This one is targeted more to people who would use something like Sublime Text. A bit more graphical than GVIM and stuff.
Also, in this particular case, everything is in CSS/Html/Javascript running on Node with Chromium. Want to change the color of your modified files (git) in the treeview? Its just a CSS selector away. Want to add a right click menu that does something completely custom? Javascript. Want to add a new screen? HTML.
Considering a lot of people who would use this editor do front end web development or node.js stuff, its a lot more palatable for modding (as can be seen by the insane amount of packages that are already out even though its currently Mac-only and was in closed beta... its that easy to write a plugin for without needing to learn anything new)
Fanboy or not, OpenGL + all the other things you need to get equivalent to DirectX sucks so much that many developers find that they can make more money by supporting only 1 platform instead of investing in the cross platform solution for that one reason alone.
That is less and less true, and its only a matter of time before its not true at all, but the fact that its taking so damn long is telling of how annoying it is to develop games for those other platforms.
Kind of a reverse of the web development situation (where developing for everything but IE is easy)
No, but a TV show giving accurate information certainly encourages people to try that would not normally. That happens all the time, with everything you see on TV.
All new developments in a lot of cities already require 10%+ of low income units.
You're not going to convince anyone to buy a house in anything beyond that for a simple reason: As it is, even a 100% "rich" development only needs 1 annoying dick to ruin it for hundreds of people, and while cities have laws to stop someone from putting a fucking wind chime next to your bedroom window, or having their kids scream all day and all night, good luck getting them to enforce it.
So then you'll end up straight back to square 1, with the mixed neighborhoods where someone found a loop hole, and the mixed neighborhoods where they didn't. Thats already what happens with section 8 housing.
Make it that 1 annoying idiot doesn't ruin the neighborhood for everyone, and the upper middle class will be the first ones lining up requesting mixed neighborhoods.
First, a lot of the bilingual packaging is used in the US too. Often they use the same package for all of north america. I'm Canadian too, but living in the US, and it surprised me just how much of it is exactly the same as the Canadian package, complete with Quebec-compliant french.
Second, its the same as everything else: in Canada, iTune is a shadow of what it is here, Amazon has a fraction of the inventory, Netflix is a streaming ghost town with only a handful of meaningful shows (remember when it just launched in Canada? Most of its content was older than I am...and I'm pretty old...)
Pretty much. People going halfway for licenses to appease their conscience is just dumb.
While probably an exception here, I don't mind intellectual property laws (and I still follow the ones I don't like....if I just ignore them they wont get changed), but either you do, or you don't. Going in the middle is silly.
Thats like people getting 1 MSDN license and then deploying the software on all their computers to use for day to day usage. Thats not what the license is for. If you're not going to go by the license, just pirate the damn thing. If you're going to screw over the license-holder anyway, why hurt yourself in the process? It makes no sense.
Content is licensed by locations, which means in this case its for US residents. Your citizenship has jack squat to do with it. That's why someone visiting the US in vacation can and you can't.
You can complain about the licensing model, sure, but this isn't a government service. Your citizenship means nothing in this argument.
Competition for electric vs electric is rare, but competition between electric and gas is not uncommon. Where I am the electric and gas company is one and the same, but I used to live in an area where they were not, and competition was somewhat aggressive.
Of course, in this particular context (broadband availability and cost), corruption or not, Canada makes the USA looks good, so its probably a bad example for this article.
Dont forget the Cambridge/Boston area. Pretty much the best salary to cost of living ratio for IT devs (not if you live next door, but if you live within 15 minutes of work prices drop drastically)
reminds me of something "funny" that happened to be recently.
I was on the market to buy a house. As it is in many areas, all new developments must have a percentage of section 8 housing.
There's this new townhouse development walking distance from a main subway line, yet still far enough to be totally quiet, in a prestine neighborhood. The townhouses were between 700 and 850k each. One of them, a 800k single family attached with an indoor garage, an additional off street spot, and a yard....was one of the section 8s.
Made me want to tear my school papers and make a few kids so I could live there. It was a dream house by the area's standards...and a lot of high end professionals would not be able to afford -renting- it, nevermind buying it.
It absolutely make sense to do. If I was a woman who wanted kids, I'd do this in a heartbeat.
The benefits however, are going to be short lived. Things that improve your economic situation only work when you're one of the few doing it. Like when women started having careers, a couple in that situation was way, way ahead of the curve financially. Now that its common though, that pretty little house in the perfect neighborhood is priced for couples where both have a career.
