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What are other careers pay well and super well beside Software in SF?
I know police officer in SF gets paid $120k ( plus virtual immunity from punishment ), nurses get paid $110k+ ( true ), real estate agents make $150k on cold years, paralegals ($100k), attorneys, doctors all make $180k+ consistently.

In fact , what I am realizing now is that , software industry gets most fame , most criticism, most news yet pay and rewards are subpar compared to work done in other industries.
Some may argue that this is orange to apple comparison but honestly , its not.
Once you are older than 35, consulting is virtual safe path in SF. Good luck getting hired as Dev unless you managed to sneak into management.

Doing side project is one way for those who haven't earned their fortune ( no FB,Goog,LKND,TWTR, APPL) yet. But guess what, commuting takes 70 to 100 min at least and there are many other aspects of life one has got that he/she may not be inspiration to do side projects.

So question is , what other career areas pays well and beyond well ( Assume $125k is well paid) and how to leverage knowledge from software and building product into other areas ?
Freudian slip?

unlink(Windows) indeed...
> I think that is justified by the way. Programming is a fad / fashion driven industry more than anything.

I do not disagree with the latter statement, but for the most part I consider myself a software engineer. I have a degree in CS, and my approach to making components for our systems is very much engineer like. I design, develop, test, evaluate, modify, install, inspect and maintain a system where I have applied science and theory to make to solution work. I have not have the pleasure to work with hardcore mathmaticians yet, but I hope I will some day.

I agree that developers that never touch the backbone and algorithms probably aren't doing engineering, at least not in the theory and science way, but saying that no developer is an engineer is wrong.
Ha. I did as well, so I remapped <space> to ;. Now when I f, t, F, or T, and want to move to the next one, I hit space.

Come to think of it, maybe I should just remap <space> to : and leave ; alone?
I sonetimes describe Y Combinator as the Harvard of startup accelerators, for exactly the reasons mentioned the article.
That would be these agreements:
http://bgr.com/2014/02/13/google-play-terms-of-service/

“the agreement places a company-wide ban on Android forks, saying OEMs are forbidden from taking ‘any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android’ and specifically disallows distributing or encouraging a third-party to distribute ‘a software development kit derived from Android.'”

Not so very open after all?

The people who have forked android have great difficulty finding OEMs to manufacture thrir devices as the list of those who don't have agreements with Google is rather short.
The fact that this is not shows that not many people (here) agree. :)

I personally have no opinion on DB schema because I never looked that deep, but last time I had to deal with WP its codebase was just horrible. And don't get me started on plugins' code quality, it goes to entire other level of "horrible". The project might have a lot of talented contributors, but they seem to be overshadowed by everyone else.

They might have fixed it from the last time I looked of course (though I doubt it, judging by never ending stream of vulnerabilities).
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Exercise Fuels Mental 'Time Travel'
> Ha, just put this code into any old deeply nested function that's not already contaminated with the IO monad.

Why would I want to do that? I could just pass the filepath to that function if it needed it, or if I want it to log messages I could use the writer monad.

> Or try to do something that needs two monads at the same time.

Monad transfomers aren't so hard: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~wh5a/personal/Transformers.pdf

Edit: One of my favorite papers, I believe multiple monads are used in it: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/ba...
“Hackathons are technological Woodstock,”

It certainly reads that way, though the bands that played at Woodstock were already successful. The way I see it: more like youngsters rushing to Hollywood to get into films except this time with a bit of luck, talent and product have a better chance at making to the top.

A positive article.

Deepak Jeevan Kumar: "a principal at General Catalyst Partners, led sessions at Interact, encouraging attendees to work in unsexy enterprise industries like cloud computing, which he thinks need new ideas. “The way that I would sum it up is that the intellectual curiosity of humans goes down as we start aging,” he told me. “Intellectual curiosity is correlated with imagination and ability to take risk. So that, combined with the fact that experience is mattering less and less to be an entrepreneur”"

Shite VC's say.
Python, Pip and Sandboxing on Mac OS X Yosemite
You might want to follow these instructions to secure your ssh server and client https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.ht...

Be careful: not all clients support the newest algorithms. Example: Ubuntu 12.04 ssh client doesn't support curve25519-sha256@libssh.org (I'm still googling how to upgrade to the latest openssh, anybody has the answer?)

In general, check that you are still able to connect to your server before closing your last ssh connection to it.
Even if it did it in-browser and didn't show you an upload message, you still need to trust the JavaScript that gets downloaded when you load the page. It could upload behind your back. Or, it could embed your password in the image, encrypted with a known key.

You MUST trust the software you feed your unencrypted data to. And if that softare is downloaded each time from the web, it's rather hard to do.
>the cable company wouldn't be shaking me down for it.

