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Zenefits is a classic enterprise sale, meaning you staff the sales team at: # of reps X average quota = expected sales.

The recent problems will hit their sales hard, and leadership knows it. With the growth they've had, there's a chunk of their sales team that's not fully ramped (meaning not producing revenue). Laying off reps + recruiting says they think they can't grow as fast as they previously could.

Not laying off engineers is probably more about how hard it is to hire engineers today, and knowing that when they get past these problems, it'll be easier to re-hire reps than re-hire engineers.
If the $15K is guaranteed when you hold out for 1 more day, sure. If not, its like any other trade-off between your mental peace and more effort.
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It's much less difficult in situations where you aren't live - negotiating via email, for example, gives you time to think through ramifications and scenarios. I talk quite a bit to people negotiating offers, and the overwhelming majority get into trouble when in a live setting.

I agree that you are only influencing a relatively small percentage of the outcome in most cases (perhaps higher than 10% though), and at least part of that 90% you refer to consists of the image created when you were first introduced to the employer. Your resume, profile, even your previous employer's identity - that data gives an employer an initial impression of your price tag and influences where negotiations may go. This is even before the interview.
In my experience, ECC shows benefits more often when a DIMM starts to fail, not in protecting us from cosmic rays (though I don't think I was able to make a note of the last cosmic ray that flew by me).

I've had systems limp along reliably while throwing EDAC messages every few hours. With non-ECC memory, they would have crashed and burned.

Of course, if you're seeing EDAC messages, you'd be better advised to just shut down the metal and shift your workload to a different machine until you can replace the DIMMs in question.
Man sooo much ego in the replies to this comment. He said he is good, he probably is. No need for the commenters to get their ego hurt cause there are other good engineers in the world.

I would 100% agree that the professional connections have helped me get more jobs and more offers than a computerized/headhunter/recruiter service.

YMMV, but don't discount the importance of making good connections while working.
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I didn't mean to say it would be an easy problem to solve.

More interesting though is the vacuum it creates in the tech interview process.
I know what they mean.

> A bitcoin fork means you have to build up a group of miners sufficiently large and diverse enough that everyone trusts it.

Of course, you need miners. However the mining is the easy part, otherwise you need marketing, use cases, etc, for the currency to get any traction. I think an altcoin working on top of the ethereum blockchain would not be as convincing as invidual altcoin.

However of course if we are speaking about some other kind of asset, it might make sense to do it on ethereum.

> Making a currency on ethereum means it inherits the trust that ethereum has.

No. Maybe mining security or something, but trust? Why would anyone use these crappy in-ethereum tokens, when you can just use ether itself. Or bitcoin.

You can make tokens as well inside bitcoin via colored coins and similar methods. They haven't gained much traction, I doubt that they will inside ethereum.
If you don't have braces like in Python, then you always have the same visual feedback don't you? If you were to add braces to Python and auto-indent you'd end up with the same look as you would with python with only whitespace, only now there are superfluous brackets.
It doesn't appear (from this article, at least) that the company ever used that word. As far as I can tell it is an editorialization by author of the article.
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one thing I've learned about negotiating a job is to discuss responsibility, roles, reporting structure, projects, etc first.
Because, in my experience, if a year later I go to the VP of engineering and say "give me more money or I'll quit", I get the money.
If I say "give me more responsibility and better projects or I'll quit", I get a going away lunch....
I'd love to see GCR expanded to support more Docker Hub like functionality (a nice GUI, being able to search for public images, etc.).

And for public images, it would be nice if Google would foot the bandwidth tab :-).
This is extremely dubious! I trust comparatively coarse rock dust much more than ultrafine marker dust with I'm-not-sure-what in it.
I liked the article overall, but I also took issue with that quote. Every company might be _interviewing_ but not as many are actually seriously hiring. There's a difference. I think in today's job market, companies can afford to take their time and "fish" for the best bargains. There's no shortage of under-employed tech workers.
Yes. And cast that 0 to (void), so the compiler won't complain over an unused expression.

Any C programmer will recognize what (void)0 means, do nothing.
I think the way to read that paragraph is as two separate statements.

>PHP is a slow abomination. The entirety of Drupal and all modules have to be bootstrapped and run on every request.

and

>It runs far too many SQL queries and those queries look atrocious (nested selects, tons of joins, etc).

So the first part is about slowness due to how PHP is usually run. The second part is about slowness due to the implementation of Drupal.

