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I'm pretty sure that in the US that question is illegal to ask an interviewee. It might have been beneficial in your case, but is still totally illegal because it is one of the ways the sexual discrimination in hiring propagates.
That seems like the current conclusion. But as people start dying, the population should decrease and that will limit global warming. Life as humans knew it has already ended, and civilization as we know it might end, but shouldn't mankind and civilization still survive pretty well? (Legitimate question)
Haha, I guess I meant that was dreamed up and implemented in the 60s :) you're totally right though. That's give-or-take by the grandparents of the average tech worker who lives there now.

FWIW I'm totally in favor of income inequality; people should both want to and have the ability (social mobility) to become wealthy. I'm also, however, in favor of moving the bottom line up to a point where everyone live comfortable. Individualism should not have to come at the expense of the collective well-being -- at least not to the extent I'm seeing. I don't think that it's fair to say that I can only be wealthy at the expense of making someone live on the street; I can live with being a little less wealthy (pragmatically, the same wealth level) if it means solving social problems.

What I guess I'm trying to say is that individualism doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. After all, individuals still have to live somewhere, and it'd be better if that place didn't smell like pee ^_^
This piece wants to sell us the startup ethos. Be young, work 14 hours a day and get paid 40 kEUR. But we are in Lisbon and will throw in a surfing pass for Ericeira beach!

Other people recommend asking things like the amount of runway left, who the CFO is and how successful he was in past rounds of fundraising, if the founder is fresh out of academia and doing their first company, nevermind the location and the cost of real estate. And the usual things, like the immediate supervisor, company culture and benefits.
Uh, no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Mental_Health_Act

First, defunding and not funding are two different things.

Second, congress has to fund it, not the POTUS.

Third, you're one of those "they're both the same" but they're not both the same.
These articles make front-page HN every couple of weeks and I find it very tiresome. Stock options most likely aren't going to be "worth it" (which is not to say that they're going to be entirely worthless, but $25k before taxes isn't turning any heads).

Some bullet points:

* Stock options for common stock mean you're dead last in line for making money. Before you are banks/lenders/creditors, investors & board members, founders and any extremely talented management that were brought in.

* Unless everything goes absolutely amazing and according to plan, your options are not going to be worth much money. All it takes is one down round or a market downturn during your lockup and you're wiped out.

* If your company goes IPO, you have a long time before you can do anything with your shares. In the meantime, the market may not be kind, and your options might be underwater.

* If you get acquired, big flashy numbers can turn sour pretty quickly. "Top-billed" numbers (e.g. Company acquired for $2bn) can have a lot of fine print. Your options very well may be worthless, or you may be subject to lots of earn-outs that A) you probably won't hit or B) the acquirer has no real reason to help you hit them.

And that's not to mention the whole ball of fun that comes along with figuring out your taxes. People (speaking mostly just about friends & coworkers) spend far too much time fussing about various outcomes and calculating things when, at the end of the day, it's not worth worrying about. You're probably not going to get rich off of stock options; negotiate for what you think you're worth, but once you have, forget about them.

Of course, if you're a founder or a first-5 employee, the situation probably warrants a lot more scrutiny and have your lawyer/accountant look over the paperwork. But if you're not, it's really probably not worth more than an hour or two of reading the paperwork and asking some questions.
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Moral high ground? That's bullshit. Their view is "I'm privileged as fuck and have no idea what other people are going through, therefore I want to completely discount their issues and pretend they don't exist while at the same time blaming them for it". There's nothing even remotely moral about that.
Or, use shrink tubing.

I just repaired my Ipad 2 frayed cord. I cut some shrink tubing I had laying around. I cut 1/2" shrink tubing length wise, and glued the ends together with Super Glue. Then shrink the tubing with heat.

It works better than I though it would.
I recently (early this year?) had to replace the cable on the charger from my 2006 MacBook Pro (one of the black ones). I've got other chargers from the 2009 MacBook Pro, the 2010 one, I had a 2013 one for almost two years, and I've got a 2015 MacBook Air - all of which have perfectly fine charging cables.

I've never used the ears to wrap up the cable, I tend to just loop it up and stuff it in my bag if I'm taking the charger with me. I also have mostly had enough chargers around compatible with several in-use MacBooks that I'd leave a charger at work and another on the couch and another in the workshop, and rarely move the chargers around anyway. So I;m probably treating them as nicely as possible (purely by accident rather than from any desire to not damage them - I am, and Steve would have said "holding it right"...)

I do realise there is a systemic problem though - once I'd fixed my old old one, a bunch of friends can out of the woodwork asking me to repair theirs as well.
At the moment, the WordPress market economy is based largely on small margins over very large quantities. django CMS definitely isn't in that space, or even aiming for it, right now.

