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Depends on the team. I worked at a few different ones at MSFT, and generally the position was - two machines. Two desktops? Ok. Desktop + Laptop? Ok.

Most developers went for the desktop x2 plan. PM's almost always went desktop + laptop.

Again, this was for NEW machines. I had, at my peak, 6. 4 desktops and 2 laptops. Most of these were random old peices of hardware that were fit for recycling (but still fully functional!) that I used for whatever side projects I needed the hardware for.

Everyone always complains about their PC hardware - but not once did I see someone who actually needed a piece of hardware go without it. Monitor upgrades, for some reason, were much rarer and didn't make sense at all.
The Republicans have been trying to kill employer based health care forever... it's the unions responsible for it.
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I just figured out that I could dramatically improve my user experience and decrease my long term costs if I had some money from the get-go. I'm expecting the price to be around $5500/month at the time of launch, and it should raise slightly after each month.

What's the best way to approach this kind of situation? Should I launch on my own dime and pray I can get some sort of funding within a month? Or should I try and get the funding ahead of time?

If I go with the first idea, does anyone have any recommendations for closing a deal so quickly?
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It's an UltraBookIIe. Needed it when I provisioned 6 racks of Sun gear in an off-shore co-lo for a gaming company, and it was the easiest way to auto install/configure all the OS's and software into bare metal gear. Wasn't the fastest thing on the planet, but it worked really well.
It's very team dependent. Every dev in Bing has their own laptop. Of course most of us don't have our own office, it's more common to be doubled up.
Well, you are confusing "complicated" with "difficult". While this is true in general, automation reduces the difficulty of working with a complicated system.

For instance, the build system is extremely "complicated". But all you really need to do is to make sure your code compiles, you pass all your local tests, and the BVTs, and you are good to go (oh, and a code review; anyone who objects to a code review is probably shouldn't be coding).

When, you, as a developer, satisfy those local conditions, the system automatically works at the global level.

Don't get me wrong, complexity is an evil that I'd rather avoid, but it is a necessary evil for creating systems that are useful in the real world; and it is an evil that can be tamed with automation.

[Full disclosure: as a former MSFT employee, my thoughts are heavily influenced by the company.]
That bad at Amazon? I've been at Google for a little over 2 years and have written about 160,000 lines of code for them. (And deleted about 30,000.)

Seems like a lot more than I expected, but just looking through my recent commit history, I wrote 830 lines of code just last week on my 20% project alone, so 1600 lines/week doesn't seem that unreasonable. And here I've been complaining about how I never have time to get any work done...
I'm not in the US, this is a actual question.

Is this different in some fundamental way from not being able to offer a high enough salary?
Any Personal account option? I don't want to jump on Business Plan !
See my original post: prettiness and usability are 2 different things :D

And yes, too many people forget usability for prettiness.

VLC is usable (not all parts, true) but isn't beautiful.
Different strokes for different folks. And not only that, sometimes people vary in their preferences depending on the context. I like working alone at night most of the time but sometimes a busy coffee shop really does the trick.
But they don't want to replace it with anything other than everyone buys their insurance on the open market if they want coverage, which is why unions are against it. If they wanted to move to a full coverage system (single payer?), unions would be happy because everyone has healthcare.
If you're on the same LAN or conbecting to another computer using the same MobileMe account you don't need to find the IP. Both cases use Bonjour/zeroconf.
ideas:

allow number suffixes to mean a repeat of the previous token.

.6 would be equal to ......

also, allow the ant bomb with a number to only allow that many ants. @4 means kill this ant if there are more than four.

maybe allow subgrouping?

[+........]12 means 12 of these?

random numbers: .{13,24} means between 13 and 24 of .?
The guy spent almost 30 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. You can't spend 5 minutes reading his story. Interesting.
What is the answer and is there anywhere in the world that it's currently functioning?
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Didn't AdWords advertisers get a quality score discount (through higher ad clickthrough rates + free checkout processing) for using Google Checkout?

The official page for Google Checkout to this day states "Google Checkout users click on ads 10% more when the ad displays the Checkout badge, meaning more traffic to your site."

That is a pretty clear-cut example of Google tilting their "algorithm" toward promoting another Google product. And in an area where one of our small clients didn't use Google Checkout, that change simply priced him out of the ad auction. His profit margins after ad costs were roughly 10% & with that 10% cut in relative clickthrough rate he no longer had a place in Google's ad auction. He was forced to use another Google product if he wanted to be profitable with AdWords.

