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High end at Google for UI designer is ~160k according to Glassdoor. That's in line with what I've heard from friends as well. UI design does have lower salaries than other types of software development, in some cases much lower, so I doubt you're going to be getting 150k+ unless you're pretty senior.
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Discouraged workers are those not currently looking. Look at the definition of U4 in the "United States" section.
Emotional intelligence is only as good as healthy your social environment will be. If you work or live with toxic or neurotic people neither a great sense of social intelligente nor to be able to feel like them will help you. To be smarter could.
And those masses have failed to vote in such a way as to address the long-term issues facing them.

At this point, we pretty much have to do whatever we can to get out ahead--so, let's all try to get higher salaries...least of all because whatever work we do is pretty much directly what enables the shafting and monetization of those masses, and once we too hit the bread lines they aren't going to be trying to help us one bit.

EDIT:

I'm not saying let's go smoke cigars and blare "Kill the Poor" out of our Teslas--I'm saying that, at this point, we need to optimize for our sector of the working class. Denying ourselves the chance at higher wages because other people are getting screwed only means we're going to get caught up in the machine too.
Ah, the hiring equivalent of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". I've seen the same with people only hiring Harvard Business School grads. I figure school-based hiring practices like that are a pretty good indication of poor management quality.
Location seems to be a huge factor in the salary range for Software Engineers. $150,000 is a bit on the high side, but $120,000 for a JavaScript Engineer is pretty common in New York, San Francisco, and even Seattle. Smaller towns tend to offer salaries that are a lot lower.

I think it is mostly a matter of scale. Companies with big technical problems have harder problems to solve, and thus are willing to pay a premium for the best talent. They're also more motivated to be located in tech hubs, where it's easier to find talent.

On the other hand, a company in Lincoln Nebraska is obviously not planning to grow that much, and will have much simpler needs. Because of this, great skills and mediocre skills command the same economic value, and there is a limit to how much engineers can make.
To be fair, the rest of the article looks at the physical evidence for the various different ways in which they did use it.
Exactly, SSD's sudden death is the major reason that I dare not use it for any serious purposes at the moment, good backup scheme does help, but a sudden death is still too bitter to taste in reality.
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Good answer. I am looking forward to the next candidates!
Front end devs are a dime a dozen. I'm not saying that they're all very good at what they do, far from it, but you also have to consider that a company's bottom line is not necessarily negatively impacted by hiring an average performer in that area. It helps to have skills which are more rare and, as such, demand more compensation.
Wow, hard drives are getting complicated!

You have to write 256MB to change a single bit?

And you have various zones, and you have to keep track of where data is written, because it's not written in order, and can be on any zone?

You would need some sort of battery backed scratch/cache area to pull this off, so that you don't have to write very often, otherwise I can't imagine performance will be very good.
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You know, I did exactly this.

Best decision ever.
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Hmm,

I agree but your point doesn't really contradict the parent.

The unemployed, in fact, would count as the empty space between the black holes you describe.
Right out of university: you generally don't command a $100k+ salary. By the time you hit 30 though you should definitely be there unless you are working somewhere with really cheap living. $200k+ is possible even in your mid to late twenties and even outside of Cali and New York.
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I would put the entire redirection table on ram, and only write it to disk (to a dedicated area) when turning off the power.

By doing that, that area will easily outlast the regular flash.
Between 1 - 1.5 Hours for me and I live in hull of all places :)

Uncapped unlimited bandwidth finer (grandfathered in on it just in time) is awesome.
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I think there's a lot of associated cultural baggage and expectations that come with our notions about empathy. This muddies the discussion, somewhat: people seem to be conflating the idea of understanding what other people are feeling (and why they feel that way--which doesn't require feeling anything), feeling what other people are feeling (which doesn't necessarily require understanding), and a host of other ideas. (e.g. influencing how other people are feeling--which may require the first to some extent)
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With gmail you can also simply add some text after a +

e.g.

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And when mail from that source becomes troublesome setup a filter based on that To: address.
It's important to see what the average age of these newly employees are, age of those unemployed, and also who is exiting the job market.

If the newly employed are young (and therefore making lower wages), and those unemployed (or leaving the job market, or just not looking) - are older, and therefore commanding higher salaries - that alone could account for why salaries not increasing on average.

It would be useful to get a breakout of salaries biased by tenure, so as to accommodate for the confounding impact of average age of employed/unemployed/left-the-job-market.
whenever I felt bad for people because terrible things happened to them, I saw them repeat mistakes.

