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As a lead developer, if my developers are only motivated to do something each day because of being held accountable the next day

The commenter didn't say it was the only motivator, they said it was a motivator. It isn't some black or white thing- it's just another aspect. Unless you naively think your developers are robots, they will all have varying levels of motivation at different times, and this can help.
So, they'd bring back Steve Ballmer?
I'm now desperately trying to remember the PHP book I read in 2007. It was nowhere near as bad as the example here but I'm sure it used globals everywhere and had other bad examples.
It definitely reminds me of when I first tried learning javascript and every example I copied didn't work on my site. I distinctly remember Blizzard having some sort of moving graphic from diablo that I tried to just copy and paste into my site.
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> It's not in ruins, but Germany's highways are definitely not as good as they used to be.

It's not the highways themselves. It's primarily bridges and side roads that are affected. Schierstein Bridge, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schierstein_Bridge

> The internet infrastructure in Germany needs work as well: It currently ranks below Russia and Hungary, far below countries like Sweden, Netherlands and the US.

That's extremely misleading. Average download speed not only is a very poor metric for infrastructure, but depending on which chart you look at, you may be getting pretty much the opposite results. For example, check out Netflix's internet speed report [1].

In practice, the internet infrastructure in German is generally excellent in cities and metropolitan areas. The primary problem (same as in many other countries) is coverage in rural areas. The issue here is not lack of government investment, however, but forcing ISPs to invest money in these not very profitable markets. Despite subsidies and incentives, this is still facing obstacles. That said, the situation has improved considerably over the past years [2]:

"Germany remains above the European average in all technology combinations, with noteworthy improvements in overall NGA coverage recorded in 2013. Near-100% coverage of overall broadband and 97.5% coverage with fixed technologies were reported in 2013 as well. NGA access rose through the year, ending the period on 74.8% of households (21.3% in rural areas) – nearly 9 percentage points higher than the previous year."

[1] http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/study-broadband-...
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I cycle commute in a hilly city (Bristol, UK), and I think you're just a little inexperienced at cycling for work.

I can cycle hard and sweat, or I can cycle gently and sweat very little. We don't have a shower in the office, but I don't cycle too hard to work, and change shirt when I get in. It's not a problem. On the way home, I cycle hard and have a shower.

I can stay completely dry when cycling by simply carrying waterproofs. I just make it routine to always have these. It's true that these make it a little sweatier, but a change of clothes solves this problem.

Cycling isn't going to be suitable for every journey. However, 15% is quite a small target when you think about all the little trips people need. Things like cheap electric cars can be useful for the remaining 85%.
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More information about the incident here: http://ivan.pedrazas.me/2015/04/03/everyday-sexism-the-pytho...
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reddit like : apply a random modifier. It would probably leak data, though.
Observer bias, but whilst Germany home ownership rates are one of the lowest in the EU, they are increasing. The housing market here is competitive (between buyers) even with agent commissions of up to 6% of the house price (normally paid by the buyer).

Having recently purchased property I can confirm that the market is quite crazy at the moment.
Remotes aren't necessarily getting paid more.. They likely have experience that is valuable that then lets them work remotely. Not too many beginning programmers have the option of remote.
Been coding with coffee for a year now. I still don't get the value prop. I don't feel more efficient. I may save a few key strokes, but hard programming problems are hard not because of extra semicolons and parentheses.
To read up on the first question, try Heidegger. For the second: Nietzsche.
The US is not fueled by printed money (quite a thing to say at a time in which the EU is launching a large QE program). The Fed's balance sheet is $4.5 trillion, while the US economy has added $3 trillion to its GDP since 2007 (during that time Europe has added $0 to its GDP, with Germany effectively adding $0 to its GDP over the same time). It's clear that US growth, in both GDP and assets, drastically exceeds the Fed's help.

All assets are valued by speculation in some form or another. Saying the stock market is driven by speculation does not lessen the fact that the value of the companies is real - as real as any other asset you can name. All assets on earth are supported by the same confidence requirements of buyers and sellers as equities are.

What asset would you list in Germany that is somehow more real than publicly traded companies in the US? Euros?

A stock certificate for one share of Berkshire Hathaway A shares, is as legitimate a value as the cash in your pocket or any other asset you could possibly name.

The US is the world's second largest manufacturing economy, and was only passed by China finally a few years ago.
Yes! You are not alone my friend. Try changing your perspective and delighting in the successes of your psuedo-peers as opposed to being jealous. Everyone is on their own path. Meet yourself where you are; the time is always now and you are indeed exactly where you need to be.

