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For solution 1: Titles are based on what you are doing, not what you did at some previous company. Go research typical roles and responsibilities at other companies. If you are doing the VP work already (lots of personnel and process work, in my experience), then show them that you meet the criteria and ask for the title. If you aren't (or they disagree), tell them that you want to get there and ask them for support. This might include classes, an executive coach, and/or mentorship from other executives. Or you may discover that you really want a different title (e.g., technical architect, or something higher up the Google ladder [1]), in which case ask for that.

For solution 2, if you haven't already paid for an accountant who specializes in this, please do.

For solution 3, you could also consider asking them for a one-off payment that would let you collect some/all of your stock in exchange for staying on another year. Then they don't have to mess with the salary structure, and they also don't have to give away more equity.

I'll add that 1+% of equity does not sound bad for somebody who has always collected a good paycheck and who does not have a senior title. Here are some resources that can help you compare:

http://avc.com/2010/11/employee-equity-how-much/

http://www.ackwire.com/jobs/engineering

https://angel.co/salaries

http://www.datarevelations.com/startup-cto-salary-qnd-equity...

https://www.wealthfront.com/tools/startup-salary-equity-comp...

I also saw a Riviera Partners report that put the average equity for A-round VPs of engineering at 1.4%.

[1] https://www.quora.com/As-of-2015-what-are-the-different-leve...
Could the american south of 50 years back included as a "sick society". Just swap "evil witch" with "uppity negro" and exactly the same atrocities were being committed.
Labeling whole groups of people as savages or noble is just a lie, and its been used to enslave and dehumanize others through history. We are all capable of being savage or noble, whether you live in a tropical jungle or highrise apartment somewhere.
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I know nothing about fashion so take this with a grain of salt.

Your products are definitely on the very high end of price when it comes to clothing. Do people buy expensive clothes from a brand they've never heard of online? Maybe you're better suited to a bricks and mortar store so people can touch and feel the product, without the heft of a well known brand behind you. If not a store, then supplying other stores.

The discounting strikes me with cognitive dissonance. You're trying to sell a premium product - why would you discount? Personally I'd never buy clothes that were this expensive outside of a premium suit. I am a purchaser of other premium products, though. Look at what the brands you want to imitate do. Do they discount? Do they do run out sales? Better to just change your price if you didn't pick the right one. If someone's looking for a discount, they're probably after a $20 sweater, not s $500 one.
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Given you are able to land a job at another company making $180K++ it would only add a few more hundred dollars to your bank account after taxes. If I were you I would not optimize for that unless I am after collecting a few more hundred dollars every two weeks.

In reality, the only way to optimize for the best returns for your time is to start something yourself. There is __no__ other way.
Previous discussion about 3 weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367852

Not showering or bathing might seem gross to most inhabitants of first world countries, but it's also the default condition for many poor people around the world. And it has been the default condition for most of humanity throughout most of history.

Personally, I love taking long hot showers.
> Have you ever gone through something like this?

Yeah. For me it wasn't worth it. I could make enough in other companies - where the opportunities for advancing were higher and where the work environment was nicer - to get what I wanted out of life. So, the money was more something that would have been nice to have if someone had offered it to me out of the blue, but of itself didn't/wouldn't result in any significant lasting increase in happiness by comparison to the alternatives.
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It's not clear to me what the writer was thinking. It might be just a causal attribution as others here are suggesting, or it might have a connotation of approval.

Anyway, I think you're making an important point that shouldn't be lost. There is a great arrogance in thinking we know how other people should live.
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>I don't claim to know the answer, but it may be that the ISIS phenomenon is what happens when you have that sort of revolution with more networking. Oh boy. Beheading videos.

I don't think ISIS has anything to do with that -- and they don't particularly thrive on modern networking either, they're just a crude group who seized power in a power vacuum in an isolated area. They could have happened 30 or 100 years ago. Of course they use some modern means, but that's not what defines them.

Besides, the ISIS guys are mostly savages in sophistication (maybe not some heads, but the ground people sure).

But to put their actions in contrast there had been tons of beheadings, torture and mass murder from colonial powers from UK to France up to the late 1950s -- and those countries were supposedly the pinnacle of civilization. And not some isolated incidents either: widespread, matter of policy, and official arranged and covered up when needed.

This is not to defend the former -- just to disgrace the latter the same.

>Markets are fine. The things they do just become furniture we don't notice any more. Most of the "evil" things capitalists get accused of are actually just not very capitalist.

The same can be said (and has been said) for "really existing socialism" like central planning -- that most of the "evil" things communists get accused of are actually just not very communist.

