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Thanks for this advice. In either case I'd be paid enough to be comfortable, but I wonder if passing up the pay bump will put me further behind in my career. I'd like to get to the pay level in job #2, and I fear working at #1 will slow down my progress toward that salary.

On the other hand, I think job #1 will have more interesting challenges (building out a new product from scratch), but I don't like the space or business as much (social media).

Nothing about this choice seems easy or straightforward to me and I'm so worried about making the wrong decision and regretting this.
That's a little no-true-scotsman for my tastes. I don't like those people either. But it's hard to say that those people are not part of the Silicon Valley startup community, or the Hacker News community.
Of course it can, it's thirty some years newer.
Yes, they have a big office in Toronto but their main (and largest) office is on Ottawa.
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You are correct about early Zune having an advantage over the iPod. As time went on though, the larger iPods, now known as the Classic, began to ship with Wolfson DACs- a well respected DAC for portable audio.

Side note: ALAC, although lossless, never upset FLAC for a reason. Primarily because FLAC was open and ALAC was closed.

EDIT: Please disregard last comment, it has been corrected by a reply below this
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If this thread is anywhere, I would bet its on flyertalk (awesome air travel forum with great info).
to be fair some get junked in to azure because of bizspark as well.
Could you name a few of the many "slightly thicker phones with bigger batteries" that no one bought? I must have missed them somehow.
I think what matters more is the combination of shortcuts, how we define time, and the scope of a simulation.

E.g. if I want to simulate humanity, while I need to create the appearance of a universe, the scope of observation of the universe is very, very limited, so I don't need to actually simulate anything other than Earth and maybe a few minor bits and pieces of the solar system. Outside of that, I can take a leaf from the book of Elite, and simply have a way to generate whichever bits and pieces that those annoying astronomers happens to try to observe, to sufficient fidelity to feed into the simulation.

On Earth too, I could simplify drastically. E.g. there was a school of philosophy called Empirio-Criticism that believed only that which is directly observed by the senses exist (they are perhaps best known today through an obscure book by Lenin called Materialism and Empirio-Criticism [1] largely motivated by the fact that one of Lenins opponents in the Bolchevik party was leading supporter of the empirio-criticists). Ernst Mach - a physicist - caused some consternation, for example, by expressing doubt that atoms existed... As such it occupies a middle ground between Berkeleys Idealism and Materialism.

But imagine if they were right in the context of a simulation: The simulation, like games like Elite or Minecraft, only instantiates what you can observe directly, and when you can no longer observe it, it is either discarded, or stored (e.g. Elite re-generates each solar system on entry; Minecraft after a while de-spawns any entities that are not contained, so e.g. you can maintain an animal farm, but only as long as the animals are in a small enough enclosure). Since you could introspect the mind of the simulation subject, you could determine (or change!) which details the subject remembers, and allow everything else to be re-generated as needed.

Furthermore, depending on the simulation goals, it'd not necessarily need every person in the simulation to be "real" - it could imbue persons you run into with a personality and generated mind just for the time you interact with them, and step their complexity up/down as needed.

It doesn't need to be correct, just to be believable by someone who has no memory that contradicts it.

Lastly, unless there are reasons we don't know that requires a simulation of a mind to run at a specific speed, a lot can be solved simply by slowing a simulation down.

In other words: If you first go down the rabbit hole of a simulated reality, things get hairy quite quickly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism_and_Empirio-critic...
They have actually put a very serious effort into making the UI and UX a lot better over the last 6 months. It's still not great but they have a usable mobile app and chat feature now.
But a lot of people who make purchasing decisions for their business are.

And a lot of people who advise non-technical friends and family on technical matters are, too.

Also, Windows 10 updates have broken so many things for so many people that it seems quite a few of my less technically inclined friends and family are aware of the potential problems anyway.
TL;DR: Build yourself a desktop with a non-vPro CPU and a non-Intel NIC. Check [0] for a list of such CPUs.

The usual recommendation is to either get a pre-2009 AMD machine (which is what my present desktop is) or get a Sparc machine. My boss won't buy me a desktop with an UltraSparc CPU, so I won't bother with that. AMD has substantially less documentation than Intel, AFAICT, so Intel products deserve investigation for their relative starkness.

An albeit outdate list of systems to avoid, see [1].

I will assume that you are trying to build a desktop from off-the-shelf parts.

For sure, get a CPU without vPro, since that downgrades the type of AMT/IME feature set to Standard Manageability:

"Please note that NON -vPro™ Intel® desktop procesors will make Intel® ME FW to switch its features set from full Intel® Active Management Technology to Intel® Standard Manageability that do not suport Intel® AMT KVM Redirection feature (it is disabled internally in the Intel® ME FW)." [2] When the CPU doesn't support AMT, then Standard Manageability is what is running in the background.

