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That doesn't answer the question.

Not having parents to pay for college isn't a "poor choice".

Since finances are the leading cause of divorce, it would be reasonable to expect that lower income families have more single-parent homes.

It's frankly immoral to consider marriage (and divorce) a luxury the poor are somehow less deserving of.

If I were to get a divorce, it wouldn't ruin me.

I have seen a number of middle class kids make "poor choices" that would have devastated a poor family. The children of poor families don't "fail upwards" in the way that upper middle class kids do.

I worked very hard to achieve what I have. But I recognize that without the help of family who could afford to help, the work alone would not have been enough. I've found a healthy dose of success in spite of some poor choices.

Your POV is typical of people who've had the luxury of not having to depend on a two hour bus commute to get to a job that offers no vacation hours. Where every trivial emergency is one that hits you twice: Once to pay for the event itself, and once for the lost work hours. It's a position of privilege.
That just sounds like an excuse, same as GG saying doxing and sexism has nothing to do with them and it's just a small group of few unrelated people...
If my cast iron can rust from two minutes on the stove, I need to stop cooking wet foods in it. It has yet to be a problem, though.
As part of our work we have done extensive comparisons of Spark on various workloads, clusters and cluster sizes comparing with Hadoop Map Reduce, Naiad and several other frameworks. We've found Spark to be temperamental, hard to configure, and with wildly varying performance, suited only to a small set of computations for which in-memory state reuse is beneficial (mostly it isn't).

In nearly every test Naiad has beaten Spark.

More info on Naiad: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/naiad/
I have no desire to be a package maintainer. But if it goes as far that systemd support in Debian gets threatened, I'd step up, as the alternative would be to switch distributions. I'm sure others would feel the same.

It'll not be effective.

If anything, I suspect the long term effect will be to make it harder for those who don't like systemd to get heard.
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he's not arguing the craigslist UX is broken just that there are lots of areas where it could be improved.

> they're features you wish existed

the netflix UX is not broken. it just hasn't changed. yea, we clearly want more features. and netflix should too - getting to the top and then stagnating is exactly what their predecessor did..

just because you're happy with the way things are, doesn't mean it cannot possibly improve.
Actually 1,000 lines of code a week is quite a lot. Of course it depends on language / technology stack, I'm speaking from Rails / JavaScript programmer point of view.
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but I would really like to get some insight on what $200+/hr web-development is like. I mean, what are the expectations versus a $50-developer?

I've done a number of projects for $200 per hour. To me, the biggest differences are:

1) Business knowledge. I work full time at an investment bank but I also do side work. I spent 350 hours per test studying for the three CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) tests. They have nothing to do with technology obviously - they are widely considered the hardest tests in finance. The years I took the tests, I took them with multiple business people from my firm where I ended up passing and the business people ended up failing. Business knowledge is the single largest thing that will gain you respect (and a higher rate) from a company.

2) Full stack knowledge. When a client's website is down, he doesn't want to hear, "OK then. I've checked all my code and it is just fine. This is a database problem. I'll forward this to the DBAs." They want you to fix the problem no matter where it lies.

For example, I could probably build in 10 hours a customized, nice-looking Twitter bootstrap Rails site with Stripe integration and deploy it onto EC2 and set up Capistrano to integrate with whatever existing Github flow they have

You're obviously new and sincerely inquiring, but I'll tell you - writing what you wrote here shows just how new you are. Anyone can build an app with a lot of moving parts "in 10 hours". Ya know what that's called? A prototype. It doesn't have proper error handling in it, it doesn't have proper logging, it doesn't have proper monitoring, it doesn't have proper business logic, it doesn't have proper features, etc. The 10 hour prototype you built is probably 10% of the actual project. A $200 per hour software engineer with business knowledge and full stack skills knows that.
Just think, this is an improvement over what there used to be. The America my parents grew up in would be as unrecognizable to most modern Americans as any 3rd world country.
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In a nutshell, this project will allow individuals to create markets where bets can be made for, or against, predictions using bitcoin (whether sidechained directly or via Counterparty or Ethereum). We use a logarithmic market scoring rule to increase liquidity and remove the need for a traditional order book. and instead of having an oracle decide the outcome, we have a distributed group of people report on the outcome of an event after it occurs. If such an individual is dishonest, they are punished, and if they tell the truth, their reputation increases (this is discovered via principal component analysis).

