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I think associating programming with childish blocks is less of a risk than associating programming with menial, simple, useless tasks.

Most people never get a chance to develop a feel for iteration and emergent behavior, because they have to struggle with typing and syntax and tabs/spaces/braces holy wars.

With Scratch, I can get 9-year-old with no math or typing skills to make an interactive system with realistic physics, that keeps iterating and simulating even when they let go of it. Some kids might treat that as an art class, and grow up thinking of programming as unapproachably childish instead of unapproachably strange. But others will remember learning a little about iteration, and object property accessing, and physics, and emergent behavior, instead of learning a lot about syntax.
I know, I assumed they meant the researchers. I meant if the competition didn't require that the researchers give the IP to Amazon, then what has happened is just that Amazon have funded some research / a competition which has resulted in some things being released for all to use.
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The forces on rotor blades are not in any way friendly or easily assessed, 3D printing 35 to 70 meter long structures with very well defined properties and extremely high tensile strength as well as resilience against fatigue is currently (and for the foreseeable future) not an option.

Windmill blades are limited in size by current materials science and requires a very large amount of high tech composites such as carbon fibre, resins and so on.

Towers are high grade welded steel, foundations are huge compared to the bit of the tower that pokes out above ground and none of all of that is currently made from a material that can be 3D printed.
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The problem with the simplistic "do what you love, love what you do" advice is that it is not reliable or repeatable. I can point to tons of people who love what they do and are still somewhere between solidly middle class and struggling to get by.
Well, if you care about money, you find something you're both good at and that you enjoy doing, and you try and teach yourself delayed gratification. Real, freedom-giving amounts take years, probably a decade or thereabouts. So, optimize for learning and enjoyment early on anyway.

Considering a large reason for picking my jobs used to be what % extra salary they paid, I wish I could go back and tell myself that.

I don't know a single suicide attempter, so can't comment on suicide as an out. I saw most humans adapt to stress pretty well. If you read WWII pilot biographies (e.g. First Light by Wellum, a classic!) they were under immense stress and yet just kept going until they had a breakdown, at which point they spent a few weeks in London to recuperate and headed back to the airfield. Humans are remarkably resilient...
You barely have to build it, there is a great open source project already available. Not sure if it does everything diff.io does but it's a great resource to do a lot of it.

https://github.com/webdriverio/webdrivercss

https://github.com/webdriverio/webdrivercss-adminpanel
So your saying that socialist france went to war in the interest of a company? Why do I find that hard to believe?
And pretty much every money making company is the opposite?
>None. I don't want to work at companies that only hire people who memorized Red-Black trees.

Actually, RedBlack trees shouldn't be memorized. You can infer them from scratch, if you really understand motivation behind them. They can be modeled as a way to represent 2-3-4 trees in binary tree form. In this way, it's very easy to implement both inserts and removes.
Of course you can. Singapore isn't an Islamic state you know?

It has some alcohol curfew laws yes. No public space drinking after 10pm. But in a bar which has tables/seats on the street; that's fine.
While I think this is nice work, it's a shame it can't be plugged into a DAW. A nice toy but kinda useless for some of us
"I want to be rich, how do I do this?"

Is this yahoo answers?
The sane reponse should probably be: "TSA doesn't work. It has never stopped a single red handed bomber in all these years. It has to be reduced and defunded."

Sadly, the response will probably be an increase in funding, longer lines, doubling down on groping and more naked pictures.

Over all this time, it has found and took away snow globes, nail clippers, water bottles, delayed lots of people, xrayed them and so on. Sure it also provided employment for many, who might have a hard time finding any. All those things it is has done. But it hasn't done its main job. FBI might have. Maybe CIA. Passengers, pilots and flight attendants sure did.
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Unfortunately another package manager that doesn't seem to be interested in the idea of digital signing for security, at least for the install process anyway, which seems to be using the windows equivalent of curl | bash over an unencrypted connection to boot.
You might as well claim that you think that dogshit makes for a fine breakfast. It doesn't warrant a rebuttal.
Rotor blades are extremely high tech, fabricating them on-site is theoretically possible by using a mobile factory but that factory would be several times the size of the blades that it produces, would need specialist operators, very well controlled conditions for the curing phase of the blades and a testing facility to ensure the end product is safe to install.

