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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn97WbalJwM
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/feature...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fox-splitter/
I've never touched Stripe and it took me all but 30 seconds to find the relevant instructions: https://stripe.com/docs/button
http://www.informationweek.com/ibm-responds-to-overtime-laws...
Workers' petition, with names and an occasional email:
http://www.petitiononline.com/petitions/ibm1701/signatures
Short legal recap:
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/overtime_calif...
Sure, rent is expensive. That's about it, and even then if you're willing to live in the right part of Jersey you can still be 30 minutes from work and have very cheap rent.
Very cheap rent is not available until your commute gets well outside of 1 hour on a good day. Which means an hour and a half on a real day. The bus/non-Path rail system is an abomination. The wait times are unpredictable, the buses regularly miss their scheduled route (meaning you wait an hour for the next one), and the drivers hate and routinely abuse the passengers.
If you want a specific example, I've lived in Teaneck NJ for under a year. People like to say that it's 15 minutes from NYC - which is true, if you have a car and make the drive at 1am on a Tuesday (plus you have to figure in around $30 for parking). At a reasonable hour and no car, it takes an hour and a half, plus the bus wait time. And Teaneck is not cheap, merely cheaper than NYC. But you still won't find much under a $1,500 a month. Of course, you must add the monthly bus pass at ~$150.
As far as separate checkbox for daylight savings: (1) there are more rules than just daylight savings, and moreover some timezones have daylight savings other than 1 hour (this is rare but still); (2) most languages have libraries that will calculate the timezone for you, and it's both easier and more accurate, both for the user and the developer, to use these libraries to do all the heavy lifting for you.
1. It's not "all timezones across the world" but rather Windows time zones from a particular version of Windows. Most people use the much more accurate Olson database that actually gives you correct time offsets, daylight savings rules, etc.
2. Your option values, i.e. offsets, are either meaningless, or if someone actually uses them, erroneous. For example, current UTC is 17:40 but current Central is 12:40 not 11:40. Again, use the Olson database if you want better time conversions - Windows offset numbers are just a part of the timezone name, not an actual offset.
3. Timezone names differ depending on the language settings on your PC, and your list is only a small EN subset of the time zones, which, given the international nature of the list, is not very useful. If your users are in a non-American time zone, it is very likely that their time zone name is not on your list.
4. Timezone names differ from version to version, and are not backward compatible. Your list is only correct for whatever version you collected it on so it should be identified as such. Even better, if someone actually needs Windows timezones - like I said above, most likely you need the Olson timezones - they should take them from the source, by running the tzutil utility, or from microsoft.com.
Your list should be identified as what it is, a list of Windows time zones, (?) OS version. Even then, it's dangerous that whoever stumbles upon it will use the offsets for time conversions.
The only things that are cheaper in NYC are international flights (and only because you don't have to pay for connections) and immigrant labor (such as apartment cleaning). Other than that, to say that anything in NYC is cheaper than Maryland is just plain untrue.
And all this "willing to live in the right place in New Jersey" so you can have a 30 minute commute is propaganda. What it really means is, ghetto-living with an hour and a half commute, and that's only if you work 10 hour days because the commute around 9-to-5 is actually 2 hours. I've done it, and it's not worth it. (Unless of course, you are actually poor and simply have to).
Working 10 hour days and commuting 3 more is work+sleep, not living. Yes, you have your weekends, but when you are in NJ, let's face it, you miss out on all the spontaneous things that people do, which is the whole reason you've moved to NYC in the first place.
In my experience, the higher salaries are easily available. I've been consistently offered much more than $70k and the recruiters are desperate. So I'd say the job market in Minneapolis is actually quite hot - it's the talent that doesn't take advantage of it.
Stalking is not merely "distasteful":
- But the girls don't know!
- Bullshit. We know. Every time.
- But we took these photos in public!
- Bullshit. You took the photos from down below or up above.
Taking upskirt photos of minors is not merely "distasteful":
- But these girls are too sexy to be minors!
- Bullshit. Did you ask for an ID?
- But we took these photos in public!
- Bullshit. Child porn is illegal everywhere.
Hosting said upskirts is not merely "distasteful":
- But we didn't know!
- Bullshit. You knew, and you profited.
- But we are protecting free speech!
- Bullshit. Rape- and pedophile-adjacent porn is not free speech.
Let's call a pig, a pig. We are talking about a forum whose sole purpose is to make and distribute pornographic photos of children and young women.
By the way, an almost identical set of arguments happened around Amazon's defense of its sale of a book titled "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of Conduct". Amazon defended the book with the usual "if we stop selling it, Freedom Of Speech will die", and Amazon apologists made arguments very similar to yours. A few weeks later, they voluntarily took down Wikileaks because "It is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren't putting innocent people in jeopardy."