I think this would point to having a shallower level of empathy than you know is necessary.
I got banned :(

To be fair, I deserved it.
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> maybe why it's not attracting enough programmers

Enough for what? It's not as if the world is short of games, or game engines.
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Georgia Tech, #8, offers an online Master's of CS. I'm enrolled now and it's quite challenging and rewarding.
This company was in flagrant violation of the law indeed. I was receving 2 e-mails from them every single weekday, at multiple jobs over the years, advertising their training courses. Unsubscribing did nothing. Every mail had a different sender, with one of a large collection of garbage domains (Today it was acfcursus.ca, promotionacf.com and capsulesacf.ca). The justification footer was a joke: "You are receiving this mail because of your function in the company". -- You're supposed to tell that the mail is opt-in, jackasses.

Most office workers know about "ACF Management" in Quebec because of the relentless spam and I'm not surprised they're the first hit by CASL. It's like the law was made for them.
Right, but as I understand the rules, in order to get citizenship you need significant Hungarian residency over the course of several years.
I would rather my salary be proportional to my skill instead of my tenure.
> You would need some sort of battery backed scratch/cache area to pull this off

Or a copy-on-write filesystem. With some tweaking they can essentially fill one zone by linearly writing new copies (and metadata) to it while garbage-collecting (copying GC, with compactation) old zones in the background
It's not particularly clear they could have had it thrown out in anycase. And even if they did, there was more than enough information just on the laptop to tie him conclusively to Silk Road. So his lawyer threw a Hail Mary and decided to try and deny Ross owned the server at all. It didn't work, but going the other route wouldn't have either.

I suspect a lot of the people who were pressing for Ross to challenge the seizure of the server are doing so because they're interested in the legal questions involved, rather than maximizing the chances of an innocence verdict.

But in anycase, you generally can't get a re-trial based on incompetent counsel based just on strategic decisions, even if those decisions were poor ones. You need to show your lawyer was really asleep at the switch on a basic level, like giving the client factually wrong information, or going off to Cancun for a couple weeks instead of preparing a defence.
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The thing is I'm not just frontend. I build product from A-Z. I can ideate it, build a strategy, a business plan, mock it, design it, code it, deploy it, market it. What role should I be looking for? I'm great at stepping back and looking at it from the bigger picture instead of hammering out details. Should I be looking for project management roles? Product designer? Art director? I have no idea.
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Almost all (inhouse/exclusive excluded) recruiters that claim to be "working on filling a position" don't have a specific position at all. They are simply finding candidates.

Once they have a candidate they will ring around their client base and see if they can find a place for you to go.

They will chase any potential candidate they can see getting a 20-40k payout (20%~ first year salaray)

This gives senior devs with solid linked in profiles quite a warped view about the state of things.

When companies go out actively looking they don't get exposed to these types of candidates because most of these possible candidates are not actively looking. Hence the "shortage of talent".

In other words, there is a talent shortage, but most talented people (i.e. anyone reading this) won't see it because they're all too busy being traded around the block.
If you relax the constraint a bit and replace top 1% with top 5%, then almost 40% of Americans will make it at some point. And 12% of them will hit the top 1%.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/opinion/sunday/from-rags-t...
No, they are capital gains tax.

Or you can put the earnings inside a business, and then offset it with expenses. The business could pay you salary, or you can keep the money inside the business and realize it as capital gains tax later when you want.

You have many choices on how to organize the money.
With due respect, if your kids think that it's OK to shoot a gun to someone because it is "non lethal" (btw. sublethal would be more accurate), then you are raising a generation of drooling idiots.

Which is, by the way, not what direct observation of evidence suggest. After all, baseball bats have been and continue to be much more easily available than tasers, and still you do not see hordes of drooling-idiot teenagers hitting people for fun on the streets.

