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I don't understand what you're saying here. Are you saying that the people should generally be more prescriptive about what's allowed and not allowed for consideration during job interviews? Like, discrimination against protected classes isn't enough? We should have many more rules about what interviewers should ask?
There are multiple viewpoints in big media too... There's also the Internet. It's pretty naive to think North Korea and the USA are the same in terms of propaganda.
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Yeah, I guess I came off as slurring Haskell a little bit. Sorry. Could you point me to any resources on how to use Haskell for numeric stuff? I've been thinking of doing a blog series on neutron transport with either Haskell or Common Lisp, but I'd like to peruse a few examples of idiomatic Haskell numerics before shooting my mouth off.
I honestly don't know if I can depend on him or not, if it's any indicator of dependability, he had around a 2.8 GPA in College and he wasn't really doing any side-projects. His main ordeal would probably be his job, as he has a full-time job as a System Admin. If I judge his dependability based on that then it's shit. I think I'll ask him why he wants to do this and if he's honest about that his response will tell me whether he's dependable.

Him watching the Social Network and being motivated from that is slightly worrisome to me as well, but it was a movie that even with it being mostly fictitious, it still showed the possibility of success in Silicon Valley.
Let's just say that there is nothing I need an office suite to do that OpenOffice couldn't do five or even ten years ago. I'm not a heavy office suite kinda user, but I have written two books in OpenOffice (one published), without major complaint.

These days, as I mentioned, I use Google docs for most stuff, and that's dramatically less capable than either MS Office or OpenOffice. I simply don't need millions of features to get the work done.

I think the relevance of desktop office suites is fading rapidly, and with it the need for Office or OpenOffice. (Though I do wonder if I could write a book for publication at this point in Google Docs and have editors/publishers be happy with that decision.)
That's an interesting parallel. Are you shouting "bubble!" then?
Basically what you're saying is, you wish privacy didn't have an economic value, which it must so long as people are willing to concede it for slightly higher wages.
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Damn, sorry about that, and thanks for the correction. So the real difference between petroleum derivatives and sugars isn't the energy content so much as the power you can generate? In layman's terms, the kablooie factor?

That puts Le Conte's error in even more perspective. Imagine if you said to him in 1888 "...but what if you had access to vast, cheap supplies of high-grade fuel which you burned off at a rate of 1 lb per minute?" He'd look at you like you were an idiot. Now your heavier-than-air craft is carrying several hundred pounds of fuel too, just to stay aloft for a few hours? And what do you do when you get where you are going?

Does this mean Le Conte's real failure isn't energy calculations, but predicting the availability of such fuel? In other words, it's all economics?

I had another comment about "toys" versus "tools for real work" in this thread. Maybe that's another defining element of "toys", the difficulty of maintenance and the lack of ubiquitous infrastructure. Only rich or eccentric people are going to take the trouble to provide infrastructure for their own machines, so it becomes by definition a "toy". Like planes or cars in the early 20th century.

Okay, is this a new heuristic? We look for devices which are fun or useful but impractical because right now, enthusiasts have to provide their own infrastructure at great cost?
Cute but not true. TFA itself included several counter-examples.

> Instead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.... These 'copters' will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teenage youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the sky as the bicycles of our youth filled the prewar roads.
> Who is to say your idea of how an abstract concept like "freedom" should apply to software is more correct than Stallman's?

I like the dictionary definition of freedom. Stallman has a set of concerns and ideas about how they can be answered, and has set up conditions and restrictions to try to propagate them. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, but freedom isn't a very accurate way to describe it.

> If not the spreading of free software, what exactly is the FSF's agenda? Because without any specifics your comment is just more FUD.

I don't think my statement are FUD, as I'm trying to correct common misconceptions. If you want what the GPL offers (and many do) then it's only right that you choose it. However, conflating those ideals with freedom is inaccurate and misleading. If actual freedom is what you're after, a new BSD license is much closer to that. Only public domain is more free, but PD has some international interpretation issues.

As for the FSF's agenda, I don't pretend that it's an evil, secret conspiracy. It's not. They spell it out well enough on their site for all to see, once you filter out the fake freedom bits. Their core ideals are noble enough, though I disagree with some of their implementation.
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I did not see that in their eyes. These people are privileged, as the video said, so they're probably content with their status.
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Unless you have 0 savings, with average skill and above-average ambition you can choose what to work on, within reasonable limits (you can't go from PHP to programming space shuttles). And if you no one wants to pay to do what you want, do it on your own time. This will either result in a startup or persuading someone to pay you for the same type of work.
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"Should Employers Be Allowed to Ask for Your Facebook Login?"

