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Your experience is diametrically opposed to mine. Here is how my last 4 jobs have worked out. (This is all in the USA.)

#1: I gave several months notice. At their suggestion I took me my last week off paid in return for being willing to answer emails if problems arose after I left.

#2: I gave 2 weeks notice. I was personally thanked by multiple people for how I wrapped it up, and for a final project that I took on and did in my last 4 hours. They asked me to contract for them some time later, but it didn't work out.

#3: I gave 2 weeks notice. I got contracting work from them after I left, and still have VPN access.

#4: I gave a month notice and had a break before my next job. (A vacation which I spent contracting for #3.) I told them that during that period I would be available on an emergency basis if anything broke. They were happy to take me up on this offer.

In every case I was considered a high value employee. However I had established trust, that was maintained through the process of my leaving, and to the best of my knowledge that trust still exists. (As a matter of corporate policy, my access was usually withdrawn after I left. But not because anyone was concerned about me personally.)
As far as I know, the rules of engagement don't allow for the killing of those that are no threat: i.e. the minivan with the kids in it that got shot up when trying to help the wounded. They could have fired a few warning shots and the van would have fled, but instead they murdered the passengers.
I'm deleting my account after I relay to all the friends I want to keep in touch with where else they can reach me at. Its a personal decision and never before have I been so personally offended by any one company's vision of what the internet should be. I disagree with the notion of a "social by default" web so much that I can no longer entertain being part of Facebook.

There's an educational component to this recent bit of news as well. People by and large don't care enough to really cause the critical mass exodus that would make Facebook backtrack on these announcements. I think this may largely be because people don't know anything about the origins of the internet or even how it works on a basic level. It makes me think that knowing these things should be taught in schools in some capacity. I would assert that if people knew more about the internet then they could form more of an opinion when a company tries to hijack it it and change the paradigm.

No one company can or should ever be allowed to change what the "default" of the web is.
My understanding of the App Store policies is that they prohibit applications where you pay to buy a ticket and then give a prize away.

I am a bit surprised that this policy hasn't been amended to add "…unless you sell the tickets with in-app purchasing." But, I suppose that gambling falls under the same "family-friendly" restriction that porn apps do.
What happens if I take the hadoop code and modify it? What about a very substantial modification?
I doubt Gizmodo would go quietly, though, and there could be some reflected scrutiny thrown back at Apple. There's those tickets that were claimed to have been opened in an attempt to return the phone, for example...
I can't believe how often I find myself telling my wife I hate computers. Usually it's when she starts asking me how to do something and I immediately know it's something that should be easy (if she can't figure it out, how many millions must be right there with her?) but that is going to be very difficult.

Just two examples.

Printing to a shared printer on a Windows network. Requires a login once per reboot. Trying to print (the logical think) won't prompt, it just queues up the document silently. To get a prompt, you have to know to navigate to the host in the network neighborhood. Then the queue prints.

Posting edited photos from Picasa to a Blogger blog. There are three ways to do it, all with various limitations and complexity. And then a Chrome bug puts double line spacing between her paragraphs.

"Maybe I'll become a plumber," indeed.
Not only are they bad, they slow down the rendering speed of the pages they're on.

http://twitter.com/SlexAxton/status/12663859611
Couldn't the issue mentioned by the comment be addressed pretty easily? Just have a blog or twitter client that announces the giveaways as well; "Giving away: A shiny foo! To enter, use our iPad app!"
Are you guys kidding me? The guy above me even said he only browses facebook on his iphone. Using a dedicated app solves the privacy problem!
There are only two problems with this article. First, of the significant number of applications I have installed under OS X, I can count on one hand the number that came with a util for removing them. There are ways around this (eg, lsbom|xargs rm), but they are messy. Second, writing an operating system with a UI on top of that has to be a monumental task. Something that only a really small percentage of people can do (and an even smaller number can do well). In order to design systems, they have to think a certain way, become familiar with the systems... and it all looks completely obvious to them. Otherwise, "Me, too."

Makes me wonder if Microsoft uses "focus groups."
I always thought that "trophy kids" didn't refer to trophies earned for kid-competitions, but rather as an allusion to "trophy wives".
The problem with that is that you get a line length so short that it becomes a real pain to actually use productively.

I have only one semi-functioning eye and code in 14pt font on a 24in monitor, though, so I'm maybe not the best to talk about eye strain on a netbook... after all, one must be able to at least see them first.

But it seems like line length would be a real issue.
The only employee I ever fired on the spot and locked out had started a competing business on the side and was actively poaching our customers+, other than that it always was amicably, whether I asked someone to find employment where they fit better or whether they found a place where they could do better there never ever was a reason to 'lock someone out'.

