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Well, now you're into a different problem: If the market is efficient, what makes you think you can afford to pay them that much?

Your equity isn't magically worth more than the equity of the company that already employs them. And if you give them a tremendous chunk of every sale they make, your COS is through the roof and you aren't making any money.

You might go raise a ton of cash and spend it buying great salespeople so you can buy some MRR and ARR, but everyone else is playing the exact same game, so you don't automatically raise more money than anyone else to spend on better salespeople.

In the end, what I am saying is that there is an efficiency in that market for salespeople such that anything you might think of doing to bring them on board, their existing employer has already done. And possibly better than you ever could.
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There are pretty draconian non-competes in the vein of you can't do a similar job for anyone else for 2 years and there are ones that are less draconian.

When a company I was with was acquired, we were all given non-competes to sign and it was pretty clear we could sign them or leave. I left not much later for other reasons but I did sign the non-compete. Its terms were such that they seemed unlikely to affect me. (Basically they enjoined me from taking a senior executive position in a fairly narrow slice of the market for a limited period of time.) So, yes, under those specific circumstances, continuing to get paid seemed a reasonable decision.

[Edit: This was intended to be a reply to the comment asking why one would ever sign a non-compete.]
I agree. Don't want this to happen? Easy, don't rent your home out. Renting your home out comes with risks, and you do get rewarded for that risk, but there's still risks. Nobody is forcing you to rent it out.
The money-quote for me was:

>>"When you force the industry from a well-equipped infrastructure like the Valley, with not only traditional sound stages, but a large number of easily rented homes where adult filming is permitted and encouraged, and push it to the margins, and to area and locations where people are not aware that adult film is being shot, you're seeing the beginning of an industry moving underground."

AKA, you don't let us what we want to, we'll do things illegally. And that's the issue I have with all the 'disruption' (belch) happening around.

Soo, the porn industry is 'disrupting' location/set industry. How long before we can expect to see our houses in mainstream cinema after having airbnb'd to some rando 3 years before?
Hello and thank you for taking the time to help other entrepreneurs. I am working on creating a new cross-platform premier Linux distribution that uses containers as the core init process. The goal is automatic cross-compilation between multiple targets and using the built-in kernel sandboxing for applications instead of what XDG App and others are trying to do. I'd like to also target a new window manager built on Wayland with eventual Vulkan support. Would love to get some feedback on how to handle the contention that already exists within this space and how to get the funding I need to make something like this successful.
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In NYC, which is of course an outlier, the counties (each borough) are smaller and fall below the city level.
I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that you have a 4th amendment right not to have the government link your pseudonym to your real name.
I fail to see how it has "Done more damage to Apple...". Their bottom line seems to be unfazed. Their growth in the market was not affected.
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In 17 years, I have been hired 7 times. Every last one of those offers started with me submitting a resume to a company where I previously knew nobody, or at least nobody with any ability to influence the hiring process.

I have also tried the "know somebody" tack. None of the people I have ever met has ever been able to even get me an actual interview anywhere, with the sole exceptions of my father, who has thrown roughly $1500 worth of business my way over my entire lifetime, and a former boss, who was laid off at the same time as everyone else, yet still managed to toss me $500 in contract work for his one-man startup as the emergency job search stretched out into the second week.

On a gross revenue basis, looking good enough on paper to start a conversation, and spamming out those resumes to anyone even considering hiring someone new has been roughly 400 times more valuable than knowing other people.

But my entire career has also unfolded far from the SF-Oakland-SJ metro area. We don't exactly get a lot of "meetups" around here. I'm not even exactly sure what a "meetup" is. Maybe like a geek night where everybody talks shop all night instead of having fun?

Also, not a single professional recruiter has ever successfully placed me in any job, nor have they even been very good at getting me interviews. They have been worse than useless, in that every second I wasted on them would have been better spent digging up my own leads and sending my resume myself.

All that said, I hate, I hate, I hate the current software professionals' hiring process and the trends in it that I have been able to observe from my end.
Fight Club Pitch Deck
One was a complex bit of maths, essential for implementing a standard (the video compression patent) which as such a) has a tight limit on how much can be charged for (ab)using it and b) was not understood by most of the jury while the other (slide to unlock) was (apart from being ludicrous to begin with) a folly which set the hearts of the jury on fire. Also, a foreign company being accused of 'stealing' from an American one versus the opposite.
Well its certainly not pro-capitalism as it inhibits a fair market. I just put it under cronyism. Entrenched interests are always a problem unless checked by laws or new technology.
I got threats from a former employer about a non compete. They wanted money as compensation, and said they'd sue me if I didn't comply within a week. I try to engage them as adults, but they seemed to be unaware of how to deal with someone that was prepared: All their communication was amateurish at best, maybe hoping for me to admit guilt? Incompetence either way. So I decided to ignore them, and see what happened: I thought they either had no case, or that they couldn't claim real damages.

