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My list was complete guessing, just me thinking of famous angels. The Quora list seems to be based on more actual evidence.

In any case, it was Arrington that fingered all these people when he called them the "10 or so highest profile angels" who do "nearly 100% of early stage startup deals in Silicon Valley". Though after seeing Quora's list I think Arrington mischaracterized the group.
I'm already hosting my own website on my own server. That attack space already exists. You seem to be misunderstanding this.

We're only talking about moving one of my files from my current website to an entirely different third party service over which I have no control...

Do you not understand this? Spreading my website over multiple services controlled by multiple people decreases the security... Obviously...
MathWorks is not feeling intimidated by IDL, Maple or for that matter Accelereyes yet. Why should they spend money?

They might pay attention if Accelereyes gains traction. They did 10 years ago or so with MathTools.
I'm an ex googler but not out of the engineering side so I can't comment on exactly what their current norm is.
In general, this is a pretty typical offer for Google for a mid range employee, what outside of engineering they'd call an E5 or E6. Usually their salary & GSUs are negotiable, but not by much. Google does't pay a ton in general, and as others have mentioned, if you have a family on this salary with the potential that your wife can't work, things might be a stretch in the Bay Area.
However, working for Google is an amazing experience. You're not going to retire early on the money you make. You'll have to balance your needs against the potential for future gains with Google on your resume. I'm sure the experience would be positive in many areas, but you shouldn't expect much more from them.
Well, it does not say anything about the methods they are using... cross machine tracking definitely seems somewhat strange and unexplainable to me...
If your website is up, your locally hosted jquery is up.

If your website is up, your CDN hosted jquery is not necessarily up.

That was his point.
A jingle writer or a sound track artist is basically creating something 'on spec.' Also, you can bet that good jingle writers charge a lot more money than bad jingle writers.

Recording artists (who incidentally are 'musicians', although some rather loosely) contract with the label to promote and distribute their record. The record company pays them an advance on future earnings as a way to sweeten the deal to get the artist to sign with them instead of another label. They aren't paying them to make the music, but rather just paying upfront some of the money from the sales of the album.

Most artists do not make money off of album sales (even big-name artists). They make money off of ticket sales, merchandise (e.g., t-shirts), and licensing their songs for commercials, movies, etc. After they have become very successful, they are in a position with more power to negotiate better contracts (I struggle not to say fairer). Or, sometimes they create their own label and release their music themselves. Usually, though, when an artist has their own label it's really a "vanity" label that is under the major label.

I think big artists (and little ones) have every right to complain about a system where they can sell ~200mm albums and come out of the process bankrupt (the article mentions TLC and Toni Braxton as examples of this). They created ~$2 billion of gross value and probably netted upwards of $1 billion for the record label. The label certainly took a risk on them and should be compensated for that, but shouldn't the artist as well? I'm not arguing that the artist wasn't naive or poorly informed when signing the contract, but they have every right to complain that the contract terms were onerous and others should think carefully before negotiating. Even Apple re-negotiated their deal with AT&T once they had a hit.

Also, you are completely wrong that no upstart artist can afford to sell 2+ million albums for a debut hit (I realize you say 'make', but contract terms aren't changing because it suddenly became cheaper to sell albums digitally). One example of the top of my head is the band Train. They created their first album on their own for very little money and it was certified platinum. With advances in recording software and digital distribution, record labels are starting to look very obsolete. Especially when they charge you for the actual expenses of their promotional campaigns out of your royalties.
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It's short for <grin>, i.e it's a humor marker.
"Look, you and I both know your company is worth $50 million. But I only want to pay $10 million, and I've already worked out a deal with my competitors so they won't bid any more than that either. We own the market for investment, so you can take it or your company can die for lack of funding."

You don't see a problem with this kind of artificial market manipulation? This is no longer a market; it short circuits true capitalism and only serves to siphon gains from the seller (in this case, the company's founders) to the buyer, who will turn around and effectively try to resell (or otherwise exit) the company for profit.

Everyone seems to be convinced that price fixing only applies to sellers. That's wrong. It firmly applies to both selling and buying. It's fundamentally about market manipulation; taking steps to undermine the economy of the system for direct personal gain. That kind of behavior destroys wealth and erodes confidence in the marketplace.
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Google treats http://www.example.com/foo.html as a different page to http://example.com/foo.html and it is completely right to do so because they could be different pages.

