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Well said. Though here in the US a significant (sometimes) portion of employee costs lies in stock based comp. And many times, co's present non-GAAP numbers that strip out this part from their income (which inflates their income, and sometimes that can be the difference between making a profit or a loss). The stock based comp gets reflected in increased share count over time, so it will show up in the stock price, just not in the presented non-GAAP income.
"Freemium"...that's the real problem with mobile gaming. These games are purposely made annoying so people will pay to win the game.
Did I imply otherwise?

I don't personally believe it would've achieved anything, but that's how the world works.
We're open sourcing parts of our code as soon as we consider it modular and well documented enough. We started with our build system but the plan is to open source everything over the coming weeks!

And yes, that's exactly why it was made for. Have a look at our examples of deployments: https://infinit.sh/documentation/deployments
Well this demonstrates how economically illiterate people are. What matters is market rate and how well you negotiate. The rest is part of market rate equation or irrerevant.
Except for that in the post the author acknowledges its basically a parody. It seems like a bit of salt from DB naming their new product in the same sort of space a very similar name, which is kind of a dickish move.
Note the book author only lists past tense academic affiliations so she might be a member of the great silent majority of unemployed physicists.
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I have spent the last X years studying hard and earning good grades. I still have nearly 5 years (planning on getting a PhD after this terminal MSc) left of education ahead of me. Why do I do this? Because it makes me entitled to a higher pay? No. I do this because I enjoy studying.

Am I entitled to a higher pay? No! But I have spent the last X years NOT earning an income. The longer you are working to amass a certain skill set the longer you defer income you could have earned. It would be nice to recoup that.

Not everyone can do what I (and my fellow) peers can do and thus we have some sort of leverage in an interview. I demand X, they offer Y and then I can negotiate because I have certain skills they want. If they want skill set Z and there are 100 people lining up in front of the building with exactly the same skill set they can just say find the first person that agrees to their abhorrent demands.

Does a higher education make you entitled to a higher pay? No. It's all about supply and demand.

This post has become kind of ranty, long, and unstructured. Sorry.
Funny thing is the opposite is true too; if you make less than others, at some point people expect an explanation.

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Even more bizarrely, if for some reason people believe you're doing "nothing" they rapidly switch to projecting their expectations of what doing nothing means to them.

In the end, it's just hard for people to understand that some people are different than them and the answer is not to suggest everyone be the same.
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I think it's a joke. They ain't going to actually use it for any product.
With trademark, the test for a new name depends on whether the name can cause confusion with an existing trademark. When it's the same industry then it's pretty cut-and-dried in favor of the existing mark owner.

Reasonability of the name has nothing to do with whether or not Dropbox can use "Project Infinite". That's the point that Dropboxe makes. Dropbox can either fight that name (which really, they must or lose their own mark meaning anyone can use "Dropbox") and lose their Project Infinite name as well.
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Yeah but the dictionary words are "dropbox" and "infinite", not "dropboxe" and "infinit". If Dropbox was called Dropboxe and Infinit had started a project called "Dropbox" that would have made sense, but like this they are just asking for a lawsuit (but only if this was a real project, of course)...
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I know gravity is nothing like a treadmill, but still pretty nice analogy.
Another question that you would want to ask yourself may be "is my company worth 300+ billion dollars". To say that Facebook is "doing good" is a vast understatement, and Mark deserves much more shareholders trust than a typical founder.
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perhaps patents should only ever be in the name of the people who actually did the inventing, and the only way a company can have an interest is to pay said persons a fee for a right for use, AND must have an active interest in developing and persuing the patent in the form of a product to be able to sue others to prevent others using the intellectual property.

Wages may be sufficient payment but if they leave the company, the people who do the inventing are the ones who should continue to be rewarded in continued payment for succesful invention giving companies advantage in the form of patents.

this would kill off trolls and exploitation of inventive people.
This blanket downvoting is somewhat odd, what is it I'm saying that's so disagreeable? For afaik I've only presented facts about the time Swartz would probably have spent incarcerated.
Interesting, I'm in a similar situation, where I don't really fit, but I really can't envision a company that would be better. I'm just feeling that I'm not made for this business world.
What about look up or down? If it's a flatter galaxy like our Milky Way spiral.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11594728
I get all of that, but why does the headline say "he gets to run the company a while longer?" That makes it sound like he's a detriment to the company.
> To separate those contributions from that is disrespect in and of itself, almost by definition.