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Or just tell it like it is. http://deadatnoon.com/ As I watch my mother go from 'mild cognitive impairment' to dementia and now Alzheimer's, I think this is the path I want to take when it's time.
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This is actually a common way that a lot of people run debian, or at least used to be last I checked. Often if you don't do this you get an old kernel version that doesn't work with the latest hardware. (I've built machines, put Debian stable on them, and the SATA controller is completely unrecognized, whereas unstable works.) I have been running Debian this way for a long time without any major complaints. For something as critical as boot, typically my expectations established by years of use is they don't fuck it up this badly, don't merge in piece of shit software and make everything else depend on it. That expectation was broken egregiously for the first time ever for me, during a period of ~15 years of use. I am not exaggerating when I say I have been a Debian fan for a long time and I really question where the quality is going.

But OK, you and others are entitled to think I'm being capricious and haven't thought it out.
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"I think the agile philosophy got a few things right: find ways to reduce the cost of change, empower individuals to make choices and act on them, and reduce the cost of failure and embrace iteration instead of trying to prevent failure in advance."

This reads as a stealth attack against systemd, as that's a pretty good summary of the opposite of the systemd development philosophy as currently implemented. Although he claims in his post that line is about the Debian decision making process, which is perhaps true although very meta. Everything systemd is about is implementing the exact opposite of the quoted line above.

My one line summary of the overall situation is the systemd project is a coup of the overall ecosystem by the "desktop environment" people ignoring the needs of all other users, and the "universal OS" true believers are not overly supportive of that coup.

I'm reacting to the replacement of "universal OS" with "we're only going to be a gnome desktop" by simply moving everything, desktops and servers, to freebsd, other people are flaming, others are making threats, and of course others are moving to openbsd, whatever.
To be fair, "real GDP" has a somewhat precise economic meaning as measuring GDP while taking inflation into account; i.e., take nominal GDP and divide it by some measure of inflation (it is only somewhat precise because one can quibble about which inflation measure should be used).

In general though, you are right that especially "real growth", as the antonym of "fake growth", is often used in a way that has economic truther feel to it.
a Hashrocket open source project at the footer is a bit confusing.

Neat project. Kudos!
That was my reaction too. If you want to force thought and conciseness, make it 100 lines. :-)
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Yeah. I'm also pondering the use of elastic search in my case.

But the additional complexity is scaring me a bit, especially as the product in question's main strength is not showing most of the products it knows about, so none of the elastic search results could be displayed directly, but would have to go through additional processing.

Being able to do all of this directly in Postgres will be much nicer, so I'm really looking forward to 9.4
Agreed.

Hogewey = $8,000/month or $96,000/year.

US Average = $90,500/year.

Perhaps their comparison was to point out that for roughly the same cost, you get much better care (outcomes) in the unique facility.
While I don't disagree with you, I did want to point out you've given some bad information. [In the tech industry there is no clear case for a gender wage gap when we're talking about merit based salary.](http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/03/20/women-are-...)
Why do people compare LaTeX with Word? Shouldn't the comparison be against QuarkXPress and InDesign, software products which are designed as layout tools, not word processors, and can easily address all of the typesetting issues as LaTeX?
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So now have to switch distro with its whole echo system.

Wasn't that exactly the point of the argument -- how saying "just replace systemd" doesn't work and is not a realistic answer to any of the criticism?
" we find ourselves with semi-broken, or somewhat less than ideal, tooling and interfaces and a reasonably large amount of learning friction where there was a low amount before"

Yes! Exactly! When you start breaking people's stuff that was working you will certainly not be getting compliments!
The US DOJ can still target, basically, any merger with global significance - especially if said companies do any business in the US.

You see the same thing when large American companies merge, they often have to get approval from the EU and increasingly Asian anti-trust authorities.
Out of curiosity, why can't I authenticate via Google? Or with a komments ID?
Can you share your market research that backs up 100K expected users and your marketing plan for reaching your audience?

Also interested in your overall business plan.
Why does it need these permissions for Twitter oauth?