I say yes, they should be allowed, and you should be allowed to refuse, and they should be allowed to not hire, and you should be allowed to find a better place to work and breath a sigh of relief since you just dodged a bullet.
Should they be allowed to enter your house and search your room for family albums, traces of pot, porn, love letters, naked pictures of your gf, etc?

Where do we draw the line between a real or virtual invasion of privacy?
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I just wish someone would give Stallman the memo.
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And in 5 years where will native apps be?
Another example of Hilbert curves used for trawling the RGB cube: http://corte.si/posts/code/sortvis-fruitsalad/index.html

(And, of course, IP addresses: http://xkcd.com/195/)
Great points. Rather than the interviewer, the interviewer and the board of directors and the CEO. I've done that a few times when I get requests for salary history, I ask to see theirs first. When they say that it's not relevant then I respond "Well there you go." I can't say that this tactic always works, but it doesn't really matter. I've never gone long without a job. Skills has its benefits.
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Isn't this exactly the question asked here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2239281

Why not add your links to the item, rather than creating yet another thread on exactly the same question.
What does ownership have to do with relative value of people?

If you go create something (a business) from nothing, it's yours. If you agree to do work for a business in return for cash, that's your decision.
> Anything that's free but is limited gets abused. You need look no further than the NHS in the UK were most GPs are employees of the NHS. Office hours of 9-4 (ie no incentive to provide a better service) are typical, the system clogged up with people who either don't need to see a doctor or, in the case with many old age pensioners, they simply go to the doctor for someone to talk to.

Actually, my experience in Brazil seems to provide counter-evidence to that. Higher education here can be either public or private. There are federal and state universities, but also it is reasonably easy to open a private college and get federal certification for it. In the public universities, in general, there is a far higher pressure for excellence at all levels, from admissions to lecturing and research (indeed, it is usual that the more interested undergrads will work on research projects during their course), and research specially is almost lacking in the private universities.

It is generally accepted here that if your objective is to make money the first thing that goes is demands on research (which is expensive and doesn't make much money for the university), closely followed by standards (as the more people you let in and the higher grades you give them the better-oiled the assembly line is and you can effectively print money as long as you don't lose your government certification).

In the public realm the people are kept motivated by: (1) the promise of very early tenure (effectively one year after you're hired by a public university), (2) the not-so-high salary, with availiability of extra funds in the form of productivity grants (for a researcher's personal use, not necessarly to hire students, etc), (3) the decoupling of the adviser's money from the students' funding (which ends up giving the students more freedom).
Should they be allowed to ask to search your house? I'd guess this is an irrelevant question, because nobody would say "yes" to that except for the least qualified, least employable people in the market, and the kinds of businesses that hire the least qualified people don't so much care about what's in your house.
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“Its SLA is impressive, too, at a 100-percent uptime guarantee with 50x compensation for downtime in certain situations.”

100% uptime? We’ll see…
Since when do you care about reputation ;)

Seriously though, I agree that founders are taking the risk, but actually I think that is irrelevant as well.

The bottom line is that the founder started the damn company; the company would not exist without the founder. If you go and negotiate a contract with a company, you get what's in the contract. In a profitable business we can argue all day about who's creating the value, but it's subjective and irrelevant; the only thing that matters is that the founder went and started a company and offered you a job and you took it. If you weren't able to negotiate a deal for what you're "worth" then man up and start your own damn company, otherwise you're just whining.
I think you should take this project on your own. You are 15 and have a lot to learn. Even if this idea fails you will learn from it's execution more than if your brother takes over. Also, you are in my eyes more passionate about it compared to someone who gets a bit of fire in his belly due to watching Brave Heart, oh i mean socialnetwork. Learn you some python!
In 5 years? Well that is an eternity in the mobile space and you are probably right, there is likely going to be a shift to a standard approach to app (web or native) development. What if a virtual machine such as the JVM existed for both Android and iOS was standard/consistent enough to write cross platform apps?

This topic is very popular amongst hackers lately. I find the web developers in particular resist the native app trend, to avoid Objective-C (iOS) and Java (Android). Typical web developer lives in Javascript and a chosen high level language (Ruby, Python) on the server side.
I agree you get what you can get based on the market and it has nothing to do with anything else. It doesn't matter how "smart" you are, or how "hard" you work, that really doesn't correlate directly with what you get paid.

