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"Engineers Suck at Negotiating, so Don’t Negotiate, Be Fair - from me, after being pissed off about hiring practices I experienced from bad founders."

God yes. This should just be basic employer-employee decency. Don't fuck around with people's lives just because you might save a buck. ESPECIALLY when you're getting much more from them (Which is just how employment goes).
Yes, I noticed this inactivity when I started working with Orbited. However, I always assumed you had reached a natural conclusion and stopped.
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I'll veer away from the legal status aspects of it :) But as far as rejecting an accepted offer, an offer letter isn't binding. It is signals your intent to sign a contract (i.e. that long employee agreement that no one reads). And even when you sign the agreement depending on which state you reside in, you are probably in a "right to work" state which means you can quit without cause, and they can fire without cause. So rejecting an accepted offer isn't that big of moral deal to me.

The main thing is what is making your change your mind. Another thing to consider is the size of the market where you are. If you are in a small market (say Spokane, WA) then word might get around that you are "wishy-washy". In a larger market, maybe not.

I've been on both sides of this before. From the employee side, I'd reject an accepted offer if something came up that gave me pause. I've rejected an accepted offer when I realized I didn't really want to move to Boston. Things change. They understand that.

From the employer side, I'd rather someone reject an accepted offer vs. coming to work and not really wanting to be there. It costs quite a bit of money to on board an employee - benefits, computer, parking passes, etc. While some of that might be in the works because you accepted, I doubt much of it is. I'd rather eat the cost on the few things I did vs. bringing you on and having you quit a few months later or having to fire you later for not working out.
Well, it kind of does have that bar already. The delicious integration would probably be an addon, though.
> I once had a case come to me after some homeowners had lost at trial in a dispute with their mortgage lender over some technical provisions of their mortgage. The amount at stake was perhaps a couple of hundred thousand dollars. However, on losing, the court awarded the lender almost $400K in fees (it did so under a contract provision providing that the prevailing party in any dispute would receive an award of such fees).

The problem here wasn't the fact that the loser wound up paying the court fees.

The real problems started with hearing the case on a planet where FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS in legal fees was considered reasonable for any court case, and where apparently a contract provision stating this was considered enforceable rather than struck down as manifestly unreasonable.

This was compounded by hearing the case in a region on that planet where the appeals system comes with a price tag of several years' salary.

Costs are supposed to be just that: the cost of bringing a case to court. That means things like paying to build courthouses and paying a salary to those who run the courts (from the judges to the janitors) and, yes, even paying a reasonable rate to the lawyers. If your courts are ever awarding more than that in costs, no matter what the outcome of the case, then your legal system is broken.
The libel laws are to the British legal system the same as the lack of a "loser pays" rule is to the US system: a dangerous quirk that needs to be reformed.
yeah, and he sounds like he has a really interesting way of dealing with it.

Now, people might disagree on what level you happen to be at technically... but still it seems like you are saving an incredible amount of time and effort by moving the decision to simply "how good are they" and then making the money decision after that solves a whole lot of problems.
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I'm also curious as to how you get the data. The fact that there seems to be almost a monopoly by STATS on the data leads me to believe that there needs to be more competition in this space. Curious as to how you guys are going about it.
Yeah, when I was a high school student, to save up money for college I got a job under the table from my sister's friend's father. His business was in processing scrap components (everything from buttons for factory machines to the aforementioned oil pipes) and reselling them. This involved a lot of manual labor sorting e.g. a pile of 10,000 switches into functioning and broken ones, then sorting by color, or in cleaning oil pipes using a toothbrush and some solvent (motor oil, as I recall).

I learned an important lesson from that job: when someone tells you he doesn't want to have you on the books because of "OSHA and the IRS and all that rot", that is a leading indicator you can use for "not someone you want to work for" prior to getting a 20 lb oil pipe thrown at your head close enough to move your hair.
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So startup employees are wising up to the fact that options won't make them rich, and they're demanding market salaries? I see that as a good thing.
Obviously this isn't the place to go into it, but I'm talking about effective social support.

