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People are made to expect too much. Options and other equity-related things are presented as golden tickets. They're magical carrots held out to employees to convince them to work harder for less pay.

And then it turns out that their value is greatly overstated and people get upset.

Yeah, people should know better. But it sure would help if companies would stop misleading people.
> Upon reflection, I want to apologize for the overly pessimistic and harsh tone I chose to use.

No worries. Your points were fair and your tone wasn't harsh.

> Thanks for your optimism and hope for the good in all of us. I could use some of that too.

I try. And it's hard, too. But I think we need to do it, we need to learn to refocus on positive things, because our own attitudes on individual and social level form a feedback loop that drive our outlook.
It is great irony that it is posted on CCTV's Facebook page. Given that 99% of their audience can't access Facebook.
IPv4 lets the MTU get as low as 68 (but you're only sending 8 bytes of data per packet); IPv6 prevents it from getting any lower than 1280, but permits "link-specific fragmentation and reassembly" as long as IPv6 itself doesn't see any smaller fragments.

IPv6 also permits (but does not require) jumbograms that make full use of the 32-bit packet size field, but across a wireless link, having to retransmit 4 GB at a time seems like a bad plan... this only seems useful for short-distance wired connections among hosts that know they've got a quality cable between them.
Seriously, you think
movzwl	-4(%rbp), %eax
addl	$1, %eax
movw	%ax, -4(%rbp)
will be on par with
addq	$1, -16(%rbp)
You don't know how hardware works...
I suppose cloud computing infrastructure investment would be one.=
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It is not less clear but redundant with "to" and "a". They already make the verb/noun distinction apparent.
I am so afraid of letting people fall away like you do. I have no idea why. There's something in me that says to keep in touch with everyone. Your way is much more productive.
> It makes sense to expand our knowledge in every direction possible.

Not quite: Instead, for any amount of money, there are, or, as we start spending the money on research, soon will be, more candidate research projects than money. So we have to pick and choose our research projects.

IMHO we have better candidate research projects, including just in investigating the solar system, than getting fly-by pictures of Pluto.

Maybe NASA has some longer term ideas for research on Pluto where the recent pictures, and maybe also just the trip there, are just the beginning. Okay, land there, in a bunch of nitrogen snow. Take and analyze some samples and radio the data back to earth. Maybe get some data unique and valuable data on the formation of the solar system, maybe on some gamma ray bursts or super nova explosions, etc. Maybe. But just the pictures? IMHO, not so good.
That's a valid point so I gave you a compensatory upvote. It would depend a lot on the nature of the economy in such a world and how these hypothetical beings got and maintained their wealth.

At the risk of totally derailing into sci-fi speculation, I'll also say that I suspect any civilization that advanced would also be truly spacefaring. That would probably make a difference too.
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I had a very similar thought.

I'm surprised how many people are calling this "beautiful" and getting all misty eyed, this feels like an inelegant solution.

I would love to be wrong and hear that someone did the math and found that stopping the train wasn't any more wasteful than just sending this girl a taxi or something, but I have some doubts.

I am unfamiliar with trains, but seeing how cars are tuning themselves off at stop lights now to conserve energy and avoid pollution it really sounds very wasteful stop a whole train for one person. I have to assume that it requires a lot of energy to slow and accelerate a train weighing in at least the tens and likely the hundreds of tons.

It's a sweet idea, but it really does feel misguided to me.
Are you referring to continuous integration? Cont delivery? Just stacks? If you're referring to some platforms..

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Gradle http://gradle.org is an open source build automation system that builds upon the concepts of Apache Ant and Apache Maven and introduces a Groovy-based domain-specific language (DSL) instead of the XML form used by Apache Maven of declaring the project configuration.
I completely (and unfortunately) agree. This population pattern manifests in so many countries. The United States would be in this situation if not for our immigration inflow. South Korea actually has an even lower birthrate than Japan. China has a smaller population base in its youth vs its middle aged segment as a result of their one child policy [1].

I wonder... will all developed nations engage in a war for productive immigrants in order to prevent a population pyramid based collapse of their economies?

[1] http://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/population-pyramids/china-p...
Oh, it was far from an obvious win. At that stage, it was going to take a relentlessly resourceful team making a series of good decisions. Further, going to complete strangers for an initial $150k raise doesn't make a ton of sense. This is friends and family territory or you would need to get to know some (semi-)professional investors. I don't think there's a whole lot to be learned from that story except that it's not a great approach to seed raising.
In this particular case, ooc is a syntax sugar for C, like CoffeeScript is a syntax sugar for JavaScript. It wouldn't make any sense not to compile to C.
This story, like many, brings warm feelings to me. I lived in Japan for 5 mo during a student exchange (Kyoto) and I can say, that even though there was at least 3-4 different train lines operated by different companies in Kyoto alone, it was still a joy to use (even though I did complain at why so many train cos on the region from time to time).