Admitted, this was a small company, at a larger company it might have been different because of rigid policies.

When I was employed myself (long long ago, fortunately) I usually ended up with some contract work from my ex employer to help them tide over until they had found a good replacement, in one case this period extended for 6 months.

edit:

+) To be fair, he actually emailed me last year, almost a decade after it happened that he was terribly sorry about what he did, so in the end even with him I'm still in contact of sorts, and I've forgiven him for what he did, he really seems to have learned his lesson.
Thanks! We are really excited to see what kind of apps the community will come up with.

If anybody needs help feel free to me at aschobel at snaptic.com or come to one of our meetups http://www.meetup.com/Snaptic/

Sorry if this sounds too much like self promotion, honored to see this on the front page of HN. =)

Happy Hacking!
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It's the new "tweet this" -- a stupid trend people will wonder about in a few years.
Pretty sure you're able to download your raw data.

(Just bought this a couple weeks ago... waiting for my analysis.)
Certainly can't blame them for placing a limit, it's quite the deal.

However, it was frustrating when I already had the $99 deal in my cart, then lost it because I didn't check out before 0 GMT.
In Spain (last I checked we're in Europe) the most usual are two weeks by default. Contracts can extend it or you can leave at once while in the "test period", fair because during this period the employer can fire you at once too without cause.

You can leave immediately even subjected to this clauses, but then you suffer a penalization (one day of pay each two days you cut). Most times, the company owes you money at any given time (holidays, extra pays), so it's wise to stay unless the new salary nulls the difference. Also it's always good to keep good will with former employers, you never know.
Hmm, well I looked up the cost of video advertising and if this three-year-old article is to be believed:

http://adage.com/webvideoreport/article.php?article_id=12851...

then the prices are somewhat higher than I thought -- anywhere from $15 to $100 CPM, or between 1.5 and 10 cents per ad view. I suppose if you were selling at the high end of this range you could fund some reasonable prizes -- how about a one in ten thousand chance of winning an iPad and a one in ten chance of winning a voucher redeemable for a chocolate bar at your local 7/11? At the low end of the range the value proposition becomes a lot iffier, though.
I wished all companies lived up to your standards.
Can't say I've noticed one yet. :(
Poor digg, that was supposed to be their trick
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I'd like to know the ages of the people "quitting" Facebook and how much you actually used it in the first place. Most of Hacker News is too old to actually use Facebook the way young people use it. You're just there so you can feel as though you're in tune with tech trends or whatever. You have never really used Facebook, which is why almost all the comments on here about Facebook are so bad. You sound like old people screaming at kids to get off the yard. If you were a real Facebook user (hundreds of photos documenting years of your life), you wouldn't be able to just quit like that over something like this. I seriously don't understand why anybody over 30 even bothers to write things about Facebook, something that isn't meant for them, and something they clearly don't understand.

Old wantrepreneurs on here are so bitter about Facebook's success. I remember someone giving career advice actually recommending Google over Facebook. You have to be completely out of touch to even think such a thing. Google is yesterday's news. They are a bloated company filled with talentless individuals, people who would kill for the chance to have the skills necessary to work for Facebook, but their brains just aren't good enough

If you're over 30, please stop posting your "opinion" on Facebook. Your opinion on Facebook is about as insightful as an 80-yr-old's opinion about the internet. Instead, you guys should be begging the real users of Facebook, i.e. people who actually understand social media, to explain these things to you so that one day, with significant effort and training, you might be able to understand it.
Credit card numbers alone can be generated, no need to steal them. Only in combination with the expiry date and cvv do they have any value, newer cards are protected with a pin code for that reason.

The whole reason the VBV program exists is to make the numbers alone worthless.

Why would you single out the Romanians?, there are people doing that sort of thing all over the world.
I'm 23, signed up for Facebook my freshman year of college (when it was only college students and had ~40 schools). I use Facebook frequently but will no longer be doing so. Good riddance if you ask me.
But technically speaking it really isn't a big deal, if you take any one of your own credit cards, extract the 'bin' and generate the rest of the numbers to be valid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm) you can make credit card numbers until you drop, with a high probability that they are currently in service (if your number is active, so are a lot of other numbers in your bin).

But those numbers alone will not allow you to do anything.
They KNEW it was not a prototype.
You beat me to it, and are more eloquent than I would have been.
If the CVV and expiry were there as well it would have been much worse, just the numbers are not that important.
Without the real financials at hand, it's hard to tell if they are overvalued or not. There are numbers being thrown everywhere... but I'd take them with a grain of salt unless backed by hard evidence (which is lacking).

Overvalued or not, everybody knows Groupon is working. Customers are crazy about it. My wife checks it as the first thing in the morning. And there's no sign of businesses giving up on offering deals.