I don't think anyone thinks it's unfair that someone who simply can't wait to get that new gadget should pay a premium, but there's no rational reason that someone living in a first-world country should have to choose between letting their kids go hungry, going hungry themselves, and becoming a "big credit risk".
Er.. the hyperlink on the Developed by ETSY API is pointing to some where else. Should ideally be linked to http://developer.etsy.com :P
Some that I've worked with directly:

I'm currently doing a lot of stuff with LLVM. LLVM is actually fairly well-documented for an open-source project: there's at least a bunch of tutorials and Doxygen. Despite this, there've still been a bunch of times I've had to go back to the source. I had to hunt around to figure out how to disable the default dlsym() behavior and explicitly expose all functions I want the compiled code to be able to access. And then I found this didn't work when I statically linked the binary; I had to ask a coworker who's a dev on the project what was up, and it turned out it was a bug in the compiler framework.

For my startup, I was doing a bunch with mtasc and swfmill. Beyond basic command-line options, there's pretty much no reference for how to put these together to generate a Flash file of moderate complexity. I basically just tried things that sorta looked like the demo examples, and permuted them until they worked.

A few years back, I did a bunch with Netbeans. I had to look at the source code for virtually everything. I had to manually trace back deadlocks by seeing which framework code was holding which monitors. I had to grep the codebase to figure out which Lookup file a particular extension point was checking. Most of the APIs, I just had to try and see whether they did with I want.

Usually, the only open-source libraries that work smoothly are the ones that lots of people are already using. They got that way because the early adopters put up with a bunch of pain and contributed back to fixing the problems they encountered. If you're fine with trailing the pack, you can rely on the documentation. But if you're going to lead the pack, you often have to write the documentation.
I had a similar idea: Musicians upload bits of music (could be a riff, drum track, solo, vocal, whatever) and collaborate on combining them, altering parts as necessary, etc. You can then mix the bits together into a final track, get feedback on your parts, and so on.

To make money you could sell the final track on iTunes or press CDs (t-shirts?) and the site will track which musician gets what, or else just charge $10/month for access.
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Ah, fair enough. 100% agree that some sort of institutional support so that people never have to rely on a payday loan to meet basic human needs (food, shelter, etc) would be a great thing. Don't regulate the market, eliminate the demand for it entirely.
Sure, but we have a 64-bit backend ;) After years and years still no one wants to write one for psycho.

Edit: Psycho also broke Python's semantics in a few very subtle ways, in that sense it isn't a truly fair comparison.
well, thanks everyone, for talking with me about this. I think I might end up taking the conventional route (small percentages w/ vesting that only matter if we get big or some kind of profit sharing/bonus structure.)

It will mean that until I have more traction I won't be able to hire everyone I'd like to hire, but after talking with some of those people, I'm not sure that larger slices of equity would have made that big of a difference.
It seems like if you can DDoS one server, you can DDoS several, but I'm no expert. Also, I thought one of the major motivations for IRC DoSes was to cause netsplits that allow nick stealing; a single sever can't have a netsplit.
The problem is that there are toys and vacuum cleaners and not much else. It will be at least a few years before we have another compelling category of home robot. You should strive to understand the reasons for these short term limitations.

But the net effect is that it is very much only vacuums for at least a few years.
I thought running cable through plenum ducts was a crappy job. You win.

On a more serious note: gangsters used to give free turkeys away to the neighborhoods. Just managing to be of some use to somebody sometime doesn't make one less of a predator.
So it sounds like in this case the lender initiated the lawsuit. Can the loser pays rule be restricted to the plaintiff pays? If I frivolously sue you and the court finds that I had no reason to do that, shouldn't I pay for your defense? On the other hand if I win the case, there may have been an error and you may need to appeal. We could even have it so that only the supreme court can afford a defendant pays decision.

Edit: also as an equalizer we could say that no matter what, the loser cannot pay to the winner more than she paid to her own lawyer. That way if I bring my discout yellow pages lawyer and you hire the best firm in town, well you get to pay for the luxury.
'...but for them it was just "another language" that they used, not "the language"'

This is the case for almost EVERY great developer: They're language agnostic. The language is never important.
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Yes. In other words, payday lenders drive marginal people further into poverty to make up for the totally insolvent people they (also) snooker into taking loans. That much is clear.
That sounds good!

Could you also include a sound for new email. Like the gmail chat noise. I don't know why this doesn't exist anyway.
Unless your court cases are all heard by the entire population, your judiciary is not a democracy anyway.

