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I'm a 37 italian computer engineer, i made my first super-easy assembly program when i was 7 and loved programming since then. I've worked for big companies and left them for a small company where i learned a lot. After 4 years i started freelancing. Now, 4 years later, i can say that my pay grew a lot during freelancing. I think it can still grow, maybe a 20 or 30 percent more so maybe there will be a plateau. But i love programming!!! I can't think of a management work. I need coding! I know that maybe one day i will not be able to learn new stuff as i was able during these years, but learning something is one of the best part of this work! I'm thinking about founding a startup so maybe my work will be marketing/management but also coding. But as somebody said, i will also try to learn something in machine learning field (my university thesis was about IT infrastructures optimization based on genetic algorithms).
So try to understand what you want from your work life: money, fun, career? Then you'll exactly know where you will go.
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Web intents. You can prepopulate a message but the user has to click 'Tweet'. No need to ask for permissions.
I really don't understand why a plateau is such a bad thing when you're already paid a high salary. It's a strange culture that you have to have a raise every single year (beyond inflation).
> As an employer of several people in their early 40s: they're not particularly distinctive looking.

I can't tell, is this humour?
More specifically, he means using this button: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button
Who has other people edit their tex files...
Doesn't that depend on if you continue the whole process for each. With beer, did you also grow and malt the grain?
> You did buy a pocket computer after all - don't you want to see what it can do?

I just bought a phone, which happens to be a computer. If I really want to get deep into a 'pocket computer' I buy an Arduino or an equivalent and hack it's guts.

As a mobile dev I'm more than happy about the access level that I have with iOS, I can even throw in-line Assembly there.

Cheers.
Regarding 3: the same goes for beer, except you can mess up over the course of just a few minutes to an hour instead of a few months. Crush your malt too fine or too coarse, mess up the mash temperatures, and you end with things like a too high or low efficiency, a stuck sparge, or too many fermentable and unfermentable sugars. Of course, in a fully automated industrial brewery this usually isn't a problem, but your typical nano or micro-brewery is a still a lot of manual works, and thus many ways to mess up manually.

Edit: and now that I think about the other things:

Regarding 1 and 2: some hop varities have mildew problems, and bad weather has negative influence on the growth and other things like alpha acid, so bad weather can have quite the impact on hop quality and availability. The 2013 hop harvest in Germany was quite the disaster, apparently. AA% is a lot lower, and young plants of some new breeds got way too much water.
"Came out" refers to when they became in widespread use. That was in the 70's.

As far as low power I can find nothing that indicates that it was ever ok to put tin foil in however I do know that in some cases you might put metal to specifically block cooking. So perhaps with a low power microwave there was no sparking etc. (I can't find anything on that and I don't see the link you sent showing that (which page is it on in the cookbook?).

http://science.howstuffworks.com/aluminum-foil-in-the-microw...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Metal_objects

http://mentalfloss.com/article/32032/why-cant-you-put-metal-...
Well, then you're running a business, and you're wearing a manager's hat more often than not. And also a sysadmin hat, a DBA hat, a customer support hat, a marketing hat (a fancy white Stetson to go with your alligator shit-kickers), a janitor's hat, and an accountant's hat.

It's the ultimate generalization: being able to run a complete business.
http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2014/03/press-releas...

It appears they made a mistake in the press release originally and have now corrected it.

It used to say 1000 albums, they meant to write 1000 songs.
I am glad the author actually does enjoy his work, but this is just another reminder that your dream job might not be as dreamy as you initially imagined. Sometimes the grass is just greener because you haven't looked close enough to notice all the brown patches.
Well too invasive. i have registered either way but yet to see the upside.
> "at best benevolent but ineffective or resourceless"

Really though, what is the point of routing your humanitarian efforts through an ineffective government? Unless the resourceless government is the target of your humanitarian aid (as opposed to the people that the government claims as their own, but is unable to care for), why bring a loser on to the team?

African governments are either corrupt, ineffective, resourceless, or have provided uncensored internet access to their population. If it is the later, then this sort of aid is not necessary. If it is any of the former, there is little reason to involve those governments unless absolutely necessary.
Cheap batteries will revolutionise the renewable energy market
> Maybe you can tell us why you need it to work in a console. Do you only want to edit files over there?

