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Experience also gives you the kind of skills that don't become obsolete, and which can't be learned in just a couple of years of practice:

- Writing reliable, maintainable and testable code

- Strategies for solving problems that are very large or very difficult

- The ability to interact well with developers, product managers, executives, customers, etc.

- Knowledge of algorithms and other fundamental things in computer science

Being a good software developer is about a lot more than just dealing with the mechanics of the particular software environment you happen to be using today.
OpenVPN Access Server ships with ucarp integration out of the box, and for the most part it just works. Keepalived is another common daemon for managing floating vips. If I understand correctly, ucarp was originally designed to support redundant routers and firewalls, but in my experience, they are great for moving vips between stateless services, like load balancers and reverse proxies.
Try to just phone different places and offer your services. Ask to speak to who's in charge of their computer systems. Bonus points if you actually check what they're running first and can engage them about it. "Hey, I noticed you aren't running the latest x on your server. I could help you keep that maintained." These days, you could probably use Google Maps and search for 'online' or 'store' or something generic and pick the geographic area of companies to target.
If this is embedded in C++ I feel like you would be manipulating objects in the JavaScript scripts. JavaScript has OOP bolted on and it is not nearly as nice as Lua or similar alternatives. Why would a developer embed a JavaScript engine compared to something already existing?
This looks really cool. I always wanted a small embeddable JS engine with a C interface. And it looks like you modelled the C API after the Lua C API? That is what I wanted as well.

Here are some related projects I saved links to. I think there were a few others.

http://code.google.com/p/tiny-js/

http://adaptive-enterprises.com/~d/software/see/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/njs/

v8 is an obvious open source implementation, because it's packaged separately (and used in node.js), but its API is C++ and relatively complex. For a lot of applications, it's overkill.
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I do apply the same motto to your comment. People shouldn't lambaste you over it either.

I believe (hope?) none of my comments in this thread could be regarded has hateful (errantly or otherwise).
You don't have to create something ship-able between each sprint, it just has to be demo-able.
New York City has the highest percent of households without a car for any US city: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_h...

I'd say that makes NY pretty unusual.

Your comparisons are intellectually dishonest.
Would you guys say this is more of a west coast issue then east cost ?
It's a slippery slope for sure. And given your skepticism of even the US steel case, I can imagine where you stand on that slope. Which is fair.

But to complete my devil's advocate argument, "poached" offers could in fact be unsustainable in the long run. It may be worth it to Chrome to add a $100K signing bonus to a Safari engineer. But they're not going to be paying them an extra $100K above market year over year.

If there actually were a poaching war kicked off, you can imagine that the value of inflicting targeted damage on competing teams, and protecting teams from such damage, could balloon to a very large amount. Theoretically all the way up to expected profit, if there were no other mechanisms to prevent it.

This could have a chilling effect especially on startups entering competition with deep-pocketed big companies. They could just poach the best talent with offers the startups couldn't match. That's exactly like a big chain engaging in loss-leader tactics to destroy local competition.

You could maybe also draw a parallel with what's going on with patents right now. It's a huge tax on development, especially to startups.

Now that I think about it, this could very well backfire on all of us. Anti-poaching agreements among companies aren't the only way to prevent this sort of thing. If they get sued over that (which is targeted at the practice of poaching), what companies may start doing is figuring out more restrictive covenants in employment contracts. Exclusivity clauses, etc. I'm a little scared to think what they may come up with and standardize if their attention is focused on it.
Antitrust law such as Sherman. http://www.justice.gov/atr/about/antitrust-laws.html
Why have any difference between police and civilians? There seems to be so much abuse of power as people stand by powerless. Why the difference?
While we can try to disrupt, we are handicapped on the energy or the risks that we need to take to get this done.
the human intends to claim that the contents of the comment are correct

Sure. But I think it is inadvisable to claim to know the reasons or motive behind the comment, and doubly so to claim they are acting in bad faith.
This is true. There's a perception that 20/30-somethings are the hot thing in tech because they're building the kind of consumer apps that techCrunch likes to cover.

But there are a ton of startups/developers building really cool tech - in SF and beyond - and they end to be older and more interested in real technology vs cashing out their options.
This makes a lot of sense. It's something that I feel is changing nowadays thankfully.
Do you still got a reference to news/blogs about that botnet install?
There's a $57,500 lifetime limit on federal student loans for undergraduates. The people you see on the news complaining about their $200,000 english degree debt are people who have rich family who cosigned a bunch of private loans for them. (And who will make the loan payments when the english graduate inevitably can't.)

