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> What happened to the idea of apprenticeship?

Happened the same as to loyalty to the employer: disappeared. (Mind you, I'm
not saying it's employees' fault; I rather think it was a result of lack of
loyalty of companies to their employees, or maybe a feedback loop.)

> Don’t hire a junior developer as a marketing effort or PR stunt. This reason only considers your company’s best interests rather than those of the candidate.

And where would you find an employer that has your best interest in mind
when they don't know you yet? Company is there to earn money, not to train
your very self.

> Don’t hire a junior developer to do your grunt work.

OK. And who is supposed then to do the grunt work? Architects maybe? CEO?

The point is/should be more about hiring juniors to do not only grunt work,
so juniors can learn and advance.

> If there’s a shortage of developers in the tech industry, what do we do?

There is no shortage of developers. There is shortage of good developers that
would work for small salary.
Thank you for your answer. What about the official contract? Should I be mentioned as an employee in there, or as a contractor? What is better in order to get as little hassle as possible from the state?
Fantastic feedback, thanks!
Would it find errors here? :)

https://i.imgur.com/xg3BSNs.png
I don't know... I see your point, but people really need to learn that stuff isn't free.

If you do a free tier, you run the risk of having to support infrastructure for people that will never need to exceed whatever you free limit is, just because they couldn't be bother to do the work themself, even if the tools where free.
Interestingly enough, the story about the barber who killed strangers to be baked into his neighbor baker's pies also exists in Paris, in the rue Chanoinesse. There's no specific motive to the crimes, but it's clear that the baker sold said pies. What makes this funnier / ironic is that this shop is located near Notre-Dame, in a neighborhood that used to be reserved to members of the clergy. The baker thus made some of them unwitting cannibals.

It is said to have happened in 1387 and is described in a 1612 book.
I think nowadays "experimenting" monetisation methods and pricing strategy can be done in a much safer way than back then.
for example geographical rollout, A/B testing on a small non-important niiche (that won't probably monetise big). Its very normal (or essential) to experiment stuff like that without the fear to "destroy the user base the app initially had"
I tried the game but the game doesn't want to authorize my code even with the simplest example: Turn Tank Left 3. Do you have an example that works?
I'd approach this differently and from reading your replies you seem to be a fairly laid back (non "cutthroat") guy so this might be interesting for you.

Use it as a fun experiment to see how much you can grow it not how much you can monetize. Formulate some assumptions and test them. I'd personally pick one of the countries and see if I can push installs in that country hard (might be difficult due to language issues).
Try to figure out how people learn about your app and install it. Figure out what phones it is installed on and write a blogpost on using your app on that phone etc.

55k active users isn't bad. If you keep on growing someone will get interested even if you didn't monetize before (possibly even because you didn't) especially since it's not a "fad app" but something sustainable as long as there's low resource phones.
[worst case you can use it if you ever want to apply at Facebook]

tl;dr: use it as your private growth-lab and learn a lot :)
Efficient markets or not?
You are severely limiting them if they don't pay. So I guess hooking them (or at least letting them try it) and then upselling sounds better for both parties.
The US doesn't necessarily have the risk profile that it's made out to have.
1. No, startups aren't the only way to "significant wealth". In fact, in my experience, startups are something of a lottery, i.e. you only a very small chance of making a lot of money. For every success story you read there will be many more failures. But having said that, it can still be worth founding or working for a startup because you can often learn a much broader set of skills than you can at a big company.

2. Yes, I have heard about a small number of exceptionally highly paid developers too. However, I suspect this is incredibly rare, perhaps with a similar or even lower probability than making your fortune at a startup. Unless you have some extraordinarily talent and are aware of this and in a position to able to exploit this (but I doubt you would be asking the question if this was the case).

3. I would have thought your best chance of making enough money to reach financial independence is the usual unexciting advice: (i) work hard to get an above average salary, (ii) live frugally and save as much as you can, (iii) invest what you save carefully, (iv) continue this process for many years. If there was a sure-fire quick and easy way of getting rich, I'm sure more people would be doing it, or you wouldn't be reading about it here.
If you want something done, give it to a busy person. Or in a slightly longer form, the classic "Letter to Garcia":

http://www.birdsnest.com/garcia.htm
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Good point...
this trial will not stop anything, just the nature of how things move forward from here...
Perhaps in the future, these markets will be even more decentralized, like torrents have changed sharing sites. There is now a huge incentive to run these markets from places like Russia or Mexico.
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He's in the US, which is where the TSA is generally present.
what risk profile? The administration has never presented a credible risk profile to justify these intrusions, has it?

