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> This is an absolutely baffling article. The job market for developers is not glutted by over-supply, it's one where marginally-qualified people get hired for salaries well above the national average because companies need SOMEONE to do the job. And virtually nowhere cares about degrees, especially for experienced devs.

I've had about 40-50% of places reject me due to a lack of degree. A couple even sent me hopeful follow up emails hoping I simply left it off my resume (I'm guessing they don't believe I could do what I've got on my resume without a degree I guess?).

This includes small startups from YC back when I was curious.

So please, no one, take his "no one cares" seriously. About half of companies do care about the degree.
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Nostalgia is one thing, but sometimes things just get worse. (Look at television as an example.) You can't just write it off every time when someone notices the decline.

Also, centralization is objectively there. Google, Twitter, Facebook. It was obvious where this was going years ago, but instead of warning us, technologist sung odes to Web 2.0. Great. Now, Web 3.0 is shitty phone apps.

it also smacks of elitism when you complain endlessly about what the masses want

When you don't complain about things simply because masses want them it's groupthink.
People used to say that about cable TV about 30 years ago, that you have to pay for it but the cable channels have no ads. Ditto going to the movies, sure its not free like watching it in a couple months on TV but at least there's no ads at the theater. Look how that turned out.

Maybe the elite that pay the most money for a subset of content will be able to temporarily avoid ads, sometimes, but "the masses" will never be permitted to not be advertised to, as long as its technologically possible to spam them. They are cattle and that is their purpose.
I'm probably in the minority here, but I think that starting with the low level - bits, data representation/interpretation, and logic (which leads to CPU operation) - is the best path to go when starting to learn programming, because it really dispels a lot of the "magic" and mystery behind computers that can confuse beginning programmers when their code doesn't work as they expect.

The idea that computers are conceptually very simple and logical in operation, and that any surprising behaviour is really the result of interacting layers of complexity rather than an intrinsic property of the machine, is something that should be firmly kept in mind whenever programming, or even just using, a computer.
Going to have to be honest with you, there are probably strong-arm measures in firms used to prevent automation from taking the jobs away from accountants. My best friend is dealing with the CPA exams now and I can't imagine what he does cant have already been fully automated out with less workers doing Quality Assurance at a far cheaper price
But how much of this was overlapping power production with baseline fossil fuel production? Wind power often doesn't displace fossil fuels, it coincides with it, since wind is less predictable and coal plants take hours to ramp up/down.

If 39% of Danes' electricity completely displaced the same amount of fossil fuels, my jaw would hit the floor.
I'm not going to fully defend the practice but it's more complicated than you make out. These are societies that don't have natural resources in many cases. For a country like Bangladesh this is a source of Steel akin to an iron mine.the point is as long as we live in nation states with extraordinary in equality based on natural resources we will never avoid these kind of problems we can just put them under the rug and encouragement labor to do other things or do nothing at all and flounder in poverty. again it is not pretty and a brutal reality but I also have some level of respect for entrepreneurs or willing to deal with the situation that they have and try and turn it into something more.

remember that this is the country with half the population of the United States that's essentially locked into a place like Louisiana that doesn't control its own River resources
If you put it into the net, it has to be consumed somewhere. If there is too much production you have to take plants off the grid, and I think those are not included in the plots.

There is an extensive planning process with weather forecasts and peak consumption predictions (break in the football world cup finals for example) to prevent sudden surprising changes. Different kind of power plants have different timelines that it takes to power them up and down. Small peaks in demand can be covered with gas plants since they are very fast to power up and down, but they are expensive. Coal plants take a day, nuclear - forget it-, and solar and wind can be predicted fairly well with the weather (there are plots about the success of predictions in the pdf), water is fairly stable and biomass behaves like gas. You really only want to produce what is consumed, and then there's export and import. There are charts for that as well.
True. And I didn't make that argument because it should be obvious to everyone. A key difference is that frito-lay doesn't imply you can subsist solely on cheetos.
Reminds me of http://codeivate.com, I really like it although it has some rough edges
The trouble is not that inequality exists -- I think, that some form is necessary in our world -- but that the inequality is increasing in a rapid rate and that in the current state of our society, not achievements where the society benefits are rewarded by the system, but rather achievements where society looses (e.g. speculations, pure possession of wealth, investing -- whatever frivolous it might be, omitting taxes by using legal holes and off-shore trickery, ....)

Even Buffett spoke out, that his class wins, but it should not (for the good of society). And he said, that something is wrong, when his secretary has to pay a much higher tax-rate as himself.
...but you are paying for the content delivery or postage. If the envelope gets too heavy and your postal budget gets used up with a couple deliveries is that right ?
Let me start off by saying I have clicked (on purpose) on less than 10 ads in my whole life. It's to the point that I have what can best be described as "Ad Blindness", I don't even see them anymore. So much so that sometimes I think I've reached the end of an article because my eyes have determined that below is only ads only to find it's an ad in the middle of the content or actually part of the article (Just to reiterate I sometimes gloss over real content that fits my mental model of an "ad").