Well, I'm using Windows on my primary machine when I'm at home, and Mac when I'm outside. It's not a secret that Windows is bad as a development environment. Even it's file system has issues in mapping to unix fs. So I prefer to keep all my development things on remote Linux machine, and work through the SSH. That's why I'm interesting in terminal-based editors.
That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp
I don't think the statement "There are good arguments that this is not harmful" could reasonably be described as "fear, uncertainty and doubt."
Awesome! Thanks. Love this whole interface and idea
Thank you, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate was really enjoyable. I found it on archive.org http://web.archive.org/web/20080214145811/http://www.sfsite....
We're on it. Releases are time-based so whatever is merged at the beginning of the month gets released. For bugfixes we maintain a backport branch and can release 0.9.1, 0.9.2 etc. as needed.
Oh no, they've removed the useful little feature where you could scroll through all your appointments by clicking the search icon and not enter anything. Still works on iPad but not on iPhone. Why would they do that?
My understanding of how legal billing works is that you aren't actually buying one person's time for $600/hr, but you're buying a team of junior paralegals, legal secretaries, and young associates and one big-name attorney to supervise them. The big-name attorneys make a lot, but nowhere close to $600/hour; even if they're partners, a lot of money is going to the salaries of the paralegals, legal secretaries, and $160K/year associates under them.
Her twitter posts at the bottom take the Newsweek reporter's credibility even lower if you ask me. A lot of people would have loved to talk with you pre-story, lady!
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Funny, I actually started up my pandora the first time in two years, thinking I'd play pokemon. And then I see this on HN.
That technique is actually what I'm referring to. I've seen that not work before; sorry don't have details. I just don't mess with that anymore and instead use every font-family explicitly when needed.
I find it really odd how they emphasize how this release is about stability and refinement, then go on to talk about how they're abstracting over LXC and developing their own bindings as -- not a replacement -- a configurable default.

This reeks of bad choices. If they really think libcontainer is the way to go, IMO they should commit to it fully and make it a 1.0. I don't see a reason that docker needs to support multiple paths to a handful of syscalls, especially at this fairly-immature point in its evolution.
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I would think that the headphones/speakers would be as important, if not more so, than the device. If you crank out high fidelity music through ear gummies that you get for 10$ at the drug store then you're not going to get great sound. But if you take your standard iTunes MP3 and push it through some decent cans, or even better a proper stereo like a set of B&O speakers, then you will get sound that's great and clear. 100% of my music listening is carried out via extreme-quality streaming through Spotify via a set of Bowers and Wilkins P3 headphones, and I'm always happy with the results, regardless of whether it's from my laptop, iPhone, or iPad.
His argument is not a straw man and Android does not force the user to do power management, as you claimed. It is an optional.
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Why I use non-American English voices in my text to speech
Why not just use Scrapy[1]? It's built for this sort of thing, easily extensible, and written in Python.

[1] http://scrapy.org/
OK, one criticism for Vagrant Cloud: When creating a box, it provides some default values for name, description etc -- but they are placed into the plaveholder attribute, meaning I still need to enter my own values. I suggest putting them to the value attribute of the form fields, which will speed up things while still allow the users to change the values if they wish.
I have a couple of thoughts.

1. I don't have a twitter account.

2. I found it strange that the landing page didn't have any pitched ideas. To see an idea, I had to read the bottom text, and click on one of the countries. I didn't know those were links at first either.

3. Can ppl only pitch the title of their idea? Is there a description or something.
I do a fair amount of web scraping with Ruby. Can anyone who has dabbled in both weigh in? Does Python offer superior libraries/tools?
Foldscope: Microscopy for everyone
Most of the people making that claim seem to be people who upgrade every year, so they're only selling 1-year-old models.
Wonderful! Great writing too, very clear and intuitive.
In fairness, the line was delivered deadpan, and I couldn't make out any laughter from the audience in the recording. I chuckled to myself.
If you are referring to ego networks (the connections between your immediate connections), the visualization gets part way there. If you hover over a node, it pops up a character bio. If you click a node, it shows the immediate peer connections, but it does not go to the next step and show the connections between the people you are connected to. Analytically, that is a great social network analysis concept, since you can determine the balanced triads and determine what needs to happen to either unbalance a network (and cause the relationships to unravel) or balance a network and make it stable.
Docker has had a clearly outlined vision of 1.0 for quite some time, and the next major version(which is using libcontainer), 0.10, is going to be the first release candidate for v1.0. So you're not far off, they are committing to it, but there are other pieces required for it to hit their version of 1.0.
But it is very good quality snake oil. Targeted at people who can tell the difference between bad and good snake oil.
I believe angersock meant start with a big fortune.
I think we can find less negative interpretations of those.

1. Google is full of vampires (garlic)

Garlic makes your breath stink. People may avoid you after heavy garlic consumption.

2. Datacenters are babies (babysit)

As a metaphor, it's definitely possible to do worse. The systems within the datacenter will need attention. Constantly. People are on call to handle these and other issues. There are many parallels to watching children. Which is why, as a metaphor, it works, at least from his point of view.