The usual response is to keep repeating the same mantras to downplay the severity of these intrustions, not to substantiate (or worse, quantify) any of the perceived threats.
It is incredibly unlikely that FB could actually litigate this - it falls under the same legal doctorine that protects ad blockers. Also, a few years ago there was a company called Sambreel that had a product called PageRage. They modified FB pages and inserted ads. Facebook never sued them. In fact, Sambreel actually sued Facebook [1] because the only thing that Facebook could do was pressure advertisers not to work with the company [2], and the company felt wronged. Their lawsuit against Facebook was dismissed, but Facebook was never able to do anything legally against them. One interesting quote from the lawsuit:

"...between July 2009 and October 2010, PageRage grew significantly, and was regularly garnering more than 1 million users per day, and generating more than $1 million in monthly revenues....by mid-July 2011, PageRage had grown to more than 4 million users per day"

In this case, however, there aren't 4M installs. We're talking about less than 300K installs. Facebook would probably not bother with such harsh tactics here.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/114953759?access_key=key-1...

[2] http://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/sambreel-locked-ou...
50K DAU won't get you more than 500k$ in annual revenues from ads
Actually, it is rmz@telenordigital.com that should be contacted regarding these positions.
As far as I understand it, they were issuing an actual credit card applet to the secure element for the first version, and later switched to the "proxy card" model and HCE.

Issuer-side tokenization wasn't even launched until 2014-09 by both Mastercard and Visa ("coinciding" with the launch of Apple Pay), so they couldn't have used it for the first version of Google Wallet.
On iOS a URL scheme needs to be setup usually. (e.g. itms:// links open the iTunes store app). I don't think there's a right way to do this really. Half the time I'm frustrated a link didn't open in the app and the other half I'm frustrated it didn't just open in the browser.
But he didn't mention the TSA specifically in his post. Anyways, if you look outside the USA for a saner system, you'll be quite disappointed.
The Silesian Weavers, now with a fancy app to be exploited?
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The interesting thing is, contrary to what I expected would happen, hijackings still "work". As in: Plane hijackers succeed at taking control of planes about as often as before, in general without passengers risking their lives to overpower them.

For a while I thought that the biggest reason to not get into hysteria over security measures was that passengers would from then on see a hijacker as likely to kill them, and so taking control of a plane would get drastically harder either way.

I was wrong - apart from the odd inept wannabe bomber (the "shoe bomber" for example), passengers generally don't overpower hijackers.

Yet most passengers still survive hijackings, because just as before 9/11 most hijackers have no interest in committing suicide.

Things might be different if a bunch of muslims tried to hijack another plane in a major US city, or headed for one, but that scenario was an aberration when it happened, and still is.

9/11 is noteworthy for how little it changed hijackings despite what a major event it was: It didn't spawn a long range of copycats. It didn't cause passengers to risk their lives to stop future hijackers. It didn't cause any large drop in hijackings as a result of new security measures. It didn't cause any large increase in hijackings by "inspiring" others.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9640086
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As someone who has spent their 20's accruing "significant wealth" through a startup (I am by no means loaded, but have not worried about money at all in ~3 years), I'll tell you now - it's overrated.

Money can buy you happiness, but it's an inefficient exchange mechanism - unless you roll two sixes, the amount of work and bullshit that goes hand in hand with growing your "worth" usually exceeds the reward - and that reward for most is tantalisingly close but always "a year or two" away.

Monetary wealth is a means - it is "gas in the tank" - but it isn't the end. The end is your own happiness and wellbeing, and there are much easier ways to secure this than through wealth.

If I'd known what I know now, I would have moved to a hut up a mountain a decade ago rather than going into business. Now I am responsible for the livelihood of dozens directly, thousands indirectly, and while I may have made myself a very comfortable gilded cage, it is a cage, and the cost of my wealth has been my freedom.
> pay a small fee to mail your restricted item back home.

At least 22 airports have this (including Cleveland).

http://www.airportmailers.com/airportlist.php
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It would be very interesting to know if Google will indeed act as a TSP, or if they will delegate that to the card networks (like Apple does, IIRC).
I don't know if it's the same for you Oxonians but my colleagues who headed for consulting/banking straight after graduation are often retraining to go into engineering, and many of the engineers are now heading towards consulting! I guess the grass is always greener on the other side. The engineers want money and status, the consultants want meaning and a healthier life.