Uhm, no. People do great things for strange motives all the time. Stallman may have written Emacs for some ideological crusade which I don't care about (and consider counter-productive to the world at large), but I can not pretend that it's a great technological achievement.
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There is some solutions to run a SPA in real browser even in a headless environment

The trick is to emulate x11 with xvfb and control it with selenium web driver.

Phantom isn't the only choice, just the one most people talk about

As for non js heavy website, it's fairly trivial to find a library that will parse the dom for you, pretty every language have one
True. But selling to those companies, can hardly cultivate an ecosystem around it.

Without vocal early adopters and evangelists in the wild, it is impossible for AWS to get to its current stage. Those people may not bring in that big of money, but they are willing to take risks and eagerly to give feedbacks, sharing their experience and come up with their own solution around it. The feedback loop is enclosed in that way, and the service can evolve with it.

MS still doesn't hit that spot yet.
> The point is, unlike with Bitcoin, people with Euros do not have any significant ideological opposition towards dollars, or acquire Euros because they believe it is superior to or will one day replace dollars.

And that's why it's a bit silly to have ideological positions about currencies :-P I'm just arguing that it is actually good for Bitcoin the currency, not that it's good for the bitcoiner ideology.

> So it's good for Bitcoin in exactly the same way that it's good for Dogecoin, and other popular alts.

Oh yeah, totally. It's good for the viability of blockchain currencies in general.
When your X is double, triple (sometimes even quadruple) the national median, I think you need to justify why you wanted (and felt entitled to) X.
Facebook = trash is also already deeply ingrained in my brain
He's out of touch with economical and political realities of modern society, and his views on these matters are complete lunacy - however, I still respect him for strength and sincerity of his convictions. He's also a great programmer and software systems designer.
It looks like Tahoe-LAFS, but without redundancy. Am I missing something?
> The bomb enabled communism to take over most of East Asia.
> The bomb is the reason why half the world lived under communist dictatorships.

Right, it was the bomb and not the whole anti-war 60s movement, which led to US disengagement from SE Asia at large.
Wait which curl are we talking about because I'm not sure Daniel worked on Haxe. There is also Curl the programming [1] language (which reminds me of Haxe's goals) but I don't think the creator of that worked on Haxe either.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_(programming_language)
I wouldn't even attempt to justify this in a market-based economy...earning as much as you can to take care of yourself and your family and shelter them from the vagaries of life is kinda the point, right?

Actors acting in their interest to maximize happiness and well-being is the basis of all modern non-Marxist economies, and every metric related to those goals shows that this albeit-non-perfect-system works pretty damn good.

There really isn't any point in rehashing the 160yo Marxism v. Capitalism argument here, I know, but there is almost zero evidence that in a wildly diversified and large society (not Sweden or Denmark, for example), that a government-controlled economy can bring happiness and well-being to its people.
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Debit cards are extremely popular in the US; every checking account by default comes with one, which can be used in any ATM or till that can process transactions on either a credit or a debit network. It is by far the most common means of paying for purchases, and has been so since the advent of the capability. (And, yes, we're getting chip-and-PIN now, too.)

I didn't get my first checking account (and bank card, which only worked in ATMs) until I attained legal majority and started my first adult job, but that was quite a few years ago now. I would be entirely unsurprised to learn that many, many teenagers today have bank accounts and debit cards of their own, even if it's only their allowance that gets deposited there.
Great, thanks, would love to contribute since it looks like a useful product.
Why? If someone is willing to offer me X, they value what I can do at X (or more). Why does that need justification if it's some multiple of the median?
"dropbox" is not a dictionary word.
Hierarchy requires justification, and inequality requires justification, since always and forever.

You should be required to try to convince someone working three manual labor jobs and making $40k a year that your $150k salary for making CRUD apps in your underwear is morally justifiable.
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Ah, the "spherical chicken" argument.

Something has to limit demand, as there is not unlimited supply. If prices are not allowed to rise to where demand slows (to a fair and equal exchange of value), and nothing else increase the cost of acquisition (awaiting queues, covenants/agreements, paperwork, background checks, etc), then the only way to limit demand on a limited supply is simply running out of supply.

