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At the same time, the US getting educated and skilled workers that it never had to pay a dime for to educate. If you look at European countries, a lot of them are trying hard to prevent their skilled workers from leaving for the US.

If anything, these people are coming, paying high taxes whilst receiving only a tiny fraction of the benefits (no medicare, no unemployment, no education cost) etc. They may or may not be driving salaries down (pretty sure if the law was enforced it wouldn't be the case), but you can't ignore the rest.

There's also a lot of statistics on immigrants and children of immigrants founding a disproportionate amount of companies compared to US natives.

I would tend to agree.

Facebook's point is that he found a vulnerability, and exploited it instead of stopping there. I kind of understand their point of view though. "See you have a vulnerability there, and then I can get access to this, and then this, and see now I have the password of your user, and then I'm just one click away from accessing all the instagram pictures I want."

Although Facebook's handling of the problem is poor (why didn't the CSO call the author directly to get things squared out? He does not talk to people who are not C*O?), they do have a point.

I think the author acted in good faith, but got carried away by his findings unfortunately.

In France there's a 4 month probation period extensible to up to 7 months. It's too long, 7 months makes very little sense, and some companies abuse it. Basically you can pretty much fire at will during this probation period, but after it's _really_ hard to fire under French employment laws. If you're in a field where it's hard to land a job, it's 7 months of butt clenching.

I've worked in a company where I've been let go after 2 months in the probation period, but it was clear I wasn't a good fit with the company culture. This is what the probation period is for, we didn't need 7 months to figure that out. On the other hand, I worked for a consulting company that automatically extended all the probation periods, and laid off people that were on probation if they didn't have enough consulting contracts to feed everybody on the payroll (and then reshuffle contracts among people post-probation that were unfireable).

I have an é in my first name, many automated systems still choke on this, and the email looks something like: "Hi Name<GarbledCharacter>EndOfName"

I think we should compare quality of life instead of salary. You'll make 3 times the salary in the US, but:

- no pension for your retirement (you have to save)

- prohibitive health care costs even with insurance

- prohibitive higher education costs, and even for younger kids if you don't go the public school route

- vacation policies up to the employer (can be ok as a software engineer though, but definitely not up to what you'd get in France)

- maternity leaves up to the employer

All in all, sure I have more money than when I was in France, but my quality of life is not significantly better. I can afford more stuff, but that's about it, and I'm not sure it's still true once you have a family.

And in general no safety nets, you have to build your own. You can be fired at will in a lot of states.

My biggest gripes with France are:

- most of the interesting tech jobs are in Paris. I don't like Paris (it's personal, I just hated living in Paris).

- absurd tech consulting companies (ssii, 90% of them exist solely to make up for how hard it is to [hf]ire in France)

- management vs engineering: engineers are under compensated compared to managers, a brilliant engineer has to become a manager at some point to evolve in their careers. Companies like to pretend that they have a management and a tech track, but you're almost always better off taking the management track. This can be somewhat true in some industries in the US, but it's not as prevalent as it is in France.

I worked for 3 years in France (Paris and province), and 3 years in the US (NJ and NYC). Things are the same. Humans are the same. It all depends on the company culture.

I've done like the first 3 levels in the past. This stuff takes a lot of time, if I wanted to get a job at Google I'd probably go with the phone screen instead...

Have you tried debugging with webstorm?

I was once asked to name the last 5 CEOs and the past major acquisitions of that bank during an interview. I was a junior software engineer not even working in that industry.

Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zLvbJ9R...

University rankings are full of manure if you will pardon my French.

The model they use favors big general universities with a strong research department. Also how do you evaluate the learning environment? Number of flat screen tvs per student? Number of millions spent on sports facilities?

Teaching: the learning environment (worth 30 per cent of the overall ranking score) Research: volume, income and reputation (worth 30 per cent) Citations: research influence (worth 30 per cent) Industry income: innovation (worth 2.5 per cent) International outlook: staff, students and research (worth 7.5 per cent).

It's at least the third article that spun off from the WSJ article (if not even an older article/interview).

