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> people have protested extensively when there was a
> draft

I agree. But so what? It's a criminal offense to not register with the Selective Service System to this day, a system that exists primarily to facilitate conscription.

> as far as I understand [snip]

The 13th amendment explicitly allows for slavery for convicted criminals, and that's the basis for jail work. Wikipedia has an article about "Penal labor in the United States".

> no eminent domain would be pretty insane

I agree, but I also think that about "no conscription" and "no contempt of court". I have no strong feelings either way on penal labour. I think the US Court compelling a company to do something is probably a right the court already has, but that's sort of what Apple's case is about, right?

> Forcing people to work for the court does
> seems like a weird thing though

And this brings me back to the original point. In the context of conscription, penal labour, corporate personhood, eminent domain, and all the rest of the circus, it doesn't seem especially weird to me. It seems like a rarely used but existing right.

What it's absolutely not is some kind of "new low".
But you received an abnormally huge initial RSU grant. It's uncommon for anyone to get more than 500-600 (outside of leadership) unless you're a strategic hire and they're compensating you for unvested stock at your current employer.
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Control over currency is as solicalist as it gets. Go back to Lenin and he basically advocates taking control of the currency to monopolies all import and export.

So what Venezuela does is straight out of the socialist revolutionary book.
Imagine the Model S autosteering around the factory and showing you around :D ! The future is already here.
Are there any meaningful opportunities for human rights minded developers in organisations such as this? Put another way, should idealistic developers consider careers in such organisations? If so, which ones and how?
> Another thing that bothers me with these releases is how little documentation there is. They put up a repository without much intention of helping/building a community around it, which is a shame.

I hope there's a way to link all the people who used to make mods and maps with this repository.
> What is the flip-side to at-will employment though? Without at-will employment, do employees become slaves that cannot quit their job? Or are there only a small list of "legal" reasons for you to quit your job.

The following is true for a sizable part of Europe. The flip side(s!) are:

* I can't just walk out on a job, I have to give a 4-week notice (for any reason, though. It can be anything, from "I feel like I need a new challenge" to "I hate ever single one of you motherfuckers"), during which I'm expected to do my job more or less as usual. Everyone understands you're not as motivated, no one plans for major stuff to happen during someone's N-week notice.

* My employer has a small, but very open-ended list of reasons why he's allowed to fire me, which includes things like me underperforming (but he has to give proof that this actually happened -- i.e. he needs to have an actual evaluation process, has to warn me that I'm not performing as expected first and so on), shrinking clients base which means that they literally no longer need so many people and I drew the short stick and so on.

My employer is also required to give me a four-week notice, during which he has to pay me as usual, and he also has to pay for any vacation days I didn't take in this time (the idea being that I could have lounged in Belize instead of working my sorry ass at the office).

Furthermore, if I am being fired, my employer is also required to allow me to go to interviews during business hours (for obvious reasons).

Regulations vary from one country to another, but that's the gist of it. In general:

- Notices are typically 4 weeks for non-management positions and 6 weeks for management positions. The law around here allows these periods to be longer, but not shorter than this, and they're negotiated as part of the contract.

- However, they can be skipped by mutual agreement (i.e. if I want to leave right now and my employer doesn't have a problem with that, we sign an additional paper that says we both agree to leaving without a 4-week notice and I'm out).

- They don't apply for the duration of the test period at the beginning of an employment contract (if there is one). During that period (typically 3 months), both resignations and firings are effective immediately. I did it once, it' a very refreshing feeling :-).

I work for the European branch of a relatively small American company, which is how I've come to know all this. My colleagues from the US are mesmerized whenever they hear about these things.
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> I wasn't sure at first, but now I think you're being actively dishonest to try and ...? Who knows.

That's all in your mind I'm afraid.

> Right. Except for WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam, which drafted collectively 15m people, when has it ever been used?

Yes, they were drafted. And since then the draft has been abolished and the US is at present operating an all volunteer force. Nobody got drafted into Iraq or Afghanistan.

That they can re-instate it does not change anything to the fact that right now the US does not have a draft. If you don't like the situation the way it is right now you have the following options:

(1) you can resist if a draft is re-instated, and you'll probably end up in a lot of trouble (I did this and got away with it (not in the US)) but it is possible to resist

(2) you can leave the country

(3) you can give up and get shot at for someone else's reasons

> Right, because the Apple case is run-of-the-mill? The Apple case is "the normal state of things"?

No, the Apple case is very much in the public eye and Apple is a very wealthy company. The courts may see fit to compel Apple to do this but if the employees resign I don't see how the courts are going to conscript them back into working for Apple, and so far nothing you've shown has made me change my mind on that.

