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This is a cordial conversation and I have no desire to be the first turn it mean. So please read the following in the most charitable light.

You seem to apply two standards. To yourself, your personal experience is sufficient. Yet from others, a more rigorous justification is expected.

By analogy: if I were Japanese, I would definitely prefer Buddhism over Shinto. Yet, I am not Japanese, which rather undermines my argument. Under such hypothetical circumstances my perspective would surely be other than it actually is now.

The reason I pursue this point is that, historically, people with faith have argued unreasonably that the only viable alternative to their unique faith is [name_a_specific_extreme_and_scary_philosophical_position_here]. To be fair, if you are doing this at all, you are doing so only subtly.
Sheesh, this guy has been in the industry longer than most at age 72 and it shocked me when I read, "a handful of young men are eagerly banging away on keyboards late on a Saturday afternoon" - then to top it all off further into the article he says, "How many companies have you started by the time you're 18? If the answer's zero, I wouldn't invest in you," he says of their entrepreneurial verve (after explaining pretty much everything he did post-Atari was a mistake).

Crunch does not make for efficiency. Look at EA if you want to see what crunch does (besides make your employees and families miserable). Sounds like Bushnell has made a lot of mistakes in his time and his latest startup and the way it is being run is another example of a man who clearly has lost touch with the industry he help kickstart back in the 70's.
This was just one step in an incredible journey for Steve Jobs. He probably put in the long hours because he saw value in those hours. He probably learned a lot from the experience.
She's undoubtedly an outlier but I think that has more to do with the lack of parity in women's MMA. Men's MMA has had decades to reach it's current level of competition so it seems unfair to plot the performance of Ronda against all of MMA.
Not that I know of :)

Good luck with your venture.
>If widget specialists flood the market, their wages go down [1], but so do widget prices.

Only if we make the patently unrealistic assumption that the widget manufacturers have negligible market power (a perfectly competitive market). That assumption would also lead us to believe that they have negligible profits. They don't.

Those billionaires have a lot of market power between them and make a lot of profits.

If we used your assumptions, the tech wage fixing cartel of 2013 would also have been impossible. It happened.
I think it depends a lot on the style of the defense and the extent to which the surrounding system pushes toward fairness.

I've lived in a number of different cities, some of them overseas, and I've seen an enormous difference in police culture. Even in the US, I've lived places where cops believe they are basically immune from criticism and some mistreat citizens as a result. One country I lived in it was just understood that you should flee the scene of an accident rather than risk cops having power over you.

Good recent US examples include the shooting of Samuel Dubose and the death of Freddie Gray. There cops clearly expected to literally get away with murder.

In some ways this shouldn't be a surprise; the whole theory of our criminal justice system is that crime is reduced if transgressors are caught and punished. So if there are sorts of crime where perpetrators are unlikely to be caught, we should at least expect more future crime. And it's reasonable to sometimes expect cultures of criminality to take root as a result.
> Wow... as a VISA immigrant,

> The people coming in on visa's are usually way more skilled than their american counterparts.

I see...
Strictly speaking, I'm looking for parity in the sense that both those numbers should be 0. But, realistically speaking, some percentage of those civilian deaths are completely justified, and police are better armed than civilians in general, so we'll obviously never get there.

I'm saying we have a problem because American police killed more people in March 2015 than UK police killed in the entire 20th century (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/american-cops-killed-people...). I'm saying there's a problem because it's more dangerous statistically to be a bystander in an NYPD shooting incident than the target (citation escapes me, unfortunately). And, I'm saying it's ridiculous that an unarmed suspect can be charged with assault because the police shot and wounded two bystanders while trying to deal with him (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/nyregion/unarmed-man-is-ch...)

Something's got to give here.
Yeah, but you know what? The cost of living has also skyrocketed dramatically in Silicon Valley. I mean, you make it sound like engineers here are on a gravy train where we spend 3 months learning a language and can suddenly move to San Francisco where we just let the money roll in. The truth is it costs a lot to live in the Bay Area these days, and that means that if companies want people to move here they need to pony up and pay a good salary.

That $130k starting salary you mention is enough for a person to afford a studio in the Tenderloin these days?
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Is putting your hand in your pocket now a capital offence?

> The white officer yelled for him to take it out. When the driver started to comply, the officer shot him dead.

Doesn't sound like there was any way for the victim to not be shot here; doing what he was told was lethal, and keeping his hand in his pocket would have gotten him shot for disobeying the police.
You shouldn't go trying to be a PM, because you've got neither the experience nor the respect to get there. Sorry to be blunt, but this'll save some time.