So once/if this becomes a mainstream thing to do, anyone who wants kids and the pretty house will HAVE to do this.
If you're a decent software engineer and live in San Francisco, Boston or NYC and you buy a house today, by the time you retire, it will probably be worth 1-2 million.
Then other stuff in the summary:
being most valued employee at your organization. If you exclude the execs, yes, software engineers probably get the best work to salary + benefit ratio if any profession right now.
Any decent software engineer who doesn't get a raise this year is probably quitting faster than their employer can tell them the news, and will start their new job with an extra 10-20% pay tacked on before they finish their sentence.
In place worth working at, outsourcing is frequently used for level 1 and 2 support, click testing (so actual QA Engineers can do something more meaningful), and to deal with legacy software no one else wants to touch.
Its not that way everywhere, and that's why the numbers aren't 100% in every category. But they seem about right.
Risk getting broken more than stolen. Its not much harder to steal than any ol engagement ring that half the girls in their 20s or 30s prance around, and those are frequently worth a LOT more than $1500. But diamond and rare metals are a lot harder to break than a fragile piece of technology in your face. I can "pretend" to bump into someone wearing them and if they're shorter than me, there goes the glasses!
They came out around the same time, but their popularity as a web development language was separated by quite a few years. PHP was everywhere a few years before JSP and Servlets started powering bank websites all over the place.
The example you give is a decent one, because there's an easy comparison point: C#. VB.net and C#, aside for unsafe block, inline event handlers, XML literals, VB6 compability assemblies and a few other minor things, are exactly the same. They compile to the exact same bytecode, byte for byte, if you write the same thing in both.
Yet VB.net devs are paid less, VB.net code is almost universally worse, VB.net companies are generally garbage, even though the 2 language are almost exactly the same, because of all the factors you already pointed out.
Right, so it only really save the step of retreiving your W-2 in the US (where you just type your personal info, it pulls data from your job and does all the math for you....then you add investment info and whatsnot).
So it saves you one step, and the easiest one. No arguing that its better...but it doesn't add much (the main issue in the US is the tax code is too complex and downright retarded...the tools to handle it actually work fine)
The web interfaces that several tax tools have been moving to kind of solve the problem of the operating system. I never used Tax Act, but I don't think I could ever get myself to download a tool to do my taxes.
Of course the US tax code is like, what, the second most complicated in the world or something? (I think Germany has it worse?), which is a problem in itself.
That said, what you describe definately seems like it would work quite well for people who just work for an employer, as you mentioned.
But here at least, the amount of people who are either self employed, do free lance on the side, or have some kind of investments, is a pretty damn large portion (on top of my head I actually don't know a single person who does not fall in one of those categories...of course its because of where I live and is not representative), so, at the very least, it wouldn't help me much:)
Filing taxes is annoying enough, and even the "premium" options are just not that expensive for anyone in our field with a job (if you're not in that category, its a different story, obviously), that it just doesn't matter.
I do have a condo I just bought, I'm married, and I do have stocks, but using the appropriate TurboTax option, I basically just punch in some information, and it retrieves my W-2s and tax papers. Punching in the real estate data takes 5 minutes. So all in all, about 45 minutes for both people and forget about it.
Only annoyance was that the e-filling for stocks wasn't available for like, a month after I tried to file, so I had to wait a bit to submit the whole thing, but considering the amount the IRS wants from me, I wasn't in any particular hurry.
In MA, precedent(s) was (were?) set for enforcing them for, as you mentioned, key employees. If you're the CTO of a company making, let say, algorithms to design perfect donuts, and you quick to go work for Dunkin Donut's secret research facility in Boston, they would enforce it there. If you're just the tech lead for one of their random development team, in theory the judge will take your side.
Especially since MA, with the Boston/Cambridge area, is also quickly becoming another tech hub... so having similar rules to one of the states with the biggest tech hubs is probably not that bad.
At (low ball) 120k-160k for a mediocre unix dev in the big tech centers... you can deal with a lot of shit from Microsoft before hitting that price tag.
Because aside for landline/cable providers (no competition and "revolts" haven't done a thing), and health care (revolt is a daily thing...), things in the US are overall so much cheaper than anywhere else, its a bit hard to complain.