Compared to that fabricating them centrally and trucking them to the site (usually at night using 4 rigs, one for the nacelle and 3 for the blades) is a no-brainer from an economics perspective.

If an extremely large wind-park would be funded and planned many years in advance you could possibly build a windmill factory near it at an advantageous location and keep running it after the park is completed to supply other localities nearby.
I just want to say that I strongly disagree with the people here who are complaining about your pricing page.

You need to validate that people will pay money for this product, and the quickest way to do so is to ask up front. I really don't buy this "Give it away for free, get them hooked and then staple on paid features" approach.

PG said it best: "Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent."[1]

One of the best ways to find out if people love what you're building is to ask them to pay for it.

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
Wealth != money. I feel like I am very wealthy and I make bugger all money.
I strongly disagree. Since he has access to the DOM of the FB mobile website (he can definitely load custom JavaScript into any page, which is all he needs), there is a ton of stuff he can do to monetize. For one, he can inject ads into FB timelines, which wouldn't piss off his users..Facebook itself does this and people are fine with it. He could pre-roll video ads on any videos that are played. These are just two of several possibilities. He can have monetization on every single page viewed through his app, integrated directly into the FB interface.

The trick would be getting access to offers targeted at these countries, but a major mobile ad network like MobPartner could easily give him some.
Consider that a lot of people that are in that situation probably come from a background that is less positive than the one that you use for reference when making those statements. It's a parent's duty to guide and assist their children's choices, but a lot of people don't get such guidance, and in may cases they don't get the basic nurting needed to become an independent adult in today's world. So they do have less chances.
I'm not sure what's worse. Assuming that people knowingly and deliberately work dead-end jobs with no purpose, or assuming that people are too stupid to not know anything. I remember standing in line to go through baggage checking. A lady in front of me chatted it up with the TSA worker. She said thank you for the work, can't imagine how frustrating it must be sometimes. He replied thank you for appreciating it.

Hanlon's Razor is useful here. I believe most people out there are just trying to do their job as well as they can and make a living. They aren't thinking about the bigger picture, and it's easy for many of them to think their jobs have meaning. In fact, I think that's a requirement for not getting depressed.

No need to demean anyone. Most of the intelligent people I know don't even know what security theatre is when I discuss it with them. I think people who have concerns about security theatre are in the minority, judging from my own sampling. I haven't seen any official studies on the question as to how many people even understand or have heard of the term security theatre. I would love to review them if the studies exist.
In in Windows Vista SP1 and Windows 7 RTM.

Microsoft had to offer a browser selection dialog with several third party browsers in Windows 7 - in Europe (EU). Though the removed it again last year.
While they are rearranging the chairs on the deck of titanic, they will ask for a huge check for improved training and better equipment and increased staff in the DC to monitor, evaluate and rectify the short-comings. The result for the passengers would be more invasive practices and more hoops to jump as well as big lines. Failing upwards is an Art, DC has perfected.
> Nobody in their right mind should sign up for these contests, and it pains me to see intelligent people duped into it for "the exposure".

This attitude disappoints me greatly.

The team that won was the robotics research unit at the Technical University of Berlin: https://www.robotics.tu-berlin.de, second place was MIT.

I hardly think they were "duped" into competing.

These people do research. Having a specified task that multiple teams "compete" on is there just to give a good comparison of the different approaches, otherwise everyone is picking their own tasks and it's hard to see what benefits / cons each system has.

What next, complaining that researchers publish open access papers for "the exposure" rather than selling the ideas?

Edit -

Here's a list of the teams: http://amazonpickingchallenge.org/teams.shtml
He's not that much of an outlier as you may think, he's exceptional though to be making that kind of money and openly talking about it.
I can't be the only one who clicks on the developer's name in the app store to see what else they have available when the app I am using from them is good and free. If I get a good free app I'll be more likely to pay for the next one.

