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Hey, first I am from Egypt.

Second, I have to admit, I am kind of struct by most of the comments here. Most of the comment are pro google and think andrew here got it for himself.

I believe this have to do a lot with cultural differences here. Most people in Egypt, would stand with the employee against the corporation. Most egyptians would definitely be pro andrew. I believe the reason here is that most Egyptians are either employees or owners of very small businesses, and would not perceive themselves as even potentially large business owners. Egypt being a poorer country and all. This is why most Egyptian would never try to put themselves in google's foot and try to see things from their perspective.

I guess the opposite is true from most of the ppl commenting here, they must think if I was google, I would have done the same, and it's probably because they don't see it as too far fetched. Either that or the western population is becomming alarmingly submissive to authority and unwilling to question their action.

Google are clearly being unfair, this should not be acceptable.
Any other similar projects that get more traction maybe? Diaspora has turned out to be a failure, probably we should forget it (oh wait, already done), and move on.
I hope this isn't the end for these guys. A few solutions to the problem which I am sure they are contemplating:

a) Raise the round but cap legal expenses to 80-120k. This would get you a decent way down the road with discovery, pre-trial and potentially an early settlement.

b) Find a patent litigation firm that would waive the remainder of the fees on the same terms as the investment round, to be converted at a later date

c) Get in touch with one of the funds that specialize in exactly this type of company. Software patent hoarding and litigation is an industry unto itself - there is bound to be a fund out there that would take this case on. A lot of the patent hoarders have close working relationships with litigation firms

d) Patents are not really patents until they have been held up in court. Google may identify this patent as indefensible prior to any trial, and settle. At the moment they got these guys to fold with a cheap threat. Google may not want to pursuit the case at all - like.com sent this out prior to their acquisition. Google don't seem to be the type of company that would use a patent to shut down a startup.

e) Register an IP holding company internationally and license that IP to the local US operating firm
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Pretty sad that you would screw your employees like that.

Also, if you have two people who both know this rule to never make the first offer, you aren't going to get anywhere. Someone has to man up and produce a number that's at least vaguely realistic.
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You could probably use a recent grad with software experience to write and file patents, but litigation is a different beast where even the smallest mistep or poor strategy can be costly.

You would definitely want an experienced patent litigation attorney and a small team.

I think they should have responded and called the bluff - I don't think Google would pursuit it far
Perhaps things are different in the U.S. but here -- in Australia -- you can only be fired for breach of contract. If that didn't occur, as the blog post seems to suggest, then he was unfairly dismissed.
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Having never met Tony, but having read many of his posts and comments, I have to say that I can understand that people develop a severe dislike towards him. He's emphatically not a 'nice guy' online. He is expert at his stuff and that makes up for a lot, but he would have to have more respect for, and patience with, less knowledgeable folks to become 'a very good teacher'.

He is extremely condescending towards those that don't get it, especially when they don't display sufficient humility about their lack of knowledge. You have to go "I'm sure you're right, but I would think that you could do such-and-such" to avoid pissing him off. As soon as you say "I think that's wrong, because of this-and-that", then you run the risk to get shat all over with comments of the "you don't get it and you don't want to learn"-kind, even though you're engaging in conversation that wouldn't lead to a flamewar with most other people.

He is a decent teacher for those that can look past his purist rants and are sophisticated enough to ignore the antagonizing that's going on, but he could do much to disseminate his knowledge more effectively to a wider public, without losing anything of the value of his message. It's an awful waste :/.
Go in and ask for what you want. If you don't get what you want, move on and don't accept their crappy excuses. If you do get what you want, take it. Do research first to ensure that "what you want" is in line with "what you deserve".

Negotiation generally boils down to a game of chicken. Are you really going to leave the offer on the table if they don't bump the wage? Are they really going to pass on you and find someone that's cheaper if they've already decided they like you and want to hire you?

Negotiation would be a really straightforward thing if people were willing to be honest about things. For our purposes, "hardball" negotiation is just annoying, and the tactics listed here are dishonest, some blatantly (like pretending you have to get approval from someone when you really don't). It always lessens my opinion of the person when I can tell they're employing "negotiation tactics". The places where you may legitimately need these skills tend to be more on the side of interrogation than establishing compensation.
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If you really want to, just e-mail them and ask for it.