As it happens, I never got sued, so I guess that they were bluffing, and just hoping for me to give them money, or that they talked to a real attorney, and that said attorney told them their chances of winning were too slim for what they could ever make.
SparkPost's claims are misleading here.

LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc do not use Sparkpost, they use their on-premise installable software that many ESPs use and pay tens or hundreds of thousands for, which indeed is a dumb pipe MTA. Those big companies still have a full-time staff managing delivery and infrastructure. It's basically a replacement to Postfix, not a full fledge, multi-datacenter, multi-tenant hosted application to support many thousands of concurrent customers.

A hosted "product" is a different animal. Sure, it needs to have great delivery, but the work that goes into making it easy to troubleshoot when you have issues, minimize developer work, and bring useful data back into your application is something else. This only becomes painfully obvious when you deeply rely on email for your business.

There is a reason why Sparkpost left Postmark out of their comparison. We have the same data sources (eData), and we came out on top.

[1] http://pages.sparkpost.com/Big-Rewards-WP-Download-Landing-P...
What is your target market? Developers & QA, right? Not end customers?

The copy on your site is technical + imho too long. I'm a tech lead so get it, but if I want to buy your product I'm going to have to convince a PHB that it's worth spending money on. They're going to run for the hills when the headline is "records screen usage javascript errors and network".

As a potential customer: if this could be self-hosted and runs on Windows then it's a very interesting product.

If I can deploy this, live, as part of my site, then it's more valuable for me. Again, it must be self-hosted (data protection!) - which is the reason I don't use the other tools. But giving my users the ability to record the process leading up to an error they see is fantastic.
Rearranging code, refactoring, moving blocks, inserting conditionals etc would be easier and could be auto-indented if there were braces. Instead you need to carefully ensure that everything aligns correctly with the intended meaning at the new location.

Also, a closing brace is a nice signal to the editor that it's time to "outdent".

Finally, people seem to forget that python already has an opening brace, except it's spelled ':'. So why no closing brace to match? This seems inconsistent to me.
I'm not sure but Clearbit might be a good option: https://clearbit.com
Isn't the difference that the banks already have access to and collect this data and Apple does not currently have access to this data and it would not normally collected in the course of business activity?
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Meanwhile, ADP is an absolute joy to use. clicks 80 times to add 8 hours of PTO for each day of the 10 days I'll be on vacation

Nevermind, I can't actually do that because my account NEVER FUCKING WORKS. Between portal and ipay, the passwords at least used to be shared, even though you had to reset it literally every time you use the site. Now they're not even shared, you need to contact your HR department to get it reset, and even once you DO set a new password, it doesn't work.

Talk about a dumpster fire of a company.

Other than the website, I don't get why a normal employee would care about the difference between providers. What does one do with Zenefits that's so painful? Literally all I ever want to do is see pay statements and enter PTO. ADP's Oracle Forms implementation is a special circle of hell, so I don't really see how it could be worse.
This is part of the churn due to the passage of Measure B in LA County, which mandates use of condoms on shoots. A lot of production has moved out of LA County in consequence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_B), away from the established sets in the San Fernando Valley.

All of this was predicted in advance. I was somewhat surprised the measure passed. It was pitched publicly as a good-for-performers health measure by its sponsor, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/medical-privacy-sex-wor...).

This foundation, weirdly, is now spearheading an anti-development ballot initiative in Hollywood (http://www.advocate.com/hiv-aids/2016/1/13/ahfs-michael-wein...). Coincidentally, this is again relevant to AirBnB because AirBnB (like dense housing development) has been viewed as a force for gentrification.
It sounds like your describing a consulting firm.

The problem of hiring individuals to join the firm still exists though. Although I like the approach you propose more than the "dump a bunch of resumes" approach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Interactive#Divisions - "a bit of everything" it seems
Depends on what kind of career you want and what you're hoping to get out of it. For me, a career is a tool I use to enable my life. Regularizing it as much as possible is worth it for me.

