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Yes, I lived in Vietnam (where the median salary is $150-$200 a month) for 6 months on ~$20,000.

It was loads of fun and I enjoyed a lifestyle equivalent to earning at least $250k back in SF. Hotel room in the city center, maid service, bar night every night, motorcycle, valet parking everywhere, restaurants 3x a day, etc.

> But children begging in the street. Fuck, I don't have the stomach for that

There appeared to be a lot less of that level of poverty in Saigon than in SF, but maybe that's because poor people don't live in the city like they do in the US. In any case, my presence there surely wasn't making anyone poorer so I don't feel bad about it.
Unfortunately, that's the article I was referring to as terrible. That is not how a typical Russian kitchen looks like...
Welcome my friend.
I think you're finding exactly what it seems you're finding; the CTO role is not for you (as it isn't for me either.) It is exactly what you're experiencing; dealing with bullshit, trying to get people to do things, get people to find common ground, etc.

If you're not enjoying it you should go back to being a lead developer. You may make less money but you'll be happier.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10143652
> To be honest, they're probably buying the users, not the product

Couldn't agree more.

LinkedIn has to be one of the most under-powered network out there. It's UX is still reminiscent of Orkut days. It's notifications and messaging system is the worst of breed. The network updates and posts on the "wall" are so bad that I stopped reading them years ago because it feels like spam. It prompts me every now and again to congratulate people on job anniversaries--maybe people do that but it's a weak play when a company reaches to those depths.

Looking forward to Microsoft cleaning this up but I haven't seen anything from Microsoft as of late that would inspire confidence on the web. I was at MSN circa 2004 and it has always had an inferiority complex compared to the rest of the industry.

LinkedIn won't bring much engineering talent to the table either. So revamping it will be a true test of Microsoft's resurgence into the web following a string of bad executions.
To put things in perspective, WhatsApp was bought in October, 2014 for $22 billion.
hey. meh, general rule: listen to your gut and follow it. It's that simple ;)
Isn't that a rather narrow minded reaction?
Mircorosft Acquires Linkedin for whopping 25 Billion USD
Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $26.2B
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spot 1 on the frontpage already.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893153
Unfortunately he's now a high profile Facebook employee so I'm sure he has strict orders about where his content is to be posted.
I don't think anybody's going to like this but Microsoft.
Oh hell no! But they are doing worse than that with these...
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I did it for 11 months, and I hated it too, so I quit. Now I'm figuring out something that'll make me happy. :)
I don't think Nadella understands either enterprise or consumer tech. The Windows 10 forced upgrades, privacy concerns, the milquetoast Surface sales, and the non-stop march of users shifting from Windows to OSX and mobile is a sign that he has no idea what he's doing.

I suspect MS is destined to enter a Yahoo-like phase of remaining semi-relevant via acquisitions and legacy products enterprise finds difficult to move off of. Skype, Linkedin, Minecraft, etc make little sense for MS to own especially at the incredible prices they paid for them. There's no practical ROI here for any of this. Lets call a spade a spade here: MS is just buying customers at this point.

The only rational move MS is doing is a me-too copy of AWS. And only because running Windows of AWS was unsupported for a long time and a PITA. People don't use Azure but because they like it, its because its the one that run Windows.

Nadella isn't the Steve Jobs of MS. He's, at best, the Melissa Mayer of MS. He'll stick around for a while, cash out, and leave a worse running company in his wake. Sadly, when investors demanded Xbox and other divisions be spun off, Nadella fought them tooth and nail. I suspect the investors were right and these divisions would have been more competitive without being tied down to the MS mothership and its questionable leadership and unbelievable spending.

MS has money for these buyouts, but where's its PSVR/Vive competitor? Why are bing results still terrible? Why is Win10 still unliked? Why isn't MS taking ransomware seriously? Why is its licensing still overly expensive and impossible to figure out?

I wish Nadella was more focused on fixing what's broken with MS instead of just buying customers, many of whom will end up leaving anyway when a new competitor comes around. There's no loyalty to Linkedin. In fact, professionals just see its as another nuisance in their lives if they want to maintain competitive in the job market.
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Skype has gone downhill ever since their first acquisition, and they've been acquired at least three times already.

If anything, MS is starting to slowly take it to a better direction, even though it is nowhere near the ideology of the original Skype.

I believe that LinkedIn will end up being a similar case, where it will continue to suck, but you'll see some slow progress eventually.

EDIT: As pointed out, LinkedIn will likely continue operating independently, as did Skype, which explains the slow progress.
Yeah, look at dogecoin, still fighting, much determination. Never give up dogecoin.
The article lists the three things that the author thinks make people evil:

> There are also people who do evil. I usually lump the causes into one of three groups:

1) Mental instability.

2) Being misinformed.

3) Crimes of passion.

