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by noahc 13y ago
It's obvious, what is going on here. He's got two groups he's trying to reach and "the front page of HN" isn't one of the groups. The first group is his mailing list. People who have expressed a general interes
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by noahc 13y ago
Pay != quality. As another person mentioned, being in the UK you face different challenges. My reply was partially to help you, but also to let other American programers know that there are better options out there.
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by noahc 13y ago
Being underpaid isn't a function of being in a particular region (assuming your in America). Middle America Jr. Devs with little/no programming experience are getting started around $70K.
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by noahc 13y ago
You need a short term strategy (any job!) and a long term strategy(spacex, baby!). I suspect spaceX or NASA programmers aren't using Ruby, Rails, and JS. They are a good place to start, get a nice paying job, and then figure out what i
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by noahc 13y ago
I would suggest finding ANY employment opportunity. You can always leave if your resume later. Your resume isn't a chronological list of everything you've done. It's a narrative about your greatest hits.
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by noahc 13y ago
I.....I....I'm....I..... I...I.... And that's your problem. Not a single thing about them. It should read something like this... I noticed you've been working on innovating in X industry, and I've noticed recently that
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by noahc 13y ago
A couple things make your scenario less likely than you might believe. 1. Salaries rarely go down once you've landed the job. So if he can get an $70k job now and get a $5k raise each year for the next 4 years that puts him in a pretty good
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by noahc 13y ago
I can verify that $70k outside of SF/NYC is very achievable for less than exceptional programmers doing Ruby/Python work.
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by noahc 13y ago
They do. See: [1] Between the back tires is a flap that helps with aerodynamics. I would say that 50%+ of the trucks I see on the road have these. [2] These are much less common, but I'd guess 5% or so use these. [1] http://www.popularmech
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by noahc 13y ago
In the future it might be useful to use http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ to figure out how wide spread the issue is.
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by noahc 13y ago
That URL isn't working for me either. FYI.
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by noahc 13y ago
If you notice the red balls aren't random. I could always predict what the next ball was. It's always the one straight across. Could be measuring how many people pick up on the pattern.
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by noahc 14y ago
aa@aa.com:123456
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by noahc 14y ago
Twitter, Facebook, Stackoverflow are all really just CRUD apps. They face social and scaling challenges everyday among other technical challenges. I don't think he's giving CRUD apps enough credit. There's also security challenges, etc.
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by noahc 14y ago
This sounds like a variant of the meme "I could build stackoverflow in a weekend". If you think you can build 99% of the apps out there, go out and try to build a moderately complex app. Make it better. You'll see there are all types of cha
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by noahc 14y ago
Does anyone else find the disclaimer at the bottom odd? Any ideas why it was included?
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by noahc 14y ago
It's an attempt to measure relative affordability, part of this is that humans are unable to take a value such as an average inflation rate of 3.4% and work backwards over 20 years. I'm not sure how useful that number is, however, I'm point
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by noahc 14y ago
He is comparing prices by putting it into 2013 dollars. It has nothing to do with availability. You can take a car, computer, or any other good that has a price and easily convert it back to 1865 or 1900 or whatever dollars and this helps u
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by noahc 14y ago
I remember in 2004, when I was a freshman on campus we had Airsoft guns in the dorm and our cleaning lady actually picked them up for us and put them in a cup so we could reuse them for future dorm wide airsoft wars. My how things have cha
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by noahc 14y ago
2nd Amendment, actually. I agree on everything else.
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by noahc 14y ago
I don't think you know what the word "discriminatory" means: Adjective Making or showing an unfair or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people or things. You may say that it is not practical to not be discriminatory. Y
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by noahc 14y ago
Doesn't _Organisations would be able to oppose the deletion of information if they could show they have a right to publish the data under the fundamental principle of freedom of expression or if it is in the public interest for the data to
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by noahc 14y ago
Part of the reason why is that for many classes of start ups those things are completely unnessecary and will be distractions from actually shipping your product.
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by noahc 14y ago
I agree with you that this is not HN worthy. However, I think you're taking the wrong approach to stuff like this. Obviously the best thing to do is not read it. However, as others have pointed out these are recipes. You'll need to do your
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by noahc 14y ago
I can't obviously dispute your personal experience, but I think we can both agree that price is a signal. I agree with you that you can mask your price increase and it isn't something that I'd considered when I originally posted. However, I
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by noahc 14y ago
A couple things: 1. Being cheaper doesn't mean more sales. I've often times chosen the more expensive option simply because it is more expensive and it has to be better right? If you're cheaper than salesforce, then I view you as an inferio
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by noahc 14y ago
I've never had a comment about hacker news resonate more with me. I wish more folks thought about hacker news as "makers news". Show me people who are making stuff, cool stuff, novel stuff, trivial stuff. Building Businesses or movements. I
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by noahc 14y ago
I would suggest the following: 4GB of Ram i7 or i5 SSD Something like this: x220: http://outlet.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_us/... or x230: http://outlet.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_us/... Might fit the bil
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by noahc 14y ago
You're right on the first point. However, as a first approximation the top comment is likely the highest upvoted comment, particularly when the name isn't one of the top 10 posters on HN. The CRS and CBO do provide a useful service. But, it
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by noahc 14y ago
I agree with you, but this should not be the #1 comment on HN. There's a lot of interesting things going on here. But, specifically, I want to comment on the disconnect between legislators and reality caused by isolation from various aspect

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