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Right; its important to realize that the marginal cost of work hours goes up geometrically. There are only so many in the day, and each remaining one becomes more desperately important.
No, the quote talks about ideas and trends, not individual persons. It is not talking about persons. You could even say it is almost prescriptive in that it is meant to urge you to do something or not do something. It is disguised as descriptive but the facade is quite obvious.
I just pulled a round figure that someone working in tech either in US or EU would be expecting

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer...

A lot of HN readers are from US and would be shocked at the tax rates here (on everything) and they further shocked as to how little we get to see for our tax money (no free healthcare etc)
I would agree with this. I have a Samsung tablet from last year (yes, an entire 6 months ago) and in that time Google has introduced the hamburger menu everywhere, and the "swipe from the left" navigation item.

The physical menu button on the device DOES NOTHING in these apps. It's stupid - why not map menu to the hamburger menu? Or are they confused about whether menu should open the hamburger or the side navigation?

When I bought my TMobile G1 (yes, classic eh) it had menu, home, and back. Then, they introduced a "search" button on the HTC Desire and it lasted until the Motorola Atrix I had. Yet in that time, it stopped doing anything in certain apps.

After that, they completely binned it.

Now the buttons are being made even more redundant. I wish they would make their mind up and not rewrite the UI guidelines every Google I/O. It's STUPID.

I think this Samsung is the last Google device I will buy - now that iOS does split screen, I may jump ship (but I will miss this stylus). At least things run smoothly (Google Maps in 3D on a Samsung quad core is jerky and SLOW; it's worse on the 8 core).
> I've worked remotely my entire career

Perhaps some of the angst stems from this bias. I wonder how well Yelp handles remote workers.
It seems too early and too surprising to have a reasonable discussion about that topic to me.
" all software companies rush so hard."

I suppose it depends on the business model the software is part of. If you want a pace that is compatible with proper engineering I would suggest looking into companies that deal with products whose lifetime is measured in decades such as CAD vendors or other highly technical software.

All freshmen to software engineering have this weird idea that a piece of code can ship once it builds and just shipping as much code as much as possible is the best road to maximize productivity.

Until they get hit in their faces time and again by recurring bugs and they start to understand that the way to manage long term software profitably is by making sure as few bugs as possible leave the software engineers desk, at which point best practices and long term planning starts to take hold.

That's at least my view, YMMV to a large extent, probably.
Agreed. Instead of letting only smart/educated immigrants in, they let EVERYONE in. This is a horrible idea.

If you want to help the poor outside of your country, you should help them elevate themselves, not lower your own country to the global average.

The political correctness trumps everything in Sweden. You can't discuss the violence of Islam without being called a racist (even if Islam is not a race).
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Swede here – I don't agree with this post. He does bring up some very good point about the real estate situation though.

I do, however, think that it's wrong to say that Stefan Löfven is a 'corrupt yokel'. He's been in a very hard situation politically, where he's been forced to rule as a minority. The opposition is doing everything they can to make sure that he looks incompetent as a leader, as it's basically ensuring their next election victory. He's only been in office since september, so it's not actually that weird that not too much has been done.

The whole post is filled with overstatements like this – and I'm kind of amused about the idea of escaping sweden because it left some of it's socialist ideals in the 60's to go to a country who despises socialism.
Not terribly, I've found. I've just come off a pretty terrible stretch of insomnia (being unable to sleep for two or three days in a row every week for months), and what I've found helpful is taking a bunch of Vitamin D3, 8000 IUs a day for me. I'm 260 lbs, so you may want to adjust downward if you're not similarly large and male, because it is a fat-soluble vitamin.

Taking four gelcaps in the morning has made all the difference in the world to my mood, and I actually sleep now, which is a huge improvement.

https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/blog/why-does-the-vitamin-d-...
Where is he emigrating to?
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Feels like hacker news is drowning in touchy-feely stuff. Can we get more posts on computers and stuff?
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It's sad to me that the industry is pushing out so many great people because they feel so disenfranchised by it. I believe technology is one of the most potent forces of good in the world but for that to sustain, a culture has to develop around it with a deep desire to solve serious, large problems.

I attended my first (and last) Hackathon a couple of weeks ago because it was immigration themed and so I thought I could meet some smart, thoughtful people. The pitches were mostly terrible with a few more decent ones sprinkled through as you would expect from a Hackathon.

One of the pitches that was made though, was "Greendir", a Tinder for Green Card marriages. Now, I fully support the guy's desire to pitch whatever idea he chooses but it was depressing to me that Greendir turned out to be the most popular app on the pitch board and the one the most people indicated they wanted to work on. It just seemed to me to be the epitome of the "we're in it for ourselves", move fast and break things, easy X-meets-Y description, get rich quick schemes attitude that is increasingly gaining mindshare in the tech industry.

