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It's worth comparing USA and China, for example. Or 1990 Romania (https://www.populationpyramid.net/immigration-statistics/en/...) with today's Romania (https://www.populationpyramid.net/immigration-statistics/en/...)

There is a reason for part time programming jobs not to be common: in most case, you want the work to be finished as soon as possible.

Part time makes sens as an employer for jobs that require constant presence and not much context to be executed (think of a cashier, for example). Then you can fill a full time with multiple part time workers.

But for jobs like programming, part time makes less sense.

In fact, there is a process to request complete removal of data, but it involves sending an email that will be reviewed by github staff: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-polic...

On the other hand, once an API key or password has been published somewhere, you should rotate it anyway.

"You don't earn what you deserve. You earn what you negotiate."

So much ads on that blog ....

GitHub caching can be a pain.

It's been for example impossible to make files completely disappear from an open source repo without deleting the repo or contacting their support.

From what I saw while trying to ride these bikes, I would bet that each bike costs less than 80$ to manufacture. They are very low quality, with no gears. It might be even lower than that. My guess is that the electronic is the most expensive part.

This post and its comments totally feels like a post from Slashdot.

I do start new projects with Django all the time. It's very efficient and not too complex. Really a good fit for most site and it excels at creating APIs too.

Thanks a lot for these insights. I'm definitely looking forward to discover more about all this.

It really pleases me to finally see a big credible player tackling the REST orthodoxy. They state very well why REST APIs are not working well for mobile.

Notably: "Fetching complicated object graphs require multiple round trips between the client and server to render single views. For mobile applications operating in variable network conditions, these multiple roundtrips are highly undesirable."

Now, I'm wondering how they manage to make the computation of the responses on the server side no too expensive. It seems clear that there is a risk in such a system to define queries that pull way too more data at once. Also, the question of pagination comes to mind. How can you handle that efficiently?

And I forgot to mention that it is to pay a mortgage on the house, not renting it. (Renting would be a bit less expensive).

Same impression (from Brussels, Belgium). + as a freelancer, it's actually quite possible to get rates in Brussels that are around 80% of what you can get in California (500€/day is totally possible).

For the record, for the rent of a 1 bedroom appartment in SF, you can get a 240 square meters house in the center of Brussels.

This is actually very very similar to the UX of checkthis. See here: http://checkthis.com/new

If your experience of programming becomes worthless after 10 years, then you probably did not focus on the good skills. I don't see how learning how low level hardware works, some time tried languages (C for example), data structures, networking details, debugging protocols of all kinds, structuring programs, working in teams and so on and so forth... could become worthless.

For the idea that parents and older programmers have different priorities, that may be true, but you downplay experience way too much. That said, trying to find 150% dedicated younglings, that don't spend a lot of time on side projects and just enjoying life is not that easy either

Does somebody know if appgratis informed its users that apps were paying to be featured?

I would say that this is an important point to find out if this can qualify as an ethical business model

The release text is not that clear. Is that a new big security issue?

If you know more recent data, I would be interested (I made the map).

Another alternative, which is not in private beta but offers the same kind of ease for editing is http://checkthis.com. Disclaimer: I work there.

That said, checkthis is not distraction free. It's more about getting easily a beautiful page on the web, with good social network integrations and a possible instant feedback through the comment pane on the right of your page.

(And regarding some comments not so far, we are supporting Unicode quite well, we have lots of page in Russian for example).

With all this talk about how the good days of the app store are over, it is good to see a relatively unknown company making it. I also noticed that a big part of the Apple selection for the end of the year is made by indie developers, like Super Hexagon, Letterpress or the education stuff from l'Escapadou, which means that they will probably make a lot of money.

With talent and flair, it is still possible to do it. Easy success for trivial apps is over but what Apple did to remove the barriers to entry for indies still makes the app store very interesting.

I thought that too might prevent foundries to license their fonts, but it turns out that services like typekit are in fact already putting these fonts online, without any real guarantee against pirating. It's just not very convenient to do right now, but definitely doable, as stated by typekit themselves : http://blog.typekit.com/2009/07/21/serving-and-protecting-fo...

So, if foundries are allowing that on the web, why the special treatment in native apps? That is one of the points of the article.

Exactly, there is pine/mutt/alpine for that.

It's indeed not perfect on this front. Furthermore, real statistician pointed that a continuous line for the pyramid was not the good choice, but I was looking more for interesting visuals and ways to spark the interest of people. That's why I used these animations, it gives the feeling to people to see what's happening.

Unfortunately, the way I animate this graph is very basic and I did not take time to make it perfect (the data crunching, SEO optimization and UI fine tunings already took way more time than I wanted to put in this). This is just a hobby project for me.

Some highlights:

- extreme gender imbalance in Qatar (probably due to migrant workers) : http://populationpyramid.net/Qatar/2010/

- Very clearly aging population in Japan : http://populationpyramid.net/Japan/2010/

- People dying quite young in Afghanistan: http://populationpyramid.net/Afghanistan/2010/

- Clear impact of WW2 in Europe in 1950 on the 20-30 age class: http://populationpyramid.net/EUROPE/1950/

The projections past 2010 are interesting too but they tend to smooth the curves which is probably not very realistic, as seen from the past. Nevertheless, it's interesting to see that the population of some countries has already started to shrink, like Russian Federation: http://populationpyramid.net/Russian+Federation/2010/

I added some legend where I saw it fit + a link to wikipedia explaining what a population pyramid is. That said, most people that land on the page are looking for population pyramids (from their google keywords) so there is not so much point to explain what it is.

I guess you're talking about the graph on the right. The bottom axis is quite clear, I guess, and the left axis is the population size, which seemed sufficiently clear to me for not mentioning it.

Am I the only one to think that such an apology requires guts and honesty?

Kudos for that.

That already exists in fact: it's called DCIntrospect. https://github.com/domesticcatsoftware/DCIntrospect

This whole "Europe could become the new center of the world" sounds like wishful thinking to me. Asia seems a far better bet.

In fact, you could even more broadly make the case that programming is the ultimate video game...