They would if they could.
It's because Lenovo is a Chinese company.
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Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
Norwegian butter crisis (2011)
Tooll.io created this visually stunning realtime-animation
ah, i spy with my little eye an enterprise developer in a government institution.
Into the World of Chinese Phones: Where to Buy, How to Import &#038; More
I think at the level of complexity of current day products, the "think for
the first 75% of the time" is flat out impossible.

Maybe, but from my experience we don’t do enough up-front thinking. Indeed, if our products are more complex these days then shouldn’t we be doing more thinking? If our products are more complex then diving straight into code is one of the worst decisions we could make. No wonder we end up with tangled balls of yarn.
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For sure, tooling is an area that will get better over time. I am quite happy with the very simple vim-flow, but TypeScript's tooling and overall ecosystem (tsd/definitelytyped) is a lot more mature.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8887349
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Avocarrot takes $2M on its march to become ‘the MoPub for native mobile ads’
Do you have any interest in doing this not for another ride-sharing start-up, but for hiring private individuals as private-sector police?

The police need competition.

A non-profit, open-source police force would be highly interesting.
Probably explains why Germany is such a powerhouse in software development NOT.

I do wonder about the effect of all the bright kids who would do CS/Computing in the USA/Uk instead want to work for Audi.

Rigid hierarchies do have down sides until recently get put on the vocational track in the German school system that was it you where on it for life and it was almost impossible to go from Aprentice-> Technician to Engineer.
Isn't the survival of our species in the event of a global catastrophe half the reason we want some people living on Mars? Surely five of those people should be women.
I think we do that because old words don't really fit in a new area, and there are always new areas. Look at the OED's historical definitions for any of the common verbs, IIRC "take" is a fine example.

Specifically: I'm smart but I do stupid things every day.

Fixing one's own stupid mistakes is half of what smart programmers do... perhaps "egoless" rather than "smart" is the proper opposite of "stupid" as far as programmers go.
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What is it that humans can do there , that robots cannot do for us?
Looks cool.

Looks like you did the hardest part of preparing new database for Meteor. Meteor pretty much requires JavaScript implementation of database. Having that, you can create some alternative to MongoDB.

Keep up great work!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8363486
You would be surprised how many people which call themselves programmers can't even solve fizzbuzz. This is good test to weed out really bad candidates. As I've said, it's good firstpass filter, not a good hiring test.
That doesn't signal that it cost $5.9B to runa taxi app company...

Just a signal that Uber has $5.9b to indulge in a fight with you...

A few 10's of million of which may be spent trying to buy you out..

Nothing wrong in cloning a company.. happens daily..
Some of the "common passwords" listed in the javascript are a hoot!

That said it looks like it does it all client-side (but I'm not 100% sure -- could we get a confirmation on that?)
seems like a similar argument like "fair trade" focussed businesses
Automattic is definitely a company I wouldn't mind being acquired by. They seem to genuinely put "make cool stuff" before "ecosystem! lock in! billionaires!". Congrats!
hey lateral solutions are the most fun.

some other obvious ideas:

- only the serial numbers matter not the physical bills, write them down on a ledger with an index

- bill reading machine with simple ocr, scans all serial numbers into a db

- solve the opposite problem: given the dj's serial number, is it possible to track down that particular bill? Arbitrage the opportunity by running the same contest in other states for a lower sum
The focus on bibliometrics makes papers less useful [pdf]
> Those of you still using DSA-1024 signing keys on your PGP keyrings should reroll RSA/RSA ones.

Can you please explain what you mean? Do you mean "those of you still using DSA-1024 anywhere" or do you mean that there is something we should do "on the PGP keyrings" specifically? Can we control how we maintain the keyrings? Is there some setting for the "key on the keyrings"? I ask since I don't know the state of the art of the formats of the keyrings.
No, you just missed the "2012" part of the headline. :)
Yes, same complaint from me, but I think their problem is the target audience, which probably opts for flashy sliders and kitch-sink approaches to design instead of keeping it simple and fast.

However, coincidentally WooThemes offers a theme that advertises itself with something along the lines of "no sliders, no fonts, no bloat" - forgot the name, but it's a good move.
> Apart from that, you can write your own beautiful code according to the newest PHP standards if you want in your WordPress-powered projects.

You really can't. Wordpress actively prevents you from writing beautiful, modern code. When writing themes, every template has to be in the root directory of the theme, creating an awful mess. All of wordpress has global variables and/or state in functions that is simply inescapable, making it impossible to write unit tests. Dependency injection is completely out of the question.

If you want to modify some behaviour and someone hasn't thought of putting in a filter for the exact thing you want to modify, it's not a matter of extending a class and overriding a method. Because wordpress is littered with huge god functions with global state, you basically have to copy/paste hundreds of lines of code and make sure that you keep that up-to-date with core updates yourself to prevent future bugs.