This says 2 things: (1) non-vPro desktop CPUs downgrade AMT to Standard Manageability and (2) IME is active regardless of the CPU's feature set.

What is Intel Standard Manageability?
"Q8: What is Intel® Standard Manageability and can it run on a non-Intel® vPro™ technology-based CPU?
A8: Some basic management capabilities are available on non-Intel® vPro™ technology-eligible Intel® Core™2 processors as well as Intel® Pentium® dual-core and Intel® Celeron® processor-based CPUs. Intel® Standard Manageability is available only on desktop systems right now (not notebook), and only includes basic capabilities such as hardware and software inventory and remote diagnostics." [3]

I can't tell if Standard Manageability is a lite version of AMT. Intel's documentation on it [4] isn't a whole lot of help.

Intel mentions that Atom and i3 platforms generally do not support AMT. [5]

At the bottom of this [6] page lists those Intel chipsets with IME. I'd consider that to be a list of chipsets to avoid, but those cover almost all modern chipsets, AFAIK.

For sure, don't use any Intel NICs:
"Adding another NIC will not nullify Intel® vPro™ technology verification, but Intel® Active Management Technology communicates only through the onboard network interface of Intel vPro technology, and it is strongly recommended that an additional wired NIC is not added to the platform as this might cause some of the features of Intel AMT to not operate as expected." [7]

[0] = http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&VProTechnology=fals...

[1] = https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-2033

[2] = https://communities.intel.com/thread/65350

[3] = https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-vpro-technol...

[4] = https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/03/27/what-is-st...

[5] = http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/include/re...

[6] = https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/me...

[7] = https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-vpro-technol...
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I am surprised why people think that amount is outrageous. LinkedIn has so far been pathetic at everything except magically mantaining their monopoly of professional network but I believe it is far more valuable than it is now.

I am not sure what has held LinkedIn back these many years but it is certainly possible that the new leadership can push a lot of great changes to the platform.
yeah you would! But why would MSFT accept a all cash deal. All they key employees holding the matured options mighy cash out and leave?
I would have thought UPS - and similar companies - would be considered competitors, which are no small fries! But, perhaps I'm looking at the wrong layer of the onion? And perhaps the layer you're referring to/hoping to operate in is n degrees removed from that. In any case, good luck!

+1!
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But, they could buy the users for a fraction of the price from any number of shady vendors.
I tried OrientDB. It's not clear how to use their fast data importer on data that's actually structured as a graph (instead of "hey, I've got a SQL database that I want to put into a graph database for some reason"). A couple of their employees have responded to me once but haven't actually answered the question.

I also tried it before they had a fast data importer and... well, you need a fast data importer.
I totally agree, same in Italy and to an extent also in UK. I think webdevs used to be caught up in the same dynamics up to 10 years ago, and they've since wised up (all those "Fuck you, pay me" slides eventually must have had an impact); but I'm sure it still happens here and there.
I'd been dabbling with it for a year or two.

Probably my most significant previous use was in my second-semester computer architecture class as a substitute for Verilog. Using Christiaan Baaij's Cλash project, one can transform a (large) subset of Haskell into VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog and slap it on an FPGA. There's a rundown of that project on my blog too.

My project partner had never really used Haskell before, so he was learning as we went. By the end of the semester he was writing code no problem. "Immersion learning" seemed to work quite well here.
My experience is that VPE takes on more of the day to day management stuff and CTO takes on figuring out how to apply technology to solve business problems.

OP sounds like they want a VPE to work alongside.
Congrats on the 30 minute anniversary of writing this comment. Good luck in your future endeavors.
If you have a "not crap cable" recommendation I'd love to hear it, but at the same time, I suspect your home setup doesn't involve plugging something into a jack and then removing it quite as many times a day as plugging a phone into a car stereo.
The entire pricing model of airplane tickets has changed dramatically in thirty years. People seem completely unwilling to pay a premium for anything. It's as if they'd gladly give up another three inches of legroom for another $40 savings.

The economic conditions were created by airlines mismanaging expectations.
The Turing test in this case might consist of feeding the algorithm with a mute video of a scene from Monthy Python and the Holy Grail, when coconut halves are used to simulate the sound of galloping horses.
I'm no expert, but wouldn't said seed first be baked by the heat of an impact strong enough to launch a chunk of planet to space?
Just because something is normal doesn't make it right. And just because something takes some telemetry data doesn't mean taking any data is ok. Microsoft has done just fine with windows without taking all this additional information, so I just don't understand the argument that they need it.

