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> Top developers in banks and startups dont have time for that

Sorry to disagree but I have spent my whole 15 year career as a developer at banks and many fortune 50/100 companies and I can tell you for certain that most developers in these extremely high paying corporate jobs, including the developers do rarely do any software development or practice outside of the office.

Keep in mind that most of these jobs require a decade or more of experience so most of these folks have wives, children, 4k sq. ft. homes with swimming pools and all of the collective responsibilities that go along with those things. Consequently, their managers are in the same position so it almost never expected that anyone regularly sacrifices their family life for work related activities outside of times when it's absolutely necessary.

Successful, established and non-software companies rarely ever implement bleeding edge technology. In fact most of these companies have EA departments that forbid the use of anything outside of the approved, vetted technology stack without a specific approved exception.

What I've seen in these teams is that there is little emphasis on learning new technology like what I see as the standard requirements in HN lately. Developers instead set themselves apart by (and are interviewed/hired for) consistently demonstrating exceptional/outstanding: -problem solving -critical thinking -customer focused behavior -core enginerring skills -business domain/political accumen -leadership and mentorship

Only a couple times have I reviewed an employee performance appraisal that contained management directives related to lack of software skills and I have reviewed thousands of them to date.

I have personally interviewed and hired hundreds of elite software engineers for salaries of well over six figures and I can guaranty you that the question of emerging technologies is only discussed if the candidate brings it up or specifically has it on their resume.

The recent stories about complex technical algorithmic interviews that I hear about on HN are nothing like most big corporations interviews. The good corporations hire good people knowing that skills change and can be trained.

As a mater of fact, I know several elite level software engineers at top US companies that if presented with the startup style interview process would either fail miserably or would be so completely insulted by the process and hubris that they would decline to proceed with the interview(then go across the street to a fortune 50 and easily collect 225k with benefits).

TL;DR: The majority of elite U.S. software development jobs are nothing like the working conditions often described on HN.

I'm curious how this was funded. If the authors had asked most anyone involved in Airline reservation management they would have told them this plain and simple as it is no secret. Yield management and airline network dynamics are just some of the drivers for these "common sense violations".

Also just to correct another comment on how often fares change. For international flights airlines can publish new fares to ATPCO up to 10 times per day however with newer pricing strategies/technologies such as bid-price the fares can change to meet the demand curve in near realtime.

Airline pricing and revenue management is a very complex and interesting topic that has always pushed the envelope of technology and business management. There is a reason why google purchased ITA. I was really excited to see a paper on the topic post on HN but in the end this study has very little substance to add to the many bodies of work out there.

I would be glad to discuss it with you over email. My address is in my profile.

You may want to reconsider the name since JAWS is widley known as the defacto application for accessibility screen readers.

As far as legal stuff goes the american federation of the blind has been known to litigate against technology companies.

I really like the layout of your site and its a great idea.

Did you start from a template or from scratch? If you used a template can you point me to it?

At what point do we accept that HN has become little more than an advertising channel dominated by thinly veiled sales pitches that pretend to be informative or opinionated?

This particular blog post feels like a bait and switch because I clicked the link hoping to learn something new about this real problem that we are facing and it was not until that last few paragraphs until it was confirmed that I was being sold too. Is this really the type of content that we want to promote to the top page of HN, the very same place where so many critical and important issues have been discussed over the last several years?

I hate to be "that guy" but the over last year, nearly every article or opinion piece I think I am reading is someone's blog post promoting their new product. I do realize that products and start-ups are THE culture here but there used to be a lot more actual opinions posted and many less blatant sales pitches.

Sorry for the rant, but I personally find myself visiting the site much less frequently because of this.

May I please add a comment from outside the bubble? It does not have to be this way. My current employer is a low cost travel company, we are celebrating our 43rd anniversary as a company. In these 43 years not a single person has been laid off. Not one janitor, not one programmer, not one reservations agent.

We do not have a planetarium. We do not have a movie theater. We do not offer free food to our employees every day. We do not as a policy, pay for our employees' day care. We do not implement the latest and greatest technologies on a whim because we think they are cool.

We do offer one of the best, IMO, health care plans in the industry. We do respect our employees, vendors and co-workers. We do offer generous retirements benefits. We do work very hard to use technology to solve problems that are as or more difficult than your favorite silicon valley startup. We do take into account the ability to sustain every single employee for the next 20 years into every decision we make. We do treat every employee like they are a member of our family and will continue to for the next 43 years.

Consider all of the above when you are looking for a new job or starting a new company.

Developers, please take note of the authors statement below....

"Many developers assume that everyone wants their data to be “in the cloud”, but that's actually not true for a lot of my customers. Professional researchers often sign agreements in their children's blood stating that their data will be stored on an encrypted disk, won't leave their laptop, and will be destroyed when the research project is completed. “The cloud” is the last place they want their data to go."

There are so many great note taking and productivity application that I just can't use because the majority of my notes are of a confidential nature. If my company provided macbook where to be compromised I would not be held liable, however if my personal dropbox or evernote account where compromised I would be held accountable.

I am glad that these two guys truly believed in their ideas and where not discouraged by your lack buy-in to their vision.

I am often reminded of the 2001 me. When I was new developer building java web applications and full of vigor with no real responsibilities or expenses.

I was dead set on this idea to build a site where people could post links, pictures, text or whatever and it would be voted and categorically managed by the user community.

I shopped the idea and prototype around to people in my limited network and it was unanimous that no one would ever want to invest time into this concept. Discouraged, I scrapped the idea and accepted a position as the first non-partner employee at a consulting start-up that quickly imploded.

Years later reddit moves to the forefront of the internet with striking resemblance to my original plan.

My fault because I did not stick to my guns. The idea that my application could have been half as popular as reddit is unlikely but it taught me a lesson, sometimes you've got to trust your gut, even if the people you trust cannot see your vision.

In this case optimus_prime is a sub domain. The actual DNS entry is likely *.jpg.to so DNS does not have to know how to resolve the URI section with underscore.

I don't think I am in your target market based on your current positioning, however I am in a position where I would be involved in the decision as to whether my company would pay money for something like this.

The company I work for (as an SOA architect) uses regex heavily for many mission critical applications. It costs me 100s of Ks in testing effort when a back-end format experiences major change. We usually don't find a lot of bugs in testing but each missed parsing requirement could mean millions to the bottom line thus justifying the investment in man hours.

If you think support of regex is a tiny market, I am not sure you have considered all of your angles or fully understand your market.

Personally, I am a fan of electronica but have not been a fan of skrillex as an old fogie who is akin to resenting anything with the dubstep label. However after playing this game I am more inclined to check out some skrillex music. Therefore, as an advertisement, this in my mind gets an A++ in effectiveness. I would also point out that being an 80s kid the sample images in the glitches evoked memories of Duck Hunt and Mike Tyson's punch out which made an emotional connection with me that is in turn associated with some great samples of the musicians catalog. Double A++.

Last I will add that I am not a gamer as an adult but I thoroughly enjoyed this "game". My 5 year old daughter completed the game after I did an had no trouble whatsoever with the controls and the story line (I read the text for her). There is definable a market out there for non-gamers who would invest more time into games if the target was not as narrow. This market is likely larger than the Call of Duty/SOCOM market.

So to wrap up.. This is no my cup-of-tea per se, but it is one of those things that can cross boundaries and bring new customers into a market if executed as well as this is.

Yes. I do for multiple reasons