3. Information is owned by the world (world's information) even though it's scraped into a Google index which you can only get to by using Google.

What are you even trying to say here? I don't think Google would contradict that they take existing free information and present it to you. Their value-ad is that they make it easy to find what you are looking for, and organize it in interesting ways. That he sees Google as a marketing company that uses this ability to service ads is hardly controversial.
Replace all of the brewing talk in the description of cleaning, tedium, and notetaking with chemistry, and then you will understand why I became a developer after spending 4 years studying chemistry.
True! :) In fact I already have a good code editor(not terminal-based) that I used to use. I just want to find something that may improve my experience.
It is the same paradox as the big military vs small government thinking in the republican party. This particular congressman is a big military republican.

Idealogical consistency isn't really important for either party. I just accept that.
This investor sounds like they're going to be a hassle to deal with throughout the life of your company, so you may be better off without him. It's one thing to offer your advice as an investor, and another to threaten to pull out because of it.

I think you should always consider his viewpoint, but ultimately the decision needs to rest with you. You (should) know your customers better than anyone else.
Every brewery I've been to in oregon (portland) thinks "microbrew" means "put a shitload of hops in it."
Touch support please!
This video helped me understand the actual issues around digital audio encoding. It's nice to use brain space for facts instead of woo. If you're convinced that digital anything is inherently inferior to analog, it should clear some things up.

https://www.xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

Here's a post on the same site that addresses Pono more directly. Also very helpful for developing your understanding.

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
Beware of Vagrant 1.5 if you need vagrant-berkshelf. There are serious dependency issues that are not yet solved:

https://github.com/berkshelf/vagrant-berkshelf/issues/141

I had to rollback to 1.4.3
Please don't stoop to this level of discourse. If there are two possible readings of a comment, one reasonable and one unreasonable, it's best to choose the reasonable one.
I've always upgraded everything as soon as possible. This is code that has been written to improve existing code. Bugs have been fixed, security issues patched. Testing has been done, and it's good enough to push to customers.

I've always done this, and short of when I used Debian Sid (I think it was), I've never been bitten by it.
Yes, anyone who isn't an unquestioning fan of Edward Snowden has a vested interest in NSA mass surveillance.

Jesus, this whole story has made the geek world go retarded.
Basho's CEO, CTO and chief architect leave the NoSQL upstart
Coolest feature for me is a bit hidden in Accessiblity settings:

Outline of Buttons

On/Off Indicator

Those two improve the flat design by a lot. Buttons become clearly visible again. They should make it the default setting, going back to normal is jarring.
Scrapy makes things a lot easier. I was really surprised at how fast it crawled a site the first time I used it (forgot to set a delay).
You can obviously update from iTunes, without any such constraint.
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SOPA is coming back, through "voluntary" agreements
"Truth and heroic goodness through meme knowledge," seems as morally and intellectually bankrupt to me as Ivy leaguers on Mad Men using preppy/main-line subculture as a proxy for ability. Knowing about memes only says something about where you hang out online. It's the same sort of proxy for actual ability or trustworthiness as being a member of the right country club. Such proxies can work, but they depend highly on particular circumstances. The company town residents in Matewan using Bible verse knowledge as an impromptu code uses the same principle. This is not evaluating character from first principles! It's trusting a label! It's knowing that one group has a bit of information that another does not. However, we of the Internet era should know how rapidly and irrevocably this can change.

(Actually, a good test for whether someone has A-lister perception is to see if they can see past their own prejudices.)
This fellow[0] designed a DDR2 interface, but I don't think he ever reported back whether or not it worked. Apparently he did it by hand in Eagle!

To address your point about tools, I think you're right about the value aspect -- good tools cost money. But then again, does the average hobbyist need those kinds of tools? How much demand is there for, say, a 100 MHz open 'scope that costs a bit more than a Rigol? Ham enthusiasts would probably rather trade around old HP/Tek equipment.

I do agree in principle that there should be something like the Global Village Construction Set, for electronics. But it would be a monumental undertaking.

[0]: http://danstrother.com/2011/01/16/spartan-6-bga-test-board/
That's kind of out-of-the-frying-pan-and-into-the-fire, as far as living expenses is concerned. And no, my wife is pretty set on staying in Alexandria. I personally would like to get to a less urban environment. Meeeh, it's a little bit of an argument between us right now :)
Can you provide some sources for this information? As far as I've been able to tell, the "radar" that news services keep citing is actually the transponder. I've not seen statements that military or other organizations were actually pinging the aircraft with a radar signal from a fixed or airborne antenna.
or that first world democracies would have actually stood up for the combined good of people everywhere rather than just asserting their own narrow organisational goals.
Seriously, why would any one sign in without even knowing what it would contain. Put some samples atleast.
I see what you mean. It is glib to say that opening a brick-and-mortar business is a walk in the park. However I supposed that if one is interested in such a venture then they would already know that it's not easy.