I have used blockers a lot before (If I'm not going to click I'd rather not be tracked and deal with the bloat) but recently turned them all off to see what it's like again. It's still the same shit that I don't care about and have no intention of clicking on. 9 times out of 10 its for something I ALREADY PAY FOR (Looking at you DO, AWS, etc) which is annoying because not only do I have to look at it but it just highlights the gross inefficiencies in advertisements.

I do not religiously ready many sites and the ones I do don't offer subscription models. I'd much rather PAY some monthly fee that is divvied up between the sites I actually visit over the course of a month. There are a number of service that have attempted this (Flattr being on the top of my head) but none have made it seamless.

Mobile is the big sticking point. On the desktop I could use an extension that reads some meta data out of a site's head to identify that site and mark it down for receiving a portion of "subscription fee" but on mobile this becomes much more of a challenge as I'm not willing to switch to a single-purpose browser (not that iOS would make it easy even if I did) and there are no browser extensions on mobile and no, I'm not going to do some gross "share" hack to record the sites I visit.

I don't have an answer to all of this, it all sucks. I want to compensate content creators but other than pay-per-view ads (which I mentally block out if not with an ad blocker) I'm never going really help them as it stands currently.
I don't use Mint, but to me, the main question is whether I perceive the company to have more to lose by abusing the power I grant them than they would gain from doing so. A small fly-by-night company might make a quick buck by embezzling people and then disappearing, but a bigger company has much more value tied up in its brand and customer base, so they would have too much to lose. It's not a bulletproof approach (as some high profile Ponzi schemes have shown) but it's managed to keep me out of trouble so far.
Speaking as a hiring manager in a tech company here for a moment, I do find there's a shortage of reasonable people to consider. I found this thread because someone had pointed me at unemployable.pen.io and wanted to comment on it specifically, because having read that particular blog post, I started off thinking "man, that's someone I'd like to talk to," and then realized a few things:

If you're trying to get hired, then maybe when you write a blog post on the fact, you also include a link to your resume. Or at least your name. Because otherwise, I'm sitting here thinking to myself "welp, no idea who this person is"

This person acknowledges that for more than a decade, she/he coasted in an office job. I tend to hire for strong initiative and drive, and I'd worry about this person. And that still wouldn't stop me from talking to them IF THEY MADE IT EASY FOR ME TO FIND THEM.
I pay $15 a month for the NY Times, and I read it on all devices (laptop, iPhone, iPad). Their webpage is the best in the business, and I find it fine for all devices.

To answer your question: I do not know. But I don't find it a useful comparison; while they both produce "content", the content itself is vastly different. Producing shows with the quality of, say, Game of Thrones, is expensive, but so is having and sending reporters all over the world.
Hyperion is an amazing renderer. Normal renderers are limited by memory, but as Hyperion traces millions of rays at the same time they can exploit coherence between rays and they can load in and subdivide geometry on demand. It also allows them to efficiently handle PTex textures, which the folks at Disney really like.

Here's the paper that explains some of the renderers details:

https://disney-animation.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/production...
Or maybe the ability to imagine the fate of CSS if it wasn't backwards compatible with the HTML layout model :) That said, I look forward to when CSS3 flexbox becomes widely supported. Still I'm happy that we at least don't need presentational HTML anymore.
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I pay for the NY Times and use an ad blocker. They cover a lot of subjects that wouldn't be covered any other way.

I agree it'd be nice to not have ads but there are other people who find them interesting. That's one of the reasons I don't read magazines anymore - the amount of ads is way out of proportion to the value of the content.
To be fair, where I'm from(Poland) some operators sell "Facebook only" plans which allow for unlimited access to Facebook,but they come with no data allowance for anything else. So maybe some of people on those plans really think that they are using facebook and not the internet(since they are not paying for it?).
> Not only are its ingredients vegan, Soylent 2.0 reaches an unprecedented level of environmental sustainability with half of its fat energy coming from farm-free, algae sources. This next generation agricultural technology has the potential to reduce the ecological impact of food production by orders of magnitude, signifying a major step towards a future of abundance, a world where optimal nutrition is the new normal

Is this like a giant parody of the gullible shepherding of American consumers?

This is pablum. You can cook. You can make your own, custom meals that fit your macros. That are fresh and give you variety.
>It was less than a week ago that someone here proclaimed loudly that 'security is just as bad as premature optimization'.

