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I'm an individual software contractor and I pay for a personal plan. GitHub UI and UX appeal to me more than competitors do. Also it seems that all the libraries I regularly use keep their code on GitHub, it feels like a community to me.

Lada 2101's aren't the same as Fiat 124. Russians bought the designs and rights to manufacture and changed them significantly enough.

* Fiat used either OHV or DOHC, Lada used SOHC * Fiat had rear disk brakes, Lada had drums * Lada suspension was raised and reinforced to better deal with bad roads * Lada suspension was also dumbed down. IIRC Lada did not use trailing upper arms

There are more than 800 differences between these two cars. I am not saying that Italians shouldn't be praised, but in reality the Lada is a completely different car.

Long story short - I was brave and stood up for myself, demanding the righteous thing.

I was 15 years old back then. I had just learned how to code and my hunger for programming was insatiable. I didn't think much, browsed through relevant classifieds and sent out a couple of honest e-mails stating that I really want to have a job, but I have no real life experience.

A company replied within a few days and they were interested. It was a very small company, consisting of a CTO and CEO. We agreed on 200$ for a portal type of website(it was a thing back then), with user sign-ups, public and private posts, comments and a few more things.

This company was hired by a rather large media company, to develop a dedicated website for them. I knew who was behind it and I was hoping that I would get recognized by the media company.

I dreamed about writing lines of code in my sleep, daydreamed through school and spent all time I could on coding the whole thing.

I think I was done in three months or so, and then came the day I asked to be paid. I had put daily changes on their FTP server, as we agreed, so I had literally no leverage. And they stopped responding. I tried reaching out to them in numerous ways, such as using my mom's cell to call the CEO, but he hung up immediately after realizing it was me who called.

As I realized that I had been scammed, since we did not have any form of written contract and had agreed that I would be paid in cash when the whole thing was done. Therefore I went on the media group's website, found the contact section and somehow managed to stumble upon the personal cellphone of the CEO of the media company. And I called him. I was an emotional teenager, but I spoke the truth. I did not have any demands other than to be heard. After a 10 minute long discussion where I explained that I was ripped off and worked for free for months, the CEO invited me over. I still remember the awe everyone was in, when they realized that a kid had just called them and walked through their front door in a few hours.

That phone call has been the best career decision I have ever made. The media company terminated their contract with the agency that had ripped me off because of terms violation - they were prohibited from outsourcing any development to any third parties, without a written permission given by the customer a.k.a media company.

And so I landed my first job! The people working for this media company were so genuine, mature and supportive, that I did not lose my love for what I did and had been in web development ever since.

It pays off to be brave and righteous in the end.

Would you mind sharing where you found leads on technology oriented Slack channels? I'm old school, used to hang out on IRC some 15 years ago, but went silent and passive after starting a family. However my boys have grown and I'm looking into getting back into general or topic oriented technology talks and banter, but have no idea where to start looking for like minded people.

I had such high hopes when I opened the arsenal. I anticipated it would an article of how to write code that's both JavaScript and Python syntactically correct.

Wow, this was a trip down memory lane. In fact it was Frontpage 98 that inspired me to try out my hand at building the web, back in 1999. I was just 10 years old back then. However it sparked my interest, because I could create something. Creating a webpage about my then most favorite game Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, publishing it and receiving my first ever e-mail from someone in the UK about a spelling error resulted in an experience that struck me so deeply that I became a web developer. Almost 20 years later I still love what Microsoft FrontPage 98 allowed me to discover.

I wish projects like this caught on and became an art trend, as in digital artists would create pieces like this and put them for sale. I love the idea of smart "paintings" that illustrate the technical detail and inner workings of a CPU, running a simple program, source code of which is printed out and put inside the frame. Perfect addition to a geek nest, as I detest the name "man cave".

edit: elaborated on art trend

Some suspicions can be clarified. Especially ones with clear photos available.