If your judges are appointed permanently by some sort of panel, drawn from some level of politicians, who are themselves elected via a system that is open to trivial interference by well-funded special interest groups, then your judiciary isn't even close to democratic.
You might get more donations if you use a variable-donation site, like http://kickstarter.com/. That way people could donate whatever they're able. If I were post-exit (and I'm not, not by a long shot :), I'd drop a lot more than $10 just to see this think built.

Plus the PledgeBank site looks a little sketchy compared to most modern websites, IMHO.
> I'd compare this to leaving your house's front door unlocked and open. You're an idiot, but if someone walks in and trashes the place, they still committed a crime.

I disagree. The classic, respectable "value investor" takes advantage of other speculators mistakes by finding stocks who's value is irrationally low or high and betting against them. What's the moral difference?

If automated trading systems can't handle someone playing back at them without causing a "flash crash" then that's an argument against letting automated systems trade (at least under current regs) not an argument against the opponents who outsmarted one.
Over the last few years Microsoft has had a history of late, me too products that ultimately go nowhere. I see no reason to believe that the Windows Phone will be an exception. Ignore it.

However you do have a real choice. Do you want to learn the iPhone or Android? Right now the iPhone has a much better organized marketplace. However Android is selling faster and is rapidly gaining market share. It is unclear which will win in the long run. (I personally prefer Android's chances, but it is close.)

One benefit to Android is that you'll be on a much more standard computing platform. So if you decide that you want to move out of phones, you'll likely find C++ and Java to be more employable than Objective C.

My belief is that both will be players for some time. So pick either one and learn it. If it turns out to be the wrong choice in the long run, you will be able to switch later. Sure, you'll face a learning curve. But your previous experience will help.
What do you mean by the "European social safety net"?

The legal system should normally be the last resort, but you seem to be suggesting that we have some sort of universal alternative to try first. There may be other options in specific contexts, for example disputes with service providers in regulated industries where there is some sort of ombudsman scheme, but it is not the case in general.
Did they ever release any information about how popular App Engine is? I've always wondered how successful it's been and how many startups are willing to lock themselves into the Google Infastructure.
And we thought SQL was enterprise ready already!
Free markets look messy and disorganized. But they also tend to be very efficient. I like that Google recognizes this.

(Disclaimer. I may be biased because I work for Google.)
The main reason why society does not like pay day loans, is that there is more harm than good in lending money to people who cannot reliably pay back.
If you don't have $500 to repair your car and do not have good credit history -- then probably you would be better off without car, because you won't be able to take proper care of that car anyway.
And without payday loan it's harder to get drunk/drugged, so society benefits from not having payday loans.

On the other hand it does not make sense to criminalize payday loans, because as gcheong mentioned -- the alternative is broken kneecaps by loansharks.

The result: payday loans are neither prohibited, nor supported by government, and are booed by society.
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They would love to be IBM. IBM totally reinvented itself, and surged past its old roots... very Apple-esque resurgence.

Look at the chart over IBM's existence: http://www.google.com/finance?q=IBM
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Being behind a rather restrictive firewall at work, I certainly recognize the advantages of HTTP/HTTPS vs. SSH (or anything else).

Still, when it comes to not having to remember or retype passwords for network connections, isn't that exactly SSH's strong suit?

I'm all for espousing the advantages of the new thing, but isn't this one of HTTPS's major disadvantages, comparatively? I mean, my github password isn't stored in plaintext on disk anywhere, and I can still do whatever I want without a password (OK, one password per reboot) from any of my machines.
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Lol. I'm working on something similar too. I guess you have the heads up! Great work so far!
I useful trick I learned is to try and avoid a "Features" link (unless you have a very deep app). The user should be able to tell if the app has the features he wants from the front page.

Also, sell. I learned the hard way that under-promising in order to over-deliver may work for the users that do sign up, but it's not worth it for the actual drop in users that do.
I think crappy jobs correlate with awesome people. Lots of successful people I know washed dishes, cleaned pipes, did construction, or something equally "blue-collar." It builds character and makes you yearn for a better life.
Shame on you guys who upvoted that comment.
I despise patent trolls as much as the next guy, but killing people is way worse.
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"...back when dinosaurs walked the earth, people used this...for FTP sessions."

How I wish this were true. Before I started doing freelance web development full-time, I figured FTP had died out in the 90s, just like telnet did.