Of course one could say that the organic results are different than the paid results, but the Google editions ebooks ranked quickly in the US after the ebook store was launched, Google only rolled out universal search after they bought YouTube, maps & local results now come with tags that earn incremental revenues from the "organic" search results, etc.
I don't want to sound like I'm attacking you, but the fact that you were able to start a company without providing health insurance or a salary sufficient to buy it individually is itself a problem. If your employees got sick, it would be spouses' companies or the public that would shoulder the cost.

The drag on entrepreneurialism would significantly heavier if companies and individuals weren't allowed to freeload.
Must have been a temporary problem, seems like it's sending the correct headers now.

(For the record, I had the problem in both Chrome and Firefox)
Health insurance for companies is sold on a group basis and it's often much more difficult (and expensive) to negotiate a smaller group. If you do get a policy, good luck if anyone in your small group has a serious claim...
I have Thunderbird set to download my inbox for offline usage and I periodically delete all mails from my account and store encrypted archives in safe offline locations. Sometimes I will email important mails back to my gmail in encrypted format so I can still access them from the outside wherever I have gpg.

I think with things like the HBGary hack this is only becoming more and more vital, and it's really not that hard to handle since Thunderbird already saves all my mail locally. You just move it from the IMAP folder to a local folder, export that local folder (there's a great TB extension called ImportExport that gives you lots of options here), encrypt it and upload it to multiple backup sites.

What would have happened if HBGary had a policy like this? A lot of embarrassment would have been saved, even if not all of it (much more would have been saved by sending mails encrypted in the first place).
like you im also a newbie. maybe my site could help you too (though im more inclined to Java/Spring tandem)

here it is http://www.adobocode.com
If you come from a background of already writing javascript heavy apps, the browser is async so there shouldn't be as steep a learning curve.

People say this, but it's not really true. Yes, browsers are async in the sense that your code gets invoked by the browser as events occur. But once your client code gets control, it nearly always proceeds in a completely synchronous fashion. If all you're doing is changing a few dom elements in response to a button click, that happens quickly and all is well, but woe betide if you need to do some long-running computation in the browser... what are you going to do? Build your own event loop with setInterval and chop things up into short-running pieces? That's certainly uncommon. So client-side JS programmers typically don't have much experience with organizing their own code asynchronously, and the learning curve for doing so is still steep.

(There is of course one big exception to what I'm saying, namely communicating with the server via XHR. But not so big that it teaches you how to write a complex program in a non-blocking asynchronous style.)
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BS in CECS and MS in CS, with no regrets on either. On top of learning quite a lot (I had no prior programming experience, aside from a tiny bit of TI BASIC and C++) I met my co-founders and mentors in school, which is invaluable. But who knows, maybe I would have learned even more on my own or met even more awesome co-founders and mentors elsewhere.

I will say I've learned a hell of a lot more about programming in the 3 years doing a startup after college than in the 4.5 years doing the BS and MS. CS degrees aren't really about programming, but I do think they lay the foundation for being better programmers.
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Is it possible that a g mail account can be hacked ?
I started using SRWare Iron, which is like a more tinfoil version of Chromium, for this reason.
In school (UC system) I met people who are now doctors, CPAs, attorneys, investment bankers, top engineers, scientists, and various PhD candidates. I also learned that their parents are a variety of very accomplished and impressive people. To say that knowing these people is valuable would be an understatement since I am now a small business person and having professionals you can truly trust (as good as it's going to get anyway) is incredibly important. It factors into confidence and decision making in business.

For me, personally, I would not have met these people if I had not gone to school. I would have been sitting in a cubicle programming computers for the next 4 years, severely handicapping my social and professional life. I also probably would not have learned the basics of Econonomics, something that fascinates me almost as much as technology. I also didn't spend much time doing schoolwork, but I certainly didn't get A's like some others here. I actually was on academic probation twice and spend most of my time socializing.
Thanks. I found a conference in April in a nearby city that looks legit, and I'm signed up to attend.

:)
Problem is that all status symbols in the programming world are meaningless, so in the absence of any useful metrics, we latch onto useless ones.

Tests/LOC at least measures something, even if it is imperfect. It's probably better than measuring LOC themselves, which are often a long term cost for the company, not a benefit.
I reverted to doing that.

Thanks.
No, they wouldn't be happy with that... they would get waivers from the single payer system... just like 650 of the 773 ObamaCare waivers currently go to unions.
This blog post is mainly about the tools developers use day-to-day while they're in coding mode. Tools and development processes do tend to be well thought out and efficient at MS.

That's not really related to the organizational dynamics that come into play for planning products and features. That tends to be complicated, involving a lot of people, meetings, and debate. (I'm not defending it, just saying that's how it is.) That 14 steps isn't about a code change; it's about the end-to-end design, implementation, and shipping of a feature, expressed in the most detailed, far-reaching way possible, to make a point about how things operate in a huge organization.