It's also a nice change of tone of the eminent doom of Japan written by so many. Like so many countries, Japan has its faults, but it also has a very bright side.
I've heard an interesting proposal that has the owner set a value for the work, and the tax calculation is based on that estimate. To keep the owner from setting the value too low, they are required to sell if anyone offers to purchase the copyright at the owner-set price.
All you do by proving code correct is shift any errors from the code to the proof.
The database stores the data, the rest API handles the business logic. Django has multiple plugins for providing a REST API, such as Tastypie. http://tastypieapi.org/ With this, django is the API.
A rest API is good for when you want to share data between multiple clients (eg a website and mobile apps) and want to have more complicated business logic than the database can provide by itself.
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The thing is I want to work at a smaller startup not another startup-slowly-turning-to-an-organisation
This can be an advantage depending on the use-case. E.g. an access point in each home or room means the signals aren't interfering with each other.
It's similar with asking about severance pay. Employers, in fact, often count on the candidate feeling too nervous that they will look bad to ask about negotiating a severance benefit. However, in start-ups in particular where someone being wrong about growth or certain forecasts can mean significant risk of short term layoffs, almost at any time, getting a severance agreement is quite important. And if the company won't do it, because they think you're somehow trying to game the system for your severance benefit, or because they say something dumb like, "well, no one else has asked for a severance benefit" -- then you know it's probably a company to avoid.
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-O1 is good for debugger compatibility, and for avoiding compiler bugs at higher levels.
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Is there a reason why this still relies on a server? I would have thought that the better option would it to be completely P2P, without any servers whatsoever.
"There's no guarantee that options will ever pay out"

^^^ this*1000

You can work for options, but if you can't guarantee their value, won't that be a let down? Why not work to do something good, that you believe in, and/or to better yourself at least so that you may continue to do well?
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It is fairly easy to develop software in such a way that the correctly initialized version of most structures is mostly zero. If you get in the habit of designing your code that way, calloc is clearly superior: you get much faster initialization of your structures (because of SSE or equivalent optimizations for memset) and your code is more maintainable (because extending a structure with a field where a zero value implies unchanged behaviour will just work without changing all the places where the structure is initialized).
You think they would't port Windows to run on an ARM MacBook? Do you know they made Windows to run on the Raspberry Pi ( https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/windows-10-for-iot/ )?

Because I think a MacBook version would have even more backing than that.
I'm an engineer. I'm not telling anyone to shut-up. I'm just making the point that before anyone takes stock options, they need to recognize what they are.
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And some would say philosophy of gender has gone pretty far off the rails compared to the discourse used by the rest of society.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=882864
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Monetary cost, sure. What about the cost on the environment to slow the train down and bring it back up to speed?
There is a little used passenger train service here in NZ from Hamilton to Auckland, which is about ~150 km or so. It runs twice a day (Hamilton to Auckland in the morning, and back in the evening).

I remember reading a while ago that someone crunched the numbers, and they figured that it would've actually been cheaper to fly everyone up each day in a helicopter or two than it cost to run the train.
I thought this way for many years, but don't buy into it anymore. I still want to get paid as much as I can for the work I do, but I'm not any happier because of how much I make. Even today, I'm only happy when I've accomplished something I was trying to do. Sure, I want my family to be happy, but they would be happier if I were happier. Don't just do it for the money.
Plus the fact that China and Japan have never had the best of relations to begin with.
Count Europe out of it for now. If I'm to believe the things I see and read all the time, most of the EU population is rapidly turning against immigration. It's a huge issue on the continent now, and it causes tensions between people and local governments - the latter are being painted as giving out free aid to immigrants while not being able to care for their own people. Population pyramid is a distant concern, when the commonly held fears are that a) immigrants are trying to "steal our jobs", and b) the whole Europe will get slowly converted to Islam if we keep letting them in.
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It's certainly not about "winning". God said vengeance is His. If heaping coals was vengeance, wouldn't that mean we ourselves apply vengeance, albeit indirectly, by being nice to our enemies? Wouldn't that mean the motivation for our acts of kindness is corrupted by the burning desire for revenge?

These problems cause others to find a different interpretation, putting the hot coals in a good light, instead of a "vengeful" one. Here is a short overview on the topic: http://prumc.blogspot.com/2009/04/heap-burning-coals.html
I, for one, like it because it's only one syllable, but it's obvious that brevity isn't of importance to you :)
> your refund is decimated and paid at wholesale prices.

No. It is paid at the same retail rate that consumers pay. However, because the amount paid is low, the retail rate used is tier 0, which is basically a lifeline rate. But it still isn't wholesale.
"Several of my colleagues complained that Dave made things overcomplicated.'

Maybe this is a big part of the problem, if your fellow coders don't realise the strengths of the way you have been working either.
> Is it ever an option?

Literally anything about your terms of employment is open for negotiation. The worst they can do is say no and rescind any offer / end negotiations because they don't like a question you ask. But if someone would reject you merely for asking whether something is possible you should be grateful because you're dodging a huge bullet.