As per online presence - we do not hire people that we have never seen. We're a remote and distributed team, thus rarely any hires get to have a walk-in interview, but we do always see the person being interviewed. I wouldn't waste hours looking at posts of a person I can clearly see is not my potential colleague. Having no online presence is fine, most of us don't at my current job. However, if it's there, it is going to be examined. It's way harder to get to know to understand someone as a person if you've never had had a face-to-face interaction, therefore having a video call is a must.

No offence, but googling your name yields some very questionable search results about events in Woodstock, IL. If it's true, then perhaps the true cause of cultural discrepancy comes from assumptions based on a Google search?

Perhaps I am the odd one out, but whenever a potential new hire is presented to the team, I do a quick Google search and investigation about whom that person might be and whether I'd like working with that person, regardless of his/her skills and knowledge. Every day interactions make up for a very large portion of work agenda.

If that happens, I feel it's one of the good things, speaking from general perspective on how humans interact with devices. I'm a power user, who discovered f.lux around 3 years ago, and I've been hooked ever since. Around a year after, I converted my family to use whatever blue light restricting settings they had on their devices, and can say with confidence that it does help. I wouldn't say it's encouragement per se, more of a guideline that should be there in the first place. Most users don't care about colors being off at odd hours, as they're not power users, whilst power users will have the knowledge to turn this feature off. Raising awareness is not a good term, but I feel it fits in this case.

An article about unhealthy desire for prestige has surfaced on HN, a subsidiary of a very prestigious VC firm, a site with clever upvotes and, most importantly, karma system. It strikes me as ironic.

I also think that John was a metaphorical figure. I can name a few startups that got financed early and are now attending conferences, hiring and spending a lot of money, without actually doing anything for their business.

Not US, but my wake-up call was my sister purchasing a small apartment for just 8000$ in 2002, in an industrial part of the city, surrounded by beat-up apartment houses and humungous acetone storage units. Whole place reeked of chemicals and the low price was justifiable, as "nobody wants to live there". She sold that very same flat for 80 000$ in 2006. Bought by a young couple, who's combined income was enough for 110% financing with no down payment and some extra cash left to spend. Suddenly a lot of people wanted to live there, because it was the only thing they could afford, or it was one of the last areas in the city with somewhat lower prices, thus giving way better profits when speculating. Then came 2008 and the rest is history. Taught me another lesson - never rely on savings too much, they dwindle way too fast

So it's the same issue as with many failed startups - solving a problem, that does not look like a problem for the end user. At all.

Or it would be even greater if it requested/generated all certificates upon configuration file parsing and delayed nginx from taking those values into account until valid certificates have been obtained.

You do realize that you are breaking the license terms of Apple by installing OS X on non-Apple hardware, right? What the author did is a nice read and a cool tech gig, but it's illegal.

I have thought about building a Hackintosh multiple times over, but the continuity (I'm not referring to the marketing term of one specific feature) is something that most Hackintosh builds lack. In the end I realized that if I want a Hackintosh, I want it to be the same as a real Mac. If not, I can just stick with Linux and not be constrained in any way.

edit: I am being downvoted for pointing out a blatant license terms violation? Really?

Norway has one of the highest taxes in the world. Combined with labor laws that are somewhat biased in favour of the employee.

Wouldn't it be hard to create a scene like that in a socially developed country. Large wages would mean ridiculous taxes, so it would be very expensive to attract talent and workforce, based on wages alone(think Bay Area in the US). What about iterating quickly, which involves hiring and firing people quickly as well? If I'm not mistaken, in the US you can fire people on the spot, but that's not the case in Europe and Norway. You have strict labor laws, notice periods, the whole shebang. Won't that be an extra burden for startups?

edit: spelling

Am I the only one who finds it really hard to fathom that it's 19 years? Almost two decades. I don't think I can find a single device that I had 19 years ago, but this takes continuity and dedication to a whole new level.

I just discovered this, took my time to get acquainted with the whole situation and I must say that I'm amazed!

You did a really great job, don't be too hard on yourself. As a developer I always value tools over a product, and you went that extra mile to give the community a tool, instead of giving them a game. I think you deserve every penny, great job!

