source it :P
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I think the most stable implementation in this space (if limited in scope) would be Apple's Rosetta. Sadly both closed-source and now abandoned; if it was opened up, it'd be great to base a more general A-to-B translator on.
Yeah, I got burned with 7 too on my 4S. Luckily my iPad3 is still on 6.

Its rather annoying that Apple forces you to stay on the current version once you update especially when the newer version slows down your device at the same time.
Many people here wish this would all just go away.

Many people here work at companies that are on the PRISM list, or work for core infrastructure gear makers, or telecom network operators.

Some people here work in the "security" industry, which relies on an appearance of security that can be cracked "to catch the bad guys." These people know their tools and services are also used to put dissidents in prison.

The only way forward is to make everyone secure to the highest standards, routinely, for all communications and data storage.
It's a weak tie between Szabo and Satoshi. Both write in cryptographer/academic/cypherpunk style. That's true of plenty of other likely Satoshis. Most of the specific phrases which link the two are fairly standard phrases within the community.

I do think Szabo is in a top-100 list of Satoshi candidates, and the most damning linkage is Satoshi's failure to cite Szabo, but it's far from conclusive.
If:
A) technology is accelerating
B) the bar for status quo keeps lowering through enabling technologies
C) only people that grew up in the new 'system' will be fluid at it

Then:
A) most of the new ideas will come from a newer and newer cohort
B) age-ism will become even more prevalent
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Thanks for sharing this. Often times we let things slide w.r.t. marketing speak, but I believe it's important to call companies out on this.
Did you have to make a case for "why" that claim was unsubstantiated (fairly obvious to us, but I wonder whether the ASA personnel reviewing the complain knew enough about it)?
And to quantify the evilness -- 1024 and exactly 12000 points.
Out of the box, maybe not, but if you customise it, it can be orders of magnitude more advanced.
Nope. This a straw man - nobody said android "doesn't do power consumption management".
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Actually there have been studies that have shown that while more money doesn't provide happiness, enough money is a pre-requisite. We're not talking a ton, we're talking enough to pay for food, shelter, and some basic form of entertainment.

It's incredibly easy to say "move somewhere cheap, keep your expenses low, and have fun" from the outside. I have been perfectly willing to move for a job. I've changed continents, and failing that moved literally across country (vertically mind you) for another. We even moved when we had a house with a mortgage and rented out the house (at a loss) because the housing market sucked in 2008. Moving that much took a huge toll on my family. We basically decided to stop when my second kid entered school, and my wife opened her retail business. Which is to say, it ain't that simple.

Have you started a retail business? I've watched first hand what it takes. My wife works easily 50% harder than I do, for 50% of what I make on a good day. She has finally gotten to the point where she has three part time employees so she can take one day a week off. She cannot simply 1099 contractors, so she has to worry about witholding, workman's compensation, and employee benefits. She has to deal with upstream suppliers, constantly finding new customers, driving business into her shop as well as subsidizing it with external events. She'd be the first to tell you that without my salary backing up the family ... she would have had to shut her doors several times.

In our industry we lose site of the actual cost to run a mom-and-pop business because we can throw up a website for $20/mo and a long-weekend of work. (Isn't that what the basic premise of the Lean Startup is? Throw something economically cheap together to test the idea and bootstrap sales?) My wife's business has kept expenses low. She buys all her equipment second hand off craigslist (she's a potter not a baker so thankfully a lot of failed hobbyists make the supply on craigslist reasonable). I'd estimate her expenses before payroll are close to $2k-$3k/month for consumables and rent. Most months she breaks even after payroll, and doesn't pay herself an actual salary.

If this description sounds remotely appealing, then by all means stop what you're doing and go that. Programming really is that hateful.

However painting it with the rose-tinted glasses of "You get to interact with more people, get involved in your community, and people can taste the results of your work." belies the actual hard work that building a business is. It elides the fact that there will be nights you will lie awake wondering if you'll make enough sales to pay last month's rent ... let alone this month's rent.

For some people that is still better than what they were doing before, but pretending that all you need is a little more gumption ... I don't know a better word for it than 'disingenuous'.
How would you do that assuming that most sales don't happen through people who regularly go to a Herbalife Nutrition Center?
Where I live there are tons of small 600-1000 person cities, there is even a nearby county where the largest city (the county seat) is ~3,000 people. They all seem operate without issue. I think you are just biased living in an area with much larger metro areas. One small city near me has been stable at around 600 since the 1860's...
> An in-person interview is a two-way conversation and costly (in time and energy) for both sides. It is ideally a rich experience with a lot of infomation.