The folks at peepcode are fantastic. Very pragmatic and polite.

And you have nothing to lose. :-)
I'm assuming his decision was ruby based on the ugly PHP code in the example? If so, your friend is wrong for two reasons:

1 - Writing the example in PHP from scratch would be at least as simple as writing it in Ruby, it's only because it's been converted that the PHP code is so convoluted.

2 - Depending on what you consider a to be 'small' app, PHP is probably the better language. I find Ruby is more suited to larger scale apps, especially where persistence is advantageous.

In short, Fructose is just going to give PHP more undeserved bad press.
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This comment was being moderated down. Can someone shed light as to why they disagree?
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I donated immediately, signed up as soon as they went active (even though I don't do social networks), and never went back. I wanted them to succeed, but I think one has to be fairly honest with themselves and acknowledge that Facebook is not likely to go the way of MySpace. I will be surprised if Facebook undergoes the same sort of churn in usership that we traditionally thought was inevitable for all sites and services.

Facebook reached critical mass and now the majority of the people who keep them going are the same majority that don't see what all the fuss about HD is, don't want to buy a computer more than once per decade, are still satisfied with WoW, and think the current console generation is just fine as it is for another five or ten years.

In other words, they are people with minimal demands, needs, and expectations. They're happy with what they have now and aren't likely to move to the next big thing, like the rest of us always have.

Diaspora always had a significant uphill fight. Maybe they can use the project to bootstrap another effort in another arena at some point, but I think this is all a big effort to stand on principal. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Principal is important. It's just that principal isn't going to displace the reigning king. We will never ever see Diaspora Connect fueling the "likes" and "forums" of the web, everywhere you turn. And, unlike other services, social networking is one that really does necessitate a critical mass.
Whoa, this takes me back to Transmeta.
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It seems Stormbringer was looking at the IT consulting division. I have to agree with him/her on that - I hear horrible things about them and I'd never, ever, under no circumstances, hire them.

That said, I have enormous respect for their mainframe division and operating system programmers. Their server hardware (z, i, and x), z/OS/, z/VM, AIX and their contributions to the Linux kernel are all very good.

IBM is certainly big enough and old enough that different divisions can behave like completely different companies. It's a bit unfair, in fact, to see one division tarnishing the image of a company so full with groundbreaking accomplishments and such a rich history as IBM. The consulting division has to compete for huge contracts, that are managed by pointy-haired lifeforms who can't see beyond hourly rates, with equally incompetent organizations like EDS/HP, Accenture and Tata.

You put an evolutionary pression on the market driving it to provide low prices. The marker responds optimizing for price and price alone.

When you have to compete in price with incompetent-but-cheap organizations, you either become incompetent-but-cheap or get out of business.

Tough choice.
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Cool app, I like how you're doing one very simple thing in an easy to understand way.

I've found a bug: when I set a load of times on the calendar then click the "permalink" link it sometimes loses the last few times I set. I guess it takes a moment to sync and get a new permalink or something.
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Man the two guys are taking this nicely. At the very least I would have put a much more nasty message on the page

And properly started a startup which brought patents and sued others, seeing as that is now the way to win.

But respect to these people.
> But wait, we also want to provide an XML API!

Why would you want to do that? Govt contracts? Purifying your soul through suffering?

All I want from my XML APIs is to give error messages telling the user to upgrade to the JSON ones. ;-)

> XML is out there, has lots of tools and libraries and is actually useful for some things.

A lot of things had to be invented in order to make XML useful.
I agree - given that Google has now acquired Like.com and they would be (very) unlikely to bring any lawsuit, why can't the company just re-launch - even if they have to bootstrap ?
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Jumping by upvotes from newbies and fanboys is very wrong approach to learning. ^_^
As dangrossman points out, above, you can be fired for any reason whatsoever, on the spot. I believe the only protections are sex, race, gender, religion, and age. And as for sex, that means you can't be fired for being a male or a female. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation, for which you can still be fired in something like two or three dozen states. (Look into the ENDA which has been repeatedly proposed for the past 17 years, but never passed -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Non-Discrimination_A... ).