As for the businesses who don't like it, if they are looking at making profit from the one-shot Groupon traffic, I think they are wrong. Think of what you spent on Groupon as part of your advertising expenditure. Using Groupon, you are putting your name out there in BIG'N'BOLD along with an opportunity to show them how awesome you are.
This one has allegations I haven't seen before. I've heard that yelp offers to rearrange reviews or remove one or two bad ones if you buy advertising, which sounds a little dodgy. I've never heard of it threatening to remove good reviews if you don't buy advertising. I'm more skeptical of that one.
I've already spotted one on a website I frequently visit. Do webmasters just assume they have to plaster this stuff on without any thought?
I'm the same way. I often read articles that I would like to share with people, but since I'm more interested in the ensuing discussion, I'd rather directly link a person during a conversation (or as a way to start one) rather than throw it at my Facebook page or similar.

I consider sites like HN quite different, as that is their sole purpose :)
I'm excited to see someone else practicing the behavior at the core of his netbook experience. At work, I use a traditional desktop machine, but any time I have a vaguely defined challenge that requires some creativity or thinking, I will reflexively and immediately get up and walk around the office a bit while I plan. I come up with much better solutions that way.
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No, 1 billion already-alive humans would have starved to death if not for the green revolution. Malnutrition plays a role in over half of all deaths today. It was even more commonplace before fertilizers and high-yield crop strains.
We use it via FBML and JavaScript SDK and the slow down seems to be minimal. We load their script right before </body>.

Biggest annoyance is that it doesn't degrade very gracefully when FB has availability problems, you get a white square in the page in Firefox.
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The last company I left I worked for over two months after handing in notice, bringing new employees up to speed on the code base I'd created, etc. I also kept notice of my leaving secret from many of my co-workers at my boss's request.

This was Ireland, though.
Ask HN: Would you use Coda for iPad
I don't know why, but I just think a "Coda for iPad" type app would be an awesome. I wrote an article describing some of the things I think you could distill the app down to, most of the parts are very complex, but seem simple when executed in a great app.

The article is here: http://judstephenson.com/2010/04/23/idea-coda-for-ipad/

But the real question is, would anyone use it?
I expect soon you'll be able to search for somebody in the world by their mac-address.
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Too bad there isn't a couple of mandatory classes in Evolutionary Psych. 101 and Cognitive Biases 101 for the people in charge and those who advise them. Knowing about very common human flaws could help these people avoid these same mistakes that we see over and over when these types of situations happen.
That might be a defense for the finder, but for Gizmodo? I guess you could suggest it showed Apple had abandoned it, but equally Apple might say call center staff would not know of such things (because they were secret).
It's an eisenclarification!

It was there. :)
That is one of the best pieces of advice that I have ever heard.
Well it depends how you look at it. It definitely adds to network traffic and CPU load. But IFRAME content and javascript-injected IFRAME are both loaded asynchronously.

Browsers are pretty good in progressive rendering of page content these days. So user should see the main page first and then it starts loading these additional resources. So no big deal IMHO. The button should not degrade user experience during page loading.
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PS mailed me as a Gizmodo subscriber, not personally.
I think they can solve it when using Javascript SDK on modern browsers. IFRAME could be loaded offscreen and when it finishes then it does postMessage to notify the parent window. Javascript SDK injector then unhides the IFRAME.

Easy to do, but they are probably busy doing other stuff.
I started using it as soon as it was opened to high schools. I deleted my account around a year ago. I quit because of privacy concerns but also because it was a time sink, at it had really lost it's focus.
If you are interested in PHP you might want to give Zend Studio a look. You can use it to develop in the Zend Framework using MVC.

You can definitely build some cool things with it, and PHP is marketable.
I'm 36, all of my friends and I use facebook at least daily. Photos, events, links, news, feed, chat, all of it.
I'd say for the majority of us, it is our main form of communication.

Don't forget PG-13, it was us 30+ year olds who built much of the foundation which made Facebook possible.
We're thankful to the 40+ who developed the technology and environment for us to do that.

Understand the concept of 'Standing on the shoulders of Giants', and you'll have more respect for those who made what you build and dream of today possible.