You can use rel="canonical" to get around this, or a http redirect.
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Fellow Brit who moved out here 4 years ago.. I say go for it, especially if Google are going to sponsor your H1B. Make sure you completely understand the visa process and timeline though (if it's H1B you may have to wait a period of time before you can actually move). Don't forget you could always move jobs in a year so Google is a great 'landing' into the Bay Area.

If you have 11 years experience $110k seems a little low but it might be more than you are getting in UK (I was always paid shit in UK) and cost of living is lower here in the Bay Area (even in SF compared to London). Google is known for paying a little lower than average AND they will expect you to really put in the hours. I don't know many Googlers who actually get to work on their 20% time projects, either.

I personally would move to the City (San Francisco) and commute down in the Google busses.

At this point there are not going to be many firms that will pay the ~$20k for the visa application so I say go for it and then reassess what you REALLY want to do while you are out here.

Best of luck!
Things I have learned from this and past articles (only slightly exaggerated):

1. Greenspan is unlucky and unhappy. If you have even a remote chance of success, make sure you never even have a conversation with him. If you do, you might suffer his wrath (including possible lawsuits, and your conversations being made public).

2. Losing the opportunity to be part of Facebook is the greatest loss anyone can have. Everything else is trivial in comparison.

3. If he did get the opportunity to co-found Facebook, he would have provided no value anyway: "maintaining even a weak friendship with me would have cost Mark a few billion dollars in future paper earnings"
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That makes it different as law is concercened, but one is as legit as the other.
Maybe's its because I've been working for 20+ years but I actually care very little about what OS I have to use - just about every contemporary OS is "good enough" to get work done on.

However, obsessing about this kind of stuff just seems kind of wrong for most start-ups - the amount of time you spend thinking about this kind of thing probably doesn't give you the reward you think it does and you might well miss out on the extra benefits of testing stuff in a more heterogeneous environment.

In this day and age thinking about this kind of stuff without considering VMs is silly - they are more than fast enough to use as day-to-day dev environments.
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I do like the idea of repayment, but in practice, can most people in jails really earn any money with which to repay? Seems like there aren't that many unskilled jobs around anymore, especially ones that can take place inside of jail.
What're GSUs?
I'm guessing your no name poly is actually De Montfort university in Leicester? It was a dump back in 1999 when I got my 2.1 CompSci degree. An old friend of mine from uni moved from the UK to SanFran to work for Lucas Arts and I think it was the best move he ever made. So, seems like a good move. Good luck!
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Depends on the project you're going work in Google.
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I agree that this is true in some cases but I can give you a counter example that really showed me how convenient vim is: ciw. 'ciw' erases the word under the cursor and allows you to retype it. This process is very, very slow using the mouse: even if double or triple click tends to correctly highlight the word you want to replace, positioning your mouse there is pretty slow.
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Do it. $110k is lower than you might get elsewhere, but it shouldn't matter for this reason:

* Compared to Microsoft, Apple, etc... $110k for somebody coming on a visa is still a good deal. If you're local to the valley, then sure you can get a higher number. Nonetheless, this is still competitive.

* If $110k is "too low" for you to live off, even with a family in the valley, you're doing something wrong. Newsflash: there are people here who aren't software engineers (but other educated, technical intelligentsia types) and they live just fine on $70-90k (this is what a physicist I knew at Intel was making, for example).

* Working at Google increases your market value tremendously. As does being local to the valley and having a visa.

* Working for a well-funded, mid-to-late stage startup is another attractive option in the valley (that's what I am doing and I am very happy where I am), but that is hypothetical: you have an offer in your hand from Google and they're sponsoring you from a visa. Take it; if you don't like after a few years, your options are plentiful (if you don't get a raise at Google -- and I'd be surprised if that's the case -- you'll easily be able to get a higher salary elsewhere).
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>If people accept less money for teaching than they could earn elsewhere, it is because they enjoy teaching and that enjoyment is part of the compensation.

I wish people would stop trotting this nonsense out all the time. It's not specifically a myth or a fallacy but rather an occurrence so rare as to be useless. Worse, it's usually presented by people trying to justify paying too little for a given job. There are simply not enough people willing to forgo a nice comfortable middle class lifestyle just to be able to pursue their passion of teaching children. And why would they? Most people probably have more than just one passion, so why choose the one that pays the worst (not to mention dealing with passion-killing bureaucracy day by day)? As a result, the US public school system actually gets made up of a mix of genuinely passionate teachers and people who see it as a safe government profession where they have to read silly books to stupid kids all day. In my experience, the mix heavily favors the latter.