For me(I maintain a purely platonic relationship with JS) it offers an easy choice. An example: I don't have to choose MongoDB over Postgres just because the Yeoman generator that actually has all the items I want, decided to go with NoSQL.

MongoDB reminds me of an old saying that if you have a problem and you use a regex to solve it, you end up with two problems.

I have personally used MongoDB in production two times for fairly busy and loaded projects, and both times I ended up to be the person that encouraged migrating away from MongoDB to a SQL based storage solution. Even at my current job there's still evidence that MongoDB was used for our product, but eventually got migrated to PostgreSQL.

Most of the times I've thought that I chose the wrong tool for the right job, which may be true, but still leaves a lot of thought about the correct application. Right now I have a MongoDB anxiety - as soon as I start thinking about maybe using it(with an emphasis on maybe), I remember all the troubles I went through and just forget it.

It is certainly not a bad product, but it's a niche product in my opinion. Maybe I just haven't found the niche.

This is a chip that gets soldered directly on the board. While it is possible to solder this specific chip to a detachable interface that can be removed, I highly doubt anyone will ever do it.

This form factor has a huge advantage for OEMs - they can just slap on a single chip that has everything built in - controller, memory management and the actual storage. Less parts = less convoluted assembly process and that is cheaper. While theoretically you can put a BGA fully integrated SSD SOC like this on a PCI-E card or M2 etc., it kinda beats the purpose.

It's BGA, so it's soldered onto the motherboard/logic board. Non user upgradeable, and if the SSD dies, you're in for a costly repair. Another step in the direction of (very) disposable hardware with little to no service options.

I have been eyeing Xiaomi for some time and even bought some of their products. And I was not disappointed. Something tells me that it's going to be the next Samsung.

I could not help myself, but laugh, when I read about Node.js

Yes, the magical silver bullet, that kills the dungeon master! Snake oil extracted from within the great depths of brogramming. Acme Elbow Grease to help develop scalable™ MVP's with possibilities of future growth. That's it - 42 is outdated and irrelevant anymore, the answer now is Node.js

As bizarre as it may look, it's still a small step towards something. Internet-of-Things(buzzword), smart appliances - it's already entering our lives in some fashion. And so will cybernetics. There has to be trendsetters that start with simple things. First car wasn't exactly a modern day Tesla, first airplane did not have peanuts served by beautiful young ladies, first implants and steps towards cybernetics may seem foolish and toy like, but who knows where it will lead us in 10 years

Maybe programming with Google by my side has taken away some of the romance I associated with programming, but it has certainly made me a better and more productive programmer.

I found a Zip drive(anybody remembers those?) with lots and lots of my early source code, circa 2004, when I programmed day and night, because it was so much fun to learn. There was no Stack Overflow back then and even Googling yielded fewer results. Unfortunately some of the creative solutions I came up with back then, make me cringe right now.

Being able to consult with knowledge and experience of people much, much smarter and wiser than me, has made me more productive. I don't waste time solving the same problems again and again, I can find tested and efficient solutions to problems quickly. I am more productive by leveraging all the knowledge. I am not paid to implement quicksort and then test it extensively to match already existing solutions that are blazing fast, I am paid to do real, practical work. The less boilerplate I have to write, the better.

Just my 2 cents.

I think you're forgetting that we live in a world of capitalism. Nobody promised no one nothing. Owners and share holders decide a business model and it's up to you, the consumer, to decide whether you go with it or not. There's always alternatives, if a service seems bad to you, choose a different one, but don't blame the owners for not choosing a business model that would suit you personally.

The flashing bit looks annoying, but I think that electronic picture frames that don't suck are finally here! A poster that changes during the night(so you don't see the flicker) and you wake up to see something new every day. I am really excited for this tech!

What caught my eye immediately is their licence agreement that prohibits using the engine to develop, quoting "Serious games". That's a rather vague and broad statement, what's a serious game?

With Germany prosecuting people who download torrents, UK banning internet pornography and US manhunt against Edward Snowden and Assange, there is definitely more than one shade of free. The image of freedom is being shaped and tailored for everyone individually, it's a Brave New World out there.