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huh? bookmarklet gone wrong, maybe? I'd flag this if I could.

Key quote: "The vast majority of today’s most successful software companies wouldn’t have been ready to go public within the 10 year window of an early stage venture capital fund."

Should it? Isn't that irrelevant to how fast the "best of the best" can get to 50 Mil?

With the highest earners, 451M. With the top 5 earners (The 5 people over 5M, lulz or not) excluded: 145M.

Six people expect to make negative income this year. Highest incomes are 110M, 98M, 68M, 25M, and 10M (watch out, that last guy took the survey 6 times with bad data).

In the bell curve of "# of years in industry", there are spikes at 10, 12, 15, and 20 -- looks like people rounding.

27% work 40 hours a week. 15% work 50, 10% work 45, 9% work 60, 4% work 35 and 30.

Unemployed hackers are very much more likely to be single (compared to the ratio for all types of employment).

I can see no noticeable correlation between hours worked and expected income.

Ditto. I bet data collection is really hard for that, though - compared to these public companies.

"I don’t care if everybody really _is_ more productive in Clojure than in Common Lisp."

That's where the author lost me. I'm willing to entertain the argument that a hybridization of Java and Lisp is not nearly as effective as one would hope - but the universal ultimate goal is MAKING THINGS.

That is just ridiculous -- and by that I mean ridiculously impressive. Of course, it may be a step in the wrong direction w/r/t true randomness, both logically and in the psyches of whining gamers. If someone doesn't trust random.org (and I have to say, I would have stopped right there), I doubt that basic image processing where "pips sometimes blur" is going to help calm the whiners. Kudos for whimsy and throughput, though!

I'd like a way to easily bind/remember "Which click pass site did I use?" for my account. I don't get logged out often, but when I do I usually try 2 or 3 different sites (eg. Google, Facebook, etc) before finding the one that links to my HN account.

And I'd be fine with "nod" -> "Facebook" (e.g.) mapping being public.

Well, the author does mention "Or maybe you're just left with less time to go to work." in the 4th paragraph.

The thing of interest to me, though, was the gender-based age difference in the inversion point of the money/sex correlation. I would have expected the opposite, frankly, given society's "breadwinner" v. "trophy wife" archetypes.

Also, this is JUST snapshots! (DOM and image) They stop running Javascript after the onLoad, and then stop. Thus, you can't examine any sort of interactive element. I want my upvote back...

I don't know Lua, but this is the first time I've heard Lua and Ruby equated in terms of expressibility/flexibility (i.e. "high-level"?). Is that a particularly relevant comparison?

Us: http://www.tableausoftware.com/jobs

I love the people and the product. Rails, C++, desktop, client/server. Interactive data visualization - analysis that's more fun than should be allowed. :)

Blue links with yellow backgrounds on top of pink and lighter pink rows? With red graphs and a purplish logo? Get some advice from a professional designer. :)

Three cheers for supporting Firebug.