I now understand FTP remains the norm, and I waste hours dealing with it (then gripe about it on the Facebook group 7 Billion Strong Against FTP http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=130658460303379 ).
I see no reason you couldn't add an embedded lisp to Yi. It's actually on my list of things to try eventually. I do agree the compile step is annoying but I've found myself frustrated enough times with elisp's:

* dynamic scoping. The lack of closures is pretty limiting.
I can live without the objects and inheritance but I really really want closures.

* key bindings parsing. Vimpulse is basically incapable of implementing some of my most often used vim commands because of the way the key bindings are parsed.

Both of those things prompted me to go looking for an alternative and this is what I found. It's been fun so far, perhaps I'll hit a wall again and get dissatisfied but for now it's a handy hack on something in haskell project.
It is not just about $10 once, it is a mindset. You can use the same excuse to markup everything you buy, and you end up spending a lot more in a week/month/year than you would have.

Hey, if that is worth it to you, then no problem, but I know that it is not worth it to me. When you have drunk that $30 bottle of vodka, I would be happier with the $10 extra I have, and being just as sated.
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On a tertiary note, every once in awhile I have to debug through optimized IA-64 assembly, it hurts my brain - if you think understanding x86 or amd64 is hard, try an ISA where every instruction has like 20 side-effects... I try to avoid it as much as humanly possible
I ran into this the other day, too. According to a gtk2hs developer, it's a limitation in cabal: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=46AA...
I don't want my court case being judged by someone who has to consider what that judgement means for their chances of re-election. If they have to campaign, well, that takes money... so they'll need donors... so can they really afford to rule against LocalBigCo?
uhm, imageMagick? you might have to resort to using the terminal...
Well, sadly, Wal-Mart doesn't think the demand's going to let up. They've been removing otherwise profitable (I presume) service franchises from their stores and have been replacing them with pay day loan centers. http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/03/payday_l...
A friend in Nevada was using a mail center inside a Super Wal-Mart to get his mail (he travels a lot) and was told by the manager that it was being shut down even though it was profitable because corporate told them to put in the pay day loan center. Kinda depressing really.
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Touche, I also forgot you actually work for them, so you'd be the one to know ;)
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epoll was new in CPython 2.6, PyPy currently targets Python 2.5, we have a branch where we're working towards Python 2.7 support (we skipped a step), that will include epoll support.
For your first job, salary matters zero. Not even a little bit. Concentrate on doing what you want to do with the people you want to do it with. The rest takes care of itself.
Both of you are correct they are not circumventing anything. Their plugin is just to track which blogs, which are freely available, you are actually reading so they know how to split your $5 according to what you actually read each month.

They don't have to send the money to anyone. They could keep it for themselves. But if they did no one would use the service as it wouldn't make sense. Instead they donate to the writers personally. It's the same idea as United Way collecting donations and then forwarding those donations to various causes, while keeping a bit for overhead.

Not illegal. If they were hosting content, copying content or circumventing, then it would be a problem.

Their use of official photos and logos of the blogs without permission is not fair use though, that part will have to go. But they can certainly collect donations for a third party according to any system they want without needing the third party's permission.
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It's easy to think payday loan shops are evil until you know someone who owns one. The people running them typically aren't getting rich off of it. A high percentage of loans don't get paid back. Fraud, forgery, and outright armed robbery are a constant threat. Your employees (who have to be willing to work in a place that will be robbed, at gunpoint, on a monthly basis) aren't much more savory than the customers, and theft amongst them is rampant.

Shit happens, and a lot of time when it happens to poor people, they have no alternative. It's sad that society is structured in such a way that they are forced to turn to a source of credit that charges them so much, but the payday loans do provide a valuable service.
You're good enough when you do, do, and do some more and aren't sitting around wondering if you're good enough.

In other words: you're good enough, now get busy.
Steve was on my board of directors.

This advice is 100% golden and it works.

Favorite advice: Maintain your high hiring bar. This ends up being difficult in the face of big competition and looming deadlines. Hold out and your team and product will be much better for it.
Useful to know. Thanks for the clarification.
To see that we will need some healthy competition in the ad and search space. I actually hope Bing does well just for serving this purpose. Google's search page was nearly the same for 5 years, Bing comes out and adds a few more dynamic ways to search and Google had to re-vamp their entire home page over the course of 2 years. It is ironic to be in a situation where Microsoft's relentless and battle-hardened strategy of copy-cat is the most powerful thing keeping Google from doing evil.