In the meantime though, we know that django CMS is a serious choice of Python/Django agencies and large corporations and other organisations.

You can see django CMS mentioned in job advertisements on a regular basis.

A surprising number of large corporate websites use django CMS.

There are numerous businesses in Europe and the USA that are django CMS specialists, building websites including CMS components for their clients, all based on django CMS.

django CMS is a free open-source product, but has paid developers working on it full-time.

Finally, it's sufficiently well-known and well-used to warrant the creation of Aldryn, a cloud deployment platform that was built around serving django CMS (even if now it also serves Django more widely).

Again, it's not the scale of economy that exists around WordPress (but then what is?), and there are many things that we hope will grow over the next few years, such as a thriving marketplace of not just free open-source but also paid-for addon applications, and even competitors to Aldryn.

So the answer is yes, in a word.
> Gusto (people being interviewed) formerly known as ZenPayroll, fired an acquaintance about a week before their options vested.

So what? That was a deal both parties agreed to. Implicit was the caveat that your future EV to the employer has to exceed the value of the options that would vest. Why should they pay you money if they don't want to?
How do I determine where to bet?
I've always been heavily involved in permaculture and aquaponics. One of the things I've learned is that there is no such thing as waste in nature. Nature will always seek balance.

Combine that with the fact that technologies grow at an exponential rate and CO2 is much more linear in comparison, and it becomes a technology problem and less of a government / political issue.

We will have technology that takes CO2 as an input and produces something of value for us. We're seeing it already but it just isn't implemented on large scales. Things like algae farms converting CO2 to energy, or even bioengineering organisms for artificial photosynthesis.

CO2 will be a non-issue once technology grows more. Especially if you believe a "singularity is near".

Hell, even switching from beef to fish would be a huge savings. Fish require a lot less water per pound of edible flesh and require around 1/10th the feed. Combine that with duckweed which depollutes water, consumes CO2, and produces feed for the fish all at the same time.

There are so many technologies and solutions available even now. It's hard to not be optimistic in my opinion.

I think water shortages are a much bigger threat and we need to consider a way to desalinate water from the ocean and pump it inland. Variants of ram pumps that use the kinetic force of waves can pump water uphill without any external energy input. And then you just point a bunch of mirrors at a water tower for desalination. Not sure why it isn't being done more.
The rising temperature and acidification of the oceans threatens their oxygene production. Climate change on land threatens oxygen production there. With falling oxygene production, oxygen in the atmosphere will not be replenished, and aerobic organisms will die.
Have you ever actually tried talking to people in underrepresented groups? Asking for a peer-reviewed study for something that over 50% of the world experiences in their personal lives is just a tactic for shutting down the conversation.
From my nasty 2002/.COM era experience with a startup would have said the 3 questions were:

1.) Do you like Kool-Aid, psychotic office politics & megalomania?
2.) Can you handle bizarre CXO behavior & feature requests designed for investors and not customers?
3.) Are you financially prepare to be underpaid for your skills AND have your paycheck 'not show up' one day when it tanks?

I hope to hell things have improved since then. I'm personally not willing to take the chance though.
I'm not particularly careful with my devices yet I never had something break in the last decade - however, 2 out of about 6 Macbook power adapters have had their cable messed up and needed replacing, without any obvious reason. Ironically, the more abused power adapters (i.e. mostly taking to work everyday) fared better and are like new (except dirtier).
I guess his point was: do not let your fear for an uncertain future keep you from having children.
Well if you vest, then you do "get it". But you vest options, which is not shares. You "get" the option to buy shares in the company at $X strike price.

The confusion seems to lie more in ISOs vs RSUs (or just plain equity, which is what most people have exposure to via the public market), rather than what "vesting" means. The problem is that vesting to most will inaccurately imply "getting" something they are not.
Why is there such emphasis on black and hispanics in a company's diversity formula whereas Indians and other Asian ethnicity are usually ignored.

If a company is inherently biased and discriminates against non-white individuals, then wouldn't they do it against all minorities not just blacks and hispanics?
Musk: Tesla's factory will become an 'alien dreadnought'
And denying it coincides with rightist parties very neatly. Neither statements prove anything
Elm wins the gold medal for helpfulness. http://elm-lang.org/blog/compiler-errors-for-humans
I understand the motivation for reducing react/redux boilerplate, but what does the CLI achieve that isn't already provided by existing tools?
> Yet nobody in the US does that (well nobody outside of big cities).