> You said it was a new low for the courts. It's not even close. That's my point. You're twisting yourself and your words in circles.

No, I said it would be a new low.

If you feel that these other things are already below that then that's your right but for me there is a huge difference.

Anyway, I'm kind of tired of your personal attacks so I'll let this rest. Bye.
> Sadly they were one of the last pure FPS games.

I haven't heard about pure FPS before. What elements make a FPS pure or not?
What's the "bench program"?
This was much needed. Thanks.
I would not call them socialist exactly but the philospical background for both ideas is quite simular.

This is history that is mostly ignored or simply pased out of memory. Their was a version of socialism that was called 'Prussian Socialism' and the thinkers from this area had quite a bit of influence on the later devlopment of facism.

Many facists like mussolini were socialist that were pissed of by the socialist party. Hitler took a party with socialist elements and retracked it so that the socalist parts were neglected.

If you look at the original 23 points of the Nazi party, they look fairly simlular to many moderet socialist parties of the time.

The first chapter of Hayek 'The Road to Freedom' is an exploration of the history of thought. It was originally be intended to be part of a book on the subject (The Use and Abuse of Reason Part 1) but he had to no time and so he released it as a more populist book. Sadly this chapter did not get the attention needed and was removed in the version that became a best seller in the US (Readers Digest Version).
This is a key difference between Amazon & Google. At AMZN you have to be there 4 years before your comp levels off at acceptable levels. At GOOG they have a much nicer vesting schedule that starts your level comp after 12mo.
"In October, a judge sentenced a man from northeast Germany to five months’ probation and a 300 euro fine for a Facebook post saying refugees should burn alive or drown in the Mediterranean Sea"

Sounds reasonable. Inciting violence is illegal in the US as well, by the way.

It may not be obvious to everyone, but we're seeing a wave of anti-immigrant violence. Just yesterday a court in my region sentenced two men and a woman to up to eight years in prison for throwing a Molotow cocktail in a house where a refugee family was living. Only by chance (the small child slept in his mother's bed that night) was noone killed.

Don't you think this is just academic, and words don't hurt.
I ask myself this question also. And to my eyes I agree your salary is pretty good for London.

I'm on ~£60k in London as a development lead with about 6 years experience. Mostly PHP though and php roles seem consistently lower paid than other languages, even though it shouldn't matter.
Interesting. So if my bike tire is at 10 lbs, is that 10 above atmosphere or just 10psi? I think a balloon flubbering arround for 4 seconds then going flat at the office would still be considered a scene. In fact I think your depiction is perfect. Ha.
I met a physics associate prof from Stanford who took a job as a data scientist at Google a few months ago. I unfortunately don't know his previous or current comp, but I do know he was super-thrilled with the improvement.
Thanks for the good reply. That's why I asked this question. Because it's not possible to find answers like this out there.
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I think it would be interesting to look at and useful to other applicants. So if it's not a secret - share a link with a brief description.
Do you have somesort of framework for those ETL jobs? How do you handle ETL dependencies/workflow?(=thinking spotify's luigi[1] here)

[1] https://github.com/spotify/luigi
Are you a TSC?
Cool to have another one in case glassdoor disappears or something.. Is the benefit here that this would show a list of salaries whereas glassdoor shows averages?

I haven't used glassdoor in awhile but I sort of recall that it checks your domain. Does this do that too?
Depending on your team/group, it can also be worth starting a conversation with your manager/HRBP about allowing SWEs in your org (vs TSCs or whatever). Other groups (GTS in GBO, for example) have done this successfully.
I really thought that the reason would have been for technical reasons, like a compromise between precision and how fast they can actually calculate with pi.
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People port games like Doom and Quake to every new device and architecture. They fix bugs and integrate modern technology.
It's been estimated that if the universe were a computer, it could have performed no more than 10^120 operations on 10^90 bits of data so far (based on the size, age, and total energy of the known universe). http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110141 I think the number of physically relevant bits of pi would be represented in there somewhere. But there's a long road ahead. If the universe keeps "computing" forever, the precision of numbers involved could also keep growing.
The problem with such absolutist statements is that you just need one counter-example to make the argument shaky. The IPCC organized by the UN puts out annual climate change reports and that is good work. Hence, not everything the UN does is useless garbage.
Erlang, because is the realisation of Alan Kay messaging.
It raised at a rumoured $500m valuation in 2014. Only a semicorn.
Why, just why? Besides Glassdoor, there's now comparably.com (which I also question), plus Quora and mobile apps like Blind. Imho, Glassdoor is actually pretty accurate and you can fill in the gaps (things like vesting schedules, promotion paths, etc) through searching and asking questions on Quora.
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You're comparing your salary in a startup with Google. Great thinking is great!
It does not depend on what he means, it depends on if he knows what the words he uses mean.