Lately, I have been dealing with cutting back on what I do as opposed to piling stuff on; focusing on no more than 3 things (for example), rolling off of less compelling projects, creating space. Give yourself, your days, some space and see what happens. Listen to your heart!

Think critically about what is and is not serving you and adjust accordingly. Expect nothing. You are divine! Look at all these people who want you to succeed! You are on the front page of Hacker News...certainly if there is nothing else that must be a sign that you are on the right path, especially as a tech professional

Great good wishes to you my friend
I think it's a bit silly that less-than-four-letter arguments/values/objects/functions are allowed in modern languages. I mean, what are the odds that the programmer is not writing horrible code in that scenario?
you should attempt some introspection and root cause analysis of your underlying and deeply seated self-esteem issues

what are you trying to prove? who are you trying to prove it to?
I would appreciate if you could edit a topic/keyword into the headline. From the first few sentences and the title I still can't say if this article will be interesting to me or not. Thanks.
PHP is here to stay and will have better documentation over time. PHP programmers will start writing awesome, meaningful and standard code as more and more languages and tools make it possible to compile code in a specific language into a PHP code. One example is the Haxe Programming Language. I jumped onto other programming languages, such as Python and SPA with JS, some time ago; but I am now investing more of my time in Haxe.

All that being said, I am also wary of the all-in-one kit and its imminent trouble. I have been seeking comments on it from the public here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111742
127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
etc.
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> why is there something instead of nothing

From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: 'why not?'

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/#WhyTheSomRatT...
There is a core misconception at the root of your argument: that Bitcoin is a public affair (just as money has always been), and therefore it should be more 'democratic'.

See, what Bitcoin really is about is moving money from the public to the private realm. In the same manner that nowadays you don't get to democratically vote the color of my living room's couch or what I'll have for supper tonight, tommorrow you won't either get to vote the monetary policy of the currency that I fancy using.

And that's perfectly fine because my choice won't "govern your life" as you put it. If for whatever reason you don't like Bitcoin you can stick to fiat money or use any other cryptocurrency with a different policy baked in. If I ever have to pay you money I'll just exchange some of my coins for yours at current market price (there'll be convenient services for that, rest assured), and you could do the same for me. Hakuna matata.
The autism advantage (from 2012): http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/the-autism-advant...
Laravel (or any other PHP framework) also requires an "up-front install", but you don't need a framework like Django to "slap" together a Python program for web purposes either. What you need is an understanding of what a CGI application does and how to deploy one with your favorite web server. Deploying a Python application with Apache/mod_wsgi (or nginx/uwsgi) is really no more difficult than deploying a PHP application with Apache/PHP-FPM or FastCGI.
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At 38, most of them were still younger than I am.
You can go ahead and ignore the vertical dynamics of the illegal Wintel alliance on their chances if you want, but then I think we have nothing left to discuss.

Also, Sheepshaver (sp?) was available on the PPC version, allowing Mac OS apps to run.
We are probably not in disagreement. My point is to choose the direction of your ship from inside. There will be a lot of shovelling of coal into the fire in the dirty engine room. I'm not claiming that you just stand at the railing and say, "That way", and other people will do it for you / "the universe" will do it for you magically.

But the quality of energy will be different when you are shovelling the coal if YOU chose where the ship is going, if the dream of what lies on the other shore is yours. That vision (in your case, of starting your own business) is what fuelled your efforts, IMHO.

Why does he want to waste time on HN? Somewhere inside his heart is screaming a voice, "No, I don't want to do this". He's not lazy (CS top 10 school). It's just that the self-flagellation stops working for many people once they hit 20.

The difficulty is that the outer actions of someone like you (self-motivated) and someone like him (self-flagellating) may be the same. So the poor guy (or gal) tries to be like you and suffers.
Loans from Germany (and others) that Greece may not pay back.
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I was lucky enough to have a friend working at BeOS at the very end. This is when they abandoned all hope of getting bought by Apple (erm... I mean gaining presence on the desktop) and focused on "Internet Appliances" like eVilla.

BeOS was really amazing at the time, especially in comparison to 'next generation OSes' like Windows NT, the vaporware that was Copland, Linux (which was unusable for mortals) or Solaris. It was clear to me that the future was going to look like BeOS or NeXT, but I could actually easily download and run BeOS on my mac. It was incredibly useable... I installed it and was able to use it for months. It just needed apps.

