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> If your vacation and sick pay recently went to PTO instead, you should be looking.

Can you explain this one? I don't even come close to using my sick time up. I'd much rather have them give it as one giant PTO bucket (unless you're implying PTO is less in total than vacation + sick).
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Same as the native version minus some features.
krugman cannot be trusted. everything he writes is with the angle of getting a job as federal reserve chair or treasury head.

economics is not a science and his nobel prize is on par with obama's nobel piece prize, given for every piece of the middle east he was about to surge with troops.
Speaking of such parallels... There's that classic essay by Thomas Scoville - "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature" (http://theody.net/elements.html). I highly recommend reading it to anyone, even though it's not directly tied to "programmers" in the contemporary sense of this term.
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The general assumption in cryptography that the algorithm used for encryption is known. Even if you relax that restriction and assume you know which algorithms a user can choose but not which one she chose, you could still just try all of them, if they are "not too complicated".
I agree. This is a very nice idea. Could be really handy when just playing around with a front-end framework.
> Fully backed up continuously, offsite, via WAL logging
Lately we've been using shell scripts to do a lot of boiler-plate container preparation. We copy that script in and run it at the beginning of the container build. The nice thing about doing things this way is that you keep your Dockerfile a little cleaner, you end up with less layers, and that layer will only rebuild if you change the source file.
"In February he published an article in Politico celebrating a projection that the Affordable Care Act might result in millions of workers’ scaling back from full-time to part-time jobs."

This would be great if it was voluntary! But if it's the result of employers purposefully reducing hours for their employees with the goal of dodging providing benefits, then it's a lot less awesome. Because that means that people are going to both make less money (reduced hours) AND have to pay for health insurance out of pocket (in the exchanges). It's a double-whammy that might cause people to forego coverage; the exact opposite effect of what was intended.
Airlines literally have no option but to compete on price. Airlines that try to compete another way will inevitably fail.

How do you explain JetBlue? They're not usually the cheapest, but I always choose them over e.g., USAirways or Delta because its a nicer experience.
IF you can really actually shove off the responsibility and all the attendant headache, yeah, sure, it's fine. I don't think I've ever been able to do that. Instead of spending my time trying to come up with a fix for a broken system impacting my users, I'd spend my time contacting someone else in a different company to see if they've come up with a fix for a broken system impacting my users.

If you really truly can just punt, sit back, and even get to say "I told you so" when the system/software/service in question doesn't work, that's great. But... in almost all cases I've experience, it was still 'my problem', I just had far less control over making it work.
I'm mostly self-trained. That's probably a part of the problem. The utterly broken way that my team decided to build the reports probably doesn't help either.

Sorry, no suggestions for books.

Do you know if you'll be working with Crystal Reports? Or directly with the Business Objects API? Either way they're both very, very poorly designed and implemented. Good luck I hope you're getting paid well.
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I would think if you were only reading about the latest start ups, it would sound like everyone were using Rails. At least that's been my experience
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I'm not sure I see the relevance. Lots of people do lots of different things. Some people juggle geese. Does you having bought books from authors who set up their own websites mean that bespoke websites are a viable alternative to Amazon for the majority of authors?
One day they'll probably let you enter your user id and password to get it started then scan your fingerprint on a device to confirm. Why not?
My point was, it would be SkyNet, but on one hand fed with the desires of the Intelligence tools industry (need more data on everything) and on the other hand with a front of humans that will act on its behalf with the best of intentions.
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Thanks a lot for these infos! Unfortunately F# is .NET only. Linux requires Mono for installation which means a lot of dependencies. I prefer small efficient solutions (Nimrod for instance). OCaml works out of the box on my system.
This feels like what happens when a web developer fails to realize that the web is not the be-all-and-end-all of software development.

Do you want to create fantastic 3D graphics and visual effects? Best learn C++ and OpenGL.

Do you want to develop a highly resilient parallel system that can be patched without downtime? Learn Erlang.

Do you want to program an embedded system, or anything where you need to be close to the hardware? Learn C.

Do you want to program mobile apps? Java, Objective-C or Swift.

Do you want to "program" hardware on an FPGA? Verilog.

Do you want to quickly make 3D games or other interactive experiences? Try C# and Unity.

Do you want to advance your own knowledge of programming and computation, even if you don't have a particular platform restriction? Learn any language in a different language family than you're used to, something like Clojure or Haskell or Prolog.

And as you get familiar with other languages, you'll find it's easier each time to pick up the next one.