Languages don't just disappear. People still make fine livings programming Fortran. If I'm going to keep programming for 20+ years, I'd be happy to be one of those guys. I'd rather move into business, but if for some reason that never happens, being a specialist in a deep niche holds a deep appeal for me.
I say "I am currently at X now, and I am looking for Y% more" and the recruiter/company says "done". If you consider that negotiation, yes I am negotiating.

According to other people on here (including patio11) its a more subtle, nuanced and longer drawn-out game.

Edit: Key point here is that I am not gauging how much I can get out of the company. I have a number in mind that I am comfortable with, and asking for that.

Edit - Response to the comment below from Consultant32452:
That was never in question, I fully am aware of the lack of money obtained as a result of non-negotiation. It just doesn't matter to some people, as they are not optimizing for the highest amount they can get. Maybe they are already well off, or the salary they "non-negotiated" for already is a good-enough amount for them, or are optimizing for other things. Hence once cannot say that negotiation is "necessary".
> Demand Media, a provider of online content, has seen its shares crater 96% since 2011 as Google made changes to its proprietary search engine formula making it more difficult to find articles written by Demand Media.

I am really really happy about this. Because all they do is SEO spam garbage.
Ask HN: How do you measure risk with an open source project?
If you've found a new project on GitHub that you want to use, how do you quantify the associated risk of using it in a "production" application? For example: the project is only open for 6 months, or has many more open issues vs. closed issues, or has negative sentiment in commit messages. Of course it's a case-by-case basis, I'm looking for examples of what factors are deemed important when making this type of decision.
Yes, that sounds like a terrible idea - unless the CTO and his gang were very self-aware and made sure they integrated themselves into the team. Which it sounds like they did not.
The thing being that if you rent out somewhere for film or photography -- even if it's just a home or garden -- then you make a lot more money than if it's just for somewhere to stay.

(Source: I used to be in the photography industry and have done it.)
> Dissing Acquia for core when the chief architect of everything wrong with Drupal 8 (who have basically pulled a fast one over the community in an ingenious breach of process) is not working for Acquia is pointless.

where can I read more about this? I enjoy good programming drama
Hi Jared & Trevor,
Thank you for giving us this opportunity to discuss our ideas with you.

I am the founder of http://www.pnyxter.com - a video (only) based debate and discussion app.

My question is about product-market fit.

A user can create topic and upload a video selfie talking on the topic or respond to other topics via video selfie. The app does not have provision of text comments at all - only video responses.

I've invited several friends and family for private beta, and its been 10 days now and only 1 of my friend dared to create a video.

I also shared the link on FB and linked in and got several views, but no one created a topic. I also did a FB ad for 2 days - no luck here too. Is this a clear indication of product - market misfit? Or is it too early to conclude?

Or should I shift my focus only on professional and amateur debaters of various debate clubs in cities, universities, schools etc.

I do understand the privacy issues of showing video selfie - but I've given provision of a good privacy control (or at least I think its good).

Video based opinions are already being posted by users in Facebook and youtube - but do not have this consolidated grouping of all video discussions on a topic in one place.
Youtube tried video response feature and closed it in 2013 due to low engagement - but of course youtube is a very generic video site - not all videos needs video responses/discusisons/debates.

Thanks!!
Hi, thank you both for doing this. I've been working on a project on and off for about two years now which I finally launched as a beta last year. It's called CloudSploit (https://cloudsploit.com) and is a service designed to allow users to continuously scan their AWS accounts for vulnerabilities (account-level risks that could lead to a compromise). AWS has some security products, and their are certainly competitors in the space, but we've heard from countless customers that our price point and features are ideal for them. My goal is to now move this out of beta and to actually advertise it.

My question for you is: what challenges are there around marketing for security-focused products? Of course, trust is a key factor, but are there other things I should consider? I'm thinking of Twitter ads, but I'm sure there are better options between that and cold emailing. Thanks again!
Late reply, but I also am a Delta flier.

What you describe only works during regular operations, and it's spotty at best. 50% of the time the Android app fails at loading the seat map, for example. While Delta is considered the best IT in the business, it's still pretty atrocious - I use it multiple times per week.

You will never beat a Plat/Diamond for a confirmed seat during irrops. The problem isn't "can I rebook myself onto a plane with tons of open seats available" it's "can I bump the regular fliers from standby and get a seat on that entirely full aircraft".