With federal loans, you can only take out at most $5,500/year as an 18 year old, which doesn't do a lot. Cost of attendance in my home state is $20,000/year, so that's about 25% of what you need to go.

http://studentaid.ed.gov/types/loans/subsidized-unsubsidized...
Well I didn't call them a startup. And they are creating their own VMs and DBs which is even more reason not to hire only devs who are fresh out of school.
It's a broken feedback loop. The people who feel the pain are hardly any more connected to Congress than I am; how can information about the pain get back to the body that can actually do something about it? In a nutshell, it can't. Further, I as a taxpayer am paying for this, so technically I'm in pain too, but how can I close this feedback loop? I can't.

To those who are saying here "Privatizing isn't a miracle solution", since, ahem, you are trying to preempt the libertarian argument since you sense that it's a rather strong one here, well, of course it's not a miracle cure, but in general in the private world you can't get this level of brokenness in the feedback loop. Somebody would have had to do something decades ago because this would have gone out of business, or some equivalent. Private industry's advantage here isn't that it could somehow fix this problem, it is that it has the "advantage" of being unable to sustain this level of pathology in the first place. Before you post your example of equal pathology in the private field, my question to you would be, has that pathology been present for 40 years? Some private entities do indeed become healthy enough and bank enough funds to be able to descend into this level of pathology, but they can't do it indefinitely; eventually they must either clean up their act (IBM) or go out of business.

And when we talk about "big government", it isn't always literal size... sometimes it's things like an enormous maze of interlocking regulations that nobody ever asked "Does the costs of this regulation exceed the benefit when combined with our other enormous pile of regulations?" Obviously, Federal government workers are going to get their retirement benefits, and growing the employment of the mine isn't going to particularly cause sudden new regulatory overreach or anything. The literal physical human footprint is not intrinsically a problem. But this is "big government" at its worst, a regulatory footprint so large it half paralyzes itself... is there really anybody who would argue in favor of this? (We can't even particularly argue that we are better off with this particular department paralyzed on some weird libertarian "better a paralyzed bureaucracy than an efficient one" freedom argument... who benefits from this accounting being this slow?)
Ah right, I hadn't even thought about visas etc. so thanks for the info! Updated the OP.
>Did you read to the end of the article? You know, to the part where the actual internal policy document is posted.
If you had actually read that far you would have seen that this was in fact a "no cold call" agreement for engineers.

From the end of the article you just referred to:

>Google has agreed to the following protocol: 1. Not to pursue manager level and above candidates for Product, Sales, or G&A roles - even if they have applied to Google.

So yeah, Scott_w is correct in saying that there was an explicit agreement not to hire people who apply. It does not get more explicit than written in black and white on an official hiring policy memo.

Regarding engineers, the poster above you referred specifically to 'people', not the subset 'engineers'. He was correct in his statement and it appears that he did, in fact, read the article all the way to the bottom.
Someone should make a site that lists all the sites that lists all the 2048 games.
Looks like readers misinterpreted the context which made his comment quite reasonable. This is why democracies elect incompetent politicians - people won't vote for effective people who say the wrong things. Although calling someone a necrophiliac reinforces people's prejudice against necrophiliacs which is probably worse than calling someone gay but I doubt the outraged group-thinkers are concerned with that.
If this kind of "marketing" is truly the thing you overlook when making things, are you making valuable tools that are hard or frustrating to use? What are the parts of your products that have nothing to do with the friction in using them?
More evidence that we are in an investment bubble. Nineteen-ninety-nine called -- wait and see.
The agreement explicitly excludes engineers.
A Decision Tree Approach to Pitch Prediction
One article author says the idea behind GFT has merit:

I think, actually, the core idea is a terrific one.

From [1]. [1] also has professor and doctor state that her models improved after adding GFT data. Data from search behavior does not have to replace CDC data. It can improve it. No myth.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/03/13/289802934/googles...
I promised not to comment on HN again due to this policy but I logged in one last time just to upvote this comment from NextUserName. I don't care how much karma he/she has or doesn't have, the words hit the nail right on the head. I hope that the HN folks realize that this decision to pend comments has left a bad taste in many visitors mouths. The path goes against the social expectations of today. Whether other platforms do it or not, is not and should not be the issue. I can see that user experience is not high on the task list with this decision, but please listen and care about us who are now leaving but still wish to return when a more social policy is in place.
Apple Is In Talks With Comcast About Doing A Web-Based TV Service
Cowards. Tell me how I'm wrong.
>>I'm disappointed with the comments here about this future YC applicant. Can't we think bigger than a food delivery app?