When I say "how PHP is usually run", I mean that strictly speaking one could probably write PHP in a way such that there is one part which comprises all the things that take most of the time to load and have this run standalone. However, I think going to such extents might be more work to do in PHP compared to picking another language. Then again, I haven't written PHP for several years and even when I did I never did any advanced stuff so for all I know what I'm saying here might be something PHP professionals have already thought of.
In an industry with extreme growth like tech has seen in recent decades, it's easy to imagine that many successful companies are successful just as much in spite of their interviews as they are because of them.

An example: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
So, more like formation flying than some kind of bond?
>>> "Investigators have uncovered a 10% uptick in the number of accepted credit card offers from key Apple employees. Speculation about Apple's poor recent performance seems validated by their own employees obtaining as much cheap credit as they can get before the inevitable catastrophe approaches.

That is exactly the sort of thing that investors might look for. The personal behavior of executive is very telling. It is more so for privately-held corps, but can be applied to apple. Seeing an exec liquidating assets or taking on apparently unnecessary dept can speak to that execs future plans, which are tied to corporate moves. Some investors watch family members. A wife/mistress/girlfriend/husband shopping for a new house out of town may be the sign that the exec is about to leave one firm for another. How they plan to finance the purchase also counts.

One big tell, especially with startups, is communications with particular immigration lawyers. Execs facing a windfall often want to abandon their US citizenship in favor of somewhere with better tax treatment. See Saverin at facebook. So any communication with lawyers specializing in this process is a good sign of a buyout in the works. Either that, or they plan on winning the lottery in the coming months. You have to finish the process before you win the money.
Here is what may be the reasons:
- Because sales team is more easily replaceable than core engineering team.
- There is less any redundancy in engineering team when compared to sales.
- Zenefits is reducing their sales operation.
Sales has probably gone through the pipeline of customers and engineering is probably still working on building out everything that was promised to customers?
I worked at AWS in Seattle and signed a non-compete that stated what was laid out in the article. Given the things I'd done for Amazon, when it was time to move jobs, it was insinuated that going to Microsoft and working on similar things might be enough to trigger action on the non-compete. While I wasn't interested in going to MS, it was clear that this non-compete was holding my wages down as the company recognized I couldn't easily go elsewhere in the local area. Who knows if it was a bluff or not, but I'm in California now and I don't plan to ever sign a non-compete again.
wait, slide to unlock was several millions. but video compression is 150k?!

what's wrong with this world?
In a large build, people will not notice warnings scrolling past. -Werror gives everyone the people of mind that you will notice warnings.
If a relationship breaks over a "like", then it was a shitty relationship bound to brake anyway.
> like any other tool it's up to who is using it to use it in the right way.

And mandatory seat belt use is foolish, bike helmets are for wimps, and blade guards on saws are a waste of space and money.

Just use those tools responsibly :P
Samsung should? Lolz...
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They could survive. My guess is they'll basically focus on retaining as many current customers as possible, get through any investigations about their practices, and hope that once those are finished people will mostly have forgotten about what happened and be willing to give them a chance if their product is on par with others out there.
How is that different than AWS ECS? In both cases, someone else runs it.
Long ago a company I worked for had to terminate development on an entire product line because an inferior competitor decided to harass its former employees across two different companies, rather than make a better product. One target was a large corp (where I worked), the other was a highly innovative startup. The aggressor had way more money than the startup and killed them with legal fees and discovery costs.
But you can port any and all features to sidechains or Enigma [1], and in doing so make them accessible to a much bigger market, denominated in BTC which is a more stable and proven unit of account.

Or at least that's how the story is supposed to go. In theory, porting nice-to-have features to a larger audience results in more revenue and more overall societal benefit than starting a new scarcity race, which Ethereum has done, pitting investors against each other.