Because outside of the big cities, you don't give up a minimum of 2 hours of your daily life just driving to and from work. It wouldn't make sense to have someone take of tasks like that.
This is actually more an aspiration than a reality of startup life:

"
Grownups do the difficult thing when it’s the right thing to do, with composure. This means giving peers and employees critical feedback. It means saying the unpopular things about your startup’s product or service offering and assuming responsibility for failures. It means being really honest about the strengths and weaknesses in the management team. This strength comes from surviving and overcoming difficult circumstances. Grownups can do this over and over without losing credibility or support of the team."

But I agree that I tend to find more of this kind of honesty in small startups than in big companies, and for this reason I prefer to work with startups.
They completely unwrap and re-wrap the cord.

The design is defective, and cannot handle the typical stresses that it is subjected to.
Odds are very good you don't know about them. the people that got onto bitcoin so early that they could seriously be millionaires now got on it at the very, very beginning before hardly anyone knew about it.

As for Apple, everyone in the world would have told you it was a losing bet in 1998. You would have been a moron to buy it at that point, it was a year from collapse at best. The fact that it exploded back into prominence and relevance to become the behemoth it is today was totally unpredictable, and realistically you wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of picking "the next Apple".
I help friends with assessing their job offers on a monthly basis and I agree. (in fact I am meeting one friend this evening to silently be on a call with him as they discuss his offer).

I tell them "Don't join unless you are happy with your base salary and won't get anything else. Consider your options to be worth $0 when making a decision to join or not join."
It it were 419 and I started hearing from previously unknown dead relatives' barristers in VR-land, I'd know who to blame.
Who needs an architect?
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But back then China wanted nothing from the rest of the world EXCEPT its silver. So in comes Opium, and then the Opium wars.

These days, I think it is a bit better. At least China wants our airplanes/jet engines. And the ruling class is totally vested in overseas real estate. Military wars are just going to be bad for business at that point.
long term capital gains tax can be up to 33% in CA:
http://taxfoundation.org/blog/how-high-are-capital-gains-tax...
HydrogenAudio also has nice info: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=ABX , there's also some reports of actual ABX tests being done (probably by people with "golden ears"), you can find on the HydrogenAudio forums (sorry I can't provide a link right now).

Plus (heh, I'm not even sure if you're reading this 11 days after, so I pinged you with an upvote to increase the odds :p) if you care about audio quality stuff and whether humans can hear it or not, highly recommend checking out this video: http://www.xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml the guy does a great presentation, it's an enjoyable watch IMO. it's about sampling rates, bit rates and dithering, so not really about lossy compression, but it's still useful background knowledge to have, also when reasoning about lossy.
Damn.

All I've got at work is a 4kW laser cutter and a 5 tonne overhead crane, oh and a 220 tonne press and a 4m guillotine. About 30 mig welders. There's a machine shop next door too.
Even with RSUs, you'd have a tax obligation on illiquid RSUs if not for the terminology used in the contract to delay the actual "vesting event" in order to delay a tax event.
> 4 years is pretty much a unicorn nowadays.

I've been at my company for >= + years, but I can tell you that 4 years is not necessarily a good thing. Sometimes people that stay for a long time are people who are no good and know it, they have found a safe environment that tolerates their incompetence so they never leave! I say this as someone who has interviewed people with 10+ yrs experience and who have stayed at once location for a long time. Most of them had no idea what is currently going on in the industry, heck, they didn't even have the fundamentals down or claim to have forgotten it all. I rather get a solid programmer for 1 year than an incompetent one for 5.
Would you be willing to hire someone for your Tokyo office?
What fixed this for us is Gerrit. http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/

It's been fantastic. People fear change, but after a short while, everyone was digging the benefits of commenting on other people's code and other people helping them make their code better.
Chinese free to film police – as long as they don’t interfere
There are a couple of older innovators in management positions as well. The guys who really want to innovate and make a difference have gone to other places unfortunately. I guess we are merely left with older guys who are comfortable.

Being in "regulated" finance makes for a lot of guys who have golden handcuffs. Great salary and benefits and no strong desire to ruffle the bureaucratic obligations placed on them. A very common theme is, "Hey can you work on this X feature? Would be really useful." "That sounds like a great idea! But sorry, I can't unless there is a billing code dictated by the business for that idea"
I'm sincerely surprised that they did this. My understanding is that termination so close to a substantial vesting cliff opens you up to potential lawsuits.
MySQL does not need SQL
Correct, it is named for accumulation of capital. However I don't know of any systems that are liberal (which is a nice feature) and democratic, without being also capitalistic. Maybe there some theoretical ones.
This. China built that supercomputer as a pure PR/face move. It isn't very interesting otherwise, and the west stopped building those kinds of things a long time ago because it moved on to more detached distributed computing.
Dealing with the inevitable future where flooding isn't just frequent but perpetual sounds like a pretty good expenditure of money.