When Apple went with Jobs (and thus NeXT) I thought that made sense. But when I saw the early releases of Rhapsody I really thought they had made a huge mistake. BeOS was just so much better.

It's really fun to fantasize about what the world would have been like if BeOS made it big. There's still a lot of tech there that has not yet made it into desktop OSes.
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What they said:

> "Each individual is different, some have an amazing ability to retain information, think at a level of detail and depth or excel in math or code."

What they mean:

> Each autist we're interested in is exactly the same, they have an amazing ability to be really fucking nerdy and make computers do magic shit. But they're hard to deal with, so we also need to make this a PR move.

Seriously. I'm very uncomfortable with this article. There are probably people on the autism spectrum already working at all the big tech places. Why single them out like this?

Newsflash: Not all people with autism are genius programmers. Not all genius programmers are people with autism. Treat everyone with respect. Treat everyone as an equal human being. This article doesn't seem to get that.

> "just 15% of adults with autism in the UK are in full-time employment."

No shit. That's because for every 100 individuals with autism, ~55 are considered mentally disabled (IQ<70) and only ~3 of them turn out to be geniuses (IQ>130). [1] Coupled with social challenges, this means very few individuals with autism are able to be independent into adulthood. [2]

This article irritates me.

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21272389

[2]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14982237
I think PHP has some of the best documentation I've ever come across. Particularly the comments section for every single command is incredibly helpful. I've learned tons and tons just from the comments. I think any programming language would be much improved if they copy PHP's documentation model.

(This is coming from a guy that does understand PHP very well, also MVC, objects, "patterns" even though I personally think that word is absurd :P)
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How about visiting Germany, Belgium and France?

You will notice that in Germany there are way fewer poor people than in those other countries. The worst off people in Germany are more healthy, happy and hopeful than in the US or Belgium or France.
If you can say "write 50 design patterns per file" then you don't know what design patterns are.
I don't think you can apt-get install python and expect to be running a webserver. But I think we can all agree that running a python web app (properly) is 10 times easier than ruby.
info coreutils is a great place to start.
Math, fundamentally, is just a standardized formal language in which certain facts can be encoded. This is in contrast to someone's random rigorous thoughts, which are not standardized. Math being standardized allows anyone doing math to apply a large set of ready made transforms to their math-encoded facts to derive new math-encoded facts.

If the effectiveness of math is unreasonable, then the universe is either not logical, unreasonably simple in its logic or math is an unreasonably bad language to investigate facts in.
At the end of their life, almost nobody is worried about what projects they got done for work. They worry about how much time was spent with friends and family and what they did in their personal life. There is often regret over working too much and focusing too much on their own projects.

I think the rest of HN can give sufficient answers to your direct question, but I truly encourage you to think now about the underlying worry you mentioned of what you will have accomplished at the end of your life. Your priorities at that time are highly unlikely to be related to what you have coded.
Most complete translation I've seen so far: https://gist.github.com/yamila-moreno/c570891235e1433f45f9
It's imperfect, but IME a standup is more reliable and usable than any alternative I've seen tried. Emails get lost in the noise (that people get too much email at companies is its own problem). A Slack highlight can be more of an interruption, and non-technical people find it hard to use / won't always be responsive there.
This is the first time I see a response to such complaint that might even leave the social justice fighters happy. Some people feel hurt and they get a sorry and the promise that this won't happen again, and at the same time the person who said it is validated by asking for his opinion and realising that like most of the time it was not meant to hurt anybody.

I'm quite proud of that post and the Python community.
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> you're just a little inexperienced at cycling for work

It's possible. But please note that I don't exactly go to "work" in my own office where I would have the liberty of changing shirts at will; I visit clients and usually go there for a specific meeting.

Maybe I could arrive early and change in the men's room, but that would still be a big hassle. And when I visit two or more clients in the same day, how many shirts would I end up carrying? And who's ironing these? (If you must know, I iron my own shirts, and like to make them last more than a day whenever possible...)

I said in another post that I never met anyone at my clients' offices who commuted by bicycle, but actually I did; last year I met a man who lived in Nanterre and worked in the center of Paris. So he took a bike in the morning, going downhill, and went back home in the evening using the subway.

This only works because there are special trucks that take back Velibs uphill every night; he couldn't do that with his own bike. The Velib trucks didn't exist when there wasn't any Velib, so it's unclear if this guy's behavior actually saves a lot of fossil energy or just a little.
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
― Mark Twain
Creation is passion I believe all developers share. Many are always working hard, trying to find the the next thing but forget to appreciate what we have right in front of us. Family, friends, good health.