>And people are perfectly capable of judging for themselves what's right for them.

They have. That's why the people best at teaching are usually somewhere they can be compensated for it. Are you seriously suggesting the people we should be entrusting our children to are the lowest bidders? If these people are passionate and don't care about keeping up with the Jones' then there are probably other places they could donate their time that don't have such miserable politics to deal with.
Google's offer: Useless. Moving to the bay area: Priceless. Go for it!
Perhaps, but the effect of the GSUs (and annual bonuses) would likely more than make up for any sort of lowballed salary.
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Hah - The things James Bond has done for our country...
I was expecting this to suck, but I thought it was actually a very good article. I've had a lot of experience with all of the points listed (good and bad!) and I wish I knew this years ago!

One point I would make about the 3 people in an office thing. Find out how many of you would be in the office at the same time and consider renting virtual office space unless you have domain specific needs that require your own space. You can usually get a postal address, a certain number of hours or days a month and all of your bits together for a lot less than a full office.
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Because bay area technical angel investing isn't just about writing cheques. It's about managing and guiding those startups, helping them find the resources they need. It's about leveraging your connections throughout the industry to help them grow sales, build manufacturing, hire talent, or any of a hundred other things. This is why startups go back to these handful of investors over and over again. Founders aren't stupid. They know these investors wield serious power in the tech world, and they want that power to be on their side.

If you think the only requirement to being an angel investor is having a big bank account, you haven't been paying attention.
I try and stick to 3 hours 4 times a week (9-12) with three visits to the gym (two in the evening during the week and one on Saturday afternoon) with Saturday evening as "free" time. Usually manage a chunk of time during the day on Sunday as well. So probably 15 hours a week on average doing my own work.

I usually make sure I have what I want to do in the evening sketched out in a notebook at lunchtime - which is when I do research etc.

The thing that makes this possible is pretty much having a "regular" day job that is within walking distance of where I live - 20 minute walk away. With a commute I'd be too tired to do anything at night (I know, I have tried). I usually get home at 6pm - same time as my son gets home from school.

The other thing I have found is that staying up past midnight is a bad idea - I even have an alarm set on my watch to remind me to start shutting down at 23:50.

I tend to sleep most soundly when I've just fixed some horrible bug or implemented some sweet feature!

Note that includes plenty time with 11 year old son and my wife - who has a much more high-pressure job than I have (I do all of the cooking).
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right, moreover the folds can give additional sound damping too. and I wouldn't have to spend that princely amount on those noise canceling headphones.

you are an angel.

Do you think that 1 inch space in between the curtains and the wall can provide some extra thermal insulation too? and save me a bit more money on the aircon expenses?
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I think it depends on the role of the person reporting in. I agree that for techs a ticketing system is probably better, but for a small sales force a daily update on current opportunities isn't a bad thing. You should be able to do this on a CRM but to be honest most CRMs are a pain in the arse to update and distract from the business of selling.
You can get houses for under $3k if you're okay with the south bay, and not falling apart ones in ghettoes either. Santa Clara and San Jose have plenty of 2br houses around $1500, and nice 3br houses in the $2000-2500 range. You only have to go to $3k+ if you want more like 4-5br, or a particularly upscale city (Palo Alto, Los Gatos, etc.).
> It's fairly circular: A free hosting service did something you don't like? Maybe you should have tried a free hosting service.

What you failed to recognize was that the nature of the scribd service and the web hosting services I suggested was always fundamentally different and that was visible even then when you claim that they were "the same."

There's no free web hosting service that demands visitors to register to deliver them the web content(!) Scribd always immediately made your original material inaccessible and counted on visitors to sign up just to deliver it to them! So scribd was so obviously worse from the start. After the current development everybody sees that (you write "In hindsight this is true. However, prior to this "proof", it wasn't true.") but even if you wasn't able to see the difference "in context of the original poster" that doesn't give you the rights to behave how you did.

I don't blame the interent, I blame you for making insults instead of trying to argument, but I still won't call you names, even if you deserve it for continuing to do what you do in the post I reply. No, I am not the native speaker but I still believe that's irrelevant to your bad behavior, except if you claim that subtle hints to somebody not being native speaker additionally annoy you, that still doesn't show you in better light.
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Not a word about opt-in vs. opt-out. Privacy, schmivacy?
I have gotten Flash Objects before, while using Chrome incognito mode.