What you see is a small minority of very troubled kids attacking people for more or less rational (or at least, purposeful) reasons with whatever weapons happen to be available to them, more or less regardless of lethality of said weapon. And you are not going to solve that problem by making sub-lethal weapons unavailable to a completely different demography. What you do is to identify those kids and rehabilitate them before they become hardened criminals.
To nitpick: the blog post was triggered by a single instance of it happening, but while he doesn't go into specifics, he says that all the top tier firms are doing it, which obviously means there's a bunch of instances of this. And one of the common criticisms he got was "everybody's doing it", which suggests it's even more widespread than that.
If you joined Google's Glass Explorer program (twice?!) expecting anything but a beta-level device with a short shelf life then more fool you. I don't think they could have been any more explicit about the goals of their program.
That title seriously misrepresents the findings. These drives lasted orders of magnitude longer than they were rated for. For 99% of people on the internet, you could write all your daily traffic to any one of these drives for the rest of your life (assuming it stayed constant).
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Recruiters call anyone who's made an effort to find a software job in the last ten years, seriously. I get calls and email from ten year old resumes. The less they know about someone, the more they promise.

The recruiter world is really weird, a lot of them are pretty marginal and just looking to pad interviews (or something, it's hard to tell). Calls are absolutely not a gauge of the job market. Sometimes it is literally true that every recruiter is calling about the same job.
I thought this too. Then I entered a job and interviewed 100~ candidates. There is absolutely such a shortage, and this isn't even for anything complex, this was just for a frontend position. I genuinely had to ask a few candidates if they've ever programmed in JS or HTML before this interview, can't even imagine the type of bullshit at higher levels. You can staff your entire company in under a day, sure, but they're going to be utterly useless. Most are, mainly because they don't delve into it beyond school work / work so they never blossom into someone who is very good.
Tight labor markets also force companies to increase wages.

See 1993 -> 1999, 2003 -> 2007

You can watch while simultaneously organized labor lost nearly all influence over the labor market throughout eg the 1990s, and wages increased as the labor markets got tighter during prolonged economic expansion.

For the most part, companies increase wages when they have no choice. The lack of labor supply combined with even low level growth forces wages higher. This is an almost universally agreed upon fundamental of economic theory and practice for the last 200 years, with vast data available as proof.

If organized labor were required to boost wages, tech companies in Silicon Valley wouldn't pay such high wages compared to your average UAW member.

A company like Microsoft would be able to pay its programmers peanuts, because they are not organized. Instead, Microsoft pays its programmers extraordinarily well.
Let's not pretend the people he attempted to murder weren't aggressing on him in the first place. He hired hits on people who were trying to extort him (for money claimed to be lost that couldn't be repaid to Hells Angels, implying that exposing Ross' information would make him a possible target).

It's not like Ross hired hits on innocent people - regardless of whether that is murder or not.
I'm glad to see this sort of article in here.

However I would suggest it could be argued that compassion is the bigger skill and talent here, and that it includes empathy.

The etymological root of "compassion" is "to suffer with", to feel someone's pain. To walk in their shoes. To see their perspective. To breathe their air.

When there is compassion there is a better user experience. Apple used to have a lot of compassion but like other recent HN posts have discussed, Apple's software of late suggests they're losing it . . . fast.

One's entire daily activity, including operating vehicles (be they two wheels or more), could benefit from more compassion. Nations would benefit from a more compassionate media. Not to menion more compassionate politicians.

For me, compassion is the thing. It's what the world needs now.
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I'm guessing the title came from the tweet that went about it as well (which Promit did correct, but that isn't going to matter when John Carmack retweets it): https://twitter.com/josefajardo/status/574719821469777921
It is already integrated into Source 2, Unity started (they also have Metal support) and Epic also going that way.

It will make it to indie engines that aren't companies funded as well eventually.

This actually gives a ton of power to current engine developers in the market so getting them involved was a big win.

I am a huge fan of OpenGL ES / WebGL (also based on OES) and was happy that we finally had mobile win that battle but with new graphics rendering layers like Metal and optimization for mobile more needs to be done. The driver mess is a big problem and limits innovation as well.
Most of the case was based on evidence found on the laptop seized when Ulrich was arrested. Even if the Server evidence was thrown out (which itself doesn't seem likely, IMHO) Ulrich still would've faced substantially the same case.

The chat-logs that were evidence for all but one of the attempted murders he was indicted for were found on the server, which might be part of the reason he wasn't charged with those. Though those probably would've been difficult to get a conviction on in anycase, since no one knows who the "hitman" really was.
The 8 TB HDDs available now take a full 15 hours or so for a linear scan at max speed. God help you if you ever need to rebuild a RAID array made of them; the risk of an additional failure in say a RAID5 or RAID6 configuration is just too high.

We're nearing the point at which the throughput relative to the capacity and the risk of failure or corruption makes further capacity less and less useful, unless you're doing some pretty sophisticated replication, validation, & caching.
RIP. The photo with his daughter is heartbreaking.
> I can't help but feel a little offended by your reply but I think I can also understand where you're coming from.