Their are two well known economic freedom rankings.

- http://www.freetheworld.com/ (stupid URL, everybody knows)
- http://www.heritage.org/index/

Check out the interactive map: http://www.heritage.org/index/heatmap

The US and Denmark are not for of from each other. The just get subtracted points for different things. Denmark actually had lots of 'neoliberal' reforms, but because it was done by a left government instead of a right one its not commonly mentioned. Sweden has been going in that direction since the 90s as well.
It's mirrored in how tech firms are valued.

In the valley, you can have a so-so idea, land a huge investment, sell the product to other businesses for crazy money, and pay staff high wages.

In the UK, technology is this weird nerdy flash in the pan that "serious businesspeople" want nothing to do with, and investment and customers who value tech are in similarly short supply.

I write this as the employer of 50 people who'd love to pay everyone more but can't because our end customers undervalue our product, and investors are non-existent.

We saw this first hand when one of our clients sold our "worthless technology" for over $100m - yet in the UK £10k was the best valuation we could find at the time.

I sit in meetings with prospective customers who honest to God think that this system they'll be using to drive their entire £50m business through should be free because "it's just software". Simultaneously they'll happily pay a lawyer £200k to argue about the contract they're going to spend £20k with you through, because lawyers are real actual people, and we nerds are just soulless computer child-people. SEO agencies need paying well too because they have a marketing background, and marketing is also real.

Tech is seen as a utility like water over here. The people who provide it are viewed like sewer technicians.

So - it's not that employers are stingier, it's rather more that there's a lot less money in the ecosystem.

Finally, you're comparing to Google, who are a company who think nothing of putting a liberal arts grad with no experience on $600k to lead the spin fight against taxation in the UK - they pay crazy money, particularly to well connected people.

Oh, and fwiw, I'm cto/co-founder and I earn considerably less than you, so count your blessings.

I might have a small chip on my shoulder regarding this.
Typical games I can think of are Doom 1&2, Quake 1,2,3 , UT, Serious Sam and Painkiller.

Big weapon pack, Six axis free camera movement, free movement in the levels, free jump, no contextual actions,no cover mechanics and the ability to save during arbitrary points (how the games regressed from that to the current checkpoint absurdity is anyone's guess).
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But how many coins can you flip before the heat death of the universe, and does using 43 digits make your expectation off by more than say 1/1000000?

In other words, if you were trying to calculate pi by checking the actual probabilities, how many digits can you get?
Contracting is pretty popular in London. Is contracting as popular in SF? I don't hear much about it. In London a decent mid-level developer can earn £500 a day, the shortage of developers at the moment, it's a no brainer for me. Obviously it's not for everybody. Any idea what a Senior/Team Lead earns contracting?
I knew the UK salaries can't compare, but I wasn't aware the difference was so high.

It would be interesting to see the difference in pay in the same company between US and UK offices.

Looking at these numbers makes me wish I had moved to the US when I was younger.
Dividends. I know it is a mythical beast, but isn't that the whole point of owning part of a business.
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If you're a decent dev in London you can quite easily land a ‎£400/day contract.

Congrats you are now making ~£90k or $130k / year!

(This is where it starts. £400/day is aiming low)
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Contracting pays far better in the UK than salary. I remember being offered £1k/day just to travel round the country installing servers. I didn't take it, as I work on the data science side of things, but was still very tempted to just chuck it in for that sort of cash...
Why is it so ridiculous? Isn't it trying to serve as a retention incentive?

Obviously it can back-fire on the company. If the share price drops a lot then people that were planning on staying till the 6 monthly vesting may quit.
It's better than in The Netherlands, where Leads earn 60-80k EUR with a higher effective tax rate than the UK/US.

It doesn't really make sense to work for an employer anymore, contracts pay better and if you can build your own business it's better again.
Or simply start with

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and stick to POSIX-compliant code.

I'm not sure that writing scripts that rely on bash-specific features is such a great idea.
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Another point you need to consider is that private acquisitions typically cost a 15% to 30% discount on the P/E multiple compared to their public brethren; liquidity (in this case convenience liquidity) costs money.[0]

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>>> Selective service is a back-up plan that has not been
>>> used

>> Except for WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam

> Yes, they were drafted

That's because Selective Service "is a back-up plan that has not been used" is a falsehood.

