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No, not "acceptance" in the that sense, it's more of an "understanding". I get it when someone does something audacious like that; and I think the glorification of banditry is well entrenched in our culture. Countless Hollywood films, Bonnie and Clyde, the wild west, Robin Hood, etc.

While I consider crashing your competitor's servers like purse snatching; hurting the weak. It's pathetic, passive-aggressive shit that doesn't require neither boldness nor skill. I hate incompetent, gutless crooks in a very "if you're gonna do something, do it big" sort of way.
> If the ssid is visible and your network is available then everyone with a wifi card is doing what Google did every time they turn their laptop or smartphone on anyway.

That's not true. Unless the card is in promiscuous mode, packets intended for other machines will be discarded. Even if other cards were in promiscuous mode, they'd still have to intentionally save the packets to approach what Google did.
That's kind of precisely my point. NYS business climate sucks for startups and small biz.
It comes down to the type of person you are dealing with really but the most pragmatic approach would be to indicate that you feel you deserve an increase but are stuggling to quantify how much as your perception of your worth to the company won't be as accurate as theirs. At that point ask them to suggest a figure. Give them the opportunity to take time away from the discussion to think about it.

The only negative about putting the ball in their court is that it gives them control of the negotiation as they can easily come back with an extremely low figure stating that they have discussed all of the options with the appropriate personel and the quoted figure is their absolute maximum allowable increase, leaving you with zero scope to stretch it.
Maybe this is different in other parts of the world, but in Germany I have never ever been able to do nr 3. Employers over here never set the anchor for negotiating.

At least thats my impression. Prove me wrong and tell me how you were able to do it.
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i would consider soliciting someone else go share files (probably illegally) with the explicit purpose of advertising your website to be marginal at best.
It's important to distinguish between Ruby and Rails. The setup and configuration of Ruby hasn't increased in complexity much over the last few years. (Keep in mind you don't have to use Bundler to use Ruby; Bundler is used in Rails 3).

Back in 2005/2006, it was easier to install Rails. There were less choices which made configuration and setup easier (but which also meant you could do less).

Now Rails has matured and has a large community. There are more features, more Rails-related gems, and the architecture has more choices and moving parts. As a result, you can do more with Rails now, but the learning curve and setup costs are stiffer.

Back in 2005/2006, Rails had a reputation of being easy to set up and dive into. Even though that's no longer true in 2010, the reputation for being easy to pick up has stuck.

Here's a glimpse of how it was "back in the day": http://www.garbett.org/blog/?p=88
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820201

OTOH, that was 11 months ago and comments have closed.
As a manager I would not recommend this.

Sure, find out your worth, be realistic, then just sit down and have an honest conversation with your boss. Putting them in the position of thinking they have to offer you "stay money" without first having the decency to just sit down and have an honest talk with them is a slap in the face.

If your boss can't respect that, then they deserve to be blind-sided when you leave. But anyone who does what's suggested here is not someone I want to work with.

Sure, if your boss is insane, this might not go well, but if they're among the small minority where you genuinely fear for your livelihood just broaching the subject with them, then you probably already know everything you need to, and having to twist their arm to get what you want means you should probably be looking for a new position regardless.

I do agree with the "Almost 50% of them are wrong". If the business can routinely hire great people for less than "market", and keep them, then your sense of where the "market" is is off.
"Having a life" is how people explain why they don't do anything fun with their friends except eat and have drinks. "Want to ...?" "Well, yeah, that sounds great, but unlike you I have a frickin' life."

For most of my friends these days, "a life" is a wife and kids, but for some of them, it's just a house, or pets, or even a job.

Strangely, "a life" never stops them from having dinner with you or meeting for beers after work. It just stops them from doing anything that requires energy or planning. It's got to the point where I'm trying to figure out how to make new friends at an age where it doesn't happen by accident. But you find a guy whose Facebook page says "I love backpacking" and then you find out he hasn't done it once since he got married. I'm going out with women I'm not into just so I have somebody to do something with. I'd be too scared to get seriously involved with them, though, because then they would have a "life."
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Mine doesn't cling to any shred of mystery or danger, but I suspect it's more accurate.
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Editorialized submission headline for a highly editorialized piece. Regardless of the issues at hand, no thanks.
its unethical to promise something that you know for a fact you can't deliver. so, its unethical to allow someone to pay for a product that you don't have yet and similar.
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Maybe they outsourced the building of it?
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It's really no surprise. If a bank is processing data all the time in various, non-connected systems then the only way to know the actual state is to stop accepting input and to let all processes synchronize to the point where you can total things up. Anything else is going to almost certainly miss a bunch of stuff that is in the midst of being updated on one system, but not yet available on another, or counted double.
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While I don't _disagree_ with this... it's the place the Ruby community has chosen among the 'stability vs. innovation' continuum. The Ruby community may be a bit chaotic, but it also innovates and iterates really fast.