The thing is, what's really "capitalist" is better determined by widespread actual observation on how "really existing" capitalist societies behave -- including the horrors of slavery, colonialism, segregation, military-industrial complex, wars and such -- and not by some idealistic pure "capitalism".

Likewise for the communist version -- though, as I said for that we have far fewer samples, and from worse starting conditions.

Even so, compared to where countries like "capitalist" Nigeria is now for example, "socialist" Czechoslovakia was paradise. And then there's the various degrees of socialism that done very well in both Western Europe and the nordic countries and the US itself (New Deal).
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Wait, isn't this the exact kind of abuse the CFPB was created to address? Why haven't they taken any steps to curb this behavior among banks?
You're honestly surprised by that?
cool post. what about traits and 'static?

Anyhow; Its definitely worth making two points about lifetimes very clear:

1) They don't exist at runtime.

Lifetimes are purely a compile time thing the compiler uses for formal safety.

2) 'a is not a actual lifetime, it is the minimum possible life time valid for that item; ie. a bound, not a concrete value.

&'a means; this arg/trait/ref/whatever must live at least as long as 'a. That's why different objects with different lifetimes can coexist in a struct of 'a, without needing 'a, 'b, 'c etc for each reference in the struct.
The best evidence I have seen for this among friends still in academia is the near-uniform lack of knowledge of, or inability to articulate serious critiques of their own ideas. Almost down to the person, the people I interact with have a "my ideology represents the end of history" mindset. It is getting worse and is not limited to right-left. I recently have seen ruthless attacks against Germaine Greer by campus feminists that don't seem to have an inkling of the history or ideological basis of her school of thought. She's just old, stupid and evil, according to them. Our ideas are unopposed among sane, decent and intelligent people.
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Then, if I understand PG's argument correctly, the VCs should invest in even more startups-with-women, and lower their threshold on investing them, at least until they perform no better than startups-without-women.
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If that were the case, VCs should accept more companies-with-women, which would change the TOTAL mix of accepted candidates so that the women no longer overperformed.

The issue, interestingly, is that there are a lot of women (or biased-against group) between the median performance and 160% performance who are being rejected.

In other words, only the best women can get accepted, which means that above-median (but not superstars) are getting rejected, while many more above-median men are getting accepted.

This has the ring of truth to me (as pg says, it's the definition of bias).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10477721
I don't understand... why would you have to pay 400 years of revenues in order to secure the sale?

Apple might be expected to bring in $200 billion of revenue a year for 400 years. But the market cap is not 80 trillion dollars.
Isn't that most of the stuff? Most places looks like a Corbusier-esq nightmare combined with heavy traffic solutions.

It's not that we know how to build places where people would like to live, just look at the prices. (And remember that inner city densities work only because of that there are wealthy people there, with additional group dynamics in play - like they might be fired if they do even a weird thing.)
I quite don't get why you're complaining with such a compensation, seriously. $165.000, goddamn. I'm 27 and I barely make 1/8 of that a year, being a full stack web developer, in Spain. And here you are, complaining. Sometimes I think you guys in the US live in another world. Better yet, you should try to live in another country. You'd quickly earn how inflated the startup scene salaries are in the US.
PG:

Assumption: There is no fundamental difference between a female and a male founder for achieving start-up success (average rates and variance/distribution of rates is the same)

Observation: VC funded start-ups with female founders are (on average) 60% more successful than start-ups with male founders

Hypothesis: VC funding is biased against female founders. The ones that do receive funding are better vetted, less risky, and have higher individual qualities.

Experiment: Start funding more female founders.

If we then observe: The numbers start to even out, then there is no fundamental difference. VC funding bias may have been the cause of the difference in success rate.

If we then observe: The numbers stay the same, then there is a fundamental difference and our assumption is flawed.

Rational choice: Start funding more female founders. This either removes a bias (levels the playing field), or increases your profit (funding more potentially successful founders).

PG should of course not use an hypothesis to prove an assumption (experiment/probing is needed for verification). But also: The possibility of an uneven distribution should not invalidate such an experiment (or PG's line of reasoning), it will merely bring it to light (the numbers would stay the same, thus we have shown that the difference is fundamental and not caused by a sampling bias).
The argument is that First Round Capital must have implictly made it harder for female founders to get funding, since the ones who do perform better. The rational course of action for First Round Capital would be to lower their threshold on female founders (or, conversely, raise the threshold on male founders) until they perform no better or no worse than male founders.
It also depends on what you mean by commit. Are we talking 5 commits in 1 merge request (Git style), or 5 individual pieces of code to be reviewed separately?

