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The colloquial meaning of the term is not, "guy who plies women with alcohol until they can't say no." It is, "a successful person, typically one who has a lavish or self-indulgent lifestyle." Your definition is completely made up. Or are these synonyms to you?
There's also this: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/reader/belowline.pd...

(The "above the line" document mentioned is here: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/reader/aboveline.pd...)

Not sure how much overlap the two have.
I think being around 40 with a decade of dev experience should be pretty attractive, at least if the programming experience is somewhat modern. 10 years OO-programming should be translatable to any OO language with ease, regardless of what you actually used before, for example.

There are "unemployable" developers out there, but they are 10-20 years older and have 15 years of niche in-house platforms in some huge enterprise, and now they have no experience with anything anyone recognizes.

Unemployable because just 1 company on CV, no degree and around 40? Sounds strange.
I too played the original Zelda as a kid. I memorized every tile of the world, and every tile of every dungeon and would draw maps for classmates on graph paper. Telling them where each secret was, etc.

The original Zelda worked just like the later ones. You needed the raft to get across the water. You needed the bomb to get into the hidden door. You needed the candle to burn away a bush. You needed the boomerang to get the key.

The core of Zelda has not really changed, it is what it's always been. Skyward Sword was a terrific game, and the others have all been great too.

I have no patience for people who complain that a game is not what they want it to be. Zelda isn't what you want? OK then make your own game that is what you want. Don't insist that Minamoto make your vision over his own. That's narcissistic beyond all reason.
Here's the dirty little secret about "employability" you hardly ever read about in places like HN:

It's not about you. It's about your user and what they accomplish with the tools you build for them.

It doesn't matter who you are, what you know, what education you have, where you've worked before, what turns you on, or what you think is cool. It only matters what you can do for others.

It's really that fucking simple.

So forget about all the window dressing and find a way to demonstrate to others what you can do for them. The first step is to find out what they really need.

Like many others here, I am self taught, pretty decent, and love what I do. But the thing that has always separated me from other just as capable but "umemployable" programmers has been my absolute resolve to program for others, not myself.

I even remember one interview when I didn't present a resume, but instead a one-page project plan itemizing exactly what I would build over the next 90 days to help them solve their problem. I got the job instantly. (An extreme example, but you get the idea.)

I have never lacked work. And I'm confident I never will with this attitude. Try it, please.
And for a depiction of both how energy is generated and how it is used, see this flow chart from LLNL:

https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/assets/docs/2014_United-...

Petroleum is huge for transportation because of its energy density, but it seems like solar is poised take a chunk out of coal for electricity generation (at least during the day, or via what energy we can store).

It's amazing how much heat is rejected from electricity generation. Imagine if we could recapture that lost energy!

There are also state-specific charts on the main LLNL site, and ones depicting water use and carbon emissions. It's easy to see the influence of local resources (solar in HI, oil in TX), and of local industry (note the huge water use in CA compared to, say, NY).

https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/
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Ask HN: What aspects of life are you deferring until you're successful and rich?
If he or she would put some contact info in that blog post they might be able to strip the 'un' from the title.
> The OP might well have lots of relevant experience but it hardly comes across in the post.

Strange, I read it very differently. Just because those things aren't specifically addressed didn't leave me with the impression there isn't anything there. Very early in the article it was stated how they spend a lot of time honing their skills, presumably all their life, not sure I agree with your impression this is an unskilled individual.

> After 20+ years in development there's a degree of expectation that you have built bridges along the way with people who can recommend you

That's different from just asserting they lack in skill, however. If you read the article, it's clear why they can't satisfy this specific expectation. It seems callous to simply proclaim they should have built industry relations all their lives, and now there is nothing left to be done.
Has anyone written a checklist for CEOs/CTOs of stuff to do/avoid when such incidents are discovered?
The real question is whether they will find anything or not.
> we have technology in place to dampen most of the pollutants from burning it

Could you please go into a little bit more detail here? Which pollutants are you referring to? By "technology in place" do you mean "deployed in the field and being used", or something more speculative?

(not disagreeing with you, i am ignorant and curious!)
I think there will come a time when Facebook is replaced. I don't, however, think it's going to come as an obvious social networking site.

Let's back up a bit to what Facebook was in its nascent days: a place to go and see what others were doing. The quality of the content was high relative to what the users wanted. Someone else here on HN posted within the last week or so a link to Reed's Law (Reed's homepage: http://www.reed.com/dpr/) which basically outlines how social networking groups become more useful. So, the question that someone is going to have to answer to beat Facebook is, 'How can I create something that is providing a large number of people with higher quality content than Facebook?'