It really made me wonder, what did these people come to this weekend to do? Why were they giving up their precious time? Because they wanted to be entertained and have a laugh? Or because they believed their powers could be meaningfully leveraged to solve hard problems that have the potential to fundamentally alter people's lives? Furthermore, what impression does it give to the newly entering workers in the tech field who use events like hackathons to get connected into a community of peers and who subconsciously absorb the value of those peers?

Fortunately, I'm seeing the other side of the picture too. I'm in the process of building a startup right now with a serious social mission (we want to get people excited about donating to charity by doing for charity what Whole Foods did for organic foods). I reach out to my network and I see my friends who came up 5 - 20 years ago in tech having the same frustrations by the triviality that's morphed the industry over the last couple of years. The outpouring of support has exceeded, by an order of magnitude, that of any previous startup I've worked on and I think it's precisely because there's a real yearning to see entrepreneurs solving hard problems with large impacts.
I think Fukushima is bigger than the average reactor in a submarine.
In a way, this is a good argument for contracting, as long as you do it right.

If you know useful stuff, people will always offer you a bag of money to help them out. It is extremely rare that you get the bag of money and you get to do exactly what your passion is. Heck, most of us just have some vague idea of what our passion is anyway. So it's always some sort of compromise.

But with contracting, you should be looking at a fixed amount of time working, then a fixed amount of "downtime", then back to the market again. You should ask for enough money in the bag (or adjust your expenses) so that both the uptime and downtime is included in the payout. Otherwise you become a prisoner of your own lifestyle -- which is a godawful place to be.
The same old xenophobe right-wing populist rhetoric we hear in Norway as well (though Sweden has admittedly met with larger issues than us).

"Yes, there was a heavy blanket of socialism and collectivist values covering everything, but there was a core of pragmatism beneath the redness."

Redness? Come on.
That's a social problem we'll have to address as remote working becomes ubiquitous. It helps if the remote environment is more immersive, with the team aware of each others' presence and activity even when they're not directly communicating. Keeps your head in the space, so to speak.
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Very much agreed. It sounds like OP is a bit burnt out, and I had much the same thing - I said to myself I'll do my own thing, I've done the hard yards, I'll just sit down to think of something, got a few good ideas... time keeps ticking though, and unless you have endless cash, the bills will keep rolling in. Discipline and focus I guess is pretty important to doing the solo thing.

It's easy to forget the plethora of shit jobs out there once you've been doing software development/ops/IT for a while. Sure, its painful, and some companies more than others, but I agree with another poster that often it's more what you put on yourself versus what's forced on you (at least in my case I think that was often true). I guess it's vital to look for that work/life balance and a company that will offer that (not just lip service); or do your own thing, but that can be pretty hard work too - it's not just coding then, it's all the roles, even the ones you hate.

If there were an easy answer, we'd all be doing it.

[edit] added bit.
I've submitted this because I'm curious just how practical this is outside of BI work. Ralph Kimball argues that you can use a star-based scheme even in situations I wouldn't normally consider, like an OLTP?

Does anyone have any experience doing this? And if so, did it work in practice?
that's true, but we can't choose to turn the sun off.
Even if you're f2f, at some point, especially if you've worked a few places, you'll still see the same patterns of problems cropping up, and the same ennui will likely set it. Perhaps not as soon as for remote workers, but it will happen.

If you really bond with your teammates, but still see the same recurring problems, you'll almost certainly develop an 'us v them' mentality against 'management', justified or not (though, it likely will be justified if you're seeing jr-level mistakes constantly promoted as the next magic bullet).
Go to Poland - 19% flat income tax rate for companies - you can get flat by 400 euro / month in biggest cities and work remotely for foreign clients.
Yeh the problem is you do not want to cross Revenue, they do assume your are guilty and you have to prove your innocence when it comes to tax matters. Best if possible not do anything which they might interpret as dodgy.
I feel his pain but it's easy to quit when you can cash in your stock options and pay off your mortgage
So just because someone has it worse you have to enjoy your job? Doesn't work like that.

What the OP realised is that money is no good if chasing it wrecks your time. Is he lucky to be able to choose another way? Yes, but that doesn't make his decision any less valid.
How will you satisfy your desire to hoard crap and fill your house up with ever-increasingly dusty CDs?

How will you read the sleeve notes and who did a rubbish job of mastering and mixing this album?
To help HN audience acquiring knowledge in human communication or polishing up their people skills.