What kind of visa could you qualify for as a COO?

The concern wasn't about it being better or cheaper, it was that most restaurants were claiming that the food was home made while it was prepackaged. It's not forbidden to serve prepackaged food.

I don't understand, are you saying that there are too many languages? I find it very reasonable: - css, js, html are unavoidable for a web app - sql is as standard as it gets for interacting with your database - shell is also widely used as a glue + mini tools/scripts - maven, xml, xsd, xslt are pretty much all xml, and good luck writing a modern java app without touching it - java is the main language in there.

If anything I'm surprised at the small number of languages.

It would be way bigger for the project I'm currently working on at work: we have python for scripting and integration tests, ruby for chef deployment, java as the main language, some shell tools, js/html/css/xml/yml, some legacy groovy, etc..

It's very common to have little scripts and tools hacked together that are rarely used (or even one-offs) making it to the main codebase.

As for the number of lines of code, I don't know how they count libraries and dependencies, but with maven it's very common to be pulling half the universe's libraries through transitive dependencies for parts of the libs that are not even used. It doesn't mean your code is wrong.

It feels like people are just trying to find reasons to criticize that project.

That's subjective, I like the simple look. Also his prospective client want an MVP, a working prototype, they're probably not after the design.

In France it's very hard to fire. What ends up happening is that consulting companies are popping up left and right, the result is that salaries are lower for employees (less leverage when negociating, no room for promotion, company cut, smaller term contracts, terrible perks), and for the company "renting" the consultant: higher costs and less commitment.

It's tough to find the right balance: at will employment can lead to unfair situations for the employee, and strong regulations can lead to people abusing the system (like that guy I worked with who had been there for so long that he was cheaper to pay than to fire).

Isn't it simply a form of garbage collection? Instead of garbage collecting all the unused objects at random moments, an object is garbage collected as soon as it goes out of scope.

The way I understand it, no garbage collection means you take care of cleaning after yourself, whereas garbage collectors do it for you. It sounds like what he calls resource acquisition.

They obviously want to prevent phone thieves from adding money to your Starbucks account!

You can invalidate tokens for a compromised phone. Well you can also change your password, but I'd rather revoke the access from my phone than have my password stolen. Some kind of validation mechanism before you order could be nice (like a screen lock), something you can do with one hand.

I used to read r/programming a lot, but eventually ended up reading hacker news for this kind of news. I would not be surprised if you could match r/programming decline in popularity with a rise in popularity of HN.

I used to live in France, DSL providers are a joke here. Verizon advertised $30 for single play (no phone, no television). In the end they added "fees" and taxes (what those are not included?), the price was $56 per month. The router is as shitty as it gets too. Now I moved and for $55 I have cable with optimum and it's way better. Still more expensive than Free, and still no tv/phone included.

I made a little trello clone as a weekend side project, http://lipstr.com , I've stopped working on it, I don't use it all that often since I like using a paper to keep track of my tasks now. My girlfriend is probably the only daily user.

If you're like me, you had the wrong google account selected. Once I switched to my phone's, it was terrifyingly accurate.

Windsurfing also requires stronger winds. ~13/14 knots is enough to kite and jump around, and I think you need 3/4 knots to windsurf comfortably.

It's the first exercise in datasci-001 on coursera... Not much of an invention. https://class.coursera.org/datasci-001

100 minutes talk is outgoing and ingoing. Learned it the hard way. Luckily the interview was over.

That's a ridiculous amount of time, nobody would wait that long unless they are changing jobs and are not in a hurry.

So the fact that the US is not the only country doing it should make it acceptable? What kind of an argument is that.

All right, a lot of people have commented about bad experiences with free transportation. I had a good one about free buses: I lived for a couple years in the north of France in Compiegne (where the ww2 armistice was signed). Buses were free, clean of homeless people, and very enjoyed by the student population. The line was not running at night, and Sundays and holidays the fare was 1 euro (pretty damn cheap).

Compiegne is also a fairly rich middle-sized town, so the cases are different, but it's just to give an example of a place where it was successfully implemented.