But I think your second point (Founder get more money because they have more ownership) is tautological. The article is really asking, should the founders get such a great proportion of ownership?

I think that equity % is just like normal income. You get what the market will let you get.

Founders get a lot because the right combination of qualities, risk taking, and luck are rare. Being an employee of any kind makes you more common than a founder, and thus the market will always pay less.
On the tech side, if you've got a silverlight-based app that you'd think might be better as a pure javascript-based offering (the 50% issue you mentioned elsewhere) bringing someone in who is not a js guru isn't going to get you any further along. So... someone coming in and wanting to change tech mostly just to suit them (although I think there can be some financial advantages to java/php over a .net approach) doesn't sound like a good move.

Putting on my "old guy" hat... you're 15. He's not much older. You're both young and he's wanting to horn in on your baby because he saw a movie. This just doesn't good to me, but the ages - and family angle - make it worse. I'd steer clear of this one as politely as possible.

If your current project doesn't pan out, perhaps you can start something new together later, but approach that with a clean slate.
And what of people like me who have chosen to never create a Facebook account? How do you think that would go over??

As the corrections officer in question points out in the video, this is very dangerous ground. When you ask for someone's Facebook account as a condition of employment you are getting access to a tremendous amount of information about that person. Very likely including information such as marital status, religion, sexual orientation and the existence of children - all things which, as a matter of law, prospective employers are not allowed to ask employees in the hiring process.

If you're not allowed to ask it directly, you shouldn't be allowed to ask it indirectly either.
The current design is going to turn people away. The kind of people who would use a startup, seedcamp, etc questions site are the kind of people that expect good design and UI. It needs a lot of work.

What about turning it into a boating questions site?
Chairs. B&N has comfy chairs where I can peruse a pile of books. Borders doesnt. But Amazon won for us. We live 40 miles from either so my GF gets everything from Amazon or other Internet sites. Even though I work not far from both, free 2 day delivery has won me over for anything other than the occasional mass market paperback.
Why limit to Adroid/iPhone? Maybe a website (which can be accessed from the mobile) is a better idea.

On a second thought, isn't bash.org exactly that?
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That's true, but the phrase "burying you child" is a pretty common metaphor. When my dog died, I said something to effect of its was like "burying my child", but obviously a child will be far more important than a dog. I think his larger point is still valid (that failing at a startup is traumatic) is fair.
My colleague, Matt Sottile, has a nice blog on languages, functional programming, and scientific (often numerical) computing, http://syntacticsalt.com/
I think it mainly has to do with hyperactive thoughts. More random thoughts = more possibilities considered = more creative output = less time on any single thought (focus). Distractibility is just a side effect of this predilection to racing thoughts.
"Deserve has got nothing to do with it"

Stop seeing compensation as a judgement of value and instead see it as a measure of scarcity. Most people prefer to be employees rather than founders, compensation reflects this.
This article is very timely. I've been employee #1 at a small company for about ten months, and I'm not only making just 50-60% of my pay potential, the recently proposed employee options plan grants me just 0.8% vesting over the next four years.

"This isn't about who is more valuable, this about who took the risk."

Risk? I joined less than a year after incorporation. I feel like I'm shouldering substantial risk by taking 50% of my overall compensation as options in a venture which I have no direct control over—I'm not on the board, I'm not a director. The options are worthless until 4-5 years down the road, and even then, I have no control or say into when we sell, to whom, and for how much.

Myself and the other employee are probably going to leave, because we feel that more like 2-3% minimum is appropriate for our position, and we doubt that the founders will see it that way.
I don't think anyone in this thread is claiming they're the same - just that America has plenty of its own propaganda as well.
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Simplicity is not stupidity. This board is pretty basic too. Q&A is a crowded space.
Ah, but you just shifted from asking to just doing it.

No, they should not be allowed to just do it. But should they be allowed to ask if they can search your house and private things (which is indeed comparable to requesting to be friended)? I say, yes, they should be allowed to ask, and all intelligent people that value their privacy should be allowed to say no, laugh, mock, walk out of the interview, and then post their feelings about that company on their Facebook page, or on HN, or reddit, or their personal blog so that others may be warned from wasting time applying at such a place.
I respect FSF and RMS very much, and in fact I think if it weren't for them, Unix would've died, and Linux wouldn't really take off, maybe even BSD wouldn't have existed, and Mac wouldn't exist in the form we know it today (that is, as a Unix based OS).