We all know that techies in general are not the best oral communicators out there. So, this piece and many others like the one submitted yesterday about the different perspectives for words of courtesy between India and the USA and how they affect or color whether in positive or negative light communication between people of different cultures and backgrounds.

So, I'd say please post more of these topics here for the benefit of everyone.
Not really. Spotify is partly owned by the labels[0], so you have to think of it like Hollywood accounting. It makes sense for them never to make a profit, because as long as they let the labels extract money from them in terms of licensing, they fulfill their purpose.

It's like how so many blockbuster movies make a "loss" on paper to avoid paying taxes on their revenues which they end up distributing to all the people who are involved with the movie.

[0] http://www.swedishwire.com/jobs/680-record-labels-part-owner...
Well, unfortunately the fact the clang/llvm generates nice looking error messages doesn't help Windows developers using Visual C++ at all.

And obscure platforms - are you targetting those as a priority? That could explain your choice of build system. On the other hand, the obscure platforms tend to have old, noncompliant C++ compilers and STL, so I am not completely sure how is that going to work together with your C++11 requirement. For me an "obscure platform" would be something like an IRIX 6.5, Solaris or some embedded hardware. Good luck with requiring C++11 there.

Of course, you could be targeting an obscure platform in the sense that it is one of the few that actually ships with fully C++11 compliant compiler, but then good luck with wide adoption of your software ...

Re compile errors vs runtime errors - agreed, even though most runtime errors related to moc in Qt are things like connecting to non-existing slot. That generates only an error message in console/log, it is not a fatal error.

However, moc gets you faster compilation time (heavily templated C++ takes ages to compile - just look at Boost) and more readable/idiomatic code. And then there is the portability issue to older compilers - templates were traditionally the poster child for poor/incomplete implementations by the compiler vendors.
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This looks like a perfect candidate for a Heroku button:

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/8/7/heroku-button
Naturally this comes to mind:
https://xkcd.com/882/

Spurious correlation achieved by misusing statistics. Not to mention publication bias.
Do you think tax returns and complying with other bureaucracy is fun?

There are myriad reasons why people form firms and a body of literature around it. Start with Coase's Nature of the firm :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm
I'd upvote you 1000x if I could.
> Generally speaking, if you have to pay people to do it, there is something nasty about the work.

I don't believe this is true. Almost all people need to earn money to live a reasonable lifestyle, society as it is.

Considering the number of hours in the day: enjoyable, non-nasty tasks may be off the radar unless they are paid.

I feel like what you are saying is an excuse for employers to treat employees poorly. "We're paying you, so..."

It doesn't have to be this way.
"Music has always been a huge part of Coke"

This is strange. I thought it was just syrup and bubbles that was a huge part of Coke.
Spotify's ratio between free and paid users grew for the first time in 2+ years
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He's talking right-wing American English, where "liberal" strongly overlaps with "communist/socialist".

Americans are fond of reverting long-standing European political conventions "just because". Historical Liberalism was all about free trade and low taxes? Let's use the term for the party that supports higher taxes and regulations. Red is for socialists, blue for conservatives? Let's swap them! How fun!

(Not that it matters anyway, the entire European discourse is a million miles to the left of anything being discussed in the Land of the Free. The world is so weird.)
I'm surprised. Where do they live?
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A lot of my issues stem from work - I have a hard time winding down before I can fall asleep and if I ever wake up to grab a drink etc., it's incredibly difficult for me to fall back asleep. I've started working on meditation to help clear my mind, but even then...
Good point about D3. I remember reading somewhere that it might also help to take them first thing in the morning. (I guess you're already doing that though).

Have you tried cutting out caffeine? How about exercise?
Those are the numbers for human safety, not plankton (which are smaller and more vulnerable to chemical damage) or sharks and whales (who are bigger and would be exposed to more radiation overall).
I have never used Spotify but am I right that a music streaming app uses 1GB of RAM and spikes the CPU???????

I thought iTunes and RealPlayer were bad but this is incomprehensible.
> I believe technology is one of the most potent forces of good in the world but for that to sustain, a culture has to develop around it with a deep desire to solve serious, large problems.

Idealism

> It just seemed to me to be the epitome of the "we're in it for ourselves", move fast and break things, easy X-meets-Y description, get rich quick schemes attitude that is increasingly gaining mindshare in the tech industry.

Reality.

While I can definitely understand the belief that given incredible evolution of technology in the past few decades will be a force for good and change, always remember technology is just a tool. People have not fundamentally changed in a very long time.
Perhaps you should proofread your snark before posting, friend.

I never feel like a god of statistics. My complaint here wasn't even about statistics. It's not even a specialty of mine. Note my complaint was about words.