Both points of view are accurate, IMHO. When you're strictly coding, things are pretty efficient. Not too surprisingly, those were the times I enjoyed the most. But it's equally true that at MS, coding is only a small piece of a larger, somewhat slow-moving process. And sure, all that other overhead can get tedious, even exasperating at times. It's just a separate subject from what the OP is writing about here. The coding part is typically quite fun and autonomous.
What are the solutions employed by all the startups that get started?
In my experience open spaces are preferred by those who are less competent and want to bother me all day with questions.
The dog arrest incident happened in a smallish town in the southeast where I was doing some work. It turns out having a dog not on a leash is a Class C Misdemeanor, but it's one of those sorts of laws that even locals don't know about because it's only enforced against people they want to enforce it against. So for a Class C Misdemeanor, which is a pretty serious crime, you have to be booked. At the time I was carrying a US passport which the locals decided was not a valid form of ID, so I was held without bail or hearing until trial. I managed to get word to an attorney I trusted, he had to come in from the other side of the state, and was able to negotiate with the district attorney to allow me to be free until trial by threatening to file a Habeas Corpus. My attorney also acquired from one of my family members a folder with my credentials and newspaper articles and other citations about my company and work, which he laid out for the local authorities there which suggested the possibility of deep embarrassment in the media if they continued with this nonsense. When I returned for trial the charges were rendered "Nolle Prosequi", which means the charges are not dismissed and you're not acquitted or convicted, but you're free to go until they decide to bring you back in, it's sometimes used as a sort of a warning you are not welcome.

This sort of routine, being rousted and brought in on some bogus charges that are never applied to whites, is a common experience among non-model minorities in the USA. It's also very similar to the story of the man in the article. It's obvious to me he did not run the stop sign that was used as a pretense to bring him in for a rape line up.
This is an especially good idea as many currently deployed versions of MySQL suffer from unrecoverable segfaults as a result of receiving too many (read: more than six) SSL connections.

Ask me how I know. </jaded>
You can also use IntelliJ IDEA for Android development: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/google_android.html#c...
Especially if you use an easy security question like; What is your favorite food? Pizza.
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You never ask people questions when coding?
So is there a big gap in the scores of Northerners and those in Southern border states? If there isn't, then it's not the illegal immigrants that are the problem. And how do they get into school if they don't have citizenship or visas? You don't just walk into a class and start learning---you've got to fill out all the paperwork first. It's gotten to be a royal pain in the ass to cross the Canadian border into the US since 9/11---how is it so easy for millions of Mexicans?

And how is standardized testing supposed to solve that problem? How is throwing in an extra $3000/head supposed to solve it?
How is this problem overcome ?
Ihave a few ideas but no real specifics. A website with specifics would be very useful.
The real question is this in "first to file": How does this affect so called intellectual "property" entering the public domain by choice of the inventor?

If inventor A invents something useful and foundational and open-sources it because he feels it benefits all mankind, can some greedy turd patent it later and yank it back out of the public domain because he was "first to file"?

Currently all I have to do is invent the thing and publish it and it becomes prior art, no need to file anything because I'm first to invent and I proved it by publishing. Under this new system do I have to file first and pay for it before I can declare it public domain?
Yeah, I know what you mean about solutions. Actually solving the problem at hand is a whole different world than finding the problem.

I know that I've been guilty of not making/updating screenshots very frequently - they tend to be a pain. Something to keep in mind for the future, though.

A collaborative design environment is a hard one. I've found it really useful for code in the past but as you said, that doesn't help a whole lot on the design front. The only practical thing I can think of at the moment is sending links to static images back and forth over chat, but that doesn't get over the barrier to entry on chat.

The only other things I can think of there would be screencasting (which usually costs money and tends to be a little more one-way) and VNC but that requires a lot more trust than I have for strangers (or than I would expect them to have for me).

Team structure might be a hard one. I can't speak for all developers but I generally don't like having a formal team structure if it can be avoided. Do you think that the role part is important or just discrete, specific tasks? If you were thinking of more of a control thing, that might be even harder. Unless I'm the only developer, I generally don't expect to have much control over a specific area. Then again, I also wouldn't expect people to be jerks and completely change something I did without at least talking about it first.

As far as rapid prototypes for web applications go, I LOVE wicket (http://wicket.apache.org/) because your templates are pretty much CSS and HTML (none of that pseudo-code in templates crap) and you have pretty much complete control over your javascript. You can mock up an entire site in HTML and only need minimal changes to get it working with backend code.