Price controls don't work. They may not completely destroy the supply, but they will at least debilitate it, functioning in a way many come to accept as normal - not realizing the resulting damage.
Those are not the only variables affecting leverage when negotiating pay. As reference see Hollywood actor paychecks after and before Michael Ovitz and CAA.
In South Africa free speech is also progressively being stifled through new laws, whos purpose is said to punish racism and hate speech, but is actually being used to support the governing party in silencing dissidents and critics.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35235102

"A spokesman for the ANC chief whip's office, Moloto Mothapo, told the BBC that current legislation was insufficient to tackle racism."

"We haven't had a single person imprisoned for racism despite many instances of racism. We don't believe it addresses the crime of racism," he said." (he means the current laws)

"Elsewhere glorification of Nazism and denial of Holocaust is a crime and perpetrators are tried and sentenced to a prison term," it added.
Is it just me or does the Security Notices not link anywhere? (Chrome)
Good point. There should definitely be a manual culling of the set of 30 (besides duplicate removal). To make sure there aren't just a bunch of people saying "that idea sucks!" and that there isn't a vote rigged entry (a poorly presented, low commented proposal that magically has a bunch of upvotes).
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The article is about how some people choose to justify their above average salary.

I don't see how it "misses the point" by not taking into account that you don't believe you need to justify your salary.
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Why would anyone need to justify his/her salary?

It's very simple: supply & demand. If you are a specialist of a certain field where there is lack of people doing it, you'll probably earn more than average. If we stop letting unions and others harass the free system and companies could hire people easily over the borders we could all earn what we really deserve.

The most ridiculous thing today is the extremely high salaries of the working class in western countries. People with trivial and easily automatable jobs keep complaining that companies are taking jobs to China, but then at the same time they demand the same salaries as academically educated professionals doing difficult work and even though there would be millions of people in China, India, Philippines etc. ready to come to this country and do the same work for 1/5 - 1/10 of his/her salary, that's just not allowed...derpderp
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Supply vs Demand x Potential Benefit of your position?
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So I would prefer to be "fired" this way.

But how would it be interpreted legally? Would I be eligible for unemployment benefits? Severance?

Those questions might lead me to "stick it out" to get fired in a traditional manner. Of course, if my boss were sincere about this polite manner of firing me, I would hope he/she would do it in a way that would allow me to have those benefits.
Because the value of the output of the person making CRUD apps is presumably worth more than $150k to their employer, right? If a company pays its employees more than the value of their output, they'll go out of business.
It's also about value, not just supply and demand. Your extra X years of studying most likely includes increases in the value that you can provide a potential employer.
It's indeed similar to Tahoe-LAFS. The largest differences are that you can build hybrid infrastructures with Infinit (local storage and cloud storage) and that we try to make it really accessible and easy to setup. We made a comparison page that sums it up here: https://infinit.sh/documentation/comparison/tahoe-lafs
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That would be something they should discuss. Instead, by striking and getting what is a well above-average salary, it could be argued they are perpetuating the suffering of future workers to have to put up with those conditions, on account of having created a very attractive 'pull' in the form of a good salary.

There could perhaps be some way of bringing in automation, moving existing employees into different roles for the remainder of their careers and therefore satisfying both aims.

Instead, from the outside, the tube unions seem to go on strike every other month. I don't see my water, gas, electricity or internet connections being switched off because workers at those companies are striking. Tube workers seem more than happy to inflict financial damage and inconvenience on the other 8 million people who live in London and who depend on them. Apparently they don't care that their actions are likely to be having a much more damaging impact on those Londoners on average salaries (as well as the large numbers on below average salaries).

I know someone on the breadline who works all hours and makes an absolute pittance. One day of not being able to go to work for someone in such a situation can literally risk their job, rent and ability to feed themselves.

I find the actions of the - by comparison wealthy - Tube unions generally disgraceful.
Also, HaXe is the only viable technology which enables a high-quality canvas-based applications which mirror native applications (while also permitting compilation to those native applications).
Prepare yourself for the downvotes... Every time you suggest that some people are payed too much relative to others in the society which creates massive inequality you have a rush of libertarians trying to justify that it works as expected.
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> I'm 33 and grew up in the Bible belt. Looking back, I'm shocked at how good my Sex Ed was.

So did I, and so am I. Ours consisted mainly in a full-color slideshow of various genitals horribly mutilated by unchecked venereal disease, with absolutely nothing held back. Granted, as teenagers, most of us found it as fascinating as we did appalling, and I can attest to the fact that it did little to discourage our burgeoning interest in sexual activity. But it wasn't what you would call useful.
I think it should be the other way round: if somebody thinks somebody else is being paid too much, they should have to explain why they think that is possible. That is, there has to be a market failure and they should explain what caused it.