OP should think long term, he is a developer by trade, a quick buck now isn't a smart move imo.
I agree. There are already too many people in this world with strong opinions on topics they don't fully understand. We certainly do not need even more of them.
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The idea from start was not whether TSA is capable or not to produce good results. The idea was to climatize the Americans to the notion of someone spraying you with harmful x-ray radiation or gropping your private area and then accept it as normal. America, a nation of idiots, letting the police state take over their lives on false terrorism stints. That's what at stake here.
So the question is, did it work? (the consulting that is). You make it sound like a huge waste of money.
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> She said thank you for the work, can't imagine how frustrating it must be sometimes. He replied thank you for appreciating it.

To be fair, I'm 100% sure of the fact that it is theater, but I still chat up the agent and thank them for their hard work. It makes my time in line go faster as I'm asking for an opt-out.
Did you know that OCaml was an IDE? :) http://pbox.me/packages/ocaml
It's generally what's people are willing to spend on exposure, in lets say commercials, calculated for one year. It's an estimate on what you would earn from adds in one year.

Introducing ads might make the users leave though, so be careful. There's also a risk Facebook would have something to say about your monetizing on their product.

So my suggestion is to implement that feature ppl want, let them know about the awesome dude behind it, and that you care about their user experience. Then leverage the goodwill it creates to get free exposure and users to your other product(s), that are monetized. Basically you can use the app to build a loyal user base.

An example is the dude who made Flappy Bird. He also got lots of downloads and exposure for his other games just by having his name on it.
Are you not making an assumption about your own code then? The strength of open software is that you don't have to rely on one person to have solved everything. I consider myself to be a good developer, better than most for some areas, but I know there are others who have written better code for other areas.

I prefer not to reinvent the wheel when I know my implementation won't be any better, or if I were able to make a better wheel, that will be time spent that I wasn't reinventing the carriage.
You're right that the "do what you love" advice is crap. However, I think -- and as Chubot points out -- you have to also avoid the same behaviors as others and offer something "rare and valuable" if you desire money. For those people that you can point to, do they offer the latter and do they have a good sense of when to cash in?

This post from Cal Newport elaborates further[1]. I highly recommend his book So Good They Can't Ignore You.

[1]http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/01/23/beyond-passion-the-sci...
Allegedly from a comment during development on their kickstarter, an experienced fire engineer helped to design the four layer security system - running the flywheel to breaking point never damaged any layer except the innermost. However, this is yet to be seen in production, so YMMV.
The teams were almost all Universities. This is research, not business.

Pretty much the only one I spotted in the team list that wasn't, was mitsubishi. Unless they're really struggling these days, I don't think that exposure is an issue.

http://amazonpickingchallenge.org/teams.shtml
Yes, they are…and that's an acknowledged failure risk. A number of divers mitigate that by having a separate independent fourth O2 cell, monitored by a separate computer (from another manufacturer). Divers are trained to watch for any sign that the computer isn't doing its job (and there are certain typical indicators, although they don't cover every possible scenario), and if there's any doubt, switch to an alternative (either bailout to open-circuit, or switch to a fully-manual mode of operation) - either way, the computer is then out of the picture. Of course, fully-manual mode just isn't possible for, say, a passenger jet.
Hey, I spent most of my career in rural China ... now shopping for a house in southern France. I know what you mean :)
So what, gpg keys are unlimited resource. Just generate new ones whenever required. I've been using that strategy. Just like you don't want to reuse your password everywhere. If you don't want to be anonymous anymore, you can sign nonce with your official and with your temporary key. Some seem to claim that OpenPGP doesn't support ephemeral keys, but it does. You just need to generate new keys and use those, when ever you want/need to.
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Just because it is theater doesn't mean they want it to be theater.

So presumably they feel they should at least be able to detect the threats tested against.
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It was a huge waste of the shareholders' money. It saved management's careers and allowed them to transition nicely. Gave board members the confidence to pretend they did their job. So, it depends for whom.
There are certainly other ways to do visual languages and it's worth experimenting with them. But this visual approach seems to work well so why not refine it?
I wonder if Microsoft allows third party Cortana-like personal assistants in Windows 10? Android is quite open in every aspect, something what Windows was always well known for.
There are also people who come from fairly awful backgrounds and still manage to forge successful lives for themselves. How? They make different choices than the people who never manage to escape the circumstances of their birth.