Personally, I think it's going to be a Trojan Horse (in the historical sense, not the malicious program sense) that does this. Something that allows users to join (probably using their Facebook account to log in and register), and then facilitates sharing high quality information with others. The first iteration may not be an obvious threat to Facebook, but it's coming. I honestly believe it's going to come from the healthcare space, and probably in about 10 years. Full disclosure: I applied to the YC Fellowship with an idea of how to do this from healthcare, although it's not as obvious from the application, that's the end goal.
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> I have never lacked work. And I'm confident I never will with this attitude.

I believe you. But that's also because you started this path in life a long time ago. If you're 40+, you've never done freelance/contract work and you need to start finding customers or new employment in a hurry then it's going to be a hungry winter.
You don't have a degree, do you have a portfolio? If not, then how can you expect to get a foot in the door with no easily verifiable proof of competency?
Does anyone have an idea to why this happened?

The reasoning given is very vague
True story: had an uncle who outperformed everywhere he worked. He faked his own references (via fax at that time) to get in the door, and when people made reference to university he just sidestepped the question or gave vague "yeah" type answers as he had not attended but had left school at the minimum legal age and become self employed (and failed a couple of times). Everyone else studied for 4 years to do what he did better than them.

Not saying you should fake it, I'm saying employers need to stop thinking donuts can't be iced by anyone with less than a masters degree. I've seen a masters grad unable to get through a door that had a security card swipe thing because there were no instructions, even though she had the card in her hand. Sometimes a course isn't what's needed to get a job done.
Great job, craigkerstiens.

I'm sure it needs more love and more content, but this is definitely a great start.

PostgreSQL's documentation is outstanding, but at 3004 pages (9.4's full documentation PDF) is no piece of cake. This guide serves as a starting point for people wanting to get into PostgreSQL.

Thanks!
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And to think that I was worried people might find my titling cheesy. I am glad to read these comments!
Your example is understandable, but not the norm. Most ruby in the wild is much more esoteric (and that's what you get when googling).

>Because that's not the case for Python or PHP on linux too? I bet it is,and it has nothing to do with the language itself.

I don't know about PHP, but the Python situation is very workable. It's basically just 2 or 3, and you can write code that is portable between them, or better yet - it's not difficult to only use python 3.
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AIX would be nice.
Sorry, don't really know about free. Back then I tried pretty much every solution there was, including the self hosted ones (which I assume are probably far better now then then), but stuck with NewsBlur.com which is not really usable for free (limited amount of feeds).
I was with you until this sentence:

> As technology improves, communication becomes more human, and this is great.

It's certainly arguable that communication has changed form, and that more approximates to looking at a person. But looking at our soundbite-rich politicians I'm not sure I'd say politics has got more human as it's become more media-savvy.

I remember reading an article about party political broadcasts in the Uk a couple of decades ago, and the chief media person for the Conservative party genuinely wanted to throw away 4mins30 seconds of their allocated 5 minutes broadcast and just have a 30 second advert. They thought that would be more effective, but election rules forbid it so they had to go with the full 5 mins.
I've seen this blog, jacquesmattheij.com several times on HN and every time I try to access it I get 403 Forbidden. What gives? It's not very fast either...
ipython improves this quite a bit. If you haven't tried it:

https://asciinema.org/a/2vvs3gg2dk93xizc3splrrfyw
Honestly - the high end of the cost bracket isn't really very relevant. Yes, you can pay £25k for a Heckel, but that's pretty much the only make that goes that expensive. Puchners are _very_ highly rated and start sub-£10k new. And then you'd be surprised at the number of players who are still using e.g. a student Adler. My bassoon cost just south of £3k new, which isn't cheap for a 'student' instrument <edit>i.e. compared to non-bassoons</edit>, but has taken me through from grade 2 (I used a music service instrument for ~1 year first) to my diploma and onward - I haven't replaced it!

Sure, I'd love an upgrade to some fancy-pants model, and it's thrilling to have a tootle on other bassoonists' instruments from time to time, but virtually no one needs what the parent comment called a "good" bassoon.