And for those things which are protected, there is often little you can do. Prove that they fired you for being too old and not just because you smelled bad or performed poorly at work or pissed the wrong person off.

It therefore isn't really concerning that someone would not want to deal with the hassle of some jackass and would just ask for him to be fired, instead.
This is like saying - 'I gave you a job so now I can treat you the way I want'. This sort of attitude is what fueled passions for communism. It keeps labor unions alive and general strikes perfectly acceptable. Because the employers some how have a attitude that they own employees and they are doing some great favor without which employees would have to starve to death.Giving job to someone is two way business, The guy needs you and you need the guy.

I would take serious offense if my employer tries to behave like god and then treat me like a dog. It hurts more if the treatment is subjective, meaning a few people are treated well and a few aren't. And even more if I'm meted out such treatment solely on the basis of my color, religion or any other thing like for example sexual preference.
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Was that a reference to the movie, "District 9"? I don't see much resemblance beyond the "unknown insectoid life" theme...
AFAIK, it's more like "maintains a competing product based on a fork of an early version of," but I thought "competes" summed it up well enough. It seems like it's "bundled" in the same way that Beryl bundled Compiz.
Yeah, I'm genuinely surprised by the tone here. I mean, clearly the things he wrote were a bit inflammatory, but it seems like most of the commenters have shockingly low standards for what constitutes a fair firing.

Am I to expect that if you were working at a company and you brought an allegation of racism to your superiors, you should be fired because that allegation makes them uncomfortable or could lead to legal trouble? Would everyone here be jumping up and down to say how correct that is?

I obviously only have one side of the story, but I can't think of a way that firing someone for talking to the wrong people or asking the wrong questions is right. Not even if it's Google doing it.
Enough people on the planet would happily subscribe to Google 4th class (even 5th)
You know how it is, if South Africa is mentioned, someone brings it up.
Here's how a couple of guys deal with it:

Randall Munroe (creator of xkcd): http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/02/18/distraction-affliction-corre...

Alex Payne (early Twitter employee): http://al3x.net/2009/09/14/my-get-back-to-work-hack.html

Please fill in with more examples. Preferably people who've accomplished something, as opposed to random students who managed to get their homework done in time.
Well yeah, that's a problem but really there is nothing to stop professional thieves - at the tail end they can just point a gun to your head and have you hand over the key.

I am not really concerned with professionals though because it is a simple matter of sending them to prison for a long enough time - say 30 years - so that the cost outweighs the benefit. That is something the politicians should look into, as they all want to be hard on crime.

The danger is those who steal a bike because they need to get home because they are drunk or those who just deface them. Tougher sentences will not prevent them, because they don't consider all the ramifications in the first place.

Maybe rigging the bike to give an electric jolt if they take it? Not enough to be damaging, but enough to make them stay away?
This was exactly the point of my post ;) Your original post is very similar to mine - they both don't make a valid point and they both don't contribute to the discussion (I also never said, that you said that). It is like the old programmer and manager joke...

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts, 'Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend I Would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am.'
The man below says, 'Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, Hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees North latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees West Longitude.'
'You must be a programmer,' says the balloonist.
'I am,' replies the man. 'How did you know?'
'Well,' says the balloonist, 'everything you have told me is Technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your Information and the fact is I am still lost.'
The man below says, "You must be a project manager."
'Yes, I am,' replies the balloonist, 'but how did you know?'
'Well,' says the man, 'you don't know where you are, or where You are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to Keep, and you expect me to solve your problem.'
I experience this problem on a daily basis, too. A few days ago I decided to set up another user account on Ubuntu. That one, I use from 9 to 5. On this account only work related programs can be used (but no e-mail client!). What's more, I installed Leechblock[1] for Firefox. It blocks every website that is not Wikipedia or university-related.

Hopefully this will work out in the long term.