Although SpaceX is pretty awesome. I wanted to apply to Lockheed, Northrop and anybody else involved in aviation and space (reading about the X-37B these days, I still get that pulse of excitement), but unfortunately, they needed US citizens. Many of my neighbours ended up working for the various F1 teams. I worked briefly for Schlumberger's research centre in Cambridge which was, in hindsight, awesome. A massive, airy site, loads of expensive toys, really cool fun "engineer types" complete with thick beard, and an awesome French-run canteen including traditional Thursday leg roasts. What academia should be like! I got to chop stuff and make high tech toys and test them with not an MBA in sight.

edit - and the most academically successful people almost all went on to MIT to do a PhD. No idea why. Something about that place.
Fixed To Flexible – The Ebook by Todd Sattersten. It is about cost, price, margin, and the options we have for how to sell. http://www.scribd.com/doc/26237737/Fixed-to-Flexible-The-Ebo...
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This looked awesome, but I found it on the app store and you're charging. I don't think this is a serious enough problem for me to pay you to fix it.
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Unfortunately, today, he'd probably be laid off in favor of more predictable employees. Perhaps Agile employees doing Pair Programming.
With a free app you have to have your monetization in before launch. But this is a great platform to launch other apps from. Apps even next to a popular free app get more visibility/discovery. Many companies launch a free app designed solely for users to help drive pay app usage.

Donation is probably the only option as advertising for those areas aren't as high in payout. Don't be sad by the letdown you will get from donation though, it is always way lower than expected. Ad supported apps also don't really get that much money.

The only successful app strategy is to have quality apps and as many as you can support with quality levels.
Got mine. It's also on github: https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/

A very promising gmail alternative I would say.
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I'm not sure I'd agree with the article's assertion that the infographic is "intuitive".

Some arrows are double-headed (point both ways), but some are not. So what do they mean? What flows only in one direction along the arrows that are single-headed?

Some of the arrows clearly point from one box to another (so what's that; is it influence? Is it money? Is it people), but other arrows just point to other arrows. So if arrows represent something flowing, what are these arrows that just point to other arrows representing?

It's not an intuitive infographic. I get nothing from the layout, colours and arrows that I wouldn't get from just a list, but I do lose the benefits of a simple list. Brightly coloured chartjunk.
If you're an Android user, you're missing out on Firefox Mobile.

I'm using Firefox on my Android, it's quite good and it's the only mobile browser I know that does extensions, so you can have AdBlock Plus or uBlock with it. If you're using Firefox on your desktop as well, it will sync your history and bookmarks:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/

Android is the only mobile OS that Firefox supports and this is because Firefox has been impossible to distribute on both iOS and Windows Phone, due to either marketplace or technical restrictions. Out of the popular mobile OSes, Android has been the only one that isn't defective by design. And unfortunately I'm not seeing Microsoft follow suit, as they are going in the opposite direction and sorry to be grim, but I view project spartan to be just a marketing stunt.
>>> "At this time, we present third party offers only with a few projects where it is explicitly approved by the project developer, or if the project is already bundling third party offers."

Uhhhh ... I'm undoubtedly being way too cynical, but that sure sounds like a back-handed way of saying they're going to "present" these third-party "offers" on top of any projects that are already bundling such "offers".

Also, "present" ... really? What a horrible word choice, given the UX patterns involved here. Total bullshit.

And furthermore, how exactly will SourceForge gain this explicit approval by the project developer? I'd like to hear more on that note. Do they modify their terms & conditions to make this an auto-opt-in for all new accounts? Are existing accounts grandfathered into this by a default opt-in, on account of having been notified by email of newly updated Terms, the way various companies like to engage in wrong patterns for implied approvals by-means-of-using-our-service that benefit the bottom-line first, and preference typical user sentiment second?

[EDIT: wording correction]
Thank you.

I honestly don't know how are they rendered. I use the default four waves and add a couple of custom forms from here: http://chromium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/audio/wave-...

About the detuning issue - I don't hear it. The step is 100 cents (a semitone). I tried on the Clean Sine patch, pressing G# on the 4th octave, when only oscillator 2 is enabled and detuned max to higher (+8 semitones), is the same as pressing C on the 4th if only oscillator 1 works without detuning. The issue here, for me, is that it's set on semitones, while it should "continuous".