Several times I've gone into plugin development thinking "this must be possible without making too much of a mess", thinking I can separate out the unit-testable bits and write a thin WP wrapping layer that deals with the global state. Every time I've been disappointed.

It's not about PHP versions alone. It's that Wordpress was designed in and for PHP 4, and was never modernized. That's an inescapable fact, regardless of which PHP version your server runs.
Well, maybe it has to do with the ways of "proving" infinitude of primes, of that it is a "high level description" and more importantly, writing it so that other, future theorems can avail to it.

Think of all you need to prove that: the natural numbers, the definition of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division (and remainder), definition of cardinality/infinity (might not be necessary, if you just need proof that N doesn't divide any numbers between 2 and N-1) and a lot of formal logic
This may be the case in VC, but I would argue that in higher education, Harvard and its peers have better faculty than "worse" colleges. The better professors attract the most and highest-qualified students.
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What if you isolate only the tweets with images from your twitter feed? I find there are a ton of great posts I would have otherwise overlooked when scanning my feed like this.

Also check it out on ProductHunt: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/picfeed
OT: does your programming relate to your materials work? what a metallurgist needs programming for? serious question, genuinely interested!
Vendettas on Vendors: Or the Laborer Worthy His Hire
Neurobiologists restore youthful vigor to adult brains in mice
No one ever said that Google's services were open. The operating system itself is open. instead of starting from 0, Yandex could just modify Android and have their own market, maps...
People been bitching about fragmentation in Android for years, when google changed their agreement to counter it, people are now bitching about the agreement.
The one thing I find more distasteful than TED is are smug commentaries writing about how distasteful TED is. It reminds me of of jazz musicians criticizing "watered down jazz-pop".

> "What I ask myself when confronted with any TED talk is this: why do they all sound the same?"

Well, why do criticisms of "mainstream, middlebrow" works all sound the same?

I personally have found TED talks to be useful introductions and primers to all sorts of subject matter that I might not have otherwise engaged with. That's something I can appreciate. I've learned things and had my interest piqued in many others, which is more than I can say from reading the original post.

The idea that TED should be ignored to death, and that only the unwashed masses watch it– it's cringe-inducingly elitist and holier-than-thou. God forbid people make an attempt to learn something, and to share their learnings with others, if they don't do it according to the hallowed principles of the Harvard elite.

Anyway, these rants are not going to have much of an effect. People are going to continue consuming TED, just as people are going to listen to jazz-pop.

And you know, just as some people end up inspired by jazz-pop to pick up an instrument and dive into the deep end, some kid who watches a TED talk is going to go on to have an illustrious career in some field.

Way better than anything you can say for a grumpy old fart who sits around criticizing other people.
That's a pseudo science invented by food companies to make people eat more processed food and sugar.

If you sugar spikes from carbs, insulin stores it into fat.
Is this exclusively an American concept? Because ve never seen this in the UK or anywhere else in fact.
Thanks for the links, much appreciated. The point I was making though is that ES6 definitely is another world in terms of complexity for newcomers. Things like variadic functions, generators, async/await, destructuring assignment are extremely nice additions that I'm psyched to see coming to the language, but they do add a certain layer of "real language" gravitas to a language that a lot of people in the workplace were merely using to create "directives" and "controllers" or to "get DOM elements". Javascript is not a toy anymore (hasn't been for years actually, but it's getting "real" now).

In the end though, you're right, everyone will take that step, the complexity is nothing overwhelming and those tools you're sharing will help make way for a great future on server and browser alike.
shaming may help the cause, but its still destroying someones life. I wonder which ideology justifies that.
From the TLS sysadmin deployment guide(https://weakdh.org/sysadmin.html):

> Generate a Strong, Unique Diffie Hellman Group. A few fixed groups are used by millions of servers, which makes them an optimal target for precomputation, and potential eavesdropping. Administrators should generate unique, 2048-bit or stronger Diffie-Hellman groups using "safe" primes for each website or server.