I also choose to use Arch and not Debian on my computers. Such is life.
>I walked in and asked if my salary was up for negotiation.

...

>I told them I appreciate the effort but the number I gave wasn't really a starting point for negotiation

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Nothing at all. Differences in personal preference are as vast as the options available.

For example: I don't write anything, but I sketch out interfaces and ideas all the time, usually with a pen. Lots of people (my past (and maybe future?) self included) prefer pencils because they can be erased or just feel better in their hand/on paper.
I can't quantify but in my home town, Moura, it had a good impact in local economy. They built there one solar plant with 46 MW capacity which was at the time the biggest in the world. (http://translate.google.pt/translate?u=http://economia.publi...) They also built a fotovoltaic pannels factory for constructing the solar plant and which now exports pannels.

Considering how bad every economic aspect goes there it was really a blessing. The jobs it created, qualified or non-qualified; the population it brought (desertification is one of the worst problems there). And they really deserve it, right now it might be 45ºC there. I work in Lisbon and when I occasionally go there in the weekend I can barely do anything(hint: fresh beer tastes like gold there!).

Regarding the cons, the fotovoltaic power doesn't have an environmental impact as bad as the dams. I guess the only one could be the visual impact. It even creates the possibiility to cultivate new cultures behind the solar pannels.

But, and there is always a but, there is much controversy about the solar power. The thing is that you can't store electricity, and as the production hours depend on the sunlight you will have a period of abundance and a period of scarcity that will not adjust very well. This will lead to an unbalanced match of supply and offer and so the efficiency of solar power is lower than other energies (a similar thing applies to wind power) like the hydropower where you can control when you want to generate it.

It makes me really proud to see so many good references to Portugal here in HN, for a country that is in such a bad shape it's good to see some things might change in the future.
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That's less assertive than I'd recommend. There's no need to wait for the "next pay raise period". Just ask.
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The original WSJ article struck me as disingenuous, but this article seems to just go the ad hominem route.
I think the difference in motivation is important. Early adoption of startups is based in part on trying out something that could be the next big thing. Is that something just one of many side projects, or maybe a one-night coding session that someone uploaded and has no plans for iteration or pivot based on feedback/market development?

Especially in the age of Facebook Connect, I am becoming increasingly wary of trying out most new apps because I'm having difficulty gauging the motivation of the founder(s).

In truth, I usually go through several pages of an app's development blog before I even think of trying something out. If there's no dev blog, I generally assume that it's just a "project", and not something that will grow or change too much.
First, Well the guy in question works in R&D lab of HP, and must be getting paid at least 120k$ per year. He also seems to have a good family and thus a social life :D

I fail to understand why you draw such a poor picture of a Maths / Physics PhD's life. Professors have a lot of interaction with students thus it is not exactly solitary confinement. Your picture of Academia is too dark.

I agree that there are people who get stuck in doing one Post-Doc after other and never get any tenure in life, surely it sucks for them but there are several Physicists and Mathematics PhD students who end up as a Quants on Wall Street and earn huge money.

If you read any posts / articles written by professors advising aspiring PhD students, you would rarely find them portraying a PhD life as fantasy filled life. So in my opinion Caution signs are already there.
"All his complaining about taxes and benefits is just a smokescreen for his own incompetence."

Actually, I'd call that 'more proof that he's incompetent', personally. I read that yesterday and shook my head at disbelief that a CEO could say such a thing seriously.
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hn member toxicflavor basically made this point yesterday in about 10 words.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1587873
> It could just as easily be interpreted as the Enthusiast's failure to produce something the Speaker could appreciate.

Was the Enthusiast even attempting to produce something the Speaker could appreciate, or was it merely for their own amusement/edification? If it's the latter, then the Speaker's a Dick for going out of their way to insult the Enthusiast. The Speaker is not entitled to be enamored with the Enthusiast's tinkerings.

Saying "you've got too much time on your hands" is telling the person that they'd be better off spending their time on something else. But who are you to judge? What entitles you to make a pronouncement like that?

> the Speaker also recognized the Enthusiast's passion.

They're proclaiming that the Enthusiast's passion would be better spent elsewhere, which I suppose is a recognition of the mere existence of said passion, but it's hardly a gesture of respect, as you're implying.