For percussive sound, the primary Envelope should probably be more like 0-0-4-2, than 0-4-0-0. My envelope is a bit unstandard, though, as you are probably used to have the Decay always start from 1 (or 1*1/noteVelocity), where mine starts at where the Attack has ended.

Other inputs make sense, I am logging this one up.

I want to make a rendering especially for mobile. This is on my backlog already.

Thank you very much for the kind words and the great input.
That's very different from actually qualifying for Pre.

For better or worse, the TSA is also applying a policy where, to address slow security lines, they're allowing folks to get waved through Pre.

In principle this is random, and therefore has the same effect on security as not patting down every passenger.

Assuming it actually worked that way.
That really depends on the partner program.

The Nexus program in Canada, for example, involves among other things an extensive interview and background check by the opposing country (for example, as a Canadian, the US performs my check).
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Ask HN: What mistakes are junior dev making
Hi, since I'm a junior dev and I would like to improve my skills I hope you can help me.

What are the mistakes that every new junior devs at your company is making. What are the most obvious things that seperate them from more experienced developers?
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You're not talking about unions. Those are cartels that restrict supply. Lawyers and Doctors are business owners operating as an oligopoly. I'm not talking about business owners. I'm talking about employees. I'm talking about people joining together to put themselves on equal negotiation grounds with their employers.

Just because no union has successfully produced wages of 200k plus doesn't mean it can't happen. Software Engineering is a highly skilled occupation that generates a great deal of wealth. If all software developers demanded 200k then companies would pay that price because our work generates well north of that. The reason we don't get a fair share of the pie, like all other laborers, is a lack of organized negotiation. In short, 200k+ union salary has never happened, but is well within the means of the industry to support such an endeavor. It CAN happen and it will make wages MORE fair.

Don't argue against unions. It's the stupidest thing to do, because even if you can't negotiate your salary up to 200k you got nothing to lose by making/joining one or even raising your salary by 10k. That is unless, you're an executive/major shareholder... then we'd be opponents from a negotiation standpoint.
What part of "and getting background checked" did you not read? :)

I grant you, though, it sounds like Pre is far less rigorous of a check than NEXUS or Global Entry. But a check is still involved.
> I cannot imagine a chemical process to create those drugs that justifies the prices mentioned.

It's a Monoclonal antibody, they are currently by far the most expensive drugs ever made.

They are very difficult to make, and almost impossible to make in bulk. It's not a chemical process, it's a biological one.

Unfortunately monoclonal antibodies are also some of the most promising drugs currently available. They can do things no other drug can.

It's really too bad they are so expensive to make.
I think it's someone jokingly commenting on the article's relevance to core HN interests. e.g., a better "why is this on HN?!"
"This trial will not stop anything" may or may not be true, but the trial is also about bringing justice for what was done, and punish for the crime that was committed. If a murder was committed, a trial may not stop future murders, but surely you agree that we must bring the murderer to trial. By selling drugs and conspiring to murder, Ulbricht must stand trial, even if there will be another drug dealer tomorrow.
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It's not really about greed, this drug really and truly is extremely expensive to make.
Wow! The concepts underlying Betz's Law are intuitive, though, still too clever for me!

I found the economic implications interesting. Given a Betz Limit of ~59% wind energy extraction, "utility-scale wind turbines" ...

A) can only capture 80% of the peak (Betz Limit)
B) achieve 25-60% of their potential output (constant wind) on an annual basis

Combining this with the NREL maps shared by animats below, you can make SWAG's for energy production in locations.
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Don't monetize the app, but build from the success of it.

You have an App with 240k installs, that's very good in a CV or when pitching your services.

This demographic is not going to pay you, sorry.

Now, developing apps that are light and work in older phones can be a marketable skill.
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I'm not sure I want anyone else negotiating my salary, or deciding what work I'm allowed to do, or creating some hoops of qualification or exams for me to jump through so I can get a "Programmer III" classification and get another 10K. No thanks. Too blue-collar for me.

Its not all about the money after all. We're not talking about poor sweatshop guys trying to feed a family or go on public assistance. We're talking about folks paid quite a bit for sitting on their butts and typing.

Sure we have value. Learn to negotiate, become a contractor or consultant if you like, switch jobs as needed to get what you think you're worth. But don't imagine you'll sign me up for a club where you decide what I'm worth, and make me pay for the privilege.
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