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I don't think you need to use a safe subset as much as you need to run everything in a sandbox of some sort.
One, the US is in the midst of a major restructuring of the economy. It's going to take time. A lot of us are going to be playing musical chairs until a more efficient allocation of our labors occurs. It's as much about /how/ our talents should be allocated in this new economy as opposed to our talents. That's a subtle difference, but an important distinction.

Two, Americans don't move around as much as they used to. We used to move about once every 5 years. Now, when a recession hits, we don't move to where the jobs are as much. That slows the recovery down.

Three, there are major pieces of legislation that have not been resolved. That does not help the business community decide whether it's OK to hire. The quicker the legislation is handled (one way or another), the faster the restructuring of the economy and the faster people will be put back to work.

Four, "productivity" in the midst of a recession is just a fancy name for fewer workers doing more work because their co-workers were let go. This new-found "productivity" wont last long, and will go back to the mean as soon as rehiring starts.

Five, there will /always/ be a demand for people to fix other people's screw-ups (if you're in the IT industry). The last two jobs I was on they were looking for somebody who can migrate their ancient systems to something more modern. People are figuring out that's it's really easy to build things, but quite a different matter when it comes time to migrate.

Six, we are working our way through a large bubble. This recession says more about the bubble than the skills of the labor force. But, yes, major labor adjustments will be made.

Seven, businesses are scared and banks wont lend to small business. It's not that labor is unnecessary, but that next to nobody wants to take the risk in a down economy, or those who do can't get the capital. Some well-managed companies haven't laid off anybody and are thriving (e.g. Apple). Google has started re-staffing, so they see things picking up. It will take time, but it's getting better. The well-managed companies see the shift and are first movers.

Eight, this economic restructuring is normal. It's scary if you've never lived through one before, but it's by no means unique. It's actually more than normal, it's occasionally necessary to force a restructuring and wring out the excesses.

Nine, things are better than they appear on the surface. We have started the recovery but it's hard to tell because the lagging indicators are still down. Just because pessimism is in vogue doesn't mean things are getting worse.

Lastly, we have finally slipped our shackles. No more WinTel. Instead, we get to figure out the best way to handle multi-core. RDBMs are no longer de rigueur; we get to apply NoSQL where it makes sense. Hardware is so cheap that instead of doing backups we just use clustering or multiple-allocation. RAM is so cheap that we can put the whole internet in it. Disk is morphing to solid-state right before our eyes. The opportunities are far greater than they have ever been. And those of us who have been keeping up will lead the way.
Sounds like it would be considerably more expensive than Just add water pancakes.

http://www.foodshop.co.nz/en/cp/Pancake_Mix

What would be really cool would be if you could just pull a tab and it cooked the pancakes for you somehow
This sounds like a very bad Joke: "the OpenOfficeMouse is intended to provide a faster and more efficient user interface" This is really a joke. Nightmare for every user,a scandal for usability experts, if it at least looks good, very ugly thing there for $ 74.99 ? Com'on folk, most of us only have 5 fingers/per hand....18 buttons???. It's a joke!
Theres an important difference between being a sarcastic jerk at someone else's expense and pointing out the irony in situations that results in humor.

Its been my experience that either type of humor isn't tolerated here very well.
I think you are right that the difference is immigration. A lot of hispanics at that age range and with no high school education are migratory farm workers that come to the US with jobs. Bad jobs but nevertheless jobs.

And of course nobody will hire black people for those jobs. Those jobs are so hard and badly paid that they can only be performed by impoverished scared immigrants.

And as far as racism goes I think there is a difference between the way hispanic and black men are treated. Racists usually fear young black men and consider them all violent criminals, so they would not give them jobs. As far as hispanics, the usual racist stereotype of the hispanic male is somebody that is good for a low wage menial job. So racism does not really prevent hispanics from getting jobs, just good jobs.
It looked like the most recent wave of erlang threads - or the one around the time when _why disappeared - got deleted by the admins.

I was really disappointed by that, since it seems like it was the unofficial way for the community to signal large scale concern over the quality of the site.

It would be nice to have another channel to replace it.
Seriously? A bug report that identifies a DOS condition gets flagged as "won't fix" -- and Zed's followup explains, with details, why it should be fixed, and what the fix should be.

I tried, and I couldn't find anything asshole-ish about the bug report. It looks like good work to me.
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My sales experience with Interspire was really bad. I had a simple question about xml sitemap and alt tags for photos and he just said its not included without putting any effort forward.
Otherwise I think if you want a platform that has an easy css template system and admin that isn't horrid interspire has worked for me.
It depends what type of support you need, gateway support, css/template support, what type?
White female college graduates between 25 and 44 have the lowest unemployment rate of any demographic group.
Ask HN: Should I trust my competition?
I've started a small freelance web design/programming/hosting/support effort to help small businesses get on the web with websites that are functional, look great, and don't cost a lost of cash.

