It was pretty easy for us. We just use Jira/Crucible. I don't think I've ever had to convince anyone they're necessary.

To be honest, the biggest mistake I've seen entry-level engineers make is not applying for every job.

|Everyone wants senior or lead developers in 2014.

This has literally always been the case. They want a senior engineer. They'll accept you.

"built a new system—known as a software “framework,” in engineering speak"

Hearing the words "engineering speak" bothers me. Wired knows a significant portion of its readers are engineers, right?

Saying just software framework would have probably been fine. Humans are pretty good at inferring the meaning of words from context...

> Wired knows a significant portion of its readers are engineers, right?

I seem to recall that Wired was widely regarded poorly in the technical community as early as the turn of the millenium and that it has long been viewed as something read by non-technical folks who want to feel "plugged in" to technology.

So, I'd kind of be surprised if it was really the case that a "significant portion" of Wired's readers were engineers.

That's my impression of Wired as well, but this still seems a bit egregious even for a layman's tech news site.

I feel like Wired goes back and forth a lot - some of their articles (on a number of topics, not just computer-related) are pleasingly technical and I've really enjoyed them, and some feel really watered down. Probably, it depends on the individual writer.

I remember reading a feature in Wired 10+ years ago about how processors were made that went into some quantum details and basically never stopped to take a breath. It was refreshing to see a publication simply assume you were smart enough to read, and thus smart enough to follow along (or look up the hard words yourself). I guess times have changed a bit.

I had the same thought when I saw that and the line "Much of this is thanks to a sweeping effort to rebuild the site using a software programming technology called Scala". I had to double check that I was reading something on wired.com. It seems even more excessively watered down than usual.

Just be glad it wasn't "boffin speak" as the contemptuous British press are so fond of.

I like the word "boffin". It seems like it is used to denigrate others less frequently than similar words (including "engineer" itself, which in some circles and situations is implicitly understood to be an insult).

Saying engineers sound like scientists is like saying Brits sound like Scots.

Sure, they understand each other, but it's a whole different dialect.

or just "system."

Email will last as long as we are thinking of computers in terms of files and text.

That's the foreseeable future. Anything beyond that is speculation.

Honestly, the biggest fault of Google Maps is that I can't find something "along the way" to something, just nearby. I'd be much happier if I could specify "TGIF's on the way to Alice's house" or "Gas stations along the way to Las Vegas near the halfway point."

I can't get too mad at it, since I can just zoom out and it'll search from the center of the map - but it's not very effective if the distances are long or if I'm using the text interface.

TomTom will actually do this. You can specify that you want to go to a gas station along your route and it will list all of them and the detour distance required. Unfortunately TomTom makes you pay for live traffic data.

You can add extra location to directions by clicking the + to the bottom left of the existing ones (in browser at least). Although I'm not sure if that works with generic locations (like gas stations etc)

Checkout Waze. It calculates time off your current route.

Since Google now own Waze, hopefully these features will be heading to maps soon.

|In the current study, Jodi Gilman, PhD, Anne Blood, PhD, and Hans Breiter, MD, of Northwestern University and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to compare the brains of 18- to 25-year olds who reported smoking marijuana at least once per week with those with little to no history of marijuana use.

Most people who consume marijuana regularly would not admit that information. This is not and cannot be a representative sample. Also correlation causation problems and tiny (20 people) sample size.

Yeah, 20 people doesn't make a study, it makes a basis for forming a hypothesis for potentially going after a grant to actually do a study.

The problem with crowdfunding education is that most people with wealthy connections can already afford college.

Very true, especially if the donations are mostly coming from friends and family. Codefund will require users to demonstrate need, in order for us to fulfill our mission of providing aid to those individuals who truly need it. If we're going to bolster and diversify the tech industry, then we need to address the problem of bootcamp tuition funding, which currently, is very expensive for the average individual with no programming experience looking to make a dramatic career change.

This seems like a tactic that would be completely ineffective - it has nothing to do with salary. High-cost employees are hired because they're valuable, not cheap. If someone asked about my personal finances, I would simply say:

"I ask for 95,000$ because I'll easily provide that value to your company. Pay has nothing to do with my personal finances - it's how much my work is worth. Are you looking to hire someone valuable? Because that's what I bring to the table."

I kept trying to avoid adding "If you want cheap, go hire some college interns and let me know so I can go short on your stock."

Yes, it wouldn't work with western cultures. Things like rent of the shop, mouths to feed, etc get used a lot in bazaars. I reckon it's a form of appeal to fairness.

I've always understood it as part of an act, a way to say 'lower the price or I walk' without causing offense. An equivalent response would be 'I would love to give you this deal, but my wife would divorce me for giving such a low price'.

I remember this phase of my work.

I solved it by producing content no one could possibly question the value of, then becoming an expert on that content.

It's easy to work 40 hours per week if the company would see you as valuable if you worked 0.

And since you outpace your coworkers, I can't see why you can't do this.