Either that or start working deals with other states to deal with the inevitable exodus of people and the complete implosion of the tax base.
> What do you think of the U.S.'s record for human rights?

The U.S. is far from guilt free.
Yes, though CAD/USD was at parity for quite a while, and the price doesn't change w the exchange rate
And Taiwan would never let those fabs go to China, they have plenty of laws against that. Only oldish fab tech can be exported to the Mainland.
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Where do you get that money? I bet you could shake $100M out of the prison system if you looked for cases of people being locked up for ridiculously trivial offenses. Given how prisoners often cost $40-60K per year, wouldn't take that many.

I don't expect people to be psychic, but common sense must apply here. When you "save money" by slashing budgets on road repairs, and ten years later your roads are so awful you have to replace them all at great expense, is that really savings?

A bridge that's deteriorating is expensive to fix. A bridge that's collapsed from lack of maintenance is crazy expensive to replace.

The so-called fiscal conservatives are always looking at saving money now, they don't seem to care about what happens tomorrow.
> I'm pretty sure that in the US that question is illegal to ask an interviewee.

It is not. (Like most questions that people think are illegal to ask in interviews, its merely ill-advised to ask because it asks specifically about something on which it is illegal to discriminate in hiring, and asking about it in an interview is -- on its own, weak, but still -- potential evidence of its use in a hiring decision.)

(Cargo cult HR helps perpetuate the myth that these things are illegal to ask.)
> A big reason why there are a lot fewer candidates from other demographics is in a large part because of the low representation.

Citation needed? And how did we arrive at the large number of asian/indian professionals today, when they too lacked representation? I am very sceptic for claiming representation as the main ("in a large part") reason.
But surely when I use JACK to record the audio output of VLC into Audacity (easiest way to record a short clip of what you're watching, IMHO, because you can apply a quick clean+edit immediately), it sends the audio lossless? (that is, a lossless copy of the VLC decoding of the probably lossy audio stream).

Otherwise I might have to rethink that trick...
"Why is it a problem if China develops a higher GDP than the US"

That isn't the issue.

The issue is protectionist policies and direct interference by the state in all sectors.

They can do that if they want, but we need to slap tariffs on their products and ban some Chinese companies from selling in the West.
Is writing a novel all that different from writing a compiler from scratch or hacking on obsolete consoles like so many posts here. We are all drawn to long involved, possibly solitary, intellectual exercises. Sort of a hacker personality trait.
Other than the Theranos story, what makes you say med-tech is looking less healthy (or edu-tech for that matter)?
Not at all. I am conceding points where China is ahead. Yes, their transportation infrastructure is improving at a pace far greater than the United States. I won't take that away from China.

You and the parent are missing _my_ point. The author _specifically_ mentioned the social issues, like homelessness. And I _countered_ this _specific_ issue by pointing out that there may be different, and worse, reasons why the city seems to have less of a homelessness problem.

At this point, the parent of our conversation insisted on comparing apples to oranges (yeah okay China has some bad social problems, but what about police militarization? what about incareration?) These are points that I did not bring up, because I was focusing on the points the author made. I decided to rebuke those points with some counter examples.

Everyone wants to compare $WorstThingAmericaDoes with $BestThingChinaDoes and I am comparing $UnitedStatesHomelessness with $ChineseHomlessness

Finally, I do not excuse the faults of the US, there are many of them. And they are as inexcusable as the faults in China.
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I once got a virus from a well known company as a dev preview. Had to say it wasn't something i considered a fix. IT was not pleased..
Yeah, it would be great if people were dedicated to one company for a long time, but that isn't our field anymore.

Companies come and go very fast. Move fast break things means breaking companies some times, and fail fast means fail to be able to keep the good people you went through so much effort to get and afford.

All of these new companies starting up look greener to devs and a lot of the time they are. As a developer, you can hitch your wagon to a fair bet, or take a risk and go to the place that might be awesome. It's a real big ask to assume everyone who's good gets only long term jobs at great places. Good people don't stay long if the job isn't good - they don't need to.

The logical reason to want someone who stays at a job a long time is that you want to feel like your investment in that person is going to pay off. I challenge that and say that you don't really need to invest in a developer (up front I mean) if it's a good development job. You point them at the problem, help them understand the business case, and if they need more than a week to ramp up in the code base with your team, either A. they suck, or B. your code base sucks.
Yeah, somewhat. However, despite frameworks like Node, JavaScript is a client-side language. So even if you fuck up horribly with it, the damage you cause will be minimal. Not so with PHP.
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