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The Jumpstart he links http://www.bluecollaragency.com/jumpstart#overview doesn't make sense to me because the winning team is a design firm? They should participate in a homogeneous contest, where all the participants are offering related services, like web hosting, cloud services, etc. That helps attracting new customers.

That's what I said in the other reply. Python community is stuck with three versions: 2.6.5, 2.7.x, and 3.x (and now 3.3). Cpython should now announce a deadline for support for 2.6.5 and 2.7.x. I don't think 2.7.x is catching up with Python 3.3 branch anymore. I am not sure. The versioning 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 still throwing people off, at least for me.

I think it was intentional. "Facebook urged its employees in August to switch from iOS devices to Android so that flaws in the company’s mobile app could be addressed more rapidly."

That statement was ironic. Satire, anyone? Maybe that's the reason why my FB app on Android is getting better? LOL

Google Plus' iPad app sucks to the bottom...... now I wonder what's the correlation...

Django 1.4.2 is still alive! 1.5 support for Python 3 is still considered "experimental". It wouldn't get mature until 1.7, or even 1.7 IMHO. Python community is now stuck at 2.6.5/6, 2.7.3 and 3.x, which does screws people over. Lots of changes in 3.3 now. I am not even sure if 2.7.x is catching up with the 3.3 branch. I doubt.

Will the solution(s) to ABC proof be a nightmare to all security protocols relying on prime number factorization, such as RSA?

SHOULD is still a strong word. I don't mean to say nasty things to a consultant. But consultant work isn't for every single developer. In fact, I don't like working with contractors. I want to work with the team that works for my company. I don't want to go outside and speak someone who doesn't understand our company's culture and how we work. Besides, consultant work DEPENDS on the market. You are tied to the market. Your value is depending on the market, not YOU as an individual. If your skill is no longer special because there are tons of people doing the same thing, your value will be lowered. It is a lot secure to work for a company. As a consultant, you need to either find a client yourself because you are starting, or you need to work your ass off just to make enough. I don't know about you, but most of us here can't make enough these days. consultant is freelancer, if you really think about it.

Moreover, I choose a job based on the role and the culture there. I can expect $80k ~ $100k on average for a software engineer nowadays in the city. I can keep myself comfortable with one single task, not multiple task.

Well, in most situation yes. You as an individual. There other problem with pre-condition, it's very broad. They can make up all kinds of BS and claim your application must be filed different because of some "magical" precondition.

What I suspect in the future is a team of really qualified teachers offer short videos online, like those on KhanAchamdey and use them as supplement. But I don't see traditional school disappearing because of jobs and keeping a child at home is very dangerous. Hybrid class runs by having one recitation/dicussion and the rest online. On the recitation day the students have to take a quiz to show they watched the videos. What it killed is daily interaction with others.

You can try to do that in college, but not below college. Kids would enjoy to go to school just to see their friends.

Another thing is considered is once again jobs. What are you going to do with millions of teachers? If each school makes a video, only 1/1000000 videos will be favored.

Online classes have many bad things, and personally I only use it to supplement my college courses.

and to make my point even more clear. Companies will keep their good workers by giving them benefits + higher salary. Benefit is just the floor. There is no upperbound. Google, Facebook, Apple all want the best people, so they will keep increasing salary. Other startups too. When they have money, they will do the same.

Yeah. I agree. But one point to make: it would be great if this is integrated into a debugger. A way to mark codes for floating point inspection. One cpp file. Very clean.

The author is a consultant so I find this article biased. A friend of mine works as insurance manager and he has dealt with some startups and many medium-size companies. Group purchase is relatively cheaper and more convenient to manage.

So why people love universal health package from your boss? The most obvious reason is it cost a few thousand dollars per year to cover your own premium. http://news.ehealthinsurance.com/pr/ehi/how-much-does-health... According to the source above, family is around $4000, and individual is around $3000

Google and Facebook always competes for the best people in this industry. Suppose both get rid of health insurance, but Facebook is willing increase salary by $1000 - $2000 on average. WoW. So which one would you go now, Mr. Author? Facebook? Yeah. Because that $2000 is used to cover premium. On the other hands, Google doesn't raise my salary and I would have to take out $4000 total to cover my whole family.

The fact that your employer has someone to deal with the agent, does all billing and contacts for you makes your life easier as a worker. You don't have to scratch your heads trying to find the best agent out there. All the basic health plan covers the same. Some big companies will purchase expensive package because they want to attract more talent workers.

The amount your boss will save by canceling health package is a lot, but they won't increase your salary by $5000 - $10k. They just won't. Maybe $1000. You still have to pay for the rest yourself.

Getting breakfast, lunch and even dinner all by yourself is a lot of money. Big tech companies are known to offer free meals because they want to make sure their workers can get the most out of their work time AND at the same time getting the most out of their salary. Which company would offer more than 20% of salary raise by getting rid of employee benefits?