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This one is targeted more to people who would use something like Sublime Text. A bit more graphical than GVIM and stuff.
Also, in this particular case, everything is in CSS/Html/Javascript running on Node with Chromium. Want to change the color of your modified files (git) in the treeview? Its just a CSS selector away. Want to add a right click menu that does something completely custom? Javascript. Want to add a new screen? HTML.
Considering a lot of people who would use this editor do front end web development or node.js stuff, its a lot more palatable for modding (as can be seen by the insane amount of packages that are already out even though its currently Mac-only and was in closed beta... its that easy to write a plugin for without needing to learn anything new)
Fanboy or not, OpenGL + all the other things you need to get equivalent to DirectX sucks so much that many developers find that they can make more money by supporting only 1 platform instead of investing in the cross platform solution for that one reason alone.
That is less and less true, and its only a matter of time before its not true at all, but the fact that its taking so damn long is telling of how annoying it is to develop games for those other platforms.
Kind of a reverse of the web development situation (where developing for everything but IE is easy)
No, but a TV show giving accurate information certainly encourages people to try that would not normally. That happens all the time, with everything you see on TV.
All new developments in a lot of cities already require 10%+ of low income units.
You're not going to convince anyone to buy a house in anything beyond that for a simple reason: As it is, even a 100% "rich" development only needs 1 annoying dick to ruin it for hundreds of people, and while cities have laws to stop someone from putting a fucking wind chime next to your bedroom window, or having their kids scream all day and all night, good luck getting them to enforce it.
So then you'll end up straight back to square 1, with the mixed neighborhoods where someone found a loop hole, and the mixed neighborhoods where they didn't. Thats already what happens with section 8 housing.
Make it that 1 annoying idiot doesn't ruin the neighborhood for everyone, and the upper middle class will be the first ones lining up requesting mixed neighborhoods.
First, a lot of the bilingual packaging is used in the US too. Often they use the same package for all of north america. I'm Canadian too, but living in the US, and it surprised me just how much of it is exactly the same as the Canadian package, complete with Quebec-compliant french.
Second, its the same as everything else: in Canada, iTune is a shadow of what it is here, Amazon has a fraction of the inventory, Netflix is a streaming ghost town with only a handful of meaningful shows (remember when it just launched in Canada? Most of its content was older than I am...and I'm pretty old...)
Pretty much. People going halfway for licenses to appease their conscience is just dumb.
While probably an exception here, I don't mind intellectual property laws (and I still follow the ones I don't like....if I just ignore them they wont get changed), but either you do, or you don't. Going in the middle is silly.
Thats like people getting 1 MSDN license and then deploying the software on all their computers to use for day to day usage. Thats not what the license is for. If you're not going to go by the license, just pirate the damn thing. If you're going to screw over the license-holder anyway, why hurt yourself in the process? It makes no sense.
Content is licensed by locations, which means in this case its for US residents. Your citizenship has jack squat to do with it. That's why someone visiting the US in vacation can and you can't.
You can complain about the licensing model, sure, but this isn't a government service. Your citizenship means nothing in this argument.
Competition for electric vs electric is rare, but competition between electric and gas is not uncommon. Where I am the electric and gas company is one and the same, but I used to live in an area where they were not, and competition was somewhat aggressive.
Of course, in this particular context (broadband availability and cost), corruption or not, Canada makes the USA looks good, so its probably a bad example for this article.
Those bribes are expensive man. They need to get something back for them!
Dont forget the Cambridge/Boston area. Pretty much the best salary to cost of living ratio for IT devs (not if you live next door, but if you live within 15 minutes of work prices drop drastically)
reminds me of something "funny" that happened to be recently.
I was on the market to buy a house. As it is in many areas, all new developments must have a percentage of section 8 housing.
There's this new townhouse development walking distance from a main subway line, yet still far enough to be totally quiet, in a prestine neighborhood. The townhouses were between 700 and 850k each. One of them, a 800k single family attached with an indoor garage, an additional off street spot, and a yard....was one of the section 8s.
Made me want to tear my school papers and make a few kids so I could live there. It was a dream house by the area's standards...and a lot of high end professionals would not be able to afford -renting- it, nevermind buying it.
It absolutely make sense to do. If I was a woman who wanted kids, I'd do this in a heartbeat.
The benefits however, are going to be short lived. Things that improve your economic situation only work when you're one of the few doing it. Like when women started having careers, a couple in that situation was way, way ahead of the curve financially. Now that its common though, that pretty little house in the perfect neighborhood is priced for couples where both have a career.