Your question might better be phrased as, "As a web developer, what are the advantages to learning non-JavaScript-based web frameworks and languages?"

With my limited experience in the web world, the only good, practical answer to this modified question that I can come up with is "diversification". If all your eggs are in one basket when it comes to programming skill, you're very vulnerable to a language or toolset falling out of vogue. I know some Flash developers, for example, who have been absolutely devastated by the happenings of the past several years, because their toolset was far too rooted in Flash. JavaScript is pretty ubiquitous these days, so I doubt something quite that dramatic would happen to it, but it's possible that it could—for example, I can imagine best practices shifting over the next ten or twenty years so that nobody writes Javascript directly anymore, but only languages that compile to it. I'm not saying that will happen, but it's an example of something that could.
They already do this in Peru, for example.

Say you are in Lima and want to buy a plane ticket to Arequipa. If you have a South American ID ("DNI"), you pay a very cheap rate. If not, you pay the regular USD rate.

I recall a long time ago when I lived in Canada, I could sometimes buy cheap airfare if I used the American Travelocity site instead of the Canadian one. At one point, it stopped working because they "updated" the final price after I entered my credit card information, as that stated my residence/billing info was in Canada.
Indeed. However months to years is all too common.

Heh, sometimes the outer limit is infinity, it becomes clear it'll never get done and is canceled.
They do mention offsite backup using WAL shipping.
No, there isn't, nor should there be.

Rails and Django are both heavyweight, all-in-one frameworks, full of canned magic and optimized for easy OOB experience at the cost of inflicting undue difficulty when it comes to complex tasks, i.e., useful ones.

If there's anything like that in the Javascript world, it hasn't achieved prominence, nor will it; modern Javascript development is much more concerned with, and much better suited to, lightweight microservices tied together by smart client code. Working effectively with such architectures requires a greater initial investment than does becoming au courant with Rails or like ilk, but the return in scalability and maintainability is very much worthwhile.
Erm, I meant to say "tri alpha energy."
> Why would I want to learn

First off, because learning is good for you! Even if you dislike a language, there's probably something to learn from it if it's widely used.

There's a lot of great developments in the JS world and Node has really pushed the envelope in terms of asynchronous IO and making it easy to use web sockets and such. That said - most apps you'll make don't need some of the more unique features of Node and personally, I find it's easier to make web apps in high level languages like Python.

That said, it comes down to personal preference. It's the ol' optimization vs. discovery problem - you can't figure out what the best tool is for you without exploring new things.

I wouldn't worry about JS/Node replacing server side code, to be honest. Python and other languages are slowly going in the same direction (see Python 3's asyncio module). Learning a new framework or language is never a waste of time.
Because the only way to learn the answer to that question, is to learn why people are using the other languages, which in turn, likely means researching them and learning them for yourself.

To answer your question more on point, the first thing you'll find is other languages add much, much more safety into their language than js-node can. Indeed, that's what makes js-node as much fun as it is. But if you're a new business owner, and you have to choose between building your server backend on java/c#/etc technology, which can be rigorously checked for stability, and js, chances are high you're going to go with the languages that have such automatic checking features.
I'm the original author. Glad to answer any questions you might have. Also can give a deeper in-depth look into specific areas.
we've built it in 48 hours and there was no time for that. But it was in the plans..
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> I would argue that capitalism does not favor this "concentration of power," in fact quite the opposite.

That's nice and all, but history says otherwise, with the Gilded Age as the primary example: Monopolies existed in the relative regulatory vacuum, and it took government power to break them up.
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The article says you encrypt, then compress. You might want to clarify that.
Was just about to say the same. Commenting here so I don't forget.
I keep encountering this line of reasoning:

1. Almost everyone refuses to vote.
2. The establishment loses legitimacy.
3. ... ?
4. Profit.

What's step 3? My guess would be a lot of turmoil, and if civil society remains as apathetic as they are now, the replacement won't be any better.
Have you tried this? It's not working for me :|

I'm getting about:blank everytime I hit a web address using ssl.
You should really check out http://emberjs.com
It applies the Rails way of thinking to JavaScript and is maturing fast. As a Rails developer I love working with Ember!
Interesting this approach of building single binary containers.

I think that would be like packr [1] for Java, already discussed here [2].
I wonder if there is something like this for other languages/platforms like python/ruby/node.