In my experience, I've had employers, including one start-up, do all kinds of things, such as (not all at the same place): (1) give me accelerated vesting schedule, (2) reduce the time-frame of the initial cliff from 1 year to 6 months, (3) grant a small severance benefit, (4) put in writing and send an email from my manager to me, CC'd to HR, stating exactly what the terms are for working from home each week, (5) significantly raise the offered salary, (6) put in writing and send an email from my manager CC'd to HR describing specific terms about budget and scheduling for annual conference attendance, (7) raise the amount of vacation time, (8) significantly alter large sections of boiler plate intellectual property restrictions and clauses from the company handbook to exclude certain open source projects I worked on and also to exclude any work I might do in my spare time towards starting my own business, so long as it was not materially competing with the business unit I worked for within the company (this was actually at a very large education technology company, and I was very surprised how willing they were to re-write their standard, legal-approved IP documents).

Amazingly, there is only one aspect of my job that I've never been able to successfully negotiate at any employer: working in a private office instead of an awful open-plan space. And, unfortunately, this is probably one of the top 3 preferences for me when choosing a job, because open-plan offices are such a hindrance to productivity. But, physical office layouts can't easily be changed, and companies are often more willing to give hidden status signals, like higher pay, than public status symbols, like a nicer office, because the public signals cause more damage to the internal hierarchy. I have been able to get significant concessions about working from home, though, to supplement the dispreference for open-plan spaces.

What really changed for me was reading this: < http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ > and basically just no longer being afraid of someone saying no. I've had three different episodes where I made it to the stage of receiving a formal offer, tried to negotiate, and was told "no." And so I walked away, turned down the jobs. Employers have to learn one way or another that we're not going to work just to get out of the rain. We expect to be paid fairly like anyone else.

Long story short -- if they actually value talent, then anything about a specific employment agreement is negotiable. If they don't value talent, then just nope out of there and work somewhere else where they do value talent.
I think the future of client side programming will see an increase of transpilled languages. Just look at Dart, Typescript with angular 2.0, or coffescript. JavaScript popularity is not a popularity due to the fact it is a language loved by everybody but because it has a monopoly.
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But you surely can't suggest that this property of you should generalize to other people? Yes, there is a component of happiness related to feeling productive, but surely it's not 100%, and it varies from person to person.

Your advice effectively says to ignore your non-work life goals that cost money because only your work-goals-productivity will make you happy. I doubt this very much, and certainly know that it's not true for anyone I've ever worked with.
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For all the people saying Heroku is too expensive: a basic single server, 10M row database and SSL is around $50 a month on Heroku:
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Personally, for the reduction in admin tasks (which I think people greatly underestimate), improved deploys and rollbacks, and improved uptime about $50 a month is completely worth it compared to a standard server.

I don't know why the monthly bill in the article is $250 though.
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In this case, what they mean is that the signal will be truly line of light. As you go up in frequency, radio starts to behave more like light so while you may get some convenient reflections here and there, for the vast majority of the time, if the antenna doesn't have a clear path to the transceiver, you won't know there even is an access point.
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It's situational. Sometimes non-zero values crash you faster.
Even very early on though the plan revolved around there being no real natural barrier between couches and commercial property no? It's in the email exchange released by PG to show how people can miss the idea. If someones plan involves starting with X because it's a good stepping point to Y, I don't think it's fair to say "oh but they were only found success with Y".
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Coffeescript compiles to JavaScript for a reason though. No language ever has a reason to compile to C unless your platform is really goofy.
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This is a really interesting idea. I'm surprised this is the first language I've heard of that targets C. C's major strength is portability, but that means change is slow. When browsers stagnated, coffeescript filled the void, which in turn influenced new versions of javascript.

A certain subset of C++ seems to solve a lot of peoples' problems with C, but it also seems there's no consensus on what that subset is. So people stick with C because at least the rules are defined. Compile-to-C languages like this could have all the benefit of switching to C++ without the downsides
> I bet they have real problem picking the excellent from the good

Yes; they've said as much.
This looks a lot like HBO's really getting pressured to go for growth, in stark comparison to the classical model of a cable company (which is typically a cash (dividend) cow rather than being a growth engine). I suspect that the whole 'cord-cutter' paranoia is getting to HBO.

On the other hand, investing heavily in upcoming technology is a good idea, as is being the person to cannibalize yourself rather than let anyone else do that.
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> the CEO's three favorite things are talking about how much he likes to drink, comparing himself to a gangster rapper, and a juvenile lack of self-awareness

Based on his LinkedIn profile, he can't be older than 30 and has never held a real job. Why exactly is someone like this running a company that has raised $77M instead of working as a junior engineer?
I was riding an express from the airport to central Tokyo in the last train car. At some station, everyone left the car, except for me because I needed to go further. Then some lady came back into the car and hurriedly told me to leave it and when I did pointed to the next one. Apparently the last car was to be detached at the station and if it wasn't for the help of random stranger (I'm pretty sure she wasn't station staff because she wore civilian clothes) I would've been left out. While it's just an anecdote, in my experience I didn't find Tokyo "uncaring" at all. People were perfectly willing to help me all the time.
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