Having said that, RMS's ideology is not inherently good per se; it's somewhat radical, but without the existence of radicalism, we would've ended up in a world of proprietry only software. In other words, the Open Source movement's "utopia" can't exist without RMS-like radicals who push strongly towards a world of only free software.

As a result, we get an equilibrium where all the tools for development and infrastructure are free/open-source, while end-user products are not always free.
Great, yet another Q&A site...

I would recommend asking yourself: What does Revboat offer that other Q&A sites fall short on?

Also, you NEED to hire a designer. The current design is offensive to the eyes.
exactly. and founder vs employee isn't a species difference. it's a role difference, and only at a moment in time, and only with respect to one particular company. any employee could also (before|instead|after) be a founder for another business. Don't like the perks/negs of being a mere employee? Fine, be a founder. And vice versa.
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It's equivalent to in the pre-internet era asking a job applicant to hand over all their private snail mail so that a prospective employer can read them and approve or disapprove of their private life and personal or political opinions.
Ugh.

I wish people would not post blog entries about things they are going to do. Life is full of empty promises. .

It would be much more interesting if one just kept quiet (I know, it's hard for anyone who has the kind of personally that necessitates a blog) until they've gathered experience and then report something (or nothing if they fail to follow thru).
This is actually a lot easier if you have a specific niche as per your example.

Without a niche, the whole world is your target and you will not have any good place to market to.

With a niche you are able to clearly say that you have a target market and then constrain your activities to just attracting them.

When I started a fixed gear cycling forum I didn't really know anyone, so I spent time researching where they hung out, and understand the problems with the tools that they already used. When I finally pitched my product to them it was by then as a friend rather than a cold-call, and they already knew me and I they... it wasn't enough to make revenue on day one, but it was the start of a snowball effect as they each invited others.

Niches are good. If you have one look to where those people already hang out... in the real world as well as virtually.
All I know is that the proponents of Free Software are constantly trying to tell me what to think and tell me what my ideals should be, whereas just-plain-Open-Sourcers are happy enough to see that I'm using their software, regardless of what I do with it.
I do kind of feel like he's taking advantage of me, I get that feeling a lot actually. I do think he could be a great asset in the future, mostly when the work becomes too much for me but I really do get the feeling that he wants to take over and do it all.

I want this to work out, I don't like high school. I am willing to accept failure but there is more than one idea I've thought of that I like, only this is the one that I think I can do the best on right at this moment, and in the far future I want to work on those. (Those have high starting costs whereas this has almost no costs in the beginning and I see personal gain from this because K-12 Education is awful)
Great article.

The author, Jonah Lehrer, has an amazing book on behavior economics that I considering a must read for anyone trying to sell anything. It's been incredibly valuable to us at Wistia. It's called "How We Decide".

Jonah always finds incredibly interesting ways to pull apart behavior from a neurological perspective.

http://www.amazon.com/How-We-Decide-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/05472479...
unfortunately, when you build your software on "everyone gets to be a developer", more often than not it comes out as "everyone has to be a developer".
With a BSD or Apache license you are giving your project away for anyone to use how they see fit.

With GPL you are giving your project away only to those willing to work with you on improving it.

The arguments back and forth are so tiresome when they don't recognize that sometimes one license makes a lot of sense and sometimes the other license makes a lot of sense. There will never be one license to rule them all.
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What recourse do you think that leaves for people whose Facebook friends do not refuse? If one of my Facebook friends allows this, they are, unbeknownst to me, sharing information that I consider private with that employer. I choose to put certain information on Facebook, trusting Facebook, its partners, and my friends with that information. I do not choose to trust random employees of random prospective places of employment with that same information, so this is a violation of my privacy expectations as a user of Facebook, and as a friend.

"You shouldn't put information into Facebook if you are afraid of that information getting out." I don't.

But people (including you, by your response) do not fully understand the risks they are taking.
hmm, do you find the basic http://www.question2answer.org/qa/ theme as bad?

What do the other ones not offer? I like the idea of having due-diligence on startup questions... like what YC partners do..
Yeah, I was very surprised. I like open source and all those good ideals, but MS nailed it with 2010. If you have the money for Office and don't have ideological or moral concerns, OO.o is not competitive.

One could make the argument that they were before the interface overhaul, but it changed my view on Office completely.

It's just really nice to use. If OO.o could find some way to clone Office's interface without legal trouble, I'd go back in an instant.