I think the biggie is peer pressure to adopt group norms, though. People try and fit in. They don't question too critically the opinions of those around them, and instead repeat and reenforce it so it slips towards a social evil. Which is what religion is, really - a group norm you don't question critically.

Further along:

> Even the founding fathers knew religion was trouble. After all, they left partially due to religious differences. But they knew religion was too touchy a subject to be involved in government

Trivia, but as a techie I can't help but derail discussion by pointing out minutiae: the Pilgrim Fathers left England because it was too tolerant, and they wanted to set up a pure and intolerant new world. Which changes things quite a bit.
That's quite the pay day for Reid Hoffman. 14.5m shares at $196 = $2.8bn. All cash deal. Ching ching!!
This is actually fascinating - I like stock forums like Stocktwits a lot, and you often see people who's only argument against growth stage tech companies is that they're not currently profitable. I always assumed that logic has an end at some valuation - in this case, imaginenore doesn't believe a company that isn't profitable yet is worth even 1x revenue! Amazing!
Voice actors tend to disagree with you about the control. And even if it is shit level - still does not make her voice more pleasant to listen to the (grand)grandparent obviously.
As far as I know, Microsoft owns Pluralsight. They also recently bought Digital Tutors. Perhaps another big merge will happen between Pluralsight and Lynda.
Supposedly, they also said that LinkedIn will continue to operate independently.
Anyone who has even been passively following the US election cycle this year knows that Google is throwing in with Hillary Clinton. This is just another example of it and is honestly much less troubling to me than their censorship issues around the campaign.
Ask HN: Should I sell out the startup that misled me?
Summary: Startup not paying wages or tax on employees, to claim unemployment benefit I have to report them.

Hi guys, I'd appreciate some outside perspective here.

I've been working with a startup for about two months as their CTO. Small team, three/four developers depending how you count. Handshake deal said moderate salary until series A but with equity.

I've been pushing and pushing for a contract stating the terms, but there always seemed to be something else the CEO had to do. However, I met the rest of the team and it all seemed legitimate.

Around the two month mark, I dug my heels in and said contract or I walk. Next day I have a meeting with the CEO and it comes out that there's no salaries being paid, people are working for equity. I explain that this isn't appropriate for my situation, to which the CEO responds with more work for me to do.

Obviously, I should walk away at this point (or ideally weeks before), but there are some twists:

1) The work that I produced for them is still mine, as no copyright transfer has been signed. They'll almost certainly be trying to sell this / bring it to investors.

2) It's not legal to work only for equity in my country, there's a minimum wage, and each employee has to be registered and tax paid on them to the government. I went to apply for unemployment assistance and was told that regardless of whether I was paid, I was considered employed, and thus had no entitlements. Furthermore, as I wasn't registered the company was not meeting its tax obligations in hiring me.

This brings me to the crux of my problem: If I want to claim unemployment benefit while I look for a real job, I must torpedo the old company. This is bad as it not only can hurt my reputation, it will negatively affect the co-workers who have previously worked for low wage and equity.

My feeling is to walk away and cut my losses, but I thought the community may have other suggestions.

Thanks for looking.
The project has no activity in the last 6 months. I would like to see an open-source graph database that's being actively developed and maintained.
Excellent. I shall re-send them an undisputed invoice they haven't managed to pay since 2011. Great tech, total amateurs running the business side. Proof anyone can IPO if you pay the right people the right fees.

Edit: downvote away, boys. Doesn't change the facts.

I apologize if this real world example of how Twilio runs their business is out of place in this Twilio thread where they're asking the general public for $160 million to fund a business that doesn't make money.
His point was that even on 9GAG, which does not have a tech-focused community, this is a central talking point, so it's not just the tech-crowd which is pissed off about this.

Sure, 9GAGgers are still at least capable of operating a computer or smartphone, but if you move even further down in tech-capabilities, it also becomes quite unlikely that those people will buy something from Microsoft to begin with.
The commenter you were replying to, as far as I know, is not a professional journalist and does not represent "western media". This is a private individual making a salient observation about the risks of low-tech drone weapons.

I'm not disagreeing that all civilian deaths are a reason to be concerned, but you're coming out of left field and injecting your personal crusade to a completely unrelated comment thread. Make a new top-level comment with your view if that's the point you want to make instead of picking a fight with people who are talking about something else entirely.
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You've made this comment more than once on this thread. Microsoft employs many people, but it is hierarchily managed.

Things like the Windows 10 dark patterns might happen, but once the users complain (and users have been complaining since the day win 10 was out, when the patterns weren't nearly as dark), someone with veto power gets involved.

This was definitely done with the approval - and I guess blessing and even direction of nadella himself.

I didn't buy the "new Microsoft" for a second.
I personally don't like LinkedIn itself but I recognise that it fills an huge market need. Probably that's why LinkedIn survived to so many bad decisions and was able to retain users.