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I actually like this, because posters often have XY-problems. Especially if the solution the poster wants seems strange if often makes sense to question and propose a more sane solution to the whole problem he is actually having.
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How do you know that you are going to write 1000 lines a week? Once you begin to write code you it can happen that the code is more easy to write than to explain and then you can code hundreds of lines in little time, but also it could happen that the code requires very special attention and sophistication, a tough problem, here you can only write a few lines but those are crucial or very important to write for efficiency or memory constraints. What I would suggest is to distribute your time according to the complexity of the modules or parts of the problem, but prior to that you need to have a good understanding of logic and internal structure of the code you are going to develop, and this is also another problem that you must address in your distribution of time.
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I thought this was a fairly common attitude all over. After seeing my grandparents go through it, I'd definitely prefer to just die right away rather than live out the rest of my days in a nursing home. Maybe I'd change my mind once faced with it... but of course the big fear is that I'd no longer be capable of making the choice.
Halliburton has anticipated the anti-trust issues far in advance. They prepared segments of business they're willing to sell off and had it ready to go at announcement time, to make anti-trust regulators happy (Halliburton estimates they'd sell off about $7 billion in sales).
It depends on what career trajectory a senior developer is. If he is destined to become a specialist, then this article is spot on.

If instead he dreams of becomming a manager or architect, then he would actually not be coding the most complicated parts, and make sure to keep himself off the critical path of the project, so as to free up his time, so he can spend his time helping his colleagues and clearing the rocks in their path.

Also as a manager or architect, you better get used to constant interruptions, degrading the quality of code you can generate. So think hard before assigning that critical section to yourself.
Yes. And this: "Your 1,000 lines should be the essential core that enables a team of programmers to write another 10,000 lines effortlessly."

If you're writing critical core stuff like that, you better spend a lot more than a week on it. I can't imagine working on anything where the team regularly writes 10,000 lines a week. Prototypes by one person can easily grow at 1kLOC per week for a short time, but that's a special case.
In theory, I absolutely agree with you.

In practice, every choice as to how to care and organize society become a question of what to control and what not to control. Who can be trusted, and who can't trusted. Then it just seems to go in a circle. Regulation on top of regulation. People make judgments and claim they are assertions rather than assumptions, based on correlative and observationally biased inferences. The system becomes deterministic based on individual impulse, rather than caution, patience, and 'opened' trust.

With individual impulse, it becomes a question of who decides to shape society, rather than how society is shaped. Whoever makes a move first has an advantage in the short term. But this has the potential to be twisted by greed, selfish desire, and delusions of grandeur, or the idea that "what works for me will work for you". Then things get directed towards tipping points. People start believing in power hierarchies, groups, differing orders and levels of intelligence and ability as intrinsic and permanent properties of their existence. And so the pendulum keeps swinging.
I don't trust tarballs to decompress cleanly and not explode into umpteen smaller files which I have to hunt in my download folder.
That is called the XY problem[0]. It is a fairly common practice especially in technical IRC channels. Honestly, it can be very frustrating but a lot of times it is useful and actually helps both the person asking the (wrong) question and the group of people trying to provide a proper answer. Some (maybe most?) people do take it too far and even refuse giving you a straightforward answer just to be pedantic and annoying. Those types of people have made this much of a bigger problem than it actually is, however thinking about the XY problem before you ask a question is always a good idea, regardless.

[0] - http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem
First, just simply spending so much time in my childhood just reading about and playing with computers.

Secondly, going back to University. While I never had much of a problem getting jobs without a degree, the jobs I've been offered since getting a degree (MSc in Applied Math) are far more fun and interesting.
I typically use === or hash_equals() depending on the use case ;)

Magic quotes needed to die.

There are also a lot of other improvements in the past few years that I've grown to appreciate.

MD5/SHA1 password hashing need(ed/s) to die; password_hash() and password_verify() needed to become a thing.

Register globals needed to die.

There are still some changes that I believe are necessary to clean up the rest of the ecosystem.

MCRYPT_RAND needs to die.

Devs choosing MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256 thinking it's AES with a 256 bit key rather than a non-AES flavor of Rijndael still needs to die.

Composer's unverified curl | php needs to die.
If you bring in an expert practitioner from any field and plop them down in an academic conference they will have similar notes.
I don't understand what do you intended with this post besides adding fuel to the fire.
So you're not culpable for your actions if you make a deal with the devil, just because it's to keep your business afloat?
Is WordPress's record really that bad? Most of the vulns I hear about come from shoddy plugins, not WP itself.
It sometimes convinces me to go ahead with a service if I know I can get data out later down the line. It might be worth building it anyway to encourage more people to sign up, even if most users never end up using it.
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Yeah, and I use the command line every day. Whenever people see it on my screen, they think I'm "hacking".