The meaning and usage of words, particularly the impressions and messages they convey to people--the ideas, beliefs, as well as the certainties they establish and invoke when spoken, written, heard, and read--on the other hand, most certainly is something I care very much about. There are many areas outside a probabilistically determined statistical model in which properly understanding, specifying, and communicating correlation and causality are useful and important.
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What's the difference of using this service versus sending all my paperwork to a bookkeeper who uses Quickbooks, or a property management software like Buildium or Appfolio?
"Quite". Let's look at the potential attack. You're running a backup system with user-supplied data, fair enough, and one of your users has:

1) Access to an existing object, or its checksum.

2) Can write a *new* object where they intentionally
produce a collision with an existing object.

There's a trivial way to get around this attack in practice, which is that you just lazily write objects and don't re-write an object that exists already. This is what Git does with the objects it writes, which insulates it more from future SHA-1 collision attacks than just the security you'd get from SHA-1 itself.

This means that you've changed an attack where someone can maliciously clobber an existing object to an edge case where their object just won't get backed up.
Really it's the no healthcare that is the issue. How can you tax your residents so much and not provide healthcare? My payroll tax rate in Canada is about 30% on ~$55K
The thing is, you are not allowed to talk about it.

Really? Then how come I get the impression that politicians and newspapers are full of talk about the topic?

Sweden currently spends half their health care budget on immigration costs.

On the national level [1]:

47 billion SEK spent on migration and foreign aid.

63 billion SEK spent on health care.

Note: most of the health care in Sweden is financed on the regional level; a rough approximation of total amount spent on spent on health care based on [2] would be about 260 billion SEK.

[1]: http://www.regeringen.se/artiklar/2015/04/statens-budget-201...

[2]: http://www.ekonomifakta.se/sv/Fakta/Offentlig-ekonomi/Offent...
they look like the figures for the UK, Rep of Ireland is not the UK.
80% seems a bit on the heavy side, but I'll agree that them and Expressen are just cannons of useless vitriol.
USA (it does say in the post :)
Between (hidden) payroll taxes and state and federal income taxes a developer making 120k in San Francisco isn't too far below 53%.
As someone who uses Linux for everything but just had to start using OS X for work, it's really hard to migrate. Remapping ctrl to cmd and various other keyboard oddities, unfamiliar mouse acceleration, and missing features like middle click to paste and holding alt to drag windows. Various other things that I'm able to customise to my liking in Linux, but are much harder to modify in OS X.

Chances are you're going to think that the thing you've been using for years is "good UI", and anything different is "bad UI". I don't doubt that Apple have spent a lot of time designing their UI/UX to work well for most people, but it feels bad to me because it's not what I'm used to.

Either way, you get used to it. I've found programs that make OS X work in a way that's more familar to me, and learned to work with the things I can't change.
They ARE most probably genuinely nice people, especially in their European context. I could not have married an Iranian women if I was not sure if she and her family were genuinely nice (and they are in tons, I am incredibly proud on my Persian family here and in Iran). This nicety to you is most probably not made up, don't get my former comment wrong. And they are no fools, they know you are European and obey to other rules. But... you will not find out about the inner-Iranian conflicts that arise quite more often than I would have expected and they arise most often around the fine line of taarof. You never experience those calm conflicts as an outsider, you only see them from the inside (and I think I am in the position to say that I am on the inside). And those things are surprising me, especially the lack of conflict solving skills (example: in Europe/USA people tend to forgive you when you confess having made a mistake, in Iran they tend to condemn you so in the end you try to cover)
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I did exactly this. Was contracting for 8 years in Dublin, commuting almost 3 hours daily. I was making good (but not amazing) money. Then the kids came, and that 3 hour commute became 3 hours that I could spend helping my wife or spending time with my kids.

Got offered a full-time job in the tech industry with (gaaasp pension!) outside of Dublin, 5 minutes from my front door, with better salary, bonuses and healthcare. Things can work out well (and I really don't mean to sound patronizing here) with patience and a bit of luck.
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Well they're idiots because there are plenty of really well-paying job in the tech industry.
What was leaked was most of NT4, and only part of 2k. The extra checksum was introduced in 2k, but I don't think the leaked source has that part.
> It isn't because people who do well on IQ tests tend to be wealthy and well-educated, which produces better life outcomes.

If IQ tests worked as you described, then in studies of twins going adopted into different households, we should see life outcomes correlated more with foster family than with each other. It turns out that twin life outcomes are very closely correlated with each other and strongly with IQ tests than they are to rearing family.

Your beliefs are the ones that are false, sorry.