So once/if this becomes a mainstream thing to do, anyone who wants kids and the pretty house will HAVE to do this.
Yup. Those numbers aren't surprising.
If you're a decent software engineer and live in San Francisco, Boston or NYC and you buy a house today, by the time you retire, it will probably be worth 1-2 million.
Then other stuff in the summary:
being most valued employee at your organization. If you exclude the execs, yes, software engineers probably get the best work to salary + benefit ratio if any profession right now.
Any decent software engineer who doesn't get a raise this year is probably quitting faster than their employer can tell them the news, and will start their new job with an extra 10-20% pay tacked on before they finish their sentence.
In place worth working at, outsourcing is frequently used for level 1 and 2 support, click testing (so actual QA Engineers can do something more meaningful), and to deal with legacy software no one else wants to touch.
Its not that way everywhere, and that's why the numbers aren't 100% in every category. But they seem about right.
Risk getting broken more than stolen. Its not much harder to steal than any ol engagement ring that half the girls in their 20s or 30s prance around, and those are frequently worth a LOT more than $1500. But diamond and rare metals are a lot harder to break than a fragile piece of technology in your face. I can "pretend" to bump into someone wearing them and if they're shorter than me, there goes the glasses!
They came out around the same time, but their popularity as a web development language was separated by quite a few years. PHP was everywhere a few years before JSP and Servlets started powering bank websites all over the place.
The example you give is a decent one, because there's an easy comparison point: C#. VB.net and C#, aside for unsafe block, inline event handlers, XML literals, VB6 compability assemblies and a few other minor things, are exactly the same. They compile to the exact same bytecode, byte for byte, if you write the same thing in both.
Yet VB.net devs are paid less, VB.net code is almost universally worse, VB.net companies are generally garbage, even though the 2 language are almost exactly the same, because of all the factors you already pointed out.
Right, so it only really save the step of retreiving your W-2 in the US (where you just type your personal info, it pulls data from your job and does all the math for you....then you add investment info and whatsnot).
So it saves you one step, and the easiest one. No arguing that its better...but it doesn't add much (the main issue in the US is the tax code is too complex and downright retarded...the tools to handle it actually work fine)
The web interfaces that several tax tools have been moving to kind of solve the problem of the operating system. I never used Tax Act, but I don't think I could ever get myself to download a tool to do my taxes.
Of course the US tax code is like, what, the second most complicated in the world or something? (I think Germany has it worse?), which is a problem in itself.
That said, what you describe definately seems like it would work quite well for people who just work for an employer, as you mentioned.
But here at least, the amount of people who are either self employed, do free lance on the side, or have some kind of investments, is a pretty damn large portion (on top of my head I actually don't know a single person who does not fall in one of those categories...of course its because of where I live and is not representative), so, at the very least, it wouldn't help me much :)
Filing taxes is annoying enough, and even the "premium" options are just not that expensive for anyone in our field with a job (if you're not in that category, its a different story, obviously), that it just doesn't matter.
I do have a condo I just bought, I'm married, and I do have stocks, but using the appropriate TurboTax option, I basically just punch in some information, and it retrieves my W-2s and tax papers. Punching in the real estate data takes 5 minutes. So all in all, about 45 minutes for both people and forget about it.
Only annoyance was that the e-filling for stocks wasn't available for like, a month after I tried to file, so I had to wait a bit to submit the whole thing, but considering the amount the IRS wants from me, I wasn't in any particular hurry.
In MA, precedent(s) was (were?) set for enforcing them for, as you mentioned, key employees. If you're the CTO of a company making, let say, algorithms to design perfect donuts, and you quick to go work for Dunkin Donut's secret research facility in Boston, they would enforce it there. If you're just the tech lead for one of their random development team, in theory the judge will take your side.
Especially since MA, with the Boston/Cambridge area, is also quickly becoming another tech hub... so having similar rules to one of the states with the biggest tech hubs is probably not that bad.
At (low ball) 120k-160k for a mediocre unix dev in the big tech centers... you can deal with a lot of shit from Microsoft before hitting that price tag.
Because aside for landline/cable providers (no competition and "revolts" haven't done a thing), and health care (revolt is a daily thing...), things in the US are overall so much cheaper than anywhere else, its a bit hard to complain.