Once Microsoft is walking the enterprise path, the acquisition looks like a logical investment. (logical != profitable)
Code structure provides very little business value.

Ten year old battle tested spaghetti is more valuable than any benefits a complete re-write would provide.
Reminds me of the joke - MS Executive buys Skype for $8bn - didn't anyone tell him you can download it for free?
The main problem I'm seeing with this kind of topics is this notion that "management" and "coding etc." are on the same vertical. That as an end result of a successful career as a professional is to move into management.

Well, that's just bonkers.

I used to be a coder. Now I'm in management and I've learned, the hard way, that management is it's own specialty ... and that the best managers don't see them self's as "above" their team, but the "team coordination & external communication" specialist of the team. The only reason for the extra pay is the expectation that a manager take the brunt of the "external" crap (aka. having responsibility for the team) so that the rest of the team don't have to and can keep working.
Which means that just as you need knowledge and experience to be a good coder, you need knowledge and experience to be a good manager. I find the notion of going from "best in your field" back to being "the green guy" at the height of your career as utterly crazy.

But that's just me.
Microsoft acquires LinkedIn for a whopping 26B USD
I moved to Toronto from Seattle.

If you value street fashion, nightlife, music, no driving, etc then the bay area isn't very appealing. I wouldn't move back west until I'm married with kids.

I'm 22, rent a huge apt with two friends for ~$900/m each, live on the main subway line (15 min to work). I couldn't spend more than $4k/m if I tried (bought a roomba, tom ford shades, eat steak and berries).

Some toronto companies I admire:

- https://www.wealthsimple.com/
- http://www.uken.com/
- https://shoeboxapp.com/
- https://www.opencare.com/
- https://tophat.com/
- https://www.pagerduty.com/
- http://www.eventmobi.com/
https://hubic.com/en/contracts/Contrat_hubiC_2014.pdf

The bandwidth is limited to 10 Mbit/s upstream and downstream.

Still, it's good to have a cheap offsite backup to complement a local one.
Problems I would love to have.
Right, in fact the interaction between multiplication and addition is one of the most fundamental forms of chaos due to combining recursive operations. One could say, addition is repeated counting. Multiplication is repeated addition. And the interaction between the two points a finger at the relationship between space and time.

And yes I agree. It is glorious that the binary operations that seemed so natural to us formed the basis for groups, rings, and fields. Associativity, commutativity, distributivity of two related operations are quite the pearls :-) Its also interesting as a programmer and from a "properties of functions" perspective to study magmas and semigroups and groupoids..etc..

Knowing more about abstract algebra in terms of special properties of functions has led me to believe that most programmers are missing out on some of the beauty of functions by merely implementing them and not so much understanding the common properties and classifications of them.
In a way, helping you try to remember things about your contact?
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oh, haha. Since smart media already exists and is a real thing, I thought you were making fun of people who use SmartMedia.
I read it more as the OP had their own company where they were in charge of making decisions AND executing them, and there's no real indication of managing employees. I suspect they enjoyed the execution. If they don't enjoy dealing with people's crap and putting out fires, senior management of any reasonably large group is probably not for them - and that's absolutely okay.
16 GByte/second sounds fast, but it's less than the bandwidth of dual channel DDR2 RAM. Never mind modern GDDR5X/DDR4/HBM memory.
Not just the UX but all aspects of brand and design. LinkedIn is hideous, difficult to use, buggy, and creepy. If MSFT can fix a few of those it'll be a win. If not it's hard to see the platform living another 5 years.
I tend to disagree. While it has historically been true(and still holds on a micro level), mass, repetitive exposure to ideas tends to make people co-opt those ideas as their own. The crowd is easily swayed by FUD, the 'four F's'(fight, flight, food, reproduction) and repetition. These triggers have been proven to get eyes on content, sell product and sway opinion. Hence, this is what I see when I do get a glimpse of current popular media. Bad programming, IMO.
Resident of Canada here with 0 experience in investing. What steps can I take to invest in this company right from the onset of their IPO?
> Red Hat pulled back how?

By focusing on the enterprise, they became much less visible for individual Linux users. Even though Fedora is still there, it was a huge shift in how engaged Redhat apppeared to those not directly involved with projects that Redhat are involved in.

They still contribute massively, but they are much less visible outside of enterprise users than they used to be.

Of course this is not all their doing - the rise of Ubuntu also contributed, but arguable Ubuntu would have had a much harder time if it wasn't for the Redhat shift.
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> if your company and your team is ready.

And what does that look like?
That's the vision!
Are you addicted to work?
The code in the demo uses Q, a proprietary language from Kx Systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28programming_language_from...
Tested it Cyberduck from Belgium.

Upload speed: 1.4MB/s. Close to my maximum of 1.6MB/s.

Download speed: 1.3MB/s. Far from my maximum of 15MB/s.