Order of importance for making a good sound?
player > reed > crook > bassoon

I can't comment on the availability of reeds where you are, but I'll agree they can be a bit of a pain. They're expensive (mine are £20 each) and variable. That said, once you've got an instrument, the ongoing costs of playing the bassoon are much lower than many hobbies.
Well, look at it this way: at the time the intercontinental backbone was an absolute straw compared to the gigantic capacity that we have today. Within a few weeks of launching I took over a good chunk of that capacity and with the trend being what it was I would have saturated the backbone within another couple of months without even trying. This eventually led to relocating my company to Canada where we had access to a half decent connection to MAE-East and MAE-West through Front 151. It was either that or be seriously penalized.

At the time a European start-up getting the majority of its visitors from the US was not a common thing and that start-up being video related was unheard of entirely.
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But if everything that could possibly reference a class or tag or attribute is inlined into the same file then you know exactly what the scope of your CSS is for that particular request. So it should be possible to minify even the names.
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I took this to be less a post about not having a degree but rather, not keeping up with the market. How it's easy to just do the work that's in front of you and not consider how your choices now will affect your career in 10~20~30 years time.

Not having a degree doesn't help finding work (it shouldn't make a difference, but unfortuantely with most HR depts it does) but if the poster had been willing to aggressively work on their career instead of coasting at the "traditional office" the story could be very different.

I've done a few years with a mixture of small company/freelance work myself and I'm back in an enterprise company for the first time in ages and on a purely technical level it's a giant step back. There's huge resistance to changing existing code and/or introducing new technologies. Often with good business reasons (the product is done, it's in production and huge changes are not needed) but if you're on the technical side then you absolutely have to be looking out for your own skills if you ever want to work outside of that company again.

If I was a hiring manager, seeing 10 years at a "traditional" company on a CV with no signs of interest in the field outside of the job would be setting off alarms. I absolutely would rather hire someone with experience and fully developed professional skills than a fresh grad, but the nightmare is that your experienced hire is used to just following their 80 page internal process guide every day and they wouldn't be able to handle any new situations.
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No, I don't think GReader was good. It had the potential to be great, but it was the bare minimum. It had, however, the necessary lead to leverage the distributed Web into something that could threaten Facebook. Instead they chose to start from scratch and do Facebook in shades of red.
What i don't like about Ruby is that undefined variables can be accessed without error (just like javascript); Python is better in this regard;

However pythons indentation think is not so great for teaching intro to programming.

i have my own small project - the pooh language; it probably has other features which might annoy some people (downside is that it does not have all these libraries that the grown up languages have ...)

http://mosermichael.github.io/cstuff/all/pooh-lan/2012/12/11...
This is all very AOL 1990's sounding. The failure in the logic is that FB is the gateway drug. As people clicks links in FB and discover other resources that are valuable they become users of those services and spread beyond FB only usage.
Take it as a compliment man. I just think you do great work. Hopefully I'll see you at the bar again at the next conj.
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At the woodwind shop I buy reeds from, it's pretty standard practice to try before you buy when looking for something new. You take a batch down to the basement and try them out on your bassoon. If you don't like them, they go back in the box and someone else may buy them. It's just the same as donating a reed to another player etc - all part of the job.
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Linode seems like the more likely culprit here.
Moral of the story is: stay in school, kids.
I guess it also have increased the rentability of his hosting (rentability=page views/hosting cost). Servers are still damn expensive.
you need to start finding customers or new employment in a hurry

What I'm suggesting is being the first to present a believeable plan to solve someone else's problem. You're right, finding them and figuring out what they need isn't easy. But once you do, you have a huge advantage over all the other "unemployable" programmers.
Yes, I do. But most people just do not use the IIS. Also there are some other WebServers out there in existence.
Yup, thanks for the explanation - I missed that on first reading. It seems like an incredibly bad idea though - it makes me think of all of the subtle gotchas involved in using macros in C, where expansion can get very weird when you put an expression in the place of a variable.
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At least one of these, Node-RED, I'm pretty sure has always been open source? It's excellent, by the way.
This guy's a professor of economics at Harvard?! ...Actually that explains a lot.
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Hi, I'm Ashley Barr. (I'll prove it if necessary, but the tracks to this username have already been proved out by the bitcoin community)
This is pretty vivid summary. I didn't actually know that most of what I provided was already in the public record.
The reason I'm commenting is that I'm hoping to get more eyeballs on my original AMA, regarding Edit 3.
Cheers for your insights, I learned a little too.
Personally I think that the growth of the banking sector is the problem, as it tends to capture more and more of the profits and allocate them to the pay of the bankers. It's also a brain-drain on other industries. Finally, the banks do occasionally lose everything and then we have to bail them out.

Remove the "bail them out" part of the process and you'd likely see a fair amount of income equality restored. Banking has a concentrating effect on the economy, and the bigger the bank the more concentrating it is.