Is this why with the easy-rsa package (https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa) one should always build a dh pair first? People are using pre-seeded ones when they do not use this tool first!? That is scary.
"TLDR"?? Wow. If you read studies the same way and don't go beyond the first sentence of the abstract, then no wonder you've failed to spot the methodological problems in said EHS studies! You can test for anything in a way that won't find a statistically significant effect. Say you wanted to study whether self-reported "food allergy" exists or not and you exposed all your subjects to only strawberries. Only some of your subjects would react to specifically strawberries and you could conclude that "food allergy" doesn't exist. Same problem with the negative EHS studies because they expose all to the same frequency and only with a very short exposure.
Now please read the Rea et al. study referenced above, it explains it all very well.
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This sounds like a fun experiment but it looks very far from something I can actually use in development to test against: https://github.com/neumino/reqlite/blob/master/lib/range.js#... https://github.com/neumino/reqlite/blob/master/lib/range.js#... https://github.com/neumino/reqlite/blob/master/lib/group.js#... https://github.com/neumino/reqlite/blob/master/lib/maxval.js... https://github.com/neumino/reqlite/blob/master/lib/table.js#... https://github.com/neumino/reqlite/blob/master/lib/table.js#... and so on
And I shall keep staying on website with the server down page because even that is fun to read.Someone please comment when the site is up and running again.
Ah, I learned a new colloquialism today with their error message for an overloaded server. "... accidentally Lennie us." http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lennie
Don't buy the "Android is open source" whitewashing. They just do code drops of some parts as open source where it suits them, but keep large parts as closed source when profitable/convenient. And the open source parts aren't useful on their own, because the proprietary parts are essential parts of the system's value. And then of course come the services and the platform's tight coupling to them. The services are even more closed - unnecessarily.

Real open source systems have outside contributors and stakeholders, and developer communities. Android mostly just has app developers and a "hacking" scene (xda etc).

Yes there's a small band of Quixotic guys trying to make an open source fork limp along but it's comparable in size (and odds of success) to Amiga users/developers. It's an unusable tech experiment that only runs on a couple of antiquated phones and has no services, not the Android that people know.

The only openness-related reason to prefer Android over iOS is that they still let you install what apps you like on it (sideloading) and the app store policies are slightly less draconian than Apple's.
If every computer ... dies. Ironically this is also true for Earth. Therefore it is not a concern. :-)
He is what he is. Everyone here knows he's not the type who would work well in a career, have a best friend who he meets every week for a beer, marry his girlfriend and have 2.2 kids. What do you achieve by calling him a sociopath? Everyone has their place in this society, even if it's to punish TV shows and radio programs who don't do randomisation properly. He was an arbitrageur for TV programs. What have we to gain by calling him a sociopath?..Not like you have to be friends with him. He made his winnings from a TV show, fair and square, even if contrived.
That's often true. Really often true. But sometimes, a GOOD assembly programmer can beat a C compiler by a LOT.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8508923 "Hand Coded Assembly Beats Intrinsics in Speed and Simplicity"
"It's not about calories, fat people eat a lot of [list of foods high in calories], not [food low in calories]"

That's what you just said. You're wrong, btw. Plent. Of morbidly obese and super obese people eat lots of fat.
No, and there were literally billions of them. And also soviet leaders were eating babies. Alive.
Traceroutes of Axact and fake university websites leads to the same servers! This can't be a mere coincidence!

You can check this out at:
http://pastebin.com/J3tDerkE
http://pastebin.com/uhTFpJSM
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it will pair nicely with the fastest CPU in the world (Elbrus XXX) and the bridge to Crimea... Everything (including the bridge) will be developed in the innovation center slash nano-City - Skolkovo (built by the nano-President Medvedev (Putin's "mini-me" built using Russian nanotechnologies)) ... All while space missions continue to fall from the sky like summer night meteor shower - second in mere weeks failure - this time it was Mexican satellite - after the recent International Station cargo delivery fiasko... Russia is rising... and falling again flat on the face drunk almost to death on corruption money (and there is no other money there by the way)
Pff... Some hikkikomori hasn't leave is room for 5+ years!
Seems to be down. Archive.org version from last year: http://web.archive.org/web/20141109113413/http://www.damnint...
Wagtail is looking really, really good. It runs on Django, which is a turn-off for some, but in terms of a friendly, dynamic CMS for editors, it’s shaping up really well.
Maybe searching about "The Young Coders" may help:

https://us.pycon.org/2014/events/letslearnpython/

http://therealkatie.net/blog/2015/feb/17/young-coders-why-tw...

http://pycon.blogspot.com.tr/2013/03/how-kids-stole-show-you...
Just what we need a Linux distro who's main goal is apparently to promote Intel products. The language used to describe it makes this quite clear. "The goal of Clear Linux OS, is to showcase the best of Intel Architecture technology...". This is a blatent attempt to exclude ARM who is gaining Linux market share. Whatever innovation they might bring to the table, I will avoid it purely on the basis that its aim is to benefit Intel rather than the user. Dot org my ass.
NYXBT: https://www.nyse.com/quote/index/NYXBT

Methodology: https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/indices/NYSE_Bitcoin_In...

It's apparently calculated once a day within two hours of 4 PM UK time (GMT +1) and relies on one source: Coinbase Exchange.

The methodology is scheduled to be reviewed four times a year.