> And since then the draft has been abolished

"the draft" has not been abolished any more than "war is over". The specific drafts for each conflict are finished because the conflicts are finished. The US retains the right to draft its citizens in law, and it (in contrast to many other states) actively maintains a whole government agency just for that, and remains the right to prosecute - to this day - 18 year old men who don't sign up. In more than half of US States, when you get a driving license, you are registered explicitly as eligible for military service.

> Nobody got drafted into Iraq or Afghanistan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-loss_policy

> If you feel that these other things are already below that

Do I think your country compelling you to kill people is lower than your country compelling you to patch a binary? I guess I do, on account of not being deranged.
46k in london is bad. 46k outside of London is respectable.
> how the games regressed from that to the current checkpoint absurdity is anyone's guess

I'd say consoles not having free keys for this functionality, and a bit slower aiming/movement.
There are a few out there. Xonotic is one.
Do you have a comparison/breakdown of contractor vs. perm earnings?
The Black Mirror episode called "Be Right Back" deals with this in an unnerving sci-fi context
BBC.com shows ads to people geolocated outside the UK. Most of that content is not blocked to the UK.

Here we see something a bit different - the article is blocked to people in the UK.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/faq/
Maybe it's an artifact of currency exchange drop in 2008/2009 where 1 gbp ~ 2 usd dropped to 1 gbp ~ 1 usd.
They may not even be able to pay OP even if he does prevail in court. Something to keep in mind.
> I don't work at Core Security anymore

Where do you work now?
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What about social security and taxes?
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> how the games regressed from that to the current checkpoint absurdity is anyone's guess

Obviously because of consoles. Earlier consoles had limited save game storage cards, and the cover mechanics was introduced to give people with gamepads a chance.

Early cross platform games like GTA 3 and Splinter Cell were a lot easier on PC than on PS2/Xbox consoles (aiming with the mouse is superior). I had hopes that we get more games especially for PC, games used to be a lot better until we got all these console ports starting with Xbox 1 in 2004 and later. But the outlook with Win10 and its spy components is so bad that one can only hope Vulkan (OpenGL next), SteamOS and HumbeBundle get even more traction.
Lack of respect. In the UK software developers are just considered "techies", nerdy and replaceable for a dime a dozen. Anyone with serious skills and ambition goes into banking, finanance or maybe a founder.

Software developers in sf/sv are considered highly talented respectable people which companies will fight over.
Very US centric. No currency field? Not everyone expresses wages in amount/year. Are these amounts before tax? After tax?
If you are a security professional it is not that much.
Contracting doesn't seem to be that well-paid throughout. From time to time I get enquiries for contracting work in London (mostly for the financial industry) with a 'maximum budget' of 450 quid / day.

Compared to market prices in metropolitan regions in Germany that's on the lower end of the range and by and large those though prosperous are much less affluent than London.
Google Photos is so far and away technically superior that Carousel just got out-competed. I was a Carousel user (after Adobe Revel and a bunch of other "store them all here for one price" services) and none had caused the fundamental shift in photo storage thinking (for me) that Google Photos does.

I just wish they'd charge me something. Free services scare me (yes I know they're data mining my photos).
I must be doing something wrong. I'm near 60k with five years of experience, and done two lead roles. Contracting, so lots of variety, but the boss takes the biggest chunk. Small dev contracting company, 30-ish people. I haven't started on my own business, because I don't know how to find contracts.
I work as and SDE2 in Germany: ~€70k base pay + ~€20k RSUs
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Headphone warning, the video can blow your ears if you turn the volume up to hear the audience. :|
The fact that the voting is public would kill the blinding.
Software devs in Banking are paid slightly more, but again compared to a baking software dev in the likes of NY it's still low.
I work in a front-office team (so effectively on the investment side) at a bank as a quant dev VP, 3 years experience and earn £105k (that's including my bonus).
The answer is very simple: supply and demand.

Silicon valley has a demand for talented developers and a limited supply, so developer wages are high.

This is also the generation that is least likely to be willing to move for work, here in the Western world. This makes imbalances in wages between cities worse.

London's supply better meets it's demand, and so wages are lower. Companies like Google will pay more in London than usual for the city because employees at different offices will compare salaries- but I'll bet you they still pay less in London than they do in California.

This is also a key point in the American immigration debate- you can indeed hire as many people as you need in SF, but only if you'll pay enough money. Immigration increases supply, lowering the price.
Is there a rule that in every country in the world the salary levels should be the same? Also whats the cost of living in SF? London is expensive, but apparently SF is more expensive...

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...
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Which is weird because we're constantly told there's a massive shortage of developers in london
There is already a ton of websites to check salaries. Glassdoor is the most famous one and I made http://data.jobsintech.io last year.
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