> Having more freedom to direct your thoughts and opinions to a wider audience than before, does not mean you're somehow entitled to have those thoughts and opinions respected.

No, of course not, but neither is anyone entitled to actively disrespect every flight of fancy they come across.
Not in my experience. My company spent months waffling over a raise for me. My boss suggested that I look for work elsewhere and then used it as bargaining chip and got me the raise. I can't easily be replaced and as long as what they're paying me is less than what I'm making them, they don't want to lose me. Everyone's situation is different however.
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Ditto. It also doesn't hurt to come off as sincere.

If I like you, I'll push to get you. Simple as that. I'd like the best deal, but at the end of the day I'll do my best, and I'll let you know how far I can go. At that point the ball is in your court to turn me down.

But don't start talking about your worth. That just comes off as cocky, and generally speaking, I've got a pretty good idea what the position is worth to me.

It's a fine line of course. I wouldn't recommend kissing up. I'm just suggesting that there's ways to communicate your value without giving the impression that you're going to be a thorn in my side and not worth the trouble.
Properly not, but as long as the money isn't negative then a company that helps people does so time and time again - which must be better than only doing it once right?
As a small business owner I can tell you we are putting of hiring for pretty much the same reasons mentioned in WSJ. Basically you are paying double to hire an employee.
I was bored to tears in high school and college. If I taught like I was teaching myself, the majority of the class would be left behind and we'd all fail.

No thanks.

The real moral here is to empathize with students and then teach.
I had an offer in hand and asked them to match it. To do this, however, you have to be willing to accept the offer and leave.
He'd much rather hire people who are non-union and paid in cash. Totally off the books. How much more American can you be?
First, I don't believe in God, so this isn't a matter of belief but a matter of definition.

Second, I have no problem with God creating a world where the principle of contradiction doesn't hold. What I have a problem with, is God modifying a realm that depend only on a set of fixed definitions. This is not impossible, this is unthinkable.

Also, we have complete control over such realms. These are just concepts. There is no notion of "can" or "can't" there. Mathematical realms are just self consistent. By definition. So, talking about what God "can" or "can't" do in these realms is meaningless.
If you really like the job I don't think pushing for the extra 3% is worth it. Obviously you got it, but 15% is pretty generous and asking for 3% more sorta feels like a shakedown.
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I don't really think that's typically the case. If they think you'll be relatively easily replaced, they'll just let you go when you tell them you have an offer.
I wouldn't call it "brilliant"; it's a rant. Not that there's anything wrong with rants. This is a frustrating moment in Rails history, a two-fold version transition; a little cursing is to be expected.

Ruby is transitioning to 1.9. Rails is transitioning to version 3. These things are always painful. Some platforms try to rip off the band aid; others try to step slowly and carefully from one version to another. Then there are the platforms that just stop shipping new versions for a decade or so.

It's not unique to Ruby. The Drupal community is struggling to transition to Drupal 7, while legacy sites must negotiate the transition from Drupal 5 or Drupal 4.x, as well as the PHP 5.2/5.3 transition (or even a transition from PHP4), and the MySQL 5.0/5.1 transition -- or maybe the future of MySQL is MariaDB or Drizzle, or maybe we should pay more attention to good old Postgres, and then there's the team that insists that MongoDB is the future.

The web evolves. It is barely old enough to vote. It is unlike anything we have had before. If you don't like negotiating a blizzard of loosely-connected impermanent pieces you need to work on something else.

Or you need a better strategy. Many of the complaints in this rant are self-inflicted. Pick one text editor and stick with it. Pick one database and stick with it. Pick the Ruby version that DHH uses and stick with it. Don't agonize over every option. There are lots of ways to build a web page, and almost all of them work.
Unless the other four people "forget" (come unprepared) to bring their PADDs to the office meeting, in which case, handing out the report is still the lowest tech to synchronizing a meeting. I understand your point, but people and meetings... </rant>
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But what's the argument? That there are taxes or overhead? The truth is that you're not hiring for charity in the first place. So if the true cost (burdened cost) of a new employee doesn't make you more than enough money to cover that, don't hire.

Just because the cost of an employee is not the "sticker" price, and is somehow more complicated, doesn't mean that you're being punished to hire people.
But if you take a counter less than your outside offer, try to get some non-financial compensation (i.e. extra vacation, at least verbal commitment regarding a promotion, etc.)
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Probabilistic arguments for deterministic systems are standard practice. Search for Erdős and probabilistic methods to see several examples in combinatorics.