Although I work in infosec, I could see how this case could be made if your company/service does not handle or store any customer or financial data at all, and does not have any particularly sensitive information. Otherwise, it's a pretty ridiculous statement.
Radiosity doesn't track where light is coming from or going to, just the total amount of light hitting a face from any direction. It's built around the simplification that all surfaces are perfectly diffuse so that it can iterate through all the faces and exchange light with every other face.

This has its advantages and disadvantages, the biggest advantage being that it's "view independent." Since there's no specular reflection, a surface looks equally bright from any direction, and you don't need to recalculate anything if you move the camera. The big disadvantage is there's no soecular reflection, so light bounces wrong off anything that should have been glossy.

I'm not aware of any attempts to do it "backward," and I can't think of how that would work. The camera in radiosity is essentially an afterthought; you can calculate the entire scene without even having one, and the view you get afterward is more of a data visualization of that result than anything that involved the camera in a fundamental way.
I don't understand what you mean by that. Could you explain?
> That's why the good actors are moving towards mixing advertisements and other content to be so similar as to be impossible to filter.

Which in a way is even worse outcome. It creates a conflict of interests for the publisher and makes it harder for the reader to trust the article - because you often can't tell if at any given point, the author is writing sincerely, or just advertising his sponsors.
There's also Chinese WPS Office.[0] But last I checked its spreadsheet, it was still missing key features.

[0] http://wps.com/
I would add javascript to that list - I have a cheap laptop with an Intel Atom that's my main computer at home, and the biggest thing I did to make browsing useable was install no-script, and only enable the scripted required to make a page work. It's ridiculous how badly some javascript locks pages up, on the most innocuous of pages - For example, Wikimedia pages are unusable, and lots of blogs have badly written javascript (for unknown reasons) which end-up slowing FF to a crawl. After disabling the majority of the scripts on those pages (Which aren't usually necessary to view the page anyway) things are more then usable.
Repurposing old website content
What? Your church doesn't mean anything if you can't keep Those People out? What exactly do you mean?
Capitalism systematically makes humans into cogs in a machine. Now it replaces the cogs it considers defective (flesh) with ones which cannot fail it (silicon).
If you're cooking dinner already, don't you just make a little bit extra so as to have leftovers for the next day's lunch?
I pay for the NY Times, but I don't feel like I'm a customer. I'm a supporter. I think the NY Times is an excellent newspaper, and I fear for the future of newspapers. I also think the NY Times' web presence is superb.

For example, this: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/magazine/voting-rights-act...? I think it's excellent in both content and presentation. I want to support them so they can continue doing it.
yeah thanks for citing this. It was a deal breaker for me.
I've already gone beyond my understanding of the technical details. The paper probably goes into it (linked in the sibling), and it also looks like it cites Wald.

Just noticed it also has the proof-of-concept city scene I mentioned on the last page.
I have been interested in doing a similar thing for some time now. Can you drop me an e-mail if you could give me an insight into a couple of things I've been wondering about?
It's important to note that they (republicans) tend to want to cut taxes but not services, because they can't compromise and cut both the military and medicare/Medicaid/welfare/etc. They just want to cut the latter.

The lack of compromise leads to neither happening so many republicans really don't want smaller govt. Some do, don't get me wrong. But many don't.
feel free to replace model with dogma, when talking about politicians
That's a huge tell: the convenience and value of having all your accounts aggregated far outweighs the security concerns, and frankly even the myriad and difficult and frankly frightening methods of connecting your accounts.

That's why people do it, and there's clearly an opportunity for a better experience...
This is way, way too prevalent -- people thinking that by doing more things to the password you are being more secure. The bcrypt algo already salts, there's no need to prepend extra stuff. And if you really had 80 chars of preliminary table condiments and your bcrypt implementation truncated at 72 -- well that's just textbook.
I don't follow the question. I'm not suggesting we bend in any direction, merely pointing out that this sort of "freemium" ad-or-paid site is much harder to pull off in practice than it might seem at first blush. At some point it resembles "nag-ware" style shareware from the 90s.
There's a mistake with the bloat diagram, the 8 KB : 6 MB pie chart. Bloat and article slices should be reversed in the diagram.
Just an anecdotal evidence, I open fefe's blog (http://blog.fefe.de/), which is quite popular in the German hacker scene, several times a day, often just to check whether the data connection is working, since it's so basic and loads instantly.
"There also is a shortage of high-skill developers. Compensation north of $250k-$500k is becoming standard"

I don't see it at all. At least in Boston, salaries seem to top out at $170K, perhaps a bit more if you have a _really_ rare skillset. But in a stagnant economy getting $180K is not easy. Usually a lot of hand-wringing about the cost, etc.

