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nodemakeron How Long Will Programmers Be So Well-Paid?

Maslow's hierarchy of needs!

nodemakeron How Long Will Programmers Be So Well-Paid?

I dont think we can compare salaries in Silicon Valley and UK like that. In the end its about how much you have after you pay all your basic expenses and I think the person with GBP 77K has much more left than the person with $125K in California.

Edit: Apparently living in the UK aint too cheap either. Did not know that!

nodemakeron Michael Arrington and MG Siegler Return to TechCrunch

Its a show obviously. Picking a fight is one of the most basic marketing tricks but I applaud them for pulling it off in such a smooth manner. Even Steve Jobs badmouthed Android for marketing purposes.

nodemakeron Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech

Of course his right to say hateful things must be protected. But as a member of a community that values insightful comments, I feel obliged to point out that his opinion is based mostly on his personal hate and ignorance.

Asking for a limit on immigration from islamic countries to or developing alternative energy sources still is pretty objective to me. But adding the " the Arabs will just go back to what they were before - a bunch of desert nomads with no real power" makes it obvious where he is coming from.

nodemakeron Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech

Yes 500 it is.

nodemakeron Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech

Wow this is a surprisingly hateful and ignorant comment for Hacker News and its not even getting downvoted.

nodemakeron Startup = Growth

Yes. Every startup guy must save and invest in traditional stocks to mitigate risk.

One other investment that a startup guy should consider is investing time into building good a freelancing business as a side business from their startup.

nodemakeron Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name

One can also make the argument that the level of discourse is much higher on services where people are more personally accountable for what they say, and where confusing or offensive usernames don't get in the way of conversations.

Based on the level of discourse here on hacker news and even on reddit, I don't think one can reasonably say that.

nodemakeron Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client

Okay I am so worked up by patio11's talk that I am going to buy this right now!

nodemakeron Bollywood vs. Bin Laden

Here is a vice documentary about Karachi for those who are interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIl1vmIchA

nodemakeron Bollywood vs. Bin Laden

Although I would the add that the article was also somewhat hinting at the reformation of the members of these groups themselves.

nodemakeron Coding skill vs. employee skill

Well in all likelihood, Rodrigo will probably leave/get fired and then go do his own startup! This is clearly not working for him!

nodemakeron Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Utopias In Honduran Jungle

Yeah I agree with this. US is not very friendly to immigrant entrepreneurs at all. Where can I read some more about getting Permanent Residency in Chile?

nodemakeron Reasons to Start a Startup In Canada

Thanks.

After some Google-Fu I found the "proposed changes" you were talking about

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2012/...

and yes, software engineering is not on the list

http://www.canadavisa.com/new-instructions-federal-skilled-w...

The best option seems to be PhD! One can apply for permanent residency two years into their PhD programs.

nodemakeron Reasons to Start a Startup In Canada

> 3) This is no longer true. The recent govt is increasingly unfriendly to immigrants.

Can someone please elaborate on this one ?

nodemakeron Galaxy S III beats out iPhone 4S as top selling device in US

> The question is just when we officially start treating iOS as the minority OS, the one we develop for last.

At least for me(as an indie dev), probably never. Developing for the Android is not enjoyable at all.

nodemakeron What's a $4000 Suit Worth?

Yeah I am also of the same opinion about high quality contributors. I have a Hacker News Reader iPhone/iPad app on the market and I just had a feature idea from this.

It would be awesome to tag users as favorites and then view their comments from the home page.

Also it would be beneficial to tag some users as annoyingly political so that their comments get hidden automatically.

nodemakeron Ask HN: Could someone explain the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to me?

A lot of people seem to think that according to the uncertainty principle it is impossible to measure the momentum and position of a particle together accurately since the more you try to measure one, the more difficult it becomes to try to measure the other.

This is wrong.I used to think this too until I came upon this quora answer.

http://www.quora.com/How-would-the-uncertainty-principle-be-...

Basically accurate information about the momentum and position of a particle does not exist fundamentally.Observational interference has nothing to do with it.

nodemakeron Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

I made an app for reading Hacker News called HackerNode which makes about $300 a month.

http://www.hackerno.de

Do you guys have any ideas on how I can increase revenues?

Thinking of a subscription based model with a lot of killer features but don't know if there is a market for it.

nodemakeron Show HN: SideProjects.com - 37 Bootstrapped Profitable Projects

Well I believe that is my typo....So I deserve the blame for this!

nodemakeron Random Ideas For Sites and Startups

Two things.

1) Well firstly you dont need to be passionate about something very specific. For example you can be passionate about making great websites that people love to use and thats it. Edison was passionate about inventing things (apparently also patenting them) for example.

2) I think brainstorming to think about what ideas you're passionate about is a great logical misstep( which I am also guilty of in the past). Rather, think about the things that people need and are willing to pay for and maybe ask yourself if you are really impassionate enough to not get into that market/business. (Ex: CRM Software is a booming market, yet I am too impassionate about that market to even consider getting into it.)

nodemakeron Quora Feeds Will No Longer Show Data On What Other Users Have Viewed

Although I agree with some of your points about transparency, I'm not a fan of the tone. Hence downvoted.

nodemakeron But You Did Not Persuade Me

I think that is hardly the case at most Big Co's.....Google is an exception but at most other cubicle farms your success as a coder heavily depends on your ability to take and execute orders from upper management, whatever they may be.

nodemakeron Don’t Jump to Conclusions About the Killer

Recent event in Ocala FL.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/71-Year-Ol...

Although apparently the robbers had an unloaded shotgun.

nodemakeron Don’t Jump to Conclusions About the Killer

Yeah to a great degree it is coincidental I believe. My point being that it happened in a state with lax gun laws as opposed to a state like NY. But yeah I would like to know more about what else is amiss with that area.

nodemakeron Top Grossing Finance Mobile App Generates Barely $80,000 Annually

Hi Nicholas...Please shoot me an email and I will be happy to give you more details...nodemaker@gmail.com

nodemakeron Don’t Jump to Conclusions About the Killer

Maybe a handgun, but I find it pretty hard to imagine a PhD grad student managing to buy a semi automatic assault rifle or 100 round drum magazines off the street.

It is not entirely coincidental that Aurora and Columbine happened 20 miles from each other.

nodemakeron Don’t Jump to Conclusions About the Killer

This is certainly true of animals, but we as human beings do have the power to control the direction of the feedback loop.In other words we have the ability to decide how we respond to external stimuli, a truly unique ability in the animal kingdom.

"Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant. Therefore, we can predict his future only within the large framework of a statistical survey referring to a whole group; the individual personality, however, remains essentially unpredictable"

- Viktor Frankl, Man's search for Meaning

nodemakeron Top Grossing Finance Mobile App Generates Barely $80,000 Annually

As a data point, my app for reading hackernews (http://www.hackerno.de) is one of top apps for Hacker News priced at $2.99.

It barely makes $350 a month.With that revenue there is very less incentive to spend time and do updates.But nonetheless I still give it some time.I guess other devs likewise are motivated by other things than money.