Instead, focus on being the best engineer you can be, on building and crafting software as well as you can. That will earn you the respect of the people whose respect is worth something, and will give you the insights needed for leading a team properly.
Why would you even post job listings and ask people to apply, if you think no good developers apply for jobs?
"According to a reddit comment, which we've stripped the username from" is quite silly regardless the genre of your article.

There's nothing wrong with being accurate - in this case, it provides users with a way to follow up on the item in the story.

But maybe the article writer asked, and the user preferred not to be named, for all we know.
I suppose agreeing on terminology and collecting past historical data are crucial steps in developing a science. Historically collecting good data in economics has been painstakingly slow, especially in large scales. Maybe the field will move forward soon towards better explanations.

I have no problem with the fact that human understanding is incomplete. What bugs me is that economic models of questionable utility are taken as gospel in politics and used as a battering ram - "because science told us to".
Do we really have to hit 8-figure salaries for college grads before we can say with any confidence that we have hit a supply-limited market? We are supposedly a group of smart people; I hope we can notice the smoke before the house is burning down around our ears.

I'm not saying we have one. But I'm also suspicious of the self-serving opinions that rank-and-file developer salaries ought to be 10x higher.
Rant time:

I'm #1 engineering hire in the current startup I'm at for the past 2 years. I know more than half a dozen programming languages (ie I can read them, and reasonably tell if you're doing something horrific to the code) and I can competently/ confidently work in at least a few. Yes I have one language I'm deep in. I can do reasonable sys admin works, setup aws shit, knowing most of the basic work you need to know to set up <15 servers up and running. I will probably need both my eyes open and a google tab, but I can definitely get it done. And I am definitely at least half competent as the average Google/ FB employees, confirm by a sample size of ... a few (sadly, none of them being my interviewer).

Yet, I have failed to get the damning H1B in the last 2 years and have to leave next year. My company do plan to set me up with the green card EB process, but that takes a few years. And startup being startup, sudden death isn't particularly rare, you know the drill. I've been asking people every time I heard their them complaining about h1b and low skill ... and I have never gotten an answer.

Also, I'm trying to find a new job in SV for the past few months (thinking that I should live there for a bit before leaving the States), and the job finding process has changed me from self-doubt to angry to disappointed to wtf-is-going-on-up-there.

So, unicorn-without-a-horn developer looking for remote job! Will anyone hire me, wink wink ;)?
Here's a video showing how a $22 reed is produced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smanwe3_hY8&feature=youtu.be
I wonder how many of those under the desk employees got a cut of his $30 million Atari payday. Not one I bet.

You could also infer that a lot of people have to suffer, e.g. hard work for little reward, for a small number of people to win big. Making big bucks requires, more often than not, less than ideal treatment of others unless you have a magical algorithm in your pocket that solves a big problem. You sell a physical product? This goes doubly so. It's just abstracted so it's harder to see.

On the personal life side of things, which is kind of below the belt but I'm not making a moral judgement, do you think CEO X can be super-dad/mum when they're working until midnight? Sure, they show up when a kid has a birthday but they have to outsource a lot of parenting because they've made the decision that a career is more important than playing a bigger part in their child's life. Not everyone can make that kind of decision, and those who do tend to be the kind of person who yearns to "make big things".

Quote from TFA: there's a huge percentage of the population that are actually dead - they don't know it, but, in terms of their processes, they're just waiting to be buried"

The people who think this don't realize or appreciate that they make their fortunes from the "dead". Most of the time, not always but most of the time, it's the guy with the boring 8-5 job who comes home to play his video game console, eat his microwave healthy-choice dinner, bathe using the new showergel that will surely get him pussy like the ad said he would, and go to sleep using his special pillow with proper neck support that he ordered from an infomercial.

You feed off these people, and then say fuck it, they might as well be dead because they can't work on "big things". Let's see how Uber would do if they could only pick up founders in the Valley or SF. Not well.
Yawn! Anyone can say hyperbolic stuff like that. You have to, to be quoted. E.g. there are only two hard problems in computer science etc.
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My company has been trying to hire good Ruby and Frontend developers for... well.. a while.

There's no shortage of applicants but the quality...? Eh.

Finding even a Junior level engineer that knows more than "I can use these libraries" rather than "I know the language" is hard in both (but especially in JS).

There's a big pool... but sadly most of it is shallow.
Yes, but everybody thinks they are a 10x developer and everyone else is shit. Big companies know exactly how to take advantage of these dummies. "What you're not done yet, I thought you were a 10x developer. Better get it working this weekend."
I might enjoy using this. But, PRIVACY! Sending back every visited URL has never been ok for any reason, first time I saw this idea shot down was in '93.