I recently landed a rather large client with an incumbent host/design/support company. This is your typical large hosting operation that offers minimal Drupal installations with crappy/ugly design, overpriced dedicated hosting, and rude customer service.

I use Rackspace for my clients and when I called their incumbent hosting provider to get answers on their DNS they went crazy on me. My client decided that they wanted to stay with this other hosting solution to keep from disrupting e-mail, and that they had a long standing relationship with them. This doesn't bother me.

My application requires a database, but their current Drupal installation is already using their 2 allotted databases (despite the fact that they are overcharged for their entire situation).

After having some back and forth with both my client and the host, the host said,

"Well, I'll call [your client] and tell them that they need another database and how much it will cost them... he'll roll his eyes, wine, and then say ok."

On top of this they want to version control my solution using SVN on THEIR servers. My entire experience with this larger web host has rubbed me the wrong way.

They know that my solution is completely custom, stream lined, more focused, and probably requires less server load/CPU cycles than what they offer their customers (think 'less is less').

Frankly, I feel nervous literally handing over all of my code/brand to them as they've proved even just in that one phone call that they don't have the client's best interest in mind.

My question to Hacker News is - how can I trust them not to copy my code and use it for their future clients (its very lightweight and highly customizable)? Should I hand over my custom made solution to a web host/design company just to finish the contract with my client? The client is the #1 hit for their search term and pulls over 50gb of bandwidth so I figure I could get a lot of future leads with them, but dealing with their current provider has continually left a bad taste in my mouth (probably because I'm stealing their business).

I'm sure there are plenty of experienced freelancers doing similar business here, and I would really like your guys take on it as I trust your experience, wisdom, and advice.
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I didn't need that mental image while having my breakfast, thank you.
I would be also interested to see some good answers on this topic. I have pretty much the same background as you. I am trying to more design myself, before doing mostly web development - Java before now mostly Django. I recently switched to Mac. I am wondering if anyone has any suggestion on some good free tools on OS X?

GCV, hope you don't mind me adding this comment here.

Cheers,

Tomas
FWIW (which may, admittedly, not be much), Gruber thinks it's not.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/11/06/openofficemouse
You have a point on this one, I recently moved over to HN from Slashdot. I was one of the first 100 users over there, so it was hard to accept that the place had gone completely to pot.

Anyway, I am sidetracking, let me get back to the point. One of the things that makes me jump from a site and not look back is down modding because of disagreement with the idea of the post and not with the nature of the post. I feal that just because you do not agree with a subject of a post if it is well articulated, covers that persons rational and is not abusive or deriding then if you don't agree with it just move along.

In saying that, I have had allot of post here that I thought where great debates (which I love) get blasted down to -1. None of which I thought where particular offensive or abusive. I am passionate and opinionated but to down mod for that, reflects of a desire to constrict ones freedom of expression.

Let me be clear I do not blame HN for this, it is a personal issue among each of us as individuals, but one should really be introspective before they click that button either way (up or down) and ask themselves, is this a good argument, not just I agree with this or I don't like what this guy is saying. If a person does not then they should really reflect on their ability to critically analyze information as they are doing themselves a disservice by limiting their horizons to there own intellectual prejudices.
That is probably tied into immigration and welfare policies. An illegal worker from Mexico will pick potatoes for $4/hour, while a poor black person who is a US citizen will probably refuse the same job even at $8/hour (or whatever the minimum wage is these days). A black person will probably rely on welfare. An illegal worker does not have access to the same level of welfare.
Virtual goods to me feel like a scam and I doubt that will ever change.

I feel the same way about ringtones, wallpapers, telephone applications that have no utility and so on.

I'm probably old fashioned, but I think if someone pays they really should get something in return for it.

Not the ability to 'dress up their avatar' or something silly like that.

The most bizarre case ever to be brought to court I think was one in which someone stole someone elses virtual goods.
Is that actually linked from anywhere on ycombinator? It isn't exactly obvious.
Ramaze would come somewhere after Sinatra, most likely, though it has mostly been used for intranet apps.
Wait--wasn't an upvote supposed to be based on post quality, and not on agreement?
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I don't know how to be successful on that level, but I've a hunch that paying more than the slightest attention to things like "job", "resume", etc severely lowers your chances. Also, one thing I noticed while reading Coders at Work recently: while some people are brilliant, some seem like they're merely good, and happened to make the right decisions. Those decisions always seemed to be the risky ones, but we don't see what similar decisions they went the other way on, nor the hordes of similar programmers who were cautious or unlucky.

And maybe there aren't such hordes. I dunno.
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economics is pretty complicated, and correlation does not imply causation.
A lot of people do feel that they are getting something in return. That $2.99 ringtone does something for some people.
The Dustin Curtis design was likely created in Photoshop. Photoshop is a great tool for both web design, and print. There is nothing about Photoshop that precludes it from being a great design application for the web as it gives you pixel-level precision.