Yeah, it was incredibly depressing to visit a really nice web page, become interested, and then read the top comment which basically dismisses the entire thing as "not hacker-ish" enough. Mind you, that comment is coming from a guy who blogs about mostly political topics...
The counterintuitive thing that many people don't understand about government software projects is that failure is the norm. There are relatively few "big" consultancies that win these projects, and their numbers include Oracle, IBM, Accenture, Computer Sciences Corp, SAIC, Booz-Allen Hamilton, and a few others.

Their goal in government procurements is not to deliver working software, it's just to win the contract, and then staff it with as many people as they can. We've known since The Mythical Man-Month and other books such as Peopleware that high staffing levels does not help most software projects, in fact it hurts them. But if the project fails, which most do, they all still get paid. And they will still win other contracts. Delivery of working software is just not high on the priority list--winning contracts and staffing them is.

There are all the usual problems with big software projects, and add to it that most government procurement is still based on the experience of building physical things (jet fighters, ships, highways, etc.) which really doesn't work for software.

But the big reason governments spend millions of dollars and waste years of time on software projects is because the contractors are not incented to deliver working software. In fact their incentives are to deliver failed projects, so that they can bid on them again.
I'd do it. Is it an investment? What is the rate if return? This sound like micro-lending. Kiva.org, Prosper.com and many others I'm sure.
I doubt this is insurmountable. For comparison, as of last year, Google Books had scanned 30 million books, not pages, all of wildly varying formats.
I did specifically state start ups. I don't live in san fransico/silicon valley, but where I live the vast majority of developers are working for small start ups and small businesses and not the facebooks of the world.
""If a restaurant's not on Grubhub-Seamless, then their best option is to distribute paper menus around their neighborhood," Maloney says.

A lot of restaurant owners agree that is ineffective. Tom DeSimone owns the tiny RBBTS Café in Manhattan. He says the food delivery website connects his restaurant to law firms and banks. Big companies that use vouchers for websites like Seamless to reward their employees."

If this is a good reason for restaurants to stick to Grubhub and alike, then there's also an opportunity for marketing websites/communities for delivery restaurants. This must not be tied to a delivery/charging network like Grubhub.
Because half of these guys are under 30 and they don't want to hire someone who reminds them of their dad.
JavaScriptCore (the engine from WebKit) also has a very simple C interface (and I've seen it embedded by people as a static library without serious difficulty).
Wasn't intended as venomous, just maybe a little bit of a reality check. And offering an opinion (with real examples) to counter your opinion isn't trollism. Plus your comment never said that any restaurants opened in the past 5 years weren't eligible for consideration (?).

I was on SOMA from '04-'06, then again from '08-present. There were some good places back then too. Some failed. Some are still here but aren't as good as they once were. If you haven't been here in 4 years, why are you spending your time claiming you know the SOMA foodie scene? And then getting all angst-y when countered?
That's because 90% of startups have only the most shallow bit of innovation going on, but they want to seem hip and au currant.

So they use whatever the latest angular clone is.
API to crunch professional data of users, match jobs
Time to get off the x86 consumer hardware train. NetBSD anyone? :)
Fortunately, I think Steve Jobs is dead by now.
You characterize the popular startup languages as being "compile-to-JS" to prove that they're all mostly in the family of dynamic scripting languages?
I'm living in Portland, OR now, though I'm about to move to Canada. I graduated from a school in Memphis, TN. Right now I'm taking a little break, but for most of the last year I've been reading about different programming languages and frameworks, doing a part-time internship using Ruby on Rails, and basically developing my skill-set to (hopefully) make myself a more desirable candidate for entry-level positions.

If you're reading hacker news, you're already probably doing better on that front than I was during my entire undergrad. I'd highly recommend getting an internship and building a personal project before you graduate too, as I believe my failure to do both of those things (in addition to a sub-3.0 GPA) were the factors that have prevented me from getting a job thus far.
>implying silly CSS and javascript for your webapp is real programming

See? I can be edgy and abrasive too, with equal amounts of validity in your comment as in my summary of it.
Knuth devotes an entire chapter of The Art of Computer Programming to sorting. And has been working on it for 52 years.
Yes. Two parts of business: engineering and marketing.

Two parts of marketing: promotion and meeting needs.

The key "marketing" of DO was:

Existing providers offered pricing plans that were too complicated and platforms
that weren’t always meeting the needs of their users.

It's not enough to make a "better" product, technically. You have to make a product that better meets user needs (relative to existing alternatives).
DO really is a tremendous product. The simplicity, pricing, and speed of setting up an instance is awesome. For setting up a quick dev environment or a simple host for X or Y, it is definitely easier than through AWS.