Stop thinking about work. Start thinking about life. You're in your 20's. You have the rest of your entire life to think about work.
Take your savings, grab a friend/family member, or go it solo, and go travel.

Right now. Before you get a second older.
Before you start another job or think you don't have enough money. Before you have kids. Before you think about more work. Tomorrow you'll wake up and be 30 something, with kids, a fat mortgage and real life expenses and you won't have the freedom you clearly do at this point.

Take the chance of a life time and go travel. Go recharge. Go create a life altering experience. Do it with someone you love. Because when our time is at an end the things that matter are the people you love and the experiences you shared. Not what you built, not your HN posts, not your code, not your company or projects.

People remember people and maybe along the way you'll learn about yourself. This is the goal everyone shares.
The US is simply not producing and exporting anything of value and able to compete with comparable products.

Furthermore not every country in EU is "suffering from Germany's export surplus" - countries like Estonia, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, ... are doing pretty well and doing better.

What countries are supposedly suffering?

- Portugal

- Italy

- Greece

- Spain

... aka the PIGS states - have a look at their economic and political history and you will notice they were all ruled by incompetent and corrupted governments.

Berlusconi is still active in policts ... do I need to say more? A lot of countries in EU have issues not due to Germany but due to their very own problems.
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I guess this part is pretty subjective, but I do find PHP's docs more readable.

Here's an example I ran into recently, taking my first babysteps into Python: https://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html vs http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php

As far as I can tell, these should be functionally similar, at least for my goal of returning an array as json.

The first thing to compare is the very first line - where the php docs tell me quite clearly what this function does. Compare to what I can only call waffle on the Python docs.

The php docs go on to tell me: what the arguments are, what types they are, and what options are acceptable. Followed by examples that start with the very basic, and go on to cover some more involved scenarios - but are all self-documenting and standalone.

The Python docs start off with some examples that frankly, aren't self-documenting. I'm still not sure what type is being passed, or returned, in the first example. The following examples appear to be trying to cover some edge cases, but don't say what, or why. This for me is the huge difference - the documentation is the last place I expect to be trying to guess what they mean.

We them get into the "basic usage" section where my eyes frankly glaze over.

It seems the Python docs to go into a lot more depth, so could be called better-documented from that point of view. But my original argument was that the PHP docs are incredibly accessible, and I stand by that.
What have you heard? All I've heard makes me sad I never got around to learning me some Haskell.
I disagree. It's not a scientific discussion to begin with, but given that life and consciousness exists at all it's to be expected that things are not too random, they must have some order. Mathematics just lets us sift through the simplest explanations of our physical world until we find one that fits.

But of course, the question of why the universe has this particular complexity (it's possible to conceive of life with either simpler or more complex universes) may not be a questions that's "answerable" at all -- there must be some ultimate system in which things to happen (almost by definition), and it must be ultimately arbitrary.
I'm not aware of the specifics anymore but by using well-placed NOPs when drawing a scanline you could make the borders disappear on the Atari ST thus getting a higher resolution. This was one of the many advantages the Amiga had over the Atari ST: being able to use the whole screen while the ST had a screen like a letterboxed movie except on all four sides of the screen.
Wow, whoever wrote this has some serious writing chops. This nerve-wrecking adventure is being well told. I have to check out the rest of the site.

After this, paragliding home from the top of our office building feels like a sunday walk :)
I agree that motivation needs to be trained. But be careful with "being tough with yourself". People tends to fail ah the beginning and then blame themselves so much that they give up...
> The US is the world's second largest manufacturing economy, and was only passed by China finally a few years ago.

It's just that Germany is manufacturing more, per capita.
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Great work is great work, regardless of age. I am 27 and still find time to work on personal projects that give me a creative buzz, but its for me and me only.

It sounds like you have developed an irrational fear around the concept of ageism. The less you worry about what others think the more productive and creative you will be.
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I am exactly like you now, but I am 22. I feel like a retard when I see 18 year olds contributing to open source projects. To an extent we only tend to compare ourselves to outliers and feel like a piece of crap. So, while you have wasted some time, you still have ages to accomplish something great.
Time is not your enemy.
Is this the first confirmation that there is large amounts of water on Mars? Weren't we unsure there was any significant/useful amount of water just a few years ago?