In any case, I think 5 per week is extremely reasonable; I actually do less these days. I used to commit a dozen or more times per week, but these days I tend to work on the larger and harder components that people require. That means more thought and more design. It's not doing less work, it's just doing harder work.

This person may also have had review reponsibilities. Doing a truly thorough code review takes time to complete, and that time is time that you're not coding. It's important though; I may not be coding while I'm reviewing, but I'm sharing knowledge with a dozen other developers who hopefully learn from it (as I learn from others reviewing my own code). In aggregate, I hope that my lack of frequent commits actually helps the company rather than hurts it since hopefully I'm enabling many others to do better work.
For sub-50MHz digital applications, wire wrap is still my preferred method of prototyping, predominately influenced by my undergrad experience with this guy[1]...I'm fairly confident that he was the sole reason why the local RadioShacks in town kept a handsome stock of affordable wire wrap tools and 30AWG wire on the shelves year round.

I know certain defense performance specifications (e.g. [2]) explicitly prohibit the use of wire wrap in production hardware, although in this particularly case, the driving factor is largely based on maintainability considerations.

[1] https://www.ece.ufl.edu/users/gugel-karl
[2] http://www.acq.osd.mil/ats/MIL-PRF-32070A.pdf
I'd also like an answer to this question, as well as an answer to the question of what, in exacting detail please, was so wrong with the previous system it needed to be torn out and replaced?

I definitely tend toward the curmudgeonly, but to this grumpy old man, it seems like we're replacing things simply for the sake of change.
This is stuff of nightmares at the start. I remember my first year doing my BEng. Discovered the wiring of the 32bit address bus was out by one. The wraps were on the bottom layer as well. This forced me to get my schematics right before starting the wiring wrapping. Plenty of other lesson learns as well.
The video is cool. The finished drawings look like garbage.
>This is Africa we are talking about. An entire continent that is filled with tribes and small villages that at least at one time, were ruled by witchdoctors. Got a plague among you? Sacrifice a few children they say.

Your ideas about africa come straight out of the 1850s, and I'm embarrassed to read these kind of comments here. Atleast the people from the 1850s have an excuse ( no internet, pictures, books, travel etc to get the real facts); but whats yours?
I bet my monthly rent covers 6 months of your housing expenses :)

I find useful in these cases to compare monthly_income / monthly_rent to get a relative index that is more comparable across countries.
First, I'm pretty far away from "some guy from Mad Men". That's actually quite a reach into my psyche; it would be interesting to see how you came to such an incisive reading while knowing so little about me.

But as far as the business model, as someone that does not own a car but instead utilizes a mix of public transit, bicycle, ZipCar (sometimes renting the VW Golf, sometimes the Jeep, etc.), and Uber to get around, I still think the Google car looks like something one buys for their four year old niece or nephew, and have faith that a car could check all the boxes functionality wise and still be designed to look, nice, at least. Maybe even really nice.
It's true that this test assumes groups of applicants are
roughly equal in (distribution of) ability. That is the
default assumption in most conversations I've been involved
in about bias, and particularly the example I used, but I'll
add something making that explicit.
Okay, I'll have to wait for your full write-up, because I am not seeing the path of thought here.
Great comment. There are two types of fairness, (a) fair rules, and (b) fair outcome.
I'm just guessing here, but systemd makes some things more convinient by being overall more monolithic, like Windows, and especially distros that are targeting a less technical crowd want to be able to compete with Windows in terms of features and usability. Non-technical people most likely don't see any of the beauty of a strictly modular system or proper clean code.

And this is not about the init-daemon, it is about systemd as a whole integrated suite of daemons that connect easily and add fancy new features, while on the other side you might have to modify two completely independent software projects to add a new feature that uses both, and even then there most likely are alternatives to each one, and you feature will only work with this specific combination. So a more monolithic system, which systemd is despite Lennard denying this, makes development faster, but will bite you in the long run, especially when the code and documentation quality is as poor as systemd's.
It's Ctrl-F2 for the menu bar isn't it? Ctrl-F3 for the dock, something obscure to reshow a hidden window, no idea about restoring a window from maximised state hence after-market ShiftIt installation.