That's a valid point, but I don't think that discrimination laws say anything about the time and effort required by each party.
$43k? My first offer was $28k, though, to be fair, I didn't have a programming-related degree.

I'd also like to underscore the comment in your parent post--"good enough for me." It's not always about pay. I'm seeking a sort of "medium chill" [0] existence. I currently make more money that I ever thought I would, but I also have a position with a relatively stable company where I can continue to do interesting work without unnecessarily ramping up my responsibilities with each pay increase. If you offered me a job with a 25-50% pay increase with a similar increase in work time and/or stress, I'd politely decline.

[0] http://grist.org/living/2011-06-28-the-medium-chill/
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I'd like to add that "everyone else is doing it too" is commonly used by governments like the US to "excuse" their spying.
So instead of nuclear, what would you propose is used?
Is this the end of TV advertising as we know it?
The big thing is that developers move to "adult" companies. The pay is less, but they get to act like grown ups, take vacations, have families... Sure the work is more boring. Who doesn't love EDI or Factory planning!!! But getting those business skills down and implementing what the accountants want is like 50% of "computer" jobs that mostly are never, ever advertized.

I'm 40 and still looking at more school and something to keep busy another 20 years after the kids move out.
"EDIT: Make sure not to get addicted!"

Oh, no we have another Flappy Story in the making here!
In in my mid 40s, went through some life burnout due to trying to start my own business, and had to come back to just being the most solid engineer I can be.

I do contracts almost exclusively because I have no faith in the employment market as an employee given the current trends in hiring.

Also I dont feel that being an employee makes me more of a team player, In most places contractors are doing the real work and employees are sitting around chatting over the water cooler. Id rather get work done.

Im a generalist and in spite of the rather idiotic statements about that in the first comment, its really the only way to go, if you are not a generalist you are likely not employable regardless of your age. Any shop that has hordes of 20 year olds spitting out HTML/CSS is wasting their time.

The beauty of being a generalist is that once you have enough experience and a core set of tools, you can add new ones or not at your leisure. The pace of things is really not that fast, about 80% of all tools that get released are just junk that noone will remember in a couple years.

One benefit of being an older developer, is that in a decent shop people tend to notch down the bullshit factor, because they know you have heard it before.

Conning people into doing things that are stupid is reserved for the 20 somethings.
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There may be a disparity based upon how inflation is calculated. Plus or minus 40% after an interval of 75 years is not unreasonable for the purposes of an "about this big" comparison.

A Paasche index will understate price inflation, while a Laspeyres index will overstate it, due to demand elasticity. Governments may change the formula used to report changes in the money supply, using different measures like M1, M2, M3, and MZM, along with the average velocity of money. This obscures the amount of value intentional inflation extracts from the productive economy, at the cost of mathematical accuracy.

You could buy exactly one Manhattan project with 1939-1946 dollars for $2billion, of which 90% was production, and 10% R&D. You could buy exactly one Apollo Program with $25.4billion in 1961-1972 dollars. One LHC costs $9billion 2008 dollars. Tevatron was a bargain next to that at only $120million 1980 dollars.

Put into that sort of scale, with $19billion in 2014 cash, you could do any one of the following:

Build an entire city designed for 50000 inhabitants supplied entirely by renewable energy sources.

Build an entire archipelago of artificial islands.

Bury an Interstate highway under Boston.

Build 3 international-class airports.

Build two subway lines under an existing major city.

Replace 5 long-span highway bridges.

Buy 6 Human Genome Projects.

Replicate the Channel Tunnel.

Does that bring it into perspective?
Stealing all your contacts takes time, you know?...
Yeah but you can't have diverse teams if you hire from the same mold
For what it's worth, I've had horrible performance in the iTunes App Store since my first day with my first iPhone. And the switch to the new store 'style', heavy on pop-ups instead of directing to distinct pages, has been worse than before.

I don't think I've ever had an acceptably performant session in the App Store, at any time of day, on any device, from any network. Even direct links to app pages from other web pages have always been slow.

So I'm not one who'd be able to notice new 'lag'. But I haven't had any crashes.

The "Other" space tends to be MMS messages. If you're not manually clearing conversations, those pictures, videos and sound files are just getting filed away forever. They really need a fix for that. If nothing else, offering a setting to automatically trim conversations to only the most recent X weeks.
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