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2. The quantity of workload they provide per job is less, thus pricing is more dense (i.e. companies realize programmers work thousands of hours for a project and that the project viability would collapse at $700/hr)

3. In many cases you have no choice but to hire a lawyer, while more often you can say no to a programmer should the economics not support the project.

4. A lawyer has to go to school for approx. 6 to 8 years (at least in Canada) while programmers have a wide variety of education levels.

I'm sure I could list more...

Afterthought: I suppose that might be better than humans handling my food.

It's still a tragic waste showing gluttonous consumption. If North America were to switch cars/homes over to natural gas then they would solve two problems, 1. Reduce emissions from Oil use 2. Not be so damn wasteful.

FYI... I still use arc for certain projects and still have hope that one day it will get the attention it deserves. I know you've taken a lot of criticism about Arc, but I'll suggest there are quite a few of us that do appreciate the work you have done so far.

Here are a few things I took into consideration when making this move:

1. My employers current codes of conduct contract prevented me from earning income elsewhere. Moving to 3 days a week allows me to both get clients and keep my current work relationship intact.

2. The last 30% of my income was taxed at the highest rate (Canadian tax). When I took the time to do the math, surprisingly it wasn't all that big of a hit (at least it's not for me).

3. Doing this removes any complications around code-ownership, copyrights or product rights.

Just another option to consider for those who are really serious about their start up, but can't find the time or money otherwise.

Maybe some of these popular languages have more tags because they're POS languages that cause grief and consequently many more questions/posts that are created by even a smaller group of users.

Also there's no time element, so a supposed popular language may have had zero tags created in the last year, yet it only drops marginally relative to the pack. And an highly active new language is ranked against all historical data of older languages making it less popular than it really is.

The OP missed:

When given a project that has high visibility and a very short timeline, don't wing it and choose a technology that 1. you have no experience with and 2. you've done no testing on.

Sorry, but I feel the OP is failing to see he made the critical error.

So if a merchant understands these relative risks, they can opt in to a high risk warning category, in order to make sure accounts don't become locked, and buyers can then fully understand what they're getting into via the warnings.

I mean really this is all about liability right...or maybe is it that I'm expecting too much...?

Kinda makes the story pointless, if you ask me.

So...if 2.0 is truly a major upgrade I'm more than willing to pay the $60.

Count me in!

Riak

  -> I love the fault tolerance
  -> easier to scale with a dreamworld of hash-rings I wish I could have.
  -> no indexes
  -> no Geo-spatial indexes
  -> I don't like link walking... it's not intuitive.
  -> I want to use Riak (Lucerne/Solr like) full text search, but the docs are poor and have to read dozens of useless documents to get nowhere very quickly. It's a separate install that requires pre-commits?(which are never explained well enough to start using it).
  -> installing on Mac OSX is painful (homebrew works/doesn't work depending on version, 32 bit or 64? how come I don't have include 32bit flags with older repo's, yet newer ones are only 64bit yet don't compile.... errors errors errors...ERLANG which? such a pain in the ass installing Riak unless you do it using specific build tools.
  -> Only Joyent provides a hosted solution which is too expensive relative to its offering.
  -> accepts any docs just set the content type.. handles original documents without conversions
  -> easy to load balance behind NGINX
  -> can choose between conflicting writes 

  -> straight forward install.. up and running in no time
  -> SQL like queries
  -> intuitive indexes
  -> Geo-spatial indexes
  -> Affordable hosted services with more than one provider.
  -> no full text searching over documents
  -> have to fiddle with doc handling GRIDFS etc..
  -> can't choose between conflicting writes  (last one wins)

  -> straight forward install.. up and running in no time
  -> fault tolerance
  -> easier to scale with a dreamworld of hash-rings.
  -> indexes
  -> Geo-spatial indexes
  -> Affordable hosted services at with more than one provider.
  -> full text searching for documents
  -> handle original documents without conversions
  -> can choose between conflicting writes 

I hope so... I could easily have a dozen family members switched over in a heartbeat - if only iTunes were readily available (and not having to use vmware or such...).

Sadly, until then they're S.O.L.

  "Almost all programmers type fast, say 400+ characters  
   per minute. So how long does it take to write one two 
   lines of simple text explaining your code? 15 seconds 
   maybe?"

From which point, supposedly, our oil reserves will continuously decline and demand will continuously and progressively exceed supply.

The hype generated from this is along the lines of the world tanking, political instability, and so on.

The U.S. has made a habit of equating it's political and economic stability with it's ability to continue pulling in oil at stable prices which, in my opinion, is the reason for many of it's recent wars.

There's is no shortage of oil world wide, but regardless of quantity the price shifts for consumer countries will continue to impact their economy and continue to cause these wars.

It would be nice to see alternative technologies become cheap enough that the US dependency goes away, but then you have another question to ask yourself, what will the countries who currently capitalize on Oil profits do? What will the geopolitical landscape look like then?

Amongst the others:

  .. .to direct unfavorable criticism against; criticize   
  severely; argue with strongly: He attacked his opponent's 
  statement. 

Seriously - get over yourself - Do you really have nothing better to do than make comments like this?

Interesting to note, he feels a bad writer should become a Hacker or Painter. Paul Graham, surely, would think otherwise? (i.e a good hacker or painter probably makes for a good writer?, so maybe they should try something else - like basketball).

The question is not to pick on you, but rather I really just don't understand. Aren't the professors the one's grading you? If they are giving you poor grades, would that not indicate they know many things while you do not?

Onwards, in my opinion, I think you're pretty selfish. And that's ok, we are all more selfish than we realize. We've all been caught up in ourselves to the point we become really self critical.

I hate to sound cheesy by quoting JFK - and I'm not American, but he said it brilliantly:

    "... ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."

Also, maybe to help...: I travelled a lot growing up. I did notice one peculiar thing in my travels. Often I'd move to a new school, and fit right in. From school to school the crowds I'd fit in with would be different. Sometimes I'd fit in with the jocks, other times I fit with the nerds. Very rarely, only one time in fact, I found myself not fitting in with anyone.... and boy that was a doozy. It was like someone reached down from the heavens a decided to destroy my very identity... I was starting to think like you, but then I moved.

So maybe you're actually in one of these black hole pockets where you truly are surrounded by all the wrong people, all the wrong things. I'm not religious, but maybe the heavens are reaching down to you and saying - you're not where you should be.

I think a non-vote-able comment at the top wouldn't do as much damage as you might think. Maybe, instead, make it a rule where half & halfs get filtered/blocked.

As I see it you have a few options:

1. Create something meaningful, on your own, and publish it. Having some applications even when they do not generate revenue, can act as your experience. It will certainly help in marketing yourself.

2. Consider starting in another role in a software company, like Quality Assurance, then try to moving into a developer role for the company.

I'm short on time these days, but as a side project I am about 80% done creating one fully developed in Clojure. I suppose I could have just used the arc code, but that felt wrong. So if no one else beats me to it I will pitch it out there. It may take a few months for me to get around to finishing though.

My Grandmother, while in the Canadian Airforce, was subjected to radiation tests(She and others were placed in a bunker during these tests). 60 years later when I look back upon the health problems she went through I can't help but wonder if there was a link. Of course no one, in my family, ever brought it up or even discussed the possibility.