Along the way, you'll hopefully realize age has very little to do with anything. As much as I am appreciative of what Tim Berners-Lee and Marc Andreessen have created, I am equally in awe of what Zuckerberg has been able to envision.
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By the sound of your reasoning, if you were older, I'm pretty sure you would of signed up for an AOL account and would still have it today because you are a 'real' AOL user.
If he was a smart hacker he would have generated the accounts himself.
I was one of Facebook's earlier adopters, back when it was still restricted to a handful of universities. I found it to be a useful tool for getting to know classmates. Then the feature creep started and it turned into a product that I have no use for, so I left. I never at any point gave a damn what their privacy policy was, because it would never have crossed my mind to post something there if I didn't want it to be public.
I spent a long time with Perl, and because of that, Ruby felt very, very comfortable. Like Steve Yegge put it, you get the Best of Perl, without the Rest of Perl. This isn't to say the language is without warts, but overall, it does a good job of getting out of your way.

Rails isn't a bad thing to learn, if anything because it really does a good job of teaching MVC web application design. And it makes development of CRUD apps happen very, very fast.
I thought things were getting ridiculous with all the buzz, digg, sphere, reddit buttons already.
From what I can see, those are being replaced with a single option (though I admit, I haven't seen many of the facebook implementations yet).

It is nice to have a 'standard' rather than voting for multiple items. At the same time, how much is liking something really doing for ya?

I don't think it has the benefit of a community like HN, so Facebook doesn't have it all yet.
If you like Haskell stuff, cross-post top articles from http://haskell.reddit.com
I'm just seeing a lot of broken iframes because I've now blocked facebook & their subdomains on my personal machine.
What's 'questionable' about having a regex operator?
The interesting thing is, it may actually be true. Those things have been in a long, gradual decline for centuries.
I fully admit to having no idea what this refers to, but I'm scared anyway.
I want to quit but then where and how else can I keep in touch with the contacts on FB?
Can't you just disable it? Maybe I'm missing something though.
http://www.simplehelp.net/2010/04/22/how-to-reclaim-your-pri...

I mainly use Facebook to keep updated on family and close friends, and don't use anything besides status updates and some photos/videos. I don't see myself changing how I use it based on these latest changes.

Like Google, Facebook and privacy all depend on how you use it, not the tool itself. Also, like anything other 3rd party app, I don't rely on it and would be happy to walk away from it at any point if need be. I currently doing that with Google search using duck duck go.
You know how you can't leave it because all your photos, connections, status messages, groups and all that won't come with you? That's called data portability. Facebook doesn't have it, and has no incentive to provide it.

That's exactly why you shouldn't use it today, because in 20 years, ideally you'll be able to choose which social provider you host your data at on the open web. The decentralized model works beautifully for the web and is democratizing because of it. The social web should be the same way.
> Blaming a whole generation is silly.

Is anyone really doing that? I see Trophy Kids (btw, new term for me, and I am one, I suppose) as a characterization rather than blame. There is no doubt the term is pejorative, but if I think canned green beans taste like crap, am I blaming the beans, the can, the producer, or am I not placing any blame at all?

FWIW, I do agree that parents are largely responsible for their children's behavior.
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100% on this one. I just upgraded to Windows 7 (i.e. bought a new box with Windows on it) and the default patching behavior was to reboot every few days. Problem is that I keep windows open to mark places in tasks, and always have. It is not OK to reboot without asking me.
Clickable: http://judstephenson.com/2010/04/23/idea-coda-for-ipad/
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Er, nope. This doesn't concern or phase me in the least. Assuming I don't say/do anything stupid on Facebook, can someone explain to me why I should be worried about this? I just don't get the outrage. I'm happy to have the entire world know everything I post on Facebook.
Awesome, I do hope this market continues to grow.

I have an educational app as another data point: $6 in 2 days with http://slidetorock.com/apps/MakeChange-change-counting-kids-... - I can't seem to find my own app on the iPad unless I actively search for it though
Why doesn't Alan Kay have a blog/site?
Early adopter here too. I fully enjoyed the linked university concept - before universities started to engage more in their online departments, facebook was the only way outside of email or class to connect to a classmate about the course in question. I was deeply disappointed when they removed the university/courses currently taking, feature.
Nope. I saw this coming on day one and never joined.

How else could you have expected Facebook to make money?
Yea that stuff is totally blocked out of my mind. I use Facebook to connect with my friends and family, and will share a link occasionally if it really pertains to me. For the most part, though, I don't like spamming mass amounts of data to friends. The only benefit I see to things like delicious and other "social bookmarking" tools is the fact that they're "up in the cloud", aka, backed up somewhere away from my browser config folder.

Has anyone noticed the new Mahalo-esque stuff they're doing? All of your hobbies, movies, music, etc... that they're making part of this social graph is now linked together a lot better.

Example, one of my interests (for fun) is "underwater basket weaving" which now links to a page like this, http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Underwater-basket-weaving/1...

"Our goal is to make this Community Page the best collection of shared knowledge on this topic. If you have a passion for Underwater basket weaving, sign up and we'll let you know when we're ready for your help."

Pretty crazy.