[1]: http://enigma.media.mit.edu/
I will be much more interested in trying Kong once PostgreSQL is supported:

https://github.com/Mashape/kong/issues/331
You don't think they should?
I still don't understand how disputes are resolved, particularly regarding the "do" statements. Take it to court and try to show breach of contract?
There are some companies that I won't even bother with anymore because it is pointless to go through their meat grinder interview process again and again. If you're already employed, you have basically 10 vacation days to blow each year, and I'll be damned if I'm going to blow another one on a day-long grilling where at the end they're just going to say, "Oh, looks like you didn't go to Stanford! Such a shame..."
Unless you're an apple shareholder or someone who cares about the strength of your one patents...
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Having lives in Winnipeg and Seattle I'll say that darkness when I get to work and darkness when I leave work does not help things. Sure it's also cloudy during the day if I manage to go outside at all but it had to happen during typical work hours.
I believe the current answer to that is to make vague promises about how the vapourware known as the Lightning Network will solve all the problems.
At least in my experience Paysa results have little to do with reality. It absolutely lowballed my "market salary" compared to what I actually make, then tacked on ~$70k when I added a MIT bachelor's degree in CS just for shits and giggles. So, you're saying I should be paid less just because I haven't gone into debt in order to obtain a degree from some fancy school? :)

If anything, this tool seems to think like a stuffy, traditional HR manager from the 1990s. It needs a lot more empirical data before it can be truly useful.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11181367 and marked it off-topic.
> Personally I'm a fan of braces everywhere (though I prefer Allman style)

you monster.

So much wasted vertical space. We use that at work and I am not at all a fan.
Does it really happen so often that there's someone you'd hire, but they want more than your absolute max? In my experience, just FINDING good people is 95% of the challenge -- compensation is not a common-blocker to make it a first-round filter.

By having your recruiter filter resumes by comp, it may be that they're accidentally throwing out just those few resumes that were actually the strongest! Maybe you could have negotiated to a good number for both of you.
While perhaps obvious to the crowd here, how you work together only matters if the team is talented enough to begin with.

I've worked for companies where the primary focus was put on "empathetic, tolerant, and good listeners" where everyone was afraid to rock the boat. These were the least favorite environments of my career as they attracted lets just say not A players - and the inability to get things done was astounding. Any talent that accidentally found it's way into the company never lasted beyond 6 months.

There is a balance. You need the raw tech talent to be there to get the project completed, but I agree you want those folks to play relatively nicely together.

The most functional teams I've been on have been relatively small, full of very opinionated but extremely talented people, and to an outsider it would have looked like organizational and social chaos. However we all loved that period of our lives, and speak about it fondly. When you're on a team that is rapidly getting things done, but is passionate enough about the work to scream and yell it's refreshing vs. the banality of the typical corporate dev/tech/IT job no one actually cares about.

So for me, I'd much rather work on a team of highly talented opinionated assholes than a team of untalented nice folks.
Presumably usage ratio is orders of magnitude different here, let alone what is emblematic to a particular design/brand identity.

Innovation happens in all kinds of ways, but because something isn't technically as difficult to implement doesn't mean it isn't (probably more) important.
Why exactly is it so hard to hire engineers as opposed to sales people? Isn't it just as hard to find a 10x sales person as a 10x engineer?
A noncompete is not about protecting secrets, but about preventing employees and former employees from competing "unfairly". The nondisclosure provision of the employee covenants package is what restricts disclosure of secrets. There are also laws that restrict the misappropriation of trade secrets. These separate issues and related legal claims get confused a lot, b/c in employment litigation the claims are often brought at the same time. And of course in CA, employers are not allowed to include certain types of noncompete restrictions in employee covenants, so they lean more heavily on trade secrets claims even when the underlying issue is one of employee loyalty (a term that makes me kind of nauseous). But legally the contractual noncompete, contractual NDA, and legal trade secrets misappropriation claims are separate issues.

I would also point out that if you've ever worked for a large corporation, you would know intuitively that most big boy companies have employees sign extremely punitive and one-sided restrictive covenants. Startups actually tend to place less value on contractually restricting employees, and the mindset of startup entrepreneurs can be less focused on protecting trade secrets / more on execution. (The IP assignment portion of the covenants package is, however, just as important to startups.)
>I think "made redundant" has been the British term for laid off for quite a while; though this is, IME, far less common in American usage.

A big part of the plot in the British Office tv show was watching Ricky Gervais fumble his department through a merger that ultimately made him redundant. He kept assuring the employees there would be no redundancies.

Zenefits using the term redundancies may just be colloquial British phrasing. They've got much greater PR problems now that make the semantics of layoffs vs redundancies seem a minor concern.
Well, importance of the case (eg bush v gore), rights (civil, constitutional), conflict of law (disregard of previous rulings, federal vs state conflict) are the highest priority reasons. This case doesn't come anywhere near meeting any of the usual criteria -- conflict of law (with constitution or other laws) being most common. Do you think it will be heard by SCOTUS? If so, why?
>Only if the browser is designed that way. If the browser has only global settings implementing per-site handling can impose the need of extension reimplementing half of the browser (in extreme case, see how Google made their "extension" of the IE which effectively installed the 90% of the Chrome inside of IE).