But there might be a way out:

I'd be willing to give up privacy of URL hashes. This is how I'd do it:

- you already track a set of URLs that have discussions (I assume). If not, you need to figure out how to seed these. Volunteers, APIs....

- hash these URLs on server, and use a not-too-unique hash function. You want to end up with a high collision rate, but not too high.

- now, the client can query for conversations without revealing the URL it has visited:
- ask server whether there are any conversations for a particular hash.
- if server finds any, it returns { pageUrl: '', conversationsUrls[]}
- now client can decide whether the url really matches, or it was just a random hash collision.

- I know this is not perfect. A privacy-busting determined enemy could generate hashes of large number of public sites and use statistics to infer what sites you've visited just from your hashes. But it'd be good enough for me.

Bonus money-making idea:
- offer your plugin as a paid service to different web communities. Increases their "community engagement".

I seriously contemplated starting an "annotations" startup in the 90s. Someone else did, and they folded after a few years.
Physique isn't a great indicator of motivation. Don't know when that picture was taken, but he did go up to heavyweight to fight Machida at one point.
> HN has changed the way I look at the world and is directly responsible for my newest venture. I am sure there are many others out there like me.

That's good to hear! One of my dreams for HN is for it to stimulate or at least facilitate more new projects. It feels like so much more is possible.
This will go nowhere. Any argument I make will likely be skewered on interpretations of "credible" or on which parts of the Bible you choose to defend or which parts should be taken literally and which figuratively.

Anyway, let's try starting at one of the most obvious. I understand the Bible says the world was created in 7 days. Has that been credibly disproven yet?
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Perhaps but it won't help it's case that it's actually wrong. Isomorphic is correct - they share similar structures but often aren't the exact same.

Universal implies a level of parity on server and client that just isn't there in almost all apps that are isomorphic.

It's just plain wrong.
I'm not clear how a country can deserve a fixed portion of global GDP, no more, no less. It's not a zero-sum game, and how exactly do you apportion productivity?

And FWIW, in GDP per capita, the US is only #10.
This result is really important when considering 'fairness' in taxation as well as when considering the ethics of tax evasion.

If financial aggregation is a feature of the system then it seems like tax evasion is not just someone taking 'their share' of the money which they earned somewhere else but it's closer to actually stealing from everybody.

Also, I think there are implications for the ethics of a global economy where communal services are financed from a local tax base and the profits leak to an entity beyond the taxation of the region.
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If you have a moment, what tool do you use to detect/block those?
I guess I meant that no good developer is out looking for a job on something like Angellist or Hired.com. And plus, it never hurts to be a bit optimistic, I suppose.
Not everyone is the same. I have never used WhatsApp. And most of my family is on Facebook, so I use it pretty much every day.
So? Being a judo champion is a considerably bigger achievement than staying in school a few more years.
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> Is it shameful for Apple to make money from an OS based on FreeBSD?

Yes, thankfully they aren't doing it.
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I'm tactically resubmitting this, as the previous post [1] set off the flame-war detector (# comments > # upvotes). But this is an excellently-written and thoughtful article, and deserves more visibility than it previously received. Please weigh commenting carefully with your contribution to setting off the flame-war detector.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959217
Brawn an brains. Plus, she is damn smart.
Hiring for specific skills in my mind is the mark of a inexperienced company, manager, or department. Usually people think their choice in technology is prescient and amazing. Anyone that doesn't know that specific technology must be a dullard who will never be able to 'get it.' Right now huge numbers of new people are flooding the industry and their stature as managers or "seniors" in the company after one or two years is far above their experience level. More seasoned managers know not to hire for specific skills like "reactJS" as usually those magic technologies turn out to actually be very basic.
But that wouldn't be semantic in that use case either.

Just because CSS hasn't proven to be all it was supposed to be, does t mean the criticism of the old way was incorrect.
Just act like you give a crap about the future of what you're building more so than meeting deadlines and other engineers will enjoy working with you. People have different ways of measuring this, so watch other team members to see what they value in code, and try to make sure you include those features.

You don't have to put out clever or insightful code, only code that is succinct and readable and can be maintained by the existing team.
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There's no evidence that Einstein said that. The quote comes from Fritz Perls:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/04/universe-einstein/
You are arguing with the Java People(tm), you cannot win this.

Also: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/const.html
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hi Jacques. congrats on selling ww (from what you've listed it seems the price was $3M). I remember the free subdomain & other initiatives over the years. Haven't been tracking what you have been doing with it, but hope it was a pleasant exit.