[1] https://github.com/libgdx/packr

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7696564
A basic Stripe integration is pretty simple, but to do anything more advanced you end up writing a lot of boilerplate code. Payola (and the other projects mentioned in the post) attempt to simplify and eliminate the boilerplate that you'd otherwise have to write.
I don't think this is as simple as specialization vs. generalization.

Considering nearly any situation your team encounters, junior people, experienced people, and very senior people are likely to take different lessons for it, because they have different perspectives on what happened and what could have/should have happened.

To me, a "same year of experience, 30 times" person is someone who runs into similar situations over and over, but fails to grow in how they understand and react to them. This is true of architectural issues, interpersonal issues, schedule management issues, ... everything really.

Technology stack isn't so important here. If anything I expect the experienced people to pick up a new stack faster, if they've done this before, all else being equal.

I'd expect insight and ideas from a 20+ year developer I'd never dream of asking a junior (< 5 years), and if you don't get them - you're probably looking at someone who has repeated many of those 20 years.
I've had nothing but bad experiences with mailchimp.

Switch over to aweber, getresponse, etc.
PDF is fully open. I know some people believe otherwise, but they're wrong.

I say this because it appears to be a middling-common belief.
The tactics he proposes are not too far from what has always been done to tax cash, except with marginally more information available automatically to authorities.
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That, unfortunately, has been my #1 reaction to this discussion of estimates. Far too often they were "negotiated" downwards and treated as deadlines.
and Apple didn't do it to prevent mass snooping by the NSA since when you are connected to the network, your HDD/flash is already decrypted anyways.
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The best argument for John's thesis is the proliferation of ML derivatives in industry: Swift, Rust and Facebook's Hack. I'm really looking to Facebook's Flow which adds an ML style type system to Javascript.
That might work if my former employer was not a defense contractor. Unfortunately, I left in large part because my co-workers seemed to have little clue as to what was going on outside their own little bubble and little interest in correcting that.
Ten years ago (or less) if you had proposed building ANYTHING beyond basic form field validatation logic in JavaScript you would have been laughed out of the room. JS/Node is popular now but it's a fad. Things that seem exciting are really just reinvented wheels when you look closely. That said it's not a bad idea to learn it. Just don't think it will be something you're using heavily in 5-10 years. Same is true of any other language in the space though.
Actually in his case, his worst enemy was himself. He did not accurately value himself within the organization either politically or economically [1]. He thus paid the price.

The programmer types were different from the trader types. The trader types were far more alive to the bigger picture, to their context. They knew their worth in the marketplace down to the last penny. They understood the connection between what they did and how much money was made , and they were good at exaggerating the importance of the link. Serge wasn’t like that. He was a little-picture person, a narrow problem solver. “I think he didn’t know his own value,” says the recruiter. [2]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7577872

2. http://cryptome.org/2014/04/goldman-sachs-code-thief.htm
I'll add that in a healthy environment, this communication opens up avenues that the (frightened, frustrated, isolated) developer doesn't have while alone: the whole team is now available to help think about real priorities, entirely different ways to achieve the end-goal, ways to put more resource and/or time on the affected feature(s), and more.
I dunno. I have a bread machine and I love it. Even though there are plenty of great bakeries in my city.
It's easy unless Amazon has signed people to exclusive contracts, such that your new startup can't get any of the authors people want to read.
Was Citibank hacked?
My bad - fixed.
The opium laws were targeted at shutting down the global opium trade, and I believe they were initiated by China. It's my impression that marijuana just got "caught up in" the change.
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My anecdata: a former colleague of mine, over 50, just left his enterprise IT development job to make a ton more money with a Salesforce consulting firm. He didn't go to Stanford, he never studied computer science, he didn't start coding until he was in his 30s, and he's only been developing Salesforce for maybe 2 years. He also doesn't have the benefit of a large network or a reputation that preceeds him, but he tells me that he's still getting offers even a week after he accepted his new job. So I'm not sure the picture is so bleak - as long as you're good and you put in a minimum amount of time learning a relevant technology.
"blatant and public", yes I agree with that, but I think this incidence also shows more of a level of incompetence: as owenmarshall pointed out, they have all the means of doing it "properly", but gets caught red handed instead...
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Correct.

These tools were used to gauge digital value.

Be more specific about confirmation bias?
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> And it's a Lisp-2, which is quite a deterrent for many.