Will have to repeat this experiment with the current version.
Apparently "Google Stock Units" are restricted stock rather than options. If they vest over five years (I don't actually know but this is common elsewhere), 200 shares will be an extra $20k/year or more. Well, unless their stock tanks.
It most definitely would, since Siemens as a company is too expensive and complicated to bribe - even on CIA scale. Also it is public, and is too bureaucratic to get away with that without a trace.

Of course nothing prevents recruiting an engineer or two as CIA operatives, but it's not the same as involving the company.
Without opening another can of worms, doors are more easily opened here if you have a 1st or 2:1 from say Oxford or Cambridge, particularly in the City.

From across the pond it looks like the US is worse for this with grads from Stanford, MIT or CMU having a way easier time of it career-wise. It seems a lot easier to get in those "name" companies.
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Thanks! I'm particularly amused that using google couldn't provide any help in figuring that one out.
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yup, I happen to be a newbie.

And I appreciate and welcome the consideration to educate (no sarcasm intended, mean it).
Part of the problem with these kinds of surveys is it's hard to know if you're comparing apples to oranges.

- Are they surveying base salary? Or total compensation? Or perhaps just including bonuses?

- Are the surveys voluntary? Life has taught me people lie about their income all the time.
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Ask HN: How do you name different versions of a file?
i'm having problems organizing the ppt/pdf files i'm working on right now, i'm not using svn/cvs for these. i was wondering how u guys organize yr files? do u prefix or postfix the filename? or u use _ after each word for better readability? or do u postfix a version count like 1_0 at the end of the file?

i.e. i am working a ppt file, i name my ppt file product-demo-v1.0.ppt after i made my revisions, how best can i name it for better readability and traceability?

any advice is appreciated.
Not really James Bond, just the allure of something different. Same reason people take more notice of an American in Italy. The important thing, I guess, is to come from somewhere 'interesting' to people.
I have no idea whether to take the gig or not, but just know that if you take the job at Google, you're not going to be able to work on side projects in your spare time.

California law states that as long as the person isn't in direct competition with their employer, they can keep any IP they develop while not on company time. If you work for Google, however, you work for a company who is trying to organize the world's information. So, arguably, pretty much any code you write in your spare time competes with Google.
If somebody did this for me, I'd immediately think of it as slimy and basically 'suck-up' behaviour. I would value people honoring their subordinates or customers. So long as they're not assholes to their superiors, I don't care about brown-nosing or any of that nonsense.
If you're thinking about having your CV in latex, you might want to think carefully about whether or not you're doing it wrong.

Most people compile their latex CVs to PDF. If you using a recruiter, this is a pain for most recruiters as they like to remove contact details from the CV before passing it on. Recruiters are generally not tech savvy enough to remove it from a PDF. There are also some places that demand CVs in Word format. As shitty as it is, Word is the de facto document format for HR.

If you do insist on using Latex for a CV though, there are some gorgeous templates on CTAN. Just bear in mind that some might not appreciate it as much as if it were written in word.
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It's also interesting how people try to establish causality for drug use with lack of mental ability.

Drugs are no good for sutpid people - the ones that get most out of them are smart people. For drugs to get the most effect being smart helps a lot.

I find it a big problem with heroin users. Anyone who knows some knows how elaborate schemes they create to acquire drugs. Also talking to addicts when they are sober (high they don't make any sense mostly) knows how complex personalities they are.

Being stupid helps one from acquiring a drug habbit IMHO. While being smart only multiplies ones problems if one manages to get into drug usage.
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I put these files in revision control aswell. But in case I wouldn't be able to, I'd postfix it with a timestamp:

product-demo-20100922-1050.ppt

If that's too verbose, then product-demo-20100922-N.ppt, where N is an arbitrary, but increasing number as I save different versions.

But a proper revision control system would be much more valuable, even for non-text data.
looks like the comment was about Palo Alto, Mtn View, etc since she wrote "maybe 2BR if you want to live south or east."
But all this is largely irrelevant, he has the job offer on the table already! That means the Google have placed emphasis on his experience and character rather than where he went to University.

If he was applying to Google, fresh out of University (outside of the so called 'top 10') and was wondering if he was in with a chance, then that would be a different story, but he's proven his worth in the industry already.