That's not an extension running on IE to deactivate JS. It's a completely different rendering engine running inside an IE shell.

The two concepts are so different it's not even worth commenting.

>Old Opera had what I needed built in, it worked without the need of even enabling javascript subsystem. I don't know of any other browser able to work that way.

It's trivial (one setting toggle) to disable Javascript in both Chrome and Safari (and I presume Firefox too).
This is fantastic, snooze is essential to my email flow and I've been waiting for N1 to release this. Love the additional features like emoji too. Keep it coming.
I tried submitting a reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/474odi/what_about_...), but it didn't get much traction... I think because the videos got pulled. I hope you guys don't mind if I ask this question here, and I apologize if I'm being naive in some way:

Aditya Punjani's later Flipkart talk (https://youtu.be/m2tvYGCdOzs) mentioned the importance of mobile web apps and 60 FPS.

Ben Alpert's talk mentioned (https://youtu.be/-RJf2jYzs8A?t=1378) "React Native for the web" would be awesome.

There was even a lightning talk on react-native-web which attempts to do this using the traditional DOM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBg2_uQE4KM)

Whatever happened to Flipboard's React Canvas (http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web/ and https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas) being a solution to these problems? There's pretty good browser availability and although there's currently no perfect solutions for things like accessibility, SEO, or server-side rendering... I failed to se a real "nail in the coffin". Did it just never gather enough momentum?
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What I think your missing industry leaders often can't grow market share. In that situation R&D is often focused on lowering costs which in some industry's directly translate to people. In this case the skill set is still valuable, you just need fewer people.

EX: ATM's did not remove the need for all bank tellers, but they removed the need for huge numbers of them.
I've run into this argument in the past. It also happens when you're already on the job.

Company: "We can't possibly give you a raise! 'The book' says we can only pay you this much and no more."

Me: Uhh, ok...

[A few months later]

Me: Well, bye!

Company: OMFG WHAT COULD WE HAVE DONE TO RETAIN YOU???
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The license requirement cheating (in one jurisdiction) and outright selling without a license (in other jurisdictions) were problems occurring in Sales (which may implicate some problems in Recruiting, as well.)

I don't recall any of their problems being traced to engineering. So, while these are for PR purposes styled as redundancies, I think its at least worth considering that it may be more of a purge of the problem parts of the company.
I'd take the Alaska summers, but only without the Alaska bugs. What's the point of Sun if blocked by grey clouds of gnats?

Regardless of temp, Wet = bugs. Texas = dry.
Also, instead of testing directly on the Macbook Air the author runs the test against a "cluster" of 6 virtual machines.
Yeah but even those bend the rules when they love the candidate... It happened to me once, got a completely out of band salary because the Architect and client liked me a lot and just said "Fuck it, pay him" to the HR and the rules.

I was pretty happy :D
So job hunting in tech now is "unsafe." Really? Try applying for a law position, a hospital position, or a standard minimum wage job. Among the many needs to check one's privilege in this world the thought that the process of getting a tech job is "unsafe" is one of them.
Hey Jared and Trevor,

BugReplay (http://www.bugreplay.com) is a bug reporting tool in the form of a browser extension that captures a screencast of the user’s actions synced with network traffic, javascript errors and other browser data.

What's the best way to grow your early user base? Ideally we'd like people who are going to use BugReplay at their jobs and open source endeavors, but we want to keep it relatively small until we feel like it's ready for the widest possible audience.
Those census divisions near Saskatoon and Regina are kind of misleading on first look. Those are certainly not sprawling metropolises as the size and color of the divisions might indicate. The map is very illustrative, nonetheless
Well, bitcoin IRC or bitcoin slack- http://slack.bitcoincore.org/ which has an IRC bridge to freenode (read-only), plus read-write slack channels.
I'm not sure what you mean by "they're everywhere (in less concentration perhaps)".

There's no antiquark in the usual three-quark simplified description of a proton, yet without antiquarks how does one explain the charged leptons and anti-leptons readily observed following high-energy proton collisions?

Are we dancing around a question like, "what really happens close to the IR fixed point"?
That has marginal benefit for something that can be implemented as an extension that you install once and forget about it -- namely, just the installation part.

In return, you get to use a modern browser without a bizarro rendering engine.