I used to be on the fence about multiple namespaces in programming languages. After a decade of programming in Common Lisp and in other languages that pretend to have a single namespace, I see multiple namespaces as a clearly superior approach. I don't think it is a deterrent either - a reason to post complaints on the Internet, yes.
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In a hydraulic power steering system, if the power is cut, the driver can still turn the wheel (although it's much harder to do). In an EPS, is this still true?
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"and can do so, because they own their country"

Yes. But they don't own their own iCloud. Or their own iPhones. Or their own Apple.

It's Apple's choice to concede.
That is what I am working on, and it is clearly on me that I have not accomplished anything along those lines yet. I have made a few good contacts this way, but nothing has panned out from it.
It's more of an enterprise consultancy like Accenture.
I would say yes. Most of the problems we have with drugs are a result of drugs being illegal. If heroin addicts were able to buy a known product, unadulterated, at a reasonable price, we would have less crime and fewer ODs. And absolutely no one would try "bath salts" when they could get safe, researched, legal highs.

If the argument is that everyone would just become drug addicts, I would argue that a hell of a lot of us already are drug addicts, just addicts to more socially acceptable drugs. And if reality can't compete with drugs, reality should step up its game.
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If they can monetize 10% of whatsapp users for 100 usd per year

Has any mobile user ever been monetized for $100/year, on any software ever...?
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I have an anecdote I feel like sharing. Please take it with a grain of... you know.

I've had hypertension since I was 17, but I never got on medication. I recently made the decision to completely give up added salt. I only ate my own salt-free cooking for about 6 months and I ate a diet high in meat, fish and vegetables. I did not pick up exercise. My BP dropped from 145/90 to 125/80 within the first month. I check my BP weekly and my average BP is 120/75.

My parents cook with a lot of salt, I notice this now when I eat at their place. I am confident that the high salt diet they "gave" me for so many years, combined with restaurant food, was the direct cause of my 5 year strugle with high blood pressure.

I could be wrong, but I am nonetheless very happy with the results of my diet based solution.
"If it's going to a registered account, it's normal transaction flow. If it's going to an unregistered account, it's illegal. If any funds are received from an unregistered account, they must be sent to an address provided by the central authority, or it's illegal. Registered accounts are signed periodically by the central authority and certificates can be verified automatically at transaction time."
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Public. The APEGA Guideline for Ethical Practice:
http://www.apega.ca/pdf/Guidelines/GuidelineEthical.pdf

I should mention that it's not just something written down in a handbook, either. Accredited engineering programs are effectively required to contain an engineering ethics course, the purpose of which is to explain what the rules are and why they exist. Mostly by looking at incidents like this one.

EDIT: Thanks, krallja. It seems that US national ethics guidelines are indeed very similar.
Hanging out with salespeople is the best way to learn how to network.

Something you notice immediately is that they never feel like they're being used when someone wants to "meet for coffee" as transparent cover for getting something out of them.

They realize that someday they'll need their back scratched, and there's always the possibility that they'll get something (a tip, a lead, etc.) out of an unexpected meeting.
And it shows, as I learned in the late '00s. Utter crap.
I have gotten a few potentially good leads from third-party, but the vast majority don't seem to even read my resume. In-house recruiters generally go better, though Google's seem to misread my experience often and approach me for roles I am not really qualified for.
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Cringely has been talking up IBM's demise since I was watching Triumph of the Nerds in the fifth grade (1996). Their stock has gone up 500% in that time, and they've been paying regular dividends. [1]

I'm sure he'll be right one of these days, but he might not be around to gloat.

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AIBM&ei=209FVNDcEK60i...
> This is a lisp engine written in python - RPython, to be precise.

So there is nothing "native" about it, and until we see this on http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/ no basis for calling it "fast."
Isn't GGPy seaborn?
In the next paragraph after the one you fixed

> crypt encrypts, compresses, then encodes your value for storage
"There is a bit of a contradiction, Hunnicutt admits, between the dream of leisure and preparing students for new business opportunities, but he believes that an experience industry might encourage a new paradigm. If better and better experiences are out there, there will be more and more demand for free time in which to enjoy them. "It’s the good old-fashioned free market," he says. "I have no trouble with that. We are in the business of reawakening the American dream.""

I find this argument to be false in that I don't think people work long hours because they can't think of anything they would rather be doing.

I wonder if "work" hours are not shorter because culture dictates it, so many people shift their habits to surf the web (i.e. leisure activities) while at work. Not that they wouldn't rather meet with friends, paint a picture or whatever, but they can surf facebook from their cube.
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