~B
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Pandora has a statutory radio license that requires no negotiation, which is why you have restrictions on what you can play. The cost is less to them which is why they have survived.
Do you have a passion for developing software? Do you read Hacker News to find out about the latest technologies? ;) Do you spend time trying to improve your own skills?

If you answered yes to all three, you're probably not going to be a mediocre developer. No guarantees; there's a bit of genetic luck involved. But if you do care enough, you can almost certainly get above the "commodity developer" level.
so the solution would be move from python to go?
like python isn't that good for ML algorithms?
So actually, I think you can often skip the wrapper div with _display_ table as an orphaned table cell generated a row and table around it for layout purposes.
I hear you, but that's a really specific interpretation. It's easier and less annoying just to look for a different possible meaning in the OP. Most of the time no insult was intended, and even if one was, it's rarely really about you.

(This is not a criticism. I'm just reflecting.)
I did something like this and the bottom line for me would be that if you truly think it could be the next facebook, then go for it. Otherwise, hold off.

Financially speaking, if its the next facebook, then you'll be retired on an island somewhere. In almost all other scenarios, you'll end up worse off because you will be able to demand a higher salary post-graduation.

In terms of skills garnered, it probably will accelerate your technical skills, but you will miss out on the opportunity to solidify your network at school (which takes time) and to graduate with your class. Not to mention, depending on the quality of the startup, it might actually hurt your technical acumen if you are learning the wrong patterns.

I think a bigger question is... why now? What makes the draw to startups so strong that you want to leave school to do it? If the draw is to join a risky, hot-shot, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants company (as it was for me), then you might be in for a reality check when you're debugging spaghetti code for 8 hours a day. If you're really into the startup life, my advice would be to build a business while you have college as a safety net, then drop out once you have ramen profitability. The learning curve and potential payout there is way better than the opportunity to work at a crumby startup as an employee.

... and BTW, 70k in SF is a notch above starving. More than 50% of your take home would be going to rent at that salary, even if you're living with 6 roommates in the 'loin. With demand for devs through the roof, I'd demand 100k at least.
That is, assuming you don't need to support older browsers like ie9 or ie8...
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They should have also done Japan or Taiwan or some other countries where it would have survived before attempting the USA. Oh well.
In reference to the YC Fellowship, Altman said, "If this works, I ‘d like to scale it quickly to a thousand a year.” (8:33)
> Cowen’s argument is not the same. ... Cowen is saying that the rich engage in tax avoidance. While, in the article Meagher is describing “how and why the estate tax became part of the pro-family agenda of social conservatives.”

I'm a bit confused by this. In the quote I included, Meagher describes the talking points planned by Beach as including "decreased revenue through other taxation", which is what Cowen claims happens due to tax avoidance. I'm not sure why you refer to a sentence from a summary of Meagher's article (though I realize the article is behind a paywall, sorry), which I didn't mention and doesn't seem to apply.

> I’m not making a Reaganomics supply side argument.

I didn't mean to say you were, sorry. I meant, like those Reagonomics arguments, it's yet another speculative reason why the wealthy shouldn't pay their share of taxes. But regarding its speculative nature you say that ...

> there’s enormous evidence for that

I believe there is an enormous number of arguments behind it, but given the organized propaganda campaign and the fact that this point matches one of its talking points, I'd have to judge the evidence for myself. It's not reasonable to expect you to do research and provide it for the sake of a HN discussion, but if you could happen to recommend any I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

> death tax

As I mention elsewhere, this term for the estate tax, it's proper name, was a major, carefully implemented part of that same propaganda campaign.
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It’s pretty amusing that the first Unix clone they tried was made by a former soda company :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Williams_Company
And yet a lot of Bay Area startups (some even YC companies that popup here) think they can get away with offering top notch developers in their field $130k & poor equity.

The outrageousness cuts both ways.
If we are taking his words as deliberate, there is a huge difference between offering a small service on a bulletin board and "starting a company".
The first comment picked by NYT staff on that article is from a retired cop. It is very telling:

"I was a Police Officer in Phx for 30 years, and fortunately never had to shoot anyone, but was shot at four times and hit once.
I was in several situations that I would have been justified in shooting!
Were I an officer in todays world, (retired 20 years ago) I would probably be more likely to use deadly force in situations like I encountered. It is a much more dangerous world today and I cringe each time I see an officer making a stop. I still carry and at each stop I see being made I prepare to come to the officers aid if needed."

This retired cop has somehow reached the conclusion that it is a much more dangerous world today than it was 20 years ago, despite crime rates being at an all-time low. I'm seriously wondering where his delusion comes from, because it seems to be shared by cops all over the nation.
Can you explain more how the free market stops existing if you commodify labour? I don't understand that.