Mobile developers: http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Mobile+Developer&l1=Unit...
Senior Android developers: http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Android+Developer&l1=Uni...
Junior Java developers: http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Junior+Java+Developer&l1...
Node.js: http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Node.js+&l1=United+State...
No matter what you plug in, you will see 2-year inflation-adjusted increases in the vicinity of 0%.
Even better, go ahead and play around with same title, different seniority.
Junior iOS programmer: http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=junior++ios+programmer&l...
Senior iOS programmer: http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=senior++ios+programmer&l...
See how juniors get raises, while seniors get flat-lined? That's the downward pressure of H1Bs as well as evidence of buyers' (hiring managers) actual purchasing behavior markedly different from "we can't find anyone who can do basic fizz buzz! we need people with skillz!".
(1) Your link is to America's Voice, a Washington DC-based pro-immigration lobby organization, hardly an objective source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas_Voice_(lobby)
1. Most H1B workers are under 30, and most unemployed American programmers are over 35. This is by far the biggest part of the iceberg, made invisible by the fact that these people drop out of statistics.
2. Visa handcuffs are not slavery per say, but close enough. (If you think that's an overly dramatic statement, you are probably not an immigrant from some place you really don't want to be, like me, or someone whose family will quite literally starve if you don't send them money). People endure getting beat up by their husbands for 5 years straight for the sake of a green card, so there is no doubt they will endure long working hours and much more.
3. The whole "shortage of IT talent" hysteria is way overblown when you look at the actual numbers. Just one example, latest DICE salary report:
http://media.dice.com/report/2012-2011-dice-salary-survey/
Contrast the opening sentence:
Technology professionals enjoyed their largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to the 2012-2011 Salary Survey from Dice, the leading career site for technology and engineering professionals.
... with the actual numbers:
After two straight years of wages remaining nearly flat, tech professionals on average garnered salary increases of more than two percent, boosting their average annual wage to $81,327 from $79,384 in 2010.
So, let's see. While the inflation is chugging along at ~3% per year, we get 2 flat years, followed by a 1% increase? So basically, we make less money each year?
Is the tech industry an economic miracle? Are programmers the one must-have product whose prices get lower when it's in short supply and the buyers have pockets full of cash? Or is there a simpler explanation?
And one last nitpick/question. It looks like the app requires a connection? Was it simply easier to develop, or did you want to simplify the sign up process by tying users' settings to their email? It would obviously be much better if this worked in Airplane mode. However, it's not a dealbreaker, and the unusually low friction of getting set up may be worth it (in fact, if that were the goal, I think it's kinda genius).
groups.google.com/group/hn-parents
I vaguely recall there being a discussion on it a while ago about this.
One nitpick. It is confusing that all your options are named "disable" and "allow" but your instructions say "if you set this control, it will disable...". So the control is "set" when it says "disabled"? It is also against convention in the sense that your options are negative-positive (disable-allow) when the convention is positive-negative (yes-no, set-unset, block-unblock, etc).
Personally, I would change the controls to "block" and "unblock", and the instructions to something like "set this to block to disable and hide... ". In the very least, I would change them to "enable" and "disable", in that order.
Edit: just wanted to add that after completing the whole sign-up, I found your overall style clear, concise and organic. You did get a lot of things "just right". Great job.
Activist on megaphone: Let's all work together to end homelessness!
Tourist: There are no homeless people in NYC! I don't see any!
New Yorker: Um, what? Yes there are. How would you know, you've only just been here for 5 minutes.
Tourist's Sister: New York is a MAJOR city. It's got wonderful theater, and the Yankees.
New Yorker: [at a loss for words]
The Rebuttal: 150 points and rising, 140+ comments
If that in and of itself doesn't say volumes about the sexist attitudes of the majority of HN readers - and as such, the tech industry as a whole - I don't know what does.
Surely a long, thoughtful article, with tons of context in the form of links and research, written by the creator of Modernizr and a former Appler beats a shouty "enraged me so much" rebuttal by a designer at a minor UK web agency for 7 months and prior to that, a movie usher for 2 years?
People on HN are fond of saying things like, "I couldn't care less whether someone has a vagina or a penis, as long as they write great software". So how come Laura The Troll is getting so much attention for "telling it like it is", just because she is an "actual girl"?
I am an "actual girl" too and I am seriously disappointed. We were offered a 5-star meal but we pounced on a 99-cent gas station burger because it had a picture of a ripe tomato on it, so hey, it must be healthy.
And Laura, if you are reading this, a small bit of advice for you. Next time an article "enrages" you, re-read it and I guarantee you will see that it doesn't say what you think it does.