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/leechblock/
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"I’ve never seen a company come close to its conservative, worst-case forecast. In fact, now I take a company’s forecast and add one year to the delivery date and divide by 100 as an estimate of what will actually happen. "

What does this even mean? Any social capital Guy Kawasaki had by being at Apple in the early days has been burnt up (in my eyes) by what he does now. Hand-wavy, frothy, exploiter.
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I too would have done that a few months ago but after that article on HN about how it hurts developers to not talk about their salary I would have found the range and demanded 130k, then accepted 110k which would have been better than the offer I would have gotten under if I had them saying 80k.
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The Fact That Writing Like This Is Really Annoying Is Actually More Interesting Than The Contents Of The Article.

It's also slightly amusing how wrong it feels to type a sentence like that.
The problem is that I would still need to read api documents, find solutions to issuse etc.
But if the programmers that get free lunch are working for below-industry wages, and the data-entry people are getting industry wages, isn't it the people with the free lunch that are getting screwed over?
One small point of confusion with your otherwise good post: Some of the Thai surgeons are the best in the world for that particular procedure... going there is not typically considered a bad decision.
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Would it be possible to use Chromeless to tell the operating system to have a specific file opened by its default native application? So you could have a collection of links in a Chromeless app, that represent files on the user's computer, and the user could click a link for say an Excel file, and Excel would launch and show the file? Ideally this is what the new FileSystemApi needs, so that a web-based "dropbox" becomes possible. At the moment, any kind of web-based file manager must result in downloads to get most files opened, and re-uploads, whenever the user changes the file.
I'm scared! Am I the only one that sees no big deal about scanning books? What is so secretive about it? I think they are doing an amazing job and I'd love to know how many books they can scan every day, etc...

The second thing is that I don't understand why are you calling him racist. I believe that things in the USA are quite different from I'm used to.. You can get sued for anything. I heard that an employer can get sued for asking things like age, sex, height, color during an interview for a job.
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> They don't want to deal with that shit. There's no conspiracy.

I totally agree with you. Why would any Übermensch in his right mind eat and drink in the same room as a yellow-badged Untermensch? That's heresy.
FWIW, one can link directly to a time in a YouTube video using #t=8m tacked on the URL.

More information: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
Also, in this case the clients are predicting and rendering the entire game state based on input from all other clients. It is also enviroment agnostic and you can run the same simulation on the server with the same code and be in sync.
It really depends on your job, but for me the key is: stay at your command-line. When you need to do some thinking or planning, don't open up your browser immediately to see what others say.
1) Of course, they die from plane crashes. That part was mostly a joke. But not entirely.

2) Truly elite performers need no defending from comments from the likes of me, but I'm sorry if I slurred them anyway.

3) The term 'rock star' means something quite different in common usage than a statistically representative "elite performer at the top of their game in the music industry".

4) This discussion has nothing to do with actual music performers. You get the point.
> 2)... are mostly people of color and cannot eat Google meals

That's a bummer, because those were indeed people of color who were not allowed to eat Google meals. Well, at least I know why it took you guys in the States 100 years to actually give equal rights to your fellow black citizens: you were all too afraid of losing your jobs.
> the hassle of some jackass

nice
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Specifically, they're not permitted to speak to other employees about the apparently confidential work they're doing, which presumably was mentioned to them when they went to the job interview round about the same time they were advised they'd be missing out on a few other social events. Even the original author doesn't seem to be suggesting they're being held and silenced against their will...
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In CA you can be fired for no reason or any reason except: Age, Ancestry, Color, Creed, Disability, Genetics, Marital status , Nat’l Origin, Race, Religion, Sex, or Sexual Orientation. Every state has a slightly different subset of these factors. Here is a good summary:

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This is the approach taken by agile methodologies.
I tend to use it because it makes it reading from left to right feel right instead of jumping back and forth.

And really, don't give me null objects unless I specifically say I can handle them.
It's a Chinese company. Google backlash isn't dangerous, I'm guessing they are aiming more towards Baidu optimization than Google optmization. I'm pretty sure Baidu isn't that regarding of black hat SEO.
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This is brilliant, and made me laugh.

I can just see a thief looking at the vespa, the chain, the parking meter and thinking 'It's a crime anyways, may as well get the 15$ in change'.