In computation theory many proofs have the tagline "...with probability 1", meaning the author enumerated all desired possibilities and showed their probabilities summed to one. Most people accept this as proof, although it is less preferred, in the way that proof by contradiction is less favored than direct proof.
Representatives, on the other hand, are easily swayed by campaign fund contributions, tipping the balance of power away from public interest altogether. The initiative process is certainly a sword that cuts both ways, but I'm glad to have it in our arsenal. It's not for nothing that California is the R&D center of this laboratory of democracy.
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It's true, he didn't spend nearly enough time explaining why the argument was false. But then again, the 2-3 sentences he spent on that was enough. The rest is, I suppose, filler.

But at the same time it makes sense. Blaming the government for your inability to afford employees is just a blame game. You can afford and employee or not. If you're a moderate veteran in business you know the burdened costs so you factor that in.

The article has good detail about how he's blaming the government for his own failing business. He's just trying to egg on the government for more breaks or he won't hire and supposedly the recession will continue.

Maybe he'd like to turn off the HVAC system in the offices to save some money too.

Taxes exist, get over it.
I don't understand that logic. Yes, if I buy an Apple for 1$, it costs double than if an Apple would just cost 0.50$.

You are paying for employees what they cost, that is, what the market determines. What are you doubling? (The taxes and whatnot are simply part of the total cost).
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As an employer I can tell you step #1 would be to make sure you're worth it to your boss. If you don't know that your boss would be very unhappy to see you go, he probably wouldn't.

Assuming you're one of the most valuable employees, and you have a good reason (ie. your boss is paying you well under market rate for someone of your skill set) then keep in mind that your boss probably won't be upset. Nobody is happy to pay more for the same thing, but they'd be less unhappy than losing you. What an employer pays his employees is often based on what they asked for rather than what they deserved.
I hate the fact that somebody can explain how arithmetic works, and folks will trash them for political reasons. I hated watching the comments on HN when the first article was posted, and I hate watching the reaction today.
I'll give you the manager's viewpoint. There are 2 considerations:

1) I have no motivation to increase your pay beyond you being a happy contributor. More money to a happy employee doesn't make the employee more productive or more happy. Therefore, unless you tell me that your pay is making you unhappy, I have no reason to give you a raise, no matter how well you perform

2) It's all about balance with the rest of the team. You as an individual tend to focus on your perceived worth. I don't care so much as keeping fairness among the team. I know how much I pay more senior people than you, and how much I pay more junior people. If you need a raise (as defined earlier), then I don't really mind as long as you don't mess up the equilibrium with the rest of the team.

That's it. Of course, those basic facts can lead to millions of subtle variations.
Gaaah! Was there 2 days ago. I just moved to Green Bay.

Here is my trajectory of living locations in the last N years. London -> Washington D.C. -> Hong Kong -> Shanghai -> New York -> Sydney -> Green Bay.

One of them is unlike the others.
I also liked "At some point, we have to put some faith and trust in our authority figures."
Definitely the worst article to ever hit the #1 spot on HN. It looks like yesterday's WSJ editorial must have hit a raw nerve with a lot of HNers, and this makes them feel better. I'm okay with quality HN articles about politics. It's just a shame that the top spot on HN is being reduced to this sort of cheap partisan bickering. I hope HN does not become yet another MotherJones/MSNBC or WSJ/FoxNews.
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I don't think academia is really like that. One of my former roommates was a Physics PhD student at MIT, so I know him and his colleagues. They all drank beer and played chess and cards in this one basement bar in Cambridge, did stuff like hang gliding, rock climbing, ultimate frisbee and played in various awful experimental-folk bands. They were nerds but they were all bros and even attracted the weird kind of cyber-hippy chicks who are into dudes like that. They all eventually got married. They seemed pretty happy to me. In contrast I once got stuck in a corporate programming job, which was the most uninteresting and socially isolating experience of my entire life.

Whenever I read these HN screeds against academia, I wonder what they are comparing it against. In my experience academia was way more interesting and fun than working as a professional programmer. The only thing good about the later is that it pays a lot.
I've always lived by the rule "if you think someone's wrong based on who they are and not what they said than your argument is too weak to present to others".
yes. but you're going to be looking at skills and knowledge that are already inherently expensive or otherwise in short supply

example: something where you can send a text and/or photo to a doctor or RN for $1 and have them give some quick advice.
I think the author was trying to point out that this is nothing new and he feels the op-ed author was only raising this issue for political reasons. I have to admit that the wsj could have mention some of the op-ed author's background.

As for the point about small business not hiring due to extra costs. I'm sure it's true but this isn't something that was put in place in the last 2 years. This was true in all the recessions and booms we've had sine world war 2 and FDR if not before.