This could be good for NAS backups.
On a modern linux server the kernel caches files aggressively.

As an example, we have a server that can saturate 40 cores of CPU during load if fed data quickly enough. On the first load after cold boot, it takes about 2 minutes to run (fed by SSDs). Second boot, about 30 seconds.

If we run a sequential data load off SSD, it's more like 8 minutes on the cold run. So, even off non-RAM storage, parallel reads can help a lot.
Ok, Linkedin is definitely dead :p
Well that plus I've had two separate situations where I left a negative review and was threatened until I took it down. Not sure you're going to see many unbiased views there...
My very large company has 5 lanes. Purely technical is at the far right, purely management is at the far left. Our CTOs do not spend the majority of their career in the company in either lane and that seems to have worked out okay. I don't think people are particularly encouraged to stay in the management lane either.
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Find out what you REALLY want. Find your motives. Find the underlying essential motivation. That's much deeper than coding or not handling crap. Those are superficial symptoms, not what makes you move.

Find a good professional coach that can help you with finding this out. Pay money for it. You probably can spend several thousands $$$ on this. Not that it needs to be that expensive, but $1000-$2000 is easily spent.

If you quit this good paying job, while it may actually have the opportunity to bring you to your dream job, it's worth staying there long enough to get your things together.

http://simainternational.com/coaching/strategic-life-career/
This is a link to SIMA, about motivational assessment. There are more methods. This is just a starter, but it may be right for you. Be sure to find an experienced coach.
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> Actually looking forward to MS's UX folk cleaning up LinkedIn.

Wait, what? Are you saying you want Microsoft to "Metro-ify" LinkedIn? Forget the OS, even, for a minute... Just look at what they did to Skype and Office.

Are you saying you LIKE their current UX ideology?
Before Satya was CEO, it was normal to see a bunch of Nokia Lumia phones in every bus, tram or metro train in Germany. Right now it would be hard to find even one, and Windows Phone seems to be an abandoned project. So I cannot entirely agree that Satya is so much better as a CEO than Ballmer.
Up anywhere from 4:30 to 6, out the door anywhere from 7 to 8:30. Take meds that should be taken before I eat ... wait ... eat plain greek yogurt or oatmeal ... take meds that should be taken after I eat. Coffee, read news and HN during all that. Work on something if I'm working on something. Put in my teeth and go to work.
I'm the same age as you and while I generally agree with your thoughts on the subject, I do see some merit in the article.

Personally I've noticed no lack of ability for people our age to reflect, even if they use technology to assist with that. I would argue that for most people today's tech does make it easier to find an alternative to deep introspection or thought. However, the availability of an alternative does not mean it is necessarily chosen.

I think the flaw in the article is to assume the visible public output of tweets and selfies is fully representative of an individual's thoughts and introspective activities.
How do you envision an app would help you to build quality relationships?
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I think Terry's posts fit right in at 4chan.
I suggest mindfulness meditation. 20 minutes a day of trying to focus on nothing can help get your brain back in order. It may seem odd that the cure for the inability to concentrate might be concentrating on something as basic as your breath. It worked for me. Mindfulness in Plain English is a good book to get started is and free online.
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About 7x revenues. That's a pretty high multiple, but hopefully they can pull it off.

Recent IPOs weren't nearly as aggressive, but of course different industries. Will be interesting to see how investors react to lack of long term customer commitments and instead relying on tech integration stickiness to drive repeat spend.
From the mouseovers in the graphic:

* Wall bed: $7,780
* Coffee table: $1,450
* Expanding table: $4,165
* Folding chairs: $250/each ($1,000)
No one wants to be the "bad guy", but blowing the whistle does not make you the bad guy. It prevents this company from screwing over countless people in the future.
https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j
At what point is someone deemed 'unfit' to own a weapon?

When (s)he uses it in an ill-conceived manner.

While that may sound glib, it's an unfortunate truth: you cannot anticipate all the ways in which an individual can fly off the handle. The best you can do is to provide for earlier, softer escape routes (e.g. counseling, family cohesion, social security).

Since gun control seems to go nowhere, maybe it is time to reconsider allowing the NSA domestic access?
I think your gut is correct in this case. You're likely not going to get much out of this other than stress, move on and chalk it up to a learning experience.
You should file for unemployment. You also should send them a letter formally requesting they pay the wages they owe you based on your verbal agreement regarding salary and equity. If you are uncertain how to phrase this letter, see an attorney that specializes in employment issues.
Can someone explain how Microsoft bought a publicly traded company? Shareholders own Linked in, so did they buy a controlling interest and or is there currently a tender offer circulating for all holders of the common stock?

Also curious that MS is valuing it Linked stock at $196 dollars a share when before the weekend it was trading at $133. Did they believe it was undervalued by almost 50% then? That seems dubious.