There are Chrome extensions to do it as well. The point is, the lack of a UI control usable by the average user is not some Google conspiracy. It's always been the standard in pretty much all browsers.
I see that the footer says "a Hashrocket open source project". Is the source available on GitHub/Bitbucket or similar?
It greatly depends on the nursing home and possibly how much money you had going in.

My grandmother was in one, in the 90's, and it was quite a nice place with an active social life (which she pretty much ignored, because she had lots of family around).
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Japanese government creditors as a whole will never want to get rid of Japanese bonds in the kind of mass-selloff that you're implying unless the Japanese government does tell its bondholders that they're not going to be repaid.

The reason is simple: individual holders of Japanese government bond may want to get out of Japanese government debt. These individuals then hold Yen in a bank account (if they're regular individuals or institution) or in a central bank account (if they're banks). What happens with those Yen?

Maybe they'll buy some other bonds, or sell those Yen for another currency, or something else entirely. But no matter what they do, those Yen will still be around. It is impossible for them to disappear, unless somebody buys Japanese government bonds.

So those Yen might circle around a bit in the financial system, but at some point, they will end up with somebody who sold some asset and does not want to buy anything else. This somebody now has a choice of keeping Yen (which guarantee no loss of principal but have zero nominal return) or of buying government bonds (which also guarantee no loss of principal and which have a - however small - positive nominal return).

At this point, buying the government bonds is clearly the superior option. This hot potato effect of money is why there will never be the need to print gazillions of Yen to get rid of the debt.

I would point out that one might say that your statement is based on a fundamental misunderstanding anyway: Whether you hold Japanese government bonds or Yen, both are forms of government debt! The only difference between them is in maturity and interest rates.
The best managers I've had were ex-engineers who realized that they couldn't write code any more. One of them explained it like this: "You get your work done by moving lines of code around. I get mine done by moving people to where they're needed, a little like chess." And it was true: He was tuned into the technical issues, and knew what his talent pool was, and was quite good at helping people make decisions about what to work on.

The worst managers I've had have been the ones who thought they could do engineering plus "the people stuff", whereupon they stunk at both. (Well, not the worst -- the absolute worst tried to make all the decisions, too: Code it this way, little robot. Or neck-and-neck, the managers who made no decisions at all and left everyone rudderless until they decided on a product and a deadline; ugh).

Back to coding, that's roughly 50K lines of shipped code a year, which seems pretty high to me. Well, you can definitely do that in a green fields area, like a totally new feature or product. But writing that much code in an existing system is gonna be hard.
It varies.

In the past I have worked with agencies and directly with the company for different positions. Many companies will specifically state in their job postings they don't want candidates from agencies. It's kind of a mixed bag that I feel, in general, hurts everybody involved in some way.
There is no such menu (tried it on CentOS and OS X). It simply lists the available directories.
I think your comment is moderately off-topic. This is really not about tornado at all, rather than you can take medium-sized program and get STM in PyPy not to crash
For a manager, I agree. An architect should write the most complicated, not the least complicated, part of code. This is assuming that the architect is the most experienced developer on the team.

This doesn't include paper architects, which are pretty much salespeople.

I would like to hear other people's thoughts on this - this is the way that I have always handled projects.
Still it's not a metric. I know people that use ruby in a way that every 6-lines method of mine, could be 1 (hard to read, sometimes extremely cryptic) line of theirs. I'm not sure you can measure, not even using third party apps.
Senior care is actually quite innovative. The Pebble Project (https://www.healthdesign.org/pebble) works on design of healthcare facilities to promote patient safety (among other things). I attended a lecture by one of the directors, he talked about things like lining dementia units with dark tile. Dementia patients like to walk and often will wander away. The contrast between dark and light tile creates a sense of water or a hazard, and patients tend not to cross it. So at the entrance and exit of nursing units, at doorways to medication rooms, they lay a row of dark tiles to prevent wandering.
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Would you mind elaborating a bit on what's bad about it? I've been to a few retirement homes and they seemed reasonably nice places, but I don't think I've visited a nursing home.