But in Windows you could really do everything with the keyboard, tabbing between controls, pressing shift-tab to go back. Oddly they went overboard in Windows 7 (or Vista?) and made the headers of list views in Explorer tabbable-to, which greatly slowed down Windows-E, tab tab tab tab to get to the pane on the right. F4 for the address bar, F2 to rename etc. etc. all good fun
Bricks and mortar store is something we are considering. To be fair, we don't have enough money to actually setup a "proper" store BUT in London it is possible to open pop up stores, which you can rent for a few days or a few weeks. We are probably going to do that as I'm 100% convinced that our products are actually the best marketing we have.

Beside that, the "discount" topic is a hot one. We are still in the process of testing our assumptions. So far, all we know is that if we sell full-price imitating the "big brands" in our segment, we get 0 attention. As you mentioned, people are after brands and we are still unknown.

Now we are trying to see if there is a segment of people who care about quality and is ready to pay a bit of money to get higher quality but still would never pay 250$ for a scarf from the big brands as they realise that it's all about the empty brand with little quality behind.

Thanks a lot for the feedback, it's really important to have the chance to speak with someone about this stuff (other than my wife, of course).
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Unless you know what exactly caused A to outperform others, you won't really know if the process is biased or what made it biased.

When asserting biases, you must first distinguish them from random noise. Using pg's logic, every selection process that isn't perfect is biased.
Short answer: yes. Long answer: any javascript library (plotting or otherwise) can potentially be used within blabr by creating a "widget" [0]. (Although the API for creating your own widgets is under construction.) For example, [1] extends the built-in plot function (both based on flot [2]). We already use d3.js, so I am sure we could create a widget for xkcd plots based on [3] (say).

[0] http://blabr.io/?ff66265ccd580d6a9b04
[1] http://blabr.io/?7b662930a33b1053072a
[2] http://www.flotcharts.org/
[3] http://dan.iel.fm/xkcd/
Nah, the old system did need replacing [1], and plenty of them were in fact done. [2] Evidently they went understudied, though.

[1] http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/sy...

[2] http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/
If you think you can construct examples that break my test, go ahead and do it. I'm curious to see what you can come up with.

However, your claim that you can have "a token member at C for every group" is merely the claim that adversarial sampling can destroy any statistical procedure. So what? This is boring mathematically. Nor is it relevant to the problem at hand unless you want to claim that First Round Capital is actively conspiring to both a) be biased and earn less money and b) waste more money hiding that bias by funding tokens.
Inflated salaries? No, technical work is not inflated in the US. In Spain companies pay nuts to engineers, and persons like you are responsible for this.
And in Windows 10 there is still different tab styles, even on the same page (go to Explorer's options/preferences dialog and note how the first tab is themed and the second tab page IS NOT themed).

MMC has different icons to Windows Explorer. Different parts of the tree view in Windows Explorer have different icons for other parts of it.

Nothing matches. It's a mess.
P Guo is a Guy Steele level thinker and lecturer. This is good stuff, pay attention.
I don't really disagree.

For the strongest form of the author's argument; that no other system will suffice, ever; it has to be pathological. If I offered you a nice existence with entertaining leisure activities, would your response honestly be to spend the next ten years of your life lobbying for more of the pie? That's a lot of effort to expend - probably without any significant payoff since the return on happiness in terms of extra money drops off - when you could be enjoying yourself instead.

You don't need heaven if people aren't that greedy, (and in my experience - UK based - most people aren't.) Some finite set of resource will suffice.
So what's controlling the synth? It doesn't sound sequenced. It sounds like random noises, and the drawings look like random strokes. It's cool that the synth controls the mechanics of the drawing (it appears), but I'm not sure I understand what's supposed to be going on here overall.
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Python if you just want to get shit done ;)
I've been running my own XMPP server for years, with federation enabled. A few years ago, it seemed like the logical successor to AIM and MSN and all those other walled garden IM systems. And how easy! My XMPP "name" was the same as my email address. One less thing to put on my business card.

But since then, I have realised a big problem with it - no-one uses it! Today I communicate with the world by iMessage, SMS, Twitter, and email. "Instant messaging" just seems to have died as a concept entirely, replaced by yet more walled gardens like Snapchat.

My XMPP server is being turned off for good, next week.
I don't think so, as every time I see systemd mentioned in a headline - the comments are filled with arguments over its use.
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They can always bring in a Senior VP above you if they feel you're not being effective. I've seen it happen at a startup that regretted its decision to give an early employee a VP title, even though there were no other SVPs.
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There are insane positions in infinite chess, a kind of chess warfare, involving a bishop gun battery, where black can fire arbitrarily large bishop guns; each bishop moving out is a kind of bullet, and white must answer at every step. But white ultimately wins, even though black, "doomed", has these various harassment possibilities.