Heck, starting a software business and decided to grow to your first hires and worrying about making payroll is just as taxing.

What I meant was that for a disenfranchised programmer perhaps they do need to get out of programming for a while. And if you're thinking of taking a pay-cut to trade for some happiness then one suggestion is moving somewhere cheap. I'm not a guru... it's just the best thing I could think of. I could afford a 650k house in the city or I could afford a 200k one on a commuter line in a less-desirable city. Seems to me that if I needed to take a pay-cut then I'd be better prepared if my costs of living were lower than if I had locked myself into the expensive city house.

But maybe not?
Sorry for being confusing - I don't disagree it's popular model. What I don't understand is why Apple's baseline model has 16GB. It seems like flash memory can be had very cheaply - Amazon shows several examples of 64GB MicroSD cards for ~ $25.

It would seem like starting their base model at 64GB would be very consumer-friendly, and have a very low cost.
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I just want people can do something with these satellite photos.
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A regular oven provides heat from a heating element (which may be gas, electric, wood fuel etc), which heats the air in the oven. A microwave provides heat by using radiowaves to agitate responsive molecules (water is one) in the food - any warmth you feel when opening a microwave has come from heating the food, not the microwave itself.

When metal is in a microwave, the radiowaves hitting the metal create sparks, and sparks kill electronics.
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The primary burden is the one stating the original argument. It is also somewhat questionable to ask someone to prove a negative.
J1 visa is meant for this and it's pretty easy to get if you're still in school
I've been playing with a similar idea - http://appworthy.co

One thing I've done on my site is abandon passwords. Authentication is by email (if you can receive a link you can "sign in" once with it - thereafter cookies).

This avoids the need to ask for permission (to tweet for me? really?) up front. Users can start reading and posting without giving up anything but their email.

This is not a new idea, but I think it works well to minimise barriers for potential contributors.
I've seen that as well. I'm wondering (from my own experiment) if it has something to do with angles vs. no angles [1] in terms of the metal in addition to the blocking by metal of the actual microwaves.

[1] Same as with stealth airplanes avoiding radar, right?
I imported the address into namecoin-qt but don't see anything under Manage Names and I don't even see a transaction? Do we need to re-index or anything after importing the private key?
Computing power is not the limiting factor. Far more relevant are the display, which has efficiency physically limited by its luminosity -- and we're less than a magnitude away from the limit.

Even disregarding that for e-ink, there's the radio, which is limited by the channel capacity, from which I'd say we're also less than a magnitude away for isotropic radiation.
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What a headline. iPods got a lot of praise for including Wolfson DACs. The hardware was better than most and they sounded better. The ES9018 in this might indeed sound great, too.

Wouldn't it be nice for this to catch on? A chance to move all audio from v0/16/44 to lossless/24/192. With DMCA, maybe a good player to jailbreak and put linux on. If anything, it'll give Apple a reason to update the iPods.
Now I'm curious as to how it actually worked.
Most physicists. Though it's usually in the form of corrections to the printed version not edits to the raw TeX.
SSL only makes mass surveillance difficult for the people who can't lean on a CA. I somehow suspect that if the NSA decided it wanted to, it could get itself an intermediate cert that it could use to MITM SSL sessions.
Brilliant game, such simple concept but very addictive. Never seen this before. I love it.
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PyQuery is pretty good for navigating around the DOM too.

http://pythonhosted.org//pyquery/
> If the person's goal is to define success by their happiness why not get out of programming if they're not happy doing it?

This is making an inverse error. If your current job isn't making you happy, there isn't actually anything that guarantees leaving it will make you happy.
Threes uses Unity. I would guess that contributes to the performance issues its been having.
Yeah, same here. As long as you keep your high numbers against once side and the low numbers against the other, it's not hard. Pick one direction that you never ever use and you do fine.
My understanding is that the business model of the brewpub is to sell beer at retail prices as opposed to selling at wholesale to a distributor.

I would guess that the bigger margins would allow you to start at a smaller scale.
Actually, tracing GC is older than reference counting.
I've been programming for over 7 years now. Learning this and switching to that. I've grown very tired of it... very tired.

With a bakery you'd at least have someone complement your hard work... and maybe come back in the next day for more.

Programming has no rewards... other than the "lighting" instances. You spend your life in front of a monitor... typing. Yet, we all need money right?