Even when the app functions - it's still slower than calling the elite desk many times.

What you're describing is just normal access everyone gets. The elite fliers get even more options in the app (block the seats next to you, switch to economy comfort for free, etc.), but I guarantee you it's worthless when it all goes to shit :)
> And particularly with modern screen shapes, vertical space is at much more of a premium than horizontal space.

What? Modern 10:16 screens give more lines than 3:4. 900x1440 gets like 70 lines with 100 columns at a decent font size, better than around 60 lines with 110 columns with 960x1280.
San Diego is heaven's weather! I lived 100 miles to the east and we had 123 °F in August and September

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In my case, at a "startup" (it isn't) I was offered the non-compete, with extremely nasty and broad language that unfortunately is enforceable in Texas, 3 months after I had been working there. You can imagine the coercive effect of that one: sign this or look like you got fired at 3 months. I was able to negotiate some changes to the broad clauses, which by their own admission were cut-and-pasted from somewhere else, but it made for an appalling experience.
Birdly Wants to Help Call Your Customer Data by Talking to a Slack Bot
Levchin says order to “write code to surveil its customers is unprecedented.”
So, we have people with a business relationship to a company that flouts the law (many put their for property owner protection) renting to people making porn then getting mad there is no protection for property owners.
I didn't say readability doesn't matter.

I'm talking about people who skip braces on single statements, skip semicolons in JavaScript, etc because it "looks prettier" without them
Spurt: a short, sudden burst. A short spray of water from a garden hose could be a "spurt". We use the phrase "growth spurt" to describe when a child grows taller in a short time.

They're using it to describe a short, relatively large transfer of accumulated data collected while the wifi connection is deactivated, and transferred in a sudden stream when it's turned on.
The skeptic in my wants to say they all are, but everyone is praising Apple for some reason
Slaves are useful and important too.

Unless the benefit clearly outweighs the harm, I don't see why they should be allowed. And I've seen nothing but vague handwaving about the benefits of them, while the harm is huge and obvious.
Suburban vs. Urban Delivery Logistics: Not as Similar as You Might Think
If any of the layoffs were in the engineering groups, drop me a line.
It sounds like a useful tactic would be to plaster your walls with art related to Disney/Marvel characters. This would make it a legal nightmare to film in without stripping the place bare.
As I said in the other thread I'm not talking about readability.

The exact term used was pretty.

> There will be a point at which an extra line makes the difference

So why not remove all blank lines too. They're less important for reducing issues that single line/braceless flow control blocks can cause.
I think the idea is that it would not replace all contracts, just certain contracts that happen to have narrowly definable and executable terms.

E.g. An assurance contract a la kickstarter (for the most trivial case), options contracts, or multi-party escrow.

And that perhaps the scope of its capabilities would expand incrementally over time as people got better at thinking about contracts in this way.

An analogy might be to Squarespace/Wordpress for web developers. Sure, you can't make every website on there. But for a lot of simple cases you can, and those cases are expanding.
Meet me in the well. It's going down.
No one builds doors to make them especially vulnerable to the police. Why should phones be any different?
Well, considering they said that they're running Kubernetes on GCE and not GKE, I don't think your conclusion is forgone at all.

More importantly, GKE _is_ Kubernetes. It's actually a somewhat constrained subset of the full Kubernetes (GKE doesn't have rkt support, for example).

So yeah, if you're handwaving and trying to imply that GKE = lockin... sorry, you're wrong.
Unfortunately, that is true.

I've seen a case where, to go up the ladder at a certain company, the best way was to quit, then work somewhere else for a time, then apply for the position you wanted to get initially... (no need for having improved any skills, external hires are just evaluated differently)
Thanks for the feedback and for checking out our site.

We are not targeting end customers directly but hope that at some point it would be a service that a B2C would offer to their customers.

It’s really hard to describe our product without being technical but we will revisit it. Any ideas?

We are exploring how to run this self hosted, it is entirely possible but we haven't gotten there yet. As for data protection it's an issue we take very seriously. All network data is stored encrypted, and all reports are private unless explicitly set to public. We are also working on ways to obfuscate the traffic before it’s ever uploaded.
You're not required to take every risk with no recourse. A renter might steal from you or leave a spy camera behind, but that's illegal. We could certainly make it illegal to shoot commercial video on someone else's property without their permission.
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