It's not hard to see how you might feel offended by a comment that took the very experience you were talking about (deafness) and used it to contrive an example of not one, but two repugnant qualities. Yet instead of lashing out, you channeled that into understanding, while still honoring your own reaction. That takes both subtlety and skill. Thanks for giving us an example of the thing we're talking about.
It's the sort of thing Pratchett offers as a sour reflection on the world as it is, rather than the world as it ought to be.

The last part, as you note, is:

"And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye."

...and both quotes are offered in The Truth, which offers more than a few critical comments around the glass-should-be-bigger set.
At 30 GB/day (still quite high for a consumer SSD), it's 70-200 years, depending on the drive.
I've always heard that attributed to Dr. Seuss, but it looks like that's disputed: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss#Disputed

I like to think it was Seuss, but to be honest it doesn't sound very Seuss-ian.
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NASA doesn't like them though, particularly for anything man-rated.
> TBH, I'm not so much worried about those in our line of work. We're doing comparatively fine.

That's not really what it's about though. The upper middle class is what drives the economy. The super rich are not the job creators, the almost rich are.

You give an extra $25K/year to a multi-millionaire and it changes nothing for them, but to someone making $150K/year they're not making so much that it doesn't affect their spending. And the almost-rich buy services. They pay people to do the jobs you can't outsource and you don't need a degree to do.

So if you want to help the poor, go ask your boss for a raise and then spend the money.
Did you use a tool to make the interactive diagrams, or just write all of them by hand?

(I can imagine myself forever tweaking each diagram, and having to cut back on them, but you've created them everywhere they might be useful - it's a fantastic site)
What happens when an insurance company decides to not honor a legitimate claim? 98% of the time, the victim gives up.

For the 2% of the cases where they take the insurer to court, the insurer can deny and delay, as they did with my family for four years. Finally, they bury the judge under pounds of paper and argument, distracting from the real issues. Insurance companies can exhaust the resources of the everyday person.

But can they exhaust a crowd? We're trying to show that people care about injustice, and prove to the insurance companies that denial doesn't pay.

Also, we used Strikingly, a YC company, to make the website :-)
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Not necessarily. If application cares about performance, it can go to lower APIs to craft parallelism model that it needs.
Your startup doesn't need a business plan
Funny thing about LinkedIn emails: some years ago I got sick of it and tracked down everything I could turn off. I then got no LinkedIn email. Now, I've been looking for jobs and such and wanted to turn on inbox notification emails and maybe some job search results, and they've changed their settings around enough that I can't figure out how to turn these things back on. A+ work!
Not just Citizens United but 44 Liquormart is on point as well. There are five Supremes that don't hold much with commercial and political intentions as a backdoor to the First Amendment.

What the other four are thinking is beyond my ken.
Right, he's also worked as a game developer, has been a moderator on GameDev.Net for many many years, and lead the SlimDx project to implement one of the only remaining DirectX libraries for .Net. He knows what he is talking about.
And then filtering is often your only option because the unsubscribe link doesn't work right with the plus character in it. Also, Gmail helpfully prevents us from creating filters that pipe the messages in question to /dev/null.
Even your link lists the 6% as "official". 6% against 12% is pretty huge.

It's the old "large print for the rubes, small print so we say we're aren't lying" trick.
But, I'd argue, many of the tools and techniques of business planning, if lightened up and operationalized, become the way your startup executes in the early stages of new product development.
If you're living in the Bay Area and are competent enough to be hired by a big tech company you can absolutely command a 100k+ salary pretty much regardless of seniority. There are Google interns getting paid almost 90k (~7500 monthly.)
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Sure thing: Hezbollah in Lebanon [0], Hamas in Palestine [1], the Taliban in Afghanistan [2], the Islamic State and related factions in various fluid-bordered Middle Eastern regions [3], several Mexican drug cartels (with the notable exception of the Zetas), the list goes on and on.

Basically any armed organization aiming for mainstream social control will have a schools-and-hospitals wing. Social services are propaganda expenses to these organizations, just as they are to e.g. the American government. This is because the DNA/business model of all such organizations is identical and as old as human civilization.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah_social_services
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas#Social_welfare
[2] http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1581119,00...
[3] http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/07/islamic-st...
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_the_Mexican_Drug_...
In laymen's terms this does what ?
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