josephagoss

> Programming, and computer science, is inherently about information. And because information as it relates to the young is so valuable (think about how TV shows value the 18 to 35 demographic is), it's not surprising that leaders in the work of programming can skew young.

Is it possible this is more apparent because the industry is so young compared to the other professions?

Historically most programmers have gone into other industries or management, however with more programmers today in their 30's than ever before isn't it possible that the average age of our profession increases?

Perhaps it's just because I know lots of entrepreneurs that are much older, in their 40's - 60's that consume massive amounts of new information and enjoy doing so that I don't fully agree with your statement.

And about Facebook, I am sure there were lots of other social networks being formed around the world by young people that feel over too.

I am not sure that is such a old vs new thing.

> The marketplace always seems to fail in situations like this one

The free market fails because ageism, sexism, racism is cultural and sometimes so deep we don't even realize we're doing it.

To a lot of HR types even now, being an older programmer is seen as failure as they cannot understand why you wouldn't move into management.

HR will probably catch up, but for that to happen we need to keep talking about it and showing that it's an issue and it's actually better to give some of these people a shot.

Also remember that of all of the professional industries, ours is young and still maturing.

I believe that being an old programmer will become accepted in time. I believe that posts like these help to bring this issue to the forefront and it's good that it's being discussed.

Who's ideas?

Is there any foreseeable way to apply gene editing like this to adults? Could existing adults (us) in the future make use of this type of IQ increase?

I'm not sure that this is a fair comparison.

Everyone that I know that eats organic does it because they believe the food is better for their health.

I suppose it's almost like a null return, something that can't be computed when the only expected outputs are positive non-zero numbers.

Perhaps the focus on university is somewhat a good thing, as oftentimes that's where some change can originate from. A lot people's views are often formed in their university years.

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't this a situation where they shouldn't need more legislation but rather, Government employees should already be following pre-existing law?

To be honest I hope there is middle ground, I just cannot see it. I want OSSc creators to be well compensated. These people are providing the world with an incredible service.

You're entirely correct here. These OSS creators have leverage but are either unaware or unwilling to take advantage of their advantageous position.

Haha I'm 28, from the doom and gloom I read on HN about age discrimination I should be entering retirement! :(

I think the point the OP was making (correct me if I am wrong) is that the banning of political discussion may have been a bad idea as it was obvious that this was going to happen.

The leading Republican candidate has been constantly talking about these types of bans yet discussion on HN was not allowed during a time where perhaps discussion could have prevented Trump gaining power.

Now we are in "cure" mode. It would have been better to prevent this from taking place.

I never knew that! This is awesome, not sure why I never picked up on this before.

Thank you.

   unset HISTFILE; shred ~/.bash_history; exit

You want to unset the current HISTFILE so that it doesn't become apart of ~/.bash_history when you exit.

I wonder if there are ways to reconstruct stem cells from our DNA, so that we could build them from scratch.

> "Oh hey, there's some good books under a mountain in another continent" is going to be pretty low on the list of things that's preserved through oral lore.

I think that knowledge would become the new gold/buried treasure in such a world. They who have the knowledge wins, and it will become potentially far more valuable than any stash of Gold.

If that is true for such a post apocalyptic future, then the lore of the buried treasure in the salt mine will probably spread and many will seek it out.

I've been using Writer+ on Android that I have setup to Resilio sync to my Raspberry Pi.

The Raspberry Pi has a script I wrote that runs GIT every minute to check for changes and commit them if so.

I also Resilio sync this to any desktop I need and use a Markdown editor called "MarkdownPad" on Windows.

With this setup I have version control running all the time from a 'server' I control and have the ability to view and edit my notes on my phone and desktop using a format that is never going away.

Just thought I would post this in case someone wanted to try the same thing.

Perhaps they are so desperate for new people that they need to hire to cover the losses?

But things have been moving that way for a long time and until it becomes common place to travel in spaceships it's going to remain that way.

The real space age will again open up hardware, but make no mistake that software will play as important or more of an important role then to.

More data will win. Tesla can also simulate if they need to.

I thought that Dark Matter and Dark Energy are simply placeholders for our lack of explanation of observed phenomenon?

In which case these types of discoveries are to be expected as we fill in the missing blanks.

If so then I am happy to see progress being made.

If I am wrong about my assumptions about Dark Matter and Dark Energy I wouldn't mind some starters :) Thanks!

Actually worse, beggars on the street make more money.

Normally people take part of their "low" salary in shares in that case. Not here though.

These developers would have been better off begging for money on the street.

Well now KSP is going to be renowned for paying developers less than fast food workers. Hell I know homeless people making more in street change than these developers.

I would be hesitant to hire anyone from KSP. From my admittedly limited experience interviewing people, those people who value themselves at the bottom end of the market generally are lacking in some manner that makes them unsuitable for working in a team in a professional setting.

They most likely make great hackers and I bet they are very capable in one particular way, but can they cope in a fast paced business with large responsibilities? I've found that people asking for way below the market rate are asking for a very good reason and that's that they are not up to scratch for this type of environment.

You're mostly right, Fees are not paid per address but per transaction.

If I had a thousand addresses full of these amounts (0.0001) I could spend them all in one transaction into a single address.

The fee would end up being higher than the standard due to the recommendation that fees are per byte.

So I might end up with 0.099 in the final address.

So it's possible to move them if you can combine enough of them together to make the transaction worthwhile.

Of course the part where you're right is that it's unlikely a single person owns a large number of these spam transactions and thus the economics doesn't make sense for them to move at this time.

However, if Bitcoin were worth 100x and the fee remained in dollar terms roughly the same , it would now become much easier to move these spam amounts.

Have you ever tried any psychedelics? Feel free not to answer.

I am very curious if they could make that connection. I know LSD puts the brain's visual processing into overdrive, perhaps it might make the connection strong enough to give you this mind's eye, even if only temporary.

Interestingly, that would imply we are possibly living in an imperfect simulation, one that hypothetically does not replicate the physics of a real non-simulated universe.

If that is true, why? I can think of four possible reasons:

1) Is it because the simulation was designed in such a way that it leaves its inhabitants clues that reveal the true nature of the universe? This lets them figure out the truth once their society and knowledge become sufficiently advanced.

2) That it's impossible to simulate a real universe? This would imply any sufficiently advanced society will be able to detect that they do in fact live within a simulation.

3) That the creators made a mistake and it's not a fundamental limitation. It's simply an error made by whatever civilisation created this simulation, they messed something up.

4) That it's possible to create a perfect simulation, but for some reason they decided to make a simulation that used less resources and this brings errors or the need of hacks to get it working. Now we might be exploring these hacks.

I am not from America but I agree with many people here, especially in regards with the OP advocating dirt cheap pay for software developers.

I know of no other industry where the professionals constantly self-flagellate with regards to pay.

This fits my experience too.

The saying "pay peanuts, get monkeys" applies everywhere. I am not sure where I heard it but I recall even great developers in India, born and bred, are on six figure US income. Just because you can pay someone $1,000 a month doesn't mean they are actually doing the same work as somone on $10,000 a month.

And if they are really a great developer I would go so far as to say that they are being played and taken advantage of.