Though it sounds less as if you're asking what tools will allow you to design and more as if you're asking what tools will allow you to design well. And the answer to that is: skill, creativity and talent! :)
I'm surprised that the WSJ hasn't caught on and started doing more cool things with all its data.
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It's not asshole-ish at all, it was just direct and made the point much clearer with the proper amount of urgency. This bug crashes sites consistently and is easily exploited. That's serious enough to warrant an immediate fix and release with an apology for the design. That's what I've done on my projects, and that's what I expect.

Now, the question is why do you demand humility from me, but not from them?
Yes, I realize that, it just doesn't 'work' for me.

I would contrast that with my grandparents (long since deceased) who would consider paying for software just as silly because I'm not getting anything 'tangible' in return.

It is probably just an age thing :)
They should have also broken it down by the income level.

> They should do this kind of graph for health care coverage.

Some topics are not appropriate for public discourse as far as large media corporations are concerned. We are not supposed to discuss the number of bankruptcies / year due to health care costs, or how health insurance is linked to employment and since there is a high un-employment, there is probably a large number of un-insured individuals as well. And how on the first accident any one of those uninsured will probably blow through their life savings, credit card accounts and eventually declare bankruptcy.
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We actually keep the sessions very light, and if I could I'd get rid of them entirely.

For caching I'm just using nginx and generating as much content to disk as possible. It is much simpler that way, and the goal is to keep things simple and cheap so I can bootstrap the site.
As one of the above, I found this statistic oddly pleasing, since only one of the above factors was within my control.
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this site looks like a blatant scam and phishing site: twitter password, they may use twitter authentication. I won't use it.
I would wonder if there is a fear of hiring black men for extremely poor paying manual labour jobs for fear of the perception of slavery & racisim too.
Erlang is a great language (and a great way to design a language as well), it really does a disservice to all that using it as a way to drown out unwanted conversations.

At a minimum I would suggest a mix of Erlang, Lisp, Scala and Clojure articles. Besides being more even handed it probably will be more useful.
MVC keeps your developers out of the HTML and your designers out of the Code.

Smalltalk got it right in the early 70s. It is still right today.
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The temptation to write 'you must be new here' was resisted (for the most part), but it was tough (and mostly because I think I'm 'new here' myself).

As for upvotes being on post quality, that may have been once the intention but it seems that has long gone out the window. Imo that degrades the quality of HN quite a bit but since you can't really check why someone got modded down I guess it does not matter much.

People that mod down because of disagreeing with you would have done so anyway even if that would not have been policy.

And those that mod up/down based on post quality would probably do so too.

Any change you perceive is probably more related to how the numbers of those groups develop.
Wow, the term Politically Correct means nothing to you. Lawrence Summers got pilloried for less. I'm not sure you can use the term "illegal" workers any more in polite company. I think the New York Times prefers the word "undocumented." And I'm not going to touch the rest of that paragraph. (Mock outrage and major hand-wringing, and a slight whiff of pretentiousness that goes along when I cluck my tongue in a condescending manner.)
cost of living does not allow you to live on $8 an hour. $8/hour means you need 2-3 jobs just to feed your kids.

If you don't have 2-3 jobs, you have to make ends meet with $16K a year. Remove the $12K that you'll pay for rent in pretty much any of the major cities. And you have $333 to live on. That won't even cover your basics like gas/electricity and water.
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I think that women are more likely to leave the workforce when it is difficult to get a job & enter it when it is particularly attractive. Extended maternity breaks, home makers etc. Leaving the workforce is leaving the graph, neither employed or unemployed.
What bothers me more than your post being killed is some of the outright spam and drivel that passes unchecked.
That's really interesting. I've always assumed it was a knowledge / teaching problem, but I'd forgotten how much the addition of mousewheels changed my entire browsing experience.
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That one has been reported for a long time but nobody cares much about it.

I used to flag them consistently but I just gave up, so kkleiner wins that round and gets to spam as much as he wants.

Flagging to keep out the spam is a way of doing community service, if the feeling is that it is for nothing or possibly even ignored (PG hinted that people that flag a lot have their flaggings discarded) makes me much less inclined to do that work.
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Wait till you get more caught up in certain parts of the community. I still occasionally feel the need to go to /r/politics and argue my point of view, and there be crazy people.
> Bugs in the application resulted in garbage in the database that wasn’t discovered until a couple years and terabytes later. One of my colleagues had the joy of spending 6 months as “data garbageman” cleaning up the database.

Cleaning up should be faster.

It's strange that thing A is optional but without doing thing A up front you can get yourself in a mess such hard to clean up. If thing A is optional cleaning up the mess resulting in not doing thing A and having bad luck should be much easier. Db guys tend to overlook interesting problem how to get out of the mess. They just have pie in the sky rules and if you don't use them all and get yourself into trouble then it's your fault so suffer!