If we had banks small enough to fail, they'd still concentrate but to a much smaller degree. That'd be good for income equality and good for putting smart people to work in favor of small businesses instead of against them, and good for reducing the tax burden on the non-rich who ultimately fund the bailouts.
Wow lots of strawmen here.

"A large number (majority?) of people who are proponents for american-style capitalism, advocating for less government intervention, are from big universities around the U.S"

Source? So what?

"Boiled down - can people who are part of such a skewed system really produce unbiased studies and theories about the system?"

Can people who are part of the lower earning rung of society give a unbiased opinion of the system?

"Does the evidence not speak for itself? In what country has pure capitalism (or at least as close as we can get), actually worked to produce a happy and harmonious society?"

Yes the evidence does speak for itself. Capitalism worked out pretty great for much of Western Civilization. Everywhere where more socialist approaches were tried it failed. Just ask all soviet countries', Japan, East Germany, China etc. citizens if they are happy.

America is not for nothing the land of opportunity, and it is not for nothing that emigrants are flocking to the USA, Europe and Australia.

Unfortunately the soviets discovered you cannot have a classless society. It is that drive to elevate yourself to a higher class that makes us want to achieve more than the absolute minimum required effort.
The Pixar online library is a really great resource.

http://graphics.pixar.com/library/
Maybe but it looks like the payment platform is done by another company. It's like Uber trying to run an innovative transport company while really just pushing Apple Pay, I think it's unlikely unless there's a strong ownership link between the companies which is certainly possible.

Because again the point of a $20 solar lamp really is that there are no monthly payments like kerosene lamps. How to drive a payments platform on that I still don't really know.
Related: https://github.com/xml3d/shade.js & http://typedarray.org/shaderdsl-js-javascript-based-dsls-for...
bookmarking the following works as well:

data:text/html,%20%20%20%20%3Chtml%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Chead%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Cstyle%20type%3D%22text%2Fcss%22%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20html%2Cbody%20%7B%20margin%3A%200%2C%20width%3A%20100%25%3B%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20body%2C%20input%20%7B%20font-family%3A%20Verdana%2C%20sans-serif%3B%20font-size%3A%201.2em%3B%20line-height%3A%201.4em%3B%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20form%20%7B%20margin%3A%2020%25%20auto%3B%20width%3A%2026em%3B%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3C%2Fstyle%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3C%2Fhead%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Cbody%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Cform%20action%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%22%20method%3D%22get%22%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Cinput%20type%3D%22text%22%20name%3D%22q%22%20placeholder%3D%22search%22%20size%3D%2230%22%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Cinput%20type%3D%22submit%22%20value%3D%22google%22%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3C%2Fform%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3C%2Fbody%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%3C%2Fhtml%3E

:-)
Where are you based? What programming language skills do you have?
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Also, remember that each request is actually not running in parallel. (for example, the css can not be retrieved until the html has been received by the client and parsed) Also, each of those parallel requests have their own overhead (connection, server response time, then downloading)

So while intuitively, the parallel request seem like the faster option, it's probably likely in this case, that the single page in-lined option is optimal. (Even at the expense of ever so slightly more bandwidth)
Interesting! What's your IP? Maybe you ran afoul of my pretty trigger happy security measures. That machine also runs a pretty high traffic website.
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I am doing the same except I am surfing every day. It works like magic.
To the author - it's very difficult to go freelance directly to customers. However, one possible channel is via digital agencies, who often need work done on a contract basis. They usually have their marketing channels worked out. Attend in-person meetups, and let the organiser know that you are looking for work, and it will start to open doors.
@jacquesm are you sending compressed files ? I can't check that myself with my iPad 1. I'm in a camping with a bad WiFi. I can confirm that I saw and felt the difference ! Congratulations.
Hm. A minimizing post-processor for a webpage and all the resources that it loads. That's an interesting idea which means it has probably already been done.
ClojureScript could be decent: easy setup (now), extremely simple primitives, unassuming features.
Are their solutions more maintainable, robust and long lasting perhaps?
Yes, the gzip module is on in the web server.
It does not immediately mean that. If it were AWS, there are ten thousand things PagerDuty could have done wrong: lost an access key, made an IAM role too permissive and lost access to the instance, turned off key-based ssh, made the ports open to the public, hard coded credentials, simply used a weak password for their console, not enabled TFA, lost the root credentials somewhere, allowed a privilege escalation by giving one key the ability to create more keys and attach permissions. The list goes on.

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