I don't have as much experience with desktop applications but I wonder if rough HTML/CSS might also work for the interactive parts. I'd have to think about that one and it might be an excuse to try mocking up a desktop app I've been thinking about.

I don't know if you'd be interested or if it would work, but I'd be up for at least talking about less uncertain ways to get your students involved in open source.

I have a couple of ideas for projects that I'd love to get design help on as long as I'm not completely left out of the design loop. Getting more people (and especially non-coders) involved in open source and helping in education would be bonuses.
Exactly....even if it isn't the normal fee...say it's 10% of the normal fee (which I HIGHLY doubt), that still 0.2% of $1B Annually.

Which is still $2M annually. He hires 10 people at $100K a piece, and office expenses of about $200K if he wants to be ostentatious. That's about $800K annually.

Not bad, not to mention that he gets his 20% of the carry.

Keep in mind that we are talking 10% of the 2% standard rate which I am relatively certain he isn't getting.

Either way, it's not a bad living.
That saved chats folder in Gmail doesn't seem to be available to IMAP clients. Anyone know a way back up chats?
It's free for < 50 users.
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why dedicated hiring has become a trend these days?? Come up with your answers guys...
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Thank you for that.

I find it a tad bit odd that I received NO emails on migration. Frankly, there is no conceivable way that announcing in a Joyent forum and expecting users to become aware of it is a sound strategy. Pull vs Push and all that.

Even so, I'm willing to migrate if I can find some additional information as to what is involved.

Again, thanks for posting...I'll go digging through Joyent's forums now....
That one was another one too. This is the type of understated reporting I love from Arrington.

The title spoke about how Sacca owned 10% of Twitter - yet there are so many other 'throw away' gems in there that really make you stop and re-read what you think you just saw.

That's kinda insane that Ev cashed out $100M worth of shares and still is the single largest shareholder.

Good for him!
I am not opposed to all questions. I am opposed to the questions that are typically asked by those who prefer open spaces. I am also not opposed to basic questions asked by those who are new to the field, but I am often asked basic questions by those with 3+ years of experience.

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Just not able to , an any help be forth comming please
Thank you. But now i read a lot of this things.
But now I have more questions? like frameworks, databases, aplications, web pages... how does all of this fits in a startup?
I'm not generally a negative person but given recent circumstances, I've got to ask "Is this how it goes now?! Does every meaningful reform get hijacked by special interests so that instead of fixing the suck, we get more of what made us need reform in the first place? Seriously?!"

Sorry for that rant, it just seems so damn frustrating what with the health-care debacle and now this.
Thank you all for helping its great to see a good community
I was an intern at msft. they have thousands of machines--consumer grade--constantly running tests.
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That's not the way patent trolling works. Normally the troll buys a portfolio of existing patents, then waits for someone with deep pockets to infringe. It's usually the victim who tries to argue that the invention predates the patent.

I can't see it helping the little guy, because if one party has infinitely deep pockets and the other can't afford to fight anything in court, then the larger party can lawyer up and beat the little guy into submission regardless of what the law says.
Yeh that musta sucked. But, it goes to show you the quality of the people that came out of that - in terms of follow-on things they have done. Don't need to rehash them here, but I think it is safe to say that they all walked away pretty handily.

Although, unless I am missing something, I am not inclined to fully believe the <$50M payout.

How could Elon Musk get a portion of the $50M, but still afford to personally finance Tesla, SpaceX + the solar company (plus still be spending $200k/mo on his wife and family) ?

Something seems fishy, unless there were a few investments between the Paypal IPO and these other investments that provided him with a boatload of cash - which is entirely possible (e.g. YouTube) but I am not sure.

Just saying.
Maybe it would be a good thing for Hacker News to explain this little detail to new readers of the list. I had to post an article first, to really check how post ranking works.

I am not saying that some articles do not deserve to have a better chance of reading, relevant to popularity. Instead I believe it would be valuable to Hacker News to have more informed readers. Otherwise there is a big chance that the "popularity" ranking can be mishandled for a number reasons, from people trying to have a "top" posting.
I studied physics at a great university, got paid for it, and graduated as first author on a PRL. I've used everything I learnt, and things from courses I failed at the time.

If you're doing the right course for the right reasons, it's very worthwhile.
Hmmm, well set up an e-mail account at Yahoo or some such, then on Google's site put in the desired e-mail address click forgot password. They will ask the security question, do as much research as you can to answer the question correctly and have them send the password to the e-mail you just set up. That's one way to go about it.

Think long and hard about what you're doing though, once done it can't be un-done.
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Thanks for this. I ran into this problem when I tried timing some of the algorithms in Programming Pearls by writing Java code and got essentially random results.
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