I use DO pretty often and I hope they have some cool new offerings in the future. Maybe really simple load balancing?
If the streaming service comes with a typical Comcastic price of $80/month like their cable service, then this thing will be DOA. People don't want to pay a ton of money to watch 5% of the 500 channels you're forcing them to buy - they want to pay a reasonable price for only the content they care about. If this Comcast/Apple thing offered channels a la carte, the TV holy grail on my opinion, then it could be great. But, call me a pessimist to think that a cable company is forward thinking in any way, and not simply locked into their current and dying cash cow business model.
The lines are set by supply and demand. It's the reason why I got paid doing a STEM graduate degree, while someone in the arts or history would not.

"The subtle resource starvation will continue until you become more valuable and productive."

Yes, and this is the reason society improves over time. Drastically so.

In other words, it is little value to me if you decide to pursue art history because there are enough art historians in supply. You would need to out-compete ones with greater experience than you to make a living. It doesn't help society to add +1 to that pool. On the other hand, it is quite valuable to pursue a STEM degree because the skills, research, and knowledge you attain are in demand.

The system, works. Society improves over time, and everyone is rewarded. Everyone is(should be) thankful.
I guess that's sort of like saying computers are evil because they are used by the NSA. Is there even any evidence that they do use it for anything significant? Let alone that this guys work is contributing to it.
Achieving 90% success rate is quite a feat, I find myself reloading captchas a lot to find a readable one.
It's a bit scary to imagine spam rates going up soon, though.
This seems like a significant problem. One possible solution is to build any future lunar bases underground. That would protect them from most "shrapnel" but there's still the danger of a direct meteor strike, which are much more common on the moon since there's no atmosphere to speak of. You'd have to go pretty deep to be safe from those.
Ageism is a real problem, but in my opinion ageism is often cited by job seekers where the problem is something else entirely. In tech, there seems to be quite a bit of discrimination today against employees who have worked for many years at the same position, and that discrimination is typically aimed at large environments. Startups seem to be ok with hiring older engineers who bounced around and worked in startups in the past, but they usually won't give much consideration to a 50 year old who developer has spent the last 25 years at an insurance company or major bank.

Take two 50 year old engineers. The one who has had 10 jobs over the past 25 years is considered infinitely more employable than the one with 25 years at the same department of the same company.

This case isn't ageism, it's the expectation of career stagnation, yet many of those engineers with that 25 year tenure think it is. It's a leftover from the days when loyalty was tied to tenure, and loyalty was valued highly in the hiring criteria. Those days are over. Loyalty is nice, but loyalty that negatively impacts your career options (no learning or improving, inability to use marketable tech skills, etc) is foolish.
Take a moment and remember the state of TV today so we can avoid all the discussion about how "obvious" the TV experience is years from now.
> We have to ask ourselves why college is so expensive.

In the US at least, my understanding is that it's relatively easy for college students to get loans to pay for their education (I have several US citizens friends who did that and repaid their loans over the years), so this amounts to easy credit. When free money is available, prices tend to go up, and the more government steps in to provide low rates kind of loans to students, the more the universities can increase and inflate their prices because the supply of cheap credit increases. It's a well known mechanism in economics.
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For whatever reason, the OP linked to the "visualize" view, which is pretty but pointless. The 'usable view' is the default (and would have been much better to link to).

That said, as of this writing, almost all the top searches appear to be about a standardized school test ("YGS"), and the only thing that even hints at Turkey's Twittercalypse is Tor at #7.
No. To state they are mostly trend based, and superficial.
Agreed. His argument is essentially that you can't meet deadlines with Scrum, because you must always be in a 'shippable' state at the end of each sprint.

I'd argue that if you can't meet deadlines with scrum, there's no way you'd meet them without it. His definition of 'shippable' is very narrow--like you said, just because it doesn't meet console certifications doesn't mean that it's not "doing scrum".

I wouldn't put the app I've got after the first dev sprint on the app store, either. It's not done.
Simple answer:

Leave in all range checks. If the compiler can determine that the range check will never be hit, or can partially optimize it (hoisting it out of a loop, etc) great. Otherwise? It gets checked at runtime, which is typically not that expensive an operation anyways.
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You mention IBM, one aspect that always bugged me was upto the mid 80's they had a thing about people with beards and was some sort of unwitten policey (never worked for them) that nobody could have a beard and any intervewing with them entailed making sure you had a good shave. I worked with a chap at RAND who went onto work for IBM porting AIX onto the mainframe (least that was the initial project he was joing for) and was somewhat begrudged that he would have to shave his beard of just to get the job irespective of his ability.

That has all changed and yet back then was accepted standards from what I could tell. More a insight into culture change but I have not heard of any agisim culture inside IBM before or now, just a beard thing, which has passed.

With that anybody have any insight as to any agisim aspects inside IBM past or present?
It would certainly make migrating away from PHP easier, one library at a time.