>basic nurturing needed to become an independent adult in today's world

I'm not sure what you mean here. The people I've met from poorer backgrounds are some of the most independent people I know. Adversity breeds self-reliance.
I totally see your point about the advice being douchey. But in this case it was somebody specifically asking for how to make the most money as a dev. Not a struggling single mom making ends meet. In his context I think I made sense. But I would never tell that to somebody trying to get by.
Rarely have the comments on HN made me so sad.

These research groups are building useful tools and giving the results away to the world for free. If you'd invented the teleport system, it'd be so wide-rangingly amazingly useful that I hope it'd be released openly.
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need more differentation to chocolatey. Maybe installer for rapsberry pi. Maybe support docker. Or multiple sequence installer like ninite. Or still same, but give better content curation
I have an app in the Google Play store, it has around 1,500 active installs and I decided to do a bit of an experiment last year by releasing a paid pro version. It was exactly the same, it just had a different colour icon and 'Pro' branding. I put the price at 99c/99p, and put a link to it in the free edition description (the descriptions were the same other than that). I was pretty surprised when people actually bought it...

I think I made about $5 before I realised after a couple of weeks, and then I took it down. The app hadn't been touched for a few years and wasn't the best quality, so I didn't feel happy for basically scamming people. I was considering doing the same for a donate version, but wanted to improve the app first - which I never got around to.

I think you could get some income by doing something similar, but it's very unlikely to replace your main income.
Been working here as a software developer for a year and my experience is pretty similar. Part of the problem might be that the moment you introduce yourself as working on anything software related it just turns into IT and images of tech repair.
Flossing is actually less important than most people think. It's far more important to thoroughly brush your teeth, to the extent that most of the time that people spend flossing would be better off used for brushing.

Flossing doesn't protect against caries, but can provide some benefits for gum health.
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I worked in new auto development at Toyota (Japan) for four years in mid 2000s, right before this happened. The unintended acceleration problem has also perplexed me, because in my experience any safety issue was always given top priority. But I did experience limited familiarity with software/firmware. Usually that was looked at as part of the component, for example the engine control module in it's physical plastic housing. Remember the production auto will have Denso (or similar) delivering that ECU to the factory as an "assembly" and hundreds or thousands of these are assembled into the car and function together. At the end of the assembly line, various tests are run on the system and vehicle, but these appear to be of the "input/output" that someone else described. So why isn't software done better?

I'd say one problem is the testing process is not robust enough for software/firmware as it is for mechanicals. The tests revolve around driving the car, and variations on driving, and have evolved over years and decades. Heavy software control is newer, and in my experience was often not fully understood. Chief Engineers tend to come from mechanical. And there are always hundreds of problems to solve and limited time, and the black-box nature of firmware makes it hard to develop tests for.

A development review meeting tends include various mechanical departments, like Drivetrain or Engine or Chassis, many times they bring physical prototypes to the meeting and the problems and proposed solutions are comprehensible. The build testing procedures subject the car/parts to various mechanical tests, and long-lead tests are performed which stress parts till breaking. It's something you develop experience with an can get your head around.

Firmware bugs are not like that -- having just gone through this with my current consumer electronics startup I experienced the black box component first hand. I remember one software based problem we reviewed at Toyota, where something happened like: when the car has been sitting for >3 hours at <50F weather, and the ignition is started when the car is at a 15 degree angle (side of road) and driven on to a flat plane within 15 seconds, the "check engine" light turns on. Even though we had no test for that, we heard about it for customer complaints came through. But the fix is to have the supplier (in this case, but could be the Toyota engineer) fix that problem, with most of the discussion centered on timing and certainty of fix. I don't remember any discussions about global variables or lines of code.
There's something we all can do if we work together to get each of us paid north of 200k a year.

Form a software developer union.
Do you own the machine? If not, I wouldn't build any personal projects on them unless you don't mind your company owning them.

On my machine (which I own), I just keep them in different folders. I tend to use the same environments for work and side projects.

What problems are you having keeping them separate?
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When you guys say "more sex", does it means frequency (more times) or diversity (more people)? I understand that, in a way, more of the later also means more of the former, but I am just wondering which one is more important...
Indeed - f-droid (f-droid.org - open-source builds for Android) has a couple from what I can tell. I use this one: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=hn&fdid=com....
I had the same idea 4 years ago and did the exact same thing for several apps. This was a bad idea :
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