Often the envy seems to be about jobs where people have little idea of what is involved. For example in banking or being a CEO. I guess most people have a rough idea of the importance of a doctors skill, so they complain less. I also see few complaints about artists earning millions of dollars. How does Beyonce justify her income - maybe she should be replaced by some random street musician?
I am not on any search committee for future award recipients, but I'm surprised by your comment because there have been women (three in the past decade) and people of color who have received the far more prestigious Turing award, you know (not, BTW, Grace Hopper, who has been awarded much fame but not so much with actual academic prizes). Specifically for the prize Stallman has received (for developers of successful/important software), a few men of color received it before him, and only two years ago a woman did, too (for Coq).
Is not gravity just what we call the effects of the curvature of space-time and more or less equivalent?
Paul, not sure what the point of your comment was. But it reads like a speculative, vaguely ad hominem attack.

As I'm sure you could have found out with a little digging, the author is 61 years old. She had a long career in research and now seems to be focusing on science writing and communication.
I left Slashdot because of the rampant censorship; if you ever posted something going against "prevailing wisdom" even if completely true, you might have found yourself unable to access the home page for a day and your submission ended up deleted. On completely factual, verifiable things, not politics/gender/whatever controversy.
No, you shouldn't.

Wages aren't a hierarchy, they're supply and demand. The only reason why someone earning 150k would have to justify their wage to someone earning 50k is if the person earning 50k wasn't afforded the same opportunities as the person earning 150k.
But wait, I thought Microsoft changed.
95% of us are doing shitty low IT as well so please do not pretend we are better than drivers or cooks. We are not.

5% of population is working on really groundbreaking stuff. We are just lucky we are in demand but our time will come as well and then those Senior Software Engineers that brag about how they are rich and successful will be useless once again.

95% of software is pure s...t so please show some respect.

The more I work in IT and meet more people the more I appreciate "normal workers" that take care of our stomachs,clothing,trash and so on.
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[just a thought] This app, that app, which app, what app? the internet is flooded with apps and stories related to them. Why everyone is going frenzy over them, why are they getting so much funding? Why aren't we solving real world problems, there are still people around the world who are suffering from issues, whether it be related to health, food, education etc. There are still people in the the world who don't have access to a smartphone. I know these apps or rather technology helps fixing an issue to an extent, but this appcraze is going too far and might blow up the whole technical ecosystem. I might be wrong, I might be right, what do you think ?
Snowden revealed, naughty pics from the surveillance database were regularly filched & traded amongst his colleagues.

So "Dirty Derek" does work as a spy.
So how something can move faster than light. To move at the speed of light, mass must be 0. To move faster than light, what would the mass be?
Connected people always existed. Maybe they connect nowadays more than they did before (but there is a biological limit to that, nevertheless), maybe they connect over greater distances than they did before given the technological means, but they were and are a minority (even if a loud one). The bulk of the populace are not like that. The bulk of the populace connect and live in a physically delimited place. Yes, you give them cars and make it easier with other forms of transportation, enlarging those limits, but that only produce results when it couples with an internal drive like a desire to travel, which again has its limits. Place proximity still holds a great weight in shaping human relations on a very broad level and that is a fact given by our human nature. "Geography is destiny" is here to stay, and so are all the local things that affect most of us.
> great silent majority of unemployed physicists

Do you have a reference for that? When I graduated (~10 years ago), I recall a statistic saying that 98% of physicists found employment (not all in physics, of course).
His claim is that the conditions, on their own, would be considered bad; that the pay, on its own, would be considered good (at least, good enough to require justification). The drivers, by deciding to take the job, consider the goodness of the pay vs the badness of the conditions to balance at a level which is at least as good as they could find elsewhere (otherwise, they'd quit and go elsewhere).

Hence, it's not hypocritical to say that bad conditions justify a high pay; whilst also considering the overall conditions/pay balance to be good, and hence worth striking over.
At their heyday they were THE tech company (mind you, they were considering buying both Apple and Oracle at the same time).
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Love the stat buried in there, that voyager 1 is 17 light HOURS away, and the nearest known black hole is 8,000 light years. That will put my youngest (9) step-son's mind at rest, he was worried about them when he heard about them first, despite my saying there was nothing to worry about, having concrete facts is always better!