Also, I think windows 10 is closer to adware than spyware. I think it is adware as it sneakily installs itself, and it has ads.
Wars are over ideology.... :(
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Well, hopefully you're young a flexible enough that you can bounce back quickly after learning a valuable lesson.

A few years ago, I worked with a guy for 18 months without pay. I bounced back!

In our case, we didn't try to convince other people to work for us for free.

Now that I think I can read between the lines, give this guy (or gal) about a week to see the error in his ways. Make sure it is on friendly terms. For example, every day, continually engage him (or her) in discussions about the legal issues of employing other people.

If he does not see the error in his ways, torpedo him so that he can't accidentally screw people over like this again.

If he does see the error in his ways, you're going to have to take a personal hit yourself. Disband the company on amicable terms. If it's a good idea, and everybody owns most of the IP, you can get back together in a week or two and find a new leader.
You can use mbasic.facebook.com to see/reply to messages and m.facebook.com for browsing facebook, that's what I do, still better than the app.
Thanks for additional sources. I was unaware.
I'm not sure how you're equating cookie-level tracking to being more invasive than OS-level tracking.

At least with a browser client you have control over how you're traced on the web. With the OS (that you paid for), you're forced to install some third party software and give it admin access. That's not a security problem waiting to happen at all.
This strikes me as a well-intentioned dumb idea, kind of like B-Corporations [0].

The whole point of a stock exchange is to allow the market to provide nearly instant feedback on a company's reported operational/financial performance and the decisions of its leadership. I agree that there is moral hazard in companies giving executives pay packages in which most of the upside is tied to short-term market performance. It's important to note that a large portion of the professional investor community feels the same way, and a lot of short positions are born of the observation, "looks like the CEO is just trying to fluff numbers for his bonus". This is where a strong board makes a huge difference. "Corporate governance" is not just wanker-jargon, it's a real thing.

As far as public markets limiting R&D....that's a weak argument. Five of the ten biggest companies in the world by market cap are tech companies that spend billions of dollars a year on R&D, most of which has no clear path to GAAP profitability [1].

To borrow from Churchill, liquid securities markets constitute the worst system of company ownership with the exception of all the other systems available.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation

[1]: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook
No, customers prefer to pay electronically. The linked article points out that cash sales in Australia have crashed from 70% to just 47% and is on a fast decline.

I think the point of removing the cash discount is they can use the 'extra' 3% margin earned on those remaining cash sales to subsidize lowering their price via credit card to be more competitive. Their business is based on offering the lowest prices, but the cheapest price was cash only. The discount for cash no longer lures customers to come to their stores, so there's no incentive for the store to continue passing on the discount to the customer.
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This would be great, if you're right, because this is how we get to a place where we maintain our resumé in one place (LinkedIn) and don't have to play the whole "Please upload your resumé. Now please enter in all the details of your resumé." hellhole.
It comes from the Latin saeculum which is a period of time longer than a person's life. Rome used to hold the secular games, which was an event so big, it'd never be seen again in a person's lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_Games
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try facebook with js disabled on your phone. Feels a lot more faster and non of those annoying "Oh please or please mr, please install our app, oh please"
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I disagree entirely. I'm not an Apple fan boy, but I've actually run my own tests on iPods as early as the 3G iPod (the 30 GB hdd based one, not the phone) and the sound quality from the electronics was excellent. The MP3s are a different story because they were selling 128 kbps files back then. But you could load full bit rate PCM audio (WAV files) on them, and they sounded just as good as any quality CD player.
I like your approach, just move on if it's not what you want to do. That should be the general rule, and I think that's what most people do.

The other benefit is that it leaves the door open to new participants, who are excited enough to know something that they don't mind not getting the upvote. Online communication is one of the most important skills to have, and every skill takes practice.
I didn't see any discussion in the article of having different languages but the what three word website talks about it.

One thing that I don't quite understand is two locations very near each other have completely different sets of words. I would have thought there would be some sort of hierarchy of words (sort of like geocoding a lat long where it defines a box and the precision of the geocoding gives you larger or smaller boxes).

I wonder too if there are going to be collisions of words and locations that aren't going to make people too happy. Though they must have thought through that too.

Either way it is an interesting idea.
I'm not aware of Linkedin maintaining any widely-used libraries or anything like that, so probably very little. (Hadn't they already vocally moved away from Scala and onto something newer and trendier?)
One of my family, who isn't particularly technical, bought a pre-iOS7 iPad after trying out someone else's and liking it.

Soon it was running iOS 7 after prompting to update to the new OS.