Another problem is showing caring. Even in a small bakery shop, the #1 benefit is they can purchase left over food at very low price. Some nice owners even let workers to take them home (I used to work for a bakery). My boss didn't pay me health insurance because it was a small shop, but I get to save my breakfast for my parents by getting free food every night! Many Chinese takeout hire workers from other states and they live in the same apartment. That's their benefit. That kind of convenient makes both employer and employees happy.

I hate to say but people should stop trying to make life as a software. Seriously.

If you like software methodology, fine, here is one: stop re-inventing a common wheel. Let your boss does the billing for you. You use that third-party API. Now move on.

There was a comment about java on browser. I think history tells us how people hate java on browser.

"Ingenious remote control vibrator, We-Vibe 3, boosts sexual intimacy and bettersex. Definitely among top couples gifts ideas and romantic gifts." This is what I get when I search remote vibrator. She isn't inventing an industry. She's just bored and wanted to customize the vibrator.

That's not sexist.

That's odd. Because http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb3Wed9M25A this new hangout they clearly said they have 2 interviews, and then a round of matching, and if anyone finds you interesting you would work with that team. So you are saying they make the team description so cool but in reality it's just an obsolete party like Google Code? Damn :( But it's cool you worked for two big companies.

Well, consider working on search and thinking "geesh my dream job is not to make search better. I don't like AI. I want to work on building automation tools for the build system. Maybe the search part can help me understand how to make build system more intelligently, but still, why waste 18 months of my time? Here is GitHub / Bitbucket hiring me doing what exactly I love to do! "So then you would end up going there.

Okay. Maybe I am a bit cynical about Facebook's work. But the reality is a lot of what they do is toward the scale of social media and on the surface people think "okay new feature from Facebook. Cool Story. Look at Google, more interesting shit. Even their DB work is used multiple domains, not just for social aspect. Because Google is not just a social network company. That's the point I was trying to make. Maybe it's a bit cynical, but it's true. If you go to a different team at FB, still social network? Damn. Let me do something else already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb3Wed9M25A click to 08:50

Pick the company that gives you the right position. If Google puts you on Search Quality team while your interest is in Compute Engine, would you willing to spend 6-18 months there before getting switched to another team? Get the job that makes sense. But I will always pick Google over FB. The obvious reason is Facebook is boring. Their projects are always about social networking in one way or another. Boring. At least Google projects spam from the whole spectrum.

alembic from SQLAlchemy author does half of that. Now the cool thing about this one is it has the gui overview.

Google has Big Brains. It's expecting open source either the end of this year or early next year.

This is the most biased and unscientific statement. Where the hell is the downvote button? How does using Intel chips make Google products unsuccessful? Apple has been using Intel chips for several years (although they want to move to ARM soon), and Apple products are/were very successful. The scientific explaination to the failure of ChroomBook is a revolutionary idea. People want to access their data even on the train.What makes you think a cloud-based OS will win? Duh. Wifi sucks. Home Internet sucks too. TV? Apple TV sucks too, why would Google TV be any different? Netflix works with TV vendors and embedded webapp into TV. That's included in the TV price. More useful than an extra box.

I upvoted you. HN has a lot of haters. I got downvoted too before.

just people they are so technical savvy doesn't mean they don't make mistakes. tests aren't perfect. you can't spend every day to write all corner cases. i don't consider that as ironic. i consider it as normal. users are so willing to help the software moving. that's the spirit of android software being open-source. we can find such small bug quickly and the engineers can fix this bug soon.

The problem with making government into "Google" style is upward mobility. One hand we want to cut down government size, make it simpler, but on high upward mobility = expansion. You can increase salary but the person will remain as secretary for the next 10 years? It's just boring.

I think it's true. Well, two blades. Business wise, you need a real business man. Technologically you must employ the right technical lead. Then you and your employees (in particular fresh graduates) will learn quicker and better.

wow I am getting downvoted by haters because I am telling the truth.

How many startups can actually reach stable revenue? I don't mean you need to take down Facebook or Google. But there are way too many startups. Sometimes I start to think: how many customers do they get? Ten? Twenty? Thirty? How long? A year?

But on the other hand, startup is great for fresh out graduates. They learn better and quicker in theory - they are forced to adapt to the change of specs and environment. It's a great place to test your ability as an engineer and a team person. It's a challenge.

Are we stupid or something? First, why the hell are we arguing over the freakin' theme here? Seriously. This tangent discussion should be removed. If you want to complain about the stupid theme, which I also find it hard to use, start your own thread.

Secondly, are we stupid for using these annoying shift, control shortcuts? Google is not reinventing the wheel. Google is not used by elite computer programmers. I don't even use emacs because I am a VIM user. GMail is used by over a billion user and most of them don't even know some shortcuts or nice ways to make their tasks better.

I don't know all the secrets you guys are pointing out, and are you going to call me stupid? This is not reinventing wheel. It's just making the app more usable.

If anyone start spamming me with "you can already do this with X, Y , Z ways but it's not known by everyone...".

LOL I agree. There are a few small data center in Manhattan. Actually, if they choose data center like Amazon they may expect outrage once in a while....

Hmm that's not a very good argument. Why should search page on Google be encrypted then? Youtube has search function too.