The just-released Employment Cost Index (ECI) rose a record-low 0.2% last quarter. This is hard data, not anecdotes.
Except if it came down to it, everyone would be in an uproar about having to pay monthly fee to visit every site on the net.. I'm willing to bet half the people in this thread who say if people want to be paid for their content, to charge for it, not use ads, don't donate to Wikipedia.

It absolutely flabbergasts me the amount of people in the tech world who don't realize to run a top site delivering content to you costs thousands of dollars a month in hosting, let alone to pay the bills of the people who do the work.

Pay $5/mo to all your favorite sites... I visit 10+ sites a day average, that's $50 on top of my internet bill that is already $60/mo.

I'd rather be shown an ad that I've conditioned to block out mentally than pay $50/mo extra to look at 10 sites a day only.

So yeah, you're right, you can block ads, but when ad blocking proliferates to the point that it's not feasible for any of these sites to keep running, then they go away..

Now you're left complaining because none of your favorite sites are around.
How does paying middlemen save them $17/month vs the competitor that doesn't pay middlemen?

That argument would make a lot more sense, if the NYT, like my local newspaper, were merely a re-wrapped slightly localized Reuters news feed.
Scotland (and other countries besides) has a lot of 'pumped storage', lakes at a relatively high point that are fed from lakes at a lower point by running pumps that push the water from the lower lake to the higher one when energy is cheap and then back into the grid when it is more expensive (when there is a scarcity).

The net effect of this is that electricity originally generated by nuclear plants and other fossil fuel plants gets 'converted' into (more expensive!) 'green' energy.

It's a kind of white-washing for electrons. The price difference can be substantial more than making up for the cost of the pumping and subsequent re-generation.

And of course it's the energy sold to the public that matters, not how it was originally generated so by double counting this energy it changes the balance considerably without there actually being more renewable energy to begin with.
Exactly, you don't want protein. You want whey.

These guys don't quite know what they're talking about. Or there smart and playing the sheep like a fiddle.

My fear is that these guys are laughing their way to the bank suckering people into this stuff.
Endorsement by TechCrunch and I think specifically by michael arrington told me I could use and adopt Mint.

And I did give them all of my passwords for everything.
Nyc data oriented post
SOFORTÜBERWEISUNG looked sketchy as hell the first time I tried it. Imagine IMMEDIATEWIRETRANSFER.COM (in capital letters) asking you to enter not only your bank account number, but also your password, and then a PIN from your secret list. The latter is something that the bank tells you to never, under no circumstances, give out, because you can use it to transfer money.

I find it really hard to believe that SOFORT does this without support or even consent of the banks. Scraping bank websites seems like something that could get you ruined or even jailed (I don't know, for dealing with bank customer's data in an improper way or something - at least I'd assume the banks could sue you for violation of their TOS). I only started using Sofortüberweisung at all when some trustworthy looking sites adopted it, and when it appeared to me as if it was a joint venture between SOFORT and the banks.

I guess if you want to build a successful business today, you can't ask nicely and wait for permission to do things (see also Uber et al).
Are you really saying you would let a 3-year old operate that ad cutting physical machine mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995459 ?

Adults, these days... :]
That surprised me a little, Germany oversupplying because of wind. Wind is about 10% of electricity there, but then I looked up variability and it explains why:

https://carboncounter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/germany.jp...

Pretty crazy, it really calls for storage solutions doesn't it. Hell even if you had the same smooth wind every day, there'd be a huge demand/production discrepancy during sundown if enough wind is installed.
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This. It's (somewhat) analogous to the argument about Google/Apple/other-large-company knowing everything we do or say. Yes, it's creepy, and yes, it makes me uncomfortable time-to-time, but holy hell it is really convenient.
Facebook rolls out 'Security Checkup' tool to all desktop users
It also measures the time spent in a git repository. The free version sends you a weekly email with the breakdowns. I've used it for over a year now, really happy with it.

You can also compare yourself to other developers, aka a leaderboard.
> Every couple of years (ok, at least every year) I'll try to apply to non-defense jobs, and I get the impression that there's a glut of highly qualified engineers in the private sector -- "Sorry, we're being deluged with applications right now, we'll totally get back to you someday." And the interviews generally involve 3-4 rounds of hazing via Knuth. In the defense sector, they verify your clearance and credentials, check for a pulse, then show you to your desk.

> Some are interested until they hear my current salary "You'd have to be a 10x RockNinja to make that kind of salary here." Yes, even Silicon Valley companies (and I live in an area with a relatively low COL).

Its finding the company willing to sponsor and foot the bill for the clearance that is the trick. But yeah, I've noticed outside of E-Commerce, Defense & Finance, I'd like to leave my current position too...but I want something other than those three. I'm tired of being responsible for other people's financial data [e.g. Credit cards] or having a guy flip out because I got up to go to the bathroom and forgot to lock my screen. xD
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