Soon after that it went back to the shop for a full refund, because the person who had liked it before found the new OS and the things that broke in the process of updating that annoying.
I'm not objecting to them agreeing; Bollea and Thiel are adults who are welcome to sign contracts as they please. But we're discussing the theory that "Thiel should be left out of the story of Gawker" and its demise.

Given that it appears that Thiel directly influenced the legal strategy in ways that increase the odds of Gawker's destruction, I think it's ridiculous to say that Thiel's involvement is irrelevant to the story of Gawker's destruction. Thiel threatened it, wanted it, paid for it, and got it. That seems pretty relevant to me.
Don't Microsoft own a fund? Wouldn't they realistically send the same team to value Linkdin and Nokia?
Then write it in C89. It's not hard. My first lock-free algo was in C89.
OT, but I greatly appreciate that you put your post summary at the top instead of at the bottom. I don't need a tldr summary at the end...

Was that a result of learning about executive summaries in your MBA program, or just something you picked up along the way?
If you actually want Bluetooth, you can buy inexpensive dongles that receive BT and output on a 3.5mm audio jack, which you could run off your 12V plug and keep permanently in the car. Just thought I'd mention it in case you weren't aware and it's something you might be interested in.
>is that it may be hard to justify the need to physically go from JFK to LAX at mach 2 just to conduct business

My experience is that these types of trips are less about business, and more about glad-handing and greasing wheels.

Those are two things which are difficult to do on Skype.
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I actually really dislike forced updates. In theory they could be fantastic as you will always be up to date on security and any additional features you'd get. However in practice they seem awful as they often break your settings, add additional ads/restrictions, introduce bugs, don't apply correctly, and happen at the worst time.
The 787 is about 30 years newer than the 767, and only about 20% more efficient (both as a design target and in achieved performance). Jet-powered flight is very mature.
Yes. Junior dev base pay in SF is 100k. I know junior devs here making 130k. Add RSUs, factor in the exchange rate... the multiplier is easily 2-3x.
> All her psychotic incidents were self-induced with substances.

That's what made me think of bipolar, because that's a thing that happens, there's a greater susceptibility to certain triggers.
Elon Musk wasn't even a founder at Tesla, let alone 'solo founder'. He joined as financier/chairman after R&D had begun and then took over as CEO some time after that.
How? What would they do with a contact address list that would be so profitable?
Yes, and often sounds from huge sound libraries are used. I allways smile when I hear a sound from Unreal Tournament 4.36 in a movie or on TV.
Personally I'd probably go for job #1 with the more interesting and challenging work. If the work truly is challenging then you should be able to build a strong skill set that will enable you to move onto #2-esque opportunities in the future.
You should also take other things into consideration, do you get better benefits (you're in the states so health care should of importance to you), time off, et al...

Which team do you prefer, remember you will spend a lot of time with them, make sure you get along. You mentioned a "strong engineer"; from what you've said I guess you plan to learn from him. If that is the case then make sure you get along well with him in particular.
Can you contact people who have worked with them before? Find out what they're truly like...
Reminds me of an episode of Futurama where they revive xmas trees which were accidentally were cross contaminated with bio-weapons. Spoiler, the Christmas trees shoot exploding pine cones that multiply until the entire earth is covered in pine trees.

Amy: "What's that splork on them? It's not germs, is it?"

* https://theinfosphere.org/Transcript:The_Futurama_Holiday_Sp...
They shouldn't have been using the consumer version. I can sympathize, but that business both violated their license and ignored nine months of news and popups about the windows 10 update.
No, I think that was the point.
I hope this does not end up being a Yammer 2.0.

I also don't see other companies advertising jobs on the platform owned my a big tech giant whose sole purpose isn't that. I don't think they will make more money in the "recruiting" side.

This deal sounds like a 50% premium but that just brings it back to what it was 6 months ago, lesser than the peak price. Sounds more like LinkedIn just gave up.

Only positive thing I see is, that MS can bundle HR software with Office 365.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing." --Edmund Burke

Immediately consult with a local attorney familiar with employment law in your locale.

What you are describing is both crime and tort. Even if you decline to attempt to recover your personal damages in a civil action, you do have a moral obligation to your fellow workers to report the crime. And your own attorney will help you report it to the state's prosecutors such that it is crystal clear that you were not a willing conspirator.
The quality of the cables you buy and how you treat them is an idependent issue from that of the 3.5mm jack.

I've had more iPod and phone charger cables (read - digital cables akin to what a new headphone jack would use) die than I've had straight analog audio cables die.
